Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-28

OF the opponents OF free coinage They blew
Oh every pound OF steam In their boiler AZ
ehe nrst start and had drifted into the rush-
J en Ie snore to get up steam again.
1errys story took magnificently The
house laughed at II so long that he spent
fuily a minute in scratching his head
IN ms maiden speech on the Moor of the
t..ase the redoubtable Champ Clark "a
missouri, stuck to his text with the oua,nt
est iogic de Is regarded as one Of the best
story teilers In the country, but the onlv
paragraph In his speech that smacks OF a
story was his assertion that II the House
Paio the behests OF the American bondhold-
ers ana made gold standard, In a hundred
years the people would be reduced to the
. ouiuons OF the Russian serfs or Mexican
poems. The bondholders would have ali the
money In the country, for as old Jim Craig
OF ST. 10 used to say, when a dollar roes
GOWN unto their capacious pockets the eagle
homer Ia sons
While the Honorable Charles l.. Moses os
Heorgla was speaking for free silver he waa
lhucn annoyed by questions from Gen Gros-
rehor' reading republican from Ohio Mr.
Sirosvenor was very pressing with one Of
MS questions. Finally, Moses turned to him
and said: W 'i1iA
My friend, had almost forpotten xou
IN ui you rose In your place yesterday like
the Rip Van Wrinkle Of a past era Won
republicans remind me of the old negro's
teTapin down in Georgia He cut the head
ON the terrapin and the next morning found
MIN crawling around the yard
Good God the old darxey remarked.
that fool terrapin don't know that he IL
done dead yet"
The laughter and applause was terrific
ana Gen. Grosvenor made no further at
tempt TO interrupt Moses.
one or the best stories told IN the debate
on the silver bill came from that brilliant
young Congressman, LATE Pence of Colo
rado: He said that the people In his country
could not discern the difference between the
dollar or the treasury of today and the dol
lar or the treasury under John Sherman
10 illustrate this fact he said that back IN
Marion county. Ind, there is a little town
on the johnson county line of about 400
people. A stranger came into the town one
sunday and walking out from the hotel saw
little white church and crowd going in
he noticed that it was a Lutheran church
he went on and In the next block saw a
little brown church and was surprised TO
See that Ii was also a Lutheran church He
went back to the hotel and told the pro-
prietor that IL struck him as rather strange
that In a little town like this, hardly able
10 sustain one church there could be two
churches Just alike.
What do you mean?" asked the landlord.
The stranger told him what he had seen.
Oh" replied the landlord, you are mis-
taken Those two churches are somewhat
alike, but not just alike. Over In the white
church they believe that the serpent tempted
Eve and Eve tempted Adam, and Adam fell,
but over In the brown church they think
that Adam was a bad egg from the start"
The majority of good stories told On the
House come from the south and west They
are usually original and given In dialect
But In the crowd of new members who have
entered the Fhty-third Congress there are
none who begin to approach John Allen
HIS drawing information in detailing life In
Mississippi touches every congressional
midrin and throws the House into conyul-
sive merriment
AMOS ]. CUMMINGS.