Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1894, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1894—SIX''HEN PAGES. AU POPULAR SHO 416 7th IMI” PPING PLAGE, Street. Books at Cut Prices.’ Buy your Books of us and save money. Select now for the Hol abbreviated list. tions carried in stock. idays. The following is an All the new and standard publica- Our present assortment of Holiday Books is unsur- passed. 10,000 Stardard and Miscellaneous Works, 5,000 Standard and Miscellaneous Works, cloth bound, gilt top. Poets’ Red Line Edition... Poets Bound in Padded Leather. Dickens’ Complete Works, 10 vols., cloth bound, {Ilustrated. ‘Thackeray's Complete Works, 10 vols., cloth bound, filustrated E. P. Roe’s Works, cloth bound...... . Macauley’s History of England, 5 vols. Scott's Waverly Novels, 12 vols. Conquest of Mexico, 3 vols... Ferdinand and Isabella, 3 vols. . Prescott's Conquest of Peru, 2 vols. Marcetla, by Mrs.-Ward, 2 vols. Irving's Complete Works, 8 vols. Hugo's Complete Works, 6 vols., % leather. Carlyle’s Compiete Works, 10 vols MeCarthy’s History of Our Own Times from 1837 to 1894, 2 vols. Shakespeare's Complete Works, 13 vols (handy-volume edition). Oliver Optic Works, Horatlo Alger’s Worl Castleman Works. Henty Books... Mark Twain's Bocks. Dore’s Illustrated Bible Gallery ? Dante’s Inferno (illustrated by Dore) Milton's Paradise Lost (illustrated by Dore). America Mlustrated.. Pieeino, by Mrs. Burnett. Drummond's Addresses, bonnd in white and silver. ‘The Bible and Its Story, illustrated. ‘Tales from Shakespeare (Lamb) Augusta Evans’ Novels. All new publications at handsomely bound in cloth, 12mos. REP RRE ER 3F & REDUCED PRICES. We are showing the largest, line of CHRISTMAS CARDS, BOOKLETS, BIBLES, PRAYER BOOKS and Hymnals at Lowest PRICES. Also the largest variety of JUVENILE BOOKS in the city—all SOLD at CUT PRICES. All the NEW and POPULAR GAMES at CUT AU MI ’ PPING PLACE, Street. R POPULAR SHO 416 7th Continuation of Grand Holiday Opening TOMORROW At Augenstein’s, 439 7TH ST. N.W., When following souvenir bargains will be sold in ad- dition to those already offered for today: Regular Souvenir Price. Price. 49c. Rattan Doll Carriages..... eccccccees 280. 8c. Children’s Shoofly or Rocking Horses. Ge. $1.49 Engraved Water Set 86e. Boe. Perforated Rocking Chars Be. Gc. Soldier Outtits.. ove Be. 89c. China Toy Tea Sets 2c. $10.93 French China Tea Sets, 56 pieces, hand patnted $6.45 Boe. one-half doz. Engraved Tumblers... 2e. And thousands of other bargains tco numerous to mention. S. W. Augenstein, 4 439 qth St. N.W. Carry a Uttle vial of Ripans Tabules in your nd doctor ma feel first symptoms of ss. Malaria, con- indigestion And all diseases of the ach, bowels end bleod are effectually gured by ans Tal " gives re- SOc. box. At all druggists. it Suits Cleaned, $1. ‘We will send for your Sutt, clean ft and return to you promptly for #1, We clean all kinds of fabrics Rothing too ditticult. q 9 Late of Spindler Sse 12TH ST., ONE DOOR ABOVE F ST. | DIAMONDS Have edvanced 25 per cent with the Increase in anty. We have anticipated this, and imported largely, before the new tariff was enforced. Con- sequently we shall sell our goods at the old prices, and thereby offer A Saving of 25 Per Cent. A Few of Our Special Bargains: Sclitatre Ring, 1 karat, perfect. Solitaire Ring, 2 karats, perfect. Sclitaire Ring, % karat, perfect. Marquise Ring, 23 diamonds, 5 colored stones . Marquise Ring, + $50.00 18 diamonds, 5 colored stones . 18.00 Cluster Ring, 8 diamonds, colored stone center .. + 6.00 Solitaire Earrings, 1 karat, perfect. + 60.00 Solitaire Earrings, 2 karats, perfect. + 100.09 Solitaire Earrings, 41% karats, perfect...... 275.00 Opal Cluster Ring, with 12 diamond: + 15.00 Star Pendant, 41 large diamonds. + 90.00 Crescent Pendant, 7 large diamonds. + 45.00 Sunburst Pendant, 26 fine diamonds. . + 68.00 Diamond Necklace and Pendant, 22 + 185.00 Diamond Link Buttons. see 5.00 Scarf Pins....... 3.50 to 75.00 We sell Diamonds, Opals, Rubtes, Sapphires, Eneralds, Turquoise and Pearls, unset, by weight, and can set them to order in our factory on the premises. R. Harris&Co., JEWELERS, 7TH_AND D STS. N.W. 3For the Tabl 5 O'clock $Kettles. A LOT OF THESE KETTLES JUST AR- RIVED, Some in brass; some ta copper. PRICES RANGING FROM $1.50 TO $10, More of those Japanese Vases which we are selling at such low prices. Another cask received last week. Exquisite Dresden z 4 3M. 4 a3-2t Make nice presents, W. Beveridge, CHINA, GLASS, &c., Q asssa F AND 1214 G STS. $040e0sosssosics sees. 3. T. WALKER SONS. 203 10TH ST..N.W., CAR: i Lining, Felts, Fire Brick and Clay; Asbestos, ints, Brushes, Lime, Cement; two and three: ply Kooflag Materfal. ‘esl 3 $ [ > > e+ Again tomorrow. Every time this day rolls round we're compelled t» make extraor- dinary preparations to meet the demand for thosa dainty confections. Extremely pop- ular for lunches and “five o'clock." Try @ box, 20 CENTS A POUND. SUPERIOR ‘GILL’ uth&FS CANDIES, 5. aa-208 nw More Christmas Suggestions —At— PERRY’S. RIBBONS and FANS—two big holiday features. If at no other season of the year—we make an extra effort to have a complete stock of RIBBONS to supply the Christmas demand. You need them early—too—so we ready with your first thoughts ingenious - bright rainbow of colors will form a partnership that will create many a handsome “greeting.” You know how it is yourself—you prize highest that Which most plainly indicates the spirit that prompts the gift. It is love's labor—and RIBBON 1s love's “building material.” Of you want the best-—and for that reason We expect you to seek it here. It isn't hardly possible for you to call for a shade or a width that our collcction does not hold. have ours on the giving question. taste and the Your courre, A special lot of ALL-SILK RIBBON— Blue, Cardinal, Old Kose, Yellow, Lilac, Black, White, Cream, Cerise and other -In uumbers from 5 to 22—Te. to a yard. All the colors in all the qualities of SATIN RIBBON—at all prices. Number 1 PICOT EDGE RIBBON—all col- ors—5 yards for 9c. Numbers 1 and (4% SATIN RIBBON, in Pink, Blue, Mais, Nile, Old Rose, Cardinal, Brown, Navy Blue, Black, White and Cream—35e. and 45e. a plece. Number 2 SATIN RIBBO! 88c. and 48e. a piece. 4 and S-inch RIBBON, in Pink, Ltac, Nile, Blue, Yellow, Cardinal, Olive, Cream and White—39e. a yard, in all colors— Number 144 WASH RIBBON—White, Cream, Blue, Lilac, Mais, Cardinal’ and Pink—e. a plee Number 3 WASH RIBBON, in Lilac, Blue, Pink, Mais, White and Cream—t15e. a yard. DOUBLE-FACED SATIN RIBBON—Blue, Pink, Mais, Black, White, Cream, ete.— from 7 to 5 inches wid Black and White Gros Number 2 COLLEGE Blue, with Steel, Red or Orang yard. Number 7 COLLEGE RIBBON Blue, with Steel, Cardinal or Orange; Red and White, Black, with I or White, and Biue, e. a yard, Minch B Black, White and 2ineh UTING—Black, Cardinal, Navy Blue, Brown, Cream, Gray, Pink, Lilac, Dark Green, Vhite—S0e. a yurd. 24nch MOIRE BELTING--Black and Navy Blue—Gde. 1 yard. LOOP and COKD EDGE RUCHING RIB- BON—Black, and Cream—ive. a yard. SATIN-BACK V colors—in widths from Number 2 to 1 ALL WIDTHS of LINEN or SATIN-BACK BLACK VELVET RIBBON, SASH RIBBONS—Satin Edge Gros Grain, Satin Edge Moire and Moire—all colors— Te. to $1.25 a yard. Misters—We can offer you a suggestion that you will heartily thaak us for. If you are in a quandary what to give to your fair friends decide upon FANS. You haven't @ lady in your acquaintance who won't say a hearty “thank-you” for one of these dainty little creations. If you don’t know any- thing bout FANS we do—and take our Word for it there are none of later design— OF more appropriate for gifts than these of TED F. 50e, Blue, Pink, Nile, e. to $1.35. sticks—$1.25 to $2.25. WHITE GAUZE FANS—decorated and with carved sticks—§1 to $12.50, LACE EVGE WHITE GAUZE FANS— painted and spangled and carved sticks— 5.50. empire FANS—Gauze, with Yancy sticks— Vink, Mais, Cream, &c.—$1.25, EMPIRH GAUZE DECORATED FANS, with enameled sticks—$2.25. WHITE EMPIRE GAUZE DECORATED Ath gold inlaid ivory sticks—$5.25, iNA SILK MOURNING FANS— Bde. to $1.00, BLACK SLLK FANS, decorated in white— $1.00. BLACK SILK CREPE FANS, with carved sticks—$1.25 and $1.65. LACE EDGE BLAC ED FANS, with fancy sticks—$1.50 to $5.50, VAINTED BLACK GAUZE FANS, with fancy stte GAUZE DECORAT- $4.50. $1.50 to $7.50, with tortoise yE shell sticks—$10, ‘he three weeks that Christmas Is away will be short, vusy ones, All the shopping you can do right away will be attended With less inconventence and more satisfac- tory results, for the stock ts in absolutely complete and perfect order. In our talks day by day we can only bring conspicuously to the front a few of the many desirables, Just make {t s point to run in here often. You know what lines we carry—and every- thing belonging to them will be found in the greatest variety. Need we to say— lowest prices. Both those points ought to be thoroughly established by this time, “Ninth and the Avenue.” Established 1840, ap ‘Telephone 995, CURRANTS AND CITRON. Just. re- ceived a fresh consignment. Will be retailed at the usual Redman “cut ric New French Prunes, 8 Ibs. for 25¢.! 7 Keni no other retail store Nuts, Raisins, Mincemeat ( ealers und retall at wholesale prices. iN.T. Redman,oso La.Ave.,. ¢ — and Retail Groceries. "Phone 192. S. Kann, Sons & Co., 8th & Market Space Villette Is nothing that compares with the immense opportu- nities now opened to the public in every department of our business. The goods we are offering are the best of the kind, the prices far below any- thing ever quoted; the va- riety practically unlimited. Our Dress Goods, ‘That was so forcibly advertised in last Satur- day's Star, was well answered. More satistied connoisseurs of fine Dress Goods never gathered im one department or purchased more willingly our finest novelties, that were just put on salo today from 50c. to $1 a yard less in price than they were sold for thirty days ago. ese are the goods: $ 10 pieces Cumel’s Hair Roucle Plaids, navy, garnet, myrtle and brown serge cloth, as ‘rich as any Dress Goods shown this season.’ ‘The width is 40 inches. 12 pleces Silk and Camel'se Hair Rough Mix- tures, 48 inches wide. As rich in quality as a gem o¢ the first water. A blending of colors that the greatest artist of the past or present time could net improve upon. 6 pleces 40-inch’ Malta Checks, with Mttle silk spots of navy, brown and garnst. We feel con- filent the duplicate cannot be found In this city. 8 pleces Camel's Hair Hindoo Plaids, rough effect. Any one that is a lover of extreine nov- elties can satisfy their fancy in this line, 40 inches wid 4 -inch Rough Effect Novelty Cheviots, in green and black, navy and black, garnet and black. A very swell dress material. 9 bh Silk and Wool Vassar Stripe Very rich colorings and extremely nobby.. 7 pieces 42-inch Rough Effect Llama Cheviot, two-tone combination. If, you admire a showy cloth it will strike you at @ glance. 15 pleces 42-Inch” Suake Pattern’ Rough Evfect Cemel's Hatr Cheviot, representing only the best dark coloring. Out of this entire Mne the lowest cost of is not less than SSe., and from that up to # a yard. We make only two prices, hut those are 59 and 69c. a Yard. Drape Your windows and mantels with fine Irish Point, srussels or Tambour Curtain Ends. We have Just fecetved 500 Assorted Ends, they are 144, 1 any Jong, r shown Old Chris Has made our house one of his supply branches, We have one of the grandest lines of Holiday Goods to be found anywhere, and the center and annex alsies of our store are transformed into a Pass Here Is Head Bisk Dolls papa just as you like, n Little Girls in Blu atly costume quite a ta Ltd Sieter ‘the Little Esyulan skin suit g The Chimed” KRAbMed Doll,” with “her” ‘blonde curls 1 Jointed seats ssed Dolls, all standing in a te wait ; Kid Kory shoes and stockings ‘Tiny Wee Bit, with ‘his sweater. Now we have a line of very ‘fhe dotis ‘that will not mingle wi belong to the eryst of sel os, Or We can ‘own printing Jf they Band "Wagon, “with playing musicians, Wanted”. train Traders’ se... Iron’ Duinp’ Coal“ Cart, coal % Savings: with Bank, ay MWe have an immense line of Wooden Toys hand- somely decorated. do Tower, 40, 4 “s high can be taken all Sue. nger Railway, with ‘The Ferrie Wheel, ‘The Celebrated Boston Cruiser, in the rigging. 4 Columbia Man-of-war, disturbance ‘The House the malt, &e. Lake Michi: continually revolving with Our New City Post Of when completed... Surprise Blocks, Juvenil etn igs juvenile Building locks... Our Lines Of Fine Bric-a-brac, Juve- nile Books and Miscella- neous Toys are exhibited in endless assortment. S. Kann, Sons & Co., Sth & Market Space. Direct Buyers & Importers. it The Latest Paris Fad Is to have one's sf photographed after some cel- ebrated picture. Drapery is reproduced for the oc- casion, and a copy of the picture given to the artist, wto must understand posing the human fig- ure. Becutiful resulta are obtained by the London Mezzo-Tint process, which gives the effect of @ steel engraving. Dellcagely done in water colors, they are chefs d’ocuvre. Mr. PRINCE makes this work a specialty. Geo: Prince, PA, AVE. AND 11TH ST. 81 UNION BQUARE, NEW YORK. po24todel 7-20d Std Get Loefiier’s Sausage if you want THE BFST. Ne it for superior quality and de- | e other = want them, but $100 buys no bet- Nn nr nn AS ter Truss than the Berlin. Phy- sictan in charge, Lady attend- $5 IS THE PRICE of the latest and ant. most improved TRUSS tn exist- ence. It is the “NEW BERLIN.” Cheaper or higher Trusses if you CI CONSULTATION FREB. Berlin Truss Co., 1116 F st. Over Loose, the Florist. Take elevator, 41-174 who wish to serve the best should buy no other. (7 We're in all markets. Come | = to.aur stands.” Hensonale prtces bsonable pet ‘A. Loeffler, costar wanker, 618.620 N. L., 72 O St. aud 65 WEST. METS. eo tur appetizing flavor. House- 3 i i ARB YOU_ AFFLICTED WITH SALT RHEUM, ‘Pimples, Skin Eri a, Ei Ulcers?’ Dr. Da r femedy, i made at Rondout, N. these aud purl: fies the blood. 230 Sc; | the English Cures AYER'S WORLD'S FAIR, CHICAGO, Will 1898, | |Cure You. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Makes AYER'S The SARSAPARILLA. WORLD'S FAIR, Weak coma! Strong. = a ae eres a a Winslow's Soothi Syrup for children teething. It soothes the chia, te ‘the ‘ali ‘in, cures wind colic and ts the irrhoea. 25 cents a bottle. Carry f little vial of Ripans Tabules in your vest pocket and doctor yourself when you feel the first symptoms of sickness. Malaria, con- stipation, —tndigestion and all diseases of the stomch, bowels and blood are effectually cured by Ripans Tab- ules. “One gives re- Hef." 50e. box, At all druggists. at “No Christmas and New Year table should be without a bottle of Dr. Stegert’s Angostura Bit- ters, the world renowned appetizer of exquisite flavor. Beware of couterfelts.”* GRESHAM’S CLEVER COUP. How He Worked the New Treaty With the Japanese Minister. From the Chicago Herald. There is a good deal of gossip in diplo- matic circles abcut the able manner in which Secretary Gresham*used the treaty just completed between this country and Japan as a lever with which to pull the victor of the war in the east toward peace. When he came here a few months ago Mr. Kurino, the Japanese minister, told his friends his great ambition was to con- clude a treaty with the United States. His predecessor had attempted one, but failed, and Mr. Kurino, who is nothing if not am- bitious, had a national desire to succeed where Mr. Tateno had accomplished noth- ing. The Japanese have recently concluded a new treaty with England, and Mr. Ku- rino, who is a good deal of a diplomatist himself, constantly dinged in the ears of the State Department ofiicials that this vountry could not aiford to lag behind England. As the story is told, there was but one point of controversy in making the new treaty about which this government cared a stvaw, and that was the proposi- tion to establish by treaty a reciprocal right ef residence for business purposes. Vhat meant the importation of Japanese coolies to America, and the United States would not agree to such a clause. As soon as this point had been settied by Japan yielding her contention there was nothing left. to dispute about. ‘The treaty con- | cluded with England was the model used | in the negotiation and there was nothing |in it which Mr. Gresham could object to. | But the diplomatic gossipers say he kept | poor Kurino on the tenter hooks for about three weeks, objecting to this and that, and all the tme slyly sounding the Japa~ nese representative as to his views of the war in the cast. Gresham hud so often | told Kurino that the treaty made with | Ungland would not suit the United States | that at last the little Japanese, with his » | face a picture of despair, asked Gresham | to tell him, if he could, what would be satisfactory. This*was the moment Gres- bam had been waiting for. He began by praising the advance which the Japanese had made in the art of war and of government. He complimented the efforts which they ,have recently made to codify their laws and establish a system of jurisprudence and courts modeled after and American systems. He spoke of Japan's rise in a few decades from one of the minor, semibarbarous powers to a high rank in the family of nations. All this time the minister was sitting on the edge of his chair, eagerly devouring every one of these words, which were like music in his ears, But this was j nothing compared with that which fol- lowed. “You have just completed a new treaty with England,” the gossipers rep- resent Gresham as saying; “We don’t like that treaty and don't propose to imitate (it, because it treats you as a nation of minor importance, because it looks down upon you as a child among nations, while you have risen to the estate of manhood. if we treat with you at all it must be as an equal, as our peer in the great family of nations.” At these words, my infor- mant says, the little Japanese came near : | falling off his chair. He was so delighted that he scarcely knew what to say. If such a treaty were concluded it would be the first time his country has ever been recog- nized as the equal of one of the first-class | powers. He could easily foresee the de- | Nght which this intelligence would produce at Tokio, and he could, without any great stretch of imagination, see himself a fa- yorite diplomatist and perhaps wearing on his breast one of the mikado’s choicest decorations. Caused Great Delight in Japan, “Well, the treaty was concluded on this basis and has been duly signed and copies transmitted. The Japanese government was informed by cable of its provisions and of the spirit which actuated the United States and the delight of the Japanese minister of foreign affairs, Mr. Mutsu, who was once minister to Washington himself, found expression in a cablegram of con- gratulations to Kurino, and warm thanks to Cleveland and Gresham. The new treaty though so eminently satisfactory to the Japanese, is a good one for the United States. It will be surprising, considering its terms and the warm friendship that has sprung up between the two govern- ments, if it does not promote trade be- tween the United States and Japan. The Japanese have not developed their govern- ment to a point where they have a tariff schedule. Though they have a parliament, they have never had the luxury of a tariff bill. Their customs duties are levied solely for revenue, and are fixed cntirely by treaty. When they need additional revenue they find themselves unable to raise it without negotiating new treaties. In the treaty just concluded with England the customs duties on British importations are fixed from 5 to 15 per cent and Secretary Gresham pointed out to Kurino that the power to levy and to change the rate of duties on imports was a sovereign power and should be exercised by law, as Eng- land, France, Germany and the United States exercised it and not by treaty. This was one of the important particulars in which the United States treated Japan as an equal, for in the treaty recently signed there is no mention of customs duties on importations from the United States, Japan being left free to fix and to change from time to time those duties precisely as the United States fixes her duties on importa- tions from Japan. Though this manner of | recognizing Japan as a full-grown nation was in striking contrast with England's method, Gresham was thoughtful enough, so it is said, to see that the favored na- tion clause was inserted, by whose terms Japan cannot charge higher rates of duty on American goods than she charges on any other importations of a similar char- acter. The members of the diplomatic corps say Gresham has by these means completely undermined England in the af- fections of the Japanese. By paying them this great compliment, which cost noth- ing, he won their confidence and friend- ship ant paved the way for peace between China and Japan on terms honorable to both and sure to add to the prestige of the United States. A DELIBERATE DEED Suicide on Saturday of Policeman Charles EL King. Testimony Before the Coroner Show That the Act Had Been Long Contemplated. to Policeman Charles H. King of the third precinct committed suicide at 5:30 o'clock Saturday evening by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. King killed him- self as he was coming down the steps leading into the yard at the rear of the third precinct station house, at 2ist and K streets northwest. ’ His body slid to the bottom, where it was found lifeless by Walter A. Walker, one of the patrol drivers, who had heard the shot. Coroner Hammett held an inquest over King’s body at Wright's undertaking es- tablishment, No. 1337 10th street, this morning. Considerable interest had been excited among the acquaintances of the dead man regarding the contents of a let- ter which he had written to Lieutenant Richard B. Boyle, his superior officer in charge of the precinct, and which the lat- ter on Saturday had refused to make pub- le im its entirety, but only the jury, the coroner and witnesses attended the in- vestigation today. The jury was composed of George Peyser of No. 1318 7th street northwest, George A. O'Hare of No. 1337 7th street north- west, and U. Charles Heitmuller, B. B. Emmert, G. I. Browne and Richard Mc- ‘Williams, all of the O street market. A number of witnesses were called and detailed the story of the suicide and the causes leading up to it. The first to be sworn was Lieutenant Boyle. Testimony of Lieut. Boyle. He testified that on Saturday evening about half-past 5 he was in his office at the station consulting with Acting Sergeant McNeely, when he heard the report of a pistol. McNeely thought the noise was caused by one of the officers playing bil- Mards, who had let the butt of hjs cue strike the floor. A couple of minutes later ‘Walker, the patrol wagon driver, came running in and said King had shot him- seif. Witness and others ran out and found King lying against the lower part cf the steps leading down into the yard. Blood was oozing from a hole in the right temple, and to all appearances the man was dead. Coroner Hammett asked Lieut. Boyle about King’s record as an officer. “He was a very good officer,” was the reply, “and always willing to do his duty or to volunteer for extra duty when such was necessary.” “Did he ever make any threats against his own life?” inquired the coroner. “I have no recollection of his doing so until I received a letter from him on Sat- urday morning,” responded the witness. “In this letter he said that he intended to commit suicide, and that his body would te found on the Tenleytown road, near Wood- ley Inn. In the forenoon of Saturday, in company with Lieut. Swindells, I went cut to the place indicated to look for King, but without success. I did not see him again until he was dead.” “Were there any reasons given in the letter you received from King to account for his act?” . Declines to Produce the Letters. When Coroner Hammett asked this ques- tion there was a general movement among those present, indicating an expectation of interesting development. “I want to say, Mr. Coroner,” said Lieut. Boyle, decisively, “that I decline to produce any letters I may have received from Mr. King or to tell any more of their contents than I have already. The rest of the letter relates entirely to requests Mr. King made of me, and to his family matters, in which the jury or the public can have no interest bearing upon this inquest. I will say that Mr. King wrote to other persons indicating his determination to commit suicide. A gentlemar handed me a letter yesterday written to him by Mr. King, in which he said that I would pay a sum of money owed pd Mr. King to the person receiving the let- er.”” The coroner decided that the lieutenant was right in his declination to produce a private letter, and the latter continued his testimoney. He produced a nickel-plated seven-shot 32- caliber revolver and said it had belonged to Cfficer King, was his official weapon ani had been used to commit the deed. King was due to go on duty at 6 p. m. Saturday and evidently coming to the station for that purpose when he fired the deadly shot. Patrol Drivers Give Evidence. Walter A.Walker,a patrol wagon driver in the third precinct, said he was at work in the stable and heard some one come through the yard. Then a shot was fired. He went out and saw Mr. King sliding down the back steps. He thought Mr. King was drunk and went to him to help him up, when he saw a smoking pistol in his hand and the wound in his right temple. Witness took the pistol and gave it to Lieut. Boyle after giving the alarm. King never spoke after witness reached him and made no sound except a slight groan. John A. Ritchie, colored, another third precinct patrol wagon driver, was going home at 5:25 Saturday evening when he met Mr. King coming through the alley back of the station. Mr. King looked sick, and the witness remarked upon it, where- upon Mr, King said he didn’t think he would go on duty. itness passed on, say- ing “Good evenin to which Mr. King replied “Good-bye.” He did not seem to be under the influence of liquor. King Frequently Threatened Suicide. Officer Hanley testified to being a brother officer of King’s. The latter had shown many peculiarities of late. Sometimes he was very jolly and lively and then he would have spells when he would take no notice of any one. King told witness five or six days ago that he was tired of life and would kill himself. Witness told him he was talking foolishly. King was not in liquor on that occasion and not in the habit of getting so. Humane Society Officer Jos. R. Rabbit, Pharmacist Felix Van Reuth of 20th and K streets and Policeman John E. Preston all gave similar testimony about King asserting upon many occasions his intention of killing himself on account of his troubles, the character of which he did not detail, Fearful Character of the Wound. Deputy Coroner Glazebrook testified as to the autopsy he made upon King. The ball had entered the right temple, passed through the brain and the opposite wall-of the skull and lodged under the skin back of the right ear. The wound was a fearful one. The fracture caused by the bullet extended entirely around the skull and down into the base of the skull. The wound produced death instantly. The pis- tol must have been held close to the head, as powder burns were found near the en- trance wound The jury then retired and in a few mo- ments rendered a verdict that Charles H. King came to his death from a pistol wound in his temple inflicted by himself. King was a very popular policeman, but when under the influence of liquor, in which he indulged occasionally to excess up to a year or more ago, he was Ill-tem- pered. He was dismissed from the force in May, 18%, for assaulting a man named Emery Cole in an avenue saloon. At the Ford’s Theater fire he performed many heroic acts of bravery and upon his prom- ise to conduct himself properly in the fu- ture he was reappointed on the force and since that time was a valuable policeman in the eyes of his comrades and his su- periors. He was thirty-one years old and leaves a widow, formerly Miss Alice Riley, and a boy seven years old. ee Army Orders. The leave of absence granted Captain John R. Brinckle, fifth artillery, is ex- tended six months on surgeon's certificate of disability. Second Lieutenant Henry A. Pipes, sev- enth infantry, having been found by an army retiring board incapacitated for active service, is granted leave of absence until further orders on account of disa- bility. Captain William Crozier, ordnance de- partment, will repair to this city and re- | port in person to the chief of ordnance, U. 8S. army, on official business pertaining to the construction of disappearing gun- carriages. Consumption. The incessant wasting of a consumptive can only be over come by a powerful concentrated nourishment like Scott’s Emule sion. If this wasting is checked and the system is supplied with strength to combat the disease there is hope of recovery. b Sco mutlsion of Cod-liver Oil, with Hypophos- phites, does more to cure Con- sumption than any other known Lease It oe a of roat Lungs, Brone chitis and Wasting. sty aby Scott& Bowne. M. ¥. AllDruggists. 60c. and$t. “Pretty Things” Fol Holiday Presents —— sage Basen, gute apnad, —-_—__ it variety, for laity presats atta’ cons” Sgt ee prices, Z Tirs. M. J. Hunt, 1309 FS! 43-2000 ———= VISIBLE SPEECH. Alexander Graham Bell and His Method of Teaching. From the Boston Globe. In 1869 the school committee of Boston decided to try the then novel experiment of a day school for the deaf in order that children who required such instruction as the Institutions were giving might get it without leaving their homes. The present principal of the Horace Mann school, Miss Sarah Fuller, then a teecher in the public schools, was selected to begin the work, and a sum of money was appropriated to pay for -her training at the Clarke Institu- tion, Northampton, then the only oral school for the deaf in the country. So the Horace Mann school enjoys the distinction of being the first oral day school for the deaf in the country. A year or two preceding this time, Prof. Alexander Melville Bell of Edinburgh and London had delivered lecture on the subject at the Lowell Institute, which lec- ture Miss Fuller happered to hear, and from this circumstance occurred a train of events which resulted in the invention of the Bell teiephone. The school committee invited the elder Dr. Bell to come to Bos- ton and instruct the teachers of the Hor- ace Mann school in the science of phon- etics. He declined, but offered to send his son, Alexander Graham Bell, in his stead, The offer was accepted, and the great in. ventor, then a very young man, was en- gaged for a period of three months to in- struct both the teachers and the pupils of the school for the deaf. He taught what is known as visible speech. This is a system of physiological symbols representing sound which the human voice can produce. The symbols were invented by the elder Dr. Bell, and are based on a diagram of the mouth and the organs of speech. By means of these symbols an expert can take down a con- versation in Zulu, Chinese or Choctaw, and may not necessarily understand a word «f those languages, while another expert can from the symbols reproduce exactly the same sounds so that a ZuJu, Chinaman or Choctaw will understand perfectly what he Says, though the reader may have no idea whatever of the meaning. Dr. Bell taught these symbols and their meaning to the teachers and the pupils of the Horace Mann school, then he went to Clarke Institution and to Hartford and taught the teachers in both places. A lit- tle later he settled in Boston and became a professor of vocal physiology in the Bos- ton University. He felt a great and grow- ing interest in the deaf, and began to ex- periment with electricity, hoping to in- vent some instrument which would be of more use than any speaking tube in alle- viating the conditions of deaf people. —_.—__ BIG ARMIFS IN BATTLE. The Greatest Number Engaged in Modern Times Was at Leipsic. Without doubt, of all the battles recorded in modern history the longest and sternest, as well as the one in which most men were engaged, was the memorable battle of Letp- sic, October 16, 18, 19, 1813, called by the Germans the battle of the nations, says the Brooklyn Eagle. The number of troops en- gaged is variously stated by different writers at from 136,000 to 190,000 on the side of Napoleon I, and from 230,000 to 290,000 on that of the allies under Prince Schwartzen- burg, Blucher and Bernadotte. In this awful battle the slain on both sides amounted to 80,000, and thousands of the wounded lay for days around the city. In the battle of Koniggratz, or Sadowa, July 3, 1866, fought during the “seven weeks’ war,” the allied Austrian and Saxon troops en- gaged amounted to about 200,000 men, while the Prussians, under their king, mustered in round numbers 260,000 combatants. The total loss of the Austrians, &c., amounted to about 40,000 men, while that of the Prus- sians was 10,000. If we go back to the-melee of ancient days we find it stated that at the one fought at Tours in 732, between the Franks and the Saracens, from 350,000 to 375,000 men were killed on the field. This would, of course, mean that many more men were engaged than at Leipsic. In a battle mentioned in Chronicles II, between Asa, king of Judah, and Rerah, king of Ethiopia, we are told that the former had an army of a thousand thousand, or 1,000,- 000. Canon Rawlinson observes that this statement does not exceed the number of other oriental armies. Darius Codomannus brought into the field a force of 1,040,000 men near Arbela, where he was finally de- feated by Alexander the Great, 331 B. C. Xerxes, too, Prof. Rawlinson says, crossed into Greece with certainly above 1,000,000 combatants, and Artaxerxes Mnemon col- lected 1,260,000 men to meet the attack of the younger Cyrus. — see An Alaskan Ice Cave. From the San Francisco Examiner. “While at Birch Creek,” said Mr, Ober- lander, “I was informed of the discovery of a wonderful cave by a miner named Schumann. I was unable to visit the cave, which 1s located forty miles above Master- dan creek. Schumann states that his cave is eighty fect in length and varies from four to seventy feet in width. After en- tering through e small aperture, the sides of which are composed of granite, one emerges into a solid ice chamber, from which hang numerous stalactites, glisten- ing like silver. Schumann was surprised to find that there were a number of air- currents in the cave, the soured of which he could not determine. At one gjde ho found a black bear, sitting partly upright. The sight of the animal alarmed him greatly at first, but failing to detect any sins of life he approached it, and found that the bear war frozen stiff in a block of ice. He took his ax and chopped a piece off the animal. Picking up portions, he found that it crumbled at his touch. Sim- ilar caves, some large, others small, have been discovered about Birch Creek.” — Mysore Infants Must Not Marry. From the London Globe. The Maharajah of Mysore has resolved to put down by an act of the legislature the custom of infant marriage among his subjects. A bill to that effect was pub- lished last year. After a good deal of dis- cussion the measure has now assumed @ definite shape and form. When the act is enforced any person causing or abetting infant marriages or any person of eighteen or over eighteen marrying an infant girl will be punished with imprisonment of either description, which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both. The same punishment ts prescribed for any man who, having completed fifty years of age, marries a girl under fourteen years. Six months’ imprisonment or fine, or both, will be meted out to the abettor or abet- tors of this offense. All girls under eight years of age will be considered as infants under this law.