Critic (Newspaper) - July 25, 1886, Logansport, Indiana VOL lit NO 12 LOGANSPORT INDIANA JULY 25 1886 PRICE 5 CENTS Tou ask Walters Of course we dont like is my Although she ia awfully pretty And worth twenty thousand a year was a butcher Or E quite which Bat ID the last thres Theyve grown to be rich Theyve n palace way out ou North Brood and oat If money purchase roes ogg Theyd hara one I havent a Where was ic lie mat In It couldnt have happe ltd at homo You know that I wrote you lust summer Ho sailed ail the City at Some It seems that thy traveled And when they back ia the fall mischief dune pasi Twas a terrible shock U ui all Her trousseaus from Paris is Almost so far aiy taste The to her Barters ire 1cm not of sach vae Shes to have a new honse 011 Wost Grandly furnished fru to Of course if they staid on North Broad p treat Wo couldnt ask people to cull An It is though DO float her all ou the Bonk you know Aud whon once in Shell make Ler own way I doaL And Walter happy I grans is char lug nud yet Its terrible hard to forgive him For marrying our set Basai AMREK The Insincerity of Three A Colored What a life wa should lead to be sure ware we all forcad to dwell in the Truth Were every word we sincere and every coined into action right from the heart there would be no living in neighborhoods Individu ate would be forcad to dwell like stalled animal partitioned from companionship What pleasing state of things woald upon such candor as this for in stance Mrs A tbe parlor of Mrs B and the latter in this wise Abominable woman that you are I did not wish to call but the claims of society force me to do soT Mrs B replies I detest the sight of yoa aud wish that yon had remained at home Such greet ing might be the true language of both hearts but to what would sincerity lead How do I look Helen of her Paria Like a ho True but unwise 01d Mr ia aays 4itrlad of it replies the other he was a wretched old skinflint Oh you may be sure a partial ty is the only safe way of lining the painted conceals the powder and the fuse leads up to it slowly so the insincerities of life gloss over what would otherwise make of all social life a coatin nons explosion One cant lie with safety either to ones own self or to ones neighbor Bat we need not make oar insincerities quite so pronounced We need not make universal hypocrites of ourselves it is not wUe to let our speak through oar lips come a shapeless roll of a powerless firecracker always wise to be in a ion One childrens white always One need not b like because it is no state of the l are too eaily sullied by tbe vance of onr needless hypocrisies They see us extend same cordial greeting to the guest do not that we keep for oar dearest friend Our spurious welcome and our sham cordialities put yen of hypocrisy into their young i the aame result m Kd sponge Their are with insincerity and finally baked into of heartless We havt no call to practice the doc trine of in the innar sanc of homea Receive everybody the fame footing ia the outer recep if yon like but keep the living room to the few is disastrous iu the workings of a home in the affairs of a nation Al that loe has garnered the tender that make the soal of home aan not should not be mada common prop erty wth the empty idlers who constitute the of modern society To a few our homes may safaly extend the latchstring but to the crowd it ii the reticence that keeps the inner precinct and apart my neighbor has need of and is welcome to or because I can cheerfully grant the privileges that may bestow is no reason why she should scot to kuow my affairs or expo t to be taken into my con How often we see in neighbor hoods tho that grows oat of the mere continuity Of backdoors There havu 110 of or kindred no or auy to higher needs but must of be a gossiping upon family affair warning two totally wo me a happen to be neighbors ami the gond book pdd thy thyself If finding civ to be hied bat find kindly bni la gossip I lock some part ot my away from her kern eyes I am at and hi Ail of ihe above IB wrinn upon principle for ai lark ammg the meadow my life has set round with such sweet and lovely neighbors tint it is no of the in to love them aa I write ns I ia answer to an open letter which says other tilings disposed I uriy fae however willing to extend a helping hand needed if I do not pin my my sleeve for dawa to peck unlock all my doova for frue booter invasion I nm a churl and a is not obliged to accept spurious coin if one has to the counterfeit no more should be forced into shim rotations of friend or fritter truth away iu unmeaning extended to people who care no more far you than you for them and who if yon should die tomorrow would urn your grave into a picnic ground nnd your memory into a wultz In aa age where so little remains sacred let friend ship love and home remain at least ua desecrated by profane hands Let all the sweet heroic tales that were wont to set our hearts beating in emulation of brave and loyal deeds pass into airy legends 7e if you will that Abelard and Hel oise never lived and loved that Shaft speare was a aud oven Sir Philip 3ydney a myth that the faithful lives shone like stars through the long yeara of timo are but be steadfast in allegiance to tbe parity of friendship the endurance of love and the sanctity of home as we all have the power to preserve it Wa can turn our homes into hostelries for the entertainment of man and bORst or we can preserve them as temples pure aad spotless wherein to shrine our laves At my right slda today ia a railway car sat two brighteyed girls eating pea nuts The way they bit at the brittle shells nib bled out the kernels and mooched steadily and soberly at their set me thinking of two saacy squirrels ia a windy treetop The trace ia yet undisputed that links ns with the animal kingdom ua Whether is appears in a feature an expression or a habit like this mancu iag of and chewing of gum in public places it never fails to provide tha shadowy link taut joins tie to the toric At my left sit a young girl with a face aa full of thought and sweet repose ae an andante movement in one of Beethovens symphonies or en evening before the stars have found it I fell ia love witb that face before I dared to speak I looked at her with tbe eye of my soal and said lYoa delightfully natural a trine prim but altogether charm ing girl Why are there not more of yoar kind nowadays Ho bangs no choker no pat poodles ao artificial man A smooth brow a dainty raffle thorough of manner and fail brows denoting thought and intellect To meat of yoar ia like coming bunch sweet peas in a stock of muslin posies A colored woman with a silhouette baby in the regu lation draas that has served to make our own white babies so bewitching of late took her seat among the many who with me That baby was aboat the thing I ever saw The were as black at jet its hair a shade darker and its complexion of three tints blackness still It wag solemnly sticking a very larga stick of striped candy the only bic of color to relieve its gloom A white baby is divine but a black baby is j I should like one for recreation whan I am blue Anybody who see it roll its eyes and parse its month lika a diminutive raven contem plating death the tomb find eternity and not laugh id not able to appreciate the humorous side of life It ia not what wo have so much in life brings us joy my dear bat how wo use it IE Uis should nse his harp for a wa never know what sounds were in it Bat when he sweeps hi hands across U and brings oat those tinkling beats of melody we can imagine how Saul last hie evil spirit while young Divid played and over our memory fur many days the bright nates fall again like twinkling drops of rain the grass Its the way we use cur harps that brings ia in tham AMU EH A recant bt Louis marriage according to tbe Spectator is the denouement of a very and courtship The story runs as follows Several yeara ago two yonng men came to thU city and themselves in business They were friends and had sworn to re mam PO One daj one of them met the lady who is DOW hia bride and was in stantly He told hie friend how it wib wih Irm and him to see he lady to become intimately ac quainted with her aud advise kirn whether r not to propose marriage to Of that was nothing which one friead might not do for another but the matter bs complicated what when the sec ond gentleman that the little god f love had attacked him also and worse and worse fhe same young lady was he innocent aud belli n both cases And what aid thoss tvO model young men do Fight it Nat They They met am and drew np written articles of agreement Both loved the same girl was certain one of them coatd have her That was equally cartain The of the old song nie room for twa ye had united and unqualified endorsement They therefore decided that should an equal chance wilh the other Each should woo after his own method taking urn about every other day The odd day Sunday they would together a wooing go At the end of a certain time they woald both propose to the young lady by letter and abide by her decision Above and under and on either side of all they were to remain forever firm modern Damon and Pythias The agree ment lisa boon carried out to tbe letter Tho lady has made tior and is mar ried to the one aad the other aint saying award to Hint Ind Times Tha of one of our most prominent and popular society ladies was complaining a few evenings since of ths increase ia society tion of late years She said her daughter had been out every evening last weak not retiring until after midnight during that time sad was almost exhausted On Fri day evening several dropped in but two of the gentlemen remained until eleven oclock Thinking it was about time they were going horns she stepped into the parlor and after a few moments conversation sat to the piano aud played Home Sweet Home The calls complimented her playing did not take the hint Twelve oclock came and she had almost lost her patience Turn ing to piano she played I Lay Me Down to Sleep and a till they re mained Finally she suggested to the yonng man that they would hive to excuse the as they had been up very late every night daring the week were tired oat needed rest and maat rotira Of coarse the Y M and mother said when elis was a girl such hours would not hava been permitted and a young man who remain until so tfo reason able an hoa woald be in great danger of receiving a visit from the male head of tha house Indeed he would lung I n ship to A fuir white nud bat out ilis green With rings rmd to the sound of ou the deck a sun sailor lid Waved ma a luat a long ill the Ray fluttered in the west And clipped sight behind n my ship F ped proudly up the bay hor gleeful way to home and me Her stuff ml with a costly freight OC sillion aad aud uc the brown lad who greeted mo Marked uot my throbbing uor why ly wore in n Ho had forgot l only rne but nil the days by E VT The ahana battle to be given at Lafay ette Ind July 31 the the Indiana Legion and companies will be upon a scale neve be fore attempted at a similar gathering in tha State and will exhibit the action ant movements of troops under actual fice with a realistic effect that the on lookers war save ths flow of blood and sacrifice o life have mat for the Brave tind fair Impelled by the old cogent reason They stroll by the BOII as yore Ther wonder ao quickly time parses Aud flays luto expand ou are all tlie old He her I trust ho low yon remember Flint by the eea Thu words I spoke last September The ianr that you whispered to me time I recall and she blushes You io a low stood I believe by the dear hav j No uow is Aly words fail to A fool interrupted my follow Hull She answers In voice soft and mellow Aurl that Mr Brown IB not That mail you call Cool aad a I married lust hy of felic re at c t Joint Ca Credit j Ir One of the most interesting of the many biographical recently is the life of Schuyler by J Hollister published by Funk and New York Especially is it in to tho people of his native State where he far BO many years one of the most conspicuous characters The work bears evidence of the most careful compilation and the author as he states n his preface has access to tho lit erary effects of the dead statesman an well IH to all sources of information The biographer follows the life of Mr Colfax very closely in fact han the general reader would probably cure to follow his birth in New York in 182J to the time of his election a delegate to the Whig national conven tion ia 1848 Four years before this time had established a newspaper at South Bend tbe St Joseph Valley Register and lere we fiad him into It was in the following year also that as an Odd Fellow ho was elected grand representative to the grand lodge of the United States being the youngest man honored There atre many things in the life of Sohuyler Colfax that have a special inter est for the people of his old congressional which this was a part He wai nominated by the Whig convention of the Ninth Indiana as a candidate for Congress in 1851 He received a very encouraging letter f com Horace Greely at the same time advising him to decline the nomination if there was auy danger of his defeat Dr Graham N Fitch of this the Democratic candidate He waa the sitting member of the dis says the author a man of ability aud afterwards United States Senato having been illegally elected in 1857 In the civil war ho became a colonel of a reg which he had raised and which he led to the In a foot note the antho makes the following comment on thi character of Mr Fitoh He was an excellent officer and wa strongly urged for promotion by Mr Col fax President Lincoln however refugee to promote him whereupon ha hia commission giving as his reason tha his pay would not hie family In later years he was regarded ae one o the leaders of his party Me Fitch challenged to a join canvass of the district and seventy apeak iag appointments were made involving a thousand miles of travel Mr private letters throw a side light on novel canvass Judge Biddle me in one of his letters to tire small arms at the Doctor constantly which he said always torment ed fir worse than to discuss grave principles and I have done so to Fitchs great annoyance The author Rays that Fitoh had canvassed the three or four times before and knew prescribed for the aick free of charge us he traveled A story is told illus the readiness of Colfax The doctor had closed his speech on one occasion by suggesting that his friend would better have tarried iu Jericho until his beard had before aspiring io a seat in mun rose amidst a of laughter at his ex pense stepped forward around and said 1 was aot my friends brass and beard were the necessary qualifications of a congressman If ID our it is BO I must enounce til hope of your votes aa I cannot bat my competitor HIE KIL yf both On 22 of June Mr Colfax wrote o his wife from as follows had tha and close He in a speech purposely long to eary out and drive off the country peo ple and epoke two houra and twenty even minutes instead of one hour and minutes ae our pro for did not receive a single I followed him in a speech of one 3ur and three quarters and it wanld have one you good to hear the stamping aad touting I had the sympathy of almost 11 for many of hia friends were offended at his purposely long When I and he rose for his fifteen minutes of the audience left galling him to tha He turned pale with anger Hia subsequent letters were fall of hope or hie election but all appear ncas proved misleading The removal f stepfather from office that if special mail the appoint ment of Dr Fitch to says the were easily made to connt in his favor by the doctor To this the oung man ascribed his defeat by the iarrow majority of two hundred votes le believed he could have overcome all he other against him bat this was oo mach1 About this time reelected Grand to the grand lodge oi odd allows and succeeded in carrying through im pet measure the degree which was always one of the proudest of bis life Ifc ia said tint sixty und women have sinue become daughters of the degree and he himself conferred it on thousands At the meeting of the Whig al convention ths uost year he was a del It was proposed to again nomi nate him but he declined the honor says ia biographer and it fell upon Judge Horace P Biddlo of this In a letter o President written in July he iad a aid urged ti make another trial for the district this fall I decline and he gave as his reason that with the coolness if not the hostility of the administration toward him he coold not hope to succeed This has a direct on a question that the writer has heard repeatedly within the laBt ia this concerning the position of Colfax in 1852 and the of Biddie aud toward each other Mr was firmly grounded in the of the Whigs and evidently be ia spite of adversity that it would eventually triumph Bat about this time Webster died Clay had just been buried and thus the party and its great chiefs disappeared together Hia time was coining however and when a few years later he got into Congress his light began to shine to the world Its increased all his yeare in office aud when we follow him through the of the war to hia election as Speaker of the House and finally to the second in the gift the people we see a brilliant and splendid career Its chief events are familiar now to peo pie but political hostility jealousy and calumny placed a stua upon hia character that he was never in the minds of sonao peo pie especially those whe were inclined to read but one side of affair removed Ic was left to his biographer ML Hollister to give him tne full and com plete vindication he deserved and at 8 time too when charity at least force attention We allude of t hie connection with the celebrated Credi Mobilier It was imputed that Mr Colfax Hed accepted stock in that concern and re dividends to the amount of Che proceedings of the congressional that followed are familiar to all who cared to read of them We al know low tbe controversy resoled into a question of voracity between Onkea Amos nd Mr Colfax The former said he had paid Mr the money Mr Colfar said he bad not The evidence hinged ou i check signed by Ames Mr Hollister u this a letter from 3sperl Clinton B Fisk in which the General that Mr Ames told him after he had closed and Congress had it was he drew he money on that checo that Mr never it and in this par Air Colfax Inid suffered an ice But Mr Colfax never recovered rom the weight of calumny that was leaped upon him Thousands of testi of the confidence and loyalty of lia friends poured in upon him and he ind the assurance that those who jest him innocent but when he from the in 1873 10 retired to private life cime from such men as General Grant Senator Windom Loseing he historian Senator Henry B Anthony Indrew Shuman Henry Carey Baird Hon John Sherman Eev T DeWitt Tal Senator D D Pratt and scores of ither public men besides a testimonial by 1500 citizens of South Bend The Critic his not to review the of integrity the biographer IBS produced but it is sufficient to satisfy auy f ai r and j mind et us however give the reader a copy f a letter that was written in at Boston which Mr for nine and which was found ia his traveling sealed after hie death It reads aa My Dear have often thought witb tbe riat of accident traveling BO much ia my lecturing I woald write i full and connected statement of facts with which you are ao familiar for your elf aud especially for our little boy He tells the story as he always told it and closes as follows When our little boy is old enough understand all this if be knows anything Kan of the base and wicked to which his father was subjected by enemies he will realize what a faith nl and honest public servant received for years of the prime of lis life given to the service of his And all that sustained me ia that wild storm of calumny that raged about me was the knowledge that God at the last day would make my honesty and truthful ness known of all men and that my dear know it and confided to the uttermost n her loving and devoted This volume will be read with great interest by tho friends of the dead states man but it might be read with greater hie and slanderers The biographer has done hia work well and it will stand against all tha falsehoods and that were ever to de stroy this great man We can not close this review his work more appropriately than by recall ing the words of that eloquent Rev T DeWitt Talmage uttered from his pulpit on the occasion of Mr burial I have Known many people ia public and private Ufe but a lovelier man I never met Grace waa into hip lipe The perpetual smile oa his face some times meanly caricatured was the bene diction of his groat soul upon a world that was not worthy of him The that now cover his grare are not purer than the heart resting beneath them I cannot awaken his ear with bat I plant this crocus at the verge of the snow bank that arches his tomb Well done brother well done A writer says I hold is en art There is no as love at firat eight We may admire each other in the beginning but immediate is out of the question First impressions no matter how must be strengthened by artful cultivation Then comes and if the who sues makes no mistake he is sore to win no matter what hia condition o may be Of course he nan at talk and
