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M AT 5 it A wi ; ﬁ“ @F THE } i , ; ) i iy Yl o FOUR.. g _ AN b ;\‘ g’a‘ Q“N‘DQYLE-% QDo I F CHAPTER I-OONTINUED ¢ “It is very customary for pawnbrokers in England, when they take a ‘ ‘watch, to scratch the number of the ticket with a pin point upon the inside of the case. It is morehandy than the label, as there is no risk of. the number being lost or transposed. There are no less than four sueh numbers visible to my lens on the inside of this case. Inference—that your brother was often st low water. Secondary inference—that he had occaslonal bursts of prosperity, or he could not have redeemed the pledge. Finally, I ask you to look @&t the inner plate, which contains the key-hole. Look at the thousands of geratches all round the hole—marks ‘where the key has slipped. What sober ‘man’s lkey could have scored those grooves? But you will never see a drunkard’s watch without them. He winds it at night, and he leaves these traces of his unsteady hand. Where is the mystery in all this?” ~ “Tt is clear as daylight,” I answered. I regret the injustice which I did you. I should have had more faith in your marvelous faculty. Mayl ask whether you have any professional inquiry on foot at present?” “None. Hence the cocaine. I canhot live without brain work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window bere. Was there ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the fstree(zh}d drifts acress dun-colored houses. What could be more hopeless1y prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace and existence is eommonplace and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.” - I had opened my mouth 'to reply to this tirade, when, with a crisp knock, our landlady entered, bearing a card upon the brass salver. : ‘A young lady for you, sir,” she said, addressing my companion. . “Miss Mary Morstan,” he read. ““Hum! 1 have mo recollection of the mame. Ask the young lady to step up, Mrs. Hudson. Don’t go, doctor. Tshall prefer that you remain.” . CHAPTER IL THE STATEMENT OF THE CASE. { Miss Morstdan entered the .:room with & firm step and an outward composure of manner. She was a blonde young lady, small, dainty, well gloved, -and dressed in the most perfect taste. | fThere was, however, a plainess and ' pimplicity about her costume which bore with it a suggestion of limited means. The dress was a somber grayish beige; untrimmed and unbraided, and she wore a small turban of the . pame dull hue, relieved only by a susgicion'of white feather in the side. Her ace had neither regularity of feature nor beauty of eomplexion, but her ex”Eression was sweet and amiable, and er large blue eyes were singularly spiritual and sympathetic. In an experience of women which extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive -nature. I could not but observe that as she took the seat which Sherlock Holmies placed for _her, her lip trembled, her hand quivered, and she showed every sign of intense inward agitation. . “I have come to you, Mr. Holmes,” tl:e said, ‘‘because you once enabled my employer, Mrs. Cecil Forrester, to

. \ s GON i | . e i J gl - A l H ¢ %o — N T e ST v Pl Do Y ; A Z N AN, (7 A \wi, ’ x) ﬁ.."h“ \ \ S 1 S Yk P YY)\ e et % Tipt v ,_.-,-»‘.-_“s' g | (_”_ Q Bz , = | /] s 50/ 7/""/,"3,' i/ | W ’ Jihid ” v 4 /}?,'oql'l'f: i §. 1 ' S 4 6)9[""0 ‘ St N\ == - d} QY o e NN =y, ' “YOU WILL, I. AM SURE, EXCUSE ME.” mnravel a little domestic complication. Bhe was much impressed by your kindmess and skill.” . “Mrs. Cecil Forrester,” he repeated, thoughtfully, ‘I believe that I was of some slight service to her. The case, however, as I remember it, wasa very simple one.” + “She did not think so. But at least you cannot say the same of mine. I can hardly imagine anything more strange, more utterly inexplicable, ‘than the situation in which I find myself.” : Holmes rubbed his hands, and his eyes glistened. He leaned forward in ‘his chair with an expression of extraordinary concentration upon his clearcut, hawk-like features. ‘‘State your case,” said he, in brisk, business tones. I felt that my position was an em‘barrassing one. ‘“‘You will, I am sure, excuse me,” I said, rising from my ehaly, . o 1 : To my surprise the young lady held mp her gloved hand to detain me. “If your friend,” she said, ‘“would be good ienough to stop, he might be of inestimable service to me.” . / : i Irelapsed into my chair. | “Briefly,” she continued, ‘“‘the facts ‘are these: My father was an officer in an Indian regiment who sent me home when I was quite a child. My mother was dead, and I had no relative in%_ﬂhg'land. I was placed, however, in a comfortable boarding establishment at Edinburgh, and there I réemained until I was seventeen years of age. In the year 1878 my father, who was senior captain of his regiment, obtained twelve months’ leave and came home. He telegraphed to me from London that he had arrived all safe, and directed me to come down at once, giving the Langham hotel as his addréss. His message, as I remember, was fall of kindness and love. On reaching Lon~don I drove to the Langham, and was informed that WMmm&m& Jog Shete, bk St his had gong out the s oyl Sl vang z P P a 4 ”I"jsﬂ.a"”* g‘&i‘i‘ws&ﬁw}r R ‘ ‘ f,:wg,,gw,fé

led to no result; and from that day to this no word has ever been heard of my unfortunate father. He came home with his heart full of hope, to find some peace, some comfort, and instead——" She put her hand to her throat, and a choking sob cut short the sentence. “The date?’ asked Holmes, opening his notebook. : “He disappeared upon the 3d of December, 1878—nearly ten years ago.” . “‘His luggage?”’ ; ‘“‘Remained at the hotel. There was nothing in it to suggest a clew—some books, and a considerable number of curiosities from the Andaman islands. He had been one of the officers in charge of the convict guard there.” - “Had he any friends in town?”’ “Only one that we know of—Maj. Sholto, of his own regiment, the Thir-ty-fourth Bombay infantry. The major had retired some little time before, and lived at Upper Norwood. We communicated with: him, of course, but he did not even know that his brother officer was in England.” ‘A singular case,” remarked Holmes.

“] have not yet described to you the most singular part. About six years agn—to be exact, upon the 4th of May, 1882—an advertisement appeared in the Times asking for the address of Miss Mary Morstan, and stating that it would be to her advantage to come forward. There was no name or address appended. I had at that time just enteréd the family of Mrs. Cecil Forrester in the capacity of governess. By her advice I published my address in the advertisement column. The same day there arrived through the post a small cardboard box addressed to me, which I found to contain a very large and lustrous pearl. No word of writing was inclosed. Since then, every year, upon the same date, there has always appeared a similar box, containing a similar pearl, without any clew as to the sender. They have been pronounced by an expert to be of a rare variety and of considerable value. You can see for yourselves that they are very handsome.” She opened a flat box as she spoke, and showed me six of the finest pearls that I had ever seen.

“Your statement is most interesting,” said Sherlock Holmes. ‘‘Hasanything else occurred to you?” *Yes, and no later than to-day. That is why I have come toyou. This morning I received this letter, which you will perhaps read for yourself.” ‘““Thank you,” said Holmes. *‘The envelope, too, please. Postmark, London, S. W.; date, July 7. Hum! Man’s thumbmark on_corner—probably postman. Best yuality paper. Envelopes at sixpence a packet. Particular man in his stationery. No address. ‘Be at the third pillar from the left outside the Lyceum theater to-night at seven o'clock. If you are distrustful, bring two friends. You are a wronged woman, and shall have justice. Do not bring police. If ycu do, all will be in vain. Your urkncwn friend.’ Well, really, this is a very pretty little mystery. What do you intend to do, Miss Morstan?” : :

“That is exactly what I want to ask you.” - ‘

“Then we shall most certainly go. You and I and—yes, why, Dr. Watson is the very man. Your correspondent says two friends. He and I have worked together before.” “But would he come?”’ she asked, with something appéaling in her voice and expression. . : “I should be proud and happy,” said I, fervently, “if I can be of any service.” : : :

*You are both very kind,” she answered. ‘I have led a retired life, and have no friends whom I could appeal to. Iflam here at six 1t will do, I suppose?” ‘*You must not be later,” sald Holmes. ‘‘There is one other point. Is this handwriting the same as that upon the pearl-box addresses?” .*‘T have them here,” she answered, producing half a dozen pieces of paper. ““You are certainly a model client. You have the correct intuition. Let us see, now.” He spread out the paper upon the table, and gave little darting glances from one to the other. “They are disguised hands, except the letter,” he said, presently; ‘‘but there can be no question as to the authorship. See how the irrepressible Greek ¢ will break out, and see the twirl on the final s. They are undoubtedly by thesame person. I should not like to suggest false hopes, Miss Morstan, but is there any resemblance between this hand and that of your father?” - : ‘“Nothing could be more unlike.” “I expected to hear you say so. We shall look out for you, then, at six. Pray allow me to keep the papers. I may look into the matter before then. It is only half-past three. Au revoir, then.” : .

‘‘Au revoir,” said our visitor, and, with a bright, kindly glance from one to the other of us, she replaced her pearl box in her bosom and hurried away. Standing at the wifow, I watched her walking briskly down the street, until the gray turban and white feather were but a speck in the somber crowd.

“What a very attractive woman!” I exclaimed, turning to my companion. He bad lit his pipe again, and was leaning back with drooping eyelids. *“ls she?” he said, languidly. “I did not observe.” ; - ‘*You really are an automaton—a cal_cula!%ng machine!” I cried. ‘There is something positively imhuman in you at timeos,” £

He smiled gently.: ‘lt is of the first importance,” he said, “not to allow your judgnient to be biased by . personal qualities. A client isto mea mere unit—a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. lassure you that the most ‘winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance monmey, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the 'London poor.” 4 i ~ ‘““In this case, however— . ‘I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule. Have yom ever had occasion to study character in handwriting? What do you make of this fellow’s scribble?” - “It is legible and regular,” I answered. ‘A man of business habits and some force of character.” Coal - Holmes shook his head. “Look at ‘his long letters,” he said. ‘“They hard1y rise above the common herd. That d might be an a, and that lan e. Men .of character always Azigerentia# their long letters, however illegibly they may m%mﬁhﬁmy@dyﬁj DRIk To bl b fna vebdis il S A O o

ever ‘penned. Tt is Winwood Reade’ ‘Maﬁirdom of Man.' [ shall be back in an hour.” ;

1 sat in the window with the volnme in my hand, but my thoughts were far from the daring speculations of ths writer. My mind ran upon our late visitor—her smiles, the deep rich tones of her voice, the strange mystery which overhung her life. If she were seventeen at the time of her father’s disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now—a sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience. So I sat and mused, until such dangerous thcughts came into my head that I hurried away to my desk and plunged furiously into the latest treatise upon pathology. What was I, an army surgeon with a weak leg and a weaker banking account, that I should dare td

) (’[U 11 0 LTS I,y i l \ '/" e ) L ]S /‘.f e 4/‘7¢. \ \ j I ] .’:R LS gy ”"\ Il e (u/ *//Zx\ ‘ i \.g;’{;’,,:,;’;//;."u N\ ; l l ?’_z;y = ‘ v.//'//;/"i",/’;'/1(1/’_ 'A(I. STy =4 e . g&L e oy N/l w 0 | o I BAT IN THE WINDOW, VOLUME IN HAND. think of such things? She was a unit, a factor, nothing more. If my future were black, it was better surcly to face it like a man than to attempt to bright~ en it by mere will-o-the-wisps of the imagination. J . . CHAPTER 111 IN QUEST OF A SOLUTION. It was half-past five before Holmes returned. ' He was bright, eager and in excellent spirits—a mood which in his case alternated with fits of the Pblackest depression. : : : ‘“There is mo great mystery in this matter,” he said, taking the cup of tea which I had poured out for him. ‘‘The facts appear to admit of only one explanation.” ‘ ““What! you have solved it already?” *‘Well, that will be too much to say. I have discovered a suggestive fact, that is all. It is, however, very suggestive. The details are still to be added. Ihave just found, on consulting the back files of the Times, that Maj. Sholto, of Upper Norwood, late of the Thirty-fourth Bombay infantry, died upon the 28th of April, 1882.” “I may be very obtuse, Holmes, but I fail to see what this suggests.” “No? You surprise me. .Look at it in this way, then. Capt. Morstan disappears. The only person in London whom he could have visited is Maj. Sholto. Maj. Sholto denies having heard that he was in London. Four years later Sholto dies. Within a week of his death Capt. Morstan’s daughter receives a valuable present, which is repeated from year to year, and now culminates in a letter which describes her as a wronged woman. What wrong can it refer to except this deprivation of her father? And why should the presents begin immediately after Sholto’s death, unless it is that Sholto’s heir knows something of the mystery, and desires to make compensation? Have you any alternative theory which will meet the facts?”

“But what a strange compensation! And how strangely made! Why, too, should he write a letter now, rather than six years ago? Again, the letter speaks of giving her justice. What justice can she have? It is too much to suppose that her father is still alive. There is no other injustice in her case that you know of.” : “There are difficultiés; there are certainly difficulties,” said Sherlock Holmes, pensively. “But our expedition of to-night will solve them all. Ah, here isa four-wheeler, and Miss Morstan is inside. Are you all réady? Then we had better go down, for it is a little past the hour.” - ; I picked up my hat and my heaviest stick, but I observed that Holmes took his revolver from his drawer and slipped it into his pocket. It waselear that he thought that our night’s work might be a serious one.

Miss Morstan was muffled in a dark cloak, and her sensitive face was composed, but pale. She must have been more than woman if she did not feel some uneasiness at the strange enterprise upon which we were embarking, yet her self-control was perfect, and she readily answered the few additional questions which ' Sherlock Holmes put to her. . , .

“Maj. Sholto was a very particular friend of papa’s,” she said. ‘‘His letters were full of allusions to the major. He and papa were in command of the troops at the Andaman islands, so they were thrown a great deal together. By the way, a curious paper was found in papa’s desk which no one couid understand. I don’t suppose that it is of the slightest importance, but T thought you might care to see it, so I brought it with me. It is here.”

Holmes unfolded the paper carefully and smoothed it out upon his knee. He then very methodically examined it all over with his double lens. :

(TO BE CONTINUED.{

Haunted by Chickens.

~ “Imagine being haunted your whole ‘ life through by chickens,” said the traveling man, setting down his glass, “‘and by chicken pie, at that. Of having it thrust before you by an unalterable decree, day in and day out, year after year, until mournful troops of murdered feathered birds pass in ghostls review before your eyes in sleep and ' hobgoblin chicken pies perform weird nocturnal dances on your abdomen. Talk about eating a quail every day for a steady diet. I tell you these are gase tronomic luxuries compared to chicken pie every day. Yet there wasa man down at Smithville, Ga., who wus mean enough to take this diabolical revenge on his widow. He kept the railroad eating-house there, and when he died he left it to his widow, with the condition in his will of—chicken pie! She was to have a chicken pie at least once a day, or not to have the hotel. And she, poor woman, having no other means of livelihood, still struggles along, conscientiously confronting chicken pie every day. Her only con solation is that the guests of the house ‘also have to stand chicken pie. Noone Lknows what actuated the man to put st Bave hated that woman P—. 1 O SRR+ 1< et B el

FORCED. ADMISSIONS. Protectionist Organs Compelled to ‘a:knowledge Better Times Under the = ~ son BillL LE The most belated of republican organs have been compelled to admit that times are getting better and that wages have been advanced in some industries. The unfair and false statements accompanying these admissions, in many protectionist organs, both discredits and disgraces them. Thus these organs of monopoly tariffs appear to be in a league to. deceive dhe voters as to the actual effects of free wool. Wool being by far the most important item put upon the free list, the republicans are (as well they might be) greatly concerned about the industrial and political outcome of free wopl The industrial effects are already manifest in the rising’ prices of raw woo‘ls,‘ the brilding of hundreds of new mills and the advanced wages in scores of old mills. The republican organs hape to prevent the logical political results by misrepresenting facts and by deceiving voters. They are conspiring to give the general public the impression that the free wool experiment has been a failure. v b The Manufacturer, organ of the Manufacturers’ elub, of Philadelphia, is one of the meanest of themany mean high tariff organs. In its issue of July 15, it says that ‘‘substantially all of the increase in wages that have loccurred have been in iron industries and those grouped with them.” It concludes its calamity howl by saying: ‘““This is so far the rule that it emphasizes the simple fact that other mdnufacturing industries have shown practically no recovery from the sharp competition and depressed conditions }'?revailing since the early months of 1893. In the textile departments there has been little restoration of the severe reductions which generally had to. be made, and none is now in sight., "The reduction |of the import duties was made by the Wilson, bill in face ofthe knowledge that it would depress wages, and there can be no general recovery of these until its mischiefs are remedied.”

What now are some of the facts well known to the editor of the Manufacturer, and to most other republican editors who persist in howling an(?_ in misrepresenting? 1. During the first six weeks ather the Wilson tariff became,law the Wool and Cotton Reporter contained sevénty mentions of ‘‘new mills,”” 123 of Y‘enlargements and improvements,”’ 142 of “mills starting up” and only five| (or possibly nine) legitimate shut downs. This is a record never equaled duging the four years of McKinleyism or during the whole thirty years of high k)rotection. The benefits of free wool were manifest at once and the g‘ooq effects spread immediately to other textile industries. : ! 2. During the first six months of f189'5 the Wool and Cotton Reporter records 201 new textile mills, divided asgfollows. Woolen, thirty eight; cotton, seventy-three; knitting, fifty-seven; silk, sixteen; miscellaneous, seventieen. 3. The chronological list of wagé advances from. September, 1894, to {nne 38, 1395, recently published and wi‘ ely circulated by the tariff committée of the Reform club, mentions twentythree firms that advanced wages from September 1 to December 22, 1894; thirteen of these were textile mills, a large proportion - being woolen nlills.f By April 30, 1895, ninety-nine advahces had been reported, ﬁ‘fty-nine‘beinég in textile mills. More than one-third of these were woolen mills. By Junie 30, 1895, 322 advances were reported, at least 109 of which w7e in textile, about fifty of which/ were woglen, mills. - ]

4. Some of the mentions on this Reform club list include whole groups of mills. Thus one mention include%; six woolen mills in Philadelphia; angther all of the cotton manufacturers in New Bedford, Mass.; another all those in Fall River, Mass. Altogether afbout 100,000 workers in textile mills| had their wages increased between 'September 1,1894, and April 30, 1895. {This number has increased consider?.bly since. : ; : { 5. Strikes for increased wages alfe on in many mills, the textile workers in the great Olneyville (R. I.) district have been out for months; advances have been granted or offered in many cases. Right in Philadelphia, under-the nose of the Manufacturer, a strike foria 714 per cent. increase of wages has been on for some time by the 3,000 ingrain carpet weavers in sixty-one mills, | The Manufacturer of July 20 notes thdt the manufacturers have offered to ‘grant the advance on December 1. It was not, however, mentioned (as tg the Philadelphia dalies) that sixteen {firms have already signed the! str}ﬁkers’ ’ schedule, and that over 1,000 hands have returned to work in them 4t increased wages. @ : f 2 These are some of the stong-wall -facts against whicl the howling protectionist dervishes are eynstantly butting their pates. Millions of voters are watching this butting process ahd admiring the hard pates of the nroteetionist editors and their still harder consciences which permit them tp deny facts published in their own coliimus.. : , * ByroN W. HoLr. “CALAMITY HOWLERS,” A Lament That Falls 2«. Closed Ears—Don’t Know That They Are Dead.| - The calamity wailers who are trying to convince the American peopl% that the countryis suffering from the blight of free trade do not seem to realize that their laments fall on clOse;l ears. Their willful blindness to the wpnderful improvement in trade and industry which has followed the adoption of ‘the Wilson tariff resembles the perversity of a miner who had fallen down a shaft. Thinking that the un- ’ fortunate man was dead, his comrades placed him in a coffin and started to ) carry him to the grave yard. On the way the supposed corpse pushfed off the coffin-lid and sitting up, asked: ““Where am 1?7 “Whist, ye blackguard,”” was the reply, ‘“don't you know when you’re dead?” | - | The McKinleyites who were lhid out “in 1802 are foolish enough to think the defeat of the democrats last fal] means the revival of the high tariff lcorpse. ‘But the elections of 1894 merely ~showed that the people were disgusted ‘with democratic delay in_abglishing gwfaction and now that the result of less than a year of tariff reform has J been to restore the prosperity which. ‘MeKinleyism blighted, there will be nﬂmwt&]‘ % § fm: m the late unlamented. _ L. | . False Predictlons. || 1115 foes are mad because the Wilson f\‘ﬁ‘W%@%i%wmw *ﬁn‘* o Pt i eL N it is giving our producersa fine foreign. Vs aeaimapa MBeente st sidid e o

IMPROVEMENT IN TREASURY. Democratic Success Exasperating the Republicans. ; A great part of the stuff that is published from day to day as Washington dispatches in newspapers that regard it as a solemn duty to. discover *‘juggling” of figures and ‘‘distortion” of facts in the daily reports of the condition of the United States debt is very . plainly intended to be taken without reference to the ascertainable proofs to the contrary. ! - Some apparently juvenile writers take up the daily reports, and, evidently suffering uncontrollable exasperation because the receipts of the government persist in keeping pace with, and even exceeding, expenditures, these zealous but unreflecting critics at Washington straightway make a hulla‘baloo about the wrongs that are being inflicted upon all manner of persons because, as it is alleged, payments that are due from the treasury are withheld to enable the treasury to make a report that will discredit partisan predictions.

~ If the readers of these rash and persistently wrong reports will take the trouple to examine the daily reports of the State of the treasury and compare the expenditures with the appropriations, it will become apparent at once ‘ that the pensioners, for instance, are not being deprived of the money appropriated for them. The appropriation for pensions for the year beginning July 1 was $141,138,360. That would be at the rate of $11,781,789 per month. According to the report made by the treasury, there had been paid out on July 18 on account of pensions $11,237,000,00r at the rate of about $lB,000,000 for the month. : Take‘the war department, which appears to have drawn $3,394,000 in 13 days. The figures do not suggest that appropriations have been withheld from that branch of the service, for the amount appropriated for the army is about $23,250,000, or at the rate of less than $2,000,000 a month. The treasury has honored regnisitions in a little more than half the month far in excess of the mornthly average of the yearly appropriation for war. The navy is entitled to an average expenditure of $2,801,000. It has received $l,881,000 in 18 days of July, or at therate of about $lOO,OOO daily. Should the rate of payments on navy account be maintained, the navy will have exceeded by July 31 the average to which it appears to be entitled. | Has the secretary of the -treasury withheld appropriations from the Indians? The allowance for Indian expenditures for the year was $8,000,000, or $741,666 per month. During the 18 days of July there. was drawn from the treasury on account of Indian expenses 8476,000. If the treasury had cared to withhold money and to issue it only upon a schedule arranged to restrict the outgo it might have saved $32,000 in the 18 days. If the rate of payment for the first half of the month is Inaintained until July 31 the average to which the Indians are apparently. entitled Wwill have been considerably exceeded. The criticisms which have provolied these illustrations of-their falsity do not really deserve further explanation. It is absurd to imagine that they are believed by arybody except possibly the men who talk so glibly and foolishly and -ignorantly about the ‘‘misrepresentation” thatis practiced:to furnish a good showing. No one who'has a valid demand upon the treasury is likely to hold it beyond the time it can be presented with reaspnable expectation that it will be honored. The disposition of rejected applicants for payment to make a fuss about delays would speedily advertise any general tendency to delay on the part of the treasury officers. If delays have occurred, if they have been common, in large number and for large amounts of money, due, who has prevailed upon the postponed creditors to keep so profound a silence? Why do not the praters about the government postponements of pay give some particulars to make plausible the charge that payments are not met with reasonable and customary promptness?— N. Y. Times. . i

WAGES UNDER PROTECTION.

What the McKinley Law Did for the ~“Workingman. ;

The Springfield Register stated some days ago that wages in the rolling mills at that place are ten per cent. higher now than the average rate under the McKinley tariff act. The Springfield Journal, a republican protection paper, makes a curious comment on this statement, but does not deny its truth. ‘ - The Journal says: ‘The wages of the men at the rolling mills are now one huudred per cent. less than they were ten years ago under protection and union rules.” This is evidently a slip of the pen. ‘One hundred per cent. less” means nothing. 'Lhe organ probably meant {ifty per cent. less, or one-half the amount ten years ago. | There is also obscurity in the reference to ‘‘union rules” ten years ago. It required not only ironclad protection for the mill owners, but union rules by the mill men to keep wages up. Probably protection had very little to do with it, and the compulsion of union rules by which the mill owners were held eaused the high rate of wages. But the republican organ dodges the question. * It speaks about wages ten years ago. That was five years before the McKinley tariff law was enacted. The statement of the democratic paper at Springfield is that wages are higher now than under the McKinley tariff five years ago. That fact is not denied. But it is said that wages are only half as high as ten years ago. -It must have been, then, that wages were reduced one-half under the McKinley tariff. This is appavently trivial, but it is really important. It amounts to a confession from an organ that McKinley wages were less than the wages that prevailed under the previous tariff. It shows that present wages are higher than the McKinley scale. It isa complete argument against a revival of McKinley principles in revenue legislation.—Chicago Chronicle.

—The republican calamityites are howling because the bond syndicate is keeping its contract and paying into the treasury for greenbacks as much gold as is drawn out for foreign shipment. The bellyache syndicate appears to be having a great deal more trouble than ‘the bond syndicate — Chicago Chronicle. . ——MeKinley is doing more running for president thanany of the other candidates, and it remains tobe seen if his. wind is equal to the long stretch that lies before him:—Bt. Louis Globe-Demo-

PLAN OF THE REPUBLICANS. What tfe lssue of the High Protectione ists Is :Likely to Be. ~ Through reports from all along the line it is made plain that republican leaders intend to force the tariff question to the front as the overshadowing issue of the next national campaign. There are signs unmistakable that some kind of a truce has been patched up between the silver millionaires and the tariff barons the latter to become. the direct beneficiaries of a high protective system should their party gain control in the country, and the former to be rewarded for the repression of financial agitation within their own ranks by having the government resume the purchase of silver bullion for storage in the treasury. - Not only have McKinley, Harrison, Allison and even Morton indicated with greater or less emphasis that the republican war cry of ’'9o and ’92 will be revived, but prominent spell-binders of the party in almost every section are giving utterance to the same sentiment. Among the latest échoes of the republican campaign keynote was Senator Cullom, of Illinois. Ta the -assemblage of his partisans at Springfield he said: ‘“‘When the republican party gets control again, as it will next year; with some republican for president, we will take up the tariff act and go over it item by item and make such'amendments to it as will give reasonable protection to American labor and American industries asagainst foreign labor and foreign industries. The people of this country never knew they wanted that sort of protection; they were never certain of it until the democrats, by mistake, got possession of this country two years ago.” S | In this brief statement the senator virtually tells the people of the United ,States that they are fools; for it was they who committed the ‘‘mistake” which he seeks to pervert into a widespread calamity. Not only were they guilty of this ‘*mistake” in. 1890 when their repudiation of high protection and of its representatives was the most emphatic on record, but two years later they gave an overwhelming.confirmation of the original . judgment rendered. During the interval they had ample time and opportunity to test the practical workings of the system against which they had pronounced within a month of the time when it became operative. They studied it with an acuteness and an earnestness begotten of self-interest, and, with full knowledge of its bearing upon the welfare of the country, they again placed upon it the seal of their disapproval. They saw that ‘the MecKinley law was framed in the interest of a special few, that it exacted extortionate tribute from the masses to the classes, that was respousible for the worst political corruption the country has ever known and that it was rapidly building up a moneyed autocracy that would in the end usurp from the people their right of self government.

But it is to be hoped that the republican: leaders will continue to regard their most memorable defeats as a “mistake” on the part of the voters. Liemoecracy accepts the challenge. It waives the charges of hypocrisy, inconsistency and broken‘faith to which those of the opposition throw themselves open, for when .they were only an obstructive minority they mnever ceased to condemn taliff agitation as disastrous to the country, causing uncertainty, destroying confidence and paralyzing trade. The issue will be fought upon its merits. It will be found that the fatal mistake was made when the unscrupulous managers of the g. o. p. tried to place the democratic administration in a false position. An era of reviving trade and prosperity is more eloquent than words can be in vindicating the wisdom of democracy and convincing the people that they made no mistake. Actual results constitute evidence so conclusive that even republican trickery cannot evade or republican cunning dissipate it,—Detroit Free Press. ) >

PROTECTION FOR THE FARMER. Some Salient Tariff Truths Coming tg the Light, . One of the chief tenets of McKinleyism has always been that high protection is beneficial to the farmer. Precisely how it could benefit the farmer, who was compelled to sell his butter and cheese to ‘‘free trade” England, and in general to dispose of all his products and staples on the low tariff basis while paying twice and thrice what he ought to pay for his plow and mowing machine and other utensils by reason of the McKinleyized tariff, was never satisfactorily explained. Of course, the idea was contrary to every principle of volitical economy. Lo e The people have been seeing new light on this as on other tariff questions, but we confess that converts in Tom Reed’s own state of Maine is about the last thing we expected. Nevertheless the board of trade of Bath, Me., has unanimously adopted some significant resolutions, of which the following is the first clause: ;

~ “Whereas, agricultural staples,being exports, cannot be protected by a tariff on imports, as are manufactures,” ete. &

This shows that even in Maine the light of tariff truth is breaking. His experience with regard to *wool, the price of which steadily went down under McKinleyism and has steadily gone up. under a low tariff, has evidently been a levelation to the intelligent farmer.—Albany Argus. :

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

——Your uncle, Benjamin Harrison, to the mext nomination: ‘‘You .can’t lose me, Charlie!”—Detroit Free Press. ——Republican candidates must expect to be largely knifed this fall, especially since the new tariff is showing the quality and excellence of its make as a revenue raiser.-—Albany Argus. -~——Liverpool orders more American pig-iron. From Ohio, too, Beware, McKinley, beware! The Cobden glub, with its English gold, is in a new conspiracy to undo you in your own bailiwiek,—N. Y. World. : o ——Tlie cinch MeKinley has on the presidency hinges on three contingencies—the session of the Ohio legislature, the nomination und the election. The days of foregone political. conclusions are past. — Fostoria (0.) Times. : S S ——-A republican organ which heaps daily abuse upon the presideat and the secretary of the treasury says that *“Cleveland and Carlisle have accepted the financial pzineivlewgigh:&repﬁblican party.” It is notable that the louder the repuklicans cry that CleveIk Knciisie havo aeiiie e sonnce Cleveland and Carlisle, —Louis. S AR B eSt R e SRR ville fourier-Journsl

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

. THERE was a general jail delivery at Decatur, a few days ago. As Sheriff Aschbasher’s wi.';e was pass< ing a pdil of water to prisoners they all made a rush at her and overpowered her, making their escape in the darkness. There - were nine criminals among whom was Ed Johnson, the noted forgerand swindler. Jou~x L. McNEw, prosecuting attorney of ‘Hancock county, died mnear Greenfield from blood poisoning. =

A LARGE number of farm laborers and four or five threshing outfits have left Wabash county for North Dakota, in the last ten days. Thereisa scareity of labor-to harvest the 'spring wheat crop, and the wages offered even for the short season has attracted men to ‘that section. - : Fe

A SHORT time ago. William F. Gray, aged 75, who resides in West Muncie, received word that he was legatee ta $lO,OOO by the death ‘of his cousin, Mary A. Gray, in Baltimore, last Mny.l A MEETING of the Antrim heirs of the vicinity of Elwood was held af Frankton to take steps to secure their* share of the 875,000,000, There is some talk 6f employing ex-President Harris son to look after their interests. ‘HENRY Scnm.\?gx, superintendent oé' the Flint glass works, at Dunkirk, and a somnambulist, got out of bed the other morning, walked through a sec-ond-story window - and fell to the ground. He was badly hurt. - A PARTY of Vincennes ladies and gentlemen left that city, the other -day, for a tour across the state and back in carriages. They will camp out atnight: 5 g = © At North Vernon Miss Flora Watts, ‘a deaf :mute@eva_s run over and man‘gled by a P., C. C. & St. L. train and died three hours later. The train was running ‘at a high rate of speed. Being a special, shé was not looking for it e

"Mns, PATEICK DUFFY,of Wabash, aged 76, who, three weeks ago, was badly burned while canning fruit, her clothing taking fire ffom" a’ gasoline stove, died the other night. AT Albion the other evening, while the Reynolds family, accompanied by several = of . their friends, were on their way to church, the neck-yoke of the buggy bécame unfastened, which frichtened the horses, causing them to run away. Mrs. Reynolds was thrown out and instantly killed. Mrs. S.. L. - Cook received -severe injuries which may prove fatal. Mrs. Cook received painful bruises. , A 44-CALIBER revolver was a plaything for Vernie Hendershot, aged 12, at Elkhart. The ball went through his leg, hit amail in the floor, flew up to the ceiling and then rolled under the bed.

- ANDREW J. GLAZE, saloon keeper at Sugar Grove, near Corydon, is the vietim'of twenty prosecutions for violat~ ing liquor laws. He says he has been tried over 100 times and was never convieted, [£iriga ; . L. F. TruMAN and, wife were ' accidentally locked -up in a folding bed at Huntington the other night. Their cries.brought assistance, but both were badly injured before being relieved. Tuk Russian thistle, one of the greatest pests to farmers in existence, has just made itsi appearance im northern Indiana.. ' ™ ¥ ! PosTMASTERS appointed, John Bilner, Sexton, Rush eounty; vice Miss A. Hanson. resigned, and J. E. Carson, Tower, Crawford county, vice- W. E. Merris, resigned. = - - RrcrymosD business men are pushing the electric liné project to Connersville -and Liberty. - - Rl ' Dogs without tags are being put in the pound at Evansville, and it costs $3 to have them liberated. E

EIGuTEEN republicans are making a hot~ ficht for the position of school superintendent. of Bartholomew counby i o : PosT OFFICES established in Indiana: Gatchel, Perry county, Jerry Walter, postmaster, ‘and Globe, Floyd county, ‘Elizabeth Nance,postmaster.

It has developed that the death of C. B. Henry, Elwood, was due to sni—) cide and not foul play. Rt { Tue Thomas Evans Glass factory, Marion, has resumed operations, giving employment to 500 men. e A HoRSE plunged down an embank-’ ment near Decatur the other day and Mrs. Mangold, Mrs. J. C. Peterson and Mrs., Erwin, who were in the surrey, were fatally injured. L =~ TgE E. C. Atkins saw works, of Indianapolis, has not on its pay roll the largest force .it ever employed, and in some departments is working a | night force. Its™sales of hand saws, cross-cut saws, and, in fact, all lines of saws they manufacture, were never before as large. The pay roll shows | nearly four hundred men employed. . ~ Miss OLLIE BlpDLE,daughter of Davy Biddle, editor of the Anderson Bulletin, is dead. : ;

BuRweLL Fox, charged 'with horse:' stealing, has been jailed at Portland. i " ROBERTTAYLOR fell down a 40-foot well at Shelburn, a few days sifice, but was not fatally injured. =~ ° : Cor. J. B. MERRIWEATHER, one of the best- constitutional lawyers in -the state, has submdittéd an opinion to the . Jeffersonville council. clainiitig that - the section of the Moore temperance bill passed by the city council repeals the metropolitan police law. Tre Williams bicyecle fretory, at Columbus, has closed because of trouble among the stockholders. ' ' NATHAN ScovELL died at Spiceland a few .days ago, aged 74. He was one of the pioneers of southern Henry county and one of its wealthy citizens. :

THE trustees of the-zvarionsir?townships in Wabash county, hdve decided to ignore the provisions -of the act of the legislature requiriag them to publish a full report- of, the receipts and disbursements for each year immediately after their settlement with the county commissioners. Wl o Tae third trial of James Trueloek and Edward Kirk, charged with robbing the grave of Ex-Sheriff James Curry last Christmas eve, has begun at Feaukhn o e :

Tur Indiana state board of charities has announced a programme for the fourth annual Indiana conference of charities to be held at Ft.. Wayne, September 15 to 17. Circulars have been sent to all the township trustees calling their attention to the meeting and requesting their attendance. ; GREENCASTLE has organized a fishing club for the enforcement of the game - Scorr PATTERSON and Sidney Sulli~ van compelled Miss S‘y Spurli; ﬂ% e e R T SR W T