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This page contains three distinct satirical pieces: 1. **"Preaching and Practicing"**: A joke about a socialist who owns a crow that stops singing after learning Eugene Debs lost the presidential election. The satire mocks socialists' emotional investment in politics. 2. **"Southern Hospitality"**: A Thomas Nelson Page story satirizing antebellum Southern hospitality myths. A guest's borrowed horse and enslaved boy never return; the boy was sold along with the horse. The dark humor critiques romanticized portrayals of the "Old South" by exposing slavery's brutal reality beneath the hospitality facade. 3. **"What Debts Defeat Did"**: A brief anecdote about a crow-owning politician's embarrassment when his bird mimics his political rhetoric. The overarching theme: **hypocrisy between stated values and actual behavior**—whether political sincerity, regional courtesy, or dietary preaching. The advertisements (White Rock water, Clyde steamships, Judge Company books) are secondary content on this page.

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| I scarcely knew you, you look so. le spree, and’ when I returned home, my old woman —Megyendorfer Blactter. ** What is the trouble? * Yesterday Iwas out on a hi started to make another man of me. STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE (Continued) PREACHING AND PRACTICING. No one questions that it is much r to preach than it is to practice. the world wants is less preaching et ial- In vain he All through the p the reporter had to lis istic cheers of this crow. Wh sought to buy the bird. and more practicing of the thing On clection day a happy thought ached.* No better example of this struck the reporter. Going to a dealer in birds and other pet animals, the re- porter purchased another crow. In th absence of the socialist, & substitution of the birds was made | Meeting the socialist a few days later, the reporter remarked that he had not heard the voice of the crow in some time, and asked the cause. Promptly came the reply: ‘1 don’t suppose you would believe it, but, ever since the announcement came that Debs was defeated for the presidency, that crow hasn’t opened its bill. 4 can be found than the etory about Professor Wiley's meal that is now go- ing the rounds of the press, The ver- sion that Jup produces is from the “Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture, is get- ting what is coming to him, and the press and public are taking pains to sce that he gets it in full measure. Dr. Wiley has been exceptionally busy for several years, extolling temperance in eating and drinking and pointing out a long list of things which should be shunned. He has found deadly germs in the lobster, has placed ice-cream under the ban, tabooed booze of all kinds, and linked salads and undertakers as synon- ymous terms. He has placed pie in the list of pestilences and has provided ‘poison’ labels for about everything that the average citizen would care to eat or drink. He has issued special warnings against heavy eating during the summer months, ‘The public has stood for these warn- § ings and accepted some of them, but that time is now happily past. Dr. Wiley was discovered in a Washing- ton ‘restaurant one blisteringly hot ev doing full justice to ‘two im- SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY. Among the Southern writers who are firm believers in the hospitality of the South is Thomas Nelson Page. —Accord- ing to Mr. Page, however, this hospital- ity isnot always appreciated. By way of illustration, he tells the following story ubout the good old times before the war: “A guest in a Southern home re quested the use of a horse to carry him to the next town, where he intended to ay for a few days. The host, with ‘outhern hospitality, let him ve the horse, and even sent along a negro boy to bring the animal back. The days went by, and neither boy nor tat last sent a messenger to perial crabs steak with | mushroom nda quart ul become of them, ‘The boy It should be explained | was found on a plant ear the that the ‘imperial’ crab is peculi: neighboring town, He was asked why Washington, It is almost as larye ad not come back with the hor: lobster and) one of them is us The reply was, ‘Cause dat gent’man don sold the hors “*Well, how did. that keep you from coming buck?" “He don sold me too! boy.”” t to disarra: looked upon as. suffic the digesti rs of a fuir-sized dinner party. Two of them ou lay out a section sang. that with a steal replied the DIDN'T LOOK RIGHT. ‘The lord bishop of Dorchester is re- w it up with till living, Dr. Wiley is drugged, 1 no further sponsible for the following veded that the eminent chemist “A certain drill-serge whose se- complished his own undoing. verity had made him unpopular with his fter the hungry man will order his company, was puttin dof reerulta s to suit his appetite and his purse the fune with ed ard of Wile! temptuous disre mit the petween aye of the supposes them, the instructor, by WHAT DEBS'S DEFEAT DID. tion, walked During th nt pres’ 4 reporter on the Washingt very much annoyed in the carly hours of ow, Lam the corpse, Pay atten- the morning by a crow belonging to a tion.” rty turned round, regarded them with a & moment or two. right and your ‘eads n't got that look “Having reached the end of the he This crow lit, and ¢ alist. hboring ad had its tongu seq English words, which it continu ing ti night, was is right, but you’ “Hurrah for Debs!" of regret you ought to ‘ave. 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