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CHAPTER XXII. (Contluued.) "Fond U too ttroug a word." ehe said; "I like my serranta; I become attached to them even, when they are useful and sWthful; but 1 am never fond of them." -3 at the Is not a servaut; she ia gen tle born, baa beeu highly educated, la lifted far above other women. Oh, moth r, be human if you can. You know that thia girl haa crept Into your heart, how iver hardly you may have atrlven to keep her out You know that you miss her mrely, that she haa grown dear to you." "Necessary to me, perhaps, Victorian, but not dear." "Yea, he haa become dear to you," pleaded Lashinar, kneeling by hia nioth r'a chair, throwing hia aruis round her M he had done many a rime in hia boyish laya when he wanted some indulgence at j her hands, but aa he had done rarely of late yeara. "Yea, mother, aay dear to you, for my sake." "For your aake, Victorian! What can you mean?" "For my sake, mother; yea, for my sake. Thia friendless waif, thia orphan daugh ter of a demagogue and destructive, this pawn of the radical gutter, is just the ene woman I will, have for my wife. It may be that I shall not win her. I have done everything to make myself hateful !n her eyes; but if I miss her, I will have none other. I will go down to my crave a woman hater. Yes, the hater and reviler of such women as Lady Carminow, be neath whose alabaster bottom never glow ed one generous emotion; as Mrs. Vava iotir, who paints her face a quarter of an Inch thick; us Lady Sophia, the type of 1 our modern Amazon, who unsexes her self by manly sports nud men's society, and never, from the time she wore pina fores, has thought ns a woman; as smooth-tongued Mrs. Mulciber, time-serving, wlf-seeking, the trafficker in society's amall vices and large foibles, garnering tip her riches out of other people's worth Irstfiess. One woman and only one have I seen, straight, truthful, original, inde pendent, scorning fortune when St was at her feet, daring to live her own life in the teeth of adverse circumstances. Such an one will I honor and reverence. She and no other shall be my queen." Lady Lai-hmar looked at her son's im passioned face with absolute horror. "Is this madness?" she murmured. "Why, 1 thought yon hated the girl." "So I did, mother. Heaven knows I tried my hardest to hate her, schooled myself to believe that I detected her, would not suffer my eye to li;;er upon her face or my memory to reca!! her gra cious presence. And yet. in spite of it all ihe drew me. It has -seemed like witch craft, but nw I begin to uuder-tand that It was simple force of character, the in fluence of a pure, untarnished soul upon one ttat'had been blemished an! clouded by contact with the world. I be 'eve that Providence meant her for me that my brother trained her for me that nil thins have tended unawares to one luij.py end ingshe is to be mine'." "If you do thia thing. Victoria si if yon. nay son, with your opportunities, marry to far beneath you, I suppose you know that yon will break my heart?" "I know that I will do no'.hing of the kind, mother sweetest. There will be a feeling of disappointment, no doubt. You would have preferred to see the Lashmar coffer replenished with the wealth Dane brook made in the iron trade. You had rather I had married the ironmaster's daughter, albeit that on her father's side he come? from a much lower grade than Boldwood'a orphan child. But thia regret once past, you will rejoice in your new daughter, since she has been as a daugh ter to you alrutdy, though you did not know it." There was a pause, a silence which seemed long. Victorian still on bis knees by hiai mother's chair. Ho had been prepared for a violent outbreak, for ungovernable anger; prepar ed to hear himself denounced and cast off aa an unworthy son. But to hia surprise, the dowager sat for some moments with her band shading her eyes and her lips silent. He almost thought she wat weep ing. "I have missed her sorely," she said at last, "yea, eorely. She comforted me with that low, sweet voice of Iters; her reading bad been a kind of music which soothed my tortured nerves. She baa been very sweet, infinitely patient as sympathetic aa I would ever allow her to be. But you are right lo your accusation, Victorian. I was never kind to her. I waa alwayi afraid of being too kind, of letting her tee how norma ry ahe waa to me. We are made of hard stuff, you and I, Vletorian. We come of a hard race, a race with whom pride of birth haa been ever a kind of rellglea. It la dlflcult to stoop when such pride aa that ia bred in our bone, the heritage, of a thousand generations. And for my eon to marry a girl of no parentage a domestic la Us mother' house:". "Her father waa an Oxford graduate!" "My dear Victorian, consider the herds of Oxford graduates, down to the sons of Oxford hair dreaaera. People will ask who yew wife la. How can you anawer them?" "I will leave the answer to time and the lady who bears my name. Her beauty aea her soeles ahould be an sll-snftVlent answer. CHAPTER XXIII. lrd Lsshttsr determined on going to eireeuy aner Dreasraat next He Mxt hia phaeton at the Lion I ami weat wandering about the 1. He waa too disgusted to an to theaa attain vet with the Weut aboat on hia owa ae- M struck hha that he would the wmMte. from which hia t mm the child, a ad which after the It, lie Oat dreary eotsfcirt of ki tarn weroetsd UJ MM Brumm, in which Goldwin't was situat ed. It lay In the opposite direction to the road by which he entered the city and In a region which had no attraction for any explorer one of those shabby, sordid, newly built quartera, which have no inter est save to the tax gatherer, the city mis sionary or the philanthropist. There stood Gold win's, with its long lines of windows all of the same pattern aud its lion balconies one above the oth er, giving it the appearance of a gigantic iron cage, as it were the prison-house of the unconvicted poverty. Lashmar stood on the opposite side of the narrow street gazing up at that barrack and picturing his brother'i distorted figure, those long, lithe armt of his drawing him upward from story to story, the slender fingers clinging to yonder railings. The lord of broad lands risking his life and limb to save one little child, whose face he bad never seen. "It waa a noble thing to do," thought Lashmar. "I ought to have valued her for the sake of that great deed. Decent feeling, the respect due to my dead broth er, should have made me kinder to her." lie had no hope of finding Stella amidst that aggiegate of struggling humanity. The police had been here at the beginning of their quest and had assured themselves that no such person as the fugitive from Lashtnar Castle had applied for a lodging at Goldwii's. He eipected to get no in formation here and yet he hung about the place in his despondency, not knowing where to go or what to do next, feeling imjwlled to do something, were it only to wander from street to street, in the vague hope of meeting the fugitive face to face at some unexpected corner. Presently he saw a respectable, elder woman, with a market basket on her art, going in under the archway which oened into a stony quadrangle. He followed and accosted her. "May I ask, madam, if you have been long a resident here?" The matron turned and confronted Lashmar in some confusion, startled by the stately address, the tall, upright fig ure and darkly handsome face, and that indescribable, inexpressible air which is ordinarily the result of high birth and a West End tailor. Not often no, not even when an election was on did such a young Alcibiades enter beneath yonder arch. "Yes, sir, I have lived here over twenty years, almost ever since the houses were built." "Then you remember the fire here?" "Yes, indeed, sir; and I have good cause to remember it, for my poor little bits of furniture were all burned, things as I'd bad from my poor mother and as lelonged to her father before her when he was a farmer in a small way in Herefordshire." "Very sad," murmured Ijishmar. "I 'id you happen to know a man called Bold wood 7" "Bold wood, that lost his life In the fire? Everybody knew Mr. Bold wood. He was a great man, my husband used to say, a man that ought to have been a cabinet minister; a man that had poor people's interests at heart, and would have fought our battles, if he'd ever come into power. And quite a gentleman, too, though rath er rough-looking and careless about his clothes; and such a loving father to his little girl. She was adopted by the late I.ord Lashmar and has been brought up like a lady. The little girl used to sit out on the balcony all day in summer time," said the woman. "Boidwood had put up an extra rail to make it safer for her, and had divided off hia bit of balcony from the rest with wire netting, so that she sat there all alone like a bird in a cage. He didn't want her to mix with the other children, and she didn't aeem to want to play with tbem. She wat very shy, and when they spoke to her she answered in a foreign language. She had her little toys, and she seemed to amuse herself contentedly hour after hour; but I al ways felt torry for her in those long, lone ly days, ben her father was away." Certainly a sad and solitary infancy, followed by a deeoiste girlhood. "She used to watch the funerals going by to the cemetery," said the dame, who had no desire to cut short the conversa tion, albeit the rudiments of ber hut band's high tea were lying In ber basket and the day wat wearing towards after noon. "There wasn't near so many bouses about here in those dayt. It waa almost open country, and the could tee every thing that went along the road to the cemetery, and used to tit and watch and watch and wonder and wonder. I could tee It in her face, sometimes, when I stopped to look at her. But the never asked me no quettions. 8he little thought how soon her daddy, that the waa to food of, would be lying in that cemetery." "It it near here?" asked Lashmar. "Not half a mile." ' "I'll go and look it Boldwood'a grave. Good-mot nlng, madam. If yon will ac cept a trifle by way of " He did not further explain himself, but dropped some looao silver Into the mat ron's willing band and left her corteaying on the pavement. Waa there ever auch a gentleman to noble looking, to free In hit mannera and so open handed? Lasbmar found hit way to the ceme tery, which had been placed remote from the town in the first instance and waa still In the outskirts. It wat a noble cemetery aa to spaciousness, tbougb a little monotonous at to art. But trees and throbs had thriven, the place wat neatly kept and on Htwday evenings this garden of death wat a favorite retort for the sober and serlom among the working people of Brumm, the people who liked to go to chapel and take their quiet walk after chapel. Boldwood'a grate? The man at the lodge waa not political earSctiajf; had never heard of Mr. Boidwood, wold give no Information aa to the last resting place Se '.aehniar wandered as and dews. till he found the handsome headstone which his brothel had erected to mark the demagogue's grave. "In memory of Jonathan BIdwooJ, a man of advanced opinions and strong sym pathies with the poor and iiun:eed, who perished in bis endeavor to save his infaut daughter's life, and who was much be loved and regretted by the working classes of the city. "By their works ye shall know them." This was the epitaph hiih Hubert, Lord lashmar, had caused to be engraved on the republican's headstone. CHAPTER XXIV. Victorian stood looking at the words on the headstone in a dreamy forgetfuluesa, listless, tired, physically aud mentally. Would he ever find her whom be sought would he ever? In the Impatience of hit temper, In the Intensity of all his feelings, it seemed to him at if he had been looking for her fur ages, bad exhausted every mode of search and must needs despair. He had driven her from him and she had gone. "Y'ou told me to march," she had said to him, recalling his speech of the past. "You need not tell me that this time. 1 am go ing to march." And she had marched. Into infinite space, whither he knew not; and he stood here in this place of graves, stood deso late anM lonely among the dead, and de spaired if ever teeing ber face again. He stood wh fixed eyes for a moment or so, till an approaching footstep startled him from that trance of fear. He turned and saw a tall, slim figure drawing near, that black-robed, girlish form which he had seen so often in the corridors at Lashmar. and shunned, aje prehending an indefinable danger, the peril of his peace of mind, which was ever disturbed by that presence. He had looked for her among the dead and had found her living, lovely as when she had laBt looked upon him in her pride and anger. She bowed gravely, startled for an in stant, but composed herself instantly with wondrous self-command and would have passed him, but he stopped her. "Stella," he s;gd, holding out his hand. "Ird Lashmar?" interrogatively and without accepting the offered hand. "Stella, will you not forgive me? I have been seeking for yon ever since that night. I have desired nothing on this firth so much as your forgiveness. Will you not forgive me? Will you not shake hands with me? By your father's grave?" That plea was irresistible. Sbv gave him her hand wi'hout a word. It was the first time their hands had ever met. His grasp tightened upon the little hand and he drew her nearer to him, she shrinking all the while, looking at him with fright ened eyes, half angry, half wondering. They were alone in the place of graves aloiie amidit the prpulace of the dead, no one within sight or earnhot. "Stella, I have but oi.e plea for pardon, but one excuse for my brutality the other night, for my oldness, my neglect, my absolute unkindnew In all the years that have gone over us since my brother's death. My excuse for my conduct that night is that 1 was mad with jealousy, my excuse for years of unkindness is that I have been the slave of caste. I have tried not to love you and I love you more passionately than ever I thought to love any living woman, were she peeress or princess. All my pride 'of birth, all my greed of gain, are flung to the winds. I love you, Stella, and live only to love you. Say, sweet, at least, am I forgiven?" She had turned giddy with the sudden ness of this sin prise, fainting under the shock of an utn-peakable happiness. Her eyelids drooped, and there were flashes of light across her eyeballs, and a rushing sound in her hesid. Her cheek lay gliBstly white against ber lover's shoulder, as he caught her to his breast and just saved her from falling. "My beloved, say I am forgiven. Say that I may hope." Her pale lips tried to answer, but were too tremulous for speech. There was a pause, und then the heavy eyelids were slowly lifted, as with a painful effort, a soul coming back to life and conscious ness, and the large, dark eyes looked up at him. "I have hated myself so bitterly for loving you," she faltered; "I have scorned myself for loving the man who despised me." "Ah. then, we are both content," lie said, kissing her. "We have both strug gled, and we have both been beaten by fate, which it stronger than either of us. My beloved, I am ineffably happy; there it not in this world a man more deeply blessed. And now come back to the raetle and cMnfort my mother, who hat been pining for you, and be to her 11 a daugh ter. She, too, baa tried to shut her heart against you, but I suspect that she, too, loves you. She knows everything, dear est, knows that you are to be my wife, if I can win you." "Will she not be tngry with you for such a choicer' 11M Btella. "No, she bore It like a lamb. Don't you know that her strong point it com mon tense, and sensible people always submit quietly to the Inevitable. Come, desrest, we can get a fly tomewhere out tide the cemetery, and drive to the hotel where I left my phaeton. We shall be at the cattle in time for afternoon tea. I be lieve her ladyship will be delighted. She began to find out your value directly you were gone." (To be continued.) Vary Pine Writing. A machine baa been Invented, which la composed of exquisitely graduated wheel, running a tiny diamond point at the end of an almott equally tin arm, whereby one I able to write upon glaaa the whole of the Lord prayer within a space which measured he 2&4lh part of an Inch In length by Hit 440th part of an Inch in breadth or about the measurement of the dot o tr the letter "I" In common print, say the Philadelphia Record. With this ma chine any on who understood ope rating It could write tha whole 8,orj6.40 letters of the Bible eight times over Hie space of an Inch a square Inch. A specimen of this marvelous microscopic writing waa enlarged by photography, and every letter and point waa perfect and could be read with ease. r "1 Known of Old. Hammers are represented on tha monuments of Egypt twenty centuries before oar sra. The greatly resembled the hammers bow 1b nse, save thai there were no daws on the back for the extraction of aajla. Tha lint hammer waa undoubtedly a stone Laid la tha hand. Claw haonMn were Invested some time daring the Middle Ad a. Kwi NEEDED. H CH'rF TmURLE WITH THE 1 UNII tU SI Arts. I Rank with Four Cents of Money Mis ' tr to Sustain a liuki-it-ss of 1(H) Cease - I'roirrit'. H-kUjt Kouii Trui ut hu.uit) wit.1 the t'eople. In a Hud flight. The Rcpublh-au party has leen placed by it l a 1 IT legislation "between ;wo stools," is therefore In imtul leut danger of cumlng to the ground. The? firt sUil is that of u tariff Uef cit. The parry has, through Its se ;lal fcessUm of Congress, given to the ouutry the grnt Hingley bill, product ve of a deficit to date of over $-tl,ooo,-su, and menacing a shortage lu the ;reasury of fiOO.OOO.lmo by the eud of he DMal year. To amend the bill Is lo oiifes Judgment aud to go before ;lie people as nit Incompetent lawmaker jnd to brauil lU;df ns a party Incapable jf carrying on the business of the coun try with reasonable Intelligence. Not 10 amend Uie bill is to allow the deliclt : grow lulu such dangerous propor .loiia as to make ucccciary a bond Isnue liicb ? oiibl lw the death blow to Re publican supremacy. The second stool ia retrenchment. To -ut the expense of I lie government in ,-der to bring: them equal to the rev uiie would nicau a reduction of at cat $."),(. nj.ikki, and that would retire i lare number of Uepiibllcau Con gressmen in to throw the balatn e jt jtuwer lulo thu hands of the Demo crats. The situation Is sad for the Itejmbli an. Whichever stool they choose they ire bound to tumble. If they tax the trusla they lose the support of the men who put :Pe party it; power. If they lit the appropriations they cause the defeat of their Congressmen. If they ire force1 to Isstte bonds the people will revilt. The Hepubllcan party has proved Itself Incapable of wise govern ment, and the sooner it comes to the zrourul the Itetter It will be for the peo ple of file I'nited States. Kntmiri of the People. Take uim to shoot. Shoot to kill. Kill he trusts and cinorat!oiiH. for Ihey are the enemies of the people and good gov ernment. So Ions as plutocracy can control the Issue, and divide the people, :hey care not which party wins In an election cauUfst. I'oes any honest per son for h moment contend that prin ciple, and not the money power, elected Urnver Cleveland? The money power did for the Cleveland Democracy the same bm It did for McKinley. Cleveland wax their willing tool, and McKinley has every symptom of serving them Just as faithfully. The cry was made on the- gold standard, ho that the cur rency could be contracted, and while chore is no demand for silver the silver milieu could be lioiiglit by the corpora .!o'w for less than their value. Have you noticed that the silver mines are lxlriK purclmfed by corporation? When the silver mines will all be con trolled by the money kings, they will "Iswist" Into power the party which will Insure to them free sliver, because It will benefit tliem; wield a profit on their Investment. Will free silver give relief? Not so long as the mines and the amount In circulation can be controlled by conor atlotiH. The relief will extend Just so far as It will benefit the mine owners. Shall the cry of metal money contin ue? Yes, if you ore In favor of the money power, and Iwlleve In barbarism. If you are an American you will oppose It. The I'nitixl States Ismd are better than gold. Why? lb-cause thpy are based upon the wealth of the nation. These bonds are pood In "Europe, too," and they do not represent gold. Upon iiils same basis the government shall !si and control the volume of a scien torrency, based upon the wealth of the nation, a full legal tender, with out any gold attachment. Thia Is the only method to solve the problem of "c! mney question and give the people iellef. If we must have metal cur rency, we say Cncle Sam shall own and operate the mines, both gold and silver. Kill the trusts and corporations, for they are the enemies of good govern ment Indianapolis Nonconformlat. Lost in Asrricalture. The supplementary report, signed by ten out of the fourteen coinmisftloner whose names are appended to the final report of the royal commission on agri cultural depression. Is certainly not the least Interesting tior the leaat ably writ ten portion of the Hlue Book lately Is sued. In their main report the four teen commlsalonern Mate that the grave situation which they described Is due to a long-continued fall In price. They make a number of recommendation dealing with various aspect of the question, but they do not pretend that had all these suggestions been adopted and been In force during the years of depression they would have been found real remedies for agricultural distress, because they do not deal with Its real cause, tIk., the fall In prlcos. The com mlssloners who signed the supplemen tary report are naturally of opinion that some attempt should be made to deal with the admitted cause of the trouble, and to suggest a remedy which should go to the root of tlie matter, or which, In other word, should check the fall, and bring about. Ir possible, some recovery of price. Now, there are oo'y twe ways In which Ibl can be attempt ed the first way I protection. lint protection doea not appear to them lo be a way which I within the pale of practical politic. Moreover, It la T remedy which baa been fairly tried In other countries, whre agricultural de pression haa prevailed, notably In France and Qsraiaay; and from the In quiries made and the evidences ad duced, It haa manifestly failed to prove Itself an effectual cure. The other metb d la a return to the bimetallic system which prevailed until some tweii'y-rive years ago, and the abumlonmeat of which Immediately preceded the com mencement of the fall of prices anil In consequent depressiou of agriculture. Chicago IMspatch. I'roaperitv's Koud. Those who for the last two or three years have been looking for an ad vauee in the prices of commodiilea, whether from a recovery of mercan tile and Industrial confidence or from Increased suppllcn of gold, will find no supis-trt for their exiK-Hatlons In the course of quotations during 18!K5. KauerlHK-k'B Index ntimler for the whole year Is sixty -one, tlie loweet an nual rfverage on retrd. A glance at the annexed table shows that since the eud of 8!l3. from which point some very confident predictions of a great rise were uttered at the beginning of IKH, the movement has been uninter ruptedly downward. Even the index number of Decem ler, IKim, Is but 0.8, or 1.3 per cent, above that of Iiecember, lH'.Ci. It Is, perhaps, hardly npcessary to explain that Mr. Katierlieck's system atarta from the average of prlee, taken at lCxt. during the eleven year 1K;7 to 1N77. These years comprise the depressed period following upon the crisis of ISOtS, the period of activity which fol lowed It, and the subsequent period of moderate decline. This basis haa long been accepted as entirely suitable for comparative purposes. The following table gives the annual Index number for each year since 1SKS, and the monthly tiumlters for last year, an well as those for liecemlier, 18!:i. ls'.M and ISM: 1807 to 1S77 1h 1KM. . 72 January ....f,1.4 February . . .01.4 March !'.! April !.,! May !0.1 IMS'). . ,4. ism.. f'rtjh IMC'. . Jo lhU4-- !?v 1H1I5. . 1VTM. . Pecemlwr, IMKl. , Itecembcr, 1W-I. . December, lW.r, . June July A tignst . . Hcptomler ..V.t.H ..VI.2 ,fj!l.7 .t;i..i .r,2,ii .r,2.s cs t!2 ;i U7.0 October . '.! November 01.2 Iecembcr ..t2.0 The first point to be noticed la that prices of commodities were last year 38 per cent. Isdow the assumed normal level, nearly 14 per cent, below the av erages of lSXU-lU, and nearly 11.3 per cent, below those of 1SH2-3, Too Little Money. On the Gtb day of October. IH'.H), there were 3,070 national batiks lu existence. They owed demand liabilities of more than fl.bOO.fXXJ.OOO; all the money they bad to pay these demands with waa $14'J.0u0.OJO and a little more. They had on band of all kind of ma terial which passes for money $304,000. 000. They were able to pay on demand a little over 13 ceuta on the dollar. Thete banks could not have paid on that day on their debts 5 cents on the dollar In money, aud there waa not money enough In the 12,000 banks of the United .State to pay 10 rents on the demand liabilities, and not enough to pay 4 cents on the dollar of the debts owing to and by those bunk. There i uo busliurss that can, with 4 cents of money, manage to sustain a business of 1XJ cents. The chief trou ble In the United States Is that the peo ple have too little money. They have plenty of land, plenty of mills, plenty of factories, and nhops and stores aud goods, ind thee are 7u,0o0.000 of m-o- alinoHt every one of whom Is will ing to work alio can produce suffi cient to meet all demand of all the people. The only thing tbey are dhort on and the only thing they have not enough of I money. The volume of money In cir culationnot the volume stored In banks-fixes the price of things gener ally. When pricea fall, generally, It la because of a shrinkage In the quantity of money In circulation. McKinley and his administration do not proposne to Increase the quantity of money In circulation. He will do Just a Grover Cleveland did If It be come Decenary, la hia opinion Issue more bond. How It Is possible for an Individual or a nation to become pros perous, constantly getting Into debt and being compelled to pay heavy Interest, Is beyond cowpreheuiou. -Chicago Dispatch. Pngar Reetaand Silver, A year ago the whole nation was convulsed over the propoaltlua to coin annually into dollars something like a hundred million dollars worth of silver. That same year we sent abroad nearly $200,000,000 tor sugar. And noliody thought much about It, We can't coin the silver, beanine the majority said no. We can make I lie sugar, though. Sugar, thank God, I not In iolltics not beet sugar. Htocklid Mall. If the beet-sugar proposition ever gets Into politics eur Republican friends will say, "What! Take four dollars' worth of sugar beeta and make eight dollars' worth of sugar out ef them? Such a thing Is preposterous. It will flood the country with cheap sugar and can't be dime, nnlena, of course, by International agreement." (.'arson Appeal. "Repudiation." "Repudiation" Is what the gold clique cry when any legislation I sug gest ed which contemplate a benefit to the debtor. "Reform" I the alogan ef the gold monometalllsta when tbey propose to repudiate contra eta In order to benefit the creditor. Road made payable hi "coin" (which means either silver or gold), are to be refunded, if the gold men have their way, lato beade paya ble In gold. Thus the debtor hi to be robbed, but that Is all right; the cred itor gets the beat of the bargain, and that Is your true golden rule ef the monetary "reformers." National "honor" demands that cen tra ots nade in good faith shall be broken in order that a few tbeaeand hondboidere shall fatten on the hi bora of aeventy Millions of teller. The people apt ear to have no rlffht wb'fc the gold clique Is bound to respect Coin Ismds were Isiught at a much) lower price than gold bonds would have brought; therefore there Is monumental steal In securing the re funding of coin Ismds Into gold bonds Giving the creditor millions of dol lars and robbing the debtor In The same wholesale manner constitute fe peculiar plan proxsed by the gold clique to maintain the "honor" of the nation. The people do not understand this kind of financiering, and the Re publican representatives In Congress, knowing this fact, dare not go before the H-oj)le for re-election In 1KH8 with a record of having supported such a scheme. Worse than O rover, McKlnlcy's use of the pardoning power In behalf of liank wrecker la catMtng discussion In all parties. - In each cae be has had ample proof that the tiankeru were dishonest and that hundreds have been plunged Into pov erty by their crime. I'eople are to-day without food, shelter and proer cloth ing, Iwcause their earnings have been stolen from them. Grover pardoned three bank thieves during the first nlno months of his second term, McKinley has pardoned twelve. Here la the Ustj Harry E. Martin. Illinois. AIoiiko H. Crawford, Missouri. Henry II. Kennedy, Pennsylvania. John M. Wall, Ohio. Fred E. Edgar, New York. C. It. ricischman, Illinois. Kred E. Kent, Missouri. Edward II. Carter, New York, Francis A. Coflin, Indiana. Eouls Red wine, Georgia. Stephen M. Folsotn. Fred W. Griffin, Indiana. The pardon of Francis A. Coffin, of this city, was an insult to every hon est person. He has gone forth to de ceive others, as he has changed his reav Idence. tinge's plan will provide for bank thieves, and save the President from further "duty." How many aciall thieves has McKinley pardmed? Not oue. Nonconformist. A National Hecel verhl. A receiver has lieen asked for Spring Valley, 111. If the court grant the petition, the city affairs will be taken out of the hands of the p-ople and vested In a trustee a ahKolttely aa If he were a c.ar. Perhaps this will open the way to take the people's fran chise from them, for tbey will have no lower over their own affairs. In thl way. the United State Supreme Court might settle all the nistional affairs by appointing a receiver If the republle could be made to default on some of It obligations, and the receiver could then operate the nation, and save tha people the time and troub'e of chewing the rag over the finance, tariff and oth er rags every campaign. I think tbla would be a capital idea. If It Is right to consider a receivership for a city. It Is right to consider one for a Stata or nation. J. A. Wnvlani. Good Times. ' Talk about good times! I read of fir cases of starvation in cities In to-day'a papers, and they run from the trams sinking on the highway to a family oi nine slowly dyiug lu the garret. Ya4 Htooks are going up our export trad la lncrea.slng-our gold reserve Is fai above the hundred million mark. Yet starvation thinly disguised stalks the bind, and when relentless winter lean off the mask It will discover one of the most appalling conditions the citlea of thia country have ever wltneR-l. Ev ery winter mean metropolitan famine, and each successive season outdoes the preceding onca. Pilgrim, Injustice to Judas. John Rusktn says: "We do a grea.1 Injustice to Ucarlot In thinking him wicked above all common wickedness, He was only a common money lorer, and like all money lover, didn't under stand Christ couldn't make out thi worth of him or the meaning of him. He didn't want him to be killed. Ht was horror struck when he found thai Christ would be killed; throw bis moo. ey away Instantly, and banged himself. How many of our present money seek) era, think you, would have the grace to hang themaelvea, whoever wtl killed r ' The Future Market. ( The future field of the America manufacturer la not the borne market; says the Kansas City Star. It la thl wide, wide world, and the statesmen as Washington will be forced to recog nize that fact before long and wil shape their tariff legislation In accord ante with that idea and not for the purpose of shutting up this country and restricting Ha trade with other na Uona. Steel Bar rata. The manufacture of steel barrels Is new Industry lately established neai Iondon, England. The difficulty 0 giving the steel sheet the ordinary bap rel shape, says the Sun, Is overcom by easing the curved rolls at the end so that tbey bear only In the middle thus stretching the metal at the rentei and forming the barrel body complete, with the exception of abearlng the endi straight in a special machine and weld Ing the seam. The welding Is done by electrically mekkmg pieces of steel ovei the opening and hammering then down; the beads are cut la a drculai shearing machine, corrugated and dash ed In a 400 toa hydraulic pre, an secured hi place by a ring ef metal whlcn U weided both to the end of th barrel and the head; the buag hwsu are also welded on no skilled labor bo lag required for the process, sad few moderate power la needed to supply jb curreaL It Is more Uhia U years since thv Empress of Austria was last photo graphed. So has completely with drawn hevaalf from pubtic life, and It foad of smveilnc Issxaprto.