The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-04
can public life to-day who would pull
wires for Thucydides?

AOA
This" said the Senator. picking up
a copy of Changers Lives of Fam
Gus Englishmen,'' gives one, 1 think,
| a phase of the character of Daniel
Webster not always manifest to the
public" Turning back the cover, Sen
ator Hoar showed on the fly leaf, over
a note to the effect that the author,
DR.. Granger, died from heart failure
while administering the sacrament,
this stanza in Webster's own hand
| writing:
More happy end what saint e'er
knew!
To whom like mercy shown!
His Saviour's death in rapturous view
And unperceived his own. d. W."
There's a wicked letter." broke out
| the silvery haired statesman, as he
| picked one out of group of faded
! documents. "One of these days 1 may
publish it for the benefit of that So
ciety which is trying to rehabilitate
Aaron Burr You may look at it If
| you like. You see that he describes
the young girl about whom he is writ
ing to another man exactly as if she
were a horse or a dog" Surely
enough, this letter must confound
irony it ends, God bless you. A.
Burr"
Senator Tillman had a bad pain and
thought he had appendicitis, but found
| later that it was only indigestion. He
met Senator Hoar and told him the
| good news.
I'm glad" said the Senator from
Massachusetts,, that the trouble was
in your table of contents rather than
in your appendix"
One day Senator Hoar was Joined In
| the corridor of the Capitol by d former
colleague, and as they approached the
entrance to the Senate Chamber Mr..
Hoar motioned his companion to pass
| in first.
After you" said the ex-senat tor,
! drawing back.
mo, indeed" retorted Senator Hoar;
"the KS always go before the wise"
Senator Hoars epigram on the late
| Senator Davis of Minnesota: mo spark
from his train was ever a cinder in
| the eye of friend"
He and Evarts were implacable enc
| mics when it came to passage, of
| words, and the honors were about
even, says the New York World. One
day, however, toward the end of the
| New York Senator's career, EVarts
came off with flying colors. He was
| chairman of the Library Committee
| and Hoar was a minor member. EVarts
was lazy, and would not call his COM
mittee together from beginning to end
| of a session. A measure which Hoar
| was anxious to have brought up had
been referred to the Library Commit
| tee, and there seemed doomed to sleep
forever. Evarts when pleaded with
| would promise to call the committee
| to consider the measure and then for
get all about it. At last one day to-
ward the end of the session Hoar, an
noyed and irascble, met Evarts. in
the cloak-room.
whenever you are ready to call a
| meeting of the Library Committee"
| he said, with biting sarcasm, Il wish
you would notify my executors.
Il shall be most happy to notify your
executors" said Evarts, with smile.
ingalls, was one of those who had
| been so often raped by Senator Hoar
| that he took keen delight in saying
| sharp things at his expense. When the
| Conkling- Garfield episode came up
Hoar was so disguised with the man
agement of the affair that it was said
| that he threatened to resign his seat.
| The question was under discussion in
| the cloak room, and some one com
nented on the probability of Hoar's
| resignation.
"Hoar resign!" laughed ingalls,.
| you don't know him. Whenever his
resentment at anything reaches that
! pitch he will rise in his seat and hand
| in the resignation of Dawes. his col
! league"