The Washington herald., 1912-02-06

Senator Hoke Smith, Of Georgia, owns
a 6OO-acre farm at the edge OF Atlanta
But, unhappiIy, the place has never paid
large dividends. The Senator has never
felt that he could take a statement Of
his farm profits and go out and nag
train with It. However, Atlanta Is
growing right out TO the smith farm
end the street car company is going 10
run a line right through the place. Sen
ator Smith can allot a corn field or two
presently and get more money for each
front foot than he paid for an acre so
let us not pause here to sob over the
plight Of the Georgia Senator ana MS
dividendless farm.
Among other things. Senator Smith
raises Strawberries his place. They
arc good berries and are eaten at the
Smith town house with much relish.
One evening the Smiths were to nave
company. and the caretaker had neg
lected to bring in the usual consignment
from the farm.
'T'u walk down to one Of the stores
and get a couple Of quarts" said Hoke
Smith.
The grocer's prices seemed extremely
high and Hoke Smith frankly told him
so.
You'd be surprised if you knew how
I:ttIe profit make on them." said the
dealer.
Then the man who raised them Is
getting more than his share" declared
Smith. Its an outrage that l should
have to pay such a price. And they are
ha hHrrieg we've been
getting. Where did they come rom'
anyhow
''To tell you the truth. governor. re-
Piled the dealer. they came on your
farm"
Joe Garretson, editor of the Cincinnati
Times-Star. Brother Charlie Tafts paper
was in washinston recently adding his
voice TO the howl that is going up over
the prices the Baltimore hotels are going
to charge during the Democratic national
convention.
"Mebbe some of the wise ones will work
the merry little scheme that resorted TO
in ST. Louis at the last national conven-
tion there" said Garretson. II walked up
to one Of the hotels, asked for room
without bath, and was quoted a rate OF
Ill Ine IlkuA- SASN AoA NAA' Na-N
YOU understand-S2I for the privilege OF
sleeping in one small room for. let us
say. eight hours. Then 1 happened 10
think Of a Turkish bath sign I'd seen
down the street. ! went down there, had
q good rub and went TO sleep peacefully
OH a comfortable cot without leaving any
call In the morning 1 paid a dollar for
my bath, gave the man a quarter tip, and
went on my way rejoicing, being just
Sl9T5 10 the good"
Tim Ansberry. one of the Ohio Con-
gressmen. went travelling abroad last
summer One day he found himself in
Dublin, which is a hotbed OF Ansberrys
and such. 4 bunch OF newspapers and
other mail that had been following him
over Europe caught up with him in Dub
lin, and Tim sat down to glance over the
news from back home One of the first
things he read was an item in Wash
ington paper about his friend Congress
man Carter, of Oklahoma, getting into a
fist fight with some tradesmen in Wash
ington store.
Without waiting to read another line,
Tim laid down his paper, walked straight
to a cable office and astonished the oper-
ator by skinning of several layers Of Con-
gressionaI salary in payment for the fol-
lowing message to Representative Carter:
'If you want to fight. why don't you
come over here to Dublin, where they
grow 'em, and get real action? Don't
waste time on novices.'
A. ]. laly. Democratic national com
mitteeman from Alaska. left home in
October to be here in time for the meet
ing last month. When he reached Wash
ington he said he thought he'd just stick
around two or three months and miss
the gloomy Alaskan winter.
At the end Of eight days here he was
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