Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1889, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. ¢ SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 18S9-TWELVE PAGES FAMED PEKING. The Oriental City of Dirt and Disap- pointment. & JOURNEY FROM TIENTSIN TO PEKING—FINST VIEW OF THE WALLS OF THE GREAT crTy— STREET SCENES AMID RUINS AND ¥ILTH—A GIGANTIC ORIENTAL SWINDLE, From Tux Sran’s Traveling Commissioner. Prxixe, November 20, 1933, AS soon as you are safely on Chinese soil at Tientsin you begin to ask how far itis to Peking and how youcan get there. You are told 80 miles by road and a 120 by river, and there are three methods of travel open to you, cart, horseback and boat. I chose the | second, hirea a couple of ponies and a Mofoo (groom), and thankfully left the noisy, narrow and nasty streets of the native city of Tientsin behind me at 7 o'clock one bright Sunday morning. Then 40 miles of jog-trot and canter along 4 narrow path across a landscape of dry mud, and a night ata Chinese inu—a series of | small cold, bare guest-rooma surrounded by a hollow square of stalls, To bed at 8, up again at3in order that the cart which carries the baggage and bedding and food might start and Teach Peking before the gates are closed at 5 o'clock. Once up, it is e-vier to ri sit twiddling one's thumb. «na brick bed. #0 we jog cautiously forward in the dark, and b, and by a dramatic sunrise rewards and warms us. A TRIP TO PEKING is good for two moments of interest and satis- faction—two real sensations of traveler's delight. The first is at first sight of the walls of the great city, after the second dull ride of 40 miles, You enter through a gate of no pro- portious or pretentions, you ride fora Capri ofan hour among hovels and and then suddenly on climbing a bank a striking sight burate upon you. A great tower of many stories forms the corner of a mighty wall; from each of its stories a score of cannon mouths yawn; fora mile or more the wall stretches in a perfectly straight line. pierced with a thou- sand embrasures, supported by hundred but tresses. Then you halt your pony and sit and try to realize that another of the desires of your life is gratitied; that youare at last really and truly before the walls of the city that was old centuries before the wolf and the woodpecker found Romulus and Remus; in the wonderland of Marco Polo, father of travelers; on the eve of exploring the very capital and heart of the Celestial empire. This is the first of your two precious moments. When you ride on you dis- cover that the cannon-mouths are _ t and white rings painted on boards, and tl swindle—fortunately n do not know it yet— is your whole visit to Peking in a nutshell. The place is A GIGANTIC DISAPPOINTMENT. Yes, although the temptation is great to write marvels about a place one has come far to see—to play polo, so to speak, on one’s own account, the truth is that Peking is not worth | the trip. It is worth coming to study, but bot to see. The nose is the only capital of China, picturesque a place as Seoul nor a quarter as interesting as San Francisco. Moreover you cannot see nea! much of it to-day as you could five ago. One by one the show-places have bee: sense appealed to by the as It is not half ars closed to foreigners, and the Marble bridge, | the Summer palace, the Temple of Heaven—to mention omy the first that come to mind—are ow hermetically closed against the barbarian, and neither rank Bor money nor impudence can entrance. Even the ascents to the top of the wall—the only place where a foreigner can walk in comfort and decency—are now barred, and you must findabribable sentry. And if by Teason of strength or luck you do get into one | of the forbidden spots you are very likely to have a narrow escape—as I and a friend from the legation had at the great Llama temple—of bever getting out again. RUINS, The history of Peking is to be read in the walls which surround it in ruin or in preserva- tion, and if you trace them within and without | the city (I did not) they will show you where Jay the ‘“‘Nankink” of the Khitan “Tartars in | 986; how the famous “Golde Horde” of Kin | ‘Tartars laid out their capital of Chung-tu in | 1151; what Jenghiz Khan and his me¢ ols «= tthought =a great city should in| 1215; how the — immor Khublai Khan constructed Khanbalik, the city of the Khan.” a century later—Polo calls it Cambaluc; and much more interesting history down to the advent of the present Manchus in 1644. And it is the walls, in excellent preser- vation, that mark the divisions of the Peking of to-day—first, the so-called “Chinese” o Outer City, more properly the City; adjoining it the luner or City,” properly called = Northern; — in- side this the “Imperial City,” and inside | this again, like the inmost pill box i ‘ nest. the ‘Forbidden City,” the actual imperial residence itself. ‘The ethnological distinctions cf Chinese and Tartar are practically effaced; the only distinction for the flying visitor is that the shops are in the Chinese city, most of | the temples, public buildings and “sights,” to- | gether with all the foreign residences, are in | the Tartar city, and that the wall of the latter | is much the larger and more massive structure, | ‘The ground plan of Peking is supposed to rep- resent a human body, the palace being the | heart, but it is better described as being laid out on the chess-board plan of American cities | west of Chicago. PEKING STREETS AND HOUSES, There are two great streets which intersect atacentral point, and from all parts of these other streets, lanes and alleya run in straight | lines. Every corner in Peking seems to be a right angle; there are no winding thorough- fares. The houses are all very low with fat roofs, and did not see a sin- gle “good-looking” Chinese dwelling-house | in the whole city. But it is the streets of Peking that strike the observer first und fade fast from his recollection. Whether wide or narrow, dark alley or main artery, they are entirely unpaved—the native alluvial soil and the native sewage form every Pekingese path- way. From this state of things spring several curious consequences. The roads are so uneven, the holes in them so numerous and deep, the ridges so high and steep. that no vehicle with springs can navigate half a mile. The only con- veyance, therefore, is the famous Peking cart, an enormously strong and heavy square two- wheeled, covered vehicle, drawn by a mule, the nger squatting tailor-fashion inside and ane sitting on the shaft. If you go out to dinner, or your wife goes to church, this is ractically your ouly vehicle, as there are very jew chairs in Peking. But to be rolled about and jolted in one of these is simple torture, and if you do not hold on close to the hand-raila inside you run no little risk of having your brains edout. After a good shower of rain in Peking you cannot set foot out of doors; the mud is often three feet deep and the center of the street sometimes acouple of feet higher than the sides. but, on the other hand, if no Fain comes there is the dust, and a Peking dust- storm, once experienced, is a dreadful memory forever. After a drought the mud is ankle deep; every night at sunset it is watered with the liquid ‘sewage of the city, and so it has come to be composed of dried pulverized earth and dried pulverized filth in about equal pro- [iy And when the storm comes you are linded and choked by it; it penetrates your clothing to the skin; windows and doors’ and curtains and covers do not stop it for an stant; people say it even fights its way into air- tight boxes. So, whether the barometer indi- cates “rain” of “fair,” you are equally badly LEGATION strerT. The foreign legations in Peking are ina street wear the chief gate of the Tartar city, and known among the foreigners as “Legation street.” It is halfa mile long, either mud or dust, as level as a es sea, with here a: there its monotony of blank wails or dirty na- tive houses broken by a strong gateway with a couple of stone lions in front. These are the legations. and inside the gate you find pleasant dens and generally spacious and comfortable freign bouses,sometimes built ad hocand some- times converted to their present use from Chi- Bese temples, So long as you are the stranger within the gates, you are extremely well off, but as soon asthe porter shuts them behind you—well, the residents in Peking say it isa Sania yee, but for my part I can only be- lie’ ir veracity at the expeuse of their taste. I would rather live iu Seven Dials or Points. When Lapent ery “This is Legation street,” you laug! so dirty, so le, with ite horrible crowd of dogs and igs and fithy children. But when you have fivea in it for a few days you langh no more. You count the hours till you can get away. PEKING SIGHTS. You will be wishing, however, to hear some- thing of the “sights” of Peking. If 1am still to be truthful I must deciare frankly there are almost none. Much the finest building that I bave seen, indeed the ouly oue not in positive dirt and decay, is the entrance pavilion in the ———s the British legation. That is a mas- wooden roof, richly carved i gorgeously colored, stpperten upon many columns corres- Pent ade Kehrberg, of the Euscan legation with M 5 e al and he said, “By the way, wouldn't yen ie to see the imperial Chinese war office?” “Very much indeed,” I replied enthusiastically, sup- posing it to be something splendid. So we e » than to | force an | 1 | reward of th ! turned into a wretched by-street and steered our ponies round the mud-holes and the heaps | of garbage till we reached it—a broken-down, Weather-stained, rotting structure, with a Waving field of weeds on the roof, and @ guard lounging at the door one de gree more dirty and dilapidated than the place itself. Andall the other offices of state—the board of rites, the board of punishments, the astronomical board, and the rest—are fac similes of the board of war. Professor Douglas says, I see, in the Encyclopedia Britannica that the halls of the palace “for the magnificence of their proportions and barbaric splendor are probably | not to be surpassed anywhere.” I do not know | whatis his authority for this statement, as no | foreigner has ever had an opportunity of ex- | amining them, but nothing else in Peking sug- | gests any magnificence and splendor. | Yellow-roofed buildings of the palace are closely walled in and no foreign foot ever passes the threshold of the “Forbidden City,” but I | have looked at them through my glass from the top of the highest building in the neighbor- hood, and they appear commonplace enough. And a few weeks ago,when the emperor quitted the palace in great pomp,and after him came the | solemn procession of the records, an ex- perienced eye-witness says of the latter, “like everyth i it’ was disappointing, and adds, “It is safe to | eror’s own retinue, would reveal a similar state of Temple of Heaven, with its semi- | circular marble altar and bright biue dome, as | ou look down upon it from’ the wall, seems to | be ta good preservation. and a really impres- | | sive and b structure, but nota single conjectur ! could it | affairs.” gests the “gorgeous East” in the remotest de- gree. FROM THE WALLA Of interesting places, however, there are cer- tainly a few in Peking. First among these I | rank the wall itself. It is built of large bricks, | filled in with sand, andis fifty feet high, sixty | feet wide at the base and forty feetat the top. Peki seen from the wall, is a stretch of flat | roofs, more than half hidden in foliage, from | which here and there a tower ora pagoda or high | roofed temple projects. Nota trace of the ac- | tual dirt and discomfort and squalor is visible, | | the air is fr he smells are absent and the | Celestial c ' along | ator: | Father Verbiest, who made an | in 1668. Below the well in a shad: | the much older ones wh less accurate agtronomic beautifal for their gra and link- | ing one’s imagination clos is thie romantic | past, for this great globe and sextant and ar- millary zodiacal sphere were constricted in 1279 Ly the astronomer of Khublai Khan. Either | | the climate or their own intrinsic excelie has preserved them so well that every lin Vit of tracery is as perfect to our eyes as it was to those of the great khan himself. | COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS, | Then there is the examination hall. The gov- | ernment of China is a vast system of competi- | tive examination tempered by bribery, and | | this Aco Cl’ang is its heart, It is a mi hy apital is at its best. A walk of a mile the top brings von to the famous Observ- | 'Y, and the marvelous bronzes of the i garden are ich Marco Polo saw, | 2 but even more | nd del iature | city, with one wide artery down the middle, hundreds of parallel streets running from this on both sides, each street mathematically subdi- | | vided into houses,a big semblance of pala at one end of the main street, and little | elevated watch-towers here and there. But | jthe paiace is merely the examiners’ ball, the streets are three feet wide and on jone side of them is a blank wall, the | towers are for the “proctors” to spy upon erib- | | bing, and the houses are perfectly’ piain brick | cells measuring 38 inches by 50. In the en- | closure there are no fewer than fourteen thoa- | Sand of these. After emerging successfully from a competitive examination in the cupital of his own province, the Chinese aspirant comes | to Peking to compete for the second degree, | He is put into one of these cells, two boards are given him for a seat and a table, and there he | remains day and night for fourteen days, Every | cell is full, an army of cooks and coolies waits | pon the scholars, and anyone caught cribbing or communicating with his neighbor is visited with the severest punishment. CONFINED FOR A FORTNIGHT. ‘The condition of the place when these 14,000 would-be literati are thus cooped up for a fort- | night, with Chinese ideas of sanitation, may be imagined, and it is not surprising to learn that die. But what joy for the successful one are received in procession at. th of their tive town, and ever. gai | body hastens to congratulate their parents j upon having gi such a son to the world. By and by there is another examina- tion. in which the already twice successful | | compete against each other, the fourteen thousand again flock to Peking, and the Winners are honored by the Son of Heaven himself and their names inscribed forever upon marble tablets, Better still, they are provided with government posts, and this is the | ir efforts, But what, yon will ask, is the subject-matter of their éxamination? Simply and solely the letter-perfect knowledge of tl works of Confucius, the history of a, and the art of composition and char- acter-forming as practised by the great masters | ofold, In the works of the masters, argue the Chinese, is all wisdom; he who knows these | works best is therefore the wisest mua whatever needs doing, the wisest man can | do it best. So the successful literati | are sent all over the country to be) magistrates and generals and cominanders of ships and engineers and everything else hap- hazard, without the slightest’ acquaintanadjof | kind with their subject, densely and mar- | ‘ously ignorant and impenetrably conceited. | The Marquis Tseng is almost the only one of the great Chinamen of to-day who has not en tered public life by this triple portal to invinci- ble incompetence. THE SHRINE OF THE MASTER himself is really an impressive spot. The great hall and its columns are of bare wood, the floor is of plain stone, and no adornment mars the supreme solemnity of the place. In the middle, upon a square altar, stands a small | | tablet of red lacquer, upon which is written | | in Chinese and Manchu, “The tablet of the soul of the most holy ancestral teacher, | Confucius.” Up the marble terrace to this hall the emperor comes to worship twice u year. and | the Chinese do really hold this place in some | veneration, for when I offered its miserable | n five dollars to let me photograph it | he repulsed the offer with much scorn. Yet | five dollars would have been a fortupe to him. Above all other characteristics, however, of | Peking one thing stands out in horrible promi- | nence, and I have put this off to the last. Not to | mention it would be to wilfully omit the most | striking color of the picture. “I mean its filth. | | It is the most horribly and indescribably filth | place thatcan be imagined. Indeed imagination | must fall far short of the fact. Some of the daily sights of the pedestrian in Peking could | not hardly be more than hinted at by one man | to another in the smoking-room. There is no sewer or cesspool, public or private, but tle | street; the dog, the pig and the fowl are the | scavengers; every now and then you pass a man who goes along jossing the most loathesome of the retuse into an open-work basket on his back; the smells are simply awful; the city is one colossal and uncleansed cloaca, As 1 have said above, the first of the two moments of delight vouchsafed to every visitor to the Ce- lestial capital is at his first sight of it. The second—though I must not omit to thank my too kind host for one of the pleasantest and most instructive fortnights of my life—is when he turns his back, hoping it may be forever, upon “the body and soul-stinking town” (the words are Coleridge's) of Peking. Henay Noumay. peti fsa eto oo lena Not Altogether Lost. From the Chicago Tribune. Jenkinson Wipedunks would not have ex- changed situations with the President of the United States, the prince of Wales or the drum major of a brass band. Felisty McGinnis hd answered “Yes” in a voice as soft and gentle as the sigh of music in @ dreamless sleep or the murmuring wail of a caressing breeze from Lethean waters sooth- ingly fanning the whiskers of Father Time. “Felisty,” he exclaimed rapturously, as his left hand and arm disappeared from sight with rapid yet sneaking motion toward the back of the sofa on which they sat, and the fingers of his right hand appeared to be feel for something in his vest pocket, “you have made me the happiest man in the world.” The timid, upturned glance of her liquid dark eyes and the warm blush that overspread the happy face of the ay = replied more juently than words could have done. nd you will forgive my presumption, dar- ling, is Aone in tee popes so your auswer ve ventured to prov: self with— with—a—with—e—” me Jenkinson paused in some apparent excite- ment, and his finger and thumb nervously ex- plored his vest pocket without seeming to find anything. “I—I must have lost it,” he gasped. “Felisty, it was @ ring! Hal Perhaps it is in some other Kk P Rising to his fegt he thrast a trembling hand into his trousers — There was a bole in that pocket, “Jenkinson,” said Flisty, as she noted with concern his ghastly face, on which the ight of a perate resolve was breaking, don’ ve over it. Itwill turnup, You are excited. Is there anything I can do to—” Yes’ exclaimed Jenkinson in ahollow voice. “Felisty, I think I know where a If would do me a favor I shall never forget it ou Until the lest day of my life. For the love of Heaven go and Fespetohoret” ses and leave me we for a few momenta,’ other place or thing have I seen here that sug- | b. | some 50 miles by road east of Prescott | soon overrake them, Written for Taz Eventne Star. WILD RIDES IN THE WEST. With the Apache Cattle Thieves and Apache Trailers. A RAID ON THE VERDE VALLEY, ARIZONA—A MOUNTAIN CLIMB—THE GAME IN SIGHT. SERTING ALLIES—A CHARGE OF CAVALRY— FLIGHT OF APACHES AND MIDNIGHT PURSUIT. {Copyright 1889.) General Crook was completing in 1874 the task of subjuguting a hitherto intractable tribe, and no man €ver commanded in Arizona who better knew the Apaches, treated them better when they would behave or thrashed them bet- ter when they wouldn't, All his predecessors had found their methods too slow for 80 nimble | anenemy. Precipitous mountains, jagged and | impassable canyons and scorching deserts all | aided the Indians and hampered the troops. | Finally the government selected Crook, despite the fact that he was then only a lieutenant-col- onel, and gave him command of that dismal department on his brevet rank of general, sent | him a regiment of cavalry to replace one that | had some years of unlucky experiences in the | territory, and the general himself took the | field and practicaily taught the new troopers how to tackle mountain Indians. He learned the trick years before the war of the robellion. Tribe after tribe and band after and did he whip into submission, and finally in ‘74 they were nearly all gathered into great | reservations, and there remained out in the mountains of northeastern Arizona only a few | scattered parties, prominent among them 1} ing the adherents of two buil-headed chic fs known ai iminzin and Exkeltetsee, These | “hostiles” were nearly all of the Tonto aud Sierra Blanca tribes, TRAILING RENEGADES, All the spring and summer of '74 the general had scouting parties of cavalry, eacs with its complement of Indian allies for trailers and its little t hunting through the | mount or trants, and the orders were, wh found them, to fight it out then. and there, The two northeasternmost stati of the troops were at that time Camp Verd and Camp Apache—down among the foothills of the Mogollon range of mouitains—and it was | | from these points that the detachments | forth on their raids, They also ser i guards for the great Ver d San Carlos | reservations, whi thousands of the once | fierce and untamable Apaches were now living apparent peace and contentment. The olde rs remained in rison with the infautr re kept at the tircies work, I was then first lieutenant of troop of the fifth cavalry and stationed Verde, the A t off and the “youngsters’ at We had had some lively fights with aches along the Black Mesa and down in onto basin in May and June, and then me a summer's rest, during which we hardly a hada scout. Early in the autumn, however, it was demonstrated that the renegades, rein- | forced by some young men from the reserva- tions, were again showing in the mountains to the southeast of us, and once more the cavalry were called on to find and fight them, CATTLE THIEVES, Thad been making a curvey of the military ion at Camp Verde and was busy with ps one warm October afternoon when | herders came riding in to the post and d to the commanding officer that a war da down from the country northeast of us two days before and had rau off a lot of their cattle, They had trailed them. supposing at first the | de cattle had merely stamp nd strayed, but | Tonto moccasin prints soon told the story and | they came back to give the alarm and beg that | their beef might be recaptured. The maraud- ers had a big start, of course, but could not go very fast. They had taken a course indicating that they were making for the neighborhood e, over toward the Colorado Chi- quito, and in half an hour T was in the saddle and galioping up the Verde valley to the In- dian reservation twenty miles away. My orders were to find my comrade, Lieut. Schuyler, who was there in Command, get fifteen or twenty | Indian scouts and return to the post as soon as possible, Meantime Col. Mason and Li caton would organize a party to be re start at daybreak on the morrow, GETTING READY. | Uniuckily, the scouts I wanted were gone— and instead of the Apache-Mohaves, who had been my trailers earlier in the season—and | good ones too—Schuyler had nothing to offer but some ba ag ears whom { did not know at all and whom he could not especially recom- mend. Even they were out hunting some- | where, but he could have them sent for, armed and equipped and hurried down to the gar- rison that evening. We turned about, there- fore, my horse and I, and trotted back to the post, arriving there soon after sunset with appetites for supper, may be sure, after | | our 40-mile jaunt. Meantime 20 men from “A” and “K” troops had been selected, and with Lieut. Eaton for second in command, old Harry Hawes for packmaster, and the Apache- Yumas for scouts and trailers, I was ordered to start at dawn and recapture the cattle and “larrup” the cattle thieves. Late that night while Eaton and I were writing our home let- | ters (sometimes our officers and men never wrote again after these affairs) we heard a clatter of hoofs coming up the hill behind our adobe quarters, and the Apache-Yumas arrived. They were given something to eat anda place to camp for the night, and then we, too, turned in for a snooze, AN EARLY START. At 3:30 inthe morning we were up again, dressed in our rough and serviceable mountain | rig, and at 5—just as the trumpets were sound. | ing first call for reveille, we filed out from the | corrals; forded the Verde river and rode swiftly | away northeastward. My purpose was to go as | far as Arnold's ranch; bivouac there until dusk; | then begin the ascent of the mountains when the sharpest eyed lookouts of the Indians could not see us. Of course all the reservations knew | by this time that a party was going out, and | before nightfall Eaton ‘and I were convinced that onr scouts were most reluctant to go with | us. Winding up the valley of Beaver creek in the early morning we had reached the ranch at 8o’clock and unsaddledin the grove at the edge of the stream. Here we hid all day long, while Eaton and I had a talk with Wales Arnold, the owner, about the trail over the mountains. There wasafair road, but a very roundabout one, leaving the valley some miles to the north und making a wide circuit, sweep- ing around east of us to Stoneman’s lake some 40 miles away. It was my plan to make enight marches and take the short cut over the range, feeling contident that we could strike the trail of the captured cattle before we reached the lake, and that once across the range we could Couriers from Wingate had occasionally taken this short cut, said Mr. Arnold, and though our Apache-Yumas shook their heads and declared they never heard of it, we had with us a trooper who had ridden across within the last three months and who thought he could foliow it by night as well as by day. UP THE MOUNTAINS. Just at dusk we saddled, mounted, and witha “good luck to you” from Arnold and his ranch people, away we went, There was no moon, and, though a crisp starlit night, it was very dark when we begun our climb up the rocky sides of the first canyon and the ascent of the range, Riding in Arizona, for mountain scout- ing purposes, differed from any riding I had ever done before or have done ince, in that— (pardon the Hibernianism)—it was mostly walking. The mountains are so precipitous that one bas to dismount and lead or follow his horse. The whole command moves in single file with the Apache scouts, generally in front; then the commanding officers, then the troop- ers, and finally the pack train. This march of ours the night of October 28 was no exception tothe rule. Hour after hour we Gy eed slid, tugged, and climbed over loose, flinty rocks and jagged stones, up, up, up, twisting, turn- ing, panting, and towing our unlucky steeds by the bridle rein, and at last, about 10 o'clock, found ourselves on the crest of the wester- most spur of the range, and one after another the men silently clambered to the point; the pack mules followed the tinkling bell of their lead horse, and finally the whole command was cd long & little mesa under the cloudless and starry heavens—all but the scouts. Long before they had begun to murmur and protest. ‘Soldiers KO too fast!”—a preposterous statement, as we could hardly make two miles an hour. One after another they had slipped back to the rear of the column and when, presently, they came wearily dragging up the cliff and silently ‘rouped themselves at the brink, it was noticed t their “sergeant” was not there to answer questions, He had “‘gone home,” one of them explained. Two others were “heap sick” and could go no further. More than ever it was evident that for some reason they were mor- tally afraid to go with this detachment. Never before had I encountered any shirks or cowards am our scouts when we knew the hostile A were all around us, What then could — for the utter “weakening” of these fel- wi NIGHT SIGNALS. An hour later a partial reason was manifest. Turning a high, rocky spur we came upona ] there per! 20 mailes aay ot-the conieen efige of te Tetian @ rocky wall, that hid it from all eyes in valley, a | looked upon t country and the pine covered crests of the Black Mesa beyond. Later still that night, slipping and sliding down the jagged sides of a dark canyon, Indians again hopelessly behind, we reached a sheltered spot where there was water and grass for our stock, and here we rolled ourselves in our blankets and slept till dawn and then had a good look about us. Nine of our “scouts” had managed to crawl in, the rest were gone. Here we break- fasted, inspected our horses’ feet, and found that, although every horse and mule had been carefully attended to by the blacksmiths and paniers before we started, four had cast shoes in the scramble np and down the rocks and twenty or more had loosened theirs. The next night, crossing in its course three deep and rock-ribbed canyons, we struggled along. Three times the Indians were ordered up to the front, but each time they managed to slip back in the darkness, “Tonto” signs had been discovered soon before sunset. Fresh sig- nal fires blazed against the northern sky and these poor devils were evidently convinced that we were tramping straight into the destruction, Tsay ‘trampimg” advisedly, be- cause not until late at night did we mount at all, It was all climb or scramble, but about 10 o'clock Sergeant Taylor and Trooper Frank Bitfar, who were formost “feeling the way” halted, and when I joined them, pointed to what appeared to be a broad dark bateh against the low eastern sky and said, ‘There are the woods, sir; we must be nearing the road midnight we found the trail of the cattle; had » star-decked surface of Stone- man’s lake; had lost our scouts entirely and half the shoes in the command. FROM WARM TO c¢ When we left Verde our comrades were wear- | ing light summer clothing all day long, and no fires were mm sight except for cooking purposes. Here we had climbed so high that the water roze solid in our canteens, At 8:30 in the ing, even of our hapless scouts, came limping into the bivonac, A ap sick,” y able to eat like hounds, We pointed ont the cattle tr told them they could rest and sleep until 4 inthe afternoon, then we would | push ahead thro: their eastern verse the woods until we reached nd wait there until dark ross the open mesa, 3 keep ap, well and. good; it couldn't, they might go to the devil, were only in’ the way anyhow, Through a thick and beautiful growth of pine tripped briskly along late | that afternoon, noting silently the occasional | hoof prints and cattle signs; reached @ high transverse ridge at sunset: waited a while for our valuable allies. and finding that one of them had reuily cut his foot on a piece of flint, vielded to his importunities Pat) tumbled him up onaspare mule. He thought he was going back home, but found to his disgust he had to come ulong. and late that night as we were getting down toward Snow lake, he fell into a doze, his mule started at something by the trail side, and tumbled him off on his head, cutting ash and otherwise delaying proceedings half an hour or so while Eaton patched him up The next day, October 31, we were close at the heels of our’ quarry and still keeping under cover, We wanted not only to get the cattle but to include the Apaches, THE FIKST SIGHT. Late that afternoon, just as the sun began to throw long shadows across the hollows in the Mesa we peered over the crest of a low range and there, # miles in front and just entering a defile known as Tarvis’ pass, we caught sight of our missing steers, Two or three men and the Indinn scouts were left with Harry Hawes to look after the pack train; the rest of us reset our saddles, took an extra loop on the cinchas, looked to the breech locks of our carbines and the chambers of the revolvers (officers and men went armed, dressed and equipped alike in Arizona, We had no more use for swords tha we had for shoulder knots). Then “mount was the word and, moving slowly and cautiously at first we rode to the crest, formed line, and then—there was yo help tor it since the coun- try was an open undulating surface destitute of shelter for over 2 miles, struck into a rapid trot, next. us we reectied the level below, without a word of command. bugle call, or any of the stirring accompaniments of other warfare, the riders simply conforming to the gait of their leader, away we went at the galiop, SURROUNDING THE CATTLE, Ours were the short coupled, stocky Cali- fornia horses, not very mountain climbing; it seemed to me an uncon- scionable time before we were half across the pas and then the men began to open outa ittle so as to surround the cattle as we ne: them and at the same time be less “bunch in case the Apaches were Inrking in ambuscade in the rocks beyond. Eagerly as 1 looked, not a hostile Indian could I see. nor, indeed, did I expect to see until we hustied them out of their holes, Alarmed by the thunder of advancing hoofs and the irrepressible cheering of some of the men the cattle were beginning to trot wildly about with tails and heads alike in air, but ail | sight of their captors was denied us. As we rode around the herd, some north, some south of and some, in their eagerness, through them, we closed in a trifle, confidently expecting to be greeted by shots from the rocky entrance to the pass,” Even at the gallop quick eyes could detect the print of Tonton moccasins in the soft earth of the roadway, but not a shot nor a sound was there. Warned by the signal fires, they had kept sharp lookout to the crest, and so soon as our coming wax detected thes had scattered for the nearest height, shrewdly arguing that so long as we had got the cattle we could afford to let the captors go, THE INDIANS, But that wasn't Gen, Crook’s idea of dealing with these renegades at all. As soon as it was dusk, leaving four men and the used-up Indian to drive the herd back by slow and easy stages to the valley, we pushed ahead that n through Jarvis’ pass, forcing our few Apache- Yumas to keep alongside, and at 1 in the morn- ing we found ourselves in the heart of the “Sunset Pasa,” only 18 miles from the Colorado Chiquito. Here in the wild haunts of the mountains was the likeliest place for the renc- gades to rest, believing themselves safe from further pursuit, and here we hid in a deep can- | yon until dawn; and here again our scouts pro- tested. “No Tonto! No Tonto! No Injun,” until we showed them the prints of the moc- casins under their very noses—and here on Sunday, the Ist of November, climbing the high mountain to the south, we ight the seamps and carried out our orders, Qur little squad of allies turned tail and ran at the very first fire and, sure enough, their views were justified; the hostiles were many and the fight was lively for awhile. I wrote no letters for many a week thereafter, nor fired another shot from the right shoulder from that day to this, but there was no more cattle thieving in the upper Verde, Cuanias K U.S. AL A Poker Story. From the Minneapolis Tribune. “I can tell you a poker story that did not come out during the boodle investigation, although it had something to do with boodle,” said a member of the third house toa reporter yes- terday. “It is a true story and took place be- fore the senatorial caucus,” went on the speaker. ‘There was one member of the house whom, it was thought, could be influenced if properly approached. He couid not be bought, but he had not declared himself, and it was said that whichever side could make the most favorable impression would catch his vote. So acom- mittee of three was appointed by one set of the managers to devise ways aud means of making a favorable impression, ome up to room No. — to-night,’ one of said to the member, ‘and we'll crack he member declared himself in with the small bottle and was on hand promptly. The committee of three was on band and a ‘small bottle’ was cracked in short order, Then it was proposed that the party indulge in a little game of poker, The member said he didu’t under- stand the game. The committee of three as- sured him that they could easily explain the points so that he could play all right, It was a simple game, something like cassino, and it was usual to put up a dollar or so on the results of the hands, just to make it interesting. The member sat into the game. He was honest in his statement that he did, not know the points, He didn’t know @ jack-pot from a jack-knife, and on the first hand he discarded one of three ten-spots, in the hope of drawing the ten of monds, which he thought counted as the big cassino. He would have been easy game, but there was no intention of fleecing him. He was allowed to come in on every hand before a bet was made. If he held two trays and was rash enough to bet blue chips, others laid down and he raked in the ante. His chips accumulated, and he professed to be in love with the 1e. game The crisis came on what proved to be the last hand. The member held three fives and was willing ast but very useful for | ‘ed | ral HOME MATTERS. SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS TO PRACTICAL HOUSEKEEPERS — TESTED RECIPES FOR PLAIN AND DAINTY DISHES FOR THE DINING-ROOM AND PANTRY, Neven Brory to Reap, write or sew for seve- ral minutes after coming darkness to 6 bright light, eal — For a Pain ry THe Curst that threatens to be preumonia, make a plaster of soft soap and ot Indian meal mush. Tune 1s a Great Sywratay between the gums and the throat, and decayed teeth, if not looked after, may make themselves felt lower down, To Arrest Hiocovan, a physician directs that both ears be closed with the fingers with pApiqrae while @ few swa’lows of liquid are To Protect Carprex's Ciorurss from fire, add an ounce @f alum to the last water used in wringing the clothes, This renders them non- inflammable, Tirces or Cotrox Barrixa dipped in hot water, and kept applied to sores and new cuts, | bruises and sprains, is the treatment adopted in Many hospitals, Esas Ang as Dickstreie Raw as cooked, and one easily comes to like the taste of a fresh raw egg beaten toa foam and mixed with a little milk or milk and sugar. A Smvpce Remepy ror Nevrarata is to apply grated horse-radish, prepared the same as for | table use, to the temple when the face or head | is affected or to the wrist when the pain is in the arm or shoulder, Biscvirs or ALL Sorts, even when | days old, may be made nearly as good as fresh by wetting the tops and setting ina hot oven | for about tive minutes. A convenient way of having warm biscuit for breaktast. Prsearrie Tant.—One cupful of sugar, two cupfuls of grated pineapple, balf a cup of melted butter, five yelks of eggs, beaten; mix together, then stir into this one small cupful of cream and the white of the eggs. beaten to a stilt froth, Bake in pie-plates lined with paste. | Paste ror Roaches.—Make a flour paste into which has been stirred, while hot, phosphorus, | in the proportions of a dime’s worth of the phosphorus to a half-pint of paste; when nearly cold add a quarter as much grease, Put on pieces of board where the roaches are, They | will die while eating the paste, Arrer Tue Finst Twenty-Four Hours an egg | steadily deteriorates, Physicians say, “Never give to an invalid an egg that is more than two | ro three days old.” There are methods in use for | excluding air by sealing up the pores of the | shell, but none of them are without risk. oN TREATMENT FoR Maxania is well ng; Cuta lemon, rind and all, into | three slic Place these in an earthen stew- pan and add three cupfuls of water, boil down to onecupful, then strain with pressure through | linen, and set aside over night. Drink the en- tire quantity before breakfast, and make it fresh every day. Bueap axp Burrer Pepprxc.—A convenient | variation of the ordinary bread pudding. | Spread thin slices of bread with butter and ) pour over them a simple custard, viz., four | eggs to one quart of milk, four tablespoons | Sugar, a pinch of salt. Keep pressed down till the custard is absorbed, Bake slowly till firm and brown, Eat with or without sauce. Oyster Crogvertes.—Scald and chop fine the hard part of the oysters, leaving the other part and liquor for soup; add an equal weight of mashed potatoes; to one pound of this add alump of butter the size of an egg, a tea- spoontul of salt, half teaspoonful of pepper and a quarter of a teacnp of cream. Make in small cakes, dip in egg, and then in bread crumbs, and fry like doughnuts. Tne Lonpon Lancer assures its readers that felons will yield to the following treatment: As soon as the pulsation which indicates disease is felt, put directly over the spot a fiy-blister about the size of your thumb nail, and let it re- main for about six hours, at the expiration of | which time, directly under the surface of the | blister may be seen the felon, which can b> | easily taken out with a needle or a knife. Porato Purr.—Take two cupfuls of cold mashed potato, and stir into two tablespoon- fuls of melted butter, beating to a white cream before adding anything else. Then put with this two eggs, whippe | ful of cream or muk, salting to taste. Beat all Well, pour into a deep dish and bake in « quick oven until it is nicely browned. If properly mixed it will come out of the oven light, putty and nice, Tur Next Tore You Tarek you have done with a lemon dip it in salt and rub your copper kettle or stewpan with it. You will be surprised to find what a brilliant surface you will obtain if you rub the article instantly with a dry, soft cloth, Youcan polish all brass work the same means, every stain disappearing as if by magic. A mouldy lemon put into a dirty | saucepan half full of water and boiled for halt an hour cleanses the utensil amazingly and re- | Moves any odor, such as fish or onions. Maxy Disrase Germs Enter throughanopen | mouth, The mouth was not made for breath- \ ing, but for eating and speaking. The nose was made for breathing, and air passing through the long. moist, nasal passage is purified, and leaves behind dust, disease germs and various impurities, while the ar is warmed and tem Pres! for the lungs. But when the mouth is left open dust, dirt and disease rush down into | the lungs, and fastening there develop and de- stroy the whole system, Notuixe 1s More Uservr in sickness than a mall flannel bag filled with salt. For tooth- ache, colic, or any disease requiring warm ap- plications, it is invaluable, as it retains its heat a long time; and it is greatly to be preferred to hot, wet emolie uncomfortable. ‘The bag ard all can be put on atin pan and warmed in the oven; but it is the salt out into a pan to heat. After it is hot it can be nee back with a large spoon and the hole sewed up in a moment. Iysxcts 1N THE Ean.—Writers say when a bug gets into the ear do not be frightened, but drown him with oil or warm water. There is no philosopher, remarks Dr. J. Herbert Clai- borne, jr., in the Medical Classics, who could sit unmoved with a bug or fly stamping a tattoo upon hisear drum. Yes, be frightened, for it will facilitate your movements. Sweet oil is per- haps the best thing to keep him moving—that is the first desideratum, The oil, by its thick consistence, will so entangle and bedraggle its legs and wings that the intolerable noise will be stopped. If oil be not at hand, use any liquid that is not poisonous or corrosive, Water will probably be within the reach of every one. This is also more liable to float him out. too. than either sweet oil or glycerine. It has been suggested to blow tobacco smoke into the er to stupefy the insect. We cannot indorse this advice; tobacco smoke blown into the ear of a child has been known to cause alarming symp- toms. When the movements of the intruder have been arrested, syringe the ear gently with warm water. All manner of insects and bugs have been found in the ear, but you can never tellina given case who the rude caller is knocking at the door of your brain till you have him out, ATTORNEYS XO) AMBLER SMITH, Cov: RAT LAW and Patent Attorney, 1005 1010 F stn. w. Practices before all courts in the District, Meryiand and Virginia. £20- CHORE MRO, PCNA a Thaw, ~ 5 mn, D.C. esidence, izie Hat a. we" des SPECIALTIES. Beemer 15 YEARS A SPECIALTY IN curing bervous and mental ovarian ud uterine trou! ysis, tumors, sciatica, teria, Sg new eee el ta - removed. runes cured. electricity thro Clothing. Dr. L. 8. NICHOLSON, God 12th et uw, poe ae DENTISTRY. REE DENTAL INFIRMARY—TEETH FILLED Fea artificial teeth, mi mat ment of Colum! exce} from October f to June 30. yR. STARR PARSON! S8T., COR Dieter specu eeth extracted pr ae PRINTERS. ae ars YROMPELY an AGceEATELY FERVTIS® several | preserving eggs fresh, on the principle of | d very light, and a teacnp- , ts, which soon get cold and | better to rip a small hole in the bag and empty | LADIES’ GOODS. ITE, LADIES New ntyie AUCTION SALES. uid THIS EVENING. WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO. Auctionsers, LIAN WORKS OF ART TAILOR AND RABI +, Trimming end Gow * ce own material ree mad: Vrices reasonal ie Wlute’s Glove-fhcting, f a, commer 10th etrect Linings Tiese Linings ar copy ani Pean. SENENING AT HALE d. Gayarantoed to At. GHO. WHILE, 1110 Fst ~TSLVEN 0" TO-MORROW EVEN- | mhl ING, MARCH SIXTEENTH, at same hour, will close RT NEEDLEWORK. - out the balance with: Ut reserve, The collection oom “For the Tab id Room Decorations, peioce pany Lyte or ee the attention of buyers. Exclusive and! Awortment of Figured. ILLIAMS & CO. Acts _ —— DOWLING, Auctioneer. & oo, laine, PeEtOoUn Wane MRS. M. 3. HUNT, 1200 Ft nw wl MES. Ch OF AN _mhi2- » LADY, FORMERLY ARKYTNG ON an EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION Anuaking in New Lork, would hike thepatrenee Garhinete ladies ‘Modergse peveee ced Content or Cotting and bashng a specaity, 7 ¢ Be ais Die TURKISH CARPETS, RUGS AND KANGINGS, For ik vexma WW mn VENI Embracing both Modern and Antique, all sizes, being ‘| recent importation, aud is pronounced ONE OF THE CHOICEST COLLECTIONS EVER | Has just re Fosch luivriation ih FARCE SENT To THIS CITY, GILT PSs, SIDE COMBS, In Silver, wpe Tortoise puell, EMBRACING FIFTY LABGE CARPETS. NEW DESIGNS IN SithLL AND AMBER Prvs. To be sold at publicauction, absolutely without re | yy Fis Te Rig! BENCH BAIR GOODE serve, at my suction rooms, 11thand Penna. avenue, | "AIK DRESSE: ee, ON WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AND FRIDAY, M &. M J PRANDT, wat Mrs by Freach lnpy D. Doh Ca SHAMPOOING. Loxees 48D Pads sT¥Les RechivEen n | MARCH 20, 21, AND 22, 1889, AT 11 A MAND srRr D SUMMER S > 3PM. Ladies Riding Habita, Traveling Costumes, Walking Gowus, Ulsters, Jacketa, Driviug Coats, &e On Exhibition MONDAY and TUESDAY, MARCH 18 All laches” ‘kis under the supervision of Mr. Jua, parent Pilewiug, late with Creed, of London ald Paris, Satiastaction guarautent. ‘ OWEN, _m14-5t THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, unardast tion, | (VHANCERY SALE OF VALUABL JMPROVED | _mb4-3m Cor. New York ave. and 10th et. | UREAL ESTATE ON MASSACHUSETIS AVE, | WHE FEDORA DKESS SHIELDS ARE PE | ~BEIWEES D SEVENTH SARELIS | oced by Messrs, WOOL ARO & Lanta | i | axthe best im their stock They have noequal. Foe dou and |< SSerywhere ee ae re aud other, beg No. | ; Liass. equity docket Zo will, on TUBSDA\, Kausreurs D. HTPLDS, PRES TY SIGE Day OF MALCH, AD. 1Sko, ot ABSOLUTELY TH | FIVE O'CLOCK P. M., sell at puble auction in ust Aub oer marmease Meughty four teen Be Kieinert’s FUATHER-WEIGHT cwrashable.) { je muting twenty-three feet on and twenty-three feet on K auxton, D.C, improved by & KLYINERT'S SEAMLESS STOCKINETT. KLEINERT'S SPAMLPSS PURE RUBBER AND VARIOUS CTHER DKISS RETELDS, RANTED. vk TRADE MARK e every paar, EWARE OF IMITATE balance in one . taede art ing at purchasers | cost, If the term of eale arene complied with withia | SL AL-SKIN GADMENTS KEDYED, AL ten days the property may be sold after five da: red wed. Fur Regatred. eee b NAINGHAM, fed Tat'n, wand MALOUOLM BE Dt pom, ‘Trost £0. Jed a street Bortiw ND DRY CLEA | _DUNCANSON BROS, Auctioncers. ah 1d-d gg | WALTER BOWILLIAMS & CO, Auctioneer, LE LEY deweryys TRU ANALOSTAN ISLAND, ON FISCHER'S DEY CLF | | By virtue ofa derd of trust trom the bein of Will- SUMEST AAD Dike Wold | fam A. Bradiey, deceased, revered. amome the taud and Gente? Garments et na recorda of the District of Colanitin, {will offer WL being ripped. Ladies} venta Dy | gor eueatenctite eRe AMAED sorrmenay, | 8 feats, teteare ean exe : for sale at auction, om the on s uederate.” Gouda called for sud deliver * | THE ELEVENTH DAY APRIL, anny, at | @oOer® = mate < THREE O'CLOCK P.M. land is in the LL-WOOL GAKMENT>, MADE Ur OR RIPPED District of Columbia. Tt coutains upward of 87 acres | Await iced murat blac esis otground. Itis beautifully situated im the Potomac | A. FISCHER, | river, oppowite the Washi 14 t | town, from which it | A short di island | tet lock of the Chesapeake and Olio can | | & FAMILY SUPPLIES. the vir. ; inia shore by a solid masoury causeway, and thence 7 = 2 rs ~ fr ce peer iron beige with Weskineton ana | Vv . H. COMBS, #24 YTH ST. N. W, IMPORTED Georgetown, into the river. The island is connected wit | TERMS OF SALF. One-fourth of the purchase snd Domestic Groceries, Fine Wines and Liquors, i 1,000 shall be paid at the tine of sale, &e. The following well-known Urands of Pure Rye of whith | nd the re- mainder tp parry ay : f the pur- | Whiskies constantly in stock: Ol J. B. Thoms Chase-roney te be paid in three equal in sth 3 | ceqeckieets, cum tao sal Sbeer pemme | Buker, Upper Ten, Hannia Ac sale, with interest trom } and Grand Jury Per auuum, payable sem ance with the terms of <| ad | te AL LIQUID GLUE ceive » deed for the property, and ame | thing! br ua, Gly cute a deed of trust, m the nature of @ mort- | Metals 1 ves Hp welry. | Eve ne Te waxe, to secure the deferred pal It the nacity! Drugs aud Grocers, 10c. and mb l4euly of sale are comphed with in $0 days after day of | ~ nai Bale the property will be resold at the risk aud cost uf , the defaulting purciiasei Bas, Vex sa) Zazes paid up today of male. eR Conveyaneiy aud recording at purchaser's cost ware = — f Guub OM NO SALE SPRING WHEAT PATENT FLOUR fe the Premier Flour of the World. TLE Goo! KEGINALD FEND i Se WALTER B WILLIAMS € 00, Auctioncers The ents Mie VALUABLE REAL FSTATE FRONTING oN_1| “Best For sale i sota Patent now ind oy the follow SIREFT, BETWEEN EIGHIEENTH AND | JonN H. MAGRUDPR, 141 MALTEENTH STREETS BORTHWEST, AT 1 Coan 3 KELLOGG, Mescue T NTY-SIXTH, at FIVE all sell an front of the premises > having $0-feet frout by an 100 feet to, au alley, with im and 18, GEO. F. KENNEDY & SON, 1 W.E, ABBOTT, 1721 Peunsylyaniaave K. A. WALKER, 1600 7th st E. M. BURCHARD & BRO, Penn. ave. and 4gst, G. W, & H.W. OF FUTT, ¢ A. O, WRIGHT, 1682 Lath at P. F. BACON, Pennsylvania ave. “t in Square 1 jepth of ab | purchaser's struck oi. eetowe, p r ith within teu day, | gthers roperty will be resold at Fisk aud cont of twulting purcheser. | ie PN WALTER B, WILLIAMS & CO., | _mh12-a&as ena ESE, PER LB NCANSON BROS, Auctioneers. PA fo Sweet Cyber wl VALUABLE BUILDING LOT ON ELEVENTH 1 tuil. That Bouguct Wiisky STREET EAST, BY TWEEN G AND H STREETS | % ALOHA S Givcory, NORTH, AT AUCTION. Tin! 1245 sth st. aw AK OF THE VAST On MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH LENTH, JS59, at FIVE O'CLOCK, we will « j@. at public auction, in front of the premise | origiual lot 6, in square fronting GO f ches ou 11th street northeast. ‘Terms iade ku sale. A deposit of €100 re- quired when the property is struck ¢ mbl4-d&ds —_— DOWLING, Auctioneer. EXECUTOR'S SALE OF IMPROVED AND UNIM- PROVED REAL ESTALE IN THE CII\ OP WASHINGTON, D.C. By virtue of the authority conferred upon the exce tors of the last will and testament of Wm. Easty, a ceased, 1 wall sedi at public auc u at my store | of Pennsylvania avenue and 11th ster E ANCY PATENT $1.50 po Mi IN | sae 2 4th st. me DAY, the KIGHTEENIH DAY OF MAKCH, issu, | _ 2879-3 ms . minencing at TWO O'CLOCK P. M., the followin » WINES, LIQUOKS, | Pieces of property, vim, a Prod Part Jot 2, in square 10; part lot 2,in square 11; part hetti, Ver 2. in square 10, improved by wharf, Jot 3, in square | 72, uuproved by is houses; part lot 5, in square 12 Parmesan, improved by wharf; part 6, 10 auproved b . wharf; part S,in square 1 a 4 houses; | Marwula, M “ 22, in squan Jol 2, in square eof 12. with part G. FidSAu No & SONS, | 3, in same square, improved by whart; part of | SOS Hth st. in. w. LD MEDAL, PARIS, INSTR, | and part of lot 4, in square s, of 12, | whart; parts lot 3; of fot 5, of lot 6, im sq 12, warehouse and wharf: jot 9 in square 20. Jot Tui equine 8 Jot dyn mata Su 5, in square 88. lot L BY; lot equiare square i offer for the heirs youristsitu, ut " Easby, the following pieces of property: | admirably adupted for luvalids as well aro 1 tot insgnare 12; lot 3 in | Su bealth a GRocens EVER : 3, im e sy f vasm inet ee W. BAKE & i= | PIANOS ~ | Saspers & EAL DECKER Bhos, PIANOS, aud las tor persous ‘Ters: ; balance in giz and twelv months, with intererest at 6 percent per auuum, » cured by deed of trust ou the property sold or al at the option of the purchaser, ail conveyauciug at THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. FINANCIAL. R CENT MORTGAGES AND DE- BENTCRES—PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST GUAKANTEED by Solicitors’ Trust Co, Phila. and Commonwealth Trust Co.. Boston. Also, choice Muni. cipal and Corporate Bonds tor large or ‘small invest- qwents, For sule by B.A. ORTH & CO. elloge Building. Money to Loan without commission. uihi}s&w,Lun Joux 8. Buasewas, BANKER AND BROKER, 1405 F ST. N. W. FUNDS INVESTED IN SAFE SECURITIES, 5, 6, 7, AND 8 PER CENT INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS OF 3, 6, 9, AND 12 MONTHS. AND ORGANS. Sraywax # PIANOS AND ORGA WEBER, FISCHER SSTEY ORGANS, Pianos for rent aud sold on ac Charies st, Baltimore, Ma mL 17 Main st. Kichauond, Va. Tse Soerr Urrrcar Paso. It is the most durable Piano made, Itis thoroughly constracted. It js artistic in deen and has iy inetallmenta, PFLLEFEK & CONLIFY, sto mh14-Im ‘i | Deer 1814. SURPLUS FUND, NATIONAL METROPOLITAN BANK OF WASH- TNGTON, 613 15th St., opposite U. S. Treasury, J. W. THOMPSON, GEORGE H. B. WHITE, President. ‘Cashier. Receives Deposits, Discounts Paper, Sells Pills of | Sout Exchange, Makes Cuilectious, aud does a General Bank- ing Business. fo-Su 1, $300,000. ous PIA UNEQUALED IN TONE, 10) - AND DUKABIL “Purchase: re TERT Pianos XD-HAND PIANOS. — ine almost every well. try, ib thorough repair, will be « low fivures. SPECIAL INDUCEMEN1S oftered but fu priors aud iu varus hich will be arranged ou EAS| is invited to their desurns of HIGH for rent, A lange kno" [r i NIBLY INST. ENTE when Genito Oy NO. W. CORSON. JNO. W. MACARTNFY, a \ J Member 8. ¥.Btock Ex, | _ 26 th CORSON & MACARTNEY, GLOVER BUILDING, 1419 F ST. N. W, ‘Bankers and Dealers in Guvernment Bonds, _DRY GOODS. __ New Srrrxa Goons. 5 Just received auother shipment of New Spring Goods comprising Wool and Silk Henriettas, French sat Seotch Gingiamns, Wool combination Suitiugs ne match, | Chins ‘also a full Lne of Linen Sheetings. Livens, Damask Table Cloths and Napkins to ‘Table femetiteLed Linen id Puldw Casa, Danan and Huck Towels, Suk jowe in great veriety foun SEGUE BRO. & CO. 1328 F at. GENTLEMEN'S GOODS. _ Deposits. Exchange, Loans, Collections, Rasirotd Stocks and oud, std al eects eto@ xc ew York, Philadelphia, ‘Bos! ahd Baltimore bought and sol see A specialty made of investment securities. Dis Bouds and all Local ‘Gas, Losurance and I ephone Stock dealt in, Bell Telephone Stock bought and sold jy18 : MEDICAL, &. ADIES WHO REQUIRE THE SERVICES OF AN ex] female physician should consult Mre. | Dr, WILSON, 1103 Park Place me, bet Band G. 11th atipee cities cee iS) HL D. Bun rw - _ IMPORTER AND TAILOR, THAS NEVER BEEN CONTRADICTED THAT Tbe thdtanns is the olteste . established advertis- the honor to imform you that his NEW GOODS ing Laden Vuywician in thie citys Ladies, youcan | have just sre confidently cousult Dr. BROTHERS, 06 Bat, aw, personally Sts all germents made in bie farteular attention 4aid to all diseases paraliat TS abil ons 1 3 salina rasta cetera 1211 PENNSYLVANTA AVR, EAD AND BE WISE—DR. mh17 Washington, D.C. apteamereetescere seas u scenes tion WOOD AND COAL or no a HAGE Bes Se ay 88 nats — Sho. Mee USING A BOTTLE 3 3 : Shamokin Stove, “4 or two of Dr. ns rd . ‘CUre any case of nervous ee ke et mo - - iiicct Pome. gods cee” mein - : :