Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-08-19

mind, even as the recollection of the
insane extravaganza of his wife that
forced the good-natured weak man
into the tolls, has been softened.
Gen. Belknap is now lobbyist.
The iron gray hair and brown eyes
of Grants Secretary of the Treas
ury, now "Lawyer" Boutwell,, are fa-
miliar to all club men. He looks
upon the time when he did not call
Washington "home" as being lost,
and the Thought makes him sombre.
His successor in the cabinet, Will
liam A. Richardson, is now Chief
Justice of the Court of Claims, and
lives in a magnificent house in the
northwest. His residence is near
that of ex-Postmaster General Cress-
well, still another of Grants advis-
ers, and now the busy president of
the Citizens National Bank.
Hon. George Bancroft, waiting,
old and full of honors for the COM
ing of the given messenger, is fig
ure of the long past. He was Sec
retary of the Navy under President
Polk, and had brilliant career in
the diplomatic service although his
political reputation was long since
swallowed up in his fame as histo-
rian. He abandoned horse back rid
| ing last season and even sold his
saddle horses, and is now seldom
seen beyond the flower beds of his
own home.
Ex-Secretary McCulloch, has a
constitution of iron and is as hale
and harty as when he was Secretary
of the Treasury under President Lin
coin, an office that he has twice had
the honor of holding.
Ex-Secretary Robert G. Schenck
has been for several years an invalid,
and the famous orator of Gen. Har-
rison's hard cider campaign of 1910
speaks no more in public. He SIM
ply sits and waits for death.
Ex-Attorney General Garland will
probably never return to Arkansas.
He has been appointed the legal rep
resentative at Washington of the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
at salary of $50, 900 and is glad to
remain here.
Frank Hatton, who was the young
est member of President Arthur s
cabinet, is now making money as one
of the proprietors of the Washington
Post. Mr.. Hatton's partner is Berial
Wilkins, formerly a representative
from Ohio. He is only one of a
thousand ex-members of the House
in Washington. You meet them
everywhere and in all classes of So
ciety. Many are well to do or even
wealthy, and some, alas, are financial
and moral bankrupts. A few are
common bar-room loafers, with dirty
alleged offices of dim back stairs
which they never visit save when
some former constituents. who has
given one of a case in the mistaken
notion that he is still a man of i'm
portance, turns up to look after his
own affair.
The families of public men who
have passed to judgment, do not
prosper so easily. Men in political
life are not paid according to their
merit. A laundering incompetent
may get 81 800 per annum, and an
addle-headed coxcomb of a second
lieutenant the same, but the big
Drained men, who really amount to
something, are paid salaries altogeth-
er inadequate to support themselves
in the style their positions demand.
There is the family of Chief Justice
Waite, the daughter and the aged
widow, reduced to keeping boarders.
There are dozens of such instances,
lamentable but unheeded warnings
against taking no thought of the
morrow.
Mrs. John A. Logan is back in
Washington preparing for hard work,
which assumes for her the shape of
editorial management of the Home
Magazine, which some time ago be-
gan to show some touches of her di-
rection in the publication of the con-
tributions of a few of her intimate
personal friends. For great obvious
reasons it is not to be expected that
the Home Magazine will be per-
manent success, though if it is, its
success will be due entirely to wom-
en-, as no men are to be employed in
any important capacity.