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* * r? ?' " . % / ? * ^ . . A *> taawww-'w '* VOLUME II. J ACK AM) J I I.C. , . " Two figuros standing in the hay* window of a country drawing-room; a glorious Summer's sunset was tri 1?I ino tlio topmost hraclies of the trees .i... . i i ? - 111 nit: t mi gunum w 1111 Us last ravs, ami tho chimes in the village clmrchtowor rang out eight o'clock. Their sound broke a long silence which liad reij/'ted in in tint room, and the younc man, fixing his eyes on his girl companion, spoke horridly. "I did not know it was so late! I must be off, or 1 shall miss my train to town, and my regiment at Tortsmouth, ami all my chances of getting ^ on in the world. Hut, by Heaven, Til do even that, if you will only say to me 'Stay!' " "Hut I don't say Stay, Jack; 1 say Go, Go, and God bless you!" There was u deep tenderness in her low voice which any man might have been proud to hear, but, because she would not grant. him his wish, you no Marriott found her harsh and cruel. "And what's the good of that, if vdii yourself won't hlvs.s me, Jill? What else iu the world do I care for but your " "Then go and do vour duty, and prove yourself worthy of me!" "Hut if you will not promise me that you will he mine?" he asked sadly. And Jill went on to answer him in her sweetest, finest way. "1 have told you, Jack, that, thoe/T.!* 1 will not promise now to be yt i ...:n .... :.... ; - - - ...iv, ? 111 | >i?in i in1 ii l< > Y < HI IP ". 1 J utr1 * " years, or sooner, if you coir. l.mo; ' to l and, till then, you and I are ,oth of us to he free. I know my own heart well enough, and 1 daresay you think you know yours, hut how can you tell with whom you may fall in lovo while you are away? You are only ono-and-twenty now, and I am almost the only girl you have ever known. How can you toll what the world may have to teach you and show you?" "( )h, my darling! No one else in it can ever ho the same to me that you are!" "Well, then, if you think so after three years, I will be your proud wife. Surely, if we are in earnest, we can he true to each without any formal promise to hind us! And, if wo cannot, then it will he ten times hotter for us never to have been engaged. Now, good-bye, Jack," she added, after a pause. "As you say, if you stay longer, you will really ho too late. Good-bye." "You are so calm an 1 quiet. Ah, Jill, if you cured as much as 1 do!" And ho seized her hand and covered it with kisses. She was very calm, certainly, hut for all that, when in another moment he was gone and there was no one to see her emotion, she throw herself on the sofa, murmurinir between her n deep sobs; "Oh! my darling, mv curling! And ho thinks it is because I do not love him enough. Am I right to treat him so? Is it wise?" Was she right? Was it wise? At any rato she had sent him away from her. And as he left her that Summer's evening, a bright, splendid, perfect knight, whom any fair ladv mi glit well be proud of, she never saw him again. And yet it was because he was so splendid that sho had refused his piglings. Jack was the only child of the squite of the parish, General Marriott; and Jane Armstrong, once named Jill by Jack and afterward universally called so, was the eldest daughter of the rector. The rectory garden was bounded on two sides by the woods around the ball, and, from A I ! ? -I - I 11 * * ? * .... muir onnunoou, .lack and .Jill had been accustomed to play tocrethor ' l J o (Rising the holidays liko brother and sister. I When she was seventeen, he passed with credit into the engineers, >& , -and went up to Chatham to study, and when ho came back from his first P II, torm there, the old relationship booufween the two was at an end, a Gfeglng? 'n it being unavoidable, if lows: *'i'i was sty &n(l -lack ofliciousTho dio: wear>"g best clothes fighting h? was lively to meet her, morning A,or ^owor8 from his father's o'clock Hose Y an<* KraI>0H from his house where ho fact> mftkin? hot lovo got milk. Ho saV??f thinK8 contin* irrence of the scene if W M ^ - " 3E (iencrul Marriott saw it all plainly enonjjdi, Init lx'ii.o fond of Jill, he was well pleased at the prospect ol havinif lier for liis future duuirhter-in I law. It was Jill, only Jill, who saw any hazard in the eiKrairemnnt ii!?tw?n.*l. "n"r> -u it seemei 1 to her that her whole happiness depended upon it. It was for that very reason she wished to win, not the rash, impetus, hoyish lovr lack could give her at present, Inil the lovo of his future manhood, o! his life. She was so well aware ol all the ud\antages he possessod; his social position which wou'd introduce him into the host society; his phvsi cal beauty, his winning grace, lib ready wit, which would insure him friends and admirers wheresoever In might be; was it likely that he would always remain true to the everyday Knghsh girl who with no especial gifts? Yes, it was likely, dill thought because she knew something of hi* character, but it was not certain, foi he was untried. Let him be tried | and then if lie proved faithful, hi should be rewarded by a love as d.iej as the fathomless sea, as strong at the elements themselves, and faithfu unto death. Little did .lack kmiw as he left the rectory ga'.es, that suel a gift was his already, whether In ever came back worthy to claim it 01 , not. Allll SO two V'llilM l.-l.uod ! while .lack was in India. They <li< IV ' ot wrui! to each other except ot irthdays and special occasions. Idealise Jill had forbidden correspond ; once as likely to make lion fee! Ics: free. From (Jeneral Marriott, sin heard of him every other week, an< ho seemed to he well and populai and happy. Of ayoung curate, who came t?? 111^ parish, and after doing his utmost t( win Jill's love, left the place in an ger and despair, it is needless 1? write here: his pride was, after all more wounded l>y the utter coldness of her manner than Ins heart smittei by it. At the end of two years the oh (Jen., who had beenja long time a wid ower, died, and Jill learned no more now of Jack's welfare, for the hnl was entirely closed. At that time too, the second Afghan war broke out, and his regiment was sent to the front. Those were anxious days for her when she daily waited at the rector\ gate to meet the old postman who brought the morning paper, and witl trembling hands would open it tr see if any battle had been fought and what names amoiif' the killed 01 wounded or sick. At last one evening her brothel came hack from a neighboring towi with the news of the defeat of Mar wand; he knew no particulars, am Jill had to wait till the next day ii sickening anxiety. She spent tin night sleeplessly, but not tearfully for, if her darling died a soldier') death, why she, a soldier's sweet heart, must he brave, too?if onh she could he sure she was his sweet heart still! Surely the war was i special occasion which would hav< warranted his writing to her. Ve never a line from liiin had come. The next morning, when the post I man nut tho paper in her hand, sin j leaned against an old old chestnu tree in the garden and opened it a?i< read?first, the names of those killer r > in battle. Thank God, thank God ho was not among them! Then, tlx seriously wounded. I la! there it was one of tho very first- T.ieutenau John Marriott, of the I'oyal Kngin eers! lie was suffering agonies in i ~ ro camp hospital pnrhatis dying, 01 perhaps dead! Oh! why had she, no gone out at the beginning of tie- war with other ladies as a nurse? Ther she might have been with him now to win him back to life again witl her care and tenderness, or to com fort him until the end. Wish was vain as it was earnest for she was in her far away Knglisl home and must hurry into the school room to superintend the lessons o of her young sister, and into the gar den to seo about having tho Autumr fruits picked for jam*making; and t< a dozen other small duties, whiol make up tho sum total of a woman': daily life. Two days afterward there cairn great comfort for her in an India! letter from Jack, written some week: ( , \ rro CONWAY, S before the Maiwand disaster, and > brimful of oood spirits and hope, and ' these words were at the end of it: kllf I j^et thionoh the eampai^n all riolit and eotne home attain safe and sound, will iiv time of probation bo over then? Tell me, my darling, for indeed, indeed, I am oettinif weary r> r"> J of it!" , Aye, the time of probation was i over, but would he ever know it? After that, Jill heard nothing of : him f< r over six months, and, al* thouoh she had not seen any mention ; I of his death in the papers, hope, > ennvinir less and less, had almost left her. In spite of her oood cour 1 ajn?, it was with a wljlto face and a i weary step that she went about her > | duties; she, who was wont to be so I cheerful in the days tfone by, that I she had been called by the family, I | "Sunshine." U She had now a strange fancy for ? sittino, toward sunset, al me, in the bay window, where he had last par, ted from her lover, and one evening ? it was a Sunday having excused > herself from coino with the rest to ) church oil the plea of fatigue, she lay 1 there in n rocking chair, dreaming ' sweet day-dreams of th.it brioht, i manly youn^i^-pe which had looked t so entreat;no I ' ;ers, and oem: in?^ to hear a^ti i,;>s reproachful cr\ : "All, Jill, if you cared as much as I - do!" I A day-dream, and vet a reality, i for, as she r.aised her eves, lack or else his ohost, was standing beside her! i! lint it was no ohost who (bine- his ) arm round her neck, and repeated I arpiin and n^irn: "My darlino! My Jill! ni\ t eas ure!" "()h! Jack, Jack; I thought you > would never come!" "So d'd I," he sa'd, solemnly. > "nut look at in?', mv dear one; I am , not t ho saino. I < Then slio saw that therijHit sloovo 1 of his coat was hanoinjr empty at his side. I "No, Jack, vou are not the same," 'she said, catching up her l>reuth, "for vou are mine now, whatever is 1 in store for either of us. Only for, give me for not having trusted you 3 sooner." ) "Yet that was well, my love, hecause, you see, if tve had been prom, ised to each other and 1 had come ' hack to you like tins, why you would > have felt obliged to have me, and i perhaps?porhaps?" > "I should never have been so t worthless as that, I hope; hut doing r without' vou has tauoht me to value t ?. r"> you now, and if the lines have been r "hard?" , She was crying on his poor wound. od shoulder. 1 "Please God, the hard lines arc , over for us both} for me they are, at s any rate," he whispered, looking ^ down at her fondly and prouldy, " for s the angels are not all in heaven yet." The Vnnderbill Children. Mrs. \\ inilliam II. Variderbilt, rel1 let of the man, who, when lie lived. was the richest man on earth, was a I Miss Rissam, daughter of an American clergyman, whose stock was originally Knglish. She had the ex tieme food fortune to marry Vandern > hilt when he was working for his faI ther for Ss^O(H) a year, poor, dependj ent and as thoroughly in awe of the old commodore as when lie was a lad, She bore Vanderbilt eight children >j Margaret, now Mr. Kliot l\ Shop3 hard; Cornelius, William Is. kmily, HOW Mrs. loiilv Tlw.rtw. k ? t" ^ <>f the <rrcat carpet dealer; Krederick j \Y., Florence Adele, now wife of W MeK. Twombly, tlio pushing wester* i nor, mow in charge of some of the r heavier Ynnderhilt int rest-; Lola t who married Dr. W. S< ward W'oDD. son of the old lighting editor, I )r ' James Wa.son Webb, and now hend 1 of tho New York t'entral Parlor (,'at , ('onipany, undtJoorge W*., the? eighth i child and fourth son. Not a girl Iwu married what in Kngland is called an I "aristocrat" an idler. Kevory one ] of their husbands made his way in ! the world before he married a Van, derbilt. The boys also look care oi themselves. -The f Tluit. Mrs. ('rimsonboak -"I'm so tirec1 ' that I should like to retire and sleoj ) for the rest of my life." 91 Mr. Crimsonhcak "Well, lhat'f just what you will do, for sleep if just that th'n#." "Just what thin#?" 1 "The rest of your life." VonIrr, s1 tSUUcsman. L<1 _ ^.ISTJD TOUB WOI . (\, Til IMJSDA V, l>lv i ki:sii >ii:n in coxnitiiss. A (illlllCC ilt t 114 * NOW lti?l(l?TH lor Statesmanship. \\ ASH IN(. I'u.N, November UOth. Die members of (.'on^ress are rapidly arriving in the city, and by Saturday niidit W asliitiotou will buzz with the lifo of the new session, j There are three hundred and twenty live meinbors in tin* next Mouse, ami of those' MiS aro 1 )oinoorats, lull Republicans ami I aro iiulepondonts. rim Democrats thus have IT) majority over the Republicans and 1 1 majority over all. This will make the House a very olose one, and the session will bo one of the liveliest in our history. The Independent nit mhors may be depended upon to tor about equally to the Republicans and 1 >emoerats. Anderson, of Iowa, has made Meinoeratie speeches this year, and Hopkins, the Independent member from Virginia, said the other day that ho was as oood a Democrat as any man in the House. < hi the other hand. Smith, the Independent member from Milwaukee, wijl i probably alliliate with the Republi:iiis, and it is probable that Nichols, the Independent member from North < arobna, will mi i:i the same direction. This will make tlm two parties stand substantially lob Republicans to 170 ! )enioerats, and tlm Democratic ma jorit v will be 1 o. Sam Randall, 1 am told by a friend who has seen his list, lias twentveioht nieaibers of the new House whom he can depend upon,and these come from nine different States scattered over the North and South. In the meantime the t'oimress contains RIO new members, and the complex ion of many of the delcu-atinns has ' .i >i >11 i ?i 11 i i-.? If <.liin..?..l * I The New N ork delegation, which was a tie last vcar, lias eighteen im?\v meuil>ers. Nineteen of the entire <! Icon! nil are I {cpublwar and onh fifteen Democrats. I'lie t )liio doleeati??n . as ei<d:t new members, and in IVnnsvlvania ten out of the twem tv-seven are new. In ('alifornia the I )einnerats irain one, and in Kentnel<\ the I\Gpublicans have thr.-m member!instead of the one the\ had last vear, Massachusetts has four Democrats in the place of the two of the last ('oncress, and the Maine delegation is, as usual, unchanged. The foui members of tins Maine delegation have served since the I St h Congress and Heed has been in < 'onoress ten years. The Arkansas delegation is unchanged, and there has been in chanoe in the delegation of Florida, t'olorado, Nevada and \ ermont. ( )n the other hand only one of tie old Minnesota delegation is returned This is knute Nelson, the Republi can Norwegian, who has, it is said the largest majority of any man ii ('undress, luivino had nearly !(),'00(1 more votes than his opponent. A mono the other Minnesota men, John kind la one-armed soldier and Republican i succeeds Wakefield, a Republican and the Republican member, Strait 'is succeeded bp McDonald, a Demo | crat. (iillillan is succeeded by i Democrat named Rice, of St. Haul, i man sixty years old and a jolly jo>oi -fellow. The Indiana delegation has ? live new men. Alvin Honey, tlie Republican who'succeeds Mr. Klein er, a Democrat, was a general in tin late war. lie is a man sixty years o; h>o', and is possessed of considerable means, Cobb, who declined to be i i candidate, is succeeded by a younjj Deinocaatic lawyer named O'Neal and the convivial Jtid<ro W-irdissuc : eecded by Joseph 15. Cheadle, . preacher and a Rrohibitionist. < 'head !? is already here."1 ' He is a fat, jollv 1 ; red-headed fellow, and ho is one o the half do/en new red-heads of tin llouso. \\ Into, the I 'epnhlieun o ! '??rt Wayne, succeeds Howry, am Howry contests liis seat on 11 k ground that W 'hi to was never natur uli/ed. White is an Irishmtm, stout heavy-set, dm k-faced, and about lifh years of ami. lie is a lawyer and i: ' ' said to he an aide man. Henjaniii Shively, the 1 democrat who succeed! J-'ord, rej?rerents tin* old ( 'ulkilis dis 1 triet and he will he the tallest man ii the House. lie is six feet four, ant ho was in Congress as ( 'alhins's sue '{cesser, lie was then elected as i (1reenhacker, hut he now returns at a stniieht Democrat, lie is a news ' paper man, a bachelor, a oood fellov ' and is not over thirty yoars i>f nee. Iowa has four new men. (leer the Kepuhlicau, <?f Hurlinnton, takes the place of IJall, who, after his do 1 feat for Congress, was appointed In I'resident Cleveland commissioner o! 1 patents, (ieer dresses well. He has nothing of the wild West about hint 1 and he is said to he a man of ability . lJaye, a younjr Democrat, who sue \f iinol?o I I * ' 1 imi >, ui iinmiMHii * ana : fame, lias boon a young Judge, am ho is bright and brainy. A. If. An , dnrson, tho Independent membe from Iowa, is tho successor of Hop I burn, and ho takes tho place of om > of tho ablest men in tho last dologa i tion. In tho campaign Hepburn los i tho election through being niado t< i appear to favor corporations, whik Anderson was a violent anti-monopo list. He is a young man, and wil >? bo married between now and th I time Congress meets, and his journe TIC 1>T 3D OrCTJTET COT ('!:\ir.i:i; i:?. ISST. to Washington will lie his weddino tour. The Kentucky delegation has three Uepuliliciius this yetr instead of one, and live of its men ate new. The delegation as it now stands is a very strong one, and lireckenridoe, Me ('reery, and Tuulhee, who liaye now learned the rones, will !>o leadiuo figures noon the I louse lloor. Ta il l>ee is a I )einoeratie member from the mountain district described in < 'harles Kohert (.'ruddock's novels. lie is a rouoli diamond, quick, bright and fearless. lie does not cure what lie J says and ho docs not think very kindly of the Administration on aecount of its civil-service ideas, lie was opposed in the last campaign I?y a one-eyed Republican mountaineer, who had' more money tlian brains, ' , and who could not speak at all. i Taulbee is a oood stumper, and the two had joint meetings. Taulbee would denounce the Republican party in most ebullient terms, and his S one-eyed opponent, who, with his lone hair han^ine over his shoulders and his trousers in his boots, stood beside him on the platform, would only remark: "Taulbee, that's a blanked, blanked lie, and you know! ? i it!" A. lb Montgomery is a Democrat \\ ho succeeds I'om Robertson, of the last Congress, and Asher t 'aruth, of ' Louis\ille, has tho place ol Willis.. Willis was a ifood, hard-workino fel > 1 low, but his support of Virgin hi I Tinunpson, the post unstress of Louisville, was partially the cause of his ' defeat, t'aruth i.< a bright fellow.! lie is y ;uno and hamlsome, and is , ! said to be a line speaker. !' > comes of one of the old families of Ken- , '; tuckv, and 1 am told he was the only ! man in Louisville who could have 'I beaten Wilds. lie is noted as a criminal lawyer, and is a man of 1 | means as well as brains. The 'la - ach o "'Its delegation is , I , , " also stion;;. mo :< ioi its accessions I are ] lenrs ( 'aliot I aaloe, tlie lilerateur, and Leopold Morse, who has so ' | often been in ('one ress before. Morso ' | is one of the most popular men in I fusion, and he defeated .1 ud^e Ran ney, who conducted the 1 'au-Kleetrie ' iuvestioaliou last vcnr. Morse was a candidate on 1 v two weeks. lie came ' home from Kuropc, and in the (lis- [ | I rift which mivo Rannoy fi,()00 mil1 | jorily two vcurs aj_p>, was elected by ahout 2,000 majority. Morse came ' to this country from llavaria poor, ' ami has made a very laroe fort mm hy 1 selling clot hi no. I 'at ( 'oil ins is hack, and hopes to he chairman of the dis' Uriel coinmitte. ('harlev Allen, who 1 1 showed himself a i/reat. friend of the indians dnritm the last session, will return this vi'ar and promises to make his mark. Kdward Hurnett, the J )emocrat who succeeds Kly (Repub' lican) is a son of the < "ocaine man, ' and his father is said to ho worth a ' million. Hurnett is a rrentleman far-1 > iner by profession. lie is about forty ? years old, of medium heijdit, rather! ? slender form, and dark, cultured face. ' John 10. Ku.ssol is Another r'ch man, ' and must l>e a bright one, for lie defeated Rice, a Republican, tn a strong 1 1 Republican district. In Michigan there aro fivo now i n members. " *j May bury, of Detroit, is i ' succeeded by Jud^o John I.ooan |(/hiptnan, who is said to be a man of " ability and an orator. Kldridoe's ' place was taken by a Republican; named Allen, and the rich furniture ' man, ('omstock, is succeeded by a 1 you,lK Democrat named Ford, who is ' also rich, and who has a fortune in > law and lumber. Mark S. 1 >rower, ' the Republican who succeeds Wini i.i . - - mm, m;i* in i ongress hetore, 'j mid .histin If. Whitting, ?vho takes ' ('arleton's place, is also a Demoerut ^ mill a lawyer. (. In Mississippi Oen. <'harlev I lookI er7 represents 'lie .Jackson district, and lie will lie one of the linest orators of this ( ongress. lie has l>e??ii in < kmgress before, and his speeches ' have often goon runMiig around the f I country, (ien. Sninletoh, who was "i * perhaps one of the ohlest members in point of service in the last Congress, is succeeded this year l?v a Democrat named Anderson, and San j Katon's successor is a Democrat named Stoekd'ile, who is.six feet tall, and who is said to be bright. i ( The Missouri delegation has only . I two new men out of fourteen and { 1 these are bo h Democrats. < >" N ei11, the poor man's friend, is back, tilov^ er, who married Miss llattun, basset ij up an establishment of his own in . Washington, and Bland, the silver . dollar man, i- happy in the prospect f that the secretary of the treasury H will recommend the continuance of < his dollar. Weaver, of Nebraska, is sneoeded bv Jolm A. MeShane, of . Omaha, a rich newspaper man, who | comes from Ohio originally and ] whose brain is said to sparkle like bis . own red head. He has made his r money ui 0i?111o aiul owns u number . of ranchos. lie will entertain, 1 unt, derstand, quite extensively. During . his last campaign his opponent was a t son of the fate Postmaster Goneial 5 11 owe. ? In Now .forsey there is /vne new - member in the person of .lo/.n Kean, 1 .Tr, who takes the place of Governor o Green, the Democrat. Kean is rich, y' well dressod, and a great friend of TUSTTinrsrv William Walter Phelps. lie will > rank with MeAdoo as one of the i voiino men of (.'oitoress, ami MeA- t (loo, l>v tin* way, will he one of the f bright men of the next House. One of the old men of the next House r will come from ('alifornia in the per- N son of (Jen. \ anderver, who was a a I iepresentat i ve from Maryland in the ( Kith ( 'oiiotcsn, and who was a nolo tu'l in the In ion army in 1 S*?1. v Another old ('alifornia member a will lir Marion Rio<rs, who succeeds i Louttit. Iiioos 111??t Sain Randall in \ the ('apitol to-day and asked for ( some advice aliont the rules. Said ? he: "Mr, Randall, 1 liave been a a inendier of the ('alifornia I .eoislat ure j for years and I know the rules there, j t I don't know them here, and 1 will a have to depend upon you old inein- . < hers to post mo." v "Well," replied Randall, U1 have j ii been here for twenty-four years and I 1 don't know anything about them a yet. If you nan master them you I ' are a better man than 1 am." 1 t'onneetieut has a red head in the 1 successor of Ibick, and, like Me- I Shane, id ( )tnaha. lie is also a news- i paper man. Waite, of Connecticut, j who was the oldest mail of the last f < 'onoress, is succeeded by ( 'buries \. t Russell, and < 'arlos I'Vench, who sue- r reeds Mitchell, is said to be rich, lie ^ will take a house and will entertain. The new man from I )eleware is the Son of a ( 'oncressinan. lie is about. c> vciirs 01 h ami is a oreat t r l? 11 < 1 of Secretary Havard. Ami in I ami- ' siana we ha\e an instance of ;i father! l)oiii<r elected to ( '()!ljrri?ss, ftP.il, ?1 V - | i11 _>" before In* takes lis seal, his son is elected in Ins stead. This case is' that of S. M. Wobertson, tho Memo- " cratic member from Haton L'ouife. 10. W. Robertson, his father, was | t elected to succeed Iron, and his hoy takes his place. (inn. Napoleon Honaparte I'lvd Kino is succeeded thi- I year hy a I trmocral, who has tho rn|ilioiiious naino of < herubusco Now- . ton, and Michael Malm's Republican Louisiana district i this year represented hy a I )cniocrat of Now ()r- * loans named I .aj'aii. In tho 1 Vnnsvlvunia delegation ; k (ion. t'harlos R. Ihickalow has hoon f in tho I nitod States Senate, and that as far hack as 185(1, and Sinedley 1 I >ai lino-ton, tho man who succeeds . 1 Kvorhart, will make a gesture with every word he utters, lie is rich and j has several pretty daughters. In ' ( )hio Hen 1 .efevre s successor will he ' a younir probato judjre from Lima, who, in the words of one of the , Mouse, will not he so lar<re as Lefev . ^ I re in stomach, but heaving in brains, and ( icihjes will he succeeded hy a lawyer of Nor walk, ( )liio. The most ' notable man ainonc the new ( Miioans . will he Robert I'. Kennedy, a tall, black whiskered, line lookino Renuh lican, who made something of a r?'j?-11 illation while ho provided over the State Senate, and in Illinois we have! Jehu Raker as Morrison's *uceessor. Ihikor was a member of the d'Jth . < 'ongress, and lie has been a minister to one of the South Ameriean countries. lie in (15 years old, but his years have not injured his fighting qualities. lie thrashed a newspaper man after his election because of a letter which the young man had published during the campaign, and there is iron in his muscles still,: thouoli the lack of it has turned his, i H hair to gray. Virginia has a son of Kobert E. | l.ee, who takes the place of Harbour, i and who is six feet tall and weighs 210 pounds. Vest, who succeeds [Randolph I'ucker as a Republican,] was defeated by Tucker two years | ! jilT'N ?nd he only gets the election because Tucker declined to run. I Hopkins, the independent, who carried the (hstrict of Senator Daniel, is a small peak-nosed man of some ability and with a decided sympathy i for the laboring men; and in West \ irgiiihi I 'buries L. Hogg, ji Democrat, takes.tli" place of (iibson. It is sjiid that Reid, the North <'aiolinu defaulting member of the last < Jon gross, was in Washington the other day. His place will now be held by a Republican named Rrower, who defeated him for re- i election before his defalcation was discovered. Reed will, it is said, settle in Now Vork. Louis K. La.ham, a Democrat, succeeds O'Hara, the colored I.ep11bIican, and in South Carolina tin- port I \ noffro Smalls is su cceeded l?v \N i 11iaiii Klliot, a Democratic lawyer and a bright fellow. Small* had 10,000 majority two years a</<>, hut his colored friends bocamo jealous of 11iin and Klliott was elected. In Tennessee, Senator Whiuhorne will come ni/airi to the House, .lames Phelan, one of the richest men of Memphis and red-headed, has boon elected as an Anti-Harris man, and the fussy Republican, Pettibone, is succeeded by a Republican named Mutler. Texas will still have one of thetalle.it Congressmen in Charley Stewart, and it will have one of the I queerest in Jud^e Reagan's successor. This man denies the statement that ho blew out the ^as at M illard's Hotel. He wears, however, a broad* brimmed hat, and his clothes K>ok as : though they were bought when he I was married. He looks two minutes into your eyes before he answers i ? I ff l , - ' ^ -w S" t NUMBER 21. 'our questions; 1 >111 I am told tl at ho s 11 sinjo'd out, and that ho will iiialftJ* ho enijlo scream when In takes the loor. ' In the Now \ ork delegation the ich W all street broker, Stephen V. A'liite, succeeds I );ir\vin |{ .lames, nd Amos.I. Cummins has tlie seat ?f Nick Miller. (J?mi. Ilryco, a wollressed youn^ man and well-to-do, vill have the seat of John J. Adams, nil i .I'M, >pitiola will sit in the chair f Arum S. Hewitt, Bourke ('oekran, vlio represented Kelly no well at 'hica^o, has tlm I'-3th district of Sow Vork city, and Ashbel I'. Fitch, Republican lawyer, will take the dace of (ion. V ielo. Hopkins, of lm 17tli district, is said to he rick, ml Burleirrh will he succeeded by rconinan, and, I understand, it was cry much to Burleigh's snpriso, inlecd. Frank 11 iscok's place is taken >y James J. Belden, of Syracuse, Mother rich man, and Newton W. s'uttinir, who has been in Congress mfore, will have the seat of Sereno I'ay nc. the 11 ourc, as a whole, will size ip very well mentally with those of ireeedinjr ('onirresses, ami it is the general opinion anion" the members hat its avernoe abil'ty will no stipe or to that of the dtllh t olioress. \ i ir 1 (?/ / 11 m'/i/. -4? # ! ieie-ii-brac. The I'omp of power?An athleic nejrro. n Keeps S? ill I hc tuootdielit w lns<y mnnnfact nrer. ( >pcn to question The month of in iiupiisitive person. < hie of Buskin's pearls: "It is beter te be nobly remembered than nobly born." The roughest roads are those wo uive riot t raveled over. I he ll v is ' renerl I a \ a ck now led i red to / D J r""s >o an aspirant for t'a mown. Von can smell some men's "smiles," veil when you can't see them. The man who depends upon him iolf is seldom disappointed in his riemls. What is the proper length for ho lies' crinoline? A little ubovo two met. < )h, why don't more men out MU'inv into their brains to steal una? heir montlis. People of eulturo will discard tlio i ulo.il termination ami sav crvsanthema'am. It is better to put your money into [lie trust than to put your trust into your iikuiov.' Two heads are better than one if a person is desirous of entering the freak business. If time is money some men have enough to start a hank. Why is a small hoy like a drum? Because the harder vou beat it thu more noise it makes. There is no better euro for dyspepsia than the knowledge that there is nothing to eat in the house. A woman never divulges a secret. As soon as anything confidential is told her it ceases to*be[a secret right tlioro. It mav ho that "a womnnV work is novor done," but man's work is alwavsdon. Never disturb a contemplative man. It is not safe to jrot near a train of thought when it is in motion. r"> Sometimes a woman belongs to the upper set, and then seain the upper set belongs to the woman. An exchange makes no mistake when it says: "An application of warm buckwheat cakes is better than a liver pad these frosty mornings." The waves of old ocean are by ne means readv to sleep when they put tin ir white caps on. A society oirl says that autumn leaves mav be very beautiful, but they aro not nearly so nice as It) o'clock leaves. "Does your husband swearas much as over?" Swear! Why 1 can't keep a parrot two weeks in the house." The older a man j/ets the tnore'diffiCult it is to pull the wool over his eyes. He has a oood deal less wool you know. Paris is to have a three-story crematory. It is supposed the upper classes will insist upon beino crema ted in the upper story. In tlie bright lexicon of the bniO ball player a home run in time save the nine. ? Jay (iould has landed in tingland, but Queen Victoria still retains a controlling interest in the throne. St. John remarks that the Prohibitionists* will go into tin- next Presidential campaign with ardent spirits. Mistress (to applicant) And what is your name? Applicant Mary Hrowno, mum; we spell it wid the "e.M When you read that a millionaire works harder than any of his (Jerks, please to remember that |,0 also g*'l1i more pay. / X iM #