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MINNEAPOLIS 'MINll, SAlh$£DAY, DECEMBER 26, 1885.
What it Goats to be{|i (Member of the
House pf Oomiiioas^^abject
nancial
Oalls on IBs Time, a!TiH6w He Spends
His Money—A O&panson with
Americaai CrtogresBmen.
m% a
"If I get discharges'by the company
and am out of wo^k and bard* up,
neither canditate wi^ put a joint of'
beef on my table." "vf.
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Such was the remkilJt made half de
spondingly, half sarcastically to a St.
Louis Globe-JDemocfHti correspondent
by the driver of a ^ondon omnibus^
which was journeying through a west
era suburb of the metropolis one day
during the recent general election,
where an energetically conducted con
test was in progress between a Radical
candidate and a Churfili and Constitu
tion candidate. '\i
There is nothing original in the re
mark. It expresses ^sentiment almost
a century old but it s^Aly and graphic
ally illustrates the id$a
tion of the uneduca10^l, non-thinKing
working classes of England still have
with regard to the du^es aud respoiisi
bilities of the me^r who represent
them in rarliamenti| A certain sec
tion of the Euglisli -^lectorale fail to
recognize on which si|[e the obligation
lies. They fail to, or|/irill not sf-e that
a member of ,the'Hoii& of Commons is,
a servant who is enti^d to pay for his
work and they to th|ir own satisfac
tion and sometimes t^their own inter
est, persuade themsllVes. that the in
debtedness is a strict^ one sided-one,
and always due from the^member to
his constituents. It ,ah idea Which
has come down from the days when a
vote was regarded as .^marketable com
modity, to be dispo^eil of to the high
est bidder and it is an idea wliich will
not be dispelled until^wo or three gen
erations of electors hiive passed away.
Undet' the existing {State of things in
England a member of Parliament al
m(»st of necessity miist be a wealthy
man. His Parliamentary duties, if he
discharges them at all Conscientiously,
compel him to reside ih London six or
seven months out o£.the twelve and
occupy a considerable portion of 'his
time evefi^wh^n ParHameutis not In
session. Thereare^f^ljl' constituencies
which can be suecel^fuft^-'^jtested
without an expenditure of
$3,000, aud as Ioiijg us member repre^
sen^filajeongtitu^c^lf^lg.
contribute han^sotnely to -the cost -of
his party's local permanent organiza
tion, and oftentims to keep a local par
ty newspaper on its feet. Members of
Parliament receive no salary, and
have next to 110 priveleges. When a
member is sitting on a committee he
receives a small daily fee—rarely more
than $10 but the income from that
source does not keep the most econom
ical of members iu back, fares. There
is no mileage system in England, and
free railroad passes are "unknown
among the members of Parliament, ex
cept such as are officially identified
with railway companies, Presidents
and Directors. Therie are always a
good number of such members in Par
liament. A member of Parliament's
living expenses when in London are
high. The most frugal member, who
has left his family at his home in the
country, can barely live himself in Lon
don under $4,000 per annum. There 4s
perhaps an exception to this rule in the
case of unmarried members, whose ex
penses will range from $2,500 to $3,000
per year. In the case of a married
man, who has a town house and brings
his family from the country into Lon
don society during the Parliamentary
session, the^expenses of living and en
tertaining are enormous. It is but a
poor residency at the West End of
London that can ba rented for $2,000 or
$2,500 per annum.
-The calls on a member by his constit
uents are as numerous as they are
varied. If a man living in the borough
the member represents has been ap
pointed to an office he
calls on the M. P.r
and on the strength of having voted for
him at the election asks him to become
his surety. If another man already
holding an appointment is a defaulter,
and it is a case of so mnch money paid
down by a certain day, or a criminal
prosecution and consequent exposure
will ensue, his immediate and crusted
friends assemble and appoint a com
mittee of one to ask the local member
of Parliament to advance the money
Again, if a young man is without capi
tal and desires to start business he
waits on the member to ask for a loan,
and oftentimes to ask him to indorse
him at the bank. If there is a bazar or
a church fair, the member is expected
to attend at the inaugural ceremony to
make a speech, and what is more im
portant still, to leave behind him a
check for $100 or $300. If a new church
is to be erected or anew organ, or read
ing desk to be put is an old one or an
old church to be decorated or if there
is a school picnic to be given, the lady
collectors are all in a hurry to see who
can reach the member of Parliament
first. Sow and again there axe un
seemly squabbles among the younger
ladies as to wheis tabedipiU^ to make
the etOL If a do2$%jf eauis desire to
genius has arranged a concert or organ
recital, he invariably seeks the patron
age and financial aid of the membeivof
Parliament. If a fourth-rate theatrical'
combination is giving a show in a booth'
the member is oftentimes called upon to
giye his interest and aid. Sometimes his
presence and that of his wife and daugh
ters is persistently solicited, If there
is to be a Christmas treat to the old
folks iu the town, a handsome donation
is expected from the town's representa
tivein the House of Commons. Again,
if a lady constituent writes a novel, or
sets some) jingle to music, she of tenets
than not dedicates the novel or the
jingle set to music to the local M. P.,
looks to him for an indorsement, and
expects hi,m to take a liberal number of
Copies of the publication and circulate
them among his friends. Missionary
subscription solicitors, applicants for
private loans on the without-security-,
and without-interestfooting, and dead
beats generally, call on the members
three and four deep during the time he
is at his residence in the constituency.
The calls on his time are almost ag
numerous as the calls on his pocket
book, and manyi of them more exacting.
He is supposed to be in active sympathy.
with every denomination and religious
body in his constituency. If there is a
foundation stone to be laid 1 anywhere
in the neighborhood, he is invariably
asked.to perform the ceremony, even ii
he has to journey from Lojudon in ord^r
to be-present If there is a church so
cial or a distribution of, prizes dfo a,.
school, he is expected to preside. If a
local orator—saya chemist's apprentice
or a junior lawyer's cierk—is to makea
speech in a?debating forum, he writes
to the local member for the loan of par
liamentary Blue Books. Every member
of the M. P.'s local commijttee. expects
to be rem-mber.ei with a Blye- Book
two or three times during a parliament
ary session. 2"(ot that English, Blue
Books are racy or interesting, or that
the recipient pf a JBlue Book so sent can
always understand and appreciate its
contents. But the fact that he has re
ceived a Blue Bpok from London-^-sent
direct by the member—recognizes and
improves a man's reputatioii as a poli
tician and as an authpriiy 'Qn matters
political. The smallet thd'bdhstitueiicyv
strange as it may appefcc, the greater
are the demands on the ntamber, for in
a small constituency the representative
in Parliament is more in contact with
the electors than he would be if he rep
resented a large constituency.
Healthy Girls.
Nothing is so terrible as severe neu
ralgia, and beyond a doubt girls acquire
it often enough by the conditions of
schoul life. Headache in a school-girl
usually means exhausted nerve power
through overwork, overexcitementv
overanxiety, or bad air. Rest, a good
laugh, a country walk, will usually cure
it readily enough to begin with. But
to become subject to headaches is a yery
serious matter and all such nervous
diseases have a tendency to recur, to
become periodic, to be setup by the
same causes, to become an organic habit
ofthe body. For any woman to become
liable to neuralgia is a most terrible
thing. It means that while lifelasts it is
not worth having. It paralyze# the power
to work, it deprives her of the power to
enjoy anything, it tends toward irrita
bility of temper it tempts to the nse of
narcotics and stimulants. A girl who
finds herself subject to neuralgia should
at once change her habits, if but tp
grow strong in body. Of what use is
education with ill-health? A happy
girl must be a healthy cm. The Greeks
educated their girls phyaicaBy we edu
cate ours mentally. TheGreek mottter
*iaa« erictaet a gyjnnas- fl)ore the finest children the world ever
ium or to establish a'swimnung sclrapl,
their act aa*jMK$oi*£6
call a. meef^«mttiMst.a
interview twwzite
tit*
produced. The Greek education
girls developed beatitifttl w«
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There is one advantage an English^
member- of Parliament has, over* a
^J^i^ed' States Congressman. He is
iwtofj* f4|publed witfi candidates for.
petitive examination has. done, away totjcs go
with the "influence and indorsement"
system, and.under present civil service,
regulations a member o£ Parliament
can do little for an office-seeker. Again
be has another advantage over the
United States Congressmen. He is
never interviewed by the reporters but
what he does not communicate to his
constituents in one day he has to do in
another for twice a year, sometimes
oftener, he is expected to deliver a two
hours' address to the electors, and an
swer innumerable inquiries as to why
be supported, that measure, voted
against the other measure, or why he
was not in his seat in the House of
Commons when this, that or the other
bill was under consideration. Payment
of members is one of the items in the
Radical programme. Mr. Labourchere
and a knot of advanced Radicals are
pledged to support legislation in that
direction, and although little is heard
of the issue at the present time, it is
one which will assuredly be brought
forward whenever the Radicals are in
power. It will of course revolutionize
the personnel of the House of Com
mons but it will be a change for the
better,jas the dillettante politician will
give place to the woiking politician.
The men who regard politics as a pas
time, of which class there are any num
ber in the newly elected House of
Commons, will disappear and after
their disappearance there will be legis
lation—needed legislation—in accord
ance with the wishes and the desires of
the constituencies.
"OLD'?:,IRELAND.
'fyrkf y/r
Ohristmaa in the Eqjerald,
night Maes in the Iionely ajtd{
Bem^ Kijtrio^
ABriefaMInferesting the
Characteristics of Her People
Upon That, Day.
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A vivi&Teikture in common \fothf 'the'
festival of Christmas in "Old" Ireland
is the Midnight Mass in the* remote*
sad, lonely and lovelv districts' of the
Wild West The poor priest, and he is
very poor, has a hard life of it in those
out-of-the-world regions, where the
highways are1 but boreens, aiidj roads
are but "sheep walks, and pretty par
ticularly uneven ones, to boots Bis
Reverence is, indeed, in luck, if his
means enables him to beep a rugged'
little poney, for his ministrations &x
tpnd for many an Irish mile and haii,
rain or snow, the "sick call" will find
him treading the mountain passed
bearing the viaticum to some dying
parishioner,' or en' route to hold a
station at the thatch-covered dwell
ing of some "warm" farmer, perched
on the Shoulder of an almost inaccessi
ble mountain,- or standing1 in solema
isolation in a gloomy valley, silent,save
from the cow-bells or- the barking- of
a collW,'as the very gravei'\
To miss Mass, under any circum
stahces save tiiey be of the most ex
ceptional hatur6, is an ommission of
which the Iristi ]f§asant is absolutely
incapable No matter how ofteh
Jhe
may have visited' the shebeen,' or been
lax in th6 general tenor of his unevent
ful life, to i^lss Mass'' is a crime that
does not 6nter within the precincts of
his misdemeanors and in the sno#,-in
the fain, in the mud, Mass is attended'
with the some punctuality as on a
bright May morning, when the haw
thorn blossoms paint the hedges like
perfumed snow. It is before Mass un-^
der the lee of some friendly Wall, or
seated 011 the moss and fern-caressed
stories, or daisy quilts, covering the
Village forefathers, as they sleep the
long, last slumber, that the male por
tion of the congregation discuss Mr/
Parnell, and the good men and true,
Who, possessing the courage of thfeir'
iconvictions, dare to beard the British
•lion, evett in his very den. It is'after
Mass. that Barney, in all the unspeaka
ble newness of his Sunday suit—it 16
always rre^'-^seeks and finds hi^„oeW
laen anc^'itls^^'Massi that,
time, the weatner, their ailments, aif^
thecrop8.•
J&ut the great event the year is'tile
Midnight Mass, the Mass that ushers in
the morn when the infant Savior caa^e
into the wicked world for the salvation
of sinners. Father Tom has a busy
time bint, hearing ..confessions,, riding
in hot haste, from one end of his par
ish to tiie other, making sick-calls, urgr
ing back-sliders to the chair of pen
ance, consoling the afljieted, helping
the needy. The Midnight Mass takes
old and young, the lame, the halt, the
blind, from their "snug cabins."
Over the mountains, acrosss the bogs,
sometimes through the inky darkness,
sometimes through the silvery moon
light, sometimes through the white
snow, the people silently wend their
way to the little chapel, whose glad
bells peal forthj 'filustily, and whose
twinkling lights are as a bacop of safe
ty to the whole country side. Low-back
cars jingle up farm carts, with feather
beds or mattresses .flung across them,
jolt in while horses of every sort,shape,
size, and description, from the weight
carrying hunter to the limping garron,
turn into the chapel yard. There is no
boisterousness, no levity, for nearly
every one in that vast assemblage is
about to "go to the altar and receive
their God in the Holy Communion." On
the cold, damp, earthen floor kneel the
pious multitude, in a silence only
broken by the long drawn sigh of some
self-accusing penitent, or the mut
tered prayers of' the older people. The
priest, in, a black cassock, flits in and
out of the door attached to the Vestry,
attended by an acoiyte, who assists inj
lighting the candles, and generally ar
ranging the altar for the celebration of
Mass. At midnight the Angelus bell
rings forth, and the prayer is repeated
by the priest in English, the congrega
tion responding in p|ous and rapid mur
muring. t®/
Thus Mass b&gifis^ and 6aveJf?Ar ah
occasional coughing^ or the hdmmiug
of earnest devotion, nothing diatu rbs
the stillness of that midnight hoiur.
The scene resembles a strange viavouj
The half-darkness the whitewashed
"walls, the Station? of the Cross, like.so
many tiny windows the kneelin« and
prostrate congregation, the women
muffied in their shawls the altar blaz
ing with light the priest in his glitter
ing vestments the strange silence—all
serve to render the scene more of a vis
ion than anything approaching reaixty.
An awed hush comes over -all as- the
Host is exposed, and when tihe^nal Ite,
missa est fe pwmounced, mud the Mam
concluded, there is an upheaval, amor
muring, increasixig in volume
second &» fa# water fonfc ia
presumed, those neaxest t^itsprir^
l^ig the^uttideMi and Hien eOme fim
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Mr. Joseph Cowen,bae of the'
tie^.1 refotrbera apft mettibe*? F*
ment,has lately issued a manifesto
the chief one of the exceptions nt
by Mr. Farnell in his manifestoin
stfupting Nationalists notto voten'b
Liberal or Radical' candidates.
gentleman says: "It is impossible fcr
Englandto consent to protecting tar-
ni
ours got private lessons in the "stepsr?
not more than eight-aud-toyenty
jshould think, and he h^.bf en for man^
hingtUestpRB, The so^i of
could not settle to farm work- or any
trade, and much against his parents^
"wishes, determined on being a teacher
of dancing Accordingly he was
"bound'' to. a dancing- piaster, aud
when he had learned enough to enable
him to teach did so. He went from
village to village, staying from one to
three months in each, just, as he found
he had pupils and it paid. ,The Court
house or NationalSchool was generally
friven to him, for one seldom-can get 9
large room in. villages, and, besides, bey
yonda trifle to the keeper, there is lit
tle expense attending. -Marvin varied
his fees according to those, he taughtj
and also according^ the, size of the
village^ a smaller sum being accepted
from the laborer than the shopkeeper
or farmer—a shilling aud one ajid a^x?
pence being accepted weekly from the
former for, each one, while toyo and six
pence, and even three shillings were
paid by the latter.-^Chambers' Journal.
Uncle Tom's Oabjn.'*.
"llncle Tom's Cabin" has been, trans^
lated into every civilized tongiio.^' St is
called in French, "La Case op l',0nele
Tom iu German, "Oncle Tom's
Hotte in Danish, "Onkel Tomas in
Dutch, "De Negerhut in',Fie?ai8fcL,
"De Hut van Unkle Tpm
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iffs fpr,Jr^land the, confiscation oin1a"^««
landlords in Ireland, or to all^W IrWh
members to legislate in thet, home ai-|,{ii
faarsof England in addition,
to- having^^,^
their own PfljrliSMnent. With ttjeae ex*-#,^,^
"^itions^ appov,e of Homes Rulefor
land* paper guarantees for the repi^||f |tl
sentation of minorities the ^uitable"^^^^^/
are useless. The best security againat "v ~'f
disruption of the union is-! the- mutual
interest existing between England
Ireland.'?
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Irish Step Dancing,,
Dancing is a favorite pastime among jfci
thel Irish peasants, and there^S no lacfcs^'
of dancing masters, who make their
living by teaching the "steps^" In
deed^ even people of posits learn
"istep dancing," such as jigs, re^lsj ^nd
ihornpipes. Very pretty steps they are
an$ far iniore difficult to learn"
dance correctly and well than^he
.nary vAlse or polka, which, after alCj
haye but one step, the chief thing b'e-|
ing to darice that one step graceftiliy I
and Smoothly. In a jig there are as
many 'as twenty different^steps and
each single step has what-is termed'$N|
"its double,'" a someHyhat similar step,
bui more complicated than the single,{
To dancp even five steps of the jig with
their doulile requires independently of
the perfection only attainefd by practice^
Constant repetition apd great, exertion.
To dance twenty steps and their double
ail about forty—straight through ''"""M*!
^vc«ildrbe almost impoasibte, besides,it
would occupy too mjich time. Yet fij h|s|
different jig apparency couldbe danced
bygone person sev^raj times during ttye
samefevening, by doing, say five pteps?
each time. But yoij »iast |egin a jig
by dancing the '*jiging!J steps—thi^ rule
never cbangipgm-The steps iu a reej
^re not unlike those in a jig, but are
mm
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in llutt-
gariau, "Tama's Batya in Italian
"La Capanna Delia Zie Tomo^so ia
^Polish, "Chata Wuje Totpasza in
Portuguese. "A P^banp do Pai Tjiojcap
az." in Spanish,, "La Cabana del Tio
Tomas in Russian, "Khizhina Dyadi
Tomaj, and in Swedish,/'Onfeel Tom's
Stuga."
A
A Verse f&fi Diilnei
For tSiuy years there lived
coin, Yt., one of those eccentiric being's
compounded of shiftlessness aud od
dity, spiced with a knack ^t ettempore
rhyming, by the n£Lme of MoCdmbef.
He was once lounging round a new
tavern, "recently fitted up fronv an old
building where iheetings had fomerly
been h[eld
The landlord preferring his departure
before dinner, plainly hinted 'his room,
would be'better than hi»cu5tom,Tvhere-^'
upon a waggish frieW present, sugr
gested tliat McComber' flfhoold
verse in honor o|f the new ft'^t&e, fcpi4
£beproprietor should g^ve,s1jiiin
yei. The landlord
niaodtod the vera# before dinnitr.
.the ,J!
Upgth they eo^j)^bini^^K|u 1m ii
Verse befesredinnifer. ano thtfie#tf'j»^~o
McComber at ohce recited-- SM
tetor
dinnec
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facetious s»i)e,be
readilyrepestedand*
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