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The Washington times., 1895-03-24
Notes from the Court-.

John W. and Ella Rhodes yesterday sued
James Taylor, ct al, for the appointment Of
a trustee in place of 7. c. b. Preinkert
deceased, to release a trust on part of lot 4, +,
block 8, Brown's sub. of Mt. Pleasant.
Petitions in lunacy were filed yesterday
as follows: Felix Gould, upon affidavit
Of William Gould, of No. S27 Fourteenth
street northwest; John Kane, affidavit Of
Thomas ]. KIlligan, of No. 1713 Seventh
street north west; bUie II. Bodfish, affidavit
of Addie Street, OF No. 1102 Ninth street
northwest; William Cole, affidavit of Sarah
Cole, of No. 1929 Third street northwest.
A suit to recover a judgment for $4,000
was brought yesterday by Charles Il. Aliender
against j. c. Larigey and Matte Z. Gray.
A disclosure of interests in lot 8, Reserva-
tion ID, is asked for and the sale OF the de-
fendant's equity to satisfy the judgment.
The bill for divorce filed by Amy L. Yates
was dismissed yesterday by Judge Hagner.
against William ]. Yates on April &c, 1898,
Mr.. Yates filed an ans wer within few days
of the filing of the bill and the matter was
referred last spring 10 Mr.. Edwin Forrest
as examiner, TO take testimony. a motion
forrereferenee to an examiner wasmadeim-
medlatcly after Judge Hagner's decision
yesterday.
The viii of the late George ]. MusSer, filed
yesterday, leaves his property to his widow
Sarah, during her widowhood. At her
death or remarriage, with the exception of
$500 to William Musser, the testator's son,
the estate is TO be divided equally between
his daughters, Ann, Eliza and Sarah. The
widor is made executrix. The viii is dated
Dec 16, 1898.
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ing cauldron of trolley cars and land COM
panies like it, however, and ii ranks
next to London and Paris in my affections.
"Wili you let the American public know
little about your methods of work."
AZ don't know that my methods OF work
will be found of interest TO the general
public. However, III tell you all / can.
The first thing do after eating my break
fast is to light cigar and read the morn
ing papers. If after reading the papers
my mind is not entirely gone | endeavor to
ascertain my mood. lam always in mood
for something. One day ii may be the
mood OF a yersifier, another it viii be
plagiaristic. In this mood / never use a
pen, but rely wholly upon my shears and my
muciage. Coffee and RepaTtee' was the
productof one OF these hours. With the
'Autocrat' in one hand and a pair OF scizzorS
in the other l created the idiot, and as he
Then have my editorial mood, when
read the things have written in some other
mood and | generally find them good-and
so on. The mood once ascertained, cut
out my days work to fit il, ami the result
is that in course of year | manage TO
turn out great deal OF copy and play con-
sidera bic golf-my golf mood is frequent" "
How did you happen to take up
literature?''
81 really can't say how / came to take
up literature. / don't know that / have
taken it up. l suppose my connection with
letters was due originally to my possession
of three qualities which go to make up the
vast majority of literary men OF the day,
first, constitutional inability TO keep my
hands sstill; second, a more or less unrestrain-
ed Imagination, and third, most inordi-
nate self conceit. Given an active right
hand, an Imagination, and firm opinion
OF ones self, and there is no reason in the
world why one should not ultimately become
a successful author
You speak of plagiarism. In view of
what has been said of late in regard to this
matter. was your portrayal of the idiot
at the Breakfast Table, q case ofunconscious
assimilation, or really conscious plagiarism
| from DIR. Holiness
" The Idiot at the Breakfast Table was
not conscious plagiarism from DR.. Holmes,
but more as you suggest-unconscious as
similation. Ii is only those, too, curiOusly
enough, who are conscious OF their diges-
ton, who have detected my tendency in
the line OF unconscious assimilation, but
that is as 1t should be. 1t is impossible
TO be forcible critic unless one has
chronic dyspepsia. j nope when they read
my Napoleon, the critics will be equally
kind i'll their assertions that have not relied
upon my own imagination for ny points. II
they will only say that have consciously
plagiarized or unconsciOusly assimilated
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the interview between Hamlet and Yorick's
skull. You can yourself see the possibilities
of such an interview, and 0phelia mod
ernized becomes simply glorious. But, as
/ said, this is all in the future, and / do
not care to talk further about a bit of
work that is as yet incomplete. 1 don't
want anybody else to get hold OF my plan,
so you will excuse me If / decline to go
into further discussion on this point.
Mr.. Bonaparte, of Corsica, however, is
now material thing"
That's fact. Suppose we get back to
Bonaparte. Have you made any new dis
coveries as to his career?"
II think / have shed some new light upon
the subject. In q small way have studied
the French people, and | think / have a
fairly accurate idea as to the problems
which confronted a man like Napoleon,
who had to keep them interested for a
score of years. The French are q very de-
lightful people, but they have got to be
entertained. Their thirst for nine-day
wonders is unquenchable, and when you
think of how many nine day periods there
are in twenty years, you begin to get some
idea as to the number of new and sensational
things Napoleon had to do to keep his
name before the public There wasn't
any rest for him. His position was like
that OF the manager of continuous vaude-
vile entertainment. He could run along
for two weeks with such attractions as he
had at hand, but at the beginning OF the
third week something novel had to be
introduced and If it wasn't, the public
would murmur and the consulate, or en-
pire, would be shaken to its base. You
don't suppose that Napoleon, in a position
OF supreme power, such as he had at the
time OF his elevation to the first consulship,
would have broken the laws OF France and
crossed the Alps when he might have stayed
more comfortably at Paris, unless>he felt
it to be absolutely necessary that he should
| do something, do you? Not he. He was
above all things human, and he was human
enough to prefer the consular throne in a
] waIm raoIn at tia TnilsIies TO a gallon
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PUBLIC INTEREST AROUSED
Some of the Most Surprising Achieve
ments of the Age.

The interest that has been awakened in
this community by the really wonderful
performances OF DR.. X. A Walker. the
specialist, seems to be steadily growing
For the purpose OF giving an unbiased
opinion as TO the merits OF dement's OF Dr.
Walkers treatment we have caused a care
ful investigation TO be made OF many OF tha
more remarkable OF the cures reported to
have been effected by him.
II must be admitted that DF Walker in
comforting great benefits upon this commu-
nifty. He is a specialist in tie hest sense
of the term, treating that class Of affections
due TO disorders or the brain and nervous
system, and the chronic or long standing
diseases which depend for their cure upon
the complete restoration OF the wasted neTv-
Gus force. He has devoted his life TO the
acquiring Of thorough knowledge and
understanding of these diseases. which in
clude those troubles and ailments OF a lin
gering nature affecting the nerves, blood,
skin, stomach, throat and lungs, heart,
kidneys, liver, bowels, and other organs,
and which the ordinary family physician
or general practitioner has neither the IA
cilities nor inclination 10 investigate or
understand
In curing this class of diseases DR.. Walker
has been successful 20 a degree that has
kept other physicians in a state OF wonder
and perplexity. His reputat ion mas brought
sufferers from all parts of the United states,
and even from foreign countries, 10 be
healed by his really marvellous skill. An
other thing of great importance TO most
sufferers from disease is the fact that DR..
Walker can be consulted free OF charge.
Moreover, his charges for treatment are SO
reasonable as to be within the reach OF all.
II you are suffering from any form OF
chronic or nervous disease. and have failed
To receive help from your family physician,
we advise You by all means To consult this
most successful specialist. He viii tell
you candidly whether you can be cured or
not, and there is little doubt that you can,
for his treatment has overcome hundreds
of the most stubborn cases OF nervous ex-
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dyspepsia, cataTrh, asthma bronchitis,
malaria. heart disease, kidney and liver
complaints, loss Of strength and vitality,
diseases of women, constipation, hemor.
rhOids, and mnay other distressing all
mentS- We are positive that you viii
never regret the day that you placed your
self and your troubles in his hands.
Many men are sufferers from nervous
debility and the innumerable derange-
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overwOrk, severe mental eXertion or ex-
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constitutions. and not infTequsntly in soft
ening OF the brain, epilepsy, paralysis, and
even insanity. To reach and reclaim these
unfortunates is one OF DIT. Walkers aims,
and he has been the means of restoring
hundreds of them to health and happiness.
DR.. Walkers well known sa0itarum,
is at 1411 Pennsylvania avenue, adJOin-
ing Wizards Hotel, where he may be Con-
suited free between the hours OF 10 a. N.
and D. IN. All correspondence will rs
ceive prompt attention
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Tilt between Judge and Attorney.

There was a breezy episode in Judge
Kimball's police court yesterday, wher
his honor called upon Lawyer Thomas L.
Jones, colored, for an explanation or
apology for certain criticisms Jones is
alleged to have made upon the court at a
recent colored Indignation meeting. The
attorney disclaimed any intention to at
tack Judge Kimball personally, and de-
clined to apologize. Jones said his at.
tack was made principally against the
police on account of the way they testi.
fled in order TO convict prisoners. The
Judge finally decided that no apology was
necessary and the court routine was pro.
ceeded with.
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Bangs himself is no exception as a solemn
looking funny man, neither is Eugene Field,
nor Henry G. Bunner, nor Edgar Wilson Nye,
nor Howard Fielding, nor Mark Twain, the
inimitable.
They all look as If they had lust lost their
best friends. Only Max 0'Reil sometimes
looks funny, and he can't help it, on account
OF his nationality. AS for a funny English
man, that would be paradox.
It's quite the fashion nowadays TO
interview distinguished literary men, 10
ask them where they Were boIn, and how
they came TO write, and how they DO their
writing, and what they are going TO write,
and all about their private affairs Of every
description, so the other day / fell TO won
dering why none OF our funny men had ever
been interviewed Then ! remembered
that the man is not living who has been
able to Interview Mr. Eugene Field
and weird rumoTs are in circulation that
this is because those who have tried TO
do SO have faded mysteriously out of
existence. But / picked up courage to
go and talk with Mr. Bangs, because had
heard he was about TO publish a comic life
OF Napoleon, or rather the Harpers for
him, and l am real glad l went, for /
learned, or rather unlearned. a lot about
funny men in general and Mr.. Bangs in
particular.
One of his friends told me that Mr.. Bangs
lived in a three-story house in Yonkers.
But know nothing about Yonkers, so l
inquired around as TO whether there was
| Bangs winter residence in New York 1
found that there was, and that it has
thirteen stories, and several other people
live in it besides; but that is by the way
Mr. Bangs was at home, and so was
''Jimmieboy" Now / have always thought
that Bangs was bachelor, and that Jim
mieboy" was an invention, peg on which
TO hang his supposititous fathers bril-
liant ideas-in other words, a fake Perish
the thought! "Jimmieboy" is a rosa
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he real facts OF history shalI be most

trlDe OF poster erpalnIeFs--tNotDy Dy AcN lckdr.l
the real facts OF history 1 shall be most
happy"
'Then you are about to publish book on
Napoleon2"
Yes, l have written life OF Napoleon
Bonaparte. How did l come 10 do il?
Well, / do not like 10 be conspicuous
Everybody else was doing it and / thought
l might as well follow the crowd. Be
sides. I've always wanted to write life
OF Napoleon Bonaparte. have all my life
wished TO do two things-wTite a life of
Bonaparte, and edit an edition of Shakes
peare. l have now accomplished half OF my
ambition. The life is written aud viii ap-
pear within a few days. The other half,
the edition OF Shakespeare, is still in the
future, and is likely TO remain there for
some time, although my version OF Hamlet
is nearing completion. No; l don't think
this version of Hamlet viii ever be played
or published, bat there are many excellent
things in this world which have been born
to waste their sweetness on the desert
pigeon-hole, and l do not feel badly when
reflect that that is likely to be the fate
of my Hamlet-in fact, l think / should
feel worse about it if l thought it was
likely to get played or published.
rs your Hamlet travesty of Shakes
peare's drama?"
mo: l have not travestied Shakes
pears III my hdullel. On Tue contrary a
reader of my Hamlet would think more of
Shakespeare after reading my version than
he does now after reading Shakespeare's
Hamlet. Mine shows how much worse
Hamlet might have been if it had been
written to please lovers of the tank and
saw-miIi dramas of to-day. I have simply
brought it up to date, and Shakespeare
doesn't suffer by the contrast, which VIII
suggest itself to the thoughtful Yes;
1 have introduced tank scene in it, and
quite large quantity of live stock is con-
stantly giving animation to my scenes
The best feature of the play, however, is
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s
Editor Times: I incloSe you twenty
five (25) of The Times gas reducing cou-
pons signed by as many residents OF Wash
ington, good and true men,"
Prior to the reassembnng of Congress
in December next / shall send you many
times twenty-five of these coupons signed
by gas consumers of the city.
a prominent official of the Washington
Gas Company urged as a reason before
the Senate committee why Congress should
take no action toward compelling the re-
duction in the price of gas that the people
OF the city had not asked for such reduc-
tion. The Times now gives the people
of the city q convenient way of giving an
expression of their wishes upon the subject.
If the writer's information gathered SO far
be q correct criterion for determining the
sentiment of the people upon the subject
they are well-nigh unanimously in favor
of an act of Congress compelling the gas
company to reduce their charges for gas.
Every man to whom I have applied
is heartily in favor OF such reduction.
The people of the city know that the pres
ent price of gas is eXorbitant and oppres-
sive. They know that 10 cents or 81 per
1000 feet would afford the gas company
an enormous dividend on the actual sum in
vested in the stock of the company.
Let The Times keep this matter before
the public, who recognize that in The Times
they have friend who dared to espouse
their cause against grasping and op-
pressiye monopoly. J. j.
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Tonts Driven ONT of Town.

Patrick Mclean and George Block, Alex
ander Island touts, were taken before
Judge Kimball yesterday as SUSPICIOUS
characters. They were found acting
in q suspicious manner in the vicinity of
Sixth street and Pennsylvania aS,-ll,.e..
Blocks occupation was given as "thief''
They were ordered = 49, re
The Washington times., 1895-03-24

The announcement that another con-
cert will be given by Bernhard Stavenhagen
and Jean Gerardy at Metzerott Music Hall,
Friday evening, March 2s, will be hailed
by all who heard the artists at their last
concert as an event Of more than ordinary
interest
Although eminently a bTavura p layer
of the first order, Stavenhagen has the
rare faculty Of playing the most exqui-
sitely delicate things, requiring the strong
est and most powerful technical work.
Jean Gerardy is absolutely wonder,
and his playing is almost divine. 1t
goes without saying that the concert viii
be well attended.
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Robiusor,s Yarn was Too Thin.

George Robinson, who was arrested by
Detectives weldon and Horn at the B. & o.
depot Tuesday evening, was before Judge
Miller yesterday, charged with larceny
of a gold watch and chain, valued at $40
and SIS in money from Chris E Buckley
of Philadelphia Buckley said that they
went out last Saturday night together and
got pretty full and he missed his watch
and chain the next morning. Robinson
claims that Buckley, while drunk, was
about to throw his watch away when he
stopped him and took it from him to
keep until he got sober. He was held in
$500 bonds for the grand jury.
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JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS BOOK

w o n d r r why
funny men are al
ways so solemn
looking g-real fun
ny men, ] mean,
not the grinning
idiots who think
they are funny.
That word Idiots"
slipped in by mis-
take, and doesn't
refer to Mr.. John
Kendrick Bangs
private and patented
"Idiot," for he is
funny, as all VIII re-
member who have
read Coffee and
Repartee' and the
sequel, The idiot" +"
which has Just been
nIlblichad Mr.
The Washington times., 1895-03-24

The plot Of "A Way TO Win a Woman y
the new play which Mr. i. H. Sothern
Will offer at The National Theater on Mon
day evening concerns a moneyless young
lawyer who is in love with young girl.
"A Way to Win a Woman" Will
be played Monday and Tuesday
nights and Wednesday matinee. Lord
Chumley'' is set for Wednesday night, Capt.
Iettarblair" for Thursday and Friday
nights and Saturday matinee, and The
Highest Bidder" for Saturday night.
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Anton Seidl and his superb orchestra
VIII give a concert at MetZerott Music Hall
on Thursday, March %.
TIE programme 10 be rendered is as fol-
lows: Bach-four ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
menti, orchestrated by Mr.. Seidl; Mozart,
symphony IN q. minor-lour movements.
Dvorak, overture Nature" first time in
Washington wagner-(a) Parsifal, Good
Friday Spell: Cbl Tristan and Isolde, Vor-
spiel and Isolde's death; (c) Goetterdamme-
rung, Funeral March.
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tripex,'' of the masculine gender. There
are three of him, although not all ofthe same
age, and he is very apparent
Mr.. Bangs got out one of his best cigars
distinguished authors always do that,
and besides Mr.. Bangs knows that 1 do
not smoke cigars-and said he didn't want
to be interviewed. When / asked him his
reasons for this reluctance, he leaned
back, musingly knocked the ashes from
his cigar (they always do this also) and
said:
L don't mind being interviewed when
have nothing to say, but when do occa-
sionally get an idea 1 hate the sight of an
interviewer. / suppose this is due to q
certain commercial instinct. I do not
wish to give my ideas to another. possibly
or it may be that experience with individ
ual reporters has made me distrustful of
the Who'll tribe, and, therefore. desirous of
retiring from contact with the species.
However, am at your service, and If there
is anything l don't know I'll tell you all
about it-only you must draw me out"
well, Mr.. Bangs, don't claim to be a
Species, only a hard working writer
for newspapers and periodicals. 1 believe
the first question is always where and when
you were born, and were there any re-
markable occurrences at the time of your
birth?'
"I was born" said Mr.. Bangs, "at
Yonkers, n. Y, on the 9th day of May,
1862. l can't say that there were any
remarkable features about the day-there
were no earthquakes or cyclones. Nature
smiled sweetly over all-you see I was a
humorist from the start 1t isn't always
easy to make nature smile. Yes, I still
live at Yonkers."
"Where is Yonkers, Mr.. Bangs?'
"Well, that is rather a hard question to
answer. If you mean where is Yonkers
politically, she's at sea. If you mean
geographically she has the mis- fortune
to lie about equidistant from the New York
City Hall and Sing Sing Prison."
Has the place any literary landmarks
beside yourself?'
II am not aware that Yonkers has any
literary landmarks beside myself. When
Mrs. E. d. E. N. Southworth and Sydney
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SI.25. To Baltimore and Return. ST. .25
The Pennsylvania Railroad will sell
March 23d and cath, good returning until
25th, excursion tickets to Baltimore, at
the rate of $1.25.
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Dodging trolley car. Mr. Bonaparte
(loquitur)-sacreh This is worse than the
Russians. mot by II. w. McVickar.)
seems to stick in the affections of some
twenty or thirty thousand people, 1 fancy
| must have used up great deal of mucii-
age.
The Washington times., 1895-03-24

"The Fast Mall" which appears at But
lers Biiou Theatre this week, is said to
be the most successful railroad and scenic
melodrama on the road this season. MIR.
l. j. Carter, the author and manager, has
contriyed to weave into consistent story
nearly all the good points Of the sensa-
tionaI drama.
The climax of each act is strong enough
10 sustain a whole play, yet SO well graded
are the features OF the piece, that one views
with increasing interest through the i've
acts, the murder and the clever trick with
the Grandfather's Clock in the first act;
the Mississippi river steamer, its engine
room showing a practical furnace, and the
explosion; the ''life-siZe' freight train,
with its realistic engine and sixteen box
cars, with their familiar lettering fol =
lowed, at the close of the third act, by
'.The Fast Mail;' the dago dive Of the
fourth act, and the thrilling incidents
and hair breadth escapes which take place
there; and then the full front view of Mag
ara Falls.
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Chr. Xander's Especial Palido dinner
Sherry 81 gallon overtops trade So Sherries
and is cheap enough for sauces and pHddings
in households appreciating delieacy. 909
saventh street.
The Washington times., 1895-03-24

1.-THE Country Circus" which is the
property OF the firm OF Jefferson, Klaw &
Erlanger, Will come 10 the Grand Opera
House this week The Country Circus"
is too wei known here to need any extended
description.
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Steady Stream of Migration to
the Southern States.
FLOWS FROM ALL SECTIONS
Great Quantities OF Land Sold to Intending
Settlers from the North and West-Ger-
vestors-In One County in Arkansas Alone
500 Families Have Settled in Six Months.

Baltimore, March 23.-The Southern
States Magazine, of Baltimore, has recently
had reports from a number OF real estate
agents in different parts of the South.
These reports show that the southwark
movement of population is very great.
One firm in Atlanta has sold in ninety
days an aggregate Of 2,74O acres of farm
property for $3o,7OO The same firm
has an order for a tract of 900 to100,-
600 acres for colonies of swedes, and sim
liar orders from Nebraska, Pennsylvania
and Ohio for smaller tracts for colonial
ton.
A Memphis firm has sold since September
/, 81 ,625 acres of farm lands in Aiissis-
sippi, Arkansas and Louisiana for $195,-
$50, the purchasers, who were in part from
Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska and Illinois buy
ing for immediate occupancy and cultiva-
ton. Chattanooga dealer reports hav-
ing sold in the last twelve months, thirty
farms, aggregating 1900 acres. to North
erners. A company in western North
Carolina reports the sale OF a 100000
acre tract and number of farms.
An agency at Lynchburg, Va, sold
9,1S7 acres of farms to Northern farmers
in 1894; an agent at Columbia, s c., has
sold several large farms since January l.,
including one OF 1880 acres, TO New
Yorker
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Rosenfeld lived there 1t was quite liter
ary center, but just at present it is seeth-
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ADMISSION:
Stole Six Dozen Eggs.

Policeman Dodge, OF the First precinct,
turned the key OF a cell on william Kidwell,
q young colored man, last night. He is
charged with stealing six dozen eggs from
Robinson Loving, the commission merchant,
OF No. 9IS louisiana avenue.