Show THE ladt LAUGH IS THE BEST texas has a representative in C n freaa major martin by name who actually blew oot alie gaa aben be to bej tor the first time in washington and who has not yet heard the lat of liia colleague taunts over that and of frontier simplicity these he has always borne with creditable meekness meek lie was a greenhorn he said aad he knew it it may be well imagined therefore that lie is actuated by no spirit in alluding to the grief which has come upon his fellows in connection with mr silco tb digap pea ianco everybody used to have a great laugh on me naively observes the besan because they said I 1 bad not t eose enough to turn out the gas but blew it out at the bame time I 1 notice my colleague mr mills who haa been hare in congress some eighteen year and who never blew out the gas lot about 2030 by signing receipts fr f r salary which he never received the major then took a list of his entire texan delegation and named ea h man telling the number of years he hal ha l been in congress and the amount he had lost by Sil cotts defalcation finally coming down to buck kilgore he said he neer blew out the gas but although faring better than any man in the delegation be boet loet about I 1 call your attention to the fact that the man who blew out the gas was overdrawing four days pay when the bust up came the longer a man has to wait tor his laugh the more likely he is 10 enjoy it |