The Washington times., 1894-03-19
CORRIDOR AND CURB.


"Oh, Tennessee is now and will always re-
main Democratic" said R. J. Gage, OF Nash
Vile, at the Normandie last night. "But we
are getting tired of this administration;
mighty tired. We are q patient people, how
ever As an illustration Of this see how long
| we have borne with Mcdowell and his third
| party IDEAS Cleveland has disgusted the
party leaders. He aims to do right and act
democratic, perhaps, but he isn't do it. The
| trouble with him Is that he thinks the western
| boundary of the United States ends
at Buffalo and that when he was
supreme legislative, judicial, and execu-
| tive authority. The Tennessee pie has not
| been given to the real party leaders those
| who did the hard fighting for him before and
during the Chicago convention. To the con-
| trary, he has ignored them. The old torch
| light procession crowd are feeling sore, and
are, among themselves, exhibiting their
lacerated ami bleeding wounds, crying:
We've been bit; we've been Bit The situ-
alton reminds me of an Old farmer friend Of
mine who is nicknamed Flinders Flinders
| owned sawmill One day his saws were
| continually getting out of plumb, and, as the
old mans temper was not very easily kept in
control, he frequently shocked his neighbors
by swearing the saw got out OF gear. One
before. The old man swore until he
| was black in the face. He finally
! got it plumb again, and as he
| did so remarked, Now. by gum, you be-
have and act straight. If you get out of line
again I'll break you into flinders. byagum.
The saw made two or three revolutionS when
out of keller it got again. The old man was
! true to his promise. He got an ak and did
burst it into flinders, and that is tie way he
got his name.
cylinders bought a jackass that had a
pedigree as long as the Republican party's bad
record. But the jack proved to be worthless
! He just stood out in the sun from morning till
night and brayed just like Congressman,
and that is all he would do. Flinders tried
to rue back the trade, but it wouldn't CO.
The old man got very mad Ad rode into the
village near by, crying at the top of his voice,
I'm bit, by hokey; bit, and bit bad; dog Bit
! and by donkey at that" "
W. A. Battaile, of Alexandria, Va. was
chatting with some friends at the Randall
yesterday.
Know what am going to do?" said he
''Start a cricket farm near Alexandria; that's
what. Fish will bite a cricket quicker'n
anything else 1 know of. They love em
| like a Republican loves Office. Fishermen
know this, too. They pay big prices TO get
| 'em, but they can't get many. How many
men do you suppose would go fishing around
/ Washington if they had crickets for bait?
Hundreds. Yes, thousands. I'm just going
| 70 wall me in a big piece Of ground, stop up
: the cracks. hire me some boys to catch few
thousand for breeding purposes, plant grass,
and go to work. Then I'll have places for
lots of people. Can give some Of tine unem-
TNin Ad i,l. hnr1 fa-, ~ - Al.
don't have tuberculosis nor lumpy jaw nor
the epizootic. They just thrive when every
thing else around 'em die off. / can have
wagons TO deliver the bait every morning just
like you wonld milk. Money in it, and a
novel enterprise, don't you think? Come
| over to the ranch In about a month and see
me-"
"Dinsmore." said Congressman E. J.
Brookshire. of Indiana, to his friend from
Arkansas, at the Metropolitan last night.
"Crisp Is big fellow, amt he? Makes fine
Speaker, and will hold his seat in the big
chair rs long as he is a Representative and
the Democrats control the House. EhS'
That's whatever said Mr.. Dinsmore.
HE is the only man we've got for the place.
Wallace McLaurin, OF Jackson, Miss, ex-
receiver OF public moneys of his state and a
brother to Senator McLaurin, is stopping at
the Belvedere. Wallace has a very large foot.
He also has friend named James T. Cole
man, and this friend is very proud because a
number four boot is just his size.
Wallace" said Coleman yesterday. Il see
you've got a good understanding"
referring 10 my feet, are you" replied
McLaurin well, race-horse man in Ken
tucky said the same thing TO me some years
ago. Yes l replied TO him. you've told the
truth. You are breeder of fine horses are
you?' He was and said so.
And is it not fact continued. that
all fine bloodod horses have large feet?' He
said Yes And is it not a further fact aid
l, that all jackasses have small feet?'"
Coleman looked down at the ground, but
he didn't laugh. Not Coleman. but about
dozen others who heard the story did.
"When l was running an engine out in
Mizzouri." said Will ". Watkins. an engineer
OF the Pennsylvania road. at the depot yes
terday, Il was terribly bothered for some time
with gray mule The mule would get on
the track just ahead of my engine at the
same time and place every other day. l
would whistle and whistle, but he wouldn't
move until the engine would almost stop. and
then be would walk off US unconcernedly as
anything you ever saw"
You see We had strict orders not to kill
stock; II we did when we could have avoided
it by stopping the engine, why, we had to
pay for it. That made Us careful. Well as
was saying. this gray mule gave me more
weary and bother than all the steep grades
on the division. l got tired of it, The next
time 1 saw him 1 pulled the throttle wide
open and the engine struck him going fifty
miles an hour. l thought sure had killed
him, and SO reported it to the superintendent.
Imagine my surprise on my return trip TO
Ind hot 10 Nl1 4
place. l hit hin aga and would have sworn
that he was dead before he rolled down the
enbankment, but he wasn't. He was there
again on my following run. You know what
l did then? Why struck him so hard that
he landed up in the forks of tree. and there