Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-03

The Strange Things Seen and Heard u
. Prohibition Member

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The Strange Things seen aud Heard b
| Prohibition Member.
HOW EVERYTHING WENT wHrRLNa IN THE srAruARY
| HALL-CoLUMBUs AND JEFFERSON As RIVAL GUrDEs-
TIE BRONZE SCROLL AND THE PROHIBrTIoN MOVE
| MENT.
The following strange occurrence was described
| 70 q STAR reporter:
IL was late during night session that the men,
DER from prohibition district stood In the statu-
! airy hall. He was tired. He was not feeling we'll
lie mad gone up and down on the elevator sew
erai times and was dizzy. As he stood alone in
the statuary hall his attitude showed wearn mess
lie looked up at the hands of the clock. They
We're moving on In their steady way. The dim
light rested on the bindings OF the books shelved
away up In the galleries where the public used TO
Sit In the old hall The statues in bronze In clay
and In marble stood silently with their backs
against the wall
| The member from the prohibition district stood
on the echo stone and looked with long and
sseaoy gaze at the statue OF Fulton. Then ne
looked again at the clock, and started with sud-
leaned his hand on Fulton's foot, and long,
steady stare settled on his face.
First at slow and steady rat ss g be- iooSed
IN sney gained speed going faster and faster, until
he couid hardly see them as they
SPUN ROUND AND ROUND.
| He watched them In their mad race until his
head Joined In the spin and he could hardly stand
erect. He spread his legs apart and frightened his
grip on the foot OF Fulton, while he watched
tne eccentric action OF the clock. The wheels Of
the marble chariot In which the old clock rests
over The door began to move and joined in the
! Then he looked about at the statues in a semi
circle along the wall and standing in row with
AS he looked, they began to move. AT first they
circied slowly around. The member from the pro-
| hi6tion district opened his eyes wider with won-
DER and took hold Of Fulton with his other hand.
Leaning back with his legs far apart and grasp
Ing with both hands the feet or the marble inven-
tor OF steamboat disasters he watched at the other
statues as they moved out from their places and
began TO waltz around the room with velocity
s araSna increased at every turn They Waited
and spun until the member from the prohibition
district could scarcely keep his feet Like lot OF
and sna the Ct
| CLOCK and the Chariot wheels went around.
wHIRIINa COMPANY.
Tne bronze Jefferson firted his Declaration of
Independence over his shoulder as he whirled
washington In clay ana King In marble circled
high heels until his neck ruff1e stood up about his
ears Ethan Allen, Trumoull, Sherman, Baker,
anu Roger Williams waltzed by the member from
tne prohibition district. Hamilton, Livingston,
Lincoln, Clinton, and the rest wheeled by. Even
Fulton, chair. steamboat, and all, was struggling
10 break loose from the grasp OF the prohbtionlsL
| =.
ishing style for dgnifed and sef-respecting
| statues washington stopped suddenly and
| his back and took the leap. The rest followed
hall N
Then they got to playing with the echoes, and
| there was a terrible buzzing In the ears or
me member from the prohibition district.
So daan, trod on the echo.stone. and stopped
| and listened. He had made a discovery, He cir
eumnavigated the stone, took his bearings, asked
across the hail. and landed on another stone.
the, Then ne placed Roger Williams on one and Ham
ieon on tae other, and stood washington between
he could not hear them.
| COLUMBUS DISCOVERY.
Then Columbus talked very fast, and the whole
group OF statues gathered about him. He pointed
out numerous stones In the floor and said they had
been discovered by accident" Then he stepped
away , ok in the arch Of the doorway and
| shouted: "Can you hear me?"
Washington jumped three inches in the air and
| nothing. Columbus continued.
ut was discovered BY accident. / am talking in
an ordinary tone OF voice can talk to you from
this point, ana no one can hear me but you
IL was not known that these stones possessed such
qualities when they were put in the building.
Hamilton on your right and Williams on your LEFT
cannot hear me. None OF those close around you
| can hear me. 1t was discovered by accident.
These wonderful stones are supposed to have
and they were transported here through stealth
by tory who sought TO learn the secrets or exec,
| TIVE session: He died suddenly. The mystery
The stones were discovered by accident-wonder-
fuL II there Is anything you should like to say to
hind you, speak freely. Say, honestly, II YOU do
not think his simplicity OF attire is afectation Is
ne not something met OF psesender' notice that
ruffie about my neck. Aud Hamilton, there~don't
fear, he can't hear us!-dO you not think he is at
heart an artstocrat and tory? And Fulton-isn't
he fraud? Did he really invent that little thing
he calls a steamboat? tell you, in confidence I
had one OF those for private use myself before he
was born. In TACT, Invented IL myself had one
| in my cabin when first sailed to discover this
glorious continent for the purpose Of giving you
that sort OF thing you did so well. used to make
coffee In I'll And Roger Williams there-was he
not tine founder mo- OF the salvation Army that is
| Ing them sing horribly through their nOses?"
JEFFERSON EXPLAINS
"Our friend over there in the door is not to be
trusted" said Jefferson, looking down at the echo
| stone and whispering so that Washington could
| not hear him. HE Is not the authorized guide,
81 hear you with my feet" said Hamilton on the
''That is the mysterious quality of these stones.
We may taik freely 10 each other; those nearest
cannot hear us am the only authorized guide
with full knowledge and authority to explain these
stones which which WEI, We're discovered by accident 1t
full qualities when they were put In the building
made the discovery myself in an accidental way.
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| stones came from Some say that they are from
| a cave OF echoes somewhere on the shores of
Greece; but possess very clear evidence that they
| are the two pieces OF the table OF the laws
Noses dropped and broke one day. There
| are other stones OF mysterious qualities.
He Is doubtless telling him many of those things
which George cannot tell and claiming all these
discoveries for himself, as he claims this conti
nenL have no confidence In man with all those
! goods about his neck. He has enough in that
RUNE 70 make me two shirt bosoms aud bands FOR
my cuffs 1t Is much more economical and greatly
| more becoming TO wear them plain. don't think
he ever did discover America. In fact am almost
certain the dlScoyerer was Ericsson, man who Lived
| somewhere near the North Pole, and who never
| mayor and town council out OF gratitude for his
having inaugurated and laid the foundation FOR
their real estate speculatiOns by kindly running
aground on the shores OF Labrador. Ericsson never
wore such waste OF rufhe as thati Columbus
lived long time before did, and don't IKE to
| be disrespectful, but
DECLARATION 10 SIGN.
just then Washington walked up to the member
| from the prohibition district with his heavy cane
ferson followed with the great copper scroll and
held 1t before the bewildered members eyes aSi0n
| i'll" said washington, In an awful voice. '.S4n
| It'll" echoed Jefferson. "SiGnt" joined In ali the
| other 81 atues, marble, clay and brass sSign."
Washington held his cane high and repeated:
Aud on the scroll was written: "When in the
course OF human events decent resueot
| TO the opinions OF mankind requires that
| should cease to ride up and down In an elevator
pledge myself not to go Into session Tor one
year." &c. Following was Q numerOusly signed
petition for prohibition in the District
'Signl" said the statue. and he brought hist cane