Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-22
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS,

There Is no Wndl meu'cal science
will do next Mr. Edward Shaw. United
States consul at Asuncion. Paraguay and
son of the well-known newspaper eorre-
spondent, is here on leave Of absence ana
is at the Riggs House. Mr.. Shaw's legion
of Washington friends were shocked fe-
yond measure when they perceived upon
greeting him that his left eye was a dull,
whitish-gray disk instead of a sparkling
mate for its hazel companion.
My eye became affected :ou see 1t I.
from rheumatic iretis," said Mr.. Shaw TO Il
commiserating crony of former days, ''nat
| am here for treatment, and the oculist
assures me that l will regain my sight and
have my eye restored to its natural color,
nearly so. The light will be let in above
the pupil and the color will be pur there by
means of tattooing. / know il sounds sim
gular to speak of ones eye beiES tatt3oed,
but that is what my physician is going 20
do to mine, and 1 have no doubt the opera
ton will be as satisfactory and Successful
In my case as it has been in that OF Others
whose optics have been similarly treated"
NO one can ever believe the truth O. an
incident in my life," said Capt. Webb Fai-
Ion, an old seafarer who runs a whaleba ok
on Lake Superior now and is seeing the
sights of the capital for a few days. He
was talking to some acquaintance 1T the
National. There are half q dozen rncn
scattered over the world, though who can
vouch fer it. Just after the war ] was sec
ond mate of the Franklin Pierce, a Boston
boat that was engaged in the sugar trade
with Cuba. She was a big -hree-nasted
schooner and remarkably seawortaJ. In
the spring of 1867 were on our way
south, when a bowling piece of storm came
along almost before we knew IT. !ust like
simeon, and stripped off our canvas IKE
skirts off a clothesline. We pitched and
rolled the worst / ever saw, and all of n
sudden somebody yelled waraing, an! the
mi M W a FOR
to hit our decks. | standing lear the
mainmaSt and before could grab anything
away / went A chicken coop went With
me. as well as everything else IN deck mat
wasn't nailed, and when / came TO my
senses the coop was near me. | struc, out
for ii and got it, l looked around for The
Franklin Pierce, but she was nowhere IN
sight. The storm increased in violence. IL
seemed as If there was something InIer the
water raising ii up all the time, and j rode
waves on that coop that would have
Swamped the Great Eastern, | :irnly be-
lieve. L reckon I'd been tossing about fer
over an hour when big black mass seem
ed to come up out of the water in front of
me. At the same moment l felt the water
fairly jump under me, and was thrown for
ward as IL out of a catapult. The shock broke
my hold on the coop and away went bur-
led in water. Then / struck SomethiEg
hard, and grabbed thing that struck my
hand and held on like grim death. II was a
rope. The water left me and l opened my
wave came. ! knew 1 was On a vessels
deck. and l lay there and waited The
storm went down z lmost as suddenly a. it
came up. Gentlemen, as 1 stani here, l
found when l could examine M where
abouts that / had been washed back on 10
the Franklin Pierce"
AS Capt. Fallon concluded 4 procession of
limp men started solemnly in the direction
OF the bar, and waited for him 10 say the
word.
thine certainly works wonders in a va
riety of ways" said Richard Campbell of
Atlanta to acquaintance at the aIeti D
politan last night, 1.-The last time saw
you you and / were taking a drink At one
end of the Kimball House oar, anG Hairy
Hill and Lord Charles Beresforj were do
ing the same thing at the other. Now YOU
are here in office and / am going 10 be rcNt
week, and Hill and Lord Charl IS are serv-
ing terms of Imprisonment at :" Gress
Lumber Company's convict camp at nra-
| mer. The news came to Atlanta last week
that both of those curlei and :jeJtel Car
lngS of Atlanta society only a Jew short
moons ago were living easy life at the
penitentiary and enjoying terms If ini:na-
cy with the officials Old Jonesy wAEt up
and brought back 2 different ale. Ee,es-
! ford is wearing chains because he tried TO
get away last December and Ei!l is shovel
! ing the coal into the furnaces that keep the
boilers going in the planning mills.
| There is very little to tell abou- in the
book world that is novel or nev;sy," said
Elliott Walker. connected with Il northern
| publishing house, at the Ebbitt. Il rerk Oh
you've heard of Rudyard killings latest
freak in the way of ideas. He is NV study-
/ ing plan, so 1 am told. to bring Gu.
book that will be Invisible in me ll,l6ie,
/ like the olG-fashoned hymn Do0ka. which
had the words at the top Of the page ana
3 the music on the bottom. kiuiil2'S idea is
/ to have three separate stories in The same
book. The top page VIII complete une, the
bottom page another, and the JwO tu-,e; her
Will make the third. While Ihey vii Of ne
cessity bear a great resem 02ace - each
. other, kipling Claims the plots viil ue en-
! tirely different, enc from the other. Iii bet
| a doughnut, though, that the freak never
! sees the light
Against LiuuGr Traffic.