The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-04
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT,
Interesting Notes of Some of Those
 in the Public Eye.

 over some piles of Southern newspapers dating back to 1865, and was astonis,l..o to find that Booker T. Washington pat. form of negro education was auNoce'su in speeches delivered by Conleoe,@see @ tsstv,, e,als after their return from the |iVh War.
 American and English concert mana gers have made tempting offers to father lorenzo Perosi, the Italian composer ol oratorios, to leave his native laiu i ail'' conduct performances of these ~WoIhs' ~ But Father Perosi does not like traVeilhs, is unhappy when away liohi A'' refuses all offers.
 Senator Platt of Connecticut was puliu- ing A house some time ago ana hireu an oid-f ashioned carpenter who cialheu lo know all about his trade. By way ol testing him the Senator said: How LOW would you make Neneuan Dllhu! An carpenter considered for half minute and answered: 'I guess the best way would be to punch him in the eye.
 Wesley l.. Jones, a native of Illinois and now a Congressman from Washington IS a new man in the national leslsiature' and, judging from speech oi ms when appeared in The Congressional Record few days ago, he takes himself quite se- riousIy. In the first forty-two lines of his remarks the capital letter 1T appears forty-seven times.
 Among candidates for nomination to the Goyernorship of Pennsylvania is w. t. Andrews, clerk of the united o'ates Senate Committee on immigration iis friends have put out elaborate buttons with his picture and many voters are wearing them. Yes. Andrews is quite popular" said a Philadelphia politician '.Everybody Is for him-except the dele gates"
 Dr. Parkhurst of New York has little sympathy with what he calls the here
 I... .,f oh Fa people. Quoth he: If that process Of sitting had been adopted in those first Galilean days 1t might have shut out Judas, but Peter and John and some others would have shared the same fate There Is a big wide way of taking men into and keeping them in the ministry and there is a quibbling, academic way of doing it"
 After Senator Beveridge of Indiana had concluded his somewhat turbid speech on the Philippines in the last Congress ne asked Jones of Arkansas what he thought of the address. The Southerner hesitated, but on being pressed for an honest eX- pression of opinion slowly replied: If you really want my candid opinion l will give it to you. and here it is: When your ideas catch up. with your vocabulary you will have attained high rank as an orator..
 Mark Hanna has taken to ping pong. That is he has installed a pinG-pong set in his Washington home and the game is open to all corners as q means of amuse- ment while waiting their turns to see the onator. Jerry Simpson. the erstwhiie sockless one from Kansas. has also taken to ping-pong and is actually said to be the champion of Montana. Jerry played with three milionaires and is quoted as saying that was the first time he ever beat the rich at their own game.
 Allen Dulles, 8 years old. a grandson of eX-Seuretary of State Foster. has written and published for private circulation a history of the Boer war. His family sym pathizes with the British, but he is a stanch supporter of the struggling burgh- CTS. His book is printed exactly as he wrote it. Master Dulles has a very low opinion of British artillery practice and of British lighting methods in general. One day" he says, the British tied ten billy goats to try the affects of some lldeight shels; so he fired about 20 at them and then went up to see how many were left. and he found there were Hone had been born" The history is having a wide circulation in Washington. where the boy lives. and q second edition is on the nreSS