The Washington bee., 1911-05-20

! 4i4ui' luudlS DuyluS up DOIOS 10 make
hight for the snap. Up to date the
following States have filed their in
| tentlonS TO enter the wrestling match:
| New York, Indiana, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, Mississippi, Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Nebraska, Georgia,
Maryland and North Carolina. Ru-
NOR has It that Brother Vernon
bought himself pair of heavy rubber
shoes, put on chest protector. muz-
Zied his voice, and started on a hunt
Tor 1t. Albert White, the brunette
from Kentucky, has burnt up the
wires, hot after 1t. Rev Cary, the To-
comotlve preacher from Cy Adams's
State, feels he can preach IN Haiti
with less fatigue than in Chicago. The
| District OF Columbia, headed by the
Marine Band and a platoon of near
voters, has four willing workers"
| headed down Pennsylvania Avenue
for the White House to tell the Presi-
dent that each OF them is the best
man for it. Tomorrow an excursion
will be run from Baltimore to bring
| Harry Cummings boomers on, and
| Virginia has chartered the Jane Nose
| ly to bring up a few from that State.
| AS there are no low rates from Ne
braska, Illinois and Mississippi, the
brothers out in those wildS are de-
pending upon frst-class postage TO
bring on their fitness. John Dancy
has not made up his mind yet to get
in, but as soon as he builds that Lin
| cold Memorial Arcade, which will be
completed in a few days, he expects
| to get busy. Lincoln johnson stole
| out to Georgia early to drill the Fed
erals and Insurrectos down there into
a compromise for it. They say the
| thing is still open for all patriots to
enter. The prize is $4,000, and the
second prize IS left at the post"
2. S.-Tom Jones has thrown away
his cuff and started out for Haiti. He
| has read up on TOusaint POyerture,
received all the statistics from the
| Census Department on the island. re
| quested Clinkscales to prepare his
| brief IN the case, and will soon be all
set for the job
Speaking about Tom, l met him
| last week on Louisiana Avenue, and
as usual, he's the most hospitable
fellow in the town. He asked me 70
stop IN right next to the second
hand furniture store and smile" with
him. Like a blushing maiden at the
first proposal, | just couldn't decline
After we had taken-well, I didn't
count them, few, he whispered to
me, in perfect confidence, that he haG
the best practice of any lawyer as
bright as he in Washington, not bar
ing the two or three who are dead
| at first doubted him, because every
! lawyer has told me he had the larg-
est practice. But Tom, who IS moth
| ing if not methOdiCal, smoothed out
| that irascible right leg of his, eased
himself up against the table, pulled
out his handbook and showed me
where he banked $IOO every day
some days. Then he showed me q
little memoranda book of the mum
| Der of briefs ClinkSCales had prepared
for him, and finally, to prove that he
| had the largest practice, he asked
me TO take another smile" and
straight ten-cent cigar When Tom
got through smiling" with me, l was
satisfied that no other lawyer, white
or black, in or out of this country,
! had anywhere near the practice that
Tom has. But let me say right here,
/ by way of dogged parenthesis, Tom
| Jones is likely sort of fellow His
| only weakness is for a light suit Of
clothes, but his clothes are always cut
right down to the minute, of the best
material and paid for in advance. As
an orator, Tom makes US forget the
memory of Daniel Webster. Were
Patrick Henry living now, and would
walk in the courtroom and hear Tom
| Grating, he would sneak out and 60
drown himself in the Potomac. Tom
speaks so fast that he makes old Har-
vey, who thought he knew something
about grammar, look like a speak
/ easy in disgust and under arrest. His
eloquence is of the kind that pulls
down the moon, sun and stars, rot
tens purple grapes right on the vines,
and fingers in your ears like the mis-
| cries of a nightmare. But at that
Thomas L. Jones is a cOrker, and the
property he has accumulated and Is
accumulating is the best possible
proof that dapper-dressed Tom IS
million miles from being a failure