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' LEWIS M. GRIST, Proprietor.' ' giii Jndcpfndcnt Jamiig |torapapfr: jfy the ?romot?m of thi{ $olitol, Social, and (^ommcijtial Jntcrcsts of th<> ?outh. J teems?$2.00 a tear in advance. ttv^T o<?~ YORKVILLE. S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1891. NO. 16. ^i? ?? vy + w AN ARM"V BY CAPT. CHAS Author of "The Colonel's Daught Ranks," "Dunraven Re [Copyright, 1890, by J. B. Lippincott Cor merit with th< CHAPTER XL ' i ? > Corp. Stcln was at their heels. The week that followed the advent at Fort Ryan of the staff officer from division headquarters was one that the good people at the poet have not yet oeased talking about Lawler had remained in the garrison only twenty-four hours, and went back eastward without a word as to his intentions, and, to the surprise of even Col. Morris, without having sent for or spoken to the man most interested in his coming?Lieut Hearn. This in itself was something that excited most unfavorable comment, for it was known that he had had long interviews with Mr. Abrams, the busy representative of the press, and that he had driven in town to spend some hours in questioning certain dubious looking citizens presented to him one byxrae at the eetab" - - n-l 1 TT_ 1 J | li&bment or sir. ocnou uerg. cuj uau furthermore sent to the guard house for Trooper Welsh?once again there incarcerated by order of Capt. Cross, who as officer of the day had arrested him for attempting to slip across a sentry's post the previous night. And once again, to the dismay of the cavalry officers and the unconcealed ridicule of the infantry battalion, CoL Morris had directed Welsh's immediate release: "It was a misunderstanding, probably, Capt Cross," said the colonel in conciliatory mood to the old officer of the day, as he relieved him after guard mount "Welsh was given to understand that these gentlemen, who had just come from an interview with CoL Lawler, had the authority of the department commander to take him to town with them, so as to be ready to make certain depositions early in the morning." Bat Cross eyed his commander unflinchingly and said no word. Among the infantry officers the opinion was openly expressed that between Abrams and Lawler and Trooper Welsh the colonel was simply demeralked. The crowd at dress parade for several evenimts was almost as big as that be-. fore spoken of, and, though The Palladium mta did not again take position on the colonel's left daring the ceremony itself, ho was frequently at that officer's side when he made his way through the carious throngs both in going to and returning from his post. And afterward, with the eyes of the townspeople upon them, Private Welsh and the on terrified correspondent paced up and down the road in front of the cavalry barracks for half an hour; and the group sitting on Lane's piazza one evening especially could not help noting how ostentatiously ' the two conversed as they neared the white wicket gate. "Wharton," quoth Martin, as for the ^ sixth or seventh time the swarthy trooper and his champion approached the captain's quarters, "I'm consumed with envy. The time was when good looking 1 cavalrymen like yon and me could command some small attention from the eyes j of our friends and fellow citizens in i town; but oar day is done. These are | the popular heroes of the hour. Now, i here comes Hearn's first sergeant. Surely he's not going to have the unbearable ; effrontery to remind Trooper Welsh that he ought to be cleaning up for guard tomorrow, when a gentleman of the press wants to talk with him?" "Is WeLh for guard tomorrow?" asked Capt Lane, in some surprise. * "He is. The colonel relieved him from durance vile before guard mount this morning, and I hear! the first sergeant tell Hearn an hoar ago that it was Welsh's turn for guard, and wanted to ! know whether he was to order him or not. Mearn said certainly. "And the man cut parade to-night on plea that Mr. Abrams wanted to talk with him. He was the 'one private absent* reported from C troop," said Wharton. "That is the reason the sergeant is after him now, I fancy, either to arrest him or else warn him for guard." "If I were Hearn I'd quit attempting to dispicline that young man,'* said Maj. Ken yon, pessimistic and glowering as ever. "He ought to have sense enough to know that the worst blackguard in the service, with the press behind him, is more than a match for any officer who seeks to do his duty." "And if I were Hearn," drawled Martin, "I'd make that particular protege of The Palladium do his duty if I died for it, especially after the marked copies that came today. Now watch." The first sergeant, a trim, soldierly fellow with determined face and manner and quick energetic step, had by 'this time overtaken the pair, who strolling together had almost reached the picket fence and were within earshot of the Lanes' piazza. Mrs. Lane glanced eagerly up the road, for Miss Marshall and Lieut Hearn at that very moment came from the Whartons' quarters next door and appeared upon the gravel walk, Wallace following with Jeannette McCrea. Sergt Wren had stopped short on overtaking the trooper, and with scant ceremony addressed him in tones that all could hear: '.'Welsh, you're for guard to-morrow, and you've got mighty little time in which to get ready. Did the lieutenant excuse you from parade?" "I didn't ask him. CoL Lawler was good enough for me." "Col. Lawler.left the post at 5 o'clock and couldn't have wanted you." "All the same I was acting under his orders and nobody else's. If you want any other authority you can go to CoL Morris; I'm busy now." And with his in hia noekets and a ierk of the head to his companion, Welsh whirled about and led the way down the road toward the store, Abrains slowly following in hie wake, but looking back as though curious to see the sequel. The first sergeant stood an instant flushing and with wrathful eyes, but raised his hand in respectful salute as the young troop commander came quietly along, Miss Marshall leauing on his arm. "You warned him for guard, sergeant?" said Hearn, answering Wren's salute. "Yes, sir, and he says Col. Lawler excused him from parade." "I reported the absence to Col. Morris, and he tells me there may have been some such understanding, sergeant. At all events, as Col. Lawler has gone, he would give Welsh the benefit of the doubt; so we have nothing further to do with that matter." Wren ground his teeth as he briskly strode back to his quarters. ' PORTIA. >. KING, U. S. A., ter," "The Deserter," "From the inch," "Two Soldiers." npany, and published by special arrange5in.] ' What does the loot'nant say?" demanded Daffy, as he with half a dosen of his oomrades clustered about the office, eagerly watching the sergeant's face and his clinching hands as he returned. "Nothing. Don't ask questions now, you men. The lieutenant can't do anything to him; the colonel won't let hint" "The colonel won't, is it?" said Daffy, with a wrathful grin. "Be jabere, if 1 were colonel Fd command my rigiment. and no damned newspaper man would scare me oat of it It's The Palladium, that commands Fort Ryau tonight, and that blackguard Welsh is post adjutant ?more shame to us all?' "Silence, there, Duffy! No more of that talk!" ordered Wren, as he banged to the door of his own little den, and the knot of troopers scattered away. "All the same," muttered he to his faithful second, Sergt. Roes, "Duffy only tells the truth, and damn me if I ever thought the day would come when my old chief would knuckle down like that" And if in garrison circles that night it was predicted that something would be the outcome of the detail of Welsh for guard duty, no one was destined to disappointment He appeared at the ai>pointed time, and was curiously scanned by the other members of the troop, ait, carbine in hand, he came slowly and indifferently down the stairway just its the trumpets began to sound the assembly of the details. Unluckily for everybody who hoped to see Welsh brought up with a round turn by the snappy young adjutant, a drizzling rain had sot in, and undress guard mounting in overcoats was the result. Welsh's forage j cap and accouterments might past muster in a shower, but his full dress rig every man knew to be wofully out of shape, and such was the fellow's unpopularity among his comrades by this time that audible regrets were expressed by the men that the weather had "gone back on them." "Step out, there!" shouted Wren sharply to the dawdling soldier, as he ga7e j* J A. i-it me com in ana to mu iu. "Get * move on you, Misther Wblsk," laughed Duffy from the tipper gallery. "Or don't they ever shtep out in the excellent family down east? Sure, isn't ho a fine looking, intelligent young miiit of 25?" "Twenty-five? 'Faith, it's thirty-six in months he'd get if I was command ing," mattered Kerrigan. "How are your patriotic motives this morning, Mister American-Blood-with-the-AfflhomedName?" "Sore his name is Dennis," laughed Daffy again. "Quit your sneering, Kerrigan. The young soldier's eyes are blazing with pent up feelings again, dont yon see?" And indeed a most malignant scowl was that which Welsh launched aloft at his persecutors, whose fan was cat short by the stern voice of Sergt. Ross ordering silenee. And in another moment the detail of C troop was dancing away in donble time, with a parting adjuration from Daffy not to go too fast; "it's to aisy to set the blood boiling in Welsh's veins, anyhow." It was in the ugliest possible mood that Welsh tossed up his carbine for th e inspection of the officer of the guard. He had expected to pose as a hero and martyr. Bat whatever might be the mistaken sentiments aroused in the east by the efforts of a paper that had exhausted local well springs of scandal and sensation, here among those who knew the facts, and, above all, knew him, he had gained only ridicule and contempt. In all the garrison, now that Goes was gone, there was not a soldier who had ever stood his friend. In his own troop especially, where the rank and file were devoted to their young lieutenant, there was wrath and indignation at his ex?a wall Tin Vnow fTitif. nnthinor j^uoo, auu nvu uw ? ? > ? Q bat discipline saved him from a dueling in the river or a hearty kicking down the barrack stairs. Still, with Abrams to stand by him and The Palladium to champion his cause, he felt 80001*0 against fate; only he had thought to be looked upon as liberator and leaider ! among the men, and they were all laughing at him. This was bitter indeed. He almost hoped that the adjutant would order him back, replaced by the supernumerary, for the rust he knew to be about the breech block of his carbine, and which the officer of the guard would be sure to discover. But the young lieutenant contented himself with pointing to it with white gloved finger and pissing on, probably thinking it best to get him on duty at any price. All day long on guard the men liad taken frequent occasion to declaim quotations from The Palladium, until by evening stables they had rung the changes on Welsh's excellent family | connections, his American blood, his patriotic motives in enlisting, his ardor | for the flag and his fidelity to his oath, ; until he was ready to wish to heaven j The Palladium had singled out anybody ' else to be the martyr for its precorcertI ed exposition of official tyranny in the j army, and heartily sick of the part he i had been induced to play. But where, meantime, was Abiams? The day wore by, and not once had he come to the garrison, and Welsh, sulkily plodding up and down his muddy post near the stables, and knowing well that ! every time the men looked at him or ; nudged each other in the ribs they were i guying him, had earnest desire to see his champion, and to prevent the publii cation of other letters they had project! ed, since the only effect, locally, cf the 1 assault upon the good name of his young officer was to bring down the indignation of the enlisted men upon himself. It only made him rage the more spitefully against Hearn, and ho longed for an opportunity to vent his spleen. When the devil is working in the human breast opportunity is seldom lacking. The evening gun had thunj dered, the last notes of the "retreat" I had died away, and the sun, thai had | been obscured all morning, went v. rrn j in a golden radiance, leaving a shoe of ; beautiful color lingering along the crest of the opposite bluffs and reflected in myriad millions of rain drops still cling' - a- - -1 1? lug tt) tilt? 1'iuiups VI UUU.CUIS &'<">* Tempted by the loveliness of the evening Mrs. Lane had ordered out her carriage, and the moment the report had been made after retreat roll call and Mr. Hearn was returning sadly to his own quarters Lane headed him off: "No. I'm going to take you away from Wallace and Martin to-night, and 1 don't mean to let old Kenvon get his hands on you again. Mrs. Lane and Miss Marshall want you to drive with us an hour or so; then we'll come back and have a quiet little bite among ourselves." And Hearn pressed the captain's hand and silently thanked him. Half a dozen of the guard were seated about the rough stone porch of the gloomy old guard house as the carriage came rolling by. and at sight of the occupants they quickly laid aside their pipes and respectfully arose and raised their hands in salute. The sentry on No. 1, facing | sharply to the front, brought his rifle to the carry with a snap that made the bayonet ring. The one man who remained | seated and staring sulkily at the carI riage wore the cavalry uniform: it was I Welsh. Both officers noticed the fact as they J touched their caps in acknowledgment of the courtesy of the infantrymen, and ! exchanged significant glances. The la dies, too, were quick to note what had happened, aad they, too, looked at each other and then somewhat anxiously at Heara. But the carriage whirled along. The instant it had passed Corp. Stein turned on Welsh. So did others of the guard. "What do you mean by sitting there like that?" wa3 the demand. "I know my business," was the surly reply. "Just you 'tend to yours. You'd better study tactics and regulations before you try to learn me anything." "Oh, do let the high spirited scion of our finest families alone, corporal. Can't you see it's turning his stomach to be civil to anybody?" protested a tall infantryman. "Ah, let up now on Mr. Welsh, ne " it-H v.! XI ?11-J mulligan?mai a ww may uuidu yo ixi the Twenty-third?wasn't it Mulligan? or was it Sullivan? Sure I know the family, and it's a foine one," protested Private Kelly, his bine eyes twinkling with fun. Welsh sprang furiously to his feet, I clinching his fist and making straight | for the laughing little "dough boy." That young Celt, though a head shorter than his dark antagonist, in no wise disconcerted, stood squarely facing him, and awaited the attack with a grin of genuine delight on his freckled face. Stein sprang forward, however, and interposed. "No fighting here," he ordered. "Wait till you're off guard in the morning and settle it then." "Don't thwart the gentleman, corporal. Here comes his friend the police | reporter," laughed the group of guardsj men. But the unusual chaff had summoned the officer of the guard to the spot; and at sight of the lieutenant every Irishman in the party assumed an instantaneous expression of preternatural innocence. Mr. ALvams, too, had reined up in front of the trader's store, a few yards away, and noting the little knot of soldiers peering across the road divined at once that something was going on, and so, with the instinct of his profession, hastened to the scene in time to catoh a part of the colloquy that ensued. "The corporal tells me the trouble | grew out of your refusing to rise and . salute when Capt. Lane passed," said j the officer of the -guard, addressing the I stalwart trooper. ! Welsh glanced furtively over his shoulder until sure The Palladium man was ! in range of his voice, and then loudly replied: "I'm a member of the guard, sir, and the regulations forbid guards paying compliments of any kind after 'retreat,' and I can show you the paragraph." j "You know perfectly well,Welsh, that that applies to the guard collectively : when under arms find not to individual i mamKow I TOftnt no hair sDlittine here. See to it that you pay proper courtesy to every officer while you're under my command." And the lieutenant, a young | infantryman, with decidedly resolute face, looked squarely into the glowering black eyes of the trooper and then, turning quietly toward his little office, his eye lighted on The Palladium man. For an instant it looked as though he had something to say to him, too; but, struck by a sodden thought, he passed j in without another word, and presently ! the sergeant of the guard appeared iu the doorway. There was evident purpose in his coming. Half an hour later Welsh was standing some twenty yards away, engaged in low toned, eager chat with his civilian friend. The faces of both men were clouded, and every little while the gypsy looking soldier shot an angry glance toward the guard house door. Presently they moved across the road and headed | for the open bar at the trader's, wherein the lamps were just beginning to gleam. Before they reached its open portals Corp. Stein was at their heels, and his stern voice ordered Welsh to halt. "Go back to the guard house, Welsh; i it's against orders for a member of the ! guard to leave it. and you know it as ! well as I do." "My relief don't go ou post for two ; hours yet, and this gentleman has husi; ness with me. You'd better not interj fere with him." "The gentleman can see you over | there. You can't see him here." Already the sergeant was striding across the rood; the lieutenant appeared ! at the door; a dozen members of the I guard were eagerly watching the scene. Welsh half turned. Mr. Abramshent | and mattered a few words in his ear, ; bat the soldier, after one glance around I him, shook his head. Slowly and re; lactantly he turned, j "HI get even with you for this, Stein," | he hissed. And then, with shrugging , shoulders, the two objects of general in| terest?the civilian and the enlisted j man?slouched back across the road, the j eyes of all upon them. It was at this instant that the rapid ! whirr of wheels and the click of iron J shod hoofs were heard upon the drive, ; and briskly the Lane marriage came around the turn. Lieut. Lewis stepped out from the doorway. Again the sentry faced the road and carried arms; again the soldiers of the guard . arose, and those about the trader's door also faced the roadway; again the white ; gloved hands were raised in Boldierly salute, and one man only turned his back and slouched away. Every soldier within range saw that Welsh was deterj mined to disobey the orders he had just received. In six giant leaps the tall sergeant had reached his side. "Halt, Welsh, and face aboutl" he thundered, and then, as the man still strove to edge away under the wing of his civilian associate, laid a brawny hand upon the hulking shoulder and spun him about as he would a top. "Heels together, now. Look Bquare at Capt. Lane. Now, then, damn you, left hand, salute." "Not badly done, sergeant," said Lieut Lewis a moment after, as with kindling eyes he reached the spot just as the carriage had flashed by. "Finish what you j have to say to your friend in fifteen minutes, Welsh, and then report to me at : the guard room. Not badly done," he repeated, as he turned away with the tall infantryman by his side; "only you shouldn't have said 'damn' in the presence of ladies or," with a grim smile under his mustache, "or?of the press." "The ladies couldn't hear, sir, and 1 meant that the press should. 1 know I that according to 'Pinafore' and The Palladium I should have Baid, 'if you please.' But mules and blackguards pay no at tention to politeness. I've been thirty years a soldier, sir, and I know what fetches them." CHAPTER XIL But Mabel and Geonjla Marshall met at the parlor door. There were sore hearts at Ryan in the week that followed. As had long been anticipated, orders came for the summer practice march to the Indian territory, and the Eleventh?band and allhad jogged away, leaving Maj. Kenyon to command the post, with his little bat* ' talion of infantry to guard it The I orders were received two days after j Welsh'B_. enlivening tour of guard | duty. The command was to "arch I in forty-eight hours, equipped for j I field service, and Lieut Hearn, with , the other troop commanders, was ; j occupied every instant in getting . . his horses and men in thorough : shape. Kenyon and Lane, after consultation among some of his friends, had induced the young fellow to promise not , 1 - 1?J ? to open one Ot me marneu uipra vt ! newspapers which now began to cro^d in with every mail, but to leave them : all to be considered by the little council 1 I of three, in whose hands he had been persuaded to rest his case. He had written a full denial of The Palladium's scandalous statements with regard to his financial entanglements, ! j and a full description, as has already | been told, of the original trouble at the 1 I trader's store with Private Welsh. These had both been handed to CoL | Morris in his office. No one had heard j from Lawler. No one knew just exactly I what disposition the colonel had made ; of these papers. Mr. Abrams, too, had disappeared the day after Welsh's tour of guard duty; but the whole garrison now was flooded with newspapers by the hundred. It would seem as if the guild | of the western press had resolved on a j sudden and simultaneous assault on the army in general, and as if Fort Ryan was the vortex of the storm. Sensational I dispatches were published from various ' quarters. Other journals, envious of The Palladium's exploit, unearthed other victims, long since out of the army for general wortblesaness, and with flaming : head lines displayed to a sympathizing I public the tale of official abuse anil tyranny which had compelled these my' eral gallant and patriotic sons of Amer! ica to quit the service they were so well i fn Q/lnm UVWU w Dozens of tramps and tatterdemalions reaped sadden and unexpected harvest i of eleemosynary quarters and lunches j from gaping audiences in the beer stiloons by detailing individual experiences , of their own when serving under Lieut This or That in the Eleventh horse or i the Thirty-third foot. Dozens of Munchausens wore the reporters' pencils down to the wood with details of their ; harrowing sufferings. Then the editorials began, and gravely lectured the people on the wrongs of the whole system?the unrepublican character of an army anyhow, the repugnance in the American mind to all idea of discipline. . Meantime of course The Palladium was firing hot shot by the tori, and new so called scandals at Ryan, fresh outrages on the helpless and downtrodden soldiery were the subjects of Mr. Abram's lurid delineations, until it was to he wondered at that in their wrath the ofj fended public did not wipe the foul blot j on their civilization from the face of the , earth. It was on Friday evening that in answer to certain dispatches he had bean firing at department headquarters, CoL Morris received a message that at least : put him out of uncertainty. That day ; The Palladium had outdone itself, and ! no one not conversant with the illimitI able faculties of the paid correspondent can begin to imagine the heroic size at! tained in its columns by the incident ' briefly sketched in the last chapter: | "Continued Persecution of Trooj)er ! Welsh! Heaped Up Humiliations on His Head! Forced to Show Slavish Homage to His Insulter! Helpless Wrath of Comrades!" etc. The details of the incident, as told by the special correspondent, lost nothing of sensationI alism, and Lieut. Lewis came in now for j his share of obloquy. Poor Welsh was j represented as having been marched out, j'and with brutal curses compelled to j salute Lieut. Hearn, despite the fact ** " "" ^miQ?v1 \OQO Ktr ililttt lie, US U1CU1UC1 VI luu ^uotu, tTMO KfJ law and regulations exempted from the requirement. "In vain did the young ; soldier plead that paragraph 891 of the i regulations fully excused him. His reI lentless persecutors defied the law* of congress, and compelled him to 'stmd J and deliver" for the purpose of adding to j the indignities already heaped upon him. ; Could the readers of The Palladium have j heard the low, deep mutterings of the men in the garrison this night no rnu; tiny on their part need have surprised j them." The editor, tco, backed up his correspondent in a three-quarter column asI sault on the ridiculous etiquette of thej army. "It may be," he said, "all well, j enough in the conscripted camps of Europe, where whole nations are forced to service under arms, to exact of the rank and file this slavish exhibition to superiors, but it is an insult to the liigh intelligence of the soldiers of free America that because a beardless boy happens to have a strap upon his Bhoulder thousands of scarred veterans should be compelled to do him homage. The whole idea of the salute 13 repugnant to the republican mind and should be abolished; and for that matter, as we have no further use for an army, why stop at the salute?" No doubt the ninety-and-nine of The | Palladium's readers thought their editor j was sound, and were as opposed to the 1 idea of thut courtesy which is officially : declared to be *'indispensable among | military men," as to any exhibition ! thereof in the streets of their own peace! ful and remarkably well regulated moi tropolis. ! But Col. Morris was himself wofully j perturbed about this time. After immolating Cross and other officers by name, as was to be expected, The Palladium ; man had taken to poking ugly little insinuations at the post commander, and this, thought Morris, was the height of j ingratitude. He was in no pleasant . mood when the men came marching up ! from stables, and it stung him to see how cordial everybody was to Hearn, who, confound it! was the cause of the whole row. The telegram he had just received settled that matter once and fnr ail- v?-t ha was crlad he had an adju ' tant on whom to devolve the coming , duty. j Ever since Hearn's trouble began Cs.pj tain and Mrs. Lane had lost no opportul nity to make him understand that they | were devotedly his frf.ends, and that if ; he would but come to them in his sense I of utter wrong the shelter of their home, j the welcome of their fireside, would be ' some compensation at least for the hai'sh treatment accorded to him by the world ; at largo. Thanks to tho efforts of the ! western newspaper a million or more of ; free people liad learned to look upon his name as the synonym for all that was | swaggering, brutal, drunken and bully1 ing; and it was easy to see that the young soldier was cut to the heart. But an unexpected ally had been disco vj ered. Hearn, who had at first held aloof j in solitude, brooding over his troubles, j began to show decided readiness to : come. And though at all times gra.tej fill and most attentive to Mrs. Lane, that clear sighted young' matron speed, ily noted how his handsome blue eyes would wander about in search of her quietly observant friend, and that ever i since the night of her tilt with Lawler j Miss Marshall's interest in the case liad : been quadrupled. Now, this was not exactly what Mrs. lane had planned. She wanted Georgia to marry in the army, but she also wanted, and saw nothing in tho least unreasonable in so i wanting, to select that spirited young ! woman's husband for her. She did not J for a moment think that there was any j danger of Georgia's falling in love vrith I FTftarn. He was several years her senior, to be 6ure; he was handsome, distinguishel as ! a soldier, a man of unimpeachable c'aar: acter as modern men go; but, she argued, "ho is so much younger for his | years than Georgia for hers." She had | had to think so much for herself, and ; now the man she should marry was? j well, not crabbed old Maj. Kenyon, of ; course; he was a widower?sour and. yet j susceptible. It was only too plain that ] he loved to come to the house and talk ; with Miss Marshall by the hour, espe| cially when the cavalrymen were all ! down at stables. Neither did she want 1 the doctor, whom Jeannette McCrea coald have if she would only make up I her mind to drop Jim Wallace, who was j now bo devoted that the yearning med- ; ical man had no chapce whatever. No, i she didn't see, after all, just the right man for Georgia; ^still she had always thought of some one so much older, utterly ignoring the fact that when left to themselves most women have very different views of their own. Not a word had she uttered to Georgia, of course, but to her loving and indul- j gent Bpouse she had gone so far as to say: : "It is lovely to see how he is beginning , to find comfort in her society; but, Fred"? And madame breaks off, irresolute, yet suggestive. "But, Mabel"? 'responds her gray eyed lord with indefiniteness equal to her own. "Just suppose"? And then another pause on her part. "Just suppose what, Mrs. Lane?that I it should snow before September?" I "Now, Fred, you know, or else you haven't any eyes for" "I haven't?except for one,"says Lane, i parrying the situation with the very j i words he knows will most delight her. I I "You absurd boy!" Bnt she comes fluttering across the~.oom to reward him I as he deserves. "What I mean is, Georgia might get to think of him." "Well, everybody is tfainking of him just now, and in the light of such a catastrophe I suppose I'd have to make 1 him think of her." "He does now; and if he doesn't?you can't make people fall in love, can you?" "Agreed, Mrs. Wisehead. Neither j i can you prevent it, can. you? I know I i couldn't stop a fellow from falling in : love with yt.n some few years ago, hard j j as I tried. The more I tried to put you ; uway, the more you kept coming into that fellow's empty head." (Here Capt Lane is rewarded again, and as soon as able to speak resumes.) "So why worry ; now?" j "Well, I'm not worrying exactly, J only" "Only what? Every man can't have ' a wife like mine. Still, wouldn't she ! illlrtao x abuui u vmv> "Good? Goodness! Bat the question | j is to find the right man. However, I know what you mean, Fred. Don't in- j ! terfere; so I won't. And there they are ' chatting in the parlor, yet, and ifs time j | for him to get ready for parade? Why, j I here's Mr. Mason!" And Mrs. Lane, j ! who had slipped into the dining room, j caught sight of the adjutant at the front ' door. "What is it, Mason?" asked LAne, a sudden trouble in his eyes, as he hurried i through the hall. i "The colonel wishes Mr. Wharton to assume command of C troop temporarily. J I'm ordered to place Hearn in arrest," was. the answer, in tones that trembled f a little despite Mason's efforts at impas! sibility. Lane's hand was extended as though j to close the parlor door, which stood j ajar, but he was too late. The clink of ; the scabbard without had already been : heard, and almost at the instant Hearn | stepped forth into the hall. "You won't have far to look, old fel- | low. Here I am." "My heaven, Hearn! I thought to find j you over home, or I would never have | come here on such an errand." "Nevermind; lam with you. Good- ! by, captain; say good afternoon to?to | the ladies for me." "By Jove! I'm going over with you," said Lane, snatching a forage cap and springing down the steps. He did not want to encounter the questioning eyee within. But Mabel and Georgia Marshall met at the parlor door. "Hava you heard?do you know?" was the faltaring question of the former. "Hear! Know! Who could help hearing? Is it not an outrage?" [to be continued next week.] THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH. It is positively known that as you descend into the bowels of our globe, the temperature rises steadily at the rate of one degree Fahrenheit for every fifty feet, until at least 4,000?some say 10,000?degrees is reached. Even at 4,000 degrees every known substance ?metals, rock and all?becomes fused and liquid. This condition of things is found when a point twenty miles j from the surface is reached ; from that point on the heat remains about the same all the way to the very middle. To understand this it must be rememi bered that the earth was originally an j incandescent ball of the same temper- j ature all the way through from the j crust to center. Now that the crust j has cooled sufficiently to enable life to exist upon it, the state of affairs is still the same inside. The incandescent sphere was formed j in one of two ways. Either it was thrown out by the sun, around which it has since revolved somewhat like a ball that a small boy whirls at the end j of a string, or it wus composed of an ; aggregation of meteors that generated I heat by collision. Such are the two theories held by scientific men to-day, ; j though many extraordinary ones have ; been suggested. The celebrated Poi! son advanced the idea that, owing to i the heat given out by many of the giant j suns that bespangle the universe, great j : variations in the temperature of space 1 exist, some vast regions being cool and j others intensely hot. While passing ! j through a hot region, he surmised, the j solar system acquired its present store | of calorie. | It seems curious that such a great j ball of fire as the earth is at present, j j with a crust ever so much thinner in i proportion than the shell of an egg, ' should not be too hot to live upon. As . 1 a matter of fact, however, the crust is | 1 so good a non-conductor that the nidi- | ation is very very small. Twenty miles down beneath your feet is all one j | vast furnace, and yet not enough i warmth escapes from it to produce i an appreciable effect upon the tern- i | perature of the air. It has been de- j I 41?a imfirn lumt wln'plt Ps; J t'lucu niuc uiu Viiutv hvmv ?....v.. I capes through the surfuce of the earth j in one year, would just suffice to melt j | a layer of ice a quarter of an inch in ] thickness enveloping the globe. It | ! seems a pity that some of the warmth i 1 from this nether of lire could not be j fetched by artificial conduits outward, in order that it might run the ma- f j ehiuery of the world and heat the i houses. Unfortunately, supposing such a scheme practicable, a conduit | might at any time transform itself into an active volcano, which would be unpleasant, especially in cities. It must not be imagined that the i fusion of everything inside the earth implies, as most people conceive, that ! rocks and metals are flowing about in 1 a liquefied condition. The fact is that this enormous incandescent mass, that would flow like so much water if it j were free, is held together by the presI sure due to gravitation so mightily as ; to be as rigid and compact as so much steel. This pressure, increasing stead- i ily all the way from the crust, amounts, J at the center of the globe, to not less i than forty-five millions of pounds on i each square inch. Acting from all sides inward to the center, it has naturally tended to crowd the materials of which the earth is composed together, so that their density becomes immensely increased. An average piece of the j earth's crust weighs a little over two and half times as much as water. In i the middle of the sphere the average weight of things is eleven times as great as water. That means that me innermost mass is as heavy and as dense as lead is.?Kate Field's Washington. flaT The lowest body of water on the globe is the Caspian Sea. Its level has i been lowering gradually for centuries, and now it is eighty-live feet below the I level of the Black Sea. |Hiscftlancous ?ttadfag. THE ('AUTORNIA fiOLD FEVER. I . PRENTICE MULFORD'S UPS AND j DOWNS /kS A STOCK RAISER. j Bovluen, Mid for Salt, Wrought Wld?- . spread Barce?Swine That Marched | Home at Night to Boost, and That In | cidentally Aroused the Miners' Ire. I Copyrighted by the Author. I cJL-mt ijPil^UT tbia time (1861) 1 MUMF a cow fever began to 1 rage throughout the 1 lwll| state. It got hold of ' people, and impressed VKSJII them with a burning HhwSIiI idea that the ro;ul to d^nagB.V*! fortune was a cow path, and that fort* \Kwra vH nne8 *n keeping , H| *(l^ y|\ cattle. The cow fever W reached the seclusion j ]r of Swett's Bar. We ' invested all our spare cash in cows and ' waited for results. Cattle were spoken 1 of as a sure card for fortune. Keep cattle. Buy improved breeds. Raise them. "Cross" them. Feed them for nothing on the native grass. Buy cows. Cows 1 give milk. People can live ou milk. Milk then to us was a luxury. It paid no milkman to travel up and ' down the rough and rocky ledges of the J Tuolumne ringing his bell at miners' 1 cabins half a mile apart. Indued he could not so travel without carrying his milk a la punier on a donkey's back, and by the time it had reached its place of destination it would have been agitated to butter. So all of us miners went in for cows. Improved cows. We bought j each an improved cow. We hauled this ( cow by ropes across the raging, eddying, furious river to our side. Frequently j she arrived more dead than alive. Then came a season of hope and expectation ! jis to fortunes through cows. ; We arose at 5 iu the morning, built the fire for breakfast, went out and , sought our cows, generally feeding or reposing a mile or more from our cabins, ' caught these cows, milked them, returned to the cabin, finished the cooking of either a burned or cold breakfast, went forth ! and labored in the claim till noon, came home, cooked dinner, went forth again at 1 p. m., labored till 6, went back to the cabins, chopped wood for fuel, traveled 1 500 feet or yards to the spring for water, returned, mixed our bread, put it in the oven, went out and milked the cow, then bent over the hot stove for an hour until broad was baked, and then, heated, flushed, perspiring, exhausted from the clay's labor, and with nerves quivering by reason of such exhaustion, we arranged the miner's table, sat down to the meal, and wondered why we had so little appcti te. R-Aoni ne mws nroved laborious work for miners When in addition to kindling the ure in the morning, cooking your own breakfast, coming home at night wet and tired after working all day in the ground sluice, then hacking away at seme old stamp to get wood enough to cook the supper, traveling maybe an eighth of a mile to the nearest spring i'or a puil of water, and bending and bo thering with meat frying and bread mailing, you add chasing uight and morn, milk pail in hand, some contrary cow all over the flat in order to milk her yon pile too heavy a load on any man's back, because in the matter of housekeeping we had ceased tlie cooperative Fystern. We dwelt all apart, each a hermit in his own cabin. We were diverse in habit, and could not get along wit-a each other's peculiarities. The neat nan couldn't abide the slovenly man. The economical man couldn't sit patiently by and see his partner cut potato parir gs a quarter of an inch in thickness. The nervous man was exhausted by his partner's whistling or snoring, and all these and numberless other opposing peculiarities at last caused each man, hermitlike, to retire into his own cell. We had other trouble with our cows, for they were ravenous after salt We neglected to "salt them." Resulfct If any article containing the least incrustation of salt was left outside our cabins the entire herd would gather about it at night, lick it, fight for its possession xad keep up a steady grunting, stamping, lowing and !>ellowing. They would e&t clothing left oat over uight on the clothe; line to dry. In such manner and for such reason also would they eat through the cotton walls of our houses. Once, when away for three days attending a con aty convention at Sonora, on returning to my cabin I found it a scene j of ruin and desolation. A cow had euten through the cloth wall on one side, and ; eaten her way out at the other, and had ! 8topped long enough inside to eat up all | my flour, rice and vegetables. Once, when j moving my household effects from one ! cabin to another on a wheelbarrow, 1 > left it n<sar the middle of the flat for a 1 few minutes. On retiming 1 saw a cow making off with iny best coat. She held it in her ! mouth by one sleeve. On seeing me she ; started off on a run, still thus holding | the sleeve in her mouth and making vio j lent efforts to eject it. The coat sleeve was a ruiu when I did get it She had , chewed it for suit's sake to the likeness { of a fish net. Keeping cows did not make our fortunes ut Swett's. Then everybody said: "Keep hogs. They will feed on acorns and iucrease very rapidly. In a few years the plains and hills will groan under the burden of your pork." So I bought hogs. I bought j a sow aud seven pigs. They gave me j much to think of. Before I had owned them a week oouiplaints concerning them came from | neighboring miners, who owned no hogs, j These pigs of mine broke through the clctli walls of the cabins, and would consume the miner's entire weekly stock of provisions in a few minutes. Then they ; would go outside and root from out the i hot coals?ltis "Dutch oven," wherein his j bread was bakiug while he labored afar . in his claim, aud this bread when cooled they would also devour. I had, on buy- j ing these animals, engaged that they ' should "find themselves." There was no reasoning with Mm suf- j fering miners in this matter. I argued j that my pigs had a right to run at large, and that they should make their houses j more secure. The miners argued thjtf, right or not right, they would shoot my pigs even if found near their cabins. If i that was not sufficient they might shoot mo. Their positiveness in this matter was of an intense and violent character. Thero was 110 such thiug as discussion with them on legal or equitable grounds. I tliink now that I and the pigs had law and right on our side, but the miners 1 were in the majority and had might. Nor was this all. These pigs, seemingly recognizing my ownership, came home at night to sleep. They slept in a pile just outside my cabin door, and sis the night air wafted down from the higher Sierra summits became cooler the pigs on the outside of the pile became uncomfortable. Being uncomfortable they tried to get inside the pile. This the warm pigs inside resisted. The resistance was accompanied w'th squealing and grunti ing, which Listed all night long and dis; turbed my sleep. i The pig pilo consisted of a rind of cold ' ind uncomfortable pigs and a core of varm and comfortable pigs, and there vas a continual effort on the port of the sold porcine rind to usurp the places of he warm and comfortable porcine core. They gave me no rest, for when, with ;he warm morning sun, this uproar seased, there came the season of complaint and threat from my plundered leighbors. Finally a cold stonn chilled lalf of these pigs to death. I sold the emainder as quickly as possible to a ranchman who better understood the log business. During the receding of the waters ifter one of the annual spring freshets I law several hundred dollars in gold dust cashed out near the base of a pine tree m the river's bank between Hawkins' ind Swett's Bar, where probably it had fears before been buried by some unmown miner. That is, 1 saw it after it lad been washed out and found by another more fortunate miner. In all probability there are many thousands of dollars in dust so dug by hard working lands and so buried in California, there to remain until the last day, perhaps longer. Where's the utility of resurrecting the "root of all evil" on the last lay, just at the time when people in heaven or elsewhere are presumed to be able to get along without it? ret it is a mysterious Providence that impels any poor fellow to dig his pile, bury it for safo keeping, and then go off and die in some out-of-the-way place without being able to leave any will and testament as to the exact hole where his savings lay. Regarding buried treasure, there is a hill near Jamestown concerning which, pears ago, there hovered a legend that it held somewhere thousands of dollars in dust, buried in the early days by a lone miner, who was, for his money's sake, murdered in his cabin. They said that by tho roots of many trees on that hillside it had been unsuccessfully dug for. Anyway, the miner left a memory and a hope behind him. That's more than many do. If you want to leave a lasting recollection of yourself behind drop a hint from time to time ere you depart for ''The Bright and Shining Shore" that you have interred $10,000 somewhere in a quarter section of land; you will then long be remembered and your money dug for. Prentice Mulford. The Great Wall of China.?An American engineer who, being engaged in the construction of a railway in China, has had unusually favorable opportunities of examining the famous Ureat Wall, built to obstruct the incursions of the Tartars, gives the following account of this wonderful work : The wall is 1,728 miles long, 18 feet wide and 15 feet thick at the top. The foundation throughout is solid granite, and the remainder is compact masonry. At intervals of between two hundred and three hundred yards, towers rise up twenty-five to forty feet high, and twenty-four feet in diameter. On top of the wall and on both sides of it, are masonry parapets, to enable the defenders to pass, unseen, from one tower to another. The wall liseu is carrieu irum point iu puun m a perfectly straight line, across valleys and plains and over hills, without the slightest regard for the configuration of the ground ; sometimes plunging down into abysses a thousand feet deep. Creeks and rivers are bridged over by the wall; while on both banks of larger streams strong flanking towers are placed. Where Adam and Eve Lived.? With a big piece of chalk, Prof. Rogers, of Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa., recently designated upon a blackboard the probable location of the Garden oi Eden. His audience was composed almost exclusively of members of the local Methodist conference, and the scene of the lecture was Wesley Hall, where the conference holds its regular meetings. Prof. Rodger's disputed the theory that the Garden of Eden as described in the Mosaic history is simply legendary, and by means of this map he located the abiding place of humanity's first parent's near the ancient site ol Babylon. He said the word "Eden" was of Assyrian derivation, and indicate a lowland, thus proving that the "Garden of Eden" signified the "garden of the valley." Geographical researches by many of the most eminent historians were quoted in the most interesting relation, and the changes in natural forms were pointed out with a precision and emphasis that enlisted the undivided attention of the audience. He said the physical conditions of the regions are exactly as described in the Bible.?Philadelphia Times. The Big Tree from California.? Among the wonderful exhibits with which Chicago hopes to startle the visitor to the World's Fair, it is likely that none will create more comraenl from Europeans than the big tree senl from California. This specimen it from Mammoth Forest, Tulare county Cal., and measures ninety-nine feet in circumference at the base. It is thret hundred and twelve feet in height, and the distance from the base to the first limb is one hundred and seventy-twc feet. The tree is nearly three thou 3 ?. ? 1 /I nvt\A??t ti?AA/luninr saiiu years um, i cu tAj)v-i >. >t uuu.n.ivt were employed live months and twelve days in cutting it down. After the upper part of the tree fell, the top o: the stump was leveled oft', and a sec tion nine feet in height cut from it To get this section from the forest, il was necessary to build a road for foui miles. Since then it has been shipped to New Orleans. There a section o the tree has been cut out hihI hung or enormous hinges, the interior has beer hollowed out, and now can comforta blv hold more than one hundred visit ors. This unique exhibit has beer litted up with two hundred ami lift} incandescent lights. Thk Di ffkrenck.?"I'll tell you om reason why girls obliged to suppori themselves do not master houseworl in all its details or become experts ai dressmakers or milliners." said a wo man, who after many years of servici as a "working girl," is now in a posi tion to hire and dues give employmen to upward of twenty young women "It is because, as a rule, women win hire women to work for them do no know how to treat such employes On the other hand, men who requiri the services of girls or women, dt know how to treat them. It is no that working girls desire their em ployers to treat them as equals, bu that they do not desire to have con tinually thrown in their faces the lac that they are required to work for i living. A man hires a girl to work ii his store or oftice, sees to it that sin does her work rightly, pays her wages and that's the end of it. The averagi woman employer does all these thing: but she is continually doing little in describable things not called for am ull calculated to make any girl of spiri and energy lose patience." IIai.k a Million llovs in Bi.fk.It is interesting to note the fact tha the South furnished a much large number of troops to the Federal gov eminent than is generally supposed and thereby weakening the Con fed er acy. In fact, nearly as many en list e< in the Federal army from the Southeri States, aseoinprised the whole South em army. Missouri gave the larges number, 108,000; Kentucky came next with 78,000 ; Maryland, 4*0,500 ; "NVes Virginia, 84,000; Tennessee, 80,000 and the District of Columbia, 1(!,00(J exclusive of North Alabama and Nortl Georgia, besides which there wer 180,000 negro troops, making an aggre gate of 201.500 troops drawn from th< South,?N. O. Times-Democrat. THE PEOPLE'S PARTY. It Was Born at Cincinnati, Ohio, last Wednesday. The National Union conference in session in Cincinnati last week, concluded its deliberations on Wednesday night. The result of the conference is the birth of a new party, to be known as the "People's Party of the United States of America." The following synopsis of the proceedings is made up from the reports sent out by the Associated Press: The conference assembled at the Music Hall at 2 p. m., and was opened 1 - ? * - - - ? xi HUT? by tiie singing or an anuiew, aiy Country, 'tis of Thee." All the vast assemblage, composed of several thousand people, joined in the singing. At the conclusion of the song, Congressman Jerry Simpson came into the hall, and on the proposition of an enthusiastic Kansan, he was given "three cheers and a tiger." After this incident, Rev. D. T. Foster, of Cincinnati, invoked the throne of grace, beseeching victory against the powers of evil, in tliesimm mm iuiiimjwnn*am and the brotherhood of man. Delegates repeated with him the Lord's prayer. After the reading of the official call, Hon. Charles Z. Cunningham, of Arkansas, was chosen as temporary chairman. On assuming the chair, for the purpose of promoting harmony in the convention, he called its attention to a story of two lovers who so warmly discussed the name of their first infant that their engagement was broke.1;) off, and there was no infant to name. There had been a great deal of discussion as to the name of the new party, and the joke was received with applause. * After perfecting a preliminary organization, and choosing Senator Peffer, of Kansas, as chairman of the permanent organization, the afternoon session adjourned. The meeting Tuesday night opened with an Alliance song by the Kansas Glee club. For an encore the song, "Good-bye, Old Party, Good-bye," rose and fell with something of a cadence of a funeral dirge as the audience joined in the ring refrain. SENATOR PEPFER'S SPEECH. Senator Peffer, the principal orator of the evening, began by saying those people before him were the harbingers of a revolution that will dethrone money and re-establish the authority I " il 1 _ Tx A oi me peopie. it wu? u iuuvmucuv not to destroy, but to create; not to tear down, but to build up; not to destroy the wealth of the rich, but restore to labor its just reward. Referring to the placard on the balcony of the hall, "Nine Million Mortgaged Homes," he said that told volumes; that result had been declared by the United States census. But, said he, I am met with the charge that the men themselves should have kept out of debt. That was a question not pertinent. If a child is sick unto death, said he, the father does not upbraid him with imprudence, but calls a physician and saves the child's life first. We want to save our lives first. The disease of mortal usury must be cured. Growing more fervid in his manner, i the speaker said: "What shall we do with the money power ? Let it alone ? We'll raise up a power among the people and make i our own money and use it. [Tremendous applause.] Take their railroads? > No. We'll build our own railroads? ' [Renewed applause.] Are we to destroy? No. To fight? Yes, withbal1 lots and with prayers, for the alliance 1 is, in a great measure, taking the place i of the churches." PefTer closed by giving the new party a great boom like this: "Does this mean a new party?" 1 [Cries of "Yes."] "What, else, are we ' here for? [Applause.] The prophecy of the hour is that a new party is to be ' born here and its name is to be the ; National Party." [Applause.] M. H. Wilkin, another Kansas man, also addressed a meeting with a doc* trine similar to that of PefTer. MR. POWDERLY HEARD FROM. . The next speaker was one who had not been advertised, but who received a greeting that seemed to raise the ! vaulted roof. It was General Master I Workman Powderly. He began by declaring that he could say amen to ev, ery word Mr. PefTer and Mr. Wilkin had voiced. Continuing, he said, with animation: "For twenty years the men who have followed that banner (pointing to the T Hoi* In fVw* rfiap nf tViP ( JVUigiiiD 1/1 uauui nag <u uiv ivm* v. . stage) have taught, believed and held , these truths. It has been charged that I am here to head off the third party t movement. Why, if your movement is j so weak that one small man can head it off, it is not worth the name of a ( movement. [Cheers.] I have been ? charged with failing to lead this move[ inent. My friends this movement is k too large to be led by any one man. \ [Cheers.] No one man can lead it or . stop it." [Wild applause.] , Mr. Powderly then recounted his . connection with the efforts to fraternj ize the knights with other organiza( tions at the meeting at Ocala, Fla., and . later at Washington, and spoke of the coming meeting in July next and in [ February of next year at which he . predicted a fuller representation would I be present than was present in this C conference; especially would there be , a fuller representation from the Sunny , South. "And to the South let us say,' . he warmly interjected, "when you re. cognize the nigger as a man, we of the , East will join with you heart and hand . for reform." WEDNESDAY. On Wednesday morning the eonven i tion was opened with a chorus froir t the Farmers' Alliance song book, pre: ceded by prayer. The report of tin i credential committee, which followed - showed 1,417 delegates present. Tin i larger delegations were Kansas 407 - Ohio 317, Indiana 134. After heariftj. t j this report, Senator Peffer was present . j ed to the convention as permanent ) ! chairman. t | An appeal was made from the plat . j form for fuuds to pay the home fare o i | the colored Alliance delegate Iron > | South Carolina. The delegate, Savag< t ' by name, came forward personally,and - I in a clever speech said the reason so feu t | of the colored organizations were rep - j resented, was that the colored peo t i pie were too poor. It was perhaps a; i I well for the convention, he added, eye i j ing the hats that were being passed ; i round for his benefit, that so few of tin 1 ' 1 ' - - ir , : colored delegates came, jic ?u? m?u i I (led hats lulls of small change, and re s ' tired amid great cheering lor the color - | ed Alliance. 1 The proposition to adopt the unii t rule was overwhelmingly defeated 01 i the ground that every man that cann to the convention should have a vot< - and have it counted. The live minute: t rule for speeches was adopted. A re r cess was taken until 2 p. m. Whei - the convention re-assemhled, a lette , from L. L. Polk, which was read, ad - ' vising this conference to issue an ad 1 dress and defer action on a third part; i until 1892, caused a breeze, and whei - the motion to refer it to the committe< t on resolutions was declared carried , there was a loud demand, notably fron t the Minnesota delegation, that the neg ; ative he put more forcibly by the chair i, i The demand was renewed and con li tinned from time to time during tin e ! reading of a number of miscellancoui - . telegrams. Ignatius Donnelly, chair e man of the committee on resolutions , climbed up on the rostrum at thi: juncture amid a whirlwind or excitement, and announced that he was there to report that the committee on platform was a unit for the organisation of a third party. The name of the new party, the "People's Party of the United States," elicited a magnificent outburst of applause, and as each plank was read, cheering was re newed so frequently that the great hall seemed to reverberate continuously. When the resolutions recommending universal suffrage to favorable consideration and demanding payment of bounties on a gold basis were read, the former met with rather a chilly reception, but the latter was roundly cheered. Schilling announced that the pension plank was left to a soldier member on the committee with an inquiry whether it was satisfactory, and on his acquiescence it was adopted unanimously. E. W. v Humphrey, of Texas, organizer of the ? colored Alliance, amid a perfect cy clone of enthusiasm, moved the adoption of the platform as read. The convention went wild, delegates mounting tables and chairs, shouting and yelling like Comanches. A tumult, sur< yhgda its scmaskahlo nnflrtiMW n and vigor anything that had previously taken place in the convention, lasted fully a quarter of an hour, till it ceased from sheer exhaustion of the delegates. Several delegates seconded the adoption of the report, one suggesting that it be by a rising vote. "Question, question," came forth from all parts of the hall. . But the pent up enthuxiam had to have vent and one after another of the orators relieved themselves, delegates from time to time calling on * prominent men in the convention, Weaver, Willetts and others. "Previous question" shouted delegates, but it had no effect on an irrepressible Texan, who was bound to speak his piece. When he had finished, the chairman's gavel fell like a trip hammer and order was finally restored. The platform proper, exclusive of the resolutions, was then adoped by a rising vote. THE PLATFORM ADOPTED. The committee on resolutions reported the following platform : That in view of the great social, industrial and economical revolution now dawning on the civilized world and the new living issues confronting the American people, we believe that the time has arrived for a crystalization of the political reform forces of our country and the formation of what should be known as the People's Party of the United States of America. Second. That we most heartily endorse the demands of the platforms as adopted at St. Louis, Mo., in 1880; Ocala, Fla., in 1890, and Omaha, Neb., in 1801, by the industrial organizations there represented, summarized as follows: (a.) The right to make and issue money is a sovereign power to be maintained by the people for the common benefit; hence we demand the abolition of national banks as banks of issue, and as a substitute for national bank notes we demand that legal tender treasury notes be issued m ramcient volume to transact the business of the country on a cash basis, without damage or especial advantage to any class or calling, such notes to be legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, and such notes, when demanded by the people, shall be loaned to them at not more than 2 per cent, per annum upon non-perishable products as indicated in the sub-treasury plah. and also upon real estate with proper limitation upon the quantity of land and amount of money. (b.) We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver. (c.) We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land, and that congress take prompt action to devise some plan to obtain all lands now owned by alien and foreign syndicates, and that all lands held by railroads and other corporations in excess of such as is actually used and needed by them, be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only. (d.) Believing in the doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none, we demand that luxation, national, State or municipal, shall not be used to build up one interest or clas-s at the expense of another. (e.) We demand that all revenues, national, State or county, shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government economically ana honestly administered. (f.) We demand a just and equitable system of graduated tax on incomes. (g.) We demand the most rigid, honest and just national control and supervision of the means of public communication and transportation, and if this control and supervision does not remove the abuses existing, we demand government ownership of such means ot communication ana transportation. (h.) We demand the election of president, vice president, and United States senators by a direct vote of the people. 3. That we urge the action of all progressive organizations in attendingtheconference called for February 22,1892, by six of the leading reform organizations. . appointed by this conference, to be composed of a chairman to be elected by this body, and of three members from each State represented, to be named by each State delegation. 5. That this Central committee shall represent this body, attend the National Conference on February 22, 1892, and if possible unite with that and all other re> form organizations there assembled. If ! no satisfactory arrangement can be effected, this committee shall call a national convention, not later than June 1st, 1892, ' for the purpose of nominating candidates for president and vice-president, i fl. That the members of the Central committee for each State, where there is no independent political organization, connt ru->lifi#.ol ttontntirm in their ' uutii a ojotva** v* ? i respective States. Additional resolutions, not a part of the platform, were presented. They recom1 mended favorable consideration of universal suffrage, demanded that treasury notes paid soldiers be made equivalent to coin, favored the eight hour day and condemned the action of the World's Fair commission 1 with reference to wages. ' CLOSING SCENES OF THE CONVENTION. Delegate Miller, of California, threw 1 in a bone of contention by offering this 1 resolution: "Resolved, that we favor 1 the abolition of the liquor traffic." Con! fusion became worse confounded. Fif' ty orators were clamoring for recogni! tion, but the first to succeed was Schil! ling, of Wisconsin. He opposed dis' cussion of the question of prohibition at this time. Schilling declared that the resolution proposed by Miller had ! | been fully considered and voted down 1 by the committee on platform. To spring it now was plainly throwing a firebrand into the convention, and in his opinion it was a deliberate attempt i to cuuse a split in the party. Pressure at this time for recognition was extrai i ordinary. In desperation the chair , I proposed to give ten of the most vocif; erous delegates, who were crowded , about his desk clamoring for recogni; tion, one minute each, and a hundred - I watches were .pulled out to make sure t \ none of the speakers exceeded the sixty | second limit. The prohibition ameud i ment was overwhelmingly defeated, f; The resolution was then adopted with i i only three dissenting votes. At this ; ! juncture, J. B. Weaver relieved Chair1 [ man Pefl'er, who was worn out with r his fruitless efforts to preserve order, - and had, besides, to catch the train - for Washington. Resolutions against i I trusts were choked off by a point of - j order raised by Schilling, that all resol ; lutions should be referred to the com? j mittee on resolutions without being - | read. Then the convention got down - i to business again and the matter of - choosing a national committee was ; taken up. Chairman Weaver declared t , a welcome recess to enable the overi J heated, exhausted delegates to select i j members of the national committee i j from their respective States, s i After recess the roll of names was - | called for members of the National i committee, the convention adopting r the innovation of appointing three - j members from each State, instead of - i one member, as the old parties have ; > done. Alliance Congressman J. (J. ) ' Otis, of Kansas, nominated H. E. Taui beneck, of Illinois, as chairman of the T 1 , national executive commiiiee. i<ouu 1 calls for Tauheneck brought that gen ; tleman to the rostrum, where he made . a brief, but very manly and modest - ! speech thanking the delegates. A few 2 moments of confused preparation for s adjournment sine die ensued, then the - j chairman's gavel fell, and the first con, i vention of the People's Party of the 3 | United States had passed into history.