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Show How Appointments are Made. .H Ex-Piesideut Harrison, in an article on "A Day with the Pnaident at. Ilia H Desk" in the Marclt Ladies' Home ' Journal, gives the method by which up- H pointments to public ofllce arc inndo by H tlie President. "One of the cabinet officers," he writes' appears by appoint," H ment accompanied by a nn'senger with nnarmlond qr a basketful of papers chiefly made up of petitions and lottora relating to appointments. Each caso H has b"en briefed and jacketed, and ono by ono they aro preseyited, the Secretary H adding such information ns ho has, out- j side the papers. The conclusions H reached are noted to appoint n par- tlcular person, or to prosecute n further inquiry. The Postmaster General brings a large clothes-basketful of H paperd, and an adjournment to tho long H cabinet tabic is necessary in order to dis- play them. Ho takes up tho papers re- H luting to a pobt-oflice nnd briefly states H the case. If the caso is decided he fills H in the blank on the jacket, 'Appoint H ,' tho President affixes his initials H and tho package is thrown back in tho H basket. A whole afternoon is often H consumed in tlii 4 way." H |