The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-02

But there are enough gray lines in it to show
that this supposition is baselcss. Like
all men who have preserved their physical
health for long period Of years the General
man. He smokes in a moderate way, and is tenn
perate In his eating He is not very fond OK
swell dinners. Senators are invited out more
than any other class of officials IN Washington
Many senator's whose deaths have been attrb-
uted to overwork owe the shortening of their
lives to excesses at fashionable dinners. Where
one attends three four set dinners q
week there Is a constant temptation to eat and
drink too much. A man who can GO through
several Washington dinner campaigns without
going Down deserves as much congratulation az
bloody campaign
General Logan does great deal of manual
LABOR: In the settling of his house, which he
bought this last summer. he did every day for a
long time, several hours of carpenter work He
has shop fitted up in one of the wings of the
house. and there he has trimmed off refractory
doors and done many jobs of hard physical work
The bulk OF the sodding around the house was
done by him in the early morning hours of last
summer. The large hen-house and the dog
houses back of the house are triumphs of his
carpentering skill This active exercise has
evidently done him as much good as his success
IN his senatorial campaign. He looks as well
this fall as he has at any time since he has come
to Washington.
The lottery character or American politics
is we'll illustrated by the changes which have
taken place in General Logan's fortunes during
the.last six months Last spring he was out Of
Office and engaged in what appeared to be at
that time an almost hopeless struggle for re-
election to the Senate. He had no property, ex-
cept house in Chicago, and if he had failed ut
Springfield would have had hard struggle to
make up an income in the legal profession. By
this mean that he had practice established.
as he had not given much, if any, time to the
regular practice of law since he has been in pub
lie life When he was elected senator at Spring.
field his bad luck changed. He returned to
Washington, and in the dulest season of the
year bought handsome real estate property
for $2O, 900, in a location where real estate was
just beginning to move up. This property he
bought entirely upon credit as he had no money
to make even first payment. The rent of his
house in Chicago is sufficient to pay tho interest
and taxes upon the sum due on this property.
AS the Logans live plainly, the Senator expects
to be able to pay for this house in the course Of
time from the moderate savings of his salary.
The increase OF $4,000 year attached to tho
acting Vice presidents office would probably en-
able bin to pay for his house during the nexS
three years. His book promises well, his pub
fishers say. His real estate purchase this year
promises to realize for him within the next FIVE
or SIX years three times what he gave for ii. The
change between his condition last spring and
this fall is one Of the sharp and marked con-
trasts which are SO often presented in the lives
OF energetic, self-relant men who refuse to sue
cumb to bad luck.