Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-17
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geroVs crank that has struck Washington
in ten years. ] was a clown in a circus for
twenty years. and in the winter made cash
by making sick people laugh in the hospi-
tails. I'm sailor by reputation, but
haven't set eyes on a schooner for three
days. And you know that to old salts
eyes there is nothing so pleasing as the
sight of a schooner crossing the bar. Thank
you. my friend. Hope there was no harm
DONE"
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President Mckinley has a record of pur-
chasing $1,000 cigars of one brand in the
fourteen years he was in Congress. While
this is very large number. yet it is no
more than great many men smoke in the
same peri d, as 1t averages but seven cigars
day. Mr.. Mckinley had peculiar custom
IN handling his cigars. During his service
in Congress he always bought them by the
box. leaving the box at the stand from
which all his purchases were made. 1t was
a convenient place for him to call by to
get bundle of cigars, either in the morn
ing or the evening. He had no tendency
toward making changes in the brand he
smoked. He chose good one and stuck
TO 1t, though since he left Congress and
while he has been in the White House he
has not patronized the same cigar, prob
ably simply because it was not as conven-
lent to buy 1t.
There are good many of u.s. said an
old newspaper man the other night, who
are now plodding along the path Of recti-
tude AMI respectabilty whose trails have
been sinuous indeed in years gone by, and
1t is sometimes interesting to ponder over
the past and consider its checkered as
pect- Carrying the banner as the march
through existence without money was for
merry termed. had it's pains and its pleas
ures, and sometimes the procession was
suddenly stopped in a way that, while sur
pr!sing, meant specie and its accompanying
comforts In my own varied experience
one such incident stands out in high relief
thumped my way into Gray's Fork, Idaho,
one day good many years ago. after a
MISUNDERSTANDING tramp through the mean
est country on earth. without anything ex-
cept appetite and thirst. Even my wits were
getting rusty from disuse, because they
had had nothing to work on save sage
brush and coyotes for three or four days
l had never been in Gray's Fork before,
knew no one there. but l cared not a two
bit piece about 1t because l had reached
the end OF my rope. so to speak. That is, l
thought l had until 1 saw a poster an
nouncing the appearance that light of the
Schubert sextet in a musical and ollo per-
Torrance. l set about to find the manager
OF the outfit. and when he was pointed out
to me, I attracted him by remarkng: Mr.
Schubert, l believe He smiled and in
quired what l wanted. Thereupon / I'M
folded l had never appeared as a public
performer in my life, but 1 assured him
that, if supplied with guitar, a
shave something to eat and more to drink
stage suit CT clothes and opportunity
could do a vocal turn in his olio that would
make tears rush to eyes long strangers to
them and then dry them with rollicking
ccmicalities. Perhaps my vernacular suited
him better than my generally disreputa BILE
exterior and he remarked that he wanted
an attraction and would see what I could
do Accordingly we went to the wickiup
called hotel out there and he threw
in hot
my voice to such an extent that I could
have sung Let Me Like Soldier Fall"
with eleven grace notes above high alti-
tude. He got out guitar and I proceeded
to rehearse. ] had just finished Mary of
Argyle when several soldiers came in I
was rehearsing in the office where bar and
baggage were alike in evidence One of
them chunkily built 1rishman. was evil
IDENTIFY affected. and asked me to sing the
Song over again. / did go.
WHATS the matter, Danny asked one
of his comrades.
Me mother lister sing that song,' was
the reply. AN it carries me back bows IT
carries me ba ok
There never was a note that looked as
big as the two-dollar bill that Irish soldier
handed to me. Mr.. Schubert. whose name
that night. I tried to break the bill with
the soldiers, but they wouldn't have It. So
sang The Regular Army. Oh That set
tied 1t. Hendman said we'd knock EN- silly
liidI might wen. we 0lQ. MY act was sat
isfactory. with Irish heart songs and Har-
r'gan and Hart comics. and didn't even
have stage fright. For five weeks | was a
Schubert sexteter and I was wearing pat
ent feathers stiff hat and change of
overcoats. even, when I relinuuished Thes-
pia and took up Clio in her every day news
aspect again at Spokane. But I'll never
forget Danny's two-dollar bill"
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Il do not agree with those who think that
the fact that robbery has been committed.
when such is the case should always be kept
out Of the papers," said Inspector Boardman
chief of the detective bureau. to Star re-
porter day or two ago II could" the
veteran officer went on to say. recall MANY
Instances in which the publicat ton Of the
details of big robberies has led to the
speedy arrest Of the perpetrators Of the
crime and the recovery of the stolen prop
erty OF course. l do not mean that the
press ought to be Informed of clues where
the publication would defeat the ends of
justice, but the records will show that on
many occasions the thief or thieves would
have got away with their booty and escaped
arrest had 1t not been for the newspapers
TT is a matter of surprise to me that so
many people when they come to head
quarters to report a loss make a special re-
quest that no information on the subject be
given to the reporters and yet this is a
matter of almost daily occurrence"