St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-29
GOOD WASHINGTON STORIES.
Special to the Globe.


slippery ground; but in a congressman the
habit Is doubly dangerous. A speech that
may be hilariousy humorous i'll Washington
cools Off so OH It's way to his constituents
that, Just as likely as not, they take II for
fnct. SO has IL happened with Mr.. Bryan. of
Nebraska. When the river and harbor bill
E was Occupying the very respectful attention
|aAt the house. Mr.. Bryan burned to make a
speech against it, as, in his opinion, a major
|sify ofits provisions were not only totally un-
Necessary. but distinctly foolish. So the sill
Very tOngued young man from across the
Missouri introduced an amendment provid-
ing for the survey of al the rivers In Nebras-
la. twas an amusing speech; but away out
in Nebraska ii came TO pass that an editor,
hearing of the thing, said to himself, Thus
snnes our representative look after the Inter
csts of the people," and therenpon proceeded
10 give great space 10 complimentary edito-
Iials on the subject of Mr.. Brynn's honest
efforts TO make the Platte navigable. This
struck the opposition. who, in the words of
;the vulgar were onto the ways of the afore
said Platte. as the height of idio CIV in Mr..
Bryan and even his friends wrote to bid him
be more moderate in his demands. The Con
/ gressiOnal Record has gone West by this time.
and there is an editor iiinging swear words
at the Platte and kicking him self diligently
for his inability to appreciate joke at long
distance.
The culture of North Dakota is being sadly
maligned by n story that is going the rounds
concerning Judge Lauder. of Wahpeton. It
happened that that worthy, VINO was then
plain Mr., reasoned with himself that the
title of judge is most honorable, and at once
set himself to gain it,. Out i'll the western
emu of his state his campaign was conducted
by one Bowsfield. a Dakota newspaper man
with all his fingers in the political pie
Bowsield told the people how this man who
should come was horny y-handed son of toll.
honest uncultvaIed hard OF h cad and chuck
full of common sense. He had no false ideas
of etiquette, and was not bothered by the
fashions of society. In short, mau of the
people. Then OH n day there came Lauder
to speak in that country There had been
great preparation for his coming. great ex-
pectatiOn of his arrival. and all the town
what town prudence forbids me TO say-was
at the station to meet him. The tram came
laundering across the prairie, sliding upward
in the long perspective of the rails, till at last
it stopped, and there issued from it one
combed and brushed, and Spick and span,
with boiled shirt and highly polished shoes.
the crowd fell back in disgust, but ere their
eyes had had time to take in fully the dis
graceful sight, Bowsfeld had the man by the
arm and dragged him out of sight. What
then he did to the unfortunate Lauder no
man knoweth to this day. But when the
time for the speech arrived the speaker was
dusty. unkempt, untidy and there was not a
vesiige of polish ON his shoes. BOwsfeld ex-
planned that the boots had been blacKed by
the porter on board the train without
LADDERS knowledge or consent. and by the
skin of his teeth saved the day. Lauder won
the prize, but by a close shave. for rilmors of
that boiled shirt and those polished boots lost
him four towns.
Bowsfeld is Washington correspondent.
of which species or animal there exist sew
eral hundred in the nation al capital They
are men of all kinds. There are the Southern
correspondents. who wear untidy hair and
are always bubbling over with the latest po-
litical gossip and send column after column
of the wild, unfounded rumors always rife
on the Row. There are the Western men.
whose heels may always be seen twinkling
out the doors of the house just as the gavel
falls and only the initiated are allowed on
the floor. There are the Eastern men, who
know everything and look at you with mild
wonder that you know how to write and yet
aren't from New York. Then there are the
women correspondents who work very fast,
/. and talk shop everlastingly and affect Bo-
Hemianism. There's scarcely paper of I'M
portance in all the country hut has special
correspondent in Washington. and the
majority of those cores spondents have Offices
ON Newspaper Row. which is on Fourteenth
street. just, as the men there proudly declare,
three blocks from everything. There are
concocted schemes beside which the plans Of
a congressional committee are as the tooth
brush to the street sweeper's mighty broom.
There are regulations made and lost, there
throbs the pulse of the nation, and there is
more jealousy to the square inch thanis to
be found anywhere outside woman's tenn
perance society Ayowedly, the newspaper
man loves his brother. In reality, he hates
him bitterly, and in confidence whispers to
you that his writings are rot, and his ose
for news minus quantity. Thore are even
men who have offices together, and yet do
not speak, save to reyiIe each other, for it is
a fixed principle i'll the profession that each
man is the only man alive who really knows
what news is, and how it ought to be
h andled.
Not one of us but has sometime seen a pict-
ure with the legend beneath it. photo
graphed by Brady" Brady's is one of the
institutions of Washington, ana scarcely a
public man in the town but has been photo
graphed here. Brady took his first photo
graphs here in 1910, but with his heavy gray
hair and white mustache and goatee, doesn't
look fifty His gallery is a veritable delight.
and he is always glad to display his treasures
to an appreciative audience. On the walls
hang portraits of Clay. Calhoun, Webster
and all the rest, with men of more
modern times. The portrait of Lincoln,
made Just week before his death.
is one of the pictures Brady guards es
pecially. 1t is a rough. wriukled and pitt
fully careworn face, and has far sadder e x
preston than the more familiar portraits of
the man. Then there is the Prince of Wales |
and his suite The prince is a slender deli
cate looking lad, with marked resemblan ce |
to the portraits of the late Duke of lar |
ence The face is almost effeminale, and |
the mouth and chiu are distinctly weak.
Harriet Lane. who received the prince at the |
White house, comfortable looking woman, |
with the painfully smooth hair and volum- |
inous skirts the women of that day made |
themselves hideous with. hangs next Wales |
group Charlotte Cushman's portrait sug |
gests a discontented middle-class matron |
rather than a brilliant actress. Of wartime |
pictures there are thousands. but the especial |
gem of the collection is portfolio filled |
with enlarged photographs of men, some of |
whom are scarcely more than names now.
The prettest bit in the collection is photo |
graph of Patti at seventeen. taken in the first |
long dress the diva ever had. 1t is stiff, |
plain, dark dress. with miles and miles of |
skirt She singers hair is parted simply and |
coiled at the back of her head demurely, and |
the dimpled hands are folded sedaLely but |
the expression of the lovely young face and |
the gleam of the bright eyes are distinctly |
gfrlish and gay. 1t is a charming picture and |
Vas taken-never mind when. The picture
isn't dated. and to SO rudey declare
,Iady's age would be anything but polite.
r. X.
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ts A Sad Case.
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