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Show Don Piatt on Colfax. Don Piatt, having heard of the determination de-termination of Culfax, refuses to be comforted: "I am pained to hear through rumor that reaches the.-e lonely wilds that my friend and model Christian statesman, Schuyler, is about to retire from active political liie. Schuy.er ought not to retire. protest pro-test his retirement. What in the old scratch will become of me without the Christian statesman to contemplate and write about '.' As a Catholic keeps his cross and skull to remind liim of the awful uncertainties of ihis life, so have I held the Christian utatesman before my eyes as a warning against politic j! ambitioi:. I note him sitting serene, in a perpetual state of grin, high in his official greatness, while men ef brain and impulse have gone down iu cruel disappointment, to be heard of no more. The wicked and irreverent Gath tells me that Schuyler retires from politics to become the Prcsiilom of the oung Men's Christian Sewing Machine Association, at a salary ot twenty thousand dollars a year. 'This is wed. The sewing machine is to bo made a high moral instrument. This is a high mission, but not so hi"h ' at the one lately held by Schuyler in demonstrating dem-onstrating an economical government. As brain is expensive, a great luxury, in fact, Schuyler has shown us how we may dispense with the article. Vive la IsdwyUrl Let him reconsider." |