The San Francisco call., 1897-03-01
NEWSPAPER PLEAsANTRY.


married an organ -grinder?"
"Probably she wanted to get rid of him.
Chicago Record.
"De man dat boasts. OBJ his cha'ty," said
Uncle Eben, ''makes some folks criticize. But
he ain ez bad as de man dat aim got no 'scuse
foh boastin' even ef he wanted ter."-Wash-
ington Star.
willie-Irs always in damp places where
mushrooms grow, isn'tit papa?
Papa-Yes, my son.
els that the reason they look like umbrellas,
papa?"-YoDkers Statesman.
Emily (playing "house'')-Now, pll bo
mamma. and you'll be papa, ano little Ben
and Bessie will be our babies.
Willie (after a moment, anxiouslv)-Ain't
it about time TO whip the children ?-London
Ti.-Bits.
"What Is the matter with Chappie? III, I
hear"
"Yes, has water on the brain. Wore his sof
hat with the crown dented in a circle and went
out in the rain one day.-Cincinnati CONNER
cia;-Tribune.
'The laboring man does not seem to know
his place at ALL" said the effete person from
across the sea.
"He don't, ~" said the American farmer.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
"some men will go to almost any length for
the sake of being eccentric"
"Yes, indeed, there's Browning. for in
stance"
whats his freak?.
"Won't ride a ei."-Chicago Journal.
Chow long have you been on this rout e p
asked the drummer of the conduc tor on prin-
tive Southern railroad.
.Ten yeahs, suh."
Indeed? You must have gotten on several
miles south of where did."-Free Press.
Spinks-Its very inconvenient to be poor. 1
hope Dame Fortune will soon knock ct my
door.
Mrs. spinks-It wouldn't do you any good if
she did knock.
Spinks-Whats the reason?
Mrs. Spinks-Because you are never at
home.-Ohio State Journal.
JEFFERSON'S IN UGURATION.
Century Magazine.
No Inauguration myth has been more tena-
cious of life than that which pictured Jeffer-
son, attired as plain citizen riding on horse
back to the Capitol, hitching his horse to the
palings, and walking unattended into the
Senate chamber 10 take the Oatn as PreSluent
To have done this would have been in accord
ance with his previous utterances for he
had strongly condemned as savoring of
monarchy all public ceremony at the swear
ing in of President. When the time for
his own Inauguration arrived, however, the
case seems TO have looked different TO
him. Whether it was because he was to be the
first President inaugurated ut the new Capt.
tol, or because of an vuwillingness to disap-
point the large numbers of his friends and
partisans who had assembled to honor him, is
net clear but the fact is that he did permit q
considerable display at the ceremonies. He
was met at the door of. his boarding house,
which was only a stones throw from the
Capitol, by a militia artillery company and q
procession of citizens, and, escorted by these,
he went on foot to the Capitol.
The horseback story, or fake" as 1t would
be denominate in modern journalism, was
the invention of an Englishman named John
Davis, who put 1t In a book OF American
travels which he published in London two
years later. In order to give 1t an air of
tru thfulness. Davis declared that he was pres
ent at the Inauguration, which was not true.
veracious account of the cerem monies was
sent to England by Edward Thornton, who
was then in charge of the British legation at
Washington, and in this Jefferson was de-
scribed as having walk ed to the Capitol These
facts, together with great mass OF inte rest
ing matter about Jefferson's Inauguration, are
set forth in detail by Henry Adams in his
"History of the United States" and leave no
doubt that the Davis version was pure fabrf-
cation