The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-12
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MAN
ABOUT
TOWN
BY l-
Harry Tucker.

Z 1VlO---lsf IlluS DUNN
tatyshlp Of Grand I4odge.
10o3--Was elected. 4, nu /,
Moral-Where there's q Will, there's y
way II YOU get much in the Will
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Forsooth but we dost thinh
Dost not2 eE
"a THAT Julius Caesar IS
E,,tS;iIs too windy and too long
And Mister Mansfield, ye gods!
Why should we contribute NJ
no The Roman Golfers the sum OF
l1iyo plunks for one square
Foot Of breathing space
no see him strut and raVef
His reading of blank verse
Is not to our liking.
His voice is not round ana
Resonant;
,roo much to the Golfers and
The mob lookcth he
The Golfers most.
But then the story's a. good one.
Not half bad and better'far
Thaa side Tracked. DRIVEN
Her Marriage Vow;
Yet not worth the difference IN price.
1T gives q moral to
Z Ambitious folks like us,
And makes US feel that
Time Is thrown away
In seeking lnurels new.
But the mob's the thing
No mob hast ever seen
Could equal this.
Better far than that
Which Weakened folks at
Twcnty-ninth and p Streets, I
When clouds shown with 8
Rosy hue.
Mister Mansfield. methlnks.
Would mako 5000
Mob leader.
lie eats his words like
we would eat roast beef
K At Klrkswoods when
Hunger gnawed our Utmost SOUL
But there's tho mob!
'Twould sure have dono
a noble thing El
To have jumped on Brutus
With all Its force,
To've borne him out to the
Free Bridge, and
Cast him down, down
Into tlrbid waters.
Then the Golfers would there's
s. Have been, with which to
Make merry. as midnight
Hours passed
Give us back our
Five plunks
And we will to Izzy Busy
For a weekl
Mr.. Frank Anthony handed lis a piece
OF paper the other day with this written
on It:
Garter Brander. better known among
his friends as Sunny Jim.
Say something about him, he said
He's one OF the best fellows on earth,
and he'll stand for what you say, II you
don't call him horse thief or muir
derer."
We don't know anything to say about
the gentleman except that he saved US
from wreck once by giving us So worth
Of accident policy with the Travellers,
when we went to the wild and woolly
west the Richmond Elks.
II we hadn't got Nout that policy, said
Colonel Brander, we would have run of
the track or omething.
That's all we know to- say about him
except that he Is using all his energies
In working up the populace in favor Of
an old live stock fair with Durham bulls
and fat hogs.
We hope he'll get IL
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There was great excitement around
the Commercial Hotel the other day. and
when we made some inquiries we learned
tina t 1t was all due to the fact that Mister
Mlres had paid for his cigars without
trying to stand Charlie off.
This may not be an important news
item standing alone, but when It Is fol-
lowed up by tho further statement that
Mister Leo Lorraine, who some people
take for us very often and present him
bills, refuses to butt in on n crowd and
let any one in that crowd set 'em up.
N sits a rule have" he said, when he
bumped in on us at I4lwrence's the other
day, and we begged him to allow us to
pay for cigar for him.
It's good rule to follow,
Musical Director Edwin L. Walker, OF
tho Busy Izzy'' Company has his
troubles, 81
In his early youth. about sixty years
ago. he learned to play on the bass
brum; then he learned to play on the
snare drum. and ever since that time he
has made It q point to learn to play on
some musical instrument every year.
Now he has reached the stage at which
he can with truth look you In the face
and tell you In the most innocent sort
OF a way, that he can play on any instru-
mcnt ever Invented, from a megaphone
to a p!anola.
'"The other day" he said. as we sat
around the table laden with birds and
other things. and graced BY the presence
Of several of the pretty chorus Girls from
his company, "the other day the man
was taken sick and Wc had to have a
matinee. You know the bass drum plays
an important part In our orchestra. There
was nobody but me who could play on
the drum, so had to move over In tho
corner and direct the orchestra and the
singers while manipulating that instru-
ment
"And 1t went along nicely for a WHILE"
put in the brown-eyed girl, who wears n
black suit In the play.
''Esut Just for awhile" continued Mr..
Walker, ,'for l hadn't been playing long
before fat policeman. named Redman.
or something, tapped me on the shoulder
and said he wanted 10 see mo. At the
close of the show went out to see what
he wanted to see me for. found him
In Sparks & Blacks.
"Consider youself under arrest" he
said,
what for?" | asked In establishment
"ITo2 beating that drum"
Then the birds on the table flew away.
and George Bargamln, who never misses
first night at the Bljou, poured water
on tha fainting ladies, and DR.. ]. Mum
bathed our foreheads with ginger ale,
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