Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24

must he right.


Truth will endure even as words cast
in bronze. another person. whose state
meuts arc not to be regarded lightly. has
been wont TO remark.
All Of which leads up To few hot
weather stories by members of Congress
hat are founded on the rock or fact.
Some Of these yarns have been crushed
IL earth by doubters in days agone. b.,
they have risen again
Admittedly they are mighty and do pre-
vail
As for enduring, none who reads them
and appreciates the simple truth can
doubt but that they will go laundering
down through time as some of The few
bona-fide boiling-day tales of this special
session.
Although they arc obviously truthful
on their face. it is to be regretted that in
mere cold type it is impossible to show
the convincing manner in which each rep
resentative has told his particular story.
Several of these experiences which are
related are unusual in the extreme and
can only be appreciated in their full
worth by hearing them told verbally But
that is impossible. because of the rush Of
currency and tariff matters. so they are
here printed in the hope that they may
be appreciated In some slight degree
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Unfortunately. also. il is impossible to
print all of the hot-weather yarns locat-
ed while these stories were being run
down. None was accepted unless it's
father was willing that the public should
know his identity.
For instance, there is the story about
the man who. not having eaten for two
days, dashed a mile across an Arizona
desert with the temperature at 124 and
into restaurant to find nothing but fried
pork and hot roast beef on the menu. The
yarn of the man who went to certain
open-air prize fight in Reno one after
noon few years ago, sat facing the
north and roasted the west side of his
face and froze the east is another. A
third is the one about the horse whose
hoofs were burned off by the Arizona
sands and how the poor thing was let
to starve in the desert.
Some of the foregoing may have been
Fshy. These which follow. though. are
guaranteed to be as true steel. and If
YOU do not believe 1T. have a medium
call Baron Munchausen and ask him to
pass judgment.
If any man in Congress is qualified to
discuss the hot places in the United
States it is Lawrence b. Stringer Of
Illinois. For many years, before he came
TO congress last spring, ne was the
clautauaua circuits each summer. And
who gets warmer than a chautauqua
orator? You guessed it right, nobody
On the hottest DAYS of July. August
II has stood before vast audiences
preaching his doctrines of honest politics,
honest citizenship and honest home life
while the perspiration ran down his neck
its way into his shoes. SO in the light
OF these facts it is safe to say he knows
nat il means to be warm.
Yuma. Cal. Is the place he selects as
the hottest in this country. The temper
ature he places at 10 in the shade. but
goodness knows how hot it was in the
eun. Gangway. folks. Mr.. Stringer will
have a word
Several years ago went to Yuma
with a bunch of newspaper men and
toere experienced the hottest day of nv
career. even barring the time down in
Ohio when / swished around in perspira-
fion-soaked shoes until / got seasick
!. Mel' sir. when we arrived in Yuma
i was simply boiling. We dropped off
the train and ! curiously asked a native
low warm il was
oh. not bad he responded. Only 10
III tie shade
Lead me to the shaded! / cried. But
he sadly shook his head. Stranger he
said. the thermometer is banking in all
the shade there is in this town
walked up to the depot and en-
Gagged In conversation with the agent
lie agreed il was quite warm and told
me story about an old Indian who died
and went TO the Internal regions only to
learn II was colder place than Yuma.
This Indian the agent said. had
spent his entire life ia our midst and had
become quite accustomed to this heat
&c was as brown as piece of oak-tan-
nod leather. The heat did not seem to