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z/ From M n QRAs Jest ; Darkness ” To Light BY WARY CECIL HAY c s CHAPTER XXl.—(Continued.* , Again Mark paused for a few moments, but Nora only 'ratted in silence, sitting very still, and wondering why her heart beat so hurriedly. “Dr. Nuel Armstrong knew that Miss Giffarl had risen more than once in her sleep, and quietly and correctly minis tered to the siek lady who seemed —wak- j in? and sleeping—to be in her care; but j he chose to withhold his knowledge of ; this fact at the time when it would have I left Arthur Pi* \z free from suspicion. : He and my uncle v -re cousins, so I claim a kind of cousinship, too. Of course, our name is the same. Had I not inherited 1 the title, too, until he returned to re- i coive it from me—his just due? Do you i wonder, Nora, as I did, why Dr. Arm- ' ♦strong should have suppressed this prol- j able solution of the mystery of Mrs. Say's death, and let the vile suspicion of mur der burry her young heir to the grave— ns he thought? I can tell you now why was. For some time a very beautiful Irish girl had been visiting an obi friend of her mother's at the Heaton Vicarage, i and Nuel Armstrong had chosen to fancy this girl for his wife. Hut Arthur Poynz bad learned by this time to love her for something even beyond her beauty—her rare and exquisite beauty,” repeated Mark, laughing a little as he watched the color rise in Nora’s checks under his steadfast gaze—“and so one day they were quietly married by the vicar, aud she stayed on and on, and seemed to for- ■ get her Irish homo. That was little won- | dor,” continued Mark, warmly, “consul- ; ering what a home it was; yet I have j since then known a girl who could think j lovingly and tenderly even of such a home j as-that. At the time of Mrs. Say's death, when Nuel Armstrong so promptly laid suspicion on Mrs. Sa.-’s heir, his jealousy had reached its climax, for he had been fold by the vicar himself o f the marriage. You—you of all peop'e, Nora —can under stand how little any conscientious scru ple would stay Nuel Armstrong in his jealousy and revenge; for he was as piti less and rs selfish nineteen years ago, in his pursuit of your mother, as he has been in these later years ” "My mother?” Nora uttered the words very softly, with her fingers locked, and her eyes wide and wistful. She had no thought for Nuel Armstrong. She had almost lost the story Mark had been telling her, in the new, delirious pain of hearing her mother’s name at last. “Yes, mother, sweet,” Mark answered, very gently. "The beautiful girl who came alone to Heaton, and was left here for so many months, uusumutoned by her < .>id and selfish father, was your mother; end —aud, Nora, dearest, the young mas ter of this old house, who has lain so long, and so unjustly, under the shadow *>f a great crime, is your father. My darling!” he cried, taking her hands in his on she rose to her feet, "don't look so iwed and bewildered. It will all seem natural to you very soon—when von have seen him. lie only thought it woubl be >est for me to prepare you. All that Nuel Armstrong told you of your father was a lie; coined to serve his own selfish pur poses. and all the more a lie because it touched the truth. Dear, he never had a dew to your father's hiding place; lie never traced him, and brought a letter from him- as you betrayed in your ill ii",s that he hud said he had—aud your father thought much more of keeping iii'bbui from him than from anyone who 'sire his own title. You understand that now. don’t you, dearest? And presently von will understand how, to gratify both his passio late admiration for your beauty and his cold and long-nursed revenge igainst jour father, he strove with all his power to win your hand. T iere, we may let him rest. He Ims his wife with him new—poor girl! poor girl:” "Ami toy mother? - ' whispered Nora, not knowing what she asked, only long ing to hear something of her. “Your mother, dear,” put lu Miss <if rixrd, with a gentle kils upon the girls wistful face, "was my dear friend, though l scarcely ever could leave this house to see her, or ask her to come here. Von are so like her. Nora, that it was no wonder uiy heart went out to you that first day Mark brought you to my cot tage, when, 1 feel sure now, he had guessed a little of our story, and wished ;o see if I recognized your name. Nora, lear,” she went on, her voice sinking lower, "it was not long after his escape that- she died. And then she sent her t>aby girl at once to her father. Col. St. ■George, in Ireland. It was Kachacl Corr who took you. and 1 believe your grand father made her take an oath not to di \ ulgc the secret of your parentage, threatening afterward, when she had i.i icd Corr, bat he would turn her from his lit .so as soon as ever ho heard or' her doing so.” “1 l understand,' faltered Norn, re cnl'ing one, other dny when she had ex pected to meet her unknown father. "May 1 go to him?" “He is here, Nora.” said Mark, strok- j ing her hair gently as he spoke. "Are you rested now. my own dear love? Ah! you cannot silence me any longer. I am breaking no promise. If I spent every moment of every hour in telling yon how I lexi yon '.and ! very easily aud pleas air j evuldh and if 1 ceaselessly rehears ,d ,nr marriage topic, sweet, 1 should etl'd break no promise now, for 1 aui not Doth Keston- only plain Mark Poyna. i Now we will Nora, darling, see! j These is the real Lord Ivcston." Trembling so strangely and pitifully thn: her hand went helplessly out seeking I a s q port, Nora stood with her eyes fixed j upon her father, Each moment h> | breath quickened, her eyes dilated, anu . he-, ti igers grew tight and convulsive in their ioqsiou. Still she made no step for ward to meet him. and no x-all upon his ■ ia passed her white, parted lips. Ce .!*a. w th ail her ready sympathy, could uii>: land* nothing of this intense and painful emotion: but yet, in an uncom pr> h> i.'.ed sorrow, she turned her face ,n\v.>, because she could not stop her! tens. Mark, standing apart and resist-| iug bravely his almost uuvontroiiac.e | iiapu so to put hii strong, sustaining j arm around the trembling figure, turned •<x\-y. too, at last, his chest heaving, and j th. ics gathering in his forehea !. Still Vie rirl never stirred: only now one hand } tv a- ifted and pressed upon her heart, j at With a tumbled, torturing intent- I < ' -oe read her father's face as he I c:> up ,o her. her own growing whiter i an i whiter the while, and her eve* slowly dsikeoing with a look which they had I iscv,-. ..sown before. She was reading ! ah the nnuttered truth iu that ga*e of j Id- and when at last he called her by j < ame. she fell suddenly to her knees. Hut when he raised her. and kissed her j .C.ss, .1 her again and again, on brow, end i lowks. and lips—then laid her head j a; u his breast, and whispered sweet J and unknown wonts of endearment, she j gently stole her arms around him. and j the xv. broken cry of joy was for his j v*rs alone: "My fathcb —my own father!” She had known nothing of that likeness ; to her dead mother which had brought ; such -n measurable love into his eyes at sight of her. She had only seen the love there, and known it by intuition to be a ! father's love. Instantly, in the intensity ' of that moment of doubt and hope and , longing, the truth had rushed into her heart, ami filled it to overflowing with this new, delicious joy. And it w.va well that Mark b-.j told the father so little of his child, .for the glad surprise could mak* ev : en bis joy the greater in tki- hour. 1 CHAPTER XXIi; That wonderful day at Heiton Place was over, but the old friends had not separated. They had walked together through the park to Miss GiTard’s cot tage; and now, iu the bright and warm little drawing room, they lir-jored as if they did not know hoxv nighc: and dark ness Lad settled on the work] without. There seemed so much to say, and some how nothing ever could be said quite ra , tionally, and w ithout countless wild aud happy interruptions. The wonderful change in M s Giffaxd riveted Nora’s eyes so often that once or twice Mark intercepted his own laugh ing face, and reminded ber thqt her eyes were too big to distend in astonishment. "Of course, you must be astonished at my happiness, Nora,” Miss Giffard whis pered once, guessing the thought which made the girl so gladly watch her; "for you c-ould never realize the weight which for so many years has pressed upon me in my solitude. Not of suspicion, dear — never that; only of such utter bewilder ment and mystification. I couid but live in the past, and the past was so very dark.” "It must have been so utterly incompre hensible,” said Nora, gently. "But no one will let me remember it now.” And Miss Giffard smiled in perfect certainty pf this. "What rt crowd we look here." laughed the vicar, looking round the bright little well-filled room. "Wl;at intruders xve hre, Cis!” he added, turning to his wife. "I really never appreciated the real comfort of my cottage u til to-night,” Miss Giffard answered, cordially. "I nave rung for tea on purpose t*. see Nora presiding. Arthur, will ypu spare her?" “Kate,” he whispered presently, "she is as beautiful as her mother, aud more —more —what is it?” "You will understand by and by," she answered, with a smile. "Tnis,” said Lonl Keston, standing to take his tea from Nora, and looking round with rather a girlish dimness in his eyes, “is just my ideal of a home. I shall never he able to fit myself into any position of pomp or state again. Mark, you will have to relieve me of all that.” “But I don't uuderstand it.” observed Mark, just as coolly as if his face be trayed nothing of his immeasurable hap piness to-night. "We have r ; villa in Florence, 1 believe, to which we retire, every man in our family, on his marriage That's all I ktioxv of our future.” "I think I shall settle myself there for a time,” returned the elder man, laugh ing a little; "and then I shall have a chance of seeing you and No a during your travels. Judging from some stray remarks of yoins, Poynz, those travels are to extend into a remote country. But, at one time or other, you must needs visit Florence; and you shall find me there, with others of our old friends, too, 1 hope But first,” he went on. with growing earnestness, "1 must see the Irish home of my—my wife and child; the home where each of them grew up to girlhood.” "Oh, father, yes!” whispered Nora, still close at his side. "We will gp to Tra veere. Aud it will seem so different, now I know my mother lived there, solitary, too, as I did. And you will see all the old—— ’ They were unshed tears thr-1 stayed the words to Celia’s great dismay; for box - , she thought, could Nora earo for fliac grim, comfortless old house, when she could live now in such a home as Heaton Place? Aud hoxv, in this peace ful, pretty valley, could she think ten derly of that chill, bare bog?” "Nora.” asked Mark—she liacl retaken her seat at the tea table, ami lie had sat down near her, leaning forward to address her very earnestly—"mpy 1 ask Mr. Pennington to many us at Kilver? Will you not like to be in the old church you have known so well, ani: by the old friend of whom you are so fond?” “There is no trouble in that.” said Nora, simply, lmt with the brightest, swiftest blush. "It is a very easy word to say, Mark.” "Thank yon, thank you. my own love.” be whispered, from his full, glad heart. "It is what I have long been wishing.” • * * * • • • Looking like a speck on the wide stretch of bog. a curious machine was creeping slowly along the road between Ivilver Vicarage and Traveere; and but for the fresh and girlish laughter which pro‘fe.led from it now and then, and its rathe: frequent pauses, it would have worn a somewhat funeral aspect:. "Don't yon fee! exactly like old times, Mr. Poynz?” Nora ask -d this question gr avely, as she sat, very upright aud content, on her side the jolting old car from Traveere, and looked affectionately down upon Bo rak. "If old times fee! very comfoitable, as a rule, and—progressive,'’ returned Mark, from ills side of the ear, "my feelings re semble them exactly.” "I am afraid." said Nora, her eyes wan dering thoughtfully on beyond Borak’s ears, “that I don’t feel so changed as— as any one else would be. by all I have learned and felt since you drove me here before, Mark. 1 feel so happy, and—and quite young again; yet I ought to be very different.” ‘ You ongi.t." returned Mark, in bis leisurely way, “to lea grave and elderly parry with a mission. And you ought never even to smile; yet l have lately heard you laugh je.st as if yon xvcrc atlU i " Wh\ did you stop?” she a si* plv. "Were you going to say to whom you gave such good advice that I’lj?" “That.” assented Mark, with gravity, “is naturally my predominant leminis ceneo of that day." "You are not altered either—noxv." said Nora; and she could not help that beau : J. . : g'st oo::;::ig :tit• •h : ... she turned them upon bis face. Nora had so much to say to her old nurse, especially about that pretty home which awaitex: her in England, and where she would h: ve Micky with her, that when Mark showed her how Barak, feel ing himself sufficient.: y refreshed, was walking solemnly on. she had s’ili left unsaid the one thing which hail made tier heart so fall all the vxhiie she sat in tbo neat little kitchen, looking often at that pretty sketch of her oxrn home, a ini feel ing liaehael so much nearer to her from having known her father so well. "1 know—l know it all. Mis-. Nora, dear,” Rachael said, whoa t.t last Nora tried to tell her. "Lxxrd Keston his been here already : be is not or > :o forget an old s. rvant. He sat here for an hour th s niorn ug. and he told me everything. He told me of Miss Kate, and how siie. too. would com* and see me to-day. He told : i night, and that the marriage wal to be soon. He said Mr. Foster had gone ever to Ki ver this morning. And he told tne—even laughing, and he was never one to laugh teach—that Mr. Poym had taken the old horse aud car over to the vicarage to fetch you, and had t > mend the wheel himself before he could start; and of K.tty’s **gfigh, and everything. Oh. my dear, what a glad com it g-back this is.” "Nora." said Mark, as they walked after Bormk, while he sedately led the way in the empty car. "do you kuow. 1 think we shall not lose our cfergymaa at Heaton, even though the living is to be a wedding gift for the husband of your true little friend.’ "Ok. I hope not”’ she answered, ears- j pstlr. "Will and Celia could make each otn*r so happy!” "Indeed they could, fine. will, I think. Nora.” Mark said, taking her face be tween his hands in ilie quiet road, and 1 kissing her upon the lips, "how generous he was n. his greeting to you after —af- ter lie knew you were lust to him! It re minded me y.eir own description of j him, on that cay ,vc drove along the bog before.*' "You rent cm he;- th.;: drive quite well.” j "Pretty well, considering all things. 1 j have a faint recollection of your inform- Ling me, ns a fact bey-md dispute, that i England abounded iu beautiful, highly cd i uented and rlty:in-i- charming ltosa | linds, among whom I roamed at large; and that you thought it would be an ex i eelient riling for you to have a few of their advantages.” "Ob. Mark, J never thought ” "Also,” 1. • wen; on, tranquilly, “that Foster was a very Celebrated man iu this country, and that 1 xvas welconffe to con sume into an enriy grave with jealousy, if ! chose. Poor Will! His eyes are opening now, and one can see what hap piness is in store for him.” "1 believe,” interpolated Nora, “that yon must have forgotten the cheerful career yon marked out for yourself, Mr. Poynz, when you should Ik- fifty years of age and uiimarri 1. I always had a great wish to give something to that hospital. ’ "Indeed! The only observation I ever heard from you about it was that the inmates must be very unusually comfort able. under those circumstances. Still of course, you might have been secretly de voting your wealth to that good cause.” ”1 used to think.” said Nora, presently, her voice growing full of thought, “how 1 would come back to Ireland after my holiday summer was over, and use the money grandpa left me to give ease and comfort to those who. though they had lived around him, had never been helped, perhaps, at all, in those old days. But it is no use thinking of that, because the money is not mine.” "I'm not myself quite so confident upon that head, dearest. 1 believe Doyle in tends to claim it for you, in consequence of the peculiar wording of Col. St. George’s letter; as his term is ‘your guil ty father,’ you understand how Doyle in tends to dispute that adjective. And then, my love, you can do as you will with your pocket money, you know.” "And if I have forfeited it. as I have always imagined, I have fouud my father, Mark; and so it was well forfeited. 1 mean,” she added, softly, laying her hand upon his, "you found him for me. Yet I had thought,” she whispered, pres ently, with a shudder at the remem brance, “it was only Nuel Armstrong who could unite us. lie —he said that ought to he m.v love test. Mark.” "And was it not, sweetheart?” (The end.) GIVING TOD SLOAN ADVICE. -omething Wrong with Auto—Street G. mi"* Whooped it t t>. When "Tod” Sloan left Waldorf-As toria Hotel a few days ago in his big racing automobile, lie started from tho side door, intending to come down through the carriageway and turn into Thirty-third street. With him were his chauffeur aud two friends. The machine started right enough, but went only about ten feet. Then it stopped and the gearing turned with a noise that could be heard a block away. "Tod” pullet! at the lever and bit the big cigar he held between bis teeth, but not an fctr'.i would the ma chine stir. The chauffeur jumped out and, as though that were all that was needed, the big auto started with a rush. "Tod” managed to turn it in a hurry, just missing one of the horses at tached to an express wagon. Then the machine stopped again as suddenly as it had started. Just then a small boy, who recognized the ex-jockey, called out; "Give her de whip, ‘Tod,’ cr yer’l never pull out o’ de bunch! Go on, or dcy’Ll pass yer.” "Tod” looked a trifle more dignified than ever, but never glanced toward tiie crowd. Tlie chauffeur did some tin kering and the big machine swung into Thirty-third street with a rush, the small boy shouting: "Yer got ’em. ‘Tod.’ Get up on her neck and stick de spurs in. Give her de whip, an’ yer'll finish in de money.”— New York Times. Want the Gold. The Treasury Department at Wash ington recently received a letter from Great Grimsby, England. It contain ed a fifty-dollar Confederate note, and iu rather pompous language demanded that its equivalent In gold be forward ed at ouce to the address given. Treas ury officials say that the incident was not an uncommon one. Although the Civil War closed thirty six years ago. Confederate notes and bonds are re ceived two and three times a week. Nearly all of them come from England, where the bonds were sold. Few peo ple in the United States are inveigled into purchasing or giving value for tlie Confederate obligations. Some of the Englishmen who have been notified that the bonds and notes are worthless have grown Indignant, and replied to the department that they proposed to take action looking to tho creation of an international incident unless the paper is redeemed. Art rxiul Nature. It is hard to embarrass a quick-wit ted man. A lecturer was once descant ing on the superiority of nature over art, when an irreverent listener iu the audience fired that old question at him, “iloxv would you look, sir, without your wig?” "Young man." instantly replied the lecturer, pointing his finger tit him. "you have furnished me an apt illus tration for my argument. My baldness can l*e traced to the artificial habits of 1 our modern civilization, while the xvig I am wearing'' here he raised his voice till tin* windows shook—"ls made of natural hair!” The audience testified its appreciation of the point by.loud applause, and the speaker was not in terrupted again. No More Seasickness. Tliosx* who go down to sea in ships need no longer fear seasickness: pa-' trous of railways and omnibuses may avoid brain concussion if only the com monsense device of a worthy Camber weliite is adopted. His patent i> de sigued to "insulate" passengers, to ab sorb the vibration of seats in railway carriages, road vehicles aud of ships’ berths. To effect this desirable end he j rests the seats or berths on canvas bags, containing in.lia rubber tubing tilled with compressed a.r. or a mtxtare of glycerine and water, \,. x .itst Pta. inc All persons found playing cards '.n railway cars in Russ a arc subjet* -# heavy penalties. Sands o’ Dee. The River Doe in Scotland has had more poems written in its nouor than any other stream iu the British Isies. The church friends of a girl lose al! faith in her strength of mind when she begins to go to her husband's church after marriage. Practice makes perfect—and it usual ly makes the neighbors want ;o smash the piano. The l)aii'-er Point Parsed. Before and alter olt---t:o:i are l> riod.- tf greater changes in the lives el pol iticians than "before and alter taking" some nostrum as portrayed in the tea lures cf victims of Hu* patent medi cine habit. Consider th;- ease of ex- Ttvasurer Bartley of N; icaska. By the mismanagement of Treasurer Bartley the State of Nebraska lost about $730,000 through the failure of banks in which the money Lad been deposited. For this he was convicted ! and sentenced to the penitentiary .or nineteen years. The Republican Gov ernor of Nebraska lasi summer paroled the prisoner and be was let out r>f tiie penitentiary, but without liberty to leave the State. The Democrats at tacked this action of the Governor as favoring a criminal, because of bis wealth and political influence. When the Republican State Convention met in October it adopted a resolution sav agely debouncing the Governor for his release of tlie prisoner. Alarmed by this censure of his own party, the Gov ernor canceled tin parole and returned Bartley to prison. This spiked the guns of the Democrats, and the Republican j ticket was elected. On the last day of December an un conditional pardon was Issued to con vict Bartley, and he went free. The I pardon was signed by the Governor who was nominated by the Republican convent ion that denounced the paroling of Bartley before the election. The denunciation was in October, the election in November, the pardon in December. It was two years almost until the people will have a chance to say what they think of this affair, and by that time the incident will have been for gotten.—Fort Worth Register. Why Not a Potato Subsidy. The subsidy builders at Washington are so busy planning tlieir raid on the national treasury that they have neg lected an opportunity to protect the farmers of this country. England’s cheap ships arc the buga boo with which the subsidy folks are trying to scare the congressmen into line. What about cheap potatoes? They are coming into this country by the ship load. They are carried in England’s cheap ships, grown by Eng land's cheap labor, and landed in New j York for $1.70 a barrel. There is a tariff on the tubers. Every I bushel lias to stand and deliver to the tunc of 25 cents, but that doesn't keep ! them out. They are comparatively ' cheap, and mighty good. In fact, these pauper potatoes suit New Yorkers, as well as the Ohio Burbank or the Early Rose of Michigan. But they keep down tiro price of po tatoes. And if there is iu> money in the po tato business—lf the low-priced pota toes of England and Ireland are to flood the markets, who is to raise po tatoes In tins country in future. Is : there a remedy? A potato subsidy! The idea isn't a bit more ridiculous than the ship scheme. In fact, it has merit that the boat-plundering job never possessed, for it would put money into the pockets of those who really need it. and who deserve all the good things they can get, if there is to be a melon cutting at government ex pense. llow would it do to add a potato snb sidv rider to the ship subsidy bill and then let America laugh both useless measures out of existence?—Working Democracy. Governor Cummins a Disturber. The new Republican Governor of lowa has just given the Chinese cult of protectionists a seismic shock. In his inaugural address lie uttered the heretical statement that "protection was established for man and not man for protection.” Nov, anybody with an ounce of wit can see that such a view of protection is subversive of the entire system as it stands in the Ding ley act. Protection of the McKinley and Dlugley kinds ic made for the one man as against the othei nine men. To adopt the idea advanced by Gov. Cum mins would speedily reduce tariff leg islation to tlie level of t lie old Demo cratic doctrine of a tariff for reveneue only, with incidental protection to those industries only that could not survive the competition of foreign cheap labor and free raw materials.—Atlanta Con stitution. A Wedge for Subsidy Grabbers. The present Frye bill marks the thin edge of a wedge to be inserted for the purpose of giving the money of the treasury to a special class. Once the system is inaugurated it is certain that on one pretext or another constant de mands will be made upon Congress to "give, give." Anyone intelligently con versant with riii ■ o.q-at uof the Amer ican custom - tariffs since 18S3 knows that the recipients of benefits are nl- j ways resisting any reduction of duties and are to a great extent favorable to still higher rates of duty. So it will be j with ship subsidies should Congress Inlt:.*.e such a policy.—Philadelphia I Ledger Abolish the WarTa-.e . There is no honesty in creating a sur- j plus by war taxation to build a canal, j If the big ditch cannot be paid for from j the ordinary revenues >,f the Govern- j rnent and special taxation for that pur-1 pose is necessary the people should be! allowed to signify tlieir pleasure in tlie ' matter through tlieir aecrexlited repre sentatives. The use of the war taxes for anything but the war expenses is unjust and dishonest The war taxes | should fee abolished as soon as the nec-1 essarv legislation can be enacted. This is the common sense and right of it— Boston Traveler. Stniritlity of the Protectionists. NVriiiog could do s<* much to put life into a free trade movement as a stupid i insistence by the protected inn-rests or; the last pound of flesh. There are no more effective champions of the free trade cause that the sugar aud tobacco ! men who are now clamoring for the extreme of protection at the expense of the people of Cuba and the United States. Am! the Democratic party could ask for nothing better than for Congress to t>e controlled by this clique ; of selfish men.—lndianapolis News. AH line People Now. We are all one people, we come from the same sto.t, we live under the sanm institution we follow the sanm Cag. Our social and political interests are the sme in face whatever the politi cians mar say. and with our memories of the glorious past -efresbed iu the t triumphs of the present time we loot | forward to a magnificent future. Wo : may say of the States of this American . Union. "These are they which came l out of great tribulation.” and the irew ; heaven and the new earth are just i abend a little way on the road we are | traveling. Charleston News and j Courier. A 'Ouestion for Subsidy Advocates, i What on earth is the use of taking ! raotip," a way from people by tnxaticn i and giving it to other people for pro i during that which already exists In ! abundant supply? There was some ex cuse for this when fields of produc tion and consumption were so inacces sible to one another that there might be glut in one place and famine lu an other. But now that cheap and swift transportation has brought all markets close together, there doesn’t seem to be any sense in encouraging artificial overproduction by oppressive taxation. -Minneapolis Tribune. Why Not (xubsidize Locomotives? We do not ourselves believe that our shipyards coaid not compete to advan tage with all foreigners any more tban we believe that our locomotive build ers need a subsidy. Ships are manu factured of steel and we have been in vading the markets of the great steel manufacturing countries with our pro ducts for a number of years past. The world rings with the groans of our un successful rivals. It is not common, sense to infer that an Industry so pow erful and triumphant in one branch is imbecile and dependent in another branch.—New York Times. Present Need of the Democracy, Organization is the party’s.chief need at the present time. There must be some means of maintaining public in terest in the party’s aims. These can best lie reached by continuous activity from a central point. A perfunctory campaign for a few weeks every fall is dot sufficient A constant propaganda may not eh‘Ct many of tlie party’s can didates, biu it will sustain an interest in the doctrines of the minority party i that ought to substantially strengthen Democracy for the battles of the fu | lure, particularly for that of 1904.—’To ledo Bee. Consider Themselves Only. There is something really comic about the particular threat which the beet sugar men are now hurling at tlu heads of frightened Republican Con gressmen. It is that they will turn ii and help elect a Democratic Hons< next fall. In a kind of Snmsonlike pul! ing down of the pillars of the temple of protection, the beet sugar lobby b ready to put its deadliest enemies ir power rather than give up a single stiver of its protection, even at the cal of humanity and the urging of honor.— New York Evening Post. Imitating Weyter and Kitchener. General Bell lias put the recoucen trade system in force in the province of Ratnngas. which is just to the soutli of Manila. He says the iiisurrec tion could not he stamped out there un less he did. That was what Weylei said in Cuba and what Kitchener h saying in Soutli Africa. General Bel says it is regrettable that the Innocent must suffer with the guilty, but that tlio greatest good to the greatest num her can be best brought aliout only it this way. Weyler and Kitchener again ! —Omaha World-Herald. Chance to Gain Congressmen. In 1S!)8. wiion tlie Republicans were mi.eh more harmonious than now, the i Democrats made gains in Congression jal districts by keeping tlie Chicago I platform out of sight. They should be able, through tlie same tactics, to make a better showing this year. If they i should elect a majority of the next | House perhaps that victory might help j them to picture for a hopeful fight in I 1904 by getting rid of sundry incum- I branees in tit ? shape of dead issues and dangerous alliances. Time is a great healer.—Washington Post. Following Old-Time Methods. The ugly facts must tic looked in the face. We shall not tie allowed to deal with tlie Philippines along American lines. The Republican majority in the National Congress, controlled by syn dicate influences, is determined to dis pose of the Philippine problem along the old world lines of colonialism find imperialism. There is money iu it. The Philippine tariff Dill will lie passed for this reason. This will be the teaching of tlie Senate debate now just began.— St. Louis Republic. Mast Stand Away Back. Our Whitelaw Reid, special ambassa dor to witness the coronation of Ed ward VII-. will have a place way back in the standing row. It is provided by etiquette that the representatives of emperors and kings shall take prece dence of tlie representatives of reptlb lies. •Gentlemen coming from every I little 19-cent kingdom in tlie world will lie ahead of our representative.—St. [ Paul Globe. Legislation Hastily Considered. The Nicaragua Canal bill was passed j through the house in three days. A measure more important than any that lias occupied the attention of the couu j try for years is sent to tlie Senate, i where its merits will happily lie eou ! sidered. The Philippine tariff bill was | given two days. The great questions | involved were not mentioned.—St. ! Louis Post-Dispatch. Sign-, of a Coming Storm. Mr Roosevelt appears to be not n.ere | ly asserting his independence of party j machinery, but going out of his way I to place affront upon the regularly chos en officers of the organization. There is surely a storm coming, and how the President will fare as a result of his rough rider politics it is yet too early to determine.—Buffalo Courier. The Tragedy in South Africa. What a tragedy <-ould be written on this Boer war. The greed of gold in spired it and many are hoping that the ; curse of gold will follow it. It aims not at boilding up an empire that may shine in i*>sterity. but at >e<-uring a huge j ot of grid oii the ruins of two once prosperous republics. Boston Globe. The Crime Committed Itself. Mr. Neely denies everything, and ac cording to his theories the emliezzle ment in Cuba was one of those er-nvs that committed itself, like the nssaw: nation of Goebel. Ttiat aptxvurs to ; * a peculiarity of l: u'.S: -an lawless ness.--lnd’anapo.M- eL Well-seasoned r or? weigu 52.27 pounds tot hi „t REFUSrD TO GIVE UP OPERA BOX TO THE PRIMCE. -"ilIfKH Ep s . i• £***- ! rt" 3 'Nifi iIFV?] >!U. AND MILS. HITCHCOCK. Mr. ami Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock are New York S'X-iety p: npie. It XV. r planned to entertain Prince Henry .it a grand opera performance nt the M.’tropolitan Opera llniw-, and the coninrittee seiect ed the Hitchcock box as the most avail able. The Hitchcocks refused to give way to tlie prince. AIR BIG WAR SCANDAL. British Officers Charged xvitli Squan dering Millions. Further disclosures concerning tlie tre mendous waste of public money in con nection with the Smith African war are almost certain to .. 'ri-f'Sfr,. -- follow the sea roll- \ ing and eomprehen / tn sive inquiries the j Zjs si country intends to J V\iwj| j that many millions sec. chamberlain, statements' i the House of Commons warrant tile inference that nth-'r mill ions have been recklessly squandered on meat and army supplies in Gape Colony and iu the general work of purchase, transportation and distribution necessi tated by tlie war. There is little doubt that the scandal, when fully shown up, will prove the gravest in the history of the British war office. The government organs are al most wholly silenced or driven to join the radical press hi such attacks on the betrayers of the people's interests as the stringent English libel laws make safe. 8o angered and disgusted is the aver age Britisher with the astounding revela tion of the state of tilings in the war office that the Liberals are perhap..; right when they declare that if the government went to the people to-morrow it would be overwhelmingly defeated. Even the cabinet is seriously perturbed within it self at what lias happened. Mr. Cham berlain, whose business methods, what ever may be said of his diplomacy, are alxvays excellent, makes no secret among his friends of his contempt for the man ner in which the war office l as permitted the ministry to lie brought into disrepute. One distinct result of the hors.- scan dal will be a radical disturbance of the hitherto sacred legend that the British officer, like the King, "can do no wrong.” The conduct of Trueman and Ilartigan has convinced the country that military men should be subject to question and sharp supc.vision with respect to their public duties, a> are the civil servants of tlie people. GALVESTON’S SORROWS. The Sorely Afflicted City Now Face to Face with Bankruptcy. Galveston. Texas, may rightly lie term ed tlie city of misfortunes. The heavy band of affliction which descended upon it with such frightful force Sept. 8, 1900, when a tidal wave swept over the city, engulfing thousands of people and caus ing a catastrophe at which the American people and the world in general stood ap palled, still hears with crushing force upon its almost helpless victim. A se ries of adverse condition: has ail but rendered extinct the ambitions and hopes of those who survived the staggering blow of that memorable day in 1900 and now the future of the city is In grave doubt. Tiie matter of the city's future welfare rests with a few men in New York, who have the power to say wheth er it shall lie declared bankrupt or. with its burdens lightened, be permitted to work 'Hit j;s "xvn salvation. These men in-id the li'iii'U wiii-■!i represent tin- i*i:v\ debt, and so far they have insisted on receiving every cent of interest from the taxpayers, notwithstanding the fact that in the terrible storm one-third of he tax able property was lost and the value of the remaining two-thirds was greatly de preciated. The gross municipal debt of Galveston is $4,000,000 and $1,000,000 has teen absorbed in the sinking fund, leaving 000.000 net outstanding. The city re quests that the bondholders readjust the debt on a basis of three and a half per cent, the present rate, which was made when the city was prosperous” and its fu ture appeared bright. The concession asked by the city would affect the bond holders to the amount of $52,500, a year in interest, but it would mean the salva tion of the city. Negotiations are now under way and within tlie next few xveeks a committee from Galveston will meet the bondholders in New York and endeavor to perfect a plan which will save the city from having added to its burden the blot of bankruptcy. ROBBERP KILL A SHERIFF Bank at Clarksville, Ark., Looted and $6,000 Is Carried Away. '■'x ' • Clarksville, Ark., blew up the safe of the Bank of Clarksville with dynamite, se cured a sum estimated el killed John Powers, sheriff n. Johnson County, who attempted to capture,them, and es caped before the citizens were aware of their presence. ’ There appear to have been from four to six men in the gang. They tied their horses on the outskirts of the town and made their way unobserved to the bank, which is si!iiat'-d oil tiie i#orth side of the public square. After gaining nn't'ntrance they wrecked the safe with dynamite, se cured what money was not destroyed by the explosion and made their way to the street. There they were confronted by Sheriff Powers, win* open • 1 ti:v upon them. The r hb-rs returned the fire, using both revolvers and Winchester*. I Powers stood his ground and emptied two it is believed he xvas mortally wounded by the first volley front the robbers. This and That. Philadelphia Record will be sold at aiK-iiiM May 15. Ge*. Yijon. Botha’s leading lieutenant, has been captured by the British. William Hosier, formerly .‘if Terre Haute, Ind.. was killed from ambush in Luzon. St. I.onis wants Prince lb-nry to lay a corner stone to one of the World’s Fair buildings. 8 fiscal y.*nr the Erie i <.i i mad.- i Re gain of sl-440.000 in earnings. The eas- wins' of W*. iiawn College a' Independent-.•. .5!-... was partially it s;roved t.y fare. The loss was about s•’.- 000. John Moran, who arrived at Westport Landing (now Kansas City) in 1857. died at his home, six miles west of Kansas City, Kan., at the age of 87 years. The Comptroller of the Currency ha declared a dividend of C 7 per cent in favor of the creditors of the insolvent First National Bank or Kearney. Neb. Engineers hare arrived at Muskogee. I. TANARUS., to survey the Missouri, Kansas and Texas extension from Wybark up the Arkansas valley to Guthrie and will be gin work at once. But tlie law is powerless :ig:uri-t quacks who have regular diplomas.—De troit Nexvs. The Boers do not know when i!;- ; g. t enough. The British h:: xv. but lin-j can t let go.—Mobile Register. Can Dr. Baraev, xvho first induced an I then eliminated tuberculosis, do :t!!.rib;;;~ for . .'ins'; Detroit News. But, if \xv stopped selling horses and mules to tiie British army, the liners might soon be xvithotit mo nuts.—Detroit News. By waiting until 1904 the S'. Lotus i exposition will also get farther away fr6m the Pan-American reminiscence.— Detroit Nexvs. The richest man in Germany is th - man who makes guns; the richest men in America are those wlm issue bonds.— Detroit News. Secretary Shaw was born in a log cabin, and yet a cabinet position is th highest honor he has attained. Port land Oregonian. Would Canada have any objection to annexing tiie Uuited States? We are disposed to do the right thing over li re. —Detroit Free Press. When a worldling goes to church and sees a deacon snoozing it tends to make him think there is not much spiritual life.—Huntington Democrat. H owever. Miss Stone cannot expect to excite as much interest as Prince Ilonrx at this time unless she !r. publishes her i itinerary. -Grand Rapids Press, j If the St. Louis system of stopping j street cars is to bo adopted generally, municipal gun factories xvill soon be the proper thing.—-Detroit Free Press. If one of the functions of a poet is to stir things tip, it-cannot ho disputed that Iludyard Kipling is a successful mcmli.u of the profession.—Philadelphia Bulletin. And Crokcr 1.%-. lived to see the day when the courts declare tli<‘ nominee lie lias bolted and refused to support "The regular Democratic candidate.”— Buffalo Nexvs. lion. Webster Davis lias formally an nounced his retirement from political life. The public is no longer interested in the hole through xviiieh Web disappeared. - W ashington Post. lien. Lew Wallace is spending the greater part of each day at his home it Oraxvfordsvifle, Itid., at work on his autobiography. He hopes to complete the work xvithiu a year: Archbishop Corrigan lias a genius for saying things, llis latest aphorism is that “The golden rule and not socialism is the panacea for man's problems!"— Buffalo Nexvs. Assuming that most people have for gotten xvhat it is that Neeley is being tried for, xve undertake to make the an nouncement as soon as the facts can lie rediscovered. Detroit News. It is too soon to begin worrying aliout the excessive monev in the treasure. IV ait until Congress adjourns; then, un less all signs fail, there will he little to worry about. —Philadelphia Ledger. It is comforting, among the many ac cident horrors of the past month, to read a story of one man's leg being crushed by tiie cars and to learn the mangled prop was made of wood.— Buffalo News. Sioux City physicians have formed a trust and no one can get well now with out paying established prices. The town may lie expected to develop a very healthy population.—St. Paul Dispatch. One thing is certain. There is not go ing to he any mystery aliout the persons whose names arc on the city payroll, hoxv they came tlie- and what they do for their pay.—Noxv York Evening Sun. A New York man lias been paying his xx-ife’s alimony in postage stamps of un ' negotiable denominations, which sng i gests that the champion mean man would better look to his laurels. —Washington Times. Those thieves up near Cleveland, who stole a house and tried to sell the lot from whence they removed lie- linus--, are expected to return and take the blue sky that was over the lionsc. —Buffalo Times. A Bartholomew County farmer is boasting of having found gold on his farm. Monroe County farmers have long since found that by proper tilling they can produce the same article. Blooming ton World. Carrie Nation lias $5,000 in 'cash, the homestead and the feather bed. but Da vid Nation lias a sense of relief and a peace of spirit which is more to be de sired, yea, than much tine gold. Kansas City Star. A New York legislator desires actors to take out licenses to show their qualifica tions for their profession. But Ncxv York legislators do not have to take out per mits before they can legislate.—Wash ington Star. Tlie Drexels of Philadelphia matched ,T. I’ierpont Morgan's gift of a year’s sal ary to each employe by exactly the same generosity. If this practice spreads, jobs in big banking institutions will become popular.—Buffalo Nexvs. Ivansfs is always springing surprises. The la-est is that a judge threatens to send Gov. Stanley to jail for contempt of court The Governor laughs at the judg and informs him that he lias the pardon ing power.—Buffalo News, The telephone girls of Shelbyvilic could toil some mighty interesting tilings which, were they published in the news papers, would set the whole town gossip ing in less than an hour. But they xvon’t tell it, that's all.—Shelbyvilic Re publican. Money is the root of evil. A banker ! and his wife nt Montrose, Susquehanna I County, have newly illustrated the truth ; of the saying. They contracted smallpox i by handling filthy bank notes, and the ' wife died of the loathsome malady.—Phil adelphia Record. Gen. George 11. Steusrt. Confederate A* I to him, by Mr, Abram Smith of Long ' Beach. Cal., a Bible which he carried j through the Civil War. and which the | latter took from a Confederate wagon a | fexv days before the surrender of Lee’s army. An esteemed Boston contemporary in ! forms its readers by in. ails of startling | headlines and a -j*eria! dispatch that Gov. Shaxv of lowa ea! - pi*, three times Ia day. Well, he is a man of consolera i i.:, in in*. 1L ..ffor.l it. Bn; there anything peculiar in his manner of j eating pie? -Chicago Tribune, Don’t lick the envelope. The fate of I the gentleman who cut bis li,- on the sharp edge of the paper and has now I died from blood poisoning teaches that lesson. Moistening th*- gnmined -urfaee [ without bringing it In contact with the I lips or the tc-ngae is the obvi-itx wav to avoid this method of blood poisoning.— [ Boston Herald. Ex-Mayor Hamoel A. Green of Boston i ha* given to the Harvard Art Museum some gorgeous articles of wearing ap parel x*N>m by Harvard students of his ancestors upon their graduation in the eighteenth century. Dr. Green's grand - j father graduate.! in 1784. A gun carriage overturned at Fort K im H ,ust..-i. ■ x -. h. ' ing George War Bile*. Albert Davids *tf t an 1 Albert Brawn were also . 1 at* art*!!, rx m* ... Gov. Taft of ii r Philippines d-S!*s 1 that there are camps of coneentratiui* a, ' the ialand*. I The Kv. Dr. C. W. K- I,v,i Nichols has brought down asP nof criticism on himself by ,'iis list of persons whom ho believes constitute the really fashio.ua- 1 ble society of the t says the ri tlw j w Al Dr. Nix-hols is a sou of George Knee- Mmols, land Nichols of NichoL? Conn. He xvas assistant re-tor of St. Luke’s Church in New York for several years up to 1899. when lie suddenly left the P'otest nnt Episcopal Church, after receiving a request to explain some: charges brought against him. He xx-us for seven years chaplain of the Department of Public Charities and Corrections of Ncxv York, and in his rounds wore; a silver crucifix hanging frigu a purple -cord around his neck. He is at present engaged in char ity work among the pooir. Arthur I’ie Gorman, who returns to the United States Semite from Maryland iu lieu of Senator Wellington, is now in his (Eld year, aud ’ s question /Uri i! oud nt the moat tiffll l* l / T stici'essfulofAioer- Mir if nr i— mA iva l politicians. tne? When lie was only view of the Senate elMimber as a page ■*“*of that house, and ' "jfakN, fro,n that day to ■ jimW the present he baa vrii never been out ©f the public eye or without large and influential power in „ ..... tlie politics of his AUTIII K r. UOUMAN. ,j ... native State. He xvas first, elected to the Senate in 1889, and was re-elected in 1889 and t 892. Pre viously to his first election he had held numerous political offices in Maryland, among them that of State Senator, in which capacity he served several to.ms. He was Uliie 1 Slates Si .u;. ;• tor txxcu ty-nine year* M. de Blewits;, who lias resigned tho Paris correspondence ol the London Times, is credited with having invented tlii interview in journalism. He be gau Ins work for L £/ - yL, the Tim sf IS7L Wx a fexv moil Ins after j. L . be had earned the Se jX* gratitude aid e.mli •< deuce of MThiers government of the doings oi tlt' < ’em- >\ * mime in Mrjseilli s, where he xvas a - 1,! - ulowitz. teacher of languages. His intimate rela tions xvitli the statesmen- in Etinq*e en abled hint to give the world news which no other coriespondent could get, and hia dispatches to the Times, being repeated from London to other countries, have made him known wherever newspapers are read. Nl. tie Blowitz xvill tie gucceed rd by Arthur Fullerton, r-a American. i _. ._ Former Gov. James Stephen Hogg ot Texas, whom recent discoveries of Texas oil fields has enriched to the extent of lawyer of genuine '’(A ability and one of ra the most remark^- % 1> e characters in jijA I It the Ki.utli. He is k/HEN ™ ? s.nuoxxhiit ori ik> other side of 50 and •>*\ a typical Texan. As :l •' he xxorked on a farm anti - fought his way to the (rout by sheer ‘ for,.- Hint deterim j. s. Hue Cl. nation. Good for tune could come tu it" other man in Texas xvith more gratification to tho people of his State. f Booth Tarkiagton, tin* author, xvlio will be a candidal, for the Legislature of in through, and takes the welfare *if his lijffik State. He is 51 Prinet'on, ami at university, fn 1895. "■ ' akki.xgtoh. he began writing the stories which have lince made him famous. THE “ADMINISTRATION HAT.” Headgear Popularized by President Hoosc-velt Still Survives. In Washington it i- no longer “the cam paign hat." The headgear populari*d by President Roosevelt during his Rough Rider days lit, t survived and is now known as "the administration hat.” Even such an aesthetic and fashionable states man as Senator Lodge dots* not disdain to don tin rakish and jaujtty felt slouch which erdwJii’>t xv.i , the distinctive mark : i soldi Ail tie • i• : ■ ' officiate :■ x, i , -J .oi .iiiustra ■ tioti hat I ei | ■ ■! .rile gianee to the President a- xvas the |>carl beaver a mark of devotion to the whit* THE AOxfIMSTKATIOX HAT. plumed knight >f Maine. One of th* first acts of th* lit-xv I* >un -tor Genera!, Henry C. Payne, was to decorate hiat srif with tho idminii tration hat. The noxv irtjlo has not the woixlrara proportions of the old G. A. It. hat. It is suitable and becoming to more -hnpea of faces and complexions than flip fat ter. It is remark able hoxv thoroughly intrenched this cow fashion >*-*-iii> to be. President Rodserelt appears almost daily in public xv-a if. tlii# hondg.-ar. This may have something t<< do with its ix.p ularity. Railroad Defies Dominion. The White Pass Railway Company baa been ordero*] by the dominion government to reduce its rivigbt and pao nger rate* between Kkagany, Alaska, arid White Horse, Yukon t* rritory. The company has p sitive'.y refu.-d and there does not to'f-ni any meat,** by which the Canadian authorities pan as>* rt their anthoritj. Charles D. Norris of Ithaca. X. Y.. has pleaded guilty to stealing $90,009 worth, of bond* and other valuables from tho trunks of a theatrical company in that city m October. Norris wa* a Dhigh Valley railroad: employe ao 1 had acceaa to the baggage ears.