Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 32, Number 1, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 September 1889 — Page 7

WEEKLY COURIER.

C, XK5AXJS. Jutlilir. JASPER. " INDIANA. REUBEN SARABBAS. H(mty )Mr tt.," M'd Reuben te my hud. To ante yuur honor! 'TU not wash M pay, I'd wk 'i "lr O'ty il 1 eoutd; jjut mousy' acsrcu. mhI life's lottery, And your old fntfcer mny outlive M sou. Yu ean' t aord HI Welt mi aw emu I Afford to run the rlh an lower trm; And If ymt etm't, y m't;4 so wood-bye." Hy lord looked ansry, but w yeua nxl'm. And Hur4 on bis and bit I p. And launched at Keubea words of bate Md acorn With fearful wean lues. It be sinned the bill, Aid loK Uie hard-woe sail tf md) ; Uard-wee, btllhUy patted with Ih UkU and ilay. And Jeweler' Md milliners' wwU Ker th AbfMMla of the pl htur That beil hi tocy nad ! pun in thrall. Till hi Mind eu-tl or hers, likely Hill. Is favor of some iK wer ffol than he. "That Biht, in bed. Iiarahba bad a dream, lUlf-waktmr and taalf.olwplng, a h tossed la feverish rtlesai,, after a least Too gross and heavy lor hi body' health. And dr;iiihl too tuatiyof the hjwrKliHK wine That fraudulent traders sell tor euve ClliiiJot Deaaant to but poisonous to ounn. U unut.eeai brain was ailed with thoughts That haunted It by nnjrht an well m day: Of gold that ht had elutebed, auU bills as That h kat straightened out, and piled in bar. T rtma into xeine fa their t!nw. Ad piaeed bones U his pillow era b slept. He dreamed he labored In tb mines of hell, Xskod and feeble, with a golden crown Firm fixed uimm h s bald and shiny skull. With we:tht insufferable; vainly he frlrore To cant It from him in the njfony That burned into hfo- brain, right through the bone. Fixed to his ankle by a golden chain He trailed a gulden ball, us round and hues As the death-dealing bombs that iron s-hiirt lklcli from tbelr oideroui and Kiantic jaws To battle hostllu HvcU and armatoeut. And mow down men at tuower mow th corn. This tt tlrw alter him at every step. Goaded by frantic Hrnd with golden prod Down to l he Internal evrlatlng mlns, To wil(l the plch-axo on the stuhoora rock; Scourged if he stoind a moment la his toil, Jly grlhnhiK devltii, eKrand alert. Fair murmuring streams of limpid watr raB Trickling lesule him; bat whene'er he MOpW?l, A oft ho did, to gulp the cooling draught. The trecbron liquor thlkenrd Into void. Grapes in ripe clusters, or what seemed like IIbbk, rvd and white, from overbaiMClftC vines-. And when be plucked them to refresh his moeih. And Mre them to hi palpitating lips, Some dertltoh tricic would Uanlen them to Bold. The mocking Sends that followd at hl heels Stabbed htm with golden dagger sharp as Rtcel Until the bleed drops trickled to his feet As hard a hail in hyprhorea tori4t Hauling like pebbles on the buraiaK ground. lie yelled for mercy. Hut the insatfate flends Lashed him tha harder tm his rjuivennir loins. Then they cried ' Halt ."' and threw him horcely down, Back'broiien, m the hard and scorch I nir marl. And harnseed him, hs If he were a mule. With golden chain, and yoked htm to a wain Cumbrous and huge, high ilJ with graaite rocks. Through which the infernal nujtcets peeped and shone la the full radiance that iihimtaed hell, Aad made htm drag il. Hut his limbs torbade. Until a storm of Mows came pourins; down On his nude shoulder and hie sinewy' lows. And goaded him t action. It endured lint far one hideous moment, till he fell Unconscious and exhausted. When he weke, With shr ek of pain, he found himself atire Upon the earth which he had done his best To turn lato a hell for other men. When sense returned he raised himself la bed And took one long, long pulp of water pure That tood beside the eouch, and thought the draught ; Was worth more geld than usury ever scraped Out ( the pockets of despairing feoli Since cruel usury became a trade. narahbas still has chambers near Pall Mall, And earries on a briskly as before His profitable business. Clients come, la tempest of their need and recklessness. To clamor for his brief and perilous aid, Fnr sake of pleasure la the passing day, Itooieht by the woe and wail of future years. Sixty per cent, is still his minimum: Ai for his maximum, why, that's as wide As the vast oceans aad his vaster greed Hat fate Just, and dally makes htm feel, Acutely as he fell It in his dream, That gold Is not tha eh ef of earthly good; That health and strength, and wholesome nppettte. And sound refreshing sleep and human lore Are worth tar more in honest poverty Than all the treasure mother earth conceals In her van bosom. Sleep deserts his bed, And food distresses h in. Kheu malic pungs Torture his bones, and natural forces, fail To do the commonest behests ef life. Sixty percent.! Alas! If five per cent. Of all the common blessings of mankind Who labor honestly for daily bread Could be his portion, het be rich indeed. Fate hath her methods with the evildoers: With her right hand she pours them out the win?. Hut with her left puts poison In the cup. Or from her seeming favorites takes away Mote than she gives. This truth liarahbas feels, The rich liarabbat, envied of the poor; And will not cease to feel it until death Kindly dismisses him, without his gold. To the oblivion of the living tomb Aad the Futurity that lies beyond. Leaden World. 'THE HOUSE OF FERINE. . Little Child Set la the Midst or Them. That spring day dawned as calmly upon Uurnslde as all other days, giving' no warning of tho 8tir that it was to bring; and astir was hold in a horror of disgust by the entire household -at Burnslde. That each day should follow all other days in an unvaried regularity this was living; any thins elw wa a mere scramble for existence. And if there were any conipsnaatlons in the lives of those who thus scrambled, the three Misoa I'erlBe and their bachelor brother, Mr. Middleton 1'erlno, did not know IL "We may congratulate ourselves upon living- in the country the vear round," remarked Miss Gertrude, the kettd of the house of Terlnej "I am sure I feel sorry for the people who are beginning now to hunt for summer Warding placse. Jut thlak, gmte:

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ehlldre." "11 would hoi be fUuMufrt fU lew-traartlera. to m mirei," rctpllwd JUa Tatty, who, being the ymmgml of the three obi maUl. gave herself frivolotw airs', "but ae for the dear little chicle in blue sabes, I wish I was hotvrdlug ia a houseful.' This ehildishBess was leniently overlooked in Tatty; what discretion could one expect at forty! Mr. Teriae stepped iato hie shiain? drag at precisely nine o'clock. lie was never a quarter of a minute out of the way, and women along the road mH their eottago clock- by hw appearance. He drove the two miis to his city oMce la exactly seventeen minute, as he had done for twentylive years. The ladies Terine betook themselves to their several feminine occupations, for they wcr industrious women, in a way. and quiet reigned in the hall and parlor. The fow flies that had braved an entrance through the shaded window felt lonely and subdued, and meekly promenaded the ceiling, with no thought of buzzing. The sound of wheels on the graveled drive about noon brought three heads instantly to the oriel window of the upier hall, and two woolly ones "appeared at the hide torch. "Who in the world is coming to see us in a ha&!" exclaimed Miss Louisa, in disgust. "And Mich a hack!" "Kxtraordinary! cried Mi Gertrude, "there ! a trunk, and the wretch is throwing it on my grass a if it were a dirt road. Here, you fellow, there is some mistake; that trunk doe not belong here, especially on the grasi here, listen." Hut the slotichy hack-driver had evidently gotten his fare, and paid no attention to the shrill, unintelligible voice. "Sarrent. miatis;" the old gray--, headed butler showed signs of excitement about the "whites of his eye; "dar U a young pusson in d parlor, inarm. I uieks bole to spose she axes yo' comp'ny," is it a lady, .Tames?" "Well now, misti. she ntottght be a lady, by de look of her, and den agen she mouehta'L" 'Did she give her name?" i-ord love yer, mistis." cried the old domestic, forgetting his decorum. "de no thing cough so she ain't got bref to say nuttia; 'pear like she gwiue faint away fo she could get any word outen her motif, and I tink I bos come and let on 'bout her." Hefore the words were fairly uttered, Miss Tatty was at the parlor door. The jHMir young woman had indeed fainted; the stained handkerchief, the red line on her lip and her ghastly pallor telling the pitiful story. Seated on the rug at her feet was a sturdy, three-year-old boy, in shortskirts and bare legs. He was fearlessly investigating the eyes and teeth of the leopard's head, and evidently had no consciousness of any thing- unusual in his companion's condition. Terhaps, alas! it wa a sight familiar to him. All was confusion and terror in the usually still house. These old maids had never been sick in all their well-regulated lives, and, except for a sort of womanly instinct, had little conception of what ought to be done. A bed, a spoonful of brandy, a cool spray in her face, a doctor and presently the sunken dark eyes opened, but there was not strength for a single word of explanation, and before sundown another hemorrhage carried oft the feeble life that had so saddenly and strangely come into the llurnside household that morning. Tho child was too young to tell any thing except that his name was "Wim." He prattled of too-too cars, bridge?, of Mamma sick, of itter h'ack doggio at our' s home, of tantiy in 'e tunk, and such objects of baby intsrest. Fortunately he did not pine long for his young mother, hidden forever from his sight in a hasty, unwept grave. Doubtless she had been too feeble to give the child much attention, and he seemed quite able to bear the burden of his own existence, finding vivid Mituwment in every thing around him. There was not the faintest clew to the identity of the dead woman. In her pocket was not even a ptir.e, only a coarse unmarked handkerchief. The shabby little trunk was almost empty, except for a few suits of neatly-made clothes for the boy and a few carefully darned articles of female underclothing, not a letter, aot a book, not a scrap of paper anywhere. "We will keep the child, brother," said "Miss Terine. "until you ak advlco of some experienced person as to where te place him." "Yos," assented Mr. Mlddleton Terine, laughing uncontrollably over Wira's persie-tent efforts to sit on the smooth convexity of the leather sofa. Hut, as far as any body knew, Mr. Torino never made a single inquiry of the aforesaid experienced person. The very day after ho came to Humside Wim climbed up. at the risk of all his bones, into the drag, possessed himself of the reins, and gravely announced: "Me dwive 'ou, me big boy," and from this time forth, except when his smnll humanity was overtaken by measles, or chicken pox, or some of thoee infantile jailors, not a day passed that small William, as his baby name cnine to be translated, did not go into town with the old lawyer, coming back with tha careful coachman. There was never a word said amongst the sisters about parting with the child. They even ceased to speculate about his relations, secretly hoping that there were nose. I a aot sure but that they avoided reading the

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mr Stole. " la Whm'g tantrum, and he had now mad the violent teatram, he was turned over to Mis IMthot, who was uteady in voioe and manner, and who. the little fellow soon learned, was usater of the situation. Mim (rtrode undertook to feed aad clothe him, and did both parts se well that his rosy cheeks alootl out for fatness, and he was likely to outgrow more clothes than he could wear out. Hot Miss Tatty was his playfellow, and Mr. Terine hU especial chum and confidant. And ah! how strangely the Staid, bomber, unsociable old house wns changed. Tets of various sorts avwuMulated in yard and stable. Kvery member of the household resigned some cherished prejudice for the sake of this little stranger, who o quickly learned to say Mour's house, me horsle, Wim' Auntie Trude an' Iu and Tat" Oa a warm day, later in the season, one of the few visitors that ever sought the society ot the iturnside ladies might have been seen turning into the great lawn in a comfortable, old time roek-a-way. One, did I say? There vere two, as far as a man and his wife can be counted two people. It wa the pastor of the little village Tresbyterian church which the TeKne family attended, to which they contributed with genteel liberality, but with whose members they did not affiliate in the slightest degree. S'Xow. Kuth." said Tastor Mott, who had recently changed his widowerhood's gravity for the i-heerful bearing of a bridegroom, "this visit is one of the trials of your lot, to be endured bravely, but fortunately not to be soon nor often repeated. These queer jteople will invite you into a dull, quiet house, hand you a glass of wine and a homeopathic bit of cake, talk to you in gentle, patronising voices about their family of past generations, but they will not show any interest in you, or me. or our work, or our neighbors. You will come back into the sunshine feeling- as it you had paid a visit to some old family vault." The new wife twisted up her sweet face into, a wry expression, as one does w'hen swallowing a spoonful of bitten stuff, but hastily smoothed it out asain as a sudden curve in the carriage road brought them up to the front porch. "My huebaad must be absent-mind' ed." said the new Mrs. Mott to her self; -"this is not the family he has been describing to me." tot the whole household wns out on the front porch. Wim had turned one of the carved oak chairs down on its arms, and wns sitting astride its venerable back, though the short fat legs could not quite make out to turn the cor ners. "Tat" was kneeling in front of him plaving horsie. her long, heavy niaits of hair serving for reins. Miss Louisa wa pretending to read, and Miss Gertrude was knitting a brightly striped little sock, but all three ladies were enjoying- the fame fully as much as the young driver. In some confusion the chairs were righted. Miss Tatty's braids hastily knotted up. and small William sent outto James, who was watering flowerbeds on the lawn. Of course, the story of the child was told and listened to with deep interest by the visitors. "Oh, I'm so glad the poor thing- got here before she died," cried tenderhearted Mrs. Mott "Do you think she knew how good you were going to be to her children when she wai gone? "She knew how kind they were to her, Ruth, said the pastor, gently. "You do not think we are doing wrong to keep the darling? asked Miss Tatty, eagerly. "Wrong?" said the preacher; I do not think any thing- about it; 1 know that inasmuch as you have done It unto one of the least of these, you are fol lowing your Master s commands." There was a little silence, ar.d then Miss Gertrude said, rather huskily: Of course Hrother Middieton put a notice in the city papers, but we were ure from the little fellow's talk that they had come a great way, and there wns every evidence that the poor young woman was in a very friendless condi tion." Then followed eager talk upon a wide range of subjects connectetl with babyhood, boyhood and young manhood, until Miss Tatty cried with a merry laugh: "Well, 1 don't think we need set our baby's wedding day yet!" "Our baby" had been monarch of all he- surveyed at Hurnside for ten years, when one day a faded, griataled, unhappy-looking woman, feeble with disease, came to the house and asked to see Miss Gertrude. Hurnside was very unlike the secluded, inhospitable place which was first introduced to tho reader. That lively, wide-awake. hail-fellow, well-met individual whe still called himself Wim. but who now had a right by act of legislature to the title;1 William Thorn well Terine, had gradually brought Hurnside and all its inhabitants into fraternal relations with the whole neighborhood, high and low. This very woman, Sally lllce, was one of his village acquaintances, through her cake and candy shop, and so was known to Miss Gertrude. "WelJ. Sally," said the lady in the gently-cheerful tone one always uses to a hopeess invalid, "hew are you feeling to-day? Did my beef tea, set you up any?" To Miss Gertrude's surprise, the woman burst into tears. "If yer knowed what a mlsaWe sinner I am, Miss T'rlne," she Bobbed, "yer woalda't take nocouat of me." And nfler a little soothing, Sally told her story: Yer know, MIh F riser fee teat

for me te lay our tint dead woman, what eante upon you so suddeaL Well, you saw me turn her pocket inside out, and 'twaat nothia' there, but when I come to strip her, I finds a pus fastened in her bossom. It had tea dollars in It, an' a letter." "A letter," ganed Miss Gertrude, turning faint "J was orful hard pressed them days, Miss T rine, and the deril whispered to me I could jes' borrow that money of the dead woman, and nobody be hurt; but oh, you don't know how't has brought me down since," Sally began to weep again, i 'low it has cost me my soul. I have slaved day and night to make it up, so I eould confess my sin and get yer to pray fer me, hut I's never been any less hard pressed than I was that day. It's a' most too late now I'm feared." She counted out the money with feverish haste, as if it burnt her linger. Ten years before. Miss Gertrude would hare sent her to a preacher for spiritual comfort, as being none of her concern, but great depths had been stirred in the old maid's heart since then. Gently, as one might speak to a foolish, frightened child, Miss Gertrude showed poor Sally where pardon was to be found, and after a long vi-lt, the woman went away comforted, leaving the ten dollars aud the letter. Oh! how Miss Gertrude dreaded the letter. She folt1unablo to open it herself, and thankfully recognized Tastor Mott's now familiar voice in the hall below. He would open the letter and counsel and guide them. Hut the letter held no sting; on tho contrary, it proved the respectable parentage of their boy, without taking any rights from them. It was from an old acquaintance in the West, and dated ten years back. Tho bearer, it said, was a poor young widow of good character, whose failing health made it impossible for her any longer to support herself. She was going back to her brother, who would be kind to her if she could find him, but she had not heard from him for years. "I give her this letter to you," wrote Mis3 Gertrude's friend, "begging you to place her, in some charitable institution, at least until I can hear from her, in case she fails to find her brother. She is alono in the world except for this brether." The pastor iinished reading and wiped his glasses. "To think," said one of the sisters, "that we should be rinding out, after all these years, how our boy came to us." "I knew all along," said the pastor, significantly. "You knew!" the sisters cried together. "Not about poor Sally's letter," he replied; "I only knew this: 'And He took a little child and set him in the midst of them.' "Elizabeth T. Allan, ia Interior. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

They Form a Completely United llody, KnterprtslHjc and Harmonious. No State of the Union is a nation, though several States exceed European nations both in sine and population, the State of New York, for example, being both larger and more populous than the whole of Switzerland; and no Stato represents a historical nationality. Hence the experience of America, it may be observed, throws no light on the possi btllty of using "federalism and local autonomy as convenient methods cither for recognizing and giving free scepe to the sentiment of nationality which may exist in any part of an empire, or for meeting the need for local institutions and distinct legislation which may arise from differences betweeen such a part and the rest of the empire." The States, looked at as a whole, make up the United States, but the United Statos arc nothing but the political form into which circumstances havo molded tho constitution of a single nation. The Americans are as inucu one people as the French or tlie Italians; they form a more completely united uotiy than do tho inhabitants of tho United Kingdom. The men you meet at New York differ less from tho men you meet at Chicago than Londoners' from the oitlzonsof Ldinburghor than both from the citizens of Cork. The difference, indeed, between whites and blacks is of course fundamental, but the aim of tho nogro is to imitate to the best of his power the ordinary American eithen, and there does not exist at present, and, as far as one dare prophesy any thing, there ia not much likelihood thcro will exist in the Union any thing like negro national ity. Moan while and this is of pri mary importance the division into States does not correspond with differences of religious croed. An En glishman who goes from London to Edinburgh enters Into a new moral at mosphere, n ho can pass a month in Scotland without hearing of the differences which divide the Freo Church from the Establishment? What sano man living in England cares to recall these subjects of division? The Ro man Catholic citizen of Tioino is a different man from the German Ro man Catholic of Lucerne; each differs from the German Trotostant of Berne or the French Trotostant of Geneva. A citizen of the United Statos is an American; ha is not a Californlan or a New Yorker. Edinburgh Review. Tarsnltw, and vegetable oysters. for winter use, should be packed in damp sand or earth in the cellar; tnose for use in the spring should re main in the ground, as freezing does not injure them, but rather improves iMeir aavor.

A FARMER'S ARGUMENT.

What Ke Mm p any About IiiIhwWm mt Use Mlt Tart. Farmer Smalley, of Caledonia, Minn, writes in a recent letter to the JS'ew York K vetting Tost as follows; Sir: Hetsey an' I hev been to town to-day. Mister Editor, t' get a load of bind in' twine for my harvest and sugar for her presarvln', an', as Susaa that's our oldest girl that's to hum is goin' to be married this fall after huskln', the old lady insists on the house beln' painted ag'in, an' so I bought a lot o' paint; the gracious knows, I don't see how we oatt afford it. While in town, our editor he's a tariff reformer, an' has got me to be a sight more ot one than 1 was when I quit the fact'ry down in Connecticut an' came West to farmln' he give me a copy of your paper, an' I have been readin' since 1 got hum those letters from farmers from everywhere. It's pow'ful refreshin', as passon says, to see how many other farmers all over this big land o' ourn is gettin' the fact into their heads that down under all these things that troublous farmers so, as the cause of them all, lies that dodrotted (sense the cussin' but I'm .gettin' mad) pertected tariff. We've been allowin' that the reason why we had so little money in our pockets when every thin' was paid for was because the railroads robbed us, an' because the Government didn't print money enough, an' because the elnvator men beat us on grades and weight, an' because some one they call "Hig Four" down to Shecawgo scat meat ready dressed to our cities, an' all that. An' we've been runnin' the Legislatures, an' passln' all sorts of lawa that some feller that wanted to go to the Legislature said would just fix the thing all right. An' so, fur from gettin' better, 's fer as I can see, it's getting worse. You see, us farmers don't spend much time cipherin' on such matters. The war, with its big prices, sent us along a boomin', an' since the bottom dropped out we've had just all we could do to keep our heads out of water, an' while wo felt that somethin' was out o' kiltor, we couldn't spend time to study it out for ourselves. It is as clear as day to me. an' I jedge from tho letters that it is getting a heap clearer to lots of others, that we won't get any help that will do us any lastln' good until we can buy just egsaotly as we sell, under a compertltion as wide as the World. Hut I didn't start in fur to tell you what you know a sight better than 1 can tell it, but to tell you about our 6hoppin' to-day, an' what a dose of this pertective I got. I s'pose you've hearn tell of the twine trust, hevn't you, Mr. Editor? Well, the difference 'twixt you an1 me is that 1 ve hearn of it and felt it felt it in my pockot, sir an' that's beln' teched that way so often nowadays that it is gettin' mighty sensitive. Two years ago I paid fourteen cents a pound for the best manila twine. That was be fore the farmers had said that they didn't want free twine, and before these pesky trusts had got to be such private affairs that what they did wasn't any concern of yours or mine or tho Frssident s, you know. To-day I paid eighteen cents a pound for just the same kind of twine. I saw a letter from the secretary of this trust in which he said that the raw material had riz. Wages isn't raw material, is they? Well, on to-day's deal that little rise of the twine trust jest lifted 6 out o my pocket slick an' clean. Then, only last year, when Betsy wanted to put up her preserves, we got fourteen pounds of sugar for $1. This year the sugar trust have run it up or down so we get nine pounds for (1. That made jest twenty-five pounds loss sugar for a five-dollar bill, you see, and at last year's prices that is $1.78 more than I have "trusted." Then, on the paint an' oil, as near as I can rigger it out, tho white-lead trust and the llnseod-oll trust borrowed a couple dollars more to be paid back to me In a home market, posserbly. It all makes 9.78 taken jest for nothin'. Now, let' what that means from my point My cows average me a pound ot butter a day, an' I'm gettin' a shilling a pound for it It will take one cow seventy-eight days to earn what there trusts took out of me, to say nothin' of the feed and work; or they've come and taken a two-hundred-and-fifty-pound pig out of my pen, or they've took an acre of good corn, or they've taken all the profit there is in an acre of my winter wheat, leavin' me the cost about paid. Now, when this sort of thing is goin' on all round the ring, is it any wonder that all farmers feel that somethin' Is hurtin' them mighty bad, and that some of us, who can see what it is, get so all-fired mad? Ther was a feller onct down In your city who imperdently asked folks: "What are you goin' to do about it?" when they hinted that he was a-stealin1 too much, an' the trusts are stick in' their thumbs In their arm-holes and oockln' their eyes at ua an' askln' us the same question. Well, Tweed found his answer, and they'll find theirs. Meantime we can only growl and save A little harder. Having, by means of his""puppet convention, nominated himself for Governor, Mahone now proposes to elect himself by appealing to the prejudices of the negroes, and by using the Government patronage. This is Mahoneism and the "Old Dominion" is threatened now with a domination such as it has never before known. It has been chastised with whips, but should Mahone prevail it will be chastised with scorpions. The white people of the State will see to It tfcat no suoh disaster falls upon thejai. Ckleae Herald,

TANNER'! ESTIMATES.

sVflr4Pet VemjjfMff0 TsMst WSrtl 6WRAfHR4 0 Orlevoue Ineesussu of TWmIUhi. Tanner, the Tension CosMmlssi otter. has a fatal facility in the use of hit tongue. He can not bridle that unruly member. It attacks both friend aad foe. Now he is in a quarrel with a Democratic editor, who retorts that he must himself follow the advise he has given his staff, and never flirt with fool nor fight with a cripple. Agale he is engaged in controversy with a Republican Congressman, and to think himself rhetorically picturesque in saying that his impression oi hitn is that if his brains were blown through a crane's bill into a mosquito's eye the mosquito would never wink. The Congressman propoeee te inquire of the Administration whether the Commissioner is free to go up aad down the Union making- misehief la loyal Republican districts. Tanner s magnifying of himself and his ottice is a conspicuous foible. lis Is but a bureau officer, who hae an more right to exploit himself than any other of a dozen suoh officers. He sees only himself. The Secretary of the Interior is nobody. Tha President is important only as he adopts the Tanner idea ot pensions. "Hut, say," he exclaimed to a reporter at Elmira, wait till you see my estimate for next year. I am debating whether my report shall ask for $110,000,000 or. 1115,000,000. Won't there be damning all along the line whnn those fellows see an increase of d0,O00, 000 askod for?" What the needs of the meritorious veterans demand the generosity of the Nation will accord. Hut there will be. as there ought to bo, decided impstience with demands urged in the in solent fashion which Tan tier flippantly adopts. The war closed in 1865. It might reasonably be supposed that every really meritorious claim for pension was adjudicated within four years thereafter, in leoy the votat number of pensioners was 198,63, and the annual disbursement in their be halt was some $28,000,000. In 1868, notwithstanding the casualties occurring duriug twenty years, deaths, remarriages, the attainment of majority by minor children, etc., the number of pensioners increased from 200,000, in round numlxjrs. to 450,000,; and the disbursements from $S3,O00, 000 to $60,000,000. The arrears act of 1879, with its monstrous invitations te perjury, is responsible for this colossal increase. Mr. Tanner, the great surplus destroyer, now propoeee to ask for $30,000,000 more; that is; more than as much again as waa paidj in 1869. Ther is a screw loose somewhere. The union of the claim agent, the demagogue and the mercenary is too much for the integrity of the Treasury. Mr. Tanner fkneies he has at his buck the entire Grand Army, butii this wero so it would furnish no excuse for a wholesale raid upon the National resources. Open the door at Tanner would open it and ne limit whatever can be put on claim-agent rapacity. Instead of $30,000,000 the demand before the close of the Harrison Administration would he fer twice that sum, and this, coupled with the other free expenditure contestplated, would compel a grievous la oreaee of taxation. Chioago Times. CURRENT COMMENTS, Under the fiussey decision one should propose a revolutionary pension for the heirs of Beaedlet Arnold, if there are any. Albany Argue. Observing people are remarking that President Harrison has yet to take the first step in the direction of ex tending the reform of the civil serviee. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The race between Tanner and H us soy as to which shall outdo the other in wasting public money is oae of the most disgraceful spectacles ever witnessed in our Government N. Y. Star. The high tariff gluts the "hems market," and, therefore, unless trusts are formed profits must dwindle. Breathes there an American voter toe stupid to understand so plain a mat terr Courier-Journal. The Republican party has done many things which call for comment. In matters of policy we have had fre quent occasion to oppose it It was. however, honest in its belief, ai we have been honest in oars. But to place the name of a dishonorably discharged soldier next to that of a vet eran who did his whole duty, and to support him for life in spite of his crime that is an act on which a difference of opinion would impossible. N. Y. Herald. Protection Ethically Considered. Of course, the effect of protection upon the morals of the protected must in the end be very bed. It has a tendency to make them cowardly, treacherous and grasping. The fear of meeting outsiders in friendly competition; the temptation to make poor goods when poor goods can be sold for an unjustly high price; the business of seizing as legitimate prey the labor of others and turning that labor to one's own usee must, sooner or later, have a bad effect oa the individual and the community at large. A man can not thrive at the expense of other men, whether those men are hie near neighbors or are living at the antipodes, without being hardened ia hit sensibilities and becoming to a eertain extent inhuman. The effect of protection upon the moral welfare of the protected is bad; its effect upea their material welfare is eventually rula ou. Huntington Smith, la Feffula SeUaee Monthly.