Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 26, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 October 1894 — Page 7

THE OLD WILL MYSTERY t Lt i | - By Arthur W. Marchmont, B. A. Anthor of **XMiser Hoadley’s Secret,” ¢¢ Madeline Power,* ‘* By Whose Hand,” © o ¢ Isa,” &¢., &c. [Copyright, 1892, by the Autlwe.] ~ CHAPTER XXIV.—CONTINUED. “No doubt. But will it be enough for a jury? Was there a man ever accused who did not deny the accusation? Don’t think me hard, or cruel, or unjust. lam not. I must do what is best for you, even though I know you may feel lam unkind in doing it. But we cannot look at the matter from the same point.” - ‘““What do you mean?” asked the girl. ‘““You think and believe Tom is innocent, and that his liberation would be right and just. I think him guilty, and were it not for you I should not halt for an instant in the path of duty.” He paused, and when the girldid not speak, continued: ' “I must talkk of myself to-night, for I can feel that you ought to see this action of mine as I see it myself. If Tom had ‘been a good, true, honest man to you I could have borne it to see ou his wife. But when I learned, as gdid learn, that he was carrying on a dlouble game with you and that girl Bavannah, I began to be afraid for you. Then came the rest; the stories of the money and now this. If [ loved him as you do, Mary, I might look at it all as you see it. But I don’t. I see it with the eyes of a man, my lass. Could I give you, whom I love, inté the care of a man I believe to be a murderer?”

“Ah, don’t,” cried the girl, shrinking. :

‘““Yes, I must. The truth must out. You must understand why I act like this. Prove his innocence; nay, show me how to prove it; put me on the most shadowy track of it, and T'll work to prove it; and when proved I'll be the first to take him by the hand, put him back in his place in the mill, and lay your hand in his with as honest a wish for your happinessas ever filled a man’s heart. But I must first know him to be innocent; while at present,” he lowered his voice, ‘I almost know him to be guilty.”

* Mary was moved in spite of herself, both by his words and his manner, and the proof of his love touched her. “Tom has not left any evidence against himself. He is innocent,” exclaimed Mary energetically. “Yes, right enough from the point of view from which you Fook at this. I admire you for holding your opinion staunchly like a true lass; but I can’t share it. How then must it be?”

“Can’t you give me more time? It seems almost as if in making a decision I were condemning Tom,” she said. ‘

“The hearing is to-morrow,” was his answer.

“But you need not go to it. You could wait until the next hearing,” she pleaded. ‘“Will you not do this? You say you are a child in my hands. Well, please me in this,” she said, with & wistful pleading smile as she put out her hands and touched him. ‘‘Give me more time.”

“If I do this, where is the use? There is danger in delay. If the case is heard to-morrow, there is barely enough evidence to secure a committal; but if the committal is made tomorrow the trial will be in time for the assizes next week, and the whole matter may be ended within a week or two. If you delay, the hearing tomorrow will be adjourned for another weels, the trial must be thrown over to the next assizes, and a delay of many weeks must take place; during which time the evidence may be strengthened in some way against him.” It was a cruel argument, and for the moment the girl was completely baffled.

“Will you let me decide, then, which it shall be?” she -asked.

“Yes, certainly. I have no wish but your welfare. Think, however, before you do decide.” ;

- “I have thought,” she said. ‘‘Tom is innocent; and he himself would choose to have the delay in the hope that the proofs of his innocence may be found. I will choose to wait.”

**‘As you will. I fear you are wrong; and if anything untoward should happen you must not blame me. The decision 'is a momentous one, Mary, and may mean life or death for Tom,” he said, speaking very emphatically. “I have decided,” she said. *‘As you will,” he said, again.

~ She was glad when he left her. - It was no wonder she -despaired. Those who might have given assistance in helping to unravel the mystery either could not or would not help. Reuben Gorringe was too firmly convinced of Tom’s guilt to be able to see a single ray of hope anywhere. Savannah had turned away and had refused even to tell the truth, while the only man who had made any sortof profession of belief in Tom’s innecence, Gibeon Prawle, was worthless and unreliable and had not even taken the trouble to let her know what he had done. :

Had he done anything? Was he in earnest? Or was he merely a shifty, worthless scamp, whose word and help were at'the purchase of the Jast bidder? Could it be that he had had anything to do with the deed?

- Then a hundred reasons flashed upon her why he might have been involved in it. He had been on the worst terms with both Coode and Gorringe; the latter had ruined him, and the former, as she knew, had refused to reinstate him. He was hard pressed for money even to exist upon; he knew the mill thoroughly; he was not unlike Tom in general appearance, build and -carriage, and in the dark might have been mistaken for him. Given that he had broken into the mill to rob the place, and -had been caught and surprised by Mr. Coode, what more likely that he should have turned upon him? ' As she thought of this, she grew ex--cited at the idea and was angry with herself for not having thought of it before. She recalled how he had flinched whem she had asked him pointedly the reason of his great in#erest in the matter. Added to that iwas his eertainty, expressed over and over again, that Tom was innocent; and as she thought of all this she was ready to rush at once to the conclusion that Gibeon was in some way involved in the mystery. She grew more excited as the belief increased, and after some time she dashed her hand on the table and exclaimed to herself:

“I'm right. That’s the reason for his Interest in the mystery. The villain!”

. Just then a hurried knock sounded on the dooref the cottage, the door was pushed open, a man's steps

sounded along the passage, and Gibeon Prawle himself entered fhe room. CHAPTER XXV. : “YOU ARE A MAD WOMAN." When, Mary saw who her visitor was she flushed, nervously, as though he could tell what her thoughts of him had just been. SBhe saw that he was tired and haggard and travel-stained. He sank down into a chair, as if exhausted, and gave a sigh of relief. “Give me some ‘water,”” he said, eagerly. ‘“l've had neither bite nor sup for hours, and I’'m faint.” ~ The girl brought him food and tea, and watched him while he ate rapidly and, indeed, ravenously. During the meal he made no attempt to break the silence, except now and again to declare what a long time it was since he had broken his fast.

She eyed him closely and suspiciously the whole time. noting with restless egerness the movement and expression of his face at the moments when he was too much engaged to notice her.. And her new thoughts in regard to him made her find a more evil and villainous look in his rather handsome face than ever before. “‘

His gluttony, too, disgusted her. The way he bolted the food, the quantity he ate, the noise he made in swallowing it and in gulping down cup after cup of tea, added to the repulsion with which he filled her. ,

At last he pushed the plate away from him and gave a loud sigh of repletion. “That’s good. Can I have a whiff of ‘bacca?’ he asked. : :

“No,” she answered, sharply; ‘‘you can’t.” ) ‘

“You'd let me sharp enough if you knew what I've got to tell you.” * “But I don't know it, and I don't want the smoke here.” She was angered at the cool disregard he showed to her intense and painful anxiety. ’

“You don’t ask me what my news is,” he said, after a pause. “No, I'm waiting for you to tell me. Have you found out what you went to find out?” She spoke rather ungraciously, but her suspicions of the man would assert themselves.

“You don't seem over gracious in your manner,” he said, looking at her and speaking discontentedly. ““This is not a time when I can keep a smile on my face allday. ~ What have you learnt?”’ : He was lolling back in his chair, but he now sat up and, leaning forward, put his arms on the table and looked earnestly and seriously at her as he answered slowly and emphatically: ‘I don’t know that I have learntanything definitely, but I'm on the track of something that will startle Walkden Bridge.” _ “Is that all?” replied Mary, in a disappointed tone. ‘‘Have you been able to find any of Savannah’s movements on Friday night?” Dl ~“Not on Friday night. But it won't matter so much-now.” .

“Have you found no one who was near the mill on that night?” she asked. . )

‘‘No; why?” he asked, glancing suspiciously at her. ‘“Why should I?” . “To prove that Tom wasn’t about there,” she answered. Then she tried to keep her voice steady and her tone indifferent for the next crucial question. _

“Where were you yourself that night?” . : There was no mistaking the quick movement of uneasiness with which he seemed to spring up into an attitude of eager, listening suspense, while the look he directed at her was full of angry and yet nervous questioning. “Where was I? Why, what has that to do with it?” o )

‘Because as you were about the village you must have seen them together. Where were you?” repeated Mary, in a clear, firm voice, regarding the man with a fixed, steady gaze as she spoke. : . Gibeon laughed uneasily, shifted on his seat, and glowered back threateningly. ~ ‘I suppose it don’t much matter to you, Mary, where I was? You wouldn’t take much intereést in me and my doings when 1 wanted you to.” "“But I take an interest mnow,” answered the girl, pointedly; ‘‘and especially in your doings last Friday. I expect them to show me why you take such an interest in this business.” She looked at him fearlessly. His uneasiness increased manifestly under the keen light of the girl’s steady gaze. :

“Say what you mean; right out. Don’t let us have any beating about the bush.. What are you driving at?” “Tell me where you were on Friday night,” she repeated. “I shall tell yoéu npthing. Not'a word more will you get out of me till I know what blessed plan you're hatching,”” he answered, with sullen defiance. o

“I have reason to believe that it was you yourself, Gibeon, who was mistaken for Tom getting into the mill on Friday night. That is what I mean.”’ N

“‘Go on!” he said, with a foreed ugly laugh. ‘‘Go on. Finish up what you've got to say. What next?” ‘“There’s no need to say any more,” answered the girl. “You know now what I mean, well enough. Now, will you tel), me where you were on Friday night?”

“No, Iwon’t. I can prove where I was easily enough, if it comes to that. But I'm not going to give an account of my doings to you or anybody else.” Then, asif he thought he could not leave the matter there: ‘“You mean, I suppose. that you think I ought to be where Tom is now and on the same charge, eh?” : Mary made no answer. : ‘“‘And do you think that if I'd killed the man and got away I should be such a blessed foolas to come here and put you on the track? Ifl'd wanted to hang myself, I should have chosen a different line from that, don’t you fear. However, that ends matters between us, my ldss. T meant well by you and Tom, because you did me a good turn that night in the barn. But when it comes to taxing me with murder, I've done. I'm not going to stand that, even though you did save my life.” g

“You'll bave to say where you were on Friday night,” said Mary again, persistently. *‘Shall I?” he answered, laughing again, but now more naturally and more angrily. “Shall 1? Perhaps 1 shall and perhaps I shan’t. Perhaps I shall stop to be questioned, and perkaps I shan’t; and perhaps it won’t be good for them that try to threaten me. You've made ~ mistake for once; oh! and a mistake, foo, that may cost you and your precious Tom dear enough.

And you’d think sO, too, it youwd gu hold of the news I came to bring, in stead of being so blessed qwick, think ing I could be such a gormed fool as to be willing to try and get another man acquitted of a crime which I myself had done.”

‘“You've not been trying,” said Mary, induced by the success of her former guess to make another. *‘You've only been wasting the time to prevent inquiries being made. You've found out nothing, because you've tried to find outnothing? &=" : . ““All right, have your own way,” he said. And from his manner Mary judged that her last charge was so wide of the mark as to make him indifferent to it. :

“I’'m sorry you've taken it this way,” he said, after a rather long pause. “I meant straight by you; I swear I did. But I ain’t going on with it.” Then as if stung by her taunt he said hastily: “I've been on the hunt the whole time since I saw you. Ay, and not without finding out something, either. What would you say to Savannah being not Savannah Morbyn at all, but Lucy Howell, an escaped lunatic, eh? Would that prowe to you that I hadn’t been wasting the time, eh? But I ain’t going any further. You can go on by yourself. I'm off. Thank you for the food. I'd pay you for it if I hadn't spent almost the last copper I had, as well as walked miles and miles in hunting this woman down. You’'ve made a. fool of yourself, Mary, and some day you'll know it. I'm going. Good night.”. He had risen, and spoke the last words standing by the door. “Don’t go, Gibeon. Tell me what you mean,” said Mary. “If 'm wrong, I'm sorry.” : ‘““No, thank you; not for me,” he said, withsneering laugh. “You might veer around again in another five minutes. You can just tackle this bit alone now.” And with that he went into the passage. ' “Come back, Gibeon,” cried Mary, following him. But he took no notice of her, and slamming the door rocughly behind him, he left her. *“Savannah not Savannah, but Lucy Howell, an escaped lunatic?” Conld it be true? As Mary thought over what he said a hundred incidents recurred to her in which she had observed that Savannah’s manner and conduct had been very strange. . _ Then a plan of action suggested itself and gave her hope. She would deal with Savannah as she had dealt with Gibeon, and as she -had surprised him into making dangerous admissions, so she would wry to force admissions from Savannah by a sudden and unexpected attack, She would go to her and threaten her with exposure unless she told the truth as to her being with Tom. -

She went at once to see Savannah, and hastened down the village street thinking how she was to frame her words. But a bitter disappointment was in store for her. * Savannah had gone away suddenly, and would not be back that night. - There was nothing forit but to wait, Savannah did not return for four days, during the whole of which time Mary fretted and worried impatiently at her inability to do anything. ' The second hearing against Tom took place, Reuben @orringe being absent, and a further remand followed. Mary saw him and saw the solicitor, telling the latter her suspicions about Gibeon, but saylng nothing about Savannah. The secret as to the latter Mary kept to herself, waiting with feverish anxiety for the other's return. On the Monday, two days before that fixed for the third hearing,Mary heard that Savannah was back, and she went at once to her cottage. “What do you want with me?” was Savannah’s greeting, brusque, sharp and hostile.

“I want to see you again about the charge against Tom,” replied Mary. ‘“To ask . you to reconsider what you said last time.”

“I have nothing to reconsider and nothing to say. I won’t be questioned.”

o ;‘Why‘are you 'so determined and so hard, Savannah?”’ s _

“Because I choose to do what I please and say. what. I please. Why should I try to save a man from being punished? What is it to me? Nothing: I tell you I have nothing to say. Go ‘Wu‘}'l‘” . 2 *I cannot go away with such an answer,” said Mary, gently. ‘I want to plead to you. You are a woman as I am. You may have loved as I love. Tom’s life is more to me than my own. You can save him, if you will, by simply saying shat it cannot harm you to say. . Why, then, will you not speak for him?” , “It harms me to tell lies,” answered Savannah, sharply. “But they are not lies, Savannah. You were with Tom; you know that. You know that you can acecount for every hour of the time during which this dreadful thing happened, and that when he was said to have been seen at the mill you and he were some miles away in the direction of Presburn.” The other girl took no notice of this; but getting out some needlework she turned her back on Mary and began humming a tune as her fingers played with the work.

“Why will you persist in keeping silent about this?”

The humming developed into a soft-ly-sung song. Mary went to her and touched her shoulder. :

‘““‘Savannah, will you not say what you know?” The song stopped*for a moment, and Savannah answered without .looking up: = /

“T will not tell lies to save a murderer’s life.” :

The girl behind her shrank and shivered at the thrust. Then the blood flushed back into her cheek, and she bit her lips as if to stay the angry words which rose. . Meanwhile the other had resumed her soft, sweet song. _ [TO BE OONTINUED.]

The Worm in the Chestout.

A Pittsburgh physiciam explains how the worm gets into the chestnut. When the nut is still - green an inseect comes along and, hunting a warm place in which to have its eggs hatehed, lights upon the green chestnut and stings it. -At the same time it deposits some of its eggs in the opening thus made. The chestnut begins to ripen and at the same time the eggs are hatching. The insect selects chestnuts as a place for depositing its eggs as being the best adapted place by in stinet. The floury matter in the nut turns to sugar and sugar contains car bon, which produces heat.—~N V. Trib

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. | International Lesson for October 7, 1894—“ © - Jesus at Nazareth—Luke 4:16-30. ‘ [Specially arranged from Peloubet’s notes.] | GOLDEN TEXT.—See that ye refuse not Him | that speaketh.—Heb. 12:25. } REVIEW the seven events of the first year of Jesus’ public ministry, the year of beginnings, | A.D. 27 : | THE SECOND YEAR.—A. D. 28. The Year of Development. First. This year was spent al=- { most entirely in Galilee, except a brief visit to Jerusalem at the Passover.p But why was Gal- { ilee, particularly the district bordering on the lake, chosen as the scene of this special work? Because it was next to Jerusalem—in some respects more than Jerusalem-—the center og life and activity in Palestine at that period, and at the same time because there was a large admixture of foreign population; the Jews there were more open to new impressions. | Second. It is recorded in the first three Gos=pels, but not in John, except the events at the Passover. Matt. 14: 13 to 15 :53; Mark 1: 16 to 5: 43; Luke 4: 14 to 8: 56. Third. It is marked by great success in gainIng disciples; by several new epochs, developments of the kingdom of Heaven; many miracles which confirm Jesus authority bear witness to His mission, and express in action the nature of His Gospel as the Gospel of love, life, light, liberty, health and power over" nature and evil spirits, and all the enemies of man.

Fourth. The leading events to be committed to memory are: (1) The imprisonment of John the Baptist in Castle Macherus.—March. (2) Jesus attends the Passover and cures an impoten t man there.—April. (3) Returning,- He works miracles, which witness to His author=Ity as a teacher, and express His ministry of fove. He goes on teaching tours through Galilee.—spring and summer. (4) The epoch of His work expressed by the calling of the twelve apostles.—midsum mer. 5 () The epoch -of the Sermon on the Mount, giving the principles of the new kingdom.— midsummer. (6) The epoch in His method of teaching by parables.—midsummer. (7) More miracles. declaring His authority from God, and expressing in action the Gospel He taught. —autumn. e !

- PLACE IN THE HiSTORY of to-day's lesson is at No. 3, just after Jesus' returft to Galilee from the Passover. The first year ended with the healing -of the nobleman’s son (John 4: 4354). After this, according to Andrews, ‘‘the disciples depart to their homes (in Galilee), and He lives in retirement tjll March, when He goes to the feast of the ‘Passover.” Here He heals the impotent man at Bethesda; learns of the imprisonment of John. and returns to Galilee, and preaches in - Nazareth, as in today's lesson. TlME.—April. A. D. 28. : : PLACE.—Nazareth in Galilee, the home of Jesus’ childhood and youth. o ;

LESSON NOTES.

- Jesus’ First Sermon in Nazareth.— *“And there was delivered unto Him the book.” In the form of a roll, or double roll, taken from thé sacred chest behind the pulpit. The congregation stood during the reading. ‘“Of the prophet Esaias.” The Greek for Isaiah. ‘‘And found the place.” Not necessarily any appointed lesson, but the passage He wanted. ‘“Where it was written.” In Isa. 61:1,:2. The quotation follows somewhat closely the Greek translation (the Septuagint) then in common use, except that it adds: ‘“‘To set at liberty them that are bruised,” either from the Hebrew, or from Isa. 58:6: :

His Subject: Himself as the Messiah and Saviour.—~He showed that -the promises in' their Secriptures of the kingdom of God and a Redeemer were fulfilled in Him, the Son of God. He was the focus on which the rays of prophecy from the beginning to the 2nd of the Bible were concentrated.

THE OUTLINE.

Good News for the Poor.—‘‘To preach the Gospel” (one word in Greek): to make known the good news. ‘“To the poor.” "““In Seriptural language the poor represent all who are destitute of good necessary to their perfection and happiness, especially those who feel their want and are -disconsolate.”— John Mason. It includes the literally poor in this world’s goods, the afflicted, those who are sinners and exposed to eternal death, those who are subject 1.0 calamities from which they cannot save themselves. It includes especially the poor in spirit (Matt. 5:3; 11:28). Jesus has something to satisfy every human need. He brings living waters to quench every thirst, and bread from Heaven to satisfy every hunger of the soul.

Help for the Broken-Hearted.—‘He hath; sent me to heal the brokenhearted.” To give comfort to those who are overwhelmed with sorrow. Christ heals them by His own love and revealing His Father’s love; by immortal life, for which sorrows prepare us; by the promise that all things shall work together for good to those that love Him. :

Freedom for Those in Bondage.—‘‘To preach.” To sound as with a trumpet (not the same word as the first ‘“‘preach” in this verse). There is an allusion to the custom that on the first day of the yeavr of Jubilee the priests went all through the land announcing with the sound of trumpets the blessings brought by the opening year. ‘Deliverance to the captives.” To all captives, whether in material or ip spiritual captivity. Vision to the Blind.—‘‘Recovering of sight to the blind.” There are three kinds of blindness: (1) Blindness of the body—an example of the darkness of sorrow and trouble abounding in the world. (2) Mental blindness— ignorance, low ideals, narrow outloolk, failure to know what is wisest and best for this life. (3) Moral blindness—ignorance of God, of righteousness, of Heaven, of the possibilities of the soul, of highest hopes and joys of true life. Jesus ecame to cure them all. He opened the eyes of the blind when on earth

Comitoart to the Sorrowing.—‘“To set at liberty them that are bruised” (Isa. 58:6): to deliver from their sad estate “the bruised,” the oppressed, those crushed under sin, the wounded in spirit. the sufferers from a guilty conscience. smitten by calamit—.

WRITERS OF FICTION.

RupvArp KrpriNg is said to have been jilted by six London girls before he wooed and won his American wife.

Joux JAcon AsTOR was annoyed because a Londoner asked him if his recently published novel was to be translated into English > Tue Scotch writer of stories, S. R. Crockett, says that he began his literary career. by publishing a volume of poems which no one read. Tnk neighbors of the present Lord Tennyson think he is a great poet. One of them recently remarked to a stranger: ‘‘He carries on the business now.” y :

~ To EMERsoN is this story attributed: On being asked by a friend what he lectured for, he replied: ‘‘F-a-m-e.” “What do you mean by that?” inquired the other. “‘lifty and my expenses.” Arpionse DAUDET has nearly completed a new novel, “‘Le Soutien de Famille,” whose hero is a Russian student living in Paris. Another novel, “La Petite Paroisse,” dealing with life in a sthall French town, is ready, and will soon be published as a serial.

HopE is th in 1 happi o e twin brother of happi»

HILL ON THE TARIFF. The New York Statesman Roundly Roasts the McKinley Law. : * Senator David B. Hill was warmly o - received at the New York state democralic convention at Saratoga on Monday, September 24, by a host of democrats. He was elected temporary chairman, and, on taking his seat, said: “The unterrified democracy of the Empire state assemble here to-day, undismayed at the premature boasts and assumed confidence of our adversaries. -We are not unaccustomed to their annual and moss-covered game of political bluff, although renewed this year with extraordinary vehemence and unblushing effrontery. ilf vain boasts alone could bring victory their battle is indeed won before it is actually commenced; but we beg to remind them that there has not been a campaign in this state during the last twelve years when they did not assume in August or September that they had carried it, when, in truth and in fact during that whole period, with a single exception, victory has perched upon our banners the first Tuesday in November in each year. We win our victories election days and not by exuberant bravado in convention halls. Republican Heads Turned by Victory. “The unex%ected victory of our opponents last fall has turned their heads and rendered them arrogant and opinionated. They fail to recall the fact that the total vote polled was nearly three hundred thousand short of the full vote of the state, a victory which they themselves did not anticipate, and which.their surprised and astute leaders the next day after election humorously attributed to Divine Providence and not to republican strength. With a united battery and a united vote New York is stilla democratic state, and if we are true to ourselves will this year resume her place in the democratic column.

° “Our opponents, by the vigorous beating of political tom-toms and the insistence upon petty and misleading local igsues, seek to divert the public attention from the unenviable record they made during their recent four years control of the federal government. The people, however, have not forgotten the fact that it was a republican administration which in that ill-fated year of 1890 saddled the country with unwise and vicious legislation which has since crippled its prosperity, endangered its finances and augmented its public burdens. People remember that the Sherman bullion purchase law was the product of republican statesmanship, against the enactment of which every democrat in congress voted. It should be borne in mind that the financial panic was a republican panic in its 'inception, continuance and disastrous effects. It was under a national democratic administration that the Sherman and federal election laws were repealed. Within the first year of our administration and at the ensuing congressional eleztions the spectacle will be witnessed for the first time in twenty-four years. of state elections conducted as they ought to be—without federal interference, dictation or intimidation. - Scores the McKinley Tariff.

“The enactment of the McKinley tari ff law was the culminating atrocity of republican recklessness in legislation. It was the very personification of protectionism run mad. It was the inauguration of a huge scheme of governmental partisanship with private business interests. The reaction which followed in the elections in the elections in the fall of 1890, and was reiterated in the election of 1893, was the natural and legitimate expression of the popular indignation at the party which had basely surrendered to the mercenaries within its own ranks and had bartered away the public ‘good for selfish greed: We promised the people that if intrusted. with .power this vicious, un-American and objectionable law should be repealed, and we rejoice to-day in the fulfillment of that pledge. The McKinley law has gone where the woodbine twineth—gone to stay—never to be reenacted again by any political garty.

“Without retracting a single word which I uttered in the senate in criticism of the measure while engaged in the effort to perfect it and render it more acceptable, now that it has been passed and become a law it must be considered as a whole, treated largely as a party measure and contrasted with the McKinley law. Uninfluenced by any personal disappointments or any pride of opinion I may be permitted to speak of the measure as it is—‘nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice.” Of its strictly tariff features it may truthfully be argued that it is a vast improvement over the McKinley law, and will clearly demonstrate its superiority as time rolls on and the business in this country shall adjust itself to its provisions. It recognizes in part, at least, the democratic doctrine wof free raw raw materials. ! ; “It may be safely asserted that the new law will not cripple nor embarrass a single industry in the land, nor throw out of employment a single workingman, nor unduly stimulate overproduction on the one hand or exorbitant importations on the other. ! “Fellow democrats of the Empire state and of the country, the duty of the hour is not harsh criticism of democratic leaders or democratic measures, not mutual recriminations or conflicting councils, but it is a time for conciliation, for unity of purpose, for aggressive action. The control of both legislative departments; of the government is at stake in the coming election. Interparty strife must now cease and our attacks be reserved for the foes who are already forming their lines of battle against us. Democratic national and state administrations must alike be loyally supported.

Praise for Cleveland’s Administration. “The administration of President Cleveland has been clean-handed, economical, painstaking and patriotic. The various departments of the national government have been conducted with success, and the democratic party as a whole is entitled to the confidence of the masses of the people, whose interests it endeavors faithfully to serve. The democratic party stands in this state, as it has ever stood, for that religious liberty which is guaranteed them by our constitution. and I arraign the republican party for its covert sympathy with and encouragement of the proscriptive spirit which attempts to set up a religious text as a qualification for official préferment in this land of the free, and which is propagated by a certain political organization which deserves execration at the hands of every fairminded man, but which the republican. state convention last ' week distinctly refused, though earnestly urged, to condemn.”’ :

Very Trying.

There are cases in which a correet musical ear causes its possessor a good deal of discomfort. s

I 'suppose you heard Squire Sampson’s daughter’s voice pretty loud in the hymns, my dear?”’ said Parson Fawecett, inquiringly, to his little wife at the close of the morning service. “] used to think when she lived here before her marriage that her voice was very strong, but not—er—not exactly reliable, perhaps, as to pitch.” “Mr. Fawcett,” replied the minister’s wife, while a flush rose to her thin cheeks, ‘I suppose she that was Arabella Sampson thinks she is praising the Lord when she sings; and far be it from me to say that she doesn’t; but I must say that it’s all I can do to praise Him at the same timel”’— Youth's Companion.

FARM AND BARNYARD.

Sort food does not tax the digestive organs sufficiently to insure their vigor. 1t is the cause of more deaths of young chicks than anything else, excepting lice. :

THE mutton of most varieties of English long-wool sheep is only slightly more valuable than New Zealand mutton in London shops and those of many provincial towns. % : Tur most expensive fertilizer to the farmer is nitrogen, and this-cost he can reduce on his farm by growing clover, cow peas and green crops for turning under, for the purpose of renovating his soil. B

SUNFLOWER seed-is an excellent eggproducing food and deserves more attention from poultry raisers. It is easily raised in out-of-the-way places and requires little cultivation. Its seed production is enormous, one acre often yielding one hundred bushels. It should be planted in hills four feet apart. Three quarts of seed will plant an acre. e

He—*l heard a report that Gus Dudeleigh had fallen and hurt his head.” She—*‘Well, there’s nothing in .it.”"— Munsey’s. -

«THE TRUSTS MUST GO.”

So Says the New York Press, Which Would Feed Them on Protection to Kill Them. The New York Press has begun a crusade against trusts. Just listen how it denounces them editorially: - “The American people are face to face with two great dangers. One of them is the attempt to break down the protection of American industry and reduce American labor to the abject and degraded condition of labor abroad; the other is the attempt to build up trusts and make them omnipotent in politics as well as in trade. The free trade movement against American labor tends to do both. It means the breaking down of American industrial independence, the paralysis of industry and the prevalence of strikes, destitution and anarchy. The trusts choke the life out of competition and destroy that equality of right and of opportunity that is at the very basis of free institutions.” L

“Trusts undoubtedly addjto the cost of the articles whose production they monopolize. The srusts, by their enormous combinations of capital, take freedom of trade by the throat and trample out of existence the business man or firm that dares to compete with them. Their methods at the best are a menace to the welfare of the community, and are distinctly anarchistic, not stopping short in' well. known instances of the anarchists’ dynamite and violence. The trust, witha brazen treason against the fundamental principles of American liberty, says virtually to every citizen outside of the trust: ‘Thou shalt not dare to compete with this business of ours. .If we cannot crush you by fair means we will by foul means. American laws pretend to protect you in your right to compete, but we set those laws at defiance and laugh them to scorn.” This is anarchy. There cannot be freedom without the right of competition in legitimate trade. The time has come when the American people must choose between the sovereignty of the people and the sovereignty of trusts.’ The trusts are intrinsically despotic.”

This is rich! To hear the Press talk about freedom and competition in trade, ‘fundamental principles of American liberty,” and. trusts that advance prices and ‘‘take freedom of trade by the throat.” Justas if ‘‘protection” had not created or fostered every one of those hundreds of trusts; and as if it too were not the enemy of freedom and competition in trade and, indeed, of American liberty, which first showed itself in opposition to tariff duties on tea and other articles. _ The Press fails to show how free trade would ‘‘build up trusts.” In fact there is no American trust that is not in some way benefitted by ‘‘protection”: and there is no trust that would not be injured by free trade. We challenge the Press to name a trust, which, as such, would be benefitted by free trade and to produce a scintilla of evidence to this effect. Is the sugar trust which owns the republican, and has made traitors of a few of the democratic senators, spending money at Washil}g'ton to get free trade? Why, . then, did Havemeyer and Searles go to Washington, after the house bill had made all sugars free? Have the steel rail, the' whisky, the wall paper, the borax, the Standard oil or the coal trust kept lobbies in Washington for' years for free trade -in these products. The idea is ridiculous. ‘‘Protection” annually puts hundreds of millions of dollars into the pockets of these trusts. The most of them would never haye been born but for the ‘‘protection” guaranteed them by high tariffs, which ‘‘choke the'life out of competition.” o 3 It is refreshing to hear the. Press acknowledge that trusts advance prices after it has been declared for years that ‘‘protection” was causing a rapid decline in prices. There is a conflict in evidence somewhere or the Press is beside itself, now that its favorite tariff ‘'system has gone to pieces and is followed by general prosperity.

RATTLED WOOL GROWERS.

They Howl and Howl, but Market Reports | i Are Against Them. { | The Ohio wool growers met in a_n-4 nual convention for the thirtieth time a few days ago, and we do not wonder ‘ that they were filled with-impotent rage as they contemplated the fruit of their labors for a generation. In 1867 they succeeded in getting monstrous duties laid for their benefit, only to see them lowered in 1883. Then they persisted in exacting the uttermost farthing from MecKinley in 1890, with. the result of stirring up such "indigna- | tion against their whole crew that they are now left without any protection at-l all. Meanwhile the price of wool has been steadily going down year by year. For more than a year the laws of trade have been setting protection on wool at defiance, and American wool has been practically on a free trade basis. “Qur property (that is, the right to levy taxes),” says Judge - Lawrence, ‘“has been annihilated.” This may be admitted, with rejoicing. But the real property of wool growers, in the sense of their actual sheep and actual yool, as distinguished from sheep'and wool for platform purposes only, has not been touched by the new tariff. One audacious man rose to affirm as much in the convention, and topoint out that the price of American wool was actually advancing, Such heresy taok away the breath of the “wool kings” for a time, but they soon recovered it sufficiently to villify the unhappy farmer who ventured to set up as a student of markets, not of maxims. But, though they howled him down, they cannot howl down market reports. Here . is one sent from Chicago, just as the wool growers’ convention was meeting, which speaks of the woolen markets as ‘“‘firm,” with holders determined not to ‘‘reduce values,” and which lays down the broad proposition that ‘‘the great medium grade of wool which is produced in the United States, both staple and eclothing, will no doubt hold its own against all foreign wool of the same quality.” —N: Y. Post. - . : OMINOUS SILENCE. 5 Republican Platforms and Orators _Sflei:t as to Mc¢Kinleyism and the Income Tax. The most remarkable things about the present republican campaign are the things not discussed. Not only is the “hated” income tax treated with silent contempt, but next to nothing is said about what kind of a tariff we ‘may expect when the republicans again have full sway. Even McKinley is not promising that his ‘*bravest and :best tariff measure ever passed,” as the New York Tribune fondly styled it, will be reinforced when the republieans are again in power. The most that “he wili say is that the country must _have ‘‘protection’” and will not survive _without it. Harrison and Reed are, if

possible, more ungatisfactory than MVF‘» Kinley upon this point. They confine their efforts mainly to the ‘hard times” that are the result’ of democratic rule, neglecting to state that these hard times began while republiean laws were still enforced by zepub# lican officials and that prosyé‘%gfii: begun to return swiftly as soon as the MecKinley law was abolished. ‘ ~ Thus far only one republican orator could be inveigled into making any, definite statements as regards the prospects for future tariff legislation under republican supremacy. In Illinois Senator Cullom was asked by Franklin MacVeagh, the democratic candidate for United States senator, if the M¢Kinley law = would be reenacted if the republicans regained power. The senator hazarded the prediction that the McKinley law would not be re-enacted in its entirety. He said that after it had ‘been_in force four'years it needed revising and that if the republicans had continued in power they would undoubtedly have revised -it in .accordance with their policy in the past. The senator did not explain his Delphic answer by, stating if he meant a revision upwards or one downwards. ‘The ‘‘policy” of republicans, as stated in their platforms, is to reform downwards; their practice has been to reform upwards. This leaves us .still in the dark—justwhere' all shrewd republicans intend to leave us. They don’t dare say MecKinley bill to us again and of course they can’t promise to do just what the democrats are. doing. But it don’t matter much anyway. Republicans will never again make any tariff laws for us. - There may be a few republican victories this fall; but they arepossible only because -the people know the republicans are powerless to do harm. After one or two years of sober reflec~ tion, under @ democratic tariff law, the people will conclude that they have no more .use for a party that stands for monopgly and nothing but monopoly. —B.W.H .

' Turned-Down Collars Haines. Eicht of the twenty-eight democrats in the New York delegation voted against the tariff bill when it passed the house last February — Bartlett, Campbell, Cummings, -and Sickles, of this city, Hendricks, of Brooklyn, Covert, of Long Island City, Haines, of Kinderhook, and Schermerhorn, of Schenectady. The first of the eight to learn the sentiments of his constituents is Mr. Hanes. ~ His district com-+ prises Columbia and Rensselaer eounties, and the- democratic copven< tion in the former county elected a ‘delegation which will vote as a unit against him. As this is his own county, its repudiation of Haines insures his defeat. His vote and speech againfif) the Wilson bill were directly an issue, and the refusal of his party to indorse his attitude is in harmony with the bitter opposition to Gorman, Brice, and others of the so-called ‘‘conservatives” manifested Ly the democrats of their states.—N. Y. Post. -

Cheaper Pocket Knives.

Boys need not wait this year for Santa Claus to bring them a pocket knife. The¥ will be surprised at what a good knife they can buy for 10 or 12 cents. The Iron Age says that cheap pocket knives which cost 56 cents per dozen under the old tariff can now be imported at 374 cents, a reduction of ore-third. Onhigh priced knives reductions will be less. Not only will prices be cheaper, but the knives will be better. “‘There is no doubt,” says the Iron Age, ‘“‘that when the McKinley bill went into operation many patterns of pocket knives were cheapened at the: expense of quality, the general appearance and style being retained so suecessfully as to deceive the trade. Under the new law importers consider it probable that such economies, which were in a sense necessitated by the MeKinley law, will be in many cases discontinued and better . goods turned out.””: ! :

© . It Grows in Favor. : So far as yvet developed the most impressive objection to the income tax comes from those who will have to pay: it; and the fact of their having to pay it constitutes the objection. By logic just as cogent it may be said that the law stands approved by the great majority, for they wish that they had the tax to pay, for that. would mean to them an income of over $4,000 per year. It is the man whose ox is gored who denounces this revenue measure of the democratic party, and there are ten to his one kicking because they have no OX. e b : Cheerful Signs. From every section of the country come reports of improvement in all branches of trade, and a feeling of confidence permeates the business atmosphere. In New England the carpet mills have not only started up after an idleness 'of nine months, but in some, instances the 10 per cent. reduction of! wages, enforced under the McKinley, act, has been restored, showing that under the democratic tariif the manufacturers expect to do am increased business and to be able to pay better wages.—Wheeling Register.

" Charged With New Hope. The very atmosphere of business and financial circles is' charged with new hope and fresh life. The prevalence of a decided opinion that ‘‘the corner has been turned’” is manifest. This opinion isn’t a . doubtful, hesitating, half-way sort of a belief that lacks the element of sincerity. Neither is it the expression of an empty hope that better times are coming. Better than this, the conviction is based on substantial grounds. It is the outgrowth of the renewed hum of the wheels of industry.—Boston Globe. = - - Food for Calamity Howlers, The calamity howler ishaving rather a hard time of it just now. Every indication points to an improvement in business. The market reports show a buoyancy that can’t be mistaken. 7%“he receipts of the treasury are satisfactory. The reports of the railroad operations exhibit a strengthening tone. The returns of clearing house exchanges in all parts of the country are climbing up to the proportions of the good, time period.—Kansas City Times. e e Golng Ahead. - . With the world’s markets opened to the American woolen manufacturer to buy and sell in, the mills are making preparation for a bigger business than/ ever before, and their prosperity will bring with it better times for the American wool raiser. Put this down. —Exchange. e Mo ‘ - ~—The demogrécfic party agreed to repeal the McKinley bill. That enact‘mentis off the statute book and a fairer law takes its place. Now watch the rising tide of prosperity.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. AR