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POETS !
PASSIVE PASSING.
F The followinz noem. was cooied
from,the llaleisb iFarBrw iltd Me-I
chanic, and puMnbed in, Thb Dub-
lie umicn iiwTCUJiFfr, iooi.,
Wo are requested' to' print "it aain,
It is L-om the pen of Qen. Robert B.
Our life u like a mountain stream
rVho8e 'surging waters know no
by hill and plain they" flashy and
l gleam ..i,..,',,Sw'
'Till gather' d on tlu'ocean'a breast.
Sometimes in calm, soraetimeg'in
storm, ,"f
Now white with wrath, 1 now
flecke'd with foam.
Then, imag'd in the rainbow's form,
lliey onward more to and a borne.
Sometimes their aonz is sweet and
low. - ,
Soinctinies 'tis sad like funeral
diree:
And then they scarcely seem to go,
nut stcai along the woodland
rerge.
But ob lid; length they ahoat ; with
Old ocean a roar breaks on each
ear:
With joy they cry "tl e sea, the sea,'
Uur rest wilt be forever here.
hen lo! the suubeum, swift and
true,
Shall ii them . from bid Nep
tune's rod.
And fogs and mints, o'er fields of
blue,
Shalt bfur them back through
' clouds to Qod. ,!
Such is our life, eoleep, awake.
DomeuMe in smiles, sometime
in fears;
domitinies wet hope its flight shall
use, . tj i . w
And leave u pain aud grief, and
Sinetiu: the heart low and faint,
Astrou)!es round our pathin
creanf. And sin, and care, aud earthly taint
Uidefroniocr tww the bow of
peace. ' "
We look ahead and joyful greet)
pome - spot M green, just tH be
fore. And fundi v dream our tired feet.
U iU mtle there forevermore.
Alas! when near tbe close of day.
We reach, what seemM the spot
so fair.
We find it farther still away
aurag ti upon (tie eveoiug air.
Thi muid, we know each pulse
that InU. :
Each st-p we take U-kide the shore;
r.. a..- l i a m..
.wu unj, ram uuur, uv rT ter
greets
Shall leave him less than were
before.
So, when, with us, the day is done,
ttM ..... . .
mieasigui is aim, wnen me is
rait, - -"-
May Uml, through his beloved Son,
Bring us U rest with Hint at but.
; ICoBEBT B. VAXCi.
; ttivertide. Ott. 1831. f U
" ? -"' -mm. I
i ' "l L4il IHCT Til DC0a.
Ie said; )'Lact winter I sever ihnt
The door by day or nfcht.
Rut wtstr grown this summer I
Have a'wa., closed it tight."
'M able," laid her mother, "unless
you Lave proeaing business this tven-
ng-
"I havou't, mamma." interrupted
Mahle "This is George's evening.
Harry dce'n't come till to-morrow
night." Chicago Tribune.
King rule Marriage.
l'atticular Citixen.
These new
red stamps are not i
they oonlit lo be."
adhesive as
I'oiUl Official. "I enc yon never
truit carrying a sheet or them in
your pocket on a hot day. "New
lurk Weekly.
Lift her up tenderly,
Treat hrr with care,
The banana peel tripped her
And then she can't awear.
"What is that you're smoking!"
"Only a fiva-ce nlcr."
"Well Id think from iu five
more different scenU, as a Segir
ought to take pretty high rank."
The favorite figure with tbe danci
ing card player is bands all areund.
ATRUE SOUTHERNER
TUE VICISSITUDES OP A CON
FEDERATE UUKIXG AND
SINCE THE CIVIL WAlt.
la'ttl He Was a Spy.
Ooaiatia! OmmU.
"la 1870," said Major George ,
v anaegrut, "i met as typical a sot
aier oi zonune as ever Lever ima
gined. I had .gone from St. Louis
to urafton, sixty miles above, on an
eicursion, to witness an eclipse of
the sun. On the boat ' returning to
toe city there was dancinz in the
cabin, and as I stood watchmsr the
dancers X observed a man staring at
uib. an was a typical ooutnerner
in appearance, tall, handsome, and
striking looking. His gaze annoyed
me so that I left the cabin.
Keturmng again, he renewed the
stare, and finally, 1 found him stand,
ing by my side, lie said, "I beg
pardon, but you don't know me, I
see wo.- 1 said, l don U1 'I
know you, he replied. 4In 1831
you were a lieutenant in the See-
ondObio ltegiment in front of
W asbington, werea t you?' "Yes,' I
assented, 'la tw you were adjutant
of the Second in front of Murfreea-
boro,Tenn?' 'Yes.' In the latter
part of '64 you were on the Little
Miami Railway?' 'Yea.' I said, get
ting uueresiea, 'Due yoa ve the ad'
vantage of me, fori can't recall
ever seeing you."
'I know yoa, you see,' the strang
er said, 'and I'll tell yoa a story. In
01 1 was a boy of 20: 1 was in vour
camp in front of Washington sell-
Liug fruit and trinketa to men. I
was a Confederate spy then. In '03
I was still a spy. and struck veur
camp at Murfreesboro. It was odd
that I should get into tbe same camp
again, but I did. There were so
many omcers there, vou among
thsni. whom Iknew, that I feared
detection and fled. The latter part
of '64 I was captured not as a spy,
foitunately, but as a rebel soldier
and sent as a prisoner to Camp Chase,
0. One night nine of ua succeeded
in escaping from prison and mak
ing our way as far as Alton, on the
Little Miami, we boarded the mid-,
night express. e were sitting to
gether, concealed as much as dos-
sible, when the car door opened, and
who should walk in but yourself. I
told the boys tbe jig was up. and we
jumped from tbe train and took to
the woods. We thought yoa were
su officer in pursuit of the fugitives.
louwereuoir uoa, I wish we d
known it then.
"Afterthe war, he continued,
I drifted down into Meiico and
joined Maximilian's forcee, where I
wa captured and . came within an
ace of being shot with Maximilian.
I roni Mexico 1 went to South Am
erica and fought in two or three of
their revolutions. I grew tired of
that and came back to the States.
I'm tired of it here and I'm off next
week to enlutia the Papal Zouaves,
as 1 see Victor Emmanuel and the
Pope are having trouble, and his
Holiness has advertised for recruits.
Good-byf and he was off. It was
curious that he and 1 should have
met so frequently and I've been
rather sorry that I lost track of the
fellow afterward. He was a true
soldier of fortune and there were
lots like him in the war."
Contemporary Opinions.
No wonder the Republican leaders
want to cut off the light of discussion
from tbe tariff and Federal election
bills. Neither measure can stand ex
amination by the people. St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
The chances of the Republican
party In Nebraska are a simple mat
ter of figures, Subtract the Alliance
vote from the Republican vote and
look in the soup for the Republican
party. Omaha World-Herald.
It would be time wasted for Secre
tary Blaine to consult Msjor McKin
ley before writing another tariff let
ter. All the advice the Major could
give might be compressed into tbe
one word "Don't." St Paul Pioneer
Preil, Rep.
Mr. Ouav is simplf carrying out
bis contract. He fried the fat out of
the manufacturers, and promised
them substernal benefits in return.
Now be demands that tbe tariff bill
be paased, and that everything in its
o.ith shall set out of tbe way. That
. Oiibv's oosition in a nutshell, and
it is only fair to say that he plays
square. uoston ueria.
TIN WARE AND TUE TARIFF,
Scene: A Country 8toreWIl
Ham Brown, Merchant ; Jack
JohnNou, Laborer.
Ballard lfeguin.
Johnsou. Good-morning, Mr
Brows.' J 1 1 ;:" -y :I; .
Brown. Good-morning, friend
Johnson. , What can I sell you this
morning?
Johnion. 1 want a tin bucket
one that wU hold about a gallon.
want u zora ainner bucket; my
work is so far from, home that I
nr m .
have to take my dinner With me.
Brown. Well J here- u a dinner
bucket all complete for only thirty
veuts, now win id suit your
Y.I .... .- .
I ?l1 ft ! r."
jonnson. wny, it is a very
handy bucket, but something still
cheaper will do meiast as well.
Drown. Here is a four-quart
covered bucket which I can sell you
for seventeen cents. How does it
strike you?
Johnson. That will do first-rate:
seventeen cents seems purty reason'
able for a bucket like that. I don't
see how they get 'em np for that
price. :
Brown. Yes. tinware is! rather
cheap. I ou see, we haven t any tin
ore, to speak of, in this country, or
it we have, it has not been discov
ered, and the duty on 'the foreign
article being low, enables manufac
turing tinners to give us moderately
cheap tinware.
Johnson. I reckon if thev would
find some tin mines in this country,
tinware would be still cheaper than
what it is now.
Brown. No: the probabilitie are
that it would be higher.
..... " .
jonneon.-uow is tnatr
Brown. Because the owners of
the newly discovered tin mines
would get Congress to put a fifty or
sixty per cent duty on foreign tin
for tin purpose of excluding it from
the American market, so they could
control the tin business in this conn
try. The result would be to ad
vance the price of tin plate to about
what the foreign article with dntv
added would cost This advance in
the price of tinners' stock would
necessarily make tinware consider
ably higher in price than it is now.
lour tin bucket would then cost
you probably twenty-five cents, or
eight cents more than yoa have just
paia tor it.
Jjhnson. You think, then, that
he discovery of tin ore in this coun
try would be a misfortune instead of
blessing.
Brown. It would certainly re
sult in the price of tinware being
higher than it is now, and this would
certainly be unfortunate for those
who have to buy lL The only per
sons who would be benefited would
be the owners of the tin mines.
Johnson. Yes. that's so. I see
now how this so-called protection
works. It protects the rich at the
expense of the poor. It benefits the
lew by injuring the many.
Kanawha Fails, W Vs.
Was Columbus a Jew'
JWk World.
Jews figure prominently in the his
tory of the discovery of America.
Tnejplans and calculations of ths Col
umbos expedition were largely the
work of two Hebrew astronomers and
mathematicians. Two Jews were also
employed as interpreters by Colum
bus, and one of them, Luis de Torres,
was the first European to set foot in
the New World. When Columbas
sighted tbe island of San Salvador
he imagined that he was approaching
a portion, of ths East Asiatic coast,
and he sent Torres, who was engaged
for bis knowledge of tbe Arabic, as
hore to make inquiries of the natives.
It was probably this Torres who wss
the Madrid Jew to whom Columbus
bequeathed half a mark of silver in
his will.
Another curious fact is that It has
been curiously suggested bv Mr.
Delil2ch,we believe that Columbus
himself was Jew or of Jewish birth.
Tbe name of Christopher wal fre
quently adopted by converts, while
thesarname, Colon, belonged to s
distinguished family of Jewish scho
lars. Christopher's father, Diego,
bore originally ths Jewish sane
Jacob, which sounds surprisingly like
ShemKadose. Perhaps, during the
coming celebrations, some Jewish
scholars in Italy will make inquiry
into the validity of this daring sug
gestion,
"Ii it correct to say 'He don't go?"
tfot If us docs go,"
THE DEVOTED GREEK
CLEMANTIIE, I
THY LIVING
GAZE ON
FACE.
We Shall Meet .Again, Clcuiau
me
stomal s. runnel. .
By request we re-print the fol
lowing. J
The fiat of nature is inexorable.
This is no appeal from the great law
which dooms us to the dust. We
flourish and fade as the leaves of the
. ... rr -
forest; and the flowers that bloom
and wither in a day have no frailer
hold upon life that the mightiest
monarch that ever shook the earth
with his footsteps. Generations o:
men will appear and disaonear an
the grass, and the multitude who
throng the world to-day will disap
pear as tne footprints on the shore.
Men seldom think of the great
event of death until its shadow
fall across their own pathway, hid
ing from their eyes the faces of
loved ones whose living smile was
the sunlight of their existence.
Death is the antagonist of life.
and the cold theught of the tomb is
the skeleton of all , feasts. We do
not want to go through the dark
valley, although its dark passage
mav lead to Daradise: we do not want
to fie down in the damp grave, not
even with princes at our bedfellows,
la the beaotiful drama of "Ion
the hope of immortality, so elegantly
ottered by the death-devoted Greek,
finds deep response in every thought-
IU1 80U1. ,
fSTT. a
wnen about to yield his young
ue as a saenhee to fate bis tlera-
anthe asks if they shall meet again,
to which he responds: . "I nave
asked that dreadful question of the
hills, that look eternal, of . the clear
streams that flow forever, of the
stars among whose fields of azure
many raisec spirits have walked 4n
giory. All were dumb. But as I
gaze on thy living face I feel there
is something m lore which mantles
through its beauty that cannot
wholly pensh.
We shall meet again uemanthe.
Drop Both Bills ana Go Home.
St. ol Float Pro. Bap.
If there is in Washington any due
appreciation of the state of feeling of
the country at large, the Senate will
conclude to drop both bills (tariff
ana f orce JV.ectiou) and go borne.
There is no demand or necessity for
either of. them. There is. in the
Republican ranks, a pronounced
hostility to both'shich is not worth
while to encounter. There is hardly
a ue enaer, ontsiae or Congress, ex
cept in a perfunctory way, for the
electnui bill, Tbe people understand
that it would not accomplish the ob
joci aougai oy its i armors, xney
? a t m. V J . mmmt
have a lively sense of its inexpediency
ia other directions. And, while they
neither forget nor condone the out-
rSge on law and justice which is per
petrated at the South, they are nt
prepared to indorse sa Ineffective and
dangerous remedy.
The case as to the tariff bill Is even
Plainer..' We cannot recall in recent
political history any such general re
tvii sgunst a measure orougnt ior
Ward in Congress, sad suoDorted bv
all the power and prentigo of party
leaders as that which the McKJoley
bill has had to encounter. It grows
in unpopularity from day to day. In
fluential newspapers from one end of
the West to the other, papers which
are strictly loyal to the party and
devoted to its interests, are outspoken
in tneir oonaennauou or wis diu.
It standi absolutely without a friend.
except the little knot of manufac
turers whose Interests it consults,
aud the numerically inconsiderable
body of those who do not think on
economic subjects at all, but call
themselves protectionists and stand
ready to accept anything that is of
fered to them tinder that name. Tbe
session has been prolonged nnduly.
The public is tired of it. Great na
tional interests have found themselves
imperiled by ths pushing forward of
these bills and ths holding back of
others as a menace. There is a spirit
of discontent abroad which grows
with every day that is wasted ifa con
deration of the McKinley and
Lodge bills. Ths Senate would ds
best for tbe national interest, and
best for ths Republican party, if it
should postpone further considera
tion of either of them until ths next
session, gather np ths ends of other
unfinished and more important leg
u'atton ana go home.
NO. 35
POETRY.
IIIS GUARDIAN ANGBL.;
'Tis the red nose of Bummer
Left snoring alone,
All his boozy companions
Are jaded and gone,
No drop in the bottle,
No remnant of pie
No cigar, no tobacco,
No fizz syphon m-jh.
I'll not leave thee, thou lone one,
To sleep on the floor,
I've tried to get out,
i But I can't find the door,
My legs they won't bear me,
The room's whirling round,
1 guess I'll just join thee ,
In slumber profound.
THE YOUNG FELLOW GOT A
LICKING.
Montreal's PugHiatie Parsou- '
lie Gives a Young Man a De
served Lesson in Etiqu
ette. . Hew York Star,
The Kev. Bartley. chaplain of
Montreal's crack military corps and
pastor of a swell nest nd congre
gation, gave a scientific thrashing
to one of Montreal s best known and
richest young sports a few days ago.
The story that led to the result is as
follows;
Some weeks ago the vouth in Ques
tion was engaged to wed one of the
fairest daughters oi Montreal The
ady in question happened to be a
member of Parson Bartlev's church.
and also a particular friend of ths
minuter. In consequence he was
called upon to perform the marriage "
ceremony, and on the day appointed T
was on hand at the residence of the
intended bride, as was also a large
party of mends to assist at the wed
ding. To the consternation of tbe
nends the groom failed to put in an
appearance. The wedding was de
clared off. The clergyman, it is said.
expressed himself in no indistinct
way about what be called the ras
cally conduct of the gilded youth in
question.
A tew evenings ago the clergy
man was invited to visit the young
man, and, thinking he was to get an
explanation of his strange conduct,
he made the visit. He just entered
the door, when his first salute was a u
tinging left-hander in the face. It ,
was then that he divested himself '
of h garments and then the youth
was taught a nchlj-deserved lesson
in the manly art, So badly was ho
done up by the reverend pugilist
that he spent a week in a private
hospital to recuperate from the ef
fects of the thrashing. As the broth
er and father of his affianced had
promised a similar proceeding, he,
to escape further beating, married
the girl, and Mr. Bartley performed
ths long-postponed ceremony to ths
general satisfaction of all The af-
air has only leaked out, and has
created a sensation of which ths
pugilistic parson is the hero.
KlW th M..Klnlotf tiill nr th
elections bill, If enacted into law,
will throw the Congressional elec
tions against them in every section
of the country. If they abandon
either, the situ itioa is just as bad,
for it will be clear to all that they do .
...1 1. 1 f .
it torougn u ar oi tne people ami not .'
with a desire to serve them. Ult a.
turtle with it head off, the old party
ie groping aouut Bimieamy un wait.
log for the end. Oswego Palladium.
"I never realised what was meant
by fingers of scorn," sail a young ,
Washington man. "until I rrorvuMd
to a deaf mats and was rejected."
nashlngloni'ost.
Kerosene-oil can Blow nn hired
girls for one thing.
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