| Show POLITICAL GOSSIP breezy batch from the ca petals pit als BUSY BITSY OFFICE mrs jy rg cleveland 01 eveland and the social world mrs carlisle is tho the leafier leader correspondence W washington much march 12 ja in the nature of things the federal offices will trill soon boon begin to moult their republican plumage and take on a beautiful democratic iris instead we wa nay inay expect shortly tone to see the burnished dove dova of 0 patronage shine and shimmer with true springton e splendor one dy 07 one the noxious anxious watchers by the outer gates W will ill hear a sound or catch a beckoning gesture that de delights lighta them one by one they will vanish from the sad eyed legion Ie eion to reappear anon with cheat thrown out and eye serenely poised and forehead furrowed far rowed b by y the cares carea of state they will filter into office an a it were then they will cultivate hauteur and nurse a scorn for office seekers assume a pride that will set get upon them with about as inauen fits fit bea be a as the trousers of abase ball king but bat after all these offices have hare ceen held before they are not miraculous windfalls wind falls heavenly visitors manna dropped froia the skies and awa awarded crded only to the favorites of the gods they are plain human offices yielding from 2500 2 a year about what a good car 1 penter enter can make to or the tha wages of a first class carnegie mechanic they have beautiful and high sounding titles to be sure fourth assistant secretary of the or 11 deputy chief of f so go and so ao division divis divi sien a lorty s buggea acs aion and it x is a a great thing to feel that one is ia braying raying or helping to save the country auntry titers there is however great wisdom iu in becoming modesty pride goes before a fall in politics as well as morals T time me with its ita chastening cha influenza will at it last mako make all thing clear the boss bolls of the wastepaper bureau will find that congress does not tremble at his frown several other officials will have a great white light lirot let upon them the establishment lish ment will chaka ababa dow down a as it were and routine do its deadly the first bewildering sunburst 0 of promotion will fade away and the brotherhood of humanity will exist oice more in washington the most absorbing subject of gossip at present among the ane grand dames and less substantial butler butter flys of evelyl Y 2 al 1 UL luo ia juiia Ui s intentions based upon past eions society feels that something un usually nan illy brilliant is ia to be looked for and d in this thia conclusion they appear to bane have v not reckoned without their host mrs cleveland returns to washington with the advantage of four years experience in now new york society the result of this experience will be evident in the official no less lesa than in the private enter tain menta to bo be given w within thin the tha white whit house during the four years to come that mrs john G carlisle will be b the social leader lader in the cabinet goes without saying from a residence of seventeen seven fea years in washington she is preeminently pre asinine eminently aly fitted for that position thoroughly ehly conversant with every eyed detail of official etiquette a kind heart ed woman of boundless hospitality li ty t the h 9 wife sf of the secretary of the treasury will have the first voice among the ladies ot of the cabinet and to her will be rel referred erred for arbitration all intricate social auest questions ions there was waa a time not long ago when to be the private secretary of the executive meant to be a messenger copyist or clerk confidential and valuable but bui of no great importance today a private secretary is a man of power and influence whose favor is courted and disapproval feared it has become a position of honor and trust he H is ia expected to ward off bores to see that I 1 persons persona entitled to attention are given it that matters of momen moment t are not neglected that enemies are placated with honor and no offense given to frien friends ds great credit is in due to lamont lament torin tor the present imp importance stanco of this position before his bis time the post has been beena bocc occupied aupied by able men man but blit he widened the alio I 1 sphere of usefulness and eleya elevated ted tl tle duties mat mai halford maintained tho the stin standard dard in his execution ot of the position for ex president Harri harrison aln during durine La laments monts last year of service the salary was increased to on the presidents recommendation six days has he ha labored and the seventh he be rested and did not RO goto to church the tb labor at the white house honse during the first weeks of a new admin adain is enormous enor mons there is apparently an increased number of applicants ahey come coma and pass interminably each tacked to the side of a congressman congressman springer appeared in the throng ane other day he ha sought a little further farther information from the president regarding the chances of exi office hold els era he zot got it he left with idith the general air of a man who hits has had information pressed into him with a hydraulic ram the assertion that editors are are n not ot to be generally recognized by the new adt ad t alien tien is true mr cleveland bei lieten that his predecessors eaf suf fared through the charge of having subsidized the press and he be does not intend to run the same daulet the decini decision on is also to be made particularly applicable to newspapermen who desire to be postmasters in their towns out of the discomfort and and death consequent upon the meteorological prevalent here on marell ath has arisen national nati oral outcry for a change of the inaugural date there is much cla clamor for the proposed ref reform ormand and perhaps the next congress will reach bac 1 the conclusion that a amendment should at oner once be submitted to the people the worst features 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