The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-03

tive must wrestle with it. Secretary Blaine is in
the position of a newspaper reporter whose ed
itor has assigned him to make a communistic
conspiracy out of prayer meeting, to prove
that honesty is corruption, or to make out some
will make gigantic effort, but the case he will
make will be rather thin
X X X
Mr.. Tyner, the literary critic of the Post Office
Department, has decided that Tostois "Kreutzer
Sonata" is an indecent book, snd therefore can
not be transmitted through the mails. The crti-
cism may be just, but the literary world would
be interested in having Mr.. Tyner's reasons as
well as his conclusion. I feel sure that of all who
fectly decent. Poor Mr.. TolstoI He has simply
1ound that marriage is a failure and he has only
ner. Other writers have done the same thing,
some, fancy, in less conservative language than
that employed by Tolstoi. Old solomon Himself
ana 70 nave expressed himself pretty much as
the Russian mas done. Vanity, vanity, all is
the flesh in marriage for old Solomon after he
had had quite enough experience upon which to
is still regarded as Wise man man, and I not t at all
given to the writing of indecent books. / fail to
see why Old solomon and his book should have
the the privilege of the mails any more than the
'kreutZer Sonata"
If we may take Frank Lawlers word for it,
Representative Quinn, of New York, is the
hardest working man in Congress- and Frank
OuRnu 10 De pretty good authority on hard
work. Indeed had thought that he was him
SELF the hardest working man in the House.
\
1t is as true now ever it was that mo man is
Indispensable" That it is fact that some peo-
pie develop 80 much above the average degree of
usefulness that they are very nearly indispens-
BILE. Leaving aside such men as AMI Smith, of
the senate document room. whose names are al
ways before the public two men who seem to be
almost Indispensable, are Charlie Mann, the
superlntendent OF the press gallery in the House,
and Tom Coakley, who is one of the doorkeepers
managing the press gallery so that it affords the
utmost convenience to those for whose con-
yenience it is intended; and Coakley either as
messenger or doorkeeper is worth more than all
the other men on the roll, and that is no dis
paragement to the rest. Tom knows his bus-
nesG, and he has playful, diplomatic way about
him which captivates everybody.
X X X
Amos j. Cummings was walking about town
last week with great big diamond breastpin in
his shirt bosom-or what seemed to be dia-
mond, and in personal adornments appearance
is everything There are two or three different
stories about that piece of jewelry. Some say
that meeting on pennsylvania avenue a pedder
who was Offering ten-cent diamond pins for FIVE
cents, the versatile and humorous New Yorker
didn't see why he shouldn't make as good a show
as either Tim Campbell or Rising un-StoVe-
Polish Morse, and that so he invested nickel.
Others say that the diamond is present from
Representative Cheatham, of North Carolina,
the only colored member of the House, who
never had any difficulty IN getting Cummings to
pair with him on political questions when other
white Democrats drew decided line against a
colored pair. DAVID LEwsLEY.