Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-23
THE TRAwLER's CATCH.
Pen Photographs of wayside scenes
and Incideuts.

Pen Photographs of wayside Scenes
and Incidents.
After nearly thirty years OF incomparable
service as official reporter Of debates in the
house and In spite Of the fact that he ID
one OF the frankest and most sincere of
souls David Wolfe Brown propounds an
follows; why ought a majority Of those
people who are so unfortunate as to be
blind be effective eiocutionistsy" Then.
when one has passed through the aimless
mental blank (Which people are gooc
enough to accept as a genuine effort to
guess the answer to a conundrum), which
finds its climax In the ejaculation, Il give IL
up" Mr.. Brown picks up his notebook az
he says: because they read feelingly."
And before one has time to congratulate
him he Is on the floor" ready to take his
turn"
OF course Civil Service Commissioner
Roosevelt is a Harvard man and. OF course,
ne Is loyal to his old university home But,
when his eyes snap and his firm jaws set
those exquisite teeth more closely together
as he says of the Princeton Yale foot ball
game: 1t was the best foot ball I ever
saw one knows the estimate is an honest
one. Nhen he says: .They defeated the
oes. Team Yale or any other university ever
-
Tess team unanimity Of brain and muscle"
men one KNOWS that it's Roosevelt the
man the sportsman. the athlete the litera-
WITH ia ng mis- convictions on foot ball
VIII me same enthusiasm that he gives to
any otner well considered conclusion.
see Tom keane has 'tumbled' TO him.
seH' said a super. on e street yesterday.
he says he's going to leave the stage next
season after twenty-five years of contin-
uous work as an actor"
never mind IL won't hurt him To tum-
Bile. responded a stage hand, he's used 70
IL, .raveied with him years ago when he
LOOK tumble every night. That rs the au-
oience thought he did. He was playfne the
lead In play called Drink and had TO fan
on four-story brick buildirg-but he didn't
,r usn, cause l used to dump a dummy
from IN nont or the fourth entrance left.
ana my! how the audience would veil as we
give EN- quick curtainy"
Two funny-lookfng little figures attired
In mems overcoats and derby hats vers
looking at lot OF souvenir things in a
shop window on the avenue yesterday. one
OF tne objects that caught their fancy was
an alleged representation OF the executive
mansion elaborated with a facade done in
mo.ner-of-pearL What is ity' asked one
OF the authorizations, to which the other one
SAID: Il don't know Guess IFS an 40.
mouse. And the speakers were the uIli-
putian comedians.
Henry haigh- 3r, secretary OF the Mich
issn Siuo-the central republican organiza-
ton OF the peninsular state--is at the Ma
tional Hotel ana his visit has 10 do with IN.
annual feast OF the republicans of Michi-
gan He is cooperating with Senators Nc
MILAN and Stockbridge and, as he SAID YES
terday, I'VE are after some big game for
our annual banquet. Minister Thurston--
oetore his return to Hawaii-promised 10 be
one OF our speakers and IL he gets back in
ume-the banquet will be on the 2ad OF
Feoruary-he will be there. Chauncey De-
pew mas already promised ana SO has ex.
Consui stevens. We want to get Tom Reed
~, ~ Eur az .ne ANNALS up. Personally would
speakers. While he was on the wrong SIDE
OF the 'teeter' In the silver fight stflI- I
would ike very much to have him come out
policy OF the administration Jus, tbinL
what picnic we could have with Tom
heed, Thurston. Stevens and Depew FOR
straight republican stun ana then have
w, " o.co.. come In with the black coffee In
yesterday there were two passengers On
an avenue car who were physically at
uacuve The one was q fine appearinp
young gentleman, who had velvet cuffs
and collar to his overcoat ana a peculiarly
silver characterization to his Prince
Albert cane. while the other one was n
young YOUNG lady Of charming figure and face,
s Sne n nef costume was bewitchipsly for
Ssh; Onoouotedly she vas a strSneer to
w shington ana its ways while her com
panion was PROFESSIONALLY a native of the
city. And how much do these clerks, these
government employees, receive as salary?"
asked the lady as she looked up into the
race OF her friend. with a you-know-eyery-
thing SORT OF an expression. well, they
vary. responded the man They get
from one thousand to twelve. fifteen ana
eighteen hundred dollars -"
"A month"; interposei the fair one with
q tone OF voice indicating that she pro-
city.
20. dear. no. A year" answered her es-
cort and then the young lady's thoughts
town where lives a young man. who is TOLL
ing faithfully In the hope that some day
ne VIII receive a hundred dollars a month
knowing no politics and seeking no politi-
cal advancement: serene In the faith that
she viii come back to him and that they
Will be able to lay up something annually.
even on twelve hundred a year.
One OF the comfortable things about liv-
ing In the present enlightened age is the >
TACT that none Of us who are thoughtful.
broad In our views and more or less philo-
see the new moon over our left or right
shoulder. as the case may be- without q
shudder, cross-eyed people have no terrors
Tor us, while we are totally Indifferent as
to the manner In which forks, spoons or
knives are dropped. And yet when two q.
such OLD time prognosticators as Zadkiel's
almanac and Raphaefs almanac come TO The
front In relation TO Washington, We at least
stop and think the matter over Zadkiern
annual presentation has long been accept.
ed in London, and for that matter, over n
good portion OF the world, as unaccount-
ably and remarkably reliable in its FORE
castings. while Raphael's prophetic list-al-
though recognized as a rival to Za,fkiers-
Is received with equal favor Zadkiel for
1894 says that Mars or some other planet
Is to be at perihelion or perlgce or some
where else as to Washington this year and
that great turbulence will spread over the
nation and that the Presidents life will be
In serious danger. Raphael gees his rival
a little better by foretelling, after the usual
reference to orbits and planets. that an
archy VIII run riot in America, that fires
ana great distress will prevail from the At
iantic TO the Pacific, that theaters ana
scnoois VIII De especially unfortunate and
.nat either the President or a member OF
ms cabinet win be in the direst sort of
jeopardy. VI
santa Claus has sent his corps of pioneers
his sappers and IMMERSION ahead, and
they are already intrenched on b street be-
tween 10th and 18th streets The odd thing