, 1880-09-13

the public breast and throttle it of its
voice, in order that they might establish
permanent government for their politi>
cal master and themselves. They were
mad with spoil and drunk with AFRO
gance and power, and did not know to
what a great extent they were u1masking
themselves until it was too late.
Was ever such sight? Their leader,
with his private wire, most blind and
mad of all, had waded in to his fate from
a primary declaration that he would ac-
cept nomination only if unanimously
presented upon him, and, after a six-dav
fight, died with his jaw upon the bit at
BOG.
That was the moment at which the
country took fire, or, to use our American
phrase, "got mad" At the same moment
panic seized the braves who had been
forbidding honest men to speak. The
oi0So VI iAOoity was idISCu Oy Ihc liitiuS
of Gar6eld's banner. The desperadoes
endeavored to make the best Of their dis
comfiture; but they had gone too far.
the people now had taken the bit, and
the insults these Republican dictators
had put upon their respected represents
tives in the Convention burned every
honest cheek in the land From that
moment the election of any Democratic
candidate who might be named at Cin>
cinnati was certain.
But the best man was chosen, and l
rejoice in his selection. do not predict
anything. but, believe Gen. Hancock
will be invited to the White House, in
large part by the very same patriotic men
who sent honest Abraham Lincoln there
for two terms. l shall take great pleas
ure in casting my vote for him Is man
without stain and equal to the President
ial station. For that purpose I will be
found at the polls IN New York at the
election next November. GEO. WILKES.
How IT FEELS TO DRowN.-When l
gave up all hope in the water 1 did not
suffer one pang OF remorse about my past
life. have always been told that when
man is drowning all his past life comes
before him and he suffers horrors of con-
science. 1t was not so with me-. l
thought of you, my dear father and
mother, and of all at home, and what
sorrow the news of my death would be
to you all, and then strange to say,
thought how people do lie. have al
ways been told that death by drowning
is the easiest death, and yet here l am,
suffering agonies OF pain, and l remember
wishing if 1 am to be drowned let it be
done quickly. Then I thought, am
about to solve the problem about the
future world, and felt the same feeling
of shyness and dread come over me that
felt so often, and never could conquer,
when was outside drawing room door
and about to be ushered into the presence
of crowd of ladies and men. I have
been asked if never thought about the
sharks which infest the place. 1 am
thankful to say that never entered my
head. If l had remembered them l feel
sure should have gone down like
stone.-P Philadelphia Times.
DEsTRUCTIBILrTY OF HUMAN BONES. -
An instance of the readiness with which
the human bones disappear is shown in
the fact that the Dutch Government in
1858 drained off the great Haarlem lake,
on which there had been many ship
wrecks and naval fights, and where thou-
sands had found watery grave. The
canals and trenches dug to considerable
depth through the rescued land are esti-
mated to have an aggregate length of
thousands of miles, and yet not single
bone was exhumed from first to last
Some weapons and few coins, and one
or two wrecked vessels alone rewarded
the efforts and researches of the curiosity
hunters. Here, as in cavern deposits and
river gravels generally, works of art
alone furnished evidence OF the existence
of man, even though no pant of the de-
posit could be more than 800 years old,
as the lake was formed by an inundatioll
toward the end of the sixteenth century.