Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-16
sssUNsET'' COx's HUMOR.


people elsewhere would have the same right to
similar favors."
.'sUNsET'' COx's HUMOR.
Quaint Retorts-Literary and Political
Addresses Enlivened by Flashes Of Fun.
From the New York Herald
Congressman Samuel Sullivan Cox il dead,
but "Sunset" Cox, the jovial humorist, the
eloquent orator, the genial, many sided man
Of the world, will live long In the memory Of
the American people. A man Of ideas, he gave
utterance to many notable thoughts during his
thirty years of public service, stamping them
with his own individuality and, il possible,
investing them with some Of that humor which
was one Of his most marked characteristics.
OF his humor some examples are given here.
They are taken from his political and literary
addresses, and cover the years between 1862
and his death. The Same mark Of originality
is seen in all, and possibly the only difference
between the jeux d. esprit Of his earlier and
later years is that the former are more caustic
and less playful than the latter.
PERPLKxED PARENT.
Speaking of . political party he said once
that it was "a good deal like the husband
whose wife was about to present wee stranger
to the household. The husband was in the next
room waiting for the event in great excite
ment and very anxious to know its sex. The
nurse appeared and he rushed forward and ex-
claimed, Am a father or am q motherr"
Equally humorous are the following salliea:
"Ireland il the Mark Tapley Of nations,
Away jolly under the most adverse circum-
''The Americans are a mosaic people, and
they have all humors. Therefore they can no
more tell why they have their various humors
than Mozart could tell why his nose was Mo-
zartish."
~ have known people who had great deal
OF fun when they smiled-particularly at cleo
ton time"
IAN Irish woman who had married second
husband said to me once: "Oh, how happy
poor Charles would be if he could only see by
what an agreeable gentleman he has been re-
placed,'
II had no idea until recently that the pro
tempore speakership was such an exalted
position in American statesmanship. Had I
known it 1 might have put on more style, stills
and scollops while held itv'
Speaking Of meeting at which parlia-
mentary rules had not been observed he said:
If some of our parliamentarians in Congress
had been present they would have been stark
mad, not with the rabies of the canine, but
with the potential absolutism of an unre-
strained gavel"
His cosmopolitanism is shown in this senti-
ment: 81 do not care where a man was born
so long as he is good and just. The Saviour
was born in Bethlehem and vet we wor-
ship Him, although he was o foreigner in that
respect"
JOKES ABOUT TURKEY.
"a Turkish soldier near the manger at Beth
lehem once allowed me to examine his Martini
rife. I said, You have no occasion to use it in
this holy placer He replied significantly that
he held the Latin and Greek priests apart by
nf ciai0 nth ar wis fhar ha
no peace where the angelic chors once sang,
Peace on earth, good will toward mem"
1.-THE light Of the gospel and Pennsylvania
petroleum, the Eight Of Asia, we send free to
the dreaming orient"
His successor to Turkey, he told the Presi-
dent, should be in sympathy with the mission
aries and the educational societies, and then he
added jocularly: II don't know that am SO
very religious myself, but whenever needed
any more than the ordinary amount drew on
always ready to assist me when she can"
He defined Turkish salaam thus: 1.-THE
Turk takes up earth to show his humility
places his hand to his heart to indicate cordial
ity, grasps his tongue in displaying his willing
ness to talk and then touches his head in con-
frmation Of the sincerity Of his welcome and
to prove that his head is in accord with what
his heart feels"
'In Turkey as in America I notice that the
people begin the day at sunset, and SO never
go back on sunset II can help lt!''
II went to Turkey with one wife, and
found her quite as much as l could manage.
The sultan has 4S4 wives. He doesn't know
them all. They have their names painted on
their boudoir DOORS
1.-THE sultan once asked me if there were any
immigrants from Egypt to America. told
him there were two. l had shipped them in
boxes boxes. He was willing to let them go as they
Il suppose l am the only man in America to-
day who has shaken hands with one of the
Pharaohs. 1t was dusty hand, but shook
it"
On his departure for Turkey he described his
congressional experience thus: mo longer for
me the speakers gavel with its rap, rap, rap;
no longer the five minutes debate upon six
penny appropriation; no longer the previous
question:" that dynamite which DESTROYS SO
much OF parliamentary power. Othellos oc-
cupation gone-gOne to the Hellespont'
AvERsE TO EXTREMES.
ut is well to be Christian, but there Is no
use in joining the Salvation Army. 1t is well to
be right, but not excessively right"
To the exclusion of foreign actors from this
country he was decidedly opposed.
Il say with Hamlet" he remarked once. ''as
to all who come, whether as stars or strollers,
Let the players be well bestowedr"
On another occasion he said: IF stars are to
come in and their aids be disallowed, where
and how can you erect q standard for stellar
glory! Stars, We know, differ in glory, and
some are quite Intellectual in their fires; some
may be stars 80 attenuated az to be nebulous.
and others hardly rise to lunar, asteroid or
meteoric proportion. Who shall be judge?"
These are but a few OF the very many bright
sayings uttered by this lIght-hearted humorist
but they suffice to show his intellectual caliber
In this respect.
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