OCR Text |
Show A STORY ABOUT MASON. Who Will Be Followed by Hopkins . in the Senate. (Brooklyn Eaglo.) "Billy". Mason, who is soon to yield his seat in the United States senate to Albert J. Hopkins, is of a generous nature. Some years ago, when -he was in the Illinois state senate, he- lived next door to a friend whom we may as well call Robinson. Robin-son. One Sunday' morning the senator found two feet or so of snow on his sidewalk, side-walk, and set about shoveling it off before be-fore people should begin passing on their way to church. It was hard work, and the fat little man was pretty well winded when the job was finished, but he felt that it would bo a Christian act to clean his neighbor's walk, since he knew that Robinson had been out of town for a week. So he fell to and worked like a beaver at it encouraged en-couraged by the consciousness that he was doing such a friendly act as Robinson Robin-son would doubtless do for him under similar circumstances. When he had completed the task and was about to return to his own house he was surprised to see Robinson sitting bv his warm fire smoking a good cigaf. paper y " rcadinS nis Sunday h'lIJhpre!,th? nor fa"ed through Swb thought you were out of ''l g?i,oi Ck mming." said Robin-S0"- a'1,1", through the pane. walk then '" yU shovcl of f 'our sidc" Hnino.,VI1".Jli8tu1K0,nf? t0 whe I you doing it, Robinson unswered. "And, by the way. urnator. would y0u mind shovel- out and feed the horse." |