Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1887 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUKNAI TUESDAY, JANDABT 4, 1887.

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IiOl'IS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. He ;sa. C Riffjjs House and Ebbitt Telephone Calls. Business Office uS Editorial Rooms 242 Member of the General Aaembly wanting the Journal iuring the regniar cr$ion thould leave their iitbueription. teith direction aata ichre they desire to receive the paper, M the Journal Cunhtinyrooin. The elephant now goes round, goes round, nd the band is beginning to play. HE schemes of the Democratic conspirators will soon unfold. From first to last, they are lased upon the proposition to cheat the peo ole and to vitiate tho results of the lato eleciion. European correspondents lay stress on the Jact that on Now Year's day, in replying to the address delivered by the Crown Prince in the name of all the army corps commanders, Emperor William referred threo times to his Lopes for the maintenance of peaco. To the jnibas3.vIori of tho five great powers, who

rove n sae congratulate him, be inti-

mated his confidence that Germany would have a tranquil and prosperous year. Proba bly this wa3 what the Emperor, Prince Bis marck, and General Von Moltke had in view in urging the increase of the army. They want to keep the peace. The correspondent of the Louisville Courier J ournal ears: ''Mr. Perkins i3 a faithful Demo crat, who has been in jail here for some time." A great many other "faithful Democrats" have similar experiences to that of Mr. Perkins. TriE anti-Gray gentlemen have downed the Governor. After the Supreme Court decision 13 rendered to-day, the Sentinel boom of Isaac P. Gray will collapse forever. Your Uncle Joseph, assisted by the other aspirants, has done Governor Gray to death. What is the particular business of Hichard J. Bright in the city just at this juncture? If a Republican from "Washington City should chance to visit Indianapolis at the present time, tho great Democratic heart would swell, if not burst, with indignation. Those eminent statesmen, Hon. Daniel W. Voorhee3 and Mr. R. J. Bright, have arrived a little early, but they are, of course, animat ed solely by the highest and purest motives of patriotism, and whoever suspects them of an intention to "fix things" labels himself as a base and offensive partisan. Nearly if not all the Republican members of the General Assembly are in the city. A splendid body of men they are; men ablo for their duties, conscientious in their estimate of them, and fearless to discharge tbem, despite bluster and hazard. The Democratic gang will find the Republican phalanx solid as a rock. , It is said that the Italian people are abotit to erect a monument to Garabaldi on the Janiculum, in Rome, to cost 1,000,000 francs. If they have the million francs, very well; but if the money is in the condition of the New York Grant monument fund it would be wise not to lay the foundations until more cash has ma terialized. The probability is that the seat of William II. Shields, member-elect to the lower house of tho Legislature from Jackson county, will be contested, as during the taking of testi mony in the Brauaman vs. McDonald contest, over McDonald's seat in the Senate, it was discovered that Shields and his friends had used money and whisky to secure Shield's election. A REVIEW just published of the agricultural and industrial progress of South Carolina shows that the income of the people of the State from agricultural products, the products in different branches of manufactures, and from the mines and quarries, amounts to 50 per cent, more than in I860, when the slave system was supposed to make the State so prosperous. History shows that thi3 has always been the result of the abolition of slavery. Individual slave-owner3 may bo impoverished, but the community at large is immensely benefited. It is infinitely better for the State that every man should own himself than that a part should own all the rest. Mrs. Lucy Parsons, the Chicago female Anarchist, lectured in St.Louis on Sunday night. After arraigning the government and everything else, she concluded that the only remedy was the abolition of the wage system and the rights of property, and the adoption of the co-operative system. This change might bo brought about peacefully, she said, but it was hardly probable that the propertyowners would allow their possessions to be taken from them without a struggle, and force would have to be used. But the change must come, cost what it may. So she would substitute "the co-operative system" for the rights of property. That is a new name for robbery. This was tho noble sentiment that actuated "Jim Cummings;" he thought other people had more than their share, and he inaugurated the "co-operative system" by robbing the Adams Express Company. It would be pleasant to know what part this interesting female from Chicago proposes to play in the new "co-operative" system. She would hardly be content with holding the men's hats while they cut throats; her ardent and aspiring nature would doubtless impel her to engage in throat-cutting on her own account. The Trade and Labor Assembly of Chicago had an election of officers on Sunday in which tho issue was squarely made between the con servatives and Socialists, or those of social istic tendencies. This assembly is ao amalga mated labor organization, embracing a major ity of tho local assemblies of the Knights of Labor. Hitherto it has maintained the character of conservatism as against the socialistic influence, but in the election on Sunday, after a long and heated session, the Socialists elected their ticket. Tho result is a triumph for the worst elements among the workingmen in Chicago tho radical, revolutionary class, embracing pretty much all the foreigners, ail the sympathizers with the condemned Anarchists and all the anti-Powderly men. The triumph of this clas3 is to be regTotteu, but it must not- be taken as indicative of tho status of workingmen generally. Chicago is undoubtedly, the most socialistic city in the tho United States. There is a very large and very bad foreign element there, and the entire body of workingmen have become more or les3 tinctured with socialistic views. The mass of workingmen throughout the country are conservative in their views and tendencies, and have no sympathy with socialism,

which h but another name for communism

find lawlessness. When it comes to a show of hands among the workingmen of the country, it will be found that a large majority have no sympathy with the sentiments which have gained a temporary triumph at Chicago. The forcing of such issues in the Knights of Labor is fast bringing the organization into public disfavor, and, unless wise counseU prevail, will wreck it. MAKING MONEY IN PUBLIC LIFE. The St. Louis Republican cites the current comments on General Logan's honeBt poverty as evidence that his was an exceptional case, and consoles itself bv remarkins: "The fact that poverty cannot be numbered among the virtues of still living distinguished Republic ans for they are all rich, with no longer public life and no better advantages than Logan enjoyed argues that they did not set as high a value on honesty as the Illinois statesman did." Possibly there has been too much stress laid on General Logan's poverty as an evidence of his honesty, though it is certainly a legiti mate subject of comment, and he, or his memory, is entitled to the benefit of it. Public life affords many opportunities for making money illegitimately, and if a man who has been long in public life dies poor it is, at least, evidence that he did not use his position to make money, liut public lite also affords many op portunities for making money legitimately, and a public man is not necessarily censurable if he makes money while in office. Of course, he must not use his official position or influence for that purpose, directly or indirectly; but is he estopped from availing himself of strictly legitimate opportunities of making good investments or bettering his financial condition when he can do so without in any way compromising; his omcial honor? We think not. If this were so, many of the brightest men in public life, of both parties, would be ruled out, for very few of them are able to live and support families on the sala ries they receive. A strict application of the rule would even prohibit lawyers who are members of Congress from practicing during their terms of office, and this would debar Senators Vest and Cockrell, of Missouri; Sen ator Voorhees, of Indiana, and two or three score more of Senators and Representatives, Democrats as well as Republicans, who make all the money they can by practicing law while they are in public life, and would make ten times as much if they could. Now, if this is right, and nobody condemns it, why may not a public man who is not a : lawyer endeavor to add to his in come by legitimate business methods? There is no reason in the world why he should not, A large majority of public men try to do it, Some are successful and others are not, and while it is fair to conclude when a public man dies poor that he is honest, it does not follow that because a public man makes money he is dishonest. Some men have no money-mak ing talent never would make money in public or private life. Others have the faculty of making money easily and legitimately, and would make it under a!fcms any circum stances. There is a great difference in men iu this regard, and it is contemptible to im ply, as the St. Louis Republican does, that because a public man is rich he is therefore dishonest. Some of the wealthiest men now in public lifo are Democrats, but it does not follow that they aro thieves. The fact that a man i3 a Democrat makes a worse prima facie case against him than the fact that he is rich. The latter is consistent with honesty, whilo the former well, this is as good a place to stop as any. ' A OSOAZ FROM THE OLD SOUTH. Mr. H. W. Grady, one of the editors of tho Atlanta Constitution, has received a great deal of praise for his eloquent speech on "The New South." It did contain some good thoughts, well expressed. He said some good things, and said them .well. Put one swallow does not make summer, and it would be hasty to conclude from Mr. Gradv's speech that there are no Bourbons left in the South. There are too many. There is. indeed, a "new South," but the old South still survives, and its spirit crops out in many ways. An article in the Charleston News and Courier shows a phase of it. The Philadelphia Times having remarked that the character of Abraham Lincoln wa3 far better understood and moro respected in the South than it formerly was, the News and Courier says: "We go entirely with the Philadelphia limes, and without reservation, in the sug gestion that Mr. Lincoln is better understood than he used to be, and that he is unquest ionably respected, and, in a limited sense, is even admired in the Southern States. In lanje measure this feeling springs from the convic tion that the South would not have been so tortured, and plagued, and robbed by the Republicansif Mr. Lincoln kindly, generous, pa triotic in a high sense had not been murdered as he was. Eut we deny absolutely that among thoughtful Southerners . there is anysuch thing as an intelligent recognition of Mr. Lincoln a3 a typical American. Full credit is given to him for his shrewdness, his knowledge ot men; hi3 loyalty, his persever ance. But he was never a typical American, unless such an American must necessarily be coarse while kindly, vulgar though good hearted, ill-bred while acute, awkward while amiable, and weak m act while strong in word." This is a concession with a reservation, and the reservation is bigger than the concession. The News and Courier admits that Mr. Lincoln was better than some other Republicans, not so bad as his party, but was in no sense a typical American, unless that means to be "coarse while kindly, vulgar though goodhenrted, ill-bred while acute, awkward while amiable, and weak in act while strong in word." This is a new summary of Mr. Lincoln's character the reply of the Old South to the New South. This summary is not in harmony jvith the world's estimate of Mr. Lincoln. That estimate lias be.ea steadily

rising since his death, nearly twenty-two years ago. The News and Courier makes Mr.

Lincoln out a kind-hearted boor, a cunning but coarse-grained man, of amiable disposi tion but mediocre talent, well-meaning but ill-bred. Mr. Lincoln's place in history is fixed, and it is not that which the News and Courier would assign him. The verdict of posterity in regard to his character is made np, and the amendment ot the Charleston pa per is out of order. No higher compliment can be paid the American people o r character than to say that Mr. Lincoln was a typical American, and when they cease to so regard him and esteem it an honor to have the world regard him so, they will have become a nation of snobs and dudes. Who says the cause of temperance is not advancing? A gentleman eminent in baseball circles is quoted by an Eastern paper as saying that the next reform that will be introduced in the national game will be a clause requiring every ball-ylayer to sign a temperance pledge for seven months in the year. Base-ball, he says, has grown into too large a business to be allowed to suffer from the bad habits of 8ome of the player& Business meD enmlk have reaf.W the conclusion that drinking men do not make good employes, but to forbid tho bibulous gentry to participate in sports is a new development of this feeling. Presently this class of citizens will be driven to the alternative of reforming or of joining the Anarchists. The decision of the Supreme Court in the matter of the claim of Senator Smith to the lieutenant-governorship is expected this week. The people look for a determination of the main question. Sentinel. It is very painful to see such a bold and shameless attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court on the part of our esteemed contemporary. It should be heartily ashamed of itself. One of the principal issues in the next campaign is likely to bo the protection of courts of justice from the bulldozing of unscrupulous partisan newspapers. The Springfield Republican, one of the chiefestof the mugwump assistant Democrats, says: "The Indiana Democrats are bewitched. Here Holman's friends are talking about his entering the race for United States Senator against Gray and McDonald, when it is morally certain that the election ought to go to Harrison, and that it will go to him unless the Democrats resort to trickery so unblushing and brazen as to sink every man having a hand in it." The correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal says; "I think that Mr. Harrison is the only Republican in Indiana who really expected to carry the Legislature at tho last election. As his political existence depended on the complexion of the Legislature, it was but natural that he should take more interest in the matter than any one else. He certainly made a very active and very successful campaign. All of which goes to show that Mr. Harrison is a very shrewd politician." It was, indeed, "a very successful cam paign, as uoionel Uurdette says. It there is any doubt of the success, we advise the doubter to keep his weather-eye peeled. A Columbus, O., correspondent, cataloguing the literary celebrities of the place, cays: "To the discipline imposed whilo book reviewer on the Ohio State Journal Howells owes much of his later power, and the old files reveal some of the novelist's best work. When writing 'Their edding Journey' he sent for copies of his let ters to the Journal describing a pleasure trip down the St. Lawrence. So full of the wine of youth, tnese early bits of description are the novelist's freshest charm." That is an old trick of reporters revamping their early work for later use but Mr. Howells ought to have re formed when he becamo a great novelist." A religious paper, the Chicago Advance, was the first to nomicato Robert Lincoln for the Illinois senatorship. This is excellent backing, and ought to have weight: but where religion is concerned there is something so very non-paitisan about politics that it is to be feared some other and more powerful influence will be needed to carry Mr. Lincoln through. The Minneapolis Tribune celebrated New Yeai's day by issuing a forty-page paper. Evi dently the intention of this excellent journal was to mitigate the cold wave by blanketing the whole Northwest ABOUT PEOPLE km THINGS. In New York it has become a question wheth er people who live in hotels ought to be regarded as "of society." Pilgrim is the name of a new "boy preacher'' of sixteen. The public will take an interest in Pilgrim's progress. Evangelist D. L. Moody has been invitea to vUit Australia and conduct revival meetings, but he has declined. Pope Leo XIII has appointed Mgr. Racine bishop of Sherbrooke, Canada, as assistant at the pontifical throne. Mr. Sims Reeves now advertises in big typo his "Last Grand Concert, and adds, in small type, "of the' present series." A custom with P. T. Barnum is to advise every man who has a wife to give her a signed temperauce pledge as a .New lear s gift Jcdoe: Moro pointed than polite. Wife "You haven't been inside a church since we were marriedthere!" Husband "No; a burnt child dreads the fire." The last words of the late Representative William Kimmel, of Maryland, were: "I am neariog port, but fear not the breakers; the captain is aboard and all is well." A bronze statue of Frederick the Great has been placed in the Hall of Glory in the Arsenal of Berlin. It is twice life-size, and represents him in his traditional attitude, with his crooked stick. Evening classes for employes of the Pullman Car Company and the residents of Pullman, IlL, have been begun at that recent town by Messrs. Holmes, Enoch Ward and Lorado Taft, artists of Chicago. Beethoven began music in hi3 fourth year, and at ine he had outgrown his father's teaching. He is said to havo written a cantata when ten, and it is certain that a composition for the piano (variations on ' 'Dressier' s March") dates from thi3 year. It has hitherto been supposed that Jay Gould's riches mounted up near the nine-figure mark. This appears to have been a mitAake, however. I His personal property, which is aiaety-nina

hundredths of the value of all his belongings, amounted to only $100,000. At least this is what he has told the New York assessors. And there is no eood reason to assume that Jay would lie about a small matter like $80,000,000 or $00,000,000. Between the "Russian Wedding Feast," the "Christ Before Pilate," the "Columbus at the Court of Spain," and "Milton Dictating Paradise Lost to His Daughters," there is a pretty good chance to study the power and scope of modern art in New York. Governor Robinson, of Massachusetts, has written a letter in which he states that he is not a candidate for the United States senatorship. and that he sincerely desires that his name shall not be considered in connection with the election to that office. Thou creature of a day, whose hours are filled with fears, Of what dost thou complain, and who hath caused thy woe! Believest thou thy soul was made for idle tears? Thy soul immorial is; thy tears will coase to flow. Alfred de M asset President Eliot, of Harvard College, will start for Europe early in the year and stay abroad till fall, spending most of the time in England as the guest ef the eminent Englishmen whom he has so often entertained at Cambrlde. During his absence the charge of the college will devolve upon Prof. Clement L. Smith, the dean of the faculty. Me, John Boyle O'Reilly's forthcoming book, "The Country with a Roof," is supposed to be a study of the conditions of human existence,

"his idea being that it is the rich who in this life obtain all the brightness, the sweetness, the freshness and the sunshine of existence, while Jhe poorer classes are oppressed with the gloom, the shadows and the desolateness of poverty and degradation." The Neue Freie Presse, of Vienna, announces the marriage of the Princess Louise, eldest daughter of the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Augustenbur?. brother-in-law of Prince "Will iam, son of the Crown Prince of Germany. The Duke is twentv-three years old and has an in come of 375,000 marks a year from the German government His mother is a grandniece of Queen Victoria, and was twice asked in marriage by the Lmperor Napoleon IIL The Court of St James opposed the marriage, though the voune Princess was quite williog to become Empress of r ranee. Of Judge Cooley, of Michigan, It is related that in early life he was not thought to be much of a lawyer, and indeed, he once abandoned that profession and went into mercantile life. He had a passion for farming, and bought one hun dred acres near Adrian, which for a long time Claimed more of his attention than his prof es sion. He fell in love with a beautiful eirl, the daughter of a farmer. But when "Tom" made bis timid proposal to the eld gentleman, the lat ter darkly 6wore that no child of his should marry a man who couldn't earn his own livine, The young lady herself had another and, as it proved, a wiser view. She consented to run away and married "Tom" in the face of her fathers refusal. The match proved a most happy one. The late Horatio Ross, the most noted sports man and marksman in Great Britain, was the son of a colonel of the old Volunteer Corps raised to repel the threatened invasion of England bv Bonaparte. When Horatio was about six years old, tho regiment was to receive a set of colors, and the colonel was anxious that his little son should present them; but the noise of a salute so frightened the boy that he bolted across the lawn into the house and hid himself. This, it is said, so enraged the colonel that he ordered his valet to fire immediately over the boys head several times every day, so a to ac custom him to gunpowder. This process having been repeated for some time, the old valet one day got the child to fire for himself, and it is added that from that moment he was never so happy as when he had a little gun in bis hand. Miss Gilder retaliates upon the assailants of the high feminine hat at the theater by produc ing a grievance of the female sex which is an un deniable nuisance. She says that to her there is nothing more irritating than to be sitting in her seat in the theater and to have six or a dozen men crowd between her and the seat in front that they may go out to the bar-room or the lobby between the acts. It makes no difference how crowded the seats are or how fat the man is, he is going to crowd out to get tho fresh air or the fresh drink that he is after. And he comes crowding back jnst as the curtain is rung up on the next act and the performance has beeun, and you have either to stand up in your seat or be very much trodden on while he is working back to his place again; and he generallv reeks of liquor and smoke, and you get the full benefit of it if be bees your pardon as he walks over your feet This is a nuisance to which women ought not to be called upon to submit COMMENT AND OPINION. To ambitious statesmen with bee-haunted bonnets: Don't write it 188& This is 1887. Philadelphia Times. It is a pretty safe prophecy that Mr. Glad stone's seventy-eighth birthday, if he lives to reach it. will see him Prime Minister of Eng land. Providence Journal. An efficient militia force constitutes a natural defense of the liberties of the people, and is the best guarantee against the curse of a standing army. Philadelphia Record. It is fortunate enough that our theaters have high ceilings. Were it otherwise, many luxurious feminine hats would be sadly crushed at the summit. Louisville Courier-Journal. A Washington correspondent remarks that Attorney-general Garland apnears to have about him an "air of resignation." The news is too good to be true. Now York Tribune. I? has becomeequite fashionable of late to speak f the President or a Governor as a "ruler." In a republic such an expression is in bad taste, to say the least Minneapolis Tribune, Governor Hill's failure to avail himself of that much-talked-of ' invitation to the White House may be due tp a.fear that he might catch the rheumatism, which seems so closely connected with presidential ambitions. Pittsburg Dispatch. The reinstatement of Mr. Benton, and the refusal to reinstate Mr. Stone, are in accord with no principle, and are flagrantly inconsistent with the distinct declaration of the Preeident in the League letter. The letter in the case of Mr. Stone is in effect, although not in intention, an abandonment of the principle of reform, and asserts what is practically an impossible distinction between permissible and non-permijsible campaign speeches by such officers. Tha confidence of reformers is necessarily shaken, not in the President's convictions or purpose, but in his judsrmeut It is a step which is in every way unfortunate, for, while it does not really conciliate his Democratic enemies, it does undoubtedly disturb and chill his independent friends. Harper's Weekly. A Slander on Logan's District. Memphis Avalanche. Lo?an came from the most illiterate portion of v TT:. J Qui fl'l .1 m t,,: mo uun?u umiea. tue euumern pari 01 JlUCOia is noted for its gross and stupendous ignorance. The people never read books or papers, made a comfortable living and jrere content. One of the most amusing thinss 1 ever heard was an account given by O'Ncil, the bright St Louis journalist, of his attempt to run a newspaper in a certain town in Southern Illinois. On one ocassion he spoke of certain matrons in a town who were getting up a fair or something of the kind, as "crinoline indiviiuals." The day after the paper came out he was in his office when he heard the tramp of invading hordes. It was a party of five or six women who, with clenched bands and flushed cheeks, wanted to see the "edditur." O'Niel modestly claimed the honor. They at once flared up. "You have called us intiveeduals in your paper," hissed cne. "Yes, yes," exclaimed another fiercely, "crinolino intiveeduals. You have got to take it back." O'Neil tried to explain, but to no purpog?. "That is merely a phrase like another. I might havo said personalities ." "Personalities!" yelled the choruj, "how dare you say that before respectable females?' "But, my dear females," continued O'Neil, "you don't understand me. What I have said is thoroughly proper. My lister, for instance, is an individual." "I don't doubt it! I don't doubt It!" cried one, scorn fully, "but we amt, andwe shan t stand 'it" I O'Neal eyoatually got dsar by promiBicg an

ample apology, which appeared in the next isstitf of his paper, ne said that those best informed' had told him that there was an intire absence of crinoline and that he had been mistaken in the

individual This stilled the troubled waters. But he hastened to find a more promising field for journalism. GRADY AT HOME. Tlie Georgian's Gorjjeons Presence Orerpowers m TlinidTNewspaper Sinn. Memphis Avulanche. " In May last a Memphis reporter, who wai swinging around the Southern circuit in search of a newspaper that could not exist without his services, chanced to visit Atlanta, and called upon Mr. Grady. He says: "It was not exactly a friendly call, as Mr. Grady had net the honor of my acauaintance. Mv mission was one of business exclusive ly, and the social amenities of journalism were lost sight of in the nope or getting a job at at most anything a week. In front of the ConstU . tution building I saw three reporters standinojv and gazing reverentially up at the third-flooff corner window. I knew them to be reporters by their fashionable attire and intellectual fore heads. I asked them in what part of the build ing Mr. Grady might be found. They simply pointed with jeweled forefingers in the direction, they were looking, ana resumea ineir ousodb. The elevator boy was startled when told that I wished to be set down on Mr. Uradys floor, lie evidently considered me rash. At the second floor we took on several compositors. I knew they were compositors, because they were careless in raiment and bore themselves as men who carry the earth in a type-stick. "I remarked to one of them that I wished to - see Mr. Grady. "'Katber it was you than me,' he replied. with a sympathy that was a little puzzling to me then. It didn't puzzle me ten minutes later. "On reaching the third floor the elevator boy pointed me silently down a spacious ball lined with rare plants, and adorned here and there with costly works of art in bronze and marble. At the further end was a massive door of carved oak. In the center of the middle panel was a round hole about the size of a half dollar, andX; just below this a silver bell-pulL I gave tha knob a twist, and in a moment a mellow tenor voice was heard through the opening, asking who was there. I told my name and business. 'Beg pardon for standing tou off,' said tha owner of the voice, opening the door. 'I thought you were a Congressman; we'ra so pestered with 'em here.' "I entered a luxuriouslv annointed ante-room. and confronted a handsome young'nian wearing a priceless diamond pin and a delicate bang. '"Wait here until I seek the Presence, h said solemnly, and disappeared through an innei door. "By this time nerve. was as scarce about mj person as tha price of board. "Presently the handsome young man returned, and said: 'He will see you.' "I followed him and found myself fn Mr. Grady's audience chamber. It was .furnished with Oriental splendor. There wera four per sons in the room the Governor of the State, a United States Senator, a stenographer and thl man I was seeking. The great journalist was seated on a rich divan, dictating to the stenog rapher. while the others hung breathlessly upon bis words. I took him to be about fort; years old. He is thick-set, and has tha appear ance of a man whose stomach never gets left, i he knows it His head is round and covere with a short growth of black hair; his faca sallow, smooth shaven, and lighted by a pair ol cold, piercing black eyes. His voice is- welj modulated but penetrating. It went through me liko a knitting-needle, and stuck in tha wall beyond. " 'Tell him,' be sai&to the short-hand man, "I have my eya upon you, and if Gordon does not get a majority of the delegation from your county" 'Well, sir;' suddenly discovering me, 'what do you w.ant?' - , " 'I thought Uncle Remus was here,' I Stammered out Nothing else occurred to ma. 1 wai paralvzed. 'T-i "You'll find him down at 'Miss Sally's,' W plied Mr. Grady; and somehow in about a min ute. I found myself on the pavement outside. "Everybody in Atlanta seems to rogardMr. Grady as the greatest product of Georgia, and the awful reverence with which he is treated is not confined to the employes of the Constitution. He is the king bee in that jng town, and beyond all compare, is the most overpowering journalistic magnate I ever encountered." : - COSKLING IN THE

SENATE CHAMBER. j it )

His First Appearance There Since His With'

drawal Five Years Agot VUWashington Letter. - Roscoe Conkling drew more attention than any other person in the Senate chamber on Friday. More even than Mrs. Cleveland up in tha gallery, the weeping widow of the dead soldier sitting just in front of him, or even the flagwrapped casket lying before the President's desk. It was Conkling's first appearance in tha Senate chamber since he walked out of it one bright day in the spring of 188L He was thed as now the most picturesque man in public life. He is the only man who looks as big as his reputation. He is the only man of prominence whose personal appearance does not disappoint your expectations. He is not so dignified as Evarts, but Evarts's dignity always seems too big forjiis clothes. There is no man in public life who eo truly fills the physical ideal of a statesman, ne looks a Senator very much as Daniel Webstecjkv

must have looked. "v There wa3 a little hitch in the proceedings on

Pridav, so that the head of the little procenrffla bearing tho body of Logan from the rotunda into the Senate chamber had to wait five minutes at the main door of the chamber. Dr. Newman, Bishop Andrews, and the other clergy were in front; just behind came the pall-bearers, Roscoe Conkling and Gen. William T. Sherman standing together in the front rank. They were just visible to half of those in the gallaries as they stood there. As soon as Conkling was recognized all eyes were fixed upon him. Mrs. Cleveland's entrance into the gallery, accompanied though sha was by three"of the Cabinet ladies, was comparatively unnoticed. When the procession started in no one listened to Dr. Newman's selection! from the Episcopal burial service, because every body was watching Conkling as he marched (Conkling does not walk) down the main aisle, past his old seat, and, for the first time in half a dozen years, sat down in the Senate chamber. His former colleagues, many of whom had not seen him since he left the Senate, gazed at him with peculiar interest l bey saw that toe nairdozen years had greatly changed his hair an4 ' beard. They were a reddish-gray then they are snow-white now. The little curl which used to hang right down on the middle of bis fore' head has dwindled to a little lock, which simply seems to divide his baldness into two equal parts. His beard is shorter and perhaps a trifla more pointed than ever. His expression has not chaneed at all, and bis figure is as fine and his manner as graceful as aver. When the proces sion reformed, and Conkling marched out with Sherman again, two or three of his old friends in the Senate could not restrain themselves, but rushed forward and shook hands with him as ha passed along. This little attention must hava been as delightful to his vanity as It was shocking to his sense of propriety. But you could not have told from his elaborate bow how it affected him. I hope that in some way or other Conkling may he sent back to the Senate. We miss him. i

Congressman Ira Davenport's Happiness. !

National ItepuMican. -! ' Conr?8snian Ira Davenport, the New York I millionaire, is- fcll&pected of matrimonial intentions. Several mottt" ago It vas reported lcLhe was engaged to a Miss Clinton, of New York. It was said that he fell in love with her whilo she was visiting the family ot the late Congress- - i mau John Arnot, in this city. The report has ! not been tradicted, and now rumor has it i that the yo..jg "millionaire will lead the lady to i the altar before March 4. Mr. Davennortis jast

.in the prime of life, having passed his forty-fifth "t"

year last summer, lit is slender in figure, 1 tractive of feature, and has hair which, though J7y, very nearly red. does not detract from his goal looks, ne is sometbine of an icicle in friendy intercourse, seldom smiling, and cordial only to those whom he knows well. The announcement that ho was engaged caused very great snrprse among his friends, since It was generally upposed that he was something of a woraan-hjtor : and cut out for a bnchclcr life. He is pertaps tho most elieible Concressnian in WashiDfton. Youne, good-looking, with a fortune and a bight political future, he is regarded as the greatest

catch in the capital by match-making mapm&s. It Is stated that there are 230,000 woiren $4 London who earn their living by tho ncimakenomoro thaafhuOa wees.

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