The Washington herald., 1907-12-15

have not finished that picture. l VIII take
ii home and add some touches 10 the
general outline, omitted in my hurry 20
exhibit" Three or four days later Sen
ator Clarke and the dealer went TO the
studio. The picture hung in a good light
and the Senator was even more delighted
Now, let us count the sheep" said the
dealer. There were exactly nineteen, and
the Senator was calculating the cost at
SL5o per sheep, when the artist pointed
TO some spots between the trees and
against the horizon.
But all these are sheep he declared.
There are at least a thousand in the
flock. Take this strong glass and see"
The Senator obeyed. and. sure enough,
there were sheep everywhere and quite
discernible even TO the naked eye, when
one knew the dots We're meant for sheep.
The picture cost the Senator well up to
5000. plus the cost of the frame. But
he thinks even at these figures he got a
bargain, and he was completely carried
away by the shrewdness OF the unknown
genius.
! Gen. John NJ. Wilson. L S. A., retired,
IS genial man. but a very emphatic one.
When he was chief engineer of the army
he was having trouble with a contractor
/ one day, and the matter in dispute. though
trihing. seemed hopeless of adjustment.
IF you don't get down to business pretty
soon and straighten this thing out" the
general finally exclaimed, I'll be damned
If 1 don't swear"
The explosion had the immediate effect
Of restoring Gen. Wilson TO good hUmor
THAT reminds me-" he said. "of a time,
many years ago, when I was chief com
missary in a frontier town, and an old
woman came in 10 get supplies for a sub
station, where she was acting commits
sary. She was very feeble and had only
recently received her appointment She
was in a hurry, she told me. and wanted
her supplies right away. I told her that
she could not get any supplies until she
had taken the oath. She answered. with
some asperity. that she belonged TO ,he
Methodist Church and did not use oaths.
Being in a hurry myself and not catch
ing the drift Of her remarks. / said short
ly that IL she wanted supplies she would
have to take the oath, and that she must
be quick about It. as Y had to shut up
shop and go 10 another station.
Then she raised her eyes devOUtly
and said: Good Lord, YOU know that ]
don't want to do this, but must Then
you, officer. listen: Dam, Dam Daml Now.
are you satisfied? If you are, let's get
down TO business.
Hon. Leslie NJ. Shaw. the former Secre-
tary of the Treasury. is a renowned
story teller, and 1t is his boast that his
tales always point a moral One day Mr.
Shaw was entertaining some callers. HC
was rather nettled because certain things
had gone awry and might have lost his
temper had not his memory been the
stronger.
I never got into a hurry and rushed al
anything that did not have cause e
regret it," said the ex-Secretary. &c
slow, say to myself. forty times a day
Why, I got into one OF the worst scrape'
of my married life just because l acteC
first and did my thinking afterward-
was when my son was about ten year
old. and we were living in Denlson. NJ!
wife was then an enthusiast on poultr!
raising and the children. as well as my
self, talked chickens. read farmyard lit