Show I Notes About Notables II Senator Hale had hind been Inveighing at a dinner against long Jong speeches But senator said paid a con congressman re man you cant can't accuse me mo of ever e having made too long a speech can you ou Senator Hale smiled Perhaps not ho lie said and again But did hid you ou ever el hear about tIme the temperance temperance tem tern perance lecturer No o Well Veil you J 0 must know that there was a temperance lecturer In Maine who came to Ellsworth and lectured Ho Tie hit lilt out pretty hard from the shoulder at these so-called so moderato moderate drinkers nn and at the end of his re remarks ro- ro marks n-marks an Ellsworth man took tool him hima a aside abide l e and said In an aggrieved l tone lone Look here Jim I am ani a moderate I drinker as all the town knows and to n people It Is going to seem as asIf asif as If a n. good part pait of your lecture was WM I pointed straight at me What did I you OU want to do It ii for Jim Jimmi You never saw aw me with more on board than I could carry that said the lie temperance temper temper- ance anco lecturer You never saw mo inc with a bigger load han I could can carry did you 7 The Tim lecturer frowned Vell Well no he lie said ld slowly but bul I have o seen you when I thought you'd oud have done better bellet to go twice for Cor It The Tho late Senator Pugh of or Alabama practiced law lais' for or many years ean In Lu ru- faula raula A uraula Eufaula o man said of him time the other oilier day In iii an nn eloquent speech on cIrcumstantial circumstantial circum cIrcum- evidence I once heard Senator Senator Sena Scan tor Pugh Puh drive dilvo home tho lie danger of this soil of evidence with a good stor story lie He said that a woman made one Olle of or those corn ormi pone puddings for fOl which the ladies ladles of or our state are arc famous She put the lie pudding on omi a shelf to tn ool cool and amid then themi she sho wE went nl outS outto out S to to fitted Hi- Hi cU Bon u left the time house Jabez Jabe played Ith with his toys ill ho hie got hungry r Then Themi lie ho put a chair be- be neath the tho shelf climbed up p and ate all aU of or the lie delicious I pono imone ono pudding that his Ills small mill Interior would possibly pos hold To conclude he did a strange thing timing lie cau caught ht tho tim cat dabbled her four paws In th the lie soft yellow ellow custard custar In iii the bottom of the lie dish hISh and then lien set her down Sh She scampered through the kitchen into tho the dining room and parlor nn and thence out of doors door On the bare boards of the tho kitchen on tho ho dining rooms room's red carpet and on lid parlors parlor's carpet of oC green groen she left impartially small golden en footprints very vory neat very conspicuous Tim Tho boy oy smiled soW softly to himself And Amid that thal evening on his fathers father's return he heard a n wild scampering below tho the banging of or the tho front door a terrified mewing and amid the sharp crack of a Po rifle Then little Jabez Jabes smiled softly to himself again Ah Au me he ho sal said there goes another an au- other victim of oC circumstantial evi dence p |