shire men declare that the rugged, kindly face of the Speaker is a New Hamphire face and looks so much a product of the hills that they feel at home in gazing upon it. The modest, two story, brick residence of Speaker Cannon at the National Capital speaks of the simple life and accords well with the quiet dignity of the man.

But if Speaker Cannon looks to be a New Hampshire man and isn't there can be no doubt of Representative Sulloway. When the men from the hills visit Washington they never fail to go and see "Cy" as everybody from up there calls him, get the hearty grasp of his hand and hear his cheery "How d'ye do neighbor." "Cy" is a big man in many ways and one of them is physically. He towers head and shoulders over the average representative and if "presence" counts he should have.

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MRS. E. X. LE SEUR DAUGHTER OF SPEAKER CANNON

his way when he looms up in the halls of legislation, bent on getting it. Certainly he has his way in New Hampshire. The railroads which the politicians say at least, the "outs" say it-hold New Hampshire in the hollow of their hand, and other vested interests have tried in vain to down him at the polls. His watchfulness of New Hampshire interests, his commanding figure and his genial "How d'ye do neighbor" binds the up-state farmers to him with bonds of friendship and confidence and they manage to return him every time.

If as some one has said "the American people demand of their representatives in Congress the wine of wit and the oil of joy" it is well, for both flow in the House of Representatives. The Senate is apt to be solemn and punctilious; the House

under the beneficent effects of the Dingley tariff there was nobody in the Duluth district who wanted to come to Congress to succeed him, as they were all making more than $5,000 per year.

Referring again to Texas, in conciusion, Mr. Bede drew a humorous picture of ten new Texas Senators, wearing their broad sombreros, with pants in their boots, guns in their belts, marching on Washington with a firm determination to take the city and blow out the gas the first night of their arrival.

That sort of thing seems to come as a rule from the representatives, who hail from the West and the farther west their constituents live the more rampant they are. You

MRS. BONAPARTE

WIFE OF SECRETARY OF THE NAVY

lous, and had but two Senators; not enough to represent her. Mr. Bede said he did not know whether it was against the rules of the House to say anything good of the Senate, but he would try it. After paying a tribute to the men of the West in both Houses of Congress, Mr. Bede said, in reply to the criticism that the men of the West did not represent folk enough:

"I would rather trust my interests to a representative from the West, representing nothing but the sunset, than to an Eastern man, standing in the shadow of a trust company and representing nothing but the unearned increment."

Incident to a review of the situation regarding the Statehood bill, Mr. Bede said that the way to make a United States Senator honest as a public official would be to give him. salary enough to live in Washington decently. He remarked that

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SENATOR LODGE STARTING FOR HIS DAILY RIDE WITH THE PRESIDENT

don't hear it from the New Englanders whether they represent a sunrise. sunrise or a northeast wind or

merely an unearned increment in the peaceful shadow of a trust company; and somehow the listening New Englander is apt to be glad of it.

There's a sound of hoofs in the city

street:

The musical click of the steel-shod feet;

Of bugles shrill with silvery blare,

And floating free on the summer air From each bright lance is a pennon red,

Held high aloft o'er each plumed head As the National Lancers ride.

O month in the year is more

N suggestive of the martial spirit

to Boston than the bloomy month of June. Events of historic prominence crowd each other as the days pass but no one of them is of greater interest to any citizens than the fourteenth day, for then it is that the corps of cavalry known for seventy years as the National Lancers appears as a military body bearing the inspiring motto: "Union, Liberty and the Laws."

The National Lancers owe their existence to Governor Edward Ever

ett and the fact that the chief executive of the state attended the commencement at Harvard University, for it was the custom for the Governor at that time in going from the Massachusetts State House to the University to be escorted by a troop of light horse. On the occasion in 1836 Governor Everett was attended by so small an escort and their appearance was so out of keeping with their errand that the pride of that worthy official was disturbed and he felt that the dignity of the Commonwealth was being made a laughing-stock when its executive was obliged to ride amid such a He conFalstaffian aggregation.

veyed his ideas on the matter to General Thomas Davis, asking him if it were not possible to organize in Boston a troop of cavalry which would make a presentable appear

ance and do duty in a proper mili

tary manner when called upon by

the authorities.

The seed Everett

sown by Governor

fell on good ground. Thomas Davis communicated the Governor's desires to a number of his friends and they took up the mission, extending the idea among their friends who included teamsters, stable-keepers and market men, all persons owning and familiar with horses, and on November 1, 1836, they met and formed the National Lancers and enrolled themselves as cavalrymen in the service of Massachusetts.

Sixty-four members were recruited as the original number and they elected as their officers: Thomas Davis, captain; captain; Lewis Dennis, first lieutenant; Peter Dunbar, second lieutenant; Lewis Monroe, cornet. The organization was effected quietly; and by order the new cavalry corps was assigned to the Second Regiment, Third Brigade, First Division of the Massachusetts Militia on April 13, 1837.

The first appearance of the National Lancers as a part of the militia was on May 12, 1837, when fiftyeight strong they rode on Boston Common and there drilled as cavalry. The meetings of the organization had been conducted quietly and the presence of the corps was not generally known, but they impressed themselves on the minds of the citizens most emphatically, for only a few days after their initial parade, on June 11, occurred what is known as the "Broad Street Riot," and the Lancers were summoned to assist in preserving the peace.

The disturbance was occasioned by the interruption of a Catholic funeral procession by the fire de

LANCER IN FULL DRESS UNIFORM

partment in the discharge of their duty. It was not long before a mob of ten or twelve thousand people was gathered in Broad street and vicinity; and though prompt measures were taken and the ringleaders arrested, the separate military companies were notified that their presence was required to prevent further outbursts. They appeared with commendable promptness and among them, according to a contemporary account: "The new horse company of Lancers, under command of General Davis. They marched in close column and cleared