The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-04
Two Good story Books.

Two Good story Books.
Those who read George AIDES Fables in
Slang will welcome the appearance OF
More Fables by this bright newspaper
man. The contents of the book have al
ready spread themselves widely over the
country, through the medium of the news
papers, but they taste just as good in book
| form. The little yellow volume is one to
be read and reread and then kept in ones
library to chase away the blues. 1t justi-
fies Mr.. AIDES claim, if he has ever made
one, TO be considered an American humor-
| ist in good and regular standing.
| There is rather more than humor in some
| Of these skits, as is apt to be the case with
really good funny stuff Most of them have
q little moral which is as pointed and as
useful as tack, but. like tack, is more
| comfortable when not pointed at ones self
| Two CT the best are the one about the colo
mel from Georgia and the one about the
He-Gossip. The colonel had been recon-
structed but it didn't take" He landed
| in Chicago one fine day, drew pistol on
a colored waiter, and instead of receiving
| the support of all the members Of the
Caucasian race who were lowering around
there, found himself put into the hurry up
wagon by dusky policeman. Mr.. AIDE
| demurely concludes:
| Under which circumstances the colonel had the
rabies.
And this is what happened when the
| case came up in court:
! The Magistrate was White Man, and to him
| the Colonel appealed for Justice, claiming
| Brotherhood Caucasian. He told what would
have happened in Apahatchie II any Coon had
| dared TO lay finger on Colonel.
Here was opening for the Court. 1t must
be known that the Court lived in Ward that was
Dark in one End and he was out for the Colored
Vote in case he ran for Judge. This was his
Chance to make Grand Stand Play.
| He handed down Decision to the Effect that
all Men are Free and Equal, with incidental Ref
| erenc5s TO the Emancipation Proclamation and
Striking the Shackles from Four Millions OF HUI
! man Beings. He Ratified the Constitution and
Permitted the Negro to ses:id in the Free Sun
| light. In Apahatchie County he would have been
| used for Target Practice, but Apahachie County
| was still Eight Hundred Miles Away-
In Conclusion he Soaked the Colonel for s32.75
| in Fines and Costs. Next morning,
! south Bound Passenger Train crossing the
Ohio River the Colored Porter on the Atlanta
Sleeper jumped eighty feet from the Trestle into
| the Water in order to Escape with his life.
| This is the He-Gossip and what hap
| pened to him:
| Once upon time there HeGossip named
| Cy.enis Bizzy. Mr. Bizzy was Middle Aged and
| had 4 set of dark Chinchiias. He carried Gold
! Headed Cane Sunday. His Job this Earth
| was to put on pair of Pneumatic Sneakers every
| Nornir,s and go out and INVESTIGATE o. her Peo-
| pies Affairs
In consequence of this many things
| happened. This was the last:
When the Man came Home his Wife told him
| He rnurmured something about the Last Straw
| and moved swiftly out of doors. Pulling up the
| Rover Stake from the Croquet Grounds he ran.
NE u M ,a oiean uomsa II ol,or,
aacond there was y sound nc IL someiody had
| stul,bed his Toe and dropped a Crockery Store
| Then Cyrenus was seen to Break the Record for
the stunning Long JUMP on l.e r ron, stoop INTO
Az ~. an, -, ;,o We-,S Wst,nd Eo- SOW
| eral minutes the Copse where once the Garden
smiled was full OF HeGossip and cries for Help
That climax is perhaps as satisfactory
! to those who are acquainted with proto-
| types of this character, as anything in all
| fiction. Chicago: Herbert 6. Stone &
| Col
| Mr.. AIDE is not alone in his successful
attempt to make slang a vehicle for good
literature. In Tales of the Ex-Tanks"
| Clarence Louis Cullen has evolved one
| of the most UNIQUE books of the sea
| son. While essentially collection of
| newspaper tales, it does not lose anything
by aggregation. The book is a Joy and
| a solacc. Briefly, it is a series of remin-
iscent romances dealing with the lives,
sufferings, and carly adventures of an al
| legged club of ex-tanks. and they were
, not tanks on a locomotive, either. They
were human. very human, and while their
reformation was exemplary-they have
one and all settled down to steady re-
spectable life before the book opens-tbe
accounts which they give of their mad
careers in the days of their unregeneracy
show that there was need for a change
One suspects that the club was a club of
drummers. The stories are told mostly
in slang, and they show a most intimate
acquaintance with the methods of the ad-
vertising agent, the hustler, and the
con" Also they prove indisputably that
the author has IN MS time looked upon
the wine when it is red and the beer when
IL is yellow and all sorts of other liquors
whom they were to his ina pinatiye ewes
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,"e ~, ~, ~ 80. IT,
mas Deeh Ie'eHhs III d uSe iactoiy. ne
has comfortable human sympathy with
his characters This is not to be won
Jarod Of for ,bey are all good fellows
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WIN 1o'ou ~, 49,.
LOOKING Ut iie. ihe pooh "'u,u', pans
censorship at Sunday Schooi library,
but there is nothing in its which units il
for tho evos of vouth and innocence. The
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anu proves 'he 'hn''o iitli.'" v, 'i"n6 ioi
certain uses N literature IL taxes
genius to handle slang that way. The ay
erage writer treats it little as IL it were
a hot notato or a sea urchin.
~ r,arto. a-a ali en- cod th,+ ,h.ro
INC St". ts' " " " e' ' 'Si
Is little choice 10 De ihaue among theH,
but perhaps shade the best are that tale
"wherein ex-tauk No 3 endeayoreth to
on,,ay an idea of rho misery of aw.I,ep
,n, IN va Rug-ward !" and that other