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The times., 1898-12-23
GRIP IS YET RAMPANT
No Diminution in the Ravages
of Influenza.
THE SCHOOLS DEPLETED
Two Deaths Reported-Three Hum
drcd Government Printing Office
Employees Anected-Many Absent
From the War Depnrtment-CoId
Weather May Check the Malady.

There is apparently no abatement in
the fury of the grip epidemic. now ram
pant throughout the city. More persons
seemed to be sufferers from the complaint
yesterday than on the previous day and
two deaths were recorded at the local
health Office. They were the first vic
TINS of the nalady. sA
Jemuel W. Pike, a clerk, was the first
to succumb. He resided at No. 632 North
Carolina Avenue southeast, and was sick
for only eight days. The patient was at
tendeu by DR.. William B. French, who
attributed his demise to be grip. The
body of the deceased was yesterday ship
ped to Garrettsville, Ohio. The second
victim of the dread infection was Lewis
Wilkison Herndon, child. which had
only been i'll three days.
Many of the department rolls are show
ing the effect of the spread of the anec-
tion. Three hundred of the three tnou-
sand employees of the Government Printing
Office were stated by the chief clerk OF
that department TO be reported as
grip patients yesterday. Hardy de-
partment in the city can be visited that
to a greater or less degree.
An old employe of the Treasury Depart
ment said to reporter last evening:
Almost everybody at the Treasury
building is complaining of the grip. IL Is
hard to tell just how many really are
victims, but the sick list is unusually
| heavy, and the absentees are grip pa
tients. Why. / am told that the War De
ma rtment has been forced TO stop busi-
ness on account of the epidemic.
INQUIRY at the War Department eiciteo
| the statement that many OF the employees
Of that busy beehive are grip sufferers.
| In the Office of the superintendent ten Out
| of a force Of l5o are sick
The infection is widespread. and In Oh
fees, schools. prayer meetings and lodges
! the banefui words ia grippe Is passed
| from lip to lip.
! Fortunately, the malady has not as
| s1med a malignant form. and many oi
| those who are patients will probably Dc
well enough to resume work before
| Christmas Unless the virtues OF ma
| terra medica fail, and the epidemic b--
| comes more serious. II Is not though'
| that many deaths will result.
| The disease seems to have taken holc
| on the school children. The number ol
| pupils now sick is about 20 per cent. oil
| nearly ioooo persons. In the southeas
the number OF absentees is even e. eater
being as high as % per cent OF the enttr'
| number of school children The schoo
authorities are hopeful that when the
| Christmas holidays have ended th'
weather will be better and the childreI
| able to attend school.
The Weather Bureau promises eieare
and colder weather. II these prognost ca
tions prove correct, the cold wave VII
aid materially in stamping out the cpl
demic.
The times., 1898-12-23

woman for sympathy but to man for
help. And it's In the very iaw-of our be-
ings that man should feel ~
A HELPFUL SYMPATHY
for woman such as Is rarely extended
by one woman to another. It's singular
but 1t is true that women in general make
light of the sufferings OF other members
of their own sex, and are apt to be crit
ical and cynical over their pains. And
perhaps for that reason women prefer to
confide in a physician who. like DR..
Pierce. can give the practical sympathy
of help. In a practice of over thirty
years as chief consulting physician for the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute at
Buffalo, N. Y, DR.. Pierce has treated
more than half a million women. and
cured perfectly and permanently sS out of
every 100. This vast experience. which
covered every form and variation of fem
mime disease, puts DIR. Pierce at the head
of specialists in the treatment of diseases
of women.
Don't you want to get back that ath-
letic girlhood again? Write to DIR. Pierce
and take the first step to health. Re-
member there is no charge for this con-
sultation by letter, and that every letter
is held as strictly private and sacredly
confidential. This offer will bear thor
ough investigation. Investigation is some
thing that cannot be borne by those Of
The times., 1898-12-23
THE FINE WAS PAID.
An Attorney Makes a Touching Ap.
peal in His Clients Behalf.

Mrs. Emma Gray, the woman arrested
by Detective Carter for the larceny of a
dress pattern from Kann's store on
Wednesday, was arraigned in court yes
terday morning and convicted of the
charge. She was fined $50 by Judge KIM
ball, with the alternative of sixty days
in jail. Attorney Campbell Darlington
interceded with the court in behalf of the
woman and succeeded in having the fine
reduced to s13. Mrs. Gray had 50 in her
possession and the balance of SO was
kindly paid by Mr.. Darlington.
Attorney Darlington had a talk with
Mrs Gray before he interested himself in
her behalf He told the court that she
was to his knowledge an honest woman
who enjoyed a social reputation. He
further stated that she was a widow and
had two small children dependent upon
her 1t was because of Mr.. Carrington's s
touching appeal that Judge Kimball re-
duced the fine. The attorney afterwards
furnished Mrs. Gray with transportation
to her home at Laurel, Md.
The times., 1898-12-23
Prof. A. ]. DEXTER, -
Magnetic Healer. AS
From the Wife Of Hon. John G. Carlisle.

Ex-seeretary of the U. 5. Treasury, cured of
Rheumatism:
Prof. A. j. Dexter:
Dear Sir: | have suffered with infammatory
rheumatism for thirty years. Hearing Of your
skill. ! determined 10 try your treatment; after
the first application ! enabled to sleep pro-
foundly, not having had any rest for a week.
At present | am using my freely, which was
powerless for some time. | suffer pain It
gives me great pleasure TO add my name to
the many you have cured Ny general health is
greatly improved. Respectfully,
MRS. JOHN G. CARLISLE
The professor has on exhibition at his office
the largest book in the world filled with letters.
afidavits, testimonials, ETC., from those he has
cured, as well as letters from the most noted
people in this city and country. few are
given: The late U. S. Grant, ex-President Ar
thur, Hon. Samuel ]. Tilden, Gen. +. T. Dent,
| brother-in-law Of the late U. S. Grant; the Ia
mented Abraham Lineoin's Secretary of the U. s.
Treasury. Gen Francis E. Spinner; Charles II.
Jones, late editor New York World, and hun
| dreds more from quite as prominent people
All diseases cured. Consultation and examina-
tion free. Office. l1l2 C st. NV.
Patients who 50 desire can be treated at their
homes. Noted physician and chemist employed.
Patients treated by mail. Medicines sent every
where Write, giving full particulars Of your
case.
| P. s.-Weak men and women suffering from
excessss: The rrof--.n- -~ver fails to cure such
cases in the old and young.
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The times., 1898-12-23
HOLIDAY THUNDER.
AbomInnbIe Weather Conditions Ex-
pected o%Give Way.
Fair; colder. d

Fair; colder. - rt-
These are the two words which, when
given official prominence in the latest
daily bulletin of the Weather Bureau, are
most pleasing to the weather-beaten res
idents of Washington this morning. True,
there are other pleasing words. calling
up fond pictures OF the holiday season.
There may be magic in the abbreviated
sign Xmas" The same may be said con-
cerning the merry Jingle of the word
money But all Washington is heartsick
for clear weather and everybody wants
colder weather. ifsfor no other reason, Tor
yariety's sake and to kill the grip.
Fresh, increasing 10 brisk northwesterly
winds are also predicted. Just enough
to redden the end of ones nose and to
urge the holiday shopper along at live
" pace, so that lost time may be made
up and all the intended gifts purchased
With three days of fog like that which
has made London town famous and OBJ
noxious at the same time, and with twice
as many days of rain bedrizzling all who
venture down town, shoppers have been
afforded scant opportunity to dispose OF
their treasured shekels.
Merchants and sellers are complaining,
not through any lack of sales, but
through the efforts of the weather man
to keep trade away. 1t is well nigh time
that the prognosticators did something to
apbease the commercial wrath, for the
selling portion of the community Is GER
tainly up in arms about the prolonged
smell of murkiness which has been WASH
ington's bane for almost a fortnight.
The breaking up last night of the un-
usual weather conditions of the past ter
days was accompanied by a heavy down.
pour of rain and thunder claps. For a
short time 1t was as though a Summer
thunder shower were sweeping across the
CITY beating down everything in its path.
Thunder and lightning in December are
unusual In fact, they are so much out OF
the ordinary that some persons were prone
to consider the disturbance a phenomen n.
At any rate, it was the subject of wide
comment.
The times., 1898-12-23
NO FAITH CURE.
ABGUr sTUART,s DYSPEPSIA
TABLETS.


They Cure Stomach Troubles and Indiges-
ton Anyway, Whether You Have
Faith in Them OF Not. y ..,-s4 sla
Mere faith will not digest your food for
you, will not give you an appetite, will
not increase your flesh and strengthen
your nerves and heart, but Stuart's Dys-
pepsia Tablets will do these things, be-
cause they are composed of the elements
of digestion. They contain the juices.
acids and peptones necessaryito the di-
gestion and assimilation Of rail- whole
some food.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets will digest
food if placed in a jar or bottle in water
heated to IS degrees, and they will do It
much more effectively when taken into
the stomach after meals. whether you
have faith that they will or not
They invigorate the stomach. make
pure blood and strong nerves. sin the only
way that nature can do IT. and that is,
from plenty of wholesome food well di-
gested. 1t is not what we eat but what
we digest that does US good
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are sold by
nearly all druggists at 80 cents for full
sized package. or by mail from the F. A.
Stuart Co.. Marshall. Mich.
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The times., 1898-12-23
rhe Now Orlcnn. Rncc..

New Orleans, Dec. 22.-The talent was
in good form today, picking four out of
the five. The best race was In the
fourth. in which Clay Pointer, well rid
den by o'Connor won in a drive from the
favorites Mariti and Double Dummy,
heads only separating the three. oConnor
won again with Babe Fields in the third.
The crowd was large and the betting
heavy with the books having decidedly
the worst of it, Summaries:
First race-One mile. Great Bend, l3 to
5. won, PATRON, second; Eva Rice, third.
Time, 1:46 81
Second race-Seven furlongs. Queen of
Song. to 5, won; Weller, second; Pell
Nell, third: Time, 1:Si.
Third race-Mile and an eighth. Babe
Fields, II to 5. won; Lake View Palace.
second; Jim Flood, third. Time 2:02 1-2.
Fourth race-Miie and an eighth Clay
Pointer, to s. won; Mariti. second; Dou-
bic Dummy, third. Time, 200.
Fifth race-Six furlongs. Diggs, to 1,
won; Debride, second; Dave s., third.
| Time, LII IA.
The times., 1898-12-23
A BATTLE OF GIANTS.
for the Christmas Mon
day Football Contest.

day Football Contest.
Arrangements are nearly completed for
the Georgetown-Al Washington football
December 26. Manager Johnson and
Capt. Hooker, of the All Washington
eleven, have had the collegians of that
team. who have already arrived in town,
together for the past week, and have put
them through hard practice The members
received copies of the signals that will
be used. so that there will be no lack
of team work.
The Georgetown eleven has been in
training since Friday last, under the d.
rection of Coach Donovan and Frank
Smith. both of Brown University. while
Trainer Foley has had his watchful eye
on their physical welfare. Messrs. Dono-
van and Smith are now students in the
Law Department and will both positively
be found in Georgetown's lineup on the
day of the game. 4d
Frank Smith may be remembered as
the famous giant guard who made the
remarkable 60-yards run for touchdown
through the entire Yale team in Browns
game with Yale, in 1885. Donovan was
quarterback and captain of the same
team, by far the best ever turned out
by that university.
That this team will be a representative
one goes without saying. Such men as
Smith of Williams; De Silver, of Penn
sylvania: McGowen, of Hooker, and Par
sons. of Columbian University Curtis. OF
Swarthmore; Watson. of V. NJ. l.; Bowie
of U. OF c.; and Nelligan. OF NJ. A. c.
besides Saunders, Walsh, McConville, ii
Walsh, McQuade. Hecocks and Lums
ford. to fill in with.
The game will be called at o'cioci
sharp, thus giving everyone ample tint
to enjoy their Christmas Monday dinne
and attend.
The times., 1898-12-23
Capt. Carter sinking Rapidly.

The condition of Capt. John r. Carter,
the aged yirginian who was knocked
down and run over by a horse and wagon
on Monday, was reported at the Emer-
gency Hospital last night as much worse.
The patient has shown no Improvement
except a temporary one since his skull was
trephined because of the injury to ii. He
suffered greatly from the shock incident
to the fall, and his extreme age makes
1t doubtful If he will survive. Late last
night he became very restless and evinced
unfavorable symptoms. Later his condi-
ton became such that It was not thought
he would live until daylight
The times., 1898-12-23
REPORTED AS MISSING.
The Police Notified of a Patients
Mysterious Disappearance.

The police were yesterday requested to
look out for William Lee James, former
member of Company c. Sixth Missouri
Volunteers, who is reported as missing
since Monday. James's mother, who is
at present stopping in the city, at the
home of her sister, Miss Mary Gibbons, of
No ,2S01 Street northwest, makes the
request She states that her son enlisted
at ST. Louis when the war broke out, and
was soon afterward stricken with typhoid
fever while in camp in the South.
The young man was sent from there to
the hospital at Fort Myer, Va, where he
had been until Monday last. On that day
he was discharged and paid. During the
morning hours he gathered up his belong
ings at the hospital and disappeared.
Mrs. James arrived here Monday even
ing to take charge of her son and return
with him TO St Louis She called at the
hospital and was there informed Of his de-
parture. The mother is now fearful that
her son has suffered a relapse and is wan
dering aimlessly about.
James Is described as being twenty-one
year old. six feet tall, of slender build,
smooth face, light complexion, blue eyes,
and brown hair. One upper tooth is half
gold.
The times., 1898-12-23
THE NEW WOMAN.
The Secret of Strength
and Beauty.

The athletic woman is everywhere in
evidence. YoI can see her on the wheel.
swinging golf club, rowing. riding, run
ming, her every movement SO graceful
that you instinctively pause to look at
her. The day OF tIght-laced, wasp-w waist
ed women Is over and gone. The age has
given us a new woman who thinks more
of her lungs than she does of her waist,
and who is proud of her muscle. But
have you noticed that these girl god
desseseare almost without exception un-
The times., 1898-12-23
Center Rush Janrny Dead.

Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 2-Percy NAL
colin Jafrray, of Irvington-on-the-Hu
center rush on this years Harvard var
sity eleven, died in his room early this
afternoon. While the cause of death is
not certainly known. the doctors in at
tendance believe it was due to spinal
meningitis. In the Yale game he sus-
tained an injury to his knee and was
absent from the college for some days,
but returned fully two weeks ago, and, be-
yond slight limp, appeared TO be in un-
usually good health.
The times., 1898-12-23
A LARGE REALTY SALE.
The PurchaAer Is New York Cap
itaIist.

t. E. Roessle. the proprietor of the Ar
lington Hotel, yesterday sold to John c..
Schawe New York capitalist. the large
block of vacant lots on the northeast cor
ner of Sixteenth and r Streets for $lI5.-
CO. The sale was made through E. C..
3aumgras, the real estate broker, as stat
ID in The Times yesterday.
The property is over an acre in extent.
fronting 2l7 feet on Sixteenth Street and
n2 feet on r Street. The price paid was
at thte rate of 81 per foot. Mr.. Schawe IS
he proprietor of number of the largest
apartment houses in New York City, and
is understood that he intends to build
IN immense building of this nature on
his new Washington lot. The price OBJ
tanned byM Mr. Roessle for this lot has
given him profit of about $4,000 or near
iy so per. cent in the six years since he
purchased it.
The times., 1898-12-23
rhe New Secretary of the Interior

The nomination and confirmation of Mr..
E. A. Hitchcock of St Louis as Secre-
tary of the Interior Department has
given general satisfaction, and those ac-
luainted with the new Secretary believe
his eminent business qualifications
especially fit him for the portfolio. While
he has been too much engrossed in bust
ness matters during his life to pay much
attention to politics.fhe is known as a
stanch Republican. His native city is
the home of one of the largest breveries
Of this country but when he comes to
Washington he Will BE in the city where
is brewed the best beer. Heurich's l.
always the first beer that is called fo-,
which is the best evidence of the wide
reputation it hasf throughout the United
States. Can be had IN bottled form from
he Arlington Battlihg Co.. phone SIX
.hirty-four. sA
The times., 1898-12-23
Desertion the Cause.

Mamie Hall yesterday filed petition
for divorce from her husband, John r.
Hall, alleging desertion as the cause of
action,
The times., 1898-12-23
DICTIONARY OF HEALTH.

You don't want to use dictionary very
often, but when you do want it. nothing
will take its place. That fact is equally
true of DR.. Pierce's dictionary of health
The Peoples Common Sense Medical Ad-
wiser You may not want TO consult It
every day, but when you do. it is the one
book for your need. In its Ices page s
can be found the answer TO almost any
question relating TO human health and
physical well being. This great book is
given away 1t will be sent free TO any
one on receipt of stamps 10 pay the cost
of mailing only. Send q one-cent stamps
for the edition in paper or 81 STAMPS for
the same book in cloth. Address. Dr.. R.
v Pierce Buffalo, n. Y.
The times., 1898-12-23

fers of free advice which come from peo-
pie who have no medical knowledge, and
are not qualified TO practice. Such OF
fers are deliberately misleading. There
is no claim made to giving a physician's S
advice, they keep inside the law, yet the
wording is designed to create the impress
sion that if you write you will receive the
advice of a physician. The most insi IL
Gus of these offers of advice are artfully
framed to appeal to woman's sympathy.
Some man plays the part OF
THE BEARDED LADY"
and invites women to write to women
and get a womau's sympathy, etc Even
If these letters are genuinely answered by
a woman and sympathy is expressed, this
is not what Invalid women %dnt; TIE
want medical advice. No woman can
give this who is not a trained physician,
and so far as known there is no qualified
woman physician associated with any
proprietary medicine. 1t is certain that
there is no one connected with any insti-
tuition who has, like DR.. Pierce, record
of success extending over thirty years,
and covering the treatment OF more thar.
half million women
There is no alcohol. whisky. or other
intoxicant in "Favorite Prescription.
neither does it contain opium or any
other narcotic drug. Ii does not create
a craving for stimuiants and narcoics-
OF no other medicine especially designed
for women can this be truthfuiiy SAID.
Here and there is found a dealer who
seeks to make little extra profit at a
customers expense by trying to sell o5e
of these Gust as good" substitutes when
..Favorite Prescription" Is called for
That's hardly fair for you. When you
buy lust as good baking powder,
which of course pay the dealers a bigger
profit. YOU get something for yourself. a
spoon or a pitcher or something as a
premium But in this case the dealer
gets all the extra profit and you get a
bottle of medicine that You didn't ask
for, and don't know anything about. ex-
cept one thing, which you may know Tor
certain, that it won't cure as does ta-
vorite Prescription 1t isn't the right
remedy and it hasn't the right record
Don't let the dealer do it. Go for DR..
Pierce's and get DR.. Pierce's.
The times., 1898-12-23

For best poultry, N. E. Market. d2s-2t
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-09-22
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

PRIVATE advices received in New
York stated that Lieut. Peary had
made most suspicious start on his
journey to the north pole, He was at
Etah, near the entrance to Smith sound,
on August 10 and was planning to
make a winter camp far up on the
northwestern coast of Greenland.
THE horse show opened at Kansas
City, Mo-, on the 18th with grand pa
rade of animals.
BATTERY A, Missouri artillery ar
rived in st. Louis on the night of the
18th from Porto Rico and the citizens
gave the soldiers banquet.
GEN. LAYTON reported to the war
department on the 18th that all but
eight of the Spanish prisoners had
been shipped from Santiago to Spain.
The attending physicians at Dedham,
Mass, on Thomas +. Bayard, ex-United
States ambassador to England, gave no
hopes of his recovery on the 18th.
MINERS who arrived at Seattle,
Wash, reported a typhoid epidemic
prevailing at Dawson, Alaska. Hun
dreds of persons were said to be i'll and
the deaths averaged about dozen
daily.
ALARMED by the spread of typhoid
fever in the Iowa camp, Surgeon Rof-
ter had all the tents of the Kansas
regiment at Camp Merriam, San Fran
cisco, taken down, the floors moved
and verything disinfected.
A DISPATCH from Naples on the 18th
said that the population around Vesu-
vius were in state of gloomy appre-
hension regarding the volcanoes erup-
tion, which was becoming hourly more
active and menacing and streams of
lava were spreading in every direction.
THREE robbers boarded Lake Man
ava railway train between Council
Bluffs, Ia, and the lake, securing over
500 from the conductor and passen-
gers. They then escaped.
The yacht Emily was struck and
sunk by a squall in the narrows at
Newburyport, Mass. on the 18th and
two men out of the five on board were
drowned.
THE work of the military commits
sion in Porto Rico was said to be prac-
tically over on the 18th, all arrange
ments for the evacuation of the island
by the Spanish troops and the receipts
of government property having been
determined upon.
! Miss WINNIE DAVIS, the Daughter
of the Confederacy," died at Narragan-
sett Pier R l., on the 18th. She had
been i'll for several weeks with mala-
rial gestritis. She was born at Rich
mond, Va, in 1863
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-09-22
A NOTED PREACHER DEAD.
DIR. John Hall, Pastor of the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church, New York,
Since 1867, Passes Away.

New York, Sept. 10. Rev. Dr. John
Hall, who died at the home of his sis
ter in Belfast, Ireland, Saturday while
on his annual trip to Europe, was born
in county Armagh, Ireland, in 1929.
He was of Scotch descent. In 1S49 he
was licensed to preach and at once en-
gagged in missionary work in the west
of Ireland. In 1867 DIR. Hall was a
delegate from the general assembly of
the Presby terrain church in ireland to
the Presbyterian church in the United
States, and after his return to Ireland
he received call to the Fifth Avenue
Presbyte church in New York.
He accepted it and entered upon his
labors in November, 1867. A new
church edifice was erected for DR..
Hall in 1875 at cost of about 81, 0OO,-
900 on the corner of Fifth avenue and
Fifty-fifth street 1t has been said
that he received the largest salary
of any Protestant clergyman in the
United States.