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The Washington times., 1904-12-16
Richard 4. Arnold Dies;
Run D0wn by Street Car
Victim Of Accident at Fifth and q Streets
Fender Knocks Him DOwn-StruCk
by the Wheel Guard

Death relieved former Lieutenant of
Police Richard A. Arnold of his suffering
at the Emergency Hospital shortly be-
fore o'clock this morning.
Mr.. Arnold was unconscious when the
end came, and was the victim of "a
fatal street car accident, at Fifth and
G. Streets northwest, yesterday morn
ing
Coroner hewitt viii hold an inquest
over the body at the morgue tomor-
row morning at ii o'clock.
Was Sixty Years Old.
ParaIyzed and bent under the weight
of sixty years. Mr.. Arnold was feeling
his way across the street ear tracks at
the switch where the Maryland cars
turn up Fifth Street from q. when run
down and thrown md-r "a fender. He
moved slowly across the southbound
tracks on Fifth Street and was almost
i'm the center of the nOrthbound track
when a Maryland car motoTman, who
brought his car To a standstm ut the
transfer station, received the signal TO
so ahead.
An unheeded warning was sounded
from the gong and before the old man
could get of the tracks the fender
struck his legs above the ankle throwing
him to the ground.
Policeman Gave Warning.
Policeman Dyson, stationed al the
crossing. shouted 10 the former police
official. but the latter evidently thought
the car was going straight out G Street.
instead of turning into Fifth Street.
Owing to the high rate OF speed aJ
which the motOrman was compelled 10
operate his car over the switch to pre-
vent mis- losing the current and block
traffic the car could not be stopped be-
fore striking Mr.. Arnold
The fender glided over his PROSTATE
form. and the body was struck by the
wheel guards beneath the car. The speed
of the car caused the woodwork 10
The Washington times., 1904-12-16
.BELASCO'S MAN GIVES
BIDDLE ASSURANCES
Row Probable That Convention Hall
VIII Be Used for the Pro-
ductiOn Of "Adrea."

Thc Commissioners have come safely
through the rocks in the little storm
raised owe. the proposed use OF Couven-
tin Hall for David BeIasco's presenta-
ton of Mrs. Leslie Carter iH "Adrea."
and there is clear water ahead.
Representatives Of Alr BelascO held A
conference with Engineer Commissioner
Biddlc this morning and as q result
there IS every probability that tho hall
VIII be used as planned and in run COM
plancc with the regulations prescribed
by the Commissioner
William g. Smythe, Mr BelascO's
financial agent. assured Colonel Biddle
that the hail when reconstructed on
MI Belasco's plans. would fully meet
the approval of the Commissioners.
The matter IS now in Colonel Biddle's
jurisdiction.
The Washington times., 1904-12-16
MS. MAHoRNEY,s FUEERAL.

The funeral Of Mrs. Clara Y. Ma
horney took place yesterday morning
from her late residence, 323S p Street
northwest, at $50 o'clock. The remains
were taken TO Holy Trinity Church cor
ner Thirty-sixth and o Streets north
west where requiem mass was chanted,
Deceased was the wife of William 7.
MahOrney, a retired member Of the Dis
tTict Fire Department. She was forty
six years .Of age
The Washington times., 1904-12-16
DIRECTORS REELECTED.

At the second annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Potomac Savings
Bank. of Georgetown, held Tuesday af-
tcmOOu. az the office or james X. Cation.
Alexandra. Va, the old board of di-
IcCt0Ts was unanimously reelected. The
bank viii move into its new quarters
at the northeast corner of Thirty-secOnd
and NJ Streets northwest some time be-
tween December . ana January J.
The Washington times., 1904-12-16
REPUBLICANS WILL HOLD
BIG BANQUET ANNUALLY

At a meeting Of The general committee
Of the League of Republican State Clubs
held last evening iu the office of Gus A.
Schuldt ia the Columbian Building 10
close uD the affairs Of the recent ban
Guet. it was decided 10 give similar
affair every winter.
Tbe great success Of the first banquet
has caused "a demand for an annual
p0liticaI banquet. something 20 rival the
annual feasts of the GridIron CLUB. that
thc League of Republican State Clubs
will .ndeay0r to- supply.
William e.. Connor, president Of the
New York State Club. was reelected
president IF tho league and Gus a
Schmidt va. reelected secretary.
The Washington times., 1904-12-16
THIS WIFE TRADED
FOR AN ACCORDION
Kentucky Woman Objected
TO the Deal.
CARRIED TO HER NEW HOME
She Escapes and Has Both Men Ar
Tested-BaClI in HeE Former
Domicile.
CARRIED TO HER NEW HOME

MIDDLESBOROUGH. Ky. Dec. lG.-
Joe Beasley who lives not far from
RoNbury, tired of his wife and traded
her OF To a ncighbor for an accordion.
Mrs. Beasley refused to go, and the
man. whose name is John Samuels. tied
her hands and feet and put her i'm his
wagon and took her home.
Mrs. Beasley escaped, and swore out a
warrant for both men. Beasley was
fognd playing his newly acquired accor-
dion, and fought when the officers at
tempted 10 arrest him. Samuels says
ne viii sue Beasley.
Mrs. Beasley Is now i'm charge of the
Beasiey home. and is likely TO remain
there for some time, inasmuch as Beas-
ley cannot pay his fine. He is charged
with desertlOn. Samucls is charged with
assault.
The accordion was worth about 70
cents.
The Washington times., 1904-12-16
INVENTOR MANGLED
WHILE TESTING POWDER

HAMA JND, Ind, Dec. 16-Henry
Mitchell. an inventor while experiment.
ing with a smoileless powder he intended
toe submit for the Crited States Army.
was frifhtfuliy mS.1led today.
A qua nifty Of he powder exploded,
blowing on mis- hands, part OF his left
side. anC destroying his eyesight
The Washington times., 1904-12-16
GOLDEN DOIr,G NICELY.

Vessie Golden, the boy who was badly
injured Tuesday evening while Coasting
on Thirueth Street hill northwest. was
reported this morning TO be getting
along nicely. He is still a patient at
the Georgetown University Hospital,
The unfortunate boy received a frac-
ture of the skull, as the result of being
struck i'm the head by the runner OF
sled, and IL was feared that the frac-
ture would prove fatal Golden is four
teen years of age, and resides I'm Thirty
third Street northwest
The Washington times., 1904-12-16

strike tn. paralytic with such force that
his skull was fractured and two ribs
broken
Policeman Dyson made a dive toward
the fender and tried 10 save Mr. Arnold.
Ia his attempt Dyson was slightly hurt.
The ear could not be stopped until it
had run about fifty feet. For this dis
tauce the victim was dragged over the
SuOW-COVcred asphalt and when IL was
finally brought to StaudStlll his man
sled body was drawn out by the crew of
The car Policeman Dyson, and the
switChmau at Fifth and G Streets north
west
In Critical Condition
AT the Emergency Hospital where
the dying man was taken within few
moments after the accident, the doctors
at once said his condition was critical
and there was practically no hope for
recovery. The physicians requested
friends of the injured man TO summon
his relatives, and this was done His
family was with him the greater part
of yesterday and last night
Mr.. Arnold's Career.
Born in Prince George county. Md.
on July 22. 1899. Mr. Arnold was brought
up in his native State. and educated in
the common schools there. At the age
OF thirty-one. 1870. he was appointed as
a member OF the police force, serving
with distinction in the role of private.
sergeant and Lieutenant for sixteen
wears. Al the end of that period his
name was brought into an inVestiga-
ton of the Police Department. A mum
ber of prominent men We're iuyQlVed In
the inquiry which followed. and as g.,
result of the searching Investigation
Lieutenant Arnold was retired from the
force. He declared al the time that be
had been done an injustice, as he mere
ly 0beyed the instructions of his super
I0rs.
After lea -iHg the department he pro-
cured a position i'm the District Buildiue
and held several municipal places from
then until his death.
The Washington times., 1904-12-16
HEARST WANTS TO KNOW
REASONS FOR DISMISSAL

William Randolph Hearst, member Of
Congress from New York. has shown
his disapproval of the Presidents
course I'm approving the dismissal from
service of James q. Keller and Frank
Cunningham. the letter carriers who
engaged ia political campaigns last fan.
Mir Hearst late yesterday afternoon
introduced I'm the House a resolution
that the President Dee requested Co send
10 the House an reports ana documents
relating to the dismissal Of the two men.
S1.25 Baltimore and Return, B. & o. R.R
Saturday and Sunday. All trains both
WAYS both days. except Royal Limited.
Hourly Service Saturday.
The Washington times., 1904-12-16
NEWS OF GEORGETOWN

I the regular business of Ehe meeting had
been transacted, the evening was spent
i'm a social way. An excellent program
WIS reT dered Members of the lodge
meeting 20 be held during Christmas
week.
The Washington times., 1904-12-16
SILVER STAR LODGE.

Silver Star Lodge. No. %. 1. O. @. r..
of TnleytOwn, held it's regular weekly
meeting last night AT Good Templar
Hall. on the Brookcville Road After
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PushCart Profits.

The profits of the pushcart peddler in the large cities are large Twenty five or 50 per cent is so small profit that pushcart men seldom handle goods paying no more. Therefore, though the amount of each sale is usu- ally small, some of these men are well paid for their days work.
 Suspenders they sell for 10 and 15 cents pair sell wholesale for 60 cents a dozen, or cents pair, their profit on each pair being 100 or POO per cent. Small neckties that sell for 5 and 10 cents each may be bought for $1 a gross, the profit being even larger than in the sale of suspenders.
 Stockings may be bought from push carts for and 10 cents a pair. These goods can be bought at wholesale for as little as 35 cents dozen In almost every case the peddler's profit is above 100 per cent.
 Some of the fruit vendors are in business for themselves; others are hired for their board and small wage. A successful peanut vender should make a profit of $25 weekly.
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KNOW YOUR STOMACHi
That h the Advice of Physician
 Who h Maatar of Hia.

That h the Advice of a Physician Who Is Master of His.
 Dr. Horace Fletcher, of Yale Uni versity, who since 1895 has devoted particular attention to scientific re- search in chemical physiology and hu- man nutrition, says:
 "Get acquainted with your stomach find out what 1t wants-then eat that in as small amount as you can. Half the ills of the world are due, think, to unwise and extreme eating. Just as to be skillful at game you practice It, so to be wise eater you practice eating. The only difficulty would be for the average person to understand just what his stomach meant. Some forty years l have devoted to cultlvat- ing a knowledge of mine, and feel that 1t has been worth my trouble and time. Some people may consider it freakish, but I am not a crank, and desire to make no revolution in the worlds diet. l have merely done this for myself, with results that are evi- dent and satisfying. Perhaps no one else could do 1t, for all I know.
 "One thing Eve never done-that is, to smoke or drink any sort of intoxicat- ing liquors. You can't understand your stomach If you subject 1t to any stim- ulation or unnatural influence. If you drink glass of beer your stomach might like as not ask for boiled cab bage and lobster. It Is no more re- sponsible under stimulation than your brain. You can get your stomach in- toxicated as well as your head, and if you care to try this plan at all, from the first you must give up intoxicants of all kinds. They are not meant to be taken in your stomach. Tobacco, also, l believe to be harmful in another way. It is an unnatural influence on your digestive apparatus. Any doctor will say so, think; but most of them condone it. You can't make fair trial of this system. or know your stomach as 1t is, unless you are tee totaler and give up smoking, any more than you can know a man when he Is drunk or Is crazy unless he has cigar in his teeth"
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True to Her Task.

It would be disrespectful to say that there is anything obstinate about sitting hen, but one must acknowledge at least that she is firm.
 There is a story of a good old coun- try doctor who found that hen was sitting in the back of wagon, long unused. His everyday wagon had given out, and he needed the old one to make round of calls; so he harnessed up and started, the hen and all. Thus he continued to do day after day, and the sitter was faithful to her post. Only the eggs suffered inconvenience, for the jarring finally added them.
 The Springfield Republican tells the story of another hen which was en- gagged one night in breeding over some eggs in barrel in the livery stable where she made her home.
 The stable caught fire. With the courage of the boy on the burning deck she refused to leave her post.
 The top of the barrel took fire. It burned half way down. and still the hen did not move.
 The stable was almost totally de stroyed, but the firemen had the flames so far under control that stream of water, turned upon the hens apart. ment, extinguished the blaze.
 The smoke did not seem to disturb the hen, nor did the flood of water pouring down the inside of the barrel. When daylight came she was still in her half-burned tenement, and in due time she brought off her brood of eight chickens.
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A Poets Mother.

Robert Buchanan had one deep en- thusiasm, his mother. She was al ways young in her appearance, but he regarded her, to the end of her life, as abounding even in girlish charms. He could never realize that she was grow ing old. In looking at her, even when she was close upon 80, he saw the soft blue eyes and golden hair which he had loved long ago.
 q cannot imagine my mother as old," he said again and again, the day after she died. T do not feel that she Is dead, for I cannot imagine the world without her."
 When, youth of eighteen, he went up to London, ito take the world by storm," he was a miserably homesick Lad. He sat in corner of the railway carriage, his heart aching, his eyes dim with tears.
 T realized" he says. "that was for the first time quite rriendless and alone. I thought of my dear mother praying for me at home, and longed to turn back and ask her forgiveness for any pain had caused her. Even now, I never take railway journey at night without recalling the dismal heartache of that midnight journey to London"
 Almost daily, during this early struggle did he receive letter from her, always full of loving instruction for his guidance. His answers were overhowing with heart and hope. Moth. CT and son were constant in this ten. der service. From first to last they were the best and most intimate of friends.
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FINDS IDEAL IN A PICTURE,
New Yorker Weeds Woman Whose
 Portrait He Saw in Europe.

Portrait He Saw in Europe.
 There is quite a romance connected with the recent marriage of Francis Burton, of New York, the bride being a young woman belonging to a we'll known Louisiana family. MT. Burton, 1t is said, fell in love with a picture, "The Sons Last Greeting" in the roy al gallery of Dresden.
 The picture represents mother and her daughter listening to the last fond message of their loved one as borne to them by his comrade. The devoted mother, prostrated with grief, is sink ing into chair, covering her face with handkerchief. The comrade of her dead boy stands, hat in hand and with bowed head, having apparently just broken the sad news.
 The young girl, resting her hand on her mothers chair, gazes wide-eyed and immobile straight at the young man. She is an old-wOrld girl, quaint "a Botticelli Madonna type, with great sorrowful lips, eyes darkly luminous, features classic in outline, her hair hanging in braids over her shoulders. Her attitude at once suggests grief for the dead brother and attentiveness to his friend. Her beauty is still and un- assuming. She would appeal to none but one of thoughtful temperament, careless of the modern, unmoved by dash and brilliancy, seeking happiness in understanding and tranquility.
 The young man lost his heart con- pletely to the maiden in the fine old painting and, being endowed with pa tience, resolved never to marry until he could encounter at least an approxima- tion of her in the actual, everyday world. He waited in vain for several years, but last summer he met the liv- ing presentment in Miss Edith Dupre, of Louisiana. They were married and their honeymoon was as romantic as their courtship, for they went to Dres- den to see "The Sons Last Greeting"
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FAT MEN LAZY?
Indeed Not-Historical Proof of the
 Denial'a Accuracy.

Oen1aIe Accur0cys
 "Fat is not an indication of lazi- ness," said William Bailey, of the gov ernment printing office, who is one of the fattest and squarest men in the employ of Uncle Sam. T am not putting myself on the list of peart' and brainy' fat men, but if one will take the trouble to look about him he will find good many heavy weights who are not poky and slow, and who are fully up to the average mentally. Some of the greatest men the world ever knew were plump even to obesity, and Napoleon was one of these.
 "All these fellows with the withered and parchment look do not possess all the brain by any manner of means but 1t is said that the men of letters in ancient times looked this way be- cause they were poorly paid and con- sequently lived on slim rations. mo- tice there are number of very heavy weight literary men of the present day, and am not disposed to say that this Is simply because they are better paid and fare more sumptuously every day. There are few of the literati who, like Scudery, flavor their crust with thin slice of bacon taken from mouse trap. Dr. Johnson was fleshy, even to clumsiness, and so was his biog- raphical shadow, Boswell Balzac, the great French novelist, was so stout that it was good days exercise to walk around him; and he was encircled with bandages, as though he were hogshead. Rossini, the musical con- poser, was a regular Jumbo, as big as Big Winnie,' and for seven years he never saw his knee. Lablanche was charged three fares when he travelled, and Jules Janin, the prince of critics, had chin and cheeks which protruded beyond his whiskers.
 And so a whole list could be given. Lord Byron and Eugene Sue, the au- thor of The Wandering Jew, so dread ed becoming fat that they took lemon and vinegar to prevent it, and many fat people of the present day are talk ing something of the kind to prevent too much flesh. When Daniel Lam- bert died, in 1900, he weighed 737 pounds, and it required 112 feet of plank to make coffin for him. It took 20 men three hours to get this monster man into his grave"
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SCiENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The Koreans use neither bedsteads nor chairs.
 Men have q moro acute sense of smell than women.
 It Is said that the Hudson Bay Eski- mos never wash.
 Russia has almost three times the pop ulation of Japan.
 London billboards arc covered with American posters.
 The average Frenchman eats 42S pounds of bread a year.
 The coffee planter gets an average of 3 cents pound for his crop.
 We buy from Cuba three times as much as Cuba buys from us.
 The Public Health and Marine Hos pital service costs $1,000,0O0 year.
 Radium is advancing in price, the cur rent rate being $60,000,O00 q pound.
 Of our American animals, the moose, elk, and caribou are natural trotters.
 Thibet, "the roof of the world," is a tableland three times as large as France.
 Japan's area corresponds to that of California, and Korea's to that of Kan sas.
 Ethiopia bought $S47, ,O0O worth of cot ton goods from the United States last year.
 The Jews are the only immigrants who, as rule, bring their women with them.
 Only 20 per cent of Italian and per cent of the Greek immigrants are fe- males.
 Seoul, the capital of Korea, is eighteen miles from its seaport, Chemulpo, on the Yellow Sea.
 The sugar production of Hawaii has risen in ten years from 341, 100000 tons to S40,000,000 tons.
 Iowa pays lady school teachers less than any other State, the average salary being $3G.91 per month.
 The Negus of Abyssinia has an army of 10000 men, all cavalry, recruited from n population of but 3.500,000.
 Experts estimate the total number of books printed in the world at 12,730,000. The annual production is now 10000.
 Round trip tickets from London or Paris to Picking, China, by rail and re- turn by ship, with stopover privilege at any port. are now on sale for $204.
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His Little All.

It is pity to spoil good moral, but 1t is sometimes done when story is excavated to its foundations. This story from the London Outlook is, how ever, good enough to stand on its own feet:
 "When came to town, twenty years ago." said prosperous man of ample waistcoat, "all my earthly possessions were wrapped up in a red bandanna handkerchief"
 And now you own three hundred acres of land and that factory on the edge of the town?"
 "Yes."
 "May I ask you what you carried in the red bandanna handkerchief"
 "Six thousand pounds in cash and bonds."
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FOUGHT TO THE LAST GASP.
Famous Battle Between the Chippe-
 was and Sioux Lost by Latter.


 was and Sioux Lost by Latter.
 One of the last survivors of the enc mics of the Sioux is Ye-On- Gesic, now passing his hundredth birthday. Eighty-five years ago the Sioux tribe who invaded the west and entered the plains of Iowa and Dakota sought to dislodge the Chippewas from the timbered country in Minnesota and Wisconsin. They nearly accomplished this undertaking, owing to overwhelm- Ing numbers. They made frequent in- cursions into the Chippewa country and many sanguinary battles were fought, eliminating in the massacre by the Sioux of settlers in southern Minne- sota in 1862.
 Sixty years ago Ye-On-Gesic was a famous chief and warrior of the Chip pewa tribe, and he tells the writer of the last great battle with the enemy west of the Mississippi river. He says:
 Tt was when we were encamped on the Yellow, Bone and Devils lakes that quite large party of Sioux were reported coming up the Yellow river from the St. Croix to battle with the Chippewas. Our chiefs believed they were only scouts sent forward to re- connoiter. At that time was an ama- teur warrior When the enemy was reported within the country l was given charge of band of young men numbering forty-nine and directed to intercept the scouts of the Sioux. For that reason I was made a chief. It was the proudest moment of my life.
 with the young Chippewas under my command I started down the Tel. low river. All my men were anxious for adventure. For two days we watched for the enemy, but saw no signs. On the morning of the third day my scouts reported large war party of Sioux just landed south of Yellow lake. Within an hour my men had been surrounded.
 Suddenly I gave the Chippewa war cry and the battle began. It was terrible battle. lasting until the sun was high in the heavens and there were no more life in the woods. My party numbered less than twenty when we were through. To-day I am the sole survivor. There were no Sioux left. All were dead."-Milwauke Sentinel.
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Preliminary Practice.

"Your friend hasn't had his automo bile very long, but he seems to manage 1t exceedingly well. He seems particu- laEly clever at steering through a crowd, ed street."
 "Oh, Popley's all right. He has had years of experience with a baby car. riage."-Philadelphia Press.
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If you want to make girl mad, tel her after a dance that she looks as fresh as rose. She wants to look like wreck; it's the wall flower who looks fresh.
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Duel a la Franchise.

"Hold! My honor Is satisfed!" Already"
 "Mais oui. I see the blood in your eye"-Harvard Lampoon.