The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-04-20
FORGET-ME-NOTS.

November salaries which Cashier Silcott had
absconded with Grain. OF Texas, appealed to
the Court of Claims and obtained judgment
which benefited all his fellow-members as well
as hims elf IN consequence of Grains per-
severance all the members of the House yester-
day received from Uncle Sam all the back pay
which was due them, and aggregating in all
about $15, coo. Now some of the beneficiaries
of the action successfully taken in the Court of
Claims think Grain ought to be presented with
a testimonial in the shape of a gold watch and
a banquet, but others take different view of
the case and say that Grain, having won his
case ought to celebrate the victory by ''setting
'em up How ungrateful
1t is said Of Grain, of Texas, that when he
was campaigning against the late Tom Ochil-
tree in the Galveston District he suggested as
an appropriate epitaph for his opponent in this
canvass and predecessor in this House, these
lines:
Here lies Tom ochiltree-The only thing he
ever did"
1.-The best walters in the Washington restau
rants" said Representative Grain, of Texas, the
other day, "are the guests" These Texans put
on lots of airs after they have lived long enough
in large city to learn something. Itwas not
Grain who blew out the gas in his bedroom the
first night he stopped in Washington, but it was
Congressman from the same State. Major
MartlD, VINO couple Ol years ago allIOSb ulduG
corpse of himself by blowing out the gas in
his bedroom, will soon be debating etiquette to
Washington society.
One of the attractions at Kernan's Theatre
last week was billed "The Seven Tempta
tions." I had heard of the temptations of st.
Anthony, and also of the troubles of Mark
Antony, and thought would like to see for
myself at least one of the seven, just to find out
I fhA tact nf f1a
whole seven-that is to SAY, 1 didn't count
them but the bill said there were seven-and
since then cannot help putting little addi-
tional fervor into the prayer, LEAD us not
into temptation.'
Talking about st. Anthony, the sceptics are
beginning now to question the record which all
the world has accepted without question for so
long time. The record AYERS that st. Anthony
resisted all the temptations, but the sceptics
now say that that is an er parte report. and that
the girls side of the story hasn't yet been heard
This is an inconoclastic age. Well, let us have
the truth. The critics may be able to prove
after while that the lady wasn't at fault at all,
and that it was st. Anthony himself that made
all the trouble. In this newspaper age the
girls get more fair play than they used to get
when the saints-the male saints-edited all the
chronicles
That pictorial interview with Senator Ingalls,
printed in the New York World last Sunday is
admitted all around to have broken the record
in newspaper interviewing. By themselves, the
pictures made from instantaneous photographs
of the Senator, taken during the interview,
make very interesting gallery. There is hardly
professional actor on the stage who could have
posed for as many good, distinct pictures in the
same space of time. The variety in the Sena-
tors attitudes is something remarkable, but
every picture is Ingallsh-quite Ingallish
Ninf,, ,,&{o. ,elal
be the leading feature of the whole production,
to which four-page supplement of the World
was devoted but even instantaneous photo.
graphy has difficult task in keeping up its end
against the picturesqueness of the Kansas Sena-
tors ideas and language. Senator Ingalls,, in
consenting to participate in the interesting, but
for him dangerous, experiment, made as great
a concession as any public man of equal promi-
nence ever made to newspaper; and the World
in devoting so much effort and space to the
interview, paid the Senator as high compli-
ment as ever great newspaper paid to pub
lie man. 1t is probably true that the World is
the only newspaper that could have got the Sen
tors interview, and that the Senator is the only
man in America who could have got the Worlds
space.
Sam Randall is dead. Owing to circum-
stances over which l had no control l. as a
newspaper reporter, having had occasion fire.
quently to call on him, never got a civil word
from llfil, DuU OlIen uuClVll words instead OF
that soft answer which turneth away wrath
and would have served the purpose. And nv
experience with Mr.. Randall, l think, was not
materially different from that Of other news
paper reporters. He was not given to desul-
tory talking; and he would not talk until he
wanted to say something, no matter who asked
him. He was one of the few public men who
did not care to see themselves figuring very
prominently in the newspapers and more than
that he was not bothered much abOut
what the newspapers said of him. And yet l.,
for one, never felt desire while he was living
to say mean word of him. He was no cour-
tier as one would naturally expect a
politician to be more or less; but
he was one of the bestpublic servants this coun-
try has ever had. With the possible exception
of John Sherman, no man had so closely studied
or understood so we'll the financial needs of this
Government, and his honesty was as impregna-
BILE as the Rock of Gibraltar. He was too inst a
man to be influenced to do an unfair act, and
too keen and intelligent to be fooled. There
never was a time when, If had been on trial
for a capital offense, would not have been
willing to leave the decision of my fate to Mr..
Randall with as much confidence as | would
have left it to any jury in the United States
that is to say, if | had only wanted justice. He
was an able, upright public servant, and a
strong man. There are few like him in public
lfein any country.
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A significant sign of the times is a pros
pectus which has been drawn up by Ludwig
Eisnger, the expert in monumental plastic
work, and some of his artistic friends, for the