Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1893, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1893—TWENTY PAGES. WOODWARD -. LOTHROP, | KANN, CONS C0, TH, 1TH AND F STS X.W. Engraved Work for the Holidays. ‘The fitness, the pleasure-giving part of such s gift, is beyond question. It’s simply for you to decide between ‘THE NAME ENGRAVED ON FIFTY FINE CARDS FOR Ste. AND ONE, TWO OR THREE INITIALS ENGRAVED ON A HUNDRED SHFETS OF FINE PAPER, IN RED, BLUE, GRAY, YELLOW OR BLACK, WITH A HUNDRED ENVELOPES, FOR $1.00. ‘The cost in either instance is little enough. With a practical engraver of twenty years’ ex- Derience, we guarantee the best work and the lowest prices on equal qualities of stationery. Gave order at Engraving Department... ++Ist floor—ist annex.) About the Holidays. Tust crossed the threshold of December—a month of gift buying and gay planning for the Holl- Gays. Vor thirteen years we've had somewhat to do with your Christmas wants. Each year we ‘Rave improved on the year before, and a growing business has brought the reward of larger and mere intelligent effort. This year is not exceptional. A larger stock, more widely displayed, awaits you. Lower prices than ever before will please you. Improved organization, the outcome of larger ‘experience, offers you better service. HOLIDAY GIFT THINGS AT EVERY TURN. FRESH FANCIES, RARE AND BEAUTIFUL. We don’t believe there is anywhere a collection of goods that offers to the searcher after cholce gifts so many unique, artistic and really exclusive things from which to make selections as does this exhibit to which we invite your attention. While there are hundreds of fhings to gratify the most aesthetic taste and things that are purely ornamental, there is a decided tendency to more substantial gifts. Whatever you fancy, there’s a counter, or, maybe, a dozen counters, given up to that sort of thing. Purchases in any department will be carefully stored and delivered when it sults you best. H THE HOLIDAY PART OF THE STORE IS EVERY PART NOW, it in nowise inter. feres with the staple daily wantables. There's an almost every-day succession of happenings like this mle of Upholstery Stuffs WHICH BEGINS MONDAY. A SALE OF UNUSUAL IMPORTANCE—A SALE WHERE LOW PRICES EVER PLAYED SO PROMINENT A PART—A SALE OF GOODS FULL OF GIFT FITNESS, TOO. WHAT MORE ACCEPTABLE OR APPROPRIATE THAN Table Covers, Portieres, Lace Curtains? All these and many other decorative and useful things are represented, and they bear the lowest prices ever fastened to same grades of goods. The Overstock Sale of Lace Curtains At reduced prices we think never bad a precedent here or elsewhere. The choicest, the richest of ar importation and others, including more than a bundred patterns of BRUSSELS POINTE, IRISH POINTE, TAMBOURED LACE, RENAISSANCE, LOUIS XIV, EIDELWEISS AND NOTTINGHAM. At 1=4, 1-3, in Some Instances 1-2 Off Original Price. THE DETAILS FOR MONDAY ARE INTERESTING: FRENCH CURTAINS of plain white organdie, REAL JAPANESE SILKS, printed, 27 inches wide. alee | SST Ss 3% yards long, 54 inches wide.. $2.25 pr | “POPP reer 2% yards long, 30 inches wide... 91.70 PR. CHENILLE PORTIERES. A LOT OF TAMBOURED SASH MUSLIN, bought | REDUCED From $15 r0....$7.50 pr Three ote ns Mt * Frees peice consetlons) Sepucep rou 86 10............84 PR so xcuzs wiz... 160, 18c. 250. xp.| senvcen rrow $3.75 to $2.50 vx USUALLY 13 MORE. 50-INCH COLORED MADRAS, two dozen or more patterns and colorings, all of our own importation, MARKED AND ARE WELL WORTH 60c. To 872c. xp. ON SALE MONDAY. 37icaxn 50c. SPECIAL—1,200 YARDS PLAIN CHINA SILKS, 18 colorings. A very few pieces are slightly im- perfect—most of them absolutely perfect. REGULAR PRICE 85c. Yb. A MANUFACTURER'S SAMPLE LINE OF TAP- ESTRY PORTIERES, ONE PAIR OF A KIND. REGULAR PRICE $5 PR... ..$2.50 TABLE COVERS. ‘The holiday assortment is complete—larger than ever. CHENILLE, FRINGED ALL AROUND. 650. 90c. ro $1.50 .... 82 10 $4 84 AND $5 BD axv 86 11th st. bldg.) 1-YD SQUARE... Us-YDS. SQUARE..... ” 2-YDS. SQUARE.......s00.e0- 2x2 YDS. 3x2 YDS... CHINA SILKS FOR DRAPERIES, CUSHION COVERS, &e. Plain, 32-inch, 12 colors, made in France. zepucep Frou DOc. to... .... 39e. Printed Silk, 32-inch, Cheney Bros.’ make. agpvcep reo $1 10. Oriental and Occidental Rugs At Closing-Out Prices. Oceasionally Oriental Rugs are sold at a petty price reduction, seldom, if ever, at such Prices as we are selling them. Below the cost of importation, for less than auction prices, is the way they are going. The cause: We are going out of the Rug business. A lifetime luxury mad very easy to own. The “Smyrnas” are priced proportionately low. SOME 18136 SMYKNAS THAT WERE 87. ARE 50c. SOME FUR RUGS (LINED) THAT WERE $5 are $3.75. All sizes in “Orientals,” from a mat to a great carpet, and all redneed. --+..-Ist annex.) Colored Emb’d Fiannels. 4 SPECIAL LOT AT A SPECIAL PRICE. Some New Xmas Books. “The Christmas Carols,"" by Frederic . Farrar. g ) =o Handsomely bound tn cloth = $1.00 Dan 1.0¢ QUALITY FOR éUc. “The Heavenly Twins,” by Sarah Grand. Bound This is a class of zoods that is seldom wold un- | 1M cloth...........0.2.ceeccseceeceeeenseeeees Sie. Ger price. A big lot bought low accounts for this. limpses of the World." A portfolio of pho- Combinations: tog: » by John L. Stoddard. Bound in cloth. .$4 Cardinal, embroidered in black. Cardinal, embroidered in ca Black, embroidered in orange. Black, embroidered in black. Light bine, embroidered in 1ij R. Dorr. Ilustrated. “Perwinkie,"” by Julia C. Bound in cloth ..... “The Familia~ Two volumes. Letters of Sir Walter Scott." Bound in cloth .... History of French Paintings, t blue. From Earliest to tts Latest Practice," by C. H. Stran- Its Light blue, embroidered in white. Hub wisture, embroidered in brown. Steel gray, embroidered in black. Blue, embroldered tn medium blue. Pink, embroidered tu pink. ahan. Bound. in cloth ... «$3.00 “Our Colonial Homes," by Samuel Adams Drake. Mlustrated. Bound in cloth The “AM Around the Year’* for 1894. : tw Dallding.) | Basement ° «11th ae | In Blanket Department : ;} in jan ke’ epartment. 1 | Lap Robes & Horse Clothing | yc... 04 wate sea suceens toons tn Carriage Robes. .$1 to $15 | $3 to .. sees - $2.80 pair Bteamer Rugs. - -$8, $7.50 and $8.75 feduced from Horse Blankets for street us: $1 to $7.50 -$3.40 pair $1 to $4.50 11th st. bidg.) Halt and Quarter Blankets for street use.$5 to 815 Rubber Storm Covers. $3.25 to $10 | $, Paavo = "tse tosis; Optical Department. @d ftoor.. 11th st. building.) Repairing Spec les and Eye Glasses in a neat and substantial manner is an important branch of our optical business. New Lenses put in frames, best quality New Frames for old lenses. Temples for Spectacles . Springs for Eye Glasses . (ist floor Cutlery Department. We still have a few of those French Cooks’ ves. Reduced from 65 and 5c. to 25, 35 and 45¢ English Carvers. $1.25 to $8 pair Gst for... -Ist_ annex.) 50e. pair 50e. to $1 Woopwarn & Loruror, WTH 11TH AND F STREETS NORTHWEST. 7il Market Space, CARTER’S OLD STAND. DON’T BE SURPRISED, | For This is a World of Wonders. Big Deal-This Time it wasin New York A Large House Furnishing Concern Ac- cepted Our Offer, and $40,000 Worth of Stock Figured in the Transaction. We have divided the honors between Baltimore and Washington. Housefurnishings, Bric-a-Brac, Pictures, Easels, and all kinds of Holiday Goods comprise the stock that we shall consolidate with our GREAT RECORD SALE. We start the ball a rolling on Monday with ONE HUNDRED CASES “Of Blue, Granite and Agate Ware, and by the end of the week the entire stock will be on sale. You all know what that means. BIG SAVINGS For every customer. Read every line. It will be more interesting to youthan the best Seaside novel would be to a nice summer girl. OUR GREAT RECORD SA Will be as great as ever, as we have placed on salethe following reserve stock. Theprices and description which you will find on the right of this advertisement have never been offered be- fore, and are values of great magnitude. We feel confident that this coming week will be equal to any yet, and it would not surprise us if it passed them all. OPEN 8 A. Ml. EVERY DAY. 200 1% pint Tea or Coffee Pots. Manf. price, e. Our Price 25c. 800 2 pint Tea or Coffee Pots. Manf. price, $1. Our Price 29c. work or doll dresses. Choice roc. Fine Selicia Remnants, in serge, satine and fine 5,000 Fancy Silk Bias Ends, for art and mn (on twills, all the staple shades and high colors. TT wr Cot Pol Manf. price, 61=2c. Worth 1gsc. ot apenas panel einai Fine French Pereale Remnants, the most excel- Our Price 39c. lent patterns, neat and nobby effects. 500 4 pint Tea or Coffee Pots. Manf. price, Worth isc. |" 7 I=2c. WO! 5¢- Our Price 49c. 1,000 yards of Unbleached Toilet Crash. 600 6 pint Tea or Coffee Pots. Manf. price, $1.37. 3¢- Our Price 59c. Pactic Meceaiag, and) Quay Pxinty /the/ very: DA 60) 9. pint! Tea or ‘Onlibe. Feta. (Maat. clos, 6-4 cloth. 1.50. 41=2c. Worth 8c. Our Price 69c. Faney B ine, in all shades, including even- ee 10 pint Tea or Coffee Pots. Manf. price, ing and street effects. Worth 75e. Our Price 79c. For 25¢. a Yard. 100 6 quart Coffee Boiler, to fit No. 6 stove, Plain Taffeta Silks, all dark shades. ene a Ode Price 98c. I9¢. Yd. Worth 75¢- 206 8 quart Coffee Boller, to fit any stove. Mant. price, $2.25. Our Price $1.25. 200 one gallon Tea Kettle. Manf. price, $2. Our Price g8c. + 500 12-inch Colanders. Manf. price, $1. Choice of our $1.50 and $2 Fancy Silks, including all kinds of weaves. 69¢. 2,500 yards Cashmere, Henrietta, Diagonal, Serges, Fancy Weaves, Brocade, Plaids. All for 15c. Although they are worth more than double the money. 5 cases of White Wool Blankets, full 10-4, at $1.29 a Pair. These Blankets are cheap at $2.98. 3 cases of White Wool Blankets, full 11-4, extra | heavy, at Our Price soc. 2-quart Oat Meal Boller. Manf. price, $2. Our Price 98c. 300 Oval Butter Kettle. Manf. price, $1.50. Our Price 69c. 1,000 10-quart Water Bucket. Manf. price, $1.50. Our Price 69c. 500 11-inch Long Handle Frying Pans. Mant. price, $1.12. Our Price soc. 1,000 10-inch Jelly Pans. Manf. price, Our Price 13¢. 1,000 Full Size Wash Basins. Manf. price, 79. Our Price 25c. 1,000 2-quart Long Handle Sauce Pans. Manf. $1.79 a Pair. Worth $3.50 a pair. A big selection of Fancy Silk and Wool Dress Goods, nothing that ever sold this season less than $1.25. The entire choice goes for Bic. * 49¢c. price, 50c. 100 pieces of Fine All-wool Black Goods, divided Our Price 25¢. {nto two lots. 50 pieces at 700 3-quart Long Handle Sauce Pans, Manf. patie Our Price 39c. 500 24j-quart Lipped Sauce Pans. Manf. price, Ge. 35¢. Worth 75c. Include Henriettas, Serges and Fancy Weaves. 50 pieces at s50c. Worth $1. ‘This line corresponds nicely with the cheaper grade, only they are made of finer wool. Our Price 19¢. 300 3-quart Lipped Sauce Pans, Manf. price, Our Price 29c. So KANN, SONS & CO., 111 Market Space, CARTERS OLD STAND, For Bap Coxps. La Grippe, Bronchitis, Croup, Whooping Cough, Asthma or any disorder of the Throat and Lungs, the best medicine 1s AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL. I “*Some ten yoars ago I had a bad cold which settled on my lungsand was so ill as to be unable to work. bewan to TAKE AYER’S CHERRY PECTORAL, and in less than three weeks I was cured. I am quite sure that this Preparation saved my life.” M. T. POMEROY, ‘Calais Me. “I take pleasure in voluntarily stating that of all the medicines I ever used for fresh colds and la grippe AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL is pre-eminently the most potent remedy. Ordinacily the most virulent cold vanishes inanight asif by magic. Follow the directions and AYERS CHEKRY PECTORAL Wil ao he rest.” GEO. H. PIKE, Cadiz, Ky. AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. PROMPT TO ACT, SURE TO OURE. “A MAN'S WIFE SHOULD ALWAYS BE THE same, especially to her husband, but if she is Weak’ and nervous, and uses Carter's Iron Pills, she cannot be, for they make ber “feel like a dif person,”’ so they all say, and thelr husbands say so too! MANY PERSONS ANE BROKEN DOWN FROM overwork or household cares. Boown’s Iron Bitters rebuilds che system, aids digestion, removes ex- cess of bile and cures Malaria. A splendid tonic for women and children. 2 IF THE BARY IS CUTTING T and EETH BE SUR use that old well-tried remedy, Mrs. Wt low’s Soothing Syrup for children’ teething. It Soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all alu, cures wind colic and ts the best remedy for iarrhoea. Twenty-five ceuts a bottle. myl-1y scalp and sult of 2 HUA UHHENHUNHWA UR oH BERBER Oh! What A “Stump!” a= iE Maybe you don’t know what a “slump” fs. Come in and get an ob- | Ject lesson in “slumps.” Furniture | prices: hi | prices have p | | prices have “slumped."* A “slump’ | ts a sudden ond decided drop. About — | one-third represents the extent of | the descent in our prices. Whatever you need in our line costs you about one-third less than it would ago or a mouth hence, to sell now. now, If you're re: to buy all right; 1f not, come fn any- way, maybe we can arrange matters. Maybe we can agree to hold what you select till you are ready. Come m anyway. Pretty furniture is worth looking at any time. Especially now, when Christmas presents are to be thought of. W.ELROEKE, | FURNITURE, CARPETS, DRAPERIES, it COR. PA. AVE. AND 8TH ST. H H H H H H H i i H H H H H H la H H H H H H H H H H H H H \H H H H H H H H SRR i H HHAUHAERWAERHHH HHA That's what you'd call a man who would tie a stone to his purse and throw 1t overboard. Is it any more foolish than giv- ing up the last available cent in an endeavor to pay spot cash —when under our Equitable Credit System You can provide yourself with all the FURNITURE—CARPETS DRAPERIES and STOVES you need—and pay for it little at a time out of each week's or month's income? You can't buy any cheaper— nor any better ©. 0. D. than you can of us. Our plan is worth investigating. 000 000 000 000, 000 000 000, 000 000 ey 000! 000, 000, 917-919-921 Axp 923 Tr Sr. 636 Mass. Ave. 000 000 000 000 c 000 a2 000 000 00 OO0O00000C 000000000U 000 000 000, 000 Ov 009, 000 10000000000000000 WOOQOOVOODQOVDOGOR0G00002) 0 2¥0000000000000006 WOOOOQOOH 7? ae ?? 2 YEAR'S TABLE RE YOUR TURKISH RUGS SOILED and dusty? Drop FISCHER a postal them up" equal to new. Fischer es and sTours all kinds of fabrics without nF Repairing done at small cost, : Anton Fischer, 906 G ST. N.W. AND 314 PA. AVE. SE. dl our window every time you buy 25c. worth, and if it will unlock the box are yours. No one knows the’ right DRUG STORE, 75, 80c., and $1 Corsets, 68c. ? lot of Fine B.” and other Long- ? waist Cor in white and drab. hoi Choice 68c. Pr. ‘ FS Whelan’s, 1003F St dl W should be without a bottle of Angostua Bitters, Dr. Siegert’s, the renowred appetizer of ex- About Turkish Rugs. ; and he will scot, for them and “do jury at reasonable prices. FINEST PROCESS DYEING AND SCOURING, Pick out a key from the lot in containing the 25 silver dollars, they Ogram’ 1211 PA. AVE. We have just secured a special 2:2? These Corsets sell for 75, 89¢. and §1. NO CHRISTMAS AND NEV quisite favor. Beware of counterfeits. 30 Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the ther- mometer at the weather bureau today: 8 a m., 82; 2 p.m., 34; maximum, 36; minimum, 19. He Has Returned. Adjutant jieneral Ruggies has returned to Washington from New York, where he Went to attend the Nethan Hale monu- ment celebration, [MANY MAIMED ME | and check the advances of the enemy on) | for some time, until removed by the ambu- )| a fall from a bicycle. It appeared that he/ House& Herrmann, }:s/ }0| accomplish ts rather surprising. | entry of the Union troops into Richmond. a number of other wounded soldiers, shipped | home. No, sir, I am not drawing pen- sion from’ the government. I hold a po- | sition in one of the departments, and try | to work and the wheel becoming unman- | nue on tricycles. Probably one of the most | of their country. "Oates of Alabama, a member of the lower N Are Met With in an Afternoon Stroll on the Avenue, SOME STORIES THAT ARE TOLD Of the Causes That Made Them Cripples. TWO WELL-KNOWN SIGHTs. The incoming of a new administration al- ways brings to Washington a coterie of office seekers, and among them can always be found any quantity of old sold'ers repre- senting both the Union and confederate causes. They are usually prolific with stor- fes of incidents and happenings during the war and take advantage of every oppor- tunity to recite one or more of them. This administration ts no exception to the general rule and the number of maimed men to be seen in an afternoon's stroll down the avenue is surprising. One-legged men, one-armed men, men with no arms at all, and in fact maimed men of every description may be seen thereou, if one only keeps his eyes open and looks out for them. A reporter on The Star noticing this fact decided to make a special trip some even- ings ago from the treasury building to the Capitol and interview every maimed man seen during that trip. Before a block had been traversed a seedy looking individual with an armless sleeve hanging by his side was seen strolling lel- surely up the avenue. ‘This proved to be a case of the biter bitten, as before the re- porter could decide on the tactics to be adopted in interviewing the first victim the beggar, for such he proved to be, ad- vanced and, after the usual salutation af- fected by that class, held out his hand for alms, mumbling something in an inaudible tone about his arm. “Where did you lose your arm, my good man?” was asked of nim, after the nickel which had been drop- ped in his outstretched hand had been care- fully deposited in a capacious pocket. “On the railroad, sir,” was the reply. “I was braking on the old Burlington line back in the seventies when I fell from the top of freight car and had the pleasure of wit- nessing the wheels of one of the cars per- forming the most delicate surgical operation of relieving a man of one of his arms. Lost His Leg Before Richmond. While listening to the story of the one- armed man, another man, somewhat better dressed than his predecessor, passed up the street, with a halting step, which at once indicated the possession of a cork leg. He seemed somewhat surprised at the evident impertinence displayed in asking him when and how he sustained the loss of a leg, but when he was told for what purpose the in- formation was desired he unburdened him- self and delivered himself of an execeed- ingly interesting story. “I lost my leg,” said he, “during the seven days’ fight around Richmond. I was a member of the sixteenth Pennsylvania regiment, and about noon of the third day of that fight our regi- ment had orders to make a flank movement our ramparts. I was a Neutenant in my company, and we occupied the right of the | line. Immediately after getting in range | of the enemy’s guns, and before we had | advanced more than'a couple of hundred | yards, we were fired upon, and one of the | first shells to explode in our midst struck me and carried off my leg just below the knee. I fell, of course, and as our lines were repulsed, I lay where I had fallen lances of the enemy. I was taken into Rich- mond and removed to a hospital there. I was given the best of treatment that could be procured there then, and after several months spent in the hospital, and my leg had about healed, I was incarcerated in Libby prison, where I remained until the Immediately upon my release I was, with and give value received for every dollar received from Uncle Sam.” After continuing the stroll down as far as lith street, the reporter was rewarded by seeing a young man, probably about twenty years of age, coming up the avenue | on crutches. The same question, “How did you lose your leg?” was asked of him. He appeared somewhat loth to answer the in- quiry at first, but after some persuasion stated that the loss of his leg was due to was riding an upright wheel, and in coast- ing down a very steep hill his brake refused ageable, threw him at the foot of the hill and shattered his knee so badly that ampu- tation was necessitated. A Pitiful Sight. There are quite a number of old inhabi- tants who come under the head of maimed men. Several were seen riding up the ave- pitiful sights in this category is a young man who frequents the avenue and man- ages to subsist by disposing of a stock of pencils, which he carries suspended around his neck. He is a worthy object of charity. Being badly deformed from his birth, he is forced to navigate on both hands and | feet, not however, in the ordinary way that | one would imagine a man would walk on | all fours, but with his back towards the | ground. Another object of charity, in the shape of a maimed man, is to be met in an old ccl- ored man, who has lost both legs below the knee. He wears shoes, not ordinary shoes, but shoes made specially for his purpose. They are so arranged as to fit him per- fectly on his knees and he manages to go through life on them with little apparent difficulty. He does not ask alms, but fs | willing to do work of almost any charac- ter, and the variety of manual labor he can Around Grand Army Hall there fs usually congregated any number of men who have lost either an arm or a leg in the defense They are, as a rule, very communicative and delight in spinning | yarns of the good old times “enduring of t! war.” The loss of their limbs does not ar pear to dampen their ardor and judging from the manner in which their counte- nances light up at the bare mention of the war they would all like to fight their hat- tles over again. In fact, this is often done in imagination whenever an audience can | be secured. Out of the five men seen in| front of that building three had lost arms, one a leg and the other had been badly shot through the face. In recounting their experiences not one expressed the slightest regret at the loss of their limbs, but on the contrary appeared glad of their mis- fortune. Legislators Who Are Maimed. Not alone among the poorer classes are maimed men to be found, but among al! classes. The United States Senate furnish- es in comparison to its members more than {ts quota of this class of gentlemen, as does also the lower house. A rather famfl- far face around the Capitol is that of Sena- tor John W. Daniel of Virginia. He war unfortunate enough to receive a ball in his leg during the war and for a number of years thereafter was forced to use crutches in order to move around. Of late years he has been doing without them and unless @ person were an exceedingly close observer the Injury to nether mb would not he detected by his walk. Col. William ©. house, fought through the war in the fif- teenth Alabama regiment. and in the twen- ty-seventh battle engaged in by him. in front of Richmond on the 16th of August, 1864, he suffered the loss of one arm. He was also wounded fn five other battles, twice very severely. Gen. Daniel Sickles of New York, also a member of the lower house, is a war veteran, and tn evidence of the service rendered “his country goes throuch life with one leg only. Probably one of the best known men tn Washington, and in fact throughout the Union, is Corporal Tanner. He was seen in his office in the Washington Loan and Trust Company's building, and when asked | to recount some of his ‘war experiences, consented willingly. He was more unfor. tunate than the majority of the maimed teroes of the war from the fact that instead of one he suffered the loss of both his legs. A Herote Act. “One of the most pathetic incidents that I can recall,” said he, “was shortly after the battle in which T was wounded. I, with a number of other wounded men, was lying in a tent in the rear of an old building, only | moving train, | Shattered as t Pure A cream of tartar der. Highest of all in lea strength.—Latest United States Governmen Food Report, Royal Baking Powder Oo, 106 Wall 8, N.Y @ short distance removed from the battle field, on which at that moment @ fierce struggle was raging. We had lain there pretty much all day, without attention any kind, and were almost perishing for want of water. One of the men, I ber, who was lying just beside oe to cry and moan for water, appeals were simply heart rending. For lime they made me forget my + was wd virtue of the loss incapacitated from taki: ward relieving the suffering of and was forced to remain with the rest. One soldier, I did his name, though I have often thought him since, after listening to our jong as possible raised himself upon his elbow, and after making a careful survey of the grounds near the tent, started to craw! out of the tent. This action oppeems to ne him much pain, but he bore it with- out a murmur, and bravely dragged him- self out of our sight. We were so much oc- cupied with our own sufferings that in a few moments we had entirely forgotten him. Fa lieu of water, eagerly devoured them would be drawing it mildly. While 1 was busily engaged in getting out- and to say that we side of mine my attention was attracted to the man who had so nobly befriended by hearing a groan pi from his hand, and with his eyes fix: glassy stare lay back upon the ground, though dead. I at once dragged myself over to him and found that my hero had drawn his last breath. He had alleviated our sufferings to the best of his ability, and had in all probability sacrificed his own life in the act. I considered that the most heroic act that came under my and Say that it as any that occurred of the war.” nother well-known man around ‘Wash- ington, who has only one leg, is Sherwood. He is also a war veteran, and lost his leg while in defense of his country. He, like Senator Daniel, wears a cork leg, and so well does he walk with it that one who did not know his record would hardly Suspect that he was crippled. An Intoxicated ripple. Drunken veterans are not Tare, “tis true, but to see an old man with only one leg and one arm in a beastly state of intoxica- tion is rather an uncommon occurrence. Such a one was seen on the avenue in the sree ~ borhood of 6th street, and he was fur- nishing a diversity of amusement for large crowd of bystanders. This was soon put an end to, however, by the advent of who started to arrest him. Just at this moment one of the old fellow > rades, who appeared to know him quite well, drew near, and Seeing the situation his friend was in requested to be allowed to ‘take his friend and comrade home. Permission was granted him by the officer to do 80, and the inebriated individual was a Hotels there is always to be found a ber of old confederate veterans, who ap. parently take as much pleasure in telling War stories as do their comrades of the Union cause. None of these latter are pen- sioners, of course, and they get their pro- rata of funds from Uncle Sam's strong box through the medium of the depart- Was seen ai soldier representing the lost cause sanding on the curbstone with his trousers rolled up to his knees and exposing a rather ar- tstically shaped cork leg. He was evident. ly using his misfortune to some advantage, for after standing in that position for some time and allowing the curious crowd to gaze upon his well-shaped artificial limb he doffed his hat and at once proceeded to take up a collection. He was well reward. ed for his efforts, judging from the number of jhands that went down into pockets, and after going the round of the entire crowd he delivered himself of a genuine rebel yell, and made for the nearest bar on the opposite side of the avenue. ‘Two Well-Known Sights. Another old soldier can be seen dally Standing at the ¢orner of 7th street and Pennsylvania avenue, with his wife an@ @ small, squeaky organ, from which the wife grinds out some of the most ear- piercing music that can be heard in Wash- ington. He is entirely without arms, hav- ing lost both of those necessary adjuncts to one’s anatomy by the premature ex- plosion of a cannon which he was ram- ming during the siege of Vicksburg. He has a competitor for the sympathies of the public in the Person of another younger man, who has also suffered loss of both arms; not, however in battle did the former unfortunate, but on the railroad. He was thrown from a rapidly and his arms were so badly that they and states that he S004 living by plying this there are who, makes a fairly — ee. Very few er noticin: e affliction from which he has oulereh on refuse to purchase a nickel pencil from him. and hence his comparative success, Blind men may be seen galore. They are such a common sight on the streets of Washington that very few people give them @ second glance. One of the best known of this latter class is an old colored man who fan be seen every afternoon walking rap- idly up and down the avenue led by a small boy crying “Star-yer” in quite a lusty tone. He informed the reporter that his blindness was caused by a stroke of lightning, but as he could give no data concerning the date of the accident or the place at which he was living when the bolt was supposed to have relieved him of his sight it was thought that that story was a concoction of his imaginative brain. He is certainly blind, however. His actions would demon- strate that. although his eyes appear to be Perfect and as clear as crystals. A One-Armed wi ard Player. It 1s exceedingly rare that one sees @ one-armed man play billiards and pool. Washington furnishes one of this class, and he is no novice at the art either. He frequents the billiard room of one of the avenue hotels and is willing to meet all comers. As he can find no one else here with one arm who can handle the cue, he 1s forced to content himself with playing with ordinary two-armed players, and he usually manages to win a great majority of the games. His manner of handling the cue is an exceedingly graceful one and his performances usually draw a large crowd of interested witnesses, who applaud his shots and sit in open-mouthed astonishment at his manipulation of the ivory. Unlike t rest of the very few one-armed billiard players, he does not use a_ spoon-shaped with which to make his shots, but uses an ordinary cue, such as is used by all other billiard players. A woman who has suffered the loss of one of her limbs is rather an unusual sight in Washington, or, in fact, elsewhere. Such an one, however, resides here, and may be seen quite often on F street. She is rather a pretty blonde and uses crutches to assist her in her progress. There are unquestionably more maimed men in Washington now than there has n for many a year, and it would appear t instead of decreasing, as would be t naturally supposed, their number in- ses every year. The cable cars are early turning out their number of injured individuals and the pension office always attracts a certain amount of them. If a candidate for a persion 4s unsuccessful in his endeavors to secure a pension he not wait to be invited but advances on Washington and the pension commissioner at once, or as soon thereafter as he can raise the necessary funds with which to make the trip. They are encouraged in this by the numerous pension attorneys who are located here and elsewhere. A number of them are elther successful Im obtaining their pension or become @ of Intendent Stoutenburgh.