Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-10
Around the City

An ancient colored man was driving
cart. The top was latticed over like a
coop and above the bars We're craned
the necks of many chickens and ducks.
Likewise, the angry red wattles of an.
old turkey with a sharp beak and pow
erful bronze wings AS, the cart lum-
bered along the Avenue at 9th street the
gobbler pried the Stats apart, struggled
through the opening and tiuttered to the
pavement He didn't fly because his legs
were tied. He just fiuttered. and when
he touched the bricks he Topped. And.
of course people stopped in passing, and
then more people, until there was
crowd The coiored man had to take his
time dismounting from the seat US Is the
wav of us poor humans when We get old
and rheumaticy, and by the time he had
got to his turkey a ring OF men ana
women were watching the foWIS gyra-
tions The colored man picked 1t up,
placed it back under the Stats with an
eye to extra precautions, climbed on ms
cart and drove off. And that was all
there was to that
The one really beautiful feature Of the
incident was furnished by woman Win
an uplifting voice:
THAT Teller oughter be lynched FOR
tyin' that turkeys legs thataway
A mere man seemed TO think other.
wise:
II that turkey hadn't been tied, lady.
the old chap wouldn't nave been aple 10
catch it,
..S'pose he hadn't. Don't you guess a
turkey wants to live as well as the next
one?"
This was a poser, but the man was
brave.
'Yessum, reckon turkey feels that
way about it, but Well, you see that
old uncle likes to live, too, and how Is
| he going to do IT If he raises fowls Tor
the purpose of letting them fly away!
| Then he'd oughter make Twin some
other way'n by butcherin' innocent
| blood"
| "Yessum That's so, but the way L
look at it is this: So long as people eat
meat they're no cause 10 plame theh'
| that kills.
| He might have known that she
| wouldn't stop to listen. And she didn't
A woman who had the Sunday silence
| of the Capitol terrace all to herself
| leaned against a balustrade and looked
down at the blossomy trees.
Her figure made the one black blot
| in the beautiful white and green of
| things until another black blot Of q
paused in passing, to call out with the
comradeship that one spinsterish woman
generally feels for another.
Looks like an advance peep OF heaven.
QO0SH II
The lonesome-looking figure straighten-
| ed and turned to answer, the plain face
! smiling good will:
II hope heaven will be half beau
.tful but / have my doubts.
An unusual remark can always COM
mand an audience. The woman who had
| slowed up came to a dead stop. The
lonesome one explained her heresy:
| ..You can judge for yourself: c., are
the dear green trees and the tender grass,
| and over there on the dome of the Lii
brary is the gold that paves the heavenly
| streets. ] should hate to have to walk
| forever and ever on hard, shining gold.
| It would ruin my feet and blind my
eyes,"
| 'But we are to have wings" explained
| the passing woman. And. of course, we
| won't need our earthly eyes"
| why not? The poor things who miss
| heaven must keep their teeth for gnash-
| ing This is wonderful world, isn't it :?
was just looking at It. Across there
| Is the wireless station. and you know
what that stands for; over yonder is
1 the gas plant that gives VI light; up