The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-01
JEDGE WAXEM AT WORK.
HE TELLS HOW THE NATIONS AZ
FAIRS ARE GETTING ON.
Aud Explains the Method by which n
Statesman Can lie utllixcd A. II Christ.
Krinclc, the Good.

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gittin on and how the great hart Of the
country bccts rite here whar 10 bects.
Congress Is ajurned for the hollydlys,
and a good many Of my colleges in the
house has gone TO the bOOsum Of Their
flmlys fer n spell, but ! am remanein at
TIE post Of duty. OF coarse, thar amt
much TO do, but the pay is goin on jisJ
the same, and ] kin afford 10 stay on
watch and save traylin expenses, which
amounts to n good decl, scnce The passidge
and rugged enforcement Of that tieranical
and oppressive interstate comcrsc bill,
which has dOrc more to crush out the
home fcelin in the brests Of absent
patriots than emmy legislation in
moddcrn times. amt speekin now Of
the bill in rs effects on my deestricks, or
on the business of the country at large,
but simply as it applies to US congress
men and other patriots, that has got TO
go way from home to do our sheer toards
sayin the country and cant travel on
passes, as we use 10 could and charge our
milage up TO Uncle Sam jest the same "A
Of we had 10 buy u railrOde tickets
In them days it was some Objeck TO go
away from home, but now how different
Aud yet it shows that us patriot dir
reddy and willin to suffer # our country
demands sufcrin, and we air reddy 20 lose.
Of tharby the people air TO game by it. in
my %Opiuyun, the stanc OF the sallcry grab
bin legislation * wiped away in the blood
we air sl.nin under the nifc Of the inter
state c0mors bin, and the people Kin see
tnat as Patriots we air werkin out II
pcrfcck vnd.catiOn.
Up 10 She time congress ~aiurned fer
Crismus thar hadn't been ennything done
with %mcuuOnin, but we was all purity
Lizzy tcndin TO the ardiOus labcrs that be
sets a statesman as soon as ne gets inside
the 1mmits Of the national capital.
Besides our duties TO our constituents
thar was duties that we ode our families
at this season Of the yer, and Ide n dog
gone site rather legislatc for the nations
wellfair than. run Ground 10 stores byin
Crismus truck for Mandy and the Children.
When Ime at home | Civ Mandy fore or
tive dOllcrs and let her go into Wayback
Center aud b. everything she wants, and
then we set up tell all the Children is
asleep and play Kris Kingle film Their
.stOckins rcldy fer the fust streeks Of day
lite, when the little todgers comes pilin
out Of bed, hOllerin and latin and maxim
more fuss than would drive emmy boldly
else distracted but Their own deer tickeled
parents. | cant DO that a way in Wash
ingtOn, though, and I've got to be Kris
Kincie all by myself, and not only fernish
All the money, but DO all the werk, and
thars a good deel of ware and tare in it
on n man that amt used to it. But the
NH. ..,.. 4. .,, that mont fafrn lonr ~
his own famly..is wuss than n infidei, and
Z amt a inGdel by no manner Of mems.
Ner do | believe n man kin be true TO his
country that amt true TO his family, fer
home and wife and Children is what makes
a mans country, and faithlessness TO one
- faithlc.eness to tOther, and no sort of
teachin VIII Tern me different.
However. line gittin of the track. As
: was gOin on TO say, "A week before Girls
mus | Started ont one m0rnin with n
teller colleog that had the same sort Of a
roD on hands that had, and We went into
evvery store we come acrOst and seen
more Crismus dOius than would fill a
million s,ockins, and We got so mixed up
we hardly kuOwcd what To git. Thar is
more purity ccrls behind the counters in
Washington than j had emmy idee of, and
I thought | had a NIFTY comprehensive idee
on the purity ccrl question, jist as EVERY
congressman has got. | smiled at them
and they smiled at me, and then / asst the
price Cl somcthin that -lOOkcd like it was
with about a quarter, and they'd say:
That's % lovely thing fer a present, sir,
and the price is only two dollers and a
half, " and me and my coliceg would look
at each other and 60 away 10 some other
store.
"Buty and hartl,ssness is twins" says
I 20 my COLLEGE.
"Ycs,n sass he, "and because we air
congressman they think we air rich.'
"rhoy amt awair,' says |, that this is
only my second term and your first"
Well, ar. Idditer, its "a powerful long
lane thai Goat turn a COrnc some time, !
and we finely got everything bought that
We wanted, and then We ajurncd TO a con-
vcniCut bar and got n teddy apeece TO
stiddy our nerves and Kind a put us on
our feet. | don't knO what he bought, but
my invoice Was about as f~ollers, 20 wit:
Mandy, q nice pair of lams wool stockins, |
a black aipaCky dress, u pair Of lace haf- |
handlers Guda purity bres pin; fer Mandy's |
sister, that took keer of the Children when
was in crop, a fine caliker dress and IL
pair Of yoor rings; fer my Oldest gerl, W
books That | don't EnO the name of, with
Kilt edges and purity backs; fer my next
one, two yards Of red ribbon and q finger
ring; fer Wabash, Jr., a fore bladed nife; |
fer George w, a drum; fer Tabithy, a
doll that opens and shuts its eyes; fer the
tWO tn horns, painted green and
blue, two rattlcs and a whissel apeece.
and fer l.ttle Grover Cleveland, u toy
w~heelbarior, a waggin, a wooden boss and
\ box fan II soljers. Then thar WAS
candy and mats, and REGIONS and figs 10
put in the hOX 10 I'll up with, and, Mr..
EdditCr. you Kin see what Il statesman has
10 ras.,l with when lie gifts outside of his
du'.cs an q national legislator.
/ don't kro lOw the things viii SCOT,
but Chl.losn amt very pcrtickelcr on
Crismus norma, cf Their stockins is full
Of goodies. and thars n pile Of NEW things
fer them 90 rumpel over aud take along
10 show 10 the naber Children, and see
what they've got.
KIN rcccolect nifty well how it was
when l was Il little shaver, and l never