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I CHAPTER XVHL 1 ■ Edw.anl Hondford utill sat in hi* pri-: I »as» office. Bpeuc*r was gone—but in | H hi, place stood n big, burly, evil-loukiug | fellow. . R Now. Handford did not feel, nt that |5 moment, diepoaed to talk to a stranger or. . s Indeed, anyone else; *> ho requested hi* ■ ■ to n visitor t» kindly cull at another I "I tl -s* yottif business is very urgent I s with ue. please see my secretary, or else 1 H come up again. lam far fr<xn well, mid i g totally unfit to discuss any matter at ■ | The stranger fixed his gaze upon Hand-1 e ford with nu Impudent leer, ami the rail- | nad pre*W*#t imagined that he had i | somewhere seen the man before. Ah!’ | What abont his blackmailing visitor nt | his room* nearly a year since? Surely » this was the self-same ntttu. I “t’rgent?" asked the fellow, with a; i sneer, “well, that's for yon to say. I i | will merely mention the fact that 1 want 1 | yon to give me a couple of thousand dol-1 i airs. Os course, you will naturally re-j | fuse unless you hear some fairly good | | reason for my demand. The question is. | do you wish to know the reason?" I Handford was silent—enwrapped partly I I In thoughts of the man who hail jnst left | him. Then, realizing that the fellow ; I awaited for n reply, he said: I “Are you aware that you are talking the ; I Bost nttw i.'o-urdities? Now. if you are | In need of work or assistance, come up to- I | morrow. At present, ns I have already I said. I have a great deal to worry me. ! I mid am quite unwell. If you are here I merely to annoy me, I shall have to call I for a inn 4 my men to remove you. Still the stranger wore that self-satis-fied. almost insolent, look—the demeanor i of a man who holds a winning hand and only awaits an opportunity to display it to advantage. “Let me tell you." said lie. “that I know considerable about your family affairs, and about the affairs of Harry Spencer. 1 am perfectly willing to tell yon all 1 know. lam just as willing to tell your—<io. bis wife all 1 know. But silence is gulden, to the extent of two thousand dollars." Handford tried to appear calm and collected. He was naturally of a tranquil disposition, able to meet all exigencies with a clear brain and a level head. But he was now. in fact, deeply agitated. This whole business was a strange and un-looked-for upset to his life plans. "Tell rm what you know, my wan.” said Handford. "and. meanwhile, recollect that 1 ft.liy remember your former visit to me. I’essibly you nmiembvr it. too?’ “Y‘s. Ire • meet.” said the man v. iii the least possible start. "But perhaps you can rail to inind. s -me three years ago, playbig tin- part of fireman on a loeotiiot;. ? Perhaps you remember, too. the lira!.• Riati who held the engineer to the lever with a six-shooter! Perhaps you don't • member the engineer? 1 am the sir! You thought you held the trump ords when you am! that brakeman did that smart piece of business on the run from Prairie City to Big Ciek. So you h. i and you played them -.veil to the end of that game. Yon got me discharged and blacklisted, and it was not your fault that I did not serve time iu the penitentiary. I don’t blame you ver.' much for what you did. though I am ghid that I can now get even with you. You were an aristocrat and played the part of an autocrat. But that brakenmn mb! I swore to get even with him it it cost me my life. I could have shot him or had him shot easily enough. 1 could have hurt him in a hundred ways. 'But. no, says I. ‘That brakeman didn't always railroad. He's got a little history, and if I stick to him long enough 1 shall discover that same little history, and so be able to take a sweeter and more lasting revenge than common murder.’ So I shadowed Mr. Ri. hards until 1 found out dial he was Mr. Spencer, and the latest scene iu my piny was your humble servant with his ear tv the keyhole of your private office, listening while our dear friend related his tii hing story. As 1 said before. 1 ain’t feeling so sore at what you did I expected as much from the general manager: bur when a fellow goes braking to play spy and sneak. I've got to show him, sooner or later, that be can't haw* all the fun when Barney Hughes is around! Still, ns you never did me any good. I’m going to kill two birds with one stone. Only, ns money lids been scarce with me for some time, 1 am willing to put tny revenge in my pocket along with some ready money. Therefore, I offer you the option of paying me the sum 1 named, spot cash, or of having me inform Mrs. Handlord that she is still Mrs. Spencer." During all the time that the rascal hud been talking, a thousand thoughts and counter thoughts hud flashed through Handford's brain. There was not a crooked tendency iu Edward Handford's head; yet after his interview with Spencer, when the latter had so explicitly stated his wishes in the matter, he had almost divided that it would be better to say nothing to Emily until after Spencer's death. Even then it was, perhaps, a mean thought to entertain, and. if he had taken time to consider, he might never have acted upon his determination. Now, however, he was fully settled in the course which he proposed to pursue. If Barney Hughes had counted upon finding in liandford a weak-minded, vascillating man. who would buy his peace mid honor at ills price, he had rec koned very foolishly. The proposition of the cxvngineer instantly showed Handford how Io act. "You will leave this office at once, ’ said

' he, “or 1 shall have you arrested for nt- | | tempting to extort money by threats. Yon | | may go, and 1 du nut care where, only do not coin* to tny bouse. My wife will know ' ’ nil that I know a* quickly as I can go ; home and tell her. 1 should have inform- j I is) her without your outrageous iuterfer- | erne, sir; therefore, your threats are ab- | . solutely worthless. L"t me advise yon" ( and there was a dangerous expression in | Handford's eye as he said this—“to med- ! dll- n > more with tny personal affairs, as I will brook nothing of the kiml. Fur- ; thermore. let me suggest, if you have a 'park of mauh'iod or human sympathy i remaining, that yon leave that poor fellow | ■ alone. You van see that his days are al- i I ready numbered. His life, it is true, has ' Is en a failure—and yet lie Is a mama i noble mam n better man than you. i i Hughes. As tor me. 1 can take care of I myself. Go!" Like a whipped cur, Hughes sneaked , ■ out. But. as be silently withdrew, he , now hnted liandford as much as he did I Spencer. Handford rang a Ik-11 for Mr. Sharp, a detective detailed to do secret work for the Great Occidental Company. His office adjoined that of the president, and i I he arrived in a moment or two. Through the window Hughes could be ' i seen, slouching along the street below. Mr. Handford pointe ! him out to the detective. “That fellow. Sharp—you understand? ' Leave one of your liest men here and at- I I tend to this personally. Never mind the i cost; it will be at my private expense. , That is all.” “Yes. sir." said the officer, very quietly. ns Edward Handford left his office to i go home. CHAPTER XIX. A myriad thoughts crowded themselves. | one after another, upon Handford's brain as he walked home. But they ail , ! tended in one direction—what would be I the result of all that had just come to light? Edward Handford did not think for u moment that Emily cared more for Spencer than for himself. On the other hand, he felt morally certain that Emily and he , were bound together by a far stronger | I and more enduring affection than she . had ever entertained for her husband of ; a day. Ho he was not fearful that she would, even after learning all the redeeut- • ing features of Spencer’s later life, cease ' to love him. At the same time Handford , thought that he was well enough ae- I quainted with Emily's nature and character to know that she would never for a I single moment consent to remain with him I ; while Iter lawful husband was living—or I , at b-ast until such time as the law could ' But these and similar thoughts did not 1 deter Handford from hi.< purpose. As : has been before remarked, he was the , very soul of honor. It was not in his na- ! Hire t > withhold knowledge from his wife which he felt he ought to share with her, I i and lie was not likely to be false to her, ; to himself and to his honor in so impor- , I tunt a matter as that which now occupied his mind. Besides, if ho faded to tell her. there was Barney Hughes, who ..might do so at any lime. Certaitdy Handford would never suffer humiliation i ! at the hands of that fellow, if there were ! 1 means to prevent it. When Handford had left home that ■ ' morning Emily was not feeling well. As i he now entensl the house the housekeeper I met him. "Mrs. Handford is quite ill, sir. and we ■ have sent for the doctor." Emily was indeed sick, and it was out ■ of the question to acquaint her with Spencer’s story at the present time. It would keep until the morrow. But the morrow , came only to find Emily worse, and for ' weeks afterwards she lay prostrated with a violent fever, so that a month passed and still she knew nothing of what Hand- , ford wished to tell her. When Emily , at last Iwcume convalescent. Handford took her to Colorado, proposing, as soon as she should become *1 longer, to unbur- ’ den his mind to her. So far. however, Handford had neither seen nor heard anything more of either Hughes or Spencer. Since the reader was first introduced to ’ 1 the mining village of Rosedale, there had 'I (suite many changes, chiefly for the better. to that portion of the Andy Jackson j Gulch. Instead of the old coach road the Iron truck followed, nt n rather dizzy ’' height in places, the trail along the moun- ' tain side, and only three miles from the eenter of the town the trains Htofqied at a pigmy telegraph cabin, upon which 1 was painted in primitive lettering the ' word ROSEDALE. Down in the village proper, Gilllcuddy's still exiated. Gillil cuddy presided, as of yore, over the reginter and the cigar boxes, but the “veran--1 dah." the barrel verandah, had disappeared. giving place to a modern porch 1 of mammoth dimensions, furnished with huge red rocking chairs, imported by Gil- . licuddy regardless of expense. On a certain night in the late autumn • —so late in the night that all the chairs i on Gillieuddy's new porch were deserted ■ -a handsome private car was switched on a side track very near to the cabin com- ■ moldy known as the Rosedale depot. It • was not n moonlight night, but the ColoI rado atmosphere was so clear and transparent that the stars shone upon the i earth with remarkable brilliancy, and ■ appeared to afford as much light a* a • h-ilf moon in less favored climates. I Down in the little town at the foot of the • big hills everything win quiet and pence•jful, but up on the mountain side, along | the railroad track, more limn one wakeful I i mail was on the alert.

The e>(rnnt private ear bcl mged to President Handford. of th* Great Oceß, dental Railroad. Ho and Ills wife, ns well as their M-rvants, Including the colored wiitelimau, were all soundly sleiqiing. At a short disiniice from the car, behind a boulder, sat a young man th* eollsr of hl* heavy ulster turned up tu protect his ears from the kren sight air. Some dlstaneu along the track a man was approaching, nt a brisk pace. He was a big. muscular fellow, dressed In rough clothing, and wa* carrying a small package which he handled very carefully. Not more than three hundred yards behind this mnn there followed another. Strangely enough, the secund man wore rubbers over Ids shoos, although thero had been no rain for sovornl days, and, furthermore, whenever the first man paused, the second man halted also. < About one tulle from the spot where the private i ar wns switched, the figure of an old man started up from a little pile of ti<** very much startling the leading iMdestrlaii, who had jnst reached the same pile of ties. "Barney," said the old man in a lowvoice, although, as far as he knew, there was not n soul within a mile. "Oh. it's you, is it?" muttered Hughes, for the tramp was none other. "Well, say. De Watts, it's bnd enough for you to be fixing yourself up like an old scarecrow, without hiding away like that to spring out mt a fellow unaware*. 1 thought you had some work of your own to do to-night ou the other side of the village?" “So I had. but it’s too light. It's never dark in this Colorado country unless its raining. Besides. I must steer clear of R -ednlo. There’s a fellow mum-1 Sharp, a pretty (lever detective from Chicago, in the neighborhood. He's the only man my disguises can't fool. He wants me for an old crime. You'd better look out "tt’i. well." replied Barney, "if 1 can't m;rko any money and you can't get what you hid aw ay over yonder. I might as well get nabbed and live well until I'm hung. I spent my last dollar for thia piece <>f inlsehlef. De Watts, and I’m gang to I have my money's worth out of it. If I get away all right I'll meet you in the I morning." Hughe* then proei-cded on his way I toward the car. while De Watts carefully placed his white wig in his pocket, straightened out his bent shoulders and took from behind the stock of ties a stout I pair of boots, which he had hidden there during the evening. As lie sat there changing his shoes. Dei tective Sliarp, in his rubbers, tripped softly past ou the track. The officer had ; wondered mnch who interreI gator might In*, but had held back, fearful lest an inopportune interference might ' cost him his man. So, fur the time being, De Watta e k ap J. As Hughes ;i|., . bed Mr. 11 Celt'rd', private car. he left the track ami pursuec his way. very slowly, carefully and softly, through the shrubbery and grass at the side of the railroad. Arrived opi>osite the cur. he hid himself among some stunted trees, exactly opposite where the young man iu the ulster sat behind the I boulder. Drteetive Sharp also crept up cautiously and ensconced himself where he could wnttfil Barney Hughes, at a distance, perhaps, of a hundred feet «ip the track —of course in the dirc-ciion from which he had come. The occupants of the car went still sleeping soundly. (To be continued.)

Tile Way* of the Opoaauni. Just why the great zoologists of the present day should have chosen to con siiler the opossum an animal of n lower order than the stupid and helpless r,oth. and the third order from tin lowest of all, is not so easy to understand as it ought to lie. As :i matter of fact, nature has dime a great deal for the oppossiim—far more th,'tn lor the great majority of <|.iadruped.-. Note what the creature is, and cut do. and match it if you can. It eats almost everything tiiat can be chewed wild fruit, berries, green corn, insect larvae, eggs, young birds anti quadrupeds, sott-shelled nuts, and certain roots. It is a good climla'r. and has a very useful prehensile tail. It forages on the ground quite us suceessftilly as any squirrel. It usually burrows under the roots of large trees, where it is impossible for the hunter to dig it out; but sometimes it makes the mistake of choosing a hollow log. When attacked. it often feigns death to throw its assailants off their guard. Like the boar and woodchuck, it stores up a plentiful supply of fat for winter use. when food is scarce; and, above all. the female has a nice, warm pouch in which to carry and protect her helpless young. Instead of leaving them in the nest to catch their death of cold, or lie devoured by some enemy.—St. Nicholas. Corcun Houses. Every ('orean house lias tt cellar, not for the storing of wine, but for the storing of beat. The cellar Is called a "khan." Its mouth, through which it is fed. is tit some distance from the house, on a cold night may be seen one or more white-clad figures cramming the “khan's" mouth as fust as they cun with twigs, branches, nnd ot her combustible food. • nice well fed. the furnace burns for hours, trad keeps the house warm rill night. So the attendants mi the tire tire not kept out in the cold very long: and. while they are there, their hands are full of work. A ('< rean house, heated at sunset, koeps warm all night, because the lire is invariably huge, because the floors through which the bent permeates are made of oiled paper, and because the furnace itself is largely n mass of pipes tind flues that both retain and give out heat. •Twas a Typoizraphicnl Error. "That was a curious printer's error.' said Mi*. Partridge. "The title of this new Ivook is printed 'The Viking Age. "Well, why not?" asked Partridge "What ought it to be?" "Why. 'Biking Age,' oughtii' it?"-. Boston Globe. Young lawyer Thunk heaven! A last I have it ease n young rascal wh< has at least half n dozen thefts tut hit conscience. Wifi I low kind of him 1« choose you for ids counsel. Don't you think we ought to invite Knit ts dinner? Fliegeude Blacttcr.

THE BATTLEOE LOGIC TILLMAN. HILL. BRYAN AND VILAS SPEAK. Two Fawnr the Adoption of tbo Krport <»f the Commlttoo on HoOOlu* tionop and Twu |>«» llwttlo ft>r the* Gold rtMiidord. iwhwto on thr Platform. In the diwctintion of ihv |dntfuriii b<*f«»rr tin* nntloiuil Ih’inornitic cuiiwiitlnii Henator* Hill nml Vibm op|»<M»v<l th»* ailver* bond, mid Ineuiiie lax plnnk*. iind Sonmor Tillman and (.‘ungrvM-uian Brynn support<•«! tho rotnmllhH’** r«-|w»rt. Sm ator Tillman apoke hi part u>* followa: betiHtor Tllltiintt 1 mnn* hi»re fr»nu Houtb Cartdlnn. I at nti «»p|M»riurn* ilhh*. Mouth t'arollna hi I*mh» |<m| ilm*, tight In the IhUHHrmlo purty whh'b r«*HiHt<*d ht It* dlmrupthm. That di» ruptlon of Hutt party lu*oUKht nl»<»ut the wnr. Thv WMF ••liliHM <1 tb«’ We lire now lemltng a tight to • inatn Iputo the white* Mlart*M. I do not ktiovv whothvi- I can truly h.»y whrthfr I am a of the entlto Mouth or not. I h«v«‘ Imtii Iu fotirtiMMi Ktateii hlit' V April, niakliitf the no uoun<'t*ni< nt m iuhv dn-hirnt lou of lnde> i In the* hint three* or four or live year* the* Western people havo to r«*niiKv that tbo condition of tlo* South nn<l th** condition of the Wont uitM Identical. Rvnco. we tlnd to*dn.r that tin* iH*m«>eratlc |wrty of the Wt nt Im iioro nltnoMt In wdld phalanx appeal* Ing to the Month the youth have reMp'»nu»Ml — to Cfdve |u their help to H'leovc thia y««k« . It Im n.n worth white for me to m«.v tt.;»i which will br .-d any dl>< >rd botwe* the •e<*n«»n*«. for meh a thought d«H“- i,ot liari»or In my brvttMt. I deny utter.y havlug <»ne 111 thought or angry ~.issi m Iu my b... uu In votiteniplstlntu the which we have endured. But if you have UMvnr l to the truth, ami It ha* enien*d ymtr brain, y »<i are bound to acknowledge that the um&t of tneMv hiipro\<MKUtM and money in the IhiMern nml Bmitberti Staten where all thia wealth h.ia nu n. !.'••>!» at tli' -vity here not a pap* v ■’» it in favor of the money of the Conatluitloii ami of the peophs every • no «»f them howling day by <ijiy and abutting the majority *»f their fellow citizen* in thia wet ion eien. and further Went by ••tiling rtient howling dvrvlmlivm and allver Innntie*. We have, luMtvad of a wlavo tdigarchy. a money oligarchy. The one I* more Inaoient than the other wua. Tho only thing which-can keep the movement thia revolution-from itiircevdiiig in Mtveeping thia country fr »m end to eml i* that we may atibmerge oar patriutiam here, forget the duty whi«-h we owe onr jwople. follow after the banner of Home Individual rather than a principle, nml fall to dlacharge that duty which we owe to the luaaavti of •*«- lectlng a man here wh*»*r re<-or«! will tit thin platform. The Senator from New York Im to follow me. !!«• de-ptwil the Preiddent of the ( nitod Staten In IHirj. lie has hod * a'»se Minco to more than denolac him. But for some Innerutable reason, although he has 100-a l»e---trayeil by bl< own party ami his own State, he appears here ns the sponsor ami apologist for the administration. As Grover <’lev<dand t tandn for gold monometallism, ami we have a, SEXATOK TII.I.MAX IHHIS DEI’I A VCE. rcpudlntcd It. then when we nre asked to Indors,* Grover I'levelnnd’s ndtnlnlstratlon. we are asked to write ourselves down as liars. We nee l money to spend or wo < :innot paI trunlze the hs-al merchants: It we have not a.oner, the local nier’-uant cannot ord. r fr >ni the jobber: the Jobber .-annot onl.-r fr.-m the factory; ami you the s.queme of conseI iiuenees. The fanm-rs of the Northeastern States are Ju»t ns poor and just as h.i.-.l up as we are. They are ready to join this army of emnm-ipatlon. The Helms r u-y arc facto fam* with this Issue, nml It must be met. We of the South liive biirncl our bridges so fur as the Northeastern Itvmocraey Is concerned, as now organized. We have turned our laces to the We»t. asking <mr brethren of the-e States to unite with us In restoring the Government to the liberty of our fathers, or which our fathers left tc. 'I he here. For myself, and for th<»" of my Stat.who camo with me. wo came liere primarily to see timt we had n platform which meant what it said and said wliat it meant. We have got it. Now give us tiny man you please who is a true representative of that platform we have 11" I'lml <• nml we pledge yon that every vote South of tile I'otoUlac will go to him. Senator Hill. I am a Democrat, hut I am not a revolutionist. No matter what the provocation, you canot drl'v me out of the Den party, rimt party lias survived the attempt of every section of the country to divide it. to distract it; it lives to-day. ami I imp, l it will iong survive. Mv mission here is to unite, not to divide. Tlie question whli-li this convention Is IO decide is which is the best position Io take at this time upon the tliinneinl question, it is not a question of patriotism, it is not u question of courage. It is n quesbusiness, it Is n question of tininiee 1 think that the safest, the best course for tills convention to have pursued, was to take tlie first step forward in the great cause of monetary reform by declaring in favor of lutermitiomil bimetallism. I do not tldnk tliai we Clin safely Ignore the monetary systems of other great nations. I know that It appeals to tlii 1 prlili* of tlie average American to say that It matters imt wliai other countries may do. we can arrange tills matter for ourselve- Ib.t Ihiat" ti uilml you. If that suggestion is cu rled out to its legitimate com Insi.itt. you Ullgllt as well d" away »i... International treatl.s. I'l.glu as well d" array with com ttentles with other countries, you might ns well do away with all the provisions In your tariff Idlls timt him- relation to tlie laws of other countries. What dm s tills silver plats irin provide? Your committee lm« re mirn.i tided for adoption a platform which makes the test of Deir.ocrutli’ loyalty to hung upon a single rati ', nail Unit io 1.1 doubt the wisdom tis having entered Into detail. I doula the propriety of saying that 15h. m IT Is heresy gml IU Is the only true Denim ratio doctrine. With nil due respect, I think It nu unwise itep: 1 think It uu unnecessary step, ami 1 think It will return to plague us In the future. Another suggestion: What war the neeessltv far putting Into the platform other questions which have never made tlie tests of Democratic loyalty before? Why we ttlid tlie disputed question of the policy •nd constltutlmiallty of mt Income tax. Will Some Olli' tell nu what that clause means In thia platform? Whenever before In the hlstorv of litis country Ims devotion to aa InI'otiie tnx been made the test of Democratic loyalty ' Never. Another question 1 tiling iltoiihi have been avoided Is this; M hat was the necessity, what the propriety of inking up the vexed question of the Issue of bonds f<»r the preservation of the credit of tlie nation? Why mu huve left i his financial question of t.ie "f silver nloue? You have announced the bold policy Hint under no clreunistnm-ca slinll there ever be a single omni Issued In limes of peace. It means the virtual repeal of Jmtir resumption net: It means repudiation |ier so nnd dmple. Tho stnlenicnt Is too Inl. the stiltoniont Is too sweeping; It Ims mil been carefully onsldsred. No. no, my friends: tills platform Ims not been .vlsely eoiisldored. 11l your zeal for inonetnrv reform you have gone out of the true path; yini huve turned from the true »iurse, aud'lti your anxiety to build up the

•llvi r riimmcy yon bate num • warily put lit Gil* pintfoi npr olsloa* «hli-li cuturnt stand n fnlr dl«m**lon. I dislike tho ItepuHenn party. I dislike all their tenets. I imve no syiiquiihy with their general principle*. Ihi not attempt t» drive old Democrats out of tlm party that Imve gruuui gray In Its servlie to make rmtni tor a lot of itepnlill* enna and old Wlilga and other l*opnllata that will mi) Vote ymir th get after nil. No mutter who y*nir candidate may lie In this oonveii. tloti. with possibly one ••xeepllou, your i'ouu, list frl'nds iiii.iu wlmiii you are relying tor auport In Ike west nml Hmilh. will iiomlnute their own ticket nml your alitor forces will lie divided. Mnrk tin- prediction which I make. Mv friends, I tha« sprek more In sos. row thsn in anger. You know what tills platform mentis to the East, You must realise tlie result, lint, enhimllmis us it limy la* to ll*. it will Ih l inure eiilaiilltinia to you If. after nil. taking tlu-se risks, you do not win tlie fight My friends, »» waul the Demm-ratle party to sneciasl. We want to build It up.

W ■ I* ?® ,is ’3 1 S?=- -. tv HiLt. Annn;:«MX6 the <<»xvi:xn«»x. W»» rfn not want to t»*nr It down. Wr want «mr hrinchdoM—tho «•»<*!. old principle* «»f JoiMTMon. . f Ja< k«<«i. of Tilden, of hnnl nioin'V, nf M.ifi* tiioiipy. vi' want no greenbn« k <'»irr< ;b \ on our plnh «. W<* want no |Mp**r u- y v h.<t. ver. W«* want to Mtand h what 'itk'ifup I'v.-p’ln thv\'..Hl pal pntliM of the partv w<* can win. If we depart fn»tn them we Minill k*. Es*Congre««mnn Bryan. On the 4th of March, IMOS. a few !»cmo-»-raiM. iih.mi «»f them meiuherx of ('ongrcwK. Iwmed nn addrcMN to the Democrats of tin* nation. nKM<Tting that tin* money qucMtlon wa* the paramount Immiip of the hour: asserting also the right of a majority of tho Denio* oralis- party to control the poMlthm of the party <»n this paramount issue; concluding with the request that all believer* In free coinage of silver in the Democratic party should organize and take c harge of and control the policy of the Democratic party. Three months Inter, at Memphis, an organization wns i.orfectod, mid the -liver Democrats wont fortli openly and bohily and courageously pnalalmlng th.dr belief, and declaring that If successful they would crystallize In a platform the declaration which tliey had made: and then began tho conflict, with a zeal approaching the zeal which inMpired the Crusaders who followed Peter tlie Hermit. Our silver Deni<wrats went forth from victory unto victory until they an- assembled now, not to discuss, not to debate, but t » enter up the judgment rendered by the plain people of this country. In tills ••••ntest brothe.* lias been arrayed against brother and fi.thvr against son. The wann«*sk ties of love and acquaintance and asioM'latloti have !>*•• a disregarded. Ohl leaders have been cast aside when they refiiM-d to give expression to the sentiments <»f those whom they would lend and new leaders have sprung up to give direction to this chum* of truth. Thns has the contest l*«*en waged, and we have assembled here under as binding ami solemn Instructions a* were ever fastened upon the ropnoientaltvps <»f a people. We do not come as individuals. Why, as Individuals we might have been glad to compliment the gentleman from New York, *enab»r Hill, but we knew that the people f<»r whom we sptak would never be willing to put him in a p<»eition w-hero he could thwart the will of the D< mocratlc party. 1 say it was not a question of persons; It was a question of principle: ami it is not witli gladness, my friends, that we And ourselves brought into conflict with thorn* who are n«»w array***! on tin* other side. If they ask here why it i* that we say mor** on the m«»ney question than we say upon the tariff question, I reply that if protection has slain its thousands the gold standard lias slain it* tens of thousands. If they ask us why we did not etniMxly ail these tiling* in our platform whl«*h we !m*iivve. we r* ply to them that when we have restored tin* money of the Constitution, ail other I'ei-cssary rvfr'rtmf will Im* possible, and that until tii.it I* done there Is no reform that can he : *eompilMhed. Mr. .M* Kinley was n*:mInatvd ar Mt. Louis on a platform that declared for th** maintenance of the gold siand.ird until it *ii< uld Is- changed Into blnictaHUni by an Internationa! agr«*<*inent. Mr. M’ Kin!«*y was tin* m> st popular man aniorig the Kepuhlleans, and everybody three n-.utl-.s .'.g- in the it* publican party prophesied Ids election. 11-. Wis it to-da.r? Why. that 111:111 who used to boast that he looked like Naimleon-timt man shudders to-day üben he thinks that he was nominated ou the anniversary of the battle, of Waterloo. Not only that, but as lie listens lie ran In ar with ever-Increaring ditthictiM n ■ f. ■ Round of tHe waves (hey be t upon tin* lonely shores «>f St. Heit ua. Why this change? Aii! mv friends, l< not the change evident to any one who will look at the matter? It Is no private character, however pure, no personal popularity, however great, that can protect from tin* avenging wrath *»f an Indignant people the man who will either declare that he is in favor *g fastening tin g«dd standard upon this people, or who Im willing to surrender the right of self-government and ptace legislative (-octroi in the hands of foreign potentates and powers. We go forth coifcfldent that we shall win. Wliy? BecnttNe upon tlie paramount Issue iu tills campaign thero is n«»t a spot «»f ground upon which the enemy will dure to challenge

r ; ' I B’ AX nt I IVliniX'i; HIS OltllAT HPI K< 11. li.'lttle. We cat'i' nut upon wlileli IsHiie they force tlie fight. Mr. I'nt'llsle sold In IS7B timt tills ails a struggle between the Idle holders of Idle I'lipltill Mill the st Higgling nUIHHI'H wlio produce the H ealth anil pay I lie taxes of the country, anil tny friends. It Is shuply n question Hint we shall ili'clilc. upon wlib li snle slinll the Ileinisriitlc party light? i'pon tlie Hille of tin bile holders of bile capltnl, or upon tlie side of the struggling iiihhhch .' They till us Unit the great cities me In fav<ir of tlie gold standiinl. 1 tell you that tin great cities rest upon tliese broad and fertile prairies. Horn down your cities mid leave our ftirtiiK and your cities will spring up again as If by tangle. Rut destroy our farms and the grana will grow In the streets of every city In this eintutry. My friends, we shnil declare that this nation Is able to legislate for Uh own people on every qneHtlon "Ithoitt waiting for the aid or I'.'nseiit of anv other nation on earth and upon that iHKtie'wo I Io carry every single State In this i nion, it is the issue of ITTti over again. Our mieestors were the .'t.oiai.iaio who luul the courage to di'dtre their political independenci' of every other nation upon earth. Shall we, their deHei'iidmite. whin we have grown to *n.i«Hi.O(gl. ileelure that we. nre less Inilcpenileiit than our forefathers? No. mv frlenda, Il w ill never be the Judgment of this people. Therefore wo cure not upon what llu'’, the batth.' is fought, if they say

I bliu**fr I Pam 1< gn>«’ hut wa e.-innit have '< ’ till soth«» nation help- u», wt r» piy that, !»• I stead of having a gold sfutidnrd becnuM* lin- , gland i«hm, we sliaTi (mature bltuctailiam >h«t then let England have blmrtallbmi bvum*** I • come nut 111 the open and defend Hie gd*L sthii<lhrd a* a «**»<! thing, we aball light to tlie uttermost, having lieblnd us tho producing imisM*s of this nation and Ihe world. Hui Ing Iwhlnd us the commercial lUtereatm nnd the ln!»«»rliig Intercut* nnd nil the tolling iuhmmos, tn* shall answer their demmida f*»r a gold stNiulard by saying t*» them y»»u stull not pre mm down u|h>u the br«»w of lale»r inta crown of fhortis. Y*»u shall not crucify man* kind upou a cross of gold. Meuntor Vtles. As n DeiruM’rat who hns always maltihthi* *1 ' a rcHMonable olMMlleiice tn be the first duty t*» | aecompllsh the party’s inlsslmi. I ask a h* ar . I Ing for tie* party’s wake, which fr*»m youtw 1 I huve devotedly brllcwd necessary for »ur giHwi and our liberty. I Mpc.tk f*»r .1 Mtato I which has maintained Ih** |h»tii<»crnttc faith under »’!r<‘uni»iuhees of trlnl and Will • »n I Mtnnt fidelity. Th*' quoatloll which y«»a are nlsuit t<» decide Is moment.m*. painfull! *»• Its right decision demands iiitelllgrn- aiwt I reasoning, order will revet**• m» law *». naI Dire and flat rngr In vain agnlnst principle* lof finance. Tills convent lon ha** power »»v»*r neither, but v.lll be powerful for g*s»d »■* H I shall respect that higher law which It alter, though di* d* y nml « *mnt< r. The mlnorUy ladlrve the proposal of lie* m.d-cuy tobe disobi'dieut to Unit eausr. recklessly ami n.-igratitly m», and will muse a fearful p* i:*L ty. I will not protract tin* argument ihe Mena tor from New York lias already stated the aiguun nt. Ill* spe* , * , li In direct prop *a| L values if that proimdtlon is mrrled out. It will not produce bimetallism • far fr»*ui It it Is hi diametric <»p|»oMltloii to the platform W!»2. which prop.*** lan honest blm<•» humu, ett blmcmilism contended for 10-dav In the belief Hint you will thereby 1., ailof money. I'his It will m» f do. Py. 11l * r.nk. tii* t’nlhd States loginning without ei.riy I povertvand u<aknr>s;tnd abiding until • ' 4; ; That whs .1 l»em*M*rnil«* me; *ure. ii it •• 1 a measure created under Dem»»cratic leadership by Benton with the favor of Andrew I .Im kson. That %vas distinctly ■ 1 then aj a g<»ld measure, amt It raised the standard «»r gold In this country, but It raise*! this c.»uu* I fry from tlie grade of China ami Japan and I Mexico to a place among the foremost nations that maintain and rule the world’s « | uieree and carry the colors of civilization | the farthest regions (»f tlie globe. The gold I standard Is now accused *»f responsibility f<»P falling prices but It is never cr**llted w’»< u prices rlin truth, it Im entitled ncuher I to the credit nor to the fault. The argument Is li false dvd!ictloti. Would you stop the fall of prices, suppress Invention, extinguish *•nterprisc, discard improvements in tr.msI port at ion-- In short, smite with paralysis the ■ forces of civilization? Take from the farmer the harvester and thrashing machine, and wheat will rise: snatch away from tin* plantI er th- cotton-gin. the pre-**, and cotton will rise. Let l*H»s»* on society the things of deMg; ' ’ 'wW - ' j Ww I'' I T e , A ■ : !/}H 1 3 V’.LAS 1>! ! EKl>< THE ADMTXISTBATIO3T. -ti’Ktlon and they will soon deliver y<»a 11 in this tppoM-d curse of civilization t> a •ip alm/dale e. But tin* gold .-.tandurd has nothing *•< do with It. When any standard •»<* ti\<d with eon tinning stability it has no i . nhy uwst yo . launch I sn'.-atiou waYrants our pursuit of that which : fl..'* whd -m -.f m.iiAmd ■ .ndeinns? Who ' teaches • - with nuthorltv. a lesson in finance which the world of the highest civilization stands aghast al? Is i: possible that ' -1..-- old partv of Jeff, rson, this old Ih ino- . ratio party of constituiiomil law and llbci ty. j shall tints* fall before the machinations of i a propug inila maintained b? «llver mln*. , u 'alJ' ■: tm i its - 14111 many years ag" r | It was not foi' “Heli ui« s. it wan not for aueh 1 an et'ai that tlie lienmeratle party was e.-e---a'efi. I protest with solemn earnestueas. with -im erlty ami iierson.il klminess, that I the Democrats of tlie North ought not to I l ave aeevptefi Illis result. For thirty year* they l.ave stood at great personal eoat llgliting devotedly for tlie pnnelplea of Iteuiocraey, until in a restored I'nion. with equal rights shared by every part and every porI lion of tlie people, tliey have seen the trtI .inqdi apparently of Democracy. Ami now, Iu the hour when we thought everything before us was well, we are to have this newly given strength exerted to pull dowu tlie plllur* ot tlie temple nnd erunh us all beneath the ruins. So I hope for a better future for the Di tnoerntlc party. Tlie evil time*, the evil days, though llllvd with darkness and with dangers, and compassed around with clouds, may pass. 1 hope to live to see a Democratic conventloa asembled here when all ahull tie united ami tlie wli.de party restored to the vigor and power which Is neeeaoary for its service to the Constltutlou. Great Wave*. A traveiei’ ivho crosseil the Atlantic in eonipttn.v with tin army officer says that lit spite "f his sympathy for his companion's siitTeriiig from the panes of seasickness, lie could not help deriving considerable amusement from it. Going into tlie stateroom one partleI tilarly rough day lie found his conipan- | ion tossing iir his berth, muttering in what at first appeared to be tt sort of delirium. Stooping over to <'llll'll his words, the friend heard him say. "Sergeant, major, sergeant, major, or, only eighth corporal: brigadier general, brigadier general, ugh. lieutenant geueial. a-a-a-h!” "What are you saying?" asked the friend in some alarm, as the sufl'en-r lookisl piteously tlpni him after his last gasping “a-a-a-h!" "Assigning the waves their rank.” said the military mnn. rolling over toward the wall again. "Then- have been eight lieutenant generals within ‘the last twenty minute*!” Mourning. Mourning takes odd forms in some (siuutries, but none more ctirious than at Sitka. In India, where, when a woman loses her husband, she mourns him by piiinthig the upper part of her fnco tl deep jet black. Will Make Clothing Cheap. Aii electrical machine for cutting cloth has bin'll invented which Is cap able of cutting out froui 200 to 30Q suits ft <ay.