The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-07-26

It needs something out Of the com
mon 70 attract attention on the streets
Of Washington. NobOdys head is turned
when the President goes for his daily
ride, or the Secretary OF the State IS
seen on + Street going into shoe store
for a new pair OF boots. Chinese Dip
lomats wearing the red button OF rank
and the embroidered garments CT an
cestral wealth. Indians with ebony
braIds lying on their shoulders, and
rings in their ears, and soft black felt
hats on their heads; khaki boys from
the Philippines: Admiral Dewey out for
a stroll with his wife; or the Ten Cent,
Double Y, Philadelphia Cough-Drop
Man, all attract about the same amount
Of passing attention-if they get any at
tention at all.
Rive; ION has had the distinctive ex-
perience of having been looked at. pnce
in his life, by everybody within gazing
distance; and he was not taking part in
a parade, either To be sure. Casey and
Yale Fox might be counted among me
also rams" but IT was Riverton who
was the cynOsure Of all eyes. as they
say In the old manuals Of English com
position. 1t is not amusing to be en-
osure. Riverton says so. He knows
1t all began when Riverion swore of,
which he had been threatening to do
ever since he began 10 daily with the
stun The fact is, he was one OF those
men who never ought to drink at all
not, of course. that any man really
should. but in Rivertons case # was
! imperative. Every spree demoralized
him completely for several days. and II
he kept on he would be no earthly use
/ by the time he was forty. He was one
of those long, slim. nervous, magma
tive youths who can be anything or
I nothing in the world, according to the
use they make of the tools their fathers
/ gave them.
! Yale Fox. big, quiet. blond, knowing
Z fellow that he was, had talked TO River
ton Ike a Dutch uncle many times, but
Riverton only laughed and went on
winding himself around the affections OF
I his chum until the next time, and then
| 1t would be all to do over again
/ Finally Riyerton did swear off. He
| had been on a rather protracted toot,
land caught cold. and had a pretty mis-
cradle time of IL for a fortnight. The
memory Of the price he had paid-a lost
/ lob was part Of it-and the struggle he
/ had TO live inside his reduced income
kept him straight for a cOnsidera Die
period, and 1t began TO seem like real
! business. Then, one salary day, he met
an old friend, and-fst. whirr! crash
he was off like an alarm clock The
reform business would be very much
simpler II they would let a man kill al
his old friends when he takes the
pledge.
/ IL was a gorgeous affair while IL last
ed. that skating party. It spread al
over Washington and part OF the Dis
trict and Chinatown Toward the end OF
! IL Yale Fox, stepping of the train from
Baltimore, picked his happy friend uI
( and carried him of under his arm But
Riverton at that stage OF the game was
rather a handful, and the clubman be
thought him of a huge. good-natureo
Irish Terence Casey who had a little
suite of rooms in an inconspicuous
neighborhood and was one OF the best
| friends of them both He took Rivertor
around there. and with Casey's assist
ance persuaded him into bed. Then h
went TO bed himself. being rather tired
1t takes muscle to be benevolent to some
people.
Now, Casey had a monkey named Pc
1 drO, which he had purchased for an or
nament to his den. Pedro was grea
fun, but he had never been taught 70 be
have when he was young. His favorit
place to sit was on the window-sin jus
| outside the shades, which were thes
big. coarse-slatted japanese things tina
refuse to go up or down unless spokel
TO in Biblical language. His favorit
plaything was the matchbox.
Casey had begun a course of educa
ton for Pedro, but he had not had tn
monkey very long and he was a bus.
man. AT present the main part OF tn
curriculum was a collar and chain. No
body, to this day. knows how Pedro hap
pened TO be loose that night. Case!
thinks the saints must have done II, bu
RivertOn swears they didn't At an!
rate, when the gray light Of an autumn
dawn stole in through the windows o
the silent apartment house, Pedro wa
sitting on the window sill inspecting
Riverton. The window was quite nea
the bed and in an eligible position Be
hind the safe shelter OF the slat blind
sat Pedro. and close in the hollow of on