People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — He Said “Poke and Beans.” [ARTICLE]

He Said “Poke and Beans.”

Joe Cavan, who has had a whirlwind experience in the south and west, said to the crowd in the same old place, the up town hotel: ‘ ‘My advice to you all is, be natural. Do not try to deceive people with your affected talk or in your clothes. Yon will be certain to show the cloven foot somewhere. I was at a dinner once in St. Louis. It was given by Governor Marmaduke. Before we had given our orders, for at a western dinner every man has the privilege of saying what he wants, the governor asked each one of his guests where hb hailed from. One was from Tennessee, one from Illinois, one from California. The east was not represented, so I handed in my card from Vermont. Just then the waiter passed the bill of fare, and, my ruling passion asserting itself, ‘Poke and beans*.’ said I in my natural voice.

r ‘‘Cavan,’ saTtTELe governor of Missouri vehemently, ‘you’re from Georgy. No man from Vermont ever said ‘poke and beans,’ and your scheme of passing for a Yankee, suh, is reprehensible and will cost you the wine. 1 “I have sailed under my own colors ever since.”— New York Sim.