The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-02-24
what a IsresitIent Costs.

What a President Costs.
An exchange asks the question.
'.yVhat does the President cost the
country p and then proceeds to an
swer as follows He gets $4,000
a year and found as they used to
say in the west when they gave a
man a certain amount and his liv-
ing expenses The Presidents
finding is very comprehensive.
covering about every possible re
quirement of family His prii-
vate secretary. clerks doorkeep
ers. messengers, and steward and
butler. and three servants, includ
ing fremen, cost the nation SSs,
s65 a year. There is a contingent
fund tthat he may use as he pleas
es without telling anyone how it :
was expendedif he doesn't wishtol
of SS, 600 a year. In furniture and
repairs to the White House the
sum of SIG, 600 more, to be used as
the President may see fit, is pro
yided by the nation. and is always
expended. For fuel alone S., COO
is allowed, and for necessary re-
pairs of greenhouse there is 81, GOO.
Footing IL up. we discover that the
finding annually amounts to the
snug sum of $64, ,S65, or nearly
$15, 600 more than his salary, and
the two aggregate Sll4, 800.
This is peculiar world, world
of contradictions. One is strug-
ling for Justice; another is fleeing
from it. One is saving TO buy
house; another is trying to sell his
for less than il cost to get ridlof it.
One is spending all the money he
can make in taking girl to the
theatre and sending her flowers IN
the hope of making her his wife;
another is spending what gold he
has in getting divorce. One
escapes all the diseases that flesh
is heir to. and gets killed on a
railroad; another escapes with
scratch and dies of whooping
cough. One stands off his credi
tors and goes travelling; another
pays his debts and has to stay at
home.
Where the roads approaching
town are not full of mountainous
ruts as hard as rocks, there are
treacherons hollows from which
the water has not yet entirely
sunk away or evaporated, and the
journey of the farmer is rough
and disagreeable one. 1t needs
wagon very firmly built to stand
the buffeting and humping il en-
counters.
The streets thronged with peo-
pie; the sun shining down with
unwonted warmth; even the birds
twittering in the trees, though in
nocent as yet of foliage, and house
doors, shop-doors, windows and of
fees open to admit the fresh and
balmy air gave evidence yesterday
that spring at last is very near.
But, oh, what a difference IN the
morningI
It was President John Adams
who said. When the working
poor are paid IN return for their
labor only as much money as will
buy them the necessaries Of life
their condition is identical with the
slave, who receives those necessar-
les at first hand The former we
call free men and the latter
slaves, but the difference is imag
mary only
The West Virginia Central Rail
roadis experimenting with the idea
of painting their GERS by the use
Of compressed air, throwing it on
with hose, the same as white
washing is done The first trial
recently was perfect success,
work being done in forty minutes
that would take day to perform
by the old methods of brush and
paint=pot
Quite a number of newspaper
men from West Virginia are
in attendance at the twelfth an
nuaI convention Of the National
Editorial Association now in ses-
sion at Galveston, Tex, among
them being Messrs W. S. Wiley,
james X. Hal, NJ. O. Speery and
a. b. White