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THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1897-24 PAGES. THE MOOR’S COUNTRY esd A Traveler’s Impression of the City of Tangier. NOT AS BAD AS 11S REPUTATION Oriental Life in Contact With Eu- ropean Influences. z <4 HUMAN MEDLEY OST Americans ge’ their idea of Ta from a popular story whi ibes the life here of certain gitives from Amer- an justice, safe om arrest because the lack of an ex- adition treaty. Sa pretty good tory and might easily be true, but as there are only three genuinely American and these are of tability, the traveler can look philosophically Kedest and the most pictur- in the world. The lack of an treaty is convenient, but Amer- & way off. Most of the cheerful d amiable embezzlers whose a halo of glory over Tangier » from the nearer countries, es- from Spain, which is only a few from Portugal, France and s as Euro an in its government ruled by a sanitary of all the foreign min- with the Sheree- of foreign affairs. never comes to 1 which is at 1 the entire Moorish The sultan re- y the presence alleged Christians. nost thousand nder! Claiming Citizenship. And r Ww * Moors flock to Tangier to be ne sultan’s exactions. Most of Spa , Portuguese, sh, r er American citizens, though how they got their naturalization papers is a 1 mystery. These people are | appealing to their respective | pre them, and constitute | nuisance every one con- is not wonderful that they ir citizenship papers so highly, his Shereefian majesty has a playful of throwing rich men into Jail until arr: a satisfactory division of alth. having absolute power of life s no joke. Many a wealthy o avoid his Panta- nt lists. Here, as | . the poor Jews get the atment. They are obliged to wear netive garment, a long blue or black | to live in a special quarter of rved for them. In the interior | © compelled to go barefoot lever have set foot in Moor is not a Christian, no try he may be a cid- may enter a mosque, though the door stands ng. A Spaniard tried it not a moment the fierce Moh: upon him with da beneath their flowing robes, thereaf there was a Tangier. One the lit- em, slavery | jer under the | ry council of | whereof British Mt president. Slaves cannot sold in Tangier, except by | is no slave nd other interior avans of slaves pass | r rags jostle the stirgups isters as the: vile and ne the camels in the lan, which halt out- y do much of the are exclusively of the wealthy even owned by Euro- imixture of blood in as black as coal, ars, while the Moors, Ithy ones who live in- swarthy than many and are often beautifully clad. be | 7. are Armed Escort Needed. of the sanitary council extends s beyond the walls of Tangier. than that a European ts not per- © without a Moorish soldier as smetimes people try It. A while niard was murdered in this way His government secured a money pay- men from the sultan, but the murderers were never unished. Piracy is still an occasional pleasantry of Moorish life. The Prosper Corin, a vessel engaged in the French-Spanish trade, was recently looted by Reefian ‘ates, and the foreign min- isters went in a bod accompanied by their dragomans, to demand restitution on behalf of France and Spain from Mo- bammed El Torres, the Shereetian minister Of state. They will get .¢ some day. j count in your census?” | enou; ‘These dragomans are splendid creatuyes in robes and turbans, locking as if they had just stepped out of the Arabian Nights. They squat on their heels in the minis- terial ante-chambers, run errands and are otherwise useful and ornamental. When I got past the particular Yusef who guards the door of the United States representa- tive, I found in Mr. Burke, the ex-prin- cipal of the village school, which I once After swapping reminiscences attended. Tne Soutnern Gate or Tanaer,’ is as decorous as a church. Only men at- tend, whether as attendants, musicians or guests. They pile their slippers in a great heap by the door and sit about, cross-leg- ged, smoking and drinking coffee, while the musicians play the tombola and the guenberi and other queer instruments, and sing the song of the conquest of-Spain, both in past and future tenses. There is 0 noise or disorder. Unless there is a Moorish funeral or wed- and squire that, Mr. Burke, diplomat, though not talked lovingly of the cf deacon th who is a veteran long in Tangier, country. “There is no telegraph here, except to the Spanish possessions in Ceuta and Me- lilla and to the country seats of the for- eign ministers,” said Mr. Burke. ‘The Moors have no use for it. Some day or other I must go to Fez to pay my respects to the sultan. Just by way of a joke I asked the minister of foreign affairs, whose establishment is here, what railroad 1 should take for Fez. He held up his hands in holy horror. ‘There will never be a rail- road in Morocco,’ he said. “I asked if Morocco was a very populous country. “Oh, yes,’ said the minister, ‘it is by far the greatest cnd most populous country in the world.’ ! “*About how many inhabitants do yon ““Oh, there are so many we could never count them; but it’s a great country,’ he replied. And that, on unimpeachable au- thority, is all I can tell you abcut Moroc- co's greatness,” sald Mr. Burke. Cost of Living. Our American representative at the court of his Shereefian majesty is at pres- ent boarding in Tangier. The British, German and French ministers live in great | state In big héuses with spacious gardens on the outskirts of the town. Any one can do this pretty cheaply. No one pays taxes on house property in Tangier. The public needs are met by money squeezed from import and export duties of one sort or another. Two American ladies live abso- lutely alone on the southern verge of the. town, in a beautiful house officered entir ly by Moorish servants. If one Is lucky n to be bidden, he can go there of an oon and have real Yankee tea bis- cuits handed him by Moorish servitors with bare legs, robes and turbans. These ladies think it perfectly safe to live alone thus, right on the boundary between the aft | dark coutinent and the wickedest city, and ia ye done so for a long time. Such are the disappointments of life! The wickedest is not so very wicked after all. In spite of the slaves and concubines, the refugees and renegadoes, the escaped Spanish jailbirds from Ceuta and the fierce Moors, with their daggers ever ready for the insulter of their faith, Tangier is @ very safe and quiet place. It is so easy to live by cheating the tourists that it isn’t worth while to steal from them. The Moors are proud and honest, handsome and courteous, impressing one as being just what they are—gentlemen of long pedigrees and excellent blood. One never sees a drunken man in the narrow, filthy street any more than he sees a street car or a wagon. Mohammedan prohibition does prohibit. The only satisfactorily drunken man I have seen in two weeks was the red-faced British captain of the steamboat that ferried me over the strait from Gibraltar. Many of the Moors are scarred and gashed from bloody encounte! on the caravan trail, but there is no fight- ing in Tangier, though every third man on the street goes armed with a long gun for use outside of the walls. A Moorish Cafe. The Moorish seclusion of women, though not so strict here as in Tetuan or Fez, prevents any flaunting of social vice. As tough a cafe chantant as one often sees flourishes across the way in Gibraltar un- der benign British rule. A Moorish cafe ding in progress—by the sound you can't tell them apart—the wickedest city is at night as quiet as the grave. You may walk the streets unmolested, :f you will, until the caravans begin picking thetr way out of town by lantern light before the dawn; until the camels in the soko square ‘otter groaning and grunting to their feet, and slump away into the red- dening east. You may visit the fortress in which thirty or forty poor wretches are confined in one noisome, fetid room, where daylight never penetrates, and learn that they are held for no crime worse than a refusal to “pay up.” You may grin at the slaves and jabber at the bazaar keepers and shoot cameras at the Moors—unless they see you first—and be just as disa- greeable as you like, tourist fashicn, for a week of Sundays, and not have half tne trouble that a Moorish gentleman in his native garb would nave in New York. I haven’t heard in Tangier of knockout drops, or dives, or dope joints, or stale beer cellars. The respectability ot the place is, considering its ill repute, most disappoint- ing. But it is picturesque cnough In its mix- ture of Europe and Africa to make up for all. The blinding white walls slope up- ward in the sun to the height crowned with its citadel. Veiled women flit through arched doorways into exquisitely uiled har- ems, where no shod foot can step. A group of loud torists goes shrieking past, riding on tiny donkeys, with grinning muleteers, trotting behind. A splendid pasha in spot- less white robes goes past mounted upon a splendid white arb. And away xbove the muezzin tower of the mosque on the hill two palm tres peep forth, the only green things in all the varied scene. Tangier i§ good fun, though but indifferently bad. JOHN LANGDON HEATON. —_—_+ e+ WIDOWS IN WASHINGTON It in n Gathering Ground Upon Which Rich Relicts Meet and Scheme. From the Ilustrated American. Especially is it a great place for rich widows with daughters—that peculiar type of American women who, as soon as pater- familias 1s comfortably tucked away under the sod, fly to Europe, spend years wander- ing about like social Bedouins, then are seized with a romantic form of homesick- ness. But they can’t stand Porkopolis and Kalamazoo and West Jersey after Paris and London and Vienna, and Washington affords a convenient stop-gap. It is Amer- ican in location, European in habits, and, to a degree, in personnel. So they come here, buy a fine house, get in with the dip- lomatic corps, and the thing is done. And Washington, which professes a lofty scorn for trade, and ruthlessly shuts the doors of Society in the face of all Washington brok- ers, insurance agents, real estate people, and, in short, trade in every form, except banking, welcomes with open arms the re- tired trades people from New York, Chi- cago and anywhere else on the face of the globe. It reserves the right of laughing at them, though, and after faithfully attend- ing all their lunchoens, goes home to roar over every slip the ambitious host or hos- tess has made. This habit is undoubtedly an affront to hospitality, but it has one saving virtue—Washington makes use of rich people, but it is not afraid of them. ADAY IN CREEDE What Oy Warman-Sew the Day Bob Ford Was Killed. THE MAN WHO SHOR: JESSE JAMES ; Popular Opinion ‘as 6 the. Manner of the Killing. AN ENEMY OF SOCIETY Se Written for ‘Ti.e Hvening Star. T WAS A QUIET I= in Creede camp, in the morning of the summer of "82. Most of the miners were away in the hills, many of. the gam- blers and others of the night shift were still sleeping, though it was row 4 p.m. A string of burros, Ia- den with heavy loads of boards, which they were about to draz away up to the Last Chance, stood dream- ing in San Louis avenue and having thei: Pictures taken by the writer. Some fisher- men, with long cane poles thrown ove their shoulders, were trailing out at the lower end of the town in the direction of the Rio Grande. A string of heavy ore wagons was coming down the mountain from the Amethyst mine. The brake on the forward wagon gave way when the team Was nearly down to the foot of the hill, and instantly the heavy load shot forward and the poor animals—there were six of them—bounded away in a mad effort to keep out of the way of the heavy load. The wheel horses appeared to understand that they were expected to hold the wagou back and they did what they could; but the force of the great wagon threw them off their feet, and when they fell, slid them along the rocky road to the foot of the hill, grinding and crushing their iegs under the whee}s, and when the wagon finally stopped they were both dead. Ail this happened just above and in full view of the town, so that many of the people saw it, and heard the pecr animais cry, almost as a human being would cry for help, while they were being run down and killed by the ore wagon. A moment later the crowd which had col- lected to view the wreck had its attention diverted by a baby burro that now caine reeling down the principal street with a well-developed “jag” and a gait on like Riley's “Wabbledy” calf. Some hoodlums had given the burro beer, and he was zs Grunk as a man. Funeral Expenses. A sorry-looking young woman was work- ing the shops and saloons on the shady side of the avenue. She carried a long sheet of writing paper, upon which she asked people to put their names and oppo- site their names the amount of their sub- scriptions. One of the gitls had died the night before, and this mpney was asked to pay some one to dig a hole at the top/ of the hill and to hire an express wagon to haul the girl up there. When the wo- man came to the Leadville dance hall she entered and was greeted sadly by another woman who stood over behind a low railing which extended from the end of the bar to the front of the tent, fencing off a little space which served‘as an office for the proprietor and the woman, who was a silent partner in the firm. The visitor pushed the paper over toward the man— @ small, sallow-looking man of thirty-two, who was ever fidgeting and glancing at the door of whatever house he happened to be in, The man glanced down the column, saw “‘Soapy Smith, $5,” and, as he hated “Soapy,”’ he immediately raised him five, gave the woman the money and wrote just under his name and the ten: “Charity covereth a multitude of sins.” Then he passed out from behind the bar and began walking slowly to the rear end of the long room. The woman with the sorry face and the long white paper passed out. Upon the threshold she met a man in miner's clothes, and even as she turned to look at him a very short man rode up to the door of the tent and handed a double-barreled shotgun to the man at the entrance. As the miner-looking man entered the tent with the gun the woman with the paper turned as if she would follow him, for she feared that the stranger might do vio- lence, reluctant as she was to believe that a man in a refined mining center would resort to the use of so imsy, not to say unconventional, a shooting iron as a shot- gun. “Hello, Bob called the man with the gun, and as the keepor of the dance hall turned he raised the weapon and let go both barrels. The shot, without scat- tering, entered the throat of the victim and carried his gold collar button out through the back of his neck. A Woman's Tears. The report of the shotgun startled the whole camp, and as the Leadville was directly opposite my hotel, I rushed over and was almost the first man in the place. One man had preceded me, and as I en- tered he came out and shouted: “Bob Ford’s dead.” At the moment I entered the only person in the room was the insignificant-looking woman in the little office. She was weep- ing. She knew me as the editor of the morning paper, and at once began to pour out the story-of Bob’s virtues. “He had planned,” she said, “to do much good.’ “Yes,” said I, “it is reported that he in- tended to kill off the entire Chronicle force, including the ,editor.” “Yes, I know,” she went on hurriedly, for the place was filling up rapidly, “but he didn’t mean it—he tole me so—he didn’t have it in fur you—all a little bit. But, 21 say,” she continued, waving a hand in the direction of the corpse, and her eyes filled with a fresh flood of tears, ‘just to think they should shoot him with that kind of a gun—it—just breaks—my heart,” and she Jeaned her head upon the bar and wept bit- terly. Presently she lifted her head, dried her eyes and continued: “Why, Bob wouldn’t uv killed a coyote with a shotgun—it’s a coward gun. When he killed Jesse James, the braves’ man ‘at ever lived, an’ the deadest shot, he dun it with a 45, an’ ef he’d a come down to clear out the Chronicle, which he woulden’, he'd uv come with his two han’s an’ his six- shooter, an’ he'd a-had you all jumpin’ thu the winders an’ scootin’ fur th’ wiliers "fore yer could uv raised a han’.” “Well,” said I, glancing towara the rear of the room, to make sure he was still there, “Bob's all right. He's a good fel- low—now. ¥ I had known Ford. He was the first man to whom I was introduced upo my first visit to the camp. He had peen our guide, and had shown Judge Rooker and ne the camp hy candie-light. It was upon this oc- casioa that I noticed his nervousness. it a mau came in and left the door open, Ford would slip back and shut it. If t was 4 mirror over the bar, he always kept his eyes on it, not to see himself, but to ob- serve those who passed to and fra behind aim. Aid of a Mirror. In a pleasant way, I asked him if ne was expecting some ore. He answered, smiling sadly, that he was always expecting some one. He had saved his life once in Kansas City by looking into a mirror. A friend of the man he had murdered entered the room, saw Ford's face in the mirror, and instantly reached for his gun. Ford, lift- ing his glass, saw the man, and the mc- ment their eyes met the man weakened and passed on. My friend, the judge, from force vt habit, I presume, began to question Ford about the killing of Jesse James, and the feliow told us that he had been led to be- lleve that if he killed James, whose friend and messenger he had been, he would be the greatest man in Missouri. That meaut a great deal to this boy of twenty-two, for outside of Missouri there was little worth striving for, And then, to justify his cow- ardly act, he related that it had been pian- ned by James that a bank should be rubved shortly, and Ford had been told that he Was to enter the bank with James, who would quietly shoot him, as he had be; to mistrust the “kid.” All this Ford pre tended to believe. He was confident ihut he would have been murdered in a litle while if he had not put a bullet through vesse’s back while he was hanging a pic- ture. Kelly, the “tough citizen” who removed Ferd, seemed, strangely enough, to regard che Killing of this man much as Ford had looked upon the kiiling of Jesse James. i} Ford was an open enemy of ety, and | only a month before his : had closed { | ail the business houses and put the camp to bed at 9 p.m. The morning paper had suggested thai Ford be informed that he Would be expected, in the future, to re- frain from shutting up the town, leave the camp or be hanged, just as he pleased; and tor that he swore he would kill off the weiking force from the editor-in-chief down to “Freckled Jimmie,” the devil. Cowardly Act. However, Kelly was wrong. He was con- demned even by Ford’s enemies for his cowardly act, just as the public had dis- approved of the murder of Jesse James. All agreed that the removal of Jesse would facilitate the movement of trains in Mis- souri, and that Ford’s absence would add much to the peace and quiet of Creede camp, but no man admires a coward. So Kelly was arrested and later, when he ran up against Judge (now Representative) Bell's equity mill, he was surprised to re- ceive a life sentence in the pen. On the morning of the day following the killing a half hundred people assembled in @ store room, where religious services were held. They brought Ford's coffin and placed it upon a bench, and then the preacher got up and preaghed a funeral sermon. He was not very enthusiastic, I thought; but he had a tough client and a hard case. He took for his text, it he could be said to have taken anything, the line which Ford had written upon the white paper, “Charity covereth a multitude of sins,” and made the most of it. When he had finished an express wagon backed up to the door. chey put the dead man in, and the wa‘jon wound away the trail to a level spot above the town, where the unwept and unfortunate girl had been buried the day Ford died, where about were new-made where ” slept side The autumn winds blow bleak and chill. The sighing, quivering aspen waves Above the summit of the hill, Above the unre2srded g-aves, Where halt, abandoned burros feed, And coyotes call—and this is Creede. CY WARMAN. > Coeducation and Matrimony. From the Chicago Daily Tribune. President W. R. Harper of Chicago Unt- versity spoled a good story yesterday af- ternoon and dissipated a romantic rumor into thin air just at the close of the Sun- day afternoon lecture in Kent Theater. Somebody started a report that the unt- versity authorities were going either to compel all betrothed students to break their engagements for the time or to force one of the persons directly interested to leave the institution. There already is a rule in force, it is sald, which refuses ma- triculation to students who are married. The habit cf falling in love, the rumor said, had become so frequent among the students that the faculty had decided to adopt heroic measures to put a stop to it also. A few days ago, the betrothal of Miss Rew, a special stédent at the university and a tennis champion, to Mr. Frederick D. Nichols, the university foot ball team’s half back, was announced, and it was ru- mored the faculty was golng to begin the en rtoxcement of the new rule with these Wo. A reporter went out to the university to investigate the report. He waited for a half hour till the afternoon lecture was ended, and the two young people and Pres- ident Harper had appeared outside of the theater. Just as he prepared to interview the president on, tha new rule the latter greeted the two students. “I read of your betrothal in the news- papers,” he sald. “Allow me to congrat- ulate you.” lstr TO GURE NERVOUS YSPEPSIA. TO GAIN FLESH, TO SLEEP WELL, TO KNOW WHAT APPETITE AND GOOD DIGESTION MEAN, MAKE A TEST OF STUART'S DYSPSPSIA TABLETS. INTERESTING EXPERIENCE OF AN INDIANAPO- LIS GENTLEMAN. No trouble is more common or more misunder- stocd than nervous dyspepsia. 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Send for valuable little book on stomach dis- Marshall, Mich. ages at 50 cents, Stuart Co ists sell full-sized ji t the Blunderbusses Usually Rep- resented by Artists. - From the Boston Evening ‘Transcript. One of the most remarkable facts to the investigator of our American antiquities is the almost total ignorance which prevails among even those who are otherwise well informed as to the weapons, more especial- ly the firearms, with which our Puritan an- cestors fought their wars with the Indians. One of the notions which seem firmly ¢ tablished is that the early settlers general- ly used the bell-muzzle blunderbuss. Al- most every artist who draws a Thanksgiv- ing or Christmas picture of a Puritan go- ing to meeting gives him a gun with a muz- zie like the end of a trumpet. Now, fact is that the bell-mouthed firearm was ever a military arm among English-speak- people at all, nor was such a weapon common either in this country or in gland until about the middle of the last century, when it came into use for the de- fense of houses against burglars, for stage coach guards and s'milar purposes. The blunderbusses which were common enough in the curiosity shops are almost without exception later than 1750, and many of them date from early in this century. A large, bell-mouthed gun was in use somewhat earlier on board naval and other armed ships, but this was a heavy piece, on a swivel, and used very much as the how- itzer was later. Then, as to the locks. Even some of our most distinguished writers seem to be com- pletely at sea on this point. One New Eng- land writer whom I will not name, for fear of seeming aisrespectful to a man desery- ing of honor, wrote some time ago in a magazine article that some soldier in King Philip’s war might have inyented the flin’ lock by finding that an Indian flint arrow head would make fire if inserted into the cock of the matchlock. Now, the soldier of 1675 was given a matchlock, not because the military authorities were ignorant of guns which would make their own fire (wheellocks and snaphavnces were in com- use), but because the matchlock was lered better for ordinary use. More than this, if he had thought of it he would have known that his matchlock would not make fire with flint. The flintlock with which our war of independence was fought reci.ires a powerful blow to make the flint fire from the steel. This the match- k did not have, nor did the pan cover a in such a way as to make this pos- sible. At the time of King Philip's war and for a long time afterward, the ordinary fire- arm for infantry was the matchlock mus- ket. These are plenty in European col- lecticns, but very rare in America. I have never seen one in any collection in this country. At the same time the snaphaunce, a primitive form of the flintlock, was quite extensively used by hunters, and probably by the Indians, who would naturally ob- ject to the match, which, if kept lighted, would betray thelr presence, especially at night. Wheellocks were probably used to some extent by the earliest seitlers, but it was always an exceptional arm and too costly to be generally used. By the time of King Philip’s war it was rather old-fash- ioned and not likely to have figured much. In Springfield is a fine bronze statue of one of the early settlers, who is represen ed with a wheellock blunderbuss. This i ible—apything is possible— but if any wheellock blunderbuss can be fo_nd in any coi'ection of Europe or this country, I would like to see it. The Old Brute. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. “I just hate that old Mr. Browne,” said the Newesc Girl. “Really?” “Really. We girls are going in for hunt- ing, you know, and when I told him how I_had killed a dozen birds he only said, ‘Oh, that wasn't so bad, but I've got a dog that killed thirty rats in thirty min- utes.” Hateful old fogy! ——__ +0 Just as Fresh, ‘rom the Cleveland Leader. “Horatius,” said the professor's wife, “I don’t believe you've heard a word that I've said, and here I've been talking for half an hour.” Well,” said the pondering prcfessor, ‘who would believe it? You seem just as fresh as when you started.” RAILROADS. SOUTHERN RAILWAY, PIEDMONT AIR LINE Schedule in effect Deceuwer 1, 1896. All traice arrive aud leave at Poapsylvania pas- senger station. 5:00 A.M.—Daily.—Lecal for Danville, Charlotte eg a. 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Through trains from the scuth arrive at Wash- ington, @:42 a.m., 2:20 p.m. and 9:40 p.m. daily. Harrisonture, 1240 and 9:40 jan execpt Sunday, nid a.m. dally fre tmville Tickets, Sleeping reservation and informa- tion furnished at BIL and 1200 Penns: avenue, and at Pennsylvania station. neral Supt. © Manager, Pass. Accent Gen, Agent Pass. Dept. ANDRIA AND MI. VEKNON RAILWAY From Station, 1 “Daily. ROM ALEXANDRIA RNON, RIVE #9, 10:05, DE *11:00, AND WAY 12505, 2205, 00, 10:05, 11:00, CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. THROUGH ANDEST SCENERY AMERIC. INS VESTIBULED, ELECTRIC LIGHTED, STEAM HEATED. AL MEALS SLVED IN DINING Cal sra- TION SIXTH AND B SI Schedule in effect December 13, 1896. 20 P.M. DAILY—Cinciunats and St. Louis 5; cial—Sulid train for Cincinuats, Vali to Cinciu Louisvilic, 1 pol wis WituOUL change Parlor cars Ciuciu- DAILY. F. wat. Pall V. Liuitted -Solid train an sleepers Lo Cincinuatl, Lexington and Louisville without change. Upen for teception of passeugers at 9 pau. Pullman compartment car to Virginia Hot Springs, without Tuesdays and Saturdays. Daily coune {brings “Sleepers Cincinnat! tion to Chicago EXCEPT SUNDAY—Via_ Iichmond and rail live. - DAILY—Tor Gordonsville, Charl Sil, Staunton und for Richmond, daily, und, Reservations and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio offices, 513 and 1421 Pennsylvania avenue, 1110 F Street northwest, and at the staik M. OW. PULL 013-584 General Passeng BALTIMORE AND OHIO KAILMOAD, chedule in effect December 7, 1896. Icave Washington from station corner of New Jersey avenue and © street. Chicago und Northwest, Vestibuled Limited :00 a.m., 8:05 p.m. For Cincinnati,’ St. Louis and Indianapolis, Ves- tibuled Limited 3.40 pan., express, 11.30 p.a. For Pittsburg and Cleveland, express dally 10:00 m. and 8:50 p.m, Winchester and way stations, 10:00 .m., 30 p.m. For ew Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham, Cha tupooga, Knoxville, Bristol aud Roanoke, 9:00 p daily; Sleeping Cars through. For Laray, 3:40 p.m. daily For Ba'timore, week 1:00, 33:00, 3:25, 4:40, 45:05, x5:15, 6:30, 11:15, 311350 pein., x12:01 night. For’ Annapoli © and 8:30 a.m., 12:10 and 4:36 p.m. Sundays, 8:30 a.m., . For (Frederick, | week dara, Boon, Dm. Sundays, 1 For Haxerstown, 10:00 a.m. and { and way points, week da. 205 p.m. Sundays, 1:15, for Gaithersburg and way ‘points, 35, 920) a.m., 12:50, 3:1, 4:b0, 4-33, 340 pan, Sundays, 9:00 a.u.. ‘1:15, 10:15 p.m. For Washington Junction and was points, a.m., 4:30, 5:30 pm. week days. 1:15 p.m. Suu- days. For Cape May, 10 a.m.. 12 noon. ROYAL BLUE LINE FOR NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA, All traine Mominated with Pints:h light. For Philad New York, Boston a 8 8200 “10-00 m. Dining Ca 05 Dining Cary at 10:00 x) ne pen, Dining ¢ ¢ Car). 4 Addit 8200 ‘open 10 10:00. a'm.. 12:35 piu. Sundays. xExpress ¢ and checked from_ he ransfer resid hy tleket offices, ‘and 16th st WM. M. GREENE, Gen. Manager. aeT 0. SCULL, Gen. Pass. Agt. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. Station corner of Sixth and B streets. In Effect November 15. 1896. 750 A.M. Weekdays. PITTSBURG EXI'RESS.- Parlor and Dining Cars Harrisburg to Pittst 10:50 A.M. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED. —Pul Sleeping, Dining Smoking and Observations Cars Harrisbirg to Chicago, Cincinnatl, Indianapolis, - Louis, Cleveland and Toledo. © Buffet Varlur Car to Harrisburg. 10:50 A.M. FAST LINE.—Pollman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Buffet Parlor Car Harrisburg to Pittsburg. 8:40 P.M CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRE: Poliman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. 5 ing and Dining Cars Harrisburg to St. Louis, C cinrati, Louisville and Chi 7:10 P.M.” WESTER) -Pullman Sleep- ing Car Pittsburg to Chicago, and Harrisburg to Cleveland. Dining Car to Chicago. 7:10 P.M. SOUTHWESTERN £XPRi Sleeping, Cars Washington to 1 risbarg to St. Louis # 38. Putiman, rg and Ha 1. Dining Car. 10:40 P.M. PACIFIC PRESS.-—Puliman Sleeping Car to Pittsburg. 7:50 A.M. for Kane, Canandaigua. Rochester and a Falls daily, except Sunday. A.M. for Elmira au 9 dalls, exer 10: Sunday. For Lock Haven wee jamsport Sundays, 2:40 P.M. 3 for Williamsport, Roches: ‘alls daily, except Seturday, Washington to Suspeasion’ Lridge 10:40 P.M. for Erie, Canandaigua. Rochester, Buf- falo and Niagara Fails daily, Sieeping Car Wasb- ington to Elmira. For Philadely ork and the East. 4:00 P “CONGRESSIONAL "1 or Cars, with Dini: Fat 7:00 (Dini days and Will- Wining Car), and 11:00 + car mingtoa) A.M., 12:45, 2:15, 4:20, €:50, 10:00 end 11:35 P.M.” On Sunday, 7200 (Dining “Can, 8.00, 12°00 Dluing Car from V Minington | A.M. %! daily. . 7:50 A.M. week-days, and 3:15 P.M. For Atlantic City (via Delaware It rail route), 8-15 PM. dail s For Baltimore, 6:25, 7:00, ¥:50, 8.00, 9:00, 10:00, 10:50, 11.50 AM. "12:18. 12:45, 2: For Pope's Gatly, except Suoday, For napolis, 7:00, 9:00 A.M., 1 PM. daily, except Sunday. Sindsys, 9-00 A.M. and 4:2) PM. Attantic Coast Line Express, 4:30 A.M.. 8:46 P.M. @ally; Richmond only, 10:67 A.M. weck-days; At- Janta’ Special via Tichmond ‘and Sea»oard Air Line, 8:40 P.M. daily. Accommodation for Quaa- feo, 7:45 A.M. daily, and 4:25 P.M. weekdays. ‘Ticket offices, corner Fifteenth and G streets, and at the station, Sixth and B streets, where orders can be left for the checking of baggage to destina- tion from hotels and cesidences. . 3. R. WOOD, SM. PREVOST, ee _ 201d Painless Extracting, 50c. Best teeth, Painless fillings, 75c. Gold crowns, ach” department ih charge of aa specialist o lence. dents, ge ge gg Oy a pede DESTAL ASS'S, TT AND D STS FREE \TAL INFIRMARY.—DENTAL DEPART- used. Extracting free. fon 1 to S pm.