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November, 1914
flit) ATLANTIAN
IS
WE ARE THANKFUL
FOR THE BEST IN
HIGH GRADE
COFFEES^ AND TEAS
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The Store with a Reputation for
Serving the Best on the Market
BOTH PHONES
ACCURACY.
Above the great editor’s desk ap
peared the words: “Accuracy. Terse
ness. Accuracy,” a motto that was
hammered into every member of the
staff with painful insistence.
One day, Sam, the latest cub re
porter, sent in a news item contain
ing the following statement:
“Three hundred and ninety-nine eyes
were fixed upon the speaker.”
“Young man,’’ demanded the editor,
sternly, “what is the meaning of this
ridiculous statement?”
The cub was not abashed and an
swered quickly: “Sir, an old man in
the audience had lost one eye.”
FIRST NAMES OF GREATNESS
'-Former Senator Call of Florida,
who immortalized himself by taking
off a tight shoe iu the senate chamber
one day and hoisting a huge foot, clad
in a blue yarn sock, onto his desk,
heard from other senators, early in
his term, that Superintendent Smith
of the Botanic Gardens gave palms
and potted plants to statesmen he
liked, says the “Saturday Evening
Post.”
Call wanted some palms and he cast
about for a way to get on the right
side of Smith. Somebody told him
Smith was a great admirer of Burns
and had a fine collection of Burns’
manuscript and editions.
That was Call’s cue. He walked
over to the garden, found Smith and
talked about many things. At the
proper time, delicately and unobtru
sively, he introduced the subject of
Burns.
“There was the poet,” he said. “For
fine sentiment he had them all beaten.
I read my Burns every day.”
“Ken ye Burns?” asked Smith, much
interested.
“I should think I did,” proclaimed
the enthusiastic Call. “Why, I know
most of his poems by heart. They
can have their other poets, but as for
me, give me Jimmie Burns—’’
“Jimmie Burns!” snorted the en
raged Smith. “Jimmis Burns! Augh!
Billie Washington! Charlie Napoleon!
Sammie Jefferson! Get out of me sight,
ye ignoramus.”
And Call never did get his palms.
HE WAS JONES.
An intoxicated young man, very
much battered up, went into a hotel
about midnight and asked the clerk
for room 23.
“Can’t give you that one,” replied
the clerk. “It’s taken.”
“Who’s got it?” asked the intoxi
cated one.
“A man named Jones.”
“What Jones?”
“A. B. Jones has room 23.’’
The battered up young man smiled.
“Zat’s all right,” he said. “Zat’s me,
I fell out za window.”
HON. JAMES G. WOODWARD,
Whs has been twice honored as Mayor and who goes into office January
1st, 1915, for the third time without opposition.
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