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Show NOTHING TO BOTHER WITH Possibly Uncle Cal Clay's Rebuke to Pastor May Have Had Something Some-thing Behind It. Booker T. Washington told at Tus-kogee Tus-kogee a Christmas story. "Old Uncle Cal Clay," he said, "invited "in-vited the parson to eat Christmas dinner din-ner with him. The parson accepted, and the spread . was magnificent-sweet magnificent-sweet potatoes and celery, cranberries and mince pie, plum pudding, and a turkey so big and yet so tender that the parson had never seen tlie like 1 before. " 'Uncle Cal,' the parson said, as tie spread the pink cranberry sauce on great, pearly-white, succulent slice ot breast, 'Uncle Cal, where did you get this wonderful turkey?' " 'Pawson,' said Uncle Calhoun Clay solemnly, 'when you preached dat wonderful Christmas sermon dis mawnin', did I ax you whan you got him? Nuh, no. Dat's a trivial matter.' mat-ter.' " |