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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14

more recent railway novel, THE Daugh-
ter OF Magnate, the novelist spent
MS early life In Chicago, and has been
living In the middle West for several
years past One of novels, "Dr. Bry-
son, deals with the career OF a Chi
cago physician
1t will surprise readers of the railroad
tales to learn that the author was never
himself railroad man. He went to
Colorado in the days of the mining
booms, on account of his health. and
spent some years in the eastern part
OF the State. running q bank.
BY day. not by night" interpolated
Mr. Spearman at this point in the con-
versation. Those We're the DAYS of
high interest on loans-when the interest
could be got at ALL
In reply TO an inquiry as to the To-
calities called in his stories Medicine
Bend the Peace Valley" etc. the
novelist said. with laugh:
''Oh, 1 had to construct my own eeog-
raphy. so as to put mountains and rivers
where / wanted them There is not re-
gion exactly corresponding TO that de-
scribed in Held for Orders The Spider
Water is the Missouri River"
1t was during his banking career that
Mr.. Spearman obtained material for his
ciated with railroad men of ali types.
and the picturesqueness of his mate
rial Is proved by the stories them
selves
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14

CHIPPEWA FALLS. Wis, May IA
Encamped In a stone fort. short dis
lance from his house, on Apple Creek,
John F. DietZ holds control of the
stream and the log drives. This stone
fort he built when he determined to
collect $500 which. he says, the CHIP
pewa Lumber Company owes him
As Dietz has opened the sluice dam.
which he controls. more than ten mil
lion feet of logs are lying high and dry,
and all the lumbermen employed on the
drive have suspended operations.
All efforts to dislodge Dietz have
failed. George 10TH a deputy sheriff.
has volunteered to blow I'D his fort.
He expects to use artillery in his attack.
AS Deitz is heavily armed, ii would
mean death to get within range of his
riha.
Toll on Logs.
Dietz owns the land on both sides
Of the stream at the point where the
sluice dam Is located, and demands 10
cents for each log which is driven
through. The company offered him
$500. but the offer was not accepted,
Then Dietz prepared for siege He
provisioned the fort. and stocked ii with
ammunition. 1t is so built that Dietz
can command a wide zone of fire As
he is expert with the rife. anyone who
comes within that zone is certain TO be
hurt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14
BOOKS AND BOOKMEN

countrymen who come into the street
and manage it without previous expert
fence. As a matter of fact there are
hundreds of men all over this country
VINO are playing Wall Streets tricks
every day OF their lives, and never know
IL. When they discover IL they come to
town. The games have different name
in the country"
1T has been my lot to understand why
men IKE fools of women. They have
SHOWN 1t to me, because they have so
oIten done me the honor to consider me
nait-fooi. Men live TO talk. to pose
before mirror, as il were and they
want the mirror to be shallow and really
70 nold no permanent reflections They
do the posing for their own pleasure and
want to leave no records
one or the most amusing things in
my amusing life has been the contem-
patton OF the casual liar. Somebody
has said that a liar needs long mem
ory. More than anything else a liar
| needs 10 be thorough artist in human
nature The common liar takes a char
acter built on firm lines. and gives to il
an attribute or an act which would he
as impossible to that particular person
as song would be to a crow"
Il had been talking to Lady Flora
Herbert. whom | knew to be the daugh-
ter of hundred earls, but found as M.
Tish and pretentious as though he,
mother hadsbeen Il hOusemaid -
II there is more forlorn and lone
II place on earth than London in Au-
gust. I do not know where ii can be
The payements are torn up The streets
small. the people hideous. There is nsv.
| er, never, time when Paris is not de.
lghtful. In the summer In the dullest
days, u you are the possessor OF but j
| handful OF copper sous. you may take
one Of the little boats and go up tho
Seine and be amused all the way. a
! little yine-clad balcony at A river res
tau4ant VIII be Ike q scene in a theater
a girl in white frock with a red hat
viii lean over a table 10 talk to a
young man. The French are artists
from the highest 10 the lowest If
am ever an cutcast. with not a soul To
speak to in all the world. I shall go To
Paris, and be comparatively happy in
the contemplation of joyous. cynical. ar
tistic life. But London is as stodgy as
s. Stone e. Coz
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14
NEGROES TOO NEAR
IN PRINTING OFFICE
Carolinian Objects to Col
Ored WOrkmates.
PROTESTS TO DEAF EARS
John w. Martin and Secretary Of State
Committee Taste Genuine
Civil Equality.
PROTESTS TO DEAF EARS

Because he sits next negro while
working at the Government Printing
Once. John ". Martin. North Caro-
linian. has registered a protest with the
officials and has invoked the aid of the
secretary of the Republican executive
committee of his State IN an effort to
secure a transfer.
Thus far this has been refused. Fore
man Ricketts, making the statement that
no discrimination of color could be rec
ognized In assigning the workmen to
their printing frames"
Martin claims that at the time his
number Of vacant frames" in other
parts of the printing Office to which the
foreman of his division could have
transferred him without Inconvenience
After protesting TO his own foreman.
Mr.. Roberts, without avail. Martin Their
got r. H MCNEIL to interview Chief
Ricketts, Mr.. Mcneil was informed
that circumstances did not warrant
change.
AS yet Martin has not been taking his
lunch in the same ALLEY with the ne
gro. but next week he win be unable 60
leave the building, and this still mere
intimate association with the negro, the
North Carolinian says, win be dis
agreeable TO him
About twenty-five or thirty negroes
are employed as compositors in the Gov
eminent Printing ONCE. They are scat
tered about indiscriminately. and thus
far the white men working next TO
them have not made any protest 10 the
officials
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and irregular instead of round. These
changes are all readily recognized by
the microscope in the hands of the skill
full physician, and this is but one of the
duties of the corps of skilled chemists
and microscopes at the Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, n. Y,
Of which DR.. R V. Pierce is the found
er and director. Medical men nova
days admit that nearly all the constitu-
tional diseases and many acute condi-
lions are caused directly by impure
blood. AS specific tonic 4or the
blood and liver there is no medicine
ever made superior to Doctor Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. Being pure
vegetable preparation, made mp of ma
lures purest medicinal herbs, It strikes
at once at the root of the trouble, assist
ing the blood to throw off the poisons
that pollate and corrupt it, mildly stimu-
iating the liver to better work and
promptly relieving the distressing symp-
toms. 1t does not give feeling of false
security as do so many remedies which
are composed for the most part of alco-
hol, which dries up the blood. Neither
does il contain opium. morphine, cocaine
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14
FLYING MACHINES.
Their Great Value In Warfare.

HROM time inmemorial the notion
II of flying through the air has
Il offered a most fascinating field for
the imagination of men. Many
thousands of dollars have been spent
in fruitless experiments, new problems
appearing promptly as soon as one is
solved. Had practical air-ships been in
existence at the time of the Spanish WIZ,
the location of Cervera's fleet would
have been an easy matter, and the pres
ent conflict between Japan and Russia
could be materially influenced by the
facilities which aerial navigation would
offer in spying out the strength and To-
cation OF fortresses and defenses. Manv
costly experiments have been made, with
models and full-siZed machines, but sue
cess has thus far eluded all efforts.
There are many problems to be over
come, the force of gravity, the strong
atmospheric currents, the question of
steering and control, and these must be
solved one at time. A few years ago it
was thought that if a motor could be con-
structed which would give full horse
power to a certain carefully estimated
limit of weight, that the rest would be
easy, but engines have been built well
within this limit, and new difficulties
have promptly arisen, notably the con-
struction of light frame strong enough
to stand the strain of these powerful en-
gines. Balloons are not practical as they
offer too great surface to the wind for
the engines to overcome successfully. It
is quite likely that if the mechanical
problem were solved that flying would
not be possible for mankind, owing to the
peculiar conditions met with which af-
feet human beings when they leave the
earth's surface, the higher levels of the
atmosphere being very Geld, as we'll as
of lower pressure. One of the pecu-
liar effects of altitude is to cause the
blood to become thicker, there being
more of the little corpuscles in drop Of
| blood than at the earth's level. One of
the first signs of weakness in the body
is that the blood becomes thin, giving
the patient the peculiar pallor which
sick persons have who are suffering from
chronic disease. In some an9mic con-
ditions, notably in young girls, the blood
not only becomes thin and weak, but the
individual cells lose their shape and
become degenerated, appearing uneven
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14

or any narcotic For nearly forty yc.-z.
this medicine has been on the markcs.
and 40 greater proofs of its efficacy and
popularity could be found thar its IL
creasing sale. year after year. II 1Gs
seen the rise and fall of many otter
popular remedies, but to : day stacds
supreme in a proud position won By.
merit alone. In order to make the beng
fits of his remedies to humanity as great
and widespread as possible, DR.. Piezco
offers free consultation and advice on
medical subjects TO all his patients.
Sufferers can write him freely, In the
confident assurance that all communities
tons will be given careful attention and
be regarded as sacredly confidential.
As an example of the good results
thus obtained, note the following letter :.
vIn the year 1899, I had an attack of
indigestion and got so bad that my home;
doctor said he could not do me any
good,n writes Mr.. G. Trent, of Cordon>
vile, Texas. Ut wrote to you and you.
advised me to use DR.. Pierce's Golden.
Medical Discovery, so bought six bot
ties, and when I commenced using il 3
was so weak could hardly walk about
the house. BY the time had used one
bottle my stomach and bowels co1H-
menced to heal. There were strips Of
the lining of my stomach or bowels Is
don't know which) as large as man's
two fingers passed and had great deal
OF misery in my stomach and bowels, and
also in the rectum especially. Icould not
eat anything without having much dis.
tress afterward, but by the time I had tax
en- eight bottles of the Golden Medical
Discovery was sound and well, and
could eat anything pleased without
suffering IN the least. Could also do as
much work in day as I ever could 2
have not suffered from the trouble sinces
and 1t was four years ago that l was SO
sick. You may publish this letter If you
wish, for have stated the plain truth" |
Many invalids have turned to Dr.. Pierce
IN the dependency of despair, and have
later shown by their grateful letters how
timely and reliable his advice has tsSen-l
Moreover, DR.. Pierce has compiled the
experience of thirty years active pracJ
tice in his famous book, the "Commo1
Sense Medical Adviser" which is COM
plete medical treatise on modern medi-
cine, and should be IN every home. 1t has
saved countless doctor bills and rauch
suffering, and will be sent free on recipe
of thirty-one one-cent stamps to coveF
mailing only, or twenty-One stamps fos
! the paper-covered book.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14
"The Airlv DAYS"

In ''Huldah," a tale. or rather a series
of tales, Of the Texas cattle country, the
authors, Alice MACEDONIAN and Grace
MACEDONIAN Cooke, have done a notable
piece of work. It is cram full OF human
nature.
Huldah Sarvice is a gcniaI-natured.
deep-hearted widow who keeps a COM
bined boarding house and orphan asylum
in little town in the midst of cowboy
land. She is one of those women whom
we have all known, who instinctively
mother every creature in need of care
from a hurt chicken to a wounded des-
perado. The book is a collection Of
stories, loosely strung on a thread of
narrative of Aunt Huldah's good deeds
and good advice. Unlike that of some
other heroines of her eype In recent nc
ton, her philosophy depends for its
effectiveness on her wisdom, not on her
ignorance; on the real originality and
depth of her sayings, not on the quaint
ness of their wording There is nobody
like Aunt Huldah in any other book, and
it is a good thing that she got into this
one
Two chapters which are especially
worthy of attention, but for different
| reasons. are the one called 'Huldah' s
Own Story" and that entitled Rooney
Father" The first might well be read
aloud in every temperance society in
the land, for 1t contains more sound
sense about reforming drunken hus-
bands than most things hitherto written
on the subject. 1t also contains hints
about reforming osner faults than
| drunkenness. in beloved ones who are
not husbands. Says Aunt Huldah. of
the usual method Of refOrmers, which
she herself followed until she evolved a
better one:
why. son, we list ct and drunk and
| lived reformin all our days. Then.
you know. l got between him and him
self. l got between him and GOD; he
wasn't a promisin himself at he'd quit
liquor-he was a-prOmisin' me. He
wasn't even promisin God-thet must
took him to GOD. like / was the one
| at knowed the Lord. almost Ike J. was
| God, myself on, IL s mis- able Dusl-
ness. tryin' to do somebody else's re-
forrnin for EN-. Pint EN- the way;
asst EN-, CHEEKY, eff they don't think
! that that's a beautiful way to walk in,
/ ef they don't think they'd be happy
| thar; an then you go of by yourself
am pray God at they'll choose It; fer
| ontill they do chose tt-tell they chose
/ II, Gib-they amt one bit o use o you
| tryin' to choose it fer en-
/ As for the little story of Rome Ewing
and the tiny boy who prayed every
night that his father might come back
/ there is a pathos about 1t which comes
near bringing the tears to ones EYES
! The story of the school festival Is funny
enough to bear comparison with any
! thing of its kind in recent fiction. There
are only two trite things in the book;
a story from the ApOcrypha and the old
anecdote OF the GOOD woman who found
! excuses for Satan. The pictures, BY
| Fanny Y. Cory, are picturesque. as all
her work is, but a little too much in the
| line of dainty comedy for the pathcs Ct
| many of their subjects. However, the
! book as Il whole Is well worth more thar
one reading. indianapolis: The Bobbs-
| Merrill Company
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14
COMMISSIONERS SLOW
IN MOVING AGAINST CATS

The District Commissioners have re
ceived the resolution recently passed by
the Northeast Washington Citizens As
ISOLATION protesting against so many
homeless and tuneful cats being allowed
10 roam about the streets and back
yards OF Washington.
AS yet. no action has been taken on
the resolution. which asks that the
Commissioners adopt measures TO have
the cats arrested or summary disposed
Of The Commissioners do not desire
10 act hastily In the matter. recognizing
the need for cool and calm elaboration
in the decision Of such a question.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14
FAMOUS RIFLE MAKER
DIES, 81 YEARS OLD

BOSTON. May 14.-Marshall Tldd. Of
WOburn. Mass. is dead, aged eighty
four. Early in life ne began to manu-
tacture rifles, and the product OF his
little shop was sought by royalty, as
we'll as by hunters in Africa and Asia
and the West
During the civil war ne brought out a
rifle with a telescope attachment tn 1T
net with considerable favor. When the
construction. Mr.. Tidd fashioned a pis-
toll from a piece of rail which has at
trsc considerable attention as u
novelty.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14
A Western Novelist.

Frank Spearman. whose stories of rail-
road life are easily the best yet written
in America. has been making a short
visit to Washington. Mr.. Spearman has
son in Georgetown University. and in
tends next year to make his home here.
hough his two books of railroad stories
Held for Orders" and The Nerve Of
Foley" deal with Colorado, as does his
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14
SPANISH BULL FIGHTER
MEETS HORRIBLE DEATH

LISBON. May H.-Fernando OEviera.
the celebrated bull fighter, lost his life
in terrible manner yesterday. Oliviera
was giving an exhibition when his horse
stumbled and he was thrown directly
In the path of the charging bull. The
maddened animal trampled upon OIL
Viera's head and then tossed the body
high in the air The unfortunate man
was horribly mangled and his life was
trampled out of his body. A wild scene
of panic followed the accident.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14
DATE FIXED FOR TRIAL
OF GAIT WILL CASE
Counsel for Plaintiffs Asks Court to
Withdraw Jury and Reopen
the Cause.

Justice Wright has fixed May rs as
the time for the beginning CT the end OF
the Gait will case. The matter came
up yesterday for consideration on the
motion of A. S. Worthington. repre-
senting the plaintiffs IN the case, who
asked that because OF the long lapse Of
time since the evidence was heard that
a Jury be withdrawn and the case open
ed for retrial He asked this on the
ground that because Of the time elapsed
since the testimony was heard by the
Jury that a great deal Of It may have
been forgotten, and the impressions
created by the witnesses both by words
and manner in giving their evidence may
have lost its effect.
The motion was opposed by r. Ross
Perry. representing Mrs. Marion, v Ell
lott the defendant who Is named as the
sole beneficiary in the Will Of William
w. Gait. over yhose estate the contest
IS being made.
Plaintiffs Caused Delay.
Mr. Perry also referred to the fact
that the delay in bringing the case to-
ward a elimination was at the instance
Of the plaintiffs, who insisted on having
the witness Henry 1. Elliott answer a
certain question propounded to him.
Mr.. Elliott was called as a witness in
behalf OF Mrs. Elliott his sister-in-Iaw,
and refused 10 answer a certain ques-
ton asked him after being ordered to
do so by the court. For this disobe-
dience Justice Wright directed that Ell
lott be committed to jail until such
time as ne would answer. After remain
ing IN jail two days Elliott was released
or bond. pending his appeal to the
Court OF Appeals. The latter tribunal
held that the question asked Elliott was
DrfyileRed matter and that as such he
could not be compelled 10 answer.
The testimony in the case before Jus
tice Wright was closed IN the latter
part OF February. Recently the case
has not been proceeded with because
Mr., Worthington has been engaged In
the Tyner- Barrett trial.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14
JUDGMENT FOR DIVORCE
IN SUIT UNDER OLD CODE

Charles B. Hemingway has been d.
vorced from Mary X. Hemingway. on
the ground Of desertion. This is one Of
the old cases pending at the time the
code went into effect
Mr.. Hemingway Is given the custody
and control OF the minor children OF
the couple. The decree is signed by
Justice Gould.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14
Proper Treatment of Pneumonia.

Pneumonia is too dangerous a disease
although he may have the proper reme-
dies at hand A physician should al
ways be called 1t should be borne In
mind. however, that pneumonia always
results from a cold or from an attack
Of the grip. and by the proper treat
ment OF these diseases a threatened at
tack OF pneumonia may be warded OF.
There Is no question whatever about
this, as during the thirty years and more
that Chamberiain's Cough Remedy has
been used, we have yet TO learn OF a
single case OF cold or attack OF the
grip having resulted In pneumonia when
this remedy was used. For sale by all
druggists.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-14
BATTLESHIP OHIO
SOON TO Join NAVY
Is Now Nearly Completed and Ready to
Leave Shipyards at San
Francisco.

Ninety-three per cent completed, the
battleship Ohio will soon be ready to
leave the yards of the Union Iron
Works in San Francisco and take its
place In the navy.
In April the Ohio progressed per cent.
Granting there are no delays II will be
Other Battleships.
The Ohio is far in the lead OF all
other battleships which are now build
ing. Next in the race is the Virginia,
which is 1914 per cent completed In the
Newport News Company's yard, and
progressed rs per cent in April. The
GeoI gia is third. and is now 81 per cent
completed.
All other battleships made satisfactory
progress in April. Their degree of com
pletion is shown In the April report "a
follows: Nebraska. 46.9; New Jersey
sic; Rhode Island. 59.s; Connecticut
3846; Louisiana. A.9l; Vermont. 6S
Kansas, 7.5: Minnesota, 26.15; Mtssis-
sippi, %; Idaho. %
Armored Cruisers.
OF the armored cruisers under con-
struction the West Virginia is neare;
completed than any other. 1t Is $50
per cent completed and progressed 2's
per cent in April
other armored cruisers show the fol
lowing degree of completion; Pennsyl-
vania, 769; California, so; Colorado, sos
Maryland, 1888; South Dakota, 55.5
Tennessee, 2S9; Washington, 242.
The progress report on protected cruis
ers is as follows: Denver. 80; Des Moines
! 100; Chattanooga. S0.0l; Galveston, Is
st. Louis, AZ; Milwaukee, 4s; Charles
| ton e9T The gunboats Dubuque and
| Paducah, 40 and 80 per cent completed
respectively.
The Opelousas courier., 1904-07-23

In our candidates column will
be found the announcements of
Hon. Dudley L. Guilbeau, who is
a candidate for District Attorney.
Mr.. Guilbeau is one of our repre-
sentatives in the Legislature, hav-
ing been nominated for that Office
in the January primary on the first
ballot. His record as representa-
tive at the session of the Legisla-
|ture is we'll known to everyone in
the parish, and is not only credit
to himself but to st. Landry.
Mr.. Guilbeau, though only re-
Gently admitted to the bar, is pos.
sessed SO amply with the qualifi.
cations of "brains and energy
that they will in a great measure
make up for his lack Of expert
ence, and should he be elected
we have no doubt but that he will
make a very good officer.