The Washington bee., 1911-07-22
Public Men And Thinps.
(By the Sage of the Potomac.) }

I asked Chase to let me out OF
writing this column this week, on
account of the hot weather, but he
said the people are watching and
waiting for it every week, and he
might just as we'll miss an issue as
to miss the Sage's column. That
an awfully nice jolly, but its awfully
hard on dearie Edgar Allan Poe,
the morbid nurser of a poetical ge-
Mus, once wrote:
| dwelt alone
| In a world of moan
| And my soul was stagnant tide.
J Well now my think tank is Just
in about that fix. Even mint juleps.
home made and homet consumed, will
not start her going. I just have to
crank it up every few minutes.
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| Speaking about cranking reminds
me that these all-star professionals
we have around here who own their
automobiles, no matter if bought on
the installment plan, are really: get
ting all there is coming to a seal
brown inhabitant of Washington.
Now, there's Bud Gaskins. Show me
a fellow who is getting more for
the dollar than Bud out of that red
devil of his. He is in it every minute
in the day when he is not practicing
painless dentistry. He has promised
two or three times to take me out, but
I notice he prefers to ride by his
lonesome, when he hasn't a bit of
corsets, skirts and lace to ride with.
And there is DR.. Henry Freeman,
who always has a call to make, and
Doc. Will Howard, who sends his
machine bowling along until he
strikes Fourteenth street north of
| Y, and then he just lets her creep
and come to a stop. These automo-
bilists are queer fellows, sort of odd
in some things, and to call them odd
fellows would be about right.
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Now speaking about Odd Fellows
lreminds me that Brother Asbury,who
use to edit the Odd Fellows Journal
after a fashion, is making a hercu-
Ilcan effort to organize a boiling or
der of Odd Fellows. [ think Asbury
lis making chump of himself in SO
doing, but [ guess he knows what's
necessary to earn a living for him
self. Now there's no use talking
Iyou amt going to get many sensible
EOdd Fellows to pull out of the real
thing and hook on to Asbury's aero
Iplane affair. If there is one thing
la colored man does want it's the real
thing. You can't give him the phony
business in anything except diamonds
land you can't give this to hin
more than once. Why, I don't be.
lieve you could get Alex Martin tC
Ijoin Asbary's joke order, and Ale2
lis a real inSurgent. At Baltimore
they put the hobbies on Alex, anC
he has never got over it. He is 81
worked up over it that they tell mt
he won't come as far west on T
street as Seventh street, for fear Of
Ipassing HouSton's officffie, and as fol
lshaking hands with Houston, why, ht
would rather shake dice. But they
Isay Will Houston amt worrying {
| bit, he's SO busy handing down de.
Cisions as member of the Odd Eel
lows Supreme Court Will Pollard
says that if ever one of Houston:
decisions is carried to the judges o.
1.-THE United States Supreme Court fol
| them to look over, Taft will have tC
appoint an entire new court at once
for all will die in a fit of laughing
But speaking about Martin. Die
r YOU ever know that this tall syca
I more of the Potomac is a queer com
= pound? Why, he is a sort of al
enigma. If you mention Odd Eel
: lows to him, he begins to move lik,
a steam engine and talk like talk
ling machine. The expenses for tha
Atlantic City B. NJ. c. is a night
t mare for him. He's always harpins
ion it. Talks about it in his sleep
II wonder why Alec failed to connec
at Atlantic City! He can expounC
the law-the Odd Fellow law anC
at Rising Sun Lodge he's the chic
oracle, they tell me. Martin is ;
Ineat looking chap, straight as an ar
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