Pike County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 September 1885 — Page 4

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT. Published Every Thursday. * PETERSBURG. - - . INDIANA. 1 SARAH JANE. Pfcr to the north, where pines and snow-drifts _ be, There is a realm of rigor known as Maine. 411 wintent here the tierce winds whistle tree, -And people shovel snow with toil and pain. And yet it has an interest for me. Because it is the home of Sarah Jana ery Smarming girl is Sarah Jane, But prouder, loftier, chillier, none can be. "bother it is because she dwells in Maina „ ’’hero girls, like pines, grow strong and straight and free, l can not say: l only know, with pain. That, though so charming, she is oold to me. And this, alas! is very hard for mo, ■ Because 1 am so fond of Sarah Jane. Vo suitor could more true and loyal be: There beats not in tho wholo extent of Maino A heart from guile*and fickleness more frea ^ And her unkindness gives me keenest pain. But yet she scorns and ridicules my pain. And utterly contemns my love and me. There seems no softer side to Sarah Jane; Her native lakes can no more frosty be (vnen zero slips from Greenland down to Ma’.ne, Binds every wave and leaves no ripplo froo. Soon May will come subset the waters free. And lilt the winter's paralyzing pain: But will tho sunshine warm her heart to me? Will even dog-days melt my Sarah Jane? If I could but believe that this tnight be. What rays of hope would radiate from Maine! How with tho bluebird would I fly to Maine, With speed as tireless and with wing as free. Forgetting all my former doubt and pain. If only she at last would turn to mo. My radiant and relontiug Sarah Jane, Her heart's thawod side! But will it ever be? Would it could bo! Would I were now in Maine! How would my pain depart and leave me free! ! 0 Fate, give me to win iny Sarah Jano! Editor's Drawer, in Harper's Magazine. {Copyright Secured. AU nights Deserved.] Driven From Sea to Sea; Or, JUST A CAMPIN’. BY C. & POST. Published by Permission of J. E. Downey & Co., Publishers, Chicago. CHAPTER XIX—Continued. The road by which they had come the night before could be seen at one point only, and that nearly a mile distant, where it wound around a spur of the mountain arid dived down into a ravino from which it emerged only to wind ground other bluffs and spurs and dive down into other hollows out of the range of vision of any one standing in the door or at the windows of the shanty. 4 By ascending to the summit of the mountain, a succession of lower ridges and hills could bo seen stretching away towards Phippsburg and the river, with sometimes a glimpse of the valley beyond, and of a thin line of smoke from the steamers that went puffing up and down that highway of nature; but from the lower ground on which the shanty stood this view was shut out by intervening hills, and there came a feeling of loneliness, and sequestration indescribable, to the three women as they looked out upon the scene that first morning. A thick crop of self-sown oats mixed , with weeds had sprung up on the ground, untilled for two years. These * the rain had beaten flat to the earth in Elaces, while in others they still kept a alf erect position and were twisted together in bunches. \ The few scattering grape Tines, left to themselves, had broken from their supports and run riot among the weeds and grass. The peach and pear trees showed the same lack of care, the very luxuriousness of their growth and their untrimmed appearance adding to the general look of desolation. And this was the scene upon which Martha Parsons looked, standing in the door of the shanty with her two daughters. Contrasting it with the home they had just left, and recalling the fact that the nearest neighbor was two miles away, is it any wonder that her heart sank and that for a moment she almost wished they had gone Sown into the valley and rented, instead of buying this isolated aud lonely place upon the mountain side?

CHAPTER XX. A GLEAM OP SUNLIGHT. But it would not do to give way to „ feelings of despair. This was to be their home and they must make the best of it, and without a word, she turned back and began arranging things so as to give room to set the table and get what breakfast was possible under the circumstances. Mr. Parsons came in with his arms full of wood gathered from a fallen tree top, and soop a tire was burning in the stove and tHo smell of cofl'ce tuled tho room. No complaints were uttered, but all worked to get things to rights. Nails were driven into the studding of the walls and articles of clothing and many of the cooking' utensils were hung up out of the way, at least for the time being. • The tame was placed in the center of the room and covered with a white cloth, tho frugal- meal placed upon it and the family gathered about for the first meal in the new home. As they ate they talked of how best to arrange thin ms.

If it had been the dry season they could have got on so much more comfortably, but with the certainty of rain one-third of the time for months to come, the prospect was dismal enough. However, they must do the best they could, and after breakfast Mr. Parsons helped to !put up the beds, one in each corner farthest from the stove, which stood in the center at that end of the room where a single window of six small panes of glass looked out upon the mountain above them. At the other end were two windows of twelve panes each, through which could be seen the hills stretching away towards the river. There was also a similar window on each side at the right of the doors, so the room was not dark, however much j, it might lack for conveniences. Everything not needed for daily ttse " was packed in boxes and trunks ami stored away under the beds, but even with this economy of space very little room was left for moving about Each member of the family, however, tried to be cheerful and so cheer the rest Lucy even went so far as to attempt a witticism, and suggested that there was no lack of room so long as none of them were obliged to leave the house in order to get space to open the stove door. Strips of bright carpet were laid between the beds, about which were hung curtains reaching from the ceiling to the floor. The clock found a resting place upon a shelf to the left of the front dcor. A bureau with a mirror occupied the space between the windows at the enu where the beds stood. The table, when not in use, was folded up and allowed to stand in the center of the floor ready to be opened at meal time. Upon the walls were hung a few pictures. The white curtains which bad once adorned the windows of the sitting-room of the old home were fitted to those of the new; and when all was done that could be done, the room looked so bright and cozy that the hearts of the occupants lifted a little, and but for the thought that one was so soon to leave them, whom they knew not when, if ever, they would meet again, they might have been almost tappy,

Jennie did not know what day to look for her husband’s coming, for he could not tell, when they parted in San Francisco, how long it would take him to arrange his business,which consisted in the collection of several little sums of money owing to him, but she had written from Phippsburg, telling him where to go for directions how to find her; and one cigy, about a week after the family had taken possession of the shanty on the mountain side, he came, having walked out from the landing. Mrs. Parsons, cried a little when Ensign kissed her and called her “mother.” It reminded her so forcibly of the separation which his coming presaged that she could not help it But she welcomed him warmly and made him feel that she loved him already for Jennie’s sake. From John Parsons he received a "band-shake which, hardened as his own hands were by work in the shop, came near causing Ensign to flinch. The man whoso daughter he had married. felt a very warm friendship for him indeed. * * ‘ In comparing Ensign with Annelsey, as he had naturally done at times, when he expected both would become his sons-in-law, he had somehow come to regard him as a kind of hero, contending against odds, as he felt that all men who labored wero forced to do, and that in choosing Jennie for a wife he had allied himself with those who, although giving no outward sign, wore yet half unconsciously revolving in their minds some plan by which to remove the wrongs beneath which they suffered and writhed. It was true that he had lost his pride in possession and with it all confidence in himself. Without much knowledge of books, inclined by naturo to think lightly of his own abilities, and having failed to successfully defend what he kuew to be his natural rights to the wealth which he had himself created, he now felt that he had no right to offer advice upon needed reforms in society or the laws. But Ensign was young, he possessed cool courage and a spirit that would not allow him to remain supinely inactive beneath great and continued wrongs. Besides this, he had a fair education, and, so the girls said, had once or twice talked to his fellow-work-ingmen in public upon questions affecting their interests, and there had gradually grown up in the mind of John Parsons a feeling that Ensign was to be instrumental in some way, perhaps as a leader, in righting the wrongs of the people. * So long as Lucy had been engaged to marry Mr. Annelsey these fedlmgs had been suppressed, overlaid as it were by a fear that in encouraging them he was choosing between his daughters, who were equally dear to him, but he had not been able to prevent a feeling that Annelsey, being in sympathy with the cause of the losses which he had suffered, was In some way partially responsible for them, as he certainly was a representative of the class who were the gainers by those losses, and by the losses of the thousand and millions of other men and women who are doomed to toil all their lives for the wretched pittance of enough food and clothing, and hopes of better times, to induce them to continue the work of creating wealth for others. The moment, however, he learned that Ltioy had dismissed Mr. Annelsey, the thoughts which had before been but a dumb kind of feeling, kept under by a knowledge of the relation which the young man was likely to bear to the family, began to take shape, and once or twice in talking with Jennie of the life which she and her husband would lead in Chicago, he had even put these thoughts into words, and now he welcomed the young man not alone as a son-in-law, but as one who might some day help to right existing wrongs and make the people free. Ensign remained with the family nearly a week, and every day endeared himself more and more to his wife’s parents. It was in order that they might become better acquainted with him, and thus not feel that, they were giving their daughter to one so nearly a stranger, that he remained. During his stay he helped all he could to put the place in better shape, and as the rains did not fall during the entire week, the two men were enabled to.do much towards making , things look more cheerful.

A shed for the horses was built out of lumber bought for that purpose by the former owner, but never erected. The broken places it. the fence were repaired;, the grape vines staked and tied up, and portions of the over-abundant growth' of fruit trees cut away. It .was really wonderful the; change which these little improvements made in, the looks of the place. But then they had the sun, and the sun with a very little assistance .in the way of setting leaning fences and gates upright will, in a few days, make a great change in any picture first seen when wet and sodden by iohg continued rains. As the two men worked they talked —talked of the wrongs of the farmers and the laboring and business men of the cities; of the causes of so many losses and so much poverty and suffering and of the possible or impossible remedies! “There ought to be a law to prevent corporations from ownin’ land they don’t need, an’ can’t make no use on, ’cept to make them that does want to use it pay for the privilege,” said Mr. Parsons, as they were at work repairing the fence. “No man can’t be realally free unless he has a home or his own, and here Gover’ment has gone an’ give half the State to corporations, an’ how is the next gineration to git homes, I’d like to know. “ An’ other corporations are washin’ down the mountains an’ tilliu’ up the valleys; spilin’ the finest lands; chokifi’ up the river, an’ destroyin’ the homes of honest folks jest as ef gold was of more value than bread. I’ve tried hard to get somethin’ ahead agin old age come a creepin’ off to us, and to give the youngsters a start when they left us, as Jennie is a doin’ now, and here’s what it all amounts to; a bit of land not much better tnan wild on the side of a mountain. The land God made, an’ all'the improvements that is on to it never cost a thousand dollars when they was new, and that ain’t as much as my wife had when I married her; so we’ve got nothin’ at all to show fer a lifetime of hard work an’ savin’. “So fur as wo’re concerned, mother n’ me I mean, it don’t make much difference any more. We’re gettin’ old and shan’t last much longer; but ef you an’ Jennie ain’t no luckier than we hev been, and there ain’t no change for the better in things, I’m afeard you won’t have even sich ashantv as we’ve fot to die in, and your children won’t e no better than slaves. Ye see it holds to reason that ef things don’t get no better they must git wus, fur every year the corporations an’ the rich folks is a gittin’ more an’ more of the land, an’ of everything else, an’ the more they git the easier it is to git more, an’ by an’ by they’ll hev it all. an’ them as hain’t got nothin’ an’ can’t git nothin’ will hev to do as they say or starve.” “I don’t exactly understand where the wrong starts,” replied Ensign, “but I know there is a great wrong somewhere. The ownership of land by corporations, and by others who only wish to play at dog-in-the-manger, is one cause for the existing condition of things, but there must be others. “Some way or other the larger portion of all the wealth which the people create gets away from them while they are exchanging it among themselves. I don’t know how, but it does. If it didn’t there oould not possibly be rich people who have never worked.

‘The merchant bora the goods ef the manufacturer and soils them to those who consume them, thus earing much time which would be wasted if each in* dividual was forced to 50 to the manu* facturer for every article purchased. The merchant is therefore a valuable member of society—he helps the producers to make an exchange of wealth, and is fairly entitled to receive pay for what be does. But there are the national banks, I don’t see how they help any; and every particle they consume or hoard up is so much taken from the wealth which belongs to those who produce it. It seems to me that those who produce wealth ought to have wit enough to devise some- means of exchanging it among themselves without paying a bank for the privilege. And every once in awhile there comes a panic, and thousands of business men are ruined, and thousands of laboring men thrown out of employment, and then they get desperate and try nil kinds of sharp tricks to catch up again. Now if nobody is benefited by those panics, some way ought to be devised to prevent them, and if anybody is benefited by them they are the fellows that ought to be watched and not allowed to have any hand in the making of the laws, for it is natural to supposo that they would legislate in their own interest and not in that of the laboring and business portion of the community. “Then there are the railroads; they get their charters from the people on the plea of being publio highways. The people build the roads and then tlto companies charge just what they choose for transporting the people and their goods from one part of the country to another, and if it is goods that they transport, they usually take a great deal more of them than they leave the producers, and then bribe Congress and courts and State Legislatures not to interfere with them. “And so it goes, and I don’t know how to go to work to stop it.” ••Wall,” replied Mr. Parsons, “you’re on the right track anyway, an’ you jest want to keep agoin’ till you think it all out What you say about the exchangin’ of wealth is sensible. It holds to reason that there oughtn't to be nothiu’ thrown in the way of folks exchangin’ wealth. Them that works creates all the wealth there is, and if they had all the land to begin ou, and weren’t beat no way in the exchangin’ of what they produced, it’s mighty clear that ef a fellow didn’t produce nothin' er help some way in the exchangin’ of what others produced, he wouldu’t have anything to eat very long. There ought to be some way discovered so that them that produce the wealth could trade among theirselves without supportin’ a lot of fellers that don’t do nothin' but stan’ around an’ look on. “Ef you an’ Rastus, now, could be together you’d figger it out between you in short meter, I’ll wager. I tell you Rastas is smart, and he^s got the sand to back it, an’ ef anybody ever goes to disturbin’ him on his claim, thero’ll be troublo in camp dead sartin.” At last the day came when Jennie and her husband were to take their departure. The family arose early and prepared breakfast as usual, but it was with heavy hearts and eyes wet with tears. And when it was eaten, Mr. Parsons went out and hitched the horses to the spring wagon and drovo around to the door of the shanty, and helped Ensign to lift in Jennie’s trunk, xhe smaller traveling bags followed. Then came the last kiss and clasping in arms and pledges of remombranco and love, over which we willingly draw a veil. Who is there that has not witnessed similar partings; partings of those whose happiness depended so much on each other’s presence, yet who were forced by the cruel necessity of hunting for dollars, to tear themselves apart, ana each go separate ways with half of the sunshine gone out of their lives? Will the time never come when men will understand what the Teacher of men meant when He said: “Take no thought for the iporrow”? And is it not possible, by being just to each other, to remove that constant, crushing weight of care which comes from the ever-present necessity of taking thought as to what we shall eat, ana what we shall drink, and wherewithal we shall be clothed? I believe it will come; I know it h entirely possible. When good-byes had been said, John Parsons drove the young couple to the landing, where, with tears coursing down nis cheeks, he, too, bade them good-bye and. God speed, and then, having fed his horses, again hitched up and started sadly homeward.

CHAPTER XXI. JOHN PARSONS GIVES ERASTUS A HINT. When the spring came, the level ground about the shanty on the mounttain side had been broken and sowed in grain, or planted with vegetables; the sloping ground above set in grape vines, and a hundred added fruit trees were putting forth their buds end giving' promise of the future. John Parsons was not so young and spry as formerly, but he was still 141 good health, and work was his only escape from thought Every day when the rain was anything less than a regular downpour, he was to be seen at work somewhere about the, premises, and Mrs. Parsons and Lucy,lent ready assistance. As the house was small, the labor of caring for it was small also, and on Dleasant.days one or both of them were to be found busily employed in the garden or vineyard. They made, few acquaintances in their new home. There was no neighbor nearer than two miles away, and not more than a score of families within a .circle easily reached for a day’s visit and of these a number were foreigners, who, being unable to speak the language, did not mingle with their American neighbors. Occasionally a couple of women from some of the little ranches upon the other side of the mountain would come to spend the day at the shanty, but not often; and, although pleased to have them come, Mrs Parsons and Lucy did not always return their visits. This was not because they did not feel kindly towards their neighbors, but because they felt little inclination to go from home, and because they were busy, whenever the weather would admit of it, in helping to get the place in shape to produce a living for the family And so the spring and summer passed, and fall came again. They now had an abundance of vegetables; the two cows which they had brought from the old place, and which found pasturage in the hollows of the hills, supplied them with an abundance of milk and butter, and even with a small surplus to sell; and this, with the chickens and turkeys that thrived so finely and wandered at will up the mountain side and down the gorge at the foot of the level field, kept them supplied with groceries. Of clothing they had a good supply when they came, and were not obliged to purchase, either for garments or bedding, for some time to come, and so did not suffer for anything except from a sense of their losses and wrongs, and for the want of companionship. They heard from Jennie and her husband every few weeks. Ensign had been given the place promised him. They were living in the outskirts of the city,* in a little cottage which they had bought on monthly payments, and were comfortable and happy, as young married folks who are Messed with good healtn and plenty of faith in each other and the future always are. fxo 3* goNzurvm]

W0N fHS SbgTHEHN heart. The Expression at Ikijirt and Sorrow Over Grant’s Usath that Corns from tbs Sooth. The expressions of respect and sorrow over the death of Grant that come from the South are genuine and universal YVe conld fill our columns over and over again with them. They are not as pretentious and profuse as the similar expressions exhibited in the North—first, because the people of the South, with all their fire and passion, are not given to the elaborate and theatrical exhibitions of feeling which prevail in the North; and, second, because in one section Grant is gratefully recognized as a deliverer, and in the other as a conqueror. In the North the people owo him everything; in the South the people owe him nothing. He captured their strongholds; he smote and destroyed their armies; he broke their power, humbled their pride and reduced them to submission. But In the moment of his triumph and their defeat, ho was simple, unostentatious and magnanimous. He, made no dramatic iflourisR of his sword over their vanquished heads to signalize his strength and to embitter their humiliation. He claimed no semblance of a Roman triumph with a procession of his conquered victims following his chariot wheels. He never posed before the world as a conqueror. On the contrary, he studiously avoided*everv appearance of boasting. It was utterly repugnant to him. Nothing could be more con,ciliatoiy than the undramatic gentleness and modesty with which he received the surrender of Lee’s army, and, after feeding them from his own commissariat, dismissed them to their home with all their property but their guns. It is this true valor, none the less chivalrous and genuine for being undemonstrative, that won the Southerh heart, and that now, twenty years after their bitter defeat, evokes from the Southern people warm and sineere expressions of admiration for the man who inflicted it None knew better, because none felt sharper the indefensible blunders of Grant’s civil administration—his dispersion of the Legislatures of Georgia and Louisiana and his forced subjection of .the people of those and other Southern States to a detested rulo of carpet-baggers and negroes. But all this is forgotten—pardoned to the thoughtful generosity with which he kept his sword out of sight in their hour of defeat and gave them the hand of a countryman. “It is as the great soldier,” says tho Atlanta Constitution—“brave, simple, generous and magnanimous, that he will be best remembered. It is as the soldier, even though his sword struok down her cause, the South loves to remember him. As the conqueror of Lee, refusing to take the sword of that great leader, whose heart broke when he surrendered his army; as tho thoughtful victor feeding his starving enemies from his own wagons; as the highminded man of honor, demanding the integrity of his parole at the hands of the vindictive Secretary of \V ar; as the dauntless man, stauding alone, but determined, between the helpless South and the angry North—he held, as he deserved, in all his trials the deepest and fullest sympathy of all our people. When his life went out a great name passed into history, and a great heart was stilled forever.” Surely, the North and the South are one country and one people when they can meet at the sam,e tomb and pay a common tribute to the samo departed patriot.—St. Louis Republican.

A DOUBTFUL STORY. The Statement That Yloe-President Hendricks Speaks with Contempt of President Cleveland’s Policy Not True. Wo doubt very much the story of the Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Times that Vice-President Hendricks speaks with contempt of the policy of the Administration, will oppose it both in and out of the Senate, and will organize opposition to the President’s appointments. The Republican press has labored diligently for some time to create ditl'erenees between members of the Cabinet and between the party and the Administration but thus far without the slightest success. It is not to be supposed that all the men at the head of the Government will, be of one mind with respect to every question that comes before them. Human nature is not so constituted that membership in a particular party means harmony on the part of every member of the organization. The Cabinet is made up of men of ideas and convictions. The Vice-President is a man of convictions, too, as is President Cleveland. The latter is peculiarly situated, because he can not fairly ignore the claims of thousands of” Republicans who supported him in preference to the Republican candidate for President, though he doubtless feels that he can not afford to lose the favor of thousands of democrats in order to keep theirs. The Graphic believes the VicePresident is right in the assumption that the Democrats won the victory find should have the fruits of it; but it also believes, as the Vice-Presi-dent doubtless does, that the President means to do right, and with that end in view will till the offices with Democrats as fast as in his view ho consistently can. Whether it will be done fast enough |s the question at issue, and the party Is Very patient. But, however this may be, there will be no partjf light. The hopes to that effect of the Republican press will come to naught The Democratic party has too much to expect with a continuance of the harmony that prevails to imperil itself on a struggle of any minor, or for that matter any larger, question. CivilServioe reform as the Republicans view it is a great humbug, and its main purpose is to keep Republicans in and Democrats out; but the Democratic party will not assist in its development by quarreling themselves out of office altogether. The President will be treated with the greatest respect by the Democrats of both the Senate and the House of Representatives, and it will be found that if every Democrat is not in total harmony with every other Democrat on every question—and that state of things never yet existed—there is a sufficiency of harmony to preserve to the party m the Union the success it has already won.—N. Ti Graphic.

AGAINST CLASS LEGISLATION. The Democracy in Favor of Throttling Exclusive Public Privileges. The Democracy has always been the protector, and the only protestor, of tho people against monopolies and all such foes, so constant and insidious. The Republicans, conspicuous for so much that is bad, are marked throughout their career for fostering monopolies of every species—of railroads, by immense grants of the peoples' land and money; of herders, by connivance at immense seizures by them of the peoples’ land; of manufacturers. by exorbitant tariff for their special benefit; of (1 overment shipbuilding, by giving all contracts therefor to John Roach, etc. Tho Democracy has been reinstated in power but a few months, and yet see bow rapidlv progresses the removal of these intolerable grievances so long heaped upon the people by the Republicans, while proclaiming devotion to the peoples’ interest. It took a Democrat to throttle that langerous monopoly, the United Staths

Bank; it tikes a Democrat to throttle these dangerous monopolies fixed on the people by the Republicans. Throttle them all, the Democracy must and will. J Such resolute bearding of audacious and gigantic monopolists as recently exemplified by our Democratic President would be worthy of Old Hickory himself. It is a splendid exhibition of courageous fidelity to the people, and will \ivo in history side by side with that which made Old Hickory so famous for moral as well as military courage. If the people should desire no other benefit from Democratic Administration than this throttling of Republican monopolies, it would be enough; would justify their confidence in restoring Democratic ascendancy and their determination to maintain it But this benefit is only the initial of good to be wrought by the Democracy.—Indiana State Sentinel THE PRESIDENT'S POLICY. Republican Organs still Falsely Declaring That Mr. Cleveland Is Opposed by His Party. the Republican organs are still grinding out the old tune that the Democartio party is tom by dissensions, and that the opposition to President Cleveland is gaining strength daily. Because a few professional office-seekers have been disappointed, and the Administration has ignored all applications and claims to place except on the ground of fitness and good record, the great body of the Democracy is represented as incensed and watching an opportunity to express its dissatisfaction. 'the absurdity of this theory is so evident that it would not require any refutation beyond a simple denial, wire it not that it is urged so persistently and clamorously by the Republican press. It is true there have been critics of the President’s policy in the ranks of his own party, but they are men who sought to control his action in regard to appointments, and to set themselves up as autocratic advisers. 1 Senator Ebstis, of Louisiana, is one of those men, but his childish carping at the Administration has only excite! the disgust of his fellow-Democrats in the Pelican State and has brought out numerous declarations of confidence and admiration regarding the course of the President. The disgruntled Senator finds himself very lonely in'iiis opposition. His theory is that a party can not be held together without spoils and that the President’s scrupulous adherence to the principles of Civil-Serv-ice reform is “treacherous conduct towards the party he claims to represent.” Considering that the President; ever since he entered public life, has been the unflinching enemy of the spoils system and has placed the business interests of the people above the claims of political office-seekers, it is difficult to see in what respect his conduct can be termed “treacherous.” He has won golden opinions everywhere by his honest, straightforward dealing, an! some of the most flattering indorsements have come from Senator Eustis’ own State. The blindness of the Republican orgapg prevents them from recognizing the harmony which exists between the Democracy and tho Administration. In this State, for instance, it is alleged that there exists widespread dissatisfaction among not only the leaders, but even among the rank and file of the party, because, as is said, the Government is run on strict business principles. Such an insult to the intelligence and honesty of the State Democracy will receive a fitting rebuke’at thei convention and at the polls. The peculiar titnoss of the selections for office, made by the Administration, has not only given satisfaction to his own party, but has compelled words of praise from his political opponents. The personal motives which inspired hostile criticism have no weight with the great Democratic party. The efforts of a few disappointed, would-be dictators can have no effect upon the loyal organization which stood to its principles through twenty-four years of exile from office, and constantly denounced the conniption which its leader is now rooting out of the Government. The Republicans, in their demoralization and factions, are apt to regard others in the same plight. They can understand harmony no more than they do Civil-Serv-ice Reform. A notable evidenoe of this is shown by their evening organ in this city, which appears to be in a hopeless condition of mental imbecility and incapable of interpreting the utteranoes of iiit.ollifront innrnn.14 —. Alhn.nn Avnim

THE TRUE EXPLANATION. A Republican Model Which Was Too Closely Followed. The Maine case of a man appointed postmaster while in jail for default as assistant in the same office has been rolling for some time as a sweet morsel under the tongue of tho irreooncilables, who hare rejoiced in it as proof of Administration incapacity or blundering, or worse. It has just transpired, however-—in the investigation to which the case referred to has given rise—that reappointment of proven defaulters was a yery common affair under Republican Administration. On the 28th of January last the postmaster of Oneonta, New York, was reported to the Department as a defaulter by one of the inspectors. Notwithstanding he was, on the 28th of February, just a month later, reappointed to a four-years’term. In one ef the Ohio offices the postmaster was twice reported last year for grave delinquencies and his dismissal recommended; but the delinquent Was continued in office. There are others still in office against whom defalcations were reported years ago. The appropriate explanation on the Republican model would be that the Republican Administration was inca-r pable or deliberately kept those thieves and rascals in office rather than expose them. But the true explanation is said to be found iu the red-tapq system which the Republicans have established in the Department. Under this system reports of defalcation have! been 'pigeon-holed and delayed, and never reached the appointing power, or not until after the defaulter was reappointed. The “irreconcilables” will be very ready to accept the explanations of the cases under Republican Administration; though they have scouted it ih the Maine case under the presetft Administration, which stands substantially oh the same footing.—Detroit Free press.

—The Massachusetts Sunday law is a tery old one, prohibiting all work or travel, except for charity, mercy, necessity or worship. It also applies to Saturday evening. In letter and spirit, if observed to-day, it would stop the running of horse cars, Sunday papers, most of the work of drugstores on Sunday, the riding, driving and walking that are general, all the work done Saturday evenings of a secular sort, and a hundred and one things that churches and clergymen indulge in. Still, an attempt is being made by the Mayor of Waltham to enforce it— Boston Journal. —A person struck by lightning has no knowledge of tho fact aud feels no pain. Where the shock is not fatal they recover consciousness, believing they have been abed and asleep.—Troy Times. —It took six Philadelphia policemen to get a drunken female cook to tbe station house. She had just advertised: “ Place wanted by a sober, sweet-tem-pered cook. ’ ’—Philadelphia Press,

Ribbons, Scarfs and SashesRoot edges are on ribbons of all widths, and besides these the novel feature is the rough and shaggy ©fleet given ribbons in various ways, some of rtiem being entirely of frise velvet, while others have boncle stripes of silk or of wool, and some are of plush in long pile, partly curled and partly plain. There are wool ribbons that look like Astrakhan bands, so thick and shaggy are they, and there are in the other extreme wool ribbons as thin as gauze or as lace, with perhaps a stripe of velvet, or plush, or of moire, along the selvedges to give them weight The faille franeaise ribbon in soft silk reps with picot edges are rich and plain, but the greater number have borders of boucle silk or wool added to them; others have half theirwidth of watered silk or of velvet, while the wrong side is of satin; and it mav be noted hore that satin only appears asrevers or accessories to the rich repped silk and velvet fabrics, or as a foundation for S'lt and other metal brocades or cmloideries. Wide ribbon loops drop down from the crown to the brim of felt or stockinette hats; two long quills aro thrust in at the top, and a metal pin or dagger is pointed upward from the brim on one side amid the loops. Smalt bonnets abo have high loops of ribbon just back of the velvet coronet; , slender wings or feathers that are covered with metallic frosting or powderei with beads are stuck in the loop.—liar' per's Bazar. Swarthy Aliens of Cape Cod/ A ment'on of Provincctown would be Incomplete without some notice of the Portuguese' colony. When fishermen from Fayal came to the Grand banks they found this placo, a good base of supplies and ready inarket. Tarrying here, they Intermarried with the Cape Goddesses and formed a little colony by themselves. Tlwir -sman descendants inherited the dark comeliness of the stranger people, and have eyes as big and black and complexions as gypsybrown as if they were pure-blooded Portuguese. These people work chiefly iu the cranberry fields. They have a wav’of t wisting a bright red shawl or something of that kind around them that goes well with their dark looks. These people we regard as aliens. But it is a fixed fact that the Portuguese Gomez sailed along here a hundred years before Plymouth was settled. Although no one can assert that he landed, yet there is a chance that he took formal possession of that land in the name of his King, that being the usual way of those early birds. Possibly these people have a prior claim tc the soil. It is said that the Cape Codders are quite alarmed at the vigorous hold these Portuguese are getting. But as long as Provineetown produces such <iuantitios of fish and cranberries there is enough for all to do. , The telegraph flashes the news of the number of- quintals of coil and mackerel that are brought in by the fleet. Every wharf is crowded with barrels.—Province' town Cor. Hartford Times.

Bound to See Her Husband. . A sensation was caused in police circles hero to-day by the discovery that one of the prisoners in the city jail who was attired as a man was a woman. The name of the prisoner is Henrietta Ilix. Her husband deserted her in Boston a few months ago. Learning that he had come to Richmond, the wife donned male attire and shipped on board of a vessel at Boston as a cook about twelve weeks ago. Upon reaching this city Mrs. Hix discovered that her husband had been arrested and committed to jail for robbery. 'Determined to gain access to him and share his prison cell, the woman stole a small amount of money. She was arrested, and without arousipg the suspicious of the authorities as to her sex she was placed in the same cell with Hix. The ruse was discovered today and the husband and wife were placed in separate cells. Hix confirms the woman’s story and says they were married in Boston about two years ago. It is probable that Mrs. Hix will be pardoned by the Governor. She is young and good-looking.—Richmond f Fa.) Dispatch.

Medicinal Item. Ever since Colonel Peterby bad a big boil on the back of his beck, which was lanced by Or. Perkins Soonover. he has had a prejudice against the profession. Conversing with Gilhooly, the othei day, the latter said: ••In some parts of South Amorics people live to be over a hundred years old; there are no doctors there at all. Isn’t that wonderful?” “It is not as wonderful as it is here, in Texas,” growled Colonel Peterby. “Here in Texas there are hundreds ol doctors, aid nevertheless a man occasionally lives to be a hundred vears old. That is still more wonderful. ’—Texat Siftings. —The great sand bar which is the conspicuous feature of the fine bathing beach at Far Rockaway, was not in existence thirty years ago. One night there was a great storm, and when the people awoke the nextmorni-g, instead of living on an ocean, they were living on an inlet, with a big sand bar in front of them, running thirty miles along the coast The people who owned the land on the shores opposite this bar claimed the new land, and succeeded in making good their claim in the courts to all the land that, lay directly in front of their original site.—N. Y. Tribune.

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