Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-03-13
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..,.,r,n Who was discusslns :
~. = .ns late Dr.. Parker the p!o ..Ths :
4 !. future existence e, nS,haationist
al n cir, I am nm anh'n mo- Will be +,
,sl;aye that, when ! dle snA> God for
.sa and Of me-" Thank :. "' chow.
me- Dr.. Parker replied, as Nc SAW
- . ~, companion the door.
" ri. "reminiscences OF Ge sn,
washington ,a DR.. Edward Everett q, M Ma1s
wis Of the generals anger a. Iee
.ells '.s :. when he met General Ice,
m M,. sn,,gton asked Lee why suc ~
Wasn l., ,vo retiring, and Lee said ina,
column a,.arican troops would not s1anu
The British bayonets. Washin s, have
nliei: "You d-n poltroea' sou
never tried them"
IN his recent book on emma an'
,be chinese" DR., Giles tells OF very
stingy Chnaman who TOOK pa
s srneI If money to an artist-paymehss
to always exacted in advance nv
10 him to paint his portrait luz
a art,st At once complied with the re-
onest but when the portrait was
finished nothing was visible save ,o ens
hacI, of the sitter's head. Wnat w.
th;a mean: cried the sitter, lnoig,
nort,y WELL" replied the artls'
thourht a man who paid SO little as
tno"e .,a wonldn't care to show his
face"
Henry Ward Beecher was amused
when he went into q Bowery res'au'
rant on one occasion and heard inc
waiter give such orders to the COOK as
Ham and" "sinkers ana cow,
etc. "Watch me faze that waiter
nth an order which believe ne
von't abbreviate," remarked Beecnel
At length as the waiter approached.
Then he said: "Give US poached eggs
an toast for two, with the yoikes
broken" But the waiter, VINO WAS
equal to tho emergency, walked to the
end Of the room and yelled: Adam
and Eve on 4 raft. Wreck EN-" II
| is related that DR.. Beecher near'9
tainted.
Charles Fl. z. Brookheld says he
was in Stevenson's company at the
moment when the germ Of the idea OF
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde" was con-
ceived. Stevenson was inveighins
against a man with whom he had done
business and with whose methods ne
was dissatisfied. The mans name was
Samuel Creggan, or something like It
HE is a man who trades on the
Samuel" Stevenson declared in hi;
rather hnnicky, musical Scots voice
HE receives you with Samuels smile
on his face; with the gesture of Sam
uel he invites you into chair; witt
Samuels eyes cast down in self-depre
citation, he tells you how we'll satisfies
his clients have always been with hi
dealings; but every now and then yo'
catch a glimpse of the Creggan peep
ing out lil.e a white ferret. Creggan'
the real man; Samrel's only super
dcial."
It is related that during the time
that the force bill w:s before tn
house of representatives, a number c
years ago, the galleries were fairl
clustered with black men, whose in
.erest in the measure was intense
One afternoon, while the extremel
acrid discussion Of the bill was at il
height, an aged. ministerial-lookin
darkey found q front seat in one GO
lery. A seat-mate was negro yout
who had a black bottle with him.
was not long before the young darke
nudged the old one, and offered him
sya,g from the bottle. The aged da
key took a long draw from the bottl
and smacked his lips over it, and Il
an hour or so the occupants of the co
respondents gallery, which was {
rectly opposite, watched tho young
; negro leading the older one into tenn
| tation. The ministerial-looking bla.
. man took perhaps half a dozen drin]
out OF his seat-mate's black bottle
tU6 COuISC VI luC uOuX, duU Wy III
; time he seemed considerably excite
A representative from Massachuset
was making strenuous speech in
tense of the voting rights Of the !
groes OF the southern states. At t
end OF one Of his most eloquent p
iods, the old black man suddel
stood up, leaned over the rail, point
long, black finger at the Mas
Chusetts representative, and ,shoute
IAN dat's all right! Preach de Wo
man-preach IT," A roar of Taught
swept the chamber, and the disco
fted New Highlander did not resul
his speech until the enthusiastic {
darkey had been led out Of the gale
by a doorkeeper.
He Went West and Prospered.
( Freeland, Kan, March 9th.-One
the most prosperous farmers in HI
per County is Mr.. N. H. Mead. Sol
thirty-four years ago he left his hor
near Clarence, N. T., and came to Ka
sas. Here he has thrived splendid