The herald., 1894-02-23
A STATESMAN'S GOOD FRIDAY
How the Tall Sycamore Fell
Into Error.
Only 38 Days Out of Order on an
Adjournment.
The Santa Monica Ostrich as a Factor
In the Celebrations of Easter
Monday and Hard
Boiled Eggs.

The longitudinal statesman who
staggers under the title of "Tall Syca-
more of the Wabash" knows great
deal about politics, but that does not
necessarily imply that he knows every
thing, or that he is au fait upon matters
OF religious nature. Have an anec-
dote2
This iH the season known in the
Catholic and Episcopal churches as
Lent. 1t began on Wednesday of last
week, the preceding evening Called
Shrove Tuesday, being devoted to
stuffing the faithful with German PAN
cakes baked with Anticipated gold we'd
ding rings in them. The next day after
Ash Wednesday was Thursday, OF course,
which was neither feast, fast nor famine.
On the afternoon OF that day Mr.. Voor-
bees rose in his seat and. with an air of
profound reverence, addressed the vice
president:
'Mr. President, tomorrow being the
day that is celebrated ali throughout
the Christian world as commemora-
ton OF the death OF the lowly Nazarene
and known TO all tongues and in all
lands as Good Friday, | therefore move
you, Mr.. President. that when this body
adjourns it do adjourn until Monday
next
Mr.. Stevenson was hardly sure OF it
and looked around the chamber in
vain for some senator to elongate him
self like a well creased telescope, but
nobody rose to point OF order. Shortly
afterwards some senator moved to ad-
iourn and the gavel fell. No more leg
islative business till Monday. As the
vice-president walked slowly down the
steps of the capitol, the gentleman
affectionately designated here as "Our
Steve" overlook him.
what made you entertain that mo-
ton to adjourn till Monday?" asked
Senator White.
"How the deuce could help myself
in such case ?" retorted the vice-presi-
dent. voorhees, evidently knew what
he was talking about, and nobody
offered to correct him."
"Well, he's left by about SO days, as
near as | can figure it," said Mr.. White.
"You may be mistaken and he may
be right" said Adlai. cautiously.
Right be blamed" laughed White,
as he bit off the end OF cigar. you
can't fool me. l went four years to the
Jesuit college at Santa Clara; and il
there ia anything l am familiar with, it
10 the fast and feast days of the Catholic
church."
"Tell you what we'll do" suggested
the vics-president. Easter Monday
comes three days after Good Friday,
and wen sll chip in next Monday and
load him down with dyed eggs"
mo. let that go. | know trick worth
two OF that" said "Our Steve"
On the following morning the indiana
awaiting Tfflf talnaIl box, about i2xfz
inches. OLD Dan looked at it suspi-
ciously, and thoughts of dynamite
crossed his mighty brain. The direction
on the box had postscript, "open care.
fully" He showed the box to Senator
Dolph OF Oregon, who sat near him.
'Infernal machine-think sop
''U M, no, femme heft it," replied the
Webfoot Lycurgus. "The weight indi-
Gates to the contrary" he added,
slowly.
Mr.. Voorhees, took out knife of the
frogsticker pattern and carefully lifted
the lid. Here was an Easter egg, dyed
in all the hues OF the rainbow, but the
gallinaceous tribe was wholly innocent
of its existence. In fact it was an o.
trich egg, the yolk of which had been
carefully extracted by the blowing pro-
Gees. Accompanying the egg was an
anonymous note in which the writer
wished the anachronous senator many
pleasant returns of an Easter Monday.
Now who could have put up a Job
on old Dan like that? There ia not an
ostrich farm within 1000 miles OF Wash
ington; and to intimate that any OF
Senator Germans hen turkeys could
have had an intrigue with the bird who
loans his plumage on funeral occasions,
might subject the narrator to skinned
nose. The nearest approach to any
thing of the kind is weekly news-
paper published in New York and de-
voted to the interests of former sub
jects of the Hapsburg dynasty now
living in America. 1t is called Der
Austriches Zeitung.
1t begins to look as If Santa Monica
was not wholly unrepresented in this
decidedly droll episode; and the fine
Italian hand OF the only senator ever
elected from Southern California begins
to show somewhat prominently. The
Indiana senator cannot very well plead
that he was egged on to make the
motion of adjournment first above men,
toned. Greatness has its penalties,
however, and Pope Leo XII will have to
be content with one Easter and one
Good Friday, while the altitudinous
senator from Indiana has Two.