The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20
TO UNCLE REMUS. The Lord who made the day and night He made the black man and the white, > So in like view

The Lord who made the day and night
 He made the black man and the white, N So in like view
 I hold it true
 That he ain't got no favorite Onless it's YOU!
 Another incident which struck me and
 this one was very amusing, was an
 inquiry which Mrs. Harris cites, sent to
 Uncle Remus by MT. Arthur Brisbane as
 to his opinion of dialect poets to
 which Uncle Remus oharacteristically ,replied: What under the Tapping flag of freedom ever put it into your busy head to ask me about dialect poets2 know of only three who will be popular next year--Burns, Riley and Stanton Now, I'll give you pointer-why not offer a prize for the man who can graft asparagus on the artichoke so as to
 make it eatable at both ends?" Mir. }Roosevelt's friendship for the Georgia author was most genuine and sincere and in writing to Mrs Harris (the author of The Life and Letters of
 Joel Chandler Harris'D he says: From the moment when l first saw his writings I was an ardent admirer of Joel Chandler Harris. Aside
 from the immortal BRabbit stories and
 the children's stories, many of his sketches are among the most striking and powerful permanent contributions
 to literature that have been produced on this side of the ocean. When be- came President I set my heart upon having Joel Chandler Harris as guest at the White House. But to get him there proved no easy task, for he was a shy, sensitive, retiring man. But
 we at last succeeded and we had no outsider except Fitzhugh Lee, who was a close family friend and with whom
 I knew he would get along well. In a little while he was completely at ease; he was devoted to Mrs. Roosevelt of course; he couldn't help being, and after a half hour he was talking and laughing freely and exchanging anec-
 dotes and criticisms and comparing
 "reminiscences. When he left next morn Ing all of our family agreed that we
 had never received at the White House la pleasanter friend or a man whom
 we more delighted to honor We felt
 that our gentle -natured, sweet-tem- pered, humble minded guest was also a really great mana man utterly fear less in his flaming anger against wrong and oppression"
 Uncle Remuss account of his visit to the President was later given in one of the Billy Sanders articles, which said
 There's one thing about the White House that'll astonish you eff ever y ou 6ll lAdI WIlIe tuQy iS Oi ioilut ' 1 it's home; it'll come over you like a
 sweet dream the minnit you git in the 1 front door an you'll wonder how they l sweep out all the politics an keep the
 place clean an wholesome. I come
 away from the White House nightly hope up, feelin' that Teddy is the Presi- dent of the whole country an not of
 jes' party. I felt jes like I'd been on
 a visit to friend I hadn't seed in 1 hoo 10 hnfa1 a i1 snored jes as loud as eff I'd "a been os
 my own shuck mattress an'' dreamed l that the men In Wall street had prom.
 lsed to be reasonably honest alter the l fust of Jinawary" l MT Harris "Favorites," printed in the Critic, will undoubtedly be of great in- terest to haany, which are cited as fol- l lows:
 | My favorite authors of prose, Haw-
 thorne, Thackeray, Landor; my>favorite l poets. Shakespeare, Burns; my favorite l painters, the four seasons, my favorite | composers, the people; my favorite book, | The Vicar of Wakefeld;" my favorits play, "king Lear" my favorite heroes
 of fiction, D'Artagnan Jean Valjean my
 favorite heroines of fiction, they have 1 all faded from my mind except Mrs. Touchett; my favorite heroes in real life, Lincoln, Stonewall Jackson and Father l Damian: my favorites heroines in real l life, women who love their homes; what l enjoy most. a whirl at Kalamazoo | whist what I detest most. complication l for autographs the historic event at i which I would most like to have been
 crescent I give it up; the quality which | admire most in men, modestys' the 1 quality which I admire most in women. charity; where I should like to live, at home: my ideal state of happiness. q
 cold night hot fire and 'taters' in the
 ashes; the occupation that prefer. that