Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1894, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. Disease Is an effect, not a cause. His origin ix within; its manifestations without. Hence, to cure the disease the enuse must be removed. and in no other way can a cure ever be effected. w "E Cure is established on Just this principle. It realizes that 5 PER CENT axes arixe from deranged ne and it strikes at the reot of the diiliculty. sof which if ix composed act m these great organs, @ both as a fac Pincing them in = healthy condition, drive diseuse and pain from the sys- tem. For the innumerable troubles caused by unhealthy Kidneys, Liver and Uri- mary Orguns: for the @ { Women; and physteal derangeme his great remedy has no st record ix a gaarantee erie London, Rochester. Melbourne, Frank- fort, Terent HAVE YOU FAILED —to get the rulief you hoped in the treatment of your nasal or thro difficulty? Perhaps you have been img to treat you tr the phy- siclan who hes been attending you has been lacking in experience or zbness? 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Dr. jan will tell you candidiy whether he cam eure you or not, aud his charge is but 85 PER MONTH for treatment. at any it wil COST YOU NOTHING. If you are dissatisied time during the first week DR. C. M. JORDAN, A graduate of the Medical rtment of the University of w York, 1421 ‘Throat, Lungs CONSULTATION FREE. Office hours: 9 to 11 am, 2 to 4 pm, 6 to § am. Sundays, 9 to 12 m. It foe ee es ad : FACIAL BLEMISHES. ‘The only institution in the south de- voted exclusively to the treatment of the Skin, Sealp and Blood and the removal of Facial Liemishes, ACNE, SUPERFLUOUS HAIR, PIMPLES, ECZEMA. RS, AND ALL pou Dr. He PM, perMatoroars a 4 POOF 9OS LODO HOOOOOEOE ESOS OOOS® o Med. Phila., University of Vienna. COR. 1TH AND F sts. mb10-eott POSPS SOD SOHOOHOOOH OS HOST HOS NO “ADT RIAN hid 1 mB Ix | iN Dh. CARLETON, Dr. ae ‘ski bora of expe- eevous Ci vuus AND ecial D et lity seases. NI y Ss 1 t nr v ‘ © Himited tw the treatment of % entiemen Exclusively Kian Urinary Whirlwind Letore ye a from G to 8 pm Itation free. o Cant al .Culture Cin %q “REMODELING” 0. 5S Hale PRICE SALE work 1p our as usual ss “topsy. at you want did corsets for ) 70 14TH. $1 LAN, Mer. fF st The | od and restorer, and. by | and had aj ‘and pains im the | <4 The American Reindeer. RICH ADDIT |ONS. To the National Museum Exhibits | From the Chicago Fair. ARRANGING THE VARIED TREASURES Graphic Representations of Abo- riginal Peoples. FROM THE ANIMAL ee | WORLD | During the past week National Museum curators and subordinate employes have been imitating the proverbial hymenoptera | with visible results. Order is slowly emerg- ing from the chaos incident to the return of material from the temporary interna- ,tioral metropolis on Lake Michigan, and about all of the unsightly boxes which cumbered the varfous courts having been opened, attention is now being assiduously | devoted to the permarent installation of | the contents. | Practically all of this material was placed | before the public for the first time at Chi- cago, and so, with few exceptions, is new | to the museum. Even those who passed be- | fore the cases in the white city will view | collections seemingly new to them, per-| haps, with the greater leisure now offered | for detailed inspection. Nearly everything | |at Jackson Park seemed buried in the vast- ness of the accumulation, and it may al- most be said that the mass of people who | visited the world’s fair went there to see immensity, not’ details. To give place to the rich additions pre- pared for the exposition is a problem draw- | Ing tightly on the eyebrow gathering strings | of the museum administration. Every one | knows that the present ‘buildings have long been inadequate, and now that large and interesting new cases are blocking the | aisles of the courts, some kind of a trans- formation within the building becomes inev- itabie. This transformation is In progress, and one of its incidents is the total remov- al from the museum floors of the interest- ing and beautiful insect display belonging to Prof. Riley's division of the Department of Agriculture. That collection has been in the same hall containing the surgeon gen- eral’s material, which also has been remov- | ed, to reappear just where is at present | hard to say. Huge Wooden Idols. The insects and the drugs are being dis- placed by Mr. Koehler’s pictures, driven from the position heretofore allotted to the |department of graphic arts by Prof. Ma- son’s Indiars. The department of ethnol- oxy will thus be allowed (and fairly) two | apartments, though out of this Dr. Adler is to have a place near the rotunda foun- tain for the machinery of oriental religions. |Two huge wooden idols, one representing | | Vishna, the other Buddha, have been placed , | for the time on the other side of the statue of Liberty. They were sent to Chicago from some temple in Ceylon. Not far from them | and a case of yery fine and large mummy | nvelopes, furnished by the Egyptian gov- |ernment, which were unpacked several, | weeks ago. The result of Professor Mason's work is a remarkable and interesiing collection of ethnological figures, attired in the very | garments worn by individuals of the races {and tribes represented, and surrounded by | utenstis of their own manufacture. In the | preparation of these groups Professor Ma- json was assisted by Messrs. Cushing, Holmes and Mooney of the bureau of eth- nology. Over twenty cases are required for their protection, and the aboriginals repre- sented are the Eskimos from Labrador to Bering sea, the Indians of the interior of Alaska and northern Canada, those of the | | Pacific coast of British Columbia, the var- | fous tribes of the plains, all the Pueblo | tribes, those of the Gulf of California, the | | ans, | Indians. One of the most notable of the group is a “big Indian” of the plains and his family. The warrior is seated upon his (stuffed) pony, and is glorious“in full dress uniform of feathers and beads. His squaw also des, but the pony is burdened with the camp equipment and children, supported by draz poles trailing in the rear of the animal. In one case two Pueblo women are engaged In the manvfacture of earthen ware, and the several steps in the process are very clearly illustrated. The walls of the vessels are built up by the coiling cf clay ropes, in which act one of the figures is represented as engaged. Another Pueblo woman is plaiting large and handsone basket trays, several of which, unfinished, are strewn about. A Navahoe woman is kneeling before a erude loom, upon which the partly woven cloth, of pleasing design, is progressing in response to her efforts. A companion by her side is whirling a spindle, the yarn from which feeds the loom. Another case will contain a Navahoe silver smith, and the old historic Eastern ! In «a Zuni Kitchen. Four Zuni women, with neatly dressed black hair, are engaged in the prepara- tion of food. Before one, who is crushing the kernels with a long flat stone, lies a heap of corn cobs, a second is grinding the meal to a finer powder, a third is parching corn in a vessel over a fire, and a fourth is baking corn cakes on a flat stone. Visitors pause a bit longer than usual to inspect four Indian children, with their dolis and toy weapons, who have con- structed a small tent. The most -ostly group is that representing an imitation ceremony, in which a novitiate is being introduced into the secrets of the lodge. Were this group to be purchased its cust would be something lke $2,400. The prin- cipal personage wears a heimet-like mask, siving him a decidedly grotesque appear- ance. The usual guess by visitors is that this personage is a “medicine man.” A case ich must not escape mention is that which will contain a group of Indians of the District of Columbia, quarrying jint at Piney branch in the time of Capt. Smith, about three hundred years ago. The stuffed menagerie of Mr. True’s de- partment is perhaps quite as interestin to the general public as Prof. Mason's artificial men. Some noteworthy sp mens have been added. The huge wal. brought from Alaska in the fall of 1891 ty the Corwin is the buikiest animai now in the hall, and Is one of the !argest ‘3. *Mr. Palmer, the chief taai- dermist, who directed the mounting of this and the other new! specimens, spent some time in northern waters in the study of the animal's deportment and appearance at home. A big northern sea lion, to the fish commission, ts of similar | . aS are several handsome groups cf | lions and seals, arranged gracefu'ly | ocks. This material | s used also in repfeenting two sections | m Rocky mountain cliffs, in which the | | stratification is well imitated. Six moun- tain sheep, one of them a fine “big-iorn” at the top of the cliff, occupy one of these sections. The other gives support to four Rocky mountain “goats.” The systematic naturalist classes these animals with the antelope group, instead of placing them | in the household of the creature accredited with a taste for tomato cans. int sen upon papier mache ¥: Probably the cases most attractive to the eve are those containing the Caribou groups —the reindeer of North America. One case presents three of the woodland variety, distinguished by heavier antlers than the barren ground specimens possess, which attract attention to the other case. Col. Clay of this city secured three of the skins. | Just now the government is engaged in the | importation of reindeer from Asia to pro- vide a means of subsistence for the na- tives of Alaska reduced to suffering by the | diminution of the number of marine mam- mals from which they had heretofore de- | rived their support. Since the Asiatic and | North American reindeer are the same it | is interesting to note the success of the Siberian savage in the domestication of the snimal in comparison with no such at- tainment on the part of the American | | eboriginal. The case may perhaps be com- | ed with that of the domesticated dog | and the wild coyote, though it would seem that the practical difference would be less im the case of the reindeers. | A great sacred bull and a queer looking domestic cow from India attract the at- | | tention of even the hasty visitor by their | | size. They constitute part of a series of | domestic animals presented at the expo- sition by the mammal department. In the branches of a persimmon tree de- vouring the wrinkled fruit are two cre which will be recognized by visitors | from every section of the country, for (| distribution of the bear's little cousin, the | ; the stupid and uncouth animal itself. | animal. ‘coon, is about universal throughout the states. Similarly familiar will be the in- teresting group of specimens of the only marsupial extant north of the Rio Grande. The positions of these opposums in and about their holes under the roots of a tree are beautifully natural, though the average visitor has little of admiration to spend = is a relic of former ages, when mammals with brains no better, or little better, than those of birds and reptiles inhabited the earth. ‘The Ant Eater. One other peculiar member of the North American mammalian fauna is also a rem- nant of an order of creatures whose best days went with the past. That is the ar- medillo, Three are represented in the thorny environment of their Texan home in a small case which elicits many ex- clamations from visitors. Partly concealed by the’stiff leaves of a yuca plant may be | seen the burrow of the harmless creature descending beneath the dry surface of the | sultry plain, covered with cacti and other harsh vegetation. The hard coat of the ant eater is eminently in keeping with the crusty demeanor of its inhospitable sur- roundings. Another case with a burrow is that cohtaining a family of badgers. The old gentleman of the group holds the limp body of a thirtzen-lined spermophile in his mouth. In the west this “ground squirrel’ is the principal food of the badger. The spermophile is a famous tunnel excavator, but unfortunately for the little rodent the carnivorous digger is its superior under- ground. One large case is devoted to four rats. But the space is not wasted. The speci- mens are wood rats from southern Califor- nia, and are remarkable for the immense houses they construct of sticks. The rodents in the case are represented as engaged upon ene of these structures nearly four feet in height. These Neotoma (as they are termed by mammal students) do some strange things, seemingly out of a pure taste for industry, such as changing the location of a large pile of unshelled corn in a single night, though the change may give them no apparent advantage. The wood rat is not even a close relative of the common house | rat, the cotton rats and rice rats of the south having characters more in common with the immigrant from Europe. The nes: in the case is not a “made-up” affair, but was transperted bodily from the locality where the little animals had piled the sticks. Wherever among any of the new groups soil or plants are used in rep- resenting the environment the materials have been obtained from the home of the ‘Thus the moss in the caribou cases | was brought from Alaska and Newfound- land, the yuca, with the armadillos, from the southwest, and the soil in which is made the badger burrow from Kansas. The taxidermist has aimed at scientific truth- fulness. Some Fossilized Forms. Students of structure will find that Mr. Lucas has added much attractive material to the collection of the department of com- | parative anatomy, presenting the organic mechanisms of typical forms from the low- est to the most highly specialized in such a manner as to interest any reflective and observant mind in this fascinating field of science. In the case devoted to the for- amenifera will be found a marble-like sec- tion of stone displaying what is taken to be a fossil of one of the earliest known forms of terrestrial life, the ‘“eozoon" of the old Canada limestones. Revelations of the anatomy of the bee, the horse and man represent some of the upper extremities of the diverging scale of organic develop- ment. As of intermediate position are in- teresting models of the internal arrange- ment of the domestic fowl, the leech, the Star fish, the octopus and others. A long series of cases display bone sections and the modified limbs of various vertebrates. Coloring is used to aid the student in fol lowiag the same bone in the skulls of ani- mals of each of the five vertebrate classes. Perhaps the most gratifying tofthe general visitor is a series of ten hen eggs show- ing the gradual development of the un- hatched chick throughout the whole process of incubation, and the most striking are the skeletons of a man and a horse side by side, the former rearing tn the air. On each bone of these skeletons the name ts inscribed. The new bird groups will repay any lover of the beautiful for a visit to the Smith- sonian building. Near the entrance stands Mr. Wood’s superb collection of pigeons, fluttering and standing in life-like attitudes about the porches of a handsome pigeon house. Mr. Wood has made a special study of bird expression, which tells in his work. Some of the specimens in this collection are of great value; the variety is wonderful. Opposite the pigeons the visitor will no- tice something certain to arrest his atten- tion. Four bower birds from Austrailia are chasing each other in a playful manner through and about a bowerlike structure whose entrance is strewn with shells. One species employs flowers in place of shells, replenishing the supply as fast as the blossoms wither. This structure is not a nest. but a: kind of festive hall, during the social season of courtship. A little further away is the representation of what may be called a prize ring. A group of wesiern grouse are arranged abcut a well-scratched plat of ground where the males will settle the question of ascendancy in regular barn-yard fashion. The defeated bird selects one of the hens in haste and tegether they make off. “She seems to think she has some great lord!” Speaking of these birds, Mr. Wood reach- ed up to a shelf in front of him tn the taxi- dermist's shop and held before the writer a specimen, still bound in strings, which for use seemed to be the same in kind. But it was an eastern grouse, one shot in Long Island, “the last of its race.” This species is now a’most extirct, and before long will be as valuable as the Greek Auk. Almost Extinet Species, Nine of the old-fashioned native carrier pigeons are mounted upon an oak branch in one case. These birds are now about gone, while in former years trees were actually broken down by the weight of the immense flocks. Still another bird now almost ex- tinct is the paraquet, which formerly ranged from Florida to New York and Obto. Quite a number of these are mounted upon a cockleberry bush, eating the seeds. Walk- ing upon the lily leaves of a glass pond are two beautiful aquatic specimens, armed with short horns upon the wings. These the Mexican Spaniards called “Jesus birds,” as they seem to walk about on the surface of the water. The nest of the song thrush in the black- berry briars and of the butcher bird in the thorn tree are plac r each other. On the limbs of the tree hang the pierced bodies of a sparrow and a meadow mouse, while the old bird Is feeding an insect ‘to the young in the nest. The butchering of small birds and animals seems to be done purely as an amusement. The industry of the red- headed woodpecker filling holes in the limb of a tree with acorns, as shown in another case, may be a more pleasant sight to sens!- tive eyes. Two fine ivory bills, hanging to the back of an ash, are to be seen not far away. ee eae Homoeopathy in Washington, Upon the invitation of Mr. John Joy Ed- son, president of the board of trustees of the National Homeopzthic Hospital, the officers of the hospital and the homeopathic physicians of Washington, and their wives, met the board of trustees at his residence last night, and were pleasantly entertained by Mr. and Mrs, Edson. All that apper- tains to the present successful working of | the hospital and measures to be inaugurat- ed in the immediate future to promote its welfare and usefulness were thoroughly and satisfactorily considered. The Ladies’ Aid Association, which has raised about all the money for the many improvements for the hospital, is highly apprecia good results realized. of the hospital are very bright for increas- ing and continuing its good work. a Committee on Reception. The committee on reception of the K. of P. encampment met ‘or organization at Pythian headquarters iast night. £ ¢ Yost was elected chairman and A. H. Ghan secretary. The chairm: the following committ Woitz, 3 Wagner, Capt. nders, . Columbus, S. W. Gillingham, br. Marvin Custis, W. D. Acker, W. F. Hewett, T. H. Brown, Dr. Grinder, C. T. Rode McGhan, E. C. Gill, Maj. Beebe, 3 gitt, J. W. Tolson, W. H. Yost, W. P. Tul- lock, J.’ F. Davis, T. Hdwin Ciurk, jr., Emory Hibbs, Edwin M. Grinder, Cox, George Clark, William Vaughn, Archie Thompson, J. F. Scaggs, L. ©. Wood, J. Fred Kelley, W. H. Veernoff, Pliny’ M. Hough, N. W. Moore, H. P. Brown, Fred imaster, A. L. Yost, James Bell, Frank E s, F. J. Augusterfer, james Prince, Charles H. Voss, C. R. Dodge end RK. H. Lamb. a Will Not Lecture. Dr.E.G.Hirsch of Chicago will not lecture at the Eighth Street Synagogue tomorrow evening, but wiil undoubtedly lecture later in the season, under the auspices of tae Young Men's Hebrew woclation. ed for Its untiring efforts and the | The future prospects | ~ | with the pneumatic tube, the Postmaster B. | six inches in diameter, and is capable of ‘| | |AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN | | Still Arguing Over the Strength of | the Aqueduct Piers. More Depredations in Chnarch Yards— To Destroy Weeds in Maryland— Custom Receipts — Notes. The resurrected report of the unsubstan- tlality of one of the Aqueduct bridge's piers is again causing comment emphatically not | in accord with the alleged result of the ex- |amination. An engineer of Georgetown | States that he has carefully inspected ev- ery plier supporting the bridge, and would Stake his professional reputation upon their solidity. Another citizen, who claims to have worked upon the construction, and who has tood upon the unmoving rock upon which every pier is founded, laughed when asked what he thought of the report. “Un- less those piers are torn down by an earth- quake or by the hands of men, there is not a being living today who will see them, or | any of them,lose an iota of their usefulness.” Mr. Mankins of 35th street, another of those who helped to build the pfers, Says they are as invincible as the rocks of Gib- raltar. This morning there are men at | work on the fourth pier from the Virginia end, placing thereon a capping of three half-inch tron plates. Around this pier also has been placed just above the water line a round iron band. Its object, the workmen say, is to prevent the spreading of the stones. Another Depredation. Another depredation has been committed in the old Presbyterian cemetery. The vault containing the remains of Mrs. Mar- garet Chandler, the mother of the late Capt. Chandler of Georgetown, has been destroyed and the bricks are being nightly taken away. The majority have already gone. An attack has also been made upon the adjoining vault, which contains the remains of other members of the Chan- dler family. Capt. Chandler, who died but a few months ago, after having lived the life of a hermit for many years, was, dur- ing the war, a southern naval officer, and did splendid service to the cause he es- poused. His hermitage on Valley street, an Isolated cottage, has not been touched since his death, none of his relatives ap- pearing to clalm it, though, from a dis- tance, they had charge of his burial. To Destroy Weeds. A bill providing for the destraction of thistles and other noxious we2ds within the boundaries of Maryland was introduced yesterday. Its object is to protest prin- elpally the clover crop, which is yearly in- jured by these weeds, it velag almost im- possible, too, to obtain clear clover seed, they being invariably mixed with these foreign ones. The bill nakes it the duty of road supervisors, municipal corporations and individual farmers to destroy all weeds found within the limits of teh property controlled by them. Custom Receipts. The receipts of the Georgetown custom house for the week ending today were as follows: Decorated china, $102; manufac- tured” metal, $610; olive oil, $165; cham- pagne, $398; wines in casks, "1,111; toys, paper, $293; books, $215, and manufactured $80, Total, $2,974. The commissions of the coll port last week amounted to $89. Fast Driving. Chas. Croggin and Geo. Williams were ar- rested early this morning ‘or driving at a terrific rate through the streets of the town. ‘They were also under the influence of liquor and disorderly, which contributed to their incarceration, A Virginia farmer named Praxton was ar- rested last night for fast driving oa the Aqueduct bridge. The offense wa commit- ted several days ago. Special Officer Lucas took the man into custody. Independent Lodge. | _The members of Independent Lodge, I. O. G. T., were proud of the audience that attended their entertainment last evening and enjoyed heartily the program. Dr. Thes. J. Jones gave several recitations of merit, especially the “Benediction;” Mr. Ambrose L. Ogle gave “Paul Revere’s Ride” with splendid effect, and Misses Nannie and May Johnson’ and Messrs. Veemyer, Britton, Schuman and Sweeney added to the occasioi enjoyablen 2 through the rendition of vocal and instr mental musical sciections. Luther Benson, Luther Benson, the temperance orator and author of “Fifteen Years in Hell,” will speak on Wednesday evening next at the Dumbarton Avenue Church. Mr. Ben- son is said to be as fine a speaker as John B. Gough was in his palmiest day. All are invited to be present. Notes. ‘The Rev. J. B. Stitt, the new pastor of Dumbarton, will preach the first sermon of his new pastorate tomorrow morning. This morning at 9 o'clock services were held at Trinity Church in honor of St. Pat- rick, Ireland's greatest patron. The Hibere nian Society was present in force. The services were solemn and impressive. Father Scanlon preached the sermon, dis- coursing on the saint, and on Ireland, her oppressed and their continued faith in her final delivery. ee ES PNEUMATIC TUBES, ‘The Success of This Method for Mails in Philadelphia, While the experiment of the pneumatic tube as the most modern method for the transmission of the mails has proved a suc- cess, there is no likelihood that it will be adopted by the Post Office Department and put into gereral use for a long time. Such an innovation would not only be most ex- Fensive to the government, but in order to perfect the system, much time and labor must necessarily be consumed in the sur- veying of the routes and laying of the tubes in the large cities where the postal service would warrant its use. About a year ago a company was organized Philadelphia, among whom wer gentlemen who witnesséd the w: the Paris system. A proposition by them to the Postmaster Gene which they agreed to lay a pneumatic tube between the Fhiladelphia post office and the East Chestnut street station—about half a mile distant—without any e the government, in the pe event the department was satisfied with the success of the experiment it would be adopt- ed and put into general use. The company agreed to lay the tube and maintain the expense for one year. The exp: t has been watched with the closest interest by the post office officials, and the general nion is that It ig a success in every par- lar. Encourag® by its practicability, r company was shortly afterward formed in New York for the purpose of laying a tube between New York and | Brooklyn. Much difficulty was experienced in getting the right of way over the Brook- jlyn bridge, but finally consent was given and the work was about to be started when the general depression in business and financial circles set in and the plan was abandoned. The Philadelphia company, however, continued the use of its tube tree of expense to the government. On Febru- ary 1, last, its contract expired, and they were unwilling to, continue the transmis- sion of the mails unless the government shared a proportion of the expease, Appli- cation was made to the Postmaster Gen- | eral, and it was agreed to do this and to | maintain the tube until next February. Al- though no specific appropriation kas ever j been made by Congress for experimenting | General felt warranted, in view uf the suc- |cess of the undertaking, in drawing upon | the emergency fund at his disposal to con- | tinue its use, The tube now used in Phila- | delphia, and which, in time, is expected to | be put into general use in all large cities, is | pronounced, by foreign experts who have visited this country, to excel those in opera- tion in London and Paris. The interior of |the Paris tube is about thr2e inches in | @lameter, the English tube is even smaller, | while that used in Philadeiphia ts nearly urrving newspaper packages. The Paris nd London tubes are confined strictly to the transmission of letters. Showed Fight. John Williams, a young negro, from Green county, Va., was in Anacostia this morn- ing in company with five tramps, and when |found in the Baltimore and Ohio freight yard some of the railroad employes ordered the party off. Five of them started away, but Williams drew a dangerous knife and showed fight. He was arrested by Police- man Bell, and Judge Miller gave him a | month in jail IN HOTEL CORRIDORS, “There comes the gamest man in the United States army,” said an old campaigner yesterday, 2s a tall young man walked into the Ebbitt lobby and made some inquiry at the desk. Such a remark naturally made him an object of interest. There was noth- ing o? the dashingly picturesque about the officer. His eyes were as blue and bright as a June sky, his cheeks were as as those of a girl, and a blonde mustache fell carelessly over a mouth half opened in a charming smile. “He is Capt. Matthias Day of the ninth cavalry,” continued the older officer, “and is here on leave. He has served, by the way, west of the Missouri river for seven- teen years and has seen continued hard service. Day's gallantry is dazzling. He was the first officer to receive the medal of honor for conspicuous bravery since the close of the war, and there was really a good deal of difficulty in getting for him the medal he so magnificently earned. Since then, however, the decorations have been scattered with a more than liberal hand. “Do I know the circumstances of Day’s medal winning? I am not likely ever to forget them, nor will any other man who has ever served with him. It was on the 18th day of September, 1879, when down in Las Animas canon, N. M., there were de- tachments of troops A and B, ninth cavalry, and ten Navajo scouts, the little body commanded by Lieut. Harry Wright, who, by the way, is a Washington man. The trail was hot, the pace was rapid; and just as the scouts who were in the advance started to move out of the canon, they ran upon anywhere from one hundred and seventy- five to two hundred Indians, who were be- hind breastworks in a pocket that afforded admirable opportunities for defense. The first volley from the Indians killed three scouts and wounded five; the next volley wounded two soldiers and a number of horses. Then the shooting became gene= and the nineteen men in Lieut. Wright's command had ali they could do to keep up their end of the struggle. One of the wounded soldiers was named Crump, and in the backward rush, made necessary by the extremely hot Indian fire, he was left be- hind. That was about 9 o'clock in the morn- ing, and for the two hours following the In- dians made things more than interesting, succeeding finally in closing around the rear of the little handful who represen: ican civilization. Things looked couraging at that time, when suddenly the sound of trumpets was heard in the canon and a battalion of ninth cavalrymen, com- manded by Capt. gByer, charged and was driven back, Then an assault by the In- dians cut the little detachment, that had been fighting for more than two hours, in two pieces, and thus minimized their chances for getting away. Up to this time every- body thought Crump was dead, but he called out, and was told to He behind a horse near him, in the saddle pockets of whose saddle he would find two canteens; and as the day was blisteringly hot, water was an absolute necessity. The struggle continued right along, but after 3 o’clock no sound was heard from Crump, and it was concluded that he was dead. Just before dusk, neither side having gained advantage, it was de- cided to retreat down the canon, and Wright ordered Day, who was his junior, to retreat with them. That was a difficult operation, but Day elected to do something much more dificult. He disobeyed the order to retreat, succeeded in crawling to where Crump lay, took him on his back and moved toward the battalion, then more than a quarter of a mile away, on his hands and knees. If I remember rightly, Day’s carbine, which was on a swivel, hit Crump somewhere in the neighborhood of his wound, the weapon hav- ing been caught by a scrap of brush. The pain was so intense that Crump screamed, and that called the attention of the Indians to that which had been concealed from them previously—the escape of Day from the angie in which they supposed they had him imprisoned. There was no time to think. Day picked the wounded negro up in his arms, and, amid such a hail of bullets as few men pass threugh and live, ran at his greatest possible speed. For 250 yards he was exposed to a terrific fire, and then he dropped, still carrying the wounded man some seven or eight feet, into compar- ative shelter. But he was not yet out of danger. For another hundred yards a large percentage of bullets that were being sent after him were dangerously close, ana they were getting closer, when he met two enlist ed men of company A,who had left Wright retreating detachment and had turned back to assist Day in rescuing Crump. Retween them they carried the desperately injured man for a little distance, and then they came across their horse, with but three sound legs, the other having been broken by a bullet. The wounded man was then put on a horse, and one of the men, whose name, I think, was Adams, jumped up be- hind him, saying that Crump had been hit | once and probably couldn't stand another injury. Then the lame animal was forced into a gallop, and after the little party had been under fire for three or four minutes longer, they succeeded in reaching the bat- talion and. shelter. A more plucky deed than that done by Day in the Las Animas canon is not to be found in the history of any army.” A tall, loose-jointed, grizzly haired man lounged into the lobby of the Metropolitan last night and willingly talked horse with the corridor man. He was Clint Shep- herd, the well-known trainer, and he was on his way to Memphis to attend the com- ing meeting there. “I heard the other day that the Keenes had been offered a hundred thousand di lars for Domino and had given. the felld who did it the laugh,” he remarked. “I don’t blame ‘em a bit, if .h® cult keeps up the promises he made as a two-year-old. If he is the equai of Morello, and I think he is, a hundred thousand ain’t big money for him. Domino has, I ceckon, stage en- gagements this season that will root up $150,000, and if he has the speed that Mo- rello had he ought to win two-thirds of that money anyhow. Somebody may say that G. W. Johnson had $130,000 worth of engagements last year and didn't win any- thing, but that proves nothing. Look at Tournament and Tammany. They won bver a hundred thousand ench last year. I tell you, a great three-year-old {s a fine piece of property, and if Domino is the king of ‘em, as he ts pretty apt to b n cats money and a big fat wal be- “I do not attribute the recent remarka- ble changes in municipal electioas in the north to dissatisfaction with the demo- cratic party much as I do to the in- creased public favor with which civil serv- ice principles are being reveived,” said Dawson Price of Buffalo at the Arlington this morning. “There is a growing de- mand everywhere for more economy in the conduct of public affairs. The people ai beginning to realize the fact that county and municipal governments are primarily business agencies for the transaction of the public business of the community and not in uny large sense governmenis endow- ed wit litical power. As county and r municipal organizations have no substan- tlal executive or legislative capacity, no reason exists why considerations of purty politics should enter into the selection of the officers of such organizations any more than in the selection of employes for any private business. The agitation in this di- rection is now going on in may places, and it may result in concet action in the near future in many states to endeavor to withdraw all county and :nunicipal offices from partisan politics and to make the sole test for such cffices honesty and ca- pacity and the faithful performance of duties the sole prerequisite to re-election.” “I see the eastern papers have been re- cently publishing accounts of the fortifica- tons at Esquimauit, on Vaaconver Island, which the British government have com- menced to erect. I was up there several weeks ago and had an opportunity in Vie- toria to learn something about the stupen- dous work laid out.” The speaker was Walter Resin of Cleveland, who is at the Riggs House and nearing the completion of a pleasure trip that took him ail over America. “Maybe you are already familiar with the facts, but I'll iell ‘em anyhow. In the first place, it is England's inten- tion in fortifying Esquimault to command the North Pacific coast and Puget sound. The restlessness of the United States in its desire to secure a naval station in the Pacific and the rush of Russian railroads across Siberia have made ‘he sensibie Brit- ons open their eyes to the future possibili- ties. The works will cost many millions WIFT'S SPECIFIC ee For renovating tho entire system, eliminating all Potoons from tbs Blood, whether of scrofulous or malarial origin, this preparation has no equal. Bisa S'S.S. a “For eighteen months I had an eating sore on my tongue. I was treated by best local physicians, but obtained no relief; the sore ‘radually grew Cured after using few bottica." nd r using a few me CG Be McLEMone, Henderson, Tex. ——— Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis- eases mailed free. THE Swiet Spectric Co., Auanta, Ga. of dollars, and a peculiarity of their con- struction is that they will be almost entire- ly under ground. The modern gun car- riage, with its elevator attachment, will allow all the immense rifles with which the fortress will be equipped to remain at rest really in the bowels of the earth until they are needed. A system of tunnels, it is said, will connect with the various parts of the place, and precautions will be tatzen that will make an attack upon Esquimault or Victoria impossible by land, while the har- | bors of both places will be protected by submarine mines of the most deadiy char- acter. I suppose Esquimault will be the rendezvous for the great Jeet which Eng- land proposes placing in the North Pacific. The old lady is looking ahead and prepar- ing for trouble out there without any ques- ion.”” “Our city is just now in great danger of losing the Missouri river,” said George Henderson of Atchison, Kan., at the St. James today. “And not only that, but the iron bridge over the river and the railroads reaching Atchison from the east are pretty nearly sure to be cut off, too. For several years the river has been cutting away the bank above the railroads on the Missouri side to such an extent «hat two or three thousand acres of iand have been carried away, as well as a good deal of the site of st Atchison. The government spent $75,000 in protecting the bank, but the work was improperly done, and last June a freshet came along and swept all the im- provements out. Since then the river has resumed its warfare, and several valuable farms have been washed away. This year since the river began to rise the bank has been caving in at an alarming rate. Origi- nally the shore line was over a mile from the railroad tracks; now it is less than a hundred yards, and the railroad men are ready to tear up the tracks at the shortest possible notice. If the river cuts through, as it is feared it will, it will throw the Missouri river fully a mile from the east bank of its present bed, leave the big iron bridge spanning a lake and cut off all rail communication with the east. Then. also, every house of every sort, including a v uable pork-packing plant in East Atchison, will be swept away. Should ithe worst happen, $1,500,000 would not cover the loss. Only Providence can prevent the river cutting through, as the river ts too high now to admit of work being done, even if there was plenty of money at hand to 4o it. The railroads I spoke of as being in danger are the Kansas City, St. Joe and Council Bluffs, the Missouri Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe, the Hannibal and St. Joe and the Rock Island. Each will lose a mile of track at least, besides yards and sidings.” “New York may have underground rapid transit in the near future tn spite of the Manhattan Elevated railway’s efforts to the contrary,” said George R. Fitch of Gotham at the Shoreham last night. “The plan of ex-Mayor Hewitt, which is embrac- ed in a bill that will shortly be submitted to the legislature, is very favorably regard- ed, and has the hearty support of the cham- ber of commerce and the board of trade, as well as of most of the men wno have made the subject of rapid transit a study. The bill in question provides for the creation of a new commission, to consist of the mayor, | the controller of the city, the president of | the chamber of commerce, and four other members, not yet selected, out who will be specifically named in the bill. Stripped of | its technical requirements, the measure pro- vides that after a plan is decidei upon and | approved by the common council of the | city the commissioners are to make a con-| tract for the construction and the opera- tion of the road by one and the same re) sponsible party or corporation, who shall be | bound to equip and maintain it and to pay | as rental to the city an annual sum equai to the interest on the municipal bonds i sued to pay for the cost of the construction, | which interest will probably be 3 per cent, and to 2 per cent of the amcunt of those bonds, making 5 per cent in all. The part of the rental remaining after the interest on the bonds is paid is to form a sinking | fund, that would in the course cf time! amount to sufficient to retire the bonds and leave the city the owner of a system of rapid transit free from all meumbrance. While the bill contemplates an \nderground system, it lays no restriction upon the en- tire or partial use of other methods.” —_—_—_— Congressi: Temperance Society. The Congrcgsional Temperance Society will hold its sixtieth annual meeting at the Metropolitan M. E. Church, 4 1-2 and C streets, tomorrow evening. Addresses will be delivered by Messrs. N. Dingley, E. A. Morse, H. W. Blair, J. A. Pickler, Martin N. Johnson and others. The meeting will be in commemoration of Hon. Neal Dow's ninetieth anniversary, which occurs March 20. At the annual business meeting of the society held at the Capitol on the 9th inst., the old officers were re-elected: Hon.N.Din, ley, president; vice presidents, Senators Col- quitt and Wilson and Congressmen Morse, Pickler, Johnson, Blair. and ex-Member of Congress G. D. Taylor; secretary, Rev. F. D. Power. —_——> Grand Army Night. Last night was Grand Army night at the Old Guard fair at Light Infantry armory. The men in blue were headed by the Mount Pleasant drum corps, and, after entering, formed in line in front of the speaker's platform. Capt. J. W. Edgar of the Old Guard welcomed the arrivals, and Com- marder Bickford responded. Three cheers for the G. A. R. were given by the Guard, and the Grand Army returned the compli- ment with a wealth of lung athletics which made the ceiling quiver. The Legion of Loyal Women, National Rifles and Ordway Rifies will visit the fair on Monday night,and on Tuesday night the Fencibles and Columbia Division, Knights of Pythias, will pay a call. — Marriage Licenses, Marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of the court to the following: George Carter and Mary Laws6n; Carroll D. Hain and Mary W. Cole, both of Stanardsville, Va.; Caleb Pumphrey and Sarah Roston; Fritz Walter and Anna Byer; Andrew Mil- ler of Alexandria, Va., and Cora Tinsbloom of Westmoreland county, V; Joseph F. Straton of Richmon@, V and Ida B. Franklin of Manchester, Va.; George Wash- ington and Lottie Carter, both of Caroline county, Va.; Lewis Deskins and Frances Dean, > Joint Debate. The Y. M. C. A. is to hold a joint debate with the American Club of Brooklyn to- night at the association building. The question for consideration is “That inde- pendence in politics is preferable to party affiliation.” Washington has the affirma- tive end, and her interests will be main- tained by Messrs. Fred. Tashber, William P. Freeman, L. Cabel Williamson. Brook- lyn will be championed by Messrs. Hugh M. Roberts, John M. Ward and Willlam A. Clontier. an’ Decorative Art Sale. The Decorative Art Socie 720 17th street, will hold a special sale Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. The work to be displayed is sald to be particu- larly beautiful and suftable for Easter gift dpe iceetetgeenteseseeeaememeianiaiaetes, FROM PROMINENT PEOPLE. 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