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clerk or will have to pay you that
money"
When the clerk saw the note he was
scared half to death. He paid Il In.
siautcr and then went to the White
House and promised Jackson that he
! would reform.
TIM TROUBLE or PRESIDENTS.
President Cleveland is having less
trouble with the Office seekers than any
OF NJ, predecessor. His action during
DIS iist term has helped him to dispose
of them President Harrison never
allowed office seekers To bother him. and
the civil service examinations have
SCARED OIL q good many. President
William Henry Harrison was worried to
death by the Office seekers, and when
Ltch Taylor was nominated a trooN of
Office seekers followed him on his way
To Washington. and one oI them actually
slipped his application into Lach's pan.
/ falcons pocket without his knowing il.
They worried him almost to death alter
I ne got here and d has been the same
with all the Presidents down 10 Cieye.
| land. Garfield was killed by an office
/ seeker, and Il was an Office holder who
pulled Andrew ckson's nose. lanes
/ buchanan had a way Of taking mans
papers and chatting to him about other
subjects in such friendly manner that
I he was sure hc was going to get his
/ place, but he never granted such appli.
cations. General Grant often promised
appointments which were never given,
and his drafts were not always honorcd
by his cabinet ministers. Postmaster
/ General Jewell, 10 Is said, once told an
applicant who brought q recommends.
/ ton from General Grant that the Presi.
den, had but little influence in this
matter, aud that he was running the
post office department
TOM coRwiN oN OFFICE SEEKING.
Speaking Of recommendations, one Of
the quccrest cases ever heard Of was
that relating to Tom Corwin, Who was
secretary Of the treasury lie had been
In Congress before this aud had given
/ out letters OF recommendation to office
seekers rather freely. Among others he
gave one 10 a man iur place in the
treasury department The man took il,
but failed TO get the appointment. When
| Corwin was appointed secretary OF the
treasury he bohbed up serenely and
asked for a place. What rcccommen-
udupuh nave your hdlu NOfNln,
81 have this was the reply, aud the
man thercupon put before the secretary
OF the treasury his own Endorsement,
which was signed Tom Corwin."
And did this not get you an appoint
mcnt under the former secretary?' asked
Mr.. Cofwin.
No" was the reply at did not"
well, II il wasn't strong enough to
get you a place then, answered the
genial Tom, II don't think II ought to
be strong enough to give you a place
now aud he refused to give the man
the place. Corwin always tried to per.
suade young men from entering the
government departments. lie said they
were the worst places in the world Tor
young men, and he advised one man
who called upon him while he was
secretary Of the treausry to get an AK
and a mattock and put up log cabin
rather than take government office.
Said he: 81 may give YOU a place today
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takes this brief with him 10 the White
House u II !, an appointment that the
resident has to consider An absolute
civil service would. m fact. LARGELY
rcouc. the work OF the dcpaiimt
ana II VIII surprise many to know that in
some Of The Offices under the govern.
mcnt II requires the services OF one
man day in and day out TO open the
mail.
STORIES or OFFICE sEtERRs.
Public men have learned to know that
President Cleveland dt cidcs matters Tor
himself, and the democratic senators
ana rcpt seniaivcs exhibit Il great deal
less conf 'cucc than they dit eight Yeats
ago, remember how IA Alabama
delegation called at the White House m
1855 with list Of appointments in their
hands and thought that they would
carry away all the offices Of that state NJ
one visit President Cleveland ec.iycd
them and asked what he could do Tor
them. Their leader replied: "Air pcesi.
. Gem, We have agreed upon the names
OF the Offices for Alabama. We repre-.
sent the state and we are IN perfect
harmony We would like these appoint.
lnenis made as soon as possible, and
here /, the list"
Cleveland looked at the leader for a
moment lie then moved his eyes
slowly around over the rest OF the dele.
CATION, and as he scanned the last he
said: Gentlemen. IT your attention
has not yet been called 20 the tenure OF
office act and the civil service law permit
me to ask YOU TO look at IL" And with
that he dismissed the delegation. Some
| OF the men recommended were appoint
ed and others were not
Some Of the older senators and mem
heis who had been accustomed to boss.
ing their districts were very much
offended at the way Cleveland made his
appointments, aud not a few Of them
carry their Tesen,mcuis with them today.
You remember how Andrew G.. Curtin,
the famous war governor Of pennsyl-
vania, called one day on CleyeIand's
assistant postmaster general. Hcwanted
to have country postmaster removed.
and lie told the postal official that he had
a democrat to appoint in that place.
But said the assistant postmaster
general, there are no charges against
this man"
"Charges, replied Gov. Curtin; "why,
he is a republican and want him turned
out. ] want the place for q democrat"
"But ! cant do that, governor. must
have some Other charge than that OF re-.
publicanism, or he will have to stay out
his term. ! have got to have a charge
made by reputable person"
well, I'll file charges myself" said
Gov. Curtin. you take your pen and
write them down"
iI"All right, said Mr.. Hay, and he be.
gan to follow the governor.
"The incumbent called President
Cleveland bad Names
Gle did," was the reply, why, that's
bad"
'When you were appointed Gov.
Curtin went on, The said you were n
damned coPperhead."
"Thats worse" said the official.
laughing as he wrote.
"And third and last he called me bad
names" said Gov. Curtin. Now isn't
that enough"
u think II is" was the reply, "and |
will order his removal"
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II President Cleveland desired IL. There
are something ike 20 900 clerks right
here in Washington, and the number
increases every year. There is u fat
book known as the Blue Book, which
contains their names, and this holds as
much type as n dictionary, and It gives
every salary In the government service.
The Blue Book can be gotten at through
a Congressman, and Il Is made for pr.
vatc circulation. Each senator and each
member has two and there is one III the
hands Of each prominent government
official. | understand that private
Blue Book has been lately published
which tells all about the Offices, their
salaries and their duties, and this IS be-
ing quietly distributed about among
those who will pay good price for il.
II is largely made no from the Official
Blue Book. OF the Blue Book proper
there are only about 1000 copies extra
printed, and this book is in proportion
to the circulation one Of the costllest
volumes in existence. 1t cost over si6,-
600 to set the type, and 1t would take a
good typeseiter ten years to set 1t.
oFFfCB sEEIiSG LETTERS.
Speaking of office seekers, the mail
has rapidly increased in all the depart
ments at Washington during the pas,
month. The letters OF the appointment
clerks are brought In in bags and the
oflice.seeking applications come in by
the tens OF thousands. The appoint.
ment clerk OF the treasury has a score OF
clerks who do little else than take care
OF this mail, and In the pigeon holes Of
this office hundreds OF thousands of pap
ers and letters are now filed away, care
fully indexed and brieied and ready for
use and reference,i in case the men named
in them get an appointment. II is the
same In the post office department, and
was told not long ago that there were
something like 10000 applications in
one Of the departments here at WASH
ington awaiting action. The post Office
applicants usually send voluminous
papers, and hundred-dollara'year job
often has more papers connected with II
than one OF the big city postal appoint
ments. The candidates send in their
papers and recommendation They
have petitions signed by the citizens Of
their towns and IL takes large number
OF clerks to put these into shape for
Postmaster General Bissell. When n
case comes up the postmaster general
wants brief Of It ready for him, and he
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Tbs same experience was u 10 Toy %
dozen pr minent men during Cleveland :
last administration, hut many Of them
did not set their appointments as did
Curtin.
cLEvELASD's HONESTY
There is one thing about Clsyclands
treatmt MT oi Office seekers. lie never
tell, a man he IS going TO give him a
position when he has no idea Of carving
cat his promise, aud few people leave
the White House with a wrong impress.
ion IN this regard. On the Other hand,
when he wants to give man an office
and expects To favor vim he tells him So.
and he makes lots OF fiicnds by SO doing
1t was different with President llaui-
son. lie never seemed to Ike 90 grant
q favor, and even after he had decided
to give a man what he wanted he would
let him 80 away with the idea that bis
application was reused. Thu, was the
case with an appointment Of Senator
S,aniord's. Stanford. am told, called
upon the President to urge the appoint.
ment OF n friend OF his, but he could
get no satisfaction regarding a. That
same afternoon the appointment was
sent into the Senate, and II IS said that
1t had lett the White House before Sem
atur Stanford made his call. You could
never tell rom HaTison's actions or his
face un which side OF a question De Was.
lie pfided himself on the iron mask
which he wore over his feelings and he
argued against the matters which he
most approved lie bulldozed 90 a
certain extent his cabinet, and the only
man who had the nerve to stand cut
against him on all occasions was Ittc-
midh Rusk, the Secretary OF Agriculture.
In plain language Uncle Jerry would
take cummonsensc view ol every
question and he would hammer itint1
Harrison Harrison would fight him
until he lcit the White House and then,
IN nine cases out Of ten, would adopt
Uncle Jeirys view Of the situation.
was talking the other day with conf.
dental employe Of the Post Office De-
partment about this matter, and he said
that this view was the same as that held
by Gen. Clarksou. Said he:
"Clafkson got to dislike Harrison very
much before he lcit the post office. His
generous nature and kindly soul was the
reverse OF that of his chief and ! rc.
member that one day he came into my
Office with bundle Of papers in his
hand. He had been up to see the Prcsi.
dent about some postal appointments.
As we .chatted together he picked up the
papers and said; President Harrison
Is the queerest man have ever met. !
have been at the White House talking
with him about some Offices which were
to be given to his friends. know that
the men who were to have the Offices
were his friends aud had selected them
with that view. As he looked over the
appointments he found some objection
to each Of them and at last drew my
self up in my chair to his surprise and
said to him, Mr., President, you are the
quetre character | have ever met.
Why, II seems to make you gfuni to do
favor for friend. don't understand
it. II always make me happy TO oblige
my friends, but II seems to make you
miserable to do likewise. "
PRESIDENTS AND OFFICE HOLDERS.
1t is funny to note how Offices have
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Finiaud'- Railroads.

Finland has state railroad sytem
which includes ten different lines
whose aggregate length is ll68 miles,
the longest line being $50 miles. The
traffic u Thin, the train service aver.
aging in 1891 lisa passenger trains
aud lilo freight trains each way daily
over the whole eyHtem, aud the traffic
averaging one hundred passengers and
0sl tons Of freight each way daily (l04
passengers anu 5G7 tons freight here).
The average number Of passengers pof
passenger car was Isl; OF pounds per
freight cur, only 5777. The line be-.
tween the capital, Helsingiors, and ST..
Petersburg, 1913 miles, had nearly two.
thirds OF the whole passenger traffic
and more than half Of the freight
traffic. The net earnings Of the whole
system were s033 per mile.-Rdilrodd
Gazette.
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...,,o.rsoud,ne, Of Dc,oa Noc,.

s.o.i orrVoHd'"'' Of ne Desert Nc'r
w,quSoro,,, March IA, is95.-Wash-
,,g,on IS full Of office seekers.
rev crowd the hotels, they have
elsd no the boarding houses and
"a. meet them in the corridors
n me great departments and in the
lorer halls Of the White House. The
,iyl service rules seem 10 make no
difference in their demands and Presi'
dent Cleveland has to send away a
lawe number OF them every day. His
experience during his last administra'
lion enables him 10 dispose Of them with
refreshing rapidi,y. lie has fixed hours
for his receptions and such as get past
the clerks and his private secretary are
given a short audience and are some
tines turned down with word. The
Presiden, does business rapidly. He Is
good Judge of men and he knows the
office seeking type at a glance. lie does
rot receive office seekers until about ten
o'clock, though they begin to come
nueh earlier. They hand in their cards
to the door.keepers and take seats in
The an,e.room. At about ten O'Clock
President Cleveland Is ready to have
them admitted. lie moves about the
room from one man to the other and
often leads one of his callers to the
center Of the room and talks with him
nsuch low tone that he can't be heard
by the others sitting around. Not
inf'equently he rests himself against his
desk as he talks, half sitting on the
corner Of it, and he disposes Of many
cases without even taking the papers
which each office seeker brings with
him.
OFFICES WHICH WILL DE CHANGED.
can't itemize the number OF offices
which are open to change at the present
me. The civil service rules, as rigid as
hey seem, are very flexible IL the Presi'
dent wants TO make them so, and there
Is hardly one OF the $50, 600 places in the
government which could no, be changed
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Stories of office Seekers.-
Hungry Crowds which Haunt the White House

IT, p,tqi C2veand Receives 7he tie niue Book ant he
ee Edition Of This 1one0ee applications BY Aaa-Hhq4eif of
rty TREATING fefoaSior Oirr and The Persistent
ri and Hayysoa CoDea,edHhf Garrison said ionf HyJison
Cas-, Aaey JaetJoss Etpc,icgers Boaydiqg HoHe HomaR
cgni Ao-7he Troubles Of Brsidea Tom cota Ono Seek
IN, H1 he,
The Portland daily press., 1893-09-25
A BOON FOR FARMERS.
War of determination Waged on a Danger
Gus Crop Destroying Insect.


War of determination waged on a Danger
Gus Crop Destroying Insect.
Especial Correspondence
AEYIENE. Kan, Sept. 21.--The labora-
tory Of the Kansas state university has
during the past summer presented
curious picture for state institution Of
learning. Instead of being Uttered with
manuscripts Of forgotten examinations,
there have been hundreds on hundreds of
small pasteboard boxes scattered over
desk and floor. Every mail brougbs
hundreds more. and each departing train
took great cargoes out. During the
busiest time, through July and August,
as many as 5000 were handled each
week. La every incoming and outgoing
box were dozens Of tiny black insects
chinchbugs. The laboratory was the
headquarters of regularly organized
war ON tho little pests, and Chancellor
Snow had the state treasury to draw
upon for needful expenses, a liberal APP
preparation being at his disposal
From every neighborhood throughout
the state came voluntary offers of assist
ance In carrying on the battle. The
chinchbug ranks second among the mem
aces to successful agriculture In Kan
sas, the first being drought. But the
bug thrives on drought and always ac-
acompanies it. When the heat Of June
and July arrives, the bugs hatch out and
scatter through the wheat, eating the
straw and causing the heads to fall.
When wheat harvest is ended, unless
heavy rains come most OPPORTUNITY, the
corn is attacked. Almost as regularly as
an army they march upon the lusty
green stalks tsat tower above them.
rustling In the prairie breezes. They
Chamber up the tender bales, and soon
the leaves droop and become yellow,
thea dead. 1t is az IL blight had moved
majestically across the field, laying down
row after row, determined to exert its
might upon every green thing.
So rapidly did the damage increase
year by year that the farmers grew posi-
lively frightened. It seemed as though
the corn raising industry of the state
must be abandoned, and even wheat
was badly injured in some parts of the
commonwealth. All the time that the
farmers were complaining Professor F.
H. Snow Of the state university faculty
was working on the problem of Kidding
the state of the insects. He is an expert
student Of natural history, and he stud
led the injurious creatures with a
unique purpose in view. In 1891 he &C
The Portland daily press., 1893-09-25
cHINcHBUG AND puPA.

complished it and developed by means
of bacilli a disease which not only
proved easily fatal among the chinch-
bugs, but spread with amazing rapidity.
AT his own expense he inoculated num-
bers of bugs with the disease and sent
them forth to scatter it among their fell
lows. Few farmers, however, were suf-
ficiently confident Of the new process
and it's workings to experiment with it.
The following year many hundreds did
do SO, being induced by the local news
papers and glowing circulars sent out.
A few score bugs would be gathered and
sent in a box to Professor (now Chan
cellor) Snow. These would be inoculated
and returned, to be Immediately scat
tered in the fields, where the ground
was often found fairly black with the
destructive army. The result was sue
cess in so per cent Of the trials. At the
end of two days hundreds and thou
sands of dead insects would cover the
ground where before was a crawling
mass. Perhaps the range of the strange
but fearfully fatal malady would ex-
tend but few rods around the spot
where diseased bugs were loosed, though
often it spread rapidly over the entire
field. Hundreds of farmers testified
their belief that the infection saved them
half and even the whole of their crop,
and the state was unquestionably thou
sands of dollars better off for the re-
markable discovery, while other vest
ern states are also gaining benefit there
from.
This year, although the eastern half of
the state has had SO much rain as to ma
terially lessen danger from the bugs, the
demand for infected insects has been
enormous. The chancellor's Office has
had q large force of clerks at work con-
stantly, and not until the very last days
of August did the requests cease. Each
recipient of the laboratory's favor was
requested to report his success, and the
vast majority Of the reports told of acres
of dead chinchbugs by reason of the
spreading of the disease from infected
insects. In addition, members of the
chancellor's Office force took trips through
various parts of the state to investigate
the results for themselves and found
most beneficial effects, warranting still
larger plans for next year,
Whether the war can be carried to
complete determination Of the pests is
uncertain. If every farmer would assist.
1t might be, At any rate the damage
can be reduced to q minimum and a
saving Of from one-third to half of the
states corn crop effected, which is ire
mendous boon to every farmer. The
work next year will reach throughout
the west. G. M. HARGER.
The Portland daily press., 1893-09-25

CAPTAIN e. r. COOKE. the legislature,
which is this year to choose 2 United
States senators, 5 members OF the SUI
preme court, 100 county judges and all
the circuit judges in the state.
Speculation about who will secure the
United States senatorship is INDUCED in
all over the state, and discussion wakes
warm over the question whether legisla-
tive nominees are favorable to one or
the other of the aspirants for the toga.
The most prominent candidates for the
senatorship are Ex-Governor Fitzhugh
Lee, Governor Mckinney, Thomas Mar
tin of Albemarle and General Eppa Hun
ton, who is at present serving in the
senate by appointment Of the governor
to ell the place of Senator Barbour, who
died last year. One of the new senators
will be elected tofill out Barbour's term,
which expires March 8, 1895.
AS to the personality Of the candidates
for the governorship little need be said.
Captain Edmund Randolph Cooke Of
Cumberland, the Populist nominee, is
connected with some of the most promi-
nent families in the state. He is about
% years of age and has extensive plan
tations in mberland. He was gradu-
ated from the University OF Virginia just
before the war and entered the Confed-
crate army as private, achieving the
rank of captain by promotion for meri-
torious service. Colonel O'Ferrall, the
Democratic nominee, has a reputation in
Virginia and beyond the states borders
for his long service in congress, while
Colonel J.. r. Miller, the Prohibition
candidate, is well enough known not to
need any introduction to those who will
give him their SURFACES.
The Portland daily press., 1893-09-25

dams of the then unknown far west, Euf-
fering untold hardships and living the
life Of the savages that he might study
their habits and traditions. "For 81
years, be recently said. II have been
tied by the leg, and the secluded life
which I have led so long was adopted
less from choice than necessity"
During all these years he has been a
constant victim Of rheumatism and in
somnia, and his eyes have been SO affected
that he was able to read but little, while
most Of his writing has been done by an
amanuensis. Yet his perseverance was
sufficient to carry him through trials
that would have appalled, most men,
and his work bears no trace of his suf-
ferings, for the books he has written I'M
dersuch circumstances have been COM
mended by eminent critics as those of
the best historian of generation that
numbered Prescott, Motley and Ban
croft among its writers.
It was in his youth, while q student
at Harvard, that Parkman conceived
the idea of writing the history of the
French settlements in North America,
and the annals Of mankind contain few
instances Of such devotion to youthful
idea. All his life has been dedicated to
that one purpose, and his travels at home
and abroad have been undertaken with
view to its fulfillment. The archives
Of Europe and America have been ran
sacked for material, and the library Of
the Massachusetts Historical society has
been enriched by 10 manuscript volumes
Of records copied for his use.
The first book that he published was
sThe Oregon Trail" a record of his ex-
periences on the western journey above
mentioned. This was followed by "The
Conspiracy of Pontiac" the first of his
historical works, though it properly
takes Its place at the end Of the series
that followed 1t. These were pioneers
Of France In the New World" 1.-THE
Jesuits In North America, !" "La Sail
and the Crest West" 1.-THE Old Regime
In Canada" Count Frontenac and New
France = "a Half Century'of Conflict"
and "Montcalm and Welt" In the in
tervals Of historical work he also pub
lished a novel and his "Book Of Roses"
Mr.. Parkman was born in Boston and
has lived there all his life. 1t is idle
perhaps but seemly to wish that he may
continue to live there many years yet.
10 Won want to know what; is going on
The Portland daily press., 1893-09-25
a WELL SPENT LIFE.

The Distinguished Literary Achievements
of Francis Parkman, the Historian.
Not the least interesting circumstance
in the life of Francis Parkman, the his
torian, is the fact that he recently COM
pleted his SEVENTEEN year apparently in
better health than he had known through
many years of suffering and hard labor.
The germs Of disease were implanted in
his system during the years Of his early
manhood, which he spent among the In