The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-23

so, my advice would be, were I per-
mitted to advise the voters of Raleigh
Don't jump out of the frying pan
into the fire" But, when you can
do so, jump, as soon as possible, into
the cool waters of prohibition.
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1 am always sorry for man Who
can't make his speech. l am sorry
for two or three reasons. In the first
place I like to hear a fellow blow off,
because it's a relief to him; and, in
the second place, when 1 see a fellow
So anxious to make a speech, l have
a curiosity to know what it is he would
like to tell. In almost every body of
men there will be a fellow who will
be all the time jumping about half
way to a standing position, and look
ing as if he had something to say, but,
some one else gets ahead of him and
he sits down. Presently l see him
half way up again but something pre-
vents him from unburdening himself,
and he slowly eases himself down. l
ALWAYS sympathise with that unfort-
innate brother. for / am sure, not hav-
ing delivered himself, he feels badly.
When DaVy Crockett was in Con-
gresS a man of that Kind sat beside
him. 1t made no difference what
measure was under discussion, that
fellow would get about half way up,
as if he would address the Speaker.
AS soon, however as Crockett dis
, covered him on the rise, he would
catch him by the coat tail and jerk
him to his seat, saying: ''Sit down,
you blockhead; you don't know any
thing about that matter; if you did
you couldn't tell it.
, On one occasion, while Crockett's
attention was in another direction, his
man got to his feet and had said 'Mr.
Speaker" before Crockett could stop
him. Having said Mr.. Speaker" he
seemed to hesitate as if stricken with
stage fright.
ooh, go on" said Crockett ''now
that you are up"
He went on, and this was his speech,
Mr. Speaker: It's my opinion that
the generality of the people in general
are inclined, to take the advantage of
, the generality of the people in gen
eral."
80, for Gods sake, sit down, said
Crockett. "You remind me of a wood
pecker You came out the same hole
you went in; and your head popped
out before your tail got out of sight"
I'm glad that gentleman made his
speech if it did mortify Crockett be-
cause he would always have believed
, that the world was entitled TO, and,
ought to have had, the benefit of his
views on the tariff question. ....
I heard a fellow try to make a re-
mark once which he never finished
and the world will never know just
what he intended to say. 1t was at a
fire one night, and it occurred this
way:
The whole top of DR.. Hawkins s
house, the one now occupied by Mr..
Sherwood Higgs, was on fire. A man
had reached the west window i'm the
mansard roof, having In his hand the
nozzle of an engine worked by hand.
About that time the steam fire en-
CINE had arrived and gotten up steam.
The nozzle man of the steam engine
did not see any other way to put a
stream upon the. fire. except through
that west window, in the mansard
roof. | heard the man up in the win
dow cry out to his men who worked
the hand engine: "Let her comet
meaning, let the water come. At the
same moment the stream from the
nozzle of the steam engine shot up
like a water spout, indeed, almost
drowning the fellow standing in the
window. He spurted and bowed the
water out, and leaning to one side so
as to be out of the way, of the stream,
he shouted to the man on the ground,