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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-29

crat, called on PRESIDENT Cleveland yester-
day. He would like to be surveyor of Gus
toms at Kansas City. He was introduced
by Representative Tarsney. Senator Dolph
called and introduced to the president
Miss Edith NJ. Day, of Portland, Ore, who
is travelling in the opposite direction to
that taken by Miss Mitchell, of Chicago,
making trip of the western states and
Mexico without touching her foot to the
ground before she returns to her place of
departure Miss Day spent a few hours in
the city and then resumed her journey.
Wants Them Made "Preferred Eligibles."
By the operation of the last sundry civil
bill the employment of substitute clerks
in the several departments of the govern
uent is fixed until the end of the present
fiscal year. In consequence Of this law be.
tween fifteen and thirt3 persons employed
as substitutes In the treasury department.
will be dropped from the rolls when the
act takes erect. AS these appointments
are made through the civil Service com.
mission Secretary Carlisle has interested
himself in the matter, and in letter 81 at
to the commission yesterday he strongly
urges that the persons to be dropped be
made prefer red eligibles for appointment
hereafter.
Shut Out From the Cabinet
Yesterday was the first day the new pres
identail order that no visitors on Tuesdays
and Fridays was put in force. The order
was rigidly observed and no callers were
received The rooms were darkened and
the secretaries worked uninterruptediy
The effect of the order was to keep away
nearly ali the congressman and offic5-
seekers who had been haunting the depart
ments.
Little Misstatement Corrected.
The report that r. w Glider has en-
dorsed an application by Pr ofessor Maurice
f. Egan, of Notre Dame, Ind. for appoint
ment as minister to Greece. is denied both
by Egan and Glider. The fact is that Pro
fessor Egan has not applied for that or any
other position under the government nor
has Glider applied for any position for
Professor Egan or for any other friend.
Mighty Hungry for this Place.
There are not less than 672 applications
on file for appointment TO the vacancy of
paymaster in the army with the rank of
major to which Lieutenant Dapray. Secre-
tary Elkins' military aid, was nominated
by President Harrison but not confirmed
by the senate.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-29
whoop EN- Up. Brother Maxwell.

WASHINGTON, March 29.-The whole cler-
ical force of the postoffice has been or
dered to stay from to O'Clock and will
be at work arranging papers SO that
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Maxwell may work more easily. Yester-
day forty eight fourth-class postmasters
were appointed of whom thirty-seven were
removals
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-29
Held Onicial Honors Briefly.

WASHINGTON, March 29.-The resigna-
tion of Governor Pierce as minister to Por-
tugal has been received by Secretary
Gresham. Pierce was appointed Jan.
last to fill vacancy, left this country a
month later and arrived by circuitous
route at Lisbon after President Cleveland's
Inauguration. 1t is understood that his
first official act after presentation at court
was to resign.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-29
wi,le,s Will stick for Awhile.

WASHINGTON, March %. Up to date
there are ten applications on file in the de-
partment of agriculture for the assistant
secretaryship. Among them are: Z. l..
Merritt, Springfield. Ills: Charles Griffiths,
Illinois. and Daniel Strange, Michigan.
There will, however. be no immediate sue
ces sor to Assistant Secretary Willets.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-29
W.. Sorsby Was Bounced.

WASHINGTON, March 29.-The only NOM
inations sent to the senate yesterd ay were
George d. billiard, of Mississippi, to be con-
sui general at Guayaquil, and Ezra w.
Miller. United States attorney for the dis
trict of South Dakota billiard succeeds
William Sorsby, who was removed by cable
by Secretary Gresham almost as soon as
he came into Office. 1t was alleged that
Sorsby while clerk to Representative
Catchings, of Mississippi, took from his
employers desk important.papers relating
to the Democratic campaign and turned
them over to Thomas II. Carter. then on
the Republican congressional campaign
committee.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-29
Another who'll Not BE Missed.

NEW YORK, March 29-Stephen Broad
well died in the prison pen at Bellevue hos
pital early yesterday from a complication
of diseases Broadwell had several aliases
and his career of daring crimes has made
him known to the police of the principal
cities of the country one of the most
dangerous and skiIlful counterfeiters and
forgers in the United States Hewas 81
wears of age.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-29

WASHINGTON, March 29.-Admiral Cher
ardi's flagship Philadelphia has band
master who is dissatisfied with the uni
form he is required to wear, and has ten
dered his resignation to Secretary Herbert.
He says the uniform makes him look like
a member of the Salvation Army and has
brought upon him insults and assaults be-
Yond endurance.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-29
In Honor of Ex-senator Dawes.

BosToN, March 29.-Ex-Senator Dawes
was given rousing reception at the Ven-
dome Monday night. in recognition of his
conspicuous public services to his state.
Hon. William NJ. Chaplin presided. Dur
ing the evening an engrossed testimonial
accompanied by a check for 81, 600 was pre-
sented Mr. Dawes
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-29
stump for Immigration Comm i..ioner.

WASHINGTON, March 29.-Ex-Representa-
tive Stump, of Maryland, has been select
ed for commissioner of immigration to sue
ceed Commissioner Owen, of Indiana. The
nomination will be sent to the senate to-
day. There has been an earnest contest for
this place, Stump served in the last two
congresses, is the author of what is known
as the Stump immigration bill and was
chairman of the house immigration com
mittee in the last congress.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-29
Wants 1t Made Sweeping.

One of the leading Democratic senators
said that even if Roach had committed any
offense as charged, it was when he was a
young man; he had gone west and lived an
upright life and had been a credit to his
adopted state. Now if it were proposed to
60 into an investigation of this kind it
might as well be made sweeping and take
in the personal character and antecedents
of every senator on the floor
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-29
The Local " larkets.
LIVE STOCK,

Cattle-Butchers pay for corn feal steer,
41iHc; COVE and neifeI., 2,sG3Ac; calves
405c.
Hogs-Td7Hc.
Sheep-GL5c.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-03-29
Only WAY to Stop It.
GOSSIP ABOUT THGroFFIces.

Democrat and Applicant.
WASHINGTON, March S.-John Scott
Harrison. of Kansas City, brother Of ex-
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stairway to ascend or descend and ,hs,
picture was thrown in simply TO male ~.
to facts. "AS0 oecepoNe az
Another Case.
announcer summer number printed a story
III whleh was a picture of a girl The text
SAID tnat the girl, who was OF the Puritan
type stood on the terrace with snow drffts
pied about her. her fair hair blown stream
ing In the wind. with no shawl ON. ana the
pare branches Of a tree slapped her face as
she called. All this in December. The mic
ture has girl in picturesque elbovy-sIeev-
ed and necked dress, her shawl strearo,ns~
out on the wind, her hair in a French ,,,iSS
with bangs, standing ankle deep IN meadow
grass and not tree in the landscane Noth
ing TO suggest that there ever was a tree
or mat IL ever got cold enough TO snow
Another picture in the same article shows
TWO women with fin de steele coiTures ana
bangs. A glarfng anachronism Bangs ue-a
not worn In lfO4, more especially by the
Puritans ~ WIG
These are but a few examples OF the man
her IN which artists slur their own profess
sion. If a newspaper illustrator were to
been guilty of, the whole tribe of etche-s
painters and aquarellists would R1Iy him
numerically, but IL the decadence of maga-
zlhe Illustration goes on and the historical
Is FORCED TO yield TO the artistic 90 the
Sine is coming when newspaper illustrations
VII oe 1he only ones that can be depended
Upon nfty years hence for actual represent
'@uoh Oh the form and styles OF the period
ISABEL WORRELL BALL,
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the Capitol will be provided, SO that orders
can reach the bureau quickly and be
promptly executed.
How They Accumulate.
Inc great accumulation of documents in
the basement of the Capitol has come
largely from the overflow of the Library OF
Congress. and from publications dispensed
WIN ana thrown out from the committee
rooms. OF each volume issued the House of
Representatives receives certain number,
which are divided up among the members
After each one has received his share there
ID, necessarily, fraction LETT over-Some-
times 200 or 300 books-which remain IN
the folding room. During a single year
these fractions have amounted to as many
as 1S,OoO volumes, which go to swell the
useless stock on hand. One great source of
waste in The public printing has always
been the reckless method of scattering doc
umehts broadcast where they were not
wanted, SO that thousands on thousands
OF them annually have been sold to dealers
IN waste paper all over the country without
having been taken from their wrappers
Iney nave even been used in barber shops
for shaving paper.
The illustrations for government publi-
cations cost from 100000 to $4,000 a year.
Inc most costly pictures are for the re-
ports or the Department of Agriculture and
bureau OF ethnology, many of them being
IN colors. Each bureau draws its own pic
lures, but the government printing office
mas them reproduced by firms in Boston,
New FORK and elsewhere. The printing
once furnishes the paper, and the firms
winch take the contracts print the Illus
trations ana return them to Washington,
ready to be bound with the text
In the days of the Continental Congress
the public printing was all done by pub
nshers or newspapers. under direction of
the secretary of that body. In 1919 it was
determined that the congressional printe
s SI be chosen by ballot of the two
ftouses. From that time up to 1867 all sorts
or abuses prevailed. The office became a
Pontical prize, and the holder received it
with the understanding that he should de-
vote specified sums out of his gains to par
Ilsan purposes. In some cases six times a
Ialr rate was paid by the government for
work done. The extent to which such
frauds We're carried is illustrated by the
Iact that In 1852 a master printer con-
tracted to do all the printing for the Post
once Department for per cent of the
price that had been previously allowed.
RENE BACHE
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carried to an extent previously unknown. q"
III mas for fact 1t has been carried to
that extent in Illustrating current litera-
ture that the reader gets bewildered at the
breach of the unities in grating fin de
steele ideas on ancient history, while he
oips INTO the data that interests him trust
ing to his own imagination to draw pictures
OF the scenes SO glowngly depicted in type
rather than contemplate the glaring an
achronisms limned by artists inexcusably
ignorant or atrociously negligent of chron-
illogical detail
Inc solecfsms in one article of a current
monday magazine are equal to If not ex-
ceeding some of those committed by Albert
Durer, who brought the subjects in his pic
lures up to date, with all modern improve
ments Very curiously, the magazine in
which the referred to anachronisms appear
mad In spring number long article on
art in which the following passage occurs:
The opponents of the modern tendency
instead of molding all their observations of
real things to some preconceived model of
what a picture or a sculpture should be
hold themselves more in readiness to re-
spond sensitively to any phase of nature,
animate or inanimate, which may appeal to
them as curious beautiful interesting or
inspiring, and to reproduce 1t in such man.
ner as will give the most of life and truth
wildly, .dexterously and tremendously"
4 Case in Point.
Not quite 100 pages over in the same num-
Der a poem by a popular writer Is illus
trated." man who has been teasingly
trified with by the girl he loves starts to
leave the mansion, and the text says:
But she stepped before me shyly in the
gloomy vestibule
Whispering as she kissed me slyly, oh,
you dear old April fool -
The illustration which renders the text
more Ineligible shows a grand hall in a
glare of light, while under the draped cur
tains in the close background couples are
waltzing, and everything goes 40 show that
a reception is in progress. He" stands in
the glare OF light at the foot Of the stairs
his high hat set firmly on his manly head
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rundown linen collars, undersleeves as
Voluminous as her six starched white skirts
ana displayed trim ankles in white hose and
small feet demurely gathered in prunella
WIN small black patent-leather tips. Her
position as she sits beside young mars is not
life ~ ~
The Train is All Wrong.
In another place Miss Sweetheart-pre-
sumably-is coming up a stairway and
STANDS on the first landing with the tail of
ner esthetic, half-Josephine, half-restora-
'ioh ana wholly present day style of tea
gown trailing down behind and lost I'm
'he ulm vista As there is no reference
Whatever TO this stairway in the article
which this picture is supnosed 70 rendor
more mtelligible," ii must be thrown in
Tor the purpose of making the hook rnora
attractive. as the cyclopedia saws. and the
YOUNG laay; VINO is pretty and spirituelle,
might pass for real lin de steele product ex-
cept for the figure of the male man who
gIares at her through the archway in the
distance That man belongs distinctly to
the past his long hair, the cut of his
clothes, the style of his hat all proclaim IN
IN stentorian tones So the reader must per
force believe that the lady ranges alongside
OF MIN as TO time 1t is perfectly useless to
pretend that the lady in her beleagured cas-
tie was unacquainted with the STYLES of the
day, or that with her woman's eye she saw
thirty years into the future, and so seeing
IdsilOIeu ner gowns accordingly. HOOPS
bad been growing in rotundity since the
Empress Eugene introduced the fashion in
1893, and fashions did not change then as
they do now. A dress that was made in
1850 did very good service in IS, and was
not in the least antiquated. Miss Sweet
heart probably had wrappers that were
made for her before the war, and II so,
they were as widespread as the doors would
admit, and sometimes wider. Some very
graphic pictures in a magazine of January,
1864, dealt with the problem of the less con-
tanning the greater, when a woman in full
evening 'togs" tried to enter her carriage
to go to the Presidents reception. They were
pictures which really rendered the text
more Ineligible" But to return to Miss
Sweethearts morning gown" The one IL
Illustrated is AM imported affair from the
house of A. T. Stewart in New York. and
shows in modification the correct things in
that sort of apparel in 1863. Earlier than
that they were even more grotesque and for
I'VE years following they were no better
Trains were not worn at all, and had not
been for years. In this robe, which is sup
posed to be of blue merino with pattern in
gay colors graduating from neck TO hem"
Miss Sweetheart would not be so ethereal In
appearance, but she was just as sweet and
young mars could love her just as hard.
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pounding. While he was making the as
sault friend of Mr.. Cleveland's came IN
and seized the man. and Mr. Cleveland
thereupon went on to the governors office
ne man was not satisfied with some action
or cleveland in regard to pardon. and the
trlaI which ensued showed that he was
crazy. There was a story that President
cleveland was attacked during the cam
paign by crank in New York About
three weeks before the election man CALI
cd at Mr. Clevelands house on West blth
street In New York and asked to see him
He was shown into the parlor and mo-
ment later Mr.. Cleveland entered As he
did so the man raised a revolver and snap
ped 1t at him. The cap missed fire, and
MI Cleveland, throwing his arms around
the man, pressed him against the wall and
called for help. few minutes Ia ter he WAS
In the hands of the police. and shortly after
this he found place in an insane asylum
Through DR.. Bryant and Superintendent
Eyrnes the matter was kept out of the
papers, and today no one but the President
ana his most intimate friends know the ex-
act facts of the case
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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eence in the background. he should have on
big gauntlet gloves and in any event he
would hardly unbuckle the saber and hold
II in his hand while making love to a pretty
girl, because sword is an unwieldy thing
and an officer never wears il except when
on active duty, and he unsnaps il the min
ute he dismounts and filings it aside, except
in pictures and on the stage
Out of Joint With the Times,
The girl is more out of Joint with the
period than her lover. Her hat belongs to
the vintage of 1876. modified Gainsbor-
ough. which is just now quite swell again
Her dress. excepting the sleeves, and that
may be because there was not enough ma
terial to make new ones, is a modification
of the styles of the summer of '93 Her hair
Is quite modish, indeed. Now If the artist
had been anxious to prove him as chrono-
logically exact in depicting detail, Miss
Sweetheart would have been arrayed some
thing after the fashion of a balloon in petit
coats, because that was a period of infia-
ton in most everything. She wore hats
with broad dropping brims prm inch-wide
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1t is In her ball dress. however that Miss
Sweetheart comes out strong. The text
says, ball dresses were fashioned from old
lace curtains" and the text is true to life.
Half the economy practiced by the heroic
women Of the south at that time will never
be known. They sacrificed everything that
would sell, CT rip, or make over for the use
or the boys in gray" yet they managed
somehow to clothe themselves becominely
even picruresQuely-for the styles of that
day. Miss Sweetheart's ball dress however
instead OF looking like piece of old lace
curtain after treatment by the modern H.
illustrator, looks as though il was fashioned
OF satin duchesse or bengaline and turned
out by Worth ready for the coming Patri-
arch's bali The train lies in shining folds
upon the floor, while she views with nleased
eyes, in modern hand glass her modern
bangs and coil of hair and her V-shanad
bertha of crepe lisse. with not a hint of Ola
lace curtains. lamp shade lace or any 9TH
er kind of lace in her whole get up
Different Style of Doing the Hair.
Miss Sweetheart's hair from back in the
ffties. to late in the sixties. was usually a
sight to behold. 1t was patted over rats"
and mice" and wheel rolls, covered with
wreaths Of impossible flowers, tied with aw-
full bows of ribbon, kept in place by aboni-
nations called head dresses, or tucked in
nets and Rad long. struggling punches of
curis at the rape of the neck. The V-shap-
ed or square neck was not yet introduced.
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Round neck was the style and in that form
OF evening dress a woman usually looked
as though she was about to slip out of her
gown. \ dress with train was not worn
from 1853 to about 1870 Nothing had a
train. The design from an imported cos
tune at Stewards, in 1S62 has in its sug-
Miss Sweetheart's might have been fash
Toned after 1t from odd bits that had been
lett over, for IL is composed of silk lace
ribbon, embroidery and fringe.
After the War.
When the war was over Miss Sweetheart
appeared again dispensing bread and milk
and sweet smiles to the war-worn heroes on
their way home, but she didn't appear in
that pulled and ruffied rig then any more
than when young Mars courted her with
sword in hand. A simple morning dress
with three ruffies, all made of sprigged
lawn or muslin. flowing sleeves, hlmy un-
dersleeves. Feat linen collar and bow and
sash tied in front. is about the thing. which
Stewart displayed in 1865, and the small
maid VINO appeared at her side in the door
way didn't wear the pretty innocent frock
or SILK or cballie, with neatly sashed waist
nor did it wear picturesque bangs Not n
bit of 1t. Its rebellious locks were brushed
severely back and twisted in two braids
tled IN two loops with prim ribbon bows
Just back of the ears. 1t wore flowing
sleeves and undersleeves like mamma ana
embroidered ard tucked white pantaIettas
white stockings and prunella CATERS If
must be admitted that with the artistic
picturesqueness eliminated and these Stern
realities introduced, the article would have
been less attractive in a pictorial point ~
view, but Ii would have been inSnItaIy
more valuable as a historical document
nn1 have Pivn7 correct Representation Of
the dress of the day. vi
Summer i'm Winter Time.
During the summer magazine illustra ..a
love story. Three sisters We're drinking
tea together. Two were calling unon ,ho
third. One of the sisters wears what an
pears to be triple capes of heavy cloth. each
edged with fur, and the collar high abou,
her neck. She wears also a velvet hat and
carries summary parasol which IS airy
enough to be made of crepe lisse. The Other
sister wears an enormous fur boa which
trails down to the floor This would seem
to indicate winter despite the parasoI hut
While these sisters sat there intriguing
against a flirting father that father and
the object of his warmed over affections
are represented as wandering under leary
bowers. 1t is simply a soiecism. but IL
CRATES.
During the Inauguration a popular films
trated magazine came out with an article
in which appears a section of stairway,
which is crowded with people on the WAY
down. Under II is the wording After n
hand-shake with the President" and the
accompanying text shows this "hand-shake'
refers TO the every day ''noon-time" recep-
tons OF former administration, which are
not held now. These receptions arp alv-a- g
held In the east room. hence there j. go
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pair of scissors and shipped a piece out
of the lace curtain. She was caught in the
act and was taken up to President Lin
coin He gave her a good sermon, but let
her go. The man who cut the green room
furniture seems to have been actuated By
the desire TO destroy rather than to have
been a relic hunter.
Where the President Works.
Grover Cleveland does all of his work
above stairs. 1t is on the second floor of
the Executive Mansion that the President
and his family live. and this is the part of
the White House which is most carefully
watched. The living rooms of the family
are at the west end of this floor. The end
nearest the treasury is devoted to offices,
and 1t is always filed with clerks and mes
sengers. This is the only part that is &C
cessible to people who have public business
THESE men after they have passed the
guards down stairs are allowed to go up
the stair case between the east room and
the vestibule. At the top of this there is a
guard in citizens clothes, and passing
across hall you come into another CORR
dor, in the rooms of which at the back are
the offices OF the President and Mr.. Thur
Der, and also the big parlor in which the
cabinet meets. As you step into this cor