rtft-Oii ,,, , amrffi n m, iu Bifsmw, , v. , .TTTTTSySS'""""""1''"'" HMPUlitftrfMMiMM ' t c CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1889. BBJmjA a h , ft HEYMAN & DEICHES, 1M8-I8W I'nmiim HI., Wow Paxton Hlock, THE LAMEST CLOAK, SUIT and FUR HOUSE. In The West Vr'nuronow Introducing inony nnw novel tics In Hprlng nnil Hummer wear, mitl re fife 'invltoonr Lincoln frloniU to mil AlUl KCO tllO HOW lll0jt.ltOjH)IUHl( ARE DIRECT IMPORTERS And ns such ran oiler later styles nt lower prices Minn any lumso west of Chicago a fact we'll tnko pleimuro In proving to l.lucolulies. GALL AMD SEE US WHEN IN OMAHA, Wo civil utiow you it tine lino of Cloaks, Dromes nun Furs Unit lurpiis anything you mvo ovcrscon In tlio onilre. west. It will pity you la tnko 11 trip to Onmliti to see up, If you want nnyt hlnn nice In our line. Mill Orders Receive Prompt Attention. mHnjnminjijKsfl TO UISU PRINCIPAL POINTS EAST, WEST, NORTH and SOUTH -AT- 1044 O STREET. 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Hero are his Intra, wlioro ho laya in wait for HcnntoM, reproHontntlvea, men of Influence. Ho carries In his pockotA a lilg hunch of Icttora of recoin uieudatlou, and to these ho Is continually seeking additions. Names of great men nro what ho wants, but a small nam. is better than no namo nt nil. Ho will wait nil day to scctiro the signa ture of a senator, but miss no opportunities mcanwhilo to get tlio autographs of representatives, ox-repro-Hcntatlves, small fry politicians, men of llttlo or no Inlluenco with tlio president or anybody else. It is refreshing to boo a lot of olllco seekers swapping Inlluenco signing each other's papers. Proceed lug on tlio general though not infulllblo princlplo that If ono namo is good n bun drod names must bo bettor, thoy pasto sheet after sheet to tholr Indorsements and Industriously (111 them out. In tho lobby of tho Hbbltt houso the other night a strnngo discovery was miulo. An In diana man found ho had signed tho in dorseincnt of a friend who wns Hooking the Identical olllco ho himself wanted, and the friend had in turn signed his paicra. This was tho result of a misun derstanding, and it is a wonder inoro such mistakes do not occur, considering tho Imsto with which these recommenda tions nro signed. Nobody pretends that it is dishonor nblo to seek public olllco. Nor does any body hereabouts hold to tho lino old sen timent that tho olllco should nook tho man. But Micro aro good and proper ways In which to seek places, and bad nnd ridiculous ways. Tho man who cornea down to Washington and makes a nuisance of himself dogging tho foot steps of persons of' prominence, sitting on their doorsteps, as it were, following thorn to church and intruding upon tho prlvnoy of their families, is not pursuing tho proper way. Don't think this an ex aggeration. Senator Cullom. of Illinois, board In tho Arlington hotel. Ho can not go from his room to tho dining room, nor froth tho dining room to tho hotel ofllco, without being stopped two or threo times by place hunters. Senator upooncr lives away up on Capitol Hill, in tho building which wns formerly tho Capitol Srlson, and In which congress itself met ust after tho British burned tho Capitol. Ono recent morning tho senator had five ofllco Hcoking callers beforo break fast. Senator Hlscock, of Now York, says ho was approached by a placo hunt er in tho vostibulo of his church last Sunday. At tho scnato chamber, whero tho sen ators meet for a short tlmo every day at noon, a crowd of persons willing to servo their country is always assembled. Thoy stand out in tho lobby or provail upon tho doorkeepers to let them Into tho marble room. But tho sly old senators fool them by going out tho sldo doors and by using tho prlvato stairways to which nono but senators have access. Another cuto trick of tho senators Is to pass most of tholr timo In tho cloak room, and thence tho doorkeepers aro forbidden to tako cards. That is a sena torial sanctorum which no outsider daro invado. It Is no exaggeration to say that a sort of hido nnd seek game is going on between tho hungry hordes nnd tho paironngo purveyors. Ono of tho Washington papers, know ing from experience that the town would Ik full of pluco hunters, printed on In auguration day a list of tho principal places in the government. That edition is still selling rapidly. On tho news stands in tho hotels nro displayed for Kilo llttlo "blue books," also containing incomplete lists of olllces. Half the men ono boos about tho hotels havo theso lit tle books In their pockets. Thoy havo been studying them. Tlio ofllcinl "blue book" Is a largo ntmlr in two volumes, each as big ns Wobster's dictionary. I was in tho rooms of Congressman Can non, of Illinois, last night, and I asked him if ho had a copy of tho blue book. "I havo one," he replied, "but I dasscnt keep It hero In my rooms. My friends would 8Kud all their tlmo hero looking it over and asking mo questions." Rep resentative Laldlaw, of Now York, sent a bluo'book to a constituent of his two or three weeks ago, and ho says now ho'd givo n thousand dollars if bo hadn't dono It. There seems to bo a gcnsral craze in tho country to go abroad. Public men Ky thoy never buw anything like it. Tho desire to travel nt tho government's ox penso appears to bo contagious. Sonntor Fitrwcl I showed mo a stack of applica tions two feet high, and ho said about half of them wero for consulates. In a ma jority of cases the applicants didn't know what conjulateH thoy wanted; all they wero certain of was that Uiey wanted consulates. When tho ofllco seeker first reaches Washington ho registers at u first class hotel, Four or five dollars a day is a mere bagatelle to a man who expects to get a three or four thousand dollar posi tion. In a week or two ho takes a cheap room on the top floor, and In another week or two ho removes to a cheap boarding houso. In tho end ho may bo compelled to borrow monoy to pay his expense home. Step into tho Ebbttt houso or Willord's. or any of tho other hotels, and you will 6co a hundred placo Beckers. A vigor ous, intelligent, eocmlngly forceful and prosperous lot of men they are. This one Is a merchant, that ono a banker, an other n lawyer, and a fourth a farmer, Probably nny ono of them can maico two or three thousand dollars n year nt homo, and mako It easily. Can you understand why he should como hero nnd run his legs olT nfter somo llttlo ofllco which will nlTord him a baro living? I can't, nnd tho liest ndvlco I can givo, or anybody can give tho man who thinks of Joining tho scramble is don't. An long ns you can make uu honest living nt your pro fession, business or trade, stick to it, If you have no profession, no business or trade, learn or acquire one. If you tako olllco let It bo ns n Inst resort, liko going to tho K)or houso. The ovoltttlon of ofllco Reeking is n curious study, Two weeks ngo some thing like modesty was discernible. Tho aspirant had a nlco nnd unctuous way of saying: "I liavo como down to seo tho Inauguration. I am not n candidate for anything, Somo of my friends think I ought to tako something tinder tills ad ministration, and to pIcaBo thorn I don't know but I might bo willing," All this has disapcarcd. Modesty rum character istic has played out. Now tho candidate hnn no hesitation in saying ho is bore for something, nnd that ho is working his hardest to get It, It is almost pathetio to mako tho rounds of tho departments theso days. Step into tlio niito-rooms of the cabinet ministers, particularly the Interior, postofllco and treasury, and takou look nt tho crowds of men there luwoniblod, waiting for a chanco at tho ear of tho chiefs. They nro a discontented, eager looking lot, re spectable euougli, but with tho strain of anxiety showing in their faces, In their eyes, in the cut liko manner in which thoy watch each other, and tho solomn, hardened man who stands guard at tho door. Tho pity of It Is so many of theso candidates nro old men. Heron former United States senator has wit for an hour. All ho wants Is a clerical placo worth $2,500 a year. There sits a man who onco had a law practlco which earned him $20,000 per uumim. Ho wants n second class postofllco in it western state. Great numlierHof ofllco holders under former Republican administrations arc hero trying to get their old placcB ngaln, and serving to exemplify tho axiom, "Onco an olllco holder always an ofllco seeker." , Thcro nro plonty of "guides to Wash ington" for the U80 of sight seers, but tho most popular manual just now Is tho "guldo to ofllco getting." It is a very pretty llttlo book, nnd was admirably written by a Washington nowspapcr man. In passing it may bo remarked that newspaper men do not csenpo tho Importunities of tho ambitious. Thoy aro appealed to for favorable mention in their dispatches, and sometimes nro asked to indulgo In downright lying. For Instance, a certain aspirant for a placo in tho department of tho interior asked tho representatives of tho papers from his stato to sond out a report that his namo had been virtually decided on by tho president and secretary. Ho know his selection had not been decided on, but ho explained that ho wanted suchnn Impression to go out in order to dlscour ogo two or threo possiblo rivals and also to encourago his friends, who wero keep ing him supplied with funds for his ex penses. It is needless to add that tho nowspapcr correspondents declined to grant tho gentleman's request. According to "Tho Ofllco Seekers' Guido," an applicant should obtain let ters of recommendation from tho lead ing citizens of his neighborhood, with out regard to their political affiliations. Ho should "endeavor to got a separate autograph letter from each indorscr, couched In tho writer's own Inncuaire. Tho appointing ofllccrs nt Washington aro novcr much impressed by n circular letter of recommendation, apparently drawn up by tho nppllcant or u friend, and passed around for signature; and tho f requont practlco of eovcral ncrsons writing nnd signing tlio phrase, I con cur,' beneath a preceding recommenda tion should bo avoided." Noxt, tho would be publla Gcrvant is Informed that after securing tho indorse ment of the senators from his stato and tho representative from his district, he must "thenceforward, for ndefinito time (say a short mouth), dovoto his whole surplus of tlmo and energy to keeping his persona! and political friends at work upon Ills case, writing or speaking to anybody and overyliody likely to Ikj of nny service, and always nctlng upon the theory that everybody, no matter bow much Interested, apparently, in Ids case, forgets all about it as soon as ho is out of sight or bearing,' Senators and other persons of consequence say they think nil the aspirants for olllco havo read these fragments of ndvlco in tho guldo, nnd that they nro determined to follow them out to the very letter, It ts also refreshing to read in the guide that if no progress bo made nfter a few weeks of this sort of effort tho appli cant should "desist long enough tocnable his friends and backers to get over fntlguoond doubtfulness, nnd then begin afresh." Onn innn. quotation from tho guide will show why senators nnd representa tives dread this period of discontent, this em hi which patience becomes exhausted nnd hair turns Bray. "Tlio applicant should never feel sure of appointment till appointed," says tho handbook, "nor Bliould ho over fear that ho is saying or doing too much for himself, or that others aro doing or saying too much for him, or that any help ho can get, of any kind, from any quarter, will bo useless." Thcro is no more ofllco limiting now Mian Micro was four years rtgo. The itch for ofllco la no inoro prevalent in ono party than in another, WAI.TEK WCtJAIAN. Aro You Collie to Uulld. u Lawu? Thcro aro about 0,000 species of grasses growing hero and thcro all over the planet wo inhabit 0,000 species, nnd yet a man can spend two summcra and $300 on a half aero lawn and then havo noth ing to ehow for it but tho biggest, health iest, coarsest crop of plantain that ever spread itself all over tho earth like n green bay trco and hoHcrod for -inoro room. This also is vanity. Burdctto. Engaged on th Spot. Dry OoxU Merchant You have cnllod in rcrouM to our ndvcrtlnement as n floor wnikrrl Well, sir, what nro your nuallflca tfons for tho position! Applicant 1 am tho fntlior of thrco pairs of twins. Uoiton Courier. A l'rlrmlljr Cnutlmt. Mr. Wevplelgh (who has como around tho cornor unexpectedly) Good morlng, Undo Phillpl Undo Philip Good morula', (xpitro; good morula', Rnhl I war jlstncomlu' up to yo' houso fcr tor warn ycr (latdey'snnowfambly ob coons movixl in ober on d' hill, an' doy's ll'blo tor bo fond ob chlck'iu. How's yo' Lcchoms n glttln' long, snhf Judge Their Mnthi-r. My boy lint looking strnlctit Into tlio coals, From his stool nt my feet ono day, Anil tlio flri'llf-lit Imrnlslicd tlio curly linul, And jxilnUil tlio checks with n ilnoli of red, And brightened his very eyes, as ho Raid, In ft inontcotinduntlnl ways "Mamma, I think, when I'm a growu-up man, I shall liavu Just two llttlo hoys." I smiled, ho wus six) hut ho did not sec, And I saldi "Yet, how nlco that w 111 hoi . Hut If ono wero n girl, It seems to mo, It would mill to your household Joys." "Well, yes," reflectively, "that would bo nlco, And I'll tell you Just what I'll do; I'll namo ono Hobble, for me, you know." Then tho bright eyes shono with a deeper glow, "And there's Juit tlio two of us now, and so I'll namo tho girl, Annlo, for you." "But how would their mother liko thatt" I asked. "Do you think thatstio would agrco For us both to havo names whllo slia had nono?" With tho mystified, puzzled look of ono Wholly befogged, said my logical son, "Their mother! Why, who Is shot" Good Housekeeping, Not 80 I'rtiipenius, After All. At a religious convention held in a western town each minister wns required to givo nn account of tho condition of his clmrgo, nnd if prospering receive congratulation, or, if not, to receive ndvlco and encouragement, with perhaps nlil. In his turn nroso n very dcllhcrato speaker nnd reported that his congregation "wns lookin' up." Doforo ho could mid nnothcr remnrlc tho noxt delegnto In order was cnllod for his report, nnd so on until all wero heard from. Then enmo tho chnlnuan's remarks to each dclcgato. When ho enmo to tho nfore Balil dcllhcrato R)oakcr ho wild ho must con gratulate his brother from tho far west upon his being nblo to report that his congregation was "looking up," whereupon tho dcllhcrato speaker nroso nnil said that ho should prob ably havo added thnt, ns thoy wero "flat on their hacks, It wns tho only wny thoy could look." Philadelphia Press. rmetlenl 1'hlloMiptiy. Al. Say, why nro you riways treating thnt Miss La Fnttoo to Ico crenm in wlntcrf Ed. Dccnuso cold contracts, you know, and I thought by applying It Inaiilo when tho weather wns applying It outside, I might, perhaps, get her reduced so ns to put my nrm around her. Detroit Frco Press. IplalurI nt Lust. Mabel (passing tho Whlpporsnappcr club) Mamma, dear, what do all those men always sit at that window for, I wondorl Mrs. N. Thoy sit in that window, pot, in onler to lot nil of us sou that thoy havo thnt window to sit In. Life. Mr, Vumlerlillt Out III. A good story is told about ono of tho Malno Central engineers. Last summer, when tho Vanderbllt car was at Bar Harbor, tho manager of tho Malno Central sent an cngluo down there to tnko tho enr to PortlnmL Tho run wns mado in very quick tlmo, and at Brunswick tho train stopped to tnko on water. Whllo thcro Mr. Vanderbllt got out nnd said to tho engineer- that ho didn't want him to drlvoso fast, Tho engineer, tho veteran Simpson, looked at him u qunrter of a mm Uto, and then wild; "I am running this train uuder orders from Pnyson Tucker to bo in Portland nt 1 :07. If you want to stop hero nil right. If you want to go to Portland get in." Ho got in. Danger Commercial. Dclleato Treatment of Conntltueiiti. Tho other day u western cougi essmnn camo into tho senate restaurant with two constitu ents, good men, hut a llttlo rustic In npix'nr- nuco and numners nnd unused to convention nllties and points of etiquette that nro un known In Wayback. Tho restaurant wns full of lad lea and gentlemen. As tho congressman seated hlmxclf ho of course removed his lint, A moment or tno Inter ho noticed that his untutored friends hnd not removed their hats. Uu hastily put his own hat bade on his head nnd woro It during tho meal, Chester Held could not liavo dono anything liner than that. 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