Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-03-13
Washington Letter.
(From u Regular correspondent

zion OF SOuCD C|arOl1ulduS WHO cdmo
to insist upon his going to the Charles
to Exposition was called, was a very
pleasant affair. and few visitors have
left the White House in a better
humor, % excepting those who
pulled down fat offices, than these
sons of the Palmetto state. They
brought away the presidents posi-
tive promise to visit the exposition
and that ought to put an end to a lot
of silly tomfoolery that has been
spelling good white paper.
Although Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to
a church that is supposed to keep
Lent strictly, she gave an entertain
ment at the White House last night to
several hundred people. 1t was
called a musicale, but SO far as |
could see it was about like any other
reception with a little music on the
side.
Miss Alice Roosevelt is having her
portrait painted and thereby hangs a
lot of gossip, some of it quite snappy.
A Frenchman has been given the COM
mission, and the home artists and
their friends think-and say-that it
should have been given to an Ameri-
can-several American portrait paint
ers got gold medals at the Paris expo
sition-not only for the money there
will be in it, but because an American
should have the prestige that will
naturally go to the p%ainter q the
presidents daughter.
'sDid you see Hanna's show?"
That question was heard a number of
times among Senator's the other day.
The cause was an exhibition of
sleight-of-hand given by a foreigner
in Senator G%allinger's committee
room which was something wonder
Jul, considering that the nan had
neither apparatus nor confederate
and that he was all the time sur
rounded by a group OF senators.
They called it Hanna's show because
he brought the man in, having had
him give an exhibition at his house
several evenings previous.
The sred badge of courage" is very
much in evidence in the streets of
Washington just now. 1t was a
little puzzling at first, but nov every
body is son." and it is pronounced a
good thing. 1t is merely a bit OF red
cloth sewed on the outside of the left
sleeve of a mans coat, between the
elbow and the shoulder, and it means
4'don't touch my arm, I've just been
vaccinated."
Friends of Representative Swanson
of Va, say that he could make big
money by taking the stage as an ex-
ponent of negro dialect should his
constituents ever give him the cold
shoulder. One of his latest, which
he declares is perfectly true, pur-
ports to he the evidence given by a
negro in court, in a case in which the
speed of a railway train was the main
point. His infections can't be given
in type, but this is what he says the
negro said when questioned about the
speed of the train: "Why, boss, dat
dar train am de fas'es' train you eber
did see, sab. Why, dat train 90 SO
fas', sab. dat it take two men to see
her gwine by, sab. one ter say,
Here she come and de yuther ter
holler, Oar she goes An dat am
all dar am to dat train, sah."
Representative James McLachan,
of Cal, is probably the only man in
Congress who never returned from
his wedding tour. If he had he prob
ably wouldn't be in congress now.
He was practing law in Ithaca, N. T..
when he was married, some twelve or
fifteen years ago, and having somesin-
vestments in Los Angeles, California,
he concluded to go there on a visit
with his bride. He bought return
return tickets, but he didn't come
East again until after he was elected
a member of the fifty-fourth congress.
He found that his Los Angeles in
vestments needed his personal atten-
tion and remained there, incidentally
practicing law and dabbling in poll
tics. All the same it sounds creepy
to speak of a man going on a wedding
grip and not returning.
Hon. William j. Calhoun of Chica-
90 whn was nnce q memhar al, the