CLEVELAND'S MESSAGE. during the recess ot the senate of federal TENNYSON'S LATEST. bed," I said to myself. "I will not feared he would be imprudent. I wish ing scream as I touched her, and then ficials. I believe the power to remove or suf. EeavengI rolon my heedlessness. Thank I could have prevented this." Then I knew no more until I discovered pendsuch officals is vested in the president have recovered! intime to save he added, turning to the undertaker, alone by the constitntion, which in express Post London Cable: The literary sensation that some one was shaking me violently, "s President Cleveland in a Message to the terms provides that "the executive power shaK of the week has been Tennyson's myself." "Who sent for you? You did not tell and I roueed myself to find a cold be vested in the president of the United States of poem called "Vastness," printed in Macmillan's Senate Eefuses to Give Up Certain me." I turned to walk toward the other perspiration issuing from every pore, America," and that "he shall take care that Magazine. I is apparently a satire sir9" the laws be faithfully executed." The side qf the room, when, to my intense Papers. while over me stood tne doctor looking "Thepoorgentleman's brother, on various contemporary political and senate belong to the legislative branch surprise, my foot struck something exceedingly angry. "Brother' He had no brother." of the government. When the constitntion by social movements. The following are the heavy and unyielding on the floor. I express provision superadded to its legislativa "Is it possible," he asked, "that ver3es# "Oh yes, he had, sir. Twin brother, most striking duties the right to advise and consent to appointments bent down to see what the object A hea rt upon our dark globe sighs after you have been sleeping therdeservnighttelaleu I fancy. The likeness is wonderful." -He Claims That They Are Confidential, to office, and to sit as a court of impeachment, Yo could be, and in so doing I started rug9 on the heart it conferred upon that body all the many a vanished face, "Strange that I never heard of it be- and Says lie Has Redeemed All contiol and regulation of executive actions supposed back with an exclamation of terror Many a planet by many a sum may roll die." fore," said the doctor looking astonished. to be necessary for the safetv of the people, Pledges. and ti-embhng in every limb. with the du st of a anished race. "Why, I have been dead'" think*'.saidI and this express and special grant of such "He must have been here soon I Raving politics never at rest, as this poor extraordinary powersnot in anv way related Lying closebeside my chair was the doctor9 "Where is Mary, after my patient died, or perhaps at to or growing out of general senatorial duty, and earth's pale history runs, prostrate form of a man, and, to my Then I fainted away. the time. 1 wonder if any family dif- in itself a departure from the general plan of What is it all but a trouble of ants in the THE MESSAGE. unspeakable consternation, a nearer our governmentshould be held, under a familiar Of course the doctor put me to bed ficultyI should liketo question him," 9 gloam of a million million of suns The mes&r>y is as follows maxim of construction, to exclude every examination convinced me that the and restored me finally to consciousness, he continued. "Where is he?" Lies upon this side, lies upon that side, other right of interference with executive functions To the Snato of the United States. Ever since body was my own. I was dead then grumbling the while about the" In the first congress which assembled truthless violence ourn'd by the wise, the beginning oe the present session of the senate "He was here awhile ago, sir, but after the adoption of the constitution,comprising dead' Could it be possible? I got the diffeienc heads of the d. utmcu a attached Thousands of voices drowning his own in a pigheadness of some people that would left just as you came in I think." many who aided in its preparation, legislative to the executive biancn of the irov eminent down on the floor and passed my popular torrent of lies uponhes. not do as they were told. construction was given to That instrument, in "Very queer," aid the doctor puzzled. have neen plied with, various requests and Faith at her zenith or all but lost in the hand over the inanimate shape. It wnich the independence of the executive in the demands from committees of the senate, from "It was all the fault of that book, gloom of doubts that darken the matter ot removals from office was fully sustained. members cf srch committees, and at last iiom was still warm, but I saw at once that doctor," I said, pointing to the \ol- Pretty soon they went away together, I think it will be found that in the schools, the senate itself, requiring tlia transmission of life was extinct. As the firelight shot subsequent discussions of this question there ume of Herbert Spencer that laj on reasons for the suspension of certain officials and then I emergedfrom my hidingplace Oaft with a bunch of all-heal in her hand up into a blaze I noticed that the face was generally, if not at all times, a proposition during the recess of that body, or for the papers the floor in the sunshine. "I had been followed up by her vassal legion of and started out again, taking pending in someway curtailing this power of Touching the conduct of such offioia s, or for wore a purplish tinge, which as I gazed, fools, reading about queer ideas oi* death the president by legislation, which furnishes all papers and documents relating to such suspensions, the direction of Mary's house. On entering turned to a dull ashen hue. The evidence that to limit such power it was supposed Stately purposes, valor in battle, glorious or for all documents and papers and another life, and th?t I suppose I found her "in a sadrxame of to be necessary to supplement the constitution limbs had lost their elasticity the filed in Fuch department in lelation to the annals of army and fleet. occasioned my falling to sleep and by such legislation The first enactment mind that she assured me he was able management and conduct of the offices held by Death for the right cause,death for the wrong eyes were open, yet I knew they were of this description was passed under dreaming I was dead and attending bucli suspended offic als The different terms to subdue. She appeared to divine cause, trumpets of victory, groans oi sightless. a stress oi partisanship and political fiom time to time adopted in making these requests my ownfuneial. Fairly bhudder at the intuitively that some calamity was defeat, bitterness, which culminated in the and demands, the order in which they recollection." While I looked the feeling of horror president's impeachment. This law provided Innocence seethed in her mother's milk, and succeeded each other, and the fact that when about to befall her, and all my endeavors I that the federal officers to which it applied could made bv the sanate the resolution for that purpose-was that at first possessed me changed to charity setting the martyr aflame, "Well, you certainly looked more were powerless to dry the only be suspended during the recess oi the senate, passed executive session, have led one of sorrw Thraldom who walks with the banner of dead than alive when I found you when shown bv evidence satisfactory to the tears that welled from her eyes as sh to a presumption, the correctness of which will, Fieedom, and recks not to ruin a president to be guilty of misconduct in office or suppose, be cmdidJy admitted, that iromnrst "I do not care for myself," I said there," said the doctor, "and you gave met me, and with which I could with crime, or when incapable or disqualified to perform realm in her name, to last the information tnus sought and the mournfully "but Mary, my poor a shriek as I came msuch a shriek their duties, and that within twenty days difficulty prevent my ow from mingling. papers thus demanded were debited tor use by What is it all, if we all of us, end but in being after the next meeting of the senate it should be Mary." the senate and its committees considering the "Never mind, doctor, I said trying In trying to soothe her agitation 9 our own corpse coffins at last piopriety of the suspensions reterred to. Though Mary was a young and beautiful to laugh "when I am well again I intent Swallowed in vastnc*fe3, lost in silence, and despondency, I clasped her hand THE DUTY OF THE PRESIDENT these suspensions are my executive acts, girl to whom I had shortly hoped to "to report to the senate such suspensions, with drowned in the depths of a meaningless to write out that dream and call bused upon consideiations addressed to in mine, when, to my dismay, she the evidence and reasons for his action in the me alone, and toi which I am be married. past. it 'The Black Camel,' for as Abd-elKader started back affright. case." This statute, passed in 1867, when congress wholly responsible, I have had no invitation "When she hears of this," I said says, 'Death is a black camel The fourth stanza is supposed to refer to was overwhelmingly and bitterly opposed "It is cold'" she cried. "It is like fiom the penate to state the position which I to the president, may oe regarded as an indication the Salvation army, and the sixth to the aloud, "and knows that it was occasioned have felt ccnstiamed to assume relation to that kneels at the gates of all Cetainly the hand of a dead person' Some that even then it was thought necessary by the same, or to mterpiet for mjself my acts and Pall Mali Gazette exuosure. oy my own wicked carelessness, the black camel has knelt at dreadful misfortune is gomgtohappen a congress determined upon the subjugation of motives in the piemists In this condition of she will suffer frightfully Ok' the executive to legislate at will to furnish my gate *Lius I have ioieborne addressing the senate on to youI know itI feel it'" She began itselt a law for that purpose, instead The subject, lest I might be accd=ed of thrusting miserable wretch that I am. I was "All I can say is this," remaiked to sob hysterically. It was on the of attempting to reach the object intended THE BLACK CAMEL. mjself unbidden upon the attention of that happier in life than now, far, far happier by an invocation of any pretended the doctor se\eiely 'that if e\er I liocrv Hut the leport of the committee tip of my tongue to exclaim "Mary, constitutional right. The law which thus Shall my spirit ever know rest of tho junna ry of the seuate, lately catch you at am such thin again, I'll it has already come to me, and soon again9'' found its, wav tosour stature booknowas plain in presented and published, which censures the attorney and it intent needed avowa I -I'll-" term1 its its black shadow will blight your general of the United States foi his retnsal BY THE MARQUISE DE LAXZ\. valid ani now operation, it would justify the I buried my face in my hands and to transmit certain papers relating to a The doctor did not say what 1 young and tender life'" On a certain bleak evening, during present course of the senate, and command the suspension liom office, and which also, if I correctly wept. Some of my tears dropped upon would do, for at that instant there obedience ot the executive to its demand. It mteipret it, evinces a misapprehension of But I dared not speak I feared the the Winter of '83 I was sitting alone may, however, be remarked in passing, that, under my dead body and the sight of was a knock at the door and a messenger the position of the executive upon the question horrible truth might kill hex, and on this law the president had the privilege of in the room I occupied on the top ot such suspensions, will, I hope, justilv this them on that lifeless clay maddened handed me a bouquet ot robes presenting to the body which assumed to review communication. my wretched soul would then lie an floor of a fashionable New York apartment me. Filled with a wild despair,I jumped from Mary his executive acts his reasons therefor, instead increase of guilt. mBesides, she must ot being excluded from explanation or by papers up, seized my hat, and, rushing out of house, I was ]ust recoveringor it all when body should be THE CASE Or DUSTIN knowr found in the departments. Two years after the my room, soon found myseli in the llie president leieis to the resolution of law of 1867 was passed, and within less than supposed to be recoveringfrom an buried' In a little while no concealment Personal Gossip. five weeks after the mauguiation of a president street. the senate calling' for the Dustm papers and attack of illness, and I was still veryweak "i would be possible As I gazed in political accord with both branches of congress, The night I knew was extremely The 509 Lords of England have an the leply of the attorney geneial thereto, the section* of the act legulatmg suspensions The doctor, in fact, had left into her tear-dimmed ej es. a feeling ol fiom office duung the recess of the senate and says cold, but I did not feel it. The clocks a\erage income of $120 000 each, and intense agony rose up in my heart. me but a little while before, assuring wers entnely repealed, and in their place were Upon this i esolution and the answer thereto, the neighborhood had just struck then gioas income is about ^75,000, substituted provisions which, instead ol Unable to endure it. I snatched my the issue is thus htated DV the com rnttce on me gravely that I must be very careful eleven and. it was still too early for limiting the causes of suspensions 000 judiciary at the outset cf the reporr "The impoitant hand from hers and rushed from the to misconduct, crime, disability and it I desired to regain my usual good the streets to be deserted On the question then, is whether it is within disqualification, expre^8ly permitted such house, regardless of her sorrowful the con$titut'cn?l competence of either house The youngest Mayor in the United contrary, they were filled with merry health. But, to tell the truth, I was suspension by the president "in his discretion," ot confess, to have access to the official papers amazement. and completely abandoned the requirements States, Major Aaion, of Van Buien, parties returning from theatres and and documuits the vaiious public oiLees of somewhat ^elf-willed, and not apt to obliging him to repoit to the senate "the evidence During the interval that has elapsed i he United btites created bylaws enacted by other places of amusement. Many Aik twenty-one \ear& of age.recently and reasons" tor his action. With these regard attentively what I was inclined themselves' I do not suppose thit the public between that day and the morning of modifications, and with all branches of the government carriages rolled by, and time I quan eled about a woman with a man offices ot the Lnited States ate regulated or contio to call the doctor's "notions." As political harmony, and the absence my funeral I saw her no more I had caught glimpses of lovely ball toilets, leJ in then lelations to either house of Contriess named Taylor, and shot him to death. of partisan incentive to captious obstiuction, soon as he nad disappeared, therefore, bv the fact that thev were "cieated by not the courage to again face her grief the flash of diamonds, and the vivid the law as it was left by the amendment of laws enacted b\ themselves It must be that 1869 was much less destructive to executive Mayor Kardy, ol Lincoln, Xeb has I sprang recklessly fiom the and her questioning look in which lingered hues of great bouquets of hothouse these mstiumcntjlities were created for the discretion and yet the great general and patriotic incurred the ennntv of the liquor men an expression of dread But couch where I had bean lying, and bcifht of the people, and to answei the general flowers citizen who, on the 4th dav of March, I860, pui poses oi government under the constitution assume 1 the duties of chief executive, and for when the day finally dawnedthe day by hio radical stand on the temperance "And I am dead'" I said bitterly. drawing a chair up to the fire, took a i'ul the laws and that tnev a'e uner" umbered whose treer admimstiatior of his high office the in which I was to be laid to rest body question The other daj a coffin "A cold, unfeeling image among all b\ am IIPI in favoi of exther branch of congress book from the table and began to most hatetul lestramt, of the law of 1867 weie, growing out of then constiuction, and unembana-se and soul, if, indeed, my soul could obtain on the 5th day of April, 1S60, removed, mindini was lett at his door as A warning He this life, and warmth, and beauty'" read I felt a little chilly as I threw bv pny obligation to the senate as the of his obligation to defend and protect eveiv rebtI was impelled to go to her As I passed the groups on the sidewalk, promptly sold it for 13. and turned price ot then cieation. The complaint oil the prerogative of his great tiust, and apprehensive oft the eider-down quilt that covered to take my last farewell. committee that access to official papers in the of I looked at them narrowly the money into the ti easury ol the lo me, but I quieted my conscience by public ofiice is denied the senate, is nut bv the On coming into her presence I discovered to see if they observed anything unnatural cal tempeiance society, itemeut rtiat at no tim8 has it been the disposition thinking that the heat from the bed of THE IWJUPY THREATENED my poor Mary in the same in my appearance, but they oi the intention of the president cr any the public seivice the continued operation of officer in nny department of the executive coals before me would soon make me dismal mood. Mr. Larkin Leonaid, Gold Mine did not appear to do so. Once, however, these statutes, even in their modified form, bi inch of fie ,'ovemm^at to withh la U^n tlie his first message to congiess advised their re I went up to a shop window Township, N. C, alwajs h\ed in one warm again. I opened my book and senate official documents oi papcis hied in anv "Oh, how I ha\e sufferedhow I peal and set forth theii unconstitutional character of the public offices. Vv lule it is bv no means where a gentleman with a lady on his place, wore a pair ot shoet, thirteen soon found myself so deeply interested hare suffered' "&he exclaimed over and and huittul tendencies I am unable to conceded that the t-enate has the light in any arm was standing lost in admhation yeaib, used the same plow lines nineteen state whether or not thii lecommendation tor a over again. I implored her to tell in what I was reading that I presently cisc to leview the act of the executive in removing repeal of these laws has been since repeated. 1/ of some jewels displayed from within. years, ne\er sav a raihoad or or suspending a public officer uvo official me the cause of her despair, but she fell to musing over the chapter it has not, the leason can probably be found in documents or otherwise, it is considered I stood beside the couple, gazing nonchalantly bought a pound of meat, flour oi corn, the e\penence which demonstiated the fact that said she was unable to explain it, although that documents and papeis of that nature I had just finished. The work at the glittering array before the necessities of the political situation bvt or swapped horses, or was out of lion in some way, it seemed to be should, because thty aie official, be freelv transmitted larelv developed then vicious character: and so was Herbert Spencer's Principles me, when suddenly the lady clung to the senate upon its demand, trusting ey, and had good teeth and lean without connected with myseli Again she it happens that after an existence of nearly the use of the same for proper and legitimate of Sociology, and the chapter related tighter to her companion's arm. twenty vears of,almost mnocousdcbiietude,these spectacles up to the da\ ot hi- ilu- clasped her hand in mine, and again 1 mposc to the good faith of that body, and laws are brought iorth, apparently the repealed to the ideas of death and resurrection though no such papers or documents have been "Let us go on," s-he said, glancing she complained of its icy coldness. cent death at the aqe of o\ei eightyone as vv ell as the unrepealed, and then put in he specifically demanded in any of the numerous as considered by primitive nervously in my direction "Did yoIu The fatal hour drew near when they way of an executive who is willing, if permitted, reciuests and demands made upon the departments, I to attempt an improv ement the methods of now9 not feel a peculiar chill uist were to take my dead body to the man. The subject was one upon which vet a-, often as thev were found the administration. Ths constitutionality of these General Schenck grows old "I saw public ofhr os thev have been iuinished in answei swept through me from head to foot." churchyard. I had to tear myself laws is by no means admitted. But hv should I myself had thought not a little, and to such applications. The lettei of the him recently," s-ays one writing fiom the provisions ot the repealed law, which requiied away. And yet, how could I go without The gentleman, to my relief, merely tftornev geneial response to the resolution of one that had a peculiar fascination I specific cause for suspension and a report Washington, "beseemed a thick, guzzled, well9 the sen item the paiticular case mentioned in Mary whom I lo-^ ed so made some laughing reply and they to the senate of "evidence and leason," be now for me. From the time I was a little the committee's repoir, wa written at my suggestion gunvjawed old man ot seventy. was impossible. walked away together. I saw the lady in effect applied to the present executive, instead and by my direction. There had been boy at school I had been in the habit Schenck was always pictuiesquely uncouth of the law afterward passed and unrepealed, shiver as she passed. "Mary," I said, "I have a favor to NO OITICIAL PAPUBS which distinctly permits suspensions by of wondering and speculating as to e\en in his prime liis hay-colored o' documents fi'ed in his department relating to "No wonder'" I thought She little ask of you. A friend of mine has just the president "in his discretion," and carelully the case within the period specified the resolution hair, as wiry as a Scotch toiriei's what takes place in consciousness win omits the requirement thit "evidence and reasons thought she was standing beside the died, and I am obliged to attend' his The letter was intended, by its description foi his action in the case" shall be reported Ins small, half closed, deep set ee of tha papers and documents remaining spirit of a dead man." the soul leaves tho body. Ot course, funeral. Come with me." to the senate? The requests and demands the custody cf the depai tments, to convey the and bulbous no*e made him an uncouth IT The idea amused me, and I too, which by the score have for nearly thiee months To my surprise she assented read when a child, I did not think of it in idea that they were not official, and it was assumed been presented to the different departments of figure at Ixnt. lie is onl-y aienimisccnce laughed aloud. I wandered about the that the resolution called for information, iiy- these precise terms, such words being the government, whatever may be their form, papeis and documents of the same character as now, and the fire ol youth streets all night long, preparing myself have but one complexion. Thev assume the "Anythinganything," she said, weierci/uired by therequests and demands which then unknown to me, but the ideas has gone out of the once sturdy right of the senate to sit in judgment upon the for several things that I felt were incumbent piecedeuit Eveij thing that had been written so that I am with you and not left themselves were substantially the exercise of my exclusive discretion and the executive or done in behalf of the senate from frame Old age has added seams and upon me to perform. For alone with my thoughts function, for which I am solely responsible the beginning pointed to a letter and papers of a same. wrinkles to his homely leatures, and Mary's sake I wished to withhold as to the people, from whom I have so lately So it happened that within half an private and unofficial nature as the objects of received the sacred trust of office My oath to given him no grace to compensate for search, if they weie to be found in the departments, long as possible from the world, the On this particular December evening, hour we Were sealed side by side in support and defend the constitution, my duty and provided they had been presented to them." knowledge of my death, and in order as I have already said, I fell into a the coupe and being driven together to the people, who have chosen me to the executive with a view to their consideration to do this it was necessary to take execute the powers of this great office and not upon the question of suspension from office brown study, and thought about this toward the churchyard wheie at that to relinquish them, and mv duty to the chief Against the transmission of such papers and The most striking featuie of the special measures to that effect. I subject until I became completely absorbed moment my own funeral proces&ion documents I have interposed my advice and magistiacv, which I must preserve unimpaired Maga/ine of Amci'can History for October must be buried, ofcourse,and whenever in it. Now and then I would direction This has not been done, as is suggested in all its dignitv and vigor, impel me to refuse was on its way. I leaned back in in the committee's leport, upon the assumption is Gpneral Grant's autograph to comply with these demands. To the end that this thought recurred to me I grew rouse myself and draw a little closer the carriage lost in gloomy reflection, on my part that the attornev geneial the service may be improved, the senate is invited letter in facsimile oc\oirigMx pagc colder, it seeemed, and an utter hopelessness to the fire, for the chill had not left while Mary's tears fell or anv othci head ot a depaitment "is the servant to the fullest scrutiny of the persons submitted of the lesident, and is to give or withhold It was wntten in 1883,on the death overcame me. Instinctively I to them for public offic. in recognition of me. And my head seemed oppressed faster and faster behind her copies or documents in his office according to tne constitutional power of that body to advise knew that the moment my remains of Alaxander Stephens, and 1^, now by some peculiar weight I was unable veil. The fantastic quaiutness of the the will ot the executive and not otherwise," and consent to their ppointment. were consigned to the earth my spirit published tor the first time It was to shake oft. A sensible man would but because I regaid the papers and documents situation broke suddenly upon nie. I WILL CONTINUE, withheld and addressed to me, or intended was doomed to vanish from human as I have thus far done, to furnish, at the request have gone at once to bed but in some addressed to Rev Henrj Vt hitney and to Mary's horrified wonder, I for my uo and action, puiely unofficial of the confirming body, all the information It'J sight, never more to return. I cannot respects I was the very opposite of Cleveland, formerly a colonel in the and private. Not infrequently confidential, burst into an uncontrollable paroxysm I possess touching the fitness of the nominees and having reference to the pertormance tell how this conviction was forced upon sensible Presently, however, a queer confederate service, who contributes, of laughter. I saw the changed placed before them tor their action, both of a duty exclusively mine, I consider them in when thev are proposed to fill vacancies and to me. It is sufficient to say that it ringing sound in my ears warned me expression of her face as she looked with the letter, an intensely interestingpaper no pioper sense as upon the hies of the department, take the place of suspended officials Upon a refusal but as deposited there for my convenience, was there, and that it thrilled me with that some change was taking place in at me, and becoming sober again I on' General Grant Military to confirm, I shall not assume the lemainiug still completely untlei mv control a terrifying awe such as is felt by a me, yet with mad persistence my only right to ask the reasons lor the action relapsed once moie into my joyless Abilities," arguing that the south undeirated I suppose if I desire to take them into of the senate, nor question its determination mind haunted by disturbed and relentless act was to rise from my seat and inv custody I might do so with entire propnety, revei le. General Grenf from the fust, I cannot thmk that anything more is required and if I saw fit to destroy them no one could north and the south fantasies On Mary's account, throw some more coals upon the fire to secure worthy incumbents in public office and that both th When we reached the chuichyard, complam. The papers and documents that aie than a caieful and independent discharge of our therefore, I wished to delay then sinking back again, I relapsed now the objects of the senate's questions consist undeilate his ncj aNhip ev en now the hearse containing my body was lespective duties within then well-defined limits. of letters of representations addres3sd to the burial for at least thiee days. once more into profound meditation. Though the piopriety of suspensions might already there, and some men were piepare her the executive or intended tor his inspection. of At Middlesborough, Lag the PART II. be bett'er assured if the action of the i resident I Thev are voluntarily written and piesented by Very soon I paid the penalty of my 1 to carry my coffin to an open was subject to review bv the senate, yet if the private citizens who are not the least instigated day, Dr Strathetn appealed as a witness rashness. A deadly faintness" all at When the morning was somewhat grave near by The doctor was the constitution and the laws have placed this theieto bv anv official invitation or at all at Petty Sessions, bat declined once crept over me. The weight descended responsibility on the executive branch of the advanced I went to an undertaker's I subject to official contiol. While some of them sole mourner. He walked slowly and government it should not be disturbed, nor the to take an oath on the giound that arc entitled to executive consideration, many of from my head to my chest: an establishment and made all the necessary with uncovered head behind the blackdraped discietion which it involved relinquished. It thf in arc so nrevalent, or, in the light of other it was a ^ery serious thing to kiss, a icy chill stole into my veins, and I began arrangements for my funeral, box that conl ained my mortal has been claimed that, the piescnt executive lacts, so worthless, that they have book which was handled by all kinds having pledged himself not to remove officials to gasp for breath. My first impulse saying the dead man was a brother of remains. He appealed uneasy and except foi cause, the fact of the suspension I of people." Alter some argument, was to spring up and endeavor mine, out that owing to a morbid looked round once or twice as if in NOT EFrN GIVEK THE LEAST 'WEIGHT mplies such misconduct on the pait determining the question to which they are the doctor ofteied, by way of compromise, to reach a little cabinet on the wall in of the suspended officer as injures his shrinking from publicity in all affairs search of some one, mj brother, probably. supposed to relate Are these, simply because character and reputation, and therefore to kiss the book if a clean which 1 kept a bottle of brandy, but either of life or death, he had extracted they aie preserved, to be consideied official the senate should review the case for his vindication. strange to say, I was powerless to do sheet of paper ei placed ovci the doci'ments and subject to the inspection of the a promise from me that I would I htjve said that certain officials should "How strange' murmured Mary. senate If not. who ise to determine which be- not, in my opinion, be lemoved during the continuance so. Again came that sense of a dead neither publish the fact of his decease cover. The bench declined to accede Ar the motives and pur "Had your friend no associates except class0 long to this of the term foi which thev were appointed weight pressing heavily upon me, and in the papers nor acquaint any one to this or to allow the doctor to make poses of the senate a* thev are day by day developed, that man and yourself.'" solely for the purpose of putting in their such as would be satisfied with my with it was a terrible feeling of suffocation. else with it, except, of course, those places tho le political affiliation with the appointing an affirmation, and eventually he consented, "No," I answered, and was struck selection? Am I to submit to these at the risk powei, and this declaration was immediately I tried to call aloud, although who were obliged to know it. under protest, to "run the by the fearful sound of my own voice. of being chaiged with susiension of officers followed by a description of official I recognized the uselessness of such a upon evidence which was not even consideied? "I supose," I added as carelessly as risk of catching disease." partisanship which ought not to entitle those The clergyman that accompanied the Aie these papeis to be regarded official because proceeding, as no one would be likely whom it was exhibited to consideration. is possible, "that you will want a certificate party began to read the burial service, the^have not only been presented but prescrvfu not apparent, however, whether the course thus A Georgia couple were married "un- to hear me. of death from the poor fellow's in the public offices? The nature and and from the depths ot the carriage announced carries with it the consequences described. der fire," as it were, the other day. character lemam the same, whether they are "Alas!" I thought, "had I but followed physi-cian. You can get it by applying If in any decree the suggestion is where I sat with Mary's quiveringform kept in the executive maLSion or deposited in While W. H. Willis, a substantial worthy of consideration, it is to bo hoped that the doctor's advice! But now it to Dr. Hendricks, No. Madison beside me, 1 listened eageily, waiting the departments. There is no mysterious there mav be a defense against unjust suspension liV i? young farmer of Pike county, was is too*late. I can do nothing for my power of transmutation fn departmental custody, avenue." with a sense ot utter misery for the in the justice of the executive. nor is there magic in the undefined stealing Miss Jones from her home for self, and I shall probably die here This appeared satisfactory to the THE PLEDGE WHICH I HAVE MADE, words that were to signal my final and sacred solemnity of department files bv which I have placed a limitation upon my exercise the purpose of marrying her he was alone." undertaker, who promised to adhere If the presence of these papers in the public dissolution. I remarked with relief of executive power, has en faithfully redeemed. discovered by the lady's brothers. offices is a stumbling block in the way of the faithfully to my directions. I then returned This gloomy thought called up within Ot course the pretense is not put foith that no one present appeared to pertoimance of senatorial dutv, it can be easily that no mistakes have been committed, but not The eloping couple succeeding in reaching to what had once been my me the small amount of force I pos notice the solitary coupe with its hidden iemo\ed. The papers and documents which a suspension has been made except it appeared a waiting carriage, but they were home, and on entering the room found have been desenbed derive no official character sessed. With one desperate effort 1 occupants. Finally, it seemed to to mv satisfaction that the public welfare would lrom any constitutional, statutory or other requirement no sooner on their way than they be improved thereby. Manv applications for my lifeless body lying just where lhad caught firmly hold of the arms of my me an incredibly short periodI knew making them necessary to the pertoimance suspensions have been denied, and the adherence were pursued by volleys of buckshot left it on the previous evening, and chair and succeeded in fairly raising the end had comethat at last I must of the official duty of the executive. to the rule laid down to govern my action It will not be denied, I suppose, that the president presenting much the same appearance, from the enraged young men. Several myself. But, to my inexpressible hor leave the world for a spiritual existence, as to such suspensions has caused much irrita. may suspend a public officer the entire tion and impatience on the part of those who except that the daylight gave it an ror, just at this point I felt myseli of the shot perforated the lady's bonnet. that has naught to do with any absence of any papers or documents to have insisted upon more changes in the offices. additional ghastliness. The undertaker sinking slowly and gradually, until aid his official judgment and discretion, The lovers succeeded in reachinga material foim, and that in a few moments The pledges I have made were made to the people, and I am quite piepared to avow that the eame in soon afterward and finally I fell with a dull thud upon and to them I am responsible for the manner Mary would watch the vanishing clergyman and being married 311st cases are not few in which suspensions from in which they have been redeemed. I am laid the corpse upon the bed, remarking the heart rug. After that, all of my present shape into the infinite. before the pursuers burst in. office have depended more upon oral representations not responsible to the senate, and I am unwilling made to me by citizens of known good that death must have been sudden, was darkness and oblivion for a She would then be left desolate, to submit my actions and official conduct repute and bv members of the house of representatives A cozrespondent of a Boston newspaper to them for judgment. There are no grounds and that the deceased was enough while. Then, little by little,, consciousness and the horror of what she had been and senatois of the United States for an allegation that the fear of being says that Mr. Nast's wife is tho like me to be my twin. dawned oncemorejupon me, through would make itself apparent. than upon anv letters and documents presented found false to mv professions influences me in original of Columbia, tha tall, beautiful for mv examination. I have not telt justified in and I rose, much to my astonishment declining to submit to the demands of the senate. I made no reply to his remarks, being An intense sensation of cold crept suspecting the veracity, integrity and patriotism woman with the classic face who I have not constantly refused to suspend with apparent ease from my recumbent oppressed by the weird strangeness of the senators or ignoring their representatives oyerme,and I felt myself slipping away, officials and thus incurred the displeasure of has been so prominent in the allegorical position. At first the room appeared because they were not in party affiliation of assisting in laying out my own political friends, and have not vet wilfuUy as it were, from a substance to a with the majority of their associated and I recall pictures during arid since the war. broken faith with the people for the sake of being dark to me. The surrounding body. While we were so occupied I shadow. I glanced at Mary. She sat a few suspensions which bear the approval false to them. Neither the discontent of These pictures gave Nast his national atmosphere was like a black, impenetrable heard the doctor's step on the stairs, of individual members identified politically with gazing at me with a look of stony horror, partv friends nor the allurement constantly offered the majority in the senate. While, therefore, I fame. In beauty of conception and curtain. But this, no doubt, and hastily tellingthe undertaker that of confirmations of appointments conditioned as if she divined what was about am constiained to upon the avowal that suspensions have eame from my extreme weakness and execution they have never been excelled, I did not feel equal to meeting anyone tohsppen. Oh, the agonythe terrible been made on party grounds alone, nor the DENY THE BIGHT OP THE SENATE from the effects of my fall. Presently and are chapters of the history of just then, I slipped into a closet, agony of that moment* "Dust to threat proposed in the Ievolutions now before the to the papers and documents described, so far the obscurity vanished, and I saw my senate, that no confirmation will be made unless the Nation's mindphotographed leaving the door partly open that I dust" came in solemn measured tones as the right to the same is based upon the claim the demands of that body be complied with, are room as it usually was. The light might observe what passed. moods, as it were. Columbia, let it be I that they are in any view of the subject official, from the clergyman"ashes to ashes." sufficient to discourage ox deter me from following I am also led unequivocally to dispute the right burned just as I had left it, and the noticed, is altogether a different figure^ in the wav which I am convinced leads to The doctor came in apparently It was all over. I turned and with of the senate, by the aid of any documents whatever, better government for the people. fire still glowed brightly on the from the Goddess of Liberty. She is^l or in any way save through the judicial much affected. There were tears in a cry, heartrending in. its bitter despair, OBOVBS CLEVELAND. hearth. process of trial or impeachment, to raviow or reverse Nast's special creation in the world off I his eyes. clasped Mary in my arras. I Executive Mansuoa. Washington, March the act of the executive, in the suspension art.^ ^_ f^1 1,1886. "Now, at all events, I will go to "Poor fellow!" I heard him say, "I heard her utter one long, shrill, pierc- fe3 rtrnfriimi