Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1903 — CONDENSED STORIES. [ARTICLE]

CONDENSED STORIES.

They Wanted to Baa a Bigger Man Than the President. Representative Fitzgerald of New iTork had the pleasure of escorting a bride and bridegroom—“two constituents of mine,” as he designated them —about the city the other day. They had come to Washington on • wedding trip from Brooklyn and were desirous of seeing all the sights. After the rounds had been made Mr. Fitzgerald threw oat his chest with some pride that he could make such an offer and then remarked with careless recklessness, “If you would like to see the president of the United States, I will take you to the White House and introduce you.” Not the slightest interest was awakened by this offer. The bride looked at the bridegroom with a quizzical expression of indifference, and the bridegroom waved the offer aside with a doubtful shake of his head. “We don’t know who the president is,” he declared in the broken English of a Norseman, “but we would much like to see Senator Knute Nelson. He, we know, is the biggest man in the government.” Mr. Fitzgerald lost no time in calling Senator Nelson into the marble room, and there the bride and bridegroom were completely happy talking their native tongue with the statesman from the northwest.— Washington Cor. New York Tribune.