St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-10

ut SltHutI Of JtlO luOlluHtllL
| shows dark against the west. Lower
sinks the sun, lower and lower yet, till
| in the silence the sunset gun from Fort
| Myers bo0ms good night down the
| purpling valley. Then. when the cooler
| breeZeS blow across The town. all Wash
| hgton comes ont to enjoy ITSELF
| gfhere's a law against plucking Uncle
| Sans flowers, but for all that, when
John and Mary 20 strolling through the
lleapitol park in the dusk, he Is laggard
| in love if he doesn't risk his freedom
by picking for her some of the lilac
| Dlumes. or the swamp nagnolias. or the
| lwisteria. Even personages or high de
gree have been known to rob the gov
| eminent thus, and considering the
temptation the crime isn't really so
great after all.
| d But the man who halls the evening
A term, by the way, which the untu-
| tOred Washington savage applies to any
.liour after nOOn-with the greatest de-
| light issthe Italian who plays the me-
| tshanical piano. There are thousands
of him, and he has regular route every
| night. His instrument is decided
| Improvement OH the old-time hand
organ. and really does sound like a
pano-a concert saloon style of piano.
| played with just that rigid time and
eXasperating pounding. When the
| piano man arrives before your door there
| instantly gathers from the thin air
| crowd OF children, and when the music
begins off they 20, up and down the
| smooth pavement. dancing to the music.
| and dancing. some of them with intrl-
cate steps that would do credit to the
| vaudeville stage. 1t is one of the sights
| of Washington, and everybody enjoys
| Ina Ia0r mi Al hac
| a rich reward FROM Senator Palmer, who
| enjoys nothing more than to see the
children dance. In his Old-faShiOned
broadcloth clothes and SLOUGH hat, he is
| a figure that all the children in the
neighborheod know and welcome as
friend. They dance their prettiest
| steps for him, and he laughs like Il boy.
Indeed, he is boy at heart. and visitors
| 70 the senate gallery are always sur
prised to hear how old he is.
The phrase ''all sorts and conditions
of meif' applies to no body in the
| world so we'll as to the Fifty-secend
| congress, and as fer distinctive charac-
teristieS. the legislator has none, except
| it be wild yearniug for reelection
| Jerry Simpsons black hair rs so stubbly
| and stiff 1t resembles a badly made wig,
! but Senator Briee's brown enrls are
| everywhere admired. NIL Brice ought
| to be handsome man, but he isn't.
| His beard and hair are a beautiful,
| warm. light brown; his clothes are
| always faultleSS. even to the never-for-
| gotten nOSegaY i'll his buttOnhole, but
| he isn't attractive. and is often miStak-
| Ell for a Jew. Senator HiScock has
| more the aspect of Siumbering lion
| than any man in congress. His hair is
md wi hoard
| and his large, heavy -lidded eyes give
| HIM an indolent look that entirely be-
| lies the man. Mr.. Bailey, of Texas, dis
| plays acres of shirt front, but Maj.
| Picker, of South Dakota, wears his Prince
| Albert always buttoned close. Maj.
| Picker is tall, well-built man, with
heavy dark hair and mOustache and
| beard worn on his chin only, in the old
Fashioned way. His colleague, Mr..
JoIley. is a little blue-eyed, large-nosed
| man, whose name fits him. He is jolly
all through, and you can't quite be seri-
Gus when you think of him.
All is not well in the camp of the
Minnesota state organization. 1t is all
other sad example of how brethren don't
agree, like little birds i'll the nest. All
the Minnesota colony was not repre-
| scented at the last meeting, nor will it be
at the next meeting. The badge to be
| worn next September by all Washing.
| ton Minnesotans as a button is designed
| by GEORGE T.Heck, but is notaltOgether
| a,thing Of beauty. But that Is not the
! cause of the lack of unanimity. The
| REAL reason for that is that there is an
attempt to make thej organization. po-
| lltical, and to use it as Republican
| Instrument. Col. Charley Johnson, of
Minneapolis. now chief clerk of the
| senate. originated the idea. OF course
| it is being fought by sait ciear-sighted
MinneSotans and will doubtless not
prevail in the end, but it is large
enough and strong enough to make
| some prominent MinneSotanS withdraw
| from the whole affair.
Congressman JolInSon's stories, while
| perhaps little haZy as to detail, are
always entertaining; and, as the North
Dakota member is not much concerned
about legislation, are always easy TO ]
hear, though MIR. Johnson declares the
modern generation has no faith. His
mosquito story is famous. In 49,"
says Mr.. Johnson,,'I WAS breaking q
section in North Dakota. The mos
quitoes made my life so wretched
that in despair crawled under
all enormous camp kettle had
with me. Ill my faneied security L
Telt prIckling sensation in my left
shoulder. One enormous mosquito had
actually bored his way through that
| iron kettle. Taking heavy plough
| hammer, managed to bend his sting
III such way that il could not be with
drawn The fuss he made attracted
thousand of his brethren, and before
| knew it there were StlngS coming
through that kettle i'll every direction.
| riveted them as fast as L could, when,
just as L was exhausted with hammer
ing, the mosquitoes suddenly tired of
the attack. and, being unable to eXtr-
cate themselves, lifted the kettle and
flew away with it." rs that true?"
you ask. We'll. were you ever out OIL
the North Dakota prairie i'll '833?' NO"
you say. We'll, then you ought to
have faith in man who was"
Washington has been for years the
cemetery of dead hopes i'll general, and
journalistic hopes in particular. The
magazines that have been born, gaSped
feebly Il short while, and then died, are
legion by name. So when Mrs. Logan'S
The Home Magazine was started, the
faithful expected to be able to say. Il
told you so'' in few months, but it's
the other people who are saving 81 told
nous success. Mrs. Logan is one of the
busiest women in the world, and despite
funny habit she has of appearing now
in deep mourning, now i'll the lightest
of heliotrope light mourning, ald now
in the widows cap and veil again, is a
wonderfully attractive woman.
Calumet Place. the Logan home, is all
DId-fasllioAed brick house, built i'll the |
Southern style, on the heights above the
town. with an outlook straight away |
across the city to the Virginia shore
and down the river. 1t is large
aud airy and artistic. and the |
most interesting room in it |
is the memorial gallery. On the frieZe
are flags, eagles and other national en-
hlems, with the names of LOgan'S bat
ties spelled out among them. The |
light tails through amem9rial stained
glass window upon Dusts. pictures, |
flags, battlefield photographs, framed |