A Good One On Blackburn

In Washington no man has a greater reputation for flow of languae than Senator Blackburn of Kentucky. He is considered a íountain of words and oratory. Congressman Green of North Carolina tells a story of how Assistant Postmaster General Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois hit ofl this accomplishment at a banquet where they were both pre3ent. Reminiscences were ín order, and Blackburn had been striking out right and left with jokes at everybody at the table. Stevenson started out to relate an incident of his college days. when Blackburn and he were studente tojjether, and said: "The senator will teil you that he rememberá well the duel between two of our fellow studenta in which we acted as seconds." Blackburn interjected a remark that he remembnred perfectly well, and Stevenson continued: "The two youus felIow8 had got into a dispute which they saw no other way of settling except by the code of honor. We went out to the field of battle. We posted our men. You remember, Blackburn," said he, "how you paced off the eround and how we stood the fellows up?" "Oh, yes," said Blackburn, "I remember very well." The Stevenson resumed the thread of his story. "Well, we had the fellows pistol in hand ready for use just as the sun was shooting its rays up over the hills in the east. Blackburn seemed to think it was a proper thing to say something, and he stepped out in front of our little party to niake a few remarks. It is mournful to think of the results of that duel." Here Stevenson paused for a moment, when somebody at the table called out, "Were they both killed." "No," was the quick response, "when Mr. Blackburn fjot through it was too dark for them to fiie." Amid the uproar of laughter that ensued the senator triecl to protest that he did not remember that part of the duel. Btit th jury of diners passed the verdict that he had not proved an alibi and that he stood convicted on his eral