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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.