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Veteran of (he Navy Taken From
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KNOWLEDGE
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J tChe prettiest -effects lu J
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Main Building.
Spring Showing of
. Men's Clothing and -Furnishings:
Today and toinorrow you are hwiied to call and inspect the latest Spring
styles hi Men's Suits, Top Coats,' Bicycle S7ii(s Hats, Neckwear, Gloves, etc
No ?iecessity to purcliase. You are welcome to come and get posted.
LOEB, & . HIR5H, 0UTF!9TaS2 F street.
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EXPERIENCE
Strange Light 'Seetf in Kansas
and Nebraska.
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TWo Great Essentials
in the Practice
of Medicine.
A NATIVE OF WASHINGTON
FLOATS IN THE.SKIES NIGHTLY
He Served His Country "Well for
Nearly a Half Century Fought
Gallantly Throughout the "War
nnd Has Siuce Trilled Many Posi
tions of Trust and Honor.
For Three Months It JIus Beou Ob
served by Is u tubers of. People.
Snugs From a Canoe-Shaped Bag.
Believed to Bo tho Invention of u
Geruinn JTtimed John Prenst.
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bealtbv nnd tlic babies that go out
riding these tn-Jtrlit. sunny days are
gi the ones tliat are petting fat! You
2 can Just as well get the carnage here
Credit
As not. It'll bo just as pretty and
won't cost a penny more than you
"would nave to pay ituu vof tbecash
stores. Aji elegant carriage at $12
a neat, durable one for $5 plenty
more clean up to S50.
How about the Mattiug. We tack
It down free! -and we iuly sell RE
LIABLE grades. Everything for
liuuii" lurntniuug u easy wtv.ly or
monthly payments no aurt.es or in
terest. Carp'ete made, laid, nndlined
free no -charge for waste in match
ing figures.
Solid Oak,3jK.,ChambcrSuits..SlO
Solid Oak Extension Tables.... $2.75
40-lb. Hair Mattresses 5.00
Woven Wire Springs, S3 values.
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Great Millinery anJ Cape Sale,
TODAY.
ROBERT KEELING,
PAINTER OF MINIATURES,
Removed to 932 F Street,
Kooin 13.
Instruction to a limited class every morning
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Free concert on the wonderful
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vitedl Ask to see the Sym
phony when the concert is over.
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Droop's Music Store,
STEIN WAT and other leading
PIANOS.
925 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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BRYAN'S
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BOOK
"The First Battle"
For Sale at the
Times Counting Room.
Price. .$1.50.
XJ1KD.
MARTIN-On Sunday, April 4, 1897, at
9:45 a. in., Ida May, loving daughter of
James A. aud Mary A. Nally.
Ida was our darling.
Pride or all our hearts at home:
But an angel came and whispered.
Dearest Ida do come home.
By her Parents and Sister.
Gone from earth, yes, gone forever,
Tear-tummed eyes shall gazu in vain;
Wc. shall hear her voice, Oh, never,
Never more on earth again.
By Her Husband.
Funeral from her parents' residence,
Ko. 47 U street northwest, on Wednesday,
April 7, at 2 o'clock. Interment at Ulen
wood Cemetery Friends and relatives
luvlted to attend.
HERRON On April 4, 1R97, at 1 o'clock
a. m., REV. L. D. HERRON.
Funeral from Douglas M E. Church, at
1:30 p. hi., April 5. interment at Balti
more, April 5.
Baltimore papers please copy. It
SMITH On Thursday, April 1, 1897,
JAMES SMITH.
Friends who desire to view the remains
will call at Sll Ninth street northwest,
belore Tuesday, April 6, 1897. It
IN MhMOUIAM.
In loving remembrance of my dear hus
band, William H. Maxwell, who died one
year ago today, April 5, 1896.
I miss thee from my side, dear husband,
I miss rhep from thy place;
A shadow o er my lire Ib cast
I miss the sunshine of thy dear face.
I miss tli kind aud willing bands,
Thy fond ami earnest care;
My home on earth Is dark aud lonely with
out thee
I miss thee, dcarhusband, Oh, I miss thee
everywhere.
I will come to your grave where your spirit
has fled;
Beneath the green sod you are laid with
the dead;
"Where the one that I loved Is turning to
clay.
In Arlington's cold dews you are passing
away.
BY HIS SAB AND LOVING WIFE.
UNDERTAKERS,
J. TPTILr.IA.MI LEE.
UNDERTAKER,
332 Pa. Ave 2C.W.
First-class service- fPhoue, 138a
Rear Admiral W. M. Ramsay,hief or the
Bureau of Navigation, was placed upon the
retired list today, having reached the age
or sixty-lwo. Admiral Ramsay was bornln
Washington April 5, 1835. He -belongs to
an old Washington family, and lias many
relatives both In the Army and the Navy.
His father was Gen. George D Ramsay,
United States Army. He has berved with j
distinction, as is shown by the many im
portant places he has been selected to rill.
He was appointed midshipman in 1850,
and was promoted to passed midshipman in
1856, af.ec overtures years' service on the
frigate St. Lawrence in the 1'ucilic. He
served on the sloop Falmouth in the Bra
zilian squadron for a short time, and then
was ordeied to the steam frigate Mcrrimac
as acting master. The Merrimac was ut
tached to the Pacific squadron. During this
cruise he was promoted to master and to
lieutenant In 1858. lie was detached from
the Merrimac in 1860, and after serving a
few .months in Washington joined the Sar
atoga, African squadron, and was detached
from herin January, 1 863, having been pro
moted to lieutenant commander in 1862.
On March 10, 1803, Lieut. Commander
Ramsay was ordered to the Mississippi
yqua-lron, and assumed command of the
Choctaw on Uie 22d. In the following
month he took part in the engagements at
names' Bluff, when theChoctaw was struck
over rifty times. In May he was with the
expedition up the Yazoo River ami in the
engagement at Liverpool Landing. In June
lie was in the engagement at Milllken's
Bend Here Uie ChocUiw'b presence pre
vented a disaster that might have been
far-reiclung, for the Union troops iere
driven back and in lull retreat until the
gens or the Choctaw were brought to bear,
and the lebels, unable to stand their fire,
were forced to retreat In May, Juno end
July he took part in the operatUiiis -connected
with the siege of Vlcksburg, aud
in June commanded a force with three
heavy guus placed in scows at a polntop
jiositc the town.
In August, 1F03, Lieut. Commander
Ramsay was oidered to command Uie Third
division of the Mississippi squadion. Thus
at the eai'ly age, lie flew his Hag and ex
ercised all tne prerogatives of a Hag officer,
with the attendant lesponsiblllties in time
of "war. From this time until October,
lfa64, he was actively employ ed agaiust
the enemy, commanding the expedition up
the Black nnd Ouachita Riveis.ln March,
lbG-i, nnd into the Atchafalaya River in
June, and he took part in the Red River ex
pedition in Maich, April and May, 1SG4.
After assuming command of the Unadilla
in October, Lieut. Commander Ramsay
took part in the attacks on Fort Fisher,
was intheeiigagementswith FortAnderson
and other fortson the Cape Fear River, and
was present at the capture of Richmond.
In 1-05 he was detached and orden.nl lo
the Naval Academy after an aTdtibtis ftnd
important war service, having been for
over two years almost constantly in the
pre,suceortheenemy. Shortly alteneport
ingat theNaval Academy he wnspiomotid
to the giade of commander.
Commander Ramsay was fleet captain
and chief of staff or the South Atlantic
squadron in 1S67 and 1668. In 1869
he assumed command or the Guerriere,
the flagship of that squadron, and was
shortly afterwards detached ami oidered
to the Washington navy yard as inspector
or ordnance. In 1872 and 1873 lie was
naval attache to the legations In Europe,
and then returned to duty in the Bureau of
Ordnance. In 1874 he commanded the
Ossipee. In 1875 he was at the Naval
Asylum, Philadelphia, and while there de
voted much time and care to increasing
the comforts of the old veterans. In 1S7G,
1877, and 1878 he was inspector cf
ordnance at the New York navy yard,
having been promoted to captain in 1877.
Capt. Ramsay had charge of the tor
pedo station In 1878, 1879, and 18S0.
This station has been an important factor
in the advance of naval knowledge during
the creation of the new Navy. In 1881
Capt. Ramsay commanded the Trenton, the
flagship of the European station.
He was detached in the latter rart of
this year and ordered as superintendent of
the Naval Academy, where he remained
for five years. While Capt. Ramsay wasat
the Naval Academy great advances were
being made In naval affairs, new ships
were being built and the various types
were lapldly changing, the requirements
for a modern naval officer were greatly
increased, and a more scientific education
became a necessity. As head of the Aead-
emy Board he devoted himself to a ic-1
arrangement of the studies of the midship-'
men to meet these requirements, and as
A PECULIAR FACT.
Thousands of People Unvo Dys
pepsia in Its "Worst Form und
Do Not Know It.
A weak stomach is the cause of about
nine-tenths oT all disease, yetin most cases
the wrong thing is treated aud the true
cause overlooked.
This is because a weak digestion pro
duces systems resembling nearly every
disease becauseit weakens and disturbs the
action of every nerve and organ in the
l-ody; i-oor digestion causes heart trouble,
kidney trouble, lung weakness and es
pecially nervous break down or nervous
prostration: the nerves cannot stand the
wear and tear unless generously fed by
well digested, wholesome food.
Keep the digestion good nnd no one need
fear the approach of disease.
Mrs. a. M. Lec of Rochester, N. Y.,
writes. For the bake of suffering hu
manity I want to say that from a child I
had a very weak stomach, threw up my
food very often arter eating, and after a
few years nervous dyspepsia resulted, and
for more than twenty years I have suf
fered inexpressibly.
I tried many physicians and advertised
remedies with only temporary relief for
nervous dyspepsia, and not until I com
menced taking Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
last September, six months ago, "have I
been free from suffering caused by the
condition of my nerves and stomach; in
short, chronic nervous dyspepsia.
1 have recommended Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets to many of my friends and now I
want. In a public way, to eay they are
the safest, pleasantcsU and, I believe,
surest cure for stomach and nerve troubles.
I write my honest opinion, and I will
gladly answer any letter of inquiry at any
time, and reel that lam, in my bmall way,
helping on a pocd cause.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is not a
patent medicine, but they contain only
the fruit salts, digestive acids and pep
tones necessary to help the weak stomach
to promptly and thoroughly digest food.
All druggests sell Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab
lets at Eo cents for full sized package, and
anyone suffering from nervous dyspepsia,
sour stomach, headaches, acidity, gases,
belching, etc, will find them not only a
quick relief but a radical cure
Send to Stuart Co., Marshall, Mich.,
for little book describing cause and cure
or stomach troubles, giving symtcuns and
treatment of the various forms of Indigestion'
In the summing up of Vorks and worth
or ability and qualifications, experience is
the only real teacher. A physician who
know by experience just v.-lnitbe,cun do
who lias watched disease in allits phases
in .years long Lliiee gone by and whocurcs
his patients, is the physician to beget con
fidence, tiuch a physician is Dr. Young,
the reliable specialist, whose success iu the
treatment of all Chronic, Nervous, Blood
;ind Slan Diseases of bcth men and women
Is without purallel.
DR. YOUNG
treats with remarkable success Catarrh,
Asthma, Bronchitis and all diseases or
the :yc, Ear, Nose, Throat, Lungs, Kid
neys, Bladder and Stomacn. A never
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CONSULTATION
INl'KlhOXOK CDCC
ItY l.iriTKK IflCC
superintendent he systematized the drills
and saw that they were up to -date.
Capt. Ramsay was on duty as a member
of the Naval Examining Board in 1886,
nud commanded the Boston in 1887 and
1888. In February, 1889. he was detached
from the command of the Boston and as
sumed command of the New York navy
-yaTd, the most important uhore command
in the navy. In March, 1S89, he was pro
jnotcd to commotio re, and hi October or the
same year he was detached and appointed
chief ortheBiireau of Navigation. In 1893
lie was reappointed chief of the bureau and
was promoted to rear admiral in April,
1894.
ltie duties of Uie chief or the Bureau of
Navigation are the most arduous as well
as the most important that fall t,o the lot
of a naval officer in time of peace. Dur
ing Admiral Ramsay's term of service in
tSiK bureau the duties f the chief "have
been Increased, until now he has chnrge
of all that relates to the personnel and to
the movements or the vessels in commis
sion 1 he old ships hive gradually Leen
retired from service, and many new ships
have been placed In commission, requiring
not only greater numbers, but also a higher
class or men. In order to obtain and re
tain such men in the service, the admiral
has revised all the ratings, and so sys
tematized the promotions, assuring per
manency and .promotion to the deserving,
as to insure a better class or h:en,of higher
Intelligence and a more extended educa
tion than was possible . under the old reg
ulations. Ho has paid the closest .attention to the
men, from the appientk-e to the chief
petty officer, and nothing in his career
is likely to give him more pleasure when
he reviews it in the future than what he
has done for the enlisted men.
THE HAT QITKSTION.
Flower Turbans Will Be; Mnch Worn
During the Eastertide.
Gowns and hats, hats and gowns! Shall
it be feathers or flowers? Will coral be too
bright? Shall I have a jilain or a fancy
hat?
So things go on. New York shops ring
with voices of Easter shoppers. There is
a host of pretty things, but of what avail
are they when one knows not what to
select?
.The hat counters arc most crowded.
There's a pretty woman, with soft, dull
gold hair, who is evidently fond of bright
colors, for her hat is a mixture of red and
black. At present she is trying on a hat
that has no crown. It is nothing but three
circles of rough coral straw, flounced
around in even, deep scollops. The crown
Is filled in with a wreath of green leaves
and coral-colored astors, that has several
high standing sprays in front. Hats of
this style come in all colors, and will prob
ably be Tery popular. To a great extent
they replace the sailor hat of last season.
A little further along two French women
stand chatting brightly. The younger, a
piquant brunette, has already bought her
hat. It was of coarse, cream straw, trim
med with a wreath of bright blue bachelor
buttons, with sprays of oats intermingled.
Two rosettes of blue ribbon hold the brim
up iu the back, while at the left side several
loops of stiff wire are loosely twisted with
the same ribbon. This hat gives inspiration
to a girl who Is wondering what she shall
buy to wear with a blue tailor-made suit.
Flower turbaus will be much worn for the
Eastertide. The favorite flowers are vio
lets, roses and pansics. A quaint turban is
entirely of green tulle.and has here and
there a soft moss rosebud, with a large
spray of them upstanding at the side. An
other rather more chic in appearance is
adorned with downy thistles. Scotch heath
er is favored for evening hats. It is used
in its pinkest shades on turbaus wound
with ropes of green sterna. These ropes of
stems arc particularly effective.
THE LATEST.
GreeR Fruit Vendors Fined.
Eleven swarthy Greek banana and candy
peddlers were lined up in front of Judge
Kimball hi the r.olice court today, charged
with obstructing thfc streets -with their
pushcarts. "If Col. Yassos bad these fel
lows in Cretetoday," saidProsecu tor Pugh,
"he could form them into a company of
infantry to light the Turks and inci
dentally stop some of the shells from the
allied fleet." The defendants were fined
in stmts Tanging from $3 to $5.
Preparing an Inebrinte Asylum Bill.
Judge Ivory G. Kimball, of the police
court, is drawing np a bill to be intro
duced In Congress, providing for the es
tablishment In ths District of an inebriate
asylum. Several Senators anfi Repre
sentatives are taking a lively interest
In the matter, and will urge the passage
of the taeasuret
Omaha, .Nebr., April 4. The supposed
airship that has been floating around in
the lieavcns above Nebraska for the last
four months is causing the most ani
mated discussion just at .present. There
is no disputing the fact that either there
have been some very unusual atmospheric
disturbances visible 'throughout Nebraska
or olse a number of artificial lights con
trolled by a human-agency have been ex
hibited Jrom time U time in the sky at
oiight.
The opiriion Is 'becoming quite general
that some Inventor of a real airship is
experimenting with his machine in this
vicinity at night Jor the purpose of avoid
ing detection until the invention Is per
fected. Too many people have witnessed
those .peculiar lights and vague outlines of
a roreign body of .gigantic proportions in
the heavens to attribute them to the
distorted imagination or the befogged
fancies of people who have been 1 in bit
ing too freely.
For three anonths these Teports came
from the interior of the State. They all
agreed with reference to the size ot
the lights, the manner in which tliej
were carried swiftly tluotigh space, and
other details that Indicated that the same
object was attracting the attention of
many people. Then these lights were
seen in Omaha by several people, and
now the belief is quite gcneial that an
airship really has been invented.
The iuventoi ot the -mysterious vessel
is by most, people supposed to be John
Pieast, who lives three miles north of
the limits of the city of Omaha. Preast,
however, denies that he has anything to
do with this mysterious light, though ne
admits having experimented for years
on airships, and his 1 ouse Is filled with
all kinds of models of monsters of the
air which are expected to develop power
to carrj them through space swiftlv.
Preatis a highly educated German, who
has resided nlone at his present home
for twenty years. .Many? look opon him
a-s a crank, bec-uise-iie lus given his time
wholly to the study orniahanics as applied
to vessels that may kail through space. So
well kuown has he become on account or
bis hobby, wul so '-interesting is his col
lection or airship m'odels, that he has of
late years charged a ihnairudmission fee to
his place. His alrshljis htc or every con
ceivable design, but Preast declares that
he has no practical invention. But every
time thoughts have been Heenlntheheavens
around Omaha they! have disappeared dl-reetiy-
over the old PrVast homestead.
Only the most vague description of the
vessel carrying the lights'can be secured
in Omaha, because 'while many say they
saw the lights,- "-whldunt that they saw
anything else. '.-'TJniary-rre accounted for
on the theory .thii evejrr time the lights of
the tTupiioted shlpJiavc been seen it has
been on a very dark night. This Is given
as another reason for hollering in the new
invention, because the author would select
such a night to fly a machine which he
wanted to keep a secret.
On the night of March 14 the lights
were Keen in South Omaha. The "thing"
flushed into view about 9:30 o'clock. It
appeared to be aiming fiom the south
east. It had the appearance ot a big
engine headlight, and floated orr toward
the west and the north,, and finally dis
appeared behind some buildings. It was
in fight hair an hour. Among those who
saw the strange object was J. J. Copen
harvc, who Is a compositor, and who lives
at Twenty-sixth nnd H streets, South
Omaha. Mr. Copenharve was going home
rrom church at the time. He, with several
others, saw the object very distinctly, and
could not be mistaken.
-We thought at first that it was a
balloon," said Mr. Copenharve. "If there
is such a thing as an airship, however,
I believe now that it was one There
wasa brightlight,abouta footindiameter,
and some or us wbo-saw it thought wc
could distinguish some dark body below
the light, but we might have lieen mis
taken in that."
Mr. Copenharve and his friends are not
the only people in South Omaha who saw
the stranger. Some Tailroad men -working
in the north end of the railroad yard
near the Burlington switch shanty saw it.
It bad then altered its course and was
sailing toward the northeast. The men
watched it until it disappeared. That was
the second time that the visitor had ap
peared in South Omaha. The thing showed
itself a couple of weeks before. All that
could be secii was a big light that burned
very steadily. Nothing more definite could
be distinguished. On the occasion of that
visitation the object caused a good deal of
speculation.
Last Sunday night the ship again ap
peared and was seen by a number of
Omaha's reputable citizens. It came in
sight a bout the time that church was over,
and in half an bour had traversed the
lieavcns and had once more disappeared.
It was seen by people in all parts of the
city. This time the airship came into
view in the southeastern portion of the
horizon.
It was in the shape of a big red light,
too big for a balloon, and glowed steadily.
It sailed over the cijty po the tiorthwest
and then disappeared behind the bluffs.
It moved very slowly and seemed to be
quite near the earth. Nothing but the
lighl Tvas visible. A blgWowd of people
watched the trip of the visitor at Twenty
fourth and Lake streets1, and speculated
upon it. In this crowd Jtas Herman Mat
ties, an employe of the JJee, who is quite
positive that the tiling was not a star,
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BESSTK STACEY -L COURT.
Waives Jixatniuatlpn and Gives Bond
in One Thousand Dollars.
The case of BessieTitalcey, whose arrest
upon the charge of shoplifting, about a
month ago, caused 'gucp a sensation in
Washington, nppeared'in the police court
this morning for preliminary hearing.
The specific charge upon which she is
held Is the larceny of a diamond breast
pin from Harris & Shafer, butit is al
leged that there are still other charges
against herin the background.
Bessie, attired in the very latest fashion,
formed a striking contrast to other dilapi
dated figures as they stocd in the dock.
When the case was called Attorney Car
rington, for the defendant, waived ex
amination and asked the judge to fix bond.
This Judge Miller did in the sum of
$1,000. Spenser Nervls.the former "bonds
man, again went tho girl's security, where
upon she left the courtroom and was driven
to her home.
Thomas Brown and Manuel Kane,
"scorchers," were arrested yesterday by
Bicycle Policeman Dodge and came to
grief in the police court this morning.
Judge Kimball fined them $5 each.
DEATH OF JOHN I.. FORD.
He Formerly Managed u Theater Jn
This City.
John Lewis Ford, well known in this
city through his former connection with
Ford's Opera House now the .Bijou The
jiter died in Baltimore last Saturday rrom
a complication of diseases.
He was a son of William H Ford, ot
Baltimore, and a nephew ot John T Ford,
founder or Ford's Opera Houses in Balti
more and this city, and was horn in Rich-,
inond, 7a., In 18-18. In 1481 ho took
charge of the theater In this -ity as man
ugcr, which position he retained for seven
years.
After leaving Washington he went to
New York, aud was ror five years connected
with the New York and Hudson River Ratl
road Four yeaisago he returned to Baltt
morc and accepted a position as traveling
salesman for the Emerson Drug Company,
which position he has since iiekl. He was
taken 111 last Christmas Eve, and continued
to grow worse until his death.
Fourteen years ago Mr. Ford married
.Miss Cora Gray, of Baltimore, who, with
five children survives him Mrs. F. H.
Hicks, Mrs. W. P. Burnet, Mrs. Hudson A
Wood and Miss Emma Ford, of Baltimore,
are sisters of Mr. Ford. He was an active
member ot the Travelers' Protective As
sociation of America.
PHOEBE COUSINS RECANTS
She Is an Apostate From the Wom
an Suffrage Creed.
Declares She Has Seen "Women Un
der Fire Three Times and Kach
Time They Failed.
St. Louis, April G. Miss Phoebe Cousins
has renounced womaa suffrage. She is ly
iug on a bed of pain in a sanitarium at
No. 2826 Washington avenue, less than two
blocks from her old Ifome-hers no longer
at No. 2647 Washington avenue. She has
not alked for more than a year, and for a
much longerperiodshe has been pursued by
her arch enemy, articulate rheumatism. It
has fettered her to her bed.
"Three times I have seen women under
fire," she said to me slowly and emphat
ically today, "and as many times I have
seen them fall, and that ignominiously.
Women in publiclife will never jirove satis
factory. There arelimitationsthat proscribe
her success. "he is naturally a homekeep
cr. I would advise all young women to
marry anil become hornekeepers.
"Twenty years agol, with other new con
verts, believed that suffrage for women
would prove a panacea for all ot the evils
of politics. I believed that women In pub
lic life would prove a regenerating in
fluence. After twenty years or close ob
servation and experience I have come to
the conclusion that women are no better
than men. After reviewing the character
istics of men and women, I rind they are
about equally balanced that there areas
many good women as men in the world,
and no more.
"I said I had seen women underfire three
times. The first was at the World's Fair.
:No meeting ban been called or demanded
since the cloaeof the World's Fair to report
to Congress, or to give an account of the
stewardship of the money of the people. It
is due that such a meeting be held as a test
ot woman's capability in the direction and
control or public affairs. No such tyranny
would be endured by men. A few broken
heads nnd damaged reputations would at
least serve as mementos ot the uprising of
a free people against tyrannous usurpation
of power. Revolt is a healthful sigti."
Miss Cousins sharply criticised Mrs.
Potter Palmer and Mrs. John A. Logan, and
said:
"The second time women went down
under fire was in the Colorado campaign
of 1894. There was a small clique of wo
men who used the money intrusted to them
tor personal aggrandizement.
"The third time -was on the Pacific coast,
when I had nn opportunity to study the
ring of women suffragists, besides which
therankestrtyranny of Tammany Haltwould
pale. It is now properly known as the Anthony-Shaw
ring. Susan B. Anthony and
Anna Shaw, who runs about talking ot
holding Aunt Susan's bonnet; Rachel Fos
ter Avery and Carrie Chapman Catt com
prise the officers year In nnd year out, and
run the organization to the exclusion ot
every one else. Susan B. Anthony is a fail
ure except for her own personal ends."
A Ilnre Occttltntlon.
Local astronomers will tonight be af
forded a rare chance to observe the oc
cultation by the moon of the seven stars
in the constellation Taurus, known as
the Pleiades. This phenomenon, techni
cally called the eighteenth or nineteenth
year period of the moon, is a very notable
one, as important measurements of the
semi-diameter of the moon will be deduced
Jrom the observations.
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1 IPPEUS OF PACTS
W. A. Holland, of This City,
Writes Gen. Lee.
HIS SON BUSSING A LONG TIME
Airs. Fannie JncUson, ot Virginia,
Also Beseeclies the Consul Gen
eral to Visit the Spanish Prisons
in Seureh of Her Boy Fred The
Ileplies Sent From Havana.
Havana, Cuba, April 5. Consul General
Leehaa justrccelvea a pathetic appeal from
ananxious.inotlier. lie has been unable to
learn anything about the son referred to,
and it way be that the publicity given to
herletter will resultln the young man being
round. The letter is dated Charlottes
A'llle, Albemarle county, Va., ilarch 20,
1897. It says:
"Pardon an almost heartbroken mother,
who now writes to you, beseeching you to
visit the different Spanish prisons, -and in
quire it a young man named Fred. B.
Jaokson 1s imprisoned in one ot them.
Oh, Gen. Lee, pray listen' to a motner's
plead'ngs.and examine the hospitals! Go
into the prisons Look for my toy. Try
to find my darling, and send him back to
his poor mother, Tor I am a widow, and
am now teaching mjIiooI to support myself.
"I cannot rest at night, dreaming and
grieving about my boy. Be left New Or
leans, La., about the middle of last Jan
uary, writing that he was going to Cuba
He lert Virginia to go -South for his
health, as he was fearful he would have
consumption. He had blue eyes, black
hair, fair skin, a soft voice, and w a par
ticularly arfectionate, and very tender
hearted. "May God grant that you may be cn
nblcd, Gen. Lee, to aid me in this noble
act, and, oh, "may the -great Snpreme's
choicest blessings be showered upon you
evermore."
. The letter is signed "Mrs. Fanny S.
Jackson."
Gen. Lee also Iras ti 'letter from W. A.
Holland, Washington,-!). C.,inquiringabout
a missing son.
Mr. W A. Holland, of No. 925 Eighth
street northwest, stated today that he has
received a letter Irem Gen. Fitzhngh Lee
to the effect that he has rnade diligent
diligent search in Cuba for Mr, .Holland's
son, William R, B Holland, and has thus
far been unable to find him, Thclettercon-veys-
tne assurance that further search for
the young man will be instituted.
Young Holland, it will be recalled, left
home on December 18, 1895, for the pur
pose of entering the office of a physician
in New York city.
Be had been a student in the medical
department of Columbian University, and
was to have graduated last fall. Being
but nineteen years of age, and entertaining
the idea that he was too young to gradu
ate, he left the schooL En route to New
York he wrote a letter to his parents, this
communication being thclast news they
have received of him.
The weeks rolled on and Mr. Holland en
gaged the services or detectives In va
rious cities and distributed thousands of
circulars descriptive of the youth.
These efforts proving of no avail, it was
thought that the young man had gone
to Cuba, and Gen Lee was imrortuned to
search for him. That his efforts in thin
direction have proved futile is shown by
his letter to Mr. Holland. The young man
was of fair complexion, with light curly
hair and grayish-blue eyes. He wasnbout
5 feet 6 inches in height.
He was a member of Calvary baptist
Church, and was quiet and studiousin his
habits. The parents entertain the hope
that he will yet be found.
LED THE HUNT FOR BOOTH.
Dcnth of Ueut. Doherty, "Who Pur
sued the Assassin.
Ts'cw York, April 5. Edward G. Doherty
died of heart disease on Satnrday, at bis
-home, No. 533 West 144th street. He
commanded the detachment ot calvary
that killed John Wilkes Booth, who as
sassinated Abraham Lincoln in Ford's
Theater, Washington, on the evening of
April 14, 1865.
Doherty enlisted In the Seventy-first
Regiment, New York Volunteers, in April,
1861. He became a lieutenant In the
Sixteenth Calvary. On April 24, 1865,
his regiment "was in Washington, and he
was ordered to Teport to Col. L. C. Baker
with twenty-five men for secret service.
That service was to take James Wilkes
Booth, dead or alive.
Booth, after shooting Txeshlent IJncoln,
Jumped from the private box to the stage,
breaking his leg. But he managed to
reach the private entrance of the theater,
where a horse awaited him. TVlth an ac
complice he rode thirty miles into Mary
land, where "his broken leg was set by a
physician. Then Booth crossed the Po
tomac into Virginia.
Lieut. Doherty and his detachment left
Washington on April 24, on the steamoat
Ide. Doherty thus related what happened-
"We steamed down the Potomac to a
point -north ot Pontico . where we disem
barked nnd went inland to Pleasant Val
ley, Va. TVe looked here and there for
Booth, for we had accurate Information
that he was hiding In the neighborhood.
We got to Garrett's farm about daybreak
on April 26. Garrett and his sons denied
that Booth was there, or that they knew
anything about hlra. I made one ot the
sons prisoner, and well, he told me that
Booth was hhling in his father's barn. We
surrounded the barn and called on Booth
and David E.Herold, who was with him,
to -surrender, nerold came out of the
barn, but Booth would not surrender. One
ot the men I ordered into the barn was
Boston Corbett. He peeped through a
knothole -and tow Booth. Then he put
hm gun in the knothole and shot the as
sassin. The discharge of the gun .set-fire
to the barn. We took Booth's body to
Washington, reaching there next tlay,
April 27."
Ueut. Doherty did not sleep Trom the
time be set out from Washington -until his
mission was accomplished. He was fifty
six years old when he died. A widow and
a son survive him. He had been for years
aninspectorof p&vem ostein the department
of .public works. He was commander of
Post 36, Grand Army of the Republic. JH3
STERN'S
At Stern's
Retiring Sale
shrewd buyers are reaping:
a harvest of bargains. Dress
Goods Silks Domestics Bed
wear Underwear and No"ons,
all must be sold regardless of
actual values. It -will pay you
to BUY NOW for future use.
Ladies' Muslin Under
wear. Drawers, Hamburg
embroidered 23c
Drawers.. 3gc
Drawers 46c
Chemise . 23c
Chemise 46c
Night Gowns 33c
Nrght Gowns 46c
Night Gowns 5Tc
Night Gowns Q-j c
Night Gowns 3 c
White Skirts 44c
White Skirts gj c
White Skirts 67c
White Skirts 87c
Blankets so much below cost to
make ft worth your while to get
them now Tor next winter
Ladles ought not overlook this
great chance to purcliase their sup
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-luneral will take place from the Church of
St- Charles Barromeo, 142d street aud Sev
enth avenue.
TWO CKAZr M.&N IN COUHT.
Both Will Probably Be Sent to St.
Elizabeth's.
The session of the police court today was
disturbed by a raving maniac in the cells
and a queer individsal who has been locked
up at Lieut. Kelly's station for examina
tion as Z his sanity bv ttne plice surgeons.
The maniac Is a colored youth named
nendersou Taylor, jr , who was arrested
for destroying private property, and who
made several attempts to escape before he
was put in one of the eclls. He was
finally sent to the workhouse for examina
tion. Taylor Was a prisoner in Jail when
Irvin Ford was executed for the murder
or Elsie Kreglo. The preliminaries and
hanging so preyed on his mind that he be
came insane.
The other man wh annoyed the courts
was Morris Diamond, a short German,
forty-two yeHTS of age, who says he was
horn in Beriin As told in The Sunday
Times, Diamond called at police head
quarters Saturday afternoon and declared
that Gnlteau did not assassinate Presi
dent Garfield.
This morning he appeared at the police
court in a new role, claiming to l an
attorney. He started in by doing a smart
piece of "capping" about the courthouse
for clients. ne finally found an aged
colored man in distress, and discovered
by interrogating him that his son was
locked up for assault. Diamond talked
2 out of the old man as a retainer, and
then dashed into Judge Kimball's court to
see it any of the Garfield conspirators
lad been arrested.
Judge "Kimball's attention was called to
the actions of Diamond, who was rushing
hither and thither with a bunch ot yi
Io w papers in bis hand. His honor sent for
Detectives Carter, Gallnher and Lacey to
take the man In custody
In the meantime Diamond made his ap
pearance upstairs in Judge Miller's mrt
to defend the colored man from wrosc
father he had received the $2 retainer.
Judge Miller was infrmed how Diamond
had secured the S2 fee from thepKl colored
man, and peremptorily commanded the
alleged lawyer to return the money. He
then ordered him out of ihe curth iuse.
As Diamond was going downstairs he was
arretted by Policeman Flynn, and escorted
to the office of Sanitary Officer Frank
He will be examined this afternoon by
the police surgeons.
Live Local Hnpperriiii.
Bailiff Danv of Judge Miller's police
court, is confined to his home by sick
ness. Patrick Murphy forfeited S5 collateral
In the police court today for assaulting
Michael Rafferty.
Thomas Smith was flned'$5 today by
Jndge Miller foT stealing a dog valued at
$20 from John Waif, tall.
CoL -and Mrs. L. Caldwell, of No. 1759
Q street, lefttoday for their summer home,
Cedar Hill Mansion, Lynn, Mass.
For stealing a horse from Jerome B.
Weller yesterday Judge Miller this morn
ing sent John Cassell to jail for sixty days.
The Washington Presbytery ot the Pres
byterian Church will begin a session at the
Western Churcuthiscveningat7:30 o'clock.
Policeman Will H. Adams has been trans
ferred from the Ninth precinct in North
east Washington to the First, ia place of
Bushatt, -dismissed.
Harry Summers and Milton J. Walling
were arrested on Eighth street southeast
by Policeman Vermillion for fast driving.
In the police court today they forfeited
$10 collateral each.
Ephraim M. Adams, a railroad conductor,
forfeited collateral in the police court today
on the cliarge ot obstruutingthe crossing at
Seventh street and Maryland avenue south
west by stopping hU train across the street
la visl4ea of law
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