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■" REFORMER in politics is A sometimes a dyspeptic, but not always. He is also . —j- sometimes actuated by moL i tives entirely impersonal I and unselfish. But not always. And reform politics may be classed as of two kinds the counterfeit variety and the genuine. Independent, or reform movements In political campaigns, are intended to be the breaking away of members of the old parties and a consolidation of these “bolters” for the purpose of electing a ticket which is supposed to be better than either of the old-line party tickets. Sometimes an K independent movement means this. Sometimes it means that a Democrat or a Republican who has failed of the regular party nomination has been persuaded to make the race on the ground that he has been deprived of the nomination by unfair means. But the basic element of independent movements is always a claim toward a bettering of conditions, and therearguing a reform, politically. 1 Then there is usually the Prohibition movement to be reckoned with, and this is strictly founded on reform principles. Or There may be an educational feature in the campaign which will prove to carry the balance of power as to votes, and which may be adopted in the platform of either o( the parties, with a view to secure votes for the whole ticket. Politics is largely a game of expedients, and as the only things that count, in the last analysis, are the votes, it follows, therefore, as the night the day, that votes are the prime necessities, and any expedient to catch votes is considered justifiable. Other phases of reform politics may enter particularly into national campaigns, and may influence local conditions enough to swing victory to a side which may be weaker on paper than its antagonist. In every large city and noticeably in my own city. I found two well defined types of the political reformers, ■with a smattering also of what were known as “cranks,” “dreamers” and “visionaries.” One of the two types referred to was the hard-headed citizen who, regardless of ridicule and discouragement, steadily set himself to work to better the class of official selection. Without caring anything for party affiliations, he associated with organizations which “went after” weak or unfit candidates, and supported and encouraged good candidates for all offices, whether state, county or municipal. This class ot men accomplished, with the aid of decent politicians, a great deal of good. In the beginning, like all men actuated by really high motives, they were derided and lampooned, and their lot, like the policeman’s, was not a happy one. But as time went on they became a force which had to be reckoned with, even by the most ha’ dened of the “bosses,” excepting in what may be classed as strictly “saloon wards.” In the saloon wards, where the aidermen for instance, were saloonkeepers, or where the saloon influence predominated overwhelmingly, the “bosses” did not mind reform politics any more than a rhinoceros would mind the bite of a mosquito. I never could understand, knowing the absolute : hopelessness of it, why the reformers j would sometimes try to “break into” ' such a ward in an aldermanic cam- | paign. I remember very well the oc- I casion of a gentleman calling on me i and endeavoring to enlist my services | as a speaker in a campaign of this i sort. “You know the disgraceful condi- I

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Feminine Toll-Gate Keeper Paid by Government. It '.s related that the army, headed j by Sheridan and his staff, left Winchester by the valley pike early in the I morning, the column moving toward | Stephens City. Just as day was break- j Ing the staff reached the toll-gate and Was much discomfited to find the toll ' pole down and guarded by a young !

tions obtaining in that ward?” he asked, inquiringly. ‘Oh. yes,” was my answer. “Well, we want to put up a candidate for aiderman there and see if we can’t arouse the better element there. We want to go in and fight the saloons to a finish,” was his next remark.

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“Whose finish?” said I. “Oh, we will probably be beaten,” he admitted, “but we want to give them a campaign of education and enlightenment. What that ward needs, what every ward needs, is a chance to have its higher nature aroused. What they want, I’m convinced, is more opportunity to see the light.” “My friend,” was my reply, “I’ve traveled some in that ward. What they want there is not more light, but more beer.” Yet, despite sometimes misdirected energy, these men and their associations did much in making political conditions better. For that they deserve substantial credit. So long as they were absolutely non-partisan they wielded considerable influence, and properly, but on occasion they allowed prejudice to bias Uiem and did injustice to good men. The other type of well-known reformer was the one who continually headed “reform” movements. He might be a candidate for aiderman, or the legislature, or congress. But wherever there was a “kick” coming, and a meeting advertised to protest, or organize, this class would be on hand early and get the chairmanship of the meeting, usually coming out in a “ringing" speech of denunciation against the infamy which the citizens had met to combat. This put the reformer “next” if it was a proposition 1 to nominate an opposition candidate, and he often goc away with the nomination. Or, if he was a professional man, a lawyer, a doctor, or a real estate man, even, it was a pretty fair advertisement, wasn’t it? Not so “poor” to have your picture in the paper next day, with a long account of you, your business and your speech, etc. Something that would have cost you coin I to have in the papers, and you got it for nothing. And then the reporters out to interview you and quite a racket started about you. And in every large city I suppose there are only a few bright promoters like that standing around waiting to sell a gold brick or two. Some of these “reformers” were pretty fierce when they happened to \ land in an office. A few of them were | swept into the city council astride the ! top of a wave of “popular indignation” and they were the hungry boys, some lof them. They were simply on the I qui vive to bo “approached.” And j when they were tempted they fell [ swiftly and without a sound. Their | motto was that of the Hon. Webster i Flanagan, with a different interpreta-

and beautiful girl, Charlotte Hillman, famed locally for her girlish charms. Even the war-hardened Sheridan seems not to have been proof against । the persuasion of a pair of black eyes ’ and a pretty face, and when toll was । demanded, straightway produced the ; tithe, setting an example that was followed by his staff. “But,” said Sheridan, as he passed ■ through the gate, “I cannot vouch for | my army.” i

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tion. “What are we here for?” was their slogan, and they went after franchise “divvies” or any other “divvies” like a terrier after a rat. Real reforms were not so elaborately advertised as the sham ones; the louder the “holler” about the reform, the less genuine reform was in sight. And then there were the “fad” reformers, going about seeking what they might devour in the shape of having unmuzzled dogs caught with a soft curtain rope instead of a wire noose, cab-horses provided with seats while waiting for a fare, the distribution of copies of Browning’s poems to crossing policemen, or some such similar projects. There are sometimes uneasy people in every community who want to run the rest of their neighbors; the bigger the community the greater they are liable to be in number. And in a city of two millions of inhabitants they are sure to be found. They haunt the gallery in the council chamber of the city, they infest the mayor’s office, they surge in with the crowds having hearings in the public offices in the city halls, and whenever they have no connection whatever. Substantial reforms are of slow growth. It took over 20 years’ steady work to drive the infamous justice of the peace system out of Cook county. Some notable reformers went along ’very well for a time until they got so prominent that they were offered a high-salaried political position. And then they dropped practically from sight as reformers and reappeared as pay roll artists. This caused at times a revulsion of feeling among the reformers at heart, but they did not let a little thing like that entirely discourage them. I got so that I could usually “spot” a reformer as far as I could see him. The majority of reformers are very busy walkers and talkers. They are not confined to one nationality, although I should judge that the bulk of them are Americans. They all have “missions.” If you agree with them, and do everything they ask, you are “a patriot.” If you disagree with some of them in any way, shape or manner, you are either a scoundrel or without mental balance. But to be “a patriot” in the eyes of those who were fanatical you must accede to their demands. “Patriots,” said Sir Robert Peel, “they spring up like mushrooms in the night; I can make 50 patriots in a single hour; I have only to refuse some unreasonable or absurd request, when up starts a patriot.”

When the common soldiery came ' the girl, again lowered the toll-bar and demanded toll. This was met by jeers from the soldiers, whereupon she wisely raised the guard. All day the dusty troopers passed through and all day Charlotte Hillman stood at her post. For every ten soldiers who passed the gate she cut a notch in the toll-pole. Early fled beyond the Blue Ridge with the remnants of his disorganized army; in the Valley of Virginia, Lee, beaten back by Grant’s overwhelming numbers, gave up the

There were a number of women reformers, too, during my political years, and they were invariably enlisted on some moral question, as they looked at it, tobacco, whisky, child labor, the bettering of conditions for women, the saving of girls, etc. They were very much in earnest, faithful and enthusiastic to their ideals. Occasionally they succeeded, and at least, they never seemed discouraged. It is to the credit of politicians in general, that they were listened to with perfect respect, even when it was apparent that conditions made it an absolute waste of time to discuss the questions. Sometimes an ordinance barred their way; at other times a state law, or possibly the constitution of the United States itself was a stumbling-block, but tl^ey were heard with patience. Reform politics during, iruk Bay concerned itself most parting in re habilitating the personnels- ue cit? council. In this it met w?^ — ibstanial success, and it was the ▼ excep

tion to perennial reform ! which was | genuine. Not that the reformers did ! not occasionally have “an ax to grind,” but that, in the main, they aided thq best candidates. But at times they saddled themselves with some bogus reformer and jammed him through at the polls, felicitating themselves that they had “put .another over the i political plate” when they had in reality only added a “cheap grafter” to the city’s pay roll. When this happened It made the regulation, gilt-edged grafters in the council indignant. Not that the “reformer” should turn out to be “look ing for something,” but that he sc often took anything he' could get. This made trade bad, for it scaled prices j and such a recruit to the ranks of cor- j rupllun causeu a “bear” market ic votes. A cheap scoundrel earned just as much contempt in the council as an overcoat thief earns from a railroad manipulator of stocks. I recollect the s arraignment that one of the “regu ' lars” gave one of these easily pur- : chased “reformers.” Said the “regular,” puffing slowly at a big black cigar, the little finger ol his left hand adorned with a four hun- ' dred dollar “shiner,” and his shirt- I front sporting its mate, presented by J his admiring “constits:” “I reckon I size that guy up right at the start. I tell ’em I seen whal kind of a lobster he is, the first floj of the box. I tell ’em, you watch him; he’s no reformer, and he’s no thor oughbred. He blows up in the stretet the first time they’re off at the gut An', say! Did he? Wc'i he’s elected all right, and he got g t an’ hooka up with the geezeer B.e next ward that went in the same y i^ie he goes in. Them two frames up a»d goes out for the stuff. Do they ge^it 0 'Yes, they i get it, and how much?* Say, on the । level now, on the square, they splii three hundred between,for a little ' thing they pull off. A' hundred and ' fifty apiece, see?” He paused aAd took a fresh puff at his cigar, and resumed: “Why, if any ' cheap stiff ’d come to me and try tc insult me with less than SSOO I’d throw the skate out of my office.” And the end of his cigar glowed with righteous ' indignation. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) i — Not Altogether Painless. Patience —Is that dentist’s methods painless? Patrice —Not all of them. He has a phonograph in his office! —Yonkers | Statesman.

! fight; in the southeast Joe Johnston] fired the last burlesque shots and j peace came again over the north and south. Then, when relations with Washington had been re-established and the administration’s policy was one of magnanimity, Charlotte Hillman counted the notches in the tollpole and sent her bill to Washington. And the bill was paid.—Metropolitan Magazine. Dangerous to Author. Perfidy often recoils upon Rs au thor.—La Fontaine.

[f visits wiinf Autumn. (Sisi . „■. T ' ■s fe . -‘P: ( -P zWk <W"’ HP'S PPEPhh-'- ‘ =-• - Q. ' fl - ' LZ ! The corn shocks stand upon the hills Like armies tenting in the fields— The rustling harvest, full and ripe. That, rivals even Ceres’ yields. The haze of Autumn blends with red That clings upon the trailing grape; The oak has put its color on And wears its glory as a cape. The grasses nod along the road And billow in the lusty gale. While everywhere the seal of fall Is spreading fancies through the vale, j The crow aloft in noisy flight Is sailing like a ship at sea— A bold marauder of the sky With blatant, raucous minstrelsy. The crop is in and plenty smiles Upon a husbandman made glad The one who planted, tilled and reaped I Ilas won the prizes Nature had. j All vari-hued the Autumn comes I To charm us with her glowing ways And lead us gently through the sere To chill and cold and winter days! Chance Shots. — ~ -—57. — 2J If some of the rich old “geezers” would only quit writing stories for the . magazines about “how to succeed," we । might forget some of the horses that have been stolen. Scientists now claim that bacteria are able to cause the breaking down of stone walls. If this be true, there is still hope that the stony hearts of those proud and haughty Boston girls may yet yield to disintegration and love! ☆ ☆ ☆ A novelist has his hero kiss his lady's back hair. That’s enough for j me! A man might miss fire and kiss l a girl in the bangs—but a fellow who i will deliberately kiss a girl’s back i hair "a purpose" couldn’t be a real j hero in a million years! ☆ ☆ ☆ The Boston physician who advises i us to eat but once a week must be try- ' ing to make heaven on earth for poets. The way to make life seem bright in j the morning is to get out into the ] sunshine and hike. The same diagram may be used for rainy mornings. i When a man's liver is active, his lights I are always bright! ☆ ☆ ☆ Last night I walked by the lake. I There was a harvest moon and a mist. The moonlight fell across the tips of the tree-banks and silhouetted I fairy cities into the water —and over ■ the fairyland was the shimmer and i ■ the spell of silvery mist. No artist ever has painted a picture like that! Art | is peurile compared to the imagery ■ ■ and the mastery of the Real Artist, j j One staid old married lady of the par- | j ty said the scene was food for her i soul, while another could find no I ! words to express her thoughts as she । stood eloquently silent upon the ' threshold of the picture world and let Its beauty charm her into an ecstasy of delight. As for me, it reminded J me of the beautiful sentiment of the i hungry poet who would sell one of his | two loaves for a primrose with which i to warm his longing heart! The moon- , light has peculiar effects on people at i times —but, honestly, it was great! Introducing Miss Julia. “Miss Julia Courtney, of somewhere, has accepted the position of editor of the ; Fort Collins Review. Never met Julia, but hope she will be a winner, and just : to put her next, want to warn her about | getting mixed up in a jackpot with the Courier man.” And we want to warn Miss Courtney, also, not to take any taffy from Vie. Wilson the editor of the j ; Kremmling News which last week con- ; tained the above. The last comment was by Fuller of Windsor Poudre Valley, and i since they do not seem to know just who Miss Julia is and where she’s from. i we’ll say that she resided in Salida for J several years and is as snappy as her : auburn locks would indicate.—Salida | (Colo.) Mail. Newspaper Ethics. I A Kansas widow lost a hog. Ido I not refer to the death of her husband. । She lost a real hog and advertised for ' It. The editor says the hog must. 1 I have read the paper, for he came hik- ; ing home on a dead run as soon as the I paper left the post office. This is not । the first instance where a hog has i read a newspaper—and incidentally ' forgotten to pay for it. Heat Hard to Imagine. The electric furnace is capable of | attaining a heat of 7,200 degrees. This is a fearful temperature, and will melt almost everything solid known to man. In comparison with this heat a red-hot iron bar would be called cold. Product of the Endive. The lettuce appears to have been derived from the endive, which is found wild in temperate and southern , Europe, in the Canaries, Algeria, Abyssinia and temperate western Asia.

David Brings the] Ark to Jerusalem p I Sunday School Lesson for Oct. 4, ISOB 8 | Specially Arranged for This Paper I LESSON TEXT.—2 Samuel 6:1-12. Memory verse 12. GOLDEN TEXT.—“Enter into Ids gates : with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise.”—Psalm 100:4. TlME.—Either B. C. 1038 (Ussher); or 1002 by revised chronology of the Assy- ■ tian Eponym Canons. Prof. Beecher I points out the fact that David’s reign of i 33 years in Jerusalem is divided up into three periods: 1. A period of war and conquest, about 14 years. 2. A period of rest and upbuilding, about seven years. 3. A period of domestic troubles, about 12 years. This lesson probably belongs to the second period, or to a period of ; rest during the conquest. But the exact j order of events is not easily obtained : from the narrative. BLACE.—(I) The ark had been for a long time at Kirfath-jearim, about 11miles west of Jerusalem, in the vvJley of Sorek (where Delilah lived), a valley v hlch leads up from the Philistine counI try toward Jerusalem. (2) At house of Obed-edom between Kirjath-jearim and Jerusalem. DAVID’S COUNSELORS.—Ahithopnel, a very shrewd man; Nathan, the prophet; and Joab, his chief general. Comment and Suggestive Thought. The Long Period of Decline.—For <0 years the ark as the center of religious worship had lain in partial neglect. Soon after the settlement of the Israelites in Palestine Joshua deposited the ark at Shiloh. 20 miles north of Jerusalem, and ten miles north of Bethel (Josh. 18:1). It was still there at the close of the period of the Judges (1 Sam. 1:3); and Sam* uel lived at Shiloh with Eli. The sons of Eli had carried the ark from Shiloh into a battle against the Philistines, hoping that God would give them the victory for the sake of this symbol of his worship. But God did not reward wickedness in that way. The Israelites were defeated, and (he Philistines captured the ark. But the Lord would not permit them to retain , it. Their idol, Dagon. fell before it. The people were smitten with severe sickness wherever the ark was sent. Finally it was restored to Israel, and | sent up the Sorek valley as far a» Kirjath-jearim, 11 miles southwest of 1 Jerusalem, in the house of Abinadab on the hill (1 Sam. 7:1), who put it । under the charge of one of his sons. 1 he neglect of the ark and its separation from its place in the tabernacle at Shiloh, with one high priest following Saul and another David, shows to what a low and divided state religion had fallen in Israel under Saul. The neglect of the means of religion, of places of worship, and set times for devotion is generally accompanied by a decline in the spirit of religion. It is both a sign of the decline and a means toward it. V. 1. “Again.” For a different purpose from the former gatherings for war. “Thirty thousand,” representafives of the whole people. According to Chronicles, they came as far as from Shihor, 50 miles south of Gaza, and from Hamath in Lebanon, 250 miles north of Jerusalem. The restor- > ation must be a national act, or it would lose much of its unifying power. The joyful procession and the re- । ligious enthusiasm w-ere marred by an act of disobedience, where a good i thing was done in a wrong way. The first error was committed by i I transporting the ark by a cart instead as in the way ordained by God (Numbers 4). The ark was to be carried by Levites. ; The next error grew out of this first ' me. “The jagged bridlepaths of those parts are not at all adapted for i wheeled conveyances,” aud when the ? procession had reached Nachon’s :hreshing-floor, the “oxen shook” the irk. “were throwing it down,” and । (6) “Uzzah put forth his hand to the irk of God,” to keep it from falling !to the ground. If he had carried the irk as he was commanded, he would ’ not have been tempted to this second ; disobedience. V. 7. “And the anger of the Lord was kindled.” Not passion, but rath?r indignation—that feeling which makes him hate sin and compels him to punish it. All that was loving and good in God was aroused against the ict. “And God smote him there.” Why this severity? (1) It was a di•ect, double disobedience. (2) The wrong was enhanced by the fact that t was committed by a man who as a son of Abinadab had been with the i irk, and should have known the law. (3) It was a public disobedience in ’ matters of religion. It was a desecraj ’.ion of the holiest symbol of their re- : igion. It was needful at the outset to prove to the people the necessity of jxact obedience, and hence the careful study of God’s law. A Note of Encouragement. 1. There was real encouragement, in the fact ; that God was so careful of the religion of the Jews that he expressed by his act the value of religion, and impressed it so deeply on their hearts. I 2. The blessing that rested upon the family of Obed-<ftiom through the presence of the symbol of religion in his house was a foretaste and a promise, and a prohpecy of what it would be to ! the nation. A fuller description of this festival procession is given in 1 Chronicles 15 and 16. | “It was the greatest day of David’s i life. Its significance in his career is marked by his own preeminent position —conqueror, poet, musician, priest, in one. ... It was felt to be a i turning-point in the history of the naj tion. David was on that day the founder, not of freedom only, but of an i empire; not of religion only, but of a church and commonwealth.” The ark was borne on the shoulders of the Levites (1 Chron. 15:15), amid ! the greatest enthusiasm. A Curious Phenomenon. A German officer describes in the Rote Kreuz a curious phenomenon he witnessed on a ride in southwest Afri- ; ca. A number of vultures, eagles and i other large birds suddenly gathered ion the trees at one place. A few dark ■ clouds were visible, and ere long there was a violent tropical storm. The water penetrated into holes in the i ground from which presently emerged i large numbers of snakes, scorpions I and mice, and these the birds pounced I upon and devoured.

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