Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1888 — Page 1

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DORA RUSSELL. Author of "Footprints is TnE S.vow,' 'The Broken Seal," "TriE Vicak's Governess," "Annabel's Rival." CHAPTER XXXVIII. LADY BAii' 3 SUGGESTION. T ADY BAB had a word to Bay to I her nephew, and she was waiting downstairs in tho dining-room somewhatimpatiently to say it. XVhen, therefore, the heard him hastily floRcendine the staircase after parting xrith Nora, she opened the room door and -Reckoned him to come to her. But when she saw his face she half repented that she had done this. Thcro -was written on it such bittci, bitter tin, Buch utter despair, that 6he drer a little back; but Biddulph followed her into the room and closed the door behind him. "I wanted to have a little talk with yon," began Lady Uarbara. "So you've Feen the poor girl u pertains, have you?" "I have seen her to fay good-bye," answered Biddulph, gloomily. "Then you are goinj away I Ths.t is right; it is about this I wished to see you. When do you go?" "To-night." Lady Barbara nodded her head approvingly twice. 'Does she know?" he asked. "Not that it is the parting that I mean It to be. Aunt Barbara, will you be kind to herr-when when she knows that she and I must meet no more?" "Of course I shall be kind to her! It's a bad business, James." "Why speak of it?" he answered darkly. "To me it is worso than death a living death." , "And it is such an extraordinary thing, paid Lady Bab, beginning to walk up and down the room in" her energetic way. "I Buppoie I scarcely like to say this but 1 suppose you have no doubt in your own mind, Jarm-s, that the sister is living whom you married twelve year3 ago?" Biddulph lifted his eyes in surprise to his aunt's face. "I have no doubt," he said. "till, that old doctor of yours said that there was no visible difference between them but the difference of life and death. And to women of their stamp lie3 count for nothing, you know." Biddulph did not speak for a moment; then he said slowly "Aunt Barbara, 6he paid a few words to me that only she could know there is no doubt." "That settles the matter, of course, then ; and you are right to go away. The poor girl upstairs has an idea that you could go on seeing each other that you are to be great friends; but all that is nonsense, though I do not tell her so. She is a fiLe character, and I can't help being sorry for you, James, though of course " Ml!ease do not discuss my folly, ,ur.i Barbara; I have paid a very bitter price for it. And and let mo think," he hesitated a moment, "that when I am far tav she will have a constant friend in you?" Lady Bab did not speak for an instant for she was a woman who made tew professions ; then she said, still with her eyes (in which there was somo pity) fixed on her nephew's face "I shall do what I can, Jamrs, but time will be her best friend." "Ye?;" and then he put his cold hand into his aunt's and loft her, anl Lady Tab looked after him with an impatient sigh. "There's good in him," she thought, "but he's made poor use of it, and of the gifts that God gave him; and the worst of it 13 that the bitter fruits of his folly fall on the poor girl. Well, I had best go and look alter her, I suppo.se." But when Lady Barbara ascended the staircase and entered the drawing-room, where she expected to find Nora, she was not there. J-'he had gone to her own room and locked the door, and was kneeling by the bed praying, with clapped hands, for the man with whom she had just parted. In the bitterest hour this still is left to us ; though the black clouds gather, and the storm breaks over our etricken heads, all is not darkness if we but tind strength to lift our eyes beyond th-j blinding miüts that surround our mortal ken. And when Nora met Lady Barbara at uinner her face was very calm. Lady Barbara had been prepared for some sign3 oi gnei or emouou, uui ora snowed none. Ladv Bab noticed her voice was very low, but this was all ; and when they returned together to the drawing room Nora at once quietlv proposed that they should leave Scotland. "If you do not mind. Lady Barbara," the said, "I think I should like to go South now." "Mind, my dear! How can you suppose that a woman of my age can have any pleasure in staying on in such a climate as this in raid-winter? Not that the climate of London is not detestable in winter also; but still, I am more used to iL Of course we can go whenever you please." "I should like to go at once, then; and I've been thinking I ßhould like to ask Minnie Fräser to spend some months with me, as soon as I settle in town." "An excellent idea. She is pretty, that little Minnie, and won't, therefore, be a dead weight on your hands. And I suppose you'll want an old woman to look after you, and take vou out into society occasionally?" added Lady Bab, somewhat grimly. "Üb, dear, no." answered Nora, smiling. "I feel quite old now, and shall make an excellent chaperone for Minnie." "1 was going to say," continued Lady Bab, "that I hope, for eoodness' sake, you won't invite that Cousin Margaret of yours tbo. Kather than you should do this, I shall take you out, whenever propriety requires it, myself, though I own, a a rule, I do not can to bo bothered by girl-" "We shall be no bother to you, though I hope we 6hall often see you, Lady Barbara," said Nora, smiling EtilL "That is all right, then. When do you propose to go?" "I thought of the day after to-morrow; and I nhail write and ask my cousin Jock Fraser to come over to see me and bring Minnie, and ask Mri Jock's leave for her to fctay with me in town." "Way not ask her to go with you now?" "She might require eorne littlo preparation, you know," hesitated Nora. "&he could get dres and everything ehe rants much cheaper in London than any. where else. I propos, my dear, that we take her with us. It will be brighter for you to Lave this young girl with you from the first." And after thinking a moment or two, Nora decided that this was very good ad

vice. She therefore, before the evening was over, wrote to Mrs. Jock Fräser, to ask if Minnie might le allowed to go to town with Lady Bab and herself, to pay a long visit. Lady Barbara has promised to act chaperone whenever we rhall require one," (she added.) so 1 do hope Minnie will come to me. Will you, Jock and Minnie have lunch with us here to-morrow, auJ then we can decide all our plana, as we propose to start very Boon. Yours affectionately, Leosora Stewart. Nora sent this note over to Airdlinn, and told the bearer to wait for an answer. Alick Fräser had been dining with his brother and sihter-in-law, and Mrs. Jock and the two brothers were still sitting at the table when it was brought in, though pretty Minnie had retired. Mrs. Jock read it, and then looked at her husband. "It is from Nora Stewart," she said, "and she wishes Minnie to go to London with her and Lady Barbara Biddulph, the end of this week, and she asks Minnie for a long visit." A llush came over Alick Fraser's clear, fresh face as he listened to these words, and a look of pleasure into his brown eyes. "It's a very good idea, I think," he said at once, in his decided way. "I think Minnie would like to go, and perhaps her company would help to cheer Nora' said Mrs. Jock. "Miss Nora won't need cheering long Jeanie," remarked Alick, "or I shall be much mistaken. D'ye- know, that Biddulph is going to shut up Dunbaan and loavc the county to-night and a good riddance too!" "i heard ho was going," Baid Jock quietly. "lict Minnie go, by all means," continued Alick. "And as the child will want somo fads and finery, I suppose, Jeanie, I'll give you a cheque for fifty pounds to 6marten her up a bit, thouch, for that matter, shu's a pretty face of her own and doesn t want much dress." "You are really very kind, Alick," said Mrs. Jock, gratefully. "Don't mention it, my dear. So you had Gendoyno calling here yesterdav, Jock said?" "Yes, Minnie saw him; but I didn't," answered Mrs. Jock, with a sigh. "Humph ! Well, settle about her going to town with Miss Nora to-morrow. I am g!ad Nora Stewart is showing such good sense, and not making a fool of herself, as some nirls would have done; though such a disgusting piece of business was certainly enough to sicken any woman." "It's a terrible business," said Mrs. Jock, with a little shiver. "I'm toid," went on Alick. "that old Alexander, though he's verv close about it, managed to get hiddulpb's wife away, and paid her a heavy sum to go. Biddulph himself would not see h r, so ho sent Alexander. However, the couutryeide's rid of him at last, for I don't think Mr. Biddulph will daro show his face here again in a hurry." Alick Fraser could not, indeed, conceal his elation at the terrible humiliation which had befallen tho man who had crossed his own plans in life. He had listened to all the gossip he could hear on the subject with unfeigned pleasure and satisfaction. He had even sent for the doctor, for some fancied ailment or other,

but foir-J "old Aiexaad?r," as he called him, very reticent. "It's an unco bad business, Mr. Alick; and least said is soonest mended, when there's na gude to tell," was all he Could draw from the doctor's lips. "Well, Miss Nora Stewart is well rid of him," Aleck had said triumphantly. "It's hard to tell," replied the doctor; and then he changed tho subject, and Alick felt that he could not very well pursue it under the circumstance. And this invitation to Minnie now caused him fresh satisfaction. Ho would hear how Nora was going on, through his brother's wife, when she was absent, and he would run up to town occasionally to see "the girls," he mentally decided, as he crossed tho loch from Airdlinn and returned to his statelv home. When he entered the room where ho usually sat, he found a packet lying on .the table, addressed to hiuisvlf, and a note in Nora Stewart's handwriting. IIo hastily opened the note and read the following lines, with no little excitement: Dear Mn. Fraseh, I return by tho bearer of this note the magnificent marriage present which you go kindly and generously gave me, as mr marriage is unavoidably broken oiL With kind regards, I remain yours sincerely, Leonora Stewart. Alick Frascr read these words again and again, and then he smiled and proceeded to open the packet and look once more at his sapphire necklace. It was really a splendid gift, and bo felt proud of hirnscll for having made it. Then he fastened it up again and redirected it to Miss Nora Stewart, at Itossmore, and sat down to indite a letter to her, which Nora found awaiting her (and tho necklace) when she went downstairs on the following morning. Dear Miss Nora (she read in Alick'a clear handwriting), Please honor me by accepting a gift which was given ns a small token of my regard for you and admiration for your character, which no circumstances can change. I was at Airdlinn hut night when your kind invitation for Minnie arrived, which she was delighted to accept; If you are not ashamed to be seen with 'a country cousin,' I shall run up to town sometimes, when she is with you, and ecort you younj ladies to the theaters, or any other r laces of amusement you wish to go to; and, with kind regards, I remain, very sincerely yours, AUCK FttASKS. Nora thought it was kind of Alick Frascr to send the necklace back, and stood looking at the shining stones for a few moments, and then sighed deeply. She was recalling the day they were first given to her, and Biddufph's face as he stood by her side and admired the gorgeous gems. How happy she had been ! But 'tis a brief possession to most of us, drifting down the stream of life, the rocks and shoals of which we cannot see ahead, this perfect joy. Nora's had been but short-lived, but, while it lasted, all the coming shadows were hidden from her view, CHAPTER XXXIX A HAUNTING DOUBT. Jock Fraser, his wife and Minnie all lunched the im day with Nora at Rossmore. Minnie had been delighted to receive the invitation to go to town with Nora, and her fond father and mother wero pleased with her plea nre. She, indeed, looked like a different girl, bo much brighter and happier than she had done of late, when she entered Nora's drawingroom andkiised Nora, whispering, "Thank you bo much" as she did so. They all met with just a little embarrassment, neither. Jock nor his wife having seen Nora since the tragical ending of her engagement. But Lady Barbara could talk well when it pleased her to do ho, and sho entered into an animated conversation now with Jock Fraaer, regarding soma ancient highland customs, and soon the wholo party felt more at ease. Then, when lunch was over, Mrs. Jock slid her hand through Nora s arm, and indicated to her that ehe had a few words to say she wished to speak in private. Nora led her to Ler own room up stairs.

and when they got there Mrs. Jock turned round and tenderly kissed her check. "Thank yon, dear, so much," she said, "for asking Minnie." "But it will be a great pleasure to me to have her," answered Nora, with some emotion, for she knew Mrs. Jock must naturally be thinking ot other things than Minnie's visit. "And there is something I want to say, Nora, about my boy," continued Mrs. Jock, clasping Nora's hand, while tears rushed into ner bluo eyes. "Day and night I think of him, you know"" she went on ; "and I want you to send him this twenty pounds, dear, that I have saved out of the housekeeping. Don't tell Uncle Alick this, though Alick has been very kind lately since our great grief but this is just ä little present from his mother." "Very well, dear Jcannie," said Nora, whose eyes afno grew a little dim. In truth, it was impossible for any one whoso heart was not cold to look unmoved now at the faces of Jack Fraser and his wife. There was always a shadow in Jock's kind eyes, and care and anxiety expressed on every line of Mrs. Fraser's once jovial features. One thought, indeed, was ever present in her mind her son's danger and sad days and sleepless nights soon write their storv. "And I have brought a letter for you to send to him, Nora. I daro not post them here, of course ; but when you got to town I can write ollen to him, can't I? I shall send them under cover to you, not Minnie, on account of the name; and God bless vou, my dear, for being . kind to him!" 3 "Of course I shall do anything for him that I can." "And, Nora, I want to sav also," said Mrs. Jock, with a little hesitation, "howhow much I havo felt for you during this dreadful " "Please, Jeanie, do not mention it," interrupted Nora, quietly but tirmly, though a sudden flush passed over her pale face. "I wish it never to be mention -d to mo at all and will you tell Minnie this let it be as if it had never been?" "he is a brave girl." Jock Fraser told his wife, y, hen Mrs. Jock repeated this conversation to her husband on their way home, "And yet I can tell by her face how deeply it has cut into her heart," answered Mrs. Jock, "Alick thinks 6he will soon get over this; but she won't." "She is behaving splendidl), at all events; and I like that old dame, and pitv Biddulph from the bottom of my heart.'' But Mrs, Jock, with tho unreasonableness of a loving woman, could never quite forgive Biddulp, since indirectly through him all this misery had fallen on her beloved son. She had been secretly jealous ot, and had grudged him his happiness with Nora, when no shadow seemed to lie between their lives. And now, though she grieved for Nora's pain, it must be admitted 6ho did not regret her engagement was broken oü'. "He is a gooddooking, clever man, she said to Jock; but, to my mind, tho whole thing is too absolvtely revolting. A man has no right to marry a woman and forsake her, as Mr. Biddulph confessedly did. If ho had been a true, oreven an ordinary husband, our boy would not havo b?en in ezile now." v "You are a prejudiced woman; Jennie!" answered Jock, with a smile; but the next moment he sighed aud turned his head away. Ho, too, knew that Biddulph had cost them all very dear; how dear, the poor laird never talked of, oven to his wife. In the meantime, the unhappy man whose misfortunes had become strangely mixed with those of the family at AirJlinn, was passing through one of thoso dark phases of life when we ask ourselves in bitterness, Why wero we born? Biddulph could not bow to the rod, nor accept the terrible punishment which his own early fault had brought down upon his head. He saw his life blasted, ho believed unjustly, and their was anger as well as grief in his heart. And strange, though ne had expressed no doubt at the time, that suggestion of Lady Barbara's that there miyht still bo some uncertainty about the identity of his wife recurred again and again to his mind. It came like the whispering of an evil spirit tempting him. Tho woman had said a few words in his ear that none but Natalie could know, self-argued Biddulph. "But," suggested tho mocking voice tiiat would not be gainsaid, "to such women nothing is sacred ; these twin Bisters might have no secrete." He tried to force himself not to entertain thi3 idea, but tried in vain. It came again and again, clothed in" different words, but the essence was the same. It unsettled him, and made him yet more impatient of what he deemed an unjust fate. And he was in this condition of mind when he received a note from his aunt, Lady Barbara, to tell him that Nora, Minnio Stewart and herself were to arrive in town on an evening she named. Lady Barbara had thought it proper to write this so that Biddulph might leave England before he had any chance of seeing Nora again. But he he did not do this. He went to Kingscross station at the time when the train from the North was expected to arrive, on the night Lady Barbara had mentioned, and ho lingered there until it came in. And he saw Nora again. Shrinking back in the shadow, he watched her pale face, which, though wearied looking, had a certain serenity of expression which his now never wore. And he saw her smile, too, and put her arm through Minnie Fraser's, while Palmer and Alfred were claiming the luggage, and his aunt was personally inspecting the safety of her own. He stood there, looking at the woman nearest to his heart, cut off from her by a tie of which there was 6till a doubt. That familiar spirit of his told him this very distinctly in the busy station, and urged that a man is a fool to throw away his life's happiness on a quibble of honor. He made a step forward. Should he speak to her, feel her little hand in his for one brief moment? Again Nora smiled, and Biddulph resisted the temptation. "Why disturb her peace, he thought ball bitterly; "why fill her heart with the burning, unsatisfied questions that are distracting mine?" But later during the same evening, he called on Lady Barbara, who lived in one of the email streets leading out of Park Lane. He found that lady sitting in her little drawing-room, and when his name was announced she looked sharply up, for she was reclining very comfortably in an easy-chair by the fire, with her feet resting on the fender. "So you are not gone ?" she said, holding out her hand. "Not yet; but I am on the eve of going," answered Biddulph. Well, we all got safely back to town a couple of hours ago." "1 know; I saw you arrive." "Ahl" and Lady Barbara fixed her keen grey eyes on her nephew's face, "James Biddulph," 6he continued a moment later, "you are better away, do ycti

know; and you are looking remarkably ill." "Nora does not look ill ?" "No," answered Lady Bab, nodding her bead; "that girl has a wonderful amount of what shall 1 call it faith? Something that makes the things of this world seem of secondary importance. "I wish I h3d'," said Biddulph, darkly. "To me these things become daily moro dim more 'unknown and unknowable.' " "Many people feel thus when things go wrong witu them." "But why should my life bo cursed?" answered Biddulph, with quick passion. "What have I done that everything should be made bitter to mo?" "And what havo any of us done that our lives should be made quite pleasant to us ? I don't want to preach, but havo you deserved this?" . Biddulph made no answer; he began (an old habit of his) to walk slowly up and down the room, and Lady Barbara's eyes followed him with some pity. "Aunt Barbara," ho said presently, "will you write to me when I am away?" "Yes, of course I shall, if you wish me to do so." "And tell mc how everything goes o:i?" "You mean every thing'about Miss Nora Stewart, I suppose?" "Yes tell me if she seems nappy if I am forgotten." "I would not; yet, for her sake, I think it would be well." "There is one man I am certain means to propose to her." 4Wbo is that?" asked Biddulph, sharply. "Mr. Fraser, of Inismore ; a rich man, I'm told." "Alick Fraser impossible 1" said Biddulph, angrily. "Quite possible, I ussure you. He was at tho station to see us off th?i morning, and as that pretty little nicco of his is with Nora Stewart, he will, of course, make her tho excuse to run up to town constantly; in fact, I heard something of this." "If I thought " began Biddulph, and then he paused. What right had he, he told himself bitterly, to interfere with Nora's life, or stand between her and any other man? Not that he believed for one moment that she would marry Alick Frascr, though he had noticed that Alick admired her, and believed the antagonism he had shown toward himself had sprung from this cause. "Will you see Nora to-morrow?" presently Eaid Biddulph, resuming his 6low walk up and down tho room. "Yes; we settled I had to go there to lunch to-morrow." "Then I want you to tell her the reason I am leaving England is that I have not strength to stay will you tell her this tomorrow after I am gone?" "And are you really going to-morrow? Does your father know this?" "Yes, I dined with him yesterday; he thinks I am on my way to Liverpool now, which I shall be in a few hours, and there I shall start for New York." "Well, I think you are wise, James." He did not speak for a moment, and then he held out his hand. "Good-bye, then, Aunt Barbara; I shall write to you when I reach New York." They shook hands and parted, and after Biddulph left her, he drove to South

Kensington, augniing r.nr tne sireei i v..-.... i: ... ...1 HIIU OlitB UUUM! i MIUUICU. Ul' I 1 .1 I 1 -.. J .1 . Knew ine numoer, ana siooa mere outside, watching the lights in the windows, and thinking of the fair woman within, his heart racked by tho contending emotions which struggled in his breast. It was 6tarlight, and suddenly, Biddulph looking upwards at the wondrous sight which dwarfs all others, a wave of purer thoughts swept through his mind. He remembered lingering hand-in-hand with Nora on such a night as this, and how they had talked of hopes and aspirations not bounded by mortal span. Would he drag her down even if he could, he now asked himself. And what was best in his nature answered no. Ho turned away with something like a blessing on his "lips, aud returned to his hotel, and when he reached it he sat down to write to Nora to bid her farewell. My dear, dear Nora, he began, when this letter reaches your hands, I shall have left town and started for America, where 1 propose to make a lengthened tour. Dear Nora, you know why I uo this? You, in your sweet trust proposed that we should resume our old friendchip, and forget alike our days of grief und joy, and, on my part at least, of pa.ssion:ito despair. But, Nora, I cannot do this. .My nature is not aa yours, and my strength is but weakness. My aunt tells me that your strong faith has bridged over for you the terrible jrricf which has literally struck me to tho earth. I I should but disturb your peace, ray dear one, by the sight of my resile misery. I am better away, lint will you write to me sometimes, and till me all about your daily life? These letters will be my consolation m tay long exile. And believe that I 6hail remain always. Faithfully yours, James Biddulph. He did not post this letter, intending to do so after be reached Liverpool on the following: daj. And he did this; Nora, in the meantime, listening during the whole of the next morning with a beating heart and flushed cheeks to every ring that came to the house door-bell. She felt bo sure that Biddulph would not delay in calling to see her; and when he came not during the early hours of the morning, she decided that ho meant to come, to lunch with his aunt. Lady Barbara. But Lady Bab arrived alone at two o'clock, looking very erect and grim. She kissed Nora, and patted Minnie Fraser'u fair-cheek with one of her bony fingers, regarding them both at the samo time critically. "You girls look verv well after your journey, she said; "ljut ray poor old bones have a hundred aches, of course." "Is James coming to lunch?" asked Nora, with a sudden blush. "Not that I know of," replied Lady Bob, who did not think that this was quite the time to break her news to Nora, and also reflected that she might as well have her lunch first To lunch accordingly they went, and Lady Bab's shrewd eves noticed how Nora was listening and watching for a visitor that Lady Bab knew would not come. But she said nothing about her nephew James until the meal was over, and the three ladies had returned to the drawing-room. Then sho said to Nora she ßhould like to see over the house, and Nora accordinly led her upstairs. "Let us go into your room for a few minutes and have a chat," suggested Lady Bab. Thus they went together into Nora's bedroom, and presently Lady Bab, after one or two remarks, said in her abrupt way "Well, I had a visit from James Biddulph last night." "I have been expecting him all day," answered Nora, with a pretty blush; "but bo will be coming later, I supposo." 'He is not coming, ray dear." "Not coming?" repeated Nora, with a swift change of countenance. "Has he left town, then?" "Yes ; he thought it right to go. and he was right." "Wad this," began Nora with faltering tongue, and again flushing deeply, " be

cause I am hero? He need not havo been afraid." "He likes you too well to stay that is the truth, Nora; he is afraid of himself." Nora did not speak; she was greatly agitated and could scarcely conceal her emotion. "Ho has gone to America for a time," said Lady Barbara, considerately. "When he comes back the first bitterness of this unhappy affair will be over. My dear, he was wise to go." Still Nora did not speak; she was beginning to understand now what Biddulph had meant when he had asked to kiss her "for the hist time," when they parted at liossmore. "He looks changed and ill," continued Lady Barbara, who was woman enough to know that Nora would rather hear this than that, under tho circumstances he seemed well and happy. "The change will do him good. All this has cut him to the heart." "And ho left no letter, no message?" "Yes, he sent a message, and he no doubt will write to you. I was to tell you ho was going away because he had not strength to stay." "I I think "ho might have told me this," 6aid Nora, witli some pride. "Shall we go downstairs again now, Lady Barbara? I think Minnie will feel" dull if wo stay here." But later in the day when she received Biddulph's letter, all her pride and her little feeling of anger melted away. She could not uii.-tako the tone of tho words ho had penued with such a eore and aching heart. He loved her too well, then, to forget the "brief days of joy" ami "passionate despair" that sho had been prepared to ignore, to bury with the sweet dreams and dead hopes which then had ended. She kissed his letter again and again, and laid it against her breast as if it were somo living thing. Sweet words! that told her he was thinking of her then, and would think of her when he was far away. This love of theirs at least was strong and deep and true, aud, like gold, would bear the cruel crucible of absence and time. Nora stood there thinking of Biddulph, seeing him with that strange mental vision of ours which beholds features that are not present the glance, tho smile, that memory ro pictures on our brain. She knew his face so well the grey eyes that softened when he looked at her, that grew tender when he listened to her words. "My dear," sho said softly, "I know you will not forget mo; my soul is too near akin to yours for us to change." (7b be continued next vrck.)

AN APOLOGY DEMANDED. A Greenback Organ Calls Tpon Ben liarrtson to Ketract. Orsnd Ledger (Mich.) Graphic June 21 last the Chicago Tribune one of the most influential organs of the republican party in the country give figures which hhovedthat(to nuote from the Tribune) "if the republicans could have gained the support of the grcenbackers in 1SS4 they would have carried every Northern state, including New York, Indiana, and Connecticut, and would have made New Jersey close." "The greenbackers," says the Trilrune, "were nearly all republicans and di lie red with the republican party only ou the question of the issuance of legal tender currency in times of penc pi we'd ns war." For the ideas of the (rreeubackcrs ou money, Harrison, says tne fribune, "denounced them as 'fools and lunatics' and recommended that they should be committed to the 'insane asylums. " "Fortunately," says the tribune, "that question was nnsed upon by the federal supreme court ana the position of tho jjreen hackers was was sustained by tho solid vote of the eight republican justices, Field, democrat, alone voting in the negative. The doctrine which the greenback party wns organized to advocate and defend is now sustained and vindicated in the court of lat resort. In one of tho most important and eiha"t;vc opiuions ever rendered by the .,-reme court the judges declared th.it war or peace the question ot issuing legal-tender currency was one to be determined ly the people's representatives in congress, and not to bo passed upon or questioned by the courts." So the greenhackcrs are not fools aud lunatics. Benjamin Harrison was mistaken. He did them an injustice. Nor has he, to far as is known, apologized. The Graphic hereby docs call the attention o? Oen. Harrison to the fact that in stigmatizing the green hackers as "fools and lunatics" he wronged them. We ask Uen. Harrison to apol0"iz to the preenbacken of the United States. Will he? If he does not, can he expect or will he want their support? SAM JONES ON THE SITUATION. The I'lctarcsqne Treacher S.tys Cleveland I Going to Get There. Chautauqua, N. Y., Special to the republic. Sam Jones lectured here in the amphitheatre to an audience of nearly 5,000 people. He was as sensational as ever but he never created a bitter sensation than he did on this occasion, when he predicted the re-election of resident Cleveland. He said: "I will lecture on how to cct there. When we get there socially we have not got very far. I like a live man. 1 like anything that is alive. I like courage. We need grit and courage. If I had a prayer for the United Mates I should pray: 'Oh, Lord, give us every four years a president who is brave, a man who has a backbone like a circus pole.' We have got to begin at the top and work down to reform. Most any preacher can jump on a few rummies, but when he i'umps ou a president or governor or mayor, ie will need grit or he has pot to git. "A man or a chicken without sand in his gizzard is a failure. God Almighty will not let a preacher be 90 per cent, a man and 1 per cent, a preacher. A preacher ought to be the bravest man in the community. I nm not a democrat or a republican or a third party man. I am one of these 'one in a hill' kind of fellows. I believe in prohibition, and I will tell you what will happen. In November the democrats are going to re-elect their man. Hut in four yeirs we will have an issue prohibition or whisky, heaven or hell. I am a Southerner, and I tell you you can never have anything but a solid South by shaking a bloody shirt at them. But if you get an issue you will break the solid South. The difference between the democrats and republicans is that the democrats come rieht out and bay we favor whisky.' The republicans don't say so, but they do, just the same." The Value of Longevity. Dr. Felix L. Oswald In the Adjust Forum. Can there be a doubt that Burns and Keats foresaw the issue of their struggle against bigotry, or that Cervantes, in the gloom of his misery, could read the signs of the dawn presaging a sunburst of posthumous fame? Spinoza aud Schiller died at the threshold of their ?oal; Pascal, Harvey, Macaulay, Buckle and Iiichat left their inimitable works half finished; Raphael, Mozart and Byron died at the verge of a summit which, perhaps, no other foot hall ever approach. W ho knows hoy often, since the dawn of modern science, the chill of death has palsied a hand that had all but lifted the veil of Isis tetnpler Or in how many thousand lives time alone would have solved all discords into harmonies? An increase of longevity would, indeed, solve the most vexing riddles of existence; it would furnish the peculiar indorsement of Mr. Mallock's conclusion. It would rive the vicissitudes of fortune a chance to assert their equalizing tendencies; it would supply a missing link in the arguments of that natural religion that trusts tne equipoise of justice in the apparent caprices of human fate, l'he prioe of longevity would redeem the mortgage of our earthly paradise. What Free Illdee Has Done. Kansas City Time. Ilides wero put on the free list and by a republican congress. The consequence was a rapid development of the leather manufacturing Industry to the benefit of the whole country.

PORTER FINALLY "REFUSED

ANDTHE CONVENTION CHOSE HOVEY. A Convention lieg-lng a Mnn to Accept domination lie Didu't "Want The Candidates and Their Kerords. GOVERNOR, GEN. ALVIN P. HOVEY of Tosey county. LIETTTEXANT-GOVEKNOK, KEY. IRA J. CHASE of Hendricks. 5ECT.ETARY OF STATE, CHARLES P. (JRIFITX of Lake. AUDITOR OF STATE, BRUCE CARRof Orange. TREASCKER OF STATE, JULIUS A. LEMCKE of Vanderburgh. SUPERINTENDENT OF TUBLIC IS3TRI 'CTiOJC. IL M. LAFOLLETTE of Boone. JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COCK", Fir6t District S. D. COFFEY of Clay. Second District-JOIIN G. BKHKSIIIIIE of Jennines. Fourth District WALTER OLDS of Wbitlcy. REPORTER Or THE SUPREME COURT, JOHN L. GRIFFITHS of Marion. THE PLATPORM. With crateful pride the republicans of Indiana indorse and ratify the action of the national convention bold at Chicago in June lat. Affirming allegiance to the principles and policy of the republican party, we pledge to the nominees for president and vice-president a united and successful support. The electoral votes of Indiana will be yiven for Harmon and Morton. In commending Benjamin Harrison to the people of the United States, we repeat the words in which the state presented him as a candidate for nomination: "A rcpuhlican without equivocation, always in the fore front of every contest, devoted to the principles of the party with which be has been identified since its organization, prominent and zcalii:s in all its campaigns, wise and trusted in its councils, serving with honorable distinction in the military and civil service of the government, of great abilities, long and distinguished public lite, of high character and uubleinLshed reputation." The national platform expresses the faith of the party upon national questions for the republicans of Indiana. We declare: Crimes against an equal ballot and rqucl representation are destructive of free government. The iniquitions and unfair apportionment for congressional and legislative purposes, made at the behest of the liquor league CEX. ALVIN P. HOVEY. of Indiana, followed by conspiracy and forgery upon the election returns ot ls, iu Marion county, for which a number of prominent democratic leaders were indicted .and triea. two of whom are now suffering the deserved penalty of their acts, demand the rebuke of every patriotic citizen. The gerrymander, by which more than half of the people of the state nre fchoru of their just rights, must be repealed and constitutional apportionment made, whereby the votes of members of all political parties hall be given equal force and eflect, equal political rights to be the only basis of a truly democratic aud republican form of government. The action of the democrats in the lat general assembly was revolutionär' and criminal. The will of the people expressed in a peaceable and lawful election, advised and participated in by the democratic party, was set at defiance, and the constitution and laws as expounded by the supreme court of the United States disregarded and nullified. Tublie and private rights were subverted and destroyed, and tin; capital of the state disgraced by violence and brutality. The alleged election of a LT. S. senator was accomplished by fraud and forced by high-handed usurpation of power, the overthrow of constitutional nud legal forms, the setting aside of the results of a popular election and the theft of the prerogatives of duly elected and and qualified members of the legislature. That tttolen senatorship is part of the democratic administration at Washington, now in power by virtue of public crimes and the nuliitication of constitution nud laws. The serious revelations of corruptions, scoundrelism aud outrage in the conduct of the penal and benevolent institutions of the fciute, made before investigating committees of the last legislature, and confessed by the action of a democratic governor and democratic legislators, enforce the demand of an enlightened public sentiment that these great and sacred trusts be forever removed from partisan control. "c favor placing all public iustitutions under a wiselyconceived and honestly administered civil service law. Labor is the fonndation of the state. It must be free, well paid and intelligent to remain honorable, prosperous and dignified. In the interest cf labor we favor the establishment and permanent maintenance of a bureau of labor statistics. We favor the passage and strict enforcement of laws l.i a will absolutely prevent the competition of imported servile, convict or contract labor of all kinds with free labor; prohibit the employment of young children iu factories and mines; guarantee to worküigmen the most favorable conditions for their service, especially proper safeguards lor life and comfort in mines ami factories, on railways and in all hazardous occupation?; to sacure which the duties and powers of the state mine inspector should be enlarged and provision made whereby only skilled and competent men can be placed in positions where they may be iu control of the lives and safety others; enforce the certain and frequent payment of wages; abridge the hours of labor wherever practicable, and provide for the submission to just and impartial arbitration, under regulation! that will make the arbitration effective, all controversies between workingmen and their employers. The right of wageworkers to organise lor the legitimate promotion of their mutual good cannot be questioned. A just and equal enforcement of the law II the only sure defense for the rights of the peoEle. It is the highest dutyot the State aud ome governments to administer all luws for the protection f life and property, and the abdication of this function to private and peroual agencies is dangerous to the publie peace, and subversive of proper rejpectfor lee-al authority. We favor such legislation as will secure to every head of a family in Indiana a comfortable homestead, in addition to the personal (roperty dow exempted from execution by th aw. Feci and salariei should be equalized under the constitutional amendment adopted by so large a majority for that purpose, and a law for the equitable compensation of public oilicials should be promptly enacted. The methods of county and township business should be economized and simplified. The amendment to the state constitution making the terms of county ofiicers four years, and striking out the word "white" from section 1, article xii, to that colored men may become

a part of the regular mi'itia force for the defense of the state, Yhou'.d be renewed. Railway and other public corporations should be subjected to control throucn the legislative power that created them; theirundue influence in legislation and in courts, and the imposition of unnecessary bürden upon the peoplf, through illegitimate increase of stock or capital, should he summarily prevented. The free, unscctarian puMie school system, must be protected agaiist iuipairment Of abridegment from any cause. The constitutional provision for & common school education

IHA J. CITAJE. of th? children t-f ,i!l the people should b given the widest po.;t,!t soj.c. The state normal school frtlic training o: teachers for the common schools should bo rebuilt, and tbi school fund of the s.:t:e r I-ti-cd from restrictions that kci p i. out oi the bauds of the people. Politics and b j-Nl.V.iiri should be kept frf from the indue nc of tliu s:il-rn. The liquor trrtiic must ob v die law. W favor legislation upon the principle of local option, wtereby the various coui'runiiios throughout th state miy be ;is th-y ueeui best either control or suppress the tnttäe. in iiuoxic.iting liquor. The gmtit'.tde of ;i patriotic people to the defenders of the Union can nt be measured br money. We will not consent that uny Unin, soldier or saüor, or his w it'.ow ani orphan, shall be iiiipovcrbhc-J or enibtirr-is-ed because of th 'refusal of liberal precisions l y th j government, or by harsh or inimical rejuirctients of ltw or administration in securing rci fruition, of their just claims. Proof of an honorable discharge und of exiting disability oucht and must be de med sutiieieüt showing to warrant the award of a r-enr.inn. We congratula'e Uio people of the state upon the indications of a prop rity that is bein maintained de spite nil adverse inliuenres. Th rapid utilization of natural pes erectly stimulated the industrial interests of the commonwealth and reu iercd more essential the continuance of the i cotioniie system under which ouf marvelous advancement has been made. State legislation should be dirt' ted toward the reclamation of untillable lands and the development of our resources of evry kind. Democratic filibustering in the national hons of representatives prevented the return to the treasury of the state of Indiana the sum of $1,870.', the justice of which claim against the general governi.ent has been cficially acknowledged a;id its repayment provided for. Like hostile democratic action has also prevented the return of our st.ne treasury of $t06 97.41 discount and interest on war loan bonds, rendered necessary to equip und ma.ntain th volunteer soldiers who went out under the first call for troons in lHil. More thn a niiliioa audaha'.fof dollars, justly dae the state, aro thus wit ihcld in the presence of en increasing; federal surplus and of a pni' tic-d'y bankrupt 'state tre.isUi'v c:i t"-d by ti-.e iu o opetence of the democratic stJite cduj.ci.-.vaiua. The services of our republican members cf the national house of represent uives meets oat unqualified approval. They have been alert to protect the in; re-s of the state and of their respective crn-tirucin ie . The location or a branch of th' National s Miers' home and th prospective establishment of a naval hopita.l within the boarders ;' the state are sources for special congratulation. Under tins d'-"laration of facts and principles, the rcpu bliearts oi Indiana invite the cooperation of all citizens irrespective of past political faith or action. The republics:)- of Indiana assembled ir täte convention, l id a hearty welcome home to the Hon. Jani-s . r.'p.iae. Ihe enthusiastic honors row br ing p:dd him by the people of the United btntes aie properly uwarded to a public 6ervant, wh ) h is always and under all circumstances been conspicuously an Atner-ie-an. Mr. Hlamc's services to ti c republican party have been niaii'toid and able, but bis services to the United Sta'cs, as a r:presentative American, have been even more notable and praisewvirihy. Whether at home or abroad hi.s voice and ir-tiuence have been powerful for the advocacy and furtherance of those principles and that policy whi -h hai made the United Nates the most prosperous nation in the world. THE REASON V.'HY. Some ot the Influences at "Work on th Convent ion. Tortcr meant it. That was the principal piece of informs tion convoyed to the delegates of Wednes day' republican Ftate convention. Months ago Mr. Porter declared his unwiliingness to ng:;in br; a candidata for C II ARLES J. GRIP FIX. povcrnor. Goaded on by the absolute certainty of defeat without the aid of hi name on the ticket, tho party manager havo craspeJ with tho desperation oi drowning; men at the hope of securinq; from him a reconsideration of his purpose not to be a candidate. Catching at this Etraw of hope the machine postponed tha convention to a date so late ns to incur th disapproval of the vast rflajority of tha party in the endeavor to 6ecuro from Mr. Porter a recantation of his withdrawal. But all the artfully kid plans went axiM, and the republican party poes into the race deprived of the aid of that name cn the ticket, which mauy have declared wr necessary to success. The conduct of tb Porter boom has been peculiar. Whill in bis every public utterance ha has declared himself not a candi date, thope supposed to be in bis con fidence have etoutly maintained, thai Gov. Fortcr would yet bo a candidate. Another element which has been endeav oring to secure the nomination of the ex governor has been the following of Geo. Harrison which has urjred. that Portei must be the nominee to order to 6ccure ta Mr. Harrison the vote of his own state. This latter element has of late been th