The Washington times., 1902-02-04

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sentative the Subject of a street
Car Joke.
Representative Browniow, the Repub-
lican leader of Tennessee, who controls
the patronage of his State, has time to
tell a good story. and is considered some
thing of humorist.
Recently he was on the way to the
| Capitol with Representative Gibson. the
remaining Republican member from Ten
| nessee In Congress. Mr.. Gibson is not
| much over five feet tall and very slight Of
stature. while Mr.. Brownlow is a giant in
comparison. Sitting side by side in an cleo
trio car the big statesman grinned good
naturedly at his diminutive colleague
when the collector of fares came around.
Mr.. Brownlow, with quiet chuckle,
handed out one ticket. The conductor
moved up to Mr.. Gibson, who could hardly
be seen in his great coat. The latter
fished out a nickel and passed it over.
Hold on there, Mr.. Conductor" cried
Brown,ow; you don't charge for boys. dc
your" Gibson's head bobbed up out of his
coat and he pulled his imperial savagely.
The fare man laughingly remarked that
the boy had a luxurious growth of whisk-
ers and he would have to keep the money.
Gibson felt uncomfortable, and remon-
strated with the member from the First
district. The big statesman. on reaching
the Capitol. told the story on the little
one, who had thereafter to undergo the
gibes OF his fellow Congressman.
A MISSISSIPPI STORY TELLER
Representative Gambler Illustrates
the American Position ns to the
FillpinOs.
Representative E. S. Gambler, jr., of
Mississippi, who succeeded Private
John Allen, has made quite reputation
as story teller. Indeed, he ha. no end
of anecdotes Almost every morning he
can he found in the Democratic cloak
room entertaining a party of friends with
some new story. and in this respect he is
much like his famous predecessor.
The other morning several Democratic
members were talking about the Philip
pine Islands. when the member from the
First Congressional district of Mississippi
said that the further the Philippines were
discussed the nearer they got into the
condition of good old friend of ais, who
said he had been trying for long time
to find out who the Filipinos were. where
they came from, and where they were
going, and the more investigation he
made and the further he went. the more
confused he became. and the further
away from the subject he was.
My good old friend" said Mr.. Cand-
Ter, remarked that the Philippines re-
minded him OF an occurrence in his COM
munity some years ago. His people had
sent to the Legislature an old gentleman
who was regarded as the possessor of a
great deal of knowledge. When the men,
Der returned from the Legislature TO the
bosom of his constituents, one of his
neighbors who had secured letter from
a friend in a distant Western State went
to him for some information. The friend
in the far West had written that times |
bad been hard. but we're improving. since |
many immigrants had moved into the |
country and were buying up all the corn.
thus raising the price OF that article. The |
neighbor was puzzled over the word i'm |
migrant and he asked the member of |
the Legislature to explain it.
After reading the letter. the old man |
studied for a minute, and then said: |
Well, I've read a great many books, ard |
really have made a special study of this
question for a long time, but l have not |
arrived at any definite conclusion as to
what an immigrant is; but, from the best