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Gn MsiQht into Real Life

A tour Of Washington on one OF
these midnight flyers unfolds a
phase of life which the student of
human nature is not often given an
opportunity of seeing.
If you would catch the car Won
must be quick, for there are no
long steps at corners, and the
motorman Is not in a frame of mind
to humor the tardy patron. This
car may be q boon to the belated
worker and the carouser. but IL
means deprivation to those who are
responsible for its runs. Besides.
the passenger who has boarded it a
few squares above is fretful and
wants TO get home He is apt to
storm should the conductor show
special privileges TO the man who
walks slowly from the curb. The
owl car has the right of way, and
like limited express, it skins over
the rails with the haste of a DUR
sued bird of the night. There is a
clangor of the bell, a flash, and
it has passed, leaving only a rush
ing noise and a glimmer of lights
in the darkness which remind one
of the phosphorescent glow in the
wake Of a giant steamer as it plows
through a tropic sea.
But If you do manage to flag the
car and get on board picturesque
group meets the eye At the end
of the car, hugging the corner as
though he were afraid Of contami-
mating himself by touching his fell
low-passengers, sits a young man
in evening dress. His chin rests
upon his shirt front. and his eye
lids droop heavily. He has been to
a dance, and nothing seems Of inn
portance now except to get home
and fall in bed so that he may
snatch two or three hours of rest
before he begins his work in the
morning arguing an important case
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Types of the Niqht.

Further up the avenue the car
stops TO take on a frightened little
figure. over whose head a great plaid
shawl is thrown She is going TO a
drug store some blocks further down
the avenue. You can see anxiety as
well as haste depicted in her face.
Now weary reporter boards the
car. He has been out on some as
signment in a neighboring town,
and it is necessary for him 10 be
at his desk early the next morning
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BehinG the Scenes.

AS all the worlds a stage, so the
owl car is the miniature dressing
room of the city where the actors
in the days drama leave the foot
lights and the glamour Of action.
When the curtain of darkness comes
they feel that their wealth is but
tinsel. that their fame is but a
name, that their joy is but the bitter
fruit which wastes to dust as it
touches the lips, and that all the
world is but bauble and life pup
pet show.
1t is on the owl car that one can
read these thoughts without know
ing anything of the many trials and
disappointments which each pas
senger has undergone during the
long hours between the beginning
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An in the Night s Run.

Your curiosity is piQued by the
matteT-Of-fact way in which the af-
fair HIS been handled by the con-
dUctoT, and you question him about
his former experiences. II me has
been on the run for some years he
will recount many instances Of
varied character, and the night will
wear on until the growing light in
the eastern sky reminds you that
your observations are at an end,
and you see that the class of passen-
gers has almost imperceptibly
changed while you were listening
from the birds of prey and play Of
the late night to the early workers
who are the life Of the new day
that is born.
The owl car runs inIo the shed,
and its two operators 90 wearily
TO their homes to sleep away the
day. gathering strength for another
night Of trials and experiences with
the reveler, the worker, and the de-
bauchee.
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n faces OF the city
NM clock mark the post
midnight hours, and
the spirit OF silence
seems to brood over the whole me-
tropOlis from the banks OF the Poto-
mac to the scattered settlement on
the northern boundary line of the
District, one who is not accustomed
~ the streets of Washington when
the pOpulace is buried in deaths
counterfeit might easily imagine
that he had by some strange circum-
stances been transported to that
City of Silence where the dead of
ancient Memphis slept, far removed
from the noise and confusion of the
living.
The spell cannot fasten itself upon
the imagination for any protracted
period, however. Far down Penn
sylvania avenue there suddenly ap-
pears a glimmering light which at
first seems like a will-o'-the-w wisp.
as it floats slowly up the hushed
thoroughfare, which but few hours
before was alive with many vehicles
and hundreds of busy individuals,
borne back and forth in the great
commercial current of the day. Soon
the silence of the street is broken
by an indistinct rumble which quick
ly develops into a diScOrdant grind
ing of wheels and the hum of a tug
sing motor The Shimmering spot
becomes an incandescent light and
the whole evolves into that boon to
human night birds, the owl car.
There are thousands of people who
have lived in Washington for years
and who have been daily patrons of
the street railways, vet who have
never heard of the owl car and of
the conditions which make it the
Good Samaritan 10 those who burn
the midnight oil and TO the bon
vivant alike
During the day the shop girl and
the matrOn going 20 market ride
side by side, the the statesman and
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before a jury. He is not well pre-
pared for his case, but then he is
self-confident, and has been fiat
tered into believing that he is the
peer of any counselor in the city
Furthermore, he has a well-ground-
ed contempt for the opposition at
torney, an unknown and poverty
stricken -shyster."
At the other end of the car sits
a man who, though also showing
signs OF fatigue and nights of
sleeplessness, is a marked contrast
to his fellow-passenger of stylish
appearance. He is almost shabbily
dressed, his hat is showed back
from his forehead, and his hair
is disheveled and damp. This is
the opposing attorney For many
nights he has been a passenger of
the owl car, not because he was re-
turning from some social fete. af-
ter-theateT supper, or other func-
llOnS VI a oinAlidl ndluI6, Dut db
his law Office he has been search
ing for decisions and points of law
in order that he may successfully
combat the opposition in this, the
first big case he has ever had
Sitting between these two legal
contestants are several characters
who will some day come 20 one or
the other to ask assistance in an
effort to thwart justice and allow
them to go forth and continue to
feed their appetites and 10 perpe-
trate their frauds upon an unsas-
pecting public One of these men
is fast asleep. Occasionally his
head drops over upon the arm of
a fellow-passenger, who shrugs his
shoulder, throwing the head to the
other side The sleeper does not
even awaken, but continues 10 emit
gutteral sounds from his half-open
mouth. His very clothes reek with
whisky as though he had been
soaked from head to foot in some
vilely doctored concoction.
On the same side of the car sits
a boy. He seems TO be the only
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of his labors and his belated home
going.
The scenery of life viewed from
this disillusioning dressing room has
taken on somber hue The prop
erty moon and stars which looked
so enchanting when we were sitting
in some summer garden with music
floating out upon the cool air, now
seem pallid and far away in the mist
OF the approaching dawn. Our
clothes are limp, our hands soiIed.
our faces stained with dust, with
the sweat Of toll, or with the un-
healthy flush Of dissipation. 1t is in
the owl car that we at last see each
other face to face and characters are
stripped Of al the tawdry trappings
OF deceit.
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der, where it hangs Imply, and thus
they sit until the conductor advises
them that the car is at the end of
the line With q daZed look the boy
wakes up, seizes the arm of the girl
and hurries her from the car. As
they pass through the door of the
car you see that the girls hat is
awry, her hair is hanging in untidy
strings about her fact, while evi-
dences of powder are 70 be seen
on the boys coat where her cheek
has rested.
As the car starts on its run back
toward the other end of the city it
picks UP a straggler here and there.
sometimes man who has been de-
tanned doing extra work along thecanaI
sometimes an unfortunate who has
never learned the lesson OF modera-
tion, but who always goes TO ex-
cess, and who is so intoxicated that
he can scarcely get up the steps.
Perhaps, If the conductor Is feeling
charitably disposed, he VIII lend a
helping hand, but if the air is raw
and he has been sorely tried during
the earlier hours of his run he Will
growl "all aboard" and Will send
the car forward SO that the inebriate
losses his balance and falls heavily
against the Intel of the door, caus-
ing him TO gaze around him in
dazed fashion before he tumbles into
q seat
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alert passenger on the car. His eyes
are bright, but unpIeasantly sinis-
ter for one of his age. After a search
through several pockets, the Innings
OF which are torn, lie finds the
necessary number OF pennies to sat
iSfy the conductor. He averts his
face when he sees that you are
watching him, and his whole atti-
tude denotes a, tendency toward that
phase of life which is developed at
night, and whose devotees sustain
themselves at the expense of those
who labor in the light of day.
The car stops with a sudden grind
of the brakes, and in window of
third story hall, from which still is
sue the strident note OF an untuned
violin, tv'o women are leaning, shout
ing farewell message to the boy
ami sirl who are boarding the car.
Both ~ the new passengers are un-
naturally gay. The girl boisterously
slaps her companions face when he
makes a remark at which she pre-
tends to take offense. AS he rue
fully strokes his tingling cheek she
gives forth peal of laughter which
jars the very teeth of the listener.
This hilarity lasts for only a short
time, however. The car is close and
hot, and long before they reach their
destination in the suburbs of George
town stupor has settled upon
them both. Gradually the girls
head droops upon the shoulder of
the boy He nudges her with his
elbow. With a little catch in her
breath she straightens up. and they
indulge in giggle, which has
scarcely died from their lips when
the same thing occurs again. This
time the boy does not waker her.
He throws his arm across her shoul-
The Washington times., 1906-03-18
IOWA TEACHERS
FREE TO MARRY

Iowa teachers may continue with I'M
punity to marry without notice to the
school directors who employ them.
A few days ago the senate passed a
bill providing that when teachers vio-
lated their contracts for teaching their
certificates might be revoked BY the
county superintenGents- Senator Young
of Calhoun had moved the adoption Of
the resolution, and it went through.
Yesterday Senator DOwell of Polk
county moved 10 reconsider the vote by
which this amendment was adopted.
and succeeded by a very small margin
in getting a reconsideration Then the
provision was stricken from the bill by
4 majority Of two votes
Many Contracts Broken.
The claim was made on the 1oor OF
the senate by Senators Young. Brooks.
Einne and others that directors OF
schools have considerable trouble with
teachers who break their contracts to
teach in order to accept places in other
schools. Incidentally. il Is said that
many Of them break their contracts to
teach TO enter into the more enduring
and cOnseniaI contract Of matrimOny.
But the idea that the teacher should
have the right 10 marry whenever they
please. and as often. peFvaded the Iegis-
lotive halls yesterday and the result was
victory for the young woman who aban-
dons teaching the young idea how to
shoot in order 10 enter into the glad
to4ls oE Cup.d.
The Washington times., 1906-03-18

The "OOod Samaritan Of Those Who
Burn the Midnight Oi on Board of Which
Prototypes Of AHHPoddLReaIns Of Society
Are Borne Through the Night, Sitting
Elbows Touching, Without Thought of
the Social, Moral or Financial Culfs That
Separate Them. ~ ~ "
The Washington times., 1906-03-18

TO tell what he has accomplished
As he stands on the rear platform
moodily putting a cigarette, it is
quite apparent that he is not con-
tempIating with pleasure the pros
pect of getting out of bed in two OF
three hours, after a trying eighteen
with a score Of people who refused
TO talk
As the car nears the postofice it
stops TO take on two Italians who
are having a heated discussion. Be
fore Second street is reached a fight
has resulted. But the conductor is
a man Of action He seizes the ag-
gressOr and hurls him violently 10
the floor of the car. The motOrman
signals a policeman on MS beat, and
the two brawlers are removed to
one Of the neighboring precincts.
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HEN the great staring
faces OF the city
clock mark the post
midnight hours, and
thn rnirit % niInnnn
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1906-12-12
NOTED CANCER DOCTOR
HAS PASSED AWAY.
An Aged Nirginiau Who Has Been Sue
cessfuI in Treating Cancer.

OsboFn's Gap, Va, Dec. c.
James Crabtree. the noted can
Ger specialist, of Darwin, is
dead, after an illness covering
period of several months. He
was nearly eighty years of age,
had been twice married and
leaves several children by his
second marriage.
For many years the deceased
had been noted for his success
ful treatment of cancers. SO far
known, he never lost "a case in
which the patient applied for
treatment in the earlier stages
OF cancer. He II a d treated
scores of cases from the sur,
rounding section.
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children who were too young
to tell anything concerning it.
Both victims of the tragedy
were buried Sunday in different
graveyards.
Probably nothing SO shocking
as this affair has ever happened
before in the county and is a
true index of unhappy or mis-
mated marriages and the awful
consequences of the green-eyed
monster ] a 0 u y.-Russell
County Press.
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Vile In ko<SeIt C0unfy.
On last Saturday at 0 O'Clock
one Of the most horrible TRACE
dies ever enacted i'm Russell
county took place about there
miles from Honaker. Two lives
were suddenly snuffed out and
two bodies now rest in the grave
as a result.
Wesley Taylor, a young man,
% years of age, was the princi-
pal actor in the tragedy and
his wife, beautiful young girl
of is, was the ether.
Some time ago Taylor, who
was a widower with two chill
dren, was married TO the girl,
a daughter of Rev, Robert Hon
aker. Since their marriage
several separations h a d oc-
CURED, the wife not seeming to
have much affection for her
husband, while he was great
ly attached to h er. He at
times became suspicious Of her
and jealousy ranked in his
breast. He desired to effect a
reconciliation and live with her
at different times but she re-
fused. Angered, it is supposed
by his futile attempts, he plan
ned and executed the awful
deed that sent both souls into
eternity.
ON last Saturday morning he
left the home Of his brother. re-
marking as he did so "see that
my children are cared for" and
went for the home Of his wife.
armed with a double barrel
shotgun. The woman was liv-
ing as domestic at the home
Of j. Frank Howard, and in
company with two small chill
dren Of the family. had gone for
the COWS some distance from
the house. About quarter of
mile from the house Taylor
met them and raising his gun
fired a full charge OF shot into
the heart of his wife, kill
ing her instantly. After con-
templating his awful work and
gazing upon the inanimate
form of his wife cold in death.
he coolly tied a string to the
trigger Of his gun. made a loop
at the end, put his foot into it
and placing the gun at his
breast fired the other charge
into his heart and fell dead near
the corpse Of his wife. In this
position both were found later.
but no information as to what
passed between the two before
the tragedy was learned. as no
one WAS nrpSanf a~cD,,t tho t.,.,
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bear was suffering so from distress that
finally told the captain if he would
shoot it 1t would be a great relief, but
didn't want him to shoot it while was
on deck or on the ship. was going
down the gangway when the thought
struck me, if I can get the skin of tho
mother to this cub possibly it will quiet
her. 1 went on deck and told the cap
tain to get the skin of the mother, and
the cub jumped on the skin and fell
asleep. 1t sleut for about 90 hours; tho
only sign of life in the cub was the
twitching of its muscles. About three
days after that / was standing watch
ing the cub; its tongue was so swollen
II could not eat anything; it took it's
mothers skin and turned ID over and
started eating the blubber, the fat Off
of its own mother After that we put II
in a cage, took the mother 3 skin away
and brought it to New York and ship
ped the cub to the park here, and the
little bear is now in Washington.