After Hatch went out of
the office, Usher let the man "escape," and he is five dollars ahead, and
Ike has got even with Hatch.
[Illustration: IT LOOKED LIKE AN OLD DRIPPING PAN.]
THE THIRSTY GOPHER.
A Minnesota town got a fire steamer on trial, and tested it by trying to
drown out a gopher. After working it six hours, the gopher came out to get
a drink. He would have died of thirst if they had kept the hole closed
much longer.
COLORED CONCERT TROUPES.
Sometimes it seems as though the colored people ought to have a guardian
appointed over them. Now, you take a colored concert troupe, and though
they may have splendid voices, they do not know enough to take advantage
of their opportunities. People go to hear them because they are colored
people, and they want to hear old-fashioned negro melodies, and yet these
mokes will tackle Italian opera and high toned music that they don't know
how to sing.
They will sing these fancy operas and people will not pay any attention.
Along toward the end of the programme they will sing some old nigger song,
and the house fairly goes wild and calls them out half a dozen times. And
yet they do not know enough to make up a programme of such music as they
can sing, and such as the audience want.
They get too big, these colored people do, and can't strike their level.
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