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BY DORA RUSSELL, " Author of "Footpbixts v& the S.votv," "The Erokilv Sel," "The Vicab's Goveksxss." "Annabel's Kival." CHAPTER L. WIFE, OR XO TVITE. T T was a great blow, and Nora realized

Iat this moment nor strong nad been her hope, and how terrible it was to her to relinquish this, though she had told herself a hundred times that she must not set her heart upon what might prove utterly delusive. And should she see this visitor ? Nora asked herself this question again and again, while a positive aony of doubt and uncertainty filled her heart. One moment she told herself that she would not do so; the next, the overwhelming wish to know what this woman had to tell induced her to hesitate; and, finally, she decided to go downstairs, and hear with her own ears what the "important communication" might be. With a certain dignity and pride, of which she was unconscious, she lifted her shapely head a littie higher as she deßceaded tla staircase to go to this interview. SJne looted a very handsome, rather haughty; lady, with a flush on her usually pale cheeks as she opened the dining-room door, and walked into the roo!a ; and so the stout little woman standing there thought, examining her critically with her bold dark eyes. Nora bowed loftil . "You wish to see me?" she said. UTf 1 T" o a. T u yuu are wims ciewarw oi Avosamore, "I am Miss Stewart." "In that case I wish to have a talk with you. You are the lady who was going to marry James Biddulph last winter?" "Yes." "Whefl" and the woman gave a sort of laugh "some 'one unexpectedly appeared and put an end to Iiis love-making! Mind, I wa3 sorry for him; ho at least believed his wife to be dead, and that he was freo to marry any one he had a fancy to. Now, the question is, was she dead, or wm the not? Nora slightly started; her face flashed deeply and her lips trembled. "Are you," she asked, fixing her dark eyes on the unlovely visage before her, "th woman who went to him on the night before what was to have been our wedding day?'' "Yes, I went to him ; but I did not know till I got to this place that he ww foing to be married the next day. And offered, for a certain sum, not to disturb the happy pair, nor interfere with the wedding;" and again she laughed. "But my gentleman did the high and haughty; he went and told you; ho put off the marriage, and dragged one poor woman out of her grave, to compare her with another pQir, woman who sometimes wishes site wa.s in it;" "I I do not understand you!" "The truth is, it all hangs on a question oi money, .uiss siewari. i suppose you etill wish to marry James Biddulph." "How dare you ask me Rich a question," answered Nora, with quivering lips and kindling eyes, "you who parted us!" "Ye3, 1 parted you, but if you make it worth my while well that parting" can soon be ended. You know the story, of course; how James Biddulph m.ifriel long ago one of twin-sisters 6o like each ether that there was, in fact, no difference between them? He tired of his wife,. and left her and when he got his uncle's money she came down here to ask for her income to be increased, and he consented to this on the condition that his marriage ehould be kept a secret still ?" "I Know all this," Faid Nora, forcing herself to epeak "all the shameful story." "i'es, shameful to your ears, no doubt," retorted the woman bitterly, "who wero born in a good position, and of good fortune, and to whom men make honorable love! But what about a woman born of low estate, with no money, and whom Mr. James Biddulph tried to make a fooi of only she was too clever? There are two eides to every question, young lady, and perhaps my story or my sister's etor-, as A the case mav be was as shameful to James Biddulph as it was to the poor woman he married and forsook." "I will not discuss it," sai I Nora tremling with emotion. "If you came here only to talk of Mr. Biddulph thu3, 1 should rather you would go away." "I don't wish particularly to talk of him, nor abuse him, for that matter. Other men have tired of their wives before him, and other men will tire after him; and my only reason fur naming so common an occurrence is that it bears upon the little business between you and mo; if Mr. James Biddulph had lived with his wife, you, in all probability, would never have wasted a thought upon him. However, there it is. He did tire of her; and after he believed that he had pot rid of her for good, he wa going to marry you, until she, or her likeness in the shape of her twin sister, stepped in, and the marriage was stopped. on look very mnch shocked, Miss Stewart, but it is better to speak the truth." The truth !" repeated Nora, with" heaving breast. "What is the truth, then? Are voa Mr. Biddulph'g wife, or are you not?1' "Ah, that's my secret l" and she laughed her shrill laugh. "Com, young lady, I'll be honest with you, though you may despise and scorn mo as you like. What would you give I mean, how much money to know that James Biddulph waa free to marry that his wife in reality is dead?" "How much money!" cried Nora, passionately. "Everything I have every penny to know that that this miserable tie was ended forever!" "He i so much to you as that?" said the woman, looking at Nora's excited face. "Ah, it's a queer thing, love! I don't i want everything you have, though you would grudge tfiat, I can tell you, after a J month or two of marriage. No, I shall be J reasonable. If you and he between you will make up ten thousand pounds, I will swear I am not his wife, that I took him in, and that his wife for a moment ehe hesitated "is lying here in the graveard " "Bat but Is this true?" asked Nora, in broken voice. "You are not deceiving ne for money, as you deceived him, are 'i ? Oh, think what this is to me ! You, man surely you must know!" v wrung her hands together in the exrty of her excitement and doubt, and lienced walking with hasty and ir)T steps up and down the room, and Vman eyes followed her. here is he?" she asked presently, re?" said Nora, stopping abruptly. Jia.3 gone to Monte Carlo to seek 'pa doubts arose in his rnind ; he y believe that you had deceived

him, and his lawyer told him you were there, and he followed you." "So I was there," and the woman shrugged her shoulders, "until ten days ago; but I've the worst luck that ever a poor soul had, I believe I Everything goes wrong with me, that's the "truth, Misa Stewart. And so James Biddulph has gone to seek me? He'll be more anxious to make a bargain, then, than he was before ?" "He wants but to know the truth," said Nora, eagerly, "and I but want to know it. If you want monev vou shall have it.

but, for God's sake, do not deceive us J now!" Her voice trembled with the earnestness and passion of her soul, and for a moment the bold black eyes fixed upon her changing face fell, and her visitor moved uneasily. The next, however, the woman looked up again. "Did the old doctor that lives down here," sho asked, "ever tell you of a certain conversation that he and I had on this same ßubjeet?" "Dr. Alexander? No, never." "Yet the 'canny' Scot and I talked it over. I asked him then how much he thought James Biddulph would give if I were to stand up and say I had been humbugging him and that his wife was dead. But the old doctor read me a fine lecture and -said some hard words which I need not repeat. It ended by him promising to try to get some money for me, which, he did, and I went away. But, as I tell you, thing3 have gone wrong with me since then ; in fact, I am ready to make a bargain to swear, if you like, that I deceived Biddulph, but I must have the money down before I do this." Again Nora fixed her eyes on the woman's face, while a rush of conflicting emotions swept through her heart revul sion, disgust that such a being could live;' that there was standing before her one ready to sell her honor, even her soul ! She would swear either wav for the highest price, and on such a creature's oath depended the happiness of two lives. "I I will send for Mr. Biddulph," at length faltered Nora. "Until then, what can I say ?" "All nght; send for him, and name the Jjrice. I've doubled it since I was here ast. I offered to take five thousand pounds to go away and say nothing to interrupt your marriage; but then Biddulph said I was sure to come back again and perhaps he was right 1" And onco more she laughed. "But," said Nora, moved past ordinary control by thes'i shameless words, "do you not think all this dreadful most dreadful? I know nothing of your past life; I judge alone by your own words. And how can you utter" them how degrade yourself so far!" The dark face of the woman she addressed flushed with sudden anger. "It's easy talking," she answered passionately "easy for such as vou to air fine ideas and lead straight lives you, who have everythingyou want for asking, and have no pity for those who have to keep lody. and soul together by sin or toil. No, you know nothing of my past life, and the less you know the better, perhaps; you had best 6end for your housemaid after I am gone, to brush your carpet, lest some of the dust fallen from my fett shouKtthaiice t obtain it!' She poured forth these words with extraordinary volubility and indignation, and stood there defiantly, even while proclaiming what she was. "H'e could all be good women, I dare say," she went on scornfully, "if we had the means to pay for the luxury; though some of those who have, to be sure, do not set us poor ones a very good example. But what is the good of talking thus? We must take the world as we tind it, and saints and sinners are very much the same, to my mind; for instance, you like James Biddulph, yet " "I beg you not to mention him," interrupted Nora. "I will let him know what you have said; and now this conversation better end." "Which means, politelv, you had better go away. Well, I can take a hint as well as my betters, so I shall go." "And where." asked Nora, shrinking from the question, yet feeling the necessity of making it, "will you stay until Mr. Biddulph comes?" "At the little inn at Balla, close here, where I have been before. But I won't have to wait long, I expect," she added, with a coarse laugh;. "James Biddulph will soon arrive on the wings of love, and, until then, I shall say good day to you; but remember my terms, mind." And she nodded and went away. She left Nora in an almost indescribable state of mind. Her horror of this woman, her shrinking from the thoutrht that she could ever have been Biddulph's wife, was very great, and gradually it seemed to her that he never could have married her ; that this must be the other sister the viler sister that had planned to deceive Biddulph who had deceived him; and in that case, if she could prove this, he was freel And the sudden joy which had swept over her when she had first heard of Biddulph's doubts on board the steamer, now stole back to her heart, and the color to her cheeks. What was any sum of money in comparison to this precious knowledge? Ten thousand pounds! Nora remembered her Aunt Bessie's legacy, and thought how easily this money could be paid, and how gladly. Then she sent a telegram to Biddulph at Monte Carlo an urgent telegram and began to count the days when it would be possible for him to answer it in person. In the meanwhile, it was naturally much talked ot in the little village of Balla. the return of the lady who had called herself the wife of Mr. Biddulph of Dunbaan, and whose former visit or visits there bad been fraught with such momentous consequences. The doctor heard "the leedy" was back again, and groaned in spirit at the news, which he shrewdly guessed boded ill for Miss Leonora Stewart's peaco of mind. And Alick Fräser heard it and smiled, and Jock beard it and sighed, and the Rev. Andrew Macdonald wondered whether it was his duty to call upon her, partly from spiritual, and partly from temporal motives. One day the doctor, mounted on his sturdy, rough, chestnut-coated pony, actually encountered her; and Madame do Beranger waved her red sun shade in token of recognition, and smiled and nodded, while the doctor, after a moment's hesitation, pulled up and nodded in return. "Sc yer back?" he said laconically. "The proverbial fate of the bad penny, yoti know," laughed the woman, with another wave of tho red sun shade, and a merry glance of the bold, dark eyes. "Ami how wags the world with vou, my good friend, the country doctor ?"' "As well as I deserve, I dare say," he answered, moving his somewhat ungainly form uneasily; "that's what we mostly get, I think, ma'am." "Then I must be a very bad lot. for illluck follows me, and no mistake! Again the doctor moved uneasily, shook his head, and cleared his throat. "Yer not down here again on any ill business, I hope, are ye?" he asked.

"I came down to have a talk with James Biddulph. There's no harm in that, is there Vs "Maybe there's not; I canna' take upon mysel' to say." "But Miss Stewart tells me he's at Monte Carlo gone to seek me there and I'm waiting on in this lively spot till he retarns.'7 "Miss Stewart!" repeated the doctor, "You've not been troubling Miss Leonora Stewart, surely !" "I'd business with her; I called upon her, that's all," answered Madame de Boranger; and her eyes fell.

-ua am, ye vo not broke yer solemn promise, surely ?" said the doctor sternly. "Ye've not gane to her wi' the lying words ye promised never to speak again, when I gat the money for ye fra' Mr. Biddulph ?,P "My good friend, mind your own business that's my advice to you !" And she gave the rod sunshado an angry shake. "But this is my business the business of any honest mon 1 Did ye not promiso me not to come here to disturb the young leedy's peace ?" "The voung leedy, as you call her, seems very well able to take care of herself, and hold herself pretty high, considering all things! Bah I.,. My friend, don't bother your head about her ; leave us to make our own bargains and settle our own affairs. Some dav, maybe, we'll astonish you." "I believe ye're after na gude. If aught I Bay caa ha' any influence wi' ye " "It has none," laughed the woman, as the doctor paused. "There don't begin to preach ! Good day to you ; I'm tired of standing;" and again 6he waved the red sunshade, again' nodded, and went on, leaving the poor doctor gazing after her with a very troubled face. "Ay, 6he 's an ill tike!" he thou eh t disconsolately. "She's gane to Miss Leonora Stewart for na gude, I'm certain ; and the f uir lassie wi' nane to gi' her counsel. '11 away mysel' and see what tho hussy has been up to;" and as he came to this conclusion, the doctor turned his pony's head in the direction of Rossmore, and, having arrived there, found Nora looking, he thought, excited and anxious. He sat down and said very little, for he was thinking how he could broach such a fainful and delicate subject; but after a ittle pause Nora herself did this. "Doctor " she began, and then hesitated ; "I wish to ask you about something to tell you of a strauge visitor who came here the other day." "Ay," answered the doctor, nodding his head gravely. "Have vou heard," went on Nora, with deep blush, "that the woman who who called herself Mr. Biddulph's wife is down here again?" "Ay," again said the doctor, with another nod. "I've just met her, and was sare grieved to sse her face." "Did she tell you anything?" asked Nora, eagerly. "Sne told mo that she had once spoken to you about" and Nora's breath came short "a doubt which has crept lately, too, into Mr. Biddulph's mind. He thinks he may have been deceived that this is not the woman he married, but the twin-sister." Nora forced out these words in dis jointed sentences, with her eyes fixed on the doctor's face, who looked sadly down as she spoke. "She's na gude," he said, with a solemn shake of his head; "she's a lying tongue of her ain, Miss Stewart, and "wad sell her vera soul, I believe, if she could get a bidder." "Then you think " faltered Nora, with a chill feeling of disappointment creeping into her heart. "I think she's come here for money, and will say anything to get it. Ha' naught to do wi' her, Miss Stewart." "But," said Nora, rising excitedly, "you said these two the dead and living sister were so like each other, no one could tell the difference. You told Lady Barbara this. What if she deceived James, then if it is his wife who is really dead? Oh, doctor, think what this would be to t!" She stood before him with clasped hands and pale, parted lips, and the doctor's small eyes grew full of pity. "My dear "young leedy "he began, and then paused; he was, in truth, afraid to speak, for he saw how deeply Nora was agitated. "It was Lady Barbara herself," she continued a moment later "and you know how shrewd she is who first put tho idea into Mr. Biddulph's mind that he bid been deceived. And why should he not have been, doctor? Was it not more likely that the wife should come down to see him than that she should send her sister? I cannot but think that tho man who broke off our marriage, who made all this misery, was the twin-sister whom James had never seen." "Yet she swore she was the wife in the house of God, Miss Stewart," said the doctor, with a sort of solemnity stealing in his voice, "there, wi' her dead sister lyin before her; anjl looked in her face and believed she was speaking the truth, and I believe it now." "Hut it is impossible to say " "It is impossible, na doot; for these two the living and the dead were cast, seemingly, in the same mold. But true words ha a ring in them that false ones ha' not, and it seems to mo" "Yet," interrupted Nora, almost impatiently, as the doctor hesitated, "Mr. Biddulph has begun to doubt, and Lady Barbara doubted, and I own that I do. The doctor gavo a sort of groan, and again shook his head. Then he rose and held out his large bony hand. "It's a bad business fra' first to last," he said. "Weel, good day. Miss Stewart; if there is anvthing I can do for ye, just drop mo a line.'' "We must wait until Mr. Biddulph returns; but I cannot help thinking you may bo mistaken." "Ali, poor Lassie," thought the kindly doctor, aiter he had taken leave of her, and was wending his wayamongthe hills, "it's hard to dash her hopes and his, for is plain to see what their hearts are set on I That vile hussy will name a price, and he'll be ready to pay iL God help them, for it's a sare strait!" CHAlTElt LI. THE II A NU WRITING. It was but natural that this interview with tho doctor should only fiythcr unsettle and disturb Nora's mind. She saw very plainly that he firmly believed this woman to be Biddulph's wife, and that her only motive for hinting at any doubt of this was to gain a large sum of monev, which she believed that Biddulph woufd now be ready to pay. The doctor's earnestness so far influenced Nora that her own hopes began to wane, and a great sadness crept over her. It was like a second bitter disappointment, though she had always told herself to expect nothing. And another fact also she could not ignore, which was that the letter she had received long asro was evidently written in the same handwriting as the last one, and this was doubtless strong confirmation of the doctor's belief; for though these two sisters might have been personally so like that no one could tell the difference between them, it would have been more extraordinary etill Ji

their handwriting had been absolutely the same. And she knew how bitterly, too, Biddulph would feel all this, and shrank from wiiting to tell him what the doctor had said. No answer had come to her telegram to Monte Carlo; but the day after Dr. Alexander had called she received a letter from Biddulph, dated from Paris, whither he had gone in search of Mme. de Beranger, as he found she had left Monte Carlo before he had arrived there, and was believed to have proceeded to Paris. In this letter Biddulph seemed full of hope; he told Nora that Mme. de Beranger was well known at the gaming tables, and had lately lost larga sums of monev there. One man he had met remembered the twinsisters, whose likeness to each other was so remarkable that they were said sometimes to personate each other. "In fact, my dear Nora," wrote Biddulph, "I believe now that this wretched woman utterly deceived me, and that it was in truth poor Natalie who was shot in the Glen of Balla. But I shall follow this other one until I find her, and no doubt she will be ready for money to tell the truth, and then what is there to part us?" Only a terrible uncertainty of what was the truth, Nora's heart answered to this question. This woman was ready to swear she was not Biddulph's wife it she were sufficiently paid for doing so; but a false oath would not undo the marriage. It was a terrible position Nora felt; yet when she answered Biddulph's letter she had not strength of mind to tell him of the doctor's words. She told him what the woman had said, or at least she partly told him, and she urged him to come at once to Scotland, "for this uncertainty is too dreadful," she wrote. Biddulph's reply to this was a telegram to tell her that he would be with her the next day. And he came late in the evening looking worn and pale, for he was not sufficiently recovered for hasty traveling. They clasped eaeh other's hands, and for a few moments looked mutely into each other's eyes, both recalling the intense anxiety which filled their hearts. At last Biddulph spoke. "So she is here, he said ; "and you have seen her?" "Yes," answered Nora, and her eyes fell. "I believe we have been utterly imposed upon. I 6hall see her in the morning and force her to speak the truth." "Oh, if we could but know it!" said Nora, almost passionately. "James, I don't know I cannot satisfy myself Dr. Alexander believes this woman is your wife." "What can he know about it?" Nora clasped her hands together in great distress. "It seems," she said, "that she spoke to him when she was down there before that she made a 6ort of offer then, and asked Dr. Alexander how much he thought you would give her if she were to stand up and swear that she had deceived you, and that she was not your wife. But the doctor did not believe her docs not believe her now." "But what right," answered Biddulph, in quick anger, "had Alexander to keep such an odor to himself to give me no

Imnt ot tnis, when ii knew how much "depended upon it." "Ho thought it was just for money, I suppose; he did not, perhaps, wish to disturb your mind or mine. "But he had no right to think anything of the kind! Good heavens, Nora, what months of misery we might have been spared had I known this! Of course this is Natalie's twin sister, then; 6he would not have made such an offer unless she were." "But but, James, there is another thing," said Nora, in a faltering voice "something which makes me afraid, uncertain. You remember the letter I cot when I first knew you, the letter to warn me before the woman died in the Glen, you know? The letter I got theother day was written in the same handwriting, and in this case " Biddulph's face grew blank and dark. "Is this so?" he said abruptly. "Let me see theso letters, Nora." "Yes;" and she left the room to get them. And when she returned tho frown was still on Biddulph's brow. He took them from her hand and laid them side by side, as she had done. They were seemingly written by one person: there was a little difference here and there, as we see in the same handwriting, and Biddulph noted this as he eagerly scanned tho lines. And he thought, too, at this moment of letters he had received long ago love letters at first, which had grown colder and colder, which apparently also were written by the same hand. "This proves nothing," he said. "This woman told me when ßhe came that night the night before our wedding day that she wrote the letters when her sister, as she pretended, came down here; yet one of these letters was written from the little inn at Balla the day before Natalie was shot. They probably wero taught at the same school and wrote tho same handwriting, just a3 they vtere alike in everything." "Still " began Nora, who was pale and trembling. "Nora, will you risk nothing?" interrupted Biddulph, in a voice of passionate reproach. "If this woman is ready to swear she is not my wife, and never was my wife, is not that enough? I am not so hard to convince." "But but, James, just think suppose it is a lie suppose wo were married and happy, and she came again, and said it was a lie?" And Nora put her hand over her face, and tears rushed into her eyes. "Berhaps you would leave me?" said Biddulph, half bitterly. "What could I dof" answered Nora, with a sob. "Oh. James, let us be sure; try to trace but her life don't only believe her word 1 Dr. Alexander said she would do anything for money, or say anything; and it's so strange about the hand-writing. I am afraid afraid to hope." Nora completely broke down as she uttered the last words, and sobs she could not restrain choked her utterance. The sight of ber grief moved Biddulph, and his expression, which had been moody enough, changed and softened. "Forgive me," he said, and he took her hand. "I shall seek Alexander and make every inquiry that I can. Don't think I am quite selfish, Nora: but I really believe this woman is notliing to me that it was a clever scheme which she was able to carry out by her extraordinary likeness to her dead eister." "But Dr. Alexander said she swore when her dead sister lay before her in the kirk at Balla," answered Nora in a broken voice; "surely, there, she would not take a false oath? ' "How many are taken there Nora? How mr.ny women go into churches and take false oaths, and how many men ? What was a false oath to a woman like her , who has lived a long life of deceit and lies? Ah, my dear, you know nothing of such lives, and I thank Godl" Nora did not speak ; she stood there before him, with heaving breast and throbbing heart. "You ehall judge for yourself, Nora,"

went on Biddulph; "judge between she and I. If she is ready to swear what I believe to be the truth that she is no wife of mine I will bring her here, and vou shall hear the words from her own lips." "Oh, don't ask me to judge, James !" cried Nora, piteously ; "I dare not. Ask Dr. Alexander, Jock Fräser any one but me." "Well, I can ask Mr. Fraser. I shall go to Alexander's house now, and hear what he has to say. Don't distress yourself thus, my poor girl." Again ho took her hand, and again they looked into each other's faces as they had done when they had first met. Then Biddulph put his arm round her and drew her closer to him. "It would be hard to part now, wouldn't it!" he said. "Yes," ßhe half whispered. "And I don't believe we shall do so. We have had enough misery, have we not, Nora !" "Yes, yes, indeed!" "You must take courage. I shall see you again in the morning, and I shall see this wretched woruan and Alexander, and I am quite ready to pay her price if she will Bwear to the truth, and swear never to go back from it." "About money, James I almost forgot," 6aid Nora, putting her hand to her brow, as if trying to think. "Aunt Bessie, you know, left me 15,000 which has never been touched. I do not want it." "You are a rich young woman," answered Biddulph, trying to speak lightly and smiling. "We can manage about tho money, I think; and now, good night" He then left her; but, long and late after he was gone, Nora 6at thinking. It seemed to her there could be no certainty, no dependence on an oath which was to be bought. (7b b continued next week.) THE WATERLOO BALL

An English Student Apparently Locate the Historic Spot. London Telegraph. At length the researches of Sir William Fraser have been rewarded. During his recent visit he ascertained that the site of the duke of Richmond's temporary domicile at Brussels was now covered by a large hospital in the Rue des Cendres, one of the wings of which is the original fabric ; but neither here nor in the garden beyond was there any trace of a ball room. The indefatigable baronet, determined not to be baffled, pursued his investigations until he observed, beyond the hospital wall, the roof of a high building, which he was informed was the brewery of the Rue de la Blanchisserie. He walked round to the "brasserie" in question ; but the proprietor could tell him nothing about any terpsichorean doings there in the year 1815. His father, he said, had purchased the property of a coachbuilder named Van Asch, and his depot for carriages was now his the brewer's granary. This room he courteously offered to show to his visitor, who was conducted to an apartment 120 feet long, fifty-four feet broad, and about thirteen feet high, the floor being quite smooth enough, even after this long lapse ot time, tobe danced upon. On the night of the 15th of June, lido, the "parquet" was, in all probability, chalked in a symmetrical and particolored pattern. In any ca.se, Sir William Fraser seems to have conclusively made out his contention that the "Waterloo Ball" was held in the carriage depot of the coach-builder Van Asch, now the granary of the "brasserie" Vanginderachter, Nos. 42 and 43 Rue de la Blanchisserie, Brussels; and the public are indebted to the baronet for a longneeded and vainly-sought-for piece of information. The doubt which for so many years has enveloped the Question is not, after all, so very incomprehensible. Tho coach-builder's warehouse was evidently used as an "annex" to the Duke of Richmond's house ; and, considering that thera were some four hundred guests at the ball, most of whom may have been almost strangers to their noble host and hostess, it is quite feasible that the majority of the company never troubled their heads for a moment as to whether the capacious but low-roofed ball-room was part and parcel of their entertainers', or whether it belonged to some contiguous premises, of which opportunity had been taken, just as the promoters of the tea party to Messrs. Smith O'Brien and Meagher, in 184S, "by the Shannon iShore," "took tho opportunity of Tom Doolan's store." But there is one other point touching this memorable festival, which, could Sir William Fraser clear it up, would entitle him to still greater meed of gratitude at the hands of his contemporaries. Napoleon's carriage, captured by the Prussians after Waterloo, and now at Madame Tussaud's, was built at Brussels. Was it built by Van Asch, who seemingly was a leading "carrossier" of the period? The question is worth asking; for when Byron, after his separation from his wife, started on that which was virtually Childe Harorld's pilgrimage, he purchased at Brussels a traveling carriage, which was the exact counterpart of the one made for Napoleon the Great. If Mynheer Van Asch was the maker, the poet, in all probability, visited the depot in the Rue de la Blanchisserie, which only recently has been used as a ball-room ; and in that long, low apartment, converted by poetic license into a "high hall," he might have felt the first inspiration for one of the most magnificent of his lyrical achievements. " War Taxes. N. Y. Time. Those who would save the present tariff ratet at any cost persistently declare that the internal taxes on whisky and tobacco are the only "war taxes" that remain. The Randall pnpers say: "Remove the war taxation," manning the taxes on whisky and tobacco. "We suppose," said the Sun a few days ago, "that the voters will prefer to have the war taxes wiped out first. After the internal revenue has been extinguished the majority of voters will be prepared to attend to the revision of the tarilf." And many other papers that support the Chicago free whisky and higher tarilf platform are equally misleading und dishonest in their uo of the term "war taxes." For example, the Cincinnati CommrcUU Gaxette recently said: "Talk about abolishing the war taxest The internal revenue Uxes are the war taxes, and they are burdensome." We say they make a dishonest use of the term, because they know very well, being familiar with the history of the taritfl that a considerable part of the duty Imposed by the present tariff laws was imposed during the war to compensate the domestic manufacturer for the extraordinary internal taxes which he was compelled then to pay. They know that those internal taxes on all sorts of manufactured goods were long Ago swept away, and that the portion of the tariff duty that should have been swept away at the same time, still remains. It is that part of the tariff duty which is emphatically a ''war tax." Hl Gera of Thought. A good word Is as soon eaid as an 111 one, Latin Proverb. Truth makes the tongue smart German Iroverb. Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure. Frenrh Proverb hen the hen crows and the cock is mute there is little peace. Italian Proverb. A house filled with guests is eaten up and ill spoken of. Spanish Proverb. He who is of no use to himself is of no use to any ae. DuniiS Proverb,

INDIANA AND THE TARIFF.

EXPERIENCE OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS High YTnges In the Early Days Kefore Tfe llud Manufactures and A "Home Market" Tippecanoe Flarrison'a Ficht for Slavery An UUtorlcal Review. On July 4 of next year one hundred years will have elapsed since the first tariff law of the United States was passed. Since that time we have had a wide variety of tariff legislation, and have had opportunity to test our progress under almost every imacinable rate of tariff duties that could be framed for the purpose of "protecting home industries." It would seem that ninety-nine years of experience ought to enable U3 to form some reasonable conclusion as to the merit of the various systems. Of course, to do this in detail would be an enormous work, but I shall essay to point out some of the more prominent features of the historical effects of the tariff, and the conclusions which should be drawn from them, as they have appeared in the state of Indiana. A formal provision of government was made for the region including Indiana in the year 1787, but it was not put in force in our settlements until 1790, and the next five years were so occupied with Indian wars that very little immigration to our borders occurred. In the five years following many people came over the Alleghenies to " the Ohio valley, but only a email part of them located in our section, so that in 1800 there were less than 2,500 people in the whole region nowcomnrised in the state of Indiana. The civil and political development of our commonwealth may be eaid, therefore, to have begun practically with the organization of Indiana territory, in the year ISch). The tariff laws of the Ü nited States had no effect on our early settlers. Until 1803 the country west of the Mississippi, and about its mouth, belonged to .Spain, and almost all the trade of the scattered population was with the Spaniards at Xew Orleans, or with various nations of the Antilles and other islands. No custom houses were maintained on the Mississippi, and consequents our people had practical free trade. They had no manufacturing interests, except so far as their construction of rude articles for their own use may be called manufacture. Strange to relate, with no manufactures, no home market, and no other blessings of a m protective tariff, wages were very good better, indeed, than in the country eastof the Allegheny mountains, where 'a protective tariff averaging about 18 per cent, ad valorem ws in force. A petition from sundry inhaeitants, in 1796, represents this as "a country "whore laborers cannot be procured to assist in cultivatingtheground under Si perdav.exclusive of washing, lodging and boarding; and where every kind of tradesmen are paid from a dollar and a-half to two dollars per day." American State Papers, Public Lands, vol. 1, p. f0. This state of affairs was very unsatisfactory to the richer portion of the people who employed laborers, and therefore they asked that concress would amend the ordinance of 1787, which was the fundamental law of the territory, bo that they might bring slaves here, and this question was soon the great political question in Indiana. Until the territory became a state, in 1816, national politics counted for very little. The people of the territory were all members of the pro-slavery party, which wanted to bring slavery into Indiana, or of the antielaverv party, which desired to keep it out. The first named party was commonly called "the Virginia Aristocrats;" its head man was Gov. William Henry Harrison. The other party called itself "the People," and its leader was Jonathan Jennings. The pro-elavery party was overcome ; Indiana became a free state, and Jonathan Jennings became its first governor. An interesting article on Gov. Jennings will be found in the Indianapolis Journal of Aug. L'ü, 18SS, and the recommendation there made that a monument be erected to him should be adopted, for he conferred a great benefit on the state by defeating the advocates of slavery. From ISOOthe immigration grew rapidly and the country begun to assume the appearance of civilization. There was a great deal of hard work to be done. Very lew people now-a-days have any comprehension of the toil and hardship involved in moving into a heavily wooded country, such as Indiana was, clearing farms, building houses and fences, and getting a start in life. Probably the best description of all this that has been written will be found in a series of articles by Judgo D. D. Banta of Franklin, which were printed in the Indianapolis iWws at intervals from May 30 to July 20 of the present year. They reter particularly to tho settlement of that part of Indiana known as the New Purcha.se, but there was very little difference in the pioneer life of the various portions of the statu so far as labor and hardship were concerned. The forest was to be cutaway and burned, and beneath the trees was "a dense thicket of spice-wood, hazel, green briers, young saplings and other underbrush, and underneath that down trees, scarcely less numerous than the standiug, lay rotting in the dank soil." After putting in the day at cleaning land, tho honest toiler turned to his half-made cabin, ate his supper of corn bread and bacon and passed the night in trying to keep warm in winter or fighting mosquitoes in summer. If he had bad luck with his crops he ate acorns instead of corn bread. In these good old times the government was taxing the people by its tariff laws to build up the "infant industries" of the country, or rather a part of them, for it did not seem to take much interest in building up the infant industry of agriculture in Indiana. They did not claim that the tariff was for the protection of American labor in those days, and no one would have believed it if they had. So all of these Indiana people paid tariff taxes on all the manufactured articles they bought, and the "infant industries" received the benefits. The natural result of it was that they bought as little as they could get along with. As Judge Banta records it, there was usually about ono handsaw, one cross-saw, one broad-ax, ono auger, one chisel and one drawing-knife to a neighborhood, and a neighborhood then comprised extensive "regions as compared with the neighborhood of to-day." It is not very remarkable that one man should have planted his corn crop with a shovel and another with an ax, as our chronic les informs us they did ; and it must be gratiS'ing to remember that these men had uly paid the tariff tax on tho ax and shovel Tvhen they bought them, and bo aided in the patriotic work of building up the infant iron industry of TennHylvania, and the manufacturing industries of New England. It must be admitted that the great protective ijstcca encouraged "homo indus

try" in Indiana also. It made a woolen and linen manufacturer of every womat in the country. The good wife hackiedt spun and we've the lias; washed, dyed, spun and wove the wool. Then ehe mada the clothing, knit the nockings, and put in her spare time patching and mending, "What toil was hers, to le pure! Thera was no season of the year marking the end of her labors. Xo "days of bad weather pave her n st not even the niht could she call her own, for long after she had put her children to sleep she patched and darned at their wc-rn and frayed clothes. Even when she went to drink tea anil gossip with a neighbor, she carried her knitting or pewing. Only when her hand had lost its cunning from old nge, or was palsied in death, did 6he find rest." The men were not so constantly busy, but their work was harder. Their shoulders bent early under their load, and their tramea yielded to tho strain in the prime of an ordinary life. Judge Banta reports, as the result of his investigation, that of tho pioneers of his section "all save one or two had died under fifty years of age. They had grown to be old men while they were yet young men." It is inte"re?ung tu remember that during the years that tariff taxation was a iding to the burdens of these people wages did not increase. On the contrary, they decreased, and, with all the a Hitions to the eliicacy of labor by our machinery and other invented devices, wages are now very little above the standard complained of by the pro-slave ry people before the tariff began to n fleet Indiana. People sometimes talk as though there was no tariff before the war of the rebellion, and speak of wages then as "free trade" wages, but that is not true. There has been a tariff ever since 1780, and though it wag sometimes increased and sometimes decreased, it was substantially an increasing tariff until 1S4'5. From that time to lst0 it was decreasing, and we will consider the results of the decrease hereafter. J. P. Dt'Jfjr, JK. Indianapolis, Sept. 17. A NOTABLE CONVERT.

A Republican of Much I'rominenct Swells the Rapidly Growiug List. Dloomlnjfton Bulletin. C. "W. Bliss of Hillsboro, 111., has heretofore been a republican, but free whisky and high tax on the necessities of life proved too much for him, and he has declared for Cleveland and reform. In a letter to tho E lwardsville Intdliyenccr he gives the reasons for the faith that is in him as follows: I do cot consider that I have "forsaken the ideas of republicanism," and' have not beea making democratic speeches th.it is, not publicly, at least. Both parties have agreed, it eeeins, for the first time in their history, to 0 to the people on one isue only. The democratic party favors a moderate reduction of the ta.-iiTin such a direction as will least injure tha industries of the couutry. The republicaa party, manipulated as it was by McKinley, Kelley k Co., biundt ivd upon a most tstounding and, to my uiiml, an uiirepublican declaration on this question. I venture to assert that thetariff and free-whisky plank in the republican platform does not voice the sentiment of one republican in five hundred, especially in the West. It is wholly at variance with the teachinu's and traditions of tue republican party. The pledges made in their platform ot 134 they have lorotten or purposely violated. The republican minoriiy in the lower house of conpress have pursued a vicious policy of obstruction to all taritl-reform mensures. They have contemptuously ignored the demand? of th great agricultural West for a reduction of an uiineeceesarv and unjust war tax, and have added insult to injury by declaring in their platform that before they will consent to a removal of these burdens thev will food the country with fre whisky. The moonshiner w ho skulks in the shadows of Tennessee, Virginia or North Carolina tiny indorse such a sentiment, but the law-abiding farmer of the West, to whom whisky and tobacco are not necessities, and whose bur lens of taxation the republican party promised to li-rhtfii four year n'?'o, will enter a protest that will be felt neit November. In their frenzied attempts to avoid the Scylla of free trade, the republican leaders have plunged into the Charybdis whirlpool of fre w hifcky. I am not in accord with the sentiments as expressed in the Chieago platform, and in thU particular am iu the same boat wita thousands of whilom republicans. I regard the Mills bill as a safe, conservative and necessary measure, and should rejoice to see it pasa the senate. If holdin? these views subjects me to the charge of a lack of fealty to the republican party, I cannot help it. I contidcutly look for a revolt among the thinking republicans of the West of no small magnitude whea they fully realize the dilemma into which to leaders of their party have blundered. WHO WANT TAXED WOOL! 5ot the Wool Growers, a Shown by th Recti rtl. Philadalpuu Tims in l. Texas has 4,50,)iX sheep and her entire delegation in congress eleven iu all voted for the free-wool tariiFbill. Pennsylvania has H.'AOOO sheep and cast twenty votes against the tree-wool tarilf and six in favor of it. Michigan has 2,100 000 sheep and cast five Totes for the free-wool tarltTand six against it. Khode Island has :M,OX) sheep and cast her solid vote of two H-'iinst a free-wool tari:t. Minnesota has Ö'.M, sheep and cast four votes, including one republican, for a free-wool tari.l, and one against it. Missouri lias 1.1M.'00 sheep an 1 cast twelve votes for a free-wool tarhi'and two against it. Massachusetts has GO.OX) sheep and cast eiuht votes agaiuat a free-wool tarilT and four in favor of it. Georgia has 5 Vl.OOO sheep and cast a iolid vote of ten in favor of a free-wool tariff. Maine has 500,0 ) sheep and east a solid rot of four against a free-wool tari 'S. North Carolina has 5.W,tK) sheep and cast seven votes for a free wool tariff and two against it. New Hampshire has 200,000 sheep nd cast a olid vote of two against a free wool tariff. Tennessee has ;"kj,Um) sheep and cast eight votes for a free wool tariil'and two ajrainst it. Indiana has l.Ooo.oo sheep and cast six votet for h free wool tariiland seven against it. Illinois has 8tW.UK) sheen an 1 cast fourteen votes against a free wool tariJ and six in iu favor. Arkansas has 220,000 sheep and cast a solid vote of live in favor of a free wool tariff. Alabnm i has Jfcw.O x) sheep and cast a solid vote of ei'ht in favor of a free wool taritt. These facts, exhibited by the vote on the new tan'J bill in the house on Mturday, certainly show that the demand for taxed wool does not com from the wool growers, but from partisan demands for taxes on the' necessaries oi life to sustain monopoly control of taxation upon consumers. One Victim of the Hi.-h Tai iff. Israel O. Whitney, Merchandise national bank: lie did not hesitate to declare what hit political Rihliations had been and were. II was a convert from republicanism to the support of Mr. Clevtlaud in ISM "a mugwump then, if you will," he added, "hut an out-and-out democrat now, and made one by the polltics of the parties in reirard to the tarilf." Through the high protective taritF he had seen his business as a foreign importer the business of Whitney Hros. & Co., lioston hnd Calcuttacrippled anil diminished until it was nearly ruined. If the retort should be made it often was made that a true policy wn one which protected those enjjnged in domestic industriot and not in foreign importation, he would reply that he and thousands of others, in the United States, occupied with a similar business, had at least some claim to consideration; and,- moreover, he and they had been extensive owners of vessels, which now, becatts ot the protective tarill, had rotted in idleness. lie also held the protective tariff responsible for the existence of huce and i' equioible monopolies like the suirar trust .For such reasons he wu a tariff reformer and a democrat lull-Hedged, because it was the . democratic party whica ought to rwduga Uio Uii'd.

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