The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-04-22
STORIES OF THE DAY.
Peculiar Letter That Was Recently Ro-
oeived by Speaker Reed.

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ceived by Speaker Reed. .T.
Speaker Reed, who likes to share his
good jokes with his friends, received
peculiar letter the other day. After the
/, morning business had been disposed Of
and the gavel yielded to one Of his
TRUSTEES, the speaker trudged up the
Democratic aisle to where Leader Bailey
was seated. He drew out folded sheet
OF foolscap and placed it in front of the
Texas Democrat. As Mr.. Bailey read
he laughed more and more heartily, and
the speaker gayly poked him in the
ribs. Then Mr.. Reed trudged back
down the Democratic aisle and display.
ed the communication to Representative
Page Morris of Minnesota, who enjoyed
the joke as heartily as did Mr. Bailey.
| Representative Wadsworth Of New York
next deoiphered the rural hand, and,
like the other two, shook his sides with
laughter. This is what the letter said:
II live in your district. am Re-
publican and have always voted for
you. i have farm, which is worth
$575, on which is mortgage of $432.
Now, l cannot make both ends meet
and pay off the mortgage. wish you
would go to the members of congress,
and If each one will give 81 it will just
about pay off the mortgage, and will
do as much for you if ever get the
| chance"
Representative Cousins of Iowa, who
charmed the house recently with his
eloquent tribute to the victims of the
battleship Maine, has made only one
set speech before this during his five
years service in the house. That effort
was at the time the house proposed to
censure ambassador Bayard for certain
utterances in England and was hardly
less notable one. Then he spoke for
nearly an hour, and, as the other day,
held the closest attention of both sides
Of the chamber. There is peculiar
| power in his clear, musical voice that
enables him to be heard without speak
have almost heard pin drop while he
was speaking.
The compliments he received were
most flattering, for they came from both
Democrats and Republicans. Represent
alive Aldrich Of Alabama as he grasped
Mr.. Cousins by the hand said with much
feeling, 1T was word picture worthy
of Bob Ingersoll or any other of his
class. J." Representative Fitzpatrick, the
stalwart Democrat of Kentucky, took
seat close to the Iowan on the Republic
| an side. He was at the close of the
speech one of the first to give Mr.. Cous-
ms hearty congratulation.
Edwin Ames, a prominent official of
| Worcester, Mass, who was visiting
members of the Massachusetts, delega-
| tion at the capitol recently. told story
of the peculiar manner in which luck
sometimes comes to doctors. Among the
houses he rents in that city is one that
was long occupied by well established
| physician. This physician died, and Mr..
] Ames advertised the premises for rent
There were many applicants, but the
first was young medical student, just
| graduated from school in Boston.
Somewhat surprised at the audacity Of
! the youth, Mr.. Ames inquired his pros
| poets and learned that he did not know
soul in Worcester and must depend
entirely upon the income from his prac-
tice for support.
| II told him." said Mr.. Ames, "that
he must expect to starve for four or five
years in Worcester before he could earn
| living, but he insisted ON renting the
house, and ! finally promised to remit
| $40 from the amount of the first months
rent if he had patient the first day.
While was assisting him in mailing up
his sign boy was run over by an ice
wagon on that block and brought to the
| doctor to have his wounds dressed.
| Hardly had he finished with the boy be-
| fore q woman in passing car was
stuck with a hatpin. and he was called
| upon to extract it. His luck began from
that day. These patients advertised him
through the accounts in the daily pa
pers, and he is now the leading physi-
clan of our city"
An elegant bit of pasteboard, fash
ionably engraved, was sent in from the
house corridor the other day to Repre-
sentative William Connell, the plain
man of simple manners but honest
heart, who has worked his way from a
driver boy in the Pennsylvania mines to
one of the largest and wealthiest indi-
vidual operators in the Wyoming re-
gion. Looking as weather beaten as
gold seeker who had braved the rigors
| of an Alaskan winter, Mr.. Cornell re-
sponded in due season and was confront
ed by a young gentleman of easy man
uers and styl ish clothes. The two were
utter strangers, but after formal greet
ings the caller explained that he came
from one of the towns in the district
Mr.. Connell represents. and had been
on tour south ~ have been to Tam
pa" he said, "and had a deuced good
time, you know. From there / came on
to Asheville, and SO on to Washington,
you know" All the while the young
man fingered his gold headed umbrella
with some embarrassment and looked
rather timidly at the listening congress-
man.
| ssYon re- busted. - was Mr.. Connell's