Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-09

THE patrons of the general delivery and
money order windows of the Post ONCE
Department furnish at times fine field
for the study of character, remarked
post office employe to a Star man The other
day There is hardly day passes hut
that some striking characteristic in human
kind Is brought out and it goes without
saying that one must be possessed of tact
and rare virtues to deal with the varied
types of the genus homo without nylns OH
the tangent or provoking friction. An
amusing incident occurred recently. Stand
ing in front of the money order window
were two or three men. One of them was
next in turn to be waited upon, but when
his time came he permitted a lady who
came up to step in ahead of him to get
order. When she had finished the man po-
litely permitted another woman to step In
ahead of him. At his juncture the men
waiting in line began to expostulafe out
loud. Say. remarked one of the men,
please don't be a gentleman at my ex-
pense. I'm In a big hurry. Now. what 1
want to know is, what could the poor man
do? Was he right in being polite to the la
dies. not?'
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eff my neighbors refuse to sign my appli-
cation for permission to keep a few fowls
upon my premises remarked Capitol
Hill man who had read about the proposed
enforcement of the new regulation, II sup
pose my pet fOwiS VIII nave 10 rOT
more than thirty years I've lived in one
house and all that time I've kept few
chickens. So far as / am aware, no COM
plants have ever been made about my poul
try. and not until now have 1 ever been in
formed chat permit to keep them IN the
future Is necessary
The Hill man said he had read the regu
lation referred to, and was surprised to
find one section of it read: no person shall
own or keep within the District of Column
growing, cackling. talking or singing. or in
any other manner. shall disturb the COM
This section of the regulation" said
the Capitol Hill resident Strikes me
being little too broad not broad
enough 1t does seem rather hard to have
an innocent little songSter come under the
ban. when noisy instruments and people
who insist upon singing at all hours of the
night are exempt
at so happens that I have a neighbor
who has an insane notion that she can per-
form upon the piano and sing, he con-
tinued. and another neighbor has noisy
musical instrument that is operated regard
less of the hour of the night or of the COM
fort of the neighborhood, but those noises
awful.
But the singing of my canary bird" he
concluded, may disturb a neighbor, who
may have il sentenced to be deported or
even to die"
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Last week there was little notice issued
by the Secretary of the Department of
Commerce and Labor announcing that the
head tax on foreign diplomatic officers COM
Ing to America had been removed. 1t did
not mean much to the average man who
read il. few residents of this country know
Ing that there was such tax or realizing
what long standing source OF annoyance
II has been to foreign diplomats. AS
matter of fact, however,, there is such
tax on all aliens entering this country.
and while it is only 81, and Is included in
the price OF the steamer passage. it is still
regarded as an affront by foreign diplo-
matte officers, putting them the same
plane with steerage passengers, when they
are theoretically the guests of this govern
ment and people to be treated officially
with marked consideration.
Secretary Strauss having been in the dip
lomatic service himself, knew how this
tritiing impost was regarded, and his &C
tion in removing n is important as remov-
Ing a decided and useless cause of friction
1t may be said also that most of the
steamship companies manage to make
trifie out OF the general tax on the side, 1t
being only 81, but always being charged as
$3.50 additional on the ticket. This extra 80
cents of course, the steamship company
pockets. 1t does not claim that all of the
tax Is paid to the government. but appar-
emily grabs the extra half dollar merely
because 1t can, and there is seldom any
row over 1t, because the amount Is too
small for the most passengers to raise a
Kick over.
a tall. shivery and angular individual
of the man kind blew into the Capitol the
other day and made a vain search for the
member from his district. 1t was explained
that the reason he did not find his repre-
sentative was that his representative saw
him first The man carried a strange-look-
ing package. which he said was his re
vivifer."
curious crowd soon collected and piled
the bearer with questions which he an
swered readily. In fact. he seemed glad to
be piled with questions. He explained that
mankind had been making a great mistake
ever since the world began by eating, sleep
ing and drinking. These things, he added
were utterly unnecessary 10 life and happi-
ness.
Why" he exclaimed, by the use of my
revivifier man can live without food, drink
sleep, just as the inhabitants OF Mars
and the planets in space do. We are OF the
earth earthly. Instead we should be of the
spirit spiritually. Now il there are any of
you here who want TO get out of the eating,
sleeping and drinking habit, L can tell
you"
so can I tell you how to do it," broke
iE hard-faced, muscular man in the
crowd. The answer is simple. Just get
out OF the living habit"
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Down in my state" said Representative
Adamson of Georgia the other day, there
IL a large number of professional evangel
lists who go from town to town trying to
save sinners. Just before the Christmas
holidays one of these soul-savers invaded