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 '
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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.
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a.id that she ti race, was nursing ner.
'" ,
1.. I
'
1
ld !
as he spoke. Gra -e was so overwhelms
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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.
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