People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

had been stopping at a neighbor’s for some days past. Rose could be heard at intervals moving in her kitchen; otherwise the house was still. “Imust wait until she is asleep too,” thought Dolly. At last all was quiet; not a sound broke the stillness; long ago she had heard her father go to his roqm; the clock was on the stroke of twelve. “It is time.” she thought. Then, wrapped in a long, dark cloak, and carrying only a little sachel in her hand, she stole from her room and down the stairs. Passing her father’s door, she listened for a moment. All was dark and still within. She pressed her trembling lips to the door, and went sbftly on. To the front door, and here the first check awaited her—the key had been removed. Rose had realized tha! to watch two doors at once would be impossible/therefore, she had locked the back door as usual, then let herself out at the front, locking it from the outside, and taken her station at the back to watch. Out ©f that back door she presently saw Dolly emerge, closing it softly after her. She cast a swift and startled glance around, but failed to see that other dark figure, muffled like her own, that kept itself close among the trees. The night was very dark; nothing was to be seen; after a moment’s hesitation. Dolly advanced into the orchard. The muffled figure followed her. Suddenly a man advanced from among the trees. Dolly uttered a faint, stifled ery. “Dolly! cried an eager, whispering voice. Next moment she was in her husband’s arms. Neither saw the muffled form that crouched among the trees beside them, listening. To Be Continued.

strongest presented before the people from any state committee favoring co-operation on the vital principles of the people’s party. The state committee of Connecticut fixed May 21 for a state convention to elect delegates to the national convention. The populists of that state are wide awake and thoroughly realize the situation that confronts the country at the present time. They will send a strong delegation to St. Louis. Connecticut populists stand shoulder to shoulder with those of Massachusetts. The people’s party state committee of New Jersey met May 1 and issued a call for a state convention to be held at Trenton, May 30, to elect delegates to the national convention and transact such other business as may properly come before that body. New Jersey will send a strong delegation to the national convention, containing such men as Proctor, Wilcox, Buchanan and a host of others of whom the people’s party in New Jersey can be proud, A call for a conference has been issued by the national committee to organize the people’s party in Indian Territory. The conference will convene at Wagoner, May # 30, at 10 o’clock a. m. The populists of Wagoner have secured a hall for the meeting and will not leave anything undone to make it pleasant for the delegates who will assemble at that time and place. Every county and precinct in the territory ought to be fully represented at that meeting. The News Bureau will receive orders for Col. Fisk’s new book, “Statesmen Three,” in any quanity desired; also for any other reform book or newspaper at the publisher’s lowest rates. The republican convention of Arapahoe county, Colorado, held in Denver, endorsed the course of Senator Teller in the senate, but a resolution condemning Senator Wolcott for “his disloval conduct” to the interests of the people of Colorado, was voted down. Albert T. Goodwin, the people’s paity candidate for governor of Alabama, has challanged Johnson, his democratic opponent, to a joint debate in everv county in the state. The platform of the populist state convention of California favors woman suffrage, government ownership of the Pacific railroads, demands that the sale of government bonds shall cease, the free coinage of silver, the repeal of the national bank act. the establishment of postal savings bank and an income tax. Ralph Boaumont, the veteran reformer and labor agitator, is doing effective campaign work in Wisconsin. The city central committee of the people’s party of St. Louis is out in an address advocating a union of the reform elements on a platform embodying direct legislation through the initiative and referendum and the financial