The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-03-07

the census in 1860, 1870, and 1880. What
he had done between times no man, not
even himself, | suppose, could tell. Near
him stood a hard faced woman who, ! re-
member, has been discharged from three
departments, aud more than once from
her was her daughter, a beautiful girl of
eighteen. Anyone acquainted about the
departments could recognize a score of
familiar faces in the crowd of applicants.
The civil service investigation, even if it
should fail to accomplish the dismissal of
that highly-scented fraud, COMMISSIONS
Lyman, has brought to public notice two
deeply interested pcrsonages that might
have otherwise remained unknown to fame.
These are Lyman's brother in-law Camp
bell and Rev. Mr.. Bailey. The former is
the individual who stole the examination
questions-that were peddled about town,
for which mild offense he was reprimanded
and afterwards twice promoted by Lyman,
the sole commissioner. In his appearance
upon the witness stand he was abject and
confused, contradieting himself and adj
hitting his contradictions. Campbell is
the ideal peor relation always clinging toa
bright-man's skirts. His coarse face, with
it's piggish, over-fed expression, fades into
q red, bull neck and a frouzy suit of misfit
clothes.
Bailey is his opposite in appearance.
Neatly dressed. plump. oily, persuasive,
he is the ideal of all upright man. His
complexion is as pure as a girls, and on
his round jaws grows the scarf beard of
one who has never shaved. His only bad
feature is his mouth, a large organ upon
which rests a continual smile that borders
on a smirk. God bless yeu" is always
on his lips. He is charged with having
been promoted, without examination, as a
stenosrapher, when he was absolutely in
capable of doing short. hand work, i'll yio-
lation of the civil service law. He has
been carried on the rolls as a stenographer
without attempting to perform such du
ties. He is a member of Lyman's church.
Very thrifty, this Baily. The civil ser
vice offices are in the city hall and he is
generally called on during the hours when
the government is supposed to employ
him to perform marriages for clipping
couples. Quite a snug little sun he makes
in this way. He is also head of a praying
band that goes about the streets ina big
wagon, holding meetings at corners. His
exposure does not mortify this Chadband.
Meekly he turns the other cheek, and the
tear upon it is one of meekness and forgive
ness. The man doesn't really comprehend
his shame.
1t is comforting to think that the de-
partmental forces are not composed alone
of bungling rascals and hypocritical
knaves. The Livery of Heaven is not
always stolen, as the patient christian
lives of 50 many useful government en-
ployes prove. Perhaps the future painter
of our manners will fad a rich mine in the
records of the investigation of the Lyman
administration
The shooting of Ex-Representative Taul-
bee by Mr.. Kincaid, 0 fthe Louisville Times,
is the final outcome of one of the most dis
graceful scandals ever known in this city
of scandals. About WI years ago the
Times Published IN account of Taulbee's
indecent conduct with a woman in a public
place, and its truth has never been denied.
The most amazing feature of the case is
that the woman is still retained in the lnte-
ton Taublee, a powerful-raw boncd man,
over six feet, has bounded Kincaid, a smalh
sickly man weighing about one hundred
pounds. He pursued the game too
long, and now lies in the hospital with
a ball in his brain. The shooting occur
red in n corridor on the House side of
the Capitol. WESTON.