CHAPTER VI.—(Continued.)
But the boy could never be brought
rto see that he had done anything wrong
when he stole. Nor, Indeed, did the
■ Doctor think he had; but that gentle
was never very scrupulous when
• in want of a retort:
“And now,” he concluded, "do yon
.!begin to understand? My only friends
were those who ruined me. Qretz has
'been my academy, my sanatorium, my
'heaven of innocent pleasures. If mil
lions are offered me, I wave them back:
■ Retro, Sathanas!—Evil one, begone!
Fix your mind on my example; despise
.riches, a bid the debasing influence of
• cities'. ’ Hygiene-hygiene ahd tnedioc-'
rity of fortune—these be your watch
words during life!”
The Doctor’s system of hygiene strik
ingly coincided with his tastes; and
his picture of the perfect life was a
faithful description of the one he was
leading at the time. But it is easy to
convince a boy, whom you supply with
all the facts for the discussion. And
• besides, there was one thing admirable
in the philosophy, and that was the
enthusiasm of the philosopher. There
was never anyone more vigorously de
termined to be pleased; and if he was
not a great logician, and so had no
right to convince the intellect, he was
•certainly something of a poet, and had
a fascination to seduce the heart. What
he could not achieve in his customary
humor of a radiant admiration of him
self and his circumstances, he some
times effected in his fits of gloom.
“Boy,” he would say, “avoid me to
day. If I were superstitious, I should
«even beg for an interest in your pray
ers. I am in the black fit; the evil
spirit of King Saul, the hag of the
merchant Abudah, the personal devil
-of the mediaeval monk, 13 with me—
is in me,” tapping on his breast. “The
vices cf my nature are now uppermost;
innocent pleasures woo me in vain; I
Tong for Paris, for my wallowing in
“Certainly not,” replied the Doctor;
but his voice quavered as he spoke.
“Why?” demanded pitiless inno
cence.
CHAPTER VII.
OCTOR DESPREZ
saw all the colors
of the rainbow in
a moment; the sta
ble universe ap
peared. to be about
capsizing with
h i m, “Because,”
said he—affecting
deliberation after
an obvious pause
—“because I have
formed my life for my present income.
It is not 'good for men of my years to
■be violently dissevered from their hab
its.”
That was a sharp brush. The Doctor
breathed hard, and fell into taciturnity
for the afternoon. As for the boy, he
was delighted with the resolution of
his doubts; even wondered that he had
not foreseen the obvious and conclu
sive answer. His faith In the Doctor
was a stout piece of goods. Desprez
was inclined to be a sheet in the wind’s
eye after dinner, especially after
Rhone wine, his favorite weakness. He
would then remark upon the warmth
of his feeling for Anastasie, and with
inflamed cheeks and a loose, flustered
smile, debate upon all sorts of topics,
and be feebly and indiscreetly witty.
But the adopted stable-boy would not
permit himself to entertain a doubt
that savored of ingratitude. It is quite
true that a man may be a second father
to you, and yet take too much to drink;
but the best natures are ever slow to
accept such truths.
The Doctor thoroughly possessed his
heart, but perhaps he exaggerated his
influence over his mind. Certainly
Jean-Marie adopted some of his mas
ter’s opinions, but I have yet to learn
| movement to and fro across the axle. {
Which well entitles It to the style of a
1 Noddy. The hood describes a consid
erable arc against the landscape, with
a solemnly absurd effect on the con
templative pedestrian. To ride In such
a carriage cannot be numbered among
the thtngs that appertain to glory; but
I have no doubt It may be useful In
liver complaint. Thence, perhaps, Its
wide popularity among physicians.
One morning early, Jean-Marie led
forth the Doctor’s noddy, opened the
gate, and mounted to the driving-seat.
The Doctor followed, arrayed from top
to toe In spotless linen, armed with an
immense flesh-colored umbrella, and
girt with a botanical case on a baldric;
and the equipage drove otf smartly In
a breeze of Its own provocation. They
were bound for Franchard, to collect
plants, with an eye to the “Compara
tive Pharmacopoeia.”
A little rattling on the open roads,
and they came to the borders of the
forest and struck Into an unfrequented
track; the noddy yawed Boftly over the
sand, with an accompaniment of snap
ping twigs. There was a great, green,
softly murmuring cloud of congregated
foliage overhead. In the arcades of the
forest the air retained the freshness of
the night. The athletic bearing of the
trees, each carrying Its leafy mountain,
pleased the mind like so many statues
and the lines of the trunk led the eye
admiringly upward to where the ex
treme leaves sparkled in a patch of
azure. Squirrels leaped In mid air. It
was a proper spot for a devotee of the
goddess Hygela.
(to naco3Ti*crsD.l
CURIOUS CLOCKS.
How Borne People of Foreign Land!
Reckon Time.
Neither clock nor timepiece is to be
found in Liberia. The reckoning of
time is made entirely by the movement
and position of the sun, which rises at
6 a. m. and sets at 6 p. m., almost to
the minute, all the year round, and at
noon Is vertically overhead, says Popu
lar Science News. The islanders of the
south Pacific have no clocks, but make
an ingenious and reliable time-marker
of their own. They take the kernel
from the nuts of the candle tree and
wash and string them on the rib of a
palm leaf. The first or top kernel is
then lighted. All of the kernels are
of the same size and substance,- and
each will burn a certain number of
“TAKE! IT, KEEP IT.”
the mire. See,” he would continue,
producing a handful of silver, '7. de
nude myself, I am not to be misted
with the price of a fare. Take It, keep
it for me, squander it on deleterious
candy, throw it in the deepest of the
river—I will homologate your action.
Save me from that part of myself
which I disown. If you see me falter,
do not hesitate; if necessary, wreck the
train. 1 speak, of course, by a parable.
Any extremity were better than for
me to reach Paris alive.”
Doubtless the Doctor enjoyed these
little scenes, as a variation on his part;
the represented the Byronic element
in the somewhat artificial poetry of
his, existence; but to the boy, though
he was dimly aware of their theatric
ality, they represented more. The
Doctor made perhaps too little, the boy
possibly too much, of the reality and
gravity of these temptations.
One day a great light shone for Jean
Marie. “Could not riches be used
well?” he asked.
“In theory, yes,” replied the Doctor.
“But it is found in experience that no
one does so. All the world imagine
they will be exceptional when they
grow wealthy; but possession is de
basing, new desires spring up; and the
siily taste for ostentation cats out the
'heart of pleasure.”
"Then you might be better if you
•had less,” said the boy.
that he ever surrendered one <>£ his
own. Convictions existed in him by
divine right; they were virgin, un
wrought. the brute metal of decision.
He could add others, indeed, but he
could not put away; neither did he care
if they were perfectly agreed among
.themselves; and his spiritual pleasures
had nothing to do with turning them
over or Justifying them in words.
Words were with him a mere accom
plishment, like dancing. When he was
by himself, his pleasures were almost
vegetable. He would slip into the
woods toward Acheres, and sit in the
mouth of a cave among gray birches.
So while the Doctor made himrelf
drunk with words, the adopted stalts
boy bemused himself with silence.
CHAPTER VIII.
3E Doctor's car
riage was a two
wheeled gig with
a hood; a hind of
vehicle in much
favor among coun
try doctors. On
how many roads
has one not seen it,
a great way off be
tween the poplars!
—In how many
village streets, tied to a gate-post! this
sort of chariot is affected—partiality
at the trot—by a kind of pitching'
minutes and then set fire to the one
next below. The natives tie pieces of
black cloth at regular intervals along
the string to mark.the divisions of
time. Among the natives of Singar, in
the Malay archipelago, another peculiar
device is used. Two bottles are placed
neck and neck, and sand is put in one
of them, which pours itself into the
other every half hour, when the bot
tles are reversed. There Is a line near
by, also, on which are hung twelve rods
with notches from one to twelve.
Internal Heat of the Karth.
It is found from observations made
| in very deep borings that the aver
age increase of temperature for a long
way down towards the center of the
earth is about one degree for every
54 feet of descent. This is not con
stant, however, being less down to a
certain depth and more beyond it.
The Increase varies In amount, too,
in different localities. These results
are quite in agreement with the sup-,
position that the center of the earth
consists of matter in a state of fu
sion; the nearer we get to this molten
matter the faster should the tempera
ture rise, and the rate may also be ex
pected to vary on account of the crust
not being all of the same thickness,
nor consisting of material equal in
conducting power._ _ .
DEMOCRAT DISUNION.
'ALL THE FACTIONS, HOWEVER
BERATING CLEVELAND.
Bntineti Increase*—Protection Element
In the Sooth Clearljr Apparent-Fen
tares ol the TarlR BUI—-The World's
Kapldly Increasing Supply of Gold.
(Washington Letter.)
A thousand pounds of dynamite ex
ploded in the midst of a mining camp
would not have been more effective in
its disintegration than was President
Cleveland’s speech in the distribution
of the remains of the once powerful
Democracy. It has torn that ill-fated
organization still further asundeY.
Editor Henry Watterson of the gold
Democracy is attacking it savagely.
The organs of the silver Democrats
and Mr. Bryan himself are hurling
reeks at it; Mr. Bailey is attacking it
savagely and the Populists are Jump
ing on it with both feet, while the Re
publican editors of the country are
tearing It . to tatters.
' Signs of Prodperlty.
The -calamity iMekers who have
been insisting that the promised pros
perity has not materialized are thrown
into contusion by a recent announce
ment from that reliable business ba
rometer, the Weekly Review of R. Q.
Dun & Co., which in its last weekly
issue says: “Nearly all will be aston
ished to learn that actual sales in April
by leading houses in each line of busi
ness in the principal cities east of the
Rocky mountains average only about
ten per cent less than in April. 1892,
the year of largest business hitherto,
and were 6.1 per cent more than in the
same month last year. Yet this is the
summary of 367 reports, each covering
actual sales of merchants in one of
fourteen cities. They are especially
encouraging in view of great fall of
prices within the last live years and
floods and other retarding influences
this year.”
Southern Senators Protectionists,
The growth of the protective senti
ment in the south, which was clearly
shown by the fact that over thirty
southern votes were cast for the
Dlngely bill in the house, will be again
emphasized when the votes for the bill
in the senate are counted. At least
live southern votes will be in favor of
the bill in the senate, one of them by
a Democrat who announced before his
election that he should vote for a pro
tective tariff. When it is considered
that every one of these five southern
senators who will support the protec
tive tariff bill succeeded men who
voted for the free trade law now upon
tho statute books, the growth of the
protective sentiment in that section
will be recognized.
A Year’s Supply of Free Wool.
The wool growers of thlB country,
while they are delighted with the pros
pect that they are to get protection,
must not expect to feel the effects im
mediately. Latest investigations as to
the supply of wool in stock in this
country show that the amount of for
eign wools now In the hands of the
manufacturers is sufficient for at least
seven months' supply and that if the
present enormous importations con
tinue, as seem probable, they will
probably have a full year's supply on
hand when the new law goes Into ef
fect. This is a deplorable fact, but
it is one of the numerous misfortunes
attendant upon the existence of the
free trade tariff law now upon the
statute books, and until it can be got
ten rid of there can be no getting rid
of its depressing effect. Eight and
nine cents a pound duty on first and
second class wools, while it is not as
much as the rate named by the Dingley
bill when it passed the house, is Just
8 and 9 cents more than the rates of
the present Wilson law. It is also
conceded to be more in proportion to
the general value of wools than the
rates established by the McKinley law
which was quite satisfactory to the
wool growers.
Hide, to Be Protected.
The reciprocity feature of the new
tariff law. is likely to be even more
satisfactory than that of the McKinley
law. The addition of tea and hides to
the dutiable list increases the oppor
tunity for obtaining favorable reciproc
ity treaties and it is understood that
the senate will put into the bill such
provisions as to make it practicable to
secure very advantageous reciprocal
arrangements with many countries, all
of which will be especially in the In
terests of the agriculturists of the
country. The duty on raw hides
which is proposed by the tariff bill
in the senate would probably add about
6 cants to the cost of the foreign hide
used in making the leather which goes
into a pair of shoes, but as only one
flfth of the hides used in this country
are imported, the average increase In
the price of shoes would only be one
flfth of that, or one cent per pair. As
suming that the average man buys
three pair of shoes in a year, his in
creased “tax burden” would be three
cents a year, while the advantage to
the farmers will be millions of dol
lars.
Why Gold Goes.
With the importations of foreign
goods increasing enormously by
reason of the prospective repeal
of the Wilson law, It is not sur
prising that the gold exports are in
creasing. The foreign goods brought
Into the country must be paid for in
gold and if foreign importations in
crease ten to twenty millions a month.
It goes without saying that the gold
exportations must Increase. The sil
ver advocates are saying that the re
cent exportations of gold are an evi
dence that the supply of gold in the
world Is not sufficient for Its require
ments. Upon the same principle they
might argue that the exportation of
wheat and corn indicated that the
world does not produce enough of these
articles for its requirements. The
mere fact that there is a monetary de
mand for gold in Europe and Japan be
cause countries there desire to Increase j
their stcck and because of war pos
sibilities does not argue a general in
sufficiency of gold in the world. The
quantity of gold money in the world
in 1873 was 81.209,800.000, while in 1896
it was $3,698,700,000. The supply of
gold money in the world is now 50 per
cent greater than was the gold and sli
ver cembined, in 1873.
Beet Sogot Factories.
Parties who are preparing to estab
lish beet sugar factories will be inter
ested in a recent step taken by the
secretary of agriculture In their be
half. Having supplied over twenty
thousand farmers of the United States
with beet seed for trial crops. Secretary
Wilson is now making a practical and
Intelligent investigation to determine
the sections of country where beet
sugar manufacture is most likely to be
successful, the object being to assist
those who desire to invest in beet
sugar factories.
0. H. WILLIAMS.
Brjin'i Bad Break.
From the Chicago Tribune; The is
sue of the New York World published
on its fourteenth anniversary contains
a congratulatory, half fault finding
letter from Mr. William.J. Bryan to
the editor, Mr. Pulitser. He praises
what the world has done for “tariff
reform," etc., but, “as it would not be
fair to commend the good without
condemning the bad,” he asserts that
“the World’s support of the gold
standard,” which, he says, "is at this
time doing more harm than any oth
er one thing, is out of harmony with
the newspaper’s efforts in other direc
tions.”
The Now York World criticises Us
critic quite freely. It tells Mr. Bryan
that the country has had several peri
ods of prosperity since the free coinage
of silver was suspended in 1873. It
challenges as untrue his assertion that
“the financiers unmolested have
looked after legislation on the money
question,” and calls his attention to
the Bland-AUison law and the Sher
man law, which the “financiers” as
suredly did not favor.
The New York World simply tries
to “smooth down” Mr. Bryan, whom
it calls a “versatile and clever politi
cian.” It should have called on that
individual, whose versatility may be
admitted, but whose cleverness is
open to grave doubt—for he has been
a failure as a politician ever since he
entered upon the avocation—to answer
a few simple questions. They are ques
tions which have been put to him oft
en, but which he always evades and
never answers, though ho has made
more than 600 speeches within six
months and has compiled a big book
on the currency question.
These points have been made on
him:
1. Silver free coined Into 371 Vi
grains to the dollar will be worth only
half as much as the existing gold dol
lar. Altgeld admits that fact and
indorses it. And Bryan does not de
ny it. He has admitted it by indi
rection by bis refusal to deny the as
sertion.
2. Bryan demands that the half
value free coinage silver dollars be
made by law retroactively equal for
debt paying purposes to the gold stan
dard dollars, which would be twice as
valuable. If this were done by a re
troactive free coinage law, then about
eight billions of credits, notes and de
posits based on the gold standard
would shrivel to four billions. The
existing credits, deposits, and money
on hand would be reduced to half their
value. The owners of these deposits
and credits would be robbed by Bry
an’s scheme of half this property.
Bryan has insisted and still insists
on this retroactive robbery, and yet
never attempts to justify It or show
that it was right or honest. Like the
members of the Illinois Legislature
who voted for the Infamous Humphrey
bills, he has never assigned an honest
motive for his dishonest propositions.
But supposing Bryan were to aban
don his demand for retroactive free
silver legislation and ask for the adop
tion of the half value silver standard
to apply only to future transactions.
Then the question for Bryan to answer
to the American people is. What will
be gained by using two pieces of sil
ver, each worth 50 cents in purchasing
power, to do the money work which
one piece of gold standard money
does now? In what respect are two
pieces of sliver, each worth half a gold
dollar, better than one gold dollar, or
other currency maintained at the gold
standard of value?
3. Suppose a farmer of Nebraska
Bells a horse for 100 silver dollars,each
worth 50 cents, and then sells it for
50 gold dollars, does he receive more
value for the former named animal
than for the latter? Bryan seems to
argue that two free coined silver dol
lars, each worth 50 cents, Is more
money than one gold dollar or one
dollar of any gold standard money.
Bryan tries to convey the idea that the
two half value silver dollars are worth
double as much as the whole value
gold dollar. His argument seems to
be that 371% grains of silver under
free coinage are of equal value to
23 1-5 grains of gold,but he well knows
that 23 1-5 grains of gold will buy 32
times its weight of silver bullion any
where in the world, instead of Hi to 1.
He knows that, and he also knows
that under free coinage a silver dollar
can only be worth the commercial
value of the bullion it contains.
4. With a dollar under the gold
standard worth 100 cents, a certain
> < t'.'-'f'i
number of exchangee of goods is made?
in a year. What will he gained toy
using two silver dollars, each wot'lh.
BO cents, to make the same number
and amount of property exchanges?
Thirty-two times the weight of metal
are used, but the results accomplished
—that ia, the-business work done—is ■
the same. '■<;
neat Sugar Activity.
There is already a movement on
foot to establish a beet sugar manu- ‘
factory in Minneapolis, and it ia an
nounced that beet seed is being ob
tained in various portions of the state
and many farmers are planting it ex-iy,
Pdrlmentally. The legislative appro
priation and the efforts of the agricul
tural department at Washington will
no doubt enable farmers to sc.ure an
ample supply of seed, and It is to be,
hoped that the result of this year’s
experiments will be such as to Justify
them in engaging to furnish, next V.
year, any quantity that a beotery here
or elsewhere may be desirous of con- •'./
tracting for.
i wu luiuga are essential to tile sue* '
cm of the beet sugar Industry - In
this state. First, a modern raanurac- ■'I
turlng plant, with experienced men to ?/
run it; and second, an ample supplyVv
of teets containing a profitable per
centage of saccharine matter. The
first they had at Menominee, Wlacou- r
sin, but failed, temporarily, for the
lack cf the cecond essential. Th<r
some mistake ought not to be made,
and probably will not be maae, in
Minnesota. If capitalists put in a.
beet sugar factory at Minneapolis they
will no doubt take pains to assure
themselves in advance, of ample sup
ply of beets of good quality. A dis
patch from Albert Lea says that about
one hundred farmers in that vicinity
have agreed to plant more or lean
beet sugar seed. This is a movement
in the right direction. Let the farm
ers in Hennepin and other counties
follow their example. 7
It is estimated that the first factory
established in this state will employ
400 to 700 men, and will be able ta
consume the product of several thou- ^
sand acres of land. This will be a
notable addition to Minnesota’s in
dustries—and we are Justified in pre- i
dieting that it will be only the begin
ning of an Important development.—
Minneapolis Tribune. V,,,
Sugar Imports snd Doties. [
New York Tribune; The imports V
of sugar are usually large at this sea
son, but have been increased remark
ably by the expectation of new duties.
The treasury department has made
up the record for April, showing that
757,799,627 pounds were imported In
that one month, and in May and June
the quantity is usually larger than la
the preceding months, as the follow
ing figures for three years will show:
Mar. . 485,525,990
Apr. . 757,799,627
May .. ..
June ...
Entire
year .
1899. 1*95.
435,501.882 396,020,259
388,381,830 377,937,23* ,
544,106,452 638,684.9M
472,637,376 388,8*S,64S
3,669,314,838 3,289,605,40S
In the four months, March-June In
clusive, the Imports in both the pre
ceding years were more than half the.
imports for those entire years, but
this year they have been 1,243,000,000
In two months, against 824,000,000 last
year. The known heavy movements
in May thus far warrants the expecta
tion that fully two-thirds of a year’s
supply may be in hand by the end of
the four months this year, including
what stock refiners held prior to
March, and on this quantity the dlf
ference in price, if as much as tho
proposed increase in duty under tho
senate bill, would be about eight
tenths of a cent, or $20,000,000, a hand
some profit for the owners, namely:
the Sugar Refilling company. The pay
ment of duties at the present rate on
about two-thirdB of a year’s consump
tion will deprive the treasury of about
as much revenue for the coming year ~
which it would have derived from the
increase of rate on .92 degree raw su
lncrease of rate. Under the DIUgley
bill the Increase in rate on .92 degree !
raw sugar would lie a little less, about
seven-tenths of a cent, but the imports
after April 1 would be subject to the
higher duty, which would make a dif
ference of nearly $5,000,000 for the 7
month of April alone.
The PmlOnt Favor* Prompt Artiom
A dispatch from Washington says
that President McKinley Is trying to '
Impress upon the senators the neces
sity of speedy action on the tariff bill.
Mr. McKinley Is not accused of mak
ing threats or of trying to improperly
Influence legislation. He simply call*
attention to the enormous increase in
Imports, and shows how the govern
ment may be deprived of much rev
enue to which it ought to be entitled
if the passage of the tariff bill is un
necessarily delayed.
It should not be necessary for ib»
president to make such an appeal to
the senators. The members of the up
per branch of congress should under
stand the need of haste without being
told. Last week thirteen steamers
loaded to the rails with foreign gooils
discharged their cargoes at the port
of Boston, and more are coming, 'lhe
importers and the free traders are
overjoyed because of such a condition
of affairs, and they may be trusted to
do their utmost to prolong the debate
on the tariff bill and delay its pas
sage as much as possible. Every day
that is wasted in talk in the United
States senate will cost the United
States government a large sum of
money.—Cleveland Leader.
A Paris doctor has discovered the mi
crobe of baldnesil and has exhibited it
at the St. Louis hospital, together with
a sheep innoculated with it which had
lost its wool. He Is now hunting tor
the means of destroying the microbe or
rendering it Innocuous.
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