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A THE CABINET: PEN PICTUltES OF THE PRESI DENTS ADVISERS. Sketches of the Eiht minister the Departments of the : Government How They Live y and How They "Work. A tour of the possible Presidents is an interesting pastime nowadays, says the "Washington correspondent of Philadel phia Record. By possible Presidents, I mean, of course, the eight members of the Cabinet, who are by aci of Congress in the line of iomotion upon the death or disability of the-President or Vice President. It is not certain that the Secretary of Agriculture, tne baby of the Cabinet, is in thi3 line of promotion, for he is not mentioned, of 'course, in the "Presidential Succession act" because his office had not then been created. But I suppose that under the general terms of the act creating the eighth Cabinet place its incumbent is given ali the powers and privileges of his colleagues. But,-at all events, "Uncle Jere" is a member of the Cabinet and a good fallow, and so we will call on him", too. i Blaine's department Occupies the south ern wing of the new. Stanawar State, navy and war building, which stands just west of the Executive mansion, on the site of the old war and navy build ings. Secretaries Blaine, Proctor and Tracy, who control it, have: adopted somewhat more stringent rules for the admission of visitors-that are prescribed in other departments, j Unless you are a Senator or a representative of a depart ment official you can onjy see tjjeni per sonally at twelve o'clock on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays newspaper irse, excepted here as J men ueincr, ot cour everywhere. -laine is the latest member of the Cabinet for getting down t6 his office, seldom arriving until 10 o'clock, the hour at which he begins to receives Sena tors and Representatives. But this is not because he gets up late, for he is a light sleeper and an early riser. It is because he takes time athis desk in his comfort able rooms at the Normndie to read the morning newspapers, which he does like .an old newspaper man; dispose of some of His Tirivat.fi rnrrpsnrmr?vnr . onrl -nica with the assistance of Walker Blaine, ppon some of Ziis public business, so that Yr aiKer is apt to carry a port! olio lull of papers to and fro for his father every day. When he can the Secretary of State walks the few blocks by way of Lafayette park from his hotel to his department. His . hair and beard are entirely white, his face is more deathlike than ever, but his f orm is straight and his step is springy. At a distance his age would not be at all apparent to a casual observer. The office, of the Secretary of State, having been finished and furnished several years before the others, is faded compared ' with those of the Secretary of War and the Secretary . of the Navy. Still it is a handsome , room, with a fine wood floor covered with rugs, elaborate frescoes, a great square mahogany" desk for the Sec retary in the centre, a smaller one for his private secretary in one corner, book s cases, cabinets and a line globe scattered around, and a number of portraits on the wall. , But we must not keep the Secretary of State waiting. He stands up to receive, sitting down and tilting back in his chair, . with his legs crossed, if he settles down to a goocl talk with you. He takes your hand with his old fervor, and his eye still dances and sparkles as I believe it will when he is dead. He always says something pleasant when he can, and, if possible, something clever, too; and so with a smile, and a bow you are dismissed. 'From 10 to 12, like all the Secre taries in this building, he receives Sena tors and Representatives on all davs ex- cept Thursday, which is reserved for members of the diplomatic' corps 'exclu sively. Oa Mondays there are not so many Senators and Representatives calling it3 to take all of the two hours, so that he docs not lese the whole morning. At 12, except on Cabinet days (Tuesday and Friday), when he must be getting over to the "White House, he receives the public until1 1 or 2,. as business will permit. ; ..Then, on his return from the Cabinet, 4Jie work- away on official business until 5 f o'clock, whefl he drives down the avenue , to a private gymnasium, and cither takes some prescribed exercise or a massage treatment. His physician has told him .that he must take from four to six hours' exercise every day. Before he went into the Cabinet hg walked several miles each day. But now he considers himself for- ; tunate when he is not detain "at his office after 5, and can get an hour's exercise be fore dinner. He dines with his family in their private dining-room at 7 and then works most of the evening at official business if he does not go out to dinner. Mrs. Blaine is superintending the recon struction of the Seward mansion on La fayette square, which they have leased for ten years, and which they will occupy in the fall, so that the Secretary is relieved largely of that. He has a great deal of nvate business, though, with his real es- te here, and his railroads there, and his nes far out-in the West. Altogether he too much work to do and gets too enJittle rest after a while. 4.AV ilV Mill K- CI V JiJ.UA-. iJ potstliam Windom, Secretary of the cocury, comes next in order on the nK To see him we cross over through the tdiite House grounds, in front or in rear f the White House, and walk ui to the cond floor of the Greek temule known the Treasury building. Windom has hanged the office of the Secretary of the treasury from the southeast corner, where nnmg and Fairchild had theirs, to the 1f the south side, where ha. usee CTl . j mi Secretary Thompson's old room miv Wi)am office, and the chief clerkV as his coxf saltation cabinet and real working den. Windom, like George W. Childs, whom he so much resembles, looks just the same as he did ..twenty -five years ago face as unwrinkled, hair and whiskers as dark. It is his sunny nature which keeps him yomg. He is never ruffled, but is always smiling. He walks over to his depart ment from Hotel Arno, on Sixteenth : street, just north of the White House, with an easy moving step so as to get to bis office by 9 o'clock. He sees every body who comes at all hours-of every day when he is in his office and his work will permit. Most of the time from 9 till 3 or 4 o'clock he is standing on.his feet listening to the office-seeker and 4his friends. Between callers he signs papers or eats his simple luncheon. After 2 or 3 or 4 o'clock, when the last caller goes, he buckles down to work, and by 6 has pretty well cleared his desk and made up theV-rb he will do at home. j? or arter j dinner he bedtime. ;Ce3 at it again and works till His offices are plainly but solidly fur nished, well carpeted, gorgeously fres coed and adorned with oil portraits of Sherman. Fole-er and others of his nrefic Men Who Ad,lco. Everybcdy leaves Window with regret, lur lie. s a very agreeaoie nos. 'He always was so pleasant," might with truth be written, on his tombstone. He stands this strain so well, though he gets so little exercise,! that it is hard to con- nect him in this world with a tombstone. Next in the line of promotion comes the Secretary of War, the veteran Gover nor, Redfield Proctor, of Vermont, the richest man in the Cabinet. To see him we rmist go back to the Stanawar, where his office is a splendid" room on the we3t side of the same floor a3 Blaine's. Proc tor, gray with years and bent with work, Iooas quiescent and even phlem&tic. But he is the most nervous' man in the Cabi net. He always walks as he talks. He does not mean to .shake you off; he is un affectedly courteous to you, but he must walk. He walks' up and down when he is dictating to his stenographer; he walks up and down when he cats his luncheon.. He walks over to the Department from the Arlington and back arain when the weather will let him. Like most million aires who have made their millions, if not themselves, he is an early riser, and usu ally anticipates his clerks at the office. He has very few hfficeseeking callers, and has been able to learn more about his of fice than any of his colleagues, except the Secretary of the Kavy. The Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin F. Tracy, of Brooklyn, comes next. His office i that of ijiis predecessor on the eastern side of the same floor and directly in line with Secretary Proctors, Tracy uses the little inner room more constantly than Whitney diid, giving up the long show office with! its costly woods and J ruS ana irescoosi ana tne oh portaits oi his predecessors fp Lieutenant T. B. M. Mason, his naval secretary"; Henry W. Raymond, his private secretary, and their clerks. He is a gray-haired, gray whiskered man, with a benevolent expres sion, a clever tongue and a pleasant laugh. He is very apt to have his callers brought in one at a time into his inner office, where, oa the famous Monitor desk, he does most of his work. ' He gets over to his officej from the Arno a little after 9, goes back for luncheon at; 2 and gets away finally at 6 o'clock, working often, however, in the evening at the rooms. For, like all the rest, he has too many callers just Snow to permit him to do all his day's stinf at . his office, and, like all the others, he dislikes to let it go over from day to day ' The Postmaster-General come3 next. To see him we must ride all across the- business part of town to the crowded sman-roomea postomce aepaitment on Seventh street. There is not a good sized room in this department, nor one which is handsoihely furnished, and the Postmaster-General's is no exception. In contrast with the magnificent offices we have just left, the newest and finest in Washington, hi$" rooms seems shabby. But they seem to be the most attractive : rooms in Washington. From the time the doors are opened in the- morning until the time thpy are closed in the even ing his callers are coming and going. There is a little ante-room AVherehis type writer works off behind a screen the let ters he has taken; in ' shorthand from the, Postmaster-General's dictation. It is small, and usually full f of waiting visitors. Then there is hi formal office, which is not much larger, and is pretty well filled by his big desk, two leather-covered sofas, several leather-covered chairs and a cabi net. What spacje is left is also usually filled. The Po$tmaster-General may be found here, sitting in a tilting chair be hind his desk or standing leaning on the mantel-piece where Benjamin Franklin sits solemnly surveying his successor. Or he may be in his inner office, about the same size, and just beyond, where his faitlvful private secretary Mr. Jones, writes neat notes all day long-. As likely as not that inner office is filled-, top, although usu ally it is not, since he reserves it for con fidential conferences. Portraits of his predecessors look down from every walL The Postmaster-General gets down to his office inithe official rattle-trap, called by courtesty a coupe, any time between 7;30 and S:30, having already, , after breakfast and prayers, accomplished some work. He does a good deal before 9 o'clock, when the visitor first gets in, un less he has a special engagement with the Postniaster-iGeneral, and then : Mr. Wanamaker getst in his work in the in terstices of interviews until 4 o'clock, when the outer doors are closed and no office-seekers ar: admitted. By 5 most of them are goneamd between that and 7 he can get in two soUd hours of work. ' After dinner he goes at it again. If he is not careful he will. break down. A temperate, methodical man can do won ders of work, but there , is a limit to every man's povfers. Still, I do not think he?wastes workj and perhaps the post office department and a great business cannot be successfully run in any other way. The Poatmaster-Gerieral is very agreeable, even. if he does look at you rather peremptorily through his eye glasses now anpl them. He is rapidly learning Washington ways as well as Washington meh, and will be more pro ficient every day. . He did a very wise thing when he bought the Frelinghuysen Whitney house In fact, and by tra dition, it is onqs of the most attractive houses in Washington. The Postmaster General will ncjt feel fully settled here until his wife and daughters join him in the fall. Thonjhe will probably give up his weekly trip to Bethany, and worship every Sunday inlhis pew at the Church of theCovenant. j , Right across street north of the Post office Department stands another Greek temple known locally as the Patent Of fice, because the; Patent Office is in it. It bontains most of the business of that de partment. Here in the large room which has been occupied by all his immediate predecessors Secretary Noble, next in the line, sits at a handsome desk when he is not standing up to greet or dismiss some caller or conferring with him in his little office at the side. Noble is a gentle, pa tient man, but quick enough to decision and determined enough in his conclu sions. He has Windom's tactful way of putting a refusal so that it seems almost like a favor. It U well, for he divides the honors of having the largest number of callers with all the others. Noble works early and late at nights. His predtces sors, especially Lamar, have often been obliged to work all night to catch upwith the enormous current of work. iky far he has not had to do h this, but he may come to it yet, for his hours are all lcurs as it is. He takes his exercise in waiSdncr to and fro. ) The Attorney General closes the list of 1 Henry Harrison Miller. He sits up in the fine room which Benjamin Harrison Brew ster decorated and furnished so elegantly on the second floor of what is commonjv called the Freeamen3 bank building, just north of the treasury, across the avenue Down stairs, where the poor fieeomen banked their money 4 'forever and ever J" sits the court of claims. Overhead, where the managers of the Freedmen's bureau used to meet, sits the Attornev General ia eastern lunury. He is a simple, mat: Ox -fact, man, strongly resembling Ga field in his ways. 31illers hours zrs like those of most of the others. Here is his own account of his day: usually i put in an appearance ssZ tne office about 8 :30 in the morninrr. and do not leave the department, save for 3 brief intermission for lunch, until about o'clock in the evening. After taki dinner, :.JU o ciocic will find me Dacs at my aes.c, ior i ao not carry anv of my work to my hotel. About 10 o'clock) I shut down for the day and go to bed ana it is not mucn xrouDie ior me to go to sleep. But I do not propose to i ;eep this up, for the strain is too great, and wouia oreaK a constitution oi iron it pe sisted m. Living at the Riggs house, he has only a few steps to 20 between his room and his office. He treats Ids visitors at department as though they were clients at his lav office. He takes the dll his exercise witn tne president almost every day. It is in their walks and drives that they have their momentous talks which people are always wondering about. Mil ler walks well with the President, bein about his height, but his face is dark, add his hair and his beard, are still niostjy black. - - I TUn Cr.r.l- f 1 .Il l iiic ucyiciary oi Ancuiiure, vrovci- lior" Jere Rusk, father of Blaine D. Rus is far "separated from all his Cabinet coh freres. His department is away over tp ward South Washington, beyond the mall which George Washington wanted to run between the White House park and the Capitol. Rusk s building is a ginger bread affair of bricks of two. or 'thrp colors, with various' gaudy decorations and mansard roof. However, he fiies lm flag every day in the week, and signs his name right heavily with the only go d. pen in the Cabinet. Rusk is the talk st man in the Cabinet, I should think,with a great shock of white hair, and a farmer like, straggling white beard. He is a bluff, hearty, loud-voiced Western6r,w! 10 .wants to please as many people as pos; i ble. He has to disappoint a lot every day, for places in the Agricultural Depa: t ment are greatly sought after since ma ly of them are below the limit of the classi fied service. "Uncle Jere," as everybody familiarly' calls him, works as hard here as he did at home, gets up with tne chickens and goes to bed with the ow He lives at the JSbbitt House and rides over and back in the very respectable (f fice carriage which Dr. George B. Lorina bought for the Department of Agriculture when he was commissioner. He would do better to walk, for the distance woiild just give him needed exercise. The Backing Horse. HT -L 1 1 " A. -1 -LU.U5L peisuus wuu nave wimessea vox vicious ana acrooauc antics 01 me '.'dugk- bronco" in Buffalo Bill's and other wild Western shows have supposed that pie animals were merely acting a part (to which they had been trained, like the trick-mule of the circus. The fact is that these traits are in the nature of the beast; and what the horses do on exni- bition 'is as nothing to the diabolical cdn- tortions which they go through when enaeavonnsr to unseat a cowDoy riaer pn their native prairies. The broncos of the Southwest, like the cross-bred Indian and cayuse ponies of Montana, are not usually broken until they are four or five years old, and then their training is of tjhe rudest and most impromptu character. Individual animals, like individual men, exhibit tempers and idiosyncrasies of their own; but even the best-tempered coW ponies will sometimes buck on a frosty morning. Such "mavericks" a're.turiied over to hands who make a specialty oi conquering horses that are determined not to be ridden ; i6r a great many th r ough cowboys who are good horsemen ii the sense of beinj? able to get the bbsi work out of their string of steeds in i round-up do not pretend to be able to jsit a hard-pitching or vicious animal. Tjhe hoTse-tainer, with hi3 wonderful lariat, brings the rebellious horse to the ground;oj a noose around one of the fore feet ; then he mounts, and pursues his dare-deil, anti-bucking tactics until the shaggy popj is dazed and cowed into meek submission. Frank Leslie's. Noted American Trees. The big tree of Cabfornia. "Old Liberty Elm," at Boston. The "Burgoyne Elm," at Albaiy, N. Y. . The immense ash trees planted by Gen eral Washington at Mount Vernon and now the admiration of visitors. The weeping-willow over the grave oi Cotton Mather in Cop's burying-ground, near Bunker Hill, taken from a tree that shaded the grave of Napoleon at St. Helena. The Cary tree, planted by the roadside in 1832 by Alice and Phoebe Cary, i$ a large sycamore, standing on the turnpike from College Hill to Mount Pleasant, Hamilton Countv, Ohio. The Washington ; elm still stands at Cambridge, Mass J "It is on Garden street, a short distance from the colleges, and is a large, well-preserved tree. An iron fence is built around it, and on a stone I in front is the following inscription: "Ten der this tree G sorgo Washington took command of the American army, July 3, 1775." A Singular Freak. West Virginia offers a very sinsfuiai specimen of liliputian humanity in the daughter of ' John E. Miller, of Hamp shire County. She is twenty-three ydars of age, cannot walk or talk and is put twenty-six inches tall. Always' lying in a little cradle, she is enabled to kee a sharp lookout on all that issroincr on; no one has yet been sharp enough to call foi an article in the house that the little one could not point out. Her memory is most remarkable. A new song or poem repeated m her presence is never 1 V . ten. 11 tne same song or poem is again. repeated or sung, with the variation ol but a single word the little prodigy vill show her disapproval by yelling lustlj and frowning a frown that cannot be mistaken. How such a remarkable mem ory can find resting place in a head'nc larger than a teacup has long been wonder of physicians and servants who have iourneved from far and near to est 1 the remarkable srifts of ftia little wnnaer. I Washington Star. ! J posjSW Presidents', unless we take in tie Secretary e-f Agriculture, a3 1 mean to dp. We must gd uptown" again to see .William BUDGET OF FUN. HUSlCtfiOUS SKETCHES PROM VARIOUS . SOURCES. . ' Alas! A Questionable Ienial -The Past Was Secure As Fa as She Had Been The Same Stick, Etx, Etc I had told her that I loved her. She had whispered me the same: Then in innocent flirtation I was caught. The climax came. She demanded back her letters; And my mind is in a whirl. For by some mistake I sent her Letters from another girL A QtrESTIOXAEUS DESTAL.- Brown "I understand that vou told Welb that I am a regular chump." Jones "Nothing of the kind, sir. Tm. not going round telling the public what I think." Omaha World. TH PAST WAS SECXTKB. Full Blown Kose "What a pity, dear, you are engaged so young. You will aever have tho fun of refusing a man." Bud "No, but I've had the fun accepting one." Life. of AS FAB AS SHE HAD EEEX. ? Omaha Teacher "What influence has the moon upon the tide?" . Omaha High School Girl "I don't know exactly what influence it has oa the tied, but it has a tendency to make the mticd awful spoony." -Omaha World. THE SAME STICK. - . J Lady Finehealth (at hotel entrance) "No, I have no money to spare f or you. I don't see why an able-bodied man like you should go around begging." ; Lazy Tramp "I s'pose, mum, it's fer about the same reason that a healthy woman like you boards at a hotel instead of keepin' house'Aza York Weekly.' WOULD NOT CHANGE WITH G w. "Johnnie, my boy, wouldn' you have liked to have been George Washington" "Nav." "No? And why?" "He never seed a baseball game in hist life." Lincoln (Neb.) Journal. SUSPENDED EVOLUTION. He "Aw, weally, Miss Blossom, -do you believe man sprang from the ape?" She (very tired of his attentions) "Yes, I presume some men have, but there are others who have never yet made the spring, or at least never spran rr vptp far. Burlington Free Press. A GREAT SPEECH. Daughter "Talk about your Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Everett, Calhoun, etc., "pshaw! Henry made a better speech than any of them last night." Father "What did he say?" Daughter "He said : 'Nellie, I love you; I have three millions. Will you have me?'" -Epoch. TWO DIFFERENT IDEALS. Visitor ' 'Why are you crying, Tom my?" Tommy "Because mamma won't let me wear my hair long. Visitor "O, you want to look like lit tle Lord Fauntleroy, don't you, dear?" - Tommy "Naw I want to look like Buffalo Bill." Chicago Journal. AWAITING HER CHANCE . Elderly Spinster (at Navy Department) "I understand that you "are going to open a lot of sealed proposals here to day." ' Official "Yes, madam, we are." Elderly Spinster "Well, I guess, I'll sit down and wait. I'm not going to throw away any such chance as this." INCORRIGIBLE. Lawyer "Your share of the estate, sir, is one dollar, and there it is." Prodigal "Thank you, Mr. Brief. This unexpected windfall quite over whelms me. Will you not help me to celebrate the occasion by joining me at dinner? I know where we can get a splendid d'hote for a dollar." Bosar. WAYS AND MEAN3. Uncle Midas (to young scapegrace ward") "What, more money? My dear boy, your extravagance is something Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and " Young Scapegrace "Ah! that's just it, nunky ; I do consider my aunt's ways, but I consider my uncle's means." Town Topics. A LABOR SAYING DEVICE. ' Storekeeper - 'Mr. Fogg, let me show you our new ash sifter. It is a wonder ful labor-saving machine." - Fogg "No, thank you. If I should buy one, Mrs. Fogg would be getting me to sift the ashes, oa the ground that with pour machine it is so easy that I could do it just as well as not." Boston Tran- tcript. STANDING ON HER DIGNITY. Husband (alarmed) "Emily, there seems to be a smoke coming up through the floor. Eun and tell the lady on the Sat below. Something's afire in her part of the building I Quick I Quick !" Wife (cold and stately) "Cyrus, 111 never do it in the world. We've lived three months in this flat, and she has aever called on me."--Chicago Tribune. A CATASTROPHE FOR THE TRAMP. Mrs. Youngwife "Oh, George Tve got something dreadful to tell you 1" Mr. Youngwife "For pity's sake, what is it?" 3Irs. Youngwife "I made a pie for dinner and set "it out on the back stoop. A tramp came along and stole it." Mr. Youngwife "Dreadful indeed 1 Poor fellow I" Burlington Free Press. HOW HE KNEW HE WAS OP AGE. A- D. Marsh was judge at the primary Monday. A young, smooth-faced feHow offered his vote, and 3Iarsh asked him if he was old enough to vote." Yes," says the fellow, "I am twenty one." "How do you know?" 4 Well, I have had the seven-year itch three times," was the response. Cdina Ohio) Obserter. UNHEARD OF IN HIS PROFESSION. First' Club Idler "What Hioes this mean? The paper says that Rococo, the well-known architect, is in tpe irfiane asylam." ' Second Club Idler "Qh, yes; he drew the plans for a house tb cost $25,- 000, atid" edat only &dt-60Q, , A com mission, was at 6nbe appointed which . de clared him insane'' , BOTH Or THEM COCTOBKD. V They were passing under the elevated railroad, and the dia overhead was al most deafening. . . ' ' "This bustle makes my head acher" sis said. ' 'Probably," observed he, . 'if you wert to wear a smaller one." "Sir I" she indignantly cried, "I mean the noise confuses me." "I beg your pardon," stammered he, "I am confused too." Time, HOW JACK W03T THE GBOG. Here is our old salt's story of how hi . got a glass of grog: When at the wheel Captain South says: 4 - 'How doc3 she head?" "Southeast by south, half south, t little. southerly, Captain. South.", "Put another s to that, my man, and you shall have a glass of grog," says th Captain. 1 'Southeast by south, half south, a little southerly, Captain South, sir." ' The grog came. Martha's Vinepard Herald. AX TT3TFORTCNATE MISTAKE. "The fish were very nice, William. But how did you come to catch fresh mackerel in Fox Lake?" "What's that? What do you mean?'1 "I mean that you have deceived me. You never went fishing at aH." "Of course I did." "No, you didn't. It was a stupid blunder of the fish market to send fresh mackerel instead of black bass, wasn't it? We will talk this matter over later. Ii you can explain your week's absence in any better way than that you are leading a double life I shall be very glad "of it." -Chicago Herald. THOUGHT HIS PA COULD WORK MIRACLES. jjnthe train. "Georgie,Georgiel mind, your halrwill be blown off if you lean so far out of the carriage." Paterfamilias (quickly snatching the hat from the head of refractory youngster, and hiding itbe hndhis back) "There now, the hat has gone P Geqrgie sets up a howL After a whilegTsej remarks "Come, , be quiet; if I whistle your hat will come back again." (Whistles and replaces hat on boy's head) . 4 'There, it's back again, you see!" While the parents are engaged in conversation, Georgie throws his hat out of the window, and says: "Pa, whistle again?" Argonaut. A POINT USUALLY OVERLOOKED. . The youthful heir to a Walnut Hills ancestral establishment is of an mquiring turn of mind and directs his attention specially to the elucidation of religious problems. Last week he heard a Sunday school address on "The Prodigal Son." Just what the small boy thought of the address his father was curious to learn, and so he said to him. that night at sup per: "My son, tell me which of the characters in the parable of the prodigal son you sympathized with?" "Well, papa," replied the cherub with perfect nonchalance, "I think I'd feel disposed to sympathize most with the calf." Cincinnati Commercial. THE OLD MAN S LITTLE MISSION. . "What is your mission here, sir?" asked the old man with a frown. "I am on three missions, sir,"; replied the poor young man who was also a hu- morist. . "Well, what are they?" inquired the old man, impatiently. "Per-mission to marry your daughter, ad-mission to your family circle and sub mission to the regulations of your house hold." "Ugh!" grunted the old man, who was something, of a joker himself. "I have one little mission to offer before I con clude my arrangements with you."- "Name it," crie'd the poor young man, eagerly. "I will be only too glad to perform it. . "Dis-mission !" shrieked the old man with a loud, discordant laugh, and the poor young man fell in a dead faint at his feet. -Washington Critic. OKLAHOMA HOTEL UTILES. Gents goin' to bed with their boots on will be charged extra. Three raps at the door means there is a murder in the house and you must get up. Please rite your name on the wall paper, so we know you've been here. The other leg of the chair is in the closet if you need it. If that hole where that pain of glass is out is too much for you, you'll find a pair of pants back of the door to stuff in it. The shooting of a pistol is no cause for any alarm. If you're too cold, put the oilcloth over your bed. Caroseen lamps extra; candles free,but they musn't burn all night. Don't tare off the wall paper to lite your pipe with. Nuff of that already. - , Guests will not take out them bricks in the mattress. If it rains through that hole over head, you'll find an umbrella -under the bed. The rats won't hurt you if they doJ chase each other across your face Two men in a-room must put up with one chair. Please dont empty the sawdust out of the piflers. If there's no towel handy, use a piece of the carpet. Philadelphia North Ameri can. ' Father of Imericau Photography. The father of American photography, Mr. M. B. Brady, has lately been in town on a short visit. He comes from Wash ington, where he is widely known. It makes it easier to realize what sort of pho tography Mr. Brady has dealt in, to know that at the close of the war the United States Government bought thirteen tons of negatives from him. He had photo graphed every celebrated , personage in this country. And not only did lie pho tograph them on his plates,' but 'he Jbas retained the most interesting reminis cences of all of them in his memory. In person, Mr. Brady looks like a French marshal of the Empire, though his bel ligerency hasnever taken any form other than that appropriate to the best amateur boxer of his day. JTw York Journal. A Substitute for CoaL Petrole is the name given to a manfac tured substitute for coal, made by a flm in Minneapolis, and is the direct outcd.ne of the scarcity of fuel which has retarded the birth of manufacturing industries in that city and in fact the whole Northwest. It is made frosi saw-dust, the readuup of crude petroleum, and a number of othsr ingredients which are not made known by the inv" TO PREVENT DBPHTHEELl VALUABLE POINTS THE SSW TOES BOABD OF HEALTH. 1 -'.V - : - ":-'-v : -How the ' Disease Originates , andf Spreads "kow It Can be Sup pressed Disinfected Solutions: The New York State Board of Health has issued a valuable circular on the pre vention of diphtheria. The information and suETsrestions inven in the circular are applicable to all localities, follows: It reads as Diphtheria Is a preventable disease. Its existence depends on conditions that can generally be controled. It may appear in any community, bat it should not be allowed to develop beyond the first case or cases that make then appearance. Diphtheria probably always originates from a special boison which develops in the person sick with it. This special poison 'is given off in the breath, in the discharges from the mouth, throat and nose, and in some degree in -those from the bowels and bladder. The virus has the property of adhering tenaciously to objects on which it happens to alight: By reason oi this the sick room, its floor, walls, furniture and all its contents become infected with the disease and continue to be so until the virus is destroyed by cleansing and fumigation. The disease may also be carried away by any article coming in contact with the sick, and to which the virus clings, by the cloth ing, bedding, eating utensils, food, toys, and also by the persons and clothing of those is attendance upon the patient. Another inv Eortant fact is that the virus is very long ved; articles and premises infected with it may communicate the disease for at least eeveral weeks it may be transported by them with great faculty, and to an indefinite dis tance. - ' -. ..''. . . J A final important point is that bad sani tary conditions favor the development and propagation of . the diphtheritic virus. It grows best in places that are damp and foul and ill-ventilated, in cellars moist oy imper fect drainage and defiled by uncleanly accu mulations in the soil about it; in damp, tin ventilated spaces under floors; in cesspools, drains and sewers, or any place where then is dampness, filth and imperfect access of fresh air. In large cities the sewers furnish so favorable a place for the growth of this :i virus when it gets into them, and its vitality is sq great under such surroundings, that their infection may become permanent. Nc similar . conditions, however, need exist in small localties. Diphtheria is contracted by inhalation of air containing the disease germs coming di rectly from the sick or from articles infected by them. It is also communicated by arti cles passing from mouth to mouth, such as cups, spoons and toys. The articles by which it is communicated may have become infected weeks before, and "possibly at some locality Suite remote. It is contracted by inhaling lie air of sewers, cesspools, cellars, or any damp, foul or ill-ventuated place in which the disease germs chance, to have become planted. Children contract diphtheria much more'rettifiylhan aaoTfi ' - - .Every locality is liable to have diphtheria brought into it. It will not continue long if the principal conditions on which its exist ence mainly depends are removed; if the sick are ; strictly secluded, the disease germs de stroyed, and all unsanitary conditions which favor their continued development removed. ' 1. Isolation. Those sick with diphtheria! should be isolated from everyone except necessary attendants. This should be done with mild cases as well .as severe ones. They should be placed in an upper, airy room, as remote as possible from other living and sleeping rooms. Needles3 furniture and other articles should be removed from the room. Allow the windows to be open, for the poison does not go far away in tho at mosphere; give sunshine and fresh air con stantly. ,. . . I The attendants should remember that they carry with them the poison of the disease, and they must keep entirely away from others, especially from children, who take diphtheria most readily. No article should leave the room without cleansing or disinfec tion. Utensils used by the sick should be well cleaned before use by others. Food left by them should be destroyed. Bed and body clothing should, before being taken from the room, be placed in disinfectant No. 2, boiling hot, if possible. Cats and dogs should be ex cluded. The discharges from the mouth and nose must be received on cloths that can be burned, or in cuds that can be disinfected. Vessels for receiving the discharges from the mouth, nnsft lridnpvsaiid howfils should contain SOm oi disinfectant No. 1 or 3, and af tar use should be cleansed with boiling water. The patient must not mingle with the well until all traces of the disease have left the throat and nose. Before leaving the sick room the body should be thoroughly washed, j and fresh uninfected clothing should be put on, leaving everything else behind to be dis infected. Nurses must observe the same final precautions. j I 2. Greneral Precautions.T-AU should avoid Eources of contagion. Well children had better be removed entirely from the house, but should be kept under observation, and ii diphtheria develops brought home again so as not to establish a new centre. Persons re maining in the house should not go to school, church, or any general gathering, nor to any house where there are young persons. If the disease has secured a foothold in 4a locality,- every case of sore throat should be regarded as suspicious and excluded from schools and from contact with other children. It would be well to make sure that milk is not taken from a dairy where the disease exists. 3. Sanitary Precautions: Houses should be kept clean, dry and well ventilated; par ticular attention should be given to thecellar. Drain pipes and fixtures should be perfect. The premises should be well drained, leeching cesspools and privy vaults removed, all de composing accumulations of garbage or stable manure cleared away, and the place made in every way clean. These precautions are to be especially observed about domiciles where the disease exists. The condition of school houses should not be overlooked. 4. In case of death the body should be in closed in a sheet saturated with disinfectant No. 3, placed in a tight coffin not afterward opened, and burial should be private arid with little delay as possible. itM&i - -- . : . r DISOTSCTIOX. 1. Of the Room. During its occupancy zi a sick room, the precautions suggested above as to destruction of disease germs attached to articles of any sort before their removal from it should be carefully observed. At the termination of the quarantine the room should be tightly closed and with all its in- fected contents fumigated with the fumes oi burning sulphur or of chlorine, which, es pecially if the latter is used, should be done only by a competent person. Arrange all the contents of the room so that their surfaces are readily reached by the disinfecting gas. The room should remain closed for twenty four hours, after which it and its contents should be aired thoroughly for several days. The woodwork should also be thoroughly washed, especially the tops of -doors and win dows, and solution Na 2 or 3 applied. Ceil ings should be whitewashed and wall paper removed, and the walls washed with ene of the disinfectant solutions. Sulphur Furtigation. Roll sulphur, in the proportion of two pounds for a room ten feet square, is burned by placing it in an iron ket tle, set in a tub con taming a little water to guard against fire. It may be ignited by pour ing a little alcohol or kerosene on it. '. .' Chlorine Fumigation. 'Mix well, breaking up all lumps, one part by measure of blacs oxide of manganese and two of common salt, and add enough water to make of the con siatencv of cream. A teacupf ul of this mix ture is to be put into a large earthen vessel, as a washbowl, one or two of which may b placed in each room. About an equal bulk of commercial sulphuric acid is to be ftnallj poured into each vessel, beginning with the most remote, the person retiring quickly; ii is best to pour thi3 from a pitcher avoid in-, haling the fumes by holding a hahdkerchiei aver the face; , 2. Of the Premises. The entire hotis should be thoroughly cleansed. Thepremisei also should be cleared of all unsanitary con ditiona, and all drains, privy vaults, and sita of uncleanly accumulations drenched witi solution No. L Disinfectant Solutions. "So. 1. Sulphate of iron copperas), three pounds; warm water, one gallon; for the discharges. This leaves rust spots ot the clothing. No. 2. Sulphate of zinc (white vitriol), four ounces: common salt, two ounces; water, one gallon; for clothing. No. 3., Corrosive sublimate, sixty grains; water, one gallon. . Caution should be had of the dangerously .poisoning char acter of this solution; it is vrtll, as a precau tion, to color it br adding an equal quantity (sixty grains to the gallon) of permanganate of potash, with which, however, it stains fabrics, etc., to wash furniture and wood- .IfETTS AND NOTES F02 WOMEN. ; Coral is said to be a coming rage. T -Women are blossoming out as orators Toques are worn more pointed in front. Trains are the rule now for house iresses. ' ' - - : Barmaids are going out of fashion . in( England." ' . : . . . 1 Filigree jewelry, always beautiful, ty again in fagor. - . Ostrich feather trimmings may be worn on evening gowns. Ostrich ' plumage is a conspicuous feature in millinery. If a caste women in Corea shows her r face she is outlawed. . j3ilk fish-net costumes are made up over silk skirts and waists. ' Hot-potato napkins" are the very latest novelties in fancy napery. ' 7 American women are said to spend $62,000,000 a year for cosmetics. , Miss Laura . 'White, of Kentucky, is making a reputation as an architect. " " The women of Chicago want repre sentation on the Educational Boards. Tea cigarrettes are said to be coming into fashion for feminine smoking in Eng land. y , Round waists and belts are slowly but surely displacing pointed bodices and basques. There are six women police officers in the London police force, all employed as detectives. ; Black hats and bonnets are trimmed with the yellow minosa, a favorite trim ming flower. I Bonnets of white and rose tulle are decorated with roses. The eglantine is the favorite. "Chicago has a home for self-supporting women, where board is to be had for $2.25 a week. . . , ' "With dresses of pale green crepe de chine black gloves and ribbons are now worn by the fashionable. :. " Brocades with Empire designs of floral scrolls and laurel leaves are made up over skirts of white 8a tin or silk. . The monk's gown of brown earner hair, which envelops the wearer from head to foot, is used for traveling. : France is somewhat shaken up over al leged indulgence in morphine-taking by thousands of Parisian women. ' There is such a craze for reviving old fashions that it is to be expected that snuff boxes will soon come into use. Bishop rsleeves of chantilly lace are a yard and a half wide and show a closer one of bright color underneath. A London milliner has invented a cork bonnet. It is made wholly of the bark of the cork tree and is very light. Shoulder capes are sometimes made in 1 V shape of two pieces of ribbon with bias sides, meeting in the. front and back.. A discovery, due to the plentiful royal deaths abroad, is that a diamond necklace worn between two jet ones is strict half mourning. ; The authorities in Holland have' decreed that a , woman cannot serve on a school board. In Sweden it has been decided that they can. Toucan buy a child's sash of washing iilk five inches wide and one-half yards long for one shilling, but you must go to London for it. Seen upon a recent hat : Two birds, three butterflies, two yards ribbon, four r Df lac, about ten of silver cords in rows n V j . and nnsrs and rosettes. r Frocks of fine white wool braided all Dver with white silk look and simple , snough for a shepherdess and are costly snough for a princess. A new finish for sa3hes of silk or rib bon is two bands of iet openwork across the ends, with a handsome jet fringe fall ing from the lower one. A young lady in Portland, Me., has worked up a new business, in which she is said to be doing well that of reading to old or disabled people. . ' For morning walks or shopping thick veils- are allowable, but for all other oc- casions the sheerest dotted net, coming just below the chin, is the correct thing. An easy mitigation of the new baggy sleeve is to shirr it just below the arm hole, and set velvet or galloon under the shirring, with another row just above the cuff. ' It is discovered that Brooklyn nurses have a habit of drugging children when they take their charges out for an airing, in order to gossip and flirt with the po licemen. . Miss Harriet Hosmer, the sculptress, at a reception given her by the Chicago Woman's Club, wore five medals, four of gold and one of diver, which had been awarded her in Italy. The punishment of women by flogging still exists in the Transvaal. Though the South African press is down on the prac tice, only recently a woman was sentenced to receive fifteen lashes. A company has been formed to erect, throughout Great Britain, blocks of dwel lings in which solitary women may live ride by side and enjoy the pleasure of cheerful society, without sacrificing either their privacy or independence. . A servant girl in Easton, Penn., who recently died, left $500 to the German Lutheran Church, and $5000 to a grand-, daughter of her employer. The money was all saved out of her wages. Miss3Iary P. Seymour, editor of the Business Woman's Journal, approves of women learning stenography and the use t Vr vTuyarrittT nn ?d to TiroficifinCT X W -J ' . - vfc-. ' J in other businesses and professions. The newest thing in London household economy j is. a female butler a maiden iressed in a livery of blue, green, gold, Dr scarlet, as taste may prefer. ' The ef fect alleged is "more quiet and equal ityle." - , - ; More than a third of the board school- j mistresses in London get salaries of over j 1000 a year, and there are altogether ibout J000 in the metropolis and the 1 tncether who receive 650 r apward. Miss Alice E. Sanger, the Prcsldent'i jtenographer the first woman ever em-' ployed in any such capacity at the White Douse, is a native of a suburb of Bos ton, and was'famous for Uer, attainments it school. She is related to General N. P. Banks and to Elias Howe. - '3Irs. Astor and Mrs. yanderbilt wear silks especially designed and woven for them. Wherethey buy their thing3 is never divulged by dealers, and the fashion their dressmakers from the knowledge 0$ other women." So writes a N.ew; York correspondent, t i If. I: f V 7. 1 J .-: -1
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