Evening star., 1901-08-31

Out at Cabin John bridge few evenings
ago the crowd was dense in front of one
of the refreshment booths. An individual
wearing the uniform of special police
man proceeded with dash to force pas
sage through the throng. His progress
was slow, however, so he soon began to
shout:
Hold on, there. one minute. / want you!
Stop a second! L mean the man wearing a
white hat.'
All eyes were focused on the person with
the distinctive headgear. The latter turned
crimson and it could be seen that he was
trembling.
Some mistake about your change here
at the ice cream stand" stated the officer
NO, it was all right stammered :he
man who was trembling. Il counted IT
carefully, and I'm positive it was all rlgh;
Were honest out here" explained the
officer. THE young lady cashier says
there is 81 more due you
Not mine.'' was all the other mad to
say. Quickly he disappeared i'll the crowd
followed closely by companion.
1t so happened that a Star reporter
when he boarded n car for the ride BACK
TO the city found the man with the white
hat seated directly in front of him.
That was the worst fright l ever had
in my life" the saying to his
friend Il had been reading in The S.2r
of some crook who had been working the
fiimflam game on lady cashiers. and when
the officer called to me 1 could just See
myself behind the bars. My first thought
was to deny every accusation, and guess
/ did. Now that l have calmed down L
recall that it s. bill l handed ever
in paying for that ice cream. / walked
off with some silver, thinking the green
back | had given was Il dollar. The "a
was mine all right. all right but as m
not in custody l don't mind the loss
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One of the White House policemen while
walking his beat near the front of the
building recently heard something fall near
him, and looking around saw it was a large
gold fish. Looking above him he saw a
small hawk disappearing in the direction
of the War Department. The gold fish was
a large and pretty one, and was of the
variety that is kept in the fountain Oh the
east side of the White House, near the
treasury The hawk had evidently noticed
the gold fish playing near the top of the
water. eating little aquatic worms from the
under part of the leaves of the water lilies,
and had watched his opportunity to sud
denly dart down and gather n fiSh in his
claws. The fish had struggled hard ard
had worked itself loose as the hawk flew
over the White House. The fall on the
asphalt walk in the White House grounds
instantly completed the death os the fish.
which still moist when found by the
policeman.
Chinatown guide told reporter for
he StGT tlht II IS NllHlfi the DOuiltS VI
probability that hereafter Chinese who die
in Washington may be inferred in Chi
nese cemetery which it is proposed to es-
tablish near Pittsburg. The shipment of
Chinese corpses on the transpacific steam
ers Is prohibited by law. it is said. and it
is only the bones of dead Cinnamon which
are sent to the fowery kingdom. The body
of a Chinaman is not allowed by his COM
patriots TO permanently rest in alien soil.
but at last the bones gathered up and
sent to that place which was the home of
him who died. The Chinese cemetery at
Pittsburg will be. it is said, large one
and Chinese dying within a wide radius
will be inferred there.
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A tailor told reporter for The Star that
large number of persons in Washingt On
have what is known to the tailoring trade
as postal shoulder" This phrase Is de-
scriptive of that scapulary one-sidedness
which is particularly noticeable in letter
carriers. and which is also quite common
among clerks and others who write and
cipher at tables or desks The postal
shoulder is strikingly noticeable in WASH
ington because of the large proportion of
the clerical population to the whole.
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THE United States said a book publish
er TO reporter for The Star, lis engaged
not only in commercial conquest of Great
Britain, but in a literary one as we'll
There is an uprising of American writer's
who are producing American works of fic-
tion and OF fact. and these works are TAX
ing hold in England today. Now, the thing
which is most significant Is that English
novellsts are being more widely read in
the United States than In their native
land These writer's are studying Ameri-
can taste and are becoming more and more
concerned with their American editions
for in these are the greater profit. This ac-
counts In a measure for the growing power
of the American publisher and the declin-
ing authority of the British publisher New
York is rapidly succeeding to London as
the book center of the Engish-speak king
people
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e.. "A rather amusing incident occurred re-
Gently at one of the fashionable boarding
houses in the northwest part of the CITY,"
said a young man who lives in the estab-
iishment indicated. "A lady who gave her