Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 28, Number 26, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 April 1886 — Page 7

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.JASPER ⬬ INDIANA . THE EDITOR'S GIRL. Spoken at the Banquet of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. By Herbert W. Collingwood. Tlwit oifr dmpla fever hod mob the aiMmlll 1 ii ro the WhSm WOrmbSSe MMTff WM Mftttr foUHd. &u tJnm Lu uyi t lift wlaiig tii irta imrl uvw na m n mnaT W ww"w gvwwnfm m w eww w we WWIWH aa-sfmVm MjS tfhm) ua S-LA-ftS IauJ lS 4bWu Jauuuia JamrUS eMfff PmmPOmpaP, emTBSjffmrmm eSnwSSJn mama m)em JemmmjSg ley oahodhlmalunaHp ineered at ale plearet wofosnsh quill-drivers kaew Im we "X mSmtm be swayed f rent the dark t the The freee liswimr, far down In the heart OC the penplo K roaches and bods for IM part. TW mime bW Homan or (Jreefc at ktlM best Wm feroed te etve mp on Mt leg. tear eeo; Yt we Wave aieooverod It llsteol lit show ' TWe lever swltma w m the busy mm whirl. Ami K. re la the band ef tbo Kd.tor s Girl 1 The Mdttor'i Oiri? WkM, the hmII party HNff With a mhh iaea ef forehead down under her hair WKa ft tot Ma a snow ban -a mouth Mm a With miiWe that weuM thaw wit your heart tboMfh It froer admit K be Mmm. wy lrthri. tHir--We h hroihorftrtl not K've your eort ftwr. Owh H ur haa tk little girl not m4 your Mrs Fur bettor purer ami boM you rroat infer Don't you kaew how you steooVaMy he years aco, How you waatou to May aa4 yot wsateH tojpo? WaHe the imio Ktri looked up at you wIVh a Aa4 a Huoersortof look la hoc eyea alt the whl wkilo: THt you foumt that you emMn't stay toajror Aau ) ou rwaohod for her atouth aau, la faet, tou "toifk proot?" Kow aoweetly-HlMH't you. aflor that afcjht, Tluak of her every ttute wke you sat down to wr.to Tour wM euHorkikt how Ihoy IM rtlae 'fouehea up by t rtoau CupHi, that follow dl.Mm wauM Malta up at you from the bottle of lak. While you sat there pat'ently toylax to think. You kaew that your paper would always be By at least one subserlber whose dear Httle Would tteftfture the rood and forget ail the HI, And tMnk ou a wonderful por.-tiaajre stltl. And Hnder your eoat there you earried a ,That wowM atabo Troubk shake la ita beota I know whaflt wasIt was only a eurl 1'rom the head mt the RdHor's dear Uatle Girl You swite at m now, and you say that these 1m J'vrr wtM for ft vrost orowd O? bofs: Hut that when a man s beard and bis head have turned imir. Tlw mniimi-M HMd iMMrfrv bU Mr ftwar. Now, if t be true, that the bean "w stow Let um MMewaly swear that v'H never grow 8ar, toM me, you baW -beaded men over there rou stuaioua iomows wku asore orain iaaa k4r Tom hhm who stood looklat-dowa throuh the dim year. AH mp with pleasures and trbus aad Dees tbo Httle irkl really rrewr oW with eaoh year? I she ror lea fair, is she ever !ee dear Thaa she was whoa she looked la yourfaee With tiMktokfla bar eyes that seat Are through vow so? When she spoke the three word that have mauo up your nie. That have kept you rrom sorrow and heM you tkraarh Htrir? Woubt jou not it ve ft ntui:h aomo, be honest te-niirkt For one eurl front her head though K be Mreoked with whtte? Do bar eheeks realty t ado as the busy years wairtr J she seer ftuatetee but the Kd iter's Girl? Tbtak over your life; ft.! the joys you have AN the beautiful Memories, tender and ad. That come as the starlight breaks through the That twine round your heart as the soft tea drib) twine. Jth the lip may welt tretaMe-tbe aye may wen an "With tears not unmanly is that tender thrill As you tatnk of the aafuish that wrung throuab her Wfe j it Ah, the brave Mttkt weraaa bar lips wore Tbouh you kaew rbat her neert was break' Ah, how small wIN aur portlaa of tame be, my 'When the mhrbty book-keeper sball foetus Of the lodger; our pertisa win be Yet she Mt'tie woman woubt give us her alt. Do your troubles not brlae; yea aHtt eloser to -Xfl matter bow annaar. bow iisieajr ttlo's wearhir? 4 bAji m m ablM 4at mam anneV tutaS IWWJ entfj Mb Vflfft W TW tit wwv arrof l)o you not kaew her better eaoh VOU Kftl Dees b lead you bs truth seek a wonderful And U H si! poetry, bosh aad romanoe? You've been ever the road you kaoa know what We sun pie, youn follows would gladly tad out. Tor wo have ft norioa no doubt K's all Ke aoub?aowa ia p mouse K's not worth Tkat a maa may mount high to the temple of rave of the world be may elolmTet loek of It all. uaobsrrvod and unknown, A woman U nWaiitlr huHtiiftv kta throne. fke is not enttv. kwhwfr woeasaar tbo while With a wnian umwuohIw love and asm We, And as byte; as the years danee their ma-leal warn. Ve wiu praiae her for evor-Tbe Miter's tHri HONEST CONFESSIONS. Four Detectives Admit That Luck Enters Their Profession. A Pair of Spectacles Gave the Clue — A Tidy Second Girl— The Lost Will — The Surprised Man with the Gold Tooth. ¶ A few weeks ago the writer spent several hours in a country inn with a number of detectives, and the following adventures are given just as narrated: "Luck has much to do with success in our professton," said a short, thick man with iron-gray hair as he tilted back against the wall. ''Indeed, if you are following a blind trail you must depend upon luck to help you out. A few years ago I was summoned by telegram to a small town in Ohio to take hold of a murder case. An old lady living alone on the outskirts of the town had been found murdered, but the crime had occurred at least two days.before discovery. That robbery was the motive was proved by the fact that the house had been thoroughly

ransacked. She was known to have

had several hundred dollars in money

and some valuable heirlooms, and every thing had been taken. The search had been so thorough that it was likely the murderer had spent several hours in the house after his horrible deed. He had even taken the old woman's spectacles, snuffbox, thimble and other trifles of the sort: but he had come and departed without leaving a trace. ¶ "Well, the first inference was that he had come and gone in the night. The next inference got me into trouble at once. The sheriff and constables and all the townspeople had made up their minds that the murderer was a young man named John Winthrop, the old woman's nephew, who hung out around Cincinnati. It was known that he often appealed to her for money when hard up, and that only two or three weeks before the murder she had refused to advance him another dollar, and that he had gone away cursing her. ¶ "It was a fair clue to work on, and I went to Cincinnati to work up John Winthrop. He could not be found, but I found friends of his who strengthened the case against him. The day previous to the Murder he was hard up, and trying to borrow money. The day after the murder he had plenty of money, and offered to lend some. He was a gambler, a rake, and all that was bad, and no one would be sur prised to hear that he had committed murder. To still further strengthen the case, I discovered that he had been seen on the train running from Cincinnati to Blankville on the afternoon of the murder. He was also known to have returned to Cincinnati on the morning after. Better clews could not be asked for, but, hunt as I would, I could not turn him up. He seemed to hare dropped right out of the world. For six weeks I went up and down the country, seeking everywhere, but all in vain. ¶ "There was one thing in the case which puzzled me. Why had the murderer packed up and curried away the trifling articles I have mentioned? A tramp wouldn't have done it; and what the nephew could want of them was more than I could understand. I had never met with any thing like it in all my experience, and my mind was half made up on the very start that the crime was the work of a lunatic. After six or seven weeks of faithful work the case was practically abandoned. One dav I was at the Air Line junction, a couple of miles north of Toledo, and among other people there, waiting for the train, was a lone woman about fifty years of age. As she sat reading her spectacles fell off and one glass rolled out of the frame. It was my fortune to sit near her and to pick up the glasses. As I did so she said: ¶ " 'There they go again! l never saw such a pair of glasses in my life!' ¶ " 'The optician did not give you a good fit,' I observed. ¶ " 'Oh, I didn't get 'em at an optician; I bought 'em of a stranger while I was traveling, but I was never so cheated in my life.' ¶ " 'Was it very long ago? ¶ " 'About three weeks. ¶ " 'Here?' ¶ " 'Oh, no. It was while I was waiting at Monroeville. I had lost my glasses and was fretting about it, when the man asked me to try these. They seemed to fit me nicely, and, I gave him half a dollar for them.' ¶ "I was breathing hard about that time, and it required a strong effort to control my voice as I said: ¶ " 'I think he was a cousin of mine. Can you remember his description?' ¶ " 'Certainly. He was a smallish man. having black hair and eyes, and he walked lame. On the back of his right hand was an initial in India ink.' ¶ " 'He's the one, madam, and I'm sorry he cheated you. Let me give you this two dollar bill in exhange for the glasses.' ¶ " 'Oh, thanks! thanks!' ¶ " 'Well, I got away by myself to think. I had seen that man somewhere. Where was it? I began and followed my work all over in my mind, but I could not locate him. It was midnight, and I was fifty miles away when I suddenly placed him. He was one of the.jurors at the coroner's infinest . Next day I was back in the village where the murder occurred. The spectacles were identified by several of the neighbors, and when I came to make some cautious inquiries about the man I found him to be a worthless sort of fellow living a mile or so out of town, and making a poor living for himself and family by digging wells and doing odd jobs. It was true that he was a juror on the inquest, and it was also true that he had been at Monroeville at the time named. ¶ I went alone to arrest him. I called at his house in the evening, under pretence of engaging his services, and as he sat by his own fireside, surrounded by his wife aad children, I told him Who I was, and charged him with the crime. He wilted like a weed in the sun as he comprehended what my words meant, but his wife was made of different stuff. An axe stood in a corner of the room, and she seized it and tried to split my head open. I had just all I could do to put the handcuffs on her, and then she turned on her shivering husband and reviled him until he stopped his ears to shut out her voice. He turned out to be a weak-minded fellow, and it was plainly shown that she not only put up the job but went with him to execute it. While he was searching for the money she packed up the other articles. even taking her brushes, combs and towels. She had braced him up to appear at the inquest, and he had come through it all unsuspected. While it was a clear case for the hangman. some quibble of law saved their necks, and both are serving long sentences in prison." ¶ "And how about the nephew?" I asked, as he seemed to have finished. ¶ "Well. on the day of the murder he took the train, as I have told you, but got off at a town below Blankville. There he fell in with some local sports and won about four hundred dollars at poker that night. Upon his return to Cincinnati his life was threatened by a woman for some grievance, and to be rid of her he made a clean jump to Nashville, and was arrested there for gambling and sent to jail for three months under an assumed name."

"Yes, luck sometimes plays into a

man's hands in a strange way," said

another of the group, as he elevated his feet a notch higher on the stove. "Two or three years ago one of the big distillers at Peoria, Illinois, was robbed of a goodly sum by his confidential clerk. I was sent down from Chicago to work up the case. The name of the clerk was Charles Allbright, and he was described to me as a dapper little fellow without beard, and a voice as soft as a woman's. His photographs showed him to be a pretty good-look-ing fellow. The money had been drawn to make a purchase of grain. It was to have been paid out on that day, but was not called for, and the clerk gobbled it some time between six o'clock in the evening and eight o'clock next morning. ¶ "The first move, as you would agree, was to ascertain what trains had left Peoria during this time and seek to find which one Allbright had taken. The place is quite a railroad center, but in one day I ascertained that the thief had not left the town either on a freight or passenger train. Had he gone by the highway? I visited every livery stable, but no trace of him. As a matter of fact, I was up a tree. He had gone, but how? ¶ "After two whole days spent in fruitless search, I got desperate, took a train at a venture, and brought up at Decatur. On the train, was a young lady whose home was at Decatur. As she had several parcels with her, I volunteered to help her on the car. As her feet touched the platform she tripped and fell, and the result was a broken arm. As none of her friends were to meet her, it seemed to devolve on me to call a carriage, summon a surgeon and accompany her home. I found her to be the daughter of a wealthy widow having one or two other children, and their gratitude was such that I could not well avoid accepting an invitation to make, the house my home for a few days. I had given out, you see, that I was a Boston lawyer looking up the titles to some real estate in Decatur. ¶ "At breakfast we were waited upon by such a trim, tidy second girl, that my attention was attracted to her. The widow must have remarked it, for she exclaimed : ¶ " 'It is a new girl, who has been with me but two days. She is very awkward, but seems willing to learn ¶ "The girl was indeed awkward, as I afterward noticed, but the idea that she knew any thing connected with the Peoria robbery never entered my head until the third day. I had been at the depot to .make some inquiries about trains, and was about leaving when I saw her enter the waiting room. She was closely veiled, but I knew her fig ure, and I reasoned that she had given the widow very short notice. It was not impossible that this new girl was a thief, and I determined to speak to her and ascertain her reasons for leaving. As I started toward her she sprang up and rushed out doors, That was a sign of guilt which I could not disregard, and I gave chase. She led me a sharp run for half a mile, and when I collared her she struck out from the shoulder, and gave me a beautiful black eye. In return I put the handcuffs on her wrists, and they had scarcely snapped together, when she said: ¶ "Well, old chap, I suppose the jig is up. What kind of a second girl do I make, anyhow?' ¶ " 'You'll come back to the house, and be searched,' I replied, not yet tumbling to it ¶ " 'The house! I've got the money on me, and, of course, I have to go back to Peoria. You don't take me for a spoon thief, I hope?" ¶ "It was Allbright, and no mistake. He had left Peoria in the evening, disguised as a female, and his make-up and appearance were so deceiving that he made two or three mashes before reaching Decatur. He knew that no effort would be spared to hunt him down, and he had the cheek to take employment as second girl, hoping to have a secure retreat until the hunt had grown cold. My coming to the house was what had sent him away. He didn't believe I knew him, but he saw me watching him, and he argued that I would soon drop on his disguise." ¶ " It wouldn't be strange if luck had also, helped me out occasionally, for I have been in this business over twenty years," said the third man as he combed his long goatee with his fin- gers. "One of the most striking instances occurred last fall. A rich old fellow named Sumner, living near Louisville, was found dead in his bed one morning. He had been married twice, and had two sets of children. and you can readily understand what happened. It was known for a fact that he had made a will. It was a stranger fact that the will could not be found. The heirs taunted each other with having stolen the will, and pretty soon the law and the lawyers were called in, and there was a big fight over the estate, valued, I believe, at about $200,000. One of the heirs by the first wife engaged my services in the case. He was sure that one of the heirs by the second wife, who was known to have visited the old man the day before his death, had stolen and destroyed the will. As he could show that the provisions of the will left the bulk of the estate to the first set of children, his charge was a reasonable one, and I went to work to see what I could do. The alleged offender was a pretty hard case, and all the information I could acquire went to show that he was none too good to do a stroke of the sort. ¶ " I spent a month on the case with out getting any thing definite and then dropped it. The estate went into court, each side retaining enough lawyers to eat up every dollar, and I took up the chase of a horse-thief. He had stolen several horses in Ohio and run them into Kentucky. His headquarters were at Elizabethtown, and I had been there for a couple of weeks, seeking for the right clue to bring him up standing, when, one afternoon, I had to visit a farmer living several miles north of the town. This man had purchased one of the stolen horses, and had it taken away from him, and was ready to give me all aid and information. After a talk at the house we went to the barn to look over his stock. and in the yard I noticed a tin peddler's wagon with a wheel missing.

¶ " 'I can't imagine what has become

of the owner of that rig,' explained the, farmer. He broke down just out here all of two months ago, and I let him draw his wagon in here and store his bales of rags in the barn. He was to return in a day or two, but he hasn't shown up since.' ¶ "As we went into the barn we passed six or eight sacks of paper rags piled up in a loose manner. There were a score or more ot loose pap era ma me pile, and I picked up one, which proved to be a Confederate bond. I pocketed it as a relic, and picked up what I thought was another, but as I opened it out I read: 'Last will and testament of James Yancy Sumner.' It was the will of the old man who had died near Louisville, and its production not only put an end to all further litigation, but brougnt me a reward of three thousand dollars. I found the owner of tke peddler's outfit at Lebanon, which place was his home, and where he had been very ill of fever for many weeks. He had bought rags ot the old man, and through some carelessness the will had got mixed in. ¶ There was still another detective in the group, and after a bit he began: ¶ "About two years ago I was at Stockton. Cal., to which place I had pursued an express robber from Madison, Wis. It was an old trail I had been following, and when I lost it entirely at Stockton I didn't feel so badly put out as I should if there had been a fair show for me to overhaul the chap. I had a photograph of the man, and was also posted as to certain points in his description. He had one front tooth whioh had been filled with gold; he stammered a little in his speech when confused; he was near-sighted. He had been gone from Stockton a full month before I reached there, and a there was no trace of the direction taken, I gave up the hunt in disgust. When I got back to Omaha I had to take a man to Topeka, Kan., to see about an embezzlement, and on the night of my arrival I entered a bar room in search of a Tom and Jerry. The barkeeper was leaning on the bar and reading a paper. The first thing I noticed was that he held the sheet close to his face. The first name of the robber I had been chasing was George. As I advanced to the bar I said: ¶ " 'Come, George, a Tom and Jerry." ¶ "I don't know why I said it, but the speech was spontaneous, and was uttered before I really knew that I was speaking. ¶ "W-hat! W-w-hat's th-that?' he stammered, as he let the paper fall, and turned as white as chalk. ¶ "At the same instant I caught the gleam of gold in his teeth, and I put my hand on his shoulder and said: ¶ " 'George Johnson, you are my prisoner.' ¶ " 'H-how d-did you f-find me?' he queried, holding on to prevent himself from falling. ¶ "Well, sir, he owned up like a little man, and held out his hands for the darbies. Out of the eight thousand dollars he stole I received all but a thousand dollars. He went to Stockton, as I had trailed him, and after a day or two he disguised himself as a machinist and returned to the East, and brought up in Topeka. He had not purchased the saloon, not daring to use his money yet. but had got employment for a few days as a matter of charity. In making the run back from California he had stopped off five different times and adopted new disguises. and he had no more idea of being arrested in Topeka than in Alaska. Of course I didn't admit that I had blundered in on him, and to this day he believes that I trailed him step by step all those hundred of miles. Yes, a detective to be lucky must count more or less on luck, and there goes midnight and it's time we were in bed." — N. Y. Sun. . ———♦●♦——— . LATE COIFFURES. A Few Favored Styles of Dressing the Hair The estogan style of drsssing the hair is still considered very beeoming to young ladies for evening wear, yet there are many other pretty simple ways of atraagmg full heads-of hair. One very favored style is to wave and comb the looks up to the top of the head and twist them into a eoraetshaped roll, wkieh is brought forward in front to tne center of theaeea, form ing a circle, aad this gives a founda tion for a feather, demi-wreath of Mowers. rosette, etc. vtnen tne iaenion ot . aati . m a s ... a cutting the hair short wm adopted, evening coiffures were almost abaa don ed occasionally pearls were twisted in. Now that young ladies are al ready repenting of this piece of folly they find it very difficult to c noose a tidy and beeoming style of hair-dress ing. When the hair Is pretty long it is not difficult to arrange in loops and rolls, which maybe made to lie in all directions, and fastened with fancy pins, m these are verv fashionable toe evening wear. Young married ladies dress their hair fuller round the tem ples lately, and put a pretty large touge unuer, or inaa uh aair HiraeraeaMi. N. r. H'SfW. "Papa." saht the daughter of a large employer of labor, are you in favor of the eight-hour system?" " Well, daughter," ke answered, under certain circnmatsnces I am." "Oh, I'm so glad," she rapturously ex claimed. ' ' W h y, my d ear, w h y a re you so interested?" "Because, papa. George has been onlv etavinir four hours everv evening, and he told me last night if you favored the eight-hour system ne needn't go home nearly so eariy. iou dear old papa, I'm so glad yon are in favor of it," and she threw her soft white arms about his neck and choked off all explanations. Masei'sgtoft trKtc , "God help the stranger that is taken sick there," writes an officer of the United States steamship Galena, speaking of Aspmwall. " It to not un common ior people to ire fnwn m mm street and die m bread daylight, and when dying receive ne offer of assistance, even m answer to an appeal for a drink of water. The people ameur to be heart lees. M H heir familiarity with ilamtli IumI Mftoa uIIam. W nam marawwoiraa owwarun amtrmpaarep vanrajeasn nnmswrman) - t vwsg? ens.

WEBSTER VS. EDMUNDS.

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rms Ylewa mt a Masnaohaietta VlMMMI o4WtmVmtm N fjome "prooiaenta" that his win of Vermont neglected to Ut hut arrest report or mentma hm km effort," have been by a Boston sawyer. They Intsrmting fragaaamta ef ear eonetltntkmal history, though ef ne value tor the information of the noble author ef the literary and oratorical works mentioned. Hm Lordship, whom knowledge includes every thing, wm not in ignorance of them, and no doubt passed hkt penetrating eye over them when he prepared an so eaiien precedents; but m they would not serve bis noble purpose of presenting imparnauy the truth of history, he omitted them. But, m bis parasites oc tne sear ch amber organs that made haste to parrot his arrogant assertions are not so well informed na be is in our e atitutional history, it is worth while to reprint for their information a Jew of the historic facts tnat ae louaa k cob venieat to suppress. . - . . t m a f . The nrst is a nreeeaont sue was .... . W 0 .1 ft. made in the reign of Madison, and is token from a book called "History of the Appointing Power:" "The dismissal of the roetmaetor-Oeaeral. Gkb-ou Uranger, eaused oou aid arable re mark in othcial circle, txmirarr teniae wisboa of Uve Fj-eetdeitt, he had appointed to the important position of postmaster ef Philadelphia Dr. urn. a person wao asm tooabeen fpenljr epposed to Mr. Madhtoa. Tbo PrMident oould not but reaard Ut s aa aa set of hostility to bttaeeir. and. bavins; loan; sueteiMSBip. e)i aismiesoa aiim. m been removed for deUMueuer. hisfrioadi protested, aad a resolution was introduced in the Sooate asking tbo reason for bis dismissal. It was rejeeted on the arouad that too senate nan not tae rare te make such an Inau Irv. 1 1 is the only iaetaaee in tbo earlr bbitory of the Oo vers moat of aa atlompt to ouosttos the motives of the rteeldent in regard to removHl." The next is an btncial opinion by Daniel Webster, Secretary of State in the reign of Tyler: "But atHHicatkms for omee or letters aospeetinir appoimments or conversations hekt with individuals on sues subjects are set omeisl prooeedings. and oaa not by any mesas ne mane to pariaaeot ine connoter oi omi proeeodiaes. uabtss, after the nomlaattou of such liersoa so writing or ooaverslna the President shall think proper toiaysuoa eoriWpoadettoe or suoh oouversaUons before the ate."-nu4 mmw, tut. e?; p. tw. The next is from a speech by Daniel Webster ia the Senate, and, compared with the official opinion of the same eminent statesman m a member of the Government, fails to reveal that varia tion of ideas to suit circumstances and motives which is so marked a charac teristic of his Lordship from Vermont: "Sinee toe practice has become a settled mnuxlfM). aiaoai overr JtdmiBistratloa has in dMlwd in it ami siaoo It must now be conoid frou as ine mgai cuiisirummi m km roomnu twn tnat it ia one of tbo oowors of the Free! dent to remove Inouaabeats from omees whleh iimv bom. it follows as a nooessarr ana as am inevitable eonseiiuenee that this power thus lesallv vested in the President must be eioroised ty him as independently ot our oeatrol as any other power that is to be exercised by him under tne constitution. And I sen no ground upon which we sau sail upon him to kivo us reaeous ior ine manner in wktoh he eicereiees that dowot. anr more than we esm eall upon him to give reaioaa for the manner la which heoxerelseeany otbor power umlortse eonstitutioa. Tne bowers nf the denartsaenta Bra not aU mixed u In ft JumlM. LerMWMOt utooc, nut. a, p. ;,wa. The deliberate opinion of such a char acter, oMeially delivered, on a state of facta exactly analogous to that upon whioh tiie arrogant Senator from Ver mont hM turned the powenui headlight of his genius for quibbling, is of more worth m a guide to truth than all the arrogant dogmatism of the latter joined to the so-oatiea preeeaenss mac even do not go to support his asser mm . v. aaa a . ii tions. Edmunds says: "All papers addressed bv anybody to an executive orator on i the topic of suspension are official papers. - ..a e . a mt Webster: "Applications ior omee, letters, or conversations of individuals respecting reveal m point fHtt, are not official proceedings and can not be made to paruiKe ot tne easraeter oaactat proceedings." ivdraunas: i ne suspension ot an ona s.ao at . l . cer "simply wiutnotas irom ute uuues and emoluments of the office pending a decision ox tne matter oy tne senate. Webster: "As it is one of the powers of the President to remove incumbents from offices, it follows M an inevitable eonsetttenee that this power, legally vested 1st the President, must be exercised by him m independently of the Senate m any- other power tkat is to be exercised by him nnder the constitution." Edmunds: Having, "in the exercise of its jurisdiction, to judge of the conduct" of the suspended official, the Senate had the right to see the- papers because "they disclose the ground," or reasons, "on which the President acted." Webster: "We the Senate ean not call ujKMt kirn to give us raMoni for hn exercise of that power any more tkan we can call upon him to give reasons for his exercise of any ether power nnder the constitution." Edmunds: "AU the operations of the Government are executive." -The legislative chambers have "universal power of knowledge in respeet to every operation of the Government and every one of its officers." Webster: "The powers of the departments meaning the several branches of the constitution are not all mixed up m a jumble." The assertions of his Lordship of Vermont relate particularly to an aet called "suspension;" the views of Webster to an act of rmmml, and also to a proposition ef appointment. It haa boon vnrr well said that the at tempt of the Green mountain intellect to draw a distinction between removal and suspension "miners cobweb-spinning." Removal is an exercise ef the Presidential discretion, over whioh the star-chamber has no control. Suspen sion, even by the express worms of the statute, is the name. A suspension is in law and in effect a removal, im suspended officer goes out, is removed from his trust, and a new officer takes his place. The win mission of the former is killed bv the issue of a com ntissiou to his suceessor, aad the fact is the same whether the star-chamber afterward dissent or consent to the new appointment. The Pissident does not ask the consent of the Senate to a re moval, nor to a "susnenston:" the aet, whether ealied by one name or the other, is eemptote when the officer Atomi down and out: and thht often IlLg-aaM L flmtt ImmmmUiT j&ddaVBfmlM mmfbjtj Jl4ev1sawew W omsm nmwW mmmnpm mrPawMmmfm entw

assumed omnipotenee Is eoatseat to the appointment of a dMigtstod psrson to Hil a vacancy that has been eremead: whether by removal, by "aims sin n, 4MT eaMT JpMTmni4mssmi am gJeamtfmnwm'mmntt(eVj mH wholly immaterial and none ef me lfeteaVemVemmff 4ef tJMwmS? Mse3nJ( dbrfMWmmnmlmJPm the star-chamber. Ckif Hm. INNOCUOUS DMOtrWOC."

A WisuhWun Papor AMr WMoh the Oaaslsss Oaa Itot appaeetals Newspaper and politteal whs busily, but without much effect, poking fun at President Cleveland for using the phrase tads" in his tote m usage to United States Sesato. The are certainly not tha in our language, and they mag have been before used ia close connection. But they are very good words. They poeeess shades of meaning which ne ether wares possess, and no. other words would have expressed, the exact logieal and legal idea at the time occupying the Presidential mind. In reference to mt Teunre-of-Otnee act of 1M7, and to the present act on the same subject whleh had never since its enactment m its present form in lew been applied to restrict the President's powsr of rs moval or sue pension from be said: Ami as ft hasasai that after .a period of Imoet iaaaeuoai nearly twantr years OC SaatMtude. these laws are brouawt forth, apperoaur the topsalid aa woil as the awenoaled. aad imtm the wair of aa laseutlre who m willing, fr permlted. to tmproveeaeatm we mesne ot A critical examination of the phrase shows the ntnees of its use. To eentmenoe at the last word first, it may be said that the word "desuetude," while regarded m a synonym for dlsnm," implies oonsideraoiy more, it cameu with it the idea not only of disuse, hut a hint of neglect and abaiidooment. It hM a legal significance m quoted in Webster's Dictionary from the writings of Bishop Taylor, who, in speaking of an obsolete church regulation, mm: "The desuetude abrogated the law which before oustom had establmhed." Used in regard to a law.lt means somethiag more than that the law had become n dead letter. Under the common law doses tude absolutely repealed and abolished a legal rule or custom. Property may also be tost by desuatnde. a man wao sleens on his rights." in legal phrase ology, to regarded aa having tost bbem by not daiming them. Atrophy of a limb is caused by its disuse. Chartered rights and franchises may be lost by what the law calls "aonuser." A law is paralyzed and loses its powsr by desuetude. Thht wm the exact word to express President Cleveland's meaning in regard to the TeMtre-ef-Oflce aet, aad he pnt it in the right place. Why the President used the adjective "innocuous" as qualifying or describing the condition of the act in question is more open to conjecture and criticism. Tet it seems tc have a meaning in this ease. Radically, it means not hurtful. It kt rather a medical thaa a legal word. It properly k more applicable to a tiling than to a condition, its best use kt in describing a medicine or a doctrine, not in describing tke qualities of a man, or of an agency or a law. Still, there is a hint, or tha shadow ef a meaning which it adds to the other word in the phrase, showing that it wm not idly and uselessly applied. It adds to the force ef the intimation that the law m question, through desuetude, had become something more, than a dead letter. It intimates that the law oould , not be restored to vitality, either for a harmful or an aggressive purpose. It wm Mving in substance that the law had become absolutely atrophied from disuse, had been struck by hopeless paralysis, and wm dead beyond the possibility of restoration or re-enactment. In this light and intelligently interpreted the phrase "innocuous desuetude," m need by the President, appears to possess peculiar vigor, propriety and significance. Byron says that "words are things.14 and President Cleveland evidently need mem m such when he put these owe words to gether in hie Senate message. Oatoays Journal. DEMOCRATIC ITEMS. Senator Edmunds is aching to. appear in the role of John Hampden to' the President's Charles I. m a sort of benefit to a select Vermont audieaee which is talking of sending ex-Govsrssr Smith to succeed him in the Senate. Buffalo Courier. Whence, forsooth, end the Senate derive its authority to eonetttuto itself a court, and try the questton ef the partisanship of a removed official? And even if it had such an authority, how oould a trial conducted by it ia secret session satisfy the aggrieved official? The President stands fairly and squarely before the country on this question. Except through the vioiees chagrin of the disappointed and the impotent, malignancy ec me aematoe, he is unassailable. IwMtU CswrmrJournal. Neither the dieoontent of partyt friends nor the allurements constantly offered of confinnations of appolntom conditioned upon the avowal that see- . a a. pensions have been mane on ..perry ! 'rounds alone, nor the threat proposed n the resolutions now before the Seaate that no confirmations will be made unless the demands of that body, be complied with, are sufficient to Mbcourage or dtter nie from followmg kt the way which I an convinced lanes to better government for the people Fre$ieUnt Cleveland. President Cleveland in his present course is but following a preeeaent set by the illustrious Washington daring his second term, m we shall show. Ia all essential respects the eases are alike. Both involve the question whether a branch of Congress may of right eall upon the Executive for papers re-" lating to matters with whioh tkt branch hm nothing to de. In 17 Washington denied that the House ef KepresentarivM had any part in the teeety-mekinj; power, and, m a coast qwenee, oenme in air rtgnt te emminemv amy nepers relating to tatto. Jj fen wiovd.