Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1893, Page 9

eT ~~ sal THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, IMMIGRATION AND TRAMP: A Knight of the Road Says That One is the Resalt of the Other. FORFION CHEAP LAROR THAT HAS TAKEN AWAT ‘THE PLACES OF NATIVE WORKINGMEN—TRIRTY- FIvE TROCSAND WANDERERS “ON THE ROAD” BETWEEN CHICAGO AND BALTIMORE. “If I were a reporter and wanted = good Story,” said ex-Speaker Reed to a Sram re- porter the other day, “I would interview a few Intelngent tramps (there are lots of them) on the immigration question. Take my word for ft, vou will get a great deal more solid infor- mation oat of them than you will from Con- grewmen.”” The reporter acted on the suggestion. Along the Baltimore and Potomac railroad he found. a few miles out in a sheltered nook close by the track, acamp fire. It was very coldand the fire served as an excuse to approach. The camp contained » rather were any number of tomato cans, two or temoralized wash boilers, some ten-galion taken off.an tron tle, « frving pan without a handle. some rail- depikes and a coupling pin. Two men sat near: the elder, a pe looking man of pat thirty-five, was reading: the other, a Youth of twenty, was drying a shirt at the fire. The writer was accosted by the elder of the two With the laconte word, -*Traveling’ Answering in the aifirmative it was sn easy Matter to enter mto conversation with them. They nad been “holding down” the camp for three days and expected to stay there some Little time. They did their cooking and fing inthe camp ant hada good warm ithin baif a wile where they slept. The eld tramp waea philosopher and bad seen a great deal ot the world that lies between Baltimore him: the writer addressed mont of his questions. They were not asked and answered categorically as written, but are acon’ ion of several boars. remarked that he was x newspaper ad im search of work the tramp ad to see ® newspaper the false imprem spreading broadcast and Chicago, and t to ¢ etern: man if only that they are about tramps And wha “Why. t with, every once in a while You see a long article ab gna and pass- have. Sometimes the article bat tram p ete na, such as ‘bad dog b heer | sat,” “this house fe Be good,” and Is it not ridienlous Sada eamp.wh necessity the most selfish of human beimgs, should, after having been Bitten by a dog or chased by an officer, go back IN WASHINGTON TRAMPS 1 plausible and the writer en- nverantion up to the deavor tmemigza? asked how many kinds The top sawyer so far as I know, ar in wed and i» alwave well by striking ¢ men, pub- woud the arm seekers for Next one step lower for a re- o tide him did this before, a meal or a him and he good » begs for food. A doesn’t want it thing of is. He He To any suggestion * a be better % work- where for his foe he says and rightly, too, that he gets his wants sup- iet much better by process of teasing Last HY tramp who eartie aches for bi e is always looking for bard work and gets it. My «ym are with bim, nce looked for work m “Hiave you any iden how many tramps there een Baltimore and @ guess as to « many Twenty-five thonsand.” So many as that | “Tee | “And what class of men are these: “Has beens,” mostly “What is that “Broken down men—people who were an ornament to time —seen better | days and all that at “Ever see any newep | I have tra 0 “Young man, iT have ¢ n con from every trade and profession known to civilized man.” “Ministers? “Lots of ‘er. | “And 1 suppose it is the old, old story, ‘Rum did it “There is another ridi yarn that is often seen ip th aper ram didn't do it Ita it in my case, for I never drank drop in Tt didn’t do it in the case of that boy there, for he doesn't know what the ame! of liquor ie—it did: in tise case of | hundreds of histories Ia Baltimore | grandfather. Up to} g.and « good living, in © Vennaylvania did very well at | and #8 & we western part of 4. Homestead and Metonne as tks ave city. There were streets in Pittebarg and Homestead where I could sell a wagon load of truck in tw jo it af ima we ‘ question, ly know nothing except of ¥1e sent to Homestead e, for a fact, and I've seen first-class hotels and all the matte orekeepers Frick | Engltsb, Tri numbers m even at the tide on. There are © in a state of wee condition re in their own country, where a livelihood. \ WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. “Lam not «peaking now, mind you, @tead and Pitt«burg. but of the ca and near them —a country nev afters oF congressional investig: Teo het every sore of which te drew (ar and Henry ©. Frick. “There is «law on th ute book of Ps eylvania which says that men shall be pad weekly. That law i jeu! letter for the thou- f people who for Andrew Carnegie and Frick another law which in theory does away with “ne ‘pluck me’ or com- pany store. By « legal fiction the stores are in “ just the same as ever they were the name only being changed. What do vou thick will be the outcome of this system “Why, there can be but ove outcome, and that ix civil war. These Hungarians can be ground down toa certain point and then, like the worm, they will turn and rend their’ op- Prewors.” And is there no remedy? Yes, stop immigration —stop it at once and things will slowly right themselves In three years time the army of tramps would be gathered up into the workshops and fields and the @ ‘army of honest, industrious people, who are now subsisting on half rations, would Bare plenty to eat. The country ie big enough for all. but it is not yet developed to such an extent that those here now can make s decent hy York limited rushed by just then and the tramp remarked drily: “There go some Of the people who are ‘seeing the country." ” extensive ontfit. | THEIR CARRIAGE IN QUICKSAND. Two Ladies Sunk in Front of the Enrolling Tide. From the San Francisco Exeminer. A near approach to death in the quicksands of the ocean beach waa experienced by two young women while out driving last Friday afternoon, and the rescue that was effected, With not a moment to spare, brought a third life into the peril. Capt. Paul Busch of the Ocean House was the deliverer, but the most that is known of the women is that they were about thirty years of age, well dressed and that At the time of this adventure they were in poe session of a brown horse and black open bss d with the sh it People acquainte ore a8 stretches from the Cliff House” southward would have kept away from the edge of the water at the time in question. very ex- tremely low tide uncovers treacherous and varying beds of quicksand. At the middie of Friday ufternoon the water was closs to the lowest mark of the year, and so travel along the outer portion of the beach was especially The two women were totally ignor- ant of any such danger, however. Early in the afternoon the women drove through Golden Gate Park. Then they went to the Clif House, and after watebing the sea from there for half an hour they started on @ trip along the shore. That wasat 3 o'clock. They intended to proceed bat a short distance and to then return to the city by way of the park. The wheels rolled easily and noiselossly on the hardened sand as the borse trotted on. The occupants of the buggy were delighted, and, becoming bolder. drove down to where the shallow broken sheets of water and foam kept striving for a hold upon the shore, Suddenly, before the driver perceived the beginning of any change, the shore seemed to be sinking. The big brown horse was frantically strug- gling to get out of the sand that reached al- most to bis knees and which was slowly but surely climbing. All his strong endeavors were in vain, though, against jon, and in a moment, ax his whole frame shook and con- vuled in an upward, onward impalse, be fell on his side and became more helpless, but he fell toward land. ‘The wagon had at this time gone down so far that the tide, just in the beginning of the flood, washed over the bubs. Terrified were the women, but a leap from the vehicle would have only inerensed the danger. help was the only hope, but the shouts were lost im the thundering surf. The place where the disaster befell the team is about baif a mile from the Ocean House, in the direction of “the cliff. Off that point a bark was wrecked some years ago, and buge timbers washed ashore disappeared in the sand exactly ax the wagon was now doing Capt. Busch chanced to look along the sbore while the sinking sand was tightening its clasp upon the victims, He saw the black object out where the rollers were sweeping aud thought it was a small boat that bad been thrown on the shore. Histwo driving horses were standing in harness at the Ocean House, and in an | instant be had them galloping up theshore. | ‘The speed of the horses was only increased when the captain saw the dark object was a buggy, for he knew the quicksand and under- | stood ‘the value of seconds where such a| | peril was augmented by the surf. And he only made that half-imle dash on time. for the | rising water and the falling shore bad nearly | gained the victory. Horse, wagon, women | and all were gradually sliding ont into the sea. Every motion was stronger than the preceding one, and the growing force would quickly have rendered the rescue impossible. ‘The sliding tendency of the quickeands is well known, and Capt. Henry Smith of the Golden Gate life saving station declares it to be the most dangerous feature, as it hurries the vic- | tim out into the water and so lessens the chance of assistance, The story of the rescue is told by Capt Busch himself and corroborated by others who hastened to the scene before the work was over. “When I got there,” said Capt. Busch, “the | waves were breaking ‘over into the box of the buggy. I have been on the sea a good many years and the rest of my life on the shore, and knew that there wasn't any time to lose. I knew also that the solid sand must reach pretty nearly to the buggy. And so I concluded to rush right up and get the women ont, if possi- | ble. knowing that ir I couldn't keep a substan- tial footing Tcould save myself by swinming. I felt the quicksand as I stepped forward in the water close to the buggy, #0 I didn’t advance the other foot, but reaching over as far as I could I toid one of the women to jump into my arms. She did so, and I got her to shore all right. Then I took the other in the same war “Beth of them were drenched with water, but they didn't seem to care about that when they goton to dryland. Igotin the water up to my neck myself. “The buggy and the helpless horse were all the time settling out to sea, little by littleand I didn’t think [ could fetch either of them back, for the horse was pretty well down, and it wouldn't have been long before he would have drowned. So I took a hay rope that I bad and tied it between the buggy shafts and my own wagon. Then, witha hold of the rope, I got over and cut the harness, and when freed the aged to get on his feet. he succeeded in breaking out of the for ahorse can doa thing of that sort when loose that would be impowsible if he were harnessed to a wagon—and my horses pulled ‘he buggy out. So the whole outfit was saved, after all.” soe POINTS ABOUT TOAST. ‘Things Connected With Its Successful Mak- | | ing That Few Know. From the Boston Globe. Wheaten bread is composed principally of starch. When starch is subjected toa high temperature it is changed into an easily digested substance called dextrine. In the ordinary cooking of a loaf of bread the starch in the ovter layers is changed into dextrine, ys to give the crust that peculiar, agreeable flavor which we call sweet. Slices of dergo a similar change when toast is To make toast successfnily one must mvert as much ax posable of the dextrine. To do this cut the bread one-third of an inch thick, place the slices in a ster or wire broiler and dry slowly either ina moderate oven or by holding the broiler some distance from the fire. The object ix to give the heat time to pene- trate to the center of the slice before the out- side hes begun to change color, for if a sheath be formed over the outside, at once the jisture will be shut in and the middle of the ce will be prevented from becoming suffi- ciently heated to change its starch, for the temperature will not rise much above 212 de- grees Fahrenheit until the water ix dried ont. Starch i changed to dextrine at 401 degrees Febrenheit. Tonst that is moist in the middle | and blackened on the outside is less wholesome than untoasted bread. Great care should, therefore, be taken with the drying. When this has been accomplished lower “:he broiler | little nearer to the coals and the toast wi! | quickly turn a golden brown. An ideal piece { tonst is erisp and golden throughout. Many say they prefer toast that ix soft inside, and | that they caunot eat hard, dry toast, but the ideal piece of toast is not ‘really so hard as it | seema, It breaks and crumbles very easily, and | moisiens very quickly in the mouth. If one | would persevere with a slice he would soon | learn to preter it Atal events, that which is | soft inside should not be given to the sick. It is better to make the toast dryand then moisten it, if needs be, by dipping the slices into hot water foran instant, not soaking them. Dry toast should be served directiy from the toaster, | When this is not practicable, pile it on « heated | bread plate, cover it with a’ napkin, and put it | on the hearth ot in the oven. ‘Toast is given in | allslight attacks of sickness because it 1s #0 | easily digested. The more thorough the con- | ver ion of thestarch the more easily and per- fectly the system will manage it, for the change of starch into dextrine by the action of heat is simply doing outside of the body what takes lace in it in the ordinary course of by the action of the digestive fuids. ‘here: fore, when this is accomplished by artificial means nature is spared so much energy. Toast thin slices of bread. Put into a shallow pan a pint of rater with balf a terspoonfal of salt. ip each slice quickly into the water, place in & covered dish and spread with butter, piling one slice above another. Do not let the bread soak in the water: endeavor to keep « suggestion of ‘To scream for | HOW TO DISPOSE OF SEWAGE. An Intereiting Lectnre by s Civil Engineer Before the Brooklyn Institute. From the Brooklyn Eagie. January 10. Mr. J. Foster Flagg, a member of the Ameri- can Society of Civil Engineers, detivered an in- teresting lecture before the engineering depart- ment of the Brooklyn Institution of Arts and Sciences, in the large lecture room of the ¥. M. C. A. building, last night, on “The Dis- posal of Sewage by European Systema.” The lecture was illustrated by lantern photographs, specially prepared by Mr. Flagg. The lecturer has recently spent a year in Eu- ropeand has taken the opportunity to visita num- ber of noted works for the disposal of city sew- ‘age, both in England and on the continent. In | his lecture he first gave » general account of the different modes of removal of household sewage from the centers of ulation and of the leading methods pursued in ita purification | and disposal and then gave some notes of the working of these methods at some of the places he visited. He said in part: The water carriage ayatem of transportation of household sewage, which bas not been used toany great extent until within a comparatively recent period, is certainly the cleanest and most | convenient of any. In the United States it is ) practically the universal method, is the pri cipal one in England and its use is being | rgely extended on the continent, especially in Ger- | many. An interesting modification of this sys- | tem, where pumping is necessary, is the Shore Hydro Pneumatic system, by which the pump- ing can bo done from a’ number of stations, scattered over a city, by self-acting ejectors, located in chambers beneath the streets and worked from a single power station by com- | pressed air. This aystem has been adopted for the Columbian exposition in Chicago, where the | ejectors will havea combined pumping capec- | ity of 17,000,000 galions in twenty-four hours, | The different methods of disposal of sewage are | as follows: I. Discharging the crude sewage into neighboring water course, lake or harbor— still much the most common method in Amer- | ica. I. Chemical precipitation of the insolu- ble and also some percentage of the soluble constituents of the sewage. III. Purification by broad irrigation on neighboring farms. IV. Purification by intermittent downward lt tion, requiring a sandy soil. This method bi generally been preceded by natural or chemical precipitation, but recent experiments made in ngiand and ona more extended senle at Law- rence, Mass., show that with properly con- structed beds previous precipitation is unnecea- sary. The effluent from either of the last three methods of treatment flows to the nearest water course. The first method has caused such a fonling of streams in the densely populated country of England, with its small water courses, ns to compel ‘some treatment of the town sewage before discharging it into them, a notable example of which is at Coventry, where the dry weather fow of the only available stream is sometimes only one-half that of the sewnge discharged from the town. As the con- sumption of water in English towns is much leas than in this country the sewage of Coventry, after being mixed with the low water flow of the river, is #till as fonl as ordi- nary American sewage. The same necessity for purification, hough in a less degree, is being felt in Massachutetts and some other parte | of our country. Chemical precipitation is sometimes effected by lime, in the form of milk of lime alone, but preterably by some salt of alumina or ferrous salt used in conjunction with a much smaller amount of milk of lime. Works using the A B C process (clay, charcoal and alumino ferric) and the recent ferrozone and polarite process, which were visited, as well as the more ordinary methods. In the latter process the ferrozone, which is used as a precipitant, 18 composed principally of ferrous sulphate and magnetic oxide of iron: after pre- cipitation the effluent from the settling tanks is cleared by passing it through a filter of com- paratively exceedingly small dimensions, one of the ingredients of which is polarite, more than half composed of insoluble porous magnetic oxide of iron, which deodorizex and purifies the effluent without becoming oxidized itself. The most important example of broad irrigation is at Berlin. Here the sewage of 1,600,000 persons is constantly pumped up and delivered to farms six and twelve miles from the city, having an area of nearly 18,400 acros, where it is used for irrigation. Large crops of varied character are raised from these farms. The sewage is pumped from twelve pumping stations in the twelve different districts into which the city is divided. These pumping stations are well de- signed and exceedingly well managed, and although many of them are in the heart of the city are quite free from any cause of offense to the neighborhood. It is not generally consid- ered that the sewage of more than one hundred rsons per acre can be treated by this method. 1@ process of intermittent filtration, the best methods of working which have been so care- fully and thoroughly investigated at the Law- rence experimental station, requires much less area than broad irrigation, the most suitable soils being capable of purifying the sewage of 1,000 persons or more per acre. This mode of treatment is not, correctly speaking, one of fil- tration, but is a’ biological process, the purifi- cation being accomplished by organisms known as nitrifying bacteria. ‘The sewage is applied to the filter beds at «uch intervals and in such quantities as will allow it to sink thoroughly into the material of the bed and also allow to enter its pores a fresh supply of air, the oxygen of which is #0 necessary for the offensive de- composition of the organic compounds by bac- terial action. ‘The purification by this method is decidedly the most perfect of any, with a fil- ter of fine sand five feet in depth, the effluent being as free from organic matter and bacteria as our best drinking water. The purification of London sewage by chemical precipitation, before its discharge into the Thames, is ona scale far surpassing in magnitude that of any other place. The works on the north side of the river were the only ones completed at the time of my visit, but those for the treatment of the sewage of the south side were well under way. On the north side about 140,000,000 | American gallous of +ewage are received and treated every day. The sewage is precipitated by lime and copperas. 7.000,000 gallons of clear | lime water and over 16,000 pounds of copperas, | dissolved in water, being daily turned into the flowing current us it arrivesat the station. For settlement there are thirty-two tanks, all vaulted | with masonry and each 82 feet wide by 1,000 | feet long, their collective capacity being 24,000, | 000 gallons, The sludge which is deposited in | these tanks is drawn off and again settled, the | water resulting from the second settlement be- | ing pumped back to make the lime water. ‘The resulting sindge, still containing over 90 per cent of water, ix pumped into tank steamers holding 1,000 tons each and carried out by them to the North sea and dumped in deep water. With the south side works completed, about 230,000,000 gullous of sewage will be treated daily, and probably over 3,000 gross tons of | sludge daily dumped into the North sea. } ‘The lecturer described the works at Chiswick, Kingston on ‘Thames, Hendon, Coventry and London, in England, and Amsterdam, Berlin and Frankfort-on-the-Main on the continent, A discussion followed the lecture and at its close Mr. Flagg was tendered a vote of thanks. | | | | From the Philadelphia Press. Several theories have been advanced by the scientists to account for the fact that we have the ever-present phenomena known as “light.” The two principal of the many reasons thus set forth by the learned gentlemen who have devoted their lives to such investigation are the emission or corpuscular theory, and that known asthe undulatory theory. The principles of the emission theory originated in the fertile brain of the philosopher, Descartes, who was born way back in 1596. But little attention was paid this peculiar theory at that time, and it and Descartes were both almost forgotten when, about sixty years later, Sir Isaac Newton ap- peared upon the scene and enunciated the same doctrine, According to these eminent men, light con- sists of simall particles emitted by Itininous bodies, the velocity of its transmission mainly regulating the colors. The undulatory theory, that now most generally accepted by the scientific world, teaches that the space between the celestial bodies is occupied by an imponder- able ether, and that the luminodity of « body is sap) to be a rapid vibratory motion pro- from the body in question to the eye. The waves of light proceed in all directions from every luminous point in straight lines, the motions of its particles being opposed t6 undulate in a transverse direction to | just have to fall back on my profession. FRIDAS, JANUARY 13, = 1893—TEN PAGES. AS TO CORPORATIONS’ SOULS. What the President of the New York Central Has to Say About Them. Chauncey M. Depew in Kate Field's Washington. “Yes, it le even a legs! maxim that corpora- tions bave no souls. Therefore, by the ordi- nary rules applicable to humanity, they can neither be saved nor damned. A corporation isan entity, not an individual. The general ides about it is that it lives to prey upon the public, and whatever happens to it hurts no- body. There are, say, eleven thousand stock- holders in the New York Central road. Eight out of every ten of them are people of small means, and the dividend they receive upon their New York Central stock is the larger part of their income. The New York Central em- ploys twenty-five thousand men. These men have dependent upon them an average of five sons each. It the New York Central, by lation or an industrial catsclysm, should be reduced to the point where it could not earn any dividend upon ite stock, as much misery would be caused as if a city had been sacked bya hostile army. The stockholders would be the first to suffer. I refer now to the people of limited means, who know nothing bout the markets or Wall street.” “What of rich stockholders?”” “The rich would have discovered the ap- proach of this calamity long before it had ar- rived and sold their stock to the general public. They are never caught. It is tuation in another line of what the sapertonce, of man- kind has proven to be true through all the ages—power protects itself. The next process would be the reduction in wages und the dis- charge of employes. People talk lightly of the discharge of an employe. It is always a calam- ity, and often a tragedy. Asa rule, there is nothing in the bank and not a dollar in the stocking, and the family face at once eviction from their home and the loss of credit at the butcher's, the baker's and the candlestick maker's. | Immediate employment must be had in some other direction ot intense suffering en- Vhere, then, does the corporation's soul come in?” “Just here. Corporations are constantly exhibiting it in favors shown in granting pen- sions for aged or disabled servants where there is no legal obligation on them to do #0. jorations asa rule in their transactions of usiness with the public are not so sharp, nor soclose, nor so exacting as individuals. ‘The individual takes the Inst drop of blood in the pound of flesh, because it is bie. The corpora- tion is represented by av agent, upon a salary, who will conscientiously perform his duty, but who will not be a party to an oppressive act.” “BLOOMING IDtoTs, A Clubman Discovers Two Distinct Species of the Genus. “There are two distinct kinds of blooming idiots who give me the malaria every time [ en- counter them,” said the clubman in a disgusted tone to a representative of THe STAR. “Of course,” he continued, “the average blooming idiot abounds like fleas at a dog show. Just now the idiot who persistsin wearing an Ei glish tweed suit without an overcoat is in vogue. The thermometer registers ten degrees above zero. ‘The wind is cold and piercing. The snow is deep on the streets. Every man you meet, except the idiot in question, is mufiled up warm and snug. But he goes along, gloved and lugging bis cane, stooped shouldered and hoflow chested, with lips and nose purple from the cold, frozen to the very marrow of his bony frame, but he thinks he's English, you know, and that’s enough for his nibs, “The other blooming idiot I have in mind blossoms at night. He is the fellow who owns a dress suit, He always leaves his overcoat unbuttoned. This is to let the public know that he’s got his only shirt out of the laundry and that he has a dresa suit on. The cold air strikes directly upon the most delicate portion of his anatomy; he, too, is chilled and cold, but the coat remains unbuttoned. I bave often noticed this insane habit of men and marveled at it. “But there is one consolation, however,” sighed the club man, as if he rejoiced in the thought. “What's that?” inquired a bystander. ‘They contract pneumonia, and while some live a week most of ‘em wither up and are planted in the cemetery garden within three rete — He Broke the Record, From the Minneapolis Tribune. “Talk about getting there,” said an 8th ward preacher yesterday, “if I didn’t break the rec- ord Christmas Sunday I don’t want the medal. It was this way: Just half an hour before the services opened my organist sent word that she was ill and couldn't appear. There we were, a lot of Christmas music prepared, with an or- gan voluntary for morning and evening on the prorram. Then Tcame to the front, and with walf an hour’s , cactice went on and played the music myself. besides preaching the sermon and leading the singing. You should have seen me. “First, I would read, then play an accom- paniment, then dodge up again and pray, hop- ping up and down like a ig, and I got through all right, too. How did I manage the voluntary? Well, you see music is my pro- fession—I do not call preaching a profession, it is a calling—and I just improvised, mixing’ in dance music, drawing the frisky notes out long to make Sunday music out of them. Oh, I was all right, When my voice fails me I will only day. Got to fly, you know—mighty bus And the sturdy little preacher dived for the elevator and enlivened its downward trip on the sam by singing a few improvised bars of opera to the office boy. ———+o+—____ Opportunities Lost by the Acceptance of a Government Clerkship, From Harper's Weekly. To all young men who contemplate a jour- ney to Washington for the purpose of securing employment the best advice is don’t. The humblest situation in a mercantile house, where the pecuniary reward is small, where the hours are long and where the labor is hard, is better in the end than a government clerkship. One way lies opportunities for advancement, for the utilization and tinal reward of every talent and all the energy that the young man possesses. The other way lies hopelessness, drudgery, stagnation. Many a'poor young man seeks a government clerkship in order that he may earn his support while he is studying his profession, is tak- ing up a staff that is likely to become necessary to him asa crutch. He is in danger of discov- zing, when bis profession is learned, that he has not the moral courage to drop his govern- ment stipend. It would have been infinitely better—it might have been his making—if he had toiled for scantier dollars in a manlier way. The government clerk drags out a monoto- nous existence, dreary, unpromising of advance- ment, and if he is not turned out in his old age to linger on through his few remaining years in erty he is one of the most fortunate of his ind. There is no service that so destroys the latent energies and kills the hope as that of a gov. Cor- | | to get work in order to earn money for bread. ONLY SEVEN PRISONERS. ‘That Was All That Were Before Jadge Kim- ball This Morning. The Police Court celis were not overcrowded this morning,for there were only seven prisoners to oceupy the four rooms set apart for them. With the exception of one occasion this was the ‘smallest number of prisoners that has been in the dock for twelve years. That exception was one day during = severe storm and only one prisoner appeared. He was charged with being vagrant and the judge released him on his Personal bonds, so that not a single prisoner was committed to prison. Among the prisoners in the jon this morning was an able bodied-colored man named William Lewis, and the charge against him was vagrancy. He said guilty and would willingly have gone to the work house had not Judge Kimball interposed an objection. The officer who arrested him was called and he said that the prisoner had been lodging in the station hou ‘Might it not bea saw wood or starve?’ very much opposed to keeping these idlers in the work house all the winter, where they can enjoy a warm room and not have to work.” The good plan to make him "the court asked. “Iam court suggested that the station honses had better not keep such men, as they ought to go bungry and cold if they ean but won't work. “Why didn’t you want to work for your lodg- ing and meals?” the judge asked the prisoner. ‘Because I don't know bow to saw wood,” he nded. Where in your home?" “Warrenton, Virginia.” “Then you had better go back there. Such Persona.as you are not wanted here. If you Femain here you will either have to work or go any vy He was discharged. WE NEEDED A BATR. Another prisoner in the procession was an old vagrant named Conrad Sobl, but whose name was given as Conrad Sold. He had been in court many times on the same charge, and this morning Judge Kimball thought he was sadly in need of a bath. Policeman Jacobson was the prosecuting wit- ness and be told of having found the poor un- fortunate man wandering about the streets. He was thinly clad ond his appearance was that of &@ man whose flevh had not come in contact with water for a long time. “Where do you live? the prisoner was asked. “Iu aecow on Rock creek,” he replied. He added that he bad arranged to go away on a boat, but he had been delayed on account of the ice. “This man is nothing but a mass of dirt," said the judge, “andI think it would bea mercy to send him down, if he does nothing else than tke a bath.” Fifteen days on the farm the sentence. Alice Adams, a young colored woman, was in court on two charges, One was disorderly con- duct and the other vagrancy. Que element of the vagrancy charge is that the accused is a die- orderly person, but the two charges give the joliceman a longer record. Alice has only een out of prison about two weeks, and there was not proof enough to show that she was a vagrant other then the officer's statement, “I have saw her drunk three times since the Ist of January.” “You say you have seen her drunk three times?” queried the court. “Yes, sir.” Alice made a statement of her conduct, and the judge fined her in the disorderly conduct case and took her personal bonds on the charge of vagrancy “Tam gi Curtin, ment.’ The charge against him wa: “This is the first time m my life that I have ever been arrested,” said Curtin, “and I hope your honor wall give me time to pay the fine.” “Who will vouch for you?” asked the court. “Officer Pearson,” hé answered. “I think the defendant will pay the fine,” said the officer. And the judgo trusted him for a week. This ended the procession and those who had been unable to comply with the terms of their sentence marched back into the dock. ae He Mant Get @ License. Emanuel Murray,a colored man who keeps an ting house on 14th street, was before Judge Kimball this morning, charged with conducting business without a license. Last year he failed to get his license until the police proceeded against him, and this time Judge Kimball told him he would have to pay for bis sport. He was required to pay a penalty of 85, and the judge gave him two weeks in which to procure i is license. Murray said he would have obtained his li- ae before this if he could have collected his ills, 'y,your honor,” answered Lawrence ‘but I would like to make a state- profanity. suffering eppoin Harrison. Ten Cents on all News-stands RAN HIS TRAIN TOO FAST. An Engineer on the Baltimore and Ohie | Fined in the Police Court. Yesterday afternoon in the Police Court Ephraim Provance, an engineer on the Balti- more and Obio railroad, was tried on a charge | of running his train faster than allowed by | law. The offense was alleged to bave occurred | on the 30th of November last, when the train | passed between Sth and Land Sth and K streets | northeast, a distance of one-fourth of a mile, in thirty-six seconds, or at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour. Sergt. Cross of the ninth pre- cinct was the prosecuting witness, Mr. Colbert. who represented the railroad company, called witnesses to show that it took the train six minutes to cover one mile in the city or an average of twelve miles an hour. Mr. Pugh for the District cross-examined the witnesses and he succeeded in convincing the Jury that the law had been violated. A verdict of guilty was rendered and the minimum fine, $5, imposed. There ere other cases pending which will be tried next week. ——___ The Biat Invincible Club. The Blaine Invincible Club met last night, Miss E. V. Campbell in the chair, and decided to give an entertainment for the benefit of the on Wednesday, February 1, and the following committee of arrange- ments: E. J. Webster, M. Contee, A. Hall, M. A graphic article telling of the demands of a social career, its dangers for a woman, and the reefs upon which domestic happiness is often wrecked in society, written by Mrs. Burton Kinostanp. Also an article on A Society Girl’s Crucial Test Her attitude toward young men, by Mrs. BurToN Both articles in the January number of Tue Lapies’ Home JournaL. Send One Dollar for One Year to He is Going To the nearest drug store for » bottle of DURANG'S RHETMATIO REM medicine that never fails to cure rheumatiem,vo matter how stubborn the attack. It is taken internally and does the work promptly, without dragging the system with poison oF ruining the coating of the stomach. This is not a new remedy that you need wait for your neighbor to try to see how it works, as it has been before the public eighteen years and cures when everything else fails. During the past rear the bottle has been enlarged to POUR TIMES its original size and the remedy greatly improved, so that we now offer you the best treatment for RHEUMATINM known to medical science, Mrs. Gen. Sherman once said of this remedy: “I have frequently purchased Durang’s Rheumatic Remedy for friends suffering with rhew- matirm and in every instance it worked like magic.” This is what every one says who uses it, The price is one dollar a bottle, or six bottles for five dollars, and te sold by all reliable deslers in drugs. OUR 40-page PAMPHLET SENT FREE BY MATL. Address "S RHEUMATIC REMEDY CO., 1316 L Street, WASHINGTON, D.0. dhe best on earth. ‘They do not Tioachold treating. At ali Drive Ato DURANG DURANG'S of resul: LIVER PI s7ips. but act with thet ease and Williams and R. Edwards. This committee de- cided to give the entertainment at 326 Pennsyl- vania avenue northwest, and they appeal to the public to assist them in this cause. painful diorders and chronic weak- nesses peculiar to the female sex. They go, wi useot Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre- Bape gcinn back, bearing: —~ Fined for Beating His Wife, William Dyson was convicted in the Police Court today of a gcharge of striking his wife, Anna Dyson. The latter said she did not com- plain against her husband, but the policeman on the beat did. Judge Miller said he did not understand how they could spend so much time fighting when other persons were unable A fine of €5 was imposed. ee The Thefts From the Pullman Company. Jndge Miller heard one of the cases involv- ing aseries of thefts of bed and table linen from the Pullman Palace Car Company yester- day ternoon. The deféndant in the case was William Taylor. It was shown that he had disposed of some of the stolen property toa man named Jones and the jury convicted him. There were two charges against him and Judge Miller fined him $20 in each case. gassmidies Sees The O'Connell Case. Jastice Bradley yesterday dismissed the bill in the case of Jeremiah D. O'Connell against Mary E. O'Connell, which waa filed May 27 1891, by Mr. J. G.Bigelow, in which the charges were bad treatment, &c. Mr. Leon Tobriner appeared for the wife and quite a mass of testi- mony wastaken The husband had, in August, 1890, filed a bill against the father of respond- ent, the late C. V. Noonan, and others to set aside an agreement made at the time the parties separated, and in September last the bill was ismissed, but an appeal being taken the case is still on the books. a Mus. Beiva A. Locxwoop will address the Liberal Club, New York city, this evening on “Ihe Growth of Sentiment onthe Peace Ques- tion.” Next week she will deliver a course of lectures in lowa, commencing at Des Moines. down sensations, nervous prostra~ fe™iflls por “voutatie end) pertacsy it. Tt purely vi fectly harmless —a powert eperal, as weil as uterine, tonic and nervine, im vigor and strength to the whole system. Tt costs ou nothing if it fails to give satisfaction. Tes guaranteed to do so, tn Svery cage oF the money is refunded. It can bo iteed— for it does it. No other medicine for women iesold on such terma, 4 these terms it’s cheapest. But more than that, it’s the best. ‘That's the way its makers their faith in it. Contains no alcohol —— syrup or sugar jerange digestion; a ii Tabs madictan mse betwee Purely vege K The next morning I feel bright and new and my complesion ts betters By doctor says it acte xentiy on the stomach, liver and Lidueys and is'a pleasaut laxatives This arin is Ibade froin heros and’ is prepared ior use as easily as teas Itis called LANE'S MEDICINE. All druegiste poll iat [0s_ and $1 per package. If ° Nour address fora free sample, TANS FAMILY MEDICINE MOVES HE BOWELS HH DAY. "In order to be healthy this is neconwary. addres WOODWARD Le Koy, N. ORATOR F. tle drops of water, rkling, clear and cold. ment clerk. Young men who think they have the elements of success in them should uyoid it as they would the plague. Not a Burdensome Tax. From the Home Market Bulletin George (who has been seeing his sweetheart home after dark)—Are you a good republican, Jessie? Jessie (earnestly)—Of course I am, George! George—And do you believe in levying a tax for protection? Jossie—Certainly. George—Well, then give me a kiss for seeing you home, + Tux will of Wm.L. Stone is one of the short- est ever filed, reading: “I herewith devise to my mother all my property.” G.O.TAYLOR treat Fusel Oil, NOT soln bu or by mesure. Always le Sealed LOOK for propeletors' frm namo signature — CHESTER H. GRAVES & SONS, Boston. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. crispness in it, for sloppy, m toast is not} in which the light travels. The velocity of —— Serve hot with apple sauce, sweet | light is so great that the human mind cannot apples or tart jelly. Water toast is really grasp an idea of the rapidity with which it delicious if care is to have it hot. It can | travels. According to the best authorities at- be eaten with relish much longer than milk tainable to the writer the distance traveled by a tonst. beam of light in s single second of time is 190,- 000 miles! ‘This distance is so great that no per- ceptible space of time would be in ite A School Teacher's New Dress. “My new dress was the light drab cashmere had when I first came to Washington,” sald a popu- Jar school teacher. “It faded so badly that I was wear anlEQhE EIRP Ms, Bae is great soaci For both young and old. aratoga Kissinge ‘Water ‘The Delicious, Sparkling Table Drink. ie for Dyapepaia, "Tndieeatae Tons Sia Nerrousens and ai eames ie Sold everywhere. ‘In boities only. Saratoga Kissingen Spring Co, Samatoca SPRixos, N. Canmazt & Ler, 928 Tru Axo 706 K Sx. N.W. OUR NEW DEPARTMENT. Ladies and Children's Ready-made Muslin Under- wear. Good goods, well made and moderate in price. We ‘ask an inspection. ‘Men’s Unlaundered Shirts, No. 1, made of New ‘York Mills cotton, reinforced, at 50c., the best shirt for the money in the market. Tae Surte Sure oF Lions Fise Focr ¥ EAR OF THE CELEBRATED MAKE oF « F. SMITH, Now in progress at Tar Wasnex Ssoz Hovse, ‘Has been unprecedentedly large. In fact, way beyond ‘oUF most sanguine expectations. ‘The number of ladies favored with feet small enough to wear these samples (which are mostly 3, 3} and 4) has certainly surprised us. There are many especially neat, stylisn and pretty shoes among these samples, which are made by the most skilled workmen of the finest selection of stock, and any lady getting pair of them saves from one to two dollars, as they are sold at less than cost to make them. ‘They are melting away very fast, and ina few days your choice of selection will not be near as gyod as at ‘the present time. Remember, that {t will be impossible for us to atpli- ‘ate these samples prior to July 1. ‘By the way. DOWT FORGET TO TELL YOUR GENTLEMEN FRIENDS ABOUT THE $6 FRENCH PATENT CALF SHOES WHICH WE ARE SELLING aT $3.75. 1115 F 8S: N.W. alt THE PHILADELPHIA COUNCIL OF PHYSICIANS members of the Philadelphia Council of Physicians, ‘years and Lave built up a large institution in thatcity. men, have becn treated und cured by them and they all bring most startling reports of their marvelous work. Their power of natural healing by macnetic touch se-ms alnost incredit fact remains that they actually do cure people of al- most all manner of diseases. to heal.as they have engaged Buildes Teer Ie > A Faer ‘That you take more real pride tn your owe home than any other place on earth—the ASK = conier and more comfortable ft attractive it becomes to yourself and your family? Money spent fo always well invented. your . them because Purposes Why not get these things of as om COO RRR cee ppp rT oo kn E D Cok R FE D coc KOR Eee bow’ ii You will never thorourhiy realiae what reat results can be acrompiianed with & FEW DOLLAKS antl you visit our mau woth credit establiabieut, about OUR LING Src SYSTEM Heauso Tae Stcx Does not impose the sienine of nutes your —_— THIS. promise to pay ts quite of arranging payswents wt!! please you Dave a knack of adjusting these anounte im © ost satisfactory manner Look around and ser if you ran find another credit house in the District of Columba that Publishes prices. Here's our Mat, end you Will fod ft here every day tn the year except ARE COMING TO WASHINGTON. ‘The coming of Doctors Fritzand Damon, the leading table and fectly harmless in any condi- | means nmuch tothe sick and afflicted people of this Sunday tion of tho System. 4 city. “These are the phyviciens who have been per- Choice between & Plath of Halr-cioth Parlor forming ch remarkable cures during the past few Suite @25 cash, €30 on credit. Our entire third floor is devoted to Buttes in WH Git, Be. rior furait are. Rng - Tarestry-—Rrosetelia, Bvery inch of availabte apace <= Jour below ts devoted to € bg tA conte per yard chsh cena per oa credit. “etisnie - Inavaia,” Corpete Seuss pep Zardcamh-40 ‘ate Wer Para om credit "Don't forget that we mabe ang ery vend, of sctianed “of se ot” cont. “We he waste ip mat hing Many of our people have been to see these gentle- » and impossible, yet the ‘They make good and beneficent use of thelr powers Exchange gona new line No. 13th street n. w., between G ai rprakeeen Sy te strects, where people tay wituess, and there in this Ben All sizen Titel Gan Bea public place they trest the worthy poor without | a ogt ~A p08 on, ime 7 money and without price. This also affords skeptical Detect oer £: by people of doubt or prejudice an opportunity of seeing 85.50 .0n cretit, S these cures performed, as all treatment is given on cub #: the open vlatform in full view of the audience and no Gcctiag Gioves, Bricet wach yt ‘Admission fee ts charged. Dociors Fritz and Damon will give their first lec- ture—Clinics—at Builders’ Exchange Hail, 719 ish n. w., on January 17 st 2 o'clock in the afternoon and every afternoon at the same hour until further notice. All worthy poor will be treated free. The Philadelphia Council of Physicians, of which Doctors Fritz and D.mon are in chief, have an office Week ora mouth apart Reed and. pay” for trem’ little st sume vemos S's per sent tasouuk owed on bills past within ‘hirty days. o ry OG & GGG A MAMMOTH CKEDIT HOU Sth street nm. w., where those who are S19, 821 AND #23 7TH ST. NW. able and willing to pay may go and receive treatment BET. H ANDI STS. daily from 10a. m. to 12 m, and again daily from 4 | — ee to6p. m. and from 7 to 8 o'clock in the evening. ett Wausox & Care Gaesr Rossen Suz STORM RUBBERS, LIGHT RUBBERS, RUBBERS OFZALL STYLES, DON'T FORGET OUR $3.50 Suoes FOR TENDER FEET. Wusox & Cann, r 29 F ST. Nw. Baltimot store: 4 and 6 W. Baitimore st. jn6-tt ‘1523 F