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| 1 | 14 : THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY; OCTOBER 5, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. TOURISTS IN PARIS Why Some Americans Do Not Enjoy Their Visit. A SAMPLE DAY IN THE GAY IY What is Really Necessary for a Visitor to See. —————— THE WOMEN CRITICS Bpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, Septerpber 17, 1895. OW THAT THE HOT weather is over and Paris has become charming again in the autumn fresh- ness; now that the municipal work- men have finished re- paving the streets, so that the smelt of boiling tar no longer mingles with those other three Parisian aromas — absinthe, rice powder and anotner—and now that the theaters are opening, the crabs and oysters are return- ing, and that the streets are full again with real Parisians back from the moun- tains and the sea, the tourist from Amer- ica is on the sea or else already home and teiling every one how stupid he found everything in Paris. It is not fair to Paris to come in the middle of the dog days; yet that is just what the tourists do. And so, to solace their poor relatives who had to stay at home this summer, it may be ac- ceptable to tell some of the tribulations of these howling swells who cross in the crack steamers, in particular the ladies. ‘As they walked along the Bois de Boulogne with an independent air—and in shirt waists—they did not like it much. in Paris any kind of candy that Is worthy of the stomach of the American girl costs eighty cents a pound. That bars out Paris from the start. Ice-cream soda can be had at one place only, and there the colors and the flavors are t years behind the times. It is true that they have good cake at Fuller's; the cocoanut cake, in particular, is always highly appreciated; but it costs twenty cents a slice. The only real and solid stand-by is found in the chocolate and coffee eclairs of the ordinary French cake shops; and one cannot always be eating eclairs, however good. You will please remember that green corn, squash, lima beans and sweet po- tatoes do not exist; that egg plant is never fried, tomatoes are always baked, and that at the boarding house you only get one slice of melon. They do not have pedches and cream. ‘here are peaches and there is cream; and several times we thought we would cut, mix and sugar them, but some- hew it never came off. Good ches come 60 h, and we needed our money for gloves, Why the Girls Objected. I know an American girl who declares that they have given her nothing but beans to eat throughout this whole summer in Europe. White beans, yellow beans, red beans and then those little beans, you know. She does not like beans for a dozen reasons, but of all the beans in the world those little ones are the worst—tasteless, unsatisfying, indigestible, nauseating in their greasy butter sauce. This one little item spoiled her European trip. She has been haunted by the thought of beans, just az M. de Rothschild is haunted by the thought of dynamite cartridges. Another girl had no pleasure in Europe on account of the tobacco. There are men who will smoke in railway cars, they smoke in the cafes, the music halls, and on the tops of omnibuses. A third had a bad time on account of the wine drinking of Europeans. It revolted her to see so many red-faced people. She did not see anybody drunk, but everybody looked just on the point of it, You will understand that the tourist fashion is as follows: You Jand in England, spend a lot of money there, then sto Germany and spend there, then take in Switzer- . English at the Salon. Jand and Verice and whatever else you find In reach, and always spend a lot of money there. One day you find yourself in Brus- sels, which is clcse to Paris, and in count- Ing up the cost you find that you have just two weeks to spend in the French cafital, and just the money to do it with great economy. The pleasures of Paris under these cir- cumstances are net so tempting. A two- anonths' drag through European picture galleries has made the ladies a trifle shy of being caught inside the Louvre or Luxem- bourg, so that they often go to the opposite extreme. They have ceased to buy photo- Sraphs, ceased to read their Baedekers, ceased to write in their note books. A Tourixt's Note Book. Here {s the faithful account of a tourist party's visit to the Louvre: 1 a.m.—Siarted from the Place de I'Opera, walking down the Avenue of the Opera, Jooking in the shop windows. ught a mechanical toy on the Avenue of the Opera. 11:20 a.m.—Bought two card cases on the ‘Avenue of the Opera. 12 noon.—Reached the Louvre, walked through the halls of antique marbles and sat down before the Venus of Milo. It was cool there, so we stayed five minutes. As- cended the stairway, walked through the Jong gallery of Old Masters and looked out the window for five minutes at a man watering the flower beds. Stood atehing “the Shahzada and nite until we were driven aw The and his suite were making a Louvre. Looked at the Regent diamond. —Looked at a Gallo-Roman_ safety pin in one of the glass cas Looked nt a mummy. 12:{0—Looked at the As- Byrian antiquities. 12:45—Started for lunch. Last week 1 went with another party to i We ed Versailles at 11:30 w.mn., finished the whole business, including lunch, by 1:30 p.m., and caught the 1 ‘train for Paris. I think that is the record for Versailles, and we only accomplisfed it by means of looking absolutely at nothing. We were within five steps of the door lead- ing to the private apart:nents in the palace, the attendant had the dvor open waiting for us to enter, yet we passed on. s to See in Paris. 1 of experience during the sht me that all the really ary things for tourists to see in Paris may be accomplished in a week. First day. Drive to Drexel’s or Mon- roe’s to get some money. Steal as many ‘American newspapers from the re yooms as possible. Take lunch at a I Werd restaurant. Kick at the bill. ab and visit Notre Dame, the Me ie Sainte-Chappelle, the Paiais de 3 tice, and the Cluny Museum. Wind up at ut big shop called the Bon Marche and igh the afternoon looking around. Go bed immediately after dinner. Second day. Go to the Bon Marche and stay till dark. Of course only the !adies do this. It will give a chance for the men of the party to go down to Henry’s Ameri- can bar and stay till dark. Third day. Get up late and take the la- dies to that big shop called the Louvre. The men go to see about their steamer tickets and then make a trip to the Gare du Nord to get some extra trunks out of On the Boulevard bond. All meet at the Louvre, take lunch at the cake shop opposite, then go to the Louvre again and stay all day buying gloves. In the evening go to the grand opera, where the whole party goes to sleep from sheer fatigue. Fourth day. See about the wash. Begin packing the gloves. Start for Versailles. Get back in time to take a drive through the Bois de Boulogne. At night the men of the party go to the Moulin Rouge. Firth day. The men go out alone, and the womea go out alone. The latter buy hats on the Rue Royale. The former go to the bank for some more money. In the evening, ride on the top of an omnibus i the Madeleine to the Bastille and ack. Sixth day. Everybody goes shopping. In the evening, pack trunks. Seventh day. Finish shopping, engage the omnibus to take us to the railway station, and take a nap in the afternoon. The irain for Havre is waiting, and so good-bye to Paris. . Where Trilby Lived. Of course there has been a great deai of sight-seeing by the way. For instance, in driving to and from the Bon Marche you see the Latin Quarter, where Trilby used to live, you know; and in driving to the Louvre shop you pass the Theater-Francais. On your way to Fuller's for ice cream soda you pass the Jockey Club; and in driv- ing to the hat shops of the Rue Royale you see the Place de la Concorde. You also see a great many French people prom- enading the streets, the men very badly dressed and the women all frizzed and painted. This is peculiarly true at night. What distresses the tourist particularly is the second-class look of everything in Paris. All the French women wear bad hats, none are pretty or graceful, and they dress in shocking bad taste. All the men have sensual, brutal faces. The pocr cab horses have not enough to eat, and our hearts bleed for them as we pile four in a cab, the driver making five. There are no trolley cars. In the Bois de Boulogne it is dusty, and the costumes of the women on bicycles are simply laughable. We have our cab by the hour out there in the Bois, and our driver takes advantage of us to drive so slowly! Why can't he swat. the horse with the butt of his whip and make him trot on. H American lady tourists have two other ‘special things to make them feel bad. One is the horrid dressing of their English-sis- ter tourists. The other is the painting of all French girls’ faces. Concerning the former there has been going on duriifg the past three weeks a terrible war of let- ters in the valuable international paper known as the Paris New York Herald. This war of letters has reached such pro- portions as to merit editorials in serious Paris journals. Though it did not begin with shirt waists, there has been a great deal said about these shirt waists in the letters. Now both English and American girl tourists have been simply wallowing in the luxury of shirt waists throughout ail Europe during the present summer. The natives do not like it, but there have been no police regulations made on the subject, and the girls have been allowed to pass unharmed even along the Paris houle- vard. The Parisians have been content to get amusement from the spectacle. But the American tourist girls donot want the English tourist ginls .to wear shirt waists. This is why. English girls do not have their shirt waists ‘smoothly drawn down and firmly belted in_at the waist. English girls are also said to be awkward. All kinds of remarks passed in these Paris Herald communications. The Criticism 1s Mutual. An Englishman, who does not scem to have got the “hang” of the controversy, began to defend his countrywomen by pitching into the French girls. Then Frenchmen wrote, pitching into both En- glish and American girls. Until terms like “flat-chested,” “filthy and disgusting man- ners,” “hawking and spitting,” “driveling twaddle,” “unmitigated guys,” “unutter- able cad,” “painted women,” “pert little faces,” “bad complexions,” “Della Fox hai¢,”" “pinched waists,” “American ready- made shoes,” became the most prominent features of the great international daily. They even got the Venus of Milo mixed up in the controversy. This also has inter- fered with a great deal of sight-seeing. Meanwhile the Parisians themselves have their impressions of tourists, American and English. What these impressions are like may be judged from the two sketches from the hand of a Paris artist, which I have been able to procure at a very small expense. Whether they are intended to represent English or American tourists must be left for the readers of either na- tionality to decide. But the intention of ridiculing someone is certainly in them. And -this is where the point of the mat- ter arises. Tourists go through the coun- tries ridiculing the natives, yet remain blissfully ignorant of the fact that the natives are ridiculing them. STERLING HEILIG. . ro Changed His Tune. From the Tammany Times, Lawyer—‘Madam, I'm sorry to say that I don’t see the ghost of a chance for you to break.your uncle’s will.” Woman—‘Well, to be frank with you, I don’t see a ghost of a chance to pay for ‘On second thousht, madam, T think the will can be broken.” -—+e0e—_____ One Use of the Bicycle. From the Rochester Union and Advertiser. Conversation between two charming bi- cyclists on Plymouth avenue last evening: Maude—“I can’t get him to propose.”” Amy—‘Have you tried everything?” Maude—“I think so.” Amy—“Have you let him see you fall off your bicycle? That’s usually a clincher.” Maude—Thanks! T’ll try it.” Be At the Beginning of the Term, From Harper's Bazar, Freshman, Class ‘99—‘‘Can’t you suggest a motto lor my room, old man?” Junior—“Why not have, ‘We study to please’ WHAT TO DO. FOR MICROBES. A Texas Florist Discovered What Scientists Could Not. DISEASE 1S FERMENTATION Microbes the Cause, and to Curé All Diseases You Must Kill the Germs. RADAM RIVALS PASTEUR An Antiseptic Gas Harmless to Human Life, But Death to Microbes. DISCOVERED AMID FLOWERS The Gas Saved the Life of the In- ventor—Now It is Saving the Lives of Thousands. ‘Twenty-five years ago William Radam, a young man then twenty-five years old, landed in New York. He was a German, and could not speak Erglish. He bad been a soldier in the German any, and later had been in the employ of Em- peror William in the Imperial Gurdens, Bellevu Tere be hal learned, as ouly Germans can learn, how to care for flowers and trees. When he Ieuded in America it was natural that he should toke up the cultivation of flowers and trees as a business. He began In Austin, Tex., and in a few years be- came one of the leading forists and nurserymen of the west. Wealth came to him, but did not bring him happiness, because, as his material possessions grew, his health failed. ‘To the orizinal complaint of malaria had been added rheumatism, tien catarrh, and finally cousumption. After being trested by the most skillful physicians for several years, Mr. Itudam found himself seven years ago WM. RADAM. virtually at the point of death. It was at this Juncture that he thought of applying the knowledge he had gained in-the treatment of disease in plants to the treatment of bis own serious maladies. He had discovered that ull the diseases of plants are caused by a sort of fermentation, and that wherever this fermentation appeared there were also germs or microbes. Following his researches he discovered that these microbes were rot ouly at the point of apparent disease, but bad per- meated the very heart of the plant, avd were in every drop of the sap. He had discovered a «om- biration of antiseptic drugs that would Kill these microbes, and so bring the plants back to health- ful growth. This point was reached after may experiments, during one of which Mr. adam ex- perienced a certain feeling of exhilaration. Later he found that after applying bis remedy to lis plants he himself was in better health, As the plunts gained in strength so did he, and it was but tatural that this coincidence should cause him to turn his attention from the health of the plants to bis own health. He found that the theory he kuew to be correct in the case of the plants seemed to be equally reasonable when applied to himself. ‘The result was more and more careful experiments, which finally led to the discovery or invention of his now celebrated ‘Microbe Killer.” All pro- greesive physicians admit the correctness of the germ theory of disease. They know that oll dis- eases are caused by gerins or microbes, which lodge in some orgun, get into the blood and multiply as if by magic. A weak spot in the body offers a place for the lodgment of a germ, and it is *he propagation of germs and the consequent fermenta- tion in this cpot that makes the many so-called diseases. If the microbes settle in a weak spot in the lungs the disease is called consumption. If they settle in the digestive organs, and cause fer- mentation there, the disease is culled dyspepsia. Differing locations and different stages of de- velopment eause varying symptoms, which are called by many different names. Back of all these names and symptoms is the one reason—the real cuuse of all disease—microbes. These may be en- thely exterminated by the use of William Radam’ ‘“Mferobe Killer." As soon as they are completely eradicated from the blood and from the spot where the fermentation is the disease will disappear. There is no possibility of it lasting after the mil- crobes are gone, because they, and they slone, cieate It. Radam's Microbe Killer should be taken three or four times a day in wine glass doses. It is not a strong medicine, and 1s made by impregnating pure water with various gases. It 1s pleasant to the taste. Perfectly barmices, and a positive and cer- tain cure for all blood and chronie diseases. A fifty-page book, giving full particulars regard- Ing this wenderful medicine, also testimonials of cures, mailed free. Address The Wm. Radam Microbe Killer Co., 7 Laight st., New York city, or Washington office, 1018 7th st. n.w. it ADDED TO GRANT'S PLAN. Gen. Tcm Wood Admits He Ordered the Assault on Missionary Ridge. From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The Michigan delegation, when it re- turned from Chattanooga, carried informa- tion which supplies, after thirty-two years, an important historical omission. As 1s well known, the attack which carried the steeps of Missionary Ridge, and resulted in the capture of that elevation, was no part of Gen. Grant's plan of battle. Who gave the order that started the troops was never known. Gen. Grant wanted to know, but could not find out, nor could anybody else. Gen. Tom Wood, now on the retired list of the regular army as major general, sup- plied the missing information. It was he who failed to interpret Gen. Rosecrans’ written order at Chickamauga’and fell to the rear instead of closing up on Reynolds. For this he was court-martialed, but escaped punishment by showing Rose- crans’ original order. Two months later at Missionary Ridge, Grant ordered the men to charge the rifle pits and expected them to stop there. He was angry when, efter the capture, he saw a line of men straggling up the hill. In telling the story, Tom Wood said he was importuned to allow a further advance of his men, and told them to go on if they thought they could take the heights. He admitted that he was responsible, and zaid that his admission would have lost him his rank had it been known years before, and would have prevented his ever going on the retired list as a major general. Wood's fault, if fault it was, led to the driving of the rebels back, as Gen. Grant was forced to send Sherman an order to support Wood's gallant men. Grant tried for weeks to learn who ordered the men on, and promised instant dismissal from the service if he found the man who did it. No More Expcrimenting. From the New York Weekly. Mr. Slimpurse—“‘Are you sure you can be contented with love in a cottage?” ‘Adored One—“Yes, so long as the love lasts.” Mr. Slimpurse (who has been married be- fore)—“‘Um—perhaps we'd better wait until I can afford a regular house.” HALL’S HAIR RENEWER RENDERS THE HAIR lustrous and silken, gives it an even color, and enables women to put it up in a great varlety of styles. os — BOOSS SESG08006 | may determine their merit. by women and girls. six o'clock p.m. November 12. OSSSODS SSS STSSOS ISSO SSS OHSS VSSSSSSOHOHSSOOSOOGOOE 1. But ore solution can be entered by & F29"'An guesses must be sent by mall ses mous D d yiother way, plainly addressed The Evening to “Prize Story Star, V Yashington, D. 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A Chanee to Win $500 im Gold] Daily installments of a thrilling story en- titled “When the War Was Over,” by Frederick R. Burton, will be published in The Star, begin- ning Monday, October 7, and five hundred dol- lars in gold will be paid to the correct guesser of the final chapter. 1. The Evening Star will pay $500 In gold to the reader from whom it receives by mail, at the publication office, Pennsyl- wanta avenue and 11th street, the complete and absolutely correct solution of ‘When the War Was Over,” as it shall be dis- closed in the final chapter of the story, to be published Friday, November 15, in The Evening Star. and absolutely correct solutions are received, the $500 in gold will be divided equally. 2. 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OEGOGS O98 89S0 0058060905000 00S0S0HS9S 086009905500 0850000005000 ® is © SOONOOESS OOOTE HOOHLH 9NSSOHSO OSEGSESCOSO HIS LOAD WAS HEAVY BY W. J. LAMPTON. Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. As I rode up out of the valley to the west and came into the gap of the moun- tains the morning sun was flooding the hills and dales to the east with a fullness of light which seemed to make the whole world glad. While I sat on my horse, drinking in the beauties of the scene, the music cf the birds, ajl about me, a moun- taineer, driving a yoke of cattle to a wag- on, came slowly up the steep road through the gap, and when he had reached me I rpoke to him. He was a man of thirty-five, perhaps, powerfully built and of a better color than the ordinary saffron complexion of mountaineers, and that far an improve- ment on the general run. ‘As I spoke he stopped his team and ‘rest- ed his hand on the wheel, with his back to the valley. “Good morning,” I said, cheerily, for the morning made me feel that I’ve just been looking at this tine view, and I want to say that you people of the mountains have something to be thankful for, even if you don’t have all the advantages of the big world beyond you. Just take a look behind you and see what a glory of light there is in the valle: ‘I thought that I might be talking over the head of a rude native, but I couldn't help it. It was poetry, and. I felt poetry in the air. The mountaineer was evidently not impressed with it as I was, for he stood with his back to the valley. “It’s the valley uv the shadder, mister, to me,” he said with an effort, “‘an’ I don’t wanter see it no more.” His word and his manner threw a cloud over the entire scene, and I turned to him. “You seem to be in trouble,” I said, in a very different tone from that of my greet- ing. 5 i reckon I am, mister. Mebbe thar’s sunlight down thar, but mighty little uv it ever struck me.” “Oh, you mustn’t talk that way,” I said, trying to cheer him up. ‘When the world is full of sunshine everybody is bound to get some of it. “I ain’t a-sayin’ I never got none,” he apologized, ‘but there wuz so little uv it that it wuz gone afore I hardly knowed it had been thar.” “Tell me what's the matter, and maybe I can be of some service to you,” I ven- tured, and then told him who I was and what my business was in the mountains, Reassured by the information, he put his foot on the hub of the wheel, rested his el- bow across his knee ‘and toid me his litde stery. e tt wuz this a-way, mister,” he said. “We wuz pore enough in Tennessee, God knows, an’ we thought we might do better up in these parts. So I rented a farm down thar, on the sheers, and me and my wife and the childern and the dog moved onto it. Thar wuz two childern, the last uv seven, one a four-yer-old little gal, an’ t'other a two-yer- old boy. The mother wuz allus a sickly sorter woman, an’ the boy tuck atter her and was mighty puny; but the little gal tuck atter her daddy, an’ wuz as peart ez a chipmunk. It wuz four yer ago when we come, an’ it wuz a dry yer, an’ the craps didn’t do no good a-tail, an’ we drug the ground mighty clos’t all that winte: “Things looked up some when the winter broke, but it wuz too much fer my ol’ wo- man, an’ she give it up in Ap) That left two childern fer me to take keer uv besides the farm, but 1 done the best I knowed how, an’ in the fall the boy fol- lered his mammy. I knowed he would when she went, but I couldn't do nethin’ to stop it, an’ I jist sot an’ watched him go. The little gal wuz a comfert, though, an’ her an’ me said ez how we'd run the farm an’ git rich an’ she could go down to Loois- ville to school an’ be a fine lady some day. “I traded a shote fer some school books an’ a slate fer her, an’ every day when I wuz plowin’ in the field she’d be right thar, too, under a shade tree, lookin’ over th>m books an’ tryin’ to find out what the pic- ters meant. I knowed how to read, and I learned her, an’ it wuzn’t long afore she knowed a heap sight more’n her daddy did; but I didn’t feel hurt fer that. An’ when I had to go away frum the farm all day, the dog used te take keer uv her, an’, dern my cats, mister,” anda faint smile lighted his wan face, “ef that little gal didn’t try to. learn that dog his A, B, C’s. They wuz allus together, that dog an’ the little gal, an’ he wuz o1e uv the fam'ly ez much ez any uv us, an’ allus et at the fust table.” I smiled at his appreciation of the dog, and he for a moment seemed to be less sorrowful, but only for a moment. “One night about three months back,” he went on, “a ornery, drinkin’ cuss that fight- in’ wuz his livelihood come by my house an’ shot the pore dog down in his tracks, an’ him only barkin’ frum the inside uv the fence. That riled me powerful an’ hurt the little gal a heap sight wuss, an’ about a week atterwerds thar wuz a shootin’ match in the road, an’ the nex’ day thar wuz a funer’l, an’ the cuss that shot the dog wuz buried, an’ I wuzn’t one uv the mourners. “Fer that matter, thar.wuzn’t nobody that mourned much, but it kinder made it en- pleasant fer me an’ some soured me ag’in’ my neighbers, an’ fer a right smart I had ter hoe corn with my Winchester, which wuz onhandy. But it blowed over atter awhile, and me an’ the little gal wuz sprinkin’ up a good deal—it wuz them times ez the sun- shine kinder showed through, mister,” he added by way of parenthesis, as if in ‘apol- ogy for his opening speech—“‘an’ a neighber had give her a pup that she tuck to mighty quick. si “It looked ez ef I'd got to the turn tn the road till three nights azo. I reckon it wuz along to’rds 3 o'clock in the mornin’ when I heerd the pup a scratchin’ ’round the trun- nle bed, whar the little gal slep’, an’ purty soon I heerd her kinder groan an’ gurgle ez ef somethin’ wuz the matter. I reckon it wuzn't two seconds till I had the candle lit; but when I got to her, her little han’s wuz cold an’ her face wuz DIue. She tried to say somethin’, but thar wuzn’t nothin’ I could ketch but ‘pappy’ and ‘pup,’ an’ the little eyes come open onc’t an’ went shet, an’ the candle kinder flickered in my hand ez ef somethin’ had swished past it. He stopped for a moment, and I looked away out over the beautiful valley of sun- light, which had no light for him. “Phar ain't much more,” he said, bracing himself for the end. ‘The mother, the little boy and the old dog wuz zone and the little gal wuz jist follerin’, leavin’ me to rassle it out by myself. But I couldn’t rassle it out in that thar place. It wuz more'n I could stand, an’ I made up my mind to leave them ez wuz in the ground to take keer uv things an’ go back to the old piace in Tennessee, takin’ along with me all that I had left in the world.” ‘There was the very spirit and tone of deso- lation in his voice, and I felt powerless be- fore it, but I thought I might say a cheerful word, as all philosophers do when come one else is the sufferer. “It's a sad, sad story,” I ventured, “but it ovght to be some consolation to you that in the long journey back again your cattle won't have a very heavy load to haul.” I am sure he did not feel the utter poverty of the sentiment, for he seemed to take the spirit of it rather than the words. “Mebbe it won't be heavy fer them,” he said, “but it's mighty heavy fer me,” and he threw back the bedtick which he had spread over the very meager contents of the smail wagon, and my eyes fell upon a little poplar box, only about four feet long and, narrow in proportion. It was of rough boards, rudely constructed, but it told a story more pathetic thay casket of gold or books of polished language could tell, and as I turned away the big mountaineer drop- ped his head upon it and cried as if his heart were breaking. . ee Very Suspicious. From the New York Weekly. Gentleman (on railway train)—“How did this accident happen?” Conductor—“Some one pulled the air brake cord and stopped the train, and the second section ran into us. It will take five hours to clear the track so we can go ahead.” Gentleman—"Five hours! I was to be married today.” Conductor (a married man)—“Say, are you the scalawag who stopped the train?" ——_—_+ 2 —____ A Lucky Pensioner. From the New York Herald. “Yes, sir; my father was a soldier, and many’s the time he made the enemy run.” ‘Quite lucky.” = don’t understand. “I say your father was quite lucky that the enemy didn’t catch him. AFTER A DAY’S HARD WORK ‘Take Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. It makes a delicious drink, and relieves fatigue and depresion, A grateful tonic, WAS THE OTHER GIRL. A Singular Elopement and Its Roman- tic Ending. From the Boston Herald, As may be imagined, the severe re- straint exercised over Greék girls leads often to'unfortunate results, not only in the way of divorces, but in willful acts and elopements. I remember an incident of this sort where there were two daughters, the one a great beauty, the other quite plain. A young English diplomat fell in love with the handsome sister, and know- ing that her marriage had already been arranged for with some one else, he hit upon an unusua! plan for attaining his Purpose. He procured a large coffin-like box, fitted it with cushions and holes for ventilation, placed a quantity of food in- side, and then concealed it near the girl's home, having previously given orders to a commissary to carry it to the address indi- cated. The plain sister was in the secret, and was to assist in the escape. At the last moment, however, the courage of the beautiful one failed, and no argument could induce her to go. Here was a crisis, in- deed, and not wishing the expectant lover to be disappointed, and having a fancy for him herself, the other sister lay down in the box, which was forthwith nailed up and shipped to its destination, where it ar- rived twenty-four hours later, with the girl safe and sound. I always admired the young diplomat’s conduct when he opened the box and dis- covered the exchange of sisters that had been made. If he felt ary disappointment, he concealed it, assuring the girl that the pluck and devotion she had shown were more precious to him than her sister's beauty. So he married her, and I believe they were happy ever after. ae ee A New Acqunintance. From the New York Weekly. Mother—“I don’t like the looks of that Loy who just moved in next door.” Small Son—“Nuther do I. 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For Rheumatism « Gout Natrolithic Sa IS ESPECIALLY INDICATED IN THESE DISORDERS, IT NEVER FAILS TO BLIMINATE THE ic ACID FROM THE SYSTEM. “SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5, 1895. “I have found Natrolithic Salt of Excellent use fa case or uric ao diathesis, and shall commend its use. Very tru! ours, ered “LIONEL BROOKS.” All druggists, or Washington, D.C. 50 cents per bottle. COLUMBIA CHEMICAL CO., eeZl-a, (£30 ANIA RAILROAD. Station corner of 6th and Bb streeta, effect September 9, 1895. 10:30 A.M. PENNSYLVANIA LIM{TED.—Pullmag Sleeping, Dining, Smok: and Observation Cars Harrisburg to Chicuzo, Cincinnati, Bt otis, Cleveland and ‘Toledo. " Buffet fo Harrisburg. 10:30 AM. FAST “LINE.—Pullman Buffet Parlor Gar to Harrisburg. Parlor and Dining Cara, Harrisburg to Pittsburg. 3:40 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS.— Pullman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Si ing ‘and Dining Cars, Harrisburg to St. Loulsy Cincinnati, Louisville ‘and Chic: 7:10 P.M. ‘WESTERN EXP! —Pullman — Car to Chicago and Harrisburg to Clev: Dining Car to Chicago. 7:10 P.M. SOUTHWESTERN EXPRESS.—Pallman Sleeping and Dining Cars to St. Louis, and Sleep- ing Car Harrisburg to Cincinnatl. 10:40 P.M. PACIFIC EXPRESS.—Pullman BSleep- TEE AM. for ane ca and 2B 5 ‘ane, Canandaigua, Rochester Niagara Falls dailr, except Sunday. daily except corner 10:30 A.M. for. Elmira and Renovo, Sunday. — For Williamsport daily, 3:40 P.M. 7:10 P.M. for Willlamsport, Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls daily, except Saturday, with Si je, cit Washington to Suspension’ Bridge 10:40 P.M. for Erle, Canandaigua, Rochester, Buf- fato and Niagara Falls daily, Siceping Car ‘Wash ‘mira. ‘or PhWadelphia, New York and the East. 4:00 P.M. “CONGRESSIONAL EIMNTTED?” all Pare Jor Cars, with “Dining Car from Baltimore, for Kew Zork, daily, for Philadelphia week days, Regular at 7:08 (Dining Car), 7:20, 9:00, 10: Wining Car), and 11:00 (Dining Gary A.M. 12:15, $515, 4-2, 10:40, 10:00 and 11-38 PA, On Sun nine Car). 7:20, 0: E My 12:15, S215, 4°29) 0:40, 10:00. aod For Philadelphia only, Fast Zo aM. week days. Express, 2:01 and 5: z i. For Boston, without change, 7:59 4.af. éays, and 3.15 P.M. anily, scien For Baltimore, 6:25, 7:03, 10:30, 11:00'and 11:60 “Limited), 4: 10:00, 10:40, 11 7:20, 7:10, 10:00, 1 Creek Line, 7: For Aivepoile, T305:00 aM, 12:15 and 4:39 nay 220, 9:1 i. 12:15 and 4: P.M. daily, except Sunday. Sundays, 9:00 AM. and 4:20 PM Atlantic Coast Line. Express ror Richmond, Jacke sonville and Tampa, 4:30 A.M. 3:30 PA. ani. Richmond and Atlanta, 8:40 P.M. daily. mond only, 10:87 A.M. week days. Accommodation for Quantico, 7:45 A.M. dally, and 4:25 P.M. week days For Alexandria, 4:30, i $102,"10:10 wed 11 0. TAB, 9:45 AML, 2:45, Leave’ Alexandria for Washington, 6: z: 00, Boy 10:15, 1 2s A oo: Sie" 3:00; inday ln» 2215, , 7:00, 7:20, ‘Ticket offices, northeast corner Pennsylvania avenue, and at B strects, where orders can be left for the ing of to destination from hotels and resi- , baggage to 8. M. PREVOST, 7-3. oon, nee meee : wo i iy ve estixion fram ae of lersey avcpue street. For Chicago and Northwest, Vestibuled Limited trains, 1 a.m., 8:20 p.m. For ‘Cincinnati, St. Louls and Loulsville, Vest buled Limited, 3:45 p.m.; ex 12:01 night, For Pittsburg and Clevel express, 11:8 a.m. and 9:10 p.m. For Lexington and Staunton, 11:30 a.m. For Winchester and way stations, °5 For Luray, Natural Bridge, Roanok Chatt Memphis and daily: sleeping cars th For Luray, 3:45 p.m. dal For Baltimore, week days, x4:55, 5:00, 6:85, 27;00, x7:10, 28:00, 18:25, 28:30, x0:80, 10:00, 30 a.m, x12:10, 12:16, x12:80, 33:00, 8: 4:31, "x5 5:10, x5:80, 5.35, 56:20, 6:30, 5 _pm., and x12:01 ‘nights 27:10, "8:30, 9:00, x10: 00, x3: , 25:05, x8:00, 8:15, Sundays, x4:55, x m3. = x12:30, E 15 p.m. OY: a at el oe PHILADELPHIA. uminated with Pintech Ieht, East, week days (4:50 Dintog Car) GF-00 Dining ist, we ys 55 a Car), 8:00 (10:00 a.m. Dining Car), % a2: Dining Car), 3:00 (6:05 Diniog Car), 8:00 p.m. (12:01 night. Sleeping ‘Car, open at 10:00 o'clock). Sundare (4:55 Dining Can), (7:00 Dining Can), (9:08 a. ining Car), (12:30 "Dining Car), 3:00 @:08 Dining Car), 8:00 (12-01 night). Sleeping Car opens for passengers 10:00 p.m. For Atlantic Clty, week “dagn 4238, 7:00, 10:00 oF Ati a 355, 7:00, 10: and 11:30 a.m.,, e:30 p.m. Sundays, 4: am., 12:30 p.m. For 2 Baggage called eee eee hotels and (or a1 {iene ‘diced, 818" Pennsylvania “avenne wortiwreat, vania ay. New" Yors avenue and Fifteenth street, and af a etd CHAS. 0. SCULT. Gen. Pass. Agt. R. B. CAMPBELL, Gen. Manager. ayia SOUTHERN RAUL.WAY. (Pieamont Air Line.) Schedule tn effect July 28. 1895. All traips arrive and ieave at Possenger Station. aed Se i Danville. at apasens for Strasburg, dally. except Sunday, and at Lynchburg with the N and Western daily, and ith C. & 0. dally éor-Netural Bridge and ron 11:15 A.M.—Datfly—The UNITED STATES FAS? And Washington to Jacksonville, ‘oniting at Game lotte with I’allman Sleeper for Augusta; also Pall. man Sleeper New York to Montgomery. with com hection for New Orleans: connects at Atlauta with Pullman Sleeper for Birmingham, Memphis and St, is. 4:01 P.M.—Local for Strasburg, daily, except Sum 2:45 P_M._—Datly—Local for Charlottesville, 10:43 P. Daily WASHINGTON AND SOUTER. WESTERN VESTIBULED LIMITED. composed of Puilman Vestibuled Sleepers and Dining Cara, Pull- inan Sleepers Washington to Chattrnooga, via Salts- bary, Asheville and Knoxville. New York to Mem- pe ya ianta and Montgomery, ow 10 via Charlotte. Columbia and Jacksonville. Vestibu' Day Coach Washington to Atlanta. Parlor Car Cu- ‘Dining Car from Greensbore* Tombia to Augusta. to Montgomery. TRAINS Rl EN WASHINGTON AND ee nd 6:25 HILL leave Washington 9:01 A.M. dai P.M. and 4:29 P.M. daily. excent Sunda: P.M. Sundays only, for Round Hil, and ‘4:82 P.M. a :25 PM. dal except Sunday, for Leesburg: is for Herndon. Returning. arrive at Washington 8: A.M. and 7:00 P.M. daliy, and 2:25 P.M. daily ex- si in Wah tt ad t rom Leesburg and 7:06 A.M. a cirent Sinday. from Herndon only. ‘Throngh trans from the sonth arrive at Washing ton G:42 AM. 2:20 Pim. and 8:30 P.M. dally, Mansssas Division, 9:45 AM. datiy, except Sunday, and 8:40 A.M. daily from Charlottesville. ‘Tickets. Sleeping Gar reservation, ang information furnished at offices, 511 and 1300 Pennsylvania ave- mme, und at Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Sta- th W., H, GREEN, General Suporintendent. iM. CULP. Traffic Manager. “W. A. TURK, General Pass Agent. wy TS Brown, Gen, Act Pass Dept. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. Schedule in effect July 1, 1895. Trains Icave daily from Union Station (B, an@ P.), Gth end B sts. Through the grandest scenery in America, with the handsomest and most complete solid train serv i Washington. ee (rom sl Sas Special”’—$ ipped, Elee~ e-liehted, Steam-beated’ Train. Pullman's finest Sleeping cars Wastington to Louisville, Cineinaath Indianapolis and St. Louls without change. Din Car frgm Washington, Arrive Cincinnati 82 lanapolis, 11:30 a.m., and Chi 5:30 St. Louis, 6:45 pom; Lexington, $:35'a.m ville. 50 a.m 11:10 P.M, DAILY.—The famous “F.F.V. Lim- ited.” A ‘solid vestibuled train, with dining and Pullman Sleepers for Cincinnatl, Lexington Louisville without change, Pullman Sleeper Wash fagion to Virginia Hot Springs. without “change, week days. Observation car from Hinton. Ai Cincianatt, 5:50 5:00 Ne, 9:40 30 m., at . Lous, ‘nion Depot for ali points. 10:57 A M., EXCEPT SUNDAY. Comfort and ‘Norfolk. Only rail Mne. 2:25 P.M. DAILY.—Express for Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Waynesboro’, Staunton and pal Virginla polnts, daily; for Richmond, datly, ex may. <Paman cations, and Hlokets at company's of S13 a1 ranssIvanin. avenne. sane H.W. FULLER, mhe General Passenger Agent. COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS. GOMMISSIONER OF DEEDS AND NOTARY PUB. Uc for all states and territories a SPECIALTY BR. H, EVANS. Office (basement), 1321 F st. ways in oftice, 3 my§l-tf CHA’ COMMISSION! Of all the States and Territories. aii 6 st. ow. (new Equity building). g. BEALL, JOHN B. MITCHEDI, missioners of Deeds for every state and terri c tory. Ne . United States Commissioner. tory. ‘Notary Pubtie. Ost ates Commissions 3 st. MANICURE. MADAME LE FEVRE. BEAUTY PARLORS. ‘Manicuring, shampooing, massage and steaming ‘of face by frst-clas ariists. 1110 F st. Rooms 20 and 22, Washington, Mr PAY HIGH-CLASS MAD ANICGRE "AND CHIROPODIST, OFFICE AND RESIDENCE, 703 15th st. nw, Mme. Payn in attendance ‘all summer. Je5-44 UNDERTAKERS W. R. Speare, Undertaker & Embalmer 940 F Street Northwest. Eversthing strictly Qrst-class and on the mor peasneble Sarma. Telenbone call SQ. 03-™=