West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-03-24

| Iyner the simple came in mcekly, with
a deprecating air, as if he wished to
apologize for being alive.
| The ROtund arrived last. lie had been
tackiDg along in heavy sea and head
winds. He rolled heavily, seeming to be
top-heavy, and when he came to anchor
he threw out long breath, as if he
were blowing off steam.
After the aged party from Maine had
extricated his crushed tile from under
the Interior Department. and Don Came
ron had righted the inkstand, the Admin
istration pushed THE CAPITAL towards
Don Cameron and said, "Read that" Don,
much amazed, opened and began on the
social gossip. "Not that" roared His
Alcoholic Majesty, "not that" Tie
startled Don started in on "a Breakfast
with Raymond" and would probably
have been dismissed from the Cabinet
had not the solemn party from Maine,
still at work trying to restore the cover
ing of his senatorial intellect, came to
Dons rescue and pointed out the objec-
| tiOnable editorial.
| Don is not n bad reader, and he did full
justice to our article, reading in a clear
way, with proper emphasis and choice
intonation. When lie ended, the Ad-
ministration said, between putfs
"What do you think of that ?"
| "Not a bad imitation of Junius," said
Fish.
The Administration never heard of Jul
Mus, and evidently thought him some
disreputable newspaper fellow, but said
nothing. Evidently an opinion was eN-
stuff" Chandler remarked, Damned
rot.' The Rotund blew off more steam
and said nothing. The paternal Taft
| only twiddled his thumbs, and looked as
if he wanted to donate nickle to 4 col
ored begSar. But Tyner with truer in
stincts, his eyes fixed on the Admnistra
ton, said, in deep, sepulchral voice:
| ''Treason!xI
And the Cabinet started as if subjected
to an electrical shock.
"Cameron,' said the Administration,
lighting another cigar, "ortler ont file
of men and arrest the fellow" Then,
rising from his seat, he gave, in his usual
manner, intfmatiOn that the audience
was at an end. AS the members, bidding
good morning, at which the Administra-
ton only nodded and grunted, moved
from the room, Cameron touched the
elbow of the paternal Taft and asked in
an undertOne:
"Got any law for me in this ?"
"Not law" responded Daddy T., smil-
ing as if he We're giving the War De-
partment his blessing.
"Well, can't interfere through the
military without some authority Mar
tial law has not yet been proclaimed in
the District. 1t belongs to your depart |
mcnt, Taft.'
81 suppose it does if it belongs any
where. / don't like it. Piatt's got to
going for me anyhow, and Pd rather
have spinal meningitis. Besides, all the
newspapers in the country will bounce
us like bricks"
"That's true enough; but the old man
has set his heart on it and something
must be done. I wonder who started the |
damned thing. Grant never reads any
thing
"Why, old Hamlin. Didn't you see
him pointing the art icle out. He got the
newspapers down on him by raising the
postage, and he wants an editor killed."
"Daddy-long- legs, as the clerks of the
Department of Justice endearingly style |
the paternal Taft, turned to his office and
summoned all his force and stated his |
trouble. He wanted some law; but he
wanted also Il CAPITAL of the day pre-
a, i.,I ~
no CAPITAL could be had. a messenger,
disguised as Il cOuntryman and armed
with revolvers, was sent to our Office
He returned with four, being all that
was lett of an edition of fourteen thous-
and, and the Department of Justice went
to work.
There are few things more entertain
ing, if not instructive, than an old lady
who adjusts her spectacles and tetchcs
her feminine intellect to the study of
some mysterious question. Of this sort
was Poppy Taft i'll search of the law un
der which we could be indicted and pun
ished. To aid him he had Dutton-
known, 10! these fifty years, as the yel-
low-hammer, n bird so called because of
its plumagc and q disposition to be for
ever pecking away at rotten logs for i'm
aginary worms. Also, the Hon. Joseph
Cox. of the Ham. County Common (very
common) Pleas, volunteer adviser, and
half 4 dozen subs. of the Department of
Justice, whose qualifications for place
were found in the fact that, like necessi-
ty, they knew no law.
Dutton said it was constructive bur
UlarN-tlnt burTlarY-for We sOuyht to