Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-10

An amusing incident occurred during a
recent session of the. juvenile court, pre-
sided over by Judge Scott, when small
colored boy was on trial for breaking the
shrubbery in one of the public parks. Be
fore deciding the case the court asked If
either of the boys parents was in court,
when a portly coiored man walked around
and mounted the witness stand.
Are you the father of this boy?" Prose
cutnr Given asked.
No sir. was the answer.
Well what is your relationship" Judge
Scott inquired
How do YOU make that OUT his honor
asked thinking the witness had made a
mistake.
Il married this boys mother" he an
Swered quickly
As no great offense had been committed
the boy released on the promise of his
'father-in-law to apply the switch on
reaching home.
Since the Senate began its investigation
into the alleged atrocities by American SOL
diers in the Philippines, the night police
i'm the Capitol building have had a most
blood-curiling ghost experience.
The corridors of the Capitol at night are
a veritable catacombs. Sound travels, dou-
bles back and repeats itself in echoes with
strange variations. Consequently, when
piercing shrek broke the midnight stiffness
a few nights ago. and was followed in
quick succession by another and again an
g. other it fairly raised the hair on every
biUecoat's head from the basement to the
gallery floor Each man thought the noise
was not ten feet away from him, and each
appointed himself a committee of one to
try and not find it. The sound was as
indeScriba BILE as it blood-curdling. 1t
suggested the fright and horror of CEN
turV condensed into one shrek and that
..hriek repeated over and over again with
variations which only made ii sound more
frightfBl.
TINS experience kept up for exactly three
and a half hours without any of the
>leuths being able singly or in pairs to
locate the ghost. for such it had come
to be regarded. The basement floor was
decided on as containing the most noise.
and the Gordon of officers finally surrounded
the Philippine committee room, and their
fright was not in the least lessened by
their belief that the noise was in that
room. just as the door was about to be
uLered. however, there came the noise
again. Ii came directly out of a japanese
umbrella stand. which stood outside the
door. The stand at once overturned
and out jumped a big. black cat. 1t was
seen at once that the cat had leaped into
the Crock-like receptacle after scrap of
meat which had been thrown into it, 1t
TOO small for it to turn around. and for
over three hours il had stood on its head
and hoWl@d.
Most men are not cute as they look,
observed a lady clerk in the patent office
to a Star reporter. and l am almost con-
WINGED that some of them are actually
wanting in some respects. | refer to their
powers of observation. Now, l don't sup
pose there is one woman out of hundred
who. upon arriving at an office in the morn
ing. would not tell how she got there. that
is il she walked name the streets she
took and even remember if she net any
friends ON her way, and if they Were ladies
how they were dressed If She took car
she could tell which streets she took to
dch the car on what side of the street
she walked and on what side of the car
she rode. l had supposed until the past
did remember these little things. as well
women. but l find | was mistaken. |
recently made test in the office, and of
the seventeen men to whom l spoke and
who walk tn the office. not one of them
could tell me with any pOsitiyeness what
coming To the office All of them ex-
planned that their custom was to come by
certain streets, though they frequently
changed their course. but they never took
any notice as to what streets they used
unless something unusual attracted their
attention Another strange thing in this
connection is that more than half of them
distinctly remembered how they got home
the afternoon before. that is. told the exact
streets they traversed. | tried the same
experiment in the land Office and found