| Show A STORY BY KNOX Senator Knox Knor is slated to be the next secretary of f state mate of tho the United States Of Oi course the papers have to publish his picture and such important events of his life as can be dressed up into something great Among mong the rest it is told that he lie on one occasion told a joke It was ivas the ancient one that was told by Thomas rhomas Becket to II ir of the tho bartender who ho called to his employer and said Is HIs Cas Casey y good in low voice oice answered for a drink 1 The employer back Has ho it Tho The answer as was vas Ire Ho has And then in thunder tones the conclusive e answer He I Is s. s And it itis is said the newspaper boys repeat that with great unction not because they do not recognize an old friend in Ii it a friend of their youth routh but because the tho mere circumstance that Knox Enox had told a story even een an old one is so high up in the category of the unexpected as to deserve a as n new c. c It has but one equal that we can remember I There was a very brilliant man in California once named Dave Davo Scott He lIe was a great engineer and profound scholar but his oldest friend had never heard him indulge in any levity In those days the mountain hotels of or California were built among stumps At one of these hotels the landlord killed his own beef and he had bad a fashion of or stretching the skins of the animals over these stumps and nailing them there so that they would bo be dry and ready to ship in the springWell spring Well Scott and a friend stopped at this hotel one night and next morning mounting their horses Jt away when Scott said to his friend Have Havo you any idea what the tho landlords landlord's thought was in nailing these skins over these stumps 7 U The Tho friend said he had not Why said Scott it was to hide them And then tho the friend said he rode along for two hours hours' without speaking peaking It was the only levity he had ever been guilty of and the friend thought that ho he was telling his beads in penance during during dur dur- ing lug those two hours trying to get forgiveness It is a good parallel story to But a man that never made a a. joke may do for secretary of state but ho he would never do for a no secretary of war became because be be- cause came on the tho slightest provocation he would start a war of extermination with some somo power and ho he would not care which it was Mr Taft may keep him in inthe inthe the state department but ho he should be warned against both the army and Iho tho na navy |
