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Less than twenty years ago this man dropped to the burning sands of Arizona from nobody knew where and began a career that necessitated the use of a yard- stick in notching the fatalities for which he was responsible. Lives were cheap at the time in that place, and Holliday dtd nothing to put a premium on them. At the outset there was friction between him- self and the rest of the territory’s popula- tion because “Doc” gently but firmly de- clined to doff his white shirt and don a woolen one, with other habiliments to match. He was polite about it, but the rude sombreroed men of the west misun- derstood him, and it was only after the sacrifice cf a great quantity of ammuni- tion that he was permitted to maintain in peace his status as a correctly dressed gentleman. There can still be found in Arizona little mounds of sand, each six feet long, which serve as monuments to this first triumph of linened civilization over leather-leggined barbarism. What followed this victory serves as well as any- thing else to illustrate Holliday’s true character. He did not grow arrogant or dictatorial; he did not insist, as was the conqueror’s right, that everybody else should wear white shirts as he did and forever eschew the coarse wool. He let the populace wear whatever it pleased—he attended strictly to his ovr. business. It is not strange that his fame traveled as fast as fleet broncos could carry it. A man who could turn social usage and ethics topsy-turvy, make an institution of the bath and hurl deadly bullets with a hand as beautiful as a woman’s—and all without a word, a smile or a scowl—was far above the ordinary, and bound to be- come noted and marked. Thus it was that a few daring and congenial spirits were attracted to him, drawn by his repu- tation for coolness and bravery, and that there was unconsciously organized as de- termined and dangerous a band of men as ever adjusted the sights of a Winches-er. Some of them are living today. For more than a half dozen years this small band of men swayed the destinies of entire communities, which were then under the shotgun rule. They were more feared than a regiment of soldiers, and it was the lawless, not the law-abiding, who feared them. Those were troublous times, and the territory had long been scourged hy desperadoes, cutthroats, bandits and cattle thieves. The latter, especially, were bold and unconquerable, and their depredations were invariably attended with murder end sometimes worse. The authorities sought the aid of the fearless “Doc” Holliday and his friends and from that time until they left the territory they were the chief in- struments used in enforcing the law. They served as city marshals, chiefs of police and deputy marshals of the United States, generally the latter, and not for one mo- ment were their lives secure. Their opera- tions were far-reaching, covering Arizona and parts of New Mexico, western Kansas and southern Colorado, but they did their work well, and at the end the “rustlers,” as the organized cattle thieves were called, were dead or behind prison bars. It was during this time that they found it neces- sary to sharpen their knives many times in order not to forego the pleasure of cut- ting deep notches in their sticks of fate. | They too suffered, but they did not com- plain. for. When it was all over they separated, and “Doc” Holliday gravitated to Lead- ville and Denver, then to Montana, and finally back to Denver, where he is today, with a snow-capped mountain range for a headstone. One day, after leaving Arizona and mingling with men who dressed as he long before had insisted men should dress, he was told to drink whisky to save himself from speedy death? Consumption had fastened itself upon him. Liquor changed the man. His belief in the effi- cacy of his physician's prescriptions ap- proached fanaticism, and when he dosed himself repeatedly he became a brawler. As “Doc” Holliday’s appetite for liquor grew so did his recklessness. Formerly he had been brave, but never reckless. Though he had faced death a hundred times he had never tempted’fate. One instance will suffice to show to what lengths he would go in those latter days. He made the mistake of easily forming friendships and enmities—something he would never have thought of doing with an unclouded brain—and among others, culti- vated a violent attachment for the prose- cuting attorney of the county in which he died—a politician who himself had many friends and enemies, personal and political. In some way this official incurred the dis- like of the editor of one of the newspapers of the city, and every morning he came in for a column of as bitter vituperation a@ ever appeared in a newspaper where per- sonal journalism is seen at its best. This grieved “Doc” sadly, and finaily one day, when the daily attack had been more se- vere than usual and pointedly: personal, “Doc” arose from his consumptive’s bed and sought his friend. “Tke,” he said—the officlal’s name was not Ike, of course—‘Ike, I think I can set- tle this for good, and J believe I'll do it.” “How?” queried the attorney. “Very simple,” returned “Doc.” “TH just walk into his office and kill him. That’s how. Oh, I'll give him a chance,” he hurried to explain when he saw his friend’s deprecatory gesture. “Tl give him all the show a white man sho:ld and that is more than he deserv: be a fair fight, but I'll kill him sure. vetoed the scheme emphatically, but was not to be deterred. “It stands just this way, That was what. they were hired con- tinued “Doc,” in a wheedling but argumen- “Ike,” " tative tone. “I'm dying. It’s a question of a few weeks it the most. You're my friend and I'd like to do something for you before I go. I'll kill him. What's a life more or less in my case? They'll call it murder, of course, and arrest me, but that’s all right. You're the prosecuting attorney, and will conduct the case against me. All you have to do is to get some mitigating cir- cumstances on which to hang a bail bond. I'll go back to bed and the sand will run out of my glass and I'll die, and that'll wind up the whole business satisfactorily to everybody concerned. I want to do this simply as a friend, ‘Ike’—simply as a—” But “Ike” gathered a few of his friends, and every hour they watched the homi- ¢:dal “Doc” until he was too weak to move, and later they bore him to his unwept grave. eer eee Further Information Wanted. From the Boston Home Joarsal. A very devout gentleman of Bogton has recently undertaken to teach a Sunday school class of bootblacks and newsboys the beauties of the Gospel. He recently undertook to tell a story of Jacob's ladder. After he had graphically pictured the wan- derings of the sad old patriarch, his dream in the eastern pasture, and the ladder on which the angels were ascending and de- scending, he paused and said: “Now, boys, if there is anything in this story that I have not yet explained, you may ask me any question you-like and I will answer it.” | ° Thereupon a little Chap cried out: “Say, Mister Minister, did you say dem angels hed wings?” “Yes, my boy,” replied the doctor, “‘an- gels always have wings.” “Well, den, ef dey hed wings, what for ladders?” A REVIEW BY ONE OF THE WORKERS Some of Those Who Will Attend the 28th Annual Convention. PROGRESS- OF THE CAUSE pe ee Written for The Evening Star. HE EXECUTIVE committee of the Na- tinal American Woman Suffrage As- sociation has issued its call for the twenty-eighth annual convention of that organization to be held in the Church of Our Father, begin- ning on Thursday and continuing through Tuesday of tHe following week. It will be a larger convention and a much more representative one than any of its twenty-seven predecessors. Political equal- ity, once the dream of a few philanthropic and public-spirited women, and the laugh- ing stock of the general public, has grown by degrees into a serious actuality and an influential factor in the society and even the politics of today. From what was de- nounced as a Utopian dream it has become the: organic law of three progressive and enterprising states—Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. In Wyoming it has proven a great success for many years and has kept the political atmosphere of that"commonwealth cleaner and purer than that of most of the other members of the Union. In Colorado it has made the state house a new institu- tion in manners and morals. It put an end to the political career of “Bloody Bridles Waite” and his lieutenants, and in Utah it has already put forward’ the best men which that former territory had produced. In every other state and territory the woman's party has made marked progress, so much so that it is confidently believed that, were a vote taken tomorrow, woman's suffrage would carry a majority of the states. In the Empire State. In New York during the past year a suf- frage referendum was passed by both the assembly and senate by-a very handsome majority. In the precedirg campaign made on behaif of the bill it was found that no less than 600,000, adults in the empire state were in favor of the measure. Nearly all of these signed petitions in its favor, which are now filed at Albany and are constantly growing in numbers. These show that the movement is supported by a half of the citizens, if not by a handsome majority. The prosperity of the cause in New York is due to many factors which do not exist in other states, or, if they do exist, then to a much smaller extent. There is, first, a Miss Susan B. Anthony. model state suffrage organization, headed by Jean Brooks Greenleaf, Martha Almy, Mary Seymour Howell, Lillie D. Blake, Imogene C. Fales, Marianna W. Chapmann, Cornelia K. Hood, Mrs. Isaac Carey, Mrs. Priscilla Hackstaff and other influential and distinguished women. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union has a numer- ous and energetic state association organ- ized in every county, which is also in favor of political equality. A third important element is the vast army of women’s clubs, which are said to number over 1,000 and to have some 300,000 members, including clubs in the general federation and those ef such a character as to be unincluded in the list. Among these an important element consists of the work- ing women's societies and unions, especially those which have come into existence in the past few years. The minority parties in the state—the populists, single taxers, pro- hibitionists and other parties—are strongly in favor of suffrage for women, chiefly in the belief that it will greatly strengthen their forces. Another silent but powerful influence is the large number of women en- gaged in business or professions on their own account, women who are property owners or have large personal estates and who take a deep interest in legislation, par- ticularly that which involves assessment and taxation. This element is larger in New York than in any other state on ac- count of its greater population, manufac- tures and wealth. There are other causes, but these sre the main ones, which have superinduced the growth from a handful of men and women at Seneca Falls over fifty years ago to an army of nearly a million today. Bay State Strength. In Massachusetts woman suffrage was de- feated at the polls by a vote of about one hundred and cighty thousand to gne hun- dred and ten thousand. The opposition was very bitter, and the bill was drawn in so artful a manner that it offended and even antagonized many of the most stalwart ad- yocates of the idea. As a result, many suf- frage people stayed away from the polls, and, so far as they were concerned, let the matter go by default. Even upon this basis the figures tell an eloquent tale of the strength of the movement In the bay state. Much of its success is due to the enthusiasm of the graduates and even of the students of the many institutions of learning for women which are so notable a characteris- tic of that commonwealth. There are some twenty schools and colleges for women alone and co-educational institutions of the high- est class, such as Radcliffe, Wellesley, Boston, Tufts, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Am- herst, Agricultural, and others. In South Carolina, supposed to be the most conservative state of all the Union, woman suffrage was defeated in the consti- tutional convention, but only after a long and stubborn fight, and then by a majority which gave no pleasure to the opposition. Kentucky has joined the ranks of the states which accord women limited suffrage. The list of these is Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dako- ta, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Kansas, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wis- consin and Connecticut. This makes a to- tal of three states in which there is abso- lute political equality, twenty-five where there is limited suffrage, and @ighteen in which woman's political rights are ignored. Even among these states the suffrage move- ment is making great headway. In Cali- fornia there is a complete state organiza- tion which has already enrolled one-fourth of, the voters of the state. In Mississippi there is a fair organization, which claims to ‘represent a third of the state. Seed Sown in the South. In North Carolina, Virginia and West Vir- ginia are small organizations wiich report great progress. In Georgia the success of the women at the international exposition has given’ a great impetus to the movement, resulting in the formation of a vast number of suffrage clubs in various cities and towns. In the remaining states and terri- tories, with the exception of Alaska, there are now complete state organizations, with branches in every city. Some were formed this year. Their formation makes the na- tional organization complete. When the roll is called in Washingtoa on the cpening has been awarded to women in every prov- ince, and it-is now disqussed whether or not Rev. Anna H. Shaw. it is advisable to give shem the full: right of suffrage, In all five of the Australian provinces..they have made political equality their organie law, a3 tave North and South New Zealand and Tasmanja. Bermuda has conferred. suffrage upon its women, but has safeguarded it by educational qualifications for both sexes. a In England, limited and local suffrage is almost universal, and the movement for full parliamentary suffrage is progressing with great rapidity. A member of the in- ternational council reports over three mil- lion of men and womer enrolled under the banners of enfranchisement, while a, census of the present parllameat shows four-ninths of the members of the house of commons as being on. record in its favor. In thé house of lords, a majority of the bishops are in favor of suffrage for women, while the lords temporal hold the opposite opinion. All these facts will be given in exteuso at the various sessions of the coming convention or of its many committees, The Venerable Mins Anthony. The convention will be called to order by its heroic leader, Susan B, Anthony of Rochester, N. Y. She has attended every convention from the start, and long before the formation of the present association she attended and called to order the conventions: of long-forgotten organizations of the same sort. She began her work on behalf of woman's rights when only fourteen years of age, sixty-two years’ ago. 2 In those days, bes'des wishing for .suf- frage, the earrest and thoughtful women desired equally much the abolition of the strict and cruel principles of the common law which made a woman under age,’ and, above all, a married woman, a mere slave or a piece of property, in the one case of the father and in the other of the husband. The opposition was so fierce in an age coarser, ruder and harsher than our own. that we can form very little conception of the tr'als which Miss Anthony and her har.d- ful of colleagues experienced. They were mobbed and stoned, rotten-egged and shot, were thrown out of halls, and pitched into swamps and pools by the “gentlemen’’ of that period. ot They had that true eathusiasm which is never dismayed and they,kept in their wark, no matter how helpless and foreboding seemed the future. In this hardest of all schools Miss Anthony; learned to speak, to conduct meetings, te; manage committees, and to preside over. conventions with an ability and tact which,make her the female Tom Reed of this country. The success of her ideag in the years that have passed has apparently given her. new Strength and vitality, Qnly a short time ago she took part im,the New York. state convention at Newhurg,and in thought, speech and action was,one of the most active, youthful and vitgjized orators upon the platform. ate She looks back over a very long career. She expressed it very,peatly on one occa- sion in addressing the committee of the leg- dslature, when she sgid; Gentlemen, 1am really, getting tired of coming here and mak- ding this argumeé! asking. for the right to vote. I did the me thing before your fathers, when you were little boys, and I did the same thing before your grandfathers, when your fathers were little boys and you were undreamed of.” She did not add, how- ever, ‘that this persistence and patience.on her part and that of her associates had cdn- verted scarcely ae handful of the grand- fathers, about one-fourth of the fathers, and about three-fifths of the generation to whom she was addressing herself: * Some-Well Known Workers. | Among the officers who will appear-on the occasion with M!ss Anthony is Vice Pres!- der,t-at-large the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw of Philadelphia, Pa.. who is the favorite orator and wit of the organization. ‘She is an extracrdinary woman. If her girlhood she was literary, ambitious and very, re- ligious. She had an intense love for hn- manity and determined to become a preach- er. She belonged to a distinguished family and had every advantage which education can give. After &he had finishe’ her studies and dis- played % rare scholarship, she applied for admiss:on to the pulpit, and was refused, or. the ground that she was a woman. See- ing that some other meeting of the church authorities might grant her request, she de- | voted her time to improving her mind by studying law, She applied again for admis- sion to the pulpit, and was again refused. She was still willing to wait, and utilized the time by studying medicine. She was graduated with honors, and again applied to the pulpit for recognition, and again was refused. Finally she was ordained,” but it was not until she had become oné-of the mest versatile and liberally educated‘women known to Eistory. Since then she ‘has devoted her liff to the cause of her séx. “She‘is attractive ‘nd in- fluential 4s’ @ writer, speaker, physi¢lan and preactiery S ? : aa? nothe®-one of the distinguishéd “leaders oz the offieers is Mrs. Harriette Taylor Up- ton of Warren, Ohio, a tall, masstye, hand- some woman,-whose equanimity and kindli- hess are proverbial. She is a worker and an executive rather than’a platform’ speaker or a corvention debater. She has‘a genius for committee work and for such: literary duties as the composition of resolutions, ar- guments and reports, the editing of speeches and public documents. e other officers are Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery of Philadelphia, corresponding secre: tary; Miss A. Blackwell, recording secre- tery; Miss H. A. Howard and Mrs. Diggs, auditors, and Mrs. Catt, chairman of the committee-on organization, and one of the ablest orators and writers of the association. Mrs. Catt will receive an ovation, as she re- turns from a campaign tour in which she has spoken to large and admiring audiences in neaily every part of the Union. Distinguished Delegates. There will be a large attendance of dis- tirguished women among:the detegates and invited guests. Amory those expected are Mrs. Emily. Ketcham, &# talentéd speaker from Michigan; Mrs~ Hannah Bailey, one of the eminent wonten’Sf Maine, and an officer of the Natior¥1’ ouncil of Women. Maine sends also Miés Mfizabeth U. Yates, one of its most begutiful daughters and talented platform 5a From Kentucky will come Miss Lau: Clay, @ worthy rela- tive of the great statesman. She will prob- ably be joined by Mrs. Clara Hoffman, the “silver tongued-orater:of Missouri.” Mrs. Hoffman was a delegate to the world’s council of women in London, in June, and wes pronounced by the English press to be one of the best woifier orators who had ever appeared befope: the British public. Nebraska will be .sepresented by Mrs. Clara B. Colby, a cigver, lecturer, speaker and journalist, who devotes her life to the suffrage cause. ; From far-off Utah will appear Mrs. Em- meline B. Wells, who has toiled thirty yeers for her principles, and now sees them triumphant in her own home. She will re- ceive an ovatipn because long ago she fore- saw and foretold what happened in the great basin last November. In fact, five years ago she laughingly said: “Women will vote and hold office in my poor little ILLIPS- W gstlett COQ: ¢ the Union. She has risen, step by step, =| the public service, winning the esteem the public. by her fidelity, honesty and ex- ecutive ability. At the election referred to in 1804 she was victorious by a larger ma- jority than that given to any other candi- date. She has been so satisfactory in her present office that her constituents are now talking of making her governor of her state. Louisiana will have for its” expon- ents Mrs. Caroline Merrick and Mrs, Eliza- beth Lysle Saxon. Mrs. Merrick ts the wife of Judge Merrick, and Mrs. Saxon is the well-known church worker and temper- ance orator. She is also a poet and novel- ist of no mean ability. New York will pave a delegation consist- ing of the womdéh alreaiy named, and of such others as Miss Harriette Keyser, Miss Jessie Casseday, Miss Isabel Howland, Mrs. Craigie, Mrs. Blancker, Miss Howland, Miss Mary Anthony, Mrs. Eleanor Babcock, Miss ‘Teresa Barcalow, Miss Cynthia Westover and Miss Margaret Chandler. Florida will be there in Mrs. Ella C. Chamberlain, the poet; Georgia in Mrs. McLendon, Miss Augusta Howard, Mrs. Murian Du Bose and Mrs. Claudia Maxwell. The Carolinas will be present in a talented group, including Dr. Helen Morris Lewis, the Misses Hemphill, daughters of Gen. Hemphill. Mrs. Virginia D. Young and Mrs. Meriweather will represent Tennessee, and Mrs. Rebecca H. Hayes will come for- ward as the bright star of a hundred thou- sand people from the Lone Star state. The Proceedings. Tae proceedirgs will be varied. There will be reports from every state organiza- tion, from the committee on organization and from the standing and special commit- tees of the association. The most interest- ing of these will be those describing the transcortinental tour of Miss Anthony and Rev. Avna Shaw: the interstate tour of Mrs. Chapman Catt, and _ the southern campaign tour of Dr. Lewis, Mrs. Young, Gen. Hemphill, the Misses Hemphill and Miss Yates. These three events were not- able by reason of the number of meetings held, the average attendance of each meet- ing, the number of new clubs formed, the thembers enrolled, the number of converts made and the enthusiasm and public in- terest which they aroused. ‘There wil be an election of officers. In all probability the present board will be again returned on account of their ad- mirable achievements in the past twelve months. There will be divine services held by the cunvention, at which the officiating clergy- men and all the associate clergymen will be taken from among the delegates. There will also be two interesting occurrences when the committee on lezislation makes its argument before one committee from the Senate and a second from ihe House. The argument prepared !s said to be a mas. terly one, and will undoubtedly be worthy of the importance of the occasion. The headquarters of the convention are at the Arno, and will be there until after the ad- journment. The committee upon transportation has made arrangements with nearly all great railway syStems of the country, so that delegates and people interested in the convention can attend it at greatly reduced rates. Anether committee in Washington has made similar arrangements in regard to comforts and accommodation. The last convention at Atlanta brought together about 2,000 women from all parts of the country, and the present one will, it is thought, attract half as many again. MARGHERITA ARLINA HAMM. +oe- FUTURE WAR SURGERY. Some Probable Resvits of the Use of New Projectiles. Sir William“MacCormac in Nature. It would appear probable that in a future war many of the wounds produced by the new projectile will be surgically less se- vere and prove amenable to effective sur- gical treatment. Probably, also, the num- ber of sev2re injuries will be very great, when we consider the enormous range of the new weapon and the penetrating pow- er of the projectile, which enables it to traverse the bodies of two or three individ- uéls in line, inclyding bones, and to inflict serious or fatal wounds at a distance of 3,000 or 4,000 yards. It is impossible to say what the proportion between these two is likely to be. At near ranges the explo- sive effects will be much the same as be- fore: but at long range the narrow bullet track, the small external wounds, which eften approach the subcutaneous in char- acter, and the moderate degree of commin- ution and fissuring of the bone will be sur- gically advantageous. These will form the bulk of the gunshot injuries of the future, for it would seem impossible with maga- zine quick-firing rifles to maintain a cbn- test at close quarters without speedy mu- tual annihilation. = We may take it for granted that the number of wounded in proportion to the numbers engaged and actually under fire will be greater than before. The supply of ammunition will be larger, the facility for its discharge greater, and smokeless pow- der will increase accuracy of aim. I think we are justified in believing, al- though there is high authority for a con- trary opinion, that the next great war will be more destructive to human life, ‘‘blood- ier,” in fact, than any of its predecessors; and that the number of injuries, and, in many cases, the severity of the injury, will be largely increased. But very many cases will remain less severe in character, more capable of successful treatment, and less likely to entail future disablement, while improved sanitation and antiseptic methods will enormously increase the proportion of recoveries. EVERY FAMILY SHOULD KNOW THAT Isa very remarkable r. , both for INe TERNAL and EXTERNAL uses and wcne dertul in its quick action t) relievedistress. Pain-Killer iirc sucke, IS THE BI Pain-Killer $732 32st rem. 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He bel- lows and rolls, and goes charging around the pasture with ‘various demonstrations of surprise and disgust that delight the Roman populace on the fence beyond exp: and which would amuse the presid society for the prevention of cruelty to ani- mals. This sort of solitaire bull fight is good for an indefinite period of amusement, ard the only drawback seems to be that sumebody has to take the stick off the ani- mal’s tail. As this has to be done by the owner, it really adds to the popularity of the sport among its promoters, but the pos- sessors of live stock refcse to be recenciled to the custom. “Your charming experiment in animal psychology,” said the second man, “re- minds me of another very interesting one which is within the reach of ail. The oniy thing needed for this is a couple of good- sized cats and a very small quantity of bea- zine. The boy enthusiasts who are con- ducting the experiment then take the ani- mais to the entryway of some respected citi- zen, where they think they will do the most geod, put one or two drops of benzine on each one’s tongue and’shut them up together. The benzine is not given in such a quantity as to cause any pain, but for some unex- plained psychotogical reason, under its stim- ulating influence nothing will satisfy the scul of either cat but the instant and com- piete annihilation of the other. Their hair curls over backward, their eyes start out of their sockets, and they fall to immediately without any of. the preliminary courtesies of feline warfare, uttering terr.fic and blood- curdling battle cries. The effect on the family of the respected citizen is as sensa- tional as the most hardened of juvenile ty- rants could desire.’ - a She Had Reformed. From the Somerville Journal. 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