THE PORTENT.
k Story of tha Inner Vision of lh«
Highlanders, Commonly Called
the Second Sight.
By GKO IN 5 K MACDONALD.
(’IIAITKII I.
p mv iinviiooi).
M,v father belonged to the wide
spread family of the Campbells, and
posveKsed u small landed property In
the north of Argyll. Hut although of
long descent and high connection, lie
was no richer than many a farmer of
n few hundred acres. For. with the
exception of a narrow licit of nraldo
hind at Its font, a Imre hill formed al
most the whole of Ills |sissesslous. The
sheep ate over It. and no doubt found
It good. 1 hounded and climbed nil
over It, and thought It n kingdom.
From my very childhood. I had re
joiced In being alone. The sense of
room about me had been one of my
greatest delights, lienee, when my
thoughts go back to those old years
It Is not the house, nor the family
room, nor that In which 1 slept, that
first of all rises before my Inward
vlshn. hut that desolate bill, the top
of which was only a wide expanse of
moorland, rugged with height and hol
low. and dangerous with deep, dark
pools, hut In many portions purple
with large-belled heather, and crowd
ed with cranberry and blueberry
plants.
I lu re was one spot upon tlio hill,
Imlf way ltetwis'ii (ho valley ami tlm
inuoi'laml, which was my favorite
haunt. Tills part of the hill was eov
ereil with great blocks of stone, of all
sliapes anil sizes here erowileil to
gether, like Hie slain where the battle
hail been Hereout; there parting nsun
ilel* from spaces of itelieate green—
, of softest grass, In the center of one
of those green s|>ols, oil a steep part
of tlie hill, were three huge rocks
two project Ini; out of the hill, rather
than standing up from it, anil one,
likewise projecting from tlie hill, but
lying across tlie tops of tlie two, so as
lo form a little cave. This was my
refuge, my home within a home, my
simly ntiil, in tlie Imt noons, often my
ale-ping chamber, ami my house of
dreams.
( tin tlie opposite siile of the valley,
another liill lay parallel to mine, ami
behliiil It, at some miles' illstane", a
Bt'ent mountain. As often as. In my
hermit's cave, l lifted my eyes from
the volume 1 was reading 1 saw this
mountain before me. Very different
was its character from timt of the
hill on which I was seated. It was a
Y mighty thlntr, a chieftain of the race,
'aiiieil and scared, rent tired with
chasms and pnadplccs and overhauling
reeks, themselves as Inure as hills; here
blackened with shade, there over
spt'ciul with glory: Interlaced with the
silvery lines of falling streams, which,
hurrying from heaven to earth, cared
not how they went, so It was down
ward. Fearful stories were told of the
null's, sullen watirs, and ill/.r.y heights
1V\.. upon that terror-haunted mountain. In
t #1 Momim^Uie w ind roared like thunder
In Its caverns and along the lagged
sides of Its elm's, but at other times
that uplifted laud uplifted, yet secret
v ‘ and full of dismay—lay silent as a
cloud on the horizon.
*.*'• t ’tie summer evening I had lingered
longer than usual in my rocky re
treat; I had lain half dreaming in the
month or my cave till the shadows of
evening had fallen, and the gloaming
had diH'petted hall' way toward the
nlelit.
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The mountain rose before mo a
Inigo mass of gloom bet Us several
1 >oaUs stood out against the sky with a
dear, pure, slmrp outline, and looked
nearer to me than the hulk from
which they rose heavenward. One
star trembled and throbbed upon the
very tip of the loftiest, the central
peak, which seemed the spire of a
illicitly temple where the lljrht was
worshiped—crowned, therefore. In the
darkness, with the emblem of the day,
I was lying, as 1 have said, with this
fancy still In my thought. when sud
denly 1 heard, clear,, though faint, a.ttd
far away, the sound us of an Iron-shod
hoofs of a horse, in a furious callup,
alone an uneven rocky surface. There
was a peculiarity, too. In the sound—
a certain tinkle, or elattk. which t
fancied myself aide, lty auricular anal
ysis. to distinguish from the body of
the sound. A terror—strange even to
my experience-seated me, and l hast
ened heme. The sounds gradually died
away, as 1 descended the hill. Could
they have been an echo from some
precipice of the mountain? I knew of
no road lying so that, if a horse were
galloping upon It, the sounds would be
reflected from the mountains to me.
The next day. in one of my rambles,
X found myself near the cottage of my
old foster-mother, who was distantly
related to us. and was a trusted ser
vant iu the family at the time I was
horn. For some years she lived alone
In a cottage, at the bottom of a deep
green circular hollow, upon which. In
walking over a heathy tableland, one
came with a sudden surprise. I was
her frequent visitor. She was n tall,
thin, aged woman, with eager eyes,
and well debited, elear-eat features.
Her voice was harsh, but with an un
idertoue of great tenderness. She was
scrupulously careful In her attire,
which was rather above her station.
Altogether, she had much the bearing
of a gentlewoman, ller devotion to
me was quite motherly. Never having
bad any family of her own, although
she had been the wife of one of my
father’s shepherds, she expended tne
whole maternity of her nature upon
me. She was my first resource in any
perplexity, for 1 was sure of all the
li; Ip she could give me.
I ran down the side of the basin, and
■entered the little cottage. Nurse was
seated on a chair by the wall, with her
usual knitting, a stocking, in one
baud: but her hands were motionless,
and her eyes wide open and fixed. 1
knew that the neighbors stood rather
in awe of her, on the ground that she
had the second sight: ’out, although
idle often told ns frightful enough
stories, the had never alluded to such
si gift as being in her possession. Now
1 concluded at once that she was see
ing. I was confirmed iu this conclu
siuo when, seeming to come to herself
suddenly, she covered her head with
her plal'l. and subbed audibly, in spite
of her efforts to command herself. But
I <II<1 uni dare to a»k tier any (puw
Hons. nor did she itit<>ni|it any excuse
for her hchitvlnr. After n few mo
ments, »die unveiled herself. riwe, nnd
weleomed tint with her usual kindness;
then pit me Willie refreshment, mill
tiepin to i| nest I* *ii me ti I it it tt matters
lit Inline. After n pause, she said slid
dciil.v: •'When lire you piltiK to net
your eominIsslon, Itiineiin; do you
UiiowV I replied that I had heard
HothlliK of II; thill I did not think toy
father hud the iiilluenen or money to
procure a.. mid that I feared I
should have no such paid elllltlce of
insivi'", hot nodded her head three
'hies, slowly and wth compressed
lip', apparently an much as to say, "I
Know hotter."
•lust as I was leaving her. It occurred
to me to mention that I had heard an
odd sound the night before. She
turned toward me, and looked at me
llxedly. “What was It. like, Duncan,
my dear?"
"Dike a horse pilloplng with a loose
shoe,” I replied.
“Duncan, Duncan, my darling!" she
wild. In a low, trcmhiliiK voice, hut
with passionate earnestness, “you did
not hear It’/ Tell me that you did not
hear It! You only want to frighten
poor old nurse; some one has been tell
1 MU you the story!"
The next day a letter arrived, nit
noiiiiclng the death of a distant rela
tion. through whose liitlilenee my fa
ther had a lingering hope of obtaining
ah appidiitment for me. There was
nothing left hut. to look out for u situa
tion as tutor.
CIIAPTKU II.
MV (II, 1> Nl'KSM'S HTOItY.
I whs now iilinost II). I huil com
pleted I1k> usual eiirrloitlum of study
hi ono of I ho Sootoh universities mill
onsnessod i‘ h I'iiIr knowledge of math
oiimlli’s mid physios, mnl wlmt I con
-'dried rather inoro thmi u good l'oiin
il:it Ion I'm' classical mill metaphysical
ill*! | II Il'fllK'll I. I I'osolvoil III Uppl.V fill
i lii* ili'si siilliihlo nil mil Imi Hint offered
lint I wns spared tho Irmililo. A err
lain Hoi'll Illllon, mi Knglish noble
innn. residing in ono of llio lnldlmnl
| ounllos, having hom'd (hut ono of my
fillhor's sons whs ilosli'ons of suoh 11
sltimllon, wpolo to him, offcrlng'ino tin
post of lutor lo his two hoys, of llu
linos of ton mid Iwolvo. Ilo Imd lioon
pm-lly odui'iitod ill n Soot oh unlvoi'slly
mid lids, It limy ho, had projudloui]
him In favor of a Sootoh tutor; wlilh
mi ancient nlllnnoo of tho fivinllios hy
marriage was supposed hy my nurst
to ho tho reason of his offering mo tin
sltnaHoii. (if this oonnootlon, lmw
ever, my father said nothing to mo
nnil II wont for nothin*; In my antlol
patinas. I was to receive a hutidrot
Ihiunits a year, and to hold In tin
family tho position of a gentleman
which iniyiht moan anythin*; or noth
in*;, nreoriUng to tho disposition of tin
heads of tho family, l’rcpni'utloiis t'oi
my doparturo wore Immediately com
inenood.
I set out ono evening for the cot.tagi
of my old nurse, to hid her good hyi
for many months, |>rohahly years,
was to leave tho next day for Kdln
btvgn, on ly way t.i Hotidon, wlionoi
I had to repair h.v conch to my no\t
alwnlo- almost to mo like tho land ho
ynm! tho grave, so little did I knov
about it. and so wide was the sopara
Hon between I! mnl my home.
"I am come to hhi you good-bye
Margaret, and to hoar the story whirl
you promised to toll me before 1 lef
home; I go tomorrow."
"Do you go so soon, my darling'
Well, it will he an awful night to tel
It in; hut as I promised, 1 suppose I
"Yes, indeed. yon must," I replied.
•*1 low old llio story Is, 1 rlo not know
It Ims come down through ninny iron
orations. My grandmother told It ti
tno as 1 toll it to yon; and lior motlioi
and my motion- sat beside, novor in
telTiiptlng, lint nodding tliolr lioads at
ovory turn. Almost It ought to begli
liko tlio fairy talos, 'Once upon i
tlmo,' it took plaoo so long ago; lint li
Is too dreadful and too truo to toll liki
a fairy talo. Tlioro woro two lirotliors
sons of tho oldof of our olan, lint a;
dlfforont in appoaranoo and dlsposl
lion as two moil could Ik*. Tin* oldot
was fair--luilrod and strong. nmol
given to hunting and Ilshlng; lighting
too. upon occasion, I dan* say, whet:
they matlo a foray upon tho Saxon, ti
got hack a mouthful of tliolr own
Hut lit' was gontlonoss Itself to every
one ahoitt him. and tlit' very soul ol
was very dark In complexion, and tall
and slender compared to his brother,
lie was very fond of book-learning,
honor In all his ilea lings. Tho youngei
which, they say. was an uncommon
taste In those times. Ho did not cart
for any si*orts or bodily exorcises but
one: anti that. too. was unusual in
j these parts. It was horsemanship, lit
was a tierce rider, and as much at
home in tin' saddle as in his study
chair. You may think that, so long
ago, there was not much tit room for
riding hereabouts; but tit. or not tit,
lit* rode. From his rending and riding,
the neighbors looked doubtfully upon
nim, and whisper d ai tit the black
art He usually b -stroPe a groat, pow
erful black lu rso, without a white hail
on him, and people said it was oitliot
the devil himself, or a demon-horse
from the devil’s own stud. What fa
vored this notion was. that, in or out
of the stable, the brute would let m:
other than his master go near him.
| Indeed, no one would venture, aftei
I he had killed two men. and grievously
I nuilmcd the third, tearing him with lib
; teeth and hoofs like a wild beast. Hut
i to Ids master lie was obedient as a
1 hound, and would even tremble in lib
! presence sometimes.
1 "Tlie youth's temper corresponded ti
, his habits. He was both gloomy and
: passionate. ITone to anger, lie had
i never been known to forgive, lv
i barred from anything on which he had
1 set his heart lie would have gone mad
with rage. His soul was like the night
around us now. dark, and sultry, and
! silent, but lighted up l>y the red levin
of wrath, and torn by the bellowing!
of i bunder passion. He must have lib
| will; hell might have Ids soul, lmngim
j then, the rage and mallet* ill his heart
; when lie sudd illy became aware that
; r.n orphan girl, distantly related ti
| them, who had lived with them foi
i nearly two years, and whom he hue
loved for almost that period, was loved
by his elder lirotlu r. ami loved him in
‘ return. He filing his rigid hand abovi
Ids head, swore a terrible oath, that
I if lie might not. his brothel- should not
I rushed out of the house, and galloped
off among the hills,
i "Tlie orphan was a beautiful girl
tail, pale, au.l sleuder, with plentiful
tlnrk linlr, which, when released
from the SilMxl, rippled down below
her knee*. Her a p| tea rim co formed a
strong contrast with that of her fa
vored lover, while there was some re*
semblance le t wish her and the young
er brother. This fact seemed, to hla
tierce selllslmess, ground for :l prior
claim.
"It may appear strange that a man
like him should not have had Instant
recourse to his superior and hidden
knowledge, by moans of which ho
might have got rid of his rival with
far more of certainty and less risk;
hut I presume tlint, for the moment,
IiIn passion overwhelmed his conscious
ness of skill. Yet I do not suppose
that he foresaw the mode in whleh his
hatred was about to operate. At the
moment, when he h-arned their mutual
attachment, probably through a ilo
incstlr, the lady was on her way to
meet her lover as he returned from the
day’s sport. The ap|s>inted place was
on tin* edge of a deep, rocky ravine,
down In whose dark bosom brawled
ami foamed a little mountain torrent.
You know the place, Duuean, my dear,
I dare say."
(Mere sin* gave me a minute descrip
tion of the spot, with directions how
to find It.i
"uouin- any one «;iw want I nm
K'dlig to rein to, or whether it was put
together aI'lerwurd I cannot tell. The
dory Is like an old tree—so old that It
has lost the marks of IIn growth. But
tills Is how my grandmother told It to
me. An evil chance led him in the
t'iklit, direction. The lovers, startled
hy Hi'- sound of the approaching horse,
parted In opposite directions along a
narrow mountain path on the edge of
the ravine. Into this path lie struck
at a point near where the lovers had
met, hut to opposite sides of which
they had now receded; so that lie was
hot ween them on the path. Turning
his horse tip the course of the stream.
In- soon came In sight of his brother
on the halite Indore him. With a sup
pressed scream of rage. he rode head
lout; at him, and ere he had time to
make the least defense, hurled him
over the precipice. The helplessness
of the strong man was uttered in one
slntle despairin'.: cry as he shot into
the abyss. Then all was still. The
sound of Ids fall could not reach the
edge of the gulf. Divining in a mo
ment. that the lady, whose name was
Mlsle, must, have tied in the opposite
direction, he reined his steed on Ills
haunches, lie ..Id touch the preci
pice with Ills bridle hand half out
stretched; his sword-hand half out
stretched would have dropped a stone
to the bottom ot the ravine. There
was no room to wheel. One desperate
practlealiillly alone remained. Turn
ing has horse's Ili ad toward the edge,
lie compelled him, by means of the
powerful bit, to rear till lie stood al
most erect; ami so, Ida body swaying
over the ftulf, with ipilvering and
strain I iik muscles, to turn on his hind
lefts. I la vim; completed the half-cir
cle, he let him drop, and lifted him
furiously in the opposite direction.
It must have been by the devil’s own
care that he was able to continue lii.s
gallop along that ledge of rock.
"He soon caught sight of the maiden,
She was leaning, hulf-faintimr. against
the precipice. She had heard her lov
er's last cry, and although it had con
veyed no suggestion of his voice to
her ear, she trembled from head to
foot, and her limbs would bear her
no further, lie checked his speed,
rode coldly up to her, lifted her unre
sisting. laid her across the shoulders
of his horse and. riding carefully till
he reached a more open path, dashed
again wildly aloni; the mountain side.
The lady's Ions hair was shaken
loose, and drooped trailing on the
ground. The horse trampled upon it,
and stumbled, half-dragging her from
the saddle-bow. lie caught her, lift
er up, and looked at her face. She was
dead. 1 suppose he went mad. Ho
laid her again across the saddle be
fore ldm, and rode on, reckless whith
er. Horse and man, and maiden were
found the next day lying at the foot
of a cliff, dashed to pieces. It was ob
served that a hind-shoe of the horse
was loose and broken. Whether this
had been the cause of Ids fall, could
not III lie told, lint ever when he races,
as race lie will till the day of doom,
along that mountain side, his
gallop is mingled with the
dank of the loose and broken
shoe. l'or. like the sin. the punishment
is awful; lie shall carry about for ages
the phantom body of the girl, knowing
that her soul is away, sitting with the
soul of his brother, down in the deep
ravine, or scaling with him the topmost
crags of the towering mountain peaks.
There are some who, from time to time
see the doomed man careering along
the face of the mountain, with the lady
hanging across the steed; and they sav
it always betokens n storm, such as
this which is now raving around us."
(TO HE CONTINVKli.)
Not in IMoomtv*.
It nYins that Knglish women are
not as advaneod in their ideas of hi
eyeling eost nines as their French sis
ters. However, one young woman in
London. a iiraetieal ailvoeate of ra
tional dress, has just returned from a
sneeessfni tour of 1,200 miles on her
wheel. Sin1 suffered no d 1st vjm fort,
either, and site received better treat
ment than did a holy and g 'titleman
on a trieyelo whom she had met a few
days previous en route, who had met
with the rudest behavior and who had
been followed in some places for dis
tonces by interested crowds. The lady
wore a skirt, and this Miss Bacon
holds tis a mvson for the Incivility. Site
herself rode the whole way in her ra
tional dress and visited eathedrals itt
her knickerbockers without attracting
attention or creating any ivuijirk.—iCx
Tre»»«re-Seekers in Florida.
"It is remarkable bow many p-ople
live in Florida for no other )u'ir|io.so
than bunting hidden treasur, said
K. M. Martin. "From the stories told
it would seem tliat there must 1k> mil
lions of dollars in Spanish doubl.tous
hhld'n a lotto the Florida eoast. Some
of these have aetually Ik on found, just
enough to give zest to tile search,
t’rptain Kidd "is supi»oscd to have
j planted a few hundred thousand dol
i iars down there and a number of ether
] pirates u -ed Florida soil as a deposit
■ bank. There are people who Lave
j lived there for twenty years in order
to tlnd the treasure and have impov
erished tht'iuselves in their search* for
! this vast wealth. There have never
i been a ivy very large tiuds bn; a tain
• ber of small ones, and the belief that
I th re are large sums hidden seems to
i be universal."—C'iuciumui KtniaUxr.
GRAND OLD PARTY.
REPUBLICAN RULE MEANS PRO
TECTION TO INDUSTRIES.
Th« Time Iran Not Come to DUctiM
Specific Mean tire* for 1MU7—Secretary
Carlisle Ilaa Forgotten ConfftiHmo
Carllale—The Uootl Effect.
Republican* ami P. >tectl«»n.
Nothing could bo more unwise or
j inopportune than tho bickerings which
I have boon started among Republican
| papers, some of them of considerable
I inlluenco and standing, in reference
j to the future policy of the Republican
! party on the tariff cpiostion. On one
J side wo are told that the great victory
I of November (! voices the demand of
| the American people for the re
! enuetment of the McKinley bill.
| »)n tho other we are treated
to loud protests against a return
to MeKinloyisra, und admonished that
tlie defeat of tho Republican party in
ISiti must be accoptod as a popular
condemnation or the McKinley tariff.
Both those assumptions are as unwar
runted in fact us they are premature
and impolitic, considered as attempts
to lay down tho specific lines of Re
publican policy in tho future. One
thing may bo affirmed with absolute
certainty of the moaning of the recent
slate and congressional elections. The
overwhelming victory of tho Republi
can party, following the recent
bungling attempts to tinker tho tariff
by tho Democratic party, and its
threats of further “reforms” in the di
rection of free trade, was a sweeping
condemnation both of the theories anil
tho practice of the Democratic party;
both of its performances und its prom
ises on this question. Whatever
else thut victory meant, it was an un
mistakable and emphatic popular dec
laration in favor of tho Republican
policy of an adequate protection to
American industries. But what specific
measures will afford adequate protec
tion to American industries it will be
quite time to consider when the peo
ple shall have placed tho Republican
party in a position to carry out its
policies, by giving it control of the
executive and legislative branches of
tho government. IT the popular ver
dict of November t’> shall be confirmed
by tho results of the elections ini H!)(i,
it will be three years before the Re
publican party can effect any positive
tariff legislation.
Meanwhile those elections are vet
to bo won, and the St. Paul Pioneer
Press believes it would be tho height,
of folly to divide the party and the
i country by premature and unseasona
ble controversies about specific tariff
measures. On tho practical side such
controversies are necessarily futile;
because no ono can tell in 1S!)4 just
what kind of a tariff, so far as the
scale of duties is concerned, will suit
tho needs of the country in 18t>7. There
have been great changes in the eco
nomic and industrial conditions of tho
country in the lasst four years.
W'hat changes may tako place in
the next three years it is impossible
to foresee. When tho practical
work of tariff reconstruction shall
come before a Republican congress
and a Republican president that man
date of the people will be carried out
in the enactment of such a tariff as
will at once preserve the American
market to the American workingman
and protect the consumer from the
greed of monopolistic combinations—
a tariff which will provent the destruc
tive competition of the foreigner with
out preventing a regulative and stimu
lating competition. It will be a tariff
in harmony with the principles laid
down in the national Republican plat
form, a patriotic tariff, looking to the
industrial independence and the indus
trial supremacy of the United States
of America.
i inf iiuii i I'.necc.
An improved condition of business
is noted since the elections. There
has boon a perceptible revival of ac
tivity in nearly all lines of trade, and
although the prices of cotton and
wheat are extremely low and railroad
returns do not show any marked in
! crease the signs are decidedly favora
| bio for a steady advance in all branches
! of production and commerce. This re
! suits from the confidence awakened in
| the business world. The election of a
[ congress overwhelmingly Republican
makes it clear that there will be no
tariff legislation in the next two or
three years which will have a tendency
to disturb our industries.
While there is no indication of any
thing like a business •■boom" in the
near future, little doubt exists that
production and general trade will ex
perience a constant and substantial
improvement. Labor has already
begun to feel the good effect of the
promised restoration of Republican
policy, in which the first step was
taken by the election of a Republican
houso of representatives. In. some
industries wages have been advanced
and the proprietors say that "the new
schedules are due to the Republican
victory and the consequent prospective
increase in profits." With the output
of factories increasing, the volume of
business constantly enlarging, the
tendency of wages upward and the
stock market indicating an infusion
of new life and vigor, the promise of j
a gradual return of better times is
cheerful and inspiring_Cincinnati |
Times-Star. |
Vr. Clrvelnntl nml th» Government.
The president and Secretary Gresh
am are reported as deeply incensed at
newspapers that have presumed to
criticise the course of this govern
ment in relation to the war between
Japan and China. Judging by tho
vehemence with which defense is
I made for official conduct now ac
knowledged, Mr. Cleveland is suffor
I ing from another of his periodical
1 6pasms against tho right of the
American people to consider their
government a public institution sub.
joct to their control and not the pri
vate estate of publie servants ap
pointed for the time to administer it.—
Chicago Record.
Han a Defective* .Memory.
The positive declaration of Presi
dent Cleveland, right on the thres
hold of the new bond issue, that there
was the utmost harmony of policy and
purpose between himself and Secre
tary Carlisle, seemed to call for some
sort of an explanation from the secre
tary as to his sentiments on the silver
question. To forestall criticism when
his report, in which he was to pro
mulgate a new currency policy, for the
gold ring reaches the publie, it was
necessary that he should speak out at
once. And he did so. lie was rash
enough to deny that ho ever favored
the free coinage of silver. There was
no quibble in the statement whatever.
It was a plain, unvarnished declara
tion..
Hut ho has a short memory. lie is
taken to be an honest man, and it
would not be seemly to say that he
deliberately falsified his record. Let
us look back in the tiles of the Con
gressional Record for 1877 to the
record of the passage in the house of
Bland's bill for tho free and unlimited
coinage of silver. Ho voted for it,
says tho Record, and when it came
back from the senate amended so as
to provide for the purchase and coin
age of silver by the government ho
voted against the change; and his
course was sanctioned by Bland and
all the other freo coinage members.
It was only a week later that he
voted to pass the Iiland-Allison bill]
over the president’s veto. In tho]
I’orty-sixth congress he voted for the
Warner bill for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. And this is not,
his only silver record. He even voted
to require tho secretary of the treas-1
ury to pay the interest on tho public!
debt and other coin obligations of the
government in standard silver dollars
as well as gold. j
‘•iu **> w «ut5ii LilliTi lioL only is I
Mr. Carlisle's memory defective, but)
ri***ht along* during* his incumbency ofj
his present office he has boon governed]
by a policy wholly inconsistent with
his course as a congressman. If the*
boasted harmony between the secrc-j
tarv and the president is as sweet andj
beautiful as Mr. Cleveland says it is,
tlien Mr. Carlisle is most willingly|
forgetful, and while forgetting he
doubtless reasons that he might as
well make a clean breast of it and*
leave no shreds behind to annoy his;
conscience. But in the face of these!
things is it any wonder that the busi
ness public should harbor a profound
distrust of the acts of the administra
tion in regard to the nation’s finances?
Why did Mr. Carlisle surrender
himself to tho embraces of the sugar
trust? Why has he fallen into the
arms of the gold ring?—Kansas City
Journal.
Cattle * ratio With Germany.
There seems to bo little doubt that
the action of Germany in closing her,
ports to American cattle is tho fruit
of tho willful and deliberate criminal
blunder made by our free trado fan-;
atics now in full control at Washing’-!
ton in dealing with tho sugar prob
lem and the reciprocity treaties with
sugar-producing countries. I
These iinancial and commercial
quacks will cost us hundreds of mil-!
lions in our foreign trado licfore wo'
can restore tho treaties which Mr.'
Blaine, with so much labor, patience;
and skill, negotiated. Merchandise
of all kinds is being rushed off to
Brazil and Cuba to be passed through
the customs before the treaties with
those countries are abrogated. If
these treaties are of no value, as is
claimed by revenue reformers, why
this great anxiety to enter goods
under them9
We arc feeding this year 7.5,003,000
bushels of wheat to animals for want
of a market for it—enough to manu
facture 18,000,000 barrels of flour.
Cuba under the Blaine treaty was a
sure market for 1.000.000 barrels an
nually. Through the action of the
Democracy this market is closed to us
after January.
1 he McKinley sugar policy gave
the American consumers cheap sugar
and opened in sugar-producing coun
triesla most valuable market for our
surp us agricultural products and
manufactured goods. The sugar
bounty if it had not been disturbed j
for fifteen years would have created a
vast sugar producing industry in this
country and saved the export'of $125,
000,000 of gold wo no w pay annually
for raw sugar.
Wo now send to Germany the
product of thirteen acres of wheat to
pay for the product of one acre of
beats converted into raw sugar. Is
thus common sense? Tho McKinley
sugar policy must be restored at the,
earliest opportunity.—New York Ad
vertiser.
Tke I,Hn7ni<Se u I'laln.
This !$»>0, Oth>,ni)'i of now bonded*
debt, therefore, would have been
if 100,000,000 or more, if the fathers j
had succeeded in putting the original
V\ ilsen bill through congress, with its
free iron and free coal and five sugar,
and so forth. The first result of the
Cleveland tariff legislation is this
crazy, stare-eyed plunge into national
poverty. Absolute idiocy never be
fore got control of a great, govern
ment.—New York Sun.
—
'' UUani L, Rmi That f'omonimi'. ■
'Idle soup which Mr. Wilson got at
that London dinner was better than
that ho got in West Virginia. Hut he
will doubtless concur in the opinion
that there was not as much of it.—St
Louis Republic, Dem.
in isn«.
Europe has returned $73.000,003 oi
American securities since the begin
ning of the present a lministration; but
they will all be wanted, again as soon
as the Republican pai ty is restored, to
power.
Hope Springe Eternal
In the human breaet Despite rcDci...
appointments, the divine spark
after each. Though there may not to
l.ning to every cloud, the vapors ,1 *•’»
scure the sky oft waft aside and disci 4
full splendor of the noonday tun t* ^
hope JustiUed. Invalids who sect
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of something tetter than a mere moilin'
of the evils from which they suffer
that it Justlllcs their expectation, chili ‘‘'4
fever, rheumatism, dyspepsia, liver a J
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ters. Loss of flesh, uppetito and tlcen
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A Moral Tower,
Queen Victoria is said tohave beem,
somewhat fractious, and ago is tell".,
on her at last. Irritable as the quJ
may be under the pangs of rhoumatiia
which now afflict her, no one desires a
see her place tilled by an other, sk,
has kept the balance of moral powers
her share of Europe as no crow-mu
head has done before her or will u
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