Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-30
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o+cbrer are stationed about the great
stores and financial institutions In TINS ci''
to fight burglars should they turn up re-
marked one OF these guardians OF 'ne
wealth of the city few days ago.
.'The fact Is there is no idea that any
such Waterman shall engage burglar IA
combat at any time The care OF such IA
stitutions Is so systematized that there -
no occasion for such a procedure, even
should a Waterman be equal 10 haholiliS
a burglar which most of them are no..
The night Waterman IS merely a part oi
an alarm system His duty is to keep q
sharp lookout for suspicious persons ana
before one of them gets chance 10 90
mischief he is expected to turn on an alarm
that will call to his rellef Witnin IL"
minutes squad of police officers, II necss-
sary to take care of the proving thieves,
"In order to assure faithful care by the
Waterman he has TO ring up the alarm
service every half hour of the night One
ring means that he Is there on the LOOKOUT.
IL he sees anything suspicious and wants
assistance 1t is only necessary for MIN 10
give the proper signal, and before any
damage could be done the officers OF me
law are there ready to do business. IL
would never be of any advantage to the
burglars to do the Waterman harm. be-
cause before they could trouble him they,
would be nabbed and IN the clutches CT
the law. The fact that this system OF
watching the va1uahles of the city Is so
efficiently conducted results in very rev
burglaries wherever the system is In force
Thieves know the danger of hanging ABOUT
the city in places where their presence
would cause suspicion. and they generaHy
keep away. These fellows get wise very
quickly.
Mother Shipman predicted many Won
derfuI things most of which have in some
way come true. although at the time her
prophecies wereg made they seemed to be
the mere rawlings OF mad woman" said
Office few days ago. Now I am not de-
seconded from the reyered Mother Shipman,
but / propose to make prediction which
Will appear merely as the raving of a mad
man, but which is just as apt to come true
many of our inventions of the last
quarter of a century.
There are many people who have thought
OF the possibilities of wireless telegraphy
who believe they see in that invention,
which is now in its infancy, such a reve-
lation as will startle serious people Yet
IL is not impossible that it will be real
lied during the lifetime of some of our
3oung people, 1t Is simply this: There Is
as much reason to believe that there Will
be wireless system of telephones in the
future that will permit a man to carry a
small instrument In his coat pocket with
which he can communicate with his
friends, wherever he is, as there was rea-
son to believe that there would ever be
such system of communication Is now
estabiished by wireless tefegraphy. with
This little instrument In his coat pocket
man may hear his call bell ring and, TAX
Ing the instrument from his pocket, he will
DC able to establish communication with
ms Office or home wherever he happens to
De, Just think of the possibility of being
able TO travel oveF the world and to have
your wife, to say nothing of your mother
ln-iaW, ring you up and tell YOU the baby
mas new tooth and to let you hear the
little darling coo through the phone 70
assure you II Is prospecting all right /
zen You great times are ahead of u.s." con-
GUIDED the man WHO for a third of a CEN
fury has been thinking of nothing during
business hours except inventions of every
variety
Y ( X
An official of the government printing Of
nee was talking of the personnel of the
women employed in the big printery the
other evening. He said the civil service
rules went into effect at the office just ten
years ago. The result has been to give the
office much better class of women work
ers than those that were appointed prior TO
thai time -
The ladies in the folding rooms. the
bindery and the press room now" said the
Official. ARE largely. of the educated class
Some of them are former school teachers
stenographers nd the like and will add
.hev are a credit to the government serv-~
The statement was added that II fire.
nrently happens that these workers Ia the
printing office are transferred to important
by reason of the high percentage they make
In competitive examinations - =.
1t may not have been original with him
out on the strength off, his reputation as
humorist has risen at least ten points He
Is a physician In one Of the local hospitals
This young medico was running down the
steps between wards the other iay when he
met one Of his coIlea cues. nroeeeaf,i- -.,,,
ward more leisurely.
What's the natter" cried No 9 Amy
Sure" REPLIED the doctor who was on the
eve or making a pun. zone of the worst
cases upstairs you ever saw. Got a woman
In the ward who Is so cross-eyed that when
she cries the tears run down her back"
"Wh-wh-what. ''~said No. 9 thinking of
chestnuts and other things Couldn't do
ANYTHING for her, could you7p
why. of course" replied No ~ 1--WE
treated her for bacteria
president Castro Is a man of destiny all
right" said a longtime resident of yene-
zuela to Star reporter the other dav
The worst OF X IS that Castro has the be-
lief SO firmly implanted in him that it viii
take hard jolt from some first-class power
to knock il out of him Whether this gov
eminent is going to let France administer
the jolt Is uncertain. but she probably viii
II France Is willing TO undertake the lob.
Castro has been shown a star that Is sun
posed to control his horoscope Possibly he
picked out the star himself but he firmly
declares that so long as that star remains
In the ascendant his fortune viii not flag
he has told this often that he believes
II himself and good many of his followers
have come TO believe IL, too II Is this
blind belief in his destiny that encourages
rim to ride rough shod over anything or
ANYBODY that stands in his way Such a
fa.alist is dangerous man to have 4, the
head OF affairs, especially in such an in
namniable country as Venezuela Some iay
an able naval power is going to come along
and knock that horoscope idea, into bits
with a thirteen-inch shell. But until it does
Castro Is not likely to abate any OF his IRON
listed claims as a man of destiny. His be-