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JANET LEE In the Shadow of the Gallows. BY DAVID LOWRY. CHAPTER XT-Continued. "Nav." Raid Proctor. "I will pav my own core.* We will be none the less" friends. And since you seem interested in the matter, I can tell you John Lee was always considered one of the most courageous men in Salem. No man did more for his friends in the Indian wars, and there are men in high places who will see that justice is done nis family." All in the inn looked at Proctor, whose voice was lifted so that all there could hear him. The sailor extended his hand. "A steady tack I can keep run of; it's the fellows that veer about I've no patience with. As well speak to a weather vane as some I've met here. So, mate, you are standing by John Lee's family, il like your cut, more because it's like drawing teeth to get a hearty answer to a ttim{)le question in Salem. Tell me. what ike is this John Lee, whose wife and daughter are in league with witches?" "A man of goodly presence; a very upright but unhappy man. His wife and daughter are sadly misrepresented." "If 60 be I apd my mates were asleep, and some one should find signs of a witch, what though I nor my males had naught to do with the witch, dost tell me I and my mates are to be held to account for harboring witches in the fo'csle? Tell me what the law 6ays. J want to lase my bearings?proper bearings?on this matter, because no man or woman can be, bo they do Bay, free from witches when they choose to come anigh. That be like the 6tory they tell of John Lee." "No," 6aid the landlord, breaking hie silence. "It were well it was no worse. 'Tis said his wife or daughter practice witchcraft. There be other things, too? auch that gives color to the rumors." j "So?" said the 6ailor; then he muttered, Many a man has hanged on rumor." Meantime Grizzle Meade left the room, and her husband served the customers. He advanced to receive the sailor's score: at the same time Arthur Proctor produced a purse and held it across his knee carelessly. The purse was of peculiai make. It was composed of minute scales, curiously wrought, cunningly fastened iD such a manner as to conceal the meant employed to hold them together. The firelight sparkled on the fine scales ae Proctor moved his hand,* at times the purse shone like a ribbon of silver. Proctor had taken a coin from the purse; he was holding it in one hand, when the nailnr lnolrincr At the niirse. fiftid: "A rare thing as my eyes ever looked on?and I've seen something, too, abroad ?is that, mate." Several turned to see what it was that excited the sailor'B cariosity. Giles Ellis peered across at the parse exposed on Proctor's knee. Daniel Meade, who had returned the sailor his change, slowly tamed, too. One of the customers at ' moment stooped to examine the purse closer. When he raised his head, Daniel Meade uttered a hoarse cry, and fell heavily upon the floor. "Stand aside," said the sailor. "Give him fresh air, ye lubbers. He is in a fit." Grizzle Meade, entering at that instant, said in an authoritative tone: "Help me to bed with him." She did not 6eem alarmed; her maimer was deliberate, as her words were decisive. It was Giles Ellis who raised the landlord's head and held his sboalders; the - J *- J n_:?i ^ -J it. Banor niieu uis ieei, uuu un^ic iou iuc way into the adjoining room. Presently the Bailor re-entered the tap-room, and looking about him, said: "Is Daniel Meade often taken with fits?" No one answered. Arthnr Proctor's seat was vacant. The sailor looked from one to the other, smiled grimly, then left the inn without waiting for the" slow-coming answer. When he returned an hour later there wa6 no one present save Giles Ellib, who was taking his leave. i CHAPTER XU. | THE SOMNAMBULIST. "If you should hear any noise through the night, pay no attention to it," said Grizzle Meade, as she showed the sailor to his room. ] "Unless it's cannon, or something like, ' it'll not disturb me. I'm a sound and a long sleeper, alloat and ashore,'* the sailor answerea. "My husband may speak loud?when he iB this way, which is not often. Give yourself no concern, sir." When he was alone, the sailor looked about him. Undressing himself speedily, he lay down on the bed, and fell sound asleep. His clothes?his moneyall that he possessed?was tossed on the floor beside the bed. This man seemed i to have no fear, or nothing to lose. His sleep was dreamless, sound as a babe's, and as quiet. It was well on in the morning when he awoke with a 6tart. Some one was approaching hi6 room. The sailor sat up and listened intently. There were footsteps approaching his room. He heard Ihern distinctly. The door of his room was pushed open slightly. The sailor could not hear the hand on it. But there was no light. "Whoever was at the door did not require a light. The intruder was nearing his bed. The sailor slipped oat of it on the side nearest the wall, and Btood still. He could hear the intruder breathing. Who could this intruder be? The sten was heavier than that of the landlady. The sailor 6mi'ed?he had so little" fear in his composition that he smiled at the thought of the landlord attempting anything with man like him. The intruder stepped silently to the Bide of the bed. HiB breathing became painful. There was a blow. The sailor knew well what that sound meant. Then he reached out a hand with a grip like a vise, and caught that which had driven a knife deep into the bed-clothes. The intruder uttered a hoarse cry. It was the voice of the landlord. 'Tis as I thought. But you do not escape me 60 easily," oaid the sailor, as lie wrestled with the landlord. Now tdere was a sound of steps below. The s eps approached the room quickly. There vas a ray of light, and then the Jaudl&uy hastily entered. Her face was drawn with terror. Her hands trembled violently. She could scar ely speak, "Daniel! It is me. Daniel'." The landlord, released by the sailor, passed a hand over his head like a man drtzed. He looked at the sailor, at the knife in the bed clothes, at his wife. "What is it, Grizzle? What are you doinu here? Why is this man here?" "Come; yoa have been dreaming, Daniel." She took him by the arm and hm leading him away, when the sailor stepped forward, withdrew the murderous knife from the bed clothes, and handing it to her said, with a meaning look: "I think you had best take this with you. And I'd advise you to get your husband into some other calling, lest his dreams cost somebody their life." Grizzle Meade took the knife without answering a word an.l led her husband, who staggered like a man suddenly bereft of understanding, from the room. i nen tb* ailor struck ? iirat is? elf with a tinder bos, lit the rush, looked at the window carefullv, pushed the bed ; by main strength over to the door, and i after satisfying himself that no one could outer without w.tking him. once more laid down and fell sound aeieep. i "When be roBfc the neii morning be was inclined to think he had been dreaming, but there was the bed against the door Then, as the extraordinary experience of the past night was recalled, the sailor's countenance grew severe. When he went downstairs it was with a very stern face. Grizzle Meade evidently anticipated a call for an early breakfast. The table was spread, l>ut tae landlord was nowhere to be seen. The landlady darod not meet the sailor's eyeB. She trembled, too. A palsy seemed to have overtaken Grizzle Meade. "I have never had so much trouble as I had last night," she said, as she helped the sailor. "My husband has been beside himself." "Ayo! And did he not get any rest?" "He never closed his eyes until just now." " So? And has he had these?fits?often?" "Never before." "Well, mistress, there's some would say, if they saw what happened to me, it is enough to hang him. Many a man has been hanged for less." "0, air, if you speak of it it will ruin us." "No doubt?without doubt. But if I do not speak of it it will be because I must not." "If you heard the story you would have pity on us both. My son?our only son? was murdered in that bed." The 6ailor laid down his knife and fork and looked at her. "It is true. All Salem knows it. But my son was killed by a stranger. He came the night beJore. He shot my son and ran away, and no one has ever seen him 6ince. My husband has never been the same from that day. He would kill | toe murderer 11 ue couia jay annas on him. He has murder in bis heart, and not much wonder!" "So? Now I understand the case, I'll not be the one to ruin any man. Only? if I had been asleep." "We will give up the inn. I will?you can depend on't." "It will be best, Mistress Meade." "I give you my word it will never happen again." "And yet it will be hard to let the business go. 'lis likely a good penny you make in a year." "That is the pity. But it can not be helped." "Unless you could cure him. What do the bone-setters say, eh? Have they looked into it?" "Aye, have they. The best advice, and there's no medicine for it." "That's bad." "You'll not think he meant it " ] "No? Why, didn't he come in the dark straight to the bed? Didn't I see him < wake up? He was as sound asleep as < ever man was/ That I could swear. A i sleep-walker?that is what he is." "But he never walked until this trouble i befell us." ; "I can believe that. Well, it will do no good spreading reports. Do you keep ?n ] eye on him. Twere best you guard all lodgers well. Xo, no! I'il do you no ] h^rm. I'll make no trouble fr*r honest people. It'6 only rogues I'd hang." When he had eaten breakfast?and ne ate heartily, like a man who relish ed? his victuals?he paid his score and wenx away. CHAPTER XIIL A WICKED COMPACT. At the hour when the Globe Inn was free of customers Giles Ellis entered it and inquired after the weirs/e of the landlord, who was abed. *1 came." said Giles Ellis in his insinuating manner, "to inquire how he is. I was Borry to see him in such straits." "Nobody knows what be suffers?what I have gone through in the past twentyfour hours." "What think yon caused Daniel to fall in a fit. Mistress Meade?" "That needs no guess. Ever since my poor son was killed, the very sight of a sailor distresses him." "I see. 'Tis very natural." "I am almost tempted to give up the UUDlUVDOi "Aye?bat it is a fine, profitable business." "There have been times when it was bad, too." "Think you, if the man who killed your son were hanged, Daniel Meade would not rest easy?" Giles Ellis leaned over the table at which they were sitting, and looked at Grizzle Meade meaningly, Grizzle was seized with a tremor. "I would rather, were I in your place, Dr your husband's, see the man who murdered your son hanged, than own all Salem. Daniel Meade may rest easy when justice is meted out to tho murderer." (jrrizzie jsjeaue icosea hi mm ub u sue would read his soul. "My mind is not on blood. I've had enough of blood." "But justice?justice should be done." "Aye. Let them that makes the laws sxecute them." "But the authorities are tardy, methinks, or this matter would have been cleared up before this. Did you mark what the sailor said about Martin Lee last night?" "I did not hear all he Baid," Grizzle replied, cautiously. "Did you not hear him tell how he was ooarkedby Martin Lee in a quarrel?" "Yes; and how he was Martin Lee's friend. I heard him answer you that." "And how he knew that Martin LeewaB coming this way, and should be in Salem DOW. "Yes; I heard all." "Think you Martin Lee is here?" "How do I know?" "Was it not a sailor killed your son?" "It was." Grizzle bowed her head and end put her apron to her eyes. "That sailor?was he not Martin Lee, think you?" "I never thought more about him thaD of the sailor who slept here last night," said Grizzle. "Why should you charge Martin Lee?" "Because this man says he was coming here. This is a matter none can hear. I came to speak to you alone. Martin Lee did come to Salem. He was here?where 1 he is now no one knows. But in pood 1 time it will be shown he was in Salem. ( Grizzle Meade, if )ou use your wits, you will fee justice meted out to Martin Lee." ' "And how are we to do this thing? ! "What would you have us do?" < "First, promise that you will never 1 breathe what I will tell you?" ( "You can trust me as I trust you," answered Grizzle Meade, slowly. "Know then that Martin Lee was seen 1 in John Lee's house on the morning oitti the murder." "Well, and if he were?" I "Can you not see? Is it not plain? i Why did not John Lee bid him stay? Be- i cause he dare not. 'Tis well known Martin Lee was a wild youth. Nay, then, to 1 tell you more, John Lee forbade him his i house." "How know you this?" , "That is my 6ecret, Grizzle Meade." "But even if it were as you report " "I thought you were keener. 'T*as Martin Lee I and the Marshal saw in this very room. The sailor from Africa, with stories of diamond field-." "Why, then, that could neve? be,-and I cot know it." Giles Ellis looked at hr.r keenly. A struggle was revealed in Grizzle's manner. Something wa? combated ? repressed. fcIt is all clear to now. It was none other than M?rtin Lee. I verib- believe wno found shelter here that night. But why ? why did he not make himself known?" "Why? He had good reasons, doubtless; think yon he hail plenty to do without revealing himself to* us here, elie John Lee would not drive him from his door." "That is reason, too," said Grizzle Meade, slowly. t "But, if ever it comes to the authorities, pou must be sare'twas Martir^Lee was t aere. Aye, and so must Daniel Meade." ^ "There need be no doubt on that hand." " There must not he." * "Nor will there. What one knows, both will swear." "I am glad you perceive where justice lies in this matter, Grizzle. Somebody Rhoaid hang for your pon. When Martin Lee is hanged. Daniel Meade may sleep easier." This was another of His speecnes with a double meaning that terrified and angered Grizzle. She shot a fieroa look at him, and answered sullenly: "I am not traveling at your gait always, Giles Ellis. It may be you are mistaken about Martin Lee. Once for all?I'll say this?neither I nor Daniel Meade will say aught of Martin Lee till I see my way clearer than I see it now. No breath of Martin Lee shall escape our lips till I see where vour interest lift*." urizzie"Meaae s suspicions were rutty aroused, and, unless they were allayed, all Giles' labor would be lost. " 'Tie true. I have a reason. It is not that I want Martin hanged. There yon wrong me." "It would be a pity to wrong so good a man." "I would lower the pride of Dorothea and her daughter." "Ah! Now I understand." "I will confide in yon. All Salem will know soon Martin Lee has been here and committed a terrible crime. 'Twas he who cut the throats? of Winslow's horse and sheep." Grizzle Meade held np her hands. " 'Ti6 monstrous!" "Aye, is it. And it will be proven without doubt he did it. There was one saw him do it" "Monstrous! 'lis past belief," said Grizzle Meade. "Now, 'tis bad enough to kill a man's Bheep and horse?'tis worse to kill your son. 'Twill be a marvel if be escapes the hangman." "Aye, will it. We must see that he does not," Baid Grizzle, with sudden resolution. "Trust me to make it a straight path to the scaffold. If anything 1 can say, or anything Daniel Meade may swear, will do it, it's as eood as done. And I thank you, Giles Ellis, for your confidence. And when you have Janet Lee to wife, be Bure I will be among the first to wish you joy and long years." She shot a glance at him then that disconcerted him. All this time he had deluded himself?had thought he was twiring her round his finger, and bending her, through her fears, to his will, antil in a moment's time bis real purpose was laid bare, and Grizzle Meade sat looking at him composedly. "Now that we understand each other, have a glass of wine before you go?" He was going to refuse bluntly, but craft came to bis aid, and he accepted the affer. As he sipped bis wine, he mustered a smile. "Prepare yourself for news. I will make the first more. A good day to you, Mistress Meade." And Grizzle Meade was alone. She looked after him wrathfully. "It will go hard with me if I cannot hold him aBfast as he holds me." Ho BE CONTINUED.! Nice Story About the Sewing Machine. Here is a nice little story corncerning the invention of the sewing machine, the truth of which is vouched for by the Pittsburg Dispatch. Away back in the busy years before the war, there was a Pittsburg theatrical singer named Murphy, a man with a remarkobly sweet voice - - - 3 J and aeciaea aptness ior irua cumeuv auu Isish melodies. He made a name for himself which has greatly benefited a subsequent generation of Murphys of histrionic and musical tendencies. He left the stage for a time to enter business life here in a picture store. One day there entered unto him a lanky man of marked appearance and striking attire, accompanied by a woman in a purple telvet dress, to which clung several children of various sizes. The man introduced himself as being a strolling actor, out of work, hard up and seeking help from one whom he had heard of as being connected with the stage. Mr. Murphy was a warmhearted man, and promptly secured lodgings and food for the visitors, and afterward aided them in giving readings and dramatic entertainments. The actor incidentally announced to Murphy that his name was Singer. He showed a great fondness for mechanics and after earning some little money by his entertainments, he fitted up a worksoop and began to - -i. n: ti_ dabble in various experiments, x ma;iy he rigged up a machine which would cut out circular pieces of wood. This machine was dually hied up with a movable table, which allowed letters with curved surfaces to be cut out at will. Singer used this machine to make tall, wooden Bign letters, which were gilded and fastened on a painted board. The first sign of this kind made was bought by Paulson, the hatter. Other merchants followed suit and Singer was busy for quite awhile turning out signs. From this machine came the first idea of the sewing machine. Singer worked at it some while in Pittsburg, but finally left for New York, where his work was per- , fected. Afterward, as a reward for his kindness, Murphy was offered the agency fn~ dinner mnphinp. fnr the entire west, but Murphy said he did not care for mercantile ventures, and he declined an opportunity to make many millions of dollars. Forecasting: Timnderstormg. j Uncle Rusk and the force of assistants ' which he has to assist him in the weather trade are trying a new departure in their business. It is nothing more nor less than an experiment in forecasting thunderstorms. It is thought that if a thunderstorm can be successfully forecasted a sufficient length of time ahead of its occurrence, it -will be of great benefit to the farmers. The plan is to have the abserver of a station near which a storm is passing, note its force, velocity, etc., J and telegraph to other stations the data thus gathered. They will communicate with correspondents in the route of the storm, and they will put bulletins for the ( benefit of the farmers of that vicinity. The thunderstorm i3 considered by the department as a very annoying circumslance to the farmer, especially in harvest time, when it comes up unawares and catches him with a large meadow newly - < ? '? v? ?i?^ ; mown oe;ore tne nay uus uecu ? cocked or stored away.?St Louis liepublic. -i ? * NoTel Rice Pounding Machine. , A novel rice pounding machine u!e.l i in the northern Shan States ([ndo-China) is described by Lord LamiDgton as including bamboo pipes through which water is led into a hollow cut into one end of a pestlo such as is usually worked by foot. The other or mallet end rises | with the weight of the water till the water is automatically discharged, and then tbe pestle falls back and does its 1 work of pounding the unhusked paddy. ?iu? If tbe manuscript of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress" is still in existence, and can be produced at the , iVorld's Fair, it will be, certainly, a natter of no little interest. Mrs <$. ' i A GREAT WORK. INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE NICARAGUA CANAL. Good Prospects lor Its Early Completion?Topography of l he Country Along the Route ? Difficulties to Bo Overcome. X-SENATOR Warner Miller, the Presi,j dent of the Nicaragua CaDal Company, has recently visited NiyXM/f J caragua and he has J J^^\g?ne over "whole V i'i-route of the canal on >-L i ftw *oot, on mu^e^ack and in boats, and he gaS^'1" tells me, writes Frank Q> Carpenter in the Chicago Herald, there ' is no doubt whatever of its practicability. I asked him what they were doing at the present time. He replied: "We are getting along very well and we have now 500 men at work. We began at the canal only ahout four years ago and we have already spent somethinglike $5,000,000 upon it. We have excavated about a mile of the canal, we hare built more than twelve miles of railroad and we have surveyed the whole route and we know just what we can do. To show jou that we are doing things thoroughly, it cost us about $500,000 to make this survey and you can nave little idea of the difficulty of the undertaking. Our engineers had to make their way through a tropical forest where the vegetation was often so dense that they could not see fifty feet in front of them. Part of the way was through marshes and swamps where the men had to Sounder along up to the waist in the mud, and they had to cut their way through with axes a great part of the route. They had to test the depths of the streams foot by foot through the rivers, and to go over the great lake of Nicaragua and sound it. We have now, however, an exact map of the whole territory, and wc will push the canal from now on." "Give me some idea of the country through which the canal goes and of Lake Nicaragua, Senator," I said. "The canal" said Senator Miller, 11 A mmirtrt { n +V? A Innrai* I 'UUDOC3 vcunai iu vuw *vnw? part of Nicaragua. Nicaragua is the largest of the Central American States, and the country all told is not quite as large as the State of New York and it ; has not as many people as the city of St. Louis. It is a republic and the people are like those of the South American republics. They have a very good coun- ' -d* A NICARAGUA VILLAGE. try, and they have many fine plantations of coffee, sugar and indigo. Their forests are rich in rubber trees, and they have many fine furniture woods, such as ' mahogany. They have a railroad or so and telegraphs connecting all the cities * of the country. There are not many large towns, and the largest city is Leon, I which numbers 25,000 people. The ' * 9^9 ? ? -3 Xl 1 people are very enterprising anu mey are very anxious to see the canal com- * pleted. The canal will cross the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, covering a distance, all told, of nearly 170 miles. The most of this distance, however, has a waterway constructed ! by nature, and we have less than thirty miles of cutting to do. We start in at he harbor or Greytown and it is here that our men are working now, and * after we have cut this distance we reach < tho great Ban Juan River and sail 1 through it right into Like Nicaragua. * The ships then go across Lake Nicaragua, 1 and, with very little cutting out at the ^ other end, right into the Pacific through ' a short canal there." "What kind of aharbor have you at GreytownS" "It was bad enough," was the reply, "when we began our work. There was a great bar of sand that extended out in front of it, and this sand was three feet above water. "We have constructed an immense breakwater, and we have now fifteen feet of water on thi9 bar, and we are making it deeper by extending the break- i water further out into the sea. We will ; have it so that all ships can come into ' the harbor, and we will have about S50 acres for them to float about in. We have also a very fair harbor at Brito, on the . Pacific coast, where our canal corae3 out. ] It will take some dredging to fit it for ? use, but, when we are through, our two o harbors will be the finest in Central t America." 1 ,lHow big will the canal be, and how c can you make your vessels rise to the 1 level of Lake Nicaragua, which is 100 j t feet above the sea?" o "We do it by means of locks," replied r Senator Miller. "This, DeLesseps 6aid, c was not practicable, and he proposed a t level canal at the isthmus of Panama, and g he sunk several huudred millions in at- c tempting to make one; but his scheme t was an utter failure, and the Panama i Canal 6tock is now worth about two cents on the dollar, and that only for J speculative purposes. De Lessens said 6 that lccks would make travel through e the canal too slow to make it pay, and c that the ships would be tied up and j clogged half the time. "We have figured j s up the time, and we know just what we t can do. We are going to have the biggest v locks that have ever been made, e There will be only six of them, and a a ship can go through a lock and be raised t from one level to another in forty-five ji minutes. And supposingcnlv one ship p went through at a time, we could put t thirty.two ships through in a day, and c more than eleven thousand in a year. If I the ships that go through thip canal t ahould be of the sitse of those which pass r through the Suez Canal, more than 20,- t 000,000 tons will pass through in a year. E The Suez Canal gets $2.50 as toll on every ship that passes through the canal, and this tonnage, should we ever reach it, would pay the canal $50,000,000 a year. We expect the canal to cost, all told, just about $100,000,000. and we think that it will pay a big interest on this investment. The Suez Canal stock is now in the neighborhood of $500 per share. It cost about the same as ours will cost, and it has for years been paying a net revenue of more than $12,000,000. It is not big enough to accommodate the trade, and they are no*w widening its locks. They are talking also of building another canal alongside the old one, and the shipping increases right along." ' How lone wiil it take a sMd to Dass through your canal?" "It will take only four hours more than it does for a ship to pass through OUR ENGINEERS AT WORK. the Suez Canal," said Senator Miller. "A boat can go through our canal from the Atlantic 'to the Pacific, a distance of 170 miles, in twenty-eight hours, and it takes one twenty-four hours to go through the Suez Canal. About 100,000 passengers go through the Suez Canal in a year, and the canal gets a big revenue from these. Of course my figures as to the tonnage which might pass through our canal represent an amount much greater than we will have for years, but supposing we only had 5,000,000 tons at the start, this would pay big dividends, and we will cventuallv no doubt have ten, fifteen and more million tons per year. As to the locks, that at Sault Ste. Marie takes through a greater tonnage every year than that at the Suez Canal, and these locks are perfectly practicable things. Our ships will go into the harbor at Greytown and they will sail nice miles along the canal to the flrst ?--i- ? ??1 .... _ IOCS, WU1CU Will lilt bucui up tumj-yuo < feet, and along this level they sail a mile < and a quarter, where they are raised i thirty feet more, and sail now on a level 3 of sixty-one feet above the sea. After ] a few more miles there is a third lock, \ which raises them forty-five feet higher, ] and they are now 106 feet above the 1 harbor of Greytown and are oi the same level as the San Juan River aud the big lake of Nicaragua. They can now sail right along up this river into the lake and across it a distance of over a hundred and thirty miles to the western side of the lake, and they are now only seventeen miles from the Pacific Ocean. They here go into our canal, and by similar locks to those on the east drop down to the eea level. There are three locks on the west side, and, of course, we can raise ships fiom the Pacific to the level 5f the lake in the same way as we do those to the level of the lake from the / itlantic. The whole affair is very simple to anyone who understands the * ? " ? * i.1 L. - < mettiea dj wmcn Doais go luruugu u :anal by means of locks. "How soon do you expect to have the :anal done, Senator Miller?" I asked. "It ought to be finished in about six pears," was the reply. "And if we make ;he right financial arrangements it may se done before that." "Please give me some idea of the ef- : feet it will have upon shipping?" "It will make America one of the A greatest commercial nations of the world, ' ind we will at once jump to the front as :o our merchant marine. It is almost ^ mpossible to give you an idea of the * :hange? it will make. It will save our ' (hips 10,000 miles in going from New ^ Fork to San Francisco, and it will bring * is 8000 miles nearer the Sandwich IsU tods. When that canal is completed tfew York will be nearly 7000 milss icarer Callao. and wc will be able to put >ur cotton into the ports of China and , Tapan by Bhipping it direct from New ^ Orleans instead of having it go away iround by the Suez. Tiie canal will hen be one of the great routes to Ausralia and China, and we will deal direct , vith these countries instead of through j RAILROAD ALONG THE CANAL. Dogland, as we now do. The Japanese i rrrno f rJoolnf nilP flfltMn ,c uu" uol"o - 6""" ? , ind they are increasing their consumpion of the American article every year. The Koreans dress almost altogether in :ottons, and they like a good article. The Americana make better cotton than hey can get from India or elsewhere, ,nd there is no reason why we should lot be supplying the material for the lothes of the hundreds of millions of he far east. The Japanese are using a ;reat deal of raw cotton, and if this anal were built now there would b3 no rouble in the south about a market for ts cotton. "The building of the canal," Senator liller went on, 4'will be death to the ailing ships of the world. The greatst part of our commerce will then be arried by steaui. We will have a coalQg station at Nicaragua, and all tbe hips of the world going from the east : o the west will pass through this highray. It will make an immense differnce in California and the Pacific slope " nd it will quadruple the population of s hat part of our country ten years after it ^ s completed. If we get the canal com- ^ leted by 1897 we ought to have more ' han 8,000,000 tons going through the anal the next year. The c&nal will also 1 ic of immense advantage to us in a mili- P ary way, and it will enforce the Monoe doctrine better than our navy. By he Suez Canal Great Britain got 3600 a ailes nearer her Iudiaa possessions, and s< by this canal we will be more than 9000 miles nearer our naval stations on the Pacific. In the case of n war like that THE BREAKWATER AT GREYT0WX. which seemed imminent with Chile not long ago. the importance of a thing of this kind cannot be ovestimated and the Government will profit greatly by the work." The Dying Hawaiian Race. Onfl of the saddest 8Dectacle8 in Ha waii is the rapid decay of the native race. Disease and death have made heavy inroads among them. More even than the Samoana and Tabitian3 they seem to absorb all the vices of the white race. The Chinese have introduced the vice of opium-smoking, and they also bring in large quantities of rice brandy, which the native Hawaiian loves next to "old Bquare fuse," as they call gin. The Hawaiian families are steadily decreasing ia size, and every census sees a shrinkage in the already small number of the doomed race. The census of 1884 gave 45,232 Hawaiian and half-castes; that of 1890 38,654, a loss of 5578 in six years. The Chinese now number 15,299, the Japanese 12,244 and the Portuguese 9100. Of this large number of Chinese only 200 are women. Hence we find John Chinaman selecting wives from the native girls, who are only too glad to marry Chinese because they ire better treated than b7 men of their own race. They are indulgent husbands md they love to see their -women finely dressed, but when they return to China the:e is no record of any Chinaman taking his Hawaiian wife. The women are left behind, and seldom is any provision made for the support of themselves aod their children. The Japanese mix little with the Hawaiians. One peculiar thing which is worthy the attention of the student of ethnology i la that the mixture of the Chinese and Sawaiians makes a better race, physicilly and mentally, than either of the originals. Some of the brightest young nen in Hawaii have Chinese fathers and ECunaka mothers. These half-castes are remarkably shrewd in business, while ;hey have the agreeable manners of the Sawaiians. The Portuguese are thrifty, sut they are a poor race. They are now A HAWAIIAN TYPE. locking over to California and are going nto the fruit and vineyard districts, vhere their labor will certainly be better han that of Chinese, for they are eager o buy homes and settle. Civilized rices and diseases and the leprosy hreaten to wipe out the native lawaiians in the next thirty years, rhey are disappearing more rapidly than he Maoris, of New Zealand, and for he same reason.?Chicago Herald. An Important Observatory. On Fire Island, forty miles or so from tfew York, Is located the observatory rom the top of which ocean steamers . . J xt. -i 1 x-1 J ire Slanted,ana meir arrivm icie^iupueu o the metropolis. By this means the ipproach of an Atlantic liner is known In tfew York about six hours before 6he rns made fast to her dock. The observatory is a wooden structure ibout forty feet high and lies back from ho beach about 200 feet. It is an exremely lonesome place in winter, and is iccupied the year round by Peter Kee?an and his family. Mr. Kecgan is an ixpert at his business, and can often ecognize a steamer a long distance off ! )y her smoke or other little details, such is smokestacks, lifeboats, cabins, etc. U soon as he has identified a vessel he elegraphs the fact of her approach to f 'few York. When steamers are oppo- ? ite Fire Island at night they send up a I i ? FIRE ISLAND OBSERVATORY. ignal in the 9hape of rockets, roman i andles and lights of different colors. ? lach line has its special signal, and Mr. j [eegan is thus able to tell the name of , be approaching vessel, as he keeps a < ecord of the departure from foreign orts of all incoming steamers. < i Colonies of apparently well pleased I nd contented Americans are found in e vera I of the beautiful Welsh towns. TEMPERANCE. I THE LORD'S SICE NEVER THE WHISET SIDE. The saloon men may rally their forces strong-, MB Their hideous crimes may successfully hide; |fl One fact still remains that is "true as the tun," fiM "The Lord's side is never the whisky IBj side.'' <Sm Tcu may look here and there, and study them well, SjB You may hear them temp'rance worker* bH deride, |fl For a time tney may prosper, but let them HE beware, SB "The Lora'd side is never the whisky side." ' Woe, woe to the man who pu's the wine cop HH red ' 9jH To the lips of his neighbor. *nH thus haft ^Bj tried To ruin bis manhood?'tis a baleful curse; ' BH "Ihe Lord's side is never the whisky HB side." M9 The cries of the widows and orphans they make, |Mj Their agonized pleadings will not be d?- H| nied, MM The day is at liand when this evil shall H| cease, "The Lord's side is never the whisky BB side." ^ Hfl The dealers in liquors are on the alert, nH Intuitively know they will subside; With redouolea efforts they work, conscious HH still H "The Lord's side is never the whisky WM side." . Unbelievers they are, for Scripture doth teach, ' ; That lovers of wine shall not be supplied H| With riches, but poverty of spirits is theirs, Mj ' "The Lord's side is never the whisky R side." , ?Susy Thistleton, in Chicago Sun. DRUNKENNESS IN* FRANCE. EH Thi? nonnl? rtf Franpn hnvx nlwavs hflfln GHI regarded as thrifty and temperate. It is painful therefore to learn, in the Paris correspondence of a London newspaper, that "drunkenness has so much increased in France of late years that this country, onoe so sober, is now sorely puzzled to know' what to do with its habitual toper?." The same writer adds that "the quantity o?| spirits consumed in Franca has i nor eased enormously. The cheap bars for the work* ing classes which have sprung up in all' parts of Paris during the last year or so are undoubtedly doing much to increase the evil. here. Tbev are generally crowded, and the quantity or absinthe that is drunk in these places at all hours of the day is quite suificient to explain the alarming increase of alcoholic madness." From this it appears that Paris, too, it; menaced by the saloon question, and that the country of cheap wine is rapidlv becoming j demoralized bv cheap bars. All of whicn ought to be of interest to those social reformers who would promote sobriety by in troducing a mild form of inebriety.?New York ^ees. * DRTJfK T7ASTK AMONG WORKERS. The Hon. Carroll D. Wright, Comml*sioner of Labor, recently transmitted to the President his annual report, which contains much valuable information collated by the Labor Bureau. Among other things the sum expended by the families of working- \ men for various put poses are contrasted with the families of workingmen in other countries. The comparisons on intoxicating liquors are as follows. For the families engaged in the cotton industry in the United States, so far as considered, the average ex-, penditureis given as 915.93 in the United States: in France, 115.08; in Germany, >11.41, and in Great Britain 119.47. In the woollen industry in the United States, . $54.94; in Belgium, $45.09; in Great Britain, $32.74. The food expenditure by the families of cotton-workers in the United States was on the average, 1287.06; in France, $164.02; in Germany, $142.22, and in Great Britain, $246.50. The averse cost of books and newspapers ior iamines engaged m toe cw toa industry in the United States was (5.35: France. 8.75; Germany, $1.4#, and in Great EritaiD, $5.86. The total average expenditure for families for every purpose in tha United Statef, 1610.61; France, $333.70; Germany, $282.58; Great Britain, $502.13; (Switzerland, $346.68. As a general statement it will be seen that the expenditures for intoxicating liquors in the United States are relatively less-, and for books, food, newspapers, etc., relatively more tban among tha cottoc-worifers oI the other countries. But the drink wcrte among tbese workers is large in each country mentioned.?National Temperance Advocate. WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? Drunkenness is a great trespass upon other's rights as well as a great sin in itself. No man has more right to turn himself loose drunk in the streets or public places, or in his own household, than he has to turn a filthv swine loose in these DWe? and if either should enjoy that privilege, the swine should have the preference. But w.iat shall we do? What shall the poor wife do and the children, whose husband and father defiles the home with his drunken presence? WhatBhall we all do v/no loathe and hate this curse of < our land and of all lands? I One thing we can do, which we do not enough?we can protest; cry out against this sin, rebuke the drinker, and not coddle him. It is a vile sin to get drunk; a worse than beastly sin, for no beast (but man) will get drunk. Let us put that sin in this light, and hold it there before anybodv, whether our neighbor or nearest of kin. This is one kind of temperance work we all can do, and which we too little do. Let us not pity the drinker so much as to cover his sin, lest we become thereby partakers with him of his sin. We laugh at the sight of a young man / drunk. Let us rather weep, it is a case of / ruin, of rteatd. We should protest, cry out/ against the sin. Our silence is consent, anft* the devil laughs while toe ruin goes on. l/ot lived in the rnidst of sin He seems no/t to have cried against it; kept himself free,/perhaps, but dweit at ease in the midst ot/surrounding corruptions. He escaped witfo his bare life. Noah also lived amoug the wicked, but he lifted up his voice; he preached, ho protested, he rebuked. Thus he kept the evils apart from his life, an i Noah and his house were saved.?Sacred Heart Review. TEMPERA\CE NEWS AND WOTES. There were 3tf3,935 public school teachers ind 204,913 liquor dealers in tha United States last year. Temperance reform has been made a plant n the platform of thd Woman's Liberal ^ea^ue of England, and Laly Heary somerset is a member of its Central Com nittee. At Sprague, Washington (th9 head[uarters of the Idaho Division of the Northrn Pacific Railway), the white-ribboDers ire planning to start a free reading-room or the railroad employes, there being no mblic library or reading-room in the own. The citizens of Fairmont, Ind.v one day ately loaded the contents of a newly opened aloon on drays, put the would-be saloon:eeper on top of hid goods, and bad the rhole lot hauled down to the railroad tation. There has not been a saloon there n the history of the place. "Among those persons selected with care or physical soundness and sobriety the death ate is more profoundly affejted by the use if intoxicating drinks than from any other ause apart from heredity," is the statement if the President of one of the oldest life inurance companies in Enjiani. The Woman's Christian Temperance "nions of Florida have r eived a gift of and at Lake H?len, one of the prettiest and lealthiest toivijs in middle Florida, where hey will luild State headquarters and hold vinter encampments. Tuey have decide 1 o call their assembly grouuds Somerset .^ark. Mrs. Ellen C. Johnson, Warden of the iVoman's Reformatory Prison at Sherjurne, Mh s., says: "Of tue women who ire incarcerated in this prisou ninety-seven >ut of a hundred are here either lrom jabitual drunkenness or for crimes comnitted under the influence of strong Irink." "How ao jo j came to sen your rea >> mt> _ iheaper than jour whita wine!'" asked a I customer of the new waiter at a Broadway B estaurant. "Just look at that color. Do H fou tuppose we get that for nothing? Do I you think chemicals and logwood and such H Jon't cost money?" replied the waiter.? I r.xaa S'ftiugs. 9