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The democrats have given up Indian;:
to the republican, they have polled th
Hoosier 6tate twice and each time it
ehowd a republican majority.
General Harrison his struck manly
blows for protection, American waijei-
and American home?. He has steadily
gained in the Esteem and confidence ol
the American people. And we think lu
will be our next President.
It is said that democracy has about
fire hundred stuui: speakers in Indiana
In that party made a lively canvass
in the Hoosier state also, and the conse
quence was that it gave a rousing majorit
for the republican ticket.
Harrison ani Morton are receiving
strong aid from Anna Dickson's specche
so strong in fact that the opposition
winces and is denouncing Miss Dickson
But Mis Dickson doesn't mind. Thi.-
isu't the first time the demorrotic party
has denounced her.
A COM I' A HIz Oy.
There is increased prosperity in th
English iron trade, and at a meeting be
tween the members of the Cleveland
Iron-masters' Association and a deputa
tion from their workmen, held at Mid-
dlesborough, September 12, it was agreed
that three shillings sterling, or seventy
three cents, should be the wages " foi
any man employed in working as biast
furnacemen's shifts."
The corresponding wages in Pittsburg
and Chicaga are $2.00 per day. Tariff.
Gexesal Harrison's idea that $ 20,
000,000 of the surplus might be right
eously and beneficially appplicd to the
repayment of the direct tax paid by the
loyal states for the prosecution of the
war, is a manifestly sound and practical
one. And the people of those states
should bear the fact carefully in mind
that such a step would have been taken
by congress but for the revolutionary
opposition of the democrat, who pre
tend to be so much distressed by the fact
that the government has more money
than it needs for ordinary purposes.
Tue Mills bill reduces the average
tariff rate of 47.10 less than one-ninth.
New York World.
A reduction of " less than o-ie-ninth "
of 47 per cent won'd amount to a little
over fire per c:it. The duties collected
in 1S-S7 reached $-1 -l'.,w:9. A r due
tion of five per cent would anion. t to
$10,600,000. Mills l.im.-i-li" s i s his bill
make a cut of $ro.C-uo,oot fV.oou,
0.10 by abolishing duties and iO.UW.Cno
by lowering other duti; 3. Even if the
$0,(00.000 cut is left out of the calcula
tion altogether, the sfSD.CO'ViOO v'tl't
mean a reduction of 1 1'per cent nt t of 5
lr cent. Of course l! e u uth is"s every
sensible person knows. t!-e Mills -hill
uike a reduction in thectstoir." receipts
nf ulutut z ter cci.i. . x
HE AUTY IN FICTION.
Of course, the naughty ones will all le
handsome; and the silly little ones wil
!c pretty. Occasionally some great gen
iu-t has been able to picture a successful
and cuuning adventurers, like Becky
Sharp, without endowing her with leau
ty or even with charm; but, as a rule, in
tellectual simplicity simplicity which
we have to smile at a little, even thougl
indulgently simplicity like that o
Dora Copperfield is gifted with bcauti
fid blue; eyes and gulden hair; selfish,
frail, naughty Hetty is given a sweet
rounded blo-.som-Iike, dark-eyed beauty
that makes the very reader lonr to kiss
ln-r before he shakes her; plebeian Daisy
MilL-r, innocent hut horribly ignorant, is
made to bewitch even the traixiuil am
intellectual Ili nry .lames; while women
able to work worse folly and evil on
do wed with a certain splendid physica
beauty and charm, from Ouula's heroines
down to Rola's. This may be the stern
est reali.-m, for it is exactly what we line!
in real life; folly, ignorance, and weak
ness, awluilv prt ttv: wickedues. cun
ning, and absolute unscrupulousness.
splendidly beautiful. We should expect
to find this in fiction; the interest lies, as
a study, in seeing the mood in which the
author contemplates this undeniable fact
Will he approach it from the puritan
standpoint, that all beauty is a snare of
the devil? Or with Ouida's insidious
li lief that whatever is beautiful is irrc
stable, and therefore pardonable? Or
with Henry Jaiue's coolly critical and
analytical curiosity, that anyone who be
haves us badly as Daisy Miller should be
s genuinely muocent, and that auyone
so ill-bred should be so ni ddeningly
pretty? Alice Wellington Rollins, in
The American Magazine for October.
Bkiemjepokt, Conn., Standard: There
.re th usands and thousands of men who
never voted a republican ticket in their
lives and may never do so again, who
will vote for Harrison and Morton in this
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All thro' the house I can Lear her roice,
Kuruihine, my tiuriKhlue,
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ily fair Sunshine.
lu uiy lii ly'd cli.i:nlor nway up btalrs,
Ruiishinc, my Sunshine,
She U cliuutiij;,' snatches of carrollng uira,
My fair Sunshinu.
Kho U l.nihins now ia tiio cliililren'8 Klo-
Niinshirii', l:iy fciiiiisliiiif.
Blithely the ee!io-s llit in to me;
My lair Sunshine.
In white h!i; ll ishe.s n-lowu tho htair.
Sunshine, lay Saiibhine;
Her quick, lijht lout putters there.
My lair Uuusiiine.
A inon;e:it her f ao Khiues iu at tho door,
Sunshine, uiy Sunshine,
And the room t:irris lijlit, it ia dark no more,
My fair Siiii:;!iine.
Willi a white hand waved and a kiss air blown,
yiiii.shino, my Sunshine,
She hr.s j a.-ist'J unci vanished, my love, my own,
Xy fair SunsJiino.
Archibald MacMeclian in Youth's Companion.
FKAIl.
On tlie 10th of January, 1S71, about 9
o'clock in tho morning, the I-jghty-third
battalion of tho National Guard halted on
tho plain which lies between Mont Valerian
and tho hill of Luzon val. Tho men, thor
oughly tired out after ueold, snowy night
und the morning march over wretched
roads, bent wearily under tho weight of
tholr heavy knapsacks and listened with
a bewildered nir to the sharp ruttle of
musketry in their front from tho heights
of Montraiout aud la Joncheru. It had
rained, too, during the night, and the
landscnpo, which stretched beneuth a cold,
louden gray sky, was dreary enough. The
red roofs of tiio Fxuilleu.se farm, which
served for a field hospital, tho plain on
which wero stationed masses of troops in
reserve, tho brown hillsides and tho dark
woods above, over which hung heavy
wreaths of white smoko. A Prussian shell
described its hissing course through the
chill morning air, and burst about a hun
dred feet from tho battalion. Tho men
who wero under tiro for tho first time felt
a sudden nervousness which betrayed
itself in tho instinctive trembling of the
shoulders bowed beneath knapsacks and
a decided wavering of the lino of bayo
nets. "Saeres matins! keep steady!" shouted
tho commander of tho battalion, a short,
fat little man, with a huge mustache bris
tling like an nngry cat and embroidered
pantaloons hidden in an immense pair of
boots. "I will break tho head of tho first
man who dodges; the Eighty-third must
enter Pari? victorious."
"The commander is right," said Pierre
Manceau to tbe painter Sorin, his rioigh
bor hi the ranks, "tho Eighty-third will
doubtless enter Paris nominally, but the
men who compose it, your humble servant
iu particular, are they suro of entering at
all? I never did pretend to be a hero.
Pierre JUanceau was a handsome fellow
of about S'J, tall, robust, with an aquiline
nose and full red lipa shaded by a droop
ing hiojicio mustache. Professor of phil
osophy in a lyceum, a jovial fellow, opti
mist by nature, with an undercurrent of
amiable skepticism, he had entered the
national guard fron a senso of duty, but
without enthusiasm; and to tell the
truth, under tho conviction "that it did
not amount to much after all, for the
guard would never really bo under fire.
:s no lrauiily confessed, Ins was by no
means the military temperament. lhe
Hring now extended nloutf tho wholo crest
f the hills; tho balls rattled hotly, and
every now and then came the tearing
sound or grape shot ana tuo roar of can
non from Mont Valerian. On the right,
by la Jonchere, tho lino of skirmishers
could bo seen firing on the edare of the
woods, while on tho left ambulances car
rying tho wounded wero slowly descend
ing the hill; the iluttering of the gray
linen covers on tho backs of the mules in
spired melancholy reflections in the
breasts of the poor devils, who, leaning
on their muskets, waited their turn to
form in line of battle.
'Eighty-third battalion, forward!" cried
tho stout little commander, waving his
saber. Tho battalion moved uo awk
wardly enough, and began slowly to de
scend the slopo which led to the wall of
tho park of Euzenval. ilany a foot
slipped on tho thick, wet grass, soaked
by tiio recent uelugo. The men were
silent. They had enough to do to keep
their iootmg iu tne slippery mud. Omv
every now and then Leads would sud
denly dodge as the balls whizzed sharply
over them.
Pierre Manceau had become very seri
ous, smd tightly grasping his musket
thought to himself: "I'm in for it this
time. We are going into a battle in
eitrnest, and perhaps I shall never come
out again. What nonsense to say that
only one out of every ten balls does any
iaiecLk-f. It's idl the samo to me if I am
picked off by tho tenth; this is confound
edly disagreeable."
lie tried to think of death of the life
boyond of tho friends he would leave
behind, but it vas impossiblo to collect
his ideas, or to fix them upon such sol
emn thiags; the weight of the heavy
knapsack, tho eiTort necessary to main
tain Li i nmsknt in equilibrium, and not
to pitch l.eauluji' ka the muddy skmo
ail this laired Li:; mind to ret entirely
o:i purely material details. He had not
even time to be afraid, so completely wero
hij faculties absorbed in the eCort to
march upright.
At liiit the battalion ru'rived at the
vail cf the par!:. There they were com-r-ianded
to halt. Pierre seated himself
e.-!:u;!stod and out of breath on tho turf,
and seizing his cautecu swallowed a copi
cii3 draught of rum, then cutting a thick
v.edgo of army bread ho breakfasted, with
c:i appetite which astonished himself.
Sr.:ev.-ir-t refreshed by this hurried ro
p v-t, as veil as by the shelter afforded by
tho v.-.ili; ho began to examine tho novel
?t:'".-!.i before hira. Facing
him on
its pro-
I ionfc Valerian a battery hurled
jcc'.ilcs in tue direction of uarcucs. A
iit tie further back a group of three
laounted cl'.icirs vera sharply defined
caiust tho dark sky. One o them was
jzuig intently on the line of woods
vhero the firing vas incessant. Below
on tli3 plain all around the farm
houses vera masses of troops sta
tioned in re.icrvc. From time to time
Prussian shells tore through tho air and
exploded in the midst of the battalions
beyond the veil. "'Tis an ill wind blows
nobody good," thought cur professor of
"'philosophy, ":f wo hud remained on the
plain we would be getting our share of
tl.is Prussian manna. To be torn- to
pieces by a shell is worse t.ha:iabeing hit
by a bullet." At tho same linio he drew
closer to tho sheltering wall with a feel
Lr; of egotistical satisfaction. The wind
was blowing sharply, the heavens re
i ir..'r.u ,i leaden gray, and a few flakes of
snow were whirled through tho air. On
the roa.d which run3 along tho angle of
tho park ambniancea wero Been slowly
moving, crossed by mounted couriers.
Tho firing lu tho nark continued, but the
detonation seemed always at tho pnmo
distance, evidently tho French troops
were not. advancing. A cannon drawn by
four horses came painfully down the
mountain side, and Manceau beard a fitafl
officer call to tho gunners:
"If you have only guns of th!;j caliber
von can go back; tho ground is too wet
you can do nothing with four horso caii-
UAt theso words Pierre folt a guilty thrill
of pleasure. "So much tho better," ho
murmured to himself, "in two hours It
will be nightfall; then tho fighting must
cease, ami perhaps, after all, our battalion
may not bo engaged." While consoling
himself with theso very unheroic reflec
tions ho saw the samo stall oilirer sud
denly rido toward tho commander of tho
Eighty-third, with whom ho exchanged u
few hurried words.
Immediately the latter, drawing his
saber, cried ".Stund up! Iivss ranks!
We are going to make a dash for tho
woods."
Pierre rose, with a strange tightening
in his throat. While tho column was
fejrming ho slung his knapsack across his
shoulders and mechanically gazed at tho
oilicer, who from tho height of his saddle
gavo a few brief directions to tho com
mander. He was a captain of the flardo
Mobile, a fine, handsome young fallow of
23, with bronzed complexion, pointed
mustache and an air of distinct ion. His
military toilet was irreproachable, from
tho closely buttoned gray ovcrco.it, with
its showily braided sleeve, to the t-lender
gloved hand which caressed his horse's
neck. "It's all very well for you, you
military coxcomb," growled Pu-rro be
tween his teeth; "it's tho same to jou,
my fine fellow, whether our heads aro
shot off or not, while you caper about on
that horse of yours like a fly on u
coach wheel. I wi.-di you wero at thw
devil!" Tho young captain put spurs to
his horse and galloped off into Ihop.nlc
through a breach which dynamite had
made in the wall. Tho battalion wero to
follow through tho same opening. Si
lently, four by four, tho Eighty-third
marched along a sandy path toward tho
woods. At the end of a hundred pares,
where tho road divided, a shower of bul
lets suddenly scattered the twigs in every
direction, ft sounded like a whirlwind
of gnats on a summer evening. This mid
den and disagreeable music sent a panic,
through the ranks of tho novices in war-,
who scampered through the woods liV.t- a
Hock of terrified sparrows. InsUniyCivdy
Pierre Manceau followed tho resfe. Im
pelled by blind fear he rau straight ah ad.
It seemed to him that tho firing came from
every side at once. On right and left tho
balls whistled, cutting oil branches of
trees and tearing off pieces of bark. Ho
saw them "reeocher" and bury themselves
in the soil before him, raising little clouds
of sand. He was conscious of rnpid alter
nations of shivering and burning. Tho
incessant hail of bullets deafened and
stupefied him. He bounded from tree to
tree, no longer feeling tho weight of his
knapsack and musket.
He presently found himself alone in the
wood, and continued to walk on, trembling
violently at the rustling of tho leaves
uneler his feet, and having but one idea
to find some opening through which to
escape from this cursed park.
He reached a winding path bordered
with green trees, and followed it blindly,
when ho suddenly stood still, shaking
from.head to foot, as if struck by an elec
tric shock. Defoi-e him, right acreiss tho
road, lay the body of a garde mobile, his
head thrown back on a heap of dried
leaves. His faco was of a marble pallor;
his lips, half part-eel under a brown
mustache, were violet hued, and from
them trickled a tiny stream of blood
staiuing the whiteness of tho freshly
shaven chin.
He was an oflicer, and on examining him
more closely Pir.ro recognized the cap
tain, who half an hour ago had ordered
his battalion to enter tho woods. Yes, it
was indeed tho samo face, with its aristo
cratic lines, the same fine pointed mus
tache, the same faultlessly gloved bands
which had so exasperated our professor of
philosophy. Tho gray overcoat had been
torn cpen violently and in haste across the
breast, showing the blood stained gar
ments beneath. Whilst ho was galloping
through the woods doubtless a shell had
struck him full in tho breast, had hurled
him from his horse, who had taken flight.
Manceau knelt by his side and slippe;d his
hand under the blood stained uniform to
feci if the heart still beat.
lie shuddered at tho chill which struck
liiui as his hand touched tho marblo
breast. That bravo youug life was in
deed ended. As he drew his hand away
his fingers weroentai.gled in a light chain,
to which was attached a medallion. Ho
opened the golden circle. On ono side
was a curl of golden hair, on the other
the lovely face of a young girl, whoso
beautiful eyes seemed to smilo back at
him as he gazed. "Ah, this was his
sweetheart," sighed Pierre, as he rever
ently replaced the medallion on tho life
less heart. For several minutes ho stood
mournfully by this dead man, but half an
hour ago so full of life and ardor, now
already stiff and chill. It was tho flr.st
tune in his life that ho had ever stood b
r stood by
on it with
a dead body, and he looked
mingled compassion and shame.
"He died fulfilling his duty," he said
bitterly to himself; "nevertheless ho was
younger than I, perhaps ho clung to life
even more fondly, for there Is somewhero
one beloved woman who at this very mo
ment is watching for news of him, her
heart torn by suspense and anguish, while
I, who have neither wife, sister nor sweet
heart to mourn my death, whoso only
mistress i3 my cold nhilosor.bv. r I
feared to brave death. I fled ignomini
ously at the first approach of danger
what am I but a miserable cowr.rd?"
He rose, seized his gun and retraced tho
road. At the end of twenty paces ho
paused near a sheet of water on whoso
edge the dried reeds rustled mournfully,
and near which stood the ruins of a lodgo
with battered walls and empty window
sashes. On the opposite side of this
sheet of water a company of infantrv
waited under tho shelter of a clump of
saplings for orders to open fire. At the
sight of this national guard in his green
overcoat who arrived scared and dis
ordered in their midst, tho men laughed
derisively. Pierre Manceau felt the blood
mount to his brow. "I deserve it," lie
thought; "I look like a coward."
And as the lieutenant gave tho order
to his men to remount the height, Pir-rro
approached him and begged permission to
join the company.
Ho was no longer conscious of fea. but
a blind rage seemed to possess him as ho
climbed with the company to the crest of
the plateau, which swarmed with sharp,
shooters and was half hidden in a cloud
of smoke. Pierre had loaded his musktt,
and kneeling against a tree ho gave his
whole soul to fulfilling his duty, regard
less of the balls which rained around hira.
Ho loaded and reloaded his chassepot In
cessantly, with no sense of fatigue. Sud
denly he felt something strike his right
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