Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1888 — Page 2

1 V ; ••FOONDKRKO.” G<yly «be ml»«d fro™ the Northern port, in the oawn of the April day ■ * When the tunriae tonebed the Nab'a bleekfciest and blushed over Whitby bay. Father and two bold eona were there, a* blithe aa the morn all three. Whatalh thee, mate? • to the fourth they aaid: “Does aught go wrong with thee?” ■By the birds that swoop 'round Kettlenem, there's flah where our lines we set. And the brave new coble spring* to her work, st no boat has served us yet” Ay. the coble’s tight and strong enow. an’ I know what the seagulls meau. But I left my mIMUs bad np there.” and he glanced at the beadland green. Where a red roof hung like a marten's nest, and bis bold brown eyes grew dim; With kindly cheer and honest jest, bis fellows heartened him. X Or ever the sun was high at n ion, the 'bright* blue sky was black. fbe wild white horses tossed their crest over the gathering wreck. Over the gray seas fast and fleice. through the clouds of flying foam. The squall swept on from.the cruel east —the boat was far from home. Three women watched from the great pier head' through the black and bitter night; One lay and shivered to hear the blast, as it rushed o'er the rocky height.. And nestled closely to her side lay her little new born son, While the women said: "(la'll be back to see. long ere the day is done. ”

But ever the pale cheek flu <hed and bu toed .and ever the eyes grew wild; She bade them take the bibt away, “for he’ll never see bis child." Many a boat In bootless search flew over the lessening waves. Many a keen eye strained its sight, from the H<ad with its jrsw Ist grarec - But the April day, in shade and shine, passed in a deepening pain. And never over the harbor bar came the • Whitby Lass" again. Hope sank and rose, and sank and died; the fisherman knew at last, That found deep sea h trv»H and busy s'.raithes four gallant “hands” had passed. They found thebsat on the flowing Ude ere the year to winter grew; Her sails were rent, her blocks were jammed, her strop waa half cut through. That was all to tell of the desperate strife that for lue and death tbev made. Who sank to the depth of the great North sea, with never a to aid.

A STORY OF LOVE.

By W. S. Gilbert.

I am a poor, paralysed fellow who for many years past has been confined to a bed or sofa. For the last six years I have occupied a email jpotn, looking on to one of the narrow side canals ot Venice, having no one about me but a oeaf old woman who makes my bad and attends to my for d; and here I eke out a poor income of about £3O a year bv leaking water color drawings of flowers and fruit (they are the cheapest models in Venice), and these I send to a friend in London, who sells them to a dealer forsmall sums. But, on the whole, 1 am‘hanpy and content. It is necessary that I f-hould describe the position of my room rather minute ly. Its only window is about five feet above tne water of the canal, and above it the house projects some six feet and overhangs the water, the pn jeering portion being supported by stout piles driven into the bed of the canal. This arrangement has the disadvantage (among others) of so limiting my upward view that I am enable to see more than about ten feet of the heikht of the house immediately opposite to me, although by reaching as far out of the window as my infirmity will peimit I can see a considerable distance up and down the canal, which does not exceed fifteen feet in width. But, although I can see bnt'little of the material house opposite, I can see its reflection upside down in the canal, ano I contrive to take a lood deal of inverted interest in such of its inhabitants as show themselves from time to time (always upside down) on its balconies and at its win-, down. When first I occupied my room, about six years ago, mv attention was directed to the reflection of a little girl of thirteen or so (as nearlv as I could judge), who passed every day on a balcony just above the upward range of my limited field of view. She had a glass of flowers aud a crucifix on a little table by her side, and aa she eat there in fine weather from early morning until dark, working assiduons’y all the time, I concluded that she earned her living by needlework. She was certainly an industrious little girl, and as far as I could judge by her upside down reflection, neat in her dress and pretty. She had an o’d moth er, an invalid, who on warm days would sit on the balcony with her, and it interested me to see the littlemaid wrap the old lady injshawls and bring pillows for her chair and a stool for her feet, and every now and again lay down her work and kiss and fondle the old lady for half a minute, and then take up her work Time went by, and as the little maid grew up her reflection grew down, and at last she was quits a little woman of, I suppose, sixteen or seventeen. I can only work for a couple of hours or so in the brightest part of the day, so I had plenty of time on my hands in whichtc watch her movements, and sufficient imagination toweavea little romance about her, and to endow her with a beauty which, to a great extent, I had to take for granted. I saw—or fancied that I could see—that she began to take an interest in my reflection (which, ol

OOQIBMha could see as I could see here); •nd one day, when it Appeared to me that ahe was looking right at it—that is to My, when her n flection appeared to be looking right at me—l tjried the deoperate experiment of nodding to he', and to my intense delight her reflection nodded in reply. And so onr two reflections became known to one another. It did not take me very long to tall in love with her, bat a long time passed before I could make up my mind to do more than nbd to her every rooming, when the old woman moved me from my bed to the sofa at the window, and again in the evening, whin the little maid left the balcony for that day. One day, however, when I saw her reflection looking at mine I nodded to her •nd threw a flower into the canal. She nodded several times in return, and I mw her draw her mother’s attention to the incident. Then every morning I threw a flower into the water far “good morning,’’and another in the evening for “good night,” and I soon discovered that I had not thrown them altogether in vain, for one day she threw a flower to join mine, and she laughed and clapped her hands as the two flowers joined forces and floated away together. And then every morning and every evening she threw her flower when I threw mine, and when the two flowers met she clapped her hands, and so did I; but when they were separated, as they sometimes were, owing to one of them having met an obstruction which did not catch the other, she threw up her hands in a pretty affectation of despair, which I tried to imitate, but in an English and unsuccessful fashion. And when they were rudely run down by a passing gondola, (which happened,, not infrequently) she pretended to cry, and I did the same. Then, in pretty pantomime, she would point downward to the sky, to tell me that it was destiny that caused the shipwreck of our flowers,and 1, in pantomime not half so pretty, would try to convey to her that destiny would be kinder next tims, and that perhaps to-morrow our flowers would be more fortunate—and so the innocent cour'ship went on. One day she showed me her crucifix and kissed it, and thereupon I took a little silver crucifix which always stood by me and kissed that, and so she knew that we were one in religion. One day the little maid did not appearon her balcony, and for several days I mw nothing 01 her, and although I threw my fl iwers as usual no flower came to it company. However, after a time she reappeared dressed in black and crying often, and then I knew that the noor child’s mother was dead, as far as I knew she was alone in the world. The flowers came no more for many days, ror did she show any sign of recognition,but kept her eyes on her work, except when she placed her handkerchief to them. And opposite to her was the old lady’s chair, and I could see that from time to time she would lay down her work and gaze at it, and then a flood of tears would come to her relief. Bat at last one day she aroused herself to nod to me and then her flower came. Dav after day my flower went forth to j >in it, and with varying fortunes the two flowers sailed away as of yore. Bit the darkest day ot all to me was when a good-looking young gondolier, standing right end uppermost in his gondola (for I could see him in tne flesh) Worked his craft alongside the house and stood talking to her as she Mt on the balcony. They seemed to ppeak as old friends—indeed, as well as I could make out, be held her by the hand during the whole of their interview, which lasted quite half an hour. Eventually he pushed off*, and left my heart heavy within me. But 1 soon took heart of grace, for as soon as he was out of sight the little maid t > rew two flowers growing on the same stem—an allegory of which I could make nothing, until it broke upon me that she meant to convey to me that he and she were brother and sister, and that I had no cause to be Md. And thereupon I nodded to her cheerily, and she nodded to me and laughed aloud, and 1 laughed in return, and all went on •gain as before. Then came a dark and dreary time, for it became necesMry that I should unergo treatment that confined me absolutely to my bed for many days, and I worried and fretted to think that the little maid and I conld see each other no longer, and worse still, that she would think that I had gone away without even having hinte 1 to her that I was going. And I lay awake at night wondering how I could let her kno v the truth, and fifty plans flitted through my brain, all appearing to be feasible enough at night,but absolutely wild and impracticable in the morning. One day—and it was a bright day indeed for me —the old woman who tended me told me that a gondolier had inquired whether the English signor had gone away or had died; and so I learned that the little maid had been anxious about me. and that she had sent her brother to inquire, and the brother had no doubt taken to her the reason of mv protracted absence from the window. From that day, and ever after, during my three weeks of bed keeping, a - flowar waa found every morning on the edge of my window, which was within easy reach of anyone in a boat; and when at last a day came when I could r be moved I took my accustomed place on the sofa at the window, and the lit-

tle maid saw me and stood on her bead, to to ap*ak, and that was m eloquent as any right end up delight conld possibly be. So the first time the gondolier passed my window 1 beckoned to him, and he pushed up alongside and told me, with many bright smiles, that be wm glad indeed to see me well again. Tnen I thanked him aud his sister for their kind thoughts about me during my retreat, and I then learned from him that her pame waa Angela, and that she was the best and purest maiden in all Venice, and that anyone might think himself happy indeed . who could call her sister, but that he was happier even than her brother, for be was to be married to her, and, indeed, they were to be married the next day. Thereupon my heart seemed Io swell to bursting, an J - the blood rushed through my veins eo that I could bear i t and nothing else for a while. 1 managed at last to stammer forth some words of awkward congratulation, and he left me singing merrily, after asking permission to bring his bride to see me on the morrow as they returned* from church.

“For,” Mid he, “my Angela hMknown you for a long time—ever sines she was a child, and she bar often spoken to me about the poor Englishman who was a gooo Catholic, and who hy all day long sor } ears and years on a sofa at a window, and she has paid over and over again how dearlv she wished that she conld speak to him and comfort him; and one day. when you threw a flower into the canal, she asked me whether she might throw ano’her, and I told her yes, for he would understand that it meant sympathy with one who was sorely sffl cted. And so I learned that it was pity, and not love, except, indeed, such love as is akin to pity, that prompted her to interest herself in my welfare, and there was an end of it all. For the two flowers that I thought were on one stem were two flowers tied together (but I could not tell that), and they wefe meant to indicate that she and the gondolier were affianced lovers, and my expressed pleasure at this symbol delighted her, for she took it to mean that I rejoiced in her happiness And the next day the gondolier came with a train of other gondoliers, all decked in their holiday garb, and in nis gondola sat Angela, happy and blushing at her happiness. Then he and she entered the house in which I dwelt and came into my room (and it was strange indeed, after so many years of inversion, to see her with her, head above her feet), and then she wished me happiness) and a speedy restoration to good health (which could never he); and I, in broken words and with tears in my eyes, gave her the little crucifix that had stood by my bed or my table for so man-v years. And Angela took it reverently and crossed herself and kissed it, and so departed with her delighted husband. And as I heard the song of the gon dolieis as they went away—the song dying away in the distance as the shadows of the sundown closed around me—l felt that they were singing the requiem ot the only love that had ever entered my heart.

A Hogasa Witness.

Mt. Pleasant (Tex.) Special. A novel scene was witnessed in our county court here to day. A case of hog-theft was being tried before a jury, and the court decided that the marks on the sow unfit r dispute were not made plain to the jury and ordered the hog brought into court. The hog was sent for, an<T the plaintiff in the ease, assisted by.a negro, dragged it from its pen, the street, and to the court bouse, which by the time the hog witness had been placed upon the witness stand for examination was packed by an eager crowd, who wanted to hear the hog give in her evidence. The jury wm called upon by his Honor to examine the marks of Mrs. Hog, and after they had fondled her much marked and muHlased ears, she was let out from the presence of his Honor and carried back to her pen; ____

Montana Justice.

Washington Critic. Montana is he charged with? Constable—Holdin’ thet his shootin’ iron counted in a flush. Judge—Drinks for the crowd. Next. Constable —Thia here chap calls hisße’f McCoeky Butt, and Mya “daypo” an’ “i-ther” an’ni-ther.” . - Judge—Twq hours to git outer the county.

A Sweetiy Garnished Girl.

The gayest girls in town now startle their beholders by robing in light-hued woolen Newmarkets tha r have a sum-mer-like tine. Over these they wear boas of some light fur like Siberian wolf, with a muff to match, ard on their beads they carry the daintiest little hoods of white worsted. If she has a pretty complexion and lively eves, a mudei? I »oki almost pdible in sacha rig. '

It Doesn’t Bother Him.

Yonkers Gazette. Some scientist in stock raiding asserts that a pigs tail is his thermometer. This is a wise dispensation and explains why the pig is never perturbed when the ■weather gets below aero. One reason is because he don’t live beyond December, and the o her is, he can’t get around to look at his thermometer, and therefore is never shocked by a knowledge of how cold it is.

TIMIELY TOPICS.

Farmer* Warned Againat Free Trade' Hop hi* try. BlMk’t Work* and L»«-ed»..A Mat Held by Gross Fraudß.-CU veleaxl’a Anu.Tantf Position Mot the Leeatot Bit Ml«tak»a. Florida vote* to exclude D ikota from Statehood. Florida cast last year 57,000 votes for members of Congress; at the same rate Dakota would be entitled to four Representatives in Congress. Louisiana votes to rob the people of Dakota of their share in the National Government Louisiana cast last year about eigbty-five thousand votes for members of Congress, at the same rate the people of Dakota would be entitled to seven Representatives. Georgia votes to rob Dakota, and to keep the inhabitants of that Territory in a dependent condition; in the State of Georgia 27,430 votes were cast for members of Congress last year, and at, the same rate the people o. Dakota would be entitled to thirty-eight Representatives. Mis sissippi and South Carolina vote to shut out Dakota; those two States cast in all 85,000 for members of Congress, and at the same rate Dakota would.be entitled to seventeen members.-[Mew York

Tribune. Could there be a clearer demonstration of the total lack of equity in the treatment received by Dakota frem a Demo eratie Congress? Southern States addicted to the old practice of suppress ing the colored vote now propose to suppress the great free white vote of this vast Territory by denying it Statehood, and so rendering its vote virtually nugatory. THU MISTAKES OE GROVER. Washington special, As the President nears the completion of his message he is more frequently in consultation with such ultra tariff reformers as Mr. Carlisle, and when the end is reached that portion of the paper relating to the redaction of the revenues will contain more of Carlisle than of Cleveland. It will be chock fnll of blue grass and corn juice statesmanship. Those regions which have the most vital interest in the question will not be represented or considered. At least their representatives ere ignored. Mr. Cleveland is noted for his peculiar manner of selecting hisadvisore. They are not called because of their intimate acquaintance with the question on which a ivice is desired, but because the President has taken a personal fancy to them. This insures him the companionship of a good fellow,bnt it is riot conducive to that elucidation of great questions which is likely to most benefit the public. Democrats shake their hea<ls sadly as they listen to the freshest reports of conferences which are to blow the tariff to smithereens, as far as the President’s message can do it, and ponder whether, after all, Democratic success is insured for 1888,asthey have been inclined to believe. A Democratic Congressman Mid to-day: “If a firm stand is taken by Democrats in favor of a tariff for revenue only, and if the Republicans adhere to the principle of a reasonable protec ive tariff, I would not be surprise*’ to see three, ard perhaps four or fivi, of the States that are called Southern give Republican majorities next year. Virginia has shown clearly that she has a popn lar Republcin majority; Maryland, and West Virginia,, and Georgia, and possibly Tennessee,would give a majori♦y for the tariff if that were the leading issue. No man is bigger than his party, and popular as Mr. Cleveland has been, be appears to me to be making a mistake in this matter of the tariff which may easily defeat him if he be renominated. The Republicans are exceedingly pleased with his course in regard to the tariff, and are refraining from criticism, that he may not be alarmed, and so grow orations and diplomatic. He is treading on dangerous ground.” black's words and deeds. In bis annual report for 1885, Pension Commissioner srid: . At one time the Pension Bureau was all but avowedly a polh cd machine filled from border to border with the uncompromising adherents <f a single organization who had for the claimant other tests than those < f the law, and Who required in addition to services in the field submireion to and support of a party before pensions were granted. Chi ft <f divisions, assistants, clerks, messengers, messenger boys, watchmen and laborers were all bnt entirely from one pditioal political school. Veteran service could not secure cuitinuanco in office, and at the behest and demand of partisans beyond the office old employes were cut adrift and zealous rustlers placed in their stead; leaves of absence were granted that the active men of the party might dominate over theelections. It was widely proclaimed that the pension system of the Ur i ted States; this vast and unmatched beneficence, depended for its continuance on partisan stceess. The glory of a noble gratitude was taken from the people arid made a masquerade as a party accomplishment, and men were taught that the immense sums levied on all onr borders, a grateful the veteran soldiers and their dependents, were party contributions and would cease if a change in Governmental administration occurred. These charges against Republiean administration of the Pension Office the

“Physical Wnck” strained every nerve before a Congressional Committee.to prove, but foiled ignominiously in the effort, and has been carts il not even to bint at It in his subsequent reports. It remains for B(rck himself to prove c inclusively that his own administration has been grossly part sin in the very distribution of ths Mcred trust lands at h's disposal; that be has in f ict made a great Dsmocratic “bar*!” of the appropriation f»r pensions. To prove this it is necesMry only to examine bis own annual report for 1887. From the table of pensioners and pensions paid, given by counties, some rough calculatiops will show the relative value of the pensions received by pensioners in the different Statej, the Democratic States being placed in one column and the Republican States in another: The most casual glance at this table shows that the soldier abiding in a Democratic State receiver as a general thing a larger pension per annum than his less fortunate comrade who lives in a Republican community. The Kansas soldier, for example, receives $lB 15 less a year than the veteran dwelling in Mississippi and slll3 less than the soldier of favored Indiana. The men of Ohio appear to be bedly off, while the condition of the hosts who hail from Pennsylvania and Nebraska is pitiable in the extreme. It would be very well for every Reputuicau member of Congress in a close and doubtful dis trie’to take a tablet a d Black's tables for 1886 and 1838 and address himself at this opening season of the year to a statement of account and strike a balance between himself and his conscience, “The Physical Wreck” and bis chances for re-election. From the interesting tables which furnished the data tor the averages quoted it can be shown that even in Copiah and Kemper counties, Miss., the Democratic pension “bar” has been tilted upon end so that its ciq scions bung hole sends gurgling floods into the wide funnel with which the “unterrified” prone upon the sacred soil, hath garnished his thirsty lips. All, that Commissioner cf Pensions has charged against the Republican adminis*ration of bis office he has himself been guilty of item by item and the record of which he now convicts himself beggars all partisanship ever before attempted. Before the next appropriation for pensions is ma H e pledges should be extor’ed from the “Physical Wri ck” for its fair and honorable disbursement. WHERE AGRICULTURE FLOURISHES. South Bend * It is evident in this country where manufacturers aie prosperous there agriculture flourishes. The most valuable farm land, the most remunerative husbandry, exist where the best local demand from the mechanic and the trader creates good markets at home, for bread and meat, eggs, milk and fruit. Those farmers who compete for the foreign trade in wheat and corn will never secure the competence witbin the reach of those who seek to supply those engaged in home manufactures. Those political economists who seek to remove the duties now laid on wool and other farm products are mere theorists, and would destroy A merican agriculture,the bulwark and mainspring of our National prosperity. Let our farmers one and all resist the silver tongued appeals of the fred traders, who would enrich Great Britain and Europe at the txpeuse of theUniteOtateO., ■ - ~~~ . A BEAT HELD BY GR S 8 FRAUDS. The House Committee on Elections, January 21, heard an argument in behalf of the claim of J. V. McDuffie to the seat now held by A. C. Davidson from the Fifteenth Alabama District. This district has become notorious on account of the fact that, although it contains a Republican mij irity of some 20,000 votes, no Repubuein candidate for Congress has received a certificate of election since the State Government fell into Democrat c hands fourteen years ago. In all that period Democrats have been regularly returned m “eheted” and have c »me to Washington to help make laws for the country. In two casee the seat has been contested anccessfully: ote> when the Republicans controlled the House, and once when tne Democrats were in a majority. The argument of C. C. Lancaster, Judge McDuffie’s counsel, bristled with an array of facts, as shown by undis pntfd testimony, which must have startled even some of the Democratic members of the committee. According to the returns in the office < f the Secretary of State of' Alabama, Davidson was “elect.-d” by a majority of H. 357 votes over 1 fcDuffie in a district which contains a Republican majority of 20,000 at least. How was that feat accomplished? The ex} lanation is simple and it is fortified by impregnable testimony. Votes which were cast for McDuffie were counted for Davidson by thousands. According to the testimony gathered and presented this form of cheating pervaded every county and precinct in the distric: except one county in which a fair election was held. Proof of the full extent of the frauds could not be obtained on account of the delays and other impediments cast in the way by the ebntesteeand his friends. In one town, for example, his counsel occupied three entire days in the cross examination of a Single witness by ask-1 ing frivolous and irrelevant questions,*

which obviously were framed for the sole purpose pf consuming time. Enough proof, however, was obtained to show a maj irity cf 8,517 votes for McDuffie over Davidson. Trie Committee continued the hearing. ATTEMPT TO BAMBOOZLE FARMEES. Cor. Chlcago'lmer-Ocean. In one of the Chicago free trade organs a few days ago, I noticed on its editorial page an article headed, “Twenty-five Millions of Free Tracers by compulsion,” the closing sentences of which article were as foliowi: “If these farmers would bestir themselves, exert their intelligence and not be fooled, bamboozled and awindled before tbeir very eyes by the aid and connivance of rural Congreasmen, they would arise in their wrath and smash the whole robber conspiracy that is devouring their substance and keeping them perpetually in debt And discouraged.” I claim the above article, and particularly thia closing sen ence, is one of the greatest attempts to fool and bambotzle intelligent people I have seen in a long time. The statement is there made that no operative protective tariff law does or can benefit the Western farmer. This is a> sei ted in the face of the great development that has taken place in the West during the past twenty-five years, which, according this writer’s statement, nave been years of high protective war tariff. Could such a development have taken place if this tariff had been such a robber conspiracv? The devouring process must be very slow, as I happen to know that the farmers of this county at least have been growing richer from year to year. It is true the prices of grain here are regulated by the Liverpool market. What then would be the condition if the peop’e now employed ip this country in manufacturirg should be compelled to turn tbeir attention to farming? Would not the surplus of farm products fir export be largely increased and the price on the Liverpool market be correspondingly reduced, and thereby a low er price for these products be established at every railroad station all over the West. This being the case what advantage would free trade bring to the farmei? Let the writer referred to answer. He further states that the farmer of the west is placed at a disadvantage in placing his surplus products on the Liverpool market by the ocean voyage, which tells so hard against him in competing against the slavish ryots of India (that is the expression). He fails to state, however, that while New York a miles front London, Bombay, the) nearest Indian port, is 11,320 miles distant from it. If this is not “bamboozling” what is i ? With a bold effrontery he aske: “Where does Congress get its authority?” Let him read again the Constitution of the United States and lhe particular clause “to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States and with the Indian tri oes.” Let him further learn that the clause was born of a bitter experience ot an attempt by the mother country to so restrict the American colonies that they could not make their own nails or hats or even transport wool by water. To this same condition does the Cobden Club desire to bring üb; its whole energies and the vast funds at its disposal are bent to this purpose, and ably are they assisted by such writers as above referred to. Protection does benefit tue Western farmer. Ihs proof of. thii assertion is not farfetched, aßr.Te,Y6hargnmeirtß<mthe free trade side of the question. He has but to compare bis own condition with that of the generation that preceded him or his own condition thirty years ago. Merchant.

EXCHANGE SIFTINGS.

An income tax—marriage. The consolation race—woman. A frontispiece—the hotel clerk. Ten-pins is a bowled game to play. A cold snap is to plumbers a soft snap. Never pick aqnarrel before it is ripe. A general advance agent—the pawnbroker. Obituary notes—the music of the dead sea. Prohibitionists should never wear light shoes. Nobody t’inksob trespassin’ twe'll de fence am put up. De pusson dat ’grees wid yo* am alius a pusson ob sense. Texas Biftingi: An object of charity—to do good, of course. It is queer that no logs are ever rafted down the River Styx. The man who indulges in “horns” may expect to get on a toot. Lily Langtry has returned to New York to look after her fences. Detroit Free Press: All stir and bustle—the sewing society at tea. Dr. McGlynn summons the sluggard to bis anti in the hope that he will join and ante up.

Had Beard of Us.

New York Graphic. A government agent traveling in Alaska says that the American citizens in some portions of that country still pray for the emperor of Russia, In one town only one man was found who knew the name of an American city, and that was San 1 rancisco. The report says: “After laboring with them one man was found who had somehow heard of Chicago. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington were unknown regions.”