Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-18

.What is the matter. George? You look
mighty down-hearted this morning. was
the greeting of a Capitol Hill man the
other morning to a friend on west-bouno
street car.
give good cause to be down-hearted'
said the other. "Our family seems 10 nave
nothing but bad luck
what in the world Is the trouble now!
inquired the Capitol Hill man. Anything
very serious?
"Oh, 1 suppose it might be worse" re-
piled the gloomy one. But II IS pau
enough. They had to take my brother 10
the hospital ~.
THAT certainly is too bad said the
Capitol Hill man. sympathetically. what
the matter with him now?
"Oh." replied the gloomy WELCOMING otS ne;
there's another knot breaking out on MS
wooden leg.
Ruttons have been ordered for new or
ganization which. it Is expected, Will De-
come at once the most popular and the
most unpopular that has ever been FORMED
In the United States. 1t will bear In plain
letters-color and design not yet deter
mined-the letters IN. T." This being am
nItied means simply Non-Touch. 1t Is a
thing that Is calculated to save a good
many hard-earned dollars year TO tne
members. and probably Will force a gooo
many people to go to work.
The idea was evolved by couple oI
newspaper men, who were talking over the
subject recently and was brought UP by
one of them having to dodge man VINO
was waiting to buttonhole MN oulsiue
hotel an.
'aThis game of the hot and hasty mas pee1
worked about to standStill. as 1ar as
t. y,,nr l
had to dig into my clothes and produce a
dollar that l will never see again simply
because l am good-natured enough TO stano
for II and help out some man that Is per-
fectly able to earn just as good living as
/ am I don't have to disgorge two dollars
every day, but some weeks it may be four
or FIVE. and again 1t may be ten or Twelve.
I guess 1t averages five right along
The other man had just been separated
from dollar in the same way and knew,
In spite of the recipients protestations'
that he would never see 1t again.
Now, 1t looks this way to me- continued
the first declaimant IT hate to turn
man down, and there are some men won
turn down. because 1 know when they get
into streak of hard luck and have to
make a borrow they will come around and
pay 1t back But there is class right here
in Washington, and l have known them
elsewhere too, who seem to count on this
half-dollar, dollar and two-dollar touch as
a part of their regular income. Some OF
them are in the newspaper business. There
are lot of them in the departments, and
there are lawyers and fake lobbyists. and
all sorts who seem to make regular busi-
ness of the small and regularly repeated
touch. Now, that dollar Is not much, as l
say, but figure 1t is just as much use to
my wife and baby as it is to the man who
gets it, and when a man disburses 800 that
way in the course of year it makes a hole
in his income. l tell you l am about
through"
"Those sentiments tally with mine with
~nrlral 10 lott col hnr fx1vn
IT tell you what we will do. We will form
the Non-Touch Association. and you and
will be the charter members.
The compact has already gone Into effect.
There are no meetings, no dues. no officers
nor anything else But the N. L. has al
ready gained a remarkable following. and
the artists of the hot and hasty are begin
ming to find out that when a former friend
and good thing tells them that he has
Joined the N. T. further digging on that
particular claim is useless.
X 4
The late Daniel v. Colclazier, whose
death occurred last week. was a conspic-
uous figure during the confederate attacks
on Washington during the civil war. Mr..
Cololazier and his family then lived on his
farm not far from Fort Stevens. On the
advance of the confederates he hastily
brought his family to the city. and then
Immediately returned to the fort. By that
time the guns of the fort were IN action
anu buc tiicIly WdS approaching. MI tOl-
clazier. noticing a confederate ammunition
wagon near his house and observing that
one of the Union guns was idle. went to
the commanding officer and volunteered to
work It, saying that he had had experience
In that line as a mfltlaman His offer was
accepted and he trained tho gun on his
own house, which with few shots was
demolished.
When President Lincoln came upon the
scene Colclazier being the only man not uni
formed at the guns, the attention Of the
President was engaged and he. learning the
circumstances of ColclaZiers presence, the
President directed him to call on the Sec
rotary OF War the following morning. This
Mr.. Colclazier did and he was sent to
Gen. l.. c. Baker, who appointed him on
his force OF secret service men and one
of the bodyguard Of the President. Mr.
Colclazer was made a sergeant.
On one occasion when Mr.. Colclazier was
in this bodyguard, a week or ten days be-
fore the assassination of the President, he
had an exciting time near the Soldiers
Home. Mr.. Lincoln had just alighted in
front of his summer residence and had
scarcely taken two steps on the walk when
a sharp report was heard. The mounted
men with all haste rode in the direction
whence came the report. but failed to
come up with the party of would-be assas-
Sins, who rode down It'll street into the
city. The secret service men learned that
four five men were In the party and
different directions. The bullet fired
grazed one sleeve of the Presidents coat.
II y y x
Eyes. handed 1t to him good and hard"
remarked a Southern railway conductor the
other day in telling a group of friends what
he had done to "spotter'' who was over
Kealous in his efforts to catch the trainman
mapping. The story the conductor related
was about as follows:
when my train stopped at Salisbury, N.
C.. among the passengers who got aboard
was man whom recognized as an agent