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Show NO OCCASION TO WASTE TIME. Nature Had Already Done a Remarkably Remark-ably Good Job. The Irishman lias humor, but when It comes to real merriment tho negro Is nlways ready for the occasion. One night there stood In front of an auto shop one of that sort of men whom liquor makes a political orator. Kvcry question from tho trusts to tho condition of tho worklngmen came In for n lurid If not lucid criticism. Finally the color question camo to his mind nnd in less than ten minutes It was solved with tho facility of tho true reformer. All tho negroes wcro deported and running a nation of their own. At this point some small boys armed with n bottle' of Bcltzer began operations, opera-tions, and by Hint time the profanity of the speaker had reached a high decree de-cree of eniclency. All this time a negro had sat calmly 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 dnrky replied In tho characteristic character-istic drawl: "Oh, I.awd, no, sah; nature na-ture did dat." |