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An Army Wif \n Army Wile, I BY CAPTAIN CHARLES KING. .o: < 3 - [Copyrighted, 1896, by F. Tennyson Neety.] e Fi : . f SYNOPSIS. . - Chapter I. — Fannie McLane, a young widow, is invited to-visit the Graftons at Fort Sedgwick. Her sister tries to dissuade her, as Randolph Merriam (whom she had jilted for old McLane)and his bride are stationed there. : Chapter ll.—Fannie McLane’'s wedding causes family feeling. A few months later she, while traveling with her ‘husband, meets Merfiam on his wedding trip. : Chapter ITl.—Some time previous to this ‘Merriam had gone on a government survey, fallen ill, and had been nursed by Mrs. Tremaine and daughter Florence. A hasty ‘ note from Mra. McLane’s stepson takes " him-to the plains. ~ " : Chapter I7.—Young McLane dictates to Merriam a éying message, which'is sent to Parry (a young Chicago lawyer and brother-in-law of Mrs. McLane). Reply causes Merriam to swoon. -He is taken to the Tremaine’s; calls for Florence. Chapter V. — Engagement of Florence Tremaine to Merriam is announced; weddirg- shortly follows. 1 . Chapter Vl.—Mr. McLane is mysteriously shot in San Francisco. Merriam is greatly excited when he reads .account in papers. While still in mourning Mrs. McLane prepares to visit Fort Sedgwick. - Chapter VlL—Mrs. McLane arrives at the fort. Merriam is'startled at the news, and he and his wife absent themselves frcm the formal hop that evening. Chapter VIII.—Mr. and Mrs. Merriam pay their —respects to the widow on an evening when she would be sure to have many other callers. ‘When the call is reéturned Merriam is away, and his wife fileads illness ‘as excuse. for not seeing er. - Mrs. McLane receives telegram: ‘“Arrested, Chicago. Your uncle stricken—paralysis. " You will bes summoned. Secure papers, otherwise losée everything. C. M.” She faints and is revived with difficulty. i Chapter. IX.—Mrs. McLane desires to see Merriam. Grafton persuades him to go, but the widow postpones the meeting till next noon. ; : 2 o Chapter X. — Florence learns Merriam has been to see Mrs. McLane, and in a storm of pdssion will not allow him -to explain. ‘Shortly after Merriam is intercepted by Fannie McLane as he is passing through Grafton’s yard. Florence wit‘nesses the meeting, which she supposes has.been prearranged. . Chapter Xl.—Mrs. McLane begs Merriam for papers given him by her stepson, but which he tells her were all forwarded to Parry. Merriam is seriously wounded in fight with greasers.> . ‘ Chapter Xll.—Florence, in her deep dis- . appointment, leaves her home in the night for her father’s at the cantonment. Chapter Xlll.—Three personal telegraph messages come for Merriam from Parry. Latter is notified of Merriam’s mishap miles from post. A dispatch from her lawver on his way to the fort, together with account of serious injuries to Merriam, causes Mrs. McLane to faint. e . Chapter XlV.—Merriam is brought in_in the ambulonce, inquires for Florence, but ‘gets only an evasive answer, doctor fearing news of her flight miay prove fatal to “him. = : : T

Chapter XV.—During absence of hospital atteridant Mrs. McLane steals in on Merriam, hoping to get from him some papers or information; tells him -of his .wife’'s disappéarance. Randy staggers out to the stable, and is shortly galloping madly off over. the mesa. Mrs. McLane breaks ~down, tells of dying message of her stepson to-effect that the [first Mrs. McLane was alive at time of her (Fannie’s) marriage, and of the blackmail and extortion practiced on MqLanp by his first wife and her family. -Finally this Mrs. MeLane agreed to leave him on payment of a big<eash sum. McLane hears that his Sacramento wife had married again, but lawyers sent to investigate are confronted by the news of her death. - ! .

They found her grave, headstone and all, but could get no trace of her longdevoted lover. It was surmised that he bhad taken what was left of the money and gone elsewhere in search of consolation. MecLane came back to New York, met Fanny Hayward, fell in love, and Uncle Mellen urged the match in every way; and we know the result. There was a fortnight in which McLane seemed the happiest ef men. Then came a shock. -Fanny found him nearly crazed avith trouble. A letter had come purporting to be from that supposed-to-be-dead woman demanding further beavy. payment as the price of her silence. McLane honestly told Fan the truth, and was astonished at her decision. She bade him “pay the money and have done with it.” They might have doubted the genuineness of her letter, but there was no doubting that of young McLane’s dying statement, witnessed by the officers from Sedgwick. He declared his mother alive. And so. one crime led to another. No soomner had they reached Cualifornia than the whole Perkins family seemed resurrected, and black‘mail was their-business. The eldest

sistexj demanded heavy hush-money,

and it was paid. The- second sister turned up with her husband and a preposterous demand. It was they who haunted him at the San Francisco club, and the man, drunk and triumphant, insole‘nflyi demanding money that night, thad fired that well-nigh fatal shot -when repudiated, defied, and struck: - The very next day at their hotel came a letter warning them to silence as to the identity of the assailants. So long as these latter were allowed to eseape arrest they would keep the secret, but if arrested and brought to trial they would proclaim McLane a bigamist. - Alljth'is was made known to

Uncle Mellen, and he, too, -backed the

< niece’s cause and kept up the deception. _ Eut no one could tell where thé first wife was hidden. “She will be produced when needed, and her money must be paid through her siSter.” The money, a large sum, was paid, and then there was temporary peace. But MecLane drooped and died under the weight of shame and anxiety. There was quarreling between the widow and -the guardian and. further demands from those cormorants, who now openly threatened to claim the dead man’s cstate for t_h,e widow and her son—they, a® least, kn'ew nothing of the latter’s death; and then Fariny, coming to Sedgwick, tried fo reassert her old sdvercignty over Merriam and to gain possession of the papers of which her husband had told her and which Randy had long since sent to Parry, but concerning which she had never spoken to her brother-in-law, believing him to be ignorant of their existence; and it " pleased Ned Parry to let her live on in ignorance that he had them. He took a curious interest in making a study of her, arid had, without consulting his client, a more than professional Interestinthecase., . . - But now Bullock, the man who shot ~ McLane, had been traced to and ar- ~ rested in Chicago, together with his _dashing helpmeet. Uncle Mellen had ~ been prostrated by paralysis as a re“sult of the news. The secret could be _no longer kept, and Fanny McLane, _ hunted;: desperate, self-deluded, and . self-drugged, believed herself a ruined woman when at last Ned Parey oime. ~_ Too ill to see him, ¥he seemed at s S R R eRNG T DNRS e ee S R P R 2

that night in Grafton’s parlor he sat gravely listening to Harriet’s recital of what Fanny had detailed to her, making no comment, but taking it all in, when, just at tattoo, a trooper dismounted at the gate and bore to Mrs. Grafton ‘a brief missive from her hus-

band. It was written that morning nearly 20 miles northwest of Jose's ranch. 2

~ “You must prepare Merriam for the worst,” it said. “There is reason to believe poor-Florence has fallen into the hands of a little band of Apaches. The sign is unmistakable and we are just starting in pursuit.” .

CHAPTER XVI.

Late that anxious night one battalion of the riflers returned to Sedgwlek, Hayne’s company one of the four, and very grave he looked when told of the events of the past 48 hours. Acting on the report of Capt. Grafton that Apache signs had been found in the foothills north of Jose’s, Buxton had ordered another troop to march to reenforce him, and this troop Hayne obtained permission to accompany. It marched at. dawn, so he had Dbarely three hours in which to prepare. Mr. Parry, wearied with his journeying and many cares, had been escorted to Merriam’s vacated quarters by Whittaker some little time before midnight, and there he was made welcome by Hop Ling and given the room abandoned by the master of the house so shorta time before. Many people, between anxiety #s to the fate of their beloved: Florence. and their ‘eagerness to receive the riflers on their return, sat up -until two o’clock; but Parry, though filled with anxiety as keen, was well aware that nothing was to be gained by his spend{;g a wakeful night and listening to all manner of theory as to the eause of the fair fugitive’s sudden deflection from the road to the ranch. Hayne, therefore,/did not meet nor see him, but, as soon asit was light, rcde forth ahead of the troop, meaning to go first to Jose’s, see his wife and Dr. Gould, and then strike out'northward, confident of meeting the|second troop somewhere in the open ¢ountry that there spread for miles before him. Buxton had sent a party on the trail of Merriam within an hour of his dasi}_ and with orders to bring him back to the post, but they had not been heard from since their start, “and,” said Whittaker, “they’re not likely|to be.. . Those fellows barely ride one mile to Randy’s two. It’s my belief he will just pull up at Jose’s and then go straight on to the foothills, as probably she|did.” But Randy was having a ride the like of which was not recorded in the annals of Fort Sedgwick since the days when, long before the war, the First Dragoons and the Navajos battled for the mastership of the Santa Clara.| Ignorant as yet of the report of Apaches in the

.S| ~ | Pl € > | (,("\‘ i bra \\ilfl W 710} Sy i %oy il - .=e % | 5 \ lj;\ ~é o : V 2 s T "tj\. ; v | - B 1 Y ’ / T .} - 4 i A brief missive from her husband. !! - foothills of the Mescalero, his one theory was that she had gone to Josels, intending from there to|push on to tPe cantonment. The thought of her daring so long and so hard g ride at a time when she should be guardéd with the utmost care was in itself a source of dire distress to him, andihe coyld hardly have speeded faster and with grimmer defermination to defy all pain pr. weariness had he dreamed of the deadly perils that lurked about her path. Of the fact that Valdez gnd his few follcwers had eventually fled northward and across the road to the Catamount ‘he had heard nothing. | Through Hop Ling’s chatter he had gathered that Grafton and his men yere gone in search of I'lorence and that Mrs. Hayne and Dr. Gould were at Jose’s. He dare not stop to make inquiries at the garrison. -He was under {medical care—iherefore under doctoy’s orders, and on complaint of the aeting surgeon it. would: be perfectly competént for DBuxton 1o place him in close arrest. His dne idea, therefore, was to put as| much ground as possible between th 'pbst,and.himself. ‘He know he could get another ‘horse at Jose's, so Brown Dick was never spared an instant. At three o’clock, galloping fre}, the gallant ‘horse was stretching away northwestward over the low, rolling earth-waves ‘that seemed to spread|to the very lap of the Mescalero, spanning the horizon toward the setting sun. Far behind him, the scattered ranches and the sparse green foliage of|the Santa Clara. Far away on either hand, the lumpy, sandy barren, dotted everywhere with little dull-hued tufts of coarse herbage or stunted sage. Ahead of him the tortuous, twisting, dustyl trail, dented with scores of hoof-prints, the tracks ot Grafton’s troop on its/ way to the rescue. By this time Rapdy was burning with thirst, but the water in his canteen was warm and nauseating. He raised the felt-covered flask to his lips from time to time andirinsed his mouth and moistendd his par¢hing throat, but that did net allay the craving. He had £till 30 miles to go before he could reach Jese’s and exchange Brown Dick for a broncho, and have Dr:jGould renew the dressing of his wounded arm. _He‘: knew that Florence had failed to appear there, but he knew her pluck flnd‘SPi_lff'.;‘

it, and believed he knew the reason—that there.might be gojourners there either from the Catamount or from the post who would seek to turn her back or hold her there; and he knew that in her overwrought, haltrnaddened state ¢he was starving for her mother’s petting and her father’s arms. He knew her so well that any attempt to dissuade her now would result, he felt assured, ounly in frantic outbultst and more determined effort to jpush ahead. Then he had anothe#‘ and even better reason for thinking ]E;e_ could quickly find Mignon’s trail, although it might be miles to the north of Jose’s, On their return from their latest visit to the Catamount the'x;mré' havinz';r a

glorious run with the hounds cue love. ly November morning, and the jackrabbits led them far out to the north of the road among the buttes and bowlders that clustered about the course of a little stream, barely a yard wide anywhere, that rippled out from among the foothills only to be lost in the sands of the desert to the east. One vigorous old rabbit, close followed by the hounds, had tacked suddenly and darted up this narrow valley, and Floy and Mignon, all excitement, darted after him, while Randy, guiding Brown Dick behind, watched with fond, proud eyes his young wife’s graceful, fearless riding. Far up toward the head of the brook poor jack had been tossed in air by the pointed muzzle of his closest pursuer and then pounced upon by the panting hounds, and Randy found that they were in a little amphitheater among the buttes—found the little spring in which the streamlet had its birth, and there they dismounted and unsaddled and let the horses roll; and here they took their luncheon, and had a happy, loving hour, all"alone with the horses and hounds in this little world of their own; and Floy had ;\amed the spot—a fond, foolish little caprice, perhaps, and vowed that it was to be her refuge by-and-by. “This is where I am coming to build my lonely cloister one of these days, when you grow weary of me, sir,” she had laughingly said. And now, as he plied spurs to Dick’s heavihg sides, Randy wondered, wondered whether it might not be that she had made that wide detour around Jose’s purposely to find and revisit that romantic little nook and there pour out her grief to the solitude of the silent foothills. At five o’clock Brown Dick was black with sweat and dust and streaked with foem, but still pressed gamely on, and Randy, with white, set face, in which deep lines of pain and weariness were graving, gazed fixedly ahead with burning, {fevered eyes, conscicns that sirength was failing him and praying for, the firss sight of those dun adobe walls of Jose's sheltering rauch. - Just at seven o’clock of the early winter’sevening the deaizensof Jose’sheard the thud of horse’s hoofs at the gate and the hail of a feekbfe voice. Jose’s wife at that moment was in half-tearful talk with Mrs. Hayne, who from dawn till dark had been on waich—hoping against hope for tidings of Florence, and who ‘now, wearied with jong vigil and well-nigh worn out with snxiety, was lying down. in search of sleep. Gould, veteran soldier and surgeen that he was, could no longer bear ths suspense and inaction at the ranch. He Lad borrowed one &f Jose’s horses, and; with a half-breed Mexican for guide, had ridden away at dawn, hoping to strike Grafton’s trail and follow him into’ the mountains, whither he was supposed to have ridden in pursuit of the Apaches. Gould was a skeptic. He said he didn’t believe a dozen Apaches were off their reservation. He didn’t believe half a dozen had ventured over the New Mexican line, and if any had he was willing to bet a month’s pay they were not hostile. This was comforting to Mrs. Hayne, but Jose’s people were not so easily cured of their conviction. - By the time the rumor reached the ranch, brought in by stampeded herdsmen, no one of whom had seen an Indian, but each of whom could tell tremendous tales of their doings in the valley, it was declared. that at least 50 of Victorio’s old band were raiding the Santa Clara and might be expected to assault Jose’s at any moment. The corral was filled, therefore, with scraggy cow ponies and swarthy men, snd the sight of an officer, one-armed, pallid, exhausted, reeling earthward fram an equally exhausted steed, was all that was necessary to complete the panie. ‘Over half the Mexicans present made a mad rush for the subterranean refuge known as the ‘“dug-out,” and but for a couple of troopers who had put into Jose’s with lamed and useless horses Randy would have gone headlong to the ground. They caught him just in time, and bore him inside the ranch, where the sight of his death-like face drove Jose almost frantic. But the troopers knew what to do for their officer and speedily brought him round, and when he asked for Dr. Gould thé&y told him of his going, and Randy’s next demand was for coffee and a fresh horse. : [TO BE CONTINUED.}

STORY OF THE GREAT LAKES. A Friutfulj Source of Material for the Writers of Iriistory and Fiction. ~ There iB§ mhch of thrilling interest, mueh of romance, much of daring sur‘rounding the shores of these lakes, much.in a study of the early periods of their: history, for the historian or the mnovelist. A long time ago—so long it seems like ancient history to us—the first{ white man, probably about the middle of the sixteenth century, saw these lakes. Tt is not so easy to fix a date for this event, but we know thadt as early as 1530 to 1540 the French priests; the voyagers and the coureurs de bois, the trappers and adventurers of the day, visited the eastern lake region on the north. They came with two messages: one bore tidings of the commerce, and proved that the French nation was alive to the value of the new country; the other told the story of the Christian religion. Tt were well, perhaps, to mention another messdge—a more or less baleful one—brought by the adventurers; for there were adventurers among these (early discoverers-—men who had no other motive than to seek the strange and the exciting, and to spend their days in the alluring and profitless occupation of seeing how many hairbreadth escapes they could enjoy, in how many scenes of pillage and robbery they could take part. ' . Those who have written so gracefully and elegantly of the early history of the regions surrounding the nmorthern portions of the great lakes have but begun to tell the tales which will be told with more and more freedom of invention.as the writers of the future ceme to appreciate more and more what a splendid .storehousc of material lies in this Northland.—W. 8. Harwood, in St. Nicholas. . S L e After the Concert, i - Mr. Wellwood—How did you like | Mme, Mebley? . - Lt ~ Miss Highrocks—She was wretched. ~ “I'm astonished to hear you say that. I thought she was in fine voice.” “Oh, her voice may have been all right, but I'm sure the gown she wore never could have been made in Paris.”

| CREATION OF VALUE.

Human Law Can Only Have fts Lime 'itations in Effect Upon Supply e and Demand.

Human law cannot change the law of supply and demand, but is can limit the supply, as by a protective tariff, copyright of patent-right law, or increase the demand, as by a law putting the whole demand for money upoh gold alone, instead of upon silver and gold as before, or the same law may both increase the demand and lessen the supply, as by a declaration of war, which diminishes the number of producers and enlarges the amount c¢f consumption; in all of these ways does law create value, as-truly as a man creates value who changes wool into a garment. :

’ - The laws of nation- after nation "demonetizing silver and placing the whole demand for money upen gold have enhanced the value of gold and lessened the value of silver, until now it takes 40 ounces of silver, instead of t 16 under bimentallism, to equal in value one ounce of gold. The closing ' of the Indian mints alone caused an ;’ immediate fall in silver (as rated in - gold) nearly 20 per cent. On the other ' hand, the passage of the Sherman law in 1890, though far from a free coinage -law, caused an immediate advance in - silver (in terms of gold) to $1.21 per ounce, or within eight cents of the ratio | sixteen to one; and it can be easily demonstrated, both .from ex- - periefice and rcason, that the passage of a law by the United States for the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gbld at the ratio of sixteen to one would immediately so increase the value of silver and lessen the value of gold that 16 ounces of silver and one of gold would be of equal value as bullion. This would result, in accord with the law of supply and demand, by tak‘ing from gold and putting upon either silver/or gold (and therefore, upon silver si‘) long as it remained cheaper) the demand of the commerce of this people for money, which is equal to or greater than that of all the rest of the world: - ey ; *

These argumenss are not new. They were advanceC by our great leader in his unparallelea -ehmpaign and were never z}nswered vxecept by such, fallacio&s ‘assumptionstas “state cannot create value,” and if dec@rgts admit such assumption they admiv away our whole contention.’ { R §

In the strictest sense wnly God creates value, but inthe sense in which man creates value the state can, for what is a state but the organization and united energies and capacities of all its citizens? Tt : }

DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS.

’l‘hinfgs ;lrc Looking Bright for Free S“llvcr Throughout' the Mido dle West. :

In Tllinois the republican party is split Tvide open. ltsmembersare quarrelingabout the Allen bill, the schemes of Gov. Tanner to defeat Senator Cullom and clect Himself to the United States senate in 1901, the condition of the #—tate treasury in consequence of the candidacy of the-deputy treasurer for tii'wo terms to be treasurer for what would be virtually a third term, the quarF‘els of loeal candidates in nearlyevery legislative district, and -other troubles too numerous to mention. The republicans who voted for MeKinley in 1896, on the bimetallism platform, now see their error and will vote for the demoerats. ' In Wisconsin the success of the “doodle book” campaign in the renontinatii'or; of Gov. Scofield and the prospects of a silent bolt by at least one-t-hirg of the republican voters illustrate republican harmony in that state. The silver forcesare splendidly organized. In Michigan the open war made by Gov. Pingree on Senator Burrows, the aspirations of Pingree fora renomination and to be elected senator, while Alger has designs to retire from the war department and to be elected senator, are pplitical conditions illustrating rep@blican ‘“harmony” in the state. Michigan, always a silver state, will swing into the democratic columh without a doubt. '

In Towa and Minnesota the conditions are substantially the . same. There is internal war in the republicaiparty fromcenterto circumference. The cause of gold monometallism has split the party everywhere in the central west. B 1

In Indian the republican situation is s 0 bad that it could be hardly worse. The leaders know and acknowledge the fact. There will be a gain of several democratic congressmen on the financial issue. A democratic legislature will be elected and United " States Senator Turpie will be chosen for another term. = i With all the facts in view the rosy deseription of republican prospects in the west attributed to the secretary of the republican congressional committee is subject to large abatements in the brilliancy of its coloriig. The - west will send a largely increased silver delegation to congress this year and will give an enormous democratie electoral vote ip 1900. - COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. ~ ——lt looks as if the war might be a- hotter issue than the republicans will care to handle.—Binghamton (N. Y.) Leader. ——Apropos of Mr. Dingley’s reported statement that he had been deeply impressed with the strong sentiment ¢t the Christian church in favor of territorial expansion, it would be interesting to learn what religious circles he has beehn moving in.—Boston Ilierald. . e ——Alger/shidehas been penetrated. He has begun to write explanatory letters to show how his subordinates and the soldiers themselves were to blame for the failures, privations and mortality, more terrible than Spanish bullets, which have followed our armijes. from the moment they fell under the charge of the war department.—Philadelphia Record. - L ——The people generally did not know Alger, but they had confidence in MecKinley. They did not believe that the president’s choice for a see'retary of war would be an utter in~competent, and they had faith that the president would get rid of such a secretary as soom as this incompe- " tence was proved. They were mistak‘en. The awful experience of our troops - [m this war under Alger will have to be forgotten before another volunteer ‘mrmy can be raised.—Boston Post.

‘A DISASTROUS POLICY. The Prote;cuve Plan Impedes Progress (and Cripples Arer- | ican Industry. o Now, more than at-any other time, the weakness of our commercial policy is made evident. Colonies and protective tariffs do not work well together. The French colonies are a fair sample of what this system will'bring forth. The French management of Tonquin has been oh protective tariff lines, and the result has been the stagnation of the life and business of the “colony. The success that England has with her many colonies comes very largely. from the course she pursues-ith her tariffs. The fullest liberty is allowed to commerce, and the result is that the commerce and manufactures of England have been able to hold their own, in comparison with other gold standard nations. : ; . If there ever was a time when a free trade policy would be of benefit to the United States, it is new. The settlement of the Philippine question will be influenced very greatly by the course: we intend to pursue:there. If we are to allow all nations to trade there without restraint -and without fines for so doing, most.of them will be very willing to see this country the master of the situation. If we are to erect a tariff wall there we may expect some very vigorous opposition from several of the European governments most interested. Greed and grab is not a policy that commends itself to our neighbors across ithe water, except when-it is practiced by themselves. That policy hangs like a millstone about the neck of America. @t will be found impeding our progress at every step. It cannot be thrown off no matter how heavy it becomes, for the republican party is jn pofver, and that party is committed body and soul to the policy named. KEvery treaty entered into must take cognizance of that fact. Every trust and every ‘“protected” interest in the country will from this time on have its agents busy watching the progress of eventsin the settlement of the great questions growing out of the war. As the protective policy is really a policy that these same “protected™ interests have developed and foisted on the country, we may expect that the smart lawyers whom they are able to employ will be eminently successful in having all treaties and regulations fixed to suit their interests, without regard to the interests of tha rest of the country. The suga‘r‘ltrust, whose influence was 'so potent in the framing of the last tariff on sugars, and which was able to raise the price to'consumers some 20 per cent.,, | as a. result of that tariff may certainly be looked to to ‘take a hand in settling§the_gugstions of our reiation with Cuba. That devastated country should have the freest tariffs possible to enable it to rise from its ashes, but we cannot expect that a generous policy will be followed. What, open the markets of the United| States to free Cuban sugar? “’h{at can we expect of the trust? The| policy is a disastrous one, so far as present businessand present prosperity éare concerned, but the working out of the present republi¢an ‘policy in relation to these new possessions is like}]y to bring the protective tariff scheme into bold relief and show up the iniquity of it. The people will kave an object lesson that will not fail to impress them. : f If we do not mistake the intelligence of the Amexgican people, the time is not far distant iwhen.they will turn down the whole policy with the party that espouses it; Nay, more; the time 1s not far di%tant when no party will dare make a protective policy an issue in an electjon. It is one of the errors that nations are slow to outgrow, but once outgrown wiil be cast aside forever. | H. F. THURSTON. BLUNDER IN THE TREASURY. Secretary |Gage Has Made a Great Mistalke in the Issuing of | War Bonds. : ;

-As a financial blunder, Secretary Gage's miitake in. issuing bonds instead of temporary loan certificates can be remedied at some cost to the government; but as a political blunder it is past dorrection. The bond issue along witl7 the war revenue act will pile up in/ the treasury, out of the .reach of Iylsiness, over $300,000,000, or 15200,000,000 above the fixed gold reserve, or 2;‘»150;000,000 and more above the gold reserve plus a generous working balance. And there isno approved way of geiting this money. back int 2 circulation. j )

| The bonds of the United States outstanding are.all at a premium, save a l few of the old 414’s extended at two per cent. The new or-war/issue is sellI ing at 105 Y;. The four’s of 1907 are selling at 11135. The four’s of 1925 are selling at 127. The five’s o¢f 1904 are selling at/112. If the secretary had first issued temporary certificates of ifidebte-dnéss, redeemable at any time, - hefcould now use his great and rising ' cash surplus in retiring the war debt ' at par., But he cannot now use it to re‘tire the war or any other government debt except at a costly premium. ~ There remains the method of plaeing the surplus on deposit with depositary banks, without interest to the government, to keep the money within reach of the market. But this was ‘a method adopted by the first Clevéland administration- in the oid surplug revenue days, and was denounced by “the republican platform of 1888 as “the dempcratic® policy of loaning the government’s money, without interest, te pet banks.” It is not a gopular .method of employing treasury surplus moneys. |Neither would be the purchase of the immature public debt at: a high premium to the holders. : . The secretary of the treasury was, empowered by the war revenue nect to borrow money on temporary exchequer bills for the very purpcse of avoiding such a situation as has now arisen. It was a great mistake when be issued a large amount of long-time bonds instead.—Springfield (Mass.) Republicaq (Dem.). - ——The first mistake was made by President McKiniey when he placed at the head of the war department a poJlitical soldier whose political reeord, like his army record, is more notable for self-seeking than for better characteristics.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. ——Secretary of War Alger is getting & “round robin” from the people ‘which promises a big dish of crow.— 1 Chicago Dispateh.

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‘he land with all the harshness. of in-‘ vaders. There seemed no hope of escape from their tyranny, for the men | whio had fought and lost were dis- ' couraged, and had no further heart for resistance. So matters went from bad to worse until, one day, the beautiful young countess of Stein summaned all the sweetest and best.-maid-ens of the city into her presence, and | urged them to make a solemn vow that they would neither wed nor listen to/a word of wooing until th’eir}coun-l try was entirely free. e s you nray believe, the news of this league made a great stir; for men who have lost their courage in war, anfd men who have lost stheir hearts in love, are very different beings. The ']"‘x"enchmen saw very soen that the yokmg Germans were showing signs of| rebellion, and so they determined to| wreak their vengeance on the ‘countess. They took her :prisoner, dngged/her through the . city, agd, at|last thrust a broom into her hand, and bade her sweep ' the principal street of the town—a terrible humtidtion, they thought, for' a highbred lady as she was. SR ut do you think she faltered? No, irdeed. She raised her eyes,and, praying aloud so all could hear: “God of my fatherland, bless my sweeping, and _as| I sweep the highway, grant that thle enemy may be swept from our ‘lapd!” grasped the broom firmly (like ‘ thle true young noblewoman she was) | and swept so clean that not a French'man of them all (and Frenchmen puide themselves on being able to see very, fine points) could discover.a speck ' ni|dust. They stood about, and twirledthleir mustaches, and tried to look supercilious, and to raise the people’s mirth agamst Her. But they did not :u;cceed; and the townsfolk, instead of jeering, took off their caps, and efihoed her prayer—‘God bless the cweeping!® : : lAnd God did bless it; for the sight: of their noble young countess at her task put the men on their mettle, and ‘they turned on the Frenchmen and fgught with such a will thit it-was ‘.ot long before there was not one left in the land, and they had indeed swept the country quite clear of every foe. : ; ‘| Railway Travel in Spain. =~ [The.trains in Spain are certainly the slowest in all creation. A rate of ten or twelve miles an hour is considered good average or speed for everyday travelers. When the Spanish officials wish to put on style and show visiting | foreigners what they really can accqmplish in the way of rapidity they offer express trains, which dash madly | agross the landscape at an average| ~rate of 15 or 18 miles an hour. In one } ~Why this proves an advantage, for the | ‘)t l” *@Z«g’ M&‘mw R e eN § e e ‘?%’w, Gel B e

DONKEY PERVERSITY. Two of the Long-Eared Burden Bear- " ers Make an Innocent Cow ~ . & Prisoner. : The donkeys that have been sojourning in a South Portland’ vacant lot are for sale, says the Portland Oregonian. - - They were amiable and-well-dispesed donkeys, but they ate all the paint off . o n . L % = a neighboring fence every night, and - after the painter had renewed it several mornings he became annoyed. He was working by the contract, but he said he never agreed to paint a (m - Ie ; @ Lk s , < Jial | L) | /T; ‘ b U T 1F Wik | . 1 %J‘h |R, N PR L 0 g 4 | e M PULLED WITH ALL THEIR MIGHT. fence in a place where the wind was so strong that it blew it off. When it was learned that the donkeys had been eating the paint they were moored where they could not reach it. Their owner thought it .would be a good idea to tie them to thesame stake, so they could be company for each other. f : That night whken he came home his . neighbor’s brindle cow was flattened up against the back fence with a taut | line athwart her flanks and anger in Her heart. The donkeys had pulled up the stake and gone into their own vard, one through the gate and another through a hole in the fence. The- - had been inside their line, and not having the presnce of mind to step over it she suddenly found herself a prisoner. . ,

The donkeys, perceiving some restraint on the part of the line, set about with native perverseness to overcome it, and when their owner arrived each was tilted' forward, pulling like a politician after an office. The cow was released and the donkeys were given their freeGom, which “they employed by destroying all the flower beds in the vicinity before they landed in the pound. : - Their owner went their bail, and now he wants to sell them. He says they are very good donkejs, but he is getting too old for excitement,and thinks he will buy an elephant. - D Did Not See the Joke. ® Lord Lytton, when(viceroy of India, was seated one day at a publrc dinner next to a lady whose;namé was Birch, and who, though very good looking, ‘'was net overiutelligent.” Said she to his excellency: “Are you acquainted with any of the Birches?” “Oh, yes,” said Lord Lytton. smiling. “I knew several of them most intimately while at Eton” (the great English school where pupils are flogged for offenses against the rules). “Did ycu like them?” was the next question. “Decidedly nof,” replied Lytton. “My lord,” said the lady, frigidly, “you forget the Birches - are relatives of mine.” “And they cut me unmereifuliy,” responded the viceroy, with a laugh. But the lady was too dénse to see the joke. She rose from the table in a huff and told her husband that his excellency had insulted her. - , . 'Hen with Strange Habits. - : Alady who lived for some time when she -was first married on a Mississippi cotton plantation says that -among their poultry was a hen which developed a fondness for a more civilized = - way of living. Shke preferred the house to the hen yard and never lost an op- . portunity of mcunting the steps and - entering. She wasalways“shooed”out, but this did not decrease her ardor. Finally, she conceived the idea of mak- - ing an offering to the inmates of the house in return for accommodations; so one day she enteredand laid anegg in the sheet trunk, which stood open at that time of day. The family wasso amused at this performance that they - allowed her to go in and out without molestation. So every day she made use of her strarge nest. =~~~ ~ Square on Sunday Only, :’?e; A certain schoolmaster, wko useda round snuffbox during the week and~ a square one on Sunday, was aceustcmed to point to his snuffbox when speaking of the shapé.of the world. Now, when the examiner came along CERRe e s e R e e R