The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-07

4AA4HdLA4Ih hAtCh HILL
Good morning, general" he said. Kill
patrick returned the salutation rather
gracefully. Then turning to one of his
men who was riding 4 very poor horse. he
said, Get off that horse" Addressing
Roark, he continued, Get down off your
horse" Roark did as he was told, and
and then Fitzpatrick said, Change your
saddles" Turning to Roark again, he
said. You get up on the poor horse"
Roark did as he was commanded, and
Fitzpatrick started of. Turning toward
him Roark said. Can I speak to youI"
Yes, replied the general, talk quick:
l must be going"
well" said Roarl1, 81 just want to
say to you that l have been swapping
horses forty years, but this is the first
time l ever traded without l had any say
in it."
So it was with the people. They had to
swap their money for gold, and they had
no say at all because of the legislation
which was forced upon them.
In referring to Mr. Harter's speech, Mr..
Talbert said that it reminded him of the
man who was inquiring of a little boy
standing on the road the way to a certain
house. The little fellow replied: "Well,
you go this way half a mile to another
road then take that road and go about
quarter of mile and you will find blind
path which will lead you to a swamp;
then go up into the middle of the swamp
until you find a tremendous big tree; then
go up into the fork of that tree, and then
if you amt lost am dot rotted if l amt
a Dutchman"
"That," continued Mr.. Talbert, sis
about like the talk of my friend from
Ohio l tried to follow him, but he first
took me into a swamp, then into the fork
of tree, and finally 1 was completely
lost"
Mr. Talbert in his speech said that he
had never writ speech, as he did not
like TO be bothered with notes. He I'M
dertook to make one with notes once and
got them all stirred up together and
made complete failure. 1t reminded
him of what happened to the old preacher
down south, who told the boys what
portion of the scripture he intended to
read for the morning lesson. The boys,
finding the place, glued two pages ito
gether. The next morning the old
preacher began to read at the bottom of
one page:
And Noah, when he was a hurd,ed years
old, took to himself wife, who was
Then, turning over the leaf:
A hundred and thirty cubits long and forty
cubits wide and made entirely of gopher
wood, and pitched within and without
This puzzled the good old preacher. He
took off his spectacles, rubbed them, and
verified the verse.
"Well," he said after drawing a long
breath, brethren, l had not seen it in
this here book before, but l know it is
true or it would not have been here. 1t
is an evidence of the assertion in another
portion of the Holy Bible"
1t was an old story, but one that threw
the House into commissions.
On the next day Jerry Simpson used
story to illustrate a point in his silver
speech. He said he had been disappointed
at the poverty of the case of the opposi-
ton. 1t reminded him of the story about
a gentleman who built a steamboat on
the Missouri river. 1t was at a time
when there was great rivalry to see
which could have the louder whistle. The
man built steamboat with a seven-foot
boiler and put on it a nine-foot whistle.
When he blew the whistle the first time
all the steam went out of the boiler This
seemed to be the condition of the oppo-
nents of free coinage. They blew off every
pound of steam in their boiler a t the first
start and had drifted into the rushes on
the shore to get up steam again
Jerry's story took magnificently. The
House laughed at it so long that he spent
fully minute in scratching his head.
In his maiden speech on the floor of the
House the redoubtable Champ Clark. of
quaintest logic. He is regarded as one of
the best story tellers in the country, but
the only paragraph in his speech that
smacks of a story was his assertion that.
if the House paid the behests of the
American bondholders and made gold
standard, in a hundred years the people
would be reduced to the condition of the
Russian serfs or Mexican poems. The
bondholders would have all the money in
the country for, as old Jim Crag, of ST
10, used to say, when dollar goes down
into their capaCiOus pockets the eagle on
it sings, Farewell, vain world, I'm going
hOmer"
This brought down the House.
While the Hon. Charles L. Moses, of
Georgia, was speaking for free silver he
was much annoyed by questions from
Gen. Grosvenor, a leading republican from
Ohio. Mr. GrosvenOr was very pressing
with one of his questions. Finally Moses
turned to him and said
My friend, had almost forgotten YOU
until you rose in your place yesterday
like the Rip Van Wrinkle of a past era.
You republicans remind me of the old ne
gro's terrapin, VIII was killed, and the
next morning found him crawling around
the yard.
''Good Cod the old darby remarked,
that fool terrapin don't know he is done
dead yet"
The laughter and applause was terrific,
and Gen. Grosvenor made no further at
tempt to interrupt Moses.
One of the best stories told in the de-
bate on the silver bill, came from that
brilliant young congressman, LATE Pence,
of Colorado. He said that the people in
his country could not discern the differ
ence between the dollar of the treasury
to-day and the dollar of the treasury
under John Sherman. To illustrate this
fact he said that back in Marion county,
Ind. there is a little town on the Johnson
county line, of about 300 people. A
stranger came into the town one Sunday,
ana walking out from the hotel saw a
little white church and a crowd going in
He noticed that it was Lutheran church
He went on and in the next block saw a
little brown church, and was surprised to
see that it was also a Lutheran church.
He went back to the hotel and told the
proprietor that it struck him as strange
that in a little town like this, hardly able
to sustain one church, there should be two
churches just alike
What do YOU mean" asked the land
lord. The stranger told him what he had
seen.
oh" replied the landlord, "you are
mistaken. Those two churches are some
what alike, but not just alike. Over in