Ligonier Banner., Volume 32, Number 28, Ligonier, Noble County, 14 October 1897 — Page 3

From Clue to Climax. | “krom Clue to Climax. e BY»WIU_.'N. HARBEN, Choe [Copyright 1896, by J. B. Lippincott €] ‘CHAPTER XVIIIL.-——CONTINUED. At rec'og"niqed, me, and gingled, me out with a bow and a smile, then stepped ~—down from thesstage and held out his - hand cordially. . S 1 *“‘l‘am glad to meet you, Mr. Hen‘dricks,” he said. ‘I hope my talk will ““not bore you; that is, if you have decided to let. me make.it. A - “‘Go ahead; by all means,” T replied.. *I shall be.interested.” | — . E ! “He thanked me, and went back on -the stage. He talked for 20 minutes in ~ 'a very eloquent, smooth way about hypnotism, and called several men up " to be hypnotized. He made them doa number gf laughable things, and’then asked them to take their seats in the 'audience. While he was doing this, I saw a change come over his face that -I could not interpret: He seemed to be- - come depressed. He leaned forward, svith a‘hand on each side of his table, -and said: ‘Now, gentlemen, I am going‘lo show you a mechanical arrangement that will interest you.” Then he turned and went behind the scenes. : ~ “It-did not take me half a minute to: smell a mouse, I sprangover the footlights, and surprised the boy who had been assisting him by suddenly rushing into the dressing-room. £ % ‘Where is Mr. Farleigh? T asked. . “‘Gone,” the boy replied.. ‘He told me tooéell you he had changed his mind and - would not wait for you. The lecture is _off for to-night.’ . : : . *“ “Which way-did he go?' I asked. "~ *‘The stage door, sir,” said the boy. ~ “I tried the door. "It was locked on ~ the outside. It would havebeen folly to - force it. He had escaped me. I went quietly out at the front door, leaving ‘ the audience impatiently waiting for ~ the return of the leeturer and his ‘me- - ‘chanical drrangément.’ Since then I ~have been’,sea,rching; every peossible hole | ithat a man might have run into, but am ‘dead tired, and have been taken in worse “than I ever was before.” - i @ “Remarkable,” ‘said, Dr. Lampkin, thoughtfully. “I'can’t make itout. Do you think he-did it for the fun of the thing?? o : .“?K’o. I'm sure he really meant to Yceep his word,” said Hendricks, “and | that something suddenly caused him to ~-change his plans.” : o _ «“Perhaps it was the awful fear of the , gallows brought vividly-to his mind by seeing you there,” suggested Dr. Lampke o _ _ -Hendricks made no reply, b\fi, with corrugated brow and impatient stride, continued his'walk to and fro. I .~ “Lie down here,” said ‘the doctor. ! “Relax your body, and let me put you " to sleep. This sort of thing will do no good; you won’t be able to work to- ~ morrow?’ - ~ : : ' ', Hendricks ;threw himself on the -lounge, -but at the sound of footsteps on tlie stairs sprang up expectantly. - “Thadk God!” he muttered. The - door opened, and a messenger boy in blue uniform entered and handed the ‘detective aletter. “Itisfrom ourman,” said Hendricks, as hé opened it. . ' - s “Dear Sir,”’. thé letter said—l did not want to break faith with you this evening, -but-I had to do it. The truth is, something cccurred to me that I must-attend to before giving myself up, artd I was afraid. you . would not give me the time. I want as little sensationsover this matter.as possible, on account’ of my sister and my little .nephew, whose name' I 'so” thoughtlessly sused. Through them you have me in your. " power., I would niot otherwise give up so . easily. I confess I killed Richard N. ‘Strong. He deliberately robbed me, and . has wrecked my life. I heard he was about to marry a young lady, and thatwas ‘the straw,’ as the saying is. I hypnotized _Whidby, and tried .to make him commit ““the.deed, but failed. My first intention was to lay the crime on him, but after Ileft the house I wrote the notes and scattered them about town to keep the young man from __being suspected. 1 hated them both, one -for stealing, and the other.for being the ‘person who would eventually get the bene- - fit of the money, but I could not let another’ suffer for a deed of mine. If you come, as rsoon as you get this, to 567 -Mott street, iswhere I have a room—top floor front—you may do with me as youlike. I-shall wait for yous 1k . . . THOMAS HAMPTOI}T"F_ARLEIGH." #ls it-a trap?” asked Dr. Lampkin, ~vhen he had read the letter. - Hendricks was silent. ' LR * “Any answer, 'sir?”" The messenger boy stood waiting in. the open door- ;. way. oy ' » % “No. But wait,” cried the detective. “Do you know what time this message was left at your office?” S “About’ ning, sir, I think. |The in--structions wére to deliver it exactly at ~oné odlock” = ‘ _ ~ “Ah!” . Hendricks .pulled his beard , thoughtfully, as he looked at a clock on, | the avall: “You are punctual.” : / -“The man said that it must be taken ‘ exactly jon time.” = Ao . "“Tall, gray-haired, dark-skinned | felIow?’; Lk :, ‘?u‘l’e’s"_- Sil"” ; 5 ‘ U “Has anyone called/to ask about it since it wvas left?” . . 7 ; “No, sir. I have been in the office "_ever since.” i o * The conversation paused for a mo- ~ ment; then the detective seemed to col- " _lect his thoughts with astart. He gave the Boy a quarter. : ‘ © “Call a cab for us at once, as you go out. Have it at the door.” He turned to the doctor ds the boy went down:the stairs. . i o ~ “We must go to Mott street at once. ~ Are you sure you feel like it?” “Nothing could please me more. Tt - seems to me-that you have been doing all the “;ork. - Iwant to get into it.” = (.'. ‘ 3 A R % = < : oni.| CHAPTER XX . . o e e e - “Hadly ;@ moré disreputable ‘spot i+ CORME ARy been found in all New York - “thad i) jl vieinity of the . -hous L,Jfi:g, they had been directed. <+ Along. the Street were.seyeral opium * ‘Sens, dinily lighted, and-on the corner ey ) ~ mot far gway, a man was selling hot ‘}i usages fromi a steaming vessel over a . As Hendricks @Mfi*&#wor were ~ slighting from. the cab mear the house . 1o wiiish the) ”‘”fiflgé & golithry “M The detective introduced himself and told the astonished fellow ¢ stand in_ e L s S e e e R WSV WV RIS AR & Lne sCrvice o 1 1 o

rang. .There was a faint light shining through the grimy:transom over the door, but no sound came from within. Hendricks rang.again, and when the clanging of the bell had died away a door beneath the stoop opened, a chain rattled against an iron gate, and a woman half clad and with E)a.i’i- disheveled. came out amidst a heap%f garbage and ash barrels and glared up at them. “What do ye want?” she asked crustily. . L ' “YWe have an appointment with a Mr. Farleigh, who hasaroom here, I think,” Hendricks replied. . ~ “A purty time o’ night for it!” snarled the woman. “But I promised the gintleman to let ye in, an’ so, if ye'll- wait till I come up, I'll open the door.” - In a minute she admitted them,, “Ye was 10 go up to his room—the top floor fro#t; ye can’t miss it.” I would go up ahead o' ye, but I'm that stiff that—" o “IVe'll get there.all right,” Hendricks interrupted, passing her. “We won’t be long. Would you mind leaving the door unlocked?” * s

- “Not at all, sir,” she replied. : The detective thanked: her, and went up the stairs. i

The door of-the room in the front, on the top floor, was closed. There was a transom over it, but no light shone through. Hendricks knocked and waited. Then he put his hands on the latch. As he did so, Dr. Lampkin drew his revolver. S 2

Bendricks laughed grimly.; “Put it up,” he muttered. “You won't mneed Thia » £ Fon ¢

The . door was not fastened. = Hen-

dricks pushed it open, and as he did so some strips of cotton batting fell to the floor from the side and the top. The room was very dark. The outside blinds had been closed, and the curtains cler\'n, 80 that.no light came‘in from the street. below nor from the ;noon, above. i

The detective struek a match, and l'ghted the gas near the door. The yellow glare filled the room and revealed a gruesome sight. A bed stood in the righthand corner, and on his side, his face to the windows, lay the body of a man. A 44-caliber, old-style pistol had been tied to the back of a chair in such a way that the muzzle waswithin three inches of a dark hole in the man’s temple. . : .

"~ “Original idea!” was Hendricks' first observation. He pointed to a faint line of ashes from the chair, across the bare floor, to the airhole of a little stove in the fireplace.” - i

“I can’t understand it,” said Dr. Lampkin, stooping toexamine the ashes.

Hendricks opened the door of the sfovel = - v :

“I have never seen this methcd before,”*he said, reflectively.. “The line of ashes was made by a fuse running from the tube of the pistol to a candle in the stove. See, here.are the remains of the wick, and some of the tallow. Tle fuse was fastened in the end of the candle; he lit it, closed the door of the stove, to keep the light from disturbing him. and lay there waiting for it to burn down to the fuse and thus fire the pistol. It must have been his intention to have death come upon him while he was asleep.” - . it , - “My God! what an idea!” exclaimed Dr. Lampkin. “I see. He calculated on a painless death by hypnotizing himself to sleep.” , : :

“Can- it be done?” asked Hendricks. “Hardly,” the doctorreplied. “Idon’t think the creature was ever born who could, in that way, put himself to sleep while ‘facing eternity, especially after committing a crime. lis conscienee would not allow it.” Dr. Lampkin bent forward, and made a close examination of the dead man's features. “Poor fellow!” hesaid. “He evidently tried to sleep. ~ I think he wanted to be found with a smile on his face. 'But he failed. Even in death he shoews the awful dread he must have had: There is no doubt that he menially suffered. Do you know what a friend of mine is doing? He is making a study of the features of the dead, for the purpose of scientifically proving to people who.don’t believe in the' immortality of the soul that there is a future life. - lle says if only our sight were educated sufficiently we could read on the faces of dead people expressions that,could not be put there by mortal thought—expressions that are formed just as the awakened soul is leaving the body. . I agree with him that it is a great field for study. ‘He is an artist, and has painted the strongest picture that I have ever seen. Tltis the living face of a man’distorted by the worst of humin passions, and by its side is the same face, after death, wearing the spiritual expression I mentioned.” i sy

‘I hope,” Hendricksremarked, with a shudder, as he glancéd at-the dead man’s features, “your friend would not argue that the horrible expressions on the faces of some suicides would prove that—that they have no—chance, you know.” ; et o

“Not at all,” replied the doctor. “He says the soul is simply separated from the body so hastily that there is no'time for it to leave its real expression. But we are certainly cn a gruesome subject. I s{ippose*}s‘arleigh used the cotton batting to close up the chinks in the door, to deaden the sound-of the pistol.” Hendricks nodded, lowered the gas, and led his friend down to the street. He hastily explained to the policeman what had happened, and told him to stand guard at the place till he could summon the coroner. e -

“I suppose you are going to notify the coroner the first thing you do,” observed Dr. Lampkin, as they were entering a telegraph office on Broadway. Hendricks took a blank from the desk, and, without replying, hastily wrote a message. When he had finished it, he handed it to his friend, with a hearly smile, » e : 7

- “That’s the first thing on the programme, and I thank God thatlam able to' do it.” : ; s

“Miss Annette Delmar,” ran the message —"“Murderer of Strong just suicided, leaving complete confession. Whidby shall be released to-morrow. 5 % ~ “LAMPKIN AND HENDRICKS.” “Will it be so soon as that?” the doetor asked. : : : &

- “Yes; a telegraphic report from the ehief of police here will do the work, T ean manage that. But the little girl will be happy enough when she gets this telegram.” ' , ~ “Now you will inform the eoroner, 1 suppose,” said Lampkin, : - “Not before 1 fire a message at Whidby,” said Hendricks. “There is' no hurry about the other. It won’t take @ coroner’s jury long to give a verdict.

dricks called at Dr. Lampkin’s office He found the doctor alone. :

“It’s all right!” he exclaimed. = “I thought you’d want to feel sure about it,so Iranup. The news has just reached the -police here that everything is satisfactory. Whidby is out by this time. Herf’s something you are interested in.”” He handed the doctor a telegram, It was as follows: _ d

““Minard Hendricks and Dr. Lampkin, New York: ; .

‘‘God bless you both! Inever was so happy in my life. Papa went with me to the jail to see Alfred. I am dying to thank you personally. Do come down if you possibly can. T -

“ANNETTE DELMAR.”

Dr. Lampkin folded the telegram and put itinto the envelope. Hendricks had thrown himseli on a lounge, and was gazing up at the ceiling. =~ : “Well, shall you go?” Dr.. Lampkin asked.

?jI “hardly know,” said the.detective. “It would be nice to see that boy and girl happy together and know that we had something to do with it. Ifl had failed to carry my point in Whidby’s case it would have driven me crazy; 1 should never have tried to do another piece of detective work so long as'l lived. But I-can’t get away easily just now, for I have the Sixth, avenue jeweler’s matter to dig at.” Perhaps we can both go a little later.” °

THE END.

ROUND THE CHIMNEY.

The Funny Escape 6f a Mischievous Schoolboy from the Master.

~ A correspondent sends'a story which his grandfather used to tell. It wasin the days of open fires, and the échoolhouse had an enormous brick chimney built out into the room, the better to afford warmth, leaving a space about three or four feet in width between it and the wall. This was an attractive spot for the boys on rainy days, when out-door sports were impossible, and many a game of tag was played, in which dodging about the old chimney formed a prominent part.: e One afternoon the master, a tall, sharp-featured man, whose spectacled eyes took note of the smallest breach of discipline, detected a boy-in some offense that in his opinion warranted a whipping. The culprit was called. to the platform at once, and as the teacher was in' the midst of an explanation to the class, and perhaps held the belief that the worst part of a punishment is the anticipation of it, he simply motioned the youngster to wait until the recitation should be over. : ;

‘The recitation ¢ame to an end at last, the class filed to their seats, and the master grasped the fgruie and started toward the delinquent. As he put out “his hand'to take a firm hold of the boy’s collar, there was an unexpected move on the victim's part. The suspense had been too much for his nerves, and he gave a quick jump, just out of reach of the avenging hand, and stood rapidly winking his eyes in-astonishment at his own daring. g The:teacher made another attempt to seize the boy, but he dodged again. The performance was repeated several times, and, at last, before the lad re;alized what he was doing, he had broken ‘into a run, while the schoolmaster, with ferule uplifted and vengeance in hiseye, was close at his heels. ‘

Down-one aisle and up another they ran, the youngster slight];y, in advanc®g, the teaecher, ‘with superior length of limb, rapidly approaching him. At length their headlong course brought them near the brick chimney, and the boy darted béhind it like a hunted rabbit. Brg s : . - :

-Then began a race such as the old schoolroom. had never witnessed. Round and round the chimney they tore, first boy and then teacher, appear~ ing and disappearing in dizzy rotation before the eyes of the staring and excited pupils. . RELEEET e -Suddenly the idea struck the boy that, in the natural course of events, the master would soon think of.the simple expedient. of stopping short, and he; with his acquired momentum, would find it impossible to‘avoid running into the enemy’s arms. - v He changed his tactics at once, and, darting off at a tangent, slid into the nearest seat, which happened to be among the giris. There he sat panting, leaving his pursuer to revolve alone. The teacher was putting his soul into his work. He raced, he flew, his coattails flew behind him, drops of perspiration stood upon his forehead, and still his efforts were unrewarded by even a sight of the runaway. : At last, as the boy had foreseen, he stopped short, and a grim smile came over his face as he planted his feet firmly and streteched his arms wide apart to resist the expected shock. As he waited, the smile gradually faded from his countenance, and gave place first to surprise and then to utter bewilderment. The sight was too much for the pupils. : They began to titter, and, as the absurdity of the situation grew upon. them, burst into peals of laughter. Even the culprit, cowering in his too prominent seat, joined in with a faint giggle. N ‘ . The master was utterly at a loss. He wiped his perspiring forehead, gazed dizzily around the room, looked down, rubbed his spectacles, and seemed ¢onfaged. : '

“Well,” he said, when he recovered his breath so that he could speak, *1 can’t remember which boy I wasichasing; but if he will come forward and own up, I will let him off this time.”

“And as youmay imagine,” my grandfather would addy “I was only too glad to accept the conditions offered, for 1 was that boy.”—Youth’s Companion.

A Cute Prophet.

A man who had.lost a leg, witnessing some wonderful cures said to have been performed by Mormon preachers, joined that sect in the hope of getting healed. The preachers referred him to Young as the only prophet among them capable of treating such cases as his. Sooff Pto Salt Lake City he went and presented himself before Young. The Mormon leader was equal to the emergency.- He assured the man he could cause another limb to eome in place of the lost member, but called his attention to the fact that he had but a few years yet to live, ) while there was an eternity beyond the ‘grave. ‘“And if I now give you another ‘leg,” said the prophet, “you will not “omnly’ have this one when you get to Heaven, but also the one which you lost, so you will go through all eternity ~on three legs.” Horrifled W@&whwm , peet the man retired, satisfled’ to get through the remainder of his years or

THE DINGLEY DEFICIT

A Bond Irsue Is Among the Imminent ; Probabilities.

Mr. Nelson Dingley very coolly informs the country through the New York World that his celebrated tariff act may reasonably be expected to pro-' duce a deficit in the government’s revenue of something like $50,000,000 before it can be expected to make its benign influence felt. Between Mr. Reed's “‘state of mind” as a panacea for financial evils and Mr. Dingley’s deficit-pro-ducing tariff act the country has some rare prospects before it. : Mr. Dingléy says the deficit will be the natural result of the vast importations that took place before the bill went into effect, but we think it must be clear! to all sensible persons who know the charaeter and effect of the Wilson protection bill that the ‘mportations in anticipation of the enactment of the Dingley law paid their due proportion of revenue intcf\(;le‘ treasury—so that these importations, instead of contributing to the deficit, have actually tended to cut it down by adding to the resourcés of the’treasury. : But what effect will the predicted deficit have cn our finances? The republicans during the campaign of last year declared over and over-again that the bond issues were occasioned by the treasury deficit, and they raked Mr. Cleveland fore and aft—especially aft, in the nature of things—for permitting such a dangerous thing as a deficit to make its appearance, thus compelling the government to issue bonds in'time of peace. And not only Mr. Cleveland, but the democratic party, was called harshly to task for enacting a tariff law that would create such a terrible thing as a deficit. - ‘ ‘ In the face of all this, Mr. Dingley comes out boldly and says the deficit under his’celebrated monopoly-feeding and trust-breeding act will amount to $50,000,000 fhe first year. If the republican theory of bond. issties is true Mr. McKinley ‘will have to engage iln that business before he is many months older. If the failure of the treasury income to keep even with the outgo makes it necessary to issue bonds in time of peace, Mr. McKinley (in the interim of appointing negro postmasters in-the south) would do well to have his bond plates prepared. / The so-called deficit under Cleveland "hal not reached $25,000,000 before he-was compelled to issue $110,000,000 of bonds. This being so, nothing short of an issue of $200,000.000 will satisfy the deficiency promised by Mr. Dingley as the result'of his wonder‘ful law. ot -

_..As all sensible men know, however, there was no such thing under the Cleveland administration as an issue of bonds to cover a deficit. The violation of law by. 'which Mr. Cleveland made greenbacks and treasury notes payable in gold instead of ¢oin drove some $300,000,000 of our gold abroad, and Mr. Cleveland, acting as the partner of the gold grabberk, issued bonds to buy the gold back. That was all there was to the bond issues. . )

It is a very fortunate thing for the republican framers of the Dingley law that the cheapening of the gold dollar with respect to a number of commodities has helped business and revived hope in the minds of the people, otherwise the so-called deficit would have assumed alarming proportions—for the treasury- receipts are in direct ratio ‘tith the prosperity of the people.—Atlanta Constitution. . _ ’ DEMOCRACY" 1S LAW. It Stands for Equal Justice and Good Order. - . : Mr. Bryan performed both a patriotic and a peolitical duty in calling attention in a recent speech to the democratic position on the great questions which are now fretting labor and causing needless alarm in some unusually calm minds. : ~ After poipting out that the party took strong ground in its last national platform against the too free and hasty use of the restraining power by the courts, Mr. Bryan said: sThose who have suggested the burning of property and the destruction of life #%a means of settling labor disputes do not understand the Senius of our institutions. The American’ pople are law-abiding. When the laws are bad they change the laws.” ~ In this observation the Nebraskan gaveexpression tothe conservative force which is a guarantee of the perpetuity of American institutions. That.unfortunate class of persons who see danger to these institutions in the acts -of judges who may interpret the laws unjustly or in the errors of other officers who may misuse their power, display, as Mr. Bryan says, a lack of understanding of the spirit and agtive force of our governmental machinéry. 'The ballot is in the hand of every American citizen above ‘the age of 21 years. He can use it to correct every abuse of-power and every injustice imposed by the strong upon the weak. - If it be “government by injuncti§i

tavhich he objects he cap-say so atithe polls. If enough people agree that his ~objection is well founded, the cause of complaint will be soon removed. The party doctrine on-this question was intended to emphasize the fact that this is a government of’'the people and that they have not only the right but also the power to apply the remedy to any wrong use miade .of their machine by those intrusted ‘with its management. - The declaration is only in line with the ~contentions and teachings of democracy from the days of Jefferson. Thereisno anarchy in democracy. There is noth‘ing in its traditions or in its creed which counsels violence for the correction of public or private wrong. There is nothing but equal justice and good order in democracy, and those who interpret its characier in any other way do not understand the genius of the party of Jeffer¢on and Jackson.—St. Louis RepubHe. ! : 4 } b

—-—Mr. Hanna in his speech at Sandusky very adroitly avoided placing himself on a gold standard. Mr. Hanna is seeking votes; he warts to go to the United States senate; he is shrewd: enough to know that a very large numiber of people in the-republican party are bimetallists, so he does not declawge himseélf to.be a gold standard man.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. - . v

~—llt is reported that National Republican Chairman Nash has politely advised Mr. Hanna that he is talking too much for his own and his party’s good. As a business man and a party boss Mr. Hanna is a great success. As an aspiring statesman he is a freak.—Rochester (N. Y.?»Times. : L i _ ——The thicker the tariff wall is bujlt the easier it is to see throygh it.—Puck.

REPUBLICAN CHANTICLEERS. Trying to Drown Qllit Some Notori- . . ous Facts. Once more the administration papers are crowing lustily about the state of the treasury. They beganto have this kind of hurrahs about the time their miraculous tariff bill passed the house and wé may look for a fresh attack at least once a month. ¢ . When they go into one of these fits they begin by telling what a terrible time the last administration had with the gold reserve. It was continually worrying, they say, and having the utmost difficulty in keeping the coin stock up to the mark. The president and secretary of the treasury “were at their wits’ cud.” They resorted to .“every expedient” for the purpose of getting and keeping gold, and to little purpose. - But now behold! “Less than seven months after the inauguration of MeKinley exactly the reverse is true and Secretary Gage is obliged almost daily 1o refuse offersyof gold. The treasury has more gold than it knows what todo | with ard instead of paying freight has ' issued Lints to assistant treasurers all | over the country to discourage g‘oldg.l fpayments as far as ppssible.. It is mcre ‘than likely that the treasury will soon be actually on a gold basis and foreed {0 pay out the yellow boys for expenses.” . How distressing that would be! And ‘how sad to think that all this embar-' rassment and danger is due to the unspeakable wisdom and transcendent genius of a republican administration! ‘Why, then,. do' the roosters exult? Why can they not restrain their exuberance in face of thisimpending calamity lohg enough to explain some things? Down to the time of the passage of the Dingley hill by the house all the republican sages were declaring with one voice that there was nothing thLe matter with the tré:isury but:insufficientrevenue. That wastheonly reason why gold ran away, and it would never come back until more revenue was'iarovided. Now, it'is notofiq}xs thatthe shortage of revenue has been greater than ever since the passage of the Dingley bill, vet the sages and their hornblowers are boasting that the treasury is getting more gold than it wants. Wouldn’t it be well for them to stop crowing long enough to mend- their reputation by showing that the fact does not utterly demolish their theory? Coa They persist in ignoring other no‘torious facts and thgt is why the public memery should be jogged again. ™ They ignore the fact that the quan-’ tity of gold in the treasury is small cqmpare?l_ with .what it was during Cleveland’s first administration and down to its close. The total amount of gold now in the tré'asury is $184,500,000, round figunes, of which $147,500,000 beJongs to the govegnment and $37,000,000 is held against certificates in the hands of the public. ,At the end of Clevelanid’s first term the total gold in the treasury was $326,50.QY;'00'0, of which $196,300,000 belonged to the government, while $130,200,000 was held against certificates. = ‘Thus it appears that the government owned nearly $49,000,000 more gold and held in.its' vaults $142,000,000 more at the end of the first Cleveland administration than it does now. . And for a year and a ha]f before the close of Cleveland’s, term ‘the holdings aere about the same as at the end. Yet nobody was worrying for fear the govern‘ment would “be forced to pay cut the ‘yellow . boys for expenses.” Nor did anybody borrow trouble because from 70 to 92 per cent. of the cash received at, the New York custom house was in gold coin and gold certificates. Nor should the public forget the fact which républican roosters try to erow out of mind that it was not until the beginning of the Harrison administration that the ¥geasury began to lose gold and that during that administration the .treasury lost: \;e‘ry' near $95,000,000 in gold owned. . . - Finally, .the public should not permit the vociferous erowing to drive out of mind the faet that it was during the Harrison administration” that the revenues of the government fell below the expenditures for tlre first time-in 25 years or that it was during the last year of the republican McKinley tariff that the revenues fell over $72.000,000 short of the expenditures—by far the greatest deficit in time of péace in the history of the country. It now remains for the republicans to beat their own record of unparalleled hadness before they get through with their thaumaturgical Dingley law. They have made a most promising beginning for. that achievement of prodigality.—Chicago Chronicle. 5 b . :

POINTS AND OPINIONS.

—<~Whenever a republican discovers that his party has abandoned all the principles of Lincoln, Greeley, Sumner and Trumbull and is therefors compelled to leave it, have you noticed what an idiot and rascal he becomes in the estimation of 'the newspapers belonging to the Hanna bureau?—Columbus (0.) Press.

——As well look for oranges to grow in Siberia or snowstorms to prevail at the equator as to expect the republican’ administration to bring about general ‘prosperity. Its daily business is the systematic and legalized pillage of the people. Its.regular occupation is robbing PetSehr, the producer, to pay Paul, the plutoerat.—Kansas Cify Times. . ——The Dingley 'bill is a 'splendid. deficit producer, and the only hope of the republican party is the internal revenue department: If the people of the United States will forget their party differences and unite in a patriqtic de‘termination to drink more whisky the deficit may be' cured. If they will double their allowance of whisky per day the increase of internal revenue will be sufficient .to.wipe out the deficit caused by the Dingley bill. We are confronted by a condition and not a theory. The republican party in effect solemnly announces: “Now is the time to get drunk and restore prosperity.”— Memphis Commercial-Appeal. ~——The republican tariff has proved a tariff for a deficit. Ithasnotbrought in more revenue to the government, but less. And imeantime the gold reserve has climbed up until now it is more’ than $146,000,000. The United States government is not run on the treasury ‘gold reserve, however; and the fact that there is plenty of gold in the treasury does not offset the other fact that ‘there is not enough money of all kinds ‘coming in. The upholders of the republican tariff' have to face ‘the unTiChiag Ihi tristh ts & Tfimn bio te oL i 4 *fjt*fi‘fi" o T

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

IF L_WERE YOU.

If I a little girl could be, . - s /, Well—just like you, X+ With lips as rosy, cheeks as fafr, = ° =~ Such eyes of blue, and shining hair, + - < .- What do you thinkl'd do? e I'd wear so bright and sweet a smile, i I'd be so loving all the while, - - | I'd be so helpful with:my hand, , Bo quick and gentle to cqemand. i . You soon would see. - -\ . That everyone would turn to say: @ ‘“'Tis good to meet that child to-day.” “Yes, yes, my bird, that’s what I'd doIf I wereg you. i =l ;

Or, if I chanced to be a boy, ) ' Like some I know; i Pt With crisp curls sparkling in the.sun,. . And eyes all beaming bright with fun—.Ah, if I could be so, - R I'd strive and.strive with all my might To be so true, so brave, polite,, =« | That in- me each one might behold A hero—as irf the days of old., . . 'T'would be a joy = s ; = _To hear one, lookihg at me, say: : ““My cheer and comfort all the day.” ; Yes, if I were a boy I know- "~ .° --. I would be so.’ . .

But, now, perhaps, you’d ask of me: 1 ““When it was you S AL S ! ; Who had the young and merry face; °* With smiles and roses all in place, E Tell us, what did you do%” - . = Ah, dearies! If I ever fell .- S Far short of doing wisely, well— = . It was, you see,. Sadks ek 4 Because none ever took the: time To tell me in such lovely rhyme - What I should now rejoice to,do ’ If I weére yvou. v Srar —Sydney Dayre, in N. Y. Indépendent.

{NDIAN. CHIP CARVING.

Splendid Pastime for Boxs Who . Know How to Handle a Knife.

The art of Indian chip carving is one which .is just now coming much into favor and it is really, for small articles, even more effgctive than thé relief carv_ing which has been in vogue for many years. : Chip carving has also the advantage of being easier to learn and of requiring -only one tool and, as the ehips are small and so easily kept togéther and the wood does not need to be clamped onto the table, it ‘can be done even in the drawing-rdom, and a small article, such as a'photograph frame or matchbox, is as nice as a-prece of needlework to take ‘with one when paying a visit. : The only tool required is a small knife, as shown in diagram A, costing about 25 cents, though, of ceurse, a pair of compasses, pendil and ruler are neces‘sary ‘to draw, ong’s own designs,‘and to anyone with a-taste for geometrieal drawing this is almost.as/interesting as the carving. .The wood used must be close-grained and soft, as no mallet can be used; white lime and sycamore being the best, though ii can be done in other Kinds. T _ o " In beginning it is best to take some simple pattern, such as is shown in dia-‘gram-B, which it will easily be seen is composed of small squares crossed from ‘corner to corner. Grasp the knife firm1y in the right Wand, using your left hand to guide and keep it steady. Press the point of the knife deeply into the center of the square and cut down,the line A, making the cut gradually shalJower toward the corner of the square.

‘ ; Diagram A, o T e, T P - BRIXDXDXAIXIXIX] Qiagrem 8. . ‘ (R X XXX (X - Disgam €. -~ . s - EEXEE] r : . , Diagram D. 5 R . INDIAN CHIP CARVING: Ncte that this cutting down does not mean drawing the knife down the line, but §imf)ly pressing it down onto the line. When cutting down a line which is longer than the knife the point must be pressed into the center and drawn down the line. Proceed in the same way with lines B, C and D, and so on with ail the squares. 4 " In cu,t'tiilfg down these lines the blade of the knife must be pressed perfectly straight into the wood or the point.is liable to break. Then put the point of yeur kaife in at E, keeping the blade nearly-flat against the wood, and draw it down the line F, gradually pressing the point into the center of the Square, g 0 as to entirely detach the triangular piece of wood.. It will be seen by diagram C that-when all these triangular pieces (G) have been taken a line of diamond-shaped pieces will be left. Then with the point of your knife make a small straight cut in each side of the diam’orid, ‘slanting toward the center, and a small slanting’ cut ‘into -the straight one (diamond D), and you will have a very pretty and effective little border. s $ e 3 N The depth of the pattern described should be about one-eighth of aninch in the deepest parts.—Chicago News.

. Early Days of Kentueky. Kentueky was formerly a partof Virginia, and was settled by Virginians, who took with them their slaves, their agricultural habits and their military spirit. With the consent of Virginia, Kentucky was separated from that state’ and admitted to the union in 1792. The people of this country have generally emigrated in pretty straight linesto the westward. AsVirginians broke over the mountains into Kentucky, so -North Carolinians crossed into the valleys of Tennessee. North Carolina gave up her right to the territory west of the mountains soon after ‘the constitution was formed, and what is now Tennessee was, part of the Southwestern Territory, un-" ti! it was admitted to the union in 1796.

Pigeon Breaks Headlight.

That a pigeon should have strength enough or weight enough while flying to break the heavy glass of a locomotive headlight seems strange; but such a case occurred on the Iron Mountain railroad, in Missouri. When the train pulled into Bismarck it' was discovered that the headlight was broken, and inside was a’ pigeon. When the train left the previous station the glass was intaet, so that the pigeon must have flown against it .or been struck while flying. The strange occurrence happened in daylight, so that the bird wasnot attracted by the light, as it might have been during the night. i b S

: ‘lts Falsity Proved. Smythe—l wonder what idiot origin= ated the phrase: “There’s no accountg fortantel . - - rl * Tomphins~Why? - . - = - Smythe—Because I'd like to get at himl T've just been accounting to the

~ REAL DUTCH PARTY. All the Child Guests Were Dressed in s " .. Holland Geovns. s . Queen Wilhelmina will Se 18 y}n_rs ‘old next fall, and in honor of the évent the Hollanders are beginning te get: ready tocelebrate, for onther 18th birth--day the little queen ascends the throne to rule for herself. Meafiwhile Dutch things are coming in and Dutéh fancy dress parties are becoming ' quite the fashion among little girls. A little maid, aged seven years, gave such. a party upon her -birthday last

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fer Song Was Clear Enovugh to Be , - Hecard Distinetly. A good deal of skepticism prevails as to the factof there being singing mice, but, having Rept-such‘a youngster for four years, an Engtlish gentleman is in a *position te .speak with authority. - She-was caught in a coal mine, was brought to the surface and handed over to the narrator.. Thus commenced an zcquaintance which soon ripened into intimacy, and which was only terminated by her death. Fhere was no doubt . about her song—a pretty, bird-like warble, rising and falling alternately, and of sufficient power toearry from the top to the bettom of thehouse when all was quiet. st T In appearance she was just an or--dinary house mouse, with the usual well;groomed - whiskers, -the beady - black eyes-andfan elegant tapering tail, like the rest of her tribe. It was hersong alone which singled.her out from the dumb millions of her-fellows, and ‘this song she poured out almost without -intermission- during her waking~ hours. . . W = . -The speculations of the learned have ‘been exer&ised over this matter, and some have thought that bronchitis, by narrowing the air passages, produces . a noisy wheezing, -which enthusiastic admirers have dignified as a song; ; Others, with greater probability, have - suggested that-every mouseisasinging mouse, but that on account of the.dullness of our ears we hearonly the bassvoiced vocalists, while the shriller melo- - dies of the great majority are unneticed. - - P -

- ‘Everyone knows that the squeak of a bat is not heard by everyodne, and that one party in a conversation on a tountry walk may be almost deafened by a chorus of bats, while the other may hear nothing.of the noise. Certain itis that dissection” reveals nothiny ~abnormal in the vocal apparatus of‘the singing mouse, and doubtless a very slight difference in-the ‘quality ‘of the vocal cords would result in a mouse with a voice sufficiently bass to bring the sound within the compass of our hearing powers.—Golden Days. -

: " Remarkable Bird Stery. A ‘sparrow flew into.one of the large rcoms.at the Burlington shops at Burlington, la., the other day, and, getting tgo near onesof the wheels, was sucked i 3, The workmen saw-it and supposed that it wasinstantly killed, as the wheel was revolving at the rate of 130 revoluticns a minute.” When the machinery was ghut down at noon a gentle chirp . was heard from the wheel,;anfl when one of the workmenlooked tl:f sparrow was,_ there, still alive. .It had elung to the strengthening rod inside the wheel, and was so dazed it could not fly. It was picked up and placed on a table, where it recovered in‘a short time and flew away. Theq) wheel -made 31,000 revoiutions while the bird was clinging toit, and the sparrow had traveled more than 73 miles in that manner. -.-

Smothered by Fly Paper. There is danger in many apparently. harmless articles; and fly, paper seems to be one of these:. A family, having been greatly: troubled sith flies, distributed a lot of sticky fly papersaround the house.' The next day, a little boy just learrning to walk,. while at play, .tripped and fell, his face stickingona piece of the. fly paper. . The parents were out of the room, and the little one; in trying. to remove the paper, only ‘succeeded in getting it tightly sealed around his mouth and nostrils, thus shutting off his breath. By the meérest chance the mother happened in and ‘saved the child from suffocation. Even ‘then it was necessary to cut holesin tha paper hurriedly to allow breathing untid the paper could be soaked off. = f< ... Two Litfle fig@m’“’ el - There are two colored boys in Monroe, Ga., sons of Abraham Brown, deceased, that are perfect mud builders, regular white mud from the gully and formulate without pattern in a short single place in the animal that they un-