The Washington herald., 1907-10-20

Trying TO learn TO talk Chinese in a
Chinese laundry Now, Job, don't be
Iieve a word Of IT, / don't know where
you've been all this long while. but you
needn't try to make me believe that
you've been associating with f.np Lee
Ny. how / dislike those Chinese men. 1
started once 10 have 'em do the house
laundry. because they're so cheap, and
when | went down 10 see em do il l
found them splitting water al over the
clothes. Don't throw your shoes down in
that way Job. I've just got little Emily
OF to sleep, and Cousin 'Glnny Os-
borne's in there with her 'Ginny came
over just after you left the house, and
she's been setting here telling me all
about her marriage, while I've been
reading the paper SOS to keep you
posted
I'm awful interested in this finan-
eial muddle. though l can't quite under
stand it. II seems as If that Mr.. Heinze
had got Wall street into a pretty pickle
Ia new one Of his ffty-seven varieties.
maybe. And then there's the Stand
ard! As far as I can understand it. il
has been lending somebody So. 10000.
II might have lent 1t 10 Mr.. Heinze and
saved all this trouble. 1 suppose both
pickles and oil will be going up in price
now, and as for catsup-weu. thank
heavens the children don't Ike ii. any
way.
Aren't you glad that Mr.. Roosevelt
got that bear down in Louisiana at
last? 1t took so long for them to find
il, / reckon it must have been about the
last one of the black bears that's left.
II that's so. I can't see what they're
going TO do with all those dogs. First
they had Bitter Pete's dogs. ana they
couldn't find a bear. and then they sent
and got Or. Johnson's dogs, and st.i
no bear then they got some dogs from
Alabama, and another covey Of dogs
from Tennessee. and then the old guild E,
Bloody Bin. came in with his dogs, and
few dogs strayed around of their own
accord. Those canebrakes must be Just
full Of dogs Why, there couldn't
bear get around there without running
over TWO or three Of them, and a negro
had 10 XIII a little bear just because
sng was trying 10 knock a few OF those
fool dogs out OF her way. But any
how, the dogs couldn't scare all the
bears away. and so the President shot
one with his trusty rife; just walked
right up and shot him, and now they'll
have another new rug for the White
House; that is II the dogs don't eat
the skin. tell you it's been a mighty
successful hunting trip for the Presi-
dent. So far, he's got one deer, two
Mississippi pilots, ana a bear,
Did l show you the new dress bought
for Emily to-day? It's mOire antique,
Of the cunningest shade Of crushed
strawberry. with a gimp Of nuns veil
ing. and The skirt accordion plated,
with the pIacquet on the bias. It's the
dearest thing. II it wasn't for that
carbuncle OF hers. was going to let her
wear il 10 Sunday school tomorrow, but
the Gressmake- didn't allow for the
pOuluce. and II would throw il all
out OF shape. Who's going to pay for it
I don't know. Il surely is about time
sou were making more money, job.
4 see the Peace Conference is over at
last. and they seem to have adjourned
without taking any action on sending
our feet around 10 the Pacific. 1 can't
quite see just what they've done TO pre-
vent war. except talk. and I've always
heard that il was too much talk that
got men into trouble. BY the way, you
say you were talking all the evening to
Hop Lee Did you find out anything
about those Chinese Tongs2 I've been
reading about them in the papers. but
its not very clear. any Of H. Il seems
10 be something Ike the Black Hand.
only worse. They throw bombs and
things, so that when they're tried in
court there won't be any witnesses.
haven't quite found out what the Tongs
are unless it's what they use 10 pick up
the bombs with. I wish you'd find out
from Hop Lee the next time you're
passing by.
Washingtons had a lot Of conventions
this week. hasn't It? Strikes ne as
curious that the gas men and the spirit
ualists should hold their convention in
the same week, doesn't it you? see
Prof Munroe SAYS that gas can easily
be- furnished at 3 cents 100 I wish
they'd do it; we might save enough
money on the gas bill to pay for Emily's
new dress. As tor spiritualism. 1 don't
know what to believe; they say they
had lot of free seances, and if they
keep on gdess I'll get you to take me
20 one Of them next week. ! never have
seen a ghost. and I think I'd like to. I
remember Mort Woods wife, used TO be
Belle Somers, she got TO believing in
spiritualism after Mort fen into the
thrashing machine, and she went 10 a
medium to get a spirit picture took Of
Mort. He hadn't been dead more'n four
or five weeks. The medium set Belle in
a chair in a dark room and told her to
call TO Mort Belle was awfUlly scared,
because, while she wanted a. picture, all