The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-12-29
WASHINGTON LET
Especial Correspondence

was uOL IuIly uWuTe WHdJ cApeLSlFe
notions they sometimes cultivate.
The fair daughter Of n Of his new
colleagues in the house was shopping
for a fine pocketbook. She shopped in
the house store, where the members
have a stationery allowance, but moth
ing there quite pleased her. 1t was sug-
gested that she go to the senate store,
where more luxurious articles are said
to be on sale. There the young lady
found something very much to her
liking.
"Wait a moment" said her fond ia
Their. who has recently come to the
house and is not well acquainted on the
north side of the capitol. II will get
Senator Dolliver to arrange for an ex-
change on my stationery account"
The generous Junior senator would
not hear Of it. Get the pocketbook for
the young lady," said he, land have it
charged against my allowance" No
protests availed. and the senator him
self descended to the store to personally
supervise the bargain.
Mr.. Dolliver did not finch when the
dainty article was found to be worth
we'll nigh u days salary. He admired
it, looked at the clerk and observed
shrewdly:
"That old color looks as though the
book had been in stock. Don't you Of
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Its the color which makes it both
stylish and valuable" remarked the
clerk. The deal was forthwith closed,
and the young lady regards Mr.. Dol
liver as about the incest man in the
world.
Etiquette Of the Chair.
When the secretary of the senate ap-
pears at the head Of the center aisle Of
the house with an official message
Speaker Cannon's backbone becomes as
rigid as a ramrod
Early in the extra session, when MI.
Cannon was still new to his job and
was taking lessons in the etiquette Of
the chair from his elbow man, as all
new speakers must do, the senate's Sec
rotary pushed through the double doors
at the main entrance. One Of the door
keepers assistants announced him
formally, as usual:
"Mr. Speaker, a message from the
senate" at the same time making the
customary profound bow.
ut is proper at this point for the
speaker to bow" whispered Mr.. Can
mons elbow man.
"BowY" returned the speaker in a re-
bellious semitone and adding n of
his famous explosives of four letters.
. II wouldn't bow to the blank senate,
and l won't bow to Its secretary"
/, Therefore, instead Of bending grace
} fully. Mr.. Cannon stood perfectly up
]. right, and he stands that way when
ever the senate deigns, in the fashion
, prescribed by hoary presidents, to in
form him and the house officially what
it has been doing.
A Friend In Need.
Representative "Dry Dollar" Sullivan
r was the object the other day of heart
felt gratitude from II of his east side
constituents. 1t was a youth of sport
ing proclivities who has been following
the races and in pursuit of that calling
came to the Bennings track.
This and much more was told in {
somewhat illegible note which Mr.. Sui
: Ivan received a couple of days ago. L
was written by the lad while in dur
= ance vile, he having been placed there
by decision of the judge Of the Wash
ington police court. He had won {
wad of money on the Bennings tract
and started out to celebrate in Wash
!, ington along the lines that are e%ntirel.
au fait in some sections Of Gotham.
Il The name of the unfortunate was
strange one to Mr.. Sullivan, so he re
ferred the letter to his chief of staff
Billy Watson, known as Tammany'
minority employee in the house. Wat
son, who knows everybody within Tam
many precincts, knew the youth ant
his antecedents.
Forthwith Sullivan paid the boy
n fine and purchased for him a tickle
home. There is at least n boy nov
d who thinks the east side congressman
q 1T to be president.
= President Gets u Snake.
j, The president has not only received
a live wildcat recently, but his list o
n curiosities from friends has been in
l. creased by what is called a glass snake
sent him by a Florida citizen. TIL
snake, although classed under tn
name of glass;" was a living reptile
it's chief characteristic and the on
70 from which it derives it's name bein
o %brittleness. To the touch the snake !
hard and shows neither sinuosity no
liveliness. If struck a hard blow
breaks to pieces almost like glass. Th
reptile was sent to the Washingto
ZOO, where it still lives. although mimi
f q part of its tail, which became discol