The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-09


niheant amounts. Hence. while It would
be of great convenience for the world in
general to have a universal money-order
system nj operation, the United States has
heretofore stood in the way OF its adoption
for the reasons stated. And then the eX-
press companies are opposed to a change.
Simplificatfon of international interchange
of money Through the mails would serious
~ cut into their revenues.
Ex-senator Fred Dubois is going back to
Idaho to herd cattle and play politics. He
rode the range" when h. first went to
Idaho seventeea years ago. almost fresh
from Yale, and now he is going back to
it. He is going to start in modestly with
a bunch" Of three hundred cattle. which
he expects 10 increase 10 the neighborhood
OF one thousand in a couple of years, and
that is the limit Of his ambition in that
liae. When Senator Dubois went home last
winter TO conduct his fight for reelection
to the Senate he took with him a certified
check Tor 5000. the savings of ten years
as delegate to Congress and senator. al the
money he had excepting a few hundred dol
lars IN loose change He turned the
check over to an old friend who was presi-
oent OF a local bank, telling him to open
an account" with it. A few days after his
nearly knocked off his feet by the an
Iouncement that the bank had closed its
doors. "A political orphan. bercft of a seat
In the Senate, and separated froin his nest
o2g Of $4,000 There was a succession of
body blows, and the senator felt like Cor
bett did when Fitzsimmons administered
that final punch. Hurt and bruised as he
was. he sat down nevertheless and wrote his
banking friend a letter of sympathy, tell
ing him never to let that $1,000 trouble him
for a minute. His letter crossed one from
Idaho to Washington containing that iden-
teal certified check for 5000. The banker
had kept it a while among his private pa
pers and then turned it over to a mutual
friend TO forward TO the senator on the
~latter's return to Washington. That's how
the ex-senator can buy a modest bunch"
Of cattle without borrowing money to do
it He said he never saw such a luminous,
gladstone check before.
-Soliloquy Of the ex-congressman (ffty of
him): Here l am, hanging around Wash
ington, as hungry for a job as a starving
dog for a bone. 1t has been nine weeks
since the Inauguration of Mckinley and /
can't get away. Wonder what there is
about this place that chains a fellow to, it
after he's been here a while? Guess it
must be the Washington habit. Kind of
takes the tuck out of a man to hold any
sort of a government position in the capital.
] laid down a practice worth $4,000 a year
to come to Congress. Served three terms
and got TO thinking had a mortgage on
my district when they bowled me- over like
a ten pin. Said ! didn't care. as I had lust
Spain, or Belgium, or Japan, or Brazil.
Thought could get any of the second
(A%To > llC dChlllS. EOUIlu lilly
OF my associate statesmen out of a job.
feeling and thinking the same way. None
of them has Jared any better than | have.
and / am not deuce high. See them skuIking
about as though they thought everybody
was pointing a finger at them and saying,
look at that has-been; why don't he go
home and die-efface himself from the map
of the Districts" | am putting up a better
front than most of EN-, but. honestly, | am
getting SO | am afraid to lift my feet half
an inch from the sidewalk for fear of step
ping on my chin. l feel like those other
long-faced chaps look. | am not broke as
tancc are, and can go back home and build
up a business again. but l don't want to do
1t and don't believe I'll leave Washington
till I'm kicked out. Saw old Blank. of the
Blank district, this afternoon. actually bor-
owing a quarter from a newspaper penny
a-liner to buy q dinner at the Broken
Shutter on Rum row. He came to me after
ward with a hard-luck story about a local
rundown. Said the tax collector in his
native town had offered him a thousand
dollar position a couple of weeks before,
which he had scornfuily ignored. and then
when his pride had been humbIed by seeing
every Washington hope shattered, he had
wired an acceptance. only to get this an
swer, hot from the key: Place filed: of
tered you job out of charity; didn't donate
you q ninety-day call on my pocketbook.'
Wonder if I'll ever have such an expert
enceP ] swear | shouldn't be surprised if |
did,; wish some one would kick a little of
my old pride and ambition back into me.
a couple of weeks longer. If | don't get
that cheap consulate | have said | would
accept, by that time | will fade from view
W. G.