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[ IHE gt = Voo oL iedoeeg YR N e Y i FUBEE SL T DGR & i"i:;‘ L ? AWt ARE § B B *: h P o JEANETTE H.WALWORTH) Sy | OPRGRUZAE 3 BUFRIKETY ) CHAPTER XI.—COKTINUED. , “What sort of a foul fiend.do you take me for, Lorimer? When you asked me if I had ever been married I quailed, because my married lifé was such a miserable failure. I tumbled into love with a beautiful but absolutely heartless woman within three months after leaving home. ' I had about a thousand dollars then from the sale of my riding horses. We got along smoothly-enough while that lasted. When it was all gone—when—bah! there’s no necessity for washing one’s soiled linen in public —I went off to look for work. I wrote back regularly enough. But—well, I got back here about’ a year ago, heard my wife had gone to Europe, traced her as far as the steamer—no farther. Up to the moment you showedane that letter of Ida’s I had been unable to diseover the whereabouts of my little girl. That was what I was staying here for.” < ¢“And John’s wife?”

¢Must have been Amelia’s sister. There was a Nora Hémway. I received one letter from Amelia = after my departure, in which she told me she had taken steps to have our marriage set aside on ¥he ground of desertion. She was willful and passionate, and my failure to support her gave her ample opportur‘ty, under our lax laws, of accomplishing her end. Thank God, my little Ninette is safe.” He broke off petulantly: s

_ "“What are you looking at_me that way for, Lorimer? Have I”said anything particular nauseous? I never posed for a saint.” : ' Dennis answered him absently. “Did you not say that her sister’s name was Nora Hemway?” ; _ Pt dde e ;

~ ‘““Have you followed the papers on the Noreross affair, Fairbanks??’ T have not>? ~ - L &

Lorimer called a waiter and ordered the week’s file of papers brought. Both men were silent while waiting for its coming. Dennis was idly clipping the edges .of- the wax impression on Ida ‘Fairbanks’ envelope. j ’ Fairbanks, as idly watching the operation, said, by way of breaking an incomprehensibly awkward pause: ©

*I see Ida still.makes use of the old seal. What an old-fashioned girl she is!” + *ls this the Fairbanks seal?” Dennis asked, dully. “I could not make anything out of it but a short-legged bird. I supposed it was a woman’s fancy.” *lt is & martlet. In heraldry it deflnes the position of its owner as a younger son. They must take their flights on clipped wings, climb on short legs. Father's forefather was a younger son. Yes, it is the old family seal. The men of the family all have used it.” ' ' The file of newspapers was placed before them just then, and Deénnis Lorimer began fluttering the unwieldy leaves with nervous haste. )

“‘Read that,” he said, curtly, putting his finger- on a paragraph and pushing it towards his companion. ' “The chief of detectives confesses himself absolutely baffled in every effort at unraveling the Norcross affair. The last clew has failed them. The woman who was admitted to the house by the butler tbat Friday afternoon turns out to-have been a sister of Mrs. Amelia Noreross’, and fondly devoted to her. Her pame has not .been rewealed, but ths butler says she wrote the one word Nora on the card she sent, in to his mistress on that fatal afternoon. This explodes the theory of her possible guilt.” : S L

‘“There might have been a thousand - Noras calling on their sisters that Friday,” said Sibley Fairbanks, crushing the file'of papers savagely between his . -strong hands. “But it opens up a ghastly possibility.” After along pause: -“Lorimer!” - : St | “Well?” S “If it is so—if that is the end—then may God be merciful to us all.” - ““And bring the truth to light,” Dennis added, in a solemn undertone, gazing fixedly at his companion. . CHAPTER XIL ) . Lorimer Lorimer, the gentlest of men, “whose very gentleness had rendered his subjugation to a woman of narrow vision and unbending will fatally easy, had positively lashed himself up to the point of ‘“having a row with John if need be;” and instead they had fallen ~ to discussing the dreariness of things generally with mutual good-natured | sympathy. - ' : *Did yoti hear what mother said this Mmorming, John?" - | #Yes. ~Five helpless boys and an old woman dying. Which was putting it harshly. She is not dying.” ‘ - “Did you hear whatshe added?” *“No. I went out of the room just then. It took all the man out, of me, to s=e mother, always so strong and clearheaded, lying there with that pinched - white face, babbling nonsense.” ‘‘Her head is as clear as yours or mine. She said, remorsefully, ‘I wish I had not hugged that silly old grievance to my heart so long. My -Dennis, at least, might have been happy, instead of a homeless wanderer the Lord kenows where. So many people need not have suffered. It looks so small and empty now—the feud.’” | A ' **Have you_ told her that Dick and Rafe had gone to fetch Dennis home—at least to look for him?” : . “No. I4did not care to.excite her. I told her I was obliged to send them to the city in my stead, but that I was looking for them back to-morrow. That . is all she knows.” ] i “But we've got away f_rom"tg;a subJect I started out to exhaust, John. 1 want you to hunt your. wife up. I ‘want yon to pull yourself together. and get out of this worn-out old rut. = We 'want Do more tabby-cats in the fam- . ny.ﬂ’ / £ - R » ; i *“Wait, Lorrie!.. Not now!” e “I did not mean just now.” ~ A somber silence fell between them. . Then Lorrie said, in his gentle voice: I think I will go in to mofher, - mow.” ' W " He left Johm sitting there alone, staring listlessly out over the sunlit . world. The dogs lay asleep in various - wspots out there under the big trees. The guns were all stacked in the corner “of the green-tinted hall. A solemn stillness pervaded White Cliffs, indoors _and ‘out. "The harsh creaking of the bigfmntgatgmitsmgs wooden ~ binges made John tyrn his gloomy M&%nmm%&n%&e: next mo- _ ment he was on his feet with a mut- . tered exclamation of amaze F;;W e !E % irbaniés, - accompanicd’ by “Bygelal, hee Ponish ‘hound, ‘who

wallted on one side 6f her with dignified self-possession, and by Ninette, whose methods of progression suffered severely by comparison with Stepniak’s, was coming towsdrds him. : * Amazement swallowed up ' every other sensation in John Lorimer’s breast; but he was conscious of an uncontrollable physical repulsion as Ninette, running swiftly in advance of her companions, scized his hands and put up her small red mouthwith an imperious demand:

‘“Ninette, you and Stepniak are to sit just here.” She halted at the lowest step and waited for Ninette to arrange herself and her short draperies to her own entire satisfaction. ; g

“I could not leave her behind,” she said, apologizing to the shuddering dislike in John’s eyes, “because I have sent the woman Celeste away, and no one else can control the child, I had to come. I héard that Mrs. Lorimer was ill, and I thought—ah! I hope she will not say I may not come in.. Life is so short, and so full of -the anguish we neither male nor can unmake for ourselves, that everything else seems so pitifully small. It is monstrous!” > - “I will tell my mother that you are here,” said John, looking at her, as if he only half comprehended the meaning of her presence or of what she said. He turned mechanically towards the front door. Ida put out a detaining hand:

“Not just yet, please. Ihave something T want to say to you. It may amount to nothing, but still I think you oughtto hear it. Thave sent Celeste away.”

‘‘So I heard you say,” John answered, coldly. What was that child, sitting on the low stone steps with/ . her dimpled white arms clasped about Stepniak’s neck, while she “whispered secrets” into his long,silky ears,ibut a thorn in his flesh, a reminder of his miserable matrimonial defeat? Why should the dismissal of her bonne be reported to him? : ‘““Yes; I had to send her away.” Ida stood before him, twisting her hat rib-

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bons about nervously, as confused and tremulous as a snared bird. John Lorimer looked at her with polite attention. : *‘Oh, it is nothing but cowardice that makes - it so hard for me to repeat her vile threats. And yet you ought to know. Perhaps you can find a meaning to them that I cannot.” * ' “You are agitated, Miss Fairbanks. Pray be seated.” He brought a chair, but she waved it aside and plunged into her story with impetuous earnestness: TR . “I was agitated. I feel calmer now. It is not easy to repeat such miserable things. When Celeste found' that she had lost her place she railed out at me with a tempest of insulting words. Some things she said seemed to throw some light on—on—" ™ L

~ “Mrs. Lorimer’s flight?” John aslked, steadily. -~ “Yes. That is why lam here. - She -came into my room after her box was gone, and, standing before me,with her bad, bad face working with passion, fairly shrieked into my face: ‘I am not ‘done with the Fairbanks yet. I have’ loved and hated thém by turns, and the good Lord has put it into my power to hurt every on€ of them. You pass for a saint; no ong but Celeste Bougercaux knows that it| was because of you that John. Lorimer’s poor young wife was drijven to despair. It was I, the de‘spised Celeste, not he, the man who had sworn to love and protect her, nor you, the saint who can do no harm, that re-ceived-her back, wet and shivering and heartbroken, that night —the night that—' Then she broke off with that fiendish laugh that always made me shudder, adding: ‘Ah, well! that will keep until I have use for it. Celeste Bougereaux has a storehouse for family secrets. ‘lt is very full, but there is room for a few more.” Then she rushed - from the room, but as Cato was driving her from the door I could hear that hideous laugH of hers.” : M& at her uncomprehendingly:” There was no more to tell, apparently. She stood before him flushed and silent. ' i “Well? lalwaysknew that the wom-. .an was a devil. I wondered at Mrs.— at the child’s aunt .employing her. I suppose she had her own reasons forit. But what are her ravings to you or to me?” 5 i “By themselves, perhaps, nothing; but one link discovers another. Do you remember, Mr. Lorimer, the evening you were 80 good as to take me to old Isham’s cabin to meet Dennis, my husband that is to be?” i o “Perfectly.” _ “A wintry smile flitted over his grave face, she had raised her young head with such a proud gesture of defiance as she asked the question. - ‘“‘Something strange happened the ‘next mornings It meant nothing at all to me until after Celeste’s outburst. Old Isham came to me with a five-dol-lar gold picce in his hand, and Bsked me if I hadn’t ‘made a mistake.” When I told him I did not know what he was talking about, he said: “Missy, didn’t you think you was giving me a quarter for seeing you "eross Dry baycu, ‘stead of which you give me ‘#his?” When [ told him he must be dreaming, that I had never given him anything, he said: ‘Missy, you needn’t he 'fraid old Isham wonld il enyen " - - John Lorimer made a gesture ot impatience. Why should he be called om R v i

to sift the utterancesof an infuriated French nursery -maid and an imbecile old negro to find the clew to his own misery? The best of women were so prolix. : ‘ ' :

“Well 2 “Don’t you see? Can’t you see?” Jdda aslked, impatiently. : “See what?” :

‘““That the poor little thing made a mistake! How she must have suffered, Mr, Lorimer! Perhaps,” she went on, blushing entrancingly, “she may have seen you piloting me through the briers and the gullies that night. Perhaps she got it into her poor little bewilderéd head that—don’t you see?—that you cared for me, the wrong way. If she had known me’—with a proud flush on her pure young face—‘““she could mnever have fallen into such a hideous error. But, ah, how she must have suffered! Tell me where she is, that I may make haste to beg her pardon for my ignorant share in her wretchedness.” . |

“Do- I understand—am I to understand that my wife knew of your visit to the Dry bayou to see Dennis?” . ‘“‘But what else? Why should she have come back to the house brokenhearted? - Who was it that old Isham piloted home in the dark?” : By Jove, it was shabby treatment of me!” 5

There was scarcely any uplifting of the shadows. If Nora had stooped to play the spy on his movements, if she had so little trust'in him as all that, what had he to hope for? .“I want to write to her, Mr. Lorimer,” Ida said, insistently, e “I do not know where she is.” ;

“Then you must find out. If you do not, I will.” She said it wath that imperious air of self-assertion which always had arquelling effect even upon her father.

Now that the whole ugly story was out, she put from her all sense of the indignity that krad fallen to her own share, and was bent only on the high mission of the peacemaker. Lifting her brave eyes defiantly to John’s, she became aware of Lorrie’s pale worn face framed in the open doorway. There was a look of irrepressible wonder in his eyes. She went towards him with outstretched hands. - 11 e

““You are wondering what I am doing here. I want to be her nurse. I want her to know about Dennis and me. She thinks we have given each other up. I would feel like a coward marrying him, as I mean to do some of these days, but hiding it from her. This is no time for nursing groundless 'animosities. Can’t you make her feel s 0?” ‘“‘Something strange happened just now, in there,” said' Lorimer, pointing to the closed shutters of his mother's room. ‘I think perhaps your voice must have penetrated her dreams, but I did not hear it. Mother opened her eyes—theré were tears in them—she looked all about the room with disappointed eyes before she said: ‘Son, I dreamed just now thatlhad a daughter. I could hear her voice—it was very sweet—and the touch of her hand on my forehead was very soft and pleasant. I wish I had one, son, one who would be good to my helpless, clumsy boys when lam gone.” Then she closed her eyes and dozed off again.” “‘She is waiting for me,” said Ida, with a sweet, shy, upward look at the tall fellow in front of her. ‘‘Go and tell her that I am here, please:” L Lorimer came back from his errand with a luminous smile. ‘‘Come. . Truly she is waiting for you.” | ¢ Heleft the two women together, and came out to where John still sat moveless. . Ninette and Stepniak had fallen asleep in the slumberoys sunshine—she with her bright curls falling over his shaggy eyebrows, ihe with one huge paw outstretched protectingly upon her short skirts. L :

“John,” said Lorimer, in a voice of intense feeling, “what is the promise made to the peacemakers?” *“They shall see God.” , . “Then that radiant vision will dawn for Ida Fairbanks. Mother has found a daughter.” ‘‘And perhaps—"’ John looked at him with a face that shone with the recovered light of hope—*l have found-—my wife,” : ! ~ Then he told Lorrie all that Ida had told him. ! | CHAPTER XIIL When Miss Fairbanks finally turned her steps towards Glenburnie again, she did it with such unprecedented briskness that Ninette, holding tight by one of herslim fingers, as she swayed, helplessly over the iitneven ground, was moved t&protest: | ¢What* is you running for, auntie? My legs is too short.” : j Ida -slackened her pace, stooped to 2= the child impulsively, and answered, eni%matically: “Poor little martlet! I am not running, Niece Ninette. I am just trying my new wings. I want to see how it feels to flutter them outside of prisonbars. My emancipation proclamation goes into effect from to-day, Miss Ninette Fairbanks!” . . Ninette had dropped her hand and circled gravely twice around her before responding, querulously: ‘“‘But I capn’t seo them!' > . “Beewhate”? 2t “Your new wings.” ' : threugon Ida laughed so long and su gayly that Ninette, applying her own litﬁe narrow gauge to thrs unwonted flow of spirits, asked: @ i “Is somebody given you something niece, auntie?” e . “No, Niece Ninette, but I have been brushing the cobwebs from the sky, and it is good to see the sunlight of truth once more.” S e

A SCHEME OF PROTECTIOMISTS.

An Outrageous Plot to Plunder the,Peo- = ple. : : :

The speech of Senator Don Cameron,. together with the action of a number of protected manufacturers of his state, serves to show that the Sherman law and the free coinage of silver at the existing dishonest ratio were only different forms of high protection, ‘and that ‘the silver miners and the tariff barons were banded together out of community of interests to extend and perpetuate the protective system in this country. There is no attempt on the part of Senator Cameron and his constituents to disguise their objects. They call in plain terms upon the manufacturers of the country to combine in favor of the silver producers under pain, if théy refuse to do so, that the silver producers will turn upon them and assist in wiping out the high protective tariff under which their monopolies are fostered and the people: oppressed. - ; No one will attempt to deny that in the campaign of 1892, in which democracy won a signal victory, tariff reform was the paramount issue. So great was its importance in the minds of the people and of the voters that all other issues were held in abeyance and received little or no attention or discussion. The American people were determined to throw off the burdens of oppressive taxation, which they regarded as the chief source of their financial ills, and to that end they elected Grover Cleveland to the presidency by an overwhelming majority. Even the republicans made no attempt to belittle the result nor.to deny its meaning. It meant aboveall things, and beyond all things, that the American people had declared positively for a reduction of the tariff and of the cost of living. oo

The two sectiond of the country most interested in tariff reform are those embracing the agricultural states of the south and west. The south has always been a stronghold against the encroachments’ of class legislation. Its interests have been radically opposed to protective duties which have diseriminated against the interests of the American people in favor of the manufacturers of the north and east. The west through sad experience has at last come to a realizing sense.of the burdens which it has tor years been ‘blindly voting upon itself without the slightest return 6f benefit, and in the last election it. repudiated its former, illogical political affiliations and joined hands with the agricultural and com-, mercial districts of the whole country, against a system diametrically opposed to all its interests. , It has been pointed out and conclusively proved that any form of the purchase or coinage of silver at'a ratio less" than its market value is nothing short of the rankest protection to. the silver ‘producers and a bounty pure and sim- | ple to the mining interests. This fact is apparent upon the slightest refiec- 1 tion-and is boldly admitted and pro- | claimed by Senator Cameron and his fellow protectionists. Curiously enough, | howevgr, many representatives in con-’ gress from the two sections which have | thoroughly repudiated the protective system are now found unwittingly upon | the side of this special protection to ; silver. The same arguments that have always-been used to deceive the agri- | cultural interests of the west and south into a belief that protection is of spe- ' cial benefit to them are now being employed to persuade them that their interests are identical with those of the silver producers of the mining states. | We do nat believe that the people of ! the south and west can be hoodwinked by these stale and threadbare arguments of the protected classes. The note of warning bas been sounded, ' and it is a safe policy for the south and west to array themselves against any action ‘which their old enemies, . the tariff barons, espouse. - = The chief, and perhaps the only danger, lies in the fact that this coalition between the silver and manufacturing protected interests may lead to such a temporary combination, both in and out of the senate, as to delay the speedy accomplishment of tariff reform. No one doubts but that the purchasing | clause of the Sherman act will be une conditionally repealed. No one doubts but that under the present administrastion the iniquitous tariff will be ulti- | mately reformed; but that both be done : quickly is the urgent need and demand : of the people. So long as the present ' debate upon-“the repeal bill is pro- . longed, all action in the direction of | tariff reform must be deferred. Combi- i nationsare being formed and precedents | are being established which will serve [ to impede still further the work of ! reformation when once it is begun. 1f . the democrats recognize the right of a minority in the senate to postpone in- | definitely all legislative action upon ! the repeal bill they cannot blame the ! protected interests if they avail them- l selves of ‘the same methods to hinder and delay prospective tariff legislation. , It is to be hoped that democracy will not fall into the trap so cunningly de- l vised by the monopolists and protec- | tionists of the country to thyvart the I will of the people so clearly expressed l at the polls.—Kansas City Times.

What the President Wants. ! In the letter to Gov. Northen Presidert Cleveland expresses hit wants as follows: I want a currency that is stable and safe in the hands of the people. I want our currency to be of such a character that all kinds of dollars will be equal purchasing power at home. ° I want it to be of such a character as will demonstrate abroad our wisdom and good faith, thus placing on a firm foundation our credit among the nations of the earth. : I, want our financial system and the laws relating .to our currency so safe and reassuring that those who have money will spend and invest it in business and new venterprises instead of hoarding it. . S I want good, sound and stable money and a condition of confidence that will keép it in use.—Albany Argus. = - ——Free trade and good mongy ga hand in hand. They are one and inseparable. They cannot be divorced. All that the American farmer has to sell is priced in a free trade market regulated by the gold standard. All that he has to buy is taxed to the moon by the protective tariff, The advocates of a debased currency would have his losses, already enormous, increased by forcing him to take what he has to get for his products in: debased meney. Is there any wisdom or justice in this? Down with the McKinley abomination! Down with the Sherman fraud! Up with the flag of free trade and a dollar that is worth one hundred cents in gold all over the world!—Louisville Courladoarneds. .. ;. .

THE FPROTECTION SYSTEM.

Spoliation Folicy of the High Tariff Republicans. - - | :

- Kver since the republican party de- | termined to outlive the reason for its existence, or, say for the last quarter of a century, it has persistently claimed ‘the credit for all the prosperity which | the country has enjoyed, for every fortunate event that has occurred, for every success that anybody has achieved. It has even assumed to be the duly accredited almoner of Heaven’s bounty, and has complacently . pointed to every good crop as a triumph of 'repuﬁlica.n statesmanship. In i recent years it has persistently claimed i that all the marvelous results of the ‘ inventive genius of the age, achieved | both before and since the republican % party camesinto being, are not due to i ingenuity or entervrise, but can only | be accounted for by the republican polj icy of taxing one man for the benefit of | another. By this policy of spoliation,’ l they say all the vast increase in prol duction and consequent cheapness of the necessaries of life are to be exI plained. If any notice is taken of imf proved gnachinery at all, it is insisted i that the machinery itself- was due to | the system of spoliation. - ‘ The protective system is a method of keeping up prices by restricting supply |and thus reducing competition. The field of its operation in this country is limited by a constitutional provision thatinsures frée trade among the states, so only foreign competition can be shut out, but with this limitation it pushes the restrictive policy to the utmost, and reenforces it- by the formation of ' powerful trusts that seek to crush competition at home. So far as it seeks to reduce the supply of tHe necessaries of life it is in exact harmony with the war which was made many years ago | upon improved machinery, though its methods are different.. When machin- | ery began to enable one man to do the work of two or more, there were workingmen who thought it meant starvation to at least half of them. and they ‘organized mobs to destroy the machines which were, as they believed, about to take the bread out of their mouths. In this way they imagined that they might restrict production and improve the condition of laboring men by in creasing the demand for their labor: They were unable to grasp the idea ' that the enormous increase 'in produe- ! tion meant more of the necessaries of | life for everybody, employers and em'3 ployes alike, and an enormous improve- | ment in the condition of the lz‘aiboring i classes. The fund to.be divided being | greater, every oné had a larger share; l but it has turned out that the increase in the laborer’s share Was relatively l larger than that of the employer. - - The pretense that this has been the [ result of the protective policy is one t of the most gigantic frauds ever at- : tempted. It has been the result of ini creased supply, while the object of pro- { tection has been to limit supply. It { has resulted from the failure of protec- | tion to accomplish its purposes in some | instances, in spite of it in others. The : same result has been geached under all !sorts of tariffs, for the effect of im- . proved processes has been so great that ! no system of tarif§ spoliation has been | able wholly to nullify it. o | England repealed the corn laws in ' 1846, that act being the first movement | in the direction of free trade. All vestiges of the protective policy, however, | were not swept away until 1861. Ac-.-cording to protection logic wages . should have declined.. What is the fact? We quote from the Edinburgh® Review: ’ N : ! “During the last thirty years the incomes of ' ‘the richest class in England have decreased - thirty-three per cent., while the incomes of the i middle classes have been increased thirty-seven per cent. In the same period the wages of labor | bave increased fifty-nine per cent. The rapid additions which have thus: been made to the rate of wages have probably been ¢hiefly attributable to ' the introduction of machinery into every industry. Nothing .that had -ever previously happened in: ' the ' history: of the world had. done so , much to improve the condition of the laboring poor. Wherever the employer, cither by im--proving his machinery or in any other way, is able to increase the efficiency of the employed, he is ooncurrently enabled and is practically | . compelled to raise the rate of their wagey. ‘Every individual invention, therefore, tends %o 1 improve the condition of the workmen.” £ All this has happened under free | trade. If increase of wages had been ' due to protection, as republic&ns 1n the 1 ; United States impudently maintain, | we should have seen a reduction of the 1 . wages of English laborers in the la.st| - thirty years, instead of th vast im.provement that has taken place in ! their condition,—Louisviile Courier—'l . Journal. ! ’ J

| POINTS AND OPINIONS. ! - L republican panic is gradual--ly disappearing. With the repeal of : the McKinley tariff it will vanish en- - tirely.—St. Louis Republic. - , . ——McKinley’s gubernatorfal campaign in Ohio is merely the danse du ventre of republican natiomal politics. - Wait for the big show.—St. Paul Globe. [ ——Gov. Mc¢Kinley says the people of - Ohio can be trusted to vote for them'selves this year. Yes, they madea rather good start in that direction ! last year.—N. Y. World. ‘ ——lt would be well for the material interests of this country, as well I as for the republican party, if its mis- " fit senators were called off and made to realize that the lease of autocratic power enjoyed by that party has expired.—Detroit Free Ergss. - ——Secretary Morton - is conducting | his office in a thoroughly business-like -and economical manner, cutting off -unnecessary expenses, and not hesitating to expend where the public good requires it, and his record is worthy of congratulation by his fellow democrats. —Kansas City Times. o . ——Now that the $100,000,000 gold’ surplus in the United States treasury is intact and the pension department ' has fully vindicated the line of policy which it is pursuing, the ultra opposition organs are finding slim picking for material to be used in the vilification of the administration.--Detroit Free Press. - i -

——The McKinley tariff is a failure. It may have put some money in the pockets of the capitalists who framed it. But it has increased the cost of living, without any comipensatory advantage to the poor man. The tax oncommodities has been increased, and, as usual, the poor man pays the increase. —Yonkers (N. Y.) Herald. L —*“@alico Charlie” Foster says he ‘‘always knew the democrats were incapable of governmet?.”_ Well, the demoocrats didn’t ‘“‘always know” that Charles was utterly incapable, but they found it out, both by reason of his dire failure in the national treasury and in his own business enterprises. And a good many republicans found it out too—some to their cost.—Chicage Times. i ' S

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

FCR INGENIOUS BOYS.

How They Can Construct a Very Sweet Musical Instrument. - _

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‘FIG. I.—THE MOLD. FIG. 2.—THE INSTRU- : |©. MENT COMPLETH. =@ = © one over the other with equalt-distances between the holes. Tack two other strips, the same width and 8 inches long, to the ends, making a frame as in Fig: 1. . e o o - Next make 16little cylinders'to fit the holes, each 8 inches or more in length. Theserods are easily made by rolling sheets of writing paper to the required size, When the rods are completed insert each through two opposite holes in the frame. (Figi-1.) 6 s Place this frame, with the rodsrun through the holes, side down on a board or other flat, smooth surface; lay a board with an inch hole in its center on the upper side bf the frame, and now the mold is ready for’ the plaster. Mix five parts of good plaster of ‘paris and one'part of lime with water and pour through the hole in the top board. The plaster should be quite soft, so as. to run freely and fill all parts of the mold. The plaster may be poured in without the top board and carefully leveled oft at tie’ top of the frame if preferred. Lot L When the plaster is hard tear Away [ the wooden frame and remove Zhe paper tubes. - ‘ l The tubés, corners and uthpiece | may be carved to suit the fancy. 5 For arranging the scale insert corks in the lower ends of holes, .beginning with the lowest note and pushing each | succeeding cork higher, as required. r The lime mix];d with the plaster will malke it almost as hard as marble.—R. | T. Carlton, in St. Louis Republic. -

HAMRER *FOR - DOLLY. - Any Skiliful Boy or Girl Can Make One , at Home, : . % A hamper is now considered the most stylish thing for holding a baby doll’s clothing and toilet articles, just as it is for a real baby’s belongings. - o . But while a hamper can be’ purchased for.a real baby, one will have to be made for a doll. It can readily be done, though to do it well it will require the skillful fingers of a boy as well as of a girl. S First get an oblong 'splint basket such as fruit is sold in. Give it several coats of white paint, finishing with one of enamel. Here' is where the boys’ assistance is needed - most, for a boy generally knows how to use a paint brush better than a girl. o :» Ornament the basket with dashes 6{? gilding, and fasten at each end .a handle made of a small piece of whalebone twisted with yellow ribbon. These handles can 'be sewed on if a stout needle arnd thread. are wused, // T P AN PR B ~.A N \\*\\y A b oottt pi=or ' I Re= - . . A DOLL'S HAMPER. 0 especlally if holes are pierced in the end of the bone. i S

~ Line the hamsper first with a thin layer of scented cotton wadding, then .with yellow silk, caught in plain and smooth.~ If there are interstices between the splints of the basket, pieces of silkk must be put in to show through before the cotton is put in place. « As the covers of these fruit baskets. are of wood they will not do for such a dainty hamper. A cover is made by cutting a piece of very stiff pasteboard to fit the top of the hamper. A broad piece of splint, obtained by taking another basket to pieces, is cut so that it will just pass diagonally across the lid. Two holes are punched or cut in each end of it and the splint is then enameled like the basket, and the word *‘Baby” or ‘Dolly” put ih large graceful gilt letters on it. va Meantime the pasteboard @ cover ‘has been quite loosely covered with figured silk of white and gold. | This conceals only the upper side. The under is lined plainly with yellow. Now the cross splint is tied on with yellow and gold ribbons sewed on the cover 'and passed through the holes.in the splint. Sl _ The lid is fastened to the hamper by ribbons, two being fastened to one side of the lid corresponding to two on the back of the hamper. One on the front side of the lid and one on the front of the hamper will suffice to tie the lid snugly down when desired. =~ Make two trays of pasteboard covered with yellow silk, each as long as the hamper is wide. Candy box lids of the right size would make good trays. Each must be taken to pieces and every part covered on both sides with' the silkk, the edges being overhanded very neatly, then the parts overhanded t;ogethe; again. Straps of white ribbon are fastened to each end to hang them by. They are suspended one at each end of the hamper about half way fromi the bottom.. 7=o L ofy Of course, any pretty figured stuffs, siltolene, sateen or figured cotton goods, will do for the hamper, also pink or blue cambric covered with When it is dﬁn&éf’winbeu&ﬁnw place to keep dolly’s night dress or any of her day dressesor underclothes, folding them neatly at. the bottom of the hamper. The trays will hold her SRR RS S S S

small belongings;, such ad slippers, stockings, mirrer, (]':omb' and brush, powder box—yes, even these luxuries are now provided for dolls—also her fan, handkerchief and tiny reticule. : ‘This hamper will" richly re'kvard any girl for the making;—A. J. Willis, in Chicago Inter Ocean. f el

BUILT UPON PILES, 5 . | s A Queer Village Located at the Mouth of .~ the Mississippi. Among the 65,000,000 people in the United States there are probably not 500—outside of the locality—who are aware that at the mouth of the Mississippi there is a littlé village built upoi wooden piles standing far out in the water. This village, which is called Balize, is reached from the mainiand - by canoes or boats, and its inhabitants have to-climb a kind of pole ladder to get to the doorways of their homes. This is probably the only place in the United States in| which ‘pile dwellings” occur; but all along the Venezuelan coast'and at the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon similar villages are frequently met with, many of them being inhabited by the Indian.fishing - tribes of the Amazon estuary. _These strange inhabitants were first discovered by Alonzo de Ojeda, who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage to this continent. In 1499 he undertook an independent voyage to explore the northern part of South . America, and he took with*him Amerigo Vespucci, who wrote a graphic account of the expedition. The following extract from a translation of Vespucci’s work gives the origin of the name Venezuela, and tells of ~th\gs;3onnection between the curious village discovered there and the name VeneChals up‘rocéeding ‘aloniﬂoast, they arrived at a vast gulf fesefmbling a tranquil lake, entering which they beheld on the eastern side a village the construction of which filled them ‘with surpris¢. It consisted of twenty large houses shaped like bells, and built on piles driven into the bottom of the lake, which in this part is limpid and ‘but of/little depth. ‘Each house was provided with a drawbridge and ‘canoes . . From the ressmblance to- - the Italian city, Ojeda ‘gave the bay the name of the Gulf.of Venice (Venezia).” The country itself was afterwards called Venezuela, or Little Venice, the original Indian name being Coquibacoa. In Lake Maracaibo, south of the bay of Venezuela, similar pile buildings are still lerected by the Goajoir Indians.’ | . i , o

- HUNTING EIDER DUCKS. I et : e How Esquimau Boys Kill the Valuibls g Birds. o L In the far north in May and June immense ‘numbers of eider ducks fly along the coast, bound for their brecd-ing-grounds' far to the east of PPoint Barrov\;, Alaska. At this season every person; male- and female, is supplicd with t,ixe‘ Esquimau implement cailad by them ke-love-i-tow-tin, which is madeas follows: . ° o

Eight balls, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, are cut from ivory or bone, with a tip or ear throngh which a hole is drilled. Eight strands of finely-braided sinew are tied to these balls.| At the opposite ends the strands are brought together each of exactly the same length and -tied to ten or twelve quills: of some sea fowl, when the implement. is .ready for use. The bunch of quills is grasped with the right hand, while the fingers of the left comb out the strand, and when all clear the balls are held between the forefingeér and the thumb.

.. 'This is done in a few minutes when a flock of ducks are seen approaching. When the game is neat enough, with a quieck, circular motion, just the-same as throwing a stone with a sling. the missile is launcheéd among the flying birds, when, if one of these strands crosses the neek or the wing of a duclk, it brings it to ‘the ground, where it is then captured. . : . The action of the air on the strings tends to separate the balls.in their flight, so that they cover quite a space, and if the birds are bunched they often bring one down, and the boy or girl that can'do this is proud and happy. ! el i

Sy ¥French Politeness. 2 During the recent meeting of the French and English shipstat New Yorlk the following story, illustrative of oldtime marine manners, was related, strangely enough, by a French officer: An English admiral who was oncte visiting a French flagship laid down his quid on a convenient bulkhead before entering the officer’s quarters. When he came out again he was astonished to find the quid in the placy where he had left it. ° : , . “Pooh!” said he, in the hearing ef some-of the sailors, ‘‘vou Frenchmen will never be true seadogs. No Inglish blue-jacket; now, would ever have let an admiral’s quid alone.” . . Whereupon one of &he French sailors stepped up, touched his cap, and said; “Beg pardon, admiral; I was chewing your quid while you were in there, but I put it back, you know, whenl heard you conmiing out!” : et . Shoes to Fit. : Wi The funny man's wife was reading an English almanac and he was smoking and resting his gigantic intellect on the back of his chair. e “I notice here,” she said, ‘‘that in the matter of shoes, temperance people should wear pumps. Now, what sort of shoes would you say drinking people should wear?” The gigantic intellect began to roll over and exert itself. S “Well,” he said, thoughtfully, I think they should wear tight ones.”--Detroit Free Press. e . ! A Blg-l"p’otpd Girk. | . A collector of rarities at Keolul, la., is the owner of an insole made for the shoes of the young Rainbow (Mo.) giantess. At the time these shoes were made—in the spring of 1891—the girl ‘was only 17 years old, but even ; then she hada foot that would malke . “Big Foot January of Ohio” envious. The insole is 15}¢ inches long and 51 Wosd . e . A Misunderstanding. - - Employe—Mr. Bruggles, lam worising| sev{nteeh hours a day. Do you think that's quiteright? = "+~ ! ‘Bruggles (his employer)~l'm glad to'see such conscientious: seruples in o goung man. But, really, I have - thought that you should retain the use of seven hours for your own recre-ation.*-Chieago Record. .+ = SR T R N T e Law Sehoos of This Country. g;“ teachers and 3,806