Arizona silver belt., 1883-10-13
RoDbsS Ienaubles.
A W ashlneton DORrAinG House.

rs agin, Genel! les Inuecdy, mean
you is agin"
The speaker thrust his hand out,
after Viping it on not too clean
apron, and as took it, said: "Whar
did you come frum dis yeah time,
Ahozony:"
answered "yes," and bowed my
head in. recognition Of the honor
which had so unexpectedly been
thrust upon mel was General. l
was troubled, however, about the exact
grade, so | said: "Moses, when was
here before, you called me Colonel; as
there are Brigadiers, Majors and
Lieut.. Generals, you'd better let me
be Brigadier, so that when come
to Washington again, may have the
satisfaction Of knowing that there is a
prospect of further promotion
"Dat'sso Gene'l, dats so.'
had Just arrived, after an all night
ride from New York; so on my way to
my room,rI told Moses-it would be
sacrilegs TO say sMose"- that I wanted
some brsskfast.f %$,
|, "Musshave il sab; mus have it, jis'
agwinSv4e'ringae bell" So. hurry
ling through the necessary washing
and brushing, L presented myself in
the breakfast room, and became the
cynosure of atbut twenty pairs Of
/ eyes. After seating myself in the
Iaonly vacant chair, I glanced down
along each side of the tables and i'm
nediately recognized the omniprescnt
departmental clerk. Next to me, on
my right, was a stout lady clerk,
dressed in red, with red plumed hat
on; and beside her quiet little man
who appeared to harmonic with the
lady in one respect at least--his whis.
kers and hair were as sanguinary in
their hue as her costume. A little
further down was Yankee, / should
Judge, who, between the pauses of his
knife and fork work, dilated upon
grand scheme he had of inducing the
wealthy citizens of Washington to
build summer residences ''deOwn the
rive" Near him sat
"Genel beafsteak or breakfus' ba.
con?"
At the words, uttered in loud tone
by Moses, whose old bald head was
fringed with wool, grey glory; and
whose eyes were beaming upon me
like benediction, the company looked
up for an instant and then settled
back to their plates without giving
any evidence of paralysis. They were
evidently used to Generals Having
selected beefsteak-I've eaten so much
bacon on the frontier that / feel like
giving the hog a. chance now-I went
on with my study Of the eaters, while
Moses disappeared through the door,
way.
A school-marm, straight as a ruler,
frigid of manuer, left handed, correct
Of speech, neutral of dress-a relief
after the bull-maddening colors of the
lady near me--and as old looking as
edu cation itself, was the next subject.
Next to her was a lady clerk in the
P. o. Department, who divided her
time talking shop, laboring with her
beefsteak, and telling an old fellow on
the opposite side that "a man was
yous sikty, chow did she know p
at which the old fellow chuckled,
struggled with the curve which good
many years had made in his spine, and
looked at her with sort of I-saw-thee-
and-passion on-taught-me-poesy look.
began to think, Moses had been
gone so long, that l would be forced
into economizing time by getting my
breakfast at the dinner hour, and
eating both meals together, when
"Dar it am, Missy! dar it goes! |!
dar, its done gone!!t' came from
somewheres in the basement, and
every eye was turned to a corner of
the room in time to see a suggestion
of breakfast gliding upwards in a
dumb waiter, while missy" was rush
ing to the corner with outstretchad
hands to stop it in its mad career. -
spectacled gentleman, whom they
called ''Doc,f said that "a breakfast in
this house.never could counterbalance
the iiftingipowerrof that waiter"
After little while Moses came up
stairs with a cup of coffee, the break
; fast was brought down from the attic,
and determined to eat, and study the
boarders atsfhes same time. ,l 81
If a man wants to win in this world,
he must put all his energies in one
direction. 1 realized that when l
commenced to eat my beefsteak, so l
centred my energies on it.
An irreverent youngster, junior