| ged Man Makes His Home ! in Wife's Tomb. "FITTED UP LIKE A HOME. Jomathan Reed Spends His Days Gaztog Fondly at His Dead Wife --Has Led This Life Nise Years-- ~S <(ign't Mary Pretty 7'? Me Says. New York, April 21.--With feebie, tottering steps Jonathan Reed made bis way through Evergreens Ceme- tery, Brooklyn, yesterday, to the tomh IN which rests the boidy of his wife. There have been few days @ince the died nine years ago that be has not made the journey, but the sands of life are running low and his long pilgrimage is near au end. It took al! of his little atrength to open the granite door yesterday and enter the vault. Then he walked to the hermetically sealed coffin in which bis wife's body lies, and sali: "Good morning, Mary; I've coma to sit with you all day." Heo spoke the words soft ond low, ae if soothing a child who was ill, Every morning it is the same. Never does he fail to greet her and talk to her just as he did in life. Nearly every day he lifts the silk erazy guilt that covers the coffin and looks through the glass cover upon the face that has ee there still and dead for so sterday mcrmng he looked at her face until the tears blinded him. Then he walk- ed to the door of tne tomb. "She is just as pretty us ever," he said, sobbingly; "sne was always the prettiest woman in the world. "It's been forty-four years since we married, and we are still ou our honeymoon. Yes, it's our honey- moon, ami I love her as I did at first You see her pictures here; I have them from the time she was a girl." (irave is Not the Goal, Death will not be unswelcome to the old man, -- lives his life away there by the side of the woman he foved. e is sixty-nine. He suys he will be with Mary soon. His coffin is ready for him by the side of the in which she rests. He used to think re was nothing beyond the goal of the grave, and he had no hope of meeting his wife in another world. Lately he has come to believe he will see her in the spirit world and that she is calling him to her side. For the nine years since they were death, he has made his tomb. He would sleep coat BS ge he get permission, but been denied. Sometimes he yy with his boved ong until near- ly midnight. All the pretty things, me the trinkets she had, he has taken the tomb. Rich tapestries and the Orient, a. Paintings, ecurlos, books and cushione fill nearly all the space not. taken by the two coffins. bove the coffim of his weerinaing in little cage,is the can- ary b at sang to her when she was te It was her pot, so he had it stuffed and put there with the other things dear to her Every day the old man cleans and scours the tomb, for he knows how particular she was that everything should Pg scrupulously neat. Feeble as he he carries the water from the 'abe On bright daya he sits out- gide in the sun, but when it le stormy and cold he goes inside ond sits on a camp stool with his arms leaning on his wife's coffin No matter how cold, he is always there. No snow- storm has ever kept him away. He pays it would break his heart = fe kept from her side, and that three days of acute {liness Which' he suffered recently were the saddest of his iife because he could not be w er. When he bide his wife good night and leaves the tomb he goes to a littlo-room in a house at No. 150 Fourth street. Early in the morning he starts back for the tomb. In the last months he has been arriving later Bs nearly done. Though his clothes are old and threadbare, he wears a large ee a one she loved to see him w e has never been without in Bice she died, When They Were Young. Wr. Reed was born on a farm in "soem vine bi ahd worked there twenty-one years old, ie his viather A ot, _Joaving chat propert: says that up to is fa Lixin a se death he had neve: 6 in his life. When he was epante three years old he came to New York and went into the ree- taurant un Tammany. Hall. saved every cent with a miserly in- stinct, a os once he began to make money he began to hoard It. Ge mot. Mary ool. daughter ofa e heart, and they e,went Stes the tracking business, ts ney. » His wife i the boy who never re owed until "4 was several was weal. & = esata - iddeymota' awe re gt 1 on our ae ~Montana for -a ding spate he said yesterday. rt Mary pretty?" pe the old man a picture of the girl wire won his heart and whom he will edon join. THE RUSH OF COLONISTS. Stands Provided to 'to View the Cores nation. London, April: 21.--The Dally Mall Bays that the Governmént has pro mised to provide thousands of seats for the colonists to view coro- nation procession. By invitation of Lord Strathcgna the 'yarious Agents- General met at the Canadian office and it was announced that each of the larger colonies is to have. four or five hundred seats. alloted to it, and that the Agents-General will have the privilege of portioning them out. The smaller colonies will have seats in proportion. The allotting of the seats will be deferred until. the whereabouts of the oo me ig made known by the Govern Already shoals of ayallention® are pourisg in upon the Agents-General, and many these are remarkable mainly for their unblushing audacity. People whose great grandfathers once lived a few years in one or other of the colonies are trying to make out claims to seats on the score of coluniai birth or ancestry. One ingenious German thinks he haa a claim to a place because a distant ancestor on his mother's side spent a considerable period in Australia many years ago. Lord Strathcona and' the other colonial representatives have resoly- ed to decorate the fronts of their offices in Victoria street according to their individual ideas It. ig estimated that the visitors from Canada and Australasia alone will mumber. no fewer than 6,000, and when those from India, South Africa and other colonies are added the number will probably reach 12,-. 000. TIM DOWNEY'S TRICK. Came Home With a Fortune and Played / laddin. PLACED PARENTS IN COMFORT, New York, April 21.--When "Young" Tim Downey returned home from visit to his family in Newark a few weeks ago, he was greeted with all the love of parents and sisters, who had not seen him for fourteen years. In 1888 he went West to work for an uncle who had & general store in the gold mining district of California. "Tim" stayed about the Newark house and visited friends. His father, Patrick Downey, of No. 164 Newark street, went duily to his labors, and his two sisters continued to get up early and return late in the even- ing from the department store in which they were employed. At night "Tim" talked with the family about their affairs and sometimes about his own, but not much of the latter. He was just a good son and brother, doing little kindnesses for his moth- er and sisters like any good bro- ther, home after a long absence. In the daytime @im visited old friends and some otners, but of the latter he said nothing. Tim had mission, and he was getting his bear- ings. e was ready to act last week. He came home one evening and laid on the table before his father the mortgage on the Downey home, which he had paid. The next day he had the house full of carpenters painters, and decorators, who re- modelled and entirely refitted Meanwhile wagon loads of hand- some furniture were driven up to the door, aud Mrs. Downey, half in joy, half in regret, was selecting from old furniture what must be sent away to muke room for the new. ' k street awoke with a start to the realization that a real prince from a fairy tale had descended into ite midst, with plenty of money that was no fairy tale, and a loving, loyal heart for his parents and sisters. These latter were the heroines of the neighborhood, and Tim began -hie inducing Te- ar a their places of employment. You need not work, or father, either," eaid Tim, "for I = enough to support you, and I'll ad Tim's tale of fortune witeh he had kept eo closely is one that had its foundation in industry. He worked hard for his uncle in California when he went to him, a boy of fifteen, and saved his money. When a band of California miners decided to prospect in new. gold fields, in Montana, Tim took his savings and joined them. He did some prospceting in the new ter- ney had $150,000 in bank arid several rich claims when he decided to visit ia old home and his family. He has recent joy to all, but it's not so much her new-found ease and afflu- enes that pleases his mother as the loving loyaity of er boy; who brought his fortune home to make his parents and sistera hiappy. « Young Downey will rcturn to Mon- tana ext week. After fight! the Painters' .1nd Decorators' Union for the past two weeks three firms connected with the Toronto Master Painters' As- Focintion hove neerled to the de- mande of the union for 50 cents an ani an Bis d -hour work doy. oe action of . employers eame fa surprise Fs enn a mamta + HIS SENSATIONAL CAREER. Washington, April 13.--Rev. T. De-: Witt Talmage died at 9 o'clock last night at his home in this city. He had been ijl for some time, and only a few weeks ago had expefienced a chatge for ihe better, whiich gave hope of his recovery. SSyeral days ago, however, his condition grew worse, caused by congestion of the brain, wlth catarrhal complications, and since then the family had been dally expecting his death T. DeWitt Talmage was one of the remarkable men of his time. success arse ta was BRRpORNANe for a clergym Born {n Setar) Book, New Jerse on Jan. Tih, 1832, educated in New York Clty for the law, which he quit at his parents' desire to take a theo- ami at New Brunswick, the young Talmage did his first preaching ai Belleville, N. J., and we from ere to Syracuse, N. Y., to get a beiter place in the Dutch Reformed Church there. In Syracuse he began to develop these peculiarities which, urther exaggerated, were in later years to make him talked about. In his Brooklyn pulpit, where he THE REV. began prenching in 1869, he resorted to the manner and speech which caused him to be caricatured from one end of the country to the other. By such methods he drew thousands of persons to the church, and, as it was said, the churcli treasurer com- plained that there were of cents In the contribution plates. When Mr. Talmage syndicated his sermons he prepared them a week or two in advance, as he had to do to supply the press 'n time, and when he went to Europe and the Holy Land he sold his sermons before he left New York. They were printed as having come by cable. One was printed on a Monday morning ag having been delivered at Queens- town, whence Mr. Talmage salled on the. preceding Saturday, and after Mr. Talmage got here he acknowl- edged that it had never been dellvered at all. he Holy Land had to yield him @ sensation, and the story was sent over here hat an American had met him there and had asked the LATK thousands | dun, which Mr. to his own story, B m Mr. 'lal said that he had cau on the river bank # Russia according But in meeting he said: a#@ many questions as he asked me," Could Make $1,000 a Day. Mr. 'lalmage once boasted that he could make $1,000 a day. It was at one time estimated that he was worth $1,000,000, but his friends said that his wealth was only a quarter of that. sum. Much of his money he invested in Brooklyn mortgages. Twenty-five years ago Mr. Tal- mage was tried by an koclesiastical Court in Brooklyn on charges of '"faleehood and deceit." He was not found gulity, but the vote of the court was a close one. While Mr. Talmage was at Phil- adelphia, where he reached for seven years before going to Brook- lyn, his firet wife wag. drowned in the Schuylkill River. Mr. Talmage's success in building up the membership of the Brooklyn TAI MAGE, church was such that the church building in Schermerhorn street wes 'outgrown, and the first Brooklyn Tabernacle, a wood and iron strac- ture, seating 38,000 persons, was put 'up in 1870. It was enlarged in 1872, wae destroyed by fire in December of that year. new tabernacle, eatink and containing standing room for 1,000 more, was at onc egun. The new building was dedi- cated in 1874. That, too, was burn- ed down in 1889. third tabernacle was built at Clinton and Greene avenues, and it also. was destroyed by fire, in "May, 18 DEWITT 'Iwo years after his first wife died Mr. e married Migs Su- san Whittemore: of Brooklyn. His gon, Rey. Talmage, by his = first followed -- his father's calling. Besides the Rev. Frank Taimage, four i sur- vive Mr. Talmage. All of them are married except one. One daughter, Mrs. Daniel D. Mangan, lives at 41 Garden T'ase, Brooklyn WILL GE INQUIRED INTO. Diabolism of U. S Officers in the Philippines ae AROUSES THE WAR DEPARTMENT Washington, April 21.--Sceretary of War Root has sent an order by cable to General' Chaffee at Manila to investigate the reports of the trial of Major Waller sent to this country, and if. they are true court-martial General Sm:th. Also, if the facts related by witnesses before the Senate Committee are establish- ed, to court-martial Major Glenn, Lt. Conger and Ass't. Surgeon Lyon, who administered -- the bedi cure" to the presidente of Icabarr este; cablegram: to General Chaffee On February '9th a letter was sent you Inclosing for investigation a copy of charges made by Governor Gardener, of Tayabas Sec otiaee, which contained general allegations of cruelties ' gealaiay by troops on na- tives, and generally of an insolent and brutal attitude of the army to- ward natives. "On April 2nd a -eable despatch was sent you urging action with all speed consistent with thorough. and searching investigation... "On the athy of March a' cable dis- pitch was'sent you directing discip- linary measures to produce obedi- ence to the President's instructions, subordinating mUltary. . Relpssnedr at civil government in pacified provi and instr ucting you to relieve Maj. Edwio F. Glenn and Capt.'\James A. Ryan from duty and order them to Manila to await investigation into their conduct, In accordance with in- structions to follow by mail. "On the 24th of Murch instructions were mailed you containing a state- ment of charges against these offi- cers and Gen. Jacob H. Smith, ag the le of the investigation ordered by the cable of March 4th. "Further instructions in both mat- ters are required by the following facta: . Smith's Bloody Orders. "Press despatches state that upon the trial of Major Waller of the Mar- structed him to kill and burn; that the more hé killed and burned the better pleased Gen. Smith would be; that it was no time to take prison- r Waller limit for killing he replied, 'Every- thing over 10.' "If such testimony was given and the facte cam be established, you will place Gen. Smith on trial by court- martial. The order also directs in- quiry into the water-cure torture. 'The appointment of r Charles Parsons as commander of the Brit- ish forces in Canada has been ga- zetted, Though the matter is not yet of- ficial, it is learned from a source which may be taken ae next to of- ficial that Lord Cadogan will - not a up the Eo ig ata lgpeetse! of Ire- reported. He .&. dukedom--will .be, con- upon him by gs King. ; preacher to baptize him in the Jor- 'lal 'the iuty- by ine to 119. Fire Desa? oie Getic yliogene pro a + in- chedine the Cable cote Signor Marconi =r wireless tele- graphy will be bet ween. Canada and England in-four monthe. promoted, as C. Bulmer, of Montreal). committed @micide by shotting him-~ ms in the head at nr residence in te, Willlam Waldorf 'see has do- ed £20,000 to endow the existing Gnsadowee professorships at Univer- sity College, London. The Cape will erect on the hill adjacent to Cape Town a huge statue of Cecil Rhodes with an' arm stretched out to the north. George Johnson was fatally hurt while loading a blast In a Lange 4 at Motherlode vmlng, Greenry: C. The blast exploded eatlotersiy. The annual meeting of the Exeou- tive Committee Fs the Alliance of the Presbyterian Churches throughout the world is being held at Pittsburg. The ed agree of Mgr. Falconio D veipne ke -to Milee a definitely agreed u but will not be officially Caneunsed until October. Tiinois Supreme Court decides that the law taxing foreign insurance companies doing business in illinois 2 per os on gross premiums ie un- constitutional. The phere steamer Port Anto- nio, of the Elder-Dempster Line, built iast year for the Jamaica fruit trade lag England, was de- stroyed by at Kingston, Ja- maica. Sites are beirg inspected in the Blackley district, near Manchester, on behalf of an American syndicate owning cotton plantations in South Carolina, with the view to erecting two huge cotton mills. The Japan Evangelical Alliance ae passed by an overwhelming majorit a resolution affirming its belief i the divinity of Christ and declarlog the Bible to be the y perfect rule of Christian faith am practice The report published in the United States that Dowager Queen r- gherita of Italy will visit that coun- try in the autumn and return home by de of Canada, is again officially declared to be pou unfounded. The Rev. F. Lawrence, Secretary of the Society of Kindness to Ani- mals, says the Swiss Govarument is about to call a conference of the great powers to conskier the pro- tection of animals employed in war. The jury system, which has been in force in since 1900, has been abolished. The police hartonchid and all the audencias througho the island asked that it be p> ine tinued, as under the system it was difficult obtain convictions. The Liverpool] customs officials, act- ing under instructions from the Gov- ernment, have visited the bonded warehouses and forbidden further deliveries of sugar, of which there are heavy stocks in the stores. This action is taken to indicate that there will be an ee in the sugar duties in the budge Coroner Blatt, vownbiiiied. ©., has . written to the Chief of Police, To- ronto, notifying him of the findin Fons? on the track of the Erie Rail- y. The body is that of a man aged Steet 21, grey eyes, brown hair, and emooth face, wearing a grey coat and black trousers. The Welsh Patagonian tee, havingg collected £2,1 is* ar- ranging for a steamer to oall at Chu- but to take pe firat bs shoves pore. 250, the deser grants, to Cana: It is "hoped god Commit- Canadian Government will inc rease the present payment--f£1 per head-- tol enable the others to follow. A gentleman just returned from the Sault says that the building boom on: there is unprecedented, and that five hundred new houses have been contracted for, and many are in course of construction. There is @ population of 18,000 in the town, and citizens were so crowded last winter that everybody ise starting Wal. Two hundred and fifty settters from various sections in Ontario jefi number of settlers who have gone te Manitoba and the Northwest from Ontario afone this spring to over 4,000, nearly three times more than the number that went out on last jo spring excursions, Elias Rogers & Co., and the Bors Coal Co., Toronto, have word that their schooners, pita se nt tin and Dunn, respectively, hare both sprung leaks, and the damage at Sonal cannot be estimated happen when she scraped t broke a large er cap Belet R. a Wately, es 'beached her at ones out. The Ke Reowatta one a leak sprang ie her