The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-06-22

here.
The Washington club hal th,
st. Louis outfit as opponents. Tn,
score was 3 to O in favor of RI,
Nationals at the end Of the sixth 10
nlng. When the seventh inning be
gan the ST. Louis bunch immediatel,
nlled the sacks and Stone. the slugye..
was next man up for st. Louis team
IL was a fine looking situation ana
with all the rest. the Representative
leaned forward eagerly to see how The
thlns was going to work out. Then
there was a sudden chugging of au-
tomoblles pulling up in. the space
back OF the grand stand, and the
assistant sergeant-at-arms suddenly
appeared in the stand and picked cut
their men with unerring accuracy.
We'll, let us see this inning out
pleaded the Representatives.
Nope, that couldn't be done" saii
the assistant sergeant-at-arms. Call
was imperative. The arrested mem
bers must get into the throbbing au-
tOmobiles and be conveyed to the
House instantly.
The irritated phrase, dog gone The
luck!" broke out all over the stand
where the captured Representatives
were, but it didn't help a bit. They
were ~corralled, and that's all there was
to it. They got up and filed out. The
grand stand crowd had got On to the
situation, and Back TO school TOR
you!" was the pleasantly derisive
shout hat greeted the Representatives
DISLIKD BEING DRAGGED 2
arrest and required Instantly at the
bar Of the House this disturbed Rep
resentatiye fumed and stormed around.
But he knew that the m was
not to be denied and he started to
dress, while the assistant sergeant-al-
arms waited for him in the hall ut
side.
There is every reason to suppose
that the Representative was greatly
preOccupied with his wrath while he
was dressing in his cool, darkened
room, for when he finally yankei
open the door and announced I the
assistant sergeant-at-arms that he
was ready his captor's face expressed
the most acute astonishment.
Come on said the Representative,
strating astride down the hotel hall
and not noticing his captOr's express
ion of cOuntenance. Got a wagon
waiting?"
whats that?' said the Represen-
tative, turning around.
"Er-don't YOU think, sir thai
you'd make a better appearance on he
floor of the House if-er-you had en-
on?"
The Representative took a look at
himself in the streaming light Of the
hall, and then he made two bounds
of it to regain his room.
In his haste and in the dimness of his
rOom the Representative had neg
lected to don SO important an item OF
his apparel as his trousers.
One-time employees of the Capitol
tell an incident Of what befell an : r
rested" member of the House who
was one of that bOdy's most famous
characters many years age.
RED HEADED ROOSTER OF ROCK
This famous character was BelfO"d,
of Colorado, the "red-headed rOos-er
of the Rockies" Belford, a big heart
nough decidedly illiterate man, was
perhaps the most openly and per
sistently %convivial individual who ever
occupied a sea- in the Hous of Rep
re~sentatives. Almost unbelievable
stories of his progress around the
board are still current among the
fOgieS down here, and when the red.
headed rooster Of the Rockies felt IN
a co%nvivial mood he regarded the Cap
itol as just as good a place to in
dulge his moOd as any other.
One day while the horses were rae
ing at the old and long-gone Ivy City
race track neal Washington there was
big business in the House, opposition
the presence of a quorum.
Relford was known to be out at the
Ivy City track, for he had been full
of a good thing" upon his arrival
at the House that forenoon. Speaker
Carlisle sent an assistant sergeant at
out t the Ivy City track il a
carriage to nail Bedford.
The scout found Bedford swayins
happily in a box in the stand. It was
just before the fifth race, and Bedford
was hilariously confident, that his
alone. He had $50 on the cinch at
the root of his life when the horses
struck the stretch.
But the scout told Belford that he'd
Ia . SCI ihlo I4O 4dSS - ;
away. Belford, however, was stub
born. He was going to see that good
thing of his win. House or no House.
The assistant Sergeant-at-arms fiIally
the red-headed rooster out Of
his box in the stand. telling him that
ne could watch the finish of the race
the lawn below, and then hus-
lie into the waiting carriarge. Bel
ord agreed to that, and, as the horses
we're already lining up, the scout was
to permit the Colorado mem
Der to wait and see the finish of his |
race. !
Bedford let out a huge, triumphant
and wow-ee! every minute
" SO during the carriages rapid pro- |
sresS into the city, and when he reach
ID the Capitol he was flaming with
and things. After reporting
It the bar of the Honse. he leaped in
the House restaurant and yelled:
"Wine! Baskets of it everybody line
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