lowed to resign and Clayton has boon white¬ 
washed we wonder if by men no better than 
they? This, with other sins of omission or 
commission that might be catalogued, gives us 
a humibitine conviction that the days of lofty 
patriotism, of statesmanliko ability, of in- 
such a question concerning the members of the 
most dignified legislative body of his country? 
Bismarck and Catholicism. 
Bismarck, to a recent speech, clearly defined 
the attitude of the German imperial Govern- 
EVEBY DAY TOPICS 
AUNT MARY’S STORY. 
BY HOPE 
Come to my room, Eloise, and T will tell 
you a story; not one of the fairy stories I used 
to repeat, for your edification, but something 
that really ha opened nearly twenty years ago. 
bet. mo think. Can It be possible that Father 
Time has passed us so many times, when to us 
it seems sueli a little while? Ah! yes; ftsurely 
must have been ns long ago as that, for I re¬ 
member tny hair was brown and curling then, 
and my chocks were almost as red as those roses 
you see yonder. Now my hair is thickly threaded 
with gray, the roses have faded from mycheeks, 
and well, T may as well say it—1 am growing 
old. Don't be getting rest,loss, Eloise; I am 
m.t going to sermonizo. The story will come 
after a time. bet. me see. As t told vmi it 
tier mother had boon dead a number of 
years, and Mr. Fuller had brought homo a 
nephew and his wire, to keep I he house and care 
for the little motherless Madge. 
" Matwje had always fared well In (ho hands 
of her Cousin Marsdkn and his kind-hearted 
little wife MtNNIE. She hardly missed the ten¬ 
der mother that, left her almost in her babyhood. 
As she grew older, ©very advantage was given 
her that wealth could afford, find at eighteen 
her teacher pronounced her education finished. 
Then she came homo. 
“Oh! how she brightened up our little vil¬ 
lage ! There was no end to the pleasure excur¬ 
sions after she came; picnics, boat rides, horse¬ 
back rides, and everything of that, description, 
were enjoyed that, summer to the fullest extent. 
“ When the hot weather came, sonio of 
M A DOE'S city friends came down to try the 
country for a while. Then we picnicked more 
BUGALA, OK DHOW 
tegrity, honor and dignity, embodied in Sena¬ 
tors, have passed and that, the average status of 
the United States Senator is but little abovo 
that of an average Congressman; and it is the 
more humiliating, since the conclusion is inovi- 
ment towards tho Catholics in Germany. lie 
disclaimed any purposo on tho part of the Im¬ 
perial Government, to persecute the Catholics 
because of their religion per se. Ho reviewed 
the history of Catholicism in Europe, and 
Promoting the President's Son. 
Fault is found with tho President, as Com¬ 
mander-In-Chief of the Army, because ids son, 
Lieut. Fred Grant, lias been promoted to tho 
office of Liout-Col. on Lteut.-Gen. Sheridan’s 
staff, displacing older army officers whose ser¬ 
vices entitle thorn to position and honor. The 
point against the President, that such action 
has a demoralizing influence uponarmy officers, 
seems well taken. We have not an authorita¬ 
tive history of tho transaction, nor are we 
familiar enough with military laws andcustoms 
to know Just how far such promotion Is justi¬ 
fiable. But from our superficial standpoint as 
a citizen and father, w© think It would bavo 
been wiser for the son and fur the reputation of 
President Grant if his boy had been compelled 
to earn his promotion as his father did before 
him, and as other army officers, without politi¬ 
cal friends or influence, are compelled to do. It 
is a vicious and unjust precedent to establish, 
if it Is, indeed, an. innovation upon the rules 
which have hitherto regulated promotion. We 
hope it may be found to be true t hat the state¬ 
ment upon which wo baso these remarks needs 
to be modified In order to be true. 
Among tno city beaux was one II vrry Clif¬ 
ton, a young lawyer of considerable talent, and 
it was soon whispered around that ho was 
Madge’s lover. Ho wan very handsome, hut 
there was a sad look in his eyes when ho was 
quiet, that 1 never could get rid of; it always 
seemed to haunt me. Madge was very lively 
and full of fun, and to me she never seemed at 
all suited to Harry with his quiet, ways- but 
Opposites or© at tracted by opposites, so I’sup¬ 
pose it, could be accounted for in that, way 
“Very often, when the rest were engaged in 
some merry game, or perhaps dancing, lie would 
come and talk with me, for ho 
and my lameness forbade 
any such amusement, 
talks t Ho would toll i 
seldom danced, 
my participating In 
- How I enjoyed those 
me of different countries 
that lie had visited and curious wights that ho 
had seen, and so vividly would ho describe them 
t hat I almost felt as though I had seen them 
myself. 
“One evening, at Lawyer Fuller's, while tho 
rest were dancing, and we were having one of 
our pleasant talks, I asked him somethin" of 
his former life. He was very quiet, and when I 
looked at him he was very pale. I was fright¬ 
ened, for I thought he must have been taken 
suddenly ill. r sprang to my 
HP is aching severely.' 
Women as Physicians, 
Tuesday evening, March 3Uth, occurred the 
exercises of tho fourth annual commence¬ 
ment of the Women’s Medical College of tho 
New York Infirmary. There were six graduates, 
to-wit: Charlotte W. Ford, Morristown, N. 
.r.; Autire L. Fox, Quincy, 
III.; Ellen C. Leogett, 
increase the number of those 
this college to £S ; and among ,■•jgpi 
cions and"are working their 
evening, who were addressed 
fessions, and deserve a larger 
audience than she had in the 
SECTION OF VESSEL-MANNEB OF STOWING SLAVES 
table that these men represent the average showed that it was a political 
probity, virtue and ability of the American Germany must deal with it as a 
people! Who will deny it? And if one does, the key to imperial action. T 
will he give us the data upon which he bases dealt with tho agents of the Pc 
The Senate of the United 
States. 
The Senate has adjourned. I 
It has not won for itself the | 
reputation for dignified puri¬ 
ty which wo are always glad 
to associate with that body. 
Patterson has been permittee 
justification of his iniquitous 
the Senate’s records. Cai.dweli 
NEGKOES TAKEN FKOM A CAPTUBED 
such denial? Are they to be found in the cur¬ 
rent record of American life? And is it not 
humiliating that a Journalist Is compelled to ask 
DHOW, IN A STATE OF STABVATION. 
of priests, just as it would and must deal, for 
self-protection, with the agents of any other 
political power for self-protection. 
