Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1904 — Page 2

Colonel Lisenby’s Romance

“An old man, Mlas Edith, who begins to feel his age,” said the colonel. “But you are not old, Colonel LlsenJjy. I am sure that few of the young men of today hold themselves as erect as you do, and I am quite sure that I have met few of them who have that graceful, deferential manner of yours in the presence of women. I think you are wrong to say that all romance must be dead for you," said the girl laughingly. They were sitting on the piazza of a country house on the Hudson. From open windows streamed lights and the ibuzz of conversation, which showed that the guests were enjoying themselves after the fashion of guests In country houses. Before them and beneath them lay the moonlit expanse of the Hudson, and on the other side they could make out the bold line of the precipitous shore. Tall, slender and graceful, the youth of the girl’s twenty years showed in sharp contrast to the fifty odd years of the handsome, soldierly looking man who stood at her side. “When you were younger, Miss 'Edith,” said the colonel, “you used to be very fond of having me tell you stories, and I think I will tell you one now If you are sure it will not bore you.” “Please do, colonel. 1 used to think that there was no one who could tell such delightful stories beginning, [•Once upon a time.’ ” “This story begins In the same way, •Miss Edith. ‘Once upon a time’ nearly forty years ago a young man was very |nmch In love with a very beautiful [Woman. The two lived In a little southern village on the Mississippi rivfer and had been playmates through Childhood. It was an understood thing iwtween the families of the two that Kne boy and girl should be married iroen they were grown. T *One day a foolish little quarrel came up between the two young people, and It was not made up as soon as it should have been. Perhaps the

“YOU DO ME AN INJUSTICE,” SAID THE COLONEL.

man was wrong; at any rate, he was heartily sorry afterward that he did not say he was wrong and make peace In that way. "Before the quarrel was made up the dvll war broke out, and the young man considered It his duty to go to the front In the ranks of the southern army. It was his luck to see a great deal of fighting and to win promotion move than once. At Gettysburg he was badly wounded and captured. For months

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he lay in a hospital' and on his recovery was confined in a northern prison until the end of the war.

"When the war was over, he was released and hurried back to the little vllluge he had lived in. There he found that the woman he loved was dead. Her mother told him that It had been said In the village tihat hy was killed at Gettysburg and that when nothing was heard of him afterward the girl had died of a broken heart.

By ANCUS BLANTYRE

“If the man could have had his wish, he would have died also, but he was not cowardly enough to resort to suicide, and he lived. He came to New York and sought forgetfulness In the hardest of hard work. Success came to him In ample measure, and, what he valued more, he found In his work something of the forgetfulness he sought.

“Memory of the woman be bad loved did not leave him. The man himself In his bitterest moments never wished for that

“The man, as the old memories became dulled after many years, began to wonder If it was best for him to always live a solitary life. Then he began to wonder If he was not In love with' a beautiful young girl whom he knew and then resolved to ask her to marry him. Do you think he did right?” The girl did not answer for a moment and then she said In a voice so low and sympathetic that you could almost detect the ring of tears In It: “I am thinking of the woman who died. I do not believe the man will ever forget her If he loved her as much as you say. I know that if I were to die I would want Jack to love me alwuys, as the man you have told me of loved the woman, ahd not to think of another woman.”

The girl was looking with tear dimmed eyes across the river to where the lights of West Point could be seen on top of the Palisades. The man’s glance followed hers. Neither spoke for a moment, and then, with an effort which he hoped was not visible to the girl, the man said: ‘‘So you are engaged to Jack Carter? I thought I was too old a friend not to have been told of this before?” “I meant to have told you this evening,” said the girl. “Jack says you wore so good about getting him appointed to the academy that we have both felt grateful to you. But we neither of us thought that you would be at all interested In a romance.”

“You do me an injustice,” said the colonel, with a little dry laugh. “I am always Interested In romance—for instance, the one which I have been just telling you. I know the man and have taken a great deal of Interest in the case. I shall advise him not to propose to the girl. But you must permit me to tell you that I wish you all happiness and that I consider Jack a very lucky fellow.”

“They are beginning to dance, colonel. Won’t you come in with me?’’ “Thanks. I fancy my dancing days are over. I think I will stay here and 6moke a cigar.” The girl stepped in through one of the open windows, and the man lit a cigar. Perhaps it was the moonlight on the water, perhaps It was the old waltz tune which floated out of the windows of the house, perhaps the old memories were brought up so keenly by the story he had told the girl on the piazza. Whatever the cause, the effect was to carry the mind of the man back to another time and another scene. The Hudson became another river, the Palisades on the farther side became a low, wooded shore. The breeze which came from the river seemed heavy with scent of magnolia. The man who paced slowly up and down the piazza was young again. At his side there seemed to walk a woman as beautiful and as young as the girl who had just left him. But the beauty of this woman was of the south, and her dress was of the fashion of forty years ago. The measure of forgetfulness which time had granted the man slipped away, and the old keen heartache woke once again to poignant life. And the man walking with memories and ghosts in the pure, calm moonlight thanked God that the heartache was alive once more.

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WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Goselp of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat:

Eventaa are apparently fig) shaping themselves that all the democratic party will have to do is to sit still and make the best use of whatever comes its way. The Post Office scandal has now assumed such gigantic proportions that it overtops everything else, and there is a prospect of a bitter war between the legislative and executive branches of the government. Either the scandal must be probed to the bottom or the party in power will reat under the charge of being afraid to let the whole truth be known. The lid blew off in the House of Representatives on the 10th inst., when members had had time to axamine the so-called Bristow report, which charged no less than 159 gentlemen of the House with irregularities and violations of law. The gist of the matter is that members of Congress have been flooding the Post Office department with applications for increase of rents for post-office buildings, for increase of salaries and for more clerks. The now indicted Beavers was the man who took these matters in hand, and obliged the Congressmen in many instances by granting their requests. The Speaker of the House, the old "“watch dog of the Treasury,” is in the list “of honor,” as it has been designated, and many members, including Grosvenor of Ohio, Hepburn, of lowa, Hill of Conn., and a host besides. The revelations made by the report of the Committee on Post Offices, fell like a thunderbolt out of the blue, and for several days Congressmen were too angry to be on speaking terms with themselves. An attempt was made to let Mr. Bristow down easy by asserting that he did not write the report; but that proved to be too thin as he has for months been praised by the Administration for doing that very thing. He is said to have been too sick to attend to business for a month, bnt when* the President sent for him on the 10th inst. he was able to get to the White House.

A remarkable feature of the whole business is that the report was adopted and presented to the House by a Committee appointed by Speaker Cannon. Mr. Overstreet, the chairman, tried in vain to convince the House that it was a harmless document, which really meant nothing, and that it had better lie on the table. Gentlemen whose names had been coupled with Beavers, Machen, Tyner, Metcalf aud others of malodorous reputation, decidedly objected. And they prepared to sail in. The scene in the House on the 10th and 12th instants, when party lines disappeared like frost before the sun, was one long to be remembered. Applause from both sides of the chamber greeted each speaker as he protested his innocence, and denounced the report. The public galleries swarmed with spectators and the reporters for the press were out in full force. The confusion was indescribable and business was almost at a standstill. When Gen. Grosvenor rose to make a speech, the curiosity of the Democrats was at suoh a pitch, they left their seats and filled the forum near the Ohio Congressman, that every word might be heard, “I am a lawyer,” exclaimed Gen. Grosvenor, “and am not afraid. This report, holding it aloft, “will be translated into all the languages of the world, and it will be believed that

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there are 150 rascals in the American House of Representatives.” There was both laughter and dismay when Gen. Grosvenor holding up one of the most conservative newspapers of the metropolis, read as follows: When men of the standing of Hill, Cullom, Cannon, Payne and Hepburn of lowa are taken red-handed, no one can marvel that Beavers, Machen and the small fry of department subordinates rush for loot, with the cry, “Now or never!” “Sentiments like these,” said the speaker, “are being printed in 95 per cent, of all the newspapers of the country.”

This new out-cropping of the Post Office scandal has caused great anxiety at the Whito House, and there has been a hurried cgnsultation of leaders, to devise a way out. Mr. Bristow was summoned from a sick bed, and taken to task. So serious is the situation it may disturb all the plans of the Republican campaign managers, and precipitate a war between the Executive and Congress. It is possible a drastic investigation of the Post Office Department, by a committee of the House, will result, when the whole truth will be searched out.

While Congress was denouncing the Bristow report, the President was arranging with Senator Foraker of Ohio, who should fill two or three post offices in that state. While Senator Hanna was alive these were a bone of contention, and the President refused to act, not wishing to offend either Senator, No sooner is Hanna in his grave than the patronage goes to Foraker. The new Senator Dick had the good Bense to keep his hands clean of such matters.

The Land Office frauds continue to be exposed. The effect of the Bonaparte- Woodruff investigation of the Dawes Commission to the five tribes of civilized Indians in Indian Territory, is to discredit the Commission. It has taken advantage of the ignorance of the Indians to induce them to part with their lands for less than they were worth, when they were afterward sold to speculators at an advanced price. In view of these serious facts it is stated the Commissioners will not be removed, but may continue to draw their salaries.

There is a_ great congestion of Congressman at the Post Office Department looking up old files and getting copies of red hot letters. Unfortunately Postmaster Payne is too ill to see the angry members; the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow is also confined to his room, and the chief clerk and the private secretary can only weep and wring their hands. North Carolina has two members of Congress named Kitchen. One of them says Bristow undertook to blackmail Congress. Congressman Hill of Conn., denies that he has been taken “red-handed” in anything. But he cannot deny that he proposed to give the Post Office officals a dose of “red pepper,” if they did not hurry up and do as he said. Secretary Shaw thinks a merchant marine will not grow as weeds dp. Certainly not. Fertilize the soil with gold from the U. S. Treasury.

Notwithstanding the late Senator Hanna left a brief showing why Gen. Wood should, not be promoted, and requesting that he deny the charges made against him under oath, Senator Foraker will press the promotion at every possible opportunity. The Senator is now regarded at the White House as the boss of Ohio. Wood’s promotion will probably be confirmed.

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