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SPEED OF BICYCLES.
tvheelmen File an Enforcement and
Protest.


- q Protest.
Geo. w. Cook, secretary of the Associate ted
Cycling Club. of 2502 NJ street northwest
has written to the Commissioners in refer
ence to the proposed regulation of speed of
bicycles in this city. In his letter he says
that at recent meeting of the Associated
Cycling Club resolutions were adopted that
il be the sense of the meeting of delegates
representing a majority of the wheelnlen of
the city of Washington. to indorse the
Views of Mr.. TTuesdell, whereby laws may
be enacted to punish the scorcher or racer
without regulating the speed of the bicycle
TO the disadvantage of the entire cycling
fraternity.
That the new regulation as proposed by
Mai. Moore would be an interference with
the further use of the bicycle, which, under
the present regulation, possesses many a1-
SaEtages as a mode of conveyance for the
transaction of business not 10 be secured
through the medium of street car lines or
horse traffic.
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That's why they're all drinking our pre-
pared mint julep." Ingredients the choicest
I5c. and s1.25 bottle. Jno. III. Magruder K
Co., 1411 n. Y. ave, 1l22 Conn. ave.-Advt.
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Weak and Weary,

Overcome, by the heat or extraordinary exertion
the physical system. like machine, needs 10 be
renovated and repaired. The blood needs to he
purified and invigorated and the nerves and mus
Hoods Sarsaparilla Cures
cles strengthened by Hoods Sarsaparilla, which
creates an appetite, removes that tired feeling
and gives sweet, sound. refreshing sleep.
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Temperature and condition of water at s
am Great Falls, temperature 81; condi-
ton. SO; receiving reservoir. temperature,
81; condition at north connection, 20; con-
dition at south connection, 80; distributing
reservoir, temperature, 81; condition at in
fluent gate house 80; effiuent gate house. SO.
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TAKEN Up YOUR CARPETS yE,T9

Better have them cleaned. Pays to let US
do it, Finest work. No injury to fabric
Rendered moth proof free. Empire Carpet
Cleaning Works. GS1-tS}J Mass. ave. NV.
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ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

Albaugh's Grand Opera House. The mid
summer show and exhibition of living pic
lures.
New National Theater-Summer Comedy
Company in His Last Legs"
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BAY Ridge on the Chesapeake.

Salt water bathing. Excellent meals.
Trains leave b. and o. station, 9:15 am,
4:2S pm. week days. and OBS am. 80 and
3:15 pm. Sundays. Rcund-trip fare, Si.-Ad.
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OIL STOVES. &C. UP.
Latest. best makes. gal. gasoline, JOc
Gasoline ovens. $50. 2-gal. water coolers,
&c. Oak refrige-ators. 1915.
J. W. BARKER, eth and ID s.w
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LOCAL MENTION.
THE WEATHER.


For the District of Columbia and Mary
land. fair and slight changes in tempara-
ture; southe-ly winds.
For Virginia. fair; warmer in the interior;
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OIL STOVES. &C

LET Us PAPER YOUR ROOMS. 81 UP.
Rich, latest style paper. Note, 9U1 18th st.
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FLIES STILL WITH Us.

Electric fioTr, whole sale and retail john
stems 40 eth St. Sac page o.
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BE COOL AND COMFORTABLE
during hot weather Order Freunds pure
healthful. delicious ice cream and water
Ices Endless varieties. Quality and flavor
unsurpassed FRECND'S, SIS 10th ST.
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Don't be annoyed with them Queen
Anne" screen dCtrs and windows keep 'em
out. Best made. Reduced to 81 and &c. re-
spectiNely. Chas T. Carter, Coz Pa. ave
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EXCLUSION TO
Harper's Ferry
AND ISLAND PARK
Friday, July II.

Special train leaves u. and o. depot ss5 n m,
Returning, special train for Washington leaves
iarper's Ferry at $50 pm. Tickets, 81 al.
drcn. 5oc.
Under the auspices Of the Y. NJ c. As Of Bald.
ore and other cities OR. r.. branches jy24-3t
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Str. George Leary."
Daily Excursions
Colonial Beach, .

notice, leave the company's wharf. foot Of eth
ST.. for Colonial Beach. every day at 0 am. ,cx.
cept on saturdays, and Saturdays at u m,
Returning. leaves Colonial Beach at $50 pm. AMI
arrives at Washington at 1880
FARE FOR THE ROUND TRIP on SATURDAY.
s5cs
GOOD To RETURN ON SUNDAY.
FARE FOR THE ROUND TRIP on WEEK
%
CHILDREN UNDER u YEARS HALF FARE.
Tickets will be good only for return passage On
day and date Of issue.
Dates can be reserved for excursions on apYlh
cation 10 the undersigned. -4-s-
JOHN CALLAHAN.
jyle-tf General Superintendent,
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CITY AND DISTRICT.

Try Reisinger's Ice Cream. - G NV.
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At Pyles' stores, July q only 20 lbs
Gran Sugar for s1.OO. and IL Id. PERI Tea
free Hoe Cake Soap. 3 1-2c.; Alabaster
Starch, lie; large bottle Blue. 1-2c.
AZ 4th st. Sc.
g Is 9Th st. ne.
1904 9Th ct. NV.
Wash. AMI Monroe sts.
Gold band china free. Page o.
FUSSELL'S ICE CREAM,
shipped anywhere out of town.
1i2I New York ave-
TO get rid OF reaches and all kinds Of
vermin, use Death Dust Price, 1Oc. At all
dealers.
Try Reisinger's Ice Cream. - NV.
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New books at Johnston,s. See page 0.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-06
CreStS.


"You will not find one woman in a
hundred who is familiar with the rules
of heraldry," said Il fashionable stationer.
Ladies insist on having crestsemb ossed
on their writing paper, even when tell
them that they are permitted by the
usages of centuries to use only the arms.
A handsome woman came in the store
one day and said, Mr.. B, 1 wish you
would put Z crest and arms on my paper.
I knew it would be useless to argue
about the crest, and so l asked her,
Have you any crest with you" oh, no:
l haven't any, she answered. "'You can
make nice one, can't you? l learned
that her husband was grain dealer, so
for crest -! designed a sheaf of wheat
For the arms l designed some hawk
heads on a shield, and she was delighted"
Women who are interested in these
things should observe the regulations set
down for the use of spinsters, married
women and widows. A specified frame
for the arms should be used by each.
The spinster is required to put her fam
lily arms into n diamond frame, with
very simple adornmemt. W: N a wom-
an marries, the arms of her family must
be put on the same shield with the arms
of her husband The shield is impaled,
the wife's arms occupying one position
and the husbands the other. If she be-
comes widow. the frame for her arms
again assumes the form of diamond,
symbolizing her unmarried state, while
her arms and the arms of her deceased
husband remain impaled as formerly.-~-
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-06
NEED OF REFORM.

That there is need of complete revision
OF the city charter and ordinances was fur
thtr demonstrated last night at the meeting
of the board of finance. Attorney O'NellI's
bill for prosecuting violators of the sidewalk
ordinance is perfectly proper, under the
provisions of the charter. and must be
plid. So, also, must his fee of 500 for do
ing work that should have been performed
by the city attorney. The charter of the
city has outlived its usefulness and most
OF the ordinances enacted during the past
ll,,zrn wears are worthless. so far as enforc-
ing them is concerned. The city attorney
might be pointed to as a living proof
of the saying that public Office is a private
snap" and the prosecuting attorney, who
under the provisions of the charter can
bring civil instead of criminal suits against
certain offenders, can answer me too. y
Our friends Burpee and O'Neill cannot
perhaps be blamed for commanding the
highest possible rates for their professional
services. but now that attention has been
called to the shortcomings of the charter
and ordinances. by which the city seems
to be completely ut the mercy of every
body. the court of common council
should give the matter little attention.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-06

! rival in the Buckeyes, and a fight to the
: finish sprang up between the two clubs. A
series of games was finally arranged, and it
! was understood to be case of the survival
of the filter. The vanQuished club must go
to the wall.
Then it was that George and Harry
Wright were imported from the east to help
the Red Stockings win the fight, and that.
by the way, was the first introduction of
real professional baseball into the west.
The day and night preceding the final
struggle between those two Cincinnati
clubs are still remembered by many resi-
dents of that city Each club had its warm
adherents, and partisan spirit ran high.
The entire population, it seemed, had taken
one side or the other, and charges of treach-
cry and corruption We're flying around the
streets as thick as flies in August. Hun
dreds of "cranks' did not go to bed that
night, but sat up or stood on the streets
discussing the coming contest until the
light of dawn announced the arrival of the
day of the deciding game. The exciting
times Of the war, but recently closed, were
well remembered, and the scenes on the
streets of Cincinnati that night We're aptly
compared to the excitement which pre-
vailed when it was known that some great
battle was in progress, and men in their
anxiety stayed up till morning so as to be
on hand to get the first copies of the news
papers as they came from the press.
And the newspapers of that fateful day
of the great game between the Red Stock
ings and the Buckeyes came out early
with double loaded leaders on the situation.
Much of this excitement and newspaper
sensation was caused by a well circulated
rumor that the Buckeyes had bought" a
certain member of the Red Stockings, who
was to throw the game Similar charges
were made against the Red Stockings by
the Buckeyes and their friends.
The result was one of the greatest crowds
ever seen on a balfield in the west. There
existed a wild desire to find out who the
suspected player was, and when the Red
Stockings took the field with Grant, a sub
stitute, in the position which the great
fieldt.: Hatfield occupied regularly, the
opinion prevailed that Hatfield was the
suspected player AS it happened, fly
catch of very difficult ball by Grant saved
the day to the Red Stockings and gave
them not only the victory, but she field to
themselves for the next two years.
Nothing was ever proved against Hat
field in spite of his unfair treatment in that
game. After the excitement died out pub
lie feeling turned in his favor, and he played
several subsequent seasons in the promi-
nent teams of the east, during all of which
time not Il word of suspicion, but much of
praise, was spoken of him as ball player
The sight of Mr.. Hatfield nearly 26 years
later, a successful, honored business man
in the metropolis of the land, naturally re-
called that period of two days and night
in Cincinnati when he was the victim of
the unrcasonablc sUs2iciops wh:oh ever
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-06


Gus de Smith came down Harlem av-
enue with his chin cnt in several places,
so that it looked as if drunken barber
had been practicing on 1t.
"Merciful heaven, Gus exclaimed
Pete Amsterdam. What did You do to
the barber: You ought to have mu1Nlel !
him. That WAS the least you could have
done"
Il didn't do anything of the kind. Aft
er he was through shaving | invited him
across the street and treated him to a
cocktail and Il cigar"
well, you are a fool.
No, amt such fool, after all, re-
sponded Gus. for you see l shave my
self"
'Oh, that different thing. You are
kind of IL double barreled fool. Texas
SiftiugS
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-06
ince that early day have followed baseball

since that early day have followed baseball
players.
Pitchers Young of Cleveland and Rusie of
New York have got some advertising out
of their spring diversion if they have not
added to their prospective incomes for the
summer. These two young men, forgetful
of business depressions and hard times,
talked lightly about offers of salaries such
as judges and governors of the states thank
fully receive and ask no questions. They
made Intellectual attempts to break into
the charmed circle which the income tax
provision of the Wilson bill is expected to
touch, but the wisdom of kind friends res
cued both from their folly, and happily for
themselves and the baseball profession they
have signed the roll for 1894.
The profession could not well afford to
lose either, much less both, of these men,
who are half of the Big Four of whom l
wrote last week. Pitchers-good, tried pitch
ers-are too scarce to be eliminated from
the game This season, however, may see
some notable additions to the first class
rank of pitchers.
Kennedy of the Brooklyns developed
great strength as well as an immense head
during the last half of 1898, and he, too, put
his salary figures up to luxurious proper
tions. kennedy's worth lies to II great cx-
tent in his arm. Next to Rusie and Null
lane, his pitching member is said to be a
marvel of strength and endurance, and his
friends claim that he can pitch every day in
the week, do effective work all the time
and never know what a weak arm is.
Another pitcher from whom great things
are expected this season is Jouett Meekin,
who joins the New Yorks as II part and
parcel of that clubs $500 deal with the
Washingtons. Meekin has wonderful speed.
In that respect he isa second Rusie, but his
weakness has been lack of control. Last
year he gave more bases on balls than any
other pitcher in the League, His friends
claim that with good team like the New
Works to back him he will work his way
right up to the front rank among the
pitchers.
Meekin is not a very young man. He has
been pitching since the eighties. His home
is in New Albany, Ind, where his father
was the Republican candidate for mayor
this spring. He pitched his first prominent
professional games for the Louisvilles OF
the American association. While mem
Der of this team he, with Catcher Raymond,
created a sensation by jumping to n West
ern league club, but the affair was com
promised, and he returned to Louisville
He next went to Washington, where he did
fairly good work in losing team last year
His work will be closely watched this sea
son. y. p. CAYLOR.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-06

result of the Blown Up story, and Mr..
Lewis shifted around to Lansing, where
one winter he was engaged to act as legls-
lative correspondent for Detroit paper.
Next Mr.. Lewis went to Detroit, where
he became reporter for the same paper he
had served at Lansing. For the next three
years he did general work, making spe-
cialty of the police beat. But it was not
as a reporter that young Lewis became
known to the outside world, but as spe-
cial writer. While doing police he met
jah JOY, the eccentric, kind hearted, big
handed doorman at the Central station
house AN Hour at the Central With Ri
jah'" was NJ. Quad first hit in the special
line 1t ran for some years and was very
widely copied. At this time Lewis was get
ting $25 a week, but was afterward raised
to $41. NJ. Quad remained with this paper
for upward of 25 years, working necessarily
During all these laborious years the pa
per that he made famous paid him very
low wages and at the very last would not
make good an offer from one of the largest
New York dailies, and SO Mr.. Lewis de
cided to go east. His salary was 500 a
week. This position he held for year and
a half, when he looked for a new field
Press Association.
human impulses. He goes into the tene-
ment houses, never failing to have candies
and pennies in his pockets for the children,
and listening to the sad stories of the poor
women, if he finds any of them short dol
lar or two on the rent, he chips in his share.
He is especially fond of the sights and
scenes along Water street, in New York, the
great quarter for seafaring men.
His literary work begins early in the
morning, is continued till noon, when he
stops for luncheon, and after that he makes
a trip through New York to some point of
interest. After dinner he writes for an
hour or two more and then is finished for
the day. He has a little grandchild, who
often sits in his lap as he works, scarcely
disturbing him in his composition. His
manuscript runs about 200 words to a page
and is as clear as copper print.
He uses lead pencil and for corrections
a rubber so shat there are no interlinea-
tionS, marks or scratches in his work. He
frequently writes IS or 40 pages without a
break or halt, such is his marvellous flu
ency of expression. His study is a long,
narrow room on the top floor of his Brook
Ign home. 1t is very plainly furnished,
having in it only the necessary articles for
his work. On the wall behind him is a
large tract chart of the world, used in writ
ing his sea stories.
Charles B. Lewis is indeed wonderful
yet modest man, and in all the 30 active
years of his labors am satisfied that the
real facts as to his personality, literary hab-
it's, etc, such as are given here, never have
been penned. He does not vaunt himself for
his ability or his industry. He speaks of
these gifts as a matter of fact. He consid-
ers his genius, although he does not use
that word, as an inheritance, and that on
this account he is merely fulfilling his duty
in doing the extraordinary work that falls
from his pen. JOHN HUBERT GREUsEL.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-06

TIE Bluefelds inc ideLt begins to as
sumo alarming proportions. The press
dispatches announce the killing of promi
ncnt planter. an American. and that OF
itself is enough to demand the fullest
reparation before it is overlooked By oul
government. In addition the Monroe doc
trine which our government has stood by
for so many years is defied by the cession
of Corn Island to the British and it is evil
IDENTIFY the intention to get control of the
Nicaragua canal in return for which the
British expect to help the Nicaragua
government to assume control of the Mos.
quito reservation, thus securing revenue
from the American industries planted
there. This course must be resisted by
the United States. The shooting of Will
SOL is only the beginning of trouble, and
unless the government of the United States
takes particularly firm ground, the name
BluefieldS will become humiliation to
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-06
A LITERARY WONDER.
Charles b. Lewis, "NI. Quad" and His o.
reer as Boy and Man.

reer as hoy anu man.
Especial Correspondence
DETROIT, April 81 was talking the
other day with man who in his time has
written what would be equal to the con.
tents of over 600 books. Charles B. Lewis
M Quad-tells me that for the past sc
years he has written, of original matter, an
average of l3 columns week. This would
be, figuring an ordinary newspaper column
at 1000 words, "a, 900 words n week, or Sc,
900 words a month, or 100000 words i
year, or "a, $50, 900 words in the 30 years he
has been handling the pen. This enormous
amount of work, figuring an average move.
at SO, 900 words, would be equal to SOL books
Charles b. Lewis is a wonder in his way
and very extraordinary way it is too. He
has not had days vacation i'll those 81
years and in all that long period has kept
up standard of excellence that easily
marks him today not only as the most pro
life but by many considered the first OF
American general writers of wit, huinor,
pathos and descriptive narrative. Such q
man becomes all the more interesting when
you understand significant fact in his re
lations to the public.
Charles B. Lewis claims small town in
northern Ohio as his birthplace. He early
became a printer, and hearing of an open
ing in Maysville, KY, directed his steps II
that direction, WDen one Oh luc SlSudl efcutS
of his life took place.
Part of the journey was by boat on the
Ohio river. The craft Lewis boarded had q
rival on the river, for those were the great
days of fast racing. Along came the othel
steamer in the night. Pitch pine WA
thrust into the furnace until the boilers
were a blue heat; then negro was placed
on the safety valve, when
Il was in the hospital in Cincinnati
says Lewis, for $50 days before l could tell
how many panes of glass there were in the
window. My skull had been fractured.
My body had been badly burned. Indeed
when they pulled me out of the river first
and stretched me on the floor of the hos
pital, they thought was negro, for l had
been blown full of grease, SCOT and oils, and
it was only when some one noticed that
did not have kinky hair that the discovery
was made that was white man.
The war broke out, and Mr.. Lewis went
to the front with the Seventh Michigan cav.
airy, serving honorably and with distinc-
ton throughout the conflict. The war over,
he went to Michigan, where he again took
up the printers trade.
While connected with paper called tbs
Pontiac Bill Poster, Mr.. Lewis one day
wrote little sketch entitled How 1t Feels
to Be Blown Up 1t was short-not more
than half a dozen paragraphs-bu it was
widely copied. This was the first work OF
his that attracted attention. His eyes both,
cred him so badly that he could not readily
write with pen, so he stood up at his case
and composed and set up the article all at
one time Nothing especial happened as q
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-06
AGONY.

The music ceased, the curtain rosa.
did not heed the play,
But gazed upon her lovely face
She sat two seats away.
Her cheeks like tinted apple bloom.
Her teeth like cleaning pearls,
Her eyes as blue as summer skies.
A wealth of golden curls.
And as ga2ed upon her face
There came look OF pain.
Like cloudy shadow DER the land
1t passed, then came again.
saw the teardrops in her eyes,
The rose tint fade away,
And that fair cheek grow deathly pale
In speechless agony.
She turned and touched her escorts arm.
Then slowly went away.
My heart beat fast with sympathy.
did not heed the play.
He soon returned and took his seat.
l gaZed in great surprise.
He read the question l would ask
Flash from my eager eyes
And as the music died away
His lips this answer bore:
"My sisters feet are number five.
Her shoes are number four"
Boston Globe.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-06

The bitterness displayed in the discus
sion over the primary election to nominate
a postmaster does not augur we'll for the
future of the democratic party in Water
bury. Congressman Pigott displayed a
serious weakness when he shirked the re-
sponsibility that according to custom he
ought TO assume. We say this without
presuming to dictate or suggest which cam
the best interests of the party in view.
The congressman's refusal to nominate a
candidate made it imperative that prima-
ries be held and it is pity that the ar
parties concerned.