Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-26

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 DISCUSSING STATUARY.
 of liniment, Hast summer lost my wife. After long and painful illness she passed on to her reward, sir, but be- fore her death she made request of me. She asked that her body be cremated. It has been done, colonel. and have her here"
 He then knocked the top of the can with the knuckles of his right hand.
 "She also asked that her ashes should be scattered to the four winds of heaven from the top of Washington monument.
 ''Now, sir, " said he, stepping over to the fire and putting it out by means of we'll directed approximation, after which he mopped his mustache with the lining of his coat pocket, I've been forbid the right to carry out the desire of my dy- ing wife by them - hirelings of yourn at the monument, and came to see you for an order, sir, to carry out her wishes. "
 Well, my friend" said the polite colonel, ''I would be glad to aid you ill this case; but, you see, the height of the monument is so great that an ordinary shot dropped from the top would by the force of its own gravity pierce a three inch plank at the bottom of the struc- ture. Now, you see, thero are always about tho grounds moro or less visitors. and they are most generally looking up toward the top uf the monument. Nat urallv their curiosity causes them to open their mouths at the sam" time, for | they imagine that they can Sc" better in 'hat way. Now, it would bo exceedingly | unpleasant under those circumstances | for visitor to get mouthful of your | wife.
 However, he said thoughtfully, "there is no such rule regarding the dome of the capitol. You might go up there and set her adrift Then, if sho happened to descend upon a new mcm- Der of congress and inspire him with an uncontrollable desire to make few re- marks, it would not startlo any one. "
 The following day lonesome man camo down the steps of :ho capitol with the air of one who has performed duty and tossed an empty tin can over into the shrubbery with sigh of relief.
 Last Thursday I stepped into barber shop on Pennsylvania avenue to get shaved and got into little discussion with stranger regarding some of the statuary at the capitol. We warmed up considerably regarding the matter, and especially on the subject of the heroic statue of Washington and the allegor- ical subjects introduced. We were both getting into pretty deep water, So to set out of the discussion without hu- initiation I turned to young colorcd man in the shop, and asking him to help mo on with my coat l said, with q rog nSh twinkle of the eye:
 George. what do you say about this allegorical business on the left of Wash ington's chair? This man says it means peace and war, and say that the two figures represent before and after using the institutions of freedom.
 The colored gentleman smiled ill a dignitied way, helped me on with my coat and said: Certainly, if you are in earnest about it, can tell you. The two figures represent the infant Hercules and his feebler twin brother. Hercules Is strangling the serpent, while Iphiclus, the brother, shrinks from the contest The two figures represent the genii of North and South America. On the back of the chair ill which Washington sits is inscribed, 'Simulacrum istud ad Mag mum Libertatus exemplum nee sine ipsa duraturum-Horatio Greenough facie- bat. which means substantially:
 "'This statue cast ill freedom stately form and by her e'er upheld-Horatio Greenough, sculptor.
 l was so pleased with the way he gave me this information, for he did it with a good deal of modesty, that be- slowed a bright new quarter on him and told him that I'd like to have him come down to Buck Shoals and take posi- tion in my stables at Slipperyelm-hurst.
 He declined the quarter, and l was told afterward that Le was the colored member of congress waiting for a shave.
 Senator Morgan is making 0 strong effort to send the negro to Liberia, and there has been a good deal of discussion here in Washington during the winter regarding it, but do not think there is any chance for success in that direction. The negro is now as much an American | us any OEner IOrelBn6r. I1o naS Deen neTt as long, and he is identified with oul history.
 He does not claim to be the equal oi the white man, but he says it will keeI us pretty busy to send him and his folks back to Africa when there are over 50C cunning little pickaninnies coming into the world every day on American soil.
 interviewed in the interests of the reader the other day colored clergy man in Washington regarding this ques tion. He says that the negro is here tc , stay. He is pleased with the country. He is like the drunken man who woke uI in the midst of a gay dancing hall where ! he had been placed during the day by friends.
 When rcproaohed by the floor com mittee for throwing his hat in the ali and with no remembrance of having ever come there, he said, By blanky blank. I did not come here, and, by blanky blank. I'm not going awayr'