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THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1893—TWENTY PAGES. 15 BOMBARDING RIO. The Story as Learned From Private Letters Just Received. POSITION OF SHIPS IN THE HARBOR. The First Day's Firing on Fort Vil- legagnon. A REST AND RESUMPTION. . The steamers Dalton and Liebnitz last week brought in private letters from Rio de Janeiro containing authentic descrip- tions of bettles fought in that harbor in the month of October, from about the 10th. On that day Nictheroy was once more stormed. This poor little town seems to gets the worst of it, for the rebels, when not otherwise occupied, practice marks- manship with it for @ target. The suffer- ing here is great, as its inhabitants are principally the poorer classes who cannot afford to leave, and work is very scarce. On this same day or the one previous quite a smart little fight took place be- tween two regiments of troops in barracks im Rio, during which several men were killed. As far as could be learned the fight- ing was due to the discontent of one regi- ment, three of whose officers were that morning shot for some treasonable offense. ‘The other regiment was cailed in to put down the disturbance and a skirmish fol- lowed. Fort Villegagno: Sarrender. On the wth, as has already been pub- Mshed, Fort Villegagnon hoisted the white/ flag, thus going over to the insurgents. This fort is a most valuable accession to the forces of Admiral Mello, principally on account of its position, but also because there are about 1,0W) naval men quartered there. Up to this time Fort Villegagnon had remained neutral, but upon applying to the government for further supplies and being refused, they at once joined the rebels. The defection of this fort caused great excitement in Rio, the English and Americans leaving town immediately, ow- ing to a recommendation published by the British minister advising such a course. Fort Santa Cruz was expected to fire upon Fort Villegagnon, and in that case much Map of Rio Harbor. damage would have been done to the city by stray shells from the loyal fort. Later, on this same day, the rebel ships moved up close under the shelter of their new ally. The Aquidaban and Trajana, their two best fighters, moving about slow- ly, and at the same time on the other side of the harbor, they were towing up the monitor Javary and the old woolen ship to get them nearer to Fort Santa Cruz. As can be seen by the map this brought the Aquidaban, marked A, and the Trajana, marked T, between Villegagnon and Santa Cruz, and right in line with Fort Lage and San Joas or St. John. Positions In the Harbor. All of these forts, except Villegagnon, were still loyal to the government. The monitor is shown at M, and the wooden ship at H. The position of the United States steamship Charleston is marked by the letter ©, and is lying with the other eleven foreign warships. Our forces have been augmented since that time, though, by the Newark and Detroit. The littie dots between Castello and Cobras, I, show the usual anchorage of men-of-war. Now they occupy the merchant ships’ plac Rio is chiefly where the shaded part drawn and stretches all along the beach and In the valley, as shown DY the marks - - - The Trajara began the engagement by firing at Santa Cruz, and then the firing, which was hot and heavy, became general, lasting about two hours, until too dark to do further damage. The sky was overcast, which made it rather gloomy, just enough to show up weil the flashes from the big guns. There were no small guns used in this bombardment. Fort Lage fired well and rapidly, and Villegagnon hit Santa Cruz mighty blow with one shell. They have two lv-pound guns at this fort, and one of them did the shooting. it was a grand sight for a while, although not much, if any, damage was done to the forts or ships. Of course some few men were hurt and/ perhaps a few killed Some shells must have gone over Villegagnon nd into the city. The plan of getting control of Vil- legagnon s a good one for the rebels, as now the city is fired on by its own forts. he insurgents probably hoped by this to stir the inhabitants up to dissatisfaction, wut, notwithstanding, they have received very little encouragement from people on shore. The Next Bombardment. On October 12 all things were quiet, it being a holiday. The rebel ships dressed in honor of the day—the 41s niversary of the discovery of America. That night, however, word was passed that there would be a bombardment next morn- ing at Ww o'el k, Which, by the way, was e@fterward posponed until the next ay, the Mth. Their object this time was to gain pos- session of Forts Lage, Santa Craz and san Joas. It was at this time that the presi- dent Issued his manifesto, declaring the in- surgents outlaws and not entitled to the use of the Brazilian flag, and depriving them of all rights of citizens. The bombardment of the Lith began by 7 in the mor: which was a surprise, as such vE¥ and early work is unusual among the Brazilians. The tiring continued for several hours, but not much damage was done, the forts reporting no killed and Bo wounded and small harm to the forts themselves. The water front out of line or stray shots w of people witness- ing the sight. The state of siege, or dec- jaration of martial law, was this day again again published, to last two weeks or un- 1 -th, bringing it up close to the ms oa the woth. They had this state re, so martial law is noth- were an- ¥ to Rio. Resting on Sunday. The next day being Sunda: rest—in ali probabili day is the everybody went to the great race day in t is for bull fights in Spanish coun- | tries. £ not allowed in Brazil. Six theaters were going at this time, show- ing that the people were ing confidence. vet betwe tle all en the ships damase has | umns, ent took place and 3 roy, very lit- done, however. m already stated the Newark arrive: in these nton'’s faux “1 so quickiy by his recall. firing on the 2ist was explained ting and return salut- Admiral Stanton made his official rious the forenoon of the a bombardment be- ring by a battery on the Aquidaban. The for- ! the grounding of near Fort Ville- jz and the other aground, they b some n good shooting, asts and killing one or men. Y the Aquidaban amounted to moting; she kept on cualing ship; had tugs is} at Rio on the | astern and around her and did not deign to return a single shot. Explosion of a Magazine. About 5 in the afternoon of October 25 the Aquidaban began moving toward the entrance to the harbor, and when in posi- tion began firing on Santa Cruz and Lage. In about half an hour the firing became lively, and the effect of the discharges very fine as it grew darker. Suddenly, while the fighting was going on,a violent, deafen- ing explosion was heard. Looking in its direction could be seen a beautifully grand sight. A heavy column of smoke was shot high in the air, through the base of which and close to the water was a mighty flame, long and high. It was then dark enough to heighten the effect. When the smoke had risen and the flame nearly died out, was to be seen the ruins of a building used by Mello as a powder magazine over on one of the islands on the Nictheroy side. It will be remembered, the announcement of this catastrophe at the time, and the un- fortunate killing of several foreign officers and men who were near. The Brazilians are a peaceable, pleasure- loving people, and much dissatisfaction is expressed at the interruption to their amusements. Since the steamers that brought this ac- count left Rio, we have published a descrip- tion of the sinking of the monitor Javary, and the reputed fall of Fort Lage. That report, however, still lacks confirmation. ———— IT IS A PUBLIC THOROUGHFARE. Atto: ey Thomas’ Opinion as to the Status of Central Avenue. The assistant attorney for the District has rendered an important opinion rela- tive to whether Central avenue from 4th street to Brookland is a public thorough- fare.. Mr. Thomas say: “I have carefully examined this matter. The history of Central avenue dates as far back as 1966. It was laid out and dedicated to the District as a public highway by Thomas W. Berry and John A. Middleton, trustees, in the chancery suit of John A. Middleton et al. vs. Eliza T. Berry et al. (Equity cause No. 500, Supreme Court of the | District of Colurhbia), the same being a bill for partition, by sale, of a tract of 375 acres of land belonging to the estate of Washing- ton Berry, deceased. In the course of the proceedings in that cause the trustees rec- ommended a sale of the property by sub- division, and the court authorized a subdi- vision. The trustees made a subdivision and reported the same to the court, with a plat showing Central avenue as a highway, | and the same was approved and ordered re- corded, and was thereafter recorded in the surveyor’s office of this District in Liber Gov. Shepherd, folio 41, showing Central | avenue to be 38 feet wide. Aside trom this, it appears from the report of Mr. Beale that Central avenue was improved by the late board of public works from Lincoln avenue to the Washington branch of the Baitimore and Onio ratiroad; that the Dis- trict has from time to time Kept it in repair and constructed culverts over water courses which cross it, and that it has always been considered a public road between the two points named. The law (section 246, Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the District of Columbia) in regard to roads declares | that “all public roads within said District and outside the limits of Washington and | Georgetown which have been laid out znd duly recorded as such are public highways.” | For these reasons I am clearly of opinion that Central avenue between 4th street east extended and the Washington brarch | of the Baltimore and Qhio railroad, or, in other words, so far as it was laid out through Washington Berry's land, is a pub- le thoroughfare. | Inasmuch as I understand my opinion is | desired in this case with a view to laying |a@ water main in Central avenue, and that | the proposed main, if laid, will pass be- tween the two cemeteries, Glenwood and Prospect Hill, I will add that it is doubtful | whether assessments to defray the ¢ost of laying the proposed main can be levied against so much of the lands of those two | cemeteries as has been appropriated or sold off for burial purposes. oe ROUGHNESS OF FOOT BALL. Walter Camp Recommends Two Im- portant Ch ‘sin Rules, The board of trustees of Harvard Univer- sity have begun an investization into the alleged unnecessary roughness of foot ball and the regulations needed for its suppres- sion. Walter Camp, the foot ball expert, inclines to the view that the game should be modified. He recommends a return to the old Rugby Union rule. which made in- terference plays “off side” play and conse- quently illegal. He also favors more of a kicking game. He says: In the first place, this mass playing is the direct result of the growth of the inter- ference principle. The Rugby Union rules |do not admit of anything of the kind, be- cause the interferers are off side. and have, according to that code, no right to run in- to, interrupt or obstruct an opponent un- ul again on side—that is. until between the runner and his gow! line—practically be- hind him. It was the Rugby Union rules that the | American colleges originally adopted, and \it Was hot for a dozen or more years that the question of interference arose. Then it came very gradually, beginning by merely sending one man ahead of the runner through the line, but not in the open field. From this grew a greater laxitv about the principle of off-side interference, and al- | most before the players knew it the in- | fringement of the rule was very common. jit seemed to the legislaturs necessary to }make this legal or insure its immediate | prevention, and they determined upon the |former. ‘Thus interference has become the |great feature of the present play. Last |year this interference began to take on more and more of the nature of a running | mass of men sent against a special point in | ne enemy's line. | The avove brief history of the growth of | interference suggests a remedy, and that jis an immediate return to the old rule that |no man, when off side. shall interfere with, jinterrupt or obstruct his opponents. ‘This would be a most radical change, and, while it would surely kill the evil. would also eliminate many of the present brilliant features of the play. Another remedy is that of reducing the at present too great value of possession of the ball. A side can. and often does, carry the ball from the center of the field to a touchdown without the opponents having a chance to show anything but their de- fensive play. Every captain fears the loss of the ball, and the games of this season have not diminished that fear in the least, but rather increased it. For this reason the punting and drop kicking. which ought to be a great feature of every game, have but a tenth part of the importance they de- serve. A rule, therefore. which made the ball change hands more freely would undoubt- | edly result in a far more open style of play. Foot ball is too good a sport to be al- lowed to retrograde, but press and public are right in demanding that a game that draws into it the very pick of our school | and college men shall not be allowed to be- jcome unnecessarily dangerous. Accidents | will happen. English foot ball has gone on, and so has our American game. gathering strength, favor and popularity. in spite of | the occasional accident. But we all of us want to see these accidents reduced rather | than increased, and good legislation among the foot ball enthusiasts can insure this. From Harper's Bazar. The Empress Elizabeth of Austria is | said to submit herself to the severest regi- men in order to retain the beautiful figure for which she is noted. She fasts morning and evening, making her only regular meal at noon of grilled meat, biscuits, and a glass of wine. Occasionally she eats a raw ess or a little fruit. She wears heavy flan- | mel underwear winter and summer, takes vapor baths and massage, and by dint of |all this and much horseback riding, she | keeps a waist measure of twenty inches, in | spite of her fifty-six years. ao seas His True Colors. From Puck. | | When he came to town to sce the sights, | _He was very green, 't is true: - | But a bunco artist took him in’ hand, | And he went home very blue. STORIES OF RUSK. How He Rose to Fame Out in Wis-| consin. HIS POPULARITY WITH THE VOTERS The Time When His Politica! Life + Seemed at an End. HIS LOYALTY TO HARRISON. “A good peg to hang your stories on!” Was a newspaper man’s comment on Uncle Jerry Rusk when he appeared in Washing- ton in 1889 to enter President Harrison's ad- ministration. And they did put a good many good ones on him—and he wore them, smiling at their richness and fat ness, but forever making better stories for himself than anybody else could invent and | clap on him, You see, stories are pretty apt to make a man in political life. In the first | place, the newspaper boys are always on the lookout for the best ones, and as the demand invariably exceeds the supply, it is said, they even go so far as to make some effhand, Then they put them out as the mental progeny of some Senator, Con- sressman or cabinet official, who gets the benefit or injury accruing therefrom, as the case may be. The American people like stories, and they like the man who has the naine of telling a good story. They like him especiaily on the stump, and they wiil vote for him every ume as against the man who, although he may be more learned | and polished, couldn’t tell a yarn from the side of the house. it was thus with Uncle Jerry Rusk. He j always told homely, horse-sense, Abe Lin- coln anecdotes, and his folks liked him. His folks, you know, were mostiy silver- haired Scandinavian farmers and red- shirted lumbermen, in northwestern Wis- consin—just the cnaps to like stories, and they never failed to vote for him, and he hever was beaten at the polls. Sheriff, coroner, assembiyman, Congressman, bank | controller, governor, he got there’ every | tme—tnirteen campaigns all told, and in pubiie lire twenty-six years altogether. Mis Entiustusm for Blaine, One of the best stories about Uncle Jerry | The Star now publishes for the first ume, | and it is true, as the old gentleman himseif | admitted not long before he left Washing- ton last spring. He had occasion in 18i6, when he was in the House, to entertain here in Washington Horace A. Taylor, then @ prominent constituent of his, and well known as United States railroad commis- sioner in the Harrison administration. One afternoon Uncie Jerry took Mr, and Mrs. Taylor riding after the House adjourned, and the talk started upon Mr. Blaine and his political misfortunes that summer. Rusk was ever a most ardent Blaine man. He was everywhere ready to champion his cause, and his youngest son, Blaine Rusk, born not long after the Little Rock and Fort Scott affair, was named after the Maine statesman, as Uncle Jerry said once, “to show that I don’t believe a d—d word of the charges against Mr. laine. As they were riding down Pennsylvania avenue Rusk entered on a description of Mr. Blaine’s fearless assault on his enemies in the House the day he read the Mulligan letters. Teiling the story Rusk got thor- | oughly excited, and shook his fist and slapped his knees from time to time to em- phasize his narrative. As the carriage, an open barouche, was rolling slowly along the avenue he reached his climax, and in his excitement stood uj in the carriage and fairly shouted, “Had, I swear to God, when Blaine went down that alsle, shaking his fist at those fellows, his arms were six feet long! The terrible earnestness of a six-foot man standing up In a carriage and bringing his fist down with a resounding whack in the | palm of his other hand as he uttered his remark naturally attracted the attention of people on the sidewalk. and the Wiscon- sin Congressman and his friends were watched by hundreds of pedestrians until they were out of sight down the avenue. Garfield's Story, President Garfield used to tell a good story that illustrated Uncle Jerry's big- hearted loyalty to a friend. He and Rusk had been boys together in Ohio, Garfield on the towpath drivng a mule and Rusk at fifteen driving four horses on one of Neill, Moore & Co.'s stages between Zanes- ville and Newark. During the debates in the Forty-fourth Congress Garfield at one time got into an altercation with a south- ern member, who challenged a statement made by Garfield and dared him to say it again, his manner implying that there was a “scrimmage” likely to ensue in one or two blessed moments if the Ohio member | should repeat his remark. Garfield for a! moment suffered a mental halt. Just then Kk rushed down behind him, pulling up! his coat sleeves as he came, and called out, “Say it again, Jim! Say ft again.” | The “scrimmage” did not take place, and in the general shout of laughter that fol- lowed Garfield went on with his remarks, When He Was Defeated. It is told of Gen. Rusk that he decided to run for governor of Wisconsin because Gar- field appointed him minister to Urugua: when he wanted to go to Sweden, where | his wife, who was of Scandinavian parent- age, would have enjoyed diplomatic life. The real cause of ambition in that direc- tion dates further back and to a personal slight within the boundaries of his own state. In 1878, after he had retired from | Congress, Gov. Smith nominated him for state railway commissioner, the best sala- | ried place in the state administration at that time. Rusk needed it, for he had never | been a rich man, and he had very little | ahead then except a moderately good farm | in a not remarkably good farming section | of the state. Everybody thought Jerry | would be confirmed as soon as the state senate could meet and vote on the nomtn: tion. He came down to Madison wearing the battered old silk hat and capacious but well-worn cloak that had lasted him all through Congress. He was congratulated on all sides, and looked as happy as a boy with a big red apple. The night after the nomination was made the republican mem- | bers of the senate held a secret caucus. There were twenty-one of them. Among them was Bill Price, afterward a member of Cong-ess for two terms from the eighth Wisconsin district. Price was an open enemy of Rusk and had the reputation of being the most vituperative and profane man in the state, besides being the liveliest offhand talker in the legislature. He had got the caucus together, and In two hours’ time,with the chances seemingly all against him, he got a vote against confirming Rusk on the ground that the ex-Cong-essman hadn't sufficient education for the duties of | the place. One of the remarks Price made in his speech to the caucus, which was sald | to be the most remarkable speech ever | made anywhere, was that the state could | not afford to appoint a man whose educa-; tion was limited to the bare accomplish- | ment of writing his own name, and who! “could not tell the difference between a railway truss and an instrument for the relief of hernia. That remark went over the state. It rankled in Uncle Jerrv’s breast and it an- gered his friends. To be repudiated by his party in the upper branch of the legislature was an ignominy he would not endure. His | lactivity in politics was redoubled from that ime forward, Supposed to Be n Used Up Man. A gentleman who talked the matter over with him that night after the result of Price's caucus was known said yesterday in taiking about the dead Secretary: “I never saw a more woe-begone, disappointed face than Jerry Rusk wore that cold win- ter night in Madison. He was younger by fifteen years than when he was here in Washington and his hair was grizzly gray and his long beard was several kinds of | yellow. He was called a singed cat and | | | his looks certainly stopped a long way short of keeping company with the man’s natural ability. You could hardly get him | to talk that night. He spoke always in hard, husky monosyllables, and was disin- | clined to say @ word about himself or his | defeat. But he laid everything to Price, forgave the prominent republican Senators, who had voted against him and remarked that he would be on the turf a good while yet,and somebody else might have a chance to ‘feel bad later on. The general com- ment around the Park Hotel, where the politicians congregated was that Rusk was a used-up man, that he would go back to his farm up in bleak, barren Vernon county and never be heard from again. He was set down as a ‘has been’, just as several of Harison’s cabinet were; you know Win- dom was completely used up in 1882, when Sabin beat him. I had a talk with him in the car as he left St. Paul the night after the vote. He said: ‘I am sick of it. I feel like a spanked boy. I am out of politics from now on.’ Blaine was regarded practi- cally a ‘has been’ from 1884 on. Harrison was after his defeat for the Senate laughed at when mentioned as a possible presiden- tal candidate. How He Came to Be Governor. “How did Rusk come to be governor?” “Sawyer did that. He found wherever he turned that Rusk was working every wire he could get hands on to retrieve the set- back in 1878, and in 1881, when Garfield came in, Rusk came to Washington and was milking the Wisconsin delegation for moral support to get the mission to Sweden, then held by Gen. Christopher Columbus An- drews of Minnesota, generally known as ‘Old Beans’ in northwestern politics. Rusk got after ‘Old Beans'’ place and Sawyer called him into a cloak room one day and said, ‘Jerry, you don't want that place. You don’t know enough for a diplomatic job; but you are a good runner. Go home and run for governor.’ “But,” said Rusk, ‘I haven't money enough. You know I'm busted.’ “That's all right,’ said Sawyer, ‘I'll foot your bills.” “And he did, and Rusk was elected. long after the talk with Sawyer, appointed Rusk minister to Paraguay and Uruguay and offered him the place of super- intendent of the bureau of printing and en- graving. His declination of the former ev- erybody knows. Garfield then agreed to give him the Swedish mission, and that would have suited him as well as to run for governor of Wisconsin, but Blaine spoiled that expectation. Rusk assisted in turning the Wisconsin delegation to Garfield at just the critical moment and made his nomination and Blaine's defeat certain. Blaine really never forgave that. The Swedish mission went to a Blaine man from Maine, and Rusk took up Sawyer’s offer.” At the Minneapolis Convention. “Was there anything in Rusk’s chances for the presidency?” “Yes, more than was ever thought for. | He was talked of for the vice presidency a good deal, you remember, and we heard a | good deal about a Blaine and Rusk ticket. - Well, that Blaine never wanted, nor Rusk either. Rusk was honestly for Harrison. I remember one day, I told him we ought to have a ticket with a popular name, and I thought Reed of Maine and Rusk of Wis- consin would make a good one. We could call it ‘Tom and Jerry,’ and that everybody would like. “Uncle Jerry got up out of his chin, thr his hands deep into his broadcloth trouser’s | pockets and shook his silvery locks. 0, sir,” he said, ‘It won't be Tom and daying stress on the word Jerry). an ingredient you will have to leave out. I'm for Ben Harrison.’ “It is a fact that Rusk might have been nominated at Minneapolis but for himself. Three times the anti-Harrison leaders ask- ed the Wisconsin men to bring forward Rusk’s name and they would give him Blaine’s entire support. Telegrams to Rusk here in Washington fatled to shake him in his loyalty to Harrison. Sawyer, I know, would have been glad to have had Rusk nominated, and before the convention he tried to get consent to use his name, if there should be a situation in the conven- tion demanding it. Gen. Clarkson also tried the same thing, and both failed.” By the way, Rusk always delighted to tell one story about Clarkson. The first time the Secretary went home after he en- tered the cabinet and just as he was getting on the cars to return to Washington an old farmer whom he had known for thirty years came on the station platform and grasped him by the hand. Rusk stood with one foot on the car steps and, for want of something better to say, asked the old man what he thought of the new administration. Just then the train pulled out. Uncle Jerry said he never could forget the sight | of that grizzly old farmer as he bent over with his hands on his knees and bawled above the noise of the departing train, “Oh, we don’t care a cuss for the administration, but that fellow Clarkson's a Jim Dand: Uncle Jerry told this story a good many times. His Body Guard. One thing he did while governor of W consin that won him a great deal of popu- larity, quite as much as his sending bread to the riotous railway laborers, or shoot- ing the strikers at Bay View. Beginning with the Grand Army encampment of 1884 at Minneapolis, Uncle Jerry, at his own expense, took the seventeen crippled W consin veterans employed about the capitol building to each annual encampment as long as he was governor. This was one of the grand sights of the encampments in the west for several years. Among “Uncle Jer- ry’s body guard,” as they were called, was Secretary of State E. G. Timme, who lost his left arm at Chickamauga, and State Treasurer H. B. Harshaw, who lost his left arm at Spottsylvania Court House. Every one of these seventeen men who marched with Uncle Jerry was a cripple, some on crutches, some on wooden stumps, several with empty sleeves, They had been, most of them, retained in various positions about the capitol ever since the war. Among them was one man. Henry Shelter, a crusty old German, who has for nearly thirty years been librarian to the Wisconsin supreme court. He has a life tenure of his place by virtue of a decision of the court that the executive could have no authority over this servant of the justices. Old Henry was as independent as a lord on his life tenure of $500 a year, but he was never quite so proud as when marching with Uncle Jerry. Among these crippled veterans was Capt. W. W. Jones, now living here in Wash- ington. He lost his right arm at Antietam, and by the connivance of the hospital stew- ard was able to get an order restoring him to his company, with whom he served till the finish, and then remained in the service until Isd8. Capt. Jones thus served seven years as a volunteer soldier. He became a special favorite with Uncle Jerry, who always loved a good soldier, and he brought him to Washington with him. “There was never a moment,” says Capt. Jones, “that the governor forgot our com- fort when we accompanied him to the an- nual encampments, There were some of our men that suffered agonies with their amputated limbs, and they would march with the ‘old man,’ as they called him. All day and at night Uncle Jerry was con- tinually inquiring after our comfort, and doing all he could for us. The boys looked forward to the annual trips with him as the choicest experiences of life. He was a brave, true, kind friend to all of us.” — THE ARIZONA KICKER, The Editor Expresses Himself Re- garding an Esteemed Contemporary. From the New York Sun. A Disgrace to Journalism.—On several occasions during the past year we have’ made mention of the critter down the street whom journalistic decency compels us to refer to as our esteemed contemporary. He can neither write, shoot, play poker, nor ride a bucking bronco. On Wednesday af- ternoon last we met the critter at the post office, and had some words with him. He ut once challenged us to fight a duel, and the affair came off in the rear of the engine house at 3 o'clock. We arrived on the ground without weapons, while he had a Navy revolver and twenty spare cartridges. | We allowed him to name the distance, ten paces, and we then took our station thirty teet away, back to him, and requested him to blaze away until he got tired. He promptly responded. We stood with our hands under our coat tails and our face to a bill board with circus pictures on it. The critter shot and yelled and whooped and shot, and nobody interfered with him tll his last bullet was gone. Then some of the boys who objected to the noise hauled him off and steered him in the direction of his carpet rag foundry, and the duel was de- clared over. The best shot he made didn’t come within a foot of us, and most of them were live or six feet wide of the tar- get. In the name of western journalism we protest against this man continuing to call himself an editor, and ride about the coun- try on free passes. The idea of a reptile who can’t do better shooting than that coming into this territory to publish a paper | and seeking to mold public opinion is a positive insult even to the coyotes and jack- ass rabbits. His case should be brought be- fore the next meeting of the Press Associa- tion for action, and unless we are greatly mistaken in the make-up of that body, there will be a resolution adopted outlawing this man from the society of all journalists in their own limits. When we reflect that Arizona is crying for admission to the household of states, and that if she is ad- mitted that lop-eared critter will have to be taken in too, we feel iike laying aside our pen and declaring that we will never take it up again to argue for enlightenment and civilization. FOR A NERVE TONIC Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr. H. M. HaRLow, Augusta, Me., says: “I regard tt as one of the best remedies in ail cases In which the system requires wn acid and a nerve tonic. I have used it freely with most excellent results.” THE FRIEND OF LABOR. T. J. Moore is President of the Trades’ Council. Well-Known Trustee of the Painters’ Union in Toledo. Many Other Workingmen Having the Same Struggle for Existence. The panic Just past bore bardest upon the work- ing men and women, ‘Theirs has been the greatest worry. They have had to labor harder than ever to support their families, Today there are thousands of overwork- ed and overworrled people struggling along, many of them under the burden of dyspepsia or insoznia, unhappy and fretful, but not helpless—as “Mr. Moore shows. ‘Those who awake more tired than when they went to bed, with an unpleasant taste in the mouth, and the tongue parched, coated, and dry, know one of the many signs of the disease that follows overwork. A poor appetite for breakfast, at times a com- plete distaste for all kinds of food (even the little reluctantly taken producing general discomfort) — these symptoms demand a sober thought. Today it is kuown that the nerve centers govera all the Processes throughout the body. Perfect digestion and assimilation require that the nerves work in harmony with the digestive apparatus. And it was on this recent highest medical information that Paine’s celery compound, the medicine that makes people well, was first prepared. To ail who are overworked, the following letter from Mr. T. J. Moore tells a story that should be read and heeded. It 1s from one of the plain people: “I am greatly pleased with the good results ob- tained from the use of Paine's celery compound. Previous to its use I doctored with two of the best doctors here, and my health was not im- Proved in the least by the treatment I received. On the recommendation of a friend I procured @ bottle of Paine's celery compound, and before I had used one bottle I noticed an improvement in my health, and I decided to continue its use and) give the medicine a fair trial, I have about fiuished the fourth bottle, and I have almost en- tirely regained my old-time health and vigor. My ailment was a disordered stomach, and my whole system was out of order. My appetite was poor and very {rregular, and as an old friend whom I met on the street expressed it, after inquiring about my health when I was under the doctor's care, ‘O, you are a goner!’ But my improved condition Las convinced him of bis inefficiency as 4 medical examiner and prophet.” Mr. Moore is a citizen of Toledo, and lives at | 2109 Fitch street, in that city. He is president of the Trades’ Council and trustee of the Painters’ | Union, “He ds high with all union men,” says the Toledo Biade. A careful man or woman either keeps Paine’s| celery compound on hand, or knows just where he | can easily procure it. | It is the remedy that makes people well. It) has shown Itself to be an ideal remedy in cases Where nutrition is an important factor, and where digestion is feeble. It is as far superior to the ordinary nerve tonics and sarsaparillas as the diamond is to the ordi- nary glass. Try it and be convinced. BARBER & ROSS, Cor. uth & G Sts. N. W. ‘tractions now being rate increase ia our retail business Hardware, eng Gas Stoves and Kindred lines at the lowest F ore in the city. ‘uly Guaranteed Steel Carvers, Tih eenuinesiag tandies. per SI, DS pair, a een Family Weighing accurate and durable, goc. ‘00 ———“S00 Perfection Meat Cutters; will at spa ane DLSO 6oc. {ation Tevery ono ‘warranted, $1.75 Japanne | Coal Hods, 16-in..only.. BOC, Halt dozen Plated Nut Picks. 000000 Table Knives, our own impor- Galvanized Coal Hods, 16-in., only. 27¢c. “Sunshine” Gas Heaters, ¢ hine” Gas Heat $2.25 cellent tor heating bed room: bath rooms and small offices. Furnace Scoops only... Valentine’s Weather Strips You can prevent the cold from coming through your doors aud wiudows by fitting them) with, | ent Jnrivaled Felt | Weather Strips. It will save a. fourth of ur coal bill and lots of discomfort. We will send a man up with dif- ferent sizes, who Will measure. and estimate the "cost. Even then Sou are vot compelled to buy. porendammes ths tho | About That New Fuel.; xo Cheaper than coal or gas. No rt, Mo sincke, mo dat rT, and gives more heat, Sais Cook - ok fas ‘ooking _ ranges cos ter, and Latrobes. heat” quicker. panini “On and “off”"—instantly. Come “see how it works—it’ an your while. Demonstrations Barber & Ross 9 COR. 11TH AND G STS. N.W. 235 “Glad News” To The RUPTURED. All_who are afflicted with Rupture or “Hernia” in any form will be glad to learn that au institute for its POSITIVE and PERMANENT cure bas been established in| ix city. The cure is effected by the method -~ fected by that eminent specialist, Dr. Me- Candiiss, in causi a new growth over the hernia ring, thus closing it completely and forever. It is no new experiment. Hundreds have been permanently cured. Consultations and full ‘explanat gratis, Write for book and list of cured, Dr. T. K. GALLAWAY, urgeon in Charge. WASHINGTON HERNIA INSTITUTE, PARLORS, 8 AND 82, METZEROTT'S BLDG., 4110 F St. NW, Office hours. 10:30 to 5 p.m. né-s,tu,th,3m Cheap Glass. Owing to the dissolution of the plate and wi w glass trust I am enabled to offer very low prices on both Plate and Window Glass. Get my figures before purchasing. Will cost you noting. One price to ail. Francis [iller, _ 307 Ninth St. | kind, and especially ‘among the American people. | Tuesday, Wednesday and United States Academy rlEDICINE AND SURGERY, 807-809-811 14th St. N.W., between H and I Sts., WASHINGTON, D. C. A PERMANENT INSTITUTION POR THE SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT AND CURE OF NERVOUS ana SPECIAL DISEASES. THE PHYSICIANS IN CHARGE have had many years’ experience in bonpital and private Drpctice; are regular graduates of the most eminent medical colleges, and give their special attea- tion to the treatment of all forms of NERVOUS DISEASES. We recognize the GREAT PRINCIPLE that genius, or talent, or exceptional skill in any profession, and especially in the medical profession, IS A GREAT PUBLIC TRUST, to be executed for the Sreatest good of the greatest number. Hence we call your attention as to what you may expect from our treatment. WE HAVE DEVOTED YEARS TO THE STUDY AND TREATMENT OP Nervous and Complicated Diseases, Which other physicians nave failed to treat successfully. Those DELICATE FUNCTIONS of the humas frame, whose derangements have for centuries defied human skill, bave in many cases yielded te the patient investigation and untiring perseverance of our physicians, and thousands of sufferers frem diseases heretofore pronounced incurable have consulted us and bave been restored to Health And Usefulness. v=, The Middle- disease whe ‘9 vitality | ened by the trac, of old complaints which | skillful phywicians bad perhaps relieved, Three-fourths of the chronic complaints which | H@e bas brought back at @ period when make life miserable can be traced to some form of | M0St annoying. nervous weakness, It le confined to wo age. 20 sex. | THe Qld 7% shoud spend thetr ‘who, through ignorance or years ip peace and The Young, the careless exuberance of | find their bodies racked with pains at youthful spirits, have been unfortunate, and find | they require all their strength for themselves in danger of losing their heaith and duties of life—will all find it to thelr embittering their lives. ‘to consult us. Our Cures Are Thorough and Permanent. No Experiments or Failures. A Cure Warranted. PERSONS RUINED IN HEALTH BY UNLEARNED PRETENDERS WHO KEEP TRIFLING WITR THEM MONTH AFTER MONTH, GIVING POISONOUS AND INJURIOUS COMPOUNDS, SHOULD APPLY IMMEDIATELY. Office Hours: 9 to 3 and 6 to 8 Sundays, 10 to 2 Saturday evenings until ® 7 Fourteenth Street Cable Cars pass the door. We nave Nervous estar! the most fonnd Debility ite source of that and suffering among man- declining: comfort, = time ‘the bits HAY FEVER Catarrh Sufferers. IT’S HUMAN discouraged in trying to get cured, the AMERICAN NATU CATARRH CURE, prepared by W. B. Jones, M.D., 1836 S. Sth st., Philadelphia, Pa., will remove all doubt in a few days. It ts always ready for use; TO WANT SOMETHING FOR NOTHING, octhing Uke it bas ever been known in the history ABOUT of medicine. It is the most wonderful remedy of a Waar WE ane the age, and the oply medicine known that cap GIVING YOU WHEN WE SELL a prevent consumption. PaIR OF THOSE LADIES $4 OR $3 SHOES ON OUR BARGADY TABLES $1.63. SIZES LEFT ARE MOSTLY 1 To 8% 4 4ND B WIDTHS, 4ND THES of 26 years’ ing cough and expectorating, removes headache and Dose bleeding, increases the appetite, produces sound sleep, invigorates the whole system and in creases the vitality. It ts impossible for any one to enjoy perfect health while suffering from the dropping of mucns in the throat, which is ever offensive and unbealthy im character and poisons every breath that is taken imto the lungs, thereby rendering the blood unbealthy and impure and leading to consumption of the lungs. Waat a boon to mankind must be WON'T DE LEFT MUCH LONGER aT the remedy which will prevent this suffering and THIS PRICE restore perfect health. To the many thousands who have despaired of being cured of this terrible BETTER COME IN TODAY aXD aB @isease we cheerfully recommend the AMERICAN CURE 4 Pam, CATARRH CURE. It gives immediate relief. Tx Sense of relief ts so great that after twenty-four hours’ use the sufferer gladly that THE WARREN SHOE HOUSE (GEO. W. RICH, 019 F STREET N. Ww. COR. 11TH AND F 8TS., WASHINGTON, D. @ 0e27-Sm, cod Dr. Carleton. 507 12TH ST. N.W. Over SURGEON SPECIALIST. ver twenty-five years’ experience. Practice Hmited to the ‘treatment of gentlemen exclusively. THIRD YEAR AT PRESENT ADDRESS. REYOLOTI if i= Dr. Carleton treats with the skill born of expe nas Se jaseaios Not in Mexico, Brazil or Hopoli ave 3 ‘sease of a Special Na in Washi Tt began nearly — cere Bae, sul hoo oovstenal wen unvarying success up to the wellings, inary ‘Sediment, | that “Revolutions never go backward.” Ulcers, Confased Ideas. wa ing of FINE READY-MADE Sore Spots, Despondency. Did you sow the wind? Have you reaped the st whirlwind? Are you beginning to lose iv ? CLI Do you realize tha you are beginning io feel eid | At 10 per cout advance on the actual cest of | before your pe tiaar ts aes ky manufacture was a revelation to the people, and you? sovebutioniee® clothing business Do you feel unfit for business or society? completely - ae Consult Dr. Carleton. Special experieuce is ab- | bereabout, and now, im recognition of the pre- solutely necessary. He bas it, and he is positively | vailing hand times, we again take the initiative the only physician im Washington who limits his | apd T@t another spoke im the wheels of revolution, ractice to the treatinent of gentlemen exclusively. hy clentific, SKILLFUL, SUCCESSFUL Treatment | fE (4 sul Ss waseteed. Be on your, Suara ainst humbugs, i antiquat methods a ‘iterate practitioners, and don't forget that you cannot Day eilk for the | Teatas mn Ste, SIT-50, $26.80 i = Bross ice of cotton. | Checks, Aliunde, Feocy Tweeds, than which there are mone handsomer or more stylish extent, have all reduced to $12.50. ‘With a surgeon's nerve we have sunk the Hours, 9 a.m. to 2 Sundays, 9 a.m. n21-3m P.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. to 2 p.m. only. Consultation free. RADICAL CURE py) into the prices of every line of tention ftom pat: |. Singie und Double-breasted Sack Suits and ‘Three Recon from, cuel- | 2a Wour-buttes Cotaway Frock Gute ar Mian No barbarous or fos. ill fortett 91,000 for every cat I undertase anil fail for. cae an t> cure. Dr. GARLRTCS sr 12th st. nw bod-lm $7.50. Black Cheviot, Oxford Mixture, Black Diagonal and Fancy Cheviot Suite for Men, "8 Overconts, Oxfords, Roreere . <in the phrase “Be a specialist or you pM, ‘Bik Mixtures, : $ will be practically a nobody.” It stands S532 mabe practically poly." it stands | $10.00 . to operate all the branches of the pro. a > ° ‘St fession caunot attain the distinction and | Boys’ Suite, Double-breasted Jackets, strictly ol . skill of the ~ ae a gives bis . energy, thought and st : but one ranch re ‘orate ‘al the $2.98. ° d lern Dentist and ch Boys’ Overcoa' chable Capes, from : branch is presided over by a skilled - a in : and "experienced, “specialist,” “who. a $2.50. ° empts no other branch of the profi 2 : Pegi eine dee | Rage Rent tr $2.50. MENS PANTALOONS $4, $4.50, $5, $5.50 end $6 kinds, $2.98. ‘ork, Better put yourself in the bands Dental “specialist. ci Extracting, 25c.; with gas or Zono, 50c.; cleaning, .; silver fillings, Te Id. accordi: t be 1 a Ber TEETIT, $5.00 set. Crown and | Aten't Sr ee ee ae bridge work @ specialty. work a. peveeeean 1 Dental) oNJo Ass'n, COR. 7TH AND DN. BALTIMORE OFFICE, No. 1 North Charles st. VIGTOR E. ADLER'S Trex Pra Crest Crormye House 927 Axp 929 Tra Sx. N. Wy CORNER MASSACHUSETTS AVE STRICTLY ONE PRICE | Open Saturday until 11 p.m. ool8-Sm WAMSLEY & MEDWELL, 825 N. CHARLES ST., Baltimore, Md., WILL OPEN AT WILLARD’S HOTEL, PRIVATE PARLORS, DR. HEPBURN 1S THE ONLY PHYSICIAN IN THE CITE Practicing Dermatology exclusively, Bosema, Tet+ | ter, Acne, Pimples, Blackheads, ee Bess of the Nose and Cheeks, Birthmarks, Supertiuous Hair and all diseases of the Skin, ae ‘Sealp skillfully and permaneatly re moved. Offices in Mertz’s Building, cor, F and 11th ete. Consultation tree oS 3mm NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE, 1920 \ street northwest, CARPENTER SHOP. Old “tand of J. T. Waiker, Contractor and Builder. reliable mem seat co the bouse. oc2¢-2ms® Thursday, DECEMBER 5, 6 AND 7, PES’ AND JACKETS. DOFIT GUauASTEED. | None but

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