Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-18

A chunk Of advice culled from the ex-
perienced Senator Depew and circulated
among the solons OF Washington has some
value as a check valve for high feeders
elsewhere. The senator probably had at
tended more banquets than any ancient
now hobnoblinR on the Sunset highway.
"Of course, 1t is fatal for any man to at
tempt to eat all the courses and drink all
the wines served at a modern banquet"
said the senator. HE should eat sparngly
and exercise discretion in drinking. First
man should learn what wines he can stand
without disastrous after effects. Having
found something that he can drink safely
he should stick to it and refuse all others.
Some men can drink still wines freely,
while a single glass OF sparkling wine will
knock them out and vice versa. The thing
for a man to do is to find out IL he can
drink one kind of wine with reasonable
safety and try no others"
Senator Depew at dinners and banquets
refuses cocktails. sherry and light wines
and drinks only champagne.
Senator Elkius, who is engineering the
passage Of the railroad bill through the
senate, refuses 10 be perturbed or even ir-
ritated in debate, reports the Washington
Times.
Insurgents or democrats may talk them
selves black in the face, may heap protest
upon protest may charge and recharge the
senator's committee with bad faith, but the
great good humor of the West Virginian
never falls him. AS a matter OF fact this
good humor Is the most disconcerting factor
in the railroad debate.
The other day Senator Dixon told the
senate that he had approached Senator
Elkins and asked him what rights GER
tain amendment had.
"Why, we have the votes, my boy, that
is all there is to It," Senator Elkins is re-
ported to have replied.
Cant you take a joker" Senator Elkins
asked the Montana statesman, when he
rose to explain the matter to the senate.
Occasionally some insurgent bats the
West Virginian into a rejoinder on the issue
Of the railroad bill. but this is the excep-
ton. Once in a while democrat provokes
spirited rejonder from Senator Elkins,
but this is even less often.
At request Of Postmaster General Hitch
cock, Senator Penrose. chairman of the
senate committee on postoffices and post
roads, has introduced a bill providing that
after December 81, 1910, letter carriers in
cities shall deliver mail only to those
houses which ate provided with reeepta-
cles to receive letters and papers.
Letter carriers waste about one-hah
their time in ringing door bells and wait
ing for some one to come and take the
mail. Consequently IL every house Is pro-
vided with a mail box or a slit in the
door carrier can cover about twice as
much territory as he does now. The cost
of providing houses with these receptacles
will prove very slight, and they will result
in lessening the danger of losing letters.
Judge Walter l. Smith is not only one of
the best debaters In the house, but he Is
also a stumper from way back. When he
is doing his turn on the hustings, relates
the Washington Post, his audiences are al
ways large and enthusiastic. More than
that the Judge himself becomes so enthu-
siastic in his subject that he is oblvious TO
many things that happen
The Judge usually wears a frock coat
and string tie in his makeup. He car
ries his handkerchief in one of the coat
pockets, in the tail of the coat. He had
started off to speak in the town hall one
night and found that he had no handker-
chief.
Rushing upstairs he grabbed a nicely
folded white object out Of sthe bureau
drawer and showed it into the accustomed
repository Of his kerchief. When the judge
had use for his handkerchief he reached
around to the pocket, and, drawing it forth,
would shake 1t sharply, causing it to snap
like a whip.
In the midst of his speech on the night
in question, he got excited and the per-