The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-07-24

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and down that stream / knew eyery
tree and rock, and learned the favorite
rendezvous of the black bass and at
what hours they bit the best. Many
and many a day have wrestled with
Caesars Commentaries, standing in wa
ter up to my waist, waiting for the
willy fish to bite. / wish l were out
there now with a good shotgun and
pointer dog"
Wilson and DoIIiver.
Dolliver is a graduate Of the Univer
sity of West Virginia, or, as Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge would put it, was
| graduated FROM the University of
West Virginia. Hon. William L. viii.
son was at one time president Of that
institution. These two facts gave rise
to brilliant passage of arms between
Dolliver and Wilson in the Fifty-third
congress during the debate on the Cor
man-Wilson tariff bill.
Dolliver said: Il was very much in
terested the other day when my friend
from West Virginia (Mr. Wilson,, a
few years ago president of my old col
lege in West Virginia, opened this de-
bate. l loved him as Tam O'Shanter
loved the landlord, like very brother,
though for an entirely different reason.
was interested in what he said. l
admired his eloquence and wondered
how man could conjure up a scheme
| of m hof 70 iot tha
experience of mankind. l was espe-
cially interested in his discussion about
wooden cloth, how the tariff had been
raised 800 per cent and how the poor
working girl of the United States look
ed longingly across the sea upon her
sister on the other side who was wear
| ing cloak she could not have without
working one day for the garment and
four days more to pay the duty on 1t,
and I asked myself whether it would
not have been a substantial improve
ment on the intellectual equipment Of
my old college president if there had
been left in his head room for few
practical IDEAS"
Mr.. Wilson replied: 81 should like
also to reply in the spirit of pleasant
ness to the banter Of my eloquent
friend from Iowa (Mr. Dollver), who
has given some countenance to the sar-
casm with which / have been assailed
by part of the press of the country
! by informing the house that at one pc
Rod of his life he narrowly missed be-
| ing a pupil of mine at the chief seat of
/ learning in our native state. 1t was
a miss, Mr.. Speaker, but, judging from
/ the argument he uses upon this floor,
/ it was good as mile. Sir, have al
! ways regretted that the gentleman was
not a pupil of mine. 1t was said by
DR.. Johnson that you could make
great deal of a Scotchman II you
caught him when he was young. And
l have always believed that l could
| have made a very great deal of so
brilliant a youth as my friend from
Iowa if had been able to teach him
economics before he got to be a Repub-
! lican politician.
81 believe, sir, in that event he would
have constructed his tariff speeches,
which so delight the house, upon the
! incontestable lines of sound economic
reasoning and human experience and
would not have built them up as the
Latin poet constructed his shipwreck,
with a few sad and lonesome facts.
floating helpless on the vast waves OF
his oratory."
The Preacher and the Senator.
With great glee and many facial ac-
centuations Dolliver tells this tale con-
corning the dubious habits of dis
tinguished ex-senator, nameless here
forevermore.
cat home" quoth Dolliver, "before
entering upon his duties at washington
the senator had been model church
member and teetotaler. Early IN MS
senatorial career, yielding to the
foundations and Vaccinations of the
CAV capital, he began to toy with lhe
ardent, to wrestle with John Barley
corn and to look too often upon Ihe
wine when 1t is red in the cup.
"About the time the habit OF gtEzilns
had become fastened Oh him his home
pastor visited him and was his guest
In Washington. Observing with horror
that the senator was imbiblnS TOO
much, the good man demonstrated win
him. whereupon the bibulouS states
man replied:
"NIalaria drove me to my bottle. Inc
wafer here is full of malarial germs.
Tbora are millions of the death deallng
little pests in a single drop OF water ID
this latitude
".Why don't you freeze the water
asked the parson. 4 understand tha'
fine process of congelation Kills all am
NAL life .,o
".Ah, my dear brother replied tne
senator, 4 tried that, and piesS YOU
heart | could see the little tormen i,.
dancing on the ice; then l tried boiling
the water, and they would multiply ID
the steam: then tried mixing WHISKY
with the water and found 1t TO De SURE
death to them. It's the only Feineu''
narson-the only remedy.
CHAMP CLARK.
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