“Yes.” “And you love me?” “And I love you,” I answered. The lanterns were swinging madly now. Over their light was a new mist growing, growing. I bit my lip—but the throb of the wound was agony. “I believe you, dear,” she said simply. “It—it seems hard that—that so much should rest upon one poor girl. I think I know what—you mean. The people shall be happy though the Queen’s heart break.” She rose and came toward me. She caught me by my wounded shoulder and kissed me. And with all the agony of it that kiss I hold in my heart always as a dear memory. When she went the lanterns whirled, the mist shut down on my eyes, and I fell. General Hartzel found me. The next morning early, recovered of my swoon, I rode out of Tsalburg. General Hartzel rode with me a little way. “If you had only been the real King,” he said, with more feeling than I thought possible, “and not——” “And not the King’s image,” I filled in. “It is a pity when the clay image has a living heart.” _The Story of a Suppressed Populist Newspaper_ BY THOMAS H. TIBBLES _People’s Party Candidate for Vice-President_ At one time there were fifteen hundred weekly papers advocating the principles of the Omaha platform. Some of them had large plants, some only a few cases of type and a Washington press, but all were actuated by one purpose—to make conditions easier for those who toiled on farms, in shops, factories, mines and mills. Among those still fighting up to the first of April of this year was the _Nebraska Independent_. Many such papers were crushed by various devices, chief among which was that the great advertisers of the land, all being allied with Wall Street, refused to give them any business. Numerous instances could be cited where Populist papers were refused advertisements given to plutocratic papers not having one-tenth the circulation, and paid for at a higher rate than the proprietors of the Populist papers would have taken. In the files of the _Nebraska Independent_ may be found scores of letters from advertising agents, who had been solicited for business, saying: “If you will make your paper an exclusively agricultural journal we will be glad to give you a good line of business, but we cannot patronize it as long as it advocates Populism.” Every reform editor has had the same experience.