Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1916 — NOT THE SAME. [ARTICLE]

NOT THE SAME.

Booth Tarkington, congratulated on hla vivid and poetical portrayals of colored characters, told a story at a dinner in New York: “An old colored man,” Ke iald,“went to the polls one day to register. ‘“What’s your name, uncle?’ the clerk asked. ‘“Mah name am George Washington, sah,’ the old fellow answered. “ ‘George Washington, eh?' said the clerk. 'Well, George, are you the fellow that cut down the cherry tree?’ “ ‘No, sah,’ said the old man. ‘No sah, I ain’t. I ain’t done no work at all, sah, fo’ nigh onter free years.’ ”