Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-02-20

niles into the country, without seeing any
thing to shoot. Finally 1 stopped a man
on the read, who looked as though he lived
in that EeiGhborhood
ANY game around here?' 1 asked.
Didn yo cum through Jackson City:
Yes
could git past thar I dom see; but yo'll
fin at next house yanJer. 'Taint
much. though, dollar limit. but yo' mout
git EN- ter raise it leetle."
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Pennsylvania avenue Chinese laundry
man received a telegram the other evening
informing him that his brother Lung had
been seriously injured in & fight in the
Chinese quarter in Baltimore. The tele-
sraEl read as follows:
Come at once Your brother he bad hurt
fight answer quick
The sender CT the message, after waiting
a reasonable length of time and receiving
no response. repeated the message, with
instructions to get an answer. Very soon
thereafter this message was handed him in
reply:
who whip answer.
The Baltimore telegraph clerk said the
Cinnamon talked pigeon English to him for
ten minutes after receiving the answer, SO
great was his Indignation.
x
Representative Ellis of Oregon had an
amusing visitor at the Capitol the other
day. young man from Eastern Ohio
called to see the representative, and after
sending in n picturesque little card man
aged to corner Mr.. Ellis in the lobby.
What can 1 do for you today?" said Mr..
Ellis. smilngly.
Mr.. Ellis said he, I've come a good
distance to see you and to ask a small ia
vor; my family is well connected in Ohio;
We friends of Maj. Mckinley and per-
ceeded the young man, with a serious air
about him which aroused Mr.. Ellis curl
osity. Now, l thought that as l am anx-
ious to go to Oregon to begin building up
my own fortunes 1 would ask you for a
helping hand.
Il will help you all 1 cam" said Mr.. Ellis.
Well said the Ohioan, Il thought per
hapS you would recommend me for the
postmastership at either Portland or As
toria, which are in your district. as
starter: l think 1 could make out for
time with such start
Mr.. Ellis mouth opened at least two
inches, his eyes watered, he put his hands
across his head in a bridge fashion and
looked at the young man for fully five min
utes without uttering d syllable, so great
was his amazement, and the young man
walked off wondering at Mr.. Ellis silence
MIR. Ellis district contains but two post
masterships of great prominence in the
state, and they are Portland and Astoria,
and the scramble of his constituents after
the place is something terrific when there
is vacancy ct either; this fact. coupled
with the Ohioan's request, was more than
he could stand, and he too dunn
founded to talk.
n X *
"An amusing thing occurred recently
said the doctor. my patient, who had
been seriously Ill, was beginning to re-
cover her streL 9Th. and the only thing nee
essary was that she should secure good
rights rest. I therefore prepared some
powders Of the sort which compel Nor
pheus to attend. and instructed the nurse
that one should be administered in the
evening, and in no event should be given
to the patient at closer intervals than thir-
t. minutes.
ION calling around the following morn
ing l inquired of the nurse how the suf-
ferer had ested.
.'Oh,' said she. she slept all through the
night. except when 1 woke her up every
half hour TO giver her the sleeping powder.
They Mere all gone about half-past f.
4 x X :.
The subject of badness is Just now agi-
tating enc of the members of the United
States Senate. Until man begins to grow
bald he considers 1t mark Of infirmity;
after he begins to molt he regards the
desert space on his dome of thought as an
evidence of intellectually.
The senator in question is very averse,
however. to the loss OF mis- locks, and made
deep and long researches into the matter
of hair restoTers, making practical tests of
such as recommended themselves to his
judgment. but they did not have the de-
sired effect. He was overjoyed therefore
when a brother senator returned from
abroad, bringing with him tale of a mar
Vicious hair restorative of magic power
One application would make the hair
sprout, and several applications caused it
to come forth in rich luxuriant locks. The
senator's mouth fairly watered at the de-
scription of that hair restorer. He begged
the happy possessor OF this joyous fluid to
let him have bottle, and the senator re-
piled that 1t should be delivered to him on
the next day.
But 1t didn't come that day, nor the next.
Lor the next. and the senator grew sick at
heart with the hope deferred. Meeting the
possessor of the regenerating elixir in the
Senate elevator the other day he at once
buttonholed him, and inquired when he
could expect that hair restorer.
"Oh. III send 1t down tomorrow" was
the reply.
We'll. now. look here" said the senator.
earnestly, Il want to get it Just as soon as
possible. This thing is getting serious
very serious. Why. Great Scott. I'm losing
hair or tive every day, and can't sparo
them"