Show nenasnnmrarnnownnrre nnnn smnnnr Ali i I l C Pester House Clerk About Ancestors n FUSY DAY i n ASIIINOTONSlr John Courts WASHINGTON Hart 1C C M G 1C O C C B1 who as plain James C Courts serves I ho United States government In the responsible position of clerk of the House committee on appropriations has his troubles just like other folks People are nil the time pestering him to death to know If It was his grandfather grand-father or his greatgrandfather or his great great grandfather who used to own about 20000 acres In Maryand and who presided over tho feudal glorIes glo-rIes of Clean Drinking Manor And every time ho gets through with one of these historic bugs arid settles down to work a delegation of home folks from Tennessee drops In on him and demands to know why he accepted accept-ed from tho Emperor of Koreabe fore that eminent personage was sat upon by the Japanese tho military order of the Setting Moon third class and wears tho undress button that goes with It all the time But even these annoying things pale Into Insignificance beside an Incident that happened just tho other day Mr Courts has his nose In a chaotic appro irlatlon bill and was dictating to four adding machines all at once when H straightbacked stralght nosed white mustached whitehaired and extremely extreme-ly dignified old gentleman matched into In-to tho committee room He was lookIng look-Ing for his member and as tho member mem-ber wasnt on hand had turned around to go out again when ho caught sight of Mr Courts There was a moment of tenseness and of pansen hiatus in other words And then tho old gentleman advanced and cast himself a perfertly dignified caston Mr Courts bosom clutched Mr Courts hand patted Mr Courts shoulder and gazed Into Mr Courts eyes And as n dozen or so members of the appropriations committee gathered gath-ered around tho old gentleman exploded I ex-ploded his bomb I Captain ho said to Mr Courts I am moah than happy to moot you again I consider this the happiest day of my life my dear comrade In arms Well I remember the days when sldo by side knee to knee we followed the fortunes of that flower of chivalry that most dashing of cavalry cav-alry leaders our Idolized chieftain Gen J E U Stuart Of course It was a case of mistaken Identity Sir John says so himself But nevertheless It was embarrassing And hes going to ask for a couple of more assistants for with this Clean Drinking Manor story and tho Setting Moon button and the Confederate cav airy yarn hes Just fairly pestered lo death and hasnt tlmo to do his regular reg-ular work |