Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-02-29

HWNA ~ taufant, fOr in
\NNA n bVL4 stance. There is a
ROY z Ei5Ui1nn legend to the effect
that one of the
walters look an or
der there once from a senator, was ar
rested on his way to the kitchen, and
spent nine years in Jail. He returned
TO the restaurant at the expiration of
his term. got his old job back, served
the order to the senator. and was given
an extra tip for his promptitudc.
Ihere wa another senator who went
there for dinner one noon and by the
time he got back to the Senate chamber
MS term of office had expired and the
legislature had sent a new man to AXE
ms place. 1t is suspected that the noted
Charlie Ross, who disappeared some
40 years ago, is somewhere in the Sem
ate waiting for an order to
be served.
They take things easily in Washing
on, even your money. They begin to
think Of getting down to business in
the morning about 1 o'clock in the aft
ernoon. and at 8 o'clock they begin to
think about going home. Some of the
utes a day, and some of the restaurants
remain open so briefly that they will
serve only short order cooking.
Even the elevators are slow. BY the
time l get up TO the third floor after
luncheon it is time to start down again
~ lily III clcVdIOT DOY IellS me
ne has made seven round trips during
his life and hopes to equal the record
OF his father, who made 10 round trips,
but his father lived to be a very old
man.
II isn't easy to get in to see the presi-
dent. One is obliged to submit to the
scrutiny of two policemen on the side
walk in front of the executive offices.
ihen there are two policemen at the
door and four or five secretaries and
clerks to get by. The two policemen
and packages. 1t doesn't pay to try
n see the president when YOU have a
package.
Also, never carry the plug of tobacco
In the right hip pocket, for any pro-
tuoufance IN that locality will keep you
at a safe distance from the executive
office. They don't exactly search you
understand, excepting with the eyes.
and 1t pays to have the outlines of
your manly form show clearly. Don't
walk in with your hands in your pock-
cts. There is the only place in Wash
ington where it is not desired that You
should put your hands in your pockets.
AT all other places in Washington you
are expected to put your hands in your
pockets about every three minutes.
l nave had the good fortune to be
PAA ASAS a. "A NS4N III Gull
sideration of SALTS the Identical bullet
which killed General Mcpherson. /
know it is the Identical bullet. for the
man in the next room to me has one,
n mine is exactly like his.
have also purchased a cellulofd COL
lar once worn by Washington. After I
purchased it 1 happened to hin that
cellulo!d collars were not invented I'M
til about Is a ago, and went to the
colored man I purchased it from to get
v,1. n, boa1y ovoSeoj~~ <I,1k ~ H.,
sold me the celluloid collar under false
p%retenses. He said that he had told me
the truth and that the collar had been
worn by Neutrality-suspicious. Wash
ington.
1 have just been through the Corco-
ran art gallery, but perhaps the least
said about that the better. 1t is no
place for the deacon of a church, and
I will touch h subject but lightly. All
the old girls are there-Venus. Psyche
and all the rest-and they ought to be
ashamed of themselves. 1t is a good
thing for them that the winters here
are not so severe and that the building
is heated by steam. I will tell you
more about the Corcoran art gallery
A GREENHORN IN WASHINGTON
Washington, Feb. 2.-Dear Editor:
The House of Representatives is a
body of men who care not who writes
their nations songs. so long as they
can distribute her garden seeds, or
words to that effect. A birds eye view
Of the house from the press gall
lery, which Is hung up near
the roof, back of the speaker. is
most interesting to one who is here
gathering Impressions at some n
else's expense, the same as I am. 1t is
certainly a snap to collect Impressions
when somebody else is paying for 1t,
and | might mention in this connection.
little side remark not german to the
issue under discussion, that the check
to which 1 rave SO feelingly alluded
has not yet arrived here. There is Il
sort of old fashioned rough and tum-
BILE, free and easy democracy about the
House that one doesn't find in the Su-
preme court or even yet in the Sen
ate. In the Senate. the worst thing
they do is to take snuff. and / will tell
you more about that later, while in the
House they chew tobacco and they
don't always hit the cuspidor, either.
There are some remarkably poor
marksmen in the House. / noticed this
almost at a glance.
A congressman at home and a con-
gresham 1T Washington are two diff
ferent and two distinct kinds of con-
gressmen. AT home the congressman
rises with a carnation in his b%uttonhole
and an attentive body of energetic hon.
orary vice presidents thanking him on
the stage of the village opry house. and
waves the starry banner until it is
frazzled at the edge like some of the
In the Ladies' Home Journal. The peo-
pie make a fuss over him. When he
pauses and take a drink of pump wa
ter that he doesn't van and isn't use