The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-05-10
WARRINGTON LETTER
An AdJourninE Panic in Congress

An A6JourninE Panic in Congress.
THE BELLE FROM DETROIT, AND
ANOTHER BELLE FROM KANSAS.
EDITORS EMPoRIA NEWS This
warm weather has the effect to create
an adjouTning panic in the breast of
many a member of congress. From
physical causes, more easily understood
than overcome, Washington is a warmer
and more unhealthy locality than many
points farther south. The capital city
is anything but a sanatarium, even in
the winter, and when the wan govern
ment clerk after alternating in stiffling
furnace heated department rooms, and
subsisting on the execrable victuals of
cheap boarding houses, finds himself
on the verge of a hot summer, inhaling
miasma from the swamps that flank
the city on all sides, he need not be
accused of sentimental billiousness, If
he discerns mirages of tombstones, or
feels sensations of cremation run up
and down his back. With the mem
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is better ted than the government
clerk, but he lacks acclimation, and
the air that he breatE0s in the capitol
Is even more pestilent than that of the
departments; and we see men of
powerful physique, like Conkling or
Blaine, or tough wiry veterans like
Christiancy and Howe, succumb to
malaria and subsist on quinine.
In spite of the millions that have been
spent in Washington to make its streets
lie edifices rival the architectural
splendOrs of the old world, the day may
yet come when the capital will be re-
moved TO a more beautiful locality, and
when the New Zealander, or some
other fellow, will wash his fish nets in
Babcock's artificial lake, and chalk his
boat with pitch from its most aristo-
cratic avenues.
Last night, while riding on an F.
street car, your correspondent was edi-
fled by a conversation between a states
man and a car driver, which he will re-
late Uer6Gtim. AS the car passed the
Ebbitt House, it was boarded by the
distingue military senator from Rhode
Island. The Senator was to all appear
ances In state of equivocal exilera-
ton, from what good society calls
good living, but what Mr.. Murphy
calls by another name, and from GEN.
kanaao v,,nkfana1 NTH auao
half closed, 1t was inferred that he was
thinking OF what he had recently done,
or had yet to do, in the cause of educa-
ton. Suddenly, from a lurch of the
car turning a corner, or from a gesture
delivered in half dreamy oratory, his
military elbow went through the glass
window, SCATTERING it into small
peices. The driver, who is also con-
ductor on this line, approached him
with great politeness, and said, 81
don't know but may be to blame for
this accident, but 1 don't think was
and the company will deduct a hall
dollar from my wages. i'll was tC
blame, of course l must loose the
money" "Ot course you were," said
the Senator; but little later, under ;
magnanimous impulse, he drew from
his pocket twenty-five cents of the re
monetized, and extending it to tn
driver, said, "d-n it, suppose W,
divide, that's all the money I've got.
The driver reluctantly accepted thu
compromise, when the Senator calle'
alter him, "Ill pay you the rest whel
come this way again, and resigne'
himself to the following soliloquy
"ride on these cars three times a day
guess I'll take a carriage after this.
Then to driver: ''OI you will know
me, you will see me when you come t
the Capitol, you will find me on tn
floor, guess you will recognize my fac'
will your Well just take a keen loo
at these whiskers and you will recol
nize me again guess"
Social gayety has been resumed wit
the expiIation of Lent, but the weathe
Is rather warm for violent dancing
and Washington has been bcreft {
many of its transient bellies who hay
gone home, and are making prepari
tions for the summer resort, or fC
Europe. Last winter the best drei
sed lady at the Capitol, 1 give Il
opinion of another lady who is a col
nolsseur, was young lady from d.
troit. To be ecllpsed by Young lad
from a 'frontier village" caused Il
bellies of Baltimore and Boston SON
little surprise. But there is no reaso
why a Detrlot Blodiste should not hay
rs good taste as Worth, or be as SUI
cessful in adjoining the human forl
divine. Then there appeared anoth'
belle from Kansas, near an Indis
reservation, who mace her own DIRE
ses. and was much admired for b
s'style," as well as her intelligence ar
thoroughbred manners. The facts ar
that the distinctions between rural AT
urban people, are not as sharp
marked as they once were, since no
newspapers and fashion journals PEN
trate every home, and the moral is ,th
taste, like genius, is confined to No Il
eality. G. A. s.
Secretary Evarts, of the departmel
of State has recently sent circular
officers of our foreign consular servi
requesting reports on the followir