Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-05
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scenes ana Incidents Observed on the
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Scenes and Incidents Observed on the
spot.
Just now social washington is on tip
toe over a charity garden party and batar
scheduled to come OF at the Spanish lega-
tion. Ladies' high In oficial circles are TO
take leading parts In the affair. costumed
as flower girls. cigarette peddlers, bar
tenders and vendors Of hot tamales. Thir-
teen inohes from the turf lie the rule for
skirts-which lends picturesque excitement
to the event.
Among the young women in the Navy de-
psrtment is one who includes among her
duties that OF indexing the of1cial mail
signed by Mr.. Darling. assistant secretary
OF the navy. She Is gifted with a real
sense Of humor, which aids her in over
coming the monotony OF her work. The
other day she was chatting with som
female acquaintance and one Of them asked
what her duties were. "oh, l don't do
much, but read a lot OF letters signed Darl-
ing. Her friends made desperate efforts
to find out who the ensmored swain was,
but the young clerk with admirable sim
ulation Of coyness refused to give details.
SNheNbA 0N0NaiAt NuO mas bttu IN w dkn-
ington for many years. has an old negro
retainer who comes around twice a week
for some money. He made mis- regular
bl-weekly call the other day. The senator
gave him a dollar and said:
Jim. I'm getting tired Of this sort Of
business. You are an able-bodied man.
Why don't you go to work instead OF iiy-
ing on my charlty?"
Deed, boss" said Jim, reproaohfully
you amt the kind o. man to be askin'
me to 20 to wuk now. is you9 Why, boss.
it's too hot to wuk.'
Well snorted Senator Stewart. ~
haven't seen you work In the winter any,
either"
In de wintah, boss7" in great astonish-
ment. why, boss, you mus be crazyl
It's fab too col to wuk In de wintah."
President Roosevelt apparently knows no
Of relief from the strenuous life.
One Sunday morning on emerging from
church he found outside the door a boy
wearing the uniform Of a High school cadet.
The lads blouse was unbuttoned and he
stood in rather a slouchy attitude. SIS
that the way to wear your blouse % in
quired the chief magistrate sharply. why
don't you look neat and smart?" The boy
blushed, buttoned up his blouse and stood
up straight, whereupon Roosevelt nodded
his approval and strobe away.
Senator Teller was called from his seat
In congress a few days ago to meet two
political friends from his home state, re-
ports the Washington Post. The visitors
were very tall men and they had to stoop
In order to converse with the senator, who
Is a man not above medium height. While
the three were engaged in conversation
Senator Spooner, who, with the exception
OF Simon OF Oregon, is the shortest member
Of the senate, passed through the marble
room. He took in the group with an ex-
preston Of great interest upon his face, and
when his colleague had returned to his
place, he turned to him and said:
do all the men from your state grow
as tall as that?''
"oh, no." responded Teller, those two
were exceptions. They belong to the Lili-
putians.' -
The q%ueerest lobby that has been seen
about the capitol in years is trying to Sc
cure the passage OF the Gallinger bill. II
is composed of veterans Of the civil war
and every one Of the members is minus
either an arm or a leg. Every meeting day
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lobby as It is called by the irreverent
capitol employees, makes it's appearance,
There are fully fifty veterans engaged in
the work Of securing additional pensions
to those permanently crippled in the war.
The Gallinger bill, as reported in the SEN
ate, provides a pension of $45 a month for
those veterans who have lost either a hand
or a foot and $50 a month for those who
have lost both a foot and a hand.
There are now 1853 veterans living who
lost both hands or arms during the war.
They receive a pension Of 500 a month,
while the seventeen veterans who lost both
feet receive but $72 a month.
Representative Burkett of Nebraska was
formerly an Iowan, and he we'll remembers
his frst visit to the state Of which he is
now a citizen.
"When l was a boy" said Mr.. Burkett
to q Washington Post man, II was a great
base ball crank. l was the catcher on the
nine OF the Missouri Valley college, and
we went over to Nebraska to play against
a nine In the Tri-State league. Iowa was
a prohibition state, whereas In the town
Of Blair, where we made our first appear
ance, liquor was plentiful. Our nine, / am
sorry to say, yielded to temptation. When
the game was called I was the only sober
man in the party. / remember that the
shortstop, In trying to stop a grounder, fell
down and did not get up for twenty min
utes. When the score stood 76 to 0 against
US, we gave up"
Mr.. Burkett has never lost his love for
the game, and may be relied upon to con-
stantly grace the grandstand with his dis
tingulshed presence.
Senator Platt OF Connecticut was build
ing a house. He had occasion to hire a
carpenter, who was a plain, unvarnished
son OF New England.
"You know all about carpenter work? p
asked Senator Plat.
Eyes, sir" was the reply.
"You can make windows, doors and