Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 31, Number 31, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 April 1889 — Page 7

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JASPER, INDIANA. "ONLY ME I' Fl- ttd the wty hy the us, Iremlng- witkhPHlt aad lift, Till ftverlasea rw Ui Air At BetilsM WM rif. Br ssirss haadraH r"pts ! 8am rcfut sf v Hb4 4 'Wll hMpifH. hnpsisM, pWraad sad, Tot Biaay stayed umui A few stood bravely In Itinr ;Un, Daring the fer-r's hrsath, ii-B(1la the priated reerd fenh Ot each day's wo u death. .A little lad came to them titers, And told his whs between, How "woe Iter Jim" had died that mors, Ills brother, aged seventeen. "Please put It in the paper, sir. For he was always hoikL, A nil, siuoe our father's death, te us In lather's plats hits stood." Next day ho came with w'stful face: This time 'tin Dick i-ncl J or, 'They will be buried in one grave, For they arc twine, you know," A week passed by; he wwe acUB, With famt "Kxouse me, r, But baby's Kene! I couldn't hellliut tell you abeut her," -Once mere he came with weary step, ClmilitHl the stoep stair, and saW "With quiver. ng Up and falteraiij voice: "Please tell them mother's dead," He turned about with pusaled look. As If fcOHle question vei.d, . ' Then inurtnured softly to himself: "I wonder who'll no next!" "How many still remain?" said one Who spake with kind Intent, 'While on the poor hoy's troubled face A tylnK look he bent. V.ie well-worn cap was pulled to hide A face 'twas sad to sec Ob one so young; checking his sobs. He said: "There's only me!" -Mrs.C. IL N. Thomas. InUood Housekeeping A GLACIAL PEKiOD. 'Which la Followed by a Decided and Satisfactory Thaw. "'Hero I am, mother. I lound all 'tb-4 doors opon, so walked straight up to my old room. A follow doesn't stand on ceremony when he hasn't seen his maternal relative for a yoar. Here's your hoy, mother." Ralph Wakefield threw his valise in a corner, and walked quickly toward an elderly woman who was standing just inside the door of a pretty middle chamber." "Ralph Wakefield! How you do like to surprise folks. Two days soon er than you promised! Well, well! How your pa wtll be set up." Just this, and a hearty handshake. Nothing more. Doubtless, Mother Wakefield's heart would have thrilled with a now joy had blie fatten on the neck of that handsome, manly 3on. and covered his face with kisses; but then sho would have thought the act 'rather silly." On Ralph's part, had such a salute been offered, ho would have returned it with interest; but there would have crossed his mind a dim suspicion that motlior was beginning to fall." They lived In Connecticut Pa's in the field, and Huth is woodsing somewhere. You arc going to have the spare room and be made company of. Huth has taken yours." Who, pray, is Ruth?" Huth Wise. 1 wrote you about her." 'So you did. mother, so you did. But I thought the visit would be ended before 1 came. An overworked Bchool'tcachor, the daughter of an old girl-friond of yours; come here for rest and change. I wish sho hadn't! Mother, I'm disappointed; I'm vexed. I feol frustrated. I'vo worked hard over those old law-books In the dingy city for more than a year, without a play-day; and now that I'm fairly inside the bar, and a first-class partnership awaiting mo in September, I wanted to have ttio strain lot up on me entirely. I wanted you and father and the old farm all to myself this vacation." She'll not bo in your way, Ralph. Sho almost Uvea outo' doors." Hut why did you five her my room?" "Because she said the spare room was too nice to dry forn9 in, and to keep mewses and rocks and toad-stools in. Fungi, she calls them. So I gave her your old quarters, that are used -to such things. Take a peep at her books. She thinks the world and all of them few books." "O Mother Wakefield, what have you done?" Ralph, whose innate sense of propriety had restrained his eyoa from wandering about the room no longer his own, now allowed there to rove over ttie titles of the volumes neatly arranged in the small book-case. oomethlnr between a sign and a whistle was his first comment. "Climatic Theories! Ruckle, Mill, Jlcvuc ScicnliJiqucS Deep Sea Explorations,' Spenser on tho Uncondi tioned,' Darwin's 'Expression in Ani mals.' Great Egypt, what a list! Wise by name and wise by naturo, I per ceive. Mother, ove thing is settled; I shan't like her." Xonsense, Ralph! You reRd all these tilings; why shouldn't she?" No reason, of course. Only I don't profer masculine tastes in a woman." "She s no masculine tastes, Ralph. Shu'fl bright and capable, and full of fun. And she's as handy to help in the kitchen as If sho d always lived on a farm. And she likes to talk about dross as wo! I as any girl." Talk! Oh, you havon't hoard ner talk yet. Science is her vocation, and metaphysics lier recreation. Philology, ethnology aud the cosmos for break-

fMt; pre-historte man for dinner, aad

the survival of the fittest for mipper! Mother, I wanted a good lime. I wanted to work with father in the hayfield, and to eat my dinner without a coat, if I felt like it I wanted to eat pie between meals sometime, aad to go to sleep afternoons on the lounge. I think I'll spend moit of my time in the barn: take my meals ea the back Krch; baked apple aad milk, bean. any thing you may have to spare I can't face a young lady who prefers cave-dwellers to ordinary people, aad who will look a whole Glacial Period at me across the table." Ralph, you ought to have more sense than to talk so. Folks might think you were afraid her learnin' would put yours in the shade," sug gested Ralph's mother, wiekedly. Then site reminded him that it was two hours yet till tea-time, and that there was a berry pie cut in the pantry, along with soma nice root-beer made by Ruth's own hands. Root-beer! Ah, Sanscrit roots, 1 suppose." Try it You'll taste dandelion and burdock plain enough, I'll war rant." Ihey went down-stairs to gether. And then and then, in the cham ber they had left, a little dreingcloset softly opened, and a neatlycombed head was thrust out. Oh, how small it makes you feel to overhear people talking, even when you can't help it! If I had only been dressed, and could have walked right out! And to think he never once looked at the upper shelf where the poetry is! How ignorant of him to suppose I can not enjoy those precious books without being a stiff, angular. strong-minded' old thing! I wanted to like dear Auntie Wakefield's only son, but now I can not Such a nar row, conceited follow! I've half a mind to fool him by acting the part of a frivolous, fashionable girl, without an idea in her head. I could do it. But ho isn't worth the trouble. Better loave his majesty entirely to him self." Nevertheless, it was a very cour teous aud agreeable young man whom Ruth found when, two hours later. she descended to the tea table and wk formally introduced to Mr. Ralph Wakefield. For several days their acquaintance made little progress. When net engaged in household duties the young lady wandered in the woods and fields, as had been her wont, or sat In her little room holding sweet companionship with the slandered books. When she talked with Ralph, it was usually about the dressing of a salad. the relative merits of currant jelly and raspberry jam, or the kind of geraniums that always prospered best under her care. Once when she asked his opinion as to the trimming most ap propriate for the caps she was making for his mother whether he preferred quilled ribbon or muslin frills and he answered that he knew not one from the other, she was moved to tell him in the most innocent manner that she had soma books up-stairs which he needed to read for instruction. All the young man's attempts to draw out any ' opinions she might have ended in failure. He received but the shortest and dry eat of answers. Yet there was at such times something in her eyes and In her manner that puzzled him. She could not school her tell-tale features into proper immobility, and after a time Ralph's wonderment began to border on enlightenment Finding himself growing "more interested in her every day, in spite of her reserve, he changed his tactics and entertained her with commonplace topics his life in the cltj", his law studies, his Ideas of jurisprudence, the acquaintances he had made, his outlook for the future. Gradually the amiability ef each found full play; interest and confidence grew up on both sides, and, in spite of her grim resolves. Huth found herself almost un consciously acting once more some thing like her real self. Stilt, she fought against the change, and might have continued to light, until ' October, with her ha r atiamr, F,uhd brow, sad purple ager tips. Across the Southern orchards eaase, Aad touched the aple wHh her Hps" had not an accident a veritable accident, happened to her sewing-machine. Strangely enough, Ruth began scolding, not the machine, but the work. "Oh, the supreme folly of modern dress-making! I am so tired of hems and tucks, bands and ruffles, puffings and flutings! And now that the hemmor will not hem, and the gatherer will not gather, what can I do with this mass of trimming? Auntie, I hope that if I ever come into this world a second time a great wave of reform will have swept away all such flummery as muslin puffs and ruffle." ' Same of potato-bugs," murmured Father Wakefield, sleepily, from his chair. A voice from the door-step. "I have no desire to re-appear on this sublunary stage when the curtain falls upon my present mortal existence; and I have no faith in Reiohenhnch's ab surd doctrine of re-incarnation." It was Ralph. Ruth, who had believed the young man was at the post-ofttix, a mile away, gave a great start that threatened to overturn the unfortunate sewing-machine. But she was not to bo discon certed, and answered promptly: Are you sure of that? Now, I can not give this okl world up so willing ly. I like it It Is the only world I know any thing about I want to know what will become of the Anarchists; and how long England will remain a monarchy. Then there k Japan, grow

ing ia Wresting; aad and the Xertk Pole." I'll excuse the North Pole," said Ralph, "but 1 do fuel an latere ia IWlcur discovery, aad tb Kaeoa-Shake-pcare cipher. Aad I caafesM to a yearning detire to knew hew the lniiladelphia Public Ruhdiags will let when completed." "Yes, indeed." said sympathetic Ruth. And there are nyiag-ttiacnise to be perfected. Then think of faithcure and hypnotism!" Humbugs!" groaned Father Wakefield. "Rut there are mysteries which are not humbugs; every thing connect with electricity is mysterious. Think of the pholophoae. and all eiaer phone. What a mystery is the phonograph; and oh, o many other things!'' 'Name some of them, pleae," said Ralph. "They can hardly be named." He said, with a ort of reverent huh ia her voice. "I call them the Reserves of nature. They are so fine. o subtle. What hint there are In what Rukin calls the 'choices of the atoms-. ' hown in crystallization. What miracles are the lovely singing name-, as Tyndall shows them, and the light wares that havo their choices, ato. Think of the musical sounds that lie outide the gamut of our hearing, our present, this world he- ing." She stopped, her face radiant, her eyes sparkling. Ralph coutd not think of one sarcastic word to utter, but smiled ujon the young enthusiast with heartfelt sympathy. And in spite of the fact that again, in their walks together, she treated him to the blankest of statistics, geological, paleontologkal and historical, the acquaintance ripened and mellowed with the golden days ot the late summer ia a very satisfactory manner. One afternoon Ruth had gone to the wood alone, and returning, wsr sunset, to the meadow-bars, was surprised to find Ralph waiting for her ia the shadow of a spreading maple. He held in his hand a New York taper. "Laden, as uual." he said, looking at the bunch of greens in her hand, amongst which wai- sprinkled a brilliant red. Only some Lobelia Cardinalis." she said, "and a few sprigs of Artemisia Santonica, commonly called worm

T Witt "I came to find you. he bega. Ig- ! noring the high-sounding aatne. "and to read to you an account of a most i extraordinary discovery. Greatest i event of the age, and quite in your line. Transference of brain from one cranium to another. It's going to prove the great renovator of human-' ity. Transfusion of blood not to be named in comparison. Now listen. I'll jiHt summarize. A Prussian soldier condemned to death for the murder of his Colonel; left in charge ot surgeons; they remove his brain; chloroform, of course: did not kill him. Next thing, introduce the brain of a wine merchant who had died suddenly of heart disease, with brain in perfect health. The thing took root grew. felt at home; man recover ed;1saped execution, lhe best of it is that he was never afterward profane. Had the wine merchant's memory; ued to ask old customers to bur of him. Mixed entities, you see. I hope you comprehend, Mis Ruth." Now it hapientd that Miss Ruth, having cautiously picked up the paper from the piazza floor, where it had fallen while Ralph lay asleep on the beach, had read the identical story: had also ascertained by the editorial note appended, that It wao doubtless a clever hoax, and that the great name of Yirchow, which gave plausibility to the story, had no right there. She was. therefore, entirely prepared for the onslaught I can comprehend, but can not approve." was the cool reply. "WonW it not be a great impertinence, could I help. Indeed, regarding it as a great wrong, if I, on departing from this present scene of action, were to be stopped on the threshold, turned back, and set to work again in a new organism? The immortal spark again imprisoned la Um dark hoo- oT tbe bdT. Cafc!BCT.ctaals, UffcttBir. Rre. to eke out some other person's individuality? Never will I countenance such a nefarious scheme never!' "But" said Ralph, "take another view. I have arrived, we will say. at the age of fifty. My brain, from severe study, and the heavy responsibilities of public life, is beginning to show slight symptoms of weakness. I call ia two skillful medical men, impecunious, but burning with scientific zeal. 1 acquaint them with my wishes. They have access te the hospital. A little management brings about the desired result I pass a few days in rcti.ement, with head bandaged, we will ey for neuralgia. I recover, and go out into the world, a man happily renewed and enriched by the presence of a young and healthy brain ia my cranium. I air good for another thirty years of distinguished useful-Hlc-d science!" But you should coaWer the victimized entity. Go back to my own ea. Think of the fine gray matter of my brain stolen to inform the sluggish protoplasm of aa indolent, eelfieh or merely fashionable woman. Think of the straggles of my poor brain to be certain whether 1 wa myself or the other woman. Imagine my part of the ego trying to assume entire control; would not the other woman, through habit, asociatioa or some tendency in the blood, be continually thwarting me? Sho might even wear Teaags! Coutd my brain do any worthy work er have aay c joy moat M ih-Ml beaiad

eoaM aver abet It" They talked gaily together till the mm shied aa arrow at thorn from wider tho lflwt braao of the groat maple, and Kuta rot to go. 'Pittas it a little longer, Kulfc. I have waited for days for a chaaoe to toll you route thing, aad ytw would not give it me. Will you. new?" I will liilon. ye a few minute." "I want to tell you how much I have learned and am learning frem you. You have given mo new eye. You nave trmatrfigured Nature for me, and made mo in love with her, aad. Kuta, you and Nature are so moea alike, that ia loving her. I have loarnod" "Indeed, indoed w must go home." "One minute. Kuth. Stay, do you kaew I sometimes think I almost believethat you have been, in a manner, deceiving me a little? Acting a kind of part; making me think you could never love aay thing but science. New, is it so?" A rosy flue swept over Ruth's' face, but she only hcbk her head and reached aero the gra for her sunhat "You are not kind, Ruth. You know what I want to say. Tell ma, am I right?" "I don't know, Ralph. If any one hae deceived you. I think it must have been the the other woman." She pulled de4penttly at the gra-Wades. but would not look up. , "Well. then, if I were to tell the other woman that I forgive her for fooling me. and ask her forgivene-v for having misunderstood her, tell her that I love her love her dearly, and ask for a little corner of her swt-et heart, I wonder it 'this wotnaa'S lips would answer me?''

It is supposed they did but for several minutes the voices were too low for the bird to overhear. Then louder: "Aad Kuth, you do care for people ia other ways than just as aggregates of molecules, doa't you?" "Oh. certainly. Those who art any thing else." "And you don't care for ultimate particle?" "No. But I dote oa the fourth dtmersion "4 Hush! And you've no faith in such absurd, unchristian .-tusl as roincamation?" "Well, really, 1" "At all events, if you return to thfe globe two times, or two hundred timet, you will be jit it the same Ruth that you are new." if I can." "And raarrv me every time." '() RalpV." The tea-table was laid on the cool piZ7a. as two unconiou-koking iau.viduals walked up and took their place with apologetic smiles. "Mother." said Ralph, when the meal was over and he had followed that busy matron about the hou-e hatil he could obtain private audience, mother, m? prejudices are gone, decomposed, dissolved, precipitated, taken up into new combinations. Ruth and I have agreed to climb the hill of icience together." I'm n:t surprised," the good lady replied, wiping her spectacles with aa air- of triumph. "I've been thinking for some time pat that the Glacial Period was about ended." Helen Bostwick Bird, in Woman's Journal. REMARKABLE OLD MEN. Am AtldKieft to thm risraampha raUisli-4, la the Itailjr I'sper. Jasper Sorethumb, of Jo Daviess County. III., will be one hundred and five years eld thirty years from next Fourth of July. He is still hale and hearty; and he sat cheerfully on a fence a few days ago while his wife chopped a cord of wood. Oid Jasper afterward said that be felt no fatigue whatever. One of the most prominent cases ef okl age ia the country is that of Deacon Ananias Whopper, of Macon, Ga. The deaeea claims to be one hundred aad twelve years of age. and he is so well preserved that he does not look a day over sixty. The deacon is also noted as a liar. Deacon Phinea? R- Shiaboae, known as the Sage of Green peas County, Ma., died last week at the ripe age of one hundred and thirty-seven years. The deacon was strong and healthy up to the hour of his death, which was caused by a buu Mr. Shin bone did not vote for ail the Presidents of the United States, and he never saw Washington; this i where he was particularly remarkable. Pomp" Cadwallader, aa eld negro in Tennessee, is probably the eldest man ia America. He says he gueeses he k "'most free hundred." While he does not look so old as that, h must le at least fifty-eight He was a body-servant to General Washington. Elder Bobea Snagg, of Salt Lake City, is one hundred and twenty-one years of age. He attributes his remarkable health aad advanced age to the incefaat use of whisky and tobacco. He is a very powerful man, and recently dug a well with his own hands. Why he did not use a shovel I not stated. Rev. Samuel Cotton (colored), pastor of the Bethel M. F Church. Rome, Ga., ia said to be one hundred and thirty years old. He is still hale and hearty, and recently wnlked to the nearest grocery, with his own hands, aad bought a quart of kerosene te aid in lighting the fire. His demise may be expected at any time. America. When the weather is mtWJ, strawberries often start, to grow toe early, aad a late frost injures the fruit One advantage ia ma letting k that this k prevented te a considerable a teat

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Ha's wssCy Uawe4 a the ef tae sky; Vs reaad tk aa as M use mmbtMM, As Xk'tk m t rata wsm um eawwe aefaa; HV lata as Um tkMlews that Mtew Um The aaiy rtcmaJ Harris bsmI Pma evary rfaa This thick MttiUUtduMW Harris acaal O. ksfs uueaer tasa ta tae keakwheat ms4 tlorr. He swarass like ase44teea to Jersey ; fc ate LUw the Mak cload t leeasU that swmbmmI Kwrptewar. 8 4eM that it 4rke4 the hfht ef Mm stries; O, he tesaes tot rreat dreras, like a bwtaM mHe aaasas dawn ia harass. Hke a wild eararaa, H Bosses from party aad test and aersM(a This aly rMal Harris aaaa I I a great ta4tM He aoods the whole NalteaThts Mly original Harris ataa! Aad h wats te ga up a4 aevera Alaska, Aad he waats to he MiaisMr down te i'eni, Aad a iu ta be Cost I ta wild Madagascar, Aad smc want the post-aMee in Kalamaao. X tact, h wanta 1 h spread oat like hwttfrr, AH avr the world, faa Msi to Japes, To he scattered 'roaad thick fraa Crk ta Calcutta This 0lr sriKiasi Harris bsmI He aats the wh4 piaaet To run It mmI asaa it Th thick malt Wdisew Harris naa! S. W. Koss. i Yaake Made. THE FOREIGN MISSIONS. The Cattstelhatleei f Kshadlea Appatatcdl by the (Sntadses ef Mis Grandfather. AH the charlatanism of the Republieaa party expressed itself In Garfield's choice of Robert T. Lincoln for Secretary of War. The persistence of that Idea was most notably proved by the retention of Lincoln in a subse quent Cabinet, whence all but he had fied. It was in keeping with this bo gus Republican spirit that Frederick Grant partner of Ferdinand Ward, was nominated for Secretary of State ia New York in 1867. Harrison's haste to send Grant to Austria-Hungary exhibited his faith ia Republican humbuggery. The mission to the court of St James is now given to Robert T. Lincola, a gentleman who. left to his own resources, would remain in an obscure station through life. Mr. Lincoln gee'to fill a place such as was Intrusted to the Adamses, Franklins and Jeffersons when the Republic was feeble. The idea must be that, in its might, this Nation needs a lower type of ability. Why Mr. Harrison should paas out side of politics to resurrect the son-of-bis-father idea as a joss for fools worship can also be explained with the argmcitHm ad hvmtHem. Mr. Harrison is himself the beneficiary of the son-of-his-father s propaganda. Democratic Republicans should not be thankful for such a step toward mon archy and aristocracy. The appointments of Editor Rice, of the North American Review, to Russia, and Patrick Egan to Chili are in the nature of wages due. Both these gentlemen damaged their own reputation for fairness aad intelligence in upholding the war tariff. The mission of Mr. Ha Is lead to Grmaay was not to be idly criticised. Mr. Halstead, once out of Ohio, becomes a t talesman. Doubtless he would have refiected honor on his country at least the Herald has no other thought Merit and service to his party award him a conspicuous place in our blue book. If he could net have shone alone when set ia such acenstellatioa of nobodies as now for the first time adorns our diplomatic heavens, he would have disappointed even those readers whom he has already disheartened by his overweening spirit of editorial partisanship. Chicago Herald. PRESIDENTIAL LOOT. Tll0 a h?jlt JnVRlV HaVsrt444 saVflMal tlnV HaK-StBr 6d Ktizwrd. It seems a peculiarity of Presidents of the house of Harrison that they attract ta the place where the spoils carcass is more of the buzzards called office-seekers than do Presidents of aay other family.- During fifty years from the orgaaization of the republic In 1789 the capital never witnessed aay thing like the countless hordes of the hungry aad the thirsty that swarmed there upon the accession of Harrison the First. Their numbers, their Importunities by day and by night, their incessant ravenous, hideous clamor for the loot and booty of public places and employments, drove the poor old man who held the appointing power to delirium and death in thirty days. Says a historian of his brief reign: Sometimes in his delirium he would say: 'My dear madam, I did not direct that your husband should be turned out. I did net know it I tried to prevent it' On another occasion he cried out in broken sentences: it is wrong! I won't consent! it is unjust! These applications will they never, never ease?' " Indeed, it is an accepted faet of history that the re?istleH assault of the army of olRee-beggers was the cause of the death of the first Harrison exactly oae month after his inauguration. The horde ot buzzards by which Harrison the Second is now environed exceeds la number, as well as in ravenouane, thoss that killed his ancestor. And It Is the openly expressed opinion of the Northern Senator from Illinois that they will drive this Harrison alM) to his death, unless he shall proceed at once to farm out the appointing power to the Senators "which ought to be ours by right!" says that Senator. Mr. Far well overlooks the faot that Harrison the Second is a much younger man than was Harrison the First, and the further fact that, being a graduate ef the peUtieal iihtti Indiana, 7m

tegh, sir! very tough!" There hi

not much danger, therefore, that the spoils-beggars will kill him; but the likeness ia other respects between the conditions fallowing the installa tion of the two Harrisons suggest seme occult aad mysterious relation ef the houe of Harrisoa te the Insatiable lust of the Presidential loot aad beotv. Chicago Globe. THE GERMAN MISSION. it- w 1 . -' ! ftka BrSarvBaBw w p MBJ varsai swsaresrwwai afaass' aWHnVel a4sBrt( Jfc8(S4i When Mr. Murat Halstead. of Cin cinnati, said some years ago that "the broad dad greasy hand of boodle" was on the five Republican Senators who recently voted to reject hisnomiaatioa as Minister to Germany, he expressed a patent truth ia inelegant language. The broad aad greasy hand of boodle is on them, aad not on them alone, hut on the entire Republican Senate and the whole Republican party. Mr. Halstead is not a consistent man. The fact that he stated this great truth , about the Senators of his own party shows that he has lucid intervals ia which he values truth more thaa con sistency. It is the Halstead of these lucid intervals for whom the Repubiie has a sincere regard. Ia one of them he told the truth about James G. Blaine in Cincinnati English not even surpassed ia force by the above sample of what Cincinnati English is at its best aad worst. He no more scrupled then to describe Blaine as a freebooter and huckster of public trust thaa he did to tell the truth about the Repub lican Senate. That he is now willing to take office under Blaine is as much a part of his personal weakness as the truth he was inconsistent enough to-tell was a part of his strength. It is true that only in paroxysmal moments is he inconsistent enough to tell such truth, but it must be remembered that his nature is paroxysmal ia nearly every thing. Y here there is no question of pubile policy at stake, we do not believe ia political revenges, aad we think it peculiarly unfortunate that Mr. Halstead should have beea made the vitira of the truth he told. He has not had such spasms too often to have them fixed on him as a habit He needed encouragement rather than rebuke. ilie language was that of Cincinnati, but it was truthful It was the broad and greasy hand of boodle that filled the Senate with Republican moneysacks; that bought New York aad Iadiana; that put Harrison la the Presidency, Blaine. Windom, Proctor and Wanamaker in the Cabinet, aad that is now controlling the Government of the United Slates against the majority ef the people. Since Mr. Halstead put away the Bloody Shirt we have forgiven htm. New we thank him. He can not have such paroxysms too often. St. Louis Republic POLITICAL COMMENTS. The end of sectionalism will be the beginning of tariff reform. X. Y. World. Congressmen are elected te make laws not te serve oa patronage boards or to act as boeses of their districts by permksion of the President St Louis Republic. The choice of such a perse as Mr. Allan Thorndike lAce to take the place so admirably filled by Mr. Loth rop at St Petersburg belittles the government that makes It Bo tea Post Memorandum from Murat Halstead's diary under date of March 2-3, 189: "'lhe United States Senator k a vindictive animal, urea care h necessary In stirring him up." Chicago Herald. Lost, stolen or strayed, a war - herse. Answers to the name of Foraksr. Information only wanted. The person finding him eaa keep him. as his former masters have no further use for him. Chicago Times. Halstead doesa't go to Germany as Minister. Here k a chance far (Lea, BisMae. Haj, OaifteM. Chicago Timea. "Offensive partisanship" k net a good reason in Postmaster-General nanamaker s opinion for the removal of a postmaster, so Mr. Clarksea bounces the Democrats for per a ideas activity ia polities. St Louis PestDispatch. Organization for the reduction of wages should not be tolerated under a prosperous, high tariff adminktration. A proclamation from President Harrison on the subject might do much good now in Pennsylvania. Louisville Courier-Journal. The oAce-seekers should step nslde for a few minutes and permit President Harrison to operate protection so as to "fill the dinner-psik" ef the tens ef thousands of iron-work era and woolen operatives who have re cently had their wages reduced by highly protected" manufacturers. Buffalo Courier. 'lite popular movement against trusts has behind it a feeling of injury and a belief that the business distress among manufacturers and the depression that has overtaken commercial and agricultural operations are largely due te inequalities and disabilities inherent in our present revenue system. Philadelphia Record. It is estimated that the "aggregate wealth of the Cabinet" k net above fS.OOO.OOO. The reader should be ear etui not to mistake the word wallh as signifying value.. However great the agfRpgate wealth ef the plutocratic Cabinet may be, its aggregate value to the count ry pre ikes It be vsrv smalL CUeace Qfsee