The Washington times., 1894-03-23
CORRIDOR AND CURB.

| II own goose ranch over near Pla1nneid
| N. j." said Dr. John r. Cameron last night
He rolled quid OF fine cut from his left to
his right cheek and then back again as he
sat on sofa in the lobby OF the National.
"These geese have always remained at home
/ and never saw chicken alive or dead until /
bought dozen the other day and turned
them loose in my yard. Among them was a
Shanghai rooster, who Immediately went of
| on a walk to investigate his new surround
ings. He started around the house, and Just
as he got to a corner he run smack dab upon
the goose, who was leisurely walking in an
opposite direction. I never saw such a sur
| prise party in all my life. The rooster sort Of
stood. square footed and screwed his head
around, as good as to say, We'll, hellor The
| goose looked somewhat abashed at first, but
she soon gained her equilibrium, and,
walking squarely up to the rooster, seemed
to say. We'll, / will; who are you
and whatcher want?' The Shanghai
explain anything. Finally the situation be-
came embarrassing, and, to play the string
out, the goose blew her grassy breath In the
ROSTERS face. Well, sir. you ought to have
| seen the fun. 1t was Corbett-Miic chell
| affair for about three rounds, when the goose
| cleaned the rooster up by pulling nearly
| every feather out of him. then caught him by
| the nape OF the neck and wiped the ground
up with him. The rooster was so mortified
over his defeat that he went out in the lot and
| died.
"Of course, if the bounty on sugar should
be wiped entirely out" said Harvey W. Rob-
inson, OF st. Mary's parish, louisiana at the
st. James last night, ''it would for a time
seriously interfere with our prosperity.
loI hat -.
taken off of sugar the same as every other
necessary article Of diet, but l believe that
the tax should be gradually decreased. thus
giving the planter time for the change.
Under the protective and bounty system the
sugar industry of my state has thrived as no
other industry in the South. Sugar is about
the most profitable crop tina: could possibly
be raised on Louisiana soil; that is at the
present price. In the sugar belt-a section
OF the country where cotton can be
grown rs well as in the bottoms
of the Mississippi-that crop has been
entirely abandoned. Growing cane is
mo re profitable The sugar people have all
along believed that the government would,
for all time 10 come, protect them, and for
that reason many millions of dollars
have been expended in the last decade i'm
proving the plantations, mills, and refineries.
If the bounty should be abolished at once it
people. For that reason L would like to see
the bounty so reduced from year to year as to
give the people an opportunity to prepare for
the worst"
Senatorial courtesy reminds. me Of an or
ganization that existed in Charleston, S. c.,
some years before the war; remarked
Abraham 7. Fowler, of Springfield, Mass, at
the Ebbitt, yesterday. 1.-The club was COM
posed of about fifty men. They agreed that
they would never speak TO anyone, it mattered
not what the circumstances were, unless they
had been properly introduced. One night a
member went home and found his wife seated
in the lap of another man.. He was telling it
ar the club the following evening when he
was asked what he said to the man.
Say to him. say TO him" he replied. chow
could speak to him, when hadn't been in
troduced?"
You may abuse whisky all you like, but 1
shan't. Whisky has saved my life on two
different occasions. and never so back ON a
friend" said Wiley Potter, of Troy, n. Y. at
the Riggs House yesterday. "One evening
about twelve years ago / was standing in
Ginnochio's saloon in Texarkana, Texas,
when friend of mine came along and wanted
me to 90 across the street and try new
brand of whisky which he had just discovered
We had no more than reached our place
when terrific windstorm came up, which
afterwards developed into a cyclone. which
blew three-story brick house down upon
Ginnochio's saloon. killing over twenty per-
sons. In March. 1888, 1 was travelling
from New Orleans to Florida. l stopped
of in Atlanta. and just as | was going
board the Jacksonville cars a friend of
mine, whom l had not seen in years, ap-
peared. We went in to take a drink. and
thus missed my train. II | had boarded it
| would have had TO change cars at Jessup.
and | would have been in the smoking ear
when that awful wreck occurred at Black
shear. Ga. on the 18th Of March Every man
in the smoker was killed outright. and not
single individual on the entire train escaped
unhurt. How. then. can you blame me for
talking for whisky"
Were you ever caught in a storm out in
the woods, away from all signs of habita-
tion?'' asked Thomas n. Camp. of Asheville,
\. c., yesterday evening. as he observed the
lightning play with the clouds from seat in
the Arlington. Not many months ago, he
continued. Il made a horseback trip of twenty
miles through turpentine orchard in the
southern part of the state. To reach my
Il
lonely road. There were but two houses that
could be observed from the roadway during
the entire trip. / had reached the halfway
post, perhaps, when all Of sudden
the sky became obscured, the big trees
began to sway and sigh and sob. the light
ming began 10 leap from hilltop to hill
top. and the thunders seemed TO rock
the entire universe, as though there was
some great seismic disturbance. The great
white spots on the trees that had been made
by the woodman's ak seemed to stare at me
as so many ghosts. Every few minutes
could hear the lightning strike an object, and
the noise echoed through the forest as though
there was a terrific artillery conflict in prog
ress. | sat trembling in my saddle. expect
ing every minute TO be struck down. Finally
the wind sutsided and the rain began TO pour ,
down as though the foodcates OF heaven
had been opened. l was thoroughly drenched |
and so badly frightened that my nerves did
not recover their strength for a week. About |
the time l reached the little village the clouds
disappeared. all nature seemed glad and the |
sun went down like a queen tc her saffron
bed. Oh. no; I shall never forget that days |
experience"
Commodore Kirkland Going South.
Commodore Kirkland arrived at the Navy
Department at noon yesterday, and when he