The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-22
Washington in
Lighter Vein.

| One dav last week the Senate ala not
meet at noon. The hands of the clock
were at least three minutes past the
hour of IL when the Chaplain lifted ms
voice in the opening prayer. Ana all
because Senator Frye was telling a story
to the preacher.
when l was up in Maine recently,
| said Mr. Frye, 81 was summoned to pre-
! pare will for man who was very Ill.
J 1t was necessary, of course to secure
two witnesses, and they had to be sent
| for. While we were waiting for them to
arrive the man seemed to get worse, and
thought it my duty, no minister being
present, to talk seriously to him. | told
him that he was very i'll, and that it
was likely he would soon depart this
| life.
land are you ready to meet this
great change I asked him.
"I will be- was the reply, 'as soon as
those ID witnesses get here.
I'm the gilded East they call it re-
partee.' said Uncle Joe Cannon, 'but in
nv State what 1 have reference to is
known as the come back
! 81 heard a good one on the car COM
ing up this morning. The car was
|
climbed aboard. She spied little space
next to thin young man and pumped
into it, She nearly squashed the young
man, who muttered fierce oaths under
! his breath.
1.-THE fat woman looked him in the eye.
4 suppose you wished you had gentle
man next to you, don't you?' she asked.
Yes, 1 do!' exclaimed the young
man. Well said she. comfortably, so
do l."
i John Allen, of Tupelo, relates this as
his first experience in a battle during
/ the civil war:
"a neighbor and l were behind rail
| fence. All of a sudden he said to me:
What do 1 care about territorial rights?
am a heap more use at home than L
am here He started to get out and go
| home when Yankee she'll burst in
| front of him, tearing up the ground.
John he says, what chance have
we got? There was enough stuff in that
| she'll to kill forty men and they just
fired it at you and me-
| Commissioner of Pensions Eugene f.
| Ware received a letter from a man in
Illinois a few days ago in which he said:
II am now getting a pension of $50 a
month. Recently the Lord has pros
| pered me and 1 do not think l should
get so much money. l gave my services
| to the country and / think l should
have some pension of course, but ] think
! $50 a month is too much. Is there any
way 1 can have my pension reduced or
suspended while l enjoy the prosperity
: that is mine at PRESENT."
| This is the only letter that ever came
! to the Pension Bureau asking for re-
duction of pension, and Commissioner
Ware looked at it with much curiosity
and some suspicion. After determining
that the man is really on the rolls, he
wrote to the special pension examiner
| in the district "a which the man lives
and asked him TO investigate. This is the
answer the pension examiner sent in
/ reply:
| Il have the honor to inform you that
the person who appealed for reduction
| in his pension is now in the insane asy-
lum at this place and has been for some
time"
Dennis Mullaney, restaurateur of
much local renown, is i'll with cirrhosis
of the liver, and "Pinkie," his chief of
staff, is inconsolable.
"Pinkie, what's the matter with Den
nis?" asked visitor last night.
Deed sab, l don know" replied
"Pinkie, disconsolately, 'but dey tell
me de doctahs call it ferocous of de
livah"