Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-17

and certainly was not Of a quality that Mr..
WTes, at present, would have cared to ex-
pose For, in spite Of Mr.. Wies' diScom-
future, be still had enough experience Of char
acter to know that the irate member from
Fresno would be satisfied with his own pecu-
liar manner Of vindicatinS his own personal
integrity, and would not make public scan
dial of it. Again, Wies vas Convinced hat
DObbs was equally implicated with Cash
wiler and would be silent for his W sake.
So that poor DobbS, as IS too often the fate Of
simple but weak natures, had full credit for
duplcity by every rascal in the land.
From which it may be inforred that nothing
occurred to disturb the security Of GaShwiler.
When the door closed upon Mr.. Wiles he in
dited q note which, with u costly but exceed
ingly diStcsteful bouquet-rearranged by his
own fat fingers, and dlScoru and mcongTulty
visible in every combination Of color-he sent
Off by a special messenger. Then he pro-
ceeded { omake his tOilet-an operation rarely
graceful or picturesque in our sex, and an in
suit to the spectator when obesity is super
added. When he had put on a clean shirt, OF
which there was grossly too much, and added
a white waiStcoat, that seemed to accent his
rotundity, he completed his attire with a
black frock coat Of the latest style, and sur
veyed himself complacently before a mirror.
1t is to berccorded that, however satisfactory
the result might have been to Mr.. GaShwiler,
it was not so to the dSintereStcd spectator.
There are some men on whom that defOrmed
thief, Fashion, avenges himself by making
their clothes appear ~perennially new. The
gloss Of the tailor'S iron never disappears; the
creases Of the shelf perpetually rise in judG-
ment against the wearer. Novelty was the
general suggestion Of Mr.. Gashwileris full
dreSS-it was never his habitude-and Our
Own Make, - ~Nobby, and the --latest Style,
only Sl5," was as patent on the legislators
broad back rs if it still retained the shop
mans ticket.
Thus arrayed, within ON hour he compla-
Gently followed the note and his floral offer
ING. The house be sought had been once the
residence Of a foreign ambassador, who had
Loyalty represented his government ina single
unimportant treaty, nov forgotten, and in
various receptions and dinners, still actively
remembered by occasional visits to its salon,
now the average dreary American parlor.
Dear me-" the fascinating Mr.. Y. would
say, but do YOU know, love, in this very
room / remember meeting the distinguished
Marquis Of Monte Pio;' or perhaps the fash
ionable Jones, Of the state department, in
stantly crushed the decayed friend lie was
perfunCtorily visiting by saying: "'Pon my
soul, YOU here7 Why, the last time I was in
this room l gOSsiped for an hour with the
Countess de Castenet in that very corner
For, with the recall Of the aforesaid ambas-
sador, the mansion had become a boarding
house, kept by the wife Of departmental
clerk
Perhaps there was nothing in the history Of
the house moro quaint and philOsOphic than
The story Of its present occupant Roger
Fauquier had been a departmental CLERK for
forty years. 1t was at once his practical
good luck and his misfortune to have been
early appointed to a position which required
= thorough and complete knowledge Of the
formulas and routine Of a department that
expended millions Of the public funds. Eau
uuier, on a poor salary, diminishing instead
of increasing with his service, had seen sue
ceSsive administration bud and blossom and
decay, but had kept his position through the
fact that his knowledge was a necessity to
the successive chiefs and employees Once,
il was true that he had been summarily re-
moved by a new secretary, to make room for
q camp follower, whose exhaustive and intel
lectual services in . political campaign had
made him cminently fit for anything; but the
alarming discovery that the new clerks
knowledge Of grammar and etymology was
even worsethan that Of the secretary himself,
and that, through ignorance Of detail, tho
business Of that department was retarded to
a damage to the government Of over half q
million Of dollars, ledto the reinstatement OF
Mr.. Fauquier-at q lower salary. For 1t was
felt that something was wrong somewhere,
and as it had always been the custom Of con-
greSS and the administration To cut down sal
aries as tho first step % reform, they made old
Mr.. Fauquier a III, Il example. A gentle
man born, Of somewhat expensive tastes,
having lived up to his former salary, this
change brought another bread-winner into
the field, Mrs. Fauquier, who tried, more or
less unsucceSfully, TO turn her old southern
habits Of hospitality to remuneratiye account
But as poor Fauquier could never be pre-
vailed upon to present a bill to q gentleman,
sir, and as some Of the scions Of the best
southern families were still waiting for, or
had been recently dismissed from, a position,
the experiment was a pecuniary failure. Yet
the house was Of excellent repate and well
patronized; indeed, it was worth something to
see old Fauquier sitting at the head Of his own
table, in something Of his ancestral style, re
lating anecdotes Of great men now dead and
gone, interrupted only by occasional visits
from importunate tradeSmen.
Prominent among what Mr.. Fauquier
called his "little family" was q black-eyed
lady Of great powers Of fascination, and con,
siderable local reputation as a firt Never,
theleSS, these social alterations were
amply condoned by a facile and COM
placent husband, who looked with q
lenient and even admiring eye upon the
little lady's amusement, and, to a certain ex,
tent, lent G tacit Endorsement to her conduct
Nobody minded HOpkinSon; in the blaze Of
Mrs. Hopkinson's destinations he was com,
pletely lost sight of. \ few married women
with unduly sensitive husbands, and several
single ladies Of the best and longest standing,
reflected severely on her conduct Tbs
younger men, Of course, admired her, but
think she got her chief support from old
fogies like ourselves For it is your quiet,
~self-conceited, c~omPlacent, philOSophic,
broad-waited pater-familiaS who, after all,
is the one to whom the gay and giddy Of the
proveroially impulSive, unSelfSh sex owe
their place in the social ornament We ART
never inclined to DO captious; we laugh at Us
folly what our wives and daughters con-
denim as a fault; our ~withers are unwrung,H
yet we still confess to the destinations Of q
pretty face. We know, bless US, from dear
experience, the exact value Of one womans
opinion Of another; we want our brilliant