Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1893, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. iE STAR BUILDINGS, 1201 Feanepirasia Avene core 1th St by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 8. H’ KAUFFMAN, Pres't f ‘Twe Evexrc Stam is served to subscribers in the po GL FES Ror a ccate cach.” Oy wall aaystere tn the Used States or Camada—postage prepaid—30 cents per SATURDAY QUINTUPLE SHERT Stan 00 year; sdded. $3.00." 1 OO POF with . - (Entered at the OGce at Washingt ‘wall matter.) cre ewta ‘Subscriptions must be paid im ad- va Rates of advertising made tnown on application Pome e ETS Part3. Che £V ening Star. Bccstecie. WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1898—TWENTY PAGES. COLOR IN CONGRESS. Mr. Murray of South Carolina on the Negro and His Future. FROM SLAVERY 10 CONGRESS He Predicts the Eventual Suprem- acy of the Negro. MR. DOUGLASS AND MR. BRUCE ‘Written for The Evening Star. HE ONLY COL- ored man in Congress comes from South Carolina. His name Is George Washington Murray and he repre- sents 216,000 people. His district is the famous black district, which was represent- ed by Gen. Robt. Smalls, and it is the biggest negro district of the Union. It is two hundred miles Jong, and it winds in and out like a snake, scalloping the Atlantic coast and cutting the state of South Carolina like a saw. It is the district set aside by the whites of that state for colored representation. It contains few towns and only one-fifth of its Population is white. There ts no question about. Geo. W. Mur- Fay’s ancestry. Every feature of his cannon bail head is modeled on African lines. His complexion is that of the ace of spades and his features are of the pronounced negro type. He is by no means a bad looking col- ered man. He stands about five feet eight inches in his stockings and is broad shoul- Gered and strong limbed. He has shown himself to be a man of nerve and a politi- clan of shrewdness. He talks well, but Dutchers the king’s English in many of his @entences. He has had to fight for all that Representative G. W. Murray. he has and his education has been acquired in almost as remarkable a way as was that of Fred Douglas. I had a talk with him last might about himself and questions relating to his race. How One Colored Man Was Educated. I first asked him as to his history. He replied: “I was born in the district in which I live, just about forty years ago. My par- ents were slaves, and when Abraham Lin- coln freed the negroes I was just eleven years old. I had no money and no one to take care of me, but I decided at that time that I would have an education and went at it. I learned my A, B, C’s by asking other children, who went to school, what the let- ters were, and by practicing on every person whom I met I finally learned to read and write. I studied as best I could until I be- came able to read the newspapers and I know that I could stumble my way through & congressional speech when I was fifteen. It was about this time that Geo. S. Bout- well, a Congressman from Maine or Massa- chusetts, made a speech, which I read. It made a great impression upon me and I €an quote one sentence from it now. it was on the southern question and I think it read as follows: ‘I know that there Is pro-slavery @esire and always has been and always will be until we, the republican party, grind it into powder, trample it under foot, and free- dom.blows the dust out with the healing of her wings.’ This sertence made an impres- sion on me and I probably read it to some of our people, as the colored boys who could read always read the papers to the others. Well, in this way I learned to read and write. Arithmetic always came easy to me and I could figure out sums in my head long before I knew how to make the figures. When I was eighteen years old I had so far Progressed that I began to teach school, and the first school I ever entered was a teacher and not as a scholar. After teach. ing several years I went to the University of South Carolina and remained there at school until the government of the state prohibited the co-education of the races and | forced me out. I then went back to teach | in the public schools and was engaged in teaching and farming until I was elected to Congress. Farming Among the Negroes. “How about farming among the negroes, Mr. Murray," I asked, “are they gradually acquiring property?” “They are, indeed,” emphatically replied the colored Congressman. “The negro naturally wants a farm of his own, and my People are buying lands on time and are im- Proving them. Some of them own farms of from one to two thousand acress, and there ts a colored man in Washington today who farms seven thousand acres of land in| He owns me n this, but he | has this am ation. I own | and there are} south who the accumul will come wt » will be a_com- mercial or in the United States. depends upon our t, and I look fo > will stand as a property How about property rights in the south? h he th: mse of t le respected?” Yes, I think reply. “The | € anxious that the negroes should own prope nd they encourag them te save treat them fairly their money. They So far as any of these jin things are concerned, but they do not give them a fair show in any political way. The Ku Klax in the South. “How about the ku klux?” “There are no ku klux in the south, and there is very little terror arising at the Polis. The whites are able to accomplish their ends without the use of shot <uns. They don’t need them.” “How about the feeling between the ne- groes and the whites; will there ever be a war between the two races?” ‘I think not. The negroes appreciate the fact that such a war would result in their destruction, and the fight that they intend to make is along business and educational lines. We propose to educate ourselves and to save our money, and when we become the equals of the whites in property and in business you will see that we have better recognition.” “Do you think that the negro is the equal of the white in natural ability?” “I do,” replied the African Congressman. “History has shown that the sons of Ham are as strong the sons of Shem and Japhet in every way. It was once thought that the negro could not advance in learn- ing beyond a certain point, but the know that the negro is the equal of the white, and, in many cases,superior. I think gradually equal and eventually distance the whites. The reason for this is that we have got to start from the bottom. We have nothing, and we must fight for Ty inch. We are v ambitioi We will not stop until we get to the top. A Mixed Race. “What will be the future of the two races? Will the negro ever unite with the whites?" “TI believe,” said Mr. Murray, “that there will eventually be a mixed race in-this coun- try, made up of negro and white blood. When the negro becomes rich and educated the objection to him will wear away and there will be intermarriages between the objections to such jes. Th think that the only ground of marriage should be a — The objection comes from the this will disappear as the negro in property and other things.” “Yes,” replied Mr. Murray, “T and the indignation against Douglass ents so strong because he, to a large extent, rep- resented the colored le of States, and the fact that he married Set man of white blood was considered by our Deople a slap at the women of his own race. They thought it meant that he could not find a colored woman good enough for him and hence had to take a white one.” The Colontsation of the Negro. “How about negro colonization, Mr. Murray? Will such schemes ever succeed?” “No,” was the reply. “The negroes have never been in favor of such colonization, nor have such echemes ever been engin- eered by people who have not wanted ta make money out of it. There wes a move- ment about fifteen years ago to take the colored people to Kansas, and there have been propositions to send them to Brazil and other places. The negroes are in the Unite@ States to stay, and if they could have ‘free transportation to Liberia or to Africa they would not take it. I do not think people of the south want to get rid of the negro, and I think if we are let alone that we will work out our destiny to the satisfaction of every one.” A Look at Fred. Dougiass. Speaking of the future of the colored Face, Fred Douglass is one of those who believe that the two races will eventually come to- gether. He says that the color line will eventuallly be obliterated and that the only salvation for the negro is in union with the white. Douglass is about three-fourths col- ored himself, and his second wife is as white as any woman in the United States. She was his private secretary when he married her and is, I am told, very fond of her husband. She is twenty years younger than he and lives with her husband near Washington. Fred Douglass is rich. He is said to be worth in the neighborhood of $200,000. He got $7,000 annually as marshal of the District, and he has for a long time received $100 a night for his lectures. His books have paid him well and he has so in- vested his money as to be well fixed. He is now seventy-six years old and he has failed within the last three or four years. He has lost weight and strength, but intellectually Blanche K. Bruce. he is now strong as ever, and his last letter in reply to Senator Ingalls was as trong a paper as he has ever written. Senator Bruce and His Mississippi Farm. I saw Blanche K. Bruce on the floor of the U. S. Senate the other day. He looks hardly a day older than when he walked up to be sworn in on the arm of Roscoe Conk- ling. He is now devoting his time to his estate in Mississippi and to lecturing. He has made money in both pursuits and he told me not long ago that he was dividing up his Mississippi property Into small farms and was selling it on installments to the colored people. He has built a church and school house on the plantation, and he be- Neves with Mr. Murray that the future of the negro lies In his education and in the accumulation of property. Ex-Senator Brace’s Marriage. Ex-Senator Bruce now lives in Washington in a fashionable part of the northwest. His wife isa beautiful woman, nearly as white in complexion as many of our Washing- ton society ladies. He met her while the two were at college together at Oberlin. He married her while he was in the Senate, and the event was one of two senatorial weddings which took place at Cleveland, Ohio, one summer. Mrs. Bruce was a teacher in one of the Cleveland public schools. She had been very well educated, and she is, in fact, as accomplished a lady as you will find anywhere. She dresses well, looks well and has great natural refinement The last time I saw her was at one of Clara Barton's receptions, and she was as- sisting Miss Barton to receive her guests. The other wedding that took place that summer was that of Senator Don Cameron, who married Miss Lizzie Sherman, the daughter of Judge Sherman of Cleveland, anda niece of the Senator. It was a grand affair, and its story took up many columns the newspapers. Mrs. Cameron also lives in Washington, and her old-fashioned home, just aboveBlaine’s, is now being re- paired for the coming season. RANK G. CARPENTER. eee Corea‘’s Seven Wonders. The seven wonders of Corea are a hot mineral spring near Kin Shantao, which ts capable of curing any disease, no matter how serious; two wells, one at each end of | the peninsula,which have the peculiar char- acteristic that when one is full the other is empty; a cold cave, from which issues con- | stantly an ice-cold wind of great force; a pine forest, which cannot be eradicated; a “hovering ‘stone’ of massive rectangular shape, free on all sides; a hot stone, which has been lying from time immemorial on the summit of a hil! and evolving a glowing heat, and a “sweating Buddha,” on which not a blade of grass or a flower or tree has flourished for thirty years. —— The only animal which, whether wild or tame, is invarlably the friend of man, is the South American puma. Dogs and cats are mortal enemies of human beings whenever they are allowed to lapse into their natural wild state. FOR RENT, FURNISHED What Sometimes Happens if Owners Lease Their Furnishings, MARE If COLD-BLOODED BUSINESS. Then There is the Tenant's Side of the Question. TRUE TALES OF TRIALS. HERE IS A LADY in this ity who wants to rent a house Considering the great long lists that the advertising columns of The Star offer to the pubic eye every afternoon that would not seem >, to be a task present- (28 any special trouble or diffcul- = Yet this particu- lar lady, whi by the way, a very Particular ebsa ete =“ ees who has ideas that she is deter. to carry out, even if by doing so she will be carried out herself from the last house she inspects. Well, this particu- lar lady owns up that che has entered and looked over just exactly ninety houses within a certain prescribed area in the West End and she has not found yet just exactly what she wants and her family needs. When this statement was made the other day to a circle of people who had been vis- iting where the house hunting problem had been the uppermost topic, and was Ukely to remain so, too, for some time yet, all the gossipers commenced to tell house stories. Of course most of the true tales found their piquancy from the fact that names, prominent ones at that, were freely mentioned. All the stories were actual occurrences or experiences, and some of them were rich. So were the people who were the heroes and heroines of them, but you would not think so from some cf the small economies shown. Rented Furnished. it fs @ great fashion in this city, per- haps more than any other, to rent your house furnished, go to a hotel te live, and get rid of the sorrows and joys of house- keeping for a while or to go to Europe. Some of the most particular friendships in the world have been ruined by this process. A wise woman who liked all her friends so that she could not bear to fall out with any of them would not rent her house to anybody with whom she had any acquaintance. In fact if one rents his or her household gods at all it is much the wisest course to have all the business part of the trans- action conducted by real estate dealers. Each person in the deal keeps inventory of the articles in the house and at the close of the lease these articles or their equiva- lent must be restored to the owner. The owner and the occupant are not, unless in exceptional cases, ever likely to thoroughly agree on the amount of damage or ordi- nary wear and tear that the house has suffered meanwhile, for the lessees are apt to think that the rent was so exorbitant that it paid for abuse as well as use and the owners go on bemoaning their losses to the end of their days. Both sides in these cases really have strong arguments and many times it is the tenant who really has and deserves the best of it. Acts of Vandalism. It does not seemt possible that people who rent handsomely furnished houses and have been accustomed to elegant surroundings all their lives could be guilty of the acts of vandalism committed by their orders or with their permission in houses in this city to which the owners have but recently re- turned. One special case which came to the attention of the owner of one of the most artistic houses in the West End has attracted no end of talk. This house is filled from parlor to garret with furniture picked up by the owner in all parts of the world. Most of it has an historic value and mere of it represents the patient labor of skilled artisans, wood carvers, etc., in the most famous marts of Europe. The dining room was perhaps most admired of any room in the house. The square table with its magnificently carved edge and legs had a surface polished to the highest degree of perfection. Imagine the horror of the own- er the other day when she found a big hole bored in the middle of it. Last winter's tenant preferred a round to a square table and so they covered over this beautiful top with a round one made of pine boards and screwed it in the middle to keep i firmly in position. It is very fortunate for these people that they have gone elsewhere to live or they would have found some dif- ficulty in getting another house of this character in which to leave so many char- acteristic marks of their little regard for what belonged to others. Two Things Lacking. Just so it would be for another family high up in the society whirl if the story of how particular they were should ever get out. The madame, after finding the house she wanted, took the inventory of what it contained and went carefully all over the big mansion from the front gate to the uppermost roof window. It was no easy task, but she was quite sure that she pao ing the inventory mention: not find ye ald, she knew something about Washington's furnished houses, Her tri- umph was ‘great when she discovered that there was no front door mat and no starch pan in the kitchen closet. The owner sub- sequently explained that the front door mat was under the front steps in a closet put there for that purpose, and that never hav- ing had any washing done in her house all the minor requirements of the laundry had never yet been bought, but as their pres- ence would make the house “entirely fur- nished” they would be at once procured. There would scarcely be one woman in a hundred as particular as that in selecting a furnished house, but this lady was, and she triumphed in ‘every detail, getting ex- actly what she wanted in every room of the house. The Tenant's Side. The reverse of this careful attention to detail is the ordinary characteristic of those | who rent furnished houses. They give little time to looking about, if the general appear- | ance is satisfactory, and after they move in they really begin to furnish. Some very excellent tenants are obliged to suffer a great deal from the owners of the property. There is one rather stately | structure in this city owned by a family quite important in society many years ago. That house never changes occupants but that shortly afterward a daughter of the owner does not arrive to make a visit to the new tenant. Her stay is usually timed to in- clude several weeks of the gay season, when | she presumes that her presence will cast a sort of protecting halo over her mother’s tenants and make their social path straight, and it all goes in the rent. There are landlords and landladies, too, who never seem to accord the tenant any right but that of paying the rent. They make life miserable for them and use the | house as freely as if they were still in pos- session of it and the tenant was a guest. There is a funny story told of a wealthy bachelor who rented a furnished house in the west end, and whén he moved out the day his lease was up said: “Oh, you don’t! know what I have suffered from that wo- | man. I used to be afraid to open my eyes! in the morning for fear that dreadful crea- ture would loom up. Get in the house? Why she knew more ways of getting in than I could find to bar up. She did her own repairing, that is, if she could not actually do the work herself she stood by the man all day while he did it, and after the ceiling cracked over my bed I lived in mortal terror of waking up and her some fine morning perched up there on a ladder mending up the split. I am ulad to be moving—I am glad that I lived to be able to do it. A Boarding House Romance. Quite a little romance took place re- cently in a big house down town. It was not quite in the society district, but very close to it. A lady with many charms of mind and person, especially the latter, opened a finely furnished boarding house. Some of the best known business houses had the contract to make the house beautiful, and they did it. The smiling landlady took Possession, the attractive furnishings, to say nothing of the attractive mistress, did @ rushing business, and the house was soon full. Here is where the romance begins. One day a gentleman, an ex-governor of a western state, stood on the threshold and met his fate in the person of the buxom (the word used advisedly after consulta- tion with the furniture house) landlady, and before another half ton of coal was used in the kitchen range the ex-governor had proposed, was accepted and the board- erg commenced to feel that there was nothing left for them to do but to face the cold, cold world again and look for another home. There was so much sweetness in the air that there was no need of desserts those days. Rumors of the ante-nuptial gortract were wafted through the house. The ex-governor, with a liberal view of the rights of women, had agreed to sign a Pa- per giving his wife one-quarter of all he made in cold cash every year to do exactly as she pleased with. The wedding day was set, and away went the landlady and the ex-governor. The boarders cleared out the day before, and of course such a romantic episode in the humdrum life of a boarding house mistress was the talk of every house in the neighborhood. In the little sympo- sium at which a Star writer heard all these choice bits of gossip the other day this tale was told by a remarkably pretty young woman, and was received with great attention and applause. While she was telling it a young gentleman in the aud- jence allowed a change of countenance, be- ginning with an amused smile, to develop into the broadest kind of a grin, before he proceeded to knock all the romance out of {t by quietly remarking that, barring the marriage incident, the story was all straight. It was not a proposal of mar- Miage that made the landlady clear out so suddenly, but the accumulation of the bills for the furniture, that were brought to her forgetful mind every hour of the day by the collectors. She could not face that kind ‘of music, and she made up the matrimonial nonsense to cover up her retreat. The next morning the various firms whose goods had been loaned out in this way came and hauled them away, and in a short time “For rent” had resumed its accustomed Place in the window. Cause for Offense. From the New York World. “Do you know why every one seems to dislike Charlotte Esteys so?” “I suppose it's because she is never willing to say anything unpleasant about any one. It makes her very uninteresting, you see.” ————-+0+-—___ He Was a Born Grumbler. From the Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Youngwife (entering her mother’s house with tears)—"Mamma, mamma, I’ve— I've—come home to stay. I—I—can’t—bear— to live a—ny more with Edward. He's too unreasonable!” Mrs. Oldwife—“Why, what has he done, Bessie?” Mrs. Youngwife—He’s so inconsistent. Yesterday he was mad because the rolls were not cooked enough and today he stormed because they were burnt!” ——__+e+____ Astonishing Ignorance. From the New York Weekly. First Waterman—“You had some city boarders at your place last summer, didn’t you?” Second Waterman—“I did, an’ a greener lot o’ landlubbers you never saw. Why, durn my eyes, you mayn’t believe it, but it’s a actual fact some o’ them didn’t know a bark from a barkentine,” #0 ADVERTISERS. ‘Gvertisers are urgently re- ‘Quested to hand in advertisements the day prior to publication, in order that insertion may be as- sured. Want advertisements will be received up to noon of the day of publication, precedence being Siven to those first received. HUMOR IN CONGRESS. To Point a Moral and Adorn a Tale QUAINT AND WITTY ANECDOTES, Though But Little Used in General Argument. MANY GOOD STORY TELLERS. ‘Written for The Evening Star. N THE SOUTH AND in the north the most popular orators seem to be those who tell the best storics. To be pleasing, how- ever, the story must be pat to the point at issue. One of the in Congress was ‘Washington C. Whit- thorne of Tennessee. On the stump he was invincible. The stor- ies flew from him like corn popping from a griddle, and each was pertinent to the issue presented. He could adapt himself to all circumstances and conditions, and have ‘a story that would exactly fit every niche in his argument. This adaptability kept him in Congress for many years, but in his speeches on the floor of the House he dis- pensed with anecdotes and depended upon argument alone. He found it the most effective. At first glance this Congress would seem to have more than its proportion of story tellers. The stories, however, bear no com- parison to the number of speeches made in the House. Anecdotal illustrations are really very few. Some are stale, while others are quaint and original. All are ac- ceptable, for without them discussion or debate would be dull indeed. The first story told on the floor this session came from Mr. Cooper of Florida. The House had been in session for ten days before the anecdotal vein was revealed. Cooper's story illustrated precisely a point which he was making in an anti-silver speech. He could not rec- oncile himself to vote for a measure which would make 57 cents worth of silver a dol- lar. If this was done he thought his peo- ple ought to receive a dollar for every 57 cents worth of cotton, tobacco, yams and oranges. He did not say that he supported such @ proposition, but informed the House that he would manage to hold his conscience in abeyance. “An acquaintance of mine,” said Mr. Cooper, “was cow attorney for a certain railroad. His duties were to go around and resist claims for cattle killed on the track. He resorted to legal quibbles and delays, and continued in service about three years when the railroad company discharged him. Thereupon he became a very active and zealous promoter of like claims on the other side. One day as he was addressing the jury in a justice’s court he became very severe not only upon the company but upon the attorney representing the company. Finally, the other counsel could stand it no longer and threw his record at him. “Didn't you for three years represent this railroad and resist just such claims as this, doing what I am doing, only a good deal more so?” Whereupon the indignant cow attorney replied: “Sir, for three years I held my conscience in abeyance, but now it is broke loose.”” To clinch the anecdote, Mr. Cooper said that he had not held his conscience in abey- ance, but if he was to do it he wanted see some tangible benefit for his people. The next anecdote was related by the Hon. John C. Hutcheson of Texas. It was an old timer. Josiah Patterson of Tennes- see had happened to remark in his anti- silver speech that we had come to the fork of two roads. Mr. Hutcheson was making a silver speech and said that if this was so he would stand where the colored man in the congregation stood. The minister said “that broad road am de road that leadeth to destruction, and straight and rar- row am de path that leadeth to eternal dam- nation,” and these were two roads men- tioned ‘in Scripture. At this an old darkey in the congregation jumped to his feet shouting, “Fo’ God! If dat am de case den dis yere nigger takes straight to de woods.” Mr. Hutcheson said that it might be that he should be obliged to take straight to the woods, but if he did he wanted the demo- cratic party to hew the way, and he wanted the gentleman from Tennessee to be pres- ent to chop along the line and help his party through the wilderness. The next yarn came from the lips of that classic scholar of Harvard, Dr. William Everett of Massachusetts. He was amazed at the determination of some gentlemen of all three parties, democrats, republicans and populists, to find politics somewhere in some part of the silver discussion. They had a wonderful nose for the politi- cal cat in every bag of meal presented to them. It reminded him of what happened in a certain poor religious congregation in England. The congregation wanted to pro- cure new hymn books, but they were very poor and could not afford to pay for them at the ordinary prices. They understood, however, that a certain great advertising house, a business house that made patent medicines, was willing to firnish them hymn books at a penny each if they would eo ing eerts e ey thoi would be harm, that no special tt they might have a few advertisements bound up with Watts and Doddri Immediately th feet and in a few seconds were find themselves singing— Hark! the herald angels sing Beecham’s pills are just the thing. The house broke into uncontrollable | St. Jo used to say, cheered laughter and Dr. Everett to the echo. A laughable story was told by the Hon. | home!” familiar hymn. e congregation arose to their | Da. aghast to of the opponents of free coinage. They blew off every pound of steam in their boiler at the first start and had drifted into the rush- son the shore to get up steam again. Jerry's story took magnificently. The House laughed at it so long that he spent Jeane i,made & gold standard, ears People would be reduced to the Conditions of the Russian serfs or Mexican Peons. The bondholders would have ali the money in the country, {nto their on ft sings, W. J. Talbert of South Carolina a day or | While the Honorable Charles L. Moses of two afterwards. He said be had listened | Georgia was speaking for free silver he was with a great deal of earnestness to much annoyed by questions from Gen. Gros- enor, @ leading republican from Ohio. Mr. Grosvenor was very with one of Congressman Pence. upon both sides of the question. He had listened so seriously and patiently that sometimes he had been in the position of the little boy whose mother in making him the firet pair of trousers put the front in the rear. The little fellow started for school the next morning, and walked cheerfully along until he looked down and discovered the situation, when he burst out crying and whi “I don’t like these pants, I don’t | know whether I am going to school or going back home. The South Carolinian’s statement was re- celved with great laughter. Not long afterwards in referring to the desperate efforts of the bankers to choke off the silver men, Mr. Talbert said, that charity forbade that he should say that was influenced by their action. Every man, however, could think, if he dic not speak. To illustrate his idea, he said that down in South Carolina there was a man who hired a lawyer once to conduct a 5 i pened and finally the old farmer said, “Well, judge, 1f you won't let me won't you let me think?” “Why, certainly,” replied “Well, judge,” he said, all these lawyers are @ great set of ras- cais.” In referring to the allegations that the Sherman act had caused bedevilment in the F horse, went out to meet the general. He rode up he him and thought that Kilpatrick knew im. “Good morning, rai gracefully, Then turning to one of his men who was riding a very “Get off that horse.” Addressing Roark, he continued, “Get down off your horse.” Roark did as he was toid, and then Kilpatrick said, “Change your saddles.” Turning to Roark again he said, “You get up on the poor horse.” Roark did as he was commanded, and Kilpatrick started off. Turning toward him Roark said: “Can I speak to you?” “Yes,” replied the gen- eral; “talk quick. I must be going.” “Well,” said Roark, “I just want to say to you that I have been swapping horses for forty years, but this is the first time — traded without I had any say in So it was with the people. They had to swap their money for gold, and they had no Congressman Harter. say at all because of the legislation that was forced upon them. In referring to Mr. Harter’s speech, Mr. Taibert said that it reminded him of the man who was inquiring of a little boy standing on the road the way to a certain house. The little fellow replied: “Well | you go this way half a mile to another ; oad; then take that road and go about a quarter of a mile and you will find a biind path which will lead you to a swamp; then 0 up into the middle of the swamp until you find a tremendous big tree; then go up into the fork of that tree, and then if you ain't lost I am dod rotted if I ain’t a Dutchma t, like the talk of my friend from Ohio. I tried to follow him, but he first took me into a swamp, then into the fork of a tree, and finally I was completely lost.’” Mr. Talbert in his speech said that he had never written a speech, as he did not like to be bothered with notes. He under- took to make one with notes once and got them all stirred up together and made a complete failure. It reminded him of what happened to the old preacher down south, who told the boys what portion of the Scrip- ture he intended to read for the morning lesson. The boys, finding the place, glued two pages together. The next morning the old preacher began to read at the bottom of one page: “And Noah, when he was a hundred ears old, took to himself a wife, who engl ‘hen turning over the leaf: “A hundred and thirty cubits long and forty cubits wide, and made entirely of her wood, and pitched within and with- This puzzled the good old preacher. He took off his spectacles, rubbed them and verified the verse. “Well,” he said, after drawing a long breath, “brethren I had not seen {t In this here book before, but I know it ts true or it would not have been here. It ts an evi- | dence of the assertion made tu another portion of the Holy Bible that man ts fear- fully and wonderfully made.” It was an old story, but one that threw the House into convulsions. On the next day Jerry Simpson used a story to illustrate a point fn his silver speech. He said he had been disappointed at the poverty of the case of the opposttion. It reminded him of a story about a gentle- man who bullt a steamboat on the Missour! river. It was at a time when there was grert rivalry to see which coul have the louder whistle. The man built a steamboat with a seven-foot boller and put on ft a nine-foot whistle. When he blew the whis- tle the first time all the steam went out of the boiler. This seemed to be the condition continued Mr. Talbert, “is about | his questions. Finally, Moses turned to him and said: of the olf negro’s terrapin down in Georgia. He cut the head off the terrapin and the next morning found him crawling around the “ "Good God,’ the old darkey remarked, “that fool don’t know that he is Gone dead yet." The laughter and applause was terrific, and Gen. Grosvenor made no further at- tempt to interrupt Moses. One of the best stories told in the debate on the silver bill came from that brilliant Lafe Pence of Colo- rado. He said that the people in his country could not discern the difference between the dollar of the treasury of today and the dol- jar of the treasury under John Sherman. To illustrate this fact he said that back in Marion county, Ind., there is @ little town on the Johnson county line, of about 300 people. A stranger came into the town one @ little white church and crowd going He noticed that it was a Lutheran church. He went on and in the next block saw a little brown church and was to A “What do you mean?” asked the landlord. The stranger told him what he had seen. but over in the brown chuurch they think that Adam was a bad egg from the start.” The majority of good stories told én the House come from the south and west. They are usually original and given in Gialect. But in the crowd of new members who have entered the Fifty-third Congress there are none who begin to approach John Allen. His drawling intonation in detailing life in Mississippi touches every congressional midriff end throws the House into convul sive merriment. Pen Picture of the Senate With Sena- tor Stewart at Work. E WAS QUIET FOR ‘| he once, was Senator 7 & Peffer, at 3 o'clock Wednesday after- and in consequence the ultra passive affair. At best, t’ Uttle of a thrilling character in nary proceedings in front of the desk of Vice President of the United States, at this particular time the atmosphere was heavy with dullness. There were but nine Senators on Mr. Peffer’s side of the cham- ber, while but twelve of the opposition seats were occupied. What more natural, then, that : ej i ! , Hl Hf be stut to disconcert the Nevada, for with a glance full of im- patience and a voice high, dry and hard, he shouted: “Mr. Presi—(the remainder of the title was not given audibly because of hoarseness) “I deny that the public senti- ment ts with the advocates of repeal!Where does this news come from? Where do we get our information? Their news comes through the subsidized, commercial press of the gold trust, while our correspondents live in this country, and not in Europe. They are producers, not speculators! ust then the Roar- ing Recitationist of the Rockies paused and turned proudly to see what Mr. Hill thought of that! He learned immediately and exactly, because he saw the ex-gov- ernor of the empire state paying most careful attention to— The Evening Star. “The idea!” shouted Mr.Stewart,“that it is the sentiment of the people! Why, I tell you, sir, such a clatm isthe climax of ab- sir, such a claim is the climax of al Zurdity.* "To prove his assertion, and pos- sibly to give his throat a rest, Mr. Stewart thereupon began reading a score or more of telegrams and letters, and as he read, the pages exchanged confidences upon the rostrum steps, the galleries yawned, and | the doorkeepers slumbered. Gen. Palmer | wheeled about in his chair, and after tak- | ing a chew of tobacco, arose and disappear- ed into the clork rooms. Then Mr. Hill | Vanished, followed by Me. Voorhees, and car the call o y then—there came the natorial courtesy prevailed, of course, but there was that flaming force in Senator Stewart's eye which proclaimed beyond question that the roll call had not been indu:ged in as a mere recreation. And then, waving @ page of manuscript on high, he paying his respects to the press. As a starter, he read from a letter he had receiv- ed,in which the writer declared:"All the fas- | cination, all the charm and all the force of | your superb eloquence is elim!nated irom | your speeches by wooden-headed report- ers.” And as the Senator read the com- plaint, he seemed to believe the charge was a just one. The idea was a god-send, be- cause It gave the gentleman an opportunity to tell how, in spite of the speculators of Wall street, notwithstanding the hopes of the. English hoarders of gold, and al- though the minions of a bought-up press were against them, the silver advocates would never surrender. They might be overpowered, they could yield to capture and outrage, but that they would give up was out of the question! eins At a Venture. From Truth. Hotel clerk—“The gentleman in the sili hat and sack coat has forgotten to register where he is from.” Proprieter—"“Make it Brooklyn.”