Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-29

Did YOU eve. feel the pangs of hunger
rripping at your "innards." with the added
main Of a thirst that would take three
buckets Of suds to quench. together with
III, price. all your own. carefully tucked
away in your jeans. yet be unable TO as
suHge eitherg
This question was put to reporter ioi
The Star by a newspaper man who hhd
rccepttv dome some work in Washington
at space rates.
..weIl that is an experience l recently
had here" continued the scribe; Il did
same space work for a local paper. ana
unnn getting my string together and sending
If ia the managing editor. received check
for a tidy little sum- But that check was
Tin. c,use of nv not being able to assuase
that hunger and thirst that had been ac-
cumulating at a rapid rate Tor seVerai
hours | wandered up anu do"h' uSlhs
first one place and then announcer 10 &c.
II cashed but it was no use-l coulu not
get Identification. ! knew no one ana no
one knew me sufficiently we'll to indorse the
check for me. Finally woke up 10 tiiT
fact that | must have coin OF s'afse' 30 =
aid what | should have done in the hrst
placc-called on the managing edltor- lie
gave me an order on his business ONCE
in exchange for my check
The man in strange place win d
check Is ullBHty pdu oii' N''''
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Trolley cars and motor vehicles OF all
sorts appear to have taken the place oil All
other methods of getting about. observed
an old resident of the city. but that Is
only a superficial observation as any would
conclude that goes beyond, the city limits 10
any extent You will find in the SUBURBS
both classes of vehicles that / have men
toned and, of course, horses and carriages.
1t Is surprising, however. to one who has
given no attention to the subject to note
how many pedestrians one comes across on
the country roads. and it is also fact
there more horseback riders than one used
to see or at least that is the impression
one gets now / see very few bicycle riders
these days and those who are met with on
the country roads are evidently on some
errand and not riding for pleasure
Electricity may be driving the horse
out and making ii unnecessary for human
beings To use their legs. but the facts as
observed in this locality do not justify such
a conclusion.
What policeman termed three dead
soldiers formed the contents of a sus-
picious-appearing package that was picked
up on Capitol Hill last Sunday night. The
hlUecoat afterward admitted that the laugh
was on him. but he could not help 1t. He
W
brary when a resident of that section and
his wife came along and told him in a con-
tidential sort of a way that there was Il
suspicious bundle in front of a house not
far away. There was suggestion that
the bundle contained dynamite or other ex-
plosive. but the actions of the man who
gave the information indicated that he
thought II was at least dangerous.
But, he said afterward, while relating
the story to a friend, when L saw the
bundle | was puzzled. 1t was neat al
fair. and showed the work of some person
who well understood how to wrap bundles.
Upon reaching it l touched 1t with my foot
and something inside moved. There was
only one thing left for me to do, however,
and that was to open the bundle. Much 10
my surprise out rolled the three old sol
dirs.
what do you mean by old sodiers?' %
asked.
Why empty bottles. of course
= y \ Il x
The little house on street near 32d
street Georgetown. in which the supervis-
ing principal of the fifth division of the
public schools has his private office. was
once the home of innumerable cats-cats of
all ages nationalities and descriptions. No
little amusement and interest has been
aroused among the people living in the vi
cinity by the efforts of the former occupant
or the mouse, an Ola Indlu VINO now resides
a short distance away on Potomac street,
to induce her feline proteges to follow her
to her new domicile
1t was about two years ago that the old
lady came into some property. She at once
gave up the little house on o street for the
present one, just trife larger and better
Now. if anybody ever loved cats she did so
she began to coax her immense family
which had occupied the Old house for years
with her to come across the street. What
was her despair when she found that none
would leave. Disconsolately they would sit
In rows along the back fence of her old
back yard, waiting for her to come and
feed them. AT last she had to give in. and,
IL is said. to this day she comes across the
street periodically and spreads a big table
for an army of pussies in that yard.
True. by this time several new genera
lions OF cats have sprung up in the commu-
nifty. and these she has been able to trans
plant in the new abode without much diff
Guilty. But the old seers OF the tribe the
ones with the gray whiskers and the tooth