Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-02

"There are lots of people who snow theii
patriotism in eating, or at least in what
they order to eat" remarked the keeper OF
q popular restaurant to a Star reporter
swho do not show it in any other way For
instance. take the Spanish mackerel, which
has always been in demand for breakfasts.
Now, as a matter of fact what Is known as
a Spanish mack.rel is caught only in Amer
lean waters. and is as nuch an American
fish as rock fish. sea trout any other kind
of fish, but since the war opened up there
Is no call for il, and the taste for it seems
TO have been lost simply because it was
called Spanish mackerel. The ordinary Gus
toner has got The idea that there Is some
thing Spanish about it, and that settles it,
for the present at least. / have one cas-
toner who shows his patriotism in another
way. his meal consisting of Maryland bis
cults. Boston baked beans and corn beef
aid cabbage, Virginia style. Sometimes he
combines several other states up in his
meal"
The strangest cure for hemorrhages
from the lungs that / ever heard Of and
which has proved itself to me to be the
most effectual, was presented to me recent
ly," said a War Department clerk to a Star
reporter, land though / had but little conf
dence' in it, / tried it and it has worked
wonders. With that view. think / may be
doing others good to make 1t public My
wife had been seriously i'll for several
weeks with lung trouble; indeed, so much
so that her life was despaired Of Our ply
stefan had used the remedies of his profess
sion, but somehow they had failed. l was
talking of my wife's illness in a grocery
store in the eastern part of the city, when
colored woman told me of what she re-
Sarded miraculous cure. 1 mentioned
the matter to my wife and we tried 1t, and
the result has been that she has not had a
hemorrhage since. The remedy may be in
the category of faith cures but that does
not matter as long as 1t cures. / am not
CHRISTIAN Scientist. but am believer in the
Bible, and SO is my wife The remedy Is to
copy the sixth verse of the sixt zenith chap
ter of Ezekiel-look into your Bible and you
can see what II is for yourseif-and then tie
the paper containing the verse up in bag
ana let the sufferer wear ii around the
neck 1 am exceedingly grateful to the wo-
man who told me of it, and hope all others
similarly afflicted will try it, 1 hope also 1t
Will work as we'll in all cases as it did with
my wife"
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Watch repair have horror Of
touching clock that has been tinkered by
amateurs, explained a watch repairer to
a Star reporter, land they would rather
get out of such job if they can do SO.
for the loss of one of the smallest parts
means considerable work to reproduce it.
and much more work than the general
customer expects or wants to pay for.
They try to get rid of such a Job when
they can. for in nine cases out Of ten the
result Is not entirely NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
VINO have good clock, unless they know
something about the way clocks are made
anu now they should be-taken apart will
90 the wise thing to let It alone when it
se1s out OF order. Experimenting with i.
OFTEN means the ruin of the clock. 1t is
absolutely dangerous to try to unwind a
handspring. as man have discovered for
Themselves, unless the proper tools ara
handy. Now a clock repairer has a con-
tfNance known as spring controller
which srasps the spring and holds it.
while being taken out put into the
clock. SO that there is no danger The
spring fog an eight-day clock is often two
yards long. and when suddenly let free it
nles out with nearly the force of a
charge of shot from a gun. Some time
ago an officer of the signal corps Thought
he would tinker his clock. He did tinksr
IL, and IN taking out the main spring il
got away from him. In its flight it took
On fve-dollar lamp from a parlor tabla
ard crushed in the glass of twenty-doI-
damage The four-dollar clock cost him
IN damage exactly twenty-five dollars. be-
sizes cutting his hand seriously"
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There is an entire absence of law nro
tecting the army uniforms" observed an
army officer to a Star reporter. land no
culiar as IT may seem, IL is not a violation
of law. military or civil, for any unautbor-
lied person to wear the uniform of an
Off1Cer soldier n OF ar a..
not violate any law if any one paraded the
streets attired in the fun military uniform Of
general. colonel or other officer. In Europe
1t Is entirely different. and if an unauthor
lied person publicly wore the uniform of
an army or naval officer without authority
ne would be gobbled up, stripped of his
military or naval fiXings and would have n
long stay in prison for his ofrense There
have been number of efforts in this coun-
Try IN the state legislatures to make il a
crime TO wear the uniform, without prop
er legal authority, of an officer of the state
National Guard or militia, but somehow
they We're never crystaliized into law The
offense does not often occur but should it
happen, and it has happened sometimes
there Is no penalty. OF course If an nm
authorized person committed any offense
against the law, such as false pretenses.
ne would be liable to punishment under the
general law TO prevent frauds. There is a
BRASS band in New York city each member
OF which wears full generals uniform.
with the stars on the shoulders and some
of the National Guard OF that CITY tried 10
have 1t abolished under existing law, but
they failed to do so. The Grand Army
badge and button, as also the badge of the
Union veteran Legion and the Regular
Army and Navy Union and of the Mexican
Veterans Union. are protected to some ex-
tent by law, in that the regulations of the
army and navy provide that those entitled
to them can wear them on certain official
occasions but even they are not as fully
protected by law as they should be- The
same absence of protection, legal protec-