"I must go down to the Census Office to hold a scrub-woman in her place," said a Western Congressman to me. He added: "Let me tell you about her. She does not belong to my State, but you will not be surprised that I propose to hold her in her poor place, which brings $20 per month, when I explain her case. She is the widow of a regular army officer. Her husband in the Civil War was twice promoted for personal bravery. His native town presented him with a sword as a tribute of his courage. His widow scrubs floors along with colored people, and his only daughter does menial service twelve hours a day in the printing-office. Of course the widow is too old for a Civil Service place, and that is the best I can do for her. She has no G. A. R. influence, her husband was so long a regular that she has no State back of her. I am glad to do what I can."
Not long ago the beauty of a country town, let us say of Texas, was brought to Washington for a place. Her Congressman's quota of positions was full; he knew, however, of one place which was ably filled by a Southern woman who came here with President Johnson's family as instructor for his grandchildren. President Johnson had, before leaving, secured her a place in a department, and now the Texan asked her official head in the interest of the beauty. The girl was bright, flippant, and loud. She used her first month's wages to obtain a red velvet dress cut square in the neck to show her white, firm skin. She did her work fairly well, but one day people in her department heard a scream, and they also heard some one getting a severe slapping of the face amid cries of "I have a big brother in Texas, and it will take him only two days to get here, and he'll beat the life out of you!" etc.
THE SUPREME COURT
Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller
1. Justice William H. Moody
2. Justice Joseph McKenna
3. Justice John M. Harlan
4. Justice David J. Brewer
5. Justice Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.