Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 January 1898 — Page 6

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PRESIDENT M'KINLEY WILL NOT REiPgf CEIVE NEW YEAR'S. -4 ••.•**&*/

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Bat the Vice President, the Cabinet and ?a the Diplomatic Corps Will Have Their Usual Receptions—The Point of View and Civil Service Reform.

[Special Correspondence.]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—President George Washington knew a thing or two, as is particularly evidenced by his decreeing the sites of the capitol and the White Honse, respectively, to be so far apart. He said it would be absolutely neoessary, for otherwise the executive would never get a chance to do any huataess or have any leisure. He knew the average congressman, even though

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the M. O. was then inohoate, and knew, too, that he would be pestered by him night and day unless he were thrust far away from the presidential mansion in a building all his own.

Presidential Beceptlons.

There wasn't any great west at that time. The 12 or 18 original states lay mainly along or near the Atlantic coast. But all the pame the original representative was a pestiferous thing in the opinion of the Father of His Country, and made it very warm for said father on several occasions. Still it was Washington who inaugurated the presidential reoeptions, which we so muoh criticised at the time, as an aping of royalty, and which have since become a cherished republican institution. And this, in his own words, is why he came to do it: "To please everybody was impossible. I therefore adopted that line of conduct whioh combined publio advantage with private convenience, and which, in my opinion, was unexceptionable in itself. Before this custom was established, which now accommodates foreign characters, strangers and others who, from motives of curiosity, respeot to the chief magistrato or any other cause, are induced to call on me, I was unable to attend to any business whatever."

President Jefferson, who, as we all know, reduced the inaugural ceremonies to a minimum—to jfeffersonian simplicity," in faot—records that Washington at his first levee, having intrusted himself to his master of ceremonies, had cause to regret it, for he was taken into an antechamber, and then, the door having been opened between that and the room where the "great unwashed" were assembled, his escort gave him a push and at the same time bawled out, "The president of the United States." The latter was so disconcerted that he did not recover during the entire levee, and when the company were gone he turned to his factotum in a towering passion and said, "Well, you have taken me in once, but you shall never take me in a second time!" And he never did, but still the publio complained that the president was stiff and formal that he stood with his baud behind his back and bowed as though he had a crick in his neck.

Everybody "receives" here on New Year's, and the president is supposed to set a good exaniplo by leading off with the ornamental portion of our society— the gold laced and befrilled men of war and mombors of the embassies. But this year, in view of the recent demise of the president's aged mother, he will not receive until Jan. 19. The ordinary cabinet and diplomatic receptions will be held as usual, however.

The Art of Hospitality.

All Washington keeps open house on Now Year's and the gilded youth of our metropolis had their plans of campaign laid out long ago. They begin at the fashionable center, where the tables are lavishly spread from early in the afternoon till late at night, and gradually work their way into the outskirts to the remoto northeast and back again, carrying the merry war into the very heart of tho enemy's country. They know to a nicety just where they can get the most delicate sandwiohes, the daintiest cakes and particularly the finest liquors. One lady is celebrated for her eggnog, another for her claret punch, another for the pretty girls she has to assist her and still another for the general magnificence of her "lay* out" By long experience these "jeu» none doree" have learned what houses to avoid as well as what to frequent, and tho light of their rubicund countenances is shed only upon those that furnish the most lavish entertainment. And their condition as they wend their devious ways to their homes after this active foray upon the good things society provides for their delectation may as well be imagined as described.

The congressman is everywhere a pet •of society, and his presence is sought on all occasions. Having adjourned until after the 4tb of January for a period of relaxation, he proposes to relax. Those of us who have viewed him at a distance or only from the coiga of vantage afforded by the reserved galleries of senate or honse may now approach and upon Jm *t short range. It is said

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that familiarity breeds contempt Bat, bless yon, we don't get near enough for that. We admire at a distance. We grow to love on a nearer view him whom we have been taught to respect and worship.

A congressman on the floor is one personage. The same individual unbent is altogether another and more admirable object. To be sure, the member or the senator is not quite the exalted personage to us that he appears to others of our species, for while it is true that distance lends enchantment, the converse is equally true—that contiguity is disenchanting. Especially is he an object of admiration to the ladies whom he patronizingly compliments as they hand him the fragrant tea or, perchance, a glass of something more acceptable. They flock about him like butterflies around a morning glory vine, bask in the sunshine of his glances and bathe in the glory of his smiles.

Some have said that the average congressman is no match for the average Washington woman. That, I suppose, depends upon what we have in mind, but certainly she is a person of infinite tact and discretion. She likes to have a good time, and she likes the congressman because he assists her to have a good time. Without him, even with the fascinating attaches of the various embassies, she would find the winter in Washington as dry as a veritable Sahara

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It would be strange indeed if, with the pick of the country here assembled, this oity could not hold its own as against any of the capitals of Europe. We do not fully appreciate our lawgivers, I suppose, for the same reason that we are prone to underestimate the great value of our governmental publications, because they are all ours for nothing, without cost and without price. If the publications were printed in small editions and a high price put upon them, the people would soramble for an opportunity to buy, and so if the legislators were kept out of sight and perpetually in "executive session" their utterances would be treasured as the essence of wisdom. It is only after they are dead and bereaved oonfreres tell us how near to the angles they were in point of superhuman excellences that we begin to appreciate at their full worth our senators and members of oongress.

I am of the opinion that a valuable volume might be garnered of their witty sayings, let alone their oracular utterances. For example, that was an exceedingly bright rejoinder that Senator Mason of Illinois is said to leave made to the executive the other day. Senator Mason's attitude on the Cuban question is well known, as instanoed by his eloquent speeoh in favor of belligerency last spring. His position as to the Hawaiian annexation is not so well known, at least to the president, who is said to have remarked on the occasion of a call the senator made at the White House last week: "Senator, we are anxious to learn how you will stand on the Hawaiian matter. It is a.pressing, a very important, question, you know." "Well, Mr. President," drawled the senator in his inimitable way, "now, I don't kniw that it is so pressing. They aren't killing any women and ohildren down there yet, -I believe."

It all depends, you see, upon the point of view. Now, only a few days ago I was in the senate gallery listening to some of the speeches on the civil servioe. A learned senator arose and told the speaker—and incidentally his hearers in the galleries—how vile, iniquitous and altogether depraved the "snivel service" really was. If we wished to convince ourselves of this fact, we had only to visit the various departments and gaze at the hidebound, fossilized, decrepit and useless officials there, who have a greater respect for tradition than for economic conditions. In the first place, he said, civil service has been a good thing only for those who are in and for those who had tips from the fabricators of the fearfully constructed series of questions for the confusion of applicants. While it is admitted that our government should be conducted on business principles strictly and frequent changes should be deprecated, yet, on the other hand, it is urged that the retention in office of one who feels so snre of his position that no power on earth can oust him is altogether detrimental to the service. This is, he claims, the condition that prevails now, that has prevailed for several years—that the desks are occupied by a class of servile sycophants who look upon the government merely as constructed especially

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for their personal aggrandisement.

They have no regard whatever for the needs of our vast governmental machine. They care nothing for itsnecessities, but are constantly on the lookout for their own welfare and advancement.

The Point of Tiew.

It really seemed as though our cherished institutions were going to the dogs and that civil service was accelerating the

paoe until Senator Lodge got tip and in a few well chosen words showed that it would have been there long ago had it not been for the disinterested efforts of the maligned reformers. He read a letter from Census Taker Wright, which told how he might have saved the country some $2,000,000 if only his underlings had been appointed through civil service examinations another, from Librarian Young, narrating how his valuable time, which should have been put into the writing of his report, was nearly all taken up with hearings of applicants for office, and so on, until we were all convinced of the great saving to the country effected and about to be effected by the workings of the civil service.

It all depends, as I said, upon the point of view and your opportunities for falling over on the shady side of the fence. F. A. OBEB.

DON'T GO TO THE YUKON.

Or, if Ton Do, Try to Disbelieve What Captain Barr Says. [Special Correspondence.]

DETROIT, Dec. 28.—It is not likely that any one man by talking can stop the rush to the Klondike districts which is certain to come next spring, but what one man can do toward that end Captain J. C. Barr evidently does not intend to leave undone. Captain Barr, who is now visiting in this city, is transportation manager for the North American Trading and Transportation company. He returned in October last from a five years' sojourn in the Yukon river district, and emphatically advises everybody to stay away from there.

In speaking of the routes that have been planned out by study of the maps, especially one by way of the Mackenzie river and across the divide, where it is shown as only 40 miles wide, with no mountains, he says: "People who propose to go that way don't know what they are undertaking. The coast of Alaska has been surveyed, but the maps of the interior are all guesswork. The United States maps of the Yukon country were made up largely on distances given by myself, and I never measured one of them. But even if it were only 40 miles across at the point indicated and if the ground were level it is not likely that any one can cross there. It is boggy and overgrown with underbrush. The only practicable travel is by the water courses. In summer the water does ofc sink into the ground, which only thaws a little way down, and in winter there is no snow. It is too cold. Hoar frost collects four feet deep, but it is so light you can't travel on it with snowshoes. The so called mounted polioe are mounted in canoes. They can't get arouisd otherwise. "The mining is done in winter by building bonfires to thaw the ground. A man can tbaw out with a oord of wood in 24 hours about two inches depth in a space 6 feet by 8. Next day he goeB two inches deeper, and when he gets down four or five feet he begins to tunnel to save heat, and so goes faster. Then the summer thaws destroy the winter's work. The finding of gold is all a matter of luck, 'jf*® "1 have known men who nave been there 10 and 13 years and have been unable to get anything ahead because when they find gold they have to spend it all for food. Men die of gradual starvation. I saw two young men die of excitement after making their first strike because they were so weak from starvation'that they couldn't stand the shock. There is gold there, of course, but it is purely a matter of chance whether a man finds it or not, and the chances of death are greater." GEORGE MORLKY.

THE WILDS OF CHICAGO.

Visitors to the Windy City Should Go Well Armed. tSpeclal Correspondence.]

CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—Perhaps the one thing that most excites the surprise of outsiders who come to this city for a visit is the equanimity with which the people submit to highway robbery. It is not that an occasional case occurs such asmight shock any community, but that people are robbed with such regularity in public places that no one bet the victims pays much attention to the facts. Even the newspapers that are supposed to be hunting for sensations do not report them at length or put scareheads over the accounts.

In last Sunday's paper, for example, I find the accounts of three successful highway robberies and one burglary with a murderous assault all crowded into a quarter of a column with a two line head. All three were on principal streets. One was in a crowd in front of the Dearborn station, when a woman was seized by a heavily built man, who exclaimed, "You utter a scream and I'll put an end to your yelling right in this orowd." This, according to the reporter, he said, "in an ordering tone." The woman struggled, but did not dare to cry out, and the robber, finding that "the struggle began to attract the attention of passers by," gave her arm such a violent wrench as to break it. The woman fainted and was afterward taken to a hospital. The robber, seizing her purse, dashed through the crowd and disappeared in an alley.

It does not appear that either this case or that of afire marshal who was drag ged into an alleyway off State street and stabbed and robbed was reported to the police. Anyhow, no arrests are reported in either of the four cases, and no special interest seems to be excited. It is difficult to understand the coolness of Chicago people under the circumstances and impossible to think of similar occurrences in other oivilized cities being considered as everyday matters.

D. A.

Johnnie Pnt 'Ena Away.

Mistress (to servant)—-Bella, where axe those berries I told yon to put away? Servant—Johnnie came in awhile ago, marm, and he said he'd put 'em away for me.

Mistress—Yon needn't search any farther for them, Bella.—Roxbury Gasette.

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and all won distinction by their perseverance, but the agent of the washing machine is worth his weight in gold to the honse for which he travels if all there is said about him in the following is true:

Exasperated "Woman of the House—I have told you a dozen times I don't want the machine. Sic him, Tige!

Agvnt (while the deg is gnawing his leg)—Don't want the machine, ma'am? Pardon me, yon haven't yet seen half its good points. It washes the clothes cleaner than any other and in less than half the time. It never tears off a button. It"— "Good heavens! Don't yon see what the dog is doing?" "Yes, quire a playful animal. This machine, ma'am, uses less soap, takes up less room"— "He'll tear you to pieces if you don't go. Bun, for mercy's sake. He's tasted blood, and I'm afraid I can't stop him now." "I have to put up with such things, ma'am, and it's a good cause. This machine is the best one that ever was invented. If I can succeed in introducing one into a family, I always feel that I have done a benevolent act. You can use any kind' of water, hard or soft, hot or"— "Oh, no, no! He'll kill you. What is the machine worth?" "It's worth $1,000,000 to any family, but I'm selling it for only $5, and"— "Here's your money. I'll ^take it. Tige, Tige! Let go!" "Looks as if we were going to have rain. Well, I must be going. Good afternoon. ma'am. 'Lsr* Sewing Machine Times.

The enormous sale of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup has brought to the surface numerous imitations.,. Keep a sharp look out when you buy.

A Curious Russian Sect.

A curious sect in Russia is that known as the Runners [Beguny], because its members run away like a sick animal to some lonely spot to die when disease overtakes them. Another is known as the Runner Smotherers. When any member of this extraordinary sect is seized with a mortal or supposedly mortal illness, instead of being allowed to run off to die he is put out of the world by a woman whose title is the "smotherer.'' The ceremony is, for safety's sake, generally performed not in the victim's house, but in the common "praying room," a secret room conveniently situated to escape the prying eyes of authority and provided with numerous exits in case of a surprise. While psalms are sung and the censer swung the old woman who usually holds the honorable office of "smotherer" performs her task with a small cushion held over the sick person's nose and mouth, the body being afterward secretly buried in some remote spot, whither it is conveyed under a load of some innocent matter, such as hay.—New York Tribune.

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The Hew England Meeting Honse.

The New England meeting house was generally a square wooden box, but it showed excellent taste in the detail of its simple ornamentation. It is the theory of some thoughtful architects thai among the early colonial immigrants were men considerably above the ability of ordinary carpenters. In those days the architect was apt to be both designer and builder, and it was not in this country until very modern times that the line was at all clearly draw*» between the architect who designed and superintended in the interests of his client, and so became a professional man, and the builder who took a contract to execute the work and Hiake what he could out of it, and remained a business man. It is believed that the excellent taste and judgment of these men among the colonists made themselves felt in the taste of the ornamentation in what we call colonial architecture. They had no originality in the general design of buildings, because their experience had never included that, but they knew hew to carry out to perfection details of the ensemble. William B. Bigelow i^» Scribner's.

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