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' iLL MYSTERY THE OLD MILL MYST By Arthur W. Marchmont, B. A. Lothor of **Miscr Hoadley’s Secret,” *¢ Madeline ~ Power,” ** By Whose Hand,” £ ““Isa,” &c., &ec. [Copyright, 1892, by ihe Author.] * . CHAPTER XX—CONTINUED. , *l'd better tell you plainly. They say you were seen geiting into the mill that night at about ten o’clock; and that a handkerchief of yours—one I gave you, Tom—was picked up inside the mill, close by the place.” “Who found it?” *I believe Reuben Gorringe did.” “Curse him; he’s a traitor, I believe!” eried Tom, fiercely. ' **Nay, Tom; he's a friend. Directly the affair at the mill had happened he came round to say that he wanted you at the mill, and that you were not to think anything more of what had happened in the afternoon between Mr. Coode and you. He's a friend. ” “Does he know you've come to see me?” asked the man, suspiciously. “ITe doesn’t know it; but he guessed I should come, and he advised me to tell you to come back to Walkden Bridge and face matters out, but that if not he would do whatever he could to help you to wait until the explanation could be given.” : *‘Explanation,” cried Tom, ‘what explanation? What does he say against me 2" ’ . )

‘‘He does not say anything against vou, dear; all he means is that there are matters which will need explanation.” She was anxious to let him know whdl# she knew. and yet shunned the task of speaking out plainly. ‘lt may be necessary that you should—should say - why you came away; and—and what you were doing during the whole of that evening, and how the haundkerchief can have come to be inside the mill close by that window.” s

“*What do you mean by this, Mary?” he asked, ‘“have you come here just to try and-question me as to my doingson that night?”

I have hot come to ask any questions for my own sake,” answered the oirl. .

“Well, if you have come for mine you make a great mistake. I don’t care a straw what people say. I havealready told you that I don't wish to speak of the matter.” .

“It is not what ordinary people think, dear; but what the—" she stopped, and changed the form of what she was saying. ‘lt is no time for beating about the bush. I have been half afraid to speak out. But I had better. I am afraid they do suspect vou, Tom, and there are one or two reasons why. Some of these are known to those who are making. inquiries—the police—others only to ourselves. In the first place there isthe knowledge that you had words with -Mr. Coode that day, and that he told yom to leave Walkden Bridge.” ' “That's why I left,” said her companion, eagerly.

“Yés, I know, my dear, but they know you did notleave until nearly midright; or at least they think it, and they think that you wercabout the mill and got into the place through the window in Watercourse-lane: thenthafyou dropped a handkerchief close by—and if they think that, they ask why you went there? Then, for some reason, I know not what, the papers which Mr. Coode had, and which he regarded as the proof of what he charged you with having done, were taken away from the office when he was killed.”

*What!” explained the man, in a tone of profound astonishment and alarm. ‘“Andwasnothing else taken?” **No, not that I hayve heard.”

“Ican’t explain that—l don’t know what it can mean. Thére must be some mistake.” He spoke hurriedly and in manifest: agitation; and his cheelks had paled. “Is there anything else?” he asked, ina low troubled tone.

The girl, seeing his distress, had not the courage to say anything about the finding of the weapon—knowing that she had destroyed all the danger of that.

“*No, I don’t think there's anything more,” she answered. “DBut you see now why we thought there should be an explanation.”

The wman sat a long time without saying ® word in reply. His elbow was resting on the arm of the seat and his hand. +ith the fingers clenched tightly, was held against his face, as he pressed his knuckles hard against his teeth. When he spoke it wasin a tone of evident trouble and fear. © “I am not safe for an hour, Mary. I apoke irritably just now;I am sorry. Forgive me, my lass: I shan’t have another chanee. It only means I shall hasten my going by a day orso. You don’t think me capable of doing such a thing as this, do you?” he said, turning to her. ' o B : “Nay, Tom, I would neverbelieve it, unless you yourself told me you had <done it. I trust you, lad, and love you too well to think like that of you.” “You are better to me than I've deserved, lass,” he answered. ‘“But I'll try and make up for it all in time to come.” “But you’ll come back to the Bridge and face it out, won’t you?” she said. ‘““There’s: no good comes in funning away, lad.” - ¢Nay, I'll not go back till things are plainer. I can’t understand what it means; and maybe after a bit the truth’ll come out. But I can’t see how the thing’s to be put right now.” *“lf you go away. there will be many <who will look at thatas an admission that you ecan’t explain things,” urged Mary, ina low voice. “IWhat shall I care what they think when I'm away? I shall go.” : “Where will you go, Tom?” she asked, her heart filling at the’thought of the Jlong separation. : “I don’t know. I-shall get off to Liverpool to-day;and whatever vessel’s ;going, I shall sail at the earliest possible moment.” ““May I.go to Liverpool with you?” she asked. % 7 ‘““Better mnot, lass, better not. You shall know where I am settling as soon as I know myself. Youn ecan wait that while—ean’t you, my dear?” : “Yes, Tom,” she said, simply, slipping her hand .into his. ‘‘You may trust that Tllbe as true as the light. But it'll _be a sad time for me,. I reckon;” and she laid her head on his shoulder and clung to him. ‘I shall ‘be woeful without my lad,” she said, -smiling up to him through her tears. DGWWM e hap: _pier awdy oubof. it-all in nmew. home;: thhm% start. 1 shall send for you ‘soon. Will you keep yourself ready to come tome?™ o

“Aye, Tom. Ishall be waiting always and eagerly for that signal; and it’'ll be a glad day that when it comes. I love you with ail my heartand soul,” and then, although they sat together in the broad light of day, she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him, and drew him to her and made him kiss her in return.

“That’s our good-by, lad,” she said. “We’d best go now, lest 1 break down.” *‘God bless you, my lass, while we're apart,” he said. They walked back-together into the great city, back to the station, scarcely speaking, for the hearts of both were full; and they looked out the girl’s train. It was to start soon, and Tom said he would wait and see her away. “Have you any money, Tom?” she asked. ) ;

- ““Enough for my passage,” he answered. “I can work when I get there, wherever I may go.” “I brought with me what I had in the house. Take it,” and she gave him asmall shabby purse. *“lt'sas much yours as mine,” she said, with a trustful, loving smile. “T’'ll send it back to you, lass, every penny: and beforelong,” he said.. ¢“And more with it, to pay your passage and bring you to me.” e She smiled and pressed his hand which she was holding firmly in hers. ‘“And now, good-by. Don’t come to the train with me. I shall be better alone,” she said. . “Good-by, my lass.” -

The words’ seemed to sink in the throat of each of them, and they stood looking steadily into each other’s eyes, with their hands tightly held. ‘ “I must go,” said Mary, feeling the tears were coming again; while her lips quivered as she spoke.

At that moment a hand was laid on the man’s shoulder. . ; “Tom Roylance, I want you! I have to arrest you for the murder of Mr. Coode in Walkden Bridge on Friday night.” ' “You might have said it so that the lass couldn’t have heard,” he said, pointing to Mary’s blanched face and bloodless lips. . As he spoke she swayed slightly,and would have fallen to the ground had not a bystander caught her by the arm and helped her to one of the seats.

CHAPTER XXI MARY SUSPECTS GORRINGE.

“IWhat does it afi mean, Mary, lass?”

The question, asked in a thin, querulous, trembling voice, greeted Mary the moment she entered Tom’s cottage, and old Roylance peered at her from his invalid’s bed with such a look of pain and fear on his 4hin, pinched, pale face that the girl was moved almost to tears. - Jo .

. The news that Tom Roylance had been arrested for the murder of Mr. Coode was known quickly in the mill, and when the hands left work it was the one subject of universal gossip. Rumors had reached the old invalid, and he had waited with fretful and waxing impatience for the coming of either Savannah or Mary, that he might learn what the truth really was.

- “What does what mean, father?” was Mary's answer. ; ““This I hear about Tom, lass, of course.. VWhat else? ‘What does it mean? What has happened? Where is he?” .

. ““There’s been some strange blunderings somewhere,” said Mary, ‘“‘and by some sort of stupid mistake the police have got mixed up in it.” “Come here.”"

There was a tone of harsh imperiousness in the thin, quavering voice, like an echo of perished strength of will. He seized the girl by the dress with both hands and, turning her face to the light, he looked at her earnestly and sharply. » i “Is’'t anything really wrong with ’im? Tell truth, lass.” ' ““No, father, nothing,” answered Mary, understanding him, and speaking in strong, clear tones, while she returned his look steadily and fixedly. “Our lad couldn’t do what these fools say. I know it. I've seen him to-day.” *“‘YWWhat have the fools taken him for, then?”’ ,

‘“‘Because they’ve been blundering, that’s all.” “Shut the door, lass. See that there’s no one about,” said the: old man mysteriously, loosing his hold and pushing the girl toward the door. ‘l’ve something to say to you.” . ' : To satisfy him Mary went out, looked into the parlor, and locking the front door went back to him somewhat puzzled.

He took hold again of her dress and drew her close to him.

“I've been fearing this,” he said, ina voice in which eagerness and terror were struggling. ‘He was mad against Coode; and that night”—here his voice went to a whisper—*‘‘he was awful wild in his manner. - Do you think he may have quarreléd with yon and have given him a erack in his rage? D 9 you feel sure yourself, lass, that nothing happened between them?”’ B “Yes, I am sure, father—quite sure,” answered Mary, in a tone so confident that it comforted and reassured the old man.

“You're a good lass, Mary—a good lass,” he said. ‘l’ve been wronging the lad—and such a lad as he has always been, too. Poor lad! Poor Tom! I suppose they have taken him up, haven’t they?” ‘. “Yes,” answered Mary, glad that she had not had the task of breaking the news. ‘‘They charge him, but they've got to make good their words, and that's a very different thing. Then, you baven’t told anyone about his coming here late on Friday night?” “No, lass, not a soul. I was too skeered tosay a word about it. TFor he was awful wild and strange-like.” he said. :

“By the way, did you see whether he ‘brought anything in with him when he came?” asked Mary, the thought of her discovery in the parlor returning ‘to Jher. ; “I don’t know thathe had. I rather think he hadn’t, but I can’t rightly say. Have you seen Savannalhi? The ['lass hasn’t been in for a week or niore ‘and 1 miss her sorely.” ; ~ “She’s been away; went Friday, and only came back yesterday. I saw her last night.” L “ “I wish she'd come in for a bit. Tell her, if you see her, it’s lonesome lying “here by oneself, now, without the lad’s home coming to look forward to,” said the old man, with a sigh. . “I’ll come back myself as soonasl can,” said Mary, touched by the words. “But I must go home for awhile.” = .+ Close by her eottage she met Gibgon Prawle. i ey S o - Bince the'time of the explosion he had remained in the village, but had avoided Mary. Now, coutrary to his

custom, he orossed the atrees and came up to her. ' *This’ll trouble you, Mary, I've heard the news,” he said, without any other greeting. ‘“l'mcsorry.” ~ ‘““What news do you mean, Gibeon?” she asked, as if in ignorance of his meaning. % ? :

‘““About Tom,” replied the other. “I should like to help you if youll let me.” L bhed

*“I want no help of yours. I have not yet forgotten what I heard that night,” replied Mary, looking meaningly at him. 3 ' ‘“You mean you’ll have no dealings with me, because I had a hand in tl at plant?” e ) ~ “I don’t trust you, Gibeon; and I want no help from them I can’t trust.” *Well, you can do as you like, with your beastly pride,” he answered, somewhat angrily. ‘“And if you hadn’t saved my life you might go to the deuce. But I'm not so ‘bad as yom seem inclined to think, and I might be able to do you a good turn over this job.” . : “] don’t want your help, I tell you,” repeated the girl. *‘l don’t want anybody’s help. And you couldn’t help me if I did.” 3 A

“You don’t know that, Mary,” said the man. ; i

“I know that, I wouldn’t have your help, even if ¥ did want it;” and with that she walked on.

At the cottage she found a note from Reuben Gorringe.

“This is terrjble news. I had better see you at onos. Either come to me at the mill or let me know of your return that I may coma to you.” ¢ Mary went up at once to the mill, and not finding the manager there left word that she had been seeking him. She had been at home some little time, and had made a imeal—the first she had had that day—before Gorringe came. ,

He took the hand she held, and kept it a long time, as if in friendly sympathy, while he looked pityingly into her face. ,

“You are suffering cruelly,” he said. *This is teyrible news.” .

“It is disgraceful that such blunders should be made,” answered Mary, her face lighting momentarily with indignation. :

‘Jfit is a blunder, yes. Were you followed from here?” ' The girl winced at the cruel suggestion that it was owing to her that Tom had been arrested. “Can that have been the cause-of his being taken?” she asked.

“I should think not. There must have been some other clew. " He must have been recognized,” he said; but there was not enough convietion in his words to soothe the girl. “Oh, Tom, 1om! What have I done?” she wailed, and beht her face on her arms on the table. Suddenly she raised her head and looked searchingly at her companion. “Why did you not warn me when you were here last night?”

"“I did not think there wuas more than the mérest shadow of suspicion in the minds of the police,” was the ready answer. “Do you thiuk I could have such a thought and not tell you! If you do I had better go. If there is no trust between us we can do nothing to save Tom from the trouble.” “Forgive me,” cried Mary, anxious not to offend one whose help and friendship meant so much to her lover. “I do trust you,” and she put out her hand as if to detain him.

““It is more valuable now to ask you what was the result of the interview. What was Tom’s decision? Had he meant to come back and face all, or to wait until the truth could be made clear?” o |

‘ At that {nstant as he asked the question the suspicion of Gorringe which had prompted her question a minute before flashed into the girl’s mind and warned her to be cautious in all that she told him, and not to say anything which might be used against Tom. - “I had better tell you all that X know,” she answered, evading the question and wishing to gain time to Pthink how she had best frame what 'she wanted to say. ‘‘He went away because of what you and Mr. Coode had 'said to him in the afternoon, threatening him with prosecution in the money } matter; and he was not willing to icome back until he knew that that was over.”

“But you told him what I had said, didn’t you, and that at the earliest moment possible I went to his cottage to assure him that all that affair was over and done for?”

“Yes, I told him what you had said; but he felt angry and bitter that such g threat should ever have been used.”

“] see. He wanted something more than a mere promise of that kind to bring him baek, I suppose. But now that affairs -have taken this disastrous turn it is most important to learn what he told you as to his movementson Friday night. What did he tell you of those?” ; ;

“I—l did not press him; 1 gcarcely asked him,” said Mary, hesitating and stumbling over the words; ‘'but he to!d me enough to convince me that he was never near the mill that night.” ‘Reuben ' Gorringe listened to the econfused statement in silence, and then bent his eyes on the girl’s face and knitted his brows{ as he answered: “You are doing what you, no doubt, think right, Mary, in trying to screen Tom; and if you don’t want to speak, I don’t want to try and persuade you to do so against your will. But don’t try to hoodwink me. Either you don’t or you won’t understand how serious matters are. ‘Tom has got not only to convince you, but to prove to a court that his tale is the truth. My own view is this: We had better instruct some good sharp lawyer who is skilled in these cases, and leave him to say what is the best line to be taken. But of course Tom will have to deal with him candidly, and I thought if you had told me what he says I might have been able to think out a suggestion or two. Forl make no secret to you, my ehild, that I look on the case as desperately grave and serious.” [TO BE CONTINUED.] :

His Reason. Willie—Papa, I think I like history twice as much as Ido arithmetie. * Papa—Why do you think s 6? - Willie—Becanse | I don’t. have to figure out the ' answers.~—Harper's Young People. : ; ; Irate But Polite. ' An exchangé credits a witty amons ity to a person who had just takea away an umbrella from the pedestrian in front of him. “Permit me,” he said, “to return your umbrells. I tound # ta my eye.” :

WORDS: TO REMEMBER. The Arguments of Two Champions of Genuine Tariff Reform. At the crisis of the closing debate on the new tariff bill Speaker Crisp and Chairman Wilson gave their reasons for supporting it. . Every democrat should learn by heart the following extracts from the two speeches. They answer every argument, every fallacy, every falsehood, every taunt and jeer of the republican shriekers and howlers for the protected trusts. . : :

The statements of these two leaders constitute the vindication of those who acted with them in voting for the senate bill. Chairman Wilson said: *“Whatever the measure of shortcoming of this bill in its present form—whatever be its demerits in mere schedules—this I do know, that it is better than the McKinley bill. This I do know, that in a part of it it does afford some relief to the taxpayers of this country and does clip the wings ‘of the gigantic monopolies that are now oppressing them and blocking legislation. S

“Take even those portions of the bill over which this contest between the two houses has been waged; take iron ore and coal, upon which we have confronted, and to a certain extent un successfully confronted, the great railroad syndicates of the conutry; yet we have reduced them both nearly 50 per cent. below the Mc¢Kinley bill. Take the sugar schedule, over which the gréatest of all the contests between the two houses has been waged. Vicious as it may be, burdensome to the people as it may - be, favorable to the trust as it may be, it is less vicious, less favorable to the trust, less burdensome to the people than is the McKinley law, under which thistrust has grown so great as to .overshadow with its power the American people.”™ Enforcing and indorsing the ‘argument of Chairman Wilson, Speaker Crisp said:

““If- there is a sugar trust in this country which is dominating legislation the republican party created it. And though this bill does not destroy that trust, as we wish it did, it takes away more than one-half of the protection accorded to that trust. *~ If there is a coal combine the legislation of the republican party built it up, and though we do net make coal free in this bill we reduce the duty from 75 cents to 40 cents. If there is a steel and iron combine the same remark applies. Going through these schedules, whilst they are not all we wish, they are (and we want the country to understand it) the best we can now get.. The moment we get this we intend to move forward; we do not intend there shall be any backward step in tariff reform.”

This is the democratic answer to every republican misstatement of the fact, to republican false arguments, to the flings and sneers which they use in place of argument. The bill is a measure of reform. It. takes something from the trusts. It has shorn them of a part of their power. The people are taxed less for their enrichment. : Mduch more than this, doubtless, is true. 'Protection has won its last triumph over the people. Tariff rates never will be advanced again in this country for the benefit of monopolies and trusts. Every future change will be in the direction of lower revenue schedules. ¢ ‘From the hour that this tariff bill becomes a law the drift of federal legislation will be away from protection. Another protective tariff law mnever will be enacted by the United States congress. .

So, in a measure, in the effect on tariff legislation for the future the pledges of the democratic platform of 1895 are redeemed, in their spirit and intent. Notwithstanding a partial apparent defeat, a vital democratic principal is‘erowned with triumph.—Chicago Herald. - :

“INDECENT FAVORITISM.”

An Exposure of a Piece of Nauseating

Republican Cant.

Ve find in the editorial columns of republican journals Bome very' queer criticisms of the new tariff. For example, the New York Tribune, which is never weary of calling the McKinley act, with all its purchased taxes, ‘‘the wisest and bravest tariff laws vet framed,” now talks about ‘‘cases of indecent favoritism” in the new tariff, and in the same sentence specifies ““the defense of steel beam and some other monopolies by duties meant to be prohibitory.” i But if the duty on steel beams in the new tariff (very much lower than the duty in the old one) was ‘“meant to be prohibitory’” and is an example of *‘indecent favoritism,” and is therefore to be denounced, how will the Tribune characterize the steel beam duty in the McKinley tariff? We may ask the same question about the duties on steel rails. Here is a comparison of the duties per ton: : ‘ : ; M.cKinley. New Tariff: Steel beams. (..o ivae s, 0320.16 $13.44 Steel rallal. . i.oiii oo 1844 7.84 If a duty of $13.44 per ton on beams is “‘indecent” and ‘‘meant to be prohibitory,” was not the McKinley duty of $20.16 more ‘‘indecent’” and prohibitory in a greater degree? Was not a duty of $13.44 on rails much more ‘‘indecent” than one of $7.84 can be? And does not the Tribune know that in the senate these duties of %13.44 on beams and $7.84 on rails were substituted for the very much lower rates of the house bill (30 per cent. and 20 per cent. respectively) at the suggestion or command of Mr. Quay, of Pennsylvania, the republican senator by whose vote alone the sugar trust saved its differential protective duty of 1§ of a cent a pound, a duty worth at least $10,000,000 in three years to that organization? : If this tariff is, as the Tribune says in econnection with its remarks about the steel beam duty,a ‘‘bill of sale to monopolists,” was not the McKinley tarift a “bill of sale” in which the prices realized were larger because the favors granted were more valuable? The duty of $13.44 on beams in the new tariff does not ‘“defend a monopoly.,” because the combination of the manufacturers of steel beams no longer exists. We think the duty should have been made lower, but the combination was dissolved two years ago. The Tribune knows this. It has repeatedly published the fact in its news columns and referred to it in its editorial articles. The combination was dissolved by the action of Mr. Carnegie. Some of our republican contemporaries have never forgiven him for breaking this ring and thus causing a reduction of prices to a competitive basis which made it impossible for them honestly to defend the McKinley tariff’s towering duties on the product in question, The republican tariff in force from 1883 to October 6, 1890, “indmenfly"

gave this combination, the existence of which was freely admitted in the last three or four years of that tariff by the members of it, a protective duty of $2B per ton, and within the last twelve months American beams have been sold at $25. Under the shelter of this duty of $2B the ring maintained for three or four years, without variation, the price of $73.92 per ton, or 3 3-10 cents a pound. It could take advantage not only of the duty of $2B, but also of natural protection equivalent to not less than 25 per cent. Forabout two years after the passage of the MeKinley tariff the same combination, with the assistance of the ‘‘indecent” MeKinley duty of $20.16, exacted a. uniform ring price of $69.44 per ton, or 3 1-10 cents a pound. This was freely admitted, and was shown by the reports of every trade journal of the iron and steel industry. i

But after the withdrawal of Mr. Carnegie and the resumption of ordinary competitive conditions in the steel ‘beam business, the price fell in a short time more than 40 per cent. Thereafter it declined more slowly, until beams were sold at 1 1-10 cents a pound, (82484 per ton), or just onethird of the old ring price exacted by Chairman Jones, of the Republican national committee, and his associates in the combination. The price to-day at Pittsburgh is 1 3-10 cents a pound, or $29.12 per ton. There is no combination. .

Our neighbor should avoid any reference to the duties on steel beams.

Even in the case of the sugar trust, the Tribune has admitted, and the party’s tariff leader and highest authority in congress freely says, that the protective bonus given to the trust in the new tariff is not quite three-quarters of the protective bonus given to it by the McKinley tariff, 424 cents, as against 60 cents per hundred. FEarnest and consistent advocates of tariff reform have just ground for complaint about many of the provisions of the new tariff, but the cant of the thick-and-thin supporters of McKinleyism and the McKinley tariff, with all its huge jobs, about ‘“‘indecent favoritism” and ‘‘prohibitory duties” in the bill recently passed is more dishonest, insincere and nauseating than anything of the sort thatcan be found in the history of American politics.—N. Y. Times. -

YWhat We Have Saved

The failure of the Qouse democracy to secure the enactmentas a law of the Wilson bill as originally drawn is, of course, a great disappointment to democrats the country over and a misfortune to the party and the people at larpe.: . ; s

The bill as passed is infinitely preferable to the McKinley law, and itsadoption demonstrates the disposition -of most of the democratic representatives and senators to make good the promises included. in the party’s platform adopted at the Chicago convention.

The tariff on woolens is reduced about one-half, wool itself is made free, as is also lumber and salt; the cotton and metal schedules are greatly reduced, and the duties on coal and iron are virtually cut in two. Furthermore, the income feature of the bill takes several million dollars from the tax on articles consumed by the masses and places it on the incomes of the rich. These features of the bill all contain important benefits for the people who pay the taxes. and they should Eot be depreciated or belittled in any ray.

For free sugar, free iron, free coal and absolute free trade the country must look to the future. If the democrats have a majority in congress next year some important advances in the way of tariff reform will be made. In the meantime the Wilson bill, as passed, is the best law that could be enacted under the circumstances, and for so much of good it contains—and the amount is not small—the peopls of this country, so long ~harassed and racked by war taxation, will be thankful.—Chicago Times. :

Banking on Poverty.

Hon. Champ Clark, of St. Louis, in an address before the Young Men's Democratic society, of New York, among other things said: . ““The republican party this day bases all its hopes of 1894 and 1893 on the continued depression of business. In the whole history of politics it is the first time that any great party ever welcomed hunger, nakedness and enforced idleness as allies.” .

And that hunger, nakedness and enforced idleness is the direct result of the vicious legislation of that same republican party.—Exchange. =~

G. 0. P. Talk vs. G. O. P. Votes.

The Press said a few days ago that ‘the republicans in the senate can effectually assail this disgraceful alliance between the administration and the sugar monopolists by Voting to put sugar on the free list and to restore the bounty to domestic producers.”” No doubt they could, but they wouldn’t. They voted solidly for the Murphy resolution against any further ‘‘contested legislation.” They did not want to deprive themselves of a campaign issue or the sugar ring of its booty.—N. Y. World. :

By Popular Vote.

At their convention on Wednesday, August 15, the democrats of Pittsylvania county, Va., unanimously indorsed the course of their representative in congress, Claude A. Swanson, one of the most earnest tariff reformers in the house, and adopted a resolution saying ‘‘that the senators of the United States should be elected by the direct vote of the people, that they may know they are not the arbiters of rings and combines, but the servants of a free, independent and intelligent people.”

Traitors Will Be Remembered. The Rochester Union (Dem.) says: ‘*“The democratic party—the people—obliged to surrender to the Gorman gang for the time being in order to gain relief for the country, will settle in detail: with the Dbeneficiaries of whatever of plunder has been smuggled through 1n the senate bill, not one of which can find legs to stand upon when teken singly as to its merits.” , Democrats House Cleaning. It is time for the national democratic party to begin its house cleaning. Gorman, Brice and their clique should be notified to secure quarters elsewhere. They should seek more congenial companionship. At the same time. their room is worth more to the democratia party than their company.—Exchange. ‘ Of, by and for Trusts, The protective tariff has created a power that has a more potent influence over congress than the people themselves. This has becomea government of the trusts, vy the trusts and for the trusts. What are the peopic going to do about it? :

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

International I.esson for Septembev 16, 1894—Jesus at Jacob’s Well—John 4: 9-26. ; o [Specially arranged from Peloubet’s notes.] GOLDEN TEXT.—Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. ~John 4: 14. G g PLACE IN THE HISTORY.—First year. Sixth event. : : g TlME.—December, A. D. 27. About eight months after the last lesson. i L PLACE.—Samaria, at Jdcob's well, near Sychar, st the foot of Mount Gerizim. FEASTS IN A. D. 27.—Passover, April 9; Penteoost, May 80; Tabernacles, October 4. - ; JESUS—Now about thirty-one years old. at the close of his first year’s ministry. chiefly in Judea. John the Baptist preaching at Enon, near the Jordan between Jericho and the Sea ¢f Galilee. %

LESSON NOTES

Jesus’ Journeys from Judea to Samaria.—The larger part of the first year of His ministry Jesus spent in Judea. It was now winter. He had been so successful in gaining diseciples, chiefly from those John had taught and prepared, that His disciples increased faster than those of John, who himsel§ had said: ‘‘He must increase, but I must decreade.”’. This was the fruit and proof of John's success. But, seeing that remaining in Judea might cause. friction betweer His disciples and those of John, and that the Pharisees would foment this feeling and arouse opposition, and wishing to seek freer fields of: labor, where He could nurture the infant church, Jesus decided to leave Judea and spend some time in Galilee. The province of Samaria lay between, and He, with His disciples, began the journey on foot,

Jesus Resting by Jacob's Well.— The road from Judea to Galilee led by the town of Sychar. a part of the ancient Shechem, and Jacob's weill or fountain (Gen. 33:18-20). It.is on a knoll, really a spur of Gerizim, elghteen feet high. Approaching, we find an irregular, open space, or chamber; cut out some six feet in the ground. and walled up on the sides. It was originally nearly square—say seventeen by fifteen feet. Anarchway once spanned the chamber. In the center of this chamber is the well. It is nine feetin diameter, and for a distance of some twelve feet is carefully walled up. Thence -downward it is solid roek. Maundrell, in 1697, found it to be one hundred and five feet deep. A dozen years ago an Arab was let down into the well, and by measuring the rope it was found to be seventy-five feet deep, and quite dry -at the bottom. The thirty feet of rubbish at the bottom covered up the water. e =5

He -Asks a Samaritan woman for a Drink of Water:—While Flis disciples wentto the city halfa mile away tobuy food, a Samaritan woman came to the well to draw water, probably for the laborers in the field, for there was water to drink nearer Sychar. Jesus, having no means of drawing \va%er for Himself, asked her to give Him a drink. She asks in surprise and perhaps pleasure, “‘How is it that Thou, being a Jew,” etc, ' She recognized Him as a Jew either by His speech or His dress. “For the Jews. have no dealings with the Samaritans,” a remark thrown in by the writer to give the reason forher surprise. = They have no dealings of friendly intercourse. ¢ This ill-will, however, did not extend beyond familiar intercourse; for in such matters as buying and selling, intercourse was allowed. This is manifest both from Jewish writers and from the -conduct of our Lord’s disciples_on the present ocecasion.” o :

He Offers Her the Vater of Etermal Life.—lt is worth while to note here how often Jesus gives His best instruetion, His choicest truths. in ‘private conversation and to one hearer or a very few. It was the szme in our last lesson. “If thou knewest the gift of God:” The living waters referred to below: and salvation and eternal life which . they produce, and the Messiah through whom they come. In a word, the whole Gospel of salvation as brought by Jesus Christ. ““And who it is that saith.” And that this Messiah that brings this salvation is now talking with you, and can give it to you. “Thou wouldst have asked of Him.” Instead of His asking of thee, *‘thou” is.emphatic. Spiritually, our positions ure reversed. It is thou who art weary, and footsore, and parched, close to the well, yet unable to driak; it isT who can give thee the water from the well and quench thy thirst forever. *“And He would have given thee living water.” That is perennial, springing from an unfailing sourze (Gen. 26:19), ever flowing, fresh (Lev. 14:5). *“Living water,” then, denotes the gift of the Holy Spirit. ' This was preeminently the promised gift of the Father (see especially Isa. 44; Joel 2), beautifully and most aptly symbolized by the fresh, springing water, which, wherever it comes, makes the desert rejoice and everything live. The Water of Life.—l. Every person has certain great thirsts of the soul. He is full of wants, of longings, of. desires. He needs love, forgiveness, immortal life, the friendship of God. holiness, happiness, knowledge, usefulness, Heaven. a larger sphere and broader life. The larger the soul, the more and greater are its thirsts. Civilization, progress, goodness, always increase the thirsts of the soul. The number and quality of these thirsts are the measure of the man. 2. This world, its work, its ambition, its pleasures can never satisfy the soul. 3. Jesue Christ, by the living watershe gives, sat~ isfies every thirst of the soul. Asmany sided as man is, so many sided is the raligion of Jesus S

“ POINTERS FOR US ALL. NeveEr did any harm, -eh? Well, neither did a rotten egg. | Toe plow would not go deep if the team had anything to say about it. LovE never turns back because it sees a mountain or hears a lion roar. | TuE man who is constantly thinking evil finds a thousand ways to speak it. Noßopy ever made life any brighter for another by growling and grum‘bling. ; : IF you would sleep well at night, be wide awake when a stranger seeks your confidence. i ; WHEN you go to war with a snake, the battle ought to be with the end where the head is. G e Tue sun will keep right on shining no matter how much we may talk about its black spots. ; L It is right for charity to begin at home, but she has not done her duty until she has gone allover the world.— Ram’s Horn. - : o Bopiks of moths are covered with a thick down because the insects require. protection from the dampness of the night. 2o TuE road to fortune is paved with printer’s ink. e

. WAGES COMING DOWN. Beneficiaries of - McKinleyism Drawing lo ; S Their Lines. s . Some of the principal beneficiaries of McKinleyism are now threatening to reduce wages to an extent which will give them a much wider margin of profit under the mew tariff than they had under the old. They threaten to throw not only the entire reduction of duties, but much m#ére than the entire reduction; upon wages. For instance, the manager of the Aurora cotton mills in this state is quoted -as saying: ‘The McKinley tariff was 35 per cent. ad valorem and the new bill is 25 per cent., a reduction of 10 per cent. We have reduced wages 10 per cent. to meet this and hope to'be able to get along without further reductions, but cannot tell until we come to market the goods and strike balances.” In this case an alleged reduction of 10 per-cent. in the tariff has already been met by a reduction of 10 per cent. in wages, and there is.a hint at still further reduction. Tt is'assumed, to begin with, that a reduction of ten points in the rate of duty will bring down the price of competing goods - 10 per cent. and force down ‘the price of like domestic goods 10 per cent. This can hardly deceive uny working man or’woman wno has had the benefit of a common school education. The Q([i"eception is too transparént. : : .

.An importer brings in cotton goods costing $1 abroad. If the duty is 35 per cent., the cost after importation, duty paid,” is $1.85. If the duty is 25 per cent., the cost, duty paid, is $1.25. The difference is 10 cents on $1.35, or less than 715 per cent., instead of 10 per cent. ‘The tricky mill boss referred to proposes to increase his profit by taking from his operatives 214 per cent. more than the entire reduction in cost of the foreign article duty paid. .. The Aurora mill boss makes an admission which.should open the eyes of his operatives.. He says: . ““We reckon it by the pound. Our L. L. goods, four yards to the pound, cost us 8 cents & pound for labor to manufacture. In England they pray for labor to make the same class of goods only 4 cents a pound. This gives them an advantage of 1 cent a yard for'goods that make four yards.to the pound. This 25 per cent. tariff just covers the cost of the differ=ence paid for the labor to make the goods.” So it is admitted that the new rate covers the entire difference in labor cost. Tt is, therefore, just right according to the Minneapolis republican platform. But the statement of this mill' boss in regard to labor cost does not correspond with the facts as stated by. James G. Blaine as secretary of state under Garfleld, after a careful investigation by the state department. According to the Blaine report the labor cost of cotton goods is no greater in this country than in England, but in reality somewhat less. Accepting the official’ report instead of the individual statement of an interested

party,” no tariff is needed to cover difference in labor cost. And yet it is proposed to take 23 per cent. more than the entire reduction of the tariff out of wages. In fact, it has been done by the Aurora concern. . .. It iS reported that the New Jersey pottery bosses propose toreduce wages twenty per cent., including a reduction already made, which is considerably more than the reduction of the tariff on competing wares. And the window glass bosses are thfeatening a cut of thirty per cent., or at least six per cent. more than the entire reduction of gompetitive prices. by the lower rates: - : \

- All these bosses ignore the fact that there was no increase in wages, but in many cases a .vdecrease; after the passage of the MecKinley bill with, its higher rates. There was nothing for the ~workmen in the higher rates. The bosses pocketed everything. And now that rates are lowered they.propose .to pocket still more by cutting wages more than the entire cut in prices resulting from lower duties.

~ 'And all this is done not in the expectation that wages ean be kept down for any length of time. It is done to influence the votes of the men and, if possible, restore the McKinley party to power and get back the old plundering scale of duties. The depression consequent upon the republican silver panic favors their scheme for the moment, but that will soon pass away and with it the foreced reduction of wages. 3

The proper response to the bulldozing bosses would be the passing of a bill sweeping away the protective duties altogether. That would serve them right for reducing wages so far as to increase their gains, even under the lower duties, and for attempting by reduction of wages to restore the McKinley party to power and to secure for themselves a restoration of the full benefit of the McKinley law. Sucharrogantproducts of protectionism are entitled to no consideration whatever.—Chicago Herald.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

" =—The humming of the industries as they resume operations will be sure to spoil the harmony of the eroakers. —Washington Post. £ ——Republican newspapers and leaders are so busy urging employers to reduce wages that they have little time now to abuse democrats.—Chicago Herald. ——Republican organs had three editorials in type awaiting the president’s action on the tariff bill. He was toioe denounced. and abused whether he signed, vetoed or did néither.—Detroit Free Press. :

.'——lln their eastern territory the republicans are villifying the south and west.. The south and west must vindicate and support their repretentatives or consent to be called cowards and deserters.—St. Louis Republic. ——This is one of the years in which the New York republicans should see that Tom Platt does not neglect his business interests to make himself conspicuous in politics.—St. Louis GlobeDemocrat (Rep.). ——Oh, yes, there are numerous unintentional errors in the new tariff bill, and there are numerous flies on the dumpling. All the same, the dumpling will be duly appreciated by discriminating people.—Boston Herald. :——RBince the passage of the democratic tariff bill there has been a great revival of business in the Indiana natural gas belt. Industries which were closed down under the McKinley law ave starting up daily. The Diamond plate glass factory at Kokomo is running day and night, Sundays included, with a full force of men. There seems to be mo doubt that as soon ds the manifacturers mfirfiflf realize that the McKinley tariff is no longer in force there will *"o{' renewed ac :E" : fndustries throughont the country.— Chicago Herald,