Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1895, Page 18

18 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. CRIME IN JAPAN The Courts and Queer Features of the Detective Service. JUDGES AND WHAT THEY’ RECEIVE All About the Yoshiwara and Its Thousands of Inmates. THE DETECTION OF CRIME (Copyrighted, 1895, by Frank G. Carpenter.) HE NEW TREATY with Japan will bring all foreigners under the jurisdiction of the Japanese courts. Heretofore, Ameri- cans guilty of of- fenses of any kind have been tried be- fore our American consul, and we have had our own mar- shals connected with our consulates. All Americans will now be under the Japanese police, and the laws ant courts of the empire will be extended to all foreigners. I spent some time in looking into Japanese justice.during my stay in Tokyo. I called upon the supreme Justices and went through the common pleas and appellate courts. I looked into all matters connected with the police, and I spent some time in investigating the great Yoshiwara and the system by which the Japanese manage the social evil, which 1s now creating so much interest in New York and the other cities of the country. I will talk of this at length. Crime in Japan. First, one word about Japanese crime. The sentences inflicted are now as lenient as ours. In the police court there is one Beanch which deals with faults ranging @ fines from five cents to two dollars. Capital punishment is only inflicted for crimes against the state or imperial fam- fly, and for murder. Crucifixion, which Was common years ago, is now entirely done away with. I bought a photograph A Tokyo Beauty. of a crucifixion in: Tokyo. The executions of today, however, are as humane as our own, and the senterce for capital crimes is hanging. There is a closed place inside of the great penitentiary where criminals are so killed. Next to this punishment is deportation with or without hard labor, and criminals are sent for this purpose to the Island of Yezzo, where they work in the mines. In addition to these, there is imprisonment with or without labor in @ ‘Be Prisons and penitentiaries of the em- pire. All arrests except for crimes seen by the police are by warrant, and the crim- inals are examined before a judge, who asks all sorts of questions and judges for himself whether they are guilty. I spent some time in one of the police courts and listened to the judge examine a man,charged h stealing. He asked him all sorts of questions, and made him try on some clothes in his presence, which were sup- posed to have been used In connection with the crime. His lawyers were not allowed to speak, and the questions put by the counsel were through the judge. The Jap- anese have the same laws as to husbands and wives appearing against each other as we have, but a child cannot be a wit- ness against his father, nor a servant against his master. They can be brought in, however, in a kind of a subordinate way, but such testimony as they give is not considered of much wetght. The Police Records. I spent some time in the rogues’ gallery and in the detective departments of the police organization at Tokyo. It is won- Gerful how they have adopted all modern conveniences in keeping track of their criminals. They have records of neariy 200,000 men who have either been in jail or, in the opinion of the police, are de- cidedly liable to’get there. They catalogue their criminals as we catalogue a library, putting them in sections and having cards containing their names in alphabetical erder. One division of this branch was de- voted to foreigners, and I found that they krew everything connected with every European and American in the country. You cannot sleep in a Japanese hotel with- out your name being sent to the police, and your passport is liable to be called for when you buy your railroad ticket at the station. The order kept in the cities is decfully good, and you are perfectly safe almost anywhere at any hour of the night. I don’t mean to ray that there are not many thieves and crimin but the government keeps. them neck, and the policemen are as brave 2s any you will find in the world. They are wonderfully well trained in the use of the sword. They have a regular fencing drill, which they practice daily in fencing halls, which are At the Police Court. connected with every one of (he stations. During my visit to one of ihe stations the superintendent had his men go through 4 fencing bout to & me what they could do with the foils. The men put on iron m: and heavy breastplates and fought like demons, fencing and parr after the most approved rules of Japanese art. There are 5,000 policemen in Tokye, and there are about 28,000 policemen in all Japan. The detective force is very large, and one of the chief centers of Japanese crime in every city is the Yoshiwara. A Curious Fenture of Japanese Life. I have hesitated some time before writing about this curicus feature of Japanese life, but the interest in such matters is such a vital one at the present time in the United States and England, and the Japanese methods of controlling them are so differ- ent trem those of other countries, that, in response to a number of letters requesting it, I have decided to do so. I neither praise nor condemn their system. I merely de- scribe it as well as I can and as delicately as cen. I wish to say, however, that my inforrration came directly from the police and through the police, and that it is ab- solutely authentic. The Yoshiwara is that part of every Japanese city which is de- voted to women of questionable character. Such irstitutions are kept entirely under |. the Police, and the establishments are re- quired to keep an exact account of every cne who comes into them. They must register the names and addresses of all people connected with them, and any ex- travagances committed in the way of ex- 4 ' ia fe Yoshiwara Types. penses or otherwise are at once reported to the police. If a young man of good famliy leads a very dissipated life his parents are notified. Similar reports are given to em- ployers as to their clerks, and Japanese bank cashiers cannot carry on a continued life of dissipation without being suspected of something wrong. I looked over the records of one of the stations, in company with the police. It was that connected with the great Yoshiwara at Tokyo. The names entered on its books during one month amounted to 80,000, and the receipts of the establishment were, I was told, about $75,000 per month, or nearly $1,000,000 per year. The Tokyo Yoshiwara. Few travelers get to know much about the inside workings of things in Japan. My letters, however, to the chief of police gave me the assistance of private police- men, with whom I went through the great Yoshiwara, at Tokyo, which contains 3,500 maidens. It is the largest establishment of the kind in Japan, and its houses are among the finest of Tokyo. It embraces, in addition to the professional houses, hundreds of hair-dressers, singers and dancers, and it is shut off entirely from the rest of the city. It has wide streets, through the middle of which are strips of flowers, and the streets are decorated with fcuntains, stone lanterns, bits of wax- work, and all kinds of quaint things to draw the sightseer. Nearly every other house is a tea house or restaurant. The houses in which the girls live are of im- mense size, and are all of much the same nature and shape. The scene is, in fact, very like the animai show at a circus. The first story of each of these houses consists of cage-like parlors, facing the street, and running on each side of a hall, which leads into the house. At the side of this hall, in a little cage like that of a ticket office, a man sits and gives information to all who pass by. Each of these cages is about 100 feet long and twenty feet deep, and its floor is about as high as your waist. This floor is covered with carpet or matting, and at the back of the room there ig a line of girls ranging all the way from twenty to fifty, squatting on the floor, with the little boxes of charcoal before them. They smoke, and they chat, and they make eyes at the men who pass along the streets. Some of them may have samisens or the Japanese guitars, and now and then one will get up and waddle out to the bars of the cage and chat with the people out- side. In some of the cages they sit upon cushions and chairs, and in others you will find perhaps fifty girls dressed all the same way, and looking like sisters. Some have dozens of pins in their hair, each of which is as long as a crochet needle, and which stand out about their water- falls like the quills of a porcupine.. They are all highly powdered. Some of them have lanterns in front of them, and many of the establishments are lighted by the efectric lights. Some have plate-glass win- dows between them and the streets. The girls all have their obis or belts tied with a bow in front, mstead of behind, as other Japanese women do. This, I think, is pro- vided for by law, and this finest part of the Japanese women’s dress, known as the obi is the badge of the bad and the good. At the Courts, I spent some time in the police courts or examination rooms, whefe all girls who wish to enter the Yoshiwara must first get their licenses. They are practically sold by their parents or guardians, who must come with them, and who, in company with the proprietors of the houses, then make a contract with the girl for three years. They were asked as to whether they entered into contract of their own free will. They hung their heads down when they were questioned, but they re- plied almost automatically, and evidently uttered the words which their parents had put into their mouths. Some, I doubt not, are forced to this by their parents, and it is considered a good deed among some A Japanese Belle. Japanese for a girl to go into a house of this kind in order to make money to pay her father’s debts or to support her fam- ily. The girls have to be of a certain age, and every precaution is taken to protect them. They are usually sold to the keep- ers for from $200 and upward. This cash is given to the parents, and the usual con- tract is for. three years. The girl is also charged with the clothes which the pro- prietor of the house gives her, and he tries as much as possible to get her in his debt, as she will not be permitted to leave until everything is paid, though if a friend or her parent comes in and puts up all the money that she owes him he myst let her go. Each girl has a book of her own, which is kept at the police office and which gives a full description of her. This book is about the shape of a magazine and about thirty or forty pages. It is much like a passport, and it contains a full description of the maiden. The dress allowed the young woman is according to the price paid for her. A $200 girl is usual- ly charged $30 for her dress, and sometimes beautiful girls have given as much as $200 for a dress. This is all put down in the book. Two pages of the book are givem up to the laws and rules of the house, which must be signed by the girls. Each girl has a.seal of her own, and with this she signs everything. At the end of six years the government usually. declares the contract at an end and the girl ts free. “AIL Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter Hewe- ‘The girl who once goes into the Yoshi- wara, however, is like her sister who falls on this side of the world. She seldom comes out, and over the streef # leeds into this city cf sin should be written the words which were over the gate to Dante's hell— “All hope abandon ye who enter here.” You will hear now and then well-informed trav- elers say that a life of this kind dbes not hurt the reputation ofa Japanese woman, and that she may go from such places into the most refined society and be highly re- spected. This is not true. There are in- stances of men in Japan marrying women of questionable reputation, but it is no more respectable there than here. Such mar- riages sometimes take place between the Geisha girls and well-to-do men, but these are of a different class, and many of them are virtuous. The majority of the girls who enter the Yoshtwara stay there. Many of them go in unwillingly; I might say, the majority. But once in, they get into debt to their keepers, and their debts increase, and they stay. Sometimes they commit suicide on account of their lovers, and the vapanese stories ire full of the quarrels which take place in these places on some account or other. Once in the Yoshiwara, the girl cannot go outside of the city of sin without permission. The police know all the girls who are in, and they must have passports to go to other parts of the town. They are practically in slavery, and most horrible slavery at that. The Japanese Government and the Women. The laws concerning this matter have grown more strict in Japan from year to year, and there has recently sprung up a movement for the doing away entirely of the system. The Japanese government, in fact, is doing everything it can to protect its people and their reputation in respect to such matters. No Japanese woman can now leave the country unless she can show exactly where she is going and why. A foreign lady taking out a Japanese maid has to give information to the govern- ment as to just where she is going, and sign such passports and bonds as will in- sure the girl being properly cared for, and it is contrary to law for girls to leave the country alone. Systematic attempts have been made to evade the rules in this re- gard, and during my stay in Japan the authorities caught parties who were smug- gling out girls in trunks. Two girls were put in tight boxes and were shipped on one of the steamers as baggage, but be- fore the boat left there was a cry from one of the boxes, and upon its being opened a plump Japanese girl was found doubled up within it. She could scarcely breathe for her heavy clothes had gotten over the air holes. The other trunk contained an- other Japanese maiden, and it was found that this business had been going on for some time. The people concerned were ar- rested and the girls were taken back to Tokyo. FRANK G. CARPENTER. ——— THE POSTPONED WEDDING. Uiicle Reuben Explains Why His Daughter Was Not Married. Written for The Evening Star by H. N. Dorsey. “Well, Uncle Reuben,” said his old friend, Geo. Johnson, meeting him on the street yesterday, “show are you feeling today? Rheumatism no worse, I hope?” The word rheumatism brought a savage gleam to the old man’s eyes, and leaning heavily on his cane, he replied: “Well, I ain’t feelin’ quite so well today, sence I tuk dat new medicine wat dat coon wat used ter cum ter see my darter Lize recumend me ter take.” “Why, how is that? Isn’t he going to marry your daughter? I thought it was settled, and they were to marry this fall.” “Dey was gwine ter be married,” said the old man, with a sickly smile, “but dat am all changed now, an’ dar ain't gwine ter be no weddin’ dis’ yar.” After much persuasion, the old darkey consented to give a synopsis of his case. “It was jes’ dis way,” said he. “Dat coon, Geo. Washington, was cumin’ ter see my darter Lize regular, an’ burnin’ my ile and coal, but I didn’t kick about dat, caus’ I thought he was a desarvin’ young man. He talked as ef he owned a drug store down on de avnoo, but I hev sence found dat he only dun de scrubbin’ dar. Well, one eben dat nigger comes ‘round ter take supper wid Lize and his pa (at's wat he used ter tell Lize he was gwine ter call me wen he was marrid). In de cours of his remarks, and seein’ dat I was sufferin’ mightily wid de rheumatism, he said he knowd jes’ *xactly what wud cure me of dat disease. I neber did think much of dat nigger, no- hew, but de way he did talk. De elequence Jes’ roll’d out, but I didn’t let on dat I paid much ’tention to him. “After dat coon left dat night I got ter thinkin’ wat he said. He told me ter take a glass of vinegar, den git a piece of gold and put it in dat glass, let it stan’ all night, den drink it, an’ I wouldn't have no more rheumatism. Dat coon came nyar bein’ right, too, I tell yer. Causin’ de doc- tors thought I was a gone nigger fur a long time. Howsomever, I gits de vinegar, but "fore de Lord an’ I ain’t got no gold.’ Den I thinks of de diamond ring dat de nigger dun gib my darter Lize fer an engagement ring, so I says to myself: ‘Wen Lize gits asleep I'll Jes’ slip in de room, git de ring, put it in de vinegar, den git up arly in de mornin’ an’ put it back, an’ she won't know nuthin’ about it.’ : “Well, I crawls into de room and gits de ring out of de bureau drawer. Den I puts it in de vinegar, and goes ter bed wid de ‘larm clock under my pillow so’s to ’wake ‘fore Lize gits up. Four ‘clock in de mornin’ I gits up and takes de dose. I thought it taste mighty funny, but I man- ages ter git tt down. Golly, how I did feel, jes’ as ef dar was race horses tarin’ 'roun’ in dar. Wen I cudn’t stan’ it no longer I *gin ter yell. Lize cum runnin’ out, and de nabors cum runnin’ in. Dey all thought I was er goner. “Soon de doctor comed, and de way he pumped dat stuff out of me was a sin. After I gits ter feelin’ little better, I goes ter git de ring ter take back ter Lize, an’, "fore de Lord, an’ ef de ring hadn't all turned green, an’ de diamond melted. Golly, how I did cuss dat nigger fur gibin’ my darter dat glass diamond and dat brass ring. I swar dat I was gwine ter get ven- geance. I didn’t say nuthin’ ter nobody, but jes’ laid fur dat coon. Sunday eben’ he cums up de street wid his patent ledders on and silk hat, wat he dun stole some- whar. He gits ter de door and cums in. Den I closed it, and convarses wid him fur about two minutes. Wen dat convarsation was ober dat coon was sartainly changed. If he wasn’t borned black he would have ben. Den I opens de door and tell him ter git. Jes’ as he goes out Lize dumps a couple of buckets 0’ water on him. So dat’s de reason dar ain’t gwine ter be no wed- din’ dis yar.” ———— Novels a Cent Apiece. From the New York Mail and Express, A young Bostonian who was lunching in a Fulton street French restaurant with some friends a day or so ago previous to going on board a large sailing ship for a voyage to the East Indies sald that he was afraid he had not provided himself with enough reading matter. “1’ll fix you all right in that,” remarked another of the party. ‘Just wait till I come back.” He was absent less than five minutes, and when he returned he handed his friend ten of Capt. Marryat’s famous sea stories and fifteen other standard works of fiction in paper form. “I saw them on a pysh cart outside as,we came along,” he said, “and the twenty-five cost me exactly a quart The man said I could have a second twen- ty-five for twenty cents, but I fancy this lot will fill out what you already have on board.” sos Confederate White House. Richmond Corr. Philadelphia Press. The rear buildirtgs on the grounds of the white house of the confederacy, the former mansion of Jefferson Davis, are now used as a colored school. The man- sion {s to be converted into a museum of valuable relics of the confederacy. The property, which until recently was used as a public white school, has been trans- ferred by the city of Richmond to the confederate memorial and literary asso- ciation. The main building, which was used as Mr. Davis’ home, is to he made fireproof, so as to afford protection to the valuable articles which are expected to de placed in it. Se ee eee Signs of Breeding. From St. Paul's. @. Arriett (after the “scrap”)—‘T ses to her, ‘I don’t want none of your lip,’ I ses; an’ she ses, ‘Oh, you’re no lidy!’ an’ I ses, ‘I'll soon show you if I ain’t,’ I ses; an’, you take my word, F ’adver ’ed in the mud ’fore she could think.” TALE OF SMUGGLING An Ingenious Attempt to Turn a Dishonést, Penny. THE EXPERIENCE: AN EXCITING ONE A Consignment of Silks That Paid No Duty. NO PROFIT WAS LEFT ID I BVER TELL you of the amateur who concluded to adopt smuggling asa method of _ liveli- hood?” It was Capt. Bob of the United States secret service who asked the question of a writer for The Star. As he expected no reply, a profound si- lence on my part did not disconcert him. He lighted a cigar and, first making his feet comfortable in a chair not otherwise engaged, Capt. Bob continued: “This was in’ the old days of the New York custom house. No matter how I know these things; that’s my affair. The story is this: Once upon a time there was a young fellow in New York with a few thousand dollars and nothing to do. He had just eno.gh money to wrong him and not enough to bring him any good. He had a friend who was of the custom house and whose personal duty it was, with others of his brood, to inspect baggage and keep a bright and diamond eye for smug- giers. The young man with the few irri- tating thousands we will call Smiley, be- cause that was not his name. And, as he is yet alive and of high repute, were we to give his real name in this smuggling connection he might see it and be morti- fied to death. So we'll jus: call him Smiley, and his friend, the inspector, we'll call Custom House Ben. Now that’s fixed, we'll go on. “Smiley and Custcm House Ben were one day talking of Smiley’s money; weary and yawning for investment. “‘Why don’t you go to smuggling? queried Custom House Ben. “Then Custom House Ben unfurled his plan and showed Smiley how, with his aid as inspector, the thing was easy and a golden success sure. “Smiley was readily led by the sugges- tion of Custom House Ben. In the elabora- tion of the plot and its final carrying out Smiley dispatched an agent to Lyons with @ commission to purchase silks—the best— with every dollar of the thousands. The agent fulfilled his part. He bought silks; rich, rustling stuffs, “stiff enough to stand on edge and fit to robe a sultan. His pur- chases filled ten packing cases. Then he cabled Smiley and started for New York. “The arrangement was, as you have al- ready foreseen, to haye Custom House Ben ‘inspect’ the packing cases and O. K. Smiley’s silks through the custom house. The profits would be towering, as the tariff on silks just following the war ran moun- tains high. “Well, the day came, and the steamer came, and Smiley's silk-buying emissary Was aboard with his convoy of packing cases. In routine fashion, Custom House Ben fumbled through them; they were re- locked and restrapped, ‘and Custom House Ben bestowed upon their ends the chalk- written ietters ‘OQ. K.’ and then added, as was the rule, his own initials, ‘C. H. 'B.,’ to indicate himselfas inspector. The pack- ing cases were then tumbled ashore and stood up on end on the wharf. “You know the rustle and bustle of a steambcat landing? Everybody in a hurry and everything to do. Crowds on the docks and crowds aboard the boat. Carriages, wagons, drays coming empty, going away freighted. With ali the others on this oc- casion came the crafty Smiley, and among all the drays came Smiley's dray. As soon as the ‘inspection’ of Custom House Ben was over, and the packing cases were ‘passed,’ Smiley’s dray began to take them away. The work aboard steamer still buzzed on. ‘That did not interest Smiley. He was busy with his own smuggling, and had no leisure to bestow upon the smuggling of others. “Matters went swimmingly with Smiley. He had in three trips of the dray carried nine cf his packing cases to a place of safety. He was loitering about the wharf awaiting the dray’s return for the odd case, and when it came he intended to pocket his dignity and ride up town with it on the dray. It. was dark, fairly 8:30 o'clock in the evening, now. Nobody whom Smiley knew or for whose opinion he cared would see him aboard the dray, and he Was eager to get his packing cases open and have a look at his silken riches and begin figuring his gains. “While Smiley waited he paced up and down the wimif, now deserted by all but perhaps a dozen people. His last packing case stood near a huddle of other people's packing cases and trunks, which had: been inspected and turned ashore. It stood just at the edge of the wharf. “As Smiley strolled up and down Custom House Ben passed by, and, without turning his head, whispered: 4 “ ‘Follow me aboard the boat.’ “There was that in his ally’s tone which sent an icy pang through Smiley. Some- thing was wrong. He was cool, however. Without appearing to do so, he joined Cus- tom House Ben aboard the boat. “We've got to be careful now,’ said Ben, in a sort of vengeful hurry. ‘My chief stands on the wharf. You know he isn't in this. He suspects something wrong, too, and is eyes are on your packing case. I know him. After the work is all done aboard the boat, he'll call for me and have the thing opened. I've seen it done before. Ard, of corse, once he opens that packing case, you know what it means. It means prison stripes for both of us.’ “Smiley almost fainted. He pegan to see that smuggling was not a rose without a thorn; and that in plucking it one might inadvertently prick his fingers with the penitentiary. “Here's our only chance,’ continued Cus- tom House Ben. “I’ve got a way thought out to save ourselves. Go and tell Flannt- gan to come to me at once aboard ship. you come with him, and I'll tell‘you what to do.” “Smiley found Flannigan, who was a fel- low-inspector of Custom House Ben, and in his fullest confidence. The two had turried many a trick together when it was too heavy for-one to turn alone. “‘Now, Flannigan,” said Custom House Ben rapidly, as the latter joined him, ‘this is the program. Do you see that Switzer with the captainthe high boots and the yard-long pipe? 3Well, “he doesn’t speak English. I am going to kick up a row with him. There will be a -fight—a good one. The riot ought to ¢lear the wharf and bring everybody, including thé chief, aboard the boat. If he doesn’t come without, I’ll,send for him. He will/have'to settle my war with the party from the ‘Pyrol. “Phe moment he leaves the wharf and the scene is clear throw:the packing case of Smiley’s into the river. Don’t walt a second; tumble her off. it’s packed as if by a cotton compress, and will sink like lead. Then pull dowg a packing,case from the pile on the wharf, and mark it with my “CH. B.," as inspector.’ said the experienced Flannigan, ‘suppose the one I put in place is queer, too? The chief will have it opened, and you will be as bad off as ever.’ ““Pve got to take chances,’ retorted Custom House Ben. ‘Now, hurry. By the time you've reached the gang-plank this Tyrotese party and I will be locked in a deadly embrace. I shall accuse him of being a smuggler.” “Flannigan started for the wharf. A mo- ment later angry shouts, accompanied by prodigious scuffle and a vast deal of Swiss, floated out on the evening air. Ev- erybody on and off the boat rushed to the scene of conflict. All save Flannigan; he was crowding his way to the wharf. He passed the chief, charging to the field of attle, where Custom House Ben and the Innocent Switzer were doing their best to win a fall at eatch-as-catch wrestling. “Flannigan was an expert. It didn’t take but a twist of his pliant wrist, and Smiley’s packing case, with its Lyons silks, was in the North river. It went straight to the bottom. Before !t had hardly splashed in the water Flannigan tore what appeared to be its sister from the pile of trunks on the wharf to take its place, and in another minute marked it with the initials of Cus- tom House Ben, Then Flannigan hurried A COMPLETE WRECK. A Story of Peculiar Interest to Women. How the Life of a York State Woman Was Wrecked—Life Lost Its Joys —But the Clouds Passed and Hap- piness Came Again. From the Binghamton, N. ¥., Republican. We have heard so much talk throughout the county of late concerning Mrs. Martha Gates of Maine, Broome county, N. Y., that yesterday a reporter of the Binghamton Republican interviewed her for publication, and her story, which will in- terest all women, is as follows: ‘I was born in Hartford, Cortland county, New York, 42 years ago. I have been married 21 ycars and am the mother of eight children. About two years ago I was afflicted with troubles incidental to my sex and suffered agonizing pain. The trouble continued to grow worse, until last winter I was compelled to take to my bed. I called in a regular physician, but his treatment did not seem to do me much good, and only relieved me for a little time, after which my condition became worse than be- fore. I was confined to my bed for three months and was absolutely unable to attend to my house- hold duties. I could hardly feed myself, so weak had I become. I had to be waited upon day and night and was a physical wreck, ‘There was very grave doubts about my ultimate recovery. The best hope the doctor could hold out to me was that I might be able to get around again and at- tend to my household duties after remaining in bed few months longer. But instead of gettin, better I grew steadily worse. One day I happene to read in the paper about Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People and decided to give them a trial. Immediately after taking them and before T had used a half a box $ saw a marked change for the better in my condition. All this time, however, I was contined to my ‘bed. I continued taking the medicine until I had used four boxes, and by that time I was able to be about and around again. The improvement has been steady ever since. Iam still a little weak, but am grow- ing stronger as fast as nature, aided by Dr. Will- fams’ Pink Pills, will let me.’ I have great faith in these pills and shall, use them hereafter. My husband, ‘who felt real®miscrable all the spring, took them and they made a new man of him. i have also used them for my daughter, aged 19 years, who has found them very beneficial for troubles incidental to her sex. So far as I am myself concerned, I consider it a wonderful cure."” Mrs. Gates has lived in North Maine for many years, and is highly respected. Any statement She makes is cheerfully acquiesced by her frends and acquaintances. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. ‘They are for sale by all druggists, or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. ¥., for 50c. per box, or six boxes for $2.50. aboard the boat to promote the row and add to the din of Custom House Ben and the person from the Tyrol. “At last the war was over. The chief managed to separate Custom House Ben and his foe from the mountains. The chief inquired briefly into the trouble, de- cided for the Tyrolese person and advised Custom House Ben that he was too en- thusiastic. Suddenly, as if a thought had flashed upon him, the chief returned to the wharf and again took position overlooking the suspicious packing case. He never noticed Fiannigan’s switch. “After the direct work was over the waiting chief strode up to- the packing case. ““*Where’s Custom House Ben?’ he call- ed. ‘Here,’ replied Ben at his elbow. ‘Did you inspect this trunk? “Custom House Ben looked at the chalk initials as If for identification. ‘Open it,’ commanded the chief in a tone as direct as a bullet. “The trunk was opened. It was all right, correct in every particular. Custom Hcuse Ben’s ‘O. K.’ was O. K. after all. The chief was baffied. He sniffed in a suspicious way, by no means convinced, but he was at the end of his rope. He turned and bored a look into Custom House Ben's face like a gimlet. That gen- tleman’s countenance was like an affidavit to his honesty. The chief gave it up. “Smiley, Custom House Ben and Flan- nigan breathed freely again and Smiley's pulse ran down from 110 to 68 At 3 o'clock in the morning, dark as a stack of black cats and the weather a drizzle of rain, Custom House Ben dispatched two hawks of the river to fish up the drowned packing case. > “So Smiley got his treasures together after a while. He thought his troubles over. That's where Smiley fell into error. New happered a tangle which even Cus- tom House Ben had not foreseen. “Smiley had put in but one day in a continuous effort to gell his silks when everybody had to run to cover again. This was the trouble: A. T. Stewart was the sole American agent for this tribe of silks. ‘Tbe moment he got a rumor of these silks being in town for sale he began a cam- paign of inquiry. It was a campaign of education for poor Smiley shivering in a fifth story on Broadway with his silks, which at last began to seem like traps set to destroy him. “Stewart’s detective went first to the custom house. No such silks had paid duty. They were keen hands and took the tip in a moment. The silk had been smuggled in, they said. All of Stewart’s detectives hunted for those silks. So did all of the New York regular force. Smiley laid close as a rabbit. : “Then came another shock. Custom House Ben was adding to his stock of silk-learning every minute. He brought* Smiley stealthy word one night that his silk possessed a dangerous peculiarity. The selvages of no two bolts of it were alike. Each selvage was loomed differently from all others. And each was registered at the Lyons works, and a plece of th® sel- vage was kept there as an identification of this factory, chronicle of its weaving. ‘The .makers’ books showed a slip of the sel- vage of each bolt, with the date of its manufacture, as well as mention of the time when and the person to whom the bolt. was sold. “We must trim off every bit of sel- vage,’ said Custom House Ben, ‘and de- stroy it, or we're gone fawn skins.’ And he produced two pairs of shears. Z “It took two days. At last the toils of Smiley and Custom House Ben subsided and they made away with the accusing selvages. Then two months later, when Stewart’s hue and cry died out, Smiley crept about for a buyer. He found one at last; a mantua maker, who took his stock off his hands at about cost figures. Smiley just about got out even, and there was no profit left to be divided between himself and Custom House Ben and Flannigan, the faithful; whereat the latter worthy ground his disgusted teeth. But .the experience wrought one tremendous advantage for Smiley. It cured him of all taste for smuggling.” —— ‘ A Message. Bear on thy incense wings, Oh, rose! My rose, Of memory’s whisperings And long agoes. ‘To her whose smiles ‘Thy glories all possess, To her confess My heart's dear longings And thy loveliness. Bear to her this, a prayer, Ob, rose! My rose, ‘That, shorn of lightest care, ‘Through shine or snows, Her way may joyful be, And that for me, When summer goes And silence fills the land, If she but stretch her hand, *Twill comfort be, ‘Thoygh naught disclose But thy all-withered royalty, Ob, rose; My rose. —W. H. CHANDLEE. ———— In the Gloaming. From Life. She (pointing at a star)—"Ah, there is Orio: Voice (from the darkness}—‘Yez are mishtaken, mum, it’s O'Reilly. —_—_—_+0+—____ A Neat Turn Out. From Life. THE EVENING STAR has a Larger Circulation in the Homes of | Washington than all the Other - Papers “ of the City Added Together, because it Stands Up Always for the Interests of the People of Washington; Contains the Latest and Fullest Local and General News; and Surpasses all the Other Papers in the City in the Variety and Excellence of its Literary Features. It Literally Goes Everywhere, and is Read by Everybody. It is, therefore, asa Local Advertising - Medium, without, a Peer, Whether Cost or Measure of Publicity be Considered. RAILROADS, BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule in effect May 1, 389. 7 Ieave Washington from station coruer of New Jersey avenue and C street. For Chi ‘and Northwest, Vestibuled Limited trains 11:25 g.m., 8:00 p.m. = For Cincinnati, St. Louis and Indianapolis, Vesti- buled Limited 3:30 ‘pau., express 12:41 migtit. For Pittsburg and Cleveland, express duuly 11:25 @.m. ard 8:35 p.m. For Lexington and Staunton, 11:25 a.m. For Winchester and Way stations, 5:30 p.m. For Luray, Natural Briulge, Roanoke, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Memphis and "New Orleans, 11:20 Pm. daily, sleeping cars through, For Luray, 3:30 p.m. daily. 3:00, 8:00, 19:00, 10:00, For’ Annapolis, . 4:28 p.m. Sundays, 8:30 a a “or Frederick, bY:00, 11:25’ a.m., 0. For Hagerstown, ¢11:25 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. For Boyd and way points, 07:05 p.m. For Gaithersburg and way points, c6:00, A.m., 12:50, 3:35, 4:33, 05:35, |a7:00,' 9:40, mm Junction and way points, b9:00, 5 p.m. Express trains stopping at principal stations cnly, e4:30, 5:30 p.m. ROYAL PLUE LINE FoR NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA. All trains illuminated with Pintsch lght. For Philadelphia, New York, Boston and East, week days, “4:25, 8:00 (10:00 a.m. Dining Car), 42:00 Dining Car), 3:00, (6:05 Dining Car), 200 (12:00 n, Sleeping Car, open at 10:00 o'clock). Sundays, 4:25, (9:00 a.m. Dining Car), (12:00 Dining Car), 3:00, ©:05 Dining Car), 8:00, (12:00 n. Sleeping Car) open’ for passengers’ 10:00 p.1. Buffet Parlor Cars on all day trains. For Atlantic City, 4:25 a.m., 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon. Sundays’ 4:25 a.m., 12:00 noon. ¢ Except Sunday. © Daily. b Sundays only. x Express trains. Baggage called for and checked from hotels and residences by Union Transfer Company on orders left at ticket offices, 619 Pennsylvania avenue 2.W., New York avenue ahd 1gth street, and at depot. . O. SCULL, Gen. Pass. R. B. CAMPBELL, Gen. Manager. my SOUTHERN. RAILWAY. (Piedu:ont Air Line.) Schedule in effect April 21, 1895. Au tains arrive and leave at Bennsyivania Passenger Suution. 8:00 A.M.—Daily—Local for Danville. Connects at Manassas for Strasburg, diily, except Sunday, and at Lynchburg with the Norfolk and Western, daily. 21:15 A.M.—Daily—The UNITED STATES FAST .MALL, carries Pullman Buffet Sleepers New York tnd Washington to Jacksonville, uniting at Char- Jotte with Pullman Sieeper for Augusta; also Pull- man Sleeper New York to Mentgomery, with, cou- pee oa New a connects at Atlanta ‘with 1 Sleeper irmingham, Als.; Memphis, ‘enn., and Karsas City, = 4:01 V.M.—Local for Strasburg, daily, except Sun- WESTERN VESTIBULED LIMITED, com f Pullman Vestibuied Sleepers and Di ¢ composed of Cars, Pull- man Sleepers Wa: to Asheville and Hot Springs, 2c, Via Salsbury,” New York tees is via Bi ham, New ‘York to New Orleans and New York to to_ Montgomery. SON WASHINGTON AND OHIO DI- NISION leave Washington 9:10 A.M. daily, 4:32 P.M. dally, except Sunday, and 6:33 P.M. Sundays only, for Mound Hill, and 6:33 P.M. daily for Hern- “Won. Returning, arrive at Washington 8:34 A.M. and 3:00 P.M." daily from Round Hill, and 7:00 A:M. dally, except Sunday, from Herndon ouly. Through trains from the south arrive at Washing- tou 6:42 Diog1 F-A, aud, 8:80 P.M. daily. ssas Division, 9:45 A.M. daily, t ‘> sa ged Aan AE AA, ae ence Sanday, at onics, a reservation and Se rf aud 1300 Pennsylvania ave- Bue, aud at Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Sta- W. H. GREEN, General Sy lent. WW. A. TURK, General Passenger Agent. p22" “"L. 8. BROWS, Gen. Age. Pass. Dept. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. STATION CORNER OF SIXTH AND B STREETS. ‘ EFFECT AVRIL 21, 1895, 10:30 AM. PENNSYLVANIA Lih(isD.—Pullman HartiaMirg te Cnicago, Ciuclunsti, Indianapolis, Bt. Louis, Cleveland’ and Toledo.” Bullet Harlot Car to Harrisburg. 10:30 A.M. FAS LINE.—Pullman Buffet Parlor Hisburg to Pitaitngy Mi nd Dining Cars, Lar 8:40 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST, LOUIS EXPRESS. Pullman Butlet Parlor Cur to Harrisburg. Slee ing and Dining Cars, Harrisburg to St. Louls, Cunelnnati, Louisville ‘and Chicago: 7:10 P.M. WESTERN EXVESS.—Pullman Sleep- ing Car to Chicago aud Harrisburg to Cleveland. Dining Cur to Cuicago. tly P.M. SOUTHWsSTERN EXPRESS.—Paollman Cars to St. Louis and Sleep- Sleeping and 1 ing Car Harrisbune to Cincinnati. 10:40 P.M, PACIFIC EXPKESS.—Pullman Sleeping Car to Pittsburg. A.M. for Kune, Canandaigua, Rochester and Niagara Falls daily, except sunday. 10:30 A.M. for Elmira und Renovo, daily, except sunday. For Wilijamsport daily, 3:40 P.M. 0 P.M. for Williamsport, Hocuester, Buitaio and Niagara Falls daily, except Saturday, wits Sleep- wee Washington to Suspension’ Bridge via 10:40 P.M. for Erie, Canandaigua, Rochester, But- a Niagara Falls daily, Sleeping Car Wash- m to Elmira. FOR PHILADEDPHIA, XEW YORK AND THE “ BAS’ 4:00 P.M. “CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED,” all Par- Jor Cars, with Dining Car from Baltimore for Rem aoe daily, for Philadelphia week-days, al 3 nf ¥ Di Gary, ane Theo Winky 1 ay Win Car), re Sa er ea E P.M. *hiladei, , Fast Ex ao week-days. Express, ay Sao PR M. 5 For Boston, without chai e : estou, without change, 7:50 A.M. week-days, For Baltimore, 6:25, 10:30, 11:00" and 11:50 8:40 (4:00 Limited) 210, 20: day, 9:05, 10:30, 11:00 A. 240," (4:00 Limited), 10:00, 10:40 and’ 1 e's Creek Line, 7:20 A.M. and 4:36 P.M. + except inapolis, 7:20, 9:00 and 11:80 A.M., and 4:20 “AM daily, "except Sunday. Sundays, 0:00 A.M Atlantic Coast Line. Express for Richmo 2 sonvilie ard Tampa, 460 8.3, 3:90 PAL, daily, Richmond and AUanta, 8x0 P.M. daily. ‘Bich mond caly, 10:57 AM.’ week-days. nodation for Quant : and 4:23 PM. weekdays,” Vw 4M dally, For Alexandria, 4:30, 6:35, 7:45, 11:50 A-M., 12:50," 1:40, 3 15, 8:02, "1 P.M. Leave Alexandria for Washington, 6:05, 6:43, 7:05, 00, 9:10, 10:15, 10:28 A-M.,'1:00," 2:16, 3:00, 00, 5:30, 6:13, 7:00, P.M. ‘On Sunday at 2:15, 5:30, 7:00, 7:20, 0 and i te 3M. . , PML ‘Ticket officer, northeast corner of 13th street and Pennsylvania avenue, and at the station, 6th and B stveets, where orders can be left for the check- ing of baggage to destinztion from hotels and res- idences. -- 8. M. PREVOST, J. R. Woop, General Manager. General Passenger Agent. ap20 CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. Schedule in effect March 4, 1895, Trains leave daily from Union Station (B. and P.), 6th and B sts. the grandest scenery in Amerfta, with mest and most complete solid train gery 25 P.M. DAILY.— “Cincinnati and 8t. Loi Special’—Solid. Vestibuled, newly Equipped, ted , Steam-beated’ ‘Train. Pullman's finest rs Washington to Cincinnati, Indiauapo- lis 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. z , 6:56 p.m. {1:10 P.M. DAILY.—The famous “PF. F. y. Lim- fted2’ A solid vestibuled ain, with diniig car and Pullman Sleepers for Cincinnati, Lexington and Lcuisville, without change. Pullman Sleeper Wash- ington to Virginia Hot Springs, without change, week days. Observation car from Hinton. ‘Arrives Cincinnati, 5:50 p.m.; Lexington, 62 ville, 9:35 p.m.; J 7:30 oe = st won Union Depot for all poit 10:57 A. EXCEPT CoS PM Charlottesville, Waynesboro’, Staunton and prin pal Virginia points, dally; for Rictirond, dgtiy, t Sunday. “Portman locations and tickets at company’s of: fices, 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania ayerue. H. W. FULLER, mht General Passenger Agent. DENTISTRY. = Nothing Experimental About our method of painless treatment for ailing teeth. It is entirely’ sckentitie—per- fectly harmless and has proved eminently successful whenever used. The advice and attention of a skilled practiclan assured every patron. Extracting without patu, 60 cents. DR. GRAHAM, 307 7th st mb11-146 FREE DENTAL INFIRMARY, 707 I st. pw. Open daily from 10 to 12 and 2 to 5 p.m. No charge except for mat used. Extracting free. 2 No Joke Intended In saying ‘that we pull together; we co- operate in professional Work, each man be- ing confined to the department he under- stands best, and the result 1s unusual skill, an immense galn in comfort, and reduced ex- pense. Our pull doesn’t burt your nerves or your purse-strings. q HITT ts Painless extracting, 50c. Fillings, 75e. up. Best teeth, $8. Crowns, bridges, ete., at corresponding prices; estimates gratis. U. S. DENTAL ASSN., my4 CORNER 1TH AND D N.W.