Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-16
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In days gone by there flourshed in Wash
ington an association of amateur editors
known as the Boys Press Association. The
members Of the organization, boys between
the ages of twelve and seventeen, were all
owners of small weekly or monthly publica-
tons, and In most casss the lads were the
printers well The writers for their
little sheets. Two former members of the
Boys Press Association of Washington, one
now actively engaged in the newspaper
business and the other q Catho1c priest,
%ere discussing the olden times several days
ago. The conversation turned upon the
present occupations of the erstwhile editors
in embryo
"Out of our entire membership of about
thirty said the priest. only two afterward
went into the newspaper business profess
Siunally. One became a clergyman, seyerai
entered the profession of the law, we turn
ID out two fairy good physicians, an ac-
tor or two and several merchants. one
IS an officer of the revenue marine, another
is in the army and one also in the navy.
Il never thought you would ever enter
the ministry" said the newspaper man.
Nor did l." replied the priest. Il had but
two ambitions when was a member OF the
Boys, Press Association-to be either an
omnibus driver or a professional base ball
player-and although / am clergyman. L
still take the keenest interest in the great
American game"
Il suppose every man gets a ghost story
of some sort in the course of his life," said
man who lives out Georgetown way TO
star reporter the other day. Mine is a very
simple aud not at all thrilling experience,
hut it was queer and clear enough to set
three Of us In the family wondering all one
evening. 1t was just this. My wife and l
had been TO the theater. We came home
about lie usual time and had not had any
thing to eat or drink on the way. L men
ton this merely an indication that there
was no extraneous influence at work.
The nurse was sitting up waiting for
us in the back parior. She is an entirely
cool unima gnative girl, and not nervous
over anything. My wife and had stopped
at the foot of the stairs and were taking
of our things and the nurse had come out
of tha parlor to meet US, so that we were
all three standing close together at the mo-
neut and at the foot of short flight of
stairs. Just then we all three distinctly
heard some one come out of the nursery
AT the head of the stairs and cross the land
Ing going to the front Of the house. There
was no room for mistake about the sound
All OF Us heard Ii at the same instant and
all turned TO look up the stairs, for we
could see the nursery door from where we
stood and Were within twenty feet of the
spot from whence the sound came.
i thought at first that IL was the swish of
dressing wrapper and that eldeSt
about six, had gotten up and was going
from the nursery back TO his room. He had
no business up at that time OF night and
ran up the stairs to see about it. There
were dim lights back and front and l saw
that he was In bed in his room, sound asleep
and tucked in as he could not possibly have
tucked in himself if he had once gotten out
of bed So he was eliminated from the in
cident.
That made me feel little anxious for
some one unquestionably had come out of
the door and gone to the front of the house.
7 took q lamp and looked all over that floor
however, into the closets and even, like
woman under the beds. But there was
nothing doing. The windows were all shut
and there was no one there.
Il reported progress to my wife, who was
waiting at the foot of the steps, and she
was rather provoked at my stupidity. But
there was some one there. for / heard them
she insisted. Let me come up and take
look and We will find them
4 knew that whatever ii might have been
there was nothing tangible on that floor, so
] let her go, and then with the nurse we
went over the whole of the house. 1t was
all locked just as usual. and the cat and
the puppy were as usual shut in the kitch-
lem
we have not found anything yet. and of
course there could not have been any thing.
Yet we all three heard it and on comparing
notes we all described it as the same noise
the swish of a womaan's skirt and a light
step coming from the back of the house and
crossing a small landing going TO the front
OF course il is a thine to laugh at In broad
daylight and We did laugh. But If the
Phychical Research Society wants a small
problem. II can solve that. The facts are
All al It's disposal.
There are several members of Captain
Boardman's staff of detectives who imagine
they know more about angling for bass
than did Izaak Walton. Since the close Of
the season they have been comparing notes
and telling of the large and scientific
catches they made this year It is adj
mitted by all the anglers that Detective
Mike Muller made the biggest catch when
he visited a place near Norfolk
But Detective Hartigan says. that's
not scientific angling. Anybody can go
where fish are planted and pull them from
the water. but it's fishing when a man can
go where fish are scarce and get a run for
hts trouble"
His claim Is that while the fish are plen-
tiful about Norfolk. the bottom of the lake
Is in such condition that the fish have but
little chance 10 run or make a fight 1t Is
where 'he bass have an opportunity to
show they are game that he thinks profess
siOual anglers should go
professional and scientific anglers" says