Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 July 1884 — Page 4

mm DEMOCRAT. * Published Kvery Thursday. PETERSBURG. - - - . INDIANA. THE V-A-S-B. From the maddening crowd they eland apart, Th(B maidens tonr and the Work of Art; And none rairbt tell from eight alono In vrhich had Culture ripest grown— Jhd C ot ham Mil lion fair to soo, Cihe Philadelphia l’edlgroo. The Boston Mind of azuro hue. Or s»n Soulful Soul from Kalamazoo— ^ J'l'l6! Ar( in,a seom'y way. nu ui a seemiy way, With an earnest soul and a capital A, Irfing they worshiped: but no one broke The sacred stillness, untiliup spoke Jhe Western one from the nameless place, «bo, blushing, said: "What a lovely vase.’ Over three fae"K a sad smile.ITew, Aud they edged away front Kaiamasoo* But Gotham's haughty soul was stirred To crugb the Stranger with one small word. Deftly hiding reproof in praise. Bne cries: "'Tin, indeed, a lovely vaze!'* But brief her unworthy triumph when =Tho lofty one from the house of Pcnu, With the consciousness of two grandpapas. Exclaims: “it :ls quite a lovely vahs!" And glances round with an anxious thrill, AV.aiting tho.word of Beacon Hill. But tile Boston maid smiles courteouslce. And gently murmura: "Oh, pardon mef I did not catch your remark, because I was so entranced with that charming raws!" -4, —J. Roche, in Life.

A TRUE HEROINE. Not long since business took me one morning to a Small town in Pennsylvania theger.l of a well-known law and diJjmty College. I was enabled by a train of fortunate circumstances to finish my w«trk much sooner than I had thought possible, and at throe o’clock found myself with absolutely nothing to do, and liie prospect of having to wait three hours and a half for the train, which dsd not leave until half past sir. The day was warm and the air of the waiting-room at the depot simply intolerable. Its only other occupant beside myself was an old Hutch woman with a ' basket on her arm and the inevi able calico sun-bonnet on her head. She was sitting close to the steam radiator, and appeared half asleep. Going out on the platform, I walked up and down, enjoying the fresh air, but feeling very t ired, for 1 had been obliged t<x. walk a great deal during the morning, and would have been glad to rest now had I been ablo to find a seat anywhere escept in that stilling waitingnaom. The railroad depot was situated on the main street of the town, and, taking a longer torn than usual, my eyes happened to catch the sign,- “College Con- « fectionery,” suspended over the door of " small store not far away. The one window was; filled with boxes of confeet onery, sugared nuts, candy dogs, chickens and cats, popcorn balls, and \ brilliantly dyed Easter eggs. Thinking I would buy some fruit, I went into the store, preceded by two little girls, one of whom had a cent, the proper spending of which seemed to give them both » great deal of anxiety. Whilo thoy ■"’ere deliberating over the relative merits of a pink chioken and yellow clog I had an opportunity to glance v about trie. The store was small, but exqu sitely lie t, and back of it was a large room which looked very inviting with its easy rocking-chair, rag carpet, bright stove, »nd well made bod. The broad sill of , the one window was fillo.l with flowering plants, apd above them hung a capary in a gilded cage. ' The face of the little woman who waited behind the counter was one of the sweetest I ever saw. There was an expression of peace and quiet content -upon it such as I.never saw equaled. Her pale golden hair eyas partod, and drawn into a shining coil at the back of her small, shapely bead, and the dark serge dress she wore fitted her delicate.

youtniut ngure to perfection. •, “Shall I wait on you, now? ’ she asked, as the children went out, and 1 thought 1 had never heard a voice which fell more pleasantly on my car. I asked for some fruit, and then, made bold hy the thought of that close waiting-room, and the consciousness of my weary limbs, I ventured to Wsk if ] might rest, awhile in the back-room. “Certainly,” she answered, and took me iotjiere at once, insisted on the remoyafof my heavy ulster, drew out the rocking-chair and a foot-stool, and brought me a glass of water, chatting fdl the time in a cordial way that made me feel very much at home. “Jr know 1 have asked a great favor,” 1 said, “but. I am so' tired, and I feel sure that even half an hour in that waiting-room would give me a sick headache, and I really couldn't make up my mind to three hours.” “I am very glad to have yon here,’ arid her she said, arid ftr tone had“ a truthful ring that there was no mi-taking. “You must excuse the looks of this room, .though. • You see we use it for bediroom, parlor, dining-room and kitchen combined,’ ’ with a little laugh. “You are married, then? ” I said. (“You look very young.” “I’ve been married more than a year, and l am twenty-four,” she- answered. 4t you think I look young, I don’t know what you’ll' say to my hysband. He is just my nge, but he looks a great deal younger. ip Then she glanced at the brightly burnished stave, on which stood three kettles containing respectively, purple, red and yellow dye. “ He’s been dyeing Easter eggs all day,” she said, “ and a friend of his—a Methodist minister—came in, and they ffent up to the college together to see some of the boys.” “Tnur husband keeps this store, thchr'f wlkl. - * ‘ ■ *'Q°p.1 keep it,” sho replied, and - then hoeing, I suppose, that *1 was in terested, she told me that when she ha* married her husband had been preach ing In a Methodist church near Phila deiphia; bnt lie had become verj anxious to take a college course, and ii .order to, aiid him in doing it she hat . opened this little Store. « “ We have been very successful,’' She said.■ “We have been able t6 paj all our expenses. Of course we have tc economise, bnt that don’t hurt us. j do all my own work, and that saves i good deal. And Will gets up earli every morning and chops^wood,*^ brings water and sweeps o ' " -J sweeps out the store.” “ Don’t you get tired?” i asked. “Yes, sometimes. But thc1h‘I think how nice lit is that 1 am able to heir Will in this way, and how thankful J ought to be that we both have sue! good heakh, and how fortunate it is that Will can have a home instead ol being obliged to live in college, where he would t« so uncomfortable, and thci I seem to feel rested. It’s queer, isn’l it ?” “And how long will you have to wort in this way ?”;, "Only four years. Ob, that isn’t long. It will won be over, and then Will is sore to bate a call. Why, 1 often think that this is just the 'test kind of discipline for me. And now I want to show you'som s things I have made for the parsonage I shall have when the foui yea-s an; over.” She brought out a beautiful toilet set, embroidered in ribbon-work, a silk quilt which had drawn a prise at a recent fair in the county, acrasy cushion, beautifully embroidered, a pair of crocheted toilet slippers, and some delicate cro heted edgings. “How do you find time to do so p>uch?" I asked. keep *jrue work ^ehipd

-;= the oonnter and 1 take It np at odd: minutes when there ere no cuatoeioru to wait on,” she answered. I admired a pretty foot-stool of aloe cretonne that she had made, and with a great deal of pride she showed me a three-legged clover-leaf tihle, ”WiU’* work. -He’s juslt as hsnjly as he can be,” she said. I was looking at a pretty plush frame she had msde from some odd pieces, when her husband came in. He was a slight, dark young man with a very, pleasant face. I liked him at once, and he was as cordial to me as if I was his guest instead of a stranger who was making a convenience of his home. “I think I'll go right on dyeing these eggs, if you don’t mind,” he saia, wheq toe introductions were over, and he rolled up his sleeves and went to work. Tt was evident to me as he talked that his nature was as cheerful, energetic and kindly as that of his smart little wife, and it was evident, too, that this was a tr»e marriage. The looks they exchanged, and the tones of "their voices when speaking to each other showed how closely heart was knit to heart. ‘‘)fou have a very industrious little wife Mr.-,” 1 said. "i- es, and she is smart, too. She hast taken up ;ho study of Greek, as if she liadn t enough' to do in the store, and -With her housekeeping! She says she don t wan t me to get too far ahead of her, ’ with a laugh and a glance of pride at the small figure bustling around “ge^ ting supper.” I didn’t wonder he felt-proud of her, and as the train bore me away a little later and 1 had time to think over ail, the little woman had told me and the cheerful way in which.she had told it, camti to the bled on a true conclusion that I had stumrue heroine.—Florence & Hallowell, in Chicago Standard.

Had Been in the Country. \ “Well, •for the goodness 'sakes allve, what’s the matter with you? Yon look like a tra veling hospital,” remarked a gentleman to a young man whQnr he m^t on the corner of Broadway aiK| Wisconsin streets. The young man’s face looked like a crazy quilt wit h its many sized and shaped court-plasters; one arm was in a sling and one foe t was incased in an old slit boot. In fact he looked all broke up, and a wiah-he-hadn’t-seen-me logkwas on his battered countenance when he met his friend. “I ’aint no hospital nor I ain’t been to no convention. I’ve been rustic&tinir, I have.” “Well,” replied his friend, “I guess you made a success of it, for you’ re about as rusty a loooking fellow as evei1 I saw. Got a oorner on courtplaster?” “No I atu't got no corner, on courtplaster, an* I don’t propose to stand here to be made fun of. Last aimtuer 1 met a girl up near Elkhart Lalfe, She was kinder struek on me, an’ .1 promised her I’d come out and spend my vacation on her pa’s farm. . 1 went. I’ll never make such a fool of myself again. I believe the old man and the girl got me out there to murder me. Oil, this life in the country is a great thin«-. There’s nothing like it, an I’m glad there ain't. The first day I was there I started about eight o’clock in the morning to cross a field to get some daisies. - I didn’t get ’em, though. A bull got after me and I had to climb a t ree. 1 couldn’t make the fence, the blamed beast was too previous. Well, that bull kept mo up in that tree until noon.wheh he went away. 1 feel satisfied now that that. g:rl knew of my predicament, for, come to think it over ’now, I did hear some one laughing. In the afternoon wo —that is the girl and I—wen t for a walk in the woods. There is where thoi trouble began. She managed —I know it was a put-up job—to steer me into a yellow-jackets’ nest. You never struck one? Well you’ve missed one of the most exciting and hilarious experiences in the world. I believe there was a million yellow-jackets in that nest. 1 had no sooner struck it than they instantly formed a procession, and before I could get awag every blamed one of ’em was inarching up my pants leg.

" “)> '»«y ve goi me Hottest kind of foet, A torch-light procession wouldn’t be hotter marching over the same route. I think I done some of the liveliest dancing I ever did in my life. Where was the girl? Well, the Lord only knows. All ! know about it, I saw a woman’s skirts going over a fence toward the house, and as I didn’t see the girl again until I got there, I think it was her. Why, I had to turn my pants wrong side out and run into a creek before I got rid of those yellowjackets. When I got to the hoiise the girl's mother gave me a pail of buttermilk and told me to go and bathe myself where I had been stung. Well, that buttermilk helped me out. When it was time to milk the cows I followed the girt out to the barn-yard. There were six cows to be milked, and I thought that I’d help the girl out She said she didn’t like to have me do it, but if I wanted to try it she’d give me a' big apron to put on to keep my clothes clean. Welt everything was going finely until I got the pad about twothirds full, when all of a sudden I turned a back-summersault, the air was filled with shooting-stars, and,? the cows were running about the yard like all-possessed. Before I could get up I honestly believe every one of those cows kicked me a doaen times. Just look at the patch-work on me if you don’t believe it. Weil, they picked me up and carried me to the house and put me into bed, whdre I lay for three days. But the wotst is to come. The old man charged me wkh twenty quarts of milk at ten cents a quart, as he said he couldn’t afford to lose that much milk on account of a greehhorn’s monkeywoirk about a cow. Oh, I tell you there's nothing like life in the country.” And the victipi hailed a street-oar, which he entered to go over on the West Side to see a doctor.—Peck's Sun. The -Advantage ef Forethought, In the early days of Virginia City there was a run on a h»nk, but before the: depositors had time to draw oul) much the institution closed ite dftors and announced a suspension, An indignant crowd assembled, all armed aid excited, and the prt position ef a miner to run a tunnel under the bank and blow it up was eagerly caught at. Shovels and picks were being used, and gunpowder had beeu sent for, when along came an individual who observed: ‘.‘Gentlemen, don’t do it.” , !>Whf?” asked a score of voices. ‘‘For two reasons. First, this buildn ing will make a good poker-room, and second, the President of the bank is inside. If you blow him up we can’t lynch him.” • The crowd desisted, and at the end of two bourn their patience was re« warded. They got hold of the President and had fun with him for hair an hoar before he oboked to death-—Waff Street News. —A man was arraigned in th e United States District Court at Philadelphia recently for stealing a package that had been placed on the top of a letter box for transmission to Chicago, being too laige to enter the letter opening. Notwithstanding the prisoner waa taken with the package in his possession, ho w»is discharged, the judge rendering the following decision: "The top of a letter-box can not be presumed to be a designated depository of the United Staten. Merchants and others should know that unless letters and other articles are put inside the box they are not posted. This seems a singular decis-c loti, inasmuch as the man wan taken wjth stolen property tfi his possession*

TUB TARIFF OCKSTIOK. Revenue laws are in their very nature subject to frequent revision in O der that they may tie adapted to changes and modifications ot trade- The Republican party is not contending for the (feimanchcy of any particular statute. The issue between the two part cs does not have reference to a sroeifle law. It is tar broader and far deeper. It involves a principle of wide applicatio i an 1 beneticont influence, against a theo. y which we believe to he unsound in conception and inevitably Shurtful in practice. Ia the many tariff revisions which have b;dn nceedBary (for the past twenty-three years, or whidn .mayfierefter le.ome are 'a arj^f he Itlpublcan (tarty as maintained, and will maintain, the'policy of protection to American industry, while bur opponents insist upon a rev Sion which Sractiea ly destroys teat p nicy. The is ue __i thus distinit well denned and unavoidable. The f end n g election dna / determine the fate of protection for t generation. The ovorthiowot' the policy means a large and permanent reduction in wares of the American laborer, besides involving the loss of vast amounts of American capital ihvested in mauu(a.'tu.tn$d:(itcrUHS£s. The value to ft he ihvc Jir^aeut revenue ffystbm to the people oil the united States is not a ma ter of th ;ory, and v . - --._iory, and 1 shall submit, no argument to sustain it. I only invito attention to certain facts of offl- ' oal record which seem to constitute a demonstration. In the census of isfco an effort wnj made, for the ilrst time in our history1, tbbb ain a valuation of ali t..e property in the United States. The attempt was in large do free unsuccessful. Partly from lack of time, partly from preji dice among many who thoujOb the inquiries futeshjKiowedie amr salteiue of taxat on, the returns were incomplete and unsatistaoiory. Little more was done than to coninitiate the local valua inn used in the States for uurpo es of assc.-sment, and that, as every ‘rU“ * e ‘mP‘U,W In the census of lost), however, the work was done with great thoroughness—1 ho dis-.Tinetion-between “as ossed ' value and - true” value being carefully observed. The grand result was that the “true value” of all the property in the States and Territor es (Including slaves amounted to four:een thousand millions of dollars ($14,000,0Ul),0 Kl). This aggregate was the net result of the labor and savings of all the people In the area of the United States fiom the time the firs': British colonist landed in 1007 down to the year lstf). It reprcsentetHho fruit of - the toil of 2o0 years. After 7860 the business of the country was eneoui aged and developed by a protective tariff. At the end of twenty years the total property of the United States, as returned by the census of ItriOamounted to the enormous aggregate of forty-four thousand millions of dollars ip44,i/0 i.O 0.000), The gieat resultwas'nttiii'ael, notwithstanding the fact that countless jsiillionshad in the interval boen wasted in the .progress of a bloody war. It thus appears (hat whilevmr population between 1880 and 1880 increased six^- per cent., the aggregate property of the country increased 314 per cent — showing a vastly enhanced wealth per capita am mg the people. Thirty thousand millions of dollars (ftJU.ntO,OQO.UtO had been addo I during the twenty years to the pejraapent wealth bf tho Nation. } \ These results are regarded by the oldcr^Natioas of the world as phenomenal. That our country should surmount the peril and the cost of a gigantic waiyand for an entire itcriod of twenty years make an average gain to its wealth of * 13f>,0i)0.0U0 per month, surpassesthc experience of all other Nations, ancient or modern. Even the oi ponents of tile present revenue system do not pretend that in the who c history of civilization any parallel can be found lo tho material progress of 'the Unified Statcssinbelthe accession of the Republican party to power. . Tho period lielween 1880 and to-day hRs not been one of matt rial prosperity only. At no limedn the history ot the United Mates has there been such progress in the moral and philanthropic field, tteligious gpd charitable institutions, schools, seminaries and colleges, have been founded and’ endowed lar more generously than at any previous time in mfr history. Greater and n ------ - . .— .-more varied.ieiief has been extended 10 human suffering and the entire progress of the country in wealth has

ee.-n nccompaniea anti a.giunod by n bro uie linsr and ofovaiion of our National character us a people. » Uu.- ( pponents And fauit that our revenue system produces a surplus. But they should not target t ist the law has (riven a specific pur| ose to whicti all of the surplus Is profitably aud honorably applied—the 1 eduction of the public debt and the c msequent relief of the burden of taxation. No dollir has been wasted, and the only extravagance with w hich the parly stands charged is the genoror.s pensioning of soldiers, sailors and til jir families—a a extra a ranee which embodies the highes fvrm of Justice in the recognition and payment of a sacred debt. When red uction of ia ration Is to be made, the Republican party can be trusted to aocoinpl si it in tueh term as will most effectively aid the industries of the Natiun. our Foreign commerce A frequent acou. atlon by our opponent* is that the fore gn i omme ee of Hie country has steadily de ayeu en or the indue lie i t the p ote tire tar.ff. In ttiis way th ;y ioeh5tff array tuo importing interest at a nst the Republic an party. It is a eomrno i and yet radical error td eonloftnd the commferde'*of the eoumry wit 1 its carrying trade -an error often committed inuocen ly and ometunes designedly—but an error s> gro a that 1t does not distingu.sh between t! o ship and the cargo. Foreign commerce rup-O'ents the ex1 ortsand impor.s regardless of the natioualit,v of the \ esscl that may carry tho coihmeditiosof exchange. Uur rarying tra te has from obvious causes suffered many discouragements since I860, but our fo oign commerce has in the ■ a ncpcrlod stca illy and orodigi udy int reused—mere ssl indeed, at a rate and to an amount which -absolutely <-"*■ fs all previous deveioi moot oi our tra le b 'youd.the sea. From l-giu to the pr sent time iho tareign commerce of iho Uu tod btated-idivi led with approximate equality between exports and imports reached t he astounding aggregate of twenty-four thou aid millions of dollars (hS4,0ud,lltih0tM>. The taanee in this va t commerce iucl n?d in our fuvor, but'It would have been muoh larger it ot’r Ir ale with the o >umr es of America, olsowh ro retor.ed to, had boon more wisely adjusted. It is dttlicultoven t6 appreciate the magnitude of our export trad* snc« 1880. and *re can gain a correct conception of it ontv by comoarhon wi h proceeding results iu- the same field. The total exports from the United States from the Declaration of Independence in 17,8 down to ihe day of Lincoln's election In 18ft), added to all that hud previously been eraiorte I from the American colonies from their Origin*! »hottldment, amounted to less than tine thousind millions of dollars (»»,OJO.OJi>,OU'.). on the other hairiodf ewpOrtsfrom 1880 to the Close of the la«t fiscal vear exceeded twel.e thousand millions of dollars —the whole Of It beings the product of American labor. Evidently a protective tariff has not'injured our expert trade when, under Its induenoo, we exported iu twoniy-four loirs forty per c»nt. more than the total amount that had boon exported in the entire previous history of American otmrncrre All the details, when analysed, correspond with thlsglgnn It result, 'the commercial cities of the Union never had seo i growth as they have ha I sinre 188(1. Uur chief emrorlum, the City of New York. wth Its dependencies, has within that-period doubled btx population and increased her wealth five fold. J hi ring the same period the imports and exports wh’eh lave entered and left her harbor are more than double in bulk and value the whole amount imported and exported by her between the settlement of the first Dutch colony oa the island of Manhattan, and the outbreak of the eivii war in 1880. AGRICULTURE AND THE TARIFF. V *be agricultural interest is by far the largest; In the Nation, and Is entitled In every adjustment of revenue laws to the first consideration. Any policy hostile 11 the fullest development of agriculture in the United States must to abandoned. Rra'ixlng this fact the opponents of the present system of revenue nave labored very earn* stly to persuade the farmers of the PuReW-Bmes that Iheyare robbed by the protective tariff, and the effort Is thus made to consolidate their vast iinrtfuenco In layor of free trado. But happily the farmers of America are intelligent and cannot be mlslod by sophistry when conelu ive facts are before them. They see plainly that during the past twenty fvur years weal h has not been aequlred by one section or by one interest at the expense of another section or another Interest. They see that the agricultural 1 Statos hare «nad > even more rapid peogre s than the manufacturing State i. The (armors see that In 188U Mas sehusetts and Illinois bad about the same weaRh—between 1800,000.0*1 and tWO.tlOO.OUO ench-and lW Massachusetts had advanced to Ibinola had advanced to tthf00.u00.tl00. They see that New Jersey and Iowa were just equal in population in ini*, and that In twenty years the wealth of Ni w Jfewey was Increased by the run of *880,000,*01, while the wealth of Iowa was incresirsd bv the sum of $1,boo,c<H,ooo. They see that the nine lending agricultural States of the West have grown so rapidly in prosperity that the agg regate addition to their wea th since 1880 in almost as great as the w ealth of the entire country in that rear. They tsce that the South, which Is almost exclusively agricul- * ---—- •- —-oeral prosperity. rom the lows anil ' so rat) jdl jr that

trt&lhS&i'JS ‘be double bf that *Bjch«po<*»iW fin 1W9, eftclugiTe or slaves, *-**■)£*» deye, dometts the r*™®1? **® *5® helpful Impulse of O homo market, nod they a » that the 11 na 'lei'll and tuienuo system, enacted si me theKepublican Pjuty came Into power, has established and *»*»••«>expanded the home market. TW *** In i ca « or wheat, whit* Is * elports, ,hc'y h "'e sold:, in thO w^f^ahti3r^*r*.3iJl®e the c:° » of tad tbree Atttbolfi at home to oue abrOtLi. wJica we export t> anr <.xtent. 1UU k hltV<5lCSn U8ei “,^5 to tnrwand * ***** bushels exported. In some yea s the onbarity has been so great that forever* |>eoK exported Mu bushels have been com ^imei in tnc h >m6 market. The farmers ree •batla the increasing compbtiou from tho win fields of Itussia Bad from the distant plains of In Ha, the growth or the home maf “5da,4 of greattr CO. earn to them and that its impairment would dei,r o at1 iho iSn?reVery **■* of tn “ble in tho

Otto tWrrtfXAL COMMERCE Such tacts as these touching the growth hid consumption or cetea's at home, civ - us some o jLOepUou of the vastness of the iuteinal commerce of the Unit id t tales. They, sue (rest, also, th it in addition to the advantages which the American pop e enjoy from protection against foreign competition, they enjoy the advantages of abs dure tree trade over a larger area and w th a greater imputation tl an any other Ration. Tne in eriii! commerce of oiir thirty eight Stares and nine Terri'O ios is carried on without let or hindrance, without tax, de enii.n or Clovernmental interference of i-nykmi whatever. Its reads freely over an area of three nnd a half million square miles—almost e iual inextent to the whole continent of Europe. Its profits are enjoyed today by 6tf,ua-,u00 of American freemen, and from this tn.oj mint nb monopoly is Croat id. According t o Alexander Hamilton, when he discussed the same subject in lliM, “the internal eon petition which takes p ace dots nway with everything like monopoly, and by degrees reduces the .pricesof art.oles to tire minimum of a reasonable profit on the capital employed." It.is impossible to point to a single monopoly in the Unit'd States that has been crentel or fostered by the industrial system which is uphold by the Republican party. Compared with our foreign commerce these domestic exchanges are inconccirahly great in amount—requiring merely as one instiu mentality as large a m leage of ra Iwity as exists to-day in all theother naions of t he world combined, 'these internal exchanges are os t imated by the statistical ltureau of the Treasury Department to be annually twenty times as great in amount as our foreign commerce. It is Into this \ ast field of home tra 1c—at once the creation and the herii- ga of the American people—that foreign na ions ar strlvirg by t v ry device t> enter. Ill is intt this ft ldlthat the opponents of our presem revenue syst em won d freely admit the conn tries of Eu opo-rccu itiies into whose inter nal trade we could not tec p orally entor: countries to whic h wc should be surrender ing every advantage of trade: from whie we should be gaining nothing iu r -ttiirn. eraser upon THE mechanic and the laborer. A policy of this kind would be disastrous to the mechanics and working men of the United States. Wages arc unjustly reduced when an in lustrious man is not aide by bis earnings to live in comfort, educate his children and lay by a sulheient amount for tho necessities of age. The reduction of wages inevitably consequent uiHtn throwing our home market open to the world, would deprive them of the power to do this. It would prove a great calamity to our country. It would produce a conflict between the poor and the rich, and in the sorrowful degradation of tabor would plant the seeds of public danger. The Republican party has steadily aimed to maintain just relations 1 o ween labor and capital—guaraing with care the rights 0) each. A conflict between the two has always led in tire" past and will always lead in the future to tne injury of b ath. Labor is indispensable to the creation aiid proUtnb e use of capital, ai.d capital increasesthe efficiency and value of labor. Whoever arrays the one against t he other Is an enemy of both. That policy is wisest and best which harmonises the two on the basis of absolute justice. The Republican party has pro: e :ted the free tabor of America so that its compensation is larger than is realized in any other country. It has guarded our people against the unfair competition of contract labor from China and may be called upon to prohibit the growth of a simitar evil from Europe. It is obviously unfair to permit capitalists to make contracts lor cheap labor in foreign < ountries to the hurt and disparagement of the tabor of American citizens. Such a policy, (like that whi h would. leave the time and other conditions of home tabor exclusively in the control of the employer) is injurious to all parties—not the least so to the unhappy persons who are made the subjects of the contract. Tho institutions of the United States rest upon the intelligence and virtue of a:l the people. Suffrage is made universal as a just weapon of self-protection to every eitizcn. It is not the interest of tho Republic that any economic system shculd be adop o l which involves the reduction of wages to the hard st tndard prevailing elsewhere. The Republican party alms to elevate and dig nify tabor, not to degrade it. As a substitu e for the industrial system which under Republican ad ninistration has dovclopel su h extraordinary prosperity, our' oppoco its Oder a policy which is but a serios of expo -invents upon our sys'e-n ofravenuo —a policy whoso end must be htr.n to our manufactures nnd greater harm t a our lafco-. Experimcnt in the industrial and flna ic- al system is the country's greatest dread, as stability Is its greatest boon. Even tile uncertainty resulting from the recent tariff agitation in Congr st h e hurtfully auootcd the business of t' o entire country. We dan measure the ha m to oar shops and our homes, to our farms and our con m-rce, if the uncertainty of perpetu lUnuff ag.tation is to be inflicie 1 up m tt o c< untry? Wo are n the nudst of an abundant harvest: wc tire on the cup of a revivalol general prosperity. Notaing sands in our way but the dreal of a cl a go in the industrial system v.h.eh lias

years, and which, witu the p >wcr of Increase I capital will wo k still g eater marvels of prosperity in the twenty years lb come. OUR YORKIOX POLICY. Our foreign relations favor our dome't o development. We meat re oo with the world —at pe ice upon a sound has s with no unsettled quest!, n of t u tic-lent magnitude to embarrass or distract us. Happily removed by our gnigrapueat position from participation or interestin those questions of dynasty or boundary which so frequently disturb tho peace of Europe, we are left to cultivate lr.e idly re'a Ions with all. anl a e free from possil le cut-in.'lements in the quarrels of any. The Unite I Sta e i has no cause and no desire to engage in contlict wl h any power on earth and wo may rest in assured eon-idenoe that no power desires to attack tile United fetates. With the nations of the Wes'em hemisphere we should t ullivate closer relations. and for our common prosperity and advance rent we should invit s them all t > join with us in an agreement that, for the future, ail international troubles In North or houth -4meric i shall he adjustod by impar ial arbitration, and not by arms. This project was p\rt of the ft red policy of l*ie.1 lent Airfield's administration, and thruld, in my judgment, be renewed. Its accoinp ishment on this oantlncnt would favorably affect the nations beyond the sea, and thus powerf. lly contribute at no dis ant day to the universal acceptance of the pt ib anthropic and Christ an principle of arbitration The effect even of suggesting it for tho bpnnish American States has been most happy. and has increased tho confidence of those people in ourfriendlv disposition. It fell to my lot as Secretary of State in unc, issi, to cutet apprehens on in thcUepublic of Mexico by giving the assurance in an oiBcinl dispatch that‘there it not the fai-test desire in the United stales for territorid one h on south of the Hio Grande. flhe houndunes of the two republies have been established in conformity w tti the best juris i rtioiial it tercets of l*oth The line of domarcatiotOti not meroly conventional. It is more. It separates a Spanish-American J eople from a SaxonAmorican peopte. It divides one great nation from another with distinct and natural finality.” We seek the conquests of peace. We do■he to extend our commerce, end in an especial degree with our fr.cnds and neighbors on this continent. We have not improved onr relat-cns with SpaniB i Amerta SB wisely and poi sistrntly as wo might have done. For more than a veneration the sympathies of those ci unttie* have been al owod to drift awav from ns. We should now make every effort to gain their friendship. Our trade with them is alrea iy large, idur.ng the last year our e -.changes in the western hemisphere amounted to *3500X10,0 tt—nearly onofourth of our entire lore'sn coroiueroo. To those who may be disposed to underrate the value of our tut le with - the countries el No th and South America it may be well. to sta‘e that their population Is nearly or quite fQ,OQO.OU—and that, in proportion to aggregate numbets, we import nearly double as much from them as wo do from Europe. But the result of the wliolo American trade is In a high degree unsatisfactory. 'Hie imports during the past year exceeded *225.000.000. while.th j exports were less than * ISA, 000,000 -showing a balan e against us of more than *100.000,000. But the money does not go to Span! h America. Wc send 1 irge sums to Europe in coin -or its equivalent to pay European manufacturers for the goods which they send to Spanish America. We are but paymasters for this enormous amount annually to European factors—an amount which ia a serious draft. In every financial depression, upon our re-s-juro : s of specie, Cim not this condi t on of trade In great part be changed 1 Gan not the market for our products be greatly enlarg 'd' We have made a beginning in onr elio t to- Improve trade relations with Mexico, a id we should not be eontentun.il similar and mutually advantageous arrangeirn Us have beent n xes dully made w-ith every nutl in of North and etuutii America. While the groat power ; of Europe arc steadily enlarging their colonial dem nation in Asia aid Africa it.is tike ospeeial province this country to improve mid expand its trade with the nations of Am-rica. No field promises so much. No field has been cultivate! so little. Our foreign policy should be an American poi o/ in its bi-oaoeit and most tomnrehensive sense—a policy of peace, ot friendship, of commercial enlargeThe name of American, which belongs to us In our national capacity, must always exalt the Just pride of patrio ism. Citincnship of the republic must be tie panoply and safeguard of him who wears It. The American citiien, rich or poor, native or naturalised, white or colored, must everywhere walk socure i-i his pereo ial and civil righ s T.ie republic should never accept a lesser duty. It can never assume a nobler one, than the protection of the humblest man who owes It loyat home- I r election which shall follow him abroad, into whatever land he may go upon a lawful errand. I recognise.root without regret, the neoei rity for speaking of two^ sections of our con country. "But the' reiret’dimiilsbi when I see that the elements which separate thtuawcluitaiehDjpwyin*. FffjwMwi fc#\

ijMfiHL tod , pre yielding whire^a^growTng cordiality warns toe t outheru H Ill bra heart aile Can any « ne ddibt that between the se .t.Oas cult.deuce and esteem are today fho.e marker then at any period in /Mr* preceding 'the eteejfcm o( Piosident f,mco d- This is thi result in part •sJfmifjr tb .change these influence* odder which Southern Common' wealths lire learning to vindicate Civil rights, and a lap ing t eems dves to the conditions ol polili;al tranquility add irdnstrinl pngresu if there be occasional and violent outbieika in the South against this peaceful progress, the punlle opinion or the country regards them as exceptional and hopefully trusts that eaeh will prove t »e in t. The South rc -d' capital and occupation, hot coat overey. As mu h as arty part of the Korth, the South needs the full pin & lion of the revenue laws which the Republican party, •ti Wform of: ’ Offerc some of the Southern States have ah ihidy cn'ered upon a career of industrial development and prosperity. These, at lea t, should not frlU their electoral votes to destroy their own future. Any effort to unite the Southern States Upon issues >B it grow out of the me norios of the war will summon the Northern States to Combine in the assertion of that nationality Which wa«tl.Btr inspiration in the civil s'rujcgle. Add thus great energies which should b« united in a common Industrial development Will bC waswd in buitful stiife. ThcDemobratic paity shows itself a foe to Southern prosnenty by always invoking Itnd uiging Southern political consolidate a. Such a policy quenches the rising instinct of patch ism in the heart of tiio Southern youth: It i latviot--.-i it revives and stimulates prejudice: is substitutes’ the spirit Of barbaric vengeance for the love of peace, progres: and harmony.

5 TIIK t;ivil4 SKICVICR. The general character of the-civil gorviet. of the UnitccJ States under nU administration* has bec.*n honorable. In tucono supreme tet —the collection and disburseneut of revenue —the record of Udetity has never been Surpassed in any .nation. With the almost fabie lous sums whic h were received and paid during the lae war, scrupulous integrity-was t e pi eva.liuK rule, la lee i, throughout that trying period it oan be said to the honor of t ne American name that unfaithfulness arid dishonesty air ong civil officers. were as i are as misconduct ani cowardice on the held o battle. The growth of the country has continually and necerearl y enlarge l the civil service, until now it includes a vast (tody of ollieers. Buies and methidsof ftpptdnt nent w hich prevaded when the number was smaller have bon found insu tie'etit and tmpracticab.e, and earnest cf orts have been roa'le to separate the great mass of ministerial officers from parti an influence and personal control. Impartiality iu the mode of appointment to be based on qualitica on, ant security ol tenure to be based on fa thfui discharge of duty, are the two endato bo accomplished. One public business Will be aided by separat.ng the legislaii-e bran h of the Government trim ad control of appointments, and the Executin' r o uirtmnt will be reli *ved by subjecting a po.mmcnts to fixed, rules and thus removing them from the oapr.ee of favoritsm. Hut there should- be r gid observance of the law Which gives ia all cases, of equal competency the preference to the soldiers who risked their lives In defense of the Union. I entero 1 Congress n 1363, and in a somewhat prolonged service 1 never found it expedient to re u 'st or i ecommend the removal of a elvl; o uicr except in four instances, and thin lor non-political reasons, which wore instantly c onctus ve with the apprinting power., 'iho officers i i the district, uppo ntod by Mr. Lincoln in ltiiit upon the rocommcndat on of my pr. (loeess >r. served, as a rule, uni til death or resignation. 1 adopted at the bef inning of my servi re the test of c >mpe itivo examination for a p untinen’ to West Point, an 1 maintained t sj ion r as 1 had the right by law to rpoirit a cadet- In the < a e of many offlccis I found that the present -aw, which aibilrarily limds the term of t e cornmission, Offered a o >. st int tempti.t o i lo c- anges for mere political reasons. 1 have p inlioly expre sed the belief .hat the es-en-i al modification oflhat law wou.d be iu many respects ad .anfligei us. My observation in the Department of State continued the conclusions of my lecisUitive experience, and impr s ed me w th the con-' violion that the rule of impart a appoint nent might with advantage be carried beyond any cxist ng provision of t' e civil-service law. It should be applied to appointments in the consular sorv.o j. t onsu s should be commerci.il sentinels—enci.c ing the globe with watchfulness for the r country’s interests. Their intelligence and corny otincy become, therefore matters ot great. ) ubdc concern. No man should be appointed to an American consulate who is tor well in-tiiut-ed in the history and resources of his own country, and in the requirements and fangoage of commerce in the country to which he is rent. The same rule should bo applied even more rigidly to Secretaries of Legation in our diplomatic for vice. The people hhve the right to the most effoient agents in the discharge of public business and the appoint] ig power should regard this as the prior and ulterior considera ion. THE MORMON QUESTION. Religious liberty is t he right of every citisen of the Republic. Congress is forbidden by the Constitution to roa'se any law ‘ respecting tho establishment of religion, or prohtbit-n? t'm free exercise thereof.” For a cent ry, under thisguaiantee, ITotestajit and Cathode, JeW and Gentile, have worshiped God act ording to the dictates of ccnsoionce. But religious 1 beriy must not be perverted to the justification of offenses ngainst the law. A religious rout, strongly intrenched in one cf the Territories of the Union, and ip ending rapidly in'o four other Territories, claims the right to destroy the groat safeguard and muniment of social Older, and to practice ns a religious privilege that which is a crime punished with severe penalty In every State o site Union. The sari redness and unity of the family mast be preserved as the foundation of all civil gbvernment, as the source cf orderly administration, as the surest guarantee of moral purity. ’ The claim o ' the Mormons that thov •«. .11

vin My authorized to practice pohc urnshoiild no more be admitted than thj claim of certa'n 1 e 'then tr.bes, If thev should coma among >16, to continue the rite ot human sacrifice. The law does not interfere with what a man t eii'Ves; it takes coguizancc only of what he does. As citizens, tee Mormons are entitled to the feme civil rights i a others and to these they must be confined. Polygamycan never receive Nation#! sanction ortolc: ation by admitting the community that upholds it as a Sfc.ti in tho l.'n’on. Like others, the Mormons must learn that the llbertv of the individual ceases white the rights of society begin. OTTO CTBRERCT. The people of the United States, though often urged an 1 tempted have never Seriously conte nplated the recognition of any other money than gold and silver—aud ciiriency directly c mvoitiblajnto them. They havo not done so, they wi W not do so under necessity less pressing than that of dospera'e war. Tho onespeciil lepiisite forthe completion of our monetary system is tho Sting ot the relative Values of silver and gold. The large use of silver as the n o ley of account umoug Asiatic nations, tak •!> in connection with the ino owing cotuimcco of the woitd. gives the weighiest reasons lor the international agreement in the j remises. Our Government should not eease to urge this measure until a eornmon st tndard of value stmil be reached and e.-t tl lished—a stm-atl that shall enaole t ie Unite l States to uge ihe silver from its mines as an a-mii iry to gol i in s.dtling the balances of commercial exchange. THE PITBLH! LANDS, The strength of the. Republic is increased by the multiplication of landholders. Our laws should 1 ok to tho judicious encouragement of actual s utlers on the publ o domain, which g.ioutd henceforth b-j held as a sacred tiu<t tor- the benefit oftho.se seeking homes. The toudeacy to consolklatc largo,* tracts of land in the ownership of individuals 'or corporations should, with pioper rogard to vested lights, be' discouraged. One hundred thousand acres of land in the hands of ^snu- man is far less profitable to tic Nason in every way than when its ownershipls divided among 1,01)0 n.en. The evifcof permitting large tracts or the National d*umur to be eon olidatedand controlled by tho few against tl e many is enhanced when the peisods controlling it ate a.iens. it is but fair taat the public, land Should be disposed or only to actual sjti e s and to those who are citizens of thc Bepublic, or willing to become so. OUR SHIPPING INTERESTS. Among our National interests one laingutshes—the foreign carrying trade. It Was very seriorsty ciippled in cur civil war, aad another blow was given to it in ihe general substitution qf si earn for sails in cc-xn traffic. with a frontage on the two great oceans, with a Ireightave larger iha t that of any other nation, we have- every inducement to .restore our navigation. Yet the Government has M-herio refused its help. A small share of the encouragement given by the Government to railways aud to manufactures, and a small share of the capital and tl e zeal given by our cltivens to those enterprises would have carried our ships to every sea and to every port. A law Jus; enacted removes some ot the burdens upon our n ivleation aud insp.res ho -o that this g re t interest may at last receive i's due share of attention. All pfferts in this direction should leee.ve encouragement. SACREDNESS OF THE BALLOT. This survey of our ennd t on a; a nation reminds us that material prnspi r.tj»is but a mvekery if tt does not tend to preverve tl»e liuer y of the people. A free ballot is the safeguard of reDubli an institutions, without which no natonal welfare is assured. ApOnulareiccti >nhi n.-stlyo n1u< t>U,embodies the very majpsty ot tp.i* government. Ton m litons of voters desiro 11 take part in the p .«ding contest. The safety < f the KepubUn rents upon the integrity of the ballot— upon the “ f > the erttveh. TodefiSff.t securit,- of guffs a e a fraudulent pole ds , __ - no worse «' Mime against constitutional libert r than to qbetruict the deposit ot an honest vote.' JHe who cormots suffrage strikes at the very root or free gcv in i e -t. He is « aroii-oucmy of the republic. He forgets t®H in 11 ampliug upon the rights of others he fatally imperils his own lights. “It is a good land vi hloh the Lord our Go»t doth give us,” but we i*n maintain our heritage only by guarding s rith vigilance the lojrce of popular power. I am, with great respect, your obedient servant, J mes G. Blaine, —Antons customs in Siam is a method of deciding a law suit by putting the litigants under cold water, the one remainining the longest aeing declared the victor. -Twenty-four steamships are kept busy by one firm in bringing fru't from Mediterranean ports to New York. Y. Mail. N. —Since 1880 real estf.t? in Japan has fifty per wot,

. USEFUL AMP SUGUESTtTE. . —It costs as mnch to raise ft weed as to raise ft bean-stalk, - —/the use of soighn&f caneforfodder 1st being advocated throughout the South: I . —Clean Out vour stable every day this suminer and see it yon do not have lesS flies about the house: —The first icssofl to learn In stockraising is' to learn to love and pet the Cattle:—Cincinnati Times, —A Newburg (N. Y.) man has two hundred different sorts of .apples grafted upon ope tree. One hundred and, thirty-seven of them were in bearing last year,—Troy Times, —It Is better to keep the cattle in small pastures, changing them frequently from one field tolhe other, than to allow them to roftm over a large pasture continuously:—H, Y, Herald. —It is not known to every woman, btit it is a fact that matting can be sewed together; a stout thread is needed, and the edges must hot be drawn too closely together, as of course there must be no seam, but simply a joining of the. edges.—N. Y. Post. —Dessert, in a Hurry: A quickly made dessert is this: Make a batter as if for common griddle cakes, then add an egg, and some fruit, say stewed or canned berries, drain ‘ the juice from them, and stir thebl'into the batter; fry in a little lard, and serve^rith puddingsauce.—Boston Globe.

—When yon want a dust-pan, have it made to order, with the handle turned down instead’of up, so as to rest on the floor, and tip the dust-pan at a proper angle for receiving the dust ft is a great convenience, as yob do not have to strop and hold it while you are sweeping.—Exchange. —Be slow initurning stock upon new pastures. Nothing is more injurious, not so much by the cropping of the grass as from the constant tpeadjpg of the animals, and though a few months’ deprivation of a field may be a little inconvenient at first, the benefits to the field will be permanent and lasting.— Cleveland, Leader. * —The Enrol New Yorker thinks blight in apple trees is caused primarily by w^int of care, and that the second cause, applicable to the pear as Well, is wet feet. Still another cause is the borer, which sweeps away whole orchards of young trees, and lor which is recommended a wash of two quarts of soft soap in one gallon of water, with a pint of crude carbolic acid after the mixture is boiled. —The millions on millions of poor people in our cities get very little fruit, because their money that' should and ought to go for fruit is, by custom and the neglect of fruit-growers, farmers and dealers in honest merchandise, spent for the plainest, vilest curses, too common to need naming. Untold quantities of fruit could be'worked up into the most wholesome and delicious temperance drinks, and kept for sale all over America in barrels, bottles and cans.—N. Y. Herald. Keeping Children Busy. The blessing of abundant occupation is as needful for children as for adults. And even more necessary, since they have so little resource in retrospect. The busy child is ggporally the happy child, and the happy child is geuerally the least troublesome of the species. Indeed, 1 We have often thought that the maxim, “Be virtuous and you'll be happy,” might in the case of children, if not always in that of grown persons, be reversed and marie to read, “Be happy and you'll be virtuous.” Certain is it that the unoccupied child is unhappy and often indocile and mischievous. In nothing do children differ more than in their ability to amuse themselves. A child with ail active, imagination can play with eager delight with a thousand trifles that children unblessed with that faculty have no conception of utilizing. And we are mistaken if those juveniles are not the happfest who are compelled by a scarcity of material to invent new and fertile uses for what they do have. Certain it is that so much may be doiie • for a child that he will be dwarfed for life by an oversupply of toys and attention, while if he

VU&UOM iu j/i'iu U It u IVOVUl VUO ho will have the joy of inventing and creating amusement for himself. The kindergarten occupations furnish exhaustless material for the instruction and amusement combined of the little folk. Though a regular course of instruction as to the use of these “gifts’' is certainly desirable, those who can not take this course may .utilize the kindergarten “gifts” in their nurseries with very great advantage. There are books giving specific; instructions a? to the employment of,.each “gift,” and any mother or nurse who will read them carefully may have the means at hand of keeping the little brains and lingers happily employed. Plato, in ‘The Laws,” says: “Now a boy is of all wild beasts the most diffi, cult to manage. For by how much the more he has the fountain of prudence not yet fitted up, he becomes crafty and keen and the most insolent of all' wild beasts. On this account it is necessary to bind him, as it were, with many chains.”| lTho habit of industry is one of the best chains with which to bind a boy, and this habit may be formed from the cradle and strengthened through all the growing years. Little chores about the house and garden not above the boy’s strength to do he is all the better fdr doing. The stimulus of wages may be used to further him in his willingness to work, and these Wages may be applied to the purchase of little' indulgences, which the parent would gladly give, but which’ are more highly prized •when earned than when accepted as a gift ’ > The readingrof suitable books is another very strong chain to bind a boyito the practice of virtue,- and a girl'as well. The long days of childhood can not be better spent than, when growing vigorously in body, in storing up the seeds of knowledge and in forming nuclei about which accumulations of various information may grow, 'fhe rudiments of all the sciences may be learned before the child enters his teens. But this depends on the wisdom and care of the parents very largely, and upon the facilities afforded the ,child. If instead of being shut up in a schoolroom tivo hours every day, he is' made the companion of an intelligent parent and his mental activities directed toward interesting topics, fie may advance far mofe rapidly itt intellectual groWfh and attainment than his fellows mopihg through the dull routine of the primary school as it is generally conducted. Horace Greeley’s mdlher told him 'stories, recited poetry to him and fed his mind with all the treasures of her own, thus cultivating in him a taste for tfast and various reading, a taste which the retained to H he last. .-i . - A printing press; a tool chest, a scroll sa*, pet animals, a set: of garden tools, are excellent things for boyS to occupy' themselves with, but their use requires constant oversight from parents, so that habits of exactness, of neatness; of kindness, of thoroughness, and of order, may lje forinqd, Vfcupatioti is not intended merely to keep a boy or girl tram mischief, but positively to form them to virtue. The -knitting and sowing which onr grandmothers did in their childhood, the “samplers” they Wrought, we smile at now, but in this work they learned what we are trying tq teach our children. Handicraft pf all sorts is becoming the fashion and childish hands are now taught to draw, to paint, to model, to hammer brass, to embroider, and in this agreeable Work, amusement and profit combine, Y 1 Wwie.

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The President bos gone out to the Soldiers’ Heme. The “eottnge,” which has stood tenantless since h's return from that sylvau retreat in the early antums of last year, has been put in order and will be occupied daring t! e most of the summer by the President and his son anti daughter. Tor twenty years of more this has' been a favorite resort fit Presidents of the United •Mates. 'J he •■President’s Cottage,19 aa it is termed, is not a Pres'demV cottage. It is simply a parfcof the Soldiers’, Home, and is only oe-npied by the ■President on invitation of the Governor of that institution. 1 he Soldiers’ Home in Washington is not of the same cla-s as the homes -scattered throughout the country. It tv as establ shed originally from a "pillage fund." levied by General Scott Upon the inhabitants of the City of Mexico because they stoned the American troops from the roofs of the houses when they entered the city. It was intended Solely for Veto ans of the Mexicftn War. Later, though, the scope of the institution was enlarged, and it was made tb fake in the disabled and worn-out veterans of the regular army. Its large farm, hundreds of acres in' exterr, numerous costly buildings for q arters for the retired soldiers, hospital and o fir chrs’ homds, make it an object of great attention arnbiig those interested in matters of this character, while its drives, winding, through the wooded bitls which surrbnh 1 ’the home like a huge park, nnike it the most attractive spot in the district of Columbia at this season of the year. The grounds surrounding the home contain many hundred acres,o wild woo.led Hills, etc., ravines and well kept roads, whichwind in most pii-t'-resque and bewildering fashion through them, are always busy in spring and summer. There, in the cool of the afternoon and evening, you may see on any and all occasions dignified statesmen, and army1 and navy odicers in uniform, and wealthy .and retired eiti ens of the l n ted Mates who have come to make Washington their home, accompanied by their families, luxuriating in the coot shade and the comfortable drives of this fashionable noon resort. It is fashionable at all times while the leaves are upon the drees, bnt especially so after the "President's cottage” is occupied. It has been popular with President and people for a quarter of a century. Franklin l ierce, it is sa d, was the first to make this his summer home,"®5 His example was followed by Buchanan and Lincoln, and so on down. Lresident Grant was the only one who did not take kindly to this sylvan retreat. Ho ap. ears to have always had a liking for the so nd of the sea, and turned his attention to long Branch rather than to the leafy quiet of the bo'diers’ Home. The President’s cottage is only a ‘‘■do tage ’ in name. It is, in-fact, a solid, substantial, stone structure, two and a half stories high, lar.-c as an ordinary gentleman's residence, and by no means entifh d to the term of cottage, It was built some tifte -n or twenty-years ago, to be used for the residence of the Governor or some other ollicer of the Home. After its completion the elegance of the-building and its surroundings suggested the proprietv of inviting .the then Pres'dcnt to spend the summer in it the propriety of the President’- spending the summer away from Washington having not yet dawned upon the minds of the statesmen of that day. The example thus set has been followed almost every summer since, until now the cottage is set apart as sacred to the President, whatever his na i e. It stands tenantless between the.close of the scaso.iv.in autumn and the return of the hot weather m spring or summer. The' drive trom the White House to the cottage is a charm ng one. From the front of the Whits House, Sixt enth street, one of the broadest and mist beautiful in the city, stretches directly north to Boundary, whence a finely macad ami efl road runs over hill and dale through the thick shades of the well kept forests, ahd fifteen minutes’ drive takes you to the door of' the cottage. From an open space a few steps from the cottage you look down upon Washington, lying in the valley below—a charming picture witn the Potomac as aba kground and framed by the-Visginia hills, where sleep the dea i at Arlington.— Washington Cor. Stivannah News.

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