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A Short Story Concluded In This Issue.
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Slowly the man of God proceeds,
each word binding them closer. With
increased solemnity came the words,
“Wilt thou, forsaking all others, keep
thee only to him, as long as both of
ye shall live!”
What inspiration caused her to raise
her eyes, glance over, seek and find a
face amidst the many there, whoso
every feature spoke to her heart, and
answered the oft-repeated inquiry! Yes,
he'had loved her evqr, and now. But
why his mysterious silence?
She heard no more. Lower drooped
her-beautiful head, paler grew' the
sweet lips. A strong, firm arm clasped
and supported her trembling form.
A few' more moments and friends are
crowding around. With a powerful ef
fort she arouses her almost paralyzed
faculties, and gracefully receiving the
many kind wishes, she smilingly bids
adieu, and is led away—enters the car
riage, and Is soon on her way to New
.York, to take passage on the steamer
! about to sail for Europe.
Clara Dayton was a girl of pure prin
ciples and great depth of character.
She immediately recognized the only
k' path to And and secure peace and hap
piness.
It was now her duty, she knew, to
fulfil the vows she had made—to love
'and honor the man she had consented
cd to call her husband.
, To this end she bent all her energies.
•By nature piously Inclined, she sought
'and obtained guidance and assistance
from the throne of Grace.
! Time passed on; children gathered
around her; little arms fondly caress
ing, rosy lips ever lisping- words of
love, filled the mother’s heart to over
flowing. There was no room for re
grefsj
Mother's love, so pure and holy, had
chased all other thoughts away. .It
was no longer a task to learn to love
her husband. It was perfectly natural
to love him her little darlings clung
around and called "papa.”
Nothing had she ever heard of Ever
ett Morse, except that he had returned
about the time of her marriage, settled
up-his business, and then resigned his
connection with the firm.
Ge'orge Marbury was happier than, he
ever thought to be. The doubt which
had clouded the early days of his mar
riage had entirely passed away. At
times, when gazing on his wife’s beau
tiful face, beaming with content and
happiness, he would wonder if it were
possible she had ever loved the man
from whom he had won her. The
means by which he had obtained this
great blessing had never troubled his
When his, he lavished on her every
thing that wealth could purchase—
maintaining her in a style of such ele
gance that many were the whispered
predictions that such reckless extrava
gance could not last a great while.
As the years roll past, anxiety, grief
and disappointment enter the home
where content, joy and hope had dwelt
so long.
Their eldest son, bright, intelligent
youth of nineteen years, proved no
longer a source of comfort and happi
ness. - -
Reared in a' lap of luxury, cradled
in idleness, subject to little, if any re
straint, he followed the bent of his in
clinations, and found pleasure among
the youths of the wildest and most
reckless habits.
Constantly were his parents’ hearts
wrung with the fear of coming evil.
At last it came, striking a terrible
bloWi particularly at the proud-hearted
father
' With all his boy's faults he had never
feared dishonesty. That was impossi
ble for his son.
But so it was. Fate had decided
that the brand of forgery should rest
upon the hitherto spotless name of
Marbury. For nearly a year this
youth had occupied a position in a
large importing house, and had won
the confidence of bis employers. In
trusted frequently to draw from the
bank various sums of money, he be
came very familiar with the signature
of the principal of the firm.
The dreadful infatuation of the gam
ing table had lured him from the paths
of honor and honesty.
It grew worse and worse. Large
sums were drawn to meet the emer
gencies till at last the day of reckoning
came.
conscience at all.
“Father, dear! do go up in Dayton’s
room and see what is the matter with
him. He rushed in a few moments
ago when I was arranging his room,
and he is now packing his traveling
bag. He will not tell me what is the
matter or where he is going. He seems
terrible agitated,” exclaimed Geor
gette Marbury, rushing into the library
where her father was sitting.
Before he could reach the door she
•cried out again:
Haste, father, he is coming down;
do stop him, here he is."
With hasty strides her father reaches
the hall door in time to place his hand
upon his son, and ask:
“Dayton, my son, what means this
agitation, this haste? Where are you
going, what is the matter?”
“Father, let me pass! Do not de
tain me—nor question! y/>u wljj
know 30on. Let me go quick before it
is too iate. Open the door, or I will
soon end my disgrace. Thar.k heaven,
I. have the means of escape!” and he
placed bis h ind in his bosom.
A quick, light step was sounding
through the hall, and soon the erring
youth was caught and clasped tight
tn loving arms, the wildly throbbing
head pillowed on the mother’s devoted
breast and with gentle, encouraging
words she drew him Into the room.
"Where would you, my boy, find
surer help in this hour of need than
from your parents. Come, my bus
Dana, lei us stand Dy our Doy. leu
him, though all the world condemn and
desert him, we will do our best to save
him. What is It? Speak, my child;
do not fear, your mother’s heart is
strong enough to hear the worst, and
brave enough to bear all for those she
loves. Father, speak to your boy.”
“My son, let us know the worst. You
have your mother’s promise* of help. I
will do all she- wishes.”
“Oh, you may save me from im
prisonment, but the terrible shame for
you to bear. Your name borne by a
forger!" gasped forth the guilty youth.
“Old Truman will have no mercy. I
heard him say that when he discovered
the guilty one he would make an ex
ample of him,” he continued.
Swiftly fled the thoughts of the fa
ther back to the time, long years ago,
when another young man stood before
him, writhing under his relentless
hand. And comes back to him the
long-forgotten words;
“Do you not fear you may need the
mercy you now deny to me?”
At last he hoarsely whispered:
“The amount! tell me!”
“Five thousand dollars! Father, you
can easily fix that, but the shame!” he
answered, unconsciously probing still
deeper and deeper the wounded man.
“My wife, you will have to suiter
more than this disgrace. For years I
have been living beyond my means. I
cannot meet this but only by withdraw
ing from the Arm. This property and
everything else is ho longer mine, nor
has it been for three years past. I
have tried to keep this from you, hop
ing I could manage those difficulties
until Uncle Jacob’s death. I feared
that if the strange old man should
know I was no longer prosperous he
would destroy his will, and cut me en
tirely off. Now if he hears of this I
fear the consequences.
“Oh! this is a severe blow.”
A loud ring came from the hall door,
and a girlish voice softly said:
“Papa! there is a gentleman in the
next room, who wishes to see yon, and
he asked if Dayton was home.”
“After me, I know! Father, let me
go away. I have money enough to car
ry me out of the country,” pleaded the
boy.
“Remain with your mother. I will
see this gentleman, and try to make
terms with him.”
“God bless you, my husband, do not
think of me, think only of your son
and your name.”
“Mr. Marbury, I am here on very un
pleasant business. I hope, however, to
give you some comfort. Your son is
with you, I hear; I was fearful he had
fled. He has told you, I think, of his
trouble,” said the stranger.
“You are right, sir. Tho amount I
can return, that is nothing; but Oh,
God! the disgrace! Can I hope for any
mercy? Can anything induce Mr.
Truman to spare us that?”
“Mr. Marbury. I am a man of few
words, and wish not to prolong your
sufferings. I have pleaded with Mr.
Truman for your son. He is a stern,
rather hard man; but I think I have
induced him to yield. He is under ob
ligation to me, in fact, only my repre
sentative; the capital is mine. When
he became aware of this unhappy busi
ness he immediately telegraphed for
me, before he had ascertained the
guilty one. This affair is known only
to }&r. Truman, the bookkeeper and
myself, and I am here this morning to
pledge to you, sir, that this knowledge
shall go no further. Relieve your
mind, your son’s and your wife's. The
name of Marbury shall remain spot
less.”
“How can I ever thank you! On
what terms is this mercy granted us?
I will be ready to meet them imme
diately,”
“I have made all the necessary ar
rangements. I know you are a proud
man, therefore I will not release your
son from the payment of this money.
I must insist, however, that he shall
pay it. Here are notes which he must
sign. You will see I have made them
in ten payments, yearly. This will be
live hundred each year. 1 have an
object in this, it will arouse him; give
him something to work for, bring forth
his self respect, and, more than all,
will make a man of him. I am a queer
fellow, you think, but I choose to try
this experiment. For years past I have
been making myself happy by doing
little kindnesses for friends—ueoDle
who loved me. This time I thought I
would try how much happier I should
be in doing good to him ‘who hated
and despitefully used me.’ ”
"What do you mean? Who are you?
Why have you acted thus?” asked the
astonished man.
“I feel a deep sympathy for your
son, Mr. Marbury, because in years
gone by I was tempted, and yielded. I
plead with one for mercy, and it was
granted me. You know at what cost.
More than all, I could not suffer Clara
Dayton’s son should wear the brand of
shame! Do you not know me, George
Marbury? Has time and grey hairs
altered me so much?”
“Everett Morse! Just heaven, how
mysterious are thy ways! Yes, I
spared you, but for a dreadful sacri
fice. Forgive, Oh! forgive me! Oh!
how prophetic were your words,” burst
from the lips of the humiliated man.
“I do forgive you—have, long, long
years ago. I have known she was hap
py with you, and I was content. Will
you some time, when you best can, let
her know how it was I lost her? Is
this asking too much?”
“How can I? This is a severe task,
but be It as you wish.”
The door opened, and Clara stood
before them.
Going up to the bowed man, At
raised his head, pressed her lips to the
burning brow, and then holding ont her
hand to Everett Morse, she said:
"Nay, he need not tell me; I know
all. I have heard from the next room.
To you, of all the world, I woulu soon*
er be Indebted for this great kindness.
I know how good and noble you are,
but 1 cannot find It In my heart to
censure him, whose only faults was
through hts loving me eo much."
Both men were answered—yes, sat
isfied. The look she bent on both tol
to one her true appreciation and grat
itude, to the other—that he alone she
loved.
Little more remains to tell: many
years have passed, and Dayton Mar
bury stands before the world beloved
and respected by his fellow men. Many
are the speculations concerning the
great intimacy and devoted friendship
between the old bachelor and. this
young man, but to few Is known the
true reason why they love each other
thus.
SILK AND TAILORS.
Tbe Fatter a Chinaman Oete the Better
Pleated lie'Is.
The first person in all the .world who
raised silkworms for the purpose of
robbing the cocoon of Its soft covering
was the Empress Sl-Lung-Chee, who
reigned In China 2,700 years B. C., says
Lippincott’s. She is now. worshipped as
goddess of the silkworm. Once each
year a national festival is held in her
honor. The reigning empress and her
maidens resort to the temples of Sl
Lung-Chee and pay her, In flowers and
spirit money, an Installment upon the
debt which China owes to her; for did
she not make the important discovery
whereby the poor may earn life’s ne
cessities and the rich may rustle in
shining garments?
Perhaps more people wear silk in
China than in any other country; for
plain raw silk is almost as inexpensive
as cotton. Even for winter garments
this material Is made to serve, with
layers of wadding placed between the
outside and the lining. As their gar
ments do not go out of style, it is not
necessary to buy new ones until the
old ones are well worn.
This is a great item of saving for
every one but the tailors; but if the
people followed the example of the
tailors themselves there would be still
less for that craft to do. Like the feet
of "shoemakers’ children,” the Chinese
tailors, while at their work, are as
nearly bare as possible. When well
fattened their uncovered bodies suggest
the animals which Americans Inclose in
a sty. The more like a well-fed porker
a Chinaman becomes the prouder he is
of his looks, for a corpulent man is re
garded by his almond-eyed brethren as
a high type of humanity.
In the tailor’s workroom, which is
frequently open on all sides, the passer
by may see from five to ten men squat
ted around a low, matting-covered ta
ble. Each man-is in undress uniform,
consisting of his cue, a pair of slip
pers and pantaloons about six inches in
length. They work both for shops and
for individuals, receiving about $5 a
month; yet somehow they manage to
keep fat.
Character In the Chin.
If you have a protruding chin, you
.are of the “gqt. there” type. Success
ful people always carry their chins in
this way, with compressed lips.
A retreating chin shows a yielding
nature, easily discouraged; unless its
owner has other well-developed facul
ties to counteract the influence of this
chin he is mentally, morally and phy
sically weak.
A pleasure-loving person has a small,
well-rounded chin, with a red cushion
of flesh upon it. If dimpled it belongs
to a coquette or one who loves to be
petted and admired. Its owner should
live to be a round old age.
Broad chins signify nobleness, square
chins executive ability and a strong de
sire to hate; chins with circular lines
about them denote drunkards. Slo
venly folk have wrinkled chins.—Ex
change.
Fashion Is the Dletator.
"Not only,” said the mill agent, “do
fashions change in a bewildering way
and a most expensive way to us manu
facturers, but they have a way of
changing so radically that new goods
may be wholly unsalable if they bear
any resemblance to the dress goods in
demand last year. Why? Simply be
cause a woman who buys a new dress
wants a pattern and a color wholly
different from that of her last year’s
frock, in order that there may be no
question as to its being a new frock.
She not only wants a different design,
but a very different one, so that he,
or, more probably, she, who runs may
see that it is a new dress.”—Scribner’s.
' Brain* Sleep In Section*.
Sir James Crichton Browne, the ex
pert on brain diseases, holds that in
somnia is hot attended with such dis
astrous consequences as is commonly
supposed. It is not as dangerous as
the solicitude of the sufferer. He sug
gests that the brains of literary men,
who are the most frequent victims,
acquire the trick of the heart, which
takes a doze of a fraction of a second
after each beat and so manages to get
six hours rest in twenty-four. Some
brains, in cases of insomnia, sleep in
sections, different brain centers going
ofT duty in turn.—Phrenological Jour- ,
nal.
What He Bled For.
The Manager—It says here that he
hit you in the nose, an’ you bled free
ly. The Boxer—I guess not. I got
one-third of the receipts.
THE LESSON OF THE PAST.
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STATE CAMPAIGNS.
ASSUME MORE THAN ORDINA
RY IMPORTANCE.
ffree Silver Men of Ohio Are Making
» flfhl for Lift—They Hove En
dorsed Free Coinage to (he Exclusion
of All Else.
(Washington Correspondence.)
A chief subject of discussion in
Washington just now is the political
campaigns which are in progress in
various states. These are considered
specially important because of their
bearing upon the political complexion
of the United States senate. In several
etates, legislatures which are to choose
a United States senator are to be elect
ed in part or in full at the approaching
state elections, and Interest centers in
each of these states, particularly those
which are close and in which each par
ty has hopes of gaining'control of the
legislature by the vote cast at the
approaching election.
! The Btates which are just now espe
cially attracting attention are Ohio,
Iowa and Maryland. Ohio and Iowa are
the subjects of special attention at the
present moment because of the fact
that in those states the Democrats have
pinned their faith to the single proposi
tion of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver, coupled with .(he general cal
amity cry which has been an unceasing
feature of their political utterances in
season and out of season in the past
decade. Whe platforms in these two
states having been adopted early went
to the fullest length in their advocacy
of the 16 to 1 without-waiting-for-any
other-nation proposition, while the
Maryland platform, framed by the cau
tious and cunning Gorman, who saw
the approaching storm, straddled along
on the silver question in the most ap
proved Gormanesque style, its wording
being such that anybody can assume
that it means anything he may choose
upon the money question.
It is in Ohio and Iowa, that the free
silver element of the Democracy is put
again clearly and conspicuously upon
record in advocacy of the free silver
proposition as the sole sentiment of its
national ambition. Advices from those
states show that the Democrats already
are seeing that they made a great mis
take in not only again espousing the
silver cause, but in making it the chief
and only expression of their views
upon national subjects. Since the con
ventions in those adopted the 16 to 1
proposition as the chief plank of their
platform silver has fallen rapidly and
farm products have advanced with
equal promptness. At the same time
business activity has Increased through
each of those states. Letters received
from leading business men, Democrats
as well as Republicans, throughout
Iowa and Ohio, show there a marked
improvement in business conditions,
manufactories increasing their forces
and now running full time and over
time, thousands of men being put at
work at living wages, farmers getting
increased prices for their wheat, wool,
and other farm products, and the gen
eral repudiation of the calamity cry
and the theory that only the free coin
age of Bllver can bring prosperity to
the people of this country.
Coupled with this came advices from
Mexico indicating that the fall in the
price of silver has produced a business
paralysis there, that merchants and
business men generally are compelled
to suspend business operations or are
at least greatly crippled, and the
amount of money which the Mexican
government and the great business un
dertakings of that country must have
in order to meet their Interest charges
which are payable in gold is bringing
the Mexican government to consider
seriously adopting the gold standard.
I It is perfectly clear to the average
observer, putting aside any political
views or wishes, that the trend of
events is so pointedly in the support
of Republican theories as to currency,
and Republican pledges of prosperity
under protection, that It only remains
to the members of that party m the
•tktes where elections' are to be held
this year to get their voters to the polls
ftnd thus insure sweeping Republican
Victories
G. H. WILLIAMS.
POLITICAL DRIFTWOOD.
The Populists of the country are
thoroughly disgusted with the treat*
ment which the Democracy have given
them, and are developing the greatest
hostility to further attempts at fusion.
The Clevelandlte Democrats are male*
ing large accessions to their ranks
everywhere, and expect to poll a much
larger vote this year than last.
People who are assuming that the re
cent great gold developments are a
mere matter of good luck to those op
posing the 16 to 1 theory are mistaken. t
It Is more than luck; it is the logic dt
events. The fact that the world pre
fers gold to the bulky white metal as
its medium of exchange has stimulated
the production of gold everywhere un
til it seems likely to supply the heeds
of the world for a money metal.
The money in circulation in the Uni
ted States has increased about $130,
000.000 in the past year, the price of
foreign products has advanced, and the
business of the country has greatly im
proved despite the assertions that no
thing but the free coinage of silver
would bring an increase of money or
prices to the people of this country.
While the diffusion of the value of
land by the extension of railroads, and
the broader application of machinery
to agriculture, with facilities of trans
portation from remote regions, intro
ducing new sources of supplies to the
markets, reduced the price of wheat
and these reasons were beyond the con
trol of the farmers, there were faults
In the farmers themselveB of which
they should be sensible. They seemed
to be anxious to extend the wheat
areas on their own land, and committed
the same error In that particular that
has damaged the southern cotton plan
ters. Let the farmers have diversity
of crops.
A few days ago there were Btrange
dispatches from Mexico—“Gold at 125
per cent premium. Business par
alyzed.”. Why should business be par
alyzed in a free silver country, a "bi
metallic country" like Mexico, by a
premium on gold? How does It hap
pen that free silver is not the medicine
to cure this trouble? The old farmers
who hear the voices of the sliver
screechers telling how the gold stand
ard hurts the tollers on the farm and
in the shop should ask for an answer to
this question and insist upon getting
it.
The people who attempted to make
the people believe a few months ago
that Secretary Sherman had passed the
period of active usefulness are saying
nothing more on that subject. Sec
retary Sherman’s expressions of views
on current political topics are clear,
crisp, and vigorous, and strike a re
sponsive chord in the hearts of every
American citizen.
What of the price of wheat In thq fu
ture? Is the rise now so remarkable
In the markets a temporary affair? Will
wheat go down again when there are
good crops on other continents? It Is,
of course, true that heavy crops else
where will reduce the price of wheat,
simply because they will reduce the de
mand for it. There can be no help for
that. But the growing of wheat can
be made profitable. The first notable
influence will be found in the Increase
by many millions of the consumers of
white bread. These millions were intro
duced to the better breadstuff of civili
zation by the low rates that prevailed,
and they have acquired a taste for it
The same influences that have enlarged
the wheat-producing lands and cheap
ened the production have found new
customers—consumers—therefore mar
kets. So this great matter of white
bread for the world will adjust itself
handsomely.
The farmers of the country should
give their attention closely to a few
contrasts. The free traders made a
great row over the sugar bounty and
the tin-plate duty. Their contention
was the sheer impossibility that we
should produce our own sugar and tin.
Already every farmer in America
knows that we shall soon produce all
the sugar we consume and save a hun
dred millions a year for the tillers of
our aoll, and that we are also deep la
the tin-plate manufacturing business,
and that long before this presidential
term is out we shall produce In our
shops all the tin-plate we want, and
there are from twenty to twenty-five
millions a year for American working*
men to earn and distribute. Now,
these are the things that give a boom
to prosperity. Contrast thlB with the
vulgar falsification that low silver
made wheat low, and all that rotten
ness of the Democratic imagination.
When Bryan assumed with an af
fectation of solemnity, to be a student
and a man of deep thought, he begged
the people who came out to see the
show to “study this silver, question."
He had looked Into it. Oh, yes, he had
even studied it! And he said wheat
would soon be down to twenty-five
cents a bushel if silver were not made
free at the mints! The people have
had an object-lesson In the rise of
wheat and the fall of silver at the same
time, and as the country rises in pros
perity Bryan falls.
The recent enormous fall in the price
of silver is driving Mexico to consider
the advisability of going to the gold
standard. The example of Japan, Rus
sia, Peru, and. in fact, all the intelli
gent nations of the world is having Its
effect upon the statesmen of that coun
try, and, followed, as it is, by the busi
ness troubles growing out of the great
fall in the value of silver, warns them
that they must fall in line with other
civilised nations if they expect to main
tain their business and financial stand
•V Th« OlvId«4 DcnoerMf.
Free trade has been betrayed in the
house ot its friends. Mr, Bailey of
Texas, the Democratic leader in the
house, has repudiated the Democratic
doctrine of "free raw material.” A con
siderable number of Democrats voted
for some of the Protective features ot
the Dlngley bill, and the Atlanta Con*
stltution, in a recent issue, said that
the time had come to correct the error
people made in considering the Demo
cratic party a free trade party. We
have more respect for the foresight of
these men than for their consistency.
They at least have read the signs of
the times and have seen that free trade
is a “dead dog*’ in the future politics
of this country: Hence they are trying
to'rid themselves of any part or lot in •?
that economic fallacy by whatever
means they can. In any case, however,
we are glad to welcome them from the
dreary outposts of free trade into the
folds of Protection. We recognise
them as pioneers in the general move*
ment of the people of the south toward
the adoption of the sound principles of
the American system of Protection.
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Th* Cost of Living.
The one thing absolutely certain
about the new tariff bill is that it will
increase the cost of living—The World,
N. Y.
Thin same statement was hawked
about the country by the free-trade
papers in the fall of 1890, and subse
quently while the McKinley tariff was
in force. Comparing it with the adver
tising columns of the World a few
days after the Dlngley tariff went into
effect, we were surprised to find that
only two of the large department
stores were advertising in the World,
but we quote from them both as fol
lows:
We cannot remember a time when
priees were more favorable to consum
ers.
This was from the advertisement of
a very large department store on
Broadway. It gives the lie direct to the
editorial statement of Mr. Pulitser
the new tariff bill “will increase the*
cost of living.” We quote again:
Liberal reductions have been made
throughout our entire store; in some
cases we have cut our regular prices in
half.
This is the advertised announce
ment of oue of the largest Sixth ave
nue department stores. We can hardly
reconcile how the Dingley bill “will
Increase the cost of living” when this
large store, which sells almost every
possible article of daily demand and
consumption, announces that “we have
cut our regular prices in half.”
These contradictory statements from
the editorial and advertising columns
of the World lead to but one conclu
sion. One of them is false. Is it that
the advertised announcements in yout
paper are misleading to the people, Mr.
Puli tier? Or is it that you are delib
erately deceitful in your editorial col
umns? These questions must be sat*
tied between yourself anu your adver
tisers. 1
