The National tribune., 1899-07-27

think of il, we have ingalls, and the circus
| and the races all the same week.
q am sure that no one will complain o
the very theatrical entertainment that We
have had furnished us by the Senator from
Kansas.
81 would inform the Senator from Kansas
| that the mode and manner in which that
election has been conducted, being a State
| election, is none Of his business"
| Mr.. Ingalls,: I'VE think it ISL"
We are not sure that Mr.. ingalls, will bill
this "feud" among his "vaudevilles" or
"marionettes," so we will call it a curtain
riser. We recognize that the country has
provided a new program with new issues
to be carried out by new actors and new
stars. May they profit by the bitternesses,
the acrimony, the mistakes of the preceding
drdmGtis personde, and study statesman
ship.
A few years before came to the capital
met young woman in a Northern city
student in one of our colleges for women.
She was charming in person and brilliant
in mind. Nature had been prodigal in
gifts toward her. 1t was said that she was
being educated by her guardian. Some
little mystery surrounded the affair, enough
to make her friends watehful and others
gossipy. She minded her own business,
and graduated with honors.
When we again met she was living in
Washington, the wife of her guardian, who
held responsible position in President
Lincoln's Cabinet She was of rare per
sonaI love.iness and superior intellect
She had been carefully trained for the
position she was to fill in society. Her
home was one of the most attractive in the
Cabinet circle. Her tact and grace went
far to make her husbands career a bril-
| liant epoch in that Administration. Her
taste in dress was exquisite, her toilets
| were the envy of some and admiration of
others. Her receptions in all their ap-
pointments had never been surpassed, and
were heralded and described in every paper
| OF the Union.
She was young, fond of society, and
pleased with attention. Her husband a man
old enough to be her father, saw no reason
| for charging his habits or daily life, and SO
the club had the same attraction, and his
chums at the gaming table faced no vacant
seat 1t is not known that she was cOnsoled
as the wife of Henry Clay was that he
always won at cards" but we know that in
the whir and glittering generaIities Of
social life she became wholly absorbed.
| Is it to be wondered at?
| Her husband was sent on foreign mis-
sion to China, and she accompanied him.
| Upon her return her home was made regal
with oriental hangings, china, tapestries.
pictures and bric-a-brac, which she had
gathered in her travels and which were
avpopaD+S of her uuiUtIp taste
| But there came a day in this home when
the lights were out, the curtains down-the
master had taken another journey, and
alone. The young widow sat in sack
cloth and refused to be comforted.
Two years later she again opened her
home, and with bevy of young ladies' ex-
pected to make it as attractive. Her am
bitions and hopes turned to ashes. The
magnet of the politician had fallen into
other hands and the tide of humanity into
other channels; she, with all the magnifi-
cent entertainments of ether days to which
society was attracted, was forgotten.
| She took her young ladies and travelled
in Europe. The uneasy and ambitious
disposition knew no rest. The murcurial
alteration of the public had whetted the
appetite, and she hoped and planned for
another career, which ended by he appear
ance on the stage
The fascination of the footlights and an
applauding audience lured her on. but it
was a dismal failure. The receipts did not
cover the expenses, and the morning papers
i Of the next town where she was booked,