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Show High Living at Washington. In the meantime I hear continuous complaints about the high prices of living in Washington, and there is no doubt that a radical change has gone on in this regard. The rich men who have come here entertain so grandly and dispense their money so freely that, as Senator i Cullom told me the other day, the poor : Btutesmnn has a hard time to keep within the limits of his salary. Senator Cullom said he has made nothing since he has been iu politics, and that he has lost his money making sense by working in the Held of statesmanship. The days when congressmen could board on $1 a day have long since gone by, and the man who gets along now on $20 a week does remarkably well. If he has his wife and children with him his bills run well up in the hundreds per month, and if he has not the chances are that the allurements of Washington life will curry him tast along the road to perdition. per-dition. Carpenter's Letter. |