Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-06-04
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Short Stories

III,
the playwright, who stammers very
badly at times, not so long ago stopped
Nat Goodwin on the street and said to
him: NAT, will you g-give me half an
h-hour for five minutes con-yers-sa-
ton"
When Bishop Potter the other day
tried to open the door of Fifth Ave-
nue. stage in New York, it was play
fully held closed by the Rev. DIR. Ed
ward Judson, the pastor of the Judson
Memorial Baptist Church, who was in
side. "Ah, Judson," exclaimed the
Bishop, when he saw what DR.. Judson
was doing, II have discovered that you
are close-communion Baptist"
Booker Washington says that during
the earlier days of freedom, almost
every negro who learned to read would
receive "a call to preach" within few
days after he began reading. He tells
of colored man in Alabama, who one
hot day in July, while he was at work
in a cotton-field, suddenly stopped, and
looking toward the skies, said: 80
Lawd, de cotton am SO grassy, de work
am so hard, and the sun am so hot, /
b'lieve dis darkey am called to preachv'
A gentleman who was once being
taken over an insane asylum, asked an
attendant how they knew when an
idiot was considered to be sufficiently
restored to sanity to be discharged.
"Oh," said the attendant. sit is easily
managed. We take them into yard
where there are several troughs. We
turn on the taps and then give the
idiots buckets to bail out the water and
empty the troughs. Many of them
keeps bailing away while the taps keep
running, but them that isn't idiots stops
the tap"
The New York Suns Pekin correspon-
dent says that once during dry season
in China, the viceroy, Earl Ii Hung
Chang, called on the American minister,
Mr.. Conger, and spoke Of the weather.
Yes" said Mr.. Conger, sit seems to be
dry everywhere. 1t is dry in my coun-
try, too. l read in one of our papers
the other day that in many places in
the West the people were praying for
rain" What" said the earl, t'do your
people pray to their God for rain? y
"Oh, yes, 4" said the minister,
they often pray for rain. +"
.sAnd does their God send it when they
pray for it?" asked the earl .'Yes,
sometimes their prayers are answered
and sometimes they are not" "All the
same like Chinese joss, hey?" said the
earl, with grin and chuckle.
The following is an extract from a
bona-fide letter which woman from
New Haven, Conn.,, wrote to Clyde
Fitch. the other day: 81 have beer
reading of the vast amount of money
you have been making this year {by
writing plays. l do not approve of tht
theatre myself, but 1 would like to ash
small favor of you. l am a lady
who has seen better days, but witt
Gods help and your assistance thinl
the sun of prosperity may shine on m;
again. am a, widow with thret
daughters. The eldest died two year.
ago and ever since l. have been mos
anxious to have her grave sodded
Won't you please sod her grave fo
me, my dear Mr.. Fitch? My secont
daughter could make very good mar
riage If you would only send her 500
with which to buy her trousseau. NJ.
third daughter has beautiful voice
The doctor says it cannot be properl,
trained for less than $780, In short
dear Mr.. Fitch, send me check 70
$500, and just see what an amount o
good you will be doing in the world
My daughters grave will be sodded
my second girl will be made lovin,
wife, and my baby will have voice t
earn money for her mother with; an,
/ shall have enough of your money lef
to hire secondhand piano. Be sur
and send the money by registered lei
ter, as think the ordinary mail is s
unreliable"