Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1894 — Page 3

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CHAPTER XXII. KILL OR CURE Mr. Sinclair was told, by Lord Clanyarde of the plan which had been devised by the German physician for his daughter’s cure, and, after a lengthy discussion, gave his' sullen consent to , the imposture. “I don’t like your German doctor —a thorough-paced charlatan, 11l warrant,” he said; “and I don’t like palming off an impostor upon my poor wife. Bnt if you see any chance of good from this experiment, let it ba tried. God knows I would give my heart's blood to-morrow to bring Constance back to good health and reason.” This was said with unmistable ear-nestne-s, and Lord Clanyarde believed it. He did not know what bitter reason Gilbert Sinclair had for desiring his wife’s recovery in the guilty consciousness that his brutality was the chief came of her illness. ‘‘You are not going to bring some low-born brat into my house, 1 hope?” said Gilbert, with the pride of a man whose granifather had worked in the mines, and whose father had died worth a million. “No; we shall find a gentleman’s child—some orphan of about Christabel s age—to adopt. ” Gilbert shrugged his shoulders and spid no more. That visit of the German physician had certainly wrought a change in Constance Sinclair’s condition, and Dr, Webb declared that the change wai for the better. She seemed to have awakened from that dull apathy, that utter b.tterness of mind and body, which both the London physician and the faithful country watch-dog had taken to be the precuisor of death. She was restless—fluttered by some expectation which kept her senses curiously on the alert—wistful,watchful, listening—starting at every opening of a door, at every coming footfall. On the morning after Dr. Hollendorf’s visit she a-kel for her Bible, and began to read David's psalms of thanksgiving and rejoicing aloud, like one who gave thanks for a great joy. Later in the same day she went to the piano and sang—sang as she had never done since the beginning of her illness —sang like one who pours forth the gladness of her heart in melody. When Dr. Webb came that afternoon he found his. patient sitting in an arm-char by the window, propped up with pillows, much to the disgust of Melanie Duport, who was on duty at this time. “I know she isn't strong enough to sit up,” said Melanie to the Doctor; "but she would do it. She seems to be watching for something or some one.” The long window, opening on the balcony, commanded a distant curve of the drive leading up to the house, and it was on this point that Constance Sinclair’s eyes were fixed. “What are you waiting for, dear lady?” asked Doctor Webb, in his bland voice, that caressing tone in which medical men address feminine and infantine patients. In Doctor Webb's case the blandness meant more than it usually does, for he really loved his patient. “I am watching for my child. They will bring her to-day, perhaps. The strange doctor told me she was not drowned. It was true, wasn’t it? Hu won't deceive me. There was something in his voice that made me trust him something that went to my heart. My darling was saved, and she is c ming back to me. You won’t deceive me, I know. She is comingsoon—soon—soon. Dear, dearest Doctor Webb, is it true?” “Dear Mrs. Sinclair, you must not agitate yourself in this way,” cried the Doctor, flattered by this address. “Yes, yes, Lord Clanyarde is going to bring you the little girl, and you’ll be very f.nd of her, I hope, and feel quite happy again.” “Happy.” cried Constance; “I shall be in heaven. Ask papa to bring her soon." • She was restless throughout that day —sleepless all night. Sometimes her mind wandeied, but at other times she spoke clearly and reasonably of God s goodness to her in saving her child. On the following day the same idea was still paramount, but she was somewhat weakened by her excitement and restlessness, and was no longer able to sit uo at her post of observation by the window. As the day wore on the old dull apathy seemed to be creeping over her again. She lay on her couch by the Are, Silent, exhausted, noticing nothing that occurred around her; her pulse was alarmingly weak, her eyes v aeant and heavy. “If they don’t bring the child soon, it will be too late for the experiment,” thought Dr. Webb; ’and if they do bring it. the excitement may be fatal. God guide us aright!” It was dusk when Lor,d Clanyarde’s brougham drove up to the porch, and his lordship alighted, carrying a child mull ed up in soft woolen shawls, and fast asleep. Gilbert Sinclair had not yet returned from his daily ride. The house was dark and empty. Lord Clanyarde went straight to his daughter’s room, where Dr. Webb was sitting, too anxious to leave his patient till the crisis which the intended experiment plight produce had passed safely. Dr. Webb was not particularly hopeful about the strange doctor’s plan. > “Such good news, my darling,” said Lord Clanyarde, with elaborate cheerfulness; “pray don’t agitate yourself, my dear Constance.” She started up from her sofa already, and tottered toward him with outstretched arms. “I have brought you your baby. The little net was not drowned, after all, and some good people in Germany took care of her. You will find her changed, of course—three or four months makes such a difference in a baby.” Constance neither heeded nor heard. She was sitting on the floor with the newly awakened child in her lap, hugging it to her breast, weeping sweetest tears over the soft, curly head, breathing foith her rapture in low?"inartien'ate exclamations. The firelight «hone on the picture of mother and

BY MISS M E BRADDON

child clinging together thus—the little one suomitting uncomplainingly to those vehement c tresses. “Thank < od.’ ejsculatsd Lord Clanyatde within himself, ". ha doesn't ask a question, poor cnild. She ha n't the faintest suspicion that we rc deceiving her.” He had chosen this hour for the introduction ot the infant impostor so that Constance's first scrutiny of the babv features should take place in doubtful light. If t.ri impres ions were but lavorable, doubts would hardiy arise afterward in that enfeebled mind. Only when reason W’s fully restored would Constance begin to ask awkward question-. This eve ling she did not even scrutinize the baby faco: she only covered it with tear, and ki-tes, and laid it against her bosom and was happy. She accepted this baby stranger at cnce as her lost Christabsl. Dr. Webb was del ghtod. Those tears, those caresses, those gu shes of happy love —what medicine could work such cure for a mind astray'? “Upon my word, I believe you have i done the light thing, and that your 1 German doctor Is not such a quack as i I thought him. ” whispered the little man to Lord Clanyarde. He had still better reason to say this three or four hours later, when Con- i stance was sleeping tranquilly—a sound and healthy slumber such as she had not known for many weary weeks —with the baby nestled at her side. | Mr. Sine air heard of the success J that had attended the experiment, and seemed glad, or as glad as a man could be who had pressing cause for trouble. CHAPTER XXIII. “EXCELLENT BABILIB 4 ! —TURN UPON THE VULTURE” If fortuno in a general way is a capricious and uncertain divinity, assuredly that part cular goddess who presides over the affairs of racing men is most given to tricks and starts, to sudden frowns and unexpected smiles. Gilbert Sinclair s new stables, had up to the beginning of the present year. I brought uim nothing but ill luck. So ' unvarying had been his ill-luck that 1 his trainer and grooms gave full scope to their superstition, and opined that tne stables were uniucky, and that no good would ever come out of them. “The' e had been a murder committed, may be, somewhere ; about,” suggested one man. 'or the ground had been wrongfully come by; who could tell.” With the Craven meeting, however, the tide turned, and the Sinclair stables scoied three palpable hit;. But this was not all. Mr. Sinclair had bought a coit at Yoi k two years before—with all his faults and all his engagements—the engagements being particularly heavy, and the faults including ono which the veterinary auth cities believed might be fatal to the , animal’s career as a racer. The colt 1 wasjof renowned lineage one both sides, i and had a genealogy that went back to i his grandsire and bristled with famous i names—a colt in whose future some magnate of the turf would doubtless have speculated two or three thousand, but for that unlucky splinter. Gilbert Sinclair bought the colt for two hundred and fifty, under the advice of his trainer, a shrewd York- j shire man, who. loved a bargain better 1 than the best purchase made in the regular way. “He’s got the Touchstone and the Specter bloid in him,” said Mt. Jackson, the trainer. "He s bound to come out a flyer, if we can cure that off foreleg.” "But suppose we don’t, Jackson,” said Gilbert, doubtfully. “Two hundred and fifty’s a lot of money for a lame horse, and his engagements will come to a good bit more.” “You may as well lose your money on him as on anything else, mayn’t you'?” argued of his employer’s judgment, and did not Mr. Jackson, who had no exalted opinion trouble himself to pretend a greater respect than he felt. The best of me iis but small in the eyes of his trainer. “You let me have that there colt to nuss, and say no more about it. It 11 be a fad for me. I ought to have my fancy sometimes. You hive yours, and a fat lot comes of it. ” Thus urged, Gilbert bought the colt, I and John uackson took him under his wing, and made him his pet ana dar- 1 ling, shutting him up in impenetrab e loose boxes, and exercising him secretly in the morning gray in sequestered ■ paddocks far from the eye; of touts, I Mr. Jackson had children—children ! who climbed on his knees and called I him father in childhood’s lisping syllables. but there was a pride in John I Jack-son's eye and a tenderness in his I voice when he spoke of Goblin, the bay colt, which his children had never been able to evoke. “I want to win the Derby before I die,” he said, with a touch of sentiment, like Moses sighing for the land of , Canaan, “it isn’t much to ask for, after having done my duty by a blessed lot ' of screws.” Nobody—not even Mr. Sinclair him- ' self—could ever penet’ate the veil of mvstery with which Jackson surrounded his favorite. Whether Goblin wai doing well or ill was a secret which Jackson kept locked within his own breast. When Jackson looked gloomv the underlings in the stable concluded teat Goblin was “off his feed,” or that Goblin was “up to nought.” When it came to the contest of a trial, Mr. Jackson shrank from the contest, and when compelled to run his protege against the best horse in the stable, secretly weighted Goblin in such a manner as to insure his being ignominiously beaten. Goblin kept none of his two-year-old engagements, though Mr. Jackson went so far as to admit by this time that the colt was no more lame than he was. “But I ain’t going to let him fritter away his strength in two-vear-old races,” said Mr. Jackson, decisively; “I ain't forgotten Bonnie Dundee." Gilbert Sinclair submitted unwillingly, being at this time very low down in his luck as a racing man, and anxious - for any success which might in some ! wise redeem his position. I Now came spring—violets and prim- 1 roses; woodlands white and chestnut bloom, and hawthorn; nightingales warbling their vesper love songs, and i —much more important to gentlemen i of Mr. Sinclair's class—the Two Thou- I sand Guineas. And now Goblin came I forward to perform his first important engagement as a three-year-old, and Gilbert Sinclair was richly rewarded i for his patience. Goblin—a horse entirely unknown to the racing public—came in an easy winner, and Gilbert, who had taken his trainer's advice, and had backed his hor e to the utmost capacity, won a small fortune, as well as feeling pretty sure about his expectations for the Derbv. It was the first great success Gilbert Sinclair had ever had upon the turf, and he left Newmarket tnat night almost lightheaded with excitement. Things had been going much better since January. Tne men had gone

back to thnir work in the grimy north. Indian steamers were using Mr. Sin- ' clair’s coal as fast as he could produce it. The go den Ude was flowing into his exche ;uer again, and his banker's book no longe ■ presented a dismal blank noon its left-hond pages. The success at Newmarket was t .e crowning mercy. He felt himself a rich man once more, and laughed to scorn tne rotion of surrendering Davenant at midsummer. Wyatt had fought ard paid for the estate, but of course would be glad to se<l it again at a profit. The scheme fcr Constance Sinclair's I restoration had prospered wonderfully. ‘ Health and strength had returned, and with tho?e the clear lirhtof reason. She htd never doub.ed the identity oL the littl 5 girl Lo d Clanyarde had brought her t iat winter evening wi.h i the c lild she h dl< st. She had readily accepted the story— , a somewhat lame one—of the child's rescue by some kind German peas- I ants who had brought it over to England, where by a curious cuain of cir- j cumslanxs. I ord Clanyarde had come .to know of its existence. The little girl was known to the whole household I as Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair's own child. There would bi time enough by and by i to i eveal the imposture. Even Martha Briggs—little Christabel's devoted ) nur.e—had never suspected the trick that had b -cn played upon her mistress. The only member of the honehold that had shown any particular I curiosity on desire to know the ins and - outs of this business was Melanie Du- | I port That young woman had asked j as many questions as she could venture | to put, and had appeared somewhat ' mystified by the course of events, i So there had been peace at Davenant during the early spring. Constance ; had been quietly happy in the little ’ girl’s society, and in those joys which the convalescent feels when a world ' that has been darkened to th&wanderi ing mind reappears in all its light and beauty. Never had the woods and fields, the blue April i-ky and shining river, seemed so lovely in tho eyes of Constance Sinclair as they appeared this year. Her love of music, of art, of ah bright things, seemed intensified by that awful season of darkness, in which these delights had been blotted from her mind. Her husband was tolerably kind to her. but spent much of his time away irotn Davenant, and did not trouble her repose by filling the house with his rackety companions. Mr. Wyatt.came now acd then for a I day or two, but he wa< the only guest during the tranquil srringtime. Thus stood matters early in May. when Goblin won the Two Thousand Guineas, and, in the trainer’s phraseology, brought his owner a pot of money. |TO BE CONTINUED.!

THE FIGHTING POWER OF CHINA

About a Million Men In the Army Now and Many More Available. The fighting power of Chinese militia when armed with modern weapons is evidenced by the frequent repulses and defeats which the French sneered during the campaign in j onquin, the last being that of Gen. Negrier, near LangSon, nine days before the £ranc>Cbinese treaty of peace was signed, and | when the French army of occupation | in Tonquin had been rai. ed to 40,000 i men. The e Chinese troops were ' merely levies from Yunnan, Kuangtang, and Kuang-si, and not part of the 15J,000, who had been trained by European officers in Northern China. The total army of China at that time, including 6u0,001 militia, known as the green rag army, scattered through the ; various provinces, was said to be ab >ut | 1,000,000 men. In time of necessity this force could be largely increased. The following quotation from an author who had experience with Gen. Gordons “ever victorious army” shows Chinamen are admirably suitable for soldiers: “The old notion is pretty well got rid of that they are at all a cowardly people when properly paid and efficiently ied: while the regularity and order of their habits, which dispose them to peace in ordinary times, give place to a daring bordering upon recklessness in time of war. Their intelligence and capacity for remembering facts makes them well-fitted for use in modern wariare, as does also the coolness and calmness of their disposition. Physically they are, on the average, not so strong as Europeans, but considerably , more so than most of the other races of ; the East, and on a chean diet of rice, I vegetables, salt fish, and pork they can 1 go through a vast amount of fatigue, i whether in a temperate climate or a I tropical one, where Europeans are illfitted for exertion. Their wants are i few: they have no caste prejudices and hardly any appetite for intoxicating liquors.”

Quakers, Puritans, and Turks.

Tho first Quakers who came to New England were two unprotected women, the one, Ann Austin, about 60 years of age, the mother of five children, and the other, Mary Fisher, her maiden friend, over 30. They came from Barbad ;s. Immediately upon their arrival they were ta.en from ship to jail, and for fear that any one would talk with them, and thereby spread their heresies, the window of the cell was bearded np. Four years afterward Mary Fisher went on a mission to the O ient. to bring her testimony to the Turks. Tho great Sultan Mohammed IV. was on the throne. He accorded her an audience, and received her with civility, and she was in nowise restrained while in his dominions. The circumstance of Mary Fisher’s having been persecuted and imprisoned both in Old and New ' England, and left free and unmolested in the dominions of the Sultan, has ■ been variously explained so as not to ! be so creditable to the “Grand Turk.” i The fact is, in Mohan med in lands the ■ humane principle of toleration had been learned and practiced earlier than in Christian countries, as is evidenced by tho Turkish concessions to Christians ar.d other sects, which date back to the twelfth century. These ; were continued and lenewed in the middle of the sixteenth century, when Constantinople was captu ed.—Roger Williams, by Oscar S. Straus.

Will Try Women Gardeners.

It is taid that Lady Carlisle.is training an entire staff of women to take charge ot the extensive grounds of her fine York estate. She claims that women, by right of their superior taste and judgment in everything pertaining to floriculture, should be, and are, better adapted to the lighter work of garden making than are men, and witn the tendency of the age, which is to give w men the first chance at everything, she is trying her experiment on a wholesale scale.—Now York Mail and Express.

One Thing Undone.

Brave old Gen. Jim Steedman, during the thickest of the battle of Chickamkugua dashed up to a retreating brigade and shouted: “Face about, boys! We must hold this point.” “But, General,” said a bare officer, “we have done everything that brave and patriotic men can do for their country ” “What! Everything?” cried Steedman; “you haven t died yet” I A native of Hawaii, seeing a man riding a bicycle, said th it it must be very nice to “walk sitting down.*

IT’S A PALACE OF VICE

NEW YORK’S GAMBLING HOUSE FOR WOMEN. Splendid and Luxurious Furniture and Costly Fitting* Make It a Royal Resort —ln the Monte Room—Leader* of Fashionable Society Go There. Where Women Gamble. Gambling is a vice which is generally associated with men rather than women and one which the fair sex rarely, it is supposed, indulges in. Of late years, however, women in New York have engaged in gambling so extensively that one of the most splendid resorts in that city is a gambling house fitted up exclusively for women’s use. It is a four-story brown stone front and after ringing the bell the visitor is admitted to the vestibule. Here she is met by a colored woman known as “fiat-nosed Sue,” who carefully scrutinizes her. If thg visitor is found all right she is then given entrance to the hall. To the left is the parlor, which runs the entire length of tho first floor. It is gorgeously fitted up

Heavy velvet carpets hide the floor. Mirrors running from the floor to the ceiling are on every side. Heavy cur■fl.tains shield the k 'windows. Thcgreat Y chandeliers which ■'),hang from the celling are of polished brass and cut glass.

broke!

Rare marble statues deprive otherwise gloomy corners of their somberness. Expensive paintings dot the walls between the mirrors. A great clock stands between the two windows opening to the rear of the house. A picture of Mephistopheles

WOMEN AT THE ROULETTE TABLE IN A NEW YORK GAMBLING DEN.

Is blazoned on the glass face of the clock. He holds in his right hand four aces. The joker of the deck of cards is dancing a jig on his forked tall. At his feet is a pile of gold. That Is the only suggestion In the parlor of the true nature of the house. The main room on the second floor is half as large as the parlor. It is called “the faro room.” Three heavy

sets of curtains bar the windows. The light is supplied by eleven incandescent lamps arranged in a circle, like a ring of diamonds, about a rod of gold. Tnere-are-two faro layouts, one at either end of the room.

Immediately back of this room is a smaller room known as “the little poker-rcom.” There are four tables in this room; each table has a colored female attendant The Mon tn Parlor. The back stai s run on up to the second floor. In the corner of this landing is a marble figure of Venus, with a green band painted around the neck. The third floor is arranged differently from the second floor. The small room at the head of the front stairs Is a toilet room. The room adjoining is known as “the monte parlor.” There are no chairs in this room. In place of wall paper the walls are covered with cards. The word “monte” is spelled on the

. A WOMAN FARO DEALER.

wall in aces. There are three monte layouts, one on each side of the room save that on which is the entrance. The juggler of the cards stands with her back to the wall. The playe.s stand in front of the board beyond a chalk-line, which is drawn on the floor two feet from the board. There are only two attendants in this room. The largest room on this floor adjoins the montc-room. It is known as the “miscellaneous room.” It has nine tables in it, which may be used for any games desired. The remaining room on this floor is a very small room in the front of i the house Only the best known of the players are allowed to enter it. It is known as “the millionaire mansion.” It is in it that the largest games in the house are playej. If 1 several players wish to play a game that practically has no limit, they get thisxoom. The house has a splendid restaurant in which the flnest products of the market are served there free of charge to the players. There are two big tables and three small ones <in that room. All liquors and wines, ! except champagne, are free. ChamI pagne costs five dollars a bottle. Cigarettes are heaped about the tables on small silver platters. Back of the restaurant is the smoking room. It is a small rooui tilled with ■ cushions and divans. There is a large silver tray on a small table in the 1 tenter of the room, which is filled

with the various brands of cigarettes.' ' Over the table are the words. “It hasl all gone up in smoke.* Back of the smoking-room is the most important room in the place. It is a little cubby hole not over ten feet square In one corner is a big safe, on which are painted in rei letters the words: “Monte Carlo—try to break it." The room is the office of the proprietor. Any guest havtng any complaint to make about alleged unfair play, discourteous treatment on the part of an attendant or discomfort due to the management of the house, goes to this office and states her grievance. The woman in the office is known as Madam Hart She listens patiently to all complaints, and if the bouse is in the wrong thel matter is speedily set right. If the guest is wrong Madam Hart never fails to promptly tell her so. Appe trance of the Dealers. All the dealers in charge of the tables are dressed alike Their gowns resemble in many respects the dresses of the colored servants. They wear nothing on their heads, however. Their gowns are of plain black without pockets. The sleeves are tight-fitting and extend only to the elbows. The forearms and hands are bare. The gowns button in the back and are severely plain in front. This does away with any opportunity to smuggle cards out of sight. These dealers range in age from twenty to thirty. None of lhe dealers ever speak to a player save in regard to the game. The class of women who frequent this house are far above the ordinary run of female residents of New York. Many of them are women of position as well as wealth. are women whose husbands are famil- j iar figures about town and who are themselves leaders of fashionable society.

A comparison of the yields of digestible matter produced by mangels,

sugar beets and silage corn when grown under similar conditions, and also a comparison of the merits of roots and silage for the production of milk and butter, was recently made at the Pennyslvanla experiment station, with the following result: In a feeding trial involving two lots of five cows each, and covering three’ periods of twelve days, 100 pounds of digestible matter in the silage ration produced 131.92 pounds of milk and 7.21 pounds of butter, while an equal amount of digestible dry matter in the form of roots produced 137.36 pounds of milk, and 6.53 pounds of butter—a difference in the butter of 10.4 per cent, But when the two lots of cows were fed alike on a combination ration of beets and silage, the silage lot produced, per 100 pounds of digestible matter con-, sumed, 139 pounds of milk and 6.79| pounds of butter, and the roots lot 150 pounds of milk and 6.46 pounds of butter, thus showing an apparent superiority of the cows constituting the silage lot. When this Is taken account of, it leaves a net gain, in feeding value of the silage over the roots of 5 per cent. The cost of an acre of beets is $56.07, while that of an acre of corn is $21.12, which fairly proves that the latter is not only the cheapest but Is fully as effective as beets for the production of milk or butter.—Connecticut Farmer.

THE BOUNCER.

A Texas man who has a pecan orchard in bearing has the following to say about it: I ain more than satisfied with my in vestment in pecans in this section, along the valley of the Pecan bayou, in Brown county, and were it possible for me to put in double the amount of land I now have (which is 400 acres, with 11,000 trees on same), I would certainly embark in a similar enterprise. As to the amount of the trade in Texas I am not prepared to give you any definite information, but 1 can say there was one year hcte at Brownwood alone that there was shipped out $55,000 worth of pecans in a season. I will present some figures to show the profits that can be obtained from an acre of trees when they come into full bearing. Twenty-seven trees can be grown in one acre. When they come into full bearing these trees will each yield annually about eight bushels (some hear as much as twelve, bushels). This makes 216 bushels to the 1 acre. Extra large nuts bring from $4 to $6 per bushel, while small bring from $1.50 to $3. estimate the value at $4. This would give you for one years crop $864. The cost of gathering would be nominal, say $64, as a patent sweep could be constructed to sweep them off the ground after the first frost, which opens the burrs. This leaves a net amount of SBOO per acre. Suppose we take off S4OO for contingencies, and we have S4OO income from one acre. I would rather have a pecan farm than stock in any bank.—San Antonio Express.

Fainting proceeds from different causes, the most common being a disturbance of the circulation of the blood in the brain. For an ordinary fainting fit lay the patient flat. Great harm has often resulted from the treatment by ignorant persons in trying to make the patient sit up, or propping up the head on pillows. To send the blood back from the heart to the brain, the flat posture is absolutely necessary. Let the patient lie so that tbe feet are higher than head, throw the clothes about the chest and throat open, sponge the face with cold water and give some cold water to drink,

Best Butter Producer.

Profits in Pecan-Raising.

The Causes of Fainting.

GOOD MEN ARE CHOSEN

INDIANA DEMOCRATS NAME A STRONG TICKET. Uerernor Mat'hewc, the Permanent Chairman. Presides—Say 4 a Good Word for the Senate Tariff BUI and Make* a Plea for Silver. The Ticket. Secretary of State William B. Meyers Auditor of State Joseph T. Fanning Treasurer of Mate Morgan Chandler Attorney General Francis M. Griffith Snpt. Public Instruction... .. .Chas. Thomas Clerk of Supreme CourtC. W. We'mUl Mate Statistician.... Alexander Fulton State Geologist Ell T. Jcrdan Judge of Supreme Court. First Dlstrlot. George F. Reinhart Judge of Supreme Court, Fourth Dlstrie'.. Joseph H. Dailey Indianapolis correspondence: The largert convention in the historv o' the Democratic part -in Indiana c nvened in Tomlinson Hall. There were 1,747 accredi ed delegates seated on the main tl or. Although the woatherwas intensely warm iho great ball was filled wit 1 spectat rs who fanned themselves into a state of comparative comfort. The hall was elab- < rately decorated with bunting and American flags. Rev. Abbott, of Indianapolis offered a prayer. A 101 followed and the do egation was fouud to be complete. The eemmittee on permanent crganbutlon reported and named Governor Matthews jiermunent Chairman of the convention. In his opening remirks Cha rman Taggart expressed confidence in a Democratic victory in biovembsr. 'J he rule <on organization wore adopted and tho rules of the pre ent Congress, as tar »s practicable, governed the convention. Chairman Taggart then intiodueed Goxernor

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Matthews, tho parmanent Chait man. who was received with loud cheers. Gov. Matthew*' Speech. Gov. Matthews spoko as follows: Once again a grunt party aisombles in convention to deliberate upon those quostious that concern the welfare of a people, the good of government, and make appeal to the public for a renewal of its support and confidence. Surely the gloomy forebodings and presages of defeat heralded in tho opposition papers have had but little effect. A party for over thirty years carried on the policy which was enriching the few at the expenae of the many, begetting extravagance that Invaded the administration of government until It wan impoverishing the millions to ]>ay tribute to the privileged few. The people at last revolted and lor the first time since IHA7 placed all departments of the government in the hand* of the Democrat.c party to free them from these evils and refo-.m the injustice of the past. We came into possession of the government, but with a depleted treasury, made so by the recklessness and profligacy of Republican administration. Not alone was this our Inheritance, but crippled and embarrassed through thoentallure of extravagant appropriations, reaching beyond tho close of Bepnblloan control of public affairs, and forcing upon their successors toon the passage of deficiency bills and issuance of bonds to maintain the credit and tho honor of the government. Those strained and unnatural conditions could not but sooner or later seriously affect the prosperity of the people. The results have been witnessed lu the widespread financial and commercial depression that has swt pt over the country. And now wo see a once great party seeking to escape public condemnation tor their mischievous policy, and still deceiving a long suffering people by charging these results to the acce slon to power of the Demociatio party. in assuming control of the Government no party ever encountered such tremenuous difficulties as mot the Democratic paity, and nn greater struggle to fulfill tho promises and redeem the pledges it had made m its declaration of principles of land. Ono by or e these pledges are being redeemed through toe heroic effoits of our reprostntatlves In Congress. The iniquitous and unjust Federal election law has fsl'on beneath our sturdy blows; the promise to repeal tho silverpurchasliig clause of the Hherman act has oeen fulfilled, and the belief enacted into law that no special or privileged class of property shall escape Its just snare of tho burden of tax, oven that be the hitherto hoarded and sacred greenback or national currency. Hiego has been laid to the stronghold of Republicanism—lts protective tariff—and the day of a broad commercial freedom is surely dawning upon us. Htep by step we fight our way, camping on every vantage ground until wo stand amid the purpling heights of victory won and success achieved. Every point gained Is an advance, notomy for to-day but lor tho future of the country. There must be no backward step. The cry is, "Forward!” We may not In th' present measure and through the present Congress secure all that may be desired, but it is imt as sure as night stas'l follow tho day, all legislation that may give relief in the direction of true tariff reform is to remain upon the statutes fixed and secure. It may be added to and advanced, but it will never more be taken from or moved backward, It mutters not whether the Republican or the Democratic party may be In the ascendency. True tarifi reform, a broad commercial freedom, a revenue taxation based upon economic expenditure, has come

C W. THOMAS.

io set Its seal upon all future legislation of tbe government. But those who, marching under the banners of Democracy, abandoning Democratic principles and forgetting the sacred cause of the people, would place obstacles in the way by localizing great national truths of government, let them beware the Indignation of an aroused and outraged party. Where President Cleveland, trusted leader, will be true to lead, we shall be brave enough to follow. The Democratic party hae at times suffered defeat in the past, and may meet temporary defeats in the future, but it never surrenders. Surrender will only come when the cause of the people, to which it has over been true, when representative government, which it has faithfully defended, and the gr at principles it has advocated shall have been eternally lost. Through storm and through sunshine the Democratic ptrty has been the persistent friend, able advocate and brave defender of silver. I do not believe tbe day has come when we propose, or can afford in the interests of the people, to turn our backs upon this metal, ft is an important product of the country, and from the d.ysot our fathers down through all the wondrous and amazing grow th of our country we have found it a usolul. s fe, valuable medium of circulation. It was decreed by God and designed by our fathers that Anv rica should be the home of civil and religious liberty. This la the great underlying principle In tbe liberties of a people and of free representative government. It has not been the least of the missions of the Democratic party to zealously guard this sacred privilege in the past and it shall continue in the future to raise its voice against the unholy and un-American prejudice that would stir up a feeling of hatred, bitterness, and animosity toward one religious sect, a feeling that is wholly at war with fraternal charity, Christian sentiment and highest civilization. Such a sentiment can never find a resting place in the bosom of Democracy, nor In the hearts of true American citizens. The Democratic party was the uncompromising foe of knowuothingism. and it shall breathe its vengeance on all similar organizations. Tile Platform. The platform as read and adopted began by indorsing the record of the Democratic party in Indiana, It then continue,: W. r.fflrm our opposition to the vicious system of clais legislation miscalled protection, and pledge cur .elves to contlnr.* the battle

against it until every species of extortion aatf robbery fostered by the McKinley aet shall be obliterated from one revenue system and people enjoy all the blessings of commercial liberty. We denounce tariff protection <rf every kind as a fraud and robbery of the great American people for the benefit of the few. We maintain that no tariff taxes should be levied except tor purposes of revenue only, and that such taxes should be limited to the necessities of the government, honestly and econot&lcally administered. W e approve the efforts of President C'eveland and his administration, and of the Democratic House of Representatives, and of a large majority of the Democratic Senators, and particularly onr oletlugutsbed Senators from Indiana. the Hon. D. W. Voorhees and the HonDavid Tnrple. and our entire Democratic delegation in Congress to redeem the pledges made to the country by the last Democratic convention. and to execute the will of the American people as expressed at the ballot box in 1-W. It continue!, condemning the course o.' the Republican party, and espec ally condemning— > A email coterie of Senators, who masquerading as Democrats, by threats to d«fe»t all tariff legislation, have temporarily prevented

the Democratic uaity from carrying out all of Its jletig. s to the people for tariff leform as announced In the Democratic platform of iwn. It proceeds to congratulate Con jross that a substantia measure of reform has been effected a d approves the action of the House of Representatives in following the enactment of this law with -the passage of separate acts placing sugar, lion ore and barbed wire on the free list. It o<peetally indorses the income tax as a wise and equitable measure, deigned to place a fair share of the burdens of the Government upon the property of the country: also the law pa j sod authorizing the taxatkn of greenbacks. It "favors the prompt enactment of tho law by our next i eg! lature for the taxation of that class 01 money," and "most heartily Indorses the repeal of tho odious election law." It declares in favor of a constitutional amendment providing for t ipe ection of United States Senators by direct vote of tho people. It declares tho policy and the principles of tho American Protective Association illiberal, unwise, unpatr otic, uudemootatic and un-American. Tho platform strongly declares in favor of every lawful elfort to secure for those who earn their livelihood by their dally toll a better condition, and condemns the oflorts that havo boon made to identify thoir cause with the infamous conspiracies of lawlessness and anarchy which threaten the very foundations of order and It den .unces every manifestation of violence and mob spirit: luvors laws regulating emigration to oxclu o tho piui er and viaif us classes. It reaffirms lielief that both gold anti silver should bo used as a in< nev standard, and both should be coined without discrimination and without charge f< r mlntauc. Hails with delighttho signs of restoration of tho bimetallic system, indorses the ad m mist ation of Cleveland, especially bls course in muint lining law and order. Indorse! the administration of Governor Matthews, and close.! with a oomand that Congress deal generously and even bountifully in the matter of ponsion! t > s oldie rs.

B'omothlng of ths Men Who Have Been Nn med for Slate Offices. William It Myers was born In Clinton County. Ohio. In 1836. educated in the common schools of Anderson, Ind.; served In tho Federal army from 1861 to 1865 and was discharged with tho rank of captain.

studied law with Judge Diivis and was admitted to practice In 1879. Be was elected Grund Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Indiana In 1877; elected to the Foriy-sixth Congioss In 1878; defeated for Congress by Godlove S. Orth hi 1880; elected Secretary of Stale In 1882; and re-elected in 1884; nominated and beaten for Lieutenant Governor In 1888. He o.i pod and edited the Anderson Democrat from 1887 to 1880, and win elected Secretary of State for the third time in 1802. Joseph T. Funning was born on u farm In Ohio thirty-six years ago,. .though the most of bls life bus been passed In Indiana. He bus u large acqualntani**. and Is deservedly one of the tri;htost*'and most popular of the young Democrats la the State. In 1885 be was assistant clerk . of the lower house of the ludlanit General Assembly. Subsequently he served as deputy under County Aulltor Taggart. From this position be took service under Auditor of State Henderson as chief deputy nearly four years ago, which position ho still occupies. For many your* he has been prominent us a worker and leader among iho Marion County Democrats. Judge Joseph S Dailey has been a lifelong resident of Wells county, Indiana, where he wtw born May 31, 1844. He received his education in the Bluffton public schools, and graduated from the Indiana University law school In 1886. In that year he received the election of Dlstr.ct Attorney for the counties of Allen, Adams. Huntington. and Wells, and In 1868 his party (those him as Prosecuting Attorney, to which office ho succeeded himself three times. In 1878 he whs elected to the Legislature for Adams and Wells counties, and in 1882, In u district which win 1,100 Kepubllcan at the preceding election, he was defeated for Congress by 383 plurality. In 1888 he was elected judge of tbe Twentyeighth judicial circuit, composed of Huntington und Wells counties, which position ho held until May. 1893, when he wus appointed by Gov. Matthews to tbe Supreme be” ch. E (-Senator F. M. Griffiths Is 44 years old, was born und raised iu Switzerland County, educated at Franklin college, admitted to the bur in Muy, 1876, and has practiced continually since. Ho was elected to tbe State Senate in 1880. and re-elected la 1890 During the four sessions of service In the Le •tslaturo he was always a member of the judiciary committee. und lit tbe session of 1893 was chairman of that committee. E. T. J. Jordan, candidate fcr State Geologist. was born fifty-three years ago He came to Indiana In 1869, studied law while teaebin.'. afid was admitted to the bar in 1876, but has practiced but little. He was appointed State Supervisor of natural gas In 18MJ. has given a great deal of study to geology, and hits one of the best private collections of fossds in the State. C. W. Welmun was born in Crawford County. Ind., Sept 18. 1858; removed with his parents to Gibson County, where tbe lutrer still reside, in 1860. He attended the High School at Fort Branch and tbe Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso and taught school in Gibson and Vanderburgh Counties from 1878 to 1885; en razed in the newspaper business, editing various local pacers, and took charge of the Sullivan Times in 1888. which paper he continues to ably edit. He was ele ted coun'y superintendent of schoo s In IS9I and re-elected in 1892. He Is held In high esteem by school officers and other educators of the State, with whom he enjryi a lar e acquaintance. He Is prominent locally in secret society w.»rk. ' Spectacles were first made in Italy.

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