The Washington herald., 1913-02-13
sTATEAGEH-REAL AND NEAR
By FIRED C. KELLY.

soni Daizeiis OF f1ttsourg. and Serene
Payne, the old time tarifrer, are great
cronies. Now that Dalzell and Joe Can
non. and few more of the old standna,
coterfe are defeated. and Payne. stripped
OF his power. is left to sit on the lid all
oy himself. the latter would almost as
soon have gone down with the shin
he feels about as happy over his re.ci,e
as Bruce Ismay did. But all this has
absolutely nothing to do with what one
intehoed TO tell when the opening SEN
tence was started.
palzell and Payne headed a small marty
tnat Travelled to foreign parts one sum
mer. and they made a bid for the Iri.b
vote back home. by spending several
Gays In Ireland collecting local color
One afternoon they set out for BIarney
Castie. Dalzell was the treasurer and
spokesman Of the party and he walked
ahead TO confer with the proprietor of a
smaii mare and jaunting car about the
cost OF carrying them to the castle. The
tarfn was too high. so to speak, and
Dalzeil objected. The driver then caught
seht OF Payne's not inconsiderabIe bulk
would ye look at that"' he exclaimed.
pointing to the tariff nbrettist. And
you oo1ectin' to the price Why IL the
mare saw that man she'd drop dead"
1t is source Of great satisfaction TO
Victor Murdock, the Kansas statesman
with the sandy hair Of curIing-Iron de-
sign. that he may have been instru-
mental once upon a time in saving a
beautiful young woman from the pitfalls
OF great wicked city. to-wit: New
York, our thriving metropolis.
Victor and his wife were pay-inr THAR
first visit to New York fifteen years ago.
and had dropped into an inorensiye
looking restaurant In the downtown sec
ton Of the city. They were young and
full Of enthusiasm and anxious to see
everything. One OF the sights they
noted when they had sat down In the
restaurant was young couple at
nearby table. demurs looking little.
girl. scarcely out Of her teens, sat with
slightly older chap. drinking cham
pagne-and It was o'clock m the after
noon.
Victor had seen champagne wine be-
fore. but the sight OF a neatly and not
gaudily dressed little girl, with big blue
eyes, drinking the stun in the middle
or the afternoon, was so contrary to the
Wichita system that Ne could scarcely
keep his eyes OF the pair. Unconscious
ly. perhaps. he may have looked startled.
At any rate this is what happened:
The girl. after noting the look Vic gave
her. suddenly pushed aside her glass.
half-hlled with champagne, and ceased
to drink. though her companion mildly
upbraided her for SO doing.
Vic has always been a good student
OF human nature and he thought he
could read her reasoning in her face. In
the first place, she probably was not a
bad little girl. but had come to the big
city from a small town and now for the
first time was finding herself being
drawn into an eddy. She looked at tn"
young couple from Kansas and thought
! to herself: Those folks come from a
little place. the same as l did. and they
haven't followed city ways. and they
show they haven't They've got the
right sort Of look about EN-. Here's
where I quit the big town ways'-and
she pushed her glass from her.
President Taft received a call the other
day from a little girl six years old, who
came all the way from Ohio just to shake
hands with him. Her father Is p. J.
Brady, a prominent Cleveland lawyer.
and he brought the little girl down here
she is six years Of age. the child had
never In her life conversed with a Pres
ident. Brady figured that the thing had
gone far enough.
Which town do you like best, Cleve-
land or Washington?' asked the PreSi-
dent, with his winning smile, after the
introductions.
We'll, / like Washington very much"
said the little girl. and especially this
house. / think it's the incest house /
was ever In"
''Ah. yes, a great many people like this
house. said the President. talking a bit
over her head. Pm only sorry I can't
stay here longer"
Those who know Robert II. Gittins.
the next Representative from Niagara
Falls, are wondering how long it will be.
addressing Speaker Clark as Champ.
and Leader Underwood as "osc"
Gittins is known to everybody in his
locality as Bob" and as he dislikes to
seem cold and distant to people he
meets, he comes right back and calls
nearly everybody else by their first
names. Sometimes he'll meet a man and
keep right on addressing him as Mr."
Once he used the Mr." for nearly
twenty-five minutes. but that was be-
cause the stranger wore a silk hat. Git
tins is really not formal at all. and is
easy to get acquainted with. Those who
think he is proud and naughty and a
stickIer FOR needless formalities are en-
tirely mistaken.
Last summer Representative Thomas
Hehin was speaking up in Gittins' dis
trict and the two were introduced. \
man who heard Gittins calling Hefin
Tom" a few moments later. remarked
that he didn't know they had met be-
fore.
They hadn't.
,COTyrsht, 1913. tv Fred c. Kelly. An right, re-