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The Folly Of Wearing Mourning.

Sorrow may be none the less true sod
deep because it shrinks from ostenta.
nous parade-from wearing the heart ON
The sleeve. for DAVIS to peck at: If NAV
feel that the inadequacy Of outward
signs 70 give it expression makes any
attempt at doing so q mere mockery,
ana may prefer, to conceal itself, as far
as possible, under its wonted exterior.
How can real grief be represented fittino.
~ by Grape and hat-bands? And if no
real grief exist, then the whole affair is
nothing but a miserable exhibition of
humoug and hypocrisy appeal to the
world for sympathy and commiseration
upon false pretenses. What sort of sor-
row is felt by relatives who say. sOt
we must put the children into mournino
Tor Uncle So and SO, he's left us some,
thing in his will" or else, 81 shan't
trouble about black for Cousin Such a
one-he's left me nothing;- as the case
may be? 1t would be surely more hon.
est for such pretended mourners as these
to ASSUME some signs of rejoicing or woe.
according as they do or do not find them
serves the possessors of fresh riches.
Even when sorrow is really felt, its in.
tensity and duration will not be alike in
all cases where the relationship Is the
same, because no two husbands and
wives, brothers and sisters, or other
relations, win love one another
in exactly the same degree; and
on this account there must neces-
sarily be something foolish and unreal
in a practice which assumes that the
depth and extent of regret may be reck.
oned on according to nearness of kin.
More or less of shoppiness and hollow.
nessis almost inseparable from the wear.
ing of mourning. according to the pres
ent custom; yet there is that about death
which is apt to put human nature essen.
tally out of tune for all that is artificial
and sham.
Again, how can any one who believes
IN the resurrection reconcile it with his
conscience to make everything connected
with death dark, gloomy and melan.
cholyv Ii he has that sure confidence
which he processes to have as to the de.
parted being safe from all future dan
gers. and having passed to a state of bliss
Tar beyond what is attainable upon earth,
why does he not rejoice in their, happi.
ness. Does he think them out of reach
of sympathy because out of sightp Or
is he too selfish to let the thought of their
gain outweigh that of his own loss. In
1875 a Mourning Reform Association was
started by three ladies, and has certainly
commended itself to the public mind to
some extent, seeing that it now numbers
400 members. Ii discourages the use OF
mourning stationery, wearing of Grape,
and putting of children and servants into
black; recommends that mourning should
be shown by black band round the arm,
or by black scarf; and aims generally
at minimizing mourning. London Spec
tGt0r. f5 ~ HA ui i9s643d liyls III O.
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His Good Name Came Back to Him.

Jacob Aeschbach keeps small store
at 81 Washington Street, Hoboken, and
repairs watches and jewelry. He is
fOrty-four years old, and in twenty wears
he has had eighteen children born to him,
ten of whom are living. On Tuesday
two sharpers stole from his store a
valuable gold watch belonging to John
K. Ryszczyuski, and he felt keenly the
fact that people suspected him to be the
thief. For two days and nights his wife
cried over the misfortune.
He heard that two men had been
arrested in Newark while trying to rob a
jeweler, aud he went there YESTERDAY,
accompanied by the Chief of Police OF
Hoboken and Mr.. Ryszczyuski. He at
once identified the prisoners as the men
who stole the watch. When he saw
them in the First Precinct police station
his eyes filled with tears, and in an ex-
cited and dramatic manner he told how
each acted in his store. One of them,
he said, left with him the inside frame
of chain locket that he might fit glass
into it. ti.f. 8rsst IL - a.t. sNt4A
"Here is the Frame" he added. draw.
Ing it from his pocket. 1.-The man kept
the locket, but Isaw in it something red
and should know it if sawit again. I"
A locket which had been taken from
one of the prisoners, Charles Howard,
was shown to Aeschbach. immediately
he cried and laughed by turns. and at
the same time exclaimed: 20, my God
Thank heaven, Pm saved! Mr.. Chief,
that is the locket. See how this frame
will fitit." The loeket was opened, and
it was found that the frame (which the
hysterical jeweler produced belonged tc
it. In the locket was piece of red fan
mel. The sight of this drew tears from
Aeschbach's eyes again. -
That is the red stuff I saw" he
shouted. 20, for God ssake, telegraph
to my wife that IN safe and have found
the men who stole the watch. She has
been crying her life away. They said j
stole the watch, but now, thank God,
my good name is come back to me and
my family.' ,dl 81 .rd .se.Hi1E'lsb |.'l
The police officials said that in all their
experience they had never seen a man SC
beside himself with Joy as was Aesch,
bach. IN Y. san. r "a
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BY this time we stood bv the black.
grim-looking elevator, cqlled the cage,
the guides ready with their lamps, and
the order came to descend The Dung.
ster was taken back to the o ! ce and
placed in charge of the book keeper,
and with a friend i stepped on the
cage with much the feel ng of or mi
nal on the gallows; horrid sense OF
going to meet death in some shape.
Down we went in, total blackness three
hundred feet, when We came TO halt
and. stepped out into a ,ubterraneaD
world of Egyptian darkness, spotted
here ana there with small punches of
light, of steaming engines and ami
mated with tho a:tivity of grimy-faced
toiling men and boys. obstinate mules.
and the clang of work. A ter walking
for some time through galleries walled
and arched with coal, braced with
hea Y timbers and threaded with mar.
row railway tracks. we made another
descent of two hundred feet down q
seam of coal at an ang OF forty-five
degrees. with onlya amt light at the
bottom TO mark our WY, -Four hun
dred feet urther down was the bottom
OF the mine. but rs e various floors
of this TN 'erground workshop afford
similarviews we did not make the de-
scent. W guide-was enthusiastic. in
regard to the healthfulness of. mining.
He contended that there was no pure1
air in the world than in that mine. and
every now and then a mysterious cur
rent of air swept through those d small
chambers. which the guide said came
N Is IL,
galleries we came into passages cut
through the solid rock, where the coal
oined the slate in solid pur ty without
at all mingling with it After Sc era
feet of no the coal began again. Once
we were nearly subjected bv the pass
ing of an engine, the steam and gas
completely filling the gallery and en-,
veloping us so totally that we were
entirely, blinded, and for breath bent
our heads low for safety ,
One of the most interesting features
of the mine is the stables tor the mules.
There are stalls and feed-bOxes. and
straw and hay Tor them. quite the same
as on the surface, and lead pipe car
RES water into The m ne for them
Twenty-Five mules work in. this m ne
pulling the cars, where engines cannot
well be used, and for other purposes o
labor. One mule, by the name o.
Tom" after having worked in the
mine for twenty-five years, is now re-
tired from further service, and is to
en- oy rest and leisure for the remainder
of his life.
That sunshine is essential for health.
full life and longevity seems to be dis
proved in the lie of coal mining, anc
that it has fascination in omprehen
sible to the non-m ner is not to lie ques-
toned WiikeS6arre Cor. Paila te.phiG
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If Mr.. Malone were directly charged
with being d Republican he would in
dignantly deny the accusation. Neither
Malone nor any one of his Democratic.
recruits will confess to Republicanism.
He and they still claim to be Democrats
and affect resentment of any imputa-
ton against their Democracy. But Mr..
Malone is either Republican outright
or he is something that ought to be lar
more Objectionable to the Democratic
mind than any decent member OF the
Republican party. He is either cow
ardly Republican who dares not own his
party name, or he is a renegade Demo
crat selling his influence to the Repub-
lican party. If he does not hold the
opinions of the Republican party he is
like the Hessian ruler who sold
ago. IF he does hold those opinions, he
is pitiful specimen of abject moral
cowardice, afraid or ashamed to be-
known for what he is. Taking either
horn of the dilemma, reckoning Malone
as trading Hessian or a Republican
coward, and we have such leader as
Democrats can not follow in the pro-
gramme laid out for the, campaign of
1884. That programme is the ANAL
gamatiop Of. the Readjusters1 with the
National Republican party There is
no longer any disguise. The local ques-
ton that divided the Virginia Demo-
Gratis is settled and put out Of the
way forever. Those Democrats who in
future, adhere to Malone and his fail
ing fortunes, will do so with the full I'M
derstanding that he regards them as the
Hessian contingent which he is to barter
for patronage. While he processes to
hold aloof from the Republican organi-
cation, he does so because his position
gives him greater Importance; because
he, with the balance of power in his
hands and with promises of great things
in 1884, can command much better
terms than he could as a regular men,
Der of the grand old party" 1t is
good time now, while there is no intense
political excitement, for Democrats who
have been with Malone on the debt
question, to calmly consider whether
they can march with him into the Re-
publican campaign of 1884 as part OF
his stock in trade. If any of those
Democrats have become converted to
the Republican creed they will not be
true Nirginians if they are not brave
enough to take their black Republican
brethren by the hand and fully, openly,
boldly avow their change of faith. The
Old Dominion has never yet been so de-
graded as to have her Presidential vote
sold, but such sale is contemplated by
Malone, and he really counts on his
ability to make this trade by holding
his Democratic supporters IN d National
campaign and delivering their votes for
Republican Presidential Electors
HdsLindtOn Post uf strfN Ft- @.t"
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spoken showed the father with whai
contempt such q course. would inspire
his son. He replied cautiously:
"No one can have a greater repuo.
nance than have TO accepting fayois
which cannot be reauited. But it is
hard. Maurice. it is hard to think OF
giving up the old place. especially when
IN the course o nature shall have so
very few years to spend in it in any
case. However. like yourself. am not
prepared TO say precisely at this mo-
ment what my future course NAV be-
But whatever happens. You and / must
nave no more misunders. andings
There, now, get some rest if you can,
and shall see you before you start
Maurice wouid have been glad If he
had been able TO follow his fathers wise
counsel and take rest; but after a / the
excitement Of the night there wa, a
painful wskefulness upon him: every
thought and OBJ ect appeared to him un.
usually clear; and TO his own nh nkino
all his acti rs were performed with I'M
natural calmness. He saw what he had
to do. and he was going to do at once.
quietly and deliberately He felt pain
at the thought that she was lost TO him
forever; that was TO come a tervard:
hut he ,smarted when he thought O.. her
contempt, and how thoroughly he mer.
tied t. ''
He sat down and wrote. without med
itation or hrs tatiOn; all that he had to
do was so clear to him. v1s ,71
FRIDAY MORNING.
81 can not hope that YOU will believe me- but
/ must trI uble you with these few lines. You
shall not again be reminded of my existence
by any direct On from me.
- simply wish 10 tel you that have with
in the last few 'uss learned all that Won sun
poser IA oe a,NluainIei W tn before. now
you feel for me. .. too. feel scorn ana loathing
for the creature y"u imagine me to be. =
MAURICE L. CALrHORPE''
TO BE CONTINUED
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A PhIlosophic Car Conductor.

He was holding q stump of a dead CT
gar in his mouth as he stood on, the plat
form of Shawmut-avenue car going
south, and he suggested to fellow
passenger who was taking the outside
air after ai'22d of February domestic
dinner that it was shame that smoking
was not permitted. concluding his .criN.
cism with, :" Don't you think, soPp s.J
do" said the citizen. II suppose one
of these DAYS" continued the stump
puller, "that theywfll have special cars
for smokers and Especial carsfo men and
special cars for women and special A--"
" Well" interrupted the conductor.
when they have special cars for men
and special cars for women, want to
run eighteen hours a day on the mems
car in preference to twelve hours day
on the women's carl - Why so?'' in
quired the individual. The conductor
was about to reply. but the car was di-
verging from fremont Street to enter
.Shawmut Avenue (why one is called a
street and the other an avenue has not
been settled as yet by tine sayants of the
Boston Society when the bell was pulled
violently. g Conductor y shouted "a
female, one Of a trio, who had risen
simultaneously from their seats, .don't
this car 60 up fremont StreetP'' - No.
Madame" replied the conductor. with
the suayity of q Chesterfield. s'' And
why didn't you tell me- so2'' she
wished TO go. You stopped the car, IL
my memory serves me, without asking
bur route" t.Don't talk to me, sir; don't
talk to me-" impairment fellowr, ex-
Claimed the second. just as though
he didn't know" chimed in the third.
The trio bounced into the street The
conductor, without any evident excite
ment, pulled the bell and the ear moved
on. 81 asked You question just now, =
said the stump holder. ...but you needn't
answer til see, ] seer'-B Boston Jour
Isdk Ga - -.
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CHAPTER XII
Tiir UNDER-CURR tNr>.

p
Tho man WHO PROCESSES total indiffer-
CncC Co the sub est about which no is
making eager i'm lu.r.cs, Is either deceiv-
ing himself or trying TO deceive others
regard nj the State of his FEELINGS
Thus seutentiously reflected Mr.. Cal
thorpe o. he mupchcd biscuit and
sippph 4 cup of tea Which he had reused
servant 90 prepare for him on ne en-
tering the hpuse lie Knew that
Maurice wasIlOt Afflicted with that most
vulgar and ipcxcusable of mental
diseash5 I id q curfesity The more he
reelected, there.oro. his hope crew. that
all 40 I'll end we'll i'm spite of the bad
appearances Of things a. present. lie
did not nDan to express this hope. how
ever. asitNvps another of his theories.
that Won can always rot anybody to 90
your WV n Won give him a fair start I'M
his o % track INV
You are aware that You are asking
me 90 give the particulars OF Cuthbert's
life. which know he does not desire to
have spoken about" ..r-- ,
''Do not tell me AZ n would be a
breach OF confidence. l, should never
have Rked you anything about it but
for what she se.d. and the shameitcasts
hHOu w WILL
well. | can scarcely say that IL is n
6rcacl Of fonndsncq. besaysgI hithhert
has ntir,iS%Asket fnc-tO Inaintafri secrecy:
but Won know there are some things
about which we are ftho moro bound TO
remain silent for the reason that we are
10 fea " speak. This is,oneiof them;
and vet have promised to tell YOU the
whole story. | did So because / know
Tuf ~, "a = rfusslf,ssrl 49,.
lievc that under the circumstances he
himself would think yQu emitted 70 an
explanation; and because - can ttust
you ...i,
II ann oulco seeking some way in
which may max her feel how nuch
she has ms. judged us both =
ESQ far AZ t4tn Sec. hae most ext:-,-
ordinary part o, the story re,a.es to
yoursetf- M your former ac uaintaaca
with MisS CntfBeIf, land ID feksfdA { I
that you know. mofethan { do Mkut
| havclto tcll cl6edv Gomez ms Cpthbert.
You would 4 aenNreiv( believe That The
quiet gentleman with whom yon arc &C.
quainted had been The mos hartfm
scarum of the fellows who wore INV.
friends in youth. But ne was so: the
W ldest OF VA all in any frolic; the most
|hNNNAoNHil NNAtRNNk ant auu Ant llHnleSl
Of heart. There was. however, differ.
once In his wildnes = from that OF others
Ibis was the wildue>s Of healthy. good
humorcd youth. Inhk worst fro.ios- hc-
took care that nobody wns-har1ned but
himself I'm his cNtravnsanco. Nc GER
tainlv did tax his mothers and his
bro hers patience; but that Is the worst
I knew OF him.
"Inever liked his mother. and so you
need not be surprised II l do not speak
kindly OF her. The brother re or to
from whom he has inherited Hollyford
was the son of his fathers first wife,
and was nj least twenty years his senior
tie was an eccentrie recluae, aud eyen
at that time we roiicking hado G He'd
him the old fogy 1Ie NWns m iserly in
all his money dealings, and that was
enough 20 inspire us with eontenpt for
him in prpportion TO buf liking Tor care
less Franz That there Nas lsonething
good In, him you whhsee in tAetnd; but
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Democratic ABILITY in Congress.

Much has been said of the morgan
lied and untutored party majority with
which the Democrats will resume con-
troll of the House, and their opponents
have been calculating on making great
Roadway in the Presidential campaign
OF 1884 by reason of the mistakes and
plumbers which the Democratic MAORI
ty is expected to commit. But while it
is quite true that there will be many
new and inexperienced men on the
Democratic side, and not few crarks
whom 1t will be somewhat difficult to
manage, an Inspection of .. the list of
members shows conclusively that the
Democrats will be much better, pro-
yided with experienced members .capa-
bic OF leadership than the Republicans.
AS to the Senate, the Republicans are
not near SO well off in this respect as
they have been for many years. In
deed, it was remarked during all of the
last session, by close observers, that
there was no leadership on the Repnb-
tican side. This was apparent only to
close observers, because no sharply de-
tined political issues arose during the
session. There are plenty of men. on
the, Republican side of great ability.
ready debaters and all that kind Of
thing, but that audacious and triumph
ants, saggressiyenesss which never hesi-
lated nor scrupled to strike any, and all
obstacles from its path, in the days of
Morton, Conkling, and Carpenter. has
gone. 0nthe other hand, the Demo
cratic side of the Senate has borrowed
some of the aggression which for long
years was SO sadly lacking. and. it feels
90 good that the Democrats say that the
defensive and evasive policy which so
long characterized them and which no
one now doubts lost them the last Presi-
DENTAL election, has been abandoned
forever. The two parties, through their
representatives. in Congress, will thus
come together in December for the ini-
tial skirmishing of the Presidential cam
paign much more evenly matched than
heretofore as regards all the valuable
qualities of political guidance and leader
ship Washington Cor. baltimore Sun.
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A HEARTS PROBLEM.
BY CHARLES Ribbon.
luhoro5 Robin GrnH' "For Lacls Of Gold,-
IL HO'Er B0und," "For pe Eiag."
f'olasho f me lf'adolg.' Ete
CHAPTER XI.-CoNrrNUEp.

CHAPTER AI.-COSTINUED.
cit will,no be easy TO leave it. Maui
rico, and Idon't like even now to rive
up the hope OF retaining. il. at least for
time. dare saw / shall manage II
somehow Iet'us take another turn.
and thdh we'stall get Back 20 your al
fairs" = i,
Maurice was deeply touched by his
father sIwhole conduct, amlwas keenly
senstbIc-Jo what he would So. er II
obliged 10 leave the|old pla.e. fThis
feeling drew him out of his own sci sh
bitterness, and the hope That he might
yet be ablg ~ make bis declining yea :
comfortable without dishonor gaze him
strength. He became somewhat of u
ratlQnal icing aga,n. $50. --. sd
MY airs are easily settled. You
know what has happened; OF tho future
wesboll talk another time for the pres
ent, wish you to place IL in my power
To salts y Miss Cuthbert that she has
cruelty wrongod me. ut least in one re-
spect." -
The fither's eve, brightencd and l1e
care 'ully bent Ms head 70 n de thotli
This was his thought: 80. the case is
not quite hope ess ct He still wants
to appear respectable in her eyes. He
shall This was what he said:
- shall be glad TO do any thing YOU
Yiis lMSurieS II IL will giSc' you re-
Then. first promise ME. without
asking why. that YOU will on no accD, mt
let the Colonel know that was ac-
qua nted with Miss Cuthbert be ore |
was introduced to her as his daughter"
IL understood ~ much from whats YOU
said. and opcude tiat she was the lady
who formed sich.a Serious bar to my
plans for your future woiiare?"
IEH 30 GJDBIf - nos
sHou have nv promise. Now tell me
what YOU wish me To do." ..... '.
81 wish yoh 90 cxpla n 20 me how
CO'Ouet Cuthbort's daughter anne TO tie
brought up ~ poor girl and under an
other name. he told me that YOU
knew al. and plainly accused US of
hcing adyenturers. taking advantage o.
this knowledge to secure her fortune"
Mr.. Calthurpe did not reply immedi-
holy. They walked ON until they came
close To the house agan. Then:
81 do not sec how this is 10 help YOU;
but como in. and shall ten YOU the
who.c story" hfl
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Fallen From His High Estate.

II is very clear that the Republican
party has no further use for the colored
man-except in a mental capacity.
When his vote was wanted he was "a
man andsa brother" to be honored, re-
spected and protected at all hazards
from the ravenous Democrats, to whom
he might possibly give his vote if not
sedulously watched. But now that the
purchase of Malone and Riddleberger
has made his vote of less consequence,
he has become, in the chaste language
which the Post and Tribune once
adopted in speaking of him, a IS darkey''
again.
Nothing could better illustrate the
colored mans present low condition, as
compared with his former importance
in the Republican estimate, than the
case of Black, the laborer in the Naval
Bureau of Construction and Repair at
Washington. Black, who was very APP
propriately named, seems to have i'm.
bibed the notion that, being in Govern.
ment employ and on the Government
payroll, he WIS bound to do only Gov.
ernment work. When therefore, the
chief of the Bureau wanted him TO do
mental service in the formers house.
iiOiN ~ oidSh thO UUOtS anu
scour the knives and make himself gem
orally useful Black rebelled. Worm
as he was, he turned and refused to do
the work of a private servant. There
upon his chief ordered him to resign,
and he did so. e ,ql'rL sgn3Z 3ITfj rIll y
Ten years ago such an instance of
trihing with the black. man would, have
excited more commotion in Washington
than the marriage Of a divorced Senator
or one of Virgins storms. The Repub-
lican press would have blazed with
headlines denouncing the outrage. The
Civil Rights bill would have been print
ed in fun with the Fourteenth Amend
ment in italics, and the partylof great
moral ideas would have been appealed
to by all its memories of past greatness
and all its hopes Of future success to
punish the man who had trampled on
1.-THE gentleman from Africa. W. And
the Secretary of the Navy, in the name
of an indignant party, would have rein
stated the discarded black man, while
he reprimanded or court martialed or
otherwise tortured his oppressor.
Now all this il changed The col
oredl man 8, resignation is approved by
the Secretary of the Navy, and the YER
dict of the Republican party is, in
effect, that he had no business to be :. a
niger" in the first place, and that,
being such, he had no business in the
second place to refuse to do any mental
service that was asked at his hands by
those in authority over him. The col
ored man has indeed fallen from his
high estate when he can thus be treated
by the party which has been 50 profuse
heretofore in. protestations of affection
for him. Detroit Free Press.