Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 6, 1895, Page 10

6, By Bret Harte. Author of “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” «Two Men of (Copyright, PART IL—CHAPTER VI Not a word was exchanged il they had veached the lower landing and Brant's pri vate room. Dismissing his subaltern and or- derly with a sign, Brart turned toward his prisoners. The Jaunt but not the sell-possession, had g from Lagrange' face; the of Captain Faulkner fixed on his older companion with a halt humorous look of perplexity. “I am afraid I can only repeat, general, that our foolhardy freak has put us in col« lision with your sentries,” said Lagrange with a slight hauteur that replaced his for- mer jauntiness, “and we were very prop erly made prisocers. If you will accept my parole I have no doubt our commander will proceed to exchange a couple of gallant fellows of yours, whom I have had the honor of meeting within our own lines, and whom you must miss probably more than I fear our superfors miss us. ““Whatever brought you here, gentlemen,” sald Brant drily. I am glad for your sakes that you are in uniform, although it does not unfortunately relieve me of an unpleas. ant duty.” “I don’t think T understand you, Lagrange, coldly. “It you had not been In uniform ye probably have been shot down as spi out the trouble of capture,” said quietly. “Do you mean to imply, sir—" bogan grange, sternly “I mean 1804, ease, eyes were returned would L With- Brant, the existence of a confederate spy between this camp and the division headquarters s sufficiently well known to ns to justify the strongest action.” “And pray, how can that affcet us,” said Lagrange, haughtily. “I need not inform so old a soldicr as Colonel Lagrange that the aiding, abetting and even receiving information from a spy or traitor within one's lines s an equally dangerous service.” Perhaps you would like to satisfy your- self, general,” sald Colonel Lagrange, with an jronical laugh. “Pray do not hesitate on account of our uniform! Search us f you_like." “Not on entering my lines, colonal,” plied Brant, with quiel significance. Lagrange's cheek flushed, but he recovered himself quickly, and, with a formal bew, said: “You will then, perhaps, let me know your pleasurc?’ “My duty, colonel, is to keep you both close prisoners here until I have an opportunity to forward you to the division commander with a report of the circumstance of your arrest. That I propose to do. How Soon I may have that opportunity—or if I am ever to have i—" continued Brant, fixing his clear eyes significantly on Lagrange, “‘depends upon the chances of war, which you probably understand as well as 1 do.” “We should never think of making any calculation on the action of an officer of such infinite resources as General Brant,” said Lagrange, politely. “You will, no doubt say that re- have an_opportunity of stating your own case to the division com- mander,” continued Brant, with unmoved face. “And,” he continued, turning for the first time to Captain Faulkner, “when you tell the commander what I believe to be the fact—from your name and resemblance—that you are a relation of the young lady who for the last three weeks has been an inmate of this house under a pass from Washington —you will, I have no' doubt, favorably ex- plain your own propinquity to my lines.'” “My sister Tillie!” said the young officer, impulsively. “But she is no longer here. She passed through the lines back to Wash- ington _ yesterd; No” ‘he added with a light laugh, “I'm afrald that excuse won't count for today. 3 A sudden frown upon the face of the elder officer, added to the perfect ingeniousness of Faulkner's speech, satisfled Brant that he had not only elicited the truth, but that Miss Faulkner had been successful! Nor did he doubt that his suggestion that her relation- ship to the young officer would incline the division commander to look lenlently upon his fault—and he felt a singular satisfaction in thus belng able to serve her. Of the real object of the two men before him he was convinced; they were “the friends” of his wife, who were waiting for her outside the lines! Chance alone had saved her from be- ing arrested with them, with the consequent exposure of her treachery before his own men—who as yet had no proof of her guilt, nor any suspicion of her actual identity. Nor | was his own chance of conyeying her with safety beyond his lines affected by this; the prisoners dare not reveal what they knew of her, and it was with a grim triumph that he thought of compassing her escape without thelr ald. Nothing of this, however, was visible in his face, which the younger man watched with a kind of boyish curlosity, while Colonel Lagrange regarded the cellin with a politely repressed yawn. “I regre concluded Brant, as he summoned the officer of the guard, “that I shall have to deprive you of each other's company during the time that you are here, but I shall see that you, separately, want for nothing in your confine ment." “I¢ this Is with a view to separate Inter- rogatory, General, I can retire now,” said HE DROPPED LIKE A LOG. Lagrange, rising with ironieal politeness. I believe 1 have all the information I require,” returncd Brant, with undisturbed composure. Glving the necessary orders to his_subaltern, he acknowledged with equal calm the formal salutes of the two prisoners a8 they were led away, and returned quickly £0 his bedroom above. He paused instinctively for a moment before the closed door and Mstened. There was no sound from within, He unlocked the door and opened it. 80 quict was the interior that for an in- tant, without glancing at the bed, he cast & quick look at the window, which, till then, ho had forgotten, and which he remembered gave upon the veranda roof. But it was still closed, and as he approached the bed ho saw his wite still lying there in the attitude in whigh he had Jeft her. But her eyes were ringed and slightly filmed, as if with recent tears. It was, perhaps, softened his voic @8 he sald: '_:lv suppose you know those two men?" this eircumstance that till harsh with command, “And that T have put it out of their power to help was something so strangely sub. missive in her volce that he agaln looked suspiclously at her. BDut he was shocked to see that the was quite pale now, and that the fire had gone vut of hor dark eyes. “Phen 1 may tell you wy own—angd the o vaye yoJ " But first, we }uufi find yo | hack-ma-tack bush. i sandy Par" Ete, by the author.) this mulatto woman double.” o is here, “Here!" “How do you know 1t?" he asked in quick suspicion She was not to leave this knew 1 safe within our some friends who are faithtul she added: “'She who has acted as place until she lines, 1 to me. has been Alter here Iooked at her startled. “‘Impossible “You locked the door. Yes, but a second key. And even If ‘she had not, there 1s another entrance from that closet You do not know this house; you have been here two weeks. I spent two years of my life, as a girl, in this room.” An_indescribable sensation came over him He remembered how he, had felt when he first occupied it; this was followed by a keen sensa of shame on reflecting that he had been ever since but a helpless puppet in the power of his enemies, and that she could have escaped, If she would, even now. Perhaps,” le said grimly, ‘‘you already arranged your plans.” She looked at him with a_singular re- proachfulness even in her submission. 1 have only told her to be ready to change clothes with me atd help me color my face and hands at the time appointed. 1 have left_the rest to you.' “Then this is ‘my plan. 1 have changed only a detail. You and she must both leave this house at the same time, by different exits, and one of them must be private— and unknown to my men. Do you know of such a one?” \" she sald, “beside the negro quar- she has have “Good," he replied. “That way out. She will leave here publicly, through the quarters, armed with® a pass from me. She will be overhauled and chal- lenged by the first sentry near the guard house, below the wall. She will be subjected to some delay and scrutiny, which she will, however, be able to pass better than you would. This will create the momentary di- vrsion that we require. In the meantimo, you will have left the house by the wing, and you will then keep in the shadow of the hedgo until you can drop down along the run where it empties into the swamp. That,"” he continued, fixing his keen eyes upon her, “Is the weak point in the position of this e that is neither overlooked nor de- fended. But, perhaps,” he added again, grimly, “you already know ft.” “It is the marsh where the flowers grow, near the path where you met Miss Faulkner, I had crossed the marsh to give her a let- ter,” she said slowly. A bitter smile came over Brant's face, but passed as quickly. “Enough,” he ‘sald quietly, “I will meet you beside the run and cross the marsh with you until you are within hailing distance of the lines. 1 will be in plain clothes, Alice,” he went on slowly, “for it will not be the commander of this force that ac- companies you, but your hushand, and, with- out disgracing his uniform, he will at least be your equal, for the instant he passes his own lines in disguise, he will become, like You, a spy, and amenable o its penalties.” Her eyes seemed suddenly to leap up to his, with that strange look of awakening an enthusiasm which he had not noted be fore. And in its complete prepossession of all her instincts, she arose from the bed, unheeding her bared arms and shoulders and loosened halr, and stood upright before him. For an instant husband and wife stood beside each other as unreservedly as in the nuptial chamber of Robles. “When shall T go?" Hhe glanced through the window, already growing lighter with the coming dawn. The relief would pass in a few moments; the time seemed propitious, ‘At cnce,” he said. you But she had already passed into the closet and was tapping upon some inner door. Ho heard the sound of hinges turning and the rustling of garments. She reappeared holding the curtains of the closet together with her hand, and sald: “Go! When she comes to you office for the pass you will know that T have gone.” He turned away. will be your “I will send Rose to Stop!” she said faintly. He turned back. Her expression had again changed. Her face was deadly pale. A strange tremor seemed to have taken pos- sesslon of her. She dropped the curtain. Her beautiful arms moved slightly forward; it seemed to him that she would in the next moment have extended both her hands, But even then she sald hurriedly, “Go! Go!” and slipped again behind the curtain, He quickly descended the stairs as the sound of tramping feet on the road and the hurried word of command announced the return of the scouting party. The officer had little report to make, beyond the fact that a morning mist, creeping along the valley, prevented any further —observation, and bade fair (0 interrupt their own com- munications with the camp. Bverything was quiet in the west, although the enemy’s lines “along the ridge scemed to have re- ceded. Brant had listened impatiently, for a new tdea had seized him. Hooker was of the party, and was the one man in the party in; whom he could partly confide and obtain a disguise. He at once made his way to the commissary wagons, one of which he knew Hooker used as a tent. , Hastily tell- Ing him that he wished to visit the pickets without recognition, he induced him to lend him his slouched hat and frock coat, leay- ink with him his_own distinguishing tunic, hat and sword, He resisted the belt and pistols which Hooker would have forced upop him. As he left the wagon he was half amusedly conscious that his old companion was characteristically examining the gar- ments he had left behind with mingled ad- iration and envy. But he did not know, as he slipped out of the camp, that Mr. Hooker was quietly trying them on before a broken mirror in the wagon head. The gray light of that summer .morning was already 50 strong that to ayoid detec- tion he quickly dropped Into the shadow of the gully that sloped toward the run. The hot mist which the scouts had seen was now lylng lke a tranquil sea between him and the pickets of the enemy’s rear guard, which it seemed to submerge, and was clinging in mo'st tenuous swathes—like drawn-out cot- ton wool—along the ridge, half obliterating its face. From the valley in the rear it was already stealing in a thin white line up the slope like the advance of a ghostly column, With a stealthiness that, in spite of himself, touched him with superstitious significance. A warm perfume, languld and treacherous—as from the swamp magnolia —seemeq to rise from the half hidden marsh, An ominous silence that uppeared to be o part of this veiling of all things under the clear, opal-tinted sky above, was so little like the hush of rest and peace that he half yearned for the outburst of musketry and fumult of attack that might dispel it. Al thut he had ever heard or dreamed of the Insidious south, with its languid subleties of climate and of race, seemed to encompass him here. But the next moment he saw the figure e was walling for stealing toward him from the shadow of the gully beneath the negro quarters, Even in that uncertaln light there was no mistaking the tall figure, the gaudily striped clinging gown and turbaged head. And then a strange revulsion of feeling, quite charac- terisite of the emotional side of his singular temperament, overcame him. He was taking leave of his wife—the dream of his youth— perhaps forever! It should be no parting in anger as at Robles; it should be with ten- derness that would not blot out thelr past In their geparate memories—God knows! it might be even a parting that at that moment was a jolning of them in eternity. In his momentary exaltation it even struck him that it was a duty, no less sacred, no less selfish than the onme to which he had de- voted his life. The light was growing stronger; he could hear voices In the nearest picket line, and the sound of a cough in the invading mist. He made a hurrled sign to he oncoming figure to follow him, ran ahead, and halted at last in the cover of a Still gazing forward over the marsh, he stealthily held out his hand behind him as the rustling skirt came nearer, At last his hand was touched, but even at that touch he started.and turned qul . wife, but o kly, = { wés not 'fil; iel—her mulatto & & v T i have | double! Her facs was rigid with fright, her beady eyes staring in thelr china sockets, her white teeth chattering. Yet have spoken. Tush!” he said, clutching her hand, a fierce whisper. “Not a word!" She wi holding something white in her fingers. He snatched it quickly. It was a note from his | wife—not in the dieguised hand of the first warning—but in one that he remembered as It it were a volee from the past “Forgive my disobeying you to save vou from ~capture, disgrace, or death—which | would have come to you where you were go- | ing! 1 have taken Rose’s pass. You need not fear that your honor will suffer by it, for It 1 am stopped T shall confess that I took it from her. Think no more of me, Clar- but only for yourself. You are in dan- she would | in He crushed the letter in his hand. me,” he said, in a fierce whisper, selzing her | arm, “and speak low. When did you leave her?" Tell | ho'ly- woman He flung her aside time to overtake and save her before reached the picket lines. He ran up the gully and out on to the slope toward the firat guard post. But a familiar challenge reached his ear, and his heart stopped beating. “Who goes there?” There was a pause, a rattle of arms, voices, another pause—and Braat stood rooted to the spot. Then the voice rose again, slowly and clearly: ‘“Pass the mulatto woman!"' Thank God! she was saved! But the thought had scarcely crossed his mind before it seemed to him that a blinding crackle of Just now!" gasped the frightened still she There might be | “They say his | account of it. men,” sald the adjutant authoritatively 1t8 was a howling secession- fst four years'fgo’in California, was mixed up in a conspirdéy, and he had to leave on ‘Book how thick he and that Miss Faulknetbeeame before he helped her oft!’ “That's yourhdealousy, Tommy: she knew he was by albiodds the biggest man here, and a good deal miore, too—and you had no show!™ In the laughthat followed | that Brant's euligy had been spoken and forgotten. But as Lieutenant Martin was turning away a lgering corporal touched his_cap f u were spaking of thoss prowling mu lattoes, sir. You know the general passed one out this morning." So 1 have heard.” “I reckon she didn't get very far. just at the time that we were driven their first fire, and T think she got he of it, too. Db you mind walking thi sir?” The lleutenant did no rather languidly followed. When they had reached the top of the gully the corporal pointed to what seemed to be a bit of striped calico hanging on a thorn bush in the ra- vine. “That's her,” sald the corporal. “I know the dress. 1 was on guard when she was passed. The searchers who were picking up our men haven't got to her yet—but she aln’t moved or stirred these two heurs, Would you like to go down and see her?” The lleutenant hesitated. He was young and slightly fastidious as to unnecessary un- would seem It was in by ehare mind, although he a TAKING sparks burst out along the whole slope be- | low the wall, a characteristic yell which he knew too well rang in his ears, and an undu- lating line of dusty soldiers came leaping like gray wolves out of the mist upon his pickets, * He heard the shouts of his men falling back as they fired, the harsh com- mands of a few officers hurrying to their posts, and he knew that he was hopelessly surprised and surrounded. He ran forward among his disorganized men. To his consternation no one seemed to heed him! ‘Then the remembrance of his disguise flashed upon him. But he had only timo to throw away his hat and snatch a sword from a falling lieutenant before a scorching flash seemed to pass before his eyes and burn through his hair and he dropped like a log beside his subaltern, G Gl e e e An aching under the batdage around his head, where the spent bullet had grazed his scalp, and the sound of impossible voices in his ears were all he knew as he staggered slowly back to concisciousness again. Even then it still scemed a delusion, for he was lying in the hospital of the headquarters, with officers of the division staff around him, and the division commander himself standing by his cot, and regarding him with an air of grave, but not unkindly, concern. But the wounded man felt instinctively that it was not the effect of his physical condi- tion, and a sense of shame came suddenly over him, which was not dissipated by his superior’s words, For, motioning the others aside, the major general leancd over his cot and said: “Until a few moments ago the report was that you had been captured in the first rush of the rear guard, which we were rolling up for your attack, and when you were picked up just now, in plain clothes on the slope, you were not recognized. The one thing teemed to be as improbable as the other,” he added, significantly. The miserable truth flashed across Brant's mind. Hooker must have been captured in his clothes—perhaps in some extravagant sally—and -had not been recognized in the confusion, by his own officers. ~Nevertheless he raised his eyes to his superior. “You got my note?"’ The general’s brow darkened. sald slowly, “but finding you thus unpre- pared—1 had been thinking just now that you had been deceived by that woman—or by others—and that it was a clumsy forgery.” He stopped, and seeing the hopeless bewllder- ment in the face of the wounded man, added more kindly: “But we will not talk of that in your present condition. The doctor says a few hours will put you straight again. Get strong—for I want you to lose no time— for your own cake—to report yourself at Washington.” “Report myself—at Washington!” repedted Brant, slowly. “That was last night's order, commander with military curtness. Then he burst out: “I don’t understand it, Brant! I belleve you have been misunderstood, mis- represented, perhaps maligned—and I shall make it my business to see the thing through —but these are the department orders. And for the present—I am Sorry to say—you are relieved of your command. He turped away, and Brant closed his eyes. With it it seemed to him that he closed his career. No one would ever under- stand his explanation—even had he been templed to give it, and he knew he never would. Everything was over now. Even this wretched bullet had not struck him fairly and culminated his fate as it might, For “an instant he recalled hjis wife's last offer to fly with him beyond the seas—beyond this cruel injustice—but even as he recalled it he knew that flight meant the worst of all—a balf concession. But she had es caped. Thank God for that! Again and again in his hopeless perplexity this com- fort returned to him. He had saved her. He had done his duty. And harping upon this in his strange fatalism, it at last seemel to him that this wag for what he had lived, for what he had suffered, for what he had fitly ended his carcer. Derhaps it was left for him now to pass his remaining years in_ forgotten exile, even as his father had, his father—his breath came quickly at the thought—God knows, perhaps as wrongfully accused. It may have been a providence that she bad borne no child, to whom this dreadful heritage could be (ransmitted, here was something of this strange and fateful resignation in his face, a few hours later, when he was able to be helped again into the seddle. But he could see In the cyes of the few comrades who commis- eratingly took leave of him a vague half- repressed awe of some indefinite weakness in the man that mingled with their heart- felt devotion to a gallant soldier. Yet even this touched him no longer, He cast a glance at the house and at the room where he hal parted from her, at the elope from which she had passed, and rode away. Aud then, as his figure disappeared down the road, the restrained commentary of won- der, surm'se and criticism broke out "It must have been something mighty bad, for the old man who ewears by him looked rather troubled. And it was deuced queer, you know, this changing clothes with some- bedy—Just before the surprise.” “Nonsense! It's something away back of that! Didn't you hear the old man say that the orders for him to report himself came from Washington last night? No,” the speaker lowered his voice. “Strangeways says that he had regularly sold himself out to one of them woman spies! Its the old Marc Auntony business over again. “Now I think of it,” said the younger subal- tern, “‘he did seem mightily taken with one of those quadroons or mulatt:es he is u>1 ordcrs against; I suppose that was a blind for us I remenber the first day he saw her; he was regularly keen to know all about her. Major Curits gave a short laugh. ‘“Thal mulatto, Martin, was a white woman, burnt corked! She was trying to get through the lines last night, and fell off a wall or got a koock on the head from u sentry's carbine. When she was brought in Dr. Simmons sel to washing the blood off ner face; the cork cume off, and the whole thing came out. Brant hushed it up—and the woman, too—in his own quarters' It's supposed now that ‘‘Yes,” he said the she got away somehow in tne rush!"’ “It goes back further han that, geatle- OF CLARENCE. pleasantness. He believed he would wait until the searchers brought her up, when the corporal might call’ him, The mist came up gloriously from tho swamp like a golden halo. And as Clarence Brant, already forgotten, rode moodily through it toward Washington, hugging to his heart the solitary comfort of his great sacrifice, his wife, Alice Brant, for whom he had made it, was lying in the ravine, dead and uncared for. ' Perhaps it was part of the inconsistency of her-sex that she was pierced with the bullets of fhose that she loved, and was wearing the garmenis of the race that e had wronged. (To Be' Continued.) TO THE NEW YEAR. Kathleen R Wheeler in_ Lippincott's. Was it forth from the flalkes of drifting snow, As they cea: ¥ hurry them to and fro, Thou came: ¥, O white New Or out from the golden gates of da When an angel opaned them wide at morn, Didst thou come” this way, O bright New Vear? ~ Was it forth from' the realms of an unknown land, Sent hither by tough of an unseen hand, Thou camest today, O blest New Year? Or out from the shades of the saddened past. Where the old vear _cares are hid at last, Hast thou come this way, O best New Year? Was it down from-the heaven:that spreads above And forth from the land of eternal love Thou camest today, O benign New Year? Is it into this world so stained by sin, With thy spotless robe thou hast entered in, And come to stay, O divine New Year? ————— UP-TO-DATE BOY. Richard Watson Gilder, the poet editor, is a great friend of President Cleveland, says the "Atlanta Journal. At Buzzard's Bay the two familles have adjoining cottages and are very congenial neighbors. Mr. Gilder has a little bright-eyed, golden- haired hoy of about 5, who s something of a wit in his way. Mrs. Cleveland is very de- voted to the youngster and makes something of a pet of him. The president, too, is very fond of the boy. It was this fondness which both the president and Mrs. Cleveland showed for Master Gilder which exemplified the frony of which children, consciously or un- consclously, are the masters. Mr. Cleveland picked the boy up In his arms one day after Mrs, Cleveland had been petting him, ‘and, looking him straight in the eye, sald: “Richard, ncw I want you to tell me the truth. Which do you like the best, Mrs. Cleveland or myself 7" The youngster lobked puzzled what to say, but finally surprised the president by ex- claiming: “‘Well, I like Mrs, Cleveland the best, but you'se the prettiest.” THE ““Mamma,” said the little boy, in a whisper, s this church buildin’ insured?" ‘“‘Hush, Johnny," she answered. sume it is."” Johnny was silent a few moments, he returned to the attack. “Couldn’t the Lord take care of it?" “Shi” Another silence, “Mamma, do they insure saloons in the same companies they Insure churches in?" “Sh, Johnny “I pre- Then “‘You must keep quiet, Johnny, or I shall have to—" “Mamma, if a church burns down when it bain’t got any insurance don't it show that the Lord takes better care of the insurance companies that he does of the At this point, says the Chicago Tribune, Johnny was led out into the vestibule and lectured with great severity. Children often use lang words without un- derstanding thelr, meaning, and sometimes coin words of thélr own, says the London Spectator. The small son of a friend of mine, a London boy, was recently staying at the seaside, anf\ wag,taken by his father for a country walk,, H¢ was soon busy picking flowers and rail to the father with one, ex- claiming: *‘How passionately smellful 1t is? ““Passionately” ‘way a misapplication and was used withoul a Droper sense of its mean- ing; but “smefful” was an excellent hit worthy of being, recorded. I have never met with it before dnd I cannot find it in any dictionary. 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Its steel rails connect Chicago—the natural gateway. with Pittsburgh, ~ Harrisburg, Baltimore, hington, Philadelphia and New York on east, and with Indianapolis, Louisville, Dayton, Springfield, Coluribus and Cincinnati on the south. Their importance as the principal avenues of travel between the most populous portions of the country demands careful attention to details in management and operation, hence improvements in the various branches of railroading as a rule | make their initial appearance on these. lines, The first vestibuled train in service was | run over them between New York and Chi- cago. In the natural order of improvement it has undergone changes and is now the world famous Penusylvania Limited. This train represents the acme of the car building art and {3 in consonance with the well known policy of the Pennsylvania management to excel in everything. "It is a wondreful expo- sition of the remarkable advancement that characterizes raflway transportation facilities of the present day. This train represents an investment of over $200,000 and it can be readily imagined (hat its magnificence is grand to the extreme. The Pennsylvania Limited is usually com- posed of six cars with perfected vestibule at- tachments enclosing them into practically one elongated car having a series of apart- ments, The perfected vestibules are an im- provement over the old style, as the floor projects out over the steps, making a wider passage, and the beveled plate glass extends all the way down to the floor. Pullman smoking, library, dining, sleeping and ob- servation cars make up this series of coms partments. In this whirling palace perfec- tion in travel is exemplificd in its highest degree. The interiors are finished In most excellent style. The upholstery, handsome decorations, delicate tracery in highly pol- ished hardwood finish, burnished brass chandelier, electric light fixtures, give a fascinating to the surroundings. alone, but s adapted to the requirements of travel. The cosy &moking compartments with their comfortable arm chairs and divany are pleasant retreats for smokers. | Meals served in the dining car constitute | menus that outrival the culinary produc tions of noted caterers, The service® In cludes the finest china, cut glass and silver- ware. In the library car, with its convenient book case, tables and desks, are interesting books, magazites and the daily papers. The sleeping cars, with their rich curtains and beautiful rugs, are well arranged for the awing Room, Compartment Car. THIZ PENNSYLVANIA LIMIT comfort of their occupants during the day time, and at night the roomy berths invite to_ restful slumber. The observation car brings up the rear of the train and has a large portico, protected by podished brass railings, free from any obstruction to the sight, irom this enclosure, which comforta- bly seats sixteen persons, may be viewed the dissolving scenery The recent addition of compartment cars to the equipment of this train is in harmony with its campleteness, In desizn and finish they are the finest cars constructed to date. { Their arrangement into drawing rooms and &tate rooms affords the privacy of home or of a hotel room. Women traveling alone or with children, as well as invalids, will find all desired seclusion in these cars, Iach compartment s supplicd with individual lavatories, and is fitted up in luxury Distinctive features of the Pennsylvania Limited include a barber shop where one may be safely shaved by a deft barber while the train is going a mile a minute, and an experienced waiting maid, whose 1 care is the comfort of ladies and children. There aro also bath rooms for both sexes. Stock reports are bulletined on the train so that one may trade as he travels, an expert sten- ographer and typewriter being at his com- mand for the conduct of correspondence. His servicse and those of the waiting maid are given gratis. The Pennsylvania Limited is in reality a flying hotel of the most modern type. It has its smoking and reading compartments; dining room, drawing rooms and state rooms, sleeping apartments, bath and barber shop. Liquid refreshments are stored in the buffet, from which one may order anything from a bottle of beer to the finest brands of champagne. Leaving Chicago union station daily at 5:30 p. m., the palatable dinner served on - NNSYLVANIA LIMITED. the Pennsylvania limited is scarcely over When the train rolls into Fort Wayne, hav- ing made the run of 148 miles to that city without a stop. The train is far into the state of Ohlo before the hour marks the customary retiring time. Pittsburg is reachied at 6 a. m, and passengers destined for points beyond the Iron City who are not early risers, awake to find that bee hive of industry has been passed while they were sleeping. The everchanging romantic scenry of the Al'egheny mountains forms a pleasing panor- ama on arising, and after the morning meal, the grandeur of the famous Horse Shos curye followed by picturesque views of the Blue Juniata and rich pastoral scenes of eastern Pennsylvania may be enjoyed from the fly- ing observatory. Harrisburg is reached In the early afternoon; Philadelphia at 4 o'clock, and New York at The buffet par: ibrary and Smoking Car. THE PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED lor car, carrying the limited's passe from Harrisburg, reaches Baltimore at p. m, and Washington at 5:45 p. m. During the twenty-four hours consumed in making the run from Chicago to New York, passengers on (his train have at thelr command all the comforts of hotel, club or home. Courteous attendants cheerfully lend every effort to make the journcy one of en- joyment. The luxurious cass in which the trip may be made on the Pennsylvania lim- ited compels a thought of what the future will bring forth. It certainly will be a long time before the elaborate manner in which the rcquirements of travel are met by this train will be eclipsed. The luxury in which a_trip over the Penn sylvania lines may be made is fittingly supple- mented by every deslre convenfence for shap. ing details f a journey.' In addition to the Pennsylvania Limited, other wall equipped passenger iralns run over these lines from Chicago to New York and intermediate polnts, They leave Chicago every day from the union passcoger station at 10:30 & m., 3:15 p. m 8:30 p. m. and 11:30 p. m. Thers also daliy trains running over the Pennsylvania gers 4:20 Dining Car. | THE PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED. | This delightful ensemble is not for the eye lines from Chicago to Columbus, Springfield, Dayton, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Loulsvills | and principal cities and towna in Ohio and Indlana Tarough tickets over them to polnts east and south of Chicago may be obtalned at | from the west and northwest to that city, of Inquiries addressed to any of the passenger representatives stationed at prominant olties in the northwest and west, or to H, R. Der- Ing, assistant general passenger agont, No. 248 South Clark street, Chicags, will bring & prompt reply. In fact, travel over the Ponne oylvania lines has reached that point of pers faction requiring Intending passengers to only send name and address, mentioning the point hey desire to visit, also stating when they wish to start and how many will composs the party, Valuable informaticn will be sent in reply, including the lowest rate, best route and time of trains, If preferred, a personal visit will be made by one of the representa« tives to their homes for the purpose of alding in arranging for the journey. He will pro- cure tickets and check baggage through to destinaticn, so that passengers may leave home unencumbered by luggage and relieved f the bo'her of having It checked. 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