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Show VINDICTIVE BUT NOT POSTED Old Calhoun Clay Thought Beaten Foe Was Being Treated With Undue Leniency. Gon. Carroll Devol, at a dinner In Washington, was drawn into a war argument by a young lady. The young lady, having conquered the general, as she thought, paused and smiled triumphantly; but he, with a smilo of a different kind, said: "My young friend, it is hard to argue with you because your ignorance of war la very complete. It Is plain from your remarks that you don't know the difference between a howitzer and a mortar, and I believe you think that shrapnel, grape and canister could all be shot indiscriminately out of a shotgun. shot-gun. "In fact, you remind me of old Calhoun Cal-houn Clay. " 'Cal,' said the old man's master one day, 'I see by the papers, Cal, that the enemy has been driven back.' " 'Driven back?' old Cal grunted. 'Driven back? Driven? Huh, I'd make 'em walk.' " |