Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — Page 6

Captain Brabazon

BY B. M CROKER

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. CHAPTER VII. But Miles still held the bridle, and declined to accept this broad hint, walking beside his cousin, till Jacky suddenly came to a violent halt at the back gate of a large farm yard, surrounded by high, red-tiled, deep-roofed barns, and a noise of lowing and barking and clucking and crowing. “Oh, Miss Esme, dear!” cried a ruddycheeked, elderly woman, in a large checked apron, who was in the act of feeding a mob of ducks. “She’s been asking for you the whole afternoon. Go in and see ber like a dear young lady. You’ve brought the wool?” "Yes, but I’ve no time to stop, Mary. Jacky has kept me hours on the road. He went half-way into the horrid green pool near the Belle rising, and was going to lie down, only a boy rushed in and dragged him out; and he got loose in the hay field, and I thought he never w’ould have been caught. I’ll give you the fingering, and I’ll coine in again,” evidently anxious to be gone. “Oh, but here is Tom to hold the pony, and you must just run in for a minute, dear. She’s been awful irritable all day, and maybe you’d put her in a good humor for us; you know how she takes to you. Do now,” coaxingly. “Tom, go to the pony’s head!”—to a youth with a shock of red hair. Thus adjured, Esme jumped off Jacky, and hastily went into the farm house, followed by Miles, who found himself in a long, low. tiled kitchen, with small lat-ticed-paned windows and well-stored rafters, and in the presence of a little old woman, who was sitting near the fire in a kind of beehive chair, with glittering dark eyes, lighting up a face as wrinkled as a roasted apple and as sharp as a needle. “Well, so you were not for coming in, missy!” she cried, in a high, reedy voice. “I saw you. My sight is spared to me, though it would be sometimes if It wasn’t, to see the waste going on all around,” glaring at her daughter-in-law and lifting, as she spoke, a large ear trumpet to the ear nearest Esme. “I would have come in, only I’m late, granny,” returned that young lady down the trumpet, in ber most apologetic tone of voice, “and here is the wool,” placing a packet in the old lady’s lap. “It’s gray!” she exclaimed, "I don’t wanjt gray wool. I said brown,” she returned, ungratefully, as she held it up and felt it critically between her clawlike fingers, her eyes all the time fixed on Miles.

“I can change it,” said Esme, making animated signs. “No, no, no; then I would not get it for another long spell. It will have to do,” very crossly. And now, suddenly sitting up quite erect, and still staring hard at Miles, she nodded her head confidentially. “And so this is the young man that has come all the way from the other end of the world, hasn't he—” Esme made a quick sign of assent, unprepared for the sequel, “to marry you.” “No, he hasn’t!” she shouted down the trumpet. “It’s no use you screaming to me, missy,” she returned shrilly. “I never can hear what you say, and it just goes through my poor head,” now planting the trumpet in her lap, and thus cutting off any possible reply, “and it’s no good shaking your head like that. What’s he come for else?” demanded this very terrible old person. “She's a good girl”— In a patrdnizing staccato—“and yoqfll get a pretty wife,” she cried, raising a high, chirruping voice, and addressing herself specially to Miles, who, now that he had seen Esme, was by no means so averse to congratulations as he had been two hours previously. As for his unhappy cousin, who knew from years of experience the extraordinary loquacity of Granny Hogben, and the liberties she allowed her tongue, she got herself—how she never exactly knew —once more out into the yard, and was soon in the saddle. Jacky was stepping homeward at a rapid, consequential walk, when Miles overtook them running, saying, as he got up to them: “Surely you are never going to be so inhuman as to desert me and leave me to my fate in these outlandish lanes? It would be ungrateful, to say the least of it.”

“Oh,” answering him very reluctantly, **l will point you out the road, and you can easily make your way home. You go up this lane,” pointing with her whip, “and take the first turning on the right, then the second on the left, then ” “Then,” he interrupted emphatically, “I shall have lost my way, and shall be rambling about the fields all night Pray spare me this fate!” Miles was amazed at his own persistence and his own flow of language, but the rude avoidance of an exceedingly pretty girl is occasionally a sufficient incentive to put a young man on bis mettle.

“Come, then, if you like,” was the grudging answer; “but you must walk fast, or we shall be late for dinner.” “I’ll run the whole way. I’ll be your eyes, as If you wore in India,” he returned eagerly. "Only don't leave me!” “To hear you, ono would imagine you were one of the babes In the wood,” returned his cousin, contemptuously, glancing doww on her companion as she spoke. “What an amiable person Mrs. Hogben’s aged parent seems to be.” be* remarked, irrelevantly. “I quite lore her.” "Do you? You must be susceptible indeed.” Yes. be certainly had a look of Teddy when he laughed. “I wanted to say something to you,’’ continued Miles, nervously flourishing hjs cane about in a manner that excited tie Ire of Jacky; "and all the way np frpm the fields I was cudgeling my brains, put 1 could not say it. I wanted to spealkto you about—about—this will, and yonder worthy old woman broke the ice for me at one plunge. You know— ’’ "I know,” interrupted his companion, hastily, with averted face, "that if ever you break it Any further, I shall never

speak to you again. Also, that I shall leave yod here to find your own way home as best you- can.” “May I not say one word on the subject?” "Not one. Please put the whole affair out of your mind. If you even hint a— I—l—shall hate you.” Here was a threat! He had no recourse but to obey this imperious young lady; but he made a solemn mental resolve to bring forth the subject on some future occasion. “And what may I talk about?” he asked. “What topics are uot labeled dangerous?” “Oh,” pricking Jacky with her whip, “talk of the weather, the crops, the new moon, anything; talk of Burmah.” And thus encouraged he lamely began to make some conversation. But even under their peculiar circumstances young people of their age were sure to find subjects of conversation; and he, perceiving he had an eager and intelligent listener, launched forth about the wonders of Mandaley, that impostor the white elephant, the hill reported to be composed Of solid silver. Then he gave a few Burmese legends, a short sketch of Bangkok, said to be the richest city in the world, with its huge golden altar, streets full of gamblers, and jriver cheery with the celebrated singing fish, when, to his and Esme’s astonishment, they found themselves already at the back gate at Baronsford. Do not suppose that she had been silent aU the time. She had, after her interest was aroused, and feeling a conviction that she had overawed and silenced the young man beside her, thawed and thrown in remarks, questions, and nods just as plentifully as opportunity occurred. He had a look of Teddy. Only for this one great point in his favor she would never—so she assured herself—have opened her lips to him, even once. And yet in what did the likeness lie? He was dark and sunburned, and not muchabove middle height; while Ted was tall knd fair. “Why, we are actually at home!” he exclaimed in surprise. “We must have come by a short cut. How quick we have been.” “Yes,” returned Esme, "those stories of yours made the time pass. I don’t mean to flatter you,” she added quickly, “but those descriptions of Burmah were so interesting, and 1 do like to hear about other countries —having seen so little myself —no matter from whom; and of course no one, however stupid, goes about the world for nothing.” , In this cruel manner did she qualify her compliment; but Miles accepted it, concurring in the time-honored adage that half a loaf is better than no bread. “We have only ten minutes before dinner,” said Esme, glancing nervously at the yard dock— “No, no,” waving her cousin away impatiently. “I always dismount alone; but,” jumping down, gathering up her skirt and commencing to run, “if you like to follow me in by the back door you may,” she called to him condescendingly over her shoulder. “It saves time.”

CHAPTER VIII. Under a shady bank, overhung by two nut trees, a clump of lilacs and a very ancient mulberry, the summer house at Baronsford seeks to screen itself from the vulgar gaze. Its kind old friend, the nut tree, spreads its leafy arms above its pointed thatched roof, and conceals its wigwam proportions from strangers’ eyes. Who is the girl in white huddled up on the wooden seat that runs all round the Interior, a girl with her dress tightly gathered round her, and the tips bf her shoes merely resting on the ground, her whole attitude bespeaking distrust of the insect inhabitants, and with her eyes bent on a young man in uniform, who is sitting on the venerable and rickety table, with his forage cap over one ear, and his arms akimbo? They are Esme and Teddy, of course. He is brown, broad-shouldered and soldierly looking, and in his sister's eyes as well favored a young man as ever wore spurs. She is far prouder of his personal appearance than she is of her own; his mustache she considers simply perfect, and her vanity is divided between that and the thre«t-cornered white patch on his forehead usually covered by his jaunty forage cap. It is duskish in the summer house; not a single moonbeam penetrates from outside, thanks to the careful nut tree. “You will never guess where I supped and slept last night, Esme,” Teddy was saying. “At Aunt Jane's!’ “I don’t believe you,” returned his sister, politely, after a minute’s pause. “Nevertheless it is a fact all the same. I went down in tear aud trembling to wait upon the old Indy. When she snw me she stared very hard for about half a mlflute, aud then cried, 'Goodness, mercy, gracious! why, it’s Teddy!' She had not expected to see me in uniform, -you know; in fact, she had not expected to see me at all. Well, then she ptyt up her anna and drew me down and kissed me—first time. I’ll bet, she ever kissed a mustache—and then she turned me round and round as if 1 was on a pivot, and then looked me all over; and then she kissed me again and made me sit down beside her and teH-her all about myself aud my career, as she called It. And 1 did; 1 showed her my three stripes, and told her of my prospects, and how you had stuck to me through thick and thin, and then — oh, incredulous young woman—she killed the fatted calf and told me I was not to dare to go back to Mrs. Bwoffer, but to stay with her. She presented me with fifty pounds, and once I’m promoted I’m to have a large allowance; and for the future I am to consider myself her boy, and by a few little hints she let fall, I fancy you are her girl!” "Not I,” cried Esme, with a laugh of incredulity. • “Howeves, as long as she is good to you she Is doubly good to me,” emphatically. “And now, Esme—to turn to another

subject for a change—what about thig chap, Miles Brabazon?” 5 “Oh, I was going to tell you, Ted; I got • desperate fright this morning, what our Irish laundrymaid calls ‘a regular turn.* I was talking to him down by the river “About what?” Interrupted Teddy, inquisitively. “Never you mind; I was down by the river, and in pulling out my handkerchief I dragged out that new photo you gave me last night; it fell precisely at his feet. Tableau!” “Tableau, indeed!” grinning. “And what did he say? what did he do,?” “Of course I pounced on it at onee, but he was too sharp for me; he got hold of it first, and handed it back without looking at it; but he did not appear to be over and above well pleased.” “And pray why not*/” “Why not? you ridiculous wooden-head-ed Teddy; because I believe he thought it was some lover of mine.” “The deuce he did!” puffing out clouds of smoke. - “And I rather fancy that he could be jealous.” “You don’t say so! Well, and so could I if I was engaged to a girl and caught her carrying other fellows' portraits about her person. I suppose he asked you no questions, and you told him no —ahem, fibs?” “No.” “I say, Esme,” confidentially, are you going to marry him? to come to the point,, as they say.” “I don’t know,” she replied, with perceptible hesitation. “Don’t know! what rubbish. You know your own mind, sufely, by this time.” “I’m to give him an answer in a week,” said his sister, in a low tone. “And now, Teddy, I want to know if you will grant me a great favor,” in a coaxing tone, standing up and laying her hand imploringly upon his arm. “Let me tell Miles.” "No; sorry to refuse you, my dear child, but that is just the very thing I cannot allow you to do. Can’t you hold on a bit? There’s no hurry.” “Oh, but there is,” she returned, eagerly. “So many things must seem so strange to him—my rushing out and hugging him by mistake, as I told you; that photograph this morning, and other things. It’s like living in a powder mill —any moment there may be an explosion. Do, please, please, let me tell him!” she pleaded eagerly. “If”—becoming extremely red, but the kind darkness concealed the fact—“if I —he,” stammering, “we are to be married, the sooner you know one another the better; and 1 should like to introduce you.” “I dare say,” scornfully, “and walk up to him with me in tow, and. say, ‘Permit me to present my brother Teddy, alias Sergt. Brown, of the Prince’s Lancers,’ and I would have to salute him and call him ‘Sir,’ as would befit a non-com-missioned officer, and it would be a very pretty little picture altogether. I could never feel the same to him if I met him by and by on an equal footing. It may seem ridiculous nonsense and vanity to you, but it is just my one weakness, and I should like to put my best foot foremost, and appear to the best advantage to your husband, old lady, when we meet as brother officers, and there’s no yawning gulf between us; and,” with a sudden start of surprise, “here he is; at least, I suppose that this is he, this fellow in evening clothes coming, down the middle walk.” “It is, it is!” she gasped. “Oh, Ted,” creeping closer to her brother, and speaking in an agouized undertone, “what shall we do if he discovers us?” “Keep cool,” returned Teddy, imperatively. “Get well behind the table and don’t sneeze or crunch the gravel with your shoes. It’s as dark as pitch in here to anyone outside. Imagine his face,” he continued, in a smothered whisper, “if he were to walk in and find his pretty Esme tete-a-tete with a sergeant of Lancers! ’ His feelings would be what you might call mixed! I suppose he would murder me!” “If he does find us, Teddy, you must tell!” returned his sister hysterically, crowding still nearer to her companion, and scarcely daring to breathe, as she sat with her gaze riveted on the unconscious cause of her trembling trepidation. (To be continued.)

MIRROR WRITING ODD MALADY

Its Victims Have Faculty of Inscribing Characters Backward. An almost unique case of nervous disease was Investigated at the last sitting of the French Academy of Medicine. The patient is a young Roumanian, •whose malady has been observed by Dr. Marfnesco of Bucharest. The most curious manifestation of his disease takes the shape of what is known among scientists as “mirror writing,” which means that the characters are written backward, so that when reflected in a mirror they are to be read in the ordinary way. Dr. Marluesco had observed that the hands of his patient when unoccupied were affected with a nervous trembling, which ceased to a great extent when they were used for a definite purpose. Wishing to see what effect this symptom of the malady had on the handwriting Dr. Mariuesco asked the patient to write a few lines from dictation. To his astonishment he found that the entire passage had been written backward with absolute accuracy. The experiment was repeated several times with exactly the same result, and it Is, in fact, impossible for the patient to write otherwise. When asked to trace a word with his foot on the ground It, too, was found to be written backward. The patient being a Jew, a final experiment was made with Hebrew. This language, as is well known, is always written backwards, but the patient, reversing, as usual, the normal process, can only write It from left to rigid. Partial cases of mirror writing hare been observed before, but none In which the tendency was so Irresistible. - Pall Mall Gazette.

Wrong Basket.

Frank—l knew Penn would be a poet when be was a baby. Ida—What were the symptoms? r Frank—He was found in a basket on the doorstep. , Idg—l don’t see anything in that. Frank—Yea, but It Was a waste basket.—Brooklyn Life. 1 It isn’t near so easy to collect as to recollaat what uu owe you. ■ ,■*

TRACK IS NOT CLEAR.

THERE WILL BE REPUBLICAN OPPOSIHON TO M* KINLEY. The Load of Hi* Failures and Blunder* Has Become So Heavy as to Scare Many Prominent Leaders of the Republican Party. »• Washington correspondence: There will be Republican opposition to McKinley’s renomlnation. The load of bls failures and blunders has become so heavy as to scare many of the prominent leaders of the party Into a belief that his renomlnation would lead to an Inevitable and overwhelming defeat next November. The Democrats hope and pray for McKinley's renomination. They want the campaign to be fought squarely upon the issues which McKinley has made. They may be briefly summarized as follows: Subserviency to trusts and corporations; the establishment of the single gold standard and the perpetuation of the national debt in the interest of the national banks; imperialism and militarism, as typified in the attempt at seizure of the Philippine Islands and the placing of the military above the civil authority in Idaho; the continuation of the war taxes In order to furnish funds for gross extravagance and reckless expenditure; bad faith and broken national honor in dealing with Porto Rico; an extreme pro-Brltish attitude not only ds against the Boers, but also in connection with the Nicaraguan Canal treaty, the Alaskan boundary question, and every other issue between Great Britain and the United States. The revolt against McKinley has not

Flatt —Beware of a d-a-r-r-k horse wi th large teeth!—St. Louis Republic.

yet crystallized, but the initial steps are being handled with great shrewdness. It looks as though an attempt will be made to bring enough “favorite sons” into the convention to prevent McKinley’s nomination on the first ballot and then to hold him down until a union can be effected upon some strong candidate. This is a favorite scheme of Republican national politics. It defeated'Seward in 1860, Blaine in 1876, Grant in 1880, and Sherman in 1888. The names which are to be brought forward are those of Governor Roosevetl of New York and ex-President Harrison of Indiana. The dark horses are to be ex-Speaker Reed, now a resident of New York; Senator Allison, of Iowa; and Senator Davis, of Minnesota. Senator Proctor, in alliance with the old Reed strength of New England, Is relied upon to control the delegates of that section. Roosevelt and Platt can control New York, Quay still holds Pennsylvania, and is bitter at McKinley for the latter’s evident desire to keep him out of the Senate. Harrison’s friends can easily control Indiana, ABlson lowa, Davis Minnesota, while local Interests and Influences can be relied upon to make a fight in several other States.

In Texas and Tennessee headway has already been made against McKinley. The severest blow so far visible to the public eye conies in the resignation of Assistant Secretary Davis, of the Interior Department, who has Just returned from South Africa and resigned his office in order to make a campaign of sympathy in behalf of the Boer republics. The administration’s notorious pro-Britlsh attitude compelled him to this course. Mr. Davis Is one of the most notable orators in the Republican party. He and his friends expect to be able to control the Missouri delegation in behalf of his candidacy for the Republican Vice Presidential nomination. It Is obvious that Mr. Davis, with his pro-Boer sentiments, does not expect to be on a ticket headed by Mr. McKinley, with his strong pro-Brltlsh sentiments.

Republicans in • Hole. The chances are at present against McKinley's overthrow. Hanna has too powerful a grip on the party machinery* and is in command of too large a corruption fund to permit the better element of the Republican party to have a voice in the convention. But there will be a bitter fight and feelings will be aroused which the ensuing campaign will not be able to allay. It makes no difference who is at the head of the Republican ticket, the country will hold the party responsible for the administration's blunders. The passage by the Senate of the Foraker Porto Rican bill, with substantially the-Jfbuse tariff proposition attached as a rider, has caused several difficult questions to be put to the Republican majority. They are asked first .and foremost, What has become

of the President’s declaration that , it was our “plain duty” to give Porto Rico free trade with th® United States. Senator Foraker said that the trusts would be the principal beneficiaries of free trade. Putting aside the obvious inference that McKinley is declared by his own party leader to be in favor of trusts, why then, should Senator Foraker have provided for free trade at the end of two years? The Republicans advanced the argument that the necessities of the starving inhabitants of Porto Rico made the passage of the bill necessary. Yet Senator Davis pertinently asked how it was thAt taxing both the products and food supplies of these .starving inhabitants relieved their starvation. r Perhaps the most difficult question for the Republicans to answer is why Secretary Root, who was conspicuosly an advocate of free trade with Porto Rico and who ordered his law clerk. Judge Magoon, to prepare an elaborate opinion to prove that the Constitution extended of its own strength over Porto Rico, should suddenly order the suppression of that lengthy opinion and order him to prepare another one taking the diametrically opposite view. Both opinions are now public, although strenuous efforts were made to suppress the former, which is undeniably the abler argument. The Republicans had great difficulty in putting the Porto Rican tariff bill through the House a few weeks ago. That difficulty promises to be greatly increased over the Foraker bill. The House Republicans have been hearing from their constituents in an unpleasant way, and some fifty of them have felt impelled thereby to go home and attempt to fix up their fences. Aside from the increasing reluctance of many more Republicans to support the tariff

a second time, it is going to be very hard work to bring enough of them back to Washington to vote even If a majority can be commanded for this thoroughly unpopular measure.

Squandering the People’s Money. The books of the treasury show that there has been-received during the past forty years from bonds and other evidences of indebtedness, aside from the cost of issuing the same, the sum of 117,343,641,793.78. We have expended upon these bonds more than we have received from the bonds, the sum of $951,064,661.10. We have practically I>aid none of the Indebtedness, although we have paid out $1,000,000,000 more than, we have received. It would cost us to-day as much money to redeem our indebtedness as it would have cost us in 1866, when our indebtedness was at Its highest point. We owe as much as we did then, when the cost of redeeming the bonds is considered, and yet we have already paid 50 per cent, more than the entire debt It is very difficult to determine the cost of issuing bonds and other evidences of indebtedness, but this was made the subject of an extended investigation by Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage, who states In his last report that the cost from the start has averaged 1 per cent If this Is correct and there is no reason to doubt it, there has been charged up to the ordinary expenses of government $85,935,002, which should have been charged to the expenses of the public debt. This must be added to the $951,000,000 named above. This shows by the fade of the treasury books that the excess of payments and the face of the indebtedness now outstanding is $3,025,594,099.02 more than we ever received from our bonded or other evidences of indebtedness. The books of the Treasury Department show that $2,117,744,876 of bonds were sold for greenbacks which were worth at that time $1,612,908,202 and were subsequently redeemed In gold. This reduces the amount actually received for the bonds by the sum of $504,830,673. This must lie added to the cost of the loans, which makes the net loss up to date over and above the amount received from the bonds and otherevidences of indebtedness amount to $3,530,430,772.02. Congressman Maddox of Georgia.

How to Get Rid of the Rurplue. There are just two ways to get rid of tbe surplus that is so rapidly piling up in tbe national treasury. One Is by repealing some of the war taxes. The other is by authorizing the deepening of tbe sacks of the campaign contributor! that now have access to the treasury and by licensing a few more contributors and a few ntore extra-large sacks, Mr. McKinley’s great hAtt beats Earthly for the first plan. It is therefore not unlikely that his perverse hand will push on tlie second plan.— New York World.

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