The Washington herald., 1911-12-05

! Senator George Nixon, of Nevada
went into the Chicago office OF DIS
transcontinental railway one morning
with request to have train stopped
long enough to let him on at small
Western town where the limited train
ordinarily did not pause.
| II should be Cnly too glad to accom-
modate yUu," said the assistant general
passenger agent, but the matter OF
stopping a train where no stop is sched-
uled is up to our general superintendent.
Now. l shall take pleasure In wiring
him. and ii he says it is all right 1t Will
be real privilege to me to do this
slight favor for you.
! This all sounded reasonable and pleas
ant and Nixon was appreciative. He
thanked the railroad man profusely, and
said he would return a little later to
learn the import of the general super
intendent's repl".
Now. it happens that Nixon used to be
a railroad telegraph operator hlmselI-a
good one. tOO-and it befell that when
the Senator returned to the ONCE haIt
an hour later. the superintendent's mes
sage to the passenger agent was Just
being clicked off on a little instrument
within Nixons hearing.
The superintendent said: DO as you
see fit about stopping train for Nixon.
| Whatever you decide will be all right
with me-.
In a moment or two, after the passen-
ger agent had read the message, Nixon
was ushered into his office.
I'm awfulIy sorry. Senator said the
railroad man. but ! have just received
a message from our general superln-
tendent. and he tells me that while he
would like to accommodate you 1t VIII
he utterly impossible to stop that train.
'Oh. very we'll" replied Nixon. agree
ably: Il thank you just as much. for
know that you did everything in your
power to help me out. By-by.
! Robert o. Bailey, who succeeded
| Charles Dewey Hiles as Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury. was one of the
most resourcefuI newspaper men that
. that ever drew pay at the Capital.
| Bailey has a prematurely bald head that
| fairly glistens with wisdom as If from
a good steady fire under the brain pan,
and he has a great knaCk at thinking
up good ideas lie was connected with
! the Washington bureau of New York
.
scandal i'm the Spanish-American war.
One night he got a tip that the military
order Of the Loyal Legion, then holding
Il meeting, might vote to eXpel Gen. Egan
! from their ranks for whatever part he
played in the beef scandal. II was
cold night. but Bailey waited in front
! OF the meeting place until the session
was over. and asked the first man he
. ,s,,rr fslir ha had n
pened.
Were all pledged to secrecy re-
piled the man NO one will ever know
what was done.
| So. OF course. Bailey went ahead to
find out He turned up his overcoat
collar, ducked his youthful face. hut
arranged his hat to show off his pre-
mature bald spot, and dashed upstairs
toward the door of the meeting place.
Then he Immediately turned around and
walked back downstairs with the slow
stride of an old man. alongside Of two
or three members OF the Loyal Legion.
Lets see inquired Bailey, in a
husky. but casual ne. what was our |
vote q. eXpeling Egan?'
The man. thinking the inquirer was
one OF their own crowd. replied. giving
/
Bailey the confirmation nc was after.
The next morning Bailey's New York
paper was the only one in the country
that carried the story.
Representative Martin Littleton sat
in the House restaurant the other noon
masticating a simple luncheon of crack
ersand milk.
The milk quite naturally brought up the
subject Of COWS.
AN. II I only know where all the cows
are that I own,' remarked LittIeton, SOL !
cmnly. 7 would have enough milk |
doubtless. to supply three or four res
taurants like this"
Nobody knew that Lawyer I.ittleton |
had a flock of Thoughtful. lowing kline |
scattered over the country, and he had |
to explain.
Il seems that a COW and calf figured !
in the first case Littleton ever tried /
A man down in Texas had dug a we'll |
for a neighbor and was suing for his
money, inasmuch as he was not going |
about digging wells just for physical !
culture. Littletun represented the man
who owed for the well. The case was
tried before a justice of the peace in
blacksmith shop. Stern-faced jurors
leaned against the horseshOes about the
wall and spat into the forge. The anvil
served as witness stand. 1t was Il diff
cult cas-" for a lawyer to have. The
we'll was Exhibit \. and it was right
where the plaintiff said it was. There
was no chance for the defense to prove
an alibi for the well. Littleton seemed
to be up against it. But he was a re-
sourcefuI lawyer, even if it was his first
case, and he showed that in consequence
of the we'll digger's gross negligence in
failing TO cover the well after II had 6ecn
dug. certain COW belonging to the de-
fendant had fallen into the well and
sprained her ankle He therefore put in
COunter-CIaim for damages. and the
jury declared the case a draw. Littleton
was to have the cow with the sprained
ankle. and tall red calf that went with
her. for his fee. All that night he lay
awake thinking how he might sell the
COW and calf and of what he would do
with the money.
Next morning he went TO collect his
fee, but his client had gone to the popu-