The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-08

soldierly hearing and manly face AMI
form impress you with his reserved
strength. He Is more like u Ken
tuckian than any man from anywhere
else that ! ever saw. But you sec n
once that he is not a Kcntuckian. He
does not swear, and he docs not drink
whisky. Still he has all the easy
fricndlincss of the Kcntuckian, and all
Of his aptnCss for speech making and
story telling. / should think he was
not more than 30 years old, although
lie has served several terms in Con
gross and wears eyeglasses occasion
ally. Mr.. Stevenson Is one OF that
small body of public men who do not
feel their dignity compromi9al by
wearing light-colorcd clothes in sum
MGR weather.
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"The idea that the new special pos
tai delivery service will be losing
venture to the Government is absurd, y
said q Posiollicc official the other day.
at is regulated so that the Government
cannot well lose anything, even If il
should fail to derive any profit from
the scheme II is the messengers who
will have TO suffer in case the service
is not ratroni2cd to nm extent that will
make it pay, for their compensation
never goes above II certain pcrccntum
of the whole number of letters deliv-
cred bearing the special delivery stamps.
In this way the service is made self
tgt ni,,in,r From, ti,p fiat aud fhn hANs
are the only ones who incur any
risk. / would not advise any boy to
leave good situation to become II
special messenger in the Postolli3e, for
unless the service is pretty literally
patronized his earnings will be very
small. Yet | observe that u great
many of them are ready to take the
chances. For each letter delivered,
bearing II ten-ccnt stamp, the boy who
delivers it will receive eight cents, and
out of that he must eXpcnd whatever
may be necessary for car fare. There
will be many long trips, and there is
no profit in giving ten cents for eight.
No matter how popular the system may
become, the boys will not be paid over
$50 month, and out of that must be
| paid their car fare, so that only the
messengers who have frequent short
trips will be able to realize that they
are working for something besides
glory"
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This is rather an ancient chestnut
picked up by Pittsburg paper, bu
will answer for the dull season: Con
gresham j. Randolph Tucker of Vir
ginia, has the reputation of being ont
Of the best stump speakers in hi
State, Senator Blackburn and Mr.
Tucker were travelling through TIN
southwestern section of the State cleo
tioneering for Cleveland and Hen
bricks, making sometimes as many n
twenty or twenty-five speeches day
In fact, whenever Mr.. Tucker dis
covered several men talking togethe
by the roadside, he, without furthe
ceremony, walked into their midst ant
delivered Il brief speech on the politi
cal struggle then going on. On
morning these two gentlemen wer
passing through piece Of woods whe>
they came across hanging party. Tn
rope had been placed around the vic
Tins neck, and the chief cXecutione
informed the prisoner that he nigh
have ten minutes to say anything h
desired in his own behalf. Mr.. Tuckc
saw an opportunity, so Mr.. Blackburn
says, TO work of n few political rC
marks, 50 he pushed his way throug
the crowd and requested the cor
dcmncd man TO divide his time wit
| him