The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-05-30

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It Is said that Henry Guy Carleton,
the playwright. who stammers very
badly at times. not 80 long ago stopped
Nat Goodwin on the street and said to
him: NAT. win you g-giyesne half an
h-hour for five minutes con-vers-sa.
tiony
When Bishop Potter the other day
tried to open the door Of a Fifth Ave
nue. stage in New York, twas play.
fully held closed by the Rev. DR.. 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, Il 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 a few
days after he began reading. He tells
of colored man In Alabama, who one
hot day in July, while he was at worl;
In a cotton-feld. suddenly stopped, and
looking toward the skies, said: 20
Lawd. de cotton am so grassy, de work
am SO hard, and the sun am SO hot,
b'lieve dis darkey am called to preach!'
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. ut 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. read in one of our papers
the other day that In many places In
the West the people were praying fol
rain" "Whatw said the earl, do your
people pray to their God for rainY'
!. Oh, yes, said the minister
they often pray for rain. "
'.And 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, heyY said the
earl, with a grin and chuckle.
The following is an extract from a
bona-fide letter which a woman from
New Haven, Conn, wrote to Clyde
Fitch, the other day: Il have been
reading of the vast amount Of money
you have been making this year by
writing plays. ! do not approve of the
theatre myself, but would like to ask
small favor Of you. am a lady
who has seen better days, but with
Gods help and your assistance !. think
the sun of prosperity may shine on me
again. am q widow with three
daughters. The eldest died two years
ago and ever since have been most
anxious to have her grave sodded
Won't you please sod her grave FOL
me, my dear Mr.. Fitch? My second
dSughter could make a very good mar
riage If you would only send her 500
with which to buy her trousseau. My
third daughter has beautiful voice
The doctor says it cannot be properly
trained for less than $780, In short
dear Mr.. Fitch, send me check fol
$500, and Just see what an amount ol
good you will be doing in the world
My daughters grave will be sodded
my second girl will be made loving
wife, and my baby will have voice to
earn money for her mother with; and
l shall have enough of your money left
to hire a secondhand piano. Be sure
and send the. money by registered let
ter, as l think the ordinary mail IL 90
unreliable"