Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-22

Two members OF the police 1orce, one
veteran policeman who performed duty
when 1t was necessary for an officer TO
keep his hand the implements of war
fare provided by the department, and the
other a much younger man who started
his police career about the time wv mite
chapel" was at its worst.
at remember very we'll the first day I. did
duty" the younger of them said. MY
troubles were numerous and I was salts
fled that I would not last two years When
my feet became so sore that l could hard
1y walk 1 ready to discard the club
and pistol and quit"
Were YOU on the force during the days
of Agnes White?' the veteran officer in
quired.
Didn't know her at ALL" frankly admit
ted the man who had related something
of his experience.
''Perhaps it is well for you that you were
not on duty at that time, for she came
near changing my career. She was what
the men called a terror. and the man who
succeeded in getting her to a station with
out trouble was entitled to prize.
in those days" he explained, prison
ers were taken to the lookup in a hack
A few davs after l had become a member
of the force 1t fell to my LOT to arrest
Agnes All went we'll until the hack got in
sisted that she must treat. She refused to
take no for an answer and smashed the
glass from both doors. When | reached
the station l was covered with blood and
1 thought I had enough of policing, but
listened to friends and m still here
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Out west there is much rivalry for en-
ployment as golf caddies on match days.
Half the boys within reach of every goif
club, rich and poor alike, present them
selves to the contestants days in advance
to be made caddies for the tournament.
When the competition is keen the
courses are simply alive with fore cad
dies" Club caddies" and every other kind
of caddies all day long.
During the recent Glen View tournament
one of the players engaged a brght-eyed
earnest little fellow of about ten years to
report at O'Clock the next day, and the
boy after thanking the contestant most
politely, went whistling and singing toward
the street car in manifest happiness. But
the next day at oclOCk he failed to APP
pear. The PLAYER was forced to put UP with
the toughest little rat" who frequented
the course and all around the links he Won
dered what had happened to the boy who
had seemed so glad for the chance to carry
bag. As the party neared the eighteenth
hole a very fashionable victoria rolled up
to the club house. Out jumped the would
be caddy. With concern at all for the
Inverted driver and feotman he ran up to
the golfers and cried OUT
here at o'clock. But you see mother had
a luncheon for Senator Depew and just
couldn't get here any sooner
Uncle Sam IS good provider,' remark
ed an army officer the other day. "and he
gives the soldiers almost anything they
want In the eating line not considered IN
furious to health. Soldiers have strange
ideas about food sometimes, and their
I'm
the Spanish war there was a demand fer
sweets from the troops in the field, and 1t
was met by liberal supply of candy and
other sweet things The soldiers in the
Philippines now show a great appetite for
sauerkraut and picked cabbage has been
forwarded to the islands in large quantities
Thus candy has given way to sauerkraut
for the time being, but 1t may resume it's
popularity in course Of time II. indeed. both
articles are not supplanted by something
else"
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Then next time the garbage man has a
collection of spoons it is the hope of the de-
tectlves that he either keeps them or sends
them to some place other than the detective
office to be held for Identification Several
dozen spoons and a few knives and forks
represented the work of the men who had
been employed to handle the garbage, and
the day after the announcement in The Star
that the property would be held at police
headquarters for Identification the losers
OF such property swarmed there to enter