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boulevards. I took them myself—stole them from these girls. What will one not do for the love of art?” In Algiers there isa special legion of discip- , to which are relegated the refractory mem- bers of the entire French army. In a letter from one of these rough fellows, on the face of things a thorongh villain, Bruant found ma- terial for one of his most touching songs: Biribi is Alzicrs, and “the New” is the con- Vict settlement in New Caledonia. “A Montrouge” por- trays a very different character. It isa sketch of the wild beast rob- ith his decoy, ‘who has red nd a head like » dog."” When she passes they say: “There goes In Rouge ‘At Montrouge!” ‘The wild beast robber sits amoug thieves in a thieves’ resort. Through all their abominable conversation he site silent, nerving himself up to his bloody work at might. MELro Is hot, the iood bolls in my akin, en I see red im the dark. I lay them all ont! Let the fellow beware wid follows my couse ‘At Montrouge! Then there are the women who sleep under the bridges of the Sein and even bring forth children there on the cold stones. There is the rough who bangs around the horse mar- kets of La Glaciere, who isatonce Parisian and peasant; he is the best fighter of his quarter, ttles by whieh he gained There is the jovial drunken ong a side ‘street, without sling that the SONGS OF TH EB SLUMS, Aristide Bruant, the Poet of the Paris Streets. THE GRIM AND GROTESQUE, age ‘The Strange Singer Who Throws a Light on the Under Side of Paris—People Whose Home is ou the Street—A Bard Who Lives Among the Wretched. Correspondence cf The Evening Star. Panis, March 14, 1898. RISTIDE BEUANT IS A writer and singer of songs thrilling in their ugliness, which portray in exact de‘ail the humors | a4 he recounts the ba! of the under side of | his suprema Paris. The wretched | loafer, staggering people with whom he | Money or credit, comically be Jeals are not unplens- | Pleasures affected by the x. love are denied hin iter girl, who has Panama moneyed dirty bourgeois” cir natural they are glad the present age of his book, pass anything hed and state of soc “Dans la Ru: acs at home! all his writings. © people,” he va Tam no! going to to live ir their sn to be as [ am.” preter to bea He is not | | much poorer than it used to be, though there say and the sof the ceme- ies have been piled up whole- ds up with a bit of radical polities: Sacred Heart, © ique, e high Lift up ths ery “Creve la Republique! This is followed by the slow chant of a verse from the psalm used by the church in times of calamity, “Parce, Domine,” &c.. at the close of which the wild refrain bursts out again: nildewed They see nothing noise. ances of to give | estimate of verses. In ite of his use of the Farisian argot, his ver- sification is perfectly adapted to the music and is not without dra- | matic — effects. verses frequently have some refrain taken from | the name of » quartier faubourg of Paris. the locality where little story passes, or the circle i midst of which the life of the hero or hercine is developed. Their | This song is fin de siecle enough. All of Bruant’s productions are capable of being used to illustrate a phrase which it is difficult to de- fine. What is fin de siecle? The words are in every mouth. On the Grand Boulevard a cam- clot is selling some new and grotesqui He chants ina rich, fatty voice: “Le petit rigolo! c'est epatant! c'est fin de siecle? Onn’a jamais - vu ca!—no one has ever seen this!” The words original stampengraves | are a peg upon which those who use them hang them on the memory. | the curious fabric of their hopes and prejudices Que of these songs, ““A | in these last times, when everything in France Menilmontant,” caught | seems new and changing. all Paris more thana/ ‘Yo the religious enthusiasts and the young | xear ago and is still! men of the neo-Christian movement fin de heard upon the street. | siecle means the crisis of fever before it breaks. pane therseli ppp by apho—on France, satiated with a century of license, will & favorite encore, and she still sings it at the | begin to seek for God as eagerly as God, a cen: Private parties of duckesses for the delectation | tury ago, was supposed to seek out man. of the Sian upper crust. It is @ rough Gn the other hand, there is the army of the sketch of «tough young man of that crowded | boulevard—scoffers, farceura. ‘These are fed quarter, who is made to speak for himself. | daily and revived by the fin de siecle journals, A single stanza will show the peculiar elisions | which make a sport of sin, and by fin de siecle which give its character to popular Parisian | cafe concert singers, among whom Bruant Verse; it will also show how prettily Bruant | shines asa particular star. Hanging over these manages its rhythm, in spite of the ignoble| with indulgent amusement. as the Greek gods | subject and the siang: floated over ancient Troy. ix the Olympia of the - great world, the rich and the successful, who find a new thrill of emotion in becoming famil- | iar with the least details of the ignoble, the | wretched, the depraved and the unfortunate. | It is on this fin de siecle wave that Bruant rides 80 famously. Bruant is the proprietor of @ cabaret—the Mirliton—near the top of the Rue des Martyrs. | He is his own proprietor, his own singer, bis | own policeman to keep order and aimost his own Waiter to serve customers. Curious peo-| | ple stand around the closed door, which is kept | always locked. You kuock and give your name | and Broant himself introduces you into th hall. He is master in his own house and looks | attentively at the persons whom he admits. He | points out a place with some jibing remark.and then returns to his singing or to receive new guests. The noisy chorus of the public, A Bel ‘Lsoir, avec sa p'tir’ famille, Ti s’balladait. or chentant, Des hacteurs de la Courtilie, ‘A Menilmontant. It is impossible that any translation should keep the musical rhyme and spirit of the origi- | nal A sample of the literalsense may be given: was adead beat ‘called himself 3. B. Chot Bud Se bat _— ville with his | little family, ‘The death of the young fellow's father is told | in these cynical | He drank so littie that one night seated before littie tables covered with glasses Bee. ant him lying on the paves of beer, keeps upthe refrain. He sings his own | eville verses walking with great strides across the | ball. A piano softly touched gives a discreet ‘accompaniment. | ‘The Mirliton is a curious scene. The little The rest is afin de siecle and not over nice | Foom is profusely lighted, with rows of wooden | i It telis hor the itero 13 left to be the | tables, where persons of ‘every rank take their > . how together lasses of weak beer. The single waiter, ma- Jestic as one of Napoleon's marshals, bas an ¢} to it that every one shall take something and | pay for what he takes. Then there is a humble | assistant, with the look of a schoolmaster, who | sells the latest songs and fills out the pauses by reciting verees to which no one listens. Last | | of all is the domineering master himself, | whether swelling his stentorian voice to cali some recalcitrant to order or lisping a fai story to some belle, his eves are everywhere and on ail,im order that nothing may bappen {n this place of his outside himself. = Menilmontant. It will be seen that uant's muse is ill- famed enough — the et with its v: bonds. But, as « Par- has pointed | this is precisely question—how to make the dregs of the cople interesting. how make respectable ie look at them at who is an bourgeois if ever was one, wer dared to at- comeagrande | | Present he is probably worth £750,000. The THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTO; RICH CONGRESSMEN. The New Senate Poorer in Money Than That Body Used to Be. THREE CRGSUSES GONE. Cost of Being in Congress—Conspicu: Members Who Live Humbly—Some Make Bi Savings From Their Salaries—Per- sites to Which They Are Entitled—Old- Time Advantages No Longer Enjoyed. 2+ HE ONLY VERY RICH man among the new Senators is A. C. Beck- with of Wyoming. His wealth is estimated all the way from $500,000 to $1,000,000, derived from coal mines and S banking. Next to him ‘in point of means comes Murphy of New York, who basaccumulated at least $250,000 in the brewing business, Not- thstanding the acquisition of these fortune: the upper house as a body is not half so well off in money as it was during Mr. Cleveland’s first administration. Three of the grentest capital- | ists in the world have dropped out of it ) then. Hearst of California, who died two years gO, was worth $25,000,000. When Stanford first escorted him down the middie aisle of the Senate to be sworn it was remarked that those ividuals could buy out all the rest of ate if they wanted to, Payne of Obi sandard oil magnate, has retired with his 000,000 from service, and the term of Uncle Sawyer of Osikosh, Wie., came to an of this year. ‘The beginning of £22.000,000 which he has got together’ was | £1,000 lent to hin by his brother when be was | vinall nucleus yy investments u timber lands he paid back the loan with €9 interest for every $1 borrowed. | 7 ber men of iillions—Farwell of Iili- | ichigan—have left the | eveland’s first term. The only | s which have come into it mean- hile are those of Calvin S. Brice, who has fe about $5,000,000 by speculation in rail- yand oil stock, and Thomas C. Power of Montana. ‘The latter is worth at least $1,500,000. He owns railways and steamship lines a= well a | ig housee all along the Montana border. | homas C. Power Cattle Company is one | | of the biggest enterprises of that kind in the west. POORER THAN IT USED TO BE. All things considered, the upper house is are stilla number of millionaires in it, Stan- ad of € . though he has given $6,000, o his pet university, must have at les 900,000. Den Cameron may be set down 009. His money was of Maine has #2 most of it with bis wife. Jobn Sherman's means are not overestimated at 1,000,000. He has been very fortunate in land ‘specuiations, and he has invested largely Washington, Wm. E. Chandler of New Hamp- hire has accumulated $750,000 by manufac- | turing wool and by lucky speculation. Carey of Wyoming and Teller of Colorado each pos- sess about £300,000. Jones of Nevada isa very pictaresque figure financially, having made and lost more fortunes than any other man in the United States. He still owns one-twelfth of the great Comstock lode and is probably worth 31,500,000 today. Mining speculations are extra hazardous. Senator Jones’ colleague, Stewart, hud $3,000, 000 at one time. It was then that he built that monstrosity of architecture called Stewart Castle on Dupont circle, now occupied by the Chinese legation. Probably his wealth amounts to no more than a small fraction of that much now. Warhburn, the Minnesota miller, bas been a great gambler in land. ‘Two years ago he was reduced to comparative poverty: at hest member of the House of Representa- is John L. Mitchell of Wisconsin. His possessions will foot up at least $1,000,000, most of which he inherited from his father, who was the great financier and railway organ: izer of that part of the country a generation ago. The son is president of & gas company and of a bank in Milwaukee. NOT MANY REPRESENTATIVES RICH. Not many of the Representatives in Congress are rich men. Thomas B. Reed is very well off, though he always “talks poor.” Before he was chosen Speaker he kept house, but since that time he has lived at Levi P. Morton's grea: hostelry on 15th street, the “Shoreham.” | Speaker Crisp puts up at the Metropolitan | jotel. Mr. Carlisle has until recently lived at one | hotel or another since he first took up his resi- dence in Washington. The late Samuel G. Randall dwelt in a little house which his wife owned on Catreet southeast. Chairman Springer of the ways and means committee occupies a small rented house on B street northeast. These locations, though conveniently near the Capitol, are very unfashionable. Dingley and Boutelie of Maine and Barrows of Michi board at hotels. Four-fifths of the Repre- | sentatives board. Much that is said about the difficulty which Congressmen find in living here on their sal- aries of $5,000 a year is not well founded in t. A score of Representativescould be men- tioned off hand each of whom saves from $2,000 to $3,000 annually out of his pay. Jerry Simp- son of Kansas and the eccentric Martin of ‘Texas, who is alleged to have blown out the gas ata hotel when he first came to Washington, have been among the most economical among recent inembers of the House. Many of them occupy single bed rooms, dress ehabbily and | live in no respect better than the average depart- | ment clerk. Thereare plenty of boarding houses here where meals and lodging can be got at! low prices, from $18 to $35a month. Thin city | has been widely advertised as. a very expeasive place to dwell in. It is not so at all, if one chooses to be saving. For $500 a year one can rent a nice little house near the Capitol; a ser- vant can be got for $10.8 month, and the mar- kets are not nigh. Congressman must ha fine house in the fashionable quarter of the town and enter- tain liberally $5,000 will not go very far. ‘The same proposition would apply anywhere else, One trouble with the new member is that he does not know whether he is going to remain here two yearsor twenty. For furnished dwell- ings an absurdly high rental is demanded. Many legislators for the nation save by leavi their families at home. Out of three hund: and thirty-odd members and delegates in the House during the last session only ninety-nine I k this last stratum of society. In his books upon the social question you find onl; sdain for working. id women who the labor to sus- themselves by Zoia chastely ed his eyes from abvss. Bruant fifteen years the contrast be- the street and the ad couventionality. | m WHERE BRUANT Lives. Despite his success Bruant remains faithful to the slums and the peculiar kind of artistic life which he has created for himself. He lives among his worst subjects—in the extreme limit of the inhabited part of Paris. “Are you in safety here?” he had been asked. “They steal around here like magpies,” he said. “I can see that by the way my pigeons dis- | ep ar. But otherwise they let me alone, akicugh | there are fellows here o} Bo more sets up for a humorist than | the worst | } | | comes later. He bexi tween the poo: well-cloced ro. Bruar* had wives with them. It was noticeable that of the ten members whose names begin with the letter O not one was accompanied by his wife. Out of the sixteen P's only one. had his wife with him in Washington, and of twenty-four M’s but three enjoyed the companionship of their spouses. Is it possible that men whose names begin with those letters are commonly less inclined to be uxorious than those whose initials are found elsewhere in the alphabet? On the other hand more than half of the Sena- tors were accompanied by their wives, and they had twenty-seven daughters with them in addi- tion. WHAT IT COSTS TO BE IN soctETY. Some of the finest palaces in this city of beautiful houses are occupied by Congressmen. A Senator whose wife is fond of society can easily spend 20,000 o year in entertaining without making much of o splurge, ‘The x kind and the Cafe des & sentimental writer. The humor, | Assassins is just at one side. ‘They do not dare ‘or or the pathos, | to touch me! When I come back at 3 o'clock atnight or later you can be sure I am not ®hsilent. I baw! my songs the whole way. I snap id has no my whip and I greet every one who passes me with my most formidable voice. The whole hill- side knows that | ameominghome. And then, in their hearts, they believe that Iam one of them, the Lrigands! There is some legend about m in their bands. However, at night in these Potts Lave always 8 Sores rer with me. also, they are not orant tai” vere Be‘graniixe HEmio. he does & bs tramp who bas e legal oxi ken-down n Jost his the king's highway, but fein bis own place, the street beiongs to him. ill take up the story of unfortu- | nave Young girl who has come to misery and ace in a few rough lines her bistoty from its earliest childhood: ‘The merciless repetition of the refrain brings | [ Brices are particularly lavish with flowers, the table at their dinner parties being always fairly covered with costly roses and other blooms. This item alone must cost them several hun- dred doilars for evening of such festiv- ity. Living on such ascale a very moderate reckoning of a Congressman's expenditures in Washington would be as follows: Rent of furnished house. Deck to the beara: at evers moment the pe- he a the low life with which Bruant, “and they know me. They know the | easure they xive me in communicating the| | @ ¢ creations of their slang. A new word! |,; freshly manufactured spreads with astonishing rapidity in that worid of theirs. Each one of them is proud to know it and wishes to pass for the first one that learned it. They are right, pom de Dieu! Their language is very beauti- In this way he gets his matter direct. “Here ‘re some of my archives,” he said to a friend. “They are letters sent by soldiers in Africa to| “Truth is stranger ‘their sweethearts who run the pare on the outer ' isn’t the fault of Laura “I know this species of female well,” says | than Jean iby -—Peel anv. Certain whieh ordinary people ji | jus draw $600 on his account. tatives were p: of actual service. salary | one out and sticks it upon the ‘These blanks are being used to a considerable extent at present for telegrams which have re- lation to appcintments to offices. por- sessor is not supposed toemploy them for busi- ness purposes, but only on private matters. Their Traits of Self-preservation Are Devel- themselves in would protect them im compar- atively open places, says a writer in Cornhill Unless one had seen it one would hardly give the raptores credit for this, but they practice it to perfection. ‘This class of birds has been my favorite study from my boyhood, and I shall never be able to finish the study, for something fresh is continually coming before me, eagie, for one, places himself in strange posi- tions, s mero bundled-up bunch of feathers to most suitable. self-preserving trai in zoological collections, for the birds are so accustomed to see large numbers of people pass treat ‘They know that at a certain time their food will be brought them, and that they are otherwise perfectly safe. ‘Then the raptores in s wild state havea bloom on their bloom on a bunch of seen when in captivi ample, ft it be supposed that a Senator feels fatigued.at the close of an afternoon session. He descends to the basement of the Capitol and bas a warm bath drawn for him in a superb tub of white marble. If he prefers he can make it a Turkish bath, for which all the ap- urtenances are athand. There are negro at- ndants skilled in massage who will thump and slap him to bis heart's content, For all this b is not required to paya cent, Terchance « rite corn has annoyed him, during the day. summons the official chiropodist, a salaried expert in government employ, who operates free of charge. If he expects to spend the evening out he may want a shave and haircut, which are readily obtained at the hands of deft fingered barbers, likewise in the service of Y The hair tonic applied to his tine” for his mustache and the cologne bestowed upon his countenance through an atomizer are all purchased out of the contingent fund of the Senate. Finally, a gratuitous “shine” is put on his boots bya stipendiary shoeblack. Among other things which the contingent fund pays for are castor oil, of which any ator can get a dose for nothing, quinine pil “pond lily wash” and courtplaster. Those are but afew of hundreds of such queer things which are enumerated in the accounts of the secretary of the Senate, together with gin, ale by the case and lemons by the box. ai beng required at government expense for the com: fort of that august bod: Representatives at the other end of the Capitol’ have their bar- ber shop also, but they pay for their shaves and haircuts. For some reason which has never been satisfactorily explained, a Senator is sup- Posed, to have need of many more luxuries than re granted toa member of the House. Ho is allowed a clerk at $2,000 a year, while only lately for the first time has it been decided that a Representative may be granted a clerk, so long as the salary of such an assistant does not exceed $100 a month. PRIVILEGES THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAY. Several useful privileges which Congressmen formerly had they no longer enjoy. They abused the right of franking to such an extent, using it toobiain free transportation for all sorts of packages and bundies, that it has been restricted. At present they are only allowed to frank public documenta and official letters. ch Senator or Representative has an an allowance of $125 worth of stationery drawn upon by requisition for anything th wanted from the big stedioners’ suons at either end of the Capitol. Until recontly ihese shops kept such things in stock as penknives, opera is glasses, clocks, &c.. the consequence being that | many legislators bought thei- Christmas pres- ents at cost prices out of their allowances. This was put a stop to finally. Railway passes are no longer so readily obtained as before the in: terstate commerce law came into force, but it believed that mest Congressmen get them the same, Congressmen are allowed 10 cents for every mile traveled in going one round trip from | home to Washington and back during each Congress, A member from California would In the early days of the national legislature Senators and Represen- at the rate of $8 for every day ‘The roll call thus served as a t. ‘There being no railwi wenty miles y stage. Nearly every Congressman Such a book and the holder, when he wants to send a message, simply tears contains 100 detachable stam} The Representatives in Congress used to be al- lowed to draw on their salaries in advance from | ; the sergeant-at-arms of the House. famous Silco! | of members were found to have got money ahead on their salaries. The sergeant-at-arms di bers and shaving their notes ata high rate of | interest. He would make loans which were se- cured by the member’: surance policy guaranteeing the latter's sur- vival. He could only lose in case the member resigned, which did happen on two or three occasions. In one instance he lent a man $10,- 000—the entire amount of years of service ahead. This sort of thing was put g stop to when Silcot! now no Representati penny in advance. mouth as it comes due. When the detalcation occurred a number a large business in lending money to mem- salary and by a life in- salary for two theft occurred, and is permitted to draw a He can only got his $416 a ———_+e+—____ BIEDS ON THE DEFENSIVE, oped in Native Wilds. The attitudes that some large birds place The look at. A friend of mine who recently visited Achill Island, the island of the eagle, was on the cliffs with his wife und some other friends when a lady saw in a cleft of the rocks close to | her what she thought was a splendid tuft of feathers that had been blown there by the wind. On stooping to pick them up, out from the cleft dashed « magnificent eagie, leaving behind him a tuft of feathers as & memento. Vigilant as the bird is he is frequently walked over. drowsy; stances’ that Falcons, hawk: press their feathers and look very slim if they think it necessary to do 60. As to the owls, After gorging he gots indeed, it is only under theo circum- i place. the larger specie—can com- hey can hump up into any position they think It is useless to look for these in any of the family kept ing or standing in front of them that they whole matter with perfect indifference. umes like the f grapes, which is not often An Evening Stroll. (Wedicated to the preparatory department, Colam- Dian University.) strolled that evenin by the home, ‘The Louise Home in sight; ‘The sky above was dark, its dome ‘With not a star that night— As if the angels dwelling there ‘Had closed the windows of the sphere. But in the home, the Louise Home, Each window shone so bright, Asif the angels swift had come ‘To Kindle there each light— Shining like stars before me there, ‘Faith, hope and love, the angels near. ‘The mansion stood, the refuge dear, Before me on the street, ‘Radiant as day, though I could hear No sound or voice to greet— Like some bright vestibule of heaven, A pause before the songs were given. And as I gazed, I thought of him, ‘The founder, brave and true, ‘The benefaction so sublime, ‘That mansion fall in view— ‘Where sad and weary ones might find A shelter from life's wintry wind Another monument not far, ‘Columbian College stood; could not see the shining star By the Potomac flood— ‘The grand arena where our youth ‘Now come to view the realm of truth. ‘The coliege grand, the home so dear— ‘The start, the end of lite— ‘One in life’s morning bright and clear, And one where ends the strite— ‘Two columns pointing to the skies, And shining now before our eyes. One for the young, for life to train, ‘To fight the battle well; ‘One for the old, from cold and rain ‘Sweet home where they may dwell— ‘Two records fair and bright to see, (Of faith and hope and charity. ‘Darkness may vell the stars by night, And clouds the sun by day; ‘The Louise Home is still in sight, Columbian by the way— ‘The footprints of # good man gone ‘To hear the blessed word—well done!” ‘—J. H. Cormuanr. then, in- | stead of 10 cents a mile, one day's pay was drawn for each 20 miles traveled. was considered a fair day's journey on horse back or | has a book of franks for telegrais, supplied by | the Western Union Compan: telegraph blank. | #. THE “ROYAL PURPLE.” How Railroad Development and Con- solidation Are Often Foretold. THE STOVE COMMITTEE. ————_—_ A Mysterious Railroad Clique and the Titles Given It by Officials and Trainmen—Fore- tolling the Future—Interesting Stories Told toa Star Reporter. NE OF THE MOST mysterious cliques con- nected with a railroad or moving in railroad circles is the “store committee” or, as the trainmen call it, “Royal Purple.” The “Royal Purple” is the source of all railroad informa- = tion for which no rail- XS road officer is willing to J, be directly responsible. , Sa The “Royal Parple” is connected with every railroad. It keeps wateh of things, discusses internal and external poli- cies, criticises the officers of the road and passes out to the world, through devious and untrace- able ways, “tips” of what is going to happen. If an unpopular officer or agent of a railroad company is about to be removed or transferred to some post less desirable than the one he has occupied he generally gets his first informatio | about it from the mysterious ‘Royal Purple” | or “stove committee.” A conspicuous illustration of this fact may | be cited in the case of Charles Francis Adams, who was depored from the presidency of the ; Union Pacific railroad « few years back by the | [late Mr. Gould. The news of Mr. Adams’ | prospective fate. it will be remembered, was | Wafted into the oftices of several large metro- | Politan. ps from the well-posted “stove committee,” and appearing in print was met with repexted denials from Mr. Adams. But in abont six weeks’ time he was ‘finally obliged to admit ite correctness, THE SHADOWY comrTrEE. The different titles given this shadowy com- mittee by the officials and trainmen of the rail- road eervice can be accounted for perhaps in the abhorrence of anything anonymous by the former and the veneration of the same by the | latter. ‘There is nothing that pleases and grat- ifies a railroader in the ranks so much as to be the custodian of a piece of news that concerns is road or his fellow employes. The news, if it be important, must of necessity originate from the higher officials of the road, and as | those autocrats of the wheel and cy o- re lik- jened unto kings by those under them the | title—Royal Purple—is not such » meaningless | one after al | Looking atit from an official standpoint, an | atmosphere of practical intellect attain- ; ments, nothing can appear so ridiculous as a Tumor. Anything that possesses a well-dis- corned basis, as for instance a great necessity, will be given a second thought. but a shadowy rumor or hearsay is too smail for considera- tion—hence the title “‘stovepipe committee.” It is said that. the “Royal Purple” was the custodian of the Reading receivership secret some two weeks previous to Mr. Pierepont Morgan and that the true friends of the great coal-carrying road in its days of adversity had no causp to regret their allegiance thereto. A READING RUMOR, At the time Reading stock advanced in an un- broken upward movement from 18 on the Phila- delphia stock exchange and double that on the New York boards, to 35, Mr. Wanamaker was credited with having cleared round million and several of his friends almost as much. When the receivership appointment was found to be inevitable and Reading stock slumped | booked to participate in the ratsi C, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1898—SIXTEEN PAGES. old farmer was madea confidant of. He did ‘Bot betray the trust reposed in him and in good time came his reward. He was fully convers- ant of the details of Col. Scott's final move and like the rabbit of the later day fairy thbely hee. . | Directly in the way of the contemplated | branch to Washington were the lands of the farmer to whom the “stove committee” had | given the “tip.” and for a considerable distance south they were pointed out. Agents of the company thade frequent trips to the old farm house and heated interviews generally fol- lowed. The old farmer argued that his land was the best in Marvinnd. while in reality it was | hard to find worse, but when asked to name bis price he refused and said he dida’t want to sell. | BE GOT THE TIP TO GIVE IN. H Finally the “tip” camo from the “stove com- mittee” to give in and come to an understand- | ing with the railroad, « state of affairs the old | farmer was only too glad to profit by, as he be- | gan to think he had carried his bluff too far and was going to be left out in the cold. Col. Scott was furious at the old farmer's ob- | stinacy, but told his agent to try him once more with a final raise of $10 per acre over the last price offered. ‘The old farmer must have been a good poker player, because he handied his cards well and raked in the limit, a sum of money more than triple what his entire farm was worth, and only for the privilege of running through it, It was said afterward that a boy taken from the state reformatory and raised to manpood by the old farmer held » cbnfidential position around railroad headquarters in Philadelphia at | the time Scott's great coup was under way. Perhaps be was chairmanand secretary of the “stove committee” of the Pennsylvania road at that time. Who can tell? A RECENT INVESTIGATIO! Down at the “oil house” on Virginia avenue the trainmen were discussing a late wreck one night during the past week, and one man said he had it straight from the “Royal Purple” why no one was punished for the catastrophe. The accident in question occurred on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Several people were horribly mangled and for atime President Harrison was thought to be among the number mjured. It will be recalled that a heavy special loaded with Representatives and Senators strack train, cut one car in two, but the did the smashing was not damaged. ‘The special was bound for New York, the passengers being ig of the American fing over the steamship City of Paris. All the railroad officials were desirous of the train making exceptional quick time, as it had beon widely advertised, and one of the best en- gineers in the service was selected to handle the throttle. All went well until just outside of Philadelphia the special received orders that the track was clear ahead. ‘The track was clear | but this did not take into account the fact that a train was due to crots over the track few miles below. On went th special at a terrific rate of speed: the crossing hove into view and the suburban train sighted. Down went the air brakes, but it was snowing at the time and the train slid, like a huge toboggan sled, right into the center car and the loss of life followed. Then came the investigation. The engineer of the special had jumped from his engine when he saw that the accident was inevitable, but crawled around to the investigation to teli | how he had received orders to the effect that | the track was clear. The engineer of the | suburban train told of his train having the Tight of way and was on time. The operator at the signal tower testified to hav.ag the | r signal down, and the train runner in | ladelphia office went into details as to the rules of the roadand what orders he had given. The coroner's jury returned a verdict to the effect that the accident was unavoidable owing to the slippery condition of the rails and the railroad officials censured no one. Now comes the sequel as leaking out through the “Royal Purple” and retold to a party of men at the “oil house.” As before noted, the officials of the road were anxious for great ‘One of the highest officials of the road strolied into the train runner's office on the morning of the wreck and inquired how the special was doing. Not being satisfied with the reply he ordered the train runner to inform the engineer of the special that he had a clear track and for him to “let ’er out.” He no doubé forgot the suburban from 35 to the neighborhood of 12ina few days rumors flew thick and fast that those who had made money on the rise were ones who lost it on the decline. The “stove committee” said nay, and an extensive pleasure trip to Mexico and the south would seem to sub- stantiate the latter's declaration. Were railroad officials more inclined to grasp at shadows, so to speak, in the shape of rumors, than things more substantial, a more healthy bank account would be theirs, They are fre- quently custodians of secrets, even before the “Royal Purple,” in the shape ‘of contemplated improvements and consolidations that would boom the stock of their roads several points, yet they are so engrossed in working out their plans that speculating on their knowledge is one of the last things thought of. Some years back an old wholesale groceryman and commission merchant living in Baltimore was in close touch with the “stove committee,” inthe shape of a nephew who was the confiden- tial clerk of a high railroad official. One morn- ing the old merchant received a dispatch that made him exceedingly nervous and inquire how much money was in the bank to his credit 4 BALTIMORE GROCER’s sUCcEss. In telling this story to an Evex1no Strap re- porter one evening recently a prominent rail- Toad official said “‘[ was a bookkeeper for the old merchant then and for the first time heard of the mysteri- ous ‘stove committee.’ As he ran his nervous hands over the books I inquired of him as to the identity of the sender of the message. He replied in “«‘Oh, it’s from the stove committee,’ and grabbing up his hat rushed from the counting room. ‘Ho left the message lying on the desk, and I took it up and read it, It ran as follow “‘Northern Central looks bright today. balloon properly inflated goes up very high. “That was in the days before the Pennsyl- vania railroad gobbled up the Northern Cen- tral. ‘That stock was selling at $15 a share on the Baltimore stock exchange. The old fellow had about 1,000 shares, but he purchased 1,500 more at an average of about $17 a share. ‘Then it began to climb, and just previous to my leav. ing his employ several years back he sold the entiro lot at €60 a share, netting him nearly hundred thousand dollars. That was one case | in which being on speaking terms with the ‘stove committee’ came in very > “The old merchant then retired from busi- ness and was made president of an old-estab- lished bank at €5,000 a year. Not long after- ward the notorious ‘Hungry Joe’ of confidence game fame wove a net around him and although captured and sentenced to a long term in Maryland state prison it is believed he secured fully $50,000 of the old merchant's money and has it safely hidden away as a nest egg when the time comes for him to turn his back on the jail door. ‘The disgrace almost lost the old merchant his reason, as it did the bank prosidency, and one is forced, to ask bin- self wi -aggran nt through ‘stove committee’ really pays.” 4 FARMER'S GREAT BLUFF. There is a well-to-do farmer out on the Baltimore and Potomac road about ten miles who, were he so inclined, could tell an inter- esting story wherein the ‘stove committee” played an important part. It was during the days when Washington had only one railroad to carry its citizens north. ‘The great and far-seeing Col. Thomas Scott, then president of the Pennsylvania railroad, ‘was casting covetous eyes on the national capi- tal, but how to secure an entrance was 8 pro jairing the thinking pan of » brain far Bol Beott poses xed He knew it would never do to try and get a charter fora ee to ie ington from ry! legislature. senior Garrett in those days was nearly Scott's equal asa railroad and manipulator i f i i ! 2 oy i z GE a ert is eal £ train. The engineer was a speedy man and liked nothing better than such an order. He “let ‘er out’ and the wreck followed. | System, and cure the ills that result from tmpover- | any little noise caused me to start and flutter. This DOCTOR AND PATIENT. Paine's Celery Compound Cures Where Physicians Fail. ‘The position of the physician who deals with | “I enclose the case of Mr. Littlejohn of Janem> the nervous and the feeble, the pain-worn, the | ville, Wis. hyster!.al, the sleepless, is one of the utmost “Some four years ago last Jone Mr. John Lite gravity. jonn complained to me of a peculiar sensation i Proionged strain cf mind and bod} of Doth, ts | his head and neck, right side. I examined Bim apt to result all too quickiy in sudden collapse. One of the greatest physicians the world has ever Seen, who was for years the most prominent man upon the faculty of Dartmouth, realizing the ex- tent of the physician's responsibility, set about to discover a remedy that should build up the nervous Closely and told him that he hada Blood clot at the base of the Dram, I thought, or a small tumor Pushing upon the nerves at the base of the braim ished blood and diseased nerves. He discovered that greatest of all remedies, Paine’s celery com- Pound, and submitted the formula to fellow phy- sicians, There was no secret about it. The formula from that time till now has been furnished, whenever asked for, to reputable physicians, aud they have time and again examined it, and knowing that it ts 00d, have recommended it to those who are sick. No other remedy wasever so highly endorsed and so generally used and recommended by phy= sictans. Trecommended him to one of the best physicians, Dr. J.B. W. He went and the a made nis @iggnosia, I'saw the doctor the next day and he said he had found some undue pressure at the base of the brain. Dr. W.'s diagnosis was the same as My own, althougn we had neither of us known any- thing about the other's diagnosis. There was some Unsteady twitchings of the facial muscles on the Tight side, and especially of the right eve. “Mr. Littlejohn seemed to be completely anbal- anced and ‘jerky'and quite unst This se truthful statement of Mr. Littlejoun’s condition, He tried every conceivable remedy, by the recom Mmendation of some eight or ten physicians tm : = Janesville, Chicago and Milwaukee and other Dr. William Horne, who for a dozen years has | Places. All the treatment failed toretleve him. I been one of the most prominent editorsof, and | Tecommended Paine’s celery compound. writers for, medical journals, writing in May of | “He tried it, and by @ steady, persistent use of last year, said: the celery compound he completely cured himself “Ihave been using Paine’s celery compound for | of the worst case of extreme nervous prostration six weeks for myself and wife. I am like ali | and excitability that I ever saw. Mr. Littlejohn gtaduated M-D.’s, opposed to proprietary remedies. | informs me that he has spent over $5,000 in doctors 1 was induced totry the celery compound after j ing, without good. He thoroughly tried celery Teading Commodore Howell's letter. I feel con- | compound. It completely cured him.” scientiously inclined to testify to the building-ap | Mr. Littlejohn himself writes: ‘qualities of the celery compound. Iam just finish-| “I have been a traveling man fora great many ing the sixth bottle. I have recommended the | years, and the exposures and worry that follow compound to many. pusiness transactions, caused me to break down “For five years I have been aMicted, each season, | With nervous prostration so that for several Gays with excessive nervousness; so sensitive was I that | they thought 1 was dying. Besides this I had the creeping paralysis in my left arm, hand and ide So that they were almost entirely useless, and I had a most severe case of catarrh to the extent that if almost destroyed my eyesight and ruined my hearing. I had no sense of taste whatever for two years. I had all this so that I was used completely extreme nervous condition induced an unpleasant afMiction of eczema, a partly nervous disease with me. For five seasqps I have been full of itching, | Ted, eruptive spots. Three weeks ago this condi- | ton came upon me again, but with much more ex- | Asa natural result no one was punished for the accident. How could the railroad do it when one of its most prominent men was responsible for it? And once more the true insight into the cause of a wreck comes out through the “Royal Parple” or the “stove committee,” ‘WILHELM REBELS. The Dowager Empress Frederick Will ‘Take Up Her Residence in England. ‘The Empress Frederick is determined to take up her permanent residence in England, where she will stay at Windsor and avoid Germany as much as possible, says a Berlin letter. The general belief that the ardent desire for her native land caused this conclusion is a mistake. ‘The ex-empress believes that she is driven out of Prussia by the treatment of her by her son, the emperor, and his imperial consort. It is well known that the Empress Frederick was very much opposed to the marriage of her | eon, the present emperor. Her antipathy | against his young consort increased the more Wilhelm showed his mother his independence, Wilhelm had only been married about six months, and was living at the Schloss in Ber- lin, when his mother, the crown princess, vis- ited him, and, like all mothers-in-law, com- menced to give orders in domestic affairs. The young princess submitted silently and tried to please her mother-in-law as far as pos- sible, until tears filled her eyes. ‘That was too much for Wilhelm, who had beon listening behind a newspaper he was reading. “Mamma,” he cried, “I am sure you have forgotten that you are not at home. You are in my house, of which my wife is the mistress. She is the only one who has to command here ears e crown princess in wrath and has ever since fostered an invincible hatred to- ward her daughter-in-law. She bas never en- tered her house since without official reason. Immediately after the Emperor Frederick’ death the empress could not conceal her feel- - against her son’s wife any longer, so, it is } inspired the English press to attack the young empress in a very rude manner. ‘Besides her daughter-in-law it was the iron chancellor upon whom the Empress Frederick's wrath fell. She could not bear to be displaced from the powerful position she had occupied during the short reign of her metas comet je young emperor was, according to her view, far too slow in throwing over the faithful ad. viser and friend of the old Emperor Wilhelm. At last Bismarck had to bt but, in spite of this fact, the influence of Empress Frederick id not gain. On the contrary, when she tried to mix up with politics and to advise the emperor she was told by the latter that she was — Since then she has spent most of her time outside of Berlin. When she was informed that the emperor felt the want of a reconcili- ation with Bismarck and hed instructed Count von Waldersee to straighten matters her old hatred and jealousy broke out anew. She rushed to the emperor to tell him that if this were nots rumor, but truth, she would quit the country, and she is going to quit. ere eee LABYRINTH OF PIPES. network of pipes, sewers and conduits. Take se blue-print map and the underground work on the fair grounds looks like a jumbled maze of wires and/pipes. In reality it is all method and order, and the entire conduit and sewer- age system is pronounced by experts one of the finest ever constracted. There are over 100 | the Paine’s celery compound. My unpleasant | them were the sorrel-bearded pessenger and cessive nervous prostration. I commenced taking | up for five years,so you can Judge of my cond- ton. And after all of these doctors failing, I anally cured myself by using Paine’s celery compound.” Is there a sick person who can afford notto ty a bottle of this wonderful remeay? hervous condition is entirely gone. I sleep well and have a good appetite. My dyspepsia is gone and Ieasily digest all I eat. SLEEPY HEADS FOUND A PILLOW. Though It Was Not Willingly That the Vie- tim Served in That Capacity. HE PASSENGER WITH THE SORREL- colored beard had the car to himself all the | | way from the Capitol to 9th and F streets. At that point the vehicle came to a brief pause and took on board two tired-looking young girls, One had brown hair, brown eyes and a brown paper bundle under her arm; the other was dark and carried a green pasteboard box. Probabiy they had been working late at some shop, the hour being nearly 11 p. m. The | theaters were disgorging crowds of well-dressed and warmly mufted people upon the street so that the car filled up in traversing the next few blocks, and the girls found themselves in immediate juxtaposition with the man with the sorrel whiskers. By the time that Dupont Circle was reached the car was partly emptied again, and the vo- hicle turned westward down P street with not more than a dozen persons aboard. Among FEROCITY OF ARAB DERVISHES. How They Behave Themselves in Battle— Absolutely Destitute of Fear. I think it was at the battle of El Teb I first made the acquaintance of the mabdist der- vishes, says @ correspondent of the London Telegraph. The Fuzzy Wuzzy Hadendowah tribesman is the bravest of the dervish is heroism run crazy. “holy beggars,” self-sworn to devote themselves to the prophet's cause. came at Gen. Grabam’ square of marines, Highlandmen and stout linesmen as if we had been children to befright- ened by acry. Clad in their patchwork rags, with shaved bare heads, many armed with no better weapons than sticks, they charged full in front of the fire-walied square. Down they went by scores and hundreds, but others up the running toward un I y—more than one of them— ough and throagh with Marti jenrr bullet wounds, come fiercely on, reel ing like drunken men, their teeth gleaming and eyes aflame with’ hatred. Happy were they if they could but cross wi with our bayonets. When exbausted nature failed them their last act was generally to burl the weapon they carried, stick, lance or sword, toward our ranks, and shout an Arab impreca- tion against us, “Nosrani!” (Nazarene). Am old gray-baired sheik actually charged the square reading the Koran aloud. which be held ‘Laveron. when Sir derbert (then . charged the worsted Arab two regiments of cavalry, their mounted dervirhes faced hix whole force i boldiy charged them in return. Again, ‘Tamat, when the Arabs broke into Gen. Davis’ ' square, where I was, and temporarily captured our six machine guns, on which they danced in fiendish glee, the dervishes were in the fore- front of the attack. A big marine who bad bayonetes one of them found his rite caught and clutched by the fa- natic savage, Who strove to reach his foeman h his sword. It was at the moment we were driven back, and while the marine tagged and swore to get his weapon free the rv dervish yed with his parting strength to slay or wound our Tommy Atkins. In the desperate battle of Abu Kiea similar scenes occurred. I state it as a fact that during the melee in which Col. Parnaby fell a dervieh who tnd struck that officer and was promptly bayonete: through the back twisted about while the steel was protrud- ing and tried to thrust bis lance into the sol- dier. n the crippled and wounded der- vishes on the field of battle lay i: wait to stab the chance passing enemy. Asked to “sur- render” and put down their awords and spears, ‘the invariable answer of the sorely stricken de: hristian (or intidel) dogs, never: When I'saw them last in the Soudan, s few years ago, there was no abatement in their | bloodthirsty ferocity, nor show of besitation, whether they numbered few or many, of « longing to get to close quarters with their enemy. the two girls. The latter were both very slee and one of them was already enjoying a bli ful unconsciousness of her surroundings, having reposed her head upon the shoulder companion. The second young woman, who sat next to the individual with the whis kers aforesaid, had been trying her best to ks awake;but her head kept nodding, and fi it found. resting piace against the rough cout sleeve of her strange neighbor. Sleep had overcome her also, and presently, without knowing it, she was actually recifming against ‘the sorrel-bearded ian. The car gave a small jump as it glided upon the bridge that crosses Rock creck. which caused the girl to fall still farther over against the passenger with the sorrel whiskers. Now | her head fairly reposed upon his chest, wl the other young woman obeyed the influence of gravity by reclining against her companion nt what had become an angie of 45 degrees. If he was embarrassed by this situation he did not } show it, On the contrary, he made no effort to release himself from the ‘situation, but main- tamed an appearance of absolute composure, as if nothing had occurred which was at all unu- sual or out of the way. By this time the other people in the vehicle had become much inter- ested and two or three of them crossed to th ite side ii that they might gaz vantage. j Perhaps this performance made the man | think that the thing had gone far enough. | Wishing to arouse the girl he gently moved away | about # foot, upon wiich her bead fell into is lap, where she continued her unconscious re- pose with one ungloved hand clasping tightly a whisp of reddish whisker. Meanwhile the other young woman was noi awakened. ‘The stbrurdity ofthe situation wae too much for the ity of the other passengers, who indulged Er tivappremea giggles. The victin smiled slightly, but otherwise paid no attention v0 them. "He made, no turtber attempt to gst away, and five minutes later, when the conduc- . eee tor offered to awaken the sleepers, he refused | , 4 room without « couch of some sort ie only fopermit it, saying simply: “They are tired | balf furnished. Life is fall of upsand downs, oak poor things. Let thea rest." and all that saves the sanity of the mentally So he continued to sit motionless, serving as | jaded and physically exhausted fortune fighter s pillow for the girls. The conductor said that | is the ;jeriodical good ery and momentary lows they lived beyond the end of the route, and the | Or eon ciousnons om the al Smabar ae a Oe ae ee ee aa rane ie | cid cota in the sitting room, ‘There are tienes when the writer for Tux Sr, when so many of the things that distract us = Nap You Need. From Hall's Journal, women the car at 33d street. Friendship Between a Horse and = Dog. From the New York Tribune. A plumber at Narragansett had a horse twenty-seven years old, which was used for car- rying around his master’s material when that was necessary, but spent most of its time in » limits of Jackson Park, main buildings and light to all parte of the ground, The water supply includes fire. pro. Nd aed OF this ‘amount 40,000,000 gallons it ; i i i i EG i i i i ge iy t fF i