Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-24
December "a, 1890.
A Bunch of Short Stories

the members and, whether willingly or un-
willingly, they were wont to obey his re-
squests. One afternoon, when the house
lacked a quorum, relates the New York
Tribune, one of it's messengers was dis
patched to hunt up an M. C. at Harvey's, a
famous restaurant in town.
The speaker would like to have you
come up to the house, as there is no
quorum" said the messenger to the mem
. Der, who was found enjoying a broiled lob
ster with a visiting constituent.
You tell the speaker to go to the devil"
said the diner; I'm going to finish my
lobster"
' Very well, sir" assented the messen-
ger, Il will do So and he left the room
hurriedly; but as soon as his back was
turned the belligerent member rushed down
by the back stairs, through a side door into
a cab, and was up at the house long before
the arrival of the messenger.
A better story is told by the Washington
Post of a member of the last congress, who
enjoyed the reputation of being able to
drink more whisky without showing 1. than
any other man in the house. 1t told on him
in other ways, however.
One day he visited a barber shop for the
purpose of getting his hair cut, and was
ministered unto by a colored artist, who
made two or three attempts at discourse on
different subjects, finally remarking that
his customer was by no means the only dis
tinguished man who had Occupied that par
ticular chair.
i suppose not" grunted the congress-
man.
There was Daniel Webster. sah," said
the negro, starting in on the shampoo.
He has done sot in this chair dozens of
, times
Indeed" replied the customer.
You remind me very much of him, sah."
In what respect?" asked the statesman,
waking up. I'm the shape of my head"
mo, sab"
I'm my manner of speaking?"
"No, sah.'
In what way, then, do l resemble the
immortal Daniel?"
In your breff, sab"
One of the best things which has come
out about the late Vice President Hobart
is that he was able to cut the ground out
from under Matt Quay's feet at the time
he was nominated. Quay had first sug-
gested him as a candidate and pledged him
the Pennsylvania vote in the convention.
Hobart conferred with Mckinley and de-
cided to go after the nomination, but realiz-
Ing that politicians Of the Quay stripe are
unreliable he secured sufficient strength out
side of Pennsylvania to insure his nomina-
ton and did it so quietly that Quay's
suspicious were never aroused. The sequel
to the story was told by Mr.. Hobart last
summer as follows:
THE next meeting between Quay and my
self occurred in st. Louis on the 18th of
June, 1896, as l remember it. 1 was i'll in
my room at the Southern hotel when Quay
came to see me.
Hobart said Quay. you remember my
promise made on a railway train early this
year?'
Il recalled 1t wildly.
We'll, Hobart, my friend, I'm sorry l
won't be able to keep it; there are certain
reasons which compel me to place the Penn
s~ylvania vote elsewhere
That's all right, Quay. Go ahead and do
as you please with your votes. l want to
say to you, however, before you leave this
room, that | don't need your votes. I'm
nominated without them
well, Sir" continued Hobart, laughingly,
do you know, this took Quay clear off his
feet. He was almost speechless, dunn
founded, amazed. He had been scheGning
with Plat to nominate Morton again.
Henry Mayer, the international cartoon
} list, was charging upon the advantages Of
war in his most eXuberantly grotesque man
ner at Verrey'2 the other night, says a
London letter. This war, at any rate
said he, has increased the number of words
in use in the language. We now read in the
papers of kopjes and veldts, and kraals, and
tricks, and kloofs, and spruits. Now, that's
what / call enlarging and enriching the
vocabulary of the vernacular. Those words