Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-28

put down that bundleI'
''What for?' asked
"No bundles allowed in herer' he said.
inquired by whose order such trifies as my
gauzy environment were prohibited. Sergeant
alarms Valentine" he answered. went out
Of that door and into the next.
''Stop there, Come out of that exclaimed
the lively doorkeeper, sorting me from crowd
making its way in ''YOu, too he said to a
youth who had small handbag. mo bags or
bundles can go inside
"Why not?'' asked
"You might blow up the whole Senate!' he
replied, with expression of alarm on his
face. after that anarchist threw the d yna-
mite at Russell Sage and old Vanderbilt an
order was given that nothing that could hold
dynamite should be let in here. You must lay
IL down in the hall"
depressed to the old soldier q doubt of the
wisdom of such an order.
Why, You see yourself. he urged, opening
the door and waving his hand within, THAT a
dynamite fend could fling a handbag or a
bundle down there and kill half a dozen SEN
ators. He couldn't fling it scarcely without
killing millionaire"
But YOU don't examine skirts or coat
pockets" i suggested. ''or even cloaks over
coats; anybody could carry dynamite in there
II he wanted to. And how about pistols2'
Then i walked over to the House gallery and
went in.
'Can carry in my parcel?' asked the door
keeper.
.why. certr' he exclaimed in establishment.
"Why can't you?'
So / took n front seat within easy reach of at
least a hundred members. / could have flung
my white gOssamer hand grenade and struck
Economical Holman right on the top of the
head with ii, and there are some cabinet Off
GERS in Washington who would have laughed
Historically at the sanguinary deed. There were
half dozen milliOnaires right under my hand.
so near that i could have tossed a newspaper
and hit them. And wondered why the House
needed protection so much less than the Senate.
Are these less valuable than those? i thought
of the old woman at the apple stand These is
two cents apiece. but these ere 'uns you kin hev
fer two fer a cent"
1t strikes me that Mr. Valentines order. be-
sides being utterly futile, is calculated to excite
alarm, suggest to fools and freaks the possi-
bility Of crime and make the Senate ridiculous.
CHANGE OF PLANS.
Col Carroll d. Wright. commissioner of
labor, rounds up some fun all the while, though
he is one of the busiest of the Presidents lieu
tenants. He is very fond of cards, and when
he was able to spend his summer months at his
summer home out on Marblehead Neck above
Boston. he loved to beguile the evenings with
Presbyterian poker, a sort of sanctified auction
pitch He wanted to go to Vienna to attend
the statistical congress, for he was one of the
fifty who organized it. But he had to
give up both the congress and the Calvinistic
cards. for the Senate finance committee
slid off upon his shoulders the big job of mar
shaling the figures concerning prices and wages
which were ordered by this Congress. So he
sticks to his desk and uses much figurative Ian
guage- In his native village in Massachusetts,
he used to be the handsome solo tenor in the
choir Nowadays he Is too busy to sing, but
whenever there is a first-rate opera in town he
ts always seen in an orchestra chair
THE ARCTIC EMPOWERS PLEASURES.
Gen Greedy has been kept pretty lively pro-
ducing the different kinds of disagreeable
weather we have had this spring. He hopes to get
away in July to join Mrs. Greedy and the chill
dren at tful intervals in his villa on the breezy
peninsula of Sorrento. opposite Bar Harbor.
During that terrible winter and summer of "a
in the arcties Greedy used to entertain his un-
happy companions BY rehearsing as much
of geography and history as he
could remember, and they pieced it out with
with their own recOilections. Sometimes they
sang; sometimes in the earlier days played cards.
Now his chief amusement is visiting with his
family and friends, and, he says. lit seems
TO me as If couldn't get enough Of it," He and
his wife are often seen at the theater-a tall and
very striking looking couple, indeed.
EDITORS IN OFFICIAL HARNESS.
No previous administration has had so many
editors in servi;e. Not to speak Of the score
who represent the country abroad, there are
here Porter, ehief of the cersIs; Palmer public
printer; Meredith, chief of engraving and
printing: Habercom. fifth auditor, and VIM E.
Curtis. head of the bure.u of the American re-
publics. No tanner of a wild Arab steed ever
had hvelier time than has Curtis in breaking
his frisky South American broncho. His hands
are full He plays dominoes and cribbage with
his wife and at rare intervals pedro and base
ball with his boys-these use up his scant leis-
ure.
His chief amusement at present is making n
vast collection of Columbana-for Chicago
souvenirs Of the great discoverer of America.
Up 10 date he has collected forty-seven portraits
Of Christopher. all different and none genuine
and l6O pictures in which that gentleman's
heroic figure appears incidentally. He has
also secured fac SMILES of twelve of the TWENTY
nine autograph letters Of Columbus in exit
enee, and OF tn, only two left by the great
ehristener Of the continent-Americus Vespu-
eius Officially. as well as personally, Curtis is
1t this time Chicago man.
CONFIRMED NAGAzINIsr
Dr. W. T. Harris amuses himself mainly with
books and art. He has not yet planted here
any visible slip of the Concord transcendent-
Nllsts, for his duties chief Of the bureau of
education have not left him time, but hear
that VIM X. Alger is coming from Boston to
reside here. and if be does it is certain that he
and Harris VII unite their vi-,lity, and. CON-
Halstead and the Secretary, will establish here
such a headquarters of literature and mystic
philosophy a. will leave both Concord and St
Louis IN the shade. DIR. Harris belongs
70 the Stay-at-home Rangers-that l..
he travels much in his studio
where he has some l6O0 photographs
Of the historic places, representative ruins and
architecture and choice pictures and statuary
of the world He is an enthusiastic champion
of Turner and he admires John Ruskin chiefly
because he discovered the great impressionist
DIR. Harris Is a confirmed magszinist and writes
a good deal of his time. In order to save all of
his hours and minutes he has rugged up a lit
tie arrangement which enables him to wreak
himself on paper when he is travelling on the
cars.
He will 60 without eating any time to converse
about Homer. Dante, Goethe, Emerson and
Snider Of Chicago. And anybody Of sense
Will go without eating to be present on such an
occasion He came here TO obtain relief from
the asthma, and he may be compelled to 20 to
Europe this summer for the same purpose
Nv. PALMER. PUBLIC PRINTER,
b, on the whole, having q good time. He IL
doing u third more work and spending o third
more money than was ever before done in
the history Of the country. Yet he never
ferspires and is seldom in q hurry.
And he has a straw berry-bIOude how who il n