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CHAITKIt L
;2AnfJffAB7itAi can't cceao home, after
you nd.tb.bi law-1 boixrf w do. cause
rm broke nwiln:"leiu5twi.el lev bwti Mnoe I
- wiytv-uu f4an, nod 1 aim "-squarely ot onto
jnyJ"fot yet, but- Vm irolu ter nend you some
money by next bbauiier; uU I can ncr-ape
totrcthcr.Tinrl I want you and the babies to
I nick up anil cobm out.
' yW'mookfi hard for you to have to make I
tho trip across tbo plulns'.jueae with the chit- I
w..jii,aiwnAj uoiKoee no uv to holp It utile
we uru never to see owe unother lunln, ami I
etui t staml thi.r, nor 1 ilotit belie vu you want
lo either. And there's IttiHtui'. bo must be
cetUn inor-t u mini now. uml will help you u
heap, nnd I'll do tho s'juure thlmr by the boy
when by cw out Hero.
Jo I?ronson' wife's cousin, By PeUtr. has
writ Jo thut he Is koIii to eomo out thU hiii-i-pier
with u company, and you cun iomv with
oIidI reckon, i
Von remutnlier Sy. He' a Jlv-Jn'up near
J'erkiiisv.lle now, buln drJv off of his land
luiiK of thi r.t of us. hy will be rlud li do
you aoud turn I know, lor when we was both
bnke up hack in New Knland by trolii so-
-curity at the bank, he and J swopped sym
pathy -with one another, and now that the
.rallroie-a torjratlon hah gobbled us loth. ry
wllMc'w!lhn to do some more .-wopln ol the
jume kind 1 reckon, as swopin sympathy
menus ewopjn help with poor folk.
Impose you'Jl want to know what kind of a
pliiee I am askm yoy to cotno to. and I tell
you honest, Marty, when I nay that nutur
done a way up job when she made this coun
try: just a!out the best nhc is cajmbleof doin.
I reckon, an all I'm anion for now Is to have
you an the baba. an 1 11 I 'satisfied for all
the hurd work, and Iosm.h we've had, and
they've drlv ur from sea to Fen almiwt, a jrob
bliu up one home after unother alter we had
tnnde em by hanl work.
SfcuiHlo'inu thet ther mu6t lie sotnUiln
wroiur with tho law. Jer Uie poor dont t-tait no
rhaue with the rich, an the more law the le.-wi
the lellows Unit worksiritK.
When I wrotoyou afore. I was rakln in tho
"- "Js-t pretty fnnart, me an my purl. but some
fe'Iows from New " ork cimc up there and
proposed to form a Jint stock eompunv, jind
olTercd-topnT In nlnr of machinery lor'hlrt m
out the on; aiu our claim: an 1h:1ii ns we was
Hiuious U) eel attbedunt fast ns ptMi-lti.e.
iinns wo could irohuck to the States fur our
raniilies, wo ajrroed. to It, but ftoinc wav it
lid n't pan "fait llko it ort to a done.
The other leilows elected theirselvuit
directors, an p,nted one of theirw.-lves
Jiook-keprr, :ind panl and me never exactly
understood how it was. but there wan assess
incuts instead of d ivies, and llnally we wus
both froze out or the mine entirely after pay
in back to the company all the dust we had
tnl;c!i out afore wo was such fools as to ko in
with 'em.
Alter that I knttcked around In thedurpins
for a spell, an then heann of this Suscol
Knnch 1 struck out for it, and here I am: an
t"ll roti, wife", sites Just, the mo?t Klorious
bit of country on this side of tho big rattle
tshleh nobody doesn't come back from when
they hev crost it. and ",hev took up 11 acres
it land, and will hev a cabin up an a cood bit
of the sile broko afore you Kit here, and we'll
be comfortable in our old ture yit, in spite of
everthinf3:.
Tills here's tho 11 nest valley in the State and
would all have been took up Iook njco only
some rich fellows pretendoo to have a kind of
a Spunedi claim ott to it, auu folks were afraid
to settle here, most of em, for fear of bein
driv off llko wo huvo lecu, but finally some
teller took the case up to court and it was de
rided in favor ol the squatters: Unit is. them
UN was on the land makiii of themselves
liuintot; and now everybody's a rushin In and
fire-emptiu ipiurior sectionsand ou needn't
e at raid of bein lonesome, for we'll have
lieitjhbors on every side in less than a year.
Well, this is an awful lone letter, but vou
fee 1 wauted to tell you all about every thlnir,
and J hope yon wont fi-el too bad t treatise I
cant foine for you. Vou know Id !!. to If I
could, but I cant and I promise you shant
ever have to move ajdn. Tltey cant drive us
much In it hr any way, unless they make us
take ship lor it : au they cant do that, ter the
courts hen decided that no body he any claim
on to this here ranch, coptiu the fellows that
pre-empt lt-
1 think Sy I'oters will Ihj down to see you
within a week from tho time you pet this, "for
1 wrote hlui to pn at once so us to give you all
tin time iMissibloforjfottin ready.
llopin tills will find you and the babies its
veil as it leaves me. I remain
Your lovin husband.
John PAitsoss.
Tltc above letter was rctiil by Martha
Parsons, lirst silently, aud then aloud
to her two little girls, eight and ten
year of age. -:w they stoml ,in front of
'tlmir mother ttnd -listened with breath
less attention and wide oj)en uye, as if
.seeing wonderful thitagsltalf 'glorious,
half frightful, but altogether ttrange
and um-xpltun.Hble.
I hese were the babies that John Par-
pons nan iejt six years oeiore, wnen a i
ooroonition representing a railroad laiil
eUiini to a large tract of land upon
which he and hundreds of others had
-settled, having ltoughu'hnd paid for it,
and holding, is they supposed, iueon
tcstable, titles therota
When it-first became' knotrn to them
that a corporation would contest with
them the "right: to their homes and
farms, a portion of the settlers threat
ened vengeance and declared they would
"jriveipibeir own only with their lives;
Injt John loved pence better than con
tention, and knew bv experience the
difficulty of figiitiug bodies that have uo
souls within Uiem, aud he had said to
his wife:
't is no use, Martv. Tho Philistines
are ujwn us agin, au J we have got to
git It's hard, I know; harder fer you
tier for me, for you was brought up sort
o' tender likoand list to better things,
an' vou've workt'd hard and gone with
outmuca, and now when -we was just
jweltiu' a start agin' after losin' what
your father giv usan' all we had added
to it on the spot where -you w:s born.
It's mighty tough, but "we'll have to
stand it -
'"They can't, put us off the place for a
titoe, Sicyway. for some of the fellers
are" goin' to fight em' with the law,
though 'tain't jio -use for they'll take
everything they -want in the end; and
they want it aTL l!ntwKile they are a
doin' it I'll try an' win enough to make
-another home for you and the babies.
111 go to California Marty, and mnke a
fortune, while you stay on the place
witiuthe youngsters, and by the. time
iney git. reaay to turn you out 01 wis,
never fear but I'll come back with
enough to take you to another home
sui' a better one." Mav be it is for the
best after all Mv be I'll git rich
enough -to gpljack JEast and D
uy the
' old place where vou was born."
And se John Parsons had got to
gether what money he could by the sale
jf their few head'of cattle and sheep,
leaving the family with one cow to snp
ply them with milk, had kissed" the
-babies ; -aVthcy lavTisIeep in their cradle,
had kissed the .wife who for long years
tocatmeMild only, know such sleep
59 hotyps to 'those worn, with ceaseless
$i 3bbr ami jstudy of haw to nake the m
ie tfteet the expenses which must be
met and had crossed the plains and
XVKtmtaln that ""lay between his home
nd tlte'Pacihc Ocean, hoping to gather
enough, gold to repay them for aU their
past Tabor' and bufferings.
As John Jtad atcipatod,sotoe of the
lomesteaders had contested with the
, "railroad compaav the. right t the Uui
lor wklcfr thev" held' deeds from the
&. HaittML'8ui; it "Goyernwtnt, -iwt -sary t
find bv deciskm of the last court of re-.
ftwjsbtt l'tadbMaals have ko rights
v -. which eorporatjeas ,ajre bend to re-
.-wJ oect, and ik the end io"be haded ever
,f,ikniMl$kmcfko
a CBaM-A-r -waicm jsh
to
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the resources ana tiopes ol the settlers
by slow degrees, and letting their lirst
fierce anger burn itself out or give place
to hopes horn of tales of a yet better
country to be found in some distant
State or Territory where they would be
free to again buifd themselves homes. "
While in most casus the delav in
evicting the settlers wts but robbing
them of so man3 more years of their
labor, in the case of John "Parsons' little
family it was. however little intended,
a bles.sing; for from the land already
cleared Mrs. J'arsons had been able to
make a living for herself and children,
aided only by Erastus, an orphan boy
whom out of their native goodness of
heart John and Martha had teken to
their hearthstone and their affect ons
ten yea-s 1-efore. He was now a robust
lad. of iifteen. tanned bv the sun, tough
ened by work, and with a sturdy air of
independence, born, in part, of the
heavv responsibility which he had "neen
taught rested upon him as "the only
man about the place," in part of nature
itself and showing itself in his eves, and
through the childish words and" actions
which had once led John Parsons to re
mark to his wife that "the little cub
weren't exactly luck in1 in willingness to
claim what was Jus n.
When Mrs. Parsons had finished read
ing aloud the letter from her husband,
the little girls stood with hands crossed
upon their long gingham aprons silent
ly gazing at their mother, who as silent
ly arose, laid the letter upon the rude
mantel over the stone lire-place, and
took up her household work where she
had left it when a neighlwr, in passing,
had brought her the letter.
Her mind -was too much occupied
with thoughts to which the letter had
given birth for her to le fully conscious
of what she did, but force of habit, born
of the cruel necessity which compels
nine out of every ten (if the wives of
laboring men, and especially of farmers
the world over, to be constantly "on
the go," alwnvs busy, alwavs at work
for others, held her to her usual round
of duties, even while her mind was
bus' discussing this and that plan for
the most rapid and profitable disposi
tion of their little remaining accumula
tions, devising this and that scheme for
adding to the comfort of the family ujon
the long and lonesome journey which
she saw rise up before them.
Then. too. her thoughts turned back
ward over the past; to the scenes of her
girlhood; to the time when she wedded
the man she love.1 and whom she was
now to join after long yclrs of separa
tion.
She remembered how proud she had
bocn when he lirst told her of his love
and asked her to be his wife, and how
hopeful the' had lieen, and how certain
of their future happiness when the' be
gan life together.
And then came sadder remembrances
the loss of their home through trying
to help a neighbor; tho death of their
first baby that w:us buried in the little
church-yard beside her own father and
mother, long since gone to their re
ward and the other little one. that had
come to them only a few months after
they lauded in the spot from which
they were now being driven, "whose
tiny crave, she remembered with a pang
keen as the thrust, of a dagger, must bu
left without any to care for it without
a permanent ineloMirc eveu, perhaps to
be forgotten, obliterated, trodden upon.
But these thoughts only served to recall
her to her.s-elf, lor with the poor, to think
of the dead Is always to recall tit ought
to the living, the livinfj whose necessi
ties lav claim to even' waking thought.
to every eflorL of the hands and feet
ner utougms rccaueu irotn tn past
to the present, from the dead to the
living, without ceasing her work or even
turning around, but intending to address
the little girls who yel stood a'lcntly
beneath the weight of their childish
thoughts of the wonderful, perhaps dan
gerous, journey to their fattier which
they understood was to be taken. Mrs.
Parsons asked:
-Where's Erastus?M
Her voice krokc tho spell which was
upon the children, and snatching their
sun-bonnets from the bed upon which
tltey had thrown them when they fol
lowed the neighbor in with the letter,
they whipped out of the house and dart-
t lroiiinl the iinrniir in th, linjin
from which came the sound of the bov's
! :ix,r'
Across Uie pasture lot thev sped.
catching their sun-bonnets from offtheir
i onus as tney ran aim carry mg i nem m lhdr lo reparation, it was in front of
their hands, until out of breath and,,.,. 8,,?fV wi,,--, un i,.i ,:,.j
within talking distance of the object of
their search, tho
with:
oldest girl broke out
"Oh! Ras! what 'd spose? Ma's got
a lc-ter from pa. and he ain't eomin'
home, 'cause he's been froze out again,
but he's going to send money home for
us to go to California on. and Mr. Peters
is a coming
down right awav to see if
we can
be readv to start next week.
and
Why, Ras, if
rails!"
you ain't cuttin' up
"Wall." replied the boy, his look
changing from that of a very interested
listener to oue of set determination,
"wall. s'poen I am? Didn't your mother
say she wished she had some dry wood
to wash with to-morrow? and ain't these
rails dry? Guess they are, fur your
father split 'era and laid 'em up "him
self 'fore he went to California. Shud
think they ought to get dry in six years
if they are ever goin to."
"But they're rails," protested both
the girls at once, their inborn idea of
the wrong involved in the destruction
of property causing them to forget every
thing else for the moment "They're
rails, and if you cut 'em up for Wood
they will be s(oiIt, and besides the cat
tle "will get into the field."
'Spose they do. who cares? Taint
our field. They stole it Wish the cat
tle would get in."
"Bet thev don't get maftv rails with
this place." he added, bringing his
axe down with all his strength aud fin
ishing the destruction of the one he was
at work ou.
Then lie shouldered his axe and the
th'e returned to the house, the gjrls
still swioging their sun-bonnets in their
hands aud talking excitedly of the com
ing journey to their father, and the new
home which they were to have in the
beautiftd country to which they were
going, while Uie boy strode on by their
side saying less, but with a look aud
step that proved him not less excited
thao-u-fcis companions.
The week that intervesed before the
coming of JSy Peters, like tiie weeks
inat liumetuaieiv umiow eu it, wk occu-
pled by the family in devising means for j
mamng ttie most ot weir possessions.
They already had a team which Sy
thought with good care would stand the
trip, nut the wagon nnd harness were
not snffidenOy strong to risk venturing
upon so long a jonrney, and 'Mrs. Par
sons bent every energy to the task 4f
devising how "best to tarn this and that
-and the ether article into things it was
absolutely necessary that iheynhoahl
have before they coeld start
A new wagon was boaght at the
wagon shop-in the -village, -payment be-
ici taenia aa aackede-rtwe
KP.
5s ' S.
at ,
vas for the wagon cotct, the chick
to pay -for shoeing the bones all rouadT
with new shoes; a better harneM was
obtained from neighbor in exchange
for the old one and such cheap impfc
ments for tilling the soil as they had
been using on the farm; calico and mus
lin for garments fox the girls, and cot
ton jeans for a change for the boy were
procured somehow, the few cooking
utensils and the beds needed upon the
road were Tracked into the wagon with
their remaining provisions; the feeding
box was hung to the tailboard; at-cKes
for watering the horses and a pki of
grease for greasing the spindles were
hung under the hind axle, and cn
morning in May when the sun came up
over the tree tons and looked down into
the little clearing, he saw oniy a de
serted and abandoned log house, from
whose chimney no wreath of smoke
curled upward," upon whose hearthstone
no lire was blazing.
The family had again joined the great
caravan of tollers that, like the red men,
have been driven from sea to sea across
a continent hunting for homes and a
resting-place from those who covet all
and will be content with nothing les.
CHAITiJH IL
TOE JOTHNEr.
Who shall say that he can truly draw
the picture of a six-months' journey by
wagon train across the continent?
Who has done it?
Who has depicted, or can depict, the
feeling of loneliness and isolation that
takes possession of the hearts of a Jittle
band of pilgrims when having, by such
tedious methods of travel, placed a
thousand miles between themselves and
their old home aud heme associations,
they realize that they are yet a thou
sand miles from the" new home which
thev hope to make in an untried coun
try? "Who can recount the man incidents
over which men laugh or women weep,
that go to make up the weeks and
months of such a journey?
Who can convey to the minds of those
who have never seen them, a true pict
ure of the prairies
That seem lou tided.
Like the waters of tho ocean.
Only by the purple sunset
And the jrray cloud that in patch
Fleck the sky thut haul's low over:'
Who shall picture the camp at night
u-ton the open plains in the rocky pass
by the riverside within some deep
defile? Who tell again the stories that
were told; who sing the songs that were
sung by tho camp-lire, or along the
weary, dusty road?
Did those who blazed the way across
the continent mark the route for those
who followed them?
Those who came after counted the
graves by the roadside.
Did these give names to the streams
which they crossed?
Ol tiers, camping by the streams,
drinking of their waters, talked of the
memories which those names called to
mind.
They who never made the journey
can not describe it; those who have,
alone could understand it if written;
aud they they do not need to read it
What others saw who crossed the
plains in l&OO by wagon train, they saw
who made up the little company in
which was Martha Parsons, with" her
two girls and Erastus Hemmingway.
What others suflered oT loneliness and
hardship they suffered. They enjoyed
all that others enjoyed of the beauties
of nature and of the companionship of
those with whom they traveled toward
tiic land of golden promise.
They forded the same streams, trav
eled for daws and weeks and months
, -,.., tin. -nm r,.?r' n1nnn. l,M
, s:imc beaten track, that at times seemed
endless; they climbed the same mount
ains: they greeted with glad cries and
thankful hearts the first evidence of tltc
near apjtroach of their journey's end,
just as the members of every other com
pany that had preceded them had done;
just as those of every other company
that came after them did do; and when
they had broken camp for the last time;
had made their last day's journey; they
received at its end thesame hearty, un
speakable wcleomc from a waiting hus
band aud father that every other hus
band and father, long separated and
anxious for the presence of his loved
ones, cave thorn when their journey
was ended and ho folded them once
more within his arms.
Wheu John Parsons first claspi-d his
wife aud little ones to his breast aft t
. -. .....a . aw it VIUI?-UU
proruise
should be readv for them in front of
the land which he had pre-empted.
The shanty, however, was not what
would be called such in the heaw-tim-lxjred
country of the Middle West, but
was of redwood boards nailed to a
frame of studding, and the cracks bat
tened with naiTow strips. The boards
be.ng sixtcm feet in length and na led
on perpendicularly gave abundant room
for several beds, and for the storage of
any article of clothing or of household
use not in daily demand.
Instead of being lathed and plastered
the walls, both above and below, were
covered with heavy muslin ncatlv and
securely tacked on. The ceiling was
covered with muslin, but the floors were
of boards, and a partition of boards,
unplanedjmt neatly fitted together, di
vided the lower room into two apart
ments. Jt was neither a vcrv grand
nor a very costly house, but its" builder
and owner had taken no small pleasure
in thinking that it was better, and
more stylish looking, than the log
house his family were leavrar "back in
the States.-'
He had whitewashed tbeontstdc care
fully, and had built a porch orer the
front door, doing everything himself
am! lingering long over "the nicer jobs;
thinking of how it would add to the
pleasure and comfort of the wife wh
was undergoing the tedious journe;
Across the plains in order to be aga&C
with him.
" She's worthy of a palace." he har
said to himself over and over agate
an' I'm just goin to make this rteir
shanty as comfortable aa as eonvea
ieat as contrivia' an' fudn' kin do it.
And every evening, after cooking and
eating his supper of bacon and beans. "
with the addition of "slap jacks," if
he ras not too tired or too indifferent
to cook them, he would light his pipe
and sit in the frout door for hours.
looking ont along the track by which
he knew tbey must come, and" wonder
where they were at that hour; if they
were traveling late, as they sometimes
must in search of water for their teams;
if all were well; if thev were in dancer
from the Indians; if "the horses with
which tney started were holding
well, and a thoosand other am
oat
things, bat always refusing to believe
uuu. ctu couiu come to
whea their lonr separation
near aa end. and fermlv dnrar ta tk
f thought that thev wmM soon al he
together agaia hi the hoe which ha
he
to leave
lathe
If the
vS
he a
r
',
to leave an
Hula f-fck
knew see. he had aaid ah, an
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Catlrrlr Cr
iat If Ccrrvm
ITic statement that Sccreti
Dayard is already tired of his o.Tice. and
thinks of resigning at an early dale.
may or may not be true, bjt it would
be creditable to becretan Bayarl if ii
were true, tuat ne lias a-Teadv begun to
rcalize his mistake in accepting an
o.hcc in whicn hts tcrnnewraent his
pre udices an J his tr.iiaing have unitvil
to lead him into a series of remarkable
blunder, rresideut Cleveland's Ad
ministration ha seriously -u Jervd from
tr.e extmordinan' and apparently stupid
errors of the tate l)erartmcn Mr.
bayard seems to have acte t upon the
theory mat a man who had been a ram -
...
pant rebel or had liven one of Mr. Bav
ard's personal friends had sufficiently
established his ability, character anil
lituess to be sent abroad to represent
the United States as Ambassador in a
foreign court, so that ctreful inquiry
into his antecedents would b? superilu
ous. Such a gross p'ece of carelessness
as the nomination of Mr. Lawton. with
out inquiry to ascertain whether his o
litieal disabilities had been removed,
could only be exceeded by such a worse
piece, of stup.dhy as the nomination of
Mr. Keiley to be Min:s;er to ha'y.
whose people and King he has grossly,
pu ficly and notoriously insiilted in t'ie
moiS foolish and rec-ile-s man
ner. "Further, the frequent selec
tion of conspicuous ex-rel-els
against the United States Gov
ernment to represent this Govern
ment in foreign nations, is well calcu
lated seriously to prejudice the reputa
tion of the Administration, both at
h mc and abroad. There is less objec
tion at home, and there can he none
abroad, to giving to distinguished ex
Confederates offices wjth n the United
States; and inasmuch as it was ex
pected that a Democratic Adm nistra
tion would confer many honors upon
persons whose fame of notoriety was
mainly achieved in rebellion agatn'st the
Government, it would have been more
discreet to bestow only heme office,
upon this class. But to send men to
represent the United Suites in import
ant foreign missions who are famous
chiefly for rebellion against the United
States, is significantly to declare to for
eign Goveruments th'atno jtenulty. but
rather honor, attaches to rebellion in
the United States, at least under tho
Democratic partv: and that ex-rebels
and sympathizers with the rubelli.ui
best represent the Uni:ed Stiles G'ov
ernment and the Democratic partv.
Foreign nations will not fail to notice
that various high foreign missions are
given to men who fought conspicuously
against the United States Government",
while none are given to men who
fought for the United States Govern
ment; and they will naturally conclude
that, under the present. Democratic Ad
ministration, it is regarded as a merit
to have fought against the Union.
Secretary Bayard has been long con
spicuously held up as a prominent and
worthy democratic candidate for tho
Presidency. lie has been claimed to be
a statesman of large, practical shrewd
ness, discreet, far-seeing, carefully
judicious in his judgments of men. and
broad and liberal in h s views. But his
course in his present office has greatly
injured, if not wholly dedroyed, this
fictitious repututon. which lias been
so long nnd carefully cultivated. Ol
all the members of the Cabinet, he has
so far exhibited the least capacity for
practical affairs, and tho most pre
judices and weaknesses. A few more
blunders M'ill relegate him to the calf,
gory of those who are merely smooth
and plausible theorists, but who do not
possess the qualities of practical shrewd
ness and sound judgment necessary
for men who aspire to jtositions whore
they can govern. Hence, if he does not
already regret that he left the Senate to
accept a p.ace in the Cabinet it is rap
i lly becoming evident that he ought to
regret it. and that the President prob
ably will if Mr Bayard does not De
troit FosL
WORTH NOTING.
Two Thine Which Mr. Clt-rrtami sail
Mr. Kntlrolt Should Itrntemtirr.
A Washington telegram in the Nash
ville American states that several Ten
nessee Congressmen filed formal appli
cation for the removal of certain in
spectors of claims for the Quarter
master's Department in Tennessee, and
the substitution of honest residents.
The agents referred to are investi
gating Tennessee claims against the
United States for property taken bv the
Union army during the war. Lender
the act of Congress only loyal claimants
are paid, and on the average not one
tenth of the amounts cla'med is allowed.
Tho Solid South Democrats, whose
claims would be rejected for disloyalty
of claimants, naturally wish new agents,
and, through their Congrc-men. rec
ommend that tbey lie residents of Ten
nessee! After the Democratic fashion,
they insult the faithful and honorable
officers, who have done teir duty re
speeting fictitious claims and claims ot
disloyal people, by saying they want
honest residents.
It would obviously save the Uaited
States a good deal of tax money not to
send Jennessee agents to investigate
Tennessee claims, and. therefore, not to
look to ex-Confederate Tennessee Con
gressmen to recommend the agents who
are to investigate claims of ex-Confederate
constituents of such Congressmen.
The word "hoaesty," applied to the
kind of investigations wlach will be
seen if this naive suggestion of the
Tennessee Congressmen is adopted, will
enter on a stage of kaletdowopie varietv.
If Mr. Cleveland or Secretary EadiWtt
get this thing clear in their Blinds, they
will settle two points hi the interest of
the United States aad their party: 1.
Not to send Soathera Democrats' in
vestigate daisas, nine-tenths of which
are presented by other Southern Demo
crats, and are geaerally ticttitioes;
especially not to let the repre atatives
of such ex-Confederate ehunv. aaae the
judges of their constitaects' fhvnas. 2.
That honesty is of supreme importance
in such agents, and it w3i be difhcalt
to replace these agents wth others as
solid in this respect as the preseat corps
of agents, which is the result of many
siftiags and selections Titer are faith
ful, competent aad reliable. The last
Cocgresi enacted that any -vacancies
ocenrring among this corps ahoald not
be fiOed, as the work of hiveetatioa i
apafearhnig coaapletioa. This applies
also la cterks warkia mpoa thaw
clahne. So that it at prolwhfc the yearn-
rag tec reeanemn rvsanas ante
caa not he grsfiiad. evea if the
deateharienesic aad k is
(Sw)
miMy
lertnnat:btthsi amrtirnlnr -nsmi f
MIW SBb) y HaV SsnHa W XsannnnssVnnnsB?
lyfcWtnl. Bsna nnphpnVmhnsts
. y f m la m K JBWVHM-t HT -
siifci'laV ftawtJ - l tv. T "' mmf Mt94W Mi V - ?"T-.-j
Ssttjtg-rslkctaw fsrcvEa- ti-em. Mt twi ait. tr 11 1 ilrntr Ttv mfcla to jkam -J-'
zlnd s.rv jTmSftmmm :hmck irtm --rrrr1, . i- swav Mi a ahsal lts Mw ." k-::.
i all his previous reco
ad declarations. If -uch ajipot
f were asked for bv tho local consUtuca-
; ries, he should at least have boon
warned bv Mr, Kndtcot:. if he consulted
;1 the -V
ew Kngland membciv of
his Cab-
met. that thrcr uch
would nauseate even the
appo'ntmems
Democrats ol
this section. 1'illsb.iry and Chase were
fellow-conspirators in the attempt to
Ueal the State of Maine fur Clnrce.on
s schema which covered th Ik-nu.cra.tie 5
1 . ' r i
1 tiartv with hame throughout this see-
ttoa. Pill-bury. s;nce his migration to
Massachusetts, has been an obeouiotia
Butler man. Chase remains in Maine
to become Internal Revenue Collector
for that State. Troup, the Connecticut
appointee, is a labor aad greenback ag
itator and Butler demagogue. That
the President .should fall "into such
i nest of m .-fits" indicates a wide de
parture from his usual discretion aud
raution in discriminating between the
men really lit for itmoitant political
trusts and the men who get "the .sup
port of the delegation." Whether we
look at these men from the stand-pent
of Mr. Cleveland's independent sup
porters, or from the staud-oint of his
straight Democratic supjiorters. they
are equally objectionable. To see these
unscrupulous Bourbons and tricksters
preferred to high places of honor weak
ens the party with itself; disheartens it
most honorable and devoted members,
aud staggers those who had put faith in
Mr. Cleveland's ability and purpose tc
command reform administration. A
Independents would only ask for decent
Democrats, Democrats Should a.sk for
no le.s.
Jt would lie only fair 'or the United
States Senate to give Mr. Cleveland a
chance to repair tho errors .o deeply
affecting this whole section bv reject
ing these nominations. The Repub
lican majoritv alone can do this; how
ever great mijrht be the temptation to
let the Adminlstrat'on do its worst, no
Senator could vote for confirmation of
gros-ly uxi.it Iccal appointees, without
.sharing the responsibility for them.
But we trust that before the .Senate as
sembles. Demo Tatie Senators wilt te
eotne convinc-'d that tho.e are nomina
tions which should not Ik; confirmed,
but from which tho Administrt on
should be extricated as speedily as pos
s.ble. Mr. Cleveland's Administration has
heretofore got along very well and
hopefully, but it ha- got only a very
little way. It can easily dissipate be
tween now and lecember the good im
pression which it has gained. If it
thinks to strengthen itself .with such
nominations as these, it Is gravely iuis
taken. Kven the "practical "politi
cians " can see the error of them.
There are many Democrats who would
have tilled these places with satisfac
tion to their own party, and with no
offense to the other. These men will
be the occasion of di-cord and disgust
If they are the kiud of meu Mr. Man
ning picks ont. his Finance Minister is
likely to give the President a great
deal of trouble. Springfield (JJuss.)
uepuOlican.
THE
DIPLOMATIC BOTCH.
Erroni
of Mr. Ctrrrtand In Fllllac
the
Leading reattlnna Abroad.
President Cleveland began his ap
pointments by tilling diplomatic posi
tions. Ho has gone far enough for a
beginning to what end?
The appointment of Mr. Phclpi as
Minister to England, although it robs
the Vermont Democracy of one-half its
numerical strength, is cordially and
even enthusiastically indorsed by Brad
ley 15. Smalley. who constitutes the re
maining half. It is well understood
fliat Mr. Phelps wa appointed to oblige
Smallev and t'.ayard half of Vermont
and all 1 Ma ware. Tho rest of the
Union is unrecognized.
If Mr. George H. Pendleton's appoint
ment as Minister to Germany was nol
intended to oblige Colonel John Kodgers
McLean, tnen whom did it oblige? (Cer
tainly not the Ohio Democracy, which
had repudiated Senator Pendleton for
his share of Civil-Service Reform.
Mr. Hobert McLane goes to France
to oblige Senator Gorman and to renew
voluntarily a residence in France which
his disloyaltv made necessary during a
war to which he urged others and from
which he fled himself.
In selecting General Lawton for the
Russian mission President Cleveland
seems to have been ready to oblige al
most anybody but the Constitution he
has sworn to observe.
General Keiley. selected for the Ital
ian mission, labors under the personal
but potent disability of being very near
ly the only American living whose utter
ances against the great cauc of Italian
liberty bar his admission to the court to
which he is accredited.
Mr. Hanna, of Indiana. sent to Per
sia to oblige Mr. Voorbees, and he seems
inclined to stay at hone to oblige himself.
Colonel William R. Roberta, gives
the Chilian miasion. is the clerk of
Mayor Grace or. a salary of 2.000 a
year. Mayor Grace L a" member of a
tirm interested in South American coa
tractx Suppoae. oaly suppose. Mr.
Blaine to have been 'caught with this
awkward combination; but it k not assc
eMarv to go further ia aketchtag how
the Mugwumps would rage aad the
Democratic press imagia a vain thing.
The -storal significance of the appoint
ment of Minuter Jackson a Minister to
Mexico Is not entirely clear- However,
as the public has shice beea ia formed
that Jackaoa once wrote a room en
titled "Tallulah." the-gpootntaaeatmay
have been iatended ia the aature of a
bargain that he should aerer be guilty
ot repeating the offense.
Then, as to ooncslatea. Colonel Bovd
f Winchester waa ---elected to p!c& Col-
onel Winchester. Ms. Stockton never
voted any ticket, and Mr. Hayden Ed
wards has always voted the BepnhlScan
ticket, which is'the best thiagtobe said
for nnv of these appointees. Col
oael Morgan goes to Mdboarne.
into waters where his forefga eTv:ce
was on the reb-l ernlser Shmasdoah;
brat, as his foreigii poUcy is embraced
in a pamptet THJbliafcedlast fall in sop
port of Mr Blaine, the accocnt aete
hnlnaces.-A-fsrf),sJhf.T Trts.
itrie.Ti
lirhir at
ia that State a
lately skid.
Is-ft a large pnyuu a
th m-
m be -sne-s nr the
tnevvanv
enlelacs-i
to Mippuss the nahet sreraienl
aMKef-sakurwkhkwv-ss vW
yL-gt hsn Sander -bul mz
nnnirnwi ns sjvnsnnjE.
--"y nnnnsjBna annssw nnt'-nnnnsr'
t . MX rfi'l tMM IM to M It to fM.1 $-. : :
m - - t fc. - -- -- .r--'r - w .w
FlMTtor WstoW !! -MM"
tjjfaCMMT,,
Net o wbre Karo
It.k dktiEtal uttcta lis fnur
Aik) fruwa upon tar re an who waJW
Ami work lot ottJtii.ox ttUrr.
with uk rac& asaa t Trw u to
Walter. In rtciit. he wubr to
AaU It a tree to puJa through
X Zru xrosi cv-jr !f:trr.
So. routh. If joa Xo not uoriX
Wfcrr trora !ura h'tdrctT-jou an frerO.
Tfii-o MiUK-UMQjr aut tie vmii;. UilxX,
.Itxjuljourowu dfr x.
To honet fame Jo you aiptrer
tr irocW joa cosniictmce iUtrr?
Vou taay ott'-!a what ou desire.
Ccn thousb jrou wtb tor jlt
Hut lr you'd rf to hlffh portion,
Vou mcit fulfill a ut txmlttha:
There U h tse of haru tranItiou
That U to J ii lUroucts.
To think, to toil and to dlfetrn
liclwren the worth chaC ami corn.
Aud every idle thought to purn
AU ttn you arv to du.
So. then, dott ay your Jr.t h hard.
And that all boj ynu iaut dlx-ari
Ut ever fyetijf jrc or tard
Or Hfleudld BuUtibcalro:
Hut bow that you deserve to b
Au honored iwuu and tnen you'U
That Mim tb rtjle IU iwrc
To ruiJH and put jou there,
it U. H'rta.n, wt Ltmifvtt CtotricrsJmm itiif.
BOBBY.
A Uttle Roy Who I'uuUhr Ilia rtHT.b-r
Kuaalnf Away Ills hr Krlarn Hank.
Itobby llotchkiss was the only son of
Kcuben Hot ch kiss, the village black
smith, a rough. hard-tUtod man. but a
iteadv worker and a hoartv hater of
notions and non-ense,
about fourteen vears of
Ilobby waa
age, and. as
his mother expressed it "big
for hi
itzc."
Reuben Hotcbkl-ts had decided that
Bobby should follow in his footsteps,
and be a blacksmith, too. He had duly
given notice to Bobby to ttiat effect but
the plan did not meet with the latter'
approval Bobby had a very lively
imagination- Tho fact wax. Bobby had
a decided aversion to learning any
trade at all. Sundry books containing
adventures of sea lite had fallen in hi
way, and he was determined to tie a
sailor. WhuU he made known hit in
tentions to liw father the response he
got was not exactly of a kind to en
courage him. Instead of providing him
with ' a sailor's outttt" and .ending
tiim to sea at once, the matUr-of-fet
mechanic gave Ms son to understand.
in very blunt English, that it he ever
mentioned the subject again we would
"strap him." a very impoetlc -performance,
indeed.
Bobby knew that his father was a
very resolute man. and not at all hack
ward in using the strap when ho chow
to consider it necssry; so he took care
to say nothing more in his hearing
about go.ng to sea. But he by no
meaus relinquished his purpose. On
the contrary, tins purpose grew more
determined than ever. So he read hU
old nea-stories over again, and the
blacksmith's life of Inl Nelson, and
lie fancied him.-elf another hero of the
Nile and Trafalgar. One dav. happen
ing to Ihj alone in the shop for awhile,
ttie thought that was alwayx In bin
mind spoke out aloud, aud he began to
sing:
Mo. a allyr life for rnu-e.
On the Mir hrlny .
Where from keer I kin le fr--w.
On the .sea v e-e eel On the ea! "
I don't know whether this rhyme was
original with Bobby or not. 1 auppo.se
it expressed his foelingn as well ai if
Barry Cornwall wrote It
Another song greatly alTectcd our
young hero's imagination. It began
Silver buckle on hU knre."
Jlobby SlmfftcMi (rune to j-o.
Was not his name Bobby or nick
name? Might not lie be supplied with
filrer buckles on shipping, anil have a
monument at last like thntof which the
boy Nelson dreamed? He thought the
joetry prophetic. Ttie jKx't meant him.
Bobby sat down and wrote the fol
lowing atTectiug lines with a pencil on
a leaf torn from his father s account
book: "Dcah MoTiirn. When ynu rlt thew few
lines, rtmr Hobby will b many mile frusi
you. f'aiher be treat inn awful for tareatro'
injr to run away, be U wlh hi badat vjiae
dnr. I am go. ax to ea. 1 ra o n to Uw:
Wt;st InI-e lund. When I votntj bote. I will
brink- ynu a hawl: I h'n't brtna; jwi not hi as.
Tell little Sifter Katie not tx cry. iVkJ byt
-IlOIIKV.-
He enclosed this letter in a huge yel
low envelope, and having direct?d it
he stole out by a round-about way to
ttie post-otlice. Arrived there unper
ceived. he dropped it in the box, and
then made his way out of the village
aenxu lots, as fast as hbt abort leg
would carry him.
The nearest seaport to BobbVa real
deacc was distant about seven ntiadred
miles. Bobby proposed to walk this
dl-rtance. lie had a twenty-Sve cent
piece is hn pocket with which to pay
his expenscn. By the time he had gone
five or six m hit boriah eatha:am
began to cool a little. This was a grare
matter, for without it he realised thai
hi runaway courage would not lat
At first he had traveled rsmeily. being
vary tonch afraid that his father would
come after him. As night, drew near.
ne traveled conshlVrnbir stower. and
felt very mach afraid hw father wu-'dnl
come after hha. When it was dark he
crawled under a haystack In n field.
aad tried to go to sleep: bnt he could
not sleep. Visions of hk aHicted
mother ree before him. He ing
ined that he taw her reading his letter.
lie thenght he conld see the look of
agoay on her face, and hear her aoto
aad wailings as she realized that her
oaly boy was gone And then he
thought of hk liale skter Katie, and
her di-res whea she htd And eat
that -Brother Bothy" had kii nor.
Decoded boy! At the very mement
when he began hk sad meditations an
drr the haystack hk "anlicted" pares U
were toasting their fact before an epea
fire, and dicaiar the hett manji ai
ptmkh n the tntant whea he shonid re-1
tnra.
0f coarse he'll be eomin hk
when he gets tired nnd hnngry." nsid j
the unsentimestnl mothec
"lie U ee her saside ot twentr-fear
fcors.,t sail tie father.
Ev-a small .ker Knty the-nght tie
nnd Aa net appear tehave n hk
wmt meat then the
At
mmawny crawled eat frees sarfertae
hays-tack tired aad iBfiurlml Be
was dwrarsiatn af a saflee's has sj-
kWr MkU VbSJTfg kaaaf
Hk lather km aei hae. jaaaa.l
MfCe 7V he theaaht Fn m'l
whaftteaVae aaammmW a nam ajat
-iBWaaaat nlaaf at avaad,n na
r
r
awav Mi A
-1 4i4m WMjm rim k
nI Kohhy; "V4 pa far "
"To jnw44, wM yr
wmma. - pfMft f mw mm
ecy Imm t iHm dw rlkr.
BohVy Mt hk hmi teto hk
. m
km
crawKi ""TTfcirif 1 1 Be irM
to explain t!u to the
"A hkelv turv thai Is!
voa never had no noaev
lie
now, r-ght awar, Go"
Ikibby walked awav dc eeSe-'L l!fc
went back to the hsv;ack aad hUa!(d
for hU moorr, but he cuuM aot ?5d It.
Then hU courage frxik him. He a
down In the road, Tery duKaoUte.
fevUng like Cam Mariu- aroid tie ruuw
of Carthage. Suddenly he hoard the
bound of wheels, and looking p. h
beheld hU father and mother and Ltrr
Katy riding toward.- him la the oM
family huggy Oicrjoyrd. he prang to
hi feet lie expoctr-d til mother aaC
sater to acreani with dcilrht asd wel
come him to their arm.
-Aha! trvtng to run awav, wa
y?
Thu U the war vou treat r our pair &U
U Itr cried fr Hotchkil.
The father Ktld aothig. but ltohhjr
aw him stop the hor and get out m
tht Iniy, and he had rcaAoa to guea
what hit illcnce meant la a accotut
the rough blackamtth had hi boy try
the collar. Then he bounced him f
and dowa In the road, and twitched hiraa
about by one ear and then by the other.
"We're goin over to our Uneh
John's," said Mr. HotchkUw. "ana PU
juit liv you o you'll -Uy put whfi
wo re go'ne. See here. Mb ltirchardw'
he raJIed to the red.faeed woman. wko
lXi com down to the road to ee what
the matter was "thut U tur aoa. Ho'a
i "vn tnin to run awav. and I've Just
I I. . tx.t 1 .! ". 1 .,. -4,
eaicueti uuu. ti ye n mci m;w iu ih
In the houe, and keep an eye on him
ull 1 come back, I'll give ye half a dol
lar."
"Well. 1 nevcrt" said
Mr, nirchard.
"Then that' your boy.
Wouldn't a thought it
Mr. Hotehki-
But ru
Ann."
Poor Bobby' if there wa aaywbem
in the world Umt hu liked to go It w ns
to his Tiidc .lohn'a. And there b was,
in "Imme aud disgrace, guarded by a
red-facvd woman, who wl him in a
corner of the ktteheu aud kept htm )ar
Inir and cuttinir apples all dav. t
itobov rcturniMi safety. He had feand
the world unseiitimentiti aud coUL
"Wern't you worried, mother?" k
atked.
"1 never had a doubt that you womht
come back, and be wiwr," ahc rcplUxL
"Nor 1." said hi uSier.
Hi father said nothing at all
Bobby looked at tin; patches ou hts
knee, and thought of the aUrerbueklvM
that mlht have bpen there, but he nev
er sings "sca-Mingii" now tn th hear
ing of other. They recall dt-ater. H
heitw hi fattier manfully and I- pre
paring for .ome gtotl work in Hfit by
ljng a faithful scholar In tho dlxtrict
school. Jr)f. l JIarbour. in JVuiA's
Companion.
GENIUS.
A arhoolmaJtr. Addrr tn
Mm
tUwta. Wlku Wmrm UmImk Hi
t-r
Holidays.
" I tell you, lioy," said th school
master, it doesn't depend half so
much on special talent a on ewrrgy
and ambition, for vuccea-i la life.
You've got to work, work, work, anal
dig. dig. dig, right at a tiling If you are
going to succeed. If you hare a uproial
talent all the better; but the lineal tal
ent in the world will not amount to
much without invincible energy and ia
dtistry along the linn in which yof
talent lead. There are few who have
special talent; but boys, there arc none
who have ordinary abilities hut caa so
direct and cultivate them a to make el
them a ucces.
" A forgenhn- gpnlu haa be- de
fined at 'an lnimene capacity for
ing trouble.1 wh:ch mean-, simply.
pacitv tor worit
" 'Ilicre were two boys at nchoot to
gether. One could draw and caricatera
anything; the other could not. Bat
one day one twitted the oilier.
" 'sou couldn't draw a cow ae H
could be told from the able of n hot-tea.'
" Icanr id Morgan Gray.
Let' sec!" cried Kllfot Maadalt
Oh such a cow! Is it cow or a horse?
or a dog? or a cat? ut the aide of a
boue! Sec bar-' e this cowl Ha.
ha! Morgan Gray cow!
is too killing. Ho' ho!
O. boys, teas
ha: aa! Ms
kiBguoa for a cowl
"He dida't mean to be crael. hat he
conld take a pencil aad switch off a
cow, or aay other creatsre he had i
ia a Minute.
" 'I caa! nnd I will some day
Morgan ray; and from that
thoegh with ao special graitt4 U
for labor). hr worked hi thai Jlrnslfea.
aatd to-day he k one of oar leeeVae;
artUtv lie yu.t went right hste aW
work. Why. he woald ge dewa la law
slums of cities to etady the "Csegtrlaa
gak, or draakea leer ef a aVankaVi, ac
into oar nealueatiarhH fer haes ef vart
ous iMsekms depkted ea eawrkt f mm
to the oaera the theaair anywhere.
He tadied anatomy la get the rhjrhl
dkvotioa of vetas aad aHrnckeall ler
hkwark. He woeld sk for hafsmv
fere n giaes dkUprtlng hk face at
vsxioas ways and the tryiag te get the
lines am paper as ne -.trarr led fer .
parricalir facial espreseioa. H
so.id.hard wart fer him -hat he j
"One ether thkg, bfty. deaf divide
yoar enerries. iteehie e what vaw
want to do. aad then da that eae rnsaaT
Doaf dahWe In half a dees dfiiwiial
Uaes, trvia; thii aad trriag that
Where k EttU MsailsTl tslay? WBy
deifyme; hetweea ritar. art aad
BMnee ante W d a TkOs in each, la
net ameh Sa nay eae. Be claims the
the werhi -awes set as-art ciatu ilia
ffrnmsvwhea Urn fact k he has
owertfcyweck for the vorhf te
Near. her.Ti)a are raiac
!ae hafidays. Many of tv W ae -
anra. mkvw g m, tne marsa
eeedar faX leaordiac as vmi
Use the talent God haeglvea yea,
csde e what von want n aeer I
Make year mark, the aim fer k.
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