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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER25.1883.—TWELVE PAGES.
MIDNIGHT JUDGES-
fa Interesting Leaf from
Early American History.
JEFFERSON’S FIRST CREYT VICTORY.
. nrtnt Party Buttle tn Confp-ess^A Scliemo
* of old John Adam*—Vti* Great De-
l)iitcr«, llrecktnridKe, Morris,
Oiler, Bamlolpb, Bayard.
One of the most interesting passages in
American history is that, which relates the
(tor y of the“Midnight Judges.” Time has
jomewhat obscured it and the general inac
curacy of the historians has befogged it,
but there have been few more important
or noteworthy'events since the inaugura
tion of Washington.
The Herald wilt briefly sketch the out
lines of this famous story, which involves
the first application of Jeffersonian princi
ples to the legislation of the nation.
The election of 1800 proved disastrous
to the Federal party. Jefferson and Burr
jere elected over Adams and Pinckney,
sad the federalists saw the government
they had organized, and which they almost
esteemed as theirprivate property, slipping
(rom their grasp. Losing both the presi
dency and congress, “they retired into the
judiciary as a stronghold,” as Jefferson ex
pressed it in more than one of his letters,
expecting f ro m that battery "to beat down
and erase the works ef republicanism."
At the last session of the sixth congress,
which began in November, 1800, and in
which the federalists still had a majority,
President Adams in his speech to congress
called their attention to the necessity of
reorganising the judiciary system. Ac
cordingly in December a bill “to provide
for the more convenient organization of
the courts of the United Kates” was intro
duced in the House by Mr. Griswold of
Connecticut pressed through with vigor
and pawed Jan. 20, 1801. It then went to
the Senate, where it was amended, but
when it was suspected that the amendment
might be the means of defeating it when it
went back to the House, the amendment
was withdrawn and the bill passed without
delay. It became a law by the signature
of President Adams Feb. 13. All this, too,
in the heat of the contest growing out of
the presidential tie vote between Jefferson
and ISurr.
Jefferson was Vice-President and had
viewed this energetic piece of legislation
with anything but complaqency. In De
cember he wrote to Madison: “They have
got their judiciary bill forwarded to com
mitment. 1 dread this above ail the
measures meditated, because appointments
in the nature of freehold render it diflionlt
to undo what is done.” The law was of
magnificent proportions, and provided a
national judicial system far beyond the
needs of the country. In addition to the
supreme limit judge* aud district judged
then existing it established sixteen circuit
courts with as many new judges.
After the passage of the law hut eighteen
days of Adams’ term remained, and vet lie
proceeded with whip and spur to till all
these judgeships, and before midnight of
March 3 he had found a federalist for
every one of them. Thus to the existing
leventeen district judges and six supreme
judges all federalists, were added sixteen
new circuit court judges, also all federal
ists.
It was becauso of the haste in making
the appointments and that the last of them
were confirmed on the last night of the
Session that the name oi "midnight judges"
was popularly given to these new judges.
Jefferson, trom his seat aa president of
the henate, watched the confirmation of
these appointments with ill disguised an
ger, and in several of his letters to friends
•peaks of the conduct of Adams as "an
outrage on decency.” The federalists, on
the other hand, were correspondingly
elated. They were in full possession of
the entire judiciary, and the administra
tion of the federal laws was entirely in
their hands. They did not believe the re
publican leaden would dare attack the
judiciary, and that if they did the people,
ever conservative of the courts, would not
support them.
But they appreciated neither the re
source: uor the ability of the greatest par
ty leader this country ever produced, who
never, in all hia life, failed to grapple
with any evil or wrong that threatened
popular government. The seventh c n-
gress was the first in which the republican
psrty had a majority and it assembled at
Washington in December, 1801. It con
tained many .,1,1,• an.I muii,- brilliant men.
It was not a large body, the Senate having
out thirty-two membem and the House 103.
The Henate stood eighteen repnblicans and
fourteen federalists and in the House there
weresixty-ninereiiubiiinua t<> thirty-six
federalists.
In the Senate the leader of the republi-
nans was John Breckenridge of Kentucky,
grandfather of John C. Breckinridge, who
111 7®*** became Vice-President.
Breckinridge was an intimate friend and
•npjiorter of Jefferson, a grave and silent
■nan lu ordinaly intercourse, hut courteous
and gentle and of exceeding winning
manners. In person he was tall and slen-
“tr.hut muscular, and of noble appearance.
I ,lf rever he appeared lie took a foremost
Face, and none but a new member, he
Jncame the leader of his party. He be-
ungeil to the ultra state rights party, and
.; was he who, while a member of the
Kentucky legislature, introduced those
wiebrated resolutions of 1798, the author-
ip ol which has sometimes been ascribed
mnim and sometimes to Jefferson. He
ubseijuently resigned his sent in the
ecoate to become Jefferson'* Attornev-
, in which office he died
(bl ”1’ ln .46th year of his age.
*“ ,r .leading republicans in the Senate
‘h°n Cary Njchulaa of Virginia,
ho had served in the revolution; James
achson of Georgia, a member of the
in°| U e 10 l ^ e ® rst and third congresses,
7 rec ently governor of his state, a louu
L. a domineering person, but of respecta-
abilities. Thomas Sumter of South
tolina, a famous partisan general in the
solution, and Dr. George Logan of
hmylrania, the Quaker peace-maker,
*«J» also members.
Stf , !*®{ler on the federal side of the
chamber was Gov. Morris of New
h.. *“ e ^ a, ' ler of the Gov. Morris who
mi rece ?*!/ died. He wasoiatriot, states-
h and diplomat, and eloquent orator
htoal accomplished man of the
. His life had been
tjV, *® ‘he service of his country. He
* been a member of the old congress.
m ‘* t * nt financier with Kobert Morris, a
•unber of the constitutional convention
lion' i:| nu:er to France. In the cunven-
m v* was a member of the committee on
style, and il is (0 his pen we owe much of j
the precision of language which marks the
constitution. Uther distinguished feder
alists were Tracy and HUlEouse of Con
necticut, Dayton and Ogden of New Jer
sey, and James Ross of Pennsylvania. The
president of the Senate was Aaron Burr,
soon to be an outcast and a wanderer on
the face of the earth, but at this time, at
the zenith of his fortunes, and whose dig
nity and impartiality as a presiding officer
has rarely been equaled, and never sur
passed, in that < hair.
In the House parties were not 60 evenly
divided either in numbers or ability.
Foremost among the republicans stood
Nathaniel Macon, William B. Giles and
John Randolph, to whom was opposed al
most single-handed in debate James A.
Bayard, the grandfather of the present
Secretary of State. He was a great states
man, an able lawyer, and of the highest
and purest personal character. The Houses
being duly organized, Jefferson sent them
a message, instead of making a speech, as
had been the custom of his predecessors.
This wise and salutory method of commu
nication between the executive and con
gress has ever since been followed.
. In this celebrated state paper, after out
lining the proposed policy of the adminis
tration, Jefferson addressed himself to the
object dearest to his heart, and caiicd the
attention of congress to the new judiciary
law, sending with his message statistics
collected in the year’s interval, showing
how far beyond the needs of the country
the system went.
The message found the republican lead
ers only too willing to attack the recent law,
and on the Gth of January, 1802, Breckin
ridge introduced his measure in the Senate
for the repeal of the judiciary law passed
the year before. Two days later the great
debate began. The questions at issue were
as to the utility of the new law, and as to
the constitutional power of congress to re
peal a law under which judges held office
for life. Before the debate was concluded,
however, it took in a much wider range,
and traveled the whole circuit of party his
tory for the preceding twelve years.. Every
question that had ever been raised was
touched on; the public debt, assumption
taxation, the French revolution, our rela
tions with France, tlie X. Y. Z. correspond
ence, the Algerine war, the alien and
sedition laws, the late Presidential con
test, the powers claimed for the judiciary
and the midnight appointments. Twenty-
one senators and thirty representatives
took part in the debate as the measure
progressed through both boosts, and “The
annals of congress” contains no more ani
mated, interesting or instructive discussion
than that which engaged the attention of
congress from the 8th of January until the
2d of March, 1802.
The repeal was carried, for it was made
a party measure. A sharp outcry arose
from the federalists at what they deemed
the d struction of the constitution, and
Morris mourned “the mortal stab,” as he
phrased it, given to that instrument to his
dying day. But the excitement did not
long continue. No very permanent in
terest could he taken in a question whicli
resolved itself into whether sixteen very
excellent gentlemen should continue or not
to draw salaries from the United States
treasury at the rate uf {2,000 t yeftr. It
was soon seen, too, that congress was not
intenton disturbing the established order of
thegovernmsnt, but immediately tooksteps
to amend and improve tiie old judiciary law.
JetTerson ezullea greatly orer hia victory. In
a letter to Kosiciusko he mentioned the
reforms, congress had made and says:
“They have lopped off a parasite limb
planted by their predecessors on their iuci-
ciary body for party purposes.” That
“lopping off” rejoiced the heart of the
fatherof democracy.
The ousted judges desired very much to
test the validity of the repealing statute,
and they held a meeting 1*t Philadelphia
to concert together lor the purpos.-. as
there was no law by which they could
bring an action against the United States,
■tliev sent a memorial to congress claiming
still to he judges, desiring to have duties
assigned them, and compensation allowed,
and offering to submit the question of ap
peal to judicial examination and decision
Jn such manner as the wisdom and impar
tiality of congress might prescribe.
But the majority were too wary to fall
Into any such trap. Having gamed their
victory they proposed to reap _ the fruits.
They knew too much to submit to judges
the question whether other judges should
continue in office or not. The memorial
having been presented, congress graciously
gave tne memorialists leave to withdraw ft
again, and this ended the matter.
Such is some account of one of the great
political dreams in American history, and
of the actors in it. It is the story of the
first triumph of the Democratic Republi
can party In congress.
The general opinion has been that the
repeal was right, and within the just con
stitutional powers of congress. Certain it
is that no attempt has since been made to
organize the federal judiciary on so great
a scale. •
* JO8KPIIINK MANS FI ELD.
Tile Cause of Kink's Murder Living Qul-
etly Id Karls.
From the New York San. •
The name of Josejihine Mansfield turns
up in the newsjiapers at regular intervals
and with great variety «s to detail. In
last week’s papers she was successively des
cribed as having died in New Jersey, with
beiag the stout and undisputed belle, in
Saratoga among gamblers and sporting
men, and with having turned ranch owner
in the far west. In point of fact, Miss
Mansfield is still in Paris, where she is
settled for life. She is not fat, but rather
slim in build, and looks about 25
years of age, though she is probably, verg
ing on fifty. She stopped me once in the
Boulevard Capucines to show me a slip
taken from Galignani, which described
her oa dying of starvation in Arkansas.
There were two men on the box of the
phaeton, and the horses were.worth about
{UWL Altogether i£i»a Mansfield
neither fat, starving nor melancholy, but
drifting along in an exceedingly amiable
and contented frame of mind in the French
capital. The Frenchmen told extraordi
nary stories about her. The escapade
which brought her into notoriety here is
exaggerated, until she is believed to have
been the cause of the late civil war, at
least.
An Aged Kossom Dog.
From the Jacktoa Argus.
Henrv Brooks, a colored tenant on Dr.
May’s plantation, has a yellow hound dog
that i* 15 years old. IHs head is hoary
and he is toothless, blind and deaf. When
younger he was the crack possoin dog of
the settlement—everybody knows and loves
Ball. Now he can neither hear hia mas
ter’s call nor see bow to follow him, but
the poor old fellow knows the ajiproach of
night and the season for the game, and
wanders alone to the forests and and
swamps and “trees” liis post-mu. The mas
ter always got- ..r sends to tile tree fur the
pleasure of old Ball. |
A TARIFF LESSON FROM IIAI.ZAC.
1's;‘-r!rsent of Moo
Enterprise vs. Gore
Fitm the ttsltltaore knit
Honoro de Balzac, the great French nov
elist, in his “Medecin tie Campagne,” (The
Country Doctor,) published in 1835, draws
a picture of the labors of a medical man
in a remote district of France which has a
striking interest and suggestiveness in con
nection with the di-('iissiun nf the tariff
question, which lias become the problem
of the day in our national polities. Balzac
was not only a wonderful 6tory teller, but
a profound student of great economic and
social questions. His novels, many
of them, are simply transcripts
from real life. He was, as lie ssvs him
self, “the secretary of society” and “drew
up. the inventory of vices and virtues.”
His colossal performance, “La Corned te
HumRine,” is a marvelous conception for
breadth of scope and minuteness of detail.
Many practical tjuestione of politics, of
law, of social and industrial economy are
treated in Ihe various romances composing
this congeries of pictures of French life in
the nineteenth century, and while the cor
rectness of Balzac’s conclusions may be
dispund in some instances, his strength of
treatment, his thorough mastery of his
subject will he conceded by
aiL An English translation of
“The Country Doctor” has been published
by Roberts Bros, of Boston, and it will repay
reading, not only as an admirable novel,
but as a remarkably forcible illustration of
the principle contended for by the demo
cratic party iu this campaign, that the in
dustrial development of a country, to lie
healthful and permanent, must proceed
not from monopolistic tariff laws, but
from an intelligent application of economic
principles and the giving free play to skill
and industry in those trades and occupa
tions for which a particular community
may happen to be fitted. “In the matter
of commerce,” says Balzac, “encourage
ment does not mean protection. A nation’s
true policy is to relieve itself of paying tri
bute to other nations, but to do so without
the humiliating assistance of custom
houses aDd prohibitory laws. Manufactur
ing industry depends solely on itself; com
petition is its life. Protect it and it goes
to sleep; it dies from monopoly, as well ns
from the tariff.” These words, written
fifty years ago, are strikingly applicable
to the condition of manufactures in the
United States to-day. So far as labor is
concerned our protected manufacturing in
dustries may be said to have gone to sleep.
The laborer is the dependent merely of the
tariff monopolists. Trust and combina
tions have taken the place of individual
enterprise, ond two classes are rapidly
forming—the tariff lord and the labor serl.
Balzac draws a striking picture of the
more wholesome .results to be obtained
from the application of ordinary methods
of develojiment to the natural resources of
a particular community. He points out
ltow it is possible, through the energy of a
directing will, to create a variety 01 trades
and industries in any neighborhood with
out <ne Itelg of a prohibitory tariff', which
necessarily imposes a burden upon the
great army of consumers. “Government,”
1 he says, “docs not consist in imposing
I ideas or methods more nr less useful, upon
the masses, but in giving safe direction to
the good or evil ide
And so his hero, Monsieur Benassis,
a skillful medical man, who has met
with terrible calamities and seeks in hiB
grief the retirement of a sequestered val
ley in Dauphiny, where be devotes him
self to the welfare of the population, which
he finds in a state of dense ignorance and
abject poverty, makes no attempt to put
into practice a cast-iron theory, hut studiei
the idiosyncrasies of each of his neighbori
and seeks to turn their natural caprices
into useful channels. He does not stop to
inquire whether this or that product
other communities. ‘It is not enough,” |
says Balzac, “for a community to lose none
of the wealth it luav possess, ami which
forms its capital. You cannot increase its
well-being or merely making its money
change hands within its own limits in the
game of production and consumption,
however skilltully you may play it. The
lution of the problem is not to’ be found
there. M'lten a region of country is fully
developed and its products balance its con
sumption, it must, so ns to create fresh
prosperity and increase the public wealth,
make exchanges with other markets, which
will give it a steadj commercial capital.
This principle has always led the states
that are without territorial basis, such as
Tyre, Carthage, Venice, Holland and Eng
land, to seize upon the commerce of trans
portation.”
The practical operation of the. high
tariff system is the reverse of this. It
erects a Chinese wall of exclusiveness
about acountry, and practically inhabits
commerce with foreign nations except as
to certain products. The United .States
once disputed witli England for the carry
ing trade of the world; to-day a vessel
hearing the American flag is a rare visitor
to foreign ports. The high tariff' also lias
congested our manufacturing activity at
certain points, preventing that diffusion of
■prosperty which elevated and enriched not
a few, but all the inhabitants of the happy
valley of Monsieur Benassis.
"PAINTING TUB TOWN RED.”
The Origin of a Picturesque Phrase Ac
counted For.
From a Letter to Stic Boston Post, Sept. ?.
“F. D.” wishes to know the origin of
“painting the town red.” I believe it is
the paraphrase of an cxpiession that fre
quently occurs in old Irish balladry. In
looking over a collection of old Irish war
songs and ballads 1 descriptive of the san
guinary conflicts between the Irish chief
tains and the Anglo-Norman invaders of
Ireland, I have very often found phrases
closely akin to that of painting the town
-ed. For instance, when the Irish Kernes,
under William MacGeoghegan, lord of
Kenil Feacha, situated in the county
of Westmeath, overthrew the English nt
the battle of Ardenocher, A. D. 1328,
slaying 3,500 of the latter, the bardic
chronicler tells us that the midnight skies
were reddened with torrents of flame from
the highlands east and west,”, in honor of
the victory. The towns and hamlets, too,
wherein the kindred of the victors dwelt,
blazed or were ' painted red” witli bonfires,
ami the inhabitants thereof naturally gave
loose rein to their mirthful propensities.
The fires upon the highlands were the
primitive mode of telegraphing a distant
Kinsfolk and sympathizers the glad tidings
ami the exuberant exultation that fol
lowed. ;
In describing the effects of the battle of
■Outart Ilill, which was the first engage
ment between the Irish insurgents and tho
English army in the great Wexford rebell
ion of 1798 in Ireland, and in which the
insurgents enme off victorious, the ballad-
ist says:
The hills and skies were painted red
That night vrl h beacon Ares,
For Wexfard’seoo* bad wall avenged
The Saxon slaughtered sires.
I could cite n score of other quotations
showing several other expressions pxactly
similar to that of “painting the town red.
It was a favorite one with the old Irish
hards when depicting the scenes that fol•
lowed a military triumph on the part of
la eir countrymen, is it then unreasonable
Il " i‘r that the phrase,‘‘painting the town
Ad,” or indulging in the wild arnica of un
licensed hilarity, had its origin in the way
I allude to. This is what William Mac-
Geogliegan says, and 1 believe him a most
excellent authority. F. J. A.
may set up a big manufactory and grow
rich at the expense cl the consumers, a
manufactory affording employment to only
a limited class, but he devotes himself te
the task of raising the
oral average of prosperity
the neighborhood, consulting the interests
of tlis fanner as well as the artisan, of the
blacksmith equally with the basket-maker,
etc. In other words he comprehends anu
respects the great economic (ruth that no
one class in the community can be special
ly favored except at the expense of some
other class, and that very often the “pro
tection tints afforded benefits nobody but
the capitalist.
“When I came to settle here,” says Mon
sieur Benassis, “there were 120 peasant
families in this village and 200 down there
in the valiey. The authorities were iu
keeping with the general poverty; there
was a mayor who did not know how to
write • • • In the midst of this
beautiful nature the inhabitants were sunk
in degradation; they lived on potatoes anil
milk and its prodnets.”
Benassis goes on to tell how he gradu
ally wrought a change, so that in a few
vears the valley was a blooming garden.
He first established the manufacture of
baskets, then built good roads, and next
established a blacksmith shop. The two
imlithtrics once in successful operation in
duced the setting up nf a number of arti
sans in the neighborhood. In the second
year seventy new houses were built in the
district. “One form of production com
pelled another In peopling the village I
created new wants, hitherto unknown to
this poverty stricken people. Wants led
to industries, industries to commerce,
commerce to profits, profits to com
fort, comfort to beneficial ideas.”
Further on lie says: “My efforts to
keep alive all budding industries are never
relaxed. By my advice a nurseryman set
tled in the ham'et. and I preached the
cultivation of fruit trees to my poor vill
agers, so as to win a monopoly or the Gre
noble fruit market at some future time.
‘You take your cheeses there,’ I said to
them, ‘why shouldn’t you take fruit, vege
tables, chickens, eggs, game, hay, straw,
etc. 7* Each item of that adriec trae the
source of prosperity to those who toilowed
it. Thus a multitude of little industries
sprang up whose progress, slow nt first,
has increased rapidly, from day today.
• • • Four years had sufficed to
change the whole aspect of the
village. When I first passed
through it I heard not a sound, but by the
beginning of the fifth year all was life and
animation. Joyous songs, the noise of
From the Philadelphia Record.
“If the girls only knew that their eyes
are being ruined by chewing gum they
vould shrink from it as they would from a
gen vi|>er," said a Chestnut street optician yes
terday. “We all kopw to what extent this
chewing gum is carried on, and what a
nasty habit it is. 1 would advise the girls
to stop it at once. If{they have a big wad
in their mouths while reading this inter
view, let them throw it out and ‘swear off,
as the drinker’s say, for ill one respect
these dainty girls are like drunkards. If
they are chronic gum chcwcrs they arc
heir to all the infirmities that afflict the
chronic whisky drinkers. I have three
girls who were addicted to the habit, but I
broke them from it after a great deal of
persuasion and some trifling punishment.
Tile oldest girl has evidence of the hnhit
though, and will carry them to her grave.’
“How arc the eyes affected?”
“Well, th<* muscles of the jaw connect
with the spine, aDd from the spine there
are little fibrous tissues running in all di.
rections. A number of these extend to the
eves and are called the optic nerves. Now,
if you will watch a person eating you will
notice a palpitation of the temples when
the lower jaw moves up and down in the
process of mastication. This is caused by
the working of the optic nerves, which
keep the inner part of the eyea in motion
anil exercise the nerves oa much as isneeded
to keep them in a healthy condition.
These nerves are more tender and
sensitive to a degree than onewonld imag
ine. When they are overworked they be
come shrunken and enfeebled, and then
the process of deterioration in the eye
sight begin-. Of coureo the shrinking of
the nervo draws the eye hick into the
socket, and a> it is connected by slender
threads of tissue to the pupil of the eye
this also becomes affected. The conse
quence is that tiie eye becomes weak and
loses its color; it becomes an unnatural
looking gray, and the vision isao much
inqiaired by it that eye-glasses must be re
sorted to.
“One of my girls wears glasses just be
came she chawed so much gum. Hereye-
eight is practically ruined, and she has
crown’ led wrinkles shoot the outer cor
ners that were caused by the flesh of the
cheek being forced upward by the action
of the jaw. She is also troubled with in
digestion from the same cause. These are
all symptoms exhibited by a person who
dfinks whisky plentifully, and hence the
comparison. Parents ought to take this
matter iu hand ami sea if they cannot rid
their girls of tiie habit. It is 11 filthy one
outside of the terrible effect it has upon
workshops, the sharp or dull creaking of I the human system. If the parents will
tools sounded delightfully in my ears. 11 keep from their girl* some of their little
oon give up tl
in my ...
saw a busy population coming and going | perquisite* untilthey atoj
and settling in the new village, i.ow
planted with trees, and where everything
was clean and health-ome. Every inhabi
tant had a sense of his own well-being;
every face was bright with tiie content
ment that a busy, useful life bestows.”
This transformation, be it noted, w as not
effected by means of government subsidies
hut by tiie individual exertions of the peo
ple, the only -tire basis of any permanent
growth. Tneir prosperity, moreover, de
pended, as the prosperity of a nation also
must dejiend, iljion their exchanges with
chewing gum
5 habit.”
-<l for any affect! u
•h a- ronsumptio
»n« hiti», n>thma,
• etc. It I- pleas,
rfi-etly safe, ami
) Investment
anted to bring you salts-
In rase nf failure a return
In Ihie safe t.lau you ran
I so* l druggist a bottle of Dr.
ry for Consumption. It Is
relic t lu . very ease, when
n of throat, lungs or clout,
in. itilliitninatiot. . g-
uh,coping rough, croup,
1 agreeable to taste.
Iways Ice depended
Trial Iconics tree at It J. I..
JUDGE SVMMKS’ JOKE.
How He Cured a Colored Citizen's Unlaw.
fill Longing for Ills Figs.
From the Brunswick Appeal.
Judge Symmes is not only an astute
lawyer, hut something of a detective as
well, an ,"j with it all lias a love for a prac
tical joke that is keen indeed.
Now the judge has a fig tree in his yard
that is now bearing a second crop, and
upon one especially large and fine he has
kept a watchful eye for several days wait
ing for it to reacli the exact stage of lus
cious ripeness.
Yesterday that particular fi£ was miss
ing and the judge’s suspicion immediately
turned to the old colored man weeding anq
raking about the premises. Sauntering
toward the old darkey, the judge accosted
him. ‘
“Uncle, do you see those fine figs yon
der?” 6 3
“Yessah,” was the prompt reply.
"Well, I have been missing some of
them, and I think the boys must jump the
fence and get them, so I have poisoned
them, and 1 guess I’ll find out now who
takes them.”
The old darkey’s bottom lip dropped, his
eves dilated, and he leaned heavily upon
his hoe handle. The judge pretended not
to notice, but solemnly resumed:
“You know, uncle, if I were to ciit my
self and put a drop of poison in ray blood,
that poison would go all through my body,
even to my toes, and finally kill me. Just
so with a tree, and so f just took my knife
and cut a little slit in the bark near the
root and took a little Btrychnine—”
A groan from the darkey—
“And put it in the cnt. The sap will
take that poison to the very tip of the tree
and every fig on that tree has got enough
poison in it to kill three men.
The darkey fell back against tho fence
and laid his hand apprehensively on his
stomachhis eves gave a convulsive start
from their sockets and his cars seemed
straining to "hear de call.” .
“Now, uncle,” the judge resumed, “I
watt yon to keep your eye on that tree,
and see that none of the children pick
those figs, for they wonld certainly kill
them in thirty minutes by the watch.”
“Thirty minutes" seemed to inspire him
with hope that there might still be hope;
the hoc-handle dropped and between his
chattering teeth he exclaimed:
“Boss, I jis’ hear my wife is berry sick,
and if you please salt, lemme hab a dollar
to buy some medicine."
Seventy-five cents was slowly fished ont
of the legal pocket, while the perspiration
rolled down the old man’s face in a man
ner that would have cured any ease of
yellow fever. Securing tiie money, he
made a bee line for Joerger’s drug store,
where Dr. J. was told that he “had tuk
some pizen accidental, and wanted some
thing to cure ’em quick.”
The Doctor fixed him np, and "saved
him from an untimely grave,” but the
chances are that he will never again steal
the judge’s figs.
One of the Orators of Congress.
From tho New York World.
Bourke Cockran is my beau ideal of
model for Monte Crisfo. He has the large
head and broad ideas, the cloqueqt tongue
He is a most delightful conversationalist,
a vein of witty satire running through his
most serious remarks. He has a great
hatred for sham and humbug. In listening
to his talk in going over on the train the
other night to Washington, 1 could not
get the Monte Cristo idea out of my mind.
Cockran sat in an easy chair in the
smoking room of the Congressional lim
ited. A black silk cap was crushed tlown
over his broad, olive-tinted Jface. He
wore a loose gray jacket over » plain trav
eling suit; he held a novel in one hand, a
big black cigar in theother. His figure is
massive aud powerful; his head
is Oi nearly tiie noble lib Mi'r I
as Casanova’s bust of Napoleon. His
voice is deep, rich and musical. He is too
large and strong a man to have any petti
ness of opinions. One has a right to ex
pect from a man of such magnificent pros,
portions broad ideas, easy eloquence and
clear common sense. Such expectations
are never disappointed. Mr. Cockran m a
wise man in his devotion to physical train
ing. One of the chief charms of his inter
esting personality is his high condition of
physical excellence. He fairly radiates in
an atmosphere of good h«alth and strength
which makes a most effective backing to
his intellectual keenness and vigor. It is
very amusing to hear him discuss civil
service reform. He believes in party gov
ernment and having the men hold the
offices wito are in sympathy with the party
in power. The chiefs of bure us Bhould
select their subordinates as subordinates
are selected in private business life. There
is not a single business firm in the world run
according to the system employed by the
civil service commission. Said Mr. Cock
ran : “In England, where they have civil
service carried to its perfection, there is to
day the most corrupt public service in the
world. Take this country by way of con
trast. Following our great war there was
a period when temptation to dishonesty
was verv great and the possibilities for
corruption unequalled in any history.
The republican! were then in power. They
were thorough spoilsmen. They adhered
very rigidly to tiie principle of putting
only th-ir partisans in office, yet, when
they came to surrender the rein* of power
the books were balanced and there was
found to he a discrepancy to be accounted
for of only two cents.”
See cant of Dr. J. J. sabers In his specialties.
A lump .nine.
From the Cra^fordvllle Democrat.
There has been a soap mine discovered
near Crawfordville. Taliaferro is doomed
to be one of the moat wonderful counties
in Georgia, or all the south. On Wednes
day of this week Mr. D. A. Saggns gave us
a sample of the natural soap taken from a
hill on Dr. J. J. Kent’s place, near town.
We took the article and. to test it. washed
our face and hands with it, and il cut the
din from the skin aDd made the water
lather like manufactured aoap. It is ex
actly the color of turpentine soap and has
a peculiar imell. There is money in this
natural soap mine, and some enterprising
capitalist could make ■ big thing of it
here. There is not another place in the
world that can boast of a natural soap
mine.
How th® Mayor Fount! IIU Mule.
From the MArshAllvill® Times.
It is rumored that our sister town, Win
chester, was stirred from center to circum
ference one night this week by the lot* of,
the mayor's mule. The mayor called on
young ladies living a t-hort distance
from town, and when he went for his mule
to go home the mule was gone, whereupon
the mayor raided such a hue and cry that
the young ladies came out to sec what had
befallen his honor. The mayor, with the
as-i.^tance of the town council and mar
shal, soon found the mule, when the major
found that he had been made the but of a
practical joke.
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The process, in sorao cases, rnay not be
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Haverhill, Mass.
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