t";
VI. I
HEN I asked Dick
Fenton to relate
his experiences, I
did- not mean him
to do so at such
length. But there,
as he has written
It, and as writing
is not a labor of
love with him, let
it go.
When Madeline
Rowan found the bed, by the side of
'Which she had thrown herself in an
ecstasy of grief) untenanted, she knew
in a moment that she was the victim
of a deep laid plot. Being ignorant of
Carriaton’8 true position in the world,
she could conceive no reason for the
elaborate scheme which had been de
vised to lure her so many miles from
her home and make a prisoner of her.
A prisoner she was. Not only was
the door locked upon her, but a slip
of paper lay on the bed. It bore these
words: “No harm is meant you, and
in due time you will be released. Ask
no questions, make no foolish attempts
at escape, and you will be well treated.”
Upon reading this the girl’s first
thought was one of thankfulness. She
saw at once that the reported accident
to her lover was but an Invention. The
probabilities were that Carriston was
alive, and in his usual health. Now
that she felt certain of this, she could
bear anything.
xrom the day on which she entered
that room, to that on which we rescued
her, Madeline was to all intents and
purposes as close a prisoner in that
lonely house on the hillside as she
might have been in the deepest dun
geon in the world. Threats, entreaties,
promises of bribes availed nothing. She
was not unkindly treated—that is, suf
fered no absolute ill-usage. Books,
materials for needle work, and other
little aids to while away time were
supplied. But the only living creatures
she saw were the woman of the house
who attended to her wants, and, on one
or two occasions, the man whom Car
riston asserted he had seen in his
trance. She had suffered from the
close confinement, but had always felt
certain that sooner or later her lover
would find her and effect her deliver
ance. Now that she knew he was alive
she could not be unhappy.
I did not choose to ask her why she
had felt so certain on the above points.
I wish to add no more puzzles to the
one which, to tell the truth, exercised,
even annoyed me, more than I care to
say. But I did ask her if, during her
incarceration, her jailor had ever laid
his hand upon her.
She told me that some short time
after her arrival a strange; had gained
admittance to the house. While he was
there the man had entered her room,
held her arm, and threatened her with
violence if she made an outcry. After
hearing this, I did not pursue the sub
ject.
Carriston and Madeline were married
at the earliest possible moment, and
left England immediately after the
ceremony. A week after their depar
ture, by C&rrieton’s request, I forward
ed the envelope found upon our pris
oner to Mr. Balph Carriston. With it
I sent a few lines stating where and
under what peculiar circumstances we
had become possessed of it. I never
received any reply to my communica
tion, so, wild and improbable as it
seems, 1 am bound to believe that
Charles Carriston’s surmise was right
—that Madeline was decoyed away and
concealed, not from any ill-will toward
herself, but with a view to the possi
ble bafieful effect which her mysterious
disappearance might work upon her
lover’s strange and excitable organi
zation; and I firmly believe that, had
he not in some inexplicable way been
firmly convinced that she was alive
and faithful to him, the plot would
have been a thorough success, and
Charles Carriston would have spent the
rest of his days in an asylum.
Both Sir Charles—he succeeded to his
title shortly after his marriage—and
Lady Carriston are now dead, or I
should not have ventured to relate these
things concerning them. They had
twelve years of happiness. If measured
by time the period was but a Short one,
but I feel sure that in it they enjoyed
more true happiness than many others
find in the course of a protracted life.
In word, thought and deed they were
as one. She died in Rome, of fever,
and her husband, without, so far as l
know, any particular complaint, simply
followed her.
I was always honored with their sin*
cerest friendship, and Sir Charles left
me sole trustee and guardian of his
three sons, so there are plenty of lives
between Ralph Carriston and his de
sire. I am pleased to say that the boys,
who are as dear to me as my own chil
dren, as yet show no evidence of pos
sessing any gifts beyond nature.
I know that my having made this
story public will cause two sets of ob
jectors to fall equally foul of me—the
matter-of-fact prosaic man who will
say that the abduction and subsequent
Imprisonment of Madeline was an ab
surd impossibility, and the scientific
man, like myself, who cannot, dare not
believe that Charles Carriston, from
neither memory nor imagination,
could draw a face, and describe pecu
liarities, by which a certain man could
be identified. I am far from saying
♦here may not be a-simple natural ex
planation of the puzzle, but I, for one.
have failed to find it. so close this tale
as I began it, by saying I am a narra
tor, and nothing more.
(THU END.)
j A Tale Of [
3 Three Lions C
4 BY L
4 H. RIDER HAGGARD [
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CHAPTER I.
Most of you boys will have heard of
Allan Quatermain, who was one of the
party who discovered King Solomon’s
mines-some little time ago, and after- j
ward came to live in England near his
friend Sir Henry Curtis. He had gone
back to the wilderness now, as these
hunters almost Invariably do, on one
pretext or another. They cannot en-;
dure civilisation for very long, -Its ]
noise and racket and the omnipresence
of broadclothed humanity proving
more trying to their nerves than the
dangers of the desert. I think that
they feel lonely here, for it is a fact
that is too little understood, though it
has often been stated, that there is no
loneliness like the loneliness of crowds,
especially to those who are unaccus
tomed to them. “What Is there In the
world,” fild Quatermain would say, "so
desolate as to stand in the streets of a
great city and listen to the footsteps
falling, falling multitudinous as the
rain, and watch the white line of
faces as they hurry past, you know not
whence, you know, not whither. They
come and go, their eyes meet yourB
with a cold stare, for a moment their
features are written on your mind, and
then they are gone forever. You will
never see them again, they #111 never
see you again; they come up out of the
blackness, and presently they once
more vanish into the blackness, taking
their secrets with them. Yes, that is
loneliness pure and undeflled; but to
one who knows and loves it, the wil
derness is not lonely, because the
spirit of nature is ever there to keep
the wanderer company. He finds com
panionship in the rushing winds—the
sunny streams babble like Nature’s
children at his feet high above him,
in the purple sunset, are domes and
minarets and palaces, such as no mor
tal man hath built, in and out of whose
flaming doors the glorious angels of
the sun do move continually. . And
then there is the wild game, following
its feeding grounds in great armies,
with the spring-busk thrown out be
fore them for skirmishes; then rank
upon rank of long-faced blesbuck,
marching and wheeling like infantry;
and last the shining troops of quagga
and the fierce-eyed shaggy vilderbeeste
to take the place of the great cossack
host that hangs upon an army’s flanks.
“Oh, no,” he would say, “the wilder
ness is not lonely, for, my boy, remem
ber that the farther you get from man,
the nearer you grow to God,” and
though this is a saying that might well
be disputed, it is one I am sure that
anybody who has watched the sun rise
and set on the limitless deserted plains,
and seen the thunder chariots roll in
majesty across the depths of unfathom
able sky, will easily understand.
Well; at any rate he went back again,
and now for many months I have heard
nothing of him, and to be frank, I
greatly doubt if anybody will ever hear
of him again. I fear thpt the wilder
ness, that has for so many years been
a mother to him, will now also prove
his monument and the monument of
those who accompanied him, for the
quest upon which he and they have
started is a wild one indeed.
But while he was in England for
those three years or so between his re
turn from the successful discovery of
the wise king’s burled treasures, and
the death of his only son, I saw a great
deal of old Allan Quatermaln. I had
known him years before in Africa, and
after he came heme, whenever I had
nothing better to do, I used to run up
to Yorkshire and stay with him, and
in this way I at one time and another
heard many of the incidents of his
past life, and most curious some of
them were. No man can pas3 all those
years following the rough existence of
an elephant hunter without meeting
with many strange adventures, and
one' way and another old Quatermaln
has certainly seen his share. Well,
the story that I am going to tell you
in the following short pages is one
of the later of these adventures; in
deed, if I remember right, it happened
in the year 1875. At any rate I know
that it was the only one of his trips
upon which he took his son Harry
(who is since dead) with him, and that
Harry was then fourteen. And now
for the story, which I will repeat, as
nearly as I can In the words in which
hunter Quateimain told it to me one
night in the oak-paneled vestibule of
his house in Yorkshire. We were talk
ing about gold-mining
(jOla-minlng, he broke in; ah, yes,
I once went gold-mining at Pilgrims'
Rest in the Transvaal, and it was af
ter that that we had the turn up about
Jim-Jim and the lions. Do you know
it? Well, it Is, or was, one of the
.queerest little places you ever saw.
The town itself was pitched in a sort of
stony valley, with mountains all about
it, and in the middle of such scenery
as one does not often get the chance of
seeing.
“Well, for some months I dug away
gayly at my claim, but at length the
very sight of a pick or of a washing
trough became hateful to me, A hundred
times a day I cursed my own folly for
having Invested eight hundred pounds,
which was about all that I was worth
at the time, in this gold-mining. But
like other better people before me, I
had been bitten by the gold, bug, and
now had to take the consequences. I
had bought a claim out of which a
man had made a fortune—five or six'
thousand pounds at least—as I thought,1
very oheap; that is, I had given hlmj
five hundred pounds for it. It was all
! that I had made by a very rough year’s
elephant hunting beyond the Zambest
I sighed deeply and prophetically when
I saw my successful friend, who was
a Yankee, sweep up the roll of the
Standard Bank notes with the lordly
air of the man who has made his for-'
tune, and cram them into his breeches
pockets. ’Well,' I said to him—the
unhappy vender—‘it is a magnificent
property, and I only hope that my
luck will be as good as yours has been.’
He smiled; to my excited nerves it
seemed that he smiled ominously, as
he answered me in a peculiar Yankee
rawl: *1 guess, stranger, as I ain’t the
man to want to turn a dog’s stomach
against his dinner, more especial
when there ain’t no more going of the
rounds; as far as that there claim, welf,
she’s been a good nigger to me; but
between you and me, stranger, speak
ing man to man now that there alnlt
any filthy lucre between us to ob
sculate the features of the truth, I
guess she’s about worked out!’
"I gasped; the fellow’s effrontery took
the breath out of me. Only five min
utes before he had been swearing by
all his gods, and they appeared to be
numerous and mixed, that there were
half a dozen fortunes left in the claim
and that he was only giving it up be
cause he was down-right weary of
shoveling the gold out.
■ Don e iook 80 vexed. Biranger,
wont on the tormentor, ‘perhaps there
is some shine in the old girl yet; any*
way, you are a downright good fellow,
you are, therefore you will, I guess,
have a real Al, plate-glass opportunity
of working on the feelings of Dame
Fortune. Anyway, it will bring the
muscle up upon your arm if the stuff
is uncommon still, and what is more,
you will in the course of a year earn
a sight more than two thousand dollars
in value of experience.’
“And he went, just in time, for in
another minute I should have gone for
him, and I saw his face no more.
“Well, I set to work on the old
claim with my boy Harry and a half a
dozen Kafirs to help me, which, see
ing that I had put nearly all my world
ly wealth into it, was the least I could
do. And we worked, my word, we did
work—early and late we went at it—
but never a bit of gold did we see; no,
not even a nugget large enough to
make a scarf pin out of. The Ameri
can gentleman had mopped up the
whole lot and left us the sweepings.
“For three months this game went
on till at last I had paid away all or
very near all that was left of our lit
tle capital in wages and food for the
Kafirs and ourselves. When I tell you
that Boer meal was sometimes as high
as four poundB a bag, you will under
stand that it did not take long to run
through our banking account.
(TO BB COXTIXUSB.l
WHAT OUR FAIR DID.
Taaglit^the People the Leuon of En
thusiasm and Appreciation.
It is a but a couple of years since the
vision of the White City of Chicago
ended in flame and smoke or vanished
before the rains of winter, and yet al
ready the dream is materializing, the
phoenix has risen from the ashes by
Lake Michigan to fly from city to city,
wherein the plaster and stucco of the
Columbian palaces are becoming en
during stone, says Scribner’s. The
great educational institutions have
opened the way, not only with plan,
but also with realization, with colleges
in New York, and the beautiful library
of Boston, and with the huge and mag
nificent pile which has arisen beside
the national capitol. But although
some of these buildings were projected
and designed before the World’s Fait
grew into being, the latter has taught
to the people that shall visit them the
lesson of enthusiasm and appreciation;
above all, of that enthusiasm which
results in a common direction, of that
interappreciation which results in
harmony. Harmony was the great les
son of the Columbian city; the archi
tects joined hands, and in the court ol
honor each of the great buildings as
sumed greater beauty and significance
from the fellowship of the charming
palaces that surrounded it.
Train* Without Ball*.
Experiments which are described as
satisfactory have recently been made
in the suburbs of Paris with a train,
drawn by a steam locomotive, running
not on rails but on an ordinary road.
The train used at present consists of
only two cars, one of which contains
the locomotive machinery, together
with seats for fourteeen pasengers,
while the other has twenty-four seats.
The engine is of sixteen horsepower
and the average speed is about seven
miles an hour. The train is able to
turn in a circle only twenty-three feet
in diameter. Another train has been
constructed for the conveyance ol
freight. It is hoped by the-inventors
that trains of this kind will be ex
tensively employed in and near cities.
French peasants have a belief that 11
a Are with much smoke is made in the
stove on the approach of a storm, safe
ty from lightning will be insured. Schu
ster shows that the custom is based on
reason, as the smoke serves as a very
good conductor for carrying away the
electricity slowly and safely. In one
thousand cases of damage by lightning,
6.3 churches and 8.5 mills have been
struck, but the number of factory
chimneys was only 0.3.
THEY DECLINE OFFICE.
Two DlitlnguUhad Kcbrukui Eaehaw
Political Place.
Washington special to the Omaha
Bee: Nebraska enjoys the unique dis
tinction of having two of its distin
guished citizens decline to hold office
under McKinley, Hon. John L. Web
ster and Gen. J. C. Cowin.
On Saturday the positidn of assist
ant secretary of war, p&ying 94,500 a
year, was tendered Mr. Webster bv
Senator Thurston. Mr. Webster could
not see his way clear to accepting, and
so indicated to Mr. Thurston. Imme
diately the junior senator from Ne
braska wired Gen. Cowin, that the
place was open to him, and that the
president would be pleased to have
him accept. Word was returned that
Gen. Cowin had left for Washington on
Friday. On his arrival here Senator
Thurston called on Gen. Cowin and
had a long conference with him as to
the place, but Cowin also declined.
The place is Regarded next to that of
a cabinet officer, there being only one
assistant secretary of war. He really
cuts as much figure in the administra
tion as his chief, the only difference
being that he does not sit around the
cabinet table. Senator Thurston, after
having learned from the president that
the place could be had for either Mr.
Webster or Mr. Cowin, endeavored to
secure a further tender to some other
distinguished Nebraskan, but it is not
believed that the president will give it
to any one in the state, for he feels
that the place should be filled by a
man of prominence, and knowing both
Webster and Cowin personally and
having a great regard for their ability,
he stipulated that it should be offered
to these two gentlemen.
The president also insists upon the
1 position being filled by a man who has
served as a soldier. Except for this
last fact. ex-Congressman George D.
Meiklejolin might have been appointed,
as Senator Thurston urged his nomina
tion very strongly, in addition to sev
eral other prominent republicans from
the state. Could the president be in
duced to change his opinion as to hav
ing a soldier fill the place, Mr. Meikle
jonn might still stand a good show of
being selected, but this is extremely
doubtful. Tremendous pressure is be
ing brought to bear on President Mc
Kinley from outside of Nebraska for
this place, and undoubtedly it will
have some effect now that Cowin and
Webster have both declined the posi
tion because they could not afford to
sacrifice their law practice in Omaha.
Should the appointment go to some
other state, as now seems likely. Sen
ator Thurston will receive an equiva
lent for the place in other branches of
the service.
General J. C. Cowin, who arrived
here this afternoon, comes to consult
the_ attorney general regarding the
Union Pacific foreclosure cases pend
ing in the circuit court. After the
conference with Mr. McKenna, he will
probably go to New York to consult
with Governor Hoadley, special agent
of the government in these cases.
Salt an Bond.
Lincoln special: The attorney gen
eral will tomorrow or next day com
mence suit against the bondsmen of
ex-Treasurer J. S. Bartley to recover
the amount of the shortage of state
funds not turned over to Treasurer
Meserve. The papers in the suit have
been prepared for several days and are
now ready for filing. The suit will be
commenced in the district court for
Lancaster county. If the bill now
pending before thd legislature becomes
a law, as now seems probable, the
present suit will be dismissed and an
other commenced in the counties in |
which the bondsmen reside. The
amount for which suit is brought in
recovery is #555,790.66. This amount
includes the money belonging to the
permanent school and sinking funds
still in Bartley’s possession and also
the amounts deposited in the defunct
banks at Alma and Orleans in excess of
the 50 per cent allowed under the
depository law. The Alma bank held
815,313.39 and the Orleans bank 83,
716.05 in excess of the amount per
mitted.
Under the present law all spits
against sureties on the bond of state
officials must be commenced in the dis
trict court for Lancaster county. The
pending bill provides that the suit may
be commenced in the county in which
the sureties reside. It will be remem
bered that the case commenced by
Judge Wakeley against the sureties on
the bond of ex-Treasurer J. E. Hill
was first filed in the district court for
Douglas county. Judge Davis, then on
the bench, dismissed the case for want
of jurisdiction, and the supreme court
upheld his decision. Then the case
was filed in the supreme court and the
trial had before a jury of sixteen
men, drawn by a specially appointed
jury commission selected by the court.
The result of the first trial was a dis
agreement. The second trial resulted
in a victory for Hill.
It May Come to Omaha.
Washington dispatch: Congressman
Mercer had an interview with Secre
tary Bliss of the interior department
in regard to his project of establishing
an Indian supply depot at Omaha.
The conference was wholly of an in
formal character, Mercer simply ex
plaining the advantage of making
Omaha the base of supply for the
Indians of the great northwest, so as
to get the matter into the proper
channel for future reference. The
secretary manifested considerable in
terest in the matter and promised to
give it proper attention as soon as a
new commissioner of Indian affairs is
appointed. As this will, in all prob
ability. be ex-Congressman Pickier of
South Dakota, who is locally interested
in the project, the prospects appear
excellent of something being accom
plished under the new administration.
The York county fair this year will
be minus the horse races.
Over a Thousand Conversions.
In the farewell service tendered
Major Cole, the evangelist, in the
Menard opera house last night, says a
McCook dispatch, closed the most re
markable revival service ever held in
southwestern Nebraska. In this city
alone 501 conversions are reported.
This evangelistic campaign opened in
Hastings with 330 conversions, 415 at
Holdrege, 303 in smaller towns reached,
closing with 501 in McCook, giving a
grand total since November of 1,448
conversions. All classes and condi
tions have been reached by these ex
traordinary services and incalcuable
good has been accomplished.
SILVER MEN ALARMED
_
INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLISM
WILL SPOIL THEIR JOBS.
Fmldiat McKinley Capture* the Nt-:
pie or the Capital City—Will Paw
the Tariff Bill and Then Go Home—
“A Plata American Cltlaea.”
(Washington Correspondence.)
Senator Wolcott’s return, and the'
favorable report which he made In his
talk with President McKinley regard
ing the prospects for International bi
metallism, has alarmed the silver lead
ers. They begin to fear that they are
going to lose their occupation. They
have talked themselves Into public
prominence and public positions on the
silver question and they are now scared
lest the proposed International silver
conference will take that subject out
of politics. They recognise the fact
that If the bimetallic conference agrees
upon a plan and It Is adopted by the
various nations, the silver question
will go out of politics In the United
States and they will be out of a job.
They also recognise the fact that If
the nations fall to agree upon a system
for an Increased use of silver, It would
be folly for the United States alone to
undertake it, hence, they would be un
der those circumstances, out of a job.
So, It Is not surprising that such men
as DuBols, Teller, Stewart and other
alleged friends of silver sneer at the
proposed bimetallic conference and are
doing all in their power to prevent lti
success, or even Its consideration.
Protection Gaining Ground.
The protective tariff idea is gaining
a foothold permanently in every party.
Senators McEnery, Cattery, Smith, and
several others on the Democratic side
of the senate are likely to support the
Republican tariff measure. Populists
Kyle, Heitfeld and one or two others
of that party are, it is understood,
likely to vote for protection. Of the
silver Republicans, practically all are
in principle protectionists. Thus the
great principle of the Republican party,
that which has been the leading
thought in its declarations since its
existence, is coming to be gradually
recognized and accepted by members oi
all parties.
Great Britain has another evidence
of the distress of free trade in the ex
perience of one of her children, Aus
tralia. New South Wales recently en
tered upon a new experiment in low
tariff and the result has been extreme
distress. An official report of the New
South Wales Chamber of Manufactur
ers shows the effect of the low tariff
to (have been "reduction in wages,
workmen discharged, works closed and
industries abandoned which had taken
expenditure of many years of effort and
much capital to establish." This is
very much like our own experiences
with low tariff.
Free Traders Responsible for Big Ap
propriations.
The Republicans in the new con
gress are goin^to make an effort to get
back to the system of placing the ap
propriation bills in the hands of one
committee. The free traders who got
control of congress when Grover
Cleveland first came into the White
House distributed the appropriation
bills to a half-dozen committees in or
der to take them out of the hands of
Protectionist Sam Randall and at the
same tl.ae more thoroughly control the
house in favor of the free trade plans.
They succeeded, both in, distributing
the appropriation bills and in passing
their free trade tariff act. The result
of the distribution of the appropria
tion bills was an enormous increase in
expenditures and the result of the pas
sage of the low tariff act was an enor
mous decrease of the receipts. Result:
An increase in national indebtedness
in the last four years amounting to
262 million dollars. The Republican
party, now that it resumes control,
must first change the systems which
produce these evil results and then go
to work and pay the debts which the
Democrats piled up. To do this they
will first reduce expenditures by plac
ing the appropriation bills in the hands
of one committee; second, increase
the receipts by a protective tariff and
general business activity, and then re
sume the task which they carried on
successfully for many years of paying
off public indebtedness.
* “A Plain American CJtlien.”
President McKinley has shown him
self a plain American cltlsen in the
first week of his occupancy of the Pres
idential office.
There were no “frills" about hlB in
augural address, no unnecessary ex
clusiveness in any part of his share of
the day’s doings, and when he became
master of the White House Its doom
were thrown open, and day after day
throngs of people from every section
and state have been received by him.
The surviving members of his old regi
ment, the Twenty-third Ohio, called
upon him the day following his inau
guration, and not for many years have
the walls of the White House echoed
such ringing cheers as those with which
they greeted their oid comrade and
commander. The day’s work over, this
statesman and plain American citizen
donned his hat and overcoat, and for
the first time In many years there was
witnessed the spectacle of a President
of the United States walking unattend
ed through the streets of Washington.
This habit, which was characteristic
of General Grant, has been revived by
that other Ohio soldier. Major McKin
ley, and strollers on Pennsylvania ave.
nue now doff their hats to the President
of the United States as he walks by,
and In return receive a pleasant salu
tation from him.
G. H. WILLIAMS.
Americans Are Well red.
Herewith ia given a table showla#
the average annual food consumption
per inhabitant among the leading cooa
trlea of Europe, as comnared with the
United States:
Grain. Meat
Bushels. Pounds.
France..,. . 24.08 81.88
Germany.23.71 8481
Belgium.. .......22,84 67.M*
Great Britain..20.02 ii»ff
Russia...17.07 54.08
Spain.... ..17.08 25.08
Austria...... .... .....18.57 50.08
Sweden and Norway,...12.06 51.10
Italy...... ...... 0.08 20.80
Europe........17,06 67.50
United States.....40.68 120.00
As It Is a truism of history that no
Ill-fed nation has ever been great, it
follows that, in the matter of food
consumption the American people are
well provided with a physical basis for
greatness as a nation, and for Intel
leotual superiority among Its individual
people. Onr per capita consumption
of meat and grain Is considerably more
than twice the average per capita of
all Europe. Each American averages
twice as much grain consumed per
year, and a little more meat, than the ■
average Englishman; and the tatter
stands at the head of all European
consumers.—-Toledo Blade.
•Uver "lUfibUMU.”
The signer* of thl* call for theop
ganlxatlon of a “Silver Republican
party” are all conaplcuoualy known an
malcontents and deserters. 8enatova
Teller, Dubois, Mantle and Cannon
have violently opposed Republican
measures In congress and assisted in
defeating them. They and Senator
Pettigrew formally bolted the Repub
lican national convention and gave
more or less active support to Bryan
in last autumn's Presidential cam
paign. Congressman Charles A.
Towns of Minnesota, who la put for
ward as the chairman of the new party,
was denied a renomination a year ago
by his Republican constituents be
cause of his extreme silver views, and,
running as an Independent against the
regular candidate in hts district, wan
defeated at the polls.
For such men as these to claim the
title of Republicans is sheer Imperti
nence. To all Intents and purposes,
they are Democrats and Populists, all
of them. They should be honbat
enough to show their true colors.—Bos
ton Journal. .<
Pass the Tartar and Uo Romo.
President McKinley’s first duty is to
insist, not upon the treaty, but upon
a tariff bill that will give adequate rev- ~
enue for governmental expenses and
also give proper protection to the In
dustrial interests of the country and
the American workingman. When be
has made this clear to the special ses
sion, and the Dlngley bill has been"
passed and becomes a law, the next
step will be to dissolve congress. Then
is no other legislative business for It
to take up or discuss. The tariff is tho
only matter of pressing importance.
But a new tariff bill with congress in
session will hardly bring about pros
perity. Every business interest will
feel safer if senators and congressmen
are in their homes instead of in Wash
ington. We need the tariff bill mighty
badly, but we need the rest cure alaoi. '
Let us have both!— N. Y. Advertiser.
The Political Scrap Bap
The ever-increasing deficit brought
about by the Wilson tariff bill is caus
ing no end of trouble in every city.vll
lage and hamlet in this country.
As a practical business man of great
experience, Mr. Hanna, says the New
York Tribune, is sure to be a moat
useful member of the senate, even
though inexperienced in the rules.
When the tariff question is out of the
way, with the certainty that for four
years at least there will be no change
in economic policy, business can not
help but grow better, and with the im
provement will come the dissipation of
questions which have been so disturb
ing to the public mind.
General Sickles, who has been is
poor hea)th since his exertions during
the late presidential campaign, says;
"My bitterest disappointment is that 1
must give up my cherished project to
form a legion of Union and Confeder
ate veterans to escort Major McKinley
in the inaugural parade from the cap- ■
itol to the white house."
The election of Major McKinley was
a popular uprising of the best elements
of American cltisenshlp. Such a large
percentage of the legal voters of all the
states was never polled before in the ?
history of our politics. The election
will also go on record as the cleanest,
fairest, most honorably conducted of
any contest in our political annals.
Mr Altgeid does not seem to realise,,
says the Times-Heraid, that the world
“do move," and that the population in.-'
creases in several states of the Union.
He also persistently refuses to believe
that the full vote of both parties was
not cast in 1892. As long as the ex
governor prefers to grope around in
such darkness It is useless to attempts
to convince him of the error of hit
ways.
Mr. Cleveland's seal in getting his
Democratic appointees under cover ir
too obviously partisan to be mistaken
Assuming that the public service
would be promoted by placing practi
cally all the government’s employee
under civil service rules, there is clear
ly no fairness in permitting a president
to fill the offices with his own partisans
and then declare them sacred from all
political interference.