, GUILTY S •••INNOCENT? By AMY BRAZIER. CHAPTER IX.—(Continued.) “You will llnd It very hard to get nny one to believe your story In the fate of the gashier's sworn testimony,” be says coolly. “My dear Barbara, Bouverie was proved guilty. He was tried for drugging the cashier and rob bing the bank, and he committed the crime without a shadow of doubt. I dare say you were weak enough to hand him over a hundred pounds, hut he robbed the bank as well." "He did not!" breathes Barbara des perately, “and It was I who begged and pra_ycd him to take the money. 1 was to be his wife; there was no harm in It, and it saved him from dis honor.’* Mrs. Saville takes Barbara's hand. “My dear, don't make a fool of your self! We don't doubt that he took your money—it was exactly the kind of thing a man like George Bouverie would do, but he was guilty of the hank robbery as well. It Is hard on you, Barbara, but he Is not worth a regret.” Barbara's breath comes fast. Her eyes fill suddenly with tears at the re membrance of an interview between herself and George that bad been sol emn and almost sacred. He had knelt beside her, with his face sorely trou bled, and she had prayed to God to give him strength to begin a new life, end give up the poison of the mania for gambling. Was It likely after that he would have committed the siu lit was found guilty of? She draws her hand from her aunt's clasp. “You are all against him you and Sebastian most of all, but I will save him.” Barbara carries her point, and smarts on her Journey alone. Sebastian shrugs iiis shoulders. “What a high-flown piece of busi ness! But 1 seo now why she went out to Tasmania second class.'' "Barbara is an idiot!” responds Mrs. Ravilie irritably. ”1 would like to lock her up! I suppose we may as well go ' back to the Court till she comes to her senses.” “Not so. Voit can settle anywhere you like, and when Barbara finds that her tragic explanation of George Bou verie and the hundred pounds won’t geL him out of prison I'll fetch her over myself, but let her do all she can now.” Barbara goes straight to the Grange. Who should she go to with her news but to Georges mother? And nevpr for a moment has she the slightest doubt that her story will unbar the prison doors and let George free. It was her money he had. She had brought it to him in a little bag, and made him take it; and now, with tier pretty face full of sympathy and hope, the gathers poor, sorrowful Mrs. *#ou verie in her arms, and half weeping, half laughing, tells the whole story. And no doubt crosses the mother’s mind. Trembling with Joy and ex citement, she clings to Barbara, and the two women weep together, drawn to each other by the link of love that is between them. “God bless you!" sobs Mrs. Bou rerie. ”1 knew my boy was innocent, but what shall we do, I am so ig norant ? Ought we not go to the law yer who defended his case? Come, Barbara! Oh, darling, you love him, too; do not let us lose a moment! We can go to Dublin this evening, and then—oh, surely tomorrow they will set him free?” Neither Mrs. Bouverie nor Barbara have the slightest idea of the red tape and the endless formalities that can keep even an Innocent man under lock and key. T’pon this tearful scene of excite ment Doctor Carter enters. He pays many a visit to cheer up his old friend, and he alone knows of the calendar that is so full of sorrowful interest as across each day a trembling line is drawn, one twenty-four hours nearer the end of the time that is only begin ning now. He is fully as much excited as Mrs. itouverie and Barbara, and, like them, sees no difficulties lu the wav. It is only when. In answer to an urgent ap peal, Mr. Jarvis pays a late visit to the Hotel Metropole, where Mrs. Bou verie engages rooms, thut a little doubt damps the ardor of their hopes, the man of law looks at Barbar.i's Hushed eager fate with a dawning of comprehension. ■Quixotic,” he think* "Now 1 know why Itouverie held hi* tongue 1 thought there was something behind the scenes." To Mrs Bouverle he says: "This Is most Import »ut evidence, I wi*h It had been produced at the lliu« •f the trial It accounts for the money, but how are we to get over the fart* sworn to by Mr Urey when He ‘•(entitled Bouverle a* the mm who ftugged him ' That is the nut we have to crack “ The look of Joy died nut of Mrs Itouverie*! e)es, tears roil down her cheeks. "I thought this would Have set hint frew," she muimurs. pressing her Hand* together And Barbara s fare i* full of eor rowful anstetv. ■ ft# must he ter free*" she eri**s looking eagerly nt Mr larvt* ' Mr J«rvia. I aw to be kls wife and how piiH illy she mi I* »* though *h» • v« gio*}tng tg the <« t tsl 4 want to work for him”—the color flooding her cheeks. "I have money— oh, more than I know what to do with! You will know what to do! Oh, you will help us, won't you?” Mirs Savillc, I will do all that I can.” the lawyer says earnestly. "If you wish to leave the case in my hands, I will do my very best. You may de pend upon me.” After that the days go by In an agonized time of suspense and anxiety. It scents so hard to sit still and wait, so cruel not to be able to rush to George and tell him to hope. For, after all, there seems to be very little hope, for how are they to prove that George Bouverle did not rob the hank as well as take Barbara's hundred pounds? Barbara stays at lhe Grange, and she Is all energy and excitement. She will never rest till the whole ease Is brought to trial again, and Mr. Jar vis' policy of waiting is Just wiiat Bar bara cannot bear to do. The greit lawyer lias come to Port raven, hoping to find out some clue, hut there seems nothing to find out. Nobody can throw any light on the mystery till chance discloses what the brains of men have failed to find out. Mr. Jarvis, walking down the street of Portraven, puzzling out the case that occupies all his thoughts, meets a sharp-fttced-looklng lad, who accosts him. "You he the gentleman who Is for Mr. Bouverle?" he says, touching his C nil. ■'Yes, my boy, I was his counsel," re turns Mr. Jarvis, alert in a second. The boy looks at him. "I don't believe It were lie took the money, 1 air. the hank messenger, sir, and I see Mr. Grey taking a hag out of the chimney In the bank. It was this way, sir. Mr. Kelly was out, and I’m fond of reading, anti there was a book Mr. Grey bad, and I hid to get a chance to nab it, and I saw him with my own eyes taking down a wash leather bag the day before he left the office for good.” "And where Is Mr. Grey now?” Mr. Jarvis asked sharply. "Gone to Queenstown today to catch the steamer for America,” the hoy says, with a glance of cunning. "I told him I suw him take the bag. and 1 thought he might give me a fiver to say nothing about It, but he kicked me down stairs, and I don't care now if I tell on him or not.” Mr. Jarvis puts his hand on the boy's shoulder. 'Come and tell Mr. Kelly what yon have told me, but take care you tell the truth.” The whole rase seems full of per plexity. Mr. Grey may have robbed the bank a second time; that remains to lie seen. It is a mystery inneed! "You can't get over the chloroform business,” thinks Mr. Jarvis. " and the fellow positively swore It w'as Bou verle who did it. Still there seems to be a glimmer of daylight somewhere.” The Lucania is getting up steam, the tender is alongside, and the sun .t> shining brilliantly across the dazzling, sparkling water. Mr. Grey, the cashier who had bepn the victim of the Portraven tragedy, stands on board with a grey, anxious face. His wife is beside him—a loud, ftashy-looking young woman. "We're just off," she is saying, when she catches sight of a look of horror on her husband’s face. A police officer and a private detective are coming to wards them. The late cashier is seized with trembling, and remains as if fas cinated. An arrest on board one of the out going American steamers is not a very uncommon occurrence. Mr. Grey and his wife are condueted on board the tender, and the Lucania steams on her way. There is guilt on the face of the mai who sits staring with wild, desperate I eyes lieforo him, deaf to I he angry protestations of his wif**. Only once he speaks as he turns to her. "Hold your tongue’ You brought me to Oils! It Is all your fault!” Then lie looks at the officer In charge of him. "I will make a dean breast of it there is nothing else to be done ” Anil It is before Seb.csti in Suville he makes his confession, a* lie stand*, a shrinking, riaven object, wailing for mercy Mr, .lari is listens, with a well I pleased smile on Ills face "I took the hundred pound*." Mr | Grey »ays, with sullen rninpoaur**. Mv wife thought of the pi,mi; I was a ' tool to her hands I stole the money. ; and that day after I hud raahed Mr. j Moinerli s check. I to#o*l all the j things a limit, and myself stuff* d the haudkrrehief a auked In chloroform ! Into mv mouth I swear I n.i telling the truth I swot* It was George lion vert* who had attacked me I did not iare who suffered for mv stu lint gentlemen," he riles, hts agoiiue.l ■ Isnee wan ask have hvtklel me ** Mt Jafvi* •mile* •{ Itir'n a • t»»r »at la w. I tv kt caigw H overt# will And a sweet compensation for all his troubles,” he says, as he promises her to hurry on all legal formalities. George Bouverie is innocent after all! Who can measure the mad anger in the mind of Sebastian Saville? In his rage and disappointment he says hard, hitter things, but Barbara does not cjre, Before long she meets her loverwgain, and. In the sunshine of her love, he forgets all the sorrow and shame and desperation that had been his lot. With rare delicacy, Barbara has willed that his mother shall be with him first: that they two shall go to some haven till the first trouble shall have passed away. Afterwards she will go to him herself. And so those two who have suffered and sorrowed meet together again, and Barbara once more looks Into the face that still bears the shadows of the trouble. *T am not fit for you!” the man groans. But her eyes are full of smiles. "There is a great estate tit Tasmania to be looked after, and it is waiting for its ‘manager,’ " she says. THE END. Croat Cavalry I.railer. While (’.rant was rutting and selling rordwood. and Sherman was teaching , school, there was a man In Memphis who was having no preparation what ever for war,and yet who was destined to make no end of trouble for these able soldiers. This was (Jen. N. D. t orrost, whose life by Dr. J. A. Wyeth has re cently been issued Forrest was an un dueated man and belonged to that proscribed class in the south known as "poor whites," Moreover,he was still further handicapped in any effort to stand on un equality with men of posi tion by having been a slave trader. But by native force and by a genius for action this unlettered man became the most successful cavalry leader In the south. He enlisted as a private, but before he really went into action had been made a lieutenant colonel. In this capacity be proved that he could move men through the country with a celer ity most remarkable. He knew noth ing whatever about the principles of war,and probably never read a book on the subject in his life. It is unlikely, Indeed, that he ever read many books of any kind. He was essentially a man of action, and for more than three and a half years he kept the federal com manders guessing as to where h* was and what he was going to do next. To ward the close of the war Forrest'i wonderful capacity was appreciated ir Richmond, and he was made a lieu tenant-general and put In command of all the cavalry west of the Mississippi. It was too late, however, for him tt» do much. Hood's army had been all but destroyed before Nashville, Sherman was marching through Georgia* and Gen. James H. Wilson was after For rest with the strongest cavalry com mand ever placed In the saddle. He defeated Forrest at Selma—the first time, by the way,Forrest had ever been completely beaten—and shortly after ward the war ended. Saturday Even ing Post. I.jiH'm! from the Front. At the war office the other day an elderly gentleman of somewhat chol eric disposition was making inquiries after a relative in South Africa. An noyed at the inability of the official to give him any tidings, he began to charge them with willfully keeping back intelligence. In the midst of his expostulations a telegVam was handed him, and he Immediately asked the official If It concerned South Af rica. The official replied in the affirm ative, but said it was not of public interest. Thereupon the old gentle man alternately raved and pleaded.till at last, to keep him quiet., the official consented, as a special favor, to show him the wire. It read as follows: “More nose-bags wanted at the front." —London Express. F»*w ifm« lii I riigimy. Few houses in Fruguay are provided with stoves for heating purposes. No chimneys or fireplaces are provided, a* a rule, one house recently built at a cost of $14,000 having for ils only chimney a stovepipe from the kitchen, ('.attic graze in the open all the year round, hut during the winter season, from April to October, the dampness is conducive (o the spread of pulmon ..z~j iroubles. Only one dealer in Mon tevideo sells heating stoves, and these are of American make. Oil stoves find some favor, as coal s**lls at from $10 to $14 per ton N| mil nil "Whiles <**«•.“ At a church recently there was a song service, and one mother took her little Ace-year-old daughter to it. ■ One of the selections was “I Love to Steal Awhile Away." It was drawled out lu the good, ohl fashioned way tu the end. and the little miss, after th> tltst line, seemed to he lust in study In the midst of the prayer that fol- ! lowed, she rliltih tt up on the seat be aide h.r mother, and in a stage whls pei asked Mamma, what are 'whih** aways' and what do good p*-opl* want to steal them In-?' la>*t* % twlior* I Itr *!»!«» <1 The Monk of Franc, has an lageni tuts arrangement hr which auspicious Visitors I all tie photographed without (hell knowledge lie fund the desk of the cashier U a hidden photograph - j studio, ant at a signal from any of ths , employes of the hank a phtura of the • i ■ ,*1*00*0 i net ant l * taken I h«- C4.il, I IS also M..«d ti l ilete ting |> 4n Is in ar-ssur« on a * he-k Whl h mat no* he vl.thla to Ike »>e using Vtdi ■** I hie In c likat gtspn THE GERMAN VOTE. GEN. DICK SAYS IT WILL BE CAST FOR M KINLEY. Democratic I mprriulUm Scare of No Kf« feet—Ten tonn Stand for Sound Money mid Don’t Fear l arge Incrriis In Our Milllary Force—A Question of I'ollc*. “Our friends, the Democrc'.s, arc try ing." uald General Charles Dick. Secre tary of the Republican National com mittee, "to make everybody believe that the German vote this year will go lo the Democratic party, but there is not tha slightest likelihood of this being the rase. “In 1896 the G*ruiaiis voted for President McKinley. They are strong believers in the advantages of a gold standard of currency. Thin the Repub lican party lira giv< u them. They know that should the Democrat candidate for president he elected, which, of course, would mean Democratic con trol of congress, then th» gold stand ard law would be repealed and free coinage of silver will be foisted upon (he country. The Germani do not want this. They are probably the most lev. 1-headed Kuropean people who come to live here. They know that they fare better here, can make and save more money than they did in the Fatherland, and they are not a people who are lead away by iligbta of the Imagination. "An effort Is being made to bring the Germans Into the Democratic line by scaring them with the bugaboo of Imperialism, which It is claimed would compel a large in< rease In our mili tary forces. Many of them have come here to escape tlm strict military laws (hut are in force In Germany, and naturally they would not favor any thing tending In the same direction in this country. I am glad this sub ject has developed thus early In the campaign, because the Germans will have time to read and study what the actual conditions are as to our military forces, comparing them with their Fatherland, “Germany has over 52,000,000 peo ple, |iu standing army is 600,000 men, on average of 11% soldiers to every 1.000 people. The United States ts 76,000,000, and a standing army of 65.000 men, which is equivalent to 1.86 of one soldier to every 1,000 of our population. While Germany has near ly eleven soldiers more per 1,000 of her people than we have, there cannot he the slightest chance of the effect of imperialism being experienced in this country. “The following tabic shows the lead ing countries of the world, with their population, their standing army, and the number of soldiers each country has per 1,000 of its people: fold lets per 1,000 po|)u Country. Population. Army. Union Prance . 39,500,000 560.000 11.05 Germany .. 52,300,000 ouo.ouo 11.05 Austria-Hungary 11,900,001 290. lUO 6.07 ItuFslim Umpire.. 129,300,061) 700,000 6.01 1*1 rkey . 33,600,000 240.000 7.01 Great Britain- 39.000,000 210,000 B.oS Italy .29.7ou.Oiii) °21U,t»iM» 7.01 United States_ 70,000,090 *65,000 .96 “I’eare fooling, ‘War fooling. "France has H soldiers to every 1,000 of its population; Germany more than 11; Austria-Hungary and Russia more than six each; Turkey and Italy each more titan seven; Great Britain more than BV#, while the United States has less than one soldier per 1,000 of its population There can surely he no chance of tlie miltary strength of the United Stales ever being increased to the proportion that exists in Euro pean countries. "As a city grows In size and extends its area, the first thing for which the citizens living (here ask is more police protection. Our country is like a large city, and the bigger it grows,the better it should be protected. But the United States lias been growing and growing year after year, and its,population has doubled since the civil war while our standing army has been kept nomi nally at 25.000 men year after year. Even our present increase above 25, 000 men Is but temporary, as the law authorizing it expires on July 1, 1901, just a year from now. "As a matter of fact, this country has not been affording sufficient pro tection to Its citizens In proportion to their increase. If our German friends will study the matter In this light, they will see that we are as far re moved from miUturyism and imperi alism as we were fifty years ago." A lirmt National Itsugerl The present distill bed condition of Europe, with reference to far eastern complication*, us well as those aris ing in Moroi co and elsew here ha* called attention to American tepend t nee upon foreign shipping for the carriage of their foreign commerce. If the nations of Europe should lie* come involved lii a great war. which many belle'e to he imminent, there would lie a wholesale withdrawal of foreign ships from the channels of t ,tde to provide t run# pot t for troop* and munition* of war, A* ntiii tenths of our foreign rum meffe is cart »d In foreign bottoms, It Is obvious ti lt the withdraw si of * luge iHirtmu of that shipping for oth er than tonimmiul uses would de prive our people of their only mean* fur suppiv n« out ••instantly growing foreign markets Freight tale* would rise to a pihliibifite amount in ra • pet t ! tzr and riimn last year in IStM they 1 cool tn t, % I llt«« It sasffM to bw "Bryan or bust wtib 1 tb» Ikaiu |mi|mi cilia delegations ibis spring They will andsrstan-l bow much a iotiss itas means eowettmec when *bey ss* on lbs bwltsiln boards n*vt Vtr.mW Bryan .«4 NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN. lion. II. II. Ilmrcr dilute< McKinley Will Brat Bryan. Washington.—"in n y opinion there is more than a fair change that tha electoral vote of Nebraska will lie rc corded tills year for the re-election of President McKinley, even if Mr, Bryan should be the opposing Democratic candidate,’’ said the Hon. David H. Mercer, member of congress from that state. “My reasons for this conclusion, at which I have only arrived after a care ful study of the conditions in Ne braska, am several. First of ail comes the general prosperity that has ex tended to all cl arses of the people dur ing the present administration. An other reason Is, that the people out there have seen for themselves that the free coinage of silver at the ratio of ltj to 1 was not necessary to brine a bruit prosperity! Anmher reason is because farmers have been selling their crops at much better prices un der llm gold standard than they did when Hie silver agitation was at Pa height. Another reason is that b«ttpr wages are being paid all over Ne braska, and it Is difficult to iind a man out of work. The advertising columns of tlie Nebraska papers are now tilled with people who want labor. Four or five, and six years ago there were col umns of advertisements from peop’o who wanted work. “Nebraska's big c in crop has sold lit excellent prices, and money has been rolling Into the banks ihero to the credit of the farmers. Bank de posits In our state last year amounted to almost $23,000,000, as compared with less than $14,000,000 In 1S94. Di vide this Increase of $9,000,000 among our population of one trillion and a quarter people, and they cannot but feel that money talks. “It is not so many years pgo since corn was used as a fuel in Nebraska, and only a few years slnr-o farmer were fcetliug even wheat to their hugs, But under the broad expansive policy of the present administration, the markets fur Atnerlean products are in creasing, ami the demand for our food stuffs Is becoming greater and greater throughout tlie world. “Only live years ago when Grover Cleveland was president, anil when free coinage of silver was being wide ly agitated, tlie value of all the live stock in Nebraska was $45,658,000. At the beginning of this year our live stock were worth, excluding hogs, as much as $102,000,000. Tills alone add ed $56,500,000 of wealth to farmers tn ilte state which 1 have the honor to represent. An increase like this of -considerably more than 100 per cent is remarkable. Mules are worth more Horses have increased 60 per cent iu value. The number of sheep In Ne braska Is not large, hut they a:.* worth Just three times as much money this year ns they were In 1895 when American wool had no protection. Thu wages of the laboring man have in creased in proportion and he always has u Job. “Now. let me give you the following comparison of prices at which farmers sold their products in 1896 and 190/. The figures are taken from one of the Democratic papers In our state, and they represent the difference la a farmer’s Income: FARM PRICES IN 1896. 1,000 bu. of wheat at 50 cts...$ 500.06 1,000 hit. of corn at 16 cts.... 160.00 1.000 bu. of oats at 13 c-ts. 130,00 3.000 lbs. hogs at $2.85 per cwt. 85.50 10.000 lbs. steers at $3 per cwt. 300.00 Total .$1,175.30 "For these same products the farm er received on April 27, 1900, as fol lows: 1,000 bu. of wheat at 50 cts_$ 500.00 1,000 bu. of corn at 30 cts_ 300 00 1.000 bu. of oats at 23 cts. 230.00 3.000 lbe hogs at 91.93 per cwt. 148 50 10.000 lbs steers at $5 per cwt. 500.00 Total .$1,678.30 "Here is a difference of $500 in a farmer's income from these small <|uantltiM of his products. And the figures are the actual prices that were paid In the two years. On the other hand what is there that the farmer is buying for which lie pays more money? Sugar and coffee are cheaper now than they used to be. There ha* been no advanc* in the price of cloth ing. or in farm materials, and theso are the principal articles that farmers have to buy. "The grain In the farmers income represents much to him and to our state. It enables him to pay off his mortgage, or at least pay off a part of it He can moreover borrow money now 9 a lower rate of Interest. Hu has been able also to Improve hU property, and to add very materially to the comforts of hU home, besides having money to spare for the better education of his children All these things are fait* which the Nebraska farmer ha* experienced, and It will take mi almighty lot of talking ant theoilxing to offset the benefits that have been derived under the results of practical experience," I'll*# iif Wifr Ndlli lh<* ftvtmg* pfh* uf win? nail* lu th<- l'nilcd Stale* last year was 12.$7 t per keg of luu pounds, ns compute,! with an average of $2 .'*0 tn 1st*** The ln> cease. therefore was only 7 cents a keg notwithstanding the tom h higher toe* of raw mulct u % Pare IciwUr Will the Itenos iuli dice S' the kl l iss v ity convention turn up the p dill ral pulley uombet Is 2 I Is the i|oei lion thst is agitating some of the Hot I IhUMM rath leaders if Mum’m l On the 111 tg IMPS Miles tJf I ll I Item's are* II is sai l, I,tin hut «t gntt i setti > regrit