IaPTER V.—rCoxTisPKn I
Siinous word produced not a
.-'surprise In any one who II*
__ Lynde himself heard It with
out a single shade of change. His face
grew no paler, he did not drop his calm
eye from the face of his condemning
judge for a moment. He had expected
It and was strong to bear It.
But they carried Agnes Trenholme
out In a dead faint—for Just before the
final rendering of the verdict she had
crept Inside the door, and stood there
unobserved. And it was weeks before
she came to herself one cold morning
in December, when the snow lay thick
ly without, and the wild winds howled
‘ dlsmaliyUnrouml the old house on the
Rock.
The second day after her return to:
consciousness they had to tell her all :
that ^ml transpired. Lynde Graham !
had hem remanded to prison for six j
days, at the end of which time he was i
took a short walk. On the morning of
the eighteenth she came into the sit
ting-room clad In her riding-habit.
Ralph and her mother both looked up
at her In amazement. The calm reso
lution on her white face told them both
that she was resolved on something
from which nothing Could turn her.
"Mother, Ralph,” she said, in a clear
voice, ”1 am going to beg for the life
of Lynde Graham. No, you need not
' utter «n» word, for I warn you it will
fall upon a deaf ear. No authority shall
keerntnefrom saving an Innocent
mi
“Agnes,” said Mr*. Trenholme, “I do
notr'comprehend your strange interest
In mils dastard son of a rude flsher
‘pother,” she replied, “I love him,
ana®, I know him to-be guiltless. It
woi(|d have been Impossible for band*
so pure as his to have done this wicked
thing!" ,
iptgnes,” said Ralph, sternly, “re
member you are apeakin*. ot a mur^
dersrl"
‘*1 am speaking ot an Innocent mam
Some time, Ralph, It I save him—and
something tells me I shall—you will
thank Qod that your revenge was not
acdgmpllshad In the death of one guilt
lea? as yourself. I am going to Gov
ercfbr Pulton. He Is a Just man—a
Christian, I am told. He holds the
pardoning power, and he shall save for
me the life of Lynde Graham!"
Ralph rose from his ehalr, his face
wrought upon by the excess of passion
within. ,
'“Agnes,” he said, with terrible em
phists, “I might lay the Iron hand of
authority upon you and force you to
up this mad scheme. But that I
I net do. I leave you free. But so
ily as you do this thing, I cast you
You are no sister of mine! And
you this—never come back to die
fe with your footsteipa the thresh
old of a dishonored home!"
ke heard him through without the
jtge of a muscle, and when he had
■hed she bowed In sad submission.
$o be It. I will never come back
|1 you bid me. Good-by!”
»e passed out Into the hall. Mrs.
iholme sprang up (o detain her, but
ph laid his strong hands on her
rmonier, sno naa cnosen, Remember
~»bo=T)aS disgraced us forever!" ' *
''^But she ia my Child! O, Ralph!
. Ua accursed pride!”
help ua through,” he said,
c“irsc®fr“Ood knows what would be^
o or%ie without It!"
ShesXwent ou^ to the atablea, aad
her own horse Jove, and springing
saddle, took the road to Madl
sonv tao residence of Governor Fulton.
Madison was distant nearly 200 miles,
and much of the way lay through the
, woe*‘Thnd of a sparsely-settled country.
* But of this Agnes never thought. Her
sole aim was to reach the place in sea
son -to get a reprlve book to Portlea
befori the twenty-fifth. And she had
llttjfl.more than seven days in which
to accomplish It. Her horse was a
fleet one, with great powers of endur
ance, and was well acquainted with his
rider.1
The ifflt day passed monotonously
enough'.” Night overtook her at Free
leig&VJust sixty miles from home. She
had jgtade -good pace, and set out early
. thpTtex'r'mornlhg. At noon she. rested
,a couple of hours, and. pushed on. She
came now upon the very gloomiest part
?■' spf;ihp way., The road lay through vast
^tracts of forest, with here and there
,a~4uit ia a clearing, to shovr that the
; hand of civilisation had not entirely
vanished from the world. It almost
' as if Jove understood the Ira
' Jfjsty ■ i *■ ? Hi ■: yn
■»ifi*.|Vt
i portanee of the errand upon which tie
j was going, for he. gave no sign of weari
nesa, but hurried on, animated perhaps
I by the spirit of his rider.
About sunset it began to rain heavily,
and the horse sank to his fetlocks in
! mud. Agnes drew rein at the first
i shelter she reached—a small, rude hut
in the heart of a dense pine forest. It
! was a most forbidding-looking place,
and had her mind been less occupied,
Agnes might have hesitated about
seeking shelter there; but Just now she
was not thinking of danger to herself.
The inhabitants, an old man and
woman, were as rude as their home.
They gave her a gruff invitation to
walk in, and led Jove off to a shed at
the rear of the hut.
She seated herself before the fire to
dry her clothes, and the woman
brought her a bowl of milk.
The man now came in, and the ava
ricious eyes of the couple wandered
frequently to the costly watch Agnes
wore at her girdle. The look in Itself
would have been very suggestive to
an acute observer, but Agnes was so
'absorbed in her own thoughts that she
noticed nothing that was passing
around her. Her grim entertainers
made a few rough attempts at conver
sation, but meeting with no encourage
ment, they soon relapsed into silence,
and after a little while they told her
she might retire when she chose. She
rose quickly, glad of the prospect of
'being alone, and followed the woman
up the rude ladder leading to the cham
ber above the kitchen.
In one corner there was a sack filled
with dried leaves, and covered with a
warm quilt. The woman pointed to
Mils meagre bed.'
i fclt he the best we’ve got,” she said;
"but it’s .not such as the like of ye
have been use to. But I hope ye’ll
sleep well.”
one ia>- aown on tne outside of the
bed, without undressing, and tried to
sleep. But slumber held aloof. The
longer she lay, the more wakeful she
became. Full two hours passed, and
she was still restless.
Jpst as she was about to rise and walk
about a little in the hope that It would
'bring the sleep she needed, she heard
a distinct and ominous whisper coming
from the room below. Some secret,
unaccountable Impulse led her to put
her ear to a crack In the flooring and
listen. The woman was speaking.
“It can be done in a minute, and it
will make us rich. You are a fool to
dally!”
"Softly, old woman. She may not be
asleep. She looks like a lady In some
sort o' trouble. Sech don’t go to sleep
as Innocent like you and I do.” And
he gave the woman a nudge Intended
to be facetious.'
She answered, Impatiently:
“What I want to know is will you
do it or not? Time's passing. She’ll
die easy. The knife Is sharp. And the
old well Is a safe place to rest in. No
danger of ever being rooted out.”
“It’s a deed I don’t tike to do/’ snld
the man rubbing his grlzsled, bald
head thoughtfully. “A man I don’t
mind, but a woman Is a different thing.
But I won’t be a coward. Give me the
toothpick. That watch would tempt a
speaker In meeting.”
Agnes waited to hear no more. She
knew that It was her own death she
had heard planned, and stepping noise
lessly to the window she opened It and
looked out. The rain still fell, but It
was not so very dark. Somewhere
under the clouds there was a nearly
full m.oon. The window looked out on
a shed, and within Its rude shelter she
heard Jove quietly munching his coarse
provender. The very sound gave her
courage. She did not feel the danger to
herself; she was only thinking that If
she perished there, Lynde Graham
would be sacrificed.
She sprang lightly upon the shed,
slipped to the ground, and, untying her
horse, mounted and dashed away. All
the night she kept on, never daring to
stop, end when the sun rose in the
morning, red and cheerful after the
storm, It showed her the glittering
spires of the rlty of Madison.
People stared at her In blank amaze
ment as she rode along the yet quiet
streets. Her habit was splashed with
mud. her riding cap soiled, and its
white feather ruined by the rain of the
night before; her horse was jaded and
travel-stained, and her pallid face and
eager eyes, above all—it was no won
der she excited a wondering attention.
She asked for the residence of Gov.
Fulton, and a stately stone mansion in
a shaded square was pointed out to her.
The goal was reacted at last.
She slipped from her horse, left him
at the great gate, and, ascending the
marHe steps, put a tremulous hand
upon the stiver bell-knob.
CHAPTER VI.
HE liveried serv
ant ptared at Agnes
almost rudely. The
governor was not
at home, he said. In
answer to her eager
question—he was
absent at Freeport,
and would not be at
home until ten that
evening. Perhaps
not until morning,
_ roads were had.
i bis wife at home?”
''IJ >#
s :< i f:
, f t , -
* r ' ' •
si
h;
“He is a widower, madam,” an
swered the man.
“His daughter, then? I am sure I have
heard that he had a daughter. Is she
here?”
“Miss Fulton is in the parlor.”
“Take me to her at once. Let me see
Miss Fulton!”
“What name shall I take to her?"
“None. She does not know' me. I Will
explain everything to her, and beat; the
blame, if any falls.”
He opened a door leading into a spac
ious room, shadowy with the soft gloom
of crlmcon curtains, but wonderfully
brightened by the gleam of a wood Are
on a wide hearth. Before the Are, curl
ed up on a lounge, a kittten purring in
her lap, and a book in her hand, was a
little golden-haired girl of 1C or 18.
She startled up at sight of the vis
itor, and opened her wide, brown eyes
in amazement.
“Get down, Juno,” she said to the
kitten—then to Agnes, “Whom have 1
the pleasure of meeting?”
“Are you Miss Fulton?” trembling
ly asked Agnes.
“Yes.”
Agnes caught her hand in hers.
“You look good and kind—your fath
er must love you. Wto you help me?”
"To be sure, if I can. What shall 1
do Arst? Clean the mud from your habit,
or comb you hair? Both are shocking.”
"I know I am in wretched array, but,
my dear girl, I have ridden on horse
back from Portlea, almost 200 miles,
and only halted when my poor horse
could go no further. I have been too
miserable to tl^ink of my appearance. I
have come on an errand of life and
death. Miss Fulton, let me tell you
very brieAy my sad story, and then
judge whether I have any chance with
your father. You have heard of the
murder at Portlea?”
Yos. The beautiful young bride was'
murdered almost at the altar?”
“She was. And you know, perhaps,
that there is a man under sentence of
death for th!.~ murder?”
“Yes; papa told me.”
“Weil, I have come to ask this man’s
life of your father. Not his pardon—
that were too much to plead for—but
his life, ! 0 life of this man, falsely ac
cused, wrongfully convicted!”
Miss Fulton gave a little incredulous
stare.
“I think he deserves to be hung!”
“No; because he is innocent. If he
had done the base deed—though he
were dearer to me than my own soul,
I would not lift a finger to save him.
The girl they said he murdered was my
adopted sister—she was to have been
tho wife of my ^nly brother.”
“And what is this Lyndo Graham to
you?” .
Agnes blushed scarlet, and stood
trembling and abashed before the gov
ernor’s daughter. But Helen Fulton was
quick-witted; she understood it all, and
put her hand on the drooping head
caressingly, as she said, softly;
“He was your lover?”
"No; not that. But he has been mi
companion from my earliest childhood
—and—and—you 'can guess the rest.”
“You loved him? Poor girl! No won
der you are wretched. But what if he
did murder her?”
“He did not! Never think it for a
moment. I would stake the salvation oi
my soul on his innocence! The real
murderer is yet to be brought to jus
tice. Will you take my word? Will you
help me?”
“Yes, I think I will,” said Helen,
thoughtfully—“that is, I will go 10 papa
with you, if he don’t happen to be
bearish. I asked him for the money to
buy a new bonnet, this morning, and
he told me to go to Flanders—just as
if they made Parisian bonnets in that
Dutch place!” • ”
(to Ba coyriscsn.) *
A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER.
How He Acts In the Cab ot mm En
gine Drawing a Fast Train.
The locomotive engineer is a remark
ably placid fellow, with a habit of de
liberate precision In his look and mo
tions. He occasionally turns a calm
eye to his gauge and then resumes his
quiet watch ahead. The three levers
which he has to manipulate are under
his hand for instant use, and when they
are used it Is quietly and In order, as
an organist pulls out his stops. The
noise in the cab makes conversation
difficult, but not so bad as that heard
in the car when passing another train,
with or without thq windows open, and
in looking out of the engine cab the ob
jects are approached gradually, not
rushod past as when one looks laterally
out of a parlor car window. The fact
is that the engineer doe3 not look at the
side—he is looking ahead and therefore
the speed seems -less, as the objects are
flnnrnnphgarl frpqfliinllv
Those who have ridden at ninety
miles an hour on a locomotive know
that on a good road (and there are many
Buch) the engine is not shaken and
swayed in a terrific manner, but is rath
er comfortable, and the speed Is not
so apparent as when one is riding in
a parlor car, where only a lateral view
is had. The engineer can be very com
fortable if he is quite sure of the track
ahead, and it is only in rounding curves
or in approaching crossings that he
feels nervous, and it is doubtful if it is
any more strain to run a locomotive at
high speed than to ride a bicycle
through crowded thoroughfares. Judg
ing by the countenances of the bicycle
rider and the engineer, the engineer has
rather the best of it.—Railroad Oa
sette.
The Bicycle Path.
If it is true that the road to perdition
is paved with good intentions, while ths
way to the other place is strait and nar
row, besides being a rough and thorny,
path, it does not require much skill in
guessing to predict which path th? bi
cyclers will select.
There is nothing more serious thaii
what some people consider a joke.
John Bull’s Happy New Year
AMERICAS PROTECTION.
Bradford’s Exports of
Woolen Goods.
YEAR. VALUE.
1801—*8,398,873 2s. Od.
1808—*2,703,100 Is. 10d.
1803— *2,030,187 4s. 4d.
1804— *1,088,119 13s. 7d.
Average:
£2,227,303 10s. Od.
AMERICAN FREE-TRADE.
Bradford’s Exports of
Woolen Goods.
[ By Special Cable.]
YEAR. VALUE.
1809 £5,701,343
jt Gain to Bradford over Mc
Kinley Protection Periods
£3,473,649.
- '^OLEW
John Bull: Well done, Bradrord. One year's Yankee Free-Trade ’as done over SI 7.000,000 better for you than their
blarsted Protection. If Grover lialn’t gone back bon us haltogether, and don’t sign their New Tariff Bill, you'll ’ave this snap for
two years more.
OUR NEW STATE. '
UTAH’S NATURAL WEALTH AND
RESOURCES REVIEWED.
Agricultural, Manufacturing and Mineral
Interests In Abunitanco—Banka, Stores
■ and Active Public Improvetncnta—
Bright Politician.
* "The admission of Utah ‘as a State of
the Union suggests a brief review of
its agricultural, mineral and industrial
conditions, which we are able to com
pile from the annual report of the
governor of the territory, Hon. Caleb
W. West.
* The population of Utah increased
44.4 per cent between 18S0 and 1890,
and 14.15 per cent between 1890 and
1895. It.now stands at a total of 247,324
persons, of whom 126,803 are males and
120,521 females. The assessed valuation
of real and personal property and im
provements was $97,942,152; the rev
enue from taxes was $497,516. Almost
$2,750,000 were expended last year on
private and public buildings and in
public works, and 440,000 acres of land
; were surveyed.
The report upon the farming inter
ests of Utah are very extensive. There
are 467,000 acres under cultivation,
417,455 acres irrigated, 294,725 acres of
pasturage fenced in, 806,650 acres of
improved land and 979,182 acres of un
improved land. There are 20,581 farms,
of which only 2,128 were mortgaged for
$1,971,352, and $720,000 were expended
on farm buildings during the year,
$226,879 in repairs, and over $1,000,000
were paid out for farm labor. We have
condensed the principal crop areas and
products for 1894 as follows;
Crop.
Wheat .
Corn .
Eye ..
Harley.
Oats .
Potatoes ...
lleets .
Hay .
Lucerne ....
Apples .
Peaches ....
Apricots ...
Plums .
Pears .
Crapes .
Umall fruits,
Sheep .
Acres. Bushels. Value.
. 144,717 3,113,073 $1,440,006
. 13,343 293.557 151,433
3,791 42,352 20,004
8,754 271,866 100,207
43,334 1,387,710 470,658
13,526 1,649,239 522,855
3,056 *38,015 166,714
89,155 *123,016 60-1,399
. 163,544 *462,459 1,851,639
6,698 377,935 143,764
. 1,636 154.772 75,152
351 21,234 10,372
. 852 37,810 10,835
564 27,261 18,832
578 *621 37.263
747 *609 62,444
t2,422,802 12,119.763 s4,551,204
• Tons, t Number of sheep, s Value of
sheep and wool clip.
Besides the Above there were pro
duced 866,322 pounds of dried fruits,
200,000 gallons of cider, vinegar and
torghum, 3,441,732 pounds of butter,
S20.747 pounds of cheese and 1,102,121
pounds of honey. Of live stock, other
than sheep, Utah has 300,000 head of
t attle, including 60,595 milch cows, 47,
703 hogs and 5,000 head of mules and
other animals.
The industrial con'dition of Utah
shows 880 manufacturing concerns,
employing 5,054 hands, who earn $2,
027,118 a year. The amount of capital
Invested is $5,476,246, the value of the
plants is $5,986,215, the value of the
raw material used is $2,610,038 and the
value of the product of the factories is
$6,678,118. for commercial purposes,
Utah has 1,974 stores, employing 5,023
hands, who earn $2,685,794. The capi
tal Invested in the stores amounts to
$14,551,345, and the sales aggregate
$32,8G5,611. The capital of the banks
exceeds $5,000,000, and the amount of
the deposits was $9,689,267 this year, an
increase of $423,000 over the deposits
in 1894. There are 1,380 miles of rail
road in tho State, and 84 miles of elec
tric roads.
The mineral interests of Utah are
Important. Briefly summarized they
are as follows:
Gold and
Coal. Silver.
Number of mines. ' 12 546
Employes . 129 2.534
Wages paid.S59.775 J2.7S9.817
Output, tons... 62,101 251,924
Cost, Of' plant.(46,708 $4,592,606
Cost of development.... 43,600 7.991,185
• '! IJ - : '■»
The entire mineral product of Utah*
is next given:
1,066,160 pounds copper, at 5 cents
per pound.
202,500 pounds refined lead, at
$3,11 per 100 pounds.
55.531,663 pounds unrefined lead,
at $32 per ton.
0,659,708 ounces fine silver, at
02 97-100 cents per ounce.
56,427 ounces fine gold, at $20 per
ounce .
$53,308.00
62,977.50
888,826.60
4,193,674.80
1,128,540.00
Total export value.$6,327,326.90
Computing the gold and silver at
their mint valuation, and other metals
at their value at the seaboard, it would
increase the value of the product to
$11,631,402.72.
The last delegate sent to Congress
from the territory of Utah was Hon.
Frank J. Cannon. Upon the admission
of Utah to Statehood, it is believed that
he will be elected the first United States
senator. Mr. Cannon is a young man,
bright, energetic and progressive. He
has already made many friends in con
gress, and gained the respect of the
older members by his diligence and in
telligence. He is expected to make
a name for himself in national politica
So large and diversified are the indus
trial interests of Utah that he is a firm
be'.iever in the policy of protection for
the United States.
New York's Greatest Interest,
Which Interest is Better Ufoth Caring jbrl
How "Tariff Reform” Worked.
In 1893 we imported 13,057,642 lines
of pearl buttons. In 1895 we imported
18,537,049 lines. Americans, under the
Gorman tariff, were deprived of the
work that could have been utilized in
making 5,500,000 lines of pearl buttons.
The amount of duty collected on foreign
pearl buttons in 1893 was 3395,245.' In
1895 it was $241,193. By the Gorman
law, the American government lost
$150,000 of revenue, while American
labor lost the work of making 5,500,000
lines of buttons. Who derived any
benefit from this species of “tariff re
form?" Not the government, not our
workers; but foreign manufacturers
and foreign labor.
A Sure Tiling to Hot On.
A commercial traveler, during the
late political campaign in Iowa, got
into a heated argument with another
knight of the road in regard to the ac
curacy of some figures in the docu
ment, “Tariff Facts,” published by the
American Protective Tariff League. The
1 two gentlemen were of opposite beliefs
and both were acquainted with this
paper. The democrat, of course, said
that the figures were false and backed
his. opinion to the extent of $25. The
republican promptly covered the
money and the disputed point was re
ferred for settlement to a democratic
paper in Chicdjgo. The decision, nat
urally, was in favor of the “Tariff
Facts,” which uses nothing but official
figures, unless otherwise stated. Con
gressman Dolllver was an eye-witness
of the discussion, and he subsequently
heard from the republican commercial
traveler that he' had received his
money. Undoubtedly the democrat will
begin to realize that everything he
reads in democratic papers is not gos
pel.
Warning; to Republican Editors*
The New York Press recently gave
the values of some of the principal
articles that we imported during ten
months ending Oct. 31, of 1894 and 1895,
also the total values of all imports.
That paper said it was: i
"Comparing the imports of leadi:
commodities with those of the corre
sponding period in the preceding year
(under the McKinley tariff).”
This is wrong, very wrong. It is sur
prising to see the Press fall into such
an error. The McKinley tariff was not
in force for ten months in 1894. It was
not in force even for eight monthB. The
Gorman tariff was allowed to become
the law of the land before the end of
August, 1894. Last year’s import figures
to the end of October include imports
under the Gorman law for two months
and some days, hence a comparison be
tween this year and last, if extended
beyond August, does not compare the
workings of the two tariffs except 4n
the case of woolen manufactures.
Tell the Whole Truth.
Mr. Caffery submitted the following
resolution in the United States Senate
on Dec. 16. It was considered by unani
mous consent, and agreed to:
“Resolved, That the President of the
United States be requested to report to
the Sedate what action has been taken
in regard to the payment of the appro
priation contained in the sundry civil
. bill, section 1, amendment 107, ap
proved March 2, 1895, for the bounty on
sugar. And if no payment has been
made of said appropriation, and if the
law granting said bounty has not been
executed, to give to the Senate the
reasons therefor.”
We trust that the report, when re
ceived, will explain why this one item
was selected from among all the ap
propriations made by Congress to be
especially approved by Comptroller
Bowler.
Necessity for Protection.
The safety of our American institu
tions against foreign invasion lies not
only in a patriotic citizenship which at
a moment’s notice would create a vol
unteer army of defense, but it also con
sists in the great natural resources we
enjoy. Destroy the wool industry and
what would be the result in case of a
foreign war, with out ports blockaded
and dependent upon foreign wool to
clothe our army and our people? This
is, in my opinion, one of the strongest
reasons for protecting and fostering the
productions of wool.—J. W. Babcock,
M. C. from Wisconsin.
Want Another Message.
We have been waiting for a ringing
message from the president on the sub
ject of protection for the United States.
If Mr. Cleveland is willing to fight John
Bull on behalf of the Venezuelans, why
not on our own account? If he^objects
to John Bull’s invasion there, why not
object to his invasion here, at home,
in our own markets? If there is to be a
lock-out of Mr. Bull from Venezuela,
why not also from the United States?