Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1896, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ae THINGS Giié ic taste in milk and butter Just now said a well-known dairy- where cows are allowed to roam in the pasture. Of course, if cows are stall- | fed there will be no trace of garlic in their | milk, but the milk will be by no means as rich, either in color or quality. Some dairy- men feed cows all the year round in their stalls. They escape the garlic in this way, but those who drink the milk do not get) such nourishment as if the cows were al- lowed to eat grass in thé pastures. The | garlic will only last a couple of weeks more. My children ke garlic as much as » of any of my customers, and it w: rently that I learned of a way to it. Just let the child, or grown for that matter, who dislikes garlic . After that they It is a very 3e hildren who d their supply cut short by The onion will remedy it | taste. xe KK x » lightning bugs you have here,” said a newly arrived attache of the French le tion, “are something entirely new to me. There is > such bug in rope, at least in the portions where I have resided. Certain- ly there are no lightning bugs in France. | They were a veritable mystery to me the | first time I “ . and that vas only a} few n ‘Yhough by no means a} studer I thought I was more rily informed on such matters. | read of the lightning bugs in | s, but if so the fact escaped my for awhile I thought there was ng with my eyes. I am so iin them that I am studying write an article on them for hey are a big row out in Cali- reports a gentleman who s returned from there, “over the Grant statue, which is to be erected at San Francisc« 1€ cause of the row is convict | labor. It rs that bids were asked of | a number of contracto! for supplying the | Stone for the foundation and pedestal of the statue, and an award was made. It te out that the su-cessful contractor is having th longing to the stone varried at the quarries | tate of California at San penitentiary, and that r > Ketling out the for » and are also cutting the ial. The Isbor organiza sco are up in open revo! telegraphed Mrs. Gr to take a hand in s replied that not being the fa the ¢ ssion save of gra at is being done by tt Francis-o to the memory of | stone quarries in | more trouble among | S there than any and all is a surprise to me th abolished by the leg- the t+ 4s & superstition of the most ex- e remarked a lady in the hearing of The Star writer, “but as { cured myself of headaches by it, I am sat- i For some years, like a number of er other women, I suffered very frequently from headaches, and like a number of others used nearly all the popular head- ache cures. Some of them worked well enough at first, but in a little while they med to lose their effect. I was comb- ing my hair one day, and was about throw- ing the hair gathered from the com) out ot the window to get rid of it, when a lady who was in my room told me that she had cured herself of headaches by hiding the hair behind the mirror. I thought it ‘Was nonsense, but as I w one of my he adaches was then coming on, I did as she ested and the headache never came | nd I have rarely had any since. Now my | headache cure is: ‘Never throw hair out of @ window, and if possible hide it behind the mirror. Let others find it and dispose of iw * * kK * “I had no idea of the little gamble among the trersury clerks on the question of the number of bicycles on express wagons,” said a patent office clerk, “until I read of | it in The Star. With us it is different. ‘hough some may risk a few bets, a lunch, cigar or something like that, on the num- ber of bicycles or express wagons, the ma- jority of t slerks here bet on the wheels | themselves. Five minutes before lunch we | make up a pool. It is a penny, or a nickel to come in, the nearest to sweep the stakes. Everybody guesses how many bicycles will! Pass & certain window in five minutes. The | ne who does the counting cannot be in the .” + *¢ * e & “Out m Arizona we have a way of brag- ging on the purity and clearness of our air,” said Judge Murpby, the delegate from that <erritory, “and we have reason for it, tor there is nothing like it in the known world. The air of California may surpass | that of Arizona from a photographer's point of view, and it is claimed that it does, but as the Arizonian only cares for | air for breathing purposes, we are not at | all jealous on that point. We can see mountain {ops for over one hundred miles, and some here claimed that mountains 130 miles distant, can be discerned with the raked eye. I was speaking of this to some friends here recently when i was blandly informed by a Scotch clergyman, who was Pere on a visit, that that would hardly be in regarded Scotland, as in any way where, too, he “We can in Scotland,” he y to the moon. #* * et “There is a perambulating enterprise in remarkable said, the air © further than 1 id. ‘We can see all this city,” said a citizen, “which I noticed the other day for the first time. It was a goat, a wagon and a colored boy. The goat Was harnessed to the wagon, and showed every evidence of fully unders‘anding its business. On each side of the covered top of the little wagon were signs bearing the ords ‘Snow bails,” and tr the wagon were bottles of sirup. ice and an ice shaver. colored boy drove his team every- pre, and stopped to sell snow balls. The goat would browse on banana peelings, shoe strings, tin cans, and other digesti- bk ticles he could find. The owner of the outtit seemed to be doing a right lively Lusiness. His apparatus attra the boys in whatever neighborhood he stopped, and then he would get nearly all the pen- nies in exchange for snow balls.” \CIOUS CUSTOMER. ¢ of a High-Priced Dinmond That Was Not Completed. smiled the good-looking and well- ressed clerk in a Washiagton Jewelry store to a Star reporter, “there are tricks in our trade as well as in others.” “I'm really surprised,” responded the re- Perter, who had never bought more than $4 worth of jeweiry—that is, fine jewelry— in his life. “How can there be?” “In various ways, and oue of those ways is the marking up of goods on display. Other lines of business draw trade by marking goods down, while we can do better by marking them up. For instance, we will put a jewel or some rich article on display which may be worth as much @s a thousand or two thcusand dollars, and we will mark it $10,000. That draws people, somehow, for they do like to see big figures. As to paying tnat sort of a rice, that is quite a different matter, ‘eople who are paying those big prices don’t pay them until they know they are getting thelr money’s worth as near as may be. They are painfully suspicious, | the too, and are constantly on the lookout not to be caught in any kind of trap. remember some years- axo -I had charge of a jewelry store for the summer at a swell resort, and next door to us was another New York firm, whose reputa- | tion was not so good as our own, owing to the fact that they catered to the flash trade, while ours was quiet and swell. They had in their window a blg diamond for display marked 31,500, and one day a rich woman whom I knew Was attracted by it and wanted to get it for her husband. She was a sharp woman, notwithstanding she wes rich, and she knew that she could get the stone for less money, and pro- ceeded to do it the eastest way.” ‘This was to make a plump offer for it and she went in and laid down $0 on the counter and said if they wanted to exchange the stone for the mogey now was the chance, and that it must be done at once. “The clerk hemmed and hawed awhile, but at last agreed to trade. He then took the stone down to the other end cf the store behind the counter, stopping a mo- ment to speak to a cierk, and came up to the lady cn the outside of the counter with the stone in his hand. She looked at him suspiciously as he held the jewel out to her and shook her head. ‘I don’t want it," she said. ‘I'm as sharp a3 you are and I would have taken it if you had handed it to me across the counter, but I don't want it now. That ended the trade and the woman left. “The lady told me this part of the story herself, ard I felt sure that the clerk had done just what she suspected him of doing and that he had changed the stone on his way around the counter. Later I saw one of the clerks and asked him about it. He was mad all over and was not choice of the epithets he applied to the clerk, who had really acted square in the maiter anc nad only stopped to tell the other clerk of bis good luck in making a 3500 sale. ‘The proprietor was hot, too, for notwithstand- ing the price was a thousand aollars un- der what the diamond was marked, there was still a eomfortable profit in As to the lady, she was beyond explanation, and to this day I presume she thinks that jeweler tried to bunco her, and didn’t, mply because she was too sharp for | him.” —— DUEL. AN EDITORIAL Ending Not as Disastrous as at First Seemed Probuble. The old editor had the inside track, and doing the talking. never had more than ene duel,” he began. “You speak as If one were not enogh,” interrupted a listener. “It was an ample sufficierey,” continued editor with a smile. “I was at the time of its occurrence twenty-two yeurs of age, and the editor of the Smugville Vin- tor. I was also a hot-headed youth with a yearn for gore and glory. In the county adjoining was a ‘Icathesome con- temporary” of mine, built on about the same lines I was, and it wasn't more than a year after we had been contemporaries until we were in a row. He would » scathing editorials, anc go would I, nally we dropped our pens and took pistols, That is, we agreed to fight a 1 “Fortunately for us we had friends who © more sensible than we were, who took charge of all the arrargements for the bloody affray. It was decided by them that the duel should take place, and that we should fire two shots at each other, the weapons being double barrel shotguns, and he distance ten paces. That suited us ex- ty, for we were extremely blood-thirsty and ‘wanted each other's gore in large quantities. The fight was to take pla: 6 o'clock in the mornirg, in a seclud spot, and we were there promptly with ou seconds. Our instructions were to fire the first shot after counting three, and if one or both survived another shot might be fired as quickly as the principal could get gun ready. “That made it a regular rough-and-tum- ble for half the fight, and also made it more interesting. It isn't necessary for me to go into details of what I thought ‘just before the battle, mother;’ suffice it to ‘say I thought writing scathing editorials was preferable to shotguns at 6 a.m. Howev we kept our nerve and took our places ready for business. And I think we meant business, for we took aim right at each other. Then came the counting, and final- ly the deciding ‘three,’ and bang went both guns at once. I ‘felt as if I had caught an entire car load of shot from my face down, and I tumbled over on the grass. What had become of my opponent did not greatly concern me at that supreme momeat, for I was wondering why 1 was not dead. “In a half a minute the dcctor was feel- ing me, and after a minute or two more he said I haa been miraculously saved, and pulled me to my fest. Evidently my opponent iad also been miraculously saved, for he was standing about ten feet away from me with his doctor, and the sight he presented made me forget all about the duel, and break into roars of laughter. I appeared to have the same effect on him, for he began laughing at me. Then we both got mad and in five minutes we had licked seconds, doctors and everybody else on hand, and run them clean out of the woods. “This being accomplished we shook hands and took a look at ourselves in a glass, which had evideatly been brought for our benefit. Permit me to omit an elaborate description of what we looked like. Those confounded seccrds had load- ed our guns to the muzzle with printer's ink, and the way it was splattered over us was encugh to have made us laugh at first, and then to lick the crowd that put the job up on us. However, we had show- ed we had sand, and the jokers kept in hiding until we announced in our re- ective papers that all was forgiven, and the hatchet was dead and buried. ‘That was my cnly duel,” concluded the editor. “and I am extremely glad that the guns were loaded with ink instead of buck- shot.” ee WET OR DRY MOON, Some Opinions as Brought in a Hotel Porch Conversation. They were talking about the new moon which appeared last week. The parties in the conversation were seated on the Shore- ham steps. “As I understand it,” said Representative Johnson, “that is a dry moon, for the cup will not hold water. “There is where you are wrong,” replied Judge Pelham of Virginia;,“it is a wet moon for that very reason. Did the cup or bowl hold water there would not be much rain during the moon. As it is now there is nothing to hold the water up, and we will have frequent rains.” “Gentlemen,” interrupted a listener, “do not spend any more time arguing’ that question. That moon stands nearly on end, and you will find that there will be as many rains during the moon as there are dry days.” —_——-_—_ That Gentler Sex. From Harper's Bazar. Ferguson—“We both met your beautiful friend, Mrs. Beauchamp. Isn't she hand- acme?” Miss Stacinglo—‘Well, that depends, you know. What color was her hair when you met her?’ IN HOTEL CORRIDORS ‘I was elected to my present office,” said R. C. Arnold of Winston, Ala., at the Na- tional, who is now serving his second term as alderman, “because I would not buy a jug of liquor. The contest was a very close one, but I thought my election was assured, when two nights before the vot- ing was to be done a delegation came to me and wanted money with which to buy a couple of gallons of whisky. I refused to give it, and the next day my friends told me that my opponent had furnished four gallons, and thirty men who had been relied upon to support me*had gone on a picnic and had agreed to vote for the other man. This I knew would defeat me, and after carefully polling my strength, a comparatively easy matter in a community where every voter is known, I concluded that the liquor had settled it against me. Election day came, and not a man who went on the picnic returned. The polls closed and I was elected by ten votes. We subsequently learned that the crowd had got drunk and been arrested, keeping them away from town. Had I given the liquor my friends would have gone and those of my opponent remained at home.” “I will never bet on the meaning of words again,” said R. P. Williamson of Chicago at the Riggs. “I was at Wheel- ing, when a traveling man, looking up from his writing, said: ‘I want the word that means happened. I have already said happened. What words mean the same thing? I suggested transpired. ‘Trans- pired?’ he remarked. ‘Why that means to sweat.’ ‘Oh, no,’ I replied; ‘ ‘perspire’ Means to sweat.’ ‘Well, I say “transpire” Ireans to sweat.’ We argued the matter for awhile, and then we bet $5 on it, and a dictionary was produced, which said that transpire meant an. invisible perspiration constantly exuding from the body. “Trans- piration and perspiration are synonyms,’ remarked the stakeholder, and 1 thought too. he next day I was in Charleston and concluded to get even, so I looked up from a letter I was writing and pursued the tac- tie: I was caught. It worked , and I soon had a $10 bet that ‘transpire’ meant to ‘sweat.’ A dictionary Was produced, and the stakeholder decided that transpiration was an invisible perspi- ration, while sweat was a visible perspira- tion, and I lost my $10." “A good many stories have been told of the ease with which petitions are circu- lated,” remarked A. B, Carlton of Indian- apolis at the Cochran, “but the best in- stance J ever heard of was in an Ohio town. A popular minister there was in- duced to head what he thought was a pe- Utton for a charitable purpose, and on the strength of his signature the name of al- most every reputable citizen of the place was signed to the document. It was then presented to the county court, and, being in regular form, passed, as a matter of course, without ‘any attention being paid to it, and the first intimation the minister had that a joke had been pfrpetrated was when he received notice that his applica- tion for license to keep a saloon had been granted, and would be issued as soon as payment therefore had been made. At first the minister and his friends were indignant, but soon appreciated the joke, and it fur- ished the preacher with a arelessness in signing such petitions. ‘The number of national military parks is increasing, I am in favor of them,” said E. C. Turnbull of Charleston at the Arlington, “but I do not see why, instead of contining these parks to the battlefields of the civil war, some of those of the revo- lution are not preserved. There are anum- ber of historic’places that could be re- stored to the condition they were in during the struggle for independence. Near Charleston is Goose Creek Church, where the English coat of arms is still above the pulpit, and the five trees are stanii where Gen. Marion fed the British offi Guilford Church still exists in North Caro- lina, and there have been no radical changes in the country immediately sur- rounding it. King’s mountain presents nearly the same appearance that it did then, and near New Berne the ruins of Gov. Tryon’s palace can be found. There are several places where revolutionary parks could be established as cheaply as those of the civil war.” 'here have been a good many cures for drunkenness advertised, but none are so successful ag one I knew to be tried,” said A. L. Lyons of New Orleans at the Shore- am. “Near Grenada, Miss. a planter lives, who, whenever he came to the city, used to become intoxicated, so much so that the cotton factors would hunt him up in the evenings and lock him in tholr store, that he might sleep off the effects of his potations. One very hot day he staggered in, and, falling upon a bale of cotton, was, soon asleep. One of the bookkeepers con- cluded to try a radical remedy. He noticed that flies gathered upon the man's face and hands, so he anointed the sleeper with fly poison mixed with glucose. He slept sev- eral hours, and when he awoke the book- keeper pretended to be greatly alarmed, told him that his blood was poisoned with the whisky, and he was a doomed man. The frightened drunkard glanced in a mi ror, and when he saw that even his pers, ration was fatal to flies he groaned and called for a doctor. A physician to whom the matter was explained was sent for, and told the planter he could be saved, but must never touch another drop if he wanted to live. It worked like a charm, and the planter has been sober for two years.” Miss Alice Fleming, a New York drum- mer who handles notions, is at the Ral- eigh. Speaking of her business, she said: here are many more women on the road this year than ever before. Of course, the majority of them carry light lines of goods, and tollet articles, patent medicines, per- femeries and lines of ladies’ wear have the preference, but a few carry heavier goods. There is a woman who has been traveling through Illinois for several years in the in- terest of a grocery company of St. Louls, a woman handles hardware, one seils shoes, carrying several heavy sample trunks, and it is now difficult to find a staple line that is not represented by women in some part of the country. It is a wearing life, but is greatly to be preferred to standing behind a counter all day selling goods.” ‘Every one has heard of the petrified forest of Arizona,” said T. L. Allen of Tombstone at the Metropolitan, “but few people are aware that there are springs in the territory where almost any object can be petrified. Frogs, snakes, lizards and other reptiles have ventured into some of these springs and turned to stone. Leaves, twigs and branches of trees have under- &cne the same process. But the most re- markable instance is that of a cattleman who has the same name as myself, al- though no relation. He was in the habit of standing in one of these springs and bathing. He did this for some time, when he began to feel peculiar pains in his feet and ankles, and he stopped, but the pains continued, followed by a numbness that never left them. He lost all control of the muscles of that part of his body, and it was but a few weeks until he realized that his feet had become petrified, and for the past year he has been unable to walk. The rest of his body was somewhat affected, but not so much so, as the water had not submerged him."’ “The laziest man I ever knew was Jeff Towson of. Peoria,” said J. C. Tappan of that city at the Howard. “Jeff was too lazy to work and fished in Peoria lake, about three or four miles above the city. He was a more constant sleeper than Dick- ens’ fat boy, and it used to be said that he slept as he walked, but it is certain that as soon as he sat down he would fall asleep. On account of this habit he lost several poles and fishing lines, which caused him to adopt an original method. He lay on the bank, fastening the line to his ankle. if a fish bit the hook it would wake him, and he pulled it in. One day a larger fish than usual snapped the bait, and when Jeff awoke he was in the river. After the most energetic struggle he ever made he succeeded in getting to shore, but it looked as though he would have to devise a new plan. But he did not abandon tying the line to his ankle; he simply procured a rope and fastened one end around his body and the other to a tree, and in this way he has fished and slept for a good many years now.’ FROM THE ARIZONA KICKER woh Se; oo P a Selections Made fst Hthe star by M. Quad. Wednesday ¢Xening last .Mrs. General Beechem gave ap “‘at home” in order to show off a forty-dollar dress she- has lately received from Chicago, and as she had her invitafifns printed at the office of,.qur esteemed, contemporary, she felt under obligations to include him in the list. How the dif} critter ever worked up nerve enough fp"attend is a mystery to us, as the only society he is used to is that of Sing Thing, his Chinese laundry- man, and his did bob-tailed dog. In pay- ing his respects’ to the hostess he fell over a $5 gilt chair“And broke it to pieces, and in swallowing a” glass of punch he got some of the lfjtiid down the wrong way and almost coughed his blamed old head off. Later in the evening he wiped his chin on a window curtain and broke the glasses with his elbow. As a grand culmi- nation he called Major Shorter a Mar and Was flung outdcors in the mud. — Mrs. Beechem’s embarrassment and vexation could not be concealed, but she has only herself to blame. A blooming old cadaver, who never even attended a dog fight or a spelling school, can't be expected to mingle in high-toned society and make much of a success of it. Not With the Kicker. Ata jate hour Tuesday evening we were called up by telephone from Baker's Bend to give information regarding a stranger who was about to be hung by the vigilance committee. He was described as a one- eyed man with @-stiff knee and an old navy revolver, and had been caught in the act of stealing a cayuse tied to a post in the village. The man claimed to be our agricultural editor out on a hunt for new species of grasscq, and he appeared so earnest and truthful that the committee telephoned to find out about it. As we knew our agricultural editor to be in the Bald Eagle poker rooms at that very mo- ment, hunting for aces instead of grasses, we were obliged to answer that the stran- ger was an impostor. He was allowed to step to the telephone and call us a Har, but we received his compliments more in sorrow than in anger. ‘Ten minutes after his werds reached us he was hanging up and down and taking no further interest in horses and agriculture. Our thanks are due the committee, and we trust that it may.be their luck to put us under further obligations. A Grand Success. The Booth Dramatic Association left here Friday ncon for the railroad and Califor- nia loaded down with money. The two- night performance was the srandest suc- cess of the season, and we rather pride ourselves that we were the cause of It. When the manager arrived here we sat down with him and told him what would take and what wouldn't with the people of this town. He was sensible enough to See the point and to cater to the idioms of theater goers, and everything passed off as smooth as a busted bar'l of molasses. Instead of running the tragedy of Ham- let, as was contemplated, the company gave us a mixture of Hamlet, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Lady Audley’s Secret, Buffalo Bill, the Merchant of Venice, the Robber's Roost and Blue and Gray. There were heroism, love, villainy, clog dancing, songs, Indian fights, abductions and lots of other things nicely mixed together, and those who had come with two guns’ prepared to shoot were so ceptivated and carried away that they fired silver dollars instead of bullets among the actors. We do not plume ourselves on being a theatrical critic, but we do“krow what will make a go of it in this town, and we stand ready to extend our ‘fatherly advice to other managers. He Returned. Mr. John Hopkins, the well-known and ighly esteemed banker at Pine Hill, ar- rived in town Wednesday morning on a visit to his aged mother. He had scarcely clasped her to Kis manly breast and taken a drink at the White Dog saloon when siatecen cltizens of the Hill appeared and demanded an interview with him, It seems he had left Pine Hill without saying any- thing to anybody, and had only placed §600 on the counter. for his cashier to do bus- iness with for the day. As soon as this Was ascertained the people became ex- ited and held a mass meeting,. and the result was that. sixteen delegates were sent out to overhaul Mr. Hopkins. He could have explained matters to their sat- isfaction no doubt, but they were so earn- est about it that he decided to return with them and make a public speech. Next day we got word that everything was lovely. While Mr. Hopkins had no idea of leaving the country, and only had ten dollars in ih with him, the public cannot be lamed for being @ bit over-zealous. Noth- ing but a square deal goes. It Must Stop. ‘This town is lighted at night by six kerosene lamps, and old Jim Hewson and his crowd get together regularly at 8 o'clock every evening and shoot the six lamps into the middle of the next day. This has been going on for about four weeks, much to the annoyance of citizens and the financial damage of the town treasury. His honor, the mayor (who is ourself), gives public notice that from and after this evening he and the city marshal will be abroad after lamp-light, and any found pepping at the public lamps may look out for a pop in return. Friday morning a half-breed named Joe Chin was found dead in the road a mile west of town, and a coroner's investiga- tion revealed the fact that he had drank the contents of a two-quart jug contain- ing horse medicine. Joe Chin is the critter who stole and ate five pounds of roller composition belonging to the Kicker office. It gave him cramps for three or four days, but he evertually bevame frisky again. One of the ingredients of the medi- cine was antimony, but it took the full two quarts to make Joe lay down. He was the biggest thief and liar for a hundred miles around, and no one will regret his taking off. Why the vigilance committee didn’t hang him long ago is a matter to be wondered over, though it may be that the shortness of his neck had something to do with it. It could not have been brok- en by anything else less than a fall of fifty feet. It is no use hoping Jim ts with the angels. He's gone where it would burn the feathers of angels’ wings like dry grass. —ee SHOULD ROUGH IT. A Physicians Idea of the Proper Treatment for Consumptives, “I have watched it carefully,” observed a popular physician, “and I think I am safe in saying that very few persons get much, or, indeed, any. benefit, especially those who are sufferimg from lung troubles, by visiting California, Florida or else- where, unless they rough it. The hotels there are like they are everywhere—good and bad—the good ones being in the ma- jority. The food is about the same as that furnished by hotels in the east, Is cooked and served In about the same way. What one needs is a total change, and the only way they ean get it is by roughing it. In- stead of going to elegant hotels, they should live in the open air as much as they can, and, if possible, sleep in tents. Every- thing should be done exactly opposite to the way they do things at home,” STORIES BY M. QUAD Her Jaw Was Sot. On the hill beyond the creek was the cabin of a squatter, and as I drew near a man about fifty years old -who had been seated on a stump rese and saluted me and queried: “Stranger, how fur up the road hev yo’ cum this mawnin’ “From Harper's Corners,” I replied. “And did yo’ meet up with a~woman on the way?" “Yes. About five miles back I met a little old woman going the other way. Was she weepin'?” “Was her jaw sot?” “Yes, I think it was.” “Was her jaw sot like is determined not to pull “She had her teeth hard shut and looked pretty ugly.” “And what did she say?” mew’l when he “Nothing. We simply bowed to each other as we passed. Do you know the wo- man?’ “Reckon I orter, as she’s my wif. Yh! Then she's gone to the store ‘No. We had a fuss this mawnin’, and she’s left me. Jist put on her bunnit and said she'd never cum back. “But she will, of course “I axed you if she was weepin’, and yo’ said she wasn’t. If she'd been weepin’ that would mean that she'd take a walk down to the Corners and back and make up with me. I axed yo’ if her jaw was sot, and yo" said it was. That means she'll keep right on to Brother Jim's, and that Vl _hev to toller arter her and beg her parding and promise her a new kaliker dress befo’ she'll cum back. Phen she's left yeu befpre?” ‘Bout a hundred times, sah, and it allus works that way. If she weeps she'll be back befo’ night; if her jaw is sot, I hev to go arter her and knock under. As this is a case of sotness, I might as well git along and try to overtake her. Sorry I can't ax yo’ to stop, but yo’ see how it is. Sotness is sotness and yo" can’t unsot it, and must tnarfo’ make the best of it.” No Call for the Shotgun. Just as I reached the crest of the Cum- berland mountains I came to a mountain- eer’s cabin, with the husband and wife sit- ting on a log at the door. The woman had her jaws tied up, and there was a wild look in her eyes, and after passing the time of day I naturally inquired what was wrong with her. Toothache, sah," repiied the husband. she’s had it nigh upon a week, but she’s bin desperit today. We was jest waitin’ fur sumbody to cum along.” n't it be cured?” Reckon not, sah. Best way is to pull it out. I've got the pinchers here to do it with, and I want yo’ to help me a bit.” “I'll help, of course, but I never pulled a tooth for any one in my life.” “That's all right. She'll lay down yere on her back, and I'll hold her down while yo’ pull. I've tried it twice over, but she gits away from me “Are you willing, ma'am?’ I asked of the woman, “I'm willin’, of co’se,” she replied, as she removed the bandage from her jaw. This is the tooth—right yere.” “Yes, I see i J'ye reckon yo’ can pull it?” think I can.” all, now, don't make no mistake. When yo" git hold don’t let go, no matter how much I holler. If she cums out, all right.” she interrupted, as she fell ¢ log, and her husband sat down on her and got a firm hold of her ears to hold her head. “Got to do it, strange! as 1 hesitated.’ “She's got whar’ she'll shoot if yo" dc pinchers and bust sunthin’ Tt was a solid double tooth, standing alone, and I got a firm hold, braced my feet, and with a twist and a pull I had it out. Not even a groan escaped the wo- man. She rose up and took the tooth from the nippers, and looked at it for a mo- ment, and then turned to me with: “Stranger, 1 don't know how loud yo" kin hoot, nor how fur yo’ kin jump, but from the way yo’ fotched this tooth out, I'm willin’ to believe yo'r a purty good ‘man. Jist sot down and talk with Jim, and I'll hev smack refly in about tive minits!” i eee BITTEN BY A SNAKE, That is What the Victim of a Practi- cal Joke Thought. “A gocd many years ago,” said an ex- Congressman to a party cf Congressmen, “I was in Georgia. A party of us decided to go frcm Atlanta to Clarkesville on horse- back. Tim Murphy, an Irishman, was a lleutenant of tha Atlanta police force. He wanted to go, too, and we consented. On our way to Clarkesville, through the moun- tainous sections of the state, we killed two large rattlesnakes. Murphy was amaz- ed and frightened. He wanted to know if snakes were plentiful, and we told him that they were. We told him that at Clarkesville they had often been found in the rooms of guests at the hotel. Tim hated to turn back, and so went on. “We knew that at Clarkesville a saloon- keeper had a stuffed bull snake, and we ccncocted a plan 1o make Tim wish he had never left Atlanta. We got to the old- fashioned hotel all right. We were put in a big room, with four beds in it. We drank @ good deal, and Tim was in excellent spirits. It was a warm night, and most of us undressed. Tim pulled off everything but his shirt. He lay down face foremost across the bed. Then I tied a string around the neck of the snake, put a fish hook at the other end of the line and cautiously hitched the hook to Tim's shirt. “The next time he turned around he got a glimpse of the snake. ‘Holy schmoke!’ he yelled, ‘look!’ and then he made a dash for the window. As he jumped out the window the fish hook pricked him jn the back. He ered an awful yell, said he had been bitten, and went flying through the sandy streets of the town dressed in Congo style. We followed and tried to catch him. At every step he swore he had been bitten, and that he would die. We overhauled him after the whole town had been aroused. We took him back to the hotel and filled him with whisky, tell. ing him that was the only curs for a snake bite. Tho next morning he went to Atlanta and took a course under a physician for snake bite. For years after that Tim would brag about Killing twenty snakes at one time, and of having been bitten by cne of them. He did not learn of the trick for five years, and then he threaten- ed to take my life.” —_—__. A Wasp Suicide. From Popular Science News. A short time ago M. Henry, being curious to see the effect of benzine on a wasp, put some of it under a glass in which one was imprisoned. The wasp immediately showed signs of great annoyance and anger, darting at a piece of paper which had introduced the benzine into his cell. By and by he seems to have given up the unequal contest in despair, for he lay down on his back, and, bending up his abdomen, planted his stin, thrice into his body, and then died. Me Henry allowed his scientific interest to over- come his humanity so far as to repeat-the experiment with three wasps, only to find that the other two did likewise. He is, therefore, of opinion that wasps under desperate circumstances, commit suicide. ——_—__+e+ __ Had Appeared in Public. From the New York Weekly. “You say you kave never been on the Stage befcre?” said the manager, doubt- fully. “Never,” replied the young woman. jut you're not afraid of stage fright?” “Not a bit.” “To one who is unaccustomed to the stage there is a severe strain in a first ap- pearance in public, and in these tableaus all depends—" “Oh, you needn’t worry about me,” broke in the young woman. “I have neyer been on the stage, but I have lived in a second flat next to an ‘L’ station for two years.” said the man, to that pass "t. Clap on the Waiting for a Retraction. From Vanity. Cholly—"I am not going to call on Miss Prettygirl again until she retracts what she said the other evening.” Harry—“What did she say?” Cholly—“‘She told me that I needn't call ‘ny more.” ‘large ofl painting was placed in the Cor- ART AND ARTISTS TWO MORE During the early part of the week a coran Gallery, where it will remain on exhi- Mition tore short time. The artist, Mr. Klir, has depicted a very ludicrous scene which occurred shortly after the last presi- dential election. A partisangon the losing side, in accordance with a bet made before the. election, has placed himself in the shafts of a light buggy, and is drawing the winner down one of the crowded thor- oughfares of Chicago. A brass band brings up the rear, and a crowd of interested spec- tators are enjoying the fun immensely. Notwithstanding the oddity of the subject chosen, the artist has put upon the pic- ture a vast amount of work, both in the elaboration of the numerous figures, and in the painting of the minor details. One can- not help feeling, however, that so much care and pains might have been bestowed more worthily upon a more serious theme. * * * At the Corcoran School all are busy get- ting ready for the medal contest on Wed- resday, and the exhibition which will be open upon the three days followimy. It is not known exactly how many of the stu- dents intend to enter the contest, but It is understood that the competition will be pretty sharp, and, as in former years, the chances of the different students are being discusssed by the pupils, and the outcome of the contest is the topic of greatest in- terest at the school. The judges who will Pass upon the merits of the three antique and three life drawings submitted by each student are Henry Mosler, William Sar- tain and Henry Thouron, all well-known artists. They will view the drawings Wed- nesday, and the decision will be rendered at 4:30 in the afternoon. The exhibition this year promises to be a very good one if the hard work done during the winter may be taken as any indication, and all prophesy that the work on the walls, though less in quantity, will be better than ever before. * x * A portrait of Dr. Gerhard, who diseoy- cred the difference between typhus ana ty- phoid fever, is now engaging Mr. Robert Hinckley’s attention, The po-crait, a very strong piece of work, is being painted for the Medical Society of Pennsylvania. Hinckley has in prospect a number of por- traits, and will soon commence work on a likeness of Gen. Schofield and one of Gen. Sherman. * “* The committee which has been actively working to secure a suitable place in which the Society of Washington Artists may hold its next anaual exhibition has decid- ed upon the advice of the «hairman, Mr. Parker Mann, to discontinue {ts efforts until fall. The hall at the Cosmos Club, which has been generously tendered for several years past, has been thought too stnall for the growing needs of the society, and the members are endeavoring to ob- tain more spacious accominodations for next year’s pictures. * x * In about a week Mr. Messer will leave for Paxon, Va., where he will spend the entire summer in gathering cutdoor ma- terial. The country about there is very beautiful, a delightful place fer summer sketching, and Mr. Messer’s next exhibi- tion will no doubt reveal by a large num- ber of interesting views the charm of the region. He will again instract a class in landseape painting. Paxon is } becoming something of an art co! cien Powell's summer home is there, and Max Weyl has obtained some of his most pleasing motifs in that vicinity. It is por- sible that Mr. E. H. Miller and Miss B. B. Perrie may also be there for a time this summer. * ~~ * Miss Anna Hunt, who re-en:ly won the prize of $200 offered by the Socicty of the Friends of Arts in their portrait comp2ui- tien, plans to leave in a few weeks for the summer school in the Shinaecock Hills. She expects to study under Wm. M. Ch: and to remain for some time there, wh she can enjoy the best advan-ag door work. * x * Mr. E. H. Miller has just finished a life- size water color portrait of himself, which demonstrates very clearly his ability in handling a large head with all the breadth of an ofl painting and yet with that pecu- liar softness which is the distinguishing feature of a good water color. Mr. Miller has always been particularly successful with his large water color portraits, and obtains a look of solidity and reality not easily gained in that medium. Another life-size head is of considerable interest, being a likeness of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Though still in an unfinished state, the expression of the face shows that Kindliness which every one has been wont to associate with the man. In a landscape which the artist has been working upon lately there 1s a very clever combination of moon light and fire light. Several young- sters have kindled a small blaze in a shel- tered nook near some large boulders, and the ruddy glow from the burning twigs is contrasted strongly with the cold light which the moon sheds upon the rest of the scene. It is a most interesting subject, well worth studying. * * * A small picture bearing the partially blurred signature of Van Dyke has been at Veerhoff’s recently, and very naturally attracted some attention. Though the scarcity of Van Dykes in this country argues against its genuineness, it is held to be authentic on good authority, and the signature, though very indistinct, fs con- sidered all right. It is certainly an old picture, in fairly good condition, and bears many of the distinguishing marks of a picture of that period. Another old paint- ing, not dating back quite so far, has been at Veerhoft's for restoration for some time. It is owned by Mr. Schroeder of the N: tional Museum, and is a portrait of his grandmother and two children, painted by Thomas Sully. The composition of the group is very agreeable, and with the re- moval of the old discolored varnish new beauties of color and form are revealed which were hidden before under the film that the yellowing varnish has been slowly casting over the picture during the course of several decades. é * Mr. Moser goes this week to his home in West Cornwall, Conn., to remain a short time with his family there, and on the 13th of June, in company with Mr. Zucker, the well-known New York architect, he will sail by the Paris for Germany. There he expects to paint a number of portraits, and afterward will travel about Yor the pur- pose of visiting the principal art galleries of Europe, which he will doubtless enjoy to the utmost, as this is his first trip abroad. In August he will go to England, where he will settle down to paint as much as pos- sible of the beautiful English scenery. * x * entitled “Presents for His Reverence,” by Howard Helmick of this city, recently brought .In London $2,500, which, as the picture was sold at auction, may be considered a very fair price. - A painting, ** Mr. Jules A. Dieudonne has made the preliminary study for a large picture he 1s about to paint of an allegorical figure rep- resenting “Spring.” The canvas 1s panel- shaped, and contains a single nude figure, that of a woman holding a mass of lilacs in her arms. The pose is easy and grace- ful and the flowing lines are very pleasing. In the scheme of coloring only the delicate hues of spring are found, and the light blue of the background harmonizes well with the sprays of lilac and pale pink flow- ers which fill the picture everywhere. Mr. Dieudonne plang to take up etching again very soon. He will probably remain in Bladensburg throughout most of the sum- mer. * a The first annual exhibition of the Wash- ington Water Color Club will be held at the Cosmos Club durlng the week begin- ning December 7 next, While this notice seems to be made considerably in advance, it 1 the desire of the projectors of the ex- hibition that intending exhibitors may have PERMANENT CURES REPORTED, . Dr. Shade’s Chloridum Discovery for Consumption Well Tested in the District, Although letters of a stmilar character are being continually received, few seem to be such a special Message to those who are affiicted with that ter- rible disease, coasumption, coming, as it does, from one of the most experienced physiclans in the Dis- trict. Dr. McKim, 25 Fifth street sout ton, D. G., bas been practicing medicine on Capitol Hill for forty years. Dr. McKim 1s one of the oldest member of the Medical Association in tne District of Columbia. He called on Dr. Stade over @ year ago and told him that his daughter Mary was “going just like her mother, who died of pul- mouary tuberculosts years ago, I want you to take her case and treat her as your own child.” Read Dr, McKinn's letter below ASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 18, 1895. Dr. N. B. Shade, 1232 Fourteenth «t. northwest, Washington, D.C. My Dear Sir:—dn regard to your desire to know mDy present op of my daughter's condition, who rast, Washing. Went under your treatment in November, 1594, for hereditary tuberculosis, of which disease Ler mother died, as well as severs! members of her mother's family, aud of which she herself was in the second stage, I Lave to say that while at the UUme of ber entering upon your treatinant her con- dition was on every respect highly unfavorable— severe cough, loss of appetite, loss of weight and loss of strength, with general debility—and while for some time she did not secin to improve, and tu the month or March foilewing her condition was that whieh produced great anxiety upou our part, yet the treatment was persixtently coutinued, ond When you dismissed the case in June, TSG, ‘after seven Months’ treatment, ber cough was goue, ex pectoration had ceased Cntirely, ber appetite’ was Improved and Ler welght tucreased. At this time, six months later, she is able to take long walks without fatigae, ber welght is still in general appearance excites er acquaintances, while there is © that she bas been restored to better health has had fe ms, Which appears to be pet anent aml continuow i was led to put ber under oral and written information and ex your treatwent, which bas successful, satisfactory and ¢ Yours very truly oY a A MeKIM, ALD. MR. BROWN SAYS IN AN INTERVIEW, isi: “I first learned of Dr. Sbade through an article that appeared in a medical journal, which bad 10 some manner f to my room in a cou try house in Virginia, where I had been sent by ut. r. Dan Hagner, under whose trentment I lad been for nearly @ year, and who hud sent me ont into the country seemingly to die. Dr. Haguer ‘as an old practitioner, skilled in lung and throat hares) id my tronbles. He bad worked very hurd on without beneficial results, and had finally wife that *"twas no use,” that I would linve to die, I personally did not have much hope. My mother and sister bad both died of consumption, und I had fallen io weight from 173 pounds to less than 100. My legs apd arms were swollen, and I was scarcely able to drag one leg after the otler, Not- withstanding all » I determined to call upon Dr. Shide, as 1 was much impressed by the article which I tad ton and minediately called upon Dr ald Tot offer great eneouragement, me that {f | would follow bis instraction bo well. is was im April, 1Su2 first three months I did not. show much but after that my coughing 1 grew stronger and better from day to ¢ i Febra- 1893, when Twas dischn doctor's as perfectly cured ft to say, finally, that I consi a marvel, and it would be hods were not given all the pr My we pounds, and T en) shaw ity possible, on 165 BKOWN, reet now.” = ——— ample opportunity during the coming sum- mer to prepare sketches. Only original works in w: ack and white, not b ion ih Washing ter color, pastel cluded in , and ap- a pu hib: proved by the board of managers of the "iN be accepte 2 fo Washirgton Water Color Club was formed several months ago by prominent water colorists, illustrators and members ington Artists. The Il be the first one held under its auspices, and it is thi ore of the board of maaagers that work of local and New York artists shall be included ip the list of exhibits. * ** In the prize contest for a poster announo- ing the midsummer holiday number of the Century no less than seven hundred designs were received se were the work of five hundred and fifty artists in all parts of the country. A few were from prominent illustrators and from poster designers of established reputation, but by far the larger proportion were contributed by amateurs, and, aside from the prizes, these won most of thehonors. The first prize went to J.C. Ls yendecker of Chicago, now in Paris. The second prize winner was Maxfield Parrish of Philadelphia. Baron Arild Rosenkrantz, a German nobleman, living in New York, captured the third prize. Designs were received this city—Mrs. J. H. Cun B street southeast, Flora Lewis Marble of the Portland, Marie Eulalie Moran of 2416 Pennsylvania avenue, and John K. Souther of 1613 Riggs place. Mr. Souther had the honor of special commendation from the judges, who were Elihu Vedder, F. Hopkin- son Smith and Henry J. Hardenberg. His design is executed entirely in green. In the center is a panel containing two women modishly dressed, against a background of trees. The border ts of a darker shade of ereen, with floral decorations. a Evidently Easily Suited. From the New York Weekly. Homely lady—“Oh, I guess you can fill the place. My husband is an easy man to suit.” New cook (looking at her)—“Yes, mum, I can readily belleve it.” Homely lady (to herself)—“Strange, ie should take that for granted, but probably she knows a superior woman like myself wouldn't marry a crank.” from persons in ngham of 1223 ap. ai Ahead in the Co From the Chicago Record. I saw a dog today that had “Mamma, only three legs.” Weren't you awfully sorry for him?” “No'm; he had one more jeg than I had.” 22 In Keeping With Things. the Philadelphia North American. Guest—“Aren’t | your From 3 Prospective rates rather steep?” Proprietor of Mountain House—“Well, now, things are pretty high around —-+e+ More Money in It. From the Detroit Tritune. Magistrate—“Why did you take to forg- ery?” Literary Culprit—“There ts more money in checks than in any other kind of writ+ Ing.” epee eens Rectified the Mistake. From the Chicago Record. “Maris, I thought your physician told you that you were not strong enough to ride a vheel?” » but then I went to another doo- Passenger (rising politely)—“Excuse, me, mum, but do you believe in woman's rights?” New Woman—“Most certainly I do.” Passenger (resuming seat)—“Oh, then stand up for ‘em!""—Punch. well