The daily sentinel., 1903-02-19


ent of the Rocky Mountain News, on
Hon. John O. Bell. will doubtless be
read with much interest by the peo-
pie of this city.
John @. Bell has been a member of
five congresses and has made quite a
name for himself. AS he is about to
retire. short history of his career is
of special significance:
eyes 1 am pretty near through.
sollioquized John @. Bell. 'I've got
one more bill to put through, and
then I'm yours for the theater or any
| fun there is a-going." Then Bell
took half circle whirl and dip
| backwards in one of the cradle-like
affairs that answer in the house of
representatives for chairs. and fell to
| musing ON the ease, the comfort and
the all-round delight of life at Mont
rose, "lovliest village of the western
slope" in Colorado.
Life in Washington is whirl and
a rush. You have to hunt hard and
pay dearly for the comforts of home
Life at Montrose is the life of ease
| and luxury. Gim'm me Montrose every
time The shaggy eyebrows of the
giant statesman lowered. he clasped
his hands behind a bushy towsled
head and crossed one of his legs as he
drifted off into a dream of sunlit val
leys where endless orchards hold forth
an inviting array of ruddy fruit. and
peaceful town where life Is all meal
times.
They say some such malady ov ,r-
takes many congressman when their
seats have practically gone into the
possession of those who rose with the
might of the conquerors on election
| day. What is more natural for the
defeated than to be glad that the hus-
tie and turmoil of Wa shington official
life is soon to be over? 1t is balm
| to the con science to size up the lega-
| cy of worry and trouble that is com
| ing to "a successor.
MOST CHEERFUL OF ALL.
Bell is one of large number of
congressman who are spending these
days in cleaning up their calendar and
| devoting a lot of spare time TO intro
ducing their successors and wishing
them joy in their coming work. at
tine same time demanding congratula-
tions for themselves in their escape
to the Joyous fields of private life.
where constituents do not break in
and bother. aud where the great ques-
tions of the dSy are take ample care
of in the lobby of the postoffice or at
| meetings of the grocery store cabinet.
Mr.. Bell is the happiest and most
cheerful of them all. There is moth
| in "grouchy'' about his leaving. and
| nothing but spontaniety in his intro
ductions about the house of his sue
cessor. Herschel NJ. Hogg. who takes
Bells seat at the opening of the
Fifty-eighth congress, next December.
| Mr.. Hogg has come to Washington and
Bell is his boon companion as he goes
about the capital. learning its hooks
and mysterious departments.
Hogg and Bell were close friend,
long before the political campaign of
last fall made them rivals in contest
for the same seat in congress. The
contest over and the battle fairly won.
Bell is taking the greatest pleasure
in introducing his old friend into he
honors of his office. Some joker in
the house ON whom they bore down
for chat yesterday declared that if
they were caught walking together in
Chicago they would be run in by the
police. on charge of being ''the
long man and the short man. who
kept the police there guessing and who
terrorized the whole city few years
ago. Bell towers above six feet even
with his shoes off. Hogg stopped ex-
tending upward when he got to five
feet nine inches and commenced grow
ing outward.
Both men bear the rugged. rakish
look of the mountaineer of the West.
and the police of Chicago. if they
only gave them a swift look, might be
justified for arrestino them as men of
boldness and determination. and
therefore of danger to the commun
ity. Bell and Hogg, the long and