Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-04-13

!, WASHINGTON, Apr. 3.
Brethren of All Sexes With Easter
Americas tairest city has arisen from
the incubus OF five months Of frost and
rain and hail and occasional billiards,
and went to church yesterday in a
dazzlinoly beautiful spring suit. The
grass is already long enough to re-
quire a barber, potted plants are being
transplanted to the front yards and
parks, the buds on the trees are burst
| inc into tiny leaves and the colorcd
bows on the streets are offerings hand
fui of beautiful freshly cut flowers for
five cents. These little things all go
to show that permanent thaw Is NJ
hand.
! The most beautiful sight to a
stranger in the eity-and one dear to
/ the heart of every residents the
magnolia trees in bloom. Imagine a
nicely Qproportioned tree much re-
sembling a maple, loaded with white
or white and purple flowers the size
and somewhat the shape OF a water
! lily. Nearly every one OF the many
| little parks and "circlesa at the inter-
section of the avenues has several
magnolias, and rs the scent IS strongly
sweet the city is filled with the Odor.
| The maguolias are just bl0ssOmlng and
with the acres of roses of all varieties
and other flowers the general effects
and atmosphere can possibly be inn
agined.
From now until possibly the middle
of June is the very best of all tunes 10
visit the city. For the next two months
it win be at its flirest and best. and
offers Inducements to visitors which 10
other American city can possibly paral-
lel OF course Congress is not here
Just now, but possibly one can be
recOneiled to its absence A large
number of senators and members yet
remain, however, as horrible examples,
and anyone in search Of these points (
Of interest" can easily and speedily be |
gratifed. Many members of each house |
keep their permanent residence here /
and only 90 home or to some point mt /
the seashorc or in the mountains for a /
few weeks midsummer vacation. |
Therefore there are always plenty on /
hand for specimens and visit to the
office of any one of the leading hotels
will always unearth a batch for the ed
Of those who venerate states
men,
And right here may say that dis
lance invariably lends enehantment to
the view of a statesman, To the
country schoolboy and sometimes to
his father it seems rs if the statesman
Of whom we read in detail in the daily
papers and whose name has for years
been a household word must have a
shining aureole about his majestic
brow and gradually taper off into mist
and mystery. You can't make it seem
possible that he really wears boots and
has corns or that suspender button
ever comes Off or that he ever requires
the services Of a laundryman. But
the cruel fact is that 1.-THE stateman of
quote Bill Nye-is
very human, at times sadly so. He
Usually wears good clothes but not in
so. 4 statesman in a hump
packed sack coat with cayernous and
,agging pockets and a pair of trousers
hat appear to have been fitted to a
,hurn is not the rule but is not at all
have known statesmen
o borrow black plug chewing tobacco
II each other for profuse and immedi-
tie use. and Soiled shirtfront is a
requent attribute of true greatness. |
nay also say without any breach of
,ontidence-as the fact was discovered
ly me in a sort of incidental way
hat a statesman is frequently accom-
panied by breath that would eat the
paint off a board or break pane OF
glass inside thirty seconds. In fact.
)ne ex-senator is now employed by the
government at large salary TO
breathe on and explode the shells at
he trial of heavy ordnance. This is
related to me by a member of the
House from his state. and therefore
must be so. The member himself is
usually intoxicated after 80, but this
was told in the forenoon, an added rea-
son for veracity.
Among the many virtues Of states
men is that they always stand by each
other. Possibly they take the same
view of the situation that Ben Frank
lin did in 177j-"lf we don't hang to.
gether, Wen hang one at time" One
day in the Senate ! heard one states
man say to another, Come out mo-
ment, Plat | want to introduce a
friend The ready answer came, "A II
friend of yours is a friend Of mine. /
Quay" The moral of this true story
IS that great minds often run in the
same channel and that an ounce Of
is the best policy So. lit
tie children, be good and you will be
lonesome and also escape being a
II
Congressman Amos Cummings oil
New York once told me that itrequired
all of new members first term Of two
years in Congress-the lower branch
to learn the way around the capitol
and to learn how to keep out |
Of the way OF the cable cars and bicv-
cles in the street ! think myself that ,
il member succeeds in acquiring this
knowledge in two years, he is doing
nicely and has a promising future.
Very likely, however, as soon a. he
this all down fine and is ready to tackle
the intricate problems OF legislation
some measly duffer at home will de
feat him for a denomination ami his