The Washington bee., 1911-07-22

how or another Martin wasn't fat
tened out enough. Willie Houston,
the pious, says that the old steam
roller is being prepared to run some
more when they go to Atlanta next
year, and they are going to make
! Link Johnson the razzle dazzle man
OF the order right in his home town,
and then maybe after Link gets thru
with 1t, If his law practice remains
as 1t is now, he may take the old
thing back again for a couple Of
terms. l told that to Martin the
other day, and he came near being
run over by DR.. Beckley's sewing
Inlachine, he got SO excited, Just about
1.-THE time Doc Beckley was chug-chug-
ing along. My advice to Martin IS
to take peppermint for that Odd Eel
low delusion. Just stick to your law,
Alec, and don't mind a little thing
like Asbury's funeral procession or
der. AS bad as Almond Scott hates
Houston, he wouldn't join it, and as
for Tom Jones joining it, not while
His Eloquence, who rooms up on
| Vermont avenue, can get Vermont
Avenue Church cases will he join
Asbury's junk army. When you see
Ed Morris, Link Johnson, Harry
Cummings, Ben Davis and VIII
Houston going in a body over to As
bury's junk army then you will know
it's a real live wire with d bank aC-
count Until then, put a soft pedal
on your enthusiasm, dear Alec Mar
tin, the tall brunette legal adviser OF
Rising Sun Lodge.
Up in New York the colored men
are rejoicing over the law passed
creating a coIored regiment. Now
it is all very nice to get a regiment,
but wait till it comes to electing the
officers, and I bet they will have to
call out the police reserves. Ny sug-
gestion is that they elect Nap Mar
shall colonel. Nap has the size and
the height, and his experience OH that
perlous trip to Brownsville, with
Chris Stewart, to get evidence, makes
lhim sufficient of a hero to be a colo
) mel | would like to see Nap in a
} soldier uniform. He's been a soldier
so long without wearing a uniform
= that the change would do him good.
: Make Nap Marshall colonel and we
7 will promise New York to send FIVE
thousand Washingtonians up to visit
5 camp next year, if transportation is
: furnished For Major nominate
, w. w. Martin, who runs the North
west Cafe. l mention him because
if he is made major we'll lose him.
: For Judge Advocate General we can
3 send bunch of lawyers and near
| lawyers up, and We have got several
Y splendid lawyers down here, the equal
5 Iof Justice White, who have not been
4 able to pass the bar examination.
: They especially would make cracker
D jack judge advocate generals. You
x know, the man who is the most learn
e led in the law, i'll his own estimation,
d is the one who can't pass a bar ex-
o animation. They can expOund more
e law in a minute than Professor Hart
: can think of in a year. | would
I like to see them provide enough
r places for all our near-lawyers, and
e they might take on, with no disad-
y vantage to Washington, several pairs
a of near-physicianS asA surgeon gen
: erals We can fit the whole regiment
= out with officers, but for just plain,
cv' ry-day soldiers in the rank, this
S would be an awfully bad town to
f come to.
+
D Say, if you amt able to get your
:. name in the newspaper somehow and
:. somewhere, don't you know you are
a mollycoddle? If you can't get it
d in through a bunch of praise nose
: gays, why come in through a roast
: And, don't you know, some kind OF
n criticism is the best thing a fellow
: can get When you hand him, in
c the newspapers, a yard or two of
: taffy every week, people get SO they
It don't read it, and just conclude the
: follow is only a 25-yard-dash man.
g But, let the newspapers criticise him
}. and everybody at once concludes he's
t medal of honor man; some big
d noise around the town. And when
d a fellow gets use to criticism, when