Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-11
N HOTEL CORRIDORS

I'm HOTEL CORRIDORS
The cat is usually regarded as a purely
ornamental domestic animal. without any
particular traits to inspire admiration after
1t passes the playful kitten age" said W.
e. Carew of Memphis at the Cochran last
night; but a feline in my possession re-
Gently show ed intelligence of so remark
able a nature that my opinaon of the family
has changed considerably. Our cat is a
common maltese, very lazy and very fat,
! and lately she began to show such an ILL
tempered disposition that we were thinking
of getting rid of her. We won't now. Early
enc night in January the family retired.
leaving the cat in the sitting room. Some
time afterward 1 was awakened by a loud
| meowing and violent scratching of the bed
clothes. I saw the cat on the bed. appar-
emily attacking my wife, and jumped up to
seize it. when I smelled smoke. The room
was filling with it, and as the animal had
already leaped from the bed, / ran out to
find where the smoke was coming from. 1t
was rolling up the stairs, and down through
1t went. Just as 1 reached the sitting
the floor. Luckily, put it out and then
found that slowly burning log had rolled
off the fire and QUO on the carpet. The fire
was just beginning to make Roadway with
the pine floor when I fortunately got there.
the dense smoke having been caused by
the charring of the carpet. There is no
doubt that our cat instinctively knew
something was wrong, and determined to
let her mistress know. She is the most
highly esteemed member of the family now,
after the children, and seems to understand
the security of her position, because she
has been getting crosser and uglier ever
since"
"An through the cotton-growing sections
of the south the planters are asserting
their intention of raising no more cotton
until better prices return" said Sargent
Bennett of New Orleans at the Arlington
yesterday. From Texas to South Carolina
the talk is the same. They say that no
matter how rich the land may be cotton
cannot be raised for less than or cents
pound, and. with the price less than
that after the crop is shipped to market
and all the expense attendant upon its
preparation and conveyance has been
horne, it would be ruinous to continue its
production. Many farmers who formerly
raised a bale to an acre almost declare that
they will put their land this year in beans,
potatoes, broom corn and diversified crops,
from which more certainly reniunerative
results. will be secured. I believe this
change will be vastly beneficial to the
south. We have raised cotton and nothing
but cotton for so long that we have never
cared to see how we could get along with
other crops and now that we are going to
be forced into the experiment I think We
win find It very advantageous to our agri-
cultural future"
washington must contain a very large
number of gallant and woman-respecting
men," said Robert S. Judd of Cincinnati
In front OF the National last night. 'I
have Travelled a great deal and been q
night OWL SO to speak. in a good many
cities, but I have never seen a large one
where women go about by themselves after
dark and are SO entirely free from being
aocoSted by men as here. have been sew
eral times to the theaters recently and
have been surprised at the number of wo-
men who have entered and taken their
seats unattended by male escorts. There
Is always q great crowd of men on the
street in the neighborhood of this hotel at
night. but women pass through just as
safe, SO far as have been able to see and
1 have watched closely, from being made
the subject of remark, much less of in
suit as If 1t was broad daylight great
many cities. including my own, would be
greatly benefited IL their men folks would
pattern after your masculine Washing
tonianS."
''The west is the abiding place Of remark
able occurrences" said Philip White of
Peoria at Wizards yesterday, land natur-
ally It was in Denver where I saw a run
away cable car. I was on the car ahead
of 1t and was consequently mighty inter
ested spectator. I had gotten aboard on
18th street, along which a cable line runs,
to go out on Broadway, into which it turns
when We heard a violent ringing behind.
Looking back we saw the gripman of the
next car tugging at his lever with one hand
and ringing his bell with the other Our
gripman saw him and pushed his grip hard
down on the rope and went ahead The
car in front of us was warned to make
tracks and did SO at once, and when we
turned into Broadway there was a string
OF cable cars going at full speed and stop
ping for nothing. Several passengers in NV
car beside myself were whisked by our
destinations. but we couldn't stop. /
thought OF the end Of the route and what
Smashup there would be when we got
there, but the conductor seasiblv told ms
the cars rounded a circle there and we'd
keep right on. Well we did and began a
MAJ race back down Broadway. when
word was gotten to the power house and
the cable was stopped. It appeared that
the grip of the runaway had got caught
in broken strand of the cable, which
wound around it and prevented its heinz
released. But I tell YOU the chase Was
exciting while it lasted, and several per-
sons who jumped from the fleeing cars
were pretty badly injured"
The woman In politics manages to keen
herself at the front so far as public inter-
est is concerned. and this is particularly
true of Kansas" said State Senator i r
Morris Of Emporia at the Cochran yester-
day. Zone of them kept the Kansas lepis-
lature in session last week an entire dav
after II should have adjourned sine die and
then cried and gave in and let the impa-
tent members go home. 1t was like this:
MRS. l.. c. Hughes was the chief enroll
ing clerk of the Kansas house. She got
pretty mad several weeks ago when the
legislature passed bill providing that
all bills hereafter shall be enrolled by the
state printer instead of by hand. Indeed
when that particular bill was enrolled the
entire enrolling force. composed of girls
presented II to the senate decorated with
Grape. Well, Mrs. Hughes tried to get the
house to incorporate in the miscellaneous
appropriation bill an item giving her $500
for overtime. and the house refused to do
it. Thereupon Mrs. Hughes wrote the
speaker that the measure was hidden in a
safe place and would not be enrolled until
her claim was allowed. Every argument
was used with her without avail, and then
Attorney General Dawes came down to
Topeka and told her she would be arrested
for larceny and made her give in. Then
she cried and promised to enroll the long
bill, and the Kansas legislature sat and
sucked its thumbs for an entire unneces-
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