People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1893 — Page 3

"to sleep on in this shameless and un■eonscionable manner, when an indulgent government is suffering for my services? What sort of a day is it, sir?” “Beautiful day, Mr. Waring.” “Then go at once to Mr. Larkin and tell him he can’t wear his new silk hat this morning—l want it, and you fetch it. Don't allow him to ring in the old ■one on you. Tell him I mean the new ‘spring style’ he just brought from New York. Tell Mr. Ferry I want that new Hatfield suit of his, and you get Mr. Pierce s silk, umbrella; then come "back here and get my bath and my •coffee. Stop, there, Ananias! Give my pious,regards to the commanding officer, sir, and tell him there’s no drill for ‘X’ battery this morning, as I’m to "breakfast at Moreau’s at eleven o’clock and go to the matinee, afterwards.” “Beg pahdon, suh, but de cunnle’s done ohdered review fo’ de whole command, suh, right at nine o’clock.” A So much the better. Then Capt. Cram must stay, and won’t need his swell team. Go right down to the •stable and tell Jeffers I’ll drive at ninethirty.” “But-” “No huts, you incorrigible rascal! I don’t pay you a princely salary to raise obstacles. I don’t pay you at all, sir, except &t rare intervals and in moments of mental decrepitude. Go at once! Allez! Chassez! Skoot!” “But, lieutenant,” says Ananias, his' black face shining, his even white teeth all agleam, “Capt. Cram Stopped in on de way back from stables to say Glenco’d sprained his foot and you was ride de bay colt. Please get up, suh. Boots and saddles’ll soun’ in ten minutes.” ,l lt won’t, but if it does I’ll brain the bugler. Tell him so. Tell Capt. Cram he’s entirely mistaken; I won’t ride the bay colt—nor Glenco. I’m going

driving-, sir, with Capt. Cram’s own team and road wagon. Tell him so. Going in forty-five minutes by ray watch. Where is it, sir?” “It ain’t back from de jeweler’s, sub, where you dun lef’ it day before yist’day; but his boy’s hyuh now, suh, wid de bill for las’ year. Whut shall I tell him?” “Tell him to go to—quarantine. No! Tell him the fever has broken out here again, sir, and not to call until ten o’clock next spring—next mainspring they put in that watch. Go and get Mr. Merton’s watch. Tell him I’ll be sure to overstay in town if he doesn’t send it, and then I can’t take him up and introduce him to those ladies from Louisville to-morrow. Impress that op him, sir, unless he’s gone and left it on his bureau, in which case impress, the watch—the watch, sir, in any case. No! Stop again, Ananias; not in any case, only in the gold hunting case; no other. Now then, vanish!” “But, lieutenant, ’fo’ Gawd, suh, dey’ll put you in arrest if you cuts drill dis time. Cunnle Braxton says to Capt. Cram only two days ago, suh, dat—” But here a white arm shot out from a canopy of mosquito netting, and first a boot-jack, then a slipper, then a heavy top boot, came whizzing past the darky’s dodging head, and, finding oxpostulation vain, that faithful servitor bolted out in search of some ally more potent, and found one, though not the one he sought or desired, just entering the adjoining room. A big fellow, too—too big, in fact, to he seen wearing, as was the fashion in the sixties, the shell jacket of the light artillery. He had a full round body, and a full round ruddy face, and a little round visbrless cap cocked on one side of a round head, not very full of brains, perhaps, yet reputed to be fairly stocked with what is termed “horse sense. ” His bulky legs were thrust deep in* long boots, and ornamented, so far aS the skintight breeches of sky blue were con- ■ cerned,. with a scarlet wslt along the seam, a welt that his comrades were Wont to say would make a white mark on his nose, so red and bulbous was that organ. He came noisily jn from the broad veranda overlooking* the parade ground, glanced about ou the

WARING'S PERIL.

WARING'S PERIL.

[Copyright, 1893, by J. B. Lippincott & C k and published by special arrangement.]

NANI AS!” “Ye-as, snh?” “What time is it?” “ G y a h d - mountin’ done gone, suh.” “The devil it k has! What do ja you mean, sir, by allowing me

A HEAVY TOP BOOT CAME WHIZZING PAST.

disarray of the bachelor sitting-room then whirled on Ananias. z “Mr. Wearing dressed?” “No-o, suh; jus’ woke up, suh; ain’t out o’ bed yit.” “The lazy vagabond! Just let me get at him a minute," saM the big man, tramping overto the doorway as-thongh bent on invading the chamber beyond. But Ananias had halted short at sight of the intruder, and stood there resolutely barring the way. “Beg pardon, lieutenant, but Mr. Waring ain’t had no bath yit. Can I mix de lieutenant .a eopktail, suh?” “Can you? You black imp of Satan, why isn’t it ready now, sir? Sure you could have seen I was as dhry as a limekiln from the time I came through the gate. H ware’s the demijohn, you villain?” “Bein’ refilled, suh, down to de sto’, but da’s a little on de sideboa’d, suh,” answered Ananias, edging over thither, now that he had lured the invader away from the guarded doorway. “Take it straight, suh, o’ wid bitters—o’ toddy?” “Faith, I’ll answer ye as Pat did the parson: I’ll, take it..straight now, and then be drinking the toddy while your honor is mixin’ the punch. Give me hold of it, you smudge! and tell your masther it’s review—full-dress—and it’s time for him to be up. Has he had his two cocktails yet?" “The lieutenant doesn’t care fo’ any dis mawnin’, suh. I’ll fetch him his coffee in a minute. Did you see de cunnle’s oade’ly, suh? He was lookin’ fo’ you a moment ago.” The big red man was gulping down a big drink of the fiery liquor at the instant. He set the glass back on the sideboard with unsteady hand and glared at Ananias suspiciously. “Is it troot’ you’re tellin’, nigger? Hwat did he say was wanted?” “Didn’t say, suh, but de cunnle’s in his office. Yahndnh comes de oade’ly, too, suh; guess he must have hyuhd you was over hyuh.” The result of this announcement was not unexpected. The big man made a leap for the chamber door,only to find it slammed in his face from the other side. “Hwat the devil’s the matter with your master •this morning, Ananias?— Waring! Waring, I say! Let me in. The K. O.’s orderly is afther me, and

all on account of your bringihg me in at that hour last night. Tell him I’ve gone, Ananias. Let me in, Waring, there’s a good fellow.” “Go to blazes, Doyle!” is the unfeeling answer from the other side. “I’m bathing. ■’ And a vigorous splashing follows the announcement. “For the Lord’s sake, Waring, let me in. Sure, I can’t see the colonel now. If I could stand him off until review and inspection’s over and he’s had his dhrink he’d let the whole thing drop; but that blackguard of a sinthfy has given us away. Sure I told you he would.” “Then slide down the lightning-rod! Fly up the chimney! Evaporate! Dry up and blow away, but get out! You can’t come in here.” “Qh, for mercy’s sake, Waring! Sure ’twas ypu that got me into the scrape. You kfiow that I was dhrunk when you found me up the levee. You made me come down when I didn’t want to. Hwat did I say to the man last night, anyhow?” “Say to him? Poor devil! why, you never can t'emember after you’re drunk what you’ve been doing the night before. Sonie time it’ll be the death of you. You: abused him like a pickpocket—the sergeant of the guard and everybody Connected with it.” “Oh, muifther! murther.! murther!” groaned the poor Irishman, sitting down and Covering his face with his hands. “Sure, they’ll court-martial me this time without fail, and I know it. For God’s sake, Waring, can’t ye let a , feller in and sdy that I’m not here?” “Hywh, dis way, lieutenant.” whispered “Slip out on.de into Mr. Pierce’s room. I’ll .tell, you when he’s gone.” And in a moment the huge bulk of the dow opening from the/gallery into the bachelor den Of the junior second lieutenant. No sooner was thin done than the negro servant darted bxfokiclosed and bolted the long green Venetian bl|Mis behind him, tiptoed to room door, and, softly tapping, called: “Mr. Waring! Mr. Wartug! get dressed quick as you can, suhf I*ll lay out your uniform iu hyuh.”

U.< S .ARMY.,

**l tell you, Ananias, Fm going to town, sir; not to any ridiculous review. Go and get what I ordered you. See that I’m properly dressed, sir, or I’ll discharge you. Confound you, sir, there isn’t a drop of Florida water in this bath, and none on my bureau! Go and rob Mr. Pierce—or anybody.” But Ananias was already gone. Darting out on the gaHery, he took a header through the window of the adjoining quarters through which Mr. Doyle had escaped, snatched a long flask from the dressing table and was back in the twinkling of an eye, “What became of Mr. Doyle?” asked Waring, as he thrust a bare arm through a narrow aperture to Receive the spoil. “Don’t let him get drunk; he’s got to go to review, sir. If he doesn’t, Col. Braxton may be so inconsiderate as to inquire why both the lieutenants of ‘X’ battery are missing. Take good care of him till the review, sir, then let him go to grass; and don’t you dare leave me without Florida water again if you have to burglarize the whole post. What’s Mr. Doyle doing, sir?”

“Peekin’ froo de blin’s in Mr. Pierce’s room, suh; lookin’ fo’ de oade’ly. I done tole him de cunnel was ahter him, but he ain’t, suh,” chuckled Ananias. “I fixed it all right wid de gyahd dis mawnin, suh. Dey won’ tell ’bout his cuttin’ up las’ night He’d forgot de whole t'ing, suh; he allays does; he never does know what’s happened de night befo’. He wouldn’t ’a’ known about dis, but I told his boy Jim to tell him ’bout it ahter stables. I told Jim to sweah dat dey’d repohted it to de cunnle.” “Very well, Ananias; very well, sir; you’re a credit to your name. Now go and carry out my orders. Don’t forget Capt. Cram’s wagon. Tell Jeffers to be here with it on time.” And the lieutenant returned to his bath without waiting for reply. “Ye-as, suh,” was the subordinate answer, as Ananias promptly turned, and, whistling cheerily, went banging out upon the gallery and clattering down the open stairway to the brickpaved court below. Here he as promptly turned, and, noiseless as a cat, shot up the stairway, tiptoed back into the sit-ting-room, kicked off his low-heeled slippers, and rapidly, but with hardly an audible sound, resumed the work on which he had been engaged—the arrangement of his master’s kit.

Already, faultlessly brushed, folded and hanging over the back of a chair close by the chamber door were the bright blue, scarlet-welted battery trousers then in vogue, very snug at the knee, very springy over the foot. Underneath them, spread over the square back of the chair, a dark-blue, single-breasted frock-coat, hanging nearly to the floor, its shoulders decked with huge epaulettes, to the right one of which were attached the braid and loops of a heavy gilt aiguillette whose glistening pendants were hung temporarily on the upper button. On .the seat of the chair was folded a broad soft sash of red silk net, its tassels carefully spread. Beside it lay a pair of long buff gauntlets, new and spotless. At the door, brilliantly polished, stood a pair of buttoned gaiter boots, the heels decorated with small glistening brass spurs. In the corner, close at hand, leaned a long, curved saber, its gold sword-knot, its triple-guarded hilt, its steel scabbard and plated bands and rings, as well as the swivels and buckle of the black sword-belt, showing the perfection of finish in manufacture and care in keeping. From a round leather box Ananias now extracted a new gold-wire fourragere, which he softly wiped with a silk handkerchief, dandled lovingly an instant the glistening tassels, coiled it carefully upon the sash, then producing from the" same box a long scarlet horsehair plume he first brushed it into shimmering freedom from the faintest knot or kink, then set it firmly through its socket into the front of a gold-braided shako whose black front was decked with the embroidered cross cannon of the regiment, surmounted by the arms of the United States. This he noiselessly placed upon the edge of the mantle, stepped back to complacently view his work, flicked off apossible speck of dust on

the sleeve of the coat, touched with a chamois-skin the gold crescent of the nearest epaulette, then softly, noiselessly as before, vanished through the dooSway, tiptoed to the adjoining window, and peeked in. Mr. Doyle had thrown himself into Pierce’s armchair, and was trying to read the morning paper. “Wunner what Mars’er Pierce will say when he gits back from breakfast,” was Ananias’ comment, as he sped softly down the stairs, a broad grin <sn his black face, a grin that almost instantly gave place to preternatural solemnity and respect as, turning sharply on the sidewalk at the foot of the stairs, he came face to face with the battery commander. Ananias would have passed with a low obeisance, but the captain halted him short. “Where’s Mr. Waring, sir?” “Dressin’ fo’ inspection, captain.” “He is? I just heard in the messroom that he didn’t propose attending —that he had an engagement to breakfast and was going in town.” “Ye-as, suh, ye-as, suh, Gen. Rosseau, suh, expects de lieutenant in to breakfast, but the mofnent he hyuhd ’twas review he ohdered me to git everything ready, suh. I’s goin’ for de bay colt now. Beg pahdon, captain, de lieutenant says is de captain goin’ to wear gauntlets or gloves dis mawnin’? He wants to do just as de captain does, suh.” What a merciful interposition of Divine Providence it is that the African canndt blush! Capt. Cram looked suspiciously at the earnest, unwinking black face before him. Some memory .of old college days flitted through his mind at the moment. “0 Kunopes!” (“thou dog-faced one!”) he caught himself muttering, but negro diplomacy was too much for him, and the innocence in the face of Ananias would have baffled a man far more suspicious. Cram was a fellow who loved his battery and hla profession as few men loved be*

fore. He was full of big ideas In one way and little oddities in another. Undoubted ability had been at the bottom of his selection over the head of many a senior to command one of the light batteries when the general dismounting took place in *66. Unusual attractions of person had won for him a wife with a fortune only a little later. The fortune had warranted a short leave abroad this very year. (He would not have taken a day over sixty, for fear of losing his light battery). He had been a stickler for gauntlets on all mounted duty when he went away, and he came home converted to white wash-leather gloves because the British horse-artillery wore no other, “and they, sir, are the nattiest in the world.” He could not tolerate an officer whose soul was not aflame with enthusiasm for battery duty, and so was perpetually at war with Waring, who dared to have other aspirations. He delighted in a man who took pride in his dress and equipment, and so rejoiced in Waring, who, more than any subaltern ever attached to “X,” was the very glass of soldier fashion and mold of soldier form. He had dropped in at the bachelor mess just in time to hear some gabbling youngster blurt out a bet that Sam Waring would cut review and keep his tryst in town, and he had known him many a time to overpersuade his superiors into excusing him from duty on pretext of social claims, and more than once into pardoning deliberate absence. But he and the post commander had deemed it high time to block all that nonsense in future, and had so informed him, and were nonplussed at Waring’s cheery acceptance of the implied rebuke and most airy, graceful and immediate change of the subject. The whole garrison was chuckling over It by night. [to be continued.]

POWER OF TELESCOPES.

Comparative Figures Showing the Weak neu» of the Human-Eye. . The following careful -statement by Prof. E. S. Holden on the power of the eye and the telescope as they-are contrasted in actual experience, is of special and permanent interest: If the brightness of a star seen with the eye alone is one, with a two-inch telescope it is 100 times as bright; with a fourinch telescope it is 400 times as bright; eight-inch telescope it is 1,600 times as bright; sixteen-inch telescope it is 6,400 times as bright; thirty-two-inch telescope it is 25,600 times as bright; thirty-six-inch telescope it is 32,400 times as bright. That is, stars can be seen with the thirty-six-inch telescope which l are 30,000 times fainter than the faintest star visible to the naked eye. While the magnifying power which can be successfully used on the five-inch, telescope is not above 400, the thirty-six-inch telescope will permit a magnifying power of more than 2,000 diame ters on suitable objects, stars, for example. This power cuzaot be used on the moon and planets with real advantage for many reasons, but probably a power of 1,000 or 1,500 will be the maximum. The moon will thus appear under the same conditions as if it were to be viewed by the naked eye at a distance of, say, 200 miles. This is the same as saying that Objects about 800 feet square can be recognized, so that no village or great canal or even large edifice can be built on the moon without our knowledge. Highly organized life on the moon will make itself known in this indirect way if it exists. If one were looking at the earth under the same conditions, the great works of hydraulic mining, or the great operations of Dakota farms or California ranches would be obvious.

PEPPERMINT PLANTS.

Flfteen Thousand Tons Cultivated Yearly in the Wolverine State. More than one-half of all the oil of peppermint, spearmint and tansy used in the world is said by the New York Post to be produced and distilled in Michigan. The center of the industry is St. Joseph county. Peppermint plants weighing fifteen thousand tons when dried are cultivated every year in the state. From these the essential oils are distilled. Early in spring the roots are planted in furrows from two to three feet apart. In a day a good workman will plant an acre with them. A few weeks later the rows meet and cover the entire ground. In September the plants mature. They are then covered with fragrant purple blossoms and the time has arrived for mowing. After lying in the sun to dry they are raked into heaps and taken to the distilleries, of which there are about one hundred and fifty in the state. It is estimated that three hundred and fifty pounds of dried peppermint plants produce one pound of oil. The yield per acre is fifteen pounds of oil. Distilled peppermint brings from one dollar and twentyfive cents to five dollars per pound in the home market. The industry,was originally established in Mitcham, Eng., about one hundred and fifty years ago. Early in the present century a beginning was made in this country in Wayne county, N. ¥., and in St. Joseph, Mich. To-day ninetenths of the entire product of the world is made in the United States. The rich alluvial soil so abundant in Michigan, together with its desirable climate, has enabled the state to take precedence over any other state oi country in this industry.

An Efficient Physiciai.

Among the “characters” in a certaie little Hoosier town is an Irishwoman by the name of Lynch. Not long ago Mrs. Lynch made a visit to the town cemetery. The sexton welcomed the old lady ( with a mournful smile and said, sympathetically: “You have quite a number of little graves to look after, Mrs Lynch?” “Yis, God be praised, I hov. I Lot nine childer buried here.” “What physician do you employ Mrs. Lynch?” “Dochter Brown, Hivin bless hi* He’s the only dochter fa town wht understood the constitaW-?'d of ma childer."

AN APPEAL FOR SILVER.

Colorado Urges the East to Consider Well the Decisive Queston. The following is the report of the committee on resolutions adopted by the silver convention in session at Denver, July 12: ‘To tub People or ths United States: The people of Colorado, standing in the gloom of impending disaster and representing tn con di lion and sentiment the people of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada. South Dakota, Utah, Anaona and New Mexico, with reverence for the constitution and unswerviiqf loyalty to the general government, ask ftfr your calm and candid consideration of the following facts before you give your approval to the destruction of silver, as money and to the final establishment in this country of the single gold standard of values and thus at one stroke change all debts to gold debts and inaugurate a neverending rise ot gold and a continued corresponding fall in the price of every commodity. The Panic and Sliver. “Congress has been called to meet tn extra session on August 7. Preceding that coll the classes which have struggled for twenty years to overcome the bimetallic money standard provided by the constitution inaugurated a panic which they untruthfully charged to the existing silver law, ignoring tho facts that there were 1300,000,000 of outstanding legal tender notes, commonly called greenbacks, that were equally available with the treasury notes issuedin payment for silver to draw gold from the treasury: that the balance of our foreign trade had turned against us, rendering settlement abroad with American gold a necessity, and that the great bankers of Europe were purchasing gold with which to change the money standard of Austria and to fill the treasury vaults of other monarchical countries. “The evident purpose was to create prejudice against what is known as the silver-purchasing act and under pressure secure its unconditional repeal The success of this scheme was only partial. Venal presidential patronage, supplementing false and incendiary utterances by the gold press, aggravated by daily circular assaults upon the law by eastern money brokers, sent to every commercial body and banking corporation in the four quarters of the country, had possibly won over the house of representatives to It; but even the president admitted that in the senate there was a staunch majority against it. Suddenly, like a fire-bell in the night, tho news was flashed beneath the oceans that treecoinage in India had been suspended and that the market price of silver had fallen within forty-eight hours fpliy 2u cents per ounce. This startling action, forced upon the Indian government without a moment s warning, the step held in secret contemplation by the British government for months, to be taken at a critical and opportune time when the consternation it must cause, it was hoped, would M.amp out the last phalanx of bimetallism defenders, must have had as one of its chief aims the intimidation of the senate to brtog it in line with the subservient lower house w

Trying to Force Repeal. “Immediately the wires were burdened with appeals to the president from banks and clearing houses and commercial bodies dominated by them for an extra session and to senators to repeal the Sherman law, which, it was claimed, was responsible for all the disaster. j "Tho call was made. The time for the session . to commence was early; so early, indeed, that j may it not have been the hope of the president that the panic would not subside and the measure of repeal be forced through before reason resumed Its sway and truth and logic could dominate the congress. The enemies of bimetallism—and they now fairly number all those ! who oppose free coinage for silver alike with gold, as It was before the demonetisation of sliver In 1873, openly declare that they will be content with nothing less than the unconditional repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman law. It is for that they struggle; it was toseoure that that the panic was created and free coinage In India suspended. "Unconditional repeal—that means strking from the laws the last remnant of legislation that secures coinage for silver. It fixes the United States firmly in tho ranks ot the singlestandard nations. It Is the consummation of the conspiracy organized at iho close of the Franco-Prussian war to destroy as money onehalf of the coined money In the world—leaving the other half to bear alone the vast mountain of credit upon which the world’s business Is conducted-rlnvltlng more frequent panicsand rendering them more destructive and enduring.

Great Britain Accused. “It 18 Idle to hope that reducing the value of silver to the lowest stage will force Great Britain to seek international solution of thedilemmo. The home of the single standard Is in her Islands. Its members have fully anticipated | the low degree to which silver will descend. | They have discounted Its disturbance of her In- , dlan trade and steeled their hearts against the crime It will be against her Indian subjects. I The power that could plot for seventy-seven i years; that could force Its yoke upon Germany, the Latin union. Austria and the United States; that could gain to its aid the daily press of the country; that could control for twentyyeara the national conventions of the greatjrthericun political parties—granting in their platforms professions of bimetallism, but always secur- | ing presidential candidates unalterably opposed I to It: that could change an overwhelming sen- ; ttment among the people for bimetallism to a feeling of enmity or indifference, can never be, induced to relent, for it has counted the cost and has learned its power. The Sherman Law. “The Sherman law is not the work of the sil-ver-produclng states. It was forced upon the country against their will Their constant del mand has been that of the agricultural states of I the west and south and of the working masses , of the whole country. They have not sought m> impose upon the country some new financial nostrum, but have asked simply for the restoration of the coinage laws as they were from the firs* year of the federal const Hut too until the furtive repeal of 1873. The Sherman law i was the trick by which that restoration wasdeI lea ted. It was accepted by bimetallists as a pledge that the old laws should at some future time be restored, and they now demand, not that >the Sherman law shall be retained, but that the hostage shall be redeemed by the reenactment in its stead of the coinage laws under which the country grew and prospered for more than three-quarters of a eentury. What Bimetallists Ask. “The charge that the bimetallists demand that sixty cents shall be made a dollar is a lie. It was the trick of the single standard consp> ators that lessened the value-of silver. Had gold been demonetlzedjinstead ofsilver—retaining for silver its greatest use and chiefest function and depriving gold of its greatest and chiefest .function—gold would not to-day be worth 15 per ounce and silver value and purchasing power would be increased largely above its former highest figure. “What bimetallists do ask and all they ask is that the law relating to coinage as it was for the seventy-five years of the country’s greatest glory shall be restored without the addition or expunging of a syllable. If with that law reenacted and a fair trial of it had, silver shall not without the purchase of an ounce of metal by the government resume its former, relative value with gold, bimetallists will cheerfully submit to any legislation that experience will suggest as necessary to make every dollar of the United States equal in intrinsic value to every other dollar bearing its stamp. They urge the old law with supreme confidence, born oi the unassailable truths of history.thai it will Immediately place every coined American dollar upon a par of value both as coin and bullion, restore the bonds of weakened love and confidence ana set in happy motion the wheels of all the country's magnificent industries. Effects of Cnconditlonal Repeal. “Will you listen to us while we speak in words of sober earnestness of the local effects the unconditional repeal of the silver law will have? “The silver mining states and territories, embracing 1,003,000 square miles of continent, with 2,000,000 Americans inhabiting them, depend pecuniarily upon silver mining for their prosperity. That industry is the very heart from which nearly every other industry receives support Agriculture will not thrive without artificial Irrigation; its mines of coal, iron, stone and clay, while magnificent, are worked with ■ueh dear labor and are so remote from other local markets that their movement would be feeble and their operation disastrous without the stimulus the mining industry affords.

It supports our fotmdrtes. operates our machine shops, toppUes our railroads with freights, stimulates travel, keeps bright the fires Of the smelUrs bm sends customers to tho shom of our merchants. It has Invoked in the valleys and upon mountain sides magnificent citie# ami thrifty towns and villages. Great manufactories of paper, cotton, leather, iron, steel and clays distribute their finished products and support thousands of prosperous and happy families But because agriculture is so limited in area—confined to narrow strips along our few and scanty streams—our laborso high and its handiwork so remote from other than the local markets, the coal is mined, the coke is burned, the rail is rolled, the grain is grown, the fruit is gathered, in the main for the owners and workers in silver mines and smelters, and the proprietors and workmen of .he industries and callings are dependent upon them.

Idle Army of Labor.

"The reduction of the price of silver to about 70 cents has shutdown 09 per cent, of the silver mines of the country, and the smelters must soon follow their example. There are in Colorado to-day 1&.000 idle miners who know not where to turn if work is not resumed. There will soon be added to this idle army of labor 4.0J0 men from the smelters. The stone quarries are nearly all shut down, the railway companies are laying off train crews by the score, the foundries are nearly all out of orders, the farmers and fruit growers will be barely paid for the cost of saving their crops, the merchants are countermanding their orders, the traveling men for eastern houses seek almost in vain for customers. "This is no exaggeration. The destruction of the silver industry will devastate the country as if swept by a cyclone, reaching from the British possessions to the Mexican border line. This sorrowful picture of Colorado with its mining industry destroyed but represent* the rondition of the other mining states and territories with the same calatnlty upon them. I.ead and Gold Dependent. "If the silver mines ska.' l . vyt-iain closed onehalf of the American output of lead must be lost. The great bulk of the lead product 1* taken from silver-bearing oree. It requires the one metal supplemented by the other to remunerate the lead-silver miner. "Not less than 55 per cent of the gold product of the country depends upon the maintenance of the silver industry. The placer or creek washings, the earliest and most prolific source of our gold supply, are practically exhausted. "Those who contend for the gold single standard willfully mislead you as to the cost of producing silver. We say to you in the most solemn and truthful manner that reliable statistics prove that, including but legitimate item* in the account, the silver of Colorado costs by the time it is on the market not less than fl.St an ounce. Like gold, some silver is produced for much less than its market value, but the average cost of silver is fully the highest prico it ever brought in the market Question of Paying Creditors.

"All of the mining states and territories are a debtor class. Stop and consider, men of the east, how many millions of your money are Invested with us. The funds of estates of widow* and orphans have been loaned on our lands and have built our edifices. Colorado has been » favorite field for such investments. Have the people of any state ever proved more punctilious in prompt repayment? The legislature ha* enacted laws cruel to Its own people, and unrivnlod in liberality to tho creditors that no man might shirk or escape repayment of tho borrowed dollar. There are held throughout the east hundreds of millions of dollars in railroad stocks and bonds, in mumefpal securities, in trusts and mortgages, the payment of the greatest body of which depends upon the prosperity of. the silver mining country. "We of Colorado pride ourselves upon our commercial and financial integrity. No calamity can Induce us to repudiate one dollar of on honest debt All of our assets nre at the will ot our creditors for their reimbursement But if by bad congressional legislation. If through congress you shall wipe out the great industry of the section around which all others cluster for vigor and profit, tho values of our properties will shrink, our business will be destroyed,, our towns and cities will be largely depopulated and the railroads traversing the western half of the continent will be sent into bankruptcy. Certainly in the face of such unmerited infilotion you cannot blame us if we are thus deprived of all ability to meet our obligations. You may, it is true, take the country th payment, but after you get it what will you do with ft? Not Ready to Submit.

"But. though you may do all in your power;, whether in ignorance or through selfish greed, to destroy us, we will not submit to the destihy of poverty without a struggle. We shaH seelc to open up new markets and build up our silver industry along new lines and with new and more sympathetic neighbors. Colorado has aided with her vote to build the tariff wall between this country and Mexico and the silverproducing and using republics of the southern' continent. As Senator Teller, one of the staunchest supporters of this exclusive policy;, declared but two years ago tn the United State* senate, it was not in Colorado's, interest to* vote for such isolation, but Colorado,, thinkingmore of her sinter states than herself, had patriotically sacrificed her own in their interest Special Appeal to ths South. “To the south Colorado appeals with mor* son' felt words. Two years ago you feared withsinking hearts and paling lips the enactment of the law that threatened to deprive you of selfgovernment and to turn your election boothsover to the tender mercy of federal bayonets on election day. To save you from the outrages of the federal force bill Colorado's two senators, republicans, defied the edicts of their partycaucuses and defeated what was to- you ths certain humiliation and the horrors of subjection to the electoral will of your former slaves,. We saved you then. You can save us now.. With us now it is mare of a death struggle then it was then with you. If the schemes of the gold kings are accomplished, if the present silver law shall be unconditionally repealed, the great bulk of us will be made pauperaand ourbeautiful and wonderful state with be set back, tn its march of progress more than- a quarterof a century. Confident of the Result.. “Colorado, great in its resources; proud of it* business record, filled with bra ve men and resolute hearts, makes this its appeal for preservation to the open-hearted and generous people of the country. We are confident that it will not. be in vain. The atrocity of makihg homeless,, through the destruction of the chief industries, of 1,000,000 square miles of Amtrican territory; the 500.000 men, women and children, with; all the attendant scourge of enforced' and hopeless idleness, can never be the- work of an. American congress with our approval. » “Hopeful of speedy delivery from the crushing burdens of a financial system, begotten of the greed of Great Britain’s remorseless moneypower and of the prosperity inseparable from, an American system which includes the freecoinage of gold and silver at the-American ratioof 16 to 1, we submit to the people of the United. States this statement of our cause.”

Dancing Under Diffieulties.

Among a number of young men whowere recently visiting-the city was onewho has a lively sens* of humor aod am impediment in his speech; A german, was given in their honor, and the hostes* observed that this particular yeung man did not dance. “I am surprised not to see you danoing,” she said, “Don’t you we for it??* “Oh, yes,” he replied. “Then why haven’t you gotten a> partner and joined in the amusement?’* “W-w-w-well,” he explained, “it’s ththis Way.. I h-b-have tried s-s-severat t-t-times. H-b-but b~by the t-time I have s-succeeded in t-telling a. g-g-girl wh-what 1 w-wanV th-the musie’a s-s-topped.”—Washington Stan. Two Friends Meet—First Friend—“Oh—er—Jarvis, would you mind pretending to pick a quarrel with me, and just giving me a push, you know? I want to test the pluck of thia Mg of mine.”- Tid-Bita.