Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-13

ner almiess ruoder swinging with the tlde ana
her blistered deck Of asphaltum abandoned by
Admiral Harrison and his commodores, she
swelters and staggers about upon our Saragossa
sea, the Potomac. She sprung leak another
half billion dollars this year, but the best men
OF both parties agree that she is very staunch
and seaworthy, that the revenue pumps are in
order and that, with prudent watch
on the port quarter she will weather many such
seasons. During the year she leaked two enor
nous debts that with a freer use Of Father
Holman's oakum might have saved twenty-five
millions Of bonds and seventeen and half mil
lions refunded to the states-a tremendous sum,
sufficient to swamp an ordinary European craft.
And now, during August. nobody is on deck but
. few middies and cabin boys, too poor to desert
the ship.
GOING, GOING, GONE.
Gone the House and gone the Senate;
Gone the howl Of clan and faction;
'I W;,b tn nn t'E its'a .; and Renit
Gone is Wstson's racket fiery;
Gone is Wheeler's tt-for-tat;
'Whah de orator wuz at"
Concerning pensions.
flushed are Holman's economies:
flushed are Reeds remarks satiric;
Ha:Sed Sssils i Ribs afn i sG%i''
Ends the Records mad digestion;
Ends the rtver-harbor lob;
Whether corn is in the Cobb
Northward flee supremest judges
Learned court Its head IS Fuller;
High or low each vassa trulges
Catches on ssaf sSG'
Catches cold in Watkins dell;
Quafs perchance the sulphurous bucket
Drawn from Sa ;atoga's well
Every morning.
On Bar Harbor,s blackboard riding;
n Through W the w Thousand ISLANDS padding;
In the halls OF Newport dawdling;
In the Parlor at Cape May;
On In the s snr st saGss < sSSDses'
Seeking hills and wales and streamlets.
Forests wild and haInmocks spoony,
Where mosquitoes ply their gimets,
O. Nv want to oil hunt NTH this 81 minute iDs
Clover fields and ocean sands
Gone the House and gone the Senate.
Gone the boss and ali his hands.
And I'm of myself!
THE MAN AT THE OAR.
Officially, I say, the ship Of state is q cast
away. Foster, Of the State Department,
the very newest member of the cabinet, is the
only man left on deck to pipe to quarters in an
emergency. Noble, .Rusk, Foster, LIST, Elkins,
Miller, Tracy, Wanahlaker, all away on business,
and their business didn't take them south. Gen
Noble seems to be headed for st. Louis, whose
midsummer mercury is always in q state of
ebullition, but he is booked for q lecture or two
and a speech or two and visit or two else
where, and he will. 1 believe, take a long and
comfortable detour among the Badgers and
Wolverines, and stay just little as possible in
the city of the exasperated thermometer In
his absence Judge Chandler is at the oar; posi-
tive. direct, unambiguous. vigilant, untiring,
and yet, am bound to add, apparently cool as
\ cucumber. Those who have heard him talk
have an impression that he is a republican; in
fact, that if he had ditch that he wanted well
dug he would prefer to have republicans to dig it,
but that he would know as quick as lightning if
it wasn't skillfully dug and send to the inefi-
clients the yellow bounce.
HEADQUARTERS.
The White House is in the semi-dismantled
condition that always denotes the absence Of
the President and his family. Even Halford, the
assistant magistrate, is away good many Of
these scorching days and o. l.. Pruden is in
man whose admonitory voice in
stantly stills the noisy House, even il Jerry
Simpson is OH his feet, when he delivers to that
body an armful of bills that the President has
signed. Pruden knows how to keep house. He
is no tyro. The top Of his head is mature and
be has a great deal Of other special training and
experience. Col Ernst, superintendent of pub
lie buildings and grounds, has vanished. too,
but few improvements are slowly proceeding,
and the pittance which Congress doled out,
corridor of the Executive Mansion, in laying a
mastic pavement in the basement and in reno
Vating the old cockade which Jackson set I'D on
he roof in one Of his patriotic moments.
THE SONS OF MARS.
During the absence of Secretary Elkins at
Deer Park Gen. L. A. Grant, assistant secre-
tary, takes care Of the army. He is not likely
10 get overheated or to become sick from any
ntemperance during this canicular period. for
mis- temperament is phlegmatic. He keeps right
along and makes haste by not hurrying Like
George Washington, he never slops over. Like
o. s. Grant, he never phlogisticates. The gray
hirsute sideboards which frame his healthy
cheeks are a type Of the English discretion and
solidity Of his method. He nigh. have been q
major general now if he had accepted the COM
mission Of lieutenant colonel in the regular
army bestowed upon him at the close Of the
great war by the soldier who made his patro-
.hould ever have got higher than colonel said
Secretary Grant yesterday when l asked him
about ii.
WHERE TREY KEEP THE MONEY.
During the absence Of Secretary Foster Gen.
Nettleton until now presided over the Treasury
and it kept him very busy. He
never mixes up business, but disposes Of one
caller before giving audience to the next. The
ladies' tell me he is a handsome man, with his
tallness, his vigorous face and his blue eyes and
neatly trimmed chin beard, but maintain the
view expressed by Mark Twain concerning that
particular friend of Jim Smiley's-I don't see as
be is much handsomer than the rest Of us.
THE Law OF THE CASE.
Gen. Miller is away from the juridicial tri-
bunal where they ladle out law to the depart
ments in need of it, and Solicitor General Al
drich presides. This is service whose details
are naturally less known to the public than
those Of any other branch Of the government
because 1t is difficult AND abstruse. The finger
Of the Attorney General is upon every import
ant decision Of the government, not only those
which are specifically referred TO him. but
those OF which he obtains jurisdiction in any
way. He superintends the United States mar
shals and attorneys throughout all the states.
OUR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
As have said, Secretary of State Foster il
here, making the best Of IL. So Is his import
ant assistant, Wharton, and together they are
and trying to unravel our some
what tangled public affairs. Adee is out in the
country listening to nightingales. The serious
fact il that, though we are not at war, and
though our recent troubles with Italy and China
are in y fair way Of settlement, our foreign re-
lations are far from satisfactory. England and
Carada are making the ch1ef bother What