Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-17

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my rule" remarked Judge Miller of the
Police Court, lis to hold persons respon-
sible for what they say. not for what they
mean. My idea is that they say what they
mean, and to be on the safe side, 1 hold
them to it as far as can. Time and time
again persons are brought before me
charged with threats of personal violence
All kinds of excuses and explanations are
made in regard to the threats, both by the
parties charged with making the threats
and the lawyers who defend them. The
general defense is that though the threats
were made. the party making them did not
mean what he said For instance, a
party was before me recently. He had
threatened to cut his wifes throat from ear
to ear.
Now. if he made this threat he certainly
did not mean anything else than what he
said, whether he ever carried it out or not.
Under my rule 1 required him to give a
bond TO keep the peace against every one,
and especially against his wife. The rule
is in the interest of humanity, and l en-
force 1t in all cases. Explanations do not
have any weight with me, and do not in
tend they shall. Threats of personal vio-
lence are punished in my court, 1t matters
not who makes them, as far as I can
stretch the law, and 1 want every one to
know ard undo rstand it,
Mediums and fortune tellers are not con-
suited much of late years in regard to poll
ties complained a well-known medium.
There was a time when things were some
what different in this particular, but that
time has passed. Many is the fee that I
have received from persons wanting politi-
cal events foreShadowed, but they seem to
do their own foreshadowing now. or de-
pend upon the newspapers, many Of which
n of Gov
shadowers at their command OF course
the business was broken up by lot of
mediums who knew nothing about politics,
but who insisted on telling what little they
knew.
so far / have not seen the prediction of
any medium in the newspapers as regards
the outcome of the present presidential
campaign, and / do not suppose any pre-
diction of that kind would find space I'M
less 1t was coupled with a lot. of outside
matters which would be interesting enough
by themselves to float the prediction. Do
l know who will be elected? To tell the
truth L do not. and our spiritual guides
seem to be as badly mixed up as are finite
beings on this sphere. This, however,
comes to me from my control: The next
President will be elected by such a clear
majority that there will be no dispute about
1t. 1t will be no sliding in, or counting in.
1t will be a rush in. surprising even the
PUSHES OF the college foot ball players"
X
'"Ths bicycle business cuts awful deep
into other business and in ways that no
one ever dreamed Of" remarked the pro-
prietor of an uptown dairy lunch house.
Before the wheel began to wheel my re-
ceipts Were $50 per day. except in very bad
weather. Today I am glad enough to get
so in my till when the time comes for
closing up. The bicycles have reduced my
business until 1 have almost to ride
wheel to catch up to it. 1t was this way:
My customers are mostly government
clerks and those in the upper departments.
They have but thirty minutes for lunch
and it was OFT CT the question for them to
go to their homes or boarding houses for
lunch.
Rather than carry a paper-covered
lunch, or. what is more disagreeable a
lunch box. they ran over to the dairy
lunches and got bite. which cost them all
the way from ten to thirty cents, the great
majority. OF course, taking but ten-cent
Lunch. Many of these lunchers now have
wheels. and they can get out to even the
outside sections of the city inside of seven
ments in less. This gives them fourteen to
fifteen minutes for a sit-down lunch at
their homes, and the dairy lunches are
for the present out of 1t. Our name Is Den
of what 1 am saying, just notice the army
of wheelers depart from the departments
as the noon hour strikes"
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1.-The man who wrote that poem Johnny
Get Your Cum intended to emphasize on
the word your although many admirers
Of the verses don't read it that way" ex-
planned Mr.. Richard Jones. who bears the
reputation of being one Of the best hunters
Of the District, If not exactly the champion
crack shot. Il would no sooner" he con-
tinued, think of loaning my gun than
would of loaning my wife. A man should
never loan his gun, and no man who has
d grain of sense would have nerve enough
to ask to borrow 1t. For the class of peo-
as do. keep gun just for that purpose.
1T is foul choke-muzzle affair, and
Kicks like pair Of unbrOken steers. The
gun borrower asks for 1t but once. He
makes no explanation. but he simply never
asks for 1t a second time. The same with a
fishing outfit. My guns and fishing outfits
are more sensitive to rough or inexperi-
enced handling than is the most delicately
strlnged piano, and should they by any
mtshap get into other hands 1t would take
me weeks to get them in proper tune again.
whenever you hear a man talking about
being hunter and then learn of him try
ING to or borrowing a gun, or the use of
dogs. just put him down in your mind book
as fraud, and 1t is one hundred to one
that you have properly placed him.
X x X \
Zone Of the sad features of the storm
said one of the White House gardeners, as
ne was engaged In trimming up the trees
was the destruction of the Lincoln tree
which stood nearest the steps lead
Ing from the War, State and Navy
departments to the Executive Mansion
1t was the end tree of a row nearly
all of which have been planted by
Presidents. The Lincoln tree was planted
few months after President Lincoln en-
tered the White House, AMI it soon was
larger than other trees many years older
1T was its size that brought about its
destruction now. for 1t was the only one in
the Presidents row which was blown down
though there was sad havoc with the other
trees. There were a number CT persons
who asked for limbs Of the tree, and as
far as We could we obliged them. Though
maple does not make a good cane. a nun,
Fer OF those who secured limbs said they
Intended having canes made Tor presenta.
lion to those who would cherish q souvenir