The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-09
OLD MEMBERS OF THE AIN BAD
CLUB" ARE MAKING UP TO
NEW. PRESIDENT.
Curtis Has Lost His Squirrels-Con
gressmen Can't Talk to women
How Hamer's Hit Happened.

now. the fatted calf may be killed. for
all the Prodigals will have returned
| remarked a congressman at the White
House as the lean form of Senator
Stone disappeared in the direction OF
President Taft's inner office.
| ut does beat the Dutch" continued
| the representative, chow all the old
members of the Roosevelt I'm Bad Club
the undesirables, the malefactors of
great wealth, the mollycoddles, and the
shorters and ugliers-are all smuggling
up to the new president. 1t was only
! few days ago that we saw Senator
Bailey and General Miles come up here
to pay their respects to the executive
Every time they paid their respects
to President Roosevelt they did it
with brickbats. AS rule, every time
they did it, they got biff with the
Big Stick in return.
There was Representative Mccall of
| Massachusetts,, who declined college
presidency just so that he could stay
in congress to Whack the Roosevelt
policies. He was up here two or three
days ago, billing and cooling with the
new head of the administration. so
was Senator Dick of Ohio. One of the
last things Roosevelt did before quit
ting the presidency was to hand Dick
an assortment of jabs in the way OF
appointments that were calculated to
make all the Dickites in the Buckeye
state sick unto death.
| Senator Hale of Maine. whom Mr.
Roosevelt delighted TO roke with a
| Of fLo h
on the other hand, always acted tick
| led beyond measure when he could
| thwart the Rough Rider, was one OF
the callers at the White House last
| week, and had a perfect love feast In
| the sanctum sanctOrum. AS near as
can make out, the president has won
about all Roosevelts old friends over
to him and has made an excellent start
| in the ranks of his enemies. He has
| been in office now a whole month and
has not, to my knowledge, called any,
one a liar"
| Curtis Feels Lost.
| 81 feel like father that has lost
| a whole family of children" said Of
| ficer Curtis of the White House squad,
leaning sadly against one Of the pillars
Of the front portico and gazing with
moist eyes up. into the branches of
the trees that front the mansion,
whats the matter now?" asked one
of the guides just at that time out of
job but willing to add information to
his stock for the benefit of future trust
| ing tourists and bridal couples.
| "All my squirrels have gone" re-
piled Curtis "and 1 guess they have
left for good. I've looked my eyes
half out for them ever since the in
auguration day blizzard, but nary one
has shown up"
do you suppose they were killed
by the blizzard?" asked the sympa-
thetic guide.
mo: thev were stung out of house
and home" exclaimed the policeman,
land every time I see honey in gro
Gerry store I want to break the bottle
or kick hole in the comb. I'm that
mad at the bees I loved those little
SQUIRRELS like father, 1 did, and every
day of my life brought them nuts to
eat They became so tame that they
would eat out of my hand and run into
my pockets to look for food. Every
afternoon at precisely 4: 80 they would
come out of their hole in the big pop
lar, over there, and wait for the clerks
to come from the state, war and navy
building, knowing that they'd get a
treat from them too. All went well
for years, and several generations OF
| squirrels were brought up in the old
hollow poplar.
: Last fall, however, came the squir-
: rels' finish. Along came hive OF
bees, swarming from goodness knows
, where, saw the opening of the hollow
tree. SO decided that it would be a fine
5 place to settle down, and went right
} in. You ought to have seen the battle
' The squirrels fought bravely for theil
home and must have killed hundred:
of the bees, but the numbers and sting:
! were too much for them. and the!
were finally driven away. Where the.
? went to 1 have not been able to flint
out I am hoping that they will re-
turn with the approach of warn
weather, but as the bees are still II
possession of the hole I'm afraid tina
, if they do come back, they will decid
that their fiat is in the hands of un
, desirables and will change their mind
: about re-occupying their old home