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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
A Church of England divine has just
published a biography of Judas Iscariot,
intended as an apology for the famous
traitor.
Henry Wheeler, of Hickory Flat,
Ga., has never seen a city, and is ninety-four
years old. He has 122 grand
children and great-grandchildren. Ha
never used rum or tobacco.
Mr. John B. Tolman, a veteran
printer of Lynn, Mass., has given the
Young Men's Christian Association, of
th Ht city, an estate valued at $30,000,
stipulating that the income shall bo
used in promoting the cause of temper
ance. Prof. Gilbert E. Bailey, the well
known geologist; has been reappointed
Territorial Geologist of Wyoming Ter
ritory. Prof. Bailey is one of the early
pioneers, and has done much to develop
the mineral resources of the Territory
and of the Black Hills of Dakota.
Mrs. Bolton writes in the Inde
pendent: Great numbers of post
offices in England are nianagea by
women. I sni'l to one in London:
" You manage this as well as a man."
We are said to do it better," she re
plied, "because people say, we aro
quicker and more patient.
Miss Constance Bell, a handsomo
twelve-year-old girl of Boykin, S. C,
came home from boarding-school and
found Dr. Jasper Benson, an eighty-year-old
stranger, sick in her father's
house. She nursed the old gentleman,
and, at the end of two weeks, as soon
as he was able to walk, they were mar
ried, the girl's parents giving full con
sent. Of the members of the Twenty-seventh
Congress it is said the following
are the only survivors: John R. Red
ing, of New Hampshire; Robert C. Win
Ihrop, of Massachusetts; Hiland Hall,
of Vermont; Richard W. Thompson, of
Indiana; David L. Tulcc, of Florida;
William M. Gwinn, of Mississippi (now
of California); Harvey M. Watterson,
of Tennessee; Robert M. T. Hunter and
Alexander H. H. Stuart, of Virginia.
Ericsson, the inventor, has lived
for twenty years or more in the samo
house in the lower part of Ncw York
city. His life is regular and method:
cal. Rising early, liefore six, he walks
for an hour, and after a light breakfast,
goes to work on his inventions; from
eleven o'clock until four is spent in
reading, during which he also indulges
in a luncheon: and after an hour's re
turn to work he ends his day's labor
with another walk through the lower
part of the city generally along the
wharves.
HUMOROUS.
A dandy, wishing to be witty, ac
costed an old ragman as follows: "You
take all sorts of trumpery in your cart,
dont 3-011?" "Yes; jump in! jump in!"
A j'oung girl begau to sing "Listen
to the Mocking Bird," and every body
in the room rushed hastily out to find a
mocking bird to listen to. Philadelphia
Call.
Ho "In what respect does billiards
change my usual disposition?" She
(naively) "Does it change your dispo
sition?" He "Yes; in billiards 1 nev
er kiss when I can help it; whereas, or
dinarily " She "You never kiss if
anybody else can help it. "J
"Mary," said a mother to her daugh
ter, "has Henry proposed yet?" "Not
yet, ma; but I think he will beforo
many days.',' "What makes you think
so?" "Because he asked me if 3-ou ex
pected to live with me if I married, and
1 told him no." Philadelphia Herald.
, The father of live marriagable daugh
ters was in town a few days ago trying
to buy some four-leaf clover seed to
plant in his back j'ard. He said he had
read that when a young girl linds a
four-leaf clover it is a sign that she will
be married within a year. Korristown
Herald.
Part of the name of the Queen of
Hanover is Alcxandrina Maria Theresa
Hcnriette Louisa Paulina Elizabeth
Frederica Georgina. She has more
phenominal handles, but these are all
the King uses when he calls her to sew
a button on his trouseri Jersey City
Journal.
"It isn't possible that you swim,
Mr. Jones?" "Yes, madam, I do.
Why do you think it so strange?" "Be
cause, Mr. Jones, the idea of your tak
ing to water is very funny." Jones
thinks some widows are entirely too
sharp, and now is looking for some one
else to love. Philadelphia Chronicle.
A lunatic captured a butcher shop
the other night, aud with knife and
cleaver held thrca hundred men at bay.
In a moment of weakness, however, ho
attempted to carve a porter-house steak,
cut near the horns, and was a van
quished man in five minutes. That a
man should be so foolish when life and
liberty were at steak Burlington
Ilawkcie.
A young lady from the lower coun
try, who has been visiting in Alturas,
Cal., said just before she left there re
cently, that the people of Modoc Coun
ty were the most generous she had ever
met. D ring her short stay there she
had been ottered a half interest in a
saw-mil, a barber-shop, a printing
office, a gentleman horse, and a livcry--stable,
respectively, to say nothing of
the ofl'er of two or "three saloons, ranch
es and bands of cattle.
The filarial Period.
The term "glacial period," during
-which large portions of tho earth -ere
'covered with ice, is especially applied
to the close of the tertiary period, when
nearly all of Europe experienced an
arctic climate, and whole races of men,
animals and plants were driven south
or destroyed. This cold snap com
menced 240,000 years ago and lasted
160,000 years. Science says it was
caused by the increased eccentricity of
the earth's orbit influencing oceanic
currents, and that we havo cold spells
from tho same cause every 15,000
years. Darwin believed it because it
enabled him to account for the similari
( ty of plants and animals found in
.America, Africa, Europe and Australia,
and also explained what become of the
races of men that inhabited Europe
240,000 years ago, of whom vestiges are
traced down to 80,000 years. There havo
been cold waves occurring at intervals
since, but that glacial period was thf
longest and coldest winter on record.
Indianapolis Bun.
The Next Vice-President's Speech.
At Washington,
on
the
eveninsr
of
the "ilst, the veterans took a hand in
the business of ratifying, and called
upon John A. Logan, the Republican
candidate for Vice-President, to whom
they gave a magnificent serenade. In
acknowledging the compliment General
Logan spoke as follows:
Comrades and fellow-citizens: Tho warn
expressions of confidence and congratulation
which you offer rac through your Cha nnua
impress mcfwiih a deep sense of gratitude,
and I be? to tender my sincerest thanks tc
ench and all of my participating friends foi
this demonstration of their kindness and es
teem. Your visit at this time, gentlemen, it
interesting to me in a double aspect. As citi
7ensof our common country, tendering trib
ute to mc as a public man. I meet you witb
genuine plciisure and grateful acknowledge
ment. Coming, however, as you do, as repre
sentatives of tho soldiers and sailors or our.
cuunuv.y-our visitpossei js a feature; insens
blv leadintrto 11 train of the most interesting
reflection'. (Applause. Your assemblage ii
composed of men who uave up the pursuits
of peiici', relinquished the comforts of home,
t-cvered the tins of friendship, and save up
the Kcntle. loving society of father, mother,
sister, brother, and in many inntances wire and
litt'e ones, to brave the dangers of the tented
field or crested wavo, to run the gauntlet ol
sickness In climate ditlerent from your own.
and possibly, or even probably, to yield up
lire itsolf in tho service of your country.
Twenty-three years ago. gentlemen, when
dread war raised its wrinkled front through
out the 1 ind, many or you were standing with
one foot upn tho portal of munhcoJ eagei
for a conflict with the world, which promised
to bring j oil honor, riches, and friend, and a
life of pi-ace and eise in the society of youi
own family. Hut few of you haa passed the
period of young manhood or ndvanced to the
opening scene or iniddlo Hie. On the call,
however, of your endangered country, you
did not hesitate to le.ifc everything for which
wo strive in this world to become dorendert
or the Union, without the incentive which has
inspired men In other Nations to adopt a mili
tary career as a permanent occupation, and
as the outlet to ambition aud the ascent to
power. (Cheers). The safety or our country
having been assured and its territorial
integrity piesened. you sheathed the
sword, unfixed the baionet. laid away the
musket, housed the canon. doiTed your uni
forms, donned tho garments or civil lire,
buried hatred toward our brothers of the
South, and shook hands in testimony or a
mutual resolve to rehabilitate the waste and
cultivate the arts or peace, until our reunited
country should be greater and prouder, and
grander than ever before. (Great cheers.)
Those years have glided into tho retreating
perspective or tho past since you responded
to your country's call, and mighty changes In
tho eventful march or Nations have taken
place. This passing time has laid its gentle
lines upon tho heads of many of you who
shouldorei your musket I efore your first
beard was grown. Hut however lightly, or
however heavily it has dealt with you. your
soldiers' and sailors' organizations that have
been kept up prove that the heart has been
untouched, and that your lov or country has
been intensified with the advancing
years. (Cheers.) our arms have been
as strong nnd your voices as clear
in the promotion or peace as when lent to the
science or war: and the interest which you
take in National allairs proves that ouare
patriots really determined to maintain what
you fought for and that for which our lost
comrades gave up their lives to secure ror the
Donctit of those who survived them. (Ap
p'ausc. long and continued.) During tho last
twenty years. In which we have been blessed
with peace, tho Republican party has been
continued in the administration of the Gov
ernment. When tho great quest'on of pre
serving or giving up the union of States was
presented us. It was the Itcpuhlican party
which affirmed its perpetuation. I open no
wounds, nor do I resurrect any ba 1 memories
in stating that this is an undeniable fact.
When you and I. my friends, anil that vast
body of men who, having declared in favor or
preserving the Union, wero compelled
to resort to the last dread measure
the arbitrament or war we did to un
der the call or the Hepubl.'can party.
JIany or us hail been educated by
our fathers in the Democratic school of
politics, and many of us were actingwith that
party at the time the issue ot war was pro
Hunted to us. For years the Democratic party
had wielded the dostiniesor our Government,
and had served itsnurpose under the narrow
er views of an ideal Republic which then ex
isted. Hut the matrix of time has developed
a new child of progress, which saw the light
of day under the name of the Republican
party. Its birth announced the conception of
a higher and bro'ider principle ot human
government than had been entertained by
our forefathers. Hut few or us perhaps
none -took in the full dimensions of the coin
in? ract at that esrly day. It lnoke upon us
gradually, like the light or the morning Min
as he rics in the misty dawn above the lecpy
mountain tops. At length it came in full
blaze, and lor the first t.me in the history or
our Itopubiic we give gcuiiino vi
tality to the declaration or 1776 that
"all men are cieated Tree and eiiial,"
and entitled to the inalienable rights
of lire, libcrtv. and the pursuit of happiness.!
LChcers.l 'I he Republican party was the un-
questionable agency which bore those gifts to
the waiting 117c. and it was the Democratic
idea which disputed tiieir ai'ie. Hrttipoii the
Held ot battle nnd subsciiiently and up to this
moment at the poi inz pi ices 01 tne country.
The Heptibliean part-, then, represents the
latit Truit on or Governmental proies, and
Is destined to survive upon the theory tint
th stroiijr outlives tho weak, until the de
velopment of principles still more advanced
shall compel it to mea-tiro its step with the
march oftlioa'.'e. orpo to the wall as an In
strument which has tul tilled its destiny. So
Ion? as the Democratic party shall cling
either in open or covert manner to tho tradi
tions and policy holonirin;- to an expired
era in our development, ju-t so long
will t,. Republican parly be charged
with the administration of our Govern
ment. In making th s arraignment or the
Democracy, my rriends. I appeal to no pas
sions nor reopen settled questions. I but ut
ter the calm. sot,er words or truth. I say that
until every State In this broad and beneficent
lTnion shall give tree recognition to the civil
and political riuhts to tho humblest or itciti
ens whatever his color: until protection to
American citizens follows the Hag at home and
abroad: until the admirable monetary sys
tem shall bo placed be'jsnd tliedanifer of sub
version; until Aini'rUiin labor and industry
shall be protected by wie and equitable laws,
so as to give full scope to our immense re
sources, and place every man uron the plane
10 which tie isciiimea. uy reason 01 ins ca
pacity and worth (cheers): until education
shall be as general as our civiliat-on: until
we shall have established a wise American
policy that will not onlv preserve pence with
other Nations, but will ctititc every Ameri
can citizen to honor his Government at
home and every civilized Nation to re
spect our tlag (renewed cheeringi; until
the Ameri'-nn people hall permanently es
tablish a thoroughly economic system upon
tho American ideal whtcr, vill preserve
and roster their own intere-V.. uninfluenced
by KiurlHi theories or Cobdcn Clubs;" and
until it is conceded beyond subsequent re
vocations that this Government exists upon
the tads or a scll-sustainlntr, eir-preserving
Nation, and the ratal doctrine or "Independ
ent State Sovoreighty." upon which the civil
war was rounded, shall be stamped out as po
litical heresy, outor which continued revolu
tion is born, and win Uy incompatible with
that Idea or a Republic the Republican narty
will have much work to do and unfulfilled
mission to perform. (At this point the
speaker was interrupted for some
time by cheers and applause.) The
standard-bearer of the party in the
ensuing campaign is .Tames G. Maine (great
cheering), known throughout tho land
as one of the truest and ablest representa
tives. He has ben caded to the position by
the voice of the people, in recognition of his
especial fitness for tho trust, and in admira
tion of the surpiisintr combination of brill
iancy, cournge, faithfulness, persistency,
and research that bad made him one of the
most rcmarkab'e figures which appeared
11 uon the Torum or statecraft in any period of
this country that such 11 man should have
onemies and detractors is as natural as that
our best fruits should be inrcsted with para
sites, or that there should exist small and
envious minds which seek to belitUn that
which they can never hope to Imitate or
equal, and that he shall triumph over these
and lead the Republican hosts anothci
victory in November is as certain aa the suc
cession or the seasons, or the rolling or the
spheres in their courses. Gentlemen, asrain
1 thank ou for this visit of congratulation,
and extend to you. one and all, my grateful
acknowledgements. (Cheers.)
There is a fortune in so small a
thing as a device for fastening a neck
tie. One of the patents in that line has
just been sold to a company for 81,000,
000 in cash, and roj-alties that may
amount to as much more. Chicago
Journal.
A Morrilton (Ark.1) lady
widow of eleven husbands.
is
Exit Tilden.
Since Mr. Seth Pecksniff laid his
band upon his heart and spoke moral
platitudes to his daughters and the
members of tho Chuzzlewit family there
has been no such impressive tableau
upon any stage as that presentetl by
Sir. Samuel J. Tilden in his tinal ad
dress to the Democratic party. "Mr.
Pecksniff." we read, "was a moral
man. Perhaps there never was
a more moral man than Mr. Pccksnitt',
especially in his conversation and cor
respondence.'' On one occasion, at
least, it is recorded that he rose to the
true Tilden proportions. "Humble a
I am," said he, "I am an honest man,
seeking to do my duty in this carnal uni
verse, and setting my face against all
vice and treachery, I "wept for your de
pravity, I mourn "over your corruption,
I pity your voluntary withdrawal from
the flowery paths of purity and peace;"
and thereupon "he struck himself upon
his breast, or moral garden."
Mr. Tilden. not to be outdone by any
thing Mr. Pecksniff could bring forth,
says of his own humble efforts in the
past:
For over fifty years as a private citi7en,
never contemplating an official career, I have
devoted at least as much thought and effort
to the duty or influencing aright the action
or the governmental institutions of my coun
try as to all othwr objects.
When we remember that of all the
men America has produced, there has
not been one more notoriously mean,
scltish and sordid than this same Peck
snillian gentleman who so freely admits
his own philanthropy; that he has not
made record of a political or personal
service of any kind in all that half cen
tury of his mature years that was not
apparently to his own direct advantage;
and that with all his wealth, which is
supposed to extend into the millions,
his name is not connected with a single
public enterprise which is not expected
to pay dividends, or with a benevolent
o- philanthropic movement of anv name,
sort or dimensions whatever, we are led
to marvel that he expects an audience,
even of his chosen followers, to sit with
long faces and listen to his exposition of
his own good works. He puts his of
ficial labors on the same plane as his
private endeavor for the public good,
saying:
I nave never accepted official service except
for a brier period, tor a special purpose and
only when the occasion seemed to require
rrorn me that sacrifice or private preferences
to the public weirare. I undertook the State
administration of New York because it was
supposed that in that way only could the ex
ecutive power be arrayed on the side of the
reforms to which, as a private citizen. I bad
given three years or my lire. I accepted the
nomination ror the Presidency in lt78 because
or the general conviction that my candidacy
would best present the issue or rerorra. which
the Democratic majority of the people de
sired to have worked out in the Federal Gov
ernment as it had been in that of the State of
New York.
His own pretensions provoke a refer
ence to the practical comment upon
those high professions, made by the
disclosures of the cipher dispatches that
followed the election of lob; and the
idea that "his candidacy would best
present the issue of reform" is worthy
of the modesty of the Democratic ora
cle. He has "shown himself to be an
adept at political intrigue, but when
he alludes to the reform and purifica
tion of politics he is using words which
are out of place in his vocabulary. His
reference to his exploits in New York
City and State shows a similiar feeble
ness of comprehension and strength of
vanity:
Three years or experience in tho endeavor
to reform the Municipal Government or tho
City or New York and two years or experi
ence in renovating the Administration of the
State or New York have made me familiar
with the requirements or such a work.
Mr. Tilden's services in helping to
break up the reign of Boss Tweed are
not forgotten, but they hardly take the
rank ofeminence. After the death of
I)ean Richmond he nianao-ed to seenro
"" -""iuni. ,,e manageuio secure
cratic State Committee, and in manv
conventions the wily Chairman sent
Tweed to the (ront, and he never made
a motion toward bringing the rule of
the corrupt boss to au end until the
press had aroused the citizens and the
people were in full pursuit. At the
eleventh hour Tilden went with the
current he could not withstand and be
came a reformer within the party of
corruption when there was notbing"else
left for him to do. A public sentiment
so general as to result in a mass meet
ing to appoint a committee of one hun
dred to proceed against the Tweed
gang brought him to the surface as one
of the hundred, but while the stealing
was successfully goinr on, not -a word
came from Reformer Tilden.
In the State administration of two
years Air. Tilden did, indeed, help to
smash the canal ring. That combina
tion constituted a political machine that
was not a part of tho Tilden machine
and would not become subject to it.
He "undertook the State administra
tion of New York" not at all "because
it was supposed that in that way only
could the executive power be arrayed
on the side of the reformers," but'be
cai?e the panic of 1873 had produced
siich a feeling of discontent that a
shifting of the State administration of
New York and some other States from
the Republicans to the Democrats was
inevitable before a nomination was
made, and because Mr. Tilden was such
a sly and skillful pipe layer that he got
the nomination by a scratch in a con
vention that had a large majority of
delegates who preferred Judge Sanford
E. Church. The tidal wave took Tilden
and the whole Democratic ticket into
otlice, and both branches of the Legis
lature to boot. It is sheer impudence
for Mr. Tilden to pretend that he "ac
cepted official service" in this caso "for
a special purpose, or for any
purpose I
other than the purpose which might
naturally actuate any shrewd, selnsh
actuate any shrewd, selnsh '
and ambitious politician. t wiII increase lhe chances of a Re-
It is passing strange that this worn- publican victory. Chicago Tribune.
out political hack, who has protected
more rascals than he has. exposed, Carl Sehur, sitting in the Chi
grown rich in financial operations which cago Convention at the time of Blaine's
his enemies call wrecking, with a repu- nomination, took his watch from his
tation for betraying tho confidence of
even his Lest friends as Cyrus .
Field can testify when there was any
thing to be made by doing so. avute
and unscrupulous in the small arts of
politics and trade, hardly ever engaging
in a transaction without being charged
with dishonorable and fraudulent con
duct before it was over, grasping and
greedy in all that he ever did, should
make so successful an assumption of
virtue before the American people and
iSnally bow himself out with a sancti
neaious smile, as who should say: "Be
hold the humble reformer who wrested
the City of New York from bad Derao-
crats, and then the State, and was will
ing to rescue the Nation from the
wicked Republicans. Lo! if the Lord
had only found a man like me instead
of Lot, Sodom itself might have been
spared." Detroit Post and Tribune.
Blaine and Victory.
The voice of tho Republican peoplo
has been heard and heeded. From the
pine forests of Maine aud the mountains
of Pennsylvania, from the region of the
great lakes, across the fertile fields of
Illinois and the broad prairies of Iowa
to the rugged peaks of Colorado and
the golden shores of California that
voice has been ringing out the name of
"Blaine of Maine." The roar which
shook the vast hall where the Republic
an Convention was assembled was but
a faint echo of the people's voice. The
immense vote which declared James G.
Blaine the leader of the Republican
hosts in the great struggle of
18S4 was
people's
but the ratification of the
choice already made. Not the conven
tion, but the people, made Blaine the
nominee. .For the convention to have
rejected him would have been a defiance
of the cleariy-expressed wish of tho Re
publican voters. It would have been
at once a blunder aud a crime.
'Wild as was the enthusiasm which
swept thai great assemblage oft its feet
at the announcement of the nomination
of the people's favorite, it was but a
feeble indication of the tremendous
wave of enthusiastic energv whose re
sistless tide will carry all bc'ore it this
fall, and bear Blaine in triumph into
the White House next March. No man
who actually' received the President'al
nomination since the existence of the
United States had, as a candidate, so
strong a hold on the affections of the
masses of his party as has James G.
Blaine at the present moment. Strong
in his convictions, courageous in main
taining them; daring in attack and bril
liant in strategy he has won the devo
tion of his followers and the admiration
of his enemies. His history as a public
man is that of the Republican party,
the one can not be dissociated from the
other. He is the typical Republican.
His history for the same period is large
ly that of the Nation. He is the typical
American.
It would have been impossible to
make a nomination that would be bet
received in Ohio, or that would exercise
a stronger influence for good on the for
tunes of the Republican part3 in this
State at the coming elections. In North
ern Ohio especially Blaine is the popu
lar idol. He had by his course
in Congress secured the admiration
of the people of the Western Reserve,
whose Republicanism is of the staunch
est type. His intimate association with
Garfield, and the part he bore in tho
tragic events of the closing months of
the martyred President's life, complete
ly won their hearts. He became tho
natural heir to the affection they bore
the deeply loved and cruelly lost Gar
field. No man named in connection
with the nomination, or who might un
der anv circumstances be connected
with that position, could so stir the
hearts of the people of Ohio, particular
ly in the Republican strongholds, and
bring out the KepubFcan vote to the
last man, as can James G. Blame, the
personal friend, the devoted adherent,
the political other self of the martyr
President, James A. Garfield. His nom
ination insures a sweeping victory in
October and a crowning triumph in
November.
From this day the State which has
given four Presidents to tho Nation,
and has material for as many more, will
work with all its might for "the man
from Maine," and from the lake to tho
river it will ring with shouts of "Blaine
and Victory.'
Cleveland
(0.) Herald.
The Chances.
The New Orleans Picayune has not
as much faith as a Louisiana Democrat
ic paper shouid have in a prospective
Democratic victory. It says, with ex
traordinary intelligence:
"The following Electoral votes arc
absolutely certain to be cast for Blaine
aud Logan in any event whatever, no
matter who the Democratic nominees,
or what the Democratic platform may
be:
California 8 Nevada
Colorado 3 Oregon
Illinois 21 Rhode Island
Iowa 13 Vermont
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11
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Kansas Wiscon-iu
Michigan i:i
Minnesota 7 Total, 13 States..
leomsKa 5
"The following Electoral votes are
absolutely certain to be cast for Blaine
and Logan unless the Democratie plat
form and candidates are unmistakably
and undeviatingly for protection:
Connecticut 6 Ohio 23
Maine fi Pennsylvania SO
Ias-pchusfits u
New Hampshire 4 Total, 7 States 92
Now Jersey 9
"The following electoral votes will
certainly be castTfor Blaine and Logan
if the Democratic platform is a tarill for
revenue only:
l''la'
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Total, two States ."1
"The following is consequently a re
capitulation of the situation:
Rlaineand Logan certain
niainc and Logan probable
Uluinc and Logan possible
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Necessary toacholco 211
"Our design in setting forth th? mat
ter in this form is to show clearly how
the Democratic party has it in its pow
er to elect Blaine anil Logan."
It might go on and say that if tho
election was held to-morrow Blaine and
jjojran would have a certain majority.
i and the nrohalnlitics are that anv
tinn tii iinmnnr.,r,n rnni;nn ;ii
pocket, and. turning to General Francis
C. Barlow, who sat beside him, said:
"Let us note the time when the Repub
lican party died." This same Repub
lican party will be shoving a fawn-
mower over Mr. Schur.'s political grave
long aucr tne ivies anu mosses naveoo
scurjed the epitaph on his tombstone.
Philadelphia Press.
jpasrj.ne uemocracv is evidently in a
tight place. The Louisville Courier- .
journal says: "tteiore us the enemy is
drawn up in line of battle across the
road; behind, a morass; on either side
a precipice. Retreat is impossible."
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DRAGGED DOWN BY RUM.
The Story oT a ttmp Who Once Itefoseil
st Nomination for Congress The ilavt
oT Wiue That Wrecked I'roiiii.tiujj
Cnri-iT and Itroke Up a Happy Hoiiip.
"Get out of here vou blank blanked
tramp, or I'll pitch you out of the win
now, blank blank vou, sa.d tne bar
Temperance Beadin
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tramp had seen better days. lie was
cer.ainly a hungry man, aud the re
porter followed him from tho saloon
and ven'ured to address him.
"Would you like a drink?" said the
reporter to the man whom he saw a
minute later looking the very picture of
misery in Oliver street.
"That I would, sir." he replied.
This was furnished him at a neighbor
ing saloon. The poor devil swallowed
three lingers.of whisky at a gulp, almost.
and turned like a famished creature,
as he was, to a bowl of pigs' feet, which
constituted the solid portion of a free ,
lunch provided in most the downtown '
rum shops.
THE CUKSE OF KITM.
"Oh, yes," he said, in reply to the
reporter's remark, "I've seen be:ter
days. sir. and rum has brought me
down. It is a disease with me, I fear,
which can not be cured this s de of
eternity. I am now in my fortieth year,
yet one foot is in the grave." I
"lint what s the use. ' he said, after
a pause, "to tell you who I am or what
I've been. "You wouldn't believe me.
I've been able to get ruin when I
couldn't get bread. You see this scar
ln my jaw. don't you? A bullet lroiu
a Confederate sharp-shooter made that
at Gettysburg, and came so near cut
ting my windpipe that I couhlu t con
sider it a joke by an maaus. This scar
on my right hand was made by a saber.
I carried a sword then and won.! epau
lettes on my shoulders. I set up my
shingle in a lawollice in Denver, Col.",
after the war. graduating under old
Prof. Wedewood at the Columbia Ni"ht
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Law befiool at ashinrton
. pavtiiir lor
law lectures, while a. .SliMHl -I.m-L- mi td..
War Department. I was a hail fellow
will met in those days, aud had .20,000
or so."
ALMOST A CONGRESSMAN.
"Well."' with a si;h, "I was ambi
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tious, and asked for a foreign consulate,
not being satistied with law, though 1
had a good practice for a young man.
I refused, while Chairman of a Repub
lican Convention, to run for Congress,
as I felt a warm friendship for Colonel
, who had been a delegate in the
House from Colorado when a Territory,
and he promised to get me a foreign
post. Tampico, Stettin and othr
places were too small for me. so I
struck for the post ot" Secretary of le
gation to Constantinople. I had been
a very temperate fellow until I was
twenty-three years of age in fact, dur
ing the carnage of war 1 ha I not even
tasted anything in the way of rum
stronger than cider. I remained about
Washington a year and a half, and in
the meantime was daz.letl with the
gayety of the capital. My associates
and friends were as numerous as but
terflies in a flower-garden, and I beirau
to like champagne. I snent in fifteen
months in ashiuirtou every dollar I
had, and yet received no commission.
One day a Senator informed me candid
ly that the Constantinople place had
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uerii piuiiiiscu 10 a .waryiauu cn.ip, i
wnose iamer nan mane a iortune run
ning the blockade and sympathizing
with the rebels during the" war. 'The
Secretary of State would not appoint
vou because on two or tnree occasions
when vou called to see him he
. 1
smelt
whisky on your breath.' I was told
" did not feel in the mood to ac
cept a Government clerkship again, so
1 went West and fell back on the law.
But I neglected some of mv clients.
i,il i-imi irnf tin. ,..,..., ..... f.. .. ...-... .... I
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doing theIaw work of some of the
claimants there. I fell in love with th
daughter of an Knglish miner and un
happily for her married her. The
fattier idolized the girl, aud set us up in
life in San Francisco. For four years
I lived as happily as a prince, but fr
the life of me I couldn't give up drink.
A beautiful child was given us, and one
night in a drunken, maudlin condition,
I woke up to find my wife and child
gone lied from me
England, but conld
forever,
find no
I tied to
trace of
wife, child or father-in-law in the great !
-. - . a , . ,, . ,
eitv ot London. Great God. v int. .
ui
hell on eailh I've endured since! I
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worked for a time as a common laborer
in Chicago. I tried to reform, time and
time again, out i saw most ot the pro
fessed Christians were onlv arrant hvp-
ocrites. All my friends of former days
turned their backs upon me. and most
of them would not recognize me. Som
of them would pass bv on the other
side when they espied me. I couldn't
even get a messenger's place in anv de
partment at Washington. I resorted
to every device to obtain drink, ex ept
to steal. A thousand times have I
thought of suicide, yet I never had the
courage to attempt it. I've slept in
hallways and the parks and in cheap
lodging houses for two years past; have
sutlered terribly in snow-storms, vet I
live. Sometimes I've put in a ton of
coal for a quarter, or swept out the
saw-dut of a liquor saloon for a bite
to eat and a drink. 1 am beyond re
demption, as vou see. There are thou
sands just like me. But for the ac
cursed rheumatism, which has laid me
(ID in the hosnitals for the oast fnw
months, I'd enlist as a private in the I
Keoperoi a iiainam squaresaioon 10 a memory 01 my wi;e haunts me like a
poor specimen of humanity who was dream, and the affectum she once felt
stealthily trying to ease his appetite for me keeps mj from the lowest
with some musty cheese and crackers haunts of vice. All the curse of rum.
on the free-lunch counter. The t.rst glass of wine I ever took was
The wrathful bar-keeper's face wore handed me by the daughter of a justice
a villainous yet sleek oxpte.ssion. The of the I'nited States "Supreme Court
poor, hungry tramp meekly limped to- who was a Presidential candidate. The
ward the door, with his head bowed lady's husband v:is dove nor aud after
down, and said nothing. He wore a wards a United Stated Senator. That
seedy suit of black, a well-worn slouch I one glass of wine has been mv ruin. A
hat covered his head, and the heel of I sainted mother warned me when I was
his left foot protruded from a.i excuse ' .1 child never to touch it. She died of a
for a shoe. There was something in the broken heart tor she had felt the cure:
man's appearance which betrayed the of rum. I have a brother, a thousand
thought to the reporter's mind that the I miles from here, who tills the pulpit of
army or marine corps and I once n(t less than one million votes are ar
commanded a thousand bra. e fellows, rayed against you in the so-called Tem
The noise aud confusion of a battle-1 perance societ es. and almost the entire
neiu wouiu. oe music to
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mv cars now
would j. had leu mv bones on uettvs- I
burg's heights: 1
"Oh, yes, I've often tried to "-ct "
something to do in this city of late, but I
n nine cacs out ot ten ive been re
buffed. I asked for copying or any-
-; I
thing to earn a living. Only yesterday
I was turned out of half a dozen places
where 1 w:is looking for work by tho
janitors.
A 31 OTII Kit's fNHKEDEI WAltKIXO.
"You soe me as I aiik Yet I haven t
lost all elf-respect. I haven't any
chum. ai.ll.uever yet went on the t
niato can racket, as they call it. I shun
the main streets, and am ashamed to
- ,
meet the gae of a gentleman. The
I a leading church, and tneytell 1110 he Is
wiiv vri nnj HIM"., i;iistiiii;iii ui UXCIJ. A
have siters who are all well off. aud
who are doubtless now thinking of my
accursed fate. But I am too oroud tu
1 let them know the truth. I have
asked bread of some whose flesh is akin
to mine, and they have given me a
stone. The dark river may yet be my
refuge, and if the lishes don't eat my
lleslf possibly fromth Morjrue 111 be
taken to a Potter's Field.
"Ah but I'm a coward. I've talked
too much. I deserve no sympathy. I
ask for none. Goodby "
The reporter forced the man toaccopl
a little eh nge.
"I thank you, sir but 1 would not have
asked i" said the tramp. ! feel there
is no hope for me in this world or tl
next: l.ut as you bid me hope. I will
try," and he turned aside to brush away
a tear.
The miserable drunkard went one
way, the reporter another. Did h
start directly for a beer saloon? No.
The reporter saw the poor fellow entet
a ten-cent lodging house. He had slepl
011 the docks the night beforo. A. Y.
Herald.
How lie Came to "Swear OfL"
"No. I won't drink with you to-day,
boys." said a drummer to several com
panions, as they settled down in the
smoking-car and passed the bottle.
"The fact is, i'ovs. I have quit drink
ing I've swore oft"." He as greeted
with shouts of laughter by the Jolly
crowd around him: they put the bottle
under his nose, and indul'reil in mauy
i "'"
' jokes at
his expense, but he refused to
-. .
dr'iik, and was rather serious about it.
'What's the matter with you. old boy?"
sang out one. "If you've quit, drink
ing, something's up t 11 us what it ih."
Well. boys. I will, though I know
you'll laugh at me. But I'll tell you,
all the same. I have leen a drinkiug
man all my life, ever since I was mar
ried. As you all know, I lovewhisky--it"s
as sweet in my mouth as suar
and God onlv knows how I'll miit it.
For seven years not a day has passed
over my head that I didn't have at
least one drink. But I am done Yes
terday I was in Chicago. Down ou
South Clark street a customer of mine
keeps a pawn shop in connection with
his other business. I called on him,
and while I was there a young man of
not more than twenty-live, wearing
threadbare clothes, anil looking as hara
as if he hadn't seen a sober Any for a
month, came in with a little package
in his hand. Tremblingly he unwrapped
it and handed the article to the pawn
broker, saying: 'Give me ten cents.'
And. boys, what do you suppose it was!
A pair of baby shoes, little things with
only the buttons a trifle .soiled, as H
they had been only worn once or twice.
Where did you get those?' asked thf
pawnbroker! 'Got 'em at home," re
plied the man, who had an intelligent
I face and the manner of a irentleniim.
d spite his .-ad condition. 'My mj
wife bought them for our baby. Give
me ten cents for 'em I want a drink.'
'Vou had Letter take the shoes back ta
vour wife: the baby will need them.'
said the nawnhroker.
'No. s-he won't.
s dead. She's
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uctii 'sc uLu.iu-i; sin:
lying at home how died last night.'
.As he said this the poor fellow broke
down, lowed his head on the showcase,
and cried like a child. Boys." said the
drummer, "you can laugh if you ylas
but I I have a babvot mv own at
''.T!' ?nl lSW,r U ,r"k:in:
j uuiti ihjj. xiit-ii lie j;ui. up auu
went into anothercar. II s companions
glanced at each other in silence: no ona
laughed: the bottle disappeared, and
soon each was sitting in a seat bj
him-clf reading a newspaper. Irish
World.
Temperance Items,
moderate driukers know that
Lkt
light wines
pave the way tor whisky
the way
aud rum; and
4iriinL - ,.,inU - .1?.-. -o
urunheuncas, disease
'
moderate drinking tot
and death.
ir ; ...
r ii a r is my opinion or intemperance
It is a fire we kindle in ourselves, with
out a dollar's worth of insurance on the
premises. Mrs. liroicn, in MtrchitU
U'raceler.
Govkrnoi: Robinson, of Massachu
setts, denounces "fashionable drink
ing." and hopes to see the time when
it will be abolished at all social enter
tainments. A fashion of speech in some quar-
I tcrs, when referring to the workman
who dos uot appear on a Monday
morning is: " "He s got the Monday
blight. That is the correct term the
blight and pity of pities is it that bc
often it is not merely the "Monday
blight," bnt the blight'of a whole life.
Good friends, what are yon doin ta
i dispel this blight? Blight of body.
bl.ght of brain, blight of the sp rit
which is to live forever. Union Sig
nul. The Sew York Retailer, an organ of
the whiskey-sellers, gives its Hlea of tha
sireugin oi tne lemperauce annv:
"We call vour attention to the fact tfrit
force ot pulpit orators of the country,
j Add to this l.": newspapers and period-
... !-.. -ff-t
to tins i.. newspapers anu per;
ieals especially devoted to the cause, to
nothing of the fay dailies and week-
l'$ which truckle more or less to tho
morbid and bigoted public sentiment
that tolerates sumptuary legislation
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