Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-21
LET UNCLE SAM RUN IT.
A Timely Parable on the Subject Of the
Worlds Fair.


Once upon a time, in distant foreign land,
there lived king who was wise and virtuous
in his generation, albeit Q tinge Of barbaric
blood still ran in his veins. The nation he
ruled over was large and powerful The people
we're 90 happy that every morning they we're
compelled to stand on their heads TO let the
Joy run out, 90 in those semi-barbarous days il
was deemed fatal for happiness 70 strike in.
One morning the king arose, and. after ponder
ing short time, cracked his heels together
and cried "Allah be praised, three months from
Tuesday week will be the anniversary Of my
discovery. So on that day there shall be great
rejoicing throughout the land Strangers from
the four quarters Of tho earth shall be invited
and beer shall flow even As fountains of water. "
Upon hearing this all the people cracked their
heels together and shouted "Allah be praised"
THE PRINCE WITH THE ENGLISH BEARD.
But soon cloud arose in the land. yea even
the size Of a mans hand, butt grew and waIed
greater till it covered the whole nation. For a
prince of one of the cities Of the nation, even
that prince known by his English beard and
that city noted for its dirty and impossible
streets, had arisen and said: 80. these festivi-
ties shall be held in the city over which rule.
There shall the strangers from the four quar-
tiers OF the earth gather and leave many shekels
in my Golfers, which shall be filed yea even to
bursting" And when the princes of the other
cities heard this they became wroth nightly.
ard they arose as one man and shook their
fists at him of the English beard, and from
shaking their fists at this one man they came to
shaking their fists at each other, and
THE FIGHT BECAME GENERAL
in the land, even as in the ancient legion of the
Kilkenny cats, and the noise waxed mightier
and mightier and the scribes Of the different
princes wrote many severe articles about each
other. At length the uproar became so great
as to reach the ears of the king Of the nation
and he arose and called to him all the princes
OF the several cities, even him of the English
beard, and all the rest and when they had ar
rived be gathered them together and said: $50
the uproar of thy quarrel has reached mine
ears. Did'st thou ever hear the tale of
THE MAN AND THE GOLDEN cUP?"
And they all bowed their head and said
''nay." All but the prince from that city called
Cincinnati and he bowed his head and an
swered ''nein." Then the king spake as fol-
lows: "Once there lived man who was fortu-
nate in possessing many brave and valiant sons.
In the nation of which this man was q citizen
there arose mighty war, and during its con-
tinuance the man and his sons rendered the
king many brave services. When at length
peace reigned once more the king called the
man and his sons to him and gave them a
large gold cup, figured and polished even to a
high degree; and when the family had come
together again there arose a mighty strife as to
who should be the possessor of this gift,
THEIR VARIOUS CLAIMS.
One son saying, I fought bravely during
the war; and another 4 made thy weapons,
otherwise thou could'st not haye fought and
still third, Else had titled The soil both
would have starved and so the quarrel con-
tinued until the father said: Peace be unto We!
the golden cup shall remain with me, when
one alone will not be the owner.bu 1t will be
the common property Of all. The glory and
honor Of its possession being equally divided.
LET UNCLE SAM RUN IT.
'Thus spake the father to his sons, continued
the king, ''and thus speak I to each one OF
you: Get thee to thy homes and let thy Uncle
Sam run his own anniversary; and We of the
English beard grid up thy loins and HE thee
homeward and in thy leisure hours study the
government of my city, SO that thou wilt not
again make thysef the laughing stock of the
nation by writing to the mayor of my city when
10! it has three mayors" And behold they all
gat themselves to their homes and peace
reigned.