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. 1 4 B ', 7 .’ o .li' D NV = L A._S‘f UDY B : » % "I . svE D 14 ) SCARLET Al , b - 2 BY A. CONAN DOYLE. PART 11. ‘ CHAPTER IIL—CONTINUED. ' “But they won’t let us leave,” his daugher objected. = “Wait till Jefferson comes, and we’ll soon manage that. In the meantime, .(lon‘t:you fret yourself, my dearie, and don’t get your eyes swelled up, else he'll be walking into me when he sees you. There's nothing to be afeard ~about, and there’s no danger at all.” John Ferrier uttered these consoling remarks in a very confident tone, but she could not help observing that he paid unusual eare to the fastening of the doors that night, and that }he carefully cleaned'and loaded the rusty old shotgun which hung upon the wall of ‘his bedroom. ) .. | CHAPTERIV. i . A FLIGHT FOR LIFE. - On the morning.which followed his interview. with the Mormon prophet, John Ferrier went into Salt Lake City, and having found his acquaintance, wha was bound for the Nevada mountains, he intrusted him with his message to Jefferson Hope. In it he told the young man of the imminent danger which threatened them, and how necessary it was that he should return. Having done thus; he felt easier in his mind, and returned home with a lighter heart.: o v As he approached _his farm, he was surprised to see a. horse hitched to each of thé posts of the gate. Still “more surprised was he on entering to -\ . ”" . , sl @ R‘% t:ffl‘; QLERGL ) RV N 01l ) { - {/I‘,‘“‘ ,"( B‘l‘ R VRN N :’/fifiiii k 1 lAL - | | 1R N 1 WIN “ ///,‘ 7 o W wil A v ) i!ii\‘-l% iz T e /)\/\v“ Ay \ s g g il 9‘ y“ \ T\ "j dvvif":'" 7 : ‘N VA 7/61///'/, A \',g \;{, 5 - WH Wt ¢ "_:j.,__ i 2 y = “THERE ARE TWO WAYS OUT OF THE. ROOM,” CRIED FERRIER. . find two' young men in possession of his sittin'g'-%oorn. ~One, with a long, pale face, gvas leaning back in the rocking-chair, with his feet’ cocked upon the stove. The other, a bullnecked youth with coarse, bloated: features, was standing in front of the window/wvith his'hands in his pockets, whistling a popular hymn. Both of them nodded to Ferrier. as he entered, ‘2nd the one in the rocking-chair commenced the conversation. - “Maybe you don’t know us,” he said. “This here is the son of Elder Drebber; and I'm Joseph Stangerson, who trav: eled with you in the desert when the Lord stretched out His hand and gathéred you into the true fold.” ) - **As He will all the nations in His own good time,” said -the qother, in a nasal voice; ‘He grindeth slowly but exceeding small.” : . John Ferrier bowed coldly. He had guessed who his visitors were. ““We have come,” continued Stangerson, ‘‘at the advice of our fathers, to solicit the hand of your daughter for ~vhichever of us'may seem good to you and toher. As I have:but four wives and Brother Drebber here has seven, it appears to me that my claim is the stronger one.” i “*Nay, nay, Brother Stangerson,” cried the other; ‘‘the question is not how many wives we have, but how many we can keep. My father has now given over his mills to me, and I am the richer man.” C “But my prospects are better,” sfaid the other, warmly. ‘When the Lord removes my father, I shall have|his .'tanning-yard and his leather factoryThen I am your elder, and am higher in the church.” **lt will be for the maiden to decide,” rejoined young Drebber, smirking at his osvn reflection in the glass. “We will leave it all to her deeision.” During this dialogue, John Ferrier had stood fuming in the doorway, hardly able to keep 'his riding-whip -from the backs of his two visitors. " “Look here,” he said ate last, striding up to them, “when my daughter summons you, ou can come; but until then, I don't want to see your faces

again. ) . ’ ‘ The two young Mormons stared at him in amazement. In their eyes this competition between them for the maiden’s .hand was the highest of honors both to her and her father. | “There are two ways out of the room,” cried Ferrier: ‘‘there is the door, and there is the .windaw. Which do you care to use?” R His brown face:looked so savage,and - his gaunt hands so threatening, that his visitors sprang to their feet and beat a hurried retreat. The old farmer: followed thém to the door. : “T,et me know when you have s settled which it- is to be,” he said " sardonically. . . ' . ““You shall smart far this!” Stanger-_ son cried, white with rage. “You have defied the prophet and the coun¢il 6f four. You shall rue it to theend of your days.” ' ' } “The hand of the ‘Lord-shall be - heavy upon you,” cried young Drebber; “He will arise and smite you!” “Then I'll start the smiting,” exclaimed Ferrier furiously, and would ‘have rushed upstairs for his gun had not Lucy seized him by the: arm and restrained him. Before he ecculd escape from her, the clatter of horse’s “hwofs told him that they were beyond é,‘bisre'ach. 5 R e “The young canting rascals!” he exclaimed, wiping the perspiration from his forehead. ‘I would sooner see you _ in your grave, my girl, than the wife of either of them.” ! : - “And so should I, father,” she answered, -with spirit; ‘‘but’ Jefferson ~ will'soon be here.” e - ~ “‘(;s'., It will not be long before he ‘comes. The sooner the better, for we . do mnot know what their next move maEle . i L i _ It was. indeed, high time. that some one capable of giving advice and help ‘should come to the aid of the sturdy ~ old farmer and his adopted daughter. In the whole history of the settlement, ~ there had never been such a case of _ rank disobedience to the¢ authority of the elders. If minor errors were punjshed so sternly, what would be the

fate of this arch rebel? Fertier knew that his wealth and position would be of no avail to him. Others as wekl knm%x_)‘and as rich as himself had been spirifed away before now, and their goods given over to the church. Ile was a brave man, but he trembled at the vague, shadowy terrors. which hung over him. Any known danger hecould face with a firm lip. but this suspense was unnerving. He concealed his fears from his /daughter, however, and affected to make light of the whole matter, though sheT with the keen eye of love, saw plainly that he was -ill at ease: i o ) He expeced thatr he: would receivg some message or.remonstrance from Young as to his conduct,and he was not mistaken;, though' it came in an unlooked-for manner. [Upon rising next morning heTfound, to his surprise, a small square of paper-pinned on to the coverlet of his bed, just over his chest. On it was printed in bold, straggling letters: | :

“TWENTY-NINE DAYS ARE GIVEN YOU FOR AMENDMENT, AND THEN—""" The dash - was Jlore fear-inspiring than any threat could have been. How this warning came into his room puzzled John Ferrier sorely, for his servants slept in an outhouse, and the doors and windows had all been secured. He crumpled the paper up and said nothing to his daughter, but the incident struck a ichill into his heart. The twenty-nine days were evidently the balance of the month which Young had promised. - What strength or courage could avail against an = enemy armed with such mysterious poivers? The hand which fastened that, pin might have struck him to the heart, and he could never have known who had slain him. ’

Still more shaken was he next morning. They had §at down to their breakfast when Luecy, with a cry of surprise, pointed upward. -In the center of the ceiling was scrawled, with a burned sti¢k, apparently, the number »S. To his ' daughter it was unintelligible, and h_eidid not enlightefi her. That night he sat up with his gun and kept _waftch and ward. He saw and heard nothing, and yet in the morning a great 27 had been painted upon the outside of his door. = Thus day followed day; and as sure as morning came he fouund that his unseen enemies had |kept their register, and had marked up in some conspicuous position how many days were still left to him out of the month of grace. Sometimesthe fatgl numbers appeared upon the walls, sometimes.upon the floors; occasionally they were on small placards stuck upon the garden-gate or the railings. VWith all his vigilance John Ferrier could not discoversvhence these daily warnings procceded: A horror, which was almost superstitious, 'came upon |him at the sight of them. He became haggard and restless, and his eygs had the troubled look of some haunted creatfire. He had but one hope in life now, and that was for the arrivafi of the young hunter from Nevada. | '

Twenty'.had c-hq’nged to fifteen, and fifteen to ten; b(*t there was no news of the absentee. .|One by one the numbers dwindled down, and still there came no sign of him. Whenever a horseman clattered down the road or a drivei shouted at his team, the old farmer hurried to thé gate, thinking that help had arrived at last. At last, when he saw five give way to four and that again to three; he lost heart, and abandoned all hope of escape. Singlehanded, and with his Ifmited klowledge of the mountains which surrounded the settlement, he knew that he was powless. The more frequented roads were strictly watched, and guarded; and none could pass along them without an order from the council. Turn which way he would, there appeared to be no avoiding the blow which hung over him. Yet the old man never wavered in his resolution to part with life itself before e consePted to what he regarded as his daughter’s dishonor. | He was sitting alone one evening pondering deeply over ‘his troubles, and searching vafiinly for some way out of- them. That/ morning had shown the figure 2 upon the wall of his house, and the next day would be the last of the allotted time. What was to happen then? "“All manner of vague and terrible fancies filled his imagination. And his daughter—what was to become of her, after he was gone? Was there no escape from the invisible network which was drawn all round them? He sank his head upon the table and sobbed at the thought of his own impotence. . _

What was that? In the silence he heard a gentle ‘Seratching sound—low, but very distingt, in the quiet of the night. It came| from the door of the house: Ferrier|crept into the/ hall and listened intently.. There was ‘a pause for a few moments, and then the low, insidious sound <wwas repeated. Some one was’evidently tapping very gently upon -one of the panels of the door. Was it some midnight assassin who had come to carry out the murderous order of the secret' tribunal? Or was it some agent who was marking -up that the last day of grace had arrived? John Ferrier felt that instant death would be better than the suspense which shook his nerves and chilled his heart. Springing forward, he drew the bolt and threw the dooriopen. i Outside all was calm and quiet. The night was fine; and the stars were twinkling brightly overhead. The little front garden lay before the farmer’s eyes, bounded by the fence and gate; but neither there nor on the road was any human being to be seen. With a sigh of relief Ferrier looked to right and to left, until happening to glance straight down at his own feet he sdw to his astonishment a man lying flat upon his face upon the ground, with arms and llegs all asprawl. So unnerved| was he at the sight that he leaned np against the wall with his hand to his | throat to stifle his inclination to call out, His first thought was that the prostrate figure was that of some wounded or dying man, but as he watched it he saw it writhe along the ground and into the hall with the rapidity and noiselessness of a serpent. Once within the house the man sprang to his feet, closed the door and revealed to the astonished farmer the fierce and resolute expression of Jefferson Hope. - ' : N “Good God!l gasped John Ferrier. “How you scared me! Whatever made you come in hike that?” : Sl " “Give me fpod,” the other said, ‘hoarsely. ‘I have had no time for bite ~or sup for eight-and<forty hours.” Hg flung himself ypon the cold meat an ’mfiwhfi; v g'%%:aem‘ Iying upon_the ‘table from hisg host’s supper, and devoured it voraciously. ‘‘Does' Lucy I‘ bear up well?’! he asked, when be had ‘satisfied his hunger. ¢ : A

‘“Yes. fhe does not know the danger,” her father answered. : “That is welll The house is watched on every side. That is why I crawled my way up to it. They may be darned sharp, but they’re not quite sharp efiough to catch a Wash%e hunter.” John Ferrier felt a different man now that he realized that he had a devoted ally. He seized the young man’s leathery hand and wrung it cordially. “You’re a man to be proud of,” he said. ‘There are not many who would come to share our danger and our troubles.” “You've hit it there, pard,” the young hunter answered. *“I have a respect for you, but if you were alone in this business I'd think twice before I put my head into such a hornets’ nest. It's Lucy that brings me here, and before harm comes on her I guess there will be one less o’ the Hope family in Utah.” ' : “What are we todo?”

“To-morrow is your last day, and unless you act to-night you are lost. I have amule and two horses waiting in the Eagle ravine. low much money have you?” - : “Two thousand dollars in gold, and five in notes.” , . “That-willdo. Thaveasmuch more to add to it. We must push for Carson City through the mountains. You had best wake Lucy. It is as well that the servants do not sleep in the house.” While Ferrier was absent preparing his daughter for the approaching journey, Jefferson Hope packed all the eatables that he could find into a small parcel, and filled a stoneware jar with water, for he knew by experience that ‘the mountain wells were few and far between. He had hardly completed his arrangements before the farmer returned with his daughter all dressed and ready for a start. The greeting between the lovers was wavrm but brief, for minutes ‘were precious, and there was much to be done. = :

“We must make our start at once,” said Jefferson Hope, speaking in a low but resolute voice, like one who realizes the greatness of the peril, but has stecled his heart to meet it. *‘The front and back entrances are watched, but with?caution we may get away through the side window and across the fields. Once on the road, we are only two miles from the ravine where the horses are waiting. By daybreak we should. be half way through the mountains.” '

“What if we are stopped?” asked Ferrier. - ' t Hope slapped the revolver butt which protruded from the front of his tuniec. “If they are too many for us we shall take two or three of them with us,” he said with a sinister smile. Yoo

The lights inside the house had all been extinguished, and from the darkened window Ferrier peered over the fields which had been his own, and which he was now about to abandon forever.. He had long nerved himself to the sacrifice, however, and the thought of the honor and.happiness of his daughter outweighed: any regret: at his ruined fortunes. All looked so peaceful and happy, the rustling trees and the broad, silent stretch of grainland, that it was difficuit to realize that the spirit of murder lurked through it all: Yet the white face and set expression of the young hunter showed that in his approach to the house he had seen enough to satisfy him upon that head. Ferrier carried the bag of gold and notes, Jefferson Hope had the scanty provisions and water, while Lucy had the small bundle containing a few of her more valued possessions. Opening the window very slowly and carefully, they waited until a dark cloud had somewhat obscured . the mnight, and then one, by one passed through into the little garden. With bated breath and crouching figures they 'stumbled across it and gained the shelter of the hedge, which they skirted until they came tothe gap which opened into the -cornfield. They had just reached this point when’ the young man seized his two companions and dragged them down into the shadow, where they lay silent and trembling. e It was as well that his prairie training had given Jefferson Hope the ears of a lynx. He and his friends had hardly crouched down before the melancholy hooting of & mountain owl was heard within a few yards of them, which was immediately answered by another hoot at a small distance. At the same moment a vague, shadowy figure emerged frcm the gap for which they had been making, and uttered the plaintive signal ery again, on which a second .man appeared out of the obscurity.’ “To-morrow at midnight,” said the first, who appeared to be in authority. “When the whippoorwill calls three times.” - o o

“It is well,” returned the other. ' ¢Shall I tell Brother Drebber?” “Pass it on ‘to him, and from hin: to the others. Nine to seven!”" | “Seven to. five!” repeated the other,: and the two figures flitted away in| different directions. Their concluding | woxrds had evidently been some form of | sign and countersign. The .instant ' that their footsteps had died away in | the distance, Jefferson Hope sprang to his feet, and, helping his companions | throuzh the gap, led the way across | the fields at full speed, supporting and half-carrying the girl when her | strength appeared to fail her. S “Hurry @n! hurry on!” he gasped from time to time. ‘‘We are through | the line of sentinels. Everything de- | pends on speed. Hurry on!” Cotial Once on the high-road they made : rapid progress. Only once did they ! meet anyone, and then they managed te slip into a field and so avoid recognition. Before reaching the town the hunter branched away into a rugged and narrow footpath which led to the mouptains. Two dark, jagged peaks | loomed above them through the dark- ‘ ness, and the defile which led between them was the Eagle canyon in which the horses were awaiting them. With unerring instinet Jefferson Hope picked his way among the great bowldersand along the bed of a driedup water-course, until he came to the retired corner, screened with rocks, where the faithful animals had been picketed. The girl was placed upon. the mule, and old Ferrier upon one of the horses, with his money-bag, while Jefferson Hope led the other along the precipitous and dangerous paths. . [0 BE CONTINUED.] : / The Collar Boné. - In school was a diminutive boy called Dottie. The teacher had been having a little talk with the children about the collar bone. Finally she said: “Who can tell me the use of the collar bone?” e Dottie’s hand waved vigorously, and upon being asked, he triumphantly announced: “Ith’s the bone your collar wethts on.”—Youth's Companion, ©

THE SBTEALTHY SUGAR TRUST.

It Asks Governmental Aid, but Refuses to Give Any Information as to Its Business, Profits or Wages Paid -Openly Defies Census or Anti. Trust Laws.

_ For thirty years our goverhment has teen in partnership with the sugar refiners. The terms of the contract under the McKinley act are that, in consideration that the ¥efiners shall stay on our soil and continue to pay ‘“American'wages to American workingmen,” the government grants them license to collect from consumers from 5-6ths to 6-10th cents per pound more for refined sugar than it sells for outside of our boundaries. At the same time it gives them free raw sugar. - i

This is very much of a one-sided bargain. I.° The refiners employ almost no American workingmen. 2. The wages they pay are perhaps the léwest paid in any industry. 3. While the duty was ostensibly only intended to cover the -“difference” in wages between this and other countries it is, in fact, fully five times the total labor cost of refining, which does not now exceed one-tenth of one ¢ent per pound. 4. - While the refiners have formed a trust to eollect the last cent possible under the contract, they have not only closed many refineries and thrown out hundreds of wage-earners, but they have shamefully mistreated those still employed. : i . The government, being a silent partner in the sugar trust and guaranteeing profits of one-half cent & pound on the 4,200,000,000 pounds of sugar anpually consumed here, might naturally be supposed to have the right to examine the books, occasionally. This is necessary not c}nly in ‘order to see that the contract is faithfully performed but in order to supply a basis for future agreements. . \ :

‘The census statistics, taken every ten years, might answer for this purpose. In 1890, however; the sugar refiners refused to show their books or to submit statements to census officials. - Some.of the smaller refiners submitted carelessly compiled or incqmplete statisties, but several of the largest made no attempt to ‘‘give away their business” by complying with the *‘act to provide for taking the eleventh and subsequent census.” 2 .. Under these éonditions it would take an unusual amount of assurance for an industry to ask congressto renew the contract or to ask to have the government continue as the financial backer of the industry. Yet this is what the sugar trust is doing with-d vigor not found outside of of the well-nourished, protected ‘‘infant industries.” The sugar infant has, in fact, zone to Washington with its millions of unclean dollars to stay there until it can, by bribery, get what it wants or. defeat all tariff legislation and.thus compel the government to continue its partnership under the McKinlev contract. s

On March 28 Senator Pettigrew offered a resolution, which the senate agreed to, calling on the census office to statd whether it was a fact that the sugar trust, substantially alone among all manufdcturers in this country, refused to answer the census questions.. Col., Carroll - D. Wright made to. congress the. same reply that Mr. Robert P. Porter made more than a year ago, adding to it his reasons for advising the department of justice to discontinue the suits against the refusing refiners. . Concerning this reply the Journal of Commerce and the Commereial Bulletin ‘of March 23, 1894, said: : “The . superintendent of . the census made a report to €ongress last year of his efforts to get from the sugar refiners the-same sort of imformation that he had got from the flour mill-owners, the steel rail makers and the woolen manufacturers. Harrison, Frazier & Co.. of Philadelphia, made a report so deficient as to be worthless; they were requested to supply the missing information, and they refused. ~Mr. Porter called their attention to the act of July; 1892, and they promised to supply the inforndation, but they failed to keep theéir promise. The Louisiana Sugar Refining -Co., of New Orleans, and the Havemeyer Sugar Refining Co., of Brooklyn, referred -all ' the census officials to. the American Sugar Refining Co., at No. 117 Wall street. The Havemeyer refinery in Jersey City referred all census inguiries to Matthiessen & Wiechers at the same address. Agents of the census went again and again to No. 117 Wall street. ‘From written reports on file in this office,’ says the . superintendent, ‘it appears they received numerous promises, and at other times refusals, to comply with the requirements of the law. They fina!ly reported, however, ;that they were satisfied that further efforts on their part to secure the returns would be without avail.’”

“Why should sugar refiners be any more reluctant to ‘give their business away' than iron er lumber or cotton'i men? If Mr. Havemeyer will not obey | the law, why should the law make Mr. J Havemeyer exceptionally opulent? He'| certainly would not invest any of his | money in a business the particulars of | which were refused to him: but he and | his associates and their hired agents | insist that the people of the United l States shall guarantee them profits of twelve million dollars a year, though | theyirefuse to answer the census ques- | tions that other people answer. | ‘lt is about time that this foolishness | were stopped. If there is any reason I why the refiners are entitled to protection by the tariff, let them show it. ! It is intolerable effrontery that these | people should refuse to answer the ordinary census guestions that every one f else answers and demand from the government they defy, and whose laws they trample on, a rate of 'protection that enables them to divide 22 per cent. in a year on their vastly inflated com-’ mon stock. Let the sugar refiners obey the law or get along without the help of the law.”" o After observing that only the smaller manufacturers of sugar and molasses even pretended to answer census inquiries, the Journal of Commerce and Co'r(;lmercial- Bulletin of April 14, 1894, said: . : ! ’ ‘lt is probable that these concerns make smaller profits than the great refineries that compose the trust, paftly because much of their produects are of limited consumption, and mainly because they were willing to answer the census questions. The only reason the sugar trust can possibly have had for refusing to answer the census questions is that if the country knew what enormous profits it was making it would no longer afford it a protective duty. It is concealing the facts in order to prevent the reduction of the sugar duty. It is obtaining money under the false pretense that it needs protection. “It alsoappears from the census bulletin that wages constitute a phenomenally small item in the cost of sugar and molasses. - In these smaller establishments; where of course those econ-

[omies for the accomplishment of which trusts are formed are impossible, there was ‘only two and one-fifth (less than two in refineries) cents’ worth of labor in a dollar’'s worth of sugar. Where wages cut so small a figure in the total an increase or decrease of wages, or a difference between wages in one place or another, is insignificant. But the wages in the sugar business are excep- { tionally . low. The average wages in all manufacturing industries in 1890 were $485, but in the sugar and molas- ' ses business they were only $374° The | sugar business appears to be at or i near the head of -all industries in i profits, and at the foot of all industries in the proportion of .its earnings disl'tributed to labor and in the rate of | wages paid.” : | Not only has the sugar trust openly I defied and violated the census laws and | thus rendered almost worthless the | whole census for 1890; but it is perhaps the greatest law-breaker now doing l\businéss in our territory. Itflagrantly and constantly violates the federal antitrust laws, as well as those of New York and all other states that have such laws, Italsodisregardsthe interstate commerce act in that it has made secret contracts with many railroads 50 that'it obtains discrimindting rates and can quote freight rates prepaid at less than the usual rates for sixthclass freight. It shares its' illegal | spoils swith its large sugar .dealers in our cities and thus subsidizes them. ' This is one of the reasons (rebates are another) why the.wholesale grocers sticks to the trust and do its bidding—{as they did when hundreds of them l sent telegrams *to congress asking i members to vote against Warner’s free

sugar amendment. ' This high-handed law-breaker, criminal and conspirator is now in congress “holding up” legislation until it can get a renewal of its license for robbery and spoliation.| It should be kicked from our ‘legislative halls and outlawed, even if we should have tolay discri\laating duties to break up this band of conspirators. Congress should investigate the books of this robber gang to see what laws it breaks and to see how the spoils are divided and to what corrupt uses'they .are put. * Byrox W. HoLT. 4 WHAT .IT - MEANS. Lessons to Be Learned from the Recent Y ; Elections. ;i It is useless to deny or belittle the. fact that there is a widespread reaction among the voters. of the country against the democratic party. The town - elections in' Ohio, Illinois and Michigan tell the same ,story as those of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and the state election in Rhode Island shows the s#mne causes at wérk in a more important field. And the reaction is not only sharp but it is persistent. It is even more manifest in the spring ‘elections than it was in those of last fall, S :

There can.be no dispute as to the fact that the political tide is running’ strongly against the democrats. ‘As to its meaning, there is rdom for a wide difference of opinion. ‘The protectionists in both parties profess to see in-ita reversal of the verdict against McKinlevism- that was rendered so . overwhelmingly in 1590 and 1892.. The anti-administration democrats insist that it is due to Mr. Cleveland's deficiencies as a party leader. The Cleve: land democrats and the revenue reformers regard it as the result of the ‘‘hard times” through which the country has passed during' the last year. L ‘There is an element of truth in all these, but the real cause of the reaction is popular disgust with a party which can do nothing apparently except wrangleand dodge. The democrats in the house, and especially those in the senate, have presented a spectacle of impotence and cowardice from which any -party in the best of times would suffer grievously. : ' The elections of the last five years have shown that there is no stable ma‘jority in the.country for either party. The voters are obviously seeking for some party that will carry out bravely and honestly when in power the promises it made when in opposition. - They have not yet found one, and there will be no political stability until they do. Reactions are sure|to follow victories thatsimply substitute one set of greedy, dishonest am&vasive partisans for another.—N.. Y. World. p

‘ FREE SHIPS. o A Reform Needed in Our Ocean Carrying .. Trade. , The- interviews published in the Herald 'on the . Fithian bill show that a deep-and abiding interest has been awakened in. the effort to restore the American ocean carrying trade. Mr. Osborne Howes, a well known Boston " shipping ‘merchant who has been engaged in foreign trade, thinks that this bill would, if passed, prove the first step toward the rebuilding of our comercial marine. He points out the exceptionally great aptitude of Americans for maritime enterprise, adding: . - - A : . “Whenever the opportunity has been given to us we have shown ourselves to be not only the peers but the superiors of our English rivals in all that pertains to nautical matters. ’ ‘ “‘Ours is the only nation that has shown this ability, and yet, although this is.an inborn gift, for the last thirty years our government has persistently prevented its development by obstructive laws, acting in this way as if it intended to extirpate the maritime aptitude from the constitution of our people.” Experience - has fully shown the futility of the vari us “protective” nostrums for reviving our over-sea commerce. It is time, therefore, to try. some other plan. For it is certain that under free trade we could do no worse than we have done under ‘‘protection;” and with the former there is every reason to believe we would soon do much better. For this most desirable end let all who value the nation’s prosperity rally to the support of the Fithian bili‘{: —N. Y. Herald. ‘ ;

Pig Iron to England. ~ Several days azo there were shipped to England from Birmingham, Ala., two ndred tomns ' of' pig iron. This shipment follows one that was made /a few weeks ago, and it isadmitted that arrangements have been made| for exportations hereafter. If the iron makers of the Birmingham 'd-,isu%[t can sell their iron profitably in the English market, after paying the land and ocean transportation charges, why do they need to be protected here at home against competitive sales of imported English iron and against Cuban iron ore by the tariff duties which they have demanded and which they, with the assistance of others, have induced the senate committee to impose in the pending bill?2—N. ¥ Thoes:. S

| THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. International Lesson for May 6, 1894 Joseph’s Last Days—Gen. 50:14-26. [Specially Arranged from Peloubet's Notes.]. GOLPEN TEXT.—The path of the just is.as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.—Prov. 4!18. - P TIME.~The migration into Egypt, B. C. 1708 Jacob's death and burial, B. C. 1680. - Joseph’s death, 1635. . i - PLACE.—The land of Goshen in Egypt. (1) Probably the Wady Tumilai, extending from the modern Ismailia, on Lake Timsah, wests ward about eighty miles, to the eastern branch of the Nile. It is watered by the Sweetwater: canal, running from the Nile to Suez. It isa few miles wide at its western end, and grad- | ually narrows toward the east. Itis still one of the most beautiful districts of Egypt.—J. W. Dawson, in Egypt and Syria. (2) Others regard it as alarger district extending north and south of this Wady. : JACOB was one hundred and thirty years oldwhen he went down into Egypt. |He lived there seventeen years and died in 1689, aged one,, ‘hundred and forty-seven, and was buried in the cave of Machpelah near Hebron. B JOSEPH was thirty-nine years.old when his father came to Egypt He lived there seventy years longer, and died in 1635, aged one hundred and ten. He was embalmed, and many years later {vas buried at Shechem.* | o LATER SCENES IN THE LIFE OF JOSEPH. Jacob Receiving the News About Joseph.—At Hebron. Having made himself known to his brothers, Joseph told fhem to hasten back home and { tell his father of all his glory, and bring him down without delay to see it. This glory would comfort the father, and assure him of the safety of going into this foreign country. Pharaoh joins in the invitation, and sends abundant means for their transportation. When they reached home the news was too good for Jacob to believe, and ‘‘His heart fainted;” but when. he saw the Egyptian wagons, then he was convinced, and his spirits. revived. ; : o e

The ‘Journey, into Egypt.—lmmediately the whole family prepare to move to Egypt with their flocks and movable property. The journey was about 250 miles along the usual caravan route; but it was along, hard journey for an old man, with women and children and. flocks and - herds. When they reached Beersheba, some twenty-five miles from the Hebron, whence they started, they encamped at this old home of Isaac and Abraham. Mere God sent Jacob a vision for his encouragement, confirming the ancient promises, and bidding him lgo on to Egypt. Little could Jacob see the real importance of ‘this journey, but, it was one of the links in the chain of Divine Providence, through which ‘the promises were to be fulfilled.

Their Numbers.—Jacob and his descendants, who are named in chapter 46, numbered seventy, excluding his sons’ swives, Sixty-six are first named; then four more, Jacob and Joseph -and - his two sons, are added. Doubtless many servants and dependents came with them, making quité a caravan. ’ln Acts 7:14 the number is given' by St. Stephen as seventy-five. ' The difference is simply that he quotes from the Greek version, which includes in the number five descendants, of Joseph not mentioned in the Hebrew text. ' ' The Meeting of the Father and the Long-lost 50n.—46:28-34. . When Jacob drew near to Egypt, and had reached the land of Goshen, Joseph. went forth in his'regal chariot and mdl his father, and there was a true oriental meeting of the two who had not seen. one another:for almost twenty-three years. - Dreams Fulfilled.—Many years before,. when but a boy, Joseph had dreamed that thé sun and moon and éleven stars did obeisance to him (37: 9-11). And not only were his brothers indignant, but his father also, swho rebulked him, saying: “*Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed “come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?” Still his father ‘‘kept the saying in mind,” and now he remembered it when it Had come to pass. Many a ' dream of youth comes to pass; many things, stranger than dreams, are re- } alized; many a hope and desire of reform becomes a 'reality. Dlessed are the seers, those who have noble ideals, who are seeking to realize the visions of blessedness and glory for the world. The Meeting of the. Patriarch and the Pharaoh.—First Joseph selected five of his brothers and introduced them to Pharaoh, who welcomed them, and bade Joseph give official positions to any who proved Dthe}ns‘élves men of activity, energy and ability. L Then: Joseph introduced his father to King Pharaoh. A Here Joseph shows his nobleness of character in not being' ashamed of his father ' but rather taking an. honorable pride in him, ’ for his father, be it remembered, l’ was wholly unused to the ways of the | courts. He would seem to the priesthood and the courtiers of Pharoah’s palace a rude and semi-barbaric rustic. He could hardly have presented himself .in court attire. He certainly l would not have spoken in court dialect, and he would have been wholly i unable to conform to the rules of court etiquette. L G i Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph.— ' Theland of Goshen. B. C. 1690. Jacob sick and almost blind. Joseph comes with two sons to visit him.. In thjs scene we need but notice the prophetic adoption of Ephraim and Manasseh, gs his own sons and heads of tribes, and the giving of the chief’blessing to Ephraim, the younger. Ilis descendants became the leading tribes next to Judah, so that all northern Israel were sometimes called Ephraimites. Jacob’s Dying Blessing and Prophecy with Respect to His Sons.—Of most interest in this series of’ blessings and prophecies are the prophecies concerning Judah. e - : ;

SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

l Tae island of Mauritius has been visited with an epidemic of :smallpox, ' while cholera has appeared in vessels Jying in the port: i NEGOTIATIONS are in hand between the Italian and Swiss governments to establish telephonic communjcation between Milan. Como and Lugano and other towns il Switzerland. Joux MartEes, of Nebraska, who is representing the agricultural department in Europe, reports to Secretary Morton that experiments made in Germany and Denmark, in utilizing corn for brewing purposes, have been satisfactory. ‘ = P ‘ A NEw enemy of the vine in France is galleyworm, or myriopod (Bianiulus guttulatus), which has been observed by M. Fountaine to invade the buds in ‘numbers ranging from five to ten on a bud, forming balls of the size of a ‘small pea. = . = | SvcH has been the growth of popular opinion in favor of the sudden disposition of the dead by heat that there are pow in the country eighteen incorpor: ated ¢remation societies, and during the past ten years about three thousand cremations have taken place.—N.. | Y. Medical Record, - = * . o 1

: EMPTY PREACHING. . Republican Rant om the Changing Sentid -. 7 ment of the Country, ‘ Republican journals are taking upon themselyes the gratmitous duty of informing the democratic majority in congress that it should abandon its effort to reform the tariff, pass the appropriation ‘bills and go home. The reason given for this adviee is yhat the sentiment of the country has changed, as evidenced by the protests that have been made against tariff legislation, and the admitted fact that @emocratic political prospects next November are not exactly rose-colored. Of -course, our republican friends have not the least notion that their advice will be taken. i =

But it may not be out of place to remind these self-appointed advisers that the course they are recommending, even assuming that the advice is given in good faith and for the best interests of ‘the country,is one which political parties are not at all likely to follow. No better illustration of this could be found than ‘the comparatively recent ' experience of the republican party.. In 1888 .a republican victory was won upon a . large scale by pledges given in the west that an honest revision of the tariff would be made by the republicans if they were given the power to act. ‘lt was recognized by the republicans in all of the states. of the Mississippi valley that there was a -growing demand for a change from the old high tax principles of the war tariff—that the people wanted tariff reform.. But it was said —and this was said on the stump in 1888 in scores of western congressional ‘districts—that tariff revision should be made, not by the enemies, but by the friends, of protection. Duties are undoubtedly too high, and the taxes imposed -in ~consequence of them ' too -onerous, but it is svell that the protection system should be gradually changed by those who have for years past supported it, and that it should not be ‘suddenly destroyed by, those who have always opposed it. It was upon these - grounds that the republican vietory was won. Evidence can be obtained that quite a number of western republican congressmen ‘went to attend .the first session of the Fifty-first congress with the belief that ‘the tariff was to be revised by cutting the duties down, and who fou‘nd,“ to their surprise and disgust, after the session. had opened, that the combination of republican congressional leaders, under Messrs. Reed and McKinley, were deterurined that this course should should not b»e taken, and that, instead of lowering the barrier of. protection, the height of that barrier was to be increased. One of the leading western conigressmen, a republican: of national . reputation, said in the summer of 1890: “Our party is betraying its trust, and, under the whip of party discipline, I shall be coinpelled tqvote for a meass . urg which is almost a complete repudia- . tion of the pledges I made to- my con-. stituents, and that my western associates made their constituents at the time they were elected. - We supposzd, and they supposed, that the tariff was to be revised downward, and not upward, but we have now discovered our mistake; our people are already ine censed against us; and. yet there is nothing to do but follow the bidding of those who are recognized’as the party leaders in and out of congress, and who have definitely committed themselves to this line of policy.” - :

"‘; This, we say, was a personal stateI?ment made by a man holding an excep~ ‘tional position, and one who paid the penalty that he knew awaited him by a defeal in the fall of 1890. There was, it is true, no financial panic to complicate the situation, but throughout the country there were protests' raised against the enactment.of the McKinley bill. The. republicans in the west and ‘northwest denounced the measure as @ betrayal of trust, and it was predicted ‘as inevitable -that the party that was responsible for .this legislation would be overwhelmingly defeated in the No;vember election. - The handwriting on the wall-was not in mystical characters. On the contrary, it was easy of interpretation to anyone who was not blind- | ed by interest or preconceived ideas. The leading protectionists, it is true, did not admit at the time the McKinley bill was undér discussion, and at the ‘time it wés enacted, that the country . was soon to repudiate them and their measure; but the. fact was evident to | everyone else. When they asserted’ ( that the election of 1890, which re- }, sulted in such an overwhelming defeat | for them, was due to a misunderstand- | ing of the benefits of the protective ' tariff, it needed only the second defeat -in 1892, after two years of experience, l with McKinleyism, to make it evident that the judgment of these gentlemen l as political prophets was not in the | least to be depended upon; that they predicted - what: they desired to see I brought about without the least regard sto obvious facts... Now the proper | course for the republican majority in | congress in the spring and summer of i 1890, when it found that the sentiments | of the people were averse to McKinley"ism, was either to have abandoned all effort to revise the tariff or to have ( ‘taken up revision upon the principle of lowering duties . But they did not do l anything of this kind. —Boston Herald.

——Has any promise that has everJ been made by a protectionist to the wool-growers of this country ever been fulfilled?' Did they not get higher prices for wool under a three-cent duty than under a six-cent duty? Did they not get a higher price under a six-“ cent duty than under ' a ten-cent duty? - Did they not get a higher price under a ten-cent duty than they are getting now under an eleven-cent duty? Is there a wool-buyer in the country, who is not an enthusiastic "advocate of protection, willing ~to spend large amounts of 'money to have it continued? Do men usually enthusiasticaily advocaté and contribute enormous corruption funds to keep up the price of that which they have to buy, when their yearly profits anhd their business depends upon their-buying cheap and selling dear?—N. Y. World.., ——Referring to the wool schedule Mr. Voorhees said: *‘lf I believed wool on the free list would hurt the farmer 1 would not vote for the vending bill It is a matter of actual demonstration, however, which has been made, that frée wool, accompanied by such rednced Tates as can then be placed on manufactures of wool and which are placed on them in this bill, is one of the greatest blessings that can befall the farm--er. Ifthe farmer should get an in~ creased price for his wool by reason of a tariff for its protection he will pay it ‘all out and much more to the manu‘facturer asa duty on woolen goods. when he next buys a flannel shirt, an. overcoat, or a pair of wousers.”