Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1896 — Page 4

CHAPTER XX". "This is an awkward business, my man •—an awkward and a disagreeable business, I may say.” The speaker was Mr. Sturt, one of the principal solicitors in Daneborougb, and clerk to the magistrates. . “An awkward business for him, I hope!” growled out the person addressed. “You persist, then, in your accusation against the gentleman whose name you have just mentioned?” said Lawyer Sturt. "Very well. I have sent a message to Dr. Leader. No other county magistrate could be so promptly communicated with.” Crouch took a chair, while Mr. Sturt went on with is writing, In perhaps twenty minutes more a boy clerk ushered In “Dr. Leader.” “This man insists,” said Lawyer Sturt, “upon bringing a formal charge against Sir Richard Mortmain, of Helston, a landed gentleman, a baronet, and brother of Lady Thorsdale.” “Ah, indeed,” said Dr. Leader, surveying from beneath his bushy gray eyebrows the truculent countenance, shaggy and broad form of the accuser. “And,” added the clerk to the magistrate, “he admits that it is private resentment which has induced him to come forward in this matter.” “Nothing more probable,” observed the Doctor. “We had better get in a succinct form his statement of the case and reduce it to writing.” “He gave me these, Sir R. did,” said Crouch, savagely, as with a brown forefinger he pointed to two bluish wales ■that scarred his ugly face; “as if I'd been a hound to bear the whip. But I’m not here to jaw about a mere assault. I charge Sir Richard Mortmain, baronet, with forgery to the tune of eight hundred pounds sterling. He did it at a time when he was on bad terms with his father, the late Sir Richard. The forged check purported to be signed by a nobleman who lived near us—at Mortmain, I mean—and I was the man who presented it, and got the cash for it, at Threddleston. Then there came a coolness and the.-e were words between me and Sir R. And that was how he wrote me two letters, which I have by me to this day, and which are proofs that he wrote Lord Wyvern’s name on the check, and that he begged and prayed me, his accomplice, not to split.”

“This sounds a cock-and-bull story, my man,” remarked Lawyer Sturt. “I doubt if any jury would believe your tale.” “That depends, of course,” said Dr. Deader, mildly, “,;pon the proofs.” “I’ve got them, sir, never doubt me,” responded Crouch, confidently. “I can lay my hand at an hour’s notice on what will send my finb gentleman to spoil his white hands with oakum-picking and quarryman’s work.” Rufus Crouch, after indulging for a time in liquor and boastful talk at a low public house on the verge cf the town, left Daneborougb in a state of high excitement. "I shall be queen’s evidence, and so copie safe out of the forgery job,” he muttered to himself. Hordle Cliff, as Rufus had truly said in his conversation with the baronet, is a formidable place—a rampart frowning down upon the sea. Crouch, excited by drink and the tension of his nerves, walked recklessly at the very verge of the giddy height, kicking over now and then a pebble or a clod of earth, and then laughing, as an ogre might have done, at the grim visions that passed through his seething brain. At last Rufus reached the tempting spot which he had lovingly described to Sir Richard —the scene of the intended murder. How he had gloated over the details of the projected crime! It would never be done now —that dark deed—never! never! Crouch was not one to risk his neck gratis; and yet At the selected spot the ruffian turned, witn his face toward Daneborougb, the town he had just left, and by an effort of the imagination saw before him, hurrying along and unsuspecting, the hated form of Don. “Aha! my gentleman foundling,” he snarled, “one good push and over you go, never to come up again!” And as he spoke he stamped his heavy foot on the bettling cliff, and threw forward his great hands in hideous imitation of the purposed crime. But then the crumbling path gave way beneath his unwary feet, and with one wild yell of despairing anguish, down, down went Rufus himself to the jagged rocks below! It was two days before the body was found.

CHAPTER XXXL On the day on which the medical magistrate waited in vain for the reappearance of the accuser of Sir Richard Mortmain, Don called at the parsonage of Woodbui n. He was in the usual attire of a gentleman. but there was a sadness in his bright face that only dated from the day when his hopes of Violet for his wife had ben rudely dashed away. “Is Mr. Marsh at home?” Don asked, and Mr. Marsh, when he came into the drawing-room and found Don standing there alone, was moved by a generous impulse. “I have to beg your pardon, Mr. Don,” he said, heartily; “and, as an honest man, I feel it my duty to own that I have done you, unwittingly, a great injustice. Every injurious expression that I used in my anger toward yourself applies, I find, to another person, of whose very existence I was ignorant. I withdraw and regret those words —I own I was wrong.” “Dear sir, you have said enough,” answered Don, readily. “I was certain that you had mistaken my motives, but I felt sure that you acted from a sense of duty. “But, Mr. Don,” remarked the dry-salt-er presently, assuming his most serious aspect, “though Ephraim Marsh regards you as a fine young fellow, Miss Violet Mowbray’s guardian must not sanction any betrothal—any love passages—between his ward and a young man whose worldly position is so unequal to her own. Pedigree is not what it was; but when there are high connections, and MMey, too, Mr. Don ” **l nadentand you, sir,” said Don, sadly. so the merchant hesitated; “but, believe me, I did not need fresh proofs of the hopelessness of my suit. lam here to-day to ask your permission to my seefag Mias Mowbray once more—only once —before I leave England.” •Leave England Fer claimed Mr.

A LOYAL LOVE

BY J BERWICK HARWOOD

“Yes, sir!” Don explained. “It is for Mies Mowbray’s—for Violet’s—dear sake that I have made up my mind to seek a short cut to fortune. Mr Barrett, Lord Thorsdale’s land agent, has kindly recommended me to a brother of his, who is manager of a great estate and of some rich silver mines in Mexico.” “Upon my word,” said Mr. Marsh, “I am sorry! But never mind that now. Mr. Don, if I consent to your request for a parting interview with my ward, I must stipulate for no pledges and promises. There must be no positive engagement to prevent the young lady from forming future ties.” There was a proud sadness in Don’s voice as he replied: “My own honor, sir, would forbid me to be married, or even betrothed, to Miss Mowbray, rich and well-connected, unless I had won for myself the advantages of a position in the world, and of a competence. Should I succeed. I will come back to t-sk for her love and her hand. Till then I will accept no plight from her. Of that. Mr. Marsh, I can assure you.” “I will, on receipt of this assurance, go to my ward, mention your wish for a meeting with her, and arrange for it tomorrow. Mr. Don, if, as I doubt not, the young lady be willing,” said the merchant. “Wait for me, if you please. I shall soon be back.” Five minutes after Mr. Marsh’s departure the door of the room was opened, and “Lord Wyvern” was announced. The Earl entered. He had ridden over from Thorsdale on one his noble entertainer’s horses, and attended by a mounted groom, to call upon the rector, whom he had known and esteemed long ago in London. “You are a son, I’ suppose, of my old friend, Mr. Langton?” said the ex-am-bassador, graciously, to Don. “I am not related to Mr. Langton, my lord. lam merely waiting here on business, if I may call it so,” answered the young man, with a slight bow. Lord Wyvern seemed to resume his haughty coldness of demeanor. He seated himself, and, without speaking again, awaited the arrival of the clergyman. But from time to time he could not prevent himself from glancing at Don, as the latter stood, in an attitude of unstudied grace, near a window that commanded a view of the sea. Of what did the young man’s dark eyes, his features, and the very turn of his proud head, remind the Earl? Lord Wyvern almost felt as though he had known Don—or, at least, seen him before; felt as though the sight of the handsome, manly youth awakened in him vague memories, though of what he knew not.

“Lord Wyvern, I believe,”- said Mr. Marsh, coming hastily into the room. “I must apologize to your lordship for the stupid blunder of the maid who showed yoa in. Mr. Langton, my niece’s husband, is in his library, I believe, and quite unaware of your visit. If you will wait one moment, my lord. And you, Mr. Don, please step this way.” And the dry-salter hurried Don out of the room and so into the hall. “I have spoken to Miss Mowbray,” he said. “I have explained to her that you are on the point of leaving England for a distant country, and only wish to see her alone this once, to bid her farewell. And she will see you—poor girl!—at eleven to-morrow.” Don took his leave and went, while Mr. Marsh made haste to repair to she library, where he apprised the rector of the coming of the noble visitor, who remained alone in the drawing-room of the parsonage. And when Mr. Langton had hurried away to greet his titled guest, the drysalter seated himself beside the writing table, and for some moments reflected on his recent interviews with Don and with his ward. At the appointed hour on the day succeeding to that on which Lord Wyvern had paid his visit, Don rode into the pretty garden of the parsonage. After a brief delay he was conducted into the drawingroom, where he found Violet Mowbray, looking very pale and pretty. She was the first to speak. “So you have made up your mind, Don dear, to go away and leave me?” “I am going Violet, darling,” answered Don, drawing nearer, “that I may come again all the sooner to claim her I love as my wife, to win my sweet prize, and be very happy ever after, as the dear old story books say.” “But, Don—Don,” answered Violet, looking at him tearfully, with large eyes wistfully fixed upon his face, “suppose you never come back to England—never come back to me? Girl as I am, I have read something of the wild country whither you are bound. I know partly what lurking dangers await you there.” “Come, come, we must not make out my future abode a place from which no traveler returns. Violet, love,” said Don, tenderly, but firmly, “there must be no engagement—no binding troth-plight—be-tween you and me. That much I have promised Mr. Marsh. There must be no pledge, dearest—nothing to make you think that you are bound to Don, should Don come to be half forgotten.” “Cruel! cruel!” was Violet’s reproachful answer, as she looked at him, all her soul in her eyes. There was more of fond talk, the little, sacred reminiscences, the lovers’ prattle, that all can remember, that seem so sweet and precious, and which, if transferred to prosaic print and paper, would lose all their charm, and then came the bitter, bitter moment of the actual parting. “My love! my own!” she murmured. “Make haste and come back—to me!” Then Don caught her in his arms, andkissed her pale, soft cheek ence and again. “Good-by,” he said, “my love, good-by— Violet, dear.” (To be continued.) One tug on the Mississippi can take in 'six days from St. Louis to New Orleans barges carrying ten thousand tons of grain, which would require seventy railway trains of fifteen cars each. Tugs in the Suez Canal tow a vessel from sea to sea in forty-four hours. An omnibus for smokers and nonsmokers has been plying for some days in Berlin. There are no outside sears, but the inside is‘divided Into two com partments by a glass partition. Statistics prove that a single house fly may become the progenitor of a family of 2,080,320 descendants in one season. For headache, bathing behind lhe ears with hot water often proves of Im* manse benefit

FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. A SAD MISTAKE. Sweet Mary started out for church All on a Sunday morning. With flowered gown And bonnet white. Sweet eyes cast down ~ But face so bright. For over and above it all She held her first new parasol. Sweet Mary hied her heme from church All on a Sunday morning; But pride was gone, Our little maid Was so forlorn, For o’er her head Far down the long and crowded aisle, She’d held her parasol the while.

DANCING LIZARD. One of the interesting little animals that live in far-away Australia is the dancing lizard, known scientifically as the chlamydosaurus kingi. This queer reptile is about three feet in length and wears a collar of bright red, yellow and blue mixture. He gets his name from the collar and is called the frilled lizard. He is not a bit pretty, and has a way of jumping around that gives one a peculiar fright if one comes upon him suddenly. Although this frilled chap has four legs, he seems to like walking and dancing upon his hind legs better than traveling upon all fours. He is as quick as lightning in his movements, and lives upon the insects that inhabit the trees of the thick woods. A QUEER FREAK DUCK. The queerest duck that ever swam is owned by a San Francisco man, who keeps a big farm just outside that city. The name of the duck's owner is Mr. E. J. Wilkinson, and he is very proud of his feathered pet The duck is just an ordinary appearing, white, quacking bird, such as everybody is familiar with, and yet it stands alone in duckdom as a unique specimen. The queer thing about this particular duck is that it has a trick of laying two eggs at one time; in other words, an egg within an egg. As a rule the shell of the outside egg measures about nine inches around, while the inside egg measures about four inches. The outside egg is just like the one inside with the exception that the yoke or yellow part is slightly flattened out from being pressed against the shell of the inside one. Sometimes this freaky creature will lay two double eggs, each one weighing from a quarter to half a pound, and measuring from eight to ten inches around the outside. Mr. Wilkinson is very proud of his peculiar pet, and says that be will never part with the downy creature as long as he has money enough left to buy feed for his talented bird. Noone has ever known any kind of a fowl to do the wonders that this duck perforins regularly, and though several people have offered large sums for the freak, Mr. Wilkinson steadfastly refuses to sell her.

OLD GOOD-BYE. Benny had lived in the country long, and everything he saw was new and interesting to him. He liked the old black crows in the trees behind the house particularly. He said he was just as sure they talked to him as he could be, and that if he only knew crow language he could talk to them. His mother answered that that was quite likely, for some very learned people believed that every animal had a language, and one gentleman had been talking to monkeys. Well, then Benny said he should go on trying to talk to the crows; and one morning he came down to breakfast, and told the family that a crow had come out of the tree and perched on his window-sill and sa ; d, “How are you?” and that he had said, * ‘Very well, thank you, Mr. Crow,” and the crow had laughed and said, “Good-bye,” and flown away. Benny’s mother told him that she thought be must have dreamed that; but Benny could not be convinced, and a few weeks later, when Benny was quite ill with fever, and she was nursing him, she was astonished by seeing one of the crows on the window-sill. ' ‘There!” Benny said. “There he is! ” Then the black bird came in and hopped over the bureau to the head-board, and said: “How are you r” “I’m veiy sick. Air. Crow,” said Benny. Then the bird cried out: “Oh! Oh! Good-bye!” “I never could have believed that if I had not seen and heard it myself," said Benny’s mother. And the little waiter-girl— who had brought up a bowl of gruel for Benny—was so frightened that she spilled half of it on the table and ran out of the room, crying that she was sure Master Benny was going to die, for a bird had come in at his bedroom window and bid him good-bje.] The result of this was that in the course of the morning a very nice old lady called on Benny’s mother, and told her that she wanted to explain that the bird who had come in at her little boy’s window was not a crow at all. It was only as black as one; it was a raven. She had had it a great many years, and it often went to visit the neighbors. It always said: “How are you?” when it walked in, and “Good-bye," when it went away, and often made other speeches. His name was “Old Good-bye.” Then she talked about Benny and gave his mother some medicine that helped him at once, and after that they were all great friends, and often called on each other. ‘ ‘Old Good-bye" dropped in very often, and amused the children whenever he came. He was a great thief, and picked sugar out of the bowl and raisins out of the stone jar where the cook kept ths.ni, and would have done considerable mischief if he had not been watched. Sometimes it is necessary to watch children as well as animals. A cat will steal milk and fish, and there are little boysand girls who will nip corners off of newlybaked cakes, and make the edges of pies look as if mice had been at them, and even meddle with preserves and pickles. None of Benny’s siste' s would have done these things, but I am sorry to say that Benny would. People do not like to say that their own children will steal; but Benny’s mother admitted that her boy would “snoop.” She tried to cure him of it in vaiu. Benny was so fond of sweet things that they were a terrible temptation to him. On Saturday evening, when lus father came from the city, he always brought a considerable amount of candy, and on Sunday afternoon he used to get it out of the drawer and hand it about. But one Sunday morning, as Benny came down-stairs, he saw his father’s traveling-bag standing on a chair, and peeping in, saw that for once the candies had been left there. The top of one paper was loose, and in went his fingers and transferred a dozen chocolate drops to his pocket. Then he ran on downstairs. The family were at breakfast, and Benny ate his with a guilty feeling. When he had finished, he sat down very quietly on a stool, and thought how wicked he was, and made up his ndnd to put the chocolate back where he found it, and get it off of his conscience. In fact, be was about to

rise to his feet to do so, when In at th* long window walked Old Good-bye, and came stalking over the carpet to where he sat, and looked at him with his queer eyes, and said, “flow are you?” “Pretty weU,” Benny answered. Then Old Good-bye perched upon Benny’s knee and brought one of his eyes to bear upon his pocket, and. in an instant, in went the bird's beak, and out I came a chocolate drop, which it carried to the hearth and laid down with great solemnity. Benny was so frightened that be could say nothing, and all the family sat staring, while the raven made twelve journeys to the hearth and ranged the dozen chocolate drops in a row. When the last was placed there he began to swallow each in turn, said “Good-bye,” and walked solemnly away. “Is it possible you have done this again?” said the boy’s father. “Oh. Benny !" cried his mother. At this Benny’s tears began to flow fast, and he arose slowly and went to his father. “Papa,” he said, ‘ ‘I never felt so mean. Won’t you please whip me right away, and get it over ?” “Benny," said his father, “you shall have a punishment. That does not always mean a whipping. Ot course, you will not have any candy, and you had better go and sit by yourself while we are taking a walk together this afternoon, and think how mean you have been. That will be punishment enough. I think.” Poor Benny thought it was, and his sisters cried softly during the whole walk, and no one could eat the candy. When one of a loving family does wrong, the rest always suffer. Benny gave up “snooping” from that time; but Old Good bye di I not allow him to forget his fault, for whenever he paid a call he always went straight to Benny’s pockets to look for candy there.

FACTS ABOUT SUGAR,

Sugar exists in the sap or leaves of nearly two hundred different kinds of trees. Gibbon says that sugar was first brought from Asia to Europe A. 1). 025. Some writers say that there is a variety of sugur cane indigenous to America. The word “caramel” is of Greek origin, and signifies simply black honey. Leavulose is that sugar most liberally found in Ironey and various fruits. The longest run in candy has been made by chocolate creams and caramels. Etymologists declare that the sugar cane has 227 varieties of insect enemies. Sugar is boiled, more or less, for candy, according to the kind to be made. Maltose is that variety of sugar produced by the action of diastase on starch. It is said that the dark varieties of sugar cane resist disease better than the light. It is said that in France the production of beet root averages eleven tons per acre. In 1803 there were eight.v-one sugar estates in the delta of the Mississippi alone. Candy stores located in the neighborhood of schools generally do a thriving business. The cultivation of sugar extended from India to Persia some time In the ninth century. It is said by botanists that sugar cane is not found growing wild in any part of the world. Preserved fruits, in a state fit to be eaten, have been taken from the ruiui of Herculaneum. The sugar cane is now cultivated In every part of Africa that has been explored by whites. For caramels and other dark caudles the brown sugar is almost exclusively employed. Manltose is a peculiar sugar found in mushrooms aud one or two other vegetables. Fat pork, baked in honey, was a favorite confection among the ladies in the days of Horace. 'The sugar cane is a variety of grass whose saccharine properties have been developed by cultivation. The "sweet ear*” mentioned in Isaiah xliii; 24, is supposed by some critics to mean sugar cane. Cane sugar, heated and treated with chlorate of potash, forms a detonating mixture of great intensity. Nearchus, the Admiral of Alexander the Great, noted the growth of the sugar cane in ludia B. C. 325.

Roasting an Ox.

Few of those who enjoy a bit of roast beef at a barbecue, says the Boston Transcript, may previously have had any idea of the process of roasting the beef. The ox is first split in the brisket and is dressed much after the manner of dressing poultry. When roosted on the immense gridiron, as was done today, it is not stuffed with anything, but when roasted by being hung on a “spit” a tilling is used. The spit process, however, does not thoroughly cook the beef, and the result is not likely to be so satisfactory as when the gridiron is used. Before the beef is placed over the fire a knife is thrust into it in a dozen or more places to a depth of ten or twelve inches. In the cavities thus made salt, pepper and other condiments are placed. The cook finds that this keeps all the rich juices in the meat, and only fat drops out in the pan under the beef. Every now aud theu the meat is basted with a savoryshuce. This sauce is made from the recipe of a famous old French cook, and tlie secret of its composition is carefully guarded. When the beef is carved the flavor of the juice is especially fine. The beef rests on ten twoinch iron pipes laid across a pit which is walled with stone much like a cellar. Charcoal is used for fuel, for with this a steady, slow fire can be Kept going. A three-inch' pipe runs through the length cf the body of tlie ox, and this pipe is fastened at each end to strong ropes which work ou pulleys. By this means the great roast is raised to bo turned over after one side has been against tlie lire for some hours. The cooking of the back also is done in this way, for by tlie ropes the ox can be placed in almost any position. It takes four men to raise it in this way, aud they do it six or seven times during tlie process of cooking. Lille’s Ghent gate and Roubaix gate, the last remnants of military architecture belonging to the time of the Spanish occupation, are to be torn down to make room for the city’s growth eastward.

THE PEOPLE'S MONEY.

THE PUBLIC DEBT. Here are some appalling facts: In 1866 our national debt was $2,825,000,000. In 1805 our national debt was sl,125,000,000. From 1866 to 1895 we paid In interest on this debt the vast sum of $2,635,000,000. In the same period we paid on the principal $2,700,000,000. Total paid on interest and principal from 1866 to 1895, $5.335,00.000. Yet to-day our national debt is actually as large as it was in 1866. our ability to earn the money with which to pay It having decreased to such an extent that it requires twice the effort to earn a dollar, gold having appreciated nearly 50 per cent since 1866. John Clark Kidpath, the great American scholar and historian, shows the earning power of our people in 1866 by the following table giving amount of the nine principal staples required to pay the debt at that time: Of wheat 1,486,842,105 bu. Of flour 262,790,696 bbls. Of cotton 5,885,416,666 lbs. Of mess pork 99,576,313 bbls. Of 5ugar25,393,348,314 lbs. Of w 0015,330.188,679 lbs. Of beef 181,697,213 cwt. Of bar iron 41,851,851,851 lbs. Of superior farming lands above (approximately) 37,666,666 acres. Now, In 1895 the public debt was reduced to $1,125,000,000, and yet the amount of these same staples required to pay it are in most cases greater: Of wheat 2.133,420,080 bu. Of flour 353,571,423 bbls. Of cotton 13,558,823,229 lbs. Of mess pork 150,915,853 bbls. Of sugar 21,750,000,000 lbs. Of wool 5,755,813,623 lbs. Of beef 130.236.136 cwt. Of bar iron 46,348,314,666 lbs. Of superior farming lands as above (approximately).3s,3s7,l32 acres. In other words, the debt to-day Is worth more to holders of the bonds than in 1866 and the burden on the people is greater than in 1866.

Live and Let Live Not the Policy, Quick has been the monopolistic press to see the Injustice to the creditor classes from a depreciated dollar, but to the equal Injustice of an appreciating dollar to the debtor classes, and to the grievous wrongs done to all producers by such a dollar, they have been and are perversely blind. To reap the unearned gains of an appreciating dollar the creditor classes have been quite content, and their organs have seen no Injustice in a dollar that has grown dearer and dearer from year to year, and that has enabled them to profit at the expense of their debtors. But when the producing and debtor classes tire of being stripped of their earnings through the subtle workings of the appreciating gold standard, when they demand that justice be done them, that silver be restored to its place as money, so that the measure In which they are obliged to measure those products with which they must pay their debts shall not grow In length from year to year, and when "they assert their right to repay their creditors In a dollar of no greater value than the dollar borrowed, the mouthpieces of the creditor classes are quick to sound an alarm, and to stamp dishonest repudiators all those who revolt against the payment of an increased tribute, year after year, for the use of money borrowed, and who refuse longer to submit to the extortions of an appreciating measure of value that requires the payment of principal and Interest in our loans in a dollar of greater value, of greater purchasing power, than the dollar borrowed.

Promises Not Kept. Three years ago, when the Sherman law was unconstitutionally repealed, it was contended that the repeal would restore confidence and bring speedy prosperity. We took the advice of the anti-silver doctors, and every prophecy they made has been refuted. They urged the repeal to prevent a raid upon the gold reserve. Scarcely was it repealed than an unprecedented raid was made, and $262,000,000 of gold, which we borrowed to feed it, have now run down to about the hundred-mi 11lon mark. It was urged that it would bring foreign capital here, but Europeon stocks continued to be sold on the New York market and gold has continued to flow from us. It was declared that it would restore confidence, but confidence has continued to diminish, for the simple reason that property, which is the basis of credit and confidence, has continued to decline. There can never be confidence ■when property is declining, and property must decline with a contraction of the currency.—“ Bryan and Bewail,” F. Tennyson Neely, Publisher.

An Air-Pump Argument, Every attempt to restore silver, every appeal pointing out the awful effects which have followed its demonetization, has been met and (ought back. The old cry has been time and time again raised: "If you try it, all the gold will drift away; if you try it, there will be a panic,” which is precisely as though some people had a man in an air chamber, and had exhausted nearly all the air and stood with one hand hold of the pump handle, saying to him: “If you dare to kick, we will give you two or three strokes and take away what air you have.”—Salt Lake City Tribune. Out of the Enemy’s Mouth. If the United States mints were freely opened to the coinage of silver, the gold In the Treasury were all withdrawn, and silver made the only metallic money which the Treasury could pay out, the impression made upon the rest of the world would probably be very great. For one thing, it seems reasonable to infer that the Indian mints would be reopened, and it is not Improbable that several embarrassed countries, like, for instance, Argentina, would decide that a standard of value

good enough for the United States would be good enough for them, also. If that were to happen, silver might rise very considerably.—London Statist Would Cause Revival in Business. The Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage says: “If the silver people win, I believe there will be such a revival in business, such a booming in industries, which are now inactive, and such a general shaking up of commercial interests that the country will be sure to prosper.” Ex-Governor John P. St. John, in answering the goldlte silver dumping theory, said: “I always say, let ’em. dump—if they want to be so foolish. If they dump all the silver in the world here and take out all the gold we would have S6O per capita of standard money, every dollar worth 100 cents, while the rest of the world averaged about $3 per capita in gold. The effect of such' a transaction would be unexampled prosperity in this country and ruin and bankruptcy unparalleled in the others.. “No large amount of silver could come: it would benefit us if it did come? “The United States, therefore, should stop the double robbery of her people required by a gold standard and vote free coinage alone.” The production of the ten chief wheat-growing nations of the world from 1880 to 1887 was 1.825,000,000 bushels; from 1888 to 1894 the average production was 1.904,000,000 bushels. The population, however, of the wheateating nations averaged for the former period 397,000,000, and for the latter period 434,000,000, so that the per: capita supply for the earlier period was four and one-half bushels annually, while for the latter period it was a fraction more than four and one-third, bushels. Here you have a reduction in supplies, and yet a fall of 50 per cent. In the price of wheat.

Falling prices lead to lower wages and enforced idleness, and for such loss in Income the wage-earner is not by any means compensated; for retail prices (for reasons that are obvious) fall but slowly, and not so far or fast as the income of the wage-earner. So the wageearner is impoverished by falling prices even though nominal rates of wages may be kept from falling commensurately with the fall in wholesale prices. And the result of this is. of course, that neither farmer nor manufacturer can reduce the cost of production proportionately with a fall in prices of their products such as is in-, separable from an appreciating measure of value. Inability to reduce and inability to cut wages as fast as wholesale prices fall, make this out of the question. Consequently, falling prices cut into the profits of the farmer and manufacturer and thus lead to curtailed production the result of which must be enforced idleness to many wage-earners, and enforced idleness for many soon leads through the struggle for work to lower wages for all.

Sherman as a Bimetallist. During the monetary conference in Paris, when silver in our country was excluded from circulation by being undervalued, I was strongly in favor of the single standard of gold, and wrote a letter, which you will find in the proceedings of that conference, stating briefly my view. At that time the wisest of us did not anticipate the sudden fall of silver or the rise of gold that has occurred. This uncertainty of the relation between the two metals is one of the chief arguments In favor of a monometallic system, but other arguments, showing the dangerous effect upon industry by dropping one of the precious metals from the standard of value, outweigh in my mind all theoretical objections to the bimetallic system. I am thoroughly convinced that, if it were possible for the leading commercial nations to fix by agreement an arbitrary relation between silver and gold, even though the mar ket value might vary somewhat from time to time, it would be a measure of. the greatest good to all nations.—John Sherman in 1878. What Free Silver Will Do, Free silver will at once raise exchange rates between Europe and all Asia, and also between Europe and South America, thereby greatly stimulating our export trade to four-fifths of the inhabited world, and will also at the same time secure expansion of the exports of the United States to Europe. For lack of this expansion, and consequent favorable trade balance, that great debtor nation is to-day Insolvent, borrowing its pay with difficulty and at high rates, and piling higher that debt burden which becomes more and more intolerable with each fresh fall of prices. Whatever the United States, in raising the level of silver exchanges, accomplishes for her own benefit, she accomplishes equally for every white farmer and white working man everywhere.— Moreton Frewen.

American Capital in Mex'co* A large amount of American money has been placed here of late years 'n mining, metallurgical works, railways, manufactures apd tropical agriculture, and such is the faith of those Investors, in the future of this country that precisely those who are most heavily interested already are now engaged In extending their enterprises here. There is in Mexico a large resident population of Americans, some of whom have decided to throw their lot with this country; nearly all of them are prosperous, and contented with their surroundings, and, while they naturally reserve the first place in their affections for their native country, they also entertain a warm regard for the land of their adoption.—Mexican Financier. Will Gold Cheapen in Any Case? Alterations in the cost of production of the precious metals do not act upon the value of money, except just in proportion as they increase or diminish its Quantity.—John Stuart Mill.

WHEN MOST DEATHS OCCUR,

An Old Superstition Has Been Upset by the Record of 15,000 Cases. Has death a favorite hour during the twenty-four in which to visit hospital and sick room and gather in his victims? A general opinion is entertained by medical practitioners and others engaged in caring for the sick that the greatest number of deaths occurring in individuals afflicted with disease takes place during the hours immediately succeeding midnight and preceding the dawn. The rule is said to be particularly true in those suffering from chronic exhausting diseases. Deductions have been made from these impressions which have served to regulate the administration of stimulants in such cases, it being said, "if six ounces of brandy be needed in twenty-four hours, four should be administered from 2 to 6 a. in., for then is vitality in the human being at its lowest,” and “more deaths occur at these hours than at any other period.” “I accepted this teaching at college,” says a medical man, “because I bad neither the means nor the time to verify or disprove it to my own satisfaction. Yet 1 always doubted the correctness of the conclusions drawn, and, to settle the doubt in my mind, since entering on my duties at the hospital I have collected statistics, which 1 find do not agree with this generally accepted idea. “The figures show twenty-seven fewer eases during the hours from 6 p. in. to 6 a. in., than for corresponding twelve hours of the day. Again, from 2 to 6 p. in. there were sixty-six more deaths than from 2to6a. m. The total number of death's in the list of acute diseases for the twelve hours from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. is 169 less than for the corresponding period during the day. “The hours from 2 to « a. m. in this list show fifty-three cases more than for the corresponding period in the afternoon. This in nearly 4,000 cases is very slight. „ "In the chronic cases the greatest number of deaths at any one hour was at 4 p. in., with 2 and 5 p. m. and 6 a. in. closely following. The greatest in the acute list was at 3 a. in., with 11 a. m. and 11 p. in. closely following. • “The lowest number m the acute list was at 12 midnight, that hour so dreaded in the sick room by attendants, and to which a good deal of superstition attaches, it is noticeable that the number for tills hour is exceedingly low—about half of the average number. In the chronic cases the lowest number appears at 9 a. m. “From these 15,000 cases, extending over a period of twelve years, it would appear that death occurs seemingly without any particular predilection for any certain hour, and that the number of deaths for each hour is very evenly proportioned, considering the large number of cases taken and the time covered.”-r-New York Journal.

Cost of Indian Wars.

Congress each year makes special appropriations for the maintenance of thirty-five tribes of Indians. The tojal sum given for this purpose being about $675,000, The government is always glad when any o,f the savages can be persuaded to give up the tribal system and take up liomesteads. To encourage this Uncle Sam make a present to the aboriginal farmer of quite a valuable outfit. On accepting an allotment of land he received two cows, a pair of oxen or mares, a plow, a wagon, a harrow, a hoe and a pitchfork. White men are regularly hired to give instructions to the Indians in the agricultural arts, including the care of domestic animals. At the same time women, called "field matrons,” teach the squaws how to cook and keep house. Supplies are furnished annually to 180,000 Indians, of whom 80,000 now wear the ordinary dress of the American citizen. It is interesting to know that 32,300 of these Indians know how to read English, and they occupy 21,600 dwelling houses. It costs a lot of money to maintain the pauperized aborigines of this country. Each year on this account about $1,335,000 is paid for food alone. In addition $795,000 is expended for clothing, blankets dry goods, agricultural implements, wagons and miscellaneous articles. For the storage and transportation of these goods Uncle Sam goes down into his pocket for $30,000. At the same time he hands over $875,000 in cash annuities. These items have nothing to do with the $2,000,000 spent during th* twelve months for the support of Indian schools.

A House on Wheels.

One of these days people will move their houses instead of their household goods, if an English inventor’s plan succeeds. 11. J. Lawson, of London, is going to build a two-story house to be run upon wheels and be propelled by a motor underneath. The house will contain four rooms, and its framework is to be of steel tubing. The upper story’s construction will be of such a nature that it can be closed up and thus be made capable of passing under a bridge across a cut in a road. All sorts of conveniences are planned for this house on wheels. It will havwaf bath room and all the appurtenances thereto. The kitchen will contain a range and a goodrsized receptacle for fuel. Then there will be a refrigerator and ample storage for edibles. Mr. Lawson is the man who sixteen years ago tried so earnestly to make motor cars popular in England, but without avail. This latest idea of his is on the same principle of propulsion as the motor cars, and Mr. Lawson holds that it is as practicable to make a motor house that will travel about on wheels as it is a wagon. The house on wheels is already a fact in the United States, although horses form the motor power. One family has been travelling about the United States, although horses have been the motor power. One family has been travelling about the Wesivrn States all summer in this manner.

Measuring the Interior of Buildings.

A simple method of measuring heights in the interior of churches and other buildings consists in attaching a graduated string or tape to a small balloon such as is easily obtainable anywhere. This method might also be readily applied for measuring tltte height of caverns.—Prometheus