‘ was extended to other States it attracted
‘ 12,000 tons, and the strain from this crush,
'..:ntoLN AND H exam.
The Farmer's Preference in the Matter
of the Videl’rcsidency. .
I had hoped to see Mr. Hamlin renomi-
uated, and had anxiously given Mr. Lin-
coln many opportunities to say whether
he preferred the renomination of the Vice
President; but he was craftily and rigid-
ly non committal, knowing, as he did,
what was in my mind concerning Mr. '
Hamlin. He would refer to the matter,
only in the vaguest phrase, as “Mr. '
Hamlin is a very good man,” or, “You,
being a New Englander, would natural—
ly like to see Mr. Hamlin renominated;
and you are quite right,” and so on. By
this time Lincoln’s renomination was an
absolute certainty, and he cheerfully con~
ceded that point without any false mod-
esty.’ _ But he could not be inducedto ex-
press any opinion on the subject of the
selection ofa candidate for Vice Presi-
dent. He did go so far as to say that he
hoped that the canvention would declare
in favor of the constitutional amend—
ment abolishing slavery as one of the ar-
ticles of the party faith. But beyond
that, nothing.
I, may say here that when I returned
from the convention I made a verbal re
port to the President, and entertained
him with an account of some of its do-
ings of which he had not previously
heard; and he was then willing to admit
that he would have been gratified if Mr.
Hamlin had been renominated. But he
said:
“Some of our folks Referring, as I be-
lieved, to Republican leaders] had ex-
pressed the opinion that it Would be wise
to take a \Var Democrat as candidate for
Vice President, and that, if possible, a
border State man should be the nominee.”
Mr. Lincoln appeared to be satisfied with
the result, saying, “Andy Johnson, I
think, is a good man.” Nevertheless,I
have always been confident that Lincoln,
left to himself, would have chosen that
the old ticket of 1860—Lincoln and Ham-
lin—should be placed in the field. It is
reasonable to suppose that he had re-
solved to leave the convention entirely
freein its choice of a. candidate for the
second place on the ticket. — Century
Magazine.
THE KNOW NOTHING PARTY.
Sprung Out of an Oath Bound Order ll
This City.
The American party sprung out of 5
secret and oath bound order that war
formed in New York for the avowed pur-
pose of checking the influence of foreign
born voters, purifying the ballot box and
keeping the Bible in the public schools.
In the city of New York, where voters oi
alien birth had become influential, the
order flourished exceedingly, and when it
many on whom party obligations sat
lightly, while the old parties were either
breaking upeor undergoing a purging
process. _
The Democratic party had generally
been in favor of easy naturalization. The
term of residence requisite to lawful nat<
uralization, at first fixed at two years,
was extended in 1795 to five years; the
Federalists, in 1798, stretched this to four-
teen years, but in 1802 the Democratic
Republicans 0111 it down to five years.
Men who left the Democratic party be-
cause of its domination by foreign voters,
or who dropped out of the Whig party
wheneit began to show signs of decay, now
found an asylum in the American party.
The American party flourished exceed-
ingly in 1852, and reached its meridian
greatness in 1855, when it obtained a con-
siderable foothold in the South and car~
ried important elections in the New Eng-
land States, California, Kentucky, Texas
and NewYork, and showed great strength
in Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Missis-
sippi and Louisiana. The party made
preparations for entering the Presiden-
tial contest of 1856, and actually did set
its standard in the field; but the rising
tide of opposition to the further extension
of slavery eventually swamped the or-
ganization, and it finally went under,
l.o_ng.before the breaking out of the war of
the rebellion—Scribner.
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THE BRIDGE’S GREATEST CRUSH.
Weird Scene About the East River Fog
on the Evening of January 21. _
The great crush on the Brooklyn Bridge
in the early evening of January 21 of this
year was undoubtedly the most severe
strain the bridge has ever received from
dead weight. For nearly two hours there
were fully 2,500 tons of people distributed
along the structure at a given time. No
greater strain from foot traffic will ever
be known, probably, on the bridge. All
the bridge authorities declared that it
was the largest throng in its history.
A dense winter fog had fallen over the
city and harbor. The ferryboats to Brook~
lyn for nearly an hour had ceased run-
ning. It was at 5 o’clock in the after-
noon, and thousands turned from the fer.
ties to the quicker transit of the bridge.
Accidents at either end of the bridge had
completely suspended the service of the
cars, and then the thousands and tens of
thousands turned to the promenade and
Jegan a march that was slow and really
as dangerous as transit by boats in the
thickest weather.
Up around the New York tower the
crowd turned and twisted. The women
were pale; scores of men were laughing,
alf boisterously, as a boy whistles to
keep up his courage, and there seemed to
be‘ a nervous dread akin to hysteria per-
vading the entire crowd. Out on the
center of the bridge the throng was omi-
nously silent. Really weird was the situ-
ation.
The crisis was reached at the Brooklyn
tower. There the crowd had to go down
a flight of steps, and there was the great-
est danger of falling. Had one woman
become hysterical there and faint-ed noth-
ing could have prevented a trampling to
death. That throng could not be stopped
any more than a river can be stopped
when anyone falls into it. No one did
faint and no one fell.
I asked Superintendent Martin, of the
bridge,‘whether he had made any special
computation of the strain the bridge had
undergone in those two hours from half
put 5 o’clock until half past 7, and he
said he had not, because there seemed to
be no necessity for it. Each cable of the
bridge is able to withstand a strain of
estimating the 40,000 persons on the
bl‘idL’e at one time at an. awrage Weighl
of 1:35 pounds, would be only 2,500 tons.
He sai l, however, that the conduct of
the peop c illustrated wonderful self cun-
i361, and he had no doubt that if the
stash 'uzul eome in the early {lays :-f tm
structure a panic would have resu.t:d.
and the loss of life Would have bro}!
one too many cocktails.
grraé’z‘r than on the opening day of :30:
bridge, '
THE ‘E'VENINGW GAZETTE I p g _ . I, - "
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VOTED AT. 115.
A Colored “Annty” of “'ichlta, Kath, Cash
Her Ballot for Méyor Cox.
Previous to the recent municipal elec‘
tion at Wichita, Kan., Mrs. Harriet Mo‘-
Murray, a. colored woman, appeared be-
fore the city clerk and desired to be.
registered.
“What is your age, Auntie?” asked
the head of the registration depart-
ment. - .
“Law me, Cap’n! Ax me sump’m
easy,” ejaculated the old lady. “All I
kin tell you, sah, is dat I wuz in the
resolutionary wah. My ole massa’s
Bible wuz dun bu’ned by the fiah befo’
he sold mammy and me and Sophy to
dat dah Runnel Robi’son.”
The city clerk listened with curiosity
and viewed the old lady sceptically.
“I'want ter vote for Massa Cox,” con-
tinued Aunt Harriet, “for he dun gib
Dick, my‘idaughtah Cha’ity’s man, work
in de streets when de poo’ niggah needed
it.” ,
The mathematicians and the historians
of the Registration Bureau piled the old
lady with questions and finally gathered
enough data to put her down at 115
years of age.
“I ’spec’ I be that ole, anyway,” said
Aunt Harriet, “and maybe mo’.”
Ten days afterward “Auntie Harriet"
rode down to the polls in Alderman
Mellinger’s carriage, bearing herself as
proudly as a peacock. And she voted.
She was arrayed in the fashionable bric-
a—brac of a century. She wore a shawl
that her old “missus” gave her in Ten-
nessee three-quarters of a century ago;
a quaint looking white cap. resplendent
in a wealth of rufiies, which her young
missus had given her as a. wedding pres—
ent, and an antique cloth cape, brilliant
in glass beads, which had fallen into her
hands at the death of an old maid sister
of her last master, about twenty years,
she thinks, before the era. of freedom.
Aunt Harriet is a very sensible old
woman, but she has one dominating
weakness, and that is to be in touch “wif
de quality.” In her estimation she,
reached the apex of honor when she rode
in the carriage of an alderman to the
polls a‘nd had Mayor Cox, who was run-
ning for re-election, tip his hat to her.
But that ride—that triumphant ride—
may cost her her life, for through vanity
she discarded her woolens to wear the
ancient finery of bygone days and caught
a bad cold, which has developed into the
grip. .
“No, ssh,” she said in reply to a ques-
tion. “I kean’t jus’ tell how ole I am,
but dat town clerk done figured me out
at 115. He told me I was ole enough to
vote,” and the old lady laughed heartily
at her own\wit.
“How far back can you remember?”
she was asked. .
“De furtherest back I ken remember
is the ‘Resolutionary’ wah. I was den 3
little tot, but I remember hearing the
guns fiahing neah Baltimo’, and the so-
jers bringing a kernel dat"was done shot
thro’ the bowels into daddy’s cabin and
mammy nu’sing him till he died. My
massa wuz Kernel Desplane den, but he
died soon an’ my young missus marry
one of dem dar Irishmen dat wuz in de
wah. He done run through all the poo’
chile’s property, and in. do break up
mammy and me and Sophy was sold on
de block to Blunt Rob’son an’ taken to
Tennessee.”
HIS OLD FRIEND COL. s.
A Detroit Young Man Puzzled by a Striking
Resemblance. =‘
“My dear, dear old boy?” began the
effusive young man as he entered a
Woodward avenue car and slapped a
middle aged man on the back; “but I
was just thinking of you a moment ago!
How do you do, anyway?”
“I am well, sir!” frigidly returned the
man, as he turned full around.
“Ah! Beg pardon for my mistake. I
‘was certain it was my dear old friend,
001. B.” .
“I said I was well!” repeated the man
who had been slapped. ‘
“Yes, I know, and I beg you to excuse
me. It’s the first time I ever made~
such a mistake. The resemblance is
wonderful.”
“Did you wish to speak to me, sir
demanded the other, in tonesabout forty
degrees below zero. ' -
“I slapped you on the back by mis-‘
take. I am sorry for it. You look like
the twin brother of my old friend Col.
B. and I mistook you for him. Sorry
—very sorry, and I hope you’lloverlook
it.”
“Are you addressing me, sir?” came
in cold and flinty tones across the car.
“Yes, sir. When I came in I took
you for my old friend Col. B. , and it was
not until after I had slapped you on the
back that I found out my mistake. It
was very rude of me, and I beg pardon
and hope you will overlook it.”
“What do you wish me to over,
look?”
The young man got up to go all over
that speech again, but a plumber who
was about to ‘get off took him by the
arm and walked him out and dropped
him on the asphalt, and said;
“Young man, you must have drunk
That’s old Col.
B. himself you’ve been talking to all
this time!”—Detroit Free Press.
2”
She Would Do Her Best.
“Madame,” he said,wearily. “I’m a
discouraged man, I am. I’ve been try-
ing for two days to get arrested so’s I
could get somethin’ to eat an’ a. place to
sleep.” T '
“And haven‘t you succeeded yet?” she
asked sympathetically.
“No’m. I’m hungry and sleepy yet.
I’ve got ter ask for assistance. An’ I
ain’t goin’ away till I get it.”
“Well,” she ansWered, thoughtfully,
“I’ll help you.” ‘ ,,
“You will?”
“Yes. My brother-in-law’s a police-
man, and he’ll be home in fifteen or
twenty minutes. You just hang around
here for that time and I’ll use my influ-
ence with him to have you arrested.”—
Washington Star. -
In 1390 the United States produced
one-third of the world’s pid ironland
over one-third of the world’s steels—
i-IOD. Age.”“‘ - . ”7::
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”WOMAN A3 A WOMAN sass HER. "
Kasculine Aspirations and Slavish 1m!»
tations of the Other Sex.
Mrs. Edwin Knowles thus discourses
upon the the twentieth century Woman:
\Vill the coming woman, the‘woman of
our dreams, the twentieth, century wo-
uan, be the overwhelming success all so
confidently expect? The picture is ,allur
ing as set forth by he voluble advance
agents. But will she realize all they
promise? I doubt it. It seems to me her
masculine qualities will be too pro-
nounced, that she will be badly dressed,
smoke cigarettes and wheel around on
our streeté on that indecent abomination
miscalled a safety. No one undervalues
the‘progress a few years has accomplish-
ed, but has it always been for the best?
Are we not ourselves doing the very
things we have so railed at man for do.-
ing? Are we not being as selfish and ex-
clusive as we have pictured man? What
has been our complaint in the past? Is it
that we were shut out from councils and
the clubs of men? That we were denied
opportunities they should have afforded
us. But now, when the time has come
that we can display the value of
our own liberal education, we show that
imitation is the sincerest flattery, and de.
liberately shut the door in the face of
men, and forbid their presence in our
clubs and councils. Man is a failure, says
the progressive woman. That is the most
ludicrous thing in the whole category of
crime with which man is charged- To
brand as a failure the object toward
which she is bending every nerve.
Your reformer tell us our dress is bad.
What does she offer in exchange? \Vhy,
man’s dress of course. She has already
obsorbed his hats, his ties, collars, shirts,
cuffs, even at times his coat, leaving as
man’s sole prerogative his
so? Now, with very few exceptions, I
have never seen women look well in
these purloined garments. Nature her-
self evidently objected to such attire for
women. ' Surely our clothes are pretty.
Admitting that sometimes they are made
grotesque when not suited to some par»
ticular woman, who insists on wearing a
style not intended for her, why condemn
the mass because a few burlesque the
times? ,
The perfect twentieth century woman
should be pretty still, as most women are
loyal enough to themselves to think that
they are so, perhaps we can waive that.
She must be truthful and honest, faith-
ful and loyal to her husband, her children
and her home; brave enough to work if
necessity compels her, capable of battling
with the world and earning her 6wn liv-
ing, but content to let her husband do it
while he can. She ought to know enough
about the business that si'ipports them,
should accident or death overtake him,
to be able to put her hand to the helm
and guide the ship stfely to port. She
should be just to her friends, even to her
enemies if she has them, also to her ser-
van ts; strong enough to hear her burdens
without growing fretful or peevish;
strong to keep her trials and her giriefs
locked in her own bosom, and not make
herself a perpetual nusiance with the,
constant telling of them. Be proud,
happy and content, to be what you Creao
tor nn- 1e you, true, noble, helpful woman-
ly wcnan. »
Haw thorne’s Early . Attempts.
More of his early attemptsat fiction he
burned; but in time his hand became
surer, and. he found that he had learned
at last the difficult art 01 story-telling.
His little tales began to be published
here and'there in monthlies and in an-
nuals. Being anonymous or under dif-
fering signatures, they did not attract
attention to the author; but in the news-
paper notices of the periodicals in which
they appeared they were often picked out
for praise; and this finally encouraged
Hawthorne to gather a score of them into
asingle- volume published in 1837 under
the apt title of ‘Twice Told Tales.’ Al:
though the little book had no remarkav
ble sale, it won its way steadily; and the
readers who had enjoyed Irving’s pleas-
ant sketches of New York character in
“Rip Van Winkle’ and ‘ he Legend of
Sleepy Hollow’ could not but remark
that Hawthorne’s pictures of New Eng‘
land character revealed a stronger imag«
ination and a deeper insight into human
nature. Delightful as was Irving’s writ~
ing, Hawthorne had a richer style and a
firmer grasp of the art of fiction.--St.
Nicholas.
London Policeman Siee p.
The London policeman is dignified i1
slow. The other day a citizen stood in
the middle of the read out Pimlico way,
shouting “Murder!” and “Stop 1hiefl”
A crowd gathered, and finally, after
about half an hour, a guardian of the
peace arrived, who straightway took thr
man into custody. “When arraigned be.
fore a magistrate, he explai..ed ‘.hat it
was all an experiment. He was new to
the neighborhood and simply wanted to
find out how long it would take to attract
:he;attention of the man on the beat.
The magistrate discharged him in the
interest of science. But the English
metropolis has been convulsed by the
{act involved in that half hour’s delay.
5
“'ifely. Solicltnde.
Mr. McSwat—Great Scott, Lobelia:
What are you waking me up in the mid- '
die of the night for?
Mrs. McSwat—I want to know, dear,
if the mosquitoes are biting you as badly
as they are mes—Chicago Tribune.
_ Possibly. 4 ,
“I thought you were going to have a
wheel” .
“So I was, but I’ve decided to wait
until next year and get it with a pound
of tea.”——Life.
. NO REST
NO SLEEP
‘ DAY 0R NIGHT
My hands were completely covered with Ec-
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perfectly raw. I had to sit with both hands held
up, and away from the fire. My husband had to
dress and undress me like a baby. I tried the
best physicians, but their medicines gave me no
relief, and drove me almost crazy. I was ad-
vised to try Cortcm REMEDIES, and did so,
although my husband had to go twenty miles to
get them. As soon as he got back,I used the
UUTICUBA, and in five minutes after the first
application I was perfectly eas , and slept
soundly all that night. Before commenced
- using the Currcuna Rnnsnrns I could get no
case night or day. I could not bear to get warm,
it would put me in a rage of itching. I always
keep the CUTICUBA Rsnnmns in my house now,
and recommend them to everybody. because of
their wonderful effect. Yours gratefully, ,
AGNES M. HARRIS, Push, Mecklenburg Co. Va
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