The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-08-03
FORGET-ME-NOTS.

AT last Quay is in danger. He has often seemed
to be in danger, but 1--WE know not seems" in
case like this. Col. Keim is threatening to oppose
him-Col. Deb Randolph Keim. The Colonel
said some time ago that he wanted to have GER
tain man appointed postmaster at Reading, Pa.
If the Colonel's favorite is relative, and, like
himself descended from the famous Indian
maiden, Pokerhunters, it is nobody's business.
Col. keim's nomination has not yet been acted
upon, and the delay is not only growing serious
but dangerous. The Colonel is feeling coolly
toward the Senator, and it was said on good au-
thorlty last night that in the right thing
should not soon be done he might decide to be
actually hostile to the Senator. 1t is to be hoped
that the Pennsylvania Boss will come to his
senses, and not drive Col. de r. deB de Keim to
the adoption of extreme measures. Suppose that,
like the aesthetic poet in Patience" the Colonel
were to curse the Boss, supposng he were to
curse him in Washington society, supposng-just
think of it--supposing the Colonel were to leave
ton of the Colonel's Handbook to Washington
Society! The Senator had better begin to realize
the danger he is n
Charles A. Dana need never again try to dis
parage the series of speeches that Grover Cleve-
land in the autumn of 1887 delivered at the vari-
Gus cities he visited on his tour around the circle.
1t won't do now to say they were taken from the
encyclopaedia. The United States Senate has put
the stamp OF its approval on them. The Senate
has had printed at the Government Printing Of
fee pamphlet prepared by Alex. d. Anderson
and entitled The Mississippi and Its Forty-four
Navigable Tributaries, in which Mr.. Cleveland S
speeches are quoted TO be the case. 1t is either
t hgh TO she m 9E e p00r oGte
land was addressing the people of Memphis when
he said: There flows past your city our nation S
great river which you rightly regard as most
important factor in your present and future well
fare and which / believe is universally recog-
ton and Improvement. To Memphis and to every
other city on its banks the Improvement of this
vast highway of commerce Is so essential that
they should be interested in having this and other
proper work OF the same description considered
upon their merits and freed from schemes some
times questionable in their character and often
extrayagant IN their demands" Now. why
should not the improvements OF the Mississippi
There are certain members OF the House of
Representatives on both sides-members who are
always up and doing, active little bodies who
put their fingers into every pie, their chin into
every debate-that bother Speaker Reed pretty
much as a COW is bothered by flies in summer.
The COW is patient as so is the Speaker. The
COW sometimes allows the flies to perch on her
eyellds, crawl up her nostrls, get into her ears,
promenade up and down her backbone and hold
high carnival all over her body before she takes
the trouble TO switch her tail. In the same way
Speaker Reed sits patiently in the chair chewing
his cud, as it were, lazily and patiently Watching
the fly members on the floor as they bilstle about
making noise and trouble. 1t is amusing TO sit
up, ,aloit in the gallery and watch the big Speaker
as ne gradually grows tlred OF the troublesome
ing the lilies, so TO speak. The process is eniOyed
not only by all disnterested Spectators but also
by the Congressional colleagues OF the busy
and troublesome little members themselves
Springer of Illinois, and Rogers, of Arkansas,
are the two members that give a Republican,
Speaker the most trouble. To read in the Con,
greSsOndl Record the report Of their particpa-
tOn in the proceedings of the House almost any
day one who didn't know them by sight would
ne pound 70 form the impression that they were
little bits OF fellows, nimble and persistent, but
probably not over five feet tall, whereas in real
Drink Tannhsuser beer. H. Benzler.