The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-05-07

All, if might have known how it would be
In those Old college days Wild and gay,
W When first drank in youthful reVelry!
How easy then 10 put the cup away
4 mothers hope and joy was till then;
Now see me tremblins-ha! Those eyes again
Back, fiery eyes, to hell, where you belong!
Hi drink ye down-what, blood, drink blood;
Help! Help! They come, Il hideous, devilist
Back! Get ye back. They'll toss me in ths
Long, cooked hands are crawling in my hair
Is this the end? Ha, hal Too late for prayer
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The Soft Guitar.
4 DRAMATIC FRAGMENT.
SCENE: Moonlight. Beneath the lady's
window appearelh the lover and singeth, with
LOVER.
Open thy lattice, o lady bright!
The earth lies calm in the fair moonlight;
Gaze on the CLINT OF each dancing star,
And list to the notes of my soft guitar.
At the lady's window a vision shown
Twas the ladys head, with night-cap on.
LOVER.
In ecStGcy.)
See! At the easement appearing now,
With lilly fingers she hides her brow.
Oh, we p not; though bitter thy sorrows are,
l wiz soothe them to rest with my soft guitar.
Go way with your fiddle, and let me Sleep"
LOVER.
(Sdddened, but stu hopeflu.)
Then sleep, dear lady; thy fringed lids close,
Pinions of cherubs fan thy repose,
While through thy easement, slightly ajar,
Steal the sweet notes OF my soft guitar.
Then the lady her ''secret pain" confessed
With the gentle murmur: ''Oh, give rest !''
LOVER.
(S7igf,tly IiScoaraged)
Chide me not harshly, o lady fair!
Bend from thy lattice and hear my prayer.
Signing for thee wander afar,
MournfUlly touching my soft guitar.
And the lady answered: s'You stupid thing,
If you've got the catarIh, stop trying to sing ~
LOVER.
(FIled s0ith natural and righteous iaodtgnatton)
Cruel but fair one, thy scorn restraint
Better deaths quiet than thy dfsdain.
I'll go to fall in some distant war,
Bearing in battle my loved guitar.
Answered the lady: "WelI, hurry and go!
I'm holding the slop-basin ready to throw"
LOVER.
(1Haktng Immediate preparations to depart.
:,Ig False one, one, love thee. When I'm at rest
spectral vision thy JOY shall mar
A skeleton touching soft guitar.
From the lady's window her dulcet tones
On the night-wind f1oated: "Go it, old Bones"
Then the lover in agony roamed afar-
Fell limp in the gutter and smashed his guitar.
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The following are the proceedings upon
Mr.. Bundy's bill to abolish mileage, as
copied from the Congressional Record
ABOLITION OF MILEAGE SYSTEM.
Mr.. BUNDY, from the Committee on
Mileage, reported back bill { H R. No.
l243) to abolish the system of mileage,
with the recommendation that it do pass
The bill was read The first section
provides that after the passage of the act
all allowance for mileage to Senators
Representatives and Delegates shall be
thereby abolished The third section
provides that in lieu thereof, each Sena-
tor, Representative and Delegate shall be
entitled to receive his actual travelling
expenses to and from Washington once
each way for each session Of Congress.
Mr.. BUNDY. l demand the previous
question on the engrossment and third
reading of the bill
NJ HALE, of Maine Is not the bill
subject to point of order?
The SPEAKER. What point of order
does the gentleman make?
Mr. HOLMAN. 1t keeps money in
the Treasury.
Mr. CLEMENTS. The point is that it
does not make an appropriation if there
be any point against it at all
. Mr. HALE, of Maine My point is
that it takes money from the Treasury
Gentlemen say it does not OF course it
may OF it may not, but it is not for us to
settle that question at the present time.
NJ. HOLMAN. This bill does not in
crease the pay. bat on the contrary, re-
duces it. 1t has been suggested by the
gentleman from Maine that the Chair
cannot state whether the bill makes an
appropriation or not, or whether it in
creases the expenses of the Government
or not Now, | submit there are some
things the Chair will take notice of just
as court must take notice ud.cially OF
certain things, and the Chair knows that
instead of this taking money from the
Treasury it on the contrary retains mon
ey in the Treasury.
Mr. HALE, of Maine That may be
or may not be.
Mr.. CLYMER. But it does.
Mr.. HOLMAN. 1t does retain money
in the Treasury, as the Chair knows.
The SPEAKER. The Chair thinks
the bill may be considered now in the
House
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question on the engrossment and third
reading of the bill.
The SPEAKER. The ayes have it by
the sound.
Mr.. COBB, of Kansas. ask for fur.
ther count
The SPEAKER appointed Mr. Bundy
and Mr. Hale, of Maine, tellers.
The House again divided; and the tel
lers reported-ayes 81, noes 81.
So the House refused to second the de-
mand for the previous question.
Mr.. MAYNARD. l move to recommit
the bill.
Mr.. RANDALL l move to lay the
bill upon the table as test vote
Mr. HOLMAN | trust the gentleman
from Pennsylvania will not make that
notion because the motion to recommit
will serve as test just as well as mo-
tion to Law upon the table; and on that
motion demand the yeas and nays.
Mr.. RANDALL. withdraw the mo-
ton to lay upon the table; but l wish to
call the attention Of the House to the
fact that the opposition to this bill comes
from n most remarkable quarter, the gem
tleman from Maine, Mr.. Hale who has
been instrumental in reducing our sala-
ries
The SPEAKER. The opposition comes
from the gentleman from Tennessee, on