Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1896, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, —_— DISEASE DESCRIBED BY SYMPTOMS. Its Cure Proven by Results—The Knowledge Which Enables Doctor McCoy to Describe Conditions Has’ Contributed as Well to His Superb Mastery Over Them—Giving Doctor McCoy’s Copyrighted Symptom Questions and Citing Instances of Notable Cures. COPYRIGHTED SYMPTOM TABLES. DR. MceCOY CURING BRONCHITIS. DISEASE OF THE BLOOD. Hosts of people suffer from the various ee Thomas Edwards: “I was on my | From the Blood the Tissues Are Fed— persia in Seay pions pasts ee way to my home in Poultney, Rutland county, | If the Blood Be Disensed From Any Vermont, accompanied by my daughter, having been down to Florida for my health. I learned that Doctor McCoy was in Washington. Having known the doctor by reputation in New Epgland, I took this opportunity to get the advantage of his skill. diseases, liver @iseases, kidney diseases and skin diseases, as the result of irritating crystal poisons im the blood. A majority of such sufferers do not have a definite understanding of the nature of thelr | use the Tissues Will Suffer, and as a Result Some of the Following Symptoms Will Show Themselve : “Is your color bad? on. ‘The following sympt w ra I had been atfiicted for four years with a severe | (18 ¥¢ i ee De Sere Beet Ree ne | cough sot temnclial troviies T ccted Teer | “Es vais throst seco?! by Doctor McCoy in 1894 to enable suffe a}, | Stntly, especially at night and In the mornings} ‘‘Are you all run down?" Gerstamt just what Jt is that alls them. Althonsh | and when Iying down. f cold. scarcely walk for | “ty tive halt falling care?! written by him and copyrighted, they have been | the pains in my back, sides and chest. The doc- “Is the urine high colored 7? “Have gou swollen glands? “Is the skin hot and fushed?* “Does the head feel too full? “Does the skin {teh and burn?” “Is there persistent headache?” “Have you uleers in the mouth?” ‘Have you aching in the bones?” aker In the mouth?" “Do your temples beat and throb?” “Do the hands and feet keep cold?" ‘Do humors break out on the skin?" “Does the blood circulate slugglsbly 2” “Does the blood feel hot and feverish’ « “Do the hands and feet pu up pud swell?" “Is there a prickling sensation in the skin?” “Have you sores on any part of the body that Wou't heal?’ extensively copied, without his authority or per- missfon, by otler concerrs. The proper course for those affffcted Is this: Read these symptoms care- fully over; mark these that apply to your case, and briug this with you to Doctor MeCoy, Dr. McCoy Curing the Deaf. P. F. Mi igan, 115 4th st. ne., Cap- ftol Hill: “I fel like going down the avenue and telling every one my deafuess fs cured. Twas deaf for 15 years: coull searvely hear a word; 1 would rand never hear it tek. I Doctor McCoy enred’ me body who does not belie er, 533 9th st. s.e., expert dis- ask Frank Mi machinist: I DISEASE OF THE SKIN. @ sentence a short tance a. ad pple azine svstiehs Lik way kin Dinense Result All Forms of Saee cakter en tredtuent any: Bearing S.J. Dixon, 1226 20th st. now., tes- F Poisons in the Blood. The has been rest Thear porte {ifs to Dr. McCoy's skill ia curing Poisons Irritate the Skin, Producing i deafness. | t ruption and Humors a 2 John W. Bailey, 30 B st. se. “I had = ——_ ie Sie ons and! Stitin Deen deaf since chit@hoot. ‘The Deatness fotiowed | toy Payette: amet ; . varlably have to ask the person to speak loud:?, under Doctor McUoy’s eare here T have found great ve you a shiny, nose?" Itt Ker was a few feet away from me T | reltet. ae he colt nner: nothir went to Dr. | ——— i A aml as a result I can hear ord!aary conversa i DR. McCOY CURING CATARREL skin sore and era es your skit ih intensely “Does your sealp tteh and burn? Patrick MeG aw, 214 E st. sw. (85 |. H. Silane: host. m.e.: —s : hand eracked ch ae aE ote eatarrh for years. My nose would stop uy the skin f¢ coud got heat a watch ort y throat. I could net | “Are your nose, now hear the clock thek and | #nil any rellef until T took Dr. MeCoy's treatment. | “Have yon da sation. T hear the is exe ed as be! “Do your te et jot before. | My head ts clear. I feel that I am getting well. Peg sate tus busting : JAls'SO per (ceul hatter alsead fave you prlekling pains in the sk | “Have you pinples on n Maurice Clagett, 2 ari A st. me. r of 2 century 1 had beea Deaf. 1 t » most Tear tors E knew of. 1 not re » the Deafness. “Do nose, Lips and “Do Gusts and sexhs for DISEASE OF THE HEAD AND THROAT This Condition Results From Neglect- ed Colds, Causing Catarrh When the Cendition of the Patient's Blood Predisposes Him to This Disease. “Is the breath foul? “Is the volce husky? “Do you spit up situe “Do you ache all over? mht “Does your “Does you bleed easily “Do crusts form in the nose nose sore ancl tender you sneeze a great deal nose iteh and turo there tickling in the throat? re pain in front of head?" + pain across the ¢ pala in bac 0 you hawk to el “Is there a a “Is the thro Are you lo: uur <onse of taste? > you with your mouta open? | “Does your cose stop ep toward night 2 4th st. om atirely of the Oscar Rundgvi Anacostia, testifies to skill in curing dex fness, DISEASE OF THE BRONCHIAL TUBES. nothing T could hear distinctly. Or- ate ar at all. Metoy had es- al Practice in Washington I went dinary conver “When I tablished aN: “Is face dotted with dirty Iittle specks?" ck or sloniders “Have you pimptes on bi “Are This Condition Often Results From the Inmps on € sore to the touch? fae et bear in a Ee eae or | Catarrh extending From the Head ‘Ikin alonzside nose red and conge oo, and the hearing In my rls 7 an it was. It was my right ear| ®#@4 Throat. skin of your fnee look and feel ene deaf. Today I put my finger | “Have you a coush? “Have you flat, red-looking Iumps en face? nd distinctly heard an auctinn Halt | “Are you losing: flesh? “Are there scaly, Itchy eruptions on eyebrows?” oa the asphaitum streets: sounds | “D0 ¥ ‘Have you yellowish pimples on your face? heard in years. My friends all | ““Flave yon pa. Have you pimples on face with black tops?” wlerful change “Do you tak —— ee “Is sour app DISE OF THE NERVES. Georze Cecil Hyde, 3400 Prospect | “Have you ave., 14 years of age: “I could not hear conversa- | “Ito you cousk until you gag When the Nery Ar ote tlon’or what people said on the streets. “Are you low-spirited at times?* ee © jo: Affected! hy: Gone: (ADEs Metoy mix bearing: hen been sease the Following Symptoms In- ored. [can hear ronversation clearly."* Mrs. Hyde, the bos's “We al “Do you g te T to the writ our boy's cot wr, said ve remarkable change tn giddy 7 dition. We test his hearing every day. and find ‘Have you neuralgia? he will answer us now, whereas heretofore he “Is your memory pour?* could not hear anless we spoke very, very loud. re you easily daze “lan happy to say that he Is doing excellently. boas aaa T address him in very ordinary you easily excited? dos your be %% you have “Have you dreams ? = pain sation Lore y etic ness in lmbs7* ether as before, sounls which before lave you wand: ‘ mes Cony “Mave son Os. S Harrison st., “Hay and PL RR. you Anacestls, ear “T had car sleep?" been searlet fever T 1 on top of the heud 7” eeitihe stotte hile In the back of hea Roth ears be- in back of head of power in limbs? Frank Miller, 533 9th st. s.e., tea- ne up in thron titles to Dr. McCoy's skill. Hearing ing temples?” restored. KS am Improving clock tlek sev on languid, tired {cling 2" legs or arms go to sleep? “Do yon suffer from sleeplessness’ “Do you raise frothy material?” “Do you spit up yellow matter?” Lave soa shooth in head?” “Do yo going to hed?” is there twitehing of the muscles?" “Be you cow mornings?” “Is there rush of (lood to the head?" “Ts yo ni bucking 2” © youd tty food? nt spit up little cheesy lumps?" Is there a tickling behind the palate ey intin behind the breastbone ?* “Do you feel you are growing weaker?” $ pain in the throat nufxeturer, rs I had been in the ears. Thad DR. WCOYS RECORD. The Six Ye ars of Preparation, ‘ho worse night and morning pus ie Uelvte ey OF ee a Mt breath?” | Fist. honor is class. to sit up at night to get breath?” | Winner of {ainous Lootate prize. : Candidate for Bellevu fospital 's COPTES OF DOCTOR. MeCOY'S MONOGRAPH ON AFNESS WILL BE MAILED ON APPLICA- TO THe IMRECTLY INTERESTED IN THE CURE OF THIS CONDITION Chosen by comp: the doctors of th Ballevne Hospital. Dur} servis mination, resident DISEASE OF THE EARS. ae ‘The Founding of a Great Spectal Practice. Deafness and F Troubles Result | sivas in hospitals of London and Dublin, St. Bare From Catarch Passing Along the | hoiomesss of onion, aid the Mace Ste Bar- Eustachian Tube That Lead@ From | Ua. etec cece eee veo s 18ST the Phchat ( tie eee. Formulation’ of tegniar treatment’ for chronic teoa- as a result of hospital experience LIS82 lution of regular treatment. for re ot |. bronehtal and ling dise: E <1S882 ent of Th ‘oy's ures first ‘Are the nied 3 ae tarily by wh jonrnatists, with pie- Do the © ra Itch and: harn? a intery| patients cured! April, IBSt Is there a throbbing in the ears treating over one thousand’ patients a “Have you a p: ind the ears? ONC cc ators CeRcRCeen “1885 Er Extension students from Bellevue The Founding of a Medicine. of om ities" by“ empiay: sound heard? ing In the ear ing sourds heard? bad cloudy days? he occasionally 7" ‘Are the sounds Hike steam escaping?" ‘Do you coastantly hear noises In the ears. Do your ears hurt when you blow your nose’ “Do you hear some days better than others “Do the noises In the ears keep you awake? “Is there a roaring like a waterfall in bead nw.. testifies te Dr. Mi treating disease of th you have ring stomach. age these ystem of Applied ful change in my hear- ing. I can now hear nee of two feet aw The second visit to Europe for further Study and Inspection, In the laboratories of Prof. Koch, ot Ter: Study in Oharitie Hospital Cinie under Von Berg Fermulation of a ery of polsa adily imp a dist phia Aiglers, 422 6th st. now. “E had no: heard any ordinary sounds ne result of Doctor McCoy's in the bleod as the origin of trea’ ent ‘3 a .1S01 Jack tick, door bell ring and ‘When you blow your nose do the ears crack cystem p ¥ application expert- oi “Is your hearing worse when you have a cold?” in cases selected from Dr. ST ee ee ee ee ee DISEASE OF THE STOMACH. McCoy system should be located in Tostons Spt “T have beon greatly benefit ‘The nolses in my The world startled by Dr. MeCoy's Discovery of a ears are tat 30 ‘and the tlekling sensation == cure for Deafness. + ...2 SSepienter, 1805 t fu my ears bas decreased. | ‘This Condition May Result From Sev- | iyution. of a national” praciicn ia Wea I Causes, but the Usual Cause fs | ton.... setters March 28, 1896 esaie a Catarrh, Mucus Dropping Down in 7th at me. “The | the Throat and Being Swallowed. ‘ sex and sounds Ike FERae area Coples of Doctor McCoy's mono- x since taking Dr. disting graph on denfness will be mailed on application to those directly Inter- ested in the cure of this condition ‘Are you costive?”? Is there vomiting?” “Do you beleh up gas?" “Are you light-headed ‘Is your tongue coated?” Haye you water brash ?* | “Do you hawk and spit?” pains; at | “Are you nervous and weak?" ng was pressing | ‘Do you kave sick headaches: b sounds and to do.”* DR. MeCOY CURE DYSPEPSIA. McCOY SYSTEM OF MEDICINE Mrs. Joseph Sykes, 1214 19th st. now. en a sufferer from acute Dyspepsta There were at times distressing it seemed Ike som on hy I had severe headaches. There | “Do you bloat up after eating { 715 13th Street Northwest. vere r cating peins in pee back and “Is there disgust for breakfast? sion. I vemed to lose 1 ambition and spirit. “Do you at times have diarrhoea t"* I conid net lie en my back with any comfort, and “Is there a rush of blood to the hea would wake in my stomach. “I was in about as bad a condition as a woman could be In when I went to Doctor MeCoy. He has entirely cured the pain. I can say I feel like an- Dr. J. M. COWDEN, . CONSULTING PHYSICIANS. p at night with these pressing pains | Ty there constant bad taste th the “Is there gnawing sensation im stemach Do you feel as if you had lead in stomach?? ‘When you get up suddenly are you dizzy at Sone Eating PRs splendid. Thave | wen stowach Is empty do you feel tainty? | Office Hours, ZA te iH 2a.m., rtoy P.m., ever did, and Iam very grateful to Doctor McCoy's ‘Do you belch up material that burns throat?” 0 8 p.m., daily. skill ** “When stomach 1s full do you feel oppressed?” Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES. = 13 KILLED BY HOLMES Account of the Grimes Charged to the Man Hanged Today. SACRIFICE OF IS PARNER PIPEEEL Pitiless. Murder of the Three Chil- dren. TRAGEDIES OF THE CASTLE ee PHILADELPHIA, May 7.—The murder of Benjamin F. Pitezel, for which Herman Mudgett, alias H. H. Holmes, was hang- ed today, vecurred Sunday, September 2 1:94. The crime was the culmination of a conspiracy between the men to defraud the Fidelity Mutual Lifé Association of this clty of $10,000, and the swindle was successfully acomplished, Holmes and Pitezel became acquainted in Chicago in 1890, Pitezel was married and had six children. He was poor, and otograph, was net averve to engoing in. dishonest business if It were lucrative. H had been praciicing forgery, and he induced Pitezei to er In er the Pitezel was for passing f there i wh es went “nel, pon ran BE him Worth, urder the name of nT. Lyman, He had with him a ¢ property the Valued at £40,000 belon, & Williams, another of Mol: victums. a Woman he called his wife ‘ined Nim there, and, t they intended to build t building in the town, the me Lin borro thing lik hey fled, ear loads of ping them to incident 2 wf cha Bitezel how nee eompany Bitexe boley at Hohnes > Company > reason or other Then the Fidel. The appl ate at full h R was con- sidered first y left Chicago to- gether to search A bod. nwhi Fitezel told his ¥ 1 St. Louis, that ha 9 ing a game on an in to his eldest daughte you ever hear that don’t worry, and don't worry, T will be ‘all you fome day. PiteceVs Death. In August, 1894, Holmes and Pitczel came east. and Holmes rented the house 1218 Cal- lowhill streeet, a ramshackle old building, for Pitezel to start In the patent rights business uader the name of B. F. Perry. In the meantime, Holmes had brought a woman, whom he called hia wife, to a boarding house at 19/5 North 11th street. Throughout Augu. ezel frequently F zel wa o'clock on Saturday night, That nizht he drank a great de: went to bed. Nothing him until the following Eu en emplo: seme work in the house, found his body lying on tts back on the floor of the second-story back room. The face was blackened and blistered, as {f from burr and near by lay a br n bottle which had mtained benzine. ide of the body was 4 p with tobacco. Ap- an explosion had was lighting his jeved the affair was 1¢ for a moment en- “It dead your mother and come to t they say." let Holmes called on Pit- n up to 10 eptember 1., 1 hefore hea} in seen of Monday, when er, who had been e Smith, a ident, and tertained the theo murder. Among the ef found in the room seve letters from ‘Perry's wife in. St. Louis, the signatures to which had been torn off. The coroner's physicians held an autop nd. finding ences of chloroform and congested lungs, the jury Gave a verdict of death from inhaling the fumes of chloroform. About three weeks after this occurrence, Jeptha D.* How Louis attorney, after correspon: h Coroner Ash- bridge of this city, came here and as- serted t the body was that of Benjamin F. Pitezei, and that he-—Howe—was here to collect $10,000 insur ve from the Fidelity Company, for which amount a policy had been made out in favor of Mrs. Pitezel in Chicago a year Lefe Meanwhile Holme who had introdu tezel to the insurance as induced by them to come to nd identify the body. This | d positively, and su did Alice Pitezel, | the sixteen-year-old daughter of the dead | man. With” th unequivocal testimony, the insurance company paid the money. Here the first stage of this extraordinary affair came to a cicse Great Detective Work. The secend opered some time afterwar when Marlon C, Hedspeth, the notorious train robber, in joil at St. Louls, declared that Holmes, while in an adjoining cell, had told him of a conspiracy with Pitezel and Howe to swindle a Philadelphia insurance company hy the ution of a body. Holmes’ capture was a wonderful piece It was discovered that re being sent to him under the of Howard, and in care of a broker of detective work. letter named Blackman, in Dearborn strect, Chi- . Blackman forwarded the letters to imanton, N.H., Holmes’ birthpl. wnere s first wife and! his mother and father © living. A detéctive started from Chi- 0 on the train bearing one of these let- ters, and chere was m race across the coun- try with the United Sthtes mail. The detective beat the mail to the New Hampshire town, nd found that the post- master had a postal ¢erd instructing him to forward all mall f¢y Holnis to another place. The detectfve waited for the letter | to arrive, saw it addressed and continued the chase, beating the letter to the next town. ‘Ttus Holmes wes tracked from peint to peint, an‘) was finally arrested in Boston while droyping a letter into a mail box at a street corer. Frora the moment of his arrest Holmes told storics—ingertious, though conflicting. First he deciared shay, the body found was not that of Pitez¢], but a substitute, and that Pitezel was in Sguth America. Then he retracted this statement and averred that the Lody was Pitezel’s, and that he had committed suicide while despondent, ard that he (Holmes), in order to secure the insurance money, Tad given the case the appearance of accident. The Trial. Holmes was placed on trial in this city for Pitezel's murder Monday, October 28 last. The trial ended the following Satur- day night in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The jury was out two houts and a half—“for the sake of appear- ances.’ They had’agreed upon their ver- dict in one minute's time. The one witness whose testimony did more to convict Holmes than that of all the others was Georgiana Yoke, otherwise Mrs. Howard, the woman who thought herself anne wife. Upon her first appearance as a witn inst him, Holmes broxe down and wept in the dock, but he soon re- ecvered his marvelous nerve and person- ally cross-examined her. She was living With him at the 11th street boarding house on the day of the murder, and told how he had left the house thet morning, returning about five hours later, flushed and excited, and taking a train for Indianapolis with her that night. This is the story of the murder of Ben- jamin F. Pitezel, but with it ts interwoven the schemes and acts which brought about the killing of at least eight other victims. These were Alice and Nellie Pitezel, the Little daughters of Benjamin, who were as- phyxiated in a trunk in Toronto, Canada; Howard Pitezel, the young son, killed in Indianapolis, Holmes cutting up and burn- ing the remains in a stove; Julia L. Conner, divorced wife of I. L. Conner, and a book- keeper for Holm Pearl Conner, her daughter; Emeline Cigrand of Ander- son, Ind., stenographer for Holmes; Minnie R. Williams of Fort Worth, Tex., his pri- vate secretary, and Ne: Williams, her sis- ter. Marder of the Children. The murder of these persons has been fixed upon him almost certainly, but there are at least a dozen other cases which have been jaid at his door. The murder of the Pitezel children was probably Holmes’ text crime after that of the father. When Holmes was called from St. Louis by the insurance company to iden- lify Pitezel’s body in this city he prevailed upon Mrs. Pitezel to allow the child Alice to go with him. After the departure of Holmes and Alice for Philadelphia, the next time Mrs. Pitezel saw him was September 27. He said he had left Alice in Cincinnati in the care of his ‘cousin, Minnie Williams. Then he tn- duced her to let him take Nellie and How- ard there, so that Alice should not be lone- ly. She never again saw her childen live. Some time afterward he took her to Detroit under the pretense that she was to meet her husband there. From that time to the day of his arrest he kept her moving from place to place throughout the country on some "pretense or other. During these travels Holmes carried with him three separate detachments—Mrs. Pitezel, Miss Yo the children—all within four of each other in all the different almost traveling together, under Helmes’ leading strings, and yet each de- tachment ignorant of the presence cf the other two. Eventually he rid himself of the incumbrances by murdering the girls in Toronto and the boy in Indianapolis. The Castle Murder. The scene of Holmes’ other known mu: derous operations was the notorious “ ue," in Chicago, the building erected by him on the border of the world's fair srounds. The place was fitted up with pad- ded rooms, sceret chambers, vaults and quicklime vats, and this part of the story smacks of the romances of mediaeval Here, it is thought, sudden and v paths came to the Williams amily |. Mrs. Julia Conner and her eight- daughter, Pearl. Wiliams, when a chiid, from an upele. Went on the es in Chieag. her, Iiving with invited her sis: inherited When she became of stage. In 1s02 and became lim as his wife. rT, Nana, then a his teacher in Te to visit her at the Castl She did so. Soon afterward both girl disappeared forever. It is be- thet Hol killed them to the "The eaxo police found several tons in the C. sue, and two of them, hat remain of the hap- re. of Emily Cigrand comes next She came from Lafa Ind. blonde, and the prettiest of When nineteen years old ed as a stenographe man. Piteze] met her 3 in the institution, and when Holmes wrote lary than nto While in his employ she becar sed to be married to Robert EL E | @ very rich man, much older than hi but one day she vanished, and j has since been heard of her. It is be j that Holmes forced her to maintain illicit i fons with him, and that, tinding that me 8 learning too much of his affairs, he r. The alleged murder of Mrs. Julia Con- ner and her daughter, Pearl Conner, aged elcht years, should be narrated next. The Conners went from Davenport, Iowa, to Chicago, about 1890. Holmes was then run- ning a drug and jewelry store at the corner ets. Conner got ‘a sin the jewelry department of store. Holmes saw his wife, who Was a very pretty woman, and offered to give her a place as bookkeeper. She ac- cepted it. Holmes made love to her, but Conner didn’t suspect anything. The affair went on for some time, and Conner heard of it indirectly through Holmes himself. Conner consulted his friends and separated from his wife, leav- fing her with Holmes. She kept the child, Mrs. Conner was a woman-of brains, and just the kind that Holmes would pick out to help him along in his schemes. She was last seen alive, still in Holmes employ, about September, 1802. Then she disap- peared like the rest of them. Her murder, if she was munlered, 1s supposed to have been one of the first that Holmes commit- ted. Tle wrote several letters about her toa Mr: mythe, who was a friend of Mrs. Conner, which, It is alleged, were intended te divert su: jon from him on account of her sudden disappearance. The potica he- lieve they unearthed Mrs. Conner's body. in their search of the Castle, and that the bones of the child they found were all that were left of the little daugher. Emily Van Tassell was the name of a girl who worked for Holmes in the Castle, ». like the others, suddenly di ry litle is known of her stor haps she, too, fell a victim to his blood. they think, are all t less Williams sist The murde in Inter he wa sot out he told Holmes. to the girl, offering a larger was then getiing, and she c t — soe PROGRESS College With All Modern Appurtennnces to Be Built. Little is heard here of the progress of elvilization in Russia, but the “world do move,” even in the czar’s empire. The plans and drawings of the Women's Medical Institute, the new Russian col- lege for granting medical diplomas to women, are, says the London Lancet, com- pleted. It is hoped that the building will be completed in time to open the new in- stitution in August of next year. It has been liberally subsidized by gov- ernment and by the municipality of St. Petersburz, and private subscriptions and donations have been neither few nor small. At present the whole capital amounts to about 609,000 roubles (nearly $320,000), But of this at least 450,000 or 475,000 roubles will be required for building and furnishing the institut The late Professor Tchud- nofski, whose recent Geath has created a vacancy in the chair of general thera- peutics in the Army Medical Academy, has left to the Women’s Medical Institute his entire medical library, containing over 4,000 yvolum The number of students who will be ad- mitted to the courses at first has been fixed at 125. Already over i00 applica- uuons have been received. —-———+e+ According to Their Folly. From Longmans Magazine, I apperd a few arswers to fair corre- spondents: Lydia Dieck.—For freckles try murlatic acid, applied with a camel's hair brush, the hair taken from a camel which has made the pilgrimage to Mecca. Spectatrix.Instances of dogs learning to read are uncommon. ‘The case which you mention needs confirmation. Submit your suffering cat to the new electric photo- graphic process. From the symptoms de- seribed I fear she has swallowed a golf ball. You might “get it out” with a nib- lick, but the operation is dangerous and may be painful. conomist.—Y our little boy's reluctance to wear the knickerbockers made out of the old billiard table cioth is perhaps not un- natural. I do not wonder at his complaint about the pockets, and his indignation about the spot is pardonable in one so young. Harriet—In keeping company, the gen- tleman takes the lady’s arm and pays for refreshments. Historica—As you justly remark, the Order of the Garter cannot have been founded be- fore the invention of stockings, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. I have never seen this fundamental objection to the ordinary legend raised before. sos His First Impression. From the Mexleo City (Mex.) Herald. “That umbrella you lent me yesterday—” sald the man who had just come into the office. “Yes? ‘Here It is.. I came to return it.” ‘Dear me!” was the absent-minded re- ply. had no idea it was in such bad condition as all that” WOMAN'S, IN FULL CIVIL SERVICE A Stroke of the Pen Puts Near 80.000 Places Under the Rules. FINISHING THE WORK OF REFORM Nearly Every Official in Wash- ington Now Included. —— FEW EXCEPTED VERY The order which was signed yesterday by the President and promu'gated by the civil service commission establishing the new rules for the classification of the civil serv- ice wes the most sweeping end compre- hensive act in connection with the whole movement of civil service reform that has ever taken place. By it not only are the rules simplified, | cleared of many abstrvse and complicated provisions, but the whole system Is made to stand squarely upon the principle of competitive examivations for official places and nearly 29,399 positions are brought within the rules, increasing the number of classified places from 55,7336 to 85,135 The number of classified places which are excepted from ex.mination has been re duced from 2,099 to 775, these places being chiefly those of cashiers of the cusioms, postal and internal reverue departments of the service. Indians who are employed in minor capacities in the Indian service are necessarily ¢Iso put In the excepted 1 Nearly all the positions in Washington heretofore excepted from competitive ex- amination were by this order Included in the competitive list. The only pleces here which now remain excepted fre tion under the rew rrles are pr tarles or confidential clerks (of ¥ may be net more th dent and to the he executive departments. ter which hav ompetiuy ns Mischievous. The civil servi ion has found from experi that the existence of any large number of excepted placs In any branch of the classified service Is a menac to and has an evil “t upon the parts of the service which are subject Lo competitiv exumination, and docs much to nullify the good effects of the examination. Int rules, by the reduction of the ex ft Is stated that great rest of the classified higher places in the classified as chiefs of diviston, deputy others, were left to be filied in t the best men were deterred from « commiss! SUBURBAN NEWS nie ee FALLS CHURCH, A pleasant surprise party, arranged by Mrs. W. H. Nowlan and Miss Alice Sins, was given Col. and Mm. BR. P .Buckver Tuesday night, Dancing ani otber amusements were indulged in and refres! ments served. Those presout were Dr. and Mra. J. B. Gould, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nowlan, Miw Eva Birch, Miss Margie € Miss M. EK. Castleman, Miss Maud Nowlan, Misses Alice and Vivian Sluis, Dr. T. C. Quick, Geo, C, Birch and Jobnule Mo- Killen. Mr. Charles Weller of Atlacta, Ga,, is visiting bis sister, Mrs. George Gorter. - Dr. A. W. Boswell of Washington was in town Wedievday visiting tr Mr. and Mrs. M. E. ‘adie M. Spafford, Miss Cooksey, Greenl tits town attended amt Mine Eaith Ee: is and-Mise Bdith De Dr. avd Mrs. J.B. Church and son Guy and Mr. Herndon, The eat the reside iliipe May’ 13 E. Hawshurst is visiting friends ip Mrs Carter has returned from a visit to ber parents at Parmwell, Vac 3 Mrs. S$. E Bices of Farmwell, Va., ts visiting V. Quick. and he 4. T. rher and Miss Jennie Lan sister of Mrs left for Deloware York, whe Mr. Barber burch, i ~ Blerer, In the off Secretary of the Interior, has moved with bis family into the dence Of Miss Belle -Merritieid for- the summer months. Miss Merrifield will remain with them a9 her house. TAKOMA PARK. Atan meeting of the local Junior Soctety of Chris cndeaver the following offi- cers and coumittons: we ed to nerve for ensuing six months, viz.: Superiatendent, M Mabel FE. Raley; assistant superintendent, Mise Eiel D. Moores; president, Edith Whitaker: viee Diesident, Nellie Atwell; secretary Jno, Adams; treasurer, Edita Camp’ ell. L obout Jno. Aduns, chairman; Kalith Campivell, nitz, W adley, Nelle Webber, Vi Kins, Kate ule Adats mittec—Hh chalrman; 1 Burch, Janet Coon, Bisie Watkins, In m examina- | St om ther n two) to the i- dl of each of the eight All piaces hereat- brought within the rules will he si to titive exam- inations, with the single ption in the case of Indians employ ernment on th examt be non Arihur Whit King, 2 Witak Kinnear, Aniie ly, Jost titer Atwell Joinily ent Rev, Jp». for a ¥ | class in esby ter fag and evening Mr. ond Mes. the service, as they we by promotio: E | recruited by a still better c | will be invited by | motion on merit. that where so larg was left to be filled by and when the men appointea were possibly active working politicians, the rest of the force tended to fall under political influ- ences. By this new action of the President the classified service will be mc ly made subject to merit princ! taken cut of politics. Therefore, after a full consideration dur- ing several months, a large reduction made of the list of excepted p usually are the higher and mo! omplete- tant places in the classified service. it is: claimed, will have far-reac pene. ficial results. In theory, excepied places are so excepted with the object of filling them with the best men who po qualt- fications that cannot be tested by competi- tive examination. In practice, they are often filled with men who are distinctly in- ferior to those who would secure them by promotion or transf-r, or be provided through the examinations of the commis- sion, The New Classificatio: The revision ef the rules divides the ex- ecutive civil service into five branches, as follows: The departmental service, the cus- tom house service, the post office service, the government printing service and the in- ternal revenue service. In the departmental service are classified | all officers end employes except persons merely employed as laborers or workmen confirmation by the Senate who are serving in or on detail from: The several executive departments, the com: ions and offices in the District of Columbia. The railway mail servi The Indian service. The several pension agen- cies. The steamboat inspection service. The Marine Hospital service. The light house service. The several mints and assay offices. The revenue cutter service. force employed under c ns of pub buildings. The several sultreasuries. engincer department ai large. Employes outside of the District of Co- lumpia, not_emploved in any of the above mentioned departments, offices or services, employed in any of the following capacities, are also classified in the departmental serv- fo Those who are serving In a clerical ca- pacity, or whose duties are in whole or in part of a clerical nature. Those who are serving in the capacity Watchinen or messenge! of of or fcian, he steward or nurse, whose duties are of a medical nature. Those who are serving in the capacity of draftsman, civil engineer, steam engineer, electrical e: r, computer or firen! Those who are in the service of the super- vising architect's office in the capacity of superintendent of construction, superin- tendent of repairs or foreman. Those who are in the service of the Treas- ury Department !n any capacity, except those in the life-saving service. In the ewstom house service are classified all officers and employes in any customs district whose employes number as many as five, except persor employed as laborers or workmen, and persons who have been nominated for confirmation by the Senate. In the post office service are classified all officers and employes In any free delivery post office, except persons merely employ as laborers or workmen, and persons who ons merel, who have been nominated for confirmati by the Senate. ‘The order has naturally created a tion among departinent clerks. regime takes effec on a The new at once, and the 3 in the stroke of a pen has passed from one condition to another, almost as widely dif- ferent as was the change in ISS. when, un- der an order signed by President Arthur, the beginnings of civil service reform were officially undertaken. These first rules Is- sued by President Arthur w ed by President Cleveland in 188s, ard have con- tinued in force, with amendments from time to time, until now. These rules in- volved a repetition ‘or each of the branc of the classified service of provisions w were common to all. When the cl. rvice was small this plan worked well, but now the service has grown to large propor- tions, and there are seven branch the new rules the repetition of common pro- visions for each branch ts avoided by put- ting the common provisions Into general rules, Se Hats in German Theaters, From the Savannah News. In New Orleans, years ago, I found that it was much the custom to have a hair- dresser, or the hair dressed, for the even- ing as it is in Europe, and always will be in gcod society, when one sits in a seat where a covering on the head obstructs the view of those behind. The only place in Ger- meny where one can wear a bonnet, never a hat, Is in a private box, or in the most expensive circle of the German theaters, where the seats are not on a level. In the seats below there is a law which compeis every head to be uncovered. Small bonnets are usually worn by elderly ladies tn the | circles I frequented, or black lace, draped as women of high society wear in com- | pany. I think the large hat, with its wav ing plumes, is as much out of piace in church as in a place of amusement. and persons who have been nominated for The | have been nominated for confirm: by {This « the Senate. trict In the internal revenue service are classi- | Fourth fied all officers and employes in any internal | cour ening rain ef Uds uorains, & ra o Tuesday night the Methodist Church, day, party for whlen tt making preparations for taintue much « the fine pn re were vooul solos by Mrs. Grooms act by Hotlidge an instra- 1 trlo by loltidze, plano, and Daisy by Mr. W. Was the recitation by Daisy ¢ a plane solo by Mrs. G: All who participated in program wer nuded Were demanded, znthem hat tom ts suecess of the party | Ue Folin and Miss | pratse for t ste | | 1 le Mrs. uth work sed with D tanta Miss ile, at vent {tee was compused Wolfe, Mrs. J. Philipps, Miss Dwye rs. nd Mise Swan, and the p commnlites consis: Mr. und 1 3. | lidze and Mes. 1 following: Harry Bi Louis Suite ud base, Harold Marean; third ase, William Ohm: left eld, Jobn Lupton: center Held, William Robbins: right tad, Fred Olam, and Hot People’s Union had a lny night. First, there over which Miss ve lowed by vocal te Ttatlons by Miss Htx a by Mr. Herbert sie Lynch and heartily Miss Eva Wu and a read 4 Lard, el by the y ———— ROCK VILLE. hons’ court Thesday the following buel- ness wae transacted: J . Jones, adtatnist tor of Gustavus Jones, dec . filed an faventory of the personal property of sald deceased and was authorized to sell the sa Jubn H. Gasaway, adminis: of Ch P. Leaman, 1, filed a list of sales of the personal property of suid decensed, John W, Benson, excentor of Ma ason, fled inventory of personal prop- erty of deceased. Letters of admtatstration on che peasenal estate of J granted to Azalrew J. Hi Ata here t ta: re De iE, § thin place, which for gen Weite repre: es re were in attendame t ous, Sucluding ber. sins * iso a number of geandel F {aw and danciters exbrsced mud Wife aml w Linitiem, 1 Mes. Geur 3.) Prettyman Mr. F Deivat hee ste was W tin his direct Can Onur t wing 1 Modified as t was the question aeosizned ¢ Wester of the Agricultural collese that farmers want fntelilzenie and Har Knowledge of plant 2 imal life, to have a more extensive system : worn-out tands and. matke the : ween Baltimore and Washington the set gardens and fr © Waste allowed at present and turn eduction of fruit, work, poultry and vaijourning sutiat le tes bof Julius Marlow, a promitn r, Were passed comuanioss ters of th all will be plas Saturday afternoon, between iub of Alexandria and the Rock- vsday of wext Week the Athlete will play the team on thas Jesned marriage ca: James B. Dull ‘N. Broadhead and and A. Sp M. Mallinix.