Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-17
N HOTEL CORRIDORS

There is a merry war going on out in my
town between the city authorities and the
owners Of vehicles said David Kendall
Of Cleveland at Wormley's last night.
The finest city in the west, you must I'M
derstand. has many of it's streets paved
with bricks, Just as those Of WASHINGTON
are paved with asphalt. More brick rave
ments are being put down in the road ways
every day and it has been discovered that
the narrow tires of the wheels of vehicles
that pass over them are fairly running the
streets. There was an odinance passed by
the city council several years ago. pro-
viding that every wagon wheel that turned
on Cleveland street should be equipped
with wide tire, but 1t was never enforced.
NOW new ordil ance has been proposed,
covering the same ground and the council
Is considering 1t with every probability
OF Its passage, although a great fight is
going on between vehicle owners, who want
to defeat it. and the people who pay the
taxes to keep the streets in good condition.
wouldn't be surprised IL November l is
selected as the date for the new ordinance
to go into effect, and until then the black
smiths and wheelwrights in our vicinity
Will have no reason to know anything about
the depressed condition of the country
Il don't suppose 1 am constituted any
c. Bolz of Pittsburg at the Riggs House
last night, but there is nothing that makes
my blood boil quicker than to see a nurse
or a parent neglect a baby. / was coming
down the street that the yellow cable cars
run on this afternoon and passed a pretty
little park. The sun was mighty hot and
the park was full Of inviting shady spots,
yet right out on the corner was a nurse
girl Of brassy complexion chattering vol
ubly with a big hulk of a fellow who was
as black as the ace of spades, while in
baby carriage, whose canopy was thrown
back. lay an infant with the sun pouring
straight down In its poor little unprotected
face. The child began to cry Justify about
the time l came along, and the nurse i'm
mediately took hold of 1t and shook it, say
ing to 1T: You better not carry on that
way because the old booger man and the
bear and the lion will come out here and
catch you and eat you right up The cry
Ing ceased almost Immediately. and the look
OF terror on the little ones face was SIM
ply pitiful. 1 interfered at this point and
spoke rather sharply to the woman, and
threatened to have her arrested for cruelty
to children, whereupon the man skunk off
and the girl trundled the carriage and baby
away at the same time. reviling me in hor-
rible language and taking good care to keep
her helpless charge in the full rays of the
sun. If parents only knew how nurses
treated their little ones when out of sight
or home they would be more careful in
their selection of such attendants. A large
amount of the sickness among very small
children is brought on by the inattention
and criminal carelesSness of those hired to
take care of them. Nine-tenths of the
towards in the world are created from the
same cause 1t Is difficult to find a nurse
VINO does not endeavor to prevent her
Charge from doing what IL should not do
by frightening it with threats of animals
and ghosts end COLLINS generally A great
many parents indulge in the same repre-
hensible practice. The booger man and
the bear and the lion and the other hor-
rible things which children are led to be-
lieve exist in the garnet and the cellar and
the chimney and other tabooed places are
the prime causes of over half the cowardice
and timidity we have in the world. No
parent should ever brighten a child or al
low ii to be frightened, and mothers should
Keep an eye at all times on the nurses no
matter what jewels they may appear to be
when around the house. / am pretty warm
when get on the subject of babies and
would like to join a crusade in favor of
their better treatment if some one will only
start 1t up"
THE farmers of California and the vine
growers as we'll are confronted with a pc
culiar condition of affairs" said William
ID. benson Of San Diego at Wormley's last
night. You know the state of California
gives bounty Of IS for the scalp Of each
full grown coyote. One man in Tulare
county made over $50 in three months
in killing these animals. besides the sport
he had in getting them. For the first six
months of this year 5000 coyotes scalps
were taken and paid for and If this rate is
kept up till January next the state will have
TO fork out something like s6JOOO0 in
bounties. OF course that sounds mighty
high for wolf hair, but the figures are cor
rect, nevertheless. Now, the coyote is the
natural enemy of the jack rabbit; indeed
the long-eared Splinter is really the staple
food of the coyote. These cowardly wild
dogs will get a rabbit day i'm good season.
two or three a week. The jack rabbit is a
greater pest than the coyote. So terrible
have been the devastations of this animal
upon the young vines, the alfalfa and the
other growing crops in California that the
farmers at certain periods band together
and have what is called jack rabbit drive
All the residents in wide stretch of ter
ritory will start out at a given time in a
long line and beat over the entire country
wherever Jack rabbit may have an op-
portunity of hiding. The line proceeds slow
ly, converging toward a given point where
barbed wire fences have been run out for
a loEg distance from a corral. Thousands
of rabbits are driven into this corral in
such drives and are then slaughtered amid
much excitement. If the coyotes continue
to be killed of for their scalps such drives
as l allude to will have to be of much
more frequent occurrence, for the farmers
of California will suffer still more terribly
from the jacks. 1 think the bounty on a
coyote scalp Is really a premium for the
propagation of jack rabbits and a great
many agriculturists in the state share in
my opinion, because every coyote killed
removes natural enemy of the Jacks and
one who keeps their population down very