J. L. BOARDMAIf, Ei'ttor and Pinfrtttor.
HILLSHORO, i t j .OHIO
"COULD WE BUT KNOW."
C"n)l wp lint know thn sfcn't rnn
'Hint lurk tn every ninrhil brrtir-r,
W nt'Vr, by thmihlh-- wonl r i'm1,
WmiM Hil one piing tot hut unrest,
Cniilrt wa T in f Vnnr if mirl woinvbi
That thftb mim) bunt In fiinnv n heart.
How woulil wr HtrtvH, by t'jiuli'n'-tt tnuch,
Hume Imlm ol bculiiiK to imptirll
CoiiM wp tint know tvht.t thorn v putM
Tull ninny wenry pilgrims tn-ii'i,
V(nill wi' not fount II br-m-i1 tx-on
hwf'tt ilowrn onmirii dark put lis to MumU
"VVp onnnnt know. Hut If wo lUt
To whtit the whipct'ltiir imiri'lr sny,
AVi to our I'HIow-tnrn, will bo
(Jcullu uiid iin'rciliil ulwuy.
'To help the n'T'Iy, chnor th ami
And ukvo the pi-rlnif kindly cur'-,
'This tin- will niivkc thp iin-i'n rros
t f tivuvy It -art -4 1 '." html t" bpjtr.
"COULD WE BUT KNOW."--Emeline Sherman Smith.
"LAL" RYDQUIST;
A Story of the Land and Sea.
BY WALTER BESANT AND JAMES RICE.
BY WALTER BESANT AND JAMES RICE. True Love and Woman's Devotion--Heroic
Self-Sacrifice—The Happy Reward
of Sorrow Borne Bravely,
of Faith, Loyalty, Courage
and Patient Trust.
[From All the Year Round.]
[From All the Year Round.] CHAPTER III.--CONTINUED.
"Look!" said Mrs. Rvdqiiist. point
ing cheerfully to the candlestick when
Jicr daughter returned with tears
in her eyes ntnl Hex's last kiss burning
on her lips; "there is a winding-sheet,
my denr, in the candle. To-night n
co'lin popped fut of t he kitchen-lire. J
took it up in hope it might have been
a purse. No, my dent, a eollin. Captain
Zachariasen crossed knives at dinner to
day. 1 have had shudders all tho even
ing, which is as sure a sign of graves as
any I know, lief ore you came homo
the furniture cracked three times. No
doubt, my dear, these warnings are for
me. who am u poor, weak creature, and
ready, and willing, and hopeful. I am
.sure, to be called iiway; or for Captain
:Zaehariasen, who is, to be mire, a great
age, and should expect bis call every
day instead of going on with his talk,
and his rum, and bis pipe as if he was
forgotten: or for tiny one of the Cap
tains, alloat or ashore; these signs, my
dear, may be meant for anybody, and I
would not be so presumptuous in a
bouse full of sailors as to name the man
for whom they have come; but, if I read
.signs right, then they mean that young
man. Ami oh J my poor girl -" she
clasped her bands as if now, indeed,
there could be no hope.
" What is it. mother?"
" My dear, it is a Friday, of all the
days in the week!"
She rose, took a candle, and went to
bed with her handkerchief to her eyes.
CHAPTER IV.
OVERDUE AND POSTED.
This day of days, this queen of all
lays, too swiftly sped over the first and
last of the young sailor's wooing. Lai's
.sweetheart was lost to her almost as
.soon an be was found. But he left her
.so happy in spite of her mother's gloomy
forebodings, that she .wondered, not
knowing that all the past years had been
.nothing but along preparation for the
ime of love, bow could sho ever
have been happy before? And
she was only eighteen, and her
lover handsome as Apollo, and as
well-mannered. Next morning at
about twelve o'clock sho jumped into
Tier boat and rowed out upon the river
to see the Aryan start upon her voyage.
'The tide was on the turn and the "river
full when the great steamer came out of
dock and slowly made her way upon the
crowded water, a miracle of human
.skill, a great and wonderful living
thing which though even a clumsy
lighter might sink anil destroy it, yet
could live through the wjUlest storm
ever known in the Sea of Cyclones,
through which she was to sail. As the
Aryan passed the little boat Lai saw
lier lover. lie had sprung upon the
bulwark and was waving his hat in
farewell. Oh, gallant Hex, so brave,
..and so loving! To think that this
glorious creature, this god-like. man,
this young prince among sailors, should
fall in love with her! And then the
doctor, and tho purser, and the chief
oflieors, and even the Captain, came to
the side anil tookofftheircapsto her, and
.some of tho passengers, informed by the
doctor who she was, and how brave she
was, waved their lutnds and cheered.
Then the ship forged ahead, and in a
few monents Hex jumped down with a
final kiss of his fingers. Tho screw
turned more quickly; the ship forged
ahead; Lai lay in mid-stream, careless
-what might run into her, gazing after
lior with straining eyes. When she had
rounded thu point and was lost to view,
the girl, for the first time in her life
-since sho was a child, burst into tears
jiud sobbing.
It is but a shower. Lai belonged
to a sailor family. Was she to weep
and go in sadness because her lover was
away doing his duty Upon tho blue
water? Not so. She shook her head,
dried her eves and rowed homeward,
.grave yet cheerful.
"Is his ship gone?" asked her moth-,-er.
"Well, he is a fine lad to look at,
Lai, and if he is as true as he is strong
and well-favored, 1 could wish you noth
ing better. Let us forget tho signs and
warnings, my dear," this was kindly
meant, but had an unpleasant and grue
isome sound, "and let us hope that he
will come back again. Indeed, I do not
jsee any reason why ho should not come
iback more than once.
Everything went on, then, as if nothing
bad happened. What a strange tiling
'it is that pcojilo can go on as if nothing
3iad happened, after tho most tremend
ous events! Life so changed for her,
jet Captain Zachariasen taking up the
'thread of her discorrso just as before,
and the same interest expected to be
shown in the timber trade! Yet what a
very different thing is interest in timber
trade compared with interest in a man!
Then she discovered with some surprise
that her old admiration of Captains as a
class, bad been a good deal mollified
during the last three weeks. There
were persons in the world, it was now
quite certain, of culture superior even to
that of n skipper in the Canadian trade.
And she clearly discovered, for tho first
time, that a whole life devoted to making
Captains comfortable, providing them
with pudding, looking after their linen,
and bearing their confidences, might,
without tho gracious influences of
love, become a very arid and barren
kind of life, Perhaps, also, the recol
lection of that holiday at Hampton
Court helped u modify her views on the
subject of Hotherluthe and its people.
The place was only, after all, a small
arl of a great iiy ; the people wer.
iuunhle. One 'may discover as muel
Vtirlaiuly about one's own people wilh-
1 1 becoming ashamed of them. It is
only when one reaches a grade higher
in the social scale that folk become
vshamoil of themselves. An a-surcd
position in the world, as the chimney
sweep remarked, gives one confidence.
Lai plainly saw that her sweetheart was
of gentler birth anil better breeding
than she had been accustomed to. She
therefore resolved to do her best never
lo make him on that account repent his
choice, and there was an abundance of
tine sympathy, thn assumption or pre
tense of which is the foundation of good
manners, in this girl's character.
Jt was an intelligent parrot wine
Hex bad given her. and at this jimeltir
proved a remarkably sympathetic crea
ture, for at sight of his mistress he
would shake bis head, plume his wings,
and presently, as if necessary to con
sole her, would cry:
" l'oor Hex Armiger! l'oor Hex Ar
miger!" Hut she was never dull, nor did she
betrav to any one, least of all to her old
friend Captain Zachariaseu, that her
manlier of regarding things had in the
least degree changed, while the secret
joy that was in her heart showed itself
in a thousand merry ways, with songs
and laughter, and lit t lo jokes with her
Captains, so that they marveled that
thi! existence of a sweetheart at sea
should produce so beneficial an effect
upon maidens. Perhaps, too, in some
mysterious way, her happiness affected
the puddings. 1 say not this at ran
dom, because certainly the fame of
Kydquist's as a house where comforts,
elsewhere unknown, and at Liinhouse
and Poplar quite unsuspected, could be
found, spread far and wide, even to
Dcbtfonl on the cast, and Stebney on
the north, and the house might have
been full over ami over again, but thev
would take in no strangers, being iii
this respect as exclusive as llootlls's.
This attitude of cheerfulness was
greatly commended by Captain Zacha
riaseu. " Some girls," be said, "would
have let their thoughts run upon their
lover instead of their duty, whereby
houses are brought tovuin and Captains
seek comfort elsewhere. Once the
sweetheart is gone, he ought never
more to be thought upon till ho conn-s
home again, save in bed or in church,
while there is an egg to bo boiled or an
onion to bo peeled."
Tbe first b iter which Hex sent her
was the first that Lai had ever received
in all her life. And such a letter! It
came from the Suez Canal: the next
came from. Aden; the next from Point
de ('alio; the next from Calcutta. So
far all was well, lie sure that Lai read
them over and over again, every one,
and carried them about in her iiosom,
and knew them all word for word, and
was, after the way of a good and honest
girl, touched to the very heart that
man should love her so very, very
much, and should think so highly of
her, and should talk as if she was all
goodness a tiling which no woman can
understand. It makes silly girls despise
men, and good girls respect anil fear
them.
The next letter was much more im
portant than the first four, which were,
in truth, mere rhapsodies of passion,
although on that very account more in
teresting than letters which combine
matter-of-fact business with love, for.
on arriving at Calcutta, Hex found
nronosal awaitiiis? for his aecentance.
This offer came from the Directors of
the Company and showed in what good
esteem he was held, being nothing less
than the command of one of their
smaller steamers, engaged in what
called the country trade.
" It will separate us for three years
least, lie wrote, "and perhaps tor live,
but I cannot afford to refuse the chance.
Perhaps, if I did, I might never get
another oiler, and everybody is con
gratulating me, and thinking me ex
tremely fortunate to get a ship so early.
So, though it keeps me from the girl
my heart, I have accepted, ami I sail
once. iIv shin is named the Philii
pine. Sho is a thousand-ton boat, and
classed 1U0 A 1, newly built. She is not
like the Aryan, fitted with splendid
mirrors, and gold and paint, and a great
saloon, being built chielly for cargo.
The crew are all Lascars, and I am tho
only Englishman aboard except the
mate anil the cluet engineer. e are
under orders to take in rice from Hong
Kong; bound for Brisbane, first of all;
if that answers wo shall continue in the
country grain trade; if not, we shall,
suppose, go seeking, when I shall have
a commission on the cargo. As for
pay, I am to have twenty pounds
month, with rations and allowances,
and liberty to trade so many tons
every voyage if I like. These are
good terms, and at tho end of every
year there should bo something put by
in the locker. Poor Lai! Oh, my dear
sweet eyes! Oh, my dear brown . hair!
Oh, my dear sweet lips! I shall not
kiss them for three years more. What
are three years? Soon gone, my pret
ty. Think of that, and heart up! As
soon as I can I will try for a Port
London ship. Then we will bo married
and have a house at Gravesend, where
you shall seo me come up stream, home
ward bound." With much inore to the
same effect.
Three years or it might be five! Lai
put down the letter, and .tried to make
out what it would mean to her. Sho
would be in three years, when Hex came
home, one-and-twenty, and ho would bo
iive-aiiil-twcnty. Five-and-twenty seems
to eighteen what forty seems to thirty,
fifty to forty, and sixty to fifty. One
has a feeling that the ascent of life must
then be quite accomplished, and the de
scent fairly begun; the leaves on the
trees by the wayside must be ever
little browned nnd dusty, if not yellow;
the heart must be full of experience, the
head must be full of wisdom, the crown
of glory, if any is to be worn at all, al
ready on the brows.. The ascent of life
is like the climbing of some steep hill,
because the summit seems continually
to recede, and so long as one is young
in heart it is never reached. Hex fivu
and tweuty! Three years to wait!
It is, indeed, a long time for the
young fo look forward to. Such a quan
tity of things get accomplished in three
years! Why, in three years a lad gets
through his whole undergradiiato
course, and makes a spoon or spoils
horn. Three years mako up one hun
dred and fifty-six weeks, with the same
number of Sundays, in every one of
which a girl may sit in the quiet church,
and wonder on what wild seas or in
what peaceful haven her lover may be
floating. Three years are foursumuiers
in the course of three years, with as
many other seasons; in three years there
is time for many a hope to spring up,
llourish fora while, and die; for friend
ship to turn into hate; for strength to
decay; and for youth to grow old. The
experience of tho long succession of
human generations has developed this
sad thing among mankind that we can
not look forward with joy to the coming
years, and in everything unknown
which will happen to us we expect
thing of evil. Three years! Y t it must
he borne, as the lady said to the school
'ov concerning the fat beef: "it
leiped and must be finished."
When Mrs. Hydquist heard the news
a
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of
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a
of
so
a
a
is
slie fir-t held mi her hands, and spread
them slowly out ward, shaking and wag
ging her head a most dreadful sign,
worse than any of those with which
Panurge discomfited Thiiiunast. Then
she sighed heavily. Then she said aloud:
"Oh! dear, dear, dear! So soon! I
had begun to hope that the bad lock
would not show yd! Hear, dear! Yet
what could be expected after such cer
tain sign-?"
"Why." said Captain Zacliariascn,
"as for signs, they may menu anything
or anybody, and as for fixing them on
Cap'cn Armiger, no reason that lean
see. Don't be downed, Lai. The nar
row seas are as safe as the Mcdilerra
nean. In my time there were the pirates,
who are now shot, hanged rgid drowned,
every man Jack. Xu more stinkpots in
crawling boats pretending to be friend
ly traders. You might row your diirgy
about the islands as safe as Limn' us
ltcach. Lord! I'd rather go cruising
with your sweetheart in them waters
than take a two-penny omnibus along
the Old Kent Hoad. Yoursigns, ma'am, '
be said to .Mrs. Rydqitist politely, "must
be read other ways. There's Cap'rn
liiddiman; perhaps they're meant for
nun.
Then came another letter from Singa
pore. Hex was pleased with the sh'q
and his crew. All was going well.
After six weeks there came another
letter. It was from Hong-Kong. The
Philippine had taken o hoard her car
go of rice, and was to sail next day.
Hex wrote in his usual confident, hap
py vein full of love, of hope and hap
piness.
itter that no more letters at all.
Silence.
Lai went on in cheerfulness for a long
tune, hex could not write from Brisbane.
He would when tile ship got back to
Hong-Kong.
The weeks went on, but still there
was silence. It was whispered in the
Captains" room that the Philippine was
long overilue-at Morelon liay. then
the whispers became questions' whether
there was any news of her; then one
went across to the office of the Compa
ny, and brought back the dreadful news
that the owners had given her up; and
thoy began to hide away the biipiini
iiuil M'-rrtuitiu' (jnzdlr. Then every
body became extremely kind to Liil,
studying little surprises for her, and as
suming an appearance of light-hearted-ness
so as to deceive the poor girl. She
went about with cheerful face, albeit
with sinking heart. Ships are often
overdue; IctUrs get lost on the way; for
a while she still caroled and sang about
her work, though at times her song
would suddenly stop like the song of a
bullfinch, who remembers .something,
and must needs stay bis singing while
he thinks about it. "
Then there came a time when the
poor child stopped singing altogether,
and would look with anxious eves from
one Captain to the other, seeking com
fort. But no one had any comfort to
give her.
Captain Zacliariascn fold her at last.
He was an old man; he had seen so
many shipwrecks that they thought he
would tell her best; also it. was consid
ered his duty, as the father or the oldest
inhabitant of Kydquist's, to undertake
this task: and as a wise and discreet per
son he would tell the story, as it should
be told, in few words, and so get over it
without beatings on and off. Ho ac
cepted the duty, and discharged himself
of it as soon as he could. Ho told her
the storv, in fact, the next morning in
the kitchen.
He said quietly:
" Lai, my dear, the Philippine has
gone to tho bottom, and and don't
take on, my pretty. But Cap'cn Ar
miger he is gone, too; with all hands ho
went down."
"How do you know?" she asked.
The news was sudden, but she had felt
it coming; that is, she had felt some of
it not all.
" The insurances have been all paid
up; the ship is posted at Lloyd's. My
dear, I went to the underwriters a month
ago and more, and axed about her.
Axed what they would underwrite her
for. and they said a hundred per cent.;
and then they wouldn't do it. Not a
atom of hope gone sho is, and that
young fellow aboard her. Well, my
dear, that's done with. Shall I leave
you here alone to get through a spell o'
crying?"
"The ship," said Lai, with dry eyes,
"may be at tho bottom of the sea, and
the insurances may be paid for her.
But Hex is not drowned."
That was what she said: "Hex is not
drowned."
Her mother brought out her cherished
crape sho was a woman' whom this
nasty crinkling black stuff comforted in
a way and offered to divide it with her
daughter.
Lai refused; she bought herself gay
ribbons, and she decked herself with
them. She tfied, in order to show the
strength of her faith, to sing about the
house.
"Hex," she said, stoutly, "is not
drowned."
This was a most unexpected way of re
ceiving the news. The Captains looked
for a bnrst of tears and lamentations,
after which things would brighten up,
and some other fellow might have a
chance. No tears! No chance for any
body else!
" Kibbons!" moaned Mrs. Rydquist.
"Oh, Captain Zachariasen, my daugh
ter wears ribbons blue ribbons and
red ribbons while her sweetheart, ly
ing at the bottom of tho sea, cries
aloud, poor lad, for a single yard of
crape!"
" Twould be more natural," said
Captain Zacliariascn, "to cry and
adone with it. But gals, ma'am, are
not what gals was in my young days,
when so many were there as was taken
off by wars, privateers, storms and the
hand of tbe Lord, that there was no
time to cry over them, not for more
than a month or so. And as for Hying
in tho face of Providence, and saying
ti'iat a drownded man is not drownded
a man whose slopes insurances have
been paid, and his ship actually posted
at Lloyd's why it's beyond anything."
"Hex is not dead," said the girl
to herself, again and again. "He is not
dead. I should know if he were dead.
He would, somehow or other, come and
lull me. Ho is sitting somewhere I
know not where it is waiting for de
liverance, and thinking oh, my Hex!
mv Hex thinking about tho girl he
loVes." " fe
This was what she said; her words
were brave, yet it is hard to keep one's
faith up to so high a level as these
words demanded. Eor no one else
thought there was, or could be, any
chance. For nearly three years she
struggled to keep alive this poor ray of
hope, based upon nothing at all; and
for all that time no news came from
tho far East about her lover's ship, nor
did any one know hero she was cast
away or how. v
Sometimes this faith would break
down, and she would ask in tears and
with sobbings what so many women be
reft of their lovers have asked in vain
an answer to her prayers. Ah! help
less ones if her prayers were mock
eries, and her lover were dead lu very
truUi!
CHAPTER V.
THE PATIENCE OF PENELOPE.
The longer Ulysses staved away from
the rocky Ithaca, the more niimerou-'
became the suitors for the hand of the
lovely Penelope will) possessed the art
revived much later by Ninon de l'l'.n
clos of remaining beautiful although
she grew old. That was because Pen
elope wickedly encouraged her lovers
lo their destruction mid held out
false hopes connected with a simple bit
of embroidery. Why the foolish fel
lows, whose wi should have been
sharpened by the vehemence of their
passion, did not discover the trick, is
not; apparent. Perhaps, however, the
climate of Ithaca was bracing, and the
wine good, so that t hey winked one upon
the other, and pretended not to see, or
whispered: "He will never come, let us
wait."
The contrary proved the case with the
lass of Hotherhithe. When, after two
years or so, some of her old suitors
ventured with as much delicacy as
in tliein lav to reopen the subject of
courtship, they were met with a recep
tion so unmistakable that thc imme
diately retired, baflled, and in confu
sion; some among tbcm those of
coarser mind to scoil'and sneer at a con
stancy so unusual. Others those of
preater sympathies to reflect with all
humility on the great superiority of the
feminine nature over their own, since it
permitted a fidelity which they could not
contemplate as possible for themselves.
and were lain to admire wlulo they re
gretted it.
TO UK CONTISM F.D.
Historical Oaths.
Interesting historical oaths might be
quoted ad infinitum. Their earliest ju '
ilicial application is mentioned in the
twenty-second chapter of Exodus, where
they are ordered to be administered
with a view to the just restoration of
lost property. And, in sacred history,
we hear of swearing by idols, by the
heavens and cart h as material structures;
by the sun, moon and stars; by the tem
ple and its altars and other parapherna
lia; by the eyes, and by the soul, both
of the juror and of the one to whom the
adjuration was addressed. In ancient
mythology we learn, according to
Hcsiod, that Jupiter swore' by the
Stygian Lake, and ordained those
waters as an oath for all the gods. If
any god forswore himself, he was de
barred nectar, and degraded from bis
divinity for one hundred years.
( Irons, the patron of oaths, was the son
of Kris, or strife; and the same poet
declares th;?t deeeil and oaths originated
together, for in the (iolden Age no arti
ficial confirmation was required. Among
the Creeks the Athenians invoked the
"mighty Twelve," and Spartans Castor
and Pollux. Their wives swore by
Juno, Diana. .Venus, Proserpine and
Ceres. Hhailainant bus forbade bis fol
lowers to swear by aught save a dog, a
goose and a plane tree; while Pyiha
goras made the number 4 the only
standard on which his disciples might
stake their veracity. Demosthenes
swore by the dead at Marathon; the
Kings by their scepters; and the l'ho
cians, "when they built Massilia, in Nar
bonnesc (iaul, bound themselves so sol
emnly never to return to Phocis, that
their names became a proverb for a
stern vow." In all times men have
sworn by their patron saints or
deities, and by those under whose pro
tection their trade, handicraft, accident
al occupation or nationality was sup
posed to lie. But iu olden ilays curses
were very nearly akin to oaths, and, in
deed, constitute tho major part of those
invocations of the supernatural powers
which have been left on historical rec
ord. The attempt of Balak to curse the
Israelites by means of Balaam is an in
stance of this. In the "Electra" of
Sophocles, the "Ninth Hind" of Homer,
and the "Orestes" of Euripides we find
families, and even hostile cities, cursed
in the mo.-t elaborate manner; and the
Athenians evidently were imbued with
an idea of the religious weight which
might attach to an imprecation when
they ordered Alcibiades to he publicly
cursed by all the priests and priestess
es. London (ilohr.
The Creation of Electric Forces.
A water-wheel, by being employed to
generate electricity, may light our
rooms, cook our dinners and ripen our
peaches. We can have light from it by
which we can work as easily at night as
in the day a light that will neither
consume our fresh air, nor vitiate it
with foul gases, nor smoke our ceilings
and destroy our curtains; which can set
lire to nothing; the globe of which can
be hooked to an invalid's bed-curtain
without risk, or attached to flexible
wires and taken into the most confined
corner to give light to a workman,
without danger of fire. It would fill a
volume to state at length all the prac
tical advantages which this develop
ment of electricity has opened up al
ready, and more than a volume to state
all that it may bo expected yet to ac
complish. Let it also be understood
that while .the foregoing illustrations
have been stated in relation to water
power, they are equally true for any
other power, such as steam-engine,
gas-engine, horse-power or human
labor. The fixed engine on a farm can
do the plowing hundreds of yards oil'.
Tho gas-engine that pumps water by
day, can light the house at night. Tho
horses that drag coal carts for many
miles to work a steam-engine in some
outlying place, can be used at home in
stead to work an electric machine, with
no loss of time, and in many cases with
less waste of labor. Tho convicts on a
tread-mill can be doing work by it at
any part of, or even outside, the prison.
In a word, the power for work can be
generated by any ordinary means,
and at any place where the means
exist, ami can then be economically
conveyed to the spot where it is to be
usefully applied without loss of time
and practically in full strength. Tho
tide on the shore can do work inland;
tho stream in the mountain gorge can
do work on the hill-top; the wind-mill
on the eminence can do work in the val
ley; the horse in the yard or the man in
the out-house can do work inside the
dwelling. And with all its power, anil
its universality of application, this new
servant w hich science has supplied us
w ith is the most docile of menials. A
touch of a lady's linger will bring into
action a power which a thousand men
could not resist; another touch will stop
ils action or reverse it in a moment.
D'ack wood's Mn'jn :iit:
There are fifty-seven drinks of
whisky to the gallon, at ten cents a
drink. i j.TO. Whisky sold at ten cents
never costs over $i to ijii.KU per gallon.
Often the same article is sold at fifteen
cents per drink, bringing tH.Sa per gal
lon. ('.iVdrD Tilllt S.
There is said to be a farm in Wor
cestershire, England, which stands in
tw dve parishes and pays fifty different
rat vs.
I!v becoming an Odd Fellow an old
bachelor may become a Grand Sire.
A'. O. I'ictiyuHC.
The Attorney-General on the Right of
Suffrage.
The following letter, written by Attorney-
leneral Brewster to Dallas San
ders, Assistant District-Attorney of the
I'nili'd Slates, at Charleston, S."C, ex
plains itself. Tho letter, dated at Wash
ington, March 1S, is in part as follows:
1 hnvp jlit reeeiveil a alxirt ante from yell,
t' iri M her will) n m--'Mif rut fr. mi u Sunt hi 'iir.,
linn mper. I knew yen woiil 1 suit Iho-e pe,
Jile iiii'l I he jnirp'ise I hiel in M'tnlintr you to
Soul h I 'nriilinii, Iit your sens., ot hutior imii
pulihe ilut mill the npprrcltitlon nt Die ohlimt
llnli nt your protesiuii untilit leii't ymi to
live stl ie'ly up lo Ihe line nf the IlHMt rii'l ri
ipllrohlents (,f olTlrtlll lltel prnf ess, ,ti,U Outv
without reirm-il to party; inel. en the other
hiinil. yciur own pronniinei t piwiflun ns tt
1 eiiii)ernl woiiM prevent the cuminnnltv In
u hie!) ynu now in e from ipiestiiMiltor ll)e m
ti es of your Metions. iim tlle lire suet to h:l e
lone in it to perei loeiil itii'l unliiir wn' III! who
were not ,,f their thinkfmr In polities.
,..tre you to ei.nvey whut I now write to
Mr. Melton, ntl't reml every word I ito write.
A n ln eNtitfitl ion lm been reeently hii'l here
fu WjishiuKion In the contest hetween snuills
liml Tillinnu lu the House. I senl you liv this
tnilil H prmteil eepy ol the pneeeh ntrs fuel
testimony nnil itrifuinent. 1 ile-iro your at
tention to it. uiel Mr. Meltons Httention
to it. An'l 1 expressly request you to
sny to Mr. Melton Hint it is mv ileterm'iuiitioii
to httve these mutters l Itoroiiy hly ln cstornit''l
titi'l closelv pursuetl. The riu-ht of sunnnie
must he protected, t)o mutter who suiters. I
wish Mr. Melton to he told liy you th.it lex
peel that he will prosecute forthwith the most
important persons who hiivp heeii concerned
In these attempts to detent honest elections
1 iv I i'muiIii lent or forcible mean. I say the
highest and most responsible people are those
whom I defire to lie tlrsl prosecuted lindtlrst
llllisoed. There will lie no example If merely
fusurinticiiht person an taken hold of.. Those
w ho stand hurh in the community and have
thus vent ured to iolatc the law and cneour
mre others v do it are the very persons to he
lirsl prosecuted, and If eomicled, punished In
a sliouil wav. Then thinifs will heif in to ehanln?-
and the voters will lie eneournireil to vote ae
Ceidiiuf to their con v ic t ioi is, and (hose w ho do
Vote will feel siltisticd that their votes have
been duly counted and .surrender i hecliiilly
to an horn st result.
I am vcrv much in earnest about thi. for I
have heard here what I c: ntiet ere lit, that it Is
eurrriuiy sain in souin l ar olin i lh;il The only
persons who will be lu-o-ecllted will he a few
Insiirnilleimt mid obscure persons. oich pros
eeulions 1 will not consider as lielnir those
that Jiisiiee re. (Hires to be iust it ute.l and (illf
mic I. The criminal e.iurt-hoiise should not h
ll-.ed only fur the puui-hment of the obscure.
II up isf not be the p .or in all's court-house; all
who violate ihe law. and especially a tun. la
in, -lit ii I law. such as the ritfhl ot still nitre, mii-t
be made to leel the terrors of that law. The
alms., of the rijfht of sunrair,-, such ns Is
rhnrLr''d to have been .perpetrated in South
Carolina, is a prapiical treason against the iliir
nilv of the people and of th" fundamental
principles of their power, unit It must be sii
nullv puiii-hed.
At this point I have paused and re-re:iil mv
letter. 1 was about to send it otr t i yon, and
as I rend it hut I saw that thronirh it ran a
prettv -harp lone of reprobation of this sii)
p. ised attempt to pnr-ue the poor and obscure,
and to penult the prosperous and important to
c-cape the pros 'culioti that they merited. Ihe
pi-oscelll ion 1. ir the oil discs t hey were eharjfc'l
with hio imt: commitled. J see nothinir in my
letter Unit ourhl to be tnoditied. lor I am dee
l In earnest about all this. Von are a I )emo
ctat, and vcrv prop-rly symp:tt hi.e with your
party, and I talk to oil with a lit I le more vij or
because you arc a licmoerat. and also because
we enjoy such close pers anil and lrictidlv n-
lati ins. wi-h to express niv Kepul.betiti
i ou ;e;ions u p m t his sub ject . but. Irr.s-pect i e
ol iu 1,'cpublican convictions. I intend more
cniphalicullv to indicate how important all of
this is to I. .th sides, that there -houi.l be fair
piny, lair plav all around. There is no just
ju. lament or popular will in unv election tint
ts i '. .ii I rol I1 '. I or bias.-.! hy lorce or traud. and I
do in-ist that both I),
should have their la.
mocrats and Hepul.licntis
set as unit against any
e tent fair use of the
abuses airainst the Ir
balht-boy.
Colonel Melton I desire shall read this, mi l I
would wrde directly to him upon the subject
If it were not that it miirht look like an otlicial
ildmonit ion that to a certain extent was
prompted by a belief in the rumor that 1 have
before repeated to-wit : that the poor and ob
scure were to be pursued le d the conspicuous
and prosperous were to escape the juilinent
ot the law. I would not iu any way impeach
him, and therefore 1 will not write even it let
ter in Ihe kindest spirit that miirht be con
st rued ns iriviiuf color to such imputations, for
I believe, as the people believe and hope, that
win on nts uin .
In reply to Attorncy-flencial Brews
ter's letter Mr. Sanders wrote from
Charleston, March I'l:
.ludire Melton moved his ollipe from Colttin
tila to this place, which was reached last niirlit,
In order to make the tlnal preparations for the
trial of cases just before th" upenlnirot the
Circuit Court here on the tlrst Monday of April.
found your letter on my desi this morning
and have shown it to .ludifo Melton.
I ilielos.i you n list of the election cases si)
far selected for trial thp extract heiior from
yesterdav's Charleston iWa-s nn.l CnanVr.
When I reached Columbia last month .ludire
M"!tuit instructed mc in my vi-its to the vari
ous counties to select tho stronjrest cases
auaiust the most impirlaut and influential
lllell, not to take the little tellows.
Von will sec by the list inclosed that the iiicn
we propose to try are, except from llarnwell
County, the tnanaL'crs of election, that is, the
election ollicers who carry on the election on
Ihe dav ot election, like the .lu.lires and In
spectors of election in Pennsylvania. Then
we have a case from Sumter C anity airainst
the ii ard of I 'ounty i 'anvassors they are tho
Haul who e e.mt the return front tic? various
precincts ot their re peel ive counties and for
ward It to the Hoard of State Canvassers.
Not Yet Finished.
The success of (ieneral Mahone in
Virginia has not yet produced its final
results. The interest of the Republican
party, however, is plain enough., it
elected Lincoln, saved the country and
had a right to control its policy and Ad
ministration, lu its reconstruction of
the .Southern States, the negro was
given suffrage as a corollary to Ids free
dom, and as a matter of course he be
came intensely Republican. That fact,
with tho other fact of his large majori
ty in cigl
the ascci
mlanev of the Republican or
ganization a mere question of arith
metic. It would have, mud by all rights
should have, remained so; for the same
vote is there, only it is strangled anil
silent. The South called it "race dom
ination" and "negnriile," and its hot
blood rose in revolt, and the colored
vote was stamped out. The Nation was
bound in principle and honor to protect
that vote, but it did not. The Republic
ans ought to have defended their own,
but they eohld not stand the ridicule of
the "bloody shirt" and never recog
nized the situation until a Solid South
put 1;S Electoral votes into the count
and their grasp was gone. From a de
cisive vole of quite two-thirds, it, tho
Republican vote, has been reduced to a
struggle for bare existence. That is our
plight now. It was an open secret, that
tit least eight Stales have been w renched
away from the Republicans and they
never used their power to have that vote
collected and counted by their own
ollicers, as they of right should have
done. They quietly bore it and now they
are reduced to the doubtful extremity of
trying to cozen the Democrats into a
boll, by ollering them even thing that
politically belongs to the veteran South
ern Republican.
There may be Southern leaders, whose
ambition, like Mahonc's. to control their
State may lead them to accept the prop
osition, but the local direction of the
Stale is not of concern to our National
party. It is tho Electoral vote that
avails us. It matters little to the South
ern Republican whether his vote is
smothered by the Bourbon or forced to
another order of Democrat by his party
lash. It is enshu ed all the saint:. It is
true (ieneral Mahone has voted with the
Republicans in the Senate and hasearricd
bis Sttite; but every other independent
movement iu the South has invariably
been a mere Democratic family quarrel,
patched up in time lor the general elec
tion. The New York Thna has sent a cor
respondent to lieorgia who thinks that
there is a great movement on foot there
and in Noith Carolina, and iu one or
two other Slates. Now, what is the real
interest of the Republican party in these
movements? Only this that the Lib
eral Democrats will permit the Repub
lican vote to be counted, not foraltepu!)
lican, but for a Liberal Democrat all
of which is liberal in.'ua.l, . t. know
thai on a free vote tlnjso States are
ours; ntid, ipstrnd of placing Federal
oflleers at the polls w ho will see that
it is fairly cast and honestly counted,
instead of doing our duty like men and
protecting our own, we get down on
our knees and beg our enemies to help
ns. The Mahone policy is simply to
oiler eve.rvt hing to certain I Icmocral s to
split their regular organization, so thai,
our 'ole may slip in and be counted.
Whatever result the independent
movement may have in liberating. the
local Adminisl rat ion of some of the
Southern States, it will never succeed
in our day in bringing any one of them
into our National line on a general elec
tion. This way of crawling into the
back door of tho Democratic party to
steal our own vote, to smuggle away
our own property before their i yes, will
be permitted to us only so far as it will
help them and no further.
That vole is ohm; it is "forbidden by
murder;" let us go down there in a
manly way with the Constitution and
laws anH recover our own, in justice
and right. If we do not then, mark it,
the South will every four yVars roll up
that solid vote and we will not always
have John Kelly or all Electoral Com
mission to save us.
Once lost to us the Southern influence
stands as l'.W to 47 in the Democratic
party, and the party that saved the
country will be helpless to save itself.
We have no time to spare. We shall
deserve death too, if we fail to protect
the rights thaC it cost thelivesof oim.iHnj
of our best anil bravest to vindicate.
Oiniili'i Htp'iblirun.
A Jeffersonian Revival.
:
The Hon. William A. Wallace, of
Pennsylvania, has written an eloquent
and exhorl ntory letter to t he Democracy
oit tint subject of a "Joll'ersonian Re
vival, we have seldom perused a
document, morp thoroughly saturated
with noble sentiment. Like the other
leaders of his party, Mr. Wallace is in
favor of going a long way back for in
spiration. "Let Us," be says, "go
back and learn what Jefferson thought,
and teach it to the people." The way t
teach it, he continues, is thoroughly to
organize the, parly. "Organization is
indispensable to success in business and
equally so in politics. Close attention
to details is tho only safe means to a
competence in life: accurate, earnest
and systematic attention to details in
politics is the only road to triumph
there." What we have quoted is the
more prosaic part of the eloquent epis
tle. These plain statements of the
business as t of the 'revival" are
dropped in carelessly amid a great deal
of very eloquent talk about "Crusa
ders." "religious fervor," "trained
soldiers of the Turk," "centralized
power," "unbought pen and the won
drous power of honest poverty," "aris
tocratic tendency and moneyed eon-
trol, ' but w
quote them as being after
till the most significant portion of the
letter, since at its close .Mr. Wallace
says "an organization based upon busi
ness principles is t he only road to the'
success of our opinions."
What does he mean by "an organiza
tion based upon business principles?"
We need not go so far back as Jefferson
I for an answer. The year lMliT is re
mote enough. In that ear Mr. Wal
lace sent a circular to all the local Dem
ocratic organizers throughout Pennsyl
vania, ollering so much apiece for every
Democratic vote they could poll in ex
cess of the standard Democratic vote ol
the district. The price was so liberal
that laborers were brought into the
State by car-loads and shunted off a.t
various polling-places. As they could
not vote without naturalization papers,
bogus ones were supplied, and the fer
tile genius of Mr. Wallace invented tho
process of giving these papers the ap
pearand' of age by soaking them in
coffee. These facts were revealed by an
investigating committee, and th'eir pub
lication fixed upon their hero the appro
priate title of " Cotl'ec-Pot" Wallace,
which ho bears with shrinking modesty
to tliis day. This was an application of
" business principles" to politics which
has never been equaled; it was indeed
" accurate, earnest and systematic at
tention to details." He believed in thu
plan then, and if ho believes in it still it
is natural he should wish to give it
another trial. -V. 1". Tribune.
Another Democratic Letter-Writer.
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Another chief among the fading polit
ical tribes of the aborigines that can not
get beyond what Jefferson and Jackson
said, has lifted up his Voice. Mr. Wal
lace, formerly a Senator from Pennsyl
vania, has w ritten a letter to one of the
gentes of the tribe of Jefferson, telling
them what the tribe must do to be saved.
Tin: enemies of the tribe are numerous.
They are thoroughly organized. They
are divided among themselves into many
factions, that quarrel like cats and dogs
with each other; but "when tho hour
of trial comes" (meaning election day)
they present "an almost invincible pha
lanx," which is " wielded as one man
by tho power of 100,000 trained pivot
men and drill sergeants," kept in the
pay of Government "in every post
ollice, collection district. Custom-house
and still-house in the land." The Great
Problem which tho tribe of Jefferson
have to solve is how to overcome this
almost invincible phalanx how to get
possession of the largo number of fat of
fices they possess. To state the method
of this long struggled for but never at
tained achievement is the object of Mr.
Wallace's epistle. In the first place,
they must stop Jiciug "all things to all
men." This would seem to imply that
they must stop being protectionists in
Pennsylvania and free-Ira lers in New
York;bulliouists in Wall street and
Greenbackers in Indiana; things op
posite to each other on opposite
sides of every line, visible and in
visible. The Pennsylvania sachem must
mean, then, that they must all array
themselves under the protection banner
ot Messrs. Wallace, oorhees and Hen
dricks, for it would be useless trying to
persuade those tribal leaders to change
t heir own colors on the tariff question.
Doubtless it will be equally useless tor
them to exhort other equally obstinate
tribesmen to change front on that ques
tion. But the proper way to bringtlieni
together in one effective organic body
is, according to Wallace, to say nothing
at all about public questions, to propose
nothing in relation to them, to sink
them, to ignore them, to subordinate
them wholly to the purpose of getting
tho offices, and, instead of attacking tho
enemy on any ground of principle,
polity, or public purpose, to attack him
" wilh unbotighl pen and the wondrous
power ol honest poverty!" In other
words, the true way for the wretched
old party skeleton which can not get
beyond what Jefferson and Jackson
said, is to play the unprincipled dema
gogue and tho unconscionable hypocrite
combined.
Alas! it is a role which tho old fraud
has been playing for twenty years. The
success which has attended its perform
ance has not been such , it should
seem, would encourage rational persons
to persist in that programme. Hut
then, Mr. Wallace is not a very rational
kind of politician.- tVn'cnyy Tina s (liid.J.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
The Rpt. Jal-?: S. Swan, A welT-i
kanwti Baptist, primhrr in Connwtictrt
and New York, is in his sixtieth year of
his ministry, and is still preaching.
Thf Presbyterian Sunday SchotJ at)
Ponn"iiiitvillp, Crawford ('ounty, P.t. ,
awards a handsome Easter bonnet pversjn
nionlU to tbe scholar who stands best in
her class and church and Sunday Sehoot
attendance.
('eorfi. leads the Baptist hosts of
this country in numbers, having 2.8!ti
churches and WHJTib members, Tcxa
foHowingnexlm-Uie number of clHirclw.
,25, and Vrrginiain membership, 20"f,
U0. i
It is one of th unoxpla'urablp things
of moral ethics how people df uidp -sot
promptly as to how little rain and baol
weather it takes to keep them away from
pniyer-iifeeting, and now much is re
quired to keep them away from a good
show.
Thf new revivalist, George O:
Jiarues, call himself the "Mountain
Evangrlieal of Kent ky." Hp claim
to be able not only to cure sin-sick souls
tint rmeas-haripm"t! bodies. For thn
first he preaches and prays. The latter
be anuoints and prays over. .
A Scotch writer who has been look
ing into the hand-books of worship of
tbe Roman Catholic Church finds the
number of directions for spreading andi
folding ths hands, bowing, kneeling,,
kissing the alt nr. ot, to be .'!'..'0, slight
bows 61. profound bows 9. Ituiinnapo
lis S'Htinel. .
There is a movement in the KeDtneJ
ky Legislature for the equalization of tho
distribution of the school fund between
the white and colored people of the State.
A discrimination is now made against
the colored people on the ground that
they pay ta.xe-s on only .;l,.r0i.,00l) worth,
of property. Dmrcr Tribune.
It is said that Leipzig, Germany,
has only seven churches, all poorly at
tended, no such thing as a Sunday
school, and that a religions person is
there looked upon as a curiosity.' That)
is the worst thing we have eyervJieanI
said of Leipzig, and we a- e glad a like:
record cannot truthfully be written of
any city in this country. A". Y. h'xam-
t Mr. i
The Rev. Dr. Gladden thinks that
pupils should K-arn such tilings as will
tend to make them happy in whatever
calling they may choose. He suggests
that all possible wayshoubl be devised
in school to aw aken the minds of tho
pupils and stimulate a I hirst for knowl
edge; and he suggests that boys should
be made to see thai farm life is far from
lonely or uninteresting. They iouM
lie taught natural history and miner
alogy. Miss Anna direr' s church in Wil
loughby and Tompkins Avenues, Urook
lin, is iu luck once more. The church
is built on leased ground owned by two.
parties, one of whom has deeded all his
right, title and interest in the real estate
to the church for church purposes. The
other owns $1.1, OuO in it yet, and now
Miss Oliver and her officials want the
friends of this enterprise to the number
of 1:5.000, which she believes it has in
Brooklyn and vicinity, to contribute one
dollar or more each toward clearing oft
this indebtedness. The property is val
ued at $.''0.0ii0, arid this is all that is
due on it. Miss Oliver has been nearly
three years with the church, and this last,
is reported to be the best in every sense.
The church building seats 1,000, and is
well filled on Sabbath evenings, and has
fair audiences in tbe mornings. The Sunday-school
numbers "J00, with twenty
seven teachers. Ar. Y. un.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Every life is a drama in which tra
gedy, comedy and farce are about equal
ly divided. Men who drink enjoy the
mellow drama.
A doctor who won't advise a man
to leave off his flannels the first warm
day is no friend to the profession. De
troit Free Press.
Tliere is no doubt in the world that
everybody ought to reform, and as for
ourselves well we are very busy in
telling others what they ought to do, but
we will attend to that little matter by
and by. A'. Y. Hernli.
In youth mv miiiden mm
Was to ebmiire my tniiuiea name.
And 3o 1 uia.lp an sun
At biin, uml won my irnme.
And cbttngttd aud nm.le a name.
The .httir.
Class in History: Teacher " Who
was the first man ?" First bov " ( ieorgo
Washington. " Teacher "Next." Sec
ond boy "Adam." First boy (indig
nantly) " I didn't know yer meant for
eigners." From the recent revelations made by
the Pv.is of that city, it. is now begin
ning to be considered highly probable
that the Philadelphia detective stole lit
tle Charley Ross. llawh-Eije.
An Arkansas court recently decided
in a case of assault and battery, that
while it was merely a breach of the
peace to call a man a " no account
whelp," it was rank felony to call him,
a " low-down cuss."
A painter was going to elope with
a girl at the West. Knd. But it took him
so long to climb the ladder to her win
dow that her father had time to go anil
get a policeman to arrest the marauder.
If you ever employ a painter you'll be
lieve this. Boslon Foil.
There mit 'it hare been a time when
servant girls had a penchant for wear
ing their mistress' clothes, but that was
iu tJie days of low wages. Nowadays
the average girl would not lie seen in
such shabby dresses as the mistress is
obliged to appear in. Philadelphia
A.v.
One of the morning papers contains
an account of how a man lost a gold
watch on a Market Street car and states
that the case is in the hands of a detec
tive. If the ease is in the bands of a de
tective, we venture to .inquire what hits
become of the works. N. Y. Independ
ent. Is this not a Hoautiful Steam Press P
The Steam is Lying Down on the Floor
taking a Nap. He came from Africa
and is Seventy years Old. Tho Press
prints papers. It can Print nine hundred
Papers an Hour. It takes One Hour and
Forty Minutes to Priut tho F.dilion of
the Paper. The puxr has a circulation
of Thirty-Seven Thousand. The 15usi
ness Mauager says so. Denver Tribune
Primer.
The average young man cannot hold
thirty pounds of iron on bis knees for
tweuly minutes, yet he willingly kills
himself trying to hold W0 pounds of girt
for two hours. Detroit free Preis. ell.
what of it? Would you advo.nte tha
holding of bar iron by a man, young or
ld, in preference to HO pounds of gooil
looking female f If that is the platform
you are running on you will have an al
mighty big majority recorded against
you. You can hold the thirty pounds, of
pig iron, and we will struggle along
wilh seven times tbe weighl iu 'u.Ui.-r
kind. We were always willing to ds
more than our share ot the bald work. i
Peck's Hun.