Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-02

would you like to be sent homer" was
asked of a young man by the police when
he was taken to a police station for inVes-
tgation.
That depends upon how am sent was
his response You see l live in Indiana
and came here by way of Huntington. II
you want me to go back that way amt
going There's a two-mile tunnel out there,
and I'd rather live east the rest of my life
than go through 1t again."
why is that?" he was asked
Didn't you ever go through a long tun-
nel?'' the mln in custody wanted to know.
IF you have he added, I'm pretty GER
tain you'll not want to go through another
one. When l came through there on my
way east and got out alive. l said would
never go through there again, and IL $ my
intention to keep my word
why is il you dislike the tunnel SO
much?' ,
whether l was shite or black, and the
smoke was 50 hot that L tnousht heNei
get cooled off" g..
But" explained the policeman, we
would send YOU back on the passenger
train and you would not nave 10 rue 'he
blind end of baggage.
II don't know anything about the inside
of a car" admitted the man from Indiana
because | never rode anywhere put on d
freight: but you will please excuse me from
going through the Huntington tunnel. once
is enough for me.
Judging from the small number OF apo'h-
ecaries in Sweden, the inhabitants of that
country must be healthy set. In an
Sweden, with a population of over 5000
400 there are less than $50 apothecary
shops. and in the capital city, Stockholm
with 100000 population there are only -
such shops, or in other words in Sweden
there is but one apothecary shop to about
lJnO persons. The apothecaries of Sweden
form a very select and highly educated
corps of professional gentlemen. They con-
slider themselves public officers and in some
sense the guardians of the public health.
They consider 1t unprofesslonai ana I'M
proper as well unlawful TO import or
sell any patent medicine, secret remedy or
arcanum. Under existing laws and reSula-
tions as construed by the Swedish authori-
ties importa ton or sale of patent medi-
cines is absolutely prohibited. l.. S. Consul
Thomas at Stockholm. who reports these
facts TO the State Department, says that
any attempt at such importation or sale
would be vigorously prosecuted and would
probably be followed by the confiscation of
the medicines and the punishment of the
offenders The consul added that any at
tempt to change or modify these laws and
regulations in this matter would be utterly
futile.
with the advent of mild weather parents
generally VIII save tne pOllCe department
IA good deal of trouble If they will see to it
that their children do not cOngregate
street corners and play ball on the Streets"
veteran policeman remarked yesterday
morning with the coming of spring the
police are overwhelmed with complaints
about boys congregating on street corners
and playing ball the streets, utterly
disregarding other persons rights.
II remember that last year a resident of
Capitol Hill made numerous complaints to
the station house about a crowd of boys
congregating every evening on the corner
in front of his house. We cast dragnet
one night. gathering In two boys. The next
morning they appeared in the Police Court,
and l was greatly surprised to learn that
1t was their father who had made the COM
plant and l so informed the court, and
would you believe II. he declared that the
boys did not annoy him and that he had
never made complaint to the police about
the boys gathering on the corner in front
of his house. The court, however, decided
that the boys had no right to make loaf
ing place Of that corner or any other cor
ner. Fines were imposed on each of Them
and there was nothing else for the father
to do but pay the money rather than have
his boys imprisoned"
n X 4 X
high school In the eastern section of
this city is presided over by a principal
whose methodical ways of dealing with his
pupils when he thinks they have msbe-
havsd and whose-as the latter believe
somewhat Anticipated ideas OF right and
wrong often lead him and those under him
into embarrassing positions. There oc-
Cured recently in his office an incident
which afforded some of the more unruly
pupils of the school much merrment at
his expense. His eagerness to detect some
one I'm a wrong deed and force upon the
culprit some of his unwelcome advice was
the cause one day of his discovering a giant
freshman around the corner of the building
braveiy putting away at little cigarette.
Certain that he had clear case for his
method of prosecution. he marched his vic
tim 10 the sanctum sanctorum. and at once
began his effort to impress upon the young
ster, who by the way topped his elder by
nearly a foot. with the enormity of the act
Why my dear young man." said the