Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-04-02
WASHINGTON CHITCHAT
Aged Negro Outwits Speaker
Cannon's Secretary.
HOW QUAY FOOLS EIs DOCTOR.

The senator only Smokes nalr n
Cigar n Day. as Ordered. but IL Is
Fifteen Inches Long President
| ROOseveIt's Advice TO n Party of
Sioux Indians - Lumbago Causes
Commissioner Ware TO Hersify.
The rapid diminution OF his coal pile
has been the cause of considerable
worry TO L. W. Busbey. secretary TO
! Speaker Cannon. says the Washington
correspondent of the New York Trib-
une. The frequent calls made at his
! kitchen by an aged colored man and
| the Outgoings of the stranger laden
with a bulging coffee sack over his
/ shoulder contained Il possible solution
| of the mystery, thought Mr.. Busbey,
so one day recently he resolved to stop
the visitor as he was going away and
charge him with the removal of his
black diamonds. He carried out the
first part of the programme. The old
man put down the sack. took out his
handkerchief and wiped his brow.
"Pow'ful fine weather were havin',
boss" the old man said.
Mr. Busbey admitted that il was, re-
solving to wait for an opening and
then surprise the other into some sort
of n confession or scare him into flight
without the sack.
"Pow'ful fine house yo' has here,
boss
Mr. Busbey had seen houses better
and some not quite so palatial.
a pore ole man that works TO his
Twin has to work pow'ful hard boss"
Yes Mr.. Busbey agreed. Those
that work hard work harder than those
that work less
We'll, l spec 1 mus be goin', boss.
Thanks fo' yo' kindness, boss. If
yo'lI have the kindness to help me
with this yere sack I'll be ever so
much more obliged, boss" And be-
fore Mr.. Busbey realized what he was
doing he had hoisted the bag upon the
old mans shoulder, and the man was
gone.
Il was waiting for an opening, you
see," said Mr.. Busbey. but the, old
man talked so fast that didn't get it,
Senator Matthew S. Quay likes to
smoke cigars. He usually has one in his
mouth when he is not in the senate
chamber, and there he sometimes
chews an unlighted one. A week or
so ago his doctor told him he must stop
smoking. says the New York Worlds
Washington correspondent.
Il can't" said the senator.
"But you must insisted the doc
tor.
Cant 1 smoke at all?" asked the
senator plaintively.
Yes" the doctor replied as if he
was comforting a great favor, you
may smoke half of one cigar each day,
but no more"
Well" said the senator the other
day as he sat in his committee room,
1T is now time for me to have my dali
ly smoke"
He opened drawer in his desk and
took out a cigar fifteen inches long.
Taking a pencil. he marked it exactly
in the middle and lighted it. The half
smoke lasted for two bOurs.
why don't you change doctors"
asked Senator Penrose.
"Dasn't," Senator Quay replied. "An-
other doctor might not let me smoke
even half a cigar
sell half your ponies and buy cat
tie" was the gist of a fifteen minute
sermon preached by President Roose-
welt recently TO a visiting delegation
of Sioux Indians. says the New York
Herald. The president talked to the
band Nike a father, and they went
away greatly pleased and much i'm
pressed.
You must work. you young In
dians. but the government will take
care Of the old men," Mr.. Roosevelt
said. The government will help you
all it can, but it cannot help the man
who can work and won't work. Sell
10000 of your ponies and get 100000
cattle. Ponies you need of course to
help herd your cattle. but you don't
need them for racing purposes"
The Indians were members of the
OgalaIla tribe one of the great fighting