Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1894, Page 17

. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. MOTHER GOOSE CLUB Organized by Women| Tired of Browning, Ibsen and Other Fads. THE INNER MEANING OF THE RHYMES Domestic Happiness is the Bucket Jack Carried for Jill. TER PUMPKIN EATER vening Star. 0 YOU BELONG TO a Mother Goose ‘lub?" asked the wo- man who was wait- ing for change, of her an- the woman who has just come back to town. “I haven't even be of ft. What is ic “It. {9 the very latest development of the club ide women, and it ie going to be unm the thing in Washington this winter. know of three clubs aire: irragine what fun it is. I belong to the ‘Thursday Afternoon Club—mests today. We 4 the loveliest time Inst week—a regular nk tea, you know.” “Yes: but what has with it?” her companion asked. 2 “Oh, we discuss Mother Goose just as we vsed to discuss Browning and Ibsen and Meredith, and all that sort of thing, you know. You thought Mother Goose wrote mete doggerel rhymes for children, I sup- Pese. Well, she didn't. Everything she wrote had a deep and allegorical meaning. Why, it’s a regular philesophy, Every lite verse is a text, and—well, you come along to the meeting with me ard you'll see. We meet with the Georgia woman who originat- ed the idea this afternoon. It’s such a re- lief to be rid of the everlasting discussions V Mother Goose to do of unpleasant things written by women who oughtn’t even to think them; and now we're all sitting down at the feet of Mother Geose to learn wisdom.” The meeting of the Mother Goose Club that afternoon was held in a sunny K street @rawing room, and, contrary to the custom of feminine gatherings, it began so promptly that it was already well under way when the enthusiastic member and her friend ar- rived. There was nothing of the formality of a club about the meeting. ere scattered about the and on divans, and the swing tea. An open copy of rhymes lay in her lap, the bright-colored illustrations staring from the pa t as they used to look to our delighted eyes when we were children. Several of the members, also, were pro- vided with books. The woman in the tailor-made gown was the first speaker of the afternoon. “I have twen assizned the story of Jack * said she, while all the other wo- ttled themselves into comfortable at- or Goose’ titudes to listen at their ea “Now, eems to me that this is one of the simplest poems we haye—the easiest to and. It begins Jack and Jill w To fetch a pail of water . that is life. Here we have Jack the a « husband and under: the hill Wife, starting out in i happy. quite sure of t ‘They co up the hill, for even to them life 1s not too easy. There is a ain amount of toil involved. Jack carries the bucket—their domestic happiness; he means to carry all the burdens—and all goes well; but Jack is not prudent. He has not made Jill really She knows nothéng of his Jack does not want her money matters. Hard against a stone and Jack fell down and broke bis crown, And Jill came tumbling after.’ e. Jill went too, and domestic ss. the home, all go to smash, for has been extravagant im her ignor- jome did trot, caper. With vinegar and brown paper.’ “Of course he did—the eternal selfishness ef inant Evervbe condoled with him. His friends combined to help him recover his footing. He thought only of himself. His lif- was ruined. His happiness was gone. He had no thought of Jill's misery. But Jill tried to pu ood face on it, “Then Jill cam n to grin At sight of th plaster. Jack's mother, vexed, Vowed she'd whip her next, causing Jack's disaster.’ was Jack's mother? Who is every uns. mother andy. Mrs. dy called Jill he for her bravery famed all the m on her. Mrs. being a woman, is the natural of other woman.” thi et queried the men should share their interests with thetr wives, as their wives must share their defeats, and that v way it turns out the mother-in-ls nothing to do with it. “My verse, t leals with the married sald the member with the biuet hat, Little Bo Peep. ‘Little Bo-Peep has lost her ‘And can't tell where to find — “That's the young wife who, lke every Other bride, brings home from her wed. ding journey @ trunkful of shattered {l- Iusions. She has been trying to see life through a man’s eycs, with only a girl's inexperience to help her, and oniy a girl's standards to measure things by. She te supremely egotistical, as all y: “Oh, no,’ ed a motherly looking ‘woman in the corner, “don’t say all those things. Young are charitable, quite 8s much so as ler people. In fact, I think they are often more charitable than their elder: “Oh, yes," the speaker admitted, “they have the charity of ignorance, and between the charity of ignorance and the charity that excuses because it knows the weak- ness of humanity so well Is a gulf so wide that few cross it. But to resume—Bo-Peep has been seeing life through rosy specta- cles. Now she sees it in its reahty. Jack isn’t at all what she thought him. He can actually lose himself in a newspaper at breakfast. He presumes, to differ with her in the matter of literature, friends, dress, and goodness knows what else. He seems so different from the sweeth»art. Bo-Peep has lost her sheep—the girlish ideals she has passed her life tending—and all the world seems blank and empty to her. She does not know where to turn for comfort. So she must “ ‘Let them alone and they'll come home, xging their tails behind them.’ fter the crisis which comes to most married people after the newness of it all has worn off, new interests, new ideas, will gradually grow up till Bo-Peep is y again.” but do the sheep always come ess asked. : they * remarked the depart- ment woman. “And Mother Goose answers that very question farther on. She says: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wal “Humpty Dumpty got a great fall; Aull the king's the king’s horse® and all men Can't put Humpty Dumpty together again.’ “That's what happens to many a woman's happiness. She pins ail her faith to one » Makes him her idol finds out what he really is, and the idol is eternally smashed. Nothing in all the whispered the stranger to the ic member. was the answer in tones of deep You don’t seo the hidden mean- It's only a jumble of words to you.” ing. “But aren't a man’s idols quite as cften shattered as a woman's?” asked the hostess. “It seems to me the tendency of the times ia to look at life entirely from the woman's standpoint.” “Well, what other standpoint would you have a woman take?’ demanded the wom- an in the bluet hat. “Yd have her take the standpoint she takes in regard to suffrage, and education and business. She looks at all these from the mere standpoint of a human being and dees not allow her sex to play any part in them—or she says she doesn’t. I think a tan's happiness is quite as ofien wrecked and just 13 completely, too, as a woman's by an unhappy marriage. Indeed, I often think the woman has the better of it, for if everything else disappoints her she has her children to fali back upon on for com- fort. “Yes, but Mother Goose speaks of the ‘old woman who lived in a shoe,’ and ‘had many children she didn't know what to said the motherly looking woman. a woman whose children are too a govd thing. She has a small much of ¢ Was an Old Woman— ited means and a perfect raft he is worried nearly to death. She is too tired to train her chiiuren prop- erly, too tired to control he wn temper, too ‘tired to maintain discipline. So she does what she never would do if she were not at her wits’ ends, She “‘Gave them some butter without any And whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed." ely goes to show that you can’t i at one “I suppose the ‘my son John’ who ‘went to bed with his stockings on’ had that kind pther, didn't h asked the en- tic me: % ‘One shee off and one shoe on?" the hosftss inquired. . . I've always thought John was just litthe-—er—that is to say, intoxicated when he did that.” “But would any woman tell such a thing as that on her own son?” suggested the stic member. My dear child,” said the woman in the bluet hat, “some women tell everything— even their ages. I dare say she was com- plaining about John to her best friend. I've Known women to get up in prayer meeting and ask for prayers for ‘my erring son,” quite as if the son hadn't a sensitive spot in him. I'm always surprised that such women don’t have worse children— they make virtue so repellant.” The hestess smiled in an uneasy way that reminded the last speaker of the way- ward son the motherly looking woman has, and to fill in an awkward pause called on the Congressman’s wife. ly text is Peter Pumpkin Eater's Wife,” said the Congressman's wife, as she set aside her cup of tea and referred to the vol- ume of “Mother Goose” on her lap. “ “Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, Had a wife and couldn't keep her. He put her in a pumpkin shell, And there he Kept her very well.’ “Mr and Mrs. Peter are the modern young couple who marry and go to boarding. Peter is devoted to business, good, simple- minded man, and Mrs. Peter falls into the habits of women who spend their lives in a boartling house. She dves a little fancy work, and reads a few nov She dresses four ‘th d goes to matinees, She ha: e world to do, and the house is filled with other women who have nothing to do, too. Pewter falls to gossiping. Peter being out in the all day, hears so much gossip that for no more, and declares he ha:es . & masculine proposition just about P as the other one about masculine lack of variety. And Mrs, Peter, having nothing to do, meets young men and fills her time with the occupation of a woman whose hands and mind are empty—she flir Peter neglects her, good soul that he 1s, und—well, matters go on till Peter's Je: ousy blazes up. There are miserable bick- erings. Mrs. Peter is restless. There Is actually talk of a divorce, when some friend vises—the pumpkin sheil. Peter gets a home, puts Mrs. Peter in it, devotes himself to her, gives her the cares of housek to oceupy her mind, and Mrs. Peter down to a happy humdrum life, « with Peter and the pumpkin shell.” “My version doesn’t end that way.” re- arked the Advanced Woman member. “My book says: “ ‘He taught her how to read and spell, nd then he kept her very well.’ “That is to say that when women are educated, when they realize all that nature meant them to be, when they take their proper places in public and political life, all the foolish quarreis of married life will be things ef the past. The new woman will have so many resources within herself that she will be not only a mode! wife to Peter, but a happy and contented woman. will be no longer either a slave or a pla’ —s but an actual factor in the world’s life.” . This ended the list of verses for the dayy and quite hastily, as if they dreaded to hear more about the wonderful things that cre going to happen to the world when the new woman arrives on the scene of action, the Mother Goose Club members began to dis- perse. “Well,” said the enthusiastic member af- ter good-byes had been said, and she was in the street again, “what do you think of it? Isn't it fun? It is such an intellectual treat.” “Indeed It Is,” assented the stranger, with a smile. my dear,” went on the enthusiastic member, “did you notice the way the irim- m was put on Mrs. West End's n? I spent all the ‘my memory, so I can tell my about brown made it, and have over that way. tT do think the club ts love- ly, don’t you?” A JUNGLE STORY How the Panther That Terrified a Community Was Slain. A HUNTING STORY FROM INDIA A Beast That Had Claimed a Hun- dred Human Lives. FIERCER THAN A TIGER + Written for The Evening Star. HE SUN SANK BE- hind the blue hills, and on their eastern side the shadows of night (for there is no twilight in the trop- ics) were falling fast, as Po'dam_ Singh strode up from a nala that Jay beneath the terrace whefe our tents stood and made his salaam. ‘May your servant find favor,” he said. “I beg to represent that my eyes have seen the tracks. Shall I defile my lips with falsehood, and say they were made by that accursed one whom your highnesses seek? Ul-humd-ul-illa. God forbid! I am a stranger summoned by my lords. Whether it was a panther or tigress, of which these were the pugs, how can I say, who know not this beast? The sahibs will bear wit- ness if I lie. A tigress might have drank from the pool, or the spotted devil, even this man-eater himself. If I have not known how the footprint was made, in what way shall your servant recognize it?’ It was true enough. There was no sharper or better trained sight in Central India than that of Po’dam Singh, but no man can distinguish, in a trail observed for the first time, between the track of a large male panther and that of a tigress. There is, however, a physlognomy, so to speak, in footprints, and if such a shikari as he who spoke, once identified an animal with its pugs, they would be known again for certain. Something is in those impressions that civilized men do not see. Its Tribute of Hum: Lives, The deeds of the brute we sought are green in the memories of this people. Its ravages were of a kind not easily forgotten even among Hindus. “When .a panther takes to man-eatin says Captain James Forsyth, speaking of this same animal, “he is far worse than a tiger.” Every hunter of large game is well aware that of all great cats it is the bravest, most stealthy and daring, most enterprising and cunning, the hardest to find and bring to bay, the most desperate and determined when it makes a stand. For more than a year this one had so acted that all within the region of its depredations lived ever in the shadow of death. The beast sprang upon husband- men from milk bushes fringing the paths leading to their bajree and millet fields, it slaughtered the woodcutter at his work, the post runner on his way, the gwalla with his herd. No woman drew water alone at the village well except at peril of her life. No watchers gathered on those high plat- forms bulit among crops, in order that animals invading them might be scared away, without expecting to see the pan- ther's fatal form to appear among them. When, with barbaric music, the guard was set in gate towers, none knew what might befall at his home that night. ‘The ordinary defensive works of an Indfan village were no protection. Those frail walls and flimsy apertures belonging to Hindu dwellings could not keep the panther out, and in oj settlements it was worse still. A wife awakened by the convulsive movements of her husband, found this destroyer's fangs fixed in his throat, stifling outery. If his attack failed he swept around the flanks of the frantic crowd that soon gathered and seized some one else. All this may be heard in Seorle, all of it can be read in official reports. The creature killed more than a hundred human bejngs. We waited for him on machans built by paths shikaris swore he was certain to s. We lay in scarms near water holes, ‘e he was accustomed to drink. Jungles Were beaten with elephants, grass lands scoured, forests searched, and small armies of natives passed through suspected ravines with bombs and rockets, tom toms and cholera horns, and ail the hideous uproar they were capable of making. For six weeks we sought this monster, sparing neither ourselves nor others, and nothing came of it but disappointment and exhaus- tion. His murders never stopped. Then, by good luck solely, a handful of scrap iron was fired into him by a village shikari. Lall Choward’s Story. Tall Chowdar told how ‘t occurred in the following manner: “Truly, when Ramgolam, my mother’s brother, was slain, my hé@rt failed. Ram- golam was a just man, but his household were fools. They reviled me, raying, touba, toula! shame! shame! Behold the dog who pretends to be our defender against wild beasts whilst his relations perish! May he be accursed! The women cast dust upon their heads and spat at me, crying, go forth, oh, coward! There are many who know that your servant sought this beast vold of religion, and which could not be found, with diligence. Yet my spirit was oppressed, and I departed from these sense- less ones, going about two cos from the Village into forest land. Ja those woods there was silence, but tor the sound cf an ax, and this stopped suddenly. Who am I, oh, protectors of the poor, that I should know why fear came upon me there, and chill, as if the fey wind of death ‘were blowing. I ascended a tree with haste, and sitting on high I saw him. He sycked the blond of Chetoo, the woodcutter, crouching on his body. “Alyah! This son of Satan was too far off. Hus head turned from me and he could not be killed. It was roy destiny. When he departed I fuilowed, knowing {t was not his custom to return to those he had killed. ‘The trail was long, but ne went to a nala in which were caves, and I could see that which he made his den. “Was 1 not powerless, belng but a single man, and with that evil one having the advantage of place? It was pretended by Abdullah Khan that he would have waited and fired upon the panther as he came forth. How should I do this thing when the ground in front was bare,and cover and likewise trees were wanting? ‘Truly I would have been his sacrifice if he had come out. Therefore, I went away to the village and spoke with Akbar and Moham- med De, telling them these things, and | also that near by in this nala there was a | pool where he would surely drink. Close by stood three rocks, whose sides were straight, such as no panther could climb. Let us await him there, I said. The moon is full and he will be delivered into cur hands. “But they demurred, speaking vainglor- fously; their livers had turned to water and they made excuses. Mashalla, the evasions of cowards are many. So it en- tered into my heart to do this thing alone —your highnesses being afar—and I turned back again, going by another way, and stopped in the jungle and made a light ladder out of bamboos. This I bore with me, and it reached the top of that rock which was nearest the water and his cave. ‘There was grass upon its summit and a small acacia. There your servant lay hid. “The evening wind blew softly, and the heavens were clear. Many creatures came to drink when the sun was going down. Monkeys, keeping order on account of their wisdom, wild hogs, who wallowed, making the pool unclear; deer also, and when the moon rose an elephant, very old and fierce. He was enraged about nothing and his tusks were like those of him who trampled the Captain Sahib last summer, when his bullet went astray. Later there came a tiger, walking softly, with fiery eyes, but the man-eater did not come. And I thought perhaps he is a devil. But there was a priest who had made on ac- comes of certain @ holy man, ‘eo offered sacritices exactness, and said that my fortune was good. in the moonlight. This was a great and terrible beast, and I remembered those whom he had slain Chetoo’s blood, which I saw him drink. Here Lall Chowdar off into a parox- ysm of oriental colloquialisms that cannot be quoted. Nevertheless, all this ty concealed a Jurking feeling of awe-struck admiration. There is not a Hindu between the Himalayas and Cape Cormorin who, in his secret soul, does not bow down to and worship any incarnation of irresistible pow- er, of blind, brutal,: irresponsible ferocity and ruthlessness. The shikari went on to tell that while he watched the panther stole toward the now deserted pool. When he reached its brink this wary beast tooki one more look around before lowering his head to drink, and at that moment all the old iron Lali Chowdar had crammed into his matchlock was poured at close range into his side. Few men, it may be hoped, can ‘see! one of the great members of the cat mammalia in its death agony without some feeling of horror. They are all alike in this hour, when desperation and pain let loose the immitigable savagery of their race. Panthers, tigers, the lion himself, majestic as he is with his noble at- titudes and sweeping mane, fall now to one dead level of awfulness. Their voices, at all times menacing, and often most awe-inspir- ing, then burst forth in tones which are positively unearthly. It is not given to any human being to paint in adequate words that scene of ineffectual and dreadful effort, those supreme expressions of baffled malice and deadly rage. Such pictures as are dis- played at these times only rise before the inexperienced during the sleep of fever, in the distortions of delirium, or amid the visions of madness, ~ The Beast Was Dead. “I saw, thanks be to God,” said Lall Chowdar, “that this destroyer of men would now slay no more. It was likewise clear that the priest was, indeed, a holy person, and his sacrifices not in vain. Nevertheless, your servant remained upon the rock and Icaded his gun, because, sahib, these beasts are capable of many things, and those who are imbued with demons, die and come to life again; but only for a space. This is certain, and I have seen it. When I was a boy and went with my father into the for- est after a tiger, he shot this evil one from @ tree, and it perished. We rejoiced thereat, and my father said, when a tiger rears up, striking the air in that manner, and rolls over, tearing himself continually, truly a man need fear him no more. Therefore we approached with confidence to deprive him of his skin; but he arose quickly and killed my father; then he died. “It is known to all that some of these fierce ones come to life again. This is be- cause their bodies are the abodes of evil spirits. They need not be devils, sahib; there are magicians who, under pretense of being fakirs, leading hermit lives, take after death a tiger’s form; a panther’s also, and, sometimes, that of a wolf. All such become man-eaters. Even if a common beast de- vours a human being,who will deny that the spirit of that person hates the living; that it Joins itself with the brute, rides upon its head and guides this animal, who thereby is successful in iniquitous actions. There- fore, while the panther was rolling on the earth, rending it and biting his paws, I shot him again, and he lay still, but his skin was spoiled. : “I descended and came with precaution to the spot. There was no breath to move his ribs, and dark blood streamed from his mouth. He was truly dead, and I cut off the bristles growing on his lip, which give success in love, and returned to the village. Those who had cursed me, poured forth praises. There was a feast, also, and, more- over, reward.” —_——_—- MEMORIZING THE BIBLE. Some Instances of Great Verbal Fa- miliarity With the Scriptures. From the Brooklyn Eagle. There have been several Instances of men with such marvelous, memories that they knew not only by heart: the New but also the Old Testament, and in one case, at least, the whole Apocrypha as well. An old beggar at Stirling, Scotland, known over sixty years ago as Blind Alick, knew the whole of the Bible by heart, insomuch that if a sentence was read to him he could name book, chapter and verse; or, if the book, chapter and verse were named he could give the exact words. A man tested him by repeating a verse and purposely making one verbal tmaccuracy. Alick hesi- tated, named the place where the passage was to be found, and at the same time pointed out the verbal error, The same man asked him to repeat the ninetieth verse of the seventh chapter of the book cf Numbers. Alick almost instantly re- plied: “There is no sueh verse; that chap- ter has only eighty-nine verse: A monk who resided at Moscow in the fifteenth century could repeat the whole of the New Testament; Daniel McCartney was a com- plete concordance of the New Testament and of most of the Old Testament. Prof. Hoyt (of Hebrew) recited a large number of passages from the Scriptures, as asked for, and satisfied his audience that he knew where every passage was. Lord Cartaret knew all the Greek Testament by heart from the first chapter of Matthew to the lest chapter of the Apocalypse, and could recite it verse by verse as if he had the book actually before him. coe The Power of Alcohol. From Life. THEY LOVED NOISE. Eminent Literary Workers Who Dié Net Care for Sccluston. From Chambers’ Journal. All that concerns the men and women who give distinction to their day is of in- terest to those who admire, criticise, and perhaps envy their achievements. A special and legitimate curiosity is felt in reference to the conditions under which success is won. Glimpses are occasionally given into the methods of eminent toilers, and a won- derful variety is revealed. It is at least plain that no guide book to great perform- ances—the anxious author can have his choice of several—will determine the point where exactly the best results are to be obtained. One man’s help is another's hin- drance. Many famous writers, for instance, have only been able to perfect their thoughts in silence and seclusion. But there have also been those who could work in the midst of babel and defy distraction. Jane Austen, whose unpretentious canvases are full of some of the most lifelike portraits in fiction, was never in the habit of seek- ing solitude to compose. She wrote sitting in the family circle, and under perpetual risk ‘of interruption. It was the same with a successful lady novelist happily still liv- ing. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her best-known story on a plain pine table, by the aid of an evening lamp, in a tiny wooden house in Maine. About her were gathered children of various ages, conning their lessons or at play, and never guess- ing what a treasure mine of excitement was coming into existence for other young people in “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” A large part of the “Roman History” of Dr. Ar- nold was composed under similar circum- stances. Dean Stanley has sketched the Rugby study, where Arnold sat at his work, “with no attempt at seclusion, conversation going on around him—his children playing in the room—his frequent guests, whether friends or former pupils, coming in or out at will.” Thomas Lovell Beddoes, a poet of Juxuriant fancy and true genius, though much neglected, also found a stimulus to the creative faculty of his muse in working in playful and even noisy company. Such cases recall the story of the learned man of Padua, who assured Montaigne that he actually needed to be hemmed in by uproar before he could proceed to study. oo CHILDREN’S CROOKED LEGS. The Process by Which They May Be Straightened. From the St. Louls Republic, It Is the fault of a child’s mother today if either boy or girl is allowed to reach maturity with distorted limbs—knock knees or bowed legs are unnecessary evils. Both these deformities can be cured, and cured permanently. There are three ways in which physicians undertake cases. First, by what they term “expectant” treatment; next, chemical, and, lastly, op- erative tre.tment. The little boy or girl (and no child is received over fourteen years of age) is placed on brown paper and the outlines of his legs are traced; this de- termines how serious the defect Is. If the baby ts young, eight months or two years, and its bones are soft, the first method is prescribed, which consists of keeping the little one in bed and rubbing the legs with firm pressure until the bones yield and take their normal position. This can be done only with those still in infancy. If the child ts two to four years old me- chanical treatment is given; the legs are either put into steel braces, which correct the misplacement in the bones by continual pressure, or, if the defect is slight, shoes are built up on the soles to throw tle legs into the right angle. After four years the bones usually are hardened, and it would take a tedious time to straighten them by braces, so the opera- tive treatment is given. The legs are broken. This seems a startling statement, ond sounds very cruel for the child. but the doc- tors think nothing of the op2ration, and pa- rents have bexun lo realize how harmless Hs is, and do not protest so violently as at rst. The child is put under ether, the body laid on the operating table, the legs strapped and the bones broken by a chisel and mallet. A keen knife fs used to open a little slit in the skin, and the small chisel is inserted delicately in netween the art: ries, reaching the boacs easily and quick for the large bone near the skia beiow the knee, and when securely ~esting oft it the chisel is hammered through. The broken bones are then placed in their correct position with the least trouble, a dressing put on and the leg incased in plas- ter of paris. Of course, both legs are cp- erated on in tue same manner. Scarcely any blood is shed, there is no danger, it being unnecessary that even fever should result, and in four weeks the child {s sent home cured. For awhile he wears braces, but soon discards these, and finds himself as straight and supple as any of his com- rades, + CAMPAIGN SONG IN THE NINTH. Tim an’ the B’yes an’ the Baby. From the New York Evening World. We've a fine east side district, and in it does dwell Tim an’ the byes an’ the baby; Sure, no dude nominations can ever excel ‘Tim aa’ the b'yes an’ the baby, For Congressman Tim is a beauty to see, ‘The baby’s turned one, and between you and me, We'll clect all vo Congress, as sure as can be, ‘Tim an’ the b’yes an’ the baby. _ CHORUS. Golly! golly! chicken tamale! All of the dirtrict te check fall of gles, Ing as happy as bappy can be For Tim an’ the b'yes an’ the bavy. Now we care not for Simpson nor Miner so grand, Tim an’ the b'yes an’ the baby; For our old Oricatal’s the best in the land, ‘Tim an’ the b'yes an’ the baby. . When ‘Tim cones from Congress the baby and he Wili be welcomed by us in a grand jubilee, And we'll have a clain chowder,at which you will see ‘Tim an’ the b’yes an’ the baby. Cho.—Golly! golly! chicken tamale! &c. On the morn ef election to th’ polls we will go, ‘Tim an’ the b'yes an’ the baby; As We march down Grand street all the people will now Tim an’ the b'yes an’ the baby. Now Tim is a man that you'd all like to meet; His ways are so charming, his brogue is so sweet; If you chance im our district, just drup iu and greet ‘Tim an’ the byes an’ the baby. ‘Cho.—Golly! golly! chicken tamale} bat CRISP PASTRY Free from all the disagreeable 0 greasy effects that result from the Huse of lard will be had, if COT: TOLENE is used. Fish and cakes fried in it are simply delicious because it adds a flavor to them F that cannot possibly be obtained from the use of any other frying material. Get the genuine COT. TOLENE, as there are numerous questionable imitations. The trade mark given here is on each pail. Sold in three and five Ib. pails. g The N. K. Fairbank Company, CHICAGO, and 134 Commerce St., Baltimore. DR. W. H. MORSE! Says E reement of Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy Was Based Upon Actual Ex- perience. Newark (N. J.) Evening News. “Most certaiaty.” was the emphatic reply of Dr. Morse when asked by a “News” reporter if the words of commendatios of Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy that recently appeared in the was veritable. Studied nedicine,”” he said, “with Dr. A. N. Allen, for many years the leading practitioner of Massachusetts. Visiting bim several years after, he <+lated to me the case of a patient of his who had beet. cured of stone by solvents Naturally I inquired Into the matter, end he told me. In the town of Dalton, Mass., his patient lived, and that | he had Mteraily ‘suffered many things of many plysicians,” and they the best of the state. There had been a diversity of opinion as to his ailment, but the doctor had diagnosed chromic inflammation of the kidneys, and his prognosis bad been “incur- | able.’ I had known of tuis ¢: mere wreck of a man, suffering and pessimistic. Bot now, greatly to my surprise, the doctor told me that he was actually cared. He had taken Dr. David | Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, and pot only had wn stronger and betier, but had passed sev eral pieces of stone. The Remedy had pronx the passage of the calcul! and had act T saw this ma few days later b ing finely and “aking in the bi eat terms of the Remedy. I was led to examine it chemicaliy nnd to test ft therapeutically. My dednctions Lave been such as to corroborate the clinteal experien of many other medical meu, that Dr, David nedy’s Favorite Remedy will do that whic claimed for it; and I consider It a The great value of Dr. David K. Remedy Hes in the fact that it dissolves the ex- cess of uric acid in the bleol, Many of the all ments people suffer from—for instance, rheamatisin, urinary troubles, and the sickness pe men, come from this cause. Favorite and Bright's disease it cures where all other treat- ments have failed. Don’t Mention It! You are perfectly welkome to credit—ANT TIME. Don't ask us a word about it—come up bere and get all the Carpets and Purnitare you need. Don't borrow trouble about sack things as notes oF interest—for our Peerless Credit System Tias uo such disagrecaile features, All 1¢ asks for is a PROMISE-and tte fulfitment—a Uttle money once a week or once a month, WE MAKE AND LAY Al RPETS FRER CHARGE POR WASTE IN MATCHING FIGURES PLUSH OR HALKCLOTH PARLOR SUITES= CHOICE, $22.50, SOLID OAK BED ROOM SUITE, $13. SPLENDID BRUSSELS CARPET, 5B0c. PER YARD, RELIARLE INGRADN CA he. PER YARD, MADE AND LAID. BLEE OF Oost. SOLID OAK EXTENSION TARLE, $3.50, #PCUND HAIR MATTRESS, $7. WOVEN WIRE SPRINGS, $1.73. YOURS POR A PROMISE TO PAY. GROGAN’S MAMMOTH GREDIT HOUSE, 619-821-823 7tb Street Northwest, Between H and I streets, OPENING! Tell Your Wife That we have set aside totay, ‘Tuesday and Wedaesday for oar fall and winter opening. During these three days We shall expect @ visit from ber, avd an expres- sion of opinion upon what we are pleased to term the newest most elegant stock of fur garments ever exhibited in thin city—replete F U Re S With the latest novelties. Alaska Electric Seal Coats—a beanti- ful assortment of Capex, tm Er- Sable and grand vari- ets of fur rugs, carriage robes, DA CT gloves, &e Open evenings. MLSYARCZ& CO., Manufactaring Furriers, 409 7th St. N. W. MAN. His Afflictions And Disabilities. His Doctor Should Be A Specialist. An Expert. ORGANIC WEAKN with all its train of miserab.e foreboding, t, disability, fears and embarrassment. No other atiment ts so discourag- ing or demoralizing, the sufferer loses ambition and energy and realizes that for him life has lost its charm. This condition is speedily cared by the scientific | and advanced methods of treatment I employ. Blood and Skin Diseases, Blood Poison and Taints, affecting the Body, Nose, Throat, Skin and Be Mucous Patches in Mouth, Ulcers, Tumors, Wacty Growt! Varicocele, Piles, &e., radicaily cured by my wnfail- ing method of treatment. Kidney and Bladder Aliments, a8 Painful, Difficult, Too Frequent, Milky or Bipody Urine, and all matters relating to Urinary Passage, promptly cured. Don't waste precious time—consult Dr. Carleton, His long residence in this city and his Urilliant record of cures effected in apparently hopeless cases entitle him to your confidence, Dr. Carleton, THIRD YEAR AT 507 12th St. N.W. 2% YEARS’ EXPERIENCE. CONSULTATION FREE. Hours: 9 a.m. to S p.m. and 7 to 8 p.m. day, 10 to 2. % Laundry Perfection. —Both as regards facili- ies and results—is in- deed rare. Yet our rapid-‘ ly growing business; roves we've attained) that position. ‘We control the use of the ONLY ma- chinery that took the highest awards at the FAIR. With it as a factor, and our years of expericuce as a guide, we pro- duce results that are bringing us requests 5 to call for work from all parts of the Dis: 4 trict. ‘Ask central fdr 592, or write or send 5 requests, and one of our quick delivery ( Wagow will call. Steam ODFREY’S Laundry, 1307 F Street. oct9-tt a Typhoid Fever luted Potowae water! Get a filter— j) but get the best—get the 4 Pasteur Filter, Pronounced by the medical authorities of the world as the most perfect germ- | 4 proof filter made. It not only removes the mud, but thoroughly eliminates ail bacteria. a germs from the water. $6.60, $7.75 and $3.50, accord- Wilmarth & Edmonston, - Monstrous When viewed from the standpoint of strictly legitimate business methods; Highly Amusing —to, those who are og the Inside. Mark the exasperation of th 5 bowl, and suap, and snarl, like a pack hungry wolves! How they writhe ‘and bins like vest of ang-y senpent n lack are, and the situation; bene® their des- # to recoup after the KEY of the been taken and HELD BY THE ENEMY, tari at the beginning. ho secret of the fact that prices MUST ot walt for the law to go into effect. ed down every article of Ready-made Clothing --1n our catire stock-MARKED them #0 low tn price that it is utterly Impossible for any man or any firm to undersell us or even come within h of our prices without sacrificing bimeelt of ely WE WE mark perhaps th those who are WILL- to make the sac but CAN they do itt t's _thé _question.”” i SLITS OF CLUTIES FOR MEN which we T sell at $7.50 are incomparable in every particular, at $10.00 a value du excess of the price named—fully Men’s Overcoats Offered by us at $5.98, $7.50 and $10.00 —bave nf parallel bere or elsewhere, aT $2.00 —we have a line of Boys’ Suits to fourteen years «ed to have you lod teauttes—every one sims You ever saw in VICTOR £. ADLER’S 10 PER CENT CLOTHING HOUSE, 927 and 929 Th st. om . corner Massachusetts * avenne, STRICTLY ONE PRICE. Open Evenings until 7 Saturday until 11 p.m, lua 4 Messrs. Lori ae See wey FAT Folks Get Thin. Dr. Edison’s Famous Obesity Pills and Bands and Obesity Fruit Salt re- duce your weight without dieting: cure the cause of obesity, such as ia, rheumatism, nervousness, ca- tarrh, kidney t s; keep you'beaithy aud beau- Ufy the cou Our supporting aod special Obesity Bands will wash. Call apd examine. Twenty varieties. All genuine Bands have our name stamped on them. Dr. Loring & Co.: Dear Sirs: Now that I have given your Obesity and Sait a thorough trial, I am free to that in less than nine weeks I have lest four pounds of surplus fat, and now have no kidney or rhcumatic trouble, No @eshy person can afford to go without your Pills and Salt. have not knowa for five years what it was to be a to walk balf a mile: pow I walk miles every pleosaut day. Respectfully yours, cs, PRESCOTY WINTHROP. Penn. avenue, ©o.: to say that four bottles of your Obesity Fraft Salt completely cured my stomach troubles, Dicatiog and dyspepsia, and reduced my weight thirty-four pounds. Then I Wore an Obesity Supporting Band for comfort, and found that it further reduced my weight seven- teen pounds im three weeks, and produced a shapely form and afforded great comfort. had to Lave all my di 1 yours, Miss CATHERINE LE KOY Penusylvauia ave. Our gools may be obtained from C. G. C. SIMM! ne fe Gentlemen: Ib Cor. New York ave. and 14th st. MERTZ’ MODERN PHARMACY, lith avd ¥ st Cor. a. Keep % full line Obesity Bands, Pits and Fruit it in stock. Ladies will tind « saleslady here to explain the treatment to them. Sent by mail on receipt of price. ‘The Bands cost $2.50 up; the Fruit Salt, $1 per bottle, and Fills $1.50 per bottle, oF 3 boitles for cess LORING & ©O., 42 West 224 st., Department No, 4, New York, or 22 Hamiltou piace, Department No. 4, Boston. 1205 Pa. Ave, 2d Bargain In Hair Switches. $2.50, Was $5.00. $4.50, Was $6.00. $6.50, Was $io.00. In all shades; also large re- ductions in Gray Switches. Hair Dressing, Cutting and Shampooing in best manner by competent artists at S. Heller’s, 720 7th St. For a few days we shall offer a at 50 Bulbs, $1. special collection of embracing :— HYACINTHS, 12 NARCISSU! 2 * rou now they will bloom carly in the go est ‘quality of Laws trees F. W. Bo giano, 1341 14th and 717 1sth St.