The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-08

/ nell Is a weather observer at Eureka, LAl.
I and Frederick is a weather observer at the
station at indianapolis, Ind, all OF them
/ being accurate and efficient officers enjoy
/ ing the approval OF their new superors Of
the agricultural department.
Sitting in his shirt sleeves on the porch Of
1 his neat little new cottage on Sinepuxent
beach, down on the eastern sho'n of Mary
land smoking a huge Havana cigar which
the Spanish minister had sent him, and
which had, therefore, never passed under
the hated yoke Of the tariff, Senator Black
burn told the story of how Theodore L.
Page, formerly OF the Elmwood hotel at
Phillips, Me-, and the Pemigewasset hotel
at Plymouth, n. H, and now manager Of
the Atlantic hotel at Ocean City on Sine
Senate restaurant, as he Is when congress ia
in -ession.
Il was a member Of the House OF Repre-
sentatives,n began the senator,
BLOWING THE FRAGRANT SMOKE
out TO sea, ION the morning of March, 1885,
and had the remarkable, perhaps UMPIRE
cedented experience Of answering to my
name, which came of course early on a
roll call on an important question that
morning in the House, saying good-by to
my immediate neighbors on the floor,
taking my lat snd cane, walking over
through the long corridors to the Senate,
being presented by my late colleague,
Senator Beck. aud taking the oath
and my seat before the roll call upon which
had voted in the House was completed,
and shortly afterwar casting my vote as q
senator on a roll call in the Senate.
That was the day of Cleveland's inaugu-
ration, you remember, but although we
were all interested in that, we still had
some thought for ourselves, and the new
senator's were looking about for their new
committee places with more or less interest,
ali - bak I.l -
concern about it, for, having been on the
committee on rules and the committee on
appropriations in the House, l was simply
TO be transferred to the same committees In
the Senate
Frye Of Maine, who was..then chairman
Of the committee on rules, which of course
had republican majority among its five
members, promptly came TO me as soon as
he learned that was to be a member OF the
the committee on rules. both of US having
served together on that same committee in
the House, and said: "See here, Blackburn,
l want you TO help me get the Senate res
taurant for a constituent of mine. You and
Harris Qsnam G.. Harris or Tennessee, the
other member Of the democratic minority
Of the committed ought TO vote with me
when the committee on rules comes to select
man TO keep the restaurant for you can't
elect anybody yourselves and you might az
well help me as John Sherman, who has a
candidate who isn't half as good as my
man."
"WeH, but" said. Frye. what ads
vantage do we democrats get out of such
an arrangement as thatm
Why" he said, you get the best restau-
rant keeper this Senate has ever had, and
that ought to be enough for you"
well" said, 'If It is true, it is" and so
when the question came up in committee,
much to sherman's astonishment, Harris,
whom Frye had also seen, and l voted for
Frye's man, who was
THIS SAME vERITABLE PAGE
who is running the hotel down the beach
here, and who has proved to be, as a Frye
said he would, the best manager we have
ever had in the Senate restaurant In fact,
he Is so good that he has been Kept there
ever since, as YOU know, and don't be-
hevs that be will ever leave unless he
chooses to go.
"Them's Jerseys" said Uncle Jerry Rusk.
secretary of agriculture. to friend Of mine
who called on him at his office, and to whom
he was kindly pointing out the different
kinds of cattle In the engraviugs on the wall.
This and one OF two other slips in gram
mar rather disturbed my friend. He was
disposed to things that no cabinet minister in
other countries and particularly, Of course
In England, was ever ungrammatical at
all events to the extent OF making two
as he thought, broke the record for he ad-
mitted that Uncle Jerry's famous remark
after he had suppressed the Milwaukee
riots as governor. Il seen my duty,
and, l done it," was not a record
maker, and besides was probably intended
for political effect.
tried to console him by telling him that
l understood from Englishmen that at least
one member of the present Gladstone cabi-
net, member, too, of former Gladstone
cabinets, Ri. Hon. Anthony J. Mundella.
was as ungrammatical, if not to-day at
least not long ago, as Uncle Jerry, and was,
in fact the man who had years ago, to be
sure made the worlds record for bad
grammar.
1t was when he was sheriff of Nottingham
and as such sitting in a quasi judicial
capacity be was called upon to determine
the identity of certain articles Of clothing
whose ownership was in question be-
fore him. The witnesses, who were
also the claimants. being at absolute
variance in their statements, Sheriff Nun
della ordered them to hand the articles of
clothing in dispute to him, and after exam
lining them begun his decision with the
terse remark, "Them's them," thus making
three blunders in two words and record
which stands unequaled to this day even
by our estimable Secretary of Agriculture,