Life — May 15, 1884 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- WAITING HIS CUE. N her flossy hair a sparkling jewel Shone like a star in the evening mist ; A rosebud her needle had wrought in crewel As I watched the play of her gleaming wrist ; And the pout of her lip, as a flower uncloses Its petals when moist with the morning dew, Was sweet as the blush of a blooming rose is, If sweeter rose in her garden grew. The poise of her head, as her snow-white fingers Bent o'er the buds with a loving care, In my memory now in a day-dream lingers. O the light of her eyes in the gaslight’s glare ! Gardez bien, the eyes to my heart had spoken. I hung in her web like a blundering fly ; But her lips were mute, and no light love's token Escaped in a word, or a look, or sigh. The hour grew late ; must not love grow bolder? “°'T is leap-year,” I whispered ; her love-lit eyes Met my own, and her head nestled nearer my shoulder ; She looked at me now in a coy surprise. «-T is leap-year,” I said, ‘and the maiden proposes.” I waited my cue without fear or dread ; O her cheeks were as dimpled and red as her roses ! “‘T love you! I love you !” was all she said. Harotp VAN SANTvoorD. Tue Lost Cord.—A rope dancer missing his tip. MartRrimoniAt Bureau.—A match factory. SYS he vote 4 ao) Daa Said Hendricks tn terror: “1 Finp My support NOT AT ALL ‘TO MY MIND, To tHE WuITE House I’p sTEER, But I’D RATHER, MY DEAR, BE SITTING BEFORE THAN BEHIND.” GUANO BLAINE. HE following observations concerning a certain “statesman ” we reprint from the New York Weekly Herald. There is much truth in little space, and a suspicion may steal over the reader that the author of the article has not that confidence which many politicians would like to see. During all these years Senator Edmunds has been the terror of that whole gang of jobbers with whom Mr. Blaine, during his own six years service as Speaker, held such intimate relations that at the close of his last term he did not even reject or resent the public gift, from the ‘‘ King of the Lobby ” (or ‘Rex Vesti- buli,” as the title was shrouded in hog-Latin), of a silver cup presented in the presence of the whole Republican House of Representatives. We venture to say that no speaker of a legis- lative body in this or any other country ever before smilingly received under such circumstances what to a man of only a common sense of decency would have seemed a most bitter and galling insult. But Mr. Blaine’s career had blunted his susceptibilities. In his explanation of the notorious Mulligan letters he admitted that his first experience ir, Washington was, before he was elected to Congress, asa lobbyist (or “agent” as he shrinkingly preferred to say) for a rifle company whose arms he got accepted by Mr. Simon Cameron, then Secretary of War. That was in 1862. In the same year he was elected to Congress. In 1869 he became Speaker, and in that year he wrote to Mr. Warren Fisher: “Your offer to admit me toa participation in the new railroad enterprise isin every respect as generous as I could expect or desire. * * * * Ido not feel that I shall prove a deadhead in the enterprise.” In 1875, at the close of six years in the Speaker's chair, he received the lobby’s acknowledgments, as above mentioned, in a silver cup which bore the following in- scription : JACOBO G. BLAINE. H Persone: populi, gerentium moderatoriter : : designato, virtutis, sapientique experte : : viro, D.D.D, : A S. W. Vestibuli Rex. CALENDIS MARTH IV., 1875. And a few days afterward His Majesty S. W., ‘ Vestibuli Rex,” or ‘‘ King of the Lobby,” referring to his services in the Speaker's chair, remarked of him approvingly, “Our subject, Blaine, is a live man, and has shown himself a true one.” Here are the beginning, the middle, and the close of Mr. Blaine’s Congressional career as public history, as his own letters and admissions exhibit them. From a man like Mr. Edmunds Mr. Blaine knows that he has nothing to hope. There will be no jobbery if Mr. Edmunds is elected President ; there will be no room for Shepherd and Peru- vian Company intrigues in the State Department with Mr. Ed- munds in the White House. On the down grade—Feathers. A LEGAL Jillet doux—A writ of attachment. comichooks, com