Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1881 — Political Honesty. [ARTICLE]

Political Honesty.

Apropos of political honesty, a story is told of Andrew Marvell, which can hardly be too frequently repeated. It was deemed important to silence Marvell’s tongue in Parliament when a certain measure was proposed, and Lord Treasurer Danby, who had been his school fellow, called upon him in his garret. At parting Danby slipped into his hand an order on the Treasury for £I,OOO, and then went to his chariot. Marvell, looking at the paper, calls out, “My lord, I request another moment. ” They went up again to the garret, and Jack, a servant, was summoned. “Jack, child, what had I for dinner yesterday?” “Don’t you remember, sir, you had the little shoulder of mutton that you ordered me to bring from a woman in the market.” “Very right, child. What have I for dinner to-day ?” “Don’t you know, sir, that you bid me lay by the blade bone to broil?” “’Tis so ; very right, child go away. My Lord,” said Marvell, turning to the Treasurer, “do you hear that? Andrew Marvell’s dinner is provided; there’s your piece of paper. I live here to serve my constituents; the Ministry may seek men for their purpose ; I am not one.” There was a fight imminent between two boys. One of them darkly intimated that he was bigger than the other. The smaller, who is the son of a deacon, defiantly retorted, “I don’t care if you’re as big as a church debt, you can’t scare me.” A RPLENpiD breakfast on the table surrounded by a family of Goughs. They used Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup, acid that ffgijly nor * KP®P B It always pn hand and recommends it. rrioe only £pnta a bottle. "’•M&i'fß*