Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1888 — The Army’s Troubles. [ARTICLE]

The Army’s Troubles.

The winter has no terror for the regular army even in the far Northwest. Uncle Sam is so open-handed with nothing to his soldiers as with stoves. They are always to be had fpr the asking, and sometimes without. Some yeais ago, wheji the Fifteenth infantry was ordered to take possession of a deserted fort in New Mexico in the heat of summer, not a keg of nails could be procured from department headquarters to help repair the barrack but a hundred and thirty stoves at all times useless in that climate, came promptly to hand. The one difficulty the Government is meeting in providing winter supplies for its troopfe in Dakota and Montana is to find some substitute for the buffalo robe, which has now disappeared from the market. Tests are now being made of various furs in combination with stout canvas, with a view of replacing it.

Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland. Hamer’s Basu. Few wives see as much of their husbands as does Mrs. Cleveland of of the President. His office is on the second floor of the White House and is part of their private suite. As Mrs. Cleveland sits in her. boudoir she has onjv to lean back in her chair to see her hueband at work. There he works frog/ early in the morning nhtil late at njgfiv’ Just after dinn rhe spends sn hour in his wife’s boudoir, and then he walks through the always open doors into office, where he may be found writing long after midnight. Whenever he writes anything that he thinks' will be particularly interesting to his wife he takes it into bar, and she gives him her critical opinion on the subject.