Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1891 — Page 2

THE NEXT CONGRESS.

Aaalysls of the PoUtloal Com* plexion of the Lower Branch. Dmomcj-'i OTtnrk«laiß| Majority ud Mow It May I* died to KUct a Preald«nt Coder Certain ConUng-eaeiet. Wash. Correspondence Indianapolij Journal. , Interesting figures and deductions are furnished by the printed lists of members-elect of the next House of Representatives. The lißt is unofficial but it is accurate. Of the 332 members there are 287 Democrats, 87 Republicans and 8 members of the Farmers’ Alliance, who will not go Into either party caucus. There are Other members ia Southern States whe were elected on the Alliance platform, but they will vote on party questions with the Democrats. Glancing over the list, by States, It appears that there are, of the for-ty-four States, no less than sixteen with solid Democratic delegations, and thirteen more where the the majority of the delegation is Democratic. There are ten States with solid Republican delegations, and two with Republican majorities. Of the remaining three States two have'. Alliance majorities, while.in the one remaining State. Minnesota, there are three Democrats, one Republican and one Alliance man, so that the delegation, on a vote, is Democratic. Summing up, the Democrats control the vote of thirty States, the Republicans twelve, the Alliance two, a total of forty-four. There are, than, sixteen solid Democratic delegations and tea Republicans. The sixteen solid Democratic delegations include a membership of 106, while the ten solid Republican •delegations number a total membership of fifteen. The frightful disparity lies in the fact that of the ten solid Republican delegations, seven of them—Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming—consist of one member each, who is a solid Republican. There remain three solid States, of which two. South Dakota and Vermont, have two members each, and the State of Maine, with Messrs. Reed, Boutelle,Dingley and Milliken, form a very solid delegation of four. The solid Democratic States are almost appalling. Missouri alone has 14, nearly jas many as the entire force of the solid Republicans. The others are Alabama, 8; Georgia, 10; Louisiana. 6; Maryland, 6; Mississippi, 7; South Carolina, 7; Texas, 11; Virginia, 10; West Virginia, 4; besides such odds and ends as two each from Florida, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, and one each from Delaware and Montana, where the spirit is willing but the flesh is evidently weak.

In the thirteen States where the Democrats have majorities in the delegations there are in all 115 Dem ocrata and 47 Republicans, a net majority of 68. In the two Republican ■States there are 22 Republicans and 12 Democrats, a net majority of 10. 'Here again the Democrats control, ■with the exception of Pennsylvania, all of the large delegations, the States standing: Illinois, 14 to 6; Indiana, 11 to 2; Kentucky t 10 to 1: Massachusetts, 7 to 5; Michigan, 8 to 3; New York, 23 to 11; North Carolina. 8 to 1; Ohio, 14 to 7; Tennessee, Bto 2; Wisconsin, 8 to 1; Connecticut, 3to 1; lowa, 6 to 5; New Jersey, 3 to 2. The Republican delegations are Pennsylvania, 18 to 10; California, 4 to 2. Of the remaining States, there are in Kansas 5 Alliance men to 2 Republicans, and in Nebraska 2 Alliance men to 1 Democrat, giving the Alliance these two States:; while in Minnesota, as already stated, there being 3 Democrats, 1 Republican and .1 Alliance man. the control of the delegation is with the Democrats. On a division of States upon any -question, therefore, the Democrats would carry the vote by 30 to 12, or a majority of HOW A PRESIDENT MAY BE ELECTED. It is not out of the range of the possible that such a question may arise in the next House. That question would be the most important in the history of this country. It would be the question of the next President of the United States. It seems almost certain that the politicians in the Farmers’ Alliance will try to force that organization to place a candidate for the presidency in the held. Whom he may be, no one can guess. It is said that Senator Iceland Stanford, Of Canifornia. gel it. if he wanted it, In any event. it is among the possibilities that the determination of the Kesidential question next year may left to Congress, which makes invfceresting, if not important, the Janalysis of the political complexion by 'States.

Should the House have the control- - ling vote in the Presidential contest all the States would meet on a common level and the 50,000 whites, blacks, half-breeds, mongrels, Chin<ese and Indians ojf the Nevada min•ing camp would be as powerful in •electing a President as the many millions of intelligent residents of "the State of New York, and Mr. JBartine would be as big a man as Mr. Flower, as the States would vote as States and hot individual members of the delegations. So big is the Democratic majority, even m the united vote by States, that they could elect the President even if not a single .Republican was present. The constitution provides that there shall be present a quorum consisting of a member or members from two-thirds of the States so that with their thirty States the Democrats could elect the President without the attendance of ~a single Republican. The deep in-

teres t with which the Democratic and Republican partial take in thh Alliance’* entree Into the field of national politio* can therefore be readily understood.

■Still another feature presents itself in case the Alliance throws the vote into the House. There would then probably be a Democratic President and a Republican Vice-presided; For the same article of the Constitution which makes the house elect the President throws the election of the Vice-president into the Senate But here there is a difference. In the first place, the list of eligible* for the Vice-presidency is confined to the tw6 names having the highest number of votes cast for them in the Electoral College, instead of three, as is the case m the President. Hence in the present Senate Messrs. Irby and Peffer, the Alliance Senators, and Mr. Hyde, the “Indscrat" from South Dakota, would be compelled to vote for either the Republican or the Demr ocrat. Another important difference is that the unit rule for States does not hold in the Senate, for the Constitution provides that in electing the Vice-president the quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority r of the whole number of Senators (not States) shall be necessary to a choice. The Republicans have a majority of six in the Senate now. They would, therefore, elect their Vice-president. Here, too, the election would be totally independent of the size or importance of every State. Indeed, here Nevada would out-vote New York, for the Republican candidate would get two votes from Nevada, while the Democratic candidate would get only one vote from New York. In some States like Ohio and Wisconsin, there would be a stand-off, there being in each a Democratic and Republican Senator.

This recalls a curious omission in ; the provision for the presidental election in the House. No provision is made for such States whose delegations consist of two members, in case they should be of opposite politics. Injthe present congress there are five such States-Florida.New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Vermont. It so happens that in each case both members of the delegation are of the same party, the three first Democratic, the two last Republican, But if it should have happened that in any one of these States one member had been a Democrat and the other a Republican— a contingency by no means impossible—the two gentlemen could never have agreed on a candidate, and that very interesting question would then have arisen as to how the State should vote. Under the Constitution it would have lost its vote altogether. This would seem to deserve the attention of Congress. It is plain, therefore, that the Alliance and its national political future are worthy of careful attention.

CUTTING DOWN THE BOY.

A School Marin Who Could Chop a Tree Down and Whip a Boy. Detroit Free Press. I was driving along a highway in Woods County, Ohio, with a man who was selling machines to farmers and about 2 o’clock in the afternoon we came along to a district school house. The schoolma’am and about 20 scholars stood under an elm tree, about 40 feet high, near the house, and in the topmost branches of the tree was a boy about 14 years old. “Anything wrong here?” asked mv friend, as we halted before the door, Rudd Hawkins says he won t and the teacher says he must,” called a ■little girl. 1 The teacher herself then came for- j ward. She was a plain looking girl of about 20, with a mouth showm'g great firmness, and, with some em barrassment, she explained: “It s the terror of the school. He refuses to mind, and I started to whip him. He broke away and ran out and'climbed the tree. I’ve been up about 20 feet, but had to give it up and come down.” “Yer can’t conquer me!” shouted the boy. ” “Budd, I order you to come down!” “I won’t!” “I have sent for an axe, and here it comes, ” she said, as she turned to us. 4 ‘He’ll come down with the tree if not before.” We offered to use the axe, but she declined the offer with thanks, and, stepping to the tree she swung the implement around and buried the blade in the wood. ‘‘You dasn’t!” shouted Budd fromthe top. “I'll do it or resign,” she answered as she struck several blows. At the end of three minutes the tree began 4a totter and Budd to yell in alarm a few seconds later it fell with a crash. I thought the boy was badly hurt, if not killed, and was relieved when the school-ma’am sprang forward, yanked him out of tne branches, and while applying a gad with one hand she pulled him in to the school-house with the other saying: “Now, Budd Hawkins, you've got to do some of the awfullest begging ever heard of in the State of Ohio, or I won’t leave enough hide on you for a flea to bite!” He was hard at it when we drove on. ____________ Ornithologists tell us that when feeding the stride of the ostrich is from twenty to twenty-two inches: when walking but not feeding, twen-ty-six inches, and when terrified, from eleven and one-half to fourteen feet, or at the rate <4 about twenty five miles an hour.

WHY ONE MAN FAILED.

Hl* Training in a Clrc«* Unfitted Him for Newspaper Work. They were talking about newspaper work the other evening.' The oldest mad in the party, who is now doing something in the real estate line, said that he had tried newspaper writing when he was not fitted for the business and had given it up. ‘‘l was always called a good writer at oollege,” he said, “and I thought I had a good syle. When I began work for myself I got employment with a circus manager. ‘“Can you write?’ he asked. “ ‘I can?’ I said. * “ ‘Well, I want a two sheet poster that’ll catch the town. Write one for me.’ “And this is what I wrote, as nearly as I recollect: “ ‘This is the last week that Mr. Sawdust's great circus will be in the city and every on should visit it at once. It offers to the public a number of admirable features, including several amusing clowns and many cleverly trained trick animals. The ring performance is highly creditable and consists of various acts by the aforementioned clowns and animals. There will be a number of interesting races between elephants and dogs ridden by trained monkeys. Mile. Comehigh, who has done very good work abroad, executes a dance on the bare back of a running horse and also jumps through some ignited paper-covered hoops. Children and clergymen will enjoy the collection of wild beasts in the menagerie. The whole will conclude with an enjoyable exibition of the siege of New Orleans the effect of which will be hightened by fireworks. Admission will be 50 cents for adults, children half price. ’ ‘ That was about it. I turned it in and smiled, for I thought I had done well. The manager differed with me in a coarse profane way, but for some reason or other he didn’t discharge me. He hired an ignorant man to write a new poster, and set me to work selling tickets. I stayed with him three seasons—until "he went out of business —and at the end of that time I was one of the most proficient circus poster writers in the business.

“After he sold out I sought employment in a newspaper office, got it, and was set to work. My first job was reporting a fire in Bowery. I can remember only the first part of my report. It started out in this fashion: “‘The grandest exhibition of the fire fiend ever given. Thousands of spectators thrilled by the grand and overpowering .scene. The untold wealth of the Indies was threatened at an early hour last evening by a grand and unparalled holocaust at the corner of Bowery and Grand street. This great and throbbing outcry of robust and living;humanity was halted in its eourse. jThestreets were packed. The sidewalks were jammed. The flames started in the basement of the doomed building, and creeping stealthily up the air shaft, burst out, amid the wild, hoarse cries of the multitude, from the front windows. Higher and higher they rose, now licking the pale sky with their blood red tongues now sweeping downward and enveloping in their fiery embrace the neighboring chimneys. It was the sight of a life time, and the crowd looked on with bated breath. ’ “While I was writing the city editor came around and looked over my shoulder. “‘What was the damage?’ he asked, when he had read this far. “ ‘About $5,000,’ I said. ‘“Any lives lost?’ “ ‘None,’ I answered. ‘ ‘ ‘All right, ’he said. ‘I guess you needn’t finish this thrilling tale.’ j ‘“All right, sir.’ “ ‘And, by the wav,’ he added, as I was putting on my hat, ‘you needn’t come loack to-morrow. You need rest after that effort. Suppose you take a year or so, at ‘your owii ex- ‘ pense. Goodnight!’ The next day I went into the real estate business.”

HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD.

Howard County Has a Centennarian in the Person of Mrs. Patsy Sears Kokomo, Ind., Tribune. It is not uncommon to hear of centennarians or better living way off in Texas, Florida or other distant points, but it is One of the marvelous rarities of the age to discover a personage right in our own midst who has attained the extreme age of 110 years: According to Supt. Porter’s census, Howard county has an in-, habitant 110 years of age who has resided here continuously for years. The name of the alleged centennarian is Mrs. PatsySears,of Liberty township, and her existence is vouched for by David F. Cook, who was census enumerator for District No. 87 in Liberty township. He reports that this old lady was born in Culpeper county Va., in the year 1781. The exact day of her birth is not known, as Mrs. Sears says their family records were destroyed by fira Her ancestors were remarkable for their longevity, her mother living to be 10S years old. It is said she has her second sight and she had her second husband, whom she outlived more than a score of years. She has had our children, all of whom are living, she residing with one of her daughters, Mrs. John Wolf,, of Liberty toW&ship. Mrs. Sears says she is a stranger to disease, but not to her Creator, having been a member of he Baptist chnch for more than eighy years. As one might easily be.eve her mental powers are beginning to wane and fade, but she nar- '• ~4" mr- •"*•••

rates some thrifiing incidents of early day 8. She remembers when General Washington was not only talked and read of but also when he was a living patriot, She is quite a talker and at times very entertaining. She says her family was in affluent circumstances, but their fortune was shattered during the war of the revolution, reducing them to limited circumstances.

THE RECENT FROST.

One Man Who Say* It Was Really a Benefit to Fruic. "Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. “The frost was really a benefit to fruit,” said a well-known gardener to-day. When asked to explain he said: “Well, there was such a profusion of blossoms, especially on apple trees, that it would not have been possible for one-half, or one-quarter of them to mature. The frost injured some of the blossoms, and the result is those left will be able to mature and we will have an excellent crop. “Peaches and cherries were too far advanced to be injured, and the only vegetable hurt is asparagus. This was frozen badly, and we have not one-quarter as much as usual at this time of year. lam afraid grapes are hurt some, but, take it all around, we have little room to complain and much for congratulation. ” Superintendent Hamilton, of the Allegheny parks, has a. record of frosts. For the past thirteen or fourteen years he has been keeping tab on the frost king, and says: “I have been bitten several times, which makes me careful. We have always had damaging frosts from the 18th to the 21st of May. This is almost a sure thing. Last year it failed. There is an old German legend never to plant anything until after the ‘three king's dgys’ are past, which are the 19th, 20th and 21st of May. I keep a record of frosts, as I put out so many plants in one day that I am compelled to watch carefully when it is safe to plant. So far the frost has not done much damage. Even if 75 per cent, of the apple and other fruit blossoms are killed there will be plenty left—all the trees can bear.” - :

Country Roads.

Century. There is not a rural town within boarding distace of a great city which could not at sight expense assure itself all the city boarders that it could accommodate by the simple process of systematically and intelligently improving and beautifying its roads. If it were to appoint a town committee with power to employ experts, or to obtain expert advice, and to carry out the suggestions thus obtained in road improvement, the mere public advertisement of that proceeding would; attract boarders from all directions. The expense would not be great. In nearly every case the gravel or cracked stone necessary for the construction of a servicabie, well-drained road can be obtained within moderate distance. There is, for example, in some parts of Orange County,, in New York State, a kind of soft red sand stone to be found in great abundance; which crushes readily under the wheels and makes a hard, firm road-bed, which is never dusty and never muddy, which is yielding to the horses’ feet and most agreeable to ride over. Ordinary gravel can be used with almost equally good results. The main thing is to secure something like scientific knowledge in the construction of the road and in the mixture of materials. The vicious idea that anybody can make a road by shoveling, dirt into the middle of it from the gutter, or; what i 3 the same thing in a wholesale form, hauling it there by means of a “scraper,” must be abandoned at the outset, and not only abandoned but prohibited. Until that is done no reform will be possible.

The Chase of Life.

All men are hunters. Statesmen hnnt for fame; The doctor hunts for fortune and a name; The merchant hunts for store of gathered gold; For glory’s garland hunts the warrior hold; The lawyer hunts for clients and for fees; But there's a hunt that’s keener yet than theset ’Tls when the lover tries his utmost art To hunt and capture some fair maiden’s haart. —New York Herald.

Freak of Nature.

The West Chester. Pa.. News reports a curious freak of nature in that vicinity. Two good-sized streams of water meet at right angles on almost level ground, each having a heavy fall on reaching the point. The water ofboth streams meet but neither is impeded in its course. They cross like two roads and continue in their respective beds. The late George Peabody’s gift of $2,500,000 to provide dwellings and lodging houses to the poor of London has now grown, by the addition of rents and interest, to a total of $5,117,230, while the land and buildings under the care of the trust are valued at $6,169,225 more. Up to the end of last year there had been 5,071 buildings furnished to the artisans and laboring poor of London, The New York Press says that since the days when “the captain with his whiskers took a sly glance” at the ladies no such sensation in the hirsute line has taken place as the shaving off of the whiskers of Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. He is the same Talmage, however, whiskers or no whiskers.

Down to a Fine Point.

Virginia (Nov.) Chronicle. The shop of an undertaker in Candelaria, Nev., bears the following ston: “You kick the bucket. We do the rest.”

Changes It May Make.

—-nA natural harbor on the ocean or one of the great lakes, or a fall in a river beyond which large boats could not pass, determined the location of all the large towns in this country when heavy articles were necessarily transported by water. The introduction of railroads necessarily caused a great change in the matter of locating cities. They made it practical to have important commercial towns at a distance from a harbor or even remote from a body of water. In colonial times and for a considerable period after the founding of the nation all the large manufacturing towns were on streams that afforded good water power. But the invention of the steam engine made it practical to establish great factories and machine shops at any place where fuel could be cheaply obtained. The discovery of natural g-ca iff'"" various parts of the country gave them great advantages in the manufacture of iron, glass, brick and pottery. And now it is believed that electricity produce another change in determining where great manufactories will be built. In Switzerland, it is ~gaid; n~- large number - of factories are being erected near small streams that flow down the sides of mountains and afford sufficient power to generate electricity. By using electrical instead of water power the mills can be built at some distance from the Streams, whore they will be in no danger of being swept away by floods. As fuel is scarce in Switzerland stoam engines cannot be used to good advantage. Duluth, “the zenith city of the unsalted sea,” is talking about utilising the falls on the St. Louis River to generate electricity that shall not only light all the streets and houses, but run the cars,'elevators and all the machinery A city without smoke and with power furnished at a nominal cost would have advantages few towns possess. Its only great need would be natural gas to produce heat for warming buildings, smelting iron ore, melting the materials for making glass and burning 1 articles made of clay.—Chicago Herald.

The Innocent Lamb.

About the first error the lamb makes in life is .to mistake the shepherd or his dog for its mother, and many are the maneuvers that must be gone through with to make the new arrival follow the right party. His next error is likely to be an attempt to walk on air when he comes to a place where he should go down hill. His ten minutes’ experience in life has made him believe that all the earth is a level plain, and in broad daylight he steps off the top landing of the stairs in tot il darkness when he is certain that the stairs are yet twenty feet away, The result is a great surprise to man and lamb Tn each instance. The lamb picks himself up, and continues down the hill; he soon comes to the conclusion that everything is down hill in this life, and not on the dead level. Upon getting to the foot of the hill, he still tries to continue downward, and as a result runs his nose into the ground and looks surprised again, He now comes to a place to get up hill, and goes up just as our man starts up stairs in total darkness when he thinks the stairs are twenty feet away. There is only one thing that is 500 times as funny and provoking by turns as a lamb, and that is 500 lambs together when they are about a month old. The shepherd sits down and watches the 500 lambs all in a bunch by themselves, playing, running and frolicking, and he laughs. When he has tried, and tried in vain, to get the same 500 across a bridge, or in a corral he sits down again, hut he does not laugh this time.—Montana Wool Grower.

How a Darkey Can Sleep.

I saw a queer illustration of the sleeping qualities of a negro the other day. Every one knows that a genuine unadulterated negro can sleep on a board with his face to the sun and without covering for his eye 3 oq tha hottest July day—and he sleeps as peacefully as a white man on the softest Cot and in the darkest room- It has been said he can sleep under the mouth of a cannon in operation and I believe it. Or, at least, I believe the one of which I shall speak could. In going down to Augusta a few days ago on the regular day passenger we were a few miles below Union Point when the train suddenly stopped. The fireman jumped from the engine and ran back to the passenger coach crying, ‘There’s a dead nigger behind.” Every one looked out, and sure enough just behind the rear coach, with his head resting on the cross-ties, was what appeared to be a dead negro man. Two or three train men and a crowd of negroes ran back to see if the train had struck him. “Dat nigger ain’t dead. He’s er sno’in,” said one of the negroes, and he jerked and kicked him until the sleeping negro awoke, arose and walkoff, followed by a kick from the brakeman. > The wheels of the engine and cars hod passed within a few inches of the negro’s head, and had not even affected his snoring,— Atlanta Constitution. The difference between the elevator and the toiling sufferer who pulls the rope is that one lifts the worker and the other works the lifter.—Somerville Journal.

A BABY'S LEAP

Through the Window of a Railroad Car Going at Full Speed. There is one lucky baby and a happy, mother in Callifornia tonight, says the Stockton Independent The mother and babe were passengers on the Southern Pacific north-boundpassanger train yesterday afternoon. The child, which was about a year old, was standing in its mother’s lap looking out of the open window. It gave ohe of those sudden springs to which babies are addicted, and, before the mother could' clutch it went out through the open window. The shriek of the mother brought a brakeman to the spot who pulled the bell-cord, and the train, which was going at full speed, was checked as soon as possible. The conductor soon made hi 9 appearance, and when the case bad been explained to him ordered the train to bs backed up slowly till the spot was reached where the baby had made its frightful plunge. To the surprise of all the sound of the baby’s cries was heard, for it was supposed that it would be instantly killed. ... Nearly every man on the train jumped off to search for the little one, which was found sitting by the roadside crying lustily. It was soon placed in its mother’s arms, perfectly uninjured, not even showing a scratch as an evidence of its narrow escape from death.

Aid For Mrs. Maybrick.

More than a hundred thousand signatures have been obtained to a petition praying the home office to commute the sentence of the American, Mrs. Maybrick, the date of whose execution for the murder of her husband, the Liverpool cotton merchant, is set for the near fnture. The impelling motive in this general interest in the woman’s behalf arises in the main from consideration for her sex. Mankind, revolting more and more against the barbarism of capital executions but not yet prepared wholly to abolish it, is unwilling that the hangman shall do his office upon a wowan, even though she be a murderer. On. this point, too, the publie mind is not fully satisfied. In any general view there is no substantial grounds for sympathy with the accused. She was guilty of infamous breach of her marital obligations without even a pretext of infatuation for a seductive paramour. A single intrigue did not satisfiy* her vicious propensity. Maybrick had more ground than the Moor to complain of the “general camp, pioneers and all.” While this conduct was gros3 it not punishable by death. Though it had no lodgment in the mind of a severe court or a harsh jury the doubt that the woman was guilty of poisoning her husband obtains popularly, afld this, with abhorrence of hanging, contributes- to the sentiment of sympathy with a.woman who is not overdeserving. In England the course of justice is not easily,diverted by popular clamor, but as Mrs. Maybrick is not a political prisoner and as the movement for executive clemency is widespread she may be saved from the gallows.—-Ghi-cago Times.

Try It,

Three or four men were sitting on the piazza of a seaside cottage smoking, says the Washington Star. It was evening. The stars were as thick in the sky as freckles on a red-headed glrPrrfaeA - ThS waves came in the beach with a swish-swash-swosh just as they have done ever since the second day of creation. ‘More piercing than the song of the waves were the notes and more multitudinous than the stars of heaven the number of the mosquitoes that haunted the piazza, and every one of them was “looking for blood.” The men had ceased smoking for fun. They now puffed their cigars to keep the mosquitoes away. “Something funny about mosquitoes,” said one rather absent-mindedly. “Yes, rather,” was the drawling reply. “Funny how much blood it takes to fill one of them up.” “No, but'honest, now, do you know that if a mosquito’d get his hill down into your hand he can’t pull it out while you hold your breath?” “Don’t believe it.” “It is true, however, for I have tried it.” “Bet you the cigars a mosquito can take his bill out at any time he wants to do it, and we will try it right here. Is it a go?” “It is, and I’ll let them try.” A lamp was lighted, the cigars put out, and all waited. In less than a minute a mosquito had placed himself on Tom’s hand and began operations. “Now,” said Tom, and placed the forefinger of his other hand down close to the mosquito. It did not budge. He placed his nail against the abdomen of the insect and whirled it around. Still it remained fixed. “You can do it every time,” said Tom, as he killed the mosquito and drew a long breath. It is a fact Go and try it The most unfair thing that happens to wqmen is that engagements are so short and marriages so long.—Binghamton Republican. Put mosquitoes on duty Sundays and they would beat policemen at the work of finding open bars.—New Orleans Picayune. m - An electric spark—Making love by tele graph.—Washington Capital