The Washington herald., 1918-05-03
JUS Killing Time.

Walking up and down the street for
eight hours Q day Is . lonesome job.
In fact. It was too lonesome for
Richard stockdale, a watchman at
Henry Park southwest. where the
new government buildings are gong
up.
And 30 he and another man decided
to shoot q little craps to pass the
time away.
They sat down on the grass. got
out the BONES" and started rolling
them.
People were passing by and some
Of them stopped q while and looked
Policeman Guy Rosns noticed the
crowd standing there and investi-
gated.
He found Richard and the other
man 30 absorbed in the game that
neither Of them was conscious of
anyone being near them.
Roane looked on a minute, hardly
able to believe his own eyes.
Never before had he seen two crap
shooters with such . disregard for
law and order.
He nabbed the pair. Richard was
llucu ~ AAAg OtACA OAap sHOOlEi
forfeited collateral.
You Can and You Can't.
Just because the White House
pickets can go ahead and picket
some more. Charlie Tabs is out OF
jail.
We admit that there seems to be
no connection between the two. but
there Is.
Charlie Is q messenger in the
building at Sixth and b streets, be-
longing to the ward Department.
He was standing IN narrow hall
through which large numbers of
people were passing. IL being their
payday.
A policeman told Charlie to get
out Of the way as he was obstructing
the free passage to the paymaster's
once.
He declined to move. the police
man said, and therefore 1t became
necessary to make him move.
In o few minutes three police
men were engaged in making Char
lie move on.
One of the cops got hit in the
neck and the other had his finger
bent way back and sprained.
o. NndTllS WhB Cn8TEeo Win us
orderly conduct and assault.
But--since the court was not dis
posed TO convict him on account of
suffragette cases-he was turned
loose.
The Poor Married Man.
"Jedge. cherry time All goes outa
nah house nah husband axes me
whar Use gwine. An tells him none
Of his bizness. De las time All tole
him dat he bus me in De face en-
knocked two Of nah teeth out"
"Ah am entitled by law 70 make
nah wife behabe. Jedge," spoke up
Fred Gillette. husband Of Lucy. who
was Just complaining. wen she
married me she promised to obey
me-"
IT know she did," said the court,
but you seem to know so little
about women. Don't you know that
when they make up their mind to-
do something the best way 10 to let
them 90 ahead ana DO it?''
Lucy Il never home, Fred said. She
IL never there when, he comes home
TO his meals.
Once or twice he saw her going
out and asked her where she was
bound for. -
Not getting q satisfaetory answer
either time, he began to get peeyed.
The other day he got home IN time
to see her putting her hat on.
She refused to say where she was
going-and neither did she get there.
Bcause Fred wallopad her IN the
Jaw. she had him arrested.
After advising Fred to make a thor
oush study Of the habits ana ways
OF the female Of the species. the
court fined him so.
Bashfal Edgar.
Littleton II. Wood was engaged in
tearing down an old building.
Working on the same job-iwith |
pick and shovel-was Edgar Hall.
Wood. In the tearing down process,
tore out sidewall exposing Edgar to |
the view Of the pubic.