The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 24, 1903, Page 3

eRO OF BALL FIELI ‘hen Tung, Chinese Dip- Knows Curves. 0 He Was One of the s of New England in Minister at timgten, rnish the boys an and Yale, but be- dout n the emperor of n could be fully carr. ound the boys were be- to alarming li by the Tected their rec country. He ar- f nstallments of young ia a t He was thena obust, handsome of fun and spirits. ed with a family ANG CHEN TUNG (Wu Tins-! Chinese Mi a Ww in Amhe 1 ed for Phillips acad- my \ entry 1 ( ‘ d pur- | a6 \ At lt w ) riy ame @ y ul t I robust, rom} 1 there wa more vigorets, b hletic youngster than Lia ile became a member of the t », and one day when was being | steppe e game thu n an < the visit | ing twirling the cur t odd moments and hoped for just an opportunity, and when it came was waiting and proved himself the demands of the occ boy was ent pitch- age of the campus Liang but no matter how n he received or how he the field or in the s nu, Liang never got what we i a swelled is always ready to listen s of men cz and carry them out, and y of the fellows was « n, ever ready tode- Massa¢ { i Wu Ting-Fang was am- W ngton, Liang Chen i < s well € He was retary Shaw. tory of or in lowa, rry own coun- ting with a witty n. “Y ro i Mr. Shaw, to have lost the Pat didn’t say you think about the successful it’s the devil's t live in every coun- mt ; °.” was the explosive one of the} {One of th: }HE WASHINGION br MR. O. J. RICKETTS, retary to the Public Printer and the printers friend. PROF Educator Ex-CONGRESSMAN THROP, One of the leaders of the ExJUDGE J, H. O}DONNELL One of the ex Justices who will be urged for Judge Kimballs pla> mi Virgigia Republicans. JAMES best known execuive head. in the United States—Private Sec- Oneof the best known Educators in the in \ M. it the GREGORY ited States—He is North. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, The white man’s ideal leader. now the leading | | sa je THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Chicago Barkeeper Thinks They Will Not Return Again. Bays Candidates Nowadays Won't Thaw Out—Cails Them a Lot of Cheap Gays and Chicken- Feed Siatesmen, quieter and ecially as far “Elections are quieter all the time, ¢ as the saloon business is concerned, a West side bartender to a Chir nd the go Tribune reporter, past election was about he quietest Il ever saw. A dollar of campaign money on a saloon bar now is nearly |as scarce as a white blackbird. saw him and! | their beer from him | tell him he was the whole t e’s nothin’ doin’. It’s not then “No, th int things When you , coming dowB self was to gor red and make them the street it ked like there was & riot or a revolution. In every saloon there was a congregation of red-eyed bums waiting to get the id hand and d from the other fellow. ‘T! up at the bar and erowd would line hout for him and ng. ‘Then he would make his little spiel and jolly them up and order drinks, and the same again, and a good cigar for all hands, and throw down a five or a ten dollar bill, or maybe a $20 bill. And expect any change? Not on your tin type. And no decent bartender would ever dream of giving him any. Bet your life he wou t. “But my, how difterent now! The old candidates were princes compared with some of these fellows. A cheap- er lot of guys never came over the pike, and how they have the gall to look for votes is what gets me. Most of them seem to be members of the W.C.T.U. Soda water and brown pop is their limit, and they seem to expect to get it for nothing. “Why, the other day a candidate for something or other, one of these } SLAPS A HANDFUL ON THE BAR. cheap statesmen of the new-fangled | stripe of ‘aead game sports,’ save us | all! floated in here with a lot of ward ered beers for the round- ers and self and his | particular grooms, and handed me a | two-dol bill. His eyes grew like | saucers when I rung up the whole two | doll ster. j | | | heelers, or ginger ale 's on the reg “Don't I any change, barten- der?” he a ind he figured it out } that I owed him 35 cents “‘T don’t do business that way,’ I says, ‘not at election times. If you're so ignorant of campaign etiquette, your mother had better keep you at home. You're a hot proposition for a representative, you are!” “He looked so mad that I made a break for the bung starter. O, it gives me the chills. I'd like to have seen that fellow’s finish a few years ago. “And the against him either, alth a saloon kee that is running any improvement, é iderman and ought to know better. A ne he’d have in | his own joint f ny political candi- date who'd leave | than ten bucks on his g y old bar And what is he doing on his glorious campaign? Vl tell you his lit dodge. He puts a lot of dimes an‘ 1 1is pock et before he st out he slaps | a handful of t on the bar with a big bluff at reckless genérosity and man, I’m feelin’ give the boys a drink elf, and take He tried it on says: ‘Come on good to-d and have one on me yc the price out of that me, but it didn’t work, I scooped up the measly little pile of cl } about $1.60, and swept it o the till. } “*That’s all right, Johnny,’ I says j a poor w sing business | ing a hot cam seein’ that it | euts no ice for me and puts no Slates on the house. Get proper and be a ’ says I. nen he away with his nose in the ‘So that’s the kir saloon keepers was up fall campaign, and stuff a lot of these noble men are made of. The ¥ "ll plenty of guff, but to get them to loosen up is like trying to find the north pole. They’re goin’ round to private houses jollyin’ the women and coaxin’ them to have their husbands vote for them, and kissin’ the children and maybe givin’ them a cent here and there. But the good old times are gone and the days of the saloon campaign are over.” mad, too, and goes ve you Fortane Spent on Levees. During the last 37 years Louisiana bas spent $30,000,000 on the levees of the Mississippi. ee a - et aN wie oe 7 - ge Ath aocmungente: