Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-19

that it had been distracted, and that his
good name was furnished, and he closed
with prayer that God would in some way
bring about the discovery of the really
guilty party and the eXoneration of himself.
The next day the mother told me all about
it, and the trouble it was giving them, then
the son took me into his confidence and
said that the money was in the safe when
he last counted it, that it was not there
when the books were balanced, and no one
else had access to the safe. When left, it
was with the warm friendship o6that fam
lily. The evidence against the young man
was conclusive, but l do not believe he
stole that money, and would not find his
whereabouts officially for any amount OF
money, although 1 know exactly where he
is. Some day, it may be, he will be exoner-
ated. 1 don't know
In the lobbies of the leading hotels can be
seen a man of tall, commanding presence.
with dress suit very shiny and shabby end
a silk hat from which the silk has been
brushed off. No one knows where he cats
or sleeps and no one seems to care. Those
with whom he is acquainted shun him, and
those who have never met him endure him
and give him an occasional drink, FOR they
can see that a one time he was not a round
er. 1t has not been very many years ago
since this man who now passes ais time try
ing, often vainly, to secure liquor, was an
honored member of Congress. He was not
especially prominent, but during his official
life he occupied a respectable standing as
law-maker. 1t is a story that is hot new,
but has not often been told, for there are hot
many examples SO plain. When he came to
Washington he was accustomed to drinking
moderately. He never drank to excess for
he knew that his was not temperament
that could stand it, and he prided himself
upon being able to stop when he wanted to.
And so he could in the small city where he
practiced law, but when he came to Wash
ington there were SO many whose influence
he wanted and so many old frie1 Is from his
own district, who expected him to act the
part Of host when they came here, that it
was not long before the limitati tons he had
set upon himself were thrown aside, and by
the close of his term being defeated for re-
election, his law practice was gone and he
returned to Washington as a lobbyist. In
this he was never successful, for his drink
ing habits had then become too firmly fixed,
and now he haunts the hotels, his only hope
being that his past position nay secure
enough liquor for him in the present to
drown all thought of the future or recoilec-
ton of his fall from what he once was.
Ever been overland to the Pacific
slope?' queried young lady who has just
returned from a visit to California of
reporter of The Star. 1.-The scenery up in
the Rocky mountains is just grand and
the air is so pure and rare in some places
that you can hear the slightest noise for a
great distance Then the railroads have
such obliging and gentlemanly conductors
always so ready to give reliable informa-
tiCn.
Up in the mountains, where the rail-
re ad circles around almost making perfect
loops in some of it's windings, l was riding
in the observation car, at the rear end of
the train. and at one place saw train
coming close behind us. Asking the con-
ductor what train that was, he replied:
THAT'S our train. When trains first
commenced running over the mountains
here, two engines were usually required to
haul the cars, but the company had to cut
down expenses, SO they ordered the en-
gneers to put on little more speed when
they reached the loops and catch up with
their own trains. That locomotive Will
hitch on this car. directly, and push us up
over the mountain.
Few of US ever achieve the ambitions OF
our boyhood," said a well-known lawyer
to a Star reporter. Now, l have a friend
who when he was growing up, had yearn-
ing desire to be railroad engineer. When
a mere baby, he liked no toy so we'll as a
train of cars. and game suited him at
school like that of being an engine and
have boys clinging to each others coats
for cars. 1t was his hobby by day and his
dream by night, but he could not obtain a
railroad position when he left school, and
became a clerk. and, subsequently, a mer-
chant but he has never felt satisfied at Lot
being anle to follow his natural bent, So
realizing that it was too late in life to ever