The Portland daily press., 1891-03-23

Keep no account In my book is charity.
That is not business, and therefore do
not treat it in business way. 1t SIM
ply goes, and there is no use of having a
record of it, as it is neither profit nor
loss. At the end Of the year figure up,
and the difference between what have
on hand and what ought to have is
what have given away. Bless my soul!
fear don't give half enough"
1t is easy to imagine that a kindly,
| good humored, affectionate old man who
! gives away $4,000 year, and is afraid
he ought to give more, does not lack for
popularity among his associates. 1t is
this same old man who can put more
bills through the senate than any other
member of the body. His record on
private bills, pension bills, etc.-worthy
cases all, you may be sure-has never
been equaled. No one objects to Saw
yer's bills, no one willingly puts any
obstacles in his way; every one is willing
to help him and ''pull for" the things in
which he is interested. So it happens
that the saying about the senate cham
+. Der is, "Oh, take it to Senator Sawyer.
| If it is a good thing he'll take hold of it,
and if he can't put it through there's no
use of any one else trying"
| Senator Sawyer is even more interest
ing in his home, beautiful and extern
sive chateau on Connecticut avenue, than
he is in the senate chamber. Just now,
as the newspapers have already informed
us, he is very proud because of his sue
cess in reducing his weight something
like eighty pounds in six months. 1t is
| as good as circus to see the senator in
the library of his house. 1t is a large
apartment, probably forty feet long, and
the floor is covered with the richest of
oriental rugs. Across this floor and back
the senator has regular pathway on
which he takes his daily exercise. He
doesn't know how many laps there are
to the mile, nor care, for his race is not
| against time, but flesh. He walks at a
| rapid pace, however, steaming and pant
ing, to and fro, putting and blowing, and
once in while stopping to weigh him
self ON the platform scales which he
keeps in his library for that purpose.
| Nothing pleases the old senator better
than to have company in his indoor
| pedestrian feats. His friends, eager to
| please him, take him by the hand and
| stride backward and forward with him
till the senator is quite out of breath
from running and laughing.
Next to Sawyer, suppose Mr.. Jones,
of Nevada, is the most popular man in
the senate. He is a wit, story teller, a
bon vivant, "good fellow" He is a
man who believes, as Senator Wolcott
said in his speech on the copyright bill,
in "high living and good thinking"
Jones has small, twinkling eyes and a
| skin as pink and soft as school girls.
| 1t is a skin which makes one think of
| hogsheads of good wine and a succession
| of good dinners. Yet Senator Jones is
| almost teetotaler. 81 have no scruples
against drinking" he says, "but be-
| lieve it is irrational. 1t interferes with
ones capacity for enjoyment of better
things. If permitted myself to drink
of common wine or liquors every day
could not appreciate the best product of
| the vine on the rare occasions when
| get u chance at it. do not often drink.
When do drink want only little,
very nice, served in the right way and at
the right time"
The senator is an authority on all mat
tiers gastronomic, and probably could, in
an off hand way, without stopping tc
think much or consulting a caterer
order the "swellest" dinner ever seen IN
Washington. Yet, in pursuance OF his
| principle of living nationally, his daily
food is very simple. A few days before
congress adjourned his chum, Senator
Farwell, said to him: "Jones, I'll &c
down to the restaurant and pay fol
the dinner if you will order it. Now
this is a goodby dinner, and want you
to make it something unusually NICE"
Senator Jones knew that FarweL
wouldn't have cared it the bill had
been twenty or thirty dollars, but
this is the dinner which the famous
epicure ordered: Blue points, clam chow
der, lettuce salad, breast of chicken
and peas, pot of tea. The check fol
this dinner for the two millionaire sena
tors, which Jones pronounced "whollJ
| rational was 80 10