Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-02-07
Pen Pickings at the Capitol.
Especial Correspondence Of The Sentinel /


To those who are accustomed 10 be around
the Capitol, standing under colonades, passing
through the corridors, lettering iu the alcoves
or seated IN the gallery, much is seen 10 pity,
surprise, admire and amuse. 1t is a beautiful
day. Come with me to the rotunda for few
moments and let us look upon the surging
crowd of humanity as it GIBBS and flows
See, there comes the shivering hungry men
dicani, listen TO her story, Tor the morning OF
her life was perhaps as golden and bright as
yours. How it wrings the heart Her sunken
eye, pale lips and emaciated countenance tell
of deep and intense suffering She has left
behind her children half-fed, halfclothed,
the last locket, some pledge Of affection. per-
haps, her prayer book, bible, all have been
sold, all have been bartered for bread, all
gone, and she is now out upon the cold char-
ties Of the world, the play of the merci-
les waves Of adversely. Pass DC, child OF
sorrow and want, it has been SO deemed by a
higher authority than that OF your National
ssembly. Pass on, the fires Of hunger are
increasing and soon will be iiercer and hotter
than the tortures of the damned. Stop not
here lest its flames drive YOU 10 that place
where dishonor holds its court upon the wreck
of virtue and where shame at last bushes it,
self 10 death. Pass on, a christian minister
is preaching throughout christian world
from christian pulpit that all things happen
for the best
Listen TO that demoniac laugh 1t proceeds
from yonder group of loud-mou,hed political
bravadoes; they have spent the night in
squalid debauchery and the guilty Joys and
pleasures Of the past evening are being drown
ed in orugged hiarity. These are the men
who shape public opinion, give tone to pub
lie sentiment and mould the customs and man
ners OF COMMUNICATIVE make and unmake
modern statesmen, enact, repeal and re-enact
public laws. Whata sad commentary upon
the enlightenment of the Nineteenth century |
What foul and blsterng cancer upon the
body polite! What disgrace to society
whit exemplars for the growing manhood of
the day
Who is this rushing BY with locomotive
speed The bired news-monger. What new
gambling corporation is to be bolstered up to-
day Who are to be among its thousands ofvic-
Tins, W hat joyous hearthstone is to be blacken-
ed under The crushing weight of this bloody
Jugernaut? What deed of crime and terror.
shrouded in mystery, has been committed
What character, upon whose polished surface
the breath OF SANDER has never touched, is 10
be handled? For
1.-THE jewel best enameled
Will lose its beauty, and though gold bides
That other touch. yet other touching
Will wear gold.''
What fair fame Is to be blasted and ruined,
because Of the fact that the demands of some
hendish demon has not been complied with p
What startling development, what new sensa-
ton has thrown ripple Ger the mirrored sur
face of fashionable society2 Such his ife this
his duty from morning until night and from
night until morning.
See that old, cadayerous, lynx-eyed Shy
lock. When that great philosopher of human
nature and human character made lago say
unto Roderigo, Put money in thy purse"
he sounded the keynote which charms and
governs the world. 1t makes and unmakes
kings and Kingdoms ii builds palaces and
demolishes thrones-it permeates every branch
of society and regulates every view of the com
munty. Its influence shakes the Vatican from
its centre to its circumference, and controls
the humblest house of worship. 1t betrayed
the Saviour Of the world--it is to-day your
master as it is mine. ''Put money in thy
pocket
That aged couple, they have been here since
the Seminole war. They had a claim which
originated by reason of the Indian depreda-
tons, and which has been paid some half-dozen
times; still II comes up before every Congress.
1t has been before every committee, and 1t is
now pending before the committee on expir-
ing laws. As was Dickens eJaundice VS.
Jaundice" a severe criticism upon old English
chaneery, so are these old claims running
through generations, waste Of Congressional
How spendidly dressed What magnificent
jewels That is the Queen of the Lobby
Have you never been in her gilded saloons,
never walked over her downy carpets, never
stood under the brilliancy Of her chandeliers,
never lolled in her luxurious chairs, never
tasted her delicate viands? Members of Con-
gress go there. Here comes the New York
swell How faultless his style OF dress, his
dainty, educated moustache, his highly per-
fumed handkerchief Pass on, you gaudy but
terhy-you empty carcature of humanity
Nature abhors q vacuum.
What unclouded joy, what fair visions,
golden dreams are theirs, lost to everything
but to love
1.-TWO souls with but single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one."
They are spending the day at the Capitol
Mar not their pleasurel Invade not their
sunny thoughts
There are the fred men, chiefs of some
tribe. They have come again, as did their
fathers before them, TO enter into some treaty
which the government never responsiveness
lives up 10. luelr lives nave Deen one OF IN
justice. Driven from hunting ground to hunt
ing ground, from land to land, robbed, shot
down, murdered-a living, dsgraceful shame
upon the enlightenment and civilization of a
great nation.
Those! they are members Of the Diplomatic
Court--the lights of society, the custodans
of the honor OF Nationaities, Republics and
Prinsipalties. II was Taleryand, Prime
Minister under the First Napoleon, who re-
marked to his son, when he handed him let
tiers credental' TO foreign court, ''You will
see what small material governs the world"
Who is that closely mufiled female, bedecked
and bedaubed Don't mention her. A few
short years of sensualiy aud the worm will
sicken Ger its filthy banquet, and no stone
will tell of her dishonored grave.
Gracious heavens there is his fraudulcncy.
Who would have thought it, Conking has
been beaten. Ring down the curtain, ere
your morals are shocked, your sensibiliies
blurred, your baser passions awakened Ring
dawn the curtain CLEANER.
Another shocking exhibition has been con-
cluded in New York that was advertised and
written Of as a pedestrian or athletic effort. A
young woman named Annie Bartel, and
usually spoken of as 1.-The Westchester milk
maid, undertook 10 walk one thousand quar-
tiers OF mile in Que thousand quarters Of an
hour. She retired defeated at the end of FIVE
hundred and sixty-six quarter miles only
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