New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-25
a Tyre Of widest range
Struck by all passion.
THE INEVITABLE THEME.

iiE lNEfiiABL THEME.
1t is ONLY little ril of cash that dribbles to the
smaller hamlcts as yet, dirty Little huddles of
houses that they All here is in one of them may
be seen in ten minutes, after which the traveller
staies at n bu2zng fly in the tavern window till
train time, rctlcctng on the mysterious fact that
man is the only animal to Kill himself with his own
ruth, and glad to get ont into Pullman car The
Oldest inhahitant of The hamlet a man in "A state of
perpetual establishment at the weather, is perhaps
aged fifty. Iie has the blues because his town Is
not torn up with improvements like the large
towns; his hamlet Is swampcd in the biggest.
meancs, grosSest form of Observation-Disclosures. All
the inhabitants put together do not accomplish
smart mans work. The folk are "powerful weak
never are "oNerly we'll" and are "fstcy" and
"brockc' (quauesOmc and wastcful OF time)
Indiana is now receiving its share of Immigra-
ton. FlaXen-hairod Saxons scuiiing along and
striking out well with their heels dark-harcd,
bue-eyed Colts, with their perpendicular jog-t
and Germans, in hecless slippers which nothing
bu generations of practice with wooden shoes could
enable them to hold on their feet sparscy tread the
village streets. There is more interesting sight
than couple OF old German women in a blooming
garden, gossippng among pots and trell,cs One
talks with free gestures holding the while tr,iant
dove by its purple pinlons the other has her clean
blue apron full of goslngs which she is carving to
feed on the tender grass. Both have good nice old
faces, plentiful hair neatly braided and bare arms
timely Drowned hy. sun and exercise
II electionerrlng produces thought and inquiry
there - enough III Indiana to cnlightcn any number
OF new citizens. Men have voted ten tunes during
the last six months. and sick and tired of il ana
oil the sight o a man stamping his feet and waving
ms hands. tai ihp about the Government. How
ever, they have attended thoroughly to the voting
The Legislature this year has been the ideal one
far superior. llooslcrs think, TO the TRAMP Con
grcss' AT Washington. i was Republican, il was
antl-hquor, and II was WomanS rights Indiana,
Legislators meet only once in Two years (oh happv
lndiana! hnlSh their business in three months ana
depart from the Capital. Ii they do not, every
newspaper III the State begins to call them block
heads and Idiots, and wants to know why they
don ect done and get out. They do business rap
IDLY without dailying They run hi l. through like
feed through StraW-cuttcr They make spccc hes of
the shortest, Smatcst, most mpasS desc riptiou
not about 80 the party nor about the ever
lasting interests OF the IaborlnG man: they are
laoorng men themselves. The chair Is PROMPT and
dguihcd The legislators meet in a spirit oi com
raucShlp and pood fellowship, and to advance the
prosperity OF the state. \ few crafty Visagcs are
seen among them, Tor thcy most y snow frank COM
tenances that match well with their thicklV-
matched heads ana noble frames. Some have true
aqWhnc faces Regular eagle brahS: some Tia Iair
honest looks OF tIc NOrtu, races Others hconr 10
the darker families OF mankind. one could not ,h
Tor Deter sci oi men To rule the state " ne
roaring, miIou-ncadcd, unTcllcctmg t,cr L, Car
lyIcl mas nut rs Act upset Republican institutions IN
liOOslcriOM.