Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-18
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.
Bleeding Kansas IL q queer state sure
enough" said samuel r. Tyler Of Pittsburg,
at the Riggs House. last night. Il have
Just returned from visit out there and
happened to be in Topeka on the first day
OF the republican convention, and went to
see how things were worked in the state of
Lewellen and Lease. 1t was at the after
noon session and the hall was damned to
the walls with a crowd OF people, who ap-
peared to become weary Of the delay in be-
ginning the proceedings A fellow named
Fox suddenly jumped up on the platform
and began singing Marching Through
Georgia You never heard anything like
1t. Men and women Joined their voices in
the famous song and nearly raised the roof
When IL was finished there was cheering.
yelling. ana as fellow said to me. This is
little over the limit. stranger. but d-n
the proprietiss.' But Marching Through
Georgia. was only a starter for what was
to follow. Somebody started a song to the
tune Of The Old Oaken Bucket 1t was
called The Sugar-cured Congress- There
were three stanEas of 1t. and 1 cut the first
one out OF q paper next morning, and l
think It's pretty good example OF the
kino OF campaign literature they have in
the far west. The first stanxa went like
this:
How dear to our hearts IL our democrat tic
Congress,
AS hopeless inaction presents II to view:
The Bill Of Poor Wilson. the deep tangled
And every mad pledge that their lunacy
The widespread depression, the mills that
The rock Of free silver. where srea,
They've busted our country. no use to deny
And darn the old party. it's busted as
This O. Cleveland Congress-,
This Queen Lilly Congress.
This wild free trade Congress,
We all love 30 well
They sang that song over two or three
times, and then sang IL some more and II
the temporary chairman hadn't come In
and raped the assemblage to order not a
delegate would have had voice enough left
to have made a nominating speech In favor
OF the man who sent him there. have at
tended good many political conventions,
but for enthusiastic and exuberant spirits
that republican convention at Topeka sur
passed them all. II the party goes through
the campaign with the same spirit that IL
showed In the convention. Kansas will be
the iveliest state In the Union from now
urt til November"
MANY queer trades are followed for q
livelihood" said Jerome Lansing OF st.
Paul. at the Arlington yesterday. but q
young woman came to my village recently
whose profession is about as singular one
rs I ever heard OF. Her name is Maud
Smith. and she makes q business of hunting
up the missing heirs OF estates. She came
to st. Paul for the purpose of finding rela-
tives OF man who had died In ST. Mary's
Hospital. In San Francisco. and was sue
cessful In her search, returning to the slope
with a widow and her son, who had evil
dence euficient 10 establish their claim TO
the dead mans property. The woman said
she had been very successful I'm her bust
ness. and that while she made no regular
charge for her services. she usually sug-
gested to the fortunate persons whom she
ferreted out that one-third of the money
just return for her peculiar detective work
The San Francisco estate. I understand.
was worth about $4,000 to the st. Paul
widow, so II Miss Smith received the third
OF 1t she will have been amply repaid for
her trouble
When II comes 70 studying characters. I"
said Philip Lomax. an old railroad conduc-
tor. at the st. James this morning. "the man
who punches tickets on a railroad train has
the best opportunities for investigation of
anybody 1 know Of. There are hundreds of
people who get aboard a train with the
absolute conviction that they are going to
end. / have had men who never thought
OF their pocket books when in crowded
streets or hotel Hobbies or at places of
amusement take out three or four pins
from their clothing before they could get
at their railroad ticket, and after I had ex-
amined the ticket and returned IL put II
back as carefully in another pocket and pin
1t us as tightly as possible. The women
are worse. and in spite OF their extra pains
to preserve their property they frequently
lose II. On a recent trip, when my train
reached Chicago and the passengers had
left the cars, happened to go through the
ladies' car and noticed that the plush COW
ering OF one OF the seats had been slit and
some of the hair suffing was sticking out
The evident act of vandalism reused my
anger and I examined the injury. on pull
Ing up the edge OF the plush I saw that
something had been pushed into the hair
stufiing. and when drew II out was as
tonished to see that II was q pocket book
II contained cards and papers. with the
name Of its owner. and a large amount Of
money. I took IL to the main Office and re-
ported the fact. and the pocket book was
returned to the owner minus the amount
necessary to repair the damage done in
secreting the book. II turned out that
woman had taken such means Of hiding her
reaching her destination had gone off and
forgot all about IL. There's another thing
that may be hard to believe but IL is true
all .he same. and that Is that one Of the
favorite places for women to carry their
railroad tickets in travelling Is between their
stocking and their shoe. 1t is easy TO get
at, except when one of the dear creatures
forgets where she put ut. Then there is
an awful amount of fearful emotion and
everybody aboard 10 suspected Of having
stolen the precious thing"
1.-The wine men of California are about
to form q protective alliance that will great
ly benefit themselves and the grape-grow-
ing industry Of the state as WELL" said H.
NJ. De Forrest Of San Diego at the Ebbitt
yesterday. For several years past the
output Of wine has been so enormous and
the prices have fallen SO low that there
has been no money In the business This
year. however, during the coming vintage