The Department Women

There are iOTO women in the Government dcpartinents at Washington, and among thcm are some oí the best-lookiug and most-inteUigent ladies of the capital. They come, as a rule, frotn good families. Many of them are the wldows of noted general, the daughters of cx-governors nnd ex-congressmen, and now and ttíen you will fiud the relative of a president or a cablnet minister. Many uf ihem Lavo traveled wldély, and the great majority are oducated and refined ladics. They do aÜ kinds of work, and reeelve salarles ranging f rom $70 to $1 ,800 ajear. As money-countters they are uuich more expert tbau the raen, and tho rapidity wlth which they can count tunud.'inds upon thousands of dollars without maklni; a mistake makes your brin whirl as you watch tlirm. Tho mouey-counters get about {7 a moutli, and they count millions of dolíais a inonth. At one slde of each one on the taWe 11c great piles of -greenbacks done lnto packagcs as they coraefrom the preRs. I am speakeno; now of the Redemptlon Bureau of the treasury. These bilis are oíd and üirty. The strip of paper aroun'd each package of 100 bilis states where they carne from and who counted them In the country. The voung lady takes this off, nnd, moistcuingher fingerswllh a wet sponge in frout of her, she counts the bilis like lightning, and 1f the package is not right bc reporta so to the chief, and the banka irom whieh the bilis come must stand the losa. The girls seldoni make a mistake. and if they do so, or pass a counterfeit without noting it, they must makë the mistake good, and the amöunt is taken out of their alary. They can tel!, howcver, a bad bill simply by feellng it, and a bauk cashier will make a hundred