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Show NO OCCASION TO WASTE TIME. Nature Had Already Done a Remark-v Remark-v ably Good Job. Tho Irishman has humor, but when It comes to real merriment the negro !' la always -ready for tho occasion. a, One night there stood In front of an auto shop one of that sort of men whom liquor makes a political orator. Every question from tho trusts to tho condition of tho worklngmen came In for a lurid If not lucid criticism. Finally the color question camo to his mind and In less than ten minutes It was solved with tho facility of tho true reformer. All the negroes were deported and running a nation of their own. " At this point some small boys armed with a bottlo of seltzer began operations, opera-tions, and by that time tho profanity of tho speaker had reached a high de- vjgree of efficiency, i ' All this time a negro .had sat calmly JL Indifferent to the curses heaped upon him, answering with broad grins. At last tho speaker turned, saying: "You want to make a fool out of me?" ' The darky replied in tho character- Istlc drawl: "Oh, Lawd, no, sah; nature na-ture did dat." |