The Washington herald., 1907-09-29


prize lighters do after they win a battle.
He's jumping on Mr.. Hartman now.
He licked Harahan 50 easy that he
thinks he can do Hartman, too.
think he'd better go into training, and
not spend so much time talking about
what he'll do.
I'm so glad Mrs. Carrie Nation got
out Of the workhouse again. She's get
ting to be a regular female Baron
Trenck, in jail and out again. It was
the Union Gospel Holiness Association,
Of Evansville. Ind, that sent her
money 70 get out on. Ny Aunt Jane
Dabney belongs 10 that: that's the rea-
son they all call her Sister Jane. She's
a funny woman. She had beau once
from Louisville. and she liked him real
well. but she found out he was q
Brother Of St. Andrew, so she sent him
packing. Oh, it wasn't because she
disagreed with his religion. but she
thought that il wasn't right for brothers
and sisters to be sparkling. She's an old
maid now. but she says she saves
money by H. That's the reason those
Sisters are able to get Mrs. Nation
out
Women, youn notice, are coming
prominently forward these days. The
same week that Mrs. Nation gets out
here's Mrs. Besant starting a new re-
ligion. She's the leader Of the The
ologists, and she learned all about them
in far-of India. I never knew before
the Indians were so religious; I thought
the ghost dance was about as fer as
they'd got Mrs. Besant, she says that
we've all been here on earth before
manys the time. I wonder II IT'S true,
and If so, what you was. JOB, last
time you was on earth. Job, are you
going 10 sleep again? Wake up there
and talk some more, I'll bet you was
salamander OF one OF them things
that erawis in a hole and just sleeps al
the time, last time you was on earth.
Mrs. Besant says that some Of your Old
habits stick As fer me. 1 bet I was
a galley-slave. Not one Of them things
Ike the Italians sell. with no clothes
on, and nothing TO DO but look pretty
but one Of them people that was work
ing all the time, I do hope that the
next time I come 10 earth I'll be a
Congressman's wife OF something ele-
CANT.
The Weather Bureau says its going
10 be right cold from now on, and Just
after ell .hat rain It looked as # We
were going TO have q frost. and do you
know that vain Mrs. Royster next door
went down town in peek-a-book shirt
waist and an OniOn-skin skirt? I was
over TO her house when she came back.
and I had 70 make her some herb tea
10 keep her from cold; she was all over
gOose-fesh. I've been looking I'D my
winter things, and do you know. I Just
can't get the smell of mothballs out Of
that elegant catskin cape Aunt Maria
gave me. Just don't know what I'm
going 10 do. I was a-hoping we could
save some money on our gas bills this
winter, but J see the auditors post
pOned the hearing until October /, and
then 1 bet they'll just go on talking
and figuring. Why, there's as many
figures about the gas business now as
would measure two Of Lipton's cup
racers!
They're making a great to-do about
the way the government IS helping Us
20 save. They cut down the rate OF
foreign postage, but the trouble is I
can't save any money on postage, cause
I've got no friends IN foreign lands.
Leastways. there's that old beau O.
mine. jim CASTOR. who ran away 10
sea He's over there somewheres. Lord
knows where, and If I did know 7
don't knows Z I'd write And there
amt no reduction anyway: the whole
thing only means that you can send
more in a letter. 7 guess the law was
just meant for authors; they just love
TO write lots. I can't see who the
postage reform is going 10 help. for 7
see Mr.. Bellamy Storer and Mrs Maria
are back in this country, and they don't
need 10 write any more letters. Isn't
1t funny how they've dropped out OF
sight and they was so popular last
winter! I tell you, Job the pubiics q
tickle Jade. Why. only last week we
was al crazy about the Lucy Tanner
a-COming over here. and now she's gone
again and she knocked down two piers
getting away. and where IS she now
nobody seems TO care whether she's at
the bottom or not. Truth Is. Job, I
can't quite understand all these sea-
going matters. Here they are talking
about coal for the battle ships that Mr..
Roosevelt wants TO send to the Pacific.
What in the world they mean by car
rying coal in foreign bottoms I can't
make out. And what's the feet going
for anyway. unless Il IS because Ad-
miral Dewey says we mustn't give up
the Philippines? OF course, he'd say
that cause he won 'em from the Span
iards. Talking about ships, I see it was
girl that rocked the boat this time
and sent a lot OF young men 10 a watery
grave. Girls amt steady enough 70 be
trusted in boats. anyway. The ten
dency TO rock things is an inheritance
from all the women who have rocked
the cradle, and whether they're on the
water or IN the nursery, It's all the
same.
There's one thing I'm thankful for.
and that Is that all the wars seem to
be about over. The Moors are getting
TO be quieted down. I suppose most
Of 'em are dead by this time. Anyway.
Casabianca seems TO have taken a
back seat. and the French Gen. Dude
has got Morocco subdued- I'd always
heard the dudes were no good, but this
one seems TO have done a1 right They
used to call Bud Chesy a dude out near
EllwOOd, because he wore a celluloid
collar while he was plowing and in the
harvest field. but he was one OF the first
to enlist for the Spanish war, and he
won a medal for eating ernhaIn1nd hnnf