Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1895, Page 15

ON CHINESE RIVER The Waterways Are the Principal Means of Communication. METHODS OF RAISING WAR INDEMNITY * The Curious Boats and Phases of Life on the Water. OFFICIAL CORRUPTION (Copsrighted, 1895, by Frank G. Carpenter.) APAN, IT IS SAID, will demand $250,000,- 000 in gold from Chi- na in addition to the territory which is to be granted as the price of peace. It is a question in the minds of all who know anything con- cerning the Chinese government as to how it will be able to collect this vast sum. It will prob- ably get the money in the first place in the shape of a foreign loan, and the customs Will be mortgaged to pay the interest. At present China has perhaps the lowest taxes in the world, and the farmers pay less on nds than they do in any of the countries of Europe. The increasing of Such taxes would create a revolution. The only way that the government can raise Money will be through levying duties on imports and exports. This will fill the riv- hatame.. __aesodtanmrtiprincactts, A Pearl River Boat. ers with tax gatherers, and China will be honeycombed with a network of official rob- bers. Every officer will put some of the re- ceipts in nis own pocket, and prices of all Kinds wiil rise. The rivers are the high- ways of China. The country is said to have 4,000 roads, but it has none which are good, and the rivers and the canals form the chief means of communication. There is no land on the globe which is better wat- ered. There are provinces in China as big as New York which are cut up by canals like Holiand, and in which you can visit every man’s housé¢ by boat. You can travel a distance longer than a journey around the world on the Chinese interior water- ways, and the Nile has its equals in the Yangtse Kiang and Hoang Ho. Each of these rivers carries as much silt as the Nile ev- y year, and the sea is colored yellow for from thirty to fifty miles on each side of their mouths. At the mouth of the Yangtse Kiang the water is as thick as pea soup, and ali along the mizhty river men are seen dipping it up, pouring it into ditches, in order that it may be carried off and spread over the land. oe 2,000 Miles of Chinese Rivers. I have traveled more than 2,000 miles upon these wonderful rivers of China, ‘The sceres along their banks ere like those of no other streams of the world. Irriga- tion goes on everywhere, and the feriiliz- ing material which they contain rcjuve- nates the Chinese soil as the Nile dues that of Egypt. The Great Plain of China, which, by the way, is the most thickly pop- ulated part of the empire, has been built up from the sea by the Chinese rivers. It runs along the Pacific coast for about 700 miles, and it is from 300 to 500 miles wide. It is one of the richest plains of the world, and its soil is mixed with salts and the evidences of decayed vegetation. It comes from the Loess region in the far interior of China. This region is a vast territory covered with a yellow earth about’ 1,000 feet deep. This soil is very fine, and when a stream flows into it, it seems to split »n vertically, and the rivers which run through it pass through gorges of sand 500 feet deep. From time to time the vel- low soil splits eff in sheets from the sides of these gorg and it is carried down to the sea. During the hot season the wins blow through this Loess region and carry the dust over C . This aids in its fer- tilization. The silt carried down by the rivers to the sea is so great that the land every year inches 100 feet upon the sea, and this has been going on for ages. Near Shanghai there is a large island which has been built up by the Yangtse Kiang, and A Peiho Junk. the land north of this is, to a_great ex- tent, the product of the Hoang Ho and ihe Peiho. The Yangtse Kiang river is said to be ) miles long. The Hoang Ho rises in Thibet within 109 miles of the mouth of «he Yangtse, and it is almost of the same length. It flows as far as from New York to Denver before it gets a large branch, and by the time it has reached the sea it has gone as far as from New York to San sco. It is only navigable by small 1 a great part of its course is through the Great Plain. It has vast em- bankments to keep it in its course, but every year or so a flood comes, and hun- dreds of thousands, and sometimes mil- lions, of people are swallowed up by it. When I first visited China, I arrived just after one of these big floods. About twen- ty million people were ruined by the river, and millions had been drowned. During my trip of last year I sailed up the Petho to Tien-Tsin and saw the evidences of the t flood of the year previous. ‘This cov- ered the plains surrounding Tientsin. It ruined hundreds of villages, and at one time it seemed as though it would en- danger the great city of Li Hung Chang, which, you know, contains a million people. Right below Tien-Tsin I saw thousands of graves which had been washed out by this flood. The coffins were lying on the ground, and during the flood the dead floated by the thousands to the sea. Chinn‘s Vast Boat Population. ‘There are millions upon millions of people who get their living off of the Chinese rivers. Chira is said to have more boats than all the rest of the world put together, and its boat population would in all proba- bility be greater than that of all Europe and America. On the Pearl river in South China, at the city of*Canton, there are said to be 300,000 people who were born, live and die upon the water. This river, which you ch from Hong Kong, is filled with shipping, and as you near Can- ton you find it filled with crafts of all kinds, from the small steamer to the great Chi- nese junk. There are thousands of sam- pans, or little Chinese gondolas, with great black and white eyes painted on each side of their pro ‘There are cargo boats, which have bigger eyes, and there are vast sbips, the eyes of which are as large around as a dinner plate. The Chinese paint eyes on all their boats, and a sailor would as scon think of trying to travel through a city blindfolded ‘as of sailing on a boat which had not a pair of eyes painted on the front of it. I found whole families liv- ing on these boats, and I saw some not more than twenty feet in length, which contained three generations of Chinese. I remember one woman who rowed me to shore at Hong Kong. She was working gi THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. away, with e baby of about two years old tied on her back. On some of the larger boats at Can- House Bont on the Peiho. ton the children fairly swarm, and little ones of two and three years play about their decks. I saw a number of boys on these boats who had little round barrels or drums about a foot long and six inches in diameter tied to their backs. I was. told these were life preservers, and that if the child fell overboard he could float till his mother or father came to his res- cue. I+ was surprised to see that many of the girls of the boats had no such protec- tion, and upon asking why I was told that it was considered by some of the people a piece of good fortune to lose a girl, as they would in this way save the expense of raising her. I doubt this, however. It is a fact, though, that poor girls are of little accor in China. This is especially so among the boat population. Each of the high officials who live along the Chinese rivers has his own boat. This is decorated with flags, and the bigger the man the more flags and bunting. Li Hung Chang has a steam launch. When his wife died, not long ago, a gorgeous funeral barge was made for her. This was deco- rated with white, which ts tHe Chinese color for mourning, and it looked gorgeous to American eyes. The Chinese have boats which are worked by the feet, and which are shaped just like a slipper. These are used as dispatch boats. They are not much bigger than the ordinary canoe, and they can be made to go very fast. At Canton I was shown boats which had pad- die wheels at the sides, and which were worked by man power. The men turned the wheels inside the boat which connect- ed with the paddle wheels outside, and a half a dozen men were doing the work of an ordinary gas engine. I could fill this column with descriptions of the differ- ent kinds of boats used by the Chi- nese. Each section has its own pe- culiar make of boats, and a Chinese ailor can tell to what part of the country a ship belongs as soon as he sees it. There ig a vast boat traffic in the far interior of China. 1 saw boats at Hankow which had ccme down almost from the borders of Thibet They were made so that they could jump the rapids and work their way through the great gorges of Ichang. These gerges are 270 miles above Hankow and nearly a thousand miles from the sea. The great Yangtse river here flows through im- mense canons, the rocks of which rise for hundreds of feet straight up above the water. The gorges are in places less than a thousand feet wide, and the great river rushes through them at the rate of nine miles an hour. It rises and falls ten and twelve feet in a single night, and it boils and seethes as it goes through. Here is an eddy, there a whirlpool and there against the rocks it dashes in a spray almost like that of the sea. The rocks are filled with all kinds of ferns; they are of granite, and along the edges blue-gowned, pig-tailed workmen are quarrying great blocks of granite, which are shipped down the Yangtse-Kiang. There are miles of these gorges, and the scenery about them is the most beautiful in China. The boats are tracked through the gorges, and there is quite a population along them whose main support is from such work. The queerest boats I saw during my trip on the Pearl river were those devoted to the raising of geese and ducks. Salt Boats. One of the chief resources of the Chinese government is through the sale of salt, and the taxes on salt will be now greatly in- creased. The salt trade in China is a government monopoly, ard no one can sell it without a license from the salt com- missioner. There are salt boats and salt junks on all the rivers. The salt is car- ried in junks through the larger streams, and is taken to the'villages through the canals in smaller boats. The country is divided into circuits, and the salt in each circuit is supposed to be produced there. It is made from sea water around the coast, and from brine in the interior. Just above the mouth of the Peiho river I passed vast salt works. ‘The ground looked much like the marshes near New York, and the salt was produced by evaporation. There were windmills for pumping the brine from the sea, and there wet mountains of salt which had been pi ready for shipment. The governm rates to government agents. It is distrib- uted through salt merchants, and over these there is a special salt comin for each district. The salt comm! pay for their places, and a sood o this kind is worth from 310,000 to $12,000. The salt, after having be2n landed in a district, is kept in a bonded warehouse, and the government fixes the prices. It makes a profit on every sale until the salt reaches the hands of the retail dealer. It has the right to increase the prices, and there will undoubtedly be a rise in this respect as soon as this war is over. During late years the government income from salt has been less than $10,000,000 a year, but I was told that there had been a great deal of stealing on the part of the commissioners and that it ought to bring in fully twice as much as it does. If the taxes should be ccllected by foreigners in- stead of by Chinese, as is possible in case of a foreign loan, the salt revenue will be doubled. At present the marine customs are collected by foreigners under an En- glish inspector general, Sir Robert Hart. All of the officials get high salaries, but since they took charge of the customs they have tripled the receipts from them to the government. The same would be the result if they had charge of the other taxes of the country. The government would get all the money instead of one-half of it going as stealings to the Chinese officials who collected it. If China, in fact, was under the administration of a foreign gov- ernment it would soon be one of the rich- est of countries. Even a slight tax upon its many millions of people would net a vast revenue, and revenue taxes could be put upon many things without the people reaily knowing that they were taxed. I believe that they would starid being gov- erned by foreigners without much trouble, and, though the officials and the nobles would object, the people might be glad of the change. ‘At present China does everything in the most expensive way. Traveling costs ten times as much as it does here. There are no railroads through the thickly settled parts of the country, and you have to take My Crew on the Petho, a house-boat and a crew if you wish to go from one place to another. If you travel by land, it is in a Chinese cart, with an extra cart to carry your baggage, and if you want bedding, you must carry it with you. It took eight sailors to bring me from Peking to Tien-Tsin, and I had to pay $10 for the use of the boat, in addition to my cooking and eating. Peking is just about ninety miles from Tien-Tsin, and the trip all + about $15 by boat, an-l took three By cart it cost me 325. The two towns are no further apart than New York and Philadelphia. The fare between these cities on a first-class passenger train is, I think, $2, and it ts made in a Jittle less than three hours. The cart trip to Peking requires two days or more, and you have to spend one night in a Chinese inn, where you sleep on the stone floor and cook your own meals. One of the means of raising money which the government of China will have will be the granting of foreign concessi tor the building of railroads between points like Tien-Tsin and Peking. Such concessions would undoubtedly pay well, and it may be that Wharton Barker, if he will get some abler man than Count Mitkiewicz to represent him, could now put through his scheme for establishing a great Chinese national bank and the building of rail- roads in the celestial empire. Of this, how- ever, and of the chances for American cap- ital in China, I will write in another letter. FRANK G. CARPENTER. [expected of a soldier, A MAN WITH SOME- THING TO TELL. BY WILLIAM H. WASSELL. (Copyrighted, 1895, by William H. Wassell.) ing whist, but had put aside the cards when the spread was brought in. It is a bachelor rule in the + have six men for a whist party, so that while four play cards the odd two may pre- pare soothing concoc- Fort Barrenall tem- perature—hot concoc- ticns for winter and cool ones for summer. it is a good rule, and the Blank are stick- lers for their old customs. They say this is regiments, but, of course, that is a matter of regimental feeling. If the youngsters who join the Blank bring with them the large idea self-importance engendered while upper classmen at the Point, they have an ceedingly close-mouthed youth named Crossing, who was giving the whist party, was a youngster beyond his years. He had Joined only the year before, but he had brought with him the faculty of ever ex- unless it was absolutely necessary. Offi- cially he was as correct as the regulations themselves, and by keeping silent and not exposing his ignorance on outside affairs, he rapidly acquired a reputation for Jearn- before he spoke once, and this gave him time to choose words that would express his exact meaning. For these reasons—and some others—Crossing stood hand in glove with the older officers of his regiment, but was only a question of time until he would go to pieces. Had there been no Crossing in the Blank, this story would not have been written. No one else—even had he discovered the folded it before the colonel’s eyes with the nicety and precision of Crossing. Another man would have blurted the thing out, and in the time lost by needless red tape the culprits would have been warned. Perhaps his way of doing things. Ordinarily the officers of the Blank do not talk shop at their whist parties, but on this oceasion the conversation was so inter- woven with reminiscences that the slight Perhaps the soothing concoctions brought on the talk, for the liquor question has al- ways been the worry of the post. Fort Barrenall, the station of the Blank, is in the center of an Indian reservation, and one whose laws do not countenance the sale of intoxicants. Thus doubly guarded, one would suppose that liquor would be searce at Barrenall, but alas! such is not the case, for, despite the utmost vigilance Indian agent and the state authorities, soldiers and Indians alike get drunk as often as they please. Now, drunkenness is but the nation in congress assembled has decreed that for its and not to be tolerated. “The regimental quartermaster, who was one of the six whist players, was telling how he discovered his painters draining the turpentine from the paint in order to time long past pay day, when the painters had no money to buy whisky direct. Then the adjutant of the regiment told why one of the best clerks in his office always passed his work to another clerk when it “If I allowed him red ink,” said the adju- tant, “he would kill himself drinking it.” ‘The man in charge of the Indian scouts said that in the absence of whisky the red man’s preference was for flavoring ex- of the condition in which a man can get himself by drinking vanilla.” “I once had a case in my company,” chimed in an old captain, “that baffled the hospital corps. The man had worked in a day my first sergeant reported to me that this man was crazy from drink. I told the sergeant to send him to the guard house, but I thought afterward that it would be better to go to the barracks and take a got there six men were holding the poor wretch down while the post surgeon ex- amined him. I pass over the details be- cause they are not pleasant, but when the surgeon finally reported him out of danger a home-made still and had got a black, poisonous liquid from Castile soap. Yes, sir, from Castile soap; and from what [ know of a soldier’s love of drink,” con- tinued the old captain, “I think the com- tempts at stopping whisky selling. Whisky is not so injurious as red ink or Castile soap; and, besides, the parties who are selling the stuff here are too clever to be caught.” anietly, “if the colonel would let me do it in my own way.” “How would you do it?” asked the adju- tant. Crossing merely smiled as he passed the means something just a trifle more bril- liant, more profound, than the wisest an- swer you, the questioner, can imagine. It makes you feel very foolish to have asked such a question, and gives you great re- ‘The morning after the card party the commanding officer's orderly presented the commanding officer’s compliments to Lieut. Crossing and said that the commanding officer would like to see him at the office. the young man obeyed the summons, “you are hereby specially detailed to discover the men who are selling whisky at this post, and, if possible, how they get the stuff here.”” such a free lance order from the old col- onel. “I shall have to go to Dellman,” said the young man, going straight to ‘the point, “and I shall peed a non-commissioned offi- “Very well,” answered the colonel; “turn their names in to the adjutant, and I will see that you have all possible help.” “I shall leave today with the canteen wagons,” continued Crossing; “and when ters, sir. He will have something to tell.’ ‘Then the colonel began to wonder how it would all end. Probably some man in Del- man had an inkling of the illicit business, and Crossing was going to bring him to the canteen wagon? True, this was one of the wagons that would bring the grocery orders and express packages from the raii- rcad to the post, but no one could smuggle whisky in those wagons, for every box was tion and opened by an offiéer when it ar- rived at the post. As a matter of fact, what puzzled the colonel most was how any one could get liquor into the post. Of course, it-was easy renall is eighty miles from the railroad, and only government wagons pass over the roads. No one ¢ould carry it eighty miles, it could not be brought in the wagons, and surely it was not being made at the post. the colonel gave it up. When Crossing sent in the names of the men he wanted to accompany him the col- onel was more mystified than ever. The non-commissioned officer named was a man private was an old soldier whose love for liquor was notoriously second to his love for the army. But, for all that, he was a soldier, and knew what discipline and obe- dience’ mean. the wagon train, atid reached the railroad late the following day. He took the old soldier aside and gave him his orders. “Hall,” said he, “you have my full permis- sion to get drunk and to remain drunk will look after you, and see that you are not left behind.” Hall stiffened himself and raised his hand to salute. “One thing more,” said the lieutenant. “If the post, and should awake not knowing where you are, I want you to preserve an absolute silence, and remain perfectly still until I give you permission to speak. Do you understand?” T HEY WERE PLAY- Blank Infantry to tions to offset the what makes the Blank better than other exceedingly hard row to hoe, but the ex- pressing an opinion; in fact,he rarely spoke ing and brilliancy. He thought four times some of them shook their heads and said it clue to Barrenall’s mystery—could have un- Crossing knew this; perhaps it was merely departure from their customs was allowed. the state that incloses the reservation is on the part of the commanding officer, tHe wards, the Indians, intoxicants are wrong get a stimulant. This, of course, was at a was necessary to rule in any red lines. tracts. “And,” said he, “you have no idea distillery before his enlistment, and one look at the man myself. By the time I I learned that the poor devil had rigged up manding officer had better give up his at- “I could catch them,” said Crossing cigars around. A smile in a case like this spect for the wisdom of the other party. “Mr. Crossing,” “said the colonel, when No one but Crossing would have received cer and one private.” I return I shall send a man to your quar- the post. But why was he going to ride on examined, and it was loaded on at the sta- to sell when once it was there, but Bar- At this point, for the one thousandth time, to be depended upon at all times, but the Crossing left the post that afternoon with until we get back to the post. The sergeant you should be drunk on the way back to “Yes, sir,” said the old soldier, with his hand at his cap; and then he turned on his heel and made straight.xfor the nearest drug store with a back ehttance. “Sergeant,” said the tiestenant, next ad- dressing the non-commissioned officer, “I want you to keep Hall in sight and to keep your mouth closed. Th®,@runker Hall gets the better this work will be done. Be sure ates e him drunk on thesway back to the Dismissing the sergeamt, Crossing walked up through the little town until he came to a carpenter shop. Hej. wanted a strong box, he told the carpdntdr. It was to be three by four by five feet, and made of rough boards, like a packing box; the inside was to be well padded with straw and burlap. One of the long sides was to be put on loosely, so that it could be easily removed. ‘ Later in the evening when the box was finished, he returned to the carpenter shop. On the loose side he printed with a mark- ing brush, “Col. John Abbott, — infantry, Fort Barrenall, O. D, This side up. Handle with care.” Having instructed the sergeant to put this box in one of the canteen wag- ons, Crossing went back to the only hotel in the town, and apparently paid no more attention to the object of his trip. When the wagons left the railroad to return to the post he noticed with satisfaction that the old soldier had faken full advantage of the liberty granted him to get gloriously drunk. it takes a wagon train two days to go from the railroad to Fort Barrenall. The first night out is spent at a half-way ranch, and is quite a gala night for the teamsters and soldiers. Between cards and drink, Crossing was sure that his old soldier would be up most of the night and that he would not go to bed sober. He instructed the ser- geant to keep the old man under his eye and to put him to bed in a room by him- self, and he had the three by four by five feet box taken to the same room, for greater security, perhaps. The return to the post was made the fol- lowing day. Just at dusk they arrived, and as soon as the wagons entered the gates Crossing jumped off and walked toward the colonel’s quarters, where a number of the officers were standing. “Well, young man,” said the colonel, greeting Crossing, ‘‘what luck did you have with the whisky sellers?” “If you please, colonel, I would like a little more time before I make my report.” “All right, Mr. Crossing,” answered the colonel; and then the conversation became general. Crossing, every one thought, would hand in a written report of his trip in the morning, and before that he would tell them nothing. Presently the officer of the day joined the group, and reported to the colonel that he had made the required inspection of the wagon train, but had found nothing cén- traband. “There is an express box for you, colonel,”” he continued, “‘but, of course, I didn’t open it.” “Of course not, sir,” answered the col- onel, slightly annoyed; for it was a fad with the colonel to order his groceries from St. Paul instead of patronizing the canteen or commissary, and, of course, he was touchy about all references to his fad. ‘The officers had been talking for some time, when one of the wagons came lum- bering up the road and stopped in front of them. Four men dragged out a large box and carried it to the colonel’s quarters. “Where does the commanding officer want this box put?” asked one of the men, saluting as he spoke. “I wonder what it is?” said the colonel to his officers. “I haven't ordered anything lately.” He told the men to put the box in his hallway, and then invited the officers to go in while he opened it. “Perhaps it’s a present,” he added, smiling, “and we may all b2 able to enjoy it.” “Colonel John Abbott, Blank Infantry, Fort Barrenall, O. D. This side up. Han- dle with care,” read the colonel from the box, and then he told, his man to open it. A minute later the top was off, and then the colonel gave an exclamation of sur- prise that brought the’vfficers to his side. There in the box sat Hall: the old soldier! His ey2s were closed and he was breathing hard, apparently under the influence of liquor. ¥ “What does this mean, Mr. Crossing?” demanded the colonel, severely. “This man wes detailed at your!'request to go with you to Delman. Why is he brought back in this outlandish way,:sir?? “The man has something to tell, sir,” said the lieutenant. ‘Hall, continued he, and at that the man stood up in the box and saluted. “Hall, tell: the commanding officer all you-remember since you went to sleep last night.” “I can't remember much, sir,” said the old man, with an air of apology for past misdeeds, “because I'd ‘been drinking some. But ‘the first I do remémber, sir, was I didn’t know where I was. “I was in kind of a box, sir, an’ I could hear the wagon wheels, an’ I thought maybe I was dead an’ this was my coffin, an’ they was takin’ me to bi me, sir. I’ jus’ got ready to scream, sir, when I remembers the lieuten- ant told me about keeping still and not speakin’ till he gave me permission. So I laid back in the box, sir, an’ made up my mind that Angel Gabriel would have to have the licutenant present when he blew his horn—that is, sir, if he wanted to get me up, for I was mortal sure it was my funeral, sir. Then I must have fallen asleep, sir, for the next thing I knew was the officer of the day tapping the boards above me, sir. An’ he was saying, ‘For the commanding officer; all right, sergeant, we will not open this.’ Then, after a while, sir, 1 knew we was in the post, for I heard the canteen sergeant telling the men to hurry up an’ distribute the express pack- ages. : “I felt myself lifted out, sir, an’ then I heard two men talking. They were Private O'Donnel and Private Griegson, who work in the canteen, sir. Private O'Donnel says, “This hox is too heavy for you, Griegson; you get out the little ones, an’ I'll get some men to help me with this.’ He seemed anxious like to get Private Griegson away. ‘Then I was picked up again, sir, an’ I hezerd a lot of voices, an’ I heard Private O'Donnel say something about sendin’ a big box this time. Then I heard Jackson, the discharged soldier that lives down by the pump house. He said it came just in time, as the paymaster would be around next week. I was carried quite a distance, sir, down over a hill it seemed to me, an’ I was womlerin’ where they was goin’ to take me, but rememberin’ my orders, sir, I never made e sound. By an’ by, sir, I heard a door cper, an’ they set me down an’ began to pry off the top of the box. When the light came in through the top of the box, I shut my eyes an’ began to breathe hard, as though I was asleep, for I began to suspicion something, sir, an’ I krew I was in purty bad hands. When they took the lid off the box, sir, Private O'Donnel let out an oath, and asked what this meant, an’ they all came crowdin’ round the box, excited like, an’ all talkin’ at once, sir, till Jackson told them to shut up. Then I knew he was bendin’ over me, sir, because I could feel his breath in my face, but I just kept breathin’ hard, as though I was asleep. There was a lot of whisperin’ about it bein’ too risky to hurt me, an’ about it bein’ a joke on the com- mandin’ officer, an’ then they put the cover on the box again, an’ I heard a lot more whisperin’. At last, sir, I felt myself bein’ picked up again, an’ I began to feel a bit easier. I was carried up the hill again, sir, an’ put in the wagon an’ brought here, an’ the next thing, sir, was when the com~ mandin’ officer said that—— “Yes,” interrupted the colonel, “but about this house that you were first taken to—are you sure it was Jackson's?” “Yes, sir; yes, sir. Before they got the box off entirely, Fcaught a glimpse of the house. And as they carried me out at last, sir, I heard Jackson say that he want- ed them all to come yack t@ arrange about neat pay day, an’. “Capt. Browne,” interrupted the colonel, addressing the officer ofthe day, ‘‘send your guard down toithat house and arrest every man init. Then havdit searched for ecntraband articles, ‘dir.* 0! “Gentlemen,” continued the cofonel, after sending the old soklier to his barracks, “those rascals have been! sending their cheap whisky to thisipost-in my narife, in my name, because they knew no one would scarch a box addressed to me. I congratu- late you, Mr. Crossing, om your success. You did it very nedtly, str. But I can’t get over the impudence of: those rascals. In my name, too. in Once Owned by Tweed. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. E. C. 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Warm Baths, with CUTICURA SOAP, gentle applications of Cuticura (ointment), and mild doses of CUTICURA RESOLVENT (bleod purifier), speedily cure torturing, disfiguring, itching,scaly and scrofulous humors when the best physicians and all other remedies fail. NOW IS THE TIME TO USE THEM. Potter Drug & Chemical Corp., Sole Proprietors, Boston, U.S.A. | PROPOSALS. a5 RAILROADS. a 3 ‘ment, ne April 13, 1a05,—Sonlea proposals, indorsed “Pro- Posals for Ice,” and addressed to the Secretary of the Navy. will be received until TWO O'CLOCK P.M., THURSDAY, MAY ‘TH, 1895, to supply the Navy Department and its various bureaus and Ofices in Washington (not including the navy yard, navy pay office, naval hospital or naval ob- servatory), with ice during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896. ‘The ice to be supplied must be the best quali of northern ice, or ice equal thereto, solid, clear, and free from snow or other impurities, and must be delivered daily in such ponies as may be required at the oflices lesignated. Also, at the sume time and place, sealed proposals,’ indorsed “Proposals for Wash: ing Towels,” and addressed to the Secretary of the Navy, Will be received from purties regularly engaged in such business, for w: ing the towels ef the Navy Department’ and its various bureus and offices Gnciuding uaval observatory) in Wash- ingto during the fiscal year ending June 30, ISU6. e department reserves the right to re- ject any or all bids and to waive defects in pro- Posais. “In case of a tic in the bids the proposals to be accepted will be decided upon by lot. The bidder whose proposal is accepted will be required to enter into voutract and give bond, with two or mire satisfactory sureties, in the penal sum of two hundred doliurs with the contract for ice, and fifty dollars with the contract for washing towels, for the faithful fulfillment of the contract. Bids must be made in duplicate upon forms which Will be supplied upon xpplication to the depart- ment, H. A. HELGERT, Secretary of the Navy. apl3, PROPOSALS FOR AND MISCEL- janeous | Supplic Department, Washing- ton, D.¢ .—Senled proposals, in to the Secretary of "the ropasitls for Stationery and will be received af this until, TWO O'CLOCK P.at. on MAY NINTH, 1895, for furnishing and supplies for the Navy De- ineluding aval observatery and ic office, in Washington, during the THURSDAY, such statione: partment, the hydrograpi fiscal y ding June 30, 1: Blank foi of proposals giving the necessary information will be furnished on application 10 this departinent. The de rtinent res the right to waive de fects © reject any or all bids. Contracts will be ded only to manu: urers of or reg- ular d: articles to be furnished. H. A. etary of the Navy. apt PROPOS/LS FOR FUEL, PROVE for the United State: T rinent, Bure » April 12, 1505.—Se cate, addressed to the Equipment, Navy Department, Washingt be feceived at thi CK DP q and publicly ope for the ly of the foliow! Provender 0 be delive: Shites naval observatory, Georgetown Heights, Washingte ccurdance with the specifi- cations, Wi h blank form of proposals and instructions will be supplied upon P- plication to t ‘superintendent of the nayal ob the, right to uny or all bids no the zovermuent. curity will be re- quired for the srformance of the eon- E. CHADWICK, Chief of Bureau, PROPOSALS FOR superintendent of the FUEL—0! OF THE Stute, War and Navy De- partment Buildi Seaied proposals in dupli- este, indorsed “Proposals for Fnel,”’ will b ceived at this office until TWO P. DAY, MAY NINTH, 155, War and Navy Department building with fue! during the fiscal year ending June 39, 1896, as follows: 5,000 tons of extra hard white ash ‘fur- nace coal, 25 tons of white ash stove coal. All coal must be of best quality, free from dust or pected by ‘a p who shall intendent, and to be ent scales in the court 100 cords of hickory wood, 50 cords of wood. All wood to be of the best quality, and Inspe on who shill be rated by the ‘The hickory wood to be sawed in three pieces and measured after it is sawed and . The coal and woot to be delivered at the State, War and Nav building and stored in the vaults by the party © parties to Whom the contract or contracts may be at such times and in such quantities eenience of the oflice may requ right to order as muc muuch less of either coal or wood as ma) quired, at the contract pm also the rig! or all bids, or to accept any p ‘The successful bidder to furnish bond uin of $5,000 as a guarantee of the frith- THOM WIL s. Superia- arded, any in the ful performance ‘of the contract. LIAMSON, Chief Engineer, U.S. tendent. apl8,20,27,my6 POSAIS FOR » MISCELLANEOUS | I the Superintendent-of the State Jing—Sealed proposals ro is for Mixcel- eceived at this office RSDAY, MAY NINTH, laneous Tems,"” willbe uutil TWO P.M. on THU! 1805, for furnishing tats office during the fisea re ending June 30, 1896, with soap, trushe Sponges, painis, oils, towels, crash, nails, screw etc., ete. Schedules, forms of proposals and necessury information can be obtained opon a plication. to THOM AN Chief En- _Bineer, U.S. 13,20, 6 PROPOSALS. ‘T OF AGI culture, Office of th Apri Sealed ‘sub- ject to the usual Secretary of Agriculture until 2p. y, May 9, 1895, for furnishing the U. ment of Agriculture and its several branch ing t ear ending June ing suppli and duplicating supplies, ice. laboratory supplies, lumber and - ing "boxes, painters’ supplies, plumbers’ material, printers’ material, forage, flowerpots, seed pockets, car senls, card tags and hog rings, Lardware, tele- supplies, instrument supplies, maps asd map , fags, cleaning carpets and washing towels, miscellancons supplies, draxage and Pull information, with schedvles and blanks, can be obtained upon application to the Department or the Westher Bureau. Persons ap- plying should specify the class of ‘articles upon y desire to submit bids. Bids must be dressed to the Secretary of Agricul- waste paper. E PAPER AND W partment of the Interic April 13, 1895.. Is will be received at_ this ‘denar WO O'CLOCK P.M, THURSDAY, MAY NINTH, 1595, for the Wash- NG TOWELS_DE- ington, D. C.. € 30, 1896, 2s well as for the purchase iod of the Waste, Paper of the ith the tions, will be furnished on appl chief clerk. AML proposals will be o time and place above stated, and bic ited to be present at such “opening. MITH, Secreta ALS FOR PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHIN Department of the Iaterior, General Land Om) Washington, D.C., April 18, 1895. Sealed _ pro: posals will’ be received at’ this office until 2 o'clock p.m., Thursday, May 9, 1895, for photo- lithographing and printing 15,000 copies more or less of the map of the United States, and 20,000 coples more or less of the maps of the land states and territories prepared in the General Land Office. Specifications as to the character of the work, size of maps, quality of paper, may be procured at this office Where specimens will be exhibited to Didders, who must satisfy themselves as to all re- quirements. At the same time and place preposals will also be opened for photo-lithozrapbing and printing such copies of township plats and other official plats constitutine part of the official records of the office as shail be required during the fiscal year ending Jane 30, 1896. Details and samples of the work to be dose will be exhibited to bidders on application, A certified check for five per cent of the amount bid must accompany each proposal. Bonds, with approved sureties, for faithful per- formance of the work will be required of the con- tractor. The right is reserved to waive any de- fects or reject any and all bids. Proposals must ve made in duplicate and addressed to the com- missioner of the general land oftice, indorsed on the envelope “Proposals for United” States Maps,” ‘Proposals for State and Territorial Maps.” or ‘Proposals for Reproducing Township Plats.” as the case may be. All proposals will be opened at the time and place shove stated, and bidders are invited to be present at-such opening. §.W.LAM- ORBKUX, Commissiorer. _ap13,15,20,21,27&myb-6t PROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY AND MIS- cellaneons Supplies.—War Department, Supply Di- vision, Washington, D.C., April 13, 1895. Sealed proposals, in daplicate, subject to usual conditions, Will be received here ‘until 2 o'clock p.m., Thurs: day, May 9, 1895, at which time they will be for furnishing stationery and miscellaneous endin, 's (consisting of brooms, brushes, soaps, towels, ete.) for the War Department and its bu: reaus and offices during the fiscal year ending 3 Blank forms of proposals showing items and estimated quantities of stationery and mise: Janeous supplies required will be furnished on ap- plication. Troposals must be on blank forms fur- nished by the department and securely inclosed in ide of envelopes, ‘Proposals for Mis respectively, and addres ed to M. R. THORP, chief of supply ‘division. apl3,15,20,22,27&my6-6t SUPPLIES , Washington, D. Sealed proposals will be recei ment untf 2 o'clock p.m for furnishing the following classes of supplies, ete., during the fiscal year erding June 30, 1886, to w () for fuel and ice, (2) for furniture, forage, pho: tographic, and other miscellaneous ’ supplies: for S| s bureaus and offices, and the Civil Serv” ice Commission. At the same time and place pro- posals Wil be received for such meats, p Eroceties, dry goods, shoes, drugs, paints, hardware, fuel, ice, luimber, ete., es may be required by the Government Hospital for the Insane near Washing- ton, D.C., during the fiscal year above indicated. Also for such hardware, drags, chemicals, tory a ‘us, engraving, and other supplies as may be required by the U. S. Geological Survey during the same period. Bids must be m on government blanks. Forms of proposals, schedules of items, specifications and Instructions will be furnished’ to bidders on application to the chief clerk of the department; but requests for blanks should specifically designate the cliss or classe of supplies upon which It is proposed to bid. All the proposals will be opened at the time and place above stated, and bidders are invited to be pres- ent at such opening. HOKE SMITL, Secretary. Te myC-Ot cries, Washington, D.C., April 13, 1895. proposals’ will be received by the undersigned at this commisstoa until Thursday, the Oth day of May, 1895, gt 2 o'clock p.m., et which time and place they’ will be opened in’ the presence of at- tending bidders, for furnishing such coal and ice as may be orde-ed during the fiscal year ending PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. STATION CORNER OF SIXTH AND B STREETS. IN EFFECT APRIL 21, 1895. 10:30 A.M. PENNSYLVAMA LIMIPED.—Pullman Sleeping, Dining, 8 and Observation Cars Harrisburg to Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cleveland and Yoledo. "Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. 10:30 A.M. FAST LINE—Poliman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Parlor and Dining Cars, Har- risburg to Vittsburg. 340 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST, LOUIS EXPRESS. Pallman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Sleep- ing and Dining Cars, Harrisburg to Bt. micinnati, Louisville ‘und Chicago. 0 P.M. WESTERN EXPittss.—Pullman Sleep- ng Car to Caicugo und Harrisburg to Cleveland. Dining Car to Cuicago. 0 P.M, SOUTHWESTERN EXPRESS.—Paliman Sleeping and Dining Cars to St. Louls and Sleep- ing Car Harrisburg to Cinciunatl. 10:40 P.M, PACIFIC EXPRESS.—Pullman Sleeping Car to Pittsburg. 7:50 A-M. for Kane, Canandaigua, Rochester and ils daily, except Sunday. ra and Renovo, daily, except Williamsport daily, 3:40 PM. lo P.M. for Williamsport, Kocuester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls daily, except Saturday, with Sieep- ing Car Washington to Suspension’ Bridge via. shite 10:40 P.M. for Erie, Canandaigua, Rochester, Buf- falo and Niagara Falls daily, Sleeping Car Wash- ington to Elmira, FOR PHILADELPHIA, ZEW YORE AND THE 4:00. P.M. “CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED,” all Par- lor’ Cars, with Dining Gar from Baltimore for New | York daily, for Philndelpirta week-days. Regular at 7:00 (Wining Car), 7220, 9:00, 10:00 (Dining Car), and 11:60 (Dining Gar) AM. 4:20, 6:40, 10:00 and 11:35 P.M. - 20, 9:00, 11 4 (Dining M. daily, and “4:20 P.M. A pa, 4:30 A.D 40 Hichmond and Atlanta, ‘ont, 10:57 A.M.’ we n for Quantico, da PAL. ww For Alexandria, Leave’ Alexandria for Washington, AM. 3:23, 50, and ‘11:08 'P. AM., 2:15, 30, 7:00, 7:20, im 3. northeast corner of 13th street and avenue, and at the station, 6th and ‘here onders can be left for the check- ing of baggage to destinction irom hotels and res- idences. S. M. PREVOST, J. R. WOOD, —— Manager. General Passenger Agent. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD, Schugule in effect Jun. 6, 189. Leave Wastigion from station ‘corner of New Jersey avenue and C street. For Chicago and Vestibule Limited or Cincinnati,” St. Louis and Indianapolis, Vesti- buted Limited 33) pan. Express 12:01 uight. urg and Cleveland, express daily 11:25 a.m. and 8:35 p.m. For Lexingtou aud Staunton, 11:25 a.m. For Wincuester and way sta 5:30 p.m. For Lara; tural Bridge, Koauoke, Knoxville, Chattanooga; Mempiis, and’ New Orleans, 11:2) p-. daily, Sleeping cars through. For Luray, 3:50 p.m. daily. For Bultimore, week days, 27:10, x7:30 ¢ 45-minutes) 200 45-minutess, 4:81 200 '45-min- utes), 25:05, 25:30, 5:35, x6:20, 6:30, x5200, 5:15, 0, and 11:35 p.m. Sundays, ‘x4 45-minuies), x9:30 a.m.,) x12 X2:20 3:00" 45-minutes), 3:25, 4:31 6:00 45-mingtes), x5:05, 6:30, x8:00, 9200, 20:00, 211-30, 11:35 p.m. For Annapolis, 7:10 and 8:36 a.m., 12:15, 4:23 p.m. Sundays, 31 p.m. ‘or Frederick, by: 25 a.m., b1:15, ¢4:30, For Hazerstown, 11:25 + 5:30 p.m. and way points, a7203 p.m. hersburg and, ints, 3:35, For Washington Junction and way points, 9:00, 9:50 am., b1.13 p.m, Express trains stopping at principal stations only, ¢4:30, ©O:30 p.m. YORK AND ROYAL BLUE LINE FOR NEW PHILADELPHIA. All trains Mumiuated with Pintsch light. w York, Beston and the 00 (0:00 a.m. Dining . 200 Dining Car), (11:30 p.m., Sleeping Car, open at 10 o'clock). ndays, 4:20 (0:00 a.m. Dining Car), (12:00 Din- jug Car), 3:00 5:00 Dining Gar), 8:00 '(11:30 Sleep- ing Car, open for passengers 10200 p.m). Buflet Parlor Cars on all day trains. For Atlantic City, 42 m.. 10:00 a.m., 12:00 noon. Sandays, . ‘¢ Except Sunday. x Express trains. ce called for and checked from hotels and residences by Union Transfer Company on orders left at ticket offices, 61 fa AVerUE DLW., New York av ad 15th street. and at depot. CHAS. 0. SCULL, Gen. Pass. agt. R. B. CAMPBELL, Gen. Manager. i SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Piedmont Air Line.) Schedule in effect March 17, 1895. All trains arrive and leave at Pennsylvania * Passenger Station, 8 A.M.—Daily—Local for for Strasburg, daily, except Sunday, nad orfolk and Western, dai Daily—The UNITED STATES FAs s Pullman Buffet Sleepers New York yington to St. Augustine, uniting at Char- per for Auzusta; also Pull- nection for New Orleans; connects at Atlanta with Pullman Sleeper for Birmingham, Ala., Memphis, amd Kaausas City. Daily for Charlottesville and through asburg, daily except Sunday. y YORK AND FLORIDA il . Pullman Sleepers New ‘ork and Washingtou to Augusta aud St. Augustine and Pallnan Double Drawing Room Compartment r New York to St. Augustine, Dining Car Char- Augustine, first-class day coaches e without change. |. Daily WASHINGTON AND SOUTH- VESTIBULED LIMITED, composed of Poliman Vestivuled Sleepers and Dining Cars, Pull- man Sleepers New York to Aslevile and Hot Springs, N. C., vin Salisbury, New York to Mem- phis via Birmingham and New York to New Orleans Mia Atlanta and Montgomery. far" Seoen Greensboro’ to Montger TRAINS ON WASHINGTON AND OHIO DI- VISION leave Washington 9:10 A.M. daily, 4:32 PM. daily, except Sunday, and 6:33 P.M. Sundays ‘only, for Kound Hill, and 6:33 P.M. daily’ for Her. don. Returning, «rive at Washington 8:34 4. ‘nd 3:00 P.M. daily from Round Hill, and 4-M. daily, except Surday, from Herrdon only. ‘Through trains from the south arrive at Wasliing- ton G42 A.M, 9:45 A.M., 3:46 P.M, and 9:36 P.M. daily. Manassas Division, 10:52 A.M. daily, except Sunday, and 10:52 A.M. daily from Charlcttesviile. ‘Tickets, Sleeping Car reservation and information furnished at offices, 511 and 1300 Pennsylvania ave- nue, and at Pennsylvavia Ra‘lrcad Passenger Sta- 'H. GREEN, General Manager (Eastern Srstem). W. A. TURK, General P: v Agent. mbi8) L. 8S. BROWN, Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RalLway, Schedule in effect March 4, 1895. Trains leave qaily from Union Station (B. and P.), Gih and B sis. ‘Through the grandest scenery in America, with the handsomest xnd most complete solid train serv- from Washingten 3M. DAILY.—"Cincinnatl and St, Louis Sp ald Vestibnted, newly Equipped, Elec- tric-lighted, Steam-heated Train. Pullman's finest sleeping cars Washington to Cincinnatt, Indianapo- lis und St. Louis without change. Dining Car from. Washington. Arrive Cincinnati, 8:00 a.m. Indianapolis, 11:40 a.m., and Chicago, 5:30 p.m. 6 p.m. 1:10 P.M. DAILY.—The famous “F. F. V. Lim- ited.” A solid vestibuled train, with dining ‘car and Pullman Sleepers for Cincinnati, Lexington and Leuisville, without change. s Y Virginia H - without change, ation car fram Hinton. Arrives: p.m.; Lexington, 6:00 p. Louis- Indianapolis, 11:20 p.m.; Chicago, St. Louis, 6:56 a.m.; connects in 1 points. 10:57 A.M EXCEPT SUNDAY.—For Old Point Comfort and Norfolk. Only rail line. 2:25 I.M. DAILY.—Express for Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Waynesboro’, Staunton and prinei- pal Virginia points, daily; for Richmond, daily, ex- cept Sunday. “Putman locations and tickets at company’s of- fices, and 1421 Pennsylvania avernue. ae H. W. FULLER, General Passenger Agent. DENTISTRY. othing Experimental About our method of painless treatment for ailing teeth. It 1s entirely sclentific—per- fectly harmless and has proved eminently successful whenever used. The advice and attention of a skilled practiclan assured every patron. Extracting without pain, 50 cents. «; DR. GRAHAM, 307 7th st. * = | Z HLT mbi1-144 FREE DENTAL INFIRMARY, . n daily from 10 to 12 a.m., "No charge except for materials free. n274t here Is A Point On the down gral of guallty antl pcice ‘where eapness ceases to be economy. Our claims of superiority rest on superlative service and not on June 30, 1896. Bids are also invited for washing towels. “The right is reserved to reject any and all bids, to walve technical defects, and to accept any part of any bid and reject’ the other part. Blanks for proposals, with specifications of the re- quirements to be met in respect to each article, end also the estimated quantities probably to be required of each, will be furnished on application to the disbursing HERBERT A. GILL, Acting Commissioner, ap13,15,18,20,27&my4-Gt jce—but the association system enables us to yt fees which private practitioners cannot af- ford for the best grade of work. Head our ad. on local, page. Extracting, 25e.; with or 50c.; clean- ing, Ze: fillings, Te. up; ‘crowns, $760; $5.00 U S. Dental Association, $a80+f OR. TTH AND D 8TS. N.W.