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140 . From Clue to Climax. BY WiLL N, HARBEN, {Copyright 1896, by J. B. Lippincott Co.) CHAPTER XI.—CONTINUED. Slowly and cautiously they descended the stairs. At Whidby’s door the hypnotiststopped, held up his hand warningly, bent his body forward, and stood motionless for about two minutes. Warrenton did not kpow whether he was listening for a sound within or concentrating his hypnotic power on Whidby. In the dim moonlight that fell through the frosted glass of the front door, the colonel could see the doctor’s forehead was wrinkled, and his massive brows drawn together. Then the hypnotist stood erect, took a deep, full breath, and . said: *“He’s all right now; come in.” He turned the doorknob and entered. Whidby was lying on his side. In the white light from without, his face looked pale and thin. The doctor bent over him and said, softly, but imperalively: *“Sleep! sleep! you are sleeping now deeper and deeper. Ah, there you go!” Then, to the great astonishment of the colonel, he turned, laughed aloud, and spoke to him in an ordinary tone. “Good! so far it could not be better. Now we are ready for the test. -Ah!”— as he noticed the colonel’s start—‘“you need not be afraid of his hearing us; he is as far away as if he were dead. See,” —lthe hypnotist chuckled with satisfaction as he pointed to the bloodstained chair near the bed and Whidby’s shirt upon it-—“see, he has followed my instructions to the letter. Good! The folding doors, I think, on the night of the murder, were pushed back and the curtains hung between; is that not so ?” “YQS.” : “All right.” The hypnotist slid the docrs apart, and released the portiere from the holders on each side. “Now for your role, and then we will begin. It may not be very pleasant for you, but you will oblige me if you will lie down in the bed in the next room in the same position as that im which they found the dead man.” Warrenton stared; then he laughed awkwardly, and said: “All right; I am at your service.” “Whidby won't hurt you, I give you ‘my word,"”said thedoctor. “Take off your coat and throw down your suspenders—so. Now off with that collar and cravat, and turn the shirt under at the neck,

this way. I would have asked you to © wear a night shirt, but I was afraid you’d catch cold.” The colonel took off his slippers, turned down the sheets, and got into ithe bed, lying on his side with his face to the window. ) “Was that Strong's position?” asked the hypnotist. “As nearly as I can remember.” “All right. Now let me cover you—so. Now watech Whidby, and don’t stir if he comes to you—not even if he touches you rather forcibly. I assure - You he won’t be able to hurt you.” “All right. I am ready.” ‘ The portiere was hanging between the two rooms, but Dr. Lampkin held it behind him as he leaned against one of the folding doors so that Warrenton could see Whidby’s bed. The colonel could see the face of the hypnotist. His great flashing eyes were fixed on the sleeper, his brows contracted; all his mental force seemed concentrated upon one idea. “Come, get up, get up!” he said, presently, in a 'tone of command. Whidby caught his breath audibly, as one suddenly waking from sleep. He _turned over, rose slowly, and put his feet on the floor. “Come, stand up!” the hypnotist ordered, firmly. Whidby obeyed, looking as if he were wide awake. *“Do as you were told to do on the night of the 10th of June. Do it, I say! don’t hesitate.” Slowly Whidby walked toward the window at the head of his bed, but withnayardof it he suddenly stopped, threw up his hand in front of him with a repellent gesture, and retreated backward to the center of the room. “Do it, I say!” repeated the hypnotist. Once more Whidby slowly aproached the window, with his hand outstretched, but again, with the same gesture, he stopped and retreated to the center of the room. The colonel witnessed the whole proceedings. He fancied he saw an expression of vexation on the face of the hypnotist, every muscle of which seemed ‘drawn, every vein about to burst. His large eyes seemed to start irom their sockets. For the third time, though now no word was spoken, Whidby aproached the window, and then, with a deep sigh and a strange child-like svhimper, he returned to his bed and sat down on the side of it.

Ten minutes passed. The hypnrotist stood like a statue. A thrill of sudden fear passed over the colonel.. Could any man be sane with that look on his face? Some one passed along the street whistling, and carrying a lantern. Its light danced about on the walls for an instant. In the flashes the colonel saw Whidby had covered his face with his hands. “Come, getup!” Intheawfulsilence the tones sounded like a clap of thunder. The colonel heard them ringing in echoes in the hall. Whidby rose, passed the folding doors, and entered Strong’s Toom. The hypnotist released the portiere, letting it fall across the opening, and cautiously followed Whidby, who slowly approached the foot of the bed and then went round to the right and bent over the colonel. The young man was breathing hard and excitedly. He felt the colonel’s body through the covering, and then, turning it down at the top, he pressed his fumbling fingers against Warrenton’s bare throat two or three times, then drew himself up, and, turning, went slowly back towards the portiere. Me caught it with his right hand, drew it aside and passed in. _ Dr. Lampkin was close behind him, followed by Warrenton. They drew the portiere aside just in time to see - Whidby strike the chair which was between him and the bed. He grasped the top of it with his right hand and leaned so far forward that the others thought he was going to lose his bal--ance and fall on his face. However, he recovered his equilibrium, and paused _to replace the shirt, which had fallen on the floor, ‘Then he lay dg¢wn on the bed, turned his face from tlfem and closed i .ey %0 the colo ,ﬁfgwﬁ*,w isappointment Ihe Bb . T 6 Thoka worc sinok ax Iha

had been made to comngit the deed. 1 understand now what caused him to have a slight remembrance of touching the chair, picking up the shirt, and so on. When Le stumbled and almost fell that night, the hypnotizer was so fearful of the noise his fall would make that for an instant he lost control of his subject; but he regained it in a moment, and put him to sleep. - What was that? I thought I heard a sound in the other room.”

“Don’t be frightened; it is 1,” sounded from behind a screen in a corner, and a man in a broad-brimmed slouched hat, long whiskers and linen ulster rose into view. He drew off his hat and his false beard, bowed and smiled. “Doctor, we are not strangers,” he said. *‘Pardon my lack of ceremony. Iconfessl have been spying on your movements. Ihad to see what was going on, and in my own way.” - “Minard Hendricks, by Jove!” ejaculated the doctor. “I should never have dreamed of your being here at such a time, This is Col.- Warrenton, a friend of Mr. Whidby. We were experimenting.” )

Hendricks bowed to the colonel, and went on: “I know; .you need not tell me. I was in the colonel’s room just now, and overheard your talk. I felt less like an interloper when I heard you say you were going to give me the benefit of your investigations, so I followed you down here, and have seen and heard all. Tam glad to make your acquaintance, Col. Warrenton, but you must both pardon my impatience. I am dying to make a little examination on my own account. Will he—is the young man sound asleep?”

“Yes; he can hear only what I address to him.”

“Go ahead,” Warrenton joined in. *“You may do as you like here.” “Thanks.” Hendricks lighted the gas with a soundless match, and, going to the window which Whidby had approached so many times, examined the sill elosely. Then he crossed the floor to the corner nearest the door, and, taking a small dark-lantern from the pocket of his ulster, he went down on his hands and knees, and, throwing the light here and there about the corner, made a minute examination of the carpet, and then of the plastered walls near where he crouched.

Warrenton and Dr. Lampkin watched him curiously, both with long faces. When he had finished and ¢losed his lantern with a snap, Warrenton ventured to say:

“If you have discovered anything, sir, which would lead you to believe that my young friend was not the instrument of a hypnotist, and not made to commit the crime, I should be very grateful. lam really afraid the morbid fear that such is the case will drive the poor fellow mad.” C - Hendricks smiled as he buttoned his ulster around him. :

“That point, I believe, lies in Dr. Lampkin’s province. I was trying to 0 ’ ...‘- . - o ; 7200 ' | ) W s ///,/ A\ \\ R 7 ) || & ) “ 3 T L s N\ \ 'B N | \i"\ \\ \\\‘ \ | ; ’“\ \\\\ \\\“ \‘\ \ ; ‘ \\T . ‘\\ et | “l\ i ‘ ‘ W\ % 5 ) ~" \ , v! ‘ \ i \ § - \)‘.’ A . ¢ Sleep, sleep!” he commanded. discover traces of the murderer where 1 failed to search the other day. Forthe present I can tell you no more. However, I may say that in spying on you to-night I have discovered enough to prove to my mind, at least, that either the murder was a hypnotist, or Mr. Whidby is a capital actor.” . “What do you mean ?” asked Col. Warrenton, sharply. The detective smiled. - “Only that there are two sides to the case. Either Whidby is guilty or some one else is; and that is what the public thinks. I should be glad to prove him wholly innocent. If he is guilty, he is listening to me now and has gone through a superb piece of acting. Eh, Whidby? But he may be asleep.” - “I can testify to that,” said Dr. Lampkin, uneasily. “I don’t make mistakes in that line®” -

“If you do in others,” laughed Hendricks. “But I must be going. You fellows have made me lose a lot of sleep, to-night.”

“What do you mean about my mistakes?” asked Dr. Lampkin, coldly. “Never mind now; I shall perhaps explain before long,” answered the detective. “Good-night.” And he opened the door and was gone. For several minutes Dr. Lampkin and the colonel stood looking at each other in silence. The pause was ended by the colonel. ;

“Well, we haven’t any bright news for the poorfellow, have we? Shall we wake Lhim and tell him the result of our investigations ?”’

“No: let him sleep till morning. Tt will brace him up. It is the first good sleep he has had for several days, I'll venture to say. No, don’t tell him till I call to-morrow. I think I can put it before him so that he won’t brood so much over it. I have a good many patients who employ me simply to keep them from worrying. Some of them I have cured permanently of the disease, for that’s all it is, and a bad one. Goodnight. I'll be round here in the morning.‘”'

CHAPTER XII. The next morning about ten Miss Annette Delmar was admitted to the drawing-room of the Strong residence. She was thickly veiled. She told Matthews she wanted to see Mr. Whidby ap once. As she took her seat she heard voices in the library across the hall. She recognized Whidby’s voice and Col. Warrenton’s, and now and then heard ‘masculine tones she did not recognize. She rose when Whidby came in, but was startled at the sight of his pale, CHIUNDIO qhos. ¢ s e " “Don’t scold me,” she said, extending ‘her hands and speaking tenderly. “I «could not let another da; pass without

day when you told me about your foolish fears in regard to hypneotism and your being the—the tool of some one with that power. I was so horrified, you seemed so ecarnest about it, and it shocked and frightened me so that I could not comfort you. But now that I have thought it all over 1 am not worrying at all. Dear, it is only imagination on your part. You have read of such things and fancy them possible to yourself. I don’t believe a word of it. You had nothing in the world to do with it. It is only an absurd idea.” - Whidby put his arm round her and drew her to asofa. He did not speak for a minute, but sat stroking her gloved hand. Then he said:

“You ought not to come here, dear; it is imprudent; but it makes me very happy. for it is such a strong proof of your love and confidence. Unfortunately, however, my morbid fears have just been confirmed. Dr. Lampkin, the hypnotic expert, of whom I spoke yesterday, is in the library with Col. Warrenton. There is now no doubt that I was hypnotized and made to do the deed.”

“What? Oh, Alfred!” Miss Delmar paled, and he felt her shudder as she leaned nearer to him.

“There is no longer any doubt about it,” he repeated. “Dr.Lampkin has just been giving me a good talk against worrying over what can’t be helped, and really I do feel more hopeful about it. Besides, all may come out well in the end.” i

“But—but how do you know you did it? It’s perfectly absurd!”. ‘They put me to a test last night. I won’t trouble you with it. It would only try your nerves to go into details. I knew nothing about it. I was hypnotized after I fell asleep, and they got sufficient proof to convince them. Now, don’t get excited, darling: you are trembling all over, just as you did yesterday.” : Miss Delmar drew her hands from his clasp and covered her face. . “Oh, I can’t bear it! I simply cannot bear to think that youdid it in—in such a horrid way. Alfred, youdidn’t! You didn’t!” i

The door bell rang. Whidby sat staring into the frank eyes of the girl, unable to formulate a reply. Neither spoke just then. They heard Matthews go to the door and open it; then a gentleman entered the drawing-room. “I beg your pardon, Mr. Whidby,” he said. ‘I am Minard Hendricks, the detective who witnessed the proceedings' in your bedroom last night. I thought I might find Dr. Lampkin and Col. Warrenton here.” :

“They are now in the library,” answered Whidby. “Matthews will notifiy them that you are here. Take a seat, Mr. Hendricks.”. Miss Delmar arose and extended her hand to Whidby. “I must be going,” she said, in a low voice.

“I beg your pardon,” said Hendricks. “You are Miss Delmar, I am sure. I would not detain you, but I am certain that I can tell yousomething you would like to hear. Now, I see,” Hendricks went on, smiling reassuringly, ‘“that you think I am pretty bold to introduce myself in this abrupt way; but you must remember that I ama detective, and that it is my business sometimes to introduce myself without much ceremony.” ' Miss Delmar smiled faintly and bowed. “Of course; that is your right, sir,” she said. . ! Then Col. Warrenton and, Dr. Lampkin came in. : “Good morning, gentlemen,” said Hendricks. “I have been thinking over our mutual investigations of last night, and have come to the conclusion that it cannot harm my proceedings to endeavor to remove a false impression from your minds in regard to Mr. Whidby’s actions when hypnotized by the criminal. I could have told you the truth last night, but was not quite ready to do so.” ' “You don’t think Le was made to do the deed?” asked Dr. Lampkin. “He didn’t,” broke in Miss Delmar, excitedly. “I don’t see how anyone could think so for a moment.”

Hendricks smiled. “That’s the way I like to hear it expressed,” he said to the young lady. “If you had been present last night, Miss Delmar, you would rot have let them think so.”

“How are you going to prove it?” asked Col. Warrenton, hopefully.“ Don’t make any mistake this time. Much depends on it. Whidby has been fretting his heart out over the horrible idea.” “May we go into Mr. Whidby’s room now ?” asked Hendricks. = “Miss Delmar may come also. I can explain things better to ladies than to men.” ;

Warrenton opened the door. - “Certainly; the room has been put to rights. Come on.” :

“Now,” began the detective, when they had entered Whidby’s room, “we won’t indulge in so much realism as to have the colonel representing the dead man, nor Mr. Whidby playing the role of a peaceful sleeper, out of respect for Miss Delmar’s nerves; for, while she would really make a better detective than any one of you, she is only a woman, after all, and we won’t make the picture any more gruesome than is necessary. For our purpose we will simply imagine that the other room contains a sleeper, and that Mr. Whidby is reclining on this bed. Now, Dr. Lampkin, when Mr. Whidby was hypnotized last night and you made himn get up, did you motice whether his right hand was closed or open ?” : “I did not,” replied the doctor, with a sudden start and then a questioning stare into Hendricks’ face. : [TO BE CONTINUED.] :

Cylindrical Cotton Bales.

At first transportation companies and manufacturers were doubtful of the advisability of introducing the new cotton presses which turn out eylindrical bales. They believed they could not be packed readily, and that it would be difficult to remove samples. The latter objection was soon shown to be groundless, and it was demonstrated that the new presses pack the cotton so compactly that it requires less space than by the oold system of square bales. This same compactness was proved, by actual experiment, to be a great protection in case of fire. Inky water was also thrown over it, and would not penetrate. There is a growing belief in the south that the round bale iscoming into general use. :

—One-quarter of the people of New York have never been outside that city and most of them think that the region west of the Mississippi river is virtually 8 wilderness or inhabited by semi-bar-Padlane, oo ik -

THE LATEST FASHIONS. Newest Cut and Trimmings for the Autumn Bride's Gown. Greek House Dresses—Clinging Effects in Soft Materials Now Sought - For—How to Make Underwaists For Boys—Baseball Govwns. The up~to—da’ce air about a bridal gown lies more in its cut than in the material used. For in material there is so little change—sometimes ivory satin is on top, then brocade; after a little the

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double box plait on each side. The placket hole is best in the center of the back. : A charming model has chiffon sleeves and gimp and a bloused front embroidered with seed pearls. Narrow chiffon ruches are set in curves around the front of the skirt and below the gimp on thé waist, while flounces of chiffon fall over the arm. The waist is encircled by a folded bias band of white satin., . ' Another gown, more simply made, also has gimp and sleeves of white chiffon. There is no other decoration save a few rows of seed pearls placed horizontally across the bodice and perpendicularly on the front of the skirt. As in the other gown, a folded belt of white satin finishes the waist. In both

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with rosy cheeks. The back has a loosely-fitted waist, and a train that lies several inches upon the floor; in front, the bodice is cut in a deep V, and the fronts are loose and cross in surplice fashion, hanging in quite a blouse at the waist, where they are belted in under a roll of green velvet. The V is, of course, too déep to remain unfilled, so a charming vest of pale blue Persian chiffon is here used with telling effect. The sleeves are long and flowing, and partly conceal tight, inner sleeves-of the chiffon. '

Another gown has a deep yoke and very much resembles a Mother Hubbard in shape, until it has been encircled by the sash, which is made broad and of the gown material. The sash is caught up high on the left side, and fastens there in a four-looped bow. From thence it falls in‘two long ends almost to the ground. | The great American national game is becoming so popular among wornen that it will not be long before we shall need a gown especially prepared for baseball. That we need some rules for dress on such occasions was evidenced by some gowns seen a few days ago upon the grand stand. A pretty girl, who should have known better, wore a white batiste gown, over a green silk slip. The gown was flounced from belt to hem, and the bodice plentifully adorned with white lace. Over her arm she carried a white lace wrap, should the afternoon turn chiily. That such a bewitching gown should lose its entire effect because out of place was indeed a pity. : In decided contrast and in perfect taste, was a skirt of plain silk, worn over a tilter. The bodice was of plaided silk, in bright red, made perfectly fitting and worn with a much-bejeweled belt. .

- Another dainty bodice that attracted much attention was a tucked blouse of pale green silk. It was cut very low, revealing a white mull yoke made with the tiniest of tucks. The sleeves were of the same, with small caps of green silk.

A white duck skirt was worn with a bodice of mull, dotted with green. Plaitings of mull extended from the belt over the arms, and were finished with bands and bows of green velvet ribbon. _ : For the autumn boleros made entirely of jetted passementerie will be frequently seen. They promise to be as fashionable as sham jewelry. In fact, anything that glitters will go. The modern underwaists for the small bey is quite different from those which the big brothers wore even a year or two ago. A straight waist was then considered very good—made of one piece of coutil, hemmed up at the bottom and otherwise bound with tape. There were no seams save those on the shoulders. ‘

These waists are still worn to-day by children of hard-working mothers, who consider that the best clothes are made at home. Under ordinary -circumstances, this is true. But underwaists are so important that they have received careful attention from both physicians and students of hygiene, and those made under their direction are particularly good. 1 Yet it isn’t absolutely necessary that the underwaist for the child should be made by professionals, for if the mother is careful she can make them equally well. : : '

As every mother knows, when the garment is made of one straight piece of cottil, there is a strain.from the shoulder to the waist. This can be prevented by stitching upon the garment inch wide strips of the material—having them run as often as possible over the bias of the waist.

.Another improvement discards the buttons around the waist, on which the trousers were fastened. Instead, small tabs of muslin, each with a buttonhole worked into it, are stitched to the garment. They are on aline just below the armhole. Short lengths of white cotton elastie, an inch in width, with buttons at each end, join tabs and trousers, and enable the youngster to stoop with a degree of comfort not experienced before. :

It is well, also, to cut the waist quite short at the neck, fastening it on the shoulders with long straps formed of three thicknesses of the material firmly stitched together.: If the boy is old enough to dress himself, mothers will find it a great help to have waists button in front, since ithe youngster need not then bother an older person to “button his waist,” because he can’t reach so far back, P THE LATEST. Encouraging. Willie Wimples—Will you love me when I'm gone? : v _Daisy Dimples—Yes, indeed—if you'll gonow.—Town Topies, . .

TYPICAL EXTRAVAGANCE

Republican’ Government Is Alvrays ; Very Costly.

The result of republican -extravagance has manifested itself in unmistakable formthus early in the life of the McKinley administration. July was the first month of the new fiscal year, and Secretary Gage's treasury balance shows a deficit of $11,000,000.. When the enormous anticipatory imports to e€scape the duties of the Dingley bill are taken into account, together with the unusually heavy payments into the treasury by the brewers to save the rebate on beer stamps, the conclusion is inevitable that the deficit is due to the reckless use of public funds. L The amount paid out of the treasury in July exceeded by $8,000,000 the amount paid out during July of lasti year. This excess represents the difference between republican government and democratic government. In other words, republican government costs $8,000,000 more a month than democratic government. :

One of the items of extra cost was contained in the pension account. Pension payments for the month of July aggregated nearly $15,000,000, almost. $2,000,000 in excess of the amount paid in pensions during the corresponding month last year. When the pension lists reached the $30,000,000 mark in the early part of Grant’s second administration he apologized for the amount and predicted that from that year on the pension account would decrease. A few years afterward Samuel J. Randall as chairman of the appropriations committee submitted a bill to the house carrying less than $40,000,000 in pensions and explained that the committee believed the high-water mark in pensions had been reached. Instead of decreasing, the amount paid in pensions every year since has increased, and this year the prodigious sum of $141,000,000 was appropriated by the republican congress. This exceeds the total cost of any of the various huge standing armies of war-scared Europe. It is more than enough to equip and putin the field an army strong enoygh to successfully cope with any of the finelyorganized and terrible war engines of Europe on land or sea. The absurdity of such extravagance is too obvious to require analysis. Where or when it will stop no man pretends to know. Certainly there is no hope of checking it as long as the republicans ‘hold the purse strings. €, National gratitude - has its limits. Men who were incapacitated for selfsupport in saving the union deserve national aid. This doctrine of. Solon has the indorsement of modern enlightenment. But it is'now more than 30 years sinece the civil war closed. Even if all of the more than 2,000,000 men who fought for the union were alive and entitled to pensions, under a strict and honest interpretation the amount would not be much greater than it now is. Indeed, it probably would not be as large if rigid honesty were applied tc the question of pensions. The laws have been so loosely and dishonestly administered that the cost of pensions swells when there should be a steady decrease.—St. Louis Republic.

PROSPERITY AND DEFICIT.

Protectionists Have Been Given the Lie by Events.

The republican organs positively assured us some months ago that we cculd not hope for any prosperity so long as there was a deficit in the treasury. There is nothing in this wide world, said they, in effect, that will take the starch out of business like a deficit. The merchant might as well expect a rush of trade with a roaring lion standing in his front door as to hope to dodge the sheriff when there is a deficit in the federal revenues. The catalogue of political ills is a long one, but a deficit is the boss ill and as good as any two among_the toughest of the»"l@t. The extra session of congress was called to wipe out thé deficit and save the country, and yet we are now in the enjoyment of a high degree of prosperity while the deficit continues-to transact its pernicious business at the old stand. Of course, there are those who say. that the prosperity we are now enjoying is all on paper, but they are of the breed called “calamity howlers.” They have an interest of one kind or another in hard times; the harder the better. They don’t want prosperity themselves and they don’t want anybody else. to have any, and when there are no hard times they try to deceive themselves and others by howling that the times are simply awful. They are not to be considered. The fact is that we have prosperity in abundance, and in spite of the terrible deficit. Nothing is clearer than that the protectionist organs shamefully misrepresented the deficit, for we are a prosperous and happy people with the deficit still on deck. - If the protectionists are not a little more careful about their utter-ances! they may run the risk of getting popular credit for saying what is not so.— Binghamton (N. Y.) Leader., i

CPINIONS AND POINTERS.

——llsn’t it odd°that Mark Hanna hasn’t claimed the Klondike gold strike as a logical outcome c* McKinley’s election ?—St. Louis Republic. ——Mark Hanna is quoted as saying some time ago that “no man in public office owes the public anything.” In so far as Mr. Hanna has any power in the matter, he has seen that the public gets nothing, except the worst of it.— Binghamton (N.Y.) Leader. ——The revival of prosperity through ‘the bounty of nature in this country and failing crops elsewhere comes despite restrictions on trade for the benefit of plutocrats. The “rake off” for the favored few provided for by the Dingley iniquity is merely a fly in the ointment of the country’s content.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ' ——When the Dingley tariff was being made up Alabama iron manufacturers declared that they did not want any protection, because they could sell their product abroad without any. They have been shipping iron right along under the Wilson tariff to England and other countries of Europe and they can continue to do so.—N., O. Picayune. ——We are told in one breath by the republican organs that the effect of the Dingley tariff wiil be to restrict importations, and thus insure a favorable ‘balance of trade, and in the next breath that the Dingley tariff will also increase the revenues and keep the treasury full of gold. Unless there shall be large importations there cannot be a large rev-

PROSPERITY IN WAVES. Protection Works on the Swell and 8 Fall Principle, Webster’s definition of a wave may be summed up in the term oscillation or instability. Sir Isaac Newton defines a wave as irregularity or unevenness of surface. In the natural world a wave always presupposes an evanescent climax, to be followed immediately by an anticlimax or depression. U Thus we have by their own showing the es¥imate which the blatant heralds of artificial prosperity place upon their own product. These partisan John the Baptists, going up and down the land telling the people to make way for prosperity, have at least the virtue of ingenuousness. They prate of a tidal wave of prosperity that is not expected on their own showing to be lasting. We are to have, according to these heralds, a wave of such prosperity as the country has never witnessed before, and all interested are to make hay while the sun shines, for not being founded on rational economics there is no telling how long the wave may last. - The whole theory of tariff legerdemain is based on the alternate swell and subsidence of socalled prosperity. A wave, either in economics cr physics, presupposes a depression elsewhere. Following the physical origin of a wave to its logical conclusion, it is the depression that causes the wave, and vice versa. Prosperity for the trusts and monopolies of the United States, which is the real aim of the tariff necromancers, presupposes depression among othier classes, principally consumers and the labor element.

. Based on robbery, which differs in degree only and not in kind from the piracyof themiddleages or the brigandage of modern frontier life, this kind of prosperity always runs its course when an aroused public sentiment considers it time to call a halt. Whatever of real prosperity is in store for the people of the United States in the near future will be a tardy surmounting of obstacles thrown in the way of nat‘ural recuperation from hard times by the tariff tinkerers. It is to be profoundly hoped that such real prosperity, whose welcome appearance will need no heralds or eiiters. will come 1o remain with us and not to sweep over the nation with ephemeral touch. Oscillation from the heights of artificial prosperity to the depths of extreme depression constitutes the most hurtful of experiences for the body politic. Steady growth without these alternate extremes is the only sign of genuine prosperity, and such growth is the nation’s assured destiny when the tariff jugglers are suppressed for good. -—Chicago Chronicle.

SILVER AND WHEAT. How Prices Are Manipulated by Biased Legislation. 2 The republican papers break out about every so often with comparisons on the price of wheat and silver; that silver is going down while wheat is going up, ete. The friends of silver are willing to concede that the price of, or the apparent value of silver, has been very much interfered with by discrimination against it by the laws of the [United States, and by its abuse by the ‘ﬁnancial heads of the government which have succeeded one ancther, and are all hostile to the use of silver. The fact that wheat goes‘up when there is a scarcity of wheat in the market proves the theories of silver men who claim that money goes up in value the less there is of it, and that nonfriendly legislation against silver will affect the price of it and apparently the value of it, the same as it would any other article or commodity. Now, to assume in the case of wheat, if there is a large crop of wheat in the United States, and the government should call congress together and pass a law that hereafter wheat should not be a legal tender in any of the con- | tracts where wheat has heretofore been i mentioned as the basis of the contract, and should refuse to inspect wheat or mark the amount or quantity upon -the same, and would provide that ‘wherever a person had made a contract calling for wheat that they could call for gold instead, which is practically what they did with silverin 1873, would it not make a difference in the price of wheat? Suppose they go farther, and provide that in case anybody should take a bushel of wheat and mark it ‘“one bushel,” that they sheuid be put in the penitentiary for ten years, making it even dangerous to handle wheat in bushel quantities marked ‘““one bushel,” would not that affect tize value of it? If a person would take one dollar’s worth of silver at the present time and mark it one dollar, he would immediately be arrested for counterfeiting. The wheat question then proves the truthfulness of the silver theory. Silver men admit that the discrimination against silver has affected the price of silver just the same as the 'discrimination against wheat would affect the price of wheat." If the government of the United States should meet in Washington to-morrow and pass laws or repeal laws exactly the same as those they have passed or repealed in regard to silver, naming wheat in the laws passed instead of silver, the price of wheat would be affected just as the price of silver hus been affected.—lllinois State Register.

——The tariff “for revenue” does not scem to be filling requirements. The receipts from, customs under the new law scontinue small, averaging about $200,000 a day, while it will take an average of $500,000 a day to wipe cut the deficit. The whole of the government revenue collected for this month amounts to about $10,000,000, whiie the expenditures are over $18,000,000. Prosperity cannot stand such inequality between expenditure and income very long.—lndianapolis News. :

——The prediction of Senator Al drich that the new tariff would fall some $40,000,000 per annum short of meeting the expenses of the government isina fair way of being,borne out. What is not denied in any quarter is that the deficiency will be heavy. As a result of this the country appears destined to have its trade again seriously disturbed by another tariff discussion in the early future.—Brooklyn Citizen. % - —Tt will be considered good polities from henceforth for npuhliéﬁgé newspapers and stump speakers to claim for their party all the credit for sugh revival of business as fmfaﬂw period of drpoimign, Tt Maldkae &‘%ﬁé‘f& 0 the DingeßN e e s