The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-07-15

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! be woman at the other end" The
young man blushed and threw the coffin
/ tack away
Messenger Robert R. Cheeks. Of Viz
ginia, who has been on duty at the Office
/ Of the Secretary OF War, has resigned
and returned 10 his Virginia home
The idiosyncracies OF the lady clerks
was the theme Of an eloquent discourse
by one OF the appointment clerks at &
recent informal gathering OF Government
employees He is an old hand in the
service and handles the appointments
for an important and extensive depart
ment- He has learned a great man
things and is regularly amused and of,e
worried by the people whom he Intro
duces TO the attention Of the paymaste
1T has not entered into the minds
OF many men" said this veteran of the
rolls, what curious things these women
do and say You ought TO have my Job
a while 70 get a good education IN find
ing out how much you don't know
about the dear creatures The Govern
ment has imposed on me the thankIess
task Of getting the records Of the earthly
careers Of all the clerks in my depart-
ment. I have had the ladies to make
faces at me when I asked in the gentlest.
sweetest way in the world lor the date
OF their advent into this world. Some
OF them cry and others proceed 10 tel
me all sorts OF things about nv III
manners and vulgar curiosity II there
Is man in Washington looked on with
suspicion by more people than I am,
ne Is the man who as appointment clerk
to larger department
'One old sister has not only grown
IN grace since she came in but has retro
graded into youth She was forty when
she first registered, and the next time
she was thirty-eight. The last time she
got appointed she was about thirty-six
One who came in few years ago gritted
her teeth, cast a death-deaIing gIau-s
at ne and iabbed the pen on the card
She wrote the figures. 30. and put
Plus mark after them. On reapyoint-
ment she did the same thing. Often
when there is occasion to make out q
new card thcv study a long time, wrinkle
their foreheads and ask for the cards
they made cut al first When they see
this they compute their years quickly.
set down the figures and run.
You boys must not think I an IN
gallant an not doing any bitter
cTitieising- like my job, and I love
the ladies'. but sometimes I feel like
going out into shaded place and
swearing with the eloquence which Mark (
Twain credits 10 the blue jay I dis /
ike 20 be regarded as a bad. ugly old
man. but that and a whole lot moro 7 I
get on numerous occasions, and il il /
well that I am patient husband and
a fond father, or there would be trouble /
around my Office sometimes.
4 Kansas man in the Treasury. De
paTtment says that Atehison, Kan. like /
many other towns. has been custodian
OF the most remarkable negro in the
country for years. The Atchison super
latiye died last week He was Cant.
Philip Porter. who was known as an
orator. When Senator Beveridge was in
Kansas on a spell binding tour the local
orators did not want to be ecIipsed BIZ
speaking on the same day, and al Atctf-
son the black Demosthenes. Captain
Porter, was the only one who would
face the music. He was d most at
-Tactive speaker and famous Repub-
ican.
Mr. W n Smith, Of Charlotte, n. c..
who has been selected as one Of the
Jerks in the Census Bureau, has re-
-uTRed from q visit to his home at Char
otte.
AF. Walter L Hines. affectionately
allied the colonel" is supervising the
putting IN Of q new plant at the Civil
service buildings The wora now be-
ng done IS the furnishing OF new power
or the elevator, new water supply and
lew telephone service. He has been
detailed al the Pension Office for the
asst several months. and the Civil Serv-
&c employees are glad to welcome him
ack. The colonel is one Of the most
!easant men in Washington, as well as
ne possessing a vast amount OF IN
He IS general favorite IN
he sections where he has been on duty.
ie Is q Western man, having been /
rained and schooled and enthusiast
iCaily adopted n South Dakota. though /
orn in the staid Commonwealth Of
iassac hUsetts. Z