Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-14
Concerning
Well-Known People
A Story With a Moral.

A Story With Moral
Cen Booth, the venerable head of the
Salvation Army, was talking to New
York reporter.
Are you saved?" he asked suddenly.
The young man flushed, stammered and
hesitated.
Well" said the general, do not despair.
! There is a chance even for New York re-
pOrters.'
Then discussing prayer. Gen. Booth told
a story, story with moral.
There was a young clergyman appointed
10 a small country town, he began, and
a short time after his arrival horsy-look-
ing man in leggings stopped him on the
street one day, bowed respectfully, and said
in tremulOus voice:
If you please, sir. would you mind.
next Sabbath, Offering up bit of a pray
er for Milly Dean?
The minister of course, assented. The
man. whose look was worried and hagsard,
took leave gratefully. And on the next and
the two following Sundays Milly Dean was
prayed for from the pulpit.
Then, one afternoon the man In leg
gings met the minister again
Thank you for them prayers sir, he
said; but you needn't pray no more for
Milly Dean
Why said the other, shocked, is she
dead?
She's just won the Blue Ribbon handicap
by a length and half
Evicted.
J. CT Phelps Stokes, the noted philan-
thropist spoke with good-humored regret at
dinner in New York of charity that
had failed.
But it failed through its own fault
said Mr.. Stokes. 1T failed because it was
mistaken. 1t suggests to me an experience
of friend of mine in Ireland.
My friend, at about this season last
year, was motoring through remote region
of Ireland, and one day he came upon a
poor old woman seated. with all her humble
furniture about her. in the middle OF the
road before her little cabin.
My friend was profoundly moved. Here,
before his very eyes, an eviction, real
Irish eviction, was taking place. He got
out of his car and gave the old woman
five-pound note
Tell me- he said, what is the trouble
nv poor friend?
''Bcbbing and curtseying her gratitude,
the old woman replied
'Shure sir me ould mans white
washin'.
Heads I Yin, Tails You Lose.
Some women" said John w. Gates, mot
all women, but some of them, very
poor spectators, very poor gamblers.
"A young friend of mine has a pretty
cousin. He was going to the races the
other day and she called him up on the
telephone and asked him to put $40 on
Forrest King for her.
Very WELL he said; III do II II you IL
pay me back
or course I'll pay you back, you horrid
thing exclaimed his cousin.
=. All right, said he. You didn't last
time.
oh. we'll. said she. last time the horse
| didn't win, you know.
The Modern Mother.
John Alexander Dowie,'' said Zion City
man. had grand knack of putting things
quantity and forcibly.
AT one of his last meetings bere he at
tackled the modern mother of society, the
mother who neglects her children.
Why" he said, Il overheard the most
remarkable conversation between two
nursemads on car yesterday.
9" Are you going to the picnic? said the
first rursemaid.
&c No. said the second; I'm afraid I
Sha'nt be there
".,.ny not?' cried the first. And you
80 fond. too, of picnics and dancing and
young men, and all that there.
" Oh. said the other nursemaid. I'd love
| dearly to go, dearly; but, to tell you the
truth. I'm afraid to leave the baby with
its mother.
Wanted to Get Even.
| Alfred H Love, the peace advocate. had
been protesting in Philadelphia against the
| great quantity OF military features In prep
aration for the jamestown exposition.
Really" he concluded, with a smile, "one
! would think that the whole world was ami
/ mated and kept progressing by a spirit of
! hatred and revenge and bitter enmity. One
! would think that-but, perhaps, you know
| the story
| a pale. wan woman. on her deathbed,
| said In weak voice to her husband.
| Henry, III | die, promise me one thing.
Gladly, my poor darling. What is it
| am to PROMISE?
| e Promise me that you will marry Mary
simpson
| The man started.
| But he said, L thought YOU hated
| her.
| IL do Henry the dying woman whis-
| pered. 4 want to get even with her. "
A Timely Warning.
Anent the Longfellow revival Jacob H.
| Schiff In the course of the recent dinner
| that he gave in New York in honor of
| James McCrea. the president of the Penn
| sylvania railroad. told an interesting story
| about the poet.
| York" he said Booth. who was playing
| was seen that his understudy would have
| to take his place that night.
| The understudy was highly elated and
| In order 10 have sufficiently distinguished
| and appreciative audience he sat down
| forthwith and wrote some dozen notes to
| the effect that he would take Booths place
| that night. and dispatched them to every
| body of distinction in New York that he
had ever met or heard of