Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1898, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1898-24 PAGES. O'HIGGINS. NEED THEM BADLY Fine Ships That Should Be Added to Our Navy. ——_+-——_ (HIGGINS AND THE SAN MARTINO Both Belong to the Class of Arm- ored Cruisers. OTHERS IN THE MARKET Written for The Evening § HE EVENTS OF the past ten days have done a deal to- ward booming the products of foreign shipyards. Reported Spanish purchases have excited more than common con- cern, while the wil- lingmess of a few countries to barter their ships at this critical time has made us reasonably the craft they offer. The suspicious of vessels really needed are those demanding the nicest diplorracy to get; and, with the two most coveted in our possession, w2 eculd give Spain a quick and substantial drubbing, while, should the same ships get irto her fleet, we should have a very for- midable force to face. The ships in ques- @s armored cruisers. The O'Higgins is an Argentine San Martino—both described abroad as protected cruisers, but really be- lenging to that heavier order classed by us as armored cruisers. The OHiggins is an English adaptation of our Brooklyn, breught up to date by Elswick rapid-fire ordnance, ard, of her class, she is the most formidable ship in the world. The O'Higgins was launched on the 17th @ May last, at the yard of Sir William G. HARALD HAARFAGRE. drive the twin screws, and six large water- tube boilers of the latest Belleville type will supply the needful steam. These boil- ers have been the means of saving cons!d- erable weight, and of enabling the design- ers to secure s0 much on her moderate dis- placement. A Rapid-Fire Battery. It is in the character of her battery that the ship ts an eye-cperer to the ordnance pecple.of this country, and a revelation quite too advanced for the British admir- alty as well, even though all the guns are made right in the heart of England. It is hard to compass the power of a force of thirty-eight such rapid-fire guns as the OHigg:ns has. The gurs are of the follow- ing numbers and calibers: Four S-inch rapid fire, ten G-inch rapid fire, four 4.7-inch rapid fire, ten 12-pounder rapid fire. ten 6-pounder rapid fire, not to mention the four machine guns for the teps or tHe three torpedo tubes, one of which is said to be of the urder-water di: charge cret mechanism wel! worth buy:ng. Corpared with the S-inch gurs on either the Breoklyn or the New York, the S-inch rapid-fire gurs on the O'Higgins can fire four times as many_sot in the same period, while the G-inch gun, rapid fire or other- vise, fortns ro part of the battery on either the New York or the Brooklyn, The difference of force cf the ships can best be understood by the fcllowing table, showing the muzzle energy, 1. e., the de- structive force with which the shot leaves the gun ard the weight of shell fired in a minute’s time from all the gums on each ves Disntecc- ment. Musile Weight of shell. New York 8.254 4.356, Breoklyn. 9.215 oP YTALS tons 341,402 foot tons 10,676 Ibs. O-Mievins 8.500 tons 5 216 foot tons 11,650 Ibs. With the exception of the nowder cases. our ammunition would fit the O'Higgins’ guns: and ysing cordite, on the same total weight of ammunition, this Chilean craft would have quite 10 per cent more dis- charges than we should have by using our present Brown powder. The San Martino. The next most desiratle chip is the San Martino, built in Italy for the-Itallan gov- ernment during one of its periodical differ- ences with Chile, for the extravagant sum of $3,656,500. The San Martino is substantially a dupli- cate of the Spanish Cristobal Colon, but with a slight superiority in battery. She has a displacement of 6,840 tons, is 328 fect long, has a maximum beam of 59 feet 8 inches and a mean draft of 23 feet 3 inches. She has twin screws, driven by Armstrong, Whitworth & Company, Els- wick, England, and is now rapidiy ap- preaching completion. She was designed by Mr. Watts upon lines somewhat finer than those of our Brooklyn, and her gen- eral dimension and principal features are: Length on load water line. Beam, extre: 412 ft. 62 ft. 9 in. 224 «8.500 tor 16,000 Maximum speec t 21.25 knots Bunker capacity for coal. 1,200 tons. ‘The bottom and sides of the ship up to a short distance above the water line are sheathed with wood and coppered, thereby guaranteeing freedom from the retarding accumulations of seaweed and barnacles, naking the vessel practically inde- t of dry docks. Practically at all could maintain her designed speed, and that without an excessive ex- penditure of coal. She need nat fear the warm waters of the tropics. Well Protected. Defensively, the ship is weli provided for. in 18 a broad seven-foot water-line belt re ng fore and aft throughout the great- er part of her length. This belt has a max- imum thickness of seven inches and a min- | imum of five, and is of Harveyized nickel steel armor. A protective deck, varying two sets of triple-expansion engines; and upon a development of 13,000 indicated horse power has attained a speed of twen- ty knots. Her coal capacity is for 1,000 tens. She has a complete Harveyized nickel- steel belt 8 feet 3 inches wide extending from stem to stern, and having a maxi- mum thickness of six inches and a min- imum of three. The casemate armor, six inches thick, covers the sides from: the armor belt up and fore and aft for a dis- tance amidships of about two-thirds’ the | vessel's length. The barbettes are’ six inches thick and the athwartship bulk- heads protecting the bases of these bar- bettes are also six inches thick. All guns are sheltered behind heavy shields. Over the broadside battery of rapid-fire six-inch guns there is a deck of 1.9-inch steel. The protective deck below, which runs fore and aft from bow to ‘stera, ranges. from eight-tenths of in inch thick béhind the heavy armor to 1.45 inches thick forward and aft where the side armor is lighter. The conning tower is six inches thick. The battery of the San Martino is nearly a duplicate of that cn the O'Higgins, and consists of four eight-inch rapid-fire rifles, ten six-inch rapid-fire rifles, six 4.7-inch rapid-fire rifles, ten six-pounders. ‘The muzzle energy in a minute's time of ail hee guns amotnts to 618,894, and the total weight of metal thrown in’ the same ah alunite ir. iM. SAN MARTINO (SISTER SHIP TO VARESE). from one and a half to two inches, covers the vitals and reaches from side to side and from end to end, slanting to a few feet he- low the water-line’ at the bow and the stern. ‘ The barhettes and housings of the cight- inch guns gre of hardened eteel, six inches thick. The casemates about the other guns are six Inches thick, and all the guns are protected by heavy shields. The conning pessessing four - a -inch guns instead” of fas tee imo nd as 2 Elswick yard just turned out a Wetuietarele annus 3,500 tons displacem.ent—which in point desirability comes easily after the two ar- mered cruisers Herald toe trip she made over seventeen knots, antl under natural draught has a recorded sea. speed of fourteen knots. A broad band of eight-inch Harveyized steel, extending fore and aft along the sides from points abreas' the two big turrets, gives excellent wate line protection and covering for the sides up to the main deck. The battery consists of two'ten-inch wirewound guns, six 4.7- inch rapid-fire rifles and eight twelve- pounders. The ten-inch guns, which are housed in two Hichborn turrets of eight- imch steel, are of the latest Biswick pat- tern, and it is claimed they have a rate of fire of-one shot a minute—the equal of our eight-inch guns in speed of fire, and supe- rior in points of power and weight of shot. The Harald Hearfagre has already proved herself a good sea boat, and is reported to be a very steady. gun platform. This craft also has a submerged torpedo tube, and it is said to work quite as well as those recently put in the Japanese bat- tle ship Yashima. Amazonas and Abreuall. Of the Amazonas end her sister ship, the Almirante Abreuvall, we have already heard something—they are typical Eiswick cruisers; but we can best understand thetr Power by comparing them with the Cin- cinna:t, a ship of like type and of nearly the same magnitude. Cincinnati, Amazonas. 800 ft. Length on water line. _ 380 ft. Beam extreme. . 42 a3 Mean draft, normal dis- placement’ . 18 16 10” Maximum indicated horse-pswer (estimated) 10,C00 7,500 Meximum speed {est!- ed). 19 knots 20 Normal coal ‘supply 850 tons 709 ‘Total bunker capaci 469 tons 850 Pretcetive deck, ma: mum thickness. 2.5" 3”, P 4.0” 4.5" Se 8 guns): Ginch RF. 10 5-inch R.F. .7-inch RF. 1 6-inch BLR. 10 6-pounders 8 6-pounders 20 19 guns Total muzzle energy 3 in a minute's time.175,268 foot tons * 231,805 Welght of all «hot fired in that time. 4,980 Ibs. 5,040 Ibs. Should Make Us Reflect. The remarkable character of all these English-built ships centers principaliy in their powerful batteries of rapid-fire guns: and it is not alone by the use of “cordite” that they are so effective. Their up-to-date breech mechanisms are the main cause. end the attainment is one calculated to make the American people reflect. Thi O'Higgins and the two cruisers we have ac avired are sheatled with wood from their keels up io a few feet above the water line and then coppered to prevent the ac- cumulation of hampering marine vegeta- ‘on. As a result the vessels will alway: be able to make their scheduled speed without an excessive expenditure of coal will be pract’cally independent of dry docks urder normal circumstances and can be counted upon for instant efficiency and readiness so long as the copper remains in- tact. This is just what Chief Constructor Hichborn has been urging for years, and orly six of our small gunboats bear the impress of his perseverance. ——— ee WATERFALL OF JUANACATEAN, Grandest and Least Known of the Scenic Wonders of Mexico. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Not frequently in this advanced age does it transpire that one of nature's most mar- velous works has been allowed to remain unchronicled among the Tecognized won- ders of the earth, and generally unknown to a majority of the inhabitants of a world it was designed to adorn, yet, sequestered among the verdant hills and vales of Cen- tral Mexico, not because of any remoteness or inaccessibility, for it is situated within a €ay’s journey by rail from the capital city of the republic and only a few hours’ travel from the fair metropolis, Guadalajara, in the state of Jalisco, but because of the tardiness on the part of those who worship at nature’s shrine in availing themselves of the allurements of this truly delightful section—this land of manana, of poco tiem- po anil sweet forgetfulness—all the more sublime because of its unheralded majesty there exists a masterpiece of nature’s hand- iwork, unrivaled in its own pecuiiar beau- ties and environments. It is the great waterfall of Juanacatian. The immediate approach to the, falls is in itself an artist's dream of rural deli; Leaving the railroad at the little station of El Castillo one is conveyed by a ‘native tramcar for adistance of five miles through @ Deautiful circular valley thousands of acres in area and resembling in the grace- ful curves of its-surrounding hills and the delicate tints of its labyrinths of wild flow- ers a mammoth seashell. At frequent in- tervals above the tops of the tail grasses and tropical shrubs glimpses are caught of the broad, winding Rio de Santiago, its waters hastening onward to the mad. Having traversed perhaps two-thirds of this enchanting landscape one’s ear grad- ually becomes conscious of a low, distant murmur, which steadily increases to a Geep tumble and from that to a mighty roar, and Presently the tramcar comes to a standstill at the very brink of a high Precipice, from which is viewed through clouds of vapor- ous mist the sight of thousands of tons of. water plunging over a wall of gray granite in a steady unbroken cataract 360 feet in width for a sheer distance of 60 feet into a seething, eddying vcrtex below. Vor a tims the mind is apt to he heid in rapt contemplation of the grand spectacle, then by degrees the senses are awakened to the various characteristics, the exquisite effects, ani weird vagaries of the foaming, falling waters. At the extreme further shore a portion of the rushing flood is turn- ed aside by axspur of granite and hurled against the face of the confining wall, from which it rebounds in a fine vei!-like cas- cade, while from the top of the precipice on the nearer side long trailing vines droop down and reach out their tendriis as if in vain efforts to grasp the descending tor- rents. Associated with theze falls is a strange and beautiful phenomenon. It is the con- stant presence of myriads of gorgeous but- terflies, which flit in and out the rifts of the Great cascade and to and fro through the clouds of drifting vapor, seemingly attrac! ed and fascinated by the dazzling, buffeting avalanche of foam. ———_+o+____ The Vociferous Blue Jay. From the New York Tribune. The blue jay is a permanent resident of our groves. When the deepest snows cover the ground he may be seen flitting about in the sunny tops of the pine ‘and hemlock trees. His winter coat is hardly as bril- liant as the plumage he wears a few months later, duting the mating season, but the markings are the same. He is about one- fifth larger than a robin. His general color is pale blue; the wings and tail, which are darker blue, are barred with black. The splendid blue crest of the male is erect- ed when he is fighting for his nestlings or in any way excited. The throat and under parts of the bird are a pearly white, and he wears a black collar. There was nevel a greater misnomer than the name “jay” applied to a foolish, awkward person. The jay is no guy among birds. He is one of the most beautiful as well as one of the most intelligent of all our native birds. He possesses all the wit and love of mischief which characterize the common crow, to whom he is so nearly related. Thoreau quotes a letter to Wilson, the ornithologist, to show ‘that the jay, like.the squirrel and some other birds and animals, lays up a winter store of nuts, corn and hard seeds in post holes and similar places. His thiev- ish habit and taste for the eggw and young of smaller birds keep the jay in continual discord with his neighbors. No sooner aré his nestlings fairly fledged than they are attacked by the robins, orioles and other birds in the vicinity, who will blind them with their sharp beaks, or overturn thelr nests, if the parent birds leave them for an instant. The young jays in such an emer- gency will sometimes seek human protec- tion. Last summer four young jays, who had been driven from their nest, ensconced themselves in one of the rooms and on the ‘upper piazza of a woodland cottage, show- ing less fear of the inmates than of their bird enemies, who watched them from a ae Neg hag Bagge a bird Seed the ones, wi magnificently plum- male bird guard and drove away hts. ~ WHEN PAY:DAY COMES An Event That Brings Joy to Depart- ment Clerks. MARKS A RETURN OF PROSPERITY It is the Occasion for Settling All Old Accounts. DIVIDING UP THE MONEY Written for The Evening Star. Ts Is A HEAP of ‘humanness’ in af big government de- partment on and around pay day,” saic: the man who threatens to write a book about it all) some time or an- other to a Star tour- ist of departments. “The hectic flush of anticipation mounts to the cheekbones of most of us several Gays befcre pay day is due, and running through the. performance of our work dur- ing that restless period there is the shining thread of consciousness that we are upon the verge of something pleasurably !m- portant. Time does not wither nor custom stale this regularly recurring mental state of happy foreboding. The man who has been in a department for thirty years radiates the same bland, expectant, ther®’s- a-revival-of-prosperity expression from his countenance cn the day before pay day as the young fellow who has just been given a government job. “The lightning catculators begin to get cut their pencils and pads on the morning before pey day. They perform five-minute stunts with their calculating stationery about a dozen times throughout the day. They do a lot of head-scratching and nose- rubbing while thus attempting, say, to convert $49.50, ‘assets available tomo:row,’ inte~a blanket suffic.ently large to smother $63.20, ‘immediate liabilities,’ and it’s the simplest thing in life for a man who has watched the game for a long while to trace out their exact mental processes while they are at it from the expressions on their faces. In the middle of an im- portant job of government work on the day before pay day, you see the fellow at the desk on the left of you suddenly reach for pencil and pad and begin to jot down fig- ures, most of them on the Gebit side. ‘Gee, whizz!’ you can hear him think, ‘I forgot all about that new lamp for my wife's Like—there’s another, $3.50 gone to the dickens!’ Or he may be inwardly sayinz, ‘Blamed if I've got down on this list that new gas stove—$5.50, I b'lieve she said it would be—that I’ve had no peace of my life about for this last menth or two.’ Or he may be muttering to himself, ‘I wonder if she’s going to leave me enough out cf this mess to array myself in a new $1 spring suit?’ Easiést thing in life, as I say, to figure out what they’re thinking from the way they look when. they're jab- bing away at that debit column. The young fellow that’s going to get married next September, for example, exhibits a look of pain when he calculates that he won't be able te clap more than five-sixths of his wad into the bank the next day, and then he takes out his Hst of housefurnishings that he has made up his mind to buy an1 chops off a skillet or an egg beater ere and there with.an expression of mournful- ness. Women Are More Carefal. “The women clerks don’t do quite as much ante-pay-day figuring as the men, but they work themselves up over it a good deal more, and emit,,any amount of sighs and ‘dear me's’, while, they wield their calculat- ing pencils. The spring frock problem en- velops them all just now. They don’t see how in the world it’s going to be gone—but they always turn up with the frocks at the right time, just the same. This reminds me that the average woman clerk in the Washington,.departments knows how to make her semi-monthly $37.50 go about three times as far as the average man clerk makes his semi-monthly $75 travel. Most of the women clerks I know get about a dray load of stuff of one sort or another every pay day, pay all their bills, put money in the bank, go off on.a swell trip somewhere or another every summer vaca- tion, and always have a dollar or so in their purses. The men—well, say, about all I get out of my semi-monthly bunch of new bills is a hair-cut, three cigars for a quar- ter, one trip to a variety show and two 98- cent shirts—and then I’m flat broke and up against it until next pay day. Queer, isn’t it? “All the government work that’s done in a government department on pay day you could ‘put in the corner of me eye,’ as the sailors say. All hands turn up on pay day morning sort o’ twitchy and nervous, and there is a general unexpressed feeling that everybody ought to get a day off on pay day, anyhow. The calculators don’t do much scribbling on their little lists on pay day morning, but they spend a good deal of time in just dismally contemplating the much-erased and interlined Chinese hiero- glyph sheets that represent finally the dis- tribution they intend making of the dis- bursing officer's largesse. Some of them, it is true, after making their lists all out, suddenly discover on pay day morning that they’ve based their calculations on a ‘whole half month,’ when they’re only due to get paid for a ‘short half month,’ and then their obvious mental gloom is distressing. In the Line. “There’s a whole lot of aimless wander- ing around the halls for a while before the disbursing clerk pulls his window open, and if you examine the male wanderers care- fully you'll see their pay slips sticking out of their vest pockets. Ths people who make a bluff at doing government work be- fore paying off begins don’t look as if they were enjoying themselves. “All of the departments have got ‘deans of the pay line,’ who, having been first at the pay window from time immemorial, ac- quire this title. When they’re not first in the line, you’re to understand that they’re on the sick list or on leave of absence. You can generally tell by the way a gov- errment clerk takes his-money from the disbursing clerk whether he’s a careful man or the contrary. The man who has got a place on his little list for every sou- frerque’ of his pay is a bit gingery in the way. he handles his bills, and he stands at the window and laboriously counts the greenbacks di: yout to him befgre he gives the man. behind him a show. The young fellow who picks up his money with one hand, crusts it up into a wad without counting it an@stufs it into his right-han trousers’ pocket; is generally the man who’: going to give the semi-monthly department- al collectcrs some itroublé before they in- duce him to prod “The collectcrs ‘ye got any outstanding ac- faihe on the collectors be- ing in the building somewhere when the paying off is ing,on. Moreover, they’ve got some of finding out that wives look rather pleased when their better halves appear, all togged out for a day of morey distributing, and they look around at the other fellows out of the corners of their eyes _as much as to say, ‘Pretty neat- looking girl, hey? Then there is another class of worried-looking wives—limited, for- tunately—who show up on pay day because well, because they have reason to fear that their bread winners might yield to disastrous allurements on their way home with their pay. “There is always, to my mind, something pathetic about the pay day appearance of these. women. The wheedling young wives who gain their point every time by waltz- ing in, dressed up to the limit, and frankly demanding ‘every nickel but a dollar of it, Jack,’ are numerous. The men with grown daughters are easy prey to the same when they float, in, two or three in a bunch, dif- fusing sachet perfumes. Some of’ the grown daughters are crafty enough to bring young women friends along with them on these occasions. As a matter of pride the doting parent doesn’t like to re- fuse his daughters’ demands when other young women are present. Collectors Are on Hand. “The collectors, as I said, keep away from the pay line, but they permeate the rest of the building.’ You can see them holding .little confabs in dark corners of the halls with the just-paid clerks. As you Pass by such pairs you're liable to over- hear little scraps of conversation—‘Say, can’t he wait till neft pay day?’ ‘Can't do @ thing for you this trip;’ ‘Says he'll have something onthe bill this time or sue;’ “Wonder if I'll ever get this durned ac- count settled; “You here again? ‘You peo- ple are keeping me poverty stricken;’ ‘Got @ big kids’ whooping cough bill to square up this month;’ ‘Come ground next Deco- ration day;’ ‘Who does he think I am, As- terbilk? ell, are you satisfied, ‘now you've got my last kopeck?’ ‘I suppose that Piano belongs to me, now I’ve paid for it? ‘Writ of replevin, hey?’ ‘She certainly did overcharge me for mi ‘ing that dress, and all the goods she kept!’ ‘Say, that suit 0° clothes turned pea green the first time I wore it in the sun;’ ‘That bike's cost me about a million dollars already; ‘Will a ten-spot satisfy you this time?’ and so on to ig — had time. S division chiefs begin to get touched for the little half day ontone Detore noon, and the time slips begin to pile up on thelr desks. The applicants have all got bills to pay that can’t be paid after 4 o'clock, or banks to swamp with new coin of the realm, or dressmakers that must be visit- ed by daylight, or men to see who're going away at 1:47 to the Klondike. All have some ‘special reason for letting the govern- ment take care of itself on pay day among these applicants for half days off when the money has been served out. The chiefs pare nthe: own a ee many of these ications, and the turn for the remainder of the aan se let Settling Up Accounts, “As soon as the disbursing clerk begins to pass out money from his stall, the set- tling up of little accounts among the clerks themselves begins. Some of the men tour around from desk to desk in their divisions, depositing quarters and half dol- lars thereon. The recipients of such pay- ments always work in a little pleasantry, such as ‘Just like finding it, my boy,’ or “I never expected to feel the heft of that half again.’ The women clerks also have their little settling up among themselves. ‘Are you sure you can spare it? or ‘I’m sure you can take your time about it,’ the set- tled-with women always say on’ these oc- casions, but I’ve noticed that they give expfession to these generous little remarks only after they’ve tucked the paid-back money safely back into their purses. “A good many of the men come back from their lunches feeling pretty good, and, if they remain at their desks, they display a large expansiveness of humor during the remainder of the afternoon. A few of them, too, execute little disappearances for ten minutes or so during the progress of the afternoan—which is a very long afternoon, that necessitates frequent nervous study of the clock by everybody. If the day is fine the young fellows say to each other, ‘We ought to be out giving the girls on F street @ treat on an afternoon like this,’ and the women clerks reply, ‘Conceited things!” Im a Hurry to Leave. The washing of hands on the part of the men—I suppose I oughtn’t to add, the surreptitious powdering of noses on the part of the women clerks—preparatory to knock-off work begins about half-past three on pay day, and the chiefs of di- visions who like to emphasize their de- votion to government duty stand at the doors of their offices, some of ’em, and glower at the clerks scurrying to and fro in the halls, and mutter things like, “aight as well abandon this bureau altogether,’ or ‘They’ve got a few dollars and they can’t break away quick enough to blow it in.’ But the glowers of division chiefs don’t “have their usual awe-inspiring effect on pay day afternoons. When we do get into the open air on pay day afternoon, rain or shine, storm or calm, there’s no deny- ing the fact that we do scoot off very much like young ‘uns abandoning a coun- try school house on the last day cf the term. “A government office is a cave of gloom on the day after pay day. Everybody shows up mere or less subdued, and you'll see a lot of us fumbling with calendars to determine the exact week day of the next ay day. Everybody wears a sort of it’s- Agee look, .and you'll hear the young fellows asking of each other, ‘Say, have you got a postage stamp? I want to weite home.’ =: “After all’s said snd done, however, I've got no kick coming on government pay day. ‘That little ante-pay-day slip is about as good a meal ticket as I know of.’ ‘Was Once on Ile du Diable. From the New York Times. A man has been found in Rome who once endured for several years the torture of imprisonment on the Ile du Diable. He is General Paolo Tibaldi, who, with Ledru- Rollin, Mazzini and Campanella, was con- demned to deportation for life on the charge of conspiring against Napoleon III. He says that in his day the island was a bare rock, without a tree or a blade of grass, and each of the prisoners had no shelter ffom the sun until he made a hut of driftwood. The government provisions, sent daily from the adjacent Royal Island, consisted of a pound and a half of the worst bread for each convict, a plece of old’ meat or salt fat, beans or rice, a little oil and six centitliters of tafia, a kind of spirit. “It is impossible,” says the gen- eral, “‘to describe the sufferings to which we were subjected by our cruel keepers. According to their caprice we were chained and kept for months on bread. and water, or beaten almost to death with ropes, and so obliged to remain in bed for weeks at a time, suffering horribly. In 1857 $5,000 was raised to organize an expedition to rescue me, but several attempts of the kind only served to make my situation worse. Final- ly, however, the press and public opinion in France claimed my liberation, which I obtained at last, arriving in time to fight for the French republic and to have the sad privilege: of signing with ‘Frochu the Germans.” capituldtion of Paris to the > ———— +2 _____ Couldn’t Pass It. From Puek. Finnigan—Wuz it th’ police thot bruk up th’ -rade? O'Hauliban—No, it wor Casey’s saloon. Sa From Punch. THE DANGER THAT LIES IN PUTTING OFF TREATMENT FOR CATARRHAL AFFECTIONS Consists of Liability on Slight Exposure to Result in Pneumonia, Bronchitis, Consumption, &c. Mrs. Ida Blackman, 3073 M st. Cured of Deafness. Ae Se Ss This case @Wlers from the great majority of eases that are cured under this treatment, from the fact that signs of improvement in almcst all the ccmplications began almost from the start. She S T have been deaf atcut nine years, ever since my little girl was a baby. It was at this time that I noticed that I was beginning to get herd of hearing. I also had Catarrh, and wi trected by a physician, without any effect. This deafness came on gradually, and got worse and worse year by yeat. I had a drendfal roaring in my head. The roaring was so bad that I could not sleep at night, and I said to my hefband that I ‘ectJd not sleep with this roaring,’ only the nigat befcre I first came here. And singularly enough, wenderfal to me, after the first treatment, I was able to go to sleep ani slept well all night. ‘The treatment improved my hearing almost from the start, the mois passe away, and it stayed away, and I had no return of this troublesome symptom. “I could rot hear the clock tick at ali; I hear it again. 1 could not hear my children tal ing; they had to talk go loud to me that they have grown into the habit of talking loud, and ow they say: “Why, mamma, we don't have to talk so loud to you!’ For four or five years, when I went to church I could not hear the sermcn; 1 new hear everything the minister says, and I sit in the same seat that I used to occupy when I wes 0 deaf. I can hear the music and the words of the music. I could not hear a hand organ, and after I bad taken the second or third treatment I cculd hear the organ withcut going to the door. T cculd not hear a knock at the door; I can hear that now. In fact, I cannot begin to tell how much improvement I have derived from the treat- ment, everything is s6 different. I could not bear a WDittle, and now I bear so much. I think 1 hear about everything that fs going on. After Having Taken Treatment Sev- eral Months. “My general health is greatly improved, and 1 feel much. stronger physically than for many yeors. I cam see no reason why I ball not be ane to hear perfectly. I cannot say too much for the treatment, and can scarcely express myself in words as to the gratitude T feel for the benefit 1 have derived. Everything seems different, and it is lke entering into @ new world. I feel like urging everybody wh> pas troubles similar to mine to go to these physicians for treatment. They have done so much for me and for others.” a DANGER OF DELAY. . It cannot be insisted upon too strongly that treatment for catarrhal affections should not be neglected. There is an element of danger in neglect and procrastination, While a patient's condition may not appear to himself to be very serious just at this time, chronle troubles are always mote or less insidious, and !f left to rum their course almost ipvariably end dis: astrously to the patient. ‘This is the most dangerous season of the year for such troubles. Not only is the exposure greater on account of sudden changes in the weather, but the natuial powers of resistance to disease are weakened, and the vitality of the sys- tem reduced to the minimum by the rigors and se- verities of winter, An ailment of a comparatively trifling character may, at this season of the year, as a result of ex- posure, develop into a dangerous and fatal malady, Doctors McCoy and Cowden treat and cure dis- ease of the nose, throat and air passages. They treat and cure diseas:s of the stomach and bowels, diseases of the liver and kidneys and other curable chronte diseases. Reading Matter Free to All. Dr. J. 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