The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-16

cling the first symptoms of head ache. He further ayers that it cleanses and re habiitates his system and puts him in prime condition for the remainder of the year.
 A bureau chief. who is not In the least eccentric, spends his thirty days flying old-fashioned kites over among the ad- jacent hills of Virginia. He camps out with his young son over near Arling- ton, and spends all of his time making and flying kites.
 ''No. am not crank" he says. good naturedly, replying to questions as to his odd way of putting in his vacations. I'm just getting even for one of the trials of my boyhood. that's all. nev- Ter got enough kite-fying when I was a youngster, al though was powerfully in love with kites. Every time I'd get a good kite going, or ready to fly, I'd be chased to fetch the cows in, or milk 'em, or chop wood, or clean out the stable, or police the back yard. or weed the garden, or something like that, and I used to make mighty vows in those days that I'd get hunk on the kite-hy- ing question some old day. And so I'm getting hunk now"
 One of the best known legal officers of the department puts in his vacations on Ia farm out in Maryland. near Rockville, land every day he spends hours with his grandchildren on the back porch of the farmhouse blowing soap bubbles out of clay pipes.
 A clerk in one of the scientific bu- reaus puts in all his vacations ''exercis- ing his dog as he expresses 1t. He makes long walking trips, with the dog, a huge mastiff, as his sole companion.
 Tt keys the dog up in great shape, and it's a swell thing for both of us, he says. I'm a bach. and live alone in flat with my dog, which I've raised from a pup. The dog doesn't get enough air or exercise, for can't allow him on the streets while I'm at work, and I can only take him out while in the morn ing and for an hour or so in the evening.
 T square 1t up by giving him a months walking every fall I'm just back from walk to Philadelphia and back with him. Didn't take anything along but knapsack and the dog.
 "We ate and slept at farm-houses and inns. had a great time, but nothing to what the dog had. shed eighteen pounds that I didn't need, and the dog picked up fourteen pounds, which he's perfectly capable of handling"
 At least a score of department clerks in Washington, hailing from New York state, put in their vacations with the hop pickers in western New York every year, and several ofthem went to Kan sas during harvest time this year, when the demand for hands was so great, to harden themselves by a season of out door work.
 A clerk gets one hundred and fifty dollars month and spends his entire thirty days leave down on the lower Chesapeake grabbing. He catches crabs with net and a piece of salt pork bait and sells them to the canneries for quarter a barrel, not so much for the money, but just to get rid of his catch. At that he makes about two dollars a day out of his grabbing fun.
 Plenty of farm raised employees of the government take their vacations in the fall so they can follow the country fairs |around Virginia and Maryland. They |enjoy the sights and sounds and the wholesome talk of the country folk.
 A messenger in the War, State and Navy building had dismal vacation of lit this year. He is a Schenectady man. Before the election in New York last year he was so certain that Odell would be defeated for governor that he agreed with fellow messenger, if odell should win, to walk to the top of the Washing ton monument every day during the month of July, his regular vacation month, and Washington swelters in July. The Washington monument tow CTS five hundred and ffty-five feet in the air
 The other messenger agreed to do the same if Odell lost, The messenger who lost tried to beg off when July came, but the other fellow wouldn't have it.
 The hard luck messenger promised in- stead to so to the seashore and drink at least three gallons of salt water a day while on leave, but his fellow messen- ger couldn't see this proposition. The messenger had to lag behind in Wash |ington and make. the tall climb to the top of the monument every day during the month Of July.
 He didn't bet or the New York elec- ton this year.-Washingto Correspon- dence of the New York Sun.