Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1909-07-12

sent the vice presidents from John
Adams down.
Depicting Lemon Market.
The United States senate is APP
parently doing it's best to deplete
the lemon market. During the warm
weather the senate treats itself to
lemonade, but 1t is noticed that
never before has the consumption of
citrus fruit been so great among the
members Of the upper house of con-
gress as It has ben during the tariff
debate. 1t might almost seem as If
the senators wished to put away
their share before the taking effect
Of the increased half-cent pound
duty on lemons, as provided In the
Aldrich bill.
When Senator Challenger first
called for lemonade this summer one
colored functionary was able to pre-
pare the necessary supply. Nova
days half a dozen men are required
to make and transport the beverage
to the perspiring statesmen, A spe-
cial room has been set apart in the
basement of the Capitol for the stor-
ing OF the lemans and what goes
with them. Nor are the senators
satisfied with plain Potomac water.
Their lemonade is made with min
eral water.
The cost comes out of the so-called
contingent fund OF the senate, which
also pays the bargers, provides for
the contents of the ancient snuff
boxes located conveniently near the
entrance doors and furnishes many
other little conveniences and luxur-
les for the lawmakers.
The Pineapple Cure.
Pineapples as a cure for insomnia
form a matter of disagreement be-
tween Senator Rayner, OF Maryland,
and his physician. While they were
discussing in the senate a PROPOSE
tlon to raise the tariff on plneapples
1913 per cent Rayner said:
II have been told by celebrated
| physician within the last few weeks
and, by the way, he made a mis-
take about it-that pineapples are
/ good for insomnia. | suffer a great
deal with insomnia; and he told me
that II would eat two pieces of the
pineapple that the senator from
Florida sent me would go to sleep
and sleep all night (Laughter.)
That was two weeks ago, because
Florida pineapples only come in at
that time, and l could not get them
before. ate two pieces of pineap-
pie two weeks ago and l have not
closed my eyes since daughter
They evidently were not very much
of either a necessity or a luxury to
me. They will put to sleep the can
ming industries of my state, however,
II you will pass this proposition.
The same physician that gave me
this advice about eating pineapples
at night before retiring gave me
some other advice which may or may
not be equally reliable; but l have
sustained that portion of 1t in con-
sultation with other medical men in
this city. He told me that pineap-
pies are now being used in almost
) every hospital of the United States.
do not care what is in them, but
there Is something in them that, in
the case OF persons convalescing
from fevers. acts as tonic and a
recuperatlve; and they are used to-
day as an article of absolute neces-
sity."
A Blind Senator's Sermon.
n A sermon on the text, Let there
be light" was delivered the other
day during the tarin debate by Sen
ator Gore, the stone-blind statesman
from Oklahoma. Although he was
referring mainly to intellectual light,
his sightlessness, combined with his
eloQuence, deeply impressed his col