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BURKE COUNTY HISTORY, i
SKETCHES, OF THE PIONEERS.
A Rich Fond of Historical Incidents Con
nected With the. Early Settlers of Wast-
era North Carolina. "
BY COL.-T. G. WALTON;'
Chiitei 3. '
RANSONf ' HERNE.
1 About this time a very laughable
occurrence took" place. Ransom
iHerne (whom many will remem
ber) had for years indulged too
freely in the "overioyful," but had
been 'converted under the thrilling
eloquence of a distinguished-temperance
lecturer, signed a pledge
of total abstinence, and had deter
mined to abandon the old habit.
On a table near him-was a keg of
whiskey with the bung open. Jos
tled by the crowd the keg turned,
and its contents began rapidly
, rtirjning put. As quick as thought
Ransom sprung and righted the
'keg - ;
"Why, Ransom I'M exclaimed.
"You, a strict" temperance man, to
be guilty; of saving a pernicious
'poison !" With downcast look, he
said, "Squire, I know it was wrong,
but I could not help hating to see
it wasted." Loud laughter and
jerring ensued at his 'expense. A
Jong column, two deep, was then
. formed. i. The banner in front,
borne by Duckworth and tjeorge
Nail,rthe procession shouting and
singing he old log cabin and hard
cider songs, without breaking
ranks, entered the court ; room,
" ..1 . i i . u 1 1-1
wncrc tut election wcis inch iiciu,
up:stairs at the north, and passed
out at the south, having deposited
their votes f jt the Whig candidates
while passing the judges' stand in
procession, t'o the utter disordering
of the Van Burenites.
HON. JAMES GRAHAM.
Hon. James Graham succeeded
Samuel P. Carson as representa
tive in congress from tis district,
and served until 1843, when he was
defeated by Hon. Thomas L. Cling
man, each claiming to be the bet
ter Whig. An address to the vo
ters of Burke, .signed by CaptC
McDowell and myself, advocating
and endorsing Clingman's claims
and charges against his competitor
was distributed in the county. At
a discussion at Carson's,' on Buck
creek, Graham criticised and ridi
culed the address, saying," "among
other things," caustic, "Who is
Thomas G. Walton ? I well knuw
it is not my old friend and well
tried Whig, so well known and ap
preciated by the old men who hear
me. tie would nave never ar-
proved such a document as this.
. My father being informed of this,
said to -me, with some exhibition
of temper, "When next you sign a
paper of any kind, do it in such a
manner that people will know it is
not my sign manual." I agreed,
j and changed my signature there
after from "Thomas G." to T. Geo.
Walton. :
MARK BRITTAIN.
Mark Brittain, an old citizen,
and for many' years sheriff of the
county,. ' was . ejected to ' the
state senate in 1831 and 1833. A
man of respectable character, es
teemed by the people and. loved by
his neighbors. . ; In some respects
he was peculiar. His address and
manner showed he had a good
measure of self-esteem. I, know
several aneedptes Concerning him,
some of them not being proper for
"ears polite," of course I must omit.
His manner and conversation at
tracted attention in the legislature.
There was an occurrence in which
Jie and - the celebrated; wit, Jack
Stanly, took a part, that convulsed
the members of the' senate, that
comes under the prohibited head
aforesaid. Being on another oc
casion asked what countv he reo-
a . - S a
resented, he replied : "I am the
pivot on which the cou,nty of Burke
revolves." He carried a . laree
. hickory cane in honor of "Old
Hickory," having been his enthu
siastic supporter in 1828 The cane
was mounted with a silver head, on
whsch was engraved his initials,
"M. B." On being asked by some
member of the legislature what the
initials stood for, he replied, "Moun-
tain Boomer, sir."
Itn 833, , being 'a candidate for
the senate, he had changed his
politics,-and was now an ardent
" friend of Mr. Clay. At a gather-
ing of the people to hear the can
didates for congress and the state
'. legislature speak in an orchard in
j the rear of the old house of Mr. YV,
J Mull, Uncle Mark denounced the
J3;mocratic party. VV. J. Tate, a
son of. Mr.: William Tate, of Hick-,
ory Grove, rose to his feet. and
charged him with- being a "turn
coat.". Unabashed, he coolly re
plied, "Why, Jenerson, ray , son,
don't you know ' ; ',-' '
'While the lamp holds out to burn, . ;
The vilest sinner may return.' "
Uncle Mark was elected, laid aside
the hickory stick r arid named his
fine clay-bank horse "Henry Clay."
His son, sheriff Joseph Brittain, iri'
: many ways popularity, manner,
fidelity and honesty in all his deal
ings whatever with men, or in dis
charge of the duties of his office as
sheriff was like his ancestor.
COL. JOHN CARSON.
Col. John Carson, one of the
wealthy and respected citizens of
the county, resided during his
long life on the beautiful stream
known as Buck Creek ; having its
source near the crest of jthe' Blue
Ridge, and famous for (the jdeli
ious brook trout that abound in
its pellucid waters. ' Col." Carson
was closely connected : with the
McDowells, his first wife a daugh
ter of "Hunting Jno." McDowell ;
his second, Mary' Moffett, "the
widow of Major Joseph McDowell,
of PleasantGardeus. Of these two
wives he had tight children ; by
the first three sons and a daughter,
Jos.- McD.; Charles, Jason and Re
becca ; by the second five sons,
Dr. John, Wm. M., Sam'l P.,
George and Logan. These were
men'in their day, looked up to,
and highly regarded by their
neighbors, sustaining the emi
nence their ancestors had attained
in all the relations of life. CoL
Carson was a man of strong com
mon sense, dignified, suave in
manner and mien, and of ready
wit,-not infrequently tingued with
sarcasm. An instance,-illustrating
this propensity of Col. Carson I
once witnessed while accompany
ing Mr. Harvy Wilson on his way
to marry Miss A. Patton, of Ashe
ville, with a number of his friends
and 'relatives from Morganton.
'Stopping for the night at the hos
pitable mansion of Col. Carson and
all being very jovial as befitted
the occasion ; a good part of the
night was spent in rather boister
ous revelry. The following morn
ing the old gentleman entered the
room and after making a low bow
to the assembled guests, he took
up the violin, and, flourished the
bow, aping the attitude of a coun
try fiddler. Then addressing Dr.
W. G. Tate, our violinist of the
past night, he said : "Dr. Tate,
did you ever hear me play' on the
fiddle?" "No sir, I never did,"
said Dr. Tate. With emphasis
Col.-Carson repeated : "I say. Dr.
Tate, did you ever hear me play on the
pddlel "No sir, never in my life,"
said Dr. Tate. "No j and you never
will replied our host, and turning
abruptly he left the room. One
can well imagine how the Dr.
appreciated the joke. j ' i
A man. travelling east -on the
road which was directly in front
of the house on the west bank of
the creek, having gone half a mile
or more to where the public road
crosses the Uatawba river, dis
covered a number of hogs destroy
ing a field of -fine corn.; Wheejing
his horse he rapidly retraced ! his
course and with ; loud, voice,
broughir-theCol. to' the 'door.
Very excitedly, he said : "Colonel,
your corn ' on the river is being
ruined by a large number of
hogs." "Well sir," (was the reply),
"let them ruin it, I don't suppose
it 9 ill hurt, the hogs.
Dr. John Carson, one of his sons
by the second wife, was born with
white hair, which was not changed
in color at maturity. In connec
tion with this freak of nature.
funny incident happened. Dr. Car
son about 1830, going to Charles
ton, South Carolina, with a drove
of cattle for sale, met my brother
James, a merchant at that time
living in ; Charleston. Being old
friends, and the only acquaintance
in the city, he stopped at the hote
where my brother boarded. The
Dr. said to him that he had seen
an advertisement that white hair
could be permanently dyed, and
if so he had come to the con
elusion to have his dyed black
Walton told him it was often
done, and agreed to go with him
to the barber. The dyeing was
speedily aone, his head bound up
with a -towel, and he was in
structed to go to bed, and wash
thoroughly with soap in the morn
irrgwsMornine came; breakfast
over, but the Dr. had failed to'ap
pear. Walton hastened to hi
room and knocked at the door.
"Is it you, James?" said the Dr.
"Come in, I am ruined," (in those
days the hair was -worn long.)
There stood the Dr. with a mass of
long disheveled hair, of every
shade and color from white to
black, like Jacobs." cattle, ring
streaked, striped, -speckeled and
spotted. His friend James was so'
convulsed with laughter at his
ludicrous appearance that he could
not speak at first, but at last see
ing the lugubrious expression of
his face, came to his relief by tell
ing him he would send the barber
to shave off the hair, and substi
tute a handsome wig. The Dr.
was cheered, the wig put on, and
he started for home. On his way
to Charleston, some of his cattle
had become tired and he was
forced to leave them with a farm-?
er, some distance from the city
Reaching the man's house on his
return he said he had cometfor his
cattle. I have no cattle of yours,
sir," said . the farmer. The Dr,
tried to convince him of the fact,
but. the farmer said : "You don't
fool me : an old white headed
man .left some cattle with , me,
but no such looking buck as "you,"
and he utterly retusea to give
the cattle up till the Dr. of neces
sity had to take off the wig, and
exolained the metamorphosis - to
the satisfaction of the farmer.
Colonel; Carson, like a great
many of the best class of the citi
zens of "Auld Lane ayne was
fond of old peach brandy, and
would occasionally indulge rather
freely,; in his libatious, but m
stead of pouring out according ' to
the heathen mode, on the earth,
he poured it in as a sol ice to
human infirmities. When under its
influence, he wore a kind of turban
of red color, at other times arid
more frequently the. turban was
white, and he was known to be all
right.
(To fie Continued.)
THE LAND OF BIO PASTURES.
SMART SHEPHERD DOGS.
Texas Has Fields as Large as an Ordinary
County. - I
Very few people at a distance in
thinking of western Texas urider-
statid that nearly the whole of it is
at present fenced np in mammoth
pastures, yet . such is the case.
Many of them are larger than or
dinary counties, and some of them
embrace, large parts of three or
tour counties.
Just west of this place (Belcher-
ville, Texas), writes a correspond
ent, come the Silverstein, the Ikard
and the Worsbam pastures. This
atter contains fitty thousand acres,
and has one line of fence twenty-
three miles long. Pastnres of
about this size continue in almost
cfn broken succession nntil we reach
Armstrong county. There we fiud
what- is kuowo as the Goodnight
ranch, the- southern boundary of
which is a little string of fence
eighty -three inijes loug.. -Charley
Goodnight, as the owner is famil
iarly kuowu, is considered oue of
tba richest ineu m the panhandle,
but I really fi?el serry for his boys
if he ever seuds them but on a hot'
afternoon to stop hog holes in that
ine of fence. It is hardly likely
that this is the case, however, as
alt fences in this country are built
to turn cattle and without refer
ence to hogs. . There is a little rail
way station called Goodnight,
which consists of the Goodnight
residence and the depot. Mr.
Gooduight lives in almost baronial
style. His park contains deer, a
drove of elks, and one of the few
herds of buffaloes to be found in
the United States.
Another, fair-sized holding of
land is that of the Espinella cattle
company. This tract contains over
1,500,000 acres, and takes in parts
of Dickens, Crosby and Emma
counties. If the land were in the
form of a square it wonld be about
hfty miles each way. The Matter-
dore is smaller, but still-includes
rather more, than 1,000,000 acres.
These are both owned by syndi
cates with headquarters in Lon
don, aud they are only two select
ed at random out of a large num
ber. They Iiave their beariugsou
state politics. If it were not lor
the railroad commission, the uni
form text book bill, and the alien
land holder question, Texas; poli
tics would not be worth shucks.
The largest of these alien land
holdings belong' to what is called
the capitol syndicate. A few years
ago the old capitol at Austin burn
ed down, and it was decided to
build another on a magnificent
scale. Au English syndicate then
agreed to put it up, and in pay
ment therefor they received 3,000,-
000 acres of public lands. Does
thi reader realize how big 3,000,
00Q acres of laud is 1 Imagine a
slice of laud twenty-four miles
wide and extending clear across
the stale of 'Missouri at its north
ern border. Such a strip would
include the whole northern tier of
couuties, aud would be larger than
several states of the union. . This
would be about the extent of the
syndicate's pasture. Few people
have any idea that there is such
a thing as a single pasture in oue
body aud under one fence, larger
thau some states 111 the union, yet
such is the fact. More than that,'
it "is owned by a foreign syndicate.
It takes in half of Deaf Smith
county aud partsof several others.
Anothei large pasture is that of
the - X. I. T. cattle company. It
begins with the Colorado line and
extends several counties back this
way. The Fort Worth &. Denver
railroad runs through it. Some
idea of its size may be gathered
from the fact that the regular night
express train enters on the south
side of the pasture at" 11.05 and
after continuous rnuning leaves it
at 3.20 the next morning. A past
ure which it takes an express train
three hours and a quarter to cross
would be considered large in some
countries. &t. L,ouis uiooe uem.
They Take Entire Care of a Flock With
' ont Anyone's Direction.
In South America, in the region
of the great pasture plains, dogs
are trained to be shepherds. I do
not mean that a dog goes out with
the herdsmen and helps watch the
flock. . I mean that the dog goes
out alone and that he takes the
ntire care of the sheep, without
anyone's direction. In South
America there ' are vast plains
where for miles and miles there is
little vegetation save the short
grain on which shep feed. There
are no habitations for men. -.
On these vast pastures there are
immense flocks which . are often
left for several days at a time with
only a dog to take care of them.
But well he knows bow to do it,
for . he has been trained for the
business. -
When "Colly" was ouly a day
old he was - taken away from- bis
own mother and given to a big
motherly sheep. She let the little
blind puppy share the dinner of
her own baby lamb. His little bed
was iu a warm,- soft nest made of
the sheared fleece of a sheep.
He was never allowed to taste
of meat. He was not permitted
to associate with other dogs or
with children. His ouly associates
were sheep. Consequently all the
strong friendship, all the loyalty,
all the protecting instiuct which
belongs to a good dog's nature
were turned towards sheep. The
little dog grew to love sheep, to
play with sheep, and, above all, to
watch over sheep aud protect them.
lo hungry stranger could ap
proach oue of these big wandering
flocks iu the vast and louely plain
aud hejp himself to a Iamb without
being noticed. JSo! at the nrst
sign of a 'stranger the dog barks.
Then a remarkable sight is to be
seen. The oldest aud strongest
raiuof the flock advances to the
dog's side. All the other rams
come forward and take their places
near by, facing the foe. The ewes
and lambs huddle closely together
behind their defenders.
The dog does the talking for the
whole party and gives all the or
ders, acting the part of a com
manding general, but the rams,
with their big1, cruel horns aud
strong heads, do the lighting.
Sometimes, wheu the owners
Lave sheds near enough, the dog
drives the flock out to pasture and
brings them back in the eventug.
No matter how large the tijek may
.be, he knows if even one sheep is
missing,and he getsoutand bunts
for it until fouud. Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
SPIDER SHOWERS.
They
Have lieen Observed by.
and 'Other Naturalists.
Darwin
The More Yon Steal the Lighter the Pun
ishment. -
In the Federal Court in Omaha,
eb., recently, Uhas. Moser, presi
dent of the Capital National Bank
of Lincoln, was sentenced to the
penitentiary for five years for steal
ing $l,00",000. In the same court
week betore last A. Al. DeJb ranee,
a South Dakota cow boy, was
seutenced to the penitentiary for
life for stealing a single copper
cent. Two mouths ago DeFrauee
rode into Cbadron, Neb., and held
up a mail carrier. 11 is crime net
ted one cent. He was caught and
pleaded guilty. , The statute pro
vides no lesser penalty for his
crime than life peualty. The more
you steal, the lighter the punish
ment.
Showers of mud, wom.,.' frogs
and raiu of various colors have all
happened, but spider showers are
worthy of mention, aud may be re
garded as the most beautiful thing
iu strange showers. I
The spiders a: e gossamers, and
White, in bis "Natural History of
Selborne," describes the showers
that he saw, oue of which con
tinued a 'w.hote day. The gossa
mers descended from a surprising
height, for .when oue man climbed
to the top of a hill near by, three
hundred feet high, be fouud that
the spiders were dropping from a
Teginn iu the atmosphere that was
still beyond his gaze.
Darwiu, another observer of
spider .showers, describes one
which he taw in 1832, when on
board the Beagle, at the mouth of
the Jja l'lata river, when tue ves
sel was some sixty miles from land,
Hud he seems to have been the
first to notice that each parachute
of gossamer carried a spider
aeronaut, for he not only observed
them arrive on board the ship, but
he also saw them reproduce a new
parachute, and ou this frail bark
launch forth again "ou the bosom
of the palpitating air."
These gossamer showers are
great mysteries, and, once seen,
cannot very readily be forgotten,
for the air 011 the.-e occasions be
comes literally crowded witir the
tiny parachutes mentioned, which
are composed of a few threads of
almost invisible gossamer, with a
small hut lively spider attached.
It May Do as Much for Tou.
Mr. Fred Miller, of Irvine, 111., writes
that he Joad a Severe Kidney - trouble
for many years, with "severe- pains in
his back and also that his bladder was
a flee ted. He tried many so . called
Kidney cures but without any good
result. " About a year ago he began
use of Electric Bitters ana round re
lief at once. Electric Bitters is ea-
neciallv adapted to the cure of all Kid-
-r . . 1.1 J - fi :
nev sou lilTw truuuitss auu uiieu givt'H
almost instant relief. One trial will
nrove our statement. Price only 503.
for large bottles. At John TuU's Drug !
.Store. .. .
' "Gentle As The Summer Breeze."
"I'd rather take a thrashing any time
than a dose of pills," groaned a patient
to ; whom the doctor has prescribed
physic. "I'd as lief be sick with what ails
me now, as so oe sick witn tne puis.".
"1 dont tnwK you've taken any ol
the pills I prescribe, or you wouldn't
dread the prescription so,', laughed the
doctor. 'I never use the old, inside
twisters yon have in mind. I use Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets- They always
make me think of a part ofan old hjm
1 . mud and lovely;
Gentle as the summer breeze.
The best thing of the kind ever in
vented. No danger of their making
you sick. You'll hardly know you've
taken them, l wouldn t use any other
in my practice."
The John Mabes In Stokes.
The Danbuiy Reporter ipf gives
what it ays is a partial list of the
John Mabes in the Dan bury sec
tibn of Stokes county. "The.
Mabes," the Reporter IWexplaios,
"are clexer people, of more or less
intelligence , hut "it - is a peculiar
foudness they have for the name
ofjohu." This is the list:
"Long John, Short John, Short
John's sou John, Mat's Johu, Lit
tie Joliu, Stumpy John, Johu Fez,
Johu llamp, liiley's John, John
Tobacco, John Ed, Reuben's John,
Betsy's John, Jessie's John; Alex's
John, Beaseley's Johu, Iihody's
John, John Dugau.
"It is said that when there is a
new arrival in a Mabe family, if a
girl, it is called John Betsy, or if
a boy, John." ' '
Closed By the MeKlnley Tariff.
On the 7th inst. the Philadel
phia Press, which is the leading
advocate of McKinleyism in that
city, published the following dis
patch: "Harrisburg, Dec. 6. It was
learned to-night from a semi
official source that the Pennsyl
vania Steel Works at Steelton,
giving employment to about 3,400
men, will close down from Christ
mas until February, and perhaps
longer."
This information has also been
published elsewhere, and certain
high-tariff journals have asserted
that the impending suspension of
work in this great factory is proof
of a depressing influence exerted
by the Wilson xjill.
But what do the officers 'of the
company say? Their explanation
is that thes-e 3,400 men are to be
thrown out of work because of the
eihbous effect of the McKinley
tariff, and that they cannot hope
for continued employment unless
the provisions of the Wilson bill
concerning the duties on raw ma
terial shall be enacted. Our high
tariff friends appear to have over
looked this, which is rather inter
esting. . .
We direct their attention to' the
following statement given to the
United Press on Nov. ' 24 by Mr
Frederick W. Wood, President
and Receiver of the Maryland
Steel Company, and Second Vice
President of the Pennsylvania
Steel Company. These two cor
porations are in a certain sense
parts of the same concern; one of
them operates the works at Spar
row's. Point, Md , and the ojher
the works at Steelton, Penn.
Vfrevious to the past year we
were in a position to compete most
favorably with theTsteel manufac
turers of the country. Just at
present, we are not,' thcugh the
fault is not our own. It is all due
to the discovery of deposits of
good steel-making ore in Michigan,
on the banks of Lake Superior.
The ore " comes from , what are
known as the Mesaba districts,
and can be very cheaply mined by
steam shovels and loaded by them
directly on the cars.
"Owing to the freight charges we
cannot, of course, compete with
the mills west of. the Alleghanies
in purchasing this ore. Nor can
the foreign ore from Cuba and
the Mediterranean, which we use
entirely, paying the duty of 75
cents a ton, compete with the
Western ore.
" T Vi A r.cnlf ! tlt .t.-l
business has gone to pot, and will
continue so if the Western output
holds out and the tariff is not taken
off the raw material.
'If the tariff is taken off raw ma
terial, we shall be able to compete
on even terms with the other steel
making companies. . If it is not, I
dp not think there is a single com
pany east of the Alleghany moun
tains that will be able to continue
operations in steelmaking.
"As I understand the tarjff.'it is
intended to encourage' the indus
try and noto shut up manufac
tories. When this is the result, it
has outlived its usefulness. With
the tariff off raw materials, East
ern and Western plants would be
on an equal basis."'
It is well known that these two
great plants are admirably equip
ped. Together, when in full opera
tion, they employed about 6,000
men. For some months, we think,
very, few men have been employed
at Sparrow's Point, and now 3.400
men are to be deprived of work at
Steelton. The gentleman who is
President of one of the affiliated
corporations and . Vice-President
of the other says that the cause of
this suspension is the duty on iron
ore, 1 and we presume that he is
waiting impatiently for the passage
of the bill that puts iron ore on
the free-list. If our memory
serves us well, the two companies
owi the iron ore mines in Cuba
from which they have been pro
curing raw material, and large
sums of- Pennsylvania capital have
been expended in developing those
mines. - The ore which they have
imported and which they would
like to import hereafter is their
own property, but they are com
pelled to pay a duty ot 75 cents a
ton on it, for the -"protection" of
the ore at the upper end of the
Mississippi Valley in the Mtsaba
district, which is "mined" by steam
shovels operated by the side of
long trains of freight cars, at a cost
lower than the cost of producing
iron ore in any other part of the
world; and also for the protection,
as against themselves, of the steel
factories of the Pittsburg and Illi
nois districts, to which the
shoveled ore is sold, and will still
be sold after the Wilson bill shall
have become a law.
'We commend these remarks of
Mr. Wood to the attention of the
Philadelphia Press and other high
tariff journals which do not seem
to have heard of them. N. ' Y.
Tines.
CARLISLE'S ENGLISH.
NATIONAL POLITICS.
A Veteran of the Mexican War. ,
Oak Harbor, Ohio. I met 'Geo. O.
Momeny, an old veteran of the Mexi
can war on the streets to day who told
me that afer reading about Simmon's
Liver Regulator he bought a bottle, and
the first three doses gave him immedi
ate relief. Geo. Goeline. Tour drug
gist, sells it in powder or liquid. The
powder to be taken dry or made into a
tea.
The Secretary of the Treasury Issned a
Model Report Secretary . Gresham'a
DoubleOar Great WaTy-Bccrotary Her-
v ber the Right Man ror tbe Place
Grand Uniforms While on Duty Gener
al Gossip. .
Cor. of The Morxanton Herald.
WASHDTOTOJr, Dec. 80. Special. -There
Is a new watchman at the capitol
He came oa duty one day last week and
was stationed at the door ot the disbursing
clerk's office. This is an important poet,
for it is here that senators go to draw
money, and in their careless way, confident
of the security of the capitol, they .walk
oat the door with rolls of bills in theii
hands, thus offering a fine opportunity foi
the operations of sneak thieves. It is- th
duty of this watchman to guard senator!
from such Intrusion, andalco to see that
no suspicious characters enter the disburs
ing office,-which is a miniature bank and
often has large sums of currency on hand.
The new watchman has created quite a
sensation not, however, on account of hi
method of discharging his duties, for there
in he is admirably quiet and unobtrusiYe.
He attracts a great deal of attention be
cause of his striking Tesemblanos to Secre
tary G res ham. He'Ts Gresham'a double.
A few days ago Senator Tnrpie, whose eye
sight is not as stronK as it was some yean
ago, turned suddenly while jjoing out oi
the door of, the senatorial bank, extended
his hand to the watchman and exclaimed:
"Why, how are y6u,"Mr. Secretary" Many
other senators have made the same mistake,
thoagh the most of them have caught
themselves in time to avoid addressing thi
solemn watchman by a title to which h
has never aspired, being undeceived by the
gay uniform 'which the guardian of tb
cashroom wears. .
Gold Braid Trimming.
Daring the present session of congress all
the capitol policemen and there"fire about
10 of them have come out in bright uni
forms of dark blue cloth, with gold braid
trimmings, caps and pretty leather hang
ings for their dabs. This is a decided in
novation, and one that has been unfavor
ably commented on. The watchmen them
selves do not like it. Nearly all of thest
capitol policemen are old aoldieraand mem
bers of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Till this year the Grand Army uniform was
worn by them while on duty, and It was
becoming, simple and dignified. It was a
genuine pleasure to see the men guarding
the national statehonse attired in that uni
form which spoke of past services to their
country. But some one high' in authority
evidently was not satisfied with this simple;
American outfit and chose to imitate the
custom which obtains in Europe, where ev
ery petty official, governmental or corpo
rate, is decked oat in a uniform with gold
braid trimmings.
Secretary Carlisle has been showered
with compliments on the manner in which
he prepared his annual report. While it
would be too much to expect every one to
be pleased with all the recommendations
which i( contains, as a piece of literary
work it is held to be of exceptional merit.
Nothing could be more clear or concise,
more simple or elegant, than the manner in
which tbe secretary expressed him&elf in
this paper. He is one of the few public
men who are able to make a government
report shine with all the luster of genuine
literature, without any straining after
effect or the employment of methods which
would be unseemly In a document of that
character. This is because Mr. Carlisle la
a rare master of- the English language.
Pure and unadulterated English flows
from his pen as naturally aa the ink with,
which it is charged.
This rare gift was first discovered while
Mr. Carlisle was speaker of the house. His
decisions there, rendered for the most part
without any sort ot preparation, were mod
els of parity and style. Barely or never
did he find it necessary to edit the official
reporter's transcript of his remarks. Few
men in the world can do this. Even in the
ordinary phrases which a presiding officer
most use Mr. Carlisle was perfect. There
never was any stumbling over tenses, any
involved sentences or faulty construction
that needed straightening ont in Tbe Rec
ord while he occupied the speaker's chair.
A Navy at Last.
Much gratification is felt in all circles
here over the steady progress that is being
made with the' United States navy. At
last this country has a navy worthy the
name, and it is growing better ewery day.
While the navies of other nations are de
generating through faulty plans or bad
management, this being particularly true
of Great Britain, ours appears to be march
ing on, without any more serious errors of
construction than are found in details and
easily corrected. Just at this time, when
so many foreign complications are engag
ing the attention of odr government, men
of all parties express themselves as glad
that we have as good a navy as we have
and are determined to stand for a continued
improvement and enlargement of it.
The day has gone by in this country when
any political party wishes or dares to op
pose liberal appropriations for the navy.
The new navy has been built np by a anion
of the leading men of all parties. Republic
ans as well as Democrats taking pride lit it.
The navy has no better friend than Mr.
Bou telle- ot Maine, who was chairman ot
the naval committee of the house in the
last Republican congress, and no better
friend than Mr. Cummin gs, who is chair
man of the committee at this time. -A
Fortunate Selection
President Cleveland evidently made no
mistake in his selection of a secretary of the
navy. His selection of Mr. Whitney for
this important post in the first administra
tion was a happy stroke, for Mr. Whitney
applied to the department rare executive
ability and broad ideas. He was largely
instrumental in pressing to the front the
policy of navy building which has been
pursued to this day. His successor, Secre
tary Tracy, was by long oaas tne strongest
man in the Harrison cabinet and one of the
ablest.
Now Mr. Cleveland has done equally well
In his selection of Mr. Herbert. , He was
criticised for patting a southern man at.
the head of this department, bat this criti
cism has not been heard of since General
Herbert took charge. He brought to th
department a familiarity with the work
which was obtained through long service
on tbe naval committee of the house for
several years as chairman thereof. Under
his charge the department is running as
smoothly as a clock, and many of the old
Jealousies between the line and the staff
have been exterminated by his good man
agement. Veteran naval officers say thi
affairs of the department were never more
skillfully handled than they are at the pres
ent time. -
"SSBBBBajBSlSBB
It is computed that the death rate of tha
world is 67 a minute and the bfrth rate 70 a
minute, and this seemingly lisht percent,
age of gain is sufficient to give a net in
crease of population each year of almost
12UO,000 souls.
VARIED OPINIONS OF . PEOMISE5T
DEMOCRATS AS TO THE OCTLOOK.
WUllaam C. Whitney Lyina;
President Fleaslaa- Himself Gr
MacVeaah and the la tercet of the party
latereatlns Goes! p.
Cor. of The Montaaton Herald.
Washington. Dec. 29. r Special. 1
In this lull of congressional work the cap
ital gossipers have a good deal to say about
national politics. They seem to be partic
ularly concerned with the future of the
Democratic party. Two radical views are
held by Democrats themselves, one being
that the party Is sure to go oat of power
in tbe house in the coining general election,
and in the senate and White House as well
as soon as the people can get a chance to
express themselves. Those who bold this
view point to the Democratic losses at the
recent elections and to the dwindling ot
Mr. Cleveland's great majority in Chicago
as- shown by the meager victory of the
Democratic candidate for mayor last week.
AU these things convince these pessimistic
Democrats that their party is going to tha
demnition bowwows. They say the pen
dulum is about to swing to the other ex
treme, and that this time it is tbe Repub
lican tarn to be oa top. These gloomy
Democrats even go so far as to say that the
present president of the United States is
looking ont for himself and his own ad
ministration without mnch concern as to
what becomes of the party which elected
him. A
Temporary Reverses Only. -One
may hear this view expressed by
such Democrats as Gorman, Hill, Cockrell
and others who have never been ranch in
sympathy with Mr. Cleveland. They speak
of the selection of Gresham to be secretary'
of state, of MacVeagh to be embassador to
Italy and of other appointments made by
tbe president of late as indicative of his
carelessness of the party good and his de
sire to please himself first in all things.
While it may be true that Mr. Cleveland
has a way ot doing what he wants to do,
that is certainly no Innovation, and these
Democrats may be permitting their preju
dices to ran away with their judgment.
Precisely the opposite view is held by
many prominent Democrats. They say
that while the party seems just now to be
In the slough of despond and to be losing
states and cities that state of affairs will
not long continue. They ascribe these losses
to the natural reaction which always sets
in after a change of party, and instead of
being permanent and indicative of total
loss of power they affect to be glad of these
temporary reverses on the theory that the
sooner they come the sooner they will be
over with and the better chance of a reac
tion in tneir favor. These hopeful Demo
crats think the party may suffer a great
deal at the elections next fall, though they
are not willing to admit the house of rep
resentatives is likely to fall into the hands
of the opposition. Bat after the first op
position to the new tariff bill shall have
its influence at the coming congressional
elections they expect to see tbe consumers
of the country, the poor men, the masses,
begin to get benefit from the new sched
ules and to tarn with sympathy and sap-
port to the party that revised the tariff in
their interest. Between these two extreme
views, which are daily expressed by Dem
ocrats of national reputation, the man np
a tree may take his choice.
Oat mt Sight.
One hears a great deal of comment in
Washington upon the disappearance of
William C Whitney as a factor In Demo
cratic national affairs. 'Jt was Mr. Whit
ney more than any other man who secured
the nomination of Mr. Cleveland. That
Mr. Whitney's generalship had much to
do with tbe election, that his was tbe hand
that controlled the campaign machine, ev
ery one knows. The expectation was only
natural, as it was general, that Mr. Whit
ney would be tbe big man behind the
throne. It was freely predicted that be
wonld want a great deal and get everything
he asked for. As a matter of fact, Mrj
Whitney has had almost nothing at all to
do with this administration. He has de
clined to recommend men for appointment
to office, save In one or two cases where
simple justice required his interference,
and be has studiously avoided any effort
to control tbe patronage of his own state.
If be bad lost all the ambition he ever pos
sessed to be president of the United States,
Mr. Whitney could not more completely
have retired from publio view or from a
position of influence in the affairs of his
party.
While it is true that Mr. Whitney la not
on very good terms with the president and
has his opinion of some of the president's
methods an opinion which he has taken
good care to keep very carefully to him
self the rupture is not deep enough to
cause an entire severance of relations nor
to Induce Mr. Whitney to keep himself
Wholly in the background. One finds many
acute observers saying that Mr. Whitney
is playing a deeper game. They, say be
was able, from his knowledge of the con
ditions, of Mr. Cleveland's temperament
and tendencies, to predict with tolerable
certainty that this was not destined to be
a popular administration. According to
this theory, fir. Whitney felt sore Mr.
Cleveland was starting out to please him
self in his second and final term, and. that
his methods of doing so were sore to cause
more or less of a breach between "himself
and his party. Mr. Whitney knew there
would be great discontent over the man
ner In which the offices were filled, and
be was able to foresee that on at least one
great public question that of silver the
president was about to run counter to tne
wishes of a large section of the Democratic
party.
-Tlrod of PoUUea.
In other words, these observers declare
that Mr. Whitney saw what was coming
and decided to stand from under, to hold
aloof, to have no identification with the
administration and to lie low awaiting a
turn in tbe affairs of the party which
might bring him to the front. If this the
ory be correct, Mr. Whitney has shown his
usual astuteness, bat other friends and
admirers of the great Democratic Warwick
say he has really abandoned his ambition
to be president, particularly since the
death of bis wife, and that he is leaving
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