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CHAPTER XX—CONTINUED. ''Unpleasant memories ought to be buried, Mr. Macgillvray," interrupted the stranger, laughing. "Weel, it brings me to what I was .saying, young man. I am not so young as I was, but you're young enough. So be off wi' yel Walk wi' "this young lady to the Castle, and take good care of her."

The stranger, who seemed willing enough to obey this behest, picked tip his hat on the instant, but Marjorie protested that she wanted no escort. Willie, however, who would take no denial, had the pleasure of seeing the two finally wailc away together.

It was not altogether a comfortable walk: for, owing to some reason which neither could explain, the conversation between them was rather constrained. When they had gone two-thirds of the way. Marjorie •paused, and hesitatingly extended tier hand. lI have to visit a cottage close by here," she said "so I will avff goodbye."

He took her hand.

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home afterwards? Our pious friend Is sure to cross-question me/' I would rather you did not wait," •she replied.

Very well. But shan't we meet again'.' We must, you know. 1 will think over what you have said to me, and talk to you about it again." "Very well," returned the girl.

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"Good-bye," he said and she walked away. He watched her as she tripped across the heather. As he did so, a hand was laid, upon his arm, and, turning sharply, he found himself face to face with Edward Linne.

CHAPTER XXL

THE TWO MEN.

The moment Marjorie had disappeared, Linne turned to Roberts with a scowl, and demanded— "What were you doing with that young lady. I saw you together in close conversation." "Don't be alarmed Gov," returned

laughing. "We were only

Stalking about trifles. I met her by •accident, and she was inclined to be -confidential, I listened." "What did she say to you?" *'Asked me about America and

Canada, and whether I had come across one Robert Campbell. I told her I had known a dozen of that name." "Jfumph! anything else?" '"Then she went on about this business about the will, and told me the old lett you out in the cold —unless* she took pity on you, and made you her husband." "What! she said that!" exclaimed Xiinne. angrily. '•"Something of that sort—not exactly in those words, but I gathered it from her pretty cackle. After all, .governor, you're in luck's way. Xou've only got to jump through the •church door, and you've gob the loaves and fishes still." •'D—- your impudence!" cried Linne. "Oh, it, by all means, so long as you don't me!" "She must be mad, to confide in such a fellow as you!'' "Well, you see," said Roberts, dryly, "she ain't proud, like you she comes out of the people, and it's accident that she has made her a lady. She's free spoken with everybody and doesn't judge a man by the coat he wears on his back. But I see you're in ^rouble, mate! Now's the time to call in Hungry Jim!" "What do you mean, you scoundrel?*' demanded Linne, fiercely. "Don't get riled. You're clean •stuck between what they .call the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand is a rich young lady, ready and willing to marry you, just to be had '.for the asking." On the other hand, wo *se luck is the girl you've married already!" "Linne grew livid. "Married! You lie! I'm not married!" he cried. 'If that woman says so "She says it, and she stands to it, as you know, mate. Well, what & then? Say the word, and I'll settle her!" £iinne drew back and looked at

Roberts, who, with as ugly an expression as his fair face could as-

sume, met his look with a savage wink.

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*t' "You leave that to me. I have'nt fceen raised out in the wild west for mothing. Just say the word, and I'll 'guarantee that she'll clear out, and leave the coast clear for you to unarry." "I'll have nothing to do with it," said Linne, trembling violently. "I 'tell you I have notning to fear. I am a free man, and shall marry or -net marry, just as 1 choose." "I thought you had more pluck, mate," returned Roberts, with a grin. "I tell you straight, that girl means'to be troublesome." jf j1', "What can she do?" "Blow the gaff, as the thieves say.

Even if what vou say is true, and ehe isn't your wife, she can tell such a story ais will put a powder barrel under your plans, and blow them and you right up into the air."

He paused and watched Edward Linne keenly. Linne shook like a leaf, and tried in vain to appear c3mDOsed then, with trembling hands, he drew out a cigar and attempt 4 to light it in vain

erts, drawing out a match box, and striking a lucifer on his sleeve. "There you are. Why, you shake as if you'd got the ague.'

After an effort Linne found his tongue. "Perhaps I am a fool to trust you," he said. "If I admitted that this girl was a nuisance to me, how could you assist me?" "In more ways than one. To begin with, this is a lonesome place people have been drowned hereabouts, I'm told. Accidents happen every day."

Lfnne looked positively ghastly. 'You villain! Do you mean to say that you would commit murder?" "Anything to oblige a pal," returned Roberts, coolly, "out that isn't the only way. The girl's tired of you and might like a change. Suppose I could tip her the wink, and persuade her to leave the country in my company?" "Can you do that?" cried Linne, eagerly. "I'll undertake it for a hundred pound!" "How should I know if you kept your word?" "No cure, no pay. I'll get her out of the way first, and then call on you for the money.'

Linne reflected. He saw clearly that he was already in the man's power, insomuch as he knew his secret. He gathered, too, that the fellow was a common desperado, to whom a hundred pounds would be a fortune. The girl was desperate might, and possibly would, Jmake a scene at any moment it would be a positive blessing, therefore, if Roberts could play the special providence as he proposed, and spirit her away. But if he agreed to tne man's terms, one difficulty remained he did not possess the sum demanded, and would be comparatively short of funds till the laird's affairs were legally settled. "Do as you propose,' he said, at last, "and I will agree to your terms. Only you will have to wait a little time for the money." "I'm willing to do that," replied Roberts "that is, I'll wait till you collar the dollars. All I shall want will be your I O for the money, payable when you realize." "Very well you undertake it?" "Right away. Just you go home quietly and make your mind quite easy. Leave all the rest to Hungry Jim!"

So they parted—Linne in no very tranquil state of mind wending his way back to the Castle, while Roberts hastened to look after the girL He was not a minute too soon in finding her for, after a long search he saw her standing on the very spot where he had seen her before, looking down into the srreat chasm between the cliffs. Her back was towards him, and he approached her unseen and unheard.

He was close upon her when she uttered a wild cry, and with uplifted arms seemed about to leap down to her death. Swift as thought he caught her and drew her back. Without turning her face to see who held her, she screamed and struggled but he raised her bodily in his arms and carried her from the cliff's edge then, as he released her, she fell shuddering to the ground, weeping and moaning aloud.

CHAPER XXII,

WHISPERS Op A DAHK DEED.

Edward Linne returned to the Castle in no very amiable fijame of mind. He was angry with the woman he had wronged, angry with the bold Canadian for finding out the secret, angry with himself for his stupidity in compromising his future for the sake of a mere country girl, who had never had more than good looks to recommend her, and who had, to a certain extent, lost even those. Easy, however, is the descent to the shades one back step taken, it generally leads to another. Having made up his mind to act the villain as regarded poor Mary, he had literally (as he thought) summoned up the devil to assist him. Of course it never entered into his calculations that Roberts was anything short of a thorough scoundrel—a vulgar bravo, ready to do any desperate deed if well paid for it. Had he not himself said so in good set terms?

Still, Linne was uneasy. It would have been far better if he had had nothing to do with such a desperado. Roberts, however, knew his secret, and he must either have accepted his offers of assistance or made the man a dangerous enemy.

Little as he knew of Marjorie's character, Linne knew enough to be certain that, if she knew the truth, she would be sure to side with his victim and utterlv refuse to marry her betrayer. Now, so far as he could yet see. a marriage with Marjorie was inevitable unless he was to remain a poor man. And he had liked the girl in his idle, selfish way, from the moment he first saw her. Of her beauty there was no question, nor of her goodness, though he did not care so much about that. She fascinated him somehow with her still, thoughtful ways, her tenderness for the dead, and her steady, un-

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uestioning fidelity to his memory. was piqued, however, that she did not seem overpowered with the splendor of his person or the elegance of his manners, but accepted him quite simply and coolly, as an every-day young man related to her guardian by blood.

However, he was determined to possess both her and her money, and in order to do this it was necessary to keep Mary out of the way.

In "the meantime he had made everything comfortable at the Castle. Donald and the old housekeeper remained oh sufferance, lis it were, but two trith country girls were taken in servant maids,

and a smart valet from Edinburgh came down to look affier Linne's own person. The old cellar^ was filled with wine, ordered on credit a smart horse and new dogcart were bought on the same terms and altogether, things looked, as Linne expressed it, more civilized. Save for Marjorie, the young man would have been off to London or Paris—the only places on earth, as he thought, fit for a gentleman's habitation. As it was, ne tried to make the best of his dull life, drove about the country, called on neighbors, went over to the moor now and then with his dogs, aud consulted local experts about the prospects for salmon fishing.

Several days passed after the interview recorded in our last chapter, and he was growing very uneasy, when one morning, as he stood smoking in the porch, Roberts appeared, looking agitated and somewhat pale. His manner was furtive anxious, and he beckoned Linne out before he spoke. "It has been a tough job, mate," he said, "but I've succeeded!" "What do you mean?" cried Linne. "Speak low, speak low! I've done the job!"

Linne started, and grew quite ghastly. "What! You don't mean to say—" "I mean to say that you'll never be troubled again by the girl that called herself your wife. "My God!" cried Linne, the beads of perspiration standing on his brow. "You haven't He broke short in the sentence, and added eagerly "Remember, if there has been any foul play, it rests on your shoulders! I'll nave nothing to do with it, or you! I wash my hands of the affair!" "Wash them as much as you like," returned the other savagehr, "you'll never get them clean, I reckon. I've done as you bid me, and, by-— you'll have to pay my pricel"

Linne shrank back, for he was at heart a coward. The man seemed like a wild beast, ready to spring on any one at the least provocation. "What have you done?" he demanded, moistening his dry lips with his tongue. "Never mind. All you wanted was to get rid of the girl. Well, she's disposed of. Now I want that hundred pound." "Not one penny shall you have, till you give me an explanation. You talk as if you murdered herl It's too horrible!"

Roberts gave an ungly smile. "You didn't say that a day or two ago, when we made our bargain. You were eager enough then for me to dispose of her—yes, by thunder!" "It is a falsehood!" cried Linne. All I said was that I wished her to be got out of the country." 'Isn't it the same thing? Suppose we put it that way, mate. She left the country, thenl You're a free man—free to marry whom you please!"

Linne was stupefied with terror. He could not shake off the belief that a dark deed had been done, and already seemed to hear the hue and cry after him for complicity. He trembled like a leaf, and looked nervously on every side, as if expecting to see the emissaries of the law appear and arrest him on some hideous charge. "Why, what a chicken-hearted chap you are!" said Roberts contemtuously. "That's what always gets over me mate. Such men as you think nothing of breaking a girl's heart and driving her into her grave, so long as you don't see the shadow of Jack Ketch what's more, you'd strangle a poor creature fast enough, if you could do it safely but the moment you see danger ahead 'Hold your tongue, and leave this place!" cried Linne. "I'll not talk with such a scoundrel!" "Take my advice, mate," returned Roberts with a threatening look, "and don't rile Hungry Jim. I'm mild as mother's milk to those who treat me square, but I'm rattlesnake poison to the man that rounds on me, mind thatl I've come for that hundred pound!" "I told you I had not the money!"

Never mind that. Your I O will do me well enough, as I told you. I'll wait a bit for the cash." "Suppose I refuse?"

Robert laughed, showing his white teeth viciously. "Then we'll see it out together. I'll go straight away to the policebarracks and tell them what I've done, and who paid me to do it. I'm not at all particular. A man can die but once, as the saving is, and I shall be polished off in good company. Come, what is it to be?"

Roberts evidently knew his man. A few minutes later, Linne entered the Castle, and returned with the paper which he handed over. "How am I to know that you will keep this secret?" he asked, trembling violently. "Now you've treated me square, I'll treat you square. Likely enough I shall be going away." "Tell me, for God's sake—is Mary —is she You know what I mean! Speak!

Roberta answered with a nod and a significant gesture. "But she will be found! There will be an outcry. Everything will be discovered!" "Leave that to me. We do not do things by havles out in the west. I'll tell you one thing—she's just as safe at the bottom of the sea as is the laird's dead son—that little chap that was drowned—and I promise that she'll never rise to trouble you till he rises to do the same!"

He turned on his heel and walked away, leaving Linne, in a miserable, terrified condition, to creep into the house and fortify his nerves with a glass of strong spirits,

Jarntv and fight-hearted, whis tlinjf to htaself, Roberts stroll

down the bleak avenue, and came out upon the open road. With his clear blue ey^s and fair, sunburnt face, he did not look the least like a murderer, but held his head up high, looked frankly into every face he met and, if spoken to, answered cheerily. His way lay past the hermit's cave, and as he approached the little clump of trees where it lay he saw Willie Macgillvary standing in the roadside.

Hastening his steps and still whistling merrily, he met Willie face to face,.and their eyes met. "Weel, ye murdering villain," cried Willie, "ye bloodthirsty descendant o' Cain, what news?" "I have told him," answered Roberts. smiling. ''My conscience! And what did he sav? "He was frightened out of his wits at first, and tried to make out that he had never given me any instructions. Then I talked to him. The man's a coward, I find. And at last he gave me this paper: 'I O one hundred pounds.' He ought to have added 'for value received in assassin-, at ion.'"

Willie took the paper and read it gagerly, firgt adjusting on his nose his horn-rimmefi spectacles. Then he cried, with twinkling eyes: "Take care, ye limflier! I'll turn Queen's evidence! I'll come to the hanging o' the pair o' ye!"

Then Willie laughed outright, mak-1 ing a peal of merriment in which the young Canadian boldly joined. [TO BE CONTINTED.]

MAN WITH A FAILING.

His Efforts to Relieve Anxiety Not Appreciated.

ft was 10:30 o'clock at night, and the rain and Wind and darkness made it a wild one, when the train suddenly came to a halt. Some one had swung a lantern on the track about a quarter of a mile from the bridge spanning Shady Creek. Those of us who turned- out to learn what was up saw a farmer-looking man come back to the smoking car with the conductor, and when in out of the storm the latter asked: "Now, then, you say ther's trouble ahead. What is it? Talk fast, for I am now twelve minutes behind time."

The man was about forty years old, dressed in coarse clothing and wet to the skin. The lantern was an old fashioned one, made of tin, and the liffh was furnished by apiece of a candle about three inches long. "Look-a-here, Gineral," he replied to the conductor in a nervous way, "go sorter slow on me or I can't tell you the story." "What do you mean?" "I've got a failing. If you git me excited, I'll stut—stut—stutter till you can't understand a word I say." "Very Well you stopped us?" ''Yes, I felt called to do it. Hold on. now! Don't push me!"

I'll give you time. You live near here, don't you?" "Right up by the branch thar'. Lived thar goin' an twenty years. Keep cool, Gineral, and don't git me narvous. I'm a-doin' all right so fur." "Well, you felt called upon to stop us?" "I did. It's been raining purtv stead for about a week." "Yes." "The branch has jest been a-hump-in' of herself fur the last two days." "Yes, the water has been rising.''' "Hold on, Gineral! Don't chip in too fast. I'm a-holdin' of myself as hard as I kin, but I fesl my tongue wobbling' aruond. This neon I seen the water risin' mighty fast, and I felt it my duty to watch it. I went up agin about dark, and then agin an hour ago. I knowed when you was dp here, and "And you stopped us. Cood heavens, man! but the bridge is gone!" "Hold on, Gineral. You are goin too fast! I t-t-told you if you got me ex-ex "Take it easy,*' replied the conductor. "Jnst think what you want to say and speak very slow. Great lands! but what an escape!" "Gineral, I reckoned yo'd worry about the bridge." "Yes, I've been very anxious about it." "You knowed the water was risin' way up." "Yes." "I told the old woman you'd worry about it, and that I'd best git the lantern and stop the t-t-train a a-and t-t-tell—tell "-f. vC®, "Take it easy, man, there no hurry. You got your lantern and stopped the train 1o tell us that the bridge had been floated off by the freshet. I understand, and I can promise you "Ginerall" f, "Yes." 0 "The bridge is all right! I reckoned yo'd worry over it, and so I got the lantern and stopped the train to tell you that the water had gone down four feet and the bridge hadnj* suffered a ha'rl"

I don't remember all the conduct said when he got at the facts, nor how many passengers helped throw the man down among the bushes but when the train moved on hew baneing the old tin lanter arouf and calling: "G-G-Gineral, I'll be h-h-hanged if 1 don't see this old r-r-road in Texas before I ever do another fa-fa-favorr*

Might Be Saved.

Cloak Review.

Excited Passenger (on Southern railway)—Conductor, my wife has

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her bonnet out of the window. Conductor—How long ago was .t? Passenger—About half an hour. Conductor—1 guess we cv3i back up. Look out of the window and see if you can ss« it.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Mr. Blaine denies that ho is to IcaiVe the cabinet. Leading New Jersey Democrats declare themselves for Cleveland.

A leather trust is forming. An English syndicate is at the head of it. A. G. Linder, of YVrightsville. Ky., is the latest known victim of green-goods swindlers,

A railroad engine crashed into a street car at Chicago, Wednesday. Nine persons were injured.

Senator Brown, of Georgia, is out in a card announcing his preference for Hill for President.

There were seventy-two cases of typhoid fever in New York Monday, and the disease is spreading.

John Hyer, the Jersey City embezzler, is Js safe and free on the Pacific ocean bound for Astralia.

Arizona and Oklahoma will probably bo admitted to the Union as States at this session of Congress.

A mob hung two murderers to a telegraph pole at Pine Bluff, Ark., Saturday night. The crime was witnessed by 10,000 people.

The steamer sighted in mid-ocean last month on fire was the Norwegian clipper Loodiana. Her crew of thirty-eight undoubtedly perished.

Charles Larzelre,the defaulting'treasurer of the county at Johnstown, N. D., has been captured at Antigoy Wis. His fllchings reached $9,000.

Dr. Warren Hubbell, aged twenty-nine years, was married fn New York to Eliza A. Clark, a wealthy maiden, whose age is said to be ninety-one years.

Coiint Von Blucher, who was cast off by his princely father for marrying an-Amer-ican girl, died in New York, He said on his death-bed that ho was tricked into tho marriage,

Tho Hill Democratic managers.in New York have decided to hold tho State convention on the 22d inst., in spite of the protests of tho two meetings held there last, week.

The American Federation of Labor has a grievance against tne World's Fair managers, on the ground that they arc discriminating against organized labor, and may boycott the Fair.

Major Freeman's claim at El Reno Okla., being declared void, the

jumpers

drove all the orderly element out of town and took possession. Soldiers will probably have to be ordered out.

Sarah Atliea Tervy, who gained such notoriety by her divorce snit against exSenator Sharon and her subsequent marriage to Judge Terry, her lawyer, has become insane over spiritualism.

After fighting charges of crookedness in a race for two years Frank L. Noble, owner of the once great stallion Alcyon, has been finally expelled, with his horse, from the National Trotting Association.

Boomers continue to congregate in Kan3asctowns along the border of the Cherokee Strip, and it is estimated that 20,000peoplo will bo ready for invasion by March 22, unless the land is opened for settlement before that time.

Hon. John J. Lentz, president of the Thurman Club of Columbus, O., asserts that Mr. Cleveland informed him in a recent conversation that he does not wisii the presidential nomination, preferring the peaco of private life.

Rowland B. Mahany, of Buffalo, N. Y., has been appointed by the President to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Ecuador, aud is probably the youngest man ever selected for fiich an important position, being less than twenty-eight years of age.

Fire at Cincinnati, Wednesday,destroyed the building occupied by Ezekiel & Bernheirn, the American Oak Leather Co. and the Commercial National Bank. Loss $300,000. A six story block was burned at Columbus, O., on tho same date. Loss 1100,000.

A poculiariy sad accident occurred at West Berkley, Cal Saturday evening. F. J. Byaps and Conchita Ailvent were married at, St. Joseph?sChurch, and t.ho bridal party proceeded to Posen Station to take the local train to the residence. While standing on the track the Overland train, which does not stop at tho station, suddenly dashed around the curve, through a deep, rocky cut, into the party. Byaps and Mrs. Silva, ,.a friend of the bride, were instantly kiliod, while a little boy was dangerously wounded. The bride's grief was heartrending as the choDped up and bloody remains of her new husband were scattered before her eyes.

John Pratt, and his seven-yfar-old daughter, who lived near Leonard, Sherman county, Kansas,aro the latest, victim8 of the wild dogs which infest that extreme northwestern corner of the State, and which at this season are particularly fero. eious. Pratt and his child were in LeonVd Saturday afternoon and left for home a little before dark. Tho remains, liorri. bly mangled, have been found about a mile from home and the carcasses of several dogs show that a fierce battle was waged before Pratt was overcome.

Postmaster-General Wanamaker has profltted very largely it is said by the rise in Reading stock since Wednesday last. The Postmaster-General's share in tho illcreased value of the stock is understood to foot up *1,300,000. All of his troubles a year or more ago wero brought on by hi heavy Interest in the road. Ho was in so tight a place that he would havo gone to the wall if the Drexels had not como to his assistance. They helped him to the extent off500,000 and offered to assist him with as much more If necessary, but he made out to get along without it.

wolf drive, for which preparation: have been in progress for two months, took place at Girard, Kan., Sunday. At! o'clock in the morning about four thousand men surrounded a section of country measuring ten miles square. With on thousand men on each side of the squar. there were one bundrod to tho mile, nearly one man to every fifty feet,. Th firing of a canon was the signal for th final closing in The wolves woro not be killed until they yere rounded up the center. The chase began at 1 o'cloand os a result twenty-two were killo AtSotalock the forees left the field, fee lug jubilant over their «UOOM». tfAV i*j"

CONGRESSIONAL.

Mr. Forbes, of the Duluth Board of Trade, appeared before the House committee on agriculture, on the 10th, with fesl an argument against the passage of the proposed anti-options bill. Its passage, he contended, would demoralize the grain trade of the whole country, and especially that portion of it which was dependent upon water navigation to transport prodfucts to market. Mr. Howard, of St. 1 Louis, favored the bill, declaring that dealing in futures was the most subtle Irind of gambling that had ever emanated „j from the brain of man. It was the greatest curse that had ever -j struck the great Nation of America. The hog products of the United States for tha jpast ten years had not paid the cost of the •hog, and yet the hog-packers of Chicago -. .j had become millionaires. They had become so gambling in futures. He did not want to cripple commerce in any way he desired to prevent gambling. If he sold a man a thousand bushels of wheat he want ed it to be wheat, &nd not a thousand bushels of wind. If this vilest system of gambling was not stooped it would lead to revolution. There was no difference between a board of trade and a bucket-shop, except that one sold a bushel and the other a bucketful. The bucket-show was only an offshoot of tho board of trade. Throughout the country there were bank failures and defalcations and nine-tenths of the money stolon went into this pot of futures.

There has been a substantial agreement reached by tho wool and woolen special committee of the Democratic ma- 1-iy jority of the Houso Committeo on Ways "\J& and Means on the provisions of the wool ,' bill. As this committee numbers Jive out of the ten Democratic members of the Ways and Means committeo it is belfeved

that the agreement reached embodies the Z'p provisions of the free woo! bill which the ',' Ways and Means committee will recom- gX mend to the House for passage. The V/pI changes to be made in tho bill, as intro- \vjr duced by Mr. Springer, have not been formally drafted and it will be some days

before the bill is put in shape. Very substantial reductions have been made in the duties on woolen manufactures proposed by tho bill as introduced by Mr. Springer. The ad valorem duties on woolen manufactures of all kinds, including cloths, dress goods, carpets, and all other a os McKinley law, and which rates were left unchanged by the Springer bill, \.-"j havo been cut down wherever in excess of 40 per cent., and the average rate of duty proposed by the new bill on woolen manufactures is about 5 per cent, below the uniform rate fixed by the Mills bill. Under the agreement reached wool is made free, as proposed by the Springer bill all duties on woolen manufactures which were 40 per cent, or less under Ihe present law aro left unchanged where more than 40 per cent, they are reduced to that rate, so that no woolen duties will be higher than the Mills rate, and those on the cheaper grades will be .less. Under the McKinley law duties rangfc from 30 to 150 per cent., so there is a reduction of 25 per cent, made from the highest rate now imposed, and the average rate is brought down to about 35 per cent. shoddies and waste the agreement, adopt?-^!"*' Springer rate of 30 per cent against a present, rate of 30 cents a po«uiu. All compensatory duties, of courso, are taken off, as raw wool is made free, so that, tho present per pound and per yard duties will be abolished if the bill becomes a law, and only ad valorem duties retained.

On tho 11th Jerry Simpson arraigned the Democratic and Republican parties in tho House for extravagant expenditures in providing lucrative positions for favored henchmen. His arraignment grow out of a proposed appointment of an assistant book-keeper.

A bill amending the coasting trade on the groat lakes was passed in the Senate, The Democrats of the Ways and Means Committee, Monday, decided to report a bill placing upon the free list

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twine manufactured in whole or in part from istlo or Tampi fiber, jute, manilia, bisal gras3 or sunn," Tho original bill upon this subject was introduced by Representative Bryan, of Nebraska, and this gentleman was tho chairman of the committee which prepared the committer bill agreed upon. The Democrats also agreed to report favorably tho bill of Representative Turner, of Georgia, placing upon tho free list cotton tics, cotton bag ging and machinery for cotton bagging.

The Chicago Board of Trade had hearing before tho House Committee on Agriculture Monday, on the anti-option bill, and throiigh its President, Charle W. Hamill, opposed the passage of th« bill, on the ground that it prohibited dealings in "futures." The system of "future deliveries," Mr. Hamill said, grew up in response to a demand from agriculturist! for a continuous open market, which was Impossible without "future" buying and selling. He believed that the salo of fu tures was in the interest of producers. Speculation, in his opinion, had a tendency to sustain values. If a man were pro. hibited from buying for future dellvory a great stimulus to buying would bo taken awav. In answer to Mr. Lewis, of Mississippi, Mr.

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speculation forced the prices down, but h« believed this was generally temporary and that in the aggregate it sustained prices. The first dealings in "futures" were by th* Government during the war in mess pork So far as it was "proposed to prevent "option" dealings tho Board of Trade was in favor of the bill. Options were dealt in. outside of the Board by mombers in good standing, but it was against the Board rules and against the State law. The Board had repeatedly urged tho State authorities to prosecute these dealers. The Board took the view that it was not a po lice officer and was hardly called upon to prosecute these men itself. If done out* side the Board room, the Exchange had no jurisdiction, rand thefore did not provide for expulsion of members doing an option business. A "put" or "call" was not tolerated by the Board of Trade It was purely a gambling transaction, and" tho Board would welcome anything that prohibited it.

The Shellenbarger Pulley Company' ,..^4 Mt. Carmel 111., has contracted with Kokomo parties to remove Its plant to that city. It is expected that the removal of the factory will ad4 l.MQ.to the

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