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A Speech by the Next President.
Early in July the Soldiers' Monument
at Paiucsvillo, Ohio, was dedicated with
imposing ceremonies. Thero was a
large military and civic procession, and
upeeehos were made) by General Gar
field, General J. 1). Cox ami othnrs.
Tho following was General Gnrliold's
-stpoech:
Fsi.i.nw-OtTiriF.NS: I osnnot well respond on
itch hii iecasli,n, in the slifnt of such III itlll
Itient to sited it eaue, SUfllatuc,l by such roan.
W hile I listened to what my frlcnil ant'l, two
)iH"tioitH have been sweeping throuah my
heart: one, what rlcs tho monument mean,
the other, what will the monument tcachf Let
mo ask you Tor a moment to help mp answer,
what iloes tho monument nioioi t ( b. It means
world of memories anil n worlil of (lorn, a
world of tears and a world of R-lorle. You
know, ttmu-auls know wliitt tt w to offer up
your lite to tno couniry, ami that In no tun ill
thing ns every snl'tic r knows. Lot me put thin
tpicstinti to you for tho moment, (Suppose
.your cotmtry In tho awfully-i-mb'slleo form of
majestic law, should stau.l aliovo you and sav,
"I want your lite; corn.- up hero on the plat
form htkI olTor it." Mow many would wall up
before that niaieBtio presence anil say: "Here
1 mn, take tht lllo, use tt for your irreat
nre'ls." And yet almost one thoii.Aiul million
non made that answer, and tho monument
tuatiils vendor to ooinniomorato their answer.
That Is one of Its uiea:iliiirs. Mot my friends let
metry you a iitllo further. To irlvo up II I e Is
tnueti. lor It is to irlvo tip wile, homo anil
ftml'ilion. Hat let mo test you this way fur
ther. Suppose tho awfully majestic form
Mhouid eali out to you: "1 ask you to irlvo up
health, to drair yourself not dead hut half alle
Ihrointh a no'iuoinhlo existence for lonir years
until you ,er1h and dio in your cripplM,
hopcio-s condition. I ask you to volunteer to
slo that, ami it eslls for a hiirhor reach of pat
riotism and self-saentlce." Hut hundreds of
thousands of you soldiers did thai, T.illt is
what the monument means .uso. Hut let me
ttsk you to jro one step furthor. fSupoH) your
scoioitry should say: "Come hero on this plat
form, and In my name and for my sake eon
aent to bo Idiots. Consent that your very
tiralti and Intellect shall lio lirokon dowrl Into
tioiclcss IdliHiv for my saku." Ifow aiany
could ho found to make that venture? And
yet thousands with their eyes wide open to
tho horrllilo o iliweqilenees, obeyed that call.
.Alia lot niotell how liM.tsn of our soldiers wore
piisoiiersof war, and for many ot them, when
lo ith was staikinir near, lurniiic oliiuMuv up
lino their hearts and Idiocy tni'entcnuijt ail
that was loft of their Intellects, tho prates of
their prison stooo? upon everyday If they would
slosert their Uair and enlist under the llajf of
tho enemy; and out of lsu.nin) not two par
sa-nt. ever received liberation from death,
starvation and Idiocy. All that miaht oomo or
hem. hut 'bey tuck all theso horrors, all thesp
tsulterlnirs In preference to irolnir hack Upon
tboHafrof tbolr country and tbu fflory of lu
truth.
tjrent Ood, was ever such a measure of pa
triotism reached ly any man on this earth bo
Jorn. That Is what your monument moans.
Jty a subtle chemistry that no mail knows all
ttie hlood shed hy our brethren, all tho lives
slevoted. all tho rricf felt, at last has crystal
lized itself into Kiuulto and rendered Immortal
the kreat tiutb for which they died, and tt
stands there to-day. This la what yuur tuuuu
znenr menus.
Now what does It tench? Why. I remcrnber
the story of one of the old c mouorer of
ireeco. who, when he had traveled in his b iy
tnsel over the liattlollolds whore Mlltiadeswon
viciorlfss and set up trophies, rottirnlnir said:
''lli-0 trophies of Mihlmlna will never let
jne sleep." Why somethitiir had tnutrbt him
Irom the chiseled shore a lesson ho o tild
tiover foritet. And, fcllow-eltlens, that silent
tcutiucl tniit crowns the granite coliima will
look down tiion the b lys that will walk these
sorrels for kenoratlons to oomo, and will not
lei them sleep wnou tbelr country calls ttieui.
More than Hie dead blotter on tlr Holds, from
his detol litis will aoout aoall that the children
sol I. iko County will hoar after the irrave has
iocred all. Thai is tho tcaihliur of your
inouiiuieiii ; that Is Its less at, and It Is a
lesson of endurance for what w believe, and
tt Is a lesson of saeritices for wbat wo think;
a lesson of heroism tor what wo mean to sus
tain, and that lesson cannot Is lut toti poo
Vic like this. It Is not a lesson of roveiurn,
fn t a lesson of wrath. It Is lllo tfranil, sweet,
bioad lesson or the bum u-taliiy of truth that
we hope will aoon cover its wllb a irrand sba
kiualiof IlKlit and a-tory n all pans of this
roinilille ttom the lakes to the (full,
I once entered a house In old Massachusetts,
wheto over Its dooia were t wo cruised swords.
One was the sword carried tiy th" gtaudlathcr
ol Ms owner on tho hold of Ituuker Hill. Tne
other sword was ea rled by tne Knirlls1! Kriiud
alioof tho wlfo on tho saiiio hold and on tho
the other side of the conflict, t'nder these
:io,scl swords In tho restored bariuony,
domestic ieioo, tho children lived happy, con
tented, free and united under the light of our
republican ntieitles. I trust the time Is not
fn-diuaiit when under oisisserl swords ami
looked shields of Americans. Norib and
houth, our people shall sloop in pence and rise
o iioonv, love auu narmouy uiiuur tuu uuiuu
vf our liiuj of atant and strles.
What the Republican Party Has Accomplished.
Now, m heretofore, the Republican
party relies for publie ootitidenoB mainly
upon great aervicus attttially rendered.
Jt has ir'ivon the country prosperity and
progress never heforu witnessed. No
other claim in popular support can be
jrreator. It has overeonte obstacles
leetnei insnpi r tble. Diilielllties uitd
lmi";iri which, to many at homo as well
tut nearlv all abroad, deemed certain to
overwhelm the Republic, have been
met and vampiished by the Uenubliean
party. It has earned this vast ail
vaiil.ij over every competitor; it does
not need ts rely upon its promises alone,
liot cm point to Us deeds as its best
vindication. Twenty years it has march
sol on iiiifalturinir. Almost all the world
believed that disunion was inevitable.
'The Keptililiean party resisted and con-
piered. Kven close to the end ol tho
war the Domocraliu patty solemnly ro-
uolvetl, as ttbservers ulsewhere betran to
fear, that the war was a failure; but tho
Republic ui party persisted until rebel
lion was crushed. The problem of re
construction seemed insoluble to many,
nnd there were wise men who predicted
Illy years of anarchy and fruoril
Ja warfare ; but the Uepuhlioan
jmrty found means to force a con
quered and Billion Sou t It to lake an ac
tive part in the Government which it
liad tried to destroy. Never before,
since e,ovcruiirViii.s were instituted
Btiione; men, had a nation manairuil to
resloru the value of uu irreiluemablo
paper currency. Hut tho Republican
jiariv undertook that task also, ami liu
jahed it. The cullapsti of inHation
s'uosod tretnondoiis losses, and the
striiirirlc for resumption caused imiiiensu
aaer'uiocs. Never before had any party,
in a free government, dared to propose
ueh siroffoius and sacrillccs without
Mtiliiniltin lo temporary defeat. Yet
'the Kopuhliuan. party led the Nation
awnrd lo financial honor and proipcr
ily, miid never lost the power to carry
4ut it measures.
This wiiuder-workliiLrparlv, for which
no task has yet proved too tltllleult, has
the riichl to point to the present condi
tion of the country as proof of lis lldel
ity, courage and wUdoui, Vheti tlau
);ors have thickened, the party hjis
sltired to do rioht and to trust the peo
ple, and Duty h ivn never failed lo meet
trust willt trust. Whore would the
ottntry be, politically, financially, or
initiutirintlv, if disunion bad prevailed?
It Is for the Democrats to say. Where
would It hive been if Demouratiu
resist. itn'u to reconstruction had
icon perinitiod to Rrow into a
L'U.oilln warfare? What would have
lice 1 1 the condition of business now
If the H.Miiocrius, led by Mr. Pendle
ton, had been able to pay tlio' bonds In
greenbacks, as they projiosed to do in
17.'? What would now be the state of
the public credit if tlia solemnly-promised
resumption, had -been defeated by
by Democratlo aueeest in 187eP Kvery
capilalisl and every workinxman in tho
country knows what grand prosperity
has resulted from the resumption of
spoelo psniuuts eiohtoeu mouths airo;
Js there a niuirlo one who wishes that
Demoeralie hostility to resumption had
prev illed at the last election? What
the cuiulry Is to-day tho llenubliean
party hits made it. What sane man is
sorry that tho Republican party has
onqtiered for twenty years, and so has
had the power to iu Vu) the uouutry what
His? ;.
Vlrtnally, that Is the question for
.1880; is the country sorry that U has
'.attained the wonderful prosperity which
every ltsntl, as in all human povern
mtmts, and errors in tite record of every
year. Hut tho country knows that in
all the rrrealer mutter.)" it owes its pre
sent condition to the courage, wisdom
and fidelity' of thn Keptiblienn party,
and it will hesitate long before it
decides to chaniro. Any other party
can promise. Tito Republicans have
performed. Kvery pledge over made
by that party it lias kept, oven to the
doing of so-called impossibilities, such
as tho suppression of rebellion, tho
pacilicatinn of tho country and tho
resumption of specie payments. It
promises now to go forward ii! its work;
to press still further reforms which It j
has begun, and to promote still further
the prosperity of the country. The
work is in tho hands of men who have
given proof of the wisitom of their
plans. If they have done well thus far,
so that tho country is happier, more
powerful, more prosperous, richer and
grander than ever before, will the peo
ple turn over their atlairs to a party
which has only promises to oiler?
If Doruocratio promises wero proof
of Democratic purposes, it would be
rash to change. Iiicotupctonce and in
experience often do more mischief
than downright knavery, as tho last
Democratic Congress has shown. Hut
it is a notorious fact that tho Demo
cratic party has not respected its
promises, nor made any etlort to ro-
deem them. Its successive declara
tions of "eternal principles" for the
last twenty years, if put together.
would make tne most absurd jumble of
contradictious ever known. The party
hits been true to nothing excoot
its annicty for oflico. It proposes
hard-money," and vot the votes
of nino-tenths of the Democrats
in Contrrcss show that tho nartv
does not wish gold dollars worth one
hundred cents if it can get silver dol
lars worth ninety cents. Conservative
men know what sort of Government
we shall have if the Republican party
retains tho power. It has been tried,
and it leads to a grand prosperity.
w ages are ample, liusiuess is active,
and the unemployed nro few. Invest
ments are safe, and the public credit is
high. Tho banks repose full conlidence
in the integrity of tlio Government, and
the depositors and holders of insurance
policies know that funds invested iu
Government securities aro safe. Men
know that the Republican party means
to promote and increase this solid pros
perity, which gladdens the hearts both
of rich and poor, of laborer and of eni-
Mover, liut who can guess what may
tappen if the Demoeralie party should
navo power to enact una carry out tlio
wild vagaries which It has voted for in
Congress? . Tribune.
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.
JHy Hancock will eot no nearer to
the Presidency than he did to striking
oil.
t& The Domocrats are Just besin-
ning to lind out that their hurrahinir
doesn't scaro the Hepublicaus a cent's
worm.
JWT Tho Domooratlo nro-umnnt for a
change amounts to this: The Republi
can party has brought tho couniry to
tne greatest prosperity it lias ever
known; therefore, it is wise to turn
that party out and let us come in to en
rich ourselves. iv. r. lYibutw.
toy Alexander II. Stephens prophe
sies tint Hancock and Knglish will be
elected "if tho Democrats mako no
blunders." The hope that tho Bour
bons will all at once become sensible
demands an imagination altogether too
clastic, Mr. Stephens. N. r. Tribune.
tHifln a recent interview with a
Denver reporter General Grant said:
" I can say without hesitation that I
will give Garlield my hearty support.
Theio is no reason why any Republi
can should not voto for Garliold. I
know him to be a man of tuluut, thor
oughly accomplished, and an upright
man."
SKif The enthusiasm for Hancock In
Ohio has never been great, and what
there was of it appears to bo rapidly
diminishing. The Demucra'ie M?Miu,:r,
published al Fremont, aud one of thu
rankest Democratic organs in tho St.ito,
has pronounced for Garliuld. Tho
Iluckoyo State is evidently gulling ready
for the biggest Republican majority she
ever gave.
Ieo It may nppoar paradoxical, but
it is nevertheless a manifest fact, that
the nominatiou of a L'niou General by
tlio Democrats has had thu ell'uct of re
viving sootional issues. This is so be
cause the character and qualities of the
man alTord no reason for Ii is nomination
except that it might cover iv profession
of loyalty to the Union, while every
political suggestion that can be asso
ciated with his name savors of sympa
thy with resistance to nationalizing ten
dencies. N. Y. Timet.
BtaT When (ienoral Hancock was in
command at Now Orleans, nfter the
close of the war, he sent Gunural Beau
regard an invitation lo ditto with him.
(ienoral 1). wrote back: "General Ii.:
Please don't humble me by those
flags. I'll come nnd see you, but
first remove thorn." Tho flairs were
accordingly ordered down and Beau
regard dined with (ienoral Hanoook,
who was thus guilty of an open in
sult to the flag to soothe the irritated
nerves of an unrepentant rebel.
IkxC The efforts of the Democrats to
cloud tho issue of tho canvass is not
making satisfactory progress. No poli
tical observer could have buen deceived
by It. And Mr. John G. Whlttler's
statement that "the Democratic party
remains as it was at the close of the
war" proves that tho people have pene
trated the disguise as easily as the poli
ticians, so mat tno latest nope ol tne
Hotirbons, that they had secured a can
didate whose skirts would be ample
enougn to cover up tiieir record, is
blasted again. Tho cloven hoof of tho
party cannot be concealed from tho
people. tozekange.
Saf In the Ttlden case, on which
General Hancock proposed to act, Con
gress was divided. The Sonate would
say that Hayes was elected, the House
would declare 1 llden eleeted. Kven 11
Congress were the authority to which a
subordinate olllrer iu the army ought to
look, Congress was at logger-heads.
Which branch had tho authority? Is
there any authority in Congress tor any
action unless both brandies concur?
How could General Hancock know the
will of Congress under tho cireura
slanoes? He oould not. And in his
proposed eluotlou to stand by tho lower
House, he simply showed bis alaorlty
lo help the Demoeralie party. VurtjorU
(Cottn.) Vounini.
The Ministerial bill agaiust drunken
ness about to bo considered by the
Dutch States General limits the num
ber of publio houses lo one per 601) in
habitants in towns ot 60,000 souls, one
per 400 in towns of 20,000, one per 300
iu towns ol 10,000, and one per ViO in
smaller places. It also forbids the sup
ply of intoxicants to children under
sixteen, aud imposes from oue to eighty
days' Imprisonment for supplying in
IjucuuU to persons already drunk,
Hancock in Louisiana.
Whatever has been said about Gon
cral Grant, he has never boon accused
of vindiotiveness or soverity toward tbo
rebels whom ho comptorod in arms.
His terms of peace to Lee and his lo
gious wero generous in substance and
form, and ho successfully withstood tho
passion and vindlctlveuoss of Androw
Johnson, who wished to exorcise an
unmilitary vengeance upon them, at
tlio risk of his commission as (ienoral of
tho army. For this magnanimity and
firmness he roeeivod tho hearty praise
of the Southern peoplo. Hut when
thoy, encouraged by the passion and
obstinacy of Johnson, when he had
veered around to tho opposite point
under the intluence of his native preju
dice, commenced their career of vio
lence ngainst the negroes, and attempt
ed to retain their authority over tho
subicct race which they had lost in
more manly fight, by night raids, hang
ings ami whippings, nnd all the mvstorv
and cruelty ot the Kit Klux organiza
tion, then he declared as firmly and
strongly against lawlessness and vio
lence as he did for magnanimity and
generosity at tho surrender of the
bouthern armies. It was but a littlo
moro than two years after the surrender
of Appomattox, when the massacre at
iNow Orleans took place, and General
Sheridan, in command of tlio depart
ment of Louisiana and Texas, wrote
those words to General Grant:
"The condition of the freedmen nnd
Union men in remote parts of Texas is
truly horrible. The Government is de
nounced, freedmen aro shot and Union
men are persecuted if thoy have the
temerity to express their opinions.
This condition exists in tho northern
counties of Louisiana to an alarming ex
tent." General Sheridan is not a politician,
nor has he ever been suspected of aim
ing at civil otliee. His honesty is un
questioned ns his frankness, nor was ho
by alliliation or nature inimical to tho
South. He was a soldier who was just
ly indignant at tho outrages and terror
ism committed upon the negroes and
the white Union men of tho South,
whose devotion to the cause of freedom
caused them more saeritices aud suffer
ings than their brothron at the North,
and who, at the close of the war, found
themselves unprotected by the Govern
ment and turned over to tho mercy of
lueir bitterest enemies. What that
mercy was is told in the volumes of
testimony taken before tho KuKJux In
vestigating Conimilteo, which reveals a
record of horrors and cruelties unpar
alleled in any civilized country of mod
ern times. Acting upon the informa
tion furnished by General Sheridan,
General Grant urged upon 1'residont
Johnson to declare martial law in Tex
as and Louisiana in order to ouforco
the laws nnd give comparative security
to all classes of citizens. His recom
mendation was rejected. General Sher
idan was removed and (ienoral Han
cock appointed to the command.
General Hancock, by political affilia
tions, belonged to the Democrats, and
shared that sentiment which in the reg
ular army, .before the war, made thu
Southern aristocratic caste socially pre
dominant Ha deferred to the ex-rebel
sentiment nt once, and his sympathies
wero entirely with the haughty, fash
ionable and aristocratic class, as ti'tainst
the Union men, who were lower in the
social scale, and the negroes. On as
suming command, lie proclaimed tho
supremacy of tho civil over tho military
authorities, and the ex-rebols took him
nt his word. lho outrages against
Unionists and negroes increased in
number and virulence. Not only did
General Hancock mako no attempt to
stop Ilium, nut neeven stooped to use the
military tiowor. contrary to bis uroola-
matlon, in removing Union otlieers of
the city government of New Orleans,
who had ordered au election contrary
to the wishes of the Deinocraetio party,
and against his sovereign will nnd
pleasure. The law disfranchising reliul
soldiers was revoked by an order
issued lust before an election, in which
General Hancock declared his dissent
from the construction of the Reconstruct
tinu act, and authorized, the registrars
to put their own interpretation upon it.
Lawlessness and vio'enco accompanied
his rule in Louisiana, until finally ho
was relieved at his own roquust, for the
more comfortable and less troublesome
task of dealing with hostile Indians in
the department of Dakota. Hut ho had
earned the gratitude of the South and
of tlio Democratic party, and in duo
time he has received his reward in the
nomination for the Presidency.
There is no question that tho weak'
ness aud passion of Andrew Johnson
oncouragod tho Soul horn people to defy
the National authority and to undertake
to reverse tho results of the war by a
system ol lntornoetno turiiuler.ee and
violence, which they would not other
wise have attempted, aud which, in the
end, made the Reconstruction act more
sevnro, debarred them longer from the
right ot franchise, and intensified the
ill feeling, bad government and general
disturbance, which have left suuh ill
oll'uets behind iu fatally checkinz iintul
gration and settled prosperity, and, as
its latest result, has produced the exo
dus. When thoy were defeated they
recognized mo results ol tne war as in
evitahle, but thoy wore soon encour
aged oy tne conduct ol tne Administra
tion to attempt to resume their rule,
and rose higher iu their demands every
day. They Inaugurated a system of
violence and onuression which com
pelled General Grant and others, who
had treated them with magnanimity,
and hod faith in their good sense and
honor to reverse their opinions.
The same spirit which dictated
kind treatment aud respect to gallant
opponents when they laid down their
arms, revolted lust as strongly when
they abused and oppressed their Union
neighbors and subject freedmen, denied
political rights to all but themselves,
aud maintained a reign of terror by
midnight assassinations and outrages.
General Grant and General Sheridan
would have been less than men aud as
dovoid of sense of duty as citizens as
of soldiers, if they had not urged re
straint tiMn violence by tho only power
capable of exercising it, and desired to
maintain the substance of the civil laws
rather than permit their destruc
tion and mockery. It would have been
wiser aud belter for the South iu the
end, aud half the evils of reconstruc
tion would have been- uuneoessarv, if
their course had been followed for a
tew years after the war.' But it was
not, and a long and tedious battle had
to be fought iu Congress, and extreme
measures adopted as the alternative of
leaving the Union population of the
South under the heels of the ex-rebel
sentiment. Andrew Johnson was the
main cause of this unfortunate condi
tion, and General Hancock showed him
self a ready instrument iu his hands.
Providence It. I. ) Journal.
at
of
General Garfield's letter of ac
ceptance is very generally commended
by the Republican papers and de
nounced by tho Democratic organs,
which is proof conclusive that the letter
is all right.
'
Tilden's Late Nephew.
A New York eorrmpon lent of ;hc
Snn'hii C'ipitfU gives an iiileresiiu.
sketch of the causes whicli led to tne
death of Colonel I'elton l'ild,'n
nophew. Pulton's bein; made tie
scapegoat for Tildeu's sins is what hur
rieil him, broken-hearted and hu tiili
ntod, to his grave. A prominent New
York politician said to tho correspon
dent: "I undertake to say, to cut It short,
that poor Pelton atagguretl silently un
der the load of his old uncle's sins aud
crimes until they crushed him, broken
hearted, into his grave. Ho made nr
sign, even when old Sam wrote that
celebrated lettor in which he accused
his luckless nephew of futile dalliance.
Poor Pulton bowed his head a little low
er, winced somewhat and took it all. It
was a rare ease of filial devotion on ono
side and orucl sellishnoss on the other.
Old Tilden had position, powor, money.
Pelton had nothing except what Tiltlen
made him. The old roprobate constant
ly impressed him with the idea that ho
must shoulder tho ignominy of tho
ciphers in ortlcr to protect his (Tildun's)
nomination.
"Pelton felt that ho was makingasac
rifico of himself to save his uncle's cause,
and he hoped that by and by success
would come and wipe it all out. Hut
when tho Tilden gang were beaten
Cincinnati tho hone on which Pel-
ton had been living vanished, and
tho poor, broken-spirned boy lay down
nnd died as he had lived, making no
sign and inning nts secrets with him
into the eternal privacy of his collin.
Pelton was really a likable fellow, a trillo
illicit up when lie was in the zenith of
is importance, before tho afterclan
camo down upon him, but all right nt
the bottom, however. Ho was humblo
enough before he died. Tlio weight he
was carrying look the stiltening out of
his backbone amazingly alonj toward
tho last. I never saw a greater change
l man man tno dillereuco between
the Pelton of 187G and tho Pelton of
1880."
"But to business: I gather from
what you have told mo that the whole
corporation of ciphers from Oregon to
riorum was really tho work of lililcu;
that he know all about thoir coins' on.
sanctioned tho schemes that wero in
volved, and "
"Kverv bit of It. every bit nf it. Tie
knew what was going on as you know
Saturday night what the Capital will
say Sunday morning. From poor Pel-
ton, to wnom no dictated ciphers, up to
Sam Randall, whom he authorized to
promise o vacancy on the United States
Supremo boneh to Chief Justiuo Moses,
South Carolina, in consideration of
that celebrated mandamus from bot
tom to top, I say, old Tilden ran his
own machine and maneuvered his forces
person, but at a sufo distance in
tho rear. By tho way, to illustrate:
You know Sam Randall went to Cin
cinnati convinced that he was to be a
Tilden legatee. When he got there ho
found hu had been superseded by
Payno, through the blandishments of
young Whitney and promises of a bar'l
of Standard oil. When Sam was awful
mad, you know, ho was not disposed to
lio down and take it like young Pelton.
On the contrary, being a kicker and a
squealer, Sam began to kick and squeal,
aud ho kicked so lustily and squealed
so loudly that ho made old Tilden drop
Payne like a hot potato and deliver
goods that ho had promised to deliver."
"A sweet-scented gang, aren'tlhey?"
" I should remark. The word thieves
doesn't cover their case, became thieves
are said to have a sort ot honor among
themselves. But this Tilden gang aro
simply cut-throats, watching their
chance to assassinate each other, and
keeping faith only with thu one that
has the longest and 'he sharpest knife.
In this instanco Sam Randall happened
to have that knife, and hence ho was
able to exact the fulfillment of tho
promises that had beeu made to hinu"
" But you aro digressing from Pelton.
Did you see hitu latterly ?"
No, not for some tn inths, at least;
not since April, I believe. At that
time he was firmly convinced that bis
uncle would bo renominated. He spoke
of it as a man might speak of a thread
on which his life hung. Ho was quite
leeblo then, and had an air of weari
ness and dejection really pitiable lo one
who had known him in his days of
pride and consequence "
" Tell me, did old Tilden, in addi
tion to the disgrace which he put upon
Pelton publicly, in order to shieltl him
self, carry out the affectation by cruelty
or neglect in private?"
" No, I don't think so. On the con
trary, I think the understanding be
tween them was kept up to tlio last.
Privately the old reprobate was, 1
think, as kind to his victim as ho knew
how to bo; that is, hu aidud him finan
cially. That's the only kindness Til
tlen has any idea of. In his estima
tion money euros everything. He
imagined that any amount of dis
grace and mortification, such as he
forced poor Pelton to bear, ettn
be salved and soothed by checks
drawn with regularity and tolerable
frequency. The springs of human kind
ness in his nature, if there ever were
any there have been so thoroughly
dried up by years of intrigue iu polities
anil crookedness in business that the
notion of a sentimental wound is in
comprehensible to him."
"So you think he did not appreciate
the sacrifice his less hardened aud mure
sensitive nephew was making for him?"
"mot at an. lam about being nar
dened I Kgnd I Old Tilden is worse
than hardened, lie Is tanned through
and through with iniquity, like a bull's
hide that has lain for seven yours in a
vat of oak-bark liquor. 1 don't suppose
he felt the slightest twinge of conscience
when they told him that his victim was
dead that his luckless scapegoat had
oeosed to breathe. On the contrary, 1
venture to say that he fell a sense of
relief nt the thought that dead men tell
to
in
Jtay The party opposed to the Re
publican has changed neither in pur
pose nor membership. No, the same
spirit has animated that organization,
whatever claims it may have advanced
In 1876 tho party adopted the role of
moral reformers, with the worst man iu
American politics as their leader. This
year that pretense is torn off, and the
backers of Tilden masquerade in a new
disguise. Albany tatmng Journal.
itay'Iho Democratic platform has a
"fraud plank," but the great "de
frauded" was not tnvitod to stand on it.
It is tho play of Shylock with Shy
lock omitted. Chicago liUer-Uctan.
tap" Here is a fuu-similo of an able
and just editorial in the Philadel
phia Vc.m.- GKNERAL HANCOCK'S
CIVIL RKCOUD. General Hancock
has no civit record.
tjf The Democrats continue to class
Peunsylvania as a doubtful Slate. Well,
yos, it is a very doubtful one for their
party.
Si
&dr If wind and brag were trumps,
tne Domocrats would hold a lone hand.
A'ftm'ra (tf. Y.) Advertiser.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
A machine for making pies has lntoly
been patented. This, taken in connec
tion with tho patent substitute for eggs,
will be good news for boarding-houso
keepors.
Wiiitr-isii loss than a week old and
looking like a pair of eyes with a tail, if
placed beneath a microscope are found
be transparent, and exhibit beauti
fully the action of the heart in propelling
the blood, and its circulation through
the tail.
Aw eminent botanist claims that the
further from the equator fruits are
frown the richer becomes their flavor,
his is thought to be due to the pro
longed daylight of the summer mouths
high latitudes.
The compound eyes of Insects and
crnstacete, when seen under a low-power
microscope, present a largo numbor of
facets which in some instances are
square, and in others hexagonal ; tho
eye of the common house-fly has as
many as 4,000 ol these facets, and in
some beetles the number reaches 85,000.
It seems that the Japanese were ac
quainted with luminous paint 900 years
ago. An old Japanese encyclopedia
contains the description of a picture of
which certain pnrts disappeared during
the daytime and reappeared at night,
nnd it explains the phenomena by say
ing that the paint was prepared from a
nacreous sunstanee found within the
flesh of a kind of oyster.
A iiuii.diko roofed with tin is not less
liahlo to be struck by lightning than a
shingled-roof building. If neither
house was provided with a lightning
rod the tin-roofed building, if struck,
would be the safer, because tho light
ning would be likely to divide and
spread over tho metal and find its way
to the earth by several different paths
on the exterior of the building water-
leaders, gutters, etc.
The Belgian Academy of Medicine
has received a report on the researches
made by Dr. Fabre regarding the dis
eases to which coal miners are especially
liable. He finds that as coal absorbs
rapidly up to 100 times its own volume
of oxygen, the air which the miners
have to breathe is deprived of oxygen
to a hurtful degree. T he atmosphere
of a mine is also further vitiated by the
gaseous carbon compounds given off by
the slow combustion of the coal. He
concludes that a supply of air is more
essential than a supply of light, and
that even the best ventilated mines need
to be batter ventilated.
AitTici.KS made of imitation amber
are now produced in immense quanti
ties and sold lor the natural material.
The resembling substance thus employed
principally colophony a rosin ob
tained by the decomposition of turpen
tine although numerous other ingredi
ents are also employed to give it the re
quisite quanting, oo period is the imi
tation said to bo that the false substance
has the well known electrical properties
of the true; and some ingenious fabri
cators hnve even managed to introduce
into tho material insects and other for
eign bodios that render the similarity
moro striking.
Du. Cooi'Kit, in Eraser's Maqruine,
argues that only those eye-glasses that
are made of the purest glass can be con
sidered safe specks, rays, globules, or
other imperfections, are detrimental.
Though more costly, pebbles possess two
important advantages, namely: extreme
hardness, rendering it difficult toscratoh
or break them, and clearness, never be
coming dull from moisture; and they
are also thought to be cooler than other
glass. To be good and true the glasses
should likewise be, In all their parts, of
an equal thiokness in proportion to the; r
convexity, as well as of an equal form.
Another aud easily applied test of true
passes is that ol holding them ot
iqttely over print, all tho lettors of
which will be found to preserve their
true character if the glasses are oorreot.
l
Scandinavian Drinking Bouts.
Learned commentators on the North
ern antiquities help us to conjure up the
scene of one of those drinking bouts. It
is a bitter evening in winter ; the war
galleys have been laid up in ordinary
for the season, and the time hangs heavy
on the hands of the vikings. The better
part of the morning passed in bleeping
off the effects of tho previous debauch;
and, after breaking their fasts with un
impaired appetites, tne listless warriors
nave roused themselves for exercise, and
have been stretching their muscles over
nianlv snorts. All the aAtnn. the short
day has dragged, and they have wel
comed the heavy fall of the shadows.
The feast has been spread in rude pro
fusion ; the bugti salted joints have been
picked to the bone and tossed to the
hounds ; the bare tables on the trestles
have been cleared away, and the boister
ous company, breathing hard after the
meal, has settled itself down for an
earnest carouse. Though the hall is
lighted with numerous torches, it is no
easy matter to distinguish objects, for
the smoke from the tire blazing in the
middle is curling up to the rafters of the
lofty roof, in rain attempts to escape by
the smoke holes. But all around thu
revelers are grouped on the rough
benches, while at the end, on a dais
above their followers, sit the i hiefs in
tho places of honor. Tabu may be
dispensed with. The great horns, with
the cup-bearers, or horn-bearers, in at
tending to replenish them, pass swiftly
from hand to hand. There are toasts
and "soutiiuents," and long-winded
speeches as well, on solemn oc
casions of ceremony. The scalds
sitting apart, thnlr eyes "in a fine
frenzy rolling," chant'the memorable
deeds of gods and heroes, and especially
the feats of the present company, in in
terminable stanzas more or less melodi
ous; and the fierce revelers chime in
with the chorus till roof and rafters ring
again. Naturally the fun grows fast and
fui ions. Thanks to the form of the
drinking vessels, there is no setting
them down botweon pulls. It was the
anticipation of the fashion of the hard
drinkers of a later age, who guarded
against heel-taps on the sly by knock
ing the bottoms of their glasses. It was
the pride of those "jolly good follows"
of the North to take off the contents ot
the horn at a breath. The muddy ale
and the headier -mead must have mud
dled weaker or more delicate brains. As
it was, there was little Intelligence to
be confused, and not mnch wit to be ex
pelled, though, if the Sagas are to be
trusted, those case-hardened topers are
to be credited occasionally wilh some
bit of dry humor. But the warm blood
grew better still as the liquor went
ooursing through the fevered veins, and
quarrels begau that led on to blood v
feuds afterward, if comrades prevented
their being settled on the spot. More
than once in such a banqueting hall
some epic in action had its sanguinary
deiutuement as when the Burgundians,
Cromnted by the vengeance of Kriem
ild, beset the heroes of the Niebeiung
enlied on the banks of the Danube ; and
after Rudiger, in the sublimity of his
chivalry, had handed his shield to Ha
gen, there began "the slaughter grim
anu great." jsiacbwooti t JUayaztn.
Our Young Folks.
RESTING PLACES.
A Mm paw for tho I it tin lambs,
A honey hlvp fur bees;
An,! pretty ne-ts for sliiitltiy blrtls
Amelia the leafy trees.
There'a rest for all the little onoa,
In nne place or another:
Hut who has half so street a place,
As baby with bur mother.
The little chickens cinMIe eloso
lleueath Hie old hen's wlnir:
I'oepl peepl they ay, we're not nfrnlu
til ilark or anyl hlnir.
So safe anil snuir they nestle there.
The one beslile the other;
Hut safer, happier by far,
la baby with bur mother.
PEEP.
Anotiikh story, my darling, and this
time about Peep! Well, jump up into
my lap, and wowill travel back through
many years of time, to one plonsaut
afternoon in May. Laura, my littlo
girl friend who lived next door, and I
wero seated on a small box close by the
posture gate. Wo wero tired of play
inw Spanish bull fights, for tho gentle
old cow would only wink her eyes nt
our wildest capers and brightest rod
shawls; wo were tirod, too, of plnvin?
tight-rope walkers on the croon fenco
that separated the pasture from the gar
den, and were puzzling our small heads
to decitle what we should do next. Sud-
nly I espied somethine niovinsr on the
olher side of the field, and jumping up
cneu, "un, l.aura, what aro those
little yellow specks over there? Let's
go and sec." Away we trotted, and
what do you suppose .we found? Why
a lot of the dearest chiekies you ever
saw. The naughty little things had
crept in through a hole under tho fence,
and had run away from their mamma,
who was unxiously calling to thein from
the other side "Cut! Cut!" "Come!
Come!" How thoy did run and peep
as we came upon them! They all
scrabbled under the fence as quick as
they could, except ono wee fellow who
was so frightened that he ran oil in the
wrong direction. Then Laura got on
one side of him, I on the other, and be
fore inner we had our littlo prize safe in
my small apron. Dear me, how wo did
cuddle our precious littlo yellow pull'-
oau so mat ne would not miss hu mam
ma, nnd very contented he seemed with
our devotion. Then we started for the
house, taking turns in carrviner our babv
chicken, which we had determined to
own in partnership.
When we reached there Laura took
him in chargo, while I found an old
starch-box, and nailed a piece of mosquito-netting
across the front. This
made the nicest house for our dear
chickio. We stowed him carefully
away in it with a quantity of cotton for
a nest, and a dish of corn-meal for his
dinner. "What shall we call him.
Alice?" asked Laura, but before I
could answer the saucy fellow replied
for himself "Peop." So Peep he was
christened from that day forth.
I'cep grew vory fast, and before Ion?
he had a great many small feathers on
bis wings and tail, of which he was
very proud. Ho was so tame that he
would follow me all about the house;
even up the stairs; though he did not
like to do this, and would scold me for
not carrying him. Peep thought the
nicest place to take a nap was in my
pocket, and into that ho would creep
just as often as he could get a chance.
One time I forgot all about the little
mischief, and went down town with
him fa I asleep in my pocket. As soon
as 1 went into a store, however. Peep,
who had been aroused from his slum
bers, commenced to scold loudly at be
ing disturbed. X was so embarrassed
bv the surprised looks of the nennle
about that I trotted out of tho store as
quickly as possible, and took the
naughty fellow homo.
- liulore long tne summer came, and
Laura said she would take care of Peep
while I was away. Laura and her
mamma lived wilh hor grandma, a
dear little old lady who disliked pets of
all kinds; so Laura kept I'cep carefully
out of her way. But one inorniug just
alter oreaKtast, when tney were all at
prat ers, naughty Master Peep got out
of his house aud walked oil' nil by him
self on an exploring expedition. He
marched into tho sitting room, and ns
everyone was kneeliug down with their
ejes tight shut nobody saw tho runa
way. Master 1'eep s sharp eyes soon
espied a bright ribbon on grandma's
cap. " I wonder if it is good to eat?"
thought he to himself, with bis head
inquisitively cooked on one side;
"Guess I'll go and see." So up hopped
the saucy fellow right on to grandma's
buck, marched up to litr cap, and be
gun to peck at it with all his might.
Grandma, feeling this funny twitching
of her cap, aud thinking it was one of
tne mucus uiat itveu in tnu Ktteueu,
put up her hand to push it off. She
grasped naughty Peep by one hand and
began to pull him down. Oh! how he
did shout with indignation, aud
scratched and flapped at grandma in
the most shocking manner. Grandma's
oyos opened very wido when she saw
hi in, but she quietly got up and put bim
out of doors without a word. Then she
came ba 'k, glanced rather severely at
Laura's shaking shoulders, and went
on with. pray era as it nothing had hap
pened.
Aftur this Master Peep was banished
to the barnvard to live with the other
chickens. Nevertheless he always felt
himself to bo their superior, and when
ever he was tired he would come into
the kitchen, curl up on old Bruno's, the
Newfoundland's, back, and go sound
asleep. But oue time, alas for poor
Peep, he dug his claws a little too hard
into Bruno's side. This was more than
the patient dog could bear, and he
grabbed Master Peep by the neck to
snake belter manners into mm. nut
Bruno, though be did not mean to,
shook all tho life out of bis little friend;
and when he put him down, poor Peep
gave one last gasp and expired. He
was buried in the garden with Laura
for chief mourner, as 1 was still away
from home. And this was the sad end
of Master Peep N. Y. Tribune.
A Sea-Side Adventure,
AS RELATED IN LETTER FROM BESSIE MAYNARD
TO HER DOLL CLYTEMNESTRA
WHOM SHE LEFT AT HOME.
OLD ORCHARD BRACH, July, 1880.
Mr Peakest Clytemnkstka: Do you
miss me? and aro von wondering why
I do not write? Well, my dear, writ
ing is an impossibility when on is at
the sea-shore. You never knew guch
timea as we are having all day long. I
must tell you, first of all, of an adven
ture that Defell me yesterday not me
exactly, either; It moit befell Lucille
the beautiful Paris doll that Fanny Bell
was so proud of; aud well she might be,
for a handsomer creature never walked.
You remember her, of course; the love
ly Mademoiselle Lucille, as she was
called, that being the French for Miss,
for it would never do to caU her plain
Lucille, such a Hue young lady as she
was, just from France, with all the airs
and graces that belong to Paris, the
politest city in the world. It's no great
wonder she was proud Lucille, I mean
for I'm afraid most of us would be if
wo looked llko hor. Such hair as she
had, all natural curls 'down below her
waist; nnd such a nclryant wardrobe,
or "trooso," as Fanny calls It. Per
haps I haven't spelled trooso right, but
please excuse it; biileed, you wouldn't
know whether It was right or wrong,
you are such a Tutor little Ignorant
thing. I'm ash anied of raysolf for nog
looting your education as i. have, done,
when I see tho dolls hero, and realize
how much thoy know. Just as soon as
I get home, we'll begin with regular
lessons every day. It isn't v'"" fault,
yon sweet lamb, that yoti don't know
anything, I am tho only ono to blame,
aud I'll try to make up fur lost time
when I como home.
But, dear mo, how I do rnn on,' with
out telling yon aword hf the adventure.
Tho "sail aoa waves" put all sorts of
ideas into my mind and I gut terribly
confuse. I. I heard a lady sing Inst night
about the "sadsea waves, "and I think it
sounds piettiur tlimi "the ocean" don't
vopf Well, to begin at the beginning:
Yesterday morning Fanny Bell, Dora
Mason, nnd I went down to the beach
asusu:d, Mudmdoisello Lucille walking
along by her mamma, Just like a real live
beautiful child. Wo scooped holes in
the warm sand, and made caves, nnd
then wo built tho Pyramids. Then aro
in Egypt, you know, curiosities that
people go to soe; but wo make them
of sand so that thoy look just exactly
like the pictures, "Slinks" nnd all. Per
haps you don't know what the "Stinks"
is, hnt 1 will loll yon some tiny, when
I begin your education, my poor
Clytemnestra.
Well, at last we wanted to go round
the point to pick soma wild morning
glories, so we sat Lucille npon n kind of
throne behind the Pyramids, and left
her. We were only gone a liwlo bit of
a while, but what do think?' when we
came back the tide was in, and the sad
sea waves had washed away Pyramids,
Slinks, Lucille, and all! Oh, the
despair we were inl Poor Fanny jump
ed right up aud down, and screeched,
nnd then sinking down upon the sand,
as the story-books say, "sho buried her
face in her hands, and wept as if her
heart would break." All at onee 1 saw
something bobbing around, and if there
wasn t Lucille about lour feet Irnin tne
shore, fastened to a rock by the flounce
of her pink satin dress! Fanny shriek
od aloud, but Dora and I seized a pole,
and after working a long, long time,
we managed to fish her out of the
water.
Lucille Is frightfully pale to-day, nnd
her ourls are gone forever. She is a
bald-headed "faded beauty," as a gen
tleman truly said when he saw her this
morning. When I look at her, and re
member how fine she used to think her
self, I can't help saying, " Well, my
dear, ' pritle must have a fall.' " I
pity her, though, from the very bot
tom of say heart, for it must be dread
ful to be so changed, and all of a sud
den, too. I guess we sha'n't have to be
so particular any more about calling her
mademoiselle."
T pan not ho thankful pnntirrh that. T
loft you at homo, my sweet C'lytie. The
sea-shore is a lovely place for children
who know how to take care of them
selves, but 'tis dreadful dangerous for
rfoWs.
And now good-night, my pot.
Your loving mamma.
BESSIE MAYNARD.
P. S. Dora lias just oome in to say
that Fanny has changed Mademoiselle's
nume, and hereafter she is to be called
J sue." Poor tluug! Harper t loung
People.
North Carolina Mountain Villages.
The awful solitude of the forests is
scarcely broken by them. Half of their
unpaiutcd, weather-beaten houses are
always empty, the inmates having ap
parently died, or gone farther into these
sleepy wildornesses and forgotten to
come back. The roads loading to them
are always over broak-neck-preciplces
and in scandalous disrepair, one gen
eration putting oft to another the
mending of them. There is always a
deserted mica mine on a neighboring
hoight, shining like a fountain of silver
gushing from the rock; there is always
a stream which "would give a powerful
yield of gold, only we folks don't count
much on them oncerlain ways of mak-
in' a iivinv
There are alwas one or two families
of educated, well-bred people. They
have little nionoy, but they feel the
need of it less here than any where else
in the States. Thoy live in roomy,
wooden houses, the walls, ceilings and
lloors frequently made of a purplish,
line-grained poplar, which no Persian
carpet or tapestry oould rival in beauty;
they buy no new books, but they have
read the old ones until they are live
friends; they nover saw a Gcromo or a
Fortuny, but their windows open on
dusky valleys, dolicate in beauty as a
dream, on rushing water-falls, on rain
bow veils ot mist noaling over dizzy
heights; they dress in homespun, and
sit on wooden benches, but knowing
nothing of fashions or brio-a-brac, their
souls sit at ease and are quiet, and thoy
never feel the aching void of an empty
pocket. Our travelers were welcomed
to many a room where trunks, the spin
ning-wheel, and the oooking-stove tilled
one side, and the bed and a portion of a
Revolutionary ancestor the other,
where flat-irons and silver goblets,
Shakspeare and the blacking-brushes,
amicably keep company on the mantel
shelf, but in which the fine quick wit
and the grave oourtesy of their hosts
would have dwarfed the stateliest sur
roundings. Hebecca Hardintj Davis, in
Harer't ilaqnzine.
What Training far Beat Baca Means.
Training for a boat race means lead
ing a sober and rational life for a cer
tain number ot weeks; but once a man
has experienced the benefits of training
he is often tempted to remain in train
ing constantly. So that among our best
oarsmen a good many might be found
whose ordinary rule of life would win
praise from the most scrupulous medi
cal authority on dietetics. Training no
longer oonusU in eating half-raw meat
and reducing one's adipose tissue by
walking for miles with a loadot blankets
on one s shoulders. Common sense has
exploited many ot the errors of tho old
training system; and now, the rule be
ing accepted that differences ot consti
tutions must be taken into aocount,
every man is loft free to follow pretty
much the course of diet which his instinct
suggests to him as being the best for
his health. This new system has pro
duced admirable results in bringing the
reasoning faculties and Ihe self-denial
of men into play. 1. union Newt
It requires more than Christian pa
tience to refrain from slaying lho man
who spoils the effect of your best story
by remarking, "Yes, that's a pretty
good thing; but I have always heard it
" and then goea on to tell' the whole
thing over agaiu in his weary way. It
causes you to hunger for his blood, and
brings a tired feeling in tho breast ol
each unwilling listener that is forever
associated with you and your hated
lory. JiMton Transcript,
