Show TALES OF THE DAY Won the Calonels Respect Washington Star The man from New York had been talking ofthe relative Importance Im-portance of American cities and had merely for the sake of comparison men tmiixl one or two other towns low n said tor the sake of Illus I testing how trtng rew lork has outstripped every other community let us take Piula delphla for an examine l hope remarked Colonel SUbsoIl Stwel I that you ore not toiug to matte any oo serrations which might be construed as beln In derogation of construe s moral tone or progresslyeness morl Irgressyeness I Vliy 1 didnt thank that you came from mat city colonel I j I tm not cram theah But I wont j stand oy and J the town abused sun I one But of 1 the assure slowest you cities that Philadelphia Is j I I have heard that suh often befo Ana It t goes to snow w8 a cadumny once I put In motion win travel and increase I I confess that i heard the conftss tlut herd smnduh so otten that I took U lob granted that it was tile trutr It was not eth the othuh I cay ethi I accidentally dlscovuhed othur wise through the convutisation of a 1 trlend wo IK a most Intellectual unu I thougnttui gentleman Tuts infohmatlon Intohmaton bout Philadelphia struck him as a matter of so much fohce and Impohtanco I that he stopped right In the middle ot > nm r nh I age question to give it to me un com Ot course Its merely heresay from a t prejdlced source Youve never been to the town yourself Ilh Mevun sun But I propose to repair the omission vey soon sub This friend of mine has Infohmed me of a tact concern con-cern In Philadelphia culture and in dustry whIch ion some most mysterious reason hud escaped my previous knowledge knowl-edge I am not an epicure in the common com-mon acceptance of the term but I believe I that the good things of this life were put here ion man to enjoy an that It is mans I duty to bet et em suh If he can uhat did your friend tell you Ho told me suh that Philadelphia has the nnest mint in the United States Surprised the President New York Tribune They are telling a story here on a well known Kentuckian an applicant for office who had arranged with his congressman to be nrcsented to the president Give me I olnter or two about the etiquette he said Oh Its simple replied the congressman congress-man You address him as 3ir President I and then add anything pleasant and time j ly I that may occur to you He wont b able to give us but a few minutes you i know I see he has taken to horseback riding How would it do to mention that and I I then refer to our ow stock and express the hone that he may have a good mount For Gods sake no exclaimed the j J I congressman steer clear of those cear j I kinured topics with us our pretty women I and our line whisky Be easy man 1 Whatever you do dont talk horse and of and natural but not conventional II conventonal The man was presented to the presi dent when to his great surprise the president l himself began to talk horse I But the Kentuckian I obeying lsh con gressmans tip said next to nothing in I reply on that subject A few days afterward the congressman congeman called alone at the White House and ad the president said to him What sort of a Kentuckian was that you brought here the other day A tiptop one sir Why Why I tried to talk horse to him and he didnt seem to know anything about horses anJthlng abat The congressman was stroncly tempted to tell the whole story but as the joke was really on himself he kent his peace But he Is trying extra hard to get the man 3 place as a salve for his own con sclenpc |