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THE WATER MILL. Listen to thq water mill All the livelong day — How the clinking of the wheel Wears the hours away Languidly the autumn wind Stirs the greenwood sheaves, And a memory o’er my mind As a spell Is cast— The mill will never grind With the water that is past Take the lesson to yourself, Loving heart and true Golden yearn are fleeting by; Youth is passing too Strive to make the most of llfor Lose no happy day. Time will never bring you back Chances swept awav. Leave no tender word unsaid, Love while lovo sh ill last — The mill will never grind With the water thit is past Work while vet the daylight shines. Man of thought and will Never does the streamlet glide Useless by the mill. Walt not till to morrow’s sun. Hearns upon your way. AH that you can call your own Lies in this—to day. Power, intellect and health May not always last — 'The mill can not grind With the water that is past —Sarah Doudney Clarke. THE MERCHANT’S CRIME. Itv HORATIO AI.GEH, JR. CHAPTER 11—Continued. “It is better to be regular about It. As tho nurse Is away I will give it to you.” “Thank you.” “1 must go to tho window to see how much to pour out. How much do you usually take?” “A wine-glass two-thirds full.” Paul Morton took the bottle and a glass to tho window. As he stood there he was out of tho observation of tho patient. He poured out the quantity required of the cordiul into tho glass; but after doing so, he slyly added a small quantity of powder from a paper which he drew from his vest pocket He put the paper back, and re-appeared at the bedside hold ing the glass in his hand. •T think I have found tho right quantity," he said but his voice was constrained, and there was a pallor about his face. The sick man noticed nothing of this. He took the cup and drained it of its contents, as a matter of course. ••Thank you, Paul,” ho said. Paul Morton could not lind any thing to say in reply to the thanks which fell upon his soul like a mockery. He took the glass from the trembling hand of the sick man, and looked into it to see if in the depths there might be any tell-tale trace of the powder which he had dropped into it; but he could see nothing. “Well I must leave you for a time. Perhaps you can sleep,” he said. “Perhaps so; I will try,” was the answer. Paul Morton left the sick chamber, and shut himself up in his own room. He wanted to screen himself from the sight of all, for ho knew that he had taken the fatal step, and that already, in deed, as well as in heart, he was a murderer! CHAPTER !III. An Unexpected Discovery. The next day Ralph Raymond’s unfavorable symptoms had returned, and he was pronounced worse by the physician. Yet the change was not sufficiently marked to excite sus picion. it was supposed that, his constitution had not vitality enough to rally against tho steady ap proaches of the disease under which he was laboring. Paul Morton read from the old medical book which he had picked up in Nassau street, and which, as we know-, had given him the first suggestion of the horrible crime which he had determined upon, the following words: “1 he patient has been known to recover where but one dose of this poison has been administered, but should it have been given him on two successive days, there is little or no chance that he will survive. Yet, so slow is its operation, that after«the second time of administer ing. it is not impossible that he may survive several days. • Cases have been known where the period has ex tended to a week, but of the final fatal result there can be no ques tion.” •‘1 must go through it again,” muttered Paul Morton to himself. “It will not do to fail. While I am about it, I must make a sure thin" of it." lie accordingly sought the bed side of the sick man on the next day, about the same time as before. He had watched till he saw the nurse go down to prepare the patient’s dinner. “How arc you feeling, to day?” ho inquired, in apparent anxiety. ••Worse, my friend,” said the sick man, feebly. “But yesterday you said you were better, did you not?” ••Yes, I felt better then, but to-day I have a dull, throbbing pain here,” and ho pointed to his breast. “Did you not sleep weli?” “Yes, better than usual.” Paul Morton knew that this was the effect of tho poison, for it had been referred to in the book. “I wonder, then, you do not feel better,” ho said. “I supposed sleep always had a salutary effect.” “It has not had in my case. No, my friend, I feel convinced that I have not many days to live.” “I hope you are wrong. What can I do for you? Shall I not give you your cordial as 1 did yesterday?” “Yes. if you like.” Again Paul Morton poured ou lhe cordial, and again, as on the day previous, he filliped into the (/lass a minute portion of the powder The sick man drank it. “I don’t know what it is,” tte said, “but it docs not taste as it used to.” Paul Morton turned pale, but he rallied at once. “Your sickness, doubtless, affects your sense of taste,” he said. “It is very often the case in sickness, even of u lighter character than yours.” “Very likely you are right.” “Can I do anything more for you?” asked Paul Morton, who was now anxious to get away from the pres ence of his victim. .Strange thoughts came over him when he felt thut ho had taken a decisive step, which now could not be recalled. Ho had ad ministered the poisonous powder for the second time, and, according to the medicaPauthotity which wo have already quoted, there was no longer any help for the sick man, his vic tim. Ho plight live two, three or four days, possibly a week, though this was not probable in the case of one whose constitution was enfeebled by a lingering malady, but his doom was suro. But ho was as truly a murderer as if he had approached him with a loaded pistol, and dis charged it full at his temple. Twenty-four hours had made him such. “There is something I want to tell you, Piiul.” said the sick man, turn ing his head on the pillow by an effort, “something which will, per haps, surprise, you, and after that I shall have a favor to ask of you. Will you grant it?” “Yes.” said Paul Morton, “I will grant it. Speak on. ” His curiosity was not a little ex cited by what he had heard. Ho drew a chair to the bedside and sat down. “I am ready to hoar what you have to say, Ralph,” ho said. “You suppose, and the world sup poses, that I have never married,” the sick man commenced. Paul Morton started, and he awaited nervously what was to follow. “The world is right, is it not?” he said hastily. “No, the world is wrong. Six teen years ago 1 married a portion less girl. For reasons which it is unnecessary now to mention, my marriage was not made public but it was strictly legal. My young wife lived less tnan two years, but ere she died she gave me a son.” “Is he still living?” asked Paul Morton in a hoarse voice. “Yes, he still lives.” “Then,” thought Paul, with n, sense of bitter disappointment, “all my labor has been for naught. This boy will inherit Raymond's fortune, and his death will -be of no benefit to tne.” “Where is the boy now?" he asked. “He is at a boardiug-sehool on the Hudson. He was early educated abroad, but for two years ho has been at I)r. Tower’s boarding-school, about forty miles from New York.” “Docs he know anything of his parentage?” “Yes, I went to sec him beforo I came last to your house. Resides, I have thought it well to communi cate all the facts in the case to Dr. Tower as it was possible that I might die suddenly, and his' testimonv might be required to substantiate my son’s claims to my estate.” “What is your son’s name?” asked Paul Morton, rousing a little froffi tne stupor into which the informa tion had thrown him. “Robert Raymond. It was the name of my wife’s only brother, who had died young, and as I had no par ticular preference, I allowed her to name him.” “Is he in good health. “Yes; happily he has not inherited my constitution. Ho seems healthy and likely to live long. But J am sorry that he will be left so alone in the world, as he must be by my death. This brings me to the favor I was about to ask of you. In my will I have appomtcd you the guar dian of my boy, who is now between 14 and 15. I think it will not oc casion you much trouble. My prop erty, which I have put into solid se curities, will amount to $120,000. Of course, therefore, there will be no occasion for stinting him. I desire him to have the best advantages. As for you, my old friend, as a slight compensation for the trouble you will take, and as a proof of my af fection, I authorize you to appropri ate to your own use, during my soil’s minority, one-half of the income of the property, and pay his expenses out of the other half. What there may be over can be added to the principal.” “But suppose—though, if the bov is as healthy as you say, there is little fear of that—suppose Robert should die before attaining his majority ?” “Should that event happen, and , as you say, it is possible, 1 desire that the property should go without reserve to you. I have so provided I in my will.” A flush of gratification mantled the cheek of Paul Morton as he heard this statement. “All is not lost,” he thought “The boy may die, and then—” This is what he thought, but he said: “Ralph, you arc too kind and gen erous. It is my earnest hope that such a contingency may never occur. ” “I am sure of that. I have per fect confidence in you, and I know you will be kind to my boy. He may be here to-morrow morning. ” “Here to-morrow morning!” ejac ulated Paul Morton in surprise. “Yes. I requested the nurse to write to him yesterday afternoon, in my own name, to come at once. As I have but a short time to live. I wish to have him with me during the short remainder of my life—that is. if it will not be inconvenient to have him in the house.” “Certainly not. I shall be glad to have him come,” said Paul Morton absently. •T begin to feel drowsy. I will try i to sleep,” said the sick man. “Then I will leave you. I hope i you may awake refreshed." Paul Morton walked out of the ! sick room with his eyes bent upon | the floor. Ho wanted to think over this new and unexpected turn of af I fairs. CHAPTER IV. Ralph Raymond’s Heir. The next morning i’aul Morton was sitting at the breakfast table with his wife opposite him. Mrs. Morton was ton years younger than her husband. She had belonged to a proud but poor family, and had married from no impulse of affec tion, but because she considered i Mr. Morion a rich man who could ! give her a luxurious home. No j sympathy need bo wasted upon her, for she had very littlo heart and lived only for ostentation. There had been very littlo domestic har mony between the two. !sho had shown herself lavishly extravagant even boyond her husband’s means, and any tendency on his part to curb her extravagance was met by biting sarcasm, and an exhibition of ill temper which soon compelled him to surrender at discretion. Mr. Morton, of whose personal appearance I have not yet spoken, was in appearanco fifty-four years old, though he was really several years younger. Ho had lost nearly all his hair, retain ing only a few locks on either side of his head. There was a furtive look about his eyes calculated to in spire distrust He seemed reluctant to look one full in the face. “Well, Mr. Morton,” said his wife, leaning back in her chair, “have you brought me the money I asked for yesterday?” “No, said Mr. Morton uneasily, for ho knew that this reply would elicit a storm. “And why not, I should like to know?” she exclaimed, with Hash ing eyes. “Don’t pretend to say you forgot it, for 1 won’t believe any such nonsense.” “No, I didn’t forget it. Mrs. Mor ton,” said her husband, “but the fact is, it was not convenient for me to bring it.” “Not convenient! What do you mean by that. Mr. Morton?” ex claimed tho lady in an angry voice. “It is just as I say. Business is very dull and money is tight.” “That is what you always say,” said Mrs. Morton, curling her lip. “Whether I do or not, it is true enough now. I wish it wasn’t” “I only asked for a hundred dol lars. Surely that would make no difference in your business.” “That is where you are mistaken. If you will be kind enough to re member how often you call upon mo for such trifles, and have a head for arithmetic, you can estimate what they will amount to in the course of a year.” “So you refuse, do you?” exclaimed Mrs. Morton in deep anger. “I do; and for a very good reason.” “Give me your reason then. I should like to judge of it myself.” ••Then I will tell you without re serve what I had not intended to mention. In all ray mercantile ca reer I was never in such clanger of ruin as at present. The dull times at which you sneer have proved very disastrous to me. It is all I can do to keep my head above water. hvery day I fear that the crash will come, and that, instead of being able to afford you this establishment, I shall bo obliged to remove into some humble dwelling in Brooklyn, and seek for a position as clerk or book keeper. How would you fancy this change, madam? Yet it is at such a time you harass me with your un reasonable demands for money. It 1 am ruined, it will bo some satisfac tion that you, who have had so much to do with bringing it on, are com pelled to suffer its inconveniences with me.” Mrs. Morton turned pale while he was speaking, for she had never known anything of her husband’s business affairs, and supposed that such a thing as his failure was im possible. Mrs. Morton was for a brief time silent. She hardly knew how to an swer; at last she said, “There’s your sick friend up stairs. Isn’t he a rich man?” "Yes.” [TO BE CONTINUED.] A Victim of Circumstances. “I am jista unfortunate victim of i circumstances,” explained the bul j let-beaded gentleman to the city | missionary who wanted to know how it happened that he was in pri son. “Victim of circumstances?” “Dat’s what. De night I went fur to do dis job dat I got pinched fer, ! de policeman had a toothache, an’ j couldn’t sleep.”—N. Y. Mercury. Not Very Encouraging. Johnnie Masher—I dreamt last night that I proposed to you. Esmcrelda Longcoflin—There is | evidently a bond of sympathy be I tween us. I, too, dreamed last night that you proposed, and that I re jected you and then my big brother j kicked you down the front door steps, and the dog bit a chunk out of you —Texas Siftings. Deals Exclusively in Celery. There is one business man in i\ew York who deals in nothing whatever but celery. He is probably the only man dealing exclusively in celery in the United States, perhaps in the world. He has been in the business eight years, and has built up a large trade. One Way of Increasing Compensation Tom, the bookkeeper—Why do you work so hard? The firm doesn’t give you any greater pay ior it George, the clerk—I know that, but when I’m working I forget how small my salary is.—Chicago Record. The British Cabinet* Every member of the British cab inet acts in three capacities—as ad ministrator of a department of state, as member of a legislative chamber ! and as a confidential adviser to the I crown. hfcPI iil.lt aa DOCTRINE. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM PROCLAMA TION’. To the People of Nebraska and Georgia. The voters in the state of Nebraska, who according to the returns of the census of ls'jo are Sul,500, greet the voteis of the state of Georgia, who are 198,122. Here the voters of two great commonwealths of this republic of ours have entered into a co-partnership for the purpose of carrying on civil service reform under entirely reciprocal rela tions, being1 purely democratic in its ad ministration. The head of the interior department, Hon. Hoke Smith, is charged among other things with administering the fol lowing section of the civil service act, namely: ■ icuupter 28, statutes at large, voL 22, p. 403.) » inira, tome public service aiore saici in tue departments at Washington shall be apportioned among the several states and territories and the District of C'olninbia upon the basis of popula tion us ascertained at the last preced ing census.” The basis of population is a definite basis for Secretary Smith as a sworn officer in making his appointments. In his report to the senate, May 31, the secretary says that between March 4, 1893 and April 19, 1894, he made 107 appointments from the states. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM PROCLAMATION, NO. 2, of Nebraska and Georgia. That the combined salaries of ali amount to $f0, 070. (See Sen. Ex. Doc.. No. 103, 2nd Ses. 53rd congress, pages 1 to 13 inclu sive. ) To Nebraska, 1, Thomas II. Gillan, a census clerk, at $720 per annum. To Georgia, 100 clerks, (not includ ing myself at $8,000.00) with salaries amounting to$79,950. Here the voters of Nebraska have an object lesson in civil service reform. Georgia in 1892 cast .129,000 demo cratic votes for the Cleveland electors. If we divide the amount of salaries paid which, including the secretary's salary, is $87,930, by the democratic vote cast, we find there is returned to each voter in the state of Georgia by way of com pensation through this reform move mont, $. annually. While in Ne braska the $720 being the annual sal ary paid to one clerk appointed, when divided, as an annual compensation to the 24,948 voters, amounts to $.02 and a fraction for each democratic vote. In other words, democratic civil ser vice reform as administered by Hoke Smith paid $.00 dividends annually to the democratic voter in Georgia, while the same dividend to the democratic voterin Nebraska is reduced to the min imum of $. 02. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM PROCLAMATION, NO. 3. If it were not for the possibility of involving the civil service bureau in wliat might appear to be the disrepu table business of meddling with pro gressive politics, we would suggest that they incorporate in their next annual report a short chapter explaining to the people of Nebraska the glorious benefits of democratic control and civil service reform as enunciated by Grover Cleveland and Hoke Smith. Markets of the World. The British market is as free to Amer ica today as to all the rest of the world. It is open to the wheat-producers of the United States just as it is open to the wheat-producers of Canada, Russia, India, and all other wheat-producing countries. The English consumer will make the best bargain he can, regardless of the country from which he purchases. Englishmen usually but", not out of gratitude or kindness for those with whom they deal, but where they can secure the best bargains, but it some times happens that they prefer other countries than the United States as their customers, for truly the United States has caused them more anxiety in holding their place in the markets outside of Europe than all other coun tries combined. No free trader who has happened in public during the present tariff contro versy has yet pointed out a single av enue by which the'United States might expect to find the markets of the world more open or freer than they are today to the product of the North American continent. iwery country, Great Britian includ ed, has some form of tarriff or custom house laws, none of which appear at present to be burdensome to them, at least no talk of repeal seems to be ap parent in the legislative departments of other countries. Canada has strength ened her protective system rather than the lowering of her duties. The United States has one great lesson to learn, when clamoring for the open markets of the world, namely the same rule that gives to the United States an open market, also opens the markets of the United States to the world. While other countries are protected, how fool ish it appears to us that we should be clamoring for free trade. Our markets at home afford us the greatest security. 93 percent of all products from the ground are consumed by our own people. The 7 per cent of surplus which we offer to other coun tries must come in competition with a like surplus from other governments. Here the cheaper goods must sell. American wheat produced by the high er wage and higher level of American agriculture, offers its surplus of 7 per cent of its whole product in competi tion with India's product, produced by serf labor and cheaper system of agri culture. The reader is cautioned against the fallacy which some m^n teach, that be cause of this one-seventh being our sur plus going into the rilarkets of the world in competition with the cheapest products of the world, does not prove that all our products are forced into a like competition. The best proof of this fact is that our protective system prevents the countries of the world from landing upon our shores this same cheap product with which our surplus competes from coming into active com petition by reason of a high protective duty, secured in the McKinley law. A single instance is sufficient to show the operation of this principle. The returns for the custom house at Detroit. Mich, show that for the year ending June 30, 1889, when there- was no tariff on barley. 410,035 bushels, valued at 1250,000, passed the oustom house at that point. The McKinley bill, which gave a protection of 30 cents per bushel, went into operation in 1891. | The returns for the year ecning June « 30, 1893, under the operation of this MeKiuley law show that only 711 bush els of barley, valued at $295, were en tered during the year. Here is an apt illustration of the competition afforded in the markets of the world. Open markets which are not found save in rare instances, bring the whole product of one country into eotnpeti tion with the surplus product of other countries. The protective tariff laws are intended to prevent this surplus from competing with the amount re quired for home consumption. Our farmers, therefore, can understand what a wonderful advantage there is to them in the operation of the McKinley law which first gave to the product of the farm a reasonable duty, as it cut off many millions of the foreign com petitive surplus, allowing a higher and better rate to the home product in home competition. Facing Their Folly. Kansas City Journal. The tariff concessionistsof the senate are now face to face with the vote for the confirmation of their scandalous acts. In their whisky-and-sugar intoxi cation the managers of the patchwork believe that it will be sent to the house without further change. The demands of the trusts have been satisfied, the price lias been paid aad the only thing remaining to be done is a mere formal ity. Free wool, free lumber and the income tax have been retained in the bill to tickle the risibilities of the free traders. Collars and cuffs have been protected to silence the threats of one of the New York senators. Sugar is taxed to pay the debt due the powerful ! trust. \\ hisky has been doctored for future uses, and the one remaining pro cedure necessary to complete the deals is to have the concessionists in open senate certify to their own acts in com mittee of the whole. They know the bill is neither fish, ! flesh nor fowl. They know that in no way does it answer the demands of j their party nor fulfill their own pledges : made to the people. They know that the concessions they have made will be of no benefit to the country, and they have never presumed to alleged that tney were made for any such purpose. They know that, with the single exception of the collars and cuff gift, northern interests have been assailed and the demands of those of ; the south have been received with favor. The great agricultural interests ! of the north and west have received no recognition, while the peaDut crop, the 1 rice crop and the sugar crop of the south have been treated with the utmost concern. The bill will never again seethe sen ate in its present form, and the sena tors know it; but they are self-con tained in the consciousness that they have individually and collectively, paid embarrassing obligations, and the j future must take care of itself. On the j principle that it is not well to “cross a l bridge till you come to it,” they will | trust to luck for a way out of the | depths of their folly. Cleveland and the Democratic Press. The New York Sun, a reliable and | strictly democratic paper, has published the most scathing criticism on Mr. I Cleveland's public utterances that have ever occured in the columns of any par ty paper against a chief magistrate holding to the same political faith. The following quotation is from the I Sun of June 13, lb94. We attempted the other day to trace in 1 the published speeches and writings of Grover Cleveland the origin of much of : that bitter hostility of labor to capital, ; of the employed to the employer, which : is one of the most unfortunate condi ; tions of the times. The efforts of Mr. Cleveland to emphasize class distinc , tions to array the less prosperous citi zens against their more successful fel ! low citizens, to excite and increase the ; discontent which arises from a persis tent contemplation of the idea that the 1 superior fortune of another is essential ly an injustice and a wrong to the less fortunate, have been too ostentatious and too frequently repeated to leave any doubt as to his purpose. Such pro vocations to discontent have been at all , times and in all parts of the world the ! chief weapons of socialistic agitator, and the fruit thereof is riot, brigand ! age, murder, arson, and anarchy. For nearly thirty days past the coun try has witnessed an impressive illus tration of the practical results of Mr. . Cleveland's socialistic teachings. It is ‘ no more than fair to present the calen , dar of disorder in connection with the precepts which a president of the Cniied States has addressed to the mis guided, the turbulent, and the desper ate among the sons of toil: May I-. 1S94.—Miners imprisoned in tlieir homes at Fniontown, Pa., by strikers; one I shot bred. A mob of Colanders assaulted and nearly killed a mine boss and foreman at Mill > reek, Pa. The mob was armed with guns, pistols and clubs. Just eight years before these out breaks, Mr. Cleveland, in a special message to congress, had informed the miners of Cniontown and of Mill Creek that "the discontent of the employed is due, in a large degree, to the grasping and heedless exactions of employers." The Balance Sheet. Xew York Sun (Dem.): If the tariff bill were to become a law as it stands today, the net effect upon the fortunes of' the individual American citizen would be this: Iso appreciable reduction in the cost of living: no material diminution in the market price of the commodities upon [ which the consumer now pays his indi rect tax for the support of the govern- i ment; but, on the other hand.auewand hateful tax directly imposed upon every citizen with an income of over 84,000, and upon every citizen, rich or poor, whose thrift has saved and whose pru dence has invested his savings in any of the ordinary ways. An unreformed tariff and an unnec essary income tax! Iso gain on one side and on the other, a new. direct, exas perating burden that will make every man who pays it the enemy of the party responsible for its imposition. That is the whole story up to date, as it affects the American taxpayer. Political Notes. Democrats persist in referring to the populist representatives in the senate as comprising only Senators Allen. Kyle and Fetter. What has become of Senator Stewart? Stewart has time and again proclaimed his fealty to the populist party and his antagonism to his former associates on the republican side, but the democrats prefer to ignore his own statement of his position. 1 Ave Stewart the credit of belonging to the populist party, in which he glories so greatly. Power of Sympathy^ It is acknowledged that most women possess the quality of sympathy to a re markable extent. Mrs. Browning pos sessed this gift; it vibrated on the chord of poetic expression in her. Jane Aus tin and Charlotte Bronte led retired lives, but they had the power perpetual ly to pass out of their circumscribed in dividuality to that of others, and the genius to retain and turn to account the fleeting impressions of their passing contact with individuals. The darlings and the ornaments of society ore the women who can throw themselves best into the interest of the moment; if to this sensitive nature belongs a native sincerity, confidence is attracted, friend ships are made and retained. Mme. Recamire is, perhaps, the best type of this gift of social sympathy allied to a. certain reality of nature. She attracted the best and; most gifted of her time. When age had, marred her beautv, pov erty succeeded wealth, and partiaf blind ness rendered her infirm, her salon in the Abbaye aux Bois was still the resort of eminent men and women of the pe riod. She was not a wit, she was always Bomewhat shy; but she had the wish to. win love rather than admiration, and. possessed the tact of drawing out the best gifts in others. She had the genius of friendship, her steadfastness could, not be shaken. Sympathy gives an an gelic grace to virtue. Irregular honesty is harder to handle than regular dishonesty. Love is a < roature of circumstances. 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