Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-06-22
lot OF GOOD STORIES.
THEY ARE TOLD eY STATESMEN
OF THE CAPITAL CITY.

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fhsrs IL Also . Story Told sy the wife
Of Corporal Tanner, the New Pension
Commisslousr. and Il IL About . Lady
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Especial Correspondcuce.l
WASHINGTON, June 20. Senator Wade
Hampton 10 good story teller. As far
as Is known he Il up to this time the only
man who has had the temerity to tell the
president an impious talo, and Gen. Har-
rison was actually very much pleased
with the narrative II always did like
army stories," he says. "and you can't
expect army stories to DO good enough to
tell . Sunday school class. for.
gave the profanity Of Senator Hamp-
tons story out Of consideration for
its wit" The president is still rather
fond Of army "reminiscences and mill
tary matters In general You can
SEQ that In the soft side which he is
ever ready to turn toward veterans OF
tho field. In the correctly military salutes
which he makes In the presence of off,
GERS passing before him in procession, In
the old military slouch hat which he in.
variably wears while taking his consti.
tutional strolls. Tho story Senator
Hampton told was an army story--not
particularly new aud fresh, but new to
the president.
"One day during tho war;" said the
senator. "the colonel OF South Carolina
regiment was making round Of inspec-
ton. Sitting lazily on rail fence,
whiting at q piece Of shingle, he found
man whose face was not familiar to
him The colonel was indignant. Ap-
preaching the loafer he called out to him
with all proper severity; who tho -
are you. sitting here in this fashion, i,
sir responded the man on the fence,
continuing his whiting, am tho chap
lain OF tho st regiment. Now, who
In - arc your"
OF humor, despite his habitual dignity
and that poise Of manner which by some
ia mistaken for GOODNESS. is becoming
rapidly apparent During ono of tho
many discussions which have been had
at tho White House about tho status Of
the colored men OF the south, n new story
was told by Col. Parsons, Of Alabama,
and greatly enjoyed by the president
Col. Parsons was contending that tho
people Of the south know tho colored
man better than the people Of tho north,
and really like him better and treat him
better. To illustrate his point he related
q story which was first brought to WASH
ington by Maj. Jones. of Pine Bluff. Ark.
Maj. Jones is colored man himself, but
q rich one. IIe is, in fact, the richest
man In Pine Bluff, where he owns the
street car line and Is interested In other
large enterprises. Maj. Jones, like Col
Parsons, believes tho south Is the place
for tho negro, and that tho people OF tho
north, with all their sentiment about tho
freedman, are not one-half 80 ready to
give him practical help as tho men Of tho
south.
"There was q nigger named Sam who
used to drive street car for me In Pine
Bluff" said Maj. Jones. "Sam could
read, and in tho newspapers no had seen
% much Of tho love the people Of the
north bear for tho colored man that he
concluded the north was tho place for
him. He talked to mo about 1t, and said
he was going up to Iowa and SEQ IL he
couldn't do better. advised against IL.
but he would SO, and go he did. In
Iowa he was pretty we'll treated. Tho
folks up there called him Mr. and shook
hands with him, and talked politics with
him az II he were an equal. But they
didn't givo him any work. Nobody
seemed anxious to havo Sam work for
him.
"This went on till the little money Sam
had taken with him was all gone, and
he then concluded the best thing he
could do would be to go back TO Arkan-
saw, where white men might call him
hard names. but at the same time give
him something to do and cat. SO he
started, on foot. hoping to pick up
enough food on tho way to keep him
going. Tho first place he struck for
grub was at farm house where man
from New York lived. The farmer was
very polito to him, but when tho grub
business was mentioned, said times were
hard and he didn't believe he had any.
thing to spare Sam trudged along to
another farm house, and another, and
his experience Mt tho first was repeated
at each Of the others. Everybody wa:
polite but nobody gave him any
chuck. For two or three days Sam
hadn't n mouthful to eat, and his
belly was fairly hanging up against his
backbone when he came to place where
man was out in the front yard moving
grass. To him Sam told his now old, old
story OF leaving Arkansas, Of his bad
luck In Iowa. OF his desire to get back to
fore he had concluded his story the
farmer Interrupted him: you id
black IDIOT ho exclaimed. why didn'i
you have sense enough to stay In Arkan'
sawY Sans face frightened instantly,
He almost fell on his knees for Joy, aud
cried out; Boss, you dunno how glad
is to SEQ you. When did you leave the
souf youselfl Oh, boss. but Is glad to
git 'mong friends agin.' Go In the
house there. you black fool, an git some
chuck. Perhaps you will know enough
another time to stay where you belong.
And Sam did so in and he filled himself
with chuck. And he staid all night, and
started out In tho morning with q bag
full Of bread and meat to keep his belly
OIL his backbone while he journeyed OF
toward Pine Bluff"
Barnes. OF Georgia, the 800 pound con
gresham, and the heaviest man who siti
in the United States Capitol, is another
good story teller. Indeed. story telling
| appears to be one Of the accomplishment
Of southern statesmen. Barnes is not IN
Washington now. being at his Georgia
home drinking buttermilk. Probably
Congressman Barnes drinks more butter
milk than any other man In the United
States. For twenty years or more Barne.
has not seen his knees, except in a mir