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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06
"Luurh, and the World Laughs.

The following poem has gone the rounds
Of the press for many years, under credit
Of Anonymous" In December, 1862, it
WAS written by Col. John A. Joyce, at tho
Gait house wine room at o'clock in the
morning, at the request of the celebrated
George ID. Prentice, Mr.. Prentice and
Mai. Miller, proprietor of the hotel, who
had spent social evening with Col.
Joyce lat that time adjutant of the Gath
Kentucky, bantered him to write an off
hand poem on Love and Laughter"
Accepting the banter, the colonel wrote
these words on the back OF an envelope,
given him by Prentice 1t is gem of its
kind, and it's authorship should BIO known:
Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
II has troubles enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh II is lost ON the air;
The echoes bound TO II joyful sound,
But shrink from YOicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieye, and they turn and go
They want iull measure of all your pleasure,
But thoy do not want your woe
Be glad and your friends are many;
BE sad, and you lose them all;
There are none to decline your noctar'd wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
Feast, and your halls nre crowded.
Fast, and the world goes by;
Succeed and give, and II helps you live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train
But one by one we must all file on
Through the marrow aisles Of pain.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06
THE FARMERS AND THE TARIFF
Interview Between Bourbon Theo-
rIst and u thinking Farmer.

Interview Between Bourbon Theo-
rlst and n Thinking Farmer.
Bourbon. hear, my good friend,
you do not quite like our FREQ trade talk?
Farmer. Not at all, sir. Not at all.
u. What is there wrong about It?
+. Everything wrong. II is simply the
most mischievous repetition Of ideas long
ago exploded and discarded rs utterly
destructive Of our best interests. The
farmers need protection, and, for one, l
am determined, Il possible, to have 1t.
Il. You surprise me. by free trade l
supposed the farmer TO be the one most
highly favored.
L, want no such favor. According
to the census of 1870, there were 5,022,-
AL persons engaged in farming and
2,707, 42l in manufacturing, mechanical,
and mining industry. have not the fig
ures for 1880, but, of course, they are much
larger although the proportion Is no doubt
about the same. There arc to-day, prob.
ably. about seven of tho former class to
three of the latter. Now these three
tenths Of the latter class, with their de-
pendant wives and children, arc con-
sumers Of tho surplus farm products Of
the former class, and without their
patronage these seven-tenths would find
ii no easy matter to sell what they raise.
This is our homo market in which we are
not willing to allow foreign competition
to our serious damage, and we have a
right to be suitably protected against
such competition. If tho FREQ trade
theory be carried into effect would 1t not
seriously cripple, if not destroy, the
business Of tho manufacturing class, the
very cornerstone upon which our home
market rcsts2
B. i had not thought of this before.
f. But this is not all now, indeed, tho
worst Of it. This class, its business de-
stroyed, would, Of necessity, turn farmers
and become most active competitors with
us in supplying other limited markets,
thus greatly aggravating the evil.
b. You certainly make out strong
case against US, and there Is great force
in what you say.
f. l hope you will view this matter in
its truo light. Young men of intelligence
like yourself would do we'll to take coun-
sci Of practical common sense rathor than
| of pernicious theorists, if they look or
| hope for future support from us.
b. am obliged to you for this frank
statement, and will carefully consider
| what you have said.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

THE Virginia bourbons have adopted
now tactics. Instead of indulging in the
eccentricity Of wholesale Danville butch
cries to carry the state this fall, it is
clearly tho purpose to inaugurate = reign
OF terror by putting few leaders out of
the way. Senator Riddleberger has evil
IDENTIFY been selected as the first object of
attack. The sharpshooters are after him.
He is being subjected to series of malig.
nant and viliainous personal assaults
through bourbon newspapers, the aim
being to involve him in a personal
quarrel, and in this way give some muir
derOus ruilian an excuse for using the
pistol or the knife. Senator Riddleberger
should treat such attacks as are now being
made on him with silent contempt.
Senator Malone has never paid the
slightest attention to the frantic attempts
of the bourbon braves who have sought
for years to draw him into fight, and he
has set good fashion. A senator of the
United States cannot descend into the
gutter for the privilege Of being murder ID.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

reports of tho hanging Of two Irishmen,
in which special mention is made of the
fact that MIR. Cleveland, then sheriff,
pulled the fatal drop with his own hand.
This is a very small addition to very
small measure of facts on which wo arc
to have judgment in most important
matter. There is no reason why an eff
cient hangman should make good
president. We admit the hangman. We
admit also that about this time, or later,
Mr.. Cleveland confessed the paternity Of
q poor drunken woman's child, sin order
to shield a friend who was married
man." But what else has he done ? Surely
man is not to DO made president for
these reasons alone.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06
Henry CIay's Farewell 10 the
Senate,

AN'tt i<AtWs
John II. Harmons account of the speech
he heard Mr.. Clay deliver upon resigning
his seat in the senate toward the close Of
1851" is a remarkable production. He
has everything wrong. Clay made no
such speech and did not resign his seat,
but died at the National hotel June 90,
1852, while a member of the senate and If
he had made a speech upon the occasion
alluded to Calhoun could not have heard
it, for Mr.. Clay delivered brief eulogy
upon the announcement of his death, in
the senate a year before, saying, '1n the
course of nature ! should have preceded
him, FOR / was his senior-his senior
in years, in nothing else" Mr.. Clay
died as he had lived-a devoted
wing. In letter to Daniel Ulman,
dated March Il, 1862, no advocates
the nomination by the wing national con-
vention of Willard Fillmore upon the
ground that he chad been tried and
found true, faithful, honest, and consci-
entious, and had administered the gov
ernment with signal success and ability"
OF Gen. Scott and Daniel Webster, Mr..
Fillnore's contestants for the nomination,
he spoke in high terms of praise. This
letter can be found upon page 625 of his
private correspondence" The last great
and pa triotic effort of Mr.. Clay in the
senate was in support of his series of
compromise measures and of tho river and
harbor bill near the close of the session of
lS5O.'5l. do not think he was in his
seat at all in the session commencing
Dec. /, 1851. find in memoir of his
life, page 20.9, published with his speeches,
"a paragraph which says HE returned to
Washington in December, 1851, but the
journey so fatigued him he was unable
to take his seat. His ability to walk, sit,
and to rise visibly declined daily"
Mr.. Harmon also misses the sons and
nephews Of Gov. Wise, fearfully making
sons of his nephews and nephews of his
sons. WING.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

JOHN Il. MCLEAN, editor Of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, is said to have expressed
willingness to contract%ith Seven Mule"
Barnum and his associate reforlners to
deliver the electoral vote of Ohio to tho
democrats, the consideration being the
federal patronage in Ohio. 1t is proba-
BILE the statement is a lie. John Il. Nc
Lean is not n fool, and he is not going
about the country contracting to deliver
half million votes over which he has
not the slightest control.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

The magnitude of the money order
business between this country and Eng
land, exclusive of the remainder of
Europe, shown by the fact that the post
master general is required to transport
aging $4,000, in payment of the balance
resents the excess of money orders sold
in this country payable in England over
the sales in that country of money orders
payable in tho United States.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06
BrllIiants.

Dinner Topics.
Brilliants.
o Thoul whose word ftom solid darkness
struck
That spark the sun, strike wisdom from my
soul
Young.
What stars do spangle heaven with such
beauty
As those two eyes become TINT heavenly face
Shakespeare.
Through the wide world he only Ia alone
--Rog1s
Love that doth count Its gin Is weak prop
whereon to stay weary human heart,
--Elisd CdtUcrt Hal.
Gods take my breath from mel
Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
To die before you please.
No endeayor Is in vain
Its reward is in the doing,
And the rapture of pursuing
is the prize the vanqulshed gain.
". --LonGfcI,o,O.
.ri NH iI Give physic TO my grief
Though thou repent, yet have still the loss;
The Offenders sorrow lends but weak relief
10 him that bears the strong oflense's cross.
Shakespeare.
Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways
Re-clothe us in your rightful mind,
In purer lives thy service find,
In deeper reverence, praise.
Walter.
Tears, idle tears, know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart and gather to the eyes,
In looking at the happy autumn fields
And thinking Of the days that are no more.
-7trnyson.
IT were idle to complain,
Or think to stem unvarying natures course,
And backward to It's source
Turn the swift torrent of the years again,
That, with reslstless force,
Roll down with age and sorrow in its train.
The silent heart which grief assails
Treads son and lonesome DER the wales,
Sees daisies open, rivers run,
And seeks las have vainly done)
Amusing thought, but learns to know
That solitude's the nurse of woe.
-ParnoR.
was stricken deer, that leit the herd
Long since; with many an arrow deep infxed,
My painting side was charged when with.
drew
To seek tranquil death in distant shades.
There was found by One who had Himself
Been hurt by tn archers.
-GDlpner
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

ONE thing may be urged in favor of
the candidacy of Mrs. Belva Lockwood.
She is known. Nobody could appropriate
her name for an alias and travel through
the country incognito without detection,
and this is what Mr.. Dolliver, the newly
risen Iowa orator, said could be done with
safety with Grover Cleveland's name up
to within period of five years.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

Mr.. BLAINE has filed his answer in the
libel suit against the indianapolis Sentinel.
The defense has adopted tho policy of
delay, but that will not avail the SANDER
ers. They will be pushed against the
wall and crushed.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06
by Their Records Yo Shall Know
Them,

Mr., Hendricks is going about Indiana
begging his audiences for their votes
mainly as it appears, on tho ground of
patronage TO homo talent, but occasionally
demanding that tho candidates be judged
by their records. The Hoosiers know Mr..
Tom Hendricks's record fairly well. They
have passed judgment on it on four diff
feTeut occasions, with a general average
in votes not in Mr., IIendricks's favor.
So far as he is concerned tho people of
Indiana are doubtless ready to mako up
their verdict now. But with his colleague
il il different. lie was nominated chiefly
for tho reason that he had no record, and,
80 far, the campaign on his part has been
consistently conducted on that idea,
Little by little, however facts arc
brought out which tend to give
Mr. Cleveland standing among
people who have done something. The
Now York su, Of yesterday reprints from
tho Buffalo papers OF twelve years ago
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

The war department is looking after
Sergeants Brainard and Long and Private
Connell, who arc exhibiting themselves
in Cleveland museum, and if it is ascer-
tanned that they are making a monkey
show of themselves they will probably
be brought up standing with quick jerk.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1884.

EX.Gov. HENDRICKS in the guise of
political mcndicant, begging for the votes
of his ncighbors is not splendid.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

GEORGE w. JULIAN is stumping
Indiana for the democrats, whom he once
denoninated as "Christlcss whclps."
When not bowling for reform Mr.. Julian
finds timo to do little Quot lobbying
i'll congress.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

THE independents who lay claim to tho
ownership of tho conscience of the nation
are rapidly coming to tho conclusion that
the religious press ought not to NEEDLE
with politics.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

THE Memphis cotton district reports n
very poor prospect for an average yield
in that section on account of drought,
rust, and worms.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06
To Investigate sergt. Long and Brain
nrI.

Tho war department authorities are
taking steps TO ascertain the character of
the exhibition made by Sergts. Long and
Brainard, and Private Connell at tho
museum at Cleveland. If IL is found that
they arc locturing or appearing in apro-
per manner no notice will DO taken Of
their action,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

Mn. EMORY A. sToRRs will tell tho
Boston people what he knows about
"bolters' on the 9th. 1t is safe to pro-
diet that Mr.. Storrs will say something.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

Gov. Hendricks is candid il nothing
else. He wants votes and is not ashamed
TO ask for them. But If no wants votes
now imagine what his poverty will DO in
NoygmbeT, Phiiadephia News
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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

Before and After.
Coyly the candidate
Blows his bazoo,
Bleating with heart elate,
"How do you doT"
Singing a soulful strain,
While the brass band
soundeth the sweet refrain
All through the land.
Bright is his sunny smile,
Cheerful his talk;
Guiltless of greed or guile,
Upright his walk.
outstretched his honest hand,
All the boys" shake;
Then invitation bland,
What will you takep
Toiling and sorrowing,
Struck with abuse;
Friends come a.borrowing--
None he'll refuse.
They'd take his coat from him
He'd let 1t goi
Maybe they'll vote for him
How does he known
When comes November next
Where will he be?
Money gone, mind perplexed,
Unhappy he
No more he'll pose so bold
Upon his perchi
He'll find the day is cold
Len in the lurch.
--RTys,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06
i Am Your Oyster.

'i1lio' m mere hsain' you SOU
inproveu py my vacation,
AS pump anu ia' as oiie heeu oo
VIM oeoupies my s'a''on'
Though neaceab,e still for n broi,
You'll ALWAYS find me itcbin'.
And If YOU find me in a stew,
inst take n hand and pitch I'm.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

I'm gay contented clam,
Yes i am
Twill ope my mouth and smile,
For while.
For the fat and juicy oyster
Is now dragged from out his cloister
BY the rude and reckless holster,
Full of guile.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

A Look Ahead.
Sing q song Of nonsense,
Silly Mary Ann
"Maw" is In the kitchen
Working like a man.
"Paw" is in the counting-housc
Toiling hard for money
You are in the parlor,
Don't you think 1t funny?
Sing your song Of nonsense
Some time, Mary Ann,
You'll be in the kitchen
Working like a man.
Husband in the counting-house,
Earning little money;
Daughter in the parlor,
Then II won't be funny.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

o Thou whose word ftom solid darkness
struck
That spark the sun, strike wisdom from my
soul
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

The ice-cream season fades away
Back through oblivions door,
And glaring signs around US say
That oysters have the floor.
st Paul Herald.
In the pretty mouth of the ice-cream girl
There cometh pleasing moisture
AS she whispers deep in her deepest soul,
September bringeth the oyster"
Cincinnati Merchant Traveller.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-09-06

opiuin JOlltsI HOurlbu tutTc'
The area of China proper measures
| l3is,S7O square miles being about half the
| size of Europe, seven times that of France,
and fifteen times that of Great Britain. Each
| of the eighteen provinces, therefore, is on an
average almost as large as England. Though
not so densely peopled as at one time sup
posed-mistaken estimates having been circu-
| lated by travellers who had not penetrated the
country away from seaboard or river-it Is
yet thickly populated. The population of
China probably exceeds 2OO,OOO,OOO of "Celes.
| tails"
WISCONSIN Is the leading cranberry
| state. Michigan is the second. The average
yield of marsh is 100 to 300 bushels to the
acre. The picking season lasts two weeks, and
three bushels is a good days work. Seventy
five cents bushel is the picker's pay The
Wisconsin crop is nearly all shipped to Chicago
| commission houses, at S275 TO SO bushel. A
well.managed marsh containing 400 acres of
! vines will yield about $4,000 and with a very
large crop the sum can be nearly doubled The
entire crop of the United States is consumed u
home. Englishmen don't take kindly to the
fruit, and ship load sent TO London few
years ago could not be sold for the cost OF car
rying
| MR.. w. MATTIEU WILLIAMS once wit
messed display of drunkenness among three
hundred pigs, which had been given barrel
| ofspoiled elderberry wine all at once with
their swill "Their behavior" he says, "was
intensely human, exhibiting all the usual
manifestations OF jolly good fellowship includ-
ing that advanced stage where group were
rolling over each other, and grlmting affection
atefy In tones that We're very distinctly impress
sye ofswearing good fellowship all around.
Their Keeling and staggeri ng, and the expires
sion of their features all indicated that alcohol
had the same effect on pigs as on men tn ut
under its influence both stood precisely on the
same geological level
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-08

When was lad served q term
In Buffalo city with lawyers arm;
And roped in the clients at the big front
oh, ] roped In the clients SO successfully
That they made me the leader of Democracy.
From an ONCE boy arose very fast,
A lawyer and eherifr became at last,
When served all the writs with smile so
And roped up the felons with dexterous
hand;
That now am the leader OF Democracy.
AS the sherifr OF the county made such
name
That the mayor of the city soon became.
watched my chances and yelled "Retorm,"
And soon took the populace all by Storm
on, played my cards 30 successfully
That they made me the leader OF Democracy.
From mayor OF that city, 80 strange to relate,
was chosen as ruler OF the Empire State.
/ got every vote OF the laboring class,
But they've rued It ever since, hear, alasl
For ground them down so mercilessly
That now am the leader OF Democracy.
They brought me bill from tn Assembly
there,
Cutting railroad rates to nve.cent faro.
or course twas intended for the laboriag
And the workingmen prayed me to let It pass,
But killed II so soon for monopoly
Inul tney mauo me tue leauer Oh Democrhcy'
But they tried me again but to test my will,
With another good measure called "a twelve
hour BILL"
Which knocked out of time In round they
say,
And made eighteen hours working day.
OH struck so hard at labor you sec
That they nominated me for the Presidency.
While Governor here with all my might
I've swung my veto left and right,
I've killed every bill with stroke OF my pen,
That was passed as measure for tho work
ingmen;
And my course 80 pleased my party you see
They nominated me for the Presidency.
But now I'm afraid that the working class
Have gotten a chance that they won't let pass
They've risen In wrath and their actions de-
note
A sure falling on In the Democratic vote;
But / II beat them yet with promises free,
For must be elected to the Presidency.
Philadelphia Press, aug. A.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-08-08
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS.

The Alexandria Light Infantry succeeded in
gaining the prize In the competitive drill at
the encampment OF the Third Virginia Regi.
ment at Lynchburg yesterday. The residents
success OF their favorites and believe that
they stand good chance for the prize In the
shooting match, which will take place to-day.
A meeting OF the stay.at-home members OF the
company and citizens Will be held at the
armory tonight, whom preparations Will be
made for receiving the boys on their return
home.
Two Alexandrians and one waShingtonian
were arrested at Purcellville, Va, yesterday,
and lodged in Jail for gambling on the grounds
where a temperance meeting was being held.
They were fined 300 each, which they paid.
Molly Davis and Albert Dixon, both colored,
were arrested last night for being drunk and
disorderly. James Simms was sent to the
workhouse yesterday for indecent conduct.
At a meeting Of the Columbia $. T. E. Com:
pany last night three new names wore added
TO the rolls OF membership. The resignation
OF Mr.. W. A. Smoot (recently elected presi'
DENT, as member OF the executive commit
tee, was accepted, and Mr.. George Uhler was
elected to Ill the vacancy. Mr.. 8. It. Jenkins
was elected fireman. committee OF three
was appointed to revise the constitution and
bylaws OF tho company.
The remains OF the late Hiram Webster,
whose death was mentioned yesterday, were
brought here this evening and Inferred in b.
Mary'e Cemetery. The funeral services took
place at st. Mary's Church. The funeral was
attended by the members OF the Fire Depart
ment, 81 which the deceased was the Oldest
member.
The clerk OF tho City School Board reports a
balance OF Sd,607. 80 on hand.
Tho members of Grace Church gave an OK
cursion TO Blackiston's Island to-day, which
was largely attended.