Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-14
AROUND THE CITY

man on crutches was one of crowd
waiting to get in car. The woman ahead
OF him moved aside and said:
III you will take my place, sir. / think
you can get seat
The lame man waved her back.
You mean to be very kind. but I would
rather not. l have been going on sticks for
many years. and am used to them that
I would forget all about my aff1iction-f
good people like you. would only let me-
The rebuke was neither so wide as Mer-
cutio's barn door. nor so deep as his WELL
but it was enough 10 make the woman go
ino that Car-and sit down.
white and liver spotted dog was limp
ing along Market space, one of his front
paws drawn up and bleeding Many people
passed the animal and some gave him a
look of sympathy, bu-the world Is q busy
place, and no stretched heip -ng hand
Finally two women turned a corner and
stopped to eommiserate the suffering they
could not aIay.
IF l could only gee boy around. said
one to the other, I'D pay him to take the
poor little thing to the police station:
Don't fret yourself lady advised a
passing man. The dog Is thOrougnbred
and wears tag. SOMEBODY will snatch him
up presently and care for him for the sax
of the reward that's sure to be offered
Money means heap. even to dog
walked off one way and the dog limped off
another.
A bay horse hitched TO an empty, open
carriage stood before store in Tth street
Every time car passed the horse 1erked
his head and cakewalked. and when TWO
whizzed by al the same time he started 10
run away. At the first rush, the vehicle
turned completely over. Even a frightened
horse cannot gallop with fringe-topped
trap dragging on the cohbles but he was
making ahead with a velocity that prom
ised death and destruction to whoever got
in his way. when a quiet looking man, with
a red mustache darted from the sidewalk
and grabbed the dragging retns. The horse
paved. and reared and foamed at the bit.
but the quiet man was invincible. and by
the time the coIored driver had materiaiized
the horse had accepted defeat
y runaway and rescue is always a draw
ing card and the driver put the carriage
back on its wheels under the supervision
OF hundreds of eyes. A crowd naturally
expects exciting things to happen, but in
this instance it was chsated for the quiet
man had got in his work so timely that not
a shaft was broken nor even tire strained
That man the owner?" demanded an as
sertive voice.
The driver knew better than to keep ST
lent.
mo, he amt the owner. The boss is In
side.
This information appealed to the artistic
temperament of lady with a shop
ring bag.
Why, he's a perfect hero! Where has
that grand man gone to-
Certainly, he's hero-where Is he, dri-
Ver?''
But the driver knew no more than the
crowd for the quiet man had disappeared
The swarm waited hungriiy for something
more to happen. but the horse had evident
ly finished his performance for the DAY
and the driver was plainly inclined to be
num- As the last Straggler drifted from the
curb, the brown fellows face showed bles-
sed relief and he Strengthened himself I'M
posingly. -.--......-.-
Then the boss came out of building and
seated himself. placidly unconscious of how
near he had come to entering on the WRONG
side of his ledger wrecked carriage and
a rlIn-mad horse. And it is safe to wager
that the driver will never tell him.
There is building on 18th street, not
far from Pennsylvania avenue, that Is I'M
iergoing repairs Friday morning colored
laborer in handling a heavy beam of tim
her let it crash TO the ground. Two other
colored men jumped in time to should out an
ejaculation A third kept quiet and leaned
over the bricks. The beam had struck him
on his upturned face. He was very black
man, but the instant the scarlet blood
started his face took on a mist OF ash gray.
white man was the first to reach him
and everybody around was kindly help
full.
Three women who were passing had to
lend assistance to a third; an elderly little
v,
who had turned so faint that she had
to lean against d wall.
1T is the first dreadful thing / ever saw,
she gasped. ''Wil you please order cab
for that poor fellow and telephone to my
doctor?'
1t was not necessary, Of course, to do
either for the laborer, who was being 9TH
erwise cared for. but the women acted on
the cab suggestion and got one for the old
lady herself. And when one of the three
had driven off with her another said to her
companion:
What a sheltered life that old woman
has had, and think OF the tough times
we've seen! Doesn't seem fair, does it?''
The other woman was a Christian and
philosopher.
81 never bother thinking things like that
I reckon everything's fair-somehow. Then
they turned into F street.
Two well-tailored, mddle-aged men were
swinging along G. street.
And after | had said it she looked at
me so blamed queer it got me ratified Say.
old man, which word is correct, anyhow
ascent or DESCENT
And the old man answered:
Blamed il | know"
And both OF them, mind you. were we'll
tailored middIe-aged men.