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The President's Real Salary
In the appropriation for tho fiscal
year,. $25,000 appears for the presi
denta traveling expenses, an
Jtom unimportant in itself, except
"as constituting the fifth regular ap
propriation which "affects thes life of
the occupant of tho White House.
While tho school-book information that
the president receives a salary of $50,
000. a year is sufflcteiitly accurate, it
is not strictly so, as ordinary people
measure Incomes. Sixty thousand dol
lars is appropriated for tho care of
thn White House, including refurnish
ing' as well as repainting. The fuel'
for the White House and its conserva
tories is also supplied by Uncle Sam.
formerly tho greenhouses were direct
ly Connected with the mansion itself,
covering what is now the west ter
race, but in tho McKim restoration
these were removed to the monument
grounds; they are still carried on the
appropriation bills, however, as a
White House affair.
The president is thus relieved of
the cost of furnishing and caring for
the White House, heating it, or sup
plying it with liowers. a seconu ap
propriation bill carries $20,000 for
lighting, and this includes everything
from his lamp on his study table to
the arc lights . outside, which, are ,a
part of tho illumination in Pennsyl
vania avenue. It is even specified in
the statute that this grant shall pay
for the White House matches, as well
as stoves and fuel for tho watchman's
lodge.. Another item carries $20,000
for the contingent expenses of the
White House. This covers the tele
phone jond telegraph service and sta
. tlonery, and provides for "the official
stable," 'which is a different thing-
from: the president's stable, although
the "two may occupy the same build-
CannotRest
Your appetite Is gone. What little you eat
distresses you. Strength is failing nre bilious.
You havcneadache. backache, feel blue and
melancholy and cannot rest or sleep. The fact
is your nerves are unstrunj;, and you are on the
verge of nervous prostration. They must be
strengthened, renewed. They will not cure
themselves, "but must have a nerve remedy.
This you will find in
Dr. Miles' Nervine
ing. A fourth item of $60,000 pays
for the White House employes, most
of whom arc on official duty, although
a few, like the steward' and four of
tho upstairs maids, may bo regarded
as personal in their obligations. It
is very hard to separate a president's
norsonal relations from his official,
'and the Appropriation bills wisely
make no serious attempt to do so.
This roundabout system of compen
sating a president doubtless accords
with the American conservatism much
better than would one direct payment
covering the whole sum. But the
present arrangement gives rise t&
many anomalies. For example, the
government provides four horses for
Mr. Loeb, the president's secretary,
and pays the wages of the driver and
the groom. But the president himself
must buy his own horses and car
riages, pay for the grain which they
eat and compensate the men who take
care of them. The government does
furnjsh, however, the "president's
driver," one of the offices most cov
eted by the colored population of
Washington. It also furnishes the
Stable lighted and supplied with water
and feed. The chief cost of being
president comes in the entertaining,
for which the government furnishes
only the fuel and flowers, and the ser
vices of a few helpers. .
This traveling expense appropria
tion settles one xf the, most diffl-
Lcult questions with which the occu
pants of the Whito House have had to
deal. They ought not to go as "dead
heads," accepting favors from the
great transportation companies, and
they can not afford to make such
trips in the manner that custom pre
scribes, at their own expense, Unlike
minor officers of various grades, they
can not discover official business call
ing them to places that they want to
go at various times. They must go
across the continent as "on trips,"
and congress has done well to pay for
these. The new union station in
Washington has been built with a spe
cial entrance for the president of the
United. States, to save him the risk
and trouble ongoing through the pub
lic waiting rooms with their attend
ant crowds. This means that the peo
ple intend keeping him traveling.
Pew men save anything in the pres
idential office, and this latest addition
to the president's income will make
little difference in this respect. The
standards of entertaining are constant
ly rising, and this is what entails the
Most of- the presi
It is prepared for just such ailments, and is
a ncver-faillriK remedy, because it soothes,
-feeds and builds the nerves back to health.
If allow ed to contii uo. stomach, kidney and largest exnense.
ini?a!SnS5wSSWiJ0 your dents nave died poor, if indeed they
were not made so by occupying that
already overflowing measure of misery.
I suffered from nervous prostration. When
1 I beiran takiotr Dr. Miles Nervine I couldn't
hold anything in my hands, nor tret from one
room to another. Now I do all my own
-work."
MUS. CHAS. LANDRUM, Carthage, Mo.
Nervine seldom falls to do all we claim for
it, and so we authorize druggists to refund
money it flrst bottle does not beneilt. .
office. It is not unlikely, in spite of
the extraordinary changes of a cen
tury in the standards by which wealth
is measured, that George Washington
urn a nnr vtnThnal nrocslrlo'nf Pnafnn
1 Transcript.
THE PRIMARY PLEDGE
I promise to attend all the primaries of my party to be held between
I- now and the next Democratic National Convention, unless unavoidably
prevented, and to uso ray influence to secure a clear, honest and
straightforward declaration of tho party's position on every question
upon which the voters of tho party desire to speak.
SHAiyiEFUL EXTRAVAGANCE
The Wall Street Journal recently
printed tho following interesting edi
torial: In one of the Sunday papers, it does
not matter which and it might have
appeared in any, appears .a two-column
article on the folly of saving pen
nies. The following conclusive in
stances of spending them freely with
good results are given. One man buys
an automobile which he admits he
cannot afford, and makes $200,000 out
of a casual guest. Another spends 75
cents for extra Pullman accommoda
tion and secures an interview accident
ally for which he receives $75. A
young man in Kansas City indulges
himself in a needlessly expensive res
taurant and is launched on a land spec
ulation out of which he makes $600 a
montn. Tho son of a New York law-,
yer becomes so worthless, that his
father sends him away west with
$5,000 and he makes $7,000 more in a
gamble in sheep. There is more of
the same kind, but the instances are
typical of our new Sunday literature.
What pernicious rubbish is this? In
no one of the cases specified did the
extravagance justify itself. There is
a complete confusion between an ex
penditure justified by well calculated
results and money needed for legiti
mate uses wasted upon self indulgence.
If any of the young men named had
taken a corresponding amount of mon
ey to the nearest pool room or gam
bling house he would have -had a hot
ter chance for his money at the' math
ematical odds. '
A business man pointed out the
other day that when he was having his
hair cut two of his employes, earning
respectively $12 and $15 a week, came
in. They each had a 15-cent shave, a.
10-cent shine for their shoes, a 10-cent
cigar anu gave w cents to tne barber's
assistant. Here were 45 cents wasted
on what their employer, was accus
tomed to do for himself. They should
have been able to shave themselves
and they were surely not top impor
tant to polish their own shoes, while
their taste in .tobacco was far too ex
pensive, for their income.
Is "there on.e of these young men
who could not rely with absolute cer
tainty on thrift and industry bringing
him an ultimate competence? Is there
one of these free spenders who does
not .become a burden, upon his friends
at the fir,st accidental illness or when
the first lull in business throws him
out of his. .employment? Do. they not
represent the meanest weed that a
false system of education has pro
duced? Could there be a more de
testable compound of the spendthrift
and the snob?
Our waste is bad enough without
teaching it as a "business principle.
Our servants believe there is some
thing to bo ashamed of in ordinary
carefulness. Our cooks waste enough
in tho garbage pail to feed a family of
better people than themselves. The
incompetent Who maltreats our fur
naces in the winter and' lives from
"hand to mouth in the summer wastes
GO per cent of bur fuel because ho
thinks it" would be despicable to screen
the ashes'. Can we wonder at graft
and extravagance and folly in the ad
ministration of our public departments
and tho government of our municipal
ities when we are teaching such les
sons as these to our youth?
.The two thoughts which any careful
foreign observer 'would 'carry 'away
from a tour of the "united Stated would
be: . -
What splendid, resources! .
What shameful extravagance!
he was stationed at the Baltimore &
Ohio station here. '
Among his other duties he had to
keep carriages from standing at tho
curb directly in front of the station
entrance, 'it being necessary to keen
that place clear for carriages that
were coming and going at that point
President Grant drove to the station
tp meet one of the incoming trains.
While the officer was in another place
the carriage stopped in front of the
station. When the officer turned he
noticed the v president's rig standing
there and waited for it to move alontr
When it did not move and no one
alighted the officer supposed that the
president had gone into the station.
'You know as well as I do that
you" can not stand there," said the
officer to the president's coachman.
''Do you know whose carriage this
is?' was the only answer of the man
on the box.
"That makes no difference. You
must move.." But there was no move
on the part of the coachman to. stir
from the place.
"Hawkins," came a voice from in
side, "did you hear what that officer
said?" And the head of the president
of the United States was poked out
of the' carriage window. ' The carriage
moved. New York World.
SHE GOT A JOB
There is a true story of one young
woman who had devoted almost a
year to pulling wires and using all
possible influence to gain an interview
with a certain theatrical manager. At
last her hopes were realized; she got
her appointment and she was finally
ushered into the manager's private
office. He'received her most cordially
and offered her a chair. "Thank you,"
she said, gratefully, "I think I will
sit down. I've been just ten months
getting here and I'm a .little .tired.'
And the manager, 'who Is really a
great man and hence has a sense of
humor, promptly engaged her. Outing
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GRANT'S CARRIAGE "MOVED ON"
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The recent episode of the Belasco
theater here when tho president's
coachman had a difficulty with the
manager-because ho would not move
his carriage, although nobody was in
the carriage and it was waiting for
some White House guests, reminded
an old pplice sergeant of a time when
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