Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-28
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| chicken diseases, and then bought eight
| or ten hens and rooster. They We're
| fancy stock and cost me about three times
| what 1 could have got them for had l not
! been fool with fad. l spent lots OF time
I preparing houses and nests for them, study
| ing what they should and should not eat
! and got the fever so bad was thinking OF
| going into the country and starting into the
| chicken business on large scale. 1t Is
! needless to say that L had trouble with my
| neighbors, fused with my wife about
| neglecting the chickens. threatened the
| thing foolish. Before that fad wore off !
| had spent $50 and got about 81 worth OF
| eggs. l actually became so interested that
| l would steal away from the treasury at
! lunch time and go home at a cost of two
car fares to ascertain If the chickens mad
= been watered and If they were laying up to
| expectations. l suppose l had some fun
| while all this taking place. but I'm
| sure 1t wasn't worth $50 Now I'm willing
| to pay any price for chickens from some
| body else when want to eat them. | never
| expect to try TO raise them again IN lo
| by II foot lot
| Representative Fitzgerald of Massachu-
! sets says there are too many bachelors
| among the younger members of the House,
| and he proposes to help some of them
| change their lonely lot. There are many
bachelors in the Junior set. including sew
| eral wealthy men, and all considered good
| catches"
| Mr.. Fitzgerald says he proposes to take
a delegation of these embryo statesmen
and available benedicts to the coming May
ball at Charlestown, where he thinks they
will meet their fate. He is naturally loud
| in his praises of the aggregation of female
loveliness of his district, and has no doubt
that the visiting representatives viii fall
| easy prey to the CharlcStOvn beauties. The
only thing that troubles him is the fear
/ that the naughty and aristocratic young
women of Charlestown may refuse to &C
cept the lowly offerings which he proposes
| to lay at their feet, and that he will thus
| be baked in his humanitarian purpose of
| putting the bachelors of the House in a
way to lead proper life for the future.
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| Diplomacy is a great quality" said
man who formerly lived in a very small
Ohio town to the writer recently. "A fellow
| can do nearly everything by the proper use
| of diplomacy. except to rob a bank. 1 was
| just reading something about a volunteer
| Organst that set me thinking about neat
| little bit of diplomacy that lifted a good
| man from misfortune's ditch and put him
| in the way of doing something for himself.
| He was a musician with a small travelling
| show which came along and went to pieces
/ III our lO"H Inc OlUeT people OIL tne COM
pany got out of town by hook or crook but
| this poor fellow couldn't make it. He got
| acquainted with several young fellows of
| the town. however. and to one of these he
] confided that he would make a living by
| teaching music if he could only get start.
The young fellow asked him what he
| could play. and he said he could play all
| kinds of horns in band, the banjo the
| guitar. the either, violin. flute. piano and
| organ-in fact. he could play almost any
| kind of musical instrument ever invented.
Then an idea struck him, and he asked
| what kind of organists they had in the two
! churches. The young fellow said they were
| pretty good; his sister was one of them.
| ThereupOn scheme formed itself in the
| musicians mind. He told his friend that if
| he could get u chance to play the organ
next Sunday he thought he could surprise
| the folks and maybe pave the way to get
| ting foothold as a teacher. He suggested
| that the young fellow present the case to
| his sister and have her get sick the next
Sunday and send note of apology and
| suggesting himself as her substitute.
| This was all carried out in proper FORM
| and when the time had arrived and the min
| lister had apologized for the substitute. the
| musician seated himself at the little organ
and began. He started off with voluntary in
| a sweet. expressive strain and worked it up
| to noble burst Of music which in varying
| phases swept along and held the congrega-
! ton enchanted. Nobody had ever suspected
| the poor little organ capable of anything
| half as grand, and you may be sure that
| the musician overlooked no points From
| that time on the church service was simply
| an accompaniment to the music, and when
| it was finished. and the organ poured forth
| another flood of harmony for the congrega-
/ ton to retire on. everybody Just stood and
| listened, and before the stranded musician
| left the church he knew all the good people
\ IN town and was made social lion.
| at was easy enough after that. Being a
| man of good address and discretion. and
possessing gentlemanly refinement as well,
| he quietly went to work and soon had lot
| of the best pupils in the town. Then the
| young fellows went after him for banjo
| and guitar lessons, and afterward they or
| ganized band and made him leader
| Everything came his way, and he married
| the daughter of one Of the rich men of the
| town. and. well. he runs the largest music
| store in the place now. All accomplished by
| a bit of diplomacy"