The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-04
.SAMB AND THE SPARROW
Latter Tells the Former Of Politics 10 Far
OFF Tekram.
A VERY RoT CONTEST ON OVER THERE
snmb wouId Like to Participate, but
for His work Here on the
Pageant and Ball.


there in King Notices country they are
In the midst of a political contest which
apparently makes this little Difficulty of
ours resemble a string Of Chinese cash"
SAID Samb to the Sparrow, The two were
sealed in a gorgeously appointed private
room in Milan street cafe and the boy
had just cracked another bottle Of Dries
Extra Silent. All that was left of the
birds We're the bones.
Under standing your inordinate vanity
as l do replied the Sparrow as he
watched the bubbles rising fr IN the bot
tom OF his glass, II can readily see why
you should think that everything in your
country is Just a little bat superior TO
that anywhere else But | want 10 tell
you rigDt here shat when you begin TO
intimate that Teuam can maintain 4
bgger or more exc, .ug political cam
paIgn than can this glorious republican
empire # Ouls, is time 10 cal the
conductor aad have h'a replace your tro'-
ley on the wire. WA4e the matter with
you anyway? Wasn't the pill properly
i5llod or did the pipe stem get cloggcd!
"from this issue Of he WosenDldtt,
said ) mo calmly ignoring the sparrow
the other furniture in The TO m, u gath
er that this same little campaign over IN
TeNrdm is somewhat more Highly llnpreg-
mated with caloIifc substances t1an any
thing OF the kind that ever ambied down
the shell road. You see, every ten years,
AFTER the census has been taken and the
spring houseceauing done, d new Keeper
OF the Royal Bar Is elected in rekr m
This position being one OF the highest in
.r.. t,f fhA tQ
can readily imagine tAat there IS always
q hot contest for it. prepare ions tor the
next election are begun just as soon as
one is finished and the amount OF loe
rolling and fence building that is done Il
those ten years would make Mark HAN
mas methods 10 like a straw hat Ia
December There are no primaries OF
secondares or whatever it is you call hem
over here. TIL candidates just simply
announce themselves and the one who gels
the most votes on election day is OF course
declared the winner, Sometimes Lnere
are several zen candidates and this
makes the work OF the election clerk
somewhat onerous but 1t is such an cx-
celent opportunity to lind out all about
The msdeeds OF the various candidate
that the people bear all Of ne trouble and
expense uncompa!ningly.
The Keeper of the Royal Bar durin
Izzeut a mos excellent man. who was
never known to touch drop himself and
VIII always closed UP promptly at mid
nigh no matter how many courtiers there
might be attemp ing to stand him of
4 for drinks. 1t Was charged once tina
old Amule made his izz of soda water
, cod liver oil and citric acid and an inves'
: tigaton committee was appointed which
r after looking into the matter and testing
Of no
o was a muchly wronged man and that hii
r goods We're 90 per cent fine. This, o
course made Amule all the more popular
although one OF the opposition partie
d hn;ed al the time that money had beef
t used and that Immediately after the re
, port had been subm tied every membe
- of the committee was seen sporting one
e OF those new oYercoats with turn bacl
cuffs and fur around the b toms.
"Amuies strongest opponent, and thu
d man who will win from him II any on
2 does, is Ali Gazzlm Jones, young MAJ
d who has made quite 4 brief brilliap
{ record in politics since he entered tn
IS field and whose past is spotless except TO
e a short term he served n the penitentiar
z, for alternating the Affect rs of the wifi
), OF one of the kings chamberlains Tn
r crime is a capital one in Tekram, but |
:, appears that Ali knew something about
:. shady transaction of the aforesaid cham
berlain and as a result mis- sentence wa
made as light as poss' bic. He is one o
the most strenuous Young men We have Il
the Tekram and il is conceded on al
o sides that he will give old Amule no
run for his coin. 1t is the generally &C
a cepted opinion that one OF the two vii
. win. There being but one purse hung VI
20 the loser will have to get In the also ra
I class together with the numerous othe
y candidates. whose ella ms for the offlc
. range from their ability to mix kerosen
cocktails to the manner In which the
" can play the part OF the official bounce
!, during the temporary absence of that pei
sonage.
Altogether it's going to be hot race
and I'm only sorry that the work il
= which I'm gagged here will not allow o
my being there to participate in it."
Speaking of this alleged work tina
,e you are doing here" said the Sparrow
- who had listened as patiently as he coulC
= to SANDS long talk. what's being doint
u lately? Is everything going to be read,
when the king gets here?"
= "Of course everything is going to b,
~ ready" said Samb, with a whitening look
," Did you ever know of anything that
= was connected with not being ready whel
. il should have been?"
= Nothing but that speech you were go
= ing to make up at Laslad the night yoi
got that slosh on in company with al
Il, old Pen Selim," said the Sparrow. 20
= COURSE"
70 AS | was saying" hastily interrupted
a Samb, everything is coming on nicely
y The chariots are nearly all ready. eyei
- at this early date, the royal tailors hav
- all but finished the robes OF state. an
"a Faithful Ten and the captains who ar
y to greet King Notice and his party ar
10 having meetings every night for tn,
purpose Of discussing and arranging de
+, tails Our little fiesta this year is goin
to be one that the people who see it vii
~ talk about until the next one occurs o
~ course those on the outside will thin
that this is simply hot air, but you. VIII
g. are fully acquainted with the facts, an
M in whom the people have the utmost con
m hdence when you're asleep, can assur
70 the world that what I'm saying
straight"
- The Sparrow admitted all this. Jus
then the clock struck 9, and, this beln
much later than the Sparrow usually re
manned up at night, he accepted anothe
Slnvtation to sluce his worries and toll
} NSamb adieu. On the way home and ate
cafe fell asleep he dreamed of nothin
dc, -mueh-except the glories OF tha
Iwilfgeant and ball with which King Motto
sibI,l be greeted next month when h
, comes to visit his children Of the No