Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 28, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 October 1894 — Page 7

- PROVIDENCE? ER The waves were blue and the sun was brighs, As the wavesand the sun Quite often are, And little birds sang with all their might - As I sailed merrily over the bar. 7 My little canoe fairly.danced with glee : As the light breeze gently caressed the sheet And bore her along toward the open sea, Where the sky and the water seemed to meet. Sly craft was a sentimental one, For ‘twould never trim except with two, 8o I put in the bottom a heavy stone, * And sighed to myself that it needs must do. But there came before me a phantom face As I gazed at the stone with a dreamy stare, For it couldn’t in any way take the place Of certain live ballast I wished were there. ‘Then I sighed and thoughg what a happy lot Would be mine if that soulless stone were out And she in its place—but she was not— So I sighed again and came about. But alas! for the visidn of my adored, I was rudely waked from my semi-sleep By spars changing place witn centerboard, While I found myself in the briny deep. Oh, the sun was bright and the waves were blue, s But I'll thank the gods until I'm gray : That I took for ballast in my canoe A stone, instead of a girl, that day. —George L. Buttrick, in Detroit Free Press. By Arthur W. Marchmont, B. A. Author of ‘*Miser Hoadley’s Secret,? .¢¢ Madeline Power,” ¢* By Whose lland,” . **lsa,*’ &e., &c. . " [Copyright, 1892, by the Author.]

CHAPTER XXVIIL “YOU SHALL NOT LIVE TO BELONG TO ANOTHER MAN.” For a moment he made no attempt to go near her. “Why do you madden me in this way, Mary?” he asked. **Am I so hateful to you that,when I seek thus to be alone with you, your only feeling isloathing? Is it'so unpardonable & erime that my love should urge me to bring you here? All my wrong is that I love you.” “Love! What can you know of love, when you seek to force it with an iron padlock? Love trusts and does not threaten. You know nothing of love.” “Trusts,” he returned, impatiently. “And have I not trusted? I have ‘trusted’ too long, and nothing has come of it. IWow I will act.” “Why have you changed like this to me?” asked Mary, with more gentleness. ‘“You said that it would make you happy tn see me happy, and you promised to help to prove Tom’s innocence. What have I done to change you or to anger you?”’ “You have done nothing. Nothing you could do would anger me. But the time has come when I must act. You could not understand if I told you. Mary, I swear to you I love you with all my soul. There is nota wish nor a thought, however light, however wild, I will not try to satisfy, if you will only be my wife. Will you not listen to me? Ido not ask you to love me atfirst. Iknow that may be hard —perhaps impossible. But while love is love, such a passion as mine must malke an echo in time. Will you trust me?” -

He spoke with eager, earnest pleading, and made as though to take her in his arms.

“Keep away from me! You forget I am the plighted wife of another man.” He stopped, let fall the hands which he had held toward her, and stared at her with love, disappointment and rage battling together for mastery in his gaze. Slowly the color ebbed away from his cheeks, and he grew deadly, dangerously white and stern. “Is that your final answer?” he asked, his lips moving at first with no sound issuing from them; while his voice at length sounded hoarse and deep, hollow and nerveful. “If it were my last moment on earth I would say the same,” answered the girl, with compressed passion. ¢I loathe the very sight of you.”

i He made ‘no reply to this, but con~tinued to gaze at the girl. An expression of sadness dimmed the fiercer light of his eyes, but he went whiter even than before. Then a great sigh, almost a sob, burst from him, shaking his broad frame and making him quiver ! like a struck worman. ‘ “Then may God have mercy on me, for you shall not live to belong to another man.”

The awful stillness inthe room, thé man’s ‘moving agitation, his solem! earnestness and the despairing determination in his voice showed Mary that the danger which threatened her was real enough, and that if she was to escape her wits must be quick in finding a plan. j After he had spoken the man leant back against the wall, folded his arms across his chest and gloomily looked at the girl. Mary moved away, and by slight and almost imperceptible degrees placed as great a distance as possible between them, watching him all the time like one watches a dangerous animal.

It was a time of fearsome suspense, but the girl forced herself to keep up her courage and tried to think how she could possibly escape. She ran her eye quickly but stealthily over the two doors to the room. There was one behind her, but this she felt sure he had locked before he had trapped her in the office. The other he had locked when lfirst he had thrown the mask off his conduct, but the key remained in the door. .

Could she reach it? If she coull do that and then get out of the room her chances of ultimate escape in the large rooms of the mill would be much greater. o

But Gorringe stood rightin the path, blocking the way completely, and she could thick of no plan to lure him away. He himself removed part of the difficulty. -With another deep-drawn sigh he moved from where he stood with his back to the wall, and the sound of the slight movement sent a thrill of cold to the girl’s heart. ' -Then suddenly a plan, fully formed, rushed into her mind. Close behind her were-several packets of eotton, and near to it a large bundle of waste. Towards this she moved, as if scared by him; and when he opened a drawer of the table and bent over it in search, as Mary supposed, of a weapon, the girl seized some large handfuls of the waste and the cotton and heaped them on the standard gas lamp which lighted the room, thus shattering the globe and extinguishing the light. : . Bhe rushed to the opposite side of the room, and, throwing a eouple of the _packets of ¢otton where she had been standing, so as to make Reuben Gorringe think she was hiding on that side, she ran quickly and softly to the door from the side where he would not expect her. To her intense relief she found the key without difficulty and

had turued (t and opened the door defore. Gorringe had reached her.

Just as she was rushing out of the room she felt his hand on her arm. But she tore it away from him, and, pulling the door after her with all her strength, ecrushed his arm and caused the hand to relax its hold. Then she fled rapidly through the next room, which was the outer and larger office, and sped out into the darkness of the mill. -

. She had formed a plan in thought; namely, to try and make her way toa window ‘overlooking the lane which ran along one end of the mill—one of those by which Tom had been accused of breaking into the place. To reach this, however, she would have to pass through a long room filled with spinning machines, down a flight of stone steps, through the blowing-room and across one of the smaller weaving sheds which was close to that.

Another plan she had was to rush away to the top of the building and hide where she could till morning came. Her anxiety to get away from the place, however, made her prefer the former.

But the chance of carrying out any definite plan scemed very remote, for the girl heard Reuben Gorringe hurrying after her. She determined to hide, therefore.

She ran on as fast as possible, stopping an instant to tear off her boots with nervous haste, and then with noiseless tread crossed the first of the work-rooms. Remembering that in the second there was a heap of baskets, she rushed to'the spot and crouched down beside them.

She could hear Gorringe moving, and once or twice his voice, calling her by name, reached her ear. She could tell by the sound that he wasat the far end of the first room; and she held her breath to listen for what he was doing and in what direction he was moving. It was a brilliant night, and the rays of the full moon flooded through the many windows of the place, bathing the whole in a white light. But this light made her escape much more perilous, and she was afraid to move lest she should be found.

. The latter fear prevailed; and finding, after some minutes of absolutely intolerable suspense, that the sounds of Gorringe’'s movements came no nearer, she rose and moved as silently as a ghost across the forest of machinery in the direction where she judged Gorringe must be. Just when she was reaching the division between the two rooms, some weighty thing fell with a huge clattering noise, close to the spot where she stood. It raised such aclang in the wewrd stillness of the night that she started violently and could scarce refrain from screaming out. She checked herself with a great effort, and in her panic tried to dart back to her hiding place by the baskets. She had scarcely moved three paces, however. before she heard the rush of footsteps through the room adjoining, and Reuben Gorringe stood by her side with the light of a brilliant lantern turned full upon her white, terrorstricken face. o

‘“You cannot escape me,” he’ said. “It is useless to try.” He laid a hand on her arm and held the girl in a firm grasp, and led her baek to the office. “What do you wish me to do?” she said, in a faltering tone. “It’s too late to think of that now,” his voice was sad and low; ‘“‘you gave me your answer. If we cannot live together, at least we can die together. In death you cannot hate me, as in life you cannot love me.” “Do you mean to murder me?” eried the girl. . . ’ “I could not bear to see you another’s wife,” he answered, in the same calm, despairing monotone. Then aftera moment’s pause he flashed out into sudden passion. ‘“By Heaven, the mere thought of it is a hell to me. To know that another would have the right to take you in his arms, to press your heart to his, to shower his kisses upon your cheeks, your hair, your lips, and to feel your caresses answering to his own? By ——, I would kill you a hundred times first! But come, it is no time for talk. Come.”

He checked the outburst of feeling and led the way in the direction of the office.

‘“‘Have you no mercy?”’ asked the girl when they reached the room, pleading with him. “Will nothing move you?” . : “Yes, it is mercy that makes me act thus,” he answered, with a grim, short laugh. ‘“‘Mercy for myself—aye, and mercy for you. You-cannot be afraid to die. You have wronged no one in the world; your life has been full of goodness and kindness. You will but be in Heaven a finger’s length before your time.” ) - :

~ “You forget. 1f li€ you will condemn an innocent man to a shameful death, for I alone can prove Tom’s innocence.” )

‘“That is a curiousplea to put to me,” answered Gorringe, frowning. “DBut even that is nothing. I will tell you now, he is innocent, and his innocence can be proved without you. You may be easy on that score,” he said, with a sneer.

“Thank God! thank God for that!” cried the girl, joyously, while the tears of gladness rushed into her eyes. But the sight of her joy and the glad look on her face inflamed all the man’s wild jealousy. i “By Heaven, lass, ‘do you want to drive me mad even now?’ he cried. Springing forward, he threw his arms round her and, despite her fierce struggles, he held her to his heart and printed hot, burning kisses of desperate and despairing passion on her face and lips. 5 i

“My God, how I.love you,” he eried passionately. ‘lt is good to die like this.”

Mary struggled with him, and would have screamed out in disgust and loathing and fear of him, but he smothered her screams with his kisses. “Kiss me once, Mary, just once,” he pleaded; but she struggled the more desperately to break away from him. He held her firmly until, releasing her from his arms, he gripped her wrist and dragged her toward the drawer in which lay the revolver. : : " This he took qut and then closed the drawer. ; : “‘One last kiss, my darling,” he cried. *’Twill be the last my lips will ever give or yours receive.” : ' Then he wound his arms around her, and for an instant renewed his madly passionate kisses. . “Good-by, my darling,” he exclaimed, after a minute, and, moving back from where they had stood, he freed his right hand, in f‘isrhicn he held the revolver. e : T e

Mary ¢losed her eyes, knowing what was coming. ; :

[ At that instant a slight sound broks the deathly silence of the pla:e, and l the man paused. The girl opened her eyes, and, seeing his hesitation, broke away from him by a sudden and violent andeavor. - His hesitation passed as quickly, and he rushed after her with the revolver pointed at her, and when Mary saw him approaching she cowered in a corner and screamed and covered her eyes, and waited for the death that seemed so close. ‘ Then came the sound of feet moving rapidly across the room, a slight struggle and a heavy fall. \ ‘“You villain! You lying, luring, cheating villain! Is this your love for me?” : It was Savannah Morbyn'’s voice, and when Mary opened her eyes she saw the man lying on the floor, bleeding from a fearful wound in the back, while Savannah, her face blazing with a light of mad rage, was standing over him, holding aloft the long bloodstained dagger with which she had struck him down. - i Then in an instant her face changed and she began to laugh. Almost as suddenly, another change showed, and throwing the dagger away to the end | of the room, Savannah burst into a storm of tears and threw herself beside the prostrate, wounded man, moaning and shuddering, and sobbing, and calling upon his name with many terms of caressing endearment. o Then Mary stole away quietly’ from the place to go for assistamce, only half comprehending the meaning of the scene. )

CHAPTER XXVIIL. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED THAT WIGHT IN THE MILL. Faint and trembling with {fright, Mary hesitated in doubt for a moment how to get out of the mill. Knowing that both the doors and gates were locked; she thought of the small windows through one of which she had before intended to try and escape. Her limbs were shaking so violently that she scarce keep her feet, but she made a grest effort to regain self-com-mand, and rejlecting that perhaps the issue of life #tnd death depended upon her speed, slia ran through the long work-rooms and down the narrow staircase to thie corner, where the two or three windows were which overlooked Watercsurse lane. ‘

‘They were clssed and fastened, but after a little celay she succeeded in opening one, through which she was able to escape. The rush of the cold night air restored her somewhat. Without thinking to whom she sbould go—for she was still too dazed and frightened to think correctly—she ran instinctively in the direction of her own cottaggg When she reached it there was a surprise in store for her. Gibeon Prawle stood by the door. At the sight of him the girl’s intense excitement brokeher down. She burst into tears and stood clinging ‘to his arm, sobbing hysterically, unable to speak a word and gasping, as if for air. “What's the matter, Mary?” he asked, wondering and alarmed. ‘Has anything happened? What is it?” ‘ Then she managed to tell him some‘thing of what had occurred and to urge him to go for assistance. “Reuben Gorringe stabbed by Savannah!” he cried, in intense excitement. “How came you all there?” . “Don’t stay to ask now,” she said, hurriedly. ‘Go for help. Go at once. I cannot move another step.” “She’s mad,” he cried, breathlessly. “I’ve traced her. I came back to tell you;” and with this he ran. off at top speed for a doctor and the police. The girl looked for a moment after him as he disappeared in the darkness, then tottered into thg, cottage and, feeling utterly prostrated and weak, had enly strength to drag herself to her bed and sink, down upor it exhausted, calling in a feeble vtice to ‘her mother to come and help her. When the latter came the girl kad fainted. B :

Early the next morning Gibecn was at the cottage asking for her, and, although 'she was still faint and weak and ill, she dressed herself and went %o him.

“You are ill,” he said, when he saw the pale wan look on her face. *“‘Cé&n you bear to hear news?” ‘ “I have come to hear it,” she athswered. ‘I can bear anything better than suspense. - What happened last night?” ; : “ILonly know a little about that. I haye other news—good news it should be for you. Can you bear to héar tha2? I was waiting last night to teld ycu when you found me here.”

“What is it? About Tom?” As she asked thisa light pink flush just tinged her cheeks, and her eyes brightened.

“Yes,” he answered. “Ivvhzwe dwtermined to tell the truth and risk all consequences.” :

“The truth?” eried Mary; and her -old suspicions concerning him flashed upon her, and showed in the look she bent upon him. - ‘“Yes, the truth. But it is not what you suspected when I was last here,” he answered, observing her look. “You were on the wrong traclt then, Mary, and I was a fool to be angry instead of just telling you the whole truth. But I wasafraid;and the very readiness with which I saw -you suspected me, increased my fear of .speaking. I wanted to clear Tom in some other way, and without my telling everything. That’s why I’ve been hunting down that girl, Savannah;so as you might have a handle over her to make her speak the truth and bear out Tom’s story. But when I got away I began turning things over and I couldn’t help remembering that you didn’t stop‘at a risk to save me that pight in the barn; and then I grew wild with myself and soft like at thinking of what you must be suffering with suspense. So I just finished the inquiries I wanted to make about Savannah, and then came back toclear ’,_[‘oxg;” it “You can ciear him?” broke in Mary, eagerly. o “Yes, I can do'that. This ain’t been a murder at all. Old Coode didn’t die a violent death; he just died suddenly —heart disease, or apoplexy, or something of that sort. Anyways, it wasa’t murder.” : ‘*Not murder!” exclaimed Mary, her face alight with wonderment. “Why, how do you know? How cun you know?” e , “I was in the mill that night.”” “What!” cried the girl, all her suspicions reawakened with redoubled force at these words. L . [TO BE GONTINUED.] Tur first pastor of the Warren Aw enue church, Boston, which celebrated its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary recently, got a salary of six dol. lars a month and fifteer eovds of wood per annum. - : o

~ WILSON'S LONDON SPEECH. Text of the Amerlcan Statesman’s Re- - marks on the Tariff. , The first exact copy of the famous speech at the London chamber of commerce dinner at the Hotel Metropole the evening of September 27 reached this country on the same steamer that brought Mr. Wilsop and is given below verbatim. Itis from the London Standard, which neglects to say whether the speech was revised by Mr. Wilson ornot before being printed.

The dinner c¢bairman, Sir A. K. Rollit, M. P., inl presenting Mr. Wilson said: : _ “The new tariff may not have realized all the anticipations of the president, it may nos have ended 4 system that is at variance with the true ficance and the principle of trade, it may be a compromise that is no compromise, but it established, if not free trade, a system of freer trade than has existed in recent years, and substituted for the uncertainties and fluctuations that have been experienced = period of certainty that must be of great sdvantage to those engaged in commerce.”’ "Mr. Wilson then said: : “As a citizen of the United States I cordially reciprocate, on behalf of my country, the friendly words with which I have been introduced by the chairman. Forthe last ten years the United States has been the arena of the greatest political conflict which has ever occurred in the history of our people. We have just foughtand just won the first battle in that conflict, and although the seeming results are far less than we hoped. and expected—are in themselves disproportionate to the wishes and -deliberate mandate of the American people—we are confident that those results and their momentum will open out a new era in.the history of the United Stutes and of the rest of the world. - For the last twenty-five years we have been following the policy of the Celestial empire. [Applause.] For the last twenty-five years we have adopted the policy of commercial exclusion; we have called off our ships from the segs, and have clipped the wings of our industry and enterprise. Never before in the history of the world has the protection system had an opportunity to work out its beneficent results, if it had any, in so vast an arena; never before has it been so far tested as to its fruits and tendencies, and never has it so consn}cuously demonstrated its owh falgity, its utter impotence as an economic factor, and its incompatability with pure government and honest administration. LApplause. ] i A “For a whole generation the people of the United States were taught to believe that national greatness, individual prosperity, higher wages and increased wellare for the working people and the general well-being of the country itself were dependent, not upon free anid stable government, vot upon. individual effort and virtue, not upon the energy and enterprise gained in the new development of a new country, not upon our ready invention and quick adaptation of the instruments of modern production and distribution, not upon the bounties of Providence that gave us a whole continent for our count®y, free from connection with the wars and ihternal policies of other countries, but on account of congress taxing all the people for she benefit of the few and upon separation from commercial intéercourse with the rest of the world. :

“We 'thought that a people enjoying selfgovernment would in time rejecv such a policy, but iy was pressed on them through long years by/egery argument and fallacy that could anywhere be found to bring up falsehood. Every appeal to selfish intdrest was resorted to. We have had every aryvment that has followed the system of proteci®mn all over the world, including the infant industry argument, according to which it is proper to support and cherish into premafire existence in a new country new industri=s, which was presented to us with the authoslty of our first great secretary of the treasur%, Hamilton, and fortified by the dictum of ysur own great political economist, John Stuirt Mill. Our working people were constan¥y told that ‘their own better wages and higher standard eof living depended solely on +he - taxation of foreign imports and that any reduction in the taxation would plunge them into the hopeless condition of the gv-called pauper. labor of Europe, and our farmers were led to believe that their only prosperityfay in providing for themselves—by taxing thgmselves—a home market; in putting the factory beside the farm to consume the products &f the farm. Against all these arguments and delusions we have been compelled slowly and laboriously to carry on this fight. We have had to reckon with the difficulties of somae of our protected industries, with the crafty selfishness of others of them, with the honest delusions of our working people and the.eaqually honest fears of the farmers.-and with that general and potential, if somewhat hazy, sentiment that taxing our=selves for the sake of American industries was an American and patriotic act, and that those who opposed it were seeking the benefitof other countries instead of their own country. [Applause and laughter.] Against all these argu-. ments lam glad w 3 have prevailed with the American people. They were not hard to educate, because they have been trained by the tradition and inheritance in the great principles of liberty, which is the heritage of all who speak our languag@ swnd enjoy our institutions. [Applause.] : : *“When they coukl give their attention, free from other distracting issues,to the great question of their own toxation, they were quick to lesrn that infant iirlustries, supported by the taxation, never bectmse self-supporting, but as age increases becolf» more clamorous for pub-. lic assistance. [He#:, hear.| Our working people finally learnsd et while taxation protects to the beneflt of the employer there was free trade in that which %amy had to sell—namely: their own labor, and ~hat the compensation of labor in our protecter? industries was relatively smaller than in the general unprotected industries of land, and cur farmers found after long and costly expsrience and patient endurance of high taxation, that tbe surplus of farmer products, which required the development of foreign marke(s:, was absolutely growing larger than ever. The people at larze learned that under the fristection of our tariff gystem there had grown up in the country trusts and monopolies t&iat were becoming a menace to frece governmrént |applause] and were seeing the very weasih that they had extracted from taxation de%auch elections -and zorrupt legislation. [Rex>wed applause.]

‘*Such has been the cont st in which we have been engaged for the laa; ten years, more or less exclusively, in the Taited States. Such was the growth and overflew of the protective system in that country; f¥'v, while it would be exaggeration to say that tl': tariff bill, which was to become a law monf{’is ago, is in itself the overthrow of the syste®r’, it marks the first and. the most difficult ste® in the revolution which should go forward fr ¥m this time by its. own impetus. Ishould not ®ake my statement complete if I did not tell y¢ something of the accounts and objects that we have had in view, seeking to emancipate the industries of our country: and while whatl may say may not ve so welcome to you as business men as what I have already said I do not feel that 1 should show a just appreciation of your welcome tonight if I did rot speak to you the whole truth with the utmost frankness. |Applause.] “In this great contest for tariff reform we have kept before the American people two great objects. The first was te reduce and speedily abolish all those taxes levied upon them for the support and enrichment of private industries and the establishment of the great principle that a government has no right to impose any taxes except for the support of the government. The second was the emancipation of American industries from those restraints which have .heretofore excluded them frorn the markets of the world. It I were standing before _voms an apologist ‘and defender of the syste f protection, and especially of Chinese protection in my own country, 1 shoufd undoubtedly run counter to your own broad and intelligent views of what is the wise and just policy for every nation, for I recognizg that nations, like individuals. may sometimes profit by "those faults of others whigh - their own judgment and. proader krowledge have saved them from. But, standing here as one ifentified with the great movement for tariff reform in the United mtates, I am not altegether sure that I can call on you to rejoice over its accomplishment, except as you approve of sound principles more than you follow selfish advantages. |Applause.] Undocbtedly our voluntary retirement from the high seas and the markets of the world was to the advantage of those who were wise enough to pursue these ends, and more than any other to the advantage of the people of the United Kingdom. Our protection was-intended to keep you from coming in 10 competé with us in the home markets, but now we have been taring down the fences that shut ourselves out from competing with you and other nations. Not only in cotton, wheat and corn have we an increasing surplus that must find itself consumers in other countries, bug we have vo-day in the United States a manufacturing’ capacity that can in six months supply ¢ll the home demand. imt ~_“Hitherto, under the .protective system, our: manufaeturers. have been tempted and have been able to form combinations, 8o to limit Sl gntput, to maintain their prices, and te o : ; G

look for their profits vo monopoly rates snd & closed market to all the factories of the world. But we have seen with increased interest and satisfaction in our trade returns that we are beginning to send out the produce of our manufactories, and, more instructive still, are sending .out first of all the products of those manufactories in which we are paying the highest wages. If with the material spoliation they suffered through the protective system we may still invade foreign markets, what may “we not expect to do with freedom from ‘such: spoliation? We have learned the vital truth that high wages and cheap production go hand in hand, and we have no fears that there ‘'will be any lowering of the.standard of life among our intelligent laborers. llf, then, the reappearance ' of America as a carrier on the high seas, an importer of manufactured products to neutral markets, may seem to you at first a startling proposition, it is but the inevitable and beneficent working out of those principles which we have been seeking toput into legislation in our country in the last ten years. The manufacturing supremacy of.the world must ultimately pass to that people and country which has the largest supply of the raw materials and the cheapest access to them, and which brings to their development the highest results of art, science and invention and the most business-like methods for their distribution. We believe, for these reasons, that the supremaocy must some day or other pass to the United States, but there is enough trade in the world both for us and you. /The world is undergoing a development and transformation under the gigantic forces of our own day, and whatever we may do will not in the long run, I presume, be your loss.” [Applause.] :

FOREWARNINGS OF DEATH.

Soldiers Who Had Premonitions Thas They Were Going b?»e Killed. ‘‘Soldiers had strange premonitions of death before going into battle during the war,” said an old soldier, recently. *“I could not tell you how many times I have seen my comrades fortell their death. They seemed to feel it was coming, and went into battle fully prepared to meet their end. So common was this, and so regularly did death follow when foretold, that I often heard officers upbraiding their men for speaking of death, remarking: ‘A'man never speaks of a fear of death without death following shortly after. It’s like the smallpox; the one that dreads it most is sure to be the first victim.” But the officers were reasoning backward. In all the cases I saw the prediction of death was caused by an inward feeling, telling that his end was near. It wasn’t fear, for I remember ‘Boss’ McKeller, as we used to call him, who came from Butler county. He had been a brave soldier, serving his full three years, never failing in his duty. The day before his three years were up he went into the battle of the Wilderness. He was so pale and careworn and lacked so much the usual vigor with which he entered battle that some of his friends remarked how changed he was. He looked like a ghost, and was trembling all over. They asked him what was the matter. ‘Why,’ he replied, ‘my three years are up to-morrow, but I'll never see my service out. I will be killed in this battle—that I know.” His friend tried to cheer him up, betting him it was only a morbid fancy, but no amount of talk could enliven him. He went into the battle and was among the first to fall,being hit squarely in the forehead.

“I also remember John Dunbar sitting eating crackers with an officer before a campfire on the eve of a battle. He had a sad expression when he turned, and breaking the cracker in his fingers, said in a contemplative manner: ‘Well, this is my last night on earth.” In the dim firelight I saw the big tears well up as the officer inquired what he meant. ‘l’ll be shot to-morrow, sure.” The officer, seeing how .deeply the man -was affected, placed his hand upon his shoulder, and said: ‘Brace up, John! Don’t be foolish. Men of Ohio don’t talk like that.’ But this only made the soldier breal down. In the battle the next day he was killed among the first. I could give you an indefinite number of such instances, which show that soldiers really had death foretold to them, but these arc sufficient. To me it was a most solemn moment when I heard a man say he was going to be killed. It invariably turned out that way.”— Pittsburgh Dispatch.

A CLOSE SHAVE.

It Was a Dramatic Escape from Desath in a Gambling House.

A crowd of people witnessed a singular scene one night in Hastings, Neb., in which a man’s life was saved after as novel a fashion as ever any writer of fiction has evolvel. Rafe Shaffer, a well-known sporting man, was seated in a gambling saloon talking to a friend who had only lately come here from the east. Shaffer was telling his companion of a quarrel that he had with another man about town, whom he suspected of being about to make an attempt on his life. : As he was speaking the eastern man suddenly interrupted him with the question: ‘‘Say, Shaffer, do you remember your old. business as a telegraph operator?” ! " Shaffer, who, it seems, had followed this trade before going west, looked surprised, but answered that he did. “Well, you know, it's a very easy thing forgotten. Now, I will bet you can’t tell me what I'm going to tick out here on this table.”

'The eastern man then took a pencil from his pocket and began to tick of? a message, which, as he finished, caused Shaffer to spring hastily. from his seat, drawing as he did so a revolver from. his pocket, which he thrust almost in the face of a man who had been standing in the door of the saloon and who had just soveréed him with his pistol. The two men glared at each other and then Shaffer said calmly: : ‘‘Better put up your weapon, sSmith, unless you want to shoot it out with me here. I have got the drop on you as much as you on me.’" Smith hesitated and then replied that he would put up his pistol if Shaffor would and eonsented to leave the question between them to the arbitra~ tion of mutual friends. Shaffer agreed to the arbitration plan, as it seems both men had their reasons for not letting the cause of the bad blood between them be known to the bublie. Smith then left and Shaffer thanked his quick-witted friend for the service he had rendered him. Thke message the eastern man had rapped out was as follows: . “If your enemy is a dark complexioned man with a hooked nose and a scar on the left cheek he has just en. tered the saloon anc¢ has his hand on his pistol pockét. If youfear treachery trom him move quickly or he'll have the drop on you. I am unarmed so that I cannot draw for you. Draw now, as he has his pistol cut, and unless you are as quick as lightning he will have you.” ' Shaffer’s keen ear caught the words and he acted at once on them, as has been shown. His wheeling so suddenly about on Smith took that gentleman so by surprise that he was compelled to back down.—Chicago Times. i

~ THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. International Lesson for October 21, 1894 .— A Sabbath in Capermsum — Mark 1:21-34. . ‘l [Specially arranged from Peloubet's notes.| GOLDEN TEXT—He taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.—~Mark ) .I:’%LA.CE IN THE HISTORY—The second year of Jesus’ public ministry. The year of development, spent chiefly in Galilee. New kinds of miracles were now wrought, showing a wider reach of His power and authority, and a deeper comprehension of His desire and ability to help and save men. : : TiME—April, A. D. 28, the Sabbath following. the call of the four in our last lesson: ~ Prace—Capernaum, on the northwest shore of the sea of Galilec. Here was Jesus’ home for the time, the center of His work in Galilee. - JESUS—DBetween 31 and 32 years old. He had been preaching about one and one half yearsof His three and one hdlf years’ ministry. JOHN THE BAPTIST—Thirty-two years old, Haviug preached less than two years, he is now a prisoner in Herod's castle of Macherus, beyond the Jordan. ; e Y ILESSON NOTES.. = The Synagogue at Capernaum. It is of no little interest that at Tel Hum (Capernaum) have lately been discovered the ruins of a synagogue, probably this very omne in which Christ taught. Thé walls were seventy-four feet nine inches long by fifty-six feet nine inches wide, and ten feet thick. It appears to have been better finished than any other synagogue in upper Galilee, and to have been ornamented more profusely. The interior was diyvided into five aisles by four rows of columna. If Tel Hum be Capernaum, this is, without a doubt, the synagogue built by the Roman centurion (Luke 7:4,5), and one of the most sacred places on earth. It was in this building that our Lord gave the well-known discourse in John 6.—*‘And taught.” It was common to call upon any suitable person to speak in the synagogue services. Jesus used the best means at hand, even though they were often misused by others. _ : ‘‘As one that had authority.” (1) Not as an expounder of others’ gpinions, but with the original authority of the source of truth. His teaching was Aresh, independent, and original. (2) He spoke with the authority of one who knows. He knew the way to Heaven, for He had been there; He knew the principles of the kingdom of God, for He was God; and He spoke, therefore, with the authority of an expert. It is just this speaking with authority, and not by inferences, and guesses, and hopes, that the soul needs, and that distinguishes Christ’s religion from all others. (3) What He said was pure, unalloyed truth, and therefore came with the authority of truth to the souls of men; the one made for the other by the Creator of both. (4) His conduct, His character, His unseclfishness, His holy life, His Divine deeds gave Jesus great personal power in His teaching. The teacher will speak with authority just in so far as the truth is a part of his own being and has been made real to him in the workshop of his own experience. What men know by obscrvation' or by experience, that they can teach with authority. We need to be experts in the Christian life.

““A man with an unclean spirit.” Demons are called unclean because they are impure, unholy, defiling, and~produce such effects both in the body and the spirit of those whom they possess. The outward filth was a type of the moral defilement. . S

~ Demoniacs. (1) A demoniac was one ““‘whose being was strangely nterpenetrated by one or more fallen spirits,” called in the Greck ‘‘demons,” or lesser evil spirits. (‘‘Devil” in the original is. used only of the arch-fiend,) Demoniac possession is ‘‘the caricature of inspiration.” . We know.who inspires by the effects produced. (2) This possession was real, not a mere imagination or superstition. (3) It is distinguished from mexge disease, yet it seems always to have been connected with a diseased state. (4) ‘‘Demoniacal possession of the body is distinguished from Satanic influence on the soul, The ‘possessed’ were mnot necessarily the worst of men, like Judas, when ‘Satan entered ‘into him,” or Annias, avhen ‘Satan filled his heart,”’ —Stock. (5) Yet ‘‘lavish sin, and especially indulgence in sensual lusts, superinducing, as it would often, a “weakness in the nervous system; which is the espccial bond between body and soul, may have laid open: these unhappy ones to the fearful incursions of the powers of darkness.”—Alford: It is almost certain that this possession never occurs but in a morally disordered person, and by the yielding of the will to evil. The soul is a castle which Satan cannot enter without permission from within. God’s obedient children are absolutely safe. (6) The object of these demons seems ‘to have been to ruin their victims, body and soul. ‘‘Violent contortionsand spasms of the body, accompanied with excruciating pains, were occasional features of the horrid state.”—Dßliss. They were sometimes made wild and fierce, like the demoniac of Gadara—cruel to themsselves and violent toward others. : “And they were all amazed . . . questioned.” Each turned to his neighbor, in astonishment, to ask his opinion? Saying, What is this? New teaching with authoerity! And He commanded the unclean spirits, and they obey Him! Such is, apparently, the correct reading and rendering of the abrupt remarks which the aston-(i ished people made to one another.; “With authority commandeth He.” } Wita the authority and power which compelled the unclean spirits to obey. Thus Jesus was shown to be the most | powerful friend of man, and opposed to and mightier than 81l sin and evil. . GENIUS AND MADNESS. , MoLIERE was subject to convulsions. ScHOPENHAUER was always gloomy and pessimistic. : o BN Joxsox and Nat Lee were almost slaves to alcohol. : PAGANINI, the violinist, often fell into a cataleptic state. SciiLLER was a vietim of fainting fits and convulsions. ; GeorGE Ertor had frequent attacks of nervous prostration. ’ s - CumATTERTON wWas undoubtedly insane when he took his own life. 5 . SHELLEY is said to have had visionsin which he devoutly believed. L Born Kepler and Cuvier died of different forms of brain disease. o JOHANNA SOUTHCOTE was a cataleptie of the same varietyias Joan of Arc. JanAaTiUus LovorA had visions which he seems to have regarded as inspired. THE brilliant Southey finally sank into a state of mental stupor, in which he died. : detE - Lorp Crive’s melaucholy firally ended in madness, and he died by his own hand. e 2 SocrATEs imagined that he had a fa- | miliar epirit or guardian angel that conversed with him. . =

| THE RETURN OF WILSON. Mhe West Virginfa €Congressman on Hig ; : - 'Londos Speech. _/ J * Upon bis return from England Congressman W. L. Wilson was warmly received at his home in Charleston, W: Va., and in the course of his remarks alluded to his speech at the London banquet. : 2 ; " “We have reached,” said Mr. Wilson, ‘‘that ptage in the development ‘of our country when we are compelled to have larger and larger markets for our surplus products, and when such " markets, through foreign trade, are - the only safety valves for the health and the prosperity of the American laborer in the fleld and in the fac:tor'yv.n " : : * He referred to the struggle for lower federal<taxation as a wonderful thing, . inspiring popular revolution, and pledged the democracy, as the party 8 of the people, to go on in the combat. He continued: .

“I for one, do not believe it is to come until the results secured are fully measured up to the ardor and the enthusiasm of the pecple. On the one side lie good "government, hongst, economical government, freed industry. large and expanding markets for the products of American labor and a general dawnjng of an era of individual prosperity. On. the other: side lie corrupt government, fettered and imprisoned industry, limitation by law on the markets in which we are to sell andlimitations by law for the amounit which we can profitaply produce.. . - e =

““If.there is one thing to which I gave more attention thap another during iy brief absence from this country it, was to the- condition of the wheat market of the old world. Whenlinquired why it was that wheat has gone down to ‘a price much lower than it has ever sold before in the histoty-of at least modern Fngland . and ‘América the. answeér was; theve is a unlversal glut and‘a production beyond profitable demand; that. not 6nly-is the United States in¢reasing her surplus- export ef wheat and Russia increasfflg'?fiei"-:s_\r}:plus export of wheat, but Argenting: is*‘coming: forward and is now o third in quantity. exported to European markets. Icannetut tecall the fact.and I have.: stated it-agdin -and-again before the péople of this country, that the American tax on the " wools of Argentine made thém give.up theirs . ‘sheep walks and gointo competition with you - in the production of wheat. e Ty *lsay itis for you to-day a question of mur- . ketss-a question of consumers, the world over, for the products you produce. I believe,so far as the great cereals are concerned, we pro- . duce ‘enough to feed a population twice as ° large as our own. I believe, so far as staple manufactures are concerned, we produca enough to supply a population as large as our : oxv}h. The question is, where are we to get th‘é%e markets? Upon the one system we have been holding up for thirty yeats tarifi walls to keep other people from comifig in to compete with us in a home market &lready glutted. We have now begun to tear down our tariff walls to let us out with our products to compete with the rest of tl;f world in all the markets of theworld. £ 3 “Whille I wasin London, about two weeks ago, I was honored, very unexpectedly to myself, with an invitation by the chamber of com=- - merce to be their guest at a public dinner. I was surprised, I was almost sorry in one sense, to receive such an invitation, because I was seeking rest, and I knew then as well as I know to-day that what I would say on that occasion would be perverted and falsifled before the American people, and yet I did not think I - need be afraid to talk to the people of London as I talked to the people of West Virginia, _ And so.I told them just what I have said to you -to-day, that in the past we had been building up our tariff to keep them out of American markets, and now we are tearing ° down the tariff todet us out.into their and all the other markets of the world. And Isaid to them that not only in the great products of agriculture, “not only in our wheat, ¢orn. cotton, beef and meat products, but in the products of our manufactures they might henceforth find us competing with them in all the markets that they sought. Thirty years ago we began to shut ourselves in from .all the markets of the world; thirty years ago we . called the American merchant in from off the seas and surrendered the oceans to England and other nations to traverse them with their ships/: .

VAST SAVING TO CONSUMERS. | The New Wool Tariff Alone Makes an An- - nual Net Difference of %113,009,000. If the benefits of taking the duties off wool are as great as the advocates of free raw materials, with moderate duties on manufactured goods, expect them to be, we shall not have to wait long for free coal and free iron ore.” We think it well to call attention to the actual prospective results. of the change - in the duties on wool and woolen goods. During the year ending June 80, 1893, which is the latest period for which the full statistics have been completed, the total value of .raw wool imported . into the United States was $18,416,884.92, on Lwhich .were collected duties to the famount of 88, 159,453.49. The duties which have been abolished varied from 10 cents per pound to 36 cents per pound, and there were no less than fourteen different rates applying to. the various grad&s of raw wool: Asa ' consequence of making the imported wool absplutely free to the manufac- » ¢ . . i turers and relieving them of the payment of over $8,000,000 -per year, the- - on manufactured goods have been somewhat reduced; and we pre- . .sent herewith astatement prepared by Deputy Appraiser Schoenhof, of 'New York, which will enable our readers to understand what reduetion may be looked for in the cost to the people . of the principal articles of wearing apparel, carpets, etc., while duties averaging 45 percenl. protect the American | manufactureragainstany danger from . ' injury by reason of lower wages paid to the opera.,ti-vja’s in European coun= tries; © G e P goeedl e Imports of manufactures of w 001.... $36.993,000 PUtiEs sel hivivies o N #BOOO | o 2 2 —— s Import value, duty paid..;...eeeee 72,441,000 . S | 18¥9-90. . : Census year, domestic manufactures: - Woolen g00d5............5133.577,000 Worsted goods.. .......... . 79,194,000 . ® ; Hosiery and knit, * . g00d5...... ....$67,241;000 < - Deduct cotton ; L. NOBIELY «evs ovvs 17,000:000 ——— 50,241:000 CBYPOLS. covenieiensays oo 41,770:000 810,782,000 .. Yalpe of domestic manufactures. 381,223,000, Add 33% per cent. to cover whole- - : sale-and resail profits..... ....... 128,074,000 ° Cost of wool manufactures ta con- o, BUIMETR Gty ih o 4 vees wiaiireamin ovinie IR BOV.OOO Cost of wool manufag¢tures under. . i senate bill on Bame amounts: ; _ ; 1mp0rtati0n5........... .&36.993.00? | Duty. 45 per.cent....v. .. 16,665,000 . | : -' g T L Value of domestic manu-.: ° i : - factures $310.000,000, re- = - . s ‘duced from an average . S 5 - of ‘lOO per cent. duty to e : 45 per cent.rate as a re- S ! sult of free w001........224,525,000 By e © . %Bls3ooo ‘ Add 33 per cent. approf- - o . ¢ T6B: i niias s o qboie DESKNIES | & ' . ' ——— 370911,000 ' Amount saved to consumers on the . e " woolen schedule only under senate bill.....ocoieeniainiiiinanin.. $141.386.000 1f these. figures are accurate, and they are the most trustworthy that can be obtained, heréis a proposed and possible saving of $2 for every man, woman and child in these United States. According to this calculation the account with the people is as foldlows: © e oy S . Reduction of dities on raw wool.. 8,150,458 40 Reduction of duties on woolen . : MANULACTUTES ..o esiian ande 19.783,900 00 L RTgml 1103510'! r'e;rgnuef Jis od‘wwm,@:fl 49 eduction in pyice of goods _consumers F -.Oiii,ma Net savings to consumers. ... ..., 113,443 54( ~ —=The trouble with MeKinley is that he doesn’t realize that he is Tune Eing BT e behind his emergeney.—N ¥‘ Oy