Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1897, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1897-24 PAGES. Setetetetetetetnneetetetteeetes : ; : House & Herrmann’s | Special Offerings to the | Solid Oak Exten- sion Tables. $3.47. solid Oak Cham- ber Sets—with beveled plate mirror. $12.97. oedoetontontordondetoetontone eters The Everett 2 Stock At Auction. ene Beginning Thursday, February 4th,:at 10 o'clock a. m., the entire stock of the Everett_Art Store, 1225 F st., will be sold at auction... It is Solid Oak Side- boards. House-= keepers Solid Oak Chamber Sets—extra large and Seedesdentontontontecteectectectert heavy. $7.28. $15.36. poise ees = | of Solid Oak Dining = Solid Oak Dressers. | Wash- Chairs. ae 6. ° 5 : ngton.| = ¥ s-picce Mahogany | == Heating Stoves. = Finished Parlor Suite. Big : $2.97. $14.97. | Values : Gaucce Gcashed ps Cooking Ranges. Plush Frame Parlor | at prices $9.76. Suite. $24.12, | lower Matting by | than were English Decorated Tea Sets—s6 pieces. $3.27. Straw the roll—per yard— eeterteeteesorestentententententente | 10c. | a Sees = | ever English. Decorated = Metal Beds. Toilet Sets—1o pieces. i quoted = $4.50. | $2.39. | before. “Your Credit is Good.” Cor. 7th and I Streets... VPM A MLM NSO COHEN'S, 617 Lith Street N.W. BAWKRUPT SALE The snow kept many shoppers at home. Next week will be milder and you will find weather and prices agreeably lowered. Every day does not bring such opportunities. Laces, Trimmings, Garnitures, Notions have a value—but when the prices are reduced by halves and thirds you buy them for far less than their worth. We can’t help it—they must be sold. Read the following trade bringers: Balance of jet Garnitures. Formerly sold from $t to $2.50 each. To close at 39c. Each. Black Crochet (Hand-made) Trimmings. Formerly sold from soc. fo $3 a yard. Now 25c. to $1.25 Yard. Jet Trimmings, from one to three inches wide. Formerly sold from ‘to $4.50 a yard. : Now 25c. to $2.25 Yard. All Jet Buttons at exactly ONE-HALF (3) PRICE. Leather Skirt Binding. 4 and 5-yard pieces. Formerly 20 and 25c. pre Now 5c. Piece. REMEMBER THE STORE— OHEN’S, 617 11th Street N.W. $a23-1n Painless ‘SRATS = | °o Extracting, |) MARCH 4th. Both of our immense corner ) show windows will be fitted up 5 IC. with 3 tiers of comfortable chairs, giving the finest view of Curious visitors are welcome. We gladly explain ur methods of associating professional skill with correct business management. The co-operative eoe¢ eos EOE ee ?Skin Won’t 3 : Get Chapped S = june eittle “DBIAEATENE on yout the inaugural procession as it turns the Treasury Department Principle applied to & ntistry surprises most people. Investigate. It may surprise you and save you hands and lips before going out. If thesre: badly cha nora few and marches down the avenue possibly obtainable. Seats can pain and money. Consultation costs cothing. ~ applications of ““DEWMATINE will - eure thm. It makes rough now be engaged. Painless Extracting, 50c. - hands and face so as mane ra $5, 96 & $7. Se OGRAM’S, Crowns, Bridges, etc., at correspording prices. Estimates gladly given. 13th and Pa. Ave. te Never thickens. 25c. a bot- Sole owners ef ZONO for painless operations Witbeut sleep or danger. W- Thompson, 79 S. PHARMACIST, 15th! For Grippe. de8-3m,40 U.S. Dental Ass’n, r. 7th and D Sts. N.W. OPEN SUNDAYS 10 TO 12. fett St Poo: —o—eo—r—r—nasE Ooo ( Boys’, Youths’ { & Misses’ Shoes. Children’s Shoes are no side line with us, like they are in most shoe stores, We give special attention to these Mnes—and undoubtedly show the best stock of children’s shoes in the city. $1.50-$1 .65=$2.00 POODO OY ae 2 ) ¢ < ) the prices for Heel Bpring Heel Shoes, button and lace, patent tip and Nethi better Gri preventive—than tip of same. Plenty of choice, RUSS CAMPHOR PILLS ose 8 bottle. fe ‘Getwpe al a Tablet that Ps +4 ne ea surprisingly short . Be. a it) = one every two hours. ’Phone 1 No branch stores. Edmonston, °).== " 9 | Homeopathic Pharmacy, 17 # 8t_ ‘ja22-1m,14 1334 F St. Shoes shined free. PHYSICIANS KNOW US AND TRUST US, ‘They're glad to learn that we are your fam- 4 . their t be caret Jo29-424 —~ DARA ARR OS OOD II LOS 2 —~ Electric Power 3 ‘We won't Tl 2 _S7Ouly registered pharmacists compound eeeeee —ts cheaper, safer and easily PIII] met Gn ent ent »| Artington Drug Store, oc cece supe aud tacts those hvcenanme | Cor. Vt. Ave. & H St Au. 8, Dacsett eerecece Giad to answer questions, : U. S. Electric Lighting Co., | rsa Trusses 213 14th st. mw. "Phos gies | Insrataceer HOUSE, Tanre ; oui superfluous to speak here of the reputation>and quality of the stock. Everett's is well Kown to every resident of Washington as the oneigtore where only the very finest quality goods ¢ould be purchased. The bare mention of the’ fact that Everett's stock of highest - grade Jewelry, Watches and Diamonds, Dainty Bric -a- Brac, Beautiful Ivory Miniatures, Beautiful Oil Paint- ings, Handsome China Ware, etc., etc., is to be sold under the auctioneer’s hammer will be en- tirely sufficient to crowd the store at 1225 F st. with eager shoppers. If you consult your own interests you certainly cannot afford to be absent. The sale will be continued each day at 10 a. m. and 2:30 p. m. until evervthing is disposed of. Be sure to come THURSDAY morning. You are promised the bargains of your lifetime! Auction Sale of the Everett Art Stock, 1225 F Street. ja30-75,1m ontestotortortotioctontetoctortonte cy Se SWINDLING PHYSICIANS, Clever Bunce Games Worked on the Profession. b From the Medical Record. ee eeeeernmeieciemmmatonemnel A correspondent writes: “The following rs trick is new, I think, and I therefore -in- SNE En yon coucerilig it It yell ction 45 2S give it publicity: “Act 1—A man introduces himself at my office as Dr. E, L. Adams of Stroudsburg, Pa., talks (and talks learnedly about the throat) of sending a patient of his, a Mr. Henry Sawyer, in consultation. He then speaks of desiring to buy a spray ap- Paratus: asks me of whom. I recommend B. As the ‘doctor’ is leaving, he asks in- cidentally for one of my cards. It is given. “Act 2—He afterward writes on my card a line of introduction to B. Presents it, saying he was sent by me, giving details. He orders the apparatus, and desires it sent to Dr. Adams, street (who promptly replies by telephone, saving he knows nothing about it). Presents a check made payable to his order, indorsed by him, in payment for the spray, and receives a balance in cash (in this instance $10, I be- lieve). “Act 3—Check returned; no good. B. writes to Stroudsburg. No Dr. E. L. Adams and no Mr. Sawyer :reside there or are known to the postmaster. I, of course, have never seen the Mr. ‘Sawyer. ‘Act 4—The bogus. @nd plausible repre- sentative of the medical profession has the money. The trick is, 6f course, capable of various modifications/? An old trick is being worked upon the members of the medical profession with success in several instances. A man calls at the doctor's office-at a time he knows he is away. ‘Asking for the doctor, and learning: he is out, the man is, oh! so sorry, hut may be the good doctor's wife would answer. The <doctor’s helpmate is summoned; and is info¥med that the visitor 1s a-patient of the doctor and lives (in one instance) in Newark; \N. J.; he is anxious to settle a bill of $20. and asks the wife to ve a receipt for thatsum. The good wife, overcome both by thelvision of a $20 debt being settled and also he flattering re- marks of the pleasant-mannered fellow. gives the receipt. In exehange he presents @ certified check:for $25, gets the-$5 in change, and—well; in’ due tithe’ thé’ poor doctor jots dgwn in his. account kK on the credit side, “For experience, $ — eee X RAYS ON THE HEART. The very idea of having to take a dose of old-fash= ioned cod liver oil creates a nausea. Not so with Ter- raline == it’s pleasant to take --a child needs no coaxing-=no promises of a spoonful of sugar after- ward. Then the beneficial results-in all cases of wast= ingof flesh, Croups, Coughs, and the aftermath of man’s foe, La Grippe, which so often leads to many most seriouscomplications. Ter= raline is the great disease antidote and life=-power. It is a tasteless and palatable remedy. It cures CROUP in children, nourishes the little body, and gives a health and strength that nothing else will. Noclaim is ever made for Terraline that is not indorsed by prominent Washington physicians. “Terraline For Corsumpticn.”? Of Drugéists Only, it A Physician's New Mode of Studying < That Organ. From the Medleal R cord. While viewing the pectoral region through the fluoroscope and observing the shadow of the heart, a method of nearly accurate estimation of its size, normal or abnormal, occurred to me. Putting the method in- stantly in practice, I marked out what should be the normal contour of the heart on the anterior surface of the- chest wall. Then I bent a copper wire in the shape of the tracing and affixed it on this with ad- hesive plaster. Having»the patient facing the Crookes tube, I looked through the fluoroscope from behind between the spine and the scapula, when I plainly saw the wire outlining the shadow of the heart. It may be wondered how the heart can be seen when the soft parts are said to be penetrable by the rays, but the different degrees of penetrability, according to the density of the tissues, enable one to do so. Yet it may be necessary to proceed in a certain way, as at a high power the X rays seem to dissolve everything, even bone and iron. Using as a generator either a power- ful static machine or an induction coil of at least 8 seconds spark, you let your ma- chine work so as to produce the strongest X rays at your command, when you may see only the scapula, the ribs, the left part of the spine, or the sternum, not to forget —plainest of all—your wire in frent. Ha: ing familiarized yourself with your land- scape, you now very gradually reduce the brightness of the X rays—in the case of a static machine by reducing the speed—and you will observe the shadow of the heart, extending within or, outside your wire. Sometimes you can see a thinner and larger shadow superimposed on a smaller and thicker one, the former representing the heart in diastole and the latter the same in systole. As generally the left line of the heart is all_we look for, it may be sufficient for the busy practitioner to affix an almost straight wire, extending from the third to the sixth rib, at a proper distance from the left sternal border. Naturally, you may fail to see the heart unless you locate your fluoroscope opposite the organ, which I roughly estimate by marking off a spot to the left of the spine, opposite the fourth intercostal space in front. On this mark I center the fluoroscope. Obvious optical reasons make it preferable to look from behind rather than from the anterior as- pect. I think the readers easily will un- derstand my method, and find it vastly su- perior to percussion giving positive in- formation. Other oi is, as the spleen and the kidneys, are probatky explorable in the same manper, and ‘iastead of using the fluroscope, pictures may be taken, but the Durang’s Rheumatic Remedy is not an ex- periment, but a tried and most successful remedy of 20 years’ standing, praised and used by two genera= tions. This remedy -- taken internally == quickly relieves all rheumatic and muscular pains and those aches in the bones so distressing to elderly people. A trial will mean a cure for you. : or ALL DRUGGISTS, t yewoooonneyy Your fuel is costing too much —If you don’t burn Coke. The merits of Coke appeal to every economical and care- ful housekeeper. Coke ignites quickly— leaves no dirt or clinkers to clean up, and costs consideratly . less than apy other fuel. Send.us a trial order! Coke, uncrushed, 40 bu. $2. Coke, crushed, 40 bu... $3.7 Washington Gaslight Co., 413 Tenth st. n.w., Or WM. J, ZEH, 920 20th et. "Phone 476, ‘§n30-28d Every Blemish That Disfigures Your Face removed BRIGHTWELL'S COMPLEX- ly longer ex, jure to the X rays —— ION CREAM. It takes away pimples, | may produce a burnseat a pote tives he = fen and Keeps Ii good, 25. Jar. At all singe cbatis ser ce Rens From the Medical Record.. Recently haying ocgppion to apply ‘Wholesale & Retail, Evans’ Drug Store, 988 F ST. and cor. ave, aml S st. ice bag to a limited area of the face, and $080-16d not being near a suppty house, I had the Buy YOur ) we nave everything for te | Patient's husband maki-e bag from a sec- lofice, Not only Pens, Ink, | tn of an old inner tute of a bicycle tire. IC@ — paper, Blank Books, etc., that | One end was sealed With bicycle cement Su plies be found in every sta-| and after the cracked {ce was put in the P| itiomery store, but also many | Other end was folded r and encircled by at articles that a business be used in making ice bags for the faé#- mastoid, larynx, yr any part where ) a limited area is the’ bicycle in thera- of desired. Again is peuties” in evidence, jout. a John C. Parker, 3025-160 617-619 7th st. n.w. Great Reduction In Hair. : 1,000 Switches, $3.50, Switches, 2.50; Graz Switches, Soa First class attendants tm ing, ete. ‘Try our “Curlette’ for retaining curl, Ss. i Its All Changed New. From the Citicago Post, ‘The artist's model drew herself up to her S. HELLER’ 720 7th Street N.W. t rt } aire, cpposite Wheeling, TAKEANOTHER ROUTE Baltimore and Ohio Will Abandon the Octitral Ohio. A NEW ROUTE TO CHICAGO The Reading and Western Mary- land Traffic Alliance. VARIOUS RAILROAD ITEMS ee ‘The inauguration this week by the re- ceivers of the Baltimore and Ohio Ratiroad Company of a new through line between Baltimore, Washington and Chicago Is re- garded by the traveling pubiie and among railroad men gencrally as one of the most impcrtant steps taken by the management since the present aggressive policy was entered upon. It is also taken io indicate that the re- ceivers arc preparing to render themselves independent of the Central Ohio Railroad Company, whose line extending from Bell- W. Va., on the Obio river, to Columbus, has heretofore been considered as indispensable to the receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio in tne transaction of the larger pact of the busi- ness of the road, both west and easi bound, west of the Ohio river. The history of the deal by which the Baitimore and Ohio gained control of the Central Ohio more than thirty years ago has already been printed In The Star, and there is but little to add in reference to that matter beyond the fact that the rail- road men of the present day who have i vestigated the subject express the opin- fon that the lease made by the late Pres- ident Jchn W. Garrett was extremely fa- vorable to the Central Ohio company, and as later developments have, it is asserted, proven, very onerous to the Baltimore and Ohio. It should be borne in mind, however, that at the time the lease was entered into in 186€ there were not nearly so many railroads in Ohio or the west gener- ally as now, and that it was absolutely necessary for Mr. Garrett to take the course he did in order to reach Chicago, or it would have been impossible for the Baltimore and Ohio lines to have reached beyond the Ohio river for many years longer than was the case. The opening of the new line compels the Baltimore and Ohio to give 360 miles of its hauling between this city and Chi- cago to the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day- ton road, and the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago roads, but while this is the fact the Kattimore and Ohio will not be the loser financiaily thereby, as for the present only Pullmans will be taken by that route after leaving Cincinnati. It ac- complishes what was possibly more to be desired than anything else, the indepen- der:ce of the receivers in the matter of the outcome of the pending coatroversy be- tween the minority stockholders of the Central Ohio and the former. B. and 0.’s Three Routes. As the situation now stands the Balti- More and Ohio has three separate—and, for the great rortion of the way, distinct— routes to Chicago and the west and north- west. One of these is via Pittsburg and over the Pittsburg and Western to Chicago Junction; the second via the Central Ohio and Columbus, and the third, the one just inaugurated, via Cincinnati and Indianapo- lis. It has been rumored that the Pennsyl- vania company, which for many years has owned half of the Central Ohio's line be- tween Zanesvifte, Ohio, and Columbus, was in sympathy with the pending move of the minority stockholders of the Central Ohio to force the receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio to pay the former a large sum of money which it is claimed by them to be due as rental, but which is denied by the receivers, and that if the Baltimore and Ohio should decide to relinquish the Central Ohio the Pennsylvania would take the property, either under a lease or otherwise. and invorporate the Central Ohio into new route from Pittsburg to St. the southwest. It is only the lack of p session of the Central Ohio that prevents, it is said, the accomplishment cherished design of the Pennsy it already has two lines from Pittsburg to Wheeling, one of which was built with the ultimate intention of eventually extending to Kentucky. The ability to run trains to the southwest via Wheeling and Columbus would give it a much shorter route to St. Louis than it now has. There is also every reason to believe that the Baltimore and Ohio is preparing to enter the field of southern traffic to a muck greater extent than has been the case hitherto, and that the receivers are in hearty sympathy with the movement made by the Norfolk and Western to reach At- lanta, and that at the proper time they will extend to the enterprise all the aid at their command. According to the reports, which seem to be well authenticated, the Norfolk and Western, whose line reaches Bristol, will directly aid the Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railway Company, which recently purchased the Marietta and North Georgia road, in extending their line from Knoxville to Bristol and from Marietta to Atlanta. The Norfolk and Western and the Balti- more and Ohio have each long wanted a southern outlet, and now that the oppor- tunity has presented itself of attaining that object they do not, it is believed, in- tend to allow the scheme to fall through, and It is understood that engineers are al- ready in the field making a preliminary survey south of Bristol. Of course, it is well understood that al- though the Baltimore and Ohio ts in the hands of receivers, that fact is no bar to the company extending its lines, as the capitalists who are financlering the road have abundant funds at their command to make any improvements and extensions which promise to be profitable if they see proper to provide the funds with which to make them. A Norfolk and Western Rumor. It is understood that the Norfolk and Western company is negotiating for some property on the south side of the Potomac with a view to using it when its much-de- sired line from Front Royal, Va., to Wash- ington is constructed. Receivers Cowen and Murray have made a contract with the Western Maryland Rallroad Company to deliver to it 150 car loads, or about 3,000 tons of soft coal daily at the latter’s terminus at Cherry Run, W. Va., for trans-shipment to the Reading, which will haul it to tide water. It is ex- pected that the addition of this much addi- tional coal to the eastern coal market will have considerable influence on the price of the product in Boston, New York and Phil- adelphia, and perhaps enable the mining operators of Maryland and West Virginia to regain the large trade lost by them under the operations of the present tariff, which, it is said, enabled the New England railroad companies who previously had se- cured all their coal from this part of the country to import their fuel from Nova Scotia at a lower figure than the same Some far-sighted people think, however, that they see in the making of the above Pany as it has been called since its pur- chase by Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan and re- organization under his | agony through the center of the city, as well as for what might be called a belt line at grade from Fulton station just out- side of the re and Potomac’s tunnel at Baltimore to the Locust Point yards of the and Ohio, where the new Tine would reach deep water. - As the matter now stands the Philadel- phia and Reading would have to build but six miles of track—from Harrisburg, Pa., to Bowmansdale—to enable it to use the Western Maryland road, and thus reach Baltimore, but until the new line mentioned is constructed it could not reach deep wa- ter. Since the headquarters of the middle di- vision cf the Baltimcre and Ohio railroad Were established at Cumberland a few months and scarcely more than a tew weeks ago the secvice has been so improv- ed that 1,500 car toads of east-bound freight can be dispatched daily, as against 900 loads Gafly previous to that time. When Division Superintendent F. A. Husted, who was brought from the Cincinnati, Hamil- ton and Dayton road, took charge at that point there were lying west of Cumberland from 4,000 to 6,000 ioads of east-bound freight, which could not be moved. Now not only is business in full swing and the blockade all lifted, but extra engines are kept in readiness to meet the constantly increasing demands of the business of the road. The contractors have entirely completed one new yard, with a capacity of 1,000 cars, in South Cumberland, and are at werk -on another yard of the same capacity. When the latter yard is completed the combined capacity of the yards will be 2,500 loads a day. Railroad men of different lines who have visited the new Baltimore an-l Ohio roundhouse in South Cumberland say it is the best in all its appointments in the eguntry. ae arenes MUSIC AND THE HAIR, Effect of Vibrations on the Head Coveriny From the Medical Record. In a recent scientific assemblage a dis- cussion took place upon the influence of sleep in skin diseases, One of the gentle- men who took part stated in his criticism of the paper which had been read that one might as well talk of the influence of mu- sic upon the growth of the hair. It would seem that the suggestion of a possible connection thus thrown out in a jesting way has been taken seriously. At least, a correspondent of the Temps has made the discovery that music of certain kinds does in reality prevent the hair from falling, while that produced by certain instruments has the most disastrous effects in causing rapid ‘development of baldness. He finds that while composers are as prone as others to lose their hair at an early age, those who play their compositions upon the piano preserve, if they do not acquire, a luxuriant growth of hair. On the other hand, wind instruments, and especially the cornet and trombone, are fatal to hirsute adornment. The violoncello and the harp keep the hair in pretty well, but the flute cannot be depended upon to preserve a strong growth after the fiftieth year of age. A number of pianists, including Pad- erewski, are cited in confirmation of the pronounced irflvence of piano music. it has been admitted for some time that music has a certain therapeutic worth, and it will be recalled that in Septemver iast Dr. Ferrand peresnted a report to the French Academy on the physiological in- fluence cf music, pointing out in what ways it could be employed with therapeutic aims. Subsequently Dr. Betzchinsky re- ported an instance of night terrors in a child of three years, who was cured by having played to it each night music of a calming nature written in a minor ke: A _test was made after a few nighis by omitting the music, and that night alone the child had an attack. It has not as yet been determined just what key is most fa- vorable to the prevention of an early bald state. Probably a reasonable way of set- tling the disputed point would be to make a few experiments on dogs, thus proving a tolerance for different strains and avoid- ing the horripilation to whic some pa- tients of refined tastes might be subjected. Wind instruments are always dangerous if the hair has not a good hold, while stiff- haired people can stand anything. Pos: bly a good rule for any musician would be, as svon as he finds nis hair falling, that he should cease playing for others. NOTABLE SOLAR ECLIPSE. It Will Occur February 1 a: ogers Consider It Om From the New York Herald. There will be an annular cclipse of the sun on Februsry 1. and it will be notable, for the reason that it will be only visible in America. The eclipse, however, will be small and partial, and can only be seen in that portion of the United States lying south of a line drawn from Cape St. Lucas, through San Antonio, Texas; Memphis, Tenn., aud Marietta, Ohio, to Province- town, near Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. At Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Wash- ington and Nashville the eclipse will be very small, there being merely the slightest contact, as the sun will set with the eclipse on. The eclipse will begin to the north of Kermadee Island, and its path will le chiefly in the Pacific ocean. In its course it will cross Colombia and Venezuela be- tween the points Cabita bay, near Cape Corrientes, on the Pacific coast, and the Island of Trinidad, and there it will ter- minate at sunset—sh, 9m. p.m., New York mean time. The line of the annular eclipse will pass to the north of New Zealand, and so on by way of Mitchell Island and the Galopagos Islands to the south of Malpego Island and the north of Bogota, and in these latter places the annular phase will last longer than elsewhere, the longest period of du- ration being 2m. 32s. I: will be seen that America, from Brazil to the middle of the United Btates, is the only continent on which the eclipse will be visible. The eclipse hegins and ends as follows, according to mean local time: In New York it begins at 4h. 59m. 45s. p.m. and ends at sunset; in Washington it begins at 4h. 42m. p.m. and ends at 5h. 19m. 28s. p.m.; in Charleston it begins at 4h. 12m. 25s. p.m. and ends at Sh. 29m. 55s. p.m., and in Key West it begins at 3h. 46m. 50s. p.m. and ends at 5h. 34m. 33s. p.m. This eclipse will return February 13, 1915, and will then be visible in South Afric: The present one will begin on the earth generally in longitude 176 degrees 31 min- utes west and latitude 28 degrees 6 min- utes south, and will end in longitude 77 degrees 59 minutes west and latitude 14 de- grees 42 minutes north. The certral eclipse will begin in longitude 166 degrees 12 min- utes east and latitude 30 degrees 50 min- utes south, and will end In longitude 77 di grees 59 minutes west and latitude 14 de- gtecs 42 minutes north. English astrologers attach some import- ance to this eclipse. Thus the compiler of an English astrotogical almanac for 1897 writes gravely: “At the time of this eclipse, which will. be invisible at Green- wich, Mars will be on the meridian in trine aspect to the lights (sun and moon) in the fifth house, which implies that wars and rumors of wars will be afioat, and as the will occur. PRS aes, ——_—__+e Sustaining the Judicial Dignity. was argyin’ a case.” ‘Deadshot Dave—“Yer = say! An’ they called that contempt, eh’ Arizona Sam—“Why, yes. Ye see, he never axed the court to jine him.” THE OWL CAME BACK. And He Hnd a Question for the Man Who Thought He Was a Dead On: From the Chicago Times-Herald. “De biggest owl er de season,” sald Uncle Moses, as he held the saucer-eyed bird to the gaze of the interested spectators. “Hit's de very one dat’s been a-killin’ er my chickens ever sense de war; but he won't kill no mo'—I bet you! I ketched him in de very ac’—des a-making fer my big rooster, en I rolled him over en put a end ter him with dis lightard-knot!” It was certainly a monste> owl, measur- ing fully four feet from tip to tip, and Uncle Moses’ black neighbors felt that they had at last triumphed over a mutual enemy. “I gwine ter take him home,” explained Uncle Moses, “en skin him en stuff him, en put him on de mantelpiece fer good en all ~dat’s what I gwine do wid him! Oh, yes,” he said, addressing the slain victim, as he let it fall at his feet, “you's had yo’ day wid my chickens—you has. You likes chicken meat, don't you? Hit's mighty tender, ain't it? Couse it is! But you ain't Swine ter git no mo’ of it—dai you ain't!” And so saying, Uncle Moses bore the bird in triumph to his cabin. “ll des lay you down heah by de foot er de bed,” he said, still addressing the owl, “tell aftcr supper, en den I'll skin you aliy He went out and attended to various du- ties about the farm, and it was late when he returned. “I reckon,” he nin’ en stuffin’ “T'll_ leave de skin- owl tell mawnin’, Then he dispatched his supper and re- tired for the nigh| He never knew what time it was, and, indeed, he never stopped to inguire: but certain it was that he was suddenly and rudely aroused from his dreams by the loud hooting of an owl, so close to him that it almost deafened him. He sat bolt upright in the bed. “Who— who—ts _you-o-0?" rang through the room again. He stared about him, when lo! perched on the foot of the bed was the owl he had left for dead “Who—who—is you-o-07" came once more from the throat of the terrible bird! There was no doubt about it—it was im- possible that eyes and ears could deceive him. There was the pird, flush with life— the wide eyes glaring at him like globes of fire. He sprang from the bed, shrieking: “Oh, Lawd, have mussy! Help me ter git out er heah, good Lawd! Oh, Master, help me ter see daylight once mo’—des one mo’ me!” A few neighbors who were up late saw a white-robed figure speeding through the night, and terrified, sought their cabins, trying, “Oh, Lawd, judgment come, en de raise up!” Uncle Moses never returned to his domi- cile. “De debbil wuz in dat owl!” he said afterward, “and I des give him a deed ter de whole place!” —-re0-— The Bombay Pi From the Bostou Transcript. The plague that has been devastating Bombay for six months, came in a form, concerning which the existing medical au- thorities were without experience, but last month the Bombay doctors came to the conclusion that it bubonic fever, or in- flammation of the groin. In former times its character was unknown and was thought to be the Stroke of God, or plague. In all oriental cities there are numberiess centers of death and destruction within sight of the most elaborate and costly buildings. In Bombay there are scores of places that Europeans shun, because of the awful stenches that arise, and because of the myriads of flies that swarm there. Still Bombay is perhaps the cleanest city in India. Pure water is carried to every sec- tion of the city, and the supply is equal te the average American city. Bombay 1s fighting the plague with water, the streets are daily drenched, the sewers are flushed and the drainage is kept in gocd working order, so that all the noxious matter is speedily carried to the sea. As to the cause and development of this bubonic fever the doctors disagree; some incline to the theory that the fever arises from a bacillus, which rapidly propagates in the groin, others say that it is owing to some atmospheric contagion which arises from insanitary conditions and attacks the weak and poorly fed. Europe has been free of this plague since 1841, and European stu- dents have forgotten its history, In 172 Marseilles lost nearly one-half of its popu- lation; the same enlargement of the glands Was seen then as is found now in the Bor bay plague. In 1830 Bagdad was nearly Gecimated iy it: in one day 30,000 persons perished of this disease within the precincts of that town. So far in Bombay the plague has been confined to the squalid sections of the cit where stagnant pools and filth ever aboun while the clean, wealthy sections have been remarkably spared. Of the 730 persons at- tacked up to November 15, 517 died, and these deaths were very largely among the poor. The normal yearly death rate in Bombay has been 38 per 1,000, but in No- vember the yearly rate h gone up to 6 per 1,000. This largely augmented death rate would in a year take away 20,000 per- sons, in addition to the usual number of deaths In the city. Among the Europeans, military and civil, the annual death rate has been 18 per 1,000, and during the past six months this rate has not been per- ceptibly increased. During the earlier months of this awful visitation the medical authorities did not do.