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WASHINM CHAT.
Correspondence News.
George B. Cortelyou has been
sworn in as Secretary of Com
merce.
A wireless telegraph system
across the Pacific is projected.
“No cloture” but physical ex
haustion is the pi’actice of the
senate this session.
The construction of the Pan
ama canal is almost assured.
Miss Roosevelt is having an
opportunity to learn how enjoy
able and comprehensive is south
ern hospitality.
New York is at last making a
praiseworthy war on' the “get
rich quick” concerns.
The unspeakable Turk is get
ting civilized too fast. IK‘ has
repudiated his debts and invest
ed his saviujis in guns and am
munition.
A house of representatives
quarreling over the White House
laundry bill is picayune states
manship.
The women of Kansas recently
cuLiio within one vote of securing
the. same rights as men, even to
sitting in the electoral college.
It has become a question
whether Senator Quay is for
statehond or for blociiade.
Mr. Baliour aptly says that
the task of embittering the rela
tions between nations is an easy
one.
Some one should give the
trusts a pointer. It is not deco
rous for their stocks to go up
just after the passage of an anti
trust program
Anottier farewell tour by Patti
will a least make many antiquated
con o* I .> ieei young again.
Thereare man^’^ overhead wires
•' li. '» .]d be buried without
•' ••"""' »'obbers.
MY CAT AND I. ^
The wind blows shrill and the night Is chill
And the black clouds hide the moon,
And the raindrops splash on the window
s£^sh
In a lazy, lonesome tune;
But the fire burns low, with a rosy glow.
As the sif tiner cinders die.
And we sit and dre>am in its cosy irleAin—
My old gray cat and L
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The smoke*wreaths curl from war pipe and
whirl
Aloft in the dusky gloom.
And the buzsing burr of the cat's soft
purr
Hums low through the raftered room;
And the raging roul of the storm, withoiat.
May scream in the chimney, high.
We’re blithe to-night, by the lire's warm
light—
My old gray cat and I.
The squire may stand by his hearth so
grand.
In his palace rich and old»
But his haughty breast has a deep unrest.
For he fears for his bonds and gold;
No wealth have we, so our hearts are free,
And our cot is warm and dry,
"We feel no care, in our easy chair—
My old gray cat and I.
From its well-worn hook, in th» ehlraney's
nook,
I take my fiddle down.
And snug^ly in, ’neath my grizzled chin,
I cuddle its breast of*brown;
And the straiif^at rings from the crooning
strings
Bids grief to the four winds fly.
While the sweet notes swell, we know so
well—
My old gray cat and I.
For Puss, old chum, whate’er may come.
You’re still a comrade true,
Throuerh shine or rain you ne’er complain,
So here’s Rood health to you;
The best of luck, my ancient buck.
While old Time hurries by;
Till this v.’orld ends w&’ll be fast frlend»~
My old gray cat and I.
—Joe Lincoln, in L. A. W. Bulletin.
Cheedle’s Past!
CHEEDLE has lately acquired a past.
Out of his imagination he has built
up a lurid conceptiou of his sinful
bachelor self which iright-ens him. The
other day I tried to reassure him, quite
unsuccessfully.
•‘Mj’ dear Cheedle,” I said, “you have
nothing whatever to reproach yourself
with.”
“Ah, if I could only believe that!” be
sighed out. “But you know as well as I
do what sort of a life I used to lead.”
“Cloistral?” said I.
“Fiendish I ” said he. “I was a devil of
a fellow.”
“Why, we used to call you a saints” I
said.
“0, in irony, you mean?”
“No, in all sincerity. Of course we
didn’t let you know. We thought it
might offend you.”
‘‘Now, iny dear Wroughtnight,” said
he, “let me give you a word in seasr.n/*
“Thanks. But—as tie servan" -Is
say—I ni’ver accept valuable t s
All men are not like your husband, you
know.”
♦‘Why don’t you get martried, too?’*
“Marriage would not alter me.” said
I, gloomily.
“It has altered Josle.”
“I beg your pardon. Mrs. Cheedile. It
has not altered him in the least.**
She grew pale. “What do you mean?”
ehe gasped.
“I know him so well, you see.**
She half arose. “You mean to tell
me—**
“A saint, Mrs. Chee-dle,” I cried, ear
nestly; “an angel in trousers.”
“Don’t be absurd,” she said, laugh
ing.
“I assure you, Mrs. Cheedle^” «aid I,
“that a more innocent man than your
husband does not walk this earth.”
Extraordinary as it may appear, she
was greatly annoyed. “Nonsense!” she
said, sharply.
“There is no more vice in him than in
a kitten,” said I. “He was always like
that.”
“Of course, you are his friend. You
would be sure to say so. It’s loyal and
nice of you, but I—you can’t dieceive
me.”
Evidently no man is a saint to the
woman who loves him!
“I have no wish to do so.” said I.
“There is no need.”
dear Mr. Wroughtnight,” said
i>he, with thinly veiled impatience, “do
you honestly maintain that Josieisany
better, morally, than the average
man?”
“Incalculably better,” Mftid I.
“Then you are mistaken.”
“Really, I think not. We used to
call him the Saint.”
“The Saint! Ilowabsurd!”
“It was a saying among us: 'As in
nocent as Cheedle!’ ”
“Nonsense!” she said, again, flashing
angrily. “I don’t believe itl”
I bowed and was silent.
“All men are moxe or less alike,” said
she.
I did. not reply.
“Oh, was I rude? I beg your pardon.
Do be nice. Mr. Wroughtnight.”
“You asked my opinion of Joseph
Saunders Cheedle, I gave it,” said I,
honestlj'.
“But you may be mistaken, Mr.
Wroughmight.’*
“Of course,” said I, “I admit that. '
3'ou don’t mind, Mrs. Cheedle, we *
change the subject.^’
She looked at me gl-"
second's. I don’t thir
duller afternoon. I
or two lat<;r. His
pelling.
“Good God, mac'
have yon been sa^
“How should 1
stung- to exat'p-
“Were yon d-
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J. F. HAYS, General Manager.
Fleming Ramsaur Superintendfi\t.
THE
Southern
Railway.
Announces the opening of Iho
^luter Tovinst Sceson.
And the placing on lalc of
EXCURSON TICKETS
To all prominent points in the
South, Southwest, West Indict,
Mexico and Califontia,
Including
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Jacksonville, Tampa, Port Tampa,
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