A Mere Cipher

"Vice President "Wheeler understands ■fully the insigniftcanee of liis office during the temire of art)bust President, and doesn't hesitate to add a joke of his own to the many eurrent conceming the place : "A few -weeks af ter I became Vice President," he said, "I went one Sunday to a chnrch in Washington. The ! good minister prayed for the President j and the Cabinet, and for tho Senators and members of the House of Representatives, and the Governors of tlio several States, and, fmally, for the heathen, but made no mention of the Vice President. As I was walking home Sam Shellabarger came up and took my arm, and said ' The preacher was ather liard on you to leave you out of lis prayor altogether.' ' Yes,' I replied, it struck me that he was ; lie pnt mo lown below the heathen as not worth n-aying for at all.' After a while I got jver fretting about my melessness in .he Government machine, although I always appear to myself somewhat like a contingent remainder or an administrator de bonis non,"