Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-02-11
sToRIETTES.

"Ah, Mr.. Belmont" said william
jennings Bryan, on meeting Perry
Belmont In Washington reeantly, II
| am glad to see you again. ! have been
up before the committee to-day advo-
eating better Accommodations for the
ministers and ambassadors" Mr. Bel
mont was tlckIed "He Is a clever
man." he said; Il was on the foreign
relations committee when was in
congress, aud Mr.. Bryan remember
ed it, and instead OF naming the COM
mittee he said the committee, know
ing he had appeared before my old
committee. Clever, wasn't it?"
A young woman, secretary to rep
sesentative, went to see the President
recently, on some business for her en-
ployer. She was shown into the Pres
dents ONCE, and sat down near the
door while the President talked with
man she didn't know. The man
asked the President about something
mol" shouted the President, so en-
phatically that the windows ratified.
There was lively discussion, and the
young woman arose and began to tip
toe out Of the room. Keep your seat,
madam" said the President; there
will be no blood shed here unless l.
10 it, and will give you ample warn
ing"
When Representative Morris Shep-
pard, of Texas, was nominated for
Congress as the successor of his faith
er, he was but twenty-seven years
old, and his opponents lost no oppor-
tunity to make capital of his youth. In
joint debate. one day, one Of Shep-
pard's opponents. proceeded something
like this: why" he said, at is ridic-
ulous to think of sending a mere boy
to Congress It is time and place
where we need mature men with ma
ture minds. 1t reminds me of the old
darkey who thought the end of the
world was at hand and who got down
on his kness to pray. % Lord he
pleaded, come down and save the sim
full world. And come yourself, Lord:
don't send your son. This amt no
time for boys"
When Felix Faure was president OF
France, some Cossacks in the Ural
mountains oChL u lbS quduLlJy
of caviar, and he, in return for the
courtesy, sent to the Hetman Of the
Cossacks cask of the very best
French cognac. 1t was delivered to
the French Consul at Odessa, and he
delivered 1t to the South Russian Rail
way authorities. The cask was never
seen afterward. Volumes of cores
pondence went back and forth, and an
employee, who suggested that the
liquor had evaporated in transit. was
discharged. For five years the matter
OF that cask of cognac was lnvesti-
gated, and at last the railway officials
adopted the employees excuse that it
had eyaporated, and wrote to that eff
feet to the French consul at Odessa.
The letter In time reached President
LOubet, and he. as his predecessor
had done, sent cast of the best cog
nae to make up for the "evaporated"
one. Extraordinary precautions were
taken by the railway people that this
cask should arrive intact. Each sta
tionmaster was ordered to inspect the
sack as it passed his station, also to
inspect the inspector who was to guard
it, and the conductor and train hands.
At each station a gendarme was also
detailed to watch all of them, as well
as the cask. That all of them took
hand at inspecting it, or that thu
cask was inspected" before 1t reach
ed Odessa, Is shown by the sequel
for, when it reached its destination,
and was preached for the benefit OF
the COssacks who had waited so Ions
for it, the cask was found to contain
nothing but cGlCred water.