Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-11-11

propose to get his ieet wet to his waist
band all day and come home without q
single duck you fellows 20 ahead
said he. and leave me here, and ] viii
promise to eat at one sitting every can.
vas back YOU kill" "Ail right" replied
Vance and the others, 1--WE will keep
YOU To your har-aiu." If will stick 10
my word said Vest and the Trio OF
United States senators started of, Wen,
the hunters had streak OF luck,
Howell Jackson proved himself SPLEEN
did shot. Vance knows how to handle
a gun and Beck killed his share They
brought back a hundred ducks, mostly
canvas backs sixty snipc and tvs geese.
They put the canvas backs IN pile and
sent Tor Vest. His white hair stood ON
end as he thought Of the idea Of eating
too decks at one meal and his lite fat
round stomach pefceptbly shfank. Tie
got out Of the matter by setting up a
champagne supper TO the crowd, and q
part OF this supper was @ limited mum
Der OF the canvas backs which the
Senators Killed. As to the exact mum
Der OF the ducks there IS no certified
fact. the number above given Is on Tie
authority Of one OF the Senators who
did the shooting.
SENATORS WITH PADS.
a large number of our public men
find their rest iu change Of work
Some OF them take no vacations 90
speak Ut aud seldom go out Of the city.
Not igw have ilds by which to rest
their brains. Senator Davis gets hIs
rest hy reading the classics and by
throwing himself into French novels.
During the past campaign he read half a
dozen biographical and histo icai works
and he IS now o. reading his Virgil.
One Of his most rcstluI studies is
Napoleon B1uapaue Hc buys 90 he
can ind concerning him and be has
more than b1o volume, about the great
Napoleon lie believes In hot baths
before going To bed as a good thing for
sleep lie says that the best rest Tor an
ovcrworkcd brain Is q change Of intel.
lCcual diet Allen C., Thurman read
French novels 90 rest his brain while he
was Ia the Senate and he varied this by
working out mathematical problems.
Senator Hoar rests himself by looking
up questions OF American history. Ex-
Congressman 5. V. White gets his rest
by studying the stars through telc-
scope aud working out Astronomical
problems, and the late Justice Bradley
got his rest 30 mathematics.
now Our PRESIDENTS PLAY.
By all odds the aolcst Of our Presi.
dents arc those who have had some way
OF relaxing their minds George Wash.
ington was fond Of a good horse race.
lie got his rest In horseback riding aud
hunting, and he spent a good part OF
every year NJ Mount Vernon. Thomas
/ Jefferson spent part OF every day In
/ riding through the woods about Wash.
/ ingion while he was President lie was
| often taken for a private citizen. and
/ once in crossing Rock creek near here
man who wanted TO ford the creek and
not get bis feet wet asked him 10 carry
/ him over behind him which he did lie
rode every afternoon while he was
l President from ! O'Clock until ]. and
I when he was almost crazy ON account Of
/ the death OF his wife he roamcd about
| for days on horseback. lie was fond Of
| good horses, and his coach horses cost
| 800 apiece. Frank Pierce was another
/ President who thought that the best
| cure for the inside OF d man was the out
| side OF horse, He gallopcd about the
| streets Of Washington At midnight while
| he was President He was fond Of rid.
! ing after dark, and his iavorite horse
] was blind. James Buchanan took his