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-I - '-, f-a " y m 1fMyl1tafci Yd :Vj. v---, r. i BY CHARLES J. BELLAMY. Copyrighted by the Author, and published . " i,y arrangement -with tun. (Co.it intf't from '"' tet-l.) CHAPTER XXL OUT, DAMNED SPOT. Philip dipped his jien in the inkstand. Ho was sitting inhLs study at home, later in the afternoon than usuaL Nothing unimportant could have detained him so long from his fac tory, and, besides, there was a look of unusual solemnity on his face. Philip Breton had just written his will. It was a verj- elaborate in strument, prepared from memoranda of the ablest lawyer in tho state. A moment ago he had signed it, and the names of tho witnesses were not dry yet. He had been uneasy for a long time that the destiny of the thousand creatures who worked in his mill, and of their successors forever, should hang on so feeble a thread as a human life, which might snap be fore he could give siontaneous energy to the idans that now onlj' lived in his brain. Ho wrote in largo, plain letter across the back of the iaier, "Tho Last Will and Testament of Philip Breton." Thon ho read tho whole in strument over again tho magna charta of Bretonville. How glad tho village would be when his will eamo to be known when it was found that the mill owner had not been satisfied with what ho could do in his lifetime, but hail placed his benevolenco on a ierpetual foot ing, liad reached back his hand from hla grave to shower blessings on tho laboring poor God had committed to his charge. JSomc men had wives and children to work for, to defend, to hoo for. If ho had been liappy, and blessed with love and kisses, ho might have been like the rest, never listening to tho groans of his jKor under burdens too heavy for them to bear. His heart would, perhaps, havo been full of the little wants and trivial discomforts of his own circle, his mind busy with plans for the future of his ms, while a thousand dreary hopeless lives wore themselves out in the struggle for their scant bread, with never one pitiful thought from him. Philip Breton was relieved now that he had made his will. He folded it carefully and put it in his inner breast pocket. Per haps, he thought sadly enough, if he should die this moment it would be better for Bre tonville. for his will might waver while ho lived. Ho might not In? able to sustain his high tone, but once dead, nothing could be changed. The words that an idle stroko of his pen could make null and void when ouco his hand lut-ame rigid in death, would leap forth from the writteu page into potent everlasting life. Suddenly he remembered another occasion when, as ho had sat at this very table, he had been interrupted by tho servant bringing him a letter no, it was a noto from Bertha. And he had been very happy, fancying the shadow hail gone from his life. He just had 0'x.-iied this very tablo drawer when tho maid had tapped at the door. Ho had been searching for something at the time. Oh! it was one of Bertha's pict ures, and it must be hero still. In a moment more ho was unclas-piug a morocco case, then gazing with such tenderness as one has for tho dead on 'the delicately tinted oval of Ber tha's beautiful faco in iorcelain. The great blue eyes seemed to look surprise and re proach at him. It had been long ago, before so much as a dream of sin had tainted the holy innocence of her girlhood. Philip closed lus lips very tightly; he longed unutterably for her lost innocence; he hungered so desperately for the maidenly purity that looked out of these startled eye9. If she had died then, ho might at least have cherished her memory. What had he done that he should lw punished so terribly.' Then tho memories of the day when tho picture was taken came rushing back upon him. The- two had 1-een sitting in her garden on the afternoon of a summer day. It was two, three, almost four years ago, but he could sc the blooming roses and hear tho drowsy Iiuni of the Ikvs as if it had been yesterday. He had leei reading a love poeni to her; that was as near as he dared come to love making; sometimes letting his voice soften and tremble a little over the tenderer passages. He was but a timid lover, and Bertha so royally cold. Suddenly glancing at her, he saw she was overcome with tho heat, and had fallen asleep leaning her shapely head liack against the rough bark of the tree. Her lingers loosely clasped in her sloping lap suggested perfect repose; the girlish bosom rose and fell with her still breathing, and there was au exqui site pout 0:1 lu.r lips, as if vaguely mutinous against the hurdiicss of her pillow. His heart was leating violently ns he laid aside his book and seated himvlf on the bench by her side. But he dared not profane the vestal purity of such sleep as hers: be devoured her face with his eyes, but did not steal one kiss from the red lijs, though there was such a sweet, mute invitation on them. But he put his arm ulxntt her and drew her toward him as gently as if she wero a sleeping infant, and made her head rust on his shoulder. Then he looked down the red tinged cheeks, like thc woods in autumn's tenderest mood, swept by her long, golden eyelashes, and tried to fancy fche was awake, though her ej-es were closed, and tliat she was willing her head should rest on his breast and her hair liko fine threads of twisted Roman gold kiss his burning: face. But she moved in her slumler, and then her star like eyes oj)cul1 and looked mute astonishment into ins eager face. For one htartled moment she did not move, and in sudden l)old:iess from the liberty he had al ready taken ht poured his passionate declara tions into her ears, covering Her hair and her forehead and then her cool white bands with kiss. 'You frighten me, Philip." Her quick, startled tones as she rose to her feet yet rang in his care. She looked at him as half of a mind to run away. "I don't understand 3011, she said, reproachfully. Tho porcelain picture is just as she was ihen. "Why, Bertha!" He had risen, too; but she drew back from him. "I love you. I want you for my wife." How coldly she had looked at his flushed, excited face. He thought it was tho supreme moment in his life; but it seemed to be nothing to her. "Isthatall? Why, I thought you were mad." Ah, and the some madness burned in his soul this moment. Time could not wear it out. Sliamc, outrage, desolation could not kill.it. He rose to his feet and pushed the tinted porcelain away from him. Mrs. Silas Ellingsworth was all smiles and grace as Philip entered her parlor, and she shook hands with him, lingered as cordially over the greeting as if she had quite forgot ten her prettj- fingers bad ever been on his throat. She made him take a seat and began to make conversation with him, as if she sup posed he had called to see her. But suddenly she affected to be struck with an idea. "Oh, I know why you are not more talka tive, you didnt come to see me at alL She stepped to tho door. "Susan, call Miss Ellingsworth." "Miss!" Then there was no longer any room for doubt. Philip shrank at the blow she gave him. He had thought all uncer tainty was gone long ago, but he found that up to this very instant he had cherished a (park of hope that Bertha had a right to the name of the man she had fled with. And she was "Miss"7 still. His hostess way saying something, but he did not hoar it, there was such a deathly faintness about his heart. Then there came a step in tho hall, and his familiar thrill of tenderness at her coming. She lingered an instant on the threshold, on old habit of here that gave him time to step forward and meet her. Mrs. Ellingsworth had risen, too, and was waiting to speak. It was only tenderness in Philip Bretons eyes as he took both Bertha's hands so gently, but she said: "Am I very much changed, thenP and a pained look flitted across her face, Philip did not answer her for a moment, he was so distressed at her interpretation of the love that made his sight misty as he gazed at her. "Well, I suppose I am in the way," re marked the mistress of the house, with in bred vulgarity. She was smiling sweetly, but women's smiles do not always signify amiability. "I suppose," she added, letting ber skirts touch her two guests as sho passed oat, "you want to talk over old times with Mias Ellingsworth. n now came the last terrible assurance; Philip winced at the heartless blow, but not so much as a flush passed over Bertha's cold 'ace. She accepted the name without even a ihado of silent denial on her calm features, '.hough it was the badgo of shamo for her. "Oh, no," but ho dared not look her in the .ace for fear she should see his anxious pity for her. "You have been ill, perhaps, but I always thought you the loveliest woman in the world." She smiled as she let him lead her to a seat. "You always said that" Then she glanced sadly into the mirror. "But it is more pleas ant to hear now, for I know I am not pretty any longer." Could she understand that tho change that had como over her radiant beauty only changed his love to make it deeper.' Could she not see the new intensity of yearning in his eyes as he raised them to her face again! He longed to draw her into his arms and kiss her tired faco into eternal smiles. His love bad been refined into a new divineness; a love capablo of all sacrifices for her; that asked no price, but would pour itself in an eternal flood against her dull indifference, if it must be; a love more pain than joy, of unutterable yearnings for what he believed she cculd never have for him; that would scorn to grow on her unresponsiveness; that welled up the mightier for her coldness, content if hereaf ter it might throw a little brightness on the path her snowy feet should tread; content if sho would but lot him warm her cold heart with his tenderness. "Are you glad to be at homer' he asked, gently. "Do you call this home, with my servant its mistreasf For a moment it was Bertha, as she used to be, her anger curling her red lips and flashing new tire into her tired eyes. "Does she insult youf "It is insult enough that she is my father's wife. She can not go beyond that." "Shall you stay here alwayj'' asked Philip stupidly enough. "I suppose so; where elso is theref A wild impulse touched him; he loved her and sho needed love, had he not waited long enough But a sudden four eamo into hid mind and chilled his hope like u frozen foun tain. Sue might have a child how strange he bad never thought of it before. Ah, it would be a strong love which could endure that, a baby to haug on her bosom and take her kisses, a baby with Curran's face. No, he could never bear that, anything better than that. Her sin ho could forgive. Though it must linger forever in his memory, he would bury it beneath more blessed expe riences. His love should hallow her, he would kiss away Curran's caresses from her lips. But if there were a child Philip started violently and looked at the door; he fancied he heard a sound like tho pattering of infant feet. In a moment Bertha would catch to her arms her child and Cur ran's, and half smother it with a mother's kisses. Isn't that a child's voicer he cried, rising to his feet and his eyes rested on her in a new pitiful reproach. Ho thought she started strangely, as it a mother's instincts stirred in her Itosom. "Oh. no; it is only Jiuii I mean Mrs. Ellingsworth. What an innocent little laugh she has."' A child, with sweet winning ways, is a strange thing to hate, a lovely little rose bud to blossom no one knows how faultlessly by and by. But Philip thought he would hate her child Bertha's child, perhaps with his darling's star like eyes; ah, was it not Curran's, too, the symbol of her shame? As he walked home in the twilight he saw in each toddling baby in the doorways and windows, an image of his own materialized fear and horror. Philip looked back from tho hill on which stood his home to the vil lage his father had built up. Those massive mills with their thousands of looms were his; those long rows of white houses, each one of which held a family rich in possibilities of virtue mid hope, they all were his, and the new element of brightness and thrif, that had made the whole village a nursery of comfort and happiness was his work. Behind him was the great stone mansion with its arched gothic windows green with clustering wood bine, it was his too. How powerless he thought all that wealth and material power aa do to solve one of the terrible problems a heart makes for itself. Moodily he walked to his stables, in a kind of vague longing for companionship, and threw open the doors Four horses stood in their stalls within, noi.le looking creatures ull of them. They :urned their stately heads toward tho --ouiid of their master's fuel; they returned his love with lovo, Ono of them whinnied welcome and laid back his eats as his master came into the stall beside him. "Poor fellow, good boy;" Philip patted hia white neck affectionately. "You would do what you would for me, wouldn't you, Joe i I know you would, old fellow." He laid his 1 s iiHw . 1 srassaU L rHj jL An image of hi own materialized fear. cheek against the animal's velvet nose. "Bat jt-u couldnt go fast enough to get me oat of this trouble, not if you died to doit. CHAPTER XXII. so tURRntB,, Sensitiveness is a very unfortunate quality in life since no object is molded in accord ance with the strict rules of art, since there is no character but has a repulsive spot in it, no history but with its dark page. The happy man is neither too enthusiastic over the vir tues of his acquaintance, which may be acci dental or merely a pretty optical delusion, or too stern and unrelenting toward sins, which ho fancies might have been virtues under different conditions. But Philip Breton hod fallen out with life. The great world seemed to jar him as it rolled. Each hour bad revealed nngnwad means of suffering, and even the beams of genial sunlight had daggers for him. Yet it is hard for a man to understand that bis fate may be pure, unalloyed pain. He is ever smiling through his tears and trying to awako from bis despair, as if it wero but a dream of disordered fancy. So as the next morning came, and Philip Breton threw open his door to go out into the sweet scented Sep tember air, he felt happier than for many weeks; the peace that came over him seemed to leave no place for cruel distrust and unre lenting pride. He even reproached himself for bis ungenerousness of yesterday. The world of nature left no unsightly wounds and breaks in its whole dominion. Gaping graves are soon covered with green gross and wild flowers ; life swings quickly out of death, and apparent ruin is soon forgotten in renewed magnificence. Why should he, then, let two lives be wrecked for one wrong act in the past forever past? He swung down bis walk in a new buoy ancy. He believed he bad passed through the cloud and come oat into the clear light of reason. But at his gate a carriage rolled slowly by him. It contained a bridal couple, and he stopped to smile at them. The girl's face bad no culture in it, but was sweet, and bad the innocence of childhood. That ungainly fel low, who now wore his first broadcloth suit, at whom she looked so fondly, was the only lover she had ever known. She had no se crets from him, no past his jealous eyes might not scan without a pang. Her soul was open to him. No whisper to her shame could ever reach his insulted ears. Her life was com monplace, but no blot was on it, no guilty thought had ever left its trail across her heart. The rough lad, who was bold enough to put bis arm about her waist in broad daylight could pour his foolish love making into her eager ears without stint. There was no theme he must avoid with her, no page in her life he must not cut. He loved the soiled lily, loved it more than all the fresh roses. All other women might as well never have been born for him; this woman he would bare died for. Could be not protect her from evil tongues I If she were trampled, could he not uft her into bis bosom? If she were insulted, could be not put bis man's heart and strength between her and shame? He would hurry to his darling, throw himself at her feet, her past should be buried, ber life should begin with bis happi ness to-night "You want to marry Bertha? I supposed you were acquainted with her past." It was in Mr. Ellingsworth's room, where be sat in dressing gown and slippers, well back in his easy chair. He was looking at Philip Breton very curiously. He had really fancied he understood human nature befor. "I suppose I am," answered Philip simplj. "Well, I know more of it than I wish Idii. She ran away with a beggar, aud sho has come back. I dislike unpleasant memories, so I avoid unpleasant .information. You know her her her relations with Curran? Yes, well," and the gentleman shrugged his slight shoulders, "no doubt you know what you are doing, you run your own risks." "Risksr "Understand mo, I asked but two ques tions havo you left Curran forever? do you want to come home? I had heard she had never been married. Jane has heard it. I feared it. Do you wonder I did not ask, not caring for a disagreeablo certainty. Well, do your own questioning. I suppose the fact of her keeping her maiden name shows some thing." What if he should find she was indeed married after all, when he had at lost de cided he could not live without her; when ho hod at last made up bis mind that he must have her if he took a burden of lifelong shame into his soul with her? That would be a wretched freak for fortune to play with him; but how foolish he was, did not her name provo that she was unmarried? "But I hate so to harrow up her memo ries," said Philip, in an unsteady voice; "to make her confess her shame before me. I should think that would be a father's duty." "Can it be, my dear Philip," remarked Mr. Ellingsworth, with his own brilliant smile, "that you know meso little as to expect mo to perform an unpleasant duty? There are people that love them that never seem so much in their element as when engaged in somoactof self sacrifice. You must really excuse me." When Philip went down into the parlor Bertha was sitting there alone, and his fate seemed thrust upon him. Before he had time to dread breaking the subject to her he stood at the back of her chair, looking down on her thin, white fingers moviag over her embroid ery work. Ho laid his band very gently on ber shoulder. Ah, it was less round than it used to be. She was good enough to keep her eyes fixed on her work. There was no shade of heightened color on her cheeks, nor did she quicken her breathing. "Bertha," he began, in a low, sweet voice, "I am going to ask you something." Still sho did not look up. "If, at some time before yeu died, a man whom yeu liked came and asked you to marry him," he spoke very slowly, "is there any reason hy 3-ou must say nor Not one flush or nervous tremor. She threaded her needle again with tho red worsted, "What do you moan by reason?'' "I mean," he said, in forced calm, "is therr any barrier which the laws make to prevent you from marrying himf Sinco he had lc gun to dream of marriage, ho had thought only of the barrier of her shame; he had not thought that there might be a barrier more impregnable. But it came over him all the more terribly now. That would explain her lack of shame, her unbroken pride, that would be more consistent with his lifelong idea of her, if she had preserved her honor, and, alas, was already married and cut for ever away from him. That would save her purity which he bad thought sullied. No fingers of scorn could ever be pointed at her. No; but she would be lost to him forever. God forgive him, then, if he would rather have her dishonored, insulted, degraded, than lose her. Would she never answer? She laid down her needle and turned her face up to ward him. He trembled like a child as he watched her lips part; in a moment his fate would bo decided. It was terrible that his happiness could como only through her shame, and her honor meant a life of despair and loneliness for him, but so it seemed to him now. "There is no barrier," she replied. "Thank God," he whispered. Tho strain was removed. She had established her own disgrace with her own lips, without a droop ing of her eyes, without a quiver of her lips. Ah, but he suffered in his very hope. It wounded him that he must rejoice in her shame, it was almost as if he bod caused it. He bent low over her shoulder, in another moment he would have told her of tho un changing passion of his love. All tho bounds of bis nature were broken down now. His whole soul seemed dissolving in ineffable tenderness for this cold woman, into whose calm, beautiful eyes he looked so hungrily. "Like embroidery, don't you, Mr. Breton P Mrs. Ellingsworth flashed ber small black eyes in delight. Philip started back in ill concealed dismay, but Bertha's face changed not one shade of expression as she rose mag nificently to her feet and swept from the room. The lady of the house looked unpleasantly after her. "Isnt it funny, she dont seem to like me? Do yon suppose it is that Curran scrape that has put her so much above me?" Philip glanced savagely at ber; bo could almost have strnck her, without thinking of ber womanhood, there was such a snako liko look in the glistening black eyes. One might as well reproach a wild creature of the forest for following oat its Instincts; bat after a moment be said: "Mrs. Ellingsworth forgets she is a lady f But she was beautiful, if not a lady, her hot blood lighting up her round olive cheeks as if it were liquid fire and her curled lips glowing like a perfect rose just bursting into bloom. No man could look at her now and not feel a mod soulless fascination for ber, a fascination the greater because mixed with revulsion. Sho was a perfect type of the womanhood that can madden a man with passion, without tenderness, that can wreck his life, banish every noble hope or ideal from his soul and feed him nothing but dead sea fruit. "It's strange what makes a lady," she answered him in growing excitement. "Your Bertha is one uo matter what vile ness she sinks to, but I can't whisper one rude word." She came close to him and put ber burn ing fingers on his hand. "Your horse loves you better than that woman. She will tor ture you to death, let her alone." Then sho sprang away from him, and walked back ward and forward clasping and unclasping her clinging fingers in her old habit. "Oh, I bate her, I hate her; but what good is it? I would dash myself to pieces to break her, but I could not. She steals my lover and then leaves him. 8he comes back disgraced in the eyes of her own father; but she does not feel it. And now comes her lover with bis riches, and offers everything to her. She deserves nothing, but gets everything." She would have raved on, but Philip Breton walked slowly out of the room. Nothing could ever move him now; be preferred the woman she maligned to all the other hopes or possessions in the world. CHAPTER XXHL SO APPRECIATION OF EMBROIDERY. It was the next afternoon, as Philip Breton was unhitching Joe from the post, that be had occasion to doff his bat to Mrs. Ellings worth, driving by with her husband. They made a very pretty picture of marital bliss; perhaps they were all the happier because neither of them had souls. Philip had been intending to go to bis factory, there was some business he ought to attend to, but the sadden assurance that Bertha was alone made his heart give a great bound. What better time than now to tell ber of his unal tered love, to win her promise to let him nuke her happy? So his business was post poned, and he rang the bell at Mr. Ellings worth's instead. "Not in!" he repeated after the servant in dismay. Would his luck never change? Had she been frightened at his manner the night before, and gone away to avoid bis unpleas ant suit?" "But she isnt far away," and the girl smiled at the disappointment that had come over his face. "I guess, now, you will find her in the garden; or I will call her if you say." "No, dont call her," and Philip hurried out to the garden. What more fitting place for what he bad to say if he could find his voice for the great lamp in his throat. He must be very eloquent to persuade her, to answer all her objections, to assure ber that it was not pity that moved him, for she would re sent that, but love a love that craved her above all the world. She looked op from her embroidery at the sound of bis footsteps and smiled. Her beauty might all go, as its first bloom and freshness bad gone, and ber cheeks fade like the autumn leaves whose glowing tints they had once worn; her golden hair might whiten with age, ho know it would make no differ ence in his love. She wore tho same dress she had worn in that other garden scene. She had grown thin and gone back to the dresses of her girlhood. It was a light blue silk, open low in tho neck, filled in with nest ling folds of lace. The sunbeams made their way through the low hanging trees, and with them came the breath of tho roses, and tho humming of tho bees, just as on that other day. Philip seated himself on the bench besido her, and tried to make his voice .calm as ho said: "Do you remember when you last wore this dressf' AVould she bo frightened at the intensity of gentleness in his voice? But .sho smiled as frankly at him as if ho wero her brother. "Oh, yes." He put his hand on her arm, cool as if lovo and passion were forever outside her xperi ence. "Certha, I love you more now than then. I will not frighten you with iuy ve hemence; I luive learned to co:iq;i-r myself. I will cherish you as a child, but, oh, Ifcrtha, I want to be near you." Tho woman did not draw away from him. She was looking with a changed expression at his eager face the face of tho lover w lutni no coldness could chill; who returned again ufttr her desertion of him, whom no aham could alter. Ho lual stined o ncthing like admiration in hor at last. A tiao of dciicate color roso from her neel: among the ToH lace, and mounted to tho roots of her gol . hair. It was tho first time he had ever ram -her. "And you lovo me ns much now :ls tli:.t day I fell asleep on your shoulder ages n,r", it must havo been 5" Then her great blue eyes drooped under tho intensity of lovo that looked from his face :t lovo beyond her jwwer to understand. He gathered her hands in his. "As much aud more a dee-ier, purer, gentler love that will protect you against its own very vehe mencethat would rather make sacr.ficet for you than joys for itself." "Take me, then,' and she let him draw her head on his breast, where she felt the throb bing growing mightier und mightier, though he only pressed his liiis upon her cool fore head. Then she drew back. She did not look in his face, which had a great light in it, perhaps sho was ashamed that sho had noth ing to give him, ashamed tliat her heart was so cold uuder the rapture that looked out of his eyes. "But Philip, you mast not hurry me too much. I am slow, and this is so sudden, 1 would as soon have thought of iui earth quake." Then she glanced wonleingry at him as if to make sure. "Ah, Philip, you deserve a bettor lovo than mine." But he caught her hand to his lips, and held it there while he covered it with kisses, "I would rather the llower you wear in your bosom than any woman in the world besides you. 1 learned to love with vou, Bertha." But she took !; hand away uneasily. "But you won't hurry me, wiil you, Philipf1 How could she usk him to wait much longer? "For if 3011 do" "Oh, no I will give you a whole week. He laughed, and then grew suddenly very sober. "Haven't I given you long enough?" "I must take a little journey first," and her eyes appeared to avoid his. A tudden tide of jealousy swept over him. Had sho de served his trust f "I will go with you. It shall bo our wed ding journey." She flushed nervously "Oh, no, not yet'" Where could she bo going? To one last interview with Curran, ierhnps, aud ho felt that ho could not bear one thought of him should ever cross her soul again. How short a time it took to spoil his happiness. The glow had left his heart, the light had goc out of his eyes, all in a moment Is rcis-jry then tho only thing that cmu hist? "Only this once," sho said. "You shall go with me always then." His mood melted and in a momont ho was kneeling before her. "Oh, Bertha, be fair with mo for you hold me in the hollow of your hand. Do not fail mc now when you have seemed so near me." She put hor hand on his bowed heed, per haps some sweet word trembled on her lips. He hungered for it, and when sho did not speak, he looked up into the faco of his bride Sho had socmed so far from him, a world could not havo iwrted them more, bat h was at her feet, and she had promised to be his wife. "My dear Philip, excuse mo, but you are crushing my embroidery." So he was. Ho was kneeling on it in his fojad idolatry, as if a piece of worsted work was of no account. He found his feet and cast a pathetic glsmeo at the square of canvas lief ore he stooped to pick it up. It was strange, indeed, that he should have been so tarried away i:i his pas sionate ardor as not to notice what ho was kneeling on. "I hope I have not ruined your work," he said, simply. No, he had only rumpled it a little, and ho would have been willing to pur chase all the canvas and worsted in two cities, rather than have missed tho tender word he thought was on her lips. (TV fca Cant ?".) That Democratic Family Row. If David B. Hill does not behave him self the Democratic party will not nomi nate him in 18S)J. Macon Telegraph. The moredemonstrative Governor Hill's supporters become the more oil G rover pours on the federal machine. Cincin nati Times-Star. There is a panic in all the circles of President Cleveland's snpporters for a second term. Governor Hill caused it. What with Hill and Randall alive and Dan Manning dead, Mr. Cleveland is going to have his hands full when the spring time comes, gentle Annie. Chicago Journal. Governor Hill started out to look for the presidential nomination with a dark lantern and a jimmy. He had his shoes off and was treacling, oh, so softly, when he made a misstep and attracted some attention before he could hide his kit of tools. He now says openly that he is going to get to the White House if he can. That is what he ought to have said some time ago before he was found out and made to own up. Chicago News. About the size of Cleveland's wisli as to the place where the Democratic con vention should be held is this: "New York, unless Dave Hill wants New York, too. In that case, take any place but that, and my linn nerves shall never tremble.' New York Press. Must nave a New Set of Hum's. It is related that au old Democratic friend of President Cleveland called his attention to the lack of managers for lite campaign. "Yon mu'-t be looking around, Mr. President," said he, "for men to run your campaign, if you are re nominated. Mr. Manning is dead. So is Hubert O. Thompson. There is no John Kelly ruling Tammany Hall now with whom to make a trade. These were the men who elected you. But more than that, you will find William H. Barnuifl disinclined to stay at the head of the na tional committee. You must find another man than Senator Gorman for chairman of the national executive committee. ?mith M. Weed is going to Europe to be gone a year. You have put Col. Smalley into a federal office, so that he can't have anything to do with the canvass. Mr. Smith, who was chairman of the New York state executive committee in 1884, has gonewest, and another man must fill that place. Do you realize that none of the men who stood up for you in 1884 will be at the front this year, and that you must pick out an entirely new set of hands?" Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. All, AH Are Interested. If the Carlisle cranks and whisky ring monopolists reduce the tariff on iron, then we will be relegated to the condition we were in before the war. Without the car rying trade of our furnaces, mills and fac tories, and the supplies necessary to keep them going, our railroads would go down to weekly trips (if run at all). Bats and owls would become the occupants of our palatial stores and residences; our far mers, now prosperous from the fact of having a market for product of form, orchard, garden and dairy, would become only consumers of their own products, and store clothes and the luxuries they now enjoy would only bo remembered in the execration of the law makers who were parties to this unnatural war on our section; when I say section, I mean the mineral section of the whole south. Ex tract from letter of R. B. Kyle, of Gads den, Ala., to the member ot congress from his district, Gen. W. H. Forney American Sovereign and British Subject. Mr. Moen, of the famous firm of Wash burn & Moen, of Worcester. Mass., who employ nearly 3,000 men, declares if the wages of these men are reduced to the English standard ho can compete with England or any other country in the manufacture of wire of nil kiuds. So long ns he pays twice ns much he cannot He is opposed to reducing the wages on gen eral principles mainly, however, because he believes the American sovereign is en titled to more wages than the British sub ject. New York Press. No Room for Honest 7.1en. The only Democrats in the country who are "better than their party" are in pri vate life. When Hon. Allen (J. Thur inan first began to display :in eccentricity of this character he was quickly and sum marily sent home, and he has been kept home ever since. At the present time he could not be elected an alderman or u town const ablo except by Republican votes St. Louis Globe- Democrat. It IVus Only a Bluff. The money in the treasury only in creased $1 1,53'2.532 last month. Congress has been in session fifty-eight days and nothing has been done to reduce the flow of money into the government strong boxes The tobacco lax aud the sugar tax could have been removed any day since congress assembled. This would have reduced the income l5,000,000since convrcss met. Brief, bat Impresslvo. A statement of the relative wages paid in a woolen mill employing 221 hands, in Providence, H. I., and a mill of the same kind and size in Bradford, England, shows over 100 per cent, in favor of the Ameri can operatives. It is by such figures as these that the arguments of the free ! traders in this country aro easily aud con clusively refuted. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. I'rofeHsions aud Practice. An administration that has made more removals und changes in office than any oilier since Jackson's such is the record upon which Mr. Cleveland will appeal to the spoilsmen this year. As to the Mug wumps well, he will not appeal to them. They will have to appeal to him or let judgment go by default. Philadelphia Press. Kitten by a Tarantula. A boy's life was saved in a singular maimer near Gilroy Valley, Cal., not long since. The lad, a son of Niel O'Brien, while putting on an undershirt one morn ing, was bitten four times by a large tarantula, which was concealed in one of the sleeves of the garment, before he could divest himself of it and kill the wrathsome thing. His father, rushing to him on hearing his outcry, took in the situation at a glance aud hurriedly killed a turkey. The bird was ripped open in the stomach aud laid entrails and ull, on the child's arm, and plenteous doses of whisky administered at the time and dur ing the drive to town for medical assist ance. The doctor pronounced the treat ment as the very best, and by its prompt ness had probably saved the boy's life. When the turkey was taken from the arm its ilesh had become quite hard and black from the absorbed poison. The boy quickly recovered and is now attending j""ool. Chicago News. Tlie Wlmlo Story iu a lar;iraph. Free traders say that tariff duties are taxes on the consumers. If we had no tariff our imports would very largely ex ceed our exports. We would have to meet this excess by money, and it would lie a heavier tax on the country than the duties under a protective tariff. During the revenue reform tariff period, from 1840 to 1801, although we were producing im mense quantities of gold from the Cali fornia mines we had to send it abroad by every outgoing steamer to pay our debts for imports, because we could not export enough to pay for what wo imported. On the other hand, if we buy only articles of domestic manufacture and production the money we pay for them remains here to add to our prosperity by keeping the wheels of industry in motion. What we pay for foreign goods is the real tax, not tho duty on them. Fiber and Fabric. Home Artitits Are Too Common. It is, perhaps, not strange that this pres ent un-American free trade administra tion should cater to foreign governments, but when Secretary Whitney ndvertises only iu French and other foreign news papers for plans for a steel submarine ves sel he discourages and discredits Ameri can skill in an entirely unwarrantable manner. America surpasses the world in inventive genius, and the greatest gifts to mankind iu the way of inventions for practical uses have come from American inventors. Whenever the demand has been made the invention has been forth coming, showing that hero necessity is in deed the mother of invention. Burling ton Free Press. The Difference lu Parties and Men. Senator Davis, of Minnesota, has re signed his position as member of the na tional Republican committee because he thinks it inconsistent with his duties as senator. Meanwhile, Secretary Vilas and Postmaster General Dickinson, two trusty pillars of this Democratic sham civil ser vice reform administration, contiuue to hold their places in the national Demo cratic committee. If any one puts any faith iu the civil service pretensions of the administration, or if its pretensions had not been exploded long ago, this exhibi tion of "offensive partisanship" would cause some surprise. Cleveland Lender. VTe Are Wide Awake, Thank You. If anybody thinks the Republican party is asleep or apathetic, let him read the daily accounts that tell about the organiz ation of new club-, state leagues and other important adjuncts to a national campaign. The party was never more active or alert, and its young men, who give it vigor and aggressiveness, are especially bestirring themselves. The skies are bright with the promise of suc cess if proper effort be put forth, and the mass of Republicans are rousing for a supreme effort during the presidential campaign. Troy Times. Ah, but There Are None Such. It's about time for some free trader who has his faith grouuded in knowledge to come to the front. The work of lighting protection is now carried on by those who are free traders, without knowledge, for partisan ends only. Milwaukee Sentinel. 'i :?".; Ho that hath children, all his morsels aro not his own. An Aliolnte fare. The ORIGINAL ABIETIXE OINT MENT is only put up iu largo two-ounce tin boxes, and is au absolute cure for old sorea, burns, wounds, chapped hands and all kinds of skin eruptions. Will positively cure all kinds of piles. Aak for tho ORIGINAL ABITINE OINTMENT Sold by Dowty & Becher at 2i cents per box by mail 30 cents. tnar7y Ho that makes a good war, tuuken a good peace. He that hath a head of wax, must not walk in the sun. liurklcii. Arnirn Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, 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 by Dowty & Becher. july27 "Did n't Know t was Loaded l" Blay do for stupid boy's excuse ; but what can be said for the parent who sees his child languishing daily and fails to recognize the want of a tonic and blood-purifier? Formerly, a course of bitters, or sulphur and molasses, was the rule in well-regulated families ; but now all intelligent households keep Averts Sarsaparllla, which is at once pleasant to the taste, and the most searching and effective blood medicine ever discovered. Nathan S. Cleveland. 27 E. Canton St.. Boston, writes : " My daughter, now 21 years old, was in perfect health until a year ago when she began to complain ol fatigue, headache, debility, dizziness, indigestion, and loss of appetite. I con cluded that all her complaints originated in impure blood, and induced her to take Ayer s Sarsaparilla. This medicine soon restored her blood-making organs to healthy action, and in due time reestab lished tier former health. I find A yex's Sarsaparilla a most valuable remedy for the lassitude and debility incident to spring time." J. Oastright, Brooklyn Power Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.. says : "As a Spring Medicine, I find a splendid substitute, for the old-time compounds in Ayer's Sarsaparilla, with a few doses of Ayer's Pills. After their use, I feel fresher and strouger to go through the summer." Ayer's Sarsaparilla, PREPAHKD BY Or. J. C. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass. Price $1; U botiiw.fi. Worth $5 a bottle. A Soaad Legal Opinion. E. 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Santa Abie and Cat-R-Cure are sold and warranted by Dowty & Becher. Far Bhooting never killed bird. ("ood Wages Ahead. George Stinson & Co., Portland, Maine, can give you work that yon can do and live at home, making great pay. Yon aro started free. Capi tal not needed. Both eexee. All ages. Cut this ont and write at once; no haim will be done if you conclude not to go to work, after you learn all. All particulars free. Bettt iutying work in this world. 4-ly Death foreseen come not. Mr. C. W. Battell a traveling man rep resenting Messrs. S. Colins, Son & Co., printing inks. New York, after suffering intensly for two or three days with lame ness of the shoulders and back, com pletely cured it with two applications of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It cures lameness and rheumatism when all other treatment fails. Guaranteed and sold by Dowty & Becher. An ill laborer quarrels with his tools. A positive cure for liver and kidney troubles, constipation, sick und nervous headache and all blood diseases is "Moore's Tree of Life." Try it. Sold by Dr. A. Heintz. He that blames would buy. I am selling "Moore's Tree of Life" and it is said to give the very best satis faction. Dr. A. Heintz. 30-Cm3 He that sings on Friday shall weep on Sunday. Worth Yonr Attention. Cat this oat and mail it to Allen & Co., An garia, Maine, who will send you free, something new, that just coins mozey for all workers. Aa wonderful aa the electric light, as genuine as pure gold, it will proTe of lifelong value and Importance to you. Both bexes, all ages. Allen & Co. bear expose of starting you in business. It will bring you in more cash, right away, than anything else in tbis world. Anyone anywhere can do the wark, and live at home also. Better write at once; then, knowing all, should you conclude tliat yon don't rare to engage, why no harm is done. 4-ly He that comes of a hen must scrape. Try Moore's headache cure, it beats the world. For sale by Dr. A. Heintz. Don't Experiment. You cannot afford to waste time ex perimenting when your lungs are in danger. Consumption always seems, at first, only a cold. Do not permit any dealer to impose upon you with some cheap imitation of Dr. King's New Dis covery for consumption, coughs and colds, but be sure you get the genuine. Because he can make more profit he may tell you he has something just as good or just the same. Don't be diceived, but insist upon getting Dr. King's New Discovery which is guaranteed to give relief in all throat, lung and chest af fections. Trial bottles free at Dowty & Becher's drug store. Large bottles 81. He that seeks trouble never misses. The Excellent Qualities Of the delightful liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, commend it to all who suffer from Habitual Constipation, In digestion, Piles, etc. Being in liquid form and pleasing to the taste, harmless in its nature, strengthening as well as cleansing in its properties, it is easily taken by old and Young, and truly bene ficial in its effects, and, therefore, the favorite family remedy, especially with ladies and children, who require a gen tle yet effective laxative. For sale only by Dowty & Becher. He that once deceives is ever suspected Who hath bitter in not ull Bweet. bis mouth, spits Whooping Congh may be kept under completo control and all danger avoided by frequent doses of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. No better treatment can be prescribed for it. Sold by Dowty & Becher. Who doeth his own business, fouls not his hands. The Importing LINCOLN, -lMl-OItTEKS OV Pitre-bred French Draft (Percheron or Norman) AND ENCL1SH SHIRE HORSES. 4 Visitors ulnray welcome. 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