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SCOT Eof t0o0 70 come 70 nor. She
wrote 10 tell thsm about the fret baby
when Il was two weeks old. but IL IL had
not been for Aunt Sylvia's grandmoth-
sesy ksennsss. they would never have
known when the other babies came nor
how many thsrs were. Aunt Sylvia
knew there were five, and that the old
Get was named after "his" mother. She
had written and asked once for their
names and ages. but probably the let
ten did not reach its destination. for
Della never said anything about it.
From the letters which did come Aunt
Sylvia made out-she was very sure Il
ives so-that Delia's husband was sort
Of tyrant, that she could never como to
see them because he could not bear to
be left alone. and "co,ld not spare the
money" and % on. Aunt Sylvia was
very forgiving. though secretly she
mourned great deal and knew that the
truth was that Della did not care to
come homo. Uncle would cay nothing
when she complained about 1t, for he
would not increase her heartache, but
his keenly sensitive so1l knew all and
felt oil. II the neighbor women asked
about Della and il she were coming to
sec them. it was always Aunt Sylvia
who answered. with what pretense she
could. Only few sympathetic friends
knew the bitter sense OF neglect that
Delia's name stirred; they did not AJAX.
Mrs. Martin. quiet woman who had
known Uncle and Aunt for many years,
was reused 20 by the ingratitude o;
their eldest daughter that she often
said: II tell you, I'm going to write
her letter and let her know just what
we think Of her." This she did at
length, when she and other friends were
secretly planning the golden wedding
anniversary for the old people. 1t was
to be q gala day. and Mrs Martin
thought that Della and all her children
must be there. Perhaps too much of
her righteous indignation crept into the
letter she wrote to Della. The answer
she got-telling her 10 mind her own
business, and not be meddling with her
neighbor's affairs-fsirly overwhelmed
her. And that was not the worst. just
on the same Saturday afternoon before
Easter. Aunt Sylvia received a letter
from Iowa.
She showed il to Uncle, when he ask
ed her what was the matter. After be
read it he tore it up very, very slowly
and put it in the stove. "Don't cry 30,
Ma; it won't do any good he said, in a
very shaken voice.
'But, Pa, don't see what she means.
/ never told anybody she was cruel to
u.s."
No, no, Ma, she doesn't mean any
thing" / do not know what was in the
letter. But it must have been some
thing very hard to bear; and Uncle felt
it, too. for the next morning when Aunt
Sylvia came out to 60 to church with
ber old faded bonnet on, he never said
vOPd
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did you ever visit q lunatic asylum
"NO. But once spent Sunday at
house party whore everybody talked
golf"
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LINCOLN, NRBR.

literature, Mics Minnie Becker; house.
hold economics. Mrs. Gietzen; parlia-
mentary drill. Mrs. Snow.
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well" when she married. Her husband
was q prosperous merchant in q neigh.
boring state, he had q good property,
and seemed very fond of Della, etc. etc.
Her home would be 90 near that che
could often run over to see the old folks,
or they could come to her. There we're
many thoughts like these to comfort
Aunt Sylvia a. she sat alone With Uncle
the night after the wedding. Yet she
knew it would be long before she could
be reconciIed to the loss Of her daugh-
ter. Uncle did not seem to care-part-
ly, perhaps, because he was one Of those
dumb animals who are not without
nerves, though they cannot tell their
sufferings. Still he had never thought
as much OF Della. He used to get up
from the table hastily, take bis hat, and
slip out Of doors sometimes when she
put on her schoolgirl airs and ridiculed
the old.fashioned notions Of her parents.
Occasionally he broke this accustomed
silence, and then the sharpness OF his
reprimand was awful. Her real name
was Adelaide; she took to writing it 90
when she grew up, and tried to make
him call her that instead Of "Delye."
He had never liked the nsme-Aunt
Sylvia got it from novel-and he said
once, that il they had named her Mary
maybe she would have been more af-
fectionats and helpful. But it was sell
dom that he said anything. 1t only
reused Aunt Sylvia, who had slaved for
Della ever since che was q baby and
loved her-well. as q mother loves her
first-born.
So it was natural that after Della was
married, Aunt Sylvia should feel very
lonely; the other children were 90 much
younger, and were no company" for
her. Uncle suddenly seemed to take
great interest in Della and talked about
her iokingly, drawing amusing pictures
Of her early efforts at housekeeping
and cooking. No woman on earth could
have made in reality the awful concoc-
tions Uncle imagined Della a. attempt
ing to bake or stew. After the fret
loneliness wore off, he ceased doing this
and gradually there came Q time whom
she was hardly spoken Of. Her letters were
uncertain, and though the years rolled
on she never ran over to see them. nor
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BRIEF CHAPTERS.

BY FLORA BULLOCK.
For The Courier
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rHB COURIER

minister to dinner. Her mental sgits-
tion on the. way homo. % shs pisced and
patched bill OF f1es-Bt b ST hseoes .
king, you may be sure. but not saiting
her idea Of Q Sunday dinner for ths
Minister, was apparently neither noticed
nor shared by Uncle. He laughed at
her after the repsst was over and the
minister had gone, and said: why,
Ma, l thought I'd give you something
to worry and stew about for Q whole
week now. l 'spose you think that
lean young chap II starve because you
didn't feed him enough. don't you.
Better invite him again and just iii him
up to the brim. I'd like to know where
he'd get square meal"
Before she was through with tho
dishes. John, their son-in-law, came in
with the two boys and little Ruth. and
for the rest Of the afternoon, Grandpa
and Grandma were happy - only
grandparents can be-With the Joy Of
loving and being loved, and only . very
distant shadow Of responsibility.
Uncle was silent man, in spite Of bis
fun.loving ways. 90 he did not voice his
thought. Yet 1 know he felt glad. whom
he went to sleep that night, that Aurt
Sylvia had been 90 drawn away from the
bitter heartache which seemed to dark
en- and benumb her CHEEKY nature-or
was it that she was cheerful only by .
reflected light? Who could be gloomy
long with Uncle nearf Yet perhaps the
same heartache was hie; he endured it
in silence but he could not comfort, ex-
cept by the little devices he contrived
to bring new snxieties or trivial prob
lens.
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An Insurgent Wall.
From the PHILADELPHIA North American

From the Philadelphia North American
The election of W. S. Quay to the United
States senate has been accomplished, and Pennsyl.
vania will again be represented at Washington by
a man whose name Is synonymous throughout the
United States with everything that is vile in poll
tics and bad in government. The sue.
cess OF Quay, backed by Nhe organized criminal
wealth OF Pennsylvania, in returning himself TO
the United States senate does not end the fight
against Quayism. II does not even check IL. On
the contrary, whatever is honest and clean and
patriotic in the state will be inspired by this
outrage upon tree institutions, this daring def.
ance OF the verdict of the ballot box, to renewed
ardor in the battle Tor better political conditions
in this dcbauchcd and piagcd state =
The warfare for emancipation of the common.
wealth from the rule Of iree.booers calling them.
selves Republicans must go on, for seli.respecting
Americans cannot consent to live under govern
mont by Quay without doing what they can to
throw off the degrading dcspotsm They would
cease TO feel that they deserved the name of
Americans were they 10 submit without energetic
protest TO what has been well described as gov.
ernmcnt by the criminal rich and the criminal
poor in combination. Quay goes to the senate,
not in honor, but to advertise the means by
which he obtained his seat And every day he
sits there will be a challenge to the brains and
character Of the state 10 sweep away the felon.
ious politics but for which men of his kind could
have neither prominence nor power among US.
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Press Comments on
ELECTION OF Quay
An Astounding Victory.
From the Philadelphia Times

FROM tne inllauclpnld
Matthew Stanley Quay has won the most
astounding political victory in the history OF
American politics, and it was won in the face OF
positive majority Of senator's and representatives
elected by the people to defeat him in his sena.
torisl aspirations. That the majority OF
the legislature was chosen against Quay's re-
election 10 the senate is undisputed
Senator Quay's battle for reelection to the sen
ate is without example in the history Of our poll
tics. Ills term in the senate expired nearly two
years ago, and the last legislature was charged
with the duty OF clecting his successor He was
aided In his desperate struggle by a prosecution
that never would have been instituted had clear
heads and honest judgment decided the course OF
action. lie was under indictment when the legis.
laturc met, and the deadlock of the senatorship
ended on the day Of adjournment when stimuli.
tancously with the adjournment Quay was &C.
quilted by the jury. lie was then appointed by
the governor without warrant OF law, and after a
desperate battle his admission 20 the senate was
defeated by single vote, and by what his
friends reasonably claimed to have been the per.
ndy Of Senator Hanna. Quay then made his an.
peal to the people OF Pennsylvania in the late
contest. and the result OF the popular judgment,
as declared by the election of senators and rep.
resentatiycs, was a majority against Quay's re.
election in both the senate and house. lie has
thus wrested victory from the jaws Of defeat, and
has achieved one OF the greatest triumphs record.
cd in the annals of our political disputes. It was
Quay's own battle and won by himself, but at
what cost TO himself and those who gave him
the victory the future must determine.
1t is great personal triumph for Quay; one that
only Quay could win and win for Quay; but
after the shouts of victory shall be heard only in
echoes amongst the people il may be gravcly con-
sdcred even by Quay himself whether the victory
was worth the winning
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Will Be Fought to the Finish.

From the Philadelphia Press.
II is a triumph Of the boss of boss methods
and boss principles. Decent politics for the time
goes to the wall, and those who have striven and
labored and hoped for better era and better in.
hucnces in Pennsylvania political life must ac.
Cept defeat with what grace they may while they
gather strength for a more determined struggle
hereafter. For so long as the present machine
rule continues in Pennsylvania, there is bound
to be an irrepressibe conflict between II and that
class of active Republicans who own themselves
For them the rule OF the Quay machine has be.
come so odious and intolerable that mere self
respect cOmpels resistance to il. For Mr. QUAY
himself they have a certain degree OF respect
His audacity, his resourcefulness, his pertinacity
and his rare capacity for political organization
and leadership are winning qualities that compel
the admiration even ot his enemies. The dis
reputable crowd OF parasites and heeers with
which he surrounds himself have done even more
than Mr.. Quay himself to organize opposition to
the rule OF the Quay machine. That machine,
in its spirit and methods, is without scruples,
without morals and without decency, and il will
be fought TO the finish.
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A vindication of Regularity.

Senator Quay's signal victory is not only
personal triumph but IL IL complete and en-
phatic vindication OF the regular Republican or.
ganization in Pennsylvania. 1t ends the man
hunt; and it relegatcs the man hunters to poit-
ical obscurity. The consprstors and the political
knsyes, the character assassins, the selfish schem
ing leaders who have bounded men to death
and who sought to destroy Senator Quay's pri-
vate reputation as we'll as his political standing
have reapcd the whirlwind and brought about
their own destruction. Politically, they are dead,
dead beyond the hope OF resurrection, and the
memory Of their crime will be a stencil in the
nostrils of Republicansm for years TO come.
Right has triumphed ever wrong, the attempt o!
an unscrupuots minority to thwart the will Of
the majority has failed and the seal Of colt.
demnation has been placed on such unreasonable
tactics. The great mass Of the Republicans In
Pennsylvania have taken a uniform stand on tn,
side of right, and the rejoicing over Senator
Quay's victory will be general it is genu.
inc. There will be more factonal differ.
cnccs in the party ranks, The so-caled insur-
gents must come back into the party fold Oh
get out entirely, for they will be powcrcss TO
cause any further mischief. The little influence
they may have had in the past has melted away.
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Majority Rule Vindicated.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
The return TO the United States senate OF Hon.
W. S. Quay will mark the downfall OF one Of
the history of American politics. Mr.. Quay
stands tor the principle upon which our political
institutions are iounded--the rule OF the ma.
jority. He is a stawart at every point lie be.
licves in party politios-in organization, in dis
ciplne, and in harmonious party action. The
Mugwump cry Of 'bosses" does not affect him in
the least. The logical projection OF our free
institutions ends in 'boss." There can he no
such thing government by party without lead.
crs, guides, controllers, and these are "bosses"
in the only proper meaning of the term. The
men who rise to positions Of control; who secure
authority and the power of dictation; who are
trusted and commissioned by the rank and flc
are the appointed cheftains of the political or
ganzation they represent. Mr.. Quay is one Of
these--one of the most conspicuous and distng.
nshcd. lie has been once cheated out OF his
well.won place by as vicious combination of
fasehood and hypocrisy as we have ever heard
Of Today he stands triumphant on the wreck of
the base contrvanccs of his cnemies-holdng
now, as he has cver held, the confidence, the
affection. and the loyalty Of the Republican
masses of the great state OF Pennsylvania. We
call for three cheers in celebration of this mo-
mentous victory of straight politics over humbug,
cant, and imprdent dishonesty Surely no man
who believes in democratic principles and genu.
inc popular government will withhold his con.
tribution to the loud acclaim We here invoke.
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lGURES recently made public
by the treasury bureau of
Il statistics at Washington
have an interesting bearing
upon the proposition Of the agrarians
in Germany % raise the duty on
American wheat imported into that
country.
In the eleven months ended with
November last, American exports Of
wheat to Germany amounted to 5,47s,-
$50 bushels, or 6.2 per cent. of our total
expectation of wheat in that period.
or -four we exported 10 Germany $751;
5s6 barrels or 81 per cent. of our total
flour expectations. OF our total wheat
and -four expectations we sent into
Germany only about per cent, and
the percentage of this particular
branch of our export trade with Ger
many to our total export trade with
that country was only 3.6. Within the
Germany has more than doubled, 1t
has nearly trebled. Germany bought
from us last year twice as much cot
ton as five years ago; seven times as
much corn more than seven times
as much copper; nearly twice as much
lard; four times as many agricultur a,
implements; nearly three times as
much builders hardware; almost ten
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Opponents Lacked Leadership.

The weak feature OF the opposition was its lack
of leadership and the impossbiity Of efectng
a real fusion between the Democrats and the anti.
Quay Republicans. There was no single candi.
date pttcd against Quay, and the opposition
could not have elected any one senator, even
though they had held their lines intact at the
outset OF the ballOting. ANY move TO elect an.
other Republican by the aid OF Democratic votes
would have been the signal Tor detection OF
Democratic votes to Quay, while an attempt to
agree upon a Democratic candidate would have
disrupted the Republican opposition to Quay. The
contest was really between Quay and a vacancy
in the United States senate, and, under these cir.
eunstances, the anti'Quay Republicans did very
well when they held forty-nine Of their number
true to their cause, As it stands today the
legislature is better legislature than IT would
have been II the fight had not been made against
Quay, and some good may come out of IL BY con.
oessions made by the victors, or because OF the
very slender majority which Quay controls in the
senate and house, even with the aid of the men
who sacrificed their honor 10 serve him.
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The Value of a Cool Head.
From the Binghamton Republican.

From the Binghamton Republican.
Mr.. Quay has been more talked about, perhaps
also more talked against, than any member of
the senate. That man can rise triumphant over
personal attacks, and come up victorious after
such an ordeal as Quay has passed through, shows
that the best qualification for success as politi-
clan Is a temper that keeps 1t possossor always
serene and confident under any load Of adversely
or contuney that can be hesped on him
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a victory so barren OF honor and achieved only
by the most gigantic corruption, all that need
he said is that he and his friends are easily salts.
fed. It is a victory achieved in corruption and
dishonor, such as only Quay would or could ac.
cept. The commission by virtue of which he will
occupy a seat in the United States senate reeks
with treachery, the betrayal of trusts, and corrup.
tion such as has probably never before stained
senator's commission, except, possibly, that Of
Clark, OF Montana, who was compelled to resign
to escape expulsion.