| Show how a Sec secretary y was made miserable 1 I HAVE to congressmen take really more I 1 re interest in what the congles con congressmen gres amen do than the congressmen tho the secretaries carefully weigh we agh earn each word and act to det determine er what the folks hack back homo home ore going to think about it ono one secretary at a dyed in tho the wool republican lad always boasted that his chief was a regular of the regulars these doggoned iloR gonod insurgents would never get that congress mans vote you betcher life well when they wore were lining up for cannon that congressman did vote alth tho the insurgents the secretary was plunged into deepest gloom lie ile under stand it ile ho treated his bis chief with marked reserve for several days ile he avoided the secretaries Is s whom h he 0 had made hla boast to hut hu t ono one afternoon rl anoon lie he chanced upon a group of them in the hall of the house building how about it they chirruped chirrup ed ilow how about lt it old the unhappy secretary gave them one haughty look 1 have aye nothing to say ho he declared wit with it marked asperity and marched down the corridor ills chief have done it one halt half so go well the part that the blind chaplain of the house takes in tho the proceedings gives a touch of austerity and solemnity for or a moment or two each day tit at noon just a few minutes es before tho the hour or of 12 Is reached rev henry N couden la Is led into the chamber by a pago page the chaplain feels his bis way way w with ith his cane as the boy guides him lie he sits site quietly till the speaker announces that the chaplain wll will offer prayer there Is a silence while tho the ministers voice Is raised fr in supplication As coq soon as he be Is done the page comes forward and the chaplain taps his way out of the chamber again the quiet that had for a little fallen ov over e r the statesmen la is quickly dissipated a as s the mill begins to grind |
