Mohave County miner., 1889-04-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent.
WAsmisoTos, April Is, l

Il
over winter, cowslips and trailing arbutns
are out upon the ci.y's waste places, and
the buds upon the trees are bursting
into leaves. Some flowers greet the
passer-by, with suggestive fragrance oi
green fields and high, blue skies, aud the
day dreams that Gin part are prophecies
and in part are longings wild and vain =
II the practical individual has carefsey
erased from his memory the records o
youth, these splendid days make him
thirsty with visions Of the near time
when mint shall be fragrant In the glass
and claret and ice be a solsce. On down
town streets colored urcbins, who are
frightfuily dirty despite the increase In
real estate values, now offer arbutus at 8
cents bunch In the morning and two,
for-iive in the evening, furnishing strik-
ing illustration OF the truth that every.
thing comes 10 him who waits.
Tho grounds Of the executive mansion
are nearly as green as in midsummer,
and white-capped nurse girl bringing
little Zen Mckee, President Harrison's
grandchild, for romp, adds to the fa-
miliarly rural scene A host Of children
have played on the White House lawns
every season for years, and regard the
place as childrens' free ground. A mum
Der OF children have been members OF the
executive household. Little Ted Lincoln
used to roll hoops down the hill when
the band played on summer afternoons,
and strut about in his miniature uniform
of lieutenant, playing at war, with
many a shrill, piping order 10 his imag-
mary troops. Then came Andrew John
son Jr., 6 boy Of IL with q propensity for
stufting himself on every imaginable edi-
BILE and loliing about under the trees.
Then Jesse Grant, to riot with other
children, after he had ridden home from
school on his Shetland pony. Then the
demure Fannie and Scott Hayes, good
children who always kept their noses
wiped and their clothes clean. Then the
Garfield children, with baseball and bicy-
Gle, railing from March till midsummer ia
high glee, when their brief reign closed
with the awful tragedy Of their fathers
death. Here strolled Allan Arthur, tall
and andeyeloped, and his sister Nellie,
who possessed her fathers mind and her
mothers face, the heritage denied her
brother.
Thus the ghosts Of the White House
number not few childish faces, and to
one with good memory a score Of these
familiar faces come up even at noontime
on the fairest day Of all the spring.
The only false note in the overture of
spring is afforded by the presence of the
office seeker. From the contemplation
OF nature President Harrison turns to
grapple with political delegations and TO
wrestle with Office seekers. The sunlight
that strays into the corridors of the de-
partments falls aslant OF office seekers by
the dozen, seated on the sofas, occupying
the chairs, leaning against the columns,
lolling in windows, ranged along the wall,
waiting, waiting. The variety Of dress
is as great as the variety OF faces and ex-
preston.
A little thin, sensitive, bloodless old
man, with an ancient silk hat and a
white tie sits next burly, red.faced,
New York politician, who firmly trusts
in his ability to "do the thing up right"
Across from the couple Texas Repub-
lican is seated, black moustache and
goatee, and broad-brimmed slouch Cat,
Of course, listening with horror to COM
rade who is telling him that the depart
ment of justice had the audacity to refuse
TO appoint q certain one Of the Texas
brethren simply because he has killed a
hall dozen men, when il has been plainly
shown to the satisfaction Of Texas juries
that he always acted in self defense. Not
few figures in the crowd, denominated
by irreverent messengers as "the statu-
ary," are those Of preachers, who gener-
ally seek to go abroad.
The majority Of the daily quota assem-
bled have become quite used TO waiting
and make little useless appointments TO
meet each other, the exact purpose OF
which they forget by the time they meet
again.
With the air Of naughty and unap-
proachable prince, whose only artistic
defect is his mahogany color, a A6O per
month messenger stalks out into the cor
ridor at irregular intervals, accepts hall a
dozen OF the cards that are eagerly
thrust at him and disappears into the
secretary's room. But while many are
called few are chosen, and very often the
Office seeker waits from the opening OF
business hours In the morning ~ the
close in the evening, and goes away with
ont seeing his man, while hundreds Of
more fortunate though later arrivals go
through the magic portals.
The first right to audience belongs to
Senators and Representatives, and the
Office seeker who has his Congressman
with him is looked upon AZ lucky fell
low by his mates, and can go in without
undignified delay. That is often all it
amounts TO, but for the moment the
lowly Office seeker is confident that he is
drawing nearer the goal, and lives in
hone IL he dies In despair.