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Show V."asl.;r. ton ffC'l. i:-:re f ".y extracts from a CL,..vt.. . i 1 r..:. 1 , t.r.ce le-tween le-tween f.-nator llasoa of Il'.ir.oia and the : Tr. t: "L.J yoa hear about t'liat charge that I sent twenty tons of furr.l.-re l.orv.e by rr.all under my frank?" asled tl.e Senator. Sen-ator. "Yen." said the President. "U It true?" . f 'N6, rt Uii'i true; "but Firtce It fattie ; out in the paper the Uason family la I ail pu-cd up t th.'r.x the puUlc credit us with having: twenty tons of furnl-I furnl-I ture. I'm not worrying about the fur-i fur-i nature, t can set that home all ri?ht enou-hr but if you hear of ten Or twelve ;ban beinj received out at Waukesan ! witri boys and grirltf in them yoti need ' not be (TirrTised.- It costs r?oney to buy raUron "J ticl.t for a family mine,- and u.i franS:ei furniture charge has gtvea me atf iuei." . . t "Say." raid the Senator, "that fellow t-llly Lorrimer,- the Reprewntattve from Illinois, is a smart mn." . "Indeed he is," replied the President. . "lie's a smart man," eotrtmued the enntor. "He ha svefity-tw eons." . "Whatf" shouted the President. "That fe' fmpofaclhle." "Oh, no; he's trot seventy-two eont: eaj-s so hirnself." "Why." said the- President, "he told me' he eftry had terr." . - " . . "I Jtnow," assented Mason, "but that was before you wrote your 'race suicide' letter." . .!. ''By the way, Mason,' said the President, Presi-dent, "how would you like to have me give you a battleship to take that family fam-ily of yours home In?" "First rate." replied the Senator. "A man gave me a street car out tn Chicago Chi-cago once, an the children have used It for a playhouse ever since. They're getting pretty tired of it, and If you've got a battleship that you don't need; and that wori't break, X think the children would enjoy it" ' ' "I tell you. Mason." said the President, Presi-dent, "these bachelors do not stand) the strain. Now, there's Moody of the navy. He hai got to go South for rest. He's all broken up with his. social duties, lit gave one dinner. The hotel people got it up for him. Mr. Dewey invited the people. A file ef marines was turned out to keep tilings ln order, and all be had to do was to eat. And yet the strain used him up for two days, while we married men g around Joyously and never get time to be tired." . "Tes," said a solemn man in the lobby of the Arlington hotel tonight, "I am i going to quit drinking.: it's up to me." "What's the matter V asked a., friend. "Why, last night as I was looking out of rry window, I saw a purple xebra climbing' a telegraph pole backwards. If it had ben an ordinary striped zebra climbing frontwards I would not have noticed much, but a purple one Climbing backwards reminded me it is time to quit." ' f. |