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B rpei EF Isy f*’{-i“-’{ A-l _’ AT RN Y ’i{,.:,..;. Nreiah %@ {f;" TR Ry ARG Aty A \&tig; EZ s ) s e W I Cﬂﬁf"ﬁ‘:‘k‘“) “‘*‘b’ AT AT AN ey ke am ), SRERLET ;il VNGNGB S S e ~ BY A CONAN DOYLE. ) . CHAPTER VL—CONTINUED. “Never mind the old girl here, bnt come along with me now straight away. You shall live like a princess.” Poor Alice was so frightened that she shrunk away from him, ‘but he caught her by the wrist and endeavored to draw her toward the door. I screamed, and at that moment my son Arthur came into the room. What happened then I do not know. . I heard oaths and the confused sounds of a scuffle. I was too- terrified to raise my head. When I did look up I' saw Arthur standing .in the doorway laughing, with a stick)in his hand. “I don’t think that fine fellow will trouble us again,” he said. “I will just go after him and see what he does with himself.” With those words he took his hat and started off down the street. The next morning we heard of Mr. Drebber’s mysterious death.’ “This statement came from Mrs. Charpentier’s lips with many gasps and pauses. At -times she spoke so low that I could hardly catch the words. I made shorthand notes of all that she said, however, so that there should be no possibility of a‘mistake.” “It’s quite exciting,” said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn. *‘\WWhat happened -next?” ' ' R © “When Mrs. Charpentier paused,” the detective continued, ‘I saw that the whole case hung upon one point. Fixing her with my eye.in a way which I always found effective. with women, I asked her at what hour her son returned. “*] do not know,’ she answered. “*Not know?’ ) . ) ‘ “‘Noz he has a latch-key, and let hlm:aol?in.’.' ' ‘ ) **After you went to bed?” “oYes)? ' . ***When did you go to bed? ““About eleven.’ C . **‘Sa your son was gone at least two Liours?’ . ‘ - YesS ‘ _ “‘Possibly four or five?’ - “rYes! - ' : ‘**\What tas he doing during that

T donot know,’ she anés{'ered, turning white to her very lips.. i “Of course aftef that there was nothing more to be done. T f>und out where Lieut. Charpentier was, took two officers with me, and arrested him. When I touched him on the shoulder and warned him to come quietly with us, he answered us as bold as brass: ‘I suppose you are arresting me for being concerned-in the death of that séoundrel. Drebber.” he said. We had said nothing to him about ‘it, so that his alluding to it had a most suspicious

aspect.” ) ) “Very,” said Holmes.. L “Ile still carried the heavy! stick which the mother describel him as having with him when he followed: - Drebber. It was a stout oak cudgel.”“What is your theory, then?” “Well, my theory is that he followed Drdbberas far as the Drixton road. When there, a fresh altercation arose between them, in the course of which . Drebber received a blow - from the stick, in the pit*of the stomach, perhaps, which killed him without leaving any mark. The night was so wet that " no one was about, so 'Charpentier { dragged the body of his victim into * the empty house.. As to the candle, and the blood, and the writing on the wall, and the ring, they may all be so . many tricks to throw the police on to the wrong seent.”— *Well done!” said Holmes, in an encouraging. voice. ‘‘Really, Gregson, voutare getting along. We shall malke something of you yet.” : s “I flatter myself that I have managed it rather neatly,” the detective answered proudly. ‘‘The young man volunteered a statement, in which he suid that after following Drebber some time, the latter perceived him, and tuolk a cab in order to get away from him. On his way home he met an old shipmate, and took a long walk svith him. On being asked where this old - shipmate lived, he was unable to give any satisfactory reply. 1 .think the whole case fits together uncommonly well. What amuses mé is to think of Lestrade, who had started off upon the wrong scent. lam afraid he won’t " make much of it. Why, by Jove, here’s the very man himself!” . It was indeed Lestrade, who had ascended .the stairs while we were talking, and who now entered the room. The assurance and jauntiness which generally marked- his demeanor aud dress were, however, wanting, His face was disturbed and troubled, while his clothes were disarranged and untidy. I"lle had- evidently come with the intention of consulting with Sherlock Holmes, for on perceiving his - colleague he appeared to be embarv rassed and put out. He stood in the center of the room, fumbling nervous1y with his hat, and uncertain what to do. “This is a most extraordinary case,” he said at last—*‘a most incomprehensible affair.” , - *“Ah, you find it so, Mr. Lestrade!” eried Gregson, triumphantly. I thought you would come to that conclusion. Have you managed to find the secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson?” ““The secretary, Mr. Joseph Stangerson,” said Lestrade, gravely, ‘‘was murdered at Halliday’s private hotel about isix o'clock this morning.” )

CHAPTER VIL . ' 'LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS. The intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so unexpected, that we were all .three fairly dumfonnded. Gregson sprang out of his chair and upsetthe remainder of his whisky and water, I stared in silence at Sherlock Holmes, whose lips were compressed and his brows drawn down over his eyes. A » “Stangerson, too!” he muttered. ““The plot thickens.” ‘ -+ “Tt'was quite .thick enough before,” grumbled Lestrade, taking a chair. “I seem to have dropped into a sort of council of war.” sl e ' ‘‘Are you—are you sure of this piece of intelligence?” stammered Gregson. “I have just eome from his room,” said Lestrade. *I was the first to discover what had eecurred.” | “We have bheen hearing Gregson’s view of the matter,” Holmes observed. “Would you mind letting us know what you have seen and dene?” © “I] have no objection,” Lestrade answered, seating himseclf. I freely confess that I was of the opinion that Stangerson was concerned in the death ~~f Drebber.: This| fresh development R Le e S e T - SR AL LS GRS

has shown me that I was completely mistaken. Full of the one idea, I set myself to find out what had become of the secrctary. Théy had been seen togcether at Euston station about halfpast éight on the evening of the third. At two in the morning Drebber had been found in the Brixton road. The question which confronted me was to find out hew Stangerson had been employed between half-past cizht and the time of the crime, and wkat had become of him afterward. I telegraphed to. Liverpool giving .a description of the man, and warning them to keep a watch mpon the American boats. I then set to work calling upon all the hotel and lodging houses in the vicinity of Euston. You see, I .argued that if Drebber and his companion had become separated, the mnatural course for the latter would be to put up somewhere in the vicinity for the night and then to hang about the station again next morning.”’ | “They would be likely to agree on some meeting place beforehand,” remarked Holmes. . - ‘So it proved. I spent the whole of yesterday evening in making inquiries entirely without avail., This morning I began very early, an(}' at eight o’clock I reached Halliday's privaté hotel, in Little George street. On my inquiry as to whether a Mr. Stangerson was

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living there, they at once answered me in the aflirmative. ' o ' *‘Ng doubt you are the gentleman he was expecting,” theysaid. ‘lle has been waiting for a gentleman for two days.” . ¢ “Where is he now?’ I asked. “‘lle.is upstairs in bed. He wished to be called at nine.’ ' “It seemed to me that my sudden appearance might shake his nervesand lead him to say something unguarded.’ The Boots volunteered to show me the. room; it was on the second floor, and there was.a small corridor leading up to it. The Boots pointed out the door to me. and was about to go downstairs again, when 1 saw something that made me feel sickish, in spite of my twenty years’ experience. IFrom under the door there curled a little red ribbon of blood, which had meandered across the passage and formed a little pool along the skirting at the other side. 1 gave a ery, which brought the DBoots back. Ile nearly fainted when he sawit. The door was locked on the inside, but we put our shoulders to it, and knocked it in. The window of the room gvas open, and beside the window, &4 huddled up, lay the body of a man in his night-dress. He was quite dead, and had been for some time, for his limbs were rigid and cold. When we turned him over the Boots recognized him at once as being the same gentleman whohad engaged the roomunder the name of Joseph Stangerson. The cause of death was a deep stab in the left side, which ‘must have penetrated the hedrt. And now comés the strangest part of the affair. What do you suppose was above the murdered man?”’ o .

I felt.a creeping of flesh, and a presentiment of coming horror, even before Sherlock Holmes answered: “The word ‘rache,” written in letters of blood,” he said. ' ‘“That was it,” said Lestrade, in an awe-struck voice; and' we were all silent for awhile. ' . : There was something so methodical and so ' incomprehensible about the deeds of this dnknown assassin, that it imparted a fresh ghastliness to his crimes. My nerves, which were steady enough on the field of battle, tingled as I thought of it. i “The man was seen,” continued Lestrade. ¢‘A- milk-boy, passing on his way to the dairy, happened to walk down the lane which leads from the mews at the back of the hotel. IHe noticed that a ladder, which usually lay there, was raised against one of -the windows of the second floor, which was wide open. After passing, he looked back and saw a man idescend the ladder. He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to be some carpenter or joiner at work in the hotel. Tle took no particular notice of him, beyond thinking in his mind that 'it was early for hith to be at work. He has an impression that the man was tall, had a reddish face, and was dressed in a “dong, brownish coat. lle must ‘have stayed in the room some little time after the murder, for we found blood-stained water in the basin, where he had washed his hands, and marks on the sheet where he had deliberately wiped his knife.” I glanced at Holmes on hearing thé description of the murderer, which tallied so exactly with his own. There was, however, no trace of exultation or satisfaction upon his face. - “Didl you find nothingin the room which could furnish a clew to the murderer?’ he aslked. :

“Ncthing. Stangerson had Drebber’s purse in his poclzet, but it secems that this wag usual, as he did all the payin{. There was eighty-odd pounds in it, but nothing had been taken. Whatever the motives.of these extraordinary crimes, robbery is certainly not one of them. There were no papers or. memoranda in the murdered man’s pocket, except asingle telegram, dated from Cleveland about a month ago, and containing the words: ‘J. H. is in Europe.” There was no name appended to this message.” A ; “And there was nothing else?” Holmes asked. : “Nothing of any importance. The man’s novel, with which -he had read himself to sleep, was lying upon the bed, and his pipe was on a c¢hair beside him. There was a glass of watdr on the table, and on the window-sill a small chip ointment-box containing a couple of pills.” i Sherlock Ilolmes sprang from his chair with an exclamation of delight. . “The last link,” he cried, exultantly. “My case is complete.” - . The two detectives stared at him in amazement. L ; *Lhave now in my hands,” my com-

panion said, confidently, “all che threads which have formied such a tangle. Therc are, of course, dctails to be filled in, but I am as certain of all the main facts, from the time that Drebber parted from Stangerson at the station up to the discovery of the body of ‘the latter, as if I had seeni them with my own cyes. I will give ‘ you a proof-of my knowledge. Could | you lay your hand upon those pills?” “] have them,” said Lestrade, pro-l ducing a small white box. ‘I todlk them and the purse and the telggram, intending to have them put in a place 1 of safety at the police station. It was | the® merest chanee, my taking these | pills, for I'am bound to say that I do not attach any importance to them.” l “Give them - here,” said Holmes. ! “Now, doctor,” turning-to me, ‘‘are those ordinary pills?” : e They eertainly were not. They were of a pearly gray color, small, ' round and almost transparent against the light. “From their lightness and transparency I should imagine that they are soluble in water,” I remarked. : “Precisely so,” answered Holmes. “Now, would you mind going down ! and fetching that poor little devil of a terrier which has been bad so long, ! and which the landlady wanted you to put out of its pain yesterday?” | I went downstairs and carried the dog légsntairs in my arms. Its labored breathing and glazing eye showed that l it was not far from its end. ‘lndeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already excceded the usual term’ of canine existence. T placed it upon a cushion on the rug. i | “I will now cut one of these pills in two,” said Holmes, and drawing his penknife he suited the action to the word. ‘‘One-half we return into the kox for future purposes. §he other half I will place in this wine glass, in which is a teaspoonful of water. You perceive that ' our friend, the doctor, is right, and that it readily dissolves.” . “This may be very interesting,” said Lestrade, in the injured tone of one who suspects that he is being laughed at. “Y cannot. see, however, what it has to do with the death of Mr. Joseph Stangerson.” . : “Patience, my friend, patience! You will find in time that it has everything to do with it. I shall now add a little milk to make the mixture palatable, and on presenting it to the dog we find he laps it up readily enough.” . As he spoke he turned the contents of the wine glass into a saucer and placed it in front of the terrier, who speedily licked it dry. Sherlock Holmes’ earnest demeanor, had so far convinced us that we all'sat in silence, watching the animal intently, and expecting some startling effect. None such appeared, however: The dog continued ‘to lie stretched wupon the cushion, breathing in a labored way, but appatently neither the better nor worse for its draught. ' Holmes had taken out his watch, and as minute followed minute without result, an expression of the utmost chagrin and disappointment appeared upon his features. He gnawed his lip, drummed his fingers vpon the table, and showed every other symptom of acute impatience. So great was his emotion that I felt sincerely sorry for him, while the two detectivles smiled derisively, by no means displeased at this check which he had met. - “Ttcan’t be a coincidence,” he cried, at last, springing from his chair and ‘ pacing wildly up and dowr the room; | ‘it is impossible that it should be a

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HE PLACED IT IN FRONT OF THE TERRIER. | mere coincidence. The very pills which i I suspected in the case of Drebber are | actually found after the death of Stangerson. And yet they are inert. What can it mean? Surely my whole chain of | reasoning cannot have been false. It ; is impossible! And yet this wretched | dog is none the worse. Ah, I have it! } I have it!” With a perfect shriek Ofi delight he rushed to the box, cut the other pill in two, dissolved it, added milkk and presented it to the terrier: } The unfortunate creature’s tongue | secemed hardly to have been moistened in it before it gave ‘a convulsive shiver | in every limb, and lay as rigid and life- | less as if it had been struck by light- | ning. ' { Sherlock Holmes drew a long breath | ahd wiped the perspiration from his | forehead. ‘I should have more faith,” g he said. *“I ought to know by this" time that'when a fact appears to be | opposed to a long train of deductions ! it invariably proves to be capable of | bearing some other interpretation. Of | the two pills in that box, one was the | most deadly poison and the other was ' entirely harmless. I ought to have | known that before ever I saw the box ! at all ”’ . This last statement appeared to me to be so startling that I could. hardly believe that he was in’ his sober | senses. There was the dead dog, however, to prove -that his conjecture had been correct. It seemed to me that the mists in my own mind were gradually clearing away, and I hegan to have a dim, vague perdeption of the truth. ‘ y : ‘*All this seems strange to you,” continued Holmes, ‘“‘because you failed at the beginning of the inquiry to grasp the importance of the single real clew which was presented to you. I had the good fortune to seize upon that, and everything which has '. oeccurred - since then ' has served to confirm my - origind\_ supposition, and, indeed, was the loXgal sequence of it. - Hence things which have perplexed you and made the case more obscure have served to enlighten me and to strengthen my conclusions. It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most myste-: rious because it presents no new or special features from which deduetions can be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more dificult to ‘unravel had the body of the vietim. been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outre and sensational = accompaniments whiel have reéndered it remarkable. Thesa strange details, far from malking the _case more difficult, haye really had tha effect of making it le£ ha” - e 7o BER O ED.] , l

PROTECTION AND OPPRESSION. How Workingmen Are Prevented from Signing Tariff Reform Petitions. Thousands of petitions have. been sent to congress in favor of the Wilson bill and tens of thousands against it. After the elections of 13890 and 1892, this fact might seem strange to some. If so, it is because they-do not understand the present economic situation. The do not realize to what extremes political manufacturers will go to prevent the loss of the pap that has nourished, or rather stimulated, them. It takes unusual courage to enable factory employes to sign petitions which are not sanctioned by the bosses. Those who have gone amongst the “protected” workingmen and have met them in their homes and lodges, say that there are very few tariff reform backsliders, even during these hard times—falsely credited to the shadow of the Wilson bill. The workingmen, however, think it bad policy for them to sign tariff reform or free trade petitions, when such action will imperil their positions and bring hardship upon themselves and their families. Besides, they think it unnecessary. They voted twice for radical tariff reform and they now expect congress to do what it was elected to do. Ifit does not, they are likely to cast about next fall for a new party that promises to keep its promises. ; ‘Mr. B. F. Longstreet tells us in the Courier, of St. Louis, how protectionist oppression’ is applied in Worcester, Mass. On January 8, Mr. Thomas F. Kennedy succeeded in having resolutioms indorsing the Wilson bill adopted by the central labor union of Worces- ‘ ter. These were the resolutions which Congressman J. H. Walker; of Worces- | ter, refused to present to congress and | which were finally presented by Jerry Simpson, of Kansas, a man not under the thumb of protected manufacturers, because Medicine Lodge, his home, | is not a manufacturing center. ; 3 Mr. Kennedy, who is a laster in one of the leading shoe houses of Worcester, and who is a sober, steady, intelligentand worthy workingman, expected to lose his position. His employers “laid for him” but they waited until February, when matters had cooled ~down, before discharging him. ~ An old man, a war veteran, who was in the thickest of the anti-slavery fight in Kansas, feeling confident that he could secure hundreds of petitions in favor of the Wilson bill, as being ‘‘in “the right direction,” drew up a petition, . but upon going to his work that morn‘ing he was surprised by the labored efforts of the men to keep out of his reach. Newspaperreports of his inten‘tion had anticipated his arrival at the . shop that day, and late in the after,noon he found the explanation to be “that the ‘‘boss” had passed the word -among the men in this threatening in'junction: ‘“You had better keep away : from that man with his devilish here'sies.” He is in daily expectation of his | discharge. ' Mr. Longstreet, who has been active for radical tariff reform, says that he has been made to feel the pressure of | pratection to such _an extent that he . has sold out his business, and will leave ! Worcester to locate in a less protected . and, therefore, more liberal city. - | It is really a serious matter for workingmen in protected industries to ex- . press their honest convictions; without the secret ballot, in most states in 11890 and 1892, it is not improbable that, E we would not now know their honest ' convigtions were for tar ff reduction.

"WHAT IS WEST VIRGINIA? Why Should the Two Senators from Such a small State Jeopardize Refornins Asked by the “’hqle Country? | . Senators Camden and Faulkner join with Senator Gorman|in insisting that coal and iron be taxed. They say that ‘*their state” demands it. ) What is their state? Who are their constituents? , : : West Virginia had in 13890 a population of 762,794, of whom 181,400 were males. of voting age. Of the breadwinners, according to the census of 1880, 107,578 were engaged im agriculture, 31,680 in professional and personal service, 10,653 in trade and transportaticn, and 26,288 in manufacturing; mechanical and mining industries. The value of the coal output in 1890 was $5,086,584; capital invested in the mines, $10,508,000; number of employes 9,952; wages, $3/888,000. The capital invested in iron mining in 1890 was $3,905,000; total wages paid 2,468 workers, $557,061. How small a part of West Virginia’s industry is represented by these figures will appear by a single ¢Omparison: The value of farms in 1880 was $133,147,000; of the live stock, $17,742,000; of farm products, $20,000,000. The capital invested and the workmen employed in manufactures, transportation and other industries that would be benefited by cheaper coal and iron, added to the agricultural tetals, show the immense preponderance of men and money interested in untaxing crude materials.: b

1f the duty on coal and iron does not enable the producers of these materials to charge more for them it fails to “protect,” If it does enable them to charge more it is a tax un consumers. If free raw materials be not demoeratic policy, nothing in relation tothe tariff is distinctively democratic. - . What are Senators Camden and Faulkner representing in demanding the mutilation of the Wilson bill by the addition of duties on coal and iron? Not the state, the people, or the preponderating interests of West Virginia. Alre they senators forspecial companies or corporations? How can the democratic party consistently yield to their demand?—N. Y. World. I

WEAK-KNEED - DEMOCRATS. Men Who Are Afraid to Show Their Colors in Public.” : The reform club of New York had a big tariff reform meeting in Little Falls, N. Y., on February 22. There was great opposition to the meeting. At 7:30 p. m., the opera house had not been lighted, but few people had arrivad and the prospeects for a successful meeting were not flattering. It was then that the leading democrats who had given but half-hearted support te the arrangements, began todecline the honor of acting as chairman to introduce Mr. W. B. Estell, the speaker. Disgusted at the cowardice of the democratic politicians, the reform club representative at last asked Mr. P. W. Casler, a manufacturer and farmer, but not a politician, if he would preside. He gladly consented to do so. Here isa part of what he said: . “We all understand the objeet of this meeting. Not even the most radical of our republican friends claim that democratic laws have caused any of the hard times through which we are passing. Thev only claim that it is

the fear of what may happen should the Wilson bill becothe a law that has caused the stagnation in trade and the closing up of our mills. In regard te what would be the consequence of the enactment of the Wilson bill, opinions differ, and we have with us to-nighta gentleman who will explain most fully the democratic position on this question, and show you by factsand figures | that there can be no question but that the passage of proper tariff reform measures will not only restore our former prosperity, but greatly enhance it. He will also show that the present depression is due, not to demorratice: measures % the fear of democratic measures, but to the condition the country was left in by the actual results of republican laws and republican mismanagement. I know that there are many within these walls tonight who are sorry that they veted. for Cleveland and a change in the national policy.. But I want to tell them that had the republican party continued their extravagant rule and financial policy we would be suffering ten times as badly.as we are now. The condition of these weak-kneed democrats is the same as was that of many republicans after the election of Lincolh. They had voted for Lincoln and ‘the abolition of slavery; but when they began to realize what a radical change it would make, the secession of the south and the utter prostration of the business interests of the country, they weakened and were sorry that they voted the right way, and many of the leaders in the republican party, the leader of that party in this state, advocated abandoning the principles upon which Lincoln was elected and allowing slavery mot only to continue 'in the south, but to extend right through the states to California. - I believe in the future, when we look back to the time when we voted for tarift reform, we will doso with as much satisfaction as those who voted for the ‘abolition of slavery and fought and ' bled for that cause.” ~ ; / HIS CONSISTENCY. . Howx the Chambpion of Protection Stumbled Over Himsely. : Sixty-five of Maj. McKinley’s speeches and addresses have just been printed in one large volume, intended as bait to induce the next republican nomination for the presidency to come this way. Here are a few of the contradictions on the subject of ‘‘who pays tarift taxes” as they occur in McKinley’'s new book: :

- What, then, is the| tariff? The tariff is=a tax put upon !goods made outside of the United States and brought into the United States for sale and consumption. If a man comes to our cities and wants to sell goods to our people ] on the street, we say to him: ' *‘Sir, you must pay so much into the city treasury for the privilege of selling goods to our people here.”” Now, vshy dowe do-that? We do it to protect our own merchants. Just so our government says to the countries of the old world:. “If you want to come in andsell to our people, and make money from our people, you must pay some-= thing for the privilege of doing it.” Now, that is the.tariff (pp. 185, 186; October 29, 1885). L : ‘We tell every man in America who wants Scotland’s pig iron, if he thinks it is- better and does not want the American pig iron—we tell him that if he must have the Scotech, ‘‘vou must pay for the privilege,” and in‘that way we maintain that' great industry (p. 188; October 29, 1885). Under this law (the McKinley bill) the (United States) government cannot go abroad and buy what/it can get at home without paying a duty. The result will be that the government hereafter will buy more at home and less abroad—and it ought to. (Applause.) (p. 511; April 10, 1891). . They say “‘the tariff is a tax.” That is a captivating cry. So it is a tax; but whether it is burdensome upon the American people depends upon who pays it. If we pay it, why should the foreigners object? Why all these objections in England, France, Germany, Canada, and Australia against the tariff law of 1890, if the American consumer bears the burdens, and if the tariff is only added to the foreign cost -which the American consumer pays? If they pay it, then we do not pay it (p- 579; May 17, 1892). L e ~ Last year we paid $55,000,000 out of our own pockets to protect whom? To protect the men in the United States who are producing just one-eigth of the amount of our consumption of sugar. Now we wipe that out, and it will eost us to pay the bousty just 87, | 000,000 every twelve months, which furnishes the same protection at very much less cost to the consumer. So we save $47,000,000 every year—and leave that vast sum in the pockets of our own people. (Applause on the re- | pub¥icz§n side) (p. 452; May 29, 1890). - Too Many Millionaire Senators. 1t is in order for Senator Brice to explain the difference, if there be any, between his views on the tariff and those of Mr. McKinley. The Associated press reports Mr. Brice as saying in caucus that the votes of the two senators from Liouisiana had been caught ‘‘with the sugar bait,” and that other votes had been secured ‘“by making concessions on a few other articles.” As Senator Brice proufesses to be a democrat and was speaking 'in a democratic caucus, it might naturally be expected that he would indignantly denounce such shameless examples of McKinleyism. Fnstead of doing ' so, “Mr. Brice wanted to know what was to be done to hold the support of the ‘senators from the latitude represented by himself and the senators from New York and New Jersey.” And he added, to quote again from the dispatches: “If the many interests of those great states could not be given consideration, he saw no course open to those senators but to arm themselves with bayonets and pursue the course of their more successful colleagues.” Obviously Mr. Brice is 'in the wrong camp. This is McKinleyism ofa flagrant type, and that is the way the Mc¢Kinley bill was made.—N. Y. World. Sk

—*“lf congress,” says the Louisville Courier-Journal (dem.), ‘‘will .execute the mandate it has received from the people, its task is comparatively easy. If it insists on executing the mandate of a lobby of protectionists, it. cannot reform the tariff, but the people will address themselves to the task of reforming congress.”’—Post. : .. Roussean said that no government can long stand when deaths continue to outnumber births, because such a result means that the earnings of the people are getting below the line of slbsistence. If France does not get rid of the McKinley system it is likely to realize the value of this clear:cut brillfant of political economy. &

GUESSES. ; Sl You bring me the words of an old refral., And,ask me to make the mearing plain; ; Tnree little people who wonder why = . - ; The world is wide and the heavens are high. - But how would a guess from each one do? §oo, Master Harry, and first come you; : L “For the ships on the sea, and the starsin the sky . . The worlzl is wide and the heavens are high.”. And what do you think, with your dreamy air, Little Blue Eyes on the cushion there?- : «For flowers to blossom, and birds to fly, : The world is wide and the heavens are high.” Last and least of the wondering three, Here is wee Freddy, and what says he? = *l'o play with marbles, and kites to fly, The world is wide and the heavens are high.” Ah, well, a reason vou €ach have 'foun‘d. - : So now the riddle to me comes round; : And this is the guess I venture why The world is wide and the heavens are high. Up the great hillside our feet toset < A A little farther and farther yet; B To try forever and still to try, The world is wide and the heavens are high. . —Kate Putnam Osgood, in St. Nich,olas‘. THE OROYA RAILROAD. L A Trip oun a Hand. Car Among the Andes : Mountains. e : A correspondént of Forest. and Stream went up the Oroya railroad in the Andes, a wonderful piece of railway engineering. The sharp ascent began at noon, over terraces, through tunnels drille% in the solid rock, and over bridges spanning awful chasms. At three o’clock they reached their destination, some ten thousand feet above the level of the 'sea. After a substantial dinner, which the mountain air rendered doubly acceptable, the party began making preparations for the descent. which was to be ac-

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complished in a hand-car by the force of gravity alone. e The hand-car had been bromght up with us on the train, and when the men came to put it together it was discovered that the fastenings of two of the wheels were broken. Aftera hurried consultation, as it was growing late, some telegraph wire was found, and the broken portions were tied together. The men in charge of the descent hopéd this would answer, they said. : o “And if it doesn’t?” I asked. They shrugged their shoulders. % : I looked askance at my companions, but they stood by in siience. Probably, like myself, they would willingly have seconded a proposition to return by the regular train, but were too proud to make it. = et Without a word we took our seatson the car. Silently one of the employes opened a bag and took out three revolvers, handing one to each of his:companions, They cocked these weapons in a matter-of-fact way and placed them between their feet. . *“This car is used by the paymaster.” one of them thoughtfully explained, “‘and itisn’t uncommon for desperadoes to throw it off the track. I got a tumble and a bullet myself not so very long ago.” : S gAgain I looked at my companions. It was perhaps owing to the altitude that they seemed to exhibit the preliminary symptoms of mountain sickness. As for myself, my heart was in my mouth; but it did not ‘trouble me long, for of a sudden the brakes were taken off, and with a spring ‘the car shot forward, apparently leaving at the point of departure my entire internal economy. S " Down we rushed with ever increasing speed, the car swaying from side to side, on one hand the mountain wall, on the other a drop of perhaps a thousand feet, through tunnels of midnight darkness, round sharp curves where the broken wheels fairly creaked with the strain. - : ol The starless night closed in around us. It was now simply a question of chance as we pluhged into the darkness. e e ““We ought to have started sogner,” muttered one of the men; ‘a stick ora stone, or even a‘dog on the track, would throw us into the valley.”? Nobody answered him. All talls, difficult enough before on account of the rushing wind, now ceased, and in silence we watched the sparks fly from the wheels. R . Thoughts of the armed outlaws and of the broken fastenings kept running through my mind, and the journey seemed almost endless. - . At last the sudden twists around the sharp curves ceased. We were in the valley. Presently a big light burst upon [us. e “Down brakes!” ecried one of the men. The station wasbefore us. Thank God! Sl

Not Taken as He Meant It. Miss Highflier—O, Mr. Sappy, how nice it was of you to name your new Iranter after me! What is she like? Young Sappy—Well, she’s a regular stunner, Miss Highflier. Not much to look at, don’t-cher-know, but very fast. » And he cannot make out why she is 8o cool to him now.—Vogue. : : Hard Times. ek “John,” whispered Mrs. Squeers, “‘there’s a burglar climbing through the window.” e S “Let him come in,” responded her husband under his breath, “I’ll yell at him and scare him. He may drop something he has stolen elsewhere.”’— Hallo. ' o ‘She Slew Wim Thus. “Don't talk to me,”’ she said, I know = * _ Thatin my cheek'sarose; = - . But Idon't care to match it with . That biossom on your nose.’’ : —Detroit Free Press. : : Of No Use. S Policeman—Why don’t you light the lamps on your cab? g Cabman—lt's no use; the horse is ‘blind,~Hallo. i o : Was the Story Denled? ' . Spatts—l heard that Goslin lost his head at Miss Darley’s the other night. Bloobumper—7There’s nothing ia it.

CATS WITHOUT TAILS. : Curious Creaturgas Found Only at Long coiliiado Pakoh N b . Seven miles- from thé mainland on which the village of Beach Haven, N. J., stands is a narrow strip of land which is called Liong Beach. On it there is the only tribe of tailless cats in this country. Eai'iy;.in this century ‘a large English 'ship was wrecked on that part of the Jersey coast. The sailors were saved, and so were a lot of cats on board. They came from the Isle of Man in the Irish sea, and belonged to a curious breed found only on that island, known as Manx cats and born without tails. At first the animals were quite tame * and frequented the vicinity of the . lighthouse, - where they nightly held open-air concergs that were not musical enough to merit the appreciation of the lightkeepers, and ultimately resulted in their being driven away. Then théy took to the woods and managed to subsist-during the first winter " on birds, thousands of which lived in ‘the swamps. - The cats increased rapidly and in a few years numbers of them could be found almost everywhere in Barnegat’s woods. / Their outdoor life made them savage, and the breed seems to have increased. in both size and courage, for eventually they became so fierce that they would stand and show fight toward anyone who invaded their homes. ' They are curious-looking creatures. The front legs being shorter than their hind legs causes them to make big jumps as- they go about, yet it is said they can easily outrun an ordinary ng. . e b ‘ - The ecats malke -good fishers, and when fish: are plentiful they go along the beach, and, as the breakers run up on the shore, carrying with them small ‘butterfish, mullets and silver bait, they jump into the shallow water and with their sharp claws pin a fish te the sand, and the outgoing wave leaves themr prey exposed. Then, before another breaker can roll in, they catech the fish and take it up on the dry beach and devour it. - ' - At times dozens of these strangelooking cats can be seen on the beach making meals off the surf clams that are cast up by the tide. ~ For the past twenty or thirty years “Long Beach has been a famous' summer resort. -Many of the cats have been killod by tourists or frightened ;back into the swamps.® Occasionally some more humane visitor endeavored to tamerone of the animals. It is hard work, but when the effort is suecwssful there is no more domestic or affectioni;_ate pet: than a Manx cat.—William Alsa, in Golden Days.

" “THE LORDLY JAGUAR. ' His Glorious Colo‘rs First Attract the Be- . holder’s Attention. The lordly jaguar is the king of all the American felide, and right proud are we to have him for a fellow countryman—provided he does not make himself too numerous! Of all the great cats now living, he is second im sizé only to.the lion and the Bengal tiger. South-of the United States he is uni‘versally called el tigre (teegree), which is simply thie Spanish for tiger. He has the big chest and loins, thick neck, big arms and legs, and bullet head of a heavyweight prize-fighter, clothed in the most gorgeous skin ever given to

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