Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1897, Page 15

Py te THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1897-24 PAGES. ot” 15 ON THE FRONTIER Detained by Turkish Officials in the Dead of Night. IN A NATIVE — STATION HOUSE A Drive Through the Country Under Guard. — OTTOMAN PA PORT LAWS (Copyright, 1897, by Bacheller Syndicate.) Correspondence of The Evening Star. CONSTANTINOPLE, January 20, 1897. The single daily express train from west- ern Europe to the realm of the Sick Man reaches the station of Mustapha Pasha, the Turkish frontier, shortly before mid- night. It is the custom of through pas- We passed the great barracks of the sul- tan’s frontier forces, Inhabited by many thousand troops. The road was well - ed and thoroughly macadamized, and led through the broad, fertile, lovely valley of the Naritza all the way. We saw any num- ber of road wagons, but none of them had other occupants than Turks. There were freight wagons and plow teams also, some- times ordinary oxen, sometimes eastern buffaloes with their big black horns neatly parted in the middle and combed low over each ear, dude fashion. It was a sunny day and not cold for midwinter. The policeman unbent from his Spartan severity of the night before, and became a shameless and persistent beggar. His vo- cabulary of signs ran somewhat as follows: 1, Exhibiting a coin and saying “Banca? Andrinopie?"—You are sure you cen get money in Andrinople? 2 2. Leaning his head on one hand—Yonder is the barrack where the soldiers sleep. 3. Covering his face with both hands— ‘That is the mosque where the soldiers wor- ship. Two circles and a cross drawn with the finger—For a gentleman of my distinguish- ed character you should give about’ two medjidie (dollars) backshish. For the driver half a medjidie {s quite enough. 5. Pointing and smacking the Mps—Those birds are good to eat. Here the soldiers kill sheep for mess. 6. Again the coin and the bakshish pan- temime. And so we came to Andrinople (not Ad- rianople, as our geographies used to call it), oy Z WE PLAYED EUCHRE ZZ = pieces of jewelry and offered at a good = The stone is entirely new and has ‘so pronounced by all experts who have seen it. Last summer the same specimens which are now in Chicago were taken to Europe and were there exhibited to some of the best-known epecialists, who pronounced them beautiful and well worth developing. ‘The popularity of the stone is yet to be tested. The stones are row being set in various ways, in rings, scarfpins, etc., and will soon be placed on sale. The present value placed upon the stone is about the same as that of the opal, varying according to the beauty and quality of each individu- al specimen. The lapidary gives the “cy- clops” the same cutting as he gives the opal, called en cabochon, In this cutting, as is well known, no facets are cut, but in- stead a smooth rounding surface. In its native state it is found imbedded in the rock and is only extracted by shattering the stone which surrounds it into a thousand pieces. In some instences each stone is found isolated, and again they are found two or three inseparably connected, evi- dently having been joined when the quartz was in a liquid state. In breaking them apart, instead of separating where they are joined together, the connection is some- times so soiid and perfect that a blow breaks one of the nodules in two instead. The finding of a new stone is of consid- erable importance in the mineralogical world. It happens so seldom that a dis- covery always attracts much wide atten- tion and considerable comment. In our own country only three semi-precious stones . HE-WISHED TWO BAKSHISH EXPERIENCE ON THE TURKISH FRONTIER. sengers In the sleeping car to go to bed without waiting for the custom house ex- | on, which is made in the car itself end can overseen in a hastily impro- vised toilet while the policemen outside go | over the passports. It thus happened that when the officers of the sultan came to tell me that my | passport lacked the visa of a Turkish con- sul and that I must get out of the train | my wife was abed and I was rearranging vel bag after its examination, in the raiment of the night plus a} donned pair of trousers. My shoes were on, but untied, and my pink-hosomed shirt gleamed gaily through the dusk of t compartment from a high hook. | Detained. While my wife attempted a hasty toilet “I debated the situation with the train con- ductor ard porter. They were concerned getting started again and lied assuring me that Mustapha | an excellent hotel, near inally they got frantic over delay and began to assist me to pack Just es the train was starting some © saw my pink-bosomed shirt still aure- ¢ling the night from on high, pulled it down end thrust one arm of it under the strap held a bundie of rugs. In this shape tered police office in the rail. beautifully, P a Di the station. the = puse was in sight, and it was midnight and midwinter. Until the ent troubles in Turkey the visa of a consul had not been necessary to Hundreds of American travel ers have entered the country without th’s formality. But times change, and so we thought as we stood blinking and shiverin, from the recent warmth and comfort of a sleeping car in a bare and cold police sta- tion. A Turk shared our detention. He was happy in knowing the language. Of about twenty police and custom house officers hanging around every man was a Turk. Not one knew six words of a western Euro- pean tongue. Most of them were hand- some men, and the fez is a becoming head- gear. They made a fine barbaric picture in the gloom of the station, pierced by a ingle lamp; but conversation was not ex- tensive. When the police had put cur pedigrees in the blotter, we were escorted to a ram- shackle little gocart with one horse and set off after midnight to drive six miles, as it proved, to the town of Mustapha Pasha. It is the pleasing custom of the Turks to put the'r rai ay stations from four to six from the towns in order not y to deprive carriage drivers of theiz The village, when reached, was tched group of huts in a swamp. I quarantined there four days and con- fever from which he Was two years in recovering. The streets are vile and the people densely ignorant. It was after 1 am. We were taken to the police station in Mustapha Pasha it- felf, and the unvisaed passport was given who stacked our to a haughty sergeant, luggage tn his room and offered me a cig- arette. Then we were led away again. I made a dumb show of my desire to regain possession of my shirt, but was repulsed With lofty Roman virtue. In a Turkish Inn. The khan, or Turkish inn, to which we were taken, was a huddle of low buildings around a s‘avle yard. In the middle of indescribable filth was the well, necessarily @ source of disease. One room was fitted up for occasional European use. The win- dow had never been opened, the bedding had never been changed and was already sufficiently occupied. Sleep was impossible. It was b'tterly cold. The air was vile, though it was already after 2 morning slowly. It was a night of intens. fort. When it was light, we discovered that in the main room of the khan the Turkish guests had fared better. Each man brought his own bedding to lay upon one of the benches about the wall and his own food. The khan supplies only coffee, which is excellent. In this main room, which was warmed by a stove and ventilated by the sometimes open door, we sat during the morning and played euchre with a tiny pack of cards about an inch long, which I had somewhere picked up. Half a score of Turkish loungers who sat in the inn Grinking coffee took keen delight in these little cards and were looking at them over our shoulders when an old man came in and addressed us in German. Until then it had been impossible to learn what our captors proposed doing with us, which was most aggravating. The newcomer proved to be a Pole by birth, a veteran of the Turkish cavalry, who had fought on the winning side in the Crimea and the losing side in the Balkans. He took us to his house, where we found that bis wife spoke French, his son Ger- man, his son's wife French, hia son-in-law, & military surgeon, Turkish. It was the only European famfly within twenty miles, They fed us, seemed pleased at the break our coming made in the monotony of their lives and told us about their relatives in Chicago, Presently @ fine carriage drove up, which we had noticed in the courtyard of the khan. To it was attached a good pair of horses, on the box with the driver sat the ‘Turk who had been held with us the night | course, before and within in solitary state was the police sergeant. Outside was piled the Jug- Bage, the pink bosomed shirt on top of all, held by one sieeve precisely as it had been the night before, and fluttering in triumph over our departure. It continued to flutter ail the way to Andrinople, a four hours’ Grive, as it was rather chilly to attempt redressing either in or out of the carrlago, {t was an interesting drive, and I do not know how we could have seen the country better. The driver was a fine-looking and as humane and intelligent in his care @f his horses as any one 1 have ever seen. a town of 100,000 inhabitants, with many Christian and Jewish residents, with one hotel rather better than a khan, and with a railroad station four miles away. The le rivers which compass it are spanned by stone arch bridges. The streets are miserably narrow and dirty, though the read by which we came was so fine. The bazaars are native and squalid, there is no light or life in the evening, except near the station. The mortality must be very great, as the drinking water is all from poiluted wells, and as half the town is tcoded when melting snows in the Balkans | send the rivers up. The policeman vanished like magic to report to his superiors, while we set out to find.some one to whom we could talk. There is no American or British consul in the place, but the Austrian consul kindly sent his dragoran and his assistant to in- terpret for us. Then a further complica- tion arose. It was Friday, the Mohamme- dan Sabbath, and the head pasha was tak- ing a day off from pashaing. However, the dragoman trotted off to nnd him at his home, and at about 5:30 o’clock brought back a big sheet of paper and a little one, both covered with hieroglyphics which at- tested us to be Turks of ancient iineage and first-rate fellows, as nearly as I can make out. At any rate it is exactly like the passports the Turks themselves carry, and i'm going to hang it up somewhere if I ever get it home. I had to pay a moderate fine for breach of the Ottoman passport laws, and, cf a fee to the dragoman for his errand. The driver of the coach agreed to stay and take us to the railroad station in the evening. He had then to return io Mustapha Pasha next day, but for the en- tire job charged only $4. With the two ex- tra francs I gave him as bakshish, he sat down beside us in the station cafe and for- mally drank our health, in coffee, which made us feel as if we were getting the werth of our money. In a Turkish Cafe. Then we sat in the cafe three hours, watching fine, handsome Turks drink cof- fee in perfect order, while three men of otter races were bounced in succession for disgusting drunkenness. We took part, teo, with about 100 Greek people, mostly women and children, in drinking a coffee bon voyage to a nice old Greek lady who was starting for Jerusalem. By and by the one train of the day came along, and we got in, dog tired, and were in Europe again. On the whole it was an inexpensive, in- structive and improving piece of exveri- ence. There was nothing to complain of in it except the policeman’s cruel and un- usual detention of cur clothing during the night. The baggage was not interfered with in the least. Indeed, the pasha in An- drinople sent a courteous inquiry about it, wishing to know if anything had been taken or damaged. The whole business seemed rather a senseless compliance with formality than a real safeguarding of the frontier against agitators. There was plenty of “incendiary literature” in our luggage, but not a soul could read it or made any effort to do so. It was a childish broceeding and not a serious thing to yn- dergo in a region where so many thousand People have been clubbed to death for no offense. How utterly futile the passport precau- tions are is illustrated by a little story told by Consul General Shert about an Ameri- can drummer traveling from Athens to Turkey. Learmirg too late to visit his min- ister ‘that he would need a passport, and not having one, he took his letter of credit to the Turkish consul, had that vised instead and traveled on it to Con- stantinople without any one detecting the difference. At the same time I would advise an American traveler, especially if accompa- nied by his wife, to get his passport vised before visiting Turkey. Even a brief de- tention, though not dangerous, may be hugely uncomfortable. The khan of Musta- pha Pasha is no Joke until you are out of it. ———r CYCLOPS, A NEW GEM. Found in Mexico and First Exhibited im Chicago. From the Chicago Herald. At one of the Chicago jewelry stores a brew stone kas been placed on sale. The stone Is called the “cyclops,” and is prac- tically the discovery of Edward J. Smith, diamond expert, who is a member of tie jewelry firm. The cyclops is peculiar and original in every respect. It was first found a number of months ago by an opal miner in an extensive mine near the City of Mexico. The miner, in order to ascer- tain whether he had discovered anything of practical value, sent it to Chicago to Mr. Smita to have it examined. A large num- Ler of the stones, varying in size and char- acter, were forwarded in order that there might be a perfect inspection and the val- ue of the stones actually gauged. The stones were cut, and it was found that they mado very beautiful ornaments for jewelry. In the rough, the stones have much the appearance of a rose on the upper side and vary In size from a large pea to a penny. In the center on the under s‘de of each one Is @ single little nodule of quartz of a reddish color, When the stone has been smoothly |: cut this little red spot plaint: through the clear eubstarce of the stone, ard from this the stone is given its name— the cycleps. The clear quarts substance, which is chalcedony, has apparently accu- mulated on the red colored nodule in strata, shines and in general shape resembles a hemi- | here with the red ball in the middle of the flat side, Boms of the stores do not possess this gle spot very well but have in- | stead a rather clouded int " resembling the agate to pome extent. are not so valuable as the more perfect ones, but are nevertheless precious enough to be set in have been found which are not in other parts of the world. America’s first discovery, peculiar to its own scil, was found about forty years ago on Isle Royal in Lake Superior. This stone was called the chlorastrolite. The little island is inhabited only by the lighthouse keeper and is visited only occasionally by curiosity seekers and mineralogists. ‘This stone {s opaque and of a greenish color, with white starlike spots scattered through . It attracted a great deal of attention when it was first discovered and gave no little fame to Isle Royal. On a visit to Europe Mr. Smith was once visited by a brother expert, who told him that he had at last found a new stone for him., When the stones were brought in for inspection Mr. Smith smiled and sai h, yes, I used to play with those when I was a small boy.”” The second stone, which was a native of America only, was found about fifteen years ago in North Carolina. It was found by a man named Hidden, and after him was called the “Hiddenite.” The hiddenite is a lithian emerald and is somewhat sim- liar in appearance to the ordinary emer- ald, being translucent, but scarcely trans- parent. Next in discovery to the hiddenite comes the cyclops. As a gem of value and in all probability in popularity the cyclops will outrank either of its predecessors. But as its popularity and quantity are both problematical the future of the cyclops is somewhat uncertain. Crushed Him. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. The bachelor who had boarded at the same hotel for twenty years was perturbed when the thoughtless head waiter sat the couple on their bridal site him at the table. “There is no marrying in heaven, I am happy to say,” he said to no one in par- ticular.” “Well, I don’t care,” said the blushing bride. “There is heaven in marriage, any way. Isn't there, dearie?” she continued, turning toward her accomplice, and the bachelor boarder went down stairs and quarreled with the clerk. ——__+ e>+____ The Magic Hair Restorer, From Harper's Bazar. trip right oppo- SIGNS OF LONGEVITY Estimating One’s Probable Lease of BY THE SHAPE OF HEAD AND HANDS Some Views of “Physicians and Astrologers. THE QUEEN’S HOROSCOPE —_>___ Written for The Evening Star. At the very center of the heart of New York, at the apex of that wonderful tri- angle bounded by Broadway and 6th avenue, with: 23d street for its base, high up above the clang of cable cars and the roar of traffic, lives a man with massive head and deep-set eyes, a man whose brow shows prodigious powers of observation, and whose life is passed in studying the heeds and hands of his fellow men. This is the man, Charles Todd Parks, who some time ago had the famous controversy about phrenology with.Prof. Ladd of Yale Uni- versity, and had the satisfaction of besting the professor in the argument and bringing him around to his own views. On the walls of his richly furnished apartment and scat- tered about on tables and desks are the plaster heads of great men, living and dead, the heads of notorious criminals, the casts of hands and the death masks and photo- graphs of nearly every celebrity in history. I called here to ask what signs there are in the head and the hand of a person’s term of life, for that is an interesting question. “The signs of long life are many,” said Mr. Parks, “and easy to read. I will give you some of the plainest of them, avoiding technical expressions. Let us begin with the head, which should be square or round and wide behind and over the ears. All wide-headed animals have more vital force, more aggressive qualities, than those with narrow heads. Take a bulldog or a cat, see how wide their heads are and think what hard knocks they will endure, while a rabbit, for instance, would topple over and die with one-half the hard treatment. People with long, narrow heads seldom live to a ripe old age, and, in all my observa- tions of. men and women.I have never found one such person who reached the century mark, while very few ever get near it, The Face. “Then take the signs of the face, what the features tell us about the probable length of life. The eyes should be round and wide, not oblong and narrow, for such eyes denote degeneracy and weakness. The brow should be ample and slope back slightly from an absolute perpendicular. Rev. Charles Collier his an almost perfect brow; so has Joseph Choate, but the brow of Edgar Allen Poe is'too straight up and down and too massive, showing that the brain system overbalances the other sys- tems of the body, and for long life there must be an equipolse among these systems. The mouth should be full and well set, a small mouth is a bad sign, and the chin should be square and firm, ‘This last is im- portant as showing that the proper balance exists between the intefleétual and the ani- mal functions. ‘Take Poe's case again, the lower face is weak, showing weakness in the digestive and assjmilative systems,in the animal part of him. The face of Robert Louis Stevenson shows ‘the same defect, and so does the face of Hall Caine. In such men the brain-everrides the body, burns out the body, and the probability of a long life is exceedingly small. “And now we come to the nose, which gives the most important indication as to the person’s breathing’ capacity and tho- racic equipment. A min or woman with a hose that is wide and full through its whole length and has open, easily dilating nostrils probably “has good lungs and a good heart and “will get far more out of fe and iive longer than a person whose nose is pinched and whose nostrils are nar- row. I should say that proper breathing is one of the chief essentials to proper Mving, and if people would form thé habit, es- pecially while out of doors, of taking deep, full breaths through the nostrils and hold- ing the breath for a few seconds before ex- pelling ft, they would add many years to their lives. This’ is a simple thing to do and once the habit is formed it proves a source of perpetual delight. I am sorry to say, however, that not one person in fifty breathes properly. And yet, without a splendid breathing apparatus, I doubt if the highest greatness can be’ achieved. Think of Gladstone, Bismarck, Daniel Webster and many other of the world’s in- tellectual giants, they all have big lungs and strong noses. And their chances of long life are great in propertion. What the Hand Reveals. “And when it comes to the hand, the signs are equally clear. In no part of the body does a person offer such a revelation of himself as in the hand. Here are be- trayed at once the infirmities and weak- nesses of either sex atd also the strong Foints. The long, slender hand is consid- ered beautiful, but it indicates a degenera- tion from strength, and its owner is not apt to reach an advanced age. Narrow- headed people usually have narrow hands. The hand that gives promise of a long life is the one with a square, broad palm, with large joints and short fingers, one like this,” and Mr. Parks took down the mold of Walt Whitman's massive hand. “Here you see ruggedness, muscle and endurance, the signs of iongevity. The finger nails are strong and spatulate and the flesh is neith- er too hard nor too soft, thus showing a blending of mental and physical activity. “As to the lines of the palm, little can be said that will serye the purpose of a per- son not instructed in palmistry, for it ig not soflicient to observe the lifeline alone in concluding as to the term of a person's years. If the lifeline is good in color and unbroken through a good length, that is a favorable sign, but for any valuable cong clusion the lifeline must be read in connec® tion with the other lines of the hand.” Another characteristic of long-lived per- sons is the presence of large bones, and it is Mr. Parks’ opinion that, other things being equal, a man or woman having a heavy, osseous frame, a body like that of Abraham Lincola, will live longer and ac- complish better things than a person with small bones. f The Astrologer’s Method. Having gained the above knowledge about longevity from the teachings of phrenology and palmistry, I pursued my investigation by calling upon the famous astrologer, “Azrael,” whose name in private life is Frank Norton and whose scholarly attainments and unquestioned integrity give authority to whatever he may say. Mr. Norton was for years one of the ll- brarians in the Astor library, and was afterwerd managing editor cf one of the &reat American dailies. So he is a prac- tical man as well as a delver into the oc- cult. On the walls of his “den,” as he calls it, are photograpys of many celeb- rities- whose Rorosconey he has cast, and books containing all the, stored-up wisdom of astrology and the kindred arts. “I am convinced,” said Azrael, “by my studies, reflection ang personal experience that in every accurate-horoscope the ap- pointed time of death is shown. This is a logical conclusion,gxowing out of the fact that evcry joroscope declares not only the generajenor of; life, the con- ditions governing frealth and disease, and the person’s chargcter and temperament, but shows also. thg, actual periods of sic} ness, bereavement and ordinary misfor- tunes, and makes pasitive statements con- cerning’ every ‘chief’ incident and_vicissi- tude in the person's existence. All this I have proved by my own work in a thou- sand instances, and other astrologers have Proved the same. A notable case among moderns where death has been predicted was that of Charles Dryden, whose father, John Dryden, the poet, cast his gon’s horo- Scope at birth. He predicted that the boy would be three times in danger of losing his life, and at the third time would be Killed, all whichcame to pass, and is so set down in John Dryden’s biographies. I myself have predicted death in the case of two infants, and in both cases it occurred within’ the fied time, and in one of these on the’ gyact day. “In a gen ay. it-may be stated that those is‘ have the best chance of a long life, there. being no adverse planetary conditions, who are born with Leo, Libra, Aries, pris vr Scorpio rising at the hour of birth. io spring months for birth are more favorable to long life than any other month, and the irs before noon: are better than those after noon. All this, however, is somewhat indefinite, for many other influences must he considered, es- pecially the estrological values of the planets. Herschel, Saturn and Mars are malefics, especially when evilly aspected, or in square, conjunction, or opposition with regard to cach other or the remain- ing planets. Saturn and Mars when thus aspected are cons'dered deadly in their relation to human existence, the first named usually acting through chronic com- plaints, the second more suddenly and vio- lently. And the conjunction or opposi- tion of the sun and moon may be said to presage a short life, if either occur ex- actly at the hour of birth. Of course, it is understood that to have his horoscope cast properly a person must give the as- trologer not only the exact day and year of birth, but the exact hour of the day. A miscalculation of a single hour might change the entire character of the horo- scope. 3 A Complicated Method. “Many authors have written on methods of calculating the date of death, especially in the case of infants; but they differ widely among themselves. One generally accepted rule is that no one dies unless the sun or moon are afflicted by an evil aspect of one of the malefics, Mars, Saturn, Her- schel or Neptune, or by the moon; and this I have found to hold good. In the case of Herschel evilly aspected in a horoscope I have found it to cause morbid fears as a part of the temperament, and it is be- NMeved to give a suicidal tendency. It is a curious fact that even the beneficent planet Jupiter, afflicting the sun, invariably indi- cates corrupted blood and a predisposition to apoplexy. “As regards the realization of astrological predictiors, it should be said that much de- pends upon the condition of life and en- vironment of the subject. Influences that would kill a tramp or an ordinary hard- working -nan or woman, would altogether pass by some member of a rich or royal household. “Ihere’s a divinity doth hedge a king,’ as was shown in the case of Queen Victoria, whose death was put down by both English and Indian astrologers for October, 1804. My own judgment is that Queen Victcria will pass through a very dangerous period in December, 1897. Dur- ing that month Herschel, Saturn, Mars, the sun, Venus and Mercury will all be in the zcdiacal sign Sagittarius, in opposition to the conjoined sun and moon in-the sign of Gemini, the ascendancy of her majesty’s horoscope. All the planets, Including the sun ard moon (except Jupiter), will aiso at this time have the same declination, which is an evil and very unusual occurrence, and one that gives me further assurance that her majesty will encounter grave peril at that time.” < Coming now to the more exact science of medicine, I called on Dr. A. H. Grandin, the New York specialist, who believes that longevity depends solely upon the action of the heart. “The heart,” he says, “is the nearest approach known to man to that dream of scientists, perpetual motion. The person whose pulse beats with full and nor- mal stroke has the best chance of a long life. Hereditary qualitics come next in importance, and if the parents are short- lived,a person has a forewarning of his own fate.” For the consolation of those whose fa- thers or mothers may have died young, it should be said that many authorities main- tain that hereditary tendencies come, to a great extent, from the grandparents, and even from previous ancestors, so that, if there has been a good average of long life in past generations, the fact of early death in the case of father or mother need not be of serious consequence. Sleep One of the Essentials. One of the most interesting opinions that I obtained in regard to the chances of long life came from Nicola Tesla, the inventor and electrician, who thinks that sleep has much to do with the matter. “‘A man has been given a certain term of life,” said Mr. Tesla, ‘so many hours to pass on this earth—I mean hours when he is alive, awake; I do not count the hours when he is sleeping; I do not believe they are, strictly speaking, included in his term of life. When a man really lives he is dy- ing hour by hour, but when he sleeps he is accumulating vital forces which will make him go on living. In other werds, in meas- uring out our dole of hours to each one of us, the great timekeeper stops his count while we are sleeping. Therefore, the longer a man sleeps the longer he will re- main on earth. Nearly all long-lived peo- ple have been great sleepers. When De Lesseps was on the ocean he would sleep twenty hours on a stretch. Gladstone is @ great sleeper, and averages twelve hours aday. I can believe that a man who would learn to sleep eighteen hours a day might live 200 years.”” This idea seems a little fantastic, but it should be said that so great an authority ‘as Prof. F. W. Warner, in a recent lecture on “Biometry, or the Science of Measuring Life,” includes abundant sleep among the four essentials to a long life, which are: 1. To be descended, at least by one side, from long-lived parents. 2. To be of a calm, contented and cheerful disposition. 3. To have a symmetrical form, i.e., a full chest, well-formed joints and limbs, with a neck and head large rather than small in proportion to the size of the body. 4. To be a long and sound sleeper. The professor went on to show that wo- men are longer lived than men, and that married women live longer than single wo- men. The statistics show that few nuns attain old age, and that monks also die on the average earlier than men who marry. “The primary conditions of longevity are,” sfid Prof. Warner, “that the heart, lungs and digestive organs, as well as the brain, should be large. If these organs are large the trunk will be long and the limbs comparatively short. The person will appear tall in sitting ard short in standing. The hand will have a long and somewhat heavy palm and short fingers. The brain will be deeply seated, as showing by the orifice of the ear being low. The blue or brown hazel eye as showing an intermis- sion of temperament, is a favorable indica- tion. The nostril being large, open and free, indicate large lungs. A pinched and half closed nostril indicates small or weak lungs.”’ Having accumulated so much information about the term of man’s life, I took my way home, drawing deep, full breaths, which, it appears, is an excellent thing to do. CLEVELAND MOFFETT. SEES Not According - From the Chicago Record. On the suburban trains running out of Chicago card playing is an acknowledged feature of transitory life. Some of the coaches are equipped with tables for devo- tees of the game. Coming in recently a suburbanite named George Affolter was called from his news- paper to make the fourth in a game of whist, which had been interrupted by -the departure of one of the players. The hands had been dealt around and Affolter, noting there were thirteen cards, said: “What is it? Hearts?” It happened that hearts were trumps, and an affirmative answer was given. On the first play Affolter gleefully threw away a king, followed it the next with another high card and was overjoyed to see that the man at his elbow was obliged to take the third trick, and the fourth end the fifth, and so on indefinitely. On the second hand Affolter’s partner led a king and Affolter thought they would have to take it, but, to his-delight, the opposition gathered in the trick and’ pro- ceeded to harvest all the other twelve as well. Affolter was almost hysterical with joy. His partner looked strange. ‘Things went on in the same way for two more deals, and the Affolter faction, owing to the new man’s headwork, hadn’t taken a trick, when at length the suffering part- ner saic “Say, you'll excuse me, but you play the most idiotic, outrageous, infernal game of waist that ever occurred in my expe- vendish, rience,” Affolter was dumfounded. “‘Whist!”’ he cried bleakly. ‘‘Why, heavens, man, I’ve been playing the game of hearts as hard as I knew how.” And nobody dared speak until the depot was reached. = The Advice of Experience. From the Chicage Post. : “Do you know anything about buying crockery for the house?” The max with the bald head looked at his questioner pityingly before replying: “A little,” he said, at last. “You've tried it, have you?” “T have.” “Then you're just the man I want. You see, I need avlittle advice in regard to a dinner set.” _ oe le. truth "said the man with: the. bald inl sal e man e larly, “that the only advice in that which is of the slightest value is contained in three words.” © “Which are?” = Jouts make the and self-confidence permit to your THE $3 OFFER TO BE MAINTAINED Until the Number of Patients Exceeds the Pos- . sibility of Personal Attention. Doctor McCoy Will Give Due Notice in the Public Prints of Its Withdrawal. ‘The essence of what Doctor McCoy had to say was that it in not honest to lead people to medical offiees on free offers and take their money. When Doctor McCoy established his prac- tice in Washington, for a stated time he trented everyone frec. He would ax soon thought of cutting his arm off as of accepting a cent. He made the word “Free” popular because his use of it was honest. His offer to treat patients for $3 a month wns be- Meved by thousands because they knew Doctor McCoy told the truth. It is mot enough that this be once stated. The lesson needs to be brought home. The public must be protected from any methods that are not sincere. The sick ones in any event deserve protection, so Doctor McCoy teaches this lesson, giving th people again his offer of 3 a month. It will be readily seen that such an offer could not be main- DR. McCOY’S RECORD. The Six Years of Preparation. Matriculant at University of New York. First honor man in his class. Winner of famous Loomis prize. ....Pebruai Candidate for Bellevue Hospital appwint- ment...... Sverstovbesveckovsse --March, 1879 Chosen by competitive examination, open to all the doctors of the world, resident physician Bellevue Hospital --March, 18 Daring service at Bellevue clected visiting phy- stelan to training school for mur: April, 180 Served as resident physician to Bell. zi Study in hospitable of London and Dublin. Formulation of regular treatment for chron bles as a result of hospital experi Formulation of regular treatinent for the cure of catarthal, bronchial and lung diseases... .1SSt Announcement of Dr. McCoy's cures first introduced voluntarily by well-known journai with pi tures and interviews of patients cured. April, 1884 Doctor McCoy treating over one thousand pationts a month : a seston BORE Exiénsion of office facilities employment of students from Bellevue ISS5-18SU by tained for a considerable or in- definite length of time. Doctor Mc- Coy will simply maintain it until the number of patients excceds the possi- bility of personal care, only prom’ ing to give due notice of its wit! drawal in the public prints. UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ALL AP- PLYING FOR OR RENEWING TREAT- MENT WILL BE TREATED UNTIL CURED AT THE UNIFORM RATE OF 83 A MONTH. THE OFFER IS NOT CONFINED TO ANY ONE DISEASE. IT MEANS THAT NO MATTER WHAT THE SICKNESS MAY BE IF A DOCTOR'S SERVICES ARE AT ALL REQUIRED, THE PATIENT WILL BE TREATED UNTIL CURED AT THIS RATE. THE PLEASURES OF HUNTING RESTORED WITH HIS HEARING. John Potter, 1527 33d st. now. “When I first went to Doctor McCoy I was very deaf. I could not hear anything without very great difficulty. I could not hear ordinary conversa- tion at all, and to make me understand a person would have to speak very loud and directly to me, and even then it would often be necessary to rm peat what had been said. I could not hear my watch ticl ‘ither ear. “I also had continuous rumbling noises in my ears, both night and day. These noises became so load at night that they sounded like some one blowing horns in my ears. They made me very nervous. “I read of Doctor McCoy's wonderful cures and went to him, Now I Can Hear Anything Without z the Least Difficulty. I can hear conversation, and my friends do not have to speak above an oréirary tone. I can hear a watch tick distinctly. The noises bave entirely left me. “Ido a great deal of hunting. I was obliged to Watch for the birds, as it was Impossible for me to hear the nolse they made. Since I have been under Doctor McCoy's treatment I can bear the noise of the birds, and now derive a great deal more pleasure from the sport. John Potter, 1527 33d st. n. without an operation. Their ears are not dilated. They are cured by this wonderful treatment that restores the hearing without causing pain or distress of any kind. 2 HAD TO SHOUT . TO MAKE HIM HEAR. Alex. Dercourt, 337 H st. n.e.: “I had been deaf for six years. When I came to Doctor McCoy I could not hear a word that was sald unless shouted in my cars. “I could not hear the electric cars, the door bell ringing, or even thunder. I tried many doctors, while traveling in Paris and elsewhere, and have been treated By Many Physicians Abroad. “They all said the same thing, that there was no help for me. I read in the papers about Doctor McCoy and I went to see him. After being some time under treatment, one day to my astonishment I suddenly haerd the clock tick.” Cured of deafness. These people are cured of deafness John W. Little, 209 N st. s.w. Cured of catarrh of entire Geo. H. “About five years ago I first discovered on my penny. ‘Camnan, 119 242 st. n.w.: Hi 1ehlii sig beer i i? The second visit to Europe for further hospi Study and Inspection. a , at Rer- as sasences 1890 Hospital of Berlin and Royal ic under Von Bergmann. 1S91 Formulation of a system of sedic on the Aiscovery of poison in the blood as the origin of direa + Ist ment in cases selected from Dr. McCoy’ tice. Fe 2 The world startled by Dr. McCoy's Discovery of a cure for Deafness... -September, 189 Location of a permanent nztional practi ington... ein Wash. March 28, 189% STILL MAKING THE CHILDREN HEAR; NO OPERATION—NO PAIN. Master Henry Ochmann, 50 place ne. Aged 12 years. His mother “My son had been deaf for two years. His constantly discharged, and he suffered all the time from severe headache. He attends St. Mary's School, but because of his deafness he could not rstond his teacher, and she would be often ed to reprimand him because she thought Lim stupid or heediess, “I read of Doctor McCoy's many of deafness and took my son to him time I no’ has been prfal cures Art t, and now ed. He cannot see bis bearing now bears his but be hears Raymond Dickson, Bright- wood avenue n.w., aged 10 years. Cured of deafness. LEFT SCHOOL BECAUSE OF HIS DEAFNESS; HEARING RESTORED. Raymond Dick: Aged 106 Ven “rightwood ave. n.w. His mother says: Raymord was so deaf that we bad to take bim ‘om school. His teacher said It was useless to we him there. She could not make him under- stand. “When he was six years old he was ron over by a carriage, one of the wheels passing over bis head. From this time he became 4 80 deat that we found great diffcalty in making bim understand at all. It was necessary to shout at him to make him hear a caught cold bis hearing w “It was because ers of their hear a watch tick when held six inches from his ear. “With bis deafness be was troubled with rum- bling noises in bis head, which have n “His hearing returned svdd it when we found that be hear every word of our conversation carried on in ordinary ton We are very grateful to Doctor McCoy for what he has done for our boy.” . Henry Oechmann, 507 Stanton Place n. Cured of deafness. Miss Alice Lyles, 215 South Alfred st., Alexandria, Va., fourteen years old: “I cannot remember when I was not deaf. My sister read about Doctor McCoy, bui I was afraid to go to him for fear be might hurt me. He didn't, thong! Dou't you think I am glad I went to him? All of a sudden I heard what the folks were saying at home. At school I Can Hear Every Word the teacher says. My teacher is Miss Davis of the Peabody School. She lets me out of school to take the treatment.’ Mrs. Sarah Lyles, ber mother, says: “My dauc! ter had been deaf since she was five years ob She could not hear any ordinary conversation. 5! is intensely happy over her care by Doctor MeCe She said: ‘Ma, I can hear-everybody, and every- thing 1s so plain now.’ ”* Mine Davis, the teacher, says: “When I first knew Alice—that was three years ago—she was very deaf. This term I noticed it more than ever, until the last few weeks, when I noticed she heard better. Now she readily answers any ques- tions. It used to be painful to me to give ber recitations at all. Now she can bear mc.” McCoy System of Medicine PERMANENT OFFICES DR. McCOY’S NATIONAL PRACTICE, Dr. J. Cresap McCoy, Dr. J. M. Cowden, 715° 13th Street Northwest. omce Hours, 9 a.m, to 8 p.m, daily, (7 am. to 4 pam. Seed