Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-05

| community had So TAR recovered its tone OF
| expression rs To vent some mutlled misses
| but when, with the third the last hope toT
the iavorite died, there was u torrent of
| eNecration that made the meek and humble
| member oi the returning board leap for
| back window and take tlight down the pre-
| CipitiouS campus front, three stone steps ut
stride, lest the populace hurl him through
| bushes and over rocks into the black waters
| of the BushkilL
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| Up the stream, within the town limits, but
among country corn fields, Esston has a silk
mill. IL is prosperous industry and gives
| employment to several hundred hands. All
the towns i'll that section that have silk mills
are glad Of them. The people who were
looking for site in Lancaster have post
poned their utontons until next year.
over the Eastou postofice floats only the
standards of the weather bureau and--now-
| tealty 10 "Old Probabilities is the most
offensive partisanship tolerated within its
| sacred precincts. Dawes still has IT, He
has fifteen or twenty commissions, l
believe aud he has stayed good deal longer
than Blaine would have kept him. \ pic
ture Ot President Cleveland adOrns the Office
| But that won't save him. Few die and none
| resign. The Republican party must 90. In
tasIon nobody goes to the pnstoihce tor his
or her mail. There are not a dozen boxes IN
| use at the Office. The carriers makea round
|
! seems To be complete, Only Democratic
| postmaster could improve it SO long.
| John Kelly was an easy, graceful, forcibie
speaker and his manner beled his appear
ance aud his popular reputation. In state or
| national conventions he was always a figure
| of interest and commanded attention. not
| only because he absolutely controlled more
| votes than any man Of his day and genera.
| tou, ana that too, IN close and decisive
| state, but because ot his native individual
| iprCe, hlS COgencN and iucidlty OF EXPRESSION.
! The only time | ever C1me close to kim WAS
| in tho fail of l~N2, when went on to New
| York to ascertain the handspring OF virulent
attacks upon the Democratic candidate tor
| governor here, that were appearing in a paper
called the HrbIr,, and purporting to be A
| church paper. Mr.. kely's office was at that
time crowded with people waiting to see him.
and they were let IN one by one, heard and
dismissed with Is much ceremony as at the
White House He commanded great su.
thurlty and wide influence.
found my man and got an interview with
nun through Mr. Kelly, although the latter
| himself wanted to have no part in politics
| outside his own state and city, [ satisfied
| myself right speedily that the motive of this
| assault toy the speculative editor-he is now
"eaa-M''S money, and had none for black
| mail The Iu5ict went on but before it
| was circulated the correction had got ahead
OF the lie and the Pennsylvania sharps who
| were managing the opposition Job paid "A big
| price Tor what was no use to their cause. Mr.
| helly wore glove OF velvet over a hand of
| steel.
| The country has yet to find out what kind
! OF a bridegroom its president will make but
| | suspect he Will do nothing foolish. lie has
"A hne contempt for the " soft and simpering
| lovers. He once showed me letter he had
| received from Kansas youth, who was an
eNpectant bridegroom 1t enclosed a picture
| f,tt . >, rff.
best girl. On the wall-of the Photographic
| gallery-hung II photograph OF the Demo
| cratic president elect and on the floor Law a
| broadslde newspaper with half sheet rooster
| Growing Justify over the galOrius victory {:
and the letter modesty told how in three
short weeks the party of the first part hoped
TO call the depicted young woman his bride !:
and to help them along in lite he wanted a
Kansas pOstOtlice. And Mr.. Cleveland quietly
said Don't you pity the girl that is getting
fellow like that ~
| -
| 1t is cabled over that Alma Tadema the
famous painter-who assumed the first part
OF his name to get well up in the catalogues
arranged pnabetically,-h engaged to
paint a picture of "Mary Anderson As
!S0inmmbo, at the barbarian feast, as she is
descending the grand stairway, Tyre in hand.
| To those unfamiliar with our fair tragedienne
in this impersonation the information NAV
| need some illumination. They who have
| read that wonderful work of the French mas
| ter OF realism, Fiaubert, i'll the original, or
| even as very badly " Englishcd " by M(rsl
| French Sheldon, will remember that it af.
torded manifold subjects for French wit and
| dramatic Personation this is the scene in
| which the master OF the brush is to picture
| our gifted countrywOman
Slowly the torches ignited the trees the
| fire spread from tree 10 tree, until the tail
NHFInTA FgSamhlpH y.nl,s
ming to smoke. The Glamour reduubled the
wounded lions roared, and the elephants
| trumpeted TIN ough the darkness
BY single flash the palace was illumin-
ated from the bottom to its highest terrace
the centre door at the top opened and a
woman-the daughter OF Hamlcar-robed in
black, appeared on the threshold. She came
down the stairway that traversed obIiauelv
the third story, then the second and the tirsi.
pauslng on the lowest terrace at the top of
the stairway of the galleys, motionless, head
downcast, looking down upon the soldiers
Behind her on both sides were two long pro-
cessions Of pale men, clothed in white robes
iriuged with red, hanging straight down To
their feet their heads aud eyebrows were
shayen their hands, in which they carried
enormous Tyres, glittered with rings. They
all chanted in a shrill voice hymn to the
divinity OF Carthage. These were The eunuch
priests OF the temple Of Tanit, often sum. |
moned by Saammbo to her palace.
" Finally she descended the stairway of
moved forward with her retinue under the
cypress trees, between the tables at which |
the captains were seated, who drew back
slightly to watch her as she passed Her
hair was powdered with violet dust and ac-
cording to the fashion of Canaanite maidens
1t was gathered up in the form of a tower on
the crown of her head, making her appear
taller strands of pearls attached to her tenn
pies fell down to the corners OF her mouth
as worthy as a hali-opened pOmegranate ; on
her neck she wore collection of luminous |
gems, which initiated in their medley the |
scales of a sea-eel her sleeveless tunic made
OF a black tissue, starred with red flowers l
OK posed her bare 9rms, bedecked with dia
monds. Between her ankles she wore a |
gold cham to regulate the length OF her steps
and her voluminous dark purple mantle, OF
an unknown fabric, traied making at each |
step wide billow behind her.
From time to time the priests thridded |
on their Tyres harmonious, almost sOundless |
tones During the intervals of the music |
could DO detected a faint noise produced by |
her gold chainlet accompanying the meas |
ured patter OF her papyrus sandals At first |
no person recognized her. 1t was only |
known that she lived secluded, devoted 10 |
plous practices. During the nights the SOL
diers had seen her between the curling |
smoke arising from tuning censers, kneeling |
before the stars, on the top OF the palace
" At this moment the moon made her ap- |
pear very pale, aud something OF the gods |
seemed to enyelop her like subtle mist |
Her eyes appeared to penetrate far away in |
{. Al lEf haA tor atta.t 1