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Show HIchly Colored Hyperbole. Tho other night tho colored pastor of tho Wheat Street Baptist church of Atlanta, Ga., spoko n welcomo to Booker Book-er T. Washington. Pastor Bryant ls n rogular "rousomont" preacher. In tho course of his speech ho said ho could imagine "tho angels leaving tho battlements bat-tlements of heaven to kneel at tho foot of tho throno and bog for furloughs fur-loughs to perch on tho stare outsldo ftnfl hoar Booker Washington speak-Il speak-Il wisdom and patriotism!" Tho cro.'d 'hcerod and laughoJ at tho ro-onirl'alle ro-onirl'alle suggestion and then Pastor Brja.it Joined heartily In tho uproar. |