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14 | ASS THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. THE EYE OF BEATRICE WHEELOCK. BY EDWARD J. (Copyright, 1895, by Bacheller, Jobnson & Bacheller.) I Shortly before 3 o'clock on the morning of the 7th of May, 1881, four young men sat playing whist in an upper room of one of the best-known clubs of New York. For obvious reasons we will, in the pres- ent narrative, disguise the title of this or- ganization under the name of “The Myr- te.” Of the four young men we are concerned with but oae. This was Roger Laroue, a black-haired, black-eyed young fellow,with a shifting gaze and uncommonly good luck at cards. He was dressed faultlessly, ap- peared sufficiently wealthy for all mun- dane purposes, lived in a state of careless bachelorhood, had no known relatives liv- ing, an had dropped into Gotham society a year or so before from Paris or Berlin or some other plac2 where it would be equally impos: 2 to hunt up his antecedents. In London such a man would be prompt- ly blackbalied at any respectable club. But in New York things are done diffe: ferently, and Roger's application for mem- bership in “The Myrtlés” had been backed by two of the foremost leaders of the ultra-gilded set. 5 The room in which the quartet sat was in nowise different from dozens of such With a Screnm of Agony He Threw Up His Hands. semi-private rooms in fashionable clubs the world over. It was papered in deep ma- roon. The furniture and wainscoting were of heavy oak. Upon one side of the room was the decor, hung with a rich oriental portiere. Upon another were two broad windows overlooking the electric-lighted square. Upon another there simply hung en etching or two in broad white and gilt irami Upon the fourth was an antique mantel with oak paneling. Over this mantel hung a beautiful copy in oils of the Beatrice Cenci, with those calm, lucid eyes fullow- ing every movement of the inmates of the room ‘Through the disposition of the whist play- ers Roger Laroue sat with his back to the mantel, and the Beatrice Cenci gazed down ‘upon the top of his head. The game had been in progress since mid- night. One of the players, at the end off/a cér- tain hand, tovched an electric bell, and a moment later a club waiter appeared. “Alfonse, sume more brandy and some cigars.” “A dash of absinthe with mine,” mut+ tered Roger Laroue, absorbed in the hand which had fallen to his lot in the new eal. Alfonse wag not ‘the typical club waiter. His dress suit was irreproachable, his face was clean shaven, his attitude was respect- ful. But his cadaverous face was disquiet- ing, and he had big green eyes that made him an uncomfortable man to look full in the face. He claimed to be a Pole, and spoke English with a barbarous accent. He was not a favorite with the members, but as he had been with “The Myrtle” for six months, and no specific fault could be found with him, he was tolerated. If the four young men had been less in- terested in the painted bits of pasteboard tonight they might ‘have noticed that Al- fonse’s green eyes were fastened upon Roger Laroue’s face during the entire time he was in the room. And there was an ominous light flickering in_the depths of those catlike orbs. ‘The brandy and cigars were brought, and the game proceeded. For some minutes the silence was only broken by the shuffle and flip of the cards upon the table. ‘Three was chimed by the silvery hell of a ormuiu ciock beneath the Beatrice nly there was a sharp, swift swish r like the flight of a heavy whip. With a scream of agony, Roger Laroue threw hands, raining the cards nd, with a single moan, drop- eavily to the floor. is friends went to his assistance one of the most skillful surgeons York came to make the post-mor- 13 what he found: nd about a quarter of an jeter, situated in the back of i man's head almost directly over etween the occipital and pari- deeply in the brain a small, r . of evidently some composition ef lead with antimony or copper, and near- iy square Beyend this, rothing. At the iiquest the only relevant. testi- was that given by the three other friend sitti , had heard him scream him fall the next. There had a8 of a gun or revolver, no ell, that shing of the ch had istrophe. There had been om but the four whist as known, had that portion of maroon-papered room = before vhen De- staff 1 detective by d thi brilliant orce. That > n his mind case he Insp; ung man was He Kept His Alphonse, but . and was not a but had free en- Parisian artist? had been in New a few months on a ember of e there to the ; ice C he, too, had fallen dead with a jagged wound in the head with a square bullet; and hi death had been preceded by the same mys- terious swishing sound that had been heard before Roger Laroue's fall. About this time there lived amid the wilderness of upper 5th avenue the Count- ess Claire Brodsky of St. Petersburg. The Countess Claire was about thirty- five, blond, supple, wealthy and widowed. social status was undoubted, becau: led Americans had attended her salon © czar’s capital, had met her late hus- who was of the czars diplomatic 1 | over her still. 1 tragedy of December, 1879, when the Count Nicolai Brodsky, having unwittingly stum- bled into a nest of nihilists in the lower quarters of Moscow while on a midnight roistering bout, had fallen with twenty knife wounds in as-many parts of his body. It is a natural deduction, therefore, that the Countess Claire had no particular love for nihilists or the principies they repre- sented, and it was surprising tp her friends that after her husband's death she should voluntarily have shifted her residence first to Paris and afterward to New York—the two citics above all others which teem with the varied elements of republicanism and democracy. New York society could find no fault Stacey felt that species of elation which comes to the mathematician who sees aherd of him the end of a difficult problem in calculus. He carefully lifted the heavy picture from its fastenings. In the wall where it had hung was an orifice about the size of a sil- ver, dime, cut very smoothly and neatly through the maroon-colored paper and the plaster. And the wall sounded hollow when Stacey tapped it with his cane. Care- fully replacing the picture, he rang again, had the stepladder removed, then, calling the steward, demanded to be shown into the apartment adjoining the maroon-paper- ed room. This proved to be a meagerly furnished with her. Her establishment was magnifi-|place, fitted with a plain bedstead, a bureau cent, her entertainments .were convention- ally superb, and she was received every- where. She was a society queen so far &@S any woman can be in a country where “society” is but a relative term and is applied indifferently to every stratum of the community. But behind all this worldliness was the woman's heart and soul, the depths of which no one had thus far sounded. She had no intimate friends; she had no lovers. She had been passionately devoted to her husband, and the shadow of his death hung What had brought her to Americat If any one were impertinent enough to ask her she would unhesitatingly reply that it was to escape the memories of her happy married life which tormented her among the familiar scenes of St. Peters- burg and Moscow, Cracow and Vienna, and other clties. where her husband's diplo- matic duties had called him. Besides, she averred an intense admiration for the Americans and the American character. “Put there are nihilists in America,” ven- tured.an acquaintance one day. “I know it,” she replied, in a low voice, with a repressed shudder. It really did not appear as though Stacey had made much progress on the case after @. week's work. From the point of view of the average mortal this was what he had che: . Made a casual inspectién of the maroon- papered r20m, and found—nothing. Questioned the clib servants one by one, and, of course, obtained—nothing. Not exactly, either, for there was one peint which Stacey seized and made use of 2s a possible foundation for some of his characteristic keen official guessing. This wes the fact that both men had been in New York but a comparatively short time before their death, and that both had pre- viously lived in Paris. Relative to this point a cablegram was fcrwarded upon Supt. Byrnes’ authority to the prefect of police of the department of the Seine asking for information as to the lives and connections of Roger Laroue and Hughes Nazbon in the French capital. + Men possessed of the true detective in- stinct—the instinct of burrowing beneath the surface of things and interpreting ap- pearances in an entirely different sense from that they seem to warrant—have a highly useful faculty of picking out from amid a crowd certain individuals who, to the ordinacy observer, appear in no way distinguished from the average run of mor- tals, but who, to the acute official mind, give promise of rich results if properly de- veloped. Through the exercise of this faculty Stacey, upon his second visit to “The Myr- tle.” had picked out Alfonse, the Polish waiter, as the one man among the score or so of employes of the club upon whom he wanted to keep an eye. Not that there was the slightest evidence connecting Alfonse in any way with the death of the two young men, or that there was anything suspicious in the man’s appearance or ac- tions. He was the same !mperturbable, obsequious individual as ever. CHAPTER II. ‘The sunken, cat-like eyes of Alfonse, the suavity of nis movements, and the close- ness with which he stuck to the detective's elbow while the latter was making his sec- ond and more complete examination of the maroon-papered room, had naturally drawn Stacey’s atteation to him. “You waited upon the parties in this 4com at the time when these men were killed, I believe,’ said the detective sud- denly, turning upon him after a long look out of one of the windows. “Yes, sit replied the waiter. He had been gazirg fixedly at the calm face of Beatrice Cenci above the mantel, but when Stacey tured upon him he dropped his eyes humbly to the floor. “You are always assigned to walt upon this room, I understand?” “Yes, sir, “Show me how the table and chairs were errang2d upon the two nights when these men were Kjlled.” Alfonse started ever so slightly, and his green eyes again sought the face of Bea- trice, as though drawn by an irresistible fascination. —I don’t think I remember, sir.’ “Try. The table is a square one, and there were four in the party on each oc- casion, therefore one must have sat upon He Made an Important Discovery. each side of the table. Now, try to re- member where Mr. Laroue and Mr. Nar- bor sat when they were killed.” “II think it was there, sir,” indicating the side nearest the windows. “Well, you're mistaken; it was here,” said the detective, moving in front of the oaken mantel. “At least, so the other gentlemen who were present testified at the inquest. “Perhaps it was, sir; my memory is not gocd.” “Apparently not. Now, come here. I want you to sit there for a moment,” and Stacey pointed to the fatal chair, with its back to the mantel. ‘I—certainly, sir, if you wish,” said Al- with some hesitation. He cast a tive glance once more up into the im- passive face of the Roman woman, and took the chair. Stacey took from his pocket two dia- grams procured from the coroner's phy- sician, showing the location of the wound and the direction taken by the bullet in ch of the victims. ith these as a guide "s head the spot e he lodited upon Alfo’ marked by the wounds, and placed a tin- ger upon it. As he did so he felt that the man trem- b tice He next gauged the track of the bullets by means of his walking stick, which he held against Alfonse’s head, regulating its angle by means of the diagrams. This dicne Stacey felt certain that he had se- cured the line along which the fatal square slightly, but he appeared not to no- bullets had t when, upon prolonging e@ in the air by his wal that’the other end terminated in the face of the Beatrice Cenct, Having very Httle of the artistic in his soul, the detective had heretofore paid but slight attention to the cture, except- f the component parts of the whole, posses: beut the same relative importance in his eyes as ndow the fu ure. It now into prominence as the of the apartment worthy feet above the oaken man- canvas appeared to be about and was surrounded by a silt frame. Having observed this h from the vantage ground of the car. pet Stacey rang the electric bell and de- jadder. When this was cht and he was again alone he pro- | ed to make a closer inspection of the He was no sooner at the top of the ladder and his face upon a level with the portrait than he made an important discovery. ‘There was no pupil in the left eye of Beatrice Cencl. A litde round hole had been cut through the canvas—a hole hardly large enovgh to admit the end of a lead pencil, otherwise it would have been noticeable from the flcor of the room, but quite large enough all the world had heard of the to permit the passage of a pon of sufti- cient caliber to carry the little builets which had been found imbedded in the victims’ brains. and a washstand, and intended for the use of the day servants who might be called upon to stay at the clubhouse ail night. Left alone, Stacey iocked the door upon the inSide. In the wall at the end of the apartment next to the maroon-papered room was @ Parrow closet reacning nearly to the ceil- ing, which, as the detective expected, was fastened. ' Rather than further divulge what he was doing by making another call upon the servants he cleverly forced the lock. In tke top of the closet was a board shelf. By sounding with his cane Stacey quickly located a hollow in the wall above one end of this shelf, and by the light of a wax vesta he found that a piece of thin beard, painted white, had been rather roughly fitted into an aperture about six inches square cut through the plaster. Upon removing this there was revealed an opening of the same size cut nearly through the entire thickness of lath and plaster, upon the other side of which shone a little round point of light from the eye of Beatrice. But what interested the detective most was a peculiar plece of compact mechanism which was mounted upon a species of rough foundation placed in the opening. Taking this out he examined it closely. It was a sort of miniature cannon with a barrel of burnished steel about seven inches “Fiad out where he goes.” long. The bore (if such it could be called) Was square—probably a quarter of an inch square. Upon the rear end there was a curious ciock-work arrangement, with a piston fitting into the tube, and a figured scale which seemed to show that the ma- chine could,b2 set to be sprung at a certain hour at the will of the operator. Every part of the apparatus was of forged steel, finished with the greatest care and minute- ress. There were no signs of smoke or powder stains upon We machine, which drove Stacey to the co tusion that it was nothing more nor less than a powerful air gun. He also concluded that it was of fereign workmanship, such nicety and care in the handling of steel not being within the province of the average American werkman. He carefully pped the deadly machine in his handkerchief, deposited it in his coat pocket, replaced the white board over the opening in the wall, forced the lock upon the closet door back into position, let him- self out of the apartment and quietly left the club house. ‘The manner in which Roger Laroue and Hugues Narbon had been killed was now clear enough to him. But there remained the still more dffficuit problem as to the hu- man intelligence that had acted behind this powerful little bundle of steel which now reposed so quietly in his coat pocket. Who had loaded the air gun, set it to dis- charge its fatal square bullet at a certain time,. and trained its muzzle through the eye of Beatrice with such precision as to strike down the man who happened to be |.sitting with his back to the oaken mantel? Why had Laroue and Narbon been picked out as its victims? What was the motive back of it all? The day after these discoveries Stacey was walking down Broadway above Union Square with a fellow-member of the force when, in the vicinity of 18th street, he suddenly drew his companion into the door- way of a cigar store. “Do you see that man going up the strect on the other side? Wears a soft hat and has a half-slinking walk?” The other nodded affirmative! “Do me a favor and find out where he goes. I cannot do it because he knows me. Without a word the other detective started to follow the retreating figure, which was nonc other than that of Alfonse, the club waiter. Stacey continued his walk down town. Several hours later he received a report from his companion. ~ Alfonse had pro- ceeded up to Madison Square, turned up 5th avenue, and had finaliy disappeared in one of the brown stone mansions of the latter thoroughtars, entering by the rear way, after making a short detour through several small streets. ‘Tho mansion in question was found to be the one occupied by the Countess Claire Brodsky. ‘This was a startling bit of information to Stacey. To the ordinary man, perhaps, it would be nothing out of the ordinary for a club servant to be seen visiting a 5th ave- nue residence by the rear way. He was probably calling upon the domestics. But to Stacey it had an entirely different aspect. It enabled him to indulge In what he admitted to be some of the wildest guessing of his entire official career, but which guessing was, nevertheless, based upon what little of fact he had been able to establish regarding the double crime at “The Myrtle.” The result of his guessing was that he immediately dispatched an officer in zen’s clothes to the club house with a war- rant for the arrest of Alfonse upon sight The officer shortly returned with the in- fermation that Alfonse had resigned his employ at “The Myrtle” the day bet and that his residence and present whi abouts were unkzown. ‘Then Stacey tcok the warrant into his own hands, and, after swearirg out an- ether one to go with it, was hastily driven in a cab to the Countess Brodsky’s rest. dence. Therc he was met with the infor- mation that the countess had that morn- ing quietly left the country on the Etruria, intending to return to Russia, and that her household effects were at that moment being packed to be sent after her. An in- spection of the mansion by the detective confirmed the statement that the bird had flown. But what of Alfonse? He had certainly not left upon the Etruria,because it was less than five hours since he had heen seen go- into the 5th avenue house. But a dilt- gent search of the city by the metropolitan police and a close watch kept upon de- perting steamers for weeks after failed to Iceate him, and he very Ikely slipped away in some sort of disguise and joined the countess upon the other side of the Atlan- tie. And so Stacey was baffled after all, and the two warrants which he had sworn out became so much waste paper. But that his guesses in the matter were not so wild as one might infer from the facts at his disposition is proven by the following statement from the head of the ‘sian police, which was transmitted to tor Byrnes by cable two days after the Qight of the coun “Larove and Narbon were :nembers of a rotorious revolutionary society of Mont- martre known as ‘Les Couteaux Row Both were fugitives from Russ! they were implicated in the nihi break in Moscow on the night of De ber 4 1879, which resulted in the m of Count Nicolai Brodsky.” Majestic Negro Women. South Carolina Correspondence of Chicago Record. Everybody notices the siatuesque appear- e and dignified carriage of the negro wcmen who “tote” burdens on their heads. I cence heard an accomplished artist s that the most graceful beings he ever were the negro amazons who carry coal in gicat baskets on their heads to load the steamers in the harbor of St. Thomas, West Indies. There is something in the art of carrying a burden which gives a poise a museular movement that cannot be w STORIES ‘FROM ASIA How John W. Foster Entered Upon a Diplomats Career. ae Ts SOME UNWRITTEN BITS OF HISTORY z rege The Value of Nérvé and Patriotism in a Foreign: Minister. ——-,—_ GOLD: i COREA N (Copyrighted, 1895, by Frank G. Carpenter.) ; R. JOHN W. FOS- ter Is now on his way home from China. He has done good work in arranging a treaty of peace, and I understand that it was largely throagh his influence that China got such ex- cellent terms from Japan. He worked entirely in the back- ground. He was the confidential adviser to Li Hung Chang and the Chinese envoys, and his great diplomatic abll- ity entered into every question. A num- ber of other governments have prof- ited by Mr. Foster’s skill in handling great questions and great men. He is the conti- dential adviser of Mexico in its affairs with the United States, and he has been fre- quently sent abroad as a diplomatic lawyer by our State Department. The story of his entrance upon his diplomatic career has, I think, never been published. He is a very reserved man. He seldom speaks of himself, and it will be news to the United States to know that he had an opportunity to go to Japan as our minister during the administration of Gen. Grant. He told me the story last spring, while we were sailing across the Yellow sea from China tc Corea in a little Japanese steamer known as the Genkai Maru. I had asked him how he came to be a diplomat. He re- plied: “It was through Oliver P. Morton. After I came out of the army I settled down at Evansville, Ind., to practice lav, and shortly after this became interested M a newspaper there. Oliver P. Morton was then in the Senate. He was a man of ircorruptible integrity and of sterling abilitv. I was anxious to see him re- elected to the Senate, and during one of the campaigns, when the outlook was very du- bious, I organized the doubtful counties of Indiana for him. It was a very close year. There was great danger of everything going democratic, and. in fact, the democratic candidate for governor was elected. As to the legislature, however, we had worked the field so well that it was republican: by a large majority. Morton's re-election was assured. He had been friendly with me be- fore this, but he was so delighted with my Work that he telegraphed me to come on to Washington, and ghat I could have any- thing there I wanted. Bb had been working very hard up to this time, and I concluded that a foreign appointment would give me a pleasant rest and. the chance for reading and study, which & neaded. I had not yet been out of the United States, and I wanted the culture which might come from a resi- dence abroad, t “I was verY modest ta my views, and I thought that if I could have the Swiss mission it would just suit me. I went to Washington end gave Mr. Morton my ideas. He said there was no doubt but that I could have the place!and went at once to the White House. Gen. Grant, however, said that he hadaiready. promised the mis- sion to Switzcriand, and he asked Senator Morten if I would: not rather have some- thing else. He said, ‘Why not take the mission to Mexico. That is worth $12,000 a year, while Switzerland is only worth $5,000, and the position ts a much more important | ore.’ Cae “Senator Morton then left and reported to me the result of his interview. He urged me to accept the Mexican mission. I said I was afraid I would not be able to fill it acceptably. He laughed me out of my tim- idity ard I finally said I would take it. I aid take it, and I have been connected with diplomatic affairs from that time to this.” He Refused to Go to Japan. “Did you ever have a desire to come to Asia as one of our ministers, general?” I asked. “No,” was the reply. “At that time Asia seemed very much farther away than it dees now. As it was, I could have gone as minister to Japan instead of to Mexi- co. John A. Bingham had been appointed. He was then out of Congress and the place was given to him as a sort of reward for his long services in the republican party. He preferred te go to some place nearer home. He thought I might go to Japan and give him the Mexiean mission. He said that the salaries were the same, but that he was an old man and Japan was far away. He said I was young and could wait for further advancement. ‘This: was re- ported to me and I thought over the situ- ation. Japan was, as Mr. Bingham said, far away and I saw that if I went there I would be out of the world. I would lose my connection with current events and would soon be forgotten. Mexico, on the other hand, was the next door nelghbor of the United States, and there were bound to be complications which would give me a cliance to do something if it was in me. I refused to make the change and went to Mexico. In looking back, I am confident that I chose the right.” Our Ministers to Japan. The result of Mr. Foster’s refusal was that John 4. Bingham went to Japan. He made a very good minister and was most popular among the Japanese. He did not, however, insist on the Americans having a share in all the contracts and’ other fat jobs which the Japanese were placing abroad, as did the Germans and English, and the result is American influence and ‘American trade is at a discount in Asia. The English demand the lion’s share of everything of the weaker foreign govern- ments everywhere, and they usually get it. It is becoming much the same with the Germans, and both nations are against the United Siates. The ministers we have sent to Japan have, to a large extent, been ig- norant of diplomatic methods, and unable te cope with the shrewd Japanese and the polished men of Europe. During my first stay in the country the position of Ameri- can minister was held by Governor Dick Hubbard of Texas. Hubbard did more for the United States than the average Amerl- can minister, as I will show further on; still, he was a queer character for a diplo- mat, and some of his antics surprised the foreigners. It was he who, it will be re- membered, got angry at the French min- ister because he catied him Monsieur Hub- bard, instead of ‘Governor’ Hubbard. Such things as these made our minister for a time the laughing stock of Japan, and all kinds of stories went the rounds about him. Some of them described his eating. This made him very angry and he told a friend of mire, “Why, sir, they say I eat fish with a knife; of all the blanked charges against a than that is the blanked- est. Why, if I reported that charge in Texas the people would ask: If you don’t eat fish with a.krife, how under the sun do you eat it? These fellows here eat it with their fingers and a fork. They take a little bit of bread in'‘one hand and put the fish upon the’ fork’ with it. I never heard of such a thing in America. Did you, now? Goy. Hubbard and the Palace Lights. And with all this Gov. Hubbard made, in some respects, a very good minister to Japan. His enormous sppreciation of the ted States and Texay made him believe that the United States ought to. have a share in the contracts which the Japanese government were giving out to foreigners. The sters from France and Germany insist on their people being respected by the w vernments. They demand when they can a share of the foreign busi- ness of the countries for their own peo- ple, and in this way the English, the French end the Germans have gotten many :g Japanese contracts. The Japanese have generally used the American min- ‘sters as they pleased, and have given them nothing. Hubbafd objected to this. Japan was anxious to revise its treaties, and the foreign diplomats have been meet- ing off on for years in Tokio to agree upon such a revision. When Gov. Hubbard found the United States was not getting any of the business of the country he re- fused to attend these meetings. The Jap- anese secretary of state was horrified. He knew he could not get alorg without Amer- ica and he came to Hubbard at the Ameri. } can legation. He wanted to know what was the matter. Governor Hubbard said: “I don’t think that Japan cares anything for the United States, and if so, I don’t sée why the United States should care for Japan.” “What do you mean?” asked the Japan- ese minister. “I mean,” replied Governor Hubbard, “that whenever you have anything to give to a foreign country, you give it to Ger- many, England or France The United States has been your friend all along, but you never think of giving us anything. I know that England and France ané Ger- many make their friendship the price of foreign contracts. We don’t want to do that; but we do think that as we favor 00) soi cunt auoeito altogether pass us mo “What do you want?” said the Japanese minister. “We will give it to you.” “I don’t know that we want anything,” replied Governor Hubbard, “except t6 be fairly treated. And, besides, I don’t know {hat you-have anything to give. You have already given all your contracts to Eng- Jand and Germany.” Well, I will tell you what we will replied the Japanese minister. “There are the electric lights for the new palace, which is now being built. We are considering some American contracts among others, and though there is a great pressure from France and Germany on be- half of their electric firms, I will promise you here and now that we will put in the American lights.” “I don’t want your promise,” replied Governor Hubbard. “All I ask is that America be given a show.” With this the Japanese minister left, and shortly afterward the Edson electric lights were chosen for the palace. There was nothing too good for Governor Hub- bard from that time on, and, rough as he was, he made his country respected. If our ministers would show more nerve and would study more how they could benefit their country instead of devoting them- selves to lining their stomachs and their pockets, the United States would be in bet- ler condition all the world over. Business and Diplomacy. The trouble with most of our foreign diplomats is that they have no idea of pushing American business. They think if they have the American flag floatink from the top of their legation building they are doing thelr whole duty, dnd they let Amer- icans and American interests fight for themselves. The present minister to Japan is the best we have had for years, and the consul general at Yokohama is a practical lawyer, who is ready to do anything he can for American business men. The min- ister to Corea is more of a college professor than a business man, but the private secre- tary, Dr. H. N. Allen, is as full of horse sense as an egg is full of meat, and the legation will probably take good care of American interests. Now that the Chinese envoy Yuan has gone away, there will be a chance for Americans to get concessions. A year or so ago Mr. James R. Morse, a New York capitalist, and others, had per- suaded the king to allow them to build railroads and to open the gold mines. Had their arrangements been completed, this war between China and Japan would never haye occurred. At least it would not have been based on the poverty of Corea. The gold mines of the country are very rich, and the nobles would have gotten so much money out of them that they would not have had to oppress the people. Conse- quently, there would have been no rebellion and no cause for war. Morse knows all about things in Corea. He has been en- gaged in the export trade there and in Japan for years. When his majesty became hard up not long ago, he sent a cablegram to New York asking Morse to come out to Corea, and cabling him that he would give brim concessions for railroads and mines. Morse organized his company at once. He went to Seoul and was just about to con- clude the deal when the king changed his mind. The papers, in fact, were all ready, and they were to be signed the next day at 11 o'clock. At about 6 a message came to the American legation from the king that the deal was olf, und he would not make it. Morse, of course, was very angry, and he left Corea in a huff. He may go back again now. He is better posted on the situation there than any other man in the far east, and he has the confidence of the king and the people. FRANKseG. CARPENTER. ———__ IN THE HAREM. The Slave is Submissive and Obedient to Her Lord and Master. From the Nineteenth Century. For the szivice of the harem as at pres- ent constituted slaves are indispensable, it being unlawful fcr 4 free Moslem woman to appear unveiled before any man not a near relative, while to a slave, who is the property of her master or mistress, no such restriction attaches so far as they are concerned. Since the abolition of the pub- lic slave market the private trade in slaves has become much more general and widely spread than it formerly was, and is carried on to a great extent by ladies of rank, some of whom are themselves emancipated slaves. In addition te the negresses and other women of unattractive exterior, to whom the menial duties of the household are as- signed, thcse lady dealers pay large sums for pretty children of from six to ten years of age, who are carefully trained for the higher positions they will probably be call- ed upon to occupy. Many Turks prefer, for various reasons, to marry women who have been brought up as slaves. Marriage with a free woman is, indeed, a very expensive matter for a young bridegroom and his parents, owing to the lavish outlay in pres- ‘ents and entertainments required by cus- tom on such occesions. Consequently if a father cannot afford to marry his son to a maiden of his own rank, he purchases for him a slave girl who has been educated in some great lady’s harem, and no expense is incurred beyond the purchase money. A slave, having no position of her own, is submissive and cbedient to and anxious to please her lord and master, has no trouble- some vretensions or caprices and no inter- fering relatives to take her part against him. A free woman, on the other hand, is by no means always disposed to have, ac- expression, “neither mouth nor tongue.” She is fully aware of her rights aad inclined to assert them, and the moral suvpert afforded by her family gives her an assurance which the husband often finds extremely inconvenient. —_——_+o+___—_. Another New Industry. from the New York Weekly. Visito: (at Blind Asylum)—“I thought this institution was for both sexes, but I see cnly men here. Have you no female inmates ? Matron—“‘Oh, plenty of them; but they’ve all been rented out for chaperons.”” 60,000 PEOPLE Die in America Every Year From Drinking POLLUTED WATER, But There Are Hundreds of Thousands Who Suffer From Kidney, Bladder and Female Troubles That Might Be Saved by a Timely Use of WARNER'S SAFE CURE ILL YOU NOT TRY IT? SAFETY ON TRAINS. In What Part Should the Man Ride? From ‘the Indianapolis News. 3 One of the unsolved problems in railroad- ing is the question as to the safest place on a@ train. Many have contended that it is just as safe on the engine as it is in the cars, and point to the fact that in many instances the engine has passed over a broken bridge while the balance of the train went down. Others insist that the rear car is the safest, because there are fewer rear end collisions than any other kind. There are people who are strong in the belief that there is no place of safety on a train, and that one runs as much risk in one spot as in another. On some roads special cars are always placed in the center of the train, but for what purpose is not clear. “That is a hard question to answer,” said General Manager Bradbury of the Lake Erie and Western, when interrogated, “for it is like asking where is the best place for a man to fall. The question of safety de- pends, in a measure, on the length of a train. A train made up of a smoker and a day coach could have no particularly safe spots and the passenger would be in as much danger in the event of a eollision in one car as in the other. On leng trains I think that if there is any difference there is more safety in a car or two from the rear of a train. However, I generally ride in the rear car. Men have become old and gray as conductors and engineers, and yet young men are Killed as often as any Other.”” “I should say two or three cars from the rear end of a long train,” said General Superintendent Van Winkle of the Big Four. “If there is a head collision, the cers in front of the train take the brunt of the crash, and the cars are so well built that there is not so much danger close to the rear of the train. This holds good in the event of a rear collision. Cars used in cur fast trains are so heavily vestibuled that they could not spring over each other, as used to happen with the light coaches in use years ago. They are solidly coupled, and this fact prevents them also from crvshing each other. An engine plunging into a train could not go through two or three coaches. It might get part way into one coach, but that is all. The danger from crossing collisions, where one train strikes another on the side, is small. There are few such accidents nowadays. We all know that sometimes the rear car of a train run- Bt at a high speed is ‘whipped’ from the rails on a sharp curve, but-that seldom happens.” « “Tne second car from the rear is about as safe as any,” said General Manager Bar- nard of the Peoria and Eastern. “I think the rear end of a train is safer for a pas- serger, for the reason that there are fewer rear-end collisions than there are butting collisions. As to derailments, it has been demonstrated that the engine and one or two cars leaving the rails seldom pull other cars with them. When they go off the track, they break the train line. This sets the brakes, and stops the other cars. I usually ride at the rear of the train, but I have never considered the question you have asked. SEALING WAX. Cautious Some Interesting Facts as to Its Make, Color and Fashii From the Statiorer and Printer. It is singular enough that the oldest known printed receipt for making common sealing wax, published at Augsberg in 1572, describes the use of almost the same in- gredients as those at present employed. Rosin, the whitest that can he cbtained, Venice turpentine and vermilion are the components. For black wax lampblack is to be added, for blue wax smalt and for yellow orpiment. When sealing wax was more widely used than is the case at pres- ent, scented wax was an article frequently on sale at fancy stationers, but in this epoch of feverish impatience and hurry, al- though our Gallic neighbors may have their sealing wax code with a different significa- tion for each color, we rarely go beyond the employment of black wax for an- nouncements of a funeral and mortuary kind and of red wax for business letters. On the whole, it may be said of sealing wax as of quill pens—nine out of ten pre- fer a steel pen to a quill one, and about the same proportion prefer using a gummed envelope to the trouble of sealing a letter with wax. Before the introduction of the penny pest envelopes were rarely used, because extra postage was charged for every paper in- closed in another, and for years afterward a four-page quarto letter was folded so as to be self-contained. When envelopes were first sold they were not gummed, so sealing wax was used. When such letters went across the equator, mostly in sailing ves- sels, the wax used to run and stick ail the letters together, especially wnen the ship “got into the doldrums,” and frizzied be- calmed near the equator for days at a stretch. It is quite within modern memory when postage stamps were first perforated. Before that they had to be cut apart with scissors or a knife or to be torn from the sheet, to the disadvantage of a clumsy operator. The little discs called “wafers” seem to have gone right out of fashion, - coo —____ The Doctor's Remark. From Life. The Wife *m afraid there's no hope “Why “The doctor says he has a handsom young brother he'd like me to meet.” = Privilege of Seniority. ' From Life, “Stop crying, Reginald. Your Grandmother's tura comes next.” RAILROADS. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. (Piedmont Air Line.) Schedule in effect May 19, 1895. All trains arrive and leave at Pennsyivania Passenger Station, 8:00 A.M.—Daily—Local for Vanville. Connects at Manassas for Strasburg, dally, execpt Sanday, and at Lynchburg with the Norfolk and Western daily, and with C. & 0. daily for Natural Bridge aud Daily—The UNITED STATES FAST it Pullman Buffet Sleepers New York siington to Jacksonvillt, uniting at Char- ‘b Pullman Sleeper for Augusta; also Pull- per New York to Montgomery, with con- nection for New Orleans; connects at Atlanta with Pallman Sleeper for Birmingham, Memphis and St. ano! P-M.—Local for Strasburg, daily, except Sun- Charlottesville. WASHINGTON AND SOUTH. Ww . ‘LED LIMITED, Composed of Pullman Vestibuled Sle and Dining Cars, Pull- mn Sleepers Washington to Chattanooga, via Salis- bury, Asheville and Knoxville. New York to Meu phis via Birmingham, New York to New Orleans via Atlanta and Montgoinery, and New York to Tampa vin Charlotte, Columbia and Jacksonville. Day Coach Washington to Jacksonville. Parlor Car Co- lumbia to Augusta. Dining Car from Greensbore’ to Montgomery TRAINS BELWEEN WASHINGTON AND ROUND HILL leave Washington 9:01 A.M. daily, 1:60 - and 4:39 P.M. daily, except Sunday, and ee pe poet a Laer: Gas PM dally cept for ALE — tor Herndon. Returning, arrive at Washington A.M. and 7:00 P.M. dally und 2:33 PM. daily ex cept Sunday from Round Hill, 8:34 AM. gaily ex cept Sunday from Leesburg and 7:08 A.M. daily, except Sunday, from Herndon only. ‘Through trains from the south arrive at Washing- Manassas Division grag Ase Meus except Sond, vision, 9: . daily, except e and 8:40 A.M. daily from Charlottesville. ckets, Sleeping Car reservation and information furnished at offices, 511 and 1300 Pennsylvania ave- une. and at Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Sta- W. H. GREEN, General intendent. 3./M. CULPTeaihe Stangoers W. A. TURK, General Passenger Agent. _™y20"__“L. 8. BROWN, Gen. Agt. Pass. Dept. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. STATION CORNER OF SIXTH AND B STREETS. In effect May 20, 1895. 10:50 A.M. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED.—Pallman Sleeping, “Dining, Smoking and Ouservation Care Hairisbarg to Chicago, Cincinnati, polis, St. Louis, Cleveland’ and Toledo. ’Buitet Vario Car to Hurrisburg. 10:30 A.M. Car to Harrisburg. “Parlor and Dining Cars, Har- risburg to Pittsburg. pate: 3:40 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS, Pullman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Sk ing aud Dining Cars, Harrisburg to St. Lou! Ciucinnatl, Louisvitie’ and Chicago. 0PM. "WESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman Sl ing Car to Chicago, and Harrisburg to Cleveland, Dining Car to Chicago, 0 ¥.M. SOUTHWESTERN EXPRESS.—Puliman eeping aud Dining Cars to St. Louis, and Sleey- ing Car Harristurg to Cincinnati. 10:40 P.M. PACIFIC EXPIRESS.—Pullman Sleep- ing Car to Pittsburg. A.M. for Kane, Canandaigua, Rochester and ‘lagara Falls daily, except Sunday. 10:30 A.M. for Elmira dnd- Renovo, daily, except Sonday. For Williamsport dail, 3:40 P. P.M. for Williumsport, Rochester, Buffalo avd tagara Falls daily, except Saturday, with Sleep- eee Washington to Suspension Bridge via aftalo. 10:40 P.M. for Erle, Canandaigua, Rochester, Buf- falo and Niagara Falls daily, Sleeping Car Wash- ington to Ebnira, FOR PHILADELPHIA, NEW XORK AND THR EAST. 00 P.M. “CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED,” all Par- Jor Gars, with Dining Car from Baltimore, for New York dally, for Philadelphia weekdays, Regular at 7:05 (Dining Car) 7:20, 9:00, 10:00 (ining Can, B15, 4:20, 6:40, 10:00 and 11:35 P.M. day,'7:05 (Dining Car),7:20,9:00, 3:15, 4:20, 6:40, 10-00 and 11:85 B3 adel only, Fast Express, 7:50 4 days. Express, 2:01 and For Bosion, without change, and 3:15 P.M. “Fei For Baltimore, 6:25, 10:30, 11:00 and 11 10 ee Limited), U: mad 11:00 (Dining Car), A.M., 12:15, on, 20, 11:15 and I A 9:05, 10:30, 11:00 A.M, 5, 3:40 (4:00 Limited), 4:20, 10, 10:00, 10:40 gnd’ 11:35 Fope’s Creck Line, 7:20 A.M. and 4:36 P.M. daily, except Sunday. For Anna: 7:20, 9:00 A.M., 12:15 and 4:20 ee except Sunday. Sundays, 9:00 A.M. and 4:20 P Atlantic Coast “Line. ae oat ne eR Ate S350 PAL dalip- Hichmoud and Atlanta, +P daily. Rich- sane ei ion for Quantico, 723 AML daily, and Alecandrin, 430. 6:35, 7: AD 12:50, 1:40, 3: Leave Alexandria for Washington, 6: $200, 9:10, 10:15, 10:28 AM. 3:23, 5:00, 5:30, 6:13, 7:00, On‘Sunday at 6:43, 2:15, 5:30, 7:00, 7:20, 9:10 aud 10:52 ‘Ticket offices, northeast corner of 13th street and Pennsylvania avenue, and at the station, Gth and B streets, where orders can be left for the check! ‘of baggage to destination from hotels and resi- dences. S. M. PREVOST, J. R. WOOD, General Manager. General Passenger Agent. m, ae BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule in effect May 12, 1895. Leave Washington trom station corner of New Jersey avenue and C st. = ea For Chi and Nortnwest, Vestil Lim! trains 11.30 a.m, 8.20 p.m. buley vies Gera Soe ee eT mit z m., express For Pitsburg and'Clevelaud, eapress daily, 11.30 a.m. and 9.10 p.m. For Lexington and Staunton, 11.30 a.m. For Winchester and way stations, 23.30 p.m. For Luray, Natural Bridge, Roanoke, Knoxville, Chattanooga; Memphis and New Orleans, 11.2) cr Luray, 3.45 p.m, -daily. For Baltiwore, "week x4.55, 5.00, X7.00, X7.10, 35.00, 48.25, 3.30,” x0.30, 10.00, 38? Ics Who, 35-80, 8.38, SUN, O30, x2 31, a 1 » a 28.00, 8.15, x0.00, 11.15 Band 12.01 night, Bivdays, 94.50 x4.00, x70, 8.30, 23.00, x16. m., X12.10, x12.30, 1.00, x3.00, 3.25, 4.31, x5.05, 35.10, 6.30, x8.00, x9.00, 1L.15 p.m., x12.01 night. For ee SY and a4 “i 12.15 and 4.23 p.m. Sunduys, a.m., = Frederick, bv.00, 89.80, 211.30 a.m, b1.15, 28.30 pan. Persia sos or Kora aud way, points, "Sy For Gaithersburg and way ts, 26.00, 28.00 son ass. 4535," 1.08," “9.40, on Junction and way points, 19.00, vI1S pn. ess trains stopping at y, ad b0, 25.90 pd. stations only ee aa Princ ROYAL BLUE LINE FOR NEW PHILADELPHIA. All trains illuminated with Pintsch light For Philadelphia, New York, Boston and the East, week me 14.55 Dining “Cary, (7-00, Dining Car), 8.00 (10.00 a.m. Dining Car), 11.30 @2.; Diulng Car), 3.00 G05 Dining Car), 8.00 p.m. 12.01 night, Sleeping Car, at 10.00 o'clock). Sioa et Dini ng C30), G00 Dining Car), (09.00 a.m, Dining Car), 12.80 ‘Dining Car), 3.00, 6.05 Dining Car), 8.40 (2.01 nigut). Sleeping ‘Car open for passengers, “10.00 P.M. i day trains. Puffet Parlor Cars on For Atlantic City, 4.55, 10.00 and 11.30 a.m, 12.30 p.m. Sundays, 4.25'a.m., 12.30 p.m. abxcept Sanday. Daily. ‘bSunday’ oniy. xExpress trains. Baggage called for and checked from hotels and residences by Union Transfer Co. on orders left at ticket offices, 619 Pennsylvania avenue n.w., New York avenue and 15th street and at_dey i. B. CAMPBELL, CHAS. 0. SCULL, 3 ‘Manager. Gen. Pass. Agt. my CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. Schedule in effect March 4, 1895, Trains leave daily from Union Station (B. and P.), 6th and B sis. Burough the grandest .scenery in America, with the nandsomest und most complete solid tralh sery- ice west from Washington, : 2:25 P.M. DAILY.—“Cineinpatl and St. Louis Special’’—Solid Vestibuled, newly Equipped, Elec- triclighted, Steam-beated’ ‘Train. Pullman's tuest sleeping cars Wasbivgton to Cincinnati, Indianapo- lis ‘and St. Louis without change. Dining Car from Washington. Arrive Cinclunali, §:00-a.m.; Indianapolis, 11:40 a.m, and Chicsgo, 5:30 p.m} St, 56 p.m 1:10 P.M. DAILY,—The famous “F. F. V. Lim. ited.” A solid vestibuled train, with dining ‘car dod Pullman Sleepers for Cincinnatl, Lexington and Leuisville, without cbange. Pullman Sleeper Wach- fngton to Virginia Hot Springs, without change, Werk days. Ovservation car from Hinton, ‘Arrives Cinclunatl, 5:50 p-m.; Lexington, 6:00 p.m.; Louis- Ville, 9:35 p.m.; Indianapolis, 11:20 p.m.; Cuicago, 7:30 ‘and St. Louls, 6:56 @.m.; counects “in Union for all. points. 10:57 EXCEPT SUNDAY.—For Old Point Comfort 2nd Norfolk. Only rail line. 25. P.M. DAILY.—Express for Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Waynesboro’, Stauntoa and” prine!- ral Vireinin points, daily; for Wickarcud, daily, ex- cept Sut a Putian ocations, and Hckets at company’s of fiees, 513 21 Pennsylvania averue. 1H. W. FULLER, General Passenger Agent. mbt STEAM CARPE CLEANING. c believe in, e got it. No carpet too ‘dirty for it to deal with effectually. Insurcd. agaicst fire. "Phone 1435 for wagon. ‘Successor to the Rice Bteam Carpet Gl. Co., 458 Me. ave, THERE’S ONLY ONE M.R. Thorp, my24-8d i of ours: — both CARPE: Specialties t.i8.~ a MATTULSS KEMAKING. Ask us for estimate—given for the jug. W. B, Moses & 5 ¥ apa Tith, my2o-t¢ AMMONIATED STEAM Works—Carpets cleaned Mattresses made to order. CARPE? “CLEANING fn the best manner Oflice, 1720 Pa. ave: 1708 and Sic a Rew pene, wt UNDERTAKERS . W.R. Speare, Undertaker & Embalmer, 940 F Street Northwest. Everything strictly first-class and on the most teasonable terms, ‘Telephone call, 340. jal-tr FAST LINE.—Pullman Buffet Parlor’