The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-14
Highest of all in Leavenng Pover--Latest U. S. Govt Report
R9z!A q! Esq., Bsxdsg
ABSOLUTELY PURE
beaten by a powerful miller. Pal
Null Gazette.
ARMY Of ofice seekers.

You have no idea what a heart-
breaking task it is to see the army of
unemployed in Washington" said
Chief Clerk lockwood of the Agri-
cultural Department when | came
here ] had a heart, but / have now
become accustomed to locking it in an
iron safe with a timelock every morn
ing. l leave it at home, and never
pretend to have any feelings during
Office hours.
There are not less than twenty
women every day to see me, and they
are all seeking employment. We are
making no appointments now, n
can no.. make any until November or
December. Nine out of every ten
of these women are educated
refined and cultured. They could
make good livings as school teachers
out West, but they have had employ
ment in the census Office, are infatu-
ated with this city, and prefer to re-
main here, existing in a from hand to
mouth sort of a way while waiting for
another Government position.
"Some of them tell stories concern
ing children who are hungry and
almost naked. Others tell OF aged pa
rents who are suffering. Yet another
class tell of their home out West,
with no money for car fare to return
to it,"
How do you manage to attend to
their cases satisfactorily"
Il tell them that it is a simple mat
ter of arithmetic, and that their woes
and wants do not enter into the ques-
ton. There is al appropriation OF
only SO many dollars. 1t will last
only SO long, with only so many EN-
ployes. | cannot consider their indi-
vidual circumstances and that they
must seek employment elsewhere.
That is all l can do. Then they con-
clude that | All a hard hearted, soul
less rascal, and they want to'see Secre-
tary Rusk.
.'But they are not permitted to en-
ter his room. He is a warm hearted,
kind and fatherly man. Ii he were
allowed to see these people it would
break him all up. He couldn't attend
to other business. Therefore | take
all the blame. 1t is really pitiful to
realize the amount of actual suffering
here. The poor are with us always"
They Were Really Honest People.
The A~rchduchess Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of the widowed Crown Princess of
Austria, is spending the summer at
Murzsteg, and is dressed in peasants
dress of that part of the country. The
only thing that was wanted in her
costume was a feather for her hat, and
the little Princess begged the ladies
who were with her to take her to a
shop where she could buy one Sue
chose the one she thought prettiest,
which cost sixty kreutzers, but unfor-
tunately none of the ladies had Sc
much money with them, and the own
er of the shop seemed very suspicious
when they offered to send the money
in the afternoon by a servant, but
while she was hesitating the Princess
Elizabeth said to her:-'Please allow
me to take the feather; we are really
honest people, and this little speech
pleased the woman so much that she
Immediately gave it to her.-London
Queen.
Cleopatra.
rOf Cleopatra we have no adequate
material portrait, nothing but repre-
sensations on coins and medals, which
are neither satisfactory nor conclu-
sive. But this matters not. Plutarch
tells us that her beauty, without be-
ing incompatible, was most seduc-
tive, her face charming, her whole
person full of grace. Dion Cassius
adds that her voice was melodious
and of infinite sweetness. And what
stronger attraction is there in woman
than the charm of voice, that rarest
of gifts, which holds the nearer spell
bound and enchanted? Elsewhere we
read that she was Queen of Kings,
Empress of genius. most erudite lady
initiated into the mysteries of old
Egypt, builder of temples and
palaces, rival of Isis. History
represents her as the superb hero
inc of the most dramatic love
romance of antiquity. And so the
name of Cleopatra has taken its place
amongst those names, magnificent
and voluptuous, the harmonic group
ing of whose syllabies suggests to
reyerie suave, ideal and luminous
visions, and evokes the souvenir of
delicious phantoms. glorified in turn
by legend, art and history. Cleopatra
is the name of one OF the great lovers,
beautiful according to the flesh, of
one of the woinen born to charm men
Eve, Lilith, Delilah, Salome, Helen,
Aspasia, Theodore. OF the brief asso-
citation of atoms that formed these
creatures there resulted something
ideal, which remains in the dreams of
poets and haunts the memory of man
kind. Around these James we con-
centrate all our vague conceptions of
beauty, grace, seductive charm; to
our Imagination their vanished
bearers appear most triumphant
ladies. Perhaps, as Shakespeare says,
Cleopatra was a most disloyal lady;
but what matters her disIoyalty?
age cannot wither her. nor custom
stale her infinite variety" The poets
cannot forget her glory Theodore
CHILD IN Haaper's Bazaar.
BAYONNE.