The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-24

1t is SAID tnat Henry Guy Carleton, the
playwright, who stammers very badly at
times, not SO long ago stopped Nat
Goodwin on the street and said to him:
'Nats will you g-g-give me half an
h-hour for five minutes con-ver- s-sa-
tion?'
When Bishop Potter the other day
tried to open the door of a Fifth avenue
stage in New York, says the Argonaut,
it was playfully held closed by the Rev.
DIR. Edward Judson, the pastor of the
Judson Memorial Baptist church, who
was inside "Ah, Judson," exclaimed the
bishop, when he saw what DR.. Judson
was doing, 81 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 a
colored man in Alabama, who, one hot
day in July, while he was at work in a
ing toward the skies, said: 80 I4awd, de
cotton am SO grassy, de work am so
hard. and the sun am 80 hot. b'lieve
dis darkey am called to preach!'
A gentleman who was once being taken
over an insane asylum, asked an attend
ant 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 keep battling away while
the taps keep running, but them that
isn't idiots stops the tap
Commenting on the remarkable bravery
of the Japanese soldiers New York
lies lay under fire from the walls of
Tien Tsin, the Japanese held two rows of
huts along the south canal. Between
these two rows was an open space COM
inanded by the Chinese fire. A soldier
was started with a verbal order across
this zone. Within thirty yards he fell
dead. Another soldier Instantly dashed
out with the MESSAGE and he fell like
wise. Like clock work a third soldier
ran out, and there was roar of cheers
from the allies as the brave Japanese
made the trip in safety"
John Fox Jr.. in his sketch Of "The
Southern Mount aineer,'' In Scribner's
Magazine for April, relates that a travel
ing evangelist, Mr.. Barnes, once stopped
at a mountain tavern and told the story
of the Crucifxion. When he was quite
through, an old woman who had listened
in absorbed silence, asked:
Stranger, you say that that happened
a long while ago?"
YES said Mr.. Barnes, almost two
thousand years ago.
And they treated him that way when
he'd come down for nothin' on earth
but to save 'em2''
TIES"
The old woman was crying softly,
and she put out her hand and laid it on
his knee.
''Well, stranger. let's hope that hit
amt so.''
An old darkey went to Memphis the
other day to get his pension check cash
ed. After receiving his money which
amounted to $11, the old ex-slave saunter-
ed down Front street to q produce house
and bought three creates of cabbages
When they were delivered at the wharf
late that afternoon the old man was
there and received them with a mouth
watering i'll anticipation OF the good time
ahead "Whut yer gwine ter do wild dem
cabbages?" inquired the negro drayman
quick response; Use bin free forty years,
and dis is de first time Use had de
money to buy huff cabbage Use
gwine ter eat cabbage till furgit de way
ter my mouf''