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14 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. of iron prongs, bent so that as the schoon- STARVED AND BEATEN | si sstetonftart ahaicichs sehesn. bottom it will scoop up the oysters from the mud. Then the men turn the windlass and wind up the dredge with its collection of oysters to be empiied upon the deck. This is the work, all day long from the break of day until sometimes far in the night or perhaps until morning. It is wind, wind, wind on that windlass, and lift and ee at the dredge. Feet and legs are soon we! to the skin and their hands are chilled with the icy water and cut by the oyster shells, while the brine from the salt water eats into the flesh and makes dreadful sores. “If a stiff wind is blowing it is difficult work to maintain a footing on the slippery deck as the schooner rises and fails, for there is no rail around the edge. The dredges can work at night as well as day, and in this case the hardship is increased. It is very difficult for one housed in com- fortable quarters and barely hearing the wind outside to im- agine the lot of these poor oystermen on the deck of a Chesa- peake schooner, fac- ing the bitter gale, with the salt spray dashing in their eyes and freezing on their cheeks as they tug at the creaking windlass. The pay for this work is from $12 to $15 a month and ‘board.’ The board usually consists of black coffee, cornbread and, under more fortunate circumstances, salt meat. “The captains are not accustomed to drawing room language, and they are like- ly to order the men around pretty lively if they show signs of letting up. If the offender jaws back he is promptly knocked down with the first thing handy and may get beaten in the bargain. If a captain gets set against a man he can make it mighty uncomfortable for him. “These cases would not be so bad, how- ever, if it were not for the fact that it is often impossible for the poor fellow to get away.” “How is A Too Frequent Fate of Oyster Boat Employes. CRUELTIES PRACTICED BY DREDGERS A Star Correspondent Interviews an Old River Captain. REMEDIES SUGGESTED From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening Sta COAN RIVER, Va., January 30, 1895. HERE ARE UN- told numbers of men on the Chesapeake tributaries today who are suffering cruelty and misery on oyster schooners, held there against their will.” ‘This was the start- ling statement made to The Star man by an old river captain, who has navigated these waters all his days, and is familiar with everything connected with life on the lower Potomac and the salt water reaches of the bay. The Star man, to whom the statement was made, was in search of in- formation upon this subject, and as Coan river is the center of the oyster industry of the lower Potomac, came ‘to this point for it. No better description of the situa- tion could be obtained than to let that cap- tain tell the story In his own way. “Occasionally the general public get a brief insight into the situaticn,” he said, “by some poor fellow fetching up in a Washington or Ealti- possible to keep men against their will asked The Star man. “Easy enough. It frequently happens that a dredger does not go into port tor weeks. The big dredge boats usually work in companies of threes. Two of them will keep on the oyster beds constantly and the third will take their oysters to port, coming back for another load. The crews that are likely to desert never get aboard the ‘runner,’ the schooner that goes into Ste sanarined port, but are kept on the dredge boats. wounds and frozen If the captain has to land a man because limbs, to tell their he is disabled or because the captain own’ story. These wants to bilk him out of his wages the Satetteuaian wipes Funner will bring him another from te Ol a v city. currence in these waters I will tell you the story of the experience of three foreigners, } which, although it occurred some time agi is still remembered by everybody down here. The story was told to me by the c#ptain of the steamer that took the men to the city. They were Italians and could the sufferers, how- ever, of whom the public never hea \ to =e but who manage their homes, or PaaeiL A escape and go who die and are chucked overboard. “-/ / / not understand a word of English. They ‘There !s no narder * “ / went aboard the steamer at a Coan river They were a pitiable sight, ragged es battered and bruised and their limbs frozen. In places their wounds were gangrened. The captain warmed them and fed them, after which he tried to interrogate them. One of them could speak a few words of English, but all he could say was, ‘Windee, wind; corny bread; no meat; windee wind, all time windee wind,’ and the tears streamed down his face. The captain understood that the fellow was describing his work at the windlass. They were taken to Baltimore, and the Italian con- sul at that port took up the case. The men, after being starved and beaten, had been put ashore without a cent. Fortunately, they had remembered the number on the dredge schooner, and landing. sible, I venture to say, than that of and thin, their fa ‘tainly there such brutality. The hardships are in a measure attendant upon the character of the ‘usiness; that i far as the cold and exposure is concerned. The bad food and the brutality could be avoided. “I do not mean to say that every oyster captain is a brute, who 3 and starves his men and turns them out to work when e sick, tut I am sorry to say that es are only too numerous. “It is true also that some of tke hands themselves are tough characters and can only be handled with a belaying pin. These men, of course, are perfectly able to take care of themselves, but the class of hanis who deserve sympathy are the poor fellows who go aboard the oyster boats ignorant of what is before them, driven to the life by necessity, or perhaps allured to it by glittering and false prom- ises. They realize their situation when it | by this means the is too late to remedy it, for the oyster | consul was able to captain has shipped a crew of this| get the law on the character will not land them upon their | oyster captain, and first demand, and go shorthanded in-a| recovered their place where {t may be very difficult to ship another crew. “It frequently happens that men will be taken aboard these oyster boats and work- ed for weeks without -getting a cent of wages. “Ts there no way to protect the crews of these questions?” asked The Star man. pay. If they murmur they are likely to] “A great deal of good could be accom- be knocked down, beaten, and otherwise | plished if the police boats of Virginia and cruelly treated until they are only too | Maryland would take more interest in the glad to be put ashore and let their wages | matter. The government could do still ‘go by the board.” The captain will set | mere good. There is a United States rev- them jore in his small boat In some | enue cutter in Chesapeake bay all the time, lonely locality and tell them to shift for | cruising around to render assistance to dis- themselves. The condition of the men is | abied vessels. If the cutter would board then pitiable. They find themselves In a} these big oyster schooners and ask the remote section, distant from railroads, and | crew if any of them are detained against where the only communication with civi- | their will many a poor fellow could be res- lization ts by water. Chances are that | cued from cruel treatment or probably they are heartily sick of the water by | from death. The revenue cutter would have this time, however. The people in the | authority and could exert it in a most neighborhood are not likely to show them great deal of consideration, for the cases beneficial manner. “It does seem very hard that so much are too common. They will probably be | wrong doing should exist right here in the regarded with suspicion by the farmers, | heart of civilization and within 100 miles of who, from past experiences with similar | the capital of this country, and that human cases, will ke and hay stack: “The only chance for the poor devils then ts to be picked up by a river steamer and taken to Washington or Baltimore: They must make for a landing and wait for the steamer to come. The steamer captains seldom re- fuse to give these men deck passage to the city, as it Is an accommodation to their patrons in the neighborhood to get D a wary eye on hen roosts | beings should suffer such hardships with- out recourse.” —_> AS TO BEANS. Some Facts of Interest About a Fa- miliar Article of Food. From the New York Sun. Most of the beans consumed in this coun- try are raised in this state, in Canada, and in Michigan. Some beans are coming now from California, and the California output is increasing. We import some beans from Europe, the imports varying, being rid of them. The oyster captain in the | Some years more and some less. We are meantime has put | not importing many this year. The ordi- over to the other | nary white bean such as we use for baking side of the bay look- | grows on a bush about two feet high, in ing for another | q pod somewhat similar to a pea pod. The z crew. If the men | pean is at first scft and of a greenish tinge, have any friends or can raise a little | or greenish white, but it ripens white and money they may take the law on the oys- ter captain, but they seldom do, for it ts too hard to find the schooner afterward and too expensive to get their case into court. They usually let the matter drop and think they are in big luck to have come away with their lives. “If common report be true, It fs not al- wa that they come off so easily. Every once in a while you hear of a man missing from these oyster boats. He has gone overboard when the rest of the crew were lost his balance or slipped on the . or knocked overboard by a swinging Then, if a is found floating » hay with the h who is that the man was not accidentally 1 and his head crushed by the keel ng boat or contact with a log? a matter of fact little trouble is taken metimes to look at a body found floating in the bay. The steamer sighting such an object is more hkely to keep on her course without stopping to pick up the floater, the cap rguing that he can’t do the dead man any good, but will only delay his trip and consume coal in slowing down. It's very seldom that a sailing vessel will take the trouble to heave to and haul in a floater, realizing that it will be a bother to carry the body to port or to bury it. “So it happens that oftentimes no op- hard in the pod, as we see it in the stores. When it is in just the right condition the bushes are puiled up, or they are some- times cut down with a machine something like a mowing machine, and piled up in the field to dry. Then the bushes are carted to the barns and threshed, and the beans are gathered up and fanned and screened. ‘They are separated into sizes by screening, and branded accordingly. ‘There are marrow, medium, and pea, or small, bean In screening beans the smaller marrow beans from the ends of the pods might be branded mediums, and the smaller mediums might be branded peas; but the genuine beans of these names are of as distinct varieties as, for instance, the several varieties of peas are. Most of the beans raised in this country are sent to market in barrels; the foreign beans are imported in bags. In this country New England is probably the largest consumer of beans in propor- tion to the population, but the consump- tion of beans is general everywhere throughout the country, and it has increas- ed with the growth of population. Beans can be easily transported, and If properly cured they are not affected by hot climates. New beans begin to be received in Sep- tember. In quantity the bean crop of the current year is not up to the usual pro- > i ven for investigation e ee ete vue misiugs mente eation aot | duction. ‘The actual consumption of beans on forget about tt ig much greater In winter than in summer. for very likely they We export some beans to the West in- mow a dies and to South American countries in know nothing of his antecedents or where he came from, and they have got their some years when there Is more or less of failure of their own crops. Common an article of food as beans are in this country, we don’t begin to eat as ee ate oe many as the people In Europe do. The becker the captains | production there is enormous. Beans are cheaper there than here, and the consump- bat wap ons tion 1s immen: Why should there a be occasion for such SRE cruelty on oyster When Jimmy Comes Frym School. Reatet" asked the When Jirumy comes from school at four, writer. Jerusalem! how things begin “Weil, if you want iy whirl and buzz and bat to analyze it, £ sup- And Prighten up from roof pose it's somett “The at all day this: The oyster ess is a hard business as I said he- There {s not much money In it and n Jimmy comes captain of a dredge boat must get the , clink 1, st worlt out of his men at the least ex- | The cupboard latches clink # tine He has got to work them early To tel ¥ boy of hers nd late, and every ounce of meat that ‘That supper will ‘ey eat ig so much money out of his And then a slab of pte i et. If he loses a day’s dredging by Leg & Ca ES weather the wages and feeding of the | Am for the breczy barnyard nreake. Ko on just the same, so that while Wher dinmy consis from/schook: ere 1s a chance to work he has got to ep them at ft, lick and lick. Often the are not properly clothed when they ‘The rooster on the gerden fence Struts up and down and crows and crows As If he knows or thinks he knows, .e aboard, and as they are constantly pnb EE. sed to cold and wet they suffer. The ices chtanan Soteg tne cherae? too « {8 rough and their hands soon get And just beside the window sill | ” shape, but they must keep turning ‘The red bird, swinging out of view On his bich perch begins to trill, on the dredgo, ‘When Jimmy comes from school. he dredge boat is a schooner or punsy rrying @ crew of from six to ten men, t of whom are to work the ship, while prs operate the dredging machines. elther “side of the vessel, Just about iships, fg @ machine which’ resembles ordinary windlass, with two handles r turning. Around the windlass is wrap- «1 a chain and at the end of it ts what ss walled the dredge. This is @ collection When Jimmy comes from school, take ca Our hearts begin to throb and’ quake With life and joy, and every ache herd amp. before We are aware, e earth takes on a richer hue, A softer light falls on the lowers, ‘And overhead a brighter blue Seems bent above this world of ours, When Jimmy comes from school, JAMES NHWION MATTHEW. THE WEST POINTERS They Are No Longer in the Ascend- ant in the Army. FIGURES FROM THE ARMY REGISTER The Proportion of Graduates in Each Grade. VETERANS OF THE WAR Written for The Evening Star. N EXAMINATION of the Army Register for 1895, just issued by the adjutant gen- eral, shows that out of 2,139 officers on } the active list there are only 392 gradu- ates who have risen above the rank of first lieutenant. The total number of West Pointers is 1,230, but 830 of these are sub- alterns. In other words, although 57 per cent of the officers on duty are graduates of the Military Academy, only 18 per cent have been pro- moted more than one step since they “doffed the gray and donned the blue, so that, practically, the army is now domi- nated by officers who do not bear the aris- tocratic stamp of “The Point.” Two of the three major generals, Scho- field and McCook, are West Pointers. The other, Nelson A. Miles, originally entered the military service of the United States as a captain in the twenty-second Massachu- setts volunteers. When Gen. Scholic!d re- tires next September Gen. Miles will be the senior major general, and, as such, will probably succeed to the command of the army. That, however, does nct neces- sarily follow, although there is a seneral but erroneous belief that it does. Under an old regulation, which is still in force, an officer cannot place himself on duty by virtue of his commission alone. He must be assigned to duty by competent au- thority. Gen. Miles, therefore, cannot succced Gen. Schotield as “major general command- ing the army” unless specially assigned to that position by orders from the War De- partment. It would be competent for the President to assign another officer to that duty, though ft is not likely that he will do so, The six brigadier generals are equally divided between graduates and civilians, Ruger, Merritt and Forsyth being West Pointers, while Brooke, Wheaton and Otis do not possess that distinction. Gen. Wheaton originally entered the army March 3, 1853, as first lieutenant in the fourth (now first) cavalry, which or- ganized under an act of that date. He has been continuously in service nearly forty years. Gens, Brooke and Otis were ap- pointed lieutenant colonels of infantry in 1866, having previously served with dis- tinction as brigadier generals of volunteers. Of the ten general officers (brigadiers) who are heads of staff departinents only four are graduates, namely, the adjutant general, commissary general, chief of en- ginesrs and chief of ordnance. The in- spector general's department, the judge ad- vocate general's department (formerly call- ed the bureau of military justice), the quartermaster’s, medical and pay depart- ments and the signal corps are presided over by ofticers who have not the signitfi- cant M. A. opposite their names in the Army Register. The chief signal ofticer be- gan his military career by carrying a mus- ket as a private in the nineteenth Massa- chusetts volunteers. The inspector gen- eral, judge advocate general, quartermas- ter general and surgeon general made their first military ventures in 1851 as Heuten- ants, while the paymaster general com- menced as an additional paymaster with the rank of major. The other officers of the staff departments are classed as fol- lows: y Graduates of West Point—18 colonels, 26 lieutenant colonels, 46 majors, 77 captains and 62 lieutenants. Appointed from civil life—12 lieutenant colonels, #4 majors, and 38 lieutenants. Promoted from the ranks—1 lieutenant colonel, 2 majors, one captain and 2 lieu- tenants. These figures show that out of 501 staff officers, exclusive of heads of bureaus, 220 are graduates, 266 are civilian appointees and 6 rose from the ranks. Fighting Parsons. Although it is a matter of record that graduates of the Military Academy have become ministers of the gospel (Leonidas Polk, for example, sometime bishop of Louisiana and confederate general, Rev. De Shon, a Catholic priest, ard Dr. Francis Vinton, for many years rector of Trinity Church, New York), none of the thirty post chaplains are West Pointers, but two of them served as infantry officers and elght were enlisted men of volunteers dur- ing the late war, so that one-third of the chaplains are fairly entitled to be consid- ered “fighting parscns.” In the cavalry arm of the service 3 colenels, 2 lieutenant colonels, 1 major, 8 captains and 220 lieutenants are graduates; T colonels. 5 Heuterant colonels, 18 majors, 37 captains and 24 lieutenants are from civil life, and 3 lieutenant colonels, 11 majors, 1 captain and 15° lieutenants were promoted from the rark In the artillery arm, which, like the en- gineer corps and ordnance department, is regarded in a sort of scientific light, West Point is better represented. Four of the five regiments are commanded by gradu- ates, and one by a civilian appointee; all the Heutenant colonels, 5 of the majors, 23 captains and 182 lieutenants are West Pointers; 10 majors, 30 captains and 8 lieu- tenants were appointed from civil life, and 7 captains and 1 lieutenant rose from the ranks. For some time past vacancies in the artillery arm have been reserved for graduates, which explains the circumstance that,out of 191 lieutenants all but 9 are West Pointers. It is five years since an en- listed man received a commission in an artillery regiment, though during that per- iod many artillerymen have been promoted from the ranks and assigned to the in- fantry. Proportion of West Pointers. In the infantry arm graduates above the rank of lieutenant are scarce, there being only 6 colonels, 3 lKeutenant colonels, 1 major and 75 captains, while the number of lieutenants fs 374. Those appointed from civil life are 19 colonels, 18 lieutenant colonels, 13 majors, 150 captains and lieutenants. The rank and file of the army are represented by 4 lieutenant colonels, 11 majors, 27 captains and 97 lieutenants. The proportion of West Pointers in each grade above that of first lieutenant in the ccmbatant branches of the army Is as fol- lows: Colonels, 32 1-2 per cent; Heutenant colonels, 25 per cent; majors, 10 per cent; captains, $1 per cent. At the Military Academy there are seven permanent professors, six of whom are graduates. ‘The seventh, the chaplain and professor of ethics, is not a graduate. The professor of law is detailed from the army, under a special provision of law. At pres- ent that office is filled by a lieutenant colonel of the judge advocate general's department, who was promoted from the ranks, having served as private, bands- man and quartermaster sergeant. If any cadet some thirty-seven years ago had predicted that a young German then pla ing In the band of the ninth infantry would one day become a Heutenant colonel and be assigned to duty as professor of law at the high-toned Point he would certainly have been hazed. Veterans of the War. The term “appointed from civil life’ used in the above statement, though strictly correct, is somewhat misleading, as it con- veys the idea that when the appointees received their commissions as regular army officers they were green civilians. As a matter of fact, 46 per cent were seasoned veterans, having taken part in a war compared with which the war of 1812 and the Mexican war were merely a series of skirmishes. Out of officers reported as appointed from civil life 833 served in the volunteer army—15§ as commissioned colonels, 03 cuptains officers and 177 as emisted men. Many of those who received hppointments in the regular army on its reorganization in 1865 had commanded regiments, brigades, divi- sions and even army corps, under Grant or Sherman, and it was not exceptional for majors, lieutenant ¢olonels and colonels of volunteers to accept second lieuten- ancies in the regular -getablishment. After nearly thirty years’ service, some of these volunteer field officers have not advanced beyond the grade of captain, and it is probable that the retired list will overtake them before they can get another step. ——__ AGE OF TYPEWRITERS. Conditions Which; Influence the Chances of Women in Search of Work From the New York Sun. :* “Is it true that employers of stenograph- ers and typewriters are inclined to discrim- inate between pretty young girls and wo- men of mature age?” a Sun reporter asked a man who is brought into daily relations with employers and who has helped hun- dreds of women to secure places. “Generally speaking,” was the reply, “when the same degree of fitness is shown business mer make little or no discrimina- tion, but there are scores of firms in the city who prefer mature women such as ‘Veritas,’ whose letter I read in the Sun. My observation satisfies me that any wo- man under forty who has ability, vivacity and neatness of appearance stands on pre- cisely the same plane as the younger sis- ters of her profession. ‘Too many women who follow this pursuit lose ambition in their work after they reach the age of thirty because they see all about them a host of girls fresh from school earning per- haps the same pay as those far more ex- perienced. The reason an inexperienced girl receives this consideration is that when first entering upon office duties she takes great pride in her work, and her employer feels that she can then be relied upon and has no serious thoughts of marrying for at least a few years. “The age at which most young women commence the practice of stenography and typewriting ranges from seventeen to twenty-three years, and as comparatively few remain in offices longer than five years, it is naturally inferred thgt those who have reached mature womanhood have long since passed the period of their first bus!- ness zeal, and therefore cannot be counted on as permanent. It is found, too, (hat in matters of correspondence every business man has idiosyncracies, be they important or otherwise, which his employes must re- spec and a beginner is apt to conform more closely to the specific methods and de- tails required in her work than one who for years has known other forms and cus- toms from which she finds it difficult to free herself. Despite this there are doubt- less from 300 to 500 women in this city above thirty years of age who pursue shoithand and typewriting for a livelihood, though it is belie’ that not one in a thousand commences the study after she has reached this age. The few who do are oftentimes women who have been thrown by dcmestic circumstances upon their own efforts, and who do not seek the profession, either because of special adaptation or love of the work.” The reporter was told also that some men favor the employment of young women because they are less troublesome than their elders in demanding short hours and frequent holida: At the beginning of her career a girl has not learned to annoy her employer with the daily request, “May I g9 at 3 this afternoon?” or, “Do you mind if I leave this work till tomorrow?” She is content to do whatever is assigned to her, is always alert, and neatly attired, and is as yet ignorant of the tricks of the trade. On the othér hand, a woman of several years’ experience is better able to judge the mood and temperament of her emplcyer, and knows when to interrupt or offer a suggestion. She {s never flustered and seldom undertakes a task beyond her power, and her superidr capability is al- ways shown in the finished document. It is a characteristic mistake of begin- ners to look upon their ability to take dic- tation as the only essential condition and to regard typewriting as of secondary im- portance. Their {deas also of punctuation and the typographical appearance of a let- ter are often defective, while the mature operator who has been trained in her work knows the importance of this part of it, and realizes better that it is the type- written sheet that proves her competence, not the page of shorthand, about which her employer knows or cares nothing. Her shorthand ts so symmetrically written that she always knows about how much space her notes will occupy when transcribed, and she is able to arrange her copy artis- tically, without loss of time. Investigation indicates that personal beauty in women is not essential to obtain- ing the place of stenographer or typewriter. In many places, particularly in large law offices and banks where there are young men clerks, mature women are desired, and often those of plain appearance. ASLEEP ELEVEN YEARS. A Girl Frightened Into Slumber From Which She Has Never Awakened. Paris Letter to the London Telegraph. There is a girl named Marguerite Bouyen- val at Thenelles, in the north of France, near Saint Quentin, who is reported to have been asleep for the past eleven years. A good deal of doubt has been thrown on this phenomenal slumbering case, not only in Paris, but also in Thenelles and its vicinity, where there are two camps, one of the te. lievers and the other of those who main- tain that the so-called sleeping beauty rises at night and has a good supper. The matter has been investigated by a Parisian, who has seen the girl and found her es lean as a skeleton and as stiff as a corpse, but still ving. Her mother injects milk, peptone and sometimes wine through a broken tooth in the girl’s mouth. Marguerite Bouyenval made away with a baby eleven years ago, and the gen- darmes were sent to her house. The girl was so frightened at their approach that she had an attack of hysteria, which lasted several hours, and at the end of which she fell into a trance. The doubts thrown on the continuation of the trance have evidently been caused by the fact that the mother of the sleeping girl has made a good deal of money by exhibiting her. A local doctor, who has observed the case during the eleven years, informed the in- vestigator from Paris that Marguerite Bouyenval had really been asleep during the whole time. Occasionally she had hys- terical cries, but did not awake after them. Other doctors have also agreed as to the genuineness of the phenomenon, and the sleeping girl of Thenelles remains a human mystery. aes A Philistine, From the Indianapolis Journal. “Popper,” said Miss Tractor, “I want a dollar.” “Fot for?” asked Mr. Con Tractor. “I want to go to the exhibition that Mr. Paints is giving of bis original sketches.” “And fot's original sketches, Oi dunno? “Why the groundwork sketches, don’t you know, of his fine paintings.” “Oho, thot’s it, is.it? Yez will git no dol- lar for anny sooch monkey-doodle business as thot. Gowan out in to the shed and faste your eyes on the original schaffolds thot your daddy built oop the coorthouse wid, an’ be satisfoid wid thot.” And Mr. Tractor relighted his pipe and resumed his perusal of the sporting column of the newspaper. +o+—____ *War in the Future. From Tid-Bits. General (when bullet-proof uniforms be- come common) —“What have you learned?” Aid-de-camp —“Victory will soon perch upon our banners. We. have filled the en- emy’s clothes so full. of lead that they can’t move another step without undress- ing.” —————“+ 0+ —___ Disitllasioned. From Taegliche Rundschau. Lady (widow) —“Do you know that my daughter has set her eyes upon you, Herr Muller?” Gentieman (flattered) —“‘Has she reall. Lady —“Certainly; only today she was saying, ‘That's the sort of gentleman I should like for my papa.’"” — see. A Hint. From Judy. Teacher—‘In what year was the battle of Waterloo fought?” Pupil—“I don’t know.” Teacher—“It’s simple enough if you only would learn how to cultivate artificial memory. Remember the twelve apostles Add half theic number to them. That's eighteen. Multiply by a hundred. That's eighteen hundred. Take the twelve apos- tles again. Add a quarter of their number to them. That's fifteen. Add to what you've got. That's 1815, That's the date. Quite simple, you see, to remember dates if you only will adept my system.” LITTLE MR, THIMBLEFINGER AND HIS QUEER COUNTRY. ——~———— THE BLUE HEN’S CHICKEN BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, =e (Copyright, 1895, by Joel Chandler Harris.) “I'm not much of a story teller,” said Mr. Rabbit, “and I never set up for one, but I will say that I like the rough and tumble tales a great deal better than I do the kind where some great somebody is always coming in with conjurings and other carryings-on. It’s on account of my rais- ing, I reckon.” “Well, storles can’t be all alike,” re- marked Mrs. Meadows. “You might as well expect a fiddle to play only one tune.” “Tell us the kind of story you like best,” said Buster John to Mr. Rabbit. “No, not now,” responded Mr. Rabbit. “I'll do that some other time. I happened to think just now of a little circumstance that I used to hear mentioned when I was younger. “In the country next door there used to be a great many chickens. Some were of the barnyard breed, some were of the kind they called game, some were black, some were white, some were brown, some were speckled and some had their feathers curled the wrong way. Among all these there was one whose name, as well as I can remember, was Mrs. Blue Hen.” “Was she really blue?” Sweetest Susan inquired. “Well, not an indigo blue,” replied Mr. Rabbit, after reflecting a moment, “nor yet a sky blue. She was just a plain, dull every-day blue. But such as she was, she was very fine. She belonged to one of the first families, and moved in the very best circles. She was trim looking, s0 I’ve heard said, and, as she grew older, came to have a very bad temper, so much so that she used to fly at a hawk if he came near her premises. Some of her neighbors used to whisper it around that she tried to crow like a rooster—but this was after she had grown old and hard-headed. “When Mrs. Blue Hen was growing up she was very nice and j articular. She couldn't bear to get water on her feet, and she was always shaking the dust from her clothes. Some said she was finicky, and some said she was nervous. Once when she fanned out little Billy Bantam, who called on her one day, a great many of her acquaintances said she would never settle down and make a good housekeeper. “But after awhile Mrs. Blue Hen con- cluded that it was about time to have a family of her own, so she went away off from the other chickens and made her a nest in the middle of a thick briar patch. She made her a nest there and laid an egg. It was new and white, and Mrs. Blue Hen ery proud of it. She was so proud, in that, although she had made up her mind to make no fuss over it, she went running and cackling toward the house, just as any common hen would do. She made so much fuss that away down in the spring branch Mr, Willy Weasel winked at Miss Mimy Mink. Do you hear that?’ says he. “I never heard anything plainer in my life,’ says she. “Mrs. Blue Hen was so proud of her new white egg that she went back after awhile to look at it. Nobody had _ bothered it. ‘There it was, shining white -In the grass. She covered it up and hid it as well as she could, and then she went about getting dirner ready. “The next morning she went to the nest and laid another egg, just like the first one. This happened for three mornings, but_on the fourth morning, when Mrs, Blue Hen went back she found four eggs in the nest, and all four appeared to be dingy and muddy-looking. She was very much as- tonished and alarmed, as weil she might be, for here right before her eyes she saw four eggs when she knew in reason that there should be but three, and not only that, they were all dingy and dirty. “Mrs. Blue Hen was so excited that she took off her bonnet and began to fan her- self. Then she wondered whether she had not made a miscount—whether she had not really laid four instead of three eg3s. The more she tacught about it the more con- fused she became. She hung her bonnet en a blackberry bush and tried to count off the days on her toes. She began to count —'One, two, three’—and she would have stopped there, but she couldn't. She had four toes on her foot and she was com- pelled to count them all. ‘There was a toe on the foot for every egg in the nest. “This caused Mrs. Blue Hen to feel some- what more comfortable in mind and body, hut she was left in such a hysterical state that she went off cackling nervously and postponed laying an egg until late in the afternoon. After that there were five in the nest and she kept on laying until there were ten altogether. Then Mrs. Blue Hen rumpled up her feathers and got mad with herself and went to setting. I reckon that’s what you call it. I've heard some call it ‘setting’ and others ‘sitting.’ Once, when I was courting, I spoke of a sitting hen, but the young lady said I was too prissy for anything.” “What is ‘prissy’?”” asked Sweetest Susan. r. Rabbit shut his eyes and scratched ear. Then he shook his head slowly. It's nothing but a girl’s word,” remark- ed Mrs. Meadows, by way of explanation. “It means that somebody's trying hard to show off.’ “I reckon that’s so," said Mr. Rabbit, opening his eyes. He appeared to he much relieved. ‘Well, Mrs. Blue Hen got mad and went to setting. She was in a snug place and nobody bothered her. It was such a quiet place that she could hear Mr. Willy Weasel and Miss Mimy Mink gossip- ing in the calamus bushes, and she could hear Mrs. Puddle Duck wading in the branch. One day Mrs. Puddle Duck made so bold as to push her way through the briars and look in upon Mrs, Blue Hen. But her visit was not relished. Mrs. Blue Hen rumpled her feathers up and spread cut her tail to such a degree and squalled out such a harsh protest that Mrs. Puddle Duck was glad to waddle off with whole bones. But when she got back to the branch, she spluttered about a good deal, crying ‘out: “«Sha! aha! quack, quack! Aha! You are there, are you? Aha! you'll have trouble before you get away. Aha!’ “Now, the fact was that Mrs. Puddle Duck was the very one that had caused Mrs. Blue Hen all the trouble,’ said M Rabbit, nodding his head solemnly, ‘‘Wad- ing in the branch, Mrs. Puddle Duck had seen Mrs. Blue Hen going to her nest for three days, slipping and creeping through the weeds and bushes, and she wanted to know what all the slipping and creeping was about. So, on the third day Mrs. Pud- dle Duck did some slipping and creeping on her own account. She crept up close enough to see Mrs. Blue Hen on her nest, and ske was near enough to see Mrs. Blue Hen when she ran away cackling. “Then Mrs. Puddle Duck waddled up and peeped in the nest. There she saw three eggs as white and as smooth as ivory, and the sight filled her with jealousy. She be- gan to talk to hersel “J knew she must be mighty proud, the stuck up thing. I can see that by the way she steps around here. Quack, quack! and Til just show her a thing or two.’ “Then and there Mrs. Puddle Duck, all muddy as she was, got in Mrs. Blue Hen’s nest and sat on her beautiful white eggs and soiled them. And even that was not all. Out of pure spite, Mrs. Puddle Duck jaid one of her own dingy-looking eggs in Mrs. Blue Hen’s nest, and that was the cause of all the trouble. That was the rea- son Mrs. Blue Hen found four dingy eggs in her nest when there ought to have been three clean white ones. “Well, Mrs. Blue Hen went to setting, and after so long a time nine little chick- ens were hatched. She was very proud of them. She taught them how to talk and then she wanted to get off her nest and teach them how to scratch about and earn their own living. But there was still one egg to hatch, and so Mrs. Blue Hen con- tinued to set on it. One day she made up her mind to take her chicks off and leave the egg that wouldn’t hatch. ‘The old Speckled Hen happened to be passing and Mrs. Blue Hen asked her advice. But the old Speckled Hen was very much shocked when she heard the particulars. “What! with nine chickens!’ she cried. ‘Why, nine is an odd number. It would never do in the world, Hatch out the other egg.’ “But young people are very impatient, and Mrs. Blue Hen was young. She fret- ted and worried a good deal, but in a few a the tenth egg hatched. Mrs. Blue felt very much better after this. In fact, she felt so comfortable that she didn’t take the trouble to look at the chicken that hatched from the tenth egg. But when she brought her children off the nest she was very much astonished to find that one of them was entirely different from all the rest. She was not only surprised, but shocked. Nine of her children were as neat-looking as she could wish them to be, FEBRUARY Month When ‘Tis Easiest. t Regain Health, Get Strong Before Debilitating Spring Comes Again. Feed the Worn Out Brain With Paine’s Celery Compound. Let Changing Season Find System in Health, Take the Great Remedy That Makes People Well. A perfectly healthy body has its parts completely nourished and its neives constantly refreshed and stored with energy from the vigorous blood that ali cha time bathes it. But to do this important work of conveying suf- ficient nutrition to the tissues, the blood must be kept rich and full of red corpuscles. The only trouble with two-thirds of the men and women whom the coming spring will claim for its victims 1s a pitiful lack of proper nerve food. What these weak, nervous people need ts a more general feeding ad storing of their blood and tissues with fresh, highly vitalized material. There is undoubt- edly ‘nothing that can compure with Prof. Phelps’ remarkable discovery, Paine’s celery compound, for restoring health ind strength. The great body of physiciens throughout the United “States, England and Canada believe pro- foundly in it, and prescribe it in all cases of ner- vous Weakness and debility. In preparing this greatest of all nerve tones and Dlood-renewers, the eminent professor of Dartmcuth college, Edward E. Phelps, M. D., LL.D., bad in mind the countless men and women with brains overworked and nerves unstrung by worry and lack of proper nutrition. Clerks, ers, lawyers, doctors, moih- working men and women in and hosts of brain work- 1 part of the community— taking Paine’s celery compound, with ts, to relieve themselves of rheu- nervous exhaustion, dyspepsia, y spirits. Paine’s ‘celery com: of the important o1 and excretion, by 1 ing the entire bervous system body with strength to combat ers—the m are today pound cures. dis digestion, the blood, regt ing the lery compound makes people well. It y all the tremor and irritability from the feeling of as- companies a per- takes aw: nerves, and gives that calm, stro sured health that invariably a feetly well-nourished bodily system, Get rid of languor, clear the muddy, unhealthy skin, plump ont the bedy and get back to a normal vigorous condition with Paine’s cclery compound, and begin now. It had weak eyes, a bill as broad as a case- knife, and big, flat feet. Its feet were so big that it waddled when it walked, and all the toes of each foot were joined to- gether. ‘ “Mrs. Blue Hen had very high notions. She wanted everybody to think that she be- longed to the quality, but this wabbly chicken with a broad bill and a foot that had no instep to it took her pride down a peg. She kept her children hid as long as she could, but she had to come out in public after a while, and when she did—well, 'l let you know there was an uproar in the barnyard. The old Speckled Hen was the first to begin it. She cried out: “ Look—look—look! Look at the Blue Hen’s chickens!” “Then the Guinea hens began to laugh, and the 6ld Turkey Gobbler was so tickled he came near swallowing his snout. Mrs. Blue Hen hung her head with shame and carried her children away off in the woods. “But her flatfooted chicken gave rise to a byword in all that country. When any stranger came along looking rough and ragged, it was the common saying that he was the Blue Hen’s chicken.”” “I've heard it many a time,” remarked Mrs. Meadows. “There was no story in that,” John suggested. replied Mr. Rabbit. “Just some vday facts picked up and strung to- gether. but the tenth one was a sight to see. Buster ——— EXPOSITION OF 1900. Designs for the Paris Fair to Wel- come the Twentieth Century, From the New York Herald. Paris has already commenced preparing for the gigantic exposition universelle which is to usher in the twentieth century and to be the apotheosis of the nineteenth. The site was decided upon some time ago. It is to take in the Champ de Mars, with the addition of the grounds of the Palais du Trocadero, the Quai d'Orsay, the Es- planade des Invalides, the Quai de la Con- ference, the Cours la Reine and the Palais de I'Industrie, with the space in the vicini- ty that is comprised between the Place de la Concorde, the Avenue d’Antin and the Cours la Reine. ‘The next thing was to decide upon a plan for the buildings to contain the marvels which will be shown in Paris in the year 1900, ‘A competition was therefore arranged to take place. Eighteen prizes were offered— three of the value of 6,000f. each, four of the value of 4,000f. each, five of the value of 2,000f. each ‘and six of the value of 1,000f. each—in all 50,000f., cr $10,000. The government did not pledge itself to use any one of the designs which might prove successful. The award of a prize simply indicated that the selected plan con- tained some meritorious feature, some idea that might with advantage be incorporated in the design that should be finally selected, and that the architect had been successful in evolving an artistic plan within the rules that governed the competition. Those rules gave the designers freedom to remove the Eiffel Tower and the ma- chinery building from the Champ de Mars, or to leave them standing and to utilize them in their various schemes. When the competition was thrown open 624 architects, engineers and draughtsmen signified their intention of submitting plans to the committee of awards, presided over by Mr. Alfred Picard, commissioner general of the exposition. For months a feverish activity has reign- ed in the studios of the principal French architects. The results of that activity have been recently displayed in the Palais de I'Indus- trie. There an exhibition has been held of something like 50 designs, submitted by the 108 individuals who adhered to their de- clared intention of competing. NEW YORK CITY MERCHANT HOW HIS LIFE WAS SAVED From the New York City Catholic News. No one would think to look at Richard B. Brown, a commission merchant, of No. 306 Washington street, New York city, that for six wecks suffered in agony in’ his bed and that phy: had said it was impossible for him to re health. rty. He regards Dr. David Kennedy nedy as the savior of his life. The story own tells is rei le. For several years,"” said Mr. Brown to are. “1 suffered from inflanmati Madder, & most stub as unable to re friends I consulted special » and they all failed to do me any good. All time I was growing worse. My capacity for deserted me, and at last E was compelled to to my bed ‘My mother-in-law had heard of Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, and she asked me to give It a T had been confined to my bed for five weeks and I admit that I didn't think there was much chance of getting out of It, We Pavorit> B There s that surpr! out of bed and ort time T recov 1 ever and What's better yet I fee rmnuently cured. I can ‘work or eightcen i a now and not be broken up a bit. To Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy is all the credit due.”” Favorite Remedy ranks, with the medical pro- fession, as the most perfect of all blood and nerve medicines. It restores the liver to a healthy con- dition, cures the worst cases of constipation. It 1s a certain cure for all diseases peculiar to females, and affords great protection attacks that originate In chanze of life. Tt pfula, salt rheum, rheumatism, dyspepsia, Dladd Mr. At the advice ty diseases, gravel, diabetes and and uri Bright's disease. In this last disease it has cured 2 ell clse has failed, Auy druggist cam supply It at one dollar a bottle, RAILROADS. = ——— BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule in t Jan. 6, 1895. Leave ‘Waghington from ae corner of New fersey avenue > street. For Chicago and Northwest, Vestibuled Limited trains 11:25 am., 8:00 p.m. For Cincinnati, St. Louis and Indianapolis, Vest!- buled Limited 3:30 ‘p.m. express 12:01 night. For Pittsburg and Cleveland, express daily 11:25 a.m. and 8:35 p.m. For Lexington and Staunton, 11:25 a.m. For Winchester and way stations, 5:30 p.m. For Luray, Natura! Bridge, Roanoke, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Memphis and "New Orleans, 11:20 P-m. daily. ‘sleeping care. through. = For Luray, For Baltimo: ) a.m. (3:00 45-minutes), a utes), 15:05, x5:80, 5:35, x6:20, 11:30 and 11:35 p.m. 8:30 (9:00 45-minutes), x9:30 a. 2:20 (3:00 45-minutes), 205, 6:30, x8:00, x92 ).m. For Fiagerstown, 11:25 a For Boyd and way points, a7:05 p.m. For Gaithersburg and way polnts, c6:00, 8:00 am, 12: 3:35, c4:33, 25:35, a7:05, v9: For Washington Junction and way points, 10:00, 9:50 a.m., b1:15 p.m. Express triins stopping at principal stations nly’ ¢4:30, 5:30 p.m. ROYAL BLUE TINE” FoR’ NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA. All trains illuminated with Pintsch light. For Philadelphia, New York, Boston and. the Erst, week davs, 4:20, 8:00 (10:00 a.m. Dining Car), (12:00 Dining Car), 3:00 (6:00 Dining Car), $200 (11:30 pam. Sleeping Car, open at 10 o'clock Sundays, 4:20 (200 a.an. Dining. Car), (2:00 Din- ing Car), 3:00. (5:00 Dining Car), "8:00 (11:30 Sleeping Car, open for passengers 10:00 p..). Buffet Parlor Cars on'ail day trains. For Atlantic City, 4:20 10:00 a.m., 12:00 noon, “Sundays, 4:20 am, ©. Except ‘Sunday, x Express trains. Baggage called for and checked from hotels and residences by Union Transfer Company on orders left at ticket offices, 619 Pennsylvania avenne 1.W., New York avenue and 15th street, and at depot, CHAS. 0.-SCULL, Gen, Pass. Agt. -m. R. B. CAMPBELL, Gen. Manager. a PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. In eiteet 4500 ae Sepa 3, 1595, fect 4:00 p.m., January 20, 1595. 30:30 AM. PENKSYiVANIA” LIMITED—Pall- man Sleeping, Dining, Smoking and Observation Cars, Harrisburg to Chicago, Cincinnati, Indian- apolis, St. Louls, Cleveland ‘and Toledo. Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisbut 10:30 A.M. FAST LI ‘E—Pullman Buffet Parlor Gar ‘to Harrisburg. Parlor and Dining Cars, Har is gz to tisburg. 40 |. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS— Pallmar Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Sleep- ing and Dining Cars, Harrisburg to St. Louis, Cin- cinnati, Loutsville and Chicago. 7:10 P.M. WESTERN EXPRESS—Pallman Sl pre Car to Chicago and Harrisburg to Cleve r to Chicago. Pol. 70. Pt.” SOUTIWESTERN | EXPRESS—Pul- gan Sieeping and Dining Cars to St. Louis ant leeping Car Harrisburg to Cincinnati. 10:40 P.M. PACIFIC EXPRESS—Pullman Sleep- ing Car to Pittsburg. 250 A.M. for Kane, Canandaigua, Rochester and Magara Falls daily, except Sunday. 10:30 A.M. for Elinira and Renovo dails, except Sunday. For Willlamsport daily, 3:49 p.m. for Willi: Rochester, Buffalo ra Fas daily, except Saturday, wita ® Washington to Suspension Bridge via for Erle Canandaizua, Rochester, and Niagara Falls daily, Sleeping Car r ‘on to Elmira, Yor Philadelphia, New York and the Fast. 4:00 P.M. INGRESSIONAL LIMITED,” all Parlor Cars, with Dining Car from Baltimore, for New York daily, for Philadelphia week _ days. Regular at 7:05" (Diuing Car), 7:20, 8:00 (ining Car), 9.00, 10:00 ining Car) and’ 11:00 (Dining Car) a-m., 12:15, 3:15, 4:20, 6:40, 10:00 and 11:35 p.m. Oa" Sunday,” 7:65, Dining “Car), 7:20, 8:00 (ining Car), 9:00, 11:00 (Dining Car)’ a.m., 12:15, 3:15, 4:20, 6:40, 10:00 ond 11:25 p.m. For Phila- delphia only, Fast Express 7:50 a.m, week days. Express, 2:01 and 5:40 p.m. dail ‘or Reston without change, 7:50 a.m, week days and 3:15 p.m. daily. For Baltimore, 6:25, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 and 1 3:15, 00 Limited), 4:20, 4:36, 5 6.40, 10:00, 10:40, 11:15 sind 11:35 Sunday, ., 8:00, 9:00, 9:05, 1 3 i , 2:01, 3:15, , , 6:40, 7:10, 10 pm. For Pope's Creck Line, 7:20 a.m. and 4:36 p.m. daily, except Sunday, For Annapolis, 7:20, 9:00 and 11:50 a.m. and 4:20 p.m. daily, except Sunday. Sundays, 9:00 a.m. and $:20 p.in, Atlantic Coast Line. “Florida Special”” for Jack- sonville and St. Augustine, 10:48. ae week day: press for Richmond, Jacksonville and Tam a.m., 3:30 p.m. daily. Richinond and Atlanta, $:40 p.m. dally. “Richmond only, 10:57 a.m. week avs. Accommodation for Quartico, 7:45 a.m. daily and 4:25 p.m, week day: Pennsylvania avenue, and at the station, 6th and B streets, where orders can be left for the check- ing of baggage to destination from hotels aud residences. S. M. PREVOST, J, R. WOOD, General Manager, General Passenger Agent. jaz2 SOUTHERN RAILWAY (Piedmont Air Sah Schedule in effect January 30, 1995. All trains arrive and leave at Pennsylvania Passenger Station. 8:00 A.M.—Daily—Local for Danville. Connects at Manassas for Strasburg, daily, except Sunds and at Lynchburg with the Norfolk and Western, ily. 11:01 A.M.—Daily—The UNITED STATES FAST MAIL carries Pullman Buffet Sleepers New York and Washington to Jacksonville, uniting at Char- lotte with Pullman Sleeper for Augusta; also Pul nan Sleeper New York to Montzomery, with con. nection for Orleans; connects at Atlanta with Pullman Siceper for Birmingbau, Ala., Memphis, 1 Daily for Charl ile and through —Daily for Charlottesville a rasburg, daily except Sanday. —Daily—NEW YORK AND FLORIDA E LIMITED. Pullman Sleepers New ‘ashington to Augusta and Tampa and Pullman Double Drawing ftoom Compartment Car New York to St. Augustine, Dining Car Salisbury to St. Augustine, first-class’ day coaches Washing- ton to St. Augustine without change. 10:43 1.M.—Daily—WASHINGTON AND SOUTH- WESTERN VESTIBULED LIMITED, composed of Fullman Vestibuled Sleepers and’ Dining Cars, Pullman Sleepers New ork to Ashes tile cod Hot Springs, N. C., via Salisbury, New York to Mem- phis vin Birmingham and New York to New Orleans via Atlanta and Montgomery. Dining Car from Greensboro’ to Montgomery. ‘TRAINS ON WASHINGTON AND OHIO DI- VISION leave Washington 9:10 A.M. daily, 4:32 PAL. daily; except, Sunday, and 6:38 iM.’ Sindays only, for Round HiIl, and’6:33 P.M. daily for Hern- don. Returning, arrive at Washington 8:34 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. ‘daily from Round Hill, avd 7:06 A.M. daily, ‘except Sonday, from Herndon only. Through trains from the South arrive at Washing- ton 6:42 A.M., 7:42 A.M., 2:25 P.M. and 8:36 P.M. daily. Manassas Division, 10:28 A. a xcept Sunday, and 10:28 A.M. dally from Charlottesville. Tickets, Sleoping Car reservation, and Information farnished at office2, 511 and 1300 Pennsylvania ave- oe, and at Feunsylvania Mailroad Passenger Sta- tion, W. H. GREEN, General Manager (Eastern System). W. A. TUR! General Passenger Agent. . Gen. Agt, Pass. Dept. ni9 KE AND OHIO RAILWAY, flect December 2, 1894. «B. and from Union Station rough the grandest scenery in America, with » handsomest and most complete solid train serv- West from Washington. 2:25 P.M. DAILY.—“Cincinnat! and St, Specia Md Vestibuled, newly Equi tric-lighted, Steam-heated "Train. Patlinan’ sleeping cars Washington to Cinciunatl, lis and St. Louis without cha Dining from Washington. ” Indianapol .- St. L i F. V. Lim. ited.” A solid vestibuled train, with dinthg car and Pullman sleepers for Cincinnati, Lexington and Louisville, without chaage. Observation car from Hinton. ‘Arrives Cincinnati, 5:50 p.m.; Lexington, 3:00 p.m.; Louisville, 9.35 pma.; Indianipolis, 11:20 p.m.; Chicago, 7:30 a.m., and St. Louls, 6:06 a.m. connects In Union depot for all points. Indiavo- Car 10:57 A.M., EXCEPT SUNDAY.—For Old Point. Comfort and "Norfolk. Only rail line. 2:25 P. M. DAILY.—Express for Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Waynesboro’, Staunton and principal Virginia “points; daily execpt Sunday, for Rieh- mond, Puliman locations and tickets at company’s of- 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania avenue. H.W. FULLER, General Passenger Agent. - HOTELS. The Raleigh, WASHINGTON, D. C. Now open. Europena plan. For Jadies and gentlemen. ABSOLUTELY fireproof throughout. Every tloor lighted ‘by electricity and heated by steam. Complete equipment of public and pri- vate haths. Elegant cafe and ladies’ restaurant. Private dining rooms and banquet room. Theater rtics a specialty. in B. W. FRAZIER, Manager. WILLARD’S HOTEL, Pa. ave. and 14th et., se22 Washington, D. ©. EBBITT HOUSE. WASHINGTON, D. C. ATTORNEYS. 30ODRICH, LAWYER, 124 DEARBORN ST., . Established 1864. Business legal and Branches and facilities in other states. CAMPRELL CARRINGTON, ‘Attorn Webster Law buildi ton, D.C. Residence, HOSEA B. PRACTICE IN TH preme Court of the United States, Court of Claims und Jocal courts and before the executive de- ts, removed to Rooms 5 and 6, Exuitaile 1iditg, 1003 F st. n.w. ja3-3m Law, 505 D st. nw., Washing- K st. nw, azz