Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-30
HERE AND THERE.

The Mctiibenys gave concert in one
of the rural villages where the audience was
not so emotional as to express its appreciation
with the marked demonstrations that are
characteristic of urban audiences, But a
stmpping big fellow in the rear of the room |
was not to be suppressed by the prevailing |
coldness of the calmly critical listeners. lie |
had listened to one of the pieces with unusual |
pleasure and. when Il was finished, mani |
Tested his desire for an encore by jumping !
up from his seat, cracking his heels together |
aud shouting " BY gosh, do that agin."
\ scientific small farmer in one Of the
agricultural districts hauled out upon corn
field last spring the sifted ashes from the
debris of burned tobacco warehouse, in
| which several hundred cases Of leaf tobacco
| had been destroyed. The effect was 10 pro
| duce an enormous and almost unexamplcd
| yield of corn. Which sets one TO wondering
| what fertli2ing power there is--waSted--in
the ashes of the hundreds ofmillions of cigars
| that are made and smoked every year in this
| country. Smoking seems to become more
| universal every wear. \ ragged ten year old
| boy stopped mo on East King street the other
| day and asked me for match. | fancied he
might want il to light the fro ona cold hearth
at home But he frankly said that he wanted
| to light his cigar
/
As stopped on the edge of Christian street
to let a richly clad gentleman drive out with
pair of thousand dollar horses hitchCd to a
| handsome sleigh saw that across the mar
| row street. looking with admiration at the
| same team, was q rather poorly dressed man
| of about the same age as the driver and own
er of the sleighing rig. These two men were
boys together i'll the same Lancaster county
town thirty years ago But the man on foot
to-day was the son of II rich father, in whose
home the other was hireling, and he often
blacked the boots of the lad. Now their for
tunes have changed: the poor boy is in the
prime of lite, an independently rich man,
and the other is hunting job at q dollar
day. See saw!
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! / happen to have met ten of the present
governors of the States-iucluding Scales OF
North Carolina who is about going in and
Waller of Connecticut who is just coming
out--and have reasonably good acquaintance
| with most of them. Gov. Pattison is the
| youngest of them and the most austore.
Gov. Cameron. OF Virginia is the most Conviv-
ial, but should judge not the least intel
lectual. He has never recovered from the
social disfavor visited upon him by his asso-
citation with Malone; he tried to unbuckle
the collar of that tyrannical little boss when
|
! Proctor Knott, OF Kentucky reached the
height of his ambition when he got into
, the executive chair of his state and
he may be expected to retire from it
to private life when his term is ended.
Knott has fine artistic taste and when a
, boy developed some genius for sculpture.
t ! Gov. Mcdaniel. of Georgia, is an industrious
, | painstaking man, with good reputation as n
lawyer, though he has an impediment in his
, | speech that must have interfered with his
: success as an advocate. Gov. Lane. of Mary.
1 | land, is the worthy son of an illustriOus sire
= he has seen a great deal of public life aud
| talks like a book-a very interesting book at
1 that. Gov. Hoadley. of Ohio, is the ablest
Y lawyer of the lot a singularly clear headed
y and able man. positive and yet practical
: determined but courteous and genial. GOV.
Albeit, of New Jersey, is a born fighter an
: aggressive untiring man, who generally car
- ries his point; there i no executive man
sion in Trenton and the governor does not
| have TO live at the state capital. He keeps
9 his house in jersey City and his law practice
| there and across the ferry; like his predeces-
7 sor i'll office, GOV. Mcclellan, Albeit was
born in Philadelphia Gov. Waller started
life as newsboy he got along he has a
4 | smooth face, long bushy dark hair and
wears gold eye glasses; he talks tiuently and
agreeaby and is said to resemble stephen \.
( Douglas in personal appearance. Like Alb
bett he is fighter and has strong persona
, | preferences and dislikes, but he never hit
below the belt. During his term sore
headed politician, who had been boring hin
for official tavorS, one day threatened that /
n he wasn't accommodated he would publish
y some letters that he thought would cOmprO
: mise him. Waller didn't go down ON hi
knees to the blackmailer. He called his pri
e vate secretary and had him kick the fellow
b out of the front door. | saw and met for tht
| first time Gov. Cleveland at the reception o
the Manhattan club, soon after his election
He was a comparatively unknown man, anc
was then making the acquaintance of MANY
e of the New York politicians for the first time
Y His dignitied, quiet manner, his speech anC
. | the way he delivered it impressed
them favorably. He wasn't awkward
G about it, as though somebody else haC
n written it for him nor did he deliver it will
: a mOnOtonous eNplOsiveness, ~ though h,
didn't understand the sense of it, He talked
like a man who ''meant business and h,
n seems 10 have been one of the few publ
r men of the country who has not made am
q | mistakes in his public utteTanCes. | said then
viewing the possibility of the future, with re
lation TO what the political tidal waves of th,
: year had brought ashore, that he seemed I,
V have no "bee in his bonnet" and all hi
q subsequent movements showed that If h,
y was really desirous of the Presidency j
: never swerved him from the path of duty.
b ~
II know of one man, who months befor
@ public sentiment took that turn, predicted tn,
= nomination of Cleveland and Hendricks
and / know another who at the most critica
moment of Cleveand's political fortunes a
Chicago did the one thing essential to them
Il Neither of these individuals has beer
It mentioned" " for a cabinet office neither o
: them will ever proclaim himself
A pebble IN the streamlet scant
y Has turned the course OF many river.
n SINDBAD.