Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-10
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Here is a story told on Senator Villas, dur
ing the days when he was giving some at
tention to oratory in the Senate. Out in
Wisconsin there was an old farmer who be-
came sort of fixture in one CT the county
courts. Whether he was a juror, bailiTl or
witness, or had no business whatever he
was always on hand every session OF
court, ana It became a settled maxim that
business was scarcely legally completed I'M
less he was there. One SKINNER day he
drove into town, and, when near the court
house, che heard flood OF oratory pouring
out or the upstairs windows. Flights or
metaphor followed heavy LEGAL logic and
quotations from the law. The old farmer
sazci and wondered. IL was court vaca-
ton, anu no one had said any ching to him
about a special term. he climbed down
from his load of vegetables hitchel his
horses 10 post and started up the stairs.
on the first landing of the almost deserted
court house he met some one he knew and
asEel, What's goin on upstars?'
''NaWthIug," was the drawIed-out reply,
only Villas taking judgment by default"
That calls up another senatorial story. It
is said that when Senator BrIce fest went
into the law business, good many years
ago, he started with a young man he had
known fJr a number OF years. Ii nap
penei that both We're repuoI!caus, and 1t
was at once decided that the iirn could not
be prosperous unless it divided it's Politics.
II was nnally decided that coppec should
be 'nippsJ'' to gee which ere should taRe
the democratic END OF the iGIn. The penny
was tossed by the partner; BrIce called
tails, but il CAME UP heads and Iirice
has ever since been a loyat democrat.
From one of the large western cities the
postmaster has forwarded TO the Post Once
Department Il pathetic appeal for small
increase in the allowance Of lhe Office. rhe
request is Signed by the night clerk OF the
ONE ami ieaLs.
is ii possible in making your estimates
and allo ".tnCes for 80 10 secure $1J cat
i.ni?' -, as at present, as not enough, as
the following nSure3 SHOW: The cat ought
to nave one pine Of MIX & gay, equals = -
pnts. The price in winter IS cents per
quart, ana > cents in summer. This WOuld
maze me exact cost 500. When kitten
harvest Is on more milk oG,ht t. pe given.
SO above estimate is not T.OrDitanI. hlt-
tens OUsnt t. ne kept We'll un.il aDIc to set
up Housekeeping on tier own account, as
an incentive f,r the mOther to keep up her
rat killing. oar cat the past two months
has KILLED not less than - rats, the TWO
highest runs being ani I, which you Wi!i
admit were both good Lights worH. or
course, she and her Two k.ttcnS could not
cat them all, but it shows what a good
working cat can do wneI she has the
proper incentive
Pension Commissioner Lochren receiI ed
letter the other day which is rather I'M
usual and one which caused considerable
surprise in the office. Ii came from Browns
vile, nd and was written ~ a man Who
evidently Goes a little ~ th2 practice %
medicine when he IL ale. fine I~Lter Is
written i'll trembling hand, very inu,h
resembling the signature Of stephen top
klnS on the DECLARATION of Independence.
Inc pensloHer states that he Is Drawing
SI2 per LAunCn, bus IS not sure that he IS
CEtiIled 10 II. He says that lie is IOI yet
aUle to do without an a,tent.nt dally', ana
cannot gee around ,uut very little Wncn
he is up but as he feels better than he las
for several years ana has msue some gains
toward health he does not know bat that
his pension ~ larger than Che law allows,
aud writes the commissioner, stating ms
condition, so as to mad Out. The commits
sicner says 1T Is apparent that the cid man
Is not quite well, from all he says, and
THINKS he is entitled 10 the pension.
Josephas Daniels, the bright young chief
Clerk of the Interior Department, went
down to North Carolina ani tried to pull
lis party out of the bad hole in which it
found Itself on election day. lie was not
altogether successful, aud he explains the
result by saying that II was q case of
fusion, If which the republicans ana popu-
lists We're able 10 overcome the democratic
majority. Mr. Daniels says that the normal
democratic majority in the Old north state
is not more tnan 1900, and that when
ever the state has been carried by the re-
publicanS ii was by hard work. He says
that while the democrats are in power, ana
cotton is i've cents, North Carolina will
rot be democratic. If the republicans were
in power, and cotton was five cents, the
state would be democratic. As to the pros
poets in 1916, Mr.. Daniels says that If the
fusion continues the democrats cannot hold
the state. If there are three tickets in the
field the democrats will win. He says that
the result was surprising to all of the
democrats, especially when the old demo
cratic strongholds, where even the fusion
lists did not expect success showed such
heavy darnnrTltir lcCCpc In &c
great deal of discomfort in the south.
Not long since lady purchased at one
of the largest dry goods stores in the city a
remnant of silk. Shortly after it was known
that a smallpox case existed in the house
where she lived. But, Notwithstanding the
store received a note from the lady, stating
that she had decided not to keep the silk,
and asking that it be sent for. A member
of the firm wrote the lady a reply, in which
he expressed his amaZement that she could,
while smallpox flags were FLOATING from her
house, ask the store TO DO anything which
would be SO likely to endanSer the health
of the general public. He informed her that
the silk would not be taken back, but that
the firm took pleasure in making her
present of 1t.
They are rather slow down in Virginia.
One of the newspaper men who went down
to Aqua creek, to look over the spot where
the train on The r., f. and p. was robbed,
relates his experience in getting off rush
matter. From QuanticO to Whitewater he
picked up some information which he
thought would be interesting. He wrote it
out and filed it at Whitewater for the after
noon papers, and went on to Aqua. Find
ing nothing of interest to keep him at that
lonesome place, he took the next train
north and came to Whitewater, in time to
find that his dispatch had not been filed,
and that the operator had determined to
send it to Quantico, where the telegraph
facilities were much better. The news
paper man took the dispatch himself to
Quantico, and, as there was still time to
catch the last edition, he filed 1t with re-
quest to rush." and came back to Wash
inEton, where he arrived nearly two hours
after fling his dispatch. He got to the
office ana was about to inquire after 1T
when the telegraph boy came rushing In
with the first of 1t. He has since then
learned that this was real speed down in
cole NirginY.n