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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-22

Yes" said the ladys husband who had been
listening TO his wife's remarks. land if ne does
go into the real estate business he will hnger
along for while. and in the end have to go
back 10 his old home. I'll tell you, SIR" he
added warming up, no man who has ever had
any standing IN the community in which he
hved- and who was making a fair living for his
family, has any business to come to Washing
ton and taAe a government position. He loses
mis- 1oid upon his home people when he does
can tell you Of a case which illustrates that
perfectly. 1 knew young lawyer in a New
England town. He was bright and popular
He had mixed in local politics. and was IN
elective speaker on the stump. He wasn't
making much money. but he was looked upon
as rising young man. He came on here on a
visit and learned what salaries were paid to
eineltn clerks This was before the civil SER
wee law, and be was given 81, 400 place in the
pension orfce. Then he got transferred to
another bureau at 81. 500. He went home every
year and voted. did good campaign work and
ms temperance in his old town was always
solid with the old bows
Well. wasn't hep
mo ne wasn't III convince YOU One wear
ne wanted certain state Office Ii was one to
which he was entitled ON account Of the work
he had done for the party and which he could
MI much better than the man who then held
IT. He wrote some Of the wire-pullers and
they encouraged him to make the tight or
course his campaign had TO be mostly con-
Quoted by correspondence, for he was here
All the news he received was encouraging He
got tvo-weeks leave just before the legisla-
tpre was TO meet and went home. saw him
the night before he left. and he told me il he
succeeded be should resign and be glad TO get
away. told HIN expected TO see him bach
at the expiration of his leave and did. He
was beaten out Of his boots. He had lost his
grip. He was not ON the ground. The other
man was there all the time. He has since re-
ceived an appointment from the governor of
his state. and lie nov where he never should
have left"
II am going out of public life after the 9Th
Of next March" said member of Congress to
6GAB reporter the other day, land shall not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-22


Superintendent Plumsilrs Office through an
evening and there watch the applicants as they
enter. Ninety-nine out Of every hundred are
brought there by whisky. They are Of all de-
gress and descriptions, and their character or
she lack thereof is written on their faces. Some
walk in timidly and speak in low tones, gianc-
ing furtively around meanwhile, to see whether
there is q witness to their misery. Others
march up to the table and make known their
pedigree bluntly and vehemently and demand
a bed as q sovereign right; they have been
there before. No trade or profession has any
noteworthy majority on the register; every
known employment Is down there in connec-
ton with names that were at one time
honored and honorable-and more than
one of the men who have been shell
tered at the lodging house has preached
salvation to thousands OF souls, but was not
able to save his own. But few of the applicants
this winter have been professional tramps; last
winter they were very numerous in the house,
but for some reason or other they seem to have
forsaken IT. Many an old soldier-battle-
Scared and almost helpless-has found tenn
porary home at the lodging-hous while they
were personally endeavoring to push pension
claim either before Congress or the depart
ment
in the superintendent room has history. and
IL it could speak it would doubtless salute a.
an old acquaintance many . man who has
rested his hand upon il while he has been ask
ing for a crust of bread and q nights shelter.
II was, and il STILL faro" table, but its career
Of harmfulness il over. Where for was
played in the days gone by mucilage bottle
stands, while the gold-lettered legend pay
even" il obscured by q water pitcher.
There was . time when the hospitality of
those who gave their money to found the lodg-
ing-house IVES abused; when drunken men sang
and yelled and drank and smoked and played
cards until early morning; when fights were
common occurrence, and when the police had
70 rush in from the stationhouse, next door,
twice or three times in the course Of night for
the purpose Of quelling the riot and arrssting
the principal o9enders. There are no such 90
currencss now. The kind-hearted superinten-
dent can be - stsrn - anyone when the occa-
don requiresb end be has IN able exacutSoner in
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06
BrOckaway's Line of Business.

A few evenings ago l heard several
gentlemen chatting about William E.
Brockaway and other clever men who
have lived by the exercise of their wits
and mechanical skill One of the
chatters remarked that Brockaway
was the cleverest forger that had ever
lived in this country and that he had cir
culated hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of counterfeit bank-bills and
United States bonds and railroad stocks.
Bill BrOckaway never was forger :"
said man who has lived in Newark for
sixty-six years, ''for he never was
skilful with the pen and never could
be. But his forte was engraving and
printing, trades which he learned
from his father in this city. The
father engraved and printed bills for
the old State banks in an upper room
of his house in this city, and an old
man used to sit beside the hand
printing press and count every bill
that was printed. When l was lad
was in that room many times.
Once saw Bill Brockawav and Cv.
Young writing the signature of bank
officer on slips of paper. Bill said
they were trying to see what they
could do with pen and he asked me
10 try it. l did and made an almost
perfect copy of the signature. didn't
give the matter a second thought un-
til long time afterwards, when Bill
was arrested on suspicion. Bank bills
had been printed and circulated in
spite of the sharp old fellow who was
paid by the bank to sit beside the
printing press. But | am sure Bill
BrOckaway never wrote the signatures
on the bills, for he wasn't gifted that
way. But there are few men living
who can excel him at engraving
plate and printing bills or bonds
from it. George Engel. the forger,
was charged with doing the pen work
for Bill of late years. Bill was first
ar ested over fifty years ago. NewarE
JOuTuGL
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Secrecy.

A secret. like an oyster, cannot be
kept too close, for the moment it is
opened it ceases to exist
A French philosopher says: A man
is more faithful to the secrets of an
other than to his own; a woman, on the
contrary, preserves her own secret bet
ter than that of another.
The explanation given for woman's
proneness to let the cat out of the bag
is that she is afraid she might die. and
then there would be no one left to
keep it.
None are so fond of secrets as those
who don't mean to keep them; such
persons covet secrets as n spendthrift
covets money-for the purpose of cir
culatiOn.
My dear Murphy" said an Irish
man to his friend, "why did you be-
tray the secret l told you?"
lis it betraying' you call it? Sure,
whin found [ wasn't able to keep it
myself, didn't | do well to tell it to
somebody who could?"
Secrets are poor property, anyhow.
If you circulate them you lose them,
and if you keep them you lose the in
terest on the investment.
1t is said that man who eats onions
will always keep a secret. This is
probably due to the fact that the man
who eats onions is rarely allowed to
get within whispering distance of his
fellow man.
What are you sealing up in that
envelope so carefully. Jones?"
''Important instructions that | for
got to give my wife before | came
down town this morning; going to send
it up to the house."
"WIll your wife open it at once?"
You bet she will. I've fixed all
that"
"How?"
Il have addressed it to myself and
put a big private on the corner of
the envelope. "-TeIas Sitttngs.
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A Heavy BAG.

The money with which the soldiers
at Fort Lincoln are paid comes to
Mandan by express, several thousand
dollars come at time, and as most of
it is gold and silver it is packed in
strong canvas bags containing a
number of thousands of dollars each.
The members of the guards which
comes to escort the money TO the fort
put on lots of style. They all wear
white gloves. and have their guns
polished to the last degree. On one
occasion the money was carried into
the express Office and placed on the
table with three guards standing erect
and stiff in front of it. After the
papers were signed and the bags were
ready to be put in the wagon the officer
in charge told the sergeant 10 take a
bag olt, pointing 10 one containing
-. 700 in silver. The sergeant in due
course pointed 10 the bag and told a
guard to take it out The guard walk
ed up to it and took hold ia ntily with
his thumb and finger. As the bag
weighed about 175 pounds. il did not
come up that way, whereupon the
fingers of both white-gloved hands
were brought into use. Again it did
not move. The guard then put down
his musket. and after much difficulty
shouldered the money and staggered
out with ii. while the lockers on
cheered loudly. -AdHdGD (D1k0lG)
Pioneer.
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to his lips, and then blows one long, loud.
terrific, thunderous reverberating and resur.
rectionarv blast. Look! Look They rise |
The deadl The dead! Some coming forth
from the family vault. Some from the city
cemetery. Some from the country graveyard.
Here a spirit is joined to its body and there
another spirit is joined to another body, and
millions OF departed spirits are asserting the
bodies and then recothing themselves In
forms now radiant for ascension.
The earth begings to burn-the bonfire OF
great victory. All ready now for the process
sion of RECONSTRUCTED humanity! Upward and
away! Christ leads and all the Christian dead
follow, battalion after battalion, nation
after nation. Up up! On on! Forward,
We ranks of God Almighty! Lift up your
heads, ye everlasting gates and let the con-
Querors come in! Resurrection Resurrec.
ton
And so l twist all the festal flowers of this
church with all the festal flowers of chapelS
and cathedrals of all Christendom into one
great chain, and with that chain l bind tbs
Easter morning of 1888 with the closing Eas.
ter of the worlds history Resurrection |
May the God of peace that brought again
from the dead our Lord Jesus that great
Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood Of
the everlasting covenant make you perfect
in every good work to do His will.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

The head Of the firm that manufact-
ures postal-cards for the Government
is G. G. Woolworth. of Albany. In
January Mr.. Woolworth's concern,
which is the Fort Orange Paper Com
pany. made the largest delivery to tho
Government thatit has ever made in a
single month. 1t amounted to nearly
tifty-seven million cards, or almost
one for every man, woman and child
in the United States. The weight of
these cards was about one hundred
and sixty tons. or three tons to the
million cards.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

GENERAL SHERIDAN has four little
children, who are his constant COM
panions. In Washington not long ago
two Of the children were walking along
with their father while the two other
little Sheridans trotted along just be-
hind him. a gentleman stopped the
little girls Of the rear guard and asked:
care you all General Sheridan's chill
drenF" "Oh, no." exclaimed one of the
girls. demurely, and. pointing to the
children walking with the General,
''they are General Sheridan's children,
We are the twins
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

WHAT looked like the largest.
straighest soundest and longest wal
nut log ever floated down the Cumber-
land reached Nashville the other day.
Is belonged to green-looking country
man. who gave good reasons why he
must sell 1t Immediately. 1t was such q
me log that despite the owners anx-
iety to sell it fetched almost its appar-
ent value. In due course of time II
was taken out Of the water. and prove d
% De sycamore log with walnut bark
tackled all over it in the most artistic
manner. The green .countryman has
not been seen since.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

Mrs. INGALLS,. the wife of the fiery
Senator from Kansas, is tall, plump,
fine-looking woman. with bright eyes
and rosy cheeks. She was Miss Anna
Cheseborough, and her father was a
New York merchant who had moved
West to Atchison. Mrs. ingalls, has
many Of the qualities of mind and heart
that made Mrs. John A. Logan SO
popular.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

The farmers Of Southern Russia
employ the Stepanoff primary battery
to produce electric light to assist them
in threshing their grain. Thus they
are enabled to keep the threshing-
machines going night and day.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

ROBERT MCCRoNE, of Thompson
vile, Conn. is the most consistent
vegetarian in the Nutmeg State. He
has eaten no animal food for over
forty years He is now sixty-fve
and in perfect health.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

IT has been ascertained through re-
ports from the various County Superin
tendents. that the number of persons
frozen to death in Dakota in the recent
blizzard was 100.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

GENERAL MANAGER STONE, of the
Chicago. Burlington & Quincy road is
about thirty-seven years old. He is a
tireless worker and has climbed steadily
up in the service Of the company from
the lowest round of the ladder.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

LORD DUFFERIN, Viceroy of India.
is said to be the luckiest Englishman
living. He has been playing King to
over 800. 100000 people, receiving a
salery Of nearly 5000. 900 year, and
is now going home to be sent as En-
bassador to Rome, in order to be en-
titled to pension.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

EDWARD BROWN, brother of John
Brown Of Harper's Ferry. is still living
at Columbus, 0. He much resembles
his dead brother, and has the same
earnest and at times almost fierce way
Of speaking. He recently declared he
was glad John Brown was killed Just
when he was and as he was.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

DR.. FAIRFAX, Of Virginia, the gen
tleman who really is a baron of Scot
land, and could call himself Lord Fair
fax if he liked, has recently received
the regular request to attend the meet
ing Of the Scotch mobiles to elect a
representative peer for the British
House of Lords.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's next outing
will be trip to West Virginia. He
will 60 late in May and remain ten
days or two weeks. He is going out
TO have little fun with the boys, and
there will be no ladies in the party.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

FArRBCRT. SrB, March 3l-The dead body
Of Dan C. DAVIS Was found today near the
feed lots south Of the CITY. The coroDer's in.
quest showed that he was shot Wednesfav
night bT the night wAtchmau o. HougbreIln
4 AcDo%eu while stealing feed Allen
Ireland, the Waterman, vas arrested tonight
and held Tor trial
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

CESAR is the name of a counterfeit
er arrested in Cincinnati, 0. He did
not seem to feel that Caesars money
should be above suspicion.
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& Inflow. Publishers.

The sod houses of farmers in Dako,
ia were found to be much warmer dur.
ing the recent cold spell than houses
made of wood or brick.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

MISS MINNIE FREEMAN, a Nebraska
school-teacher, who saved the lives of
thirteen children in blizzard by tying
them together 50 they could not get
separated, has received nine offers Of
marriage on account Of her bravery.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

MISS BERGER, Of Brooklyn, who has
been arrested for arson. would have
made good wife for some man. She
has penchant for lighting fires.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

MONTGOMERY, ALA, March an-At Havpe-
vile, Lowndes county. las, night Theodore
tAAo%ag' tie negro who murdered Yoaug
Mitchell last week, was taken from jail bY 81
men aud hanged 70 a tree =, frrr, ~ az
court house and Bis bo1v rlddlrd sith bullet.
The Iyac1ers were friends Of the murdered
man
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
A Sabbath Day Tragedy at Kan
sas City.

Earnest Settler Fatally Shoots His Wife and
Himself-With a Caress He Shoots Her and
Turns the Weapon on Himself-Domestic
Infehcity the Cause Assigned.
The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-06

Fannie H. Wood and Betsy Chamber.
witnesses IL the wtll % The late Wee Press.
dent Wheeler. testified al Malone. y. i Il
the eleaFness 81 Mr.. Wheeler's mind wn@n
i1e Testament as made The relatives ars
e9nies,ink Tie wii! because So, 00I was Goaag.
CT - charities
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-29
AS TO TARIFF TAXATION.

In his Toledo speech Grandpa Thur
man ridiculed the idea that a country
can be made rich by the taxation of its
people. With free traders, such as the
Democratic candidate for vice president
declared himself to be, this is but a COM
mon trick of expression, and is evidently
intended rs a poser. As an argument
it ranks with the corner loafers offer to
"betcher five dollars"
The people OF the United States tax
themselves millions upon millions of
dollars every year for national, state,
county, municipal and township pur-
poSes-for enterprises and Improvements
too numerous 10 mention here. but
which are familiar 10 every intelligent
voter. Without taxes the very functions
of government would close; cities could
neither be built or kept habitable: schools
would be closed, roads and bridges would
be almost unknown; civilization and
consequently wealth would be impossi-
bic.
Wichita taxes her property owners to
grade and keep in repair her streets. Is
it done for philanthropy or profit: TIE
government maintains lighthouses upon
its sea coast. Is the country richer or
poorer thereby: Is the money expended
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-29
IN GOOD EUMOR.

The Chicago Times is IN ardent SUP
porter of Mr. Cleveland and his visionary
notions about the robber tariff tax; bat
at the same time it doesn't let party con-
siderations spoil joke or interfere with
the free course of its good humored Wit
icism OF Mr.. Randall the Times has
the following:
Mr. Randall is able to write few let
ters daily, but they ought not to let him
till this campaign is over.
One of the causes Of delay in the pub
LEGATION of Cleveland's letter of accept
ance is accounted for in this way.
The president is working on his letter of
acceptance. lie has gone as far as And
now my reasons for again accepting the
great trust which" but Dan Lamont OBJ
jects TO the word trust" and the president
is looking over book of synonyms Tor a
better one.
The following from the Times appears
to have been intended seriously, but
there is an under-current of grim humor
in it which makes it worth reproducing.
If Mr.. Henry George the single tax apos-
tie, isn't playing Il double game in politics
he should pull down his sigh. 4 man who
processes friendship for Mr. Cleveland
shouldn't allow the columns of his news
paper TO he used 50 that Republican organs
can ffnd crumbs of comfort in it every
week
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-29
rreo.s of Mental Idienes..

Mental idleness Is sure to lead TO men
tai ruin. He who viii not exert his
thoughts. who lets them passively receive
whatever influence may chance 70 fall
upon them, will soon lose the chief power
which makes them valuable. 1t il an
easy habit to fail into, and one which
each person needs to guard against-ihas
Of listlessiy reading, or listening, or
dreaming instead ct actively thinking and
working up these influences into ideas
and convictions TIA. are worth hohing,
because they have been justly earned. 1t
Is the vacant mid, where no good seed
IS struggling upward into Life, which VIII
soonest be covered with weeds.-Opce .
Week.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-29

The loyalty of the Irish-American
voters to the Democratic party, as long
as they believed that party their best
friend, led the leaders of that party to
regard them in the light of political
slaves. One of the most prominent
Democratic leaders in the country, in a
public speech few days ago, declared
that the Irish had no right to be anything
but Democrats. This will be news to
the Irish voter who has flattered himself
that he is and has been an Independent
citizen, possessing the right to exercise
its privileges as his judgment should
dictate. The lordly declaration quoted
will not altar the conviction of the
strong minded sons of the Green Isle as
to their individuality, who having had
the fact forced upon them that their
long pretended friends are now their i'm
placable enemies, will deliberately exer-
else their right to support the Republican
party.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-29
WHY TOPEKA IS SO.

To The Editor of the EAGLE.
Just returned from few days visit to
topeka. | find that city improving and in
much better shape than | expected. How
IA city III these depressed times with not
half the manufactures, industries and
trade that Wichita has, can keep up so
bright an appearance puzzled me. Next
to Wichita; Topeka is the livest city in the
state. Can you explain it? r.
Topeka has the headquarters, general
offices and shops Of the greatest railroad
system in the United States, whose pay
roll reaches away up into the thousands
weekly. \ great state house is being
built there Which the state is paying for,
Sedgwick county alone paying $1,000
this year towards it. Bat more than all
that, which makes times locally good in
Topeka is the fact that for paving streets
and putting in a sewer system she is pay
ing out now million or more of dollars.
Ed. EAGLE.