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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-24

ALE United States government never
pays immediate cash for any pur
chase or any service on the face of
II the earth. 1t does business by war
rants drawn upon the treasurer of
the United States. the man in whose Gus
toby there Is money and securities to the
value of 81, 20O, 600 coo, and who gives a
bond TO the government in the sum of $780,
600. The warrant is drawn by the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury or his assistants, ana
Il may be for one cent or it may be for
$4,000 600 There is no handing over OF
cash out of the cash drawer without war
rant; no taking of receipts. few of the for
maIlties that characterize ordinary bust
ness.
There was dsbursed during the last fiscal
year 1867 All Gil. besides much over Sloo,-
coo eco on account of the Post Office De-
partment. Not penny of it was paid ex-
,epf by warrant upon the treasurer of the
United States. II the government owed a
man a single cent ii would set about paying
the sum as deliberately as If IL were S1O,-
OOO,OOO There would be absolutely no DIFF
ference in the routine the claim would have
70 travel, unless the amount due happened
No be IN favor of some great man OF the
government. This would induce the clerks
10 push II along.
only warrant for one cent ever drawn by
the Secretary OF the Treasury upon the
United States Treasurer. 1t was in pay
ment of the balance OF the salary due the
great democratic chieftain at the close OF
his term In 1897, and Its issuance was made
necessary by one of those mistakes that are
rare on the part of the expert bookkeepers
engaged in running the accounts of the
government.
Every quarter the President Of the United
States is entitled TO three checks-one for
S4160.G 8 and two for 81, 1861 The table OF
methods Of paying government salaries
shows that IL the $4,000 year for the
President is divided into twelve equal in
stallments, one for each month, the amount
VIII be 81 G5 2-3 but the two-thirds of
g cent cannot be paid at the end OF a
month, and so the practice Is to send the
President a check for 81. 1896 one month
and the other two months Of the quarter
the amount is $I,1666T.
In some manner President Cleveland
failed 10 get check one month for the
extra cent that was due him, and when the
books were balanced at the close of his
term Il was detected. With all due solem-
nifty the officers of the Treasury drew the
famous warrant for one cent and Mr..
Cleveland received 1t with the same amount
OF seriousness.
has preserved It, although It Is good for one
cent any day that II may be presented; at
least, some say that Il Is good, while others
say that It Is not worth a cent now.
The claim OF some weii-known accounting
officers is that the warrant was good for
one cent AT any time during the fiscal year
In which Mr.. Cleveland went out, but that
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long jump, but the latter was the largest
warrant ever drawn by the Secretary of the
treasury. That was over a year ago and
was In payment for the Panama canal.
railroad and other property belonging to
the Panama Canal Company BY arrange
ment or all concerned. the warrant was
turned over to J. Z. Morgan &. Co who
proceeded to disburse It. largely by means
or credits upon their own books and a
swapping around of accounts. The gov
eminent made out some pretty stiff war
rants at the same time to pay the republic
OF Panama, that mushroom government
that grew up In night, for concessions of
territory, etc The amount due that gov
eminent was 100000 and Panama an
receive the payment. Warrants were drawn
Tor S9.ooo,OOO and for 81 600 900 each the
S9Coo,oUo warrant being the second largest
single warrant ever issued upon the treas
urer. The United States has paid ont
larger sums OF money. but never In one
warrant except in the case of the canal
When the United States agreed to pay
Spain s2oo00,OOO for despoling her of the
philippines, and the time came to nav the
amount, the payments were divided into
Tour warrants Of 5000 600 each This was
to permit the transfer of the money nv
ocean steamers In divisions. so as not to
take the risk of putting all in one lump.
Until the payments to Spain the warrant
TO Russia for $1,000, eco in payment for
Alaska was the largest that was ever
drawn In the department That was In
1865. Eight or ten years later a large war
rant was drawn In favor of Great Britain
II was for $5.J00,o00 on account of the Hal
iiax award, involving some fishing rights
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-24

~ HERE are more objects of reverent
interest at Arlington than the casual
II visitor sees. First, there are the
graves of George Washington Parke
Gusts and his wife, born Mary Lee
Fitzhugh. They lie In densely shaded
spot by the edge OF a shadowy ravine in
west Of the Tomb of the Unknown. The
graves are marked by two white marble
monuments The taller Is inscribed:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-24

But suppose that the woman from Ohio
inspires confidence, mentioning that she has
been sent by Mrs. So-and-so, the better
half of a naturaI-gas monopoly (also the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-24
HOW UNCLE SAM PAYS
FOR SUPPLIES AND SERVICES

since the expiration of that year 1t is val
ueless. Congress. according to their view,
makes an appropriation OF $4,000 a year to
pay the salary of the President of the
United States. The appropriation is good
only for the year for which 1t is made If
the President does not get his salary in
that year he IS barred from collecting 1t
afterward, as he cannot collect It in an
other fiscal year from the appropriation for
some other President
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18
SECCESS 10 HIM.

Manager Boone of the Hyperion the ater has attacked the ticket specu- Iators and has apparently made some impression on thsm. At least those who were fired out Of the theatre yesterday felt somewhat impressed. This nuisance and wrong is a hard one to deal with-harder than some of those who declaim against and want it abolished realize. For instance, one of the tricks tried yesterday was the statement by one in the line that he wanted eight tickets for local official, The local official has a telephone, which was used, and the statement found to be false. Other ingenious tricks were invented. and perhaps some of them succeeded. Others did not.
 The general and nQn-speculating public will wish Manager Boone more power and all success in his contest with the ticket spectators. Of course there is money enough in this town to feed ticket speculators with, but those who have it don't want to see it go that way.
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my regiment, and soon thereafter en- tered the local forces in defense of the Confederate capital.
 For some time I was in charge of Castle Thunder Hospital, where the political prisoners were confined.
 While there I had opportunities of lending aid to the Union prisoners and others who were in sore need of help.
 one case in particular I well re- memDer-that of e man named W. ". MeChesney. whose home address was NO 62 South street, New York City. He belonged to the Masonic order. of which l was member. He longed Tor liberty, and fretted so that I thought he would die. By a persistent eIIort l succeeded in obtaining his re- lease and sent him North to join his friends. The man was a prince of good fellows, and esteemed him highly. and missed him much when he was gone from the gloomy prison. I was in New York several months after the war and tried to find Mac but he had gone West Some time bersao aloenypCM west. Since that time all efforts to reach him have failed
 During my stay at Castle Thunder l made many visits to Libby Prison On one of these visits I met a prison- CT who made himself known to me as Free Mason. He was a tall, fine look ing man. weak and emaciated from hard service. I told him would try to obtain his release, but he said there was no hope for him, as all efforts had failed.
 My plan was to interview every officer of the prison with whom I was acquainted, and after three weeks of persistent effort the release was se- cured and the inan sent home to his friends. I saw him safely on board the Confederate exchange steamer and re- mained with him until he sailed home ward on the Union exchange steamer. I gave him a basket of luncheo and some money, and was richly repaid with his overhowing gratitude. have lost the name and address of this man, but if he or any of his friends read these lines would most earnestly ask them to communicate with me.
 T have been asked why am so anx- ious to find comrades of the war, but it is difficult to give an intelligible an- swer. The associations were sacred to me, and if they could be resumed, even for a brief day, my heart would be glad"
 MT. Duvall is a Southerner with a fund of experience and rare knowledge of human nature that will doubtless serve him well in the search he is soon to undertake. He still has many years of active life before him, and his friends say he is not easily discour-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18
THE RETIRED HOTEL KEEPER.
His Remarkable Tale About His Most
 Remarkable Guest.

His Remarkable Tale About His Most
 Remarkable Guest.
 About as odd guest as ever had in any house ever kept" said the re- tired hotel keeper, twas regular boarder who lived with me once who was very fond of pie.
 There was nothing very extraordi- nary in his fondness for pie. have known plenty of other men that liked pleas it turned out there were lots of them right there in that same house with him, but there was something re- markable about the extent to which MT. Jillbigton, that wasn't his real name, but it's near enough to it-al- lowed his fondness for pie to carry him.
 We had in that house at that par ticular time a pastry cook who was just a wizard on pies. She could and did make pies such as mother used to make every day in the week, and we used to keep up with all the new pie material as it came into the market, and so our house came to have more or less fame for its pies, just as any hotel or restaurant is likely to get & more or less permanent reputation for some particularly excellent feature of its cooking; and all our boarders were
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18
Susnhine Cake.

Take little patience and some charity Add 3 bit of kindness every littIe while; Stir in nope and courage with a dash of glee And taste for seeing other people smile; With the Iadle known as love mix these things together, And the joyful world will have only pleasant weather. Cease to frown while waiting for your tOil's reward. Look on others kindly and forget to hate; Give up sadly thinking that somehow the Lord
 Always puts the best things on some others plate; Give back cheerful words to all who may kindly hail you, And your cake will seldom fall or the oven fail you.
 Chicago Record Herald.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18
HE LEAD THE WORLD.

The United States leads the world iN so many things that it is not surpris- ing to read that it leads it in the size of its postal deficit. For 1903 the deficit of the United States was S4,356, 900. Ar gentina $S1s,SSS, Mexico S24S,97O, Lux emburg s32,145, Crete S5,6OO, Cuba $5S,- p461, Orange Colony (Africa) $37.442, Honduras s16,4O5, Algeria $220,9 French Indo-China $716,223. The fol- lowing nations show surplus: United Kingdom $22,5S1, ,OOO, Russia $15.O54,O 900, Germany $14,66S, ,OOO, France $14,4S9, 300, Spain $S,OSS,OOO Hungary $2, ,S95, ,OOO, Bel gium $2,5O9,OOO, Japan $2,S16, ,999, Meth erlands $965.OOO, Italy $772,O0O, Rouma- mia $579,OOO.
 The United States deficit looks big, and is big, but there are reasons for it. One is the extraordinary extent of country covered by our postal system, and the other is the immense volume of matter transported in this country in the guise of second-class mail. If much of this last were eliminated or forced to pay higher rate, for much of it really is nothing more or less than merchant disc, our deficit would be transformed into a surplus.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18
AIRY.

Little Fish-"What makes Scales put on so much afrs?" Another-"Why, he's boasting that he once got away from Grover Cleveland. '-Puck.
 His Aunt Every ugly)-"so you won't tell me what you think of me. Why not?" Willy (aged fivel-"If I did, I guess I'd get licked. "-Exchange.
 The Rev. Sapley-"I'm collecting for our Inebriates' home, madam" Mrs. Ardluck-"Oh, are you? Well. call round about midnight and you can ave my 'usband. nd."-Chicago Journal,
 How did the amateur dramatic performance do last night?" inquired the baking powder drummer. "Aw!" replied the landlord of the tavern. "It took in about s14 and 47 people, Puck.
 Puffenburg-"Pd give anything to know how you've managed to reduce your weight"
 Thinow-"I have made it impossible to get much to eat, by joining the Anti-Tipping society. Life.
 The invention of Kentucky man is painless execution machine. We hate to curb enthusiasm, but it is right to tell him at the start that methods that make the dentists chair a seat of recreati tion can never popular ize the office of the hangman.--Puck
 Mrs. Spenders-"Oh, John! I saw a sign in Bargen & Co.'S window to- day that reminded me of what I am most in--" MT. Spenders (inter- rupting hastily)-"I, too, saw a sign in their window, that reminded me of what l ann It read: Reduced to 49c.' " Philadelphia Press.
 Mamma" said six-year-old Vest port girl, entering the sitting room one morning recently, ''don't you want some candy?" The mother was writ ing letter. Why, yes, dear" she re- piled. Give me piacs." q ain't dot any, came from the child, "an' I ain't. dot any nickel to dit none." She got the nickel.-Kansas City Times.
 Homeless Holmes-"Wots become of Everett Wrest?"
 Oliver Mudd-"De poor hobo died of overwork."
 Homeless Homes-G' wan! I don't believe it.'' t....t t
 Oliver Mudd-"It's de trut. He wuz too ambitious-tried to do two days loafin' in one day-"-Cleveland Leader.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18
STRANGE QUEST.
An Old Confederate Soldier who is
 Seeking a Yankee ''Bunkie."

An Old Confederate Soldier who is
 Seeking a Yankee ''Bunkie.''
 Among the strange quests that men have undertaken in an effort to satisfy an uncomfortable desire to know, is the search which is about to engage the time and money of Richard Duvan of No, 4503 Central avenue. DuYall serV- ed with honor in the Civil War, and during the awful struggle was enabled to assist a comrade in dire peril. Af- ter t3es war had closed, all efforts to ind the comrade proved fruitless and, while at intervals word has been re- eelVed that the man is alive and well, for some unaccoUntabIe reason his whereabouts has remained a mystery. Moved with a consming desire to find the man the old soldier, who is in busi- ness in Los Angeles, will spend the re- maining years of his life trying to find his long-lost "Bunkie.'
 Without any attempt to gain notorie- ty, DuvaH tells of his desire to see his old friend, and relates some of his ex- periences during the bloody strife.
 l entered the Confederate army at the commencement of the war;" says Duvall, some time in April, 1861, and was a member of Company F, 17th Mississippi Infantry; was engaged in the battle of Bull Run, or Manassas: the battle of Halls Bluff, or Leesburg; was all through the Yorktown cam paisn, and saw some hard service in the battles in the defense of Richmond. owing to physical disability and expos nre l was honoraibly discharged from
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18
4 NOTION ATTACKED.

A European diplomat rises to protest against the notion that there is some written or unwritten law of diplomacy which provides that nations making treaties with each other shall commit nicate the contents to other Powers, under penalty of being held unfriendly. He points out that some of the most important treaties between European Powers have never been published, nor has any information been given as to their contents by the signatories. The old German Emperor William, in view of his personal relations with Alexan- der. H., insisted upon Bismarck's com- municating the purpose of the Austro- German treaty of alliance of 1879 confi- dentially to St. Petersburg, but it was not published until nine years after. The later Russo German agreement, better known as Germans "reinsur- ance" treaty with Russia, was kept a profound secret during all the years it was in force; and it would probably have remained a secret always but for the indiscretion of Prince Bismarck himself, whp revealed it in a fit of pique after his dismissal from office. The terms of the Italo-German and the Italo-Austrian treaties, which, together with the Austro-German treaty, con- stitute the Triple Alliance, are still un- known, and so are the terms of the Dual Alliance between France and Russia.
 If one Power chooses, argues the writer, for special reasons, to take an- other Power into it's confidence in such matters that is merely the equivalent in diplomacy of what theologians call a work of supererogation. It was re- served for Germany, in the case of the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18
MAY M1NIsrERs sMOKEq

The question whether ministers ought to smoke tobacco has been agi- tated in several church bodies, for many years. It came up the other day in the Holston Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and was decided in favor of the antis. The temperance committee of the con- ference, it is stated, presented resolu- tions strongly condemning the use of intoxicants and tobacco. Rev. George R. Stuart, an evangelist, poured broad side after broadside into those mem bers of the clergy, and even bishops, who have the smoking or chewing habit He said he had visited a room in which a bishop and his cabinet had met and found it besmirched with to- bacco. So vigorous was his onslaught upon divines who use the tweed" in any form that the good Bishop Hoss, who was presiding temporarily over the conference, felt constrained to take the floor and make a defense of min isters who indulge in tobacco. But the evangelist carried the day and the majority of the conference voted for the anti-tobacco resolutions.
 Some people think it isn't wicked to smoke anything labeled tobacco. Some think it is wicked to smoke cig- arettes, and others think it is wicked to smoke at all. Perhaps minister of a gospel that inculcates self-denial and simple living should not smoke, even if smoking isn't so very wicked.
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Anglo-French agreement, to ask not only for a friendly explanation of the contents. but for the formal communi- cation of the text of an instrument
 which affected her interests far more remotely than those cf other Powers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18

'toh, I've forgotten the bait" ex- cairned the first fisherman. x eWhat?" yelled the other. "Why, you puddin' headed, blank idiot, how in thunder did you-'
 ''What's the matter with you?' re- torted the first. You had as much right ito remember the can as I had. When I put the worms in it,
 "Oh, the can,' interrupted the other, with a look of relief. "I thought you meant the bottle." = Philadelphia Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18

The congregationalist considers the accident to "the best steeple climber in this country, who has tripped on a curbstone and broken his leg" irony' and symbolical of many man whose intellect is splendid, but whose morals are ignoble.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18

The Lewis and Clark exposition is ended, with total attendance of 2'545'- 5Os. There were 56,S6O visitors on Sat urday, total which was exceeded only twice before. In round numbers the total is two and half millions. which compares with 18,75O,OOO at St. Louis in 1904 and 27,5OO,OOO at Chicago in 1893.
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THH WEEKLY JOURNAL.

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 situations. Wants, Rents. and other small advertisements, One Cent 8 Woso each insertion. Five Cents a word TOT full week.
 Display advertisements, per inch. one inBerticn. S1.2O; each subseouenL Mssl ticsp 4G cents; one week, $S.2O; ons
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The snake stories are about all told for this season, but there are other stories which can be told For in- stance. Rodney Clifford of Mentonne, Minn, has a wood furnace in the base ment of his house, and as he burns a. good deal of wood, large quantities of ashes accumulate in the cellar. He noticed that his face and eyes smart ed a good deal from the dust. He worked 'hareheaded, and at last felt a smartins, on his head, where the dust had worked into his hair, and, taking out his handkerchief to wipe the sweat and dust away, he wiped every par ticle of hair off his head. The dust of the ashes had combined with his per- spiration to form a strong lye which had eaten into the roots of the hair and caused it to loosen and fall away as soon as he touched it. The effect was the same on his beard, mustache, eyeIashes and eyebrows, and the man was as bald as a billiard ball as soon as he rubbed his head and face.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18

Miss Pauline Chrisman has been sworn in as a full fiedged policeman" in Pueblo, Colorado, and is believed to be the first woman in the west to wear star. Miss Chrisman is newspa- per worker and has made, vigorous wars on splitting in public places. The po- lice. authorities thought she could do more effective work if enrolled on the force, so she was given a star.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18

The Religious Herald, which receives from time to time complaints from contributors of ruthless editing of their articles, gives an illustration of this summary handling of contributed articles in this wise: An obituary of good husband expressed sympathy with the bereaved widow, and closed with this wish: May the vacancy our brother has left be speedily filled" !" The Herald adds that ''the unfeeling editor put his blue pencil through this sentence.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18

This story is told in the Boston Her aid of Judge G. W. Green, who for many years was judge of the Probate court at St. AIbans, Vermont: At the annual town meeting the purchase of a new town tearse had been voted, and a committee appointed to canvass the townspeople for subscriptions. One of the committee thought it would be an excellent plan to have the judges name at the head of this list, and to that end approached him. The judge absolutely refused to make a contribution, and, when questioned as to the reason, said: Why should subscribe toward a new hearse when I haven't ridden in the old one yet?"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-18

Mrs. Stainthal, writing on friendship between mothers and daughters, re- lates an instance which came under her notice of an unmarried daughter who received 8 complete trousseau and presents on her thirtieth birthday and also an income sufficiently large to en- able her to travel if she wished to. Un- fortunately for the moral of the story, the daughter married at thirty-four but shewoften afterward expressed the delight and pleasure the gifts had giv- en her for four years, and used to add that, although she had often before hand longed to lead a free life, she never once wished to leave her parents after she knew she had the power to do so
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