Mohave County miner., 1889-09-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondence Of the MINER.

Il
summer and hear the fire cracking in
the back log when nights grow cool. That
] is fad they have yet to acquire.
The Chinese minister will return, with
his suite, next week, and immediately
thereafter will start for the Orient. The
successor to the present minister has
been named, but the date Of his depart.
ure for America is not stated. The new
minister will be accompanied here by bis
wife, the first instance on record where o
Chinese woman OF high caste has beer
| permitted 10 leave the celestial kingdom
Prior TO this time such permission has
never been granted, and even the per
mission is very great surprise to all per
sons acquainted with Chinese customs
and government.
Tlsv-srrfcf surveillance which is exer-
cised over wives in the celestial kingdom
will be carefully preserved here. The
new envoy will be driven in closed car
riage, with bis wife, to the legation house
where madame win be at once installed
in her apartments. She will not receive
visitors nor go into society. Occasionally
the minister, when madam's health abb
solutely demands it, will take his wife
driving, but these drives will be few and
far between, as long indoor life has ac-
customed these women to 90 without ex-
ercise or outdoor airing.
The oyster season is always inaugural
ed in Washington with tremendous eat
ing Of fried, steamed, stewed and raw
oysters. The belated husband ON his
way home on the night OF August 3lst,
cunningly carries a box OF fried oysters,
and fears not the wifc's wrath He even
wakes her, il she has been asleep, to ex-
plain to her that he has not been at the
club this evening, but has merely been
inaugurating the oyster season.
What tons OF oysters are eaten in
Washington in year. Everybody cats
them, from the dusky street Arab sitting
on the wharf with dozen stolen bivalyes
and an old pocket knife, TO the aristocrat
taking "a dozen and small bottle" at
Chamberlain's. The feet employed TO
bring oysters alone to Washington would
make q fair sized navy. The average
Washingtonian can eat oysters with relish
every day as long as the season lasts.
Heaven be merciful to the man who is
ont late at night, hungry, and don't like
oysters. In nine-tcnths OF the restau-
rants he will be told that they are Just
OUT OF this and that and the other, but
that they have "oysters, sah." And he
must eat oysters or starve.
So many years have passed since
brave, dashing Fernando Wood went
home to the still country that it is almost
necessary to tell everyone except New
Yorker what the great mayor was. No
man ever had better control Of New
York city politics. He was almost with
out academic education, but he was one
Of the finest natural orators that ever
charmed an audience. When he first
came to Congress his tall, handsome fig
ure, his dash and his impetuous elo-
quence attracted the attention of both
houses.
In resource he was inexhaustible. One
day he stepped into cigar store on
Pennsylvania avenue with Henry Clay,
who prided himself on his knowledge Of
tobacco. Clay was watching the deft
workmen making cigars.
"Those men are cry skillful at that
work." remarked Clay.
"Ycs, very" replied Wood, "but 1t
doesn't look very difficult to do"
"Sir, think that TO be one Of the mos:
cunning Of trades" retorted the Senator
in his positive manner.
"Oh, no." responded Wood. "I be-
lieye l could make cigar equally as
we'll"
"I doubt it, SIR" replied Clay.
an bet you box OF cigars can," re-
piled Wood.
Clay accepted the wager and in min
ute Wood had cigar wrapped and fin
ished and held up before the great Ken
tuckian's eyes.
Henry Clay's wonderment at the ease
with which a naturally expert man had
learned a skilled trade in moment new
er ceased to be expressed, and to bis
philosohic mind it seemed like the dis
covery Of new principle.
And Henry Clay died never knowing
that Fernando Wood had learned the
cigar makers trade and spent several
wears at the bench, where, as everywhere
else, he had excelled.
The men who lived such lives as Clay
and Wood, and nearly all the public men
Of that day, are gone as class. 1t APP
pears TO me that do not hear "the fu-
ture Of the Republic" talked Of SO much
as Of old. There is more talk now Of
"what my State wants in the depart
ment," and of "the administration. +"
Great men have learned to live more
in their own class, and TO hold them.
selves, il not more honest, at least more
hoEored.
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