Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-02-06
Many 10Th District Bills
Arc FaVOIsbIT Reported
Big Batch Of Bills Of Interest to Moun-
tain People VIM be Enacted Int
Law Within Next Week Tenth Dis
trict Legislation.
(By Noah NJ. HOllowell.)

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Raleigh, N. C.,He is saving the
very elements. Now he suddenly
mounts the verbal trapeze in the dizzv
heights and performs some of the most
thrilling oratorical stunts He Waxea
eloquent, so to speak. BY reason of
his wild gymnastics, he deems it nee
essary to leave his seat and take q
more spacious stand in the wide hall
His voice is pitched on an extremely
high note. There goes an Industrious
/ page scurring to some out of the way
place In search of broom to sweep
from the rich red carpet seeming sal
wary surplusage that accidentally is
sued from the music maker" of the
speaker in his estreme excitement to
save the country" There's another
page running for his life for glass of
water to soothe parching throat that
has assumed the musical qualities OF
and urchin's sourWood flute in early
spring.
Leaning far over the railing almost
/ ready to tOpple over on the heads CT
the Salons isaa young Miss up In the
i gallery rejoicing over the fact that har
father, brother or some other person
dear to her heart is making hfnsel2
4 famous(?) by Saving the country af-3
ter having fought, bled and died" in
the sticks during the campaign. Over
/ there sits senator scanning the
morning paper in order to ascertain
what the journal had to say about mis-
| saving the country" on the preceding
day. On the other side of the Senate
Chamber is another laWmaker reading
a letter from one of his ward-healing
constituents about the dumping of saw
1dust in Goose Greek, while sitting be-
| side him is another country saver"
diligently searching through volumi-
nous pages of legal lore. Near him is
a bald-headed bacheor there are
about dozen in the Senate) penning
. few line to his dear ones at home.
There is seen cigarette fend stealing
from the Chamber into the Hobbies to
to take few whiffs from his coffin
| tack
With all the dignity becoming his
Office, Lieutenant Governor DAT.
ridge keeps an eye on what is going
on, now and then recognizing Senator
So and So from So and So, who 70
wanting the privileges of the floor to
| interrupt the time-worn speaker with
few trifing questions. The farmer
lieutenant governor. is mapping out a
years work on his rich Nash county
farms, where he says he makes his
living" Reading Clerk Bob Phil
lips has nothing to do and is looking
wise and composing spicy paragraphs
for the Greensboro News, of which he
is associate editor Principal Clerk
i Otis Self, of Webster. Jackson county
and Journal Clerk Noah HoIloweIl, OF
| Hendersonville, having made all re-
ferences and notatfons on the volume
of bills in thier hands during the end
less run Of oratory, begin fussing over
the ladies in the gallery upon whom
! they have been vain1y laVishing their
unrestrained smiles, at the same time
| thinking Of the resort girl they viii
choose upon returning to the noun
tains next summer. Fronting them
| is Senator Lovingood of Cherokee,
openly violating the rules of the Sem
ate by slowly putting away on a 10 CEN
ter while his feet are cooked up high
er than his head on the desk, his mind
being far away across the hill on some
saw-mi1 or other enterprise. On his
! right sits Senator Allen Yes, tom"
Allen. He is from Mills River, Hen
derson county. Now the "Tom" part
u uAS AdAuS 10 OuI IL SGO1uE u
pity that he was ever named Allen be-
cause that big "A" In his name is cal
culated to put him in an embarrassing
position some time. It is like this:
Senator Aliens name is the very first
on the roll call and this fact necessi-
tates his paying strict attention to the
most uninteresting proceedings in or
red that he may not be embarrassed
when it comes to voting, for this is an
important part of senator's service
to the State.
To uninterestfng arguments on alb
sorbing questions like the difference
between the larceny of horse and
the theft OF a mule = the discorage-
ment Of young industries by legislation
in vivid terms like the Sitting Of an
infant babe with safety pins" the ef-
fectfVeness and adVisability of "strik-