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,M.'rpy:"'g"iM"'wwurN,jl" y a : I '! Ul Mn 5 ' ! BY CHARLES J. BELLAMY. Copyrighted by the Author, and published by arrangement vrith r.1m. Continued from Jinst ir ;.. J CHAPTER XVIII. WHY COUIJJX'T SHE HAVE WAITED? The new maid, who showed Philip Breton into Mrs. Eilingsworth's parlor, was not near 13- as pretty as her predecesor iu office, but he was too much absorlied w ith his delicate errand to take any notice of her. Bertha was alone somewhere, doer-ted, unprotected. Something must be done for her. It was a strange place to seek pity for her, In the woman's bosom which he had seen heaving in liate of her: but a magnanimous heart ia wont to count on the generosity of others. The maid had said Mr. EUingsworth was not iu, and so he was left to appeal to the woman' ly tenderness of h: wife. He rose suddenly from the satin covered sofa and looked wondericgly at a woman's form in the doorway. Could this be the poor little factor' girl, "this fashionably dressed woman, with a train like a queen's? He had stupidly enough expected to find her in the same old calico dress, perhaps with the dingy, plaid shawl about her shoulders. But the girl was not so sensitive as to bean-noj-ed. Had not she kept him waiting while she dressed on purpose to enjoy a triumph? And now sho was quite pleased at the plain evidence of it. She smiled rather consciously as bho extended her jeweled little hand to him. "Why ha-ent you called before" Her voice had lost the desperate or sullen tono he remembered in it of old, but he was not sure he liked it any ltter. He bowed, like any gentleman, as he touched her hand, and noticed the great gold bracelets on her slim wrists. Philip was unpleasantly reminded of manacles, and then the massive chain around her neck, with a huge locket shaped like a padlock, had suggestions, too, of a sort, he fancied, the girl would hardly have liked if bho had thought of them. He glanced at her olive cheeks, and the slightly oblique eyes, and the voluptuous fullness of her form. How could an American village have pro duced so perfect an odalisque? "I did not wish to interrupt your honey moon." He seated hinrelf again. She was looking oddly at him, as if curious whether he had forgotten her indiscreet visit, when she liad told him of her own broken heart. Philip suddenly met her eyes as she sat op posite him. "The truth is, Mrs. EUings worth, I have hardly been in the mood for polite calls of late. I suppose you under stand." "How should IP She elevated her dark brows rather unpleasantly as if to dismiss, once for all, am- further confidences with him. Philip smiled, in spite of himself, at her tactics. "Do j-ou know where Bertha is?" he asked, simply. A sudden flash of color lit up her cheeks. "I hate the very namo of her," she exclaimed, as she rose as if to leave him. She was not yet wonted to the customs of her new rank. "Don't go," he urged, ' am so anxious to know where she is. No doubt you have cause to be angry with her," Philip did not notice the growing passion in the girl's eyes, "but you surely would not have her starve to death, or suffer and die alone." "PorliaiH not;5 Jane meant to smile, but she only produced tho effect of showing the cruel white of her teeth. "Hasnt she got" the word stuck in her throat, "him?" "Why, didn't 3ou know," cried Philip breathlessly, "she lias left him? She is alone somewhere, for all we know, in want; think of it, and she too proud to " "Left her huslkiud?" "If ho was her husband I didn't know,V ho hurried on, as if afraid of the answer that would come; "I never heard, and I didn't like to ask.'' She had seated herself on the pink satin beside him and caught his hands as she bent toward him to read his thoughts before he kpoke. "Did j-ou hear they were not married?" she almost hissed at him. "Why, yes, that is" he looked away in his shame. "It was told about the village, but you know better, of course." He tried to laugh, then grew sober again. "How vile of them to whisper it, and it was vile of me to let even the taint of a fear into my mind." But she did not answer him j-es or no. Her eyes had grown preternaturally large, and there was n happiness in them as if she looked right into the gates of heaven. All the com mon expressions were gone from her face. One could read there now nothing but purity and sweetness, such as makeup tho substance of dreams of love. "And he is alone. Oh! whero is he? I must know. I must go to him. It cannot be true." The angelic look flitted, the ex quisite drooping at the corners of her mouth was gone. "If you have lared to lie to me.' Philip was perfectly astonished at the sudden change in her face and voice. Her black eyes blazed ungovernable passion into his. Tho quick transition from the height of blissful hope to the depths of deep despair eemed to bear her over the line of humanity. "Tell me, have you lied to make a show of mc:" She trembled for an instant, like a wild creature Itefore a spring, then she clutched with her hot supple fingers at his throat, magnificent as a tigress and in every motion a perfect, terrible grace. Philip threw her from him as he would some untamed animal; it was hard to remember her womanhood then. She sat where he had left her, as if just awoke from a terrible nightmare, her fingers parted and curved and moved spasmodically as if she 3-et held him by tho throat. Then he buried her face in the cushion iu a flood of tears. "I didn't know what I was doing," she Sobbed. "Don't remember it," I was mad." She rose tremblingly to her feet and came forward covering her face with her Mtufc She might have been an abused child, so gentle and sweet she seemed now. She took down her hands from her face; what man could bo so cold and hard as to stand against such eyes as hers looking through their tears. But sho was alone. CHAPTER XIX. A RADICAL. "Oh, my God, my God, why couldnt I have waited P She tore the gold chain from her neck and cast it on tho floor. Her husband had given it to her, and she hated him at this moment and the proud name he had put upon her. She had rather one smile of that other's than all these empty golden favors. "I am sick of their soft ways and their lying tongues," she moaned; "why didn't I wait?" Jane EUingsworth began to walk rapidly about the room, wrenching the great gold bands about her wrists, unconscious that she chafed and bruised the skin "I might have known God would not deny him to me, I wanted him so much. Oh, my love, my darling, I would have fought for you, I would have starved for you. It would have been sweet with you, and I could not wait one year. I might have known it would come, but I could not wait." She drove her nails into her flesh as she clasped them in her anguish. She panted for breath; her rich silk dress seemed to suffocate her, and the perfumed air was too heavy and dead; it seemed to strangle her. "He is free ; he would have opened his arms tome. He may be coming now to ask me to go with him. He could never have loved that cold, bloodless creature. Ah, how I could have loved him. I would have taught him that a woman can love." - She unclasped her hands and let them fall gently to her side, and her convulsed face took on a new, soft tenderness. "I would go with him," she murmured. "A hungry heart ' cannot feed on such things as these. Oh, but fee would not have me, a low creature who has sold herself; he would not have me. He would despise me; he would not even look at sac i She fell back in one of the satin covered chairs' she had bought with her .husband's r oaey, and cried and sobbed till the salt louatala dried up. It. was then, white aht tat stent and tearless, looking at her bruised wrists and at the wounds her nails had made, that she heard a familiar, delicate tread in the halL It was as well Mr. EUingsworth did not catch tho expression on her set, weary face as his tall form appeared in the doorway. He seemed to her fancy that moment the most terrible monster in the world, this ele gant figure of a man, whose disposition was the very essence of refinement, and she dropped her eyes to the carpet as he came toward her with his eternal smile. "All alone, Jennie? Why ou have dropped your chain, here it is on the floor." "Oh, thank you,' but she shuddered in spite of herself as he seated himself near her and warmed her hands fondly between his own soft, white palms. "My little girl," he began. Yes, she was his, his and no other's, his every day and hour of her life, for badnt be bought her, and what better title was there than that by purchase? She raised her eyes and made them rest on his fine, smooth shaven face. She had never noticed before a certain cold and cruel light in his e'es, as if he could enjoy keenly tho torture of a living soul, or that beside the sensual lines of his finely chiseled mouth there was a suggestion of an exquisite brutality on the thin lips. Sho trembled before him. "I have a favor to ask of you." He looked admiringly at her as he spoke. Mr. EUings worth never tired of the rich, oriental type of his wife's beauty. If Bertha's mother had been like her there need never have been any unpleasant stories in the community on her score. And Jane was loveUer than ever to day, with this peculiar brilliancy in her eyes and the bright red spot on either dark cheek. She didn't know how to furnish her parlor very well, but ho had never yet been sorry he married her. She seemed to understand so well how to manage him, never too fond, always a little on her guard, like a judicious artist, who will not let even the most ardent admirer come too near his canvas. "It is about Bertha," he continued, not seeming to notice her start. "She has left that fellow. I haven't troubled j-ou before, but she has been alone up in Vineboro for a good many months. I think best she should come home now. It will bo in better taste" Mr. EUingsworth rose to his feet at a rum bling noise and stepped to the window. When he oame back the color bad faded from Jane's cheeks and her smaU mouth closed very tight. Her hands were trembling violently, but she had hid them in the folds of her dress, so her husband could not see her intense excitement. Her heart was beating loudly; her old mad ness seemed coming upon her again, but this man's cold, smiling face subdued her. "When is she coming?' "I didn't know but that was the carriage; well, I suppose she ma- be here," he glanced at his gold faced watch, "perhaps in an hour or two." The girl's lips quivered; she almost broke into a passion of angry words; the hate that saethed in her heart for that woman was al most bubbling forth its bitterness. But the cool assurance on her husband's face, as his keen, pitiless e-es seemed to search out all tho secrets of her soul, cowed the woman. She rose and moved, as one ia a dream, to ward the door. "I must get things ready then." And so this was what her gentle voiced husband caUed asking a favor of her. She did not love him, but she feared him, now, as she re membered her secret. She would obey his nod as if she were his dog, she would study the signs on his placid face. He had never anything but smiles and kind speeches for her, but she would have sunk into the very earth at his feet rather than that he should open his mysterious armory of instruments of deadly torture for the soul. "Well, weU, I thought she would make more fuss." The afternoon sun was well down on his last stretch when Philip Breton came back from his factor', aU(l 'P the street toward Mr. Ellingsworth's house. There was some ono with him, a man so tall and slight that tho weight of his head, which was quite large, seemed to bow him. It was an old gentleman, to judge from the wrinkles on bis face, but he had hardly enough hair to show whether it was gray or only flaxen. "You have done splendidly, my boy!" It was an old acquaintance of Philip's, whom he had used to talk philosophy with at col lege, one of those benevolent minded gen tlemen who are so optimistic that they have togotoboj-s for sympathy. "Splendidly," he repeated, "only why stop just where you are? If every mill owner would do in his mill what 'ou have done, it would be a grand thing for this world. But they won't. Now you have started beautifully, but there is too much business to your plan." Philip smiled argumentatively. It was like his boyhood returned to hear the old man's mellow tones. "But, Mr. Philbrick, an honest business man can do more good than a dozen imprac ticable philanthropists like you." "But think of the things that business principles never can regard. Your help work ten weary hours a day, all ther poor lives; business demands that, doesn't it? Well, I say that is where benevolence must come in. It is terrible to be shut up as they are; it kills body, mind and soul. Business principles never can save them," said the old gentleman, turning his kindly eyes on the young mill owner; "philanthropy, I don't care what you call it, some gentle spirit of love ought to lift the burden that crushes the lifo and hope out of them, contrary to busi ness principles, higher than business prin ciples." As Mr. Philbrick finished, a close carriage rolled by them and stopped a little beyond, where a gentleman and lady stood to welcome the visitor. "Your reforms," answered PhUip, after a moment's thought, "should be founded on business principles. Then the force of the business instinct will carry them out. Oth erwise" ho lifted bis hat to Mrs. EUings worth, but she did not seem to notice him; her eyes were fixed on her husband, who was in the act of handing a lady out of the car riage. The lad wore a traveling suit of a blue shade. Her face was hid as she stepped down, showing a white feather in the back of her hat, and a few strands of golden hair below. Then she raised her face as the car riage rolled away, and a wild, sweet thrill of pain shot through Philip's heart, while every nerve in his body tingled like finely tuned stringed instruments, trembling in sympathy with a resounding chord. His feet refused to take him away, while his hungry eyes de voured Bertha's beauty, for it was no other than she come back his lost darling found again. His heart warmed, as he looked, into a divine glow; how cold it had been, and so long. A great burden of weariness seemed lifted from him. It was as if, after a dreary old age, the sweet peace of childhood was born in him again. For the moment he forgot everything that had come between them, as in the bright, perfumed morning a child forgets the dreary night just past But the long night had changed her; the exquisite roundness of her face and form had gone; even her grand blue eyes seemed faded liko her cheeks, once so rich in their sunset glow. And he only yearned over her the more tenderly the new element of pity seemed only wanting before to glorify his love into a religion. He longed to rush to her, putting away her father, who had no caresses for her, and his wife, who was darting flashes of hate at the anwelcomo guest He would enfold her in bit arms. She would bo glad for them at last; such love as his made the closest kin in the world. He took a step toward her, but no one saw him. His hungry eyes devoured Bertha? a' beaut v. The eyes of the two women met Their wiUs met and struggled for the mastery in that moment Undisguised hate was in one face, lofty contempt in the other. There bad been one gentle, wistful expression in Bertha's face as she first alighted, but there was no trace of it now. She bad drawn herself up to bar full height, to that the other woman isfllll seemed like a child before her, and her hand, as it fell to her side, opened outward in a gesture of disdain for the creature her father had chosen for his wife. It was hardly a second before her rare lips parted. They at least had not changed. Jane winced for fear of some bitter taunt She had learned bow terrible a blow well trained tongues osa give; but the words wereonly some polite common place; the tone well, it caused Mr. EUings worth to glance critically at bis wife. She seemed vulgar in his eyes for the first time. Jane tried to brazen it out, but her face only took on an expression of pugnacious insignifi cance. "What was it you were saying?" resumed Mr. Philbrick as Philip overtook him. "I had forgotten." "Speaking of business?" suggested the other, and then continued himself, not dis pleased at an extra turn. "Business, I say, is heartless and cruel as death. It is pitiless, and pity is the noblest of emotions; it is un generous, it is unfair, wo have had enough of it when it grinds so terribly." Mr. Philbrick thought his tirade would surely fetch an enthusiastic retort But Philip only walked on by his side in silence; he seemed intent on some beautiful masses of cloud just behind tho sun, as he sped on his way to the west. "Cant afford it, cant afford it," went on the old gentleman, gesticulating with his forefinger, "that is what you would say, I presume; of course you cant if the upper rlnrart waste the wealth they da I 'tell you there is no sense or excuse for a man spend ing ten and twenty and fifty thousand dol lars a year. Why.it is a good workman in your mill who earns ten thousand dollars in a lifetime, adding ail bis days' wages together. There ought to be more fairness about these things. Such men as you, Philip Breton, get too much more than any reasonable creature could want Now, you ought to go right to work and distribute your surplus I mean your real surplus back where it came from, among the poor. It takes but very little money to buy what can make a life comfort able and complete. The rich are always com plaining that they dont enjoy life more than tho middle classes, but they manage to waste what would makea thousand wretched homes happy without one pang of conscience." "But what do you want me to dot" asked Philip in astonishment. The old gentleman's face was flushed with enthusiasm. "Why I want you to take hold, and begin to make things equal, by paying back your surplus in one form or another. Give them better homes to live in. Shorten their hours so they can have a little existence besides drudgery; pay them better wages." Philip looked distressed and doubtful He had thought the subject over carefully and believed he had done a great deal already for his poor. His philanthropic friend would turn the whole world topsoy turvoy. "Why, you know what the books say that giving so much would spoil all the spirit and patience of the working classes." "Mere arguments devised to soothe the consciences of the rich," explained Mr. Phil brick with a grand air. "Though there is such a thing as unwise benevolence, en couraging paupers and beggars; but a man who works every day of his life isn't a beg gar. Your father made a good investment that brings you in say a quarter million a year. That is rather above what you pay your best workman; but it doesnt hurt your manliness any, my boy. The poorest paid hand in your factory works a great deal harder than you; you needn't be afraid of degrading bis manhood until he gets a quarter million." "But wouldnt they hang off on their oars unless they had to struggle for a livelihood P "My dear Philip, you wouldn't think it necessary to starve a horie, and hang a bag of oats just before his nose to make him go. Better feed him the oats, and a healthy ani mal likes to go. Do you lie off on your oars? You could afford it a thousand times better than they. Give them a chance for hope and ambition, and it will produce the best work ever known. Who lives here?" He stopped in front of a graceful little cot tage, through whose open windows one could see into cheerful, weU furnished rooms. A row of maple saplings had been lately set in front, and plenty of green shrubs and ample vines gave the place a most charming air. "John Graves, one of my workmen. His daughter married rich, and it is her hus band's money which has worked the remark able transformation." PhiUp was very glad to change the subject "John's wife was sick supposed to be an invalid. See that ladylike woman watering the hanging pot ? that is she. Ellingsworth's money made the change. As for Graves himself, he used to be bowed al most like a cripple. He was as melancholy as an undertaker, and he had good reason to be, poor fellow. He used to pull a great sloach hat down over his face to hide as much as he could of himself. WeU, you wouldn't know him now; he is as respectable a looking man as one often bees, and they say ho works as hard as ever." "He isn't degraded any, then?" aalrffrMr. Philbrick slyly, as they walked on again, "by his good fortune." "I cannot carry out your proposal, it Isnt in my line. I am a business man and must work in character. I actually feel as if I bad made quite a step, for me." 4 "A step!" cried bis companion, eagerly reaching out to elf tip his hand. "Astride, only I want you to go clear to the goal." "I am too slow for you," smiled PhUIp, sadly, as he shook his head. "What I have attempted seems enough for one life work, I don't want to risk it all by a new experi ment Here ws are at my house, wont you come in?" They stood at the gate. The front door stood invitingly open, showing the broad oaken staircase, and still beyond, the table et for the evening meal. "Not to-night thank you." Mr. Philbrick hook his band for parting, but did not seem quite ready to go. "Tea is all ready," urged Philip, "and I am quite alone." "Oh no, my train leaves," be made an ex cuse to look at his watch, "in half an hour." Still he hesitated. At last he laid bis band gently on Philip's arm. "You are young and have probably a long life of usefulness before you. But a man can never tell." Philip looked in surprise at him. "You may change your mind, or give up your work; if you should want to, Just let me know, I would like to buy you out and run things on my plan." "But you are not rich enough. You proba bly know the valuation of the Breton Mills," answered PhUip, a little proudly. "I could pay you something, and you wouldn't drive too hard a bargain. You would be glad, perhaps, to contribute in that way." Philip burst into a hearty laugh; his hon est old friend was losing'his wits. Give up his factory, and his own scheme that was his only hope in life! But Mr. Philbrick did not smile. He seemed actually serious and awaiting an answer. "WeU, I will giveyou the first chance when I want to sell." The old gentleman's earnestness sobered Philip in spite of himself. He was sorry be had laughed. Perhaps he had been mocking his own destiny. The philanthropist's pro posal began to affect him as a death's head at a feast He was afraid he could not forget it Did his friend know him better than he knew himself f Did he see elements of weak ness in his character that would be sure to wreck his beautiful hopes? Philip walked slowly up to his door. Once be turned and looked after the bent but still vigorous figure of the bad prophet No doubt be was already planning how to revolutionize the whole management of the mill "I will never speak with him again," he muttered. Then he looked back at his house again. It was in that very doorway, open as it was now, that Bertha had stood and kissed her hand to him the last time she had been at his home. That was when his chief thoughts of life were as a wedding journey that was be fore the first cloud had dimmed his 6unlight And now she had returned. She had shamed her father's house and her mother's pure memory. She had shamed him who had been her lover since chUdhood,andaUfora man she did not love enough to stay with him. Still he could not help that first tumultuous throb of his heart, the unreason ing wave of joy that had swept over him at the very sight of her changed, tired face. She had done her worst to spoil his life, to drive peace and happiness from his souL but that pure, steady glow in his heart, ah. it was love yet Philip's heart was very full of bitterness, the fruit of his love instead of peace. Ho stopped midway to his door, and plucked a rose, slowly tore out its Mn'wg p4sW tini letthe summer brcese carry them away. as great, wort tor the poor be had com- wDHHsaTf made aim the man in tne world it she could have shared bis enthusiasm with him. His was the dis position even and sweet, just tho one to get the most contentment outof his life, but lone liness was terrible to him. "Perhaps it is better so," be said aloud, as be crashed the fragment of the flower, in his hand. No doubt he was light and weak and it was only under the pressure of a great bur den that he could accomplish anything. That gave him intensity. And then Bertha might have weakened his purpose if be formed one, not sympathizing with him, and it had not oeen her wont to sympathize with him. His very devotion to her might have made him waver, or for very happiness he might not have thought of anything but his bride. If a man has a great work to do it is better to be alone. Two souls never can have but a single thought, and the least friction might delav his progress; the least discouragement might hinder his footsteps on the mountain bringing glad tidings to the wretched. All that peril had been saved him. Curran had proved a better friend to the people than he thought, even when ho deserted them iu breaking in upon Philip Breton's idle dream of love. Perhaps it was from Bertha's shame had sprung all the good that blessed a thousand hopeless lives. Philip shuddered as be went up the broad stone steps to bis silent house. It seemed in famous to associate the thought of shame with the woman whose beautiful, high bred face bo had looked into again today. And Bertha was in the very village with him; the great outside world had riven hor hM- o He need not tremble for her any more, for her father's arm protected her. He looked across the field, where he could see one gable of tho house that held her, al most hidden by overshadowing trees. Per haps she was iu her room this moment weep ing bitter tears for the sweet, rare lifo she bad lost by her madness. He passed his hand over his eyes. "Must site suffer forever for what she has repented of, and the stream of despair flow always through her heart, washed whiter than snow?" He walked into his home, and through tbi echoing hall and stood in the door of Ids din ing room. There were sideboards and chairs enough to provide for a party the table glit tered with ita massive plate, and glistened with exquisite 'china, but only one seat was placed. CHAPTER XX. VXRV ODD. It was an hour later than usual the next afternoon that Philip pushed back his chair from the office table preparatory to going home. He did not acknowledge to himself a certain sweet excitement that affected him as he rose to his feet, much less the causo of it; and he laid it to ordinary masculine van ity that he paused a moment before a mirror before he went out It was not the same faco he used to see in the glass. HU black moustache had grown heavy and completely hid his rather utiar- tistic upper wp, but it was not that had changed him so much. His forehead had some new lines in it and there was, somehow, a firmer look about the corners of his mouth; the youth and freshness that had lasted for twenty-six summers had given place on the twent3'-seveath. There was a telf poise and suggestion of reserved force in him now that stood for some very rapid development of character. As Philip went up the hiU, his quick eyes caught a glimpse of a woman? dress by Mr. EUingsworth's gate, and in a few steps more he could see it was the shade of blue Bertha loved. Why might it not be Bertha, why not, except that he was so eager it should be? He hurried as much as he dared how. strongly his heart was beating. She might turn any moment and go into the house. lb tried to think of what he could say to her if it was she. Yes, it was Bertha. Her face was turned away, showing him only the perfect Greek profile and tho uncovered coils of her wonder ful golden hair. Her hand rested on the gate as she looked off on tho hills. How grand her thoughts must be to harmonize with the su perb dignity of her face. Philip felt guilty at disturbing her, but it had been so long. Ho came quite near, so near that the mag netic thrill of her presence touched him more deeply, mora tenderly, he thought, than of old, but she had not turned. He saw the p-Uli of careworn lines across her forehead that had been as smooth as marble. There was a faded look ou her cheeks, less full than they used to Ite, and their exquisite color less evenly spread. Her hand was whiter and showed its blue veins almost painfully. His heart ached over her, his proud Bertha. Why could not God have spared her! He would rather have died and saved her tho care and suffering that had stricken her loveliness. Then she turned at the sound of footsteps, and a great wave of tenderness swept over his soul. He looked at her so eagerly, so gently that it seemed her face might soften a little, but it did not, nor was there any mark of startled surprise at his coming so suddenly upon her. "It is you Philip? Even her voice was changed, there was a new hardness in it She reached out her cold white hand to him. For a moment he did not speak. It seemed as if his heart would break, there was such a stress upon it And then he was afraid she might be ashamed before him, ashamed of the terrible injustice she hail done him, ashamed of the blot that had touched her name. But whatever she might have felt, there was no sign of any emotion on her im passive faee. "Andou are the mill owner now," she said. "How odd it seems." She smiled graciously, but still he could not speak. He could only look down at the thin, blue veined hand he held, and keep back the sob that trembled on his lips for his lost love. And that smile and such words as those were all she had for him at last He had to look away for strength to speak. He must think of some commonplace that would not startle her repose. Ah! there was the door way where she hud given him the first ardent caress of his lifo the last time he had talked with her, the night she forsook him. Did she remember, be wondered? He looked back at the cold, beautiful eyes, and the amused smile yet lingered on her lips. "Yes, it does seem very odd." Tbey Kao What Is Good for Them. Maj. T. F. Hanson, of Macon. Ga., says that the protection sentiment is growing so in Georgia that if the direct issue could be made between a Democrat like Randall and a Democrat like Carlisle, the former would carry the state by 50,000 majority. They don't like Carlisle in the south. New York Press. A Foandatloa Stone Gone. We believe that the powerful Demo cratic free trade argument based upon the duty levied on anthracite coal bas been considerably disfigured by the discovery that there is no duty on anthracite coal. Come again, gentlemen. Kansas City Journal. Worse Tbaa la 1860. Venerable Hannibal Hamlin, white and wrinkled with his 80 years, a life long Republican, vice president with Abraham Lincoln and beloved and honored by Re publicans all over the land, was one of the speakers before the Veteran Republi can club of Portland, Me., recently held to commemorate the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency. Mr. Hamlin began with: "I thank God there is no vote of mine in thirty-four long years of congressional life that was not for free dom." Speaking to the young men pres ent he begged of them to "shun the Dem ocratic party as they would a viper. The Democratic party is not one whit more patriotic or more honest today than in the closing days of Buchanan's administra tion. I do not know but the Democratic party of today is worse than the Demo cratic party of 1860." The Fercherea a Dlstlaot Breed. For a long time war has been waged anions the breeders of French draught horses as to the claim made by Pereheron breeders that their animals are a distinct breed and constitute -a separate class. The contrary opinion sustained was that all the draught horses of France are sub stantially of the same breed. To settle this matter a committee was appointed by the niinois state board of agriculture last spring to investigate the subject and report thereon. This committee sent communications to best authorities in France. These authorities unanimously decided that the Pereheron is a distinct breed and is the leading draught horse breed in France. On the report of this committee the Illinois state board voted to put the Percheross in a distinct class The Prcsidoat aad the Sewing; Wi The president and other free traders who are demanding stUl cheaper clothips t for the masses, and still deeper degrada 1 tion for the labor that produces this cloth Ing, would do well to read the reports- of the woes of the working women of this city. One woman testified recently that she used to make $8 or $9 a week at cloakmaking. Gradually it got down to $3. "Then I quit,-' she said. In East London, in Belgium and iu Germany hundreds of thousands of women are glad to earn six shillings, six marks or six francs at this sort of work half of $3 per week. The Press Couhjs if they would "quit" ct 1.50 per week. To "quit" with them would mean starva tion. Clothing is too cheap now, Mr. Presi dent. Trousers are sold in this city as low as $10.50 per dozen. And yet you cry out for cheaper clothing for the ro asses. A further reduction of the tariff means the transplanting of our enormous cloth ing factories from this to the other aide of the Atlantic, and then the quitting point will be $1.50 instead of $3. What is most needed is a thorough organization of these trades, and an agreement iu rela tion to wages below which the sewing woman will not go. This, with certain changes in the tariff preventing the im portation of f45,000,000 worth of foreign woolen goods, might give relief and in crease wages. The president's plan of reducing wages still further will not help the case. New York Press. Crystallization of Carbou. Attempts have been frequently made to crystallize carbon so as to form the dia mond; but, though carbon can be crystal lized, it always appears in the finished state as graphite (black lead),, and notibe diamond. These two forms are the most common, and. in fact, the only two where carton is known to be crystallized A discussion by Mr. L. Fletcher on a uodule of carbon from a meteorite, which fell in' western Australia, develop the discovery of carbou, black, and possessing all thei attributes of graphite, but crystallized In small cubes. No such precedent has been established, and therefore this may be re garded as a third crystal form for carbon. The discovery has particular interest, as tbl form has never been observed on any terrestrial specimen of carbon, but only in this nodule of extra terrestrial origin. -Chicago Tribune. Two Kvl!s to Chootie From. The Birmingham Age is one of the ablest Democratic organs in Alabama, but it declares that ''Cleveland will beat the Democratic party just as certain as he is nominated." That .is apparently a wide spread view of the situation among our friends the enemy, but there is only one alternative before them: They must either take the medicine or take to the woods. Philadelphia Press. 1 It Ought to Work Both Ways. "Every dollar of the surplus is a deficit iu the prHcets and business of the people," says our nearest free trade contemporary. Then, what a surplus there would be in the pockets of the people if we could have a regular old Buchanan deficiency ! Those good old Democratic times, when our government bonds needed porous plasters on their backs to enable them to get out at all. Detroit Tribune. Sugar Planter Would Like to See Hint. If Mr. Cleveland is to take a southern trip he might better go to Louisiana than to Florida. The panic strickeu Demo crats of the former state would be very glad to have him propitiate the angry sugar planters, who want to know why a Democratic congress proposes to deprive them of tariff protection and give them nothing in return. Boston Journal. Getting in Line for Victory. The situation now insures one of the most interesting conventions iu tho his tory of the party. There will be nothing cut and dried about it. There will be few "instructions" and no need of controversy over the "unit rule." And the best man will win. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Voice or the English. Worklngman. The workingmen of Great Britain are saying that they would prefer protection tu their own country to free trade In America. They are better friends of the American workingmen than are the American free traders. Dtt-oit Tribune. All States Must So Likewise. If any state wants a presidential candi date it mo it be for him solidly and earn estly. If Indiana Republicans want to see an Indianian leading the ticket, there Is but one way to make that even a possi-bilitj-. Indianapolis Journal. Give Kar to the Farmer. The prosperity of producers everywhere is the aim of protection, and the effort of farmers to get themselves heard ought not to cease until the legislation they desire has been enacted and faithfully enforced. New York Tribune. The Reason for Their Unbelief. A Democratic politician never means what he says. That is why the Demo crats cannot believe that Mr. Blaine means what he savs. Cleveland News and Herald. The tone Matt Be Met. By no possibility can the Democratic party isnore, disclaim or escape the re sponsibility of President Cleveland's-tariff message. Washington Post, Dem. A Simple and rffnctlT Method. How to reduce the surplus: Appropriate it to a maintenance fund for public build iii! and elect David H. Hill pre-ilent. Kimr-toa Freeman. The Specter Still Haunts Thcni. Let nobody imagine that Mr. Blaine's withdrawal from the field as a possible candidate for the presidency will relieve the pains of the Mugwumps who have been miserable these many months for fear that he would run again. They will henceforth distress themselves lest he may change his mind. Cleveland leader. A Fair Warning:. The Mugwumps to the President: "Sir You liave kissed my wife; you have kicked me down stairs; you have cheated me out of my patrimony; beware, sir, be ware! or you will rouse the sleeping lion! New York Press. A Profitable Displacement. The Republicans who were for special candidates, whether or no, have given way to the Republicans who are for a Re publican victory, whether or no. Chicago Herald. Is Consumption Incurable? Bead the following: C. H. Morris, New ark, Ark., says: Was down with Abscess of lungs,nnd friends and physicians pro nounced me an Incurable Consumptive. Began taking Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, am now on my third bottle, and able to oversee the work on my farm. It is tho finest medicine ever made." Jesse Middlewart, Decatur, Ohio, says; "Had it not been for Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption I would have died of lung troubles. Was given up by the doctors. Am now in best of health." Try it. Sample tattles free at Dowty & Becher's drug store. Step by step the ladder is ascended. I am selling "Moore's Tree of Life'' and it is said to give the very best satis faction. Dr. A. Heintz. 30-6m3 He carries well, to whom it weighs not Try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and you will be convinced that it is a per fact treatment for coughs, colds and hoarsnees. Sold by Dowty & Becher. The dog that licks ashes, trusts not 1 withmeaL The First Symptoms Of all Lung diseases are much the .same : feverishuess, loss of appetite, sore throat, pains in the chest and back, headache, etc. In a few days you may be well, or, 011 the other hand, jou may ho down with Pneumonia or "galloping Consumption." Hun no risks, hut h.giu immediately to take Ayera Cherry Pectoral. Several years ago. Jaim-s Bin-hard, of Darien, Cum., was severely ill. Tim doctors said la: wa.s in i'oiw.ii!ilion. and that they could do nothing Tor him. but advised linn, as a last rexoit, to tiy Ayers Cherry Pectoral. After taUing this medicine, two or three months, In was pronounced a well man. His health remains good to the present day. J. S. Bradley, .Maiden, Mass.. writes : " Three winters ago I took a severe cold, which rapidly developed into Bronchitis aud Consumption. I was so weak that I could not sit up, was much eina-itited. and coughed iticessautl. I consulted several doctors, but they were power less, and all agreed that I was in Con sumption. At last, a friend brought m a bottle of Aver'.s I'heny Pectin ul. From the tirst dose. I found relief. Two bottles cured uus. ami my health has since lieen perfevt." Aysr's Cherry Pectoral, i-kkfai:ki by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowe", Mass. Md by all !itik';J-' P. u.. l ; H ! ..u!?.ii Backlen'n Arnica Salve. Thk Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rboutn, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Ilunds, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It ia guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents -er box. For sale by Dowty A Becher. july27 The buyer needs a seller not one. hundred eyes, the Worth Yonr Attention. Cut thi- out and mail it to Allen Jt Co., An-g-nMa, Maine, who will send jou free, something new, that juat coins money for all workers. As wonderful as the electric light, as genuine as pure gold, it will prove of lifelong value and importance to you. Both 6exes, all ages. Allen & Co. bear expense of starting yoa in basinet. It will bring you in more cash, right away, than anything else in this world. Anyone anywhere can do the work, and live at home also. Better write at once; then, knowing all, should jou conclude that you don't care to engage, why no harm is done. 4-ly Mills and wives ever want. Electric Bitters. This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise. A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the Liver and Kidneys, will remove all Pimples, Boils, Salt Bheum and other affections and prevent as well as cure all Malarial fevers. For cure of headache, consumption and indigestion try Elec tric Bitters Entire satisfaction guaran teed, or money refunded. Price GO cents and $1.00 per bottle at Dowty vBecher's drug store. He is rich enough that wants nothing. The Bent Method. The most agreeable as well as tho most effective method of dispelling Headaches, Colds and Fevers, or cleans ing the system is by taking a few doses of the pleasant California liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs. It acts gently, yet effectively, strengthening the organs upon which it acts, so that regular hab its may be formed. Manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Company, San Francisco, Cal. For sale only by Dowty & Becher. Love is not found in the market. tSore throat may be cured in 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 Remedy should lie taken internally and a cure is certaiu. Sold by Dowty & Becher. An-old friend is a;new house. Try Moore's headache cure, it beats the world. For sale by Dr. A. lleintz. Water afar off quencheth not lire. t'ood Va;fs Ahead. George Stincon A Co., Portland, Maine, ran give you work that jou ran do and liva at home, mbkiPK great pay. You are ftlnrted free. Capi tal not needed. Itoth Mxe. All age. Cut this out and write at once; no hann will )e done if ) oil conclude not t go to work, after yoa lparn all. All particularrt fiv. BrAt laying work in this world. -! In time comes he whom Got! snd. An AlMute 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. mar7y Justice pleaseth house. few in their own A positive cure for liver and kidney troubles, constipation, sick and nervous headache and all blood diseases is "Moore's Tree of Life." Try it. Sold by Dr. A. Heintz. To a crazy ship all winds are contrary. Before you Btart on a journey go and see Dowty & Becher and procure a bot tle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is a great Bare guard for travelers and gives immediate relief. Who likes not drink, God deprives him of bread. TaoaundM of Dollars are spent every year by people of this state for worthless medicines for the cure of throat and lung diseases, when we know that if they would only invest $1 in SANTA ABIE, the new California discover' for consumption and kindred complaints, they would in this pleasant remedy find relief. It is recommended by ministers, physicians and public speakers of the Golden State. Sold and guaranteed by Dowty & Becher at 81 a bottle. Three for 92J50. The most stubborn case of catarrh will speedily succumb to CALIFORNIA CAT-B-CURE. 'Six months' treatment forfl. .By mail, $1.10. Cloth the in war, arm thaein pesoe. The Importing LINCOLN, ST .-a.H9S9laHlaaHBH VH- Hfcfc "f ''-gTri' W .bwbBbVbT bwbV -MbJBJBm' " awBBBBawA - -1' -1MPOKTEUS or Pure-bred French Draft (Pereheron or Norman) AND ENGLISH SHIRE HORSES. " Visitor aim ay nrlmnu. Call and .ec our hn or ndiI for ctluga. HENDERSON .09 W. Ninth St. KAtSAS CITY. MO. 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JSThe alove de-cribed papers which ws oil it free with ours, are among the best aud most successful published. We specially recommend them to our enljscrilsrs, and believe all will tind them of rval usefulness and irxeat interest. ltf M. K. Tciineu & Co. Columbus, Neb. Publishers. FAMILY : JOURNAL A Weekly Newspaper issued every Wednesday. .12 Columns uf reading matter, coh- .sistingof Nebraska State News Items, Selected Stories and Miseellanv. tr;Sampli copiss senr ree to any address. Subscription price, $1 a year, in Mvmct. Address: M. K'. Tcbner A- Co.t Colmnbns. Platte Co., Nebr. LOUIS SCHREIBER.. All kinds of Repairing done e Short Notice. Biggies, Wag oiis, etc., made to order, and all work Guar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A. Wood Mowers. Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders-the best made. BTShop opposite the "Tattersall," on Olive St.. COLUMBUS. 'Jd-m Health is Wealth ! DR.E. l West's Neiite and Bbun Theat ME.VT, a cnarantwd specific for Hjotrria, Dizzi ness. t'onvultioDH, Fits, Nervous Neuralgia, Headache. Nervous Prostration cauHed bjr the ns of alcohol or tobacco. Wakefulness, Mental De pression, Softening of tho Brain reuniting in in- ruiuiij um lenuini? 10 misery, decay and death. Premature OM Age, Barrenness, Loss of power in either ex. involuntary Losses and Sperimat orrheca cansed by over-exertion of the brain.self abuseor over indulgence. Each box contains one month's treatment. $1.00 a box, or six boxes for if.'i.OU.&ent by mail prepaid oa receipt of price. . WE GUARANTZZSEt BOXES To cure any case. With each onlrr received by as for six lioxes. accompanied with $3.00, we will send the purchaser cjur written guarantee to re fund the money if the treatment does not effect a cure. Guarantees issued only by Dowty Jt Becher. druggists, sole ascuts, Columbns, Neb. dec7'b7y LAND lor RENT! 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