The Washington bee., 1911-03-18

the law is fresh-roasted peanuts
Well he is. Ben is as bright as they
polish them up. Careless fellow,
though. Amt particular whether he
wears a prince albert or a sweater to
pink tea function. In fact, would
rather not attend a pink tea Just as
leave drink bottle of Perfect Brew
as bottle of Clic Would see shoe
sinner four miles below the frey fur
mace of his Satanic Majesty's realm
rather than cough up a nickel for a
shine. But the boy knows the law.
Just naturally has a brilliant mind.
II Ben would settle down and make
feature, instead of a living, of law,
there would be nothing to it, with
TINS Blackstonian waif. He's a square
ieiiow, even If he is pugnacious He's
! tulI OF tObasco sauce, and you know
Wnen you hnd fellow filled up with
Ted pepper he's bound to make some
body sneeze. l remember once Ben
and l were talking on law. between
uiIhKs' and let me tell you there was
only ABOUT a minute between. when
ne SAID TO me, sort of reflective like,
bay Choat, OF course | amt no kin
to Rutus, but that name will answer
tor the present, don't you know if
It am t IL fellow it can come out?"
Now while this was sort of lack
Bunsby opinion, it was philosophy
alice samee.
COgitating on philosophy. | can't
see the philosophy of Slaughter NOV
ing the Odd Fellows Journal to
Washington. But then guess il
wasn't his say. 1t was not for him TO
reason why; it was not for him TO
make reply. the ring said move, and
that was the end of the sentence
Now this man Slaughter, come to
figure on 1t, is no slOuch. He got
more out of Morris ct al. than anv
of them-got a hard job. You see he
will have to defend the bunch and
the Supreme Graft Court in the news
paper, and its awfully hard to con-
StruCt defense out of guilt Slaugh-
ter is bully little sawed, IF, though.
HOspItable and bright as a silver dol
lar fresh from the mint. If he had
free Teins he would make a hummer
out of The Journal, but a fellow tied
down, like he is, with overseers, hasn't
fighting chance to show what's in
him. Turn Slaughter loose without
halter or bride, on the pike, and
he'd throw dust in their eyes. But
they will never let him trot against
time, so this sawed-off and boiled
down son of the Blue Grass State will
Just naturally have to jog along, with
hObbIes-just simply stand in the bat
ter's box and hit out fungi flies for
the others to catch. | wish they
would say to Slaughter Say, bub,
never mind us, just cut loose with
your inShOOts." If they did, and meant
Slaughter would be Slaugh-
ter, and that means he would sustain
his rep" as a three hundred hitter.
X
l was over to Baltimore last week,
for day, and let me tell you there's
ginger in that Councilmanic fight over
there around Druid Hill avenue.
Harry Cummings has got his coat off
and sleeves rolled up, and making a
Thermopzlae sand, and his antago-
nists are making a Harvard rush on
him. It's an even bet as to who will
win out. Harry ought to have the
edge, because he's in, but he hasn't. Il
talked with several, and they all said it
was close fight with nobody a ia
vorite in the pools. Harry's a good
fighter, and may win out, but if he
does he'll know he was in a fight.
I'm going over again this week. Bal
timore is not bad town, even if they
do favor segregation. Colored people
over there are full of hospitality-II
never spent a cent-and like to en-
tertain visitors. If there is one thing
l dote on it is to be entertained.
John Dancy and 1 are one on this