The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-18

liner JOnn r.. Nllhle, neau OF lHe
United States Secret Service, has done
Just one days newspaper work since he
quit making his living that way.
WiIkie went down to Greensborough,
y. c. a few years ago to testify in a
counterfeiting case. While seated in the
stuffy courtroom, waiting to be called
to the witness stand. an acquaintance
passed up to him a note which said:
There's a big earthquake in Frisco.
Whole town burning up"
Wilkie nodded his thanks for the news.
and sat waiting impatientIy for
chance to get out and hear the details.
At the first opportunity he rushed to
the local newspaper office and inquired
his way TO the managing editors room.
hoping to get a look at some OF the
dispatches.
He saw a man seated with his back
toward him at a desk completely COW
cred with telegraph copy.
At the sound of Wilkes voice the
managing editor looked up, excIaiming.
Well. Johnnie Wnkie!'
Jack Fuller exclaimed Wilkie right
back.
1t was their first meeting since the
days when both were reporters out n
Chicago.
I'm in an awful stew here" said
Fuller; got more telegraph stun to
handle than usually comes into the ONCE
il a week. and | haven't any assistant
Where's a desk" asked Wilkie. II
you aren't too particular. I'D like a job
as copy reader for a day"
who's the new guy on the paper the
foreman asked Fuller, after the Secret
Service Chief had gone to work.
oh. he's a fellow that blew in and
wanted job" said the editor.
Serene E. Payne. who coIlaborated on
the words and music for the well-known
Payne-Aldrich tariff act. is a person Of
domestic tastes. He likes to go out into
the kitchen once in a while and try his
hand at cooking some favorite dish.
1t is estimated that II the lead pencils
used up by defeated Republican Congress
men in showing their friends the figures
to prove that the third party was the
sole cause Of their undoing. were placed
end to end they would reach from Bos-
ton TO a point mile and a half east Of
Syracuse.
Representative Stephens OF California
met Nick Longworth of Ohio shortly
after Congress convened.
Glad to hear you were reelected
said Nick. who was defeated; did you
have a good safe plurality
Yes. I had almost 5000 plurality" said
Stephens-and Longworth nearly had a
sinking spell right then and there
Just to think he walled: you with
26.OOO votes to the good. and all needed
was less than hundred more. Why.
you could have spread your plurality
around little and almost turned the
House Republican"
Representative Reuben o. Moon of
Pennsylvania says he thinks his son,
Harold Moon. has the most unusual
name for a boat that he knows of. The
son wished 10 name the boat after his
two daughters. Mary and Helen, and he
sought to work out a combination name.
The boat is called The Mary Hell"
A Western judge came East to fill a
number of speaking engagements on be-
half of the Democratic ticket during the
last campaign. He is a gifted speaker.
but has a way Of getting all snarled up
with the demon that steals away mems
brains.
Jersey meeting from the same platform
with Woodrow Wilson. 1t happened that
both went to the meeting on the same
train.
Gov. Wilson recognized him as he
walked down the aisle of the Pullman,
and paused to shake hands with him.
You're Judge Blank" he said. I'm
pleased to meet You
The judge just glared at him mostly,
and the Governor proceeded to his own
seat.
When they reached their destination
the judge confided to a member of the
reception committee:
There was a guy on the train to-day
that was a dead ringer for Woodrow
Wilson"
The morning after election Representa-
tive Curtis Gregg Of Pennsylvania was
stopped on the street by colored ac-
quaintance who wished to comment on
the result:
'Aiistah Gregg." he said. eft that man
Wilson had got jes' few more elect'ral
votes, he'd have enough to elect hisself
twice"
When Victor Murdoch got back to Con-
gress at the opening of the present ses-
sion, 1t was noted by casual onlookers
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