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rnrftwi s- zi tz rr3c r-rr-r- inasassc Hi 1 ji it 1 i -- u t ' '1! 1 1 1 I aacT i 1 ratwssst " w-er r - BY CHARLES J. BELLAMY. Copyrighted by the nthor, and published by arrangement -witn nun. (CWsitiW from U-t ireti.i CHAPTER XVI. WHAT WILL THEV BRING Days passed till they made weeks, and weeks till they made months, and no change came for the mills or for the lives of the creatures who worked within their grim walls, except the change f ro.n poor to more poor. His acquaintances saw new expressions on bis face the open, boyish look had gone, and hi voice had new tones of decision; his step bad grown firmer and his eyes met a glance with a new steadiness. One morning the three men who had been once on the flre escape committee met in the doorway of No. 2 mill, restored after the fire. They had left their work for a breath of fresh air. "Hois closer than bis father; he scrimps and saves like a poor cuss trying to support a family on $5 the week. What show is there for usP "Yell mind it's all jist as I told ye, Bill Rogers," suggested Graves, the comfort of 'I told you so' being left to him out of the general wreck. "Jist as I told ye that night more'n a six month ago in front of old Breton's. As soon at- the lud feels his oats that's the Inst of his kind heart." "The boy's had hard luck since then," said . Rogers, bundling his pipe out of old force of habit. "Fr'ai he's punishiu' us for it. It seems so strange somehow his changin' all so sudden." " Taint that," said Graves, as ho turned to go back to work, and then lingering a mo ment longer; "It is the natur of a ninn and crops out as sure ns he gets his swing. There ain't a one of us but would make a moaner rich man than him. It conies easy to be a labor reformer and radical as long as a fellow is poor, and it's just as easy for a man to talk beautiful if ho ain't looked to to do nothing. But it makes a man drunk when ho feels the reins in his bandi, and him nothin' but a'mau of the same btuff as the rest on us. Look at Cumin now; how much better'n the rest is be? Ho deserted us at the most critical mo ment. Somethiu' made him throw us up as if we liad all of a sudden sickened on his stomach. "We're ioor stuff, all on us, boys. I never seen a liner feller than that Cumin but he's lorgot all alxmt the wrong aim rights he used to holler so purty about. There's no clianco for us in any man's mercy; we must depend on ourselves." At this very moment Philip Breton was pressing the little brass bell on his counting room table. For an answer his paymaster came in with his pen, wet from the ink, in his hand. "Do we pay our help enough?'' A thousand eager voices would have shout ed a no to him that would have shaken the foundations of stone, but Mr. Jennings, the paymaster, put his pen behind his ear, took it down, looked keenly at it, then in surprise at the young mill owner. "We can get 1,000 as good for tho same, if that is what 3-011 mean."' Ah, what chance have the poor mills people, when the young master chooses such advisers as this.' "No," said Philip, slowly. "It isnt ex actly what I mean; can we raise tho wagesP "Can j-ou; -w hy yes, I suppose you can step right into the mills and give a 100 bill to every hand. But you couldn't afford to do that thing long, and I don't think it would do anybody an- good. I wouldn't assume to advise yon, sir, but whj- not just as well go up street and insist on paying a fancy price for your flourf "Butilou't they lind it hard to live on what we give them? And what a life it is at that," suggested Philip, sadly. Apparently he bad not quito forgotten them. "No doubt, no doubt r repeated the pay master with the querulousuess ofj his class, "but is there any sense in putting in your or my fiat? You can't make a ninety cent laborer worth a dollar and a quarter by giv ing it to him. You insult him and damage business by making it all uncertain with the gratuitous element." "I see you don't believe in benevolence, my dear Jennings," and Philip smiled curiously. "Yes, I do, for sick people and paupers, but If you don't want to make paupers of every body you mustn't" "But I am not a pauper, and I never earned a pennj- in my life till a few months ago." Philip's eyes flashed at a sudden revelation. "But, ah but that is different. Drop that then. To make our clot h there are a number of expenses: there is the mill and the ma chinery, the money locked up in fabrics and material. These are fixed; you don't think it your ""duty to pay extra prices for raw ma terial, nor make a gratuity with every dollar you spend on machinery, no matter how poor the man that sells to you. Now comes an other element, labor. That should l as fixed as the rest and all calculations based on its market price. When you go to market with your cloth you don't ask any gratuity, nor does the buyer claim any; the price is fixed better than the caprice of a moment could fix it. The element of labor enters into the cost. The difference between the cost and price is your profit. If labor stands you in its mar ket price your profit will reward your efforts, and it will pay you to keep up your mill. If you paid higher wages your profits would be small; you would give up your enterprise and all would suffer." "I didn't know j-ou could be so eager. But supposing they tell me my profit is too large, that my labor pays me so well I ought to make it up to them." The young proprietor was looking musingly out of the window where the autumn wind was chasing the russet leaves in savage glee. Mr. Jennings, the paymaster, had reached tho door, but waited a moment to clinch his argument. "Then if you lot money your help ought to contribute. But it might not be at all their fault that you lost, any more than it is to their credit you succeed. Their labor in quantity and quality would be just the same What reason in c'aanging its valuation? No, I am sure there is but one way, to measure the value of your labor as you do everything else, by what it will bring." "Not quite everything," said Philip; but h said it so low the argumentative Jennings did not hear it. All he heard was just as he was closing his door: "Please send in the overseer of No. 1 weave room." It was but a few moments, during which Philip did not move from his seat, before the overseer came in, stroking bis apron defer entially. "Mr. Bright, the men and girls complain; they say they ought to be paid by the day instead of by the piece." "Which ones complain? Tho lazy ones, I guess. Why surely, Mr. Breton, it wouldn't be right to pay the best weaver and the poor est the same." "Why not.'" asked Philip, with unchanged features watching the look of astonishment that shone on the man's round fat face. "Why not, if we paid them all the highest price?" "Well sir, it wouldn't be a month before bad and good would all be worth about the same, and that as little as the poorest of them. It would be a poor way to encourage them to be smart.'' "Does Graves work in your room?" "Yes, but he is just going out for this momin his" "Send him in if you can find him." Philip rose to his feet now, and was walking tho room impatiently when John Graves slouched in. He turned on him as if he was going to do violence to his visitor, but it was only a question he hurled at him. "What do you think ought to be changed in the mill? Speak up now, and let me know your mind." "I think we work too hard for our pay. then," drawled the laborer, but his mind was in an unusually excited condition. "That is because the public want such goods as ours so cheap." "There's other things to cut on besides labor forever and even Oh, no, ye cant bvy poor cotton, it would show in the cloth; ye cant wra on machinery, it would spoil yer sales; bat if we carders and weavers and spinners be cat, it dont leave a mark on the cloth. Bat it leaves deen gashes in our hearts and joys, yon b sure." Graves looked at the yonocaMK to see if be mjebt go OB. but to could not read his master's face. Me hesi tated a moment and then he continued. "There aintapoor bent girl in the mill but might live a b'fe so happy it would make a strong man cry to think of it We are of more account than your machinery. No beltin' or patent self acting springs could do our work; it takes immortal souls, and intel lects in the image of God to do it. It's the same sort of work you do, and compare what tho two of us gets. Wc aint fairly paid till we gets, the weakest of us, a taste of the sweet things in this world we have longed for so long. I don't care what yer wise book men says." Was the young proprietor ungry, he stood so grave and still f What a change I Time was when pity would have shoue on ever line of his face. But he might have been a statue for all appearance of melting in him now. "I pay you the market price, as much as tho other mill owners." Well, God have mercy on his poor children, if Philip Breton could make that excuse! The man sat down without an invitation, and leaned his brawny elbows on the table. "Now see here, you told me to speak my mind,and Iamagoin' to. We are poor; we ain't got nothin'; we can't by back and wait for our price. We want somethin' to eat today; we come to you for work; we must have work, if it only earns us a loaf of bread. Is it right, then, to value us at what we can bo got for? If we could haggle with ye, and hang off the way a little ready cash lets a man do, there might be some sense in it. But you never let us get enough ahead for that. It's work or go hungry with us. The poorer we gets, the tighter ye can squeeze us, and I sometimes wonder why ye gives us as much as ye da I s'pose a man might live on a little less. And it's all business, as ye say." Philip had seated himself, but he said nothing. Ho had given tho man the priv ilege of his tongue, and he did not seem dis posed to stop him. "Is tho right price of a thing what a man '11 give for it? If they had the money, men would give $1,000,000 for a breath of air, when they're stifled. Would it be right to punip oft the air, and then let it on at $1,000, 000 a breathing' If you was drowning, you'd give $1,000,000 to bo saved if it was only to hold out a pole to yer. Is that a fair price for holdin' out a nle.' We're starvin' unless we can get a bile to eat. Is it any more right to bargain n ith 11s for a life of hard work, for just enough to live on! A man wants somethin' more than food. He wants to send his children to school, to get a loafln' hour now and then, to make himself some thin' besides a brute. He wants he wants some such things and chances as you liave. Why, squire, we're all men trgcther." The man's eyes looked across at Philip with a vague wilfulness, as if he were thinking of the beautiful possibilities of a life so far all drudgery and want. "But what is there to do?" exclaimed Philip in an impatient tone that put to flight all the workman's fKlish fancies. The young man's heart seemed changed to flint. "You don't want to be objects of charity, do your" John Graves straightened his arms along the table; then he stood up. "Charity! Well, no, not such charity as picks a creature up today as soft as a baby, and drops him to-morrow like a dog. But if payin' yer help enough of yer gain so they can know what life is if that is charity, as you call it, give it to us. Ye needn't be so precious fraid of hurtin' tho laboring classes, as they call 'em, by treatiu' 'em too well. They're sinkin' every day lower and lower, and lots of fellows in specs keep a warnin' j-ou not to spoil 'em, not to hurt their pride, or break their spirit by givin' 'em something. As if kindness ever hurt any human soul. Not that I would call it charity; thoy earns every mite yo'H ever give 'em.' "But if the mills or employers don't make such gains as you seem to take for grant ed" "If there ain't mone' made, why, nobody I van find no fault not to get big paj All I mean is when money is made, and that's pretty often, we ought to have some share in it" "Don't go, John, I want to ask you" "I must; I asked out for today," and the door closed after tho man. For quite a while after his last visitor had gone, Philip sat with his eyes fixed on the door knob in in tense abstraction. Was he angry at the audacity of the common laborer? When he pushed back bis chair and rose to his feet, running his hands through his hair, he made one exclamation: "How blind.' But whom he meant, whether his class or the laborers, did not appear from his tone or from tho bitter smile on his lips. John Graves would hare told in a moment that the young proprietor meant no good to his help. The man had had a glimmer of hope that Philip Breton might only be waiting for an opportunity, but this interview had dispelled it from his mind. It was some little time afterwards that Philip left his counting room and made his way up the street He was dressed in som berest black, and his silk hat was subdued with a wide band of crape. But his dress was no more melancholy than his face. When under pressure of business, one would not have noticed it so especially, but the in stant he was thrown back upon himself, his face became as sad and hopeless as the face of tho most wretched laborer in his milL He was tasting tho most bitter dregs in life, he thought. What soul could bo more crushed than his? Tho timo was when it would have been impossible for him to see a human crea ture suffer without a thrill of sympathy. It would have seemed a cruel and unnatural stroke of fortune, which it was for him to prevent or cure. But he bad learned better, be thought Suffering was common to all; there was no good of trying to patch up this life or that; the terrible disease was forever at work. Conditions made but little differ ence: rich and poor, high and low, agonized together over some form of broken hope, some unsatisfied hunger. The chapel door stood open, and he stopped and looked in. It was here Bertha and he were to have been married. And it would have been before this but now. He saw the place vthcre they would have stood together. The church was empty and bo walked softly in, as if afraid of disturbing the ghosts of bis dead hopes, who haunted yet, perhaps, the sacred spot they glorified in all the dreams of his early manhood. He walked wearily up the echoing aisle and throw himself into a seat He bowed bis head upon the back of the pew in front of him. Had he no shame to come to the rescue of his broken heart! would ho grieve forever over a woman that bad become another man's wife? She had called on the laws of the laud for her protec tion; he had no right to even think of her now. Sho was shut away from him forever. It had become a siu for him now to long for Lor. though sho bad been so nearly his own wife. There was no place in the world for unmated lovers like him. If she had not married that man! How strange that be bad heard nothing of that marriage; her note had not mentioned it, and no one had spoken of it since. Why, his belief in her purity was so absolute he had not even thought to question her marriage, and now it was like a guilt? tbing. that he permitted himself to entertain for a moment terrible fears. What vengeance would be stern and relentless enough for him who had wrecked the noblest womanhood in the world, who had sullied a purity like an angel's, and insulted a sacred dignity like Bertha's? Oh, it could not be: no man on earth could have been so bold, so impious. How wild his imagination had become. "Oh, I didnt know but it was young Breton and that Bertha Ellingsworth that was going to be married." Two graceless women had come in and seated themselves in a neighboring pew. Philip had been thinking so intensely until now that an earthquake would hardly have disturbed him. "That'll never be," giggled the other; "you don't say you didn't know she eloped with that Curran fellow, though it's been kept pretty still r "Do tell!" Philip shuddered. Why were creatures like these permitted to touch names like Bertha's? "Married another chap, eh? Well, young Breton never was much for looks, anyhow." "Married!" Philip started at her tone. "Who said she was married? The shoe's on the other foot She aint married at all Handsome fellow like him has a wife in every town, such as they be. That proud ynin-r is only one on 'em." How they rolled the shameful story, like a sweet morsel under their tongues, a if it relieved the blackness of their contemptible souls, that one woman more had singed her angel wings in the piti less flame of disgrace. Philip had struggled to his feet The women blushed like fire and tried to look un conscious, but he did not even glance at them as he moved down the aisle. He could not see very well Was the chapel fall as it eemed? and was that an usher in white kide who was coming toward !" sad saying: "ft ctmisatetre; tfcs bridal cWpk are just coming in." Bolt upright he sat where be bad been guided, and saw as in a dream a white phan tom of a woman it seemed and a black shadow of a man go by. "Married 1 who said she was married? Ah! it was horrible! Perhaps they two, those women fiends, were all that knew the shameful secret Would it do any good to pray them for the mercy of God to keep it? Would money hire a woman to keep a disgrace that had fallen on a fair sister's name?" "Aren't you going to salute the bride?" smiled an acquaintance. "This is the mar riage of Labor and Capital at last" He had perpetrated his witticism a dozen times at least, and this was the first bearer who had not laughed. Jane Graves and Silas Ellings worth, Bertha's father were they mad, or washer "I am ill," he muttered incoherently, as he pushed his way almost roughly out CHAPTER XVIL THE OTCW STOCK COMPACT. The terrible seeds of suspicion sown in Philip Breton's mind bore the bitterest fruits through the dreary winter months. No efforts of his will, nor course of reasoning could com fort him. For a moment he might find re lief, but his torment would only return afresh. Humanity are slow to believe good of fellow creature?, but nothing seemed too bad to be true. He thought It might have calmed him to have been assured even of the worst He believed that he might despise the woman he had elevated to the highest pinnacle of his ideal temple of womanhood, if she had made so little of the most sacred gift of God. But it would have been vio lence to his feelings to inquire of those who must know. Her father must know, but his smiling face will reveal nothing, and his ve.y reserve was peopled with horrors for Philip. His wife Jane must know, too, but be could not bear to think of the malicious pleasure she would take In detailing the shameful story to him. She would sate her hate iu his misery. But what if it were not a shameful story ? Still he could not form his lips to ask. The humiliation of such a ques tion from liira, a discarded lover, about her at whoiu feet he had been proud to sit, shocked him into silence. He even dreaded lest they might speak to him of her, although it had been months since he had heard Ber tha's name once breathed. One evening at tho very close of the winter, Philip Breton called a meeting of his help, and the old market hall was packed from door to platform. Reporters were planted by their tables, to catch every word of the mysterious proceedings. Representatives from all the factories in the country elbowed tho crowd for their three feet of standing room, eager to learn some new device for making money out of their help as good as the other. But the great audience was strangely silent. It knew not what to ex pect. Perhaps the economical mill owner was going to announce a new reduction in their wages; everybody said he was reducing e-erywhere. The feeling in their hearts was more of fear than hope, and it was a look of piteous terror, almost, that they cast at the slight form in black, that came forward on the platform. They reminded Philip of a flock of frightened sheep that had never had a shepherd. Then he thought of a great army massed before the smoking cannon mouth, an army that had never had a gen eral. He saw they feared him. "I have been for a long time trying to think of some way to make your lives more fair for you, and yet be fair to myself and my class. I have been cutting on expenses to make the whole business machinery as economical as I knew. Now, at last I am ready to take you into my confidence and make you a proposal." There was a stir in the great audience, as if every man changed his position at the same moment, so as to be sure not to lose one precious word of the new gospel. "I cannot feel that I ought to give you anything. And I cannot see that it would be reasonable to pay more wages than others pay; that is, than you have now." A hush had fallen upon the people like deatlL There was no hope for them, then. Still the speaker went on. "But if your labor is profitable to me, so that I cau pay you your price, and pay my other expenses, and pay me for the time I give to the business wbat'such service as I do is paid elsewhere, and then have something besides" The reporters dropped their pens in aston meut; was the man mad? "I am disposed to think that you have earned a share in it" He paused to catch his breath, and one could have heard a pin fall in that crowded room. "My capital should be allowed for, too. In a word, I pro pose to divide the profits of my mill, after all expenses are paid, into two equal parts hereafter, one for labor, yours and mine, and one for the interest on my money. The part which belongs to labor will be distributed according to the worth of each one's year's work. The one that earns the largest year's pay will have the largest per cent of that dividend. We shall all be stockholders together, each with a share large or small ac cording to the value of his work." The building trembled with the roar of ap plause that went up, and it was several ino ments before Philip could make himself heard again. He had thought there was nothing left in his life, with lore gone out of it, but as he stood that moment with the glad shouts of the poor ringing in bis ears, and felt he had led them out of bondage, bis heart thrilled with a proud joy that was almost ectasy. His wealth bad brought him a hap piness that made eren a life like his worth living, had conferred on him a glorious uense of the dignity of manhood which lifted him as on wings. They must listen while be explained the terms of his plan more fully. He motioned to a dozen boys and took a printed sheet of paper from the pile of similar sheets which be ordered distributed among the workmen. He then read aloud the following from the pnper in his band: The first divided will be distributed Aug. 1 for the vear ending July 1. The surplus is SJOO.OOO"; 1100,000 is set apart as the allow ance for capital invested, which leaves flUO, C"J0, to be distributed to the labor in propor tion to the wages or salary earned by each. The whole amount of wages and salaries earned in the mills was about $360,000. There fore the rate per cent of dividend is about 37 7-10 to be calculated on the wages or salary cf each man, woman and child as shown by the paymaster's book for the past year. For example, the man whom the pay roll shows to have earned $300 for his year's work, will receive 27 7-10 per cent on $300 in ad dition, or about SS3.10 as his dividend. The paymaster, who received a salary of $3,000, will receive about $514, and as manager worth a salary of $5,000, ) shall receive more than twice the dividend cf the paymaster.. Certain restrictions will be imposed. First, only one-half of the an nual dividend will be in cash, for it would hurt the interests of the mill 1o withdraw so much from the busi ness. The other half will be in stock, which will draw dividends as the rest of the capital. Second, stock cannot be transferred except to operatives, but will be redeemed at the counting room, after notice, when holders leave the mills, as stock will yield dividends only while holders work in the mills. Holders of stock may hold meetings and choose a committee to examine the books of the company.bef ore the annual distribution of dividends. When Philip Breton sat down a noisy hum of voices followed as the people read and commented upon the prospectus. The figures looked anything but dull to them. The bright possibilities that came up before their imag inations as they read were such as no gentle cadence of poetry could hare given them. Apparently they would never hare tired of reading the wonderful words of hope and good cheer over and over, except that the outer door swung open and tall man's form entered. Philip Breton from the platform saw it and the pride sickened on his heart The crowd about the door psssed the whisper around, and it was hardly one short minute when the building shook again with cheers as they shouted the name of Curran. Yes, it was he who pushed his way well into the room, and then stopped and took one of the printed sheets, as if be were un conscious of their cheering, and read till his face, that had looked so stern and terrible, softened like a child. Then be mounted a settee for his platform and uncovered his bead with a new grace that became him aa well his strength. The old bitterness bad gone from his lips; it had girea place to a touching sadness that sobered erery face that was turned toward him. "He means to deal well by yon; he wants to make yon shareholders in your work." Philip had risen excitedly to his feet The sight of the man who bad been with Bertha, who came perhaps bat this iaetaat from the at bat wren so terribly. wafts first almost maddening to him. Ah, bow grand and beautiful he was, with his deep mighty chest and shoulders, and his limbs like pillars of some temple. There were no laws for such men as he; the holiest and purest of women lore to make themselves base and common things to win smiles from his proud eyes, and men forget their venge ance, and only remember how small and mean they seem before him. But who could look at his melancholy face and the calm dignity that rested upon him always, and be lieve he could be vile? Yet perhaps nothing was vile or low to him, and even sin was glorified in his eyes when it suited his caprice to sin. Philip had come to the very edge of the platform and beckoned a friend to him. "Do you see the man talking the man with the auburn hair curling about his neck? no, don't look yet;" his voice was husky with excitement "Get behind him while he is talking and stop him before he goes out I must see him and speak with him; I would rather $10,000 than lose bun. Quick, now." As Philip sat down again and watched hisr friend trying to make his way through the close packed crowd he heard Currant voice again. What was there changed in it? It bad lost its old ring, there was a queer drag in it sometimes, and when he used to raise his voice till every nerve tingled for sym pathy, be seemed now to let it fall, and his long, sonorous sentences died down at the end like a muffled bell "If others were like him," be was saying, "the reform I would dh for would come soon, would be upon us." How slow his friend moved. Philip actu ally hated the people who were too stupid to get out of his messenger's way. Had Curran finished, was thb all that was left of his eloquence? Yes, be was stepping down and moving toward thi door. Philip's friend was almost there, the man must not escape thus, and plunge again with the wo man whose life be had blasted into the ob scurity he seemed to love. Philip leaped to his feet and almost shoated to the people. AH turned their face expectantly toward him, Curran with the rest his pale worn face. Philip's friend was come almost to bim now. If Curran could only be detained for oti moment more. "It will of course be for the interest of all of you," be knew be was talking weakly, but it was no matter, "to earn the most wages you can, to lose the fewest day, to turn off the most piece work." Of course, he spoke too stupidly; Currau turned on his heel and moved toward the door. Almost instantly then Philip Breton gave a sudden short bow to the audience and disappeared back of the platform. Ho bounded down the nanow stairs, four at a time, and rushed around to the front of the building like one mad, to stare for a moment iu the faces of the e.-ap-iug crowd. Thfn, wilder than ever at the thought that Curran might have goiuout among the first, he ran back end forth after one group and another, but ull iu vain. Then he forced himself to stop and think, and forthwith made inquiries for Curran's boarding place. He reached the place at last and ran breath lessly up the stairs. In another moment he would know the timth if it killed bim to bear it He must remove the poisonous shadow of suspicion that was polluting all the holiest precincts of his nature. Certainty was bet ter far, for the nerves can brace themselves against the clearly defined features of ever so hideous a monster; far better certainly than this crawling slimy terror that made him ashamed of a manhood that could cherish it Ho dared ask Curran for the truth, he did not shrink from it. If the man were inno cent be might strike bim down for the insult to the purity of his wife. Philip thought such atonement would seem just aud proper. But if he were guilty, ah, if Bertha was guilty through him what death was terrible enough for his penalty! A portly woman, with the unmistakable expression of the expectant boarding luutrcs on her face and iu her attitude, met the pale faced young man at the top of the stain. She did not recognize the proprietor of the Bre ton mills, in his slight form. She would have looked for a man of lofty stature and com manding mien, and not a mere lad whom nobody would glance twice at on the street "Where is Curran? I I want him." "Why, he's just gone; he drove off to Lew iaton." "To Lowiston? Are you sure?" Why, this must be some important personage after all, he was so peremptory. Poor people can bully, but there is a shamefacedness or an over af fectation of authority that betrays them; their self consciousness lets the whole secret out "Either Lewiston or Raleigh; I can't tell, reallv, sir. Shall I get you a carriage, Mr. Mr.r "Two horses and a buggy; a driver, too. Tell them it is for Mr. Breton; and," he shouted after the woman, "if they give me a poor horse he will be dead before they ever see him again." It seemed an hour before the horses drew up before the boarding house door, and an other hour before they had left the village behind. Then the little patience Philip bad forsook bim. He caught the reins from the astonished driver, and at the threatening snap of the whip the horses took their fastest gait It was a little past 9 o'clock the next morn ing that Philip Breton, pale from a sleepless xdght, knocked at a low studded door in an ill ventilated tenement house, where they told bim Curran lived. Within was Bertha, the high bred woman, wonted to the costliest luxuries of wealth. And she was willing, then, to live in such squalor as this to be with the man she loved. Could cbauge have been cruel enough to have touched her? Per haps an infant bung hungrily on her bosom, and Curran, fallen back into his vulgar tradi tions, lounged hi red flannel shirt sleeves in her presence. Could he bear the sight? But she might be alone; his heart beat faster with terror and hope. She would lift her sweet eyes pleasantly to him so easv it is for wo "Where ia vour xcifef" nen to forget the agony they have caused. She would bold out her shapely hand to bim, but it would be stained and worn from hard ships. Should he fall at her feet! Would be be able to remember she was another's dead to him? He knocked again, possibly no one was at home. "Come in." It was a man's voice. As Philip opened the door be saw the man he sought by the window, eagerly looking up and down the street, as if waiting for some sign. There was no guilty fear or shame in the calm face that was turned to his visitor. "Bretou." He gave bim his band with hearty good will "Somehow I could not speak last night, but you have begun a noble work. Why, I had rather feel the proud sat isfaction you must have, I would ratbaV be in your place than the greatest man in the whole world." Philip was afraid to look about him. Per haps Bertha had no wish to speak to biui, or else she was not here; there was no atmos phere of a woman's lore and care iu the place, somehow. Bat Curran went on iu bis quick, eager way, "The rich men have the most glorious privilege ever men bed. Each man of wealth can let the fountains of b'ght and joy into the lives of a village in wme way which shall make his name blessed for ever. Instead of that, whole generations of us bare to break ourselves in pieces iu the effort to wear away their rock. We fail, as the wretched 2,000 creatures who strike here today will fail, to gain oue privilege more for ourselves, yet our children may profit from our sacrifices, perhaps, or their children. Anything is better than spiritless, eternal submission.'' Philip released his band from the man's clasp and turned to look about him. No u o man's shawl hung on the rack. No baby's tiioea or toys were in sight A man's rude bauds had set the chairs iaau awkward row. A man's bands made the comfortless looking bed that stood in one corner. There was o soft scent of perrume, such as tscrtna would bare left behind her if she had but lately gone. Why, Bertha could never have breathed for m moment there. Lovo cau do much, but it cannot make a wcni.in over. "Where is your wife" Philip asked' in a low, breathless voire. "Bertha." The eager look faded from Curran's tace, .nd his blue eyes grew troublcL For an instant ho did not answer, but stood with folded arms gazing out into the street "Wlua is a wifV?" he said at last "A woman who loves a man and lives in bis love, who pines in his absence and listens to the coming of his foot steps, as the sweetest music in the world to her; to whom all the gifts of life would be nothing without bim; to whom poverty uud disgrace would lose their hatefulness if he sh?.rcd them. A wife is a sweetheart, a hundred times tenderer and happier." His voice grew bitter and bard for a moment as he added, "No, I havo no wife, Bertha has left me." He beard a shout and a score of hurrying forms rushed by his window. He turned from the window iu a sudden passion of ex citement "The strike has begun. What pity do the rich deserve? Even their women are taught only to break honest men's hearts. They are beautiful as the angels or Leaven and cruel and pitiless as the angelj of belL" "But wait," cried Philip, catching bim by the arm. Currau had not yet spoken the longed for v.oni-3 to protect Bertha's name from the insult or another suspicion thought. But a shout roll! up from the street, and another cud another in quick succession. Cuivttu shook him off aud, catching his bat from the table, sprang down the stair. (Tobr Cent hived.) CANADA'S NEW GOVERNOR. Lord Stanley, Alio Will Hacceed the Marquis of Unidnwnt. Recent changes in the deputed governor of British colonies remove Lord Dufferin, a former governor general of Canada, from India, and place Lord Lansdowne, the present governor general of Canada, in his place. Tho Right Hon. Frederick Arthur Stanley will take Lansdowne'i place. The only oue of the knights who is moved off the vic-eroyal chessboard is Lord Dufferin. He goes to England out of a job. Lord Stauley of Prestou, is a younger brother of the present Earl of Derby. He was born in Lon don in 1S11, and is consequently 47 years old. He was educated at Eton, and entered the Grenadier guards in 1858, in which he reached the rank of captain, and retired from tho military ser vice in 1865. He represented Pres ton as Conserva tive in the bouse of commons, from LOIID STANLEY. July, 1SB5, till December, 1868, when he was elected for North Lancashire. He was lord of the admiralty from August to December, 1868, and financial secretary for war from February, 1874, till August, 1877, when he was appointed financial secretary to the treasury. On April -, 1878, he became secre tary of state for war, succeeding Mr. Hardy. Ho went out of office with his party two years later. In 1861 ho married Lady Con stance, eldest daughter of the Earl of Clarendon. He is heir presumptive to the earldom of Derby, Two years ago he was raised to the peerage with title of Lord Stanley of rreston. This catalogue of offices, this summary of service is about all that can be said at present of Lord Stanley. The "Brooklyn Dlsatter. Another contractor has been careless at the cost of a number of lives. This time tho disaster was in Brooklyn, N. Y., where, by the falling of a section of elevated railroad trestle aud the heavy derrick and boiler resting thereon, a loaded street car was crushed. The details of the accident are al ready familiar. We may devote a line or two, however, to the demand, which is be- THE BBOOkCTC tfi&ASTXR. coming stronger with every accident of this sort, for the enforcement of the laws holding contractors and others in charge of public improvements of all sorts responsible for lives lost by their carelessness. A few more summary convictions for manslaughter, like that which ent Buddensiek to Sing Sing, would cause a wonderful increase of careful ness on the art of every one concerned. But the slaughtering will continue till the laws are enforced. A retrolenm Engta. A vessel in use in the upper Thames owes its motive power to the explosive force of petroleum. The lwat ia started by lighting a lamp, and the lamp must be extinguished to atop the engine. The fuel costs less thau coal, while the omission of the boiler saves much space aud the ex pense of a fireman and working engineer. The ".raft is of American origin. Frank Ltrslie'tt. Never Dined Before. Said an English woman of rank to an American lady. "Was Buffalo Bill in vited to dine out much when be was in New York?" "He never dined in hia life till he came to Ixmdon," was the reply, "when lie was at home 'he had something to cat at 12 o'clock." Detroit Free Press. "When men begin to glory in wickedness their punishment is not far off. He that loseth his due,gets no thanks. Try Moore's headache cure, it beats the world. For sale by Dr. A. Heintz. If you run aB you drink, you might catch a hare. Good Wages Ahead. George Stinson & Co., Portland, Maine, can inve 70a work that you can do and live at home, TnTripf great pay. You are started free. Capi tal not needed. Both sexes. All ages. Cut this out and write at once; no hasm will be done if you conclude not to go to work, after yoa learn all. All particulars free. Best paring work in this world 4-lr The fault is ua great as he that is faulty. Before you start on a journey go aud see Dowty & Becher and procure a bot tle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrbtea Remedy. It is a great safe guard for travelers and gives immediate relief. Sit in your place and none caa make you rise. Sore throat may be cured iu a few hours by applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm when the first symptoms appear. If the case is a bad one, thououghly sat urate a flannel bandage with it and ap ply to the throat. Chamberlain's Cough Bemedy should be taken internally and 8 cure is certain. Sold by Dowty & Becher. We are fools one to another. A positive oure for liver and kidney trouble, constipation, sick and nervous headache and all blood disease w "Moore's Tree of Life." Try it "Sold by Dr. A. Htints. & HP ' W J Want of Sleep la sending thousands annually to the insane asylum ; and the doctors say this trouble is alarmingly on the increase. The usual remedies, wbile they may give temporary relief, are likely to do more barm than good. Wliat is needed ia an Alterative aud Blood-pnritier. Ayers Sarsaparllla is incomparably the best. It corrects those disturbances in the circulation which cause sleepless ness, gives increased vitality, and re stores the nervous system to a healthful condition. Rer. T. 6. A. Cote, agent of the Mass. Home Missionary Society, writes that his stomach was out of order, his sleep very often disturbed, and some im purity of the blood manifest ; but that a perfect cure was obtained by tho use of Ayer's Sarsaparllla. Frederick W. Pratt, 424 Washington street, Boston, writes: "My daughter was prostrated with nervous debility. Ayer's Sarsaparilla restored her to health." William F. Bowker, Erie, Pa., was cured of nervousness and sleeplessness by taking Ayer'a Sarsaparilla for about two months, during which time his weight increased over twenty pounds. Ayer's Sarsaparilla. PBKPAnEn nv Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. o!J by all rrusUt. Price 1 ; alx bottle. & Db1 Vwho readUuit and then act; II 1 1 in I I they will find honorable em Ill Wl Ik I ploy men t that will not take them from their homes and fauiilie. The profits are lame and sure for every industrious naraon. mur haTe mxle and are now umkinir several hundred dollar a month. It is may for rut one to make S5 and upward per day. who in wiilln to work. Either sex. votunr or old: riuti tal not needed: we start you. KrerythinK new. No HDecial ability reauirra: von. reader, can do it as well as any one. Write to un at nuce for full particular, which we mail five. Addn-no ftucklen'.s Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, "Ulcere, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale ly Dowty & Becher. juh 27 Tin; first Chinaman in Kansas applied for citizenship "Wednesday last at Wich ita and was refused. An Absolute Cure. The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINT MENT is only put up in large two-ounce tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands and all kinds of skin eruptions. Will positively cure all kinds of piles. Aak for the ORIGINAL ABITINE OINTMENT Sold by Dowty & Becher at 25 cents per box by mail 30 cents. marly God conies to see without a bell. Worth Knowing. Mr. W. H. Morgan, merchant, Lake City, Fla., was taken with a severe cold, attended with a distressing cough and running into consumption in its first stages. He tried many so-called popu lar cough remedies and steadily grew worse. Was reduced in flesh, had diffi culty in breathing and was unable to sleep. Finally tried Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption and found immediate relief, and after using about a half dozen bottles found himself well and has had no return of the disease. No other remedy can show so grand a record of cures, as Dr. King's New Dis covery for consumption guaranteed to do just what is claimed for it, Trial bottle free at Dowty & Becher's drug store. Life without a friend is death without a witness. The Babies Cry for It, And the old folks laugh when they find that the pleasant California liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, is more easily taken and more beneficial in its action than bitter, nauseous medicineB. It is a most valuable family remedy to act on the bowels, to cleans the system, and to dispel colds, headaches and fevers. Man ufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Company, San Francisco, Cal. For Bale only by Dowty Jc Becher. This world ia nothing except it tend to another. I am selling "Moore's Tree of Life" and it is said to give the very best satis faction. Dr. A. Heintz. 30-Cm:i If folly were grief, every houso wou'd weep. Try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and you will be convinced that it is a per fect treatment for coughs, colds and hoarsuess. Sold by Dowty & Becher. Little pitchers have wide ears. Worth Your Attention. Cut thi out and mail it to Allen A Co., An gUHta, Maine, who will nend you free, something new, that just coins nioey for all workers. Am wonderful aa the electric liRht, as genuine an pare gold, it will prove of lifelong value and importance to yon. Both bexea, all agee. Allen & Co. bear expense of starting yon ia buoinexi-. It will bring you in more cat-h, right away, than anything else in this world. Anyone anywhere can do the werk, and live at home also. Better write at once; then, knowing all, should you conclude that yon don't care to engage, why no harm is done. 4-ly All things require skill but an appe tite. Besews Her Youth. Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay county, Iowa, tells the following remark able story, the truth of which is vouch ed for by the residents of the town: "I am 73 yean old, have been troubled with kidney complaint and lameness for many years; could not dress my self without help. Now I am free from all pain and soreness, and am able to do all my own housework. I owe ray thanks to Electric Bitters for having renewed my youth, and removed com pletely all disease and pain." Try a bottle, 50 cents and $1 at Dowty k Becher's drugstore. The morning sun never lasts a day. Make ae Mistake. By dispelling the symptoms so often mistaken for Consumption. SANTA ABIE has brought gladness to many a household. By its prompt use for break ing up the cold that too often develops into that fatal disease, thousands can be saved from an untimely grave. You make no mistake by keeping a bottle of this pleasant remedy in your house. CALI FORNIA CAT-R-CURE is equally ef fective in eradicating all traces of Nasal C&tirrh. Both of these wonderful Cali fornia remedies are sold and warranted by Dowty & Bsohtr. 81.00 s package, 3 for$20. The Importing Draft Horse Co. LINCOLN, I ft I 1 - " tsBBBBBV 1 -bssbbbssssbbbbBbsbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbVnV a Iftfe-- .bbs'bsbsskHhsbIsbssssssssssssssssssbkbsssbp'ssv 1 .-"r jggjg3? BBaTssBsv''BiTiffff"WIIPJrB "gsspsgi?. Ss'bbbbsssbssbbbbbbVk: XsbsssbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbVb -bsIt -t?37 JEsS'("""?ajftM"eHpTKK sbbs a s?-- a 1 J p - . .sv fc"rs5f2? ixfoicrcas op Pure-bred French Draft (Percheron or Norman) AND ENGLISH SHIRE HORSES. Visitors !irsji welcome. Cidl anJ mm our fcorsf or ini1 for eatalum. HENDERSON .09 4 111 W. 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