Ligonier Banner., Volume 31, Number 14, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 July 1896 — Page 3

HEART or 1o WORLD. o - Y ; BY H. RIDER HAGGARD. A Strange Story, Taken From a Manuscript Bequesthed by an Old Mexican Indian to His Friond and Comrade, an English« . man Named Jomes, Copyrighted, 1894, by H. Rider Haggard ' CHAPTER VIL—CONTINUED. “Ruins, Senor Strickland! Decidedly vou ‘Englishmen are strange. Sugpex; wvill be served shortly; till then, adios. Liirl, go with them,” he added, addressing the woman who had been engaged in swinging the hammock; ‘“‘water may be wanted and other things.” - The girl bowed and wentaway,and at the door we found her standing, lamp in hand, to’light us down the passage. ‘‘¥Well, when you are ready,” said Don Jose, ‘“‘will you come to supper? You will not lose the way, for you can follow the smell of the food,” and he left the room. o < **One moment,” I said, addressing the girl, who was about to accompany him; ‘‘perhaps you will see that our servant,” and 1 pointed to Molas, ‘‘has some meat brought to him here, since your masters will'not wish him.to sit at table.” ' e e **Si,”” answered the girl, whose name was Luisa, searching my face with her eyes. . T By this time Don Jose was through the door, which the draught pushed to behind him. I watched it close, then a thought struck me, for I remembered that among our order there are women, associates of the outer circle, and I whispered some words in her ear and made a sign with my hand. She started and gave the ancient answer, which is taught even to children, whereto 1 re%)lied with another sign, that of the ’resence of the Heart. *Where?” she asked, glancing at each of as in turn. _ ; **Here,” I answered, and, drawing out the symbol, I held it before her cyes. She saw and made obeisance, and at that moment we heard Don Jose calling her from the further side of the door. *‘l come,” she cried in answer, then added in a whisper: ‘‘Lord, you are in -danger in this house. 1 cannot tell you now, ‘but if possible I will return. The wine is safe, but!’tdrink no coffe, and do ‘not sleep when ‘you lie down. Search the floor and you will understand the reasou.: I ceme, senor, 1 come!” And she fled from the room. e So’soon as the girl wasgone the senor went to thie door and. locked it, then he. returned and said: *“What does all this mean, Ignatio?” 1 did not answer, but, pushing aside one of-the beds, I searched the floor beneath it. It was discolored in several places. Next I pulled the blankets off the beds and examined the webbing that formed the mattressest to discover that this' also was stajfed, though. slightly, for it had been Washed. Then 1 said: : ‘‘Men have died in these beds, senor, and the stains were made by their b%)od. It would seem that the guests. of Don Pedro sleep well, first they. are drugged, then they are murdered, and it is foro'tis purpose that we have been lured toXhe house. Well, we expected nothing else.” i **Donot despond,” I answered. , *“We are warned in time and therefore, I think, shall escape by the help of that girl and the other Indians in the place, since in an hourevery one of them will know who we are, and be’ preparé&to f risk their livés-to save us. = Now let usmake ready and go among these men with a bold face, for of this you may be sure, that nothing will be attempted till late at night, when they think us igleeping. « Have you understood, Moas?” :

*Yes,” answered the Indian. “Then wateh here, or in the outer room until we return, and should the girl eome, learn all you can from her as to the whereabouts of the old doctor and his daughter, and other matters, for when she knows you to be of the order she will speak. Have you been recognized by any one?” “T think mot, senor. . When we en~tered it was too dark for them to see.” *Good. Then keep out of their way, if possible, do the best you can with the girl, and take note of all that passes. Farewell.” : When we reached the end of the dining hall Don Pedro slid from his hammock to the ground and, taking the senor by the hand, said: » " “‘Let me introduce you to my overseer, the Senor Smith from Texas. He is an American, and will be glad to meet-one who 'can speak English, for, unotwithstanding. much practice, his Spanish is none of the best.” The senor bowed and the American - desperado spcke to him in English, wearing a grin on his face like a wicked dog as he did so, though [ do not know what he said. Then Don Pedro conducted him to a place of honor at’ the . Head of the table, that beside- his own seat, while I was led toanother table at a little distance, where my meat was served to me alone, since, as an Indian of pure blood, I was not thought fit for the company of these cross-bred curs. Don Jose having taken his place at the further end of the table with the Americano, the meal began, and an excellent one it was. *Try some more of this Burgundy,” said Don Pedvo when the dishes had been removed, filling his tumbler for the seventh ot eighth. time; *‘it is the right stuff, straight from = France, though it never paid duty,” and he winked his leaden eye. . *“Your health, senor, and may you -live to do many such brave deeds as that of yesterday, when you.sgved my son from the sea.’ By the way, do you know that-on board 'Jmt ship they said that you had the evil eye and brought her to wreck; yes, and your long-faced companion, the Indian, also.” *‘lndeed, I mever heard of it before,” answered the senor with a daugh; “but if so our evil eyes shall not trouble you ' for long,.as we propose to coutinue our journey to-morrow. . : **Nonsense, friend, nonsense; you don’t’ suppose that 1 believe id that sort - of rubbish, do you? We | say wmany things that we do not believe, just for a joke; thus™ and he raised his voice so that 1 could hear him at my table, **your companion there—is he not named Ignatio?-—told a story to my disadvantage on boara the ship, which lam ke he did not, hes - lieve,” and. suddenly he stared at me and added ‘insolently: ‘‘ls it not so, faamar: 2 *lf you seel: my opiuion. Don Pedro,” I answered, leaning forward and speaking very clearly, ‘‘f can say that'it is unprofitable to repeat words that are said, or to reinember deeds that are done with. If | spoke certain words, or if in the past you did ecdértain deeds, here beneath your hospitable roof is oot the place to recall them.” ; 'Qﬁg’nm Tndian. 'qﬁilc s 0; you talk liike an oracle. as Momtezuma used to valk to Cortes, till the eongueror found n wa{%) teach him- p&niny speaking —a grea ‘&{\an Cortes, he ’ understood how 1o deal I;Mtl; the lnditlnsi" ’l‘hlenl he; spat upon the floor, and, having lookec ‘ rd%awﬂ%{?i?é%ﬁblc.: spoke to the senorin a - somewhat anxions volee, *'Tell me,” ~ he maid, *“for your sight is better than mifn?&gqg muny there are present here TG (e :3_. ORI v e e PR " Oomht s said dur host. with an B 0 gy ii i dtivama st bade s B lehon o apieioiohelal g

ﬁvert the omen. [ see you think me a 001. -

_“Not at gll,” he answered. “I am rather superstitious myself, and dislike sitting down thirteen to a table. 1 *Sodo I, so do 1, Senor Strickland. Listen, last time we dined thirteen in ‘ this room there were two travelers here, Americans, friends of Don Smith, who were trying to open up a trade in these parts. They drank more than was good for them, and the end of it was that in the night. they quarrelled and killed eack other yonder in:the abbot’s chamber, where you are sleeping—poor men, poor men! There was trouble about the matter at the time, but Don :Smith explained to his countrymen and it came to nothing.” . “Indeed,” answered the senor. ‘Tt was strange that two drunken men should kill each other.” **So 1 say, senor. In truth for a while I thought that Indiahs must have got into their room and murdered them,but it was proved beyond a doubt that this was not so. All they are a wicked peo~ ple, the Indians; I have seen much of them and I should know. Now the government wishes to treat them too well. Our fathers knew better how to deal with them, but luckily the.arm of the government scarcely reaches here; and no whining padres or officials come prying about my house, though once we had.some soldiers,” and he cursed at the recollection and drank another glass of Burgundy. ' “I tell you that they are a ‘wicked people,” he went on, ‘“the demonios their fathers worshipped still | possess them, also they are as secret and dangerous; and there are Indians now who know where vast treasures are buried, but they will tell nothing. “Yes,” and suddenly growing excited under the influence of the strong drink, he leaned over and whispered into his guest’s ear. “I have one such in tlze house at this moment, an old Laca-, done; that is, an unbaptized Indian, not that 1 think him any the worse for that, and with him his daughter, awoman more beautiful than the night; perhaps, if I go on liking you I will show her to you fo-morrow, only then I should have to keep you, for you would never go away. Beautiful! yes, she is beautiful, though a devil at heart. : -

“I have not dared to let these little ones see her,” and he winked and noded toward the villains at the table, ‘‘but Jose is to pay her and her papa a visit to-night, and’ he svon’t. mind her tempers, though they frichten me. " “*Well, would you believe it, this girl and her old father know enough of treasure to make every man of ‘ushere rich.as the queen ot England. How do I know that? 1 know it bécause I heard it from their own lips; and I will tell you the story.” L

CHAPTER VIIL THE SUPPER AND AFTER.

‘““The cell where they were shut up is that in which the old monks imprisoned such as were suspected of heresy and others, and close to it is a secret place —there are many su¢h in this house, senor—where a spy-may lie hid, and both see and hear all that passes in the cell.. : ]

**ln this place I ensconed myself, and lay there for hours, with the rats running over me, so anxious was I to get to the truth. In the end I was not disappointed, for they began to talk. A great deal of their conversation I could make nothing of, but at length the .girl said, after examining a gilt crucifix that-hung upon the wall, “ ‘Look, father, here also they have gold.’ L Lo ‘lt is gilt, not gold,” he answered. ‘T know the art of it, though with us it is not practised, except to keep from corruption the spears and arrow hcads that fowlers use upon the lake.” Then he added: :

‘1 wonder what that leaden-eyed, greedy-faced white thief would say if he knew that in a single temple we could show him enough of the inetal he, covets to fill this place five times over from floor to ceiling?’ t . ** *Hush!’ she said, ears may be listening even in these wails; let usrisk nothing, seeing that by sceming to be ignorant alone we can hope to escape.’” *“Well,” asked the senor eagerly, “*and what did Zibalbay answer? [ think that you said that the old 'man’s name was Zibalbay,” be added, trying to recover the slip. | Fo : “Zibalbay! No. I never mentioned that name,” Don Pedro replied suspiciously, and with a sudden change :of manner. ‘‘lle answered nothing at all. Next morning when:l came to question them the birds had flown. It isa pity for otherwise I might: have asked the old man if his name is Zibalbay. 1 sup{:o,se' that the Indians had let them out, ut I could not discover,” i

“Why, Don Pedro, you said just now that they were still in the house.” e “Did I); Then I made a mistake, as you did about the name; this wine is strong, it must have got to my head; sometimes it does—a wealkness, and a bad one. Itis an old tale, but there it endéd-so far as lam eoncerned. Come, senor, take a cup of coffee, it is good.” ‘““Thank you, no,” answered the senor. *I never drink coffee at night, it keeps me awalke.”

**Still, I beg you to try ours, friend; we grow it ourselves and are proud of its flavor.” :

‘lt is, poison to me, I" dare not,” he said. - ‘‘But pray tell me, do the gentlemen whom I have the honor to see at table cultivate your plantations®” **Yes, yes, they cultivate the coffee and the cocoa, and other things also when they have a mind. I daresay you think them a rough-looking lot, but they are kind-hearted, ah! so kindhearted. . Feeble as I am they treat me like a father. Bah! senor, what is the good of hiding the truth from one of your discernment? We do business of all sorts here, but the staple of it is smuggling rather than agriculture. *“The trade is not what it was, those sharks of customs officers down:on the coast there want so much to hold their tongues, but still theré are a few pickings. [n the old times, when they did not ask questions, it was otherwise, for then men of pluck were ready for.anything, from revolution down to the stringing up of a coach-load of fat merchants, but now is the day of small profits, and we must be thanlkful for such trifles as providence sends us.” **Such as the two Americans who got drunk and killed cach other,” suggested the senor, whose tongue was never of the most cautious. v

Instantly Don Pedro’s face changed, the sham geniality born of drink went out of -it, and was replaced by a hard and cunning look. e **l am tired, senor,” he said, *‘as youn must be also, and, if you will” éxcuse me, I will light another cigar and take a nap in my hammock. Perhaps yon will amuse yourself with the others, senor, till you wish so go to rest.” And, rising. he bowed and walked somewhat unsteadily to the hammock that was suspended at the far end of the room. When Don Pedro had retired to his hammock.. whither the Indian girl, Luisa. was summoned to swing him to sleep, I saw his son Jose and the American outcast, Smith, both of whom, like the rest of the compauy. were more or less drunk, come tc the senor and ask him to join in a game of cards. Guessing that their object was to make him show svhat cash he h;‘sl about him. he also affected to be in liquor, and replied noisily that he had lost all his money in the shipwreck, and was, moreover, too fuli of wine to play. j *f‘;ﬁ@an you must h:}f’!o’s’t it on the road, fricnd.” said Pon Jose. ‘*for ‘Wﬁ forget that yon made those sailors & W& from a belt of gold which you wore about your middle, - However. ne geotleman shall be forced to play in WgllAl ol sy

this house, so come and talk wihile the others have their little game.” . . *“Yes, that will be better;” ‘answered the senor, and he staggeréd to an empty chair, placed not far from the table at which I remained, and was served with spirits and cigars. Here he sat watching the play and listened to the conversation of the gamblers. L All this while I satat the little table where my dinner had been served, saying nothing, for none spoke to me, but within hearing of everything that passed. There -1 sat quiet, my arms folded on my breast, listening attentively to the tales of outrage, wrong and murder practised by these’ Wicked ones upon my countrymen. : Presently Don Smith called out:: “Look at that Indian rascal, friend; heis as proud as a turkey, cock in spring time; why, he reminds mé of the figures of the king in that ruin where we laid up last year waiting for the senora and her party. You remember the senora, don’t you, Jose? I can hear her squeaks now,” and he laughed brutally, and added: *“Come, King, and have a drink.” *‘Gracious, senor,” I answered, ‘I have drunk.” :

“Then smoke a cigar, O king.” #*Gracious, senor, I do not smoke tonight.”, g My lord cacique of all the Indians won’t drink and won’t smoke,” said Don Smith, ‘so we will offer him incense,” and taking a plate he filled it with dry -tobacco and cigarette paper, to which he set fire. Then he placed the plate on the table before me, so that the fumes of the tobacco rose into the air about my head. y “There, now he lookslike a real god,” said the Americano, clapping his hands, “I say, Jose, let us make a sacrifice to him. There is the girl who rantaway last week, and whom we caught with the dogs—" = = et

S*NO. nos cﬁmragle,” broke in Jose; “none of yourjokes to-night; you forget that we have a visitor. Not but what I should like to sacrifice this old demonio of an Indian himself,” he added, in an outburst of drunken fury. “Curse him! he insulted me and my father and mother, yonder on board the ship.” : e “And are you going” to put up with that from this wooden old Indian god? Why,. if Iswere in your place, by now I would have filled him as full of holes as a coffec roaster, jlist tolet the lies out.” “That’s what I want to do’” said Jose, gnashing his teeth; ‘‘he has insulted me and threatened me, and ought to pay for it, the black thief.” And drawifng a large knife he flourished it in my ace. : :

- I did not shrink from it; I did not so much as suffer my cyelids to tremble: though the steel flashed within an inch of them, for I knew that if once I showed fear he would strike. Therefore I said calmly: . ““You are pleased to jest, senor, and your jests are somewhat rude, but I pass them by, for I know that you cannot harm me because I am your guest; and’those who kill a guest are nat gentlemen, but murderers, which the highborn Don Jose Moreno could never be.” ‘“Stick the pig, Jose,” said Smith, “‘He is insulting you again. It will save trouble afterward.”

Then as Don Jose again advanced upon me with the knife, of a sudden the senor sprang up from his chair and stood between us. °

‘‘Come, friend,” he said, ‘“‘a joke isa joke, but you are carrying this too far, according to your custom,” and seizing the man by the shoulders, he put out all his great strength and swung him back with such force. that, striking against the long table with his thighs, he rolled on to and over it, falling heavily to the ground on the further side, whence he rose cursing with rage. By now Don Pedro, who had wakened, or affected to waken fromi his sleep, thought that the time had come to interfere. ;

- “‘Peace, little ones, peace!” he.cried sleepily from his hammock. ‘‘Rememsber that the men are guests, and cease brawling. Let them go to bed; it ig time for them to go to bed, and they need rest, and by to-morrow your differences will be healed up forever.” “I take the hint,” said the senor, with forced gayety, ‘‘Come, Ignatio, let us sleep oft our host’s good wine. Gentle-~ men, sweet «dreams* to you,” and he walked across the room, followed by myself. : 2

RSR ey, v 2 3 At the door I turned my head and looked back. Every man in the room was watching intently, and it seemed to me that the drunkenness had passed from their faces, scared away by a sense of some great wickedness waiting to be worked. Don Smith was whispering into the ear of Jose, who still held the knife in his hand, but the rest were staring at us as peogle stare at men passing to the scaffold. :

- Even Don Pedro, wide awake now, sat up in the hammocli and peered with his horny eyes while the Indian girl, Luisa, her hand upon the cord, watched our departure with some such face as mourners watch the outbearing of a corpse. All this I noted in a moment as I crossed the threshold and went for- ‘ ward down the passage,and as [ went I shivered, for the scene was uncanny' and fateful. - |

Presently we were in the abbot’s chamber, our sleeping place, and had locked the door behind us. Near the washstand, on which. burned a single: candle, set in the neck of a bottle, sat Molas, his face buried in his hands.

“Have they brought you no supper that you look so sad?” asked the senor. ‘%Ae woman Luisa gave me to eat,” hednswered. ‘‘Listen, lord; and you, Senor Strickland, our fears are well founded; there is a plot to murder us to-night; of this the woman is sure, for she . heard some words pass between Don Pedro and a white man called Smith; also she saw one of the halfbreeds fetch some spades from the gar-, den and place them in readiness, which spades are to be used in the hollowing of our graves beneath this floor.” s ‘I am afraid that we have been too venturesome in coming here,” [ said, ‘‘and unless we can escape at once we must be prepared to pay the price of our folly with our lives.” : ‘Do not be downcast, lord,” said Molas, ‘‘for you have not heard all the tale. . The woman has shown me g means whereby you can save yourselves from death, at any rate for to-night. Come here,” and leading us across the room he knelt upon the floor at a spot almost opposite the picture of the abbot and pressed upon a panel in the low wainscoting of cedar wood with which the wall was clothed 'tc a height of about threc feet. , ¢ The panel slid aside, leaving a space. barely Exrge enough for a man to pass. Through this opening we crept one by one, and passed down four narrow steps tc find oursalves in a chamber hollowed out of the foundations of the wall, so small that there was only just room for the three of us to stand in it, our heads being some inches above the level of the floor. £ .+, .|TO BE CONTINUED.] ; i iy . An Training. Gl *lWhat's the matter with Mabel?™ asked the girl in blue. *“lnever see her in society any more.” o “I think she has gone into training,” ‘replied the girl in pink. 2 b Mlnto training!™ exclaimed the girl MBI il “Yes. 1 understand young - Mr., Tillotson has jilted her and she is dieting in order.to show the ravages of blighted affection when the time comes ‘tg sue him for breach of | promise or ‘something of that aorw'imsel is @ very thoughtful and paifEtaking girl" “Llidags Bushing Dowt. -

- THAT CHINESE WALL. What Protection Gave to China—Do -We Need It Here? g ' ‘ln a recent speech in congress Senator Mantle, of Montana, tried to revive the Chinese cheap goods scare and warned Americans against the danger lof Asiatic competition. As an argument in favor of rebuilding the MeKinley high tariff wall around the eountry he said: - : . “The Chinese empire possesses in ‘great abundance and variety every ‘natural resource necessary to make her a great producing and manufacturing nation. Her soil andclimate and her immense territory are such as to enable her to produce enormous supplies of cotton and wool, as well as otber raw materials. . Her people are equal to the Japanese in respect to industry and in theirimitative and adapt-. ative faculty, and superior to them in respect to their powers of application and endurance. Wages in Japan are ridiculously low as compared with American and European standards, but in China wages are even lower than in Japan.”

This is a true statement of the conditions which exist in China, but instead of helping the protectionists it is the strongest possible condemnation of their policy. The Chinese are the oldest of civilized people, having reached a high stage of enlightment when our ancestors were savages. Arts, sciences and letters flourished in the Celestial empire centuries before the Romans invaded Britain. Unfortunately for the continued progressof the Chinese there arose in their country zbout 2,000 years ago a pig-tailed, squint-eyed McKinley, who preached the doectrine that the way to become a righ and powerful aation was to shut out all foreign trade. Being a cunning rascal, he succeeded in making the people believe that they would be more patriotic if they refused to buy goods from the outside barbarians, and a royal degree was accordingly issued which absolutely forbade foreigners trading with the Chinese. This system of protection to home industry was maintained until a recent. period, and even now the greater part ot China is cldsed to outside commerce and enterprise. : "

In view of the fact that ?ina is the one country in which prdtection has been fully and fairly tried for thousands of years, the terrible poverty and degradation of its peqple is surely the best proof thgt trade restriction is a failure. \Vith;Znorm‘ous deposits of coal and iron; with immense forests of valuable timber; with boundless areas of fertile farm lands, and with a mild and healthful climate; the Chinese are still the poorest of all civilized peoples on earth. Wages are lower, food is meaner, and the general condition of the masses far worse than among any other people. . - When the American workingmen are urged to vote for re-establishing in this country the policy which has proved so disastrous in the Chinese empire they should ask: *“lf protection raises wages, why has it not done so in China? That country had absolute protection for £,OOO years. Why are the wages of its workers so low? If trade restriction impoverished the Chinese and checked their development, why would it not have the same effect on the :United States? What's the matter with vour commerce-exclu-sion theories in China? \ : WHIDDEN GRAHAM.

FAVORS THE FOREIGNER. American Goods Sold for Less Abroad Than : ~at Home. ’ - We referred a few days ago to the fact that a large shipment of nails was made last week from Cleveland to Japan and that these nails were sold in Japan -at about: $1 a keg less than is charged the purchaser in this country. The tariff on nails enables the manufacturers to combine and without fear of foreign competition' to raise the price of their product artificially as they have in the last 12 months. While they charge trust prices in the home market they sell to foreigners at much lower figures. b The foreign purchaser is favored by our protected steel rail mills in the same way. Recently the Illinois Steel Co., of Milwaukee, shipped 500 tons of steel rails to Japan. The same mill had previously made several large shipments to that country. : These rails are sold in competition with the Ebpglish mills and the price of English rails, free on board, is $23. 08 a ton, while the price of our homemade rails hére is $28.75.

. The tariff of $7.84 per ton enables the rail mills to charge this price and still keep out foreign competition. But when they go into foreign markets | they undersell the DBritish manufacturer. Not long ago the Carnegie company sold 10,000 tons of steel rails in Japan. These rails were carried overland to Baltimore. In spite of this expensive transportation and the long voyage to Japan, it paid the Japanese purchasers to buy these rails in Pittsburgh instead of in England. They got them about $6 a ton cheaper than any purchaser in this ‘‘protected” country could have bought them. The cdst of shipping rails from En-_ gland to Japan is much less than from this eountry, but our rail makers who charge us $28.75 a ton were able to beat the English price. $23.08 a ton, and to make up for the difference in the cost of transportation. : Thus the protective tariff operates as to many other articles. Its benefits are confined to the protected manufacturer and the foreigner on the other side of the world gets better treatment under it than our own people. - Atlanta Journal. , : :

EFFECT OF PRICES.

Cheapening Goods Increases Consumption — Raising Prices Lessens the Demand.

The great problemr in the industrial and business world is the faet of an apparent overproduction of all kinds ‘of goods. It makes no .difference whether, as alleged by some, that it is really underconsumption which causes an acclamation of unsold goods, which ‘makes it necessary to close down mills and factories and throw the workers out of employment. The condition remains the same—millions of people who want goods, while millions of dollars worth of goods lie unsold in warehouses or factories. As a remedy for this undeniable evil, which exists to some extent in all countries .of the world, the McKinleyites are urging the people to try the expériment of higher tariff duties. ‘*‘This,” they say, “will increase prices and thaus make a Lrisk. demand for goods.” Whether higher prices will really stimulate cons suinption need’ not be a matter. of ‘theorizing. 1t has been tested on a large scale during the last few months ‘right in this country and the experi

ment is still going on. The result is to prove beyond a doubt that dearer goods means lessened demand, and this increases the evils of overproduection. o

The Shoe and ' Leather Reporter states that two or three months ago the principal boot and shoe manufacturers sought toencourage the demand for their products by reducing prices to the lowest possible point. The resulé was that the boot and shoe industry became exceedingly prosperous, most of the large factories having ordersahead for two or three months. The shipments from Boston, the center of the industry, foot up for May of this year 303,557 cases, against 322,233 last year, 280,483 in 1894, 277,400, in 1893, and 253,248 in 1892. It will be noticed that the two greatest shipments were made in years when the Wilson tariff was in force, this year showing an increase of more than 50,000 cases over 1892, the banner year of McKinleyism. The other half of the experiment is furnished by the iron and steel manufacturers. About the same time that the boot and shoe makers decided to reduce prices, the great steel trust, controlling nearly all the iron aund steel mills of the country, advanced prices of their product from 15 to 20 per cent. There was a chance for the protection idea to show .its fruits by increasing the demaaid. But the results were exactly the reverse of what the McKinleyites claim. Instead of becoming greater the consumption of iron and steel at once-rapidly fell o ff. Sales decreased, and a large number of furnaces have gone out of blast, and more are expected to stop soon. The output of rolling mills and forges has also fallen off largely, and in consequence many workers are idle. This is due to trust monopoly, -aided by tariff duties on foreign iron and steel. - In view of these facts, happening right under the eyes of the men who are discussing the causes of overproduction, is it not clear that putting up prices lessens demand, while reducing them increases consumption? : B. W. H. WHAT IT MEANS. e Mcßinleyism Means High Taxation, Dear Goods and Restricted Foreign Trade. Vague promises that if the Ohio major is elected president the country will in some mysterious way become mmore prosperous, should not blind the American people to the real nature of McKinleyism. Four years ago that word was understood to mean a policy of high taxation, dear goods and nestricted foreign ‘trade. This was the form in which it was embodied in the McKinley tariff,-and after a full and fair diseussion for over two years the people rejected the policy and ordered the tariff repealed. 5 ‘Nothing has happened since 1892 to change in the slightest degree the essential nature of McKinleyism. -It is now as then a demand for special. tariff privileges for the benefit of a few great trusts and manufacturing monopolists. Tt is a scheme by which 70,000,000 Americar; consumers are to be taxed on the goods they buy, in order that a small number of millionaires may make greater fortunes. 1t means class legislation in the interest of men who furnish money to buy votes and corrupt the sources of popular gowernment. It is a bold assertion of the richt of some men to get rich at the expense of the masses who produce all wealth.

. The popular verdict in 1892 was that McKinleyism was a fraud and robbery.. Theft is always theft, no matter what it may be called. - Four years ago the American people voted against stealing under the form of law. Is there any reason why the same people should now vote in favor of high tariff robbery, merely because the McKinleyites are this yvear calling their leader ‘‘prosperity’s advance agent?”’ = -

INTERSTATE TRADE.'

The Great Wisdom of the Framers of Our . Fondamental Laws. About the greatest achievement in the line of economics of the founders of the United States was the provigion that there should be no customs tariff between states. Some of the states, notably Rhode Island, reluctantly resigned the right to protect themselves against the pauper competition of other states. But the prosperity of this country is very intimately connected with. the fact that owing to this wise stipulation, and the subsequent additions to the territory of the United States, there has been {ree trade over a region stretching from ocean to ocean and from the great lakes to the Rio Grande.® This absence of interstate tariffs has not resulted in advantage to the older sections only; it has not doomed the new west to perpetual agriculture on account of the competition of the long established manufacturing interests of the east. It has resulted to the very great advantage of all. Mexico, whose tardy development is closely connected with the protection of each state against the competition of the others, has at ’ last abolished the interstate taxes. | The states will have to resort to direct taxation probably to make good the ' deficiency in their revenues, but they ' will be astonished to find how much their prosperity is increased by removing the obstacles to commerce between the several parts of the country. China and Turkey will retain for a long time their scheme for promoting the prosperity of each provinee by levying duties on imports from other provinces.—N. Y. Journal of Commerce.. - Tariff Still in Polities. = - The meeting of the tariff commission convention at Detroit on June 3 was a failure because of the slim.attendance of delegates. The main object of the convention was the organization of a movement to take the tariff question out of politics; but as it was also proposed to maintain the protective principle as a basis of future tariff there was a manifest incongruity and warfare between means and ends that foreboded faiiure. As long as’political parties shall consent to be used as active agencies for the building up of favored industries at the expense of unprotected industries so long the tariff will be a political question. The only remedy is fair play for all. and the use of the taxing power only for its legitimate object—the production of revenue.—Philadelphia Record. - ; Needs Further Redaction, ' With the price of pig iron sagging, the trusts manage to hold up the ‘prices of finished produets of iron and steel. Meanwhile they sell their sar plus in foreign markets at prices which. compete with foreign competitors, The ability to fleece home consumers /is tariff-made ability. Jn this sea~son of depression the unnecessary &;ﬁ ‘upon the steel and iron ustng trades is keenly felt.—Philadelphia ihcm‘j

. 'THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Enternational Lesson for ‘July 12, 1896 David King Over All Israel—2 Sama. CrgrTEei®s SR T [Arranged from Pecloubet’s Notes.] = GoLDEN TEXT.—David went on and grew great, and the Lord God of Hosts was with him.—ll Sam. 5:10. ’ > THE SepcTioN includes (1) the steps by which David became’ king of all Israel, (2) his inauguration, (3) hisnew capital, and “ the,develogment of his kingdom and its greatness. The parallel passage (with additions) is in Chronicles 1., 12 and 14. i TME.—B. C. 1048, T% years after Saul's death and David’s becoming king of Judah. ‘l PrLaceE.—Hebron first, and then Jerusaem. : s ~ ‘ LESSON NOTES. Sl ’ 1. Steps to the Larger Kingdom.— ' The man David was now prepared for ‘the‘ great work of his life. =~ While David’s. power was increasing ' the ‘house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker. The new king made no ad_vances to a permanent and powerful organization. The country was still largely subject to the Philistine invaders. It was plain that some change ‘must soon be made. - i Ish-bosheth complained of -Abmer, his chief captain and mainstay, for marrying his father Saul’s secondary: wife, Rizpah. This act was regarded in the east as a step towards the throne. This view was favored by the fact that Abner/was a cousin of Saul. Whether Abner had any désigns upon thethrone is unknown, but he now immediately turned against Ish-bosheth and made ~overtures to David. . ' e | David first insisted on the restora~tion to himself of his first wife, Michal,, ‘ Saul’s daughter, who had been taken from him by Saul. This tested Abner’s sincerity and power, and gave David a hold upon the northern people as an heir of Saul. W

- Both Abner and Ish-bosheth were foully murdered. David had =not ‘wished for or connived at any such deed; but it nevertheless opened the way ‘to his becoming king of all Israel, for there was now only one heir to Saul, "a boy lame in both feet, who could not well perform the kingly duties of that time. _ i

® 11. David Chosen King of All Israel.— Verses 1-s.—“ Then came all the tribes of Israel to David.” He did not seck them, but they had sought him. He bad proved himeslf worthy of the position. He had. been Divinely appointed. He had the right ideas concerning the duties of aking, a 5

He was to be a coustitutional king, for we are told he made a league with the people. The Israelite monarchy was an absolute and irresponsible despotism. Then oecurred -his publie coronation, with a great feast lasting three. days. ! v lIT. The New Capital.—Verses 6-9. —Hebron was teo far south to be the capilal of the united kingdom, therefore “the king and his men went to Jerusalem,” then called Jebus: Political, civil and military considerations pointed to Jerusalem as the most suitable capital for the united kingdom. [t stood on a rocky plateau surroundéd on three sides by degp ravines, forminga natural fortress of almost impregnable strength. The Jebusites even made the boast (according to the reading in the margin of the revised version, verse 6): “Thou shalt not come in hither, but the blind and the lame shall turn thee away.” But David had quietly noticed that there was one way of réaching the’ citadel where few defenders would be watching, since no one expected an attack in that direction, and that was by the way of the *“gutter,” ‘or watercourse. By this means Joab witha few men’ captured the fortress. After that it became a proverb that “the blind and lame shall not come ‘into the house,” meaning that those so very confident of their position that they believe it to be as impregnable as’ the- Jebusites thought Zion to be may well look out, for-some one will find a way of conquering them. “So David dweltin the fort, and called it the city of David.” IV. The Development of ‘the Kingdom.—Vs. 10-12. “And David went on, and grew great, and the Lord God of Hosts was with him.” The kingdom bursts upon the world in a splendid development of material prosperity and: religious progress. -There was an-out-: ward development in territory; in the compass of a single reign the boundaries of Isracl were extended twentyfold. This was, however, one of -the least important of the lines of devélopment. . 3 o : b

There was great progress in the religious culturejof the people. The ark was taken to Zion. Religious worship was organized with choirs and orchestras. Psalms were written and sung. David recognized that all he had was from God.: This kept him humble, and enabled him to steer clear of the rocks of self-conceit, on which so mary have been wrecked. S sl . David inaugurated commerce with the seaboard people. IHiram was king of Tyre, on the Mediterranean coast, the capital of the commercial and enterprising Phoenicians. Fyre depended upon Palestine for its supplies of wheat and oil, and would like a market for its manufactures. To open up 'this friendly confmerce Hiram built David a palace. - : David did one foolish thing among all his wise ones; and this was seeming wise according to the prevailing opinfons of the day. Hc multiplied wives, chicfly i the way of alliances with the neighboring nations. But ‘the sons of some of these heathen women were. among the ‘greatest sources of his sorrow in his later davs. ©° . = et

THAT THEY MAY HEAR, : Some fish, like the perch, are provided Wthh a very singular deviee for hearing. Nerves lead from cavities in the skull to the hir bladder, and the vibratiors are conveyed to this internal receptacle as to a drum. S ; There is'a curious differbrke in éars between the donkey and the horse, the ears of the latter being small and well shaped, while those of the former, though he hears no better, arc of extremely generous proportions. : 'Many varieties of jelly fish have in their auditory apparatus small globules of lime called “ear stones,”swhich are iﬁ}%élieved to serve the purpose for the jelly fish that the carbonate of lime . powder serves in the human ear. . The ear of the elephant, like his eye, _is very small in proportion to the size ‘of the animal, although the flap of skin ~which covers it is often of considerable size. The hea#ng of the elephant, however, is singularly acute. . ~ From the middle ear to the side of the f‘f%}h&rynx, a small canal is found. When. ‘this is stopped up; as sometimes happens during cold or inflammation, an ﬁﬂs;n“m‘mﬁ@mwﬁw ?ﬁﬁx% ep fsmgwg%}i%g«i m’q

“TRUE BLUE ON ‘THE*’"@AR!&??.J?, The Democratic States Adhere to Tariff A for Revenue Only. o - The platforms of the demoeratic state conventions that have assembled lately are so thoroﬁgﬁhly in accord on the cardinal democratic doctrine of tariff reform, it ig unfortunate in the extreme that an Nmo’cratic.'clamor' for cheap money has arisen to create dissensions in the party. With a preponderance of sound money sentiment at Chicago and a declaration in favor of sustaining the national creditias the present administration has gallantly sought to do, the decks would be cleared for a spirited and determined encounter with the McKinleyites that would be pretty sure to leave the tariff reform¢rs in command, of the i;ationall craft. Illinois, abjectly as it has surrendered to republican and populist ‘notions of flatism, clings to tariff reform with commendable tenacity. “We favor a turiff for revenue only,” the platform reads, “and declaré that the government should eollect no more taxes than are necessary to defray the expenses of the government, honestly and economically administered.” This has the right ring. There is no prineiple that will inspire the demdcracy with greater zeal and enthusiasm than this. Aslong as there are McKinleys to barter legislation for campaign contributions and as long as there are republican congressmen io squander publie funds with such wanton lavishness as marked the appropriations of ithe first term o? ithe Fifty-fourth congress, such emiriently sound-doctrinme as this cannot be too often enunciated or too earnestly enforced. ~ L i

- Wisconsin is sound way through on the tenets of the democratic faith,.but cspecially explicit and emphatic in her expressions on the tariff. “We believe a tariff for revenue ouly would extend American commerce to the uttermost parts.of the earth,” the Badgers declare,, “and that untrammeled industry would advance our country to the foremost place among nations.” Here is a scheme of commercial supremacy, a plan of national development that is founded on correct principles, quite unlike the MeKinley methed of stimulating private enterprises by making the j)eople) pay tribute to them. The remarkable development of export trade under the Wilson hill proves that the faith of the Wisconsin democrats in the triumphs of untrammeled industry is well founded. .o

The New York-democracy takes no ‘backward step upon the principle that it is an abuse of the taxing power to build up-one man’s busimess at the expense of another, and it declares that no public taxation, except for publie purposes, is the true theory upon which our system off government is based and upon which it should be honestly and impartially administered. The platform declares opposition to government partnership with protetted monopoly, such a partnership as McKinley effeeted when he invited the trusts and ‘monopolies to make out the schedules they wanted for the McKinley bill, and: it demands that import duties, like other taxes, shall be impartially laid and their imposition limited to_ the necessities of the government, economically administered. e L

The repetition of these familiar maxims is demanded by the recent'exhibition of republican® prodigality, and the wisdom of tariff reform has been demonstrated by the lifting of burdens from the masses’and by the gradual but certain recovery from tinancial ills arising from the operation of the deficit~ producing McKinley law and pernicious financial legislation of the republican party. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1894, the McKinley law produced a deficit of $72,300,000. This deficit has been gradually reduced under the new tariff, and for the fiscal year now drawing to a’close it will be $28000,000 or less. Dut for-the invalidating of the income tax the present year would show a surpius. : - Temporary- distractions like. the cheap money madness may arise, but there is no danger that the democratic party will veer very far from the course that has led tg its notable triumphs -the past 122 “years.—Detroit Free Press. . - : Goced

M’KINLEY AND BUSINESS.

What High Pariff Has Done for Ameri= | £ can Induftry. ~ ' - McKinley is called the ‘“‘advance agent of prosperity,” but in 1890 he was the | advance agent of disaster. The volume of bfisiness of the country indicates | ‘better than anything ecise whether it is prosperous or mnot. For the three years-prior to the passage of the McKin- ; ley bill, and for the three fiscal years after its passage while it was in full O‘peration,! the clearings of the 71 cities werc-as folows: ' s : ~:Before McKinley, | . After McKinley. ISR i .sgo,;g;.ooo,ooogmsz. cee ++562,160,000,000 1889 ... . 56,175,000,000{1893. ... "54,501.000,000 - 1860.. .. .. 60,829,000,000{1894 .. ... . 45,615,000.660 Inadequate as the Gorman tariff bill . was in many particulars, it stopped any | turther decline, and the clearances last yvear reached $51,5611,000,000, == -+ . . The tariff of 1883 had the same effect upon business—unsettling it. The vol--ume of business shown by'the ¢learances before and afterit was as fo)l‘ows: : [ Beforg 1883 Tariff. ‘ ATter 1883 Tauie. o voh 1880.......549,990,000,00011884. . ... ..$44,200,000800 1881, i 63,471,000,000{1885 %...... 41,471.0(0,000 In 1886 business had accommodated . itself to the changed <conditions, and siowly increased each year until in 1890, v it had ‘ahnost reached the volume pb o 1881. . Then 'MecKinley hit.it another blow between the eyes that knocked it out again. it oA .In 1804, thanks to McKinleyism and . | the republican silver inflation act, the business of the country was less than in 1881. - There is no reason to suppose that the republican show will come up ‘to the gaudy posters of its “advanci ‘agent” any better in 1597 than it did in| :1890.~N. Y. Worldi;: - - : ; o Deserting the Platform. o Having secured the nomination for MeKinley upen a p’latfoix that was a _concession to kis opponents, Mark Hanna deliberately proceeds toabandon the platform and run the campaign ona plan of his own. Tle plan includes the | padlocking of the candidate. The taviff ' s to be made the paramount issue of the . campaign, and the financinPquestion is to-be subordinajed to asgreat anextent as the eircumstances mmq mit. That ‘was the agreement reached ¢ ﬁtmtﬁ;;,’iéﬁ ‘lt will be noted that while McKinley has been talking'in glittering generali- = ties to his visitors nbout the tariff he = hns carefully nvoided the ctrreacy peption. e epsat b iy of ILS New, Yok dournal that hefore tolng eLt P b orse Jentigly platiolin ph AR e e e es s R L R @%%‘f*ﬁ%ﬁ“s LR RE