The evening times., 1896-11-16
SOME LOCAL STORIES.
Lights and Shadows of Washington
Seen Through Shors Paragraphs.

Schrader, the scif-assertivc, deceptive
buiIoon, with brown skirts and phar;issiicai
description, Divine hcaler.s 1T is learned
spent one day and a night in this CITY late
in October.
How lie came to avoid the city Of mag
nlficent distances, likewise impostors, as "a
place for cures must be an Interesting
story, but IL cannot be ascertaincd, and the
everyday citizen should thank his stars that
he escaped.
The clerk OF Emrich's Hotel, on New Jcr-
sey avenue, opposite the Baltimore and
ONO, will If you go down, open the regis
ter to the date, October -. and point to the
name, ''Schrader, Divine Healer" scratch
ed and scrawled on the top line, tell YOU:
1T was about O'Clock that morning.
had Just opened up the bar and unlocked
the storeroon for the cooks. | came 10 the
desk and went behind 1t for "A moment. As
| turned saw a dirty-looklng fellow, with
long, matted hair, greasy beard. slouch
hat and brown skirt, standing at the regis
ter. You know me- he sad, pointing TO
the soiled white band over his breast. Ven.
| should guess | said; Mr.. Schradcr, the
healer. l want a room. My manager VIII
he here soon
Il looked at him. His gown was torn and
soiied, as though ne mad been running
through bushes. | wasn't ANXIOUS To have
him as a guest, and stared pretty hard.
Then he wrote his name, and, some what as
IL matter OF habit, gave him room and
sho WED him to it. / did not have any talk
with him, except that he told me his man
ager had ordered him to come here, and he
had to obey everything. He did not know
how long he would stay or where lie would
20. He remained that day and ate his
meals with the rest. Say, h" can eat-grcat
big hunks, too. He took the full hill OF
fare and never halted. OF course, every
he first came he said to me, e You can call
up The Times and tell them | am here
Why didn't /? Not me. ] didn't want any
crowds coming down here. Well. he stayed
Till after breakfast next day and then the
manager came and took him away.
say, the manager was Il tougb-looking
customer. He looked like one OF them
woody West fellows, and l watched him
pretty close. Tn say he's a newspaper
man. What do You think? Nit? Me, too"
'JudGe" Worthington, formerly the Dis
trict attorney, was walking along street
in n slight furry of snow, when The Times
man asked him about the coming vacancy
in the judiciary caused by the retirement
of Judge Cox.
Il have not any idea who Will succeed.
I have heard the matter talked about some,
but without definiteness. The Bar Associa-
ton, l am told, wrote Judge Cox last
winter asking him To undertake the COdl-
fication of the District laws and he re
piled, stating that he would probably retire
this fall, and therefore declining the honor.
That's all l know.
Man men have been named for his seat,
but the fact is the ones who would be
likely to get IL are those who would de-
cline the nomination"
The last great storm broke pocketbooks
rs Well as trees. Itleft many a distressed
mind and ruined hopes III its wake. Here's
q sample or two:
man in Il suburban town owns the
house in which he is living. This is fortu-
nate, as having had little to do for some
years otherwise he might have been forccI
into the poOrbouse. His relatives are not
able TO help him, and he has striven few
men strive to keep mead and shoulders
above financial drowning. This summer he
got work for two or three months. Along
came the storm, unroofed his house, and
il took half of the money he had earned
to make the repairs. There fate for you.
Another case: A wcllknown contractor
has sunk all his cash and credit in a row of
houses on a prominent street near Mount
Pleasant. He has been in q tight place for
a long time and had to borrow quite good
deal to pay for workmen and materials.
At last the houses We're done and ready to
ell.
Then came the ''twistcr" Every roof
in the row went off. He's broke now
broken hearted, broken spirited, and desper-
ately trying TO get enough money to put
the roofs on. Chances are hell not do it,
and the houses will fall int" the hands OF mis-
creditors.
Such is life