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kL-$-! JM VS. &; ' ,& r. 't? tte ttfjmr, Mw n tfi i gi im i ,i "'" mih ,ji , unfo ,,, t...-.tw jKSBwC'" t-&$e$!iZ'r4 V r K.'. r i & - ? "j; ."- &, ' f St r 51 4 ,s h$ 1 & f "THE BED CLO &u CfilEP A. G, HOSMEB, Publfsliiin S4 .P.ED CLOUD. NEBRASKA , -AN OLD MAN'S LOVE. BY AXTEONY TEOLLOPE, A vthnr of a-jc. CHAITEH X.-CONTINCKD. this moment Mr. Whilllcstau" down into the road. "Oh. Mr. At came Uordon! good-morning, sir. You find us in rather a disturbed condition this morning, lam sorry I did not think of asking you to come to breakfast. Hut, perhaps, under all the circum stances, it was better not. Thai dread fid man had put us sadly about. He is the unfortunate husband of mv hardly leis unfortunate housekeeper." "Yes, sir, he is my husband, that's true," said Mrs. Raggett. "I'm very much attached to my wife, if you knew all about it, sir; and I wan 15 her to come home with mc. .Service ain't no inheritance; nor yet ain't wage, when they never amounts ..... .. .. ..j.:., K.ll llli;j JlUtUl ilHJ to more than twenty pounds a veu "It's thirty, you false, ungr: ear. iteful benst!" said Mis. R:iirvtl. I'.nt. Mr Whittle-tail" had led the wav into the garden. and John Cordon had followed h'ui. Reloro they reached the hall i"vr. Mary Lawiio had met them. .!. ".t.. i. :.. i.. .... ,i? , -. ... ". J""- JiuiieM.au j sue sain, "is not annovinir? that dreadful m-m it with thej-vooden leg is here, and col lecting a ciov.d round the place. (Jood Vrnmg, Mr Gordon. It is the poor 'woman's in-'er-do-wcll husband. She is her.-eit o decent and respectable that she will be great ly harrass"d. What v "an we do, Mr. Wln'tUesta!!'! Can't we -;pt a poiiecniau?" In this way the con versation was leu away to the affairs of Fergeant and Mrs. Itfiggctt, to the in-i-Kable distress of John Gordon. When we rem-nuier the kind of speeches which Gordon intended to utter it must i.c admitted that the interruption was provoking, liven if Marv would have lliem together, it would be difficult to lali back upon the subject which Gor don had at heart. lint John Gordon could notjiostpono .is moment, lie could not go on resid ing indefinitely at the Claimant's Arms till he could lind a proper opportunity lor assuring Mr. WhittlcstaiT that it rouid not be his dutv to marry Mary l.awrie. lie must rush at his subject, 0- let the result be what it might. He hud no hopes as Jo a lavorable result. Was it natural that a man should give u) his intended wife, simply because he was asked? Cordon's present feeliii" was an anxious desire to be on 1 oard the ship that should take him again to the diamotul-iields, so that he might be at. peace, knowing then, as he would know, that he had left Mary Lawrie ho lm d forever. At this moment he al most repented that he had not left Arles'ord without a 113' further attempt. 15ut there he was on Mr. WhiUle-talVs ground, and the attempt must he made, if only with the object of justifying his f coming. "Miss Lawrie," he began, "if you would not mind leaving mo and Mr. Whiltlostaft alone together for a few minutes, I will be obliged to you." This he said with solemnity, so that Mr. Whittlestall'diew himself up, ami looked hard and still', as though he were de termined to forget Sergeant Raggett , and all his peccadilloes for the moment. "Oh, yes; certainly: but " Mr. Whittlestair looked sternly at her, as though he bid her go at once. "You must believe nothing as coming from mo unless it comes from out of my own mouth." Then she put her hand upon his arm, a though half embracing him. "You had better leave us, nerhaps," said Mr. WhittlestaiT. And 'then she went. Now the moment had come, and John Gordon felt the dilliculty. It had not been lessened b' the :issuranee giv ?n by Miss Mary herself that nothing was to be taken as having come, from her unless it was kuowu and hear! to have so tome. And yet he was thor oughly convinced that lie was altogeth er loved by her, and that, had he ap peared on the scene but a day sooner, site would have accepted ban with all her heart. "Mr.WhitttestatlV"' he said, "I want to tell you what passed yester day between me and Miss Lawrie." Is-it necessarv?" he asked. "I think it is." " As far as I am concerned. I doubt the necessity. Miss Lawrie has said a word to me; as much I presume, as she feels to be necessary." "Ido not think her feeling in the matter should be a guide for you or for me. What we have both of us to do is to think what may be best for her. and to efitv.'t that :is far as mav be within ?Vn 11 r power. "i ertamly, said Mr. vvlnttiestatt. "Hut orobably you and I differ mate- -ivaily as to thinking what may be best ' tfor her. As far as 1 understand the natter. you wish that she should be your wife. I tvish that she should be mine. I think that as my wife she u-ould live a happier life than she could do as yours: and as she thinks also " Here Mr. Whit tlestafl" paused. "Rut does she think so?" "You heard what she said Just now.' "I heard nothing as to her thoughts of living," said .John Gordon. "Xor in the interview which I had with her yesterday did I hear a word fall from her as to herself. We have got to form our ideas as to that from circumstances wheh shall ce tain'.y uot appear by her own speech. When you speak against me " "I have not said a word against, vou, sir." "Perhaps you imply," said Gordon, not stopping to notice Mr. Whittle staff's angry tone, "perhaps you imply ' that my Iifenmy be that of a rover, -anil as such would not conduce to .Miss Laurie's happiness." "I have implied nothing." "To suit her wishes I would remain altogether in England. 1 w:is very lucky, and am not a man greedy of great wealth. She can remain here, and L will satisfy you that there shall be enough for our joint maintenance." What do 1 care for vour mainte nance, or what-does she? Do you know, ir. that you are talking to me about a lady whom I intend to 'make my wife, who is engaged to marry me? Good- tiass gracious mc ,1' 1 own, sir, that it is singular." " Haclor Tlmrnr" " Frnznlu rnmnn , lie 'oiteiijinil" I'hinra Finn the lr.K'i Mr,ml,rr." 77 Marlel., Barchci.cr Tower," Etc., Klc Very singular, indeed. 1 never heard ., V ouch a thing. It see ws you knew her -Norwieh." i did know her well." "And then vou went away anddescrt-irf-3dher." 2? "I went away, Mr. WhitilestaT, be r cause I was poor. I was told by her step-mother that I was not wanted about df Ine house, because I had no means. That vv:is true., and as I loved her dear ly, I started at once, almost in despair, but with a shade of hope that I might William GATkwent weston Thurs day. V Will ifnwiELL wag in Denver last wpek. a gcnlo"A.J nijvcnt eastTueaday ui") uo mil in go away r. "There are circumstances here.' "What does she say hersdf? There are no circumstances lo just'fy vou. If you would come here as a friend I of fered to receive you. As vou hadteen known to her 1 did not turn mv Hack upon you. Hut now your conduct is .so peculiar that I can" not ak vou to re main any longer." Thev were walk ing up and down the long walk, and now Mr. WhittlcstaiT stood ytill. a? though to declare that the interview should be considered as over. "1 know that you wish me to 'o aw.iv," said Gordon. "(Veil, yes: unless j-ou withdraw all idea of a claim to the voung ladv's hand." But I think you should first hear what I have to say. You will not sure ly nave done your duty by her uuluss you hear me." "You can speak if you wish to." "It was not till yctrday that vou made your proposition to ML-s Lawrie.1' "What has that to do with it?" "Had I conic on the previous dav, and had I been able then to tell her all that I can tell her now, would it have made no difleren ice.-' um sue say m.j nate lover, in a very ..it 1 .V" asked the fortu- angrv tone. -.no; sue (tin noi say s. Jt was with dilliculty that I forced from her an avowal that her engagement was so re cent. Hut she did eon ev that it was so. And she confessed in her manner that she found it impossible to refuse X ---! ! t . ou the request th tt you had asked." "I never heard a man assert so im pudently that he was the sole owner of a lady's favors. L'pon nry word. I think you arc the vainest nfan I e;cr met." "Let it be so. I do not care to de fend myself, but only her. Whether I am vain or not, is it not true that which I say? I put it to you. as man to man, whether you do not know that it is true? If you marry this girl, will you not mam' one who-e. heart belongs to me? Will you not marry one of whom you knew two days since that her hiart was mine? Will you not marry one who, if she was five this moment; would give herself to me without a pang of remorse?" "I never heard anything like the man's vanity!' "Hut is it true? Whatever may be mv vanity, or self-seeking, or unmanli ness if you will, is not what 1 say God's truth? It is not about my weaknes-es, or your weaknesses, that we should speak, but about her happiness." "Just so: I don't think she would be happy with you." "Then it is to save her from me that, you arc marrying her so that she may not sink into the abyss of my unworthf ness." Tartly that." "Hut if I had come two days since, when she would have received me with open arms '' " You have no right to make such a statement." I ask you whether it is not true? She would have received me with open arms, and would you then have dared, as hr guardian, to bid her refuse the oiler ma le to her, when you had learned, as you would have done, that she loved me: that I had loved her with all my heart before 1 left England; that I had. left it with the 'iew of enabling myself to marry her; that I had been wonder fully successful; that I had come back with no other hope in the worid than that , of giving it all to her: that I had be;'ii able to show you my whole life, so that I no girl need be a! rani to become wife--" my " What do I know about your life? You nia- have another wife' living at this moment." " No doubt; I may be guilty of any amount of villainy, but then, as her friend, you should make inquiry. You would not break a girl's heart because the nnn to whom slie is attached may possibly be a rogue. In this ca.o you have no ground for the suspicion." " ' 1 never heard of a man who spoke of himself so grandiloquently!" " There is ample reason why you you should make inquiry. In truth as 1 said before, it is her happiness and not niMie nor your own, that vou should look to. If she has taken vour oiler be-! cause you had been good to her in her desolation because she had found her self unable to refuse aught to one who had treated her so well; if she had done all this, believing that 1 had disap peared from her knowledge, and doubt ing altogether my return' if it be so and you know that it is so then you should hesitate before you lead her to her doom." "You heard her say that I wa- not to believe any of these tilings unless I got them from her own mouth." "I did: and her word should go for nothing either with you or with mo. She has promised, anil is willing to sac rilice herself to her promise, bho will sacrifice me, too, because of vour good ness ami becau-e she is utterly unable J to put a lair value upon herself. nerM.it. 10 me she is all the world. from the first j hour in which 1 saw her to the present. the idea of gaining her has been every thing. Put aside" the words which she iust spoke, what is vour belief of tho ' state of her wishes." "I can tell you my belief of the state of her welfare." "There your own prc'udice creeps in, and I might retaliate by charg'ng you with vanity as you have done me, only that I think such vanity very natural. Rut it is her you should consult- on such a matter. She is not vo be treated like a child. Of whom does she wish to be come the wife? I boldly say that I have won her love, and that if it be so, you should desire to take her to your self. You have not answered me, nor can I expect you to answer ine; but look into yourself and answer it there. Think how it will be with you. when the girl who lies upon your shoulder shall be thinking ever of some other man from whom ycu have robbed her. Good-bye. Mr. WhittlestafT. I do not doubt but that vou will turn it all over in your thoughts.' Then he escaped , by a wicket-gate into the road at the , far end of the long walk. j CHAPrEK XI MKS. BAOUETT TRUSTS ONI.V c IX THK rrvn. M!r. "WhittlestafT, when he , , ; :. ici i . alone, was disturbed bv nianv trouble some thoughts. The knowledge that his housekeeper was out on the road, liousekeeper was out on thu road, that her drunken, disreputable band vvas playing the foo for the sht of all the idlers that had and husb benefit sauntered out from Ar'esford to sec him, added to his grief. Why should not the stupid woman remain indoors, and allow him, her master, to send for the police? She had declared that she would go with her husband, and he could not violently" prevent her. This was not much when added to the weight of his care as to Mary Lawrie, ; ounce dc A DOUBLE TEAiback, as is , nl fast ounces! ""fa lifr """"jBout to collect hi lights, so m to resolve what to do in gard to Marv, Mr. Haggctt ap pealed before him with her bonnet on her head. What are you going to do, vou stupid woman?" " I am a-going witn he," she said, in the midst of a torrent of sob and ttr. j " It's a dooty. They szys if von does ! vour dootv all will come rijrlit in the end. It may be, but I don't see it no further than taking him back to Ports mouth." " What on earth are -nti cniM g to I'ortMnouth for now? - . T . "5 iinii wnv; wnv .1 ...t 1 ...1... 1 now? H s not more dnink than he has been before, nor vet less abom- j in able. Let the police lock him up for the night, and send him back to I'orts- mouitt in tne morntn?, cr n the morning. Whv should vou want to go with him now?' 1 "uecause vou re . t i... ...... .. . , . "uiul: iu take a missus," said Mr bing. Uaggett, still sob- "It's more than I know, or you know; or any one knows." and Mr." Whittle statl spoke as though he had nearly reduced himself to ids housekeeper's position. "Xot marry herl" .she exclaimed. "I can not . -ay. If vou will let ma alone to manage mv own affairs, it will be host." That man has been here interfering. You don't mean to sav that vou' re ro- ing to be put upon by'such a'savage iu uiat, as lias jut come home from bouth Africa Diamonds, indeed! I'd dia mo.'id him! I don't believe, not in a single diamond. They're all rubbish and paste. If you're going to give her up to that fellow you're not the gentle man I take you fot." "Hut if 1 don't marry you won't have to go.'' he said, unable to refrain from so srlf-evident an argument. "Me going! hat s me going? What's me or that drunken old repro bate out there to the Lkes of you? I'd stay, only if it was to .-ce that "Mr. John Gordon isn't let to put his foot here in this house: and then I'd go. .John Gor don, indeed! To come up between you and her. when vou ha settled vour mind and she had settled hern! If she favors John Gordon I'll tear her best frock off her back." "How dare you speak in that way of the ladv who is to be your mistre-s?"' She ain't to be mv mistress. I won't have no mistress. When her time is come 1 shall he in the poor-house at Portsmouth, because I shan't be able to earn a penny to buy gin for him." As she said this Mrs. Raggett sobbed bitterly. "You're enough to drive a man mad. I don't know what it is you want, or you don't want." "I wishes to sec Miss Lawrie do her dooty. and become your wife, as a lady should do. You wishes it. and she ought to wish it, too. Unit her! 11 she is go ing back from her word- " "She is not going hack from her word. Nothing is more excellent, notu ing more true, nothing more trust worthy than Miss Lawrie. You should not aliow yourselt to speak of her in such language." "It is you, then, as is going back?" "1 do not know. To tell the truth, Mrs. Raggett, I do not know." "Then let me tell you, sir. I'm an old woman whom you've known all your life pretty nigh, and you can trust me. Don't give "up to none of 'em. You've got her word, and keep her to it. What's the good o' your line feel ings if vou' re to break vour heart. You mean well bv her, ami will make (5r happv. Can vou say- as much for hint? s is gone, what 3 When them diamond to come next. 1 am t no trust 111 tt a nionds, not to live out of, but only in the funds, which is rcg-lur. 1 wouldn't let her see John Gordon again- never, ill she was Mrs. Whitilestan. After that she'll never go astray, nor yet won't her thoughts." .. "God bless you! Mrs. Haggett," ho said. "She's one of them when she's your own she'll remain your own all out Mie'll stand the washing. I'm an old woman, and 1 knows 'em." "And yet you can uot live with such a lady as her?" "No! if she was one of them namby- pamby s ns'd let an old woman keep hor , om .ae. n, iiiigui o. , ".-he h:ill love you always for what 1 .vtiii .uu jiesfc uu. "ivovo me. 1 don t doubt her loving me. She'll love me because she is lov ing not that 1 am lovable. She'll want to do a'most everything about the house, and I shall want the same; and her wants are to stand uppermost that is, if she is to be Mrs. WhittlestafT." "I do not know; I have to think about it," "Don't think about it no more; but just go in and do it. Don't kive no more words with him nor yet with her nor yet with yourself. Let it come on just as though it were fixed by fate. It's in your own hands now, sir, ami don't vou be thinking of being too good- naiurcu; mere ami no good comes. from it. A man may maunder away his mind insoftnessestillheaiu't worth nothing, and don't do no good to no one. Vou can give her bread to eat, nnd clothes to wear, and can make her re-pcctable before all men and women What has he to sav? ? Onlvthat he is twenty years younger than you. Love! Rot it! 1 suppose von'll come in inst now, sir, aud see my boxes when they're I ready to start." So saying, she turned j round sharply aud left him. lu spite of'the excellent advice which Mr. Whittlestairhad received from his housekeeper, bidd.ng liim not have any ! nmm u-nnls ..v-,. .v-iii, ,;,e.if ,. fi, t matter, he could but think of all the I arguments which John Gordon had i used to him. According to Mrs Rag- gctt, he ought to eocteirt himself with knowing that he could tiud food and safety. Ami he did not believe that, were he io to act, she would turn round upon him with future years or neglect her dtry, becau-e she wits ever thinking of .lohii Gordon. He knew that she would hi trw ?f-iilf-ict ft-f ..15 l..j- on.l ti,:U ,.Veu thou-.li there mVht be some sorrow :lt hcr heart, it wJtild Ins well kept (lotVn t.ut of hu iht ( ut Q . h , sight of tiie werltl at large, ami would gradually siuk out of her - V --"- .-v,. ..w uj."UI, iw. Ill'W S-a?i j"n nut ii it ue given to a man to maunder - ,., - 1, r .,.i ; .r, .....,., . i ; j io 4xaiiv4 iik. cuuiaca he can not live otherw se than :is nature has made him. Mrs. Raggett had under aloo, the nallA of fi c!aI1Cl :H1 not undorelood that M chnracU.r, so lullst ho Hc K .,, Um l;., ..tP stood the nature of n;s character, bnt his could not alter his own self. TO EE COXTINUEtX. An enterprising New Yorker has invented a substitute for ice cream. Ii is made of real cream, and no girl twxk an ordinary digestive capacity can eat more than one dish of it at tima . Burlington free Ftta. raiment and shelter for his intended ?VMI P00-' vote for Cleveland aud have a platform wich meens free trade!" and Harper's Weekly killed good Mr. ; W'V . 'n not far ofT. jvrcattl wife, and in feelin.' that he had iicr 2 , -" ,bu' ,t w,z thc l)roPer racket tome trouble ensoul Issaker swore Oreelev. It the same thing. You , -C hVj5 sht of camp. promi-o and hcr assurance, that that . hev S!C l lueel!n5 o discuss the plat- that the dispatch scut to the Deekm think about iL 1'ou don't Mvc to vote W0?,1nD whj h e"ow men do not promise should be respected. There I .13.aa ,"ch' to the cr,d uv citizens wu. bogus, and the Deekin swore that until November an v bow, and if you ! fe.n,m ?" in anuh and ilwjJr. was to him a rok in ail thfe upon : v,tin """"gently, and he should swell the d-spatch sent to Issaker wnz bogus, watch the lion skin closely in the mean-J . c .P0."111 f Ierfcct of the caa- whinh In enidd tin?!.! .iti, i.c!.,.. i tIie niectin by bem present Irlsself. for both hed the nlatform red to em and time, von will . thf. .- mn mrr P'(JQ " 3 'e-Ittitt Xew York n - .-.-- -. -vu-w..wa ffl Tl . - FlItST it.... i. ,.. .. . . ... ... .ur.sin unni.D. in. Aiiinnrn: w im r.,.,.....,,. n 1. , ., .L !.inu..r-,3tn I'rfUinaduo. -,l Ihr Firt .llrtjrto tl l'uiti-r..V4 II,uiiJ'm:ooU nl Irilnl ljr Co-irUJy i:tTK l'uMl!lin, ! Kprljj- Uy .. Urj,-.' WrrkJ." I'r rlrlr a Jlr. IS.tliio I .-i.,n K i4Momi rrin!rtl ! llarprr Vl.ljr .Iiurtl f drill it!. in after tlir l'rt1rntLl Klre tlon. llrprrftruiln: Jlr. IJ.e.Ip K--Uiig DrrinLr in a Coiuiuon Ittr-Kooiu. Kt-. " The Howdy West " ha? nominate ! and helncd materia!!? to ei.-ct all tho - - " --.- . . -- I Republican I'reidcnts. r.VI'Tl Iromihf ir-lw. irn not e!e tfed. account of as an ex- was nominated chiefly on his distinguished .-ervlce plorer in v.h Far West. Abraham Lincoln, though bori in Kentucky, passed all his manhooJ in Illinois, and was chosen as an Iilinxisan to lead the Republican party twit 2 to victory. Grant was a native of Ohio, but, like Lincoln, ident livA w.th Uliuoi-. Have.- wa born in Ohio, a Western State and lived there all his life- The tame is true of Garfield. "The Kowdy West" has now another candidate not this time one of her own son-, but a native of Wentern IVun-ylvania. removed to the rnr Kast. whose brill ant abilities the West delights to recognize, even though some of his Katern enemies uould eountrv if thev could. mane mm w.tnout uouor in ins own p0r their suwiort of Mr. Hlain-v the We-tern neoule have 1 en comnell'd to j heir their section of the count?, de- ncribed as The Howdv West." I'hev 1 g" j Mj?', 3??: TilK ROWDY WEST'S i'KE$Ii)E.T i vrc A.N-.iufiJi ma i - ii i rmm mrwn r r ar i if i k' mim.rJL'immmmis a . -r waj m i Mmmym iim. Wmfi rAftnlll :rMK,, 1 Wttl - M-'-lSVv'.V, H'UWttffiHH'-M ammw nmm ihjasmMAmy 'kih - '- W& 5SS?X MCiJSV.. "j-?7-C ' .mSMMWr irUi i v?o4LnR?a. d jgL-'fJSyl'ku vcr fa't'""c- WfkWViV, u 15 i ' " ""nWlIW i ' . , ' - - -- r lu 'lm OUR PRESIDENTIAL MERRYMAN "The Presidential party was engaged in lively exe)iango of wit and humor. The. President Elect was tho inerrle.il among the merry, and kept those around him in a coutinuouR roar." Daily I'ujxr. have been told that Rlaine's nomination 1 was brought about bv " emvhovs" and j the " rill-rafl"' of the country. ( This mistaken impression of the Western people i-not 11. -w. It abound- . ed m Kastern newspapers when Mr. .... I Lincoln was nominate-, and in no jouv- mil d d it have firmer or more brutal expression than in liarixr's Weekly Journal of Civilization, now edited by I George William Curtis, but Then, a; j in-vv. controlled and published by Har per Hros. Lvcn after Mr. Lincoln was elected he was caricatured in JIurj:r'.s Weekly as a drunken loafer surrounded by a crowd of bar-room cronies and bum mers, and the " Union and Constitu tion " were depicted as occupying con belli"- driven "T.tveward. spicuous places 111 a nearse wiucn was L,nt.0n w:iS tia. lhst candidate of the u0ivdy West. Hlaine is the latest, but not , . ..?t T 1 f I We rejoice to know that Hlaine is : honored, as Lincoln was, by the cdito j rial aud pictorial aspersions of Jlarpcr's ; Weekly Journal of Civilization a doughface during the dark days of the 1 war ami a doughface now; then edited I by a group of impecunious foreign ad ventures; now continued at the old stand bv their lineal OMl . esceildailts a conipanv of c-naturalized Americans and toadies of English people and En glish manners. Chicago Tribune. XASHY. Much to th Di-tffiist or Mr. a !;-, Joe Iliijlor Ti-li'sraptis tin N.ttionat Demo cratic Committee for an Interpretation or the Tariff lMank. I From the Toledo fJlade.1 CoNFEltKHIT X ICO.Ui- I (Wich is In the Statu uv Kentucky), v Auzust, lsSI. ) Ther are boins in this worid wich are constantly makin trouble, and that feend. Joe Bigler, is one uv em. and the cheef. We bed called another meet in for the purpus uv ratifyin the nominashuns. w"eh we lied dooly announst by a notiss wrie" hi' "ssaker Gavitt, and posted "P ,n .l,,:i;com.s ba-room to makeshoor thata11 the DimoniLs uv the Comers wood see it. I sot bv it for a dav and rc" !t lo em-to enshoor a full attend- ance. ,,oc LilslQr nappenca in and red it. ra'iticashen meetinT He shoodent his ,m jtn ii. in. . "uuti j-eo io nnv a I knowed ther wood be trouble, and I wood hev postponed the meet'n till some time when he wuz sure to be away, cf I cooil. Rut unforchinitlv I coodn't. Then I begged him not to cum. but he insisted, lie wood. Hc felt it to be a relius dooty. " Melius dootv!" I rcmarkt ticallv. "what is voor reliun?" sarkas- "I hevn't got much." sig hed Josef, , 1- ' kcv s mostly summed up in f this: I labor vigrusly every day with i myself not to be quite as mean ez I know how to be. I shel be there." The nite cum, the horn wuz tootid. and Deacon Pogram, Issaker Gavitt and myself took one sustainer to help us thro' the hour and a half we shood be in the meet'n and deprived nr sus tenance, and then we went ovento the mee tin-house. It was a cheerful site. Miranda Po gram, assisted by the other Democratic ladies uvthe Corners, ked. -got oat the flags and banners we her Toosed aver lince 1861, and hed festooned the walls with em. Thar ww th good- old baa- nets under wich we marched to wVfcat , under ixntiiotv. and Mickif Ilan. and i H.iimvk. 4h Grot-h. ntid TiMun. nud . wrMrariBnpjraoiitBi. "i-fasa ,- it11Il,iilhi . ..CUIVI. i.tti..H.... . k. - ... iu . ..i, . s ..,. . Itjr'.r nf tli. M.Tr'.. .. . . . ... - ' k .: am -rm fc - iiair kiKiAxi ., f -......I J.1 ff IInmm V -rMllT.iJr ."I.H i Nlgcr?" "h.ie Hubnn Vf or fH'' "ibt:I the riggrr. W ich Is a Iwit, Contitni- natt b" IVJe Ik-iuo h i..'i- mn? "Honor to the Conf!r.t Hta---" "Them Wtch Yo'v ez Lincoln t:d Are cz HsjI ez tho (lonllc Hs..-ii" and vsrkm- Other mottoos nv lkc tiach-r Anil on the wal!. In the iJx- uv honor, wnz ths indent file rt"o witit vr'u-h that old saint. Deekln IVjgram. buhwh:nkitl Kcilrel pikkiL at nito, after Le htrl bin ellin nn watenuelon all dav. The (oniers prle that rifle. and It U alhu dekorated when wv hev Uiuocntic meetino. One a Ivantagcur bein a DniH-kniJ xt the (oniers U. we don't change at alL The banner wo inarcht'il i.u lrr n l-H do jist ez well for us no . for at eon-itantly titin the o!d Site vr again, ami alltu'will till doth do us ptirt. 1 afHimtHl the chair, aad !-. i'r Gavitt took tne Secretary's oJlisho. and 1 made the v wo.-ual. ta..-. ;pieu e v ei I comtnetm an elaborate dlscu-hn uv the platform uv the party, ami wuz gitln on wrv well till I come to th" tariff plank, when Joe Higter riz aud inUTtipti I me I knew the eti-s wood do it. and my hart wunt down into :nv boot-. "I leg pardon," ed Joef. "for in- lerniptin the elokent spceker. ami unJ..ft .!. ;t mK- 1 .i,..; t.. ..; 1.1... in eloosulatin the egnet meenin uv this tilatform .v..r T,?..i. 1 i........t j . -.-. - t v. IIMUV,i?I.Ul t ther he-. h!n sum frmdilo. Wf tln.r t nnvlliirnr mi i..irili wicli ulinml !. (,1..r j anil welF-de!:ned -so cleer that he who runs mav read it is the platform uv i principles uv a "rate, imrtv. Ii stmod 11 1 1 . ' '- be so cleer that the humblest idtelle k shood know eggsackly wat is meant by it and wat them wich stand on it pro pose to do about it. "To the end uv hevin a plane and cleer interpretashen uv this tarill plank it okkurrcd to me. when I wuz. over to Seceshunville. to go to the highest authority on the sub.ick, wich is Mr. Hurnum, the Chairman uv the Nashncl Dimekratic Committy. Hf a.ivbodv on earth ought to know wat Dimekrulle muen iKTteckshun or iree trade? Mss.vkrii Gavitt, 3fnnyr.ofaktrcr. "The anser I re-eeved wu. entirely sat'sfaktry. It red thus: " 'Te I.-va-icr Ciivitt, Manyoofnctrer: The tarltT plank In the iJimekrut.e nhitfonn mcctiH tnrtT rnf.m, k-.i1i . t .i,,.!..,..... . .1... i..... t. shun uv .Viuenkln ltitr hv iiniMrsiii hravi- I .1..... . i. . .-.. V. .. limit es on tin- inauvoofnkter.-i tn- tin Mn.ir.-.i ISriton. Hare down heavy on the l'crteckhun tendency uuiuiik' ouroierativc. w. H. I1ai:cm. Ctiecrntan. I-saker. wich lie, a small interest in a rollin mill. fa. to his feet and yelled: "1 knowd it! I knowd it! Uv course we want tariff reform, but the platform is all in the dire$shun uv Pertcckshuu. Hoorav!" "I shood also state," continued Josef. "that when I returned to the Corners I telegraphed wunst more to Mr. Uaraum to be shoor I lied not misunderstood him, only I yoosed the name uv our ekally esteemed friend Dcokin Pogram. This wits my second d'spatch: " 'VVntis the cjr?act incenln uv the tarllT plank In the Dlmokratlc platform I ak a a suCcrin Ditnocratic aaricuJtoorist. In a fannin -ekshun. Ukrki.v Si-rru rou.M." "The anser cum back very promptly; " 'IT, "cekii Sr(i p.Hjram: Tiie tariff platik In tho D.mokratic jdatform is cntir Iy ex plicit. It moons tariff reform with an unconi pnmiin ler"iin toward Free Trads? nnd the nte to buy nod. in Lnzlnnd or elewhere, wherereryoo kin buy etn thveheem. e j down hiKiry on the Fne Tnwle tenJfne. anion? your oppress a-ncnitoorai inencs, W. H. i:Ajt.rf. Cheerman. " "I knowd it I knowd it!" shrceked the good old Deekin. "Hooray! we thev both hed constrocd it. lasaker denounced the Deekin e. a . ass: "for," sod he, "does not Randall uv Pennsilvany accept the platform, and is'ut he a Perteckshuni-t?" "Assyerself! " retorted the Deekin. ' Dois not Watterson. and Carlisle, ami Morrison, and Kurd all accept it, and ain't thev rabid Free-Traders?" t And then, at tliese two Dimocrats wuz throwin mud at each other, the raeetin broke np in a row, and Joe Hi; ler rolled off laflin, rcmarkia that 1 laflin, rcmarkia that he wuz sorry for the disturbance, but he wantiil and he cleer enunshiashen 77if atrtbon uas prtMcil In JTnnr's U'cdtly Jrunl 0 Ctviltintton .iurcii 2. lt. the platform means it is Harnum, isn't I nite.l State soldier shot this -good ! l"T umH """" n,m I"r,JW w Zul" it?" jinan. Perhaps the soldier who hot e n ,.?""' , ,, , , , . ,. , The incetin all yelled: "Yes!" when him was :i -Ul man." a wearing. - l" 1,l,C9 ,,SM t ndcrfooL Ho U Josef went on. j card-playin. drinking, fighting. wag- tus? ' ? mM V? tl. V V'? , WC,rIl! ' "Imaye. well menshun that I as-! geringson of a gun; but ho stood on tT UCV"1 ;! lor Mm. but In wallly soomed the name uv our esteemed fiend Vight plat form, my bov; and for thb n t om tor hatiyhh wmM iMro. U-akerGavi'tand telegraphed thus: Nation, for this Go'vernment. thitt . ! toc ?,wl' , nt"u iy . 1 nJ ! -T, wiiiinm 11. iiarmm,: chcrman uv tho Washington founded and Lincoln saved. ; ""' and ' r roakfii- him Nnsluiol Dimocratic Cinmltte..-: l)os th-. i.. T i ....... ,i .1 - '' IL measure. He ex lutein that iiiuiiuriu the platform cleerl3- defined, bouses of corruption, bribery and total didn't know how else to git a wditieal depravity? New York and ur wat it meat than Maine? Indiana anti Illinois? Jnst read oy teiegrathn the Chairman uv the Dnn- over the political historv of these o oera fc Aashnel Committy. He shood posing States, my son, poader orer tha imiaejitly perceed to telcgraff more ur matf er a week or two. aad tell me what em sogn, and wood hev ansers by the yon think of iu i'urtirfte, in Hurling time the Dimocrisv uy the Corners I ton Ilatckevc wanxett io raury agin. Ef the good Lord iaaiainfiaUe laercv wood only take Joe Rigler to hs buzm, I cood jni alon with the Dimocrisv. here. He neyarappeersupoB the surtis withont makU troatile. ) He and lhat Po'Iofc tttm (limnr in. . -Uicr mRA tu icrp tw in htA waJrr 11 the na, Wood Uat Ito rw 0J4 . . . . uror wiu tad: arin wen wj t ; ..... . .t mrxic oi ,-..,..., w.. .,..,.. v . ... .w - 1 i a v tu v t is i r rm r v n hrtgun. to mptc. Rat th-sra Ut- br gone w th xik. ik-n in MiliiHl it i wood ancr. or crm t t , in I)avill. Vir- rintiv: lul hw the ni-rccrs aw UM tnnj-g for tlat ort ur AT)XTcnt. and our tt-criu u b oV. UakiT an) the DrckJn commnl ih Id &U; over gln. and i Iw-m't bluAbli Ui compormiH; the matter -s yet. It b a coM world ami full ur trtHibV. rctttti.r.t m V. N-i.-vur (In constant hot water). A Word la VMir liar 31 Sa. Oh. mv wm. yes Stephen Ck-roUnd h a ;;ood man. although h only u- two-thin! of hit namo, aiwl Mr Hoa drirk t- a gxlmnn. although he i a Krmn-.-o-iHMs. They atv Kh good . Hut there ntv tfuicv Jm vmi atv rallt-M tijon. by jutcr. by Ut)rAt ir.i! iv. by pr.no pic, by konty. ti 1 ut .ur in down on a "good man." V'u ut i-t nU vote for a "good man" who re xv-ent ld principle.. W want a good platform, a pd party, got vumj ami good ?tatcniau htp. tian" along w ut gooil mru. A "gol man alone i-n't ynough n public life, in Na- tonal councils, at the head of the State O.-ar was a "gmxl man." When thn . gxsrll Mr Tttdn ! wwtt hU ion jKHir cr..d, ('a. ar hath wept. Init a but-j jntJalUn u lsvld awl Hfl tur man than (V-ar r ghieiuiy lcw j 3nck wc lk r nwmaton. lim tm him. Major Andre wa a "gtod man." r wa., nrt. tn ja!o puWio. U ijjntti nevor an unkind won! w.v whUjwred cant that ih Um of thr AUtv ha. a'a.t-t his prr-onal charaott?r. and mA m in utM tho ontwtiKHf.- r &- a mi . j m m - . - . . M .. m t)w even with his friends, but ho wad righteou-ly hanged, and he wasn't the right man for your grandfather in politics. An "American policy" was something your grandfather wami't ashamed of. my son, and the "Inde , pendents" in his time who sneered at , an American candidate wore called j i Tories, ami your grandfather helped Ut j hang sundry and (livers of them. Jjtone- j wallJackson was a "good man." too; a bnive, honest, con-cicntious, Chrituui j man. but he wasn't a tit man to com- j maud the Kedenil army, and the cause ; of the United States, of this eountrv. i (hi Nation, mv son. suffered no harm. "good man" manM ho killed, A :..', ni...-.. ,i... .,. good " ! for President of 'this Timed States.! In fact, there is no bad man ,0 ' mischievous a, a " -ood man " In bad J.-7.I . i,.,. tllV lVI. Ill.&ll - in. in sUind. Cast vour eves over the crowd iiiitiii .um "iiti.'wu uit'i ; t !..,. trnin ...ill. . It is the ,Mmo crowd ' -l - Ill , l, bill nihil. , -? hill. 7lll. VIU.Vll .....- f,i.,. .i ,... ..... ,w-.i... ,...i I r"; .i .wu juiii jjioiiuM-uvi wm;i i against everv time. It 15 the amn i crowd fought George William Curti has1 nil hi lifi nil liin in mm i crowd that Xast caricatured ... .... ..... ...v. i,-- . ...-w .-....... d todh j when it nominated anotl '-' '''-'' man. u c i.. Tn .r. . ! lr.--!.... e of a,W inanin Imd hnd J. for vou. It is the same crowd that the "so-called "Independent Henub- I Means" of to-day day have been fight- ing ever since there publican partv. And to-Iay the quet- tiou for vou Co consider is. would thU ' crowd nominate a "gcwl man" unle?s it knew he conld be "used?" It. U Hv- f publicanism against Democracv foliar. mv bov, just as it was when Lincoln was elected and when he wai .- nated: it is Republicanism against Do- mocracv to-tlav. iust a it wai when ' Tilninlt- c.-omnr riArun,i i,... .i.l democratic nartv. the Independent i tell vou. And we adroit lu He U onl7 ? the lion's skin. If you v. act to 5! the as?, ton help elect him. And who is! the ass? You will be. my son. if you i vote for a -good man" on a bad ticket. And ja3t one word more about this relative goodness of the two ticket, i Does it occur to von that New York and Indiana have been so remarkable for ' an atmosphere of political nuritv and honor and moralitv. that Maim: aad Illinois are to be shunned x lazar- JCIet-aland'a letter win something ika the raporto(ta Doys toy pistol tnatwacto sHar t't expioaton of taa use i amcrcKa. hilt l-'iflii.l- rnni'iiml riltixli .rruul tvliiiri baiuls. I admit the personal "good-' V"-" ""' iiorenny omr man ji ness" of Stephen Cleveland anil Mr. I ',nn,Ci IX'iimJ , ",,",I,J 7rr woUro Hendricks. They arc "goMl men." Ihftf hUlhu """ nut fully om. Hut "good men" are sometime ral-M' v ,li, ii . i .-. taken. Hefore vou vote look at their I . Tl !?Yfc nfT U"U rrcord; look at the platform upon which ? lh or.Ul w,lh whlcJ h 4 an K thev were nominated and whereon ther 1,s U"U, : to dlngnre with l.mnf tu-bt rr-rv.l I ..-.,.. vs Wa........... POLfTICll TAEiUtAM!. Mr. (Jr WlUUfH m . Ktrtxu - .V. ). Jen?! ; m. t-Im. V Yoek Tit 1 - nt,rt,j. .mf td kmlfcw. ".."t-... . -.. --r- - tiwin..' .fjsirr 1 VJ. i m.-r .. t,. irmirtB tut I mv - ? fvr "Jf thU fin tnB. njwhwwimfC trrir I than i Ue Utwn . Iiim?ii HTh IfcrvM graditViwU caIi I Mr C'unU tnrUjr 0 D"d'ft "A dth U to HUhttv" Voj !n t dl of mojwi;bl 310 r?ti t ?c- torMr. Hariri. rikatl la"wr nndr th dluoa thaJh! ? th iv : U i?i $om Jfes. in tari- ... : ttil ml tell hint Imp ! i making a raitakv. itw4aifi iUpn hcttit. t&rTbtvo i a 4jiti"MUn in txi&r ot nearly crcrr de-cffptWn. U i cr fa Mailed thai i'arl Mjhuw will Mfcnl to warbl fr reform thl year t tn buiHired d4Ur cr wartdf. i'Siiosfe frtm Vw, 5trrTjWv iv iJcmfKjraUc dlItt rratio ' in MwhurtU wrtl ! Kpufc!ean ldpad;Bvll,, in Jli. ehu-Ht. And th furnwr prmfevWy af ' fc t m maar vtrfm a, tho MtlcF W .. ViA Utrttiilml l.4tter. fCokmoI Watfrtrwin' Ttilwt-Ty! godd& of Kitixin bnan't, r,v'rHl hr tion(i4ttu: 4c lhj diafr up Mfnoil Rt (. hVenpfo. Klia dotnon't knw u lhi day whether hJm bit im cnA Hf a. cyclone r run ofrly a iiihim on. --11U . fir 'ITn n brtmdtii nl Arvtitkn and mtpU uv nluii lTlait' iw ml atejtatc Ui'at tiif y the tnnlMr lr f lnucr. fulltM" of knovle4 Al MMU t-ry of th ftffir tlal coirr tlM po p'e nt Inrjje. makmjt; up tirtttAHiii'j. - (n tnnth Lmmrxtti 0Mtt. fjsaTMr. Dana do not uiidftwMl how fciiy iirer loimrrt cuhl tm ngine jiil-v-iMbiU thoflnit rul hy whWi the majority of thu Hepublhmn inevan t.on tefued to nb 1I0 vvoiihl fur ytr later be tamrlv ncceptml bv lJIt' crane Gonv-nUn, nnd would b? ul to force to th had of lht l)un ratla party a mnu of wt.om nt that thne ho had probnUy never hrard! iw The Now York 71i4 find wmo ditlletihv .n nccommodnCng if -tf to It, new Aurrouiidtnga, Th inorniti It J actually call for "an nble and enerjseUu tin linger whoi chnrnct4r and ri"0rd ...n..l I !..... ...... ...!.... .1... ........... . nuiuii i-jj-k luiiiiviriiri- ill Hi i; v. u .-, and it nitiu ate that Hon. William II. Hurnum .h not uch n mmt If tho Twin puckers at Haruutn. what wdl it do win u it t.n oilered a fttnught Rourlon o.ie' .l.inv Journal. xrTho New Ytrk 7"iwo U crmk Btire now that Governor (.'levnland I a -tateitnan of the bigjcit cnlllwr. Ivt u.h turn liack to note lit oplnUm Inut year. In nn editorial on the Governor mo-.iage printed on January 3, J WW, H jtahl: . On tlit? wlnl-. tlio IrmifrW.n ro-!u-M bjr tho mrjfi- U mic nf iliaaiwlntui(it. tielo ltiilniit of clmmeler ami horifi of jiur Ki Kfp iiiMf-1 Ihlliva Ml oil) rumMtmlUin wltli ftlior iin.ilitlr nit't lit any lotion ur llln. Iu liiry "will not ut thjm'lri' iijjny ili tW of lrifn ejHiijr for ilralln ltt uHt4 nii"iiim nn iiH.Millar ntnrM fur civouttv Uutie. m lltr Political Teiitlnrfuof. In tlie far Wml mining men hnppily de-inate the now coiiMr from tho Kat. who M-ekii the enmpi expeetlng U find gohl ntul silver tr"wn nlxut lis jmtlr way. a- a leuderfooL. It I the delight of tin hardy pioneer to take the tender foot aiide ami thill hU bl-od w.th lmr rowing narrative of nnngulnary advon turcn i.itually mndu to ordr for' thu 00 caiton. Not infrcpiently the coneluslnii of the narnitive umrk4 the end of ;h londi-rfoot'd ifxploltx hi senreh of lr'a urc. 1I dtxnpnear.4 from the muttf. n- where he goe ool mtiit follow, that whrtt lii line Hut wiirlil tiiUaI applaud. ,f. ., tl. . . t ,.,.. "T.TT '?,?,. ' . n.u,t right.nrgiiing that .y ho i, , n ccro he ?" ot h ron& lii1 !" . , ..t ; ' ' t. J"7 "., " becomes a lm iiinui" tin Tran ftN ' . ' .. v--T '" nccI!c ovcrv- wncre. He retirc.1 within hiiiuudf tmtl txlu fhn vrorld. The tenderfoot in politics Ii a remark able ere uure. He gt'i into the camp " rvrrrr . lH ,,a Dy .-! It I. . . I . It "j muiv -iiirioniinnte inn ixrrvitiii ... i. i ... f . . . . w,m,H! M;t mI,!? hi1 cnnlo thwi fw. am! coraQ,J0,n l? ban! work tea practical ?' lhe 'cV,,;r.t wllUk. up hw Jw " robauility In tmxi vui y i.t vkvhij n camp, ii ere no ;"- " nTM uiuwcii out or ,n7yt 'hen he become UU Jndep-ndnUelf. a.oIitary unitinfav,r of lV cnilcrfool and agafnt the united- I wurj'i- , ""-;jmwi wJ mtfte a giwt dwi! n?WC w!lcn h? oatf.r canP- l rhe tenlcrtfKit always make a great """ u'Ml,i'WJ ' mwou a a in' nu QW !n,lw. ""n tut one Mobf rule no one rnw-j hirn. no one cart"? for Mm. Ordinarily ccntiy. Itwaiuot a tanre artv. mt ;7? '. tiwaow rteaw , a ." , . loJitltL SoKiet the Utile , d .of .to,HerfefJw ,ber bd cr r '" '"-. wi""l?w camp, it h4 becu a good casiu. clean. wfA.,1,,,.. ed and prcperom. Rut of lat mrn things about th: KcrmbHcaa camp had beconie ojectnaijh?. al ahkou-h the great major ty U the campr s prcad themselves M tfeg t9m main, the teoderfect hatl al tip thei mlnds togoovtc iato the Docratfe and IsJII U a yery dirty campbt th tenderfeet latcadod to ckan It oaL TJevhaar Oa thcra k a aew brooat la the Demoaratic caatp.whkli kas recent J bn btalad. aad wkkh k boliMC Cooriarrt4 oa iu ttratts whh a jrood deal of aoiaa at arary OMartaakr. tBot'a aot awati ataaakacTai Wt do-da with itasrac. . ITliataaSrfmtalak ii they caa gat aoUaftlM areeam taay may do soaw cWaaiac. Tliay aarai solrad to tr X. nka tawlcrSati k aaMaiaa iaararr mwej I a fmmwmmmmrF aapajV avaaMBV i aMMJaratavtaaaa.-aiaMarJtoamak. S ' i i -al . 1- -Mi . ' Is .- V. '. L, -M- 1 J? JjtS iv. - 1 . 5., ?& tr ?riavr.!SrtjM J -If " JXi -' E.x. v-n . &iigCSirt iTSTiiiTi iBm ---"' i sar-A,. &i N.. - -. lt .- V- -3. :Lm&ssmi .it jl -.; tfr "v iit ''""'-; - 1 --4 7se -5g2t M. - '. - F-'-fJr- . mm -: . i,,.$' . - - .- ' "f 7"-i ' . i ft rtvi .jffv r -., mW. - '