Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-05

AlAo otlA ~ $1,000 7 I
congress. For the first three months OF
the session she was mysteriOusly want.
ing. The machinery of legislation rasped
and grated. The other day she qui city
appeared on the scene of her labors, ana
now all moves along smoothly. the
doorkeepers alone are ~perturbed at hef
return. for she has business with every
member of the house, and to the door
keeper who must carry her cards she
makes, life a burden and a trial.
Tive been bolstered up in bed FOR seven
MONTHS she began in explanation or
her absence, but I employed the time
in writing letters to the members in be.
half of the dear boys. Now I'm well
again and I've come here to give my per-
sonal supervision to their welfare
1.-The lear boys means Uncle Sans
soldier boys. To her mind every so der
wearing the blue is an object for COM
miseration and sympathy. They are
starved, overworked and abused. and Or.
Walker has taken upon her weak little
shoulders the burden of righting their
every grievance. Day after day she slts
with pencil and" pad, jotting down the
salient points in the testimony now being
taken relative to the Occur d'Alene
trouble. What she ever intends to do
with those notes no one pretends 10
guess. They refer to the conduct of SOL
diers though, and it may be that she in
tends to sift the evidence. in order to
exonerate the "boys." in case the com
mittee fails to do so.
tDI,. MARY DEFIES TIMES RAVAGES
Time has dealt gently with this strange
old woman. Her face is as fresh and
her eyes as bright as they were ten
years ago. To her quaint maculine garb
time and the elements have been less
kind. The old cape overcoat has grown
frightfully rusty, the silk hat furred
and worn; the black cotton umbrella
alone seems to have survived the wreck
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suspicion that it may have recovered at
no very late date. Despite her queer
freak Of masculine garb, DR.. Mary can
not throw aside all feminine instinct.
Notwithstanding the boots and trousers,
she carries in her han constantly an
, embroidered handkerchief as sheer and
dainty as the. one in the hand of the
courtliest dame. To the members Of her
sex she is a perennial source Of wonder
;ment and curiosity. Wherever she goes
, she is pursued by a curious throrg Of
| women, who crane and stretch every
+ nerve to catch a glimpse of the woman
who has thrown aside all traditions OF
3 her sex in the matter Of dress. NJ
Scarcely less interesting is old Joseph
: Kennedy, Familiarity known as His APP
!, pies" Kennedy has a claim against the
: government for the destruction Of an or
chard in Maryland during the civil war.
Sedgwick. The claim has been paid in
, part, possibly in full, but Kennedy says
? about SO, 900 is yet due him.
: For years he has been trying to lobby
:. a bill In that amount through congress
: His method is unique. In order to keeH
|, wildly before the members the nature
! Of his claim, he lobbies with apples
: Every autumn he gathers the red ant
golden beauties from his abbreviated or
chard and buries them deep in mother
F, earth. That keeps them nice and plump
! Gnarled and knotty specimens are al
\ cast aside. none but the very choices
y going into the dark apple holes. WheY
; congress assemblies in December Kenne
. dv fills the cavernous pockets Of a grea
e black coat with apples and starts for TIL
capitol.
OPEN BRIBERY.
Day after day he haunts the doors o
:. the house watching with eagle eyes fol
e the appearance of the members as the,
go in or come out. His little old wizenet
face lights up like the monday sun Whel
n he gets an opportunity to give one o
them an apple. He never descants OF
/. his wants or troubles, but leaves thu
, luscious fruit to do the talking. He ex
5 poets the apples to plead most ELOQUENT
to meet the ruthless necessity. of war
One after the other, the apple holes ar
y y opened up, and by the arrival of spring
:. time the hoard is usually exhausted
congress does not seem to be deeply i'm
pressed with the justice of the claim o
:. the old man. With faith in no wis
5 shaken, he continues to come year afte
:. year, day after day, confident that jus
- tice, in the eternal fitness of things, mus
3 one day come to him.
+ The most unconscionable pest in tn
8 whole lot is the young woman with goo,
y looks and a job in one of the depart
ments. She is never satisfied. Sh
wants a better position, or she want
n almost anything besides what she has
g Her sylph-like form n her sweet sire
- voice haunt the waking and sleepini
II hours of the poor wretched member G
y congress upon whom she has determine
It to cast her languishments, in order tina
le she may attain to the un~attainable.
l. With jauntiest or daintiest gown an
sauciest or most piquaint smile, as tn
1T necessities seem to indicate to her MIND
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