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She bail assured herself long ago that
this uii,n hated and despised her, ami thai
4t was a uutj she owed to herself to de
spise him. it was in her uatuie to feel
and do all things with an evi-ruuoiiul in
, tfusit.v. A she had loved her benefactor
with alJ the terce of her yuuun heart, ito
hat-."d her benefactor's brother. She
was ready to be insolent to hliu on the
tightest provocation.
"I was lifillier listeninc nor watching;
but I went to that window yonder to see
nho was ironieuaiiintf the terrace, and
uas just in time to ee you fling yourself
at our st'iteMi ion's feet, and kiss Ilia hand.
It wan very prettily done, and 1 have
little doubt that it will have the desired
i 'Ind"ed! Pray what effect do you sup
pose I wish it to have?'
, "My dear Miss IWdwood, when a
oung lntiy throws liers'lf at a goiitte
anati'n f"t the obvious conclusion is that
nhf wants to bring him to hers. It is
taking a short cut to a denouement that
Jiangs lire. And in the case of a young
lady whose attractions are much greater
than her fortune, and a wealthy widower,
impressionable but wavering, one can
famceive uo better coupde main than that
with which joti have just surprised our
friend Netonus."
; "You think that I want to catch Mr.
NestoriuH ns a husband 7"
"What else caa I think, having Been
what 1 aaw just now?"
-"You ate very quick in jumping at con
clusion, Ijud Lashmar."
"Wbcn the conclusion is so obrioua the
jump is im citable, and it is a very small
jump only i gutter. Do yon suppose
that I have not understood your game for
the last three weeks? That I have not
marked your maneuvers, your lonely ram
bles across the park and accidental meet
ing with Mr. Xestorius on the way; your
piteous revclat'ons to him, your tears for
the father whom you lost too long ago to
have the faintest real feeling about him.
always rpnieH.bering how much you were
a gainPr by his loss"
"A gainer;" she cried, "to eat the bread
of dependence in your mother's house. 1 to
you think lhat is gain?"
"It is st least better than being a fac
tory girl, which you would have been in
all probability had your father lived."
"Had he lived! Do yon know for cer
tain that he is dead?"
"I know, ns everybody el3 knows- that
he perished in the attempt to save your
life," answered I.ash.'i .u. forgetting ev
erything I'Ui his henilYng anger; "and I
kuow ihat m.v brother, who was worth a
dozen diiii:gognes. ri-t
a child whose ta.e re
d his life to save I
had never seen.
i he grateful to ;
!
You have good need io
him."
"Dead!" .-be faltered;
told me that he bad gi-tu
taut country. I though;.
away to a dis-
is I grew older.
that he had it-ft Khglaol because life
here was loo hard for him; thai he had
left me behind, intending lo send for lite
if thing vent well with him in his new
country. Anil then I theiht 1'mtt fate
had still l cn against him. and that he
was waiting for the tide to turn, wait
ing to be rich enough to send for his only
child; and now you h il n . he was killed
the night of the lire killed in trying to
sae nu! 'h, it was cruel, infamous, to
deceive me ho," she crid. passionately.
"It was Jour Itenefsclor, the man who
was more than a father to you, who told
ti-t lie."
"Yes, but nheu be was gone when 1
was older, better able to face sorrow,
when I li.nl to bear a hard, bitter life,
when no one would have been pained by
my tears- w hy was I not told the truth
then? Neither you nor Lady Lashmar
have been so anxious to spate my feelings
that you need have kept this from me.
You nave let tup go on year after year,
feeding on a false hope, dreaming a mock
ing dream."
"It was no oversight on my mother's
part, and on mine," said Lashmar; "we
ought to have told you the truth. My
brother Hubert had a foolish sensitive
Bess on the subject, a morbid dread of
your tenia; but with us it wan otherwise.
We did wrong in not telling you. How
ever, you have been in somewise a gainer,
as your pathetic case has mnde a pro
found impression upon Mr. N'estorius; and
that last touch of pathos your belief in
your father's existence many years after
his death has quite subdued him."
"Mr. Nestoriun has been very good to
me, and I am deeply grateful to him; but
if you think that I have schemed to win
bis regard "
do think tbat you have so schemed
ami ihat you bave gone very near win
ning your game not quite, perhaps but
jour laat move was admirable and I an
ticipate th pleasure of congratulating
yon upon your promotion before Nestorius
leaves the castle.
"Is tlutt all you bave to say to me. Lord
Luslimar V"
"Yes, that la all, until I offer you my
congratulations."
"I thank you for your kindness and
eonstd-ralion. It l almost equal to that
with which you sent m out of the library
even years ago."
"Oh,' jou were child then, and 1 am
orry to say you were very unmannerly
ebtld. I bop yoo do not harbor resent- ,
ent after all these years, because I was j
little rough wttk you tfcat afternoon."
"I do awt harhar resentment. I do nt
eare enough about you to resent your
conduct to me in anything no, aot even
four cru-Mty la trylac to strangle every
mbitioua thought of air . "rs
kof a ad every slreaaa wfcon your broth
sVa death ana amy Mfo desolate. I de
4ae yo too met to he imnifnl."
he turn) rtoan Man Mi waJked nnlrk-
ty sMraeoa te
M Mkrwed aa
tho CHary window
ii l .VI W , H M lj re j k, j
MPl is?;
polite, yet it reminded him of that other
action, .seven years ago, when he had
tlueg op . n the dtsir for her to "march."
Mie had rot forgotten. She turned on
the threshold and looked at him with
flashing e;es.
"Why don't you tell me to 'march.'"
she said, "as you did that other day?
This lime there is no need of your order.
I am going to march."
And so, with a short, angry laugh, she
left him.
"What a she-devil," he muttered. "It
is her Spanish blood, I suppose, and
Huldwood'd bluod. A nice mixture! Ye,
upon my soul, a very pleasant brew !"
lie went back to the terrace and
tramped up and down till after the warn
ing gong had sounded. Then be rushed
to his dressing pmhii, and si rambled
through his toilet, and to dress hurriedly
was a thing he hated.
"What on earth did the creature mean
when she said she was going to man It?"
he asked himself, as he bungled wilh his
cambric tie.
CHAPTER XVIII.
She had gon", she had shaken the dust
of that unfriendly home from off her feet,
and had gone out into the more unfriend
ly world, penniless, without so much as
the means to buy a loaf of bread, carry
ing her little bag, wilh a change of linen
and half a dozen of her most cherished
books. Homer, Virgil, Shakspesre.
It was after eleven o'clock and most of
the shops had closed by th" time she reach
ed the town, but at the corner of a nar
row street she found a shop door open
and the light shining on the pavement in
front of it. She looked in timidly and saw
two women, one elderly and stout, the
other thin and waspish-looking, of that
doubtful period between eight and twenty
and eight and thirty, in w hich unmarried
womanhood is apt to turn to shrewishness.
The shop was of the humblest order,
known as a general shop, furnishing al-
! most everything except butcher's meat
and of exceeding usefulness in a poor
neighborhood. Stella looked from the
thin daughter to the stout mother and it
was to the latter she addressed her ques
tions. "There used to be a large lodging house
fir working people near the cemetery,"
she faltered. "It was burned down a
good many years ago. Was it ever built
up again?"
"'Of course it was," answered the
younger woman sharply. "If you'd gone
twenty yards further you'd have seen it
straight before you. It was rebuilt, and
was mate twice me size u was at ine
beginning."
" this shop here at the time of the
fire?"
"Vei; twentv vears before the fire " nn-
swered the mother. "My daughter was
born in this very house. I've lived in it
nearly f r;y years. It was a new house
when my hushnnd enme into it. and he
had (o make the business bit by bit."
"As you have lived here so long per
hais you temember a man called Mold
wood," said Stilly tremulously.
It was the first time she had ever pro
nounced that name to a stranger. It
seemed a kind of sacrilege; but she felt
lhat her only chance of finding a friend
in this great dreary town was through
her father's memory.
"Iioldwood Jonathan Iltddwood; yes. I
should think I do remember him. drat
him! My husband was almost cracked
about that man, and used to go to hear
him at every meeting, and come home
with a pack of nonsense in his bead. 1
hate your Radicals, always knocking ev
erything down, and never setting any
thing up."
"What's this, old girl, off again? I
never did hear such an old 'oonisn to talk
politics, and knows no more of rn than
a baby." said a round good-natured voice
from within, and a round-faced, good
natured looking man in shirt sleeves and
linen npion rolled in from ihe little parlor
bdiiti'l the shop. "What's sent mother
into 'high strikes' to-night?" he asked
his daughter.
"This young person has been asking
about Jonathan Iioldwood."
"Why, what do you kuow of Jonathan
Bold wood, lass?"
"lie was my father."
"Your father! What, are you the child
Boldwood tried to get out of the burning
house when he lost his own life, poor
chap. In trying to save the little one?"
"Yes," sobbed Stella.
"And then the young hnnrhback lord
saved you and took you off to Lashmar
Castle, and 'dopted of you. 1 know there
was no end of talk about it at the time,"
"Yes, but he has been dead for many
years, and I have been very miserable
in dependence upon fine people."
"Ah! there spoke old Hold wood. No de
pendence for him. He w as a free and no
ble spirit, heaven bless him! They say
it's only Papists that pray for the dead.
Now, I'm no Papist, and I'm no church
goer, but I say wherever Boldwood is,
heaven bless him! And so you've got sick
of your fine house, lassie, and you've pome
to look up yoor father's old friends in
Hniitim T'
"Had he friends here many friends?"
"Yes, many friends there wasn't a
working man In Rrumm that didn't call
him friend; but not such friends as could
be of much use to him. Most of 'em was
poorer than himself. He was proud, too,
and wouldn't have taken a favor from
any of ns. We all knew that he had been
born a gentleman. Let's have a look at
you, lass," semtinizing ber keenly under
the glare of the unshaded gas; "no. you're
not like him there's a look, perhaps, only
a look of him somewhere In your face, but
It ain't so much as likeness. Poor Bold
wood yes, he waa a grand talker, he was.
If he'd been alive now we'd bave r" klm
Into Parliament. Wouldn't he
tonished the milk and wati
who grind in that mill! And what are
you doing in Rrumm at such an hour as
this, my lass?"
"I have rorne to look for work."
''I tell you what i; is, Miss Boldwood,
you'd better slay with us for a week or
two while you look almiit you," said hon
est Chapman. "Jonathan BoldwotxI's
daughter shall never want for u home
while I've a roof over my head. We're
homely people, mother and me; but Polly
there has cult;vjte.l her mind a bit. and
she'll ! eoroiu. nv for mu. Stav with ua
as long as you like, my dear."
Mis. Chnpnmi added a kindly word of
her own to confirm the invitation, and
Polly put her arm rouud Stella's neck and
kissed her.
"I doji't often take to any one. but I
have took to jou," she said, "and 1 think
it's because ou've got a mind. I wor
sh:p mind."
Stelli's eyes tilled with sudden tears.
"You nn till so good to tiie." she fal
tered, "and 1 value your kindness all the
rinre beianse it is given f"r my father's
sake--my dear father, whose face I can
hardly remember. Till yesterday I ued
to hnpe rnd dream about seeing him again
that h- would come back to me from the
other side of the world and yesterday I
was told how he died in the attempt to
save me."
She burst into a passionate tit of sob
bing, and it w as some minutes before she
could fraiiiiiilize herself, even with the
aid of Polly's comforting hugs.
"Yes, I will stay with you, if I may,
kindest friends," she said. "I shall be
happier- more at peace here than I can
be anywhere else."
CHAPTER XIX.
Iird Lashmar telegraphed to Mr. Nes
torius. who had Lne to London immedi
ately afu-r his iiiiciview with Stella, that
the girl was missing There was no reply
until lute ihe next af;ernoon, when there
came an answer to the effect that Mr.
Nestorius would be at Lashmar Castle
nest morning.
"He is not afraid to face ns," said Lash
mar, relieved by this reply; for in spite
of her ladyship's conviction to the con
trary, he had been tortured nil last night
and all day by a rankling suspicion that
Nestorius bud induced Stella to elope w ith
him. Lady Carminow did not attempt to
hide her disgust at the fuss that was be
ing made about Stella's flight.
"I had no idea that Lady Lashmar's
reading girl was the most important pet
son in the bouse," she said at luncheon,
when Lashmar, who was utterly unskill
ed in concealing his feelings, fretted and
fumed it the non-arrivHl of any reply to
his telegram and the non-result of his
own inquiries in Rrumm, where he had
spent the morning tramping about with a
detective.
"She is very important to my mother,"
answered Lashmar moodily; "no one else
can read as well, and to be read to is the
only relief for my mother's nerves."
Lady Carniinow-'s womanly Instinct un
derstood Lashmar's feelings better than
be did himself. She had not bcn without
suspicions upon the subject before to
day. There had been something in his
manner of speaking about Stella that in
dicated hidden fires. And to-day she
knew for certain that be bad fallen in love
with the creature, was under the very
same unholy influence that had bewilder
ed Nestorius, the charm of a pale, strange
loveliness and eyes of dark, unfathoma
ble depth.
"I cannot help being amused at your
simplicity in supposing that this young
person has gone no further than the near
est town," exclaimed Clarice with open
scorn. "Is it not much more likely that
she is in London or Paris?"
"If yon will take the trouble to com
prehend that she had absolutely no money
when she left the castle " began Lash
mar angrily.
"But I cannot comprehend that. She
may have had no money from you or from
her ladyship; but is it so certain that she
could not get money from some one else?
I am sure, judging by Mr. Nestorius' air
w hen those two were walking in the park
together at dusk the other evening, if she
had said. 'Lend me lifti pounds,' he would
have rushed to his thi ck book that in
stant." "I do not think little as I iinow of her
that she would ak Mr. Nestorius for
fifty pounds or five pounds."
Yet the suggestion startled him, remem
bering lhat liitle scene on the terrace,
which implied some very warm feeling,
such as grateful affection, for Instance,
on Stella's part. Perhaps she had taken
a gift of money from Mr. Nestorius in or
der to flee away from a hateful bondage.
"Whatever evil thing she has done, or
whatever harm may happen to her, it all
must lie at our door,' be thought, mean
ing himself and bis mother.
Lady Lashmar had not appeared that
day. She was much troubled by Stella's
flight, and sorely missed her quiet minis
trations; but she was troubled far more
by the way in which Victorian had taken
the event. Why should he be so grieved,
so angry? He. who had affected to de
spise and dislike his dead brother's pro
tege. The phaeton was at the door when he
went down to the hall. He only stopped
to inquire if there were any telegrams,
and finding no tidings from Nestorius, be
drove off at once on bis way back to
Ri umra.
On arriving at that comuercial center,
I-ord Lashmar went straight to the police
station. Had there been sny news of the
missing girl since the morning? No, there
had been nothing beard of any young per
son answering the description. The want
of a photograph of the party was men
tioned aa a stumbling Mock. The police
officer seemed to consider It strange and
eren scandalous lhat In a Christian land
any young woman could bave grown up
without hnvlng been photographed.
CHAPTEM XX.
Mr. Nestorius' telegrsm was In the hall
when Lord Iaehmar returned to the cas
tle, sod Nestorius himself arrived at half-
ra nln A'elnck n.it mornln tartlinr
the select few who remained after the
shooters had gone off to their sport Neith
er Lady Carminow nor Mrs. Vavasour
appeared at this early meal and Lady So
phia always accompanied the shooters
when there wss do hunting; so the select
few on this occasion consisted of Iord
Lashmar, Mrs. Mulciber and Captain Va
vasour, who had stsyed at borne to work
at a new novel in which all hla dramatis
personae were gradually coming to lift
at sn average of eleven esertptlrt pages
for every character. On these burst Nes
torius, haggard nmd pallid, after sloep
leas night.
"Have torn fsad barr no ask agi
tatedly. "Va. nor aar tMisvai ff Mr,
the librsry I will tell you what I hav
been doing."
"Why, in heaven's name, did she leave
this house?" exclaimed Nestorius, alone
with Lashmar in the library. "What
made her do such a tMrg? She seemed
to me tolerably eouienied with her fate
resigned to live on as she was living,
till her literary talent found nit opeuing
and gave her imb is ndeine. and yet, with
in a few 'i.' of my leaving her, she
rushes awf.y a if she were driven by
J uries. What can it mean?"
"It means that I urn a brute." answer
ed Lashmar. standing before Ne-stonus
with a downcast brow and a dogged air;
"yes. a brute. I have always been a
brute to that girl, from the hour when
my poor toother first brought her into this
house to the hour she left it. :!riven out
of it by my fotil tongue. You do well to
talk of the Furies. That girl has been
my Nemesis. She has brought the sin of
pride of birth, the overweening confidence
in caste, home to me. She has made me
feel what a po... worm 1 am, and that in
gentlen.an! feeling I rank lower than the
lowest iron worker in Rrumm. I set uiy
face ii gainst her from the first; I was re
solved to see until ng but evil in her; I
was hard. cold, cnul, pitiless, saw her
youth blighted by hard usage and never
entered one plea in her In-half. And then
w hen I came back to the castle the other
day and saw her grown to graceful wom
anhood, saw her strange and spiritual
beauty, I was an-ry with her for luring
so sutorior to her station, for giving the
lie to all my prejudices. The more I found
myself yielding to the spell of her aiys
tical beauty the more I set myself against
her, wrestling with the inclination t see
more of her, tearing myself from the room
when she was reading to my mother,
shunning her at all times and in all placf
as if she had breathed infiitioii. And
yet I could not pluck her from my heart;
and yet her image haunted me and I start
ed up out of my sleep fancying that her
voice was in my ears, those deep. low
tones, which gave new melodien to Keats
and Milton. 1 hated myself for falsifying
every principle rf my life, which was to
see perfection only in the well born; and
every grace that attracted me to her was
an offense against my pride and made me
more resentful of her existence. It was
in this mood that I watched her and you
the night before Inst from yonder window.
I saw her throw herself at your feet and
kiss your hand, and I was mad with rage
at the spectacle. I accused ber of trying
to entrap you with an offer playing for
high stakes!"
"Yon accused her of trying to entrap
me!" cried Nestorius. "Did you do that,
Lashmar? How w ise and far seeing you
young men are! What if I tell you that
I had just asked her to be my w ife, asked
her with as earnest entreaty as ever man
made to the woman of his choice? I had
so asked her and she had refused me. It
was friendship, gratitude, which she offer
ed me on her knees all unworthy as I am.
Ixive she could not give me."
"She refused to marry you she, my
mother's slave!"
"Yes; it Is strange, is it not? She has
not seen enough of the world to have
learned how to sell herself to the highest
bidder. She has curious primitive no
tions that a woman can only give herself
in marriage to a man she loves, and she
does not love me."
"She is a strange being," murmured
lashmar, walking to the nearest window
and staring out into the garden, with his
faie averted from Nestorius.
(To be continued.)
le of Ihe tJreat Toe.
The negroes of the West Indies use
the great too constantly In climbing.
Several years ago. while sin-miing some
time itt one of the famous resorts in Ja
maica, 1 bad an opportunity to olmerve
the fklll with which the black women,
who do a great pnrt of the meiilul lalior,
carried stone, mortar, nnd other build
ing materials ou their heads to the top
of a five-story tower, In a part of the
hotel not then finished.
Much of thp unerring accuracy with
which they (women and girls! chased
each other up and down the long lad
ders, with heavy loads skillfully pulsed
on their woolly pates, was due to the
firmness with which they grasped each
rung of the ladders with the great toe.
They did not place the ball or the hol
low of the foot on the rmiif, but the
groove at the Juncture of the great too
with the Ixjdy of the foot, and they
held fast ly making the back of tho
otrier toes afford the other gripping sur
face. In much the same way the Abys
sinian native cavalry grasp the stirrup.
And I have seen a one armed Santo
Douilngan black, astride the near oi In
a wheel yoke, guiding a lead mule, with
a rein held between hla great and sec
ond toeH, while hi only arm waa de
voted to cracking his teamster's whip,
Overland Monthly.
The Itest Place.
He was suffering from a severe shock
occasioned by a Mroke of lightning.
"Y'our vocal organs are badly par
alyzed, but yon will learn to speak In
time," said the hospital surgeon, he
looked up from a rigid examination of
the patleut'a Injuries. "The very best
thing for you to do Is to go where you
can hear a great deal of talking."
The patient motioned for a writing
pad, and w hen It was handed to him bo
wrote In a firm, clear hand;
"I am a married man."
The surgeon looked at the pad and
umlled In sympathy. Tl.i ;i turning to
his assistant be said:
"iet the gentleman's address and
end him home "
Most Inist)le Wood,
A London paper claims that a teak
Is the most durable wood known for
structural nod mechanical purposes. It
Is Unrd, light, easily worked, and,
though porous, shrinks little, and l
cataaa of Its oily nature does not Injur
Iron. In Houtheastern Asia It Is much
used for shipbuilding. Tba wood la
frequently girdled a year before It la
felled, and thus exposed to sua and
wind It seasons mora rapidly than
when cut groan.
A flaarae of Rats.
Wnll BMoqultoes hav coma with tba
wat wMtbar In tho ciUos of tba north,
ruts bar multiplied in Now Ortoajas.
Tba city awnrosa with thorn. "Tboy
ipar orar tno MowaJka, aaaall fan
OWjNTIIE J.AiLuUAi.
THAT IS WHAT THE GOVERN
MENT SHOULD Da
People lioulil He Brought to 8c That
They Have .More ihun un Itticrtoiial
Interest in liiis Matter Criaiiual
Neglect Would Iiecreuse.
Corporation Indolence.
It has Ih-cu shown beyond the shadow
Df a doubt that the recent terrible acci
dent near the Hudson Kiver, rjatiltln
In the lix-s of so many lives tlirou'li the
mismanagement of the .uiderbilt rail
way system, was a peculiarly atrocious
case of careless ness on the part of the
corporation. The Vamlerbilt railroads
are known fur flic niggardliness and
Incompetence with w hich tliey ate con
ducted, this lielng due to the fact that
It Is a political system mostly. In w hich
dividends are always subservient to
the service, lint no sootier hud this last
Li ciiiant l.ikeii place than the stiperln-
(emli lit of tie 1 : m- w as sent to the
scene on a special train and lie prompt
ly found that the horror was caiisid by
ti ;i!aclfig of n bomli on the track "by
soiiie miscreant." That Is all he had to
say. How lie knows it wan a bomb
and not a hale or w!n the miscreant
was or who .saw him and like particu
lars are not fort hnmiing. Nor arc even
told why the individual is or was n
"mlsvr-Mnl." He mlg-ht have been a
divinity student who picked tip the
Imuili at the theater, intending to take
It home ami use It as a paper weight.
This theory Is plausilile, because divin
ity students are proverbially .itisent
mlrnli'd. and this one might easily 'oive
dropped the Isiinb on bis way ! i 1
never not Iced It. We present n w-
of the case for what it Is worth.
Ah long as we tolnate this corpora
tion nonsense, to come down to serious
language, we may eXeot our intelli
gence to lie Insulted, anil our lives to lie
endangered, the only satis action ob
tainable lielng IkuiiIi theories. This last
Instance of Vanderblll mendacity l
truly a climax cupper. The Vamlerbilts
know perfectly well that the accident
was the result of their own criminal
neglect. They know as well ns any
body lhat the condition of the track
was ascertained by expert after the
accident, ami Unit, ns their rcjKirt
shows, the only wonder is that the ca
lamity did not come years ago. Ihe
roadbed and the embankment at this
particular fqiot were rotten and crumb
ling. They were Dot Rtteinbtl to. They
were allowed to rot away because they
could not ls rcpalretl without expense,
ami, under the private ownership (sys
tem, the repairing of a railway is too
costly to be undertaken. Private own
ership has reduced the Vamlerbilt rail
road to ft terrible condition. Private '
ownership has gotten them Into oll-
tics, Into combines. Into wheat and
corn corners and Into one trust after
another, besides leading to the grossest j
briliery anil corruption of our public
servants. Hut the worst feature or pri
vate enterprise Is this unwillingness to
protect human life, and when, as a re- ,
suit, lives are lost, we are given cock
Httd bull stories alsuit dynamite bombs.
These things are the brtd answer to the
mieers of (iiautn-ey M. Iepew, who,
when called upon to say anything
alsuit Government ownership of rail-
roads, finds the subject enormously
funny. He cannot Mop laughing long
enough to treat It seriously, lint he
has a KUM-iitilendent who goes to the i
romantic (school of fn-tloti lo account
for Ihe fatalities along the lilies.
Kvery believer In collectiv 1st Ideas
can make use or tins t aimi-ruiu poncy
to emphasize the perils of private own
ership of railroads. The people should
be brought to see that they have fur
more than an Impersonal Interest in
thiH side of the railway tn'stlon. It
concerns the safety of their lives and
limbs, for no man can tell when be may
die by the hand of the most terrible of
executioners In case tiie Vamlerbilt
methods of running a ra lroad are not
ended once and for all. Twentieth
Century.
Mimdiiik' Army.
The New York Mail and Kxpross,
personnl organ of the Vaiidi-thilLs, de
clares editorially that "our army Is
popular," ami comments with fervent
fervor Ukii Ihe recently Inaugurated
custom of sending companies of the
regular army to drill at State and coun
ty fairs. It says, "the spectacle they
present Is not only delightful, but edu
cational ulwi." And "Moreover those
exhibitions t-nd to make the army pop
ular. Our regular troops, so few In
number, are but the nucleus of an or
ganization w hich In time of need must
depend Umhi public sympaihy and sup
port for Its strength."
"Our army Ik popular." Yes. The
popularity Is wilh the money power,
plutocratic (dander shifts and mug
wump magazines. Those ho give
i-oluiiiii after column lo denouncing any
one who on res to tell the truth In refer
i in e to the present condition and aim
of our army.
This dress pantile ItiiHluess In getting
the iirmy before (he public Is one of
the methods of pIutiM-racy to get Con
gress to assist In cupiMirtlng the army.
"Our Briny" In the pst has proven to
lie a private army for our money kings.
In each case they have protected prop,
etty righi In the place of human life.
The soli of our "free land" Is yet crim
son with the blood of human life, and
for which pluipcrncy through "our pop
ular army" must answer nt the liar of
Justice. This bleeding the farmers
through Mip unjust system of taxation
to siiiirt n "popular army," to protect
(he Mrltlsh money power Is opening the
eyes of the voters. This "nucleus" of
tho army organization is a great thing.
It should be "nlpeil lu the bud." This
Irmy bnslnooa should be crushed. Tba
uly way lo do ti la to crush out tno
rompet't'-- wag aysUtn of labor
w-hit'b makes the millionaires and pal
t. Without the formr we would
have no paiiern. neither would there
be any demand for "our popular army."
Nonconformist.
The Kemetlr for Trmts,
Senator Jones, of Nevada, luiMfJJ
Mated, In a New York Journal Inter tj
view, the cause of and remedy for
trusts. Coutluueil falling prices com
pels and prevents com petition. Rising
prices encourage expansion and stim
ulate trade. Free silver coinage, he
says, will put twice as much new
money In circulation each year as wo
now have, which will Immediately
raise prices, (in a rising market
money will lie Invested in all kind
of property. On a falling market no
one dares engage In business, as the
result will be certain bankruptcy.
Seni;;o;- .lanes has; a clear conception
of eciinor,iic and speaks at all time
with authority. Silver Knight-Watchman.
Object Lesson in Robbery.
Thousands of poor struggling toilers
who borrowed money from a bulldlnjr
nnd loan association In Chicago are to
be sold out because the homed of the
people, built by the money, are no
longer good for the loan. In every
Instance the home builder owued tho
lot. He had put In it thp Ktnall sav
ings of years. In many case they not
only owned the lot. but put considera
ble money in the building. Hut the
value of the property has gone down
In response to the gold standard.
Their wages anil the profits of busi
ness also 'eiilnei! to such an extent
that they coiilr1 no longer keep up their
dues. Now tf.---y will lose their ail and
the favored few who did not borrow
money out of the association will make
a good thing. For f 1,'xki loaned a few
years ago tion a S'.'.txKi or a $2,5fK)
home, they will now get the home.
The II.ihiu or l..VXf the owner put In
It will le transferred to the money
lender. The poor man who expected
to own bis homo and who would have
succeeded under an honest financial
system, is left homeless and muat pay
reut.
Reform Notes.
Prosperity that comes from adversity
abroad will le followed by a reaction.
Whatever hurts part of the world will.
In the end, hurt all the world. New
Kra.
Plutocrat Is defined aa "one who ex
orcises political power by virtue of his
wcallh." It fits like a glove and wo
see no reason for ruling It out of tho
vocabulary .Civic Hevlew.
The total output of the gold and (di
ver mines of the Lulled States laat year
wan aUiut $125" 10,000, about what the
wheat and corn crops of Kansas for
l.VJ" are worth. Topeka Advocate.
If the gold finds. In Alaska continue
as fabulous a reported. In another
year or two we will be getting enough
gold from Alaska to pay from one
fourth to one half of the Interest on
our bonda. Weftt Plains Quill.
The battle for freedom Is going on,
yet there are millions of suffering hu
man Is-lngs who should If In It, but
who are merely loafing around and
waiting for some one else to win tho
victory for them. (irnnder Agp.
Won't Imagine that Mark llanna. In
spite of his close call, won't go back
to the Senate. A few "disaffected He
iiibllcans" may hnve to be Iwmght for
the purpose, but tr; banks and tho
trusts have the money. Silver Knight
Watchman. Klondike gold may relieve, In so mo
measure, the financial stringency, but
under our present financial system It
will not prevent the stock gamblers
from making another stringency when
they find It will tn profitable to them
to do so. Lquity.
Why do the goblluigs shout good
times when prices rise, tiotw Ithstand
Ing the fact that they Insist that con
traction and falling prlcin are the sum
of human happiness and progress?
Localise they know the people feel
good when prices go up, and they
want to make the masses lndleve that
they will put prices up for their belio
fit. -Silver Knight-Watchman.
The President's Mcsshkc.
It Is fortunate for the country U-t
President Me Klnley's fcullar flnani
views, aa expressed In his mens
stand no chance of being enacted I
law.-Knoxville Tribune, .
Late, but frankly, a Republican Prev
Ident acknowledges that the Republi
can financial legislation of the last thlr-ty-five
years la unsound, unsafe and
ought to be reformed altogether. New
York Times.
The President closes a remarkably
weak and meaningless message with a
good word for the civil service laws,
which bis officials Just now are so In
dustriously engaged In trying to evade.
Wheeling Roglsttcr.
President McKlnley's first niocsage
to Congress will hardly go ,t0 blstory
as a gn-at state paper. The niessago
a no point, either In though. or
Hon. rises to a height to make R note
worthy. Ic Moines Leader.
The message on the whole Is color
less, and we Imagine It will be dlsap
liiiiilng to both the friends and (be
enemies of thp administration. It says
hardly enough to please the one or to
gratify the other. I let roll News.
He has missed a golden dtiortuol
loi linn n picnt null
snge, amvh'''- y'.en
a tedious discourse
for Inaction on son
Jects, and making lei,
nlte recommendations
other.- Ituffalo Court ei
i resiiieiu ncrtinipy s,
entirely overlooked that
moil tit treasury deficit tv
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