Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1889-07-15

feather duster over q clearea-of desk.
This is a very hard life for man who las
lost both legs and who almost al
ways wakes with pain in tho smallest
hours OF tho night and lies awake vainly
trying 10 bring Nepenthe into tioss dis
tracted members IL he expects TO main
tain his health through these four years.
he must learn TO shut the door r-so-
lu,ely 10 all but those who have import
ant errands To which he Is M indispensable
party.
He has appointed his daughter, Miss
Ada rs his private secretary, but, as she
is smiable aud pretty and just from
school, she VIII probably not DO an i'm
penetrable brsakwater against the intru-
sive tides OF curiosity and acqusitiy.ness
that sweep around the Corinthian columns
of the great caravanser and submerge
the galleries and dash against the hospita-
bic portals OF the Com missioner ofiics.
Ia a recent letter / announced that the
Commissioners wife, Mrs. NJ. l.. Tanner.
would be recognized as the poet laureate
Of the Administration, ard indicated the
spirit Of her versfed lecture on Woman's
Suffrage. / have since heard her lee
ture TO y Grand Army Post, and l have
occurred some verses on the soldiers and
genuine poetry ofthe heroic type. Listen
to the scream OF the old eagle:
"Are Republics all ungrateful, Must we
soldiers ever hear,
When ask 10 earn our living, only soon and
taunt and jccr;
And those boys get AL the places who are fresh
from public school,
For answering more questions under Civn
Service rules?
lit 10 not the earth we'ro wanting; no-tust q
little space
To earn an honest livelihood, a chance to get
place.
That we're capable OF nlling, cen though the
boys from school
Give ten per cent. moro answers, under Ciyti
Service rule.
The height of Chimborazo. perhaps We may
not know,
But we measured Lookout Mountain, when
our hearts we're all aglow;
Nor tell the length Of rivers-of the Amazon or
Thames
But ask us what we know about the Rapidan
or JaTnesl
AT the age when lads the praises Of their Alma
Mater chant,
We found that our curriculum was one laid
down by Grant.
And at Bull Hun and Antetam our dipiomes
did we get,
Writ in blood and punctuated with the point
ofbayonet-
Tho stars up on our banner, thoug h some were
In eclipse,
| Formed the lesson In astronomy, tho oftenest
on our lips;
/ And the brightest stars re saw there shown
| with feeble light,
| For the heavy smoke Of battle half hid them
from cur sight
| Elents u Ye!s
Lear ed the music OF the bullet, knew the sing
ing OF the Shell
/ Feard the deep bass or the cannol aud the
trumpct's notes sublime.
/ Insn orchestra OF muskets whore the drums
where beating time.
"Tbat was our eduoauonl Twas oil we could
obtain.
/ Md burs; Of bnttlc-clamor and rebelllous Wild
/ refrain;
! And wh.u our term was ended and We NJ last
were free,
erere to- oil n other schools 70 try for our
eegree!"
Mrs. Tanner has a melodious but power
full voics that sill reach ten thousand
| psople from a platform. and she has alread '
I made the orstoriCal Rit OF the sdnlinistra-
I ticp.
/ Eighteen years age, IN the chair OF
| managing editor Of the Chicago Erenfpg
! Post. gave their first positions in Chics %
to Alexander Sullivan and To tie young
I lady who was shortly u become his wife
She was much more sdaptabls and versa
tsle than he-abler. too. | thought. Her
7 first salary was si5 week and his was $40.
and when i left the PAPER she had besn
promoted TO go.
He bad had some trouble before coming
I back from New Mexico. but he seemed
auiatsnd unsEgressive. though earnest
Hs vas irascible. but &c never occurred 20
that he was rsvengsfuI r. amour
/ propre sometimes ecliP$ed biz prudence.
could only he eats tbst he shared the
mercurial qualities 81 his race. and thst
( he possessed also their virtues Eraa ~
that early dsy be showed masterful quail
ties. sud IL was an amusing feature If his
newspaper work that Re had the 1sck e
being chosen 70 preside overmse IS that
Isenthlua 20 report John p. since
VERY much 81 q Cougressua~. hsr-d
re in THE ssws way. mixing -1sio
with the pd0aogrsp "a sn tsiag
uasner. ". a Il
ssU.-fsthat h~ttsr ssrfvru led a