Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 1, Ligonier, Noble County, 31 March 1904 — Page 2

) \’:‘"Jﬂ, N 8 _',u" e / Love’ 40V E S ’ 0 < Awakening e ; ALBERT Jp RLINCK (Copyrizht, 1904, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) THE/two had long sat silent, the nusband holding a folded newspaper, the wife toying with a costly fan. . The light from the single lamp hardly penetrated to the corners of the large room, and the fire in the grate had burned so low that it was all but out. il : “Yes,” the wife said, .“it is time a change took place. We cannot agree. ‘There is no comfort for either of "us here.” ; He went on rolling the paper in his hands, his eyes averted, his lips firmly set. : ; :

*Why should we both suffer?” asked Constance Harcourt, after a pause. “There is mo reason why we both should not be happy. And if not both, then one of us at least. But for once I am goipg to be selfish, Arthur. I am going to be happy. I am going to leave you to-night.” » He sat more erect in his seat, raised his eyes to hers, but still sat silent. o 2 l

“Itis the only way,” she went on. “We are not at all suited to each other. It has been some time in dawning upon me, but 1 _see it all now. Mistakes will happen. Of course we are neither of us to blame. I have packed up a few of my belongings. I suppose you will aliow Chalmers to convey them from the house?”’ ‘

His 'gri-p upon the newspaper became more- tense. .

“There need be. no scene when I go,” she continued. ‘“Our little drama has already been brought to a fitting climax., I'll just slip eut. That will end #it.” » : li‘,gCo,nstance Harcourt rose from her seat, cast the fan carelessly upon the table, took up a book that was lying there, and left the room. e

Arthur Harcourt did not move until he heard footsteps in the room above; then he roused himself and thought over what his wife had said. His brow was furrowed at first, his breast heaved. Then he laughed. It really was such a.luge joke. Constance going to leave him! Constance going to——. He laughed again. But his levitv was 'suddenly cut short, for he heard a swish of skirts in the hallway, and a few hurried words spoken in an undertone.- A moment later Chalmers, the butler, came into the room, placed upon the table a tray holding a bcttle and a single glass, and was abou: to withdraw when Harcourt asked: » - “To whom were: you just speaking?” - : » ‘Mrs. Harcourt, sir,” he “replied. “And what was the conversation about?”’ : ; “She asked me would I please carry some parcels for her,” said Chalmers. “Is she -dressed for the street?” o ¥es, gint .“Tell Mrs. Harcourt I desire to see her at once.” :

“Yes, sir,” said Chalmers, leaving ‘the room. s .

Arthur Harcourt was walking up and down when his wife entered. ~ She came in noiselessly, and he was not aware of her presence until he heard her “Well?” in a high, clear voice. “You are carrying this farce too far, Constance,” he began. , , © “You forget,” she said. ‘“We have alreawy gone beyond the ‘bounds of farce. , We have entered the realm of drama:’ ; ) “Be careful that tke end of it will not be tragedy,”’ he said coldly. “Where are you going?”’ o i : * “And it I refuse to. ahswer your question?” . f | “Where are you going?”’ he asked again. ' : Constance said nothing. " “Are you goirg to your father?” “Perhaps, and perhaps not.” “Say yes or ro,” Harcourt demand-

ed. £ “I shall do neither.” Arthur Harcourt stood still. For one awful moment his eyes were fiercely upon her. ~Then he stretched forth his hands to clutch at her white throat, but she quickly ‘withdrew, closing thei door behind her and locking it fromi the outside. Then she motioned to Chalmers, and led the way to an unused wing of the large house. Here she ‘removed her ‘gloves, hat and wraps, and turning up the lamp, addressed the bewildered butler: - “You are to tell no one of my presence here. When the opportunity presents itself bring my meals to me. In case cook questions you, tell her to mind what I have told her. She’ll ‘understand. Should my husband ask where you went with me, tel him I entered a cab at the corner, and- dismissed you. You are ‘positively not to tell him ‘I am .here. Do you under-. stand, Chalmers?”* “Yes, Mrs. Hareourt, I understand,” he replied. : . : : - For the next two.or three days Ar“thur Harcourt was in a daze. He shunned his . friends, acted queerly when at his business,-and when evening came cat alone in the great room that had been the sc¢ene of his last interview with his_wife. He could not read, he could not sleep. The memread, he could not sleep. The memory of that evening elung to him like a leech. There were times when Chalmers felt extremely sorry for his master, especially when he found him sitting alone in- the evening. And it was "because he felt this way that he one night admitted Sam. Truxton into Harcourt’s presence. Chalmers had strict orders to state that his master was at home to no one. On this occasion, however, ~he saw fit to disobey, reasoning that a quiet-little chat with a friend would - be of great benefit to his master. -* Upen entering the room Truxton started at sight of the dejected figure in the’large armchair. Harcourt looked ‘bad enough in the daytime, but at ‘night, in the yellow glow of the lamp, he looked positively ghastly. “This ‘Il never do, Arthur,” Truxton began. “And I'm going to be frank with you. This story about your - wife’'s being away is all bosh. She’s _here in the very city. She’s—" ' “Good God, Truxton,” cried Harcourt, “where is she?” e '_“Th:ep % yqnmtt how?n 3 2 ‘amfw o ’““ o . : : : o su'smdédf" that from the first,” said Truxton. “I knew jt was that

that worried you. And as a friend I feel it my duty to tell you what 1 heard last evening.” “What did you hear?” broke in Har‘court, .

“That the veiled dancer at the Alcazar is Mrs. Harcourt,” replied Truxton. , :

“The veiled—the Alcazar—” Then Harcourt put his hands to his temples. “She used to be a good dancer,” he went on, as if to himself. “Yes, but the Alcazar—that of all places!”

“Comie, Truxton,” he said, ““we must go to the Alcazar at once. I must get her out of that place as soon as possible. Come, Truxton come.” . In a short time the two were seated in a box at the theatre. -

~When the great act finally came Harcourt leaned far out on the box railing, awaiting the dancer’s appearance, which “was heralded with a dreamy waltz by the orchestra and the spnttering of the caleium. Tien a figure leaped lightly into the silvery patch of radiance. It was clothed in a.spangled costume, long and of ample folds, while covering the whole there fell from the crown of the ‘head vard upon yard of the thinnest illusion. : 5 ,

- ‘Now the swaying figure was like burning gold, now like shining silver. At the next moment it looked as if bathed in blood; then changed. to fiery red. Next followed such a rapid, succession of colors as seemed beyond man’s ingenuity to produce. And finally total darkness prevailed. Distant thunder began to rumble, with faint flashes of lightning. Louder and louder it grew, brighter and brighter became the lightning, each time bringing into view the undulating figure of the dancer. Then came a blinding flash, followed by a deafening roar. The bespangled figure fell to the floor, writhing in apparent agony. A few ghastly contortions, the uplifting of a snowy arm and the dance was over. e

Harcourt sat through it all, entranced. He seemed to have forgotten everything save the mystic, gyrating figure. The evolution from one stage to another of the dance enthralled him. Even when it was all over he remained sitting, his eyes staring at the stage curtain. But Truxton finally roused him, and once out on the street, Harcourt turned to his friend“and said: “Jove, it was wonderful!”

. They walked cn. Truxton wondered at{the other’s silence, but said nothing. When they reached Harcourt’s home Truxton noticed his friend turn suddenly round, and seizing him by the arm, cried out: ;

“My God, Truxton, I must go back! It was my wife. I had forgotten.” . Truxton expostulated with him—tried to lead him up the steps into his home; but Harcourt was determined to go back to the theater, and Truxton, despairing of changing his mind, at last consented, and together they retraced their steps to the place of amusement. “To think that in the wonder -of it all I should forget she was my wife!” Harcourt repeated again and again. The dancer had Ileft when they reached the theater. The manager was standing in the lobby, and Harcourt opened up a conversation with him. He was a gruff man, and in a few words told that thke dancer would receive no one, ncr would she condescend to accept written matterother than that relating to her vaudeville engagements. . After this Harcourt tried his best to secure an interview with the dancer. He went to the theater night after night, waiting at the stage entrance to see her come out.

One evening he came home, and taking a revolver from his pocket, laid it upon the table before him.’ “You’ll dance for the last time tonight, Nyganza;” he said half aloud. “Your agony will not be feigned. The lightning will strike in ‘earnest ‘tonigxt.” : . * He-put the weapon into his pocket, donned his hat and coat, and went out into‘the street. As the door closed after him Chalmers, the butler, rufßed up the stairs and along the hall he rooms which Mrs. Harcourt had ch¥sen to occupy. He rapped at the door. It was cautiously opened. A few moments’ breathless conversation followed. Then Mrs. Harcourt cried out:

“Order the carriage, Chalmers, quick. Tell Marie to get ready with all speed. I must reach the Alcazar. before—" The door closed and Chalmers bounded through the passage. Mrs. Harcourt succeeded in getting a box directly back of the one -her husband occupied. ~ There was but a thin silky curtain between them.

When the glitiering figure appearedf Mrs. Harcourt moved still closer to her husband, her eyes wild,: her breath coming quickly. Her mind was centered upon reaching over and touching him—to speak a word that would tell him she was not there upon the stage, but in the box behind him, reaay to forgive and forget. But she could not. The very knowledge of the impending tragedy turned her-into_ a thing of stone. |

The vivid flashes of mock lightning now began to light up the stage.- The thunder was gradually becoming louder. The figure on the stage was twisting, swaying, gyrating. The final great flash was about to illumipe the stage. In the short interval of darkness Harcourt raised his revolver into place, pointing it at the spot where he knew the-dancer to be. A beam of light zigzagged across the stage, lit up tlie-body of the house, and when "Mrs. Harcourt saw it reflected upon the weapon in her husband’s ' hand, she | leaned over and, touching him upon the arm, whispered hoarsely: EATthury - i ;

The revolver fell from his grasp He turned round, his face deathly, hls eyes opened to their widest. “Constance!” he cried softly. “Conmstance!” :

When they reached the rear of the theater both looked back at the stage. In the dazzling light they saw a writhing figure, the uplifting of a snowy arm, then dense gloom. Once more in the costly lighted drawing room Arthur Harcourt sat down and drew his wife to him. “Constance,” he said, “I did no% know how dear you were to me until you had gone. Oh, how miserable ! have been! I’ll be different now, Cen stance. Forgive me.” “l forgive you, Artkut” vthe whi: pered. L

REVIEW OF SOME OF DOINGS IN LAKE METROPOLIS. CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR Chicago Indifferent to Grand Opera and Partial to Revival Services—- . The “Gambling ’Phone’’—The Dress-Makers’ Convention. Chicago.—That Chicago is the political center of Illinois has again been

strikingly demonstrated as one after another of the candidates for the republican nominationfor governor of the state has opened up headquarters here. The only one of the gix ~ ‘‘possibilities” who has nct a Chicago headquarters is Sherman, who has made his reputation in the legislature, both as a man fearless in a

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political fight, and able in the handling of the business end cf a parly caucuscra legislature. : Howland J. Hamlin, the attorney gencral of the state, is the latest addition to the bunch of governorship aspirants here. He has opened up his headquarterson the same floor at the Great Northern, hotel with those of the Yates and Lowden forces. In fact, he has secured a strategic point between the two, and will be able to keep his eyes on the moves of his rivals. Warner is also at the Great Northern, and he keeps busy ont in the state while his forces here direct the campaign. : Deneen, the state's attorney, is the. only one of the five who has not his headquarters at the Great Northern. He occupies rocoms at the Grand Pacific hotel, one block due west of the camps of his competitors in this six-cornered fight for the governorship plum. With Chicago away up in the northeast corner of the state, one might wonder why political headquarters here was an important factor in a state political campaign. One reason, as already intimated, is that Chicago is the political center of the state, and another is that the newspaper publicity which may be gained through the location of headquarters here proves invaluable and indispensable. i Grand Opera and the Revival. The two weeks of grand opera which have just closed have not been marked

by what are calbed “crush” houses at any of the performances. The singers have gone through with their parts: with precision and punctiliousness, because they were. paid to do it and a “‘paying” house was there to lis-. ten; but there was lacking that enthusiasm which ‘comes from the

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packed house and strong sympathy of the audience. Grand opera in Chicago is always an uncertain quantity, as far as audiences go. The artists never know whether they are going to .sing to a crowded house or to well-filled upper galleries and empty first floor seats until they step before the footlights. . ‘But such is not the fate of the evangelist when he comes t{o Chicago. Whether revival services are more to the taste of Chicagoans than grand opera .or not, we would not like to state, but the fact remains that the well-adver-tised -religious meeting with its big predcher or evangelist always draws its “crush” house. -

Take it when Moody was alive and came to town. Day after day and night after night he packed the same building where grand opera has been given to comparatively small audiences, from “cellar to garret,” and then thousands were left outside, unable to get in. To be sure, they did not have to pay anywhere from $1.50 to $3.50 per, but it has always been observed that when Chicagoans go to religious meetings they do not leave their pocketbooks at home, tucked under the mattress, and do not hesitate to give when the call comes. And, taking the difference in the expenses of producing grand opera and the revival meeting, with star preacher included, the margin of profit of the latter is greater than the former. -

The Presbyterians have just inaugurated a movement which takes in- all three sides of the city. Dr.J. Wilbur Chapman is directing the religious campaign, and such evangelists as Dr. John Robertson, of London; Dr. J. M. Gray, of Boston; Rev. Thomas Houston, “the blind evangelist;”” Rev. A. H. Biedewolf, and a score of otliers, are his helpers. The Methodists have united in the series of meetings, and audiénces are gathering nightly in various parts of the city which would make the departing opera singers green with envy if they ‘would only tarry long enough to see them. The Religious Worker in Jail. But the people who walk out in the free air and sunshine—and Chicago

does get its share of the latter, in spite of the weather man and the smoke consumers(?)—and are at liberty to go where they please, even fo the revival meeting, are not the only omes who have a cHhance to hear | the great evangelists and the Gospel sung, for the: jails are regularly visited by re-

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ligious workers, and the big preachers are not infrequent callers upon those shut behind the bars. A work which canje very close to the heart of Mr. Moody during the latter years of his life was the prigson work, and many a criminal felt the warm touch of his hand

and the throb of his great heart as he talked of the scul’s needs. ! The revival meetings being held in Chicago at the present time have had their echo in tke jail on the North side, where the car barn Bandits await the sentence of death. r. Robertson, the London evangelist, has talked with all of the men, and especially Van Disie, who ~seems specially susceptible to religious influence. Just how de¢ep the repentance and conversion which the prisoner claims to have experienced gces, perhaps no human mind can judge. The fact that he has, furnishes an interesting chapter in the career of the young desperado. . i 7 : Van Dine is the only one of‘the “Automatic trio” ‘'who hzﬁ a-Sunday school record behind him. When he was a little fellow he used to regularly, and to church, too, with his/mother. She was quite prominent in réligious work, and taught her boy religious things; but there was a fatal weakness in the home training and discipline. Bad reading and companions did the rest, and instead of filling a place of Lusefuln‘e'ss’ in the world, he now faces the gallows for his desperate crimes. And, face toface with death, how easy it must be to repent. It is a natural and logical development for Van Dine, perha*)s, because the religious instinct was| inbred from his earliest childhood. is repentance may be genuine, and then again the young criminal’s subtle nature may be deceiving him just as he dxsed to deceive his mother as to his wﬁxgreabouts and his companions. [

Another Ref{)rm Spasm.. - The all-night salojn made a generous contribution towar@ the education and

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development of the :ar barn bandits, and they have been a constant feeder for the criminal element of the city. For this Teason the reform forces have brought pressure to bear to have the midnight closing ordinance rigidly enforced. In some sections of the city, notably in the Scuth side = disiricts, they succeeded to a limited

extent, but the reform campaign stirred up the powerful sal‘Pon element, which saw that it was only a question of time when the city officials would be obliged ‘to enforce the law or face impeachment and trial for wilful neglect of duty, and’ so, believing that half a loaf was better than none at all, an ordinance was quickly crafted and placed before the council extending the time of closing until one o’clock. This was passed by a narrow majority, and now it is up to the liquor men to|obey the law they fathered. And it ik expected that the police will be specially vigilant in arresting offenders. | These are busy days for the bluecoated guardians of the public morals, for they not only Exave to sit up late at night to watch fo “lights out and curtains up” in the sa]oéus, but during the day they have to “nose around” for the “gambling ’'phone.’! This is a new breed of sporting animal, and is causing the city officials all kind of trouble.

When the tickex"pawgre forced out of the poclrooms and ™ gambling resorts where race news wals received, the game-’ sters were driven o look around for a likely substitute, and they found it in the telephone. It is claimed that there are 500 telephones Ifwhose exclusive use is thessending and receiving of race track reports. Th'is{ constitutes a sort of secret service. The numbers and names of the owners of th}:e ’phones are not in the directory. - | The telephone company professes ignorance of the existence of any such ’phones, and under }pressnre pas finally agreed to remove the instruments where it is 'shown that they are ilse_d for the sending of racing %news for gambling purposes. But it was only when the police were getting their axes ready to smash the offendinlg instruments that the company agred [to cooperate in the reform movement. | ; ¥ : 4 3 ———3_—_ Queen Fashion’s Rule. A reform of anotliler stamp has been bringing absorbing [interest and trans-

|ports of joy to the iifeminine portion lof Chicago’s population during the past week, and 'producing feelings lof another sort lamong the mascu/|linity who have to gpay the bills. The |dressmakers have |just ended a week’s |convention, and the {subject” of gowns land women has beendiscussed /from A to Z. The

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model dresses have been trotted out and admired and criticised, to the edification of the assembled architects of the feminine shape angd external drapery. And the Chicago woman who hasn’t her next dress picked put s either indifferent to Dame Fashion, or her last dressmaking bill has not yet been paid by hubby, and her credit is not good. At one of the evening sessions of the convention, when it had been rumored that beautiful gowns were to be displayed by more beautiful living models, there was a stampede of men lovers of the beautiful to the doors of the convention hall, and the door keeper had a busy half hour of %t keeping them out and convincing them that the “beautiful models” were constructed of papier mache, and not of pink and plump flesh and red blood. Aﬁd while the man at the door was busy, the modistes whose prize-winning dresses were on exhibition were dhaving a strenuous seance getting the precious gown§ out of sight and harm’s way, for the commotion at the door led them to believe that some rival organization was attempting to raid the hall and steal their ideas, if not the dresses themselves. | , -

A brief epitome épf. the convention’s work includes the |indorsement of the corset, the padded figure and theé woman who pays her bills and no questions asked, and also the determination to make the customer who snubs her dressmaker pay for it at so much per snub. It will thus behoove the man who pays the bills to educate his wife and daugh® ters to a more cordial relationship with the seamstress in public places. i WILLIS 8. EDSON.

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TAX AND TRUST-RIDDEN.

Republican Promises . Broken at the Behest of Combine and Mo- : nopoly Managers.

When you hear a republican saying ‘there is no need to reform the tariff, ask’ him why: the rates in the Dingley bill—the present tariff law—were made so much bigher than the McKinley law, which was higher than any other previous tariff. The fact that the rates are higher now than ever before would seem to demand reform.

It was admitted by ‘Senator Dolliver, of lowa, in a speech in the senate that the rates wevré. purposely increased to allow for reductions that might be made in reciprocity treaties with foreign countries. = Mr. Kasson was selected by President McKinley to negotiate reciprocity treaties and he did so with France, Nicaragua. Ecuador, Argentina and the British and West indies. : i

But the republican leaders in the United States senate refused to allow those treaties to be ratified, and-the Dingley law rates have continned,to be paid by the people of the United States :without the small concessions that the reciprocity treaties would have made on some articles. And yet the republican national *platform of 1900 contained these words:

“Reciprocity and protection are twin measures of republican policy and go hand-in-hand.” The lowa state ‘pla‘form of 1901 said: “We endorse the policy of reciprocity as the natural complement of protection and urge its development as necessary to the .realization of our highest commercial possibilities.” = And that tariff plank closed with this important declaration: “We favor any modification of the tariff schedules that may be required to prevent their affording a shelter to monopoly.”

Nearty every state republican platform has declared for reciprocity, and some’ of them declared for such modifications of the tariff schedule as may seem to be required. The Idaho republican platform of 1902 declared out§,pokenly for tariff revision and contained the most radical antitrust plank that any political party has declared for. It says: “We favor a revision of the ‘fariff without unreasonable delay which will place upon the free list every articie and product controlled by any monopoly and such other articles and products as are beyond thei need of protection.”

In spite of these declarations and promises made by | the republicans, President Roosevelt and the leaders in congress have determined to not even consider the tariff, or attempt to modify those schedules that give the trusts their monopoly of the market for many of the necessaries of life. The republicans refuse to ratify the reciprocity treaties of their own making and they refuse to reduce the Dingley rates, although' they purposely placed those rates much higher than the protected trusts asked, that when the reciprocity treaties were ratified the trust and combines would still be amply protected. But the trusts controlled the republiucan leaders and' have been strong enough to keep the law intact, and the protectionists declare it mus* not be touched. ¢ ;

Thus are we tariff taxed and trust ridden. Ask your republican neighbor how he likes this do-nothing programme of his party and if he thinks his prosperity is enhanced by it. . / CURRENT PRESS COMMENTS ‘——lf any nation can clean up the Isthmus of Panama and make it a fit place to live the United States can do it, but all of the political sanitarians and renovators in the country can never remove the stain from the cana: title.—Chicago Chronicle. = -

——The main fact is that in spite of all the beating of tom-toms and inarticulate cries of a few whirling dervishes of radicalism that shout for they fxnow not what, and the country knows not whom, the vast, safe common sense of the democracy has recognized the need of harmonizing upon a safe and conservative democrat, and all factions are falling cheerfully into line.—Atlanta (Ga.) Journal,

——New York will act; New York will speak in a decisive manner. The convention will instruct the New York delegates for Judge Alton °B. Parker. Judge Parker will be the nominee. The sentiment this year is distinctly a New York sentiment. What New York wants it will get. Judge Parker will carry New York; the rest of the nation recognizes that. And it is New York’s electoral votes that are expected o decide the presidency.—Corning Democrat. = .

, ——Let the prevailing democratic motives be concession and unification. Let the democrats take the broadest view of the situation. It is a churlish and untoward spirit, indeed, which can resist the appeal for liberality and patriotism as against mere factionalism and past dissension. [t is, under these conditions, a perverse human nature which can submit to narrow restraints: a niggardly human nature which could supinely tolerate the ugly prospect of losing again when a fine spirit of accord and an intelligent contest will bring victory.—St. Louis Republic.

THE CHINESE QUESTION.

A Matter of Great Interest to -Woikingmen Ignored by the Powers at Washington.

The existing treaty of immigration between China and the United States expires December o, 1904, if' six months’ notice before that date is given by efther country. It is reasonablyscertain that China bus, or will give, the necessary formal notice, for as construed by our government the Chinese are entirely dissatisfied with -the

treaty. The Roosevelt administration seems entirely oblivious to the importarnce of immediate attention to this important matter, for if the treaty expires.and no. other -takes its place, either our entire trade with China will be jeopardized or th;e doors will have to be open to unlimited Chinese "immigration. It will :be impossible to demand of China the:ppen door for our goods and those of our people who wish to go to that country and deny the Chinese similar favors.

The Roosevelt administration doubtess does not wish the Cainese quesion to be brought to the attention of he country before the national elec-

tion, for the'labor leaders are strongly oppesed to any 'Chinege immi,gration arnd the labor vote must be conciliated until after election. After election—always after election; the usual procrastinaticn on - important matters that politically - cut fwo ways. How will labor fare after election at the hands of the republican politicians. when the Dusiness interests are demanding the open door in China? Will the interest of the workingman and his anxiety for Chinese exclusion be considered after election, when even now the eight hour bill, the anti-in-junction legislation and other measures favorable to labor, are hung up in fommi‘ttees by the republican leaders in congress? g

STRUGGLING MIDDLE C.LASS ‘What Should Be Done to Raise Wages ¢ .and Lower the Cost ‘of Living. = The New York Commercial, whose animosity towards organized labor is second only in intensity to its zeal to the cause of the stand-patters, is telling some important truths relative to the situation confronted by many people in New York and other cities. It asserts that in the metropolis to-day uncounted thousands of managers, accountants, clerks, soliéitors, engineers, professional men, and small traders are engaged in a struggle to “make both ends meet;” that the marked.and very general advance in foodstuffs has raised the cost of living enormously and that the salaries and the incomes of these middle-class workers have not been advanced at all.

* Like most 'republican newspapers and speakers, the Commercial does not put the blame for the increased cost of living where it belongs—upon the republican party, which made the Dingley tariff law, which is the mother of trusts, which now charge us monopoly prices—but upon that portion of the strugglers who belong to trades unions and who, during the last two years, made some unsuccessful attempts to have their wages increased somewhat in proportion® to the increased cost of. living. Just listen to this good republican paper while it berates organized labor: “The time is ripe for them to array themselves against organized labor, to stand shoulder to shoulder with the employers who. are naw organizing for resistance to the aggressions of the labor unions. Unionism is fattening on their misery. How long will they endure it?”

If the workingmen know their- own interests they will this year vote with the party that is striving to reduce tariff duties and to thus greatly cripple the trusts and lower the cost of living. This will mnot only virtually raise wages, indirectly, but it will lead to greater consumption and production of goods. This means more demand for workers ana therefore higher wages. . = Workingmen, think of these things before you cast your votes this year. Democracy’s Opportunity. An army of republican voters the length and breadth of the land stand ready to follow a strong, sound and conservative democratic leadership into the battle against the machine which seeks to perpetuate the corruption, protection and extortion:' by which it thrives. It will not be for want of opportunity if democracy fails. It is the party of potential relief. Let it develop strength in proportion to responsibility; let it coordinate its forces; let it shoulder the demands of the people, discarding selfish and foolish leaders and factional disturbances. Cohesion can only come through a harking back to the “good old-fashion-ed principles,” a firm stand upon those foundation doctrines of democracy which compel the country’s respect. Cohesion can only come through a cultivation of liberal sentiment, a disencumbering of disturbing and disuniting influences.—St. Louis Republic. : i

‘Hﬁﬁ\n.m"p&mwﬂw P e— o e AUL ) [0 7 e * '\-\ ﬂ\\',. " 7 B FOR LIFTING BIG WEIGHTS. A Contrivance Which Is Easily Made at Home and Strong Encugh to Do Heavy Work: : The illustration shows what I term my little Sampson, a contrivance for lifting heavy weights. By studying the figures carefully, any handy man can make the woodwork, while the iron parts can be ieft with the blacksmith.

No. 1 should be just 6 feet high. Planks for side pieces are 2xB. ' Blocks at the ends are 3x3xB :and firmly secured by four 3 bolts § inches Ilong. Now comes the important part. The: two rows of holes as shown must be exact. Lay off planks with two straight lines just 4 inches apart. Now klay square on the plank so that small b.lﬁe‘ will cross the two long lines,” and A o 3 A L= G- 0 ’/”\ : 4 > . v L oy - . | 4 7 : X 7/ % _ 3 t . o 7 — ~U 7% ¢ . > | 1% %‘ rg'f" (SRS 1 A 09~ N 2 NeZ F 3 P DETAILS OF ;,ITTLE SAMPSON. - mark the entire dength in 1%-inch spaces, or just the width of the square blade. Now provide yourself with a 114-inch bit, and bore straight through at every other junction of sectional lines; this being finished, we will start on the other line and bore on the cross lines we skipped before, thus leaving the holes at an angle, as shown in cut. There should be 20 holes in each:- row. The next will be two steel pins, (¢} measuring 12 inches long and 1 inch in diameter. They -should -be slightly pointed at one end and flattened at the other as shown in No. 3. : 2 For No. 2, the main iron_should be 8% inch thick and .4 inches wide and 24 inches-long; 4 -inches *wide from point and extending back 8 inches, where it should be made just 3.inches wide. On the lower edge at b is shown two pin saddles, which should be just 4% inches from center to center. Upper hole for clevis pin is 134 inches back of front saddle. Clevis is made of % inch and pin .of 4-inch best iron. Clevis is 9 inches long. Main hook is 21 inches long and is made of steel 15 inch thick by 1% inches~ wide, and point should be liberally reinforced. We are now ready for..the Ilever. This is made of 3x3 stuff and is 7 feet long. Measure off 2 feet- and commence tapering.and rounding the remaing 5 feet, leaving’ small end 2 inches in diameter. Now cut mortisc in square end % inch wide, and back 16 inches. Around square end place a snug-fitting collar (a), made of iron 14X 1 inch. Now drive large iron in mortise and bol, as shown in No. 2.--In No: 1, ¢ shows pins properly set for work. Our machine is now finished. ‘Al‘l‘of the wood used in it should be of the toughest kind procurable.. Mine is made of rock elm. The machine works equally well ‘in pulling stumps.—Orange Judd Farmer. ~ L

WHEAT BREEDING HIS FAD. Interesting Tests Conducted by J. N. ! H'arper' of the Kentucky Ex- : periment Station. . - An experiment which, if it proves a success, will be of the greatest value to the whole United States, is now being conducted ,at the Kentucky experiment station. J. N. Harper, of the station, is using in the raising of wheat the same principle tWat is applied in breeding and improving horses and cattle, and talks interestingly of his experiment. : “The successful cattle breeder,” said Mr. Harper, “selects hisindividuals with the greatest care, taking into consideration many points. From those produced he again selects with equal.care the best, individuals, mating them, and so on ad infinitum, producing with’' each generation a better individual, until the perfect animal is the result. The same rule applies to the breeding of horses, sheep and hogs, and it is this sulethat I am endeavoring to apply in thé growing of wheat. . S “After the most careful chemical analysis and examination under the microscope 1 have discovered the best variety of wheat and the variety richest in protein. I have also examined the wheat under the microscope and photogrdphed cross sections of the grain.”

«1 will select the individual grains and plant them. Next year I will select from the grains produced the finest specimens and on the following year will plant them. In this way I hope after several years to produce a very fine quality of wheat. 2 - i

“I also hope to-produce a grade of wheat which will not degenerate. We get our supply of seed wheat from the western states. Ina few years it degenerates and we are compelled to secure a new stock. I hope to produce not onlya splendid quality. of wheat, but one that will not degenerate and which under proper care will constantly improve.” The experiment is in its infaney and several years will be required to determine what its value will ‘be. Other experiments have been made with wheat, but with methods different from that which Mr. Harper is following. Should the effort prove all that is hoped for it, it will be of the greatest value to the agricultural word. Preserving Eggs-in Flour. Freshlaid eggs are placed)in common pasteboard boxes on end, as eggs are packed, then covered completely with common white flour and stored in a cool place. After three months they were found fresh and nice, and scarcely discernible from freshly laid eggs. -1 used common shoe boxes, which hold about two dozen each, the number of eggs and date of packing ~,b¢\ing written on the cover, so the first packed could be first used. Eggs packed in a mixture of lime water and salt are nice for cooking purposes, but after a couple of months are unfit for eating.—Correspondence Practical Farmer.

’_BEEKEEP}NG FOR THE BOYS. Work That Affords Much Gain and ~ Causes Much Pleasure to Those : _ Engaged in It. To the painstaking boy with small capital and a"little spare time there are few localities in .which bee-keeping ‘will not only bring profitable returns but much pleasure. The popular notion that the bee goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom it may devour is entirely false: In fact, it seldom stings unless hurt or its stores ar¢ molested; then it naturally uses its only means of selfdefense. The _ sucf?essful bee-keeper dons his veil and keeps cool no matter how ‘many bees aligtxt upon him. Honey on the hands wil] often so tickle the palate of a very mad bee that it forgets to sting and goes to eating the sweets. If stung, brush the sting away instead of picking.it out; the latter method presses the poison imto'the flesh. Ammonia or onions applied to the wound 'are standard remedies; but neither must be used untils through working

with the bees, as they serve to enrage the insects. . Hundkeds of pounds of honey go to waste annually in some localities because there are no gleaners. “Where clover,|basswood, fruit blos» soms, buckwheat, -golden-rod, or other honey plants abouﬁd, a few swarms of‘bees will accomplish much with very lit_tle trouble. Even in a village a few may be kept withoutan loyancetoothers; and it is said that one| of our most success‘ful women apiarists restricts her colonies to a roof gar}en in her metropolitan home.: It pays in this, as in all other live stock, h,b raise the best. Pure bred queens are now offered by all reliable dealers at freasonable rates and will prove in thq end more profitable than the mongreqs for sale “cheap” in .almost any community.. A gcod book cr periodical on the subject is a great assistant to the beginner, though not an absolute necessity, One or two swarms are enough to commence with. These, if rightly handled, will supply- an ordinary family with honey and yield a little surplus. . With a year or two of experience one can learn the extent of pasturage and regulate the number of colonies -accordingly. ! Study the site and situation. But above all, study the inmates of your hives. They will prove more and more interesting as you become better acquniuted with their ways. Their methods of work, relations to plants and man, show how exquisitely the -entire plan of the creation is balanced by Mother Nature. The beekeeper ‘who knows his pets finds as much pleasure in their ways as the average boy finds in ball-playing.—Bessie L. Putnam, ih Epitomist. ) el s Y POULTRY SHIPPING- NOTES, Packages of Attractive Appearance Should Be gsed Wherever Pos- . sible c?r Practicable. I have a good’i chance to observe the different styles ?f packages and methods in shipping poujtry sent in from the west and other sections as to grading, marketing, etec. Tt{ere is no better package. than the box that holds 12, 24 or 36 chickens or fo@rls, and 12 to 20 ducks, turkey or geese, according to size of birds. Poultry jpacked in second-hand strawberty cratfs are quite often in poor shape when received, as the weight is too much for such frail packages. Seec-ond-hand shoe -;cases are _bette;. A regular poultry bQX, sawed and jointed with the ends all ready to nail together, is the cheapest/in the end, as the poultry will look better and bring a little more. - - | - Py TE

The barrel, to my mind, is a poor package, especially 'when going into cold storage for a few months. When a salesman wants to show a customer the goods, he rembpves the cover and you see' not more than four or five chickens or two or three turkeys, with more or less dust on them that hassifted through the burlap. Now-take the box lined with parchment paper, draw nails, fold back the paper, and you can see 12 birds, clean and all nniform, that will sell on sight.—W. T. Wolloff, in American Agriculturist. . 3 SAFE LITTLE WATER DISH. it Cannot Be Tipped Over, Nor Can the Lively Little Chicks Be Drowned in It. A useful drinking fountain for young -chicks is shown in the accompanying illustration. |This is made of a hard i { ‘“mm W / = N = % /’s‘:‘::' "V\(' %‘“‘: . Sersy 5 | ;((_f_’”/,.'_‘:—-"—/—;‘—_’fﬁ : : - WATER jDISH FOR CHICKS. wood plank two inches thick, four in¢hes witle, and eight inches long. A threeinch hole iﬂs-bq‘)red nearly through. This fountain cannot be tipped over, nor canthe little chicks get into it.—FEthan Brooks, -in- F;grm and Home. ’ How to Manage Incubators. - For success with incubators, remember: -Test on the seventh day. Temperature, 103 degrees. Fill lamps every evening. Cool eggs after fourth day. Never. cool below 85 degrees. Turn eggs every 12 hours. Do not turn flame up too high. Keep machines out of | sunlight. Put in a new wick for every hatch. Keep {doors closed during hatching.. Be sure the incubator is standing level. Disqo!ntinue cooling after eighteenth day. | Add moisture only when air cell is too large. Don’t let temperature run down after hatching. Discontinue - turning after eighteenth, day. “Hands off” while the eggs are hatchin‘g.—Midland Farmer. : * - Killing Mustard in Fields. : ‘We have been spraying our fields ‘with a solution of ten pounds of bluestone (copper sulphate) to 40 gallons of water. It destroys the mustard and we cannot detect any injury to the pea vines. We spray the fields as soon as the mustard gets two to four inches high. We use about 40 gallons of the ‘mixture to the acre and apply it with a regular spraying machine. This can ‘be done equally well on oat and wheat flelds when mustard prevents a good ‘growth of wheat and {ath.—wmterﬁf& Prophet, in Orange Judd Farmer.”