Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 40, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 June 1893 — Page 7

WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOANTiJ, PuhHwher, JASPKIt. INDIANA. THE EVENING ROAD. "SubluMrl noctis In umbra." ncforc me, In the waning UgM, The I'.vcnlun Komi lay mriiljjht and white, MuttleU lu nummer dust. The nursing trees roio left unit rlffht l Ulaclt billows In the gathering night, And whltqicrctt thu light gu.it. , As the wheel drove with rapid gyrs I saw ujkmi the whirling tire A phosphorescent gleam; At thu tenth ruund, I Haw explro Tlio Ilrt-lly'M little park of tire, ' Thu night could not redeem. 1 aw, upon a na1ed mound Where forest lire had swept the ground, A tree hare und none; Tonslug his mightiest arms around, lie Mood like dome old king (Uncrowned ' AnU driven from his throne I saw, ngalntt the lmuutcd sky, A small, belated bird dart by. Far straying from the nest, Idle In pursuit, with ruven-cry, . Night-favored wings dirt swiftly tljr, Ami ever closoller pressed. I saw (denerted long ago) A cot with crannied roof unk low And floors that Htood jr; Deyond, like ghostly taper'n glow,. Those rifted chambers searching alow, I naw the evening star. I saw but all I saw without Still Imaged forth the Inner doubt, The dread, the restless goad The griefs, that Ina hovering rout Compass that lonely soul ittxint. Who takes The Evening Koad. IMith M. Thoaras, In N. V. Independent A SUMMER VACATION. How Tom Won a Mountain for His Wlfo. Ijass We were trying to decide where wo would spend our summer vacation, Tom Sanderson anil I. Tom first suggested Cumberland, and, after I had offered several pertinent reasons why Cumberland would not suit, he tentatively mentioned Asheville, X. C, as u good place. 1 told him about the crowds' there, thu steep rates and a host of other things, and he gave up Asheville. After proposing every summer resort known to the rallroadagents and Unding that not onu of them suited our ideas, Tom finally said he guessed the only solution of the question would be to go to the east Tennesson resort where we had passed the previous summer. I positively refused to entertain the suggestion. I pointed out to him how mercilessly we were bored the year before. There was a sameness, a dullness, a stiffness, a barrenness about the nlaeo that was conducive to ennui. Each day the same dull programme of the dav previous, had tobegoncliirougn with. We were expected to say tender things to the same uninteresting frmnWi ivtrv llav in the week, and to conteud with the ambitious mammas

of these very conventional young ladies. i came with aim I mean Sim KulgeAnil we were romiired to be eternally iv " she said. half upologctically, "and

on dress parade and good behavior. Tim nlnnn tanked the freedom and unconventionality that ideal summer resort, this, and added: belonged to my I told Tom all "I have an ideal We'll go to north Georgia for six weeks. I know an old fellew way up in the mountains whom T nit in the United States court last fall, He got pretty chummy with me and asked me to come up and see him some time and he would treat me like a lord. That's the place for rest and freedom. It has the charm of novelty wo both Hl; novelty and originality, and we can have all the fun we want climbing up the mountains and fishing in the mountain streams; ami then, Tom, you can make love to some buxom mountain lass and come away just when the climax is ready to come in and break her little heart. Ain't that the I.t.,.1 ,.t i .,.i,.i. . fun rnr nftpr'.' Kh".'" t.,. . t ,. ., i,, (i!,.i.,...UH .fv .nnnnt,.!.. irirl won Tom. 1M...4V. M .nL- Tm,,t llirtino-. Anv.A in nM.fictfi4iwirtiHKiiffiT(stion, and said that he hud always waut1 oniKirtunltv to study the moon n:ti iir n.i in t v..iv"vin" -"j -"npishiners and the quaintly romantic sec tion of tho state which they inhabited. iliv... weeks later a Richmond it iDanville northlxmnd passenger train -,., .lmvti tun dustv vonnir mule trav elers at a very remote and wooded littlo mountain station, and snorted off amini i.w. iiii.m livmlni ntriiinst L,Z .m-,5,r t their new IIIVII IW" H ...... I, o eiivmiiiiui'iii.-). nM ii was i Olli unu i, - ' t II dlseouraired. although only one ntnrn. t.wn res ideices. a blacksmith shop, " i.i.- ..inn- l.nv.va guuioune, n ? ", . . .1 m.. ..lire itiii a half score of human Poings wcru visible. There was an abunilance 01 uinu Menne, of the trreen most picturesque background mountain tops t couldn't repress an light at the ruggc scenery I infill Ired for mv friend, Mr. Zach riab Hester, and was told that he lived two miles west ot tne siaiion. we hived that niglit with the storekeeper and resumed our jurm;. 'j .f. mnrninir. Mr. Hester received us -with unfeigned joy and ensconced us in Ilia verv best room in ms mountain mnnuimi nt four rOOtnS. Mf8. JtCSter bn tho rcnository of many wonderful stories, and she regaled us to the hour with the recital of her Toy reminiscences. Two eventful and rather discourag tiaKt,.,i dnriiiff whhjh Tom's utitlmiAtn oozed awav distressingly, The first dav wo BDcnt in decorating lour room, and the next in an eighteenitnile walk to Crow's Foot mountain, from which 'excursion wo returned sore o.i u..,i !,, wUnr men. loin was in. rii, . . ... w - ,p1ini-lv- illti. nnninted. "It's a big fake this mountain m--, b said, wearily; "Just to faucy, we've sen here two whole days and haven t he "bee seen m a girl yet. You prescribed mounn and mountain maid for me. Cnn't tal you fill your prescription?"

our stay ronndedup with a mountain dunce at Haunt's Ueud, to And from yvhich we were piloted by the cordial but not prepossessing Mr.Haiik Hester, a lunky youth with more legs und arm thnii he could manure! consistent with good grace and becoming dignity. Thu dunce, I feel mire, ranks among the pro nun need social successes of thut season. Warm as it was, they danced as if dancing was a religious duty. There

Uverc cijht or ten mountain belles pres ent, an glorious in the rpienuors 01 gay rocks and bright ribbons, and three times as many homely looking mountain youths. Mr. Hester introduced us toMissMury Jane Spivvens, a robust and muscular young woman, and then left us to take his stand by the side of the fair Miss Johnson. At first Miss Spivvens seemed to be suffering tinder constraint, but under tho influence of Tom's easy manner and speech her tongue limbered tip, and she told us many things of interest about the mountain country. From her general conversation wo learned that some people, not Misi Spivvens, however, believed Miss Susie Uicketts to be the belle "o' them parts." Her remarks about Miss Susie aroused Tom's interest and she led him across tho room to present him to the alleged belle. Susie was a shy little creature, but the one of all the others that would uttract attention. She was simply and befittingly clad in a plain white frock, that, although loosely made, revealed the grace of her figure. Her gold brown hair was caught at the back and fastened by a ribbon and then allowed to fall in a wavy mass upon her shouldcrs. Her face was whiter than the faces of tiie others, and two bright crimson patches burned on cither cheek. Her words, her manner, her general appearance were those of the mountain, but there was a subtle charm about her for all that. All this I noticed from my post across the room from her, and I noticed, too, that Tom had grown quite animated and was telling her a story iust as he would have done if she had been of ins own circle. Tom danced with her, not once, but many times. He missed two dances, the two I danced with ner. no called me over and presented me in a in .1 m very formal manner, one nnu iuiu were already on good twins, a ml she laughed Immoderately at everything he said, whether it was funny or not. one looked up into his jolly face with an expression of confidence aim trust. Hunk Hester came over to me wun a puzzled look. lie s u-makin' love to auste nt u kill," said he, "and she seems to like it. It 'ud be awful tough if he was to cut Sim Kidgcly onteu her. They're engaged, yon know." He pointed out a very miserame ana disconsolate-looking young man who was narrowly watching Susie and lorn with the remark that "Sim 'pears to be n-takin it purty hard aireauy. When the dunce wus over, I heard Tom whisper to Susie and ask if he mirht walk home with her. A look of pleasure swept over her earnest face. ile'd be mad if I left him. Next time von mav iro. and won't you come i " v . round? Wo live about half way 'tween tho Hesters and the station." Aom promised that ho would bo around, and as we walked home that night ho was in jubilant spirits 'and told me that he would have a picnic now, tnat nc naa found his mountain maiden. The next day we saw Susie at church, looking even more channing than on the night before; and Tom walked home with her. much to the evident discom fort of S im Ridgely. After matklng Susies acquaintance the days seemed to pass easier for Tom. He was with her nearly every day, managing in his ingenious way to find an opportunity to call or meet ner some where. Tom has the happy faculty ol making himself the friend of nearly everybody with whom he is thrown, mid he was soon a friend ol tne kickfta fniiiile und a welcome and priviWed visitor at their home. Every niirht Tom would tell me of the proghi was making m ins suit ior i - - - - Susie's favor. 'I haven't got to the point of propos ing vet." he told me. "JJut you pist, irive me lime aim i n uu,n. x ju.iv . 1 1,11 .1.. !. IUI !.., I make Mr. Simeon Kidgcly sorry hoover was born, and then we'll go quietly awav, and soon after wo arc gone she'll forget me and happy ever af t. sion, anyway. and marry Simeon und live f tor ward. It's some diverThe picnic at Hnunt's Hend was the I " , ..... 4, event of our summer s stay in that sec I , , . . , Minn Pennip. irossiuctl a great ueai I i o - , . when Tom disappeared with Susie and II heard many uch remarks as "that dudish town feller hev laid Sim Kidgcly 7 7, ....... ...s.u e....!.. it -f... .U,t.,t i in Tim Kimiiu wun 0101;. aw v give the wretched Kidgcly a single moment at Susie's sido during the entire Simeon, very heartbroken, said: "All right, Susie, go an' marry tnc filler from town. You're urea 01 me, an' I kin see it Don't let me stand In the way, Susie. You ain't mine, an' haint been since you seed him, but I'll be always your friend." And so they parted. Susie was too happy to shed a single tear, but poor Simeon wept copiously on his pillow that night, am. at cr fltfal -leep. .1? that night, and, after dropping into a 4 ii ...,.i thnt. Susi wns tnc samo to him as -she had been before she saw Tom Snnderson. Susie told Tom, and the nicht -nftcr that he came in ratner 1b(i. liiii(rhintf: "I've done the grand act, out ooy, no said, beaming at me as happily as a fellow mlffht who had made a love coum . a a - ! ti-ant. which he intended to keep, "l'vo proposed to Susie, and she wilted right 1 ' ...... 1M. ...l.l awav and leu into my arms, onu u c afterwards that she knew I loved her the first time I saw her. It's funny, .. i.-u tt l.... lUtln It !ulr tn fool a " '. i ... i woman." we nau many a ncar over Tom's engagement, and roared when wc thought of the rare storie we

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A few days lutor I felt twinges of remorse of conscience when I saw Susi and Tom together niul noticed her absolute faith in him. I saw then that Tom's diversion, as ho called it, wouhl have lasting results so far as Susie was concerned. She loved Tom. That night I cautioned Tom of the bcrioiiMlcss of his position and advised him to give it up. "J thought it was very funny, liko

you," I said to him, "but with Susie It is frightfully real. You'd better stop, Tom." "Pshaw!" laughed Tom; "you are foolish; she will soon forget when I am gone. Women are qnick to forget. Anyway, you suggested the joke, and since I have begun it I aw going to carry it through." I told him it would he? a sad thing to break a girl's heart, just for idle pna time, and minted a very graphic picture of Susie all alone, weeping her very eyes out for him. His face grew a shade more serious. "It would be bad, mean, wkked to really break her heart," he said. "Susie is a good little girl. She's not like the rest of them up lu-re she's different. If I thought she really cared I would leave here to-morrow. Hut I will wait and hope that she will get over it all right.'' A day or so later he repeated to me a conversation ho had had with Susie. She told him that her friends feared that he was only fooling her and did not intend to marry her at all. "I don't think that at all," she said. "I never doubted you, Tom. But I wanted to ask you since we've set a day for our wedding and all has been fixed, that you buy the marriage license so I can tell them and tliey won't doubt yu any more." "Like a fool to-humor her I bought the license. There can't be any harm, can there?" Tom went on. "People are not obliged to use licenses, when they buy them, are theyV" The joke had indeed grown serious. Tom had not only appointed u day for the wedding, but hud purchased tho license, and we had not yet been in the mountains five weeks. And the worst of it was that the wedding was to occur on the following Wednesday evening at seven o'clock. It took but littlo argument from me to convince Tom that he would have to leave the mountains before that time. "Of course, we'll slip out quietly on that very day. Susie will soon forgeU" Tom's wedding day came around reirmrlfiihlv nufck. it appeared to me. I made all the arrangements with Hank Hester for Our baggage to be earried to the station late that af tenioon and cautioned him to say nothing of our intended departure. Tom went over to see Susie the last time, while I was packing the trunks. "Phil," said he, coming in just at twilight, "it's tougher than I had any idea it could be. Susie is thinking of nothing else but the to-night. She has all her things ready and would put on her dress for me to sec It gave me the cold chills. 1 kissed the little girl and left with something like a tear in my eye. Poor little thing she didn't think it was the last kiss." Darkness settled over the mountains and the vicinity of Haunts Itend was wrunned in a dreamy stillness, uur train passed the station at a quarter be fore eight o'clock. Hester had gone gone ahead with our tmnks and we followed on foot. We walked very rapidly along the mountain road, talking as wc went of the novel experiences of our five weeks' stay in the mountains. Just off the road a bit was the home of Susie Uicketts. Its dim outline was faintly visible through the trees, and from its two windows gleamed cheerful lighls. A pathetic silence born of solitude and night brooded about the little mountain home. T,hc lights ßhono livlirhter than usual to-night Tom stopped and gazed mutely through the shadowy trees, lliscyes were fixed upon i the lights and I could aec that his face ' had nrown very serious. There was tnat rccretf id look upon his face that I re mebeicd having seen when a bo when sorry for something he had done. Yho ho looked a shadow that I fancied must have been Susie's crossed the light. The figure stood an instant at the window silhouetted against the brilliance behind, anxiously wntchiuj for Tom, I fancied, and then disappcared. "Do you see that?" asked Tom, huskily. "Do you see that? That was Susio, and she Ss wondering why I nm late. It's just past seven now. l'oor girl, I am very sorry I did it. I could kill my- 1 self for it." : He stopped an instant and then went t on: , T, ; It. wns cowardly and mean. It was . contemptible. She never once doubted me, and I went on deceiving her like a villain. Vhil, I never did anything half so mean in all my life before." His voice had grown tremulous, no to train. Come alonir. Just as I spoke thc shadow it waa Susie's again appeared at the window. She was leaning out listening for his footsteps. She had never dreamed tho truth and was waiting for him even then. "Let the train go," ho said, vehemently; "let it go. I would be a murderer to leave here like this." He took . .1..A..1.. . ....... .1 rllcfalltlight and. stopping, looked tfe ttt mo standing in the rugged a stop rcsoiuiuijr iuni i "v. mountain path. "Tell Hester to bring my trunk wt, . hn said, nt lengt'h. and the next day Tom, Susie and myself left for tha nUv. The licenso linu uecn uscu. nr lanta Constitution. - In the Nursery. She-"Hutsuppose I do consent to marry you, what have n in ant un house on?" He ell, - . . . 4 - t le nvAi nni and papa has promised tnc a canary on mv YiirthdnV mv birthday." She "eii, reaiij, . , t . , in t .! "" u" 'y-.Uolom unuer n.. .

j RESULTS OF RECIPHOCrTY. j Tb ttatune of Tra4 u ARVctaa! kf KaI iulltcati Meatare. ' Exports of gold and the excess of Wn pcrts over exports iuvKe attention to j the degree of success attending the at1 tempt made in the McKinley hill t ' regulate trade balances by reciprocity

arrangements. 1 he need of such arrangements was strongly arged by a reference to the large excess of our import from South America over our exports to those coantrics Thu, for the fiscal year 1SD0, the last before tho McKinley bill ww mtvsed, we imported from Brazil merchandise wort &VJ,000,000, and sold her merchandise worth f Ui.000,000. So the balance of trade to be settled in gold, an the republicans were in the habit of stating it, was 47,000,000, though we- actually sent to Itnizil in that year only a littlo more than half a million dollars in gold and silver. The reciprocity section of the McKinley bill was intended to correct this inequality in our trade to make our exports to South America' equal our imports thence, or, at any rate, to reduce tho excess of imports. This was the main object sought, and to accomplish it the president was armed with power to tax the products of countries that failed to adapt their tariff laws to what was supposed to be the interest of our trade. After a trial of reciprocity up to the close of the fiscal year 189-2, our experl enco with ltrazil, the leading South American country and the first to agree to the reciprocity requirement, was as follows: Our exports to ltrazil had in creased in two years from f IÜ.000,000 to H, 000,000. In the same time our nn ports had increased from 50,000,000 to 118,033,000. The balance of trade had increased from 547,000,000 to $101,000, 000. Our net exports of specie in the same year were about 000,000 (nearly all silver), or very little more than two years before. This is explained by the fact that our South American balances are mostly settled in London. It is a luminous commentary on the republican party's promise to cheek imports and keep our gold at home, that when it reluctantly loosed its hold on power our imports had largely increased, our export trade had dwindled, and our gold was leaving the country in millions per week. In the fiscal year ISS'J, toward the close of which Mr. Harrison became president, we imported nearly $08.000.000 more specie than we exported. In the following year the net imports of specie were f lS,O00,O0O. In the fiscal year 1MU, tho net exports of specie were nearly $73.000,000. In the i last fiscal year tho excess of exports ' was not large, but for the twelve i months ending March 31, 1S93, it was I 194,000,000. In the light of these facts it requires I a good deal of assurance to attribute I the disturbance of business growing out of exports of gold to the election of I a .democratic president. In a general way it may be said that wo have been losing gold ever since Mr. Harrison was inaugurated. Louisville Courier-Jour nal. FOSTER'S FINANCIERING. A Chi ce for Republicans to Kopcitt Their MrKlnltiT Donation. Charles Foster, who was secretary of the treasury under Henjaniin Harri son, has failed in business. Of course he was an expert financier or he would not have had the important portfolio in the Harrison cabinet which he ob tnined. A resident of Fostoria, he was early a dry-goods merchant, subse quently a banker, generally a boomer. To the full he was as heartily in favor of a protective tariff as the be-all and the end-all of American prosperity as Wil liam McKinley himself, whom he pre ceded in the governorship of Ohio. When McKinley fell by the wayside as the result of ill-considered in dorsements of friends republican poll ticians and well wishers came to his aid and supplied him with funds wherewith to meet his obligations. The failure of Charles loster suggests that there is likely to be a finan cial hospital for republican lnme ducks generally. Charles Foster's trouble is said to be injudicious indorsements. Will the gentlemen who came to tho assistance of High Tariff McKinley come also to the us t slstaiicc of Hiirh Tariff Foster? Mc Kinley was but a member of congress, chairman of the committee on ways and means, and proponent in chief of thnt act ot congress which was supposed to make everybody in the United States rich beyond compare, but when Me Kinlev wns mere chairman of tho wnys and means committee the great Foster was secretary of the treasury, the very head and front of republican financing. Come, gentlemen, to the rescue of Mr. Foster, just as yon came to .the rescue of Mr. McKinley. He is equally deserv ing of your particular care. He looked after your interests, making the few rich at the expense of the many, him' self included, and if you supported the one yon must support the other in the hour of his afiliction. Let us have Fos tor cared for quite as comfortably as McKinley was cared for. No better use can bo made of your tariff-made money than to bolster your tariff lawmakers. They helped you at your greatest need Now come forward and make them whole. Chicago Times. Mr.fcClarkson says the younger element is coming to the front in the republican party. If this is true it is a fortunate thing for the republican party, and it would have been much better for that organization iLMr. Clarkson s üpeech had been delivered by one of that clement If tho republicans are to ever win another national victory they must take higher ground and keep step with the present. What doe.i the younger clement think of Mr. Clark con's desperate attempt to once more nnfnrl the bloody shirt and to savo tho nation and the flag from the "confeder ates" who survived a war that ended before the "younger element" was i Clarkson scysthnt the young men of the countrv are not nocklnir to the republican partj. Oi course, young

men are naturally at, Paul Ulobe,

averse to old fogies.

REFORM. Io to Kiitlral facts 1hu4 It OCWrlnnlc. Civil Mtfrice refovmero btc. as a rule, earnest, aiweero nm nonoraoiu mnThey are wtnctlmcsv however, a UUle hasty. If 13 if essentia' WMU goon iften in office hhowld not bf disturbed, it is also essential that bad m in otliee should ho removed. CrU service re form was not adopted for WMr purpose f fchiekling incompetent vfi rau men, or was it with the object of protect ing bitter partisaM and retawint? them fa office that tho xlsting law wai enaeled. It mast be recollrtcd that twre are in otice at tho preseat time"inany more repwblkans than democrats. Some of these republicans have held offieciiBce tho day of Grant. They were- appointed at a time when the spoils ijw tem wa most revoltiag. Since then thousands of partisan republicans ht been given patronage a rewards ftr their political work. 3fr. Harrison' use of patronage was as scandalous and selfish as that of any of his republican predecessors. The convention that nominated him was controlled by federal oilice holden From one- end of the country to the other there are republican editors holding post offices who have spent their time in misrepresenting Und abusing the present administration. These facts, ibm true, cannot excuse a violation of the letter or the spirit of the law. They do not furnish a reason for a clean sweep, but they do afford a presumption that the administration is not always wrong-when it makes a removal. Thus far during Mr. Cleveland's administration professional civil-service reformers have put the president and his cabinet officers upon trial for every removal that has been made. They have not asked or obtained nn explanation; they have simply condemned. This attitude will not help Uie cause of civil service reform. It ought to be assumed that the administration has cause for its removals, and if the reasons for removals are sought they will undoubtedly be given. It is not consistent with tho proper transaction of tho public business that a chief of a de partment should devote his whole time to explaining every official act. All the administration can oxpectana all thai it probably aska is that the pro sumption of good intentions should bt in its favor. The course which tho mugwump authorities have pursued thus far is most uujust. If the Civil Service Reform league proposes to eon- ! duct itself after the fashiou of its or- j gans, its cause will bo injured in the eyes of those who wish to see the pres- j iiient and his cabinet treated with, the respect that they deserve. & Y. World. M'KINLEY ASPIRES. The Major Cunning IMay for the TreeIdpHttal Chair, It is plainly apparent that the friends of Gov. McKinley nro handling him with special reference to placing him in the presidential race for 189. That he was laying up treasures for the political future was evideuti at the Minneapolis convention. He mode Him self a conspicuous figure om that occasion and smilingly went through the ( duties of presiding officer while-his own name was among those for whom the delegates wore voting. Ilis-appearanee did not strike the vast audience as in dicative of any great chagrin, and while ho smilingly went through it there were those cruol enough to suggest that the programme had been previously arranged and that e had schooled himself for the task. The severe set-back encountered by the g. o. p. did not change the major s a. a . purpose, out wraownai oitcreu ms plans, ior months lie had nothing to say and then made a sure thing on a sympathetic reception of his utterances by giving them to the two or three men who own the sentiments and control the actions of tho Ohio wool growers' association. There io declared for the samo tariff has always principles which ho advocated and which the country so emphatically repudiated at the last national election, lie did tho same "thing at tho political banquet recently held nt hn home in Canton and eloquently appealed to the slaughtered party to Ftund by its guns. Hois predicting a series of sad calamities for the present administration and jubilantly proclaims that tho people will again nluce the republican party in power. the wish being father to the thought because of his own overshadowing per sonal interest. Even his recent financial disasters have been utilized by his friends as campaign material, and they have been sounding his praises while arranging to meet tho obligations which common business sagacity would never have incurred. With two such conspicuous figures as Harrison and McKinley in the field, the lesser lights nay have hard sled ding, but with Ohio wavering and Indi ana in the democratic column, the mi nority party may conclude to look else where for presidential timber. It would be a downright pleasure for 1 he people to convince the governor that the conntry was in earnest when it declared against his Iniquitous tariff theories. As the patron saint of high protection he would make the logical candidate for the party which ho so fully suc ceeded in making unpopular. Detroit Free Press. lor. McKinley says that "the re publican party requires neither enloejy nor apology." No, what it really needs is an obituary, constructed on the lines of tho plain, unvarnished truth And if it persists in its bourhonism, as the speeches of McKiuley and Hoar at Itoston indicate that it does, tne "corpse will be ready" in 1894. N. Y. World. -Republican papers all over the country are expressing a yearning desire that Gen. Clarkson will restrain hla vocal organs for many Moons to come. His famous Louisville speech established his reputation a a star exhorter, but as a political leader he in n howling failure Detroit Free Frees. The republican party has an abundance of lenders -whni they are waiting for arc emhara. CkYnlaad

CIVIL SERVICE

Plain Denier.

PERSONAL lllTERArtV. Together with Iii knowledge WiimlsBi ex-Comml Atoxamder K. Wee lias brought home the peculiarly ornamental accomplishment of knowing how to wrap a turban around thehead. The whole operation lass but a few econds and seems a marrel of dex terity. Ht Hon. C. P. Villlora, the father of the house of commons, is no of the most clever whlat players In London. Although past ninety years of age; he ft a frequent guest at dinner parties in flic creme de la creme of London soii'ty, his conversation being bright ad sparkling. Col, n. K. Linsley, a capitalist well known hv the northwest, has applied for a charter for a national bank to be established aboard a barge, which hf proposes moving- anewg the mining towns of Lake Koetenai, Idaho, lone of which caar support u bank, thouyh in need f tlw facilities of one. Secretary Carliak'a advisers are men1 of young yeati and ef even youngerajppcarance: Hamlin, iest assistant secretary of the treasury, is thirty-six andi looks thirty Eckels, comptroller of the treasury, iVthirty-four; smooth shaven and boyish, andW. ELCnrtw, the other assistant secretary, is thirty-eight. Capt. Clippcrton, BrititA consul at Philadelphia and an ohf friend of Julea Verne, says there 1b no fewadation for a recently-published! story that Verne is an assumed name-and tnat the novelist is a Pole. Verne; he say, is of nn old Nantes family, and taar name hna been a respected one'for generations. Charlotte M. Yon go Modestly acknowledges that ttie money which she earned from tlie publicatien of her

i best-known novel, "The Heir of Redcllffe," waa uned to furnish the Southern Cross, tho vessel wherein her couain, Bishop Coleridge Pättison, made hi voyages among tho South Sea islands. Dr. William Everett who-aas been returned to congress from Henry Cabot Lodge's old district, hns- for nearly fifteen years been head master of Adams' academy at Quincy, Mass.. He is the author of some books for' boys, two of which, "Changing Hase" and -'Double I'lny," have long been popular with youthful readers. Edwin Holmes, the discoverer of the comet in Andromeda, which has attracted much attention'during the past few months, is an amateur-astronomer, ! living in Islington, ono of the suburb , of London. His telescope has an i aperture of twelve and a quarter inches, which, he says, is very much larger than was necessary for this purpose; Among authors there are-bat few who take the slightest interest in' social or political questions. So far as public questions are concerned, they are hardly better informed than. Dante Gabriel Kossetti. During tho French revolntion, one of hir.-friemhv burst into Roesetti's studio with the incredible news. "Louis Philippe has landed in England." "Has he?" said Rosetti, calmly; "what has he come for?" The house of a well-known lady novelist in London was the' other day observed to be shrouded' in tfee gloom of drawn curtains and lowered blinds. Sympathetic friends presently celled to inquire what family affliction had taken place. They wcre-admlttcd Inte-a darkened drawing-room where, clad in deep mourning und holding a clean pocket handkerchief in her hand, the lady novelist sat weeping upon the- conch. A sympathetic and inquiring murmur from tho visitors elicited a fresh burst of tears as thelady sobbed forth: "Affliction? Yes, I should think so. My hero is just deadl" humorous; Will Askit "How would yon describe a cynic?" Phil Osfer "A cynic is a man who has nu unreciprocated affection for himself." Puck. "Those were indeed, the good old ' times! Whenever a knight saw his ' cretlltors approaeiung. nesimpiypuiica j uphisdniwbridge." FlicgendelHatter. A Honest Man oy Necessity. "Yes, I sir," said .Jenkins, "bmlthers is a man who keeps his word: but then he has to." "How is that?" asked Johnson. "Because no one will take it." Yankee llladc. Ills Failure. "WlKyre is your brother now?" "In Ypsilnnti." "Why, if I remember-rightly, he wrote to me that he was going to Detroit." "Yes, you

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