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Show WI8E DARKY. Luke I-ea, United States senator from Tennessee, told this story to illustrate how a big and unprincipled corporation may disregard the sulTer-'inga sulTer-'inga of the private individuals it victimizes: vic-timizes: '- Hasina, a colored man mid a con-, vert to religion, stood on th bank of the Mississippi river preparatory to being baptized. With one foot in the water, he saw an alligator far out in the stream, and hesitated. Tho more the parson tirged him to advance, ad-vance, the more Uncle Itastus declared de-clared his termination not to go into tho alligator's element. "Come right on in, bruddah," insisted in-sisted the parson. "Whut de mattah wif you? Is your faith done "tumbled? "tum-bled? I calls your Mention to de fac dat when de whale swaged Jonah, God Almighty smfl 3e whale ,m the back wif a red uagon spoke, an' de whale cas him up on dry la'. Don't you know dat if you haa faith an' er alligator swallows you, he -will cas' you up on do san'?" "Dat'a all right 'bout whales an' Jonahs," replied Hastus, '.'but you don' uuderatan' deso Mississippi 'gn-tora. 'gn-tora. If ever one of dem swallows a nigger, ho'l! go off nn' go to sleep, an' forgit nil about him." Popular Magazine. |