The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-01-22
Here and There
In the News

In the News
DR.. Richie, former pastsr Of two
Presbyterian churches In PhI1adeL
phia, has been arrested in Brooklyn
for unlawful dealing In morphine and
other narcotic drugs. and he IL said 70
have insisted that his arrest was can
outrage" He is seventy-oRe years old
and for several years has claimed 10
possess a cure for the morphine habit.
He was caught by a detective who
bought a bottle OF the stun from him
and will probably have a hard time
making the court believe that be was
doing a legitimate business. Probably
ne was working on the theory that
'the hair OF the dog Is good for the
bite" and that II his patients would
only take enough OF II they would not
know whether. II was the morphine
or the cure" that fixed them.
One In 100000.
1t has been said that the ordinary
drunkard cen be cured by constant
drinking whether he wants to or not.
and that In some OF the Cures" es.
tablished for the alcoholic habit the
practice Is to make the patients keep
on drinking until the very sugges
tion. much less the sight and taste.
Of the stun. makes their gorge
rise against II. But the interesting
thing about this case f. that DIT.
Richie has been caught. II will be
talked about in all the barrooms In
the country and used as an argument
against the preachers who preach
Righteousness; but there are 200, 900
preachers in the country and one out
Of 100000 is q pretty good record for
the cloth. II would be interesting to
have the statistics of the number OF
Illicit dealers In intoxicating liquors
just as a stand-off against the one
brother. who has been caught with the
goods. -
Clerks Versus Cooks.
Cooks are commanding $50 the
month in New York; yet there are
half a million possible cooks who are
satisfied to stay in the dry goods
shops or take life easy at the soda
fountains when there Is wealth and
comfort for them in the kitchen.
Necessities In War Times.
According to zone influential Ameri-
can" at Ii possible to get almost any
thing II one can afford 1t" In London
and England. Just the same in the,
United States: but in Germany, accord
ing to the same rather indefinite au-
thority, It does not matter how much
money a person has he cant even get
necessaries." Yet Germany seems to
be getting along
There was q period of about four
years in this country when many So
called "necessaries" were not to be
had even for Confederate money, OF
which there was an inexhaustible sup
ply; when there was no coffee or tea
or sugar or calico: but IL was found
that wheat and rye and sweet pota-
toes and okra, when properly pre-
pared, made better coffee than conee
itself, that sorghum was an excellent
substitute for sugar, that cotton
checks made on old-fashioned looms
really looked like royal robes when
worn by lovely women.
Tom Gale Of Alaska
Tom Gale was a delegate In Con-
gress from Alaska some years ago
and there are those still living who
him as q very good fellow
of clear convictions and manly cour-
age. He went to the "farthest North"
of the United States to engage in min
ing adventures and lived the simple
life of the pioneer in that distant
land, intent upon discovery. He lived
after the manner of prospectors with
a companion whom he only knew as
bill" and "Bill" knew him only as
tom" Their surnanies would have
been Just SO mech excess baggage"
so to say, and they were fully identi-
fed for all practical purposes by what
they called each other. The silence of
the wilderness was not much dis
turbed by their speech; all that either
cared for was to feel that the other
was near at hand.
The mere presence was enough as
in the case of two horses, carriage
mates, which, when turned out into
the pasture, Will BIano WIN InclT
heads together for hours at time
perfectly content in their dumb COM
Any one who has lived
in the country can see them now, in
under, the apple tree in
the corner of the Virginia worm-fence
next to the bars, with the blossoms
falling on their backs dappled by
the sunshine filtering through the
branches, switching their
tails lazily to drive winged intruders
away or stamping their feet with
dignity when attacked by unusually
vicious blue-bottle flies, and wonder
ing doubtless why there should be so
much conversation among the hired
hands or the better-dressed folk who
ride behind in the family coach when
they themselves are happy and con-
tented just to be with each other.
Breaking the News.
That's just the way II was with
TON" and bill" They didn't want
to talk. they didn't care anything
about each others family history; and
so they lived together in peace and
neither inquiring about