Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10

fixin' t give tn young Teller lift in case
tn COLL got sure-'nough busy wit that pig
sticker. But he grabs tn knife out o. her
ham. yells Ha. ha! youse idiot maiden. Z
tink that I'll be easy foiled" an he s
jes' about L plunge it into tn COILS shirt
waist wen ups an knocks him down wit
d chair. Then I'm nailed. Wot FIR? Youse
kin search me, your honor-itS too deep FIR
me-"
The waiter too, was restored to freedom
upon his own recognizances, the magistrate
cautioning him. however, to be more chary
in his use of chairs until he felt assured
that he was right. The banged-up heaVy
man of the Maniac Mother-in-law" COM
pany went forth from the police court con-
WINGED that there is no such thing as JUS
tice in New York.
Rehearsal All Hours of the Day.
Her industrious penchant for rehearsing at
all hours of the day and night came peril
cusly close to landing a most estimabie
young woman from somewhere in Iowa In
The psychopathic ward of Bellevue Hospi-
tai the other night. The psychopathic ward
it should be explained. is the Bellevue pa
vilion somewhat slangily called the "poooy
hatch" by the New York police reporters.
Persons suspected of insanity are held there
for observation by medical individuals
The ambitious young woman from Iowa
had been so diligently rehearsing her first
part in the Sunk in the Swamp piece
that she had been turned out OF one BOARD
ing house. When she took the second
Story-front in the boarding house to which
she removed she thought 1t best not to in
form her new landlady that she was a
theatrical person. Before she unpackeo
her trunk. even, she began to go through
her lines in the Sunk" etc. piece. she
became so Immersed in her work that she
didn't even stop for dinner. Her part was
that of beautiful heroine who had become
temporarily mad through her exposure IN
the swamp while searching for her kidnapped
in the board
ing house spent hours in perfectlng her
mastery of the low, gurgling, insane laugh
ter and then the piercing, maniacal cries
of the Electrically begged young woman
Suddenly there was a great banging on
her door, and then three huge policemen
entered her room. followed by the scared
looking landlady. The cops gazed sympa-
-thetically at the ambitious young woman
for moment.
Never youse mind. Aggie-we'n take
youse were youse'll git taken care of all
right. an trig enough" said one of the
cops. soothingly. and then the three of
them picked her up and. struggle as she
would, carried her below to the waiting
ambulance. All the way down the stairs
she tried to tell the policemen that they
were making an awful mistake, for which
they would be sorry for the remainder of
their lives.
We'll a cops life is full o. mistakes,
Gladys" the boss cop of the three would
reply, comfortingly, and In kindly tone,
in reply to these remonStranceS.
When the young woman, who had thus
been forcibly removed from her lodging
through the fundamentally of an alarmed
landlady, finally reached the hospital she
was able to convince the medical individ-
uals who took charge of her there that she
had only been rehearsing her lines when so
incontinently grabbed, and presently her
manager arrived and clinched the situation
for her.
The frequency with which these errors
as to the rehearsers have occurred has
caused quite a few of the Sure-enough law
breakers to attempt to ride out of their
scrapes, even when caught red-handed, on
the plea that they were rehearsing''
pool room for both sexes was raided
and captured by the police short time ago.
The outfit was installed in the spacious
parlor of a brownstone house conveniently
near to Broadway in the Tenderloin. When
the police rushed into the place the man
ager of the plant rushed up to them with
uplifted hand
''Whatsdo you mean by breaking up this
scene?' he demanded, imperiously. These
people of mine are rehearsing the great
second act of The Ponies that's all. Now,
run away and sell your papers and let US
alone, see?'
However, the raiders refused to believe
the statement of the annoyed manager of
The Ponies and the whole plant, with
the performers, had to so into the wagon.
Would-Be Campaign Orators.
Another sort OF rehearsing that is being
pra cticed pretty industriCuSly by hundreds
of little-known individuals just now is the
rehearsing of the apellbinders. Few of
them have been sent INTO the field as yet,
bat by the time the weather has simmered
down to the post-equinox haze the doubt
full states will be alive with them.
Democratic headquarters here is besieged
by the Would-be campaign orator from
morning till night. rGe adroit I. Taggart
doesn't see any of them, but has specially
~. 7oI I,
to that task The who has this job in
hand has END of it, that is very far
from being a sinecure. The spellbinders are
a hungry-loOking lot, arc for sustained in
sistence they make the average life insur-
ance agent and do ,r-to-d door bookseller
seem modest and bashful by comparison
They are of all ages, from the perky lad
just out of college to the old and unkempt
war horse who has been turned out to pas
ture, neglected and forgotten. these many
years agone. All OF them dead-sure
vote-getters on their own showing. Only
about one out of thirty o. forty applicants
can be employed, but the turned-away ones
have to be dealt with gingerly. The fact
that this isn't much of a year for those who
are not lin good is shown by the absurd
cut-rates at which the would-be speIlbnd-
erS are Offering their services. There was a
time when the most ordinary spellbinder in
a national campaign, working for. either
party, easily commanded his hundred a
week and expenses" and there were scores
who got a great deal more money for their
services from the national committees But
the palmy days of the a.r-SawerS have gone.
Plenty of the chaps who offer their elo-
quence to the democratic committee are ex-
pressing their willingness TO Ego on" for
fifty a week and expenses and not a
few of them are rendering their oratory at
half even less than half that figure 1t
takes the opening OF national campaign
to bring to the surface the astonishingIy
large number of young and middle-aged
and old men in this country who imagine
that they are Incompatible orators And
yet, when the chosen ones actually do go
on the stump, they generally succeed in
making good. They wouldn't be able to
do this if, for example, they should be
asked to address an audience of Washing.
tonians, who are used to (and, let it be adj
deG, comfortably Indifferent to- the very
best brands of oratory on tap in the whole
country; but in the sections to which they
are sent not few OF them loom up in the
purview of their listeners as veritable stake
horses. To see them huddled in an ante
room of national Headquarters, humbly
az n I'M yxyifh tha