Show snn c At the National Capital Gossip of People and Events Gathered in Washington I Davis Speech as a Trust Destroyer IS MY 0 > rAt rA-t y AS NOTHING of great importance has come before congress mom hers > are putting In their spare time between sessions gossiping and chatting chat-ting about Incidents of the last session ses-sion most of the discussions being about the great tariff fight A Joke on Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas has caused much amusement among the members some of whom heard It recently re-cently for tho first time His speech net session as a trust baiter Is chor shed as a monumental example of what can be done with tho English language when ono actually tries The history of the making of that speech is this After breaking all precedents of the senate by making his first speech 11 days after he had been sworn In asa as-a member of thai body Senator Davis I rested on his laurels Ho went out to Arkansas leaving his long chor Ished antitrust bill in the hands of the senate having warned that body that ho not only wanted action on it but wanted it quickly When ho finally Ln ia J WASHINGTON A mighty funny v thing happened in Washington recently re-cently and a certain man has not got through explaining things to his wife yet This man was in Oregon on a business trip a few days before tho fight between Johnson and Ketchell at Colma He had expected to return re-turn to the wife of his bosom by a certain date but Instead of that sent a telegram stating that he would have tt remain in Portland Ore at least two days longer than at first scheduled sched-uled He reached Washington accordIng accord-Ing to his revised schedule and his wife was all the happier to greet him because of his remaining away a little lit-tle bit longer The other night one of the enterprising city papers gave a movingpicture exhibition of that particular par-ticular fight in Colma This Just returned re-turned Washington man told his wife i that ho would like to have her go i down town with him and look at the i pictures and she went The films I hadnt been running off but a few mIn OOP i F horses laugh and somo say there IF I Is such R thing as a horse laugh the noble animal properly labeled mans best friend can utter a merry ha ha over the news recently given out by the department of agriculture that war has been declared on the loco weed No longer are the mustang and the cayuso of the plains to become plumb locoed If the bureau of plant Industry has Its way The term plumb lo coed has been a sort of stock phrase In the range literature ever since tho cowboy first noted tho peculiar actions of a horse cow or sheep resulting from an overindulgence In the locoweed loco-weed which abounds In tho range country coun-try from Texas to Montana Tho word loco is of Spanish origin meaning crazy and has been popular ° ti6 EgATOQIA ° FT c S lYHISKI R k ti + 4 Hg national capital was stirred THE from center to circumference recently re-cently when tho news came hurMIng over the cables from the far east that former VicePresident Fairbanks had shaved off tho chin whisker that he has worn since early manhood It recalled re-called to oldtimers men of the past who disported hirsute adornments the jneinory of which has become a part of the traditions of tho town There was former Senator Mitchell of Oregon Ore-gon whose board dropped to his waistline waist-line and Senator Mitchell of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin whose multitudinous whiskers were a topic of discussion In the discourse dis-course of nearly every capital guide and Senator Peffer of Kansas who fro l i ently curried his long black beard came back to Washington ho was met upon his arrival by Senator Johnson of Alabama who exhibited a mournful countenance and spoke in funereal tonesWell Well Im up against it this time ho said to Davis with a voice betray ing a final resignation to a hard fate What Is tho matter chirped tho big senator from Arkansas who Is something of an optimist despite his melancholy speeches on the general stato of the union That 30day rule has ruined my pet bill said Johnson Thirtyday rule What Is that Thundered Davis Havent you heard about it replied re-plied Johnson meekly Why If you fall to get action on your bill within 30 days after you introduce It It is dead dend Whats that shouted Davis almost al-most frantic with rage Do you mean to tell mo my antitrust bill Is dead Ill hold my colleague Clarke responsible to the people of Arkansas if that bill died in my absence He dashed off without another word In search of his colleague Naturally Senator Clarke soothed his workedup feelings by assuring him that his bill was safe but Senator Davis had had his scare and then and there began tho preparation of his second speech on his bill which upset the traditions i and dignity of the senate Caught by Moving Picture Machine I utes when the wlfo yanked her husbands hus-bands arm and said You see that man In the front seat there He certainly I cer-tainly does look like you The man glanced at tho front row indicated and cold shivers ran up and down his backbone It never had entered his bend that there would bo anything but just the prize fight to be seen and ho realized in a second that the man on the front seat not only looked like him but was him The man with a jerky llttlo laugh declared of course that was just absurd and that ho couldnt see the slightest resemblance re-semblance to himself In the man on the front seat The wife kept on watching however and positively declined de-clined to leave tho scene and her mouth got setter and sotter as she began to realize how her husband had h lieu to ner ueroro the end or the third round her husband simply had to acknowledge that the man on the front seat was himself sure enough He suggested a little supper down town to his wife which she accepted and then he suggested a new long sealskin coat which she also accepted and i furthermore she got a number of other oth-er handsome presents which she would not be possessed of today bad not that husband of hers remained over to see the fight in Colma Horse Laughs at the Loco Weed War I ly applied to the disease which robs an animal of Its muscular coordination coordina-tion causing It to do all sorts of fancy antics and finally results In tho animal ani-mal starving Itself to death The bureau of plant Industry has been Investigating the purple and white loco weed Ono of the peculiar characteristics of it Is that the pods when dry and full of seeds rattle asa as-a person passes through a patch making mak-ing a sound that resembles the warnIng warn-ing of a rattlesnake Ordinarily neither neith-er horse cow nor sheep will eat the weed If It can find any other food Locoweed eating becomes a sort of habit with an animal once It has tasted of it The operation of the weed on tho system of an animal scientifically bears out the fiction which ascribes to a plumb locoed animal all kinds of fool antics The Investigations of the bureau Indicate In-dicate that the purple loco Is more poisonous than tho white loco Horses eat tho purplo loco almost exclusively while the white loco Is eaten by all kinds of animals Barium Is found In many loco plants and Its connection with the poisonous effects is still under un-der investigation I Fairbanks Shave Recalls Few Others I Inside of his coat and many others too numerous to mention Ono day Senator Mitchell of Oregon Ore-gon had his beard removed and shortly short-ly thereafter proceeded to the floor of the senate A bill was up for consideration consid-eration In which ho was Interested lIe rose to his feet and addressed the chair Senator Mnnderson ot Ne braska was presiding He glanced at the man addressing him and was about to call for the sergeantatarms when ho was prompted by a clerk who had sized up the situation Sena torn smiled In a perfectly senatorial way while those In the galleries roared Time bearded Atatesuinn has gone out of style apparently Only one such Is In President Tnfts cabinet lie IH James Wilson secretary of agrlcul turo There aro only a few bearded lawmakers In tho senate among them Nelson of Minnesota Burrows of Kan PUS Cullom of Illinois halo of Maine co ott of West Virginia and Stephen n of Wisconsin all of them of the r I school |