| Show IN CONGRESS our washington correspondent has been studying the political ef fusions of congressmen and has concluded they are abt classical he relates how during the last days of the session just ended he members indulged in measures representative cushman of washington whose reputation as a wit is s ccone to none in he house ia the counsel 0 a speech read some poetry which ho said should be dedicated to the democratic party at least to representative cochran new york aho vho s its orator and prophet the lines ho read were i keep out athe past for its highways are damp with malarial gloomy its gardens are sere and its forests are drear and everywhere molders a tomb out of the past it is lonely and barren and bleak to the view its fires have brown cold Us stories are old turn turn to the present the new today leads you up to the ps that are kissed by the radiant sun today shows no tomb lifes hopes are in bloom and today holds a prize to be won this caused representative alnes tp como back at mr clubman with a dainty bittle piece of poetry which he attributed to one of his constituents entitled when democracy will die these lines have a reminiscent flavor and by changing the last four of ahem it can be made applicable to most any old thing they read when democracy will die when the lion cats grass liko ap ox and the swallows the whale when the terrapin knits woolen socks and the hare ts outrun by the snail when serpents valk upright like men and doodle bugs travel like frogs when the grasshopper feeds on the hen and feathers are found on hogs when thoma cats saito in the air and elephants roost upon trees when insects in summer are rare and snuff never makos people sneeze when tho fish creep over dry land and mules on velocipedes ride when foxes lay eggs in the sand and women in dress take no pride when no longer drink beer and girls get tn preaching on time when the billy oat butts form the rear and treason no longer Is crime when humming ards bray alilce an ass and limburger smells like cologne when plowshares are made out of glass and hearts of are stone and adol on the hydraulic ram then the democratic party will be bend and this country pot worth a d n |
