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IT ENDS SEPT. 1. Positively Final An- nouncement of the Close of the $3 Rate. The Opportunity Already Extended Over a Longer Period Than Any Special Offer Ever Given in the McCoy Practice--Only Those Applying for or Renewing Treatment During the Remain- ing Days of August to Be Treated Until Cured at This Nominal Rate. When Doctor McCoy offered the §3 rate to new eee as well as to old he d'd not limit It to fmt made it for the whole summer, with the Ist of September. st period doring whieh a special ag, during which a Doctor regret that he made this offer, t that he made the offer cover though Loth himself and his nd 1 hour of leisure during ls that much good has been chat many have been enabled would have otherwise remained nd he fects that all have had nity to receive the benefits of fee so small that there hus been one month, ending it only Topeless invalids, abundint op port his treatment at a he burden. Doctors: Mets nem n wish that there may ‘They ‘ish that there ‘Ther wish to make cveryiedy that this rate can- 1 or extended Le itively with the will there be a extension of tiis nominal rate. however, who apply for or renew their t during the ¥ ing days of August nity it perfec renewal or will be treated until cured at the rate of {3 a month. ‘Tits applies to all patients ané all dis- ‘The only limit fs the positive one of time. the final weeks. Charles Armstrong, 1937 1-2 11th st.n.w. Cured of deafness. How Mr. Armstrong’s Hearing Was Restored. Charles Armstreng, 1937 1-2 11th st. mw.: “My ear was stone deaf. With it I could met hear one soaad, never mmd how Ir was quite d After being un e time, my returned to me Las T heard with my risht at lad wf—the ticking and that ear is pow more acute than the ear t watch, people to my discomfort, there ng noise in my head that at times almost drove me wild. unnatural noise in mi head bas been stop- Wm. H. Barnes, 509 E st. n.e.: “Just afuess I do not know, but it cable rumbling noise in my caused my d old hear very Iond scunds, but {f spoken to om the streets, could not hear a word. I could not hear when spoken to aeress a room. To make understand, : would have to sit close to ard speak very load. Today I went to chur, and, sitting in a b pew, heard every word the priest said, som not been te do for months. Improvement two weeks ago. I retleed that the acises wei wing less, and that better. aring has improved until now, I can hear conversation One Ear S:one Deaf. Jacob N. Kerper, 613 G st. s.e.: “1 Lad been under Dr. McCoy's treatment for mont! without any apparent benefit and had become couraged, when suddenly my hearing came to m: am employed in Call's brick works, and one afternoon went down town on business. W returned to the shop the machinery seemed to making a terrific noise. I thought that somethi was wrong with ir, but after looking it over {« everything all right. ‘Then I realized that my hear- ing had returned. I had teen very deaf in both ears for four years. My right ear was totally deaf. Now I can hear clearly with both ears.”* She Was Almost Totally Deaf. Mrs. Margaret A. Sewnrd, SI4 L st. se: “While sitting In the kitchen one day, sud- denly the sound of the elyck ticking came to my cars. From that time on the Luprovement was Steady, until my hearing was fally restored. I had Veen deaf for five years in both ears, and baa Lecome alinost totally deaf.” DR. McCOY'S BOOK FREE 0 ALL CONSULTATION FREE. McCoySystemofMedicine PERMANENT OFFICES DR. McCOY’S NATIONAL PRACTICE, Dr. J. Cresap McCoy, Dr. J. M. Cowden, Consulting Physicians. 715 13th Street Northwest. Office Hours—9 to 12 o.m., 1 to 5 pm, 6 to 8 Bm. daily; Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m ‘THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1897-94 PAGES. THE NATIONAL GUARD Engineer Riflemen Preparing for the Sea Girt Meet. NAMES OF HE TEAM MEMBERS Method of Scoring Shots on the New Target. AMERICANS AT BISLEY ——— Pretty much all the activity noticeable in connection with the District National Guard just at present is centered in the riflemen of.the Engineer Battalion, who are preparing for the trip to Sea Girt two weeks from today. Three times weekly these engineer experts visit the range at Ordway and put in hours of hard work familiarizing themselves with the new fig- ure and ‘silhouette targets, as well as the skirmish branch of the practice. Those who aro in constant practice and from whom the teams that are to compete at Sea Girt will be selected are the following: Lieut. Graham, Lieut. Hutterly, Sergt. 8. I. Scott, Private Farrow, Corporal Weath- erald, Sergt. Appleby, Sergt. Stewart, Capt. Holt, Sergt. Dickey, Corporal Leizear, Sergt. Cook, Maj. Pollard, Color Sergt. Cookson, Sergt. Maj. Lanham and Private E. W. Scott. The Engineers will enter two teams each in the regimental and company matches, and all the men composing the Washington detachment will participate in the indi- vidual matches. First Lieut. Glendie B. Ycung, in charge of the party, announces that the start from Washington will in all probability be made Saturday night, Au- gust 28, at 11:35 o'clock. According to the schedule, Sea Girt should be reached be- fcre breakfast Sunday morning. Capt. H. H. Parmenter, quartermaster of the 2d Regiment, it is expected, will ac- ccmpany the detachment as quartermas- ter, having served most satisfactorily in a similar capacity on the trips to Sea Girt for years past. First Lieut. Wilmer P. Vale, who is regarded as a fixture as adjue tant of the Sea Girt party, will also go into camp on the Jersey shore. The 2d Regiment may also send a team. The Washington experts will have some pretty hard nuts to crack in order to over- come their competitors. The crack Georgia shots will be there, and it is reported that the Massachusetts team, in practice, is making magnificent scores with the new rifles purchased last year. The District National Guard, however, has every confi- dence in its representatives, and will not be satisfied with anything less than first prizes all around. District Guard's New Target. The Harries target, as it is designated in the copyright, and a cut of which is pub- lished herewith, the new Mecca, so to speak, for the bullets from: the rifles of District National Guardsmen, will be in position at the Ordway range the latter part of next week. The target, which is the figure of a soldier in undress uniform with leggings and campaign hat, standing at parade rest, with a rifle, is to be litho- graphed on heavy paper. The work is un- der way in New York, and 1,000 tarz sheets have been ordered by the Distr: National Guard. The figure will be in colors, properly shaded, and correct, as to uniform and equipment, in every detail. As the idea is to encourage low shooting hereafter, the tem of scoring that has been adopted allows five for every shot striking below the top line of the lexgings, provided some por- tion of the figure cr rifle stock is hit. From the top of the leggings to the lower edg2 of the belt four will be allowed, provided, also, that some portion of the figure or rifle stock is hit. From the lower line of the belt to the top of the hat, three is the figure that will be recorded by the scorer. Inasmuch as the figure itself in its lower extremities wculd be an extraordinarily difficult target to hit at the mid-ranges cn a windy day, there has been a sidewise ex- tension of the target, such as is likely to meet with the approval of every rifleman, A line has been drawn just beneath the feet of the figure, and from this line up, almost to the lower edge of the belt, run two lines, one on each side of the figure, and about nine inches from the outer edge of the leggings at the ankles. Hits in the ide the legs, up to the legsing nt four. Hits in the compart- line, will co, ments abov®, which extend from the leg- ging line to the belt line, will count three. Private C. McC. Taylor,the expert marks- man, was selected as the ideal model to for the new target. Rivals among the guardsmen will. therefore, soon have an opportunity to fire back at Private Taylor to their hearts’ content. American Team at Bisley. Apropos of the recent editorial sugges- tion in The Star that a team of American riflemen cross the Atlantic and engage in an internaticnal rifle match at Bisley, Ma- jor George H. Harries, inspector general of rifle practice, in discussing the matter with a Star reporter said: “Two years ago I was in correspondence with a number of England's crack shots in ard to a proposition to take an Amer- ican team to Bisley. That correspondence was the outcome of an informal conference at Sea Girt, at which were present the team captains from several states. No action was then taken because of the pre- vailing hard times, as it would have been necessary to ise $10,000 to pay the ex- penses of the team. As business is bright- ening the proposition may amount to some- thing. I am going to Sea Girt in Septem- ber to talk over this very thing with Gen- eral Spencer and others. “If it should be decided to go ahead with the project the plan would be to notify the adjutant general of every state in the Union that the formation of a national rifle team was contemplated. Each state would be invited to send not more than five men to compete for'places, the team to nates. The competition would probably extend over about a week or ten days, and would take place at Sea Girt. ‘The team would be selected. immediately after the close of the competition, would practice at Sea Girt for, probably two weeks and would then proceed across the ocean, Main Difficulty is Armament. “Just now the main difficulty, aside from the financial feature, which would have to be attended to by the various states where men won places on the team, “vould. be the armament of the team. This would have to consist exclusively of -the Spring- field rifle, model 92, commonly but improp- erly referred to as the Krag-Jorgenson rifle. That rifle has not been issued to the National Guard, and, of course, the Na- tiona! Guard riflemen are not conversant with its qualizies or lack of qualities. Seme individual experiments have been mude, but expert marksmen among the state troops really know very little about the |aaen, of twelve principals and four alter- gun, and because of lack of experience with It view it with very little favor. Resighted the gun {is undoubtedly capable of good work, but before it is fit to be used in com- petition with English riflemen on English sanges it must be equipped with a wind gauge. “These matters will all be discussed at Sea Girt next month, and it is possible that some sort of a conclusion may be reached by the team captains who will as- semble at that place.” Preparations for the Athletes. All during the summer the executive committee of the Athletic Association of the District National Guard, of which Capt. E. C. Edwards is chairman, has been hard at work preparing for the open- ing of the gymnasium on the fifth floor of the L street armory building next month. When the classes begin work in Septem- ber the military athletes will find the gym- nasium equipped with the following: A basket ball court, a hand ball court, paral- lel bars, horizontal bars, trapeze, parallel rings, traveling rings, spring boards, bouncing boards, mats, jumping bars, pole vaulting outfit, pulley weights, chest weights, quarter circles, wrist rolls, fenc- ing foils, dumb bells, Indian clubs, wands for drill, German horse, jumping buck, rowing machine, abdominal mat, punching bag, with ceiling and medicine ball. The rules governing the gymnasium pro- vide that the executive committee and the physical director have full control of the gymnasium at all times. None but mem- bers ate allowed to use the apparatus. No member is allowed to use the apparatus unless in gymnasium attire, consisting of blue shirt, blue tights and rubber-soled shoes. The use of tobacco in any form is strictly’ prohibited in the gymnasium. All members present on class nights must take part in class exercises, unless excused by the physical director. The misuse of ap- paratus subjects the offender to thirty days’ suspension for first offense, six months’ suspension for second offense and expulsion for third offense. No member will be allowed in the gymnasium on the drill night of his company until the com- mand has been dismissed. Loud and bois- terous talking will not be tolerated. Vio- lations of any of the rules will subject the offender to such punishment as the execu- tive committee may deem proper. “Echoes of the Drill.” Since their return from San Antonio, Tex- as, the scene of the recent so-called inter- state competitive drill, the Morton Cadets have been subjected to much criticism by certain residents of the Alamo city, and particularly by the San Antonio Daily Ex- press. In the opinion of those conversant with the real situation, the publications in the Express, both during the drill and since the return of the cadets, have been mani- festly unfair, so Tar as they related to the Washington company. Captain Shilling and his command are not without friends, how- ever, at the scene of the late ‘ competition,’ as will be seen by the following communi- cation published in the Daily Light, an afternoon newspaper of San Antonio: To the Daily Light. I noticed in Monday’s Express a two- column article on ‘Echoes of the drill.” The article is very caustic and uncalled for and accuses all who do not agree with the decision of having a pain in the ab- domen. The decision has been rendered and the prizes awarded. How awarded is the much mocted question. But the Express forgets in its hurry to finish the remon- strators, that there are others, many oth- ers, who say that the decision was not in accordance with their views. I have talked with many old soldiers, men who have spent from twenty to twenty-five years, aye almgst their whole lives, in the service; men who know every position, command and movement of gun or man; men, not two or ten, but hundreds, who would never have put the Governor's Guard first; no, nor sec- ond; nor third. The Express will find by inquiry that it is the consensus of public opinion that the Morton Cadets should have had the first prize. Even General Graham is quoted as saying he never saw a finer drilled com- pany, and yet the Express recommends those who honestly differ to take soothing sirup. Does San Antonio ever expect to have another public contest? Do San Antonio citizens ever expect to invite interstate competition or co-operation? Answering that yourself will you succeed in obtaining outside assistance with the record of a few such contests as was held at Riverside Park last month? Let the Express bear in mind that the weight of public opinion and especially in Fort Sam Houston, where there are 80 many competent judges, is with the Mor- ton Cadets in their remonstrance, and when the Express prescribes a dose for them it invites the general public to partake of the same medicine. SOLDIER. Notes. Quartermaster Sergeant Byrne has been nominated for commission as first lieuten- ant and Inspector of rifle practice of the 4th Battalion. The department of rifte practice board of examination will examine into the qualifications of the nominee early next week. At the recent regular monthly’ meeting of Company A, 2d Battalion, Mr. F. E. De Groot was élected an active member, and Corporal McCatharan and Privates Bouley, Horr and Hazard were re-enlisted. By vote of the company the secretary was directed to notify all members that after tne be- ginning ef the regular drill season in Sep- tember any member absent from two drills in succession in any one month will be dropped from the rolls. Captain Guy E. Jenkins, Company a, 5th Battalion, has tendered his resignation, and the paper is now en route through mili_ tary channels on its way to headquarters. It is stated that First Lieutenant William H. Mellach will be elected to succeed Capt. Jenkins. It is understood that every effort is being made in the direction of the organization of the proposed troop of cavalry for the Dis- trict National Guard. Those who have sig- nified their ntention of becoming cavairy- men are holding weekly mounted drills. ee IS A DEATH TRAP. A Novel Plan of Protection to the City of Halifax. From the New York Mail and Express. It is probably not generally known out- side of the English officers in command of the station that George's Island, in Hall- fax harbor, is a huge pit filled with water, and that if an attacking party succeeded in passing the forts at the entrance to the harbor and landed they weuld be precipi- tated into the water and drowned. The surface of the ground is sodded and planted with shrubbery, and is apparently sofid, but the only really solid part of it is a narrow board walk on which the sentries pace to and fro. In case an invading party teck the island for the purpose of comi- manding the city of Halifax they would break through and fall into the pit about fifteen feet below the surface. The exca- vation was made about sixty years ago, and the secret was kept for not less than thirty years. It was not until 1867 that the discovery was made by two men in a boat, driven ashore in a gale. One of them attempted to make his way to the dwelling occupied by the garrison and suddenly disappeared. His companion happened to get a footing on the board walk. Discovered by the sen- try, he was summarily ejected from the is- land, being placed aboard his boat and sent adrift in the storm. He succeeded in reache ing Halifax. The man who broke through wus drowned. The story got spread about, but was not believed, and as no -civilians are permitted to land at George’s Island the peculiar system of protection is today practically a secret. me ‘ Are Enthi atic Wheelmen. From the San Franetsco Post. The bicycle fever has broken out in a mest unexpected quarter. It is only nat- ural that a landsman should take to that speedy method of locomotion, but who wceuld ever think.that seamen would get the craze? Perhaps it is because they heave become accustomed to rolling. Nearly every British ship that comes into port now carries a bicycle, and the skipper is usually an expert rider. At sea he rides around and around the main deck, "and as soon as ne reaches port he takes his wheel ashore. 2 Three sea captains were riding in the park the other afternoon. One of them Was a novice and confessed his inability to work the tiller so ds to sail a straight ates. hi if “ “It's very good,” he declared, “if it just had a little more pitch td it. Ah, that’s better,” he added as he struck a stone and pitched off head foremost. The manufacturer who will turn out a bicycle with elliptical wheels will make a hit with seafaring men. GOSSIP OF- LONDON _— aed ___ How the Englifh Have Interpreted Secretary Sherman’s Seal Letter. “wD AMERICAN DIPLOMATS $0 IGNORANT Views of a Washingtonian on Our Representatives at the Jubilee. ras rae aed SUCCESS OF SPECIAL ENVOY Special London Correspondence of The Evening Star. LONDON, August 4, 1897. It may be a fact unpleasant for Ameri- cans to contemplate, but it is nevertheless a fact, that American diplomacy is just at present under a cloud in the estimation of the English. The reason for the ba4 zepute of the State Department in British eyes is furnished, of course, by the much-talked-of dispatch on the seal fisherics. Its reception over here has been an unusual one. If Britons had said, when they read the seul- ing correspondence, “We see that you are angry, and that you want to fight, and we are ready to pick up the gauntlet your Secretary throws down,” the visiting American might have thrust- his hands into his pockets with his accustomed air of readiness to challenge the world, and retorted, “Lay on, Macduff.” But unfortu- nately for his pride, his English cousins, as Mr. Bayard calls them, have not interpreted the message as a challenge. They have very politely, and with galling condescen- sion, replied, “Of course,.my dear fellow, we know that you don’t mean to be bel- Mgerent. We understand perfectly that your government does not intend war. We know that it is merely your ignorance of the amenities of diplomatic intercourse that leads you to use such rude language; that your diplomats are mere apprentices, drafted from the farms and offices for a four years’ term. If a minister of any European power were to address such a rote to the foreign office our only possible answer would be to give the ambassador his passports, but with the United States it is different.” z In such terms a high official of the for- eign office expounded the government's view to the interviewers of American pa- pers. To be told that he is too eager for a fight rather feeds a man’s pride than otherwise, but to be informed that he is making himself offensive merely through ignorance cuts the ground from under him. To attempt to explain that Americans are a plain people who believe in saying what they mean without beating about the bush and sugar-coating their pills has been a ste of effort, because the Englishman would reply that the Americans were such good fellows it was really a pity that they could not learn that there was a way of saying these unpleasant things without making themselves offensive. He regards diplomacy as one of the fine arts, and can- not understand why any one should prefer to drive directly tothe ultimatum stage rather than to drifbl8 through months of hair splitting, as the!umbassadors of the powers have been doing at the sublime porte. They Care Littfe for the Seals. As for the seals, the English appear not to care a farthing’s worth about them. The people at laygeshave a hazy notion that the whole question is a scramble for spoils between the ,,United States und Canada, and Canada,.is nothing to them but a colony for which they cherish a pla- tonic affection so long,.as it will pay taxes and give the goodg;of;the mother country preferential tariff tates without demanding any reciprocity. 5 The official of the ‘foreign office who explained the govéfnnient’s idea of Amer- ican diplomacy,: dés-hikwed the main issue very airily. “This seal question amounts to nothing but a fight between two trusts,” he de-lared with a wave of the hand, “a United States fur company on one side and a Canadian fur company on the other side.” Since the last presidential campaign English people have seen behind every political wave in the United States the machinations of a trust. The New York correspondents for the London papers feed them on trust stories until they have come to believe that every American officeholder the personal agent of a corporation, with the deed of sale of his vote signed, sealed and delivered. They believe this mith as implicitly as they believe that every American who is not a millionaire is a half-starved,*under-paid victim of the rrotective tariff; that the 1abitual state of affairs in the great cities borders on civil war; that legislation is conducted sackless- ly and in shirt sleeves; that American wo- men wear bloomers +o church and smoke cigarettes after dinner, ‘and are married by preference after a fifteen-minute engage- ment or in a balloon. With these current impressions of the United Staies confront- ing him it has been’a discouraging effort to try to convince an Englishman that the correspondence on the sealing question was not dictated by a trust nor written to catch the Irish vote, but merely meant what it sald. Among American Diplomats. The prevailing prejudice against American diplomacy has not extended to American diplomats. If it had many gocd dinners would have gone ‘uneaten in the past two months, or it has been impossible for a champagne cork to pop astray in any Lon- don banquet hall without hitting some gen- tleman well known to Washington who carried in his inside pocket a: commission bearing President- McKinley’s signature. There has been a procession of Americans filing through the foreign office, ambassa- dors, envoys, commissioners and states- men at large, on general missions and spe- cial missions, and some on merely spectacu- lar missions, and nearly every train to Windsor has taken down some cne of them to present his credentials to her most gra- cious majesty, and bow himself out back- ward from the audience room, barking his calves against the gilded chairs, afterward to curl his knickerbockers under the royal mahogany at one of those peculiarly dreary functions known as state dinners with Lord Salisbury, wio loves an American with the affection felt by the devil for holy water, doing the honors. The profusicn of American representa- tives here during the jubilee furnished the newspapers with a budget of rumors of strained relations between different branch- es of the delegation which may have made it appear that a diplomatic Donnybrook was on the boards, It is true that some treading on one anotber’s toes and polite scrambling for precedence occurred. Mr. Creighton Webb and Mr. Erskine Hewitt of Mr. Reid's staff betiba&hed bitterly because Mr. Ogden Mills wa#'pérmitted to emblazon on his visiting carfiszthe portentous title “first secretary of the ial embassy.” There was also friction between General Miles and Admiral Miller over the division of the apartments’ alldtted to them by the government at thefhotel where they were installed as guests of the queen with armed red coats pacing fore the doors day and night. But a ids as jealous of his prerogatives as a ja donna, and there were no more heartbornin: from the United @taqes tha: ambassadors, pringes and potentates from other quarters whp helped make up the jubilee show and ,werg, nearly driven hys- terical by one ocgult h of -etiquette which consisted in giving the papal envoy second place in a which conveyed the emissary of the,Emperor of China. , The Speéial Envoy. , Mr. Whitelaw Reid has been easily the Star of the American delegation. In Lon- don it would be deemed presumption to designate a special envoy by a title so lowly as “mister.” When a caller rang the bell at the special embassy and inquired in his coarse, ungilded American dialect, “Is. Mr. Reid at thee stogxings: looker ane from st ings, looked down upon him measurable heights of condescénsion to re- ply in rebuking: tones, “His excellency is at home.” Which. a_step in advance for a nation that Ys hecastomed to address its chief magistrate’as “Mistér President.” Probably “his excellency” was not self- styled, however, for: he hired L Gale's flunkeys, along among those n- among the Hl migrating from Washington into the coun- try during an inauguration that he might turn an honest penny by renting his house- hold to a visitor from parts. Yet Lord Lonsdale did omly what many others of his titled compatriots were doing, and they would speak of the United States as “the land of the dollar.” There seem to have been queries in the United States as to what purpose was served by outfitting a special embassy for the jubilee, as well as cavilings at the cost of such an unusual diplomatic luxury, but, as a matter of fact, the mission did much to advance America in the eyes of the European royalties who were assem- bled, though that accomplishment may not be considered worth while by populist sen- ators. The European diplomats have a profound respect for display, however, as deep-seated as their regard for those mi- nute technicalities of etiquette which Washington at large has never been able to hold in such profound reverence as the diplomatic corps does, and the sight of two American ambassadcrs installed in two of the finest establishments in London made an impression much like’ that entertained by the Sultan of Morocco on the appear- ance in his harbor of two men-of-war fly- ing the stars and stripes. Mr. Reid was willing to spend his own money, as most diplomats of the United States are com- pelled to. Mr. Hay had not the necessary time to spare from his steady work of de- clining invitations to dispense oratory, which have averaged about a dozen a da: and, beside that, had the seals and the bi- metallic commission on his hands. The American Costume. The only requirement in which the Amer- ican diplomats failed in foreign eyes was that of dress, for evening clothes in broad sunlight, in which they appeared on most ceremonial occasions, attract comment. Some of the ex-representatives of the American democracy did, however, follow the example of Minister Breckinridge at the cororation of the czar and incase their l:mbs in knickerbockers for certain court ceremonials. This defererce to monarchical customs grieved Gen. Terrell, the retiring minister to Turkey, who happened along at the close of the jubilee and said to one of the diplomats, “I am ashamed of an Ameri- ean citizen who would rig himself up in such chicken fixings.” Gen. Terrell, it may be said, impressed himself upon Constantinople as one of the most determined and hardy men who ever went into European diplomacy without gloves, under peculiarly trying circum- stances and won his ends. He was one of the few men who could always secure ac- cess to the sultan and who did not hesi- tate to tell the sublime porte plain truths. For this reason he might be considered unmannerly in the more refined strata of diplomatists. With the missionaries de- nouncing him on the one hand for not pre- venting Armenian massacres and Congress adopting resolutions at home raking. the sultan fore and aft, his position was not a cheerful one. Yet Gen. Terrill and the sultan arrived at a warm mutual admira- tion. The minister tells a story of Abdul Hamid’s tact. It was at a state reception, where the American minister appeared in the usual evening suit, and an ambassador of another power remarked to him, rather pityingly: “It is too bad that your govern- ment compels you to dress as undertakers do in our country.” The sultan overheard the sneer and added: “Yes, the two most plainly dressed men here are the American minister and the sul- tan.” : The Texas diplomat did not let personal friendship bar him from unpleasant duties, and he attributes the fact that no American missionary was slain during the massacres to. the undiplomatic manner in which he said what he meant. On one occasion, when word had come to the legation that a massacre was brewing in a missionary town, with the connivance of the pacha, Gen. Terrell hastened to the palace and said to the sultan: “If a hafr of that mis- sionary’s head is harmed the United States will demand the life of that pacha.” The pacha was removed from office, and there was no massacre. : Gen. Terrell will devote some of his lei- sure time to writing a book on his eastern experiences. He should put in it a story told by Bishep Potter at the Fourth of July dinner in London of the American So- ciety. The American minister was sum- moned to the royal presence one day, so the bishop said, and to him the sultaa complained, “I am very much surprised to hear that there is a newspaper in the United States that speaks disrespectfully of me.” “May it please your majesty,” Minister Terrell replied, “there are thirty thousand papers in the United States that give your majesfy nell every morning.” R. M. P. TACT IN HIGH PLACES. Two Conspicuous Instances of Its Display. From the Youth's Compantoa. M. Challemel-Lacour, a distinguished member of the French Academy, who dicd lately, was noted for his tact and readi- ness ir social emergencies. Both were se- verely tried upon one occasion. M. Chal- lemel-Lacour was sent as ambassador from France to the Swiss confederation. He called in due form on his arrival on the president. The servant who opened the door said that his excellency was in the cellar bottling wine, but that the visitor should come in and wait. The ambassador hung up his overcoat in the hall and went into the parlor. Presently the Swiss ruler bustled in. “An ugly job, monsieur!” drying his hands; “‘an ugly job! But I always bottle my own wine. Pardon my coat, also. it is a poor fit,” glancing down. “It’s my son’s, to tell the truth. I hurried it on with- out looking at it.”” The ambasador bowed and smiled. It was his own coat. The interview being over, he went home shivering. He sent a messenger the next day for his coat, which he-had hung up in the hall- Of all the qualities once essential to a sovereign, the one most useful now is tact. “Queen Margherita of Italy, who belongs to a house traired to kingcraft for more than a thousand years, is said to be wonderfully skillful in dealing with social difficulties. An incident which occurred at one of her drawing rooms illustrates her readiness and delicacy. The poor who are to be presented at the Roman court are arranged in a large semt- circle in the throne room. The queen en- ters and passes around the line, attended by a chamberlain, who names each person, adding usually a word or two to give the queen some idea of their claim to notice. She asks a question or makes a remark to each and eS on. . On this occasion there was in the line a young man from South America, whose embarrassment showed itself in pale cheeks and terrified glances as the queen drew nearer. At last she reached him and stopped. He heard his name, saw her smile. There was a roaring in his eyes; his knees shook. Every eye was bent upon him with amused interest, his terror was so per- ceptible. “From Brazil?” she asked, “and town in Brazil is your home, Signor?” “J—your majesty—I don’t know!” what he etme whole circle smiled, but the quen’s face was as calm as marble. “You mean that our beautiful Italy already has made ycu forget your home? Ah, signor, you are e. skillful courtier! You flatter us too much!” and playfully shaking her fan at him she passed on, leaving him wondering how he came to make so brilliant a re- sponse, while the crowd looked at him, re- spectfully bewildered, also. —___<o-_ Youngest Daughter of the Revolution From the Hartford Courant. Who fs the youngest child of a revolu- ticnary soldier seems to be a question cf interest. This distinction belongs, prob- ably, to Mrs. Martha Jane Hollister of East Hartford. $ < Othniel Brown was born at Smithfield, R. L, April 20, 1759, and entered the army from that state, but he lived during the greater part of his life at Stafford, Conn. ‘When past seventy years old, November 3, 1828, he married his third wife, Nancy taren. Nancy Septeaber 3, 1800; John ren, Nancy, Hi Adams, October 22, 1831, and Martha Jane, May 3, 1833. Nancy died a few years ago, John Adams Is living in Tolland and Mar- jer) Hartford. tionary soldier two children of the same se as AS st Altraism, From the Brooklyn Life. ‘ “W'dowhood makes @ woman unselfish.” “Why so?” = “Because she ceases to look out for ‘Number One and begins to look out for Number Two.” < tinted khsing labial ancatainaaiiiaraiaiiibie einen taints neh rr tse es tee sents te ae _bredentbeateredé Prat fi WOMEN INVENTORS. Patents Granted the Fair Sex in the Past Centary. FROM CURLING IROK T0 COOKING STOVE Ideas Just as Practicable as Those Evolved by Men. DELVING IN SCIENCE Assistant Chief Alcxander Scott of the division of drafting of the patent office has an interesting list of the patents granted to women inventors of the United States, compiled from 1790 to January 1, 18%. Up to that period there had been issued 331,618 patents to all persons, the number of wo- men included being surprisingly large. The articles en which the patents have been granted comprise everything in the patentable line, from a curling iron to a cooking stove, and from a war vessel to a handsaw. While many of the patents are on objects of peculiar interest to women, many of them are on scientific machines, objects of warfare, miners’ utensils and things which would be only useful to the male portion of humanity. Of course, the baby has not been forgotten, and the ar- ticles patented to make the “mother's joy” more comfortable and contented form a department all to themselves. Collar but- tons have been invented by wives, moth and sweethearts. Evidently this was done to ease the masculine mind or prevent the accustomed, or, at least, accredited, pro- fanity which is supposed to flow when one of the buttons beccmes detached from a garment and rolls somewhere out of reach or “cannot possibly be found.” Complimentary Comment. “We have found,” said Mr. Scott to The Star reporter, “that the objects patented by women are of just as practicable a na- ture as those gotten out by the men. Very often it happens that men invent an ob- ject which is of interest exclusively to wo- mankind, as a new style of hair fixer, but the reverse is often the case. It frequently happens that a woman will suggest some- thing to her husband, or some male mem- ber of the family, who acts upon it, taking cut the patent and getting credit for it, of course, fully with the consent of the one suggesting the idea. Any one who thinks that a woman is incapable of inventing anything really useful is making a great mistake, as a look over the list of the thousands of objects will testify. Some of the most important things in-use nowadays have been invented by women and brought into general use by them.” ‘The first natent issued to a woman, ac- cording to the list. was given to Mary Kies, whose address has been lost, owing to the fire which occurred in the patent office in 1836. It was granted May 5, 1809, and was for straw weaving with silk or thread. The next was to Mary Brush, and was granted July 21, 1815. This was es- sentially for a woman's article—a cors>t, of which there are more patents issued to women inventors than for any other article. The next was to Sophia Usher, September 11, 1819, and was for cream of tartar, carbonated liquid, so it can be seen that “baking powders” were discover=d at an early date comparatively in the na- tion’s history. July 10, 1840, Marie F. C. D. Corbaux, Francis G. Spilsbury and A. S. Byrne took out the patent for “improvement in the mode of applying distemper colors, having albumen or gelatine for their vehicle, so as to render the same more durable, and pre- serving the same when not wanted for im- mediate use.” As can be seén, this inven- tion was of purely a scientific nature The corset invented by Mary Brush in 1815 must have pretty well filled the bill, for a number of years at least, as there is no other invented, at any rate by a woman, until January 21, 1841, when a patent was taken out by Elizabeth Adams. Nancy M. Johnson in 1843 invented an ice cream freezer, and Sarah P. Mather in April, 1845, a submarine telescope and lamp. Madeline Tassie took out a patent on a shirt in 1847. Mary Ann Woodward had a notion of combining ease with dig- nity, for April 24, 1849, she took out a pat- ent for a rocking chair with fan attach- ment. Susan E. Taylor, East Cambridge, Mass., June 20, 1858, received a patent for a fountain pen. It is not only the people of the present day, it may be well to cb- serve at this point, who have their trou- bles. Practical Turn of Mi Elizabeth M. Smita cf Buclington, N. J., was evidently of a practical turn of mind, for August 7, 1860, she took out a patent for improvement in reaping 2nd mowing machines. Sarah Jane Wheeler, New Britain, Conn., January 22, 1861, received a patent for a currycomb. The spirit of ap- proaching war time is shown in only two cases. These are those of a patent for a bandage, taken out by Martha Willis, Rochester, N. ¥., March 26, 1861, and May 23, 1365. Sarah J. A. Hussey, Cornwall, N. Y., received a patent for a hospital table. During the war a number of patents were granted women for corsets and do- mestic articles. Mary Jane Montgomery, New York city, was granted a patent May 31, 1864, for im- provement in locomotive wheels. Elizabeth A. Bur Meadow Lake, Cal., March 8, 1870, took out « patent for an improve- ment in_desulphurizing eres. Ca’ K. Laman, Painted Post, N. Y., April received a patent for improvement in lu! cating railway journals, and Avgusta M. Rodgers, Brooklyn, N. Y., May 9, 1871, one for improvement in conyeyers of smoke and cinders for locomotives. Martha J. Coston of Washington, June 13, 1871, received a patent for an improvement in pyrotechnic night signals. Harriet Z. Gill and A. V. Coale of Pitts- burg, February 27, 1872, were granted a patent for improvement in cosmetic com- pounds, and Sally M. McNett, Topek: Kan., March 26, 1872, made an impro: ment in hair restoratives, for which she was given a patent. Jane Mary Innes, Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 11, 1872, was granted an improvement for clgars, and Harriet H. May, Birmingham, Conn., June 25, 1872, was granted a patent on im- provement for bustles. Mary E. Walton, New York city, February §, 1881, was granted a patent for an elevated railway. Harriet W. Strong, Los Angeles, Cal., De- cember 6, 1887, was granted a patent for dam and reservoir construction. Confined to Culinary Department. ‘The majority of the patents issued to wo- men of late years has been for articles in the culinary utensil line or that of furni- ture and furnishings, while in regard to wearing apparel there have been many patents. It rested with Henrietta J. Lyon, Newark, N. J., to invent a waistband for trousers, for which a patent was issued January 2, 1894; and for Leah D. Jones, Newburn, N. C., to take out a.patent for pantaloons protector, May 8, 1894. There have been a number of typewriter patents issued tc women inventors, sewing and spinning machines, stationery articles, toys and games, toilet articles, musical ap- paratus, theatrical appliances, medical ap- Pliances and agricultural implements. Probably one of the most amusing paten-s for an invention ts that of an improvement on a hammock for two. If the new woman wishes some object done so successfully, it is claimed, by point- ing to the fact <hat many of the articles invented are solely to gratify woman's van- ity and assist in the adornment of her 11 this state, wending his way back to his widowed mother, who lives in New York, frcm whom he has been absent for seven years, having run away from home. His father was Capt. Story, who was drowned from his ship, the Rustigaras, which plied from Liverpool and New York. The young man neither drinks, smokes, chews nor swears, and when he was asked that if an ordinary tramp was usually in the pos- session of such good habits, he repli. “Yes, but I promised my mother once t I would not, and I have not, and 1 He will not beg and works for ev ¥ penny he gets. He has the position. * Se ere aks From the London Chronivie, The dismissal of Dr. drews from the Presidency of Brown Unix versity, Providence, R. L., is the mos: se- rious blow yet struck in America by the capitalist oligarchy whi. Benjamin An- ch threatens social, economic and intellectual Mberty in the Union, and we do not wonder that the case has attracted attention in the United States Senate. Dr. Andrews is one of the ablest men in American university life, and his presidency of Brown University has led to @ great expansion of the power and influ- institution. and somewhat mind, Dr. Andrews has espe himself with the study of ‘onomics, and is, now that Dr. Francis A. Waiker is no more, the recognized head of the Americ academic bimetallists. He wae one er ate American delegates to the Brussels mon. etary conference, and it is no dis; ment to his colleagues to say that In easily first among them in knowledge and capacity. His work on bimetalism, what. ever we may think of its conclusions. is probably the best statement of th. é the controversy which has been is It is assumed everywhere in where the subject has been under ke- cussion for some time, that Dr. Ani has been dismissed from the America, Brown University because of his hereti financial y; and because he, like so many other wise men, sees the growing Menace to American liberty of the trusts and syndicates, and has warned his coun- trymen against them, and has also advo- cated public ownership of big monopolies which have passed out from the stage or Possible nomic competition. There can be no other explanation of this dismissal than this, and the explanation is rend the more certain because, not long Prof. Edward W. Bemis’ was dismiss from the chair of economics in the new University of Chicago on the same ground. Of course, the real ground was not stated, but two things were clear—tfirst, the Uni- versity of Chicago was heavily endowed by the Standard oil magnates, and second, Prof. Bemis had advocated the public own- ership of certain municipal monopoties in which those magnates were interested. The case of Prof. Bemis caused widespread dis- cussion and not a ttle indignation: the case of Dr. Andrews will deepen the im- pression made. It seems to us quite certain that a con- flict is approaching in the United States which will shake the Union as it was shaken by the great slavery contest of an earlier generation. ized wealth has reached a point wh becomes inconsistent with the healthy istence and growth of republican institu- tions. The tariff bill just passed was not demanded by the public, but by the trusts, and it is they which will reap whatever benefit may accrue from this reactionary measure. The state of tension between the trusts and both the workmen and the gen- eral public is becoming keener every day. But no merely economic outcome of the power of concentrated capital is so serious as is the pretension of wealthy men to con- trol academic teaching and culture. Whether bimetallism is true or false fs nothing to the point. Scores of economists in Germany, France and Great Britain be- eve in it, and openly teach it without any other effect than to provoke controversies mainly academic. Universities and colleges should exist solely for the purpose of frank, free investigation into every department of learning, every aspect of Ife with which science or culture can deal. If the untver- sity is gagged the intellect of the country is crippled, its intellectual organs of vision are destroyed. Suppose Newton had be forbidden Cambridge to teach any new doctrine which made against the rece dogmas in physics, or that Wolf in many had been prevented from inquiring into the real origin of the Homeric poems— where would our learning and culture have been today? We owe the awakening life of Europe to the foundation of the great mediaeval universities—Paris, Oxford and Bologna, and we owe the fruitful influence of these great institutions to the fact that they were free. But there is one great difference between such subjects as theories of gravitation, an- cient Greek history, archaeological remeins, even theology on the one hand and © nomics on the other. The difference Lies in the fact that economics concerns itself with the production and distribution of wealth, and that may touch the interests of the rich man. Therefore the wealthy men who endow colleges c: but litte what is taught about experimental phy or early Hebrew literature, but t deal about what is taught in the realm of economics. Splendid as have been th nations of wealthy men in America to many of the great universities, we are not sure whether, in some cases, there has not been an unworthy motive behind these gifts. The rich men, who have already so largely controlled the American pulpit in the large cities, seem to have made up their minds that it would also be well to get hold of the colleges and universities where the study of economies and political science is far more widely extended than it is in England. All the institutions of the republic, from the Senate to a corner gro- cery in a prairie town, are to be managed by the owners of the big monopolies—that seems to be the idea entertained by these magnates; and consequently the universi- ties, as being the places where the of youth is formed, are to be captured by one. That this will rouse a most bitter feeling first and a dangerous insurrection- ary movement next is absolutely certain, A people who abandoned their seats of learning to the control of rich men (them- selves neither cultured nor caring, as a rule, for culture) would deserve to lose their liberty; would, as a matter of fact, soon lose it. We anticipate, therefore, the rise of a great wave of opinion in the United States against the pretensions of the monopoljst class as dangerous to freedom. From economic point of view that movement will, unless we are mistaken, lead to the substi- tution of public for private control ef the big trusts and ownership by the public of some forms of monopolies. From the aca- demic point of view, it will lead probably to the substitution of state for private col- leges and universities, as in several of the western states already is the case. ——-- «e- “Want” ods. in The Star pay because they bring answers. ‘ pssst ITER, He Was Decorated. Maud—“I have an uncle who distinguish- €d himself in the Franco-Prussian war, and was decorated by the German emperor.” Cholly—“Aw! I have a relative who was a ted by royalty.” ‘Maud = In what manner did he distin- Cholly—“In no perticular manner. He was simply shipwrecked on South Sea Is- land, and was tattooed by the king. oy . ‘Mrs. Josephine Polhill of Due West, 8. C., had a severe case of catarrh, which finally became #0 deep-seated that sbe was cutirely Geaf in one ear, and part of the bone in her nose sloughed off. The best physicians treated ber in vain, and she used various of sprays and washes