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‘[ﬁz&ﬁw}/’—, e SAR Ry SRR ge ST ) R RNV e Wd ’ [CoPYRIGHT, 1894 ] ; CHAPTER XIL—CONTINUED. - “‘Can you hear what they say?” *No, I cannot hear. Some one is coming into the room.” “Who is it?" : y “I feel it is @ man but I cannot see him.” e & | “Can you not hear what he says?” “*] cannot hear what he says—l can only hear what the woman says.” “What does she say?” A The girl’s) eyes started from her. ¢‘Oh, thére are the soldiers coming. The air is cold. They have not taken down the iron railing. My God—that is the train. I hear it—they willkall be killed.” Theén with a wild shriek, she threw. up her arms and with a shudder put her handsupon her "ears and became to all appearances lifeless. But a little foam oozed from the corner of her mouth. |

Hendricks was puzzled and annoyed. There , was an uncanny air to the girl's utterances that affected him in a manner peculiar to himself. -He may be said to have resented the intimation of prescience. Te, as a rule, avoided and disliked mysteries. He did not like to acknowledge to himself that something was going on above ground that was suspicious and that Mrs. Hendricks had him at a disadvantage. He turned the matter over in his mind jand viewed it from every conceivgble point. There seemed only one way out of the growing uncertainty and it was to take a body of men, surround the house and make the officers prisoners. : ‘

Just as he had about settled to this conclusion Mrs. Hendricks summoned him to the telephone. ‘I want to warn you,” she said, “if any voice but mine comes through this instrnument not to answer it. They are all away on the grounds at this moment andl can talk to you. I can- | not tell ifl they suspect that these wires that apparently go out on the poles, Yead !in another idirection, but they are ‘liable to use them at some moment. They have already made re- | marks about the "chimney -and ‘the mails.and have ominously kept silence “about Miss Endicott’s disappearance. "But I guessed the truth when they “found [ the horses’ hoof marks and brought in the flask which smelled of the captain’s Medford rum. If-yon precipitate .matters now, you may wréek your St. Mary’s scheme. : If Calfcot knows sometliing about your past ~how much I cannot learn. ' He may know something of your future plans. "I believe he 'is the only man who has - put togéther the threads of your career. - In a perspnal encounter he may gei ‘away. 1f youentraphim, there will be ‘an armed force ‘quartered on ms. The “best plan is to keep. him here in lux“mrious ease by every blandishment I cani offer until the St. Mary’s affair is over: ‘He will prefer this place to the: Bayou house, if indeed he snspects that plaee. Ile is a shrewd man’ but a suscéptible “gne. Leave him in my hands.”; - ; {lendricks was not led by this com“munication into ‘a moment's jnadvervence,” e could not tell if it sere an -honest: ¢conviction. or part of some scheme of ;the woman's. Id did not dare tell her his own eonclusions and thus put'her on ‘her ghard. “He gave her no intiraation.of his fast maturing plan. - He mercly asked questions. The rosult was that he obtaimed from her’ further. acknowledgments to; the foltowingheffoct: . - s o “Calicot ;l&io ordinary man. I°fear him because I cannot read him. I have .a growing belief-that he has industrii 'ou:sfyf put together your whole career—made his own theory—kept it to himself and is staying here to corroborate ft before putting the machinéry of law. -in’opératign, er makinmg his iplan pub“lig. . He 'has ,shown an unmistakable admiration- for me. He professes-to have never met a woman whose intelloctual gifts'so impressed him. Butl I cannot tell how far this is his suseeptibility or lis game.”: Yesterday he said my gifts would be of inestimable value to the social system if arrayed on the ~.side of the norma) forces of isociety. I - tried all my art to'get him fo say how far he thought they were arrayed against the conventional Ofder, ‘but I conld not get him to divulgé anything. At another time he said: fYon are in constant communication with Mr. Hendricks.’ - But he changed the subject ndroitly when I tried to find out how he knew it. This will show you that if he stays here it is only a question of ¥ime when he discovers our means of intercourse and how necessary it is that I should sparingly use it. You know me too well to think for a moment that I am superstitious or visionary, but tfiis cool, plausible, mysterious man some{how standsin my instinctive feclings for the slow, inevitable, dis;bassionatg, solidarity of man that we have raised our hands against. I have xhaustes all my woman’s ingenuity ;n trying to discover the weak spot in his nature. He has, so far; baffled me. 1 cannot rell if he has a weak spot or is only the clevpres_p man I ever met in - hiding it. It would bg a supreme triumph to outwit such a representative agent intellectnally. It cannot be done in your way. Youmust handle events. Lenve me to dcal with motives. In eny cage; trugtimea.” IoL 1 0 i

The result of this vms just what we might expeet in a man of Hendricks’. unplastic will and aggressive nature. He was not convinegd, He did not like the woman’s weak admidsion of something angust and 'invincible in ‘the soeial order. He saw nothing in the statements and arguments that might not be put forward as part of a subtile scheme to gain time and to lzcep him helplessly out of the way till her own | security was attained. He did not however confer with his associates, but went to the office and plunged into a deep consultation with. the general and TFPenning upon the topography of the country around St. Mary’s. They had county and township maps with every road and house maorked upon them and they were enkrossed in the detgils of a miltary cnmpaig&, Put that morning the «doctor had gaid that there were six of the men who had demwanded to be let out for a few houss. They had ‘pledged themselves te keep away from (the roads and merely «w‘i%omm kaﬂﬂ squirrels and would be back at (NP e T ey TR o

These six men wen! ‘imme"%f,mg!y north, hung about the gfounds of the Laran house, encountéred the two deputies who were in the woods and killed them. 'They then returned at night feeling assuryd that'they had removed the obstacles to their liberty. _ Hendricks heard of it first from Mrs. Hendricks. ¥ “The two deputies,” she said, “have been killed at the edge of the bluegrass opening on the Smoky Hill stretch. They were killed by your men yesterday afternoon. Cali¢ot sent thoir bodies on to Clinton in a wagon, and Lieut. Stocking has gone¢ with them. They had not been gone an hour when four mounted men arrived to take their place. I saw them from my chamber window. It had a peculiar effect upon me. They seemed to be the advance guard of the race. Calicot is as suave and unconcerned as ever, We ate breakfast together. I expressed the greatest amount of concern and womanly ' -horror at the deed. He merely remarked that it was an incident calculable and of small weight in estimating ultimate results. ‘A mere skirmish.” Then he changed the conversation to a trifling subject. We shall now have six men instead of four. Something tells me that if you succeed in getting rid of these men, twelve more will take their place. It'slike fighting an incalculable machine.” }

Hendricks’ plans were decided upon in five minutes after this/ communication. He called in the gereral and explained the situation to him. *We must take this bull by the horns. Piek twenty-five of the best men; stock them with' the best horses we have got. They are to be timed to arrive at the Laran house at mnine-thirty to-morrow morning. Have twenty-five more men at this shaft. There is no telling what Stocking will bring back with him, I will go up and meet Calicot at that thour. I don’t want him killed. We 'must make him our prisoner.. As for |the rest, let them take the chances. I shall probably hear from Mr& Hendricks to-night, but I shall not tell her of my plan. We'cannot use Fenning, for he must go to St. Mary’s. Have you got the stuff off?” ‘ © *“Yes,” said the general, ‘‘the last boxes went last night.” .

] : CHAPTER XIIL . . The lift, which was kept at the bottom of the shaft, when not in use, carried Hendricks up at precisely nine twenty-eight the next morning. e had five men with him and they all got undisturbed _into the signal room.. He secured the floor and then waited at the little western window a moment until the half hour had expired. There was evidently some kind of signal made. from the wood, for he sajd: “All right. - You are to wait here and guard the entrance until you hear from me.” He then opened the door with a latch key carefully and stepped into the passage, closing the door after him: o . 5 Calicot' and Mrs. Hendricks were in the northern parlor, used:as a brealkfast room. As Hendricks approached the door through the passage he heard the voice of one of the maids singing in the kitehen. He stopped at the door with his hand on the knob. He heard the singing changed suddenly to a ery of surprise and the floor vibrated slightly as if séveral persons had run to the windows. Almost at the same moment he heard the sound of horses’ feet and he knew tiiat the house was surrounded. Then he opened the door suddenly and stood in the room. ' Calicot, who was facing the entrance, had risen suddenly and was standing in‘ an attitude of defense.. Mrs. Hendricks, with admirable self-possession, half turned-with a'look of reproach. “Pray be seated,” said Hendricks. “What we have to say néed not disturb the air- of tete-a-tete,” and he pulled, as he adyvanced to the table, one of the chair with him. e

Calicot remained standing. ; '““I .beg that you will be seated,” said Hendricks with politéness. = - :

Calicot strode: to the window and pulled the curtain aside. He saw the mounted men on the lawn. Then he dropped the cur&i'n and came back to the table. : e

“There is a lady present,” said lendricks. = ‘“‘There is no necessity in our interview for her retirement.”

Calicot sat down. He was looking at Hendricks with curiosity.

“In the little conflict between us,” said the latter, ““I assure you, sir, that if you had made it plain that you represented the inevitable, I would have

| r . o £ W TR '4,‘:,) . i!"’a . : ST s ; \ A ,(» I\ » f ¥ ' ,o4@ o . / Ri a \7 ' | (i b W A v \ | - F e e b 2= o % 3 L G \ LT, e »"'" “YOU, MY DEAR SIR, ARE MY PRISONKR ’ gracefully succumbed. -‘That is all I ask of you now. There are twentyfive men guarding the house and a suf- . i . . A ficient force inside. - You, my dear si‘f,. are my prisoner.” L “You are certainly,” said Calicot, ‘‘the most extraordinary man I ever met. It requires brains as avell as audacity to play Claude Duval successfully on o modern stage. It may be 'neceséary to the ends of justice for me to .sucgumb. The agents of the inevitL X Lk r ¥y <3 = able scarcely ecount. They may delay ~—they do not alter the result. lam very glad, sir, to have met yowat last, even to my disadvantage. How many officers of the Jaw have you killed this OoMIRpY b Lo e ~_“It will help to preserve your own G < - g SAt SR v ""-"';;;".:,',? comfortand mx;gwéw%m‘wé at the start that youhave got to deal, not with erime, but war. I am not.a malcfactor, but a rovolutiomist. ' Sokgl h T R se 8 L LS R with me under the i sof armed conflict. .It would be well i you could advance your position. and your lanm’ el %’ﬁ& Z %3«%&%*;?% Sl e i” g ;: f'"; : Agﬂi‘“«, ;;*fmﬁ %ﬂf%ﬁa ¢ h”‘&m?‘% SWi iy onvtivity shonid be sl ettt avitelile “with - autlled &'l ha. skl eO AR B T R L e 1t It is viol Tdo nc VR ":“e' .‘mf, ;’:‘&e,‘.gv.,;‘»v_;ST';‘,,‘,:;; e e 4

ROy TR ,rwf?'y-;mwiﬂ':g- SRR your authority. but lam deeply interested in your hallucination.” “¥nough,” replisd Hendricks. “May I ask yow to give up your arms?” “I give you my word as a gentleman that I never carryany and am unarmed at this morment,” said Calicot. 7 ‘“Then pardon me a moment,” said Hendricks. *You will have ta accompany me.” He went to the door and spoke to one of his men. He thought, as he turned to come back, that both Mrs. Hendricks and Calicot made a motion of their. bodies as if they bad leaned forward to speak to each other. |

- “Will you accompany me, sir?” said Saas

‘‘Certainly not voluntarily,” replied Calicot. “I 'am an officer of the law. You are resisting the due process of that law.” . Lol

. “I regret exceedingly,” said Hendricks, ‘‘that you should insi*4 upon force.” - : :

“That is your responsibility--not mine,” observed Calicot. . Hendricks called in two men. “Re. move this gentleman to-the shaft,” he said. e :

The men stepped on either side @ Calicot. - | :

“That is'sufficient,” he said. “You need not drag me.” : He then made a bow to Mrs. Hendricks and walked to the signal room. After a consultation with the general Hendricks followed him. The shaft was open and the lift was waiting in the room. It was impossible to see the mechanisin of the floor for the window had been darkened by a closed shutter. Just as the two men stepped into the elevator the sharp report of a rifle rang out cléear upon the air and was almost immediately followed by at least half a score of answering shots. ; The two men 1s the elevator looked at each other. |

- “That is the retérn of your lieutenant,” said Hendricks. - ! ““Yes.” replied Calicot, calmly. “He is a brave fellow and a warm friend.”

. **Let us hope that there is no bloodshed.” said Hendricks, ‘“‘and that we shall enjoy his society.”

i { CHAPTER XIV. ’ . It was tliis year that the new phasse of imported socialism came into view with the ‘“lndustrial Junta,” as it was talled. The branches had been or . ‘/ = ) B |st o : o [l | . | INERICAN bl Bk o oy b M werkmen | 1 L ey ﬂ | zE N , £ AM 1 l' ) ey S .‘7.‘ I ( A=Al I RS N A ﬁ“%’w ’%//77‘{1 ‘\\,\% \n B o) Al o //fy;;:{ =l ” lé{ T r;:’S 4;"{i|lltlllfﬂ; / A MmN o —=U=l =25 TR T =J ot _ o WORKINGMEN’S REGIMENT. : ganized fsecretly and it was hnowa that "the mischievous order had its lodges in all the states. Public attention was not however awakened to the power of the ‘“Junta,” until the St. Mary’s riots oceurred. St. Mary’s, at one time|a meresuburb five miles from

Paducah at the confluence of the Ten- | nessee and the Ohio, had five years be- i fore become an important manufacturing place owing to its purchase by an ‘English syndicate and the erection there of enormous workshops. 'The principal. industry was the manufaeture of cutlery and all kinds of copper tools, hardened by a new process, equal to the finest steel. The same syndicate had purchased an enormous ‘track of copper-mining land on Lake Superior and communication was direct and inexpensive by means of the Mississippi. This English company had obtfained the secret process of hardening copper, so it was said, from a poor American mechanic. At the time of the trouble with the men, there wére over teqﬁyhousand operatives employed | at St. M Ky's. The place may have contained fivé thousand other inhabitants butall the stock holders lived abroad. It was a town of factories and chim-; [ neys and, save at the outlying end of its main thoroughfare where one of ‘ the directors and several of the superintendents had erected handsome houses, its residences were cottages of unpretentious form. ‘lt had a bank also owned by the eompany; a free lis -rary. sevéral churches and a public hall called *“The Forum.” The trouble: between the company and tlge workmen was at the start a trifling on¢and/ wotld have been adjusted by the worl-. men themselves if it had not been for: outjide interference. ““The Junta” hadhad its eyes on this point for a year and resolved to make it the starting point of its socialistic upheaval. It succeeded fn getting its own men into the ;‘ﬁgxks and disaffecting a large numiierof operatives. A strike of one - branch ocgurred carly in the year and the company sent -men from England to take their places. It was not provep that they came under contract, but fio one deubted it. In six wmonths they had taken on three hundred mﬁ guard%léy and singly, and, mdﬂ n‘onstrated to their own satisfaction the | feasibility of importing their labor in o surrep: *ﬁaunmmu;geﬂms iﬂh(iizi ng scheme. m%tf put up five | bundred cottages on a large tractgnd workmen, 1t was nof till @ reduction of wage &}Mﬁm lace and another strike be able to talte the place of the disacbonl traubls Bagan: f’“ﬁ”“’“ | Rrdcricin biarictute. sympaihived with | it i ot Te R 5 Hzﬁww&%g%* the factories shut downy - . e A B e ot e WPE o oo ““’ﬁ%‘f"‘”w

WHY THE GOLD IS EXPORTED. . % ——— § Republican Legislation the Cause of thé : Tremendous Outgo. The Indianapolis Journal was boasting the other day of the large foreign investments made in America after the passage of the McKinley bill, and at the same time asserting that exports of gold at present are caused by the Carlisle curreney bill. The Cour-ier-Journal took occasion to show that these investments after the passage of the McKinley bill, were mythical, so far as they were indicated by the gold movement, as the net exports of gold in the twelve months ended June 30, 1891, were the largest since 1864. The Journal admits the aceuracy of the figures’submitted, but tries to wriggle out in this way: :

_*‘The Courier-Journal points out that during the fiscal year which énded June 30, 1801, the net export of gold was $68,180,087, then the largest since 1864 That is true, but why was this large export of gold necessary in 1891° Because the net exports of merchandise amounted to but $39,564,641. That balance in our favor was not much over one-third of the money necessary to pay foreign freights and interests on American securities held abroad. So the gold went. The Courier-Journal also calls attention to the fact that the net export of gold during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1898, was $87,506,463. - True; but turn to the records of exports and imports of merchandise for that year, and it appears that we bought $18,735,278 more abroad than we sold. That is, we had to pay during the year not only the foreign freights-and dividends on securities. but $lB,787,728 of adverse trade balanee. That shows why the gold was needed. ‘ ‘. ‘“There are a few otLer interesting facts in connection with this mattér. The net export of gold during the fiscal year which ended June 30; 1894, was §4,528,942. Why was the net export so small? Because the net export of merchandise during the same period was $237,145,950."" : A :

" Now, it will be observed that this is wholly irrelevant to -the question whether the passage of the McKinley bill induced foreigners to invest large sums in American securities and to ship gold to this country to pay for them. The large net export of gold that year shows that they did not do it. The Journal admits this, but says the balance of trade, though in our. favor, as the phrase is, was not so much in our favor as it might have been. Why was not the balance of trade more in our favor? Was not the MecKinley bill passed:to check importations? If it be said it was not yet in full operation, we pass on to the fiscal year 1883, when it was certainly getting in its work, and the balance 0‘& trade-was what is called adverse. Thi yvear we exported $87,506,483 in gold,the largest amount ever exported in a single year. This showed clearly enough that the McKinley bill was not bringing gold from Europe. : Now, so far as the trade balance- is concerned there is practically no dispute that it would be paid in gold if there were no other causes operating. But other causes are always operating. Hence, if we assume that an adverse balance of trade will necessarily cause an cutflow, or a balance in. our favor an inflow, of gold, we shall continually find statistics refut~ ing our theory. In the fiscal year 1894, as above stated, we exported more than we imported by some $237,000,000. This was an ideal year according to the republican theory, as the balance of trade was so largely ‘‘in our favor.” Imports were really checked, .as the republican platform of 1888 demanded. Still everybody knows it was -a bad year for business. The simple reason why we did not import more was because we could not afford it, our resources having been crippled by the Sherman act -panic. By republican logic we ought to have imported, net, $237,000,000 of gold, but, in ‘fact, our net exports were over four millions. No doubt the difference 'was made up by the return of our securities, and this was caused by the fear that we might not be able tomaintain the gold standard.

The fact remains that the large outflow of gold was going on under the Harrison administration. All the conditions affecting the currency, with the exception of the Sherman act, which were operating under the Harrison administration, are still in force. To pretend, therefore, that the outflow of gold, which has been going on for years, whetlier the balance of trade was one way or the other, has been caused by the new currency bill is to disregard all the probabilities and the legsons of experience. Not a dollar of national bank currency, as it is now, or .as it would be under the pending bill, wounld be available to settle international balances. The new currency bill might, and praobably would, force the banks to furnish their share of the gold for export, and to that extent relieve the treasury. For that reason it is rather calculated to diminish than to increase the shipment of gold, as it gives an additional reason to expect that the gold standard can be retained.—Louisville Courier-Jour-nal. : S ;

Prosperous Democratic Times.

This certer of manufacturing interests in New Hampshire is experiencing an unprecedented revival of business, and shrewd meun of affairs do not hesitate to express themselves to the effect that Manchester is upon the threshold of an era oi buSiness prosperity compared with which her - past wonderful material advancement will be as naught. Signs of increasing prosperity are manifest on every hand. For an enu.e mile along the river front, from Olzendam’s hosiery mills on the south to the Lang‘don mills at the extreme north, the. whirling of spindles and the ‘rattling of shuttles can be heard. All -~ the mills are being run full time, new industries .are _being startéd;old industries are working overtime, and the hum of industry affords * pleasing music throughout _every part of this thriving community. "‘ﬁ"%e’?&erchantq of Manchester have just reaped a rich harvest from the ‘most successtul merchants’ week ever held under the board of trade auspices, ‘and all feel the business outlook for ‘the winter to be of a rosy character. ‘The tariff question is regarded as set‘dawning upon the minds 3{@,@ Eree i feal A 0 STIRFIn 07 THH MOO T Suay B g {feeling of buoyancy, hopefdluess and ;;‘1 ‘eheer.—Louiggille Courier-Jour-——""The sugar trust holds its grip ‘on the semate,” says the St. Louis GlibaDomontal “xnd WhALL 1Y divk it et vudßpmelos o hs Gt 0 r@&@fa«'mr e ‘ew*wg%:,g“ﬁ% L, b4t g sneat e har pak. iaﬁ&aﬁ"wﬁk e

Ly ey NSRS M. 02 GRS } PROTECTION 'VS. M’KINLEYISM. Prohibitive Rates of the McKinley Bill L ‘and Their Results. o 5 Hon. John A. Kasson, who will be favorably remembered as a republican member of congress a score of years ‘ago, writesa letter to-the Washington "Post to protest against the use of the ‘phrase “McKinleyism is dead.” That tis, Mr. Kasson objects to that phrase if it is to be understood that McKinleyism means ‘‘national protection,” and inferentially he conveys the idea that if it doesn’t mean that, but something else, then he doesn’t care a continental cuss what becomes of it. :

- Mr. Kasson is justified in feeling some anxiety on that point, and in order torelieve his mind the Times assures him that McKinleyism doesn’t mean ‘“‘nationsl protection.” - What it means is ‘the robbery of the many to enrich the few, impoverishing the millions to .add to the plunder of the trusts, and reimbursing. the manufacturing barons for the millions of dollars they contributed to the republican corruption fund in 1885 and 1892 in order to debauch the ballot and corrupt the voters of the ecountry in.the interest ofjthe republican plunderers. : That is what McKinleyism means, as distinguished from national . protection. When Mr. Kasson represented an.Jowa constituency in congress the government was under the policy of national protection, and he was among ‘those republicans who protested against the increase of the tariff taxes for the reason as they then said that higher duties ~would be burdensome 'and unjust. Subsequently such presidents of his party as Grant and Arthur recommended a reduction of the duties. But McKinleyism doubled them in nearly every particular, and established not protective but prohibitive rates. : : o

The consequence of the substitution of McKinleyism for national protection was the formation of a sugar trust, a steel trust, a cordage trust, a barbed wire trust and various other trusts, the business of which was to plunder the people, and they did business with great earnestness and assiduity until the election of 1892 knocked them silly, Then the new tariff bill was enacted, and, though the advocates of McKinleyism denounce it as a free trade measure, it provides for duties a trifle higher than those which -existed when Mr. Kasson was in con~ gress.—Kansasg City Times. i . HIGH TARIFF NOT WANTED. The People of the West Not in Fav?)‘ of! s Higher Taxes. : A republican politician in the faroff territory of Oklahoma expressed a popular truth when, a few days ago, he said: ‘“The west is not stuck ona high tariff.” : Nobody is ‘‘stuck on” a high tariff, except its beneficiaries. Nobody wants to pay any more taxes than he can help and everybody wants the necessities of life at such a price that they can be readily obtained without too ' much toil and effort. Not only the | west, but the east, is not ‘‘stuck on” a high tariff. A high tariff is high taxation. The taxation is borne by theé i people, and as it is impossible that everybody should profit by taxing himl self so it is equally impossible that everybody should profit by high tariff which means high taxation. . - The days of a high tariff are over. No one of authority in the republican party pretends to favor a return to the McKinley tariff. No party will go before the people on the issue that the I people shall pay more taxes and that everybody is better off by being taxed. l Whether the democratic party elects i its candidates or not, its principles are ’ winning a stronger hold on the people, and if the republican party continues ‘_ to reform, it will soon be practicing | the real truths of democracy.—Albany LAxgas. . ‘

OPINIONS AND POINTERS. °

——Mr. McKinley has discovered that the tariff barons have no use for the lemon if they can get the juice without it. Tom Reed is very juicy withak —3St. Louis Republic.

' ——The republican senators will have another opportunity to earn more sugar trust boodle by defeating again the bill to remove the differential duty on Gérman sugar and on the trust’s refined sugar. —Chicago Herald. ——William Mc¢Kinle y and Benjamin Harrison will note the fact that it was Senator Quay who introduced the bill for a new presidential mansion. Of course Benator Quay doesn’t expect McKinley or Harrison to ever occupy his new million dollar white house, as he had an eye. on Tom Reed when he proposed to fix up the next president so handsomely at public expense.— Kansas City Times. : ——A stanch western republican paper, the Sioux City (la.) Journal, believes that the republican party in New York state will make a serious mistake if it does ?ob “turn down” Tom Platt. “He didénot, win the late victory,’’ it says; "‘h‘ had nothing to do with it; the only contribution it was in his power to male was to keep out of sight. When /he now comes forward to didtate the use of the victory he simply raises an issue within ‘the party against himself. The party must purge itself o# ‘his bossism and of all machine dictation, if it hopes long to retain. control in New York. The bosses must be downed.”—N. X. Post. : RS e e

——The republican pretentions of wanting fair and honest elections are very shallow when such fair and honest elections fail to elect their<candidates. A living example of this is the present situation in California. In spite 'of ‘the manipulations of republican election officers in that state the returns show the' election of Budd, democrat, for governor, by one thousand three hundred plurality. Now the republicans are threatening to steal the state outright for old man Estee, who was defeated at the polls. ‘While the g. 0. p. wears a very pious look it also carries an itching palm for other people’s property.—Kansas City Times. | o : ~ ——Shrewd republicans must realize that the republicans of the senate ‘committed an irremediable blunder in !bﬁng.émn ‘the proposition to consider the bill .depriving the sugar @Mﬁﬁwﬁmﬂ% ‘accruing to it {rom the differential and discriminating duties. There can be no doubt Jhot the degrading infitence and the e aiabie Geond, o ' the sugar trust Sl oF 1808 Thit ‘mohstrons o Blior stk avnl %?‘?@ BoW. go.BH ek ‘*, ATt tnn Sta

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

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The palace was—well, it was rather plain, And only a few feet square, A3ad some bread and ginger cake, milk and ¢ Jjam : Were all of the royal fore. s ; The butler was grand in a necktie white, - . v - ~And grave ‘as a Cea e : -judge could be: : . But he had four b - feet, and looked . | i.‘“,i,l i,g\;\n/ Liv]:ry;much o RS e our own o ‘l v w@‘\ ' Jock to me. - 2 £ WA : = » ' ‘The'king was e l ’fyl//{jw §5 dressedin a FERN | fe ‘-"‘,""_’/‘;Z'; gorgeous robe; b ;{’;{ 4 3 " And the queen’s )41 ' was exquisite, - e }“""‘ And they both had . —— beautiful gold- \ v T=——=—=—==F— - . encrowns ° Tt Thag dldn't ex- '< : THE BUTLER. ° aotly fit. 3 > - = Their manners were dignified, grave and _grand, ' g ’ Their appetites royally nice, g Though the queen got her pinafore stained with:jam, g : ' And his majesty choked himself twice. - ~ And after the luncheon (the cares of state -+ Had tired herout, . GERICI R R i mayhap) ey R e ter [/ The queen unex- ‘ ; et | pectedly fell B TN ’ asleep . ; ’ ' With ' her curly - 1. l i ; ‘ brown head’'in A 4 ‘” & g { E my lap. ”/,;? 7 AI& ) ¥ (] )] ) ““For she is so_lit- /A X MG i tle, you see?’ - e =7 g . theking @) g Explained in a W Y I grave aside, \\ i §‘ ; ‘She doesn't remember her THE QUEEN IS SLEEPY. ‘ _ partvery welll” : i 1. Apd'ne looked much mortified. -- . . 5T4 quite forgetting his rank, he, too, - i i~ Sat down on the nursery floor, | 4nd played with a top and a train'of cars - l - For fifteen minutes or more. = . i Then fearing my visit might last too long— For he seemed to be bored, I thought, . . And the queen woke up in a fractious mood— My call to an end I brought. ¢ ‘ I courtesied low to the king, and kissed Her majesty’s hand so white, S e But they sprang on me with a laughing shous | And hugged me close and tight. -~ . = i The queen’s gold erown slipped over her neck, - And the king’s from his head was lost, . And the royal checks were red as a rose, l . Andtheroyal locks were tossed: =~ - S

The royal robes from their shoulders fell, - And their royal dignity fled, : ‘ And ‘“Wasn't it fun, mamma?' they éried, . ‘My own little Trix and Ted! Hagil —Margaret Johnson, in Youth's Companion.

GLASS SWALLOWERS.

All of Them Are Fakirs or Conjurers.in a ; . sSmall Way. Fidite

There are a number of men who go around the country affecting to be able to swallow bits of glass, pebbles, small shells and so on. It is singular, but most of those who see these tricks performed really believe that the articles are actually swallowed. ¢ | -In reality, in this case,jas in many othérs, it is the ““quickness of the hand that deceives the eye.” A man who at a dime seum actually swallowed, during ﬁftfrsg:n to twenty performances a day, bits of glass and tacks would be soon 1n his grave. Sl .

.These men are conjurers in a small way, and their bill of fare is disposed ‘of in another way than swallowing. The trick is for the most part deftly executed—the performer imitates the act of swallowing to something - like perfection, the apparent movement ofsthe throat being well done. ,

Many of these men pretend, in order to increase the mystery, that immediately after they have done the trick they swallow some mysterious mixture, ouly known to themselves, which aets as a dissolvent and ‘digéster: But 'this exists {n imaginationonly. , A friend ef the writer, who is a physician at one of the hospitals in a large city, was not longago consulted by one of these alleged champion swallowers. This same man, who pretended to eat dozens of things daily, was in a terrible state of fright, because he had in reality, by a slip, swallowed fwo tacks.

Of course, this is conclusive evidence that he did not actually swallow. the articles which he pretended to find delight in" eating. But people who can take pleasure in seeing a fellow being swallow tin tacks deserve to be fooled. ~Golden Days. : b

Said Grace to the Duchess.

An Englishwoman of rank, a duchess, was very apt to forget to pay her bills. A milliner, whose large bill had been repeatedly ignored by the duchess, at last determined to send her little girl, a pretty child of ten years, for the money Wwhich was so much needed. “Pe sure to say ‘your, grace’ to the duchess,” said the anxipus mother; and . the child gravely promised to remember. When, after long waiting, she was ushered into the presence of her \grace, the litfle girl dropped a low courtesy, and then, folding her hands and closing her eyes, she said, softly: “For what I am about to receive may the Lord make me truly thankful.” As shg opened her eyes and turned her 'wistful gaze on the duchess, that. person turned very red, and without delay made ont a check for the amount due her milliner. e

‘ B Cobweb Party. This malkes a capital game, says Social Evenings. Take threads of various colors and wind them intricately all around the parlor—over pictures, about chair-legs, intertwining in all di- . rectiéns. . Be sure to hide carefully both ends of each thread. Preparea badge of the color of each thread, and as your guests arrive bid them each to take one. You may have duplicate ‘badges for boys and girls, those who chance to select the same color becom: ing vartners in the game. On a given signal each is to hunt out the thread of | the same color as the badge he wears, #ind its end, and wind it up again ona. &pool. The one, or the couple, first ac« NN LT R s 5‘?,“@3?413%%&&“‘5':1*

Riy (e i e A Chapter for Boys and Girls on Snakes, Ll ane Thele URabl. Lots of boys and girls kill snakes in the eountry who never stop to think what a very curious way a snake has. - of getting about. Théy see him so. ‘often sliding through the grass that it - ‘never occurs to them towonder how he can do it, just as many other wonderful thingsin this world are so commmon that we never stop to think how won- * derful they reallyare. . - = - You would ~pell‘ me that Mr: Spake got along by crawling. ' His body holds ~one long 'backbone, the ribs coming Lf_r,om it numbering as many as three hundred in' some snakes. Besides these ribs in his long slender body he has very powerful muscles which bring his ribs forward as he walks along upon them, just as if they were feet. So that he may be said to walk upon his ribs. His muscles draw his ribs forward, so that he rests upon them, and then his muscles give an- - other! step.” So on he runs as quick as lightning, particularly when he sees d small- boy coming after him with a sharp stick.. - £ : .~ The' snake, large or small, swallows his food whole and often hasto open his mouth very wide to do it. But mother mature has. made special arrangements about a jsnake's mouth, "by which he can separate the ‘bones of it,- so that he . can swallow animals by gradually drawing them in until +the ' bones are at some distance apart. When once ithe dinner is down, the muscles of the ‘mouth contract, and' the bones: draw back into place, and’ the snake’s head looks as small as it'did before he took in his huge - mouthful. - Poisonous snakes kill or crush their prey to death before they swallow it. The smafler snakes have teeth turning backward, so that the prey, getting inside once, cannot escape. ) L | You know something, perhaps, of how the snake sheds his skin. Perhaps | you have foumd such a treasure asan 1 old snake skin for yourself. When the ‘snake is about to shed his coat it grows dull in color, and some day it splits open all the way down the back. Then Mr. Snake wriggles out of his old ' clothes and finds himself in & bran new suit,”handsomer and better=fitting than the last. . - 1 - Snakes. of course, can climb trees, or swim, as well as they cdn get over the ‘ground. In faect, they do all these. things so well, and so expeditiously, ‘that it would seem as if it were rather’ | easier to get along without feet than with them. And Mr. Snake must wonder what upon earth a boy’s legs are 'good for, since snakes can run faster | than boys.—Chicago Inter %cean.

§NEGRO HEAD-DRE?.SES.

Eccentric Coiffures Seen by ;’,l‘ravqlers in e "*' the Dark Continent. . :

/The African puts ornaments in his - hair as we more civilized mortals do, but his taste is different. For where we decorate with gold ahd silver pins and combs, he proudly uses little balls and disks of clay hanging to the end of ‘his Braided locksor long braided beard. . Sometimes he plasters a great crescent shaped lump of clay on the back of his head, and one old prince, particularly vain and loving of ornameqt, rolled hid :

‘entire beard into a ball and so plastered it with mud that it hung, a great clay . -ball, from his chin. Just fancy how pleasant it ‘must have been to wear-a five-pound weight on one’s chin! 'lt ‘would be a great digcourager of conversation, for one certainly would not : il . Te, - . S . e | © YU, N | 7//%/// S p N Zogr— N 0 : : : Ve YN e ‘ TWO ECCENTRIC COIFFURES, | wish. to lift. that weight any oftener than was absolutely necessary. : Some’ of the women with long hair weave it over and around.little reeds stuck in at right angles to the head, so that it finally looks like a great straw hat or basket all around their faces, much like the old poke bonnets that our grandmothers. used to weag, The ladies, of the lower Conégo whose hair is ‘more woolly than thati of some of the other tribes, part their hair in three great thick locks, one on each side of ‘the face and one in front. ' These they grease and twist untimey look like wire, then they curve them until they look like short eow’s horns sticking out - on both sides and in front. % The .natives of Ruaibraid their hain in two or three long plaits right on top. of the head. They stiffen with clay until they stand upright exactly like ‘the funny little horns the unsociable snail sticks out as be saunters along - with his house on his back. If the man of Rua happens to have short haif hebraids in false hair until he gets what he ¢onsiders a fashionable length, that is about twelve or fourteen inches. They likewise share the fondness of s 9» - called civilized nations for changing | the color of the hair, and are particularly addicted to the use of ared- clay, - which makes their hair a brillfant red. They also use a preparation of henna for the same purpose, and when they -want to hide the gray hairs they mix henna and indigo, which makes a fine ' black, and, unlike S,dme.-Einrqp.ean%s, | does not affect the brain.—lsabel MeKee, in Chicago Inter Ocean. = - :

” Involuntary Trip to Europe. = = -Two Delaware boys have just returned from an involuntaty voyage to Europe. They went out’ fishing in the Delaware river, and, & fog coming up suddenly, could not find their way to - shore. After drifting for two hours a storm came up-and the boat was driven before it all night. When morning . came and the storm ended the boys ‘were out of sight of land and with no ‘idea where they were. So they prun- - dently made no effort to'gom:{:vh re, ‘and finally were rewarded by. the si?;fzi of a steamer. As it came closer the; % ‘hoisted signals of distress, and were Piﬂlﬂrﬂsnp by a vessel bound from Philadelphid to Hamburg. Aud tho bo wero carrled to ‘1:"35’“3 , beoause the steatnship only sighted other vessels at adistance. Of epursg the JOTE worki vel U o g the Akl Shibiaer M e e - MtRTH may E»“”‘«Wy{“ﬁj L T e R T Wansdoctorspill, . . S o D