Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24
HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE.
By Earl Goodwin.


an examination Of Trick Falls, which is
| Well known in that part of the country
one cascade topples over precipfce high
| in the air and another shoots out of the
wall half way down the fall. Appar-
emily the water comes from the center
of the earth. But the doctor. explains
Dupuy. has come to settle the long-stand-
| ing controversy among eastern scient SITS
| as to whether or not the second or trick
cascade really connects By underground
| channels with the polar seas. Dupuy
| says that DR.. Cook makes no statement
/ about the matter, he merely wants to
find out for himself. but that he is dis
posed to think that the polar trout which
Arctic ocean by way Of the underground
route from the perth pole to Trick Falls.
This all being perfectly good stuff-ex-
cept that there is not. and never was,
| such thing as polar trout
You can see the enterprsing reporter
fidgeting to get away-but he has to say
goodbye to the doc:
We're all waiting for your lecture next
week. DOCTOR" he emits, and the asso-
ciate editor of the Literary Digest Wits
inwardly. He learns afterward that the
| real doc Is actually going to talk in
Minot.
Our hero turns and runs. He sticks
not to the road. but goes over fences.
over eighteen feet tall The Mercury
meantime is rising in its tube. At blood
| heat 1t energies. and there emblaZoned
| upon the front page is this wondrous
story of Trick Falls and the possibilities
of the polar trout.
| And it was copied in Minneapolis and
st. Paul-but there it halted. Some one
perhaps the really and truly DNc Cook
| may have called a halt. Yet that fellow
with the long legs was a good reporter.
Three cheers for Representative Finis
L L. Garrett TQnnnCCno
of the special committee of the House
| which is Investigating the long-draWn-out
charges by Col. Mulhall that a choice col
lection of grafters could make Congress
eat out Of their hands at any hour of the
day and night Three cheers say I. and
a tiger.
Last Monday afternoon, when young
Mr.. McMichael was telling how he used
schemes in which the two of them were
interested, 1t suddenly dawned upon sew
eral newspaper men present that If the
committee kept on with its hearings much
longer that day and If they held night
session there would be CONSERVATION in
certain quarters owing to the fact that
handsome young Mr.. Sartwell of the AS
ISOLATED Press was to be married that
evening. and many of the newspaper men
present were to be ushers. guests and
general background for the affair.
So Bob Dougan. E. F. Alderman and
Joe Amin, as committee told Repre-
sentative Garrett that either the we'd
ding would be SHINY attended or the
world would go without the news Of the
lobby investigation. And Mr.. Garrett,
with the most gracious manner possible
announced that a wedding took prece-
dence over a lobby hearing. and all went
as happy as marriage bell. The COM
mittee adjourned in time to let young
| Alderman try on his silk gloves. and no
one suffered for lack of news.
Now that action of Mr.. CARROTS is so
| different from that which would be fol-
| lowed by many congressman that 1t
deserves passing mention. The people of
| this country have the right to know
| everything that is being done in Con-
gress. The members of that committee
are representatives of the people. The