Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1895, Page 13

— THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21,.1895-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES, 13 BALLS IN PARIS Especially the Masked Affairs Given at the Opera. | FEATURE OF LIFE IN THE GAY CITY Devices for Entertaining the Peo- ple on Such Occasions. THEIR POINT OF VIEW Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, December 12, 18! WW eon VISITORS complain of Paris | they are always told to wait. “Walt till the season opens.” t for the holi- “Walt for carnival and “Wait for the battle the the midient.”” the horse show, dog show, the of flowers and salons." “Walt for the Grand Prix!" There ts always something to wait for, something with a special tag to it, to mark off Paris as a special city. Just row every one fs wait- ing for the holidays, and with the holidays come the masked balls. When they say masked balls in Paris they always mean those of the opera. There are quantities of others; all emusing, all be- ginning with the Christmas season. The Moulin Rouge has its grandes redoutes, Casino bals costumes and the Bullier its night feasts; two off-color weekly illus- trated journals, the Fin de Siecle and the Courter Frarcais, give each a special mask- ed ball in the early part of January, and the tickets are confined to their subscrib- ers—a neat form of raising the subscrip- tlon list; end, finally, the students of the Latin Quarter give their costumed, but not masked, ball of the Quatre-z-Arts. This latter was the one which brought about the Latin Quarter riots several years ago, still fresh in the memory. It generally admitted to be the most abandoned pub lic function of the Paris winter. Fortu- nately, or unfortunately, it is hard to get admittance to the Quatre-z-Arts; and the balls of the Fin de S’ecle and the Courier Francais have very much of a special cha acter. People do not exactly strey into them. The Bullier hardly counts. And the Moulin Rouge and the Casiro, delightful as their functions are, do not dream of competing with the masked balls of the Paris Opera. These latter have now been reduced to four in number since the opening of the new opera house in 1875, the first taking place on the urday following New. Year. As late as 1873 they flourished gloriously each Saturday, from the first week in Jan- uary to the first week In Lent. During two hundred years they had inflamed the imag- inations of the world. “There, once again, you may see all the saturnalia of ancient Rome united with the galeties of the car- Bival of Venice.” The statement was wri ten 150 years ago, and it was repeated word for word in an Eng- lish illustrated weekly but last February. “Fantastic splendor, amazemeiut, gorgeous rcut, mag- nificence, perfumed naughtiness.”” Whoop! but on the inaugura- tion of the magnificent new building in 1875 grave doubts were felt of their propriety. They were declared to be “prejudicial to the artistic conserva- tion of the monument,” and no one who has ever seen them will doubt it. Before 11 p.m. an immense crowd has already formed around the opera, and the police are in attendance to keep order. The place of the opera is a wide square, looking down the avenue of the opera.gt the junc- tio of the Grand Boulevard. On either side are rows of great cafes and restau- rants. The crowd surges in the open square; the restaurants and cafes blaze with special lights; an open way is being forced for carriages; and at the eastern cor- ner of the great front entrance of the opera a very curlous crowd of masks {s being given entrance. They are of the free list, and they come as early as they can. Fac- tory girls from Belleville, little laundresses from Suresnes, market girls and little sales girls from the mean shops of old Paris, concierges’ daughters. The free lst, forming -the dregs of thi opera balls, is absolutely essential to their Any person, male or female, so t one be good looking and young, may make application for free entrance a’ week beforehand, at the proper bureau. The in- spector inspects. “Yes; you will do. Your name, address, and in what costume will you come. They are particular about costumes. Everything that might possibly touch poli- ties is rejected. No one, not even a pretty irl, may come as a policeman or a soldier of the present day. The recipient of che free ticket is told also that the costume must be fresh-looking and handsome. Of- ten the: y people will pawn their Sunday clothes to hire a fetching disguise. They come early and stay late. They ar: bound to dance and dance and dance. Th do three-quarters of all the dancing that is done. No one could mistake them. The young men lack in clegance what they make up in vigor. It is after midnight, and the ball fs open. There comes trooping in the more aristo- cratic public, the tourists, the provincials, the sightseers, scattered individuals and couples seeking w a natural hesitation and timidity to get a glimpse of that in which they have no part. The Paris great world, in its various ranks and rounds. "The ladies are in ball costume and masked. All have their boxes, where they sit to look and listen, if they be of a peculiar correct- ness of mind. The ball is at its height at 1 a.m. The grand cortege of the beauties of all ages, the triumphal entrance of the ship of beauty, the passing of the bridge of beauty, or whatever the particular event may be, according to announcement, has been wel- comed nd applauded. All is animation. Bocicty ladies are beginning to grow dis- creetiy skittish, the young clubmen in the lower boxes cre beginning to be noisy, the free entrance people are being taken to the buffet for champagne, the tourists have forgotten their strangeness. The foyers and the lobbies, the corridors and the grand Staircase are as crowded as the dance floor of the auditorium, surrounded by its boxes and tke full length of the stage be- hind. The crazy strains of three Hun- chestras strike on the ears as one ing through the crowd in various quarters. It has alwa dence at the n No orchest doing th hard to make them ed balls of the opera. tor has fully succeeded in > the days of Louis Philippe, he eccentric Mussard * of the quadrille” onternporaries named him. People mply to watch his maneuvers. On de of him he placed twenty-four . With altos and contra-bassos in full with fourteen mech horns » tror to assist in making 1 racket which required to Bet the world ig at a Paris opera ball. Even this was oft not enough for his Purpose. One memorable night, at a cer- tain moment of the measure, he caused a quantity of chairs to be thrown from a height behind the scenes and crash; and the final galop was ushered in and termi- Bated by the rapid firing of guns and pis- tols. Then, when all was over, the crowd dragged him from his place and bore him on their shoulders in a crazy triumph round the hall. Today they complain that the music {is scarcely loud enough to be heard. And it {s almost true, such is the frightful racket. To give apparent occupation to the people several devices of recent invention have been had recourse to. One is the adoption of the Spanish (not the Roman) confetti— there are sold enormous quantities of great satin bags filled with millions of tiny wads of gay colored paper. Its object is to create a disturbarce by throwing it about, on ladies’ hair, down their backs and in their fa It eatches m th ears and mouths, thei ippers and their stockings. The right thing is to throw a great deal of it. To cast it nonchalantly and impartial- ly from side to side, like a farmer spread- ing phosphate, means you simply wish to do your duty. To receive a double handful in ‘the face and to throw hack to the bright-cyed girl a mere perfunctory dab betokens: d best look elsewhere.” A battle with the confetti is a sign of mu- tual admiration. The other invention i that of the “serpentine,” which dates on frem March, 1s The serpentines are rolls of narrow r ribbon of all colors, very much like that which comes out of the stock-reporting ickers” in the brokers’ offices of America. When thrown with the hand still grasping the outside end of the ribbon, the disk unrolls, descri ing graceful curves. The effect produced is charming, as if a thousand harmless rockets were being set off at each moment. They are thrown from floor to balconies and from the balconies to the floor, where they hang, innumerable bright-colored fes- techs in the yay electric light. A girl stands in a private box. “Let me see if [can har- poon a supper out of that nice old gentle- man beside the pillar.” Whirr! The disk flies short. Whirr! Another flies, unroll- ing out its pink lengths over people’s heads, to strike the vieux monsieur upon his tall silk hat. And as he follows the pink rib- bon with his eyes, on, on and on, he dis- covers the naughty fisher of men still tug- ging at it amisbly, as if to haul him in. From high and low they throw these rapidly unrolling serpentines, and al@ the air is thick with color. There are such showers of softly-falling pink confetti that you would think a a snowstorm raged—a snowstorm out of rosy dreamland. Mid- night—1 o’clock—2 o’clock—3 o'clock. The opera is still ablaze and all the res- taurants around are in full brilliance. The ladies of the high world are already in them, supping, or have rolled home in their carriages. For two blocks the boule- vard is almost as bright as at 1 a.m on ordinary nights. All the brasseries and cafes are in full gala dre like the aristocratic restau- rants. They do not close their doors all night. The cabinet ‘ Z particuliers — revive, it for a night, their anctent glories of the second empire. In the large supper rooms the fun is of a kind to turn your hair gray. It is doubtful how much Americans would be pleased with all this matter-of-fact, half-decorous improprie! The spirit of some of the wild French balis of our own American cities is, after all, really more violent, hcwever hampered- in externals. We Americans are a people of self-repre sion, and when we let ourselves go, we go har We have not the infinite patience of old Europe. Here in Paris the foundations of the cpera balls are firmly laid in the habitual nightly life of the promiscuous resorts. Night after night these Parisians loiter in the Moulin Rouge, the Casino de Paris, the Olympia and the Palais de Glace to contemplate light women promenading and indulge in light chat with them. Night after night at Julien'’s, Sylvain’s and the Cafe Americain the men meet very much of the same crowd to sup with, unashamed. Americans and Englishmen become impa- tient at such placid and continuous goings- on in public. Yet, when they come to Paris they desire to see it all—to see, not do. And when we start to “do” we go too far— according to French thinking. So we are misunderstood, and in a threefold way. When we only look they think us stupid. When we get tipsy enough not to be ashamed, they think us—forward. And when we are simply scandalized, they say we are hypocritical. It is like the remark made by an impolite Frenchman, an utter stranger, to a nice American girl, who de- sired imprudently to see the Moulin Rouge. “Why, this is awful!’ she exclaimed. “Then, what for do you come?” he re- marked in passing. STERLING HEILIG. —— December. When suns are low, and nights are long, And winds bring ‘wild alarms, Through the darkress comes the queen of the year In all ber peerle ms— ecember, fair and holly-crowned, With the Christ-child in Ler arms, The maiden months are a stately train— siled In the spotless snow, 1 with the blooms of Paradise time the reses blew, reathed with the vine and the yellow wheat When ihe moons of barvest glow. But, ch, the Joy of the rolling year, ‘The queen With peerless charms, Is she who comes through the waning Nght "To keep the world from harms— December, falr and holly-crowned, With the Christ-child in her arms, ‘A DEAN PROCTOR. coe Why Advertisers Fail. By a Washington (D. C.) Writer. All the men who have failed in advertis- ing here have been plungers-) Instead of confining their advertising to’one or two mediums of known circulation and value, they have taken space in all the daily papers and nearly all of the various fake schemes daily presented. see. Comprrative Sadness. nforter. \s ssented the widow. it Is a heap sadder fer Bill. “But “I don’t think.’"—Life. IVAN NESS’ WIDOW A Celebrated Case in the Old Circuit Court. CONTEST OVER A FAMOUS ESTATE How Mrs. * Winning a Fortune. Connor Came Near AN OLD-TIME -SCANDAL Written for The Evening Star. OHN P. VAN NESS is yet remembered by very old citizens. His was too familiar a figure to be easily forgotten. The im- press of his life upon the times was too deep to be erased in a century. No man, perhaps, filled up so many pages of local ~bistory as he. And yet he was not an Sold originator. Neither did he develop the resources surrounding him. He had a knack for taking a full tide, and every tide he took bore him on to great- er fortune He came all the way from Kin- derhook as a member of the first or second Congres that assembled in Washington. He was a republican, and walked into the White House arm in arm with Jefferson over the ruins of federalism. He was ex- pelled from Congress for accepting the gen- eralship of the District militia, and he had his revenge in a kind of dare-devil, Cata- line oration against Congress, which gave him national prominence at the time. He Iccalized his fame by marrying the richest heiress in the clty. Then, with the title deeds of her property in his name, he turned a harvest of brick and mortar from her bar- ren farm lands. He was president of one of the largest banks in the city, as well as one of its heaviest stockholders, nearly all his life. He was mayor of the town. He was the idol of the hour. Everything he touched seemed to turn to gold and silver. If he had been Moses and struck Horeb with his rod gold, instead of water, would have spouted. He was breezy, too, and evolved a mild scandal after his wife's death’ by es ing over his palatial household Ann V @ runaway nun from the convent in George- ‘Yown. People used to stop when the two rode by, and indulge in backyard gossip. But the tongue of calumny was never very loud over the affair, for Ann was John’s niece and John was Ann’s uncle. If in- quisitive people inquired why Ann never found reasen to run away from the convent in the lifetime of Mrs. Van Ness, surely John could not be expected to answer the question. He hadn't time. Besides, he did not know. After holding every office within the people's gift, and after a long life of every enjoyment the world could give, John Ness went down as the sun sets in P. Van N splendor on a summer's day. And he left behind the largest fortune existing in the District to the day of his death, March 7, 1546. A “Widow” Appears. His heirs were all collateral; they were many and they were sensible. They did not seek the law to settle the estate, but proposed dividing it amicably between themselves in a sort of tea-table fashion. But the law was not to be slighted. If the heirs would not go to law, why, the law would come to the helrs, and it did come in the romance of one of the most important causes celebres of the District of Columbia. A matronly lady in black and tears, liv- ing in one of the houses belonging to the Van Ness estate, refused to pay rent to | the agent on his monthly cail. She wrote a letter to the heirs proposing to share the estate with them, and intimated in lan- guage, gentle but positive, that she would like the division to begin at once. In the black-bordered ietter she was very dicta- When the heirs demanded ‘her au- thority for such insolence she went into the Orphans’ Court and announced herself idow of the deceased Gen. s by a clandestine mar- formed. Her name ap- as Mrs. Mary Con- her advertisement in the daily ar back as 1835 announced that “on Pennsylvania avenue one door east from 4%% street she could accommodate summer or yearly boarders in rooms suita- ble either for single persons or families.” The heirs were horrified at the thoughts her language expressed, for one of them a Vermont governor and another a New York supreme court judge. They called the widow a blackmailer. The old Dutch Van Nesses in pictures at Kinderhook turned their faces to the wall and wept at the disgrace of a scion of their house having his name coupled with that of a Washington boarding house mistress. Men wondered and laughed and laughed and wondered. The topic was the theme of ry household. In the meanwhile a jury was summoned to try the question, “Is Mrs. Connor Mrs. Van Ness?” Robert S. Brent represented the interests of the mourning widow; Joseph H. Bradley, Hen- ty D. Gilpin, a former attorney géneral, and Richard S. Coxe, those of the heirs, The court room was dtnsely packed cur- ing the three weeks’ trial, the legal com- bats were many and well fought, and the stories from the witness box were spicy revelations. The chances for a verdict either way were even. Her Stgry of Courtship and Marriage. Placed upon the witness stand under cath the widow told her story, simple enough, and consistent with truth in every detail. She narrated how the festive John P. Van Ness loved her, and how she re- ciprocated his love. With a plaintive tremor she dwelt upon their courtship days and his proposal, asking a_ private marriage in deference to his worldly pos ticn until circumstances might suggest its publication. She told how she accepted his proposal and consented to his plan. She Getailed her journey to Philadelphia with Van Ness, their appearance before an alder- man, officially empowered to tie the nuptial knot and the solemnization of their mar- riage then and there. She took her wed- ding rmg from the third finger of her left hand end passed it to the jury for examin: tion, and she gave the alderman’s name, his address, appearance and manner, well as the day and hour of the ceremony with exact minuteness. Cross-examination could neither weaken nor contradict her in her testimony. She was even right by the weather reports in her description of the atmospheric condition of the day she described as her wedding day. When the widow left the stand every man said all sho needed was corroboration and her case was won. Van Ness stock was down; the widow's was up. And then a series of surprises came as thunder claps come in the lull of twilight. Expectation was kept on the jump. _No one could guess by the successions of climaxes what*was to follow. When the alderman, who was named as having performed the ceremony was sought for, it was found that he had died before the trial existing and subsequent to the date of the alleged mar- riage. Strange that he of all men should die when he was most needed to live. Then inquiry developed the fact that the dead alderman’s docket entries during the enti month of ihe alleged mé ing, while all his other papers were com- plete. Funny, men said, that st ant papers should be lost. Many said the widow’s case would be lost with them. They didn’t know the trump cards she held up her mourning sleeve. If the alderman was dead, his servant woman was living. If his papers were lost, her recollection was the next best evidence. She was a sert of Hester Dethridge, dull and stupid or deep and wicked. She was negative enough to be pusitive in effect for want of better evidence. She swore she recognized Mrs. Connor as the woman who called upon her master with a man on “marriage busi- ness” about the time described as the date of the wedding ceremony. In her _unde- fined description of outlines, John P. Van Ness could fill them, perhaps better than any other man as to size, weight and years. So far the widow was ahead. Her stock was preferred; that of the Van Ness heirs was common. True her story was not cor- roborated it: full, and she stood on- her own testimony alone for victory, but her master stroke was reserved as a clincher, P. Van N legally pe riage, peared in the director and iage were miss- | ch import- | just as the pugilist hotds his knock-out blow for his last—or the playwright keeps his denouement hidden; till the curtain’s drop. Bi : A Bundle of'Love Letters. Mrs. Connor had what was better than aldermen, living or dead, to prove her case. She had what was even‘better than the cor- rcboration of her own téstimony. She had, in a bundle, the love letters of John“P. Van Ness in his own handwriting, both before and after the marriage,Cand she produced them. They were read ‘In’ open court. There was no mistaking theit ring. It had the sound of true love in every syllable. The letters prior to the martiage were ardent professions of love and idolatry for the widow. In those written subsequent to the event, he alluded to the+“aldermanic mar- riage” in Philadelphia,and called the Widow Connor his wife. The off Dutch Van Nesses in pictures up at Kin@éthook must have fallen from their frames as the letters were read in the old Circuit Court. There were the letters in black and white. There were upward of thirty of them. They were handed around to the jury. They were pre- sented to the world for inspection. Were they forgeries or genuine? If they were genuine, they were corroboration, ‘confes- sion, proof, and the widow could live the balance of her life in a mansion. If they were forgeries, the weeping widow’s chances for the penitentiary were certainties. ‘Over fifty different men who had been connected with the bank of which Van Ness was president, as difectors and clerks through a series of years, and who had seen him write so often that-his chirography was as familiar to them as his face, were brought to prove or disprove the genuine- ness of the letters. Each one examined each letter, first with ‘magnifying glasses and then without. No letters were ever subjected to such examination before nor since. They were read, placed on window panes and behind candle light, read upside down and crossways. They were read all together and separately. Men walked up and selected one letter from the bunch as a conjurer would a card from the pack to per- form a trick with, and then they put the letter back in the bunch and were no wise They hemmed and they hawed, and after days thus spent in the amative epistolary examination of the men most familiar with the deceased bank president's handwriting, the most swore beyond doubt that the let- ters were genuine. Some doubted and wouldn't swear at all. Experts on hand- writing were summoned as witnesses from far and near. They examined the letters under glasses and over glasses. They hemmed and hawed. They looked wise and upid. They differed in their opinions, as experts always do. The many pronounced the letters genuine. The few who doubted could not be as sure they were forgeries as they were of facts better known. The widow vas far ahead in the race. Then came Miss nia Connor to the witness box. She s petite in form and pretty in face. She was the widow's niece. She swore positive- ly to the visits of John P. Van Ness upon the widow in his life time, and his declara- tions both in the widow's and her own pres- ence, that he was Mrs. Connor's husband. When Virginia left the stand the heirs of the dead Van Ness began their legal in- nings. They had but one witness whose testimony was damaging to the widow, and he was a minister of the Gospel from’ Mis- sourl, The widow’s private character was unimpeachable. Like Caesar’s wife, she was above susp'cion. Had Tried It Before. The minister's sworn statement was that a few years before, while on a visit to Wash- ington to prosecute a claim before Congress, he boarded at Mrs. Connor’s, and that one day during his stay, she knowing his cleri- cal profession, approached, him, accompan- ied by a gentleman whom ghe introduced as General Van Ness, president of the Bank of the Metropolis. bis ministerial capacity he was asked by the gentleman, whom he then believed to be Van Ness, to perform the marriage ceremony between him and Mrs. Conor as the contracting parties. The minister declined, at the same time express- ing his surprise that a man of the position ascribed to Van Ness should desire a secret marriage. The same reason given for the destine merriage in Philadelphia was ed upon the minister, and although fur- her solicited to perform the ceremony, he emphatically. declined. He further swore that John P. Van Ness: was subsequently pointed cut to him upon the street, and that he was not the man iyho urged the secret marriage in Mrs. Connor's parlor. The minister's testimony: produced a sen- sation, but after all, itnwas not so bad as it looked. Htman identity is.always a theme of uncertainty. He admitted that he was a trifle nearsighted. There: was/ the fog of doubt about the widow, but her chances were good. The social thermometer regis- tered fever heat as the case was given to the jury. Pople scarcely dared breathe during the jury sence for consultation, And then! The denouement of the case was sickeningly disappointing, although in the intensity cf its surprise it was fully in keep- ing with the series of surprises occurring during the trial. As the jury stepped for- ward, ostensibly to announce their ver- dict, Mr. Birth, one of the jury, said he de- clined to vote upon the question, because he cculd not conscientiously adopt as law what was stated to be law by the court. This was such @ new phase of conscientious scruples on the part of a juror, never heard in Washington before, that the city hall al- most stirred in its foundation stones with laughter. But Mr. Birth was terribly in earnest, and in face of the court threatening to punish him for contempt, he strongly maintained his determination against ac- cepting, as justice, the law as stated. Then happened what never occurred before in the history of the District judiciary, the rendi- tion of a verdict by eleven jurors. By some legal quibble it was entered upon the min- utes as the decision of the twelve, and it was in favor of the Van Ness heirs and against the widow. She Vanished. In mourning and tears the widow left the court room, and in a suspiciously short time afterward, although the case was on appeal to the Supreme Court, she left Washington forever. It was a current story at the time that the heirs placed in her hands $10,000 as a consideration for future peace, but they always denied the report. The case was a most remarkable one in all its respects. No one claimed for the genial and whole-souled John P. Van Ness the strict morality of Joseph, the son of Jacob, That he knew the widow and that she knew him was conceded; likewise, that she reaped many substantial favors from the knowledge in the shape of a home and home comforts; but that he actually mar- ried her was after a time discredited by everybody. Who, then, forged the love let- ters so cleverly as to deceive intimate friends and scientific experts with their show of genuineness? They must have re- quired years in their execution, and they must have been written in the reliant faith of the survival of Mrs. Connor after Van Ness’ death. Otherwise the stupendous labor were useless. Whose deft hands and able brain aided and abetted Mrs. Connor in her attempt to steal a fortune? Who was the unseen power behind the scenes playing the puppets in front? There were suspicions, so many, about the case as to suggest in public print the inquiry, “If the letters were forgeries, why didn’t the heirs cause the indictment of Mrs. Connor?’ They owed her punishment for the crime to justice, to themselves and to the memory of their relative. If Mrs. Connor's testimony were perjury, it was consistent in detail with truth. In any event, she was a remarkable woman, and has made the biography of John P. Van Ness impossible without the mention of her name. GENE RILEY. “My dear Susan, I wish you would keep ‘yeur trousers on your own side of the closet.” 'MEMBERS IN TOWN ° Senators. Allen, W. V., Neb., 1836 Vt. ave. n.w. Allison. Iowa, Portland. Bacon, Ga., 924 14th st. Baker, Lucien, Kans., 1742 Q street. Bate, Wm. B., Tenn., Ebbitt. Berry, Ark., Metropolitan. Blackburn, J. C. 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Harris, Isham G., Tenn., 13 1st street ne. Hawley, J. R., Conn., 1741 G street. Hill, D. B., N. Y., 8 Lafayette square. Hoar, Massachusetts, 1417 K. Irby, J. L. M., S. C., 436 M st. Jones, John P., Nev., Chamberlin’s. Jones, Jas. K., Ark., 915 M st. Kyle, James H., 8. D., Varnum. Lindsay, Kentucky, Cochran. Lodge, Messachvsetts, 1765 Mass. ave. Mantle, Lee, Montana, Page’s. Martin, Va., Cairo. McBride, Oregon, 1624 Riggs place. McMillan, James, Mich., 1114 Vt. avenue. Mills, R. Q., Texas, 1746 S street. Mitchell, John H., Oregon, Chamberlin’s. Mitchell, J. L., Wis., 32 B street northeast. Morgan, Alabama, 315 4%. Morrill, J. S., Vt., 1 Thomas circle. Murphy, Edward, N. Y., 1701 K st. n.w. Nelson, <., Minn., 222 N. J. ave. 8.6. Palmer, Illirois, Elsmere. Pasco, S., Florida, Metropolitan. Peffer, W. A.,-Kans., Oxford. Perkins, Geo. C., Cal., Normandie. Pettigrew, S. D., 1750'Q st. n.w. Platt, Conn., Arlington. Pritchard J. C., N. C., Ebbitt. Proctor, Vermont, Page's. Pugh, Ala., 1333 R st. Quay, Penrsy!vania, 1612 K. Roach, W. N., N. D., 1541 F st. n.w. Sewell, W. J., New Jersey, Normandie. Sherman, John, Ohio, 1321 K. Shoup, Idaho, Normandie. Smith, J«mes, New Jersey, Arlington. Stewart, W. M., Nevada, § Dupont circle. Squire, W. C., Washington, Normandie. Telier, Colorado, 1431 R. I. ave. Tillman, B. R., S. C., Cochran. ‘Thurston, Nebraska, 1014 Mass. ave. ‘Turpic, David, Indiara, 1 B st. n.w. Vilas, W. F., Wisconsin, Arno. ag Vest, G. G., Mo., 1204 P street. Voorhees, Indiana, 1323 N. H. ave. Walthall, Miss., Page's Warren, Wyoming, 3725 Q. Wetmore, Rhode Island. 1014 Vt. ave. Wilson, J. L., Washington, Catro. White, Stephen M., Cal., Normandie. Wolcott, Cclorado, 1221 Conn. ave. Representatives, Abbott, Jo., Texas, Anderson. Acheson, E. F., Pa., 217 N. Capitol st. Adams, R., jr., Pa. Albany. Aitken, D. D., Mich., 407 C street s.e. Aldrich, J. F., Ill, 1401 Stoughton street. Allen, J. M., Miss., Page's. Anderson, W. C., Tenn., 412 6th st. n.w. Andrews, Wm. E., Nebr., 635 Md. ave. n.e. Apsley, L. D., Mass., 1752 Q street. Arnold, W. C., Pa., Hotel Varnum, Arnold, W. O., R. 1, Riggs. Avery, John, Mich., 201 N. Capitol st. , Babcock, J. W., Wis., 11 B street n.w. Bailey, J. W., Texas, Riggs. Baker, H. M., N. H., 1411 F street n.w. Baker, Wm., Kansas, 210 5th st. ne. Baker, W. B., Md., 312 Ind. ave. n.w. Bankhead, J. H., Ala., 105 Md. ave. ne. Barham, J. A., Cal., Ebbitt House. Barney, 8. S., Wis., 229 New Jersey av. s.e. Barrett, W. E., Mass., 1014 15th st. now. Barttold, R., Missouri, Congressional. Bartlett, C. L., Ga., Cairo Flats. Bartlett, Franklin, N. Y., 1502 20th st. n.w. Beach, C. B., Ohio, Shoreham. Bell, C. K., UL, National. Bell, J. C., Colo., 1324 I street. Belknap, H. R., ill, Ebtitt (contestant), Bennett, Chas. G., N. Y., Shoreham. Berry, A. S., Ky., 1435 K st. n.w. Bingham, H., Pa., Albany. Bishop, R. P., Mich., Congressional, J. C. C., Ga., Riggs. Blue, R. W., Kansas, 200 BE. Cap. st. Boutelle, C. A. Me., Hamilton, Bowers, W. W., California, Bancroft. Brewster, H. C., New York, Shoreham, Broderick, asas, Elsmere. Bromwell, J. H., Ohio, 1347 Q street. Brosius, M., Pa., 1234 I st. Brown, Foster V., Tenn., Fredonia. Brumm, C. N., Pa. Willard’s, Buck, C. F., La., 1101 K street. Bull, M., R. IL, Ekbitt. Burrell, O., 1, 633 Md. avenue ne. Burton, T. E., Ohio, Hotel Everett. Burton, C. G., Mo., 215 East Capitol street. Galderhead, W. A., Kansas, 213 N. Cap. st. Calson, D. G., Ky., Ebbitt. Cannon, J. G., lil, Normandie. Cannon, F. J., Utah, Shoreham. Catchings, T. C., Miss.. 1722 Q. Catron, Thos. B., N. Mex., Fredonia, Chickering, C. A., .S. ¥., Hamilton, Clark, S. M., lowa, Ebbitt. Clarke, R. H., Ala|, 4B street ne, Clark, C. N., Iowa, 7 B n. Clardy, J. D., Kentucky, Cobb, J. E., Ala., Arno. Cobb, Seth L., Mo., Normandie. Cockrell A. M., Tex., 27 M st. nw, Codding, J. H., Pa., 834 13th st. nu Connelly, A. J., ll., Shoreham, Cook, E. D., Ill, Willard’ Cooper, C. M., Florida, 1743 Q street, Gooper, H. A., Wis., Willard’s. Gooper, 8. B., Texas, Metropolitan, Cook, S. A., Wis., 1415 Mass. ave. Corliss, John B., Mich., Cochran. Cousins, R. G., Iowa, Shoreham, Cowen, J. K., Md., 907 S street. Cox, N. N., Tenn., Varnum. Crain, W._H., Texas, Riggs. Crisp, C. F., Ga., Metropolitan. Crowley, Miles, Texas, Riggs. Crowther, Geo. C., Mo.. 225 A s.e. Crump, R. O., Mich., 201 N. Capitol st. Curtis, Chas., Kansas, 1314 i5th street. Curtis, G. W., Iowa, Normandie. Curtis, N. M,N. ¥.. 2113 Pa. avenue nw. Paizell, John, Pa., 1605 N. H. avenue, Danford, L., Ohio, Oxford. Dayton, A. G., West Va., 220 34 st. se. Denney, Walter M., Miss., Varnum, DeWitt, F. B., Ohio, 620 R. I. ave, Dingley, N., Maine, Hamilton, Dockery, A. M., Mo., Willard’s, Dolliver, J. P., lowa, Hamilton. rnum, little, W._H., Wash., Willara’s, Pevsner, B. B, W. Va, Willardia Downing, F. E., ML, 512 M nw. Draper, W. F., Mass., 1601 K st. Rady. FB. 201 A st. se. {ellett, Trazewell, Va., Cairo, Bhiott, Wm., 8. C., 1224 15th street now, Ellis, W. R., Oregon, 1918 I st. Erdman, C. J., Pa., Metropolitan, Evans, Walter, Ky., Normandie. Fairchild, B. L., N. Y., Shoreham, Faris, G. W., Ind., 208 A s.e. Fenton, L. J., Ohio, 910 I st. n.w. Fitzgerald, J. F., Mass., Shoreham, Fischer, I. F., N. ¥., Cairo. Flynn, D. T., Okla, 3820 1ith st. nw. Fletcher, L., Minn., Page's. Foot, W. T., N. ¥., Shoreham, Fowler, C. N., N. J., Cairo. Foss, G. E., Ill., Normandie, Gamble, R. J., S. Dak., Normandie, Gardiner, J. J., N. J., Willard’s. uibson, H. R., Tenn., 412 6th st. nw, , F. H., Mass., Albany. N. Y., Hamilton, Graff, Joseph V., Ill., Fredonia. _ Griffin, M., Wis., Hote! Cochran, Griswold, M., Pa., Portland, Grosvenor, C. H., Ohio, Cochran. Grout, W. W., Vt., Arlington. Grow, Gelusha A., Pa., Willard’a, Hadley, W. F. L., Ill., Cochran. Hagar, A. L., Iowa, the Portland. Hainer, E. J., Neb., Riggs. Hall, U. S., Mo., Cairo. Hanly, J. F., Ind., Willard’s. Hardy, A. M., Ind., Buckingham. Harmer, A. C., Pa., 1602 K st. Harris, 8. R., Ohio, 220 North Cap. st, Harrison, Geo. P., Ala., Riggs. Hart, J. J., Pa., 1907 19th st. Hartman, C. 8., Mont., 1734 R st. n.w. Hatch, J. A., Ind:, Bbbitt. Heatwole, J. P., Minn., Cairo Flats. Heiner. D. B.. Pa., 243 North Capitol. Heminway, J. A., Ind., 212 N. Capitol st. Henderson, D. B., Iowa, Normandie. Hendrix, J. K., Ky., 1908 Sunderland pl. Henry, C. L., Ind., 1817 16th st. n.w. Henry, B. 8. Conn, 1421 K st. n.w. Hepburn, W. P., lowa, 1124 E. Cap. st. Herman, B., Oregon, 1201 N. Hicks, J. D., Pa., Willard’s. Hilborn, 8. G., Cal., Hamilton House. aoe = aS Cc nn, ae st. » R., Jil, 1507 K st. nw. Hos er, W. 2! N. ve Bancroft Hotel. Hopkins, A. J., IMitnois, Willard’ Howe, J. R., N. Y., 208 Ma. ave. n. Howell, B. F., N. J., Normandie. Huff, G. F., Pa., 1315 16th st. Hulick, George W., Ohio, Varnum. Hubbard, J. D., Mo., Congressional. Huling, J. H., W. Va., Willard’s. Hul, J. A. T., Iowa, Portland. Hurley, D. M., N. Y,, 20 B st. n.w. Hunter, W. G.. Ky., 211 North Capitol. Hyde, S. C., Wash., Willard’s. Jenkins, John J., Wis., the Buckingham. Johnson, G. L., Cal., Cochran Hotel. Johnson, H. U., Ind., 810 12th n.w. Johnson, M. N., N. D., 238 Md. ave. n.e. Jey, C. F., Mo., 1629 16th st. n.w. Keifer, A. R., Minn., 201 A st. 8.€. Kem, O. M., Neb., 628 C st. ne. Kerr, W. S., Ohio, Fredonia. Kirkpatrick, S. S., Kans.,1378 Harvard st. Knox, W. S., Mass., Riggs. Kulp, M. H., Pa., 815 Vermont ave. Kyle, J. C., Miss, Varnum. Lacey, J. Towa, 1628 15th st. n.w. Latimer, A. C., S. C., 921 I st. nw. Lawson, T. G., Ga., Metropolitan. Layten, F.C., Ohio, 317 4% st. n.w. Lefever, J., New York, Arlington. Leighty, J. D., Ind., Willard’s. Leisenring, John, Pa., 831 18th st. n.w. Lester, R. E., Ga., Cairo Flats. Lorimer, Wm., Til, 1412 Park st., 1° Loud, E. F., Cal., Albany. Low, P. B., N. Y., 1101 K n. Lintor, W. S., Mich., 201 N. Capit R. C., 922 Mass. ave. . 8., Ark., Metropolitan. Livingston, L. F., Ga., 220 N. J. ave. n.w. Lockhart, J. A., S. C., Metropolitan. Lon, C. L, Kans., 2815 14th st. nw. Loudenslager, H. C., N. J., Willard’s. Maddox, W. J., G: Metropolitan. Maguire, J. G, 1017 15th st. now. Mahany, R. B., New York, the Alvany. Mahon, T. M., Pa., 1326 I st. Marsh, B. F., Illinois, Willard’s. McCall, J. E., Tenn., Fredonia. McCall, S. W., Mass., Eckington Hotel. McCleary, J. Minn.. 1914 ‘6th st. McClure, A. S., Ohio, 1921 16th street. McCreary, J. B., Ky., Shoreham. McClellan, G. B., N. Y., 1445 R. L ave. McCormick, R. C., N. ¥., Shoreham, McCulloch, P. D., Ark., Fredonia. McDearmon, J. C., Tenn., Nationa! McEwans, Thos., N. J., 1326 I street. McLaurin, J. L., S. C., 1912 Sunderland pl. MeMillin, Benton, Tenn. 14th st. new. McRae, T. C., Ark., 130 K street. Mercer, D. H., Neb., 1435 K st. n.w. Meyer, Ad., La., 1700 Q st. n.w. Meiklejohn, G. D., Nebraska, Hotel Page. Miles, J. W., Md., 250 Del. ave. n.e. Mill, Robt., Ark., 210 A st. ne. Miller, O. L., Kan., 1528 I st. nw. Miller, Warren, W. Va., National. Milliken, 8. E., Me., 920 14th st. n.w. Milnes, A, Michigan, Vendome. Miner, H. C., N. ¥., 1340 8th street. Minor, E. 8., Wis., 808 East Cap. st. Mondell, F. W., Wyoming, Willard’s. Money, H. D., Miss., Metropolitan. Moses, C. L., Ga., 940 P st. n.w. Mo., Corgressional. Morse, E. A., Mass., Cochran. Murphy, E. J., Ill.. 1213 Rhode Island ave. Murphy, N. O., Ariz., Arlington. Neil, Robt., Ark., 210 A st. n.e. Newlands, F. G., Nev., 234 N. J. ave. n.w. Noonan, G. H., Texas, 621 East Capitol st. Northway, 8. A., Ohio, Bancroft. O'Dell, B.B., N.Y¥., 1404 16th street. Ogden, H. W., La.. Metropolitan. Otey, P. J., Va., Oxford. Otjen, T., Wis., 227 N, J. ave. s.e. Overstreet, Jesse, Ind., . Capitol st. Parker, R.W., N. J., Shoreham. Patterson, Josiah, Tenn., Cairo. Payne, S.'E., N. ¥., Normandie. Pearson, R., N. C., Shoreham Hotel. Pendleton, Geo. C., Tex., 909 N. Y. ave. Perkins, G. D., Iowa, Hamilton. Phillips, T. W., Pa., 1116 Vt. ave. nw. Pickler, J. A., Pitney, M., N._J. Poole, T. L., N. 6 Iowa circle. Powers, H. H., Vt, Riggs. Prince, G. W., IIL, 620 Md. ave. ne Pugh, S. J., Ky., 6 Iowa Circle. Quigg, L. E., N.Y¥., Snorcham. Ray, G. N. Y., Willard’s. Reed, Thomas B., Maine, the Shoreham. Reeves, Walter, Ill, Varnum. Reyburn, J. S., Pa., 1801 Conn. ave. Righardson, J. D., Tenn., 1103 Gth st. n.w. Robbins, G. A.. Ala., Arno Hotel. Robinson, J. B., Pa., 1708 R. I. ave. n.w. , S. M., La., Metropolitan, Royse, L. W., Ind., Ebbitt. Russell, B. E., Ga., Mu. Vernon, Russell, C. A., Conn., Hamilton. Sauerhering, E., Wis., Oxford. Sayers, J. D., Texas, Riggs. Scranton, J. A., Pa., Shoreham. Settle, Thos., North Carolina, Albany. Sharnon, R. C., New York Shoreham. Shaw, J. G., North Carolina Metropolitan, Sherman, J. S., N. Y., Cairo. Shuford, A, C., N.C., Metropolitan, Simpkins, John, Mass., Albany. Skinner, H., N. C., Ebbitt. Smith, W. A., Mich., 1435 K st. now. Smith, G. W., IL, 918 14th st. nw. Snover, H. G., Mich., 603 N, C. ave. s.e. Scuthard, J. H., Ohio, Varrim, Sorg, P. J., Ohio, Arlington. Southwick, Geo. , N. Y., 1111 I st. ne. Spalding, Geo., Mich., 128 A st. ne. Sparkman, S. M., Fla., Metropolitan. Spencer, J. G., Miss., 157 D st. s.e. Sperry, N. D., Conn., Buckingham. Stahle, J. A., Pa., Willard’s. Stok J. W., N. C., 921 I st. nw. Strode, J. B., Nebraska, Willard’s. Strait, T. J.. 8. C., Lincola. Stahle, Jas. A., Pa., 1224 S st. nw. Steele, G. W., Ind., Ebbitt. Stephenson, S. . Mich., Ebbitt. tewart, J. F., J., Normandie, Stone, W. A., Pa.. 1 5 Strong, L. M., Ohio, Varnum. Strowd, N. C., 931 G st. Sullaway, C. A., N. H., Varnum, Swarson, C. A. Va., 1716 Q st. Tatt, Chas. P., Ohio, 1311 K. Talbert, W. J.. S.C., National. Tarsney, J. C., M Willard’s, Tate, F. C., Ga., 340 C street n.w. Tawney, J. A., nn.. Bancrof: Hotel. Taylor, R. W., Ohio, 1363 Roanoke st. Terry, W. L., Ark., Metropolitan. Thomas, H. F., Mich., 201 East Capitol st. Towne, A., Minn., 1301 N northwest. Tracey, J. P., Mo., 215 East Cap. st. Tracewell, Ind., Hamilton. Treloir, W. M., Mo., 215 Turner, 8S. S., Va., 1710 G nw. Tyler, D. G., Va., 211 East Capitol st. Underwood, O. W., Ala., 1126 Conn. ave. Updegratf, Thos., lowa, 201 East Capitol. Van Voorhis, H. C., Ohio, Eckington Hotel. Wellington, G. L., Md., Willard’s. Walker, Jas. H., Mass., Shoreham. Walker, J. A., Va. Walsh, J. J., N._Y., National. Wanger, A. P., Pa., 220 N. J. ave. s.e. Warner, V., Ill, Cairo Flats, Washington, J. E., Tenn., 2013 Hillyer pl. Watson, D. K., Ohio, Hamilton, Watson, J. E., Ind., 208 Md. ave. n.e, Wellington, Geo. L., Md., Willard’s. Wheeler, J., Ala., The Grafton, Williams, J. S., Miss., 100 Ist st. nw. Willis, J..S., Delaware, 154 A st. ne. Wilson, Geo. W., Ohio, Varnum. Wilson, Edgar, Idaho, 453 M st. nw. Wilson, F. H., N. ¥., Normandie. Wilson, J. S., South Carolina, Ebbitt. Wood, Benson, Til, Ebbitt. Wooaman, C.'W., Ill, Congressional. Woodward, F. A., N.C., Metropolitan. Woomer, E. M., Pa., Hamilton. Wright, A. B., Mass., Riggs. —__+ ++ —_- English Widows. From the Philadelphia Times. Nearly every American woman who has visited London has heard of Peter Robin- son, who was the A. T. Stewart of that metropolis and proprietor of the English Bon Marche, who died the other day. He was a very successful merchant, and ieft at least $6,000,000. There is much ‘ado in Lon- don because Mr. Robinson cut off his widow without a penny. Whereas in this country Mrs. Robinson would be entitled to $2,000,000, under English law, according to the will, she cannot get anything unless she breaks it. The separation took place twenty years ago, but Mrs. Robinson re- fused to be divorced, and there was no ground for it on her side. toe Protective Measures. From the Indianapolis Journal. “Is they any way I kin git a receipt for this here letter?’ asked the thin-haired men with the erecheted tie. ou can get it registered for 8 cents answered the delivery clerk. “If the letter is one of importance, and its de- livery is of particular consequence, regis- traticn is advisable. “Oh, the letter ain't of no particular im- portance—at least, not 8 cents’ worth, I don’t think. I merely allowed mebbe I cculd git some kind of a receipt to show I had mailed it to give the old woman. I guess I'll save the elghtpence, an’ put up with bein’ called a ole liar, as usual.” BALDNESS IS EITHER HEREDITARY OR CAUS- ed by sickness, mental exhaustion, rearing tignt- fitting hats and overwork and trouble. r newer will prevent it. ———— | RAILROADS. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Leave Hiule iu effect December 1, 1895. Washington from station corner. of New Jersey avenue and O st. For Clicago and Northwest, Vestibuled Limited tals 11:30 a.m., 8:20. pan. ‘or ‘innati, is bated Limited 345 Saas Sea Ngee ‘or Pittsburg and’ Cleve E aki ittsburg and Cleveland, “Express daily’ 11:30 For Lexington and Stauntcn, 11:30 a.m, For Winchester and way stations, 30 p.m. For Luray, Natural Bridge, Roanoke, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Meimplils “and " New’ Oricans, 9:10 )-. ly eeping Cs thi Le For Luray, 3:40 pam. daily For Baltimore, week 7:00, x8:00, 8:30, 30. 1: 0, 25:30, » 10200, 11 Sundays, x6:50, x12:10, 12.20, 1 x5:10, 6:30, x8: x12:01 night. For Annapolis, 7:10 and 8:30 P-m. Sundays, 'S:30 For Frederic 9.30 am., 11:15 pam. re ineipal stations uly, *4:89, OYAL BLUE LINE FOR’ NEW YORK AND PUILADELPHIA, iluminated with pintsch light. phi: New. York, Boston : 00, Dining’ Car) \e a ws Car), 0 (12:30, Dini Dining Car), 8:0 2:01 nig Car, open at 10°00 6 Sunday, ing’ Car), (9:00 a.m. ar), (12: ), 8:00 6:06, Din 8: Sleeping Ca. open for passengers 10 Bufet Parlor Cars oi For Atlantie City, 1 p.m, Sundays, 4: “Except Sunda 200 p.2n.). I day trains. from hotels and residences by Union Transfer Co, on orders left at ticket offices, 61 Penusylvania avenue northwest, York avenue and 15th street and R. B, CAMPEELL, CHAS. 0. Gen. Manager. Gen. Pass. Agt. de2 SOUTHERN RAILWAY. (Piedmont Air Line. Schedvle in effect November 3, 1 All trains arri nd leave at Pennsy Passenger Station, 8:00 A.M.—Dailv—Local for Danville, Connects at Manassas for Strasburg, dally, except Sunday, and at Lynchburg with the Norfolk and Western’ daily, vanis and with CG. & Q. daily for Natural Bridge and Clifton Forge. 11:15, Dally—The UNITED STATES Fast MAIL carries Pullman Buffet Sleepers New York and Washington to Jacksonville, uniting at Char- lotte with Pullman Sleeper for Auzustz; also Pull- man Sleeper New York to New Orleans via Mont- gomery, connecting at Atlanta with LDullman Sleeper’ for Birmingham, Memphis and St. Louis. 1 i for’ Strasburg, daily, except Pullman, Vestibuled Day Coaches Was! “OLD —Daily—Local for € -Daily—WASHINGTON A ISULED LIMITE! al Sleepers, Dinin Coaches, New York to Atlanta. Pu New York to Asheville and Hot Sp New York to Memphis via Birminzha to New Orleans via Atlanta and Mou New York to Tampa, via Charlotta, jacksonville. Vestibuled Day Coach Dining Car from” Greensboro TRAINS BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND ROUND HILL leave Washington 9:01 A.M. di 5 P.M, daily, except Sunda; days only, for Round Hill; 4:32 P. Sunduy, for Leesbucg, and 6:25 5 Returning arrive at Washington & daily from Round Hill, 73 ndas, from Herndon, and 8:34 . daily, except Sunday, from Leesburg: ‘Through trains from the south arrive at Washing- ton 6:42 AM... 11:45 A and 9: P.M. daily. 45 A.M. daily, except Sunday, and 8:40 A.M,’ daily from Char- lottesville. ‘Tickets, Sleeping Car reservation and information furnished at offices, 511 and 1300 Penr vania ave- nue, and at Pennsylvania Railroad Vassenger Sta- tion, W. H, GREEN, General Superintendent. iM. CULP, Tratfic Manager. W. A. TURK. nera' Passenger Agent. L. 8. BROWN, Gen. Agt. Pass. Di CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. Schedule in effect November 17, i805. Treins leave dally from Union § P.), 6th and B sts. Through the grandest scenery in America, with the handsomest and most complete solid train serv- fee west from hington. 25 PM. DAILY.—“Cinzinnati and St. Louis clal"’"—Solld Vestibuled, Newly Equipped, Elec- tric-lighted, Steam-heated’ Train. Pullman's finest sleeping cars Washington to Cincinnati, Indianapolis and St. Louls daily. Dining Car from’ Washi Arrive’ Cincinnati, ‘8:00 a.m. a.m.; Chicago, Lexington, 11:10 a.m. Cincinnatt, 11:10 P.M. DAILY.—The famous “F. F. V. Lim- Sted.” A solid Vestibuled train, with Dining Car and Pullman Sleepers for Cincinnatl, nd Louisville without change. Pullman Sle ington to Virginia Hot Springs, with Wednesdays and Saturdays. Arrive Cincinnati, Lexington, 6:00 p.m.; Louisville, p.m.; Chicago, 7: . and Hot Springs, Sp P.M. DAILY.—Express__ for Charlottesville, Wastesboro’, Staunton and prim cipal Virginia’ points, daily;’ for Richmond, daily, except Sunday Pullman locations and tickets at company’s of- fices, 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania aven FULLER, General Passenger Agent. H.W. nol8 PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Station corner of 6th and B streets. In effect November 17, 18 10:30 A.M. Pi LVANIA LIMITED.—Pollman Sleeping, Dining, Smoking and Observation Cars Harrisburg to Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Clevelaad and Toledo. “Butfet Parlor ? LINE.—Pullman Buffet Parlor . Parlor and Dining Cars, Harrisburg to Pittsburg. = 3:40 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS F: tar to Harrisbur: Harrisburg to St. Chicago. Pullman Buffet Parlo- rs, Sleep- ing and Dining C. Louis, Cincinnati, Ls 7:10 P.M. "WESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman Sleop- ing € and Harrisburg to Cleveland. Dict 7:10 P.M. SOUTHW Sleeping and ing Car Harr 10:40 P.M. PACIP Car to Pittsbury 7:30 A.M. ior Kane, Canandaigua, Rochester and agere Falls except Sunday. 0AM. ft and Renovo, daily except For W"lamsport daily, 3:40 P.M. ndas. TAO PM. for Williamsport, It Niagara Falls daily, except Sa ing Car Washington to Suspension Puttalo, . for Erle. Canandaigua, Rocheste 1Ningara Falls daily, Sleeping Car ington to El or Philadelphia, New York and the Rast. 00 P.M. « (ONAL LIMITE 1 Parlor Cars, with Dining Car from I «(Dining Car), 7:20, «Dining Ca and 11:00 (Dining Car from Wil- mington) A. * 4:20, 40, 10:00 and P.M. nday 7:05 (Dining Ca 11:00 A. (Dining Car from Wil 15, 4:20, 6:40, ) and 11:35 For Philadelphia only, Fast Express, 7:50 A.M, week days. Express, ‘12:15 week day 1 aud 5:40 P.M da’ For Boston, and 3:15 P.M. dally. For Baltimore, 10:30, 11:00 8:15, duly, except Sunday For Annapolis, 7:20, 9:00 A.M., 12:15 and 4:20 P.M. daily, except Sunday. Sundays, 9:00 A.M, and 4:20 Mi. Atlantic Coast Line. Express for Richmond, Jack- ‘sonville and Tampa, 4:30 A.M., 3:46 P.M." datl Richmond and Atlanta, 8:40 P.M. datiy.” Rich- mond only, 10:57 A.M. week days. Accommodation for Quantico, 7:4 A.M. daily, and M. week- days. 5:30, 7:00, ‘es, comer 6th and B street: left for the checking of baggage to destina el_-and residences. PREY J. R. woon, General Passenger Agent. MEDICAL. NO FEE UNTIL CURED. Dr. Leatherman, 2 F st. nw., EXPERT SPECIALIST in the treatm, of all forms of PRIVATE Disks p, VARICOCELE, ured. Vi tore Hours, 9 to 12 a.m., ursday and Saturday nights, to 6. oy ostng Eps rating cord ye . CURE Nose and Throat Sjxvialist. catarrh cured, ringing in ears stopped. ences furnished; cnials on fle. 1211 F nw. MADAME LE FEVRE Manicuring, shan of face by first. Rooms 20 MADAME PA’ HIGH-CLASS MANICURE AND CHIROPODIST, OFFICH AND RESIDENCE, 703 15th st. nw. Burdays, 9 a.m. tol p.m n0lé-44 AUTY. PARLORS = massage and steam! tists. 1110 F wi °