The Washington bee., 1911-01-21

Opher, calls handing out the cor to
get an airship." The big office hold
ers may make few trips, when they
are right fresh on the job, to the de-
partments, but | never knew any of
them to get lung fever in their feet
because of too many such trips From
what | know of Mr. johnson, [ am
positive he does not relish this dope,
and it's an injustice to any man to
write that the President IS sending
for him to confer with. It looks like
he is footing his own horn, and Link
Johnson amt that sort of a fellow.
Here's ~a-other one: The prolific
correspondent to The Freeman sent
the following to his newspaper: "The
crying need IN Washington, according
to the adviCeS that have come to us,
is the presence of a leader who is un-
selfish, and is willing to take a SYM
pathetic interest in the common peo-
pie" Now the common people in this
instance is no doubt the aforesaid cor
respondent, and the "adviCes" that
have come to him have come from
himself. What he wants is a leader"
who will derrick him out of that mes
senger job and make him Presiden-
tial appOintee, or something better.
He's tried to work them all, but | fear
Brother Thompson has pied his form.
He played fast and loose with the
soon retiring Register, and now he is
in the box trying to pitch to the in
coming Register. | believe it was
Ben Johnson who once said: when
man would tickle your vanity with
laudation, take a fresh and tighter
grip on your purse"
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Davis and Barnes cigar store and
newsstand on u street, is getting to
be quite rendezvous for the
brother" who congregates there in
the evening for their after-dinner
smoke and discuss race and social
problems, and talk about those who
happen not to be in at the time.
was IN there one evening this week
and they got to discussing a certain
individual whom they styled a -four
fiusher," whatever that is And me-o-
my, how they did roast him. Just in
the midst of their roasting him the
aforesaid "fOur-husher' opened the
door and walked in Quick as a cat
can jump, they ceased talking about
him, stopped roasting him, and such a
welcome they gave him, and such fe-
liCitOus remarks they sh0wered upon
him, and such enCOmiums they be-
slowed upon him | have not heard
since the last meeting of the Mutual
Admiration Society. 1t struck me as
so absurd, SO inconsistent, and so
false, and as | walked out, drawing
heavily on my Henrv George, l said
to myself, sub-rosa, "Alas and alack,
has ell semblance to genuineness
fown?"
Speaking about 'four-Rushers," now
there's jim Cobb, he is just the oppo-
site. ] don't see as much of Cobb as
| used to before prosperity became
has daily companion. We all remem-
Der Cobb when he was a fortune
hunter, and a fellow who, like Micaw-
Der, was always waiting for something
to turn up. He was 'Jimmie-few-
clothes" then While he waited for
something TO turn Up the Capitol Saw
ngs bank (peace to its ashes) went
up. Cobb got busy. He began suing
everybody who ever entered the build
ing, and in this way earned fees that
put him on his feet Its an III wind
that blows nobody good was never
truer than in this case. What was
others loss was his gain. Now Cobb
IS Special Assistant District Attorney
with 4 $4,000 stipend attached. and has
a law practice on the outside which
meets all his exDeOSeS making the
$4,000 per satin velvet. One thing he
lacks is one of Adams ribs. If he
could get a nice, highly polished rib
he'd be in clover One thing is GER
tain, however, Jim Cobb has demon
strated what a poveTty-stricken Lou
isiana-born derelict can do when IT
hits the trail right Today he IS about
the best fixed young man in the Dis
trict whose complexion is about sew
enty-fve degrees removed from white.
Ten years ago cheese and crackers
would have made banquet for him,