Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 33, Number 51, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 September 1891 — Page 7

EBKLT COURIER,!

IWA1IA.

T11K LAST CHANCK.

DM o4 LenVe

mood and mDmLm

Drum-

IHW 01 movement With' II mad.

from tbe east who stopped at

the "Last Chaaoe" wonder how she cum there and why she remained. "It wim good of you to eroa the prairie to day," she, ftiikl; "1 Hardly hoped to see yuu." MI came because I had nomothiag very Important to tell you," the young man wilil quickly Ueonu 1 wanted your help I am going Hway." "Going away," she repeated; "then yea have struck gold?" she asked, tentatively, "and am goiug to mH?" He smiled slightly. "Yes, I have struck gold," he said; "1 have come into Mme money in tha east, and I think there ara better places to spend it in than ia Last Chsnec" "Yes, you're right" she said; 'It's not much of a life aad it will be still worse, now that you are going away.' "Then why don't 30a leave it." he said. "That k what I have com to say as soon a I heard I had come ia to thus money I put over here to tell

you. I want you to go to the states with roe. Let us go beck ami spend our lives together in a civilized land

among Gods own people. Heaven

knows we've seen saough of the other

kind."

The girl drew baek and stood silent

and daaed. Her eyes wandered from his to the window, and then baek

again, the color came and went quick lv from her faoe, the folds in her ill

fitting dress seemed to All oat, and

for the time she looked like a tall.

full-grown woman. "Yon want me to marrv vos and leave Drummond aad

dad," she said.

"Yes. why shouldn't yon?" he ran on,

speaking earnestly and quickly. "Yon are lost here: think of the difference

of your notation here ami there. Why,

these people don't even appreciate

vou. You haven't a friend or com pan

been the cause of his ' ion in the place; think of all you would

, f ffo raaennson

Last Unanee MTfW, mmm mtmwn

jnfully t toe seoreaea prairie

hing we, mi in xroni 01 uhm. not'iiue when the reflection became

,rat they would rats their eyes

-yoc.l to the dlriy red clay and brown

g Ol IB H wvwv , a greater effort still further to the tnns of the Rockies, -where the

ow glisteaed defiantly in the mhhlay

K the same huh which, nours oeiore,

driven all living things, on tne

iri below to shelter.

It would be difficult to aay exactly

kr this particular tavern was Known

ttii. "Laat Uhanee," it is wim i

.i-Lstelianee where one could uriuK

leaving the town, but it might witli

anal propriety have been eaueu me

h'irst Chance." for Drummond at mis

up could boast of but one tavern. it

mv have been because toe proprietor,

r. liriggu. had once owned a tavern 1 the outskirts of Helena which really

..,-h1 the title, and no uouih. now

rhon he occasionally gaxed at the sign-

n.irtl stretchinr across the rowi wun

kast Chance" in large black letters on

, .lirtr Wkrround it aerved to remmti

kiin of the day when he had once been

city man and sat at the neau 01

ksn rsi.Wi iauw w 11 ore mice

.!. were v-en and lost. Indeed, tnis

tut La Die hw

esent rather humble abode, ine

Ilfikiilty ocenrred on a bunuay nignv

naiiy year previous, when me game . .1 ahwIb ItfAri

S'as very neavj m Uvin, a very small percentage to the Li'iue. Suddenly there was a great

Hiange the house began to win, some

k the players tuougni, xoo irwjMeuj.

First there were only grumuungs, vnn

jine accusations, followed quicrfiy oy

ufh.'s and a few shots. No one was

criously hurt, and Mr. Unggs was aliwed to leave his house with as bodily iijury, but a shattered reputation. He

lever came oaett 10 vims otiimi

khance," for he left Helena that same

rcning, not even waiting lor the mni-

klght coach.

Mr Itriwtt was swinging his siock-

ured feet from his chair at the end of

ie bar. when a smau ewsa

t to radtoa we mms

m fHNk'i Hewed WM

Jt Mk imr hlmurf, he ahnMed

iftW deor. 'i he two gentlemen, w 110

3v neenaied the porch, neither

1 aorlooMeu up a tne neweuaier,

ahould they? The shuffle was ,f I .!

own, -even more aisnunc 1 open red shirt and his heavy

heard.

wm Drtova who finally broiie the

It aeems to nte toa man

Mhard n for aoaaaihi

aaVoM the prairie m hot-

r the year or for ten years 1

Hnd in the east, friends who would un

derstand you, and where you would be

mistress of your own home, while here

they treat you little better than a serv

ant"

"Not all," she interrupted him. "Dad

don't. Dad treats me pretty white."

"Well, even if he does. He's old now.

and when he's gone you will be left

completely alone."

Hut if he is getting old," said the

girl, "l think perhaps I ought all the

more to stay by him. Think or wnai ho has done for me. For ten years he's

been just like a father to me; he's kept me and clothed me; and even when liquor gets the best of him he doesn't treat me as bad as he might. It's no

use sne auucu, uesperaieiy,

would never think of it I know he wouldn't"

'Of course he wouldn't," he said.

"You must run away. It's easy enough

with the train passing the very door."

"You must eive'me time." she said '

"vou must rive me time; 1 must nave

time to think."

Of course," he said, "I shall not

start until midnight, nad when I do you

will iro with nee." He moved toward

her. and. nuttiar his arm about her, he

drew the girl toward him. Ever since he bad first spoken to her of marriage she had seemed almost daaed, but the

of the

ilairood enongh for mo,"

, ettoiBanions. a larva, Biue-

t lam fin 11

be," said the third member

that some one's sick and's

the doctor; but then every

tiere's been no doctor in

id for a vear. Maybe," he

"that miner Royd has got worse.

IaihIm aendinir for a priest; not that

nor anyone else ever heard 01 a

, in Drnmmoftd; but perhaps he

inka he onght to make a last bluff,

1 aendin' some one on chance."

Briffffa cased at toe iaereasing ekrad

"dust and then at the not, red -ran.

YelL" he said, "there may he men on

be hills what'll ride to town on a 'day

Ike this in the hope of findin' a priest,

it they never put up at this house as I

remember."

Their speculations came to an end

rhen the rider had reached the bridge.

nd thev all recognized the gray mare

kf n young- miner whom they had

the Pllrrim on ins arrival at

ond from the east The name

M clung to him ever since.

It was now three years since this boy.

ther eallotl him, htwl first stopped at

"Last Chance" on his way to taxe

1 a claim; -and ever since then he had

lea down at least twice a week for

and a chat with the old man

1 hia adopted daughter. In fact, it

ras considered an even thing between

kimselfand a neighboring ranchman

1 to who should finally carry off the

irl from Brtars' protecting wing.

cially toward the end of the month.

hen there was little money for faro

noker. this rivalry became a fever-

ih topic of conversation among the

inchmen and miners aa they sat about

Ihe stove of the "Last Chance." Hut

trtggs himaelf only laughed at the idea

" his girl marrying anyone. He knew

he couldn't get along without her, and

! didn't mtite see how she could pos

ibly live away from him. Not that he

lidn't approve of the boys; h liked

era both; but an to marrying nte girl

them that was a different thing.

lie lite the rider had reached tho

MtchJaff post at the side of the house.

: owner had returned to his place at

Ihe bar, and the two citizens of Drum

sond after a mutual glance glided

i f in after him and waited for the

roger. Much to their chagrin, how

sr. he entered the main door of the

mm: and glancing in the side door

ending into the barroom, simply waved

hand to them and then ran up the

Irs leading to the second loor.

The aoaond story of the "Last

hence" consisted of, a wide hallway

two large rooms, one of which wan

rl as a parlor ia which Briggs' girl

uvea hor visitors. It was into thto

hp 4h Pihrrim turned. As he en

a young girt rose from hor

'the window and walked toward toe

to greet him. Mm was a awtinie-

Wt-Hy girl, and the grace 0 her o4-

ill hod given her a ucrtom

to herself, and for

the first tone aba recogniaed that she waa a woman hearing the a rat offer of

W life, and so she nm herself an to

her woman's inclination, and instead

of pouring out her doubts and troubles.

ehose the easiest way to forget them

and sobbed over them on his shoulder.

In an hour she was standing on the !

tmleony of the "Last Chance," waving

her handkerchief to the horseman riding slowly over the first hill that was soon to hide him from sight He turned as he reached the summit,

waved his sombrero and was lost behind the brown grass waving on its

erect.

The next hour was the longest ahe

had ever known. She knew that ahe

should vpend it in weighing fairly the reasons for and against her leaving

Drummond, and, above all, the old

who in his rough, uncouth way

had tried to be a good father to her.

During the first hour she changed her

mind many times and then she gave it

up, for she knew that it would be in

the last few minutes that she would

finally decide. She hardly dared confess it to herself, but when he returned

lu knew it would be so much easier

for her to determine to leave her dis

reputable friends and home for one that was bettor and purer. The train

for the east panned Drummond at mid

night, and he had arranged with her that he should eome to toe house late

in the evening, and, while she got him

his supper in the dining-room, they

were to make their final plans.

When nirht eame she went down

into the kitchen to help the servants,

ostensibly on account of the large

number of men staying at tne "L.ast

Chance." but in reality, not to be left

alone and that she might have some

thing to keep her busy, that the time might pass the more quickly. At nine

nVlnck she left the kitchen, went to

her room and packed ia a small satchel

the few clothes she owned that were worth taking away not that she had

decided positively to leave, but that if MW did she would be prepared. Then

she went out on the balcony and waited

for her lover to come. At a little before ten the Pilgrim rode up to the inn and, tying his horse outsklc, went to the bar and ordered his supper. A few minutes later the girl and himself were together in the dining-room, and for the next hour he .Mrued agalnat her dragging out her

nays in Drummond. During this time she barely spoke, in fact she really heard but few of his arguments; she waa fighting out with herself the old battle of duty on one skto and happitMfls on the other. The clock striking eleven brought both of them to their feet "And now," she said, "I am going to ink yon a favor mind you, I do not say H will be the lent I shall ask you, but if yo really love nm you will hoy me In this implicitly. No one as Wmwi at vour returning to the

l4t. J ferine nrasent I think it k

to that thay should hot know it

When you hear the trala eommg l want

you 10 ems the tracks above tne sto

tioa aud get on where no one wul mm

you. 1 1 1 dcide to go I shall leave too

house at the last moment nnd shall

reach the train aa you do a wag from

the station. After the trala atorto you

can look for me; U you find me we will

be ntarried to-morrow in- Helena. If I

not thara well, you must forget

me in the lore ol some other woman'

you must forget that there is a

Drummond or n 'Last Ghaaee;' but K

you should sometimes remember me I

want you to think of me not aa 'Mogga

girl,' but as a woman v ho did what her Ood directed her. And then she

kissed him aad went up into her own room.

The Pilgrim walked out into the bar- ... . . a

room. Thorn waa aa unpleasant ouor

of bad tobaeeo, and the big iron and

clay stove in the corner was fairly ablaae. Notwithstanding this the men

were fairly crowning each other to get a little nearer the fire. On the opposite side of the room a game of faro was going on. Old Brhrgs was dealing, but

judging from his face the cards were not running aa they should that is not

from ISrigg' stead point The 1'llgrita spoke to several of the men, and then,

going over to the card-table, being

careful to attract the attention ol the; dealer, put a dollar on the high card lost it and then turned and walked

out On the porch lie lighted a cigar,

and waited until he should see the en

irine as it turned the curve some two

miles above.

It was half aa hour after train time when he saw the headlight He jumped quickly to his feet, ran across the road ami waited a short distance above the

station where he knew he could not be

Alone in her room, the girl had passed

through the great struggle of her life; but as the time wore on the struggle iMtcame less, and when, finally, she

heard the shrill whistle of the engine

in the distance, she hurriedly picked up

the satchel containing all she wan to

take with her and stole stealthily down

stairs.

The noise had been so great all that

night in the house, that had not the

door leading into the barroom been

standing open at the time she would

probably never have known 01 tne great unpleasantness that took place

that night between the .host and the gnosis of the "Last Chance." Hut aa she reached the lower hallway the voices inside were raised to such a pitch that she stopped for a moment to

glance in at the open doorway, f or one brought up in and about a western

barroom the scene needed no explanation. On the skle of the room opposite the door she saw a groat crowd of halfdrunken, angry, cursing miners and

cowboys. Some of them had picked up pieces of furniture and bottles, and against their dark clothes she saw that some of them held knives and revolvers. In the center of the room was an upturned faro table with the cards and chips scattered on the sandy floor. Within a few feet of her and gradually backing toward the wall was old Briggs. Ia one hand he elasped a roll of bank notes with some gold coin, with the other he was trying to pull a revolver from hia breeches pocket

The girl walked quickly to her father's skto and, patting hor arm about him, she took his empty hand in hers. And thus for a. few momenta the old man and the girl stood facing the ugly, angry, muttering crowd of gamblers. , The silence waa first broken by the girl. "What's the matter, dad?" she said, very quietly.

The old man gaaed at her wildly.

mumbled something to himself and

drew her laok against the wall.

"It's no plaee for you, lies, began

one 01 tne crowo. 1 our uaa s owes cheating; we've got him dead to right! this time aad we're goia' to do for him, sure."

'Now, dafl," she said, "speak up,

speak up."

lint the old man stared at her ts-

enntly and went on blinking his ptnk,

watery eyes and shrank zurtaer out 01

hor embrace. The girl hesitated for a

moment, and then with a sudden mora-

ment snatched the money from the old man's hand, and running to the door

threw it far into the road. Ia a moment the room was empty and the men were fighting like so many hungry

coyotes in the dusty road.

As the last man erossed the threshold

old Briggs roused himself suddenly, and rushing to where his girl stood

slammed -both the floors, and looking them put the keys in his pocket Then he staggered to the bar and began to pour out a tumblerful of whisky. The girl started .to go to him to atop him. hut before she had half erossed

the floor the slow tolling of a bell and then a sharp, shrill whistle rang in her ears. With a cry she" ran to the door, but it was locked. She tried to force it open, but her poor strength was of little use. With a bound she waa at the old man's side. "Give me the key!" she shrieked; "don't you understand, the key!" Hut the old man only stared at her vacantly and shoved his hands deep in the pocket where he had put the keys si if In fear ahe would tear them away from him. "What would you do with the key?" he said. "Let them in again to shoot

me? For Heaven's sstce, gin, yours the only one that'll stand by me. Don't you leave me -for God's sake, don't

leave mel"

The girl wearily arose from the side aa

of the old man awl wainea siowiy w

the window. She saw the ml lights or the train as they slowly wound their way over the prairie, and than made a long ourve and fihally disappeared be hind the mountain and were lost forever. "No, dad," she said, "I'm hot going to leave you." Charles H. Davis, ha X. Y. Independent

OCMOOHAOY AMO LIBERTY .

Aaf fiuWds di una njanpny mmrearw

In

7 onlyietonodso that thoy mar he f JT iL!lto praetoTtos nemOtor art- with

laotiact. from nrojudtoa, from

maanor ot mo

ot

who lores

Us own sake;

besoms freer,

whoso reason

Truth

There are

Aa party lines

from I not l net.

self interest from all

Uvea. Hut whenever to

of moa ah

saa thero is found n

demoeratie principle for

who sees how men Mtay

and. being freer, bettor;

tokos firm hold on the few great truwa

of liberty and profroaa which are ton

always because tooy uudertto huaann nature; and who has the courage to

for the truth he sees, toore is

found a man whoso vferk makes tne

world hotter in his own generation and for all generations to come. Thore can be no higher aim in life, than to do the work of such a democrat

Koeaking at Iowa City as a Amorv

se democrat to the people of state

who have been cursed with the oppr cation of benevolent bigotry, Hon. Kogor Q. Miila has enunciated one o! those

great truths of liberty and progress

with a force and clearness tnst oouia

have come only from clear insight and aa entire conviction of its paramount

linnortanee. "The great error of pro

hibitory legislation," he said, "is thai it locates virtue and vice in the physical

bodv: that it outs temperance and in

temperance in the nosh, overlooking the fact that they live in heart and mind, in the immaterial part 00 which

law oan lav no hand: that the great

work of reform ia to reach one's aolf

and not another. "

This Is the very fundamental truth of

democracy and liberty. Were it false,

liberty would be forever a false pre-

tanae: self-iravernment for nil time a

dream impossible of fulfillment, and the progress of humanity a mere vanity

and firmest of the imagination. It must

1m true, for were it not, mis' were mere

brutes, born to oppress each other and

to live forever by fraud and loroo ap

plied against each other under the law

that governs m alt pandemoniums.

It is true that men are born free.

Thev lnli-ht have been born with no

oowerof choice between good and evil,

but they were left free to choose, to suffer, to learn, aad so advance in the

slow processes of time to some great

ad to be achieved through their lib

erty. We can see what they are, ges

lt thv have been, aad so arrive at

some faint idea of the profvws they

have already made through the sufferin incident to their freedom; but "we

know not yet what they shall be." We ean onlv know that their progress de

pends on their liberty, and that he does

most for the advaaeement 01 Humanity

who does most to make it free.

And if there is one truth which more than all others can make and keep

men free, it is this, that "the great work of reform ia to reach one's self

aad not another." It is within

eowtr of every man ia his lifetime to

deprive himself ol the power to choose

il rather than good. Erery man m

mmUim at aalf-rovernmeat If he will,

k nan lira without wronging himself

or others. But aa a matter of human

mature, men will not. until experience

forces them to it Always they And

tt easier to fovara others than to gov

ern themselves; to force others than to

fore themselves. Instead of so

forming themselves in heart and Intel

tost that they oan become a power for

good over others, through the strength of intellectual and moral foroe, they

leave their own hearts and minds angoverned that they may nee over the bodies of others the brute foroe of law, for more jails, more shackles, more clubs, more bayonets. The world can never be bettered so, for the betterment of humanity must come through the betterment of its heart and mind, which no force of lub or bayonet can compel to choose the good. Men remain free in heart and mind in spite of oppression, which .only weds them more firmly to their wn wrong, aad makes it loss possible for them to reach the right

The remedy for every wrong Is mors right; for every oppression, greater freedom.. Only aa men are free saa they govern themselves, only aa they become capable of a If-goveramsnt ara they useful in their own generation and instruments in working out the rodsmp-

Uon of humanity from the curse of

force and fraud, of ignorance aad ua

sMaoaarv suffering. Aad wherever a

democrat ia found proclaiming thsst truths his voice ia as that of one cry

in in the wilderness that the way of

liberty may be prepared and the paths nf nrnmM mads straight t LoUM

Republic

THE REPUBLICAN WORKSHOP.

holding.

Idsntku oaadtdstos ia a study

liaa a nWtaal eomolenlty

station. And Dudley and Quay have

ths horooi to

which tboir

riously kiontiaed.

Dudley

already ffto

Ctarksoa, Quay and

trk. audtontr

wtt be

with iaUrsst

11 la mm ana wag that is

dona la Mm workshop ot repuwionn

ltL tkk nariv oaoUMg Of

.a. p ww www m ... t . . . ra.Aa

akuaati ea nana w.

prontise lmaas that are busy at the

job. -Bootou uioos.

THE POPULAR PARTY.

has boon

aaet-

r--i tk itmoeratie oartr is esssatial-

W too narto of the people

Iviim in various wars, by the

ment of popular measures, ay ious economy in administration, aad

by furthering such now reforms as may benefit the people. It has oa two notable occasions voiced a prevailing public sotttlment which Is likely to take practical shape in time in a constitutional amendment, the election of

United States senators directly by aas people. Gen. Palmer was nominated

convention of Illinois, and to the arm stand taken by that convention is

largely due the election of such a sterling democrat. The Maryland demo

cratic convention took a le oourao ia unanimously nominating Senator Gor

man for the position he now so amy

In both eases the sentiment of tbe

Paul Horrra.

taa'a first board of health. It '

gasUaed la FanouU ball ia im Hwwrahur would never wr

magaains. Ho wrote: "loan not beta myself to writs for ugfeeoala. If, I publish a book, aad imoato aisooss to buy it, that proves thsy want to road my work. Hut to have thorn torn sync th pages of a awigaakss aad ftod that is to be aa uninvited gsst." Bjornsou, the Norwegian uoyeHot. writes so ubomiusbly that no one but Mswifaeaaroad his untidy Ma. Fru Bjornson helps bar husband a aat sal by copying all ha writes, rssssy -toff after he has corrected sad altorsd until somstimes she writes the whoto

of a book three or four times ovsr. Dove cottage, the aiatnto Mtoto dwelling at Gra-merc, whereto Wordsworth lived so long with his a west sistor Dorothy aad wrote much of him basiwork-and whore De Quksssyltood afterward and wrote the ''Opium Kator" Is now the property of the Brittoh natton. It is to bs restored aad hapt la perfect order. Practically the fiftoon-ysar-old king of Kerr is is a prisoner to his tutors. They bore him day ia aad day out urntil he is drooping. Young aa he is this wonderful boy la one of the very boat mathematicians in the whole of soryia. Hs esn actually add up five oolumns of figures at once w ith apparent esse. He inherits hi mother's striking beauty and all the oleverneM of both psrsnta. Tim ofteial literary statistics of

Turkey show that during the ysar ltta

"

fills.

party in a very important direction was Mw 949 books wore published in Coa-

elearlv and uneouivocallv expressed, atI.tiaW. Of this number 7 wore

. usi

and no excuse left for legislative deals

or auctions. By this nasaae the democratic party avoids what might prove a

source of scandal aad Mttornoss. ist

lerislatlve auction which In many

states precedes the election of a United

States senator is one of toe mow onnoxious features of our political aystern. A atate convention is much nearer the people than the average legis

lature, and in the absence oi uen a oesirable reform aa the direct election of senators, this democratic plan of a

nomination in convention is a most admirable one. Had it bean tried ia thk state some years ago. Mr. Evarta 01

Mr. Hisooek would never hays gone m

Washington. Neither would Quay ot

Cameron have succeeded in 1'snnsyi-

vanla without n bard struggle. The

democratic method is a deadly blow at

the Infamous legislative auction, aad should bs demanded by the psopla ia

every instance. Albany Argus.

A

PERPETUAL DEBT.

The

ItarSHi Hespcd Upea toe .Jlettoa Sf

KMliMw-a Katrawigaaes. The republican leaders have evidently adopted as their own the theory that "a national debt is a national blessing." Secretary Foster, who is just bow eagaged ia extending rather than in paying the maturing ttf nor coats, says ia a recent interview. "I am considering the advisability of converting the 4's ia

tune ha the asms way." Indeed! And so the caiiaaaaot of the CP0,0M ot maturing bonds is to be followed by a perpetuation of the more than f00.W9,aM of the bonds which fall due in IMT? Debt-pay hag k to stop that the demands of billion-dollar congresses may be met!

Nor ia this all. The last congress

heaped to the tlS9.000.OOo ' point that new form of debt, indefinite in amount

and ia duration, required annually to

pay pensions. It also voted augar bounties aad steamship subsidies, which

will call for nearly f 30.000,000 annually for years to come.

If a national debt is a national Mess

ing, the party in power has ordained that this country shall be abundantly Mossed. -N. Y. World.

POINTS AND OPINIONS

in the Turkish language, mostly novels aad theatrical pieces; 10 ia the Arasoaiaa tongue, principally religious contents; b in Arabic, oa jurisprudence, philology aad religions dogmatism, aad the rest were in other languages of Europe. To Hs already large col lection of manuscripts in the handwriting of famous authors, tlie British museum has lately added the satire set of Georga Eliot's works, with the exception of "Scenes in Clerical Life." The writing of these manuscripts ia unusually elssr and nest They were loft by will to George Lewes, aad ware to rsvort, at his death, to the museum. Bach book is prefaced with a dsdtoatooa to Mr. Lewes. Few Boston people know who Daniel 8. Ford is. yet in reality he is one of Boston's richest men. He is tbe owner of the Youth's Companion, the most Brosnarous psper of it kind ia fan

world, and indulges in yactha aad Bast horses, and gives thousands of dollars ia charities, but socially he is a reel use and is rarely seen except by a small sirsle of acquaintances. Mr. Ford is seventy years old and well preserved. He was a poor printer when X. P. Willie founded the journal which Mr. Ford afterward built up to greataesa. HUMOROUS.

Some irtae

by Three Wrest

A Jtssejr OMtamer. "Oh, aiy friends, there are some spectacles that one never forgets!" said a lecturer, after giving a graphic deindna of a terrible accident that he

"I'd like to know where they sells

.iTbad aa old lady m the

audleaee who is always mislay kef tar glasses. -Iadea Tkl Bits.

TatflPaasm'

Work

0 doubt by this time President Harrison has discovered that it ia of no

further political use to ask of his see

retary at Bar Harbor the scriptural

auestion: "Art' thou la health, my

brother?"

For an ailing candidate the magnetic

man makes a dreadfully heslthy rival

The invalidation play oa the part of

the administration k over. It

found it as impossible to repress the til at n impulse with the fiction of

physical and mental incapacity as It

to start a Harrison boom on the basis

of the presidential speeches made oa the continental itinerary.

But it is the wheel within the wheel that causes the present peculiar whirr in republican polities. The Quay, Clarkson aad Dudley triumvirate ia a piece ot machinery beyond Harrison's operating skill. It pussies him extremely. He finds he has got something more on his hands than a ease of carefully dmgaeaed invalid Urn. The natioaal sxecutiva eotamKtec saa hardly be subjected to the treatment' of industrious rumors of sick

ness. It m a maehias that ia not affile tod with Bright's disease of mental malady. It ia a vsry robust aad rafted body of men, aad the only tooubto

with its pulse la taetR ear Marrisea.

Tka treov of M, all is to be found at

icuhtp of eivtt eerrtos reform aad

sash Uhs vktaoaa ntaimM at

The growiag republieaa disposi

tion to spell reciprocity with a big K and protection with a lower ease pki feature of the Ohio canvass which dis

turbs Major MeKinley.- Albany Argus

The more familiar the Amerieea

people become with the MeKinley law.

the more etermtnea tney are to rem

gate to the background the party tost is resposslble for its passage. N. 0

Delts.

There Is a movement among re

publican politicians to revive the force bill aa aa issue ia lsei. The genera desire of the workers ia that party

bm to be to discuss anything rather

than the McKieley bUL-Chieagc

Times.

The contemplated raid oa the

national treasury vault st Washington,

which has just been uaearthed, was no

doubt the work of some of the Reed

congress who have discovered that they went nwav aad left something. Illi

nois State Register. It is a small matter for "a billiondollar country" that the estimates for the sugar bounty have been exeeeded by several millions. What was designed by the stotosmea who substituted the direct bounty for the indirect tariff favor waa that the surplus should not be a factor in the coming prssidential campaign. They have dissipated the surplus, aad with it their .reasonable nope of ever again handling the

government funds. Chicago Times.

When a republics orator to unto

or anywhere else undertakes to rate his party as the "boeeet money party," H will be well to oall his attention to

declaration made by toe repub

licans of Harrisoa's owa atate in tbeic convention of 1W0. The declaration

was aa follows: "Ex-President neve-

lead by messages to Congress strosgiy opposed all lsfislatioB favorable to

silver coinage, sua ins isw reeeuHj enacted waa passed ia apite of persistent aemowiafele oppositio. Under Ha beneficent iafiueace silver has rapidly approached the gold standard at value, farm products are edvaa lag to arise aad commeros m feeling the im

pulse of lnsr eased prosperity.

mAA me

f sound eurreaey to the amnuat in AwaatoAlou asaaag the aad to a

When aha said 'yes' I

vou hissed her." He-"Yss."

"And I aupposs year kiss was 1

aess loaf drawn out?" He-"Yse; it rot en tangled with her ehewing-gues." Epoch. A Nevada lady recently took unfair advantage of her husband's indulgence to a bath to elope with another maa. The bereaved one expressed the conviction that she had bees waiting for Urn opportunity for moaths. Tsxaa Stftlags, Convict "Excuse me. ma'am, eu dropped your handkerchief." Lady Visitor "Thank you; you are very good." Convict (eagerly) "aay, ma'am, yea aoulda't manage to persuade the gev'aec

of that somehow, could ycr? aomer ville Journal. This Is a Meehaateel Age. Mrs. Brown (at Mrs. Smith's tea) "O, dear, that dreadful Mhw Smith w aksgiat again. I wonder what started her." Tom Brown (aged seven) "I dropped a nickel down her baek whoa she waaa't looking." X. Y. Continent A Slight Saving Possible. Physioian "I'll give him something that'll get him oa his feet, aad then we'll isere see his appetite, and he'll be all right" Economical WU "Get him a his feet, doctor; but er never mied the other." Saturday Evening Herald. Her Opea Qmfesekm. Tom "Yea took happy to-day. What's happened to cheer you up so?" Charlie "I've

been eourtlng a girl for a long time, but she never would admit that she respected me. Bat last eight she eeufeeeed that she respected me no longer, that she loved me. Daughter "What were you aaylag, mother? You speak so mdietinetly lately that I eaa't understand half yea aay." Old Lady (wHh dlgnity.)-"I was apeakiaf to myself. Sue. Aad I think you had better consult a physieiaa about your hearing. I never have the slightest difficulty In understandtog myself." Harper's Baser. Two little children recently weat to church alone in Weeifichl. They become tired daring the long sermon, aad the older one, supposing thst school rules held good in church, led hia luster up ia front of the preacher and aside "Please, sir, may we go homer He said "yes," aad they soberly walked out New Moon. The Maa of the House. "What art vou alttlnr oa thai step for?" asked the

policemaa. "Why, 1 live here, aad I'm locked out" -"Well, way dea't yea. rief up the maa of the house?" "I saa. the maa of the house myself, aad the way he said H iadteated hto oneness cf feMtof in might be bettor M hehsd base the wumaa. T"9 "What ara your grnanaa far taw breech of promise euttr ashed aba law ysr, eaeerfally. "Of course you were engaged; that a to aay; he ashed yeato marry him, aad you seeeetodr J-Oh,

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