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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
NURSING IN ALASKA.
Need of Proper Food and Care for
Miners

The character of the food used in the
mining camps IS such that many strong
men break down under IT, Scurvv is =
very common disease They drink oIIan-
titles OF coffee and that does its work
with thousands
A nurse, Mrs. /. Lowell. who has been
employed IN different places in Alaska
for the past three years. writes to say
that she has induced many patients 70
leave off coffee and take Postum Food
Coffee, which is very popular now in
many of the mining camps, for they have
learned it's value
She says OF herself that she has been a
great sufferer from the Use OF coffee, and
had most shameful bilious complexion
She says: Il not only suffered from the
looks, but had a very serious stomach
trouble. When l finally quit coffee and be
gan using Postum Food Coffee my storn-
ach began to recover it's normal condition
and my complexion gradually changed
until now, after a month or more use of
Postum. my complexion is as fair as d
schoolgirls.
4 send you a list OF many names Of
miners that have given up coffee and are
using Postum. and in each case there has
been a remarkable Improvement in health
Il had one patient almost gone from
scurvy. He could not retain any food
but lived on Postum until strong enough
TO take other food and got well.
Il am going to take up a large supply
OF Postum next trip"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
scHooLBoYs ON A STRIKE.
They Resist What They Consider
TOO Heavy Tasks.

BALTIMORE, March 13-Far about
half al hour yesterday there was a strike
OF the boys OF the eighth grade Of No.
q hale Grammar School. on Washington
Street. near Fairmount Avenue
The boys claim that Vice Principal
Grape insists that they start work in the
morning before the regulation hour and
that he has 50 increased their tasks that
they cannot finish them unless they be-
gin earlier than the usual time. If they
don't finish their work the boys say that
II initiates against them and they assert
that the vice principal has predicted that
most Of them would fail in their exami-
nations
The boys admit. however. that they
have a soft spot in their hearts for the
former principal and that the GOODNESS
with the new head is parity due 10 afec-
ton for their former director But they
OBJECT TO working overtime and hare con-
crete ideas on the subject Of sticking 10
the schedule
Yesterday morning they decided to I'm
ger IN . body around the Sch0OIhOUSe IN
time TO begin work. The approach of a
policeman weakened their resolution and
Trey went into the building At luncheon
time the officer was not in evidence and
his absence revived their spirits TO such
an extent that they assembled in body
TO the number OF tWenty-SeVen on the op-
pDSIte Of the street. Here they stood out
Cipal for about thirty minutes. Then,
feeling that they had satisfied their con-
ceptlon of what was right, they returned
TO their studies.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
CHILD SMOKES CIGARETTES.
Remarkable Case of a Three ear
Old NeY Yorker


NEW YORK, March l3.-Three-year-cld
Samuel HaHer will smoke cigarettes.
Though his mother coaxes him not TO.
though his father whips him every time
ne catches him smoking, still the boy
smokes.
Now that he has set the house affre
with a cigarette-yesterday was the sec
ond time, too-they are going 70 see what
the doctors can do TO allay SamueIs pre-
cocioUs craving for tobacco
The Hallers live in the double six-story
tenent at I73 Orchard Street. The young
ster is a round-taced little chap. with
sparkling black eyes. and is apparently
healthy and bright, though for the last
six months he has smoked nearly twenty
cigarette stubs a day
Mr.. and Mrs Halter were away from
home yesterday afternoon The boy went
into a bedroom, locked the door, and,
climbing on the bed, lighted a cigarette.
He smoked until drowsy from the nico-
tine The cigarette dropped among the
bedclothes. He CROPPED around for it,
but II was lost among the clothes, and he
decided 10 let IL 20 and lighted another
be was putting cOntentedly when sud
denly the bedcloJhes burst into fame
Samuel ran screaming into the front
room. People in the street saw smoke and
sent n q FIRE alarm
The hremen found that the child had
closed the bedroom door behind him thus
combining the flames to that apartment
They took the child to neighbours house
Noticing his bulgiug pockets. they in
yestISaUed and found twenty cigarettes.
The boy said he had picked up the Gig
aretteS on the street
Ny boy has been an inyeterate cigar
cite smoker for over six months" Mr
Halter said He was taught to smoke by
the boys with whom he plays and now
he lights cigarette whenever he gets
chance.
My wife and I have tried everything
TO overcome our child : habit, and now
] chaStiSe him severely every time l catch
him smoking It's all for nothing. how
ever Re hid behind some clothes last
Sunday and lit d cigarette while we were
in another room The clothes caught fire
but we eXtinguished the flames before
much damage was done.
i gave him the most severe punishment
OF his life and / thought It had cured him.
But It seems 20 have done no good, and
! VIII try what physicians can do"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
RoB ATTACKS a moroRMAN.
BROOKLYN Street Car Fatally Man.
giles a Three-fear-OId Row

NEW YORK. March 13.-Louis Sitkin,
three years old, toddling across East
Twenty-eishth Street, yesterday. a stick
of candy cIutched in his fingers. was
knocked down by an eastbound cross
town car and was fearfuIfv rnutfIated m
der its wheels. Both legs were severed.
one at the ankle. the other at the hip.
But for prompt action by the police. the
mo-Orman Of the car would have been
lynched by an infatuated crowd led by
men who had witnessed the accident.
Little Louis and his brother, five years
old, were playing On the sidewalk in front
Of their home. rs East Twenty-eighth
Street, while the mother, Mrs. Joseph Sit
kin. went to . nearby market. Louis tod
died out into the middle Of the street as
car No L2g4, with John Connaughton in
charge OF the compressed air motor. came
eastward at top speed
Not until the car was right upon its
ElctlTn dld the motOruau see the danger.
An instant later the child was under the
wheels IHfurlaJed men and women
Elroye 10 tear the motorman from the
platform Two policemen fought their
way TO his side and protected him until
reserves from the East Thirts-iifth Street
Station arrived
To get the child from under the wheels
Il was necessary TO call on Hook and
Ladder Company No. l. Little Louis, still
conscious and still clinging TO the stick Of
candy, was removed 70 Bellevue Hospital
whore he died ar hour later
MOtorman COnnaughtOn was paroled
IN the Yorkville Police Court
antonio Snulber. five years old Of
64Z West 18th Street. q kindergarten pu-
Pill IN the public school at 18th Street and
Amsterdam Avenue. was knocked down
thrown ten feet ahead and crushed and
mutilated by an Amsterdam Avenue car.
Hundreds Of school children witnessed
the accident The railroad cOrnpany-s re
pair wagon was summoned 10 remove the
child, who died in the Manhattan Hos
piJal.
The police OF the Mercer Street Sta
ton are looking for the driver of an
eastboUud Prince Street horse car that
Knocked down and perhaps fatally in
jured Joseph Sagarese, six years old. who
lived on the second floor of No. 7 Prince
Street. The boy was playing in the
street last evening when he was struck
by the corner Of the car and knocked I'M
der the front platform. The wheel push
ed the boy from the track According TO
Vito TerhiuO. nine years Old. playmate
OF the injured lad, the driver Of the car
whipped I'D his horses and went on
The boy has & probable fracture Of the
skull and severe cuts Of the body
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13

from galvanic or feradIc electricity While
many persons would not dare use the lat
ter TWO kinds, static is safe and beneficial
in all cases. no matter what the trouble
may be, because it is q natural element
Of the body.
DR. Shade also uses static electricity
10 transmit or convey indications into
diseased organs. lungs. kidneys spine
stomach, nerve centres. liver, spleen: also
brain and nervous diseases, paralysis
sctatlca. rheumatism, IOcOmotor ataxia
enlarged and diseased joints, tumors, car
buncles, and in treating successfully loss
OF vitality, nervous Prostrat!on, general
debility, weak and exhausted functions Of
the physical system.
In treating lung, throat and catarrhal
diseases, asthma, &c. ozone Is also ad-
ministered by his large static machines
The treatment by static electricity is very
successful when used in conjunction with
his Eclectic Remedies in treating indi-
gestion, heart trouble. stomach and mites
final trouble. chronic appendicitis Ian
gour, that tired feeling. dizziness, obesity,
vertigo, constipation, fulIness after eat
ing, eructations Of food. and all diseases
Of men. women. and children
Office hours. 9 to $50, and to even
ings
Sundays, 10 to l p. n Cor. 18th and C.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13

proved Crookes Tube for X-ray examina-
ton in diagnosing complicated diseases
In less than ten years the physician who
: not equipped with the late improved
appliances Of electricity viii be considered
way behind the times. as he really IS now.
because ne Is depending upon old methods
in this aggressive day Of rapid strides and
startling cures performed by static cleo
tricity- Wake up; wake up thou that
sleepest-in the old rUts OF medicine bestir
myself" Dr. Shade says he was in the
same old rurs for over twenty years Yes,
in the next decade hundreds and thous-
ands OF wide-awake physicians will have
just as fine an outfit as DR.. Shade though
il is said his electric parlors are the finest
and best equipped in America. Dr. Shade
makes no charge for consultation
II you have been deceived by physicians
and disappointed by their poor success
in treating your case by the old way Of
medicines alone; if you are discouraged
and have declared you would never go to
another doctor: If your case IS seemingly
hopeless. and you have about given up,
see Dr. Shade at once, for three physicians
and scores OF the laity in Washington
have been cured 10y his improved methods
after Washington doctors had given them
up IS hopeless cases.
Static electricity is entirely different
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
MEDICATION OF THE HOUNDS.
a Case Of CircumstantiaI Evidence
Clearly DisprOVed.
lFrom Forest and Stream

We'll. your hounds are running in my
woods. and l found the dead sheep in the
edge an hour after
So said oar friend the farmer. and
though still. uncOnvinced, We settled, and
entered it UP. kennel account. $3.50
The hounds had never been seen 70 no.
Iice sheep in the least. Several times
they had followed fox through a flock
which scattered and ran . short dis
lance, and then stood watching the dogs
ont of Si2at. II was perhaps unWiSe 10
Precipitation TO having our dogs shot in
discriminatory.
The first snow came Unexpectedly in
November. and three fox men and two
hounds were out early in the morning. \
fox was started opposite the gun club
grounds and made for a high hill a mile
or 81 away and circIed about IT'S wooded
top. Just before reaching their runwayS
the hunters came on a dog track, and a
il led their way. followed II ! short
distance farther. as they were about to
SeDarate. they came upon q. freshly killed
sheep. Their feelings can be appreciated
only by foXhunters in sheep country That
il was the work of one Of their own dogs
they had not a doubt and with heavy
hearts they took up the trail with the
determination to shoot on sight
Ten minutes later they surprised a col
lie in the very act of pulling down
sheep. The dog started. and four long
shots resulted in slightly woundinG him;
but the chase was taken up with lighter
hearts and q grlmmer determination to
deal justice. The fox and hounds were
left TO enjoy she day as best they might
From 9 a. M. to p m that collie dog
led the three foX-hunters and a small
army or farmers, recruited along the
route. He was seen several times ami
several long shots were taken No one
recognized him At last he was seen to
enter harnyard. and in the watering
shed he was cornered and despatched
The owner was afterward located nearly
FIVE miles from the scene of the dogs
depTedations
The hounds are indicated, Fox-hun-
tiers get the glad hand and the open Oat
bin wherever they may choose to put up
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
How to Treat Complicated, Chronic and So=calIed IN
durable Diseases by Dr. Shades Improved Meth
DDS of Using Static Electricity in ConjunC=
ton With His Eclectic Remedies

Dr. Shade has been working on his i'm
proved methods more than a year-reaIly
ever since Grotte announced his discovery
in 1899. The above picture represents
lady taking a treatment of static cleo
tricity for nervous trouble, which is pleas
ant and refreshing; also gentleman in
the act OF receiving treatment for lung
trouble. The clothing not being a min
derance, an embarrassing feature IS re-
moved by Dr. Shades Improvement on the
GrOtte methods, which requires a nude
state of the chest and back OF part to be
treated It matters not what your trouble
may be, you Will do well and make no
mistake by consulting Dr. Shade. Thirty
years practice: the oldest and most sue
cessful specialist in Washington: also late
editor Of the North American Medical
Review for which journal he wrote a
continued article for seven months on
Pathology of Disease. Infectious Diseases.
including tuberculosis. Preventive Medi-
cine, &c He also wrote on Bright s Disease
and many other diseases for such journals
as the Medical World" the Medical
Brief the Medical Summary the
North Carolina Medical Journal the
'AlkOlOidal Clinic the Medical Times
and Register the Health Item &c
Dr. Shade uses the finest and latest i'm
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
a FILIPINoss PLAN.
Senior Lopez's Solution of the Present
Difficult Problem.

PHILADELPHIA. March 13-Senor
Sixto Lopez, native Filipino. now visit
ing the United States, last night addressed
a mass meeting Of citizens of PhiIadeI-
phia, having been invited by a score OF
wen-known citizens. mostly Republicans.
Prominent among thest latter we're Judge
Ashman and ex-District Attorney Ora
ham. The invitation requested Senior I,o-
PEE to explain the desires of your corr-
trymen."
Senior Lopez was secretary TO Aeon-
clio and the delegation which visited
Washington before the outbreak of hos
Titles
1T, The meeting was held in New Century
Hall senior Lopez said in part:
My mission in this country is NOT only
20 tel the truth about the Philippines
but, as 1 have frequently stated. 10 OBJ
tain peace / should therefore he s,ls5
If YOU viii permit me 10 state what /
conceive to be the way out Of this Dresent
difficulty 1t may be summed up in one
phrase: 10 unto US as You desired that
George III should do unto you
Be great enough to determine to do
right no matter what may be thought or
said by other nations who are too busy
doing wrong to ever regard It a tignified
TO do right Admit that the FilipIUos
hav5 the same rights which ycu your-
selves enjoy Admit that there hnve been
mutual miSunderst ndings Il wrong has
1t IS nobleT to admit wrong than to
persist in It.
Had Congress declared intentions with
regard to the Philippines, cOHfOFTnd bic
with Philippine independence, the cash
Of arms would have been heard no more,
and strife would have ceased between
two peoples who ought never to have been
other than friends Let the Fiipiuos re-
establish the government which they had
instituted with the consent of the gov
erned; take whatever me- ans are necee-
sary to protect your intere SITS. and to dis
charge your international obligations
You viii then be surprised. though per-
haps it viii not be surprise 10 some TO
find that all your fears about anarchy
and disunity and failure wiz have proved
10 be grOundleSS.
Another example viii have been given
TO kings, showing that the people may be
trusted TO govern themselves. and we
shall be able to look up at Old Glory. ,
knowing that it is the symbol of liberty
liberty, not only to this people, bnt to
all mankind"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
DRUGGED BY THREE BOYS.
A brooklyn Girl Makes seriou,
Charges of AIaItreatment


NEW YORK, March I3-Within 100 feet
OF q much-traveled Brooklyn thorough
fare Mary Paige, the sixteeu-year-oId
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Paige. Of
lSi Pearl Street, Brooklyn, was drugged
and assaulted about o'clock on Sunday
evening She was found about o'clock
on Monday morning IN a seIni-conscious
state, taken to her home, and DR.. Gideon
D Hobart was summoned Working over
the girl for several hours, Dr. Hobart so
far restored her TO her normal state that
she was able to tell who drugged her.
Upon the girls statement George F
Abbott, IT. seventeen years old, the son
OF junk dealer at 245 Pearl Street. was
arrested this morning and locked uD in
the Adams Street police station The
Brooklyn police were looking all this
afternoon and until n late hour tonight
for two other boys about Abbott's age
who are also accused by the girl
Dr.. Hobart said that while the girls
condition was still alarming he thought
her chances for recovery were good.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
HAD A COSTLY BALL DRESS.
A Negro Arrested on Suspicion of
Stealing the Garment

NEW YORK, March IA silken hail
dress trimmed with old lace and valued
by the police at sos was added to the
collection in charge of the property clerk
at police headquarters yesterday till the
owner can be found A negro. who says
he is Charles Johnson of Norfolk, Va,
was caught trying TO sell it for 30 cents
at Sixth Avenue and Forty-secOnd Street
or Monday night.
His tale was that a man had given the
dress TO him at Fifth Avenue and Fifty
third Street. telling him to sell it The
police believe him To be 4 thief
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
THE ILLINOIS A SUCCESS,
Her Builders Trial in Every wny
Satisfactory.

NEWPORT NEWS. Va. March 13-The
battleship Illinois went out on her build
ers trial yesterday and proved success
in every particular. The ship left the
docks Of the Newport News ShfpbuH ling
and Dry Dock Company yesterday morn
ing at : O'Clock and returned at 8 p. m.
Capt G. A Converse, L. S. y. who will
command the ship when she is placed in
com mission, was IN command.
The Illinois was taken thirty miles out
side Of the Capes and while there was no
attempt 10 make = speed record the yes
sci, with $50 pounCs Of steam, easily made
sixteen knots She has not been on of
the water for more than a year and her
bottom Is very foul. The official trial az
the Illinois VIII take place in Nav. when
II Is expe cted the ship will deyeInr n
speed Of more than seventeen knots
W lille the snip was going out of Hamp-
ton Roads captain Converse recognized
the old wooden training ship Lancaster
which he took I'D the Baltic Sea as =
warship to attend the coronation OF
Alexander II
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
ANTI-sALooN LEAGUE MEETS.
Talk of beginning IA Vigorous Fight
in Maryland

ELIICOTT CITY, Nd. March 13.-The
Howard County Anti-SaIoon League held
two meetings at Emory Methodist Epis-
copal Church yesterday At the after
noon session communications were read
from s1he various leaders Of branches Of
the league throughout the county.
\ constitution was formally adopted
Tor the government of the league. At
the evening session the Rev s E. Mich
olson. Superintendent Of the MARYLAND
State League, presided. As the sale OF
liquor IS confined to a very small part
OF Howard county there is very little in
terest manifested in the work bv the
temperance people of that county,
The hey- Henry Branch, who is taking
an active interest in the leagues work.
said in an address The elections to take
place next fall offer an opportunity for
practical work in selecting members OF
the Legislature TO be voted for Throughout
the county, and only such men VIII be
voted for as Will favor the removal OF
saloons from their respective districts -
This gives Importance to the movement
at its earliest stages
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
The Death Record In Cub,

General Wood yesterday sent 10 the War
Department the following cabIegram:
Deaths IN command 10 March 70 in
elusive: Santiago. February 2. Sergeant
Downey, Company X, Eighth Cavalry.
pneumonia. Quemades. March c. Private
Harry E Riley. Third Battery Field ArtiI-
Iery, malignant endecarditis: NIatauzas.
March S, Private Smith J. Wood Com
pany y. Second Cavalry, acute typhilitIs
and appendicitis"
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
FRANK SHERMAN WINS.
The Washington Player Holds the
Pool Championship.

BOSTON, March f3--Frank Sherman
of Washington. D. c, is now the world s
pool champion, having won the cham
pionship tourney which ends here to-
night. Sherman has thus far won
all the five games he has played,
while all the other contestants have each
suffered two or more defeats
Sherman plays his final game tomor-
row night with Grant Edy, of Springfield,
Ohio and is picked 10 win it Should he
be defeated it viii have no bearing on the
championship.
Alfred De ORC, who lost the title in
this tourney. has posted a forfeit and
challenged Sherman TO play series Of
matches for the championship The rules
governing the match allow the defender
Of the title thirty days to answer IL
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
An Unexpected Result.

lI0IICLLsI
An amusing episode occurred at q political
meeting at LavendOn during the general cleo
tion. After hearing the speeches of the candidate
and his supporters an aged Conservative from
Noverton mounted the platform and caused
some mystery by dramatically holding aloft
walnut when he proceeded To say:
This Is a political walnut. The rough shell
represents the Radicals: the next. the thin. bit
Ter skin. is the Liberals and the kernel repre-
sents the good Conservative -
man in the audience cried out:
Nov crack II q"
The Woiverton tory did so, when. 10 and be
hold the kernel rotten! The admixture OF
laughter and ehagrin that followed may be mag
ined.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-13
. ATARIElEE

Catarrh has become such common
disease that a person entirely free fTom
this disgusting complaint IS seldom met
with. tits customary to speak of Catarrh
as nothing more serious than bad cold,
a simple inflammation of the rose and
throat. It is, IN fact, a complicated and
very dangerous disease; if not at 6rst, 1t
very soon becomes SO.
The blood is quickly contaminated by
the foul secretiOns, aud the. poison
through the general circulation Is carried
to all parts of the SYSTEM
>5alves, washes and sprays are unsatis-
factory and disappointing, because they
do not reach the seat of the trouble S.
S. S. does. It cleanses the blood of the
poison and eliminates from the system all
catarrhal secretions, and thus cures thor
oughly and permanently the worst cases.
Mr ?. II. McAliister, Of Harrodshurg KY,
writes. "a Having been terrible sufferer from
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Operation ON w. HourI1e Cochran

NEW YORK, March 13-W. Bourke
Cochran on Monday submitted TO an op-
GRAFTON performed by DR.. +. II. Bosworth
for slight affection of the throat The
operation was successful and Mr. Cock
ran has gone TO Sands Point for a yyeeL,
during which he expects complete reCOy-
cry II may be some time before Mr..
Cochran will subject his throat to the
strain of public speaking