Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-21

used largely for the pleasure of high
officials, and which are owned and MAIN
tanned by the Government. By sheer ac-
cident one day discovered in stable, the
rent of which was paid bv the Govern
ment, three horses, a pony and two cows,
the proveuder for which was paid for
out of the funds of the National Treasury.
They were the property of high military
official then engaged in the performance Of
a semi-civil duty, and who rightly enough
was furnished a team and carriage by the
Government. The team rendered a stable
necessary, and stable was rented of sufi-
cient capacity for the horses and cows used
solely for the benefit OF the officials family.
It was in an obscure alley, and the extent of
the officials exploit in quartering his stock
on the Government was only discovered by
an accident after his sudden death.
Edmunds and the Correspondent.
O'Brien Moore, the aggressive Milesian
correspondent of the st. Louis Republic,
tells good story on himself in connection
with the retirement from the Senate of Mr..
Edmunds, of Vermont Some of the New
York Republican papers had been broadly
limiting, during the closing days OF Congress,
that certain distinguished Democratic
Senators were not in good condition to at
close companionship with the cut glass
decanter and the demijohn. This fred the
intense Democratic heart of O'Brien Moore,
and he sent 10 his paper a serial story de-
scribing the potatlons of Senator Edmunds,
the Republican leader, exhausting his vo-
cabulary of adjectives upon the picturesque
appearance OF the Senator'S nose, which, to
tell the truth, is of tint that would delight
an artist affecting exceedingly warm color.
One day while the case of the Louisiana
Judge, Boarman, was under discussion, and
impeachment was talked OF, Moore met Ed
muuds in the Senate elevator, and ventured
to inquire of him his opinion Of the legal
aspects of the case, knowing that the Sena-
tor was unacquainted with his name and as
sociations. Mr.. Edmunds was in talkative
mood, and invited Mr.. Moore into his COM
mittee room. After talking awhile the
Senator said:
"Do you ever take drink?".
"Oh, yes, very often," said the truthful
Moore.
The Senator reached into the sideboard,
took out bottle and poured out a. large
drink of his favorite brandy, and showed the
bottle over to Moore, who did ditto, and the
conversation was renewed. Presently there
was another shaking up of the decanter, and
as the Senator grew friendlier he said:
"By the way, for what paper do you
write? 2"
"Hem! Hem! F-ffor th-th-e S-S-St.
L-L-L-L-ou-i-i-s sR-R-Re-p-p-p-public." slut
tered Moore, feeling that his time had
come.
"Ah7 A very good paper-a very good
paper"
The Senator Kept a Scrapbook.
you've seen it, then, sometimes, have
you ?" said Moore, family, hoping that he
had never seen copy of it in his life.
"Oh, yes. I've seen it often. read its
Washington correspondence quite regularly.
1t is very good, indeed-very spicy"
Another turn at the decanter.
'The fact is, continued the Senator, "I
have been entertained so much BY the cor
respondence that L have clipped and pre-
served many of the specials for future ref
erence."
'Oh Lordp groaned Moore internally.
''The fact is" Edmunds went on. II be-
lieve have a number of the letters here in
my desk. Yes, here they are. They are
very good-excellent."
"Well, Senator" said Moore with tremb-
ling tones, "I am much obliged to you Tor
your talk on the Boarman case, and for your
''Oh, have another drink, have another
drink"
And they took it,
One of the pretty expressions Moore had
used about Edmunds was that he was the
only man living who could not be mellowed,
but grew meaner and uglier the more he
drank of good brandy.
''If he had knocked me down with
club, said Moore in telling the story. 81
would have thanked him. but he just
smashed me to jelly with his ironical
friendliness.
1t must be said in justice to both Edmunds
and Moore that the Senator's indulgence,
which he never attempted to conceal, is due
to an affection of the lungs which has clung
to him since he was a boy, and which makes
the liberal use of stimulants necessary to
his life. He would not last six mon tbs were
he to abandon his brandy bottle. Moore
knew nothing Of this when he wrote of the
Senator's weakness. E. VI.