Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-02

you never can teils what Is liable to
happen to a chap these days" said we'll
known man about town'to The Star round
rr while sitting in the lobby of a certain
hotel the other evening. The Aforesaid
man about town Is married ana has a very
pretty home on Columbia Heights You
see it makes no difference what precaution-
airy measures a feff6w rakts TO ~avoid any
of those little starMsS,that.ars- liable to
come up in ones home despite the predic-
tions of the weather btffedn NY wife went
L. visit some friends of hers out at Hyatts-
willie afternoon last week, intending TO
stay three days, with the understanding
that | was to join her there on the day be-
fore her return heme-. Well on the morn
ing of the day 1 was to go out there she
discovered that e-had--either Lost = pretty
neck pin / had given her or had left 1t at
home. She thougfft-effae she-nfay-have left
il on the mantelpiece in the sitting room.
and being quite anStous asout-ft she called
up the house by phone. OF course, it was
my luck to have como down TOWN., and the
can was answered by the maid
Mary said the madame. did you find
anything when you cleaned up the sitting
room this morning."
.'Nary's answer said -Man-About-
Town. gave me a jolt that required diplo-
macy for Observation-Disclosures that in
the San F'rancisco-Japanese school muddle.
What did Mary -sas?,--asked The Star
man. drawing closer to the narrator
why. she f--rhes~r~danfe at she
and lot of poker cr,frs on the|Hoor!'
: : !; ::
According to a story related by repre-
sentative from Tennessee. there was a
negro who was elected to the legislature of
Mississippi during reconstruction times.
lie was uneducated but. knew enough to
vote with his party every time. and he
picked up few pointers on parliamentary
law.
This negro was drawn on the jury of the
circuit court The docket was crowded,
and the court held until late hour One
evening the colored juror was tired and
hungry. and did not relish the prospect of
being kept from his supper. He astonished
everybody by rising in his seat and eX-
claiming in loud Voice:
May it please de coht, | moves YOU. sah
dat dis cont does now adjourn ontil tomor-
rer mawnin.' ,,-
The judge was amazed and informed the
sable juror that courts never adjourn ex-
cept on their own motion.
Oats all right, sab. responded the par
limentary juror. but. sab. yo' KANT deny
dat a motion to adju'n am allus in order,
sab
& = ***
When Josiah Patterson of Tennessee was
in the House he remarked in one of his
the forks of two roads, Representative
Hutchinson of Texas followed Mr.. Patter-
SON and. referring to the forks O fthe two
roads. said:
If the gentleman from Tennessee is cor
rect about this, l propose to stand where
the negro man stood in the congregation.
The minister had said, Broad am de road
dat leadeth to destruction, an straight an
narrow am de path dat leads to eternal
damnaton. The old darkey jumped to his
feet and shouted:
Fore God. eff dat am de ease den dis
we're Niger am gwine ter take straight to
de woods.
< = Z :. =
With visions of sunspuls and other dis
turbing forces fresh in mind. number of
persons struck all kinds of attitudes and
gazed with surprise at a golden-yelow ap-
partition that danced wfirGly. last Saturday
in the middle of the broad open space of
asphalt paving on the north front of the
post Office building. The day was clear
and almost perfectly calm at the moment.
but there in the street whried a circle of
dust and trash ten feet across. From this
base rose in an almost perfectly plumb line
column of finer detrituS reaching to the
height of the caves of the tall building. A
single ray of bright sunlight Shcne strongly
up on this column, causing il to stand out
in strong relief against the dark facade of
the post office, and defining its outlines as
thaI OF q slender nOuf glass OF most grace
full and striking proportions. The strange
and attractive spectacle did not last for
more than five minutes, and even as the
bystanders looked on with interest the col
umn suddenly collapsed, the dust came sift-
ing down upon the uplifted faces and the
air again still and clear.
\ K
Representative Adamson of Georgia was
rubbing it in on Representative Johnson
of South Carolina. and told this story
about the red hills OF the Palmetto state:
Why. Johnson, South Carolina land, or
most of it, is too poor to even raise diff
ficulty on. / heard of an old fellow over
there who was greatly worried about his
neighbours cattle getting into his pasture.
His own cattle didn't get half enough to
keep them alive. and the old fellow didn't
see how he could afford to les his neigh
boris cattle share 1t with them.
The old man went TO his neighbor and
made complaint He said he was not hum
ing trouble. but that his cattle must stay
at home.
'Neighbor,' was the reply. I am sorry
my cattle are worrying you and / hate to
them die, but IL you will just let them
stay in your pasture two days they will
starve to death. Just put up the fence
and keep them in and they'll starve as sure
as you live. $500 .' 80 ''
4
MANY years ago" says Representative
Helm of Alabama, "a son of Erin had
the misfortune to be charged with stealing
pork. Being without counsel the court ap-
pointed young sprig OF the Law to repre-
sent him. Ii a poor effort made to
defend the prisoner and the members of
the jury without leaving their seats re-
turned a verdict of guilty.
The court asked the prisoner If he had