The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-18

| Come dune. como ouno' 9ASPoo Clancy. Come dune, an help let her l gor
 | Everybody who has been behind the 1 scenes at Weber q F4eides knows that | the game of checkers whiles away the l formers. Frits Williams took turn with I Joe Weber the other evening and los, Sx straight games.
 q can't understand it." said Williams never played more carefully more sci, q, swept mo out of existence It's just youl Jew luck that did if.
 (Which proves,'s responded web<: that Jew luck is better than Christian Science.
 Max .Gloistein. President of the Gioi- stein Fishing Club. at whom most of the practicA jokes of the East Side are aim eds IS an aetuts business man. notwith. standing the frequent stories published which tend to make one believe other wise. His bartender. while under the in- huence of B severe attack of infamma- ton of the cranium the other day, rec quested an advance in salary. :Vell." said Gloistetn. T dink 1 am Esying you as much as you are wort "Aw. gwau." replied the mixoiogist. If 1t wasn't fer de graft brings in here youssd have ter shut up dc joint" Vat you. dink l wood do if you vas to die?' said Max.
 T guess .yoused manage to get along wid0ut me-" replied the barkecper. ."veii,, answered Gloistein. noncha- lantly. "yust imagine you vas dead" Feeling the need of few days rest, Con9ressmsn Cummings and friend left Washington and went to the most fash ioneble hotel at one of the most popular Southern winter resorts. letter of in. troduction which they had to the mana ger of the, establishment brought for them
 q hearty welcome. and "the best in the house." They got both. and they had a grand time. but their appreciation of 1t all was rather diminished by the unex- pected sise of their bill.
 at such nigh hospitality as they had enjoyed, Congressman Cummings stopped at the hotel news stand to get some pa pers. The pretty young woman attendant who waited upon him called his attention and said sweetly:
 "Congressman. don't you want scu- 7what forr' asked Mir. Cummings rath. CT srufny.
 Why. to serve as reminder of this place. she said.
 "Humphv' replied Mir. Cummings. look ing ruefully at his receipted hotel bill. "f don't want to remember 1t. If you have any souvenirs that will make me forget it I'll buy one"
 During the year that have been get
 tive tive editors." said Charles Theodore Mur- ray the other night, T have observed a general tone of apologetic regret in the accompanying notes of rejection, as feelings might be hurt. Of course I have become SO hardened by this time that the return of some of my manuscripts fails to arouse any feeling at all. but must confess that Richard Watson Gild- CT rather started me to thinking last month when he sent me back a humor- in as an envelope with a deep black mourn ing border. and without comment" Russei Sage. so often represented in tho newspapers as a man who wears a cheap suit. eats apples for lunch. and with no timc for anything but for the making and amassins of money. has another side more than once. to give to charity; he can appreciate a good joke, and has even been known to make one. A friend called to see him a few days incidentally asked the flnancier his opin- ion of Cecil Rhodes's will. Mir 1SaSe replied that he did not consid- CT Rhodes's Idea of unification of the English-spcaking peoples a practical one and that if any alliance came about be- tween the United States and Great Brit ain it would not be for sentimental req sons, but rather through commercial and financial interests.
 'Then Mir. Sage" said his questioner. "you think If any closer political rela- tions are established between John Bull 8 monarchy and Columbia these will be the result of great industrial schemes en- aineerei by such men as J. Pierpont Nor san?'
 'Yes-what one might perhaps call a
 Morganatic naSiagc.' chuckleds Uncle
 Russell