The colored American., 1902-03-08
gram" direct from Charleston-on-the-
Kanawha.


Kanawha:
Charter Clerk Phil. Waters, assist
ed by the handsome recording clerk,
David Thompson, in the Secretary of
States Office, worked like beavers on
Friday, the last day of the month
and by quitting time were able to hand
over to Chief Clerk McRea duplicate
copies of the report of charters issued
for the month of February, prepared
in comprehensive and very excellent
form. The report shows the number of
charters to have been issued during the
month of February to be as follows
Domestic corporations, 80; foreign cor
DOrations, 40. This is slight gain over
that of the same month last year and IS
regarded as remarkable showing for
he month of February which is usually
dull month in that line of work Clerks
Waters and Thompson deserve credit
for their prOmptnesS in this matter.
The Man-on-the-C Corner extends the
glad hand" to both of these gentlemen
md expresses the hope that the day will
Dc far distant when the grand Common
wealth of West Virginia will think IT
self strong enough to wag along with
out their assistance.
Justice E. NJ. Hewlett is getting along
nicely out at his Anacostia Office and has
enough to do TO keep him from becoming
lonesome. We know he misses the ac-
tive, panoramic life on "dogberry row,
an appellation that has for years beer
tackled on the D street lawyers empo
| RUM Mr. Hewlett is an old hand a
dealing out justice, and needed no pre-
Iiminary practice to get himself into
working form" He served under the
previous code under every president
since Cleveland'S first turn at the bat
He is a graduate of Harvard Law
School, and has appeared in severa
| yreat national cases before the UnlteC
| States Supreme Court. Mr.. Hewlett i
good reasoner and an orator of force
| nd elOquenCe He is known as one O.
| he ablest lawyers in the land. He i
popular with the ladies, despite the fac
| that he insists upon remaining a bache
lor.
Women who are fortunate enough t
| have husbands like to be praised By
them. AS long as man thinks th'
choice of his youth is as pretty, fair anC
| delightful as upon the sunny day he leC
her to the altar, the honeymoon cannO
| DC SdlU W DC dI dll lliS lSdIS up y
Ia conversation | heard the other evening
in the rathskeller of leading avenu
hostelry. Three well-known gentlemen
after settling all the existing nationa
issues and giving President Roosevelt
policies a shove to the good, begal
talking about their respective wives
and ladies. would you believe 1.-THE
came dangerously near falling out owe
the question as to which had the beS
wife in the wOrld-each stOutly main
tanning to the last that his own dear gil
at home was the very sweetest and bes
that ever happened-"Jack' Ryan pre-
served the peace by ordering 'em up.
Those ladies looked supremely happ
when the incident leaked out and the
forgave their spouses for having stage
in the rathskeller for two solid hour:
and missing the dinner they had prepar
ed. MORAL: If you want to 'get by
at home, praise your wife, and let he
hear of 1t through third party.
The devotees of the festive "growler
are a-growling. By order of the saIoo
keepers association-or something Q
other that runs the liquor business-th
aforesaid ''growler" now refuses t
grOwl for less than ten cents a cliJ
There was no profit, they say, in sellin
five cents worth in bucket or can c
the fluid which informed the people thu
Milwaukee was on the map. We indors
the action, for a quart is little enough t
buy when party is to be honored wit
a treat" and more than that, fewe
,Iar,