Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-27

editor desired that an article in regard to
the chief executive should be destroyed.
The direction to boil down the Senate"
would not mean that the reporter was to
concoct a congressional consomme, bu.
that the bulk of the report of the proceed
ings of the Senate should be reduced.
Cut Hoke Smith in half We want only
the meat" That fcrcible, restrictive meas
rres should be Used in connection with the
person Issuing such mandate would seem
only proper. But the anarchistic express
sion is understood by the newspaper man
to signify that an interview with the Sec
rotary of the Interior shall be reduced one
half of its original length, as the editor
wants only tn, essential points.
X X X
THE most musical people I ever met
said the fertilizer agent, was a family up
In Loudoun county. I was up there last
fall and stayed with them one night. Din
ner was en- the table when arrived, and
as had business with the old gentleman,
a seat was provided for me- Right there
something seemed to be wrong with the
people. 1t puzzled me for some time, and
then l discovered that they were keeping
time to an imaginary tune When the
youngest child forked pickle it did it in
a two-four movement, you know, and they
all swayed and worked their Jaws to q
waltz measure.
folks sat On the porch, and every one Of
them grabbed a musical il strument on the
way out and began to tune it. The concert
continued until late hour. At IL O'Clock
went went to my room. and could hear the
FAMILY chasseing into their beds, whers
they whistled end hummed themselves to
sleep. Then 1t was quiet for a time.
The night was still, but couldn't sleep,
and as looked out through the window
toward the Blue Ridge. with the moonlight
shining on it, the daughter began to snore
In fifths. key of C. The pitch was perfect
and the tone clear. I became accustomed
to the freak at length. Then the old wo-
man started up her exhibition of snores
Her speciality was running the scale of B
nat very fast up and down at intervals of
about three minutes. She could make one
and half octaves. as close as I could
gauge 1t.
THE masterpiece of the evening. though.
was executed by the old man and three
boys. who slept in the room below me- One
OF them started in with a good long snore
and the others took their notes from him
After prelude by what you would call
the tenor. they got away in a bunch, and
I'll be blamed if they didn't snore There's
Land That is Fairer Than Day. The
Old mans bass was remarkable, and the
way In which the notes blended and rose
and sank together was wonderful / Sc
cured several hours sleep on top of the
wood shed outside my window concluded
the man, who represented himself to be a
X X X
The clerks employed in the uptown de-
partments often see in the morning when
going to work a cripple seated near the
edge of the sidewalk in front of the White
House.
Generally the workers for the govern
ment leave him sum. which in the aggre-
gate probably goes far toward his support
one day last week. however, the crowd had
passed, and not so much as a copper had
been deposited in the hat. Then country
man came driving past with a spavit,~
which presented a variety Of S~,,,.s tn ~ ~
horizon as they revolveI, fer., ~ =. .n y,
the mendicant, and. t~ronin1, q. .a t;n saw
him some small r,n when rs ~ boa d' ho, sdss
up to the car-,aee "ei nc i'ao hoooieo
ar. y X u
don't wish to be thought Kicker ;"
said visitor who had been seeing the city
but 1t appears to me that the government
does not take sufficient care of its prop
erty. In one place, in particular. I noticed
this. Near the Agricultural Department
building there stands a portion of the big
California redwood tree, Gen. Noble which
was exhibited at the worlds fair 1t is hol-
lowed and contains staircase, which en-
ables persons to ascend to platform I
found 1t totally unguarded. and that, as
usual, vandals had taken advantage of the
fact. Around all sides of the tree these WIS.,
itors have engraved their initials. which,
cut into the wood, appear like red chalk
marks. Another and more noticeable de-
feet was a sickening odor which prevailed
Indeed 1t requires some resolution to ex-
plore the hollow Of the tree on this &C
count"