The Washington critic., 1886-01-20
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Mr.. Bayard's Affection for His Daugh-
ter--A Tribute from II Friend.

hf. BHNnfu'N AUeCtiOn 10Y Ills bnNen-
ter--A Tribute from II Friend.
Mr.. j. 5. Moore, the wcll-known
writer on the tariff and other economic
subjects, addresses letter TO the New
York 7imcS, alluding as follows to the
recent death of Miss Bayard: II knew
the deceased almost from childhood.
Placed as she was in the household of
young family where the mother of
the house was unfortunately more or
less an invalid, she became by instinct,
force of character, but above all by
love, the bond that kept the household
together. She was not only a dear
sister TO her sisters and brothers, but
she acted the tender and loving mothey
TO them. To her mother she was not
only good daughter, but she was her
tender nurse and her dear companion.
Yet all this wealth of love is only a
feeble expression to what she was to
her father. 1t needed no angels and
scraphims to admire the touching love
between Mr.. Bayard and his daughter
She was the sunbeam of the house,
which has now vanished forever, and
the void in the heart of her parents, but
especially in that of her father, can
never be filed. / feel somewhat con.
strained to give an extract from letter
received from Mr. Bayard just a week
ago. Yet there is one passage in it
which well eXemplifies the delicate
love this man has for his family. In
reference to communication that ap.
peared in one of the reviews Mr.. Bay.
ard writes:
There lives not a human being to whom
would at this moment Intentionally give pain,
and therefore | had rather turn away from
men who disgust me by their baSeness and
wound me by their venom. The kingdom Is
within, and n man who means to be happy
must be content within. 1t is the fate OF high
place to afford an easy target for any assault,
and ] must not expect exception. | do not
think a thousand North american RecitDs can
change my real charaeternor my just reputo
with honorable and sensitive men. But they
can give pain to great many innocent peo.
pie.
~,
Some one here in Washington, writ
ing for the Birmingham (Ala.) Age, has
most exalted opinion of Public
Printer Rounds. This is what he says.
There is no reason, patriotism or good
sense why Mr.. Rounds should be a
Blaine Republican and il is a great
pity that his intellect is thus warped
and that his tastes are thus perverted.
Even such, however, are the facts, and
Rounds, devout Republican, is to
this extent and no further unfit for the
office which he administers with such
skill and ability that the President has
not been able to find q substitute for
Mr.. Rounds. Rounds understands the
use and construction of all the costly
and complicated machinery, such us
rural editors never dreamed of, used in
this monstrous printing establishment,
| having, not its equal upon the globe.
| Rounds is an admirable scholar, as we'll
as mechanician, accountant and machin.
| list. He carries massive head on his
brawny shoulders and IL is as we'll
filled as this extraordinary printing
house. Proof readers must be selected
| by Mr.. Rounds conversant with Greek,
Latin, Hebrew, Spanish, French, Ital
ian and German. was looking over
one Of Rounds monthly pay-rolls and
accounts, as audited, and | don't be.
| lieve there are half n dozen men in the
United States who could so shape and
perfect them that they could be audited
and paid The President has been
searching the printing and publishing
houses everywhere, as | am advised,
for proper and capable successor for
Mr.. Rounds, and n duplicate can't be
| discovered. y
~
While Mr. Garland is never seen in
what is called society,"" says the Wash
ington correspondent Of the Kansas
city JOmRdl, "hc is most charming to
meet. There is no one in public life
whose conversational powers excel his
when he is in the mood for talking,
and lady told me the other day that
she thought Mr.. Garland had the most
| beautiful eyes aud the most winning
| smile she ever saw. He is lonely
man, and lives with Mrs. Hubbard
his deceased wife's mother, in an old
| fashioned frame house on Rhode Island
avenue, where he receives his friends
with genial hospitality, but seldom re-
turns their visits. Mr., Garland fur
nlshes the Jeffersonian simplicity for
the Administration, while Mr.. Whitney
furnishes the magnificence.
Nv
Senator Logan has evidently aban
doned all hope of ever reaching the
Presidency" said prominent Phila-
delphian to World reporter. Il was
present at the Glover Club dinner last
week in Philadelphia. There was quite
an array Of talent and greatness gathered
around the table. The guests included
six Senators, two ex-Cabinet officers, a
Major General, and the Adjutant Gen
eral of the army, and any number of
Congressman. In the speeches that
followed there were great many pleas
ant illusions to Presidential candidates
who did not quite get there, General
Hancock, who sat to the right of the
president Of the club, responded in a