The Washington herald., 1908-03-08

Listen. job DO be quiet a moment;
can't you see I'm trying 10 hear what
she says2 It's Little Emily. talking in
her sleep. Before she went 10 bed
told her about that offer OF a Chicago
newspaper of a hundred dollars for the
worst piece OF original poetry sent in,
and Little Emily's been trying for IT,
and the poor child's gone 20 sleep wor-
rying about H. and she's certainly
spoken some awful verse in there.
hope It won't hurt Little Haley to have
TO listen 20 T. One OF the verses she
made up was awful cute It went:
There was Yong man Of Debreeze
Who swoIe every time be would sneeze;
His oafhs we're alarming
But he thought them charming
And
The trouble is that Little Emily
couldn't quite get the other line. and
she's laying there now muttering
knees and trees and breeze and
'wheeze' and 'ieas' and tease until Il
sounds Ike rhyrning dictionary. Poor
child. I wonder what she'd DO II she'd
win the prize? She told me that she
wanted to buy Little Haley a pony. and
me a Paisley shawl. and she said-she's
such a cute child-I guess I'll give
papa the money and then you can get
It away from him, mamma, Little dear.
she's so observing.
Now. my dear Job. please don't go
TO sleep till we've had our chat-no,
and don't pick up that old Congress
siOnal Record; I'm sure there's nothing
exciting in it since John Temple Graves
gave up the editorship. Tell me. what
is all this about stopping the betting on
the races? see that Gov. Hughes IS
after the gamblers in New York. and
the .race-track men say that they're
going to kill of his boom And now
the men who try 70 get people to bet
on the New York races are coming
over 10 Washington 10 try the game;
that is. II the Commissioners don't stop
EN- I hope they will I know you
don't though. job. for remember last
fall. when the horses was running at
Benning. you took all my housekeeping
money and lost il. one afternoon. and
We had TO eat sardines all the rest Of
the week. I'll bet you never hear Of
the President betting on races. not he:
he knows they've got a sure thing.
"Oh. ny the way. speaking OF the
President. do you know that he's got
just @59 days more 70 stay in the White
House. that is. unless he changes his
mind about not running again. and then
If he does change his mind. II Mr..
Bryan or somebody doesn't beat him
out? Not that I think any one can beat
him. for I've heard-though I don't
know much about politics-that Mr..
Hartman and all the Wall street men
are for him. and that all the people
who were in the savings banks that
busted viii vote for him. and Senator
Bradley. Of Kentucky, is going to in
dorse him. and that Senator Foraker IS
going TO take the stump for him and
show how he's bound 20 get the colored
vote, SO I can't see how he's going 10
lose do yOu7 I think It'd be grand 10
have four or five more years Of Roose-
Welt. don't you. Job. no matter what
new notices they put on the coins?
Here's this nice Mr.. Mabie SAYS that
We ought 10 have a new motto, In God
we deal I don't quite understand II,
but IL sounds queer. I knew that some
Of our business men dealt IN most any
thing. and I've been waiting for the
time until some one should get up an
air trust or a water monopoly, but II
they get 70 making a monopoly Of re-
ligious matters don't know where
we'H be al I suppose they'll make a
merger Of the Sunda,- schools and be
quoting the price Of pew rents on the
stock exchange next
do you think. Job. there's going 70
be any war2 Well. at any rate. there's
a lot OF talk about II. see that the
German Emperor's been interfering
with England's naval plans and asking
'en, Tor heavens sake not 10 build so
many battle ships. as Germany's $
moneys running short. and she can't
keep Up. And although we've stopped
talking about fighting Japan since the
naval investigation. that shows that in
the battle OF Manila Bay the Spaniards
Just sunk 'emselves. and we didn't hit
a one OF 'em, yet here's a lot Of war
talk between China and Japan. don't
know what its all about. except that
Japan captured a lot of rifles from the
Russians. and as they weren't much
good. she had 10 sell 'em somewhere.
and so she's trying to sell 'em TO the
Chinese rebels. It's awful unreasOn-
able of the Chinese 10 object 70 a little
thing like that but ] guess itll be all
right as soon as Minister WI gets hold
OF Minister Takahira down here IN
Washington and they talk il over over
cup o tea.
For my part I wish there would be
war or something in the far East SOS
We could get 10 some understanding as
10 how many islands there are in the
Philippines. One man says 10. and an
other says $50. and in the meantime,
we don't know how much money TO ap-
propriate for a census guess any na-
ton that owned 'erl could afford TO lose
an island or two without feeling worried
about il. But speaking about the far
East. never could understand why
they called Korea the land of calm
until I see by the papers that they
don't allow any lawyers there. 1 wonder
what they'd do over there il they had a
Thaw case.
Say. job are you going TO attend
that meeting that's TO be held here for
the Society for the Promotion Of Fish
ing? II you are, want to know il right
now. I'm not going TO have this house
stocked Up with all kinds OF whisky
under the pretense that it's bait. M
Cleveland can fish all day without that
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