Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-31
WASHINGTON LETTER..
George washington's Sand Stand Jerry
Simpsons Golf Hose The
Presidents Liberality.
Especial Correspondence

Mount Vernon association recently,
through the vice regent from Rhode
Island. 1t is an old sand stand, which
used to be used long ago, in the days
before b1otters, to dry the ink. This one
is a small iron affair used by General
Washington during the Revolution and
was presented by the descendants of
William Baker, who was one Of the
minute men from Concord.
Some of the vice regents firmly be-
lieve that they have discovered why the
father of his country was such pro-
verbal early riser. The trees at Mount
Vernon, even at this late day, are filed
with humming birds, thrushes, whip
poorwills and almost every other kind
of feathered songster, and they begin to
exercise their vocal chords with the first
streak of light in the east, and by the
time daylight has fully come their
morning concert has reached such q
pitch that sleep is entirely out of the
question to all within hearing, SO from
force of necessity the vice regents emu
late their illustrious predecessor. and
they feel quite sure that his early rising
was due to the same cause.
Jerry Simpsons Golf Hose.
Jerry Simpsons popularity is increas-
ing rapidly, and the recent cartoons in
The Post depicting Jerry as bicyclist
in full dress, golf stockings and all,
have created great furore III Kansas,
and the demands for the copies contain
ing that cartoon have been great.
A friend met him recently Oh the
steps to the entrance to The Post build
ing, where he had been getting another
cartoon. The Kansan was just adjusting
a pair of trousers clamps around his
ankles.
"Where are those golf stockings we
hear so much about?" he asked.
'I'm going to have 'em all right
enough, was the reply. Il don't pro-
pose to have the name without the
game. -
Senator Morgan uses an average of
% days year for his speeches. If the
remaining Sc members were as prodigal
of other peoples time. there would
have to be 2, 175 days in year to give
them all chance
The Presidents Libera1ity.
One of the Texas representatives was
telling a story recently which speaks
we'll for President McKinley's liberal
ity, but which will cause him no end
of trouble when it is generally known
AS the story goes, a colored man, who
is an applicant from that state for a
consul to jamaica or some other place,
was told when he called at the White
House for the twentieth time that there
was no use for his remaining here any
longer; that such positions would not
be filed for some months yet, and that
he would better return home.
The crestfallen office seeker leaned
forward and confded in low tone to
the president that he would gladly go
home, but that he did not have cent
to go with. The president was evident
ly touched, so the story goes, and put
his hand in his vest pocket and pulled
out $40 bill, which he presented to
the colored man.
Stories of hard luck may be expected
to pour in upon the president every day
after this
An Example to American Youth.
l met man Oh the avenue recently,
said correspondent the Other day, who
ought to be an example to the youth of
America. He is an ex-congressman.
Last year he represented thousands of
voters He had voice in the making
of our laws and, what is more to the
point, he bad a salary of So, 600 year.
He remained in Washington after the
4th of March, and he applied for very
important European mission. He didn't
get it. He applied for something else =
something else that he didn't get. he
has kept right on applying, and he will
keep on as long as he can, though he
has spent every penny he had and has
begun to run in debt. He could go back
to the southern town where he belongs
and make an honest living, but he pre-
fers to stay here and beg favors. Last
year he was respectable congressman.
This year-well, he's an object lesson,
and he hasn even his own respect.
Miss Root and De Reszke.
There was a young woman in town
recently who has been presented at
more than one European court. She is
Miss Grace Root of the Lyceum COM
pany, the daughter of the late DIR.
George F. Root, who wrote Rally
Round the Flag She is new to the
stage, but is not unknown to musicians,
for she has written q number of clever
songs, one of which is a great favorite
with Jean de Reszke. She met M. de
Reszke last year for the first time at a
luncheon. The great tenor, who is usu-
ally SO reserved in manner, was in an
especially good humor that afternoon.
He was telling in the drollest way of
soprano who had sung 'Siegfried" with
him the night before. He had never
seen her till he advanced to kiss her on
the stage. He sang as he told of it and
fluttered the tails Of his coat as Brun-
hide had waved the mantle. At length
he CHANGED ON the passage where Sieg-
fried dom a1adS 1s-lnca his ,,aotLo,.