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with Indians near Pawnee Reserve, Ne.
braska, June %, 1863. Eight arrows en-
tered different parts of his body, and all
were extracted. except one. which had en-
tered at the outer and lower margin Of
the right scapula and passed upward and
inward through the upper lobe of the
right lung or trachea.
The hemorrhage was SO severe that all
hope of his recovery was abandoned. The
patient. however, rallied, but continued
to suffer great pain on swallowing and
coughing, and occasionlly sDat blood.
In July, 1866, more than three years
afterward, he called upon DR.. ]. H. Pea
body to be examined for pension. Upon
probing through small fistulOuS opening
just above the upper end of the breast
bone, the point of the arrow was found
resting against the bone. about an inch
and half below, the head lying fiat
against the windpipe, with the carotoid
artery. jugular vein, and nerveN overly
ing it.
Lost His Pension.
After some difficulty the point Of the
arrow was raised above the sternum or
breast bone, and it was extracted without
the loss of an ounce OF blood, the edge
grating against the sheath of the innomi-
nata artery during the operation. His
health underwent a remarkable improve
ment. and the operator reported him, in
January, 1862 perfectly WELL SO that his
pension was not allowed.
Out of eighty-three cases of arrow
wounds reported by the Surgeon General
in 1891, twenty-six proved fatal. 1t may
be mentioned that the Filipinos poison the
heads of their arrows, and the specimens
received at the National Museum of these
weapons had to be handled with extreme
care.
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BUSINESS MEN WILL PROTEST
AGAINST STREET EXTENSIONS,

| tcularly interesting in this connection
Mr. Parker is an expansionist of the rad
ical and optimistic type. and believes thai
| the future of the city as the Greater
Washington" depends on liberal street ex-
tension. He is also strong advocate
OF bond issue on the ground that the
generation to come should bear the CHIEF
burden of the expense of the big improve
ments.
The Real Estate Exchange hopes to be-
gin business actively within ten days. It's
membership is now 100, and assurances
have been received from brokers which
show that 1t will be at least $50 before
its business career begins.
A Big OGlce Building.
The ninestory steel frame office build
ing to be erected at the southwest corner
of Pennsylvania Avenue and Seventeenth
Street will be one of the important addi-
tions to business Washington. 1t will oc-
cupy one of the most conspicuous posi-
tions in the city, and will be visible,
looming up over the State, War. and Navy
Department Building for many blocks in
every direction.
ferred to Gen. Anson S. Mills, who will
erect the building, but he has made all
the arrangements and the brokers for
the owners state that there is no ques-
tion that the sale will be completed. The
deal was made through William Corcoran
Hill and Lieberman & Hawn, the real
estate brokers.
The lot fronts fifty-eight feet on Penn
sylvania Avenue, eighty-five feet on Sew
l.
and has a total area of S.554 square feet.
The price paid for the property by Cen
eral Mills is about $4,000. 1t is under
stood that the construction of the build
ing will begin early in the spring.
E Street between Ninth and Tenth
Streets is to have still another business
Improvement, this time the north side
of the street. opposite the big warehouse
extension. Mr.. Samuel Ross, the owner
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tissue to the extent of three -fourths of
an inch around the track Of the arrow
point was softened and disorganized
Some PrehistOrfc Cases

tissue to the extent of three -fourths OF
an inch around the track Of the arrow
point was softened and disorganized
Some Prehistoric Cases.
Widely separated in point of time, but
apparently similar in character, is the
case illustrated by the prehistoric skull
of woman, the forehead OF which bears
a large cash. Yet, Notwithstanding the
frightful nature OF this wound. II gives
evidences. according to e. perts who have
examined the specimen. of suppuration
and healing.
Another prehistoric skull. also of a wo-
man. has a gaping wound in the right
parietal, although it is ascertained that
the subject must have survived the in
jury for some time.
One OF the specimens is human>skull
from mound in Missouri The subject
had received a serious wound, which in
volved the bones of the inner skull, caus
ing the latter, indeed to break down. but
the wound had entirely healed, the cica-
trization was complete, and all the wasted
or destroyed pieces of bone around the
wound had sloughed off and repardtion of
the edges had taken place.
OF course, the missile which penetrated
the skull did not remain in the wound,
and was not found, but from its super
fcial smallness. and its depth, il is con-
jectured that 1t was an arrowpoint.
Pierced by Eight Arrows.
1t has been remarked that the Indians
discharge their arrows with astonishing
rapidity, SO that an individual receiving
one wound-is almost sure to receive 9th
ers. A remarkable case of arrow wounds
was that of Private Osborn Second Ne
braska Cavalry, wounded in a skirmish
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STRUCK BY SHAFTS
FROM INDIAN BOWS
History Of Wounds Traced in the
Army Medical Museum.
PRIVATE sNOwDEN's CASE.
Hoop-Iron Arrowhead Found EN-
bedded in His Brnin and Extract
ed TherefrOm-A Cavalryman Hit
Eight Times i'm One Engagement.

An interesting collection at the Army
Medical Museum is that Illustrative of
arrow wounds received, for the most part,
in modern Indian warfare. Some of the
specimens consisting of human bones,
many with the fatal arrowhead still en-
bedded in them, are interesting from
divers points Of view. and all demonstrate
that none OF ,he weapons was poisoned
Some of the specimens of skulls and other
bones. in which are embedded flint arrow
or spear heads, date from prehistoric
times and were found in ancient burial
mounds in this and other countries.
very interesting modern case Illus
trated is of especial note as bearing some
points of resemblance to one now under
consideration in this city.
Private Snowden, of the Fourteenth
Infantry, was one of party sur
prised by Apaches March 22, 1866,
while en- route from Maricopa Wells to
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Fort Goodwin, Arizona. He was struck
In the back Of the head by an arrow,
which penetrated the skull. Nine days
later he reached Maricopa Wells, weak
and fatigued, bu; unimpaired in intelli-
gence. He believed the arrow point to
be within the Uranium, since, in pulling
on the shaft, after receiving the injury,
nothing but the shaft responded.
Extracting the Head.
The usual treatment was being given
with success, when in examining the
scalp there was discovered a small tune
faction over the parietal side of the left
occipito- -parietal suture. Pressure caused
the issue of a small quantity of serous
matter from the cicatrix of the arrow
wound
This was enlarged and a probe passed
into it was made to feel along the fssure
in the bone, when it struck something
metallic. The Uranium was laid bare
by crucial incisicn, and with consider
able difficulty a hoop-iron arrowhead one
and three-quarter inches long and
one-half inch in breadth was with
drawn from the brain. About dram of
pus followed it,
After the operation the right side of
the body was observed to be paralyzed.
The patients condition fuctuated. but in
the first week in May his Improvement
had been such as to cause belief in his
recovery. On the 7th he ate
which disagreed with him, and
grew worse until the morning
Of the 18th. when death ensued
The pOst-mortem showed that the brain
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of the property adjoining the building OF
the corner of Ninth and E. will tear dowr
the present old structures and erect foul
One-story stores in their place.
Realty Sales.
Stone G. Fairfax, the real estate brokers
have sold during the past week for w. Z
Thompson three brick houses on NJ neal
Twenty-fifth Street, for $4,000; ioi
Thomas NJ Haislip. 1890 First street
northwest, for $500. for William Louder
house 1885 Morgan Avenue. for $1,000: fol-
d. Jeffries, house 9lS New Jersey Avenue
for $1,000; for j. Dowd, house l34 f1ith
Street northeast. for $3,5o0. and for NJ
johnson, lot on Street, near Nineteenth
Street. for $1,000.
Building in BlOOmingdnle.
Middaugh & Shannon. the builders ana
real estate brokers'. have planned fur-
ther building operations in Bioomirgdale,
the section adjacent to North Capitoi
Street above Florida Avenue. They pur-
chased last week lot at the corner OF
North Capitol and Randolph Streets.
fronting 100 feet on each street, and will
Immediately begin the erection of a block
OF tWO-StOry houses. IL is unuefStoou
that other extensive plans for building
in the section are contemplated by Mid
daugh & Shannon, Thomas F. Blundon,
Thomas Haislip. and other builders.
Work has been commenced on two
apartment houses on Twelfth Street be-
tween and U Streets northwest for Mr..
George S. Reese. The plans as drawn by
Speiden & Speiden. architects, provide for
three story structures, each having three
apartments of four rooms and bath. The
fronts viii be of mottled buff brick, with
stone steps and trimmings.
The same architects have prepared
plans from which Mr.. w. H. McCray Will
erect a two-story apartment house near
East Capitol and Tenth Streets. Each
floor will contain one apartment of five
rooms and bath. Provision has been made
for separate cellar and yard for each
floor The front will be constructed en-
tirely of stone.
Mr.. Thomas +. Walsh has purchased the
vacant ground adjoining on the east his
residence site at the southeast corner
of Massachusetts, Avenue and Twenty
first Street. He will add it to his lawn,
making a total frontage of 213 feet, and
a lawn of more than ninety feet front.
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Easy Terms.
Same as rent.

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The fact leaked out yesterday that a
big petition is being circulated among
the business men of the city against the
further extension of streets into the
suburbs and against the vond issue pro-
posed by some of the leading real estate
brokers of the District. A large number
OF prominent business men have signed
the petition. ana it is understood that al
ready the list of signatures is nearly 300.
although less than third of the business
section has been canyassed.
Tne leading spirit in the movement is
said to be Thomas E. Waggaman, al
though he is not the first signer of the
petition, and does not push himself for
ward as its father or chief promoter
Among the business men who are un-
derstood to have affixed their signatures
to the document are: Mr.. Isadore Saks
Mr.. Emmons s. Smith. Kan & Com
pany, the Washington Safe Deposit Com
pany, Mr.. W. Mex. Clayton, and Thomas
E. Waggaman.
Present Facilities Sufficient.
The petition recites that the revenues
of the District at the present time are
amply sufficient TO meet its expense re-
quirements without the issuance Of bonds,
that the present extension of the streets
in the suburbs are amply sufficient for
all the needs of its growing population
and will be SO for long time TO come
and that further extensions would in
vclve an unnecessary and wasteful use of
money and a burden on the taxpayers of
the city proper for which they would re-
ceive no benefit. The petition then makes
the plea TO the District Commissioners
that no further steps be taken in the
matter of street extensions or a bond
iScue
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Miles of Unused Streets.

Attention is also called to the many
graded streets, even macadamized and
siGewalked in many instances, that have
been laid out in the past ten years, and
are still innocent of houses for many
blocks, ard sometimes even, for miles.
1t is said that these subdivisions already
on the market, ranging from cheap to
high priced, and from poorer localities 10
the best in the District. will furnish suf
ficient facility for the growth of the city
TO almost double its present size.
VIII Mean Increased Taxes.
AS to the bond issue, 1t is argued that
it would only foster extravaganza in every
direction. But it is suggested by the
people circulating the petition that they
are not very much afraid of the bond
plan, because they do not believe Congress
will ever consent TO it. The street ex-
tension plan, without the bond issue, they
regard as even greater evil than with
it, 1t is stated that If the development
of the suburbs on the grand plan pro-
posed is undertaken without bond issue
ii will mean either an increase in the tax
rate or sharp increase in the assess
ment rate. either of which it is contended
would be a Rrievous evil, ana handicap
to the prosperity of the District
An Effort to Keep Plan Secret.
There has been an effort made TO keep
the petition q secret 1t is said, and few
business men north of Pennsylvania
Avenue had heard of it yesterday. The
prominent men behind the Greater
Washington" bond issue idea are working
hard in a direction diametrically opposite
to that of the petition, and up to the pres
ent time their plan has had by far the
greater success. Real estate men familiar
with the situation and with the character
of the interests on both sides of the ques-
tion predict that there will be most
interesting clash when the petition has
gotten sufficiently under headway to be
felt.
The views of President E. Southland
Parker OF the Metropolitan Bank, printed
In another column OF The Times, are par
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REAL ESTATE.
FOR SALE
HOlJS IS.

N ST, y. II. ave, NV; handsome Groom,
bath and cellar brick; cabinet mantels, porcelain
tub, furnace heat, brownstone steps; porches in
rear; cost $3.50; owner obliged to SELL only
s., 500 if sold ct once.
North Carolina ave, near 9Th ST., Sc. : very de-
sirable groom. bath and cellar brick: furnace
heat; finest location Capitol Hill; owner hav-
ing LETT city, has authorized us to sell this hand
home for s., $50.
18th St, near T, NV; elegant Groom, bath and
cellar brick; tiled bath, porcelain tub; cabinet
mantsls; furnace heat; in thorough repair; 20
feet front; $3.50
Mass. ave-. 9th St, NV; the beet bargain
ever offered in this desirable location; handsome
T-room and bath brick; porcelain bath; furnace
heat: rented s60.7b per month; nonresident
owner will sacrifice for S. 800 if sold at once.
st. me-; fronting south on Capitol grounds;
Is rooms, bath and cellar; brick; steam heat; ;
fsx7s; $500.
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REAL ESTATE.
FOR SALE HOUSES

For sale-Bargains, Columbia Heights; Prince
ton St, near 18th ST.. NV; lO-room brick; 4
rooms on each floor; lot lG.sxl5O to alley. This
house has the finish OF a $1,000 house; beauti-
fully finished Keys at Office.
Fer sale-Just completed; 500 cash, balance
so monthly; 2-story pressed brick; fooms bath,
cellar, furnace heat; cabinet mantes; convent
ent to cars. New, and open for inspection.
So. go.
For sale-N st. NV, near 18th; s-story brick !;
8 rooms. bath; frame stable; lot 17.2xll0 TO 30
foot alley. Rents for 80. Cheap at $500. Of
fered for the first time
For Sale-sth st. me-, Nd. ave. A chance
for home; brick; good. large rooms and tiled
bath; cellar; furnace heat; gas range Easy
terms. Price, s, 500.
For sale-central Socatisn on st. NV; WELL
built s-story and cellar brick, bay window house;
furnace heat; well renisa at 5000; rooms
bath. genuine Home or investment. Price,
e 80
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Present Facilities Sufficient.
A Mass Meeting Proposed.

The statement is made by friends of
the petition that as socn as ii has been
circulated among the business men ade-
quately it will be followed by mass
meeting of protest against the entire
street extension plan.
The contention of the interests behind
the protest is that the vast outlays of
money that will be necessary for the
extension plan as it is now mapped out
will be virtually money thrown away. or
at least tLat it will bring no adequate
return for many years TO come. and is
therefore very bad business proposition.
1t is pointed out that the one extension of
Sixteenth Street will cost SS000 000, more
or less and that Fourteenth and Thir-
teenth Streets will also cost large sums,
not to mention he many other details of
tic full plan.
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Big Petition Receiving
Numerous Signatures.
LEADING NAMES ENROLLED
Plea That Further In. rOvements
Are Not Needed.
BOND PLAN VIGOROUSLY SCORED.

A Mass Meeting to FOllOw-Clash
Expected With the Advocates of
"Ihe Greater Notwithstanding
Realty Exchange Real Estate
tiOns.
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H. R. HOWENSTEIN,
$40 G Strset n. W.
HOUSES FOR SALE

few Of the bargains that we have in Real
Estate.
1t will pay buyers, homeseekers, as well as
investors. to take note
Many Of the properties We offer are held by
trustees and can be bought at simply cost under
the trust. Buyers make what the Others lose.
For Sale
Within one square new City Library. coy
six-room and bath brick, rented at SIS. Price.
1900.
Nj. Pleasant, ten rooms and bath stable;
lot 50 feet front. Only 5000
Near Government Printing Office, fourteen
room brick side alley. Price only q, 800.
Fnterprising buyer can rent rooms enough TO
more than cover cost Of interest on purchase
price. and get his own house rent free. 1t
won't take much cash.
A small six-room brick near Capitol; rented
at sl2.5o. Price. sl,40o.
handsome house fronting grounds Of L. S.
Capitol facing south: II rooms and bath and
large stable; side and alley. For particu-
lars and prices please call.
On Maryland ave, near First st. ne, hand
home bay window brick. nine rooms and bath
Price. $500. Simply cost under trust.
Several new Groom and bath houses. Price,
$, $50 each, on monthly payments Of S2j.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1902-10-29

When this amount is sold the price
will positively be advanced or stock
withdrawn from the market entirely
WE HAVE SECURED
A STAMP MILL
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
IN THE ANIMAL WORLD.

Thoroughbred dogs are less intelli-
gent than mongreis.
Flying fish have been known TO rise
20 feet above the surface of the sea.
a cows hide produces 35 pounds of
leather, and that Of horse about Is
pounds.
Salmon rarely live more than ten
years; but pike and carp sometimes
live to be $50 years old.
1t takes $500 silkworms 10 make a
pound of silk, and these worms eat 1856
pounds of leaves before they spin their
cocoons.
Last year in Venezuela alone 2,oO0,-
600 birds were killed for fashions sake.
One London dealer admitted 10 years
ago, long before fashion was so pitt
less as now, that he sold 2, 0oO, 900 small
birds every - months. Three recent
consignments to London included TO-
900 birds of paradise, nearly 500 pack
ages of osprey feathers, 6,70O crested
pigeons, $500 Impeyan pheasants, 500
bird skins, go cases of peacocls' feath-
ers, 1900 Argus pheasants and 500 vari-
Gus other small birds.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
FEMININE FRILLs.

Collars have grown to be quite as
much part of the toilet as the belt
or the gloves; especially is this true
for street wear.
Crepe diamante cloth as fine as
fiower-petals and marvellous muslin
velvet will all be fashioned into the
most superb raiments.
White and gray is a favorite com
bination in Paris, and also that
enthusiastically Frenchy combine
ton, pale blue and pale pink.
Buttons of rhinestone, with setting
OF gun metal, are used as fasteners
for suede gloves in gun metal tint.
to be worn with black gowns.
One of the new ribbons suggests
fine canvas cloth. It comes in vari-
Gus colors and is sprinkled along the
edge and through the center with
small black velvet dots
Some of the spring hats will show
soft silk scarfs of a contrasting
color to the straw threaded through
interstices cut in the shape. the
fat designs especially admitting of
this sort Of trimmings.
~ igSdhtheinum straw is the sea-
sons novelty in the millinery line
and is aptly named. The colors are
those of the natural bIossomed
toned pastel colorings and the
toques require but little trimming.
Collars are of all sorts and condi-
tions. They are trimmed with braid
and embroidery and are made of silk
in black, white and colors-moire be-
ing favorite for this purpose-or of
cloth in the delicate colors.
White mohair will be just right
for boating costumes. OF white
silks, louisines and moire velours
are two especially pretty weaves.
Other new white fabrics are crepe
armures and armure brillante, the
latter having a crinkle that is not at
all like crepon.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
SPARKS FROM MANY ANvILS.

We don't want the faith that comes
by seeing, but the seeing that comes
by faith.-John Mcneil.
The feet follow the eyes; we look
and then go. First we sin in desire.
and then in acknowledging.
We think of the truth as thing that
is spoken or taught; Jesus Christ
thought of the Truth as a thing that is
lived.-Mark Guy Pearse.
He who knows only how to enjoy, and
not to endure, is in-ftted to go down
the stream of life through such a
world as this.-Harry Van Dyke.
Everywhere the flower of obedience
is intelligence. Obey a man with cor
dial loyalty and you will understand
him. Obey Jesus with cordial loyalty
and you will understand Jesus. Not by
studying Him, but by doing His will
shall you learn how Divine He is. Obe-
dience completes itself in understand
ing.-Phillips Brooks.
Spiritual life is an essential condi-
tion for the spiritual kingdom. What
would you do in Heaven with an unre-
generated nature? A stranger in a
strange land; a beggar amid bounty;
blind amid beauty; deaf amid waves of
song; hungry, yet with no taste for
Heavenly joys-you would be out of
place there.-Evangelical Herald.
"A heart at leisure from itself" is in
deed something worth striving for. We
let slip many opportunities for help
ing others, not because we are indiffer-
ent or unwilling, but because just at
the time we are so busy with our own
burden, so full of care or sore-hearted
that we think we have no strength to
lend to another. Thereby we miss the
blessedness Of learning how God cares
for those who care for others.-Leaves
of Light
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
MYSTERY OF CRIME.
Paris Revels in Series of Sensa-
tional Homicides.
Artist Kills His Model for the sake
OF Realism Suicides Wear
Orange blossoms = Wants
to be GuiIIotlned.

For the picturesque and the sensa-
tional in crime there is no country that
can begin to match France. Scarcely a
week passes that the newspapers do
not print the details of murder that
reads like bit of Gaboriau fiction, or
the fantastic dreams of Edgar Allen
Poe. Such theatrical attributes seem
to belong naturally to the French
character, which loves odd, weird or
tanciful effects in everything. The
word bizarre" was created in the lam
guage TO fit this national characters
tic
Only the other day man employed
In one of the government Offices in
Paris killed his wife in their suburban
home under circumstances of the most
extreme cruelty. Then he went to his
bedroom, and preparatory TO taking
his own life, sat down and wrote a
calm, psychological treatise on how it
feels to be a murderer.
In the Vilette quarter of the cap
| ital young man two or three nights
| ago climbed to the second story win
dow OF his own house Though he had
the keys of the front door in his peck
et), entered his own bedroom where
bis wife and child were sleeping, muir
dered them then and there, climbed out
OF the window and down to the ground
again, and was skulking away like
duty-done burglar when arrested.
A French artist of the Latin quarter
was ten days ago putting the finishing
touches on his painting, 1.-The Death
OF Venus" which he meant to be his
masterpiece. So that his model would
be lifelike or rather, deathlike, he
had been in the habit of hypnotizing
her during the three hours she posed
each day. That last day he grew dis
satisfied with the flesh tints he had