Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1895, Page 8

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A BUNCH OF KEYS. imperfect i || CHAPTER 1 |] Nicholas Warren had but an understanding of his own action. His sim- ple, uneventful life since war times had not stimulated self aualysts, for his emo- tions and impulses ran in even, familiar channels. Love for his wife and daughter had ruled his life, and almost his only con- tention had been with the soil from which he was content to extort such return as as- sured him and his of plenty to eat and enough to wear. Shelter never entered sensibly into his calculation of needs, for in Granite to live as a married man was to own a house. ‘Ther2 had been times when too much or WE'LL EXTRACT That Tooth That keepa you ithout awake at the too little rain had depleted the crop, and he had uttered the common ery of discon- tent and wished that he were rich, but his had taken the vague form of a long- 'g fer money in the bank, in railroad or overnment bonds, in factories, and it had speedily vanished an unattainable dream ihe: shown 1 rn Fil 1th St: 32 nest | in ly 1224 Bway, N.Y. Gray Hair A thing of the past when Nattans’ Crystal Dis tovery “is used. “to. restore gray or faded hair to i ‘atl color in 3 to 10 days— positiv. hair from fa Out, arrests dandruff a s the nicest dressing for’ th Fone ca No poison No sede ment. r size, Bee. KoLit AGENTS, TH BT. N.W. . express prepadd, to any part of the country on receipt of pric a26-tf Electricity is not only a better light than gas, but it is a safer, better and more reliable power than steam. There are dozens of printing houses and manufacturing concerns in town who use electric power. When the “line 13 we'll turn cut the cur U. S, ELECTRIC Lit Ce nt. 212 14th st. 'Phor Banquet — Seeks ae ran |_@QumM ps. ONYX TABLES. GAS at Tleaters. Plumbing and Heating. 8. S. SHEDD & BRO., -N.W. oct 4. A AA Oe ENAMEL BEDS.) We've got the inside track C on prices of Enamel Beds— # got the stock, too, you'll find hard to duplicate. Enamel Beds Brass Beds.. VAxminster C Just one special Carpet of- ¥ fer today. ine Axminsters, (} new, pretty patterns—made, < laid and lined for $1.25 al) yard. — k arpe ab DSUS. “i : ) (The Houghton Co.,\ 1214 FSt. N.W. x NEW ILLUS Best and Chea; \ ne le scen every cy An early SPRING well-selected LEAF makes a fresh, pure TE of rich flavor. 50 CENTS. picking ot BURCHEL! 1325 F St. nowned S Transfers of Real Deeds in fee have been fi state. Clark Mills estate; $10 to Marian H. Steven: Main, $i. part ux. 41, 10, Droit Smith et ux. to Lee Hutchii 41, block 10, Le Droit Park _— The Columbian Women. The Columbian Women held their fi monthly :eeting Monday afte; Columbian Univ ned with a a > Holbrook, the p » general outl d. The society st effor $10. Ode lots 40 an $10. etl nment the 1 5 also dis i is to be r. lent of work dar ‘olumbian upon utifi a which Colum matter to the uk, Anna Hazelton Murroe, Misses FP. Dr. Pettig ont from Mz Pennsylvania, utes pres ter, Wm introdu addre i to by the W. D. of Chester, Pa. s, Which nd maste! The eneami! ed as follows: Albert P. Albert et ux. to Wallace Streater, | his dreams, it seemed to be all but under lot 21, sq. 333; $10. Wallace Streater to] his hand, and avariciousness, that is latent ret P. Albert, same property; $10. | more er fess in every human being, was G. Townsend et al. to Jose M.| y and surely growing within him, t 20, block Brookland; $10. ng all other impulses, and m: W. Weis- 2 $ now centered on tiat single stone, for lot 76, sq. 191; #1 Wm. E. H. Merritt He willfully evaded the an- to Arthur C. Moses, lot 16, sq.782, and lot 4, motives when it came to that, y. 149; $10. Wm. W. God et ux. to| Or stubbornly told h: f that if Dutton Michael Nolan, part original lot should recover he wot ‘ore the valua- $1,000. “Emil ble jewel to him. It mattered not how he W. Patro, lot | might act should he find the president in Dean and his possession, the great point was that he | wanted to find it, to see it, to hold it to the light to observe its sparkle, and as he “Golding is probably right st og that no n could resist the ion it would offer. What if Nason should now have the stone, a ne | jthat it to Dutton’ so administer Th h of last ed to Dr the is of imme- Women, is to ten- et north- nd other city, who de- was sion until the 18th sell “Iam a physician, Nick.” and he had returned to his hard labor with philosophical determinaticn to make the best of it. Now there had heen unexpectedly thrust upon him what seemed like an opportunity to acquire more weaith than had figured in tering his being. to him ai He had not yet admitted elf that he wanted to find Dutton’s , or the ident, for his desire pre Fewed over the grass his eyes ached with the momentary hope and expectation of ng the diamond flash upon | He w ystemat to leave iy, trying It, feeling and forth in me, just as sughed many a field furrow after i d nm must have seen it!” was his medi s that Dutton should never awak Well, f Dutton should never wake—” Nick, with a upon the gr: ith one arm, and 1 off im) it t turned ig e near the evat pockets, other as if to He w Dr door, with hi: look e and d eturn with gaping tly troubled, Nick,” said the a what's slowly whether the do down on his kne The patie lirium,” replied the dc parently about proce What does he the matter? and returned wonder ing furth pu_very serious- son, with a amber win- en in a low tone and | rtha’ll hear you, er to draw the doctor > of his h. the path the gate, yarren’s shoul- a der, “I am a thought and I am also ac ble to be ¢: a be nothing short of a on the stand and say anything that should be to your injury. If I were to tell the | whole truth as the oath prescribes —” . Nick, and my first | ire must be for my patient. | ich I am lia- | It would | ony for me to go} = | ke to hear i | He paused and kept his eyes searchingly upon Warren. “What could you say that should hurt me, doctor?” asked Warren, with as govd an assumption of confidence as he could command. “This man,” responded the doctor, “is suffering not only from shock brought about by the assault to which he was sub- jected, but from what appears to be a fever of long standing. If he suffered from shock alone he would by this time have recovered consciousness to a degree. Now, you re- member that the stranger, Golding, was anxious to be present and listen to the patient should be begin to talk in his de- Lrium. Why? Because he believes that Dutton would speak of whatever was up- permost on his mind at the time he was struck down. I don’t pretend to know what Golding hoped to deduce from such remarks as the patient might make, but it is a fair inference that he would look for omething suggestive of the assault, and of the person who committed it. “Is that what Dutten Was beet maunder- pout?” asked Warten, calm! I tell? He mentions your , and while a sick man’s tones cu were in his thoughts—you and your wife.” “But what does he s; “Nothing cohererit. ‘here is nothing as yet that [I cau piece together as to get : undersianding of what was or is in the an’s mind But what If presently there should be, ? I don’t think I should “I shou Dr. In’t like to have you.” on was startle kk,” he began, but ed him with the question: “Did Martha hear those troubled you?” “Certainly, she bent over the bed and listened very closely. I do not think she understood their purport, Nick.” Warren gave the doctor a glance that seemed to say, “You don’t know what you're talking about.” “What do you understand their purport to be, doctor?” “Why, if Golding is correct, it would im- ply that he was thinking of the person who assaulted him.” Warren smiled. The doctor could see that the assault did not trouble him in the least. “I believe you said that he mentioned Martha’s name, too,” remarked Warren; , if Golding is correct, and I should words that friend,” interposed Dr. Nas von't do to split hairs with me. I’m not asking you to tell me a secret; I don’t seek your confidence. Of e, your wife had nothing to do with ult, and I have no suspicion that you had, but other people might suspect that, and I think that Golding does. The circumstances are unfortunately damaging. I won't say they justify suspicion, but they can readily be twisted and interpreted to support it. In the hands of an unprincipled man, such a3 I fear Golding is, they may be so interpreted as to cause you a great deal of trouble. Don't you understand that I am anxious not to know anything that could be perverted into testimony against you?” “Yes, I see, and I appreciate your kind- ness. It is better than you think, for you don’t know all the circumstances, and if you did, you'd see that 4 case against me would appear to be worse yet.” “Then let me counsel you to be very cau- tious! These rambling words of Dutton’s may have hud no connection with the as- sault. In his fever he may be reverting to “He (ried to remember.” the distant past. If there ever any! k, between you and Dutton toc an enmity, don’t for heay- sake let a hint of it escape you. Given motive for you to commit violence upon a ling might make out a power- you.” aused, hoping, perhaps, that ald speak contidentialiy; but Warren was silent. His eyes were down- cast, and when he raised them it was not to the doctor's face, -but to the grass plot g in a in front of the chamber window. “I'm going home now,” continued the doctor. “The patient will not need me for some hours, and as Mrs. Warren with him, there is no r breakfast, doctor?” s -t home in time He started toward the stable, but turned back when Warren cailed to him. “Doctor,” he asked hesitatingly, “weren't there any other words in Dutton’s talk be- sides our names?” “Yes; but none to which I could attach any meaning.” “I might, if I knew them, doctor.” Warren longed to ask wiether Dutton had mentioned diamonds, but he dared not. “Well,” said the doctor, with a smile, “I don’t myself take much account of a de- rious man’s raving, for whatever he says in such a conditicn is likely to mean no more than the nonsense we think of so seriously in dreams. Still, if you can make anything out of the fact that Dutton made frequent allusions to the president, you're welcome to your deductions.” “The president!” exclaimed Warren, try- ing in vain to conceal the interest he had in this information; “what did he say about it—him, I mean.” fe didn’t menticn the President by name, so whether he referred to Mr. Cleve- land or one of his predecessors in the office I don’t know. He might have had some claim in which he tried to interest the President, and perhaps it became a mania with him. One speculation, however, is as gcod a3 another. Have you any suggestion to make about it?” “No,” answered Warren, glad that the in- aviry was so put that he could answer truthfully, “I have none. You will be up again during the day?” The doctor nodded and went on to the barn, while Warren remained at the gate, feeling a maze of doubts and anxieties. There had been evidently no fiction in Gold- ing’s statements about the diamond calied “the president.” It seemed certain enough He Brought Forth a Knife and a Bunch of Keys, that Dr. Nelson had not found it, if, indeed, it was in the catch-all. And yet, the doc- tor was going away. He had not asked why Warren was on his knees before the cham- ber window. He was a cool, collected man, who could readily mask his emotions. The diamond must be sought for—but not until the doctor had gone. Then there were those other terrible thoughts—when might not Dutton in his delirium expose those secrets which even the doctor in his Ignorance of the facts judged to be of such importance that he advised Warren to conceal them? What would be Dutton’s course if he should recover?) Why had he gone to Sam Spring- er’s cabin on the mountain? Worrying thus, Mr. Warren stood at the gate until the doctor galloped away. Then he stepped to the window of the spare room and looked in. His wife had drawn a low chair to the side of the bed and sat with her head resting on her arm, apparently asleep. The patient was as quiet as if death had claimed him. Mr. Warren dropped again to his knees and resumed his methodical feeling of the ground. He began where he had left off when the doctor interrupted him. With growing nervousness he observed that he had covered in his search more than the space that included all the useless trifles that he recognized as having been probably in the catch-all. Then it suddenly occurred to him that if the catch-all had been emptied with a toss, which would be the natural way for a man to empty it, a heavy article like a stone would have gone further from the window than light articles like shreds of worsted. Indeed, the very presence of the shreds two or three feet from the side of the house showed that the action had been a toss and not a mere turning upside down of the little basket. He immediately extended his line of search, and a moment later at the base of a tall sunflower he found a pebble. He looked at it with a frown. Could that be what he had taken from Dutton’s vest pocket? It hadn’t as much sparkle as a fragment of quartz crystal, it was posi- tively ugly, as uninteresting a stone as he had seen by a roadside. And yet it seemed different somehow from the stones around about Gratite. Mr. Warren sat in the grass and tried to recall the little he had read about dia- monds. The only thing he could remember that helped him at all in his perplexity was something about cutting diamonds,and the phrase “diamond in the rough” recurred to him. Perhaps it needed only the work of the cutter to make this univiting pebble sparkle with all the hues of the rainbow. The impatient lowing of cattle reminded him that it was past time for begining the mcrning chores, and he went to the barn, taking the pebble with him for further ex- amination and speculation. Shortly after he had gone Golding came swinging down the road and turned in at the gate. As he did so he caught sight of Warren entering the barn, and his*eyes shone with satisfaction. He, too, went to the chamber window as Warren had done, and he, too, saw Mrs. Warren overcome with fatigue at the bedside of the patient. Golding softly tried the front door. It was locked. Elsie had taken that rather unusual precaution the night before, and when Dr. Nason left the house he had gone out by way of the kitchen. Golding stepped to the corner of the house and looked to- ward the barn. Warren was not in sight. resumably he was milking and would be upied there a half hour more. The chance was worth taking. Golding walked quickly and softly around to the kitchen door and went in. From what had occurred during the previous evening he judged that one of the doors at the further side of the kitchen com- municated directly with the spare room, but he chose not to enter that way. In- stead, he went into the hall and unlocked the front door, opening it until its creak- ing warned him to desist. Then he cau- tiously entered the sick room. The attitudes of patient and watcher were unchanged. Mrs. Warren was not disturbed by his movements. Golding went directly to the chair upon which Dutton’s clothes had been laid. He went through the coat pockets first, taking out all the letters and papers that Mr. Warren had lfound and left unexamined. Golding ran them over hastily, and his face betrayed a sense of triumph when he came upon an official-looking document in a heavy en- velope. He read it hastily and thrust it into his pocket with the other papers. Then he thought better of his action, took out Dutton’s papers and replaced them in the pocket of Dutton’s coat, first making a memorandum upon an envelope of his own from the document that had interestel him so greatly. Next he turned to the patient’s trousers, neglectin; the vest altogether. He brou it forth a knife and a bunch of keys. The knife he slipped back, and he thrust the keys into his own pocket with a jingle j Mrs. Warren started up and cried: hat are you doing there, Mr. Gold- (To be continued tomorrow.) The Coming Teachers’ Bazaar. At the last meeting of the executive board of the Teachers’ Annuity and Aid Association it was unanimously decided that no teache~ should appear as a candi- date for votes, and that no pupil thus ap- pearing should canvass during school heurs, the resolution reading: “No pupil, as such, shall solicit vote: Gambling is also to be entirely excluded from the ba- zaar, and a dignified and refined tone Is to be maintained, even at some pecuniary sac- rifice. The restaurant is to be in charge of Mrs. Platt of Capitol Hill, whose ex- perience and ability are a sufficient guar- antee of its success. The association feels greatly. encouraged by the prompt and hearty response which its solicitations have received from the Washington -mer- nts, and promises, a full list of gifts with their donors as soon as the tide of donations slackens sufficiently for an enu- meration. Small damage was caused by a fire at 7 o'clock last evening in C. A. Schneider's iron foundry at 12th street and Ohio ave- nue northwest. The fire department extin- guished the blaze without diflicuity. Chapped bands healed by Salvation Oil, 25¢. WELLS AND TYPHOID Dr. Stone’s Observations on Wash- ington’s Suburbs. EOW THE WATER 1S CONTAMINATED Perfect Sewerage Needed to Pro- vide Immunity From Disease. AN INTERESTING TALK —— Dr. C. G. Stone of Brightwood was one of the first physicians in recent years to call attention to the connection between the prevalence of typhoid fever in the suburbs of Washington and the use of pol- luted well and spring water. In season and out, he has labored for the bettering of the sanitary conditions of the suburbs, and this fall he is more than’ever convinced of the necessity for action by the authorities which will remove the danger of contami- nation from the residents of the beautiful and otherwise healthfvl region surround- ing the city. In a practice extending over the country lying between Rock creek and Brookland, the city limits and the District line, and into the adjoining county in Mary- Jand, he has made extensive observations in the past twenty-five years, especially in regard to the history of typhoid fever cases. “In all my experience,” said Dr. Stone to a Star reporter, “I have found only one or two exceptions to the rule that the exist- ence of typhoid fever can be traced directly to the.use of polluted water. I held from the first that this was the source of the disease in this section, and the fact has been demonstrated over and over again. Tkere has been more than the usual amount of typhoid during the past sum- mer and this fall, and in every instance I have traced the cause directly to the water supply used by the patients. This will con- tinue to be the case in a thickly settled community where tnere is no sewerage and where the residents are compelled to use water from springs and from _ welis always liable to pollution from a soil con- taminated by filth and excrement. As the ground becomes more thoroughly soaked with animal filth the danger will increase, and sewers and a water works system only can prevent the existence of typhoid. How Typhoid is Contracted. “Of course, it is a well-known fact that the only way to contract that disease is to take into the human system, through the mouth and stomach, the bacillus or germ of typhoid. The most common way of getting it is through water used for drinking pur- poses. It can be taken into the system in the use of milk, but comes primarily from the water. There is, I believe, no instance of typhoid bacillus being found in milk drawn directly from the cow’s udder, and when it is discovered in milk it is when the cans and pans, or the cow’s bag, have been washed in water containing the germ. It is yet a matter of conjecture how long the typhoid bacillus maintains its vir- ulence, speculation as to the time ranging all the way from one month to one year. I am convinced myself that cases have oc- curred from typhoid bacillus a year old. I have one recent instance in my mind where there were nine cases of typhoid fever in one family. I was called in to at- tend the first case not long ago, and I re- membered that there had been typhoid in areighbor’s family a year ago. According to my custom, I immediately began to ex- amine the water supply of the family. I found that the top of the well from which they drew their drinking water was fifteen feet below the surface of cesspools rot 200 feet away, one of them a pool where the excrement from the typhoid patient had been thrown a year previous. I was satisfied that the disease had its incep- tion in the well water, and when the other members of the family were taken down in quick succession I caused a bac*erislog- ical examination to be made of the water, and it was found to be charged with bac- teria. Three relatives of the family who visited them during their sickness and drank this same water have been taken with typhoid since. They use Potomac water at home, and I am convinced they got the disease from drinking from that polluted well. “The excrement from these cases was thrown into a sink draining into Piney branch. I was recently called to attend four cases of fever in houses near Piney branch, below this spot. I found, pon ex- amination, that they were using water from a spring on the bank of Piney branch, and that spring is nothing but seepage water from the branch. They were un- doubtedly poisoned by that water. In using well and spring water in a region where all offal and excrement is deposited upon the surface of the ground, to be absorbed into the ground, and sooner or later find its way into the veins of water permeating the region, typhoid fever is bound to be communicated to the people using such contaminated water when there are cases of the disease in the neighborhood. Contaminated Water. “There has been some talk of a ‘typhoid belt’ out fa Maryland, occasioned by a number of cases of the fever in the same neighborhood. My investigations con- vinced me that every case was due to the centamination of the water used by the families. There were a number of houses using spring water, and in every instance the spring was in the vicinity of out- houses and drained slopes contigaous to the outhouses. There was one house where several members of the family were down with the disease. They bragged of their spring as the finest in the neighborhood, and, indeed, it was a magnificent one. When I saw it—for I insisted upon exam- ining it—the water was as clear as crystal and bubbled up vigorously from the earth. It seemed the very essence of purity. But just above it, and on a siope craining to- ward the spring, was an outhouse, seeking with filth, When heavy rains came the gpring received the drainage, and one case ‘of typho!d fever in the family meant the communication of the bacillus to others who drank the water. A spring may be as pure as possible one day, and the next, after a rain has washed the surface of the neighboring land, be charged with bacilli, “There have been cases of fever in fami- Nes who used deep wells. The principle of the drainage is the same, and a deep well can absorb the drainage from the vicinity. At this time, when the streams are nearly dry in the country, and the water {s low in the wells, the deeper the well the greater the area it will drain, and the less water in it the more concentrated will be the disease germs that may find their way into it. No man living in the country or the suburbs can tell what may be deposit- ed upon his land, in the vicinity of bis house, and subsequently drain into nis well. He cannot exercise control over the neigh- borhood, and the source of the centamina- tion in ‘his well may be hundreds of feet . After a season of long drought, like the present, when the excrement collects upon the ground from not by away, heavy and continued rains will w it into the natural water supplies, ard I expect there will be more cases of typhoid fever this winter. Good Sewerage Needed. “People can take precautions in the way of boiling the water they drink, in clearing the land in the vicinity of their wells ard springs from outhouses, and draining the slopes away from the water supplies. But absolute immunity will never come until the taxpayers insist upon having that prot tion to their lives that only perfect sew age and good water can give. Of cou every physician who is treating typhoid fever tells the family how to guard against its spread throngh water pollution. The ut- most care is necessary in the disinfecting of the excrement and depositing it wh it cannot affect the water; in boiling ard infecting the and bed- and in disinf Z the spoons and used in the sick room. suburbs of Washington furnish y natural advantages for good sewc age, the lay of the land and the locat slopes and ra for putting in a perfect s year that it is ed the the more polluted and the seeds of dise being sown in the soil to bring forth eafter. “An incident eccurred not long ago bear- ing upon this question of d of cavalry from the ar: from practice out in Maryland, cavaleade advanced along the dus the commander saw a beautifu! My Baby was a living skeleton; the doc. tor said he was dying of Maras- mus and Indigestion. At 13 months he weighed only seven pounds. Nothing strengthened or fattenedhim. I began using Scott's Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil with Hypophosphites, feed- ing it to him and rubbing it into his body. He began to fatten and is now a beautiful dimpied boy. The Emulsion seemed to supply the one thing needful. Mrs. Kenyon Wittiams, May 21,1894. Cave Springs, Ga. Similar letters from other mothers. Don’t be persuaded to accept a substitute! Scott & Bowne, N.Y, All Druggists, 50c. and $1, the roadside, opposite a pretty little cot- tage. He halted, and with the surgeon dis- mounted to get a drink and let the troop- ers drink. Just as they were about to get some of the water the surgeon noticed an old shed and@ some filth above the spring. He prohibited the use of the water, the commander placing a guard around’ the spring. They then walked over to the cot- tage, where an old gentleman was sitting on the porch, who apologized for not in- viting them in, saying his entire family was down with typhoid. A son had recent- ly returned home with typhoid, and since then the family had taken it.’ The army surgeon told the man that the depositing of filth around the spring had done tke business for the family. The troopers rode on without getting a drink.” Drinking Water and Fever. To the Editor of The Evening Sta>: Allow me to suggest that a vigorous dis- cussion of the typhoid fever situation, such as The Star has been carrying on, is badiy needed. If a scare is developed it will do a great deal more good than harm. In fact a first-class scare is exactly what is need- ed. Some of the theories that have been ad- vanced as to the cause of so much typhoid fever in Washington, not only this year, but every year, I think will not stand an- alysis. For instance, Dr. Johnston in his interview lays considerable stress on the matter of vaults. Now, as a matter of fact, I venture the predivtion that there are no more privy vaults in Washington per 1,000 of population than in Baltimore, which has one of the very best records in the country in the matter of typhoid fever: These vau.ts are charac‘eristic of every city in the country. Their rate per 1,000 of population varies but little, but the typhoid fever rate does. Hence there must be some other cause than vauits of the disease. A great deal of comment is heard on the subject of defective sewers being the cause, er one of the principal causes of typhoid. If this is the case “why do not the large gangs of men employed by the city in the sewer department suffer unduly with ty- phoid fever? I talked the other day with a superintendent, who has done much of the city’s important sewer work. He said for one whole year he and his men worked close down over a rotten sewer, one of the worst he ever saw, yet his men did not contract any zymotic disease. While I have much of the popular prejudice against sew- er gas, even when it discharges into the open air, I cannot subscribe to the opinion that the cause of our annual outbreaks lies in this direction. A curious fact about typhoid fever that cannot well be disputed is this: The cities like Baltimore and New York, that are known to have a good water supply, have a low—very low—typhoid fever rate, while cities like Chicago, Cincinnati and Wash- ington, with defective water supplies, have the highest rate in the country, Washing- ton being only second to Chicago. To each 1,000 of population there are about six deaths from typhoid in Washington to one in New York. I think if The Star sends a competent otserver along the upper Potomac as far as Cumberland it will find an astonishing amount of filth of all kinds poured into the stream. My own observations confirm in this respect those of your correspondent, who showed in a recent issue that the up- per water of the Potomac between Wash- ington and Cumberland is becoming so foul that it is not only in places repugnant to the sight, but destructive of game fish. A recent survey of New York city’s water supply found a similar state of affairs, and, although the chemists there, as here, said the water was good, the people needed no argument to prove to them that they should not drink the contents of hundreds and thousands of foul sources of pollution. The result was the city moved on the water supply region and cleaned it up. And that is what is needed here, coupled with a good systein of filtration. If no one is able to point out a single city which has at once good water and a high phoid fever death rate, it seems to me pretty plain that the straight road to a low typhoid death rate in this city Hes in the same direction. And as Congressmen are also patrons of the hydrant in this town, they should be open to speedy con- viction that good water means health to them as well as to us. Cc. ——— Visit to Potomac Post. Capt. M. T. Anderson, c’ mmander of the Department of the Potemac, G. A. R., is row making his annual visitations to the nineteen posts in this department. Monday night, accompanied by the following oflicers of his staff, Chief of Staff J. B. Carter, Adj. Gen. C. F. Benjamin, Capts. Doolittle ard Saville, inspector generals, Judge Ad- vocate Gen. John H. Burger, Quartermas- ter Gen. J. E. McCabe, Capt. Mahany, and Senior Vice Command2r Howlett and many ther comrades, he paid a visit to Potomaa est at their cozy quarters, #7 G street rerthwest. The fine reception at the recent encampment of the Grand Army at Louis- ville was the theme of most of the re- marks made by the visiting comrades. — Officers Elected. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Union Investment Company, held Monday evening, directors were elected as follows: Messrs. Wm. Barnum, Brent L. Baldwin, J. Wesley Boteler, A. H. Bell, John A. Bar- thel, Watson F, Clark, C. W. Darr, H. P. Godwin and M. W. Wines. At a_subse- Guent meeting of the board of directors Mr. Chas. W. Darr was elected president of the company, Mr. H. P. Godwin, vice pres- ident; Mr. J, Wesley Boteler, secretary, and Mr. Barnum, treasurer. > es Health Ordinances. Yesterday in Judge Kimball's court In- spector Howe of the health department complained against Catherine H.Walsh and Catherine Heenan for an alleged violation of the health ordinance. An untrapped cesspool was the nuisam harged. Mrs. Walsh was willing to pay half the expense of abating the n nce, but Mrs. Heenan did not feel so disposed. Judge Kimbail said he could do nothing other than fine the defendants each $25, but if they would promise to abate the nuisance he would suspend sentence. This they promised to do, and their per- scnal bords were taken. —_——— Arm Broken, Louis Nauck, fifteen years of age, was playing with a number of companions yes- terday afternoon on the railroad tracks near the east end of the navy yard tunnel en two trains approzched from opposite directions. To save themselves from being struck, the lads lay flat on the ground be- tween the trac! Young Nauck, however, was not as lucky as the rest and sustained a fracture of the left arm. ——" Sculptor Story’s Remains Buried. The remains of William Wetmore Story, the sculptor, arrived at Rome from Florence Sunday, and were buried in the Protestant after solemn obseauies at St. copal Church in the presence of of the English, American and cemeter ; of Italian, American and Eng- Me was buried next to the urn helley’s heart. Numerous Wreaths were placed upon the