Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-22

Like most repositories Of good #tor-
:es the ancient man who has spent de
caGes as a guard in the capitol at
Washington, D.. G.. did not yield up
TIC fn@n,ss of his narratory riches
Witlcu Il struggle.
"Gl's unpleasant to be made a
mock of !y the skoptical," he pro
tested 10 YOU believe i'll ghosts
Young c,uu?'
If answering in the affirmative be
gees an interesting tale | do re-
turned t.e writer
@WyIi, starting on the promise tha'
You de telieFe 10 some extent in the
suFcfnat,tr [ will admit you to my
coul.Genee. resumed the old guard
an6 hero goes for the authentic yarn
6f tl4c s5@nk that haunts the nation s
oaFitot.
/. the long monotonous watches of
the niehi innumerable are the spooks
hCag1Alins and the cerie. vapory things
which glide from the shadOWy hooks
3n3 craEnies of the intangible nowhere
10 rcenle the capitol's vast stretches
6: Ga;1':l,aSs.
"Of coures You know of the extra
ordinary acouhtjc freaks which obtain
u many parts of the great building
how a whisper. a breathed word at
eAe particular point is audible at an
other scores of feet distant?
Yes?
Now at night these acoustic spirits
supply go mad. Where they by day
We're pigmies, they expand into giants
and a whisper, sudden sound. foot
fall resolves itself in a pandcmonium
Wierd, terrifying noises beat upon
the car drums of the Watchmen as they
pursue their lonely patrols through
the seeming miles of corridors. and
then the spooks, the shades of the
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those that toiled in obscurity for the
nations good dodge the watchmen s
speechless dignity. some creeping
humbly about in Apologize silence
some laughing. some sobbing. but all
of them iorrible-horrible.
SO you may know how weak their case
is. and | will now proceed to show
YOU why this bill should have the vote
Of every patriotic man in the chamber
And he did He made the hottest
kind of speech for the bin and pas
sed it.
Those were the days when they ac-
complished things There was an i'm
portant bill up in the senate 1t af
fected some big corporation, and natur-
ally the corporation did not want it to
become law. A representative of
that corporation went to the president
of the senate after the bill was passed
and waiting for his signature, and
asked if something could be done to
hold it up.
Not a thing. replied the president
of the senate 1T is impossible. The
people demand this bill. Furthermore,
am going away this afternoon to be
gone until next Monday, and during
that time that bill will be safely lock-
ed up in my desk where no one can
get it
The president of the Senate went
away. Lane continued. and would
YOU believe that when he returned he
found that his desk had been opened
and the bill taken2 1t never did get
the signature required to make it a
law.'-NeW York World
The old man paused to muse
''Dou YOU know Sc said. breaking
into his own rcverie cXplosively. Feb
ruary % is date dreaded by many
Of the Capitol night guards? 1t was on
this day in 1878. that John Quincy
Adams died in the Chamber of the
House of Representatives now Sta
tuarY Hall, where the exact spot is
marked by a brass tablet.
Promptly at midnight on every ami
vcrsary of his death the shade of
! John Quincy Adams appears i'll sort
OF phosphorescent glow over this brass
tablet, Oh, dozens of guards have seen
it from time to time, as We'll as l.
and can refer You to many of them
! for affirmation of my assertions.
"Once over the spot the shade be
! gins To sestulate. after the manner
of member addressing the house
Then, all of a sudden. the fine face be