Kissed By A Goddess

The Washington monument Jeans against the blue sky, a great white shaft, and it tolvers nearly two hundred feet above the capítol dome, which stands on a hül about a mile away. The Goddess of Liberty is oí brony.c. She weig-hs fourteen thousand pounda and shc stands erect n a great bronze globe on the esp of the d tn ■. measuriag nineti'in and one-half fc t from her toes to the tips ol the feathers which crown her head. Slie is a woman oí wonderful beauty, and as a P ansylvania railroad train carrics tl man out oí Washington it goea around a part oí tho city in such a way that the trareler loolring from the window poos this i'roat figure of the statue of Liberty coming nearer and nearer to the Washington monument, ontil at last the two are in direct line with his oye. and the ddesa forms a black silhouette r.gainst the pure white of the monument. This view of the monument, Bays the Philadelphia Press, hos to bu caught on a train going at the rate of forty mjles anhour. 'ure are a number oftar tracks just at the point where it becomea visible, and a passing freight ear will shut it out. It can or. !.- for a second, and only onc time, perhaps, ti a dozen trips. Public men leaving the capital on missions keep their eysa glued on the windows. and if they are lucky enough to catch the combination they ex] eet to flnd their missions BtíCcessful. If not, some of them fcel the super: titious dread of failure assured, and it is strange how niany timos they aro correct. When Hansbrough went home to seek for a reclection to conj,ress ho kept his eye gloed on the goddess irora the time the train left tlic station, but just as he was abemt to see her kiss the monument a íreiíjht car rushed in and the moment passed. He wer.t to Dakota and failed to get his election. The last time he lcit was to make lus fight for the senatorship. But I will let hirn teil the story hirasclf. Said he: "l watched the goddess as we left the depot. The tracks were full of freight cars and I feared I should miss it. Senator Farwell was witli me and he also kept his eyes toward the capítol. As we went out of the city freight cars increased, and as we neared the oint where the two come together t'ie track was full of them. I kept my eye on tho window, however, and I just caught a view of the goddess against the monument between the cars of a passing train. I was leaning over and watching closely as I did so, and when the two came together I cxcitedly clapped one hand against the other, saying: 'I've got it!' and nearly scared the wits out of an oíd woman who sat in front of me and who must have thought I was crazy. "Well, I went out to Dakota and se-, cured my eleetion. I don't, of course, believe that the monument and tho goddess had much to do with it, but Charley Farwell, wl failed to see them, went otit to Illinois for the same purpose and got left."