The Washington bee., 1910-12-10

for the ten thOusandth time in nv
life congratulated myself that | hat
never broke into that charmed though
doubtful circle they call "high-fallu-
tin society with a burglars jimmy
am, thanks to my lack of taste II
dress, and descendance from an olt
respectable family, still one of the
plain folks.
! And, speaking about society, II
has been sort of Chinese mystery
Ito me how people with doubtful pedi-
greeS and anteCedents can assume the
roll Of social arbiters. There was 4
I Itime IN Washington when brains, cul-
ture and character were all that was
necessary to open society's doors. But,
alas and alack, that day has gone
tumbling down the ages of retrospect
| A SIS hand-me-down, a thimble full
of gray matter, a che55y-cat grin, a
satfrOn-hued past-these pass muster
now. | believe it was old Bill Shakes
pear, the mummified bard of Avon,
who once said: What fools we NOR
tails be-"
L tell yOu," remarked a habitue of
Benz. Gaskins', while he put his fingers
around the glass to keep it from over
flowing with the snake-root gin he
was pouring out of a Gordon bottle,
| hes the best general-purpOse Judge
around here" With that, he gulped
down the gin with one swig and re-
fused the water that had been set out
by Jackson a chaser. 1t turned out
they were discussing Judge Terrell,
our Bob as we used to affectionate-
ly call him. Now, talking about Judge
Terrell, l never saw man who COM
bIned so much of the urbanity and
frlvOlity, so much of the aristocracy
and plebeian characteristics. He did
5-BEE
me good turn once; in fact, two
good turns-spOke to get me a pro-
motion, and IndOrsed a note for me
You know indorsing notes is the
Judges chief delight He's been do
ing It ever since he was old enough to
be recognized as a friend of the poor.
They say when he has nothing to do
he puts in his time drawing up and
IndOrsIng notes to be handed out to
any one who applies When the Capt.
tai Savings Baik became a moribund
stlnkfest, Judge had enough notes
there he had indorsed to paper the
Coliseum of Rome He had to pay
them, though, and though he did, that
experience failed to make a sugar
cured Ham of him. Judge Terrell has
more friends than any man within the
corporate limits, until he comes up for
and then his enemies
come out from hiding just like rats
leaving a sinking ship. He beats 'em
every time, however. Any time the
Judge wishes to leave off. the ermine.
he can get a place to play the lead
in Bert Williams new troupe, for he
is a near-comedian. He is the most
companionable fellow that ever came
from Culpeper Court House, and he's
a crackerjack Judge, too-best at
Center Market. Judge Terrell has
helped more two-by-four Negro has
beens and would-be's than you could
add up on an electric adding machine
in 'steen years. Outside of the fact
that he will indorse notes, will go TO
the front for every one who appeals
to him, will spend his money on sage
brush sycophants, and knows enough
law to Sit on the bench of the Court
OF Appeals, and is as square as they
make them, he's all right
| intimated last week that l would
a few verbs, decline a few
nouns and ruminate among a few ad-
Jectives in an attempt to soliloquize
on Henry Lincoln Johnson, the Geor-
gla cracker, who is specializing as Re-
COrder of Deeds at $4,000 per- He is
too recent bench-warmer for me to
get a perfect line on his characteris-
tics and salient points. Like a few
other ofice-holders who blew into
on a rain check, | OBJ
served he has become imbued with
the idea that he must have a personal
organ Many instances have fecked
the horizon of Washington that will
convince the Georgian that too much
encOm1um won't get fellow much
farther than the parade grounds, and
a lot Of hog-wash each week bears
the earmarks of having been person
ally arranged for" However, | ex-
cuse him on the ground that he's new.
and, like all green gourds, is a bit
suit dtIu liiNliiGu " lllC III
fection from the sister disease of in
fantlle paralysis-personal publicity
Henry Lincoln resides somewhere in
the Southwest under the personal su-
pervision of Sam Harris, on the Jane
Mosely, and as result little is seen of
him in the Northwest, where most of
the ''dicties" parade He has been to
his office occasionally, the clerks say
even more occasionally than Dancy.
Lincoln will never take the place of
the deceased E. Berry Wall as a fash
ion plate. In fact, his only use for
clothes is about the same use that
Adam had for the fig leaf This Geor-
gian, whose cOgnomen is in part the
same as that of Honest Old Abe's,"
so rumor goes, had a blunt jimmy
which he expected to use in breaking
into the Department of Justice, but
the influence of his sponsor would not
stretch that far, so in sheer despera-
ton, his sponsor, remembering that
DanCy had held office ever since the
40 days and 40 nights food had sub
sided, gave orders to Dancy to move
off the reservation, which he did with
reluctance. The one nightmare that
disturbs Lincoln's sweet dreams is
Fred Moores semi-monthly attacks,
all of which he stands with uncom-
mendable docility and humility. But