Ligonier Banner., Volume 37, Number 30, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 October 1902 — Page 2

ONTHE ROAD TOMECCAH

By EDGAR M. BACON

HIS is the tale that Al Sherif T. told as we sat under the tamarind tree in the garden of Josef Wali-el-Din, the dealér in girls at Shiraz: ' 2 It was after the fast of Ramazan, that makes all men weak and thin, and the sun's heat at midsummer was like fire to waste the substance of a man’'s body. That is why the sand of the desert was red as blood to my eyes and my head swayed from side to side as I rode. . S

Sheyck. Sulyman, my neighbor, prated night and day of Utaiba robbers—a plague:to him—and T knew that he feared for the safety of the pearls that were hidden in the folds of his turban; yes, I knew that his daughter had been the price of them; vet he broke off his lamentations to recite the prayers when we halted. When I bowed I could not remember a prayer, and the sound of the people and the beasts was afar off. Also, wlien the rest had completed their prayers, T forgot to raise my head from myv mat. s

At last- some one took me by the shoulders, shaking me till ,I awoke. T heard a woman’s voice in salutation: “Naiman.” T tried to answer: “As'salem alaykum,” but my tongue was too thick for speech; and my will was weak. e : :

Then an arm as strong and _gentle as my mother's lifted me. Slowly I opened my eyes, though at first I distinguished nothing but the motion of all about me, but at last I understoond that the host was astir and passing by, o . My maré stood near, and the:woman hslped me to mount, but, as I turned to bless her, T saw that she was a daughter of the Wahhabis, avhom my soul loathes; so my heart was hardened against her. Fleet as an antelope, she ran towards the com]'mn)i of her own people, and I lost sight of hér; nevertheless, I could not forget,, my heart being sore becanse I'had been helped by Sne of that tribe. = The night was not dark. This Syrian ‘moon is a softer daylight, and I saw that I was among a party of Alexandrian pilerims, -haji, and’ dervishes from the Upper Nile. But the fever had hold of me again, and the things that moved around "me faded. I rode like a drunken man, with my hands buried in the shaggy hair of my horse, for the hot wind on my cheek was fanned by the wing of Azrael, the Ancel of Death. .

They were liffine me from my mare. Who? I knew nothing at all, cared for rnothing except that t'l)le_y had destroyed my rest in the valley of limes, and that the spreading wings of Azrael darkened the sky where theidawn should have been.

Then thé Stupor floated away for a little while, as a mist is blown, going and returning, drifting, always driftine. . ¢ It seemed that there are two of mé, one that looked down upon the other and pitied. I saw how -~ they poured upon thé wasted body of that other the drops of precious oil and wrapped it in the shroud that I, like all pilgrims to Meceah, had provided before setting out. It had been sprinkled with holy water from the prophet’s well of Zemzem, against that day. ! . - They laid me in the sand, covering my limbs with the -shroud and recitiny a prayer from the Koran. Then I was left alone with Azrael; for the caravan never waits.

. How glorious it was as it passed away across the desert! The horses and dromedafjés with trappings .of crimson and mountings of brass that flung back the sunlight; the plodding camels, burdened with merchandise: the white burnouses of some prince's retinue, starred with points of glittering steel, dashing among the pwess of litters and vans, of mules and asses, and the straggling horde of venders and mendicants. There was the train from Bulak and the company from Cairo; there rode the dervishes that had come up from El Medinah and the Damascus cara-

van, splendid with scarlet and green and oold. In the midst of all, sur-

rounded by a moving sea of brighthned awnings, but towering far above them, moved the litter that the sultancéit Stamboul had sent. with presents for the prophet)s shrine. - And ever gbové that moving mass rose the voices of thousands, continually crying: “Labbayk—'Allahumma

—abbayk!” Farther and farthew away they went. The colors faded into the blue of the desert horizen, the ery became a murmur—*Labbayk —Labbayk—here am 1.” Labbayk—here am I, The mist drifted cewray-once more. Allahuinma—here am I—alone! The, desert was vast and empty. I alone in the midst af it under the. hovering wing of *the shadow. I turned my head to the right; there were specks in the distance; they were jackals: Overhead there were specks in the sky—they were vultures.. . o . " Then Fear came and sat beside me on the sand,-and whispered that the jackals and the vultures would ghather nearer, that the fever would burn, and the thirst torment, that my tongue would thicken and my blood turn to fire, and I would ecry to Azrael to strike, lest the jackals and ‘the vultures forgot to wait. =~ But I was a martyr. What a comfort there is in pride. As truly was I a martyr as if I fell in battle far Islam, and all the benefits that

~ eould come to those whe marched ~ aboit the Kaabah or listened to the ® gsermon an Arafat—escape from the demons and a speedy entrance into Paradise—would be mine. : For an hour I comforted my soul with these reflections; then I.buried my faciimthe folds of my shroud and feak whispered: “I am here.” . . Allah! Tt is a frightful thing to lie alone, weak and helpless as a :t;mbe, in the middie of the desert, be‘z’ween' the burning of the fever and ~ the chill of the shadow, and to know that the ;?ﬁ%ﬁi%the distance come _ mearer apdMomer, . 0 0 I lifted my voice, weak as a babe’s,

| in that solitude, and cried in despair: “'Labbayk!" and an answering cry ' came from the distance: “Labbayk!” | Alhamdu lilla! I was not deserted. | Some one came swiftly across the sand {of the desert, alone and on foot. 1 “could’ see by the light lisam that | covered her mouth that it was a woinan, but my heart sank and I turned my head away when I knew that it was the hated daughter of the Wahhabis. - ‘She kneeled at my side, raising my head to her knee. I heard the gurgle of water in the goat skin zemzimiyah that she carvied. e | “Drink,” she commanded. I, being too weak to contend, drank; then she made a shade over me from the sun' -and pilldived my head in her lap, croon- 1‘ ing a mountain song until I slept. But before I slept I knew that Fear had gone away. When it was night again the woman roused me to put between my lips a sweet strong: cordial that gave me strength. With her arm still under me | I staggered to my feet, and th;us we set ' out. guided by a star that hung high | in the west. _ : : All' night we journeyed. I was like one walking in sleep, or like a child |- wakened unwillingly, erying with ] weariness and anger that she would not let me lie down &n the sand. - My‘ shroud was around me still, and it trdiled on_ the sand, but I heeded not. Far away now was the trail of the car- i avan, like a scar on the bosom of the desert, and our' own track a pitiful, wavering line that bent to the west. I cursed the woman that she would not let me alone, but my weak rebel-i‘ lion was as nothing to her will, so I stumbled on and the daughter of the Wahhabis held me up till it was dawn. Then we rested. o AN ~ All day she sat by me, while the air‘ I qPi&'ered with heat and the light dazzled the eye. All'day she sat betwéen me and. the sun, holding her garment I as an awning over my face, and moist- | ening my lips with water from the zem- | zimiyah. Dates, too, she compelled me to eat; yet herself tasted neither date nor so much as a drop of water, lest there should not be enough.’ . Isaw her face: Lustrouseyes, black _as midnight, and a mouth that the lisam would not hide. Beneath the linen I could sée the tenderness of its smile. I almost forgot that she was the - daughter of my enemies. Slowly my \strength returned, as if it flowed from her life into mine, till at the evening hour of prayer I was able to {kueel unaided and repeat the words { that the prophet teaches. | - o ’ She had the courage and ‘strength | that her people never-lack: She was { bred in the mountains, used to climb- | ing the steeps with the water jar on *her head, or herding her father’s | flocks, yet she was comely and pli,’us-‘ | ant to look upon, one in a thousand for i‘ l grace.- : Still I spoke not to her, for was she not of the Wahabis? It would be sin to bless her, and curse her I could not. Again night, and we journeyed west. ' Still I stumbled, and still the xvoman’} held me up. Yet her step, it seemed, was less strong, and 1 saw in the moonlight that her face had grown drawn | and weary. .

- In the dawn I heard her whisper: “Courage, I smell the- lime _trées.” Then 1 felt that she tottered, and together we sank upon the sand; yet even then she tried to lift my head, and poured between my lips the last drop of water. 'I crawled on, alone, and reached the Wady Laymum. and heard the tinkle of the water and smelt the fragrance of the limes.

But in the green Wady there was no soul but me. The woman lay out there in the desert, and the Wady was lgnelier than the desert. Icursedthefever and the greed of thirst that had made me push on unmindful that I was alone. Like the rush of the wind my manhood came back to me. Gathering my hands full of limes, I went back to where she ldy. Her lips could utter no word, but her eyes—Allah! did ever eyes show such a wonder of joy?

I'laid her in the shade of the limes, by the pool: She drank of the water, and the cool sour of the fruit revived her. -

- There -were roses blooming. by the water, and a wild melon that climbed about the trunk of a pomegranate made a screen like a curtain where the woman rested. Her name was that of the prophet’s daughter, our lady FatMnah; -, i

Istrayed down by the stream, seeing the birds flee from me, and stopping to gather the dates that had fallen in the grove. The cry of the bittern sounded so sorrowful that it made my heart ache, and I crept back to where Fatimah lay. : -

~Her face lit gloriously when I spoke to her. : ;

“Why did you give your strength for mine? Why did you, of all the caravan, take pity to help me?” I asked, “Five years ago,” she answered, smiling, yet speaking slowly and barely above a whisper, “five years ago I came with my father, a child, to Alexandria. Five.years ago—and you were there, though you remember me not. How could you remember the \_thhabi girl you saved from the stick of the camel driver? You forgot in an hour, but.lnever forgot. Tilllsaw your face in the caravan four days ago 1 had not hoped ever to see it againgyet never for a moment had I forgottzn Th

She stopped, too weak for further speech, but her eyes brightened with a smile that was the dawn that breaks over the -holy city. She did not try even to veil her secret.

O, wonderful heart of woman! Who that lives can fathom its depths of tenderness, or measure its heights of sacrifice? Who can bound it, or describe it, or explain it? Itsloveisborn of a word, a movement of kindness, a glamour; and is immortal as the stars and mightier than death! i When night came again and themoon struggled to pierce the screen of the melon vine that veiled Fatimah’s resting place, her voice was silent and her eyes were closed. All night long I lay _upon‘iny face on the ground, mourning for thie daughter of my enemies, the woman of the Wahhabis, whom love. had slain. _ L Then in the morning I dug a {,/r;vé under the lime trees and laid her there, and made long lamentation. Andthere my heart lies, with Fatimah. - Then the Hgji Al Sherif hid his face in his hands and bowed his head, and I Jknew he forgot that I had heard the _story that is written here.—N, Y. Post,

~ The railroads of the state of Ne braska employ 18,600 men.

HILL ON PROSPERITY 4 i e : ~ 'New York Statesman Discusses Ine | - | 28 g e R 3 i dustrial Conditions. {7 - , ' E Treats the Coal Question as Foremost | Issue of Present Campaign—Re-. - news Demand for Tarit: Reform, | The democratic state campaign ’was formally opened in New York {October 11 with a rousing mass | meeting at the Brooklyn Academy of | Music. Following his custom for many vears. ex-Gov, David' B. Hill fired ihe ‘wpening gun” there. He { made a long speech, full of vigorous utterances, the feature of which was an elaborate defense of the plank in the stete platform demanding governinent control and operation of the lcoal mines. L { .. . . ‘ Mr. liill treated the eoal situation las the foremost issue of the present campaign. He renewed his demand for a ieriff for revenue only and :"harﬁ'l the republicans with sole reiSp()llSi‘.)”iT_\' for the high cost of liv{ing in this country to-day. : ! Cost of Living Increased. i Mr. Hill was warmly welcomed ’ !when he arose to speak. Discussing ‘t}w industrial conditions in the country he sai{]: " “Certain conditiors as well as theories confront the American peopie at this hour. ‘At a time of abundant harvests, with no ipes(iis—ncp afflicting the people, and in the ;er‘.joym_r-m of their “ondinary health, they tind tHémselves confronted with unusual .eangers which threaten their welfare and imperil their happiness. = The average citizen discovers that notwithstanding the alleged prosperity of the times which has been <o vociferously proclaimed by our ‘ political opponents, the fact remains that i the accumulatiorns of wealth have accrugd | to the coffers of the few rather than to I the pockets of the many, anc that the increased eost of living—especially the en- | hanced prices of ‘the necessarles of life—- | have rendered the problem of existerce a 1 3'e more difficult one tosolve. : ’ “The republican party is in undisputed | control' of the state and rpation. It can ! endet or it can refuse to enact whatever | legislation it pleases, If preseént evils are iiracea’hle to vicious legislation and ur- | wise public policies, the responsibility there- | for is easily fixed. If the goverrment inrecent vears has been used to build up private fortunes for the benefit of a few at the experse of many millions; if the public func- | tions of taxation have been abused to subserve personal and corporate interests; if viast combinations of capital have been permitted to stifie competition ancclctate gov-. ernmental measuresfor selfish purposes. the responsibility must be assume:é by the republican party,-which has either sanctioned I or tolerateci such conditions anc refused or | omitted:. to ;remecy them. 1 “The ceocratic party wages no war upon i capital. Neither is it:inimical to corpora- | tions lawfully engaged in legitimate enter- | prizes. It respects vested rights and does | not regard the possession of wealth honestly. acquired as a crime, nor coes 1t consider poverty as a virtue or as a disgrace. “In common with all gopdi citizens it views with alarm the organization in the past few years of those vast corporate combihations wnich have for their real, though not ostensible,. nhjopt. the creation of monopoly by rerdering competition practically impos‘sible through the immensity of the cap- | ital employed and the almost/unlimited ext tent of their powers and operations. Itis not believed that combirations of such a charaeter are in the. pubiic Irterest or are productive: of public good.” : : Demands Tariff Revision, ' Referring to the question of tariff revision, Mr. Hill said: = :

“With over $500,000.000 of surplus revenue in the treasury of the Unitedl States it is follv—ayé, it is almost eriminal—to further resist a moditication of the present exorbitant tariff rat€s. No good reason can be urged why such revision should not be immediately undertaken.” i Favors Government Control. . Of the plank of the state platform demanding govérnment ®wnership of the anthracite mines, he said: . “The proposition iz neither startling, revolutionary, socialistic nor paternal, but is constitutional, necessary, expedient, and, above all, -it is right. It is simply a reasonable and necessary extension of the general policy of public ownership already largely prevailing in the municipalities of the country. This proposition. does not commit the party to any other projects of public ownership, whatever their merit, if any there mayv be. 3 :

““The coal question iz a national one. If it is not, why did the president himself re-. cently intervene and summon private citizens to the white house Tor conferenceand sxercise his official influerce in regard to a matter over which he had fio jurisdiction? He was not acting underany statute. Hehad no authority for any legal interference on his part. He himself has rhade it a national question and he and his party are now estopped from otherwise regarding it. It is a national question because the impendir.g coal famine involves the welfare of the whole people of the United Ttates,.and such a famine shoulcd be prevented from ever bccurring again, which cannot be assured under private ownership and concrol. Tt is the province of wise statesmanship to provice against just such. emergencies in the future. There is no permanent remedy proposed by anyvbocy except that suggested in the democratic platform.” BRYAN HITS SHAW. -

Says the Secretary Is Running the Treasury in the Interests. of Wall Street, W. J. Briyan says Secretary Shaw has been guilty of.a breach of public trust by pursuing the same policy the republican party denounced the democrats for doing in 1888—loaning the government money, without interest, to *pet banks.” In his Commoner Mr. Bryan says: TX2 present secretary of the‘Jtre-asury has gone far beyond ary previous secretary In respording to the wishes anc'advancing the interest of ‘pet wanks.” The partiality shown by the treasury department to the Rockefeller bank in New York is well known.

‘‘But the recent rumors of Secretary Shaw go beyond anythirg that has heretofore been known. It is gross favoritism @Wlet thebanks have government money for nothing, in order that they may loan it out to their customers at §ne usual rate of interest. The fact that they give bonds for security has notbing to do with it, because they cdraw interest on the bords at the same time that they draw interest on the government money which they are permitted to loan out. But New York banks had loaned out soo much money on tl}e'ﬁvatered stock of the trusts thatthey were rot prepared for any shrinkage in théir deposits, andi the government at once went to their aid. R &

‘“Whethers the secretary has violated the law in his effort to rescue the banks is a question which will probably be discussed ‘when congress meets, but that he {s running the treasury department in the interestof Wallstreet is a question which is not open to dispute.”’ ——All the punsters will vote for Congressman Cannon rather than Congressmman Littlefield to be Speaker Hénderson’s successor. When it is said that Littlefield’s field will be enlayged If he is electedl speaker, the evident possibilities are exhausted: In the other case there will be unlimited material. When the punsters have remarked about Cannon’s being loaded, being spiked, shooting off his mouth, exploding his wrath. having a long range, firing blank cartridges and being various kinds of a bore, they will bhave just got warmed to their work.— Boston Advertiser. :

A WALL STREET VICTORY. The Administration Throws Open the Treasury Vaults to the “Captains of Industry.” x When a granger gets to meddling with the stock ticker trouble usually results. When a country lawyer or banker is introduced to the mysteries of *high finance” of the Wall street variety, he is likely to be an easy mark for our ‘“captains of industry,” as President Roosevelt calls them. Captains of industry of the Wall street stripe are like three-card-monte men, the only difference being in degree. They are all gamblers, trying to make something out of nothing.

When President Roosevelt discovered Mr. Shaw he was a banker in a small tgwn on the Towa prairies. He knew the price of hogs, he had a keen appreciaticn of the advantage of good crops and the prosperity that followed when nature showered her favors upon that fertile state. : When Mr. Shaw was selactedias Secretary of the treasury, his first step after being sworn.in was to visit the subtreasury in New York. That government building is in clese proximity to Wall street, and when the bankers and stock jobbers heard that Shaw was in town, they called on him and showered him with invitations to banquets and entertainments. He held conferenced with the leading financiers, and a programme was fixed up to aid the waning fortunes of what 1S now known as the money market. -The bankers said their stock of money was fast being depleted by the calls for money from the west, *“to move the erops.” This is the usual annual subterfuge for a raid on the United States "treasury. The west was simply calling for the money the banks had on deposit in New York,

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§ 4 which the New York bankers had foaned té the Wall street gamblers. Secretary Shaw, from his experiance as a country banker, knew that this fiction of Wall street furnishing the money to move the Crops, was merely a blind to cover up the operations that were to transfer the treasury surplus to his mnew-found friends. He was anxious to aid them and “save the country” and his party, for Shaw is a partisan. The Chicago Chronicle, which cannot be said to be antagonistic to the money power, in its issue of October 3. gave a full account of the connection of the administration with the New York bankers, in which it said:

“The secretary of the treasury extended a favor to these .men, which it is admitted saved Wall street from a disastrous panic. The favor was all the more vulllul)b/m«a the secretary was compelled to pugt aside some of the most sacred traditions of the treasury department, and place constructions on laws that may not hereafter be sustained by the courts. The favor was not the secretary’s. It was the administration’s. Wall street can charge it directly to President Roocsevelt:2 :

From this it will be seen that the extraordinary ‘aid to Wall street that has stretched the law in favor of Morgan and the trusts to the point. “that may not hereafter be sustained by the courts,” was a well-concoeted scheme to aid the stock gamblers at the expense of the people.

LT he country f)anker. who had hardly warmed his chair as/secretary of the treasury, has been introduced to the Wall street game, and had at once fallen in love with it. Perhaps he had a tip in return on how the market was going. Like many an unwary granger seeking gold bricks. in Gotham, he may later be a wiser biit a sadder man.

PRESS COMMENTS.

——Secretary, Shaw says the law gives him discrétion in the matter of bank reserves. This is fortunate. He needs it.—N. Y. World:

——The republican editor is a hardworked mortal these days trying to reconcile the existence of strikes, trusts, tariffs and high prices with the plea of universal prosperity.— St. Paul Globe.

——lt is to be hoped that the humorous features of most of the campaign speeches in defense of tariftprotected trusts and monopolies are not escaping the notice of the longsuffering voter.—Chicago Chronicle.

——“When the republican party is in power labor strikes, and when the democratic party is in power capital strikes. Labor, however, never strikes except when it is safe and capital never strikes except when it is unsafe.”. Thus is Senator Foraker, of Ohio, quoted. -—=Some of the grand sachems of the republican party still insist that the Dingley tariff is too holy to be touched by anyone, even by the chief priests in the protection temple. But the most of them seem to have heard from lowa in the west and Boston in the east and to have made up their minds that it is not safe to preach the sacredness and inviolability of all the Dingley schedules too strenuously.—Chicago Chronicle,

GIRAGVER CLEVELANL'S VIEWS.

Democrats Mast Make a Strong:-Fight on Its Old-Time Doctrine of Tariff Reform. ?

To a representative of° the New York Evening Post who asked him his views in regard to the outlook for-and the duty of the democracy in the approaching congressional elections, ex-President Grover Cleveland, on October 14, said:

‘lt seems to me that if the democracy is really ir earnest it cannot fail largely to increase its representation in the next congress, but in oréer to do so I think that there must be a constant and stalwart insistence upon the things which are recogrnized by &ll to be true democratic doctrines. Of course, by far the most important of these is tariff reform. On this issuei lam satisfied that the democracy is face to face with a great opportunity. All of the sigrs of ‘tke times point to a recognition, far, keyond all party lines, of the benefits which would acecrue to the people by a readjustment of the tariff, and it would be worse than folly for the party under the stress of ary temptation or ylelding to any allurement o permit this to be suborcinated to or overshadowed by any other issue. *The" present restiessress in republican circles on, this subject, often amounting to protests: against republican protective theories, should warn the democracy of an impending danger. I mear by this the possibility that cur opponents may crowd us from out positicn on this subject if we allow them to do so by our lukewarmness and irdifference, and to occupy our ground, just as we permittec) them to crowd us from the ground that belornged to us on the question of sound money. 1 am very much pleased with the deliverance of the New York democracy on the tariff’issue, and it was fit and proper ‘that the Empire state should sounrd the right note. It is my clear conviction that the best assurance of succezs for the democracy in the next nationa]l campaig‘q will be found in a sincere and unremitting insistence upon its old-time coctrine of a falr and beneficent tariff reacjustment. This insistence should be from now on. It reed hardly be said th&t success will depend upon the presentation of tariff doctrine, not only recognized as truly democratic by those who may be termed veterans in the ty. but also commending itself to the hgg of

the younger men of our land. Thousands of these awalt the opporturity to espouse a cause which must appeal to disintereste@ love of country and which is based upon thoughtful regard of all our peopie and the gafety of the institutions under which we live. To these young men no hope is offered for the realization of their patriotic asplrations except through the conscientious endeavors of the democratic party. “I am. at a loss to understand by what process of reasoning the notion has gained a footing in certain ckemocratic quarters not only that no importance attaches to a democratic ascendtancy in the next house of representatives, but even that it might'be adivantageous to-party prospects in 1904 for it to continue in its present minority now. Political warfare ought to be regarded as continuous and, if the results battled for are worth having at all, they are worthy of our best efforts at all times And under all circumstances. Constant vigilance and unrelenting attack are essential to victory. Armies are captured by first driving in the outposts, SeT e *I cannot believe that the bright prospects of the democracy in the present campaign are to be marred by any lack of hard work ana@ strenuous fighting.”

- PARTY IS DEMORALIZED. Financial Policy of the Administra= tion Is Derided by a Repub- - ‘. lican Organ, Speaking of the Wall strat situation, the Chicago Tribune, a republican newspaper, evidently does not approve the findncial experiments of the administration to help out its Wall street friends, for it says: - “Wall street is now sleeping upon a thin crust which conceals restless voleanic fires. The secretary of the treasury may attempt to relieve the situation by pouring money into Wall strect by releasing reserves or by accepting state and municipal bonds in lieu of government ‘bonds. These expecients are temporary 'ir: their palliative effects. As far as permanent good is concerned, they are much like pouring water into the craters of Mont Pelee or Vesuvius. The secretary’'s remedies only tend to aggravate the complaint. They bring on-a se= ries of small explgsions, each more injurious than the one before it. ; **Values are too high. Wall street will have to take its medicine. It needs a more thorough clearing out. Its system isbadly disordered. The stock exchange is frantic and needs a soothing draff.” The Tribune kills two birds with one stone; it punctures. the trust windbags and the attempt to shove off their watered stocks on the public, ‘and shows the futile efforts of Secretary Shaw to stay the tide of demoralization that lis overtaking Wall street. Considering that the president and his cabinet approved the exeraordinary aid given by Secretary Shaw to the Yall street bankers and their trust associﬁ‘:s, this attack of the Tribune on thefr policy is the nmiore to be wondered at.

——Speaker Henderson seems cool under the reflections that are made on him. Perhaps he expects to be called back after a season of rest. It would be a proud thing to have it acknowledged that the country could not get along - without him; but there are so many impertinent youngsters coming forward who want :ﬁ the offices.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

——Senator Allison thinks it puerile to suggest placing articles controlled by monopoly on the free list, becanse more trusts would be benefited by it than otherwise. Well, why are the trusts fighting the proposition’ with -all their might? If it would benefit them, they . would adopt the opposite course, wouldn's they ?—Sioux City Times. |

BLAMESREPUBLICANS

Richard Olney Says Coal Strike Is the Fruit of Protection. Kcores Operntors for Illegal Acts and Upholds Right of Labor to Combine—Hopes for Democratie Victory, = Richard Olney, secretary of state in President Clevéland’s cahinet, was the pringipal orator at a dinner given by the Democratic Club of Massachusetts to Col. William A. Gaston, the party candidate for governor, at Bostor, Saturdav., Octcber 11. G

Mr. Olney described present conditions in the anthracite coal fields as the result of republican rule. Forty years. . . R of partnership with protected industries had placed -public officials and some private citizens fu pofitions whete they .decmed themselves above the law. He criticised- the .zealous haste of the treasury department to rush to the reliéf of Wall street speculaters, and, while erediting President Roosevelt with goodintentions, pointed to the danger that might foliow his efforts to settle the ccal strike without authority of law. Democrats Headed Aright; Mr. Olney’s speech follows: ' ‘“Mr, Chairman. and Gentlemen: I welcome the opportunity to declare my belief not ornly that the democratic party is now heacirg in the right direction, and is tolerably dure of ultimately recoverirng {ts old-time! ascendency, but that that rresult is essentially to the welfare of the American. people. There is one. aspect of the present situation to which I desire to briefly call your attention. C . “The vital principle as well as distinguishing merit of our political institutions consists in liberty regulated by law. With the exception of two Cleveland admihistrations, the republican party has been in control of the national-government for a period. of maore than 40 years. Where it has landet us as respects liberty I will not now consider. But where has#t landed us &s respects law, which has no right to the rame, unless it is the same for the mililonaire and for the-beggar? “The signhs of the times-‘are that under the regime of the republican party and through the natioral government, 4) years of partrership with -the protected irndustries, we have come to a pass where public officials as well as private citizers deem themselves above the law. -

“Wiiress the zealous haste ‘vith which the treasury rushes to the relief of Wall street speculators. by a povel and forced construction of the national barkirng law. Witness the astcnishing proceeding of the same department in'its instructions to subordinate officers respecting the dutles to be colléctedl on coal { Roosevelt's Action Dangerous. _ “But the generally lawless atmospherein which .proteeted republican reign has envelopec' us ‘is -even more strikingly illustrated by the recent presidential demonstration upon the coal strike, There-are these who say ‘that as the prézicent disclaimed any official duty or relation to the matter, he should not have interferedi There is somethirg to be said for that view. Though . his .office is charged with great functions ard. invested with great powers, the prezicent is a -eonstitutional officer whose sphere of action is strictly iimited by law. Within that sphere he is well-nigh absolute; without he is legally impotert. Wkhen, therefores he goes without it, the dangeristhafh¥ may fail ard be defied, and that his great office may lose prestige and power, andrthus be less capable of performing its legitimate duties. :

““The president, for example, is our represe?mi\'e with foreign powers. Will it stfengthen his ‘hands thaf some half a dozen private citizens are found! snapping their fingers'in his face? The president’s overture to the coal operators was prompted by the best motives and should:have been treated with respectful corsideration. It must have been declined courteocusly, even it firmly:

-“But the opportunity to, administer a ‘snub to the president was too tempting. Accordingly he was not only treated as a rash intermeciiler; he was also lectured upon the law and facts of the case, andg, to crown all, was rotified that the cause of the troyble was lawlessness, which he was sarcastically in*ed‘ t 0 SUPPress. “For sheer audacity, this attitude of the coal operators could hardly be matched, and nothking could more strongly emphasize the disrespect into which'the law of the land has'béen brought by long-continued're-publican domination, - d Operators Defy the Law.,

““Yet, . who are they who were so insistent upon the suppression of lawlessness in ‘the mining reglons? Why, the most unblushirg and persistent of lawbreakers. For vears they have Cefied the law of PPennsylvania, which forbids eommon carriers engagirng in the busiress of mining. For years they have discrimirated between customers in the freight charges on their railYoads in violation of the interstate commerce law. For years they have unlawfully moropo4ged interstate commerce in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. )

“Indeed, the very best excuse anc'explanation of their astonishing ‘attituce at theé Washington conference is that, having violated:so mary laws for so lorng and so many times, they might rightfully think they were wholly immune from either pun{shment or reproach. ' “It is sometimes urgedin extenuation of the coal operators’ foolish!y offensive tone .at the corference that they were enraged at the recogrition pf labor urions, ard the presence by’invitation of their representative. If that be so, they must be as blind to the salient facts of the era they are livirg in as they are oblivious of legal obligations. e Right of Labor to Combine, , ‘“ln these days .of combinations by cap2tal on a scale and to an extent. as startling as it is unprecedented can the® possibly imagine that labor is to be ¢ehied an equivalent right of combinatlon? If they do, it is only another instance of their complete indifferernce to the law of the land. “In 1894 receivers of a railroad were brought into court on a claim that laborers ought not. to be discharged because of membership of labor union. Though the court was a federal court, it sat in Pennsylvania, ard@ the petitioners got nothire from that court. . ;

“But what followed? In a year or two Pennsylvania made it a criminal offense to deprive a man of work because he belonged to a labor union. InlB9B\congress not only did the same thing, but in a statute proviging for the arbitration of Jabor 'disputes expressly made labor organizations parties to such arbitration. This was in adfiition to the previous legislation by congress encouraging and providing ‘tor the incorporation of labor unions. Inignoring them, therefore, the coal operators simply ignore and condemn the law of the land. - “I will detain you, Mr. Chairman, but a moment longer. In the course of the political campaign now going on republican orators are sure to wax eloquent in deprecatIng change. To ail such oratory, while there are many good answers, There is ones that is conclusive. ‘“Law, supreme and equal for all men, is to the American people what the ark of the covenant was to the Jews of old. Whils we have it we rewy. not tear for our safety . when we lcse it we are far advanced-on thy high road -to ruin. Hence, if we would not enter upen that road, change and the dis: placement of republicanism cannot come too soon or too, decisively.”

—That there was danger of a stock market panic cannot be denied, an¢ the secretarﬁ’g action rescued the market. But if the United States government is to be looked upon as ready to get stock operators out of a hole by resorting to measures certainly without precedent and probably without warrant in law, where is the limit of expectation to be drawn? Will not the natural checks to récklessness be relaxed Tnore than evel if a vague reliance upon government rescue at the eleventh hour is encourpged. as it fz by such proceedings as thesey-=Dalthsiore News. - :

i|: S Igi@!?ﬁ-‘ (] ey A P : IR N E=) I h!r \ PRy { d % @ “c i i.U' 2.2 1\ 19 AR & o s . PN T & & =" — = - ,- ‘ s o - 'W/‘/\—/V\/\;'\/\/'W\.NW\M/\W ROYAL CHURCH WORKER. °-x \ > Queen Christina pf Sweden Labors Zealously for Spiritual Welfare of Her People. ! BBvv s . ’ It isn't often that you find a queen goiug in seriously for religious work, but that is what the queen of Norway and Sweden does. Of course, her court and family duties do not leave the eldeily royal lady much time for outside employments, but all that she has she devotes to looking after the spiritual welfare of her two peoplés.

All sects are on the same footing in the estimation of this highly-placed “church worker,” so long as they ac*omplish good. She herself is a member of the Swedish Evangelical party, and when she was in England in 1900 the religious work dlfby the low church greatly attractdd her. She attended social meetings df those who devoted themselves to bettering the condition of the poor, and got-many “pointars” for her‘future work . at home. She is the stanchest f¥riend that ;the Salvation Army has in- her realm, and the great influence which the followers of Gen. Booth *have gained in Sweden is due more than a litile to ‘the encouragement they haye received from the queen.

Queen Sophie, however, is mot the only member of the Swedish royal family swith spiritual tendencies: Her eldest son, the crown prince, is too busy learning statecraft to give much time to spreading Christianity; - but her secend son, Prince Oscar, and-his wife (who are known as the Count and Countess von \’\'isﬂex‘g) are: their mother’s devoted lieutenants in- alt her religious ehtefpri_se.%; o

The count and eountess- are, —of course, the handsome young eouple whose picturesque love affair made such a tithe in Sweden several vears

ago, and in dealing with, which'Kin Oscar It. behaved so good-naturedl; The countess was then Miss Ebb Munck, lady-in-waiting to Queen S phie, aud it was to be expected tha the king would do all in his powe

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It is notf so very strange that King Oscar should have acted as he did in regard to his son’s marriage, for he is regarded as perhaps the most unceremcnious as well as one of the most talentel .of European monarchs. At the weekly receptions. which his majesty holds in Stockholm-any one of his subjects, be he high or low, is welcome..

To them come noblemen, -poor codfishers, wealthy merchants and ‘even peasants, and to almost every ‘one the affable royal host has a govudhumored word or two te say. -His majesty’s mode of getting from place to place is quite as original—for .a king. Except on grand occasions he never thinks of using_ his state carriage, but will jump carelessly en a passing street cars or, if- he hasn't too far to go, walks along the street like any one else; entirely. without escort. Probably if King- Edward were io saunter alone down Piceadilly traffic would be stopped by the crowds that would gather to get a near view of their sovereign. King ®scar, however, is so well known a figure that passers-by. hardlv turn their heads except. to.salute him; - - The l:ing’s literary gifts are, “of course, well known: "He has translated Goethe’s “Faust,” he ‘has pub--lished several books of poems and composed four or five rattling sailor songs. His majesty’s poems are published under the pen name-of “Oscar Trederick.” e %

Flowers for Table Decoration. ‘Flowers which naturally mass low are more suitable for table decoration thanthose whose beauty must be sacrificed in the cutting of long stems. A’iolets are among the former: An edge of delicate ferns, preferahly maidenHair, makes the most exquisite setting for the dainty -violet. There. are numerous pretty designs for individual decorations at a violet luncheon, the flower lending itself easily to r:epi'()duection. Acallaljly mixed with French violets is a pretty thing to lay af each plate. Lemons cut in halves lengthways and the pulp replaced with candied vielets are enticing favors, and place cards laid with violet ribbon and having a violet stickpin run through as a souvenir are always appreciated by women.—Chicago Ddily News. . Easy “‘ai to cuenn'fl‘ifﬁ,’ a 3 To clean tin dip-a rag into parafhn, theli into powdered whiting, and scour thetinwithite » i = i

PROUD OF EIS WIFE. ‘ Chicago VWoman Displays Maguifii cent Heroism and Is Praised : 1 . by Heér Husband, | ) T = . {. .The good-natured looking suburbanite put his feet on the seat opposite. in defiance to-the regulation oI the ‘ company. “It ism't-lonesome where I 1 live,” he observed to the man pext 1o him, “and my wife never feels uneasy | when I'm qaway.” o 3 t . “But then;” he added, “my wife isn™t an ordinary woman. She’s notnervons or hysterical—keeps ber presence of ! mind under all circumstances.” She - % gave me a practical Hlustration of that i yesterday. - I felt 'nr_(iud ofber.. - . { “She’sa woman to be proud of "szid { the seat mate politely. T 3 ; “She is.” agreed thé good-naturedy” | looking man. This was an encoanter 'with. a-mouse, teo. If it had been a | large-sized and ferocicus Peneg! limer

it wouldn't- have been so remarkable. I'saw a woman go intoa ¢age of ligns once and slap and slam them ar Aind and makeé theth jump through Seérs ) £t 2 o } 11 YV Py -7 1 4] (1l Voo ' \}; Vb LD e 14 ’ { ;,; " : : A/ D e P 5 fi 1 ,-: e ;;W ‘,\ 3 :’N‘% it A e et e - t L e Y & Ll i S LRSS R O e o~ LeT ; 1 W oo . HER AIM WAS FAULTY. hoops, but I never ﬁam of oue that had the nerve to tadkle a mouse single handed before. The mouse got inte - the sitting-room somehow and, apparently conffident that it would not be im-- - -terfered with, as my wife was alone, ran across-the floor and disappeared behind the window curtains. -~ : “My wife does not deny that she trembled, but she summoned ail of her uncommon resofmtien to her aiéd and sat perfeetly still while she thoughz of the best means of meeting the emergency., , . 2 “A hundred schemes for escape flashed across her mind. 16 be in turn’ rejected- A mad impulse to scream and leap upon the table was heroically resisted. +Suddenly her eves fell upena bronm which had been left standing ina corner- and -the instant her resolutiom was formed. - : *With bated breath and wildiy beat- - ing heart she steaith:ly arose, keeping ong eye on the curtain: Then wwiftls and silently. she crossed.the floor and - seized the: broom.. The teuch of 1t seemed to give-her ¢ourage and confidence almost inftantly. ¢ : “She went quickly to the door and - closed it and’*with the act came an access of calmness. Yes. she was perfectlv coel and collected. With the broom p(‘:frt?'l;. she adtanced to the win- ¢ dow custain and aimed a vicicus swipe at the place where the mouse masconcealed. Then 'she - sprang. guickly back. — . . ‘i . “She was -hardly more than ir time, ~ for the mouse ran out and then, seeingy ‘thie determined figure. apposite him, ran back and be¢gan to climb the window: curtain, : “Again. my wife advanced. and aimed ‘another deadly blow. but her ,im was poor and the mouse gained the window sill in safety and tried 10 get throiugh-the glass " “Once more the broom was raised This time there should be no misealeulation.” My wife was calm—per fectly calm, as I said befors. Shemeasured * the. distance carefully .with Her eve and then, trme 1o its mark. the broom whistled throush the air and crashed through the 3 pame oi I;‘rvn('h plate, incideniglly taking the mouse-and a rather mice little Venetion.epergne with jt. ~ = “I- thirk that was - magnificent, dont’t you2’—Chicago Daily News. . THE CARE OF CARPETS. Some Housewives Destroy Theiz " Floor Coverings by Being En- - tirely Teo Economical. - a " -To keep a good carpet do not hige it-under a cheap ¢rugget. as manr a prudent but short-sighted housewife does. . This only makes a mood carpe: the lining for a poor one. Through the loose fibers of the drugget dust filters ‘and-tittle bits of dirt. which wéar away the fabric undeTneath. Sy TNI It is always best to have fhe (‘arpet“ ‘laid’ by men from the store, as they - _know how to-aveid straining the fiber. Letthem also cléan the-carpets, as the amateur usually does more harm than _good -as a cleaner. The carpet should be brushed away from the nap. XNap dragged daily the wrong way weakens ° and pulls away. r : “To crean a carpet it shounld be done over yard by yard with a clothes brush, sweeping with the nap. This willgive yvou a chance to see all the stains. -

" The right method to treat a good. . - carpet is to-lay it carefully-on a soft ‘ bedding of thick layers of newspapers ‘or of brown paper. The printing ink on newspapers is disliked by ¢he moth. which will ﬁgoid such things as a place . -unsuitable for the laying of its eges. h Thus thick folds of newspapers not only give a thick underfooting for the floor, but reliéve the housewife of ope souyrce of worry—moths in her best carpet. The papers should be renewe - each time the carpet is taken up—Boston Journal. . o .- Necklaces Made of Ants, : In-the island of New Guinea, or Papua, the chief adornmept of the f swell ladies is a necktie made of black ants. The native girls find the antsin f the gardens, they bite off and swajlow ! the lower end, throw away the head, § and thrgad the thorax. One woman, the bride, of a chief, wore a neckiave . 11 feet long, on which were the bodies . of 1,800 ants.” - o " Dainty Plng-Pong Prives. For-prizes for ping-pong there seems to be no end to the novel and attract- . ive little trinkets. One of the mest S recently introduced isacupand sameer on ping-pong lines, the m@ ‘hollow ball with a- racket handle and pingpongrackets, -.-