Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1888-07-27
MARY JAMES LETTER.
How Congressman Play PoIer-somo
Other Gossip.
special Correspondence

Especial correspondence.1
WASHINGTON, July 26.-One afternoon
during the recent pleasant weather, after
the senate had adjourned for the day.
was coming up Pennsylvania avenue on
foot with gentleman who knows everv-
body and everything, when two western
senator's, one from the east and one from
the south passed us in a carriage. The
quartette was divided politically. and
they were laughing and talking like q
party of excursionists just arrived with n
pot of red paint and money to spread it on
with.
There's brotherly love for YOU" said
|, land like to see it. | presume, as
they are off early and the day is fine, they
are going up the river road on a drive
for country air"
Yes, you've guessed it exactly" he
said with a grin, "only you haven't. They
are going up town to a certain room to
play poker. They do it every afternoon
and they have great fun; I've been with
them"
United States senators playing poker
every afternoon" said /, Mortified
well, no, not every afternoon" he
said hesitatingly; I'm modify that state
ment a little; they don't play on Sunday
that is, not every Sunday"
There was not much consolation in
that, and walked along quite bereft of
speech, not so much that senators played
poker, for poker happens in the best reg
ulated families here, but that they played
In the daytime and drove to the field in a
carriage instead of waiting till dark and
slipping in through the alley and the back
door.
When I told DiclSey Of this little cpl
sode she said: II wonder when women
get to be senators how long it will take
them to learn to put in their spare time
IN such fashion"
just as soon as they get to be senators,
said /, for misfortunes never come singly.
-
Stories are still flying about Amelie
Rives Chanler-who, by the why, under
stand. has promised the bishop of Vir-
ginia not to write any more for publica-
ton until the expiration of three years
and her emotional paroxysm, 1.-THE Quick
or the Deadr' and the latest is ON the
wife Of a certain southern senator, who
has daughter or two. The lady is not
IN extremely profound woman in any
branch VI learning, and she is less so in
literary matters than in most others of
the everyday sort. She had heard of the
Virginia suthoress, and shortly after tbs
story appeared she picked up a copy Of
Mppinoott's aud took it home.
There" she said to the daughter,
there Is book written by a southern
woman. II you must read, read some
thing that is written by one of our own
I people, and not by some of these Massa,
cnusetts Yankees"
The daughter took the book obediently
L. 4 a. -
( leisure a few days later the mother
heard the story very thoroughly discussed
by party Of ladies, and started for home
| on a run,
Daughter" she said, excitcdly, "havs
you read that book gave you the Other
dayf"
mo, mamma, replied the daughter
with some trepidation, owing to her dere
\ LECTION Of duty.
well, give it to me right away
| wouldn't havo you read it for the world
| It's an awful thing. and no young CIR
should read it. I'll destroy the vile
! thing"
Of course, she was compelled to obey
! and she gave up the story, notwithstand
4 ing il was the work of young southern
1 woman. But before the next days SUI
had set she had read another copy, anO
was passing on its merits and dement's
I with a calmness and coldness which
would have challenged the admiration o.
| a Bostonian.
Col. Nick Bell, the charming and &C
complished" superintendent of foreign
mails, bachelor without a gray hair, aEs
still not boy, twenty years ago was GU
in the Idaho mining regions selling good
over the counter and getting his mai
about once o month, if the weather wa
I good and the Indians polite. Flour wa
worth dollar a pound and other thing
in proportion, and business was rushing
but young Bell was only clerk and hi
salary was not making him rich very rap
idly with board at 800 a month. On
day a miner came in and offered Bill
claim for fifty pound sack of -four. Tn
clerk 8 possessions were nos quite that ex
tensive but he prevailed upon his en-
pleyer TO lend him a sack, which he q
once transferred to the miner, accepting
in lieu thereof the claim. Then he raise
little meney on it, went to work dig
ging and shoveling and blowing out tn
ground, and one morning he found wha
he was looking for and in q da
or so he was offered $50, 900 70
his sack Of -four. But he sav
visions in the ground and re
fused to sell. For while he took GU
the silver quartz in quantities. Then
suddenly, the vein dropped away to almos
4 nothing, as veins do, and his visions be
gan to 20 over to the wrong side of hi
| profit and loss account. Finally he sol
/ out for $500 and glad Of it, and . ne'
man took hold. It was all risk. Like
| lottery ticket; but some men arc Dor
| lucky, and Bell hadn't long to wait unit
| he saw that vein widen as it went deeper
ana finally 70 see his sack Of -four sold 70
1 half million Of dollars, and all he 60
/ was the cold comfort Of knowing that
1 was all his. only he didn't hold on lon
enough. He isn't worth half millio
today, but he is an excellent officer,
! popular fellow, and has plenty TO live OF
| Some "society folks are still in town
met lady Just after the last hot spell
"Ah, stin in town." said banteringly
ooh, yes" she replied land since th
weather has modified / would as soon b
here as anywhere.
| / hurried on, wondering what ''mod
fled" did mean anyway. NARY JANE.
Estates Held I'm Trust.