he was at last compelled to go home, tired, hungry, and sick at heart, and to tell his poor young wife all, the shock brought on Well, Nature has not provided us with a sufficient supply of tears to meet the demand made upon our sensibilities by the miseries brought upon the innocent and helpless by the follies of our fellow-men.

watchful eyes of the poor little woman to endeavored to make amends for their own whom he was lover, hero, and almost God. indiscretions by going from one saloon to That night, while sleep made many another another where there was a prospect of meetaching heart temporarily forget its woes, ing any of the Leaders and hurrahing for she refused to him her blessed consolation." Mulhooly all the time." Of course, when He heard the solemn tones of the great town-clock slowly counting off the hours of the long night. He listened impatiently to his own cheap clock ticking away, one by one, the seconds, each one of which brought him one step nearer the moment when he could meet his chief face to face, and demand an explanation of this heavy punishment for a fault of which he was ignorant. He looked at his young wife, sleeping in blissful ignorance of the great trouble which the next day's sun would surely disclose, dreaming of the baby that was soon to gladden, like a kind message from the Great Father, their humble but happy home; and then the silent, scalding-hot tears one by one-but, Pshaw! why waste any sympathy upon a fool who expected to live by a system which he was not willing to obey as a slave?

Of course he thought when morning came that in that one night he had lived through ten years of misery. Of course he hurried to the department, still hoping that the God to whom he prayed for his wife and unborn child, might find some means of arresting the calamity. Of course the ostensible Chief of the Department received him kindly and explained to him the crime which he had committed, and expressed his regret that he had been compelled to thus summarily dismiss him. Of course he grew indignant at this his first lesson in practical politics, and denounced his dismissal as an act of tyranny, wicked, disgraceful and cruel; and then, suddenly thinking of his home, of his wife, and of how he was to provide food and nursing and doctor, broke down utterly, and sobbing like a child, told of his great necessities and promised to submit in the future, and to do anything in his power to repair the wrong he had done; and was told, kindly but frankly, that nothing could be done, as his place had already been filled. Of course he went away cursing the system, and praying God to visit on the Boss something of the misery which he caused others to suffer, and stopping every acquaintance whom he met on the street to tell his story, receiving sympathy from all, and from some the consoling assurance that "he ought not to have been such a d- -d fool." Of course some of his hearers, warned by his example,

A few such examples are sufficient to strike terror to the hearts, not only of the employees of the leaders, the Ring and the Boss, but also of all who are in the public service and whom Their vengeance can possibly reach.

Their next task was to raise sufficient money to defray the expense of electing Michael Mulhooly, and it was an easy one.

Henry Armor, indorsed as he was by bank-presidents and millionaires, who according to their own views, had contributed most liberally to his campaign fund, would have been greatly astonished had he been told that a sum nearly three times as large as that which had been subscribed by his wealthy friends had been raised without difficulty to secure his defeat.

Blossom Brick, as Chairman of a subCommittee of the City Committee, took upon himself the, to him, agreeable duty of collecting this fund. Lists were always ready for use on such occasions, containing the name of every man directly or indirectly employed under the city government, with the amount of his salary, or an estimate of the Rebates and aliunde profits attached to his office, set opposite his name. It was customary to levy an assessment varying from one to five per cent. upon the estimated salary of each. With a salary list of $6,595,625 one per cent. upon this sum would amount to $65,956. Even if but two-thirds of those who were requested to pay their assessments responded and it is a dangerous thing for any man to refuse to comply with so obviously just a request-over $40,000 could thus be raised in a few days. Allowing a proper percentage of this sum for natural leakage while passing through the hands of those charged with its collection and surely those who labor day and night for the party without any ostensible salary ought not to be expected to account for every cent-it will be readily seen that, if Blossom Brick's rule

for estimating the cost of securing an election is correct, there still would remain a very large sum to be used in making the requisite number of election officers "solid." In this rule Blossom Brick placed implicit faith. He laughed when other people talked about relying upon public meetings and speeches to carry an election, and repeated one of his favorite expressions, "An election officer well in hand is worth a score of voters on the half shell."

Having raised this fund he also took upon himself the, to him, agreeable duty of disbursing it. One of his peculiarities in managing this responsible part of a campaign, for which he was noted, was that he never allowed any portion of such a fund to remain unexpended, or turned over any surplus to the Committee for a reserve fund. On the contrary, he invariably had bills outstanding, and claims of his own for bills which he had felt compelled to pay out of his own pocket. This proved how thoroughly he did his work.

Upon him also mainly devolved the delicate and responsible duty of conducting those diplomatic negotiations, not only with election officers, of whom he was so fond, but also with that valuable body of statesmen, such as Hon. Hugh McCann, Piggy Degan and Pud. Muldoon, who were especially skilful in bringing out voters even in Wards in which they did not reside, and where they were supposed to have no very extended acquaintance. It is sufficient to say that when such work was done by Blossom Brick it was well done; and that he highly commended Michael Mulhooly for the assistance which he rendered in more

than one case of peculiar delicacy and diffi

culty.

Each Precinct was carefully and accurately canvassed, and at a private meeting of the Leaders, the Ring and the Boss, held on the Saturday evening when Mr. Henry Armor was delighting the large audience in the Academy of Music with his rhetorical display, They were able to point out exactly the amount and character of work which was still necessary to be done in certain Precincts to insure success.

On the night before the election-so admirably had Michael Mulhooly's campaign been managed the sporting men commenced to bet heavily on his election.

XXIII.-THE RESULT.

AT ten o'clock on election morning, it was evident that Henry Armor was polling an exceedingly strong vote. At two o'clock P. M. bets of $1,000 to $500 that his majority would not be less than two thousand, were offered at the Clubs without takers. At four o'clock P. M. the afternoon papers published reports of disturbances at several voting places in the District. When the polls closed there seemed to be no doubt of the election of the Reform Candidate, but by a much smaller majority than his friends had predicted. For the last hour, in a number of Precincts, the Mulhooly voters rallied in such strength and numbers around the polls, as to prevent any other voters from approaching the window.

Toward nine o'clock P. M. ruinors commenced to come in, of frauds in counting the returns and of carrying off the ballotboxes by bodies of armed men, who declared that the Armor election officers contemplated making false returns in favor of their candidate. In one of these Precincts an election officer was shot, and in another, two citizens who were assisting the election officers to defend the ballot-boxes were reported to have been mortally wounded. At two o'clock A. M. a number of Precincts were yet to be heard from, no returns having been made, owing, as was alleged by Michael Mulhooly's friends, to the attempt of a body of armed roughs in Armor's employ to count their candidate in.

Michael Mulhooly and Blossom Brick were up all night, driving from one voting place to another, encouraging their election officers to stand firm and not to allow Mulhooly to be counted out. At daylight Blossom Brick ordered Patsey Maguire-at whose saloon they had just arrived, worn out by their arduous labors-to open a basket of wine, and invited up some twenty members of the "Michael Mulhooly Campaign Club"-who had also been engaged all night in guarding the sanctity of the ballot-to drink to the health of their "next Congressman, Hon. Michael Mulhooly."

When the official returns were all in and counted it was found that, notwithstanding the unprecedented frauds which were al leged to have been committed in the interest of the Reform candidate, Michael Mulhooly was elected by a majority of three hundred

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LORD DUNDREARY.

make certain.-I-I hate to make mistakes -I do-especially about a thimple matter like this. Oh, here we are-B. Basilica.

[This most interesting and amusing personage,-the No it-that can't be the word you knowembodiment of elegant, aristocratic inanity-was first George was king, and if—if Basilica means introduced to the public as a subordinate character in a royal palace-they-they might have the drama of the "American Cousin." In the hands been-welations-but that's all-no it isn't of Sothern, who considerably elaborated it, the charac--Basilica-it-it's-Basilisk-yes, I've got ter soon became celebrated, and is regarded as the it now-it's Bathilithk.-That's what His greatest professional success of that distinguished actor. Majesty was-a Bathilithk and fascinated Dundreary has secured a permanent place in literature, fair cweachaws with his eye. Let me seeas a perfect type of a character that still exists and is where was I?-Oh I reckomember-or not likely soon to become extinct.] weckolect-which is it? Never mind, I LORD DUNDREARY'S LETTER TO THE wanted to tell you of one successful advenwas saying that I was a ladies' man. I chaw I had at least when I say successful, I mean it would have been, as far as I was concerned-but of course when two people are engaged—or wather-when one of 'em wants to be engaged, one fellah by himself can't engage that he'll engage affections that are otherwise engaged. By the way, what a lot of 'gages that was in one thentence, and yet it seems quite fruitlessCome, that's pwetty smart, that is, for me.

EDITOR.

DEAR MR. EDITOR:

Any fellah feelth nervouth when he knowth he 'th going to make an ath of himthelf."

one girl be stopping there two-What doosid queer expwessions there are in the English language.. Stopping there two-! It's vewy odd I-I'll swear there was only one girl—at least the one that I mean was only one-If she'd been two, of course I should have known it-Let me see now, one is singular, and two is plural-well, you know, she was a singular girl—and she

That's vewy twue-I said so the other night you know-and I-I've often thed tho before. But the fact is evewy fellah dothn't make an ath of himself, at least not quite such an ath as I've done in my time. I don't mind telling you, Mr. Edi- Well, as I was saying-I mean as I tor, but pon my word now-I-I've made meant to have said-when I was stopping an awful ath of mythelf on thome occathuns. down at Wockingham with the Widleys, -You don't believe it now-do you? I last autumn, there was a mons'ous jolly thought you wouldn't-but I have now- girl staying there too. I don't mean too weally. Particularly with wegard to women. girls you know-only-only one_girl-But -To say the twuth that is my weakneth.-stop a minute-Is that right? How could I 'spose I'm what they call a ladies' man. The pwetty cweachaws like me-I know they do though they pwetend not to do so. It-it's the way with some fellahs-There was hith late Majesty George the Fourth-I never thaw him mythelf you know, but I've heard he had a sort of way with him that-that no woman could wesist. They used to call him a cam-what is it? A camelia-no camel leopard, no-chamelion isn't it? that attracts people with its eyes-no, by the way that-that's the bwute that changes colorit couldn't have been that you know,-Georgius Wex-never changed color-he-he'd got beyond blushing, he had-he only blushed once-early-vewy early in life, and then it was by mistake-no, cam-chameleon's not the word-What the dooth is it? Oh stop-it begins with a B. By the way it's 'stonishing how many words begin with a B. Oh, an awful lot. No-no wonder Dr. Watts talked about the-the busy B. Why, he's more work than all the west of the Alphabet-However the word begins with a B, and it's Bas-Basilose-yes that's it-stop, I'd better look it out in the Dictionary to

she was one too many for me.-Ah I see now-that accounts for it-one two many— of coursee-I knew there was a two somewhere. She had a vewy queer name, Miss -miss-Missmiss no, not Miss Missmiss-I always miss the wrong-I mean the right name, Miss Chaffingham-that's it-Charlotte Chaffingham.-I weckomember Charlotte, because they called her Lotty-and one day at bweakfast-I made a stunning widdle-I said 'Why is Miss Charlotte like a London cabman-?' Well, none of them could guess it.-They twied and twied, and at last my brother Sam, who was in England then, he gave a most stupid anthwer. He said, "I know," he said, "She's like a London cabman because she's got a fair back."