The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1893-04-25

tugs dragging Darges up 10 tne DOCK
These representatives of the people
think nothing of asking, for the sake
of one two-cent constituent, that the
civil service laws of the country be
revised. Upon such public represen-
resentatives as these, the big Post
master gazesl with look of such sur
prise and grief as would abash any
living creature except representative
of the people intent upon representing
the people for a number of, successive
terms. =.
BIC, ENOUGH! FOR HIS PLACE. ~
Men whostudy Postmaster Bissell
are first impressed with his physical
lbigness. : He is'big allNoyer. His face
is big his features are big his voice
Is big, and there is a. very general
impression that he has mind that
ats ip with his general make-up.s
! The broad, white collaE which is
probably eighteen inches round, re-
lieves the plainness of the Post-mas-
tiers dress, q suitIot plain dark mater
ial. "A small block bow is the only
decoration in which the lord of all
post-masters INDUCES.
THE DARK SPOT IN THE ADM1NIsTRA-
TON.
Mr.. Bissell has blue eyes--that is
to say, they are almost blue. In the
right eye there is a little patch, and
that patch is most important. Tits.
the only, speck of color that keeps this
glorious Democratic Administration
from being an absolutely bIue-eyed
Government. There are big men in
the Cabinet, and little men, and very
stout men and thin men, but they are
all blue-eyed, except for that one
small patch in the right eye of the
Post-master-Geueral. ca
The hours which Mr.. Bissell devot-
es to his official work shopld fill with
resignation the souls of those men
who hoped to get into the Cabinet,
but failed. An enumeration of the,
hours should ALSO ,pacifys the office
seekers who consider that the Post
master does not devote sufficient time
to their ipditidual wants aid desires.
r. Mr.. Bissell reaches his bfice0 every
morning at 8 o'clock: He devotes one
hour to bis mailcl AT 10 the doors are
thrown open and the office-seekers are
turned ID upoh him! nIThist reception
which is nominally over at o'clock,
IN variablS lasts until l;3O. The Post
MASTER takes forty minutes for his
lunch, and then returns to his desk.
The. afternoon is theoretically devoted
to public business. but in reality the
time is almost entirely taken up by
Senator'S and Representatives who
have the right to enter the building,
and who come in a steady stream to
plead the cause Coftheir constituents.
1t is difficult for the Postmaster on
reception days to get more than hall
an hour to attend to anything but
office-seekers' wants. o'3 are. Co. '.|. .,
| HAS TO WORK At NIGHT.
He remains at,his Office till s Of
5 80 each day, and at night after din,
ner, almost invariably has appoint,
ments bearing on department bust,
ness, which keep him until IL O'Clock
or midnight. AT that hour, he takes
mp his private correspondence, which
occupies him antil 80 or 2 o'clock il
the morning. After that he goes tc
bed, to get up at 8 o'clock. six hours
afterwards; takes breakfast in his
room to save time, and hurries off tt
the office.
Mr.. .Bissell declares that he does mo-
find this arrangement of work partic
ularly exhausting thus far. TIL,
hardest thing is to keep patient
through the long hours and not hur
the feelings ofsome nfortunate office
seeker, because of the unreasonable
creatures who preceded him. The
service OF the country is uusatisfacto
Try to the POSTMASTER General
inasmuch as the public will not give
him time to attend to it, but it is no
as firing as regular legal work. The
fact that Interests and astonishes Mr.
Bissell is that in spiteNof his late hour
There he W axes up promptly Of hi
own accord in. the morning, wherea
in Buffalo, when he cqild go I'd be,
as early as he liked, IL waa Salway
necessary for him 2 Up callsdfYeIu
wHAT(HE HAS DONE THUS FAR. ~.
Mr.. Bissell has Investigated all tn