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Politics is the one subject that goes to the vitals of every rural

American; and a Hoosier will talk politics after he is dead

Everybody read the cah there was no one who did not perceive the utter absurdity of a

young stranger's dropping into Carlow and involving hiainst the boss of the district It was entirely a party fight;

for, by grace of the last gerrymander, the nomination carried with it the

certainty of election A week before the convention there came a

provincial earthquake; the news passed from man to man in awe-struck

whispers--McCune had withdrawn his na was known of the real reason for his disordered

retreat, beyond the fact that he had been in Plattville on the

before his withdrawal and had issued from a visit to the "Herald" office

in a state of palsy Mr Parker, the Rouen printer, had been present at

the close of the interview; but he held his peace at the command of his

employer He had been called into the sanctu on the desk