BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.,
INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION'.
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UHAtThU 1U-(UONTIHXT1D. )
•Truly,” replied the Doctor with a
«ahrug, “you have your Anger on the
3iltch. He will be strikingly antipa
thetic to my beautiful Anastasie. She
Will never understand him; he will
►never understand her. You married the
-Animal side of my nature, dear; and it
'll on the spiritual side that I And my
affinity in Jean-Marie. So much so,
"<hat, to be perfectly frank, I stand in
’'■some awe of him myself. You will
Oaally perceive that I am announcing
•A calamity for you. Do not,” he broke
-eut in tones of real solicitude—“do not
’give way to tears after Vmeal, Anas
"taste. You wfll certainly give yourself
a false digestion."
Anastasie .controlled herself. “You
tknow how willing I am to humor you,”
'•she said, "in all reasonable matters.
But on this point—”
“My dear love," interrupted the Doc
•4or, eager to prevent a refusal, "who
wished to leave Paris? who made me
•give up cards, and the opera, and the
boulevard, and my social relations, and
*•11 that was my life before I knew you?
Have I been faithful? Have I been
Obedient? Have I not borne my doom
with cheerfulness? In all honesty,
-Anastasie, have I not a right to a stipu
lation on my side? I have, and you
sknow it. I stipulate my son.”
Anastasie was*aware of defeat! she
-Struck her colors instantly. “You will
•break my heart,” she sighed.
“Not in the least,” said he. "You
will feel a trifling inconvenience for a
•month just as I did when I was flrst
I and she would bare allowed her nuB
band to keep a menagerie in the back
garden, let alone adopting a stable*
boy, rather than permit the question of
return to be discussed.
CHAPTER IV,
BOUT four of the
afternoon, the
mountebank ren
dered up his ghost;
he had never been
conscious since his
seizure. Doctor
Desprez was pres
ent at his last pas
sage, and declared
the farce over.
Then he took Jean
Marie by the shoulder and led him out
into the inn garden where there was a
convenient bench beside the river. Here
he sat him down and made the boy
place himself on his left.
"Jean-Marie,” he said, very gravely,
"this world is exceedingly vast; and
even France, which is only a small
corner of it, is a great place for a
little lad like you. Unfortunately it is
full of eager, shouldering people mov
ing on; and there are very few bakers’
shops for so many eaters. Your master
is dead; you are not fit to gain a living
by yourself; you do not wish to Bte.al?
No. Your situation then Is undesir
able; it is, for the moment, critical.
On the other hand, you behold in me a
man not old, though elderly, still en
joying the youth of the heart and the
intelligence; a man of instruction;
easily situated in this world’s affairs;
beside Grets. I should He under a
water-lily and listen to the bells, which
must sound most delicately down be
low. That would be a llle—do yon not
think so, too?”
“Yes,” said Jean-Marie.
“Thank God, you have Imagination!”
cried the Doctor, embracing the boy
with his usual effusive warmth, though
it was a proceeding that seemed to dis
concert the sufferer almost as much as
if he had been an English schoolboy of
the same age. “And now,” he added,
“I will take you to my wife.”
The Doctor went through a solemn
form of Introduction, adding, for the
benefit of both parties. “You must try
to like each other for my sake.”
“He Is very pretty,” said Anastaaie.
"Will you kiss mo, my pretty little
fellow?”
The Doctor was furious, and dragged
her into the passage. “Are you a fool,
Anastaaie?" he said. “What is all this
I hear about the tact of women?
Heaven knows, I have not met with It
in my experience. You address my
little philosopher as If he were an In
fant. He must be spoken to with niore
respect, I tell you; he must not be
kissed and Georgy-porgy’d like an or
dinary child.”
“I only did it to please you, I am
sure,” replied Anastaaie; “but I will try
to do better."
The Doctor apologized for his
warmth. “But I do wish him,” he con
tinued, “to feel at home among us.
And really your conduct was so Idiotic,
my cherished one, and so utterly and
distantly out of place, that a saint
might have been pardoned a little ve
hemence in disapproval. Do, do try—If
it is possible for a woman to under
stand young people—but of course it is
not, and I waste my breath, Hold
your tongue as much as possible at
least, and observe my conduct nar
rowly; It will serve you for a model.”
Anastasie did as she was bidden, and
considered the Doctor’s behavior. She
observed that *he embraced the boy
three times in the course of the even
ing, and managed generally to con
found and abash the little fellow out of'
speech and appetite. But she had the
TOOK HIM IN HER ARMS.
it
brought to this vile hamlet; then your
-Admirable sense and temper will pre
vail, and I see you already as content
-os ever, and making your husband the
happiest of men."
"You know I can refuse you nothing,”
she said, with * last flicker of resist?
ance.
"I think not,” replied the Doctor.
“But do not suppose me so unwary as
to adopt him out of hand. I am, 1
-flatter myself, a finished man of the
world; I have had all possibilities in
view; my plan Is contrived to meet
them all. I take the lad as stable boy.
If he pilfer, grumble, if he desire to
change, I shall see I was mistaken: I
-shall recognize him for no son of mine,
and send him tramping.”
"You will never do so when the time
comes,” said his wife; “I know your
.good heart.”
She reached out her hand to him,
with a sigh; the Doctor smiled as he
took it and carried it to his lips; he
fltad gained his point with greater ease
than he had dared to hope; for per
haps the twentieth time he had proved
the efficacy of his trusty argument, his
Excalibur, the hint of a return to
Paris. Six months in the capital, for a
■nan of the doctor’s antecedents and
relations, implied no less a calamity
than total ruin. Anastasie had saved
the remainder of his fortune by keeping
■him strictly in the country. Too very
-name of Paris put her in a blue fear;
keeping a good table—a man, neither
as friend nor host, to be despised. I
offer you your food and clothes, and to
teach you lessons in the evening, which
will be Infinitely more to the purpose
for a lad of your stamp than those of
all the priests in Europe. I propose no
wages, but if ever you take a thought
to leave me, the door shall be open, and
I will give you a hundred francs to
start the world upon. In return, I have
an old horse and chaise, which you
would very speedily learn to clean and
keep in order. Do not hurry yourself
to answer, and take it or leave it as
you judge aright. Only remember this,
that I am no sentimentalist or char
itable person, but a man who lives
rigorously to himself, and that if I
make the proposal, it is for my own
ends—it is because I perceive clearly
an advantage to myself. And now, re
flect.”
“I shall be very glad. I do not see
what else I can do. I thank you, sir,
most kindly, and I will try to be use
ful,” said the boy.1 '
"Thank you," said the Doctor warm
ly, rising at the same time and wiping
his brow, for he had suffered agonies
while the thing hung in the wind. A
refusal, after the scene at noon, would
have placed him in a ridiculous light
before Anastasie. "How hot and heavy
is the evening, to be sure! I have al
ways had a fancy to be a fish in sum
mer, Jean-Marie, hero in the Doing
true womanly heroism in little affairs.
Not only did she refrain from the
cheap revenge of exposing the Doctor’s
errors to himself, but she did her best
to remove their 111-effect on Jean-Ma
rie. When Desprez went out for his
last breath of air before retiring for
the night, Bhe came over to the boy’s
side and took his hand.
He held up his face, and she took
him in her arms and then began to
cry. The woman had spoken in com
plaisance; but she had warmed to her
own words, and. tenderness followed.
The Doctor, entering, found them en
laced; he concluded that his wife was
in fault; and he was Just beginning, in
an awful voice, “Anastasie-,” when
she looked up at him, smiling, with an
upraised Anger; and he held his peace,
wondering, while she led the boy to
his attic.
(TO B1 COST!VOID. I
Coleridge, the poet, was an awkwaru
horseman. Once riding along the turn
pike road in the county of Durham he
was accosted by a man who had been
watching the rider. "I say, young
man, did you meet a tailor on the
road?" “Yes,” replied the poet, whost
middle name was Taylor; “I did; and
he told me if I went a little farther 1
should meet a goose.”
The Austrians were originally the
Oester-Reichcrs or inhabitants of the
Eastern Empire.
PROSPERITY COM]KG,
CANNOT GET HERE UNTIL THE
TARIFF BILL IS PASSED.
Borne Replies to lix-l’rwldtiit Cleveland’s
Recent Attack l7(Mtn tlie Republican
Folic;—Some Uooil I.ogtc f com On *
Republican Exchange*. : *•;>
(Special Washington Correspondent.)
Two great fsc'.s have been made very
clear by this week’s discussion of the
great questions before the country.
One of these Is that while the Re
publicans are pressing hard for an
early passage of the tariff bill the Dem
ocrats are holding It back In order to
create die content with the delay of
business activity. It is apparent to
anybody who stops to think of It that
business cannot revive In the manufac
turing world or that business world
dependent Upon manufacturing. In
spite of this fact, however, some mem
bers of Congress are receiving intima
tions from their districts and states
that this seed which the Democrats are
sowing among a certain class of peo
ple is producing some dissatisfaction
and criticism.
“Of course it Is absurd that such
complaint should be made and that
people should think It worth listening
to,” said Chairman Dtngley, talking of
these criticisms. “It Is certainly un
reasonable to assume that business
activity In manufacturing lines could
revive pending action upon tariff
rates.”
“Is it not a fact. Mr. Dlngley, that
the knowledge that a tariff change is
In Immediate prospect proves more de
pressing to the manufacturer than any
other condition ?”
“Momentarily, yes. I do not know
that the word depressing is just the
one, but certainly It does have the ef
fect of making It Impossible for him
to i.:ake contracts even where he can
get them and of making it difficult to
cuuiruciB ai an. ueaicrs are un*
'Willing to make contracts for future
delivery of goods during tlie pendency
of the tariff bill because they do not
know what the rateB of duty on Im
ported goods of the same class will be.
Manufacturers are unwilling to make
contracts during the pendency of the
tariff bill because they do not know
what they will have to compote with
. In foreign goods nor do they know
what they will have to pay for the raw
material which they bring in from,
abroad for use in manufacturing.”
"So the present period, is probably
the most difficult one for the manufac-.
turer to do business, to say nothing of
the impossibility cf increasing business
or adding to the number of employes?"
“Yes. Then it ought to be remem
bered, too, that Importers are rushing
goods into the country at the greatest
possible speed and that nearly a year’s
supply of foreign goods will be in the
warehouses of the country by the time
1 the hew law goes into effect’in spite
of everything we can do to prevent It.
This means that tho manufacturers
will not be able to resume activity to
any great extent for several months
yet. The people ought to understand
this. I have no doubt that the new
law, when it gets at work, will bring
Increased activity in manufacturing
and thus produce prosperity in every
branch of industry.” ,
Cleveland’s Attack on B 'publicans.
S ’; the other thing made clear by this
week's discussion is that the Repub
licans are not at all disturbed over
ex-Presldent Cleveland's recent criti
cism of the fact that they are promptly
carrying out their promises as to a
protective tariff and international bi
metallism. One feature of the gossip
resulting from this attack has been a
revival of the recollection of Mr. Cleve
land's own record .in this particular.
“It was more than seven months,''
said one of the old observers of na
tional politics here, “from the date of
Mr. Cleveland’s own Inauguration In
1893 before his Congress met to con
sider any of the propositions to which
his party was pledged and within a
few days of eighteen months beforo
icamug yiuimao ui ns ijiaiionii was
fulfilled in the enactment of a new
tariff law. The business uncertainties,
the long months of suspense, in which
manufacturers and dealers of all
classes were unable to proceed intelli
gently with business undertakings, and
the stoppage of business and los3 of
employment consequent thereto, make
the eighteen months of masterly inac
tivity in which President Cleveland
and his party neglected to fulfill with
“hot haste" their promises of legisla
tion, the most disastrous In the busi
ness history of the country. A brief
review of these eighteen months of
delay in legislation by his party may
indicate whether the Republicans of
to-day ought to be deterred by his
complaint of their “hot haste" in carry
ing out their promises. The number of
failures of commercial and business
concerns in the United States the first
year of President Cleveland's adminis
tration (1893) were 15,242,with total lia
bilities amounting to $346,749,889. This
covers only about one-half of the pe
riod between the inauguration of Pres
ident Cleveland and the enactment of
the legislation which his party prom
isee. The record of 1893, however, is
the most disastrous the country haB
ever experienced, the number of fail
ures being fifty per cent greater than
in the panic of 1873, and the losses
also fifty per cent greater. In addition
to these failures no less than 613 banks
failed during that year. This great
number of failures threw out of em
ployment such large numbers of per
sons and reduced wages in so many
cases as to cause an unusual number
of strikes and lockouts, resulting in
great losses of wages of workingmen
and losses to employers. Over 250,
000 employes were involved in the
f .■ v' !' ■ i VVt '
strikes occurring between March 4.
1893, and August 28, 1894, the date of
the enactment of the Wilson law. The
loss In wages to the persons thrown
out of employment by the strikes and
lockouts in those eighteen months, as
shown by the report cf the United
States commissioner of labor is over
243,000,000, while the business loss to
employers aggregated about half that
sum. Reports of the interstate com
merce covering this period also afford
Interesting comment upon the effect of
the business troubles which existed
during the pendency of the promised
legislation during the year 1893. Many
of the most Important railroads of the
country were placed in the hands of
receivers. The mileage of thirty rail
roads so treated in the first half of the
period between President Cleveland's
inauguration and the completion of the
legislation promised in his platform
was 25,375 miles, or nearly one-sev
enth of all the railroad lines of the
United States. Their Indebtedness was
$1,212,217,033.
The above record of prominent
events during the eighteen montha in
which President Cleveland and his
party held the country In suspense
prior to the enactment of the legisla
tion promised by them will Indicate to
some extent whether he was Justified
in complaining of the “hot haste” with
which the Republican party is carrying
out its own pledges on this occasion.”
O. H. WILLIAMS.
The Canadian Bogle Tariff. r ‘
Chicago Tlmes-Herald: The British
exultation over the new Canadian
tariff will not fool any of the protec
tionists in the Fifty-fifth Congress, al
though it may provide some explosive
material for the popocrats in the sen
ate who are impressed with the neces
sity of making some kind of an assault
on the Dingley bill.
In estimating the possible effect of
the new Canadian tariff on our trade
with Canada Jt must not be forgotten
that geographical conditions cannot be
entirely Obliterated hv the Unmlnlnn
government, even though the desire
to promote the commercial and Indus*
trial Interests of the great empire may
be dominant among the Canadian peo
ple. The United States provides such
an accessible and attractive market
that Canadians cannot be entirely di
verted from it by the pro-British tariff
policy just inaugurated. Our market
is so much more valuable to the Cana->
dlans than the Canadian market is to
us that the members of Congress will
be guilty of grave disloyalty to do
mestic Interests if they allow this Do
minion menace to deter them from put
ting a good tariff on lumber,^ coal and
the cereals.
The new Canadian tariff bill disc rim-'
inates In favor of British goods by
schedules intended to apply to imports
from Great Britain alone. The prefer
ence amounts to 12V4 per cent, as
against the Imports from other coun
tries, and will continue in force until
■"Tilly, im, Iftef "wmch tmrpreterrew
will be increased to one-fourth.
The motive behind this double sched
ule is very obvious. It is projected at
thlB time sb a threat to the tariff
makers in the Fifty-fifth Congress.
Unless Canadian goods are admitted to
our markets under the conditions
which prevail under the Wilson-Gor-'
man law the Canadians propose to buy
all the goods which they do not make
themselves in Great Britain. 1 *
But the instinct of commercial ag
grandizement Is stronger with the
Canadians than loyalty to the Crown.'
The Canadians are willing to be gov
erned by Great Britain. It Is one of
the best governments on earth. But
the Canadians arc certain to seek the
market where they can buy to the best
advantage, and that market Is In the’
Manufacture Uur Own Sugar.
The Interest In the beet sugar Indus
try grows apace. Secretary Wilson,
who reversed the policy of his Demo
cratic predecessors and set about en
couraging the production of the sugar
beet, finds the demand for sugar beet
buku uuu ueet sugar miormauon some*
thing enormous and coming from every
part of the country. He believes that
this nation will, within two years, be
manufacturing all its own sugar and
putting into the handB of its farmers
the hundred million dollars which it
now sends annually abroad for sugar.
Cleveland’s Complaint.
Ex-President Cleveland is a good one
to talk about "protecting the fair fame
of our nation against shame and scan
dal.” This is the expression of the
opening sentence of his New York'
speech at a meeting last Saturday night
at which he and a handful of his fol
lowers made an attack upon the Re
publican party for carrying out thq
principles laid down in its platform.
If Mr. Cleveland had recounted the
scandals of his own administration, the
sugar trust scandal, the bond scandal,
the Chicago lake front scandal, the for
eign policy scandal, and numbers of
others which might be mentioned, his
speech would have been a good, deal
longer and much more interesting. As
it was, he devoted it to abusing tho
Republican party because it is giving
its first attention to carying out the
pledges of its platform, a protective
tariff, an effort for international bi
metallism, and the full maintenance of
the present safe standard of our cur
rency.
He attacked not only the Republican
party, but that large and growing class
of Democrats who believe in protection,
another large class of Democrats who
voted for Mr. Bryan, and another class
of voters who support the measures of
the Populist party. If Mr. Cleveland
keeps on attacking those 'vho believe
in some of the things which he believes
he will soon find himself standing ab
| solutely alone
Nobody ever before suspected itr.
■ Cleveland of being a humorist Upon
no other theory, however, it is possible -
to explain his assertion made in hi*
New York speech the other night that
his party “defends the humble toller
against oppressive exactions in his
home and invites him to the utmost 5
enjoyment of the fruits of industry,
economy end thrift" The experience a
of the “humble toiler” since Mr. Clove
land cine to office four years ago will ;
hardly enable him to agree with that
gentleman in this statement.-*—Ex* .
change. .
Usd for Sllvsrltm.
Had the developments of the slit
months following last November’s elec
tion occurred in the six months prior to
that event, the cause of silver would : '
have received far less attention or sup
port. Japan, Russia and Peru have la
those few months gone to the gold
standard, while several other nations
have taken steps in that direction.
China haB indicated a desire to havo
her customs duties at the treaty ports
placed on a gold basis, as they sub
stantially were when the treaties wero
made Chile, Uruguay and Brasil havo
made gold unlimited legal tender
silver a legal tender in but limited -
sums, while Honduras, San Salvador, :
Costa Rica, Colombia and Santo Do
mingo have, within a comparatively '
short time, established the gold stand
ard, though a depreciated paper cur
rency at present prevents the circula
tion of gold.
Tartfl in the South.
There is considerable significance is
'the movement of the younger members i)
of the Congressional delegations from
the far south to secure a duty of 2V4
cents a pound upon imported cotton.
This indicates a new order of things,
and a breaking away from the free
trade traditions of the old Democracy
of that section. It is noticed that the
old veterans are not engaged in the^
new departures, but only the younger
generation, like McLauren of South
Carolina and Brantley of Georgia. The
UI IU«J ,
ment in the south has been gradual.
but firm and permanent, and thia is the
firat time that the southern Democrats
have thrown aside their old policy and
fallen into line with the protectionists
of the north.—Lexington Leader.
Mir. Bryan Rita Back,
The gold Democrats and the silver
Democrats are throwing stones at each
other again. Mr. Bryan has come to
the front with a sarcastic reply to Mr.
Cleveland’s Reform club speech, in
which he says that Cleveland and his
wing of the democracy are “long on
platitudes and short on performances/’
and that they reach their “maximum
at a banquet and their minimum at tho
polls.” Every day increases the Im
probability of the two wings of the
democracy ever flapping together
again. :-™u' , ■
.
A Firm Torelsn Policy. Ji; .1.,:
President McKinley’s foreign policy
is evidently going to differ very ma
terially from that of his predecessor.
The first few weeks of his administra
tion resulted in'the release from ths
Cuban prisons of practically every Am
erican citizen confined therein and this
has been followed by the quiet depar
ture for Hawaiian waters of one of our
war vessels, evidently intended to pro
tect American interests there and to
prevent control there by the Japanese
or other powers.
.''; Kv.
Importers expect to have a year's
supply of goods on hand from foreign
countries before the new Dingley tariff
bill becoihes a law. Yet that bill is
likely to get on the statute books in
less than one-fourth the time occupied
in the consideration of the Wilson
bill. .
Vice President Hobart is winning
high commendation as a presiding offi
cer of the senate. One of the oldest
officials of that body says he is devel
oping greater capacity and ability as a
presiding officer than any vice presi
dent whom he has ever known.
The beet sugar industries at Ger
many made an average profit last year
of $32,240 each, in the list at 113 from
which returns have been received. This 3
Is encouraging to those who desire to '?•.
see the beet sugar Industry established
In the United States.
The thousands of old soldiers who
were dismissed from office by the Dem- 3
ocratlc administration are being re
stored to their positions as rapidly as
possible by the Republican party, now
in control of the government.
Democrats are scolding because the
prosperity of 1892 has not been restored
at once. The answer is that the protec
tive tariff of 1892 has not yet been re
stored to the statute books.,
Very Ancient*
A humorous Oxford graduate in clas- '
steal honors recently stated that the
bicycle must be an extremely ancient
Invention, since Juvenal speaks of la- 1
dies “tenui quae cyclade sudent,” which
means, he said, “who perspire along the
slender cycle.” It was fittingly re
served for a solemn writer in the last
Scottish review to correct the blunder
and to inform the Oxford honor man
that “tenui cyclade" refers to the thin |
garment*, of the women.—New York i
Evening Post.
First Passenger—“Would you—ah—
lend me your spectacles a moment,
please?” Second Passenger—'“Certain- i
ly, sor.” First Passenger—“Ah—thank
you; now, as you can not see to read yf
your paper, would you mind letting me
have it, too, please?”—New York ^
world. , „ . Mt'
A Small Request.
