Evening star., 1896-08-22

is brave enough to throw it away and no
one knows who hung 1t up. l personally
know that Gen. Sherman had the greatest
confidence in the luck of the horseshoe. He
carried with him for over thirty years q
horseshoe he found durir the war. One of
his regrets on retiring from the generalship
of the army was that he had lost the horse
shoe which he thought had been his mascot.
1t appears that in moving his personal be-
longings from the War Department the
horseshoe was lost or mislaid. People have
different idea in regard to finding a horse
shoe. but think the proper understanding
Is that when you find a shoe with its toe
coming to you. it means that you are to
meet your luck. Others have the exact
opposite idea. They think that when the
heels point to you it is a good sign, be-
cause the inside Of the shoe will hold your
luck. Take 1t any way you desire, there
shoe"
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Il can get as much rest right here in this
Department. observed a member Of the
cabinet, las can at the average hotel. and
there Is not much use in me trying to get
rest by going to any of them. 1t is the
same with them all, and there is no rest
about any of them. Solitude, away off in
woods q on the banks of creek where
there Is no one to talk to. is the only rest
that proves to be perfect rest and recrea-
ton. AT hotel there Is no rest except sit
ting out on the portico. and there one is
forced to listen to all kinds Of drivel and
nonsense. political and social This Is bad
enough, but when one receives an invitation
to spend the evening at progressive
euchre party. as I did lately, my cup Of
misery was filled to overfiowing."
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1t Is all wrong fundamentally and po-
liticaliy wrong, and the sooner the Ameri-
can voter learns that there Is a combine
IN the way Of employing clerical labor the
better it will be- excitedly spoke a young
man few evenings since. Both parties are
equally to blame and 1 suppose when the
third party gets its headquarters In running
shape. 1t will be in the same boat If not
worse. The charge l make Is that both of
the congressional campaign committees
here are paying but 81 per day for the
clerks and addressers of political docu-
ments. Though 1 am not so sure about it.
l think that this figure is the result of a
combination between them. Now, by this l
do not mean to say that they have no
clerks to whom they pay over 81 per day,
for each committee have several, but that
81 per day Is the price paid the young ladies
and gentlemen who are engaged in sending
out speeches and party documents. Many
Of the lady clerks who are employed ad
dressing speeches by the thousand cannot
even make 81 per day. If any one does not
believe what l say, they can talk to the
clerks and learn for themselves, as did"
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I'm their native state dogs never bark"
volunteered well-known writer on dogs
and other al imals, but conf1ne themselves
to whines. howls and growls Their asso-
citation with man Is the cause of their
barking. They hear man talking and they
try to copy. The best they can do in that
direction is to bark. The shepherd dogs in
the wilds of Egypt have never been heard
to bark. Columbus found that the dogs he
left in America after his landing soon lost
the faculty of barking. and If you will look
up his writings you will see that he de-
votes considerable space and attention to
the phenomena"
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"Oh. yes.' answered a prominent clergy
man Of this city when questioned by The
Star writer. "a clergyman can marry him
self There is no legal doubt on the ques-
ton. though there are plenty of eccles-
astical doubts about 1t. Another thing 1t
is not proper form, and that settles 1t with
many. The court of queens bench decided
in Dublin in November. 1855. in the case of
Beamish vs. Beamish, that a clergyman
could marry himself. There was no other
issue in the case, and you find 1t re-
ported in the standard law books. The law
of the queens bench is the law In this Dis
trtct-the common law. where there Is no
statutory law in the way. There may be
statutes on the subject in the states, but
here clergyman can marry himself, as In
England ard Ireland"
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RED, ripe watermelons!" said the fruit
dealer on Louisiana avenue yesterday
morning, as he waited upon a string of
customers in front Of his stors where a
large pile Of fine-looking melons covered
the sidewalk. A bright colored boy came
along. and, during the rush, while the pro-
prietor's back was turned, pushed a large
melon to the outer edge of the walk, and
sat down upon 1t.
How much is that melon worth?' said
he. pointing to one in the pile about the
size of the one he was sitting on, as the
crowd got thinned out and the storekeeper
had leisure to look around.
twenty-five CENTS replied the dealer,
picking the large one out Of the pile and
humping it.
Holy gee! I only paid Is cents for this
one down there" said the boy. pointing to
another fruit store down the walk.
well. 1 won't have you sitting .here
running my trade. SO you just take that
watermelon and git"
And the colored boy shouldered his water
melon and got!