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library Of his $4,000 sesthetle hons IN
Washington, bat senator who says
what re pleases abouts mea aad thiRzs
Ia as dry. r4spsas, szrdonic way, with
cut much fear Of being taken 10 tas<.
The staple truth is every one Is afraid
Of him. Hs is like the cross old bull
dog looss IN the yard; every one adnires
him. bat no ons cares 10 SIR him np or
play any pranks on him.
Yet Ednunds Is not 30 cross as he
Looks. half tho bitter things which he
says-and he sayss good many-sre said
50 coldiy and dryly, with such obvious
absence OF feeling, with such apparent
purpose 10 amase in his grim, terrible
way, that even the victims join ia the
smile which goes round and echo tho
prevalent comment, What an old ter
ror he is, TO be sure,"
Sherman, Edmunds. Morrill-this trio
OF nainee comes unconsciously 10 the
tongue. Speak Of the great old men OF
the senate, and these are in your mind
at once. Morrill, is getting very old and
feeble. yet here he il, determined, ap-
parently, TO die in harness. as did John
Quincy Adams.
Morrill, is really the patriarch Of con-
gress. being the oldest man In years and
longest in service. He came 10 the house
in 1896. along with John Sherman and
Gen. Banks. and has been in either the
house or the senate ever since. Thus we
have two senators from q single state
who have combined service record Of
sixty-one years. No other state in the
Union has ever equsled that, and it is
safe TO say that little Vermont will hold
tho record for many year. The Green
Mountain state appears to have PEN
chant for constancy 20 her public men,
for it is a remarkable fact that both Of
these Vermont veterans succeeded men
of long experience.
Edmupds first entered the senate seven
days after the death Of Solomon Foote,
who had been nineteen years in congress,
dying in harness, while Morrill, succeed
ed Jacob Collamer, who had great
career as representative, cabinet officer
and senator.
1t is an interesting group of old men
that our gaze has fallen on. By Ed
munds side sits a man with small
weak looking body, an enormous head,
huge nose and lips which fall into his
face like canyon in bare prairie. 1t
is the great Evarts. now near the close
of his long career. His senatorial ter N
expires three months hence, and at three
score ten and three he certainly does not
aspire to further public service.
Mr.. Evarts Ia a man who is slowly go
ing TO sleep His years are many and
they do not sit lightly on him; yet at
times he can rouse himself. When he
makes speech it is like the grafton of a
ventriloquist's mannikin, for the form is
stiff and unsteady on its pins, and on
account of the absence of teeth in the
orators head the words come out with
out much articulation and with GER
tain mechanical sound. Though the
body is old and the teeth conspicuous by
their absence-odd that a senator should
have an inersllicable prejudice against
such useful products of modern civiliza-
ton as manufactured molars and ivory
inoisors - there is nothing the matter
with the great brain.
AS one looks down on this old man,
probably tho foremost lawyer of his
time In nation of great lawyers, one
can't avoid thinking Of the power that
brain has exercised in the Affairs of man,
aud one wishes there were some method
of measuring the ohrn~ or volts or foot
tons or horse power of great and ener-
( getic intellect. WALTER WEL.AAN.