The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-06-05
ENTERTAINMENT
FOR MAN AND BEAST.


H@c docet fabula that Colonel Hep
burn Is not enamored of that particular
aspirant for vice presidential honors
and knows how to express his aver
sion.
Governor Balls Story.
Colonel HppbUrn's anecdote reminds
me of one which Governor David A
Ball OF Missouri is fond of telling on
himself. In the same town with him
lived a brilliant but eccentric gentle
man named DR.. Samuel w. Buckner,
younger brother to Judge A. II. Buck
ner. who for u years represented with
great ability the district which now
represent. One day in 1888 Governor
Ball and DR.. Buckner we're walking
down the street together when Bail
said
Doctor. am going to run for lieu
tenant governor. What do you think
Of that?'
"All right, sir: all right I am for
you"
Then they logged along some dis
lance, Buckner in a brown study all
the while. At last Ball said:
Doctor. what are you thinking
about:"
II was cogitating on this PROPOSE
ton" Buckner replied-"if you were to
be elected lieutenant governor and the
\ .; I,,'t 1,o in
devil Of a fiX|
What Was the "Ante?"
Amos J. Cummings Joined the cloak
room assembly on one occasion when
| they were Giscoursing on amusing in
| terruptions Of speeches. Amos said
zone of the funniest things of that
sort | ever witnessed was in the clos
ing days of the Fifty-second congress.
Colonel Charles H. Mansur Of. Missouri
| had been defeated for denomination.
| He was making a sort Of farewell al
| dress to the house Inter ALA he said:
| L have worked hard during my six
years here-very hard. My labors on
| the committee on claims were onerous
anu uDc9dSluSs L udNC ACPotNN" Va
hundreds of bills. have worked all
day and sometimes all night. Time
and time again have remained IN my
committee room in the capitol until
the morning light streamed through
the windows
Gust there some irreverent Wag IN
| CURED, What was the "ante," colonel:
which question was, received with
roar Of laughter cutting off MansurS
brilliant peroration.'
Ferty Acres and Mule.
Mr.. Lattimer of South Carolina who
keeps an eye in the direction OF the
senate, capped Brother Brosius' story
with this:
"When the war closed, the carpet
baggers made the 'niggers' really be-
Iieye that each Of them would get ~
ocres and a mule One old colored
brother, growing impatient for his ul'-
w, went to lawyer to tx up 'he pa
pers emitting him to realize Oh LIS
hopes and said:
".Marse Lawyer, how much you
charge to fix up nah papans so Ain
git nah land an nah meWl?
"'Ten dollars replied the diSclpie
Of Blackstone. lie,
".But amt got but three an a nan,
"sAll right answered the lawyer
give me that, and you can WORK ou'
the rest cleaning up my office
"Whereupon he scrubbed sometnI ing
on sheet of paper, handed II 10 INC
old darby and received the SOW II re ~
turn. The colored man placed MS pa
pers' carefully in his pocket, rusheu Oh
to his former masters farm ana pesan
to stake off 40 acres Of the very pest
land. MA tho
Hi, vi. there, sambo! yeiieu '0
owner. what are you doingF
Measurin off nah 40 acres, " ,t,
fer re got de papahs nean' sum-
which Marse Lawyer writ.
eeTbe white man examined the uOcu
mont and found it to run as follows.
LAS Moses lifted up the brazen ,,s SCI
nent in the wilderness, so nave NC
60 20 out of this nigger's pocket