Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1884 — Page 6

TILE LAST WISH. BY ALMA M’KEE. Spring had come and left bnds tender, Earth’s bosom to endow; Summer with her golden tresses Had gone, with rose-wreathed brow. Harvest came with ripe grain waving In the gentle breeze. Telling man that 1 te is fleeting, Even as the sheaves. Near an open vine-wreathed window. In their chairs of state. -Gazing out on glorious profits An aged com le sate. Sight-dimmed eyes and locks of silver Spoke of auld lang syne: Gobweb lines abou the.r features, Traced by Father lime. “Mollie, darling, such a harvest Seldom have I seen; Yet the Lord hath blessed us alway. Undeserved, I ween. We have climbed life’s hill together, Mollie, you and I; Shared its joys and sorrows ever, In the years gone by. “The birds have flown that once we cherished, Far from the 01. l home nest. While we are left alone together. To live as the Lord thinks best. As we down life’s Hill now wander, Side by side we roam. May we in the valley nestle Close in that promised home. “May wa like the harvest ready For the reaper be, and rest, All work finished, tir_id hands folded. Crossed u> on our pulseless breast. This is my wish, Molli ', darling, (Best your dear head here, my wife!) I would meet our children, loved one, In that holy, better life.” «««***• Now the gloaming softly stcilgth O'er tl’.e distant, purple hills. And the night-bird s gentle vespers Mingle with the rippling rills. Harve t home! is whispered softly— Gentlv, on the sunset air. Peaceful in a hallowed radiance They are resting over there.

BARBAR'S BURGLAR.

BY M. C. FARLEY.

The day was oppressively warm. The aun shone down on the. little vinecovered villa with such a scorching glare that even the great red roses on the lattice drooped and hung their heads with fatigue. Bees droned lazily among the honey-suckle cups, and Dick, the pet canary, had long since ceased trilling his shrill notes, and with panting breath and distended wings sought the shadiest corner of his gilded cage. Overcome by the stillness and the extreme heat, old Miss Pennyfeather sat out on the back piazza tinder cover of the vines, the rutiles of her muslin cap hanging limply about her face, and her ' two mittened hands hanging idly in her lap, fast asleep. Barbara, her pretty niece, was shelling peas on the door-step. As a prolonged and startling snore betrayed the old lady’s somnolent condition? Barbara picked up a handful of pea-pods and, taking deliberate aim at her aunt’s ■open mouth, threw them with such skill that Miss Pennyfeather suddenly bounced from her sea : , and being very near the edge of the piazza, lost her ballance and went rolling down the steps upon the green sward. This being rather more than Miss Barbara had bargained for, she hastened to Aunt Penuyfeather’s assistance. “Oh, Aunt Pennyfeather,” cried Barbara, penitently, “do forgive me. I had no idea that you would attempt to get up.” “Go away, you bad "Bab,” retorted"the spinster, testily. What with your perverseness and your practical jokes you’ll be the death of me yet. Get away with you, 1 *say. I can help hiyself and no thanks to y6u. ”> “If madam will allow - mb,”i said a deep and solemn voice behind them, “I shall be only too glad tb'render my assistance.” Bab "1 need up, .. ,4. tall and elegant stranger stood holding his hat in ■ Jlis kidded hands. < /Thank you,” said Aunt Pennyl'eath- - «r,rii3bHy, ‘‘yon mnw givem* your arm if you’jZen.sc. My niece here has no respect for age ,and T I 7 hm not nnfre- . quently the victinTdPhdr pranks.” The stranger helped Aunt Pennyleather to rise and conducted, her to the sitfiing-room door. *. . ‘ In % minute more Aunt Pen had invited him in, an<Lcapped,.it,all by. ask;., ing him to stop with her'for tea. ’ /I am expecting my Uepjiew. Jack Dean, to-day, ” she w ent on, “ana if you are intending to remain in this locality for. any length of time, I will be . glad to do what I can to make your stay as pleasant as possible,' in return for your Kindness Iff tae.” The gen tlemairpulled a card from his pocket and presented it to. Aunt Pennyfeather.

“I am only a theological student out on a little vacation,” said he, in his •■deeply solemn voice, “and at' present I am waiting for a few days at Judge JHqJeom’s, on the hill yonder.” , Aunt Pen waved her hand with a gratiAed smile. Judge Holcom’s family represented the very highest aristocracy of. the. countryside. To visit Judge Holcom’s was to have an entree to the very best society for miles around, and this was something even Aunt Pen* could appreciate. '“You haven’t yet accepted my tion to take tea with us, ” said. Miss Pennyfeather, bl mdly. “I have a jare old Dresden cup; only used on greahoccasions, that you shall drink your lea from if you stay.” •“Your inducements are irresistible, any dear madam,” replied the elegant ■stranger, putting his glossy silk hat •down on the little table. “Do you 2know, if I have a hobby at all, that hobby is for fine china and bric-a-brac generally.

Miss Pennyfeather sighed. “How I wish my nephew had a taste for such things, ” said she, plaintively; •“but he hasn’t. He is a good-natured, ftuurum-scarum sort of a fellow, but ■without any liking whatever for the fine arts. And Barbara is just like him. I don’t believe Jack could tell a Sevres dish from one of common delf—♦hough on some things, such as horses and dogs, fishing lines and guns, I think he is quoted as an authority.” “You’re awfully hard on poor Jack, auntv,” said Bab, suddenly from the porch, where she was shelling the peas. “Don’t you remember how he swam ♦he river and saved four lives last sum'■Ber, when they would surely have been lost but for him?” Aunt Pen looked at the strange genAnmsn as much as to say, “This is all I 4MB expoeL” In return she received a

glance full of commiseration and-sym-pathy from that elegant individual, who had, by. this' time, seated hhfiself comfortably in a big easy chair, and was apparently very much at home. “There is no accounting for tastes, my dear madam,” said St. John, for this wss the name inscribed on the pasteboard he had given Aunt Pennyfeather. “Indeed, I have, a brother who is only in his natural element when engaged in out-of-door sports.” “Shall we have chicken for supper?” asked Barbara, irrelevantly. “To be sure,” returned Aunt Pen, “and as the weather is so very warm we will have the table set in the arbor.” “You have some elegant old silver,” said St. John, presently, inspecting with a critical air an old tankard that stood on the sideboard. This tankard was Aunt Pen’s particular favorite. It was an heirloom, and had been brought to America fully two hundred years before by Aunt Pen’s ancestors. And there was still a lingering tradition that th'S old tankard had been given to a brave soldier of her house by no less a personage than the great Charlcmagnq himself. Any way she prized it above alt her othrt:’ earthly possessions. She lifted it up revereirtjy and showed its battered sides. “Being ipade of pure silver it is Very heavy and very valuable on that account. However; to me it is worth more than.twiqe its weight in gold, as a genuine antique and a family heirloom.” St. John looked at the tankyd with glistening eyes. . - ?

“I had no idea, madam, when I.stopped in my desultory walk, this afternoon to beg of you a few of those exquisite roses hanging over the piazza there, that I should be so fortunate as to see so priceless and rare a specimen as this,” said he, with unfeigned enthusiasm. “Have you anything else in your collection that will at all compare with it?” Miss Pennyfeather had other valuable articles of vertu. Here was a man who had a cultivated taste, who not only admired bric-a-brac but who appreciated it as much as she did herself. She hastened to throw open her treasure house. “I call this my cabinet of curiosities,” she said, going to a deep recess in the wall, before which hung a heavily embroidered portiere. The curtain swung back on the gilded pole, disclosing a. bronze door in lattice work, behind which was ranged such a display of rare old china, and glass and silver, that St. John could not repress an exclamation of delighted surprise. “This is a dress that came over in the Mayflower, and belonged to Mary Alden,” she said, showing a garment of creamy cloth, yellow with age, that hung in a narrow glass show-case. “This,” picking up a golden circlet of peculiar shape, “is a ring brought, from Germany more than two centuries ago. Notice the peculiar text inscribed upon its face. Among all. the collections I have seen in America. I have found none like it. Those cups and saucers there on that shelf are froA Japan. Think of drinking tea with the Japs in such frail little things;Jis ’them • dtßSoh mr rm, Hqry below are of Wcdgb- 1 wood wares This Htife morsel of A Cup, * that looks as, if covered with fish-scales, Is one of a set from which Washington drank chocolate after he, becanjq President. The stone, lying there it your left hand is from hw tomb at Mount Vernon. Here is a" tete-a-tete set of Irish, china sept me forty years ago from KQmsrnOck Castle. Odd, is it not ? And the bronze clock- ” At this momqnt Barbara put her head in at the sitting-room door. “Tea is ready, Aunt.Pennyfatherj” said she, “so come out ut once. The chicken is done to a turn, and must not be kept waiting, and besides—Jack’s come.” t Mr., Bi. John stared adwiferingly at the pretty Barbara, who calmly looked ' him over, without any visible sign of pmbarrassjppnt. " . “Rather' pretty girl,” muttered St. John, just tent) enough for her to hear. “But without a particle of taste for art,” said she, saucily. “I am persuaded I could shoot off a gun or cook a dinner—or Sock up a burglar for that matter; and doit all in goodfchape, too. But uesthetic longings,.andr stagy attitudes, and .bric-a-brac are beyond nry .understanding and desires.”

•“Then. , you really don’t care for old thih^s?”laughed St.,, John. “Your are too syeepjhg,” paid Bab, carelessly, ’ “unless you confine your meaning 1 to inanimate things, In that case my answer is easy, enough.’ But h jqu mean to include 'Aunt Peri here in your category of aged articles, why, then I can assure you that there a few antiquated specimens that T am fond of, and with that Bab bounced up from her chair—they were at tea now—and marching around the table suddenly dropped a respectful Jttea bathe bald ♦pot on the top of Auut Panls.be ad. .

“Did I ever I” ejeeulated ized spinster. g# “I really don’t think^ou Mid?’ retorted the unconscionable Bab, sitting down again; “and: vlmt’s more, I don’t believe you ever wilK” “Iteally, Mr. St. Barbara isn’t always like this,” began Miss Penryfeather, apologetically “No, indeed,” seretomj .added Barbara. “Mr. St; John/1 "Km commonly ifiuch worse than lam'do-day. You can believe me.” “I hope Miss Pem|jfeUsidr will give me permission to make, an elaborate study of her sprightly ‘niece during my stay in this neighborhood,” said Sti John, politely. “Miss Pennyfeather idcharmed,” said the terrible Barbara,.ip e.\act imitation of her aunt’s statelf manner. “ Where is Jadk, Aunt Pen, changing the subject. “He went down the for a swim, and he said not to look for "him until he came, for a party of gentlemen were intending to camp on the banks and he meant to stop night with them, and go fishing by torch light. ” Directly after*tea St. John took his departure, with an explicit understanding that he was to call again next day and make some drawings of the old silver tankard for his own use. Aunt Pennyfeather was completely

infatuated with her visitor. Such eyes, such charming manners, such an elegant figure, and above all such an appreciative taste, were all alike remarkable, and not often met with in that section of the country. “And he seemed to be quite taken with you, Barbara,” said the spinster, as she held up her night lamp and scanned her willful njece; “and if he should—if he should actually propose to me for you—l should not say no!” “Of course not, Aunt Pen; of course not. Say yes, by all means, and I'll put him up to smash all your pottery to pay you for such a mean trick. See if I don’t" • ♦ • * *

| It was 12 o’clock—midnight. The ■ moon had long since gone down and ’ the night was dark. Only a few pale stars shone between the block' clouds that were rolling up across the heavens. How still and close and hot it was. Barbara turned uneasily in bed and longed for day to break. “If I were at all superstitious,” she thought, carelessly, “I should fancy something awful was going to happen. Perhaps it’s Jack. I SI queerljS-as though I ought to be ■and* doing something, and I can’t. r p. Eiosjc time I fall info a dose I dream qf Aunt Pen’s old silver tankaid. It sgems'tb me—” she rubbed her eyes And looked again. Yes it Was there a thread of light moving slowly pmst. her parti® open door. For a moment her heart stood stilh Then she rose noiselessly and stepped barefoot into the hall. Far down at the sitting room door the, threads of light went, passed in, and was gone. “I| must be Jack,” thought Bob, softly descending the cdtpeted steps. “I wotideY what on earth he can be doing at this time of night in the sittijigroom. Aunt Pen will give him a good one in the morning for prowling about the house of nights. ” She went along softly and peered into the room.

“Goodness mercy me!” ejaculated Bab, recoiling with horror from what she saw there. It seemed hard to beJieve |he evidence of her own eyes. But if was no myth, no vagary of a diseased imagination. Right there, between herself and the bronze door that guarded Aunt Pennyfeather’s bric-a-brac,rose the tali, dark figure of a man, and that man was decidedly not her brother. A big basket packed with the family silver, which Bab instinctively recognized even then, was on the floor beside him, and Bab watched with a fascinated gaze as he coolly wrapped up the priceless old tankard and added it to the collection. This done, he produced a key, and, fitting it in the bronze door, unlocked it, and, taking a bag, hastily began packing it with the articles found in the recess. Even “the drees that came over in the Mayflower ” was stuffed sacrilegiously in that big dark bag. As Barbara watched the proceedings of the stranger, a feeling of resentment began to burn in her bosom. The relics she had* never prized, now that they were about to ;take wings and fly away-, began to take on ah immense pecuhiorv value. Sh'e to protect them, and why shouldn't she? -.i . ' j ,• Barbara forgot wap banjipct and was the sßver , tankard andAiar/AF den’s dress, the “Mayflower ’rag;” as she was to profanely call it —they must be saved if everything .else went. The man had now entered the reoess and, with his back to the door, was rapidly and carefully rolling the-china cups in bitsW elothand storing them' in the bag. Tine key was still in the bjronze door. Like a flash Barbara flew across the room. She slammed the bronze door shut upon the burglar and turned the kay i» the lock with the rapidity of lightning. This done, true to her feminine instincts, she stood there and shrieked from sheer excitement. yrightenedaaamrly out of her wits as the screams penetrated to her room, Aunt Pen roMted out of bed,. rolled down stairs, and rolled finally into the dead than alive. “What on. earth, Barbara, is.the matter with yon?” gasped Aunt Pten. . “Burglars.!” shrieked in hershrillest key..

“Let M-oii of this, or Til be ths death of you,” roared a deep bass voiee from among the debris of Aunt Pen’s bric-a-brac. “He stele the tankard/* screamed Barbara, hysterically, anM*|h£ flower rag, and the Sevres cup, and all the spoons and forks and things.” “What an awful row/ dried a,new voice from the hallway.

“It’s Jack,” sobbed Miss Pennyfeather. “O, Jack, here’s a live burglar, and lie’s burgled all the family silver and all my relics too.” “It’s St. John,” screamed Barbara. “It can’t be!” ejaculated Aunt Pen, raising her hands in horror. “It can’t be St. John. St. John is a very nice t young man.” “Very nice young man be blowed/’ said Jack, jerking open the door, and- collaring the prisoner. “This fellow is the noted pickpocket Wilkins. Hasn’t • been out of Sing Sing more than six weeks, to my certain knowledge. How on earth did you' 1 make his acquaintance, Aunt Pen?”

“It all came about through the tankard and the bric-a-brac. Aunt Pbh would ask him to stay to tea, and then the rest was easy,” said Barbara. “Elderly njaiden ladies are so very susceptible,” added St. John, with arlittle sneer, as Jack proceeded sois his hands and feet securely. “That may be,” retorted Jack. “But. I notice that young maiden ladies adffi ‘a little too much for you, eh” “Ya-as. Missßab there, particularly. She boasted to me that she could catcm; a burglar, and I guess she can.” •- “As for me,” said Aunt Pep, remorsefully, as the biflcers carried off Mr. St. John in the morning, “I’ll W careful in future how’l invite young men to inspect my silver tankard and tempt them to steal my bric-a-brac. ” A shrewd old lady cautioned her married daughter against worrying her husband too much, and concluded by saying: “My child, a man is like an egg. Kept in hot water a little while, he may boil soft; but keep him there too long and he hardens.”

HUMOR.

Bough on rats—Chinamen. “Well, I declare!” exclaimed an editor, as he inspected the baby of an old newspaper friend—“if he isn’t a marked copy of the old gentleman!”—Burlington Free Press. At the rate they are slaughtering woodchucks in New Hampshire for the bounty on tails, the traveler won’t find roast spring lamb on the bill of fare much longer.— Boston Post. “Why don’t I tell the truth?” exclaimed Fegg. “I’ll tell you why. If I tell the truth I shame the devil; and I don’t want to make anybody feel uncomfortable, not even the enemy of the human race. ” Little Judith has made a discovery in natural philosophy. She guesses the flies always turn their faces to the wall because they are ashamed of themselves for being such horrid nuisances toereryboff.

“See herq,” he said to his clerk, “I don’t jmting you off for a day or two, now tibd then, to attend your grandfitjUfr® funeral; but I think you ouglffto hSVe the courtesy, to send a fey <4 around to my house. ” are raised in holy horror‘at'itKe; thought of some of- the GreqW eating their comrades. YeUWhen Black records of a hem Im devoured a pretty girl with hfr-JaH everybody applauds the * frrikgyegions are not without -their ptpaSOTes. The Esquimau girls are vajfcJKt|y, dance, sing, and do *fiot ice-cream. Hot drinks and are their peculiar vanitieCjJd' sealskin sacques are sold 'at two Iroiphoops and a tenpenny nail. She serene on the ocean, Wth shfe sank and rose. With hrnßalc. poetical motion— lie sweetest repose. But chanced to prose, And her i caused the greatest c:mnioA crab one of her toes. A famous Prussian General was inspecting, some military “What do I see fh«re/’ he said, in tones of thunder, t« a sergeant “Yes, qir,f »as the respectful reply; “we keep dfeni there to catch flies and prevent thqir teasing the bsrses.” A NoiEELMp roller-skate has been invented. There is probably no device the ingenuity of man can contrive that will ;make noiseless the man who uses such pkates th,e first time, and sits down upon the back of his head with his legs shooting hedvenwarsl. Nothing bist death. 7/ j *

One of our English cousins was re*' ceutly placed, pt Tanner'by the side of a charming woman who had been requested 'by* the hostess to amuse the strangeti Thfey were getting on very welßwlieh he drew attention to »guest Opposite by saying: “O, h say, d© look at that spotted nuin; did you ever see such an- object!?” And the lady'said, with much dignity, to step his prattle if possible: “Y’eU; that is my hus'fland.” And the wretch said: "O, bbw jdly, you‘know, because y oil can tell imK-ishe repUy spotted all over?” t \ he said; “I hbught a plate iof 1 .you on, slightly BHbdubff: “ ' . Naw, I’ll tell yow just vdiat kind, of 'Anne it you won’t have any tr<M|ble, I x noticed particularly . when I fraught it. It had its Japanese .name, ‘(fWl-y,- written on the bottom.” “Very ma’am,” was the- answer, : “but we have no more off those- in i stock”; and she does not know 'diat /‘Only” meant that the plate was the last df its kind. >■. DOT candidate. i "Whoish dot clakes me py-der hand,. Und speaks so awful nice uad bland, Dud uuges me-to Join his band? Dot candidate. "Who ish dot dreats me very achveed,, i Vernon de corner of der st«ed. We habbmi just&JWifla to meet? A Dot'candidate. Whpiisb <fot eiiigln’ Awful grtyv i Just like a lark ajl of' der day,: / 1 Mi&Biay #ings would fly away?.4 i ’IS 9 BDoS-cSndidate.. . Who ish dot.cjwjrp nb his head. i Undlwjshes fre vas o’nly dead?—' • « * Der odder nfan has vin, yauibed— Dot candidate.. —Non-istown

Guarding Against Danger.

“Say,. Jim, what’re you, doin ?> these TMe? I’m workin’ on the-sedition’” “What! Diggin’?” “Ye’p.” “I’ll tell you where you . can, make a million. dollars.” 5 ‘“Don't want to make a million dol- * I don’t.” “Why?” “Waal, es I she aid make- a million, dollars I’d want to keep a coach., wouldn’t I?” “Of course.” “An’ a coachman?” “Oert’nly. ” “An' mebby my 'darter ! d!fall in love'th my coachman, imight’nt she?” “P’raps.” fWaal, d’ye think I want to be •disgraced by having a darter o’ mine marry a coachman. ?/ — New Kari Star.

The Borrowing Family.

The borrowing family sent their boy Jack over te Mrs. Murphy’s to borrow porno tea and sugar and a plate ®f butter. Mrs. Murphy was busy, and had ho inclination to lend to neighbors who’ never returned anything they borrowed. At the a June t me she did nc4 care to entSmy bfl end them. fcMM.be glad to accommodate yees,” (foetald, politely, “but, oi’m in a hurry addhaven’t the time to wait on ye. I’ve other fish to fry just now. ” j . The boy went home andseported that Mrs. , Murphy was too busy to attend io him, and had other fish to fry, etc. 4 And why didn’t ye wait,” asked his breathlesly. “Go back and take another plate with you and tell Mistress Murphy yon’Y in no hurry, and mother’d be much obliged to her for a plate of the fried fish!”— Detroit Fret Press. Emily Faithfull says: “There is no country in the world in which husbands are so good, so kind, and so affectionate, as in the United States.” This is looked upon ta a modest way of making a leap-year oiler.

A DEAFENING DIN.

Grover Cleveland’s Noisy Welcome by the Business Men of New York. Thousands Fledge by Their Presence Their' Votes to the Democratic Candidate. John Kelly Personally Gives Assurance of the Cordial Support of Tammany.

[New York special! Gov. Cleveland arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel shortly before 11 o’clock a.m., Oct. 15, accomS aided by Col. Lamont. Gen. Fam-worth, and layer Banks, of Albany, and was escorted Irom the Grand Central Depot by Mayor Edson, ex-Mayor Grace, Eugene Kelly, Joseph Pulitzer, Chairman Gorman, and twenty other Democrats. The Governor left Albany on the fast express at 6 ISO o’clock a.m., intending to avoid anything like a dress parade down the Hudson, but at evFry station where the train was compelled to stop he found crowds of people awaiting him with cannon, brass bands, and speech's. At the Grand Central Depet there were 10,000 people assembled, and platoons of police were hurried to the spot to keep the people from invading the d pot. Toe Governor found it a very difficult mat er to reach his carriage. When the line of march was taken up from the depot to the hotel, fully six thousand men followed, running about and ahead <f the' Governor’s carriage, so that it required half an hour's time to traverse a city mile. As the Governot passed down Fifth avenue thousands of people waved hands and handkerchiefs at him from the windows, while che.rs met him at every corner. When the hotel was reached another great crowd assembled. The distinguished guest was hurried to his apartments, and twenty minutes later was in the reception room. L. Z. Leiter, of Chicago, led the Democratic Committee. Congressmen Hewitt and Potter, Senators Barnum and Gorman, Joseph J. O’Donoghue, Joseph Pulitzer, Mayor Edson, and hundreds of others crowded about. The reception continued until 1 o’clock, when the hungry Governor gratefuliyUocei ted an invitation to lunch with Perry Belmont, the Democratic National Committee, and a few invited guests. At 2:30 o’clock the levee was continued in the main parlor, and lasted until nearly 6 o’clock. The business men's meeting at the Academy of Music, in the evening, was an immense affair. Xt was an ou' pouripg of New York’s best citizens to do homage to the great and honest reform Governor. Ex-Mayor Grace presided', and opened the meeting with a few remarks, after which he- introduced Gov. Wall r, who made a short address. Just as the latter ceased speaking a tremendous cheer went up from the itnHi. nee audience as Henry Ward Beecher was seen to ascend the stage. The applause con tinned for some mmrtttes, and when it subsided Mr. Beecher said;

''l am here Simply as a citizen. lam an olti mwn. At my time of life I ought not to take >art in public aflairs, but as long as my country:s imperiled I will not lie quiet. [Great applause.! When I was invited by your associated clubs to speak on t ,e-Sub-Treasury steps in Wall street L declined, and when- thifrmesdng was arranged I again declined; but aw* soon as I heard! how Ohio had gone I came. [Applause.] B ami ftere to oppose Mr. Blaine as a representative of bad tendencies. [Applause.] With more than $100,000,000 of surplus' n the Treasury we want an honest man in the control of the Government. [Applause.] You ask me how I can leave my old party. I have not lett it. [Applause;! When the country was in danger of dis union, we were perfectly willing that the Democrats should come into it for the

defense of> the country [Apj lauae] and. now + when- you’ find that the Republican party has been- corrupted, we ask that the Democrats shall help' as to purify it. [Applause] Men say, what experience'has he had? We don’t want any rnnre experience. They say he has made a good‘Governor’,.but he is not'big enough 5o till the Presidential chair. Try him, and if he don't lit it wo'will make the chair larger. (Great laughter and •applauses] I think that the man who can manage the State of New York can manage fifty States. [Applause.] Mr. Blaine represents the worst elements of t2fe Republicaniparty at Cififiago, while Mr. Cleveland represents the best elements of the Democratic party.” [Applause.] Before Mr. Beecher had finished his speech a roar wash card from the‘outside, an J 'the crowd inside Mr. Clevefand was conning. The cheer was promptly taken up. Boecher was .unable to proceed] He ■ a'qod silent, one hand on the |afcfe, watching the effect cTthe ‘flu ■ Jii ilil‘upon-thatpeople. tew mtoutes Cleveland im* suet'.. His-reception.wss simnly indescribable. HV'Zry person in the’vaot Audience rose to hisfeet and cheered and waved handSterehief or hat as i hough out of his • senses. Beecher appeared to be greatly affected by the enthusiasm Gsv. Cleveland oame to the front of- the stage and*made several attempts to speak, but was* not allowed to proceed for fully five-minutes,-At last he succeeded in; saying: “Ladles and Gentlemen: J thank you for this kind reception, and I am sure it isscause for congratulation that so many of the business mem of this great metropolis have found reason,. in the pending political struggle,.for united and earnest effort, lialaas been my-firm belief that one reason why we, as a people, do not enjoy to the utmost the advantages of our form of government is found in the fact that our Ixisifiesp men are aptr to neglect their political duties.. The idea is too common among them that there 4s a heroism and a virtue in refusing- to hold office; and the stern denial of any interest in politics- seems to be regarded* by many of this-, class as t|ie best . asseveration of their private virtue ana- business integrity. The protecfttoni and' eaiety of the interests they have in ' cpai‘se f are (ffdsely connected with a wise adifiintattaMan of the government; and it has al- , ways seemed to ■ me- that it a regard for their fluty as citizens did) not impel them to take a more active-interest in political aflairs, the desire and -rieeu of: self-preservat ou should. I believe, too, that the best administration of cavsrnment is accomplished whenit is conducted on business i rineiples. And it is quite apparent that the-active participation of our business men in, political campaigns is an effective mode of unp: easing tluese principles Upon the jnanagement of public affairs. I construe this large and enthusiastic meeting, and the determination upon the part of business num from which it had its rise, as the promise qt a time,wften they shall find tl* path of duty,. a»well as of interest, in a practical and intelli)3»t interference with political questionsand, issues."

The following letter from Svmue, J. Tild«n> 'vas before the meeting dispersed: GbeySione, Oat. 15.188k—(Sei/llt'men: I havejsit received yOur letter on Ixjhalf of the New York Produce’ and Maritime Independent Merchants’ Cleveland and - Hendricks Clttb, and representing also several ether classes o£ business men, inviting me tea be present at the ; bu-iness men’s mass-meeting to be held at th® Academy of ; Mnsic, Wi dneeday, the Itthi in.stapt, in snppartof theelectioa of Clevelandand Hendricks to the offices ot President andiViee President of the Un ted States. I regret that the delicute--c«ndition of nr,r health compels, me to foregp th*pleasure ot joining with yon on that interesting occasion.. I remember.-graite-fully that'aihen it was my dtaty as Governor to engage in a grapple with,the canal ring,. which then swayed all the administrative, legislative, arid judicial departments of the State, a majority of tfc-local organizations of the Democratic party ans*! of the organization of the Republican party aY the New York. Produce Exchange rallied to s.t stood by my side until that gigantic power wa s<«onipletelv overthrown. I cord;ally concur in your opinion that the election at. C ley eland and Hendricks is demanded by th«-h**t etfthe country.. I believe that election wdli be a substantial victory to® th* cause of good government; that it will assvxe us of a safe and prudent administration of tb&thier magistracy of the republic in our relaWJerirwi h other countries; thatjt will restore Biiwpli*ity and economy in the needs of the Government* so far as iriat result depends upon the executive, foot it will give business men iramrrity from sudden changes of policy and enable them to repose under theshatter of a stable administrative system, free' from the favoritism to particular classes and i tercets, and from the injurious fluctuations tap, I which such favoritism and sudden changes al- ; waite lead; Samuel J. Tildbjt. Great cheeataa followed tte reading of Tilden s letter, Gov. Cleveland was escorted from the Fifth Avenue Hotel to the Academy of Mnsic- by a committee composed ot members of tlm-differ-ent p-xptaagee. and was cheered all along the route. The crowd almost prevented the passage of the carriages. Such a crush is rarely seen ewn i* Ntiw York. (to his return, Gov. Cleveland was visited by John KelV, Gen Spinola, and 'Senator Cullen, ot Tamjnany Hall. Mr. Kelly assured Gov. Cleveland of the sincere support of Tammany. Ths Governor afterward mfiewedfrom the balcony of the hotel a torchlight procession.

Trfi* Republicans spent $1,000,000 in Ohio and eimeout with a majority of about 10,000. Each vote of it cost SIOO., Doifr be too joyful. Mr. Bhiw. The clouds Uav a not all rolled by.

BROOKLYN’S BIG DAY.

Tha City of Churches Welcomes Grover Cleveland in Royal Style. Thousands of Excited Citizens Wildly Cheer the Great Reform Governor. The Largest Demons! ratios of F-opular Favor Ever Witnessed in America.

[Brooklyn special to Chicago Daily News.] Gov. Cleveland received the grandest ovation of his life at Brooklyn to-day (Oct. »6>. Never in the history of the City of Churches were the streets so packed with people, and never was there such a display of bunting and banners. It, was impossible to estimate the crowds, but Gov. Cleveland during the day looked upon by fully 600,0(0 people. He war awaiting the Brooklyn Committee at the Fifth Avenue Hotel at 8 o’clock. The carriage bear* ing the distinguished New Yorker was driven rapidly down Breadway, and only occasionally was the Governor recognized. Crossing the ) rooklyn bridge, he was harried to the Pierrepont House, where it had been arranged to have him meet a few hundred leading citizens before the great demonstration. Senator Murtha and Augustus'Van Wyok did the honors at the hotel, and Introduced 600 oitteens, while Henry Ward Beecher a-cod by smiling Hardly a noted citizen was absent. Prominent among those pressing the Governor’s hand were large numbers of the Catholic and Protestant sdergy, the former headed by Vicar General Keegan, and the latter accepting Beecher a» sponsor. From the hotel to the Academy up Montague street, the Governor drove turouzh vast crowds uuder an unbroken canopy of banting. It was> one prolonged cheer from the start to the finish; Beecher, Perry Bdmont, Mayor Low, Gov. Abbett, Senator Pendleton, and o: her distinguished! people received ovations. When the procession reached the City Hall Park another wild scene was encountered.. Thousands of struggling people endeavored in vain to reach the Governor’s carriage. Gov. Cleveland laid away his right hand before 2 o’clock because it was disabled by shaking and used his left ha greeting thousands in Ridgewood Park. ■ The arrival of the Governor at th# main entrance- was the signal for a salute of 100 guns. The enthusiasm w.ts intense, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the procession could enter the inclosure: The Governor and party at onoe proceeded 1 to the main stand, the decorat inns on which were profuse and in perfect taste. When the Governor appeared on the platform he was greeted with tumultuous - cheers, to which he bowed his thanks. Augustus Van Wycl* made the formal address of (welcome. When Aov. Cleveland rose to reply be received another ovation. He spoke as follows: , “Among;the many invitations to visit different points, the most of which , have felt obliged to decline, came one from my Brooklyn intends to meet them and their guests to-day. This I could not decline, because I could not forget the kindness I had received at the hands-of the people of this city, and the generous and hearty support they gave me when, a stranger ' to them, I-was a candidate for the suffrages of the people erf our State.- Whether lam justified ' in the sentiment or no0;l feel toward the city of Brooklyn in a degree as one feels toward his home. [Applause.] In the n 1 Ist of such intelligent thought and independent politicalteentdment as prevail here,, it would be presumptuous it it were otherwise proper for me to refer in a spirit of partisanship to the pending poiitlc.il campaign. I Applause and cheers.] This vast assemblage and the intense enthusiasm which pervades its every part fully evidence your belief that there Is involved in this canvass something of great importance to your interest and welfare. When this feeliug is generally aroused, and when it leads to calm investigation and deliberate inquiry, there is no danger that the people will • make a mistake in their determination of the issue. [Applause.] Our institutions will be maintained in their integrity, au&the benign influences of a popular Government will fill the remotest corner of the land. All our citizens, from the highest to the tumblesi, should: feel that this is its Government; that, they are responsible ibr the proper administration, and that they cannot safely neglect it. or follow blindly and thoughtlessly-the lead of seir-eonstituted and selfish leaders. [Applause.] I shall say no more, except to express my appreciation of the kindness of the people of Brooklyn, showmin all they have done for rxsdh the past, txnd return, my thanks to-all here,assembled for their kind greeting, with the declaration that nq man and no party can ask more than «Ucn an examination as you will give to theta-claims <to puzfikx confidence." [cheers and applause.] ■ ‘ -J ' The following. tcWgram froth ScuMel J. Tilden was then read: “Gbeystone, Yonkebs, N. Y., Oct'. 16, 1884. “It would give mg great pleasure to meet my fellow-'citizens of the county of Kings, to whom I am grateful foa the-'generous support which they gave me throughout my whole public life, but I rezret that the delicate condition of- my health compels me to forego the gratifiaation of being present on.tho interesting occasion to which you have invited me. Cordially sympathizing..with the objgcSot your festivity, 1 remain your fellowvcitlzen. “Samuel J. Tilden.” Genu George B. McGlfellan was here introduced and was accordeda rousing welcome. His audience was entirely witffihim when he stud: "I am satisfied that the people of thia country can safely intrust to. Grover Cleveland £ll ,th’e best interests of the land, for he possesses the courage, the honesty,.and the ability .to perform every function of,the Presidential office as it ought to be performed. I see in men’fi faces the sanue-oonviction which I feel myseif, and that is. that: a man behind me (Cleveland) wilt be the next President of tho-United States. [Cheering - here-was most vociferous.]’’ There were four other stands frem which; addresses were to- have been delivered by regularly assigned speakers, but the demonstration, was-so vast that iti got beyond control of the committee. All the- stands were tlll<ed» at one - time dr anoth«r; bnt the specially appointed sneakers were missing in manjr instances. Among those appointed to speak were Samuel-i J. Randall, Gov. MeLane, of Maryland; John P. Stockton, of New Jersey; William Wallace, of. 1 Pennsylvania; IL. F. Jonas, of Louisiana; Gen. E. B. Barnum;; Gbv. Leon Abbetlx of New Jersey; Gov. Waller, of Connecticut; and Go»; Pattison, of Pennsylvania; all of whom were present. Ex-Gow. Hendricks wa*expected, but, aid not appear;The barbecue was at the farther end of thepark. Three wooden inclosires had been erected, and within them, on-, gigantic spits,, three oxen were stretched i over glowing coals. The three carcasses weighed in the. aggregate 6,700 pounds. The finst one had been, put on the spit at midnight and was done to a. turn by tern o'clock. The otUer two had beenput on at four-in the mornings and were done im time to follow the fate of As thjameat' was ready ifc was carved off the bones in great chunks and; taken into the -’toyclipg ality, Om long tables,there it was cut up into sandwiches-, and distributed in neat woeden boxes. Therewas naturally some confusion, and at one tune one of the wooden inolosurae was brokea-down by the excited crowd. Everybody wat served with a think chunk of bread anda slfepot delicious meat as lone as tije latter heldAdt; which' was until nearly five o’alqck in the afternoon. Got. Cleveland lunched, with a fev*«riend» at the Ridgeway Hotel, and;for a few minutes managed get away from,the surging orowds, but with toat exception he-was shaking hands and working his right an»,like a pump handle uninterruptedly all day. AU the forces, polic* and, special guards and worts, could not at a distance the multitude that pressed! to, shake hands with the Governor. He left- Ridgewood Parfc at 6:30 in the evening, and passing through Lafayette avenue reviewed a number of organizations that were unaUe to join hi the morning paaade The d-airwnstratlon was grand aR, along the way„ and when ha- caa»e to the rink the cheesing and shouta. of the crowd] were prodigious. The rink was densely packed with people, many of whom kodi secured seats] .by attendance.: several houra. in advance. Not, 'Teas than ICipoo- people passed through the. building anit saluted the candidate for thePresidency. In magnltudie and in popular enthusiasm th* demonstration from early looming till night was. unprecedented in Brooklyn, anNtenthusiasts say it was the greatest demonsttationl of popular favor ever seen in America TW Governor and a few friends left Brooklyn rial; at 10:30 p. m. for the Fifth Avenue Hotel.

The Democrats have carried West Virginia high and dry by a fine majority. If the Congressional elections had taken place, they would have been successful in every one of the districts. Four years ago the Democratic majority over all was hardly 2,000. This year it is four or five times that figure. The confinement of the Republican gains in Ohio to the cities shows that the corruption fund was expended where it would do the most good. On with the fight. The big battle will soon be due. The Ohio bout was only a skirmish,