Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-25

OF nauseau. He went to the field hospital
and a few days later reported to his COM
pany for duty.
Another regular who had been struck
fairly in the mouth by Mauser bullet
while peering over the American breast
works in front of Santiago, said the SEN
sation produced was as II some one had
struck him a full swinging blow In the
face with the blunt end Of an ak. The
sudden impact of the bullet tumbled this
soldier over and over backward. The
bullet entered his mouth, knocking out
number Of teeth. passed under his tongue
and out through the back OF his neck. ne
remained in the hospital many months and
was speeches. for a long time owing to
the injury to the tongue.
X *
Geography was under consideration in
one of the graded schools In this city
the other day In the ordinary course OF
instruction. In order to give a more prac-
teal turn to the subject the teacher asked
such of the pupils as had been out OF the
city during the summer vacation to de-
scribe the route over which they had tray
eled from point to point. One OF the pupils
had been to his home In Canada. Turning
to him the teacher said: Now tell us,
Johnnie, as well as you can, how you got
to your home" Johnnie Is not the b. bright
zed by the question, Il don't know. he
blurted out. except that was born there"
II xN*
Cigarette smokers" remarked naval
recruiting officer the other day, ARE re-
jected by the United States Navy Depart
ment in recruiting young men for the serv-
fee. A higher standard is now observed by
the navy In examining young men
physically. mentally and morally. Those
who are addicted to liquor, who have been
convicted of misdemeanors, or who have
bad characters are rejected. The word has
gone forth to accept only the best quaiihed
recruits we can get. Young men of good
character can go into the service assured
that they will not be cast among rowddes,
is commonly supposed to be the rate
of the young recruits. If the government
has exacted better QuallhcatlonS OF us
young men, 1t has also insured them pet
ter returns and better conditions TOT them,
The recruit no longer lives dogs life; he
is trained and equipped physically,
mentally and morally"
x X x
''As the humane society has abandoned its
kindly efforts in behalf of the city cat ana
as there seems to be nothing now to pre-
vent the place from being overrun by these
pests said a well known resident the other
day, II would be in favor Of going back 10
the custom which prevailed in other cities
to considerable extent and fix the tops
of fences that surround the back yards SO
that they cannot be used by the felines as
perches OF advantage, where they indulge
in their nightly concerts.
Il am In favor, to tell the truth, of doing
away with all back fences, as l naturally
object to looking out upon lumber yard
whenever I gaze from the rear windows
of my houses, but no one seems to object
to the array of back fences, and so, pend
Ing further progress in that direction, /
am in favor of making use of them as long
as they have to be, and don't know any
thing better than to cover the tops with
pieces CT broken glass well distributed and
well fastened down, and then 1t will be diff
icult for the cats to move about at night
and perhaps there will be q lessening OF
the nightly rows.
= X X
ut is no wonder to me-" said member
of the detective force the other day. that
the fake telephone lInemen and other sneak
thieves find Washington an easy mark. l
had a fine example of that few days
back. There had been a family robbed
over in Georgetown on the fake telephone
game. and l was sent over to look into the
case. The maid met me at the front door,
said her mistress was busy at the moment,
but would see me in a little WHILE Then she
walked off and left me sitting in the hall
for twenty minutes. She did not know me
from a basket of walnuts. I had on plain
clothes, and my badge was inside my coat.
But she took my word for who I was, and
left me alone lone enough to have cleaned
out the entire lower floor IL / had been so
minded. This, too, was just after the fam
lily had been robbed.
"Well, when her mistress came down
stairs / told her gently and automatically
what / thought of her servant. OF course,
she had TO ADMIT was right, but IL was
the first time the case had occurred to her
In that light. People ought never to allow
strangers in their house O minute out of
their sight. The fake telephone game has
been worked off SO often that the public
ought to be familiar with 1t by this time,
but II seems to me that no matter how
often a confidence game or a scheme of
robbery Is exploited In the papers the
next victim happens never to have read of
It. Green goods, gold bricks and the Span
ish inheritance game have been written
about till should think people were tired
of reading about them But they seem to
catch suckers just as well now as though
they were brand-new inventions.