Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-09-23
EVENING STAR.
THaRsDAY. September II. rs.s.
which Senator WAS rh,.-

| A WASHINGTON STORY VIA DANBURy
I Inc street doors 10 Tie Washington man
! sions Close with a spring IocE which a.
rangeNhent recently caused QUE of those ar-
cldehts which no amount Of care can pre-
NSAt The wife Of high Official was take,
| suddenly III in the night. Her sister, ne
vic OF senator -, lives In the next stree,
10 her. She felt the neal OF this sister at
once, and the husband started after her In
answer TO his knock the Senator thrust his
head from an upper window and learned the
particulars. he then aroused his wife aud
ready TO start. The senator accomnsniei
neI 10 Inc uoor, In what might have been a
toea, bnt was really night-shirt- lie even
STEPPED out on the Stoop with her Ut was
rather dark, ana stood there until ne heari
her pass out OF the gate. Then ne cast a look
up AT me heavens 10 see II IL was going 10
The belief that IL was, when a sudden lar and
slam right behind him sent his heart into his
nIoat; and nearly threw him from hts feet.
Whirling about with lightning rapidity he
made desperate plunge for the door. Bat il
was too late. With hySteTic eagerness he
Preclpitatei his lull weight against IT, but IL
Old not give. IL was one OF the few houses in
Washington built by the dav. He looked
hopelessly over the dark front OF bis house
an az then apprehensively out into the street
he dared not knock 10 arouse the servants
Tor Tear OF attracting the attention of the
nSlehbors; IL was most trying position for
United States Senator 10 be in He drew
his toga about his imposing presence and
mopped the nersPiratio1 from his brow with
The sleeve. Then he cast his mind over the
fnrnflNn
mold OF hoary centuries. but he could not lind
anything 10 parallel this atroriouS affair
what on earth should lac do? IL was three
O'Clock, and i'm an hour the wierf gray OF
dawn would tiDge The neichborhooi ne
smote his heasaS only a Senator can do IN
with view 10 shake up the contents in the
hope that something tangible would come 10
the top. But the only effect was 10 makeht
more fully realize the ia mining gro,e<gue
ness of his peril lie tried 10 forget that ne
was Senator, TO forget that he had Weakened
startling echoes In the halls Of the national
council. He would have given an his wealth.
and the balance of his life, IL he had never
been public man at all. Would To heaven
he had stuck 10 his native farm. He would
now be In the sweet sleep OF toll. Instead OF
drifting irresisttbly into a conspicuouSneSs
thai promised 10 be appalling. Dancing about
on the stoop, shifting his head, and picking
out The most unparllamentary language he
could think of, II suddenly struck HIM that
his yard ran back to the next street III ne
could get around there and scale the fence he
might possibly find back door or window
UNASSIGNED.
Drawing his toga still closer about him
and assuming the heavy tread OF a senator
about 10 walk over twelve dozen eggs ne
proceeded through the darkness, pausing
every otner step 10 listen, and hugging up
close TO the fences at every sound He gdt
around TO the back street after passing
through series OF imaginative difficulties
which caused his hair TO stand sensifIvaIv ON
end and turned his spinal column into an
unbroken current OF cold air. The fence was
nlgh one, and there was nothing 10 stand
| ing upward To actually catch hold Of the ton
| and then he worked with all his might Ii
bring his body 10 the same attitude. Ii was
heavy body-a broad, well-rOunded sena-
| torial body. Ii rubbed up and down the
| boards, or vibrated across them I'm a series of
| coDtortiOns, while his eyes both single 10
| the public good, grew restless i'm their sockets
ana bis feet whipped about with such We
| Ioclty as 10 shed a pair Of red morocco slip
| per.s IN almost no time at all Buthe worked
lalIhluily, ana he saw opportunities % say
something, but couldn't do it, and at last he
got his breast upon the top, and there he
balanced uneyeniy for one bright instant
ard then tie went over on the other side,
going down with an ease and rapidfty which
fulIy compensated for all the trouble and
labor of coming up the other side He
reached The grass plot on his back, and with
q heartlness that left no doubt of his SINGER
lty AT the end OF fifteen minutes he re-
gained his consciousness, and. ultimately
his feet, and as he moved weariedly away on
them TO the house, he hoarsely Whispered
by me gods: can 1t be possible I'm man
He tried the basement door, and the first
floor door, and the basement window bat
none OF them showed the fainteSt weakness.
he was 1rretrieveably locked and barred out
both he and his tOga. The stOOp 10 the first
floor was high and open at the side toward
Inc basement door which IL closely aijOined.
The seBator-a man Of the people and the
owner OF thirteen pairs OF pants with harllya
break IN any OF them, crawled under tins
stoop, ana sat huddled up on his hauncles
waiting Tor day and The coming of one of the
servants, and quoting at short intervals
such paragraphs from The senate proceedings
as he could remember
AT the end of an hour and half the base
ment door was opened, and the cook came
out and hurried across the ward. A the
same instant United States Senator i'm a
tOga jumped into the area, shot through the
door and up the back stairs with all the
grace and agility ola scaret rooster.
lie was eating his breakfast when his wife
returned.
90. j." she exclaimed. with bTeathless
eagerness, "Mary has got BABY"
Il don't care IL she has ten cords OF them -
shouted The United States senator. Stri king
the table with his fist dnbtTy Ne,Cs.