davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-15

sicroom with a facetious and appaII-
lngountenance, letting off a few per-
funory Jests, and going abain swiftly
10 e patients relief. Once a court
holi,y falling opportunely, my lord
nadtis carriage and rove the child
hlmsf to Hermiston, the customary
placof convalescence. 1t is conceiv-
abilene had been more than usually
anxiIs, for that journey always re-
mafrf in Archie's memory as a thing
apar his father having related to him
1ronpeginning to end, and with much
detail three authentic murder cases.
Arch went the usual round of other
Edinlrgh boys, the high school and
the .llege; and Hermiston looked on.
or raner looked away, with scarce an
anecon of interest in his progress.
ally. ldeed. upon signal after dinner.
ne VS. brought in, given nuts and a
sIassof port, regarded sardonically.
sarcaically questioned. well, sir,
ana hat have you DOM with your
DOCK o-day?" my lord might begin,
ana SC him posers in law Latin. To
d emil just stumbling into Corderius,
Papinn and Paul proved quite irwin
c.pie. But papa had memory of no
otner. He was not harsh to the little
schola having a vast fund of patience
Iearhe'upon the bench, and was at no
pains neither to conceal or TO express
ms disappointment. well, We have a
long Jaht before we yeti! he might OBJ
serve, Swning, and fall back on his
own thoghts (as like as not until the
time cam for separation and my lord
would tab the decanter and the glass
ana be ONO the back chamber looking
on the meaows, where he toiled on his
cases TIL III hours were small. There
was no "fuler man" on the bench; his
memory wasmarvelous, though wholly
legal; II he nd to advise" extempore,
none did 1t bitter; yet there was none
thus watchedin the night, or sat at
table and forpt the presence of his
son, no doubt 'ut he tasted deeply of
reconcile pleasures. To be wholly de-
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-15

own chair by the cheek of the hearth.
| Keep me, what's this?" she gasped
"kirstie, what's this? I'm frich'ened.
They were her last words.
1t was the lowering nightfall wher
my lord returned. He had the sunset
in his back, all clouds and glory; and
| before him, by the wayside, spied KRIS
tie Elliot waiting. She was dissolved
in tears and addressed him in the high
false note of barbarous mourning, such
as still fingers modified among Scots
heather.
'The Lord peety We. Hermiston! the
Lord prepare ye" she keened out.
Weary upon me, that should have to
tell it,
He refined in his horse and looked up
on her with the hanging face.
Has the French landit?" cried he.
Man. man." she said, lis that a. we
can think Of? The Lord prepare We;
the Lord comfort and support vel"
rs onybody deid?" says his lordship.
IT'S no Archie?'
"Bethankit, no.! exclaimed the wom-
an. startled into a more natural tone.
Ma, ma, it's no sac bad as that. It's
the mistress, my lord; she just fair
f1ittat before my cen. She just gied a
sab and was by with 1t. Eli, my bon
ny Miss JEANNE, that 1 mind sac weel."
And forth again upon that pouring tide
of lamentation in which women of her
class excel and overabound.
Lord Hermiston sat in the saddle be-
holding her. Then he seemed to re-
cover command upon himself.
"Weel, it's something of the sudden
est" said he. But she was a dwaibly
body from the first"
And he rode home at a precipitate
amble with Kirstie at his horses
heels.
Dressed as she was for her last walk,
they had laid the dead lady on her bed.
She was never interesting in life; in
death she was not impressive; and as
her husband stood before her. with his
hands crossed behind his powerful back
that which he looked upon was the
very image of Insignificant.
Her and me were never cut out for
one another" he remarked at last. 1T
was a daft-like marriage" And then
with a most unusual gentleness of tone,
"Puir bitch" said he, "puir bitchr'
Then suddenly: where's Erchie?"
"Kirstie had decoyed him to her room
and given him "a jeely-piece."
I'VE have some kind of gumption,
too" observed the judge. and consid-
cred his housekeeper grimly. when
alls said" he added, II might have
done waur-I MIGHT have been marriet
upon a skirling Jezebel like your
There's naebody thinking of you,
cried the offended woman.
I'VE think of her that's out of her sor-
rows. And could she have done waur?
Tell me that, Hermiston-tell me that
before her clay-cauld CORP
"Weel, there's some of them gey an
III TO please" observed his lordship.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-15

cannon of a beleagued city, usefully
booming outside on the dogmatic ram
parts: and meanwhile within and out
of shot. dwelt in her private garden,
which she watered with grateful tears.
II seems strange TO say of this color
less and Intellectual woman, but she
was a true enthusiast and might have
been the sunshine and the glory of a
cloister. Perhaps none but Archie knew
she could be eloquent; perhaps none
but he had seen her-her color raised,
her hands clasped or quivering-glow
with gentle ardor. There is a corner of
the policy of Hermiston where YOU
come suddenly i'm view of the summit
of Black Fell. sometimes like the mere
grass top of a hill. sometimes land this
Is her own expression) like a precious
Jewel in the heavens. on such DAYS
upon the sudden view of IL. her hand
would tighten on the child's fingers.
her voice rise like a song. II TO the
hillsr' she would repeat. And q
Erchie. are nae these like the hills of
and her easy tears would
flow.
Upon an impressionable child the ef-
feet OF this continual and pretty ac-
to life was deep. The
woman's quietism and piety passed on
to his different nature undiminished:
but whereas in her IL was a native SEN
timent. In him IL was only an implant-
ID dogma. Nature and the child's pug
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-15
CHAPTER ii.
FATHER AND SON.

My lord justice clerk was known to
many: the man Adam Weir perhaps to
none. He had nothing to explain or to
conceal; he sufficed wholly and silently
to himself; and that part of our ma
ture which goes out Ctoo often with
false coin) TO acquire glory or love,
seemed i'm him TO be omitted. He did
not try to be loved. he did not care TO
be: IL is probable the very thought of
IL was a stranger to his mind. He was
an admired lawyer, an highly unpopu-
lar judge: and he looked down upon
those who were his interiors in either
distinction. who were lawyers of less
grasp or judges not so much detested.
In all the rest of his days and doings.
not one trace Of vanity appeared; and
he went on through life with a mechan-
ical movement. as of the unconscious,
that was almost august.
He saw little of his son. In the child
ish maladies with which the boy was
troubled he would make daily inquiries
and daily pay him a visit, entering the
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-15

stitious decorations speedily fell off
and the facts of the story itself, like the
bones of a giant buried there and half
dug up, survived, naked and imperfect,
In the memory of the scattered neigh
bors. To this day. of winter nights.
when the sleet is on the window and
the cattle are quiet in the byre, there
will be told again, amid the silence of
the young and the additions and cor
rections of the old, the tale of the JUS
tice clerk and of his son, young Her
mission, that vanished from mems
knowledge; of the two Kirsties and the
four Black brothers of the Cauldstanes-
lap; and of Frank Innes, the young
fool advocate" that came into these
moorland parts to find his destiny.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-15
PART I.
INTRODUCTORY.

Copyright. 1896. by Stone & Kimball }
In the wild end of a moorland parish.
for out Of the sight of any house. there
stands cairn among the heather. and
little by east of IL, in the going down
OF the braeside. monument with some
verses half defaced. 1t was here that
Claverhouse shot with his own hand
the Praying Weaver of Balweary, and
the chisel of Old Mortality has clinked
on that lonely gravestone. Public and
domestic history have thus marked
with bloody finger this hollow among
the hills; and since the Cameronian
gave his life there. 200 years ago, in a
glorious folly, and without comprehen-
sion or regret. the silence of the moss
has been broken. once again by the
report of firearms and the cry of the
dying.
The Deirs Hays was the old name.
But the place is now called Francie's
Cairn. For a while IL was told that
Francie walked. Aggie Hogg met him
in the cleaning by the cairnside. and
he spoke to her. with chattering teeth,
so that his words were lost. He pur-
sued Rob Todd df anyone could have
believed Robbed for the space of half
a mile with pitiful entreaties. But the
age is one of incredulity these super
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-10

argument to show that oimetallism, as
proposed by the Chicago platform, was Il
dream and that the gold standard was
responsible for high wages and low inter-
est rates on money.
Senator Gallery, in assuming the gavel
as permanent chairman, made very
effective speech i'll the nature of an ap-
peal for the life of the "old democracy"
He painted the democracy at Chicago as
INDUCING in debauch. He said reason
must return, and he appealed from dem
ocracy to democracy sober and then
asked the convention to again "unfurl
the flag never yet soiled by reputation
or stained with dishonor." While DEM
ocracy lasts, he said, at the conclusion
of his speech, the republic will last, and
with the republic human liberty.
DR.. Everett made stirring speech
against scctionalism, and John Z. Irish
likened the "slvcr democratic party" and
the republican party to twin daughters
of the horse leech, both seeking to raise
the price of the ncccssaries of life.
In concluding he predicted that if the
convention did not succeed in vanquish-
ing both, it would ut least leave one with
out n sister.
Perhaps the most important action
taken today was the adoption of recon-
mendation to make the organizati ton per-
manent and empower the national COM
mittce to call future conventions. This
indicates contest four years from now
for the regularity of the two organiza-
tions, and may prove far-rcaching in its
effects. The platform will he adopted
and the candidates nominated tomor-
row.
Tonight the great mass meeting is in
progress while one set of leaders is at
work framing the platform and another
trying to fix upon a candidate.
There seems to he an almost unan-
nous sentiment in favor of Buckncr of
Kentucky for vice president. though the
contest for president is still open. Al
though Gen. Bragg has been seemingly in
the lead all day, powerful influences are
at work to defeat him.
A strong effort is being made to bring
out Senator Palmer or John C. Black
of Illinois, and Secretary Morton of
Nebraska and David Il. Lawler of Min
nesota are enjoying incipicnt honors.
Senator Palmer does not desire the
nomination and there is said to be Il let
ter here from Secretary Morton dcclin-
ing to permit the use of his name.
Were not Gen. Bragg in the way. Sena-
tor Villas might be nominated. but he
absolutely refuses to consider the uucs-
ton so long as Gen. Bragg is in the
field
Watterson's boom does not grow.
The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-10-31
His Opinion.

Great is the Barney stone. An s1-
change says that a lady of great beauty
and attractiveness, who was at the
same time an ardent admirer Of Ire
land, once said to a party: .
Really. l think l was meant for ar
Irishwoman." !
"Mada1," said a o Of Erin, "thou3
sands would back me in saying that
you were meant for an Irishman."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-13

Misses Costume-This stylish little
lady is wearing dainty frock of fig
ured silk. The bodice displays full
blouse front which slightly overhangs
the waist line. The back, where the
costume closes, is gathered. A partic-
ularly novel collarette, rounded in the
front and back but cut pointed over the
shoulders, gives the distinct touch to
the bodice. It is edged with a row Of
insertion and a ruff1e Of lace and COM
pleted at the neck by a narrow collar
band furnished with an outstanding lace
frill. The full sleeves are gathered into
straight bands of insertion, while deep
ruff1es fall over the hands. The skirt
is all that could be desired by the most
up-to-date maiden. 1t is cut with the
approved fullness, displays seven cores
and has a gathered back. A dainty
lace-trimmed ruffie finishes the bottom
All sorts of fashionable wash fabrics,
as we'll as silk, challis, cashmere or
light woolens, can be used for this cos
tune.
2O641-Misses' costume with seven
gored skirt blouse front and full
sleeves) requires, for medium size, 7A
yards Of material q inches wide 61s
yards 80 inches wide, or 81 yards Sc
inches wide. Lining required. IL
yards; narrow lace represented, 17h
yards; wide lace, 81 yards; narrow in
sertion, yards; wide insertion, IL
yards. Cut in five sizes-12 Is, Ia, Is
and 16 years.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-13

Mr.. O'Rielly and Judge ]. J. McCaffer-
ty, spent pleasant day driving about
the city. Mr.. Eckels had a conference,
wholly informal, but none the less i'm
portant, with-a number of bankers DUR
ing the afternoon. The visitors de-
parted on the SIC Great Western train
last evening.
Comptroller Eckels has developed in
to an active politician since he became
a member of President Cleveland's
executive family, and his utterances
are supposed to bear the imprint of the
White house sanction. Especially has
this been true since the free silver
craze set in. Long before the Chicago
convention-even before the Peoria
state convention, when the admins
tration was using all possible effort to
thWart the influence of Buck Hinrich-
sen and Gov. Altgeld, Comptroller
Eckels was roaming up and down the
prairies of Illinois trying to counteract
the work of the free silver fellows.
who were claiming everything-and
who, it must be admitted, got all they
claimed. The utterances of Mr.. Eckels
at that time were taken as an indica-
ton of the true feeling of the admin
iStration and there was more or less
Of truthful prophecy in his remarks as
he was on the inside of the plans of
the leading Jeffersonian spirits who
had not been carried away by the
Hinrichsen-Altge1d combine.
Dean, NoyeUR fiji -; xZfiffffm XZfififf
Although admitting that he had lost
touch with the most recent events in
the political world, Mr.. Eckels spoke
with positiveness in the belief that the
silver movement was already wearing
itself out and that within few weeks
at most even the most ardent adher-
ents of the movement would be COM
PEELED to acknowledge the hopelesSness
of Bryan's campaign.
THE silver movement is not as strong
now as it was a month ago." said Mr..
Eckels land it will not be so strong a
month hence as it is today. Never be-
fore were the voters of the nation so
anxious to learn the facts of the mat
ters that pertain to the welfare of the
country AS never before has come the
demand for literature on subjects that
are uppermost in the campaign. The
working people, the men who make up
the great body of voters, are asking for
facts, and they are learning of the vi
cious theories of the Bryanites and the
ruin that will befall the country If the
free silver fallacy should by any chance
carry the day. So positive am I that
the laboring men of the country will
repudiate the heresies of the silverites,
that I think Bryan is already beaten.
Present quietude in business circles
is but a forerunner Of the evil days
that will surely come if the silverites
are successful in November. The
country is already testing the temper
of the people who have money. No
one will invest no one who has money
to loan will try to do business on any
large scale until this silver question is
settled. Already foreigners are with
drawing their capital from the country,
and the United States with her enor-
nous and varied products cannot dis
pense with the markets of the world
without utter ruin We. need foreign
money, and in spite of Mr.. Bryan's ut
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-13

the strength of the ticket in the West.
The East is quite willing that the candi-
dates should come from the West this
year. The East will be solid for sound
money any way-even the silver peo-
pie admit as much-and whatever will
add to Democratic strength in the
West the politicians of the East are
willing to concede. Comptroller Eek
els juggled with the names of Palmer
and LAWYER yesterday and admitted
that the combination had a good
sound. Gen. Bragg is also spoken of
as a possibility for first place on the
ticket, but here again the friends of
Lawler find his name coupled with the
honor of the second place.
IF LAWYER is nominated for the vice
presidency / am sure he will receive
liberal support in this state from even
free silver Democrats, ON account of his
personal popularity said Judge Nc
Cafferty last night. II have had many
letters from Democrats from all over
the state saying that a great mistake
was made in excluding him from the
Minneapolis convention. The rank and
file of the Democratic party have not
forgotten the great fight LaWler made
four years ago, and the young men of
the party are today just as enthusiast
tic over his leadership as they were
then. He has lost nothing in popular
ity, and the action of the Minneapolis
convention created feeling of SYM
pathy and friendIiness to him among
fair-minded Democrats that will be
hard to counterfeit. The genuine DEM
ocrats in that convention were friendly
to Lawler and they will support him
should he be nominated for the vice
presidency"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-13
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS RIGs
Alien & Co. Complain to the Police
of Losing One

Allen & Co., the liverymen, are Just
now eagerly scanning the papers and
also waiting for kilograms concerning
a horse and buggy which has not been
seen since Monday night The pro-
prietors of the stables are inclined to
think they were very cleverly worked
by young fellow who did the job so
we'll that he must, in their opinion, be
a professional. Monday afternoon
about o'clock man called at the
Sixth street stable and said he wanted
a horse and buggy for a couple of
hours. The fellow was seemingly a
Work1ngman or mechanic, or at least he
had on the makeup. He wore dark
blue overalls which came we'll UP I'M
der his arms and carried in the front
pocket, where 1t could be plainly seen,
a large folding rule. The two DAYS
growth of beard on his face and the
working clothes he wore made him look
like square one" even if he wasn't
He said he wanted to go to Bedford
street and one or two other places and
would be back inside of two hours.
Sure enough he did come back, and,
although he did not intend to drive into
the stable, the mare which he drove
thought it was about supper time and
dashed into the barn before he could
stop her. He explained that he was
not through with the rig but concluded
to stop and let the men know that he
would be out about an hour longer He
drove out of the barn again and UP
to last night neither he nor the rig
has been heard from.
The police were notified on Tuesday
and postal cards have been printed and
sent to the police officials throughout
the state offering a liberal reward for
information leading to the return of
the rig. The outfit, which has none
tary value to the firm of $3.50, is de-
scribed as follows: Bay mare, medium
size, one white hind foot, small lump
on front leg, side bar buggy, black bed
with green running gear, numbered Is
under seat and cross bar. The fellow
who drove off with the rig is described
as five feet ten in height, twenty-eight
years old, sandy mustache with short
growth of beard
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-13
HUMOR AND LOGIC.
Combined in a Letter From Hon. J.
Sterling Morton.


Senator E. FL. Oznun, secretary Of
the Sound Money club, received a letter
yesterday from Hon. Sterling Morton,
secretary Of agriculture, expressing re-
greet that he will not be able to be
present at the proposed mass meeting
in st. Paul and deliver an address on
the subject of finance. Mr.. Morton
yields a trenehant pen when in the
humor as will be seen by his letter,
copy of which follows:
Nebraska City, Neb., Aug. 9. 1896. Mr..
Edward H. Ozmun. Secretary Sound Money
Club, st. Paul, Minn.-My Dear Sir:
L acknowledge the receipt of your invitation
to address the Sound Money Club of st. Paul.
Mimi, at a mass meeting of the citizens of
that city, upon the subject of finance and
regret exceedingly that while l very highly
appreciate the implied complimenD 1 cannot
accept.
After some eloquent advocate of the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio
OF 16 to l shall have explained how that pro-
posed system for creating money at the Unit
ed States mint will at the same time raise the
price Of all farm products for the benefit of
the farmers. and lower the prices of the same
Tor the benefit Of city consumers, and stimuli
taneously raise the bullion price of silver to
the mine owner, make the dollar more easily
obtalnable by the debtor and likewise in
crease the wages of the laborer, everybody
will be able to see the beneficence of a popo-
cratic government and the vote for the Chi
cage ticket will necessarily be made unani-
nous.
The power of congress to create value to the
extent of so cents in a disc of metal. implies
that 1t has power to create the same in a
piece of chalk or bit of paper. This illus
trates the fact that there is only 80 per cent
difference in favor of the sanity of a free
coinage man over the sanity of one who be-
heves that the government can stamp any
thing and, by stamping, give it value suf-
heient to make it medium of exchange and
a measure of value for all other things.
If those who declaim in favor Of the free
silver fallacy have their way and convince
the American people that so cents worth of
bullion is just as good as 100 cents worth,
their theories will no doubt at once be ap-
piled to the dietaries of the army, and every
soldier will be made to see clearly that a
haif ration is just as good full one. In
snort, the time must speedily approach when
by act OF congress, meal tickets will be made
as nourishing as meals; ccalless furnace as
comforting on winter day as a blazing fire.
and photograph of hydrant as thirst
quenching as glass of spring water. If
congress can create value by a mere '.be it
enacted. it can satisfy hunger, prevent suf-
1ering from cold, and quench thirst by stat
ute. Yours respectfully.
j. Sterling Morton.