The Atlantian (Atlanta, Ga.) 19??-current, December 01, 1911, Image 15
THE ATLANTIAN
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ALDRICH’S DEAL ON TARIFF.
Senator Dolliver tells a Nevada poker
story to illustrate the processes of legis
lation on the tariff bill, says the Wash
ington correspondence of the Philadel
phia Record.
A few cotton importers called on Mr.
Dolliver to protest to him that Senator
Aldrich’s declaration that the cotton
schedule had not been raised was a “no
such thing.” They' insisted that the
rates have been increased and that the
very experts on whose word Mr. Aid-
rich made his assertion are admitting
that the rates have been increased. They
wanted to know how such a thing could
get by the Senate without being ques
tioned. Senator Dolliver replied with
his poker story.
It seems that in a “quiet little game”
in Reno an unsophisticated stranger saw
the dealer deal himself four aces, lie
sidled over to a player opposite the del
er and whispered to him that the dealer
had four aces.
“Well, what’s that to you?” demand
ed the player.
“I am trying to tell you because I
thought you ought to know,” answered
the rubber-neck. “I saw him deal him
self four aces.”
“Say, mister, you had better get out
of here,” answered the player. “You
don’t understand this game. What if
he did deal himself four aces? Ain’t it
his deal?”
“And that’s the way with Aldrich
and the tariff bill, concluded Senator
Dolliver. “Isn’t it his deal?”
CHRISTENING THE BABY. |
A country clergyman relates the fol
lowing incident, says the London Tele
graph, as being absolutely founded on
fact:
Having arrived (says he/ at that point
in the baptismal service where the in
fant’s name is conferred, I said:
“Name this child.
“Original Story,” said the sponsor-
nurse.
“What do you say?” 1 asked in sur
prise.
“Original Story,” she repeated in
clear, deliberate tones.
“It's a very odd name, isn’t it? Are
you sure that you want him called by
the name of Original Story?” 1 queried.
“Original Story—that’s right, she de
clared.
“Is it a family name?” I persisted.
“Named after his uncle, sir,” explain
ed the woman in charge, getting red in
the face.
And so as Original Story I christened
that unoffending little fellow. It was
some weeks after this event that I made
the acquaintance of the said uncle—a
farm laborer in another village—whose
name was Reginald Story.
‘ ‘ This book, sir, was once owned by
Caesar,” said the guide in the British
museum.
“That’s nothing,” said the American,
“in one of our museums we’ve got the ;
typewriter on which Noah wrote the in
ventory of the animals in the ark.”
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MAINLY GEORGIANS.
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National, Macon, and Vice-President of
the A. B. A. for Georgia; E. W. Stet
son, President Citizens National, Ma
con, and Member A. B. A. Nominating
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nah, Ga., and John G. Lonsdale, of
Logan & Bryan, New York.
“JEFF” DAVIS ATE THE
ONION.
An Arkansas school teacher who spent
a vacation in Kansas City last week was
telling some of her friends about Senator
Jeff Davis, “idol of the Hill Billies,”
says the Kansas City Star.
‘ ‘ Ho's a remarkable genius, ’ ’ she said
gravely. “Please don’t laugh till I fin
ish ! 1 mean that he is perfect type
of the popular politician. When he came
to Organ Plat he passed a house where
an old man was eating a big onion. Sen
ator Jeff made the driver of the wagon
stop and the Senator hurried toward the
(dd man with a light of determination
in his eyes.
“ ‘If there’s anything I love it’s on
ions, ’ he said. ‘ 1 ’ll be grateful to you
all my life, neighbor, if you win divvy
up that luscious fruit with the next sena
tor from Arkansas.
“The old man cut the onion in two
and Senator Jeff ate his share without
even the aid of a pinch of salt. Tears
came to his eyes and one drop ran down
his cheeks—but he ate every bit of that
luscious fruit and won a voter’s heart
forever. ’ ’
THE DEMON RUM.
The subject given out for an essay in
one of the public schools was “The Evil
Effects of Alcohol,” says the New York
Press. Here are extracts from some of
the compositions:
“Alcohol has a very marked effect on
the doctor’s conclusions in cases of sick
ness. ’ ’
“Medical men say that fatal diseases
are the worst.”
‘ ‘ Some people think the abuse of drink
is a sin, others thing it is all right, and
others take it as a medicine. ”
“At the present day many people are
ir. jail for committing suicide while un
der the influence of strong drink.”
“Doctors say that the increased death
rate from the effects of boozing short
ens life.”
“Alcohol mocks at yon, and at least it
bitetli like a servant and stingeth like
a bee. ’ ’
“The Bible says look not on the wine
when it is red, but Rhine wine is not
hurtful.”
Col. ROBT. J. LOWRY, Atlanta.
President Lowry National, and
Vice-President Council Club, A.
B. A.