Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-05

fused his request. but did so in Sneerng
and utterly heartless manner. Some of the
boys, when they learned of what had hap
pened, went to the colonel, one of the best
men that ever lived, and laid the facts be-
fore him, with the result that the young
fellow at once received the desired leave.
Before he could get away, however, his
captain went to the colonel and in some
way or other delayed matters so that 1t
was three or four days later before the
poor fellow started for home. When he
got there he found that his wife had died
just twenty-four hours before his arrival.
At the end of his leave he again returned
to his company, told his story. and to one
or two of us declared that in the next battle
we went into his captain would not come
out alive. OF course, we knew what ne
meant. but not word did we say in dis
approval short time after that we re-
ceived orders to go to the front, and q day
or two after getting there went into one
of the hottest engagements fought during
the war. 1t continued for several hours.
and one of the first of our men to fall was
the captain of our company. Not one ball
but dozen or more hit him, and every one
of them hit him in the back and came from
guns not carried by the fellows in gray.
The young fellow | have been telling you
about, also fell later in the fight, but he
was hit in the breast, where every true
solder and man would be hit. and the ball
came from a gun in the hands of johnny
Reb.' and not until he had carried out mis-
threat. Where did the other balls that hit
the captain come from? Why. they came
from guns held in the hands of men who
had gone into that battle with the same
purpose in their hearts as that which filled
that of their young comrade. AS L say,
this is the only case l ever had any per-
sonal knowledge of, but you can bet that
there have been lots of others just like it.
X x x X }.
Who will ride with the President-e,ect
from the Executive Mansion to the Capitol
on the day of Inauguration? This is a
Question which iS GU 1 ic
causing some discussion. Upon the election
of a new President the retiring chief
| magistrate escorts his successor to the Cap
itol to be indicted into office, but upon this
occasion Mr.. Mckinley is his own Sue
cessor and an escort must be provided.
Journal Clerk Mckee of the House OF
Representatives, who is deliver after sta
tistics, has been looking up the precedentS
Mr.. Mckee says that in the absence OF
definite precedent 1t is probable the Presi-
dent will be escorted by a committee Of
senators.
Mr.. Mckee found that at Grants seconj
| inauguration such a committee, consisting
of Senators Logan, Bayard and Cragn
| called at the White House for the Presi
| dent, who sat on the rear seat with Sena
| tor Logan and the carriage moved at tho
| head of the procession.
When President Lincoln was Inaugural tee
| the second time he went to the Capitol al
| an early hour to sign bills which were
redcnlnS I've stage OF legislative COmple
| ton toward the close of the session After
| the inaugural ceremonies President Lin
! CON entered his carriage attended by Sen
| at4,r Foster of Connecticut, and rode at the
| head of the procession back to the White
House.
while horses are not subject to nerves
| like human beings, they are all more or
| less timid.'' remarked a famous horse
! breeder to the writer yesterday. Fear in
| horses is due to the fact that they are in
| cined to magnify the unusual into the ter
| rible and night and twilight predisposes
| them to this nervous condition. Under
standing or investigating these things, how
| ever, often removes all fear in a horses
| mind. For instance. I have a pony which
! when first put into harness could not be
| induced to cross a railroad track until one
| day | urged the beast to touch one of the
| rails with his hoof. Finding it secure, he
| willingly trusted the other foot and since
| then has never showed any fear of the
| glistenng rails. On the other hand, / once
| had mare which always jumped over the
| long shadows of tree trunks in the road
and could never be induced to test whether
| or not the dreadful things were real or i'm
| aginary. Another curious illusion common
| among horses is that when has once
| struck his head against the top of a stable
| door he can never quite get over the fear
that there is something dreadful hanging
about that door, ready to strike when
ever he has to pass it. Perhaps horses
have to live on in this uninterrupted fea1
| because they have few organs with
| which they may experiment. The ele
| plants trunk and the monkeys tail are
| about the only organs in the animal king
| dom which seem to have been created ex'
| pressly for the purpose of finding GU,
| things that look strange or dangerous
| * x * X X
| 1.-The American people are great theater'
goers and spend about s112.00OO00 annually
| for such amusement said prominent
| theatrical manager to the writer recently
| treasures Of some 1000 companies, which
| were estimated to be playing in all parts
| Of the United States last year. This in
| cludes everything that can be considered
| strictly professional companies, to say
| nothing of the countless amateur organiza
| TONS OF the strictly theatrical organiza
| lions 1t is safe to say that the average
| receipts per night for the 1000 compan1a!
| Is $500 each. At seven performances pei
! week for each company the weekly average
| would be $500. The average theatrica
| season is forty weeks. The entire LOON
| companies. with average nightly receipts o.
| 800 would produce weekly receipts. a
| seven performances per week. amounting
| to s2.S0o.OO0. This multiplied by forty, th'
| number of weeks in the theatrical season
| will yield gross receipts amounting to s112
100000 which is probably far below wha
| the people of this country really do pa!
| every year for theatrical amusement.
"see here" exclaimed thes shopper, ex
| citedly. there's man just dropped deat
| in that bargain crush!'
How inopportune,' ried the f1oorwalker
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