, 1872-11-24


upon the principle upon which poor poai
routes are maintained, keeping the rates low,
eventually support :..e road. Second, when nrst-
class fare ia paid rstclass passage shall be given in
ac9mIortabe car. with such appointments as the Inv
ehan specify polite and lind treatment to be required
from employees, and the comfort and convenience ot
passengers to be assured, well the safety Of life
and Limb. When person is taken in charge by rail
road he must be delivered in good order 1t the end
the Journey undamaged in feelings and person, he
asreceiEed. Third When dollar received for travel
returned in travels not according to the caprice Of
the Company, but according to equity and JUSTICE and
she m n demand Of the y, Fourth II
shall be compelled to confine Itself to the peace
full means Of redress individual and cause az
less the offender be guilty Of obscene or indecent con-
duct In the car, or commit trespass upon life and
property.
m" COMMON ORNAMENT"
Charles Akers deplores the absence Of simple.
artistic Ornament IN the various phases Of
American life, although our furniture, street.
cars, neW-built streets, and picture-frames show
an increasing love OF .adornment, such as it is.
He makes few suggestions for guidance in. the
decorative art. Ornament should be original:
it should never interfere with the thing ornn-
mented 1t should be appropriate to itB matrix
significance
Old readers Of the Atlantic have never grown
used to
TIE COMEDY OF TERRORS."
Its monthly chapters have been 8 recurrent
surprise to those whom the chaste Atlantic led
IN former years to an appreciation Of good taste
and Keen work in literature. with this month.
its last chapters are given, and, to cur relief
this preposterous and vulgar story passes into
oblivion.
AnAsIAs PuLLwoo1, IAN INSPIRED LOBBYIST"
had the Devil in him, J. ". DeForest tells Us.
firing Of his successes in Washington, he be-
took himself, with his eminent 1odger, to little
State (which may have been Rhode Island, or
one Of the Pleiades, but which, at al events,
had lI two Capitals. Without regard to
Morse's Gazetteer, OF to whatever other
Ga7etteer may now be in currency, re
shall affirm that one Of these Capitals
Here he meets h1r. Dicker, and the two-that is,
the three, for A. P. had the devil in him-eet to
work to make Fastburg the only Capital There
is money in the job, and Pull wool and Dicker
are to go :" anacks." Pu1wool gets an appro-
priation Of 1000 from the Common Council Of
Fastburg, and
before he rolled his apple-dunaplinK Of figure into
bed that night, he had interviewed Smith and Brown
the editors Jones and Robinson, the lawyers Smooth
and s1ow, the literary characters various and
-. .wo5l, gentlemen. and capitalize Fsstbnrg, and
get your "a ddi'1dsnds" ID was his Inspiring message
50 for every editorial and S for every hunbuggng
md s. f9s every telling item. Jones and
legal statements q tue cls Of he City; Smooth IND md
Slow as being merely authors, and not accustomed
to obtain much for their lsboE got 500 between them
Ind members Pullwoo1 was rnanincent; it seemed
= =, 4 those gentlemen could rot be psid enough
inns which i money. Only, Wills dealing i nberay @
ith them The inspired one did not forget himself.
dor N, NJ sy IT. NJ s ss 70 receipt 1o
Hool fingers. The Same arrangement was made with
W. Green, and Air. Sharp, and Mr. Bum1ner, and Mr
p1ctpurso, and Mr. Buneombe. It was game Of
sas more than suacEs- ~ thousand for you two and
housand for me too.
Next, our Inspired Lobbyist be*akes himself.
'ecretly. to the other Capital, slowburg, which !
10 warns aeSinst the nefarious designs Of the |
Capital Hing, which can only be defeated BY |
he expenditure OF money.
Well the result Of it all Was, that the city maenates
slowhurg DID Just what had been done by the city
nto the pockets Of the Ring they voted sGo00o VIII
portion Of this money about him, and with authority
draw for the rest on proper vouchers, Mr. Pullwoo
lEea.
To end the story the Legislature Kicked over
le whole scheme:
Nothing had come Of the whole row. except that the
air Of simple little cities had spent over one hundred
louaand dollars and that the Capital Ring, fighting
! both sides and drawing pay from both sides, had
ned 1ts pockets Wills the great creator Of the Ring
ID crammed his to bursting.
Mr. Dlcker now appears upon the scene to
ave settlement:
"And ~! Whit, exactly, au be my ,shase7" asked
What do you mean 2" stared Pullwoo1 apparently
the extremity OF auazement.
"Yon said snacke, didn't you7" urged Dicker,
q Wen, s,'asks Ii is" replied Pullwool. "Havenx
~ had 3 thousand?'
Ct Yes" admitted Dlcker.
" Then you owe ne i've huudred?n
Mr. Dicker did not faint, though he came very ne.r
but he staggered out Of the room as white as
eet for he was utterly crushed by this diabolical
hfr. De Forest should inform a public whom
. has not . little perplexed by his Contradictory
les Of late as historian and novelist. |
neither this tale is purely allegorica1, or is the
oduct Of 3 veracious chronicler.
. manner, Of the '*Jeauita' Mission Of onouda-
in 1854"
Parton brings II
TIE LIFE OF JEFFERSON
wn to 1880, and describes the meeting Of I
feraon and Hamilton. OF Hamilton Parton
ties:
t is not so very easy to why he had any public
reer at Al, When We have turned over the ton Of {
hed ne mater 70 which he gave rise and looked st
ha an and portraits Te sre s at oss to
ltue 1euow q about five feet seven, stranger in
snss ssS,1s snd; q, without an influential friend earth
sbsisng IN New jersey nnon n tae
st ,!ndta produce, We ind % HIN, % from tie
=, na'1uB tne best Of everything, distiu- |
ahed at school, at college, in tie army, |
ing an influential part in every strikinr,!
ne Of the Tar, and every crisis after the peace-
bic man, as It were, by nature. Nor as It dash t
=. Ho held his OWN and, rapid "a his rise vas
Fas always the high place that sought him never
the high placa unless, indeed, when ha asked | a
aefM Washington the favor ct letting him head an Q
sck on the enemyfs works. Nor was It Iuerely =
CO and distinction that he Won. The daughter Of Il
OF Americas most noted and wealthy families be- n
ae the proud and happy wife OF this stranger when
was Lieutenant Colonel Of twenty three, without G
ollar or m acre to fall back upon at the neace
Z this commanding, aelf-suficIeut splrt Hamilton =,
an ample share. Hts confidence in himself ia u
eng the cQriosies Of character: it Eas absoiute q
entire and, hence, neither events nor men cnnd a
q him and he died cherishing the delusions nj his
tn. II to this remark hiE life furnishes ma A. | ~
taon, It WIS when as lad Of 16 he nl1ovTed him
to be converted from supporter Of tha Ein0 ~ !
efender Of the Colonies But It seams eren 45 f5h;s
version was only partial for, when It came h
question Of severance from the E;nr ~ |
te pamphlet against .Paine's "Comron |
se." He appears to have had nothing TINT con15 |
allied youth In the earliest Of his efuso1s what p
we ulay think Of The sentiments, we perceive that
writer had no Gense whatever of the Difference |
from youth to maturity. Nothing ta more evident n
is aidedecamp! letters than that be condescended
'erye General Washington. He WIS bat "a when be o.
t. after refusing to resume lB pace In the Gen
q family, that he had remained in it long as he III
not from regard to General Washington, nor be- pt
10 he thought 1t an honor privilege to asaist Q