Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-13

Washington veteran who recently Wis
tied historic South Mountain. in Washing
ton county Md. found that there are many
grim relies of the sanguinary battle Oh
Antietam, and the fight on South noun
tain. in possession of the farmers in that
vicinity.
The strangest part of it," said the WASH
ington man. lis that these relies are re-
garded by the natives as Of little VaIue'
In one place not far from Eakles MILL Il
farmer has beautifully engraved Masonic
sword which has been used as a playtmhs
by the children of the neghborhood. The
handle of the sword is of ivory carved with
Masonic emblems
The farmer who owns this rare reno
stated that his father detached II from the
body of a dead confederate officer. who, af-
ter being shot at the battle of South Noun
tain, crawled into a thcket to die HIS re-
mains were found there several days after
the fight. when the guns of both armies
were laundering along Antietam creek ana
about Sharpsburg.
in another farm house bayonet founu
In a clump of bushes on South mountain
is doing duty as a stove litter, ana at
others are cannon balls and musket baiis
galore, which are thrown about as though
they were of no historic value whatever.
The Washington crawfish industry for
the spring and summer of 1905 has begun.
for these crustaceans can be seen almost
every day on the Virginia side of the Po-
tomac wading about near the shore with
little wire nets, dipping out the crawfish
crayfish they sometimes desig-
mated.
'Dey am not so plentiful now dey used
ter be in years gone by an de price of
dem has riz accordin'ly,' said of the
colored crawfisherman.
He added that for the good. lively fell
lows he could get from ~ to 80 cents
dozen. HIS principal customers are China
men, who make some sort of a dish of the
little back sliders, the name of which
sounds like "chickacarceny. Several years
ago one of the crawfishers said French
man connected with one of the legations
was his principal customer. and cheerfully
paid 70 cents a dozen for the 'delicacies.
as he termed them.
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While the average criminal is not sup
posed to be religiously inclined still they
attend the sacred services at the workhOu5e
every Sunday afternoon with peculiar una
nimity, and eagerly look forward to the
coming of the Christian workers.
To deprive some of the prisoners of the
privilege of attending these services" said
guard. would be to infct the most
we're punishment on them"
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Several prominent members of the local
Indictment reported by the grand jury One
of the group remarked that he was thereby
reminded of the criticism passed by an at
torney who took part in the famous star
route trial, on the very lengthy indict-
ment returned in that case.
In reading the Indictment" the attorney
said Il found several nouns jumbled to-
gether, and two or three pages farther over
l discovered an orphan verb
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The Star recently received a letter from
an inhabitant of a small town in Canada.
in which the writer said: 81 send five cents
to the Sunday issue of the Washington
Star. Please send me a sample copy" En-
closed was a Canadian fve-cent piece with
hole in it.
Conductors and motormen on the street
cars ought to be more careful in changing
the signs over the front end of their cars
at the termini," said a Washington resi-
dent the other day as he called attention
10 a west-bound Georgetown car with the
sign Navy Yard displayed over the front
end.
Visitors to Washington who are not ac-
quainted with the city frequently experience
considera Bile annoyance by reason of the
neglect OF the operators to change the
signs on the street cars 4 stranger TO the
city desiring to go to the navy yard and
seeing the navy yard sign over the George
town car. would doubtless board it and be
carried out TO Georgetown and be greatly
Inconvenience because of The neglect of the
persons whose duty ii is To that proper
signs are displayed over the cars.
The other day a party of visitors de-
string to 90 to Lincoln Park boarded a car
with the Lincoln Park sign displayed but
which was bound for Mt. Pleasant. They
discovered their miStake-Or rather the mis-
take of the conductor or motorman-after
they had gone half way to Mt. Pleasant
and had paid their car fare. The careless
ness of the operators of the car in that
case not only caused the strangers incon-
venience and loss of time but also ad-
ditiOnal expense"
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Il was in a popular Broadway restaurant
with the after-theater crowd the other
night said New Yorker land a friend
from the west said Why. there is Bat
Masterson. the former sheriff of the COW
country
Il turned to a neighboring table ex-
pecting to see a trucuent looking person
this sheriff has more 'notches on his gun
than there are warts on a toad. And what
do you think | saw? AS mild a hammered
man as e'cr plugged a horse thief with a
Colts ~. There he was. all rugged out in
his 'swallow-tailed harness. being the term
often applied to evening clothes west OF
the Missouri really an intellectual looking