The San Saba News. (San Saba, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 42, Ed. 1, Friday, August 16, 1889 Page: 2 of 4
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I n
j The TnrldsE Navy is rapidly falling in-
to decay
Chicago is determined to count a mil-
lion in next years cetsus
There are 31302 United States pen
sionejs who draw only 2 a month
The United States trill not expend
tnoro than 5400000 in making the cen
tos of 1S90
Kaiser AYilhelm of Germanyis the onlj
sovereign in Europe asserts the New
York MaU and Exprai who is really try-
ing to cam his salary
The Chicago Ttmahas discovered that
the United States is not adequately repre-
sented at the Paris Exposition in the de-
partments of the industrial and decorative
arts
Let it be remembered to Washing
Ion s credit observes the St Louis GIvIk
Daocrat that he not only whipped the
British but also introduced that useful
and picturesque quadruped the mule
into this country
It is estimated thatseventytwq Ameri-
can citizens are worth the colossal sum of
61443000000 This is just 33000000
in excess of the total money circulation
of the United States according to a late
Treasury statement
An influential Chinese recently pub-
lished an article in a native paper of
Canton holding that if China would do
her own spinning and weaving of cotton
the foreigners would all be compelled to
leave as the trade in cotton goods main-
tains them
Canada is cot worrying over a surplus
The national debt was increased 10
000000 by the Parliament session re-
cently adjourned of which 2000000
railroads and other large amounts
Jioitfaterpgse in which Members of Par
liament were interested states the New
York Graphic
Poole the great Fnglish tailor who
may be ranked as the Worth of mascu-
linity charges the Prince of Wales noth-
ing for his clothing the advertisement of
his patronage being sufficient The posi-
tion of heir apparent to the English
crown is very muchjiuthe nature of a
downy snap
In many parts of China the Bibles
given to the natives by missionaries are
used in the manufacture of cheap boot
soles In the opinion of a missionary
the propagation of the Gospel by means
of literal translations of the Bible scat-
tered broadcast is attended with the
least measure of lasting success
Georgias position in the sisterhood of
States is both interesting and unique
observed Governor Gordon in a recent
speech Slicwas the youngest of the
thirteen original colonies that formed the
Unite and is therefore the honored
link in the family circle between the old
and new commonwealth of the Republic
It is not all sunshine in the Western
i5niis ware > iijiunu gd uaaieen discov-
ered and utilized In bne of these boom
ing Jbcalitiea a cook recently gave her
mistress notice to leave because she was
not willing to cook Gods meat with
ihellfire That girl was a philosopher
thinks the New York Graphic of no
ordinary type
Mr Gladstone attributes his health and
vigor to his habit of sleeping seven hours
Out of the twentyfour and never think-
ing of business after he goes to bed Men
wbaare unable to sleep soundl and
havent the faculty of freeing thjirminds
from anxious thoughts would be very
glad to follow the English statesman s
rule of life if they only knew how to
do so
Professor Forster of the University
Ppthalmic Clinic st Breslao claims that
i30O of his patients are suffering from n
chronic disease of the eyes accounted
4ia by interruption caused by the wear-
ing of tight collars and implies that the
national spectacles of Germany are ren-
dered necessary by the national style ol
neckwear Here is a hint for American
dudes
Two hundred and one Totes against
and 1C0 for abolishing the hereditary
principal of the British House of Lords
exclaims the New York Prtu A change
of twentyone votes in the House of Com-
mons would have meant a majority
Fortunately fof the House of Lords it is
still as it was written in lolanthe
dpingnothing inparticular and doing it
very well
It is an undeniable fact observes the
Scrr York Commercial AdcertUer that
great railway jobs have grown less fre-
quent of recent years Dishonesty in
railroad management always has existed
and will probably continue to exist until
the millennium but the days of whole
tale fraud plunder and wrecking oi
scores of great systems of Tailrocds is
now past
Speaking of an < legant new railroad
station in Cincinnati an official of the
road says I fearit ij too splendid You
see some people Inayinmlc they have to
pay mors for their tickets because the of-
fice is so fine Fact I assure you Lots
of peoplewH be afraid they will have
to pay more for their tickets because of
the style of the office If the office were
i dingy black little hole theyd think
ScErts would be sold there dirt cheap
The Eiffel tower in Paris has been sup-
plied with two small cannon one of
which is fired each day at the hour of
opening the great Exposition and the
other at the hour of closing it This ar-
rangement recalls to the Chicago Seat
the story of the great philosopher who
cut a hole through his door to permit
his cat to pass through freely and a
duller hole for the convenience of his
cats kitten An ordinary person would
hare roppoiad that one gun fired twice
clav irrold be u good as two fired epa i
rattle
AT SUNRISE
Darkmantled Night the stareyed and the
dumb
Flees when sho hears the Sangods chariot
wheels
When at her throat from out his hand doth
Come
A javelin of light sho dying reels
And her hearts life blood as it ebbs away
Dyes crimson the white garments of the Day
ClarmctLadd Darts in LtpnincoH
A LTT0KY SLIP
ET THOMAS A JASVTCIl
A bar had formed off Warbles Wharf
so that a whaler could not lie at it nor
anywhere near it but this was not a
matter of any especial consequence for
more than thirty cars had passed since a
whaler and that wharf had had anything
to do with each other
It was a wharf in ruins and almost as
badly dilapidated was the oilhouse that
stood on the end of it with great doors
which opened out over the water so that
a gangway could be rigged directly across
a ships rail and into the big room where
the barrels of whaleoil were stored
But these doors were never opened
now nor was the little sliding door that
shut down fairly into the waterandwhen
it was raised opened a channelinto which
a boat could be floated Both of these
doors were fastened on the inside and the
door that opened on the wharf was
fastened with a padlock as big as a small
cabbage and as rusty as if it had been
towed astern of the Harmony Home dur-
ing a whole cruise
The Harmony Home was the whaler
that used to discharge her cargo into the
oilhouse She had been owned and
sailed by Captain Tranquil Warble and
for a long while she and her commander
had the reputation of being the luckiest
ship and the luckiest Captain afloat
Captain Warble was coining money
the Greyshells people said Greyshells
was the name of the little port and was
getting richer and richer every year
Moreover he was hoarding his money in
coin
No banks fur me said Captain War-
ble an norcel estate nuther I tried
banks in 37 an where was I after they
all broke Id like t know An I tried
reel estate in50 anafter th man Id
bought it frum got clean off to Cali
f orny another man come along an proved
a mortgage on it an where was I then
Nbno Hard dollars hid in a place that
nobody but me knows about thet s my
style Thets safe an thets sure
This was all very well so long as good
luck attended the Harmony Homes mus-
ings but when the news came down
from the Northern seas the Harmony
Home had been nipped in the ice and
had gone to the bottom with every soul
on board of her the Captains financial
methods did not make quite so satisfac-
tory a showing for the Captains widow
had not the least notion in the world
where the fortune in hard dollars that
now was hers was to be found
She looked in all the likely places for
it and in all the unlikely places that she
could think of and she thought of a good
many but not a trace of it did she find
At last while the was still looking for it
she died
Then her daughter Miss Ruth Warble
who was then a young girl and very
energetic though that seemed hard to
beUeve now began the search And
Miss Ruth spent aU of her youth and most
of her energy in searching and here she
was now forty years old and looking
fifty with her fortune as safely hidden
as ever and herself as poor as anybody
could be outside of the town farm
Miss Ruth was a thin sour sharp
tougued little woman but the Grevshells
then lowering her through trap
h who were sony for he said JEZ E2g
tlUClfcWU jiu wonuer mat see was sod that the
that the fading sun
thin when she got so little to cat and
that she was the leS3 to blame for her
sourness and sharpness than she would
have been had her temper been less
sorely tried
For Theodore RodfoM widely and
I am pained to add somewhat unfavor-
ably known as that Teddy Rodford
the old oilhouse down on Warbles wharf
had a wonderful attraction He had
peeped through the chinks in the boards
time and again and what he had seen
inside had made him wildly eager to ex-
plore it thoroughly
For strewn about the floor were old
harpoons and piles of delightful ropes
and big and little blocks and oars He
ml almost certain that he could make
out among the shadows under the stair-
way leading to the sailloft that was over
the storehouse a little brass cannon
partly covered with a bit of old sail
Thinking of that cannon and of what
he could do with it if he only could get
hold of it sometimes kept him awake at
night He even had tried on several oc-
casions to make friend with Miss Ruth
to the end that he might gain per-
mission to investigate this delectable
pse Once when he discovered the
Baikums pigs in Miss Ruths garden
and drove them out before any great
barn had been done he almost had suc
succeeded
To Miis Ruth in her poverty the loss
of her garden stuff would have been a-
very serious matter She was truly
graceful to Teddy for saving it and told
him so with some warmth Indeed she
even went so far as to add the somewhat
equivocal compliment that it was a com-
fort to know that he wasn t bad all the
timi anyway
Being thus encouraged he was em-
boldened to ask her if she wouldnt
sometime or other let him take a look
around in her oilhouse And Miss Ruth
still mellowed by her gratitude said al-
most kindly that maybe sometime or
other she would
Nyes Wharf down on the Point was
where the boys usually went in swim-
ming Warbles Wharf was nearer but
because of the bar the swimming was not
very good there even at high water but
it happened one hot June day that
Teddy felt too lazy to walk all the way
down to the Point so he thought that he
would just step down to Warbles Wharf
and get cooled off o little He whistled
for Noah Barkum but as Noah did not
hear him he had to go alone
Although it was low water and the bar
was bare there was a coollooking pool
just in front of and shaded by old oil
house and into this pool he settled down
very comfortably While he was sitting
on the sandy bottom in this pleasant place
with only his head out of water he made
a very exciting and delightful discovery
It was dead low tide and the stone
foundation wall of the oilhouse was bare
clear down to the tops of the piles on
which it rested The sliding door was
out of water entirely To his joyTeddy
perceived that so large a part of one
comer of this door had been knocked
away probably by a bang from the nose
of some badly stceicd boat in a longpast
time that a boy twice us big as he was
could wriggle through the hole
It is only just to Teddy to state that
he did debate briefly wifi himself the
proprietory of taking advantage of his
discovery and it also is but just to add
that on thb occasion his logic and bis
conclusion were equally unsound Miss
Ruth frequently had forbidden him to
limb over her fences he admitted but
8 c sever he reasoned had said a word
h < ont forbidding bim to go through holes
a her doowi Indscl 19 far ttom hat
ing said that he must not enter the oil
house he had her own word for it that
perhaps some day he might go in there
Very likely he thought she might have
meant to take him in that very day and
had forgotten about it in which casd of
course she would be glad to find that her
forgetfulncss had been set right by his
own energetic action Of course this
settled the matter he would be very
sprry bethought that Miss Ruth should
be uncomfortable on bis accountl
He gave a look up and down the river
to see if anybody in a boat was in sight
a curiously anxious look consideringthat
he had so well convinced himself that
what ho was about to do was just what
Miss Ruth wanted him to do and then
having assured himself that the coast was
clear he slipped out of the water and
across the bit of bare sand and through
the hole
He found himself in something like a
little open dock in the floor of the oil
house evidently a place where in for-
mer times a boat had been kept Steps
black and rotten with age led to the
level of the floor Upon these slippery
steps Teddy went gingerly His first ob-
ject of investigation was the shadowy
place under the stairway ne found that
he had been right It was a cannon a
little sixpounder such as whalers used
to carry to fire signals with and it was a
regular little beauty
If he only could manage to get the Use
of that cannon for the approaching Fourth
of July he thoughthow gloriously could
he celebrate that glorious day
He did not stop to examine the other
interesting things which were scattered
about him AAith these thank3 to his
frequent pecpings through the tracks he
already was tolerably familiar The sail
loft was an undiscovered country that he
longed to explore so up the stairway that
led to it he went two steps at a time
The loft was far lighter than the room
below for the sunbeams came through
the tracks in the roof as well a3 through
the cracks in the walls It was a great
bare place with some old sails piled up in
one corner some sailmaking gear still
lying on a little bench and some chalk
marks still on the floor that doubtless
showed the exact cut of the Harmony
Homes last suit of sails
Teddy next caught sight of a delight-
ful little tub of a boat standing close to
the side wall at the end of the building
nearest to the water carefully chocked up-
on blocks so that it stood on an even
keel The oars and a little mast with
the sail wrapped around it lay fore and
aft on the thwarts and the rudder all
ready to be shipped was lying in the
sternsheets
Running tackle was rove to rings in
the bow and stern and to stout hooks in
the ridgepole of the roof The ends of
the lines were coiled away neatly over
belayingpins in two of the upright
beams
Then Teddy perceived that a great
trapdoor rigged with counterweights
opened in the floor just over the little
dock below Obviously this was the
identical boat for which the dock had
been built
So here the boat was in perfect order
except her seams hail opened a little
and that would be all right when she had
been a day or two in the water and with
everything ready for lowering her down
into the dock once more and away for a
jolly cruise
As he thought of what fun he could
have in that boat along with Noah
Barkum and Lem Harbud and Pud Nye
and perhaps Sam Wyburn he forgot
everything else in the world even the
little brass cannon and the Fourth of
July
He wanted to go right to work at
swinging the boat up by the tackle and
the door
light was
must be nearly down Accordingly he
went down stairs again and found that
the tide was half inj and that the hole in
tho door was a foot under water
There was a pin that held the door
down and when he had pulled this out
he found that he could raise the door
easily for it also was hung with coun-
terweights so he got out without diving
and pulled the door down again Even
at high tide he saw the water would not
be much more than two feet deep Now
that the door was not fastened he would
roll up his trousers and wade in whenever
he chose to
After he had got out of the oil house
and into his clothes again Teddy had
some twinges of conscience in regard to
the liberties that he had been taking with
Miss Ruth Warbles property These
twinges were but feeble on the following
morning however and he scarcely could
eat his breakfast so eager was he to get
to work at setting the little boat afloat
Anyhow he thought by way of salve
to his conscience it would be good for
the boat to put it in the water and swell
its seams tight He decided that it would
be time enough after he had performed
this useful and friendly act for the im-
provement of Miss Ruths boat to ask
Miss Ruths permission to go out in her
He hesitated a little as to whether he
should not take Noah along with him but
finally decided that there would be more
excitement in doing this part of the work
alone and then springing his discovery
on Noah and the other boys when the
boat was all ready for her first cruise
It was just halftide when he went
down to tho wharf and there was only
about a foot of water at the slidingdoor
He was barefooted to start with and it
did not take him many minutes to roll up
his trousers slip down the edge of the
wharf open the door and shut it behind
himand then scamper upstairs to the
sailloft It was tho most splendid thing
that he ever had anything to do with he
thought and he was scv excited over it
that he quivered from head to foot
It is possible that Teddy would have
quirered still more violently had he
known that Miss Ruth Warblo bad liap
pened to see him go down on her wharf
and then disappear over the edge of it
that she had felt instinctively that some-
thing was going wrong and had made
up her mind to go down to the harf her-
self as soon as she had finished paring a
pantul of June apples and see what he
was up to
Notwitlistandinghi < excitement Teddy
went at his work very judiciously nis
plan was to swing the boat up by the
tackles hauling alternately at tho bow
and stem and making each line fast to
its belayingpin before he went at the
other until she was free of the chocks
and high enough above the floor for the
trapdoor to open then keeping a couple
of turns of the ropes around the belaying
pins so that the boat would not get away
from him lower her first at the bow and
then at the stem until he had her safe in
the dock below
This was a good plan but he encoun-
tered serious difficulties Li executing it
The bow came up all right but for tho
life of him he could not budge tho stem
This was discouraging but Teddy was
a lad of expedients and had not lived all
his life on the seashore without learning
something about rigging
There were plenty of blocks and ropes
lying around and it did not take him
long to rig a snatchblock to a beam and
to the end of tho line that he Iiad been
hauling on With this double purchase
by putting out all of his strength he was
able to niiio the boats item
Itira tho cjuecretf Wast la the world
he thought that the stem of that boat
should be so heavy It seemed as though
it were made of solid iron At last he
got the boat clear of the chocks and got
the line made fast just in time to meet
the jerk on it that came as the boat now
hanging free by the falls from the ridge-
pole of the roof swung across nearly the
whole width of the loft with such a
that the bent and cracked
lunge ridgepole
and the whole framework of the old oil
houso swayed as though it were coming
down by the run
Teddy was glad to take a good restat
this stage of the proceedings while the
boat swung backward and forward like
a great pendulum flashing through the
rays of sunlight The particles of dust
which the jar had shaken loose from
everything danced up and down these
sunbeams and also danced up Teddys
nose and set him to sneeziug at such a rate
that he thought he should sneeze his head
off By the time that the boat had stopped
swinging and hung steadily by the falls
just clear of the floor he was pretty well
rested and ready to go to work again To
open the trapdoor he must raise the boat
about six feet He went at the ropes with
a will hauling away easily at the bow
fall and tugging at the stemfall with
the double purchase with all his might
At last the bow was high enough and one
more tussle with that dreadfully heavy
stem would make everything clear for
him to open the trapdoor and lower
away
At about this time also Miss Ruth
had finished paring her pan of Juue
apples
Teddy strained away at his tackle with
all his strength stopping to rest and to
puff like a porpoise after each round but
gaining steadily At last theTboat swung
level a clear six feet above the floor and
victory was almost within his grasp
It was just as he had reached this al-
most triumphant point in his labors and
had turned to make tho rope fast to the
belayingpin while he opened the trap-
door at this critical moment Miss Ruth
Warbles spectacled face showed at the
top of the stairs and Miss Ruth Warbles
sharp voice exclaimed
Why Teddy Rodford Of all cre-
ated things what badness arc you doing
here Teddy jumped as if he had been shot
The rope slipped from his hands and
whizzed through the blocks and that tre-
mendously heavy stem of the little boat
flashed downward through the sunlight
AVith a bang and a crash of splintering
wood it struck a beam with such force
that the old oilhouse swayed and trem-
bled and seemed in a fair way to fall to
pieces there and then
With this banging and crashing was
also a most curious jingling sound and
very astonishing was its cause As the
stem of the boat struck the beam the
stemsheets were broken all to pieces and
out of the stemlocker poured a stream of
gold and silver coins which jingled as
they fell and which blazed and glittered
as the sunbeams touched them while they
went rolling every which way over the
floor
In the silence which followed this out-
burst of noise Miss Ruth Warble and
Teddy Rodford just stood and stared at
each other across more silver and gold
andfhedollar gold pieces and tendollar
pieces and even twentydollar pieces
than either of them ever had seen any-
where and certainly more than they ever
were likely to see again loose on the floor
of a sailloft
And so the lost fortune that Capt
Tranquil Warble had hidden in this queer
place before he sailed away in the Har-
mony Home to his death in the northern
seas was found at last Youtht Com-
panion
POPULAR SCIENCE
Japanhas an electrical society with a
membership of 800
Powerful interrupted voltaic currents
have recently been used in surgery to ar-
rest the growth of cancer
When snow falls the first portions in-
variably contain greater numbers of bac
teria than the subsequent ones
A unit of heat is the amount of heat
required to raise the temperature of one
pound of water 1 degree or from 32 de-
grees to 33 degrees F
An eminent physician declares that ab
stinence from food for a period of from
twentyfour to fortyeight hours will
alleviate any common complaint or ill-
ness A rocket has been patented in Eng-
land designed to carry a charge of high
explosive which may be fired without risk
of explosion before reaching its destina-
tion
In generating steam experiments
under various boilers show 1000 feet of
gas to be equal in heating power to from
SO to 133 pounds of different kinds of
coalThe
The wirewound guns are again coming
into prominent notice as they can be
made in much less time than builtup
guns and have thus far seemed incapable
of being burst
Archaeological researches appear to
show that the islands and the coast of
Norway were well populated in prehis-
toric times but that the cultivation of
the soil did not begin until a late date
English authorities have concluded
that dynamic cooling if not the sole
cause of rain is at all events the only
cause of any importance all other causes
being cither inoperative or relatively in
insignificant
The fact has lately been satisfactorily
established that asphalt obtained from
petroleum and bitumen contains in ad-
dition to an oxidized organic coloring
matter a large percentage of inorganic
constituents
The Watson gold medal for the most
important discoveries in astronomy was
given to Dr Schonfeld of Bonn for his
researches concerning variable stats and
for catalogucing stars brighter than the
tenth magnitude
To distinguish steel from iron pour on
the object to be tested a drop of nitric
acid of onehalf specific gravity Let
it act for a moment and then rinse with
water On iron the acid will cause a
whitishgray stain and on steel a black
stainThe
The life of a wire rope maybe doubled
by the application of graphite mixed with
grease which prevents rusting and saves
the rope from abrasion when coming in
contact with hard substances The graph-
ite finds its way into the space between
tho wires and is kept there by the grease
Tho tensile strength of a wet rope is
found to be only onethird that of the
same rope when dry and a rope saturated
with grease or soap is weaker still as the
lubricant permits the fibres to slip with
greater facility A dry rope twentyfive
feet long will shorten to twentyfour on
being wet
An Englishman im produced a piece
of mechanism containing 400 figures re-
presenting horses cannon artillery in-
fantry and a band of fiftytwo men each
with an instrument A tiny windmill
turned by the current from burning can-
dles furnish the power to move all the
figures automatically
r is n to find
portaut part in warfare likely
general resdoptioa in leTertil Europon
armies
rJT
THE CABINET
f N PICTUKES OF THE PKESI
DENTS ADVISERS
S Jtches of the Eight Men IVho Ad
Ulster tho Departments or tho
Government How They Idvo
and llow They Work
A tour of the possible Presidents is an
interesting pastime nowadays says the
Washington correspondent of Philadel-
phia Record By possible Presidents I
mean of course the eight members of
the Cabinet who are by act of Congress
in the line of promotion upon the death
cf disability of the President or Vice
President It is not certain that the
Secretary of Agriculture the baby of the
CaKnet is in this line of promotion for
he is not mentioned of course in tho
Presidential Succession act because his
office had not then been created But I
suppose that under the general terms of
the act creating the eighth Cabinet place
its incumbent is given all the powers and
privileges of his colleagues But at all
events Uncle Jere is a member of the
Cabinet and a good fellow and so we
will 11 on him too
Blaines department occupies the south
em wing of the new Stanawar Statt
navy and war building which stands
just west of the Executive mansion on
theifee of the old war and navy build
fngsyjSecrctaries Blaine Proctor and
Traqji who control it have adopted
somehat more stringent rules for tho
Ladnustion of visitors that arc prescribed
f ih otber departments Unless you are a
JSepa tf or ajepresentative of a depart-
ment efficiafyou can only see them per
sonally at twelve oclock on Mondays
Wednesdays and Saturdays newspaper-
men leing of course excepted hero as
every vhere
BU ine is the latest member of the
Cabinet for getting down to his office
seldom arriving until 10 oclock the
hour at which he begins to receives Sena-
tors and Representatives But this is not
because he gets up late for he is a light
sleeper and an early riser It is because
he takes time at his desk in his comfort-
able rooms at the Normandie to read the
morning newspapers which he does like
an old newspaper man dispose of some
of his private correspondence and pass
with the assistance of Walker Blaine
upon some of his public business so that
Walker is apt to cany a portfolio full of
papers to and fro for his father every day
When he can the Secretary of State walks
the few blocks by way of Lafayette park
from his hotel to his department His
hair and beard are entirely white his
face is more deathlike than ever but his
form is straight and his step is springy
At a distance his age would not be at ail
apparent to a casual observer
The office of the Secretary of State
having been finished and furnished several
years before the others is faded compared
with those of the Secretary of War and
the Secretary of the Navy Still it is a
handsome room with a fine wood floor
covered with rugs elaborate frescoes a
great square mahogany desk for the Sec-
retary in the centre a smaller one for
his private secretary in one corner book-
cases cabinets and a fine globe scattered
around and a number of portraits on the
wall
But we must not keep the Secretary of
State waiting He stands up to receive
sitting down and tilting back in his chair
with his legs crossed if he settles down
to a good talk with you He takes your
hand with his old fervor and his eye
still dances ard sparkles as I believe it
will when he is dead He always says
something pleasant when he can and if
possiojensomethingiflever
too and sol = a good a uv
jfe n53RrirSoT0ttaredismisse the 1T1 tor tast Sets m
r7A 10 x io im n ai a I lesstilienas a special engagement with
Fro m to 12 like aL the Secre
taries in this building he receives Sena-
tors and Representatives on all days ex-
cept Thursday which is reserved for
members of the diplomatic corps exclu-
sively On Jlondays there are not so
many Senators and Representatives calling
as to take all of the two hours so that he
does not lose the whole morning At 12
except on Cabinet days Tuesday and
Friday when he must be getting over to
the AVhitc House he receives the public
until 1 or 2 as business will permit
Then on his return from the Cabinet
he works away on official business until 5
oclock when he drives down the avenue
to a private gymnasium and either takes
some prescribed exercise or a massage
treatment His physician has told hun
that he must take from four to six hours
exercise every day Before he went into
the Cabinet he walked several miles each
day But now he considers himself for-
tunate when he is not detain at his office
after 5 and can get an hour s exercise be-
fore dinner He dines with his family
in their private diningroom at 7 and
then works most < Jf the evening at official
business if he does not go out to dinner
Mrs Blaine is superintending the recon-
struction of the Seward mansion on La
fayette square which they have leased
for ten years and which they will occupy
in the fall so that the Secretary is relieved
largely of that He has a great deal of
private business though with his real es-
tate here and his railroads there and his
mines far out in the AVest Altogether he
has too much work to do and gets too
little exercise and he will be very glad to
get a little rest after a while
William Windom Secretary of the
Treasury comes next in order on the
list To sec him we cross over through the
AVhite House grounds in front or in rear
of theTWhite House and walk up to the
second loor of the Greek temple known
as the teasury building AAindom has
change the office of the Secretary of the
Treasul t from the southeast corncrwhere
Manning and Fairchild had theirs to the
centre ot the south side where he uses
Assistant Secretary Thompsons old room
afhis i lain office and the chief clerks
old roo 3 opening out of it as his con
sultatio l cabinet and real working den
AVindoi i like George AV Childs whom
he so much resembles looks just the same
as he did twentyfive years ago face as
unwrinkled hair and whiskers as dark
It is his sunny nature which keeps him
young He is never ruffled but is always
smiling He walks over to his depart-
ment from Hotel Arno on Sixteenth
street just north of the White House
with an easy moving step so as to get to
his office by 9 oclock Ho sees every-
body who comes at all hours of every day
when he is in his office and his work will
permit Most of the time from 9 till 3
or 4 oclock he is standing on his feet
listening to the officeseeker and his
friends Between callers he signs papers
or cats his simple luncheon After 2 or 3
or 4 oclock when the last caller goes he
buckles down to work and by 6 has
pretty well cleared his desk and made up
the work he will do at home For after
dinner he goes at it again and works till
bedtime
His offices are plainly but solidly fur-
nished well carpeted gorgeously fres
coed and adorned with oil portraits of
Shernaa Folgcr and others of his prede
cessors Everybody leaves Windom with
resntt for he is a very agreeable host
might with
nor Redfield Proctor of Vermont the
richest man in the Cabinet To see him
we must go back to the Stanawar where
his office is a splendid room on the west
tide of tho same floor as Blaines Proc-
tor gray with years and bent with work
looks quiescent and even phlematic But
he is the most nervous man in the Cabi-
net He always walks as he talks He
does not mean to shake you off he is un-
affectedly courteous to you but he must
walk He walks up and down when he
is dictating to his stenographer he walks
up and down when he cats his luncheon
He walks over to the Department from
the Arlington and back again when the
weather will let him Like most million-
aires who have made their millions if not
themselves he is an early riser and usu-
ally anticipates his clerks at the office
He has very few officeseeking callers and
has been able to learn more about his of-
fice than any of his colleagues except the
Secretary of the Navy
The Secretary of the Navy Benjamin
F Tracy of Brooklyn comes next His
office is that of his predecessor on the
eastern side of the same floor and directly
in line with Secretary Proctors Tracy
uses the little inner room more constantly
than Whitney did giving up the long
show office with it3 costly woods and
rugs and frescoes and the oil portaits of
his predecessors to Lieutenant V B M
Mason his naval secretary nenry W
Raymond his private secretary and
their clerks He is a grayhaired gray
whiskered manwith a benevolent expres
sion a clever tongue and a pleasant
laugh He is ery apt to have his callers
brought in one at a time into his inner
office where on the famous Monitor
desk he does most of hi3 work He gets
over to his office from the Arno a little
after 9 goes back for luncheon at J2 and
gets away finally at C oclock working
often however in the evening at the
rooms For like all the rest he has too
many callers just now to permit him to do
all his days stint at his office and like
all the others he dislikes to let it go over
from day to day
The PostmasterGeneral comes next
To see him we must ride all across the
business part of town to the crowded
smallroomed postoffice department on
Seventh street There is not a good
sized room in this department nor one
which is handsomely furnished and the
PostmasterGenerals is no exception In
contrast with the magnificent offices we
have just left the newest and finest in
AYashington his rooms seems shabby
But they seem to be the most attractive
rooms in AAashington From the time
the dcors are opened in the morning
until the time they are closed in the even-
ing his callers are coming and going
There is a little anteroom where his type-
writer works off behind a screen the let-
ters he has taken in shorthand from the
PostmasterGenerals dictation It is
small and usually full of waiting visitors
Then there is his formal office which is
not much larger and is pretty wel filled
by his big desk two leathercovered sofas
several leathercovered chairs and a cabi-
net AVhat space is left is also usually
filled The PostmasterGeneral may be
found here sitting in a tilting chair be-
hind his desk or standing leaning on the
mantelpiece where Benjamin Franklin sits
solemnly surveying his successor Or he
may be in his inner office about the same
size and just beyond where his faithful
private secretary Mr Jones writes neat
notes all day long As likely as not that
inner office is filled too although usu-
ally it is not since he reserves it for con
fidential conferences Portraits of his
predecessors look down from every wall
The PostmasterGeneral gets down to
his office in the official rattletrap called
by courtcsty a coupe any time between
730 and 830 having already after
breakfast and prayers accomplished some
work He does deal before 9
the PostmasterGeneral and then Mr
AVanamaker gefsih > his work in the in-
terstices of interviews until 4 o clock
when the outer doors are closed anilnc
5 oP
officeseekers are admitted By most
them are gone and between that and 7
he can get in two solid hours of work
After dinner he goes at it again If he
every mans powers Still I do not think
he wastes work and perhaps the post
office department and a great business
cannot be successfully run in any other
way The PostmasterGeneral is very
agreeable even if he does look at you
rather peremptorily through his eyi
glasses now and them He is rapidly
learning AYashington ways as well as
Washington men and will be more pro-
ficient every day He did a very wise
thing when he bought the Frelinghuysen
AThitney house In fact and by tra-
dition it is one of the most attractive
houses in AYashington The Postmaster
General will not feel fully settled here
until his wife and daughters join him in
the fall Then he will probably give up
his weekly trip to Bethany and worship
every Sunday in his pew at the Church of
the Covenant
Right across F street north of the Post
office Department stands another Greek
temple known locally as the Patent Of-
fice because the Patent Office is in it It
is really the Interior Department and
contains most of the business of that de
partment Here in the large room which
has been occupied by all his immediate
predecessors Secretary Noble next in the
line sits at a handsome desk when he is
not standing up to greet or dismiss some
caller or conferring with him in his little
office at the side Noble is a gentle p
tient man but quick enough to decision
and determined enough in his conclu-
sions He has AYindoms tactful way of
putting a refusal so that it seems almost
like a favor It is well for he divides the
honors of having the largest number of
callers with all the others Noble works
early and late at nights His predeces-
sors especially Lamar have often ben
obliged to work all night to catch up with
the enormous current of work So far
he has not had to do this but he may
come to it yet for his hours are all hcurs
as it is He takes his exercise in walking
to and fro
The Att ey General closes the list of
possible Presidents unless we take in he
Secretary of Agriculture as I mean to do
AAe must go uptown again to see AYillian
Henry Harrison Miller He sits up in Ue
fine room which Benjamin Harrison Brew
ster decorated and furnished so elegantly
on the second floor of what is commonly
called the Freedmens bank building jiust
north of the treasury across the avenue
Down stairs where tho poor fieedmen
banked their money forever and ever
sits the court of claims Overhead where
the managers of the Freedmens bureau
used to meet sits the Attorney General in
eastern luxury He is a simple matter
offact man strongly resembling Gar-
field in his ways Millers hours arc like
those of most of the others Here is his
own account of his day
Usually I put in an appearance at the
office about 830 in the morning and do
not leave the department save for a brief
intermission for lunch until about 6
oclock in the evening After taking
dinner 730 oclock will find me back at
Healways was so f
desk for I do not of my
truth be written on his tombstone ne my carry sny
stanOsthis strain so well though he gets work to my hotel About 10 dock I
shut down for the day and go to bed
tu exercise that it is hard to con
so
The lance which once played an im nim worid witll a tombstone and it is not much trouble for me to go
do not to keep
je intteaiao oi promotion comes to sleep But I propose
WSecretary of AYw t TCteraa few tM up for the straia ii too great asd
would break a constitution of iron if per-
sisted in
Living at the Biggs house he has only
a few steps to go between his room and
his office He treats his visitors at the
department as though they were all
clients at his law office He takes his
exercise with the President almost every-
day It is in their walks and drives that
they have their momentous talks which
people are always wondering about Mil-
ler walks well with the President being
about his height but his face is dark and
his hair and his beard are still mostly
black
The Secretary of Agriculture Gover-
nor Jere Rusk father of Blaine D Rusk
is far separated from all his Cabinet con-
freres His department is away over to-
ward South AYashington beyond the mall
which George Washington wanted to run
between the White House park and tho
Capitol Rusks building is a ginger-
bread affair of bricks of two or three
colors with various giudy decorations
and mansard roof However he flics his
flag everyday in the week and signs his
name right heavily with the only gold
pen in the Cabinet Rusk is the tallest
man in the Cabinet I should thinkwith
a great shock of white hair and afarmer
likc straggling white beard Ho is a
bluff hearty loudvoiced AVesternerwho
wants to please as many people as possi-
ble He has to disappoint a lot every-
day for places in the Agricultural Depart-
ment are greatly sought after since many
of them are below the limit of the classi-
fied service Uncle Jere asevetybody
familiarly calls him works as hard here
as he did at home gets up with the
chickens and goes to bed with the owls
He lives at the Ebbitt House and rides
over and back in the very respectable of-
fice carriage which Dr George B Loring
bought for the Department of Agriculture
when he was commissioner He would
do better to walk for the distance would
just give him needed exercise
Into tho Black Lands of Russia
The road stretches over silent and
empty plains where the horizon retreat
incessantly before the eyes without
changing in aspect like the waves in the
open sea It is indeed a sea a sea of
wheat with its golden ears undulating as
far as tho eye can see Nothing in our
thickly populated country districts can
give an idea of the profound stillness of
the Russian steppes At long intervals
you come across a peasant seated in his
telegue or astride of his droghi a prim-
itive cart made of a beam placed on two
axles A few versts further north we
leave the last village of Greater Russia
with its black and low cottages built of
pine trunks and wattling As the trav-
eler advances into Ukrania the houses of
Little Russia assume a more comfortable
air with their whitewashed walls The
keeper of the inn where we stop was for-
merly a serf of LaGenerale liberated be-
fore the emancipation he has made a small
fortune Now his two sons are beginning
to learn Latin with a view to obtaining
diplomas at the gymnasium of Kiev At
the door one of these boys in long black
coat black boots and cap is playing on
an accordion The other is absorbed
in a volume of the poems of Nekras
sofThe
The carriages plunge once more into
the com fields or into the shade of a
birch wood This latter is rarely met
with in the black lands which are al-
most entirely cleared and cultivated
Furthur on to the north you often travel
for a whole d3y through an ancient forest
in which arc stagnant marshes covered
with dazzling flowers with roses ane-
mones orchids floating islands of orris
and of waterlilies At last we arrive in
front of the mill which turns on the river
The Jew farmer salutes and bows to the
ground The peasants that we meet on
the road with thein familiar faces greet
La Generale with a respectful Good
day little mother On the hill a flag
floating from the top of the turret marks
thehouseof the seigneur a few more steps
and the horses rush at full gallop into a
large courtyard surrounded with build
gsSHd dependencies
Fifty or sixty persons men women
and children are drawnip on the steps
is not careful he will break down Aa S the arrival of their mistress
methodical do These are the families of the court
temperate man can won
ders of work but there is a limit to
for the seigneur has his court just like
the Tsar These families employed in
his immediate service and living on his
liberality constitute the aristocracy of
the village Serfdom has disappeared it
is true but its manners and the obliga-
tions it has left still survive All these
people pay their tribute of grati-
tude by kissing the hands of the bene-
factress as she gets out of her carriage
Harpers Magazine
AVImles 3Iilk for Consumptives
Whaloid Infallible Cure for Con-
sumption Dispensing hours 8 to 10 a
m 3 to 5 r M On turning down Ox-
ford street my attention was attracted to
this huge sign on the opposite side of tho
street and also by the number of people
flocking into the building Entering the
building I was at a loss what to make
of the matter as all I could sec was the
crowd and a large tank in the centre of
the room This tank was some seventy
feet long thirty feet wide and as I learned
afterward about thirty feet deep having
been constructed at a great expense
AYhile waiting patiently fordeveopments
I found that the liquid was being lowered
or let out by some means Soon a smooth
black surface appeared to view and as
the water continued to recede I became
aware that a captive whale was on exhi-
bition Surprised at not having to pay
any admission fee I was soon made aware
of the reason A framework had been
constructed on which tho animal rested
and soon an expert milkman was engaged
in extracting for the consumptives whal
oid or whales milk which was greedilj
absorbed at five shillings per glass
London Druggiitf Bulletin
The First Greenback
Gaddis a Cincinnati hackdrivci
treasures a dollar bill of the first green-
back issue The Enquirer of that city
tells that Salmon P Chase while Secre-
tary of the Treasury visited Cincinnati
Shine sir shouted Gaddis then a boot-
black to a stranger in the Burnet House
lobby Do your prettiest said the
gentleman with a smilo and Ill give
you my photograph The boy did not
fall in very heartily with the proposition
as he had no particular use for photo
graphs of his customers but after a little
bantering he took the job At the finish
the gentleman handed the boy a brand
new onedollar bill Thats my photo-
graph said he walking away The boy
glanced from his customer to the bill in
momentary perplexity Then the strong
resemblance which his customer bore to
the vignette in one comer of the green-
back caught his eye and he knew that the
Secretary of the Treasury had been hav-
ing a little fun with him at his own ex-
pense
HoYV the Money Gocs
> ouey goes no one knows
where it goeth no one showeth
Here and there everywhere
Run run
Dun dun
Spend spend
Lend lend
Send send
Flush today short tomorrow
Notes to pay borrow borrow
How it goes no one knows
AVhere ft goeth no one knoweth
toDay
THE THIRTYSECOND DAY OF THE1
THIRTEENTH MONTH
On the thirty6econd day ot the thirteenthi
month of the eighth day of the week i-
On the twentyfifth hour of tha sixty nrrt
minute well find all Clings that we seek
They are therein the limbo ot Lollipop land i
a cloud island resting in air
On the Nowhere side of thsMouatautpf Mist
in the Valley of Overthere V-
On tho Nowhere side of the Mountain of Jl5t >
in the Valley of Overthere
On a solid vapor foundation of cloud are pal-
aces grand and fair
And there is were oar dreams will come true
i and the seeds of our hope will grow
I On tho thitherward side of the Hills of Hope
in the Hamlet of Hocus Po
On the thitherward side of UwHillsof Hope
in the Hamlet of Hocus Po
We shall see all the things that we want to
see and know all we care to know
For there the old men will never lament th
babies they never will squeak
In the Cross Road Corners of Chaosvflle In
the County of Hideongoseek <
In the Cross Road Comers of ChaosviHa in
tho County of Hideangoseek
On the thirtysecond day of the thirteenth
month of the eighth day of the week
We shall do all the things that we please to
do and accomplish whatever we try
On the sunset shore of Sometimeoruther by
the beautiful Bay of Bimeby
IT Foss in Yankee Blade
PITH AND P0MT
Knows the ropes The able seaman
A maiden speech Asking a young
girl to marry
Why is an Italian s peanut cart like a
sunset Because the Dagos with it
JWto York Graphic
Algernon I lovo you Miss Ethel
Ethel All right this is a free country
Exit Algernon Epoch
I Friend Whats come up between
you and Miss Dumpling De Lefft
sadly Her father Time
The Girl I Left Behind lleT s a song
To be sung in Accents land
But how shall I sing of that heartless thing
The Girl That Left Me Behind
Policemen are allowed to rest only
four minutes in one spot but they do
not grumble Half a loaf is better than
none Mail and Erprtu
Beef alum ode is theway a restau-
rant keeper of East Broadway writes
beef a la mode oo his bills of fare
No wonder the customers pucker their
faces Xeu Yorh Graphic
Husband Maria dont I allqw yoa
enough pin money AYife Whyyes
indeed Charles Husband AAcll
Im blest if I can ever find a pin around
the house when I want one
Cook next day after her arrival I
am often a little hasty madam and then
I am apt to be saucy but you neednt
mind you can make me a little present
and I get pleasant again San i raneuea
Watp
She That wildlooking man we no-
ticed seems to bo very wealthy He
Indeed ho is His fortune consists of
notes taken by the wayside Bhe How
lovely Is he Max ORell He No
Hes an cxstage robber Xea Tori
Sun
Bathing in Alaska
Every Russian trading post according
to Mr Dall has a bathhouse and once a
week all the people avail themselves of
its privileges The apparatus is simple
not to say primitive but the method i3
what might be called heroic especially
the dressing in a room where the tempera-
ture is below zero A rude arch of looso
stones is built and more stones piled over
it so that a fire made beneath the arch
can penetrate between them
There is no chimney but a trap door in
the roof A large cask full of water
heated for the purpose and another of
cold water generally with ice floating ia
it and a succession of benches one above
the other complete the equipment AYhen
the stones are thoroughly heated and the
smoke has all passed out all coals are re-
moved and the trap door is shut any
imokeor coals remaining will make the
eyes smart and the bath very uncomfor-
table Each one leaves his clothing in
an outer room and on entering wets his
head and throws hot water on the heated
stones until as much steam is produced a3
he can bear Then he mounts as high on
the benches as he finds comfortable and
the perspiration issues from every pore
Next he takes a sort of broom or bunch
of dried mint or birch twigs with the
leaves still on them which is prepared at
the proper season and called meenik AYith
this he thrashes himself till all impurities
are thoroughly loosened from the skin and
finishes with a washoff in hot water and
soap Then taking a kantag or wooden
dish full of icecold water he dashes it
over himself and rushes out into the dress-
ing room
This last process is disagreeable to the
uninitiated but is absolutely necessary to
prevent taking cold I have known cases
of acute rheumatism brought on by omit-
ting it The dressing room is spread
with straw and always communicates with
the outer air The temperature is often
many degrees below zero but such is the
activity of the circulation that one dresses
in perfect comfort notwithstanding A
warm dressing room would be insuppor-
table
The Land or Skaters
Russia is the land in which to seo
skating wrote an Englishman as ho
stood over the frozen Moika Canal St
Petersburg and saw fourscore young
skaters of both sexes apparently able to-
go through tho same evolutions on tho
icethatabatdoesinthe air
As man is not bom a skating anmal
even in Russia this gentleman saw be-
ginners using a large wooden chair to
assist their sprawling efforts The chair
is about five feet high is placed on
skates and has two long curved arms
jutting out in front
The skaters formed themselves in lines
nine or ten persons d ep and keeping
time to the music of a band intertwined
in a scries of graceful figures the groups
melting off into single couples which
came together in lines of new figures
The Englishman crossed the frozen
Neva ia a novel vehicle a green wooden
chair on skates five feet long In front
were two boards on which he rested his
feet while resting his hands on its arms
A man propels the chair by skating and
pushing it before him The motion is
pleasant and so fast that the man has oc-
casionally to act as a drag
Father of American Photography
The father of American photography
Mr M B Brady has lately been in town
on a short visk He comes from AYash
ington where ho is widely known It
makes it easier to realize what sort of pho-
tography Mr Brady has dealt in to know
that at the close of the war the United
States Government bought thirteen tons
of negatives from him He had photo-
graphed every celebrated personage in
this country And not only did he pho-
tograph them on his plates but he has
retained the most interesting reminis-
cences of all of them iu his memory in
like a French
Mr Brady looks
person belligerency
his
marshal of the Empire though
form other
taken any
ligerency has never
thna tfcS ppropriat to tho
hoxer cJ Wji diyoifaS nw i
c
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