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TIE BED CLOUD CHIEF. 4. C. HOSMER, Publisher. RED CLOUD. NEP.tiask; A TEAR AGO. 1 "I?S rich a Tear act) That evcrv day A little child looked up to me .Amid its play. I was so very rich because , Tlie child w?i initio- I did not think he was vua but lent - utUc; tiine. 1 dreamed, for him, bright dreams. And her The castles that he built VVc.ro all for me. I cm not tell you, if I try, Howjrolden, bright. The head upon my pillow Every uiht. I never could beyin to tell 1 w.sh J could How sweet this child of mine. Hw Mveet, bon- rcod: Or halt how rich I lelt myself. Ytm do not know How very r.eh 1 was A year ao. And now I staud upon the path I stand alone. How poor 1 am! So poor no diadem whatever Rhone Could mnk me rich. Hut standing licrc And 1'xikinif down On Uo ldeu hope, as on some crimjon wind Mower Turned to brown, 1 see that, though 1 am so poor. For his sweet sake I may be jd-id that God saw fit His own to take. I nny be jrlad. because 1 loved him so. That God -hould do so kind a thins And let hun so Dotoie the world's breath ever Swept hi- fate Vfl at euuld my love hn-e done To grant such irraee." Vt hat c..u!d my love have done? 1 could int keep 31 y etii.'d. with all my love, so 6afe i!ut lie would weep. Uu. ICriitylc. m A. 1. Independent. HADE OR MARKED. ijt Jessie roTnriiGit.t, Atifwr of "One of Thrre." "Imbot'.on," WtUfie'iU;' hU. "1716 rilAPTEU XVII. CONTINUED. The attempt to describe hours like those Philip was pas-ing through must always be pa ntul and generally a fail ure. When we fall ourselves, we may feel nngiu-h and remorse; may call our selves hard names, abase ourselves to the du.it. and seek eha-tisement for our sin- but 1 chitid all compunction is the consciousness. "After all, 1 never was pi r eel to beg:n with: what I have done has not put me outside the pale of hu manity, and there is the future in which I may strive to expiate nry s'n." But when one's ideal noes when what was highest, purest, seemed stainless and i holiest, what uimpeachable, crumoics suddenly tl uvn befo c one s horror struck eyes, into common dust one cati no longer see with undistort ed vision: the readlon is blinding, and the miscablc dust looks like a heap of urcadlul corruption Thus it was with Philip, and it was with this overwhelm- mg disaster that he had to battle that Mr. Starkie s remarks, was to be the night. Sleep, he felt, was out of the . arrangement. Three y"ars away from question, but, see'ng that his bcdr'wn friends and home, with precarious had a round bay w ndow, opening to ' chances of sending or receiving news, the lloor, lie unfastened it, and "saw , Three years sate -"three years in which that a li tie iron balcony ran round it, ( he mutt be aw.iy. All the better, he The n'ght air blew keen and fresh, but said roughly within himself: wiat had invigor t ugly upon him. He stepped he to -stay at home for.' Who wou.d forth, an 1 ros-tng his elbows upon the ever want to stay egeaingin England ledge o: the balcony, leaned there, and who could go away like this? His ga "d ureari'y out into the n'ght. ; cheek, which had grown somewhat hol Thcre was a late moon, ju-t about to low during tho la-t few days. Hushed, disappear behind a range of low moors and his eves brightened again as ho to tue wct he dimly saw the trees in i the garden, and the flower-beds beneath, his window, and the smoothly-shaven lawn. Farther away he beheld the gleam of water there was an artificial lake, he remembered, which he had no ticed as they drove up to the house. All was very st'll and quiet, the whole es tablishment .-eemed hushed in repose. Tnis time la-l night he had Keen eagcr- ' ly longing for home: had oeen think- , ing of Angela, of t e pleasure, the sur prise of li s own sudden arrival. When , had he ever ceased to thin;, of her? It was of her he Wad thought as he land ed, of her as he hurried as rap dlv as tra ns and cabs could take him to Irk fonl of her. and of her only, when he j arrived, and. while he w:is driving through t..u d ngy, well-known streets of her. as, like a Hood, the remem brance of the same rushed over his in'nd Grace, Mabelle. the few .short ( and terrible moments during whijh his leap from light to darkness had been taken. "She was married this morning," he muttered to himself. "My God! what! ( are women made of. that they can do I tiiese things inarri' d this morning, aud not t nee "week- ago she was writing to m as her ' d "arest Philip!' Suppose I were to -end the letters to old Fordvce, ( without further note or comment -ha, ha! Its a ma-i world, my masters, a mad world. Well, a man docs not die because a woman has lied to him, audi suppose other men and women wi.l not f visit it as a fin upon Philip Massey that Angela ra rlax first made a fool ot hun. and then iiPod him. I came home ccr- tain that 1 was a made man, every way, and it seems I'm a marred one instead in the only quarter where I cared for success ' The 'idea "success" awoke other -v .-- ......j memories. nd he i emembercd h's game with Thekla Uerghaus. and their defini tions of succe.-s. And I said Grey had been success ful, and she did not seeju so sure about it; but I was rig'it. after all. for he has got an honest woman for his wife. I Mippo-e Grace meant that one day when she spoke to me. What a fool I was!" The night wore on. and the moon dis appeared, and dawn broke in the tast, bringing a g'atl new day, wi h new hopes and joys, to the woil I in general; but when the miu arose in his beauty, lie found Philip Massey w.th a very empty heart. CHAPTEK XVIII. rniup oi-FEns to go in peahcii of blue hoses. Philip staved his two days aud two nights at Mr. Grey's, sav'much fine company, and had several conversa tions with Lady Elivabeth, who was very kind to him, and asked h'm to come and see them again. From Calliards he wrote to his mother, telling her he was coming over to roulhaven soon, and on leaving Mr. Gre's house he went back to Ir.;iord and the oilice. and asked to ice Mr. Starkie in private. During his wanderings about the fir plantations at Calliardshe had made up his mind what to do if the doing it were within the realm of possibility. The interview was "granted, at once, and Mr. Starkie began: "Well, Massey, I'm glad to see you. I suppose j-ou want a little settling up of business matters, eh? You have been drawing your usual salary while yon were away, but of course you knew there would be a difference on your re turn. That check will make it right, and for the future "' Philip had taken up the check and looked at it t "You are very rood, sir. This is verv liberal, and I am much obliged to you, but' and he did not pocket the check with the jo3ful smile which Mr. Starkie was accustomed to sec on such occa sions ' there is something else I wished to sa3 if you will allow liie." "Say on. Are j-ou not satisfied with the check?" "It is much more than is due to my poor services. If I have rea ly been of any assistance to you I " "You have been of very real and ma terial assistance, and ou must not think we labor under the impression that, a check can pay oil a debt like that." "And 3ou would not think me pre sumptuous if I venture to say taat yon could far more than repay me in a dif ferent way than by giving mo checks or money?1' "v'crtainly! Anthing, almost, in reason. Wh.it is it you would like?" "I would like, if j'O" have anv other cxned'tion on hand like the one I have just returned from,that you should -end me out aga'n anv where I don't care where, so that it is far enough." "You wish to go away again? I should have thought " "I know what you would have thought, sir. and at one time I should have been of the same opinion, but not now. I want to get away. I don't care what the work is, nor where the place is: and if you told me to set off to-morrow m search of green diamonds, or blue roses, or any thing, I should be delighted. Not to-morrow, perhaps, but the day after." "Well, there is such an affair not to search for blue roses " "1 didn't mean that, sir; Pve been looking for blue roses for some time, and not found them. But I am glad to hear you have any thing 1 could do." said Philip, a gleam of pleasure lighting his somber, haggard eyes. "H here may it be, and whatr "It is notCh na this time, but Aus tralia," said his chief; "diamond rock boring for coal. It's in "' "Ah!" said Philip, with still greater gratification apparent in his face. ' "That sounds well, and it would be a longer aitair than the other, I sup- nitfr.J' ' WlS.-'l'. Thres years,' replied Mr. btarkie, gravely. "Three years!" Philip echoed the words. Three vears alone, with one ' European comrade and a few olon'al i workpeople; such, he gathered from looked up to Mr. Starkie. "If you only consider me trust worthy and wiil give me the chance," said he, "I would '-ather have it than a thousand pounds. L am in earnest, sir; 1 am. indeed. I would give more than I can tell you if you would let me have my way in this." "1 see ou are in earnest," replied the other, gravely. "You need not look so excited. You s'lall have the job, and if there is any o'ie you are anxious to see, goat once ami see them, for vou will have to be off in about a week." "Mu-t I? That's good," said Philip, rising and straght-'ning himself, with a fever'sh, repressed kind of sigh. "Then I'll go to Foulhaven to-d.iy. and return here at the end of the week, sha'l I?" "Well, the beginning of next week would do. There's no such desperate hurry as that." "erv well. Say next Monday," sa:d Philip. -.Vhat has become of that pretty sister of vours, whom I went to meet for von r.nedav?" inonircd Mr. Starkie. bcnevolently. 'Grace?" said Philip, looking startled. " Oh. she's all right, thank you quilo well." And at last he effected his escape. CIIAITER XIX. rAUEWELI.. Philip went hom to Foulhaven. and it seemed as it the days absolute y Hew . i t i .11 ' m ,u,e olu nome-nie gre u om s one ! farm-house on t:ic bnwzy down where everything was so peaycful. so quiet , andso homely -in sucli intense contrast IO the hie he had just left and to that UP" "'h he was about to enter. " uirtiipiace oi ins was a neatiti ful place. The ancient house stood on the side of a down facing southwest, sheltered by rising ground to the cast, where was the sea. Foulhaven was a beautiful old town, and the sea a grand one which washed tho coast there, con tinually rolling its glorious surges up to the foot of the great cliffs. From the farm one might walk over Mr. Massey's fields, and the thy my downs to the edge of the said dills, and there, away from sight or sou ml of human habitation, watch the great green rollers eome sweeping up, and burst ing into long crestoil lines of snowy breakers. One might see the smoke of the gr-at steamers from Newcastle and Hull plowing their way, as it were, to the hori'.on line, while the heavens above were blue, and' the grass beneath was green, and all the earth was lovely. What Philip Massey toTd his mother of what had befallen I know not. He sat with her one whole spring morn'ng in her favorite painted chamber, as it was called; th room with the plea ant Elizabethan windows and quaiut paint ed panels and chests brought long ago from Holland: the room whose win dows looked over the downs, and from which, being an upper chamber, one could see the sea. Here Philip found her darning linen lavender-scented linen one morning, and what he told her on tho subject of his luckless' love was told then, and of his future plans, hopes, or wishes. When;at last he rose to go she rose, too. Slfe was a handsome, stately ma tron, strikingly like both Philip and Grace; homely in speech and manner, yet diguilied 'because of her own in ward dignity and wortniness a brave, pious, simple Yorkshire woman of Wensleydale. and a woman whose pow erful will and upright, simple character she had happily transmitted to more than one of her children. "It is a sad tiling, ruy son." she said, "but you are rizht not to shirk it because of that. I feel you have told me simple, unexaggerated truth " "On ray houor." mother, as I have learned truth from you." " And I. as your mother, tell you that you have done nothing in the matter for which your conscience need prick you. Andif you can not stay at home and live it. down, go away and live it out. There is a difference, Philip."' " 1 know there is." - " Go, then, and take my blessing with you, and remember that whether you are at home or abroad your mother prays for you on her knees night and morning." He bent his head, and she laid her hand upon it, saying: "God bless .you, Philip," and he went out. His mother, looking forth from the window of the pa'nted chamber, saw him .soon after- ward wandering out through the farm yard into the fields aud across the downs toward the sea. "My brave lad. and must you go. too? " she soldo prized: "and because a wicked lhrt thought you not good enough for her conceit. He goes to ward the sea they all go to the sea who have been born near it, when they are in trouble. I used to wander there my self in times of trouble and look across it till my eyes ached. The father u.ed to do the same, and every girl and 1 ov of mine have taken their bit of troubl-s , to the sea; now Philip, with his great grief, must go, too. Heaven help him. and scad him sa o back to me, at peace and in charity viTth all men." The days flew by. Philip had to bid , good-bye to the leepy farm, to the roll ing downs, to the grim ruin of trie ancient Abbey of St. Et!icllled:i which glared from "the high ground of the east cliff upon ill the suiTound.no- l.md ' and sea; to the old red town of Foul-1 haven, crowding up the cliff on either . side of the river: to the two old stone piers between which the fishing-boats ' ;-.. ,..... M;iinn. ?n ..n,1 ,ittn ..11 ! these he said farewell, and was gone, whether ever to return who should dare to say? A brief visit to Grace at Irkford, who told him that Mabelle was tossing in fever, unconscious of all arotrid her. ., IAV , .- ..ii ...... .... " ..... a.id that she ti race, was nursing ner. '" , 1.. I ' 1 ld ! as he spoke. Gra -e was so overwhelms ..,..... ... ....... ....... .,......,....-. j at his near departure that she could hardly -peak. - "Oh. Philip, come back aguin!" she imp'ored. between her tears. 'Come back again! Probably I shall. Don't cry, little sister.. Good-bye! Look after M:f..elle. for my sake." CIIArTEU XX. .T I'KO I.EKS. Foulhaven, in the summer time, was a pleasant place, ami li"d Lee-, the great farm where Mr. Massey the elder lived in almost patriarchal slate, was one of the very p!eaantet spots in .'he vicinity. The -i; was a kind of conserv a tism about Foulhaven a chronic de pression in its trade, an ab-ence of "go," in it h jpkeeper-s, and an amateur- I ilincss a.-out me procee lings oi us I Mayor and corporation, all of which things, combine i. it is to be presunvd. with other cau-es. prevented it from de ! veloping into a large and nourishing ; town, and allowed it to remain one of j the loveliest. sVepiest, quaintest places I that it is possible to imagine. Three vears had rolled by .since Philip I.i 1 . ! i-" j Massjy had le't his home aud said good-1 ' b.e to his sister with the final iniunc- ; on " .Look alter JlaPelle. me tnree vears had expired in April: it was now August, anil he had not retiuued was not expected to return until late iu the ' aut'imn. Indeed, it was somewhat ' doubful whether he might come home i even then. In his few and rather mea- ;er letters he spoke ot the possibility ot - . .-. another commission which might take hun to some other distant quarter of 1 the world, in order to reach which it I would not be at all necessary to call at . .. ..-., t roulhaven or even to visit Kngland. Of course there were hopes and fears at ho-ne, long ngs that he would come, and lamentations on the .state of uncer ta:nty in which he left them, but a con viction underlying all that he would go ms own way, ami mat ne Knew, cetier than any one else, what was best for himself. One peaceful August afternoon every one and everything at Red Lees ap peared to be taking a prolonged siest i. There was silence in tho farmyard, silence in the sunny garden, except where the bees were buzzing and hum ming about the hives, silence in the spacious old house itself, silence every where. The wide entrance door stood open, so that one could see into the sunny, square hall, with the black oak table in the center, on which stood the great blue china jar, full of gorgeous roses, pink and white and crimson, and the queen of them all.-the yellow Gloire de Dijon, with its musky fragrance. The hall was llagged, and in summer tne flags were innocent of matting or carpet. On one side were the polished oaken stairs, with broad carved hand rail and twisted sticks. The deep wainscoting was of oak," too, and the doors of the parlor th" same. A large, ample, chintz-covered sofa stood on one side strewed with books and a half knitted stocking, in the midst of which debris the blue Skye terrier. Dr. John sou, (why so called no one had ever been able to discover, but the name was his. and he answered to it,) had coile I himself up attr turning round four times, and subsided, with a deep, d -awn-out sigh, expressive of beat.tude un speakable. And now he lay theic sleep- "Good "irl!" said he. absently, j comer oi me g.r.,ien menu win uia. "Nurse iir kindly. Grace, for ater she , incense, when the trees are tull of p.ums leaves nou she will only have h-r.MSler and pears and summer apples; when to protect her. aud the tender mercies woods are heavy with the mult greons of such as she are cruel." , npe maturity; when the mere teusa- ti i...: . .-i,..t onnf.mntnmi.lrit'"""' beuig out amongst it all.gives ing, occasionally stretching out a paw, or pricking up one of his silky ears; and the yellow canary appeared to sleep in his cage near the door, and the great grav parrot was quiet on her percu op posite the object of her contempt and spite, the aforesaid canary. Had you oi any one else peeped into the room on the left, close by the sofa, the stalwart form of Mr. Masey would have been apparent, his red and 5'ellow pocket-handkerchief lightly thrown over his face; his hands folded, his limbs outstretched, sleeping the sleep of" the just. In the rocking chair by the window sat, not slept, his wife she was not of a drowsy tempera ment but with her usual after-dinner recreation, a volume of fiction or poetry in her hand In the room to the -right of the hall, which was the drawing-room, or parlor, as they called it, there was another great sofa, of the good old kind which has now ceased to be manufactured, and upon that sofa was stretched tho shape of Grace Massey. She, too, was apparently lost to outside things. The book which she had seemingly been read ing, and which may have had the sooth ing effect mcnt.oned, had fallen from her hand upon the floor; it bore the title: Political Economy John Stuart M 11." Is there any one else, sleeping or, vakmg, on the promises.- it wouiu seem ao, for there came fitting down the broad, black stairs, the slender fig ure of a girl, tall and lissrun, dressed in some soft, Ho wing, gray stuff, car rying a book in her lund. ami hol.l- . . tit iug by the brim a broad, shady, straw hat She came gliding down the stairs, and paused in' the hall, looked around and seemed to listen. Then, looking into the drawing-room, she beheld the prostrate form of Grace, and smiled an irrepressible smile whicli ran over all her lace, and brightened it like a Hash of sunshine. She stole softly away, and looked next into the d ning parlor, saw the sleep ngma-terand the readjng mistress of the house, and came on tiptoe toward the latter, who had looked up. omgout, Mabelle, all alone, asked Mrs. Massey. "l'es. Grace is asleep. Won't it be fun to tell Hermann that she has actually bsen ccn slumbering over John Stuart Mils -Political Economy?'" Mrs. Ma-sev sm led. and shook her head. And I want you to tell her when she awakes but don't d sturb her on any account that 1 shall be in the hollow on the clut. you know, and snail sta " ' l-ra- S-uyu "" then. Mis. Massey looked up. and the sweet few l"k d, lovv- Maoellt; dropped a ki.v upon the matron s chceK. and went . . - . iway again, putting on her shady II.lt as she went out into tli sunshine. Delicious, glowing warmth of an August afternoon when the spicy pinks and carnations send up an incensetoo precious to be forgotten: tvbenthe late ro-es ami mignonettes in some forgotten . ..-- .1 . II I . ... .!... LlOU Ktl UU1I1U. I-Mlt. .MtlilllXV 1 .ll.illi-.J one a feeling of volupttmus well be.ng; when one's verv tho, guts seem to par- take of t..e haze of it -at and light which hoats in the distance, and when a o'o'c fur nicnte is the sweetest tiling that life can give. And to gain son-a'Sons like t!iee there is n s-ich place in the world as an old-fa-diioned gan.en. io he co.vnxt'r.i). C!iinse Prisim Fare. I Chinese p ison fare cons'sts of the cheapest and coaisest of rice, about three cent.-' worth per diem, a little salt vegetable-, and the weakest of tea to wash it down. Anything more mus: be provided bv their friends through the ' keep -r-. who .-queeze a good living out I of these commissions. When a prisoner has no fiiend-, syw starvation ;.s added Jo his m"-er es; he quickly makes his confession of gu It ami hail- the day that seals his doom, lining up his voice in song while leing carr.cd in baskets through the street-, to execution. When ' one sees conditions -o favorable for the generation of zymotic diseases, it is a I tier eet marvel that any survive an in- ca-eoration such as tirs, sometimes ev- tending over iive or ten years. It can easih be imag ncd that death does snatch many of them out of the law's clut dies before it has don" its wors for them. As it is, the mortality among the criminals is so great tiia. adea l-house is a necessary ud.unct to each prison. The turnke' finds some morning that a pris ViJUit A Vy trlll ltlllUl4 S mir rr ttt lfii cuKimmlinil In ct'tl"'l. have succumbed ti llNease m. torture. Dead or dying, the unhappy wretch is taken up and cast into the dead- house, where otner corpses may be ly I IIl, .111.H1.I11U Ulli iillLU Ul .ill 11111111.1. U :m. thn (, thr01Iffh :l nall ing, awaiting the farce of an inquest. hole in the ouUr wall, into the adjoin ing street, for burial, the portals of a magistrate's iatnai being too sacred to be defiled by the exit of a criminal's corp-e The iu'erior prisons and the LI1U U.Mli 1J1 .1 milium H O H(.0 ;simg nee), mtle de j ,. ., t:lriiv ,inB ,.,. - - scnption tine fiendish faces, the same emaciated bodies. Here "" v" j ". are contined persons charged with light er offenses, such as burglary, theft and debt. These c dls are often so densely enwded that one s reminded of the Black Hole of Calcutta. There is some times no space to lie down. The heat in summer is so stilling that they strip themselves nude, while the stench is simply s;ckcning to the momentary visitor. The writer will never forget the sight on one occasion of the crowd of emaciated, unearthly looking beings, nearly all covered from head to foot with cu aucous diseases, clamoring at the bars of their cells for med.cinc to cure them. Every foreigner is sup posed to be a physician, and some kind hearted visitors" have taken quantities of sulphur, iodine and carbol.c ac d, which they have dispensed gratis and with good effect upon the bodies ol these poor wretches. Cor. San Francis co Chronicle An English lady said to a James town woman: "Does your stove-pipe 'eat your room; r1 ' ply; "I never saw i.o, was tne re a stove-p'pe eat. . . but I've olten seen a chimney swal low." " Heliolas" is the name of made diamonds which only experts can tell from the pure gems. Chicago Journal Democratic Beign In Louisiana. It is not manv years since the land was filled with l)emocratic groans over the condition of things in Louisiana. The virtuods old Jacksbnians cried out that the State was infested with carpet baggersj ibat the halls of legislation were dusky wit! emancipated barbers and Stalwarts from the cane-brake; that every office was for sale, and that cor rupt on left nothing uude ded by its touch in high places or low. There could be no hope of Louisiana so the downcast. Democrats said uatil the de- E raved Republicans of all colors could e driven from power and the good ship of state be set sailing once more with officers and crew of the old Democratic stock. The great day of deliverance came after a while, and for seven or eight years now the happy Democrats have had absolute control of the State aud all that pertains to its policy and man agemeut. The time of their political millenium has been running long enough to entitle us to look for the vis ible fruits of a pure and unadulterated Denioerat'c Administration. What we see is a rich and prosperous State, that in looU gave iiancocK iw.uu; voie. u iJ-SOOO for Garfield, absolutely and com pletely under the control of a commer cial organization. The Sta'e of Louisi ana Democrats and all i operated as . n part of the machinery of the Louisiana State lottery Company. The writer of a letter from New Orleans which is pub l.shed in the New York Times, thus states the situation in regard to the lottery people: . ! l'ubl.c picspcmora aro nfrai.l to net be- I cause in irrent measure their tenure, ot oihee I i-triependent on the nnr wiucn nnus us imiiir stronghold in the eoilcrs of the company. LeifiMutivo lireriereiK-e s wcii-iiisu im "" possib lity. Hiul 'he stronjr arm of the h.xecu tive. Department nfUieMtntotiOViTiinient has become palste.l hcloru the jriyantic evil, ue foro tho holding of the recent Democrat o State Convention the wiW hope was iinhileed. in tiy anuraberof reputable members of tho dominant political party thai by oryanLed eilort they would b- enabled to p it m nomination seme respertub e man n.s eaodi dite lor Governor who would see to it that the evil was mantnlly crapptel. its ridiculous pretensions e.xro-cd. am! it continued e.xis'ence rendereil imp sib!e. Tins money of tho h t. ry was, however, too much for these well-meaninir persons. Their candidate. General K. N. Osden. who made the issue on thU question squarely, reed veil hardly the hoirr of u mention alter the opening of the convention, and h ? adherents. jee njj the hopoles'nes of their cause, were able to do little moro than prevent the nomi nation of Goveruor McEuory bcinj? made uu:miuiou5. The convention was largely made up of members who were understood to have money from the Lottery Company in their pockets. The few members who were really opposed to the C'om-p-ny prepared a resolution calling for its entire suppression, but this uocu j ment was so transmogrified by the faith ful lottery Democrats as to merely make a useless demand that the coming Leg ' islaturo should take "legal measures in the matter." In each of the last two Legislatures some attempt has been made to cripple , the rai-chievotts power of this company, ! which is largely dependent upon the i fact that it has a monojo'y of the lottery business. One plan was to weaken '.hy competition. I his was a hall-way measure, hut many thought it would be better than nothing. In I860 it failed ... c . .1 I .1 S-';it? S u0. j McEuery, who had list be "" for Governor through influence of been renomi- the aid of th" Company, and .u the House through the help of the Speaker. A move to ward extinguishing : he Company wholly shared the same fate, and the concern came out viciorious over everything. In 18S2 a s:milar experience was had. Senator Mar-ton introduced a resolution in opposition to ail lotteries and calling upon the Federal Government to stop the use of the mai s by lottery com panies. The managers k lied it by Democratic votes. In the House a con stitutional amendment was proposed for abolishing all lotteries, ami the managers proceeded also to kill that through the same agency. Theucefor- ward the lottery men hem mil control of both branches of the Legislature dur- ing the remainder of the session. j Tho Lottery Com any accomplishes its ends by bribery. It handles the Democrats precisely as they declared . the carpet-bagger-)" ami negroes were ' being handled in the j-cars following . the war. For a consideration they not only sell their votes aud official services I to a, monopoly, but to a monopoly that is a corrupter of the public morals. They serve an orgauL cd gang of plun I dercrs, and do it for so much cash in payment for a given service. The next Legislature meets in May and will be overwhelmingly Democratic and overwhelmingly in favor of the Lottery Company. The State Admin's tration is and will continue to be out arid out Democratic aud unreservedly at the service of the Lottery Comjmn-. On the whole the De nocratic party of Louisiana presents an edifying spec tacle. The only approach to it there , . .- .,-.- . ., j has ever been in this country was the Democratic party of New Jersey when the State was controlled by the Cam den & Araboy Railroad, and even that d.d not make a parallel case, for the I .. . 1.1 .11 1 "uroau conuuuuai a naiKL-auu aim -s.n, i.iijinnd.. i. rr n,rnn rnn nirnrir U1UIJL1 UU3IUUK AlllUlilUl Wit UlOlASljr of the party itself shows anythiug qu te so bad of its kind as its absolute and shameless subserviency to a lottery company in Louisiana. Detroit Fo$t and Tribune. The other n'ght, at Hempstead, L. I., at a social party a wealthy widower, Richard Valentine, was notified by a pretty young lady, Miss Annie Jackson, that it was leap-year, and that if a lady asked him to marry her, he would have to do it or buy her a dress. He sensed the situation, told her to put on her bonnet and cloak, and they drove to Roslyn and were married. Brooklyn Union. Dr. George Englemann, the St. Louis botanist, made notes of the weather several times a day for a period of forty-seven years. Recently he finished a pamphlet on .the meteorology of that part of the "Mississippi Valley. The day a ter it was returned from the printer'Dr. Englemtinn died. He was known in scientific circles throughout the world. b'f. Louis P03L Richard Charnley, a tramp, at tended at put lie expense at a New York hospital, received a letter recently an nouncing th death of his moth r leav ing him one hundred aud fifty thousand duTla-s. The migrant commissioners bought him a first-class ticket and he Railed for England. N. 11 Times, The Kerr Democratic Battle-Cry The latest Democratic battle-cry is furnished by Senator-elect Payne, oi Ohio. It was evidently constructed: with care, and with a. view to covering the wholj ground. There is a olassieal quality in it, and yet it is at the same time modern and practical. It runs like this: "The Augean stable must be cleaned out with a tooth-brush," The average Democrat hasn't the least idea, to be sure. what an Augean stable is like, or whv a tooth-brush should be called for In the work of cleaning it out; but instinct tells him that its use in this connection is to specify the Re publican party, and that the figurative tooth-brush has re'erence to a change in the offices and he is ready, there fore, to till his mouth with it, so to speak, and go to shouting :is only a Democrat can shout on the vital ques tion of ?poi.s. There is one serious difficulty in the way of making such a cry effective. Conceding that there is actually an Augean stable in sight, aud that it needs to be cleansed and fumigated, it does not tollow by any means that the people are w lling to 'turn the Democratic party loose upon it with any kind of im plements, or even with naked hands. 'I he experience of the country iu that d.rection has not been of a character to encourage such experiments. If the Democratic party had never been in control of the Government, and had never g'ven practical illustration of its sp'rit and capacity as a custodian of publie funds and a manipulator of pub lic expenditures, there migiu ne grounu. f.M. cmiiwicinir f hit it ennlil enav L nia- "' "i'i'- - - ,.-r, , t"ta, loritv OI the voters of the Lnited btate to intrust it with the management ol National affairs and the inauguration of an improved system of integrity ami economy. It so happens, however, that it has a'record, and a very plain and imprc-sive one at that; and the people insist upon measuring its present pre tenses bv its past c nduct. It is a'part of the history of our pol itics, for instance, that tinder the Ad ministration of the great and onry Jack son the peritd of glorious summer in the annals of Democratic conquest and supremacy trc defalcations amounted to over $;.760.(K)U. On every SI, 000 of public funds handled there was a loss 7.;")i'. Under the Administration of Jackson's friend and sue es-or. Van liuren, the de.alcations, or stealings, reached the startling sum of over &3, 34P.000 in four vears, or nearly Sl2 on every SI, 000 that passed through the hands of Democratic officials. The loss under Polk was a little more than $4 on each SI, 000: under Pierce it was $3.56; and under Buchanan it was S3.:il. Under the rule of ti.e Republic an party, on the other hand, the losses have steadily d nilnished until now they amount to only a few cents on each $1,0 0 not so much as the annual leakage in the ca-h accounts of the best conducted private business firms or cor pora ons. The contrast speaks for itself, and shows very clearly what might be expected if the Democrats were given a contract to "clean out the Augean stal le with a tooth-brush." There is another glaring historical fact, re -entry certified by the Secretary oi the Treasury, which has a direct ap plication to this proposed tooth-brush crusade. Iu the latter part of the Buchanan Administration b.ds were in vited, under authority of an act of Con gress, for $10,000,000 of Treasury notes the bidders to state the rate of interest at which tin y were willing to loan the money on said obligations. The bids ranged widely from s x to thirty-six per cent., and finally the notes were op posed of at an average rate of over eleven per cent, per annum, nearly one half of the entire sum being at twelve nercont. This demonstrate iu a very plain-fashion that, after its long lease 0f power, the Democratic party had to p:ly four times as much for money as i we are now paying under Republican rule. That is to .sav.it had s man aged the business of the Government that the capitalist would not K-aa money on the public credit for less than twelve per cent., whereas he is now glad to get three, though our indebted ness is much larger than it was then, and we have since passed through finan cial trials of the most perplexing and critical description. The sober truth is that the Republic ans have managed fie National inter ests with more ability, skill and dis cretion than any other party that has ever controlled" the Government. In comparison with the Democrats on that score, their record is signally surpassing and splendid. There is no Government on earth to-day that has its financial affairs conducted with less of corrup tion, extravagance and incapacity. In this one respect alone, the Republican party might safely go to the country and claim a renewed grant of power; and in no other respect, it is safe to say, has the Democratic party so little toV'er in suggestion of its fitness for the duties and respou-ihilities which it is so anxious to have placed upon its shoulders. When Democratic leaders talk about "cleaning out the Augean stable with a tooth-brush."' they pro- voke contrasts contrasts that they would do much better to avoid and prevent, The Republican party is not m fallib'c, and it has not alwaj-s escaped mistake or kept bal men from bringing reproach upon it; but when a square choice must be made between it and the adversary with which it has contended fiora the time of its organi zation, through all the perils and exac tions of the most important quarter of a century in the country's existence, it virtues and glories shine out in a way that leaves the intelligent and loal citi zen no chance to doubt which" should have the preference. That is the lesson of every Presidential election that has been held since 1860. The people are not fools, and are not forget ul, and not disposed to overlook the sort of practi cal philosophy that teaches by example. They thoroughly appreciate the mean ing of Democratic talk about applying the tooth-brush process to- the Augraa stable; and thev will not fail, at the proper time, ami in an emphatic man ner, to make known what they think about 't. Meanwhile, let the shoutiag proceed. If it serves no other purpose, it helps to cone ntrate attention upon the stand ng differences of character and history that separate the two par ties. UL Louis Gtobt'lfcmocrut. A colored dramatic club in New christened tho Irving. ' Yo-rJr "s been 1 t i It t r 1 SI :l i tl a lM ! 3 . f3 04 M LirHi t&s SiMiA. :j a,g I I II II II II I -- " - " ' ' ri'Zi a zv- ti.TanwiiHmimyi ! 9 mwiimiii MHIIWIUHill TMWIM ij irtrf'n . - -c t 1 T-ar-irifr -. ! i fe &. I" 5r; r'- - V" ''. - K i