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A QUAINT TRIP When the Tired Man Can Best Physically and MentaDy. IEARBEMIS OF TE PLACID Where History Has Been Written and Nature is Picturesque. TWO DAYS' OUTING HERE ARE TWO ways of going to Baltimore besides walking or riding a bicycle. By one of these the traveler takes a train in Washington All out for Baltimore! That's the record of the tri, forty-five miles in forty-five minutes, and that's all there is to It. By the other the traveler leaves Washingtor on a Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock as the sun is sinking toward the Virginia hills.

and he is wafted away on the green wings of the river into the realms of mist and silvery cloud, and as the shadows lengthen, he floats on into the purple and the amethyst of the sunset, with the silent river spreading outward before him and stretching away into the distant darkness until the majesty of the night comes down to meet the mystery of the waters and a blazing star hangs glittering in the vaulted sky above them. At least that's the way it seems to the traveler as he starts away from Washington on the "good steamboat Potomac, Geoghegan, master," and after a day of moving in and out of all sorts of sleepy and quaint old places in Virginia and laryland and a night on Chesapeake bay he begins to think that possibly language is quite inadecuate to express what this other way actually is. For as much as ten years I have been promising myself to make the trip to BalA "AUNT timor- by river and bay, but until this week the trip rernaired unmade. Now it is done, and I am free to confess that a pleasanter one with greater variety of Inter-st I have nc-ver experienced. That part of it from Washington until darkness settled upon us is the old, old story of "down the Potomac," familiar to all exeursionists of the srmmer season.

It was not until the morning light awaking found us at Leonardtown that the real interest began. We reached there some time in ine night, and as we were to leave at Velock. I got up at 5 to go up and see the uaint old tGwn, which lies back from the aat-r about a quarter of a mile. This water is Breton's bay, which puts in from the main stem of the Potomac for five or six or seven miles, and at the extreme northeast end of it is Leonardtown, the county seat of St. Mary's county, and just the kin'i of a town one would want to wake up in after the rush and the rumble and the newness of our modern capital.

It Is Trinity P. E. Chureb, St. Mary's. yesterday all over, and to come into it out of talay is a delight that must be experienee I to be thoroughly enjoyed.

One feels it first as he steps from the steamer to the old wharf, rather in places. but none the less admirable for its evidences of decay, and it grows or. him as he sees at the end of the platform a cart drawn by a yoke of oxen which serves the purpose of a truck or an express wagon as the need may be, Qantness of It All. As we go up the road from the waterwide we pass an old gateway, and beyond ft down the worn-out avenue is Tudor Hallthink how baronial that sounds-and then a little further and we reach the court house, They call it new In Leonardtown, because it has occupied, for I don't know how many years, the site of one that was contemporaneous with the Pyramids or some other of those really antiques. Most of the town lies on one street, and it widens into quite an ellipse-not a squarewith the town well in the center of it and around about it some quaint moss-grown cottages and old-timey houses that would give lovers of the antique a series of happy conniption fits.

There are some modern houses, but they look so dreadfully out of that one wants to pluck them up by the roots and throw them over the fence. and it Is to be sincerely hoped that if anybody else in Leonardtown wants to build a new house he will build an old one, and thus preserve the ancient harmony. They have bicycles In Leonardtown, but one rider told me that life was gloom to them now because the authorities had decreed that bicyclers should no longer ride on the sidewalks, and the streets were so sandy that bicycling had become a burden, That's right. A newfangled thing like a bicycle has no business in such an old place as Leonarnitown. anyhow.

Notwithst: nding it was between 5 and 6 o'clock in the morning when I made my trip through town, I discovered that it was not a local option town, for I saw several peominent citizens scooting along ioward points of liquiefaction. Really, though. I must disapprove of this feature of life In Leonardtown, for liquor, before It is well aired and the sun has had a chance te dry the night damps off of it, Is not healthful, Leonardtown has a couple of newspapers, two or three churches, two hotels, good schools and not a railroad track, telegraph wire nor a telephone bell, that sound funny to be said of a town in 1896 not a hundred miles from Washington and more than two hundred lears old? Peeullar Water Ways. Prornptly at 6 tlhe Potomac pulled out and beaded for down the bay, and as I stood on the hurricane deck and looked about me I almost fancied the boat had into the fields along the banks so odd it seemed away out here In the narrow estuary, or bayou, or inlet, or bay, or put-in. or wbater these peculiar water ways may be calleI After touching at various wharves in Breton's bay and passirg Newtown, which isn't a town, but a farm of several thousand acres, owned by the Jesuits.

we came out into the main steam of the Potomac again. which Is eight miles or so wide at this point. In front of us lay the low, dark hills of the Virginia shore, with the Nomini cliffs rising yellow from the water away to the right, and the hotel at Piney -j, Columbia Fishing Club, Mundy's Point Point gleaming on the Maryland shore to our left. Beyond the Nomini cliffs, in the back country, Robert E. Lee was born, and a little furthEr up the river George Washington first saw the light.

Touching at Piney Point, we headed away for the Virginia shore, where a flag waved at Sandy Point, and there we took on a calf. On the wharf here I saw a sign which said that telegrams were receivcd from and sent to all parts of the world, which is somewhat in the nature of a monopoly for Sandy in this neck of the woods. Of the calf more anon. Swinging around the shore, we sailed into the Yeo- comico river, which consists of a northwest, scuthwest and west branch and no main stem, the only river that is all branches that I know of. Our first landing place in I the Yeocomico was at Lodge, which is away up at the head of the hollow, so to speak, and made one feel when he got up In there he was never going to get out again unless he cut acrcss the fields.

Making Post 00ce Dies. At Lodge Benjamin Chambers has a factory for making the steel dies for canceling I postage stamps. All the dies used by the Post Office Department are made down here in this quaint little corner and sent to Washington, where they are disposed of aa called for. Mr. Chambers has had this 1 contrac-t for over thirty'years, and for the last fifteen years all of the stamps have been made at this point.

He employs fourteen hands, turns out 30,000 dies a year ani 1 receies $20,40 for his work. He has a secret process of hardening the steel he uses and by this he has been able to secure the contract from all competitors year after Is An f4 ii a a ei 9 Tr VA. Vi It year, though they succeed in cutting the price every year. Mr. Chambers imports no labor, all of his pecple being native to a this locality, and they have quite an idyllic sort of a place in here to themselves away 0 from all the world.

a Sliding out of the chute at Lodge. we a came around into the west branch to Kin- sale, which it next after Leonardtown the a most important city on the trip. 0 By the vay, the townlessness of this en- tire section is remarkable. The country is ti low-lying, but it is rich and fairly health- ful: yet between Alexandria and the mouth 0 of the Potomec there is not a town on the bt whole river, a distance of 100 miles. Leon- lI ardtown is up a hollow several miles, with five or six hundred people, and Kinsale, similarly located, has probably a population.

All the others are merely la names, with a wharf for the boats to land 1b at and a house ashore for somebody to live in and look after the wharf. Lots of History. Kinsale is quite loaded full of history. Here sleeps, on the estate of the Baileys, row owned by William Bailey, Midshipman Sigourney. who was pursued by British sailors into the harbor of Kinsale in 1843 a and after a gallant fight went down to his 0 death bravely.

Near here is the Yeocomico church built in 1746, in which is the font at a which George Washington was baptized. In this county, Westmoreland (pronounced Westmerland, with the accent on the first syllable), three Presidents, Washington, Madison and Monroe. were born. In this county Gen. Robert E.

Lee was born, and so on, showing a record that Kinsale is well proud of. An old cannon lies on the bank, which shot hot shot at the British in 1813, and at Hardwick's Hotel may be seen some frescoing that beats anythIngg Briumidi ever did in the Capitol rotunda. The same artist worked Col. Hardwick for several weeks' board, a horse and $30 in colda cash, all of which is history, and is worse treatment than Kinsale got from the British eighty-three years ago, notwithstanding they burned a part of the Anther interesting feature which every visito: wees is Auit Rachel, an old col 3red woman has been coming down to meet the steamboat ever since steamboats have VE been running on the Potomac. Aunt Rachel is now getting along toward ninety years 01 and is as lively as a cricket, and good for 0: another hundred.

She says she may learn a to ride the bicycle, but she vows she will never wear bloomers. 01 ti i b4 A Steam Beat Race on the Potomac. In the Yeocomico are the senior and junior Columbia Fishing Club houses, and at Priest's Point Georgetown College students come to spend a short seasop every year. Near here is Fort Point. a bit of headland on which an old colonial fort stood in the early times, and from which a number of antique cann-n have been taken to the grounds of Georgetown College.

In the same neighborhood is Rosecroft, where lives Mr Kennedy. an Englishman, whose brother was captain of the famous steamship Great Eastern. A Legend in Modern Dress. Now for a romance of Rosecroft. A story of it called "Rob, the Bowl," has been published, and Capt.

Geoghegan, who has a copy, tells me the story In about this language: At Rosecroft lived the collector of the port, who had a beautiful daughter, whose eyes were as blue as the sea and whose smile was pie. This daughter was sought in marriage by the private secrettry of the collector, a fine young fellow, who might have been private secretary to a United States Senator, and also by a bold pirate who came Into these waters with his ill-gotten goods. The collector was stuck on the pirate because he had money, but the girl loved the private secretary, and that made the pirate want to paw up the river front for ten miles. Over on St. Jerome's creek lived a party who acted as a "fence" for the pirate, and thIs man was the private seci-etary's father, but neither.the old man nor the son knew anything about it, as they both thought they were still in England.

There weren't any cablegrams in those days, and they couldn't find out about each other, as they could nowadays. Be that as it may, the pirate and the p. a. kept getting a little closer to the object of their heart's desire, and one day they had words with ion, and they adjourned over to a cornleld in the neighborhood of Kinsale and fought a duel. They shot all the corn off the stalks with their guns, and then cut he fodder with their swords, but neither M4 was seriously hurt, and the girl mar'led the private secretary, much to the disust of her papa and the pirate.

And they ived happy ever after. That isn't exactly the way the captain the story, but it is near enough, and tdds a sentimental interest to the entire roocomico region. We sailed from Kinsale about noon and nade straight down the shore for Coan's 'iver, up which we bored our way until he stream was so narrow that the boat souldn't turn around between Coan's apd Bundick's wharves. Shopping for the Ladies. By this time we had picked up more chickms and ducks and calves and lambs and obacco and truck and the first new wheat, Lnd a whole deckload of stuff, not to menion forty shopping orders, intrusted to the aptain by the ladies along shore for him 0 attend to In Baltimore, and all of which ie does as if he loved to match dress goods Lnd pick out spring hats and fluffy shirt waists.

From Coan's we headed straight for the daryland shore once more, leaving here he finest river view of all, with the pink and white and gray houses at Lewssetta, and over the Coan to Walnut oint, rising, Venice like, from the waves, vith its pink and white and drab buildings let in the green of the trees and the grass tnd the sea. the St. Mary's now, and up to St. nigo and to St. Mary's City, a city, by the vay, consisting of two buildings and a nonument.

The monument bears this in'cription, which explains what it is: 'Erected on the site of the old mulberry ree under which the first colonists of daryland assembled to establish a governnent, where the persecuted and oppressed, of every creed and of every clime, might epose In peace and security, and adore heir common God and enjoy the priceless of civil and religious liberty." This was in 1633, and St. Mary's was ounded in 1634, March 27. The monument 3 also In memory of Leonard Calvert, son of Lord Baltimore and of his wife Lnne. This English gentleman was the irst governor of Maryland, but not under he Constitution of the United States, in of the fact that he died considerably more than a century before the revolution very nearly a century before George Vashington was born. Thinking of these hings, it makes one feel as if he had wanered In among the ruins of Karnak or Lthens or Rome or some of those old imers, when he strolls around the grassy Traveyard at St.

Mary's. The church is built of brick from the old tate house, which stood near its site so 3ng ago, and some of the wood in the decrations of the chancel are made from that Id mulberry tree. The other building in t. Mary's City is a fifty-year-old brick, ccupied by St. Mary's Female Seminary, Institution partly maintained by the tat.

Going Around to Get There. Another landing or two, and as the sun getting lcwer in the western sky, we -uch at our last wharf. Bacon's. In the ther days this was known as Portobello, eautiful gate, which, to say the least, is Lore euphonious than Bacon's wharf. The teat old house on the hill above the landkg was built by one Mr.

Hebbs one hunred and fifty years ago. and it is in good xpair yet. As I stood looking out at several lives and a lot of lambs that were com1g aboard, a young fellow from Leonardwn informed me that when Leonardtown didn't want to ride all day they rove down to Bacon's and took the oat. The information was in the nature a surprise, for it seemed to me that I ad traveled a thousand miles since I had alked the quiet streets of Leonardtown, nd I would not believe him, but he guarnteed that it was only about sixteen miles cross the country, and could be driven after dinner (noon). It is this in-and-outness, this everlasting oing and never getting any place that takes this trip on the Potomac one of the lost intcresting that can be taken.

One out only a day, but it has the effect of a 'hole week. for the wide river, the spread1g expanse of sea, the changing of scene tne estuaries, the little strolls along the harves and the invigoration of the salt ir makes the traveler take no note of me, and he seems to be afloat on wings idleness in a clime of sweet do-nothing nd everlasting peace, where the days are a thousand years and distance goes on )rever-or words to that effect. Really, day on the lower Potomac has the idest effect on the amateur In such travel can be imagined. I've swung around ie base of Vesuvius on the blue Mediterinean and have lisped the sweet measures the lute on Como's moon-kissed waves, it they weren't In it a minute with the wer Potomac. Demand for Voiceless Live Stock.

Didn't I say something about calves and mbs? Well, they are products of the 'wer Potomac, and they have to be shiptd to market. Now, if thoEe stock rais'a down there will improve their stock so lat they can raise voiceless calves, the mforts of night travel on the Potomac ill be grcatly enlarged. But this is a mere detail. As the sun bein to sink in the purple sky, we pulled way from Bacon-Portobello and turned nose toward the mouth of the river, in ght of which we had been nearly all day 'd which showed like a water color with low lines of trees and shore mthward from Point Lookout and northard from Smith's Point. Then we plunged boldly into the tumning waves of the Chesapeake bay, and ith no more landings until we reached altimore, we slept to the music of the waves and the tremulous beatgs of the engines.

Incidentally I may have heard a calf twl during the night, but Capt. Geoghetn assured me that it was only the way iose calves have of singing their lullabies xd that old travelers can't sleep without em. Tuesday morning-and fifty-five mInutes ter I was in Washington, whence I had arted thirty-six hours previously, and it gone over a foot of the same territory rice. It is miles to the mouth of the from Washington, thence ninety the bay to Baltimore. The way we ent we added a hundred miles by taking woods whenever we saw the mouth an estuary.

Still, we missed any number 'them, and to do them all would take a oath of steady going. A Delightful Outing. is down the Potomac the only trip this kind that may be taken out of 'ashington by those who have neither no nor money for long journeys. Another to is to take the train for FrederIckstrg In the morning, spend the day there I the boat leaves in the afternoon, and en spend the night and all next day dog the ins and outs of the Rappahannock, lth the ride up the bay to Baltimore the xt night. Another, and this for the bi'cler especially, is to wheel over to Marlro' in the afternoon, a distance of sixen miles, thence two or three miles to the point reached by the steamer up the Patuxent.

This boat leaves morning early, and puts in the day goinl om wharf to wharf, then on to Baltimore reaching there in time for the traveler io take an evening train back to Wesliftton. Ag improvement 9n this trip Is ifor the bicycler to leave the boat justl bpfore she qUits the river, alid to wheel ross to Leonardtown, where the next morti he may take the boat and do the trip; I have been writing about. However the trip may be made, whenever and by whomever, n9 more delightful outing may be had than one of these along the streams tributary to Chesapeake bay and the tired man or woman who can get a couple of days off and loaf them away between Washington. and Baltimore, breathing the salt air and swinging along on the waters, will come home again renewed mentally and' physically, and quite prepared to say that life is worth livingeven in Washington In the summer time. W.

J. LAMPTON. A CLEVER YANKEE DEVICE. Curious Cooling Towers Built of Steel and Packed With Tile. At some of the large power plants in and near Now York city the eye of the visitor or the passer-by is attracted by a new and unusual circular steel tower, looking like the tall stand pipe of some high level water system.

It is, however, no t.nk. There is water In it, but indeed this Is perpetually leaking out; in fact, the percolation of the water downward from top to bottom is what gives the device its unique value. It is the cooling tower of a self-cooling condenser-one of those numerous labor and power-saving Yankee inventlors that have placed us where we now stand as a nation of inventors and engineers. Every one knows that there are two principal types of steam engines; the noncondensing, in which the exhaust steam escapes into the air, making the hoarse puffing sound so fLmiliar in the locomotive and the steamtug; and the condensing, In which it is delivered into a condenser, where it is cooled down and turned back into water. In the former type the piston has to work against the pressure of the atmosphere-about fifteen pounds t0 the square inch; in the latter it has only to overcome the pressure of the vapor In the condenser, which is much less, as the condensation of the steam causes a partial vacuum.

Hence the condensing engine is much the more economical of the two, saving fully twenty-five per cent of the steam--and hence of the fuel-required for the other. Why, then, are not condensing engines universally employed? Sometimes because the use of the condensing device is not practicable, as on a locomotive; still oftener, because it requires an unlimited supply of water. Cold water is the means employed to condense the steam, and as it becomes warmer, In the process, it cannot be used over again. Hence engines that are not situated near a large water supply-on a river bank, for instance-cannot avail themselves of the condensing principle and profit by its fuel-saving power. And even where a river is near, land on its bank is so often so much more expensive that the manufacturer prefers to go farther away where he can buy at a lower price, even if he has to use a noncondensing engine.

But why not cool the heated condenser water, and use It again? This has been tried over and over, more or less clumsily ord ineffectively; and it is exactly what is done successfully in the cooling towers already mentioned. Methods previously In use employ shallow ponds to cool the water by surface evaporation, but these are out of the question fu a large city-or pans on the roof. which are awkward and take up room. The -cooling tower, which has satisfactorily solved the problem and cbfers to the manufacturer the welcome chance of saving a large proportion of his fuel, has been in usa for some time In a primitive and crude form ir the southern st tes, where the condenser water was alowed to cool by trickling through a mass of trtsh. Later, in Germany, the same result was effected by' allowing it to flow cver a nest of pipes.

In the perfected form the steel tower Is packed with layer op layer of vitrified tiles, set up on end. Through these, from the top to the botton of the tower, the heated condenser water trickles, while a powerful air blast is blown upward through it from a rotary fan at the base. When the water has reacheA the bottom it is cool enough to use again in the condenser. A little of It-from to 5 per centhas evaporated in 'the process, but this loss is more than made up by the condensed exl'aust steam that is added as it does its work in the condenser. In passing through the tower the water is cooled from about degrees to at least the temperature of 'he outside air.

chiefly by the evaporation itduced by the air blast that passes through the tiling. The principle is exactly the same as when one cools his moist hand by blowing on it. Strangely enough, the cooling is greater in summer than In winter. for, though in winter the air is colder, it Is much nearer the point of saturation, and I ill take up very little evaporation, and evaporation is the chief thing in the cooling. Direct escape of the heat by contact with the air blast and by radiation throughthe steel sides of the power helps.

but It is relatively unimportant. So, with the aid of this device, the condensing engine, with its great economy, Is today within the reach of every manufacturer in the land, instead of perhaps half of them. The 'operation of the tower Is inexpensive, as the cost of working is only that of pumping the water to the top and operating the fan; and this is slight compared with the saving that results from using condensation. Trhe towers take up little room; they vary in size from 25 feet in height by 5 feet in diameter, which is suitable for a 40-horse-power engine, to one 30 feet In height by 26 feet In diameter, for an engine of 1,500 horse power. One Wager That 1.

Collectible. From the Nrew York Evening Pest. According to a decision of the Ohio supreme court, one kind of a campaign wager Is collectible. The wager upon which the court passed was an old one, made during the presidential campaign of 1888. A resident of Canal Winchester became excited during a political discussion with a representative of a Lancaster clothing firm, cand finally agreed that he would buy a 150 suit of clothing from the firm if Harrison's majority in Ohio did not exceed 20,000.

The majority being less than that, the firm forwarded the clothing with a bill. Payment was refused, but after four trials In as many courts the firm won, and the rash bettor must pay for the clothing, and also pay a heavy bill of costs. Of Course. thc San Franeisco Monitor. "I hardly think," said the lawyer, "that you can get a separation from yaur wife on account of her making a practice of throwing things at the dog." "ABut, great Caesar, mister," said the man with the haggard look and the blaok eye, every time she throws at the dog she hits me," in REASONS FU Given by Doctor McCoy Every Sufferer From Other Malady to a The purpose of this invitation extended in the Trial Treatment Free clause must not be misunderstood.

It in simply the result of the Famous Physician's desire that the public may obtain without cost an adequate knowledge of the treatment which is the perfected result of his life work, which, like his earlier treatment given to the world ten years ago, will soon be in general adoption by the profession, which has worked such cures in Deafness and Bronchial Diseases alone as to startle the old school practitioners, which has aleady proven by the wonderful record of results that it will be the treatment of the future. In exterding this invitation Doctor McCoy desires that its terms be ugequivocaL Every person in Washingon to whom life has become a burden by reason of the filthiness and suffering of common Catairh of the Head, Nose and Throat may now apply at the offices of Doctors McCoy and Cowden and receive a trial treatment free of charge. Every person in Washington who has become discouraged and tired of the vain fight they have b-en making against the cough, the choking spells and the ever-recurring agonies of Asthma and Bronchitis may now apply at the offices of Doctors McCoy an' Cowden aid get an inkling of what may be done for them by a better system of treatment than they have heretofore been receiving. They will be cheerfully accorded a trial treatment without charge. Every person in Washington who has lost strength of heart and strength of body and is becoming pale, emaciated and lantern-Jawed and melancholy by the sickness, the torture and the starvation incident to chronic Catarrh of the Stomach may now apply at the offices of Doctors McCoy and Cowden and receive, without expense, an explanatory admxris.tration of the treatment that has restored so many thousands of gloomy dyspeptics.

Every person in Washington who may be undergoing the fiery agonies of Rheumatism or the bight, the suffering and the disfigurement of Eerema, or the weakness, failure, misery and decay due to any common form of cihronie disease, ray now apply at the offices of Doctors McCoy and Cowden and get a glimpse of happier conditions in store for thcm under the McCoy system of treatm'eat. The free trial treatment will be accorded to all upon personal application. To those who continue treatment until cured there will be no expense beyond the regular nominal monthly assessment, all medicines included. Dr. McCoy Curing the DeaL Miss Virginia Loveless, 2108 Vermont "I had been deaf a number of years.

and at times almost totally so. The roaring and buzzing noises In the ears were dreadful. "I am in the choir of Grace Church, and for a long time I could hardly hear a word of Doctor Leach's sermon. "Since I have been treated by Doctors McCoy and Cowden the noises in my ears have stopped and my hearing has so improved that I can understand the sermon in churen and hear distinctly sounds that before I could not distinguish. I now hear and understand conversation In an ordinary tone." Mitn.

Eliza Pope, 010 I at. "My right sir was entirely useless. I could not understand ordinary conversation. The doctors I went to told me the drum of the ear was broken. I had noises In my head that sounded like escaping steam and ringing.

When I went to Doctor McCoy the Deafness had lasted for -ight years. Doctor McCoy said my case was curable. I can now hear the clock tick across the room. I hear the thunder for the first time in years. Now I can hear the birds singing in the trees outside of the house." Justus E.

Griswold, 205 Pennsylvania "I had to take my watch and press it very hard against my left ear to hear it all. I emuld not hear speakers at a dista-e. Under Doctor McCoy's treatment I notice a wonderful change in my hearing." Oscar Rundgvist, 218 Harrison Anscostla, ar inspector. B. and P.

R. "1 could not hear ordinary conversation. I would have to ask questions repeatedly. Shere were whistling and ringing noises in like steam. I conld not hear the clock tick.

Since taking Doctor MeCc-y's tieatment I am improving wonderfullr well. I can hear the clock tick several feet away." Frank Miller, 533 Oth at. m.e., expert I could not hear a sentence a short distance away. Sounds were confused. I had to ask people to repeat.

I eculd not hear my watch tick. Suzzing sounds like escaiing steam were constant. Since taking Dr. McCoy a treatment my hearing has bean restored. I hear perfectly.

Patrick McGraw, 214 t. w. years of age): "I had heen hard of hearing for ten years. There were constant ringing and butzzing sounds in my ears. I coind not hear a watch or clock tick at all.

I can now hear the clock tick and all ordinary conversation. I hear the street cars which I could not before. The ringing sounds have left my ears." P. F. Milli11gan, 115 4th n.e., Capitol Hill: "I feel like going down the avenue and telling every one my deafness is cured.

I was deaf for 18 years: could scarcely hear a word: I would press a clock to my ear and tever hear it tick. I was deaf as a brickhat. Doctor McCoy cured me entirely. If there is anybody who does not believe it let hilm come and see me in person." George Cecil Hyde, 3400 Prospect "I not hear ordinary conversation. "Since going to Dr.

McCoy my hearing has been restored. I can hear conversation clearly." Mrs. Hyde, the boy's mother, said to the writer: "We notice remarkable change in Qttr boy's condition. We test his hearing evey dy, and find he will answer us now. Am happy to say that he is doing excellently.

He hears me when I address him in a very ordinary tone. John M. Clark, 917 20th St. N. "I had noises in my ears that at times made it impossible for me to hear at all.

They were like the ringing of bells, the bnzzing of a sawmill and escaping steam. I could not understand conversation. All sounds seamed dull and coufusing. I finally went to Doctors MoCoy and Cowden. I can hear conversation In ordinary tones, and the noises have disappeared." COPIES OF McOY'S MONOGRAPH ON DEAFNESS WILL BE MAILED ON APPLICATION 'TO DIREDYrLY IN THE (URIE 0' 'IHIS CONDITION.

AN ASTONISHED SPARROW. It Tickled the Rhinoceros' Nose, and the Great Beast Sneesed. From the English Bllustrated Magazine. It is not easy to astonish a sparrow. You can scare scared as oft return, a pert, voracious make it fly away, but that is only because the sparrow has the bump of self-preservation very prominently developed, and takes a hint as to personal danger -with extraordinary promptitude.

But, though it may remove its small body out of harm's way for the time beirag, it is not disconcerted. You can see that by the way in which it immediately goes on with its toilet. Its nerves have not been shaken-that is evident from Its obvious self-possession, and the way it scratches its head and makes a note of the fly which went by. It would not commence at once a frivolous altercation with another of its kind if it had been disconcerted. And, really, it is not to be wondered at that the sparrow should be beyond the reach of astonishment.

Think of what it sees, and sees quite unconcernedly, in the streets of London. Put a tiger into Fleet street, or a bear at the bank, and the poor beast would go crazy with terror. A single omnibus would stampede a troop of lions. Yet a sparrow surveys the approaching fire engine undismayed, and it sits with its back to the street when a runaway van comes thundering death down Ludgate Hill. The smallibird's life is, in fact, so made up of surprises that it regards the astounding as commonplace.

So a fly, sitting down in a train, thinks nothing of finding itself in the next county when it greta up. Its whole eaitetnco is IR THE OPEl to All Chronic Sufferers I Catarrh, Bronchitis, Rhe rial Treatment Entirely MORE ABOUT THE FnARVEL OF CURING THE DEAF Mrs. Mary E. Webster, Twining City s.e., D. "I became totally deaf ir my left car when I was about sia years old.

Later my right ear be came affected and gradually greN worse, until I could scarcely hear sound. I could not catch a word o1 ordinary conversation. The onh Mns. Mary E. Webster.

Twining (ity 8.e.. D. testifie to Doctor McCuy's skill in curing Deafness. way I could appreciate what was said was by closely watching the lip of the speakers. I could not hear the children talking to each other iii the same room, and when one wanted to speak to me It Was Necessary to Touch Me in order to attract my attention.

"When any one, even a neighbor, wished to communicate with me it was necessary first to speak to one of the children, who would interpret to me, and I could understand by watching the lips. "I could not hear the clock tick. nor any sound, however loud. I had ringing and buzzing noises in iv ears and at times a fullness that felt as though wind was pressing against my ear drums. This was particularly distressing when I caught cold.

"I had tried different medicines without success. Reading of the many cures made by Doctors McCoy and Cowden, I believed that they could at least help Inv left ear. I went to them, and when they made the examination they said they could help me. The first improvement that I noticed after beginning the treatment was the gradual lessening of the ear noises, and finally The Buzing and Ringing Stopped Entirely. "One night, feeling tired and dispirited, I had a crying spell.

Suddenly there was a Popping, Cracking Sound in my ears, and then somcthingv seemed to give way, and I could hear again. Since then I have been able to hear almost as well as whei I was a child. "Everybody notices the great change in me. "I Can Hear 'ow Distinctly any one without watching the lips, can hear the clock tick and catch many sounds that I had not heard for years. I feel very grateful to Doctors McCoy and Cowden for what their wonderful skill has done for me." Maurice Ciagett, 215 A a.e.g "Por a quarter of a century I had been Deaf.

Ordinary convrersation I could not heir at aii. I went to Dr. McCoy. I entn now b'oar in my left ear ordinary conversation; my right ear was ainiost stone diuf. Today I distinctly heard an autioln ten a bliock away.

I hear tl.e clatter of horses' hoofssounds which I had not heard in yearn." Mrs. Maria D. Bradley, 919 Pi st. U.w.: "I was very deaf, and had ringing and buzzng stunds in my ears all the time. I could not hoar crdinary convertfation.

P'eople would have to shout to make me understand. I could not hear the cluck s'trike. I found no relef until I wient under Doctor Mecoy'r trer-tment. I can now hear convceat ion. I can hear the clock tick from ainy part of the room." DR.

McCOY CURlING DvSPEPSEA. Mrs. Joseph Sykes, 1214 19th at. "I had been a sugferer from acute Dyspepeta fier years. At times it seemed like something was pressing on my sto'nac'h.

I had severe headaches. There were sharp, tancinating pains in the back and sides. After enting there would he a een'e of fullness, nausea and dlepreson. I seemed to lose all ambiition and spirit. I could not lie on gy back with any comfort.

'I went to Doctor McCoy. lIe has entirely cured the pain. I have no more headaches. Ietan leep as well as I ever did." i DOCTOR MeOY'S MONOGRtAPH ON DrsSEASES OF THE SKIN CAN BE OBTAINED BY SENDING AN APPLICATION THltOUGH THE MAIL. IT Is INTENDED ONLY FOE THoSE WHO ARE AF'FLICTED wrm SOME FORM OF SKIN DISEASE.

volcanic and seismic. It cannot settle on a hand without the hand moving. What would a dog think if, on going into a tenacre fid, the field suddntly turned over? But the fly is not put out of countenance by such "phenomena." It comes back to the hand. It Ia the same with the sparrow. Et thinks no more of another wonder than the Seven Companions did of another dragon in the day's work.

All the same, I have seen a sparrow totally confounded and all to pieces. It was, I confess, oniy a young one, with lust the promise of a tall, nothing more, and some odds and ends of fluff still rellnging between the red feathers. I was looking at the rhinoceros, which was lying flown close to the railings, and a very sleepy rhinoceros It was. Except for slight twitches of the tail and an ocasional fidget nf the ears, It wan quite motionless. And the young sparrow hopping about in the inclosure, coming to the beast, hopped rnnto It, looking in the chinks of Its skin for chance grains or Insects.

And it hopped all along Its back onto his head tthe rhinoceroii winked), and along Its head to the little horn, ar.d from the little horn anto the big one (arnd it blinked), and then aff the horn onto Its nose. And then the rhinoceros snorted. The sparrow was a sight to see. Exploded Is no word for it. And it sat all In a heap on the corner of the house, and chirpad the mournfulest chirps.

"I hadn't the smallest notion the thing was alive," it said. "Oh, dear! oh, dearl" and it wouldn't be pacified for a long time. Its astonishInent had been severe, and had got "into the system." I remembered the story of the boy who sat on the whale's blowbole. Behemoth had got stranded 'on the Bhetland coast. While the population was idmiring it an urchin climbed onto the bead ot the distressed man I INVITATIoiI in Washngton, Wekomin umatism, Deafness or Any Free.

DR. McCOY CURINO SERIOUS BRONCImS; -V A. Itle, 641 Maryliand awe. avwconductor Pennsylvania railroad: "Ahout Ore rene' ago I had a severe attack of Iro-hitts. I ha pain ton l.ad and chest and at times It imposthie for me to breathe.

I had eo tnx ts. I btcndily lost in weight. "I Was hawindg and bpittIng 2l the time. was a Painfui Tightm.ee Acraee My Cites My app'tite was poor, and some.tiles I would for days wilbout being able to eat hardly ag. thing.

I "My throat would become parched, making Id to vwallow. I was in a very serious colp lition when I read of some of the Resmarkmbie Cres by Dr. MEcCey In Washington In cases similar to mine. I belle that it he cure others he might at least be me. He hs not only helped me, 1tant about eurw, me.

The treament has had a of. The pains in my head have gone and I seldom the tight pain' arosas my chest. My head clear, and any appetite Is always good now. could not be better CURED OF ECZEMA IN ITS WORST EM, W. Ewumg, Clerk Anditor' omco of the Treasurv the PaNt Ofe I "Small.

dry, scaly sores, running gradually increased in size, forming belotches my body. was diagnen.d by jhysielsn. as Ecaerne in its worst form. I suffered all the agonitA seemed to me, that any one could. Strange touria.

Ing aemsations began in mny feet and formed a cine cult. ineasiaug my body. heads. feet and ankles were swollen a4 painful. I could not bear the touh of clothing, Physieians failed to relieve my pain.

"I tried every available- rem.ly, without e-ta' rem. I "When Doctor M4e1y instituted a notional pra" tire in Washlngton. I was ItnpredoA with his re. markable rei'rd, and I went to hib offine. "After a week's application I felt a great ta, provement.

I was relieved from the- inteuse itohig ing, and gradually the biotdtas grew Now i am entirely cured. W. A. I'lle. 61 Maryland a' noe, testlfies to lhr.

Mcloy's skill In curing chronie Bronchitla. DOCTOR McCOV CURING BRONCHIAL ASTHMA. A. S. Dent, 2124 8 at.

U.4.. "For, rearly three years I suffered from Bllronchitts, and asthmatic trouble. I was subject to lnte'nae paro-" yams of coughing. There was a cloking of the tubes and shortness of breath, and ot-a'ional back of the breast bone. sePned te have no effect.

There was a hawkirg. spittlag discharge of mn'as. Tben there was a tightness across the chest and dryneas in my thrst. I could scarcely breathe at fin's. Phiici.ans told me had asthma.

"I lost thirty pounds in weight. I was verpj feeble. not being able to get nlst airs without great exert Ion. "Having beard of Doctor M'4'oy's remarkable skili. the treatment of asthmatic and bronchisl trouble.

I sought his aid. "The has proced satieft-tory beyond expectations. I do not have the pains acros the chest, as before. I have gained in tie'h and weight. My vigor and strength are returning, and I am betq: ter in every way." THE ONLY TREATM1ENT AND CURE FOR CATARRIt A.

S. Joh nsom, 1240 oth St. thb well-known heating and ventilating contractor. after a course of treatmuent at Doctor iCo)y's oBees, ad: "For 15 was a from catarrh. af'.

fecting my head, bronchil tulbes anq stomach. "I could not digest uy food prap-'rly. I woti4( have violent attacks of belching. causedi by gas on the stomach. After eating there was a sensati.og of weight resting on my stomach.

I tried alL. known remiediesa and succeeded only In reltet for a few hours. H-aving learned aonmethtug of tor McCoy's skill in the treatment of catarrhal, bronchial and stomnach troubulea, I went to him. 'The treatma nt lhas benefited wonderfuzlly. I do not have the stomach trouble.

I am a new nman is every nay. I ama satiefied that Docter Mc't'y-s Ia the proper treatment far catarrh. I have my boy with him for treatment, and have alsot ommended it to several friends of muine who are adlicted in a similar way." McCOY SYSTEM OF 715 13th Street Northwest. Dr. J.

Cresap McCoy, Dr.eJ. Me Cowden, ConsultIng omee tol ns.sm., 1 6.6 pm.n,ei to p.sm.,daniy. smuday, o.4 p.ma OOPll OF D0er eR MMOY'S ow CATARRH WILL BE MAILED ONe TO THaISE DIRFATLY INThltirt.D IN TH1 OF CATAtRUHAL DIrmAI. antly seated his graceless person on forehead. He had but a short time to joy his triumph, and the next Instant the whale, filling Itself with air, blew such el blast through Its blowhole that the bopg was blown up into the air, andl Out to So said the v-eracIous chronieler of thq day-and I hope it was true, for little boys should not, under any c'ircurmstances, sit on the blowhole of whales.

Nor young aparrows on the nostrils of a rhinoceros. 0. Amether Spot. From the Louisville Truth. "What are you looking so doleful said Sammy to Tommy.

"Mamma's going to speak to whet he comes home, about something I did today!" "I see. Well, what will you give me to take your thrashing off your hands'?" "But that it not where I usuailly get sg thrashings." Be Get Et. From Up-to-Dat. know that feller workin' iii shaft 17 who was alwayrs kickin' far a raire?" Mick-" Yes." he kicked over a can of d'a -namnite today and got it." J.st What Be Waated. From Town Tope.

mays. he haa a wife tha just suits himn." I thought she was a wis and raised a row with him every just it. She drives him I driak.".