Show 1 JL LITTLE MAW MAN IN A bid BIG OFFICE poor II arrison is in a bad sad perplexity plex ity there to B not a doubt that the office seekers virtually murdered his sympathetic old grandfather with their importunities and if the head of the present administration n escapes with his life tho the result can cannot no t be attributed tri buted to the deference of the swarm or his superior management A master constitution will alone save him his leading partisan partisans say of him that he is wasting the peoples time examining into the tle claims of every applicant for a place from cabinet secretaries down to doer door keepers after ten months month S 0 of I 1 arduous toil over applications for office almost a to the utter disregard of the necessary business of his presidential trust be he is still worrying bia his giard gizzard over cases that were among the first to be lid isid before him applicants are multiplying and bis life perplexities perplex itie are growing daily nore isore manifold and deep seated 4 col ingersoll is among the party wags that are cracking invidious jokes upon his way of running things bob declares that ha he broods over the applications for potty petty offices until he has twenty candidates tor for one position on his hands at tit once and the effect of his final dion deci eion is to make one friend and nineteen enemies s and w what hat a fri friend frind nd that one is I 1 the facetious colonel remarks A neighbor of mine who was among the first a applicants for ascertain office was kept waiting BO so long that he finally forgot all about it the other moning I 1 met me t him on the street and he called out what news do you a suppose I 1 got today to day that fool harrison has appointed me V I 1 when I 1 told that etory story to the president be he inquired solemnly colonel ingersoll arlio was that man mr president I 1 answered you dont need to have me tell you youve appointed a couple of thousand lEand men more or less to offie just think them over and make a guess you cant fail to hit the ofie 1 11 right one we have been inclined to animadvert in language more or less direct arec t upon the presidents indifference to the In inter teresta cata of the west in tho the matter of silver coinage we perceive n now ow that there has been much cruelty in the manner of our criticism with twenty times consuls customs 0 officers and fourth grade postoffice post office applications before him for his personal consideration we really do not eie how he could devote much attention to such trivial affairs as that tha t which just now most concerns the west by what process of logic in the mind of uch inch a president could the lif life 6 or death of the weaker half of the voting nation be compared in importance to the postoffice post office personnel of the stronger tr we are sorry tor for the west b but t our pity is far more profound for I 1 the poor president DR ILIFF is whooping up the faithful in denver in the interest of the ogden university ls and apparently with much success naturally his addresses are supposed to be set off with mormon reminiscence and bis bill well known fairness has usually left people little to complain of BO so far as his treatment of them was concerned his ilia sermon last lost sunday however contains a number of misstatements evidently introduced to create a laugh and put his bearers in n a good humor the attempt to be witty is often disastrous to ili the best of minds dr iliff should not try to bo be tunny funny at the cost of truth colbat COL cs came perilously near I 1 to loa s ina that ohio Benator hip A buckeye solon who vi was as too ill to to attend the caucus or the joint BeFi sion was as reported as its being quite willing to go with the maj majority rity when he lie heard beard of this enunciation of his unanimity he gave expression to his fet feelings lingS in this alarming alir ming language you on can tell mr brice that I 1 shall tola tote as I 1 damn please and the newspapers and leople people can bay say what they damn please I 1 titz editon of EZ progresso Prop resso in the city ot of melco be ban brau be b e onea tor for dedam defaming I 1 ng vine patti Thein the influenza fiti e n Z Is I 1 r reported 0 2 breading prea ding lu u mexico chicago inter then mexico had better enlarge ter ler prisons or patti better betti ir come home strawberries ARE in the eastern market but it ft takee takes western silver to buy them that is usually adu illy the tile state of 1110 lie case calm the east gets the favor avora but the west earns them AM AN law suit which haa has been running for about y years ears has he just ended the tile judge wiped bi his spectacles and eaid said call the next cue I 1 11 |