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1 C. HOSUEfi, Pitlister.
ED CLOUD.
NEBRASKA.
M THE GATE OF THE SEl
By David Christie Murray,
Vtunum or
"A yinvr.1. Y
AlOMIHKS-T,"
sTUEIt,
A Lire's i
CH.M1T.lt II CnsTi.Ncr.ti.
In the front of tlio house
RrOSC
a whe-per something was
going
conject-
availed
ron
Aroused by this
poet once more
ur". tin
TU?n.tt if lllf fri.ltl?itl litj it I....W..
wiUi Hi.- manager gave him. j '
sauntered behind the ftsccnes.
"!.. i
ii i i -
lioriu iorrimcr wa-
MveaniiK
like a '
bedlamite. The Ducal usurper, the
banished Duke. Jnmer. (Vlia. 1'h i be
nnd Orland't siood about h.m. all in at
titudes oi more or le,-. amazement
What's the matter. Jjrrinier?"
a.sked the poet
-MaUer!" cried Lorrimer. "The
jade'.s oil" at the hist minute, and this is
all she leaves behind her."
The pot-t took from the manatrer's
nubttretched hand u not", and iead
this:
i-itt nreuintniKe haf nrien which
muk' It Jijijx '.,HIe tiiat I -houli ciit tine my
f-areiT ujKHi tim "ttf I -UnU lie hnjitiv lore
jmy n lor :il exjtcimfi joti niny hne lie
v iirnMl in my l-li.nf J'ra) -ommiimeute. in
n-jH-ft lei that mutter uitn nn lawer-,
rJiJonsrs Loweidiri'T t ( l-nent i Ixm.
"Viur 'er triih.
i, m;a Cm itriiii-u"
"She can't mean it!" cried Lorrinier.
sictually git.sping. "I've .sjienl three
hundred pounds in money, ami three
IliiHiHiiinl pounds in wit in :idrtisinfr
Jier. he uants more salary
That's j
:. Hut,
vvhttt it i" he wants more&a arv
1edad. since si;'s tried it on n this
-way'' (he mastered his nie -o far as
! be able to embroider it as it weie.
-with a touch of mock-heroic). if that '
Jier je-s were inv dear heartstrings. with it J regarthen s dn:ams, un
J'd wlnsMe !h roil" and let her down the thT these conditions, grew more and
v.'ind to pre; at fortune "
Mr Konald Marsh .sighed audibly.
'ShakesjM'aie crowds u.s all from tho
1iel I of popular quotitioti." he caid,
inwardh. "Had I.orrimer known it he
might have f-itind a juissage far more
appropriate m my Kpithal.uu urn."
oiAi-rr.it m.
"When Tregartlien found that his 7eal
f.r the restoration of the me-s-rooni
niunuers had wrecked his mihinrv fort
unes h went home, and there buried
himself among his book-. Many, many
e4Ws ag. iheTn-garUieiis-, his forbears.
had limit I ir themselxes a fortress for a
dw iling-pluee. and I he house had
wasted away, bit by bit. like the other
belongings ol its owners, but had b en
modernized and added to eiervhero
and there, until it had grown and fal'en
into one .f the oddest and most hetero-
genemis piles in hngland. A man must
be curiously modeKd indeed if his char
ade: is m no way nHected by the char
ter of the house in which he is bred, and
n good deal of the
frowning, ramblng,
.sent mien t of the
tatelv, et half-
ruined old house h:ul found its way into
j reg-irtheii.
His ancestors, for reasons of their own,
bad limit tiieir house uiion an inland.
siiul this island faCed the Cornish main-
1 l 1 1 l l .1 i....
Jiiii'i ii '"-; m- ii.mu .iiui mu mi-iiiii- I
chnly Atlantic on the other. The house i
Mood high and bare for winter storms to
rave at and in the rougher mouths of
the ear it h:ul constantly to be pro
Tisionc 1 for a s.ege of Kiormy weather,
riiiec for weeks at a time it was danger
ous, if not impose ble, to approach the
island. The on harbor faced the ma'n
land with two prodigious walls of rock,
And a narrow belt of smooth sand be
tween, which ran upward toward hardy
grasses, and was direi tly oerlooked
In the mansion. Tho-e vast walls of
ro'k anil tho narrow spue between
them were known to the local folk as
tin1 Gate of the Sea. So old a house as
tha' of the Tregart hens could scarcely
fail to have been -hot at by the local
bards and soothsayers, shoot bolts
enough and some ot them are sure to
Mick and on" of many prophecies and
inoltoes lung It set forth that what
soever good orctil the Tiegartheiis en-,
tlured should come to the.e by the Gate j
of the btM-a conclusion somewhat
tv,ou. since, unless by balloon or
-earthquake, there was no other way of
.approaching their dwelling-place, if
"tne ( oruish couplet be f.iithiullv trans
lated, it pzophesjr; as much for char
acter :is for fortune
Whnt evil or iroo.l .e have or tie
Fault eome to jou alt liv the (late of the
Nm "
Xow m the days when a full cellar, a
Touglm generous larder and a clu'iice
ot hanl knocks and loot could tempt
adventurous souls to follow a fteeboot
injr g'litlem.m. Trega'then s house
might hae been a pi asiirable place to
live in fr those whose fanc lav that
iva. Hut lor an almost comianionlc-s
younrcter. wh had just learned one of
the wotld's hiticicst lessons, it was as
itnwhid s.mie a residence as nn-ht anv
xhezv haie been found. Trerarthen
needed home miluenccs and cheerful
'ompa:iit)Ushqi: but he had long been
-in orphan, and he had ne ther brother
7ior sistr-r. He was not a olutelv
wealthy, but he had more money than
be wanted, ami there were few things
which could hae been ot more iisu'to
lizm than the spur ot poverty.
ll is ci-y in the hot das of youth for
1he mind to p 'rsuade it-elf to ain thing.
"J regarthen l eisuaded hiniselt that he
bad done with the woild
for good and
ci.l. that it should occupy him no more ' Churchill.
and that he would live for his studies- He poli-hed his excgla&s in rcadi
iind no other earthly thing. His studies ness to observe, and before ho hzuse.f
began to lead him iu a direction which was seen he had secured a good look
it was somewhat odd that a yoimg gcu- , at every person in the little party. Tiie
tlcmau of th. nitieleeuth century should - lady with the sweet voice w:us tall and
akc- Some ancestors of his had col- ' graceful but her face was not the lace
Jected all the works of that crowd of ' of liis memory. Compared with that
impostors, quacks, seK-deceivers, en- memory the face was plain, though few
thiisiasts and martyrs to science who ' pi!op'c would have expressed sT) un
have written ou the transmutation of laorable a judgment had thev but
ductals, the divining rod. the eli.xir vita, looked at it by itlelf. The eve ," of no
the powers aud properties of the stars, part cular color, were large, intelligent
and s0 fotlh all the works, that is to and sympathetic; the lips were beauti
say. that he could In one short lifetime ! ful alike in form and express on, the
1.13- hands on. Tregartlien began to brow was broad aud white. The skin
g:ope among the dark sayings of these was palli.i and the hair, l.ke the eves,
gentry, at 1 rt with an amused interest ( was of no particular color. Pe bans
and then with a singular growth of the want of definite coloring was tfic
-doubt There might bo something in , chief fault of the tacc: but. be tliat as it
the doeir tie of transmutation after all.
A hen man begins even to doubt on
a question like that he is pretty far
.gone on a road which has d oftener
than not to mere madness. Tregartlien
saw the dauger, but the study drew
iim. and absorbed hlzu more and mora,
until he began to find in it a compensa
tion for all things. If a man could find
the philosopher's stone! Lot any man
in his sane and sober senses surrender
Jiiniself to the fancy for a moment., and
where are the glories of the cavo into
which the magician dropped Aladdzn.
or he valley into which the roe carried
Sinbad? They are no more than a
"billiard balLin comparison with Saturn.
But bo touched with doubt as to th
bare possibility of its actual discovery,
mad the poor mind is jlazzled, sup
-.&
t
gcrcd, overawed by the magnificence
of its own fancies. Tregartben began
to dreatu these dreams.
Jlc hved almost alone through the
wild winter fc"cd the blustering .spring.
1 Karly Miiumer found him more aud
more ready to surrender himself to tiie
intoxication of this singular madness.
1'erhajis it nei'd- that a certa n strain
of greatness shall lie in a man's nature
before he can go mad in that particular
way. The compact .small creature
whose faculties are all of a size is as
safe as the compact great creature
whose powers are equally well bal
anced.
Happily for most of u, the world is
too much with us to allow us to develop
4,, pr,tnTilifi fnl!n".5 ftf Kfcunlr piiv
Transplanted to Jupiter, the human
race might find elbow room enough to
grow into a huge asylum of cray hu
morists: but our crowded civilization
Ls upon us as cloe .shelter act, on the
LI w ' luauwmu tiie outer imes
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niiiu i:sieu, pcrnaps. uul .n i
" me nuuuie m uie woou me stems are ; jn"eai local lamny was not ncn. as uie
I .straight and uniform. Tregartlien. in tirnej go. but he'had a background: a
; hit is!..nd castle on" the Cornish eoait, fact to which people who haxe no bae'-c-j
was .-till a little .shel'ered. ly and b, ! ground arc apt to attach a up"r3titois
' a shelter he had not hoped for began to i value. The -olieitor Jlotirithed through
j grow about him. I th introduct'ons. and Tregartlien
t J he mustering spring had passed,
I anil here was a day m mid-.June. with t
a sky of sapphire and pearl, and a
breec of warm pice antl balm. Tre-
I gr.ithen wandered, &mok.ng and lost in
idle meditation, to the clsfl's on the right
side of the sea-gate, and there ca-t him
self full length on the warm and scent-
, ed herbage. J he .splendor of the day
i was nothing to him ju-t then: anil
though his bodily ejus took cognizance
of ozie of the linest reaeJies of rock
bound coast England can .show, he had
no conscious pleasure in it He pulled
his soft hat over his eyes ami surren
dered himself to his pipes and his
dreams. Kverything was wonder
fully still. He could hear the pl:nh
fully s
of the
waves on the rocks below.
though he gave no heed to it. and the
intricate murmurs of many insects
mingled drowsilv with the voice of the
m:u as though they were of equal vI-
more urcanry; ins lancies, Jike the
sounds about him, became dim and dif
fused. Anything was welcome to the
domination of his mind at such a mo- i less interest in the gray Avails irom
ment, and a certain idle rhythm in the I wh-ch trees spang, tbe broken arches:
fall and rise of the water- doxvn below ! window-spaces opening on blue air, m
did well enough to think about I what had once beet the family ilroug-
Ho was ceitainly not quite wide-' hold In a case bk this it is per!ss
awake, and hu was just as eettainly not less imjiortant to note what a charmim
quite asleep when a vision dawned woman mij. than how she ay it Her
upon him Two or three vilely-painted ' commonplaces were eommonp'aoe
trees fluttered on a ragged canvas and . enough, but they dropped en 'lo
libeleil the forest of Arden. A dowdj garl'ien's ears so pleasantly that h
female, and a melancholv male in a would rather ha'.e listened to ihczn
fool's coxcolnb walked before the
painted cloth, and libeled Celia and j
'Jotiehstone. Then suddenly came into
sight a radiant creature, and a voice
sunke in tones which bl tided
resigna
tion and fati'mc w th sonietliinir almost
I jesting "Oh, Jupiter, how weary are
I mv .spirits!' Tins voice w.s sonear
nnd clear that it awoke him and brought i
him bolt upright, sitting in the bracken. I
There was a sound of laughter and
voices on the little strip ot sand below. '
and. moinr to the edreof the cliti". he
looked over. I
j In l.ue summer weather it was
common tiling for people to row acros
from the mainland and picnic on the
island. Tregaitheu's forebears hail per-
milted tliis. and Tregartlien himself
I, , V, !.'.:- . :
nau never ieil an lllleciiou lo ll Hill 1
now. It may ae allowed that, at the .
zuoment at which he found himself in-J
terrupted. his stud.cs were not of the i
mo-t exigi zit sort, vet his lirst thought
was that the presence of these intruders
and their like would be inimical to
study. Then he regretted the loss of
his dream, and blamed the intruders
for breaking it, though the dream itself
had awakened him.
His half-slumber had lasted for so
vhort a -pace of time that the pipe ho
held between his linger and thumb st ll
sent up a streak of faiut blue -moke.
He stuck it between his lips again, and
had turned to ramble homeward when
the voice of his dream sp )kc in his
waking ear. and stayed his footsteps
"That is Miss Churchill, the actress,"
h said to himself. "There is not an
other voice like that in the world, i
should fancy. 1 should know it among
a thousand."
Since the nipht ou which he had
earned his own ru n by rebuking
Colonel Pollard for his stiry of the ac
tiess he had scarce ly thought abjtit her.
but he felt a curious pleasure and in
terest now in tiie belief that dio w:us
near. In spite of his short-sightedness
he had a vcrv definite idea of wh: t she
was 1 ke li seemed to him that he
could summon her face before his
m nd's eye quite clearly, and. as he saw
it. it was worthy of her figure and her
voice. He "onfessd to himself that he
would like to see her nearer at ban I,
aud to know how far her mind corre
sponded to his own impzessious of her
genius as an aetre-s. It could not be
ditlicult to deise a means of seeing her.
or even of speaking to her, seeing that
she was actually a trespasser upou his
grounds. He thought, however, of a
score of dev ces. none of which com
mended t hem-elves to h m. and as he
thougut he strolled toward the sjvit
where the gradual ris-e of the sands and
the more prec pilous fall ot the c ill
brought the two upon a level. Th s
spot was about midway between high
water line and tho ga'es of the old man
sion, and he reached it almost at the
same moment with the visitors to the
Island. He heard the sweet voice talk
ing again, and wa- more than ever pet
suaded that
it belonged to Miss
may. it was thrown bask. f?- whatever
beaut v or charm it claimed. s?m ex-
pression, lucre was no chance of turn
out all these things at a look and Trc
garthen was only conscious of a d s
appointment The face was not the
one he remembered, nor anything like
it; and there might be two voices" alike
in the world alter all.
He wax a little embarrassed for a
monies?, even thongh he stood on his
own ground and the new-comers were
strangers and intrudes, for the lady
looked at him when once she had felt
his glance, and regarded him with a
curiously candid and unaffected gaze,
much more like that of child than a
woman. Before Tregartben's aanse of
embarrassment -became overwhelming,
one ol the lady 'a aula compaatojat
.. . t .
sterped forward wiih a aonic what over
wrought tioursh of politeness.
"I belicxe I have the pleaurc of ad-j
drassing.Mr- Trcgarthen?' Tregarthea J
bowed, and the (stranger flourished hi '
hat to his head, aud flourished lis hand- '
kerchief out of his pocket- "I have not
the honor of being personally known to
you, sir. but my father wa'i your re
stated father's -solicitor Mr. I'ennzth.
of Gorbay. I have dared to trespa-w ia
order to oblige the: ladies and ganlb
men with a .tight of Tregartlien (. a-t'e-
"I remember your father, air." sad
Tregartlien. a little confusedly, "and
you are quite welcome here-'' Jt wa
strange, he thought, that in ?o l.ttlo
while' hi3 absence from the common
haunts of men should have co-l h.m so
much in savoir-faire. "Ii your fr end
would eire to see the interior oz that
hou-e 1 shall be happy to admit them.
1'ray introduce me."
Mr. renruth was obv.ously delighted.
nnith was obv.ously delighted.
honored by Tregart hen's atTa-
and was
tr. r... . . . .. . t
ouuy. J no last repre.seniauve oz me
( caught no name until he faced the lady
he had suppo-cd to le Mls l
I "Miss hirni(!'." s:iid Mr. IVnruih
"Gorbay h chief ornament Mr. Tre
gartlien." The girl flushed at this for a moment
with a look ot tinker, but ntie bowed to
Tregartlien as if he hud been a squire
of low degree and she a prmce-s It
crossed him that she was not so plain
as he had fancied. Mr. i'enruth was
persuaded that he had sa'd the right
thing in the right way, ami got through
the remaining introductions with in
creased ease and glibness.
If we Hint have your permission V)
visit the castle," he began, when the
ceremony was over J regarthen cut
him 'hort with a dry "C'ertainh," and
fell into a talk with the lady of the
voice. She seemed chary at firat of
letting the voice be heard, but by anJ
by. at the sight of the picturesque old
ruins and remnants ot Tiegarthezi's
house, she warmed. The dim family
portraits, the arms and armor, the
idack oak of walls, oediugs and fur
niture delighted her, and she took no
t 'ban to much learning ami wisdom.
he was charmingly dre.ssed m a
fashion which is now deservedly stig
matized as uglv. Tregarth-n thought
he had rarely seen an thing o digni
fied yet so gentle M "her carriage, and
the singular, soft fosciuat on of her
o;ee giewizpon him more ami more.
When the rounds were tin'shed the
... . r,... .
host profiered to his guests some -light
refreshment, which the Gorbay solicitor,
in behalf of self and friends, declined
with many nourishes of humility and
gratitude. Trcgarthen saw nothing lor
a it but to permit litem to retire, though an, perhaps the President made a mis
ss he would willingly have deta ned one t:ike in japping Stephen from the
ot them a little longer. hen the hatl
gine, the young gentleman was guilt v
of what he felt to I.e a meanness. He
-... i t.- i ... i.: k.i .:..
miuiuucu h iiisuu .il ius ul-uiikhu jii-
dow, and thence, by mean of u single
barreled opera-glass which had be-
longed tv his mother, he kepi the lady
ot the vol -e in sight until sht ici tier
companions had ntered the ooat m
which they had arrived and the little
.a ... ...
i'saei, iieuij; i
behind the clifK
is. - "i-i '"-
niiil,iwl fill ii tn tm.'JkriMl
... . . .!
i regal then (tin not resume his stuuics ,
that evening with an thing like his cus
tomary gusto. A commoner malndv
than the old one had clapped him on
tha shoulder. His books lay sproad ,
ilxnil his library table, ana now utid
now and
then he fingered the leaves of one 01 ,
another of them, and even read a pas-
sage in wlreh he found no meaning. I
1 hat was not at all an uncommon fliui-r
at the best of times but it
generally
arose irom the lact th: t there w?s no
meaning to be found, whereas nov tho
ninin reason was that he I roughl ao
understanding to his reading.
CIIAPTF.lt IV. j
I must know more of her." he Saul, j
"A man must bo a poor creature wi o i
allows himself to go down b lore
a pair of expressive eye-; btdore he
can guess whether there is a soul le-
h.nd them or not"
The oung man set forth deliberately
in quest ot Miss Parmer's ;oul wdh in
tent to exam ne and appraise it. lie
found the slightest difliculli in obt n-
ng a second introduction to the J ad v.
ami it was manage 1 to look accident il
and nn-ofght Goib.i was not a L'g
place, nor had, it many eople of Im
portance within its boundaries The
importance ol people is not dele.m t-i.
to themselves, by the tstIzn.tt.ozi i
which they are. held b,- others. stl
the inhabitants of liorbav were as much
interested iu their own a'Tidr- as if they
h .tl all been Dukes ami Dm hesses - a
provision of nature without who-e op
eraton things wyiihl he extreme y dall
for most of ur. When Tiegr.rthen.
whose seclusion hai been a good deal
talked ab ut, began to make v!its to
the mainland, and to cultivate the -mail
gentry of the town, the unfavo-ablo
opinions wlfeh had been formed of him
melted and di-nppe ire.l. The Tre
grathens had always been so far above
the professional people, and the sma'l,
retired capitalists of ( orbay. that the
condescension displayed by this latest
scion of the hou-e was the more re
marka 1c ami the more valued.
The e weie people who could tell him
all about Miss Farmer's simple and un
eventful h'storv. He learned that she
was the daughter of the Vicar, and ex
cept for the time she had sj'cnt at
school, and a term of eighteen months
passed in London, was bred i.i Corbay.
She passed there as being learned K'
yoad the r'ghts of woman, butth.it was
the only fau t that anybody found w th
her. The "Vicar, nearly three xcars
ago. about the t.me when Tregarttien
had been awaiting his comm ss.on. 1 ad
departed this life,' leaving two dj:'gu
ters very ill provided for. Mis Farmer
had thcteuKn gone to Lmdon. and
had there made a living for her elf and
her young sister, it was bel.e.ed. by
wr.ting for th magazines. crta ii
poems and stow1 uearng her name
had reached even : Gorbay. and there
was a general be!.: there that in tiie
outer world she was famous. But r.n
ancle in the North the Farmers wer
northern people it appeared had died
two years later than his brother, the
Vicar, and had left to Miss Farmer
funded moneys to the value of seme
five hundred a ye A On tins ne ktpt
house in modest and legant comfort.
and the return of the elder girl bad
bi'er. welcomed by all who knew her.
The younger had been ut to schoo-
aunag her Wster s absence, and
new tmUhing her education at koaktw
to ac coxnsuio.
s.i ut .aeJuiN.
GOVERNOR HILL'S MESSAGE.
He Serree Xetif poa Frtldeat Cleva
laad and ttee Caauttr That He la the
kc for laaa.
Tlic attempt of Governor Hill to poe
a, a Civil-Service reformer is dimply ab
surd. His position is very well under
stood. He was nominated last fall by
the spoils clique of the party, and bis
triumph in convention wa heralded as
a rebuke of the Mugwump tendency,
real or supposed, of President Cleve
land. But upon analyzing hw message
it will be seen that he admit himself
to nothing in particular. He indulge
in a few platitudes, and that i all. His
words have no ring of genuineness.
His predecessor made the public be
lieve that he meant tomelhing when he
discoursed of Civil-Service reform, and
perhaps he did, albeit the greater part
0f ,; professions have already oozed !
ou, leaving his air balloon in" a state I
bordering closely upon absolute col
lapse. The fact, however, that the
Governor in his talk dilutes the reform
medicine much more than the Pre-ident
is in the habit of doing can not fail to
attract the attention of impatient Demo
cratic oHice-scekers. who will, it is evi-
the lady jmiy hoped, regret that the Guberna
hurchilL tor-;ii ticket of 1M2 in Kew York had
not been reversed, with all the prob
able consequences of such reversal.
So long as Thomas A. Hendricks
lived he was the natural representative
and leader of the spoils wing of his
partv. and now the question is who
-hall inherit that distinction. The sit
uation is beste.xpres.sed in the language
of the turf, as being Hill against the
Held. Thus far no definite rivalry ha
developed. Mr. Kandall wax put out of
the race apparently by the signal de
feat experienced in the revision of the
rules of the House. Mr. lieck made a
good deal of capital out of asssailing
the Administration, but he is a Scotch
man, and it is written in the Constitu
tion that no foreigner shall inherit the
Presidency. Thus far it is" a walk-away
for Hill.
But even if he should hold the lead
ership of that wing of the party it
would by no means follow that the
Governor will supplant the President
in 1888. He might find his very
strength to be his fatal weakness, es
pecially as the President is (steadily
convincing everybody, even the Mug
wumps, that he is partisan enough to
meet the most exacting demand. From
the slow progress made by his ap
pointees in getting through the Senate
it may yet be found that he was a little
too previous in making changes. There
is .such a thing as haste that makes de
lay, and if his course in the Streator
post-oflice matter is a fair specimen of
tbe kind of faith he proposes to keep
with Senators, then the proverbial
molasses in January will be swiftness
itself as compared with the progress of
his appointment in getting through
the executive branch of Congress.
Governor Hill has the good fortune of
being in a position to take advan
tage of any slips which may be made
at the White House.
Evidently a slight mistake was made
in the name of the present Governor of
New York. He should have been
christened Absalom, instead of David,
i,rPP nf mine bo received at the sa-
crud font m that he will vet be the
,) ,rh-r( i.linmnratiiii-.Knra.
." y ""-"-"". .-
tion
u'iti.mit mriitimncr in min KiirmUp
or allowiii"-fancy too much freedom, it
niav jje gt jown morally certain
""I
that wi,oever captures the New York
,ieegatioii will win the prize. The
,,roc(.det established in 1884 as to the
. . . .1 1
unit line may prove one 01 mose cooit
little chickens that come home to roost.
:ni....i ,.f .,rm'i;.nTirr.iitul aimnfr.w.n
, ...r...v. w. ,.... !-, " ..-..
houses. There are a good many Dem-
nerntj tvho wonlil lik to see Daniel
Manning and his Robinson Crusoe step
.)lntr in tjlt, tracks made by John Kelli
Diiiir in me iracics maue dv iionn ivenv
nn(i j.;. i)r:ive.s when thev nerformed
the war ,lju,ce of july 1R8L In vicw
of :lll tjH;t.u mv-bes this message in
(,ueM;on nyAy be fnteroretcd as an open
...ttcr to the President of the Unitei
nted
States, serving timely notice of
pctitor. Inter Oican.
acom-
FALLING BACK ON SAM.
SppMkrr CnrlUlp autl the IlnnorrU D
pfiulini; upon Him to Sre tb Party
Irom Diiicriirp.
Sam Randall is having sweet revenge
on his fellow Democrats who sought to
force him out of the party. Short as
the sessions of the House are, not a day
passes but he is called on to pull the
Democrats out of a hole. Morrison is
too busy punching the ribs of his ene
mies within the party with a crowbar
to give much attention to the opposi
tion, liesides, his weakness as a lead
er on the floor is so well known that
no one expects much fiom him. With
out able lieutenants among the members
Carlisle in the chair is subject to fre
quent embarrassments. The prophecy
is made that when the eight appropria
tion committees begin to push their
work through the House the Morrison
Carlisle combination will simply lie
down and the flood-gates of Democratic
extravagance will be opened, for it
has already been shown that the men
who were strong enough to overturn
the House rules are not able to control
the elements back of them when this
stage is reached. Kandall will have
his hands full with his own committee.
But at present he isn't too busy to
help his party's Speaker in a pinch.
Largely through his influence the
Speaker who sought to degrade him
aud destroy his power was saved a great
humiliation. Had Governor Curtin de
livered the speech he had prepared,
with its savage references to the influ
ence of Bayard in making up the House
committees, there could have been but
one result The Speaker would have
been forced to leave the chair and on
the floor of the House combat Curtin's
charges. How he would have rounded
the corners in view of the well-known
circumstances and declared that he was
not improperly influenced in making
up the committees can only be conject
ured. It would have been a very in
teresting performance, albrit humiliat
ing, and would have earned Mr.
Speaker Carlisle the contempt of the
House over which he presides. But the
Democrats have beeu appealing to Ran
dall to save the partv tlus disgrace- Xo
one ever heard of a Pennsylvania Dem
ocratic Congressman doing what Sam
Randall didn't want him to do. Ran
dall used all his powers ol persuasion.
Curtin did not deliver the speech, and
the Speakerwas saved a great hnrailia- j
tion. uut some Democrats think tne
appeals made to Randall were about aa
humiliating as any performance oa tbe
floor of the House could hare bee.
Wath. Or. Chicago Tribune.
mum
JfrDakote aaay be cheated oat of
her rights, but she will hare tie satis
faction of knowing who cheated her.
and pent-ap resentment. Jake pent-up
water. Sows with a tmsk wIm it
gets looac A". Y. Tribum.
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REPUBLICAN ITEMS.
The Northwest expected nothing J
sequence from Speaker Carlisle, i
of consequence
and is not disappotnlcu. law if a
Democratic rear, and the South has
mot of Uie fmportant chsirmanihip.
SlmncajxlU Tribune.
If the newspaper- are a iniquit-
otw and graceleikS a .Mr levclanu a- poor cooking nnquettoaabiy hold. a
serts or implies, the fact i hardly cal- Jeadin" place. Our marked are ttp
culated to reflect credit for exactly the ..rf CTtrjthing needed for homaa
Vl t' "" -- -- M . W -- -
tion to the highest oliicial portion has
been o largely, as in hica.e. the work
of th newspapers. Gnlccston Xcics
BSrln the recent drbate on the ruli
of the House Mr. Kandall said- "Since
the House ha been under Democratic
control, thrre has uot been an acre of
land or a dollar of subsidy appropri-
ated." So far so good. But Mr. Ran-
lall might have :dded that it h.ts also
been impossible to carry out any beneli-
cent legislation, however much needed,
Jioston Herald.
9&r As w.as predicted, the hand o!
Secretarv Baard made itself felt in
the selection "of the head of the For
eign Affairs Committee. Pennsylva
nia's old war Governor. Andrew G.
Curtin. wx sacrificed to the enmity ol
the Secretary of Mate. and. as if to
add weight to the insult, that absurd
and hickory-uut-headed dude, Perry
Belmont, was given his place. Detroit
Tribune.
B&r Instead of providing a firm and
S radical ba.is of Democratic conduct.
lr. Cleveland has simply furnished
grounds of excuse for all sorts of inter
nal dissension. It is as if tlic com
mander of an army, in default of a
cautious and comprehensive plan of
battle, should authorize each of his
subordinates to fight on his own hook,
careless of genoral consequences. St
Louis Globe-Democrat.
trHas the demoralization resulting
from the spoils sstem been checked?
Has there been an honest effort to
enforce the law which forbids tiie dis- J
tnbution ol omces as reward lor par
tisan services' Let the records of re
movals from and appointments to office
before the Senate furnish the answer.
If the President goes on as he has been
going, the whole country will soon be
in a "tumult of discontent" at his
mockery of Civil-Service reform. Pitts
burgh Commercial- Gazette.
e-The best and the worst that
can be said of Mr. Carlisle's committee
is that they fairly represent the Demo
cratic majority. As Mr- Carlisle him
self is considerably above the average
of his party in ability and character, it
was hoped that he would so organize
the House that the majority would have
the benefit of leaders of his own sort,
and be able to do as good work as its
general composition would admit. But
Mr. Carlisle, though better in many re
gards than his party, had not the firm
ness or the aggressive courage necessa
ry to realize this hope, and he has given
us a set of committees that have, as a
rule, little but negative merit A. Y
Time.
jSayTlicre was great suffering on the
subject of economy when Mr. Cleve
land's Administration began. Knough
is known already to show that it is as
foolish to look to Democrats for econ
omy as for reform. The requisitions
from each Department for the ensuing
year are as great or greater than they
were under President Arthur. The de
mands from the White House are es
pecially large. Mr. Cleveland wants
f 7,000 more for horses, carriages and
(similar expenses; $16,000 to refurnish
the White House and $1,000 more for
greenhouses. What has moved him to
ask for the last item, wheu by his own
confession he has been inside the green
house but once, is nomethimj nobody
has yet found out. Detroit 'lribuiit.
IAUGHABLE COMMENTS.
Statements from Irmocratlc Kuurrea Re
gartUac Dakota' Claim fur AUinlMloa a
a Mate.
It is a little amusing to read the
heated comments of the Democratic
papers on the steps Dakota has taken
preliminary to becoming a State in the
Union. One would imagine from the
vehemence displayed that the whole
Northwest was up iu arms, and was
marching on Washington to dfcpcrsc
Congress and take possession of he
Government The contrast between
this state of perspiring trepidation and
the attitude assumed oy the Democrat
ic press twenty-live years ago. when
one after another of the Southern
States was preparing openly to precip
itate a bloody rebellion, is ludicrous m
the extreme." The most laughable of
all the comments, however, arc
those of the Jacksonville (Fla.)
Union. The ignorance of the Union
seems to equal its impudence. It re
fers to South Dakota as a "rotten
borough, ' and states that the meeting
and proceedings of the Legislature
were kept a profound secret from
North Dakota. Every paper in the
land knows that the members of the
Legislature were elected at an open
election last November, and that the
nottrtT nrnl nrnrtiuviltnrfj rf ttif b5fle
were spread as far and wide as the toF-
egraph conld cam- them. The aptness
of applying the term "rotten borough"
to South Dakota, with a population
nearly as large and more intelligent
and more law-abiding than that of
Florida, will be evident alo. If the
Union will confess that it opposes the
admission of Dakota because the Dem
ocratic minority can not throttle the
Republican majority it will tell the
truth and relieve the strain on its con
science. Philadelphia Press.
A Weak Organization.
Practically, the House is organized
like the last ont only with a far
smaller D2mocratic majority. Now,
we take it that nobody felt that the or
ganization of the last House was effi
cient Democratic and Republican
newspapers united to abuse it It wa?
extravagant without lavishing money
on the specific objects which arc jopu
Iar. It would not let the tariff alone,
neither did it satisfy Free-Traders with
a reduction. On the entire range of
financial questions it was both weak
and vicious, and in the broad range ol
r
h
topics relating to the greater
lands, railroads and mines, it could
keep it fingers oft and vet never put
its hand to any effective legislation.
This impotent organization is con
tinued and continued with weaker
committees. Tbe old chairmen who
tso fstlxt nna rviatin -it th lsn-s1 ttl
all tbe committee wluco control pub- ;
... . . .
lie business, aud the new rules frott.-
which so much L expected facilitate
little besides the expenditure of public 1
money. e arc not as ail rare laat
Mr. Carlisle could have jjot any better
wen on the Deaaocralic side of th
floaae. We thiak boC The diSctthf
with the artr in that it U weak, ineflf-
cient an) vsafele to do aaythiag. Nov.
the fcanaeas of law-making
aocaethiag to be alone, and thm
Ttmii the Bowrr off the sew oa
hm to aocomplam.-.ri fiaWhm ftm
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fmmtmmny ---
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LXCE beading.
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POOR COOKERY.
rrWMy oo r tkr Lair cv f ate
rorraalloa mt h AtcoboJ UMt.
Amon the variotw causr.s watch lead
to the formation of the alcohol habit.
food, and at prices thr lowet in taa
civilired world, our laborers arc the
be-st paid in the world; rich and poor
are therefor able to supply thrtr tabic
with food material of the bet derip
tion. vet it U a tnelanehoh fact that a
very Isrze projort:on. prabably much
the greater portion of these material.
are so injured in prenaraUon a to be
utterly unlit for food More than ihl
the philosophy of tmtnUon o tmper-
fectly understood, eien aavg th
zuo-i intelligent of our pou!e. that
most of those wooo food my be pn?-
pared in an unobjectionable manner
arc still unable, from ignorance, to -lect
such article, as will be,t subserve ,
their needs The consequence i that .
the well-paid but poor. -fed laborer
goe-4 to the beer saloon for something
to supply the want caiwd by the im- ,
proper adjustment and por quahty of
his food. The hard-wording mechanics
and farmer.-, thongh perhajis the best j
served of azix cla-sses of our citizen. .
except the vary wealthy, still manage
to destroy much of the value ol their
food by ignorant cookery or more ig
norant" methods of eating, and the re
sult is premature breaking down, a
craving for something which the table
does not supply, nnd which the tem
porary stimulus given by alcohol lead
the atfheted one to suppose may be
found m tiie bottle.
The remedy for thi state of affairs
lies in the more rational education of
our daughters. The whole drift of our
resent educational methods, both secu-
ar and reliirioU". is to cultivate the
idea that the intellect and soul are
even thing, the body nothing. Were It
possible to develop a ound mind m oj
position to the lnws governing the
health of the body law of equally di
vine origin with those relating to the
moral conduct of mnnkind this idea
might be rational, but the mind and
soul live not until first born in a materi
al liody; their highest intellectual ca
pacity is only realized in connection
with physical health, and tran-gression
against the laws which govern the wel
fare of the body i no less mh than
transgression against the moral law's by
which society is IkiuihI together When
this shall have been recognized, and
our (laughters shall be taught that the
highest and holiest study of woman
hood is that of the laws of life; when
they shall ee that the art of cookerv i
yet more nobb and ennobling tfian
that of music and painting, when they
shall learn that ii is better to under
stand the true functions of food and
clothing than to be versed in all the lit
erature of the ancients, then we shall
enter upon an era when "prohibition"
shall be useless, because needless.
Such an education by no means Im
plies a return to the drudgery of which
so many lauisewives complain. It
means a deep and reverent study of the
Divine law that written in the book of
nature equally with that which has
come through revelation. It means the
making of our daughters true help
meets, in every sense of the word, men
tally, physically, with the sons who are
now so eagerly granping tiie truths ut
this new book, so recently opened be
fore us. Farm and Ft reside.
" BOYCOTTED."
flow the Knight ur Lulmr Mlclit Reader ,
a Krrrlrr to the Workuis C'lat-. '
The proprietor of a gin-mill at St .
Louis is undergoing a "bovcott" histi-'
r rs ,
tutcd by the Knights of Labor of that
city, which has proved so effective thus l
far that the total destruction of his
business is said to be inevitable unless
he can rehabilitate himself in the f.tvor
of that organization. The offense for
which he i- punished is a refusal to let
his hall to the street-car sinkers of St
Louis for a ball, because of his dltaj
proral of their u of djnamite as a
means of coercing the railway com
panies into compliance with tfieir de
mands. The saloon-keeper unques
tionably had the right to control hU
own property, and decline to let it to
the sinkers or any other person, for
any purpose whatever, if it so pleased
hiiii. Kqua"!v clear is the right of the
Knight- of Labor to withhold their pat
ronage from him if they pee tit. ami to
induce other men to do likewise, pro
viding that they re-ort to no violent or
illegal methods to accomplish that end.
So far honors are easy , but on genoral
principles this particular "boycott" i
to be commended, and if its ecope
could be enlarged so as to emnrace all
the whisky-shops m the country, the
Knights of Labor would render a ervice
to the working classes the value of
which could hardly be exaggerated.
Rum is a morr formidable enemv to the
v;agc-work-r of the I nited Stat-, than ,
! corporations and monopolies
he - nsT, combined, and more to be
Goulds and Vanderbilt- The powerful
machinery of the Knights of Labor
could not poMibly be better employed
tWan in carrying on a perpetual "boy- j
cott" against saloon Chicago Times.
Our Dnnc Bills.
It i atoni-hing how lavishly people
will spend their money for what b '
much wor-e than nothing, and yet be
.so stingy of it when asked to give a '
n. s .
little for educations, benevolent or re-
iigion purpose. The drink bill of
this gloriotls country of our i enough '
in two vrars to wipe ut the National '
debt Think of it nine hundred mil-
million dollar's worth of intor;cnU ,
poured down Unci Sam's capsciou s
throat! And add to thU thr?e hundred
million dollars yearly wasted in tobao
co spit and moke. froze hi equally
cp.tiinus month! It i a revolting,
preposterous tact that wroewhere be
tween a billion and a billion and a '
onarter of good monrr . o far s get-
ting an equivalent cozisideratioa for it.
Worafi c- thin if damped into the (
sea. Cinmxtiii (JazriU. ,
Kvcx&mg Jonrnml
It aad wi?hr; "Oppo- ,
tfHgireKiperaftc: case? cite c
etJeSple of old men wao hare
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uaea laqiEmi aie rrrsianv aaa kju j
aire.
LiccWtfMUaw ea.ee of oMer Mr- I
vroavr a mmjmav be cited, hex that
4oe not mTvf that maay oidJer are j
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MRS. StMPKINS.
The rcry firi y we were ia Waafc
Ingtoa I mjj to my btibiad: Joh
you mut Uke wenp to the rreaUleM'at
deception to-day
What, my fan?," ay he. far h ht
alway lery aCoctloaatr. "go to thai
While HotJ on .uch a day a ihhi,
with the wind blowing a rrgular
anl? Why. you'll Uks ft co'4. aad f
into the coujommatkia"
Well, to ma k a Wl matter loajr.
we hiretl one of tht Henlk caU. aa4
ct out for th Executive Mntkm.
Wc dnve up past the CapUol. ud
ia w some aim on the &?p, 1 g ther
were ome of Uiove ra4tU.ti that oar
Congressman y ars IcawI wlih a
venial pr to destroy the rgbt of the
p?opV
The White House wa pretty monh
but lotkrs, kind of lrc I think a !5u
tie br;htej'orin5ttn the othlo would
improve it apjjemranee-
"Slr, s-ty I to a man at the door,
who me havo ben a errr. for he
took my ACfti! to carry for me. "I
nant to sos the President" Yor
oir'fr de visitr, plae m be.
"Th-re it ts, I rplled, vointlng tu tb
Herdl. H eap!ainel that he wanted
a calling can!, and we leArnl that tb
public deception didn't begin for twa
hour.
Some gentlemen were standing oei
tiie step, and the mnn told tt ono off
them wa Secretary Lamar of tho De
partment of the Inferior
We waited for the President to come.
In the meantime, and a cry mean llm
it wj, 1 almot took a ugxM,,J1r, chilL
At last the people began lo move Iat
a door at the left "Xow remcmWr.
my dear," ay John, "you are about
to meet a man who yield more power
than the King of the Trojan, or the
Grand Khan of Tartarus "
We took our place In the line of peo
ple, and moved into the east room, and
there we saw President Cleveland He
smiled pleasantly aud aeuuied to enjoy
himself very much.
I can't describe the munifiernrv ol
that room, or the pretty brlc-a-bat. nnd
aiticles of irtuc we saw there
It began to get cry mountainoua
standing in lma, but at last John came
to the President, aud shook hi hand,
and passed on
The people didn't erm to take much
iuteresi in Mr Cleveland, but paed
on after shaking hand, which didn't
eem very polite II wa vr gl"d tu
ee me "Happy to sec you. Mr Pres
ident." fifty L "Plae give my lovo
lo Mis, Cleveland." lie smiled ngam
and stretched out hl baud to tho jer
on behind me. who mut hs.vebeei aa
old friend, from the President's man
ner, si 1 wont on without hupiiritig for
Mrx Hoyt a I intended. I hope ha
didn't think it rode.
I wasn't much scared, though John
told mr I looked as pale a a spectrum.
When I told the mnn at the door I
would call again In the eeniug he aaM
I had better wait till WcdnevUy after
noon, ns the Prwidonl would have a
little cursory swearee for h fnunda la
the evening I do hope he itn't profane;
he don't look it
I think Mr Cleveland Is a charming
man, and shall cs.ll again on Wednes
day. The L'amb'cr.
A FIERCE STRUGGLE.
Tlir Thrilling Cotiteat lUtweaa a Mm aaat
m ltltn.
A jounial pub!ihcd In Slngaporr
gives an account of a light between a
man and a python, which would Indi
cate that the Guy Livingstone tyjMt ol
mu sculi rheroen la not extinct atuong
European In that settlement Ohc
lny new wa brought to the curntor of
the museum that a great python, which
wa on exhibition there, had escaped
from it box and wa careering about
the building, no doubt thoroughly ra
joying the fright of. the attendant aad
M-itors. The brute wax no lev than
twenty-two feet long. At that mo
ment the curntor hnpjcned lo hare a
bottle of carbolic acid in hi hand. "It
wa a mot exciting tttle when they
came together, and for a few eKmd
Ihe ahiveriiig native speetaton could
mil make ot which wn the snake and
which wa man." Tbe guanluo ol
tha rnueum' treasure had rt?iirrd a
firm grip of the python throat, but
on the other hand, the wrpont had
coiled iu cruhing fold around h
U'Z. Had it been a juetiori of strength
merely, the loa mut hav won lli
day; the curator would oon have been
ouly fit to make a ituflVt mummy n
his own mueum Uut after a trugx'c
or two znorc he managed cleverly to
decant the bottle of carb die acid down
the reptile throat, ihc grip on whJeh
he hail never relaxeL Tne bo bad
evidently boe.n unaccustomed to tb!
iriftk nay. it obviously diagrel with
him. The coil loonmI from Umt
curator Ihnbs-, a ccmn'ssre t'irrr
went through tbj :tir3 twr;ty-Jwo
feet of inakc. and in a few minute th;
great python was de! 0d VTvrdt-
m m i
Kostuth'i Eatf Clrcumttaocea.
In contradictinn to report lt tIo
Ilnnganan patriot Kouth wa dertt
tutc of mean to provide lv? necarie
of life, a correjondrBt of the tlaffl
furnishe an fteretiog account of hi
prcat rircum-'tancie. Kolha
2umcrru friend will hf ptexrd y
learn that hi political lecture deliv
ered in Knglaad many year sgv were
udcienUy proStab'e fc provbbi a far
income. SoWer.liT. however, he
capital wa jsowcwht dietnlel hy
the fxilerc rf a bak. ad KowHth e&ev
sequcnOy pabllhed a volrme m
moira. which the profit were eoftv
aiderable. fie live sow ia luljr with
we mi hm two jhmm. both off whm mm
gaod aaakiem aa ragiaatra. Ther
received their caeatkm aa4 profm
akmal tniftmg a ft. nuace ad Eahamt.
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