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IX JAPAX.
iii .lapan
The curious man
Can Ami out a woman's a?e by a plan
She ha, over there
OJ arranging her hair.
As only a .!aianci lady can.
- loop or two more,
A liaiij)in less
By 8lgn like these is tho truth betrayed;
so that looking: her o'er
It i eay to pnes-5
Whether she be a wife, widow, or maid.
Tis a tylo
'Tuould be worth while
For u- to import trom that Eastern Isle;
Though many a maid,
I am much at raid,
AVouId such a fashion utoncc revile.
If a li.iir-pin more
Would ettle a doubt,
The American feminine, I'll envesre.
To be safe on that score
Would Icav thoe out
That v ere most likely to tell her age.
No. "Twontdo, s
That is true;
And he w lio is anxious to Interview
Tne leinalc --ex.
And tlieir temper ex
By the mipu lent question: "How old are
you?"
If he would know
The truth eiact
The prying, -pying, curious man
lie laid better go.
When liN trunks are packed.
And spend the ret of hi, day in Japan.
I -Hariier'3 Weekly.
MADE OE MAEEED.
nv .n.siK itoiierrim..
Author of "One- of 1 hrcc." "Probation,"
T7ift
HVHfieMa." Etc,
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CHAP'ITR VI I r. Co.vriNi;rn.
have not decrcd such happi-
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said Philip, and the answer was
another smile.
Then it was over
1 he glory and the dream.
The train stopped; there was noise.
tii-le, shouting, talking. They joined
heir friends went out of the station in
Vo the busy street and the lamplight.
Then eatne that prosaic vehicle, the
ninibus. in which Philip contrived to
be seated next to Angela. Half way
home, he heaid her voiee in a low lone:
Philip" Don't moc. Look as if
we weie talking about nothing in par
ticular. 1 want to tell you something."
r " Yes; I can hear. 'What is it?" .
"1 don't want you to speak about
u hat we have been talking about to
night. You know, there is nothing set
led, .nothing decided. It would make
aie so I don't know what I could not
-land it, if it were looked upon as a
tail acotiipli.''
(j " I will do just as you like, and not
mention it to any one, unless you wish
it: but Gra e you would not mind
Grace knowing it "-"
"No, no. Indeed Grace must know
.t. It can not be helped. But make
her promise that it goes no further.
You can make her promise anything,
ou know.'
44 1 will. You may trust to me."
. mi mm
"Oh, dear! How tired I am. and
how stupid it has been!" ejaculated
Angela. Hinging herself on the couch.
44 Turn up the gas, Mabelle, and let mc
see it my dress is damaged. It really
, was much too good for such an expedi-
Xtion :i this.'"
A Mabelle complied with the behest in
silence. Angela stood up again, and
carefully examined her dress all round.
"Not" m bad as I feared. Luckily
Philip and 1 had a first-class compart
ment all Jo o'irselves, and "
'J'hilt'p and you? You speak very
familiarly ot him, Angela."
- "Do I? I must be careful, and I hope
lie will be careful, too; he is rather rash
and blundering. Did I not tell you he
was going to propose to mc? I never
was dece.ved yet 'n a thing like that,
and I was not to-night. He did pro
pose: and to hear hiiii it might have
been a matter of li e and death."
44 lie proposed And you, Angela,
what dil 3 on -ay?"
44 1 said 1 would think about it."
"OhiJSlMabelle's hands were clasped
with a nervous tightness together; her
syes were ti . ed apprehensively on her
sifter. "You know, Angela, he is not
like the men we used to meet"
I should think not, indeed! The
men we used to meet were not r,uitc so
qauch and abrupt in their manners as
' Philip Massey, and"
" Hut n-)t one had a warmer heart;
there was not one of all our friends who
was as good as he is," said Mabelle,
desperately. "2otell me the truth!"
she added", with almo-t a sob of sup
pressed emotion. "You don't mean
that ou are onlv amusing yourself with
him. Angela? "You would not be so
ruel, and so so base!
44 Pshaw! How excited you get! ion
are almost as bad as him'-elt. X will
tell vou the simple truth, child. I hate
this'life we are leading as I never hated
anything before, and as I can never
hate nm-thing again: and I would do
almost :m thing to get out of it any
thing not downright wicked, you know.
As for warm hearts, and that, they
are often a great bore. Philip Massey
is not the man I would have chosen
for mv husband had I had any choice
-m-cif me, but he is desperately in love
with rue, pou-fellow!" (with a sweeter
smile than ever,) "and I can make him
do exactly as I please Ity judicious
mana-emenU 1 have yromte d noth
iiir,3?n5jmlKT that; and I intend to
proniisf nothing until 1 know what his
position K 'ir-'l what his prospects are.
i'hen I shall decide: and if what he of
fers nw i much better than this, I will
take it. if not "'
If not. vou will tell him candidly
l th-iuvou do" not care lor him, and can
not mar-n-mV' said her sister, breath-
1-sly. &QI course you will say that,
dear Angela, won't ou?'
OlDvesI suppose so. But 1 m
'"rcdbf'wnsidering what I will do; and
e .,.,.., iiv. milfli too voting to
noddle witiuclf thjugs, audhadmuch
! t - V lhinkmr
ubout vour lessons.
r. .-ire vou going
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ti.,
et "
I am" tired, good night," said Ma
. as she rscapt-.l from the room.
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d break, and as if no length of
:. eonld fiver quench the source of her
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CHAPTER IX.
GKICE OS TnE SITUATION.
It was a week later, and affairs were
in much the same position as on the day
of the picnic They had neither ad
vanced Jior receded. "Emotion had been
keen, uo doubt, and its current strong,
but it had pursued an even way, j.s
yet arrested neither by rocks nor rapids.
Philip had told Grace what had passed
between him and Angela, including the
vow of secrecy.
44 Has she not given an final answer?"
asked his sister, sharplv.
" No; is it likely?" "
" The most likely thing in tho world,
I should have supposed.
" How can she know, or decide any
thing, upon so short a notice?"
"Anything! She ought to be able to,,
say whether she loves you or not, and
whether she intends to marry you or
not."
44 You forget, Grace, that until I
told'her she had no idea of anything
of the kind. It took her by surprise.'
It xvas on the tip of Grace's tongue
to say: " How can you talk or believe
such nonsense?" but she restrained her
lips.
Philip went on to plead with his sister
to be kind to his sweetheart.
" 1 don't understand you," he said.
"You seem jealous, or as if you disliked
her, or something; it is so "unlike you;
and I should have thought that a girl
in her helpless and friendless position
would naturally appeal to your kindest
feelings, fatherless, motherless and
brothcrless as she is."'
"I should not think about her in an
way if you had not chosen to fall in
love with her. When it comes to your
wanting to mam her, I naturally begin
to criticise her, and tho more I see of
her the more I feel that she is not half
good enough for vou, and docs not ap
preciate 3611."
"That is nonsense and worse than
nonsense," said he. gravely, almost se
verely, "and I must beg ot you not to
sa anything of the kind again."
So the discussion went on, Grace
holding out at first, and saying many bit
ter things, a line of argument she main
tained so long as Philip continued cold
and severe; but as soon as he tried the
weapons of tenderness and persuasion,
a ki-s and a whisper of entreat, melt
ing into tears, and abjectly promising
to do anything he liked'rather than
grieve him.
"Only, Philip," she said, putting her
arm round his neck, and speaking in a
whisper, " 1 know some one else worth
ten thousand Miss Fairfaxes so good,
and with such a true heart, and I had
so hoped she would be the wife whom
you would choose.'
44 Don't, Grace! You don't know
xvhat you are saying. You will say
sometliing disloyal to some friend if
3011 don't take care," ho said, hastily,
but Grace saw a deep flush across his
face, and wondered if he had guessed.
If he would onlv have seen in their
,-r.!t. lirrlit lf -I 1 1 HiH-ilTl "wMrtC rkf '
fllMSU& U"IIU . ,.. .it,... .. v.
Thekla Berghaus and Angela Fairfax,
how happy she would have been! But
brothers, she reilected, were proverbi
ally perverse in such matters.
Nevertheless, she braced herself to
make the best of it, and to do the will
of this mistaken man, since she loved
him tenderly, and desired his happi
ness. She was therefore portentously
amiable to Angela; called upon her, sat
with her, invited her to spend the even
ing with them, and always ended by
finding that there was apparently no
single topic which she and Miss Fairfax
could discuss with mutual satisfaction:
so in despair she at last turned to Ma
belle, auil petted and made much of
her, wondering what made her so thin
and dejected. In private, she had con
fided the awful secret to Thekla, from
whom, indeed, she could with difficult
have concealed it, and Grace, in her
chagrin, could hardly be exported to de
ny herself the c.xqu'sito luxury of open
ing out in private to her friend tho
thoughts which elsewhere she was
obliged to keep locked within her own
breast.
"Mark mv words." she said, at what
she and Thekla called an "afternoon
opportunity,"' "it will end in disaster.
Philip is bewitched, Thekla bewitched
as Merlin was with Vivien only Vivien
had brains and iltc h:s none, "i on may
see it by tlifflfery glance of hiscyea.an.l
hear it in tnOTrubbish lie condescends to
talk with her. Or els. he sits staring
at her, and she looks at him now and
then, and smiles. How I detest that
smile of hers! Sweet it mav be, but it
is as utterly imbecile as a smile can be.
As if two human
beings
could
S
on
living on looks and smiles! Do you
know what they ought to be talking
about, if there was any seriousness or
possibility about the thing? Why, about
ways and means, and his position, and
their future prospects, and how she
could help him. and how they arc to
st;irr in lifn. And instead of that, when
thev do talk, it is idiotic stuff about
music and' sentimcut and singing.
Pshaw!"
She paced about Thekla's bedroom, in
which these disclosures took place,
while Thekla herself sat, her lips Vet,
her fingers apparently engrossed with
her embroidery.
44 It haunts me. and makes me
wretched!'
ever way I
went on Grace. "Which
look, I can see nothing but
miser v.
If she jilts him I believe he
will break his
something. He
dear oltP fool!
him "
heart, or go mad, or
i- such a fool such a
And if she marries
"For Heaven's sake' talk of some -
thmr else! I can not bear I aui
wearied of it! Wnat do 1 care?" said
lhckla. sharply.
And Grace, silenced in her tirade, and
confirmed in her suspicions, fell to
weeping.
Despite her wretchedness she was
able to face the prospect of going with
Philip to'tlic ball which Mr. Starkie was
to give in honor of Mr. Grey's approach- j
mg marriage. -ii uie superior cierKS
of the establishment were invited, and "place, without losing-an hour. From
many other guests as well, and each of Y jou will rejairt; to me. If ou
the aforesaid clerks was allowed to take hear, -or find out -anything giving, tin
two ladies. Philip was taking Grace , least clew toliiswhereal'Ciitsxvire.!Tlie
and Angela, though to that dav the hit-
ter had never said to him: "I love ypu.
and 1 will be your wife when we 'can
reasonably think of marriage." No.
i such commonplace anil pros.iic words
had lalien from her lovely lips. Hints,
x ague half promises, half concessions.
.oot ing words, and long, mysterious
glances had alone been vouchsafed, but
they were enotuh to keep Philip fever
ishly in love, and still wandering in his
Fool's Paradise.
Some of Mr. Berghaus' family were I
also -oin-, and it had been arranged
that they should all start at the same
time, and so arrive nearly together .at
Mr. Starkie's place, which waft in an
Irkford suburb, Jive miles away.
Angela's lips had been,oponcd to utter
a few-words onvtbe 'subject" of dress'.
Being in half mourning, she said, she
could not venture on anything but
black and white, and being so poor, her
dress must be simple, and must be made
at home.
Miss Fairfax made a- great point of
the "home made" incident. And so it
was made at home, and chiefly by the
ingenious fingers of Mabelle. It was
simple, no doubt: but there is costly
simplicity as well as cheap and tawdry
splendor, and as Grace Massey ob
served. 4 'Dozens, of yards of black
tulle, and unlimited water-lilies and
leaves in long sprays, of the very best
make, can not bc'got for absolutely
nothing, you know; nor black satin fans
with ivory sticks but Philip gave her
that: nor long Brussels lace mittens
but she said those belonged to her.
grandmother, and I am sure, 'for any
thing I care, they may have been worn
by Noah's wife, "before the Flood."
The great day of the festivities at last
dawned: it is to be hoped that poor Mr.
Grey feit happier on the occasion than
did some of those who were bidden to
the festivities in honor of his marriage.
CHAPTER X
I'AREWBT.T. T
'Liebuhen, ade! 4 r
SchxidenUiutwphl".'
"I suppose the governor won't be
here to-d.y," said one of' his fellow
clerks to Philip on that eventful morn-
ing.
"Ho's off to Grev's wedding."
"I suppose so.
Shall ou be there to-
night?"
"Yes; I'm going with my sister, and
"mv brother, and the girl I'm engaged
to?'
"Are vou en-raged? I didn't know.
Who is the lady?"
44 Miss Wainwright Lucy Wain
wright." said Philip's fellow-clerk, with
a proud and happy smile.
44 Oh, I once met her somewhere.
She is a charming girl. I congratulate
3ou.'
"Thanks! Who are 3ou bringing?'
"M3 sister, and tho lady a friend of
my sister's Miss Fairfax."
44 Perhaps I ni, congratulate you,
too, eh?" suggested, his iritndlodking
at him with a smile.
442so," was all Philip said; but he had
caue to remember the conversation.
The day wore on, under the auspices
of Mr. Day, the head clerk, and this .un
fortunate gentleman had ample cause to
wish the hours of work might be cur
tailed. It had transpired that he also
was to grace the hall, and manv were
the benevolent incpiiries as to -what he
intended to do, and whom he thought
of bringing with him. Mrs. Day so
much was elicited from him was to
accompany him, ami this fact once
known nothing short of a full descrip
tion of 'Mrs. Day's proposed costume
would satisfy the insubordinate ouths
supposed to be under Mr. Day's control.
Truth compels the biographer of Philip
Massey. at this jieriod of his life, to ad
mit that he took a foremost part in
persecuting the unfortunate Mr. Da3,
presuming, it is to be feared, upon that
excellent person's known partiality to
him. fle had just extracted from the
head clerk the admission that his con
sort's head-dress would be glorious with
a white marabou feather, with gold
tips, when an irreverent sprit suddenly
called out:
I say, here's tho governor's car
riage. He's coming, after alL ' '
"Gentlemen, I entreatyou " cried
poor Mr. Day. '
" What a lark, if-lhe-old boy has for
gotten to take off his wedding favor
Cay, we'll make him lend it to you, if he
has. He likes conferring favors on you,
3ou know."
Groans saluted this frightful attempt
at a joke, which groans were quickly
hushed into a discreet silence as Mr.
Starkie's foot was heard, then his voice
in Mr
Dav's office, calling to him.
The head clerk bustled away, and
some subdued laughter and jokingwent
on at the expense of Mrs. Day's mara
bou feather. Philip Massey, who felf
himself in an oddly Joyous and excited
mood, had just announced thatho would
waltz with Mrs. Dayere cock-crow of
tho. fnllowinc- dav. or perish in the ef-
fort. He was laughing at the prospect,
' and looking up, :f -light flush upon his
handsome, resolute lace, and a gleam
0 . . .
m his dark eyes, when the door ot the
olhce was openeu. aim uie page uoy
who waited upon Mr. Starkie inquired:
' Is Mr. Massey here?"
" He i-," replied Philip.
44 Mr. Starkie wants to speak to you
at once, please.'
Philip rose, a little surprised at the
unusual summons, and in a few mo
ments found himself standing in Mr.
! Starkie's priva
ate room, alone with that
! gentleman.
" You sent for me. sir?"
" Ah, Massey yes. I want you."
; In his hand he held a telegram, as
! once before when he had wanted Philip
he had held a letter. There were signs'
of grave disturbance on his face. Philip
stood waitimr in silence while Mr.
Starkie read the telegram again, and
then, turning to him, said:
"Bywell you remember making in
quiries for me about Bywell?"
"Perfectly well, sir."
"Bvwell has turned out much worse
than" 1 expected. He has made off
1 with a lot ot our money, andVeft.thc
i bridse. nearly finished, :wl all his
! work-people, to any fate that may
j oycrtake them in fact thcre'sTthe d
' ens to"pay, and t'At's all abontMt."
sjthe dick-
"Yes, sir."
Is that all you have to say about
it?"
"I don't know of anything else, at the
niomeuL" t v
44 Ha, ha! Well, what you have to
do is to set off at once, in Bvwell's
rest
st I shall put into the hands of the po
lice, but the main thing is to Fend a sub
stitute for him. Do xou understand?"
44 That I am to set off at cncc for
" said Philip, deliberately.
44 Just so."
"And remain until your contract is
performed and then come home?"
"Exactly."
44 About tiow long shall I be out?"
" Perhaps six months, perhaps eight.
It might be a year."
"It mightbe a year," repeated Philip,
passing his hand over nis urow .
Itnihrht. I don't sav it will. Well
you don't wish to shirk" it, do3ou?"
Far from it. I am ready to go im
mediately, but excuse my putting such
a 'question, sir. It is not from greedi
ness, or graspingness, I assure you, but
because it is a matter of something like
life and death to me. If I succeed to
your satisfaction, and return safe and
sound, will my position shall I "
44 Will your position be improved? It
all depends upon how 3011 conduct
3-ourself. If very well, it will be im
proved veiy considerably. I can not
saj more."
"Thank you, sir. I felt sure it was so.
T onl wished to hear it froni 3-ourself.
And now, I am ready an3-moment"
So he was, perfectly ready. There
are few pleasanter things than to see a
man, 3oung, strong, honest and honor
able, rcad3 to do what he is told, intel
ligently, not servilely, about to enter
upon an expedition of much responsi
bility, and not without considerable
risk, at a moment's notice; not dis
mayed, but not over-confident; self-possessed,
but modest, and not under the
impression that ho was going to do
something surpassing everything that
anx one else had ever done before.
A conversation took place between
Philip and his chief not long, but con
centratedin which Mr. Starkie ex
plained his position, and Philip took it
in, receiving also instructions and cre
dentials. There was an 'express from
Irkford to London at eight o'clock. It
was then nearly live. He had three
hours in which to purchase what was
absolutely necessary for his sudden ex
pedition, go home, take leave of his
sister, "and your friends," as Mr.
Starkie remarked, in a general way
write to absent or distant friends, pack
up his belongings, and oe at the station
in time for the London express.
He left the room, a'tcr shaking hands
with Mr. Starkie, with the brief words:
44 Yon may depend on me, sir, to do the
best I have it in me to do for you."
" That is enough," was the reply, and
Philip found himself again in the outer
office, which he had left scarce a quar
ter of an hour before, at the page's sum
mons. The rest of them were still
seated there, and one or two looked up
as Philip came in.
44 Well, Massey, what did he want?
'Anything about to-night? Hid he ask
you to bring some connc songs -"
A stifled burst of laughter greeted this
suggestion. Comic songs were not Mr.
Masey's strong point. He answered
nothing to their suggestions, but said:
"What bosh!" Good-bye, all of you!
I'm off to make acquaintance with the
heathen Chinee."
What!" came in large capitals from
all parts of the room; out Philip had
no time to explain. He shook hands
with a few friends, and hurried away
with a general good-b3e to the others.
A hasty visit to a large outfitting
shop, where he explained his needs,
and received a promise that what he
wanted should be packed and sent to
meet his train to London, and then, in
a dream, a strange, unnatural trance,
lie got into u hansom and was driven to
Lawrence street.
to be continued.
Kilkenny Cats.
The story has been so long current
that it has become a proverb " as quar
relsome as the Kilkenny cats two 01
the cats in which city are asserted to
have fought so long and so furiously
that naught was found of them but two
tails. The correct version of this say
ing is this: During the rebellion which
occurred in Ireland in 171)8, Kilkenny
was garrisoned by a regiment of Hes
sian soldiers, whose custom it was to tie
together, in one of the barrack-rooms,
two cats by their respective tails, and
then throwthem face to face across a
rliue generally used for drying clothes.
The cats naturally became intimated and
scratched eachotherintheabdomen until
death ensued to one or both of them.
The officers were made acquainted with
the barbarous acts of cruelty, and re
solved to put an end to them. For
this purpose an officer was or
dered to inspect each barrack
rooni daily and report its state. The
soldiers, determined not to Ipse the daily
torture o! the cats, generally employed
one of their comrades to watch the ap
proach of their officer. On one occa
sion he neglected his duty, and the of
ficer was heard ascending the stairs
while the cats were undergoing their
customary torture. One of the tioopers;
scied a sword from the arm-rack, and
with a single blow divided the tails ol
the cats. The cats escaped through the
open windows of the room, which was
entered instantly afterward by the offi
cer, who innuircd what was the cause
the two bleeding cats' tails being sus
pended on the line, and was told in re
ply that " two cats had been fighting in
the room; that it xvas found impossible
to separate them, and they fought sc
desperately that they hail devoured
each other up, with tho exception of
their two tails."' Irish Nation.
The Hintloo Idea of Marriage.
A Hindoo has curious ideas as to the
married state. Here is a husband's
creed: " A man, both day and night,
must keep his wife so much in subjec
tion that she by no means be mistress
of her own actions. If the wife have
her own free will, notwithstanding she
is of a superior caste, she xvillgo amiss.
A woman shall never go out of her
house without the consent of her hus
band, and shall pay proper respect tc
her husband's father, the spiritual
guide and her guests, and shall not eat
until she has served them with victuals
(if it is medicine, she ma take it be
fore they cat): a woman shall never
go to a stranger's house, and shall not
stand at the door and must never look
out.of the twindowi It- a jyomanjtol-7
lowing her own inclinations, goes
whithersoever- she chooses, and doe
not regard the words of her master,
such a woman shall be turned away. It
a man goes on a journe3, his wife shall
not divert herselt by play, nor see any
public show, nor laugh, nor dress her
self with jewels or line clothes, nor see
dancing, nor hoar music, nor sit at the
window, nor ride out, nor behold any
thing choice or rare; but shall fallen
well the house-door and remain prh ate;
and shall not eat any dainty victuals,
and shall not xiew herself in a mirror;
she shall not exercise herself in any
agreeable emploHieut during the ab
sence of her husband."
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Tiie Civil Service Bill.
A few days ago occurred the first an-niver-ary
of the passage of the first act
of the National Legislature having ns
its purpo-;u the inauguration of a reform
in the Civil Service of the Nation. It is
a rrmsrkable -fact that the day
pawed without note or comment
on the part of the Democratic jour
nals of this country, although eight
een months ago their columns were
crammed with editorials demand
ing that the Republican party be ex
pelled from power because it did not
reform the" Civil Service. It is now
very apparent to the public, and pain
fully so to the Democratic brethren,
that the reform in the Civil Service
which they meant was not so much tho
retention of ellicent help and the eleva
tion of the service, as the removal of
Republican office-holders to make place
for Democrats. The Republican party
is the only political organization known
to the history of the United States which
ever made any effort to reform the ad
ministiation of the Civil Service, which
had been debauched by it3 Democratic
predecessors and bequeathed to it at a
time of great National distress and ex
citement. Ever since 1829, when President
Jackson lemoved over seven hundred
office-holders to giye emphasis to his
original Democratic doctrine that "to
the victors belong the spoils," that
maxim was the Shibboleth of the Dem
ocratic party. Such Was the condition
of the public mind, educated to accept
and perpetuate this doctrine, when the
Republican party in 1861 came in pos
session of the machinery of Govern
ment. Certainly the doctrine accom
plished one good result as it insured at
that time the removal, more or less
gradually, of a great many corrupt
Democratic office-holders and their re
placement by efficient, honorable and
patriotic Republicans, the effect of
the change being visible in a most
marked manner in the financial record
of the country since that date, as com
pared with the same showing for the
previous period, the percentage of
losses under Republican Administra
tions being vastly less than had
ever been known under Demo
cratic regime. After nearly twenty-tivo
years of hungry waiting outside, tho
Democratic party, despairing of gain
ing admission to the confidence of tho
people and the control of the Govern
ment by an open advocacy of its
known views, complained that the Re
publicans were administering the af
fairs of the Government upon the old
Jacksonian doctrine. In order to give
emphasis to the hypocritical demand of
the Democrats for a Civil-Service Re
form, which was intended merely to
catch the public ear, win public ap-
Iriausc and aid In Democratic success,
iut which it was never intended by the
Democrats to enforce as a measure of
public policy, Mr. Pendleton introduced
his famous bill before Congress to
reform the Civil Service, and much to
his surprise and the disgust of the
Democratic party in general, a Repub
lican Congress accepted the movement
in good faith, and passed the bill and
put it into actual operation. And now
a vcar later on the anniversary of tho
birth of this prodigy so loudly clamored
for by the Democratic throats, its birth
day is allowed by the Democratic breth
ren to pass in solemn silence and with
out an indication of their approval of a
measure adopted at their request, orig
inated by one of their own number,
adopted by a Republican Congress and
enforced by a Republican Executive.
We are sorry for our Democratic
friends, sorry that they are not satisfied
with having what they asked for, and
caii offer them but one consoling reflec
tion. The Civil-service bill and its op
eration will make very little difference
to them, as in any event there would be
no opportunity for the advent of Demo
cratic statesmen in 1885. If the coun
try has gained anything by the reforms
inaugurated in the Civil Service it has
not been at the expense of the Democ
racy, for the Democracy had nothing,
even in expectancy, to lose. Burlington
Jfawkeye.
Justifying the Bloodshed.
A writer in the News, of this city,
who has traveled extensively in the
South in the last few years, with good
opportunities of observations, admits
the general slaughter of negroes, but
justifies it 113 saying that iho"Almighty
could no, doubt have made a white race
that would submit to be governed by
negroes, but He never has. This may
be' true; and the problem which per
plexes the people of the South may be
solved only at the end ot decades ot
blood and violence. But does it follow
that that particular portion of the white
race should be put at the head of the
National Government? It may be that
under our form of Government the Na
tion has no right to inquire into the
methods of any particular State, and
rapine and blood may prevail without
National interference, unless it be in
Japan, or India, or Ireland. Bnt
should it bo a pas-sport to power in the
Nation, that the vhito race keep the
colored people under subjection by shot
guns and ropes? But that "writer
wholly overlooks an important factor
in this matter of shooting. It is not
negroes only that are maltreated. It is
not even 'carpet-baggers," as they call
all immigrants who dare to speak and
vote against these men, but native-born
citizens, white men, men who have
never voted any other than the Demo
cratic ticket; men who have heretofore
gone with the multitude on negro
"huntings," but who, for cause, have
chosen to break away from them and
encourage others to do the same, and
true men, born and educated on the
soil, who have never been murderers,
are shot as relentlessly as the negroes
themselves, whenever they choose to
break away from that typo of Democ
racy which is in fraternal relations with
what they are pleased to call the "Na
tional Democracy that Democracy
which is now in the majority in tho
House of Representatives, wholly
through these shot-gun methods, and
which is plotting fo elect a President of
their own faith and order, through this
Democratic machicry.
Who, in the light of past events, does
notlay the responsibility of this alarm
ing state of affairs largely at the door
of the Democratic party? There would
have been np war but lor the encour
agement the rebels received from the
Democratic party in the North. That
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party boasted of its povTf r in the solid
South made solid by this same species
of terrorism. A Republican was not
allowed to livo in any Southern Stato
then, as now. In the Indiana House o!
Representatives, in IS61, Horace Heff
ren declared that if any attempt was
made to coerce the South it should be
done over his dead body a threat that
he attempted to make good in his con
nection with the Knights of tho Golden
Circle, and for which he was honored
by the Democratic party of Indiana to
the very day of his death. Evety step
taken by the Government was opposed
by the Democratic party until, at its
National Convention in 1864,
it declared the war a failure and
proposed terms of surrender to the
rebels. But for such encouragement
Fort Sumter would never have been
fired upon. Lon after that, and
throughout the wholo course of the war.
the backbone of the rebellion was in
Democratic sympathy at the North.
Just so to-day. If the bloody methods
now used in the South did not find
friends in the Democratic party in the
North, they would cease immediately.
It is wholly for the purpose of carrying
a solid South for the Democratic candi
date that they exist at all, and it is be
cause by such a vote the Democratic
party hopes to win that these things arc
encouraged by the party here. Bo it so.
H tho Almighty has in reserve soma
phial of wrath not yet poured out, this
combination may have a temporary
success; but we can conceive of no Na
tional sin yet unatoued for that should
call down upon this Nation such a
calamity as the restoration of the Dem
ocratic party to power, with these
bloody wretches the controlling spirits
of the party. Indianapolis Journal.
The Virginia Republicans.
After a defeat which xvas compassed
by duplicity and force and in the midst
of more desperate obstacles than have
ever before confronted a political party
in this country, the Republicans of Vir
ginia have proved themselves true tc
their principles and loyal to the cause
of human liberty, for if any issue is in
peril in that State it is that of liberty.
The Republican State Committee, de
serted by its Chairman, xvho either has
gone over to tho enemy or has fallen by
the wayside, has issued a ringing mani
festo to the party, and made an appeal
to voters to rally once more for th
struggle of 1884, with an earnestnesi
and'enthusiasm of courage which goes
to show that while Bourbon bulldozing
and the shotgun policy may have won
a victory, the ranks of the opposition
are stillunbroken and ready for another
trial at the polls.
The address of the Stato Committee
contains a succinct history of the strug-
fle between Bourbonism on the one
and and Mahoneism on the other; or,
to state it in its true color, between re
actionary conservatism relying upon
force and the progressive, liberty-loving
people. It shows how one method
after the other failed. Bribery, cor
ruption, appeal to race prejudices, pur
chasing of votes, ostracism and bull
dozing were tried one after the othei
without effect, and then the Misssissippi
shotgun policy xvas adopted, with
what result is clearly shown in
the address. " A change of nine
thousand voters would have given us
the State," says the address. " Whc
doubts that these unparalleled (in Vir
ginia) tactics swept more than twice
that number off their feet above tht
Blue Ridge alone?" The greatest gaina
made by the Bourbons were in the vicin
ity of Danville. The massacre of ne
groes had done its work. The shot-gun
accomplished its purpose of terrifying
the negroes. In Pittsylvania County
and Danville 2,100 registered colored
voters did not vote at all. The massa
cre was also utilized xvith good effect in
remote parts of the State. "Dodg
ers" were printed containing inflam
matory accounts of a negro uprising at
Danville and xvcre mailed to various
places in the more inaccessiblo south
western counties, where they were de
livered the morning of election-day.
The ignorance and credulity of the
whites in these remote counties are
well-known. The accounts were re
ceived too late to be contradicted, and
xvere implicitly believed and had their
effect. They were made to believe that
there was a negro uprising in a State
xvhich has 206,000 whites and only 128,-
000'colored men. They know now that
instead of a negro uprising it xvas a negro
massacre that no white men xvere .
killed or in danger, that seven colored j
men xvcre slaughtered and others were
injured for political reasons. The
Bourbons had no other xvay of maintain
ing their ascendency except by the shot
gun. They utilized it and carried the
election, and, as they now suppose, they
have made Virginia solid for 1884 ana
added her to the Solid South by the
Southern method.
The tactics of Grant Parish, Hamburg
and Hazelhurst have answered once in
Virginia, but it is doubtful whether they
win answer again in a State whose
xvhite population is twice as numerous
as the colored. The shot-gun defeated
Mahone, but it did not exterminate his
party, nor did it wipe out the Republic
ans." It has only roused them to fresh
efforts and confirmed them in the de
termination to join hands with the Re
adjusters on their platform of "Nation
alism, human rights, liberty, peace,
manhood and Republican Govern
ment," xvhich are the cardinal points
of the Republican party', and to make
common cause "with the Mahoneites
against 4 'proscription, and bigotry of
caste, class, and race prejudice." In
the extreme Southern States xvhere the
colored, men arc the large majority of
the party it is possible to disfranchise
them by force or destroy their majori
ties at the polls by fraud and trickery,
but it xvili not work a second timo In a
State xvhere there are large- numbers o
whites arrayed against Bourbonism.
The Danville massacre scheme has been
sufficiently ventilated to be understood,
and the Bourbons will not dare to at
tempt it a second time. The Republic-.
an Committee has done well to issue its
appeal thus early in the campaign, and
to send it forth not in an apologetic or
complaining manner, but xvith the ring
of the trumpet in it, summoning the
party once more to the combat and de
clarfng. that "the Bourbons must bo
taught that it is full time the shot-gun
and pistol should be eliminated from
American politics, and peaceful meth
ods should alone be resorted to in car
rying elections." Chicago Tribune
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