Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, x WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1896—SIXTEEN PAGES. 11 THE EVENING STAR hasa Larger Circulation in the Homes of Washington : than all the Other Papers of the City Added Together, because it Stands Up Always for the : Interests of ALL THE PEOPLE of = WASHINGTON; does not Strive to Divide the Community into Classes, and Array one class Against the others; Contains the Latest and Fullest Local and General News; and Surpasses all the Other Papers in the City in the Variety and Excellence of its Literary Features. It Literally Goes Everywhere, and is Read by Everybody. It is, therefore, as an Advertising ‘Medium without a Peer, Whether Cost or Measure of Publicity be Considered, . ARE YOU NERVOUS, Sleepless, Restless, Dyspep- tic, Rheumatic, Des= pondent? IS MIND OR BODY IMPAIRED IN VIGOR?— A SURE SPECIFIC FOR ALL THESE ILLS IS OFFERED YOU. ‘The Kola nut has been used for centuries by Afrl- cans as a renewer of the tissues and a preventer of fatigu: Dr. Charcot, the eminent authority on nervous diseases, prepared a preseription from Kola which he vouched for as a true specific in all nervous diseases and a sure invigorator for the blood. Dr. Charcot’s Kola Nervine Tablets are prepared upon the above mentioned prescription from the fresh nuts especially imported from Western Africa. Kola is not a cure-all. It 1s a food for nerves, brain and muscles and a tonle for the blood. Kola Nervine Tablets are absolutely certain and speedy In their effects. They cure all nervous dis- eases, prevent fatigue, renew falling vigor, give tone to the whole system. Kola Nervine Tablets cure sleeplesness and the nervous troubles from which sleeplessness comes. They are specific in cases of nervous dyspepsia. ‘The drugzists say the demand for the Tablet s astonishing. Kola is what the debilitated want. Thousands of packages have been sold. Good ef- fects were felt at once. Hundreds of letters say: ‘One “package of the Tablets, costing $1.00, lias done for me what phy- sicians, who cost me $100, failed to do."* We absolutely guarantee that no harmful or secoulary effects are felt from the use of the ‘Tablets. Can you, In Justice to yourself, refuse to pay 3 cents a day for sure relief from neuralgla, blood- lessness, brain fatigue, sleeplessness, nervous dys- pepsia, loss of vigor, melancholia and all the evils resulting from a uervous condition? Ask yourself the question with all serfousness. Dr. A. C. Sherwin, Hotel Pelham, Boston, Mass., indorsed the remedy in September last. He writes more strongly as he learns its great merit: “Hotel Pelham, Boston, Dec. 6, 1895. “Gentlemen: I am prescriblug Dr. Charcot's Kola Nervine Tablets for Nervousness, Insomnia, Dyspepsia and Neuralgia, with excellent results. I have no hesitation in stating that they are in- fallible in all forms of nervgus diseases. Their in- 'vigorating properties are wonderful. “Yours truly, A. C. SHERWIN, M. D."" Fifty cents and $1.00 at druggists, or sent direct. See Dr. Charcot’s name on label. Write for free sample package and testimonials, Eureka Chemical and Sits. Co., La Crosse, Wis., and Boston, Mass. m; VALUABLE COPPER CENTS. If Uncirculated They y Be Worth Very Many Dollars. From the Boston Transcript. A coin may be rare, and yet be nearly worthless, if worn to any extent. The precious cent of 1799 can be got for $2, or even less, if in poor condition, but its value is multiplied a hundred-foid if it re- tains the gloss of the mintage. The cop- per pennies one sees ocasionally in circu- lation are black with age, but the uncircu- lated cent half a century old which has been put away and carefully kept from in- jury by the collector sti? retains somewhat of the yellow sheen of the newly stamped piece. This, with its cameo design unrub- bed and unworn, is what is called a “per- fect” coin. All United States coins of dates prior to 1859 are worth a premiuin, if in perfect condition. To such a point is this matter carried that a piece in a good state of preservation is actually damaged by clean- ing, from the collector’s point of view. From the standpoint of the numismatist an uncirculated coin is something sacred, to be wrapped in chamois skin and kept even from exposure to the air. The most common of the pennies of early dates is that of 1708, which may be purchased for as little as five centa, yet a perfect speci- men will fetch $20. A perfect cent of 1793 can be sold for $100. It was the first penny issced by this government. Plenty of 1803 cents may be bought for ten cents each, but a perfect and uncirculated example will fetch $0. Only half a dozen perfect cents of 1793 are known. A perfect cent of 1804 has brought $300. One may buy an 1806 penny for ten cents, but a perfect one is worth $100. In the year 1704 no fewer than fifty-four dies were used for minting pennies. At that time all uf the coins were struck by hand, and not as now, by machinery. The method being defective, the dies were broken now and then and had to be. re- placed by others. Variations in the cutting of the dies gave rise to recognizable differ- ences in the minted pfeces, At present no complete collection of the ceats of that year exists. The original idea was that each penny should contain exactly one cert’s worth’ of copper, hence the incon- venient size of the plece. All cents from 1898 to ay RA head of an Indian, are rare when perfect—especially those of 1909 and 1811, which are worth 0) each. No pennies were coined in 1815, because of the burning of the mint. That is the only break in the continuity of the coinage of cents. The cents of 1817, 1818, 1819 ard 1890 used to be rare, but bags full of them were found in an old bank and flooded the mar- ket. Prices of coins are controlled by the law of supply and demand. Many pieces which ten years ago were scarce are now plentiful. Perhaps tomorrow the newspa- pers may chronicle tae sale of a certain penny by auction for $67. The people who read it go down into their stockings and look for pennies of that date. Maybe ‘a let of them will be found, the result being a lowering of the price of that coin. As for the folly of paying out good money in-the pursuit of such a fad, a chronic collector sail to the writer the other day that it was all the same whether a man found pleasure in whisky, or dogs, or bicycles. If he found enjoyment in the study of old coins, and had the necessary means, there was just as much fun In It as in collecting books, pictures or diamonds. ——_+e+___. MURDERED IN A SLEEPING CAR. ‘Phe Company Held Blameless by Vir- ginia’s Supreme Court. From the Staunton (Va.) News. Friday’s News contained a telegraphic dispatch from Richmond giving the de- cision of the supreme court of appeals in the case which arose over the death of D. F. Connell on the 4th of August, 1891, from the effects of a pistol wound received while occupying a first-class berth in a Pullman car on the Chesapeake and Ohio read, cn the night of August 4, 1901, while between Waynesborough and Basic City. The case was that of Connell’s executors against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and Pullman Palace Car Company in a suit for $10,000 damages. D. F. Connell was a well-| wn business man of Ohio, who was shot in his berth on one of the defendant's sleeping cars near Waynesborough on the night of August 4, 1891. The assassin, it is supposed, slipped into the coach, shot Con- nell down, and then hastily escaped. The wounded man was removed to Charlottes- ville, where he lingered but a short while. ‘The case was a mysterious and remark- able one. Despite all efforts of the railway officials, no clue was ever obtained to the motive or the whereabouts of the assassin. Connell’s executors brought suit against the corporations named in the Richmond cir- cuit court. They complained that it was the. duty of the defendant companies to use due and proper care that the passenger should be safely and securely carrie® on said railway, and protected from injury while on the train, and the charge of negli- gence is made against the defengants in not keeping proper guard over and giving the necessary attention to their passengers to protect them. The defendants demurred, and the lower court sustained them. The superior court sustained this action of the court below. The conclusion of the court is that Con- nell lost his life in a manner which the defendants could not have foreseen or provided against. To do » the opinion Says, would be to require of them more than human foresight as to the minds and motives of men and make them insurers of the lives of their passengers, ALL BY ELECTRICITY Plans of the Columbia and Mary- land Oompany. CARS AND EQUIPMENT ARRANGED Quick Work in the Construction Promised. SYSTEM OF TRANSFERS The Columbla and Maryland Electric Rail- way Company, which, as heretofore stated in The Star, is constructing an electric line between Washington and Baltimore, has, it 1s understood, secured an option on one of the most desirable pieces of prop- erty in the latter elty, upon which it Is sald to be the intention of the company, if the deal is completed, to erect a building for their general offices and as the terminal station for the northern end of the line. This property is at the corner of Howard and Saratoga streets, in the very heart of the business section of the elty, and from which the lines of the Baltimore Traction, Baltimore City and City and Suburban companies radiate in every direction. As the three companies named own every street car line in Baltimore and the Colum- bia and Maryland company either has al- ready made or has reason to believe it will be able to make the most Iberal transfer arrangements with them for the accommo- dation of its passengers, it is within the bounds of probability that in the course of a few months, certainly by January 1 next, unless some unforeseen obstacles shall arise, a person can take a Belt Line car here, transfer to a train of the Columbia and Maryland line and go to-any part of Baltimore, returning the same way, for the one fare, which, it is understood, will not be more than $1.25 for the round trip. The Actual Work, As already mentioned from time to time in The Star, work on different portions of the route, principally those near Baltimore, has been in progress for some time, and be- tween Baltimore and Ellicott City the grad- ing is about completed. Work on what is known as the main line, between the junc- tion with the Ellicott City branch, not far from Catonsville and Laurel, is expected to be begun next week and will be pushed to @ finish as quickly as possible. Although the building of this road is expected to occupy such a short time as to cause marvel on the part of other rail- way contractors, there is no doubt that the roadbed will be fully up to the stand- ard of the best steam railways in this or any other country. Indeed, this is a mat- ter of absolute necessity for safety, as it is sald to be the intention of the managers of the road to offer such inducements in the way of quick transit between the two cities as to either draw largely from the numbers who now use the Baitimore and Ohio and Baltimore and Potomac trains for traveling to and from. cither city, or else induce a great marly who have never heretofore seen the attractive- ness of both places to avail themselves of the opportunities. The Cars. While there is still a vast amount cf de- tail to be arranged, the statement can be made on the authority of an officer of the company that “the cars will be 43 feet long, heavier and more substantial than any now in the service and intended to make very fast time. They will be Leated and lighted with electricity, fitted up in the style of a first-class day coach of a steam railroad, with air brakes and pro- pelled by the overhead trolley system (cut- side of the city of Washington), unless, perhaps, some experiments which ‘are now being made lead to the substitution of some other motive power. “The through cars, which will leave Washington and Baltimore every haif hour, will be run in trains of two, a car and a motor. The metor will have a baggage compartment, and will seat thirty-two per- sons, while the trailer will be the parlor coach, and will seat forty-two passen- gers. On the accommodation trains be- tween the cities these cars will run singly, starting at the quarter hours. The through trains will stop at the principal stations only, probably at Hyattsville, Laurel and Catonsville, while the accommodation cars will stop at all of the stations. Arrange- ments will be made by which the accom- modation cars will not interfere with the operation of the through schedule, and it is expected that the latter trains will make the run between Washington and Balti- more in not more than hour, and that the former will cover the distance, including the time occupied in making stops, in an hour and a quarter. There will be twenty- six of these cars in all placed upon the line as soon as it is opened. Hach car will be fitted with double trucks, and on each of the axles there will be a one-hundred- horse motor, geared for speed. This will give 400 horse power per car, or four to eight times as much as the ordinary street “For the local traffic from Washington to Laurel and for the Baltimore and Bill. cott City branch the regulation electric street cars will be supplied. They will be twenty-eight feet long and of the latest and most approved pattern. Ten which were ordered some weeks ago have been completed and are said to be ready for shipment to their owners. It is the inten- tion of the con pany soon after the road is open for traffic to fit up parlor cars with movable chairs for the use of theater par- tles between Washington and Baltimore, as they believe there will be a demand for that sort of accommodation. The Specd. “It 1s expected that the main station in Washington will be on North Capitol street, a few squares from the Capitol. Along the route there will be stations at Hyattsville, Laurel, Savage, Ilchester, where the road crosses the Patapsco, and at the junction of the main line with the Ellicott City branch. It is also anticipated that the ac- cormmodation cars, on account of the ease with which they may be stopped and start- ed, will stop for passengers at any point that may be desired. In Baltimore city there will be seyeral stations. “The work of building these stations will not be begun until the line is ready for operations. That part of the road nearest completion lies in Baltimore, where most of the track laying has been done, and, if desired, cars could be put upon the tracks at any time. f “The managers of the new railway do not contemplate any difficulty in the way of running the cars between the two cities in an howr, and it is believed that much faster time has been made by electric cars under conditions not nearly so favorable for the accomplishment of speed. As a matter of fact, the limit of speed that can be at- tained by the electric propulsion of cars has not yet been admitted by those who know (if there are any such), and there is a decided impression on the part of the traveling public, who kave used this means of getting from place ta place, that the cars which are even now in most general use are run at the rate of a mile a minute wherever the motor man has an oppor- tunity to show what his car can do. “Of course, this does not apply to cars operated inside the limits of cities, but that the practice is followed in almost all sub- urbs where there are electric lines can not, it Is believed, be successfully disputed, and it is predicted that it will not be long after the Columbia and Maryland electric road is opened before the express trains will be run between Washington and Baitimore in 45 minutes.” —_———— Continued Exercise a Necessity. From the Health Magazine. Beyond the age of forty—at a perlod when so many are physically lazy—the su- perior value of exercise is apparent, but ordinarily this is just the time when the hygiene of athletics is neglected, aptly ob- serves the Rev. F. 8. Root. There is no rea- son why a punching bag, rowing machine, pulley weights and other apparatus should be relegated to college boys and clerks. But, having done a good deal of work in his time, it is almost impossible to persuade @ business or professional man turning forty to give any sort of attention to physical culture if such training has been previous- ly neglected. I¢ is an inexorable physiologi- cal law that we can only retain our bodily or menial powers by properly using then. Exercise is not a matter of choice, but of necessity. JAPANESE SWORDSMEN. Thetr Expert Fencing With Foils Made of Spitt Bamboo. From the Pacific Commertial ‘avertiser. If you are ever asked, to engage in a duel, with a Japanese,belmg the challenged party, select any intplerient rather than the single stick, for ‘\htegs you are profi- cient in thrusts and: les you will be “done up’ in short orderjfIn feudal times every able-bodied Japanese was obliged to become an expert » an, so that in the event of war he ¢Qul@ go to the front and do his share of fightigg. But with the improvement in the methods of warfare, which the Japanese were quick to adopt, the short sword has Bash relegaten to the back yard and the step dealer, and fencing a mgreiy a pastime known as gekken. . < There is a club in Hondlulu, with head- quarters on Maunakea street, whose mem- bers have an instructor in the use of the single stick, F The headquarters of the “Sunrise Single Stick Club” is on the lower floor of the building occupied by the Japanese rews- paper of the same name. Through the kindness of Editor Satto and Hiraoka, business manager of the paper, a reporter was given an opportunity to witness an exhibition between Yajima! and Karikawa, two expert handlers of the sticks. e By way of introduction the combatants removed their kimonos and dorned loose skirts and a helmet with strong fron bars across the face. Then they sheathed their bodies with stiff bamboo breastplates. Heavily padded gloves with gauntlets fin: tshed the costume. ‘The “short sticks” are about five feet long, and are made of sev- eral pieces of bamboo fastened together, There seemed to be no call of “time” by a referce; the men stepped to the center of the room and saluted each other by a motion of the arm, and then one uttered a guttural sound signifying his willingness to begin the fray, and they crossed sticks, the point of each being held on a level with the heck and the handle gregped with both hands. Yajimal led, and throughout the bout was acting on the offensive, while Karikawa braced himself so as to resist and ward off any blow that might be di- rected toward him. Once he was thought- less: Yajima gave him a crack on the helmet that resounded through the room. All the time ithe men were fencing they were shouting as if warning each other to look out for what might pe coming. To the stranger who is not familiar with the rules there seemed to be no reat for the men. If one should receive a blow which under ordinary circumstances would warrant his going down for a few sec- onds, long enough to recover, it must sim- ply end with the desire, and bis next move will be to get back at his opponent. In this exhibition Karikawa, who was rather more stockily built than /his foe, had the best of the fight, but the end was a draw, and the men retired windless and with the per- splration pouring from their faces, The wrist seemed to be the part of the anatomy*oftenest aimed at, and while that part of the arm is protected by a padded gauntlet, the humerus is bare, and a strong blow means a heavy welt and a sore arm. At the end of the contest spoken of here, Yajimal carried a mark which was quite blue. If a blow on the wrist is severe enough it will disable a fencer and the fight ends, and if it can ict be accom- plished in this way, a fencer will raise his stick high above and inclined toward the back of his head, very much after the styl> of ancient executioners in the chopping block process, and bring it down with all his strength on his rival's head—if he can. Celerity marks every moyement of the fen- cer, so that the observer's eye is taxed to its utmost to keep track'of the men. je reaasiettel SHR gy Fw ,CYCLING CHA®ERO ot the bric-a-brac From the Pall Mall Gazetté? - -* A new occupation is looming up on the iapecunious woman's Horizon: It ‘is a sig- nificant fact that mothers who advertise for governesses require ‘a knowledge, upon the tnstructriss™ part, of cycling, fn order ‘that she may accompany her ‘young charges} when they go a-wheeling. It seems likely that a new, remunerative employment may open up for women in the form of cycling chaperonage. 5 In regard to the much discussed ques- tion of dress, a skirt long enough to reach six or seven inches below the knees, this -being short enough to render pedaling easy, seems to find many advocates. Few peo- ple are really decided about knickerbockers. The other morning there were two girl cy- clists on the platform of a country station. One wore a short. skirt, the other knicker- bockers. he contrast was remarkable, the latter looking conspicuous and far from graceful. She could not even walk about without imitating a masculine swagger and thrusting her hands in her pockets. She was not an impressive figure, all her femi- ninity having disappeared. There is a-skirt which English women are wearing for cycling which gives perfect freedom and makes life on wheels worth. living. The peculiarity of this skirt is the clever introduction of a wide trouser, which gives the freedom of a knickerbocker with the appearance of an ordinary waiking skirt. It is made of serge or tweed, lined with silk. A blouse and short jacket are worn to complete the costume. ae ‘The, clever, English girl wha wishes to go to a dinner party or a dance and does noi own that, luxury,.a carriage, mounta, het wheel. in wheeling costume, her evening dress neatly folded up in a Hox-or bag be- ing secured to the bicycle in some ingen- ious way, and off she goes, with her fath or her brother as an escort. Upon the a rival at the scene of festivities, she slips into her gown as easily as you please. The Queen's Favorite Jewel. From the Woman at Home. _ Of late years her majesty has had Indian servants in native dress as personal at- tendatts; she is also an assiduous student of Hirdustanl, being able to speak and write in that language, and her favorite state jewel is the priceless Koh-i-Noor, about which hangs a tale. When it came into the possession of the East India Com- pany, in 1850, it was handed at a board meeting to John Lawrence (afterward Lord Lawrence), the viceroy, for safekeeping. The precious diamond was laid among folds of linen In a small box, and Lord Lawrence slipped it into his waistcoat pocket and forgot all about it until some days Jater it was suggested that he should forward it to the queen. One can Imagine his consternation when he rushed to his house to see if it was to be found. “Have you seen a small box in one of my waist- coat pockets?” te asked breathlessly of his servant. “Yes, sahib,” was the reply. “I fourd it and put it in one of your boxes.” “Bring it here and open it and see what ft contains,” said his master. “There is noth- ing in ft, sahib, but a bit of gla: man replied, in wonderment. The “‘bit of glass” was in due course dispatched to the queen, whose crown it was to adorn, but she has preferred to wear it on occasions as a magnificent brooch in the center of her bodice. The cutting of the diamond was personaily superinfendtd by the prince censort. It is alwayskept at Windsor, a fac simile being in thg royal crown at the tower. tn A Grent French Lawger's Trick. From Tid Bits. bis e Maitre Lachand, the famous advocate, was perhpas the gregfest,{iaster of com- edy in France, and not a:few eminent ac- tors envied him his marvalous powers of mimicry. 15 799) He was orce employed td.defend a mur- derer against whom the facts were hope- lessly clear. When kts. pbthetic appeals and his tears—which owerevalways at call wher he pleaded befpre a, country jury— failed to touch his stglid gudience, he re- sorted to the mcst tmpudent pleces of trickery. Thrusting his recistenéd white handker- chief into his pocket, he demanded if the jurors were men, if they had human fearts, if they could bring themselves to condemn & fellow-man like the accused, whom he had credited with all sorts of chivalrous, if not saintly, merits. His clo- quence was rot merely fruitless, but the jury _respended to it at first with uneasy shuffling, then with biting lips, and, finally, with loua and unccntrolled bursts of laugh- ter. Lachand, while flinging about his hands, had intentionally dipped his fingers into the great ink pot in front of kim, and as drew his right hand across his fore- head, as if in agony of.despair at the cer- tain fate of the accused, he left upon his brow an enormous black mark like a cros- cent moon. se LOW PRICES! TOMORROW! Don’t Miss It! ooeee TO..... ST. ELMO DEL RAY THURSDAY, MAY 7. Leaving the Pennsylvania Depot at 6th St. N.W. at 11:50 A.M. and 3:20 P.M. FREE TICKETS of Our Agents at the Depot. Investigate Tomorrow! UNEQUALED TERIIS! EXTRAORDINARY INDUCEPENTS! SURPASSING TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES! TOMORROW! TWO GRAND EXCURSIONS Beededege W SRES EES D,. 2s. ee Zk FLEES SELES ISS SESE TEESE ESSE SS SES HSS % & SSPESES SSS Se BUILDING PRIZES To each person buying one or more lots of us at ST. 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A dollar or two applied each week to the payment of Real Es- ye es tate such as this, within 15 minutes’ ride to,the heart of a city like Washington, will appeal to +, 2a any person as a safe inyestnient. ¥ 5 i To accommodate those who cannot go tomorrow»we will run another Special Excursion next "¥' ESS I x Be Sunday at 2:45 p.m. + & m4 + * WOOD, HARMON & CO ya 1% 9 “9 sya oe * e < ¥ 525 Thirteenth St. N.W. © $y eT & | “LET US ARBITRATE.” The Spirit of the Age Demands a Peacefal Setilement of All Questions ‘The following extracts from a sermon delivered last Sunday evening by Rev. Dr. Crane in Trinity Methodist Church, Chi- cago, are to the point: There is no event in history, since the coming of Jesus Christ, that is of more benefit to the human race than will be the establishment of a court of international arbitration. The efforts now putting forth to secure this should be the object of the devout prayer of every lover of his fellow- men. There are many obstacles to over- come. Conservatism is intrenched in mili- tary ideas and will die hard in the battle against reason, common sense and human- ity. Old ideas of martial glory must fade. 2 pride of national renown must be taught to bow to universal justice. Great leaders that owe their prestige to the olil order of things must be deposed. All this will take time. But it will come. Public opinion is slowly but surely living down the cruel, senseless and false principles from which alone spring the possibility of war. Look over history. Never was a nation that yielded itself wholly to the passion for military conquest and glory that did not go down. Persia, Greece and Rome died of the suicide of wac. Military Spain and France were defeated by commercial Holland and England. The wealthiest, happiest nation on the globe is the only one that spends more money on schools than armies—the United States. England's supremacy is founded cn her missionaries, explorers and merchants and on the natural fecundity of her people. Her army is entitled to a very small portion of the credit, and is wholly responsible for losing ker the most important of her col- onies, the American republic. The jingoists of our Congress who con- tend for greater armaments and coast de- fenses are short-sighted, when they are not demagogic, statesmen. Our safety lies in our defenselessness. To equip for war is to invite war. There Is not space here to prove this proposition; but if you need proofs read the great speech of Charles Sumner at Boston on the Fourth of July, 1845. There never was a question permanently settled by war alone. There never was an international ques- tion settled any other way than by a treaty of peace. hy rot make the treaty of peace before instead of after war? Among civilized nations the god of bat- tles is the devil. As long as a court of arbitration is a possibility there never will be “a good war Tor a bad peace.” And fest you should think this the luke- warm mouthing of a poor parson read these words of the greatest warrior America has produced, the words of Gen. Grant, uttered at the close of his voyage around the world: “Althcugh I have been trained as a sol- dier and have participated in many battles there never was a time when, in my opin- jon, some way could not have been found of preventing the drawing of ‘he sword. I look forward to an epoch when a court, recognized by all nations, will settle all international differences, instead of keeping large standing armies, a3 they do in Eu- rope.”” The present movement does not imply a congress of nations, nor the millennium, nor the adoption of the principles of non- resistance, nor the policy of peace at any price; it implies the adoption by the na- tions of the “American idea,” that of set- tling disputes between separate states by “representatives.” —_—+ e+ ____ To Remove a Fish Hook, From the Health Magazine. ‘The angling season being well on, the usual number of mishaps will occur with the fish hook. When this accident happens, the hook, if not too deeply embedded in the flesh, may generally be removed without surgical aid. If the hook fs fastened in the hand, cut the line from the hook, turn the point upward, and push it through as a needle would be in sewing. If the hook has a broad end or eye, snip this off before at- tempting to remove it. Do not try to draw the hook out backward, as the barb will lacerate and inflame the flesh, LITERATURE FOR THE SLIND. A Great Variety of Books Printed in Embossed Type. From the New York Sun. “Have you playing cards for the blind?" was asked by a customer of a New York beokseller. The question was asked in the interest of an old gentleman whose chief amusement is playing cards, who seems about to be robbed of that by reason of fast approach- ing blindness. The bookseller had no play- ing cards for the blind, but he referred the customer to a house that makes a special- ty of printing for the blind,and it is.as likely as not that playing cards for the blind will shortly be provided. There are several, institutions in this country that make a specialty of printing for the blind, and the multiplication of the so-called embossed books and of special de- vices for the amusement or profit of the blind has been very great within the past ten years. There have been primers and Bibles for the blind these many years, and standard books of English literature began to be printed for the blind soon after the matter of their spiritual welfare had been provided for. But now popular books have begun to find their way into libraries for those who cannot see. As yet, the strong- ly evangelical influences that have prevail- ed in institutions for the blHnd have re- stricted the choice of books to be printed in the embossed type. Alcott, Mrs. Bur- nett, Susan Coolidge, Edward Everett Hale, Bret Harte, the Kingsleys, Kate Dougias Wiggin and Mrs. Ewing have found their way into the libraries for the blind. Half a dozen plays of Shakespeare have been printed in the embossed type by Perkins Institute of Boston. You may have in this type the essays of Emerson, the poems of Longfellow, Lowell, Bryant and Whit- tier, besides Milton's ‘‘Paradise Lost,” se- lections from Pope, Byron, Sir Walter Scott and Tennyson. Some of John Fiske's his- tories have been printed for the blind, and so have selected novels of Hawthorne, Dickens and George Eliot. Full sets are seldom attempted, the object being to fur- nish as large a variety as possible of the most popular classics. Elementary scien- tifie works have been published in the em- bossed type, and the Boston concern is about to issue a Latin-English lexicon. There is a considerable variety of sheet music published for the blind, including pieces for orchestral rendering, for the vio- lin and for the piano, as well as for the voice. Works on the science of music have also been prepared for the blind. The cost of books for the blind prevents the multiplication of such works, and, of course, the small demand for embossed books helps to keep up the price. The works of Dickens in embossed type cost from $12 to $15 each. George Elfot’s “Adam Bede” costs $9. Hawthorne's “Scarlet Let- ter” is $5. “Paradise Lost” is $5. TI New Testament costs as much as $7.5 though it is published in cheaper form. Caesar in the original costs $3. There is an encyclopaedia for the blind at $32. Music is comparatively cheap at from five cents to seventy-five cents a piece. Some of the best classical mus'c is sold at less than $1 a piece. School books are cheap. Blind persons of abundant means are able now to acquire a knowledge of many foreign tongues through the aid of books specially prepared for the purpose, d may be fairly well read in the great mas- ters of English literature, but not in the masters that have ceased to be truly popu- As to the blind of small means, their opportunities for reading are still narrow unless they can have access to the Hbrary of some public institution for their fel- lews in affitction. The unwieldy bulk of tooks for the blind makes the collection of even a small library a serious undertak- ing, and such a library demands great space for its housing. An octavo book of 450 pages in one volume, small pica type, is expanded in the embossed printing to two great folio volumes each four inches thick. To house a library of 500 volumes in the embossed type would require a space large enough to hold more than 6,000 volumes of ordinary printed books. Ee ER In Mid-Ocean, From Das Wippchen. Passenger—“Say, captain, how far are we still from land?” Captain—“About two nautical miles.” Passenger—“But we cannot see land any- where. In what direction does it He?” Captain—“Straight: below us.” WHEN THE CENTURY ENDS. Controversies the Date of the Twentieth Century's Beginning. From the New York Herald. Does the twentieth century begin on Jan- uary 1, 1900, or on January 1, 1N1? This avestion agitated a great many people some time ago, and it seems to be agitating some now. And, as is the case with every question, it had advocates on each side. “Those who hold thet the twentieth century will dawn on Janucry 1, 190, reason that this is so because the first year of our era began on January 1, 100. Anothér argument is that the first century began on January 1 of the year 0, and the second om January 1 of the year 100, just as a child is said to be in its first year before it. has reached the anni- versary of its birth, when it enters Its sec- end year. This logic is applied to the twen- tleth century question, and those who use it hold that that era opens on January 1, 1900, They argue further that December 31, 98 was the last day in our first era, and com- pleted the first certury, and that, there- fore, January 1, 100, marked the opening of the s century. Any child will tell you, thi that a person's twentieth year begins when his nineteenth birthday ts attained. So, they conclude, the twentieth century begins in the year 1500, ‘This reasoning is worked out on various lines, but the conclusion is hardly correct. Much better arguments, quite conclusive in their nature, are advanced by those who hold that the twentieth century will begin on January 1, 1901. The weight of logic seems to be in their favor, and here are some of the points they ma’ A favorite argument advanced by those who hold that the twentieth century will begin on January 1, 101, is that a certain year will not begin until its predecessor ts entirely completed; therefore, that the twentieth century will not be ushered in until the nineteenth has rounded off a full one hundred years, and that that will not be until midnight of December 31, 1M), Tn this connection, these advoc point to the definition of the word ntury,” as given in most dictionaries, where it is de- fined as a period of 10) years, reckoned from any givea point or date. So, they ar- gue that, as the first century began with the year 1, it ended with the year 100, and the second century began with the year 101. Suppose, it has been urged, a man starts to put 100 potatoes in a barrel; if he adds another hundred to them the first potato of that hundred will be the Wist “potato. Following out this reasoning, it is held the twentleth century will not begin till the year 190 is fully completed When you write December 31, 1806, says one on the 19M side, you mean the year 15% will be completed on December 21, 184, and that on the following day the year 1897 will begin. When you say December 31, 1896, you do not mean 18% years plus the days car, up to De: ber 31 of the next December 31 of the year 1896. He say, in rounding off their argument, De- cember 31, 1900, will be the 100th year of the Christian era, and the last day of the nineteenth century, so the ixentieth cen- tury will begin January 1, 1901. As a way out of the difficulty, conserva- tive people suggest it would be well to as- certain how the ancients regarded the question, and to do as they did. If at the beginning, they say, the anctents wrote January 1, year 1, then we, when we write January 1, 1900, mean that the 190th year has just begun, and we must wait twelve months before we can write 1901. But it is not easy to ascertain what the ancients did in the chronological line in the year 1; so far as known they left no data as to their method of computing time. +00. “Swallered His Holler.” From the St. Louis Ppst-Dispatch. After the last snow storm the little fellow was playing out in the slush as only a five- year-old knows how, and came home wet tothe skin. He was tucked away in bed, but in the morning was so hoarse he could hard- ly speak. ‘ou're trying to fool us, Peter,” said the dcetor, who had been called in, “you're not at all sick.” “Yes, I is, doctor,” the little patient man- aged to whisper, “ "cause I's swallered my holler.” but