Evening Star Newspaper, April 10, 1897, Page 18

18 JUNIOR BALL TEAMS -_ -—~ High School Nines Will Play for the Local Championship. THE KIND ARRANGED -- FIRST SERIES OF Unusual Interest Shown This Year by the Pupils. = cg eee WHO COMPOSE THE TEAMS — o—_—_—— ear, series of inter-High for the District s taken a jump d that it will ball and the h school will its strongest amgrega- s, and it is safe to say by that the games will be spirited and in- tere made » so by the yells of the . A ranged by the Central vs. s vs. Western, Western, May 7; May 8; Central vs. Eastern vs. Western, Eastern April 25; will be played at the and according to the were the first st month have perfecting themselves the game. The Centra? lars number of pupils and consequently they a fi et of ball at work points of the nool has from whom to pick will by players represented by Hoover of “the class of he boys have the great- him, he has shown ability. He is major om, and as a result of his time to good ad- in the team on is a mer the class of 1 of Con He is eighteen weighs 150 poun and is 6 © ball well his men. He is in hei A. Tisdeli—Central. spular with the ing accurate thr i good He ed quite a rer tation is iteen years ands 5 feet 7 inches a credit- seventeen; r who is expected years old, et 6 inches in nd an . and as his practic ong long di r, a fair runner, ke . eighteen; 11 inches. @ strong team this year. ried players, except the men . and the nine should bring nd honor to its school. Eastern. ‘The Eastern boys have hopes of eaptur- ing the championship, and every effort is being made to improve In the game so that they will make a creditable showing. Prof. Emory Wilson of the faculty, who coached the boys last year, has them in charge again and Is getting good hard work, which should be followed by excellent results. Amzi Smith, jr., °! is manager of the team. He is seventeen yeara old, weighs 165 pounds and is 6 feet in height. It ts probable that he will be a reserve pitcher, as he has speed and a sure eye. Smith is popular with students and teachers and has good business qualities. Lee Combs of the class of '99 will cap- tain the team. He took care of second base for the Easterns last year, but will be in the short field this. Combs is a quick sprinter, hard hitter and uses his head when running bases. Age, seventeen; weight, 138 pounds, and height, 5 feet 6 inches. A good deal of the team’s success will be due to him, for it is result of his hustling that the boys have had more and harder practice. Lacaroni, "00, who will catch, played tackle on last year’s foot ball team. He 13 seventeen years old, weighs 143 pounds and is 5 feet 7 inches in height. He throws to bases well and is handy with the bat. Bradley, "00, will be the reserv2 catcher. He caught last year on the Primros2 team, and can if necessary be put in the outfield. Amzi Smith, Jr.—Eastern. Bradley is sixteen years old, 5 fect 5 inches in height and weighs 119 pounds. . captain of last year's likely do the greater part He is_a member of tue . and second lieutenant of any G. Hand is nine! 144 pounds, and is fiv height. He pitches a ¢ tcularly effect arlie Snell, who will take care of the initial bag. is well known in High School athletic circles as an all-round athiete and foot ball player. He is eighteen years old, weighs 165 pounds and is six feet in height. Snell is quick on his feet and bandy with the stick. Bell, who played tackle on last year’s foot een years oid, wi fe t eleven inches in ift curved ball that Lee Combs—Eastern. ball team, will be on second. He is a mem- ber of the class of 10, and will be heard from in the spring track and field games, as he is a swift and long-distance runner. Age, sixteen; weight, 164 peunds; height, five feet nine inches. Frank Burroughs, a member of the class of "%, is one of the most promising players. He will play at third, which position he filled last year for the Crescents. He is sixteen years old, weighs 118 pounds and is five feet six inches in height. Clark, who will be in the left field, played last year with the Eastern Buds, and is one of the Easterns’ best players. Age, seven- teen; weight, 110 pounds; height, five feet two inches. will guard the center field. venteen years old, is five feet nine inches in height and weighs 138 pounds. He played last year with the Langdons, and is known as a heavy hitter and swift base runner. Briggs, who was with the Crescents last year, will take care of the right field. Very few batters find a hole in nis territory, and he is also a timely hitter. The Eastern has quite a Jong list of sub- sti among whol re Buller, Waller, Evans, Springsuth and Sprucebank. Western. ‘The Western boys ve had hard luck in trying to form a nine so that they could enter the fnter-High School series. The ‘hool is so sm rald be li that only seven base ball the obtained. Therefoi ed to let them have ortune has a foot ball player , with the school boys, actice the other da: patly felt. being coached by Mr. Bryan, Latin and , and are pro- wonderfully under his training. gressing Chas. B. Buck—Western, Mr. Bryan Is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and was second baseman on the ‘varsity team for eral years. . B. Buck fs both captain and manager and does st of the twirling for the team. He was 2 member of the Cook Park nine last year and played tackle on the school's foot bell eleven. He is seventeen years old, is five feet eleven inches in height and weighs 145 pounds. Buck jis an efte: pitcher and an all-around ball an eighth-grade student, ing end of the delivery. ‘Tracey Mulligan is the school’s star play- er. He is handy with the bat, a swift base runner and takes care of the third corner in faultless style. Age, sixteen; weight, 130 pounds, and height, five feet five inches. He played on the Cliffburns last year, and was end on the school’s foot ball team. Earl Tanner will be found on the initial bag. He has played with the teams of Ccok Park and the Business High School. Age, nineteen; weight, 172 pounds, and height, 5 feet 7 inches. Tanner is presi- dent of the Western High School Athletic Club, = an cians athlete. Buel _ Wi atten preparatory school of Georgetown University, is the THE EVENING STAR, SATURD DAY, APR IL second outside man who will be found on the team. He will play at second base. J. M. Petty will chase the balls in the center field. He is a ranking first lieuten- ant on the staff and a member of the class Tracy E. Mulligan—Wenstern, of "97. Petty ts eighteen years old, is five feet nine inches in height, and weighs 119 pounds. He is a fair hitter and pretty quick on the bases. W. Smart, who has played with the Friends Select, will be found tn the left garden. He 13 a swift runner and sure thrower. Smart is seventeen years old, weighs pounds, and is 5 feet 9 inches in height. Burford, who will be in the right field, is a new man, who has done good work in practice. He is seventeen years old, weighs 140 pounds, and 5 feet 10 inches in height. The Western boys have tried hard to get up a team, and will try just as hard to win the championship. Business. The Business boys have been hard at work for the last month, and have gotten together a very good team of ball players, who will make things warm for somebody Earle W. Tanner—Western, when they contend for the High School honors. The Business boys are the only ones who so far have procured uniforms. They will have gray suits and orange and blue stockin, John Bridaham is manager of the team. He is a member of this year’s graduating class, and was manager of last year’s ball Cahill—Business. team. He does the catching for the nine, and is known as a heavy hitter, a sure thrower and a fast runner. well liked by the boys to make this seasor a The Business is well provided with ers. Byron Kingdom is the most re ard will probably pitch School seri tute pitchers. Cahill, who will have charge on the field, is a_first- played with the Cliffbu will take care of and boys confide: by the -ellent game of ball he alw puts up. He js seventeen years old, weighs 139 pounds, and is 5 feet 6 inches in height. Kimmel, who played right field on the Central's base ball team and half back on pitch- able, in the inter-High Kipp and Cahill are substi- f the team the other its foot ball team last year, will take care of the fir a good hitter and a first-clas: r. Kimmel is nineteen years old, weighs 170 pounds, and is 6 feet 1%¢ inches in height. S. S. Kipp is a reserve pitc stop. He is sixteen years ol; inches in height, and weighs 1 is a fair batter and a steady William Woodburn of this y ing class will cover the left garden. He is a long-distance thrower, and generally manages to connect with the ball. He is er and short S graduat- J. A. Bridnahom—Business. seventeen years old, weighs 140 pounds, ard is 5 feet 8 inches in height. Everett, the guardian of the center field, is a new man, and it remains to be seen what he can do. Age, seventeen; weight, 130 pounds; height, 5 feet 6 inches. Ingraham will cover the right field, and, if necessary, he can be put on first. He is an all-around ball player and a popular student with the athletic boys. Age, eight- een; height, 6 feet; weight, 147. ‘The substitutes for the infield are Mc- Knew, McQuinn and Jessie, and for the outfield Jessie, Shomaker and Crowley. Regulations Adopted. The base ball managers have adopted the following rules to govern the inter-High School serie: “No team shall play any one who has not attended the school which he repre- sents since January 1, 1897, and each play- er must take at least two studies. “The receipts at the gate will be divided equally among the contesting clubs, and from al! tickets sold outside by the man- agers and their assistants in their respec- tive schools the proceeds shall go to the said managers. “If by any chance any team falls to ap- fear to play a regular scheduled game when the weather will permit this team shall forfeit the game and also pay all the expenses of hiring the park. ‘Some well-known ball player, previously agreed to by the captains and managers of the contesting teams, shall officiate as um- ire. the regular National League rules shall be the rules governing the contests. “The games shall be called at 3:30 o'clock each afternoon. “Each team shall furnish balls at the games that will be satisfactory to the cap- tains of the contesting teams, and “each team shall have at least one new ball at the beginning of each game.” —— If you want anything, try an ad. in The Star. If anybody has what you wish, you will get an answer. A DAY WITH MR. BLISS Business-Like. Methods of the Seore- tary of the Interior, HOW HE DEALS WITH VISITORS His Knack of Getting atthe Bottom of Things. NEW YORKER A TYPICAL Written for The Evening Star. NE AFTERNOON last week a lot’ of Kickapoo _Indians, blanket-swathed and malodorous, _ called upon Secretary Cor- nelius N, Bliss of the Department of the Ynterior. Shrinking te a safe distance, and clutching in his right hand a linen handkerchief of ex- ceeding whiteness and fineness, Mr. Bliss gave ear to the proxy lamentations of the interpreter. The boss Indian of the crew was of uniquely unwholesome appear- ance. He stvod nearest the Secretary. The opportunity was splendid for contrasting two diametrically opposite types of the American: the one ruddy, groomed, at ease, master of his environment, the other slaty-copper-colored, distinctly ungroomed, sullenly nervous, a slave to tradition. The aboriginal Americans were welcomed in their coming and sped in their parting by the modern American, who for twenty minutes withstood the steady stare of a dezen pairs of sulky sloe eyes with the same degree of complaisance he would have exhibited in receiving the board of directors in his New York banking house. Departing, the boss Indian held up his right hand horizontally on an exact level with Mr. Bliss’ stature. “Heap little high,” he grunted, himself towering a head above the Secretary. Then the Indian placed both of his open hands at a distance of about half a foot from the sides of his head: “But ht yu skookum heap big here!’ he finished, pointing to his head. he Secre- tary of the Interior positively blushed at the barbarian’s compliment. ‘The Indian’s instinctive discernment of Mr. Bliss’ mental stature was sufficiently surprising, whereas if the Kickapoo had krown enough of the details of the exter- ior make-up of the elderly white American man to have told the Secretary that ne was the best groomed paleface he had ever laid eyes on, there would have been noth- ig surprising in a mere statement of probably unquestionable fact. The multi- tudinous European who, after a two weeks’ tcur of the United States, writes of the “mercurial, madly rushing, impetuous, per- petually struggling American man who dees not know what self-care means, and who Is ready for the grave he has dug for himself by the time he is forty years of age,” probably never happened upon an American of the Cornelius N. Bliss 3 If he had, he might perhaps have critically surveyed a Citizen verging upon sixty-five years of age, whose step is as springy as that of a boy of forty, and remarked, “Here, at any rate, is one American man who has known how to take care of him- self.” Yet the type of man to which the new Secretary of the Interior belongs is not by any means a Hmited one. Hundreds, even thousands, of New York men of precisely the same general exterior characteristics may be seen on any week day morging, in the neighborhood of 10 o'clock, riding down town on the elevated trains, each of them his eyes glued to the financial col- umns of his morning newspaper. These men, every detail of whose outward ap- rearance 1s bewllderingly correct, belong to the broker, banker, bloated bondholder type, and nore of them appears to be par- ticularly ashamed of it. A Well-Groomed Man. When Secretary Bliss reports at his of- fice for duty at 9 o'clock every morning (he invariably swings in cn the stroke of the hour) he is really good to look The term ‘just out of a bandbox,” reserved for Romcos and Lotharios, is not to be applied to him, for he do not appear Secretary Bliss. merely spick and span; he looks finished, from the bell of his dazzling silk hat to the soles of his dazzling boots—the word “boots” not meaning shoes, as it does in England, but boots as they are known in America, with tops to them. The cut of his light topcoat is so perfect as to have aiready jaundiced the eye of the inter- oceanic Ochiltree. The fit of his dark cut- away suit is even better than the impoz- sibly correct fit of General Hancock's ma- jor general uniform in the statue. His face, ruddy as that of a man-of-war’s man who has put in several cruises in low latitudes, shines like a schoolboy’s, and has that clean look as having been shaved about two days under the skin. Mr. Bliss shaves him- self every morning with one of a pair of razors that he has used ever since he was a jad in his father's New Orleans couniing house. The minor snow-white whiskers prolonged from his white hair about two inches below his ears spell “conservatism.” His clear, wide-open neither particu- lariy dark nor essentially Nght, but neutral, twinkle “business.” The result of a com- posite photograph of Frederic Coudert, Chauncey Depew and-the late George W. Childs would be a pretty accurate picture of the countenance of Mr. Bliss. His teeth are even, white, well cared for. His round- ed natis look henna-polished. He is ad- dicted to the white carnation boutonniere habit, and every petal of his carnations seems a triumph of art over nature. He is not of Faistuffian girth, but stout, and this, even with his five’ feet six inches, makes him look'squat. But he would never be picked for an alderman. Even in tights and spats, he would not suggest Pickwick. Next to Secretary Gage of the Treasury, Secretary Bliss is the most visited of the new cabiret ministers. His daily levee lasts from 9 in the morning urtil 3 in the afternoon. Oné; therefore, would naturally imagine that a day of it would make him husky of voice and craggy of temper. It is not so. When ‘the echoes of the last departing visitor's, footfalls sound their grateful music in the ears of the secre- tary’s messenger, the Secretary’s counte- nance still beams with the bland inscruta- bility of the morning. This is because Mr. Bliss is ar able sifter. It is also because the Secretary has a private secretary who, too, is an able sifter. The roomy office of Mr. Forest Raynor, the private sccretary, adjoins that of his chief. Mr. Raynor, from the collection clerk in Mr. Bliss’ ‘bank, became the Secretary-to-be’s confidential assistant during the progress of last year’s torrid campaign, and in ‘this capacity he learned things. One of tHe things he learned was that a man’s appearance does not always proclaim his relative import- ance. Another one of the things he learn- ed was that amiability on the part of the private secretary to a great man is a fetching and a persuasive trait. At the Outer Gate, ‘Thus, th2 visitors whose paths lead them into this private secretary's office under- go their primary sifting at his hands. Once beyond the Secretary's portal, they pass through a rather closer sifting at the hands of Mr. Tonrer, ex-appotntment clerk of the Interior Department, and now the Secre- tary’s confidential clerk. Finally, if they get beyond Mr. Tonner—no minor job— they encounter the kindly, searching gaze of @ purely business man who yet waves them to a seat at his side with something of the reminiscent grandiloquence of a Sir Charles Grandison. If, however, the visi- tor is not a personal friend of the Secre- tary's—few visitors, thus far, have been— and has not come for the mere momentary exchange of compliments, he perceives at once that he is sitting in juxtaposition with a man whose admiration for concise- ness, condensation and brevity amounts al- most to idolatry. The man with the long story, the recital of a party's or a cons tuency’ ingratitude, does not arouse the Secretary's Visible animosity; instead, he excites the Secretary's latent powers of indifference, and, before he quite under- stands the reason why he has not made a hit, he is being bowed out with smiling commonplaces. In no wise lacking in a sense of humor, this Secretary of the Interior has tw) blank, unappreciative eyes for the man who thinks to make what ball players cail a grand-stand play by telling him a screa’ ingly humorous story before upon the narration of his business. Minnesota officeseeker of some consider atle distinction in his own state made ( distressingly dismal mistake on his v the other day, He had scarcely been intro- duced before he seized a trivial pretext, a quip on one of his own words, to lessen the Secretary’s burden of state by telling him the most frantically funny story in nis stock. Mr. Bliss listened gravely, with ab- solutely fixed countenance, all the way through. When the Minnesota man reach- ed his climax and exploded with the ter- rific humor of his own yarn, something that was almost gioom nimbussed the Sec- face. said he, idly fumbling a hand-blot- “quite so; 1 perceive:—eh—good morn- And the Minnesota man probably did not realize until he got into the cool outer air that he had been dismissed before he had related his business. Secretary Bliss, however deeply sub- merged in business he may be, has a cor- dial handshake and an attentive ear for oid soldiers. He receives them at any and all times, and gives them whatever audience they desire within reason. When they step from his office they invariably appear to walk with a lighter tread than upon their arrival, and it is said that there is to pe a rather surprising list of reinstatements of discharged old soldiers in the pension of- fice before long. Mr. Bliss’ only martyrdom of the day is at the hands of some of the ladies who visit him. He is rather a shy man in the presence of the Oddly enough, though, none of his feminine visistors appear to be in the least bit shy or retirin For a single instant, the othe majestic, fashionable-looking woman cf forty swept into his room with the frou- frou of silken skirts, and emliting the somewhat violent perfume of orris as she passed, Mr. Bliss seemed just a trifle un- decided as to what he-should do with his hands and feet. He did not look unlike a man who wanted to run. He quickly re- covered, however, and deferentially heard the lady’s somewhat prolonged story. If he made any promise to indefinitely retain her husband as an Indian agent, the lady's haughty and rather “mixed” appearance did not denote it as she emerged from his Office. When the Crowd is Gone. The levee all promptly over at 3 o'clock (only a very monumental man may get be- that yond the Secretary's threshold aft heur), Mr. Bliss lights a big, black ci; he ix an inveterate smoker—agd gogs in for an hour or two of hard work. Now, the Department of the Interior being pract! cally distributed all over the city of Was ington in its numerous branches, it at first seems difficult to understand how the Sec- retary of the Interior can easily keep h hand-upon the daily pulse of all of thes: big establishments—the pension office, ihe Indian bureau, the land office, the patent office and so on. If it were not for the system of work quite recently established in the Department of the Interior, the Sec- retary would be compelled to resort to the rather unsatisfactory and tedious plan of requiring all his various commissioners to wait upon him at certain periods of the day in order to make their reports to him oe what is going on in their respective offices. ‘The present system has immeasurably simplified the thing. In the Interior De- artment building there is maintained a vision of each one of the big offices under the jurisdiction of the Secretary. Throw ion of the pension office,” for in- stance, all of the mail that is later sent over to the main pension office building has to pass, and from this mass of mail is sifted every matter that is to require the censideration of the Sceretary. An ab- stract of these after whatever action the Secretary dir: Each one of these divisions of the main bureau is thus made a clearing house for respective bureau, and the heads of e divisions, being in constant contact with the retary, are enabled to give hit i a complete daily report of all that is go on in the department's numerous la important branch, It is when Mr. Bi cigar that begins to re. ports. Seeing with a reac into the heart of things, this s light! already popularized himself with the Interior Denartmeat clearing house officiais. He seems to krow the im- portant paper at the bottom of the divie sion chief’s portfolio, and digs it out first. He has almost the faculty of Librarian Spofford for throwing out stuff that. he does not deem important. Mr. Spofford 8 ponderous tome in eight seconds, s it fall with a thud ary Bliss, almost in folding a document of a itten foolscap,gr relative value. s of unt with his m will read twenty able length, in ten minutes, and will re- call phrases from every paragraph of them several days afterward—a little feat which Ovcasionally causes the division chiefs He letters, each of consider- to ize at him with rather wondering eye. The Secretary goes over pape aid one of e chefs, “as if they were se- curities of which he knew the ruling mar- ket value down to the eighths, and he sorts them out and considers them as he would sort out and consider railroad bonds of varying degrees of solidity which he meditated -buying.’ By 4 o'clock he has finished with all of his division cniefs, and knows pretty thor- oughly what has happened during the off- lay in his continent-wide offi Then he rings for his stenograyhe spends half an hour-in the jd dic- tation of letters. The English he employs in these letters is admirable, the old-fash- ioned organ notes of the correspondent of another day oftea swelling through them— that is, they have the resonance of letters which able men used to write at their leisure for the joy of it about a hundred years ago. Regularly Secretary Bliss’ carriage awaits him at the F-street entrance to the In- terior Department every o'clock. Quite as regularly Seer. s a messenger out to dismiss his car- riage and walks down F street toward his hotel, the Arlington, stopping at most of the shop windows as he passes them, and courteously doing a lot of hat-doffing to miscellaneous pedestrians who recognize and salute him. y Bliss ——~»__ THE HORSE WAS PLAYFUL. But the Tenderfoot Did Not Like Him Any Better for Being So.- From the D-trolt Free Press. “He ain't vicious, stranger, and ain't got a single nean trai So spoke the owner of the mustang to the tenderfoot who was sojourning in the hills of southwestern Missouri. “You just get on and try him, and if you don’t like him don’t buy him. He may be a bit spry and playful, but that’s ‘cause he’s been in the stable over a week.” The tenderfoot sprang to the saddle and what happened thereafter he only dimly remembered. The horse reared; then he came down on all fours, with his legs as stiff ez a sawhorse. Having repeated this operation half a dozen times, he sprang forward and covered a good section of the country at a 2.01 gait, with no running mate either. He reared, leaped, plunged and firally made his way back to the start- ing point, made as if to roll over and then dived for the stable door, leaving the horse- man dazed, dumb and limp in a bush near the roadside. The owner kelped the would- be purchaser to his feet, straightened him fies jammed his battered hat on his “What kind—kind of » horse do you call that? the tenderfoot. ~ “Shc! He's all right. Been in the stable a week, that’s all. Feels a eps But he has a right nice gait. do you think of that single foot of his'n?” HIGHEST PRAISE Given Doctor McCoy by the Fellow Members of His Profession Because of the Marvelous and Uniform Results of His Treatment for the Cure of Deafness. Members of the medical professioft conserva, tive. No new method of treatment ts accepted by them until it has been long tried and proved to be uniforn: in results in so many cases that there can be no question about its value. When Doctor M. Coy first announced that be had made a new al covery that restored the lost the doctors neither believed nor disbelieved; they walted for proof. It came in si e they could pot help bat bel They now admit that to contradict the success of the discovery is to come into collision with facts Matters of fact ore ermined by the testi Mony of truthfal witnesses, and the matter of fact that deaf people are having thelr lost hearing re. Stored Is now as completely proved as the matter Of fact that quinine will counteract fever or that vaccine will counteract smallpox. e lost sense of hear. ly the same means m that miners are ¢ out of the mountains of California are getting diamonds out of the ia. The doctors simply people. Neither the me profession wants to ba people or et a comm common experien But if che med to discover the ing cured by Doctor 3 realize the greatness. Which mele that fact most learned of his professional brethren now con. cede to Doctor MeCoy the most important trimaph recorded since medicine was 4 calling among men. et from nor any the possibile, DOCTORS SAID HER CASE WAS HOPELESS; HEARING RESTORED. Mrs. Annie M. Diercks, Rock Creek Chureh road, cor. Riggs road nw, D. C2 “Twas so deaf that although Isat in one of the front pews in my church, St. M. host. bet. G and 1 nw. [ could not hear the text ziven out or one of the sermon, Last Sunday I sat six pews | back and heard every word of the sermon distinctly tement for the bevefit of the b simifir to who are en to many an in power have been told that hope, that they had to My Denfnens Came on Twenty-Six Years Ago. Tt began with disagreeable noises in my headethat ring a were of a blowing sound like the wind ¢ storm. Three different phy: surgeon, all failed to benefit’ m that there was no help for me, continue to grow worse until I would finally become totally deaf. It seemed that what they told me was true, for every year my deafness increased, especially in my left ear, At last it ‘ecame so bad that I Could Not Hear Anything on my left side. T was very deaf when T began treatment unter Doctor M It was so hard for me to understand strangers that I felt embar- rassed in speaking to them. My own people had to shout at me. Sitting in the house I could not hear the wagons pass the door. Now Ic: onlinary conversation plainly with am and the left ear has improved so that I cam hear my watch tick when hell close to it. “I recommended Doctor McCoy's treatment to a ramber of people, among them Miss Louise EI st. n.w., whose state: peared in the papers. She was deaf. Upon my adivee she took Doctor Me- HIS DEAFNESS RESULTED FROM THROAT TROUBLE. D. Woods, 200 Columbus st., Alexandr ¥ “When I went to Doctors and Cowden it was with the utmost difficulty that T could ur d when spoken to. Now I bear petty: w. ed by throat trouble, threat, months 1 in the 1 { amusen t was sald. after I bezan treatment be- ifiprovement, but when tm fore there provement did begin to some it was rapid and constant. Now I can understand when spoken to in a low tone. I can hear a clock tick distinctly when standing twenty or thirty feet away.” Hiram Devers, 614 Md. ave. S.W. Cured of deafness. RESTORING HEARING LOST IN INFANCY. Joseph Corcoran, 1224 Half at. s.c., city: “I was so deaf that people had to shout at mie to make me understand. Now I can hear bet- ter than for many years. “I had been hard of hearing all my life, result- ing, I suppose, from measles when I was quite young. Both ears were affected, altuough my right was worse. I bad constant noises in my head like the blowing off of steam, “I invariably bad to ask persons to repeat when they spoke to me. To talk with people while walk- ing along the street was simply impossible. “One physiclan had told mo that I neve- would be able to hear agalh. Now I can hear the men around me at work and Join in the conversation at night when going home in the cars.” HAD TO SHOUT AT HIN; NOW HE HEARS PERFECTLY. Alex, Dercourt, 337 H st. me. “I had been deaf for six years. When I went to Doc- tor McCoy I could not hear a word that was said unless shouted in my ears. “I could not hear the electric cars, the door bell be- | CLERK SHERWOOD WAS DEAF TWENTY YEARS. HEARING RESTORED. F. E. Sherwood, Howard Mouse, cor, roe | 6th st {ice years a Cowden to be tre | of the cure of Mauri My left ear was so deat that T could not heey a clock tick with it, My right car was b | aulte deaf alse, My heuring returned to m denly. Now [hear perfectly with either ear “I bad been ing In my left ear for and 1 nw, at City “T went to Doct: ted for my deafne Claggett wenty years, caused by exposure during the war While in the army Nashville, Denn, in the | spring of amd ever sing 1 had territl | noises in sounded Like a waterfall | At timer I bad sharp pains ax though there were dies in my ears. T had ted by different physicians with out help I have tricd aby rything | without “My left ow matter, It had 9 com bend what asking people | “One day, ing been under treatment | Some time, T noticed that the volees of persone med more . and the noises e street seemed louder. T took out my w | and 1 could hear it tick, somet a long time. From that T had not doi on my 1 | F. E. Sherwood, Howard House, cor. Pa. ave. and oth st. Cured of deafness. {ie esas — INE EAR TOTALLY DEAF. NOW HEAR PERFECTLY. Hiram Devers, 14 Maryland avenue }S.w.: “Twas absolutely deaf in my right ear w I went to Doctors McCoy and Cowden, have restored my hearing completely sine» last fall, 1 . amd rom It the deafness én my right car resuited. I could noth 1, not a wont, it my left constant noises in any bi or the ming but t was a disngrveal: side of my he went to Doctor Met merous cures. My li | There was n ee buzeing never pained m ped-up sen d always had a num afte “an in my n to me chang this: morning, y after the through treating me my by me noises stopped. and, holding my w ear, I bean it ticking plainly. 1 a wont be the person speaki clear and distinct. » without turning my 1 John A. Stanton, with it | with and distinetly with my 4 totally deaf, as with my left ear, “My hearing bas becn perfectly restored, T have not the slightest difficulty im understanding every- thing that 4s said and bearing every sound.” J. .W. Palmer, 1005 G st. now.: “I had been growing deaf for elgat or ten years. “My ears felt as thou: 1 with cotton, would have to Usten ver ly and look al- rectly at the person in wider to updersiand what he si “LT went to a specialist amd was tr fora long The at be gave caused me had to give ft up, hav- usb hi, y bad entirely 4 no 1 or joining om in DOCTOR McCOY’S BOOK FREE TO ALL. 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