The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-07-05

expected that people from all the States
and islands over the sea, in different
classes of work, would take theirs in
uniform fashion. While great many
made a noise in the streets and thought
up all the verses they had ever learned
about freedom from her mountain
height" and the milky baIdric Of the
skies, the great majority took the
occasion quietly. Many went TO the
resorts, others to homes IN neighboring
States, some to visit friends out Of
the city, some to picuics, and a host
stayed at home. Nc stupid laws their
feasts controlled" and all OF the people
illustrated the utility Of Glorious
Fourth" sentiment simply by doing as
they pleased.
The returns are coming In The young
fellows who went 10 great resort to
stay three days got enough in three hours,
and they hoped the landlord got enough
when he tore of two-thirds Of a months
salary. The young ladies who went to
the picnies over the hills are repairing
their damaged compilations. The city
girl who interviewed the hornets nest.
the one who tried to fight a COW with
& paraso1 and was rescued by the gal
liant youth who IS looking for the story
in the papers, the young lady who killed
an infant snake all ~ herself, and all If
the rest Of them have reported.
Three employees went over to BaIti-
more spent an hour looking for a res
taurant in the wholesale district. got
scratched by the street cars in the mar
row streets, wore their shoes out and
came home Some more OF the boys
went fishing and caught nothing and the
boys who sold fish had all sold out. All
these and many others are not going 10
do so any more, so they say, but the
Fourth carries the privilege OF mind
changing.
One Of the clerks in the War Depart
ment had been telling how he was
going to shoot the man who steered
him into any sort of q place where
speaking was going to take place He
had preached against the wind-jamming
practices and declared for a quiet time.
Some wicked clerks said nothing but
locked funny while all this was going
on and on the third they showed in a
dozen rooms copy Of a speech male
seven years ago IN a Western town
by this same man. It was the most
extensive spread the eagle ever got
and the sophomore class of any small
college would repudiste Il as overdone
Ihat man spent the Fourth riding on the
street cars and meditating on the muta-
bIllty OF human affairs.
w nile the thoughts OF the people of
Try
power and benefcence OF the Govern
nent the clerks were IuxGriating in the
twenty-foUr hours during which the
business OF the nation was SUSPENDED
and the flag was floating over eagle
headquarters deserted
J G. McCravy. of the Sixth precinct.
Metropolitan police, is a popular young
officer who has a good record in the ser
vice He has made many friends since
coming here The Jolly. easy manner Of
this officer is q family trait. one that
has caused member Of the McCravv
family 10 attain more than local or
State celebrity as politician. An older
brother Of the police Office is George s
McCravy, postmaster at Laurens, S. c.
George McCravy was a small boy at
the end Of the war, and, like the other
youths Of his PROSTATE State. had little
OF the advantages of education. He
worked hard and studied a little through
his boyhood days, and after he was
grown went TO school and secured fair
education. lie was a jolly. popular
young man. had a large family connee-
ton and friends all over the county
When. therefore. he announced his can
didacy for sheriff it was seen that there
was a formidable man in the race. and
for the first time IN his life George
found himself taken seriously It was
paralyzing 10 the old war horses Of poll
ties to see young man jump in in that
way and have the people following him
around He made the orthodox cam
paign in the primary contest, shaking
hands, kissing babies. chewing tobacco
with the boys. helping the ladies in the
kitchen, taking part IN the singing at
the churches, and al the other things
so many Southern caEiidates have found
profitable He was nominated and elect
ed and was a frst-cIass officer from the
start,
It was in his subsequent campaigns
that MeCrsvy came out strong. He went
on the road when the grass was worry
ing the farmers terribly, and il was like
flirting with suicide to try 10 STOP q
man while he was al work and give him
a song and dance for good. cool Office
So the candidate hired negro and put
him in a buggy with him. He would call
the farmer 10 the road and send the
negro TO the fed with hoe that had
been carefully ey,~,-eG TO the rain and
battered up on rocks While the candi-
date and the farmer sat in the shade and
talked the work would be going on But
the plan, good as II was. did not seem
quite the thing, so he abandoned the
hired man and went II alone, carrying
the hoe in the buggy. When he got out
and took up a row with the rest Of the
hands his fortune was made so far as
votes in that family were concerned.
Often there were several members Of the
family IL the field and he never failed
to Hven up the half hour with the new
est tokes he had found IN town he
was elected again
But IL the latest campaign McCTavy
took another tack that simply ran the
older politicians crazy and established
him as a general of politics. The hoeing
business had served its day ard he had