Daily Colonist (1897-08-28) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1897-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

WANTED.

Btngo leaves Duncans Monday, Wodnesday and Friday. myl

Ti r ofw HE i 1, Newspaper Advertising Agenl tf^ £££!F h ¥ lta Etonaniro, San Franoisco

RBem • ThU pif * rukopt $

Three Cents per Lb. paid for Clem Cotton Rags at this Office,

President IIayo»' Little IJook.

Ex-Secretary of tho Treasury Charles Foster was talking to mo ouo day about Rutherford li. Hayes. Foster represented Hayes' district in congress when Hayes was president. They wero political ami personal friends of almost a lifetime standing. Said Foster to me:

"I got plenty of patronage under Hayes, to be sure, but for a long time I uovrr lauded tho men in whom I was most particular and earnestly interested. I would ro to tho president and lay tho claims of my man before him. He would usually ucquiesco in everything that I said, becauso iu most cases he knew the applicants as well as 1 did. Well, in every instance whero some devoted friend was concerned the president wonld say, 'Oh, well, Charlie, wo will fix that, in a day or sol' Then ho would reach down in a drawer, pull tut :i small look and a short stun of a pencil and make a note of the man and his wants. I wonld then for days to come scan with much interest tho list of appointments scut to tho somite, hut none that had found a place in tho president's notebook wns to ho seen among them, Still, I didn't complain much, j fori knew that Hayes was doing the 1 best he could. Timo went on, and finally I called at the White Uouso to insist that a certain friend of mino who was then in Washington bo instantly appointed aa a consular agent abroad. This gentleman had political cluims on me and also on tho president. I stated my case as hriclly ns possible to tho president, who listened attentively. When I had finished, tho president said: " 'Why, certainly, Charlie. Yes, yes; to bo sure.' And then ho dived for that-hook of his.

"Just as he was opening its leaves I grabbed his arm and said: . 'Hold on there, general. I'll bo switchod if that man's iiamo goos in that jackass book!' Tho president saw tho humor of it, nnd I got my constituent appointed then and there, "—Vhicuuo Times-Herald.

Llvlnz la tho Future,

A popular lecturer, in estimating the number of peoplo who would inhabit this globe 1,000 years hence, was asked by one in tho audience how such a vast multitude could bo fed. In reply to this question ho is quoted as saying: " We know not what discoveries may bo made to render tlio earth moro fertile or to increase its productive power, but long before that timo enough of tho sands of Capo C.-)d and Now Jersey may have boon converted into glass to placearoof over all tlio land devoted to growing crops, and beneath its shelter the farmer, in a climate of perpetual summer, may grow his crops in

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