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< FRAETHER ¥ vl S gl &1& .—,_ _?A % . = A\ ¢ . e 5 i (e ; A\Q)Y@ B s h = TS < u D) ABN b b =257 -DV C CANEE!] --A'__ — R T~ = FHl.Costzuie. ] {Copyright, 1896, by D. Appleton & Co. : All rights reserved.] e 5 SYNOPSIS. ; Master Ardick, just reached his majority and thrown upon his own resources, after stating his case to one Houthwick, a shipmaster, is shipped as second mate on the “Industry’” bound for Havana. Mr. Tym, the supercargo, descries a sail. The strange vessel gives chase, but is disabled by the Industry’s guns. The Industry is little damaged, but Houthwick and one of the'erew’are killed. Sellinger, first mate, takes charge and puts into Sidmouth to secure a new mate. Several days later, when well out to sea, an EngLfsh merchantman fis met, whose captain has a letteraddressed to Jeremiah Hope, at Havana. The crew of the vessel tell strange tales of the buccaneer Morgan, who is sailing un+ der the king’s commission to take Pansma. One night a little later, the English vessel having proceeded on her course, Ardick Jearns of a plot among the crew, headed by Pradey, the new-mate, to take the Industry and join Morgan’s fleet. Ardick consults Mr. Tym. They resolve to secure the mate, but Pradey, eavesdropping in the cabin, makes through the door and arouses the crew. Capt. Sellinger joins Ardick and Tym. The crew break through the now ~ barricaded door, but are forced to retire, having lost seven of their number. Sellinger is for immediately falling upon the mutineers, but Tym argues that they are a light crew but still more than two to their having lost seven of their number. Finding themselves now too short-handed to manage the boat, Pradey descides to scuttle and deSert the vessel, taking his men s off in the only available boat. The captain, supercargo and second mate soon discover their plight, but hastily constructing a raft get away just before their vessel sinks. The next morning a Spaniard draws near them.” The man in the rigging shouts: “If you would board us, take to your oars. Be .speedy, or you will fall short.”” ‘On board they are sent forward with -the crew, being told they will be sold as slaves on reaching Panama. The ship’s cook they {ind to be Mac Irvach, ‘“frae Clagvarloch,” so a friend. Four days later the Spaniard is overhauled by a buccaneer flying the English flag. The thrce Englishmen and Mac Irvach plan t> escape to the buc- ~ caneer on a rude raft. Sellinger, the last to attempt to leave the Spaniard, is disabled. Just after thé other put off they see a figure dangling from the yard arm, whom they suppose is Capt. Sellinger. Hailing the buccaneer, our three friends find themselves in the hands of their old mate,. Pradey. He treats them kindly and offers to do them no harm if they will but

remain quiet concerning the mutiny he headed. The Black Eagle, Pradey’s ship, comes to Chagre, Cuba, which_tmin they

find Morgan has taken under the English flag. From there the Black Eagle with Morgan’'s fleet proceeds to Panama. The command consists of aboutl,2oo men. Hav-

ing landed, they march on to the city. The assauit on the city is begun. Many of the buccanteers iall, and Ardick is wounded. ‘*hrcugh the smoke he sces Pradey approaching. The city at last Talls. Ardick, coming 10, finds rym had rescued him from i‘radey’s murderous hana by killing the villain. The Spanish flag has been hauled down from the castle, and the men allowed to plunder the city atv will. Mac Ivrach spies a figure coming toward them, and exciaims: ‘‘The gaist ¢’ the captain.” It is indeed Seilinger. He recounts his late adventures, then he leads them to'the rescue of Don Enrique de Cavodilla, who had been kind to him on the Pilanca, the Spanish vessel on which he had been a prisoner. Flight is the only course. open to the dos; his wife and daughter (Dona Carmen.) "They just manage to. leave the building when Capt. Towland. comes to claim the dona as his prize, under the buccaneers’ rule. Mr. Tym parleys to gain time for the flight of his party, then aliows the men to enter. Seeking shortly to join the don, they come upon his deaa body. They find &lso his ‘wife has been slain and the young dona taken prisoner to the castle, and im-~ mediatelyr conceive a bold plan for her rescue, and Mr. Tym goes to spy out her where abouts.

CHAPTER XVIII.—COXNTINUED

“All is well,” he said, with a care-less-seeming mnod—it was marvelous bow my blood started in my veins at the words. “Hcw fares it with the other?”’ ‘

~ “Likewise well,” I almost falteringly answered. -

He drew a bit nearer, that chance passers might not hear. ‘ “This is the gist of the matter,” he said: “She is shut up in one of the first-story chambcers. To reach it you pass up the chief staircase, and so by an outside passage. The chamber is at the end, and-is directly above the outwotk. It therefore overlooks the water.” : :

“And how learmed you all this?” I asked. I scarce dared believe we had gotten so far along in the undertaking and nothing contrary happened. ~ “Why, pretty simply,” he said, with a smile. “As I was passing through the hall I met Morgan, and, if you will . credit-it, he delivered to me the whole matter.” , This made me feteh a little breath. “It was an easy matter,” went on Mr. Tym, coolly. “I did but meet him, < as Isay, and after we had talked a little—he running on rather loosely, being somewhat in wine—he spoke of his own accord of the senorita. He Jraised her beauty and swore that it avere a shame to deal with her save gently, and more to like purpose. I finally drew him on to disclose where she was, and this, I may say, I did easily. After some further talk, I took leave of him, and while he passed into one of the under rooms I desecended to the dungeons. I did this that I might seem consistent, having declared that _ 1 had some small curiosity about these rlaces. From the dungeons I came - again to the hall and thénce ventured to peep above-stairs, where I found a

man on guard, and so turned back. The fellow did not observe me, as I Lad approached softly and his attentlon was elsewhere, and this I was glad of, as 1 did not wish to arouse his suspicions. I could think of nothing more that might profitably be done, and so I returned hither.” : “Why, I count that excellent,” I said. “Indeed, it is beyond our reasonable expectation.”

“I grant you,” said Mr. Tym. “But rlow, since we have made an end here, let us see if we can learn how it fares with the captain., In truth, I have some anxiety.” , So, indeed, did Mac Ivrachandl, and I may say that this matter was now uppermost in my mind since the other was concluded. We therefore dropped the discourse and set off once more for the water. : , ' As yet the captain was not in sight, though we scanned the water in all directions for him; wherefore we judged that he had not yet succeeded in his undertaking. Siae At last, just as we were beginning to feel some disquiet, a small boat popped out of the concealment of the neighbor jetty, and there, to be sure, was the captain. = He shot his craft up to the beach and leaped out, and as we made forward gave us a cheerfulnod. ~ *“I have secured an indifferent lttle sloop,” he said. “How fared you?” -

- We had him into;fe shade, and in a few words made him acquainted with our success. Then he gave us his aecount. It seemed that he meant to have no commerce| with the buecaneers, fearing lest he might rouse suspicion, but instead watched for a native fisherman, and was at last fortunate enough to bring one to. With him, after a little bantering (each had sone trouble in understanding the other), he managed to conclude a bargain. The craft was|a clumsy affair, it seemed; in length it might be 7 and 20 feet, by above eight in the beam; and was undecked, though it had a rude sort of cuddy. The single sail was old and patched, but lopked to be fit for ‘moderate service, and was set to a boom and a short gaff. She nhad no vessels or any kind of tools or implements aboard, being furnished solely with a pair of rude oars. Nevertheless she appeared stanch, and would, he thought, be likely tp do the work required of her. ’ “Very well, then,” said Mr. Tym, when the inatter kad reached this stage, “we seem to want-nething now but to complete the details of our plan. lLet us goatonce aboutit.”. We were at a good deal of pains here, debating many things, but, after all, the matter sifted down to this: Toward the middle .of the night, before the moon should rise—which it did now very late—we were to slip up to the ‘passage leading to the senorita’s room, beguile and overpower the guard, gag and bird him, and force ‘the senorita’s door. A few words from “me would explain what was afoot, and, having thrust the guard | inte the .chamber and securcd him ‘“there, we would quietly descend to the hall and boldly pass out. Of course, our main -reliance must be upon the general carelessness and disorder, and-upon the fact that nothing of the business was suspected. As for {he minor details, it seemed best that Mr. I'ym should lead off, and at the point where he wished us to fall upon the 3cldier should make a certain prearranged sign. : 'By this timie it was close upon sundown, and late enough for us to be thinking of returnitig to'the castle. In fact, we had still some prepardtions to madce, such as bringing down the stores—not forgetting a breaker cf water—and an extra supply of clothing and weapons. Included in the cloth'ing must be some for the poor lady, though I was sor}ry that none of it could be of a sort suitable to her sex. We lilkewise thought of an iron bar, or pry, with which t{o force the chamber door. All these matters. I will say in brief, we attended to, in no way encountering any mishap or seeming to arouse any suspicions. Finally, we hid the little skiff, and returned for the last time io the castle. It was now quite dark, the twilight in those parts veing exceeding brief, and wanting no great while of+¢the hour we had set for our undertaking. This, it will be remembered, was the early part of the night, before. the confusion and disorder were like to have abated, and _ere yet .it was moonrise. At last it wanted ‘only a few minutes of nine, and as we deemed that nothing was to be gained by waiting longer, we saw to our weapons and made along to the arched gate. “ : - The door at the end of the passage stood open, and we caught a small

| ‘ im | [@sl e 7y > WEAE fl¢' A '“A' ) (V 1 <:: &5 3 [‘-5 "8 ‘ ;’é‘ :‘;o'.:7 \“w’q&) '“ R\ T | N -z -/ [ ‘,’/ \\ \‘ l - = : e J = ; \ 55 & Jo P The door swung quivering open. glimmer of light and heard . voices, Pushing on, though I confess with some uneasiness on my part (for I thought of Morgan), Gve presently found ourselves in the g)geat hall. Here were perhaps a score of our fellows, the most sprawled about or sitting on the long table, and only four or five talking. A few had horns or flagons by them, and others were smoking, but I perceived thai nearly the half seemed to be heavily asleep. Perhaps three or four candles were burning, put in a cloud, indeed, by the tobacco smoke, and bringing out little of the immediate surroundings with distinectness. Of the persons who were talking, one lay flat on the table and, by the bandage about his head, should be wounded, and another paced up and down, his arm in a sling. ; “In chief these are fellows who are drunk or disabled,” I thought, “and therefore in the better case, as far as we are concerned.”

We were past them presently, none hailing us, and having gone out by the rearward door were at last in the hall of the stairs. Here it was dark, save for the little iliumination of the buccaneers’ candles, and all deserted and quiet. We did not close the door after us, both because the light was of some use and because we thought the act would seem suspicious, though, indeed, the fellows had scarce appeared to notice us. One.thing now puzzled me a little, which was that it seemed so dark at the top of the stairs. To be sure, the guard might have deposited his lanthorn, or candle, at the far end of the passage, but even then, I thought, some. faint light would show. However, there was little time to think on this, even supposing it to be of import, for Mr. Tym had already begun to ascend the stairs. We fell into his train, the captain first, I next, and Maec Ivrach last, and all crept softly up. I now thought a faint bit of light was stealing down from the passage, bue guessed that it might be nothing but starlight. I glanced as well as I could by the captain, and kept Mr. Tym’s figure in a vague way in view, feeling, with tlome quickening of the pulse, that it must now be soon that he would reach the top and come under the observation of the guard. The flight was long, but presently I saw his figure cut out black and moreédistinet,

and knew he was in the passage and obstructing a window. It was now certain that there was no light, save of the stars, and this must be the reasoy why the guard had not as yet perceived him. He turned, for I caught the narrowing of kis shape, and immediately the window was free again, and now he had surely advanced down the passagc. ' / I slipped alongside the captain, and he looked at me, the wonderment on his face coming out in the faint light. We were now close to the top of the flight, but as yet could not command ihe passage, the continued wall cutting us off. Of a sudden I heard a soft, long step, and, the window above darkening, I looked up and saw Mr, Tym. “All’s well,” he said, in a sharp whisper full of relief. “The coast is clear.” This was such brave news that for an instant it fairly brought the captain and me to a standstill. Yet only while one might catch his breath. We made a straddling bound of it to the top. Mac Ivrach close behind. - “We must improve the opportunity,” went on Mr. Tym, as soon as we were fairly beside him. “Yonder is the door; Master Ardick, do you hail the senorita. and then proceed as speedily as you can with the breaking in.”

The business wanted no more discussion, and quickly we were all before the door. A very faint bit oflight came from the open keyhole, but all within was quiet. To make quite certain that the door was locked, I first gently tried ‘it, but foungl, as I expected, the bolt shot. Stooping then to the keyhole, I spoke the senorita’s name, raising my voice as high as I dared. b

There was a little stir, and presently the lady's voice, low and shaken, answered: “Who is there?” . : “Triends. lady. Capt. Sellinger and cthers that you wot of. We have come to detiver you.” ' 1 heard her give a little ery, and she seemed to have come up close to the door. . . : “We are about to break in,” I continued. “Yet, stay—are you dressed?” *Yes, senor. Ah, the saints have heard my prayers!” “She understands the matter,” I said back to my companions. “Hand me the pry, Mac Ivrach.” Tke Scotchman had fetched -along ithis implement—a short bar of iron, with one end flattened into a splay—and now passed it over. I jammed it in midway up, near the lock, and gave a heave. The door was of wood, but heavy and strongly set, and this first effort only made it strain and crack. Growing impatient and anxious, I punched again, and this time threw my weight against the bar. The bolt instantly snapped and the door swung quivering open. The light within—a single candle—hardly brought out the place with distinctness, yet one glance resolved nearly all. Just within the entrance stood the senorita, pale, anid with her yellow hair falling down her shoulders. At her back were the details of the room, mainly a little cumbrous furniture and the scant drapery of the barred windows. As soon as the poor creature got the light fairly upon wus, and especially as soon as she made out the captain, she ransforward and fell on her knees at his feet.

“Oh, senor, ma¥ Christ reward you! I-had all but given up hope!” “Why, it is all right, senorita,” said the captain, awkwardly. He forgot that the lady did not understand his' English. He gave her his hand and she rose, looking sweetly and gratefully at the rest of us. :

But this was no time for sentiment. We immediately withdrew a little and took counsel together. “There seems

to be no new phase to the matter.” said Mr. Tym. “The senorita’s disguise will still serve.”

“Say the captain and I go first,” said Mr. Tymn. “The lady and you, Ardick, would do well to come next, and Mac Ivrach can bring up the rear. We must all take care to stroll along carelessly.” :

We fell into the understood order accordingly, and in silence passed out. into the passage. Mac Ivrach lingered a little. and took the precaution te close the door, and we were thus, for the time, in comparative darkness, the stars fetching the place out only in a faint glimmer. I touched my elbow to the senorita’s to encourage her, and in this fashion we slipped softly along, and without hearinganalarming sound reached the head of the stairs. Here Mr. Tym halted, but after a glance began to descend, and we, catching the noises now plainer from below, but still nothing menacing, quietly followed. As before, we found this rearward hall safe and deserted. Mr. Tym gave a glance back at us, as though to see that all were ready, and with a bold step passed on and turned in at the door. Capt. Sellinger fell a careless pace or two behind and followed. I did not hesitate, but as I felt the lady tremble whispered to her to take heart, for there was but small danger, and so saying pressed her arm hard with mine, and with that we passed in.

All was as we had left it. The buecaneers were still sitting or lying about, save he who nursed hisarm and walked up and down, and the haze of the tobacco smoke continued. We marched down the hall, I, as must confess, in some perturbation, and made toward the vaulted passage. It seemed an interminable distance, but, to my“tremendous relief, no attempt was made to stop us, and at last we passed safely inside. The first part of the strain was now over, and with a cangratulatory look or: two, but no words, for those were too risky, we continued on and entered the court. Here we found the former disorder and confusion. some of the buccaneers straggling about laughing or roaring drunken songs, some ordering their arms, and others in groups talking. Morgan was not in sight, but Towland’s rival, the savage and hardfighting Capt. Blyte, was sprawled near by on a bench. His back was luckily towardus.There wasbutasingle other captain in sight, one Steaves, who was lounging in the main gate, This last person, as I thought; was the officer of the guard, for I noted that three of his company were close by, and that one carried a lanthorn. Two more buccaneers, though I could nof say who, seemed to be stationed at the other gate—that is, the postern—for I could catch the gleam of their armor as they paced to and fro. - " [7O BE coNTINUWD.] .

JESUS—THE WAY, TRUTH, LIFE

International Sundfny School Lesson for April 23, 1899—Text, John 143 1-14—Memory Vemses, 2-0,

{Specially Adapted from Peloubet’s Notes.] \ GOLDEN TEXT.—Jesus saith unto him, | {ﬁsm the way, the| truth and the life.—John [ TlME.—Thursday evening, April 6, A. D, | 30, the evening before the crucifixion. The ‘ same evening as our last lesson. PLACE.—At the supper table in the up- ' per room in Jerusalem, in connection with ' the Lord’s Supper. i LIGHT FROM OTHER SCRIPTURES.— | The Heavenly Mansions.—Rev., chaps. 21, | 22; Matt. 25:34; 1 Cor. 2:9; 2 Cor. 4:17, 18; ‘ 5:1-3; 1 John 3:2; Rev. 7:15-17; Acts 2:46, 47.. Comfort.—lsa. 40:1,°2, 11; 51:3,\12; b 4: | 17; 60:18-21; Job B Pea. i The\’:m- -| Acts 4:12; Heb. 10:20; Exod. 33:13; Prov. | 37; 448 : ; ‘ 'CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY. Jesus the Way to Comfort.—ln or- ! der to understand the meaning of the | first verses of this chapter it is necessary to remove the veil which covers them by their separation from chap. 13. Turn back to 13: 31. Jesus: reveals to His disciples that He is about ] to go away and leave them, and that . they cannot follow Him for the present. | Then Jesus proceeds to comfort them, | “Let not your heart be troubled,” as well it might be. “Ye believe in God, l believe also in Me!”” The Greek verb has the same form for the second plural ! indicative and the imperative. The pas- | sage may therefore mean; Ye believe in | God, and ye believe in' Me, or, Believe in | God and believe in Me, or Ye believe in i God, believe also in Me. All are right, } all are helpful in trouble. " Jesus the Way to Our Father’s Hlome. ’ —V. 2. “Are many mansions:”’ Dwelling | places. Not separate houses, but spe- | cial abodes in God’s great house. *“The | image is derived from those vast ori- ] ental palaces in which there isan abode { not only for the sovereign and the heir | to the throne, but also for.all the sons of . the king, however numerous they may % be.”—Godet. The term “mansions”is de- ' rived from the Greck verb meaning to | abide, and hence implies the idea of i abode, rest, stability, home. i ° V. 3. “Iwillcome again:> ‘The verb is in the present tense, I come again. | “Not to be limited to the Lord’s second | and glorious coming at the last day, ' nor to any special coming, such as | Pentecost, though these are all includ- ' ed'in the expression; rather to be taken of ‘'His continudal coming and presence by the Holy Spirit.”—Vincent. “And | receive you:” Will receive. The verb | means taking ‘alox}g with, and also taki ing to the side of: ! V. 5. “Thomas:” Not so much the | doubter as the inquirer, one who must ! see the reasons, 'who had not so much ' spiritual insight and intuition as many é of the others, but looked for tangikle | proofs. g i V. 6. The peculiarity of the religion | of*Jesus that distinguishes it from all ' other religions is expressed in the | words: “lamtheway.” Thereissome | truth in all great religions. There are ' moral teachings in them, as pearls among the seashore pebbles. There is some light from Heaven in them, as a . candle in the night gives real light ' though it is not the sun. “The tvath:” ' Jesus Himself is the complete revela- | tion of God, and hence the sum and substance of all truth, “in Whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and | knowledge” (Col. 2:3). A} the great i religious truths are found in Him. | Every great religion has its power in | some one truth, or more, on which it iis based. ¥Find this central truth in | each great religion, and you will have them all summed up in the highest degree in Jesus Christ. “And the life:” The soarce of:life spiritual and eternal, | as He was the creator of natural life. . It is only through impartation of spiritual life that one can understand God. The, stone or the tree cannot under- | stand a man. Only one who has the | life of man can know man. ! V. 7. “If ye had known Me -, ', . | known My Father:” The English word ! “known” represents two Greek words ' #n the better text, which are not identi- { cal. in meaning: “If ye had recognized Me, ye would have known My Father.” | : V. 10, “The Father that dwelleth in | Me,” ete.: The better reading gives I the R. V., the Father abiding in Me i doeth His works. The works of love { and of power which Jesus did were the | works of the Father abiding in Him, ! and revealed the Father’s love and ] power. ' i V. 11. Note how often Jesus appeals | to His miracles as a proof and illustration of His nature and His mission. Vi 12. “The works thatldo:” Works of healing, of teaching, of turning men | from sin, of bringing in the kingdom of God; His whole beneficent activity, including His miracles. “Shall He do also; and greater works than these shall He do.” After Christ’s death, 1 and the atonement on the cross, and the gift of the Holy Spirit, it was possible for far more wondrous works to be done than were possible before. V. 13. “Whatsoever ye shall ask:” All that they needed for their great work was ready for them. He drew, as it were, a blank check, and they had only to fill it out as they pleased. The one condition was that they should ask in patience and faith, for without this asking they would not be fit to receive. ‘The object, the limit, and the result of their asking are forund in the expression: “That the Father may be glorified in the Son.”.

THOUSANDS OF WISE MEN. 'The manly part is to do with might and main what you can.—Emerson. To be content with. what we possess ‘ is the greatest and most secure of riches.—Cicero. ‘ Work is the inevitable condition of‘ human life, the true source of human welfare.—Tolstoi. A good deed is all the more a satisfaction 'by how much the more it has cost us.—Lucretius. It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.—Lowell. : : God only needs to deliver.a sinner to his own conscience to be avenged of his sin.—~Thomas Wilson. . Nothing is high because it isin a high place; nothing is low because it is in a low one.—Dickens. As an eneniy is made more fierce by our flight, so pain grows more proud to see us‘truckle under it.—Montaigne. He who has neither the courage to die nor the heart to live, who will neither resist nor fly, what can we do with him ?—Montaigne. L

BRYAN ON IMPERIALISM.

A Departure from Traditions That Is Not Authorized by the : People. :

Hon. William J. Bryan is to publish a book entitled “Republic or Empire— The Philippine Question,” in which he discusses territorial expansion from every standpoint, his argument being supplemented by chapters dealing with the various phases of the subject by Andrew Carnegie, George ¥'. Hoar, John W. Daniels, Henry M. Teller and other statesmen and scholars.

As to imperialism Mr. Bryan says: “Imperialism finds its inspiration in dollars, not in duty. Itisnoteur duty to burden' our people with increased taxes in order to give a few speculators an opportunity for exploitation; it is not our duty to sacrifice the best blood of our nation in tropical jungles in an attempt to stifle the very sentiments which have given vitality to American institutions; it is not'our duty to deny io the people of the PHhilippines the rights for which our forefathers fought from Bunker Hill to Yorktown. Imperialism has been described as ‘The VWhite Man’s Burden.” But, since it crushes the wealthy producer beneath ‘an increasing weight of taxes, it might with more propriety be called *The Poor Man’s Load.’ s

“If the peace commissioners had de- | manded a harbor and coaling station in the Philippines and had required Spain to surrender the rest of the land to the Filipinos, as she surrendered Cuba to the Cubans, wé would not now be considering how to let go of the islands. If the sum of twenty mil]ionsl had been necessary to secure Spain’s release the payment of the amount by the Filipinos might have been guaranteed by the United States.” Mr. Bryan also says that “the purpose of annexation is to apply to the government of the Filipinos methods familiar to the people of Europe and Asia but new in the United States. This departure from traditions was not authorized by the people; whether it will be ratified by them remains ‘to be i

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seen. The responsibility rests upon congress and afterwards upon that power which makes congresses. . Whatever may be the wish of individuals or the interests of parties we may rest assured that the final disposition of the Philippine question will conform to the deliberate judgment of the voters; they constitute the court of last resorts; from whose decision there is no appeal.” Mr. Carnegie thinks: “India is the curse of Britain, and the Philippines will be the curse of the United States. If you teach suppressed people at all you make them rebels. Education is fatal to the government of a superior race. The Declaration of Independence will make every ambitious Filipino a thoroughly dissatisfied subjeet.” - “In war,” says Mr. Daniels, “it is the unexpected that happens. So in every great and new adventure of peace. 'We are asked now to sally forth 7,000 miles from our native seat to grasp, against their will, a million of unwilling people—to seize upon them, to take them by force of arms and deposit them, land and people, within the lines of the constitution under the American flag, to make them an integral part of this American republic.” : ; According to Mr. Teller: ‘“We shall make a mistake if we make up our minds that we are going to govern those people from here; that we are going to govern them with the Anglo-Saxons whom we send out from here to administer the affairs of that country. You will need your 50,000 soldiers and in a little while you will need more, for they are a great people. They are a people who know something of their rights. They are a people who are willing to contend for them, and I believe it to be almost an axiom that a people who will fight for their liberty, and who are willing to die for it, are capable of maintaining it when they get it.”

——The alliarice of Senator Hanna with the democrats to defeat the republican candidate for mayor of Cleveland was a transaction that is likely to exercise no small influence upon the politics of Ohio. As Senator Hanna could neither elect nor nominate a candidate of his own he preferred the election of a free silver democrat to that of a hated leader of the Foraker faction. Out of such a political condition it is not improbable that political good may arise even in Ohio.—Philadelphia Record. j : ;

——By counting as “revenue” - $12,000,000 obtained by the sale of the notes of the Central Pacific railroad, given in settlement of its debt to the government, the treasury officials are able to figure out a surplus for March of “nearly $14,000,000.” They admit, however, a deficit of $85,378,319 for the first nine months of the fiscal year, in spite of these artificial and temporary aids.~N. Y. World. : a 5

OFFICIAL HEROES.

The Republican Administration Pets Are Not Popular with the- - LA -

McKinley and Alger are deeply disappointed and chagrined to discover that the people will not accept -their dictation as to who will be accepted as the heroes of the war. . LT ' There was a deliberate scheme at Washington to place speciglly fuvored friends of the administration in -positions where they were likely to easily win glory. Admiral Sampson, one of these favorites, and backed by McKinley, seems to be intent on depriving Admiral Schley of his well-deserved fame. There is much credit, possibly, due to Sampson. He was specially favored in being assigned to important and, perhaps, even arduous duty. His disposal of our naval forces about Santiago harbor may have been very masterful. History, however, has not yet passed upon that point.

1t must be borne in mind that, while the peoplé of this country profoundly respect administrative ability, they impulsively love a hero. They love the sildier who rushes through a rain of bullets and plants a shot-riddled standard on the ramparts of the enemy, They love the sailor who takes - his ship into the greatest danger and pours. broadside after broadside into the hulls of the enemy's ships, until they sink. When Cervera’s fleet sank toits grave in the Caribbean sea the name of Schley rose up as that of the hero of the day, and time can but add luster to hisimperishable renown. To the extent that Sampson made a masterful assignment of the various ships, heis a great strategist, and time will bring him full measure of credit for his ability. If Sampe son be truly great he will be generous, and will add to rather than seek to detract from the glory of Schley. - g To the extént that MeKinley and

Sampson attempted to rob Schley of his laurels, they will show that they have souls of smaller caliber than'that of the smallest gun of the smallestship afloat. . :

! Shafter is even a more striking example of the “home-made” hero. Where is Shafter, anyway? What state wants him for governor? Who writes poetry about him? Who, even, kisses him? Shafter is credited with having eaten somé of the rations issued by the Alger commissary department. If: this be conceded, the fact must stand unchallenged that he risked his life in the service of his country. ; Seriously speaking, Shafter probably deserves more credit:-than he is ever likely to receive. There are chances that he may be even a fairly good general. He is a victim of circumsiances that were seemingly beyond his control. He has, nevertheless, been relegated to obscurity, and the reason is obvious. It has Leen rendered very plain that a man of mediocre ability was unduly pushed ahead of Gen. Miles, who is a distinguished military chieftain—placed by competent authorities among the foremost soldiers of the

world. . This situation existed because a nar-row-minded and unscrupulous man was misplaced as secretary of war and given the opportunity to vent his petty and malignant spite. When Shafter comes before the people the erowd begins with “Hip! hip!™ —then they think of Alger, and the “hurrah” dies away. ’ Laurel wreaths made up at the white house and the war department to fit favorites, and to further political ends, get no reverence from the people. They are too palpably spurious. ) Laurel wreaths made by the grateful and loving hands of the people have immortal grace, and are fragrant with the incense of undying fame. ~ The Washington imitation looks like the clumsy trademark on packagesof trustmade goods, and an odor clings to them suggestive of “embalmed beef.’-—Chi-cago Democrat. ; ;

POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

F- ——Mr. Hanna says he had no part in the beef contracts. Mr. Hanna fries his fat; he does not boil it.—St. Paul Globe! 3 . .

~——The picture by an imperialist of the United Statese as a benevolent slaveholder is most apt. But who would think that such an admission would ever be made without blushing ? -—Utica Observer. o £

——Even Mark Hanna’s pachydermatous hide prefers not to be castigated in connection with the rotten beef scandal. What is tough enough to touch Hanna's sensibilities deserves torank with the great scandals of history.—Albany Argus. ' s ~——Mr. Hanna’s stzength in Cleveland seems to be of the #ort that can be effective toward defeating the candidates of his own party at the polls, but it is not clear that he will secure delegates to the state and national conven-iiﬂhs.—-—Cincipnati;E}ngﬁﬁér. s eR S i

BRYAN'S DEMOCRACY.

His Views Upon Bimetallism, Trusts " and Imperialism.

.- At the Jeflferson club banquet in Milwaukee, on Thursday, April 13, William J. Bryan, the guest of honor, spoke to the toast “Democracy,” as follows: .““We are now near enough to the -next campaign _to be able to form some idea of the lines along which the contest will be fought,-and T am taking no risk when I say that those who in 1886 gave their allegiance to.the Chicago platform are as united today -as ever in the determination thai no step taken in 1896 shall be retraced. - ““That platform applied to the conditions then existing, the principles which had been democratic from the beginning of the government. Suggestions that we abandon the money question sometimes# come from’ those who deserted the party in 1896, but those suggestions are not supported by evidence tending to show that the position in 1896. was wrong, but was predicated upon the theory that the issue upon which the ‘party once lost can never be revived, and .what. seems most strange this argument is made by those who have followed a different course in the past. - ~ “In 1888 Mr. Cleveland was defeated on the-tariff issue, and yet the tariff was made the main issue in 1892 and Mr. Cleveland was elected. In 1822 Mr. Harrison was defeated largely on account of the McKinley bill, and four years later the author of the bill was nominated upon a platform reaffirming the belief in protection and was successful. “Thus it is seen'that in two instances recently a losing issue in one campaign became a winning issue in the campaign following. S Question eof Bimetallism.

. ““The test ought not to be whether the issué has been presented before, but whether the position taken is right. If the gold standard was unmerited in 1896 it is unmerited now. .If its maintenance was a detrimeéent tor the interests of the people of this country then it is a detriment now. Ifin 1896 it- was so hurtful that the republicans promised ‘to put forth their best efforts to substitute international bimetallism for it, and-after the election was still so hurtful ‘that the president sent a commission to Europe to secure foreign aid in abandoning it, .what has happened since then to make the American people accept it as a blessing? If an increased discovery of gold in Alaska has been of any advantage to the United States it is but another evidence that the quantitative theory of money is correct. .If a large balance of trade in favor of the United States gives any relief ‘because of the money thus brought into the country, it is an additional argument in favor of the quantitative theory of money. “‘Bimetallists have contended that times will be made better by the return of the double standard and by the Increased supply of standard money thus furnished for the _business of the country. While it is unnecessary to discuss the question of ratio until some other. ratio is proposed, it may ‘nof be out of-place to suggest that sixteen to one, being the'ratio at which the present gold and silver coins circulate, is the natural ratio at which the mints should be repened. To increase the ratio by increasng the size of the silver dollar would necessitate the recoinage of our present silver dollars inte a less number of dollars,-and the i,n,cre/as'e of the ratio made throughout the world would result in a large decrease in the volume of standard money, and since the value of a dollar depends upon the number of dollars, such a change would necessgrily . increasé the purchasing power of ?dollar,and increase the burden of debts. It would be equivalent to a transfer by legislation of a vast amount of wealth from the producing classes to the money owning classes. i Bank Circulation and Trusts. “The attempt of the republican party to retire- the greenbacks and substitute for them national bank notes will give to that question a greater prominence than itenjoved in 1896. During the war the national bank note never became more valuable ‘than the'greenback because it was redeemable in the greenback. The national bank note is good only because the national government stands as an indorser of the bank. If the value of the bank note is dependent upon the government, how can it be any better than the government’s own paper, and why should the government pay national banks a bonus to induce them to issue bank notes which are in no respect superior and in some respects inferior to the greenbacks issued by the government, and for which the people pay no bonus?- | “The trusts are now absorbing an increasing share of public attention because of their rapid growth during the last two ‘years. We had a sugar trust and an oil trust some years ago. We now havea biscuit trust—in fact, a trust in almost everything that is used. The milk trust reaches the infant as he. enters the world, the ice trust cools him in the summer, the coal trust keeps.him warm in the winter, while the coffin trust waits to receive him when life’s fitful dream is o’er. The people are beginning to see what the principle of monopoly really means, and yvet the principle of monopoly, so plainly illustrated by the industrial trusts, does not differ at all from the principle of monopoly which underlies both the gold standard and the paper money trust. - Army Increase and Imperialism.

~ *“The democratic party is prepared to face the future and meet new issues without abandoning the old. The republican partyhas demanded that the standing army be increased -to 100,000 men. If eitizens born in the United States are ignorant of the burdens of a standing army, they can receive instruction from those born in European countries. Many Europeans who are now worthy citizens. of this great republic left their Buropean homes because of the burdens imposed by the enormous military establishments. A greatarmy may be a geod . thing for the railroad companies which will carry them from place to place, and for the large contractors who will furnish food and raiment for the saldiers, but it is a distressing burden upon the plain people of the country, especially upon the laboring men and the farmers upon whom an unfair share of the load has fallen. -

-“Upon the subject of imperialism I need only add a word. The idea of forcible conquest and of colonization after ‘the plan adopted by European countries cannot re-ceive-the support of the people of this country when the principles involved are clearly understood. In 1859 Abraham Lincoln was invited to attend a Jefferson banquet given by the republicans of Boston. Those whose memories run back to ante-bellum days remember that the declaration of independence formed a large part of republican speeches in the early days. It was made a part of the first platform on which Abra‘ham Lincoln ran. That Lincoln was wedded to the fundamental doctrine set forth in that declaration no ene will dispute. In expressing regret that he could not attend the Boston banquet above referred to Mr. Lincoln used these words in regard to Thomas Jefferson: -« All honor to Jefferson; to a man who in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national indépendence by a single people had the coolnessy forecast, and capacity to introduce- into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a st@mbling block to the harbingers of tyranny and oppression.’ “The policy of imperialism is always defended on the ground that it is for the good of the people governed, but we have never recognized the right of any nation to benevolently assimildte another nation.” .

'——One fact is made entirely clear by the proclamation of the president’s commission to the Filipinos. Mr. MecKinley asserts our *sovereignty over the Philippine islands.” Sovereignty is supreme power. This is at least explicit.. It puts an end to the nauseating cant and unconscionable lying as to the policy of the administyation. It shows the hollowness of his. protestations that the future of the Philippines" was in “the hands of congress.” It affirms the policy of “forcible annexation” w‘hich?%he president said would be “criminal aggression” in Cubs—N. Y. World. a 0 K S ooy SiEg 2 :i;-:‘_‘z&’ e