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WASHINGTON GOSSIP
From the Great Political
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Center.
^ Tr Harris found a nasty mess
, nest of crook
tie for him in that
T Pension boreao, when he
^ f Tlrom Ms inclination excursion. he
StepfcommissionerRaninm bis own
office
ttlehceoHhe Ce^methods, crookedness effectual], shown m be
so
^Representative Cooper, of Mi.
ra , bv "and right to expect that
sna, * he had a
further crookedness would be in
no Therefore he must have
dulged ic. informed
shocked ... when
been terriblv 'b. assistant
that Green Raum Jr.,
chief clerk, of the Pension bureau,
and son of Commissioner Raum, was
the head of an office-brokerage a con¬
cern which had been selling not only
original appointments below the class¬
ified service, but promotions under
the Civil Service examinations. A
more disgraceful situation has not
confronted a President since Gen.
Grant kicked Balknap out of the War
Department on account of his wife’s
engaging in selling Indain post trader
ships. remarkable part of
And the most
the whole business is the leniency
■with which Rauin junior has has been
treated. The other government em
ployes implicated in the swindle were
at once dismissed, but this precious
jewel of a republican administration,
was allowed to take effect thirty days
from date and he was given leave of
absence until that time, which was a
neat way of presenting him with a
month’s salary. It is stated here that
Secretary Noble is responsible for the
leniency extended to this criminal,
although he was out of town when the
resignation was accepted. "What puz~
ales honest people is why all of the
parties concerned in this steal have
not been arrested and^brought before
a criminal court to answer for their
misdeeds.
Mr, Harrison, when he thinks about
this young man’s peculiar transactions,
as well as those of his father, pro*
bably wishes he had never seen the
Baum’s and that he had not been so
precipitate in kicking “Corporal”
Tanner out—no one ever accused
Tanner of being dishonest. The
Baums have certainly tried to make
hay while the official sun shines. The
old gentlemen as soon as he became
Commissioner began to look out for
the rest of the family. Green B. Jr.,
Was made assistant chief clerk, two
daughters were given clerkships, and
John, another son, who does business
as a pension attorney, was given a
ohanee to copy the names of all appli
OAnts who had not employed attor *
le ys, which chance has probably been
^oith big money to him, as he pro¬
ceeded to get out a circular setting
forth bis facilities for putting claims
finough in a hurry and mentioning
®ciaentally bmmissioner. his relationship to the
The Raum’s will be
a -* fc avj load for Mr. Harrison to
carry
year, and it will not be strange if
e should toss them all overboard.
The impression among those fami
Ministration ^ hhe inside is workings of the
that Mr. Blaine is
^^ged auison in just “playirig this possum” on Mr.
T his at time for reasons
own. Mr. Blaine may have
® ffi, but these people refuse to
eheve it, and they stated when Mr.
*auie left here that he would not
^tum back until after Mr. Harrison got
*k a t he had gone away in a
Q Circumstances to favor
+i. seem
of the case.
^publicans wbo have talked with
■ Harrison since his return says
^ tec, of ! the : as -big about as well developed the/ever a
head” as
Grain, of Texas, is
Bert,* ^ that the boom of Renre
th e Ho^ 86 ^ UeS f ° r b tbe Speakership of
Er T? /Putative D ° ne (A ec ted.
Uhcs Yoder, of Ohio,
koks ‘ P° in that State: “It
f -rue as if the
finite denominate democrats would
Gov. Campbell.
One thing I am confident of, we will
elect the man we nominate. No man
can be elected in Ohio on the high
tariff issue. McKinley makes that
the issue, and he will be defeated.
The farmers are tired of high taxes,
and cannot understand why other
necessaries of life cannot be cheapened
by being put on the free list as sugar
has been.
A BURGLARIOUS INCIDENT.
An actor told a story the other
evening about a fencing-master in
London who has two sons. Both of
them, like the father, were physical
giants. Who was the strongest and
best fighter was a disputed question
until a burglar got into the house
one night. One of the sons, opening
the front door with a latch-key late
at night, found a robber in the hall.
They immediately clinched. The
other brother, hearing the noise,
rushed down-stairs, and not being
able in the dark to distinguish a
burglar from a worthy and honest,
citizen of London proceeded to pound
both men whom be ran against.
Meanwhile brother No. 1, thinking
t here were two burglars m the house
turned half of his attention to the
new enemy and the fight became
desperate. The father, awakened
by the uproar, rushed dowm-stairs
with a heavy walking-stick. Then
the fight was something to admire,
but to ayoid. When it was all over
and the gas was lighted by the aged
fencing- master, it was discovered
that he had whipped not only the
burglar, but his two sons. When
this story was told an Englishman
was one of the party. “Well,” he
said, “I never before heard of a
burglar so reckless as to enter the
house of an English fencing-master
Served him right.”
REMARKABLE MEDICALCASE.
One of the most extraordinary
cases in medical annals is that of
MissTolieson, a student ataleading
Memphis institution. The young
lady was attacked with tonsilitis a
few days ago, her temperature rising
to 100 and then to 108, her death
being momentarily expected. But
to the utter consternation of the
attending physicians her tempera¬
ture continued to rise steadily to 158
Fahrenheit, breaking the record.
Strangest of all is the fact that the
young lady is improving and may
recover. There is but one parallel
case on record, that of a victim of
peritonitis, at Omaha, Neb., whose
temperature reached 152 degrees.
The commencement exercises of
the technological school at Atlanta
will be held on June 17 at the school
and promise to be very interesting
and entertaining.
The oppressed subjects of Euro¬
pean governments turn to this coun¬
try for free homes, free laws and for
the free use of Salvation Oil for their
pains.
Henry McDonaid, who was dan¬
gerously wounded at Athens a few
days ago, contiunes to improve stead¬
ily and the physicians are confident
now that all that is needed to pull
him through is attention and care
fullness on his part not to over¬
exert himself.
Ii is the slight cold frequently
contracted that finally undermines
the system. Use Dr. Bull’s Cough
Syrup in the beginning stages and
be cured.
“You mustn’t associate with
chickens,” said Mother Duck to her
ducklings. “Why not, mamma?”
“Because they are not in the swim,”
No one can develop the grace of
meekness by listening to a crying
baby. Stop its fretfulness by cur¬
ing the colic with Dr. Bull’s Baby
Syrup.
Sweet enough—20 pounds of sugar
for $1.
HE STILL LIVES.
A NOTED MURDERER, WHO PLAYED THE
“’possum” ACT ON THE SHERIFF
AND HANGMAN.
Pittsburg, Pa., Despatch.
Washington, Pa., May 14,—Wil»
liam West, who was hanged in this
place on February 26, 1891, for the
murder of the Crouch family has
been discovered working on a farm
near Bentleyville, this county. In
an interview with West he stated as
follows to our correspondent:
“Ever since I was convicted of the
murderof theCroueh family I always
said I would never die on the scaf¬
fold, and you see my prophecy came
true. The day on which I was to be
hanged I made an unsuccessful
attempt to kill myself by severing
my jugular vein with a rusty nail.
You remember when they attempted
to hang me the first time the rope
broke and I fell to the ground. The
only injuries I received in that at¬
tempt was in falling to the ground.
They then picked me up again and
put the noose around my neck and
the trap was sprung. This time
they were more successful than the
first, and, I tell you what, I felt like
a ‘goner.’ I was soon cut down and
pronounced dead, dead, dead by the
physicians. My body was then
handed over to my relatives by the
sheriff, and they carried me home in
a would-be coffin. That night they
buried the coffin under very appro¬
priate ceremony, while I was at home
in bed. A doctor was then imme¬
diately called and stayed with me
all night, and in the morning told
my relatives that I began to show
signs of life and thought I would
pull through all right with careful
attention. It was a week before I
was able to leave my bed, and ever
since I was able to leave the house I
have been working here.”
On bearing that the authorities
intended to take some action in the
matter, West left for parts unknown.
Eugene Field, the jester, has again
and again treated his readers to bits
of verse as charming as this. It will
always be so—the close companion¬
ship of humor and pathos.—Macon
Telegraph.
I thought myself indeed secure,
So fast the door, so firm the lock ?
But lo ! he toddling eomes to lure
My parent care with timorous knock.
My heart were stone could it withstand
The sweetness of my baby’s plea —
That timorous, baby-knocking, and,
“Please let me in—it’s only me.”
Who knows, but in eternity
I, like a truant child, shall wait—
The glories of a life to be,
Beyond the heavenly Father’s gate?
And will that heavenly Father heed
The truant’s supplicating cry,
As at the outer door I plead,
“’Tis I, oh, Father! only I!”
A colored preacher quoted a well
known passage in Shakespeare thus:
“As we travel along the road from
whence the traveler’s bones never
return.” A minister in the south,
who was a very small, slender man,
once had a fervent prayer offered in
his behall commencing as follows:
“O Lord, bless this thy gigantic
servant, whom thou has set over us
for the extermination of the gospel.
Bles 3 him, O Lord, with unmitigated
ages of the world to come!”—Ameri¬
can Missionary.
If you stood in front of a blind man
he could not see you, but if you stuck
him with a pin, he would certainly feel
it. So it is with prayer. We cannot
see our kind heavenly Fahtber but
when we pray He listens to us and
sends blessings which make us feel
as nothing human could do.
Hon. A. H. Chappell, Columbus, president of
Chappell college at has
been elected president of the Gilds'
State Normal and Industrial college
at Milledgeville.
“No sir,” exclaimed the politician at
the ward caucus,, “there is too much
talk about helping politicians. All
we want is to be allowed to help
ourselves.
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