Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1889 — A Good Time in tile Coal Cellar. [ARTICLE]

A Good Time in tile Coal Cellar.

Senator Hearst, of California, doesnot appear to find much * enjoyment in his wealth. His wife, in the family’s Washington mansion, gave a reception which made even the extravagantpeople of the capital open their eyes. It is said that the flowers alone cost $25,000. Moving uncomfortable and alone through the glittering throng, the master of the house met a wellknown newspaper correspondent. Said the wealthy Senator eagerly: “Get a few good fellows together, and we’ll go to some quiet room together and enjoy a bottle of wine and some cigars together. ” There were whispers in the ears of two other correspondents, and then, led by the Senator, the quartette marched through the big housefrom parlor to attic. In every room there was a chattering throng, or a wrap-divesting bevy, or piles of hats and overcoats. With a sigh the Senator turned backward. He descended to the cellar. Beside the coal-hole a colored servant arranged a table and chairs and brought wine and tobacco. “Now,” said the millionaire, with a sigh of relief, “we can have a good time here without being interrupted by thoseidiots up-stairs. I can’t see the fun in my wife’s rackets.”— New York World.