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National Republican., 1888-04-09
TRIVELERS GUIDE.
rJNHE GREAT PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE TO
l. THE NORTH WEST, AND SOUTIiW
DOIBLETRACK,sPL SPLENDID SCENERY;
STEEL RAILS. MAGNIFICENT EQUIP.
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DOuBLETRACK,sP SPLENDID SCENERY;
STEEL RAILS. MAGNIFICENT EQUIP.
IN EFFECT DEC. 10. 1887.
TRAINs LEAVE washington from station,
For pittsburg and the West, Chicago Limited
Express of Palace Sleeping Cars ~ 1:O q. m.
daily; Fast Line $50 o.. m. daily tn Cincinnati
and - Louis, with sleeping cars from Harris.
daily, except saturday. 20 Chicago. with sleep.
ing Car Altoona TO Chicago, Western ES-
press, at $40 p. N. daily, with sleeping cars
cept saturdays Harrisburg to Cleveland,
connecting daily at Harrisburg with through
Slcepers for Louisville and Memphis, Pacific
West, with through Sleeper to vittsburg, and
pIt' .hurg TO thitagO.
BAlTMoRE ATp PoToMic rArLGOAp.
For Erie, Conahdaigna, Rurhc ter, Buffalo,
Niagara, 1000 y. y. daily, cNrcl, Sa'rtday,
with Palace Cars Washington ~ Rochc 'er
For Whllamsport, Lock Haven and Llmrd,
For New York and the East, i:2n, 300, 100,
and 1i40 a, M, goo, I:i0, 1000, aud iis!U y. m.
on sunday, nCo, 1910 a, M 2nO; $40, 1000, AMI
and Dinng Cars, $40 a. IN. daily, except sun.
day, and 3I5 y. m. daily.
For Boston without change, ?:CO p. m. every
day.
For Brooklyn, N y, all through trains CON
meet at Jersey City with boats Of BROOKLYN
Annex aiording direct transfer TO Fulton
street avoiding double ieiTiage across New
For Philadelphia, $50, 900. 100 and ii:io
n. m, 600, $40 600, 1000, and il:21 y, IN. on
sunday, 300, 1i:j0 Il. m, 800. flo 800, 1000,
and 1890 y. IN, Limited Express, FariOr and
Dining Cars, 0;iO a. m. week days, and 3ij y.
For baltimore. G35. ;:so. ooo, o. 10. $50. 100.
ii0 a m, 1905, 200, 3:ij, i:lO, i:aO 40 G1O,
$40 1000. and ll:gO y. m On sunday, 900.
9t5 U:O, 1910 a. m, 300, 3ij, i:iO, SEQ, $40,
1000, and ll;20 p. M.
For ropc's Creek Line, 1:2O a. m and i:l0 u.
m; daily except sunday.
For Annapolis i:2O and aNoa. m 12;oj, if!1,
| and 6'O0 y. m. daily, except Sunday. sundays,
XLEXNSbmk AND FREDERICKSBURG
| RAILWAY, AND ALEXANDRIA AND
WASHINGTON RAILROAD.
For Alexandria, Geo, 635 $40, 0i7, lO:5T a. IN 4,
120i noon, 205, i:25, 800 6:0l, G;3o, sos, 1905,
and 1l35 p m. on Sunday, at 500, g;i1, 1875, a.
m. 2;30, $50, 500 and 1905 p. m.
Accommodations for QUantico, 500 y. m.
| week days,
For Richmond and the South, 600, fO57 a m,
daily, and G:0l p m daily, except sunday.
Trains leave Alexandria for Washington,
| GGi, 1:Gl 500, $40, 1915, ll0i a. M; l:D, 800,
1893, 5iO 7:O5, 0:32, lO:ia, and il:nj n. m. on
sunday at 9:f0 and li:01 u. M; 800, j:iO, 1:0j,
932 and 1912 p. m.
Tickets aud Information at tho Office, north.
east corner of 18th street and Pennsylvania
| avenue, and al the station, where orders can
be left Tor the checking Of baggage 10 dcsLina.
tion from hotels and residences.
General Passenger Agent.
CIiAS. f. rCGII. General Manager.
National Republican., 1888-04-09
The Bath as aLuxury.

Health Is the greatest luxury man or
woman can enjoy. To maintain health or tu
restore II when lost, is the true way Ia secure
ihc greatest physical enjoyment. Many people
rnrry about With them both dead and living
matter The Turkish Bath removes the dead
and rilrtc matter from the living TISSUES, and
So pmihcs tile system that II can take ON
healthy, vital tissue in the place of the dead
material removed. ltiS a great luxury To- he
clean No person can be- thoroughly clean
who does not take the Turkish Bath, The
ordinary bath will not cleanse the interior pOr.
tin uf thc body; II only washes the surface,
The Turkish Bath clcauscs the tissues all
through. II removes the cflctc and dead mat.
ter from the muscles, nerves, bones, BRAIN and
from all the tissues ut the body. To be-
thoroughly ulenuSvd of these Impurities is one
uf the greatest luXurrs of the age, Try II and
Nuu will Lee convinced,
The entire bath Is on the first floor aud com
Nruiputly located, and can he reached by all
the street ear and hcrdic lines,
BATHING HOURS From a. m, Till Q p. m,
ON saturdays open until ~ y. IN. Not open on
sunday LADIES' DAYS, Mondays and Fri
days,
Hoping to receive your patronage, we are,
Your uhrdirnt servants,
4. 4. BONEE n Co., ProprietOrs.
JOHN Y BONEE. Medical Electrician,
u1iec uyWs-i " e.iV.a, N, and TO . p. m.
National Republican., 1888-04-09
Sarah Kemper Nav Die,

Sarah Kempcr, colored, who was shot by
John jackson Saturday night, was very Ill
last night. She vomited during the greater
part of the day and the wound gave indica-
tiOn of causing serious trouble. Jackson,
who is still locked up at the fourth precinct
station, failed to talk much yesterday, lie
was inclined to be moody, and does not ap'
pear TO realize or care how serious the charge
may be against him.
National Republican., 1888-04-09
Kcrnnn,s Thenter.

The Early Birds" a company ofattractive
ladies of tire vaudeville school, will present
a very pleasing play at Kernan's this week.
Zittella, the burlesque queen Jolly Nash, Lola
Fenelon, the $4,000 beauty, and host OF
others equally as good will appear at all the
performances. Matnees as usual.
National Republican., 1888-04-09

you blow its brains
out.
But you will do
W orse yes, far
worse, by bringing
into the world n
child who cannot
, live, and who must
suffer. Yet you are
as much to blame
for this hild's
death MS If you took
n stick or stone and
dashed its brains
n,tt ktbp 10
National Republican., 1888-04-09
CITY ITEMS.

Rowland DENTAL ASSOCIATION, eli Four
Rnd,ahalf street northwest, three doors north
of Pennsylvania avenue. Il. y. Rowland, NJ,
D., C. II. Rowland, u. ID. s., surgical, operative
and mechanical dentists, Extractions, under
nitrous oxide, 80 cents each tooth and only 30
cents extra for gas, whether one or number
of teeth are extracted mt the same sitting,
persons. Artificial teeth 81 per set Gold,
amalgam, and white Filings inserted In the
best manner. All work warranted first class,
National Republican., 1888-04-09

IFyou suffer from, lOoseness of the bowels
Angostura Btters will surely cure you. Be
ware of counterfcts, and ask your grocer ol
druggist for the genuine article, prepared by
Dr. j. G. Is. Siegert & Sons.
National Republican., 1888-04-09

"ALpERNEY DAIRY WAGoSs"-Fresh Alder.
ney Butter Churned every morning and deliv,
cred in pound Ward prints at 45 cents per
pound. Also cottage cheese, cents per ball
buttermilk, o cents per quart, and sweet milk
at cents per quart,
National Republican., 1888-04-09
Sermon No. o.
WHAT Is THIS {.

An Easy Puzzle for Some Parents.
You wouldn't murder your child by a
blow over the head with n poker, nor would
National Republican., 1888-04-09
MT. VERNON.

NIT. VERNON. Mt. VERNON.
MI MT. VERNON.
STEAMER W. W. CORCORAN
Leaves ith.st wharf Daily except sunday for
MI VERNON,
At 10 o'clock u, M. returning, reaches Wash
ington about $50 y, IN.
L, i. BLAKE, Captain.
National Republican., 1888-04-09

BERKELEY, pure rye whisky, the best on
the market for the price, 81 per gallon, 81 u
quart, and 80 cents pint, 25 cents II sample
bottle. Tharp, SIS i street northwest.
National Republican., 1888-04-09
CmrsArEAKE ANp ONO ROUTE.

G,IESApEAkE AND OHIO ROUTE.
Newport News and Mississippi Valley Com.
panNl
schedule in effect Nov. ~, 1857.
Trains leave Union Depot, 18th and Il stS,
1875, A. M.-Fur Newport News, Old Point
Comfort, and Norfolk Daily except
sunday Arrive In Norfolk nj l., II.
Through paFlor car Washington TO Old
Point,
1874 \. M-For stations on tho Chesapeake
and ohio, in Virginia, West Virginia,
and kentucky. Daily except sunday.
Sleeping ears, clifton Forge to Hunt
ingtOu,
$50 r. M-Fast western express daily. solid
train, with Pullman buffet sleeping
cars 10 Louisville, Pullman sCrycoto
Cincinnati, S. Louis, Memphis, and
New orleans,
OncC al3 Penn ave.
II. W. FULLER,
General Passenger Agent,
National Republican., 1888-04-09
BLASPHEMY is ALL ABROAD.
SWEARING CAN RE HEARD IN
EVERY DIRECTION.
Patience and Suffering of Job cited as
an Example to the Profare TO Desist
trivial Use of Gods Name.

BRooKLYS, Apr. s.-one of the hymns sung
at the Tabernacle this morning begins with
hn
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-09

many purposes As I entered one picker finished his bird and came and sat beside me; in answer to inquiry as to how long il required to dress 8 bird he said: 'sWe are on the last of pen full now; just wait g moment and time us and you will see some fun. !"
 Meanwhile fifty turkeys, large and small, had been put into s'the cage" a pen about eight feet square, but no picker, even had he finished his last bird of the previous lot, might select one from this and go to work, each as he finished must wait for the last. Loter developments showed the justice of this. Conversation among the pickers while waiting the last man turned on the number of good fat, easy picking hens among the new lot in the cage, and one old twenty-five pound tbull" whom nobody wanted. The moment the last man finished and hung up his bird all made grand rush for the pen and in moment returned, each carrying a large turkey by the feet. Arriving at this station each slipped both feet of his catch
 through moose in the cord and brings the bird down with force, then grasps a sharp pointed knife and runs through the neck just back of the bill, cutting all the arteries, then the wrestle with feathers begins.
 One sweep of the hand takes every tail feather into the barrel. Two grabs does the same for broad feathers of the wings. With one downward sweep a space large as the pickers hand is laid bare from tail to neck. This is kept mp until the body is thoroughly picked. Then the finger is run into the rent, hooked around the larger intestine and the bird is drawn. Not knife is used in the whole operation except in killing the bird. The feet are now freed from the moose, the head laid on block and chopped of, the skin of the neck drawn back about an inch and chopped of again, letting the skin of the neck cover over the end where it is tied, and your bird is ready for market. Do you wonder that they sometimes acquire far away taste when served up at the Easta One picker, from the time he stuck his bird until he hung him up finished. occupied just seven and one-half minutes, another nine and one quarter minutes. Finally he said he would tackle the tstwenty- pound bull," did so and
 finished him in just eight minutes and twen- ty seconds.
 walked into the pen to see them caught In would come picker, cast a critical eye over the lot in search of an easy one, walk along, and with never-failing swoop of the hand, grab turkey by the thigh, then hold him up and blow the feathers away from the under side of the wing and trump. If no pin feathers, o. K.,. if any, drop him and grab another till satisfactory one was foundl Consequently the last ones of lot of fifty are very hard to pick, and as each man fn- ishes the lass of the lot he is required to wait until all are done, thus giving each @ fair chance to begin on the easy ones
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-09
DEE.

We have always pitied ths calendar. It cou d never get day off.-Bur1ington Free Press.
 A country farmer says that "gate money" is that which is expended for the damage caused by Jim and Kate.-Puck.
 A Catholic and Baptist see their duty in about the same light-one sees candles and the other dips.-Andrew's American Queen.
 Now, my dear, said the teacher, what is memorys The little girl answered, after 6 moments reflection, ''It is the thing you for get with" as
 Teacher-What is the difference, Tommy, between & German and 8 lDatchmans -
 Tommy-One has got money and the other hain't.-Epoeh.
 ttWhy do you paint" asked violinist of his daughter. 'EFor the same reason that you use rosin, papa" 'tWhat's that7" "Why, to help me draw my beau"
 An old bachelor says: s'It is all nonsense to pretend that love is blind. I never knew 8 man in love that did not see ten times as much in his sweetheart as did," Matter. of-fact mother Go fashionable daughter, who is going out)-Clara, think well. Fashionable daughter-I know, mann ma; but you have no idea how slippery the sidewalks are.-Nsw York Sun.
 A remarkably brilliant meteor hung over Los Angeles for an hour the other night, probably writing for some eastern green horn to buy it at the rate of g, 900 per acre. As it happened, all the greenhorns
 had invested in side-hill or water lots, and had no more cash.-Detroit Free Press. Bismarck-'tIf dose Americans won't set tie dot fisheries dispute, will you fight 'em" Distinguished Englishman-"No, we won't. " "Ehs" 'tIt would be madness to fight such 6 nation as that" s'Is dot sol" ''My stars, yes. Why, sir, those Americans ride at the rate of forty or fifty miles an hour alongside red hot stoves. They're born dare-devils. <" Omaha World.
 First Omaha man-'Does dead animal weigh more than 8 live one2" Second mer Jack and I went fishing. and Jack caught big fish which weighed at once before it was dead, and the weight was three pounds" "Yes." "Well, Jack took that fish home and the next day heard him tell man that it weighed ten pounds. ."-Omaha World.
 Young husband-'sClara, my dear, wish that in sending notices of your lunchsons to the Sunday papers you would not speak of yourself as Mrs. Henry Hustler, nee Van der Poel don't like it. Her husbands name should be sufficient for c wife" Young wife (meekly)-'sWell, Harry, how shall put it?'' ''Oh, say Mrs Henry Hustler, wife of that enterprising real estate man, Henry Hustler, whose beautiful residence addition is now upon the market. '"-Kansas City Journal.
 Farmer-"Look here, parson, what air these Liberal Christians I hear tell on 50 much these timesa'' Parson Birthstone Gan old-line Orthodox)-"A Liberal Christian, neighbor Joness Why, a Liberal Christian is church member who owns his pew and horse-shed, pays parish tax equal to his town tax, contributes according to his means on collection Sundays, is willing to help to shingle the meeting house, and inva- riably offers to loan horse and chaise to his pastor when the latter is obliged to ex- change pulpits with reverend brother. D. Boston Beacon.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-09
Am nndIana sTurkey Foundry..'


 isTurkey Foundries" are scattered over the entire State. Six double mule teams collect turkeys from within radius of ten miles and bring them to this foundry daily. No Hoosisr farmer thinks of dressing his own birds for the market, but sells them on the hoof to the collectors, receiving six cents per pound for his flock. The foundry, 8 build ing ffty-eight by fifty feet, without floor, in fact mammoth coop, holding sixteen hun dred turkeys, is kept well filled by these teams At one end is 6 smaller building, the dressing room, where ten men wading almsst knee-deep in feathers, pick turkeys at five cents each from morning until night. Each man dresses on the average five an hour, or fifty cents for the crew. Necks are wrung for Boston, while throats are stuck for the New York market. They were dressing Ia New York to-day, when visited by your cor- respondent.
 Entering the dressing room attracted by tremendous gobbling from the turkeys, there appeared ten men, each with bird l suspended by the feet by cord from 8 | beam overhead, pulling feathers for dear 1 life. Beside each man stood two barrels, one for large tail feathers and the broad | flat wing feathers that grow on the bend 1 of the wing next to the body. This grade sells for feather dusters. The second bar rel receives all soft body feathers, sold for
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-09
Monday, January 9. 1888.
PROGRESS OF A GREAT REFORM

PROGRESS OF A GREAT REFORM,
 It is interesting to note the progress of great reform. Some, especially some hardened Democrats, may think that civil service re- form is dead, but it Is not. The Massachu- ,setts Civil Service Reform league is out in defense of it. It shows the importance of it when the salaries for non-electiye offices in the whole country amount to $200, ,00O, 900 yearly and to $5,000, 900 in Massachusetts alone. Open examination is defended as the best method to reach selection that is fair and free to all The objection to it that it is English and aristocratic is puerile, for it was the common people of England who forced the reform there and deprived the aristocratic families of their power of appointment. Ex- perience shows that it is not the boys fresh from school or college who pass best, but men of experience, averaging for clerical ser vice ever thirty years and for prison service thirty-six. The questions asked are not such as school books alone will enable one to an- swer. For example, in recent examination paper candidates for foremen of laborers in streets, squares and public parks were asked, among other questions, "How much should 8 sidewalk pitch, and how high should it be as regards the street grade?" "What is seam b1ast2" "What materials should be used for tamping in loading" etc., etc.
 As an illustration of the way in which the reform has worked attention is called to an examination which was held for places where the carrying of messages and reporting oc- currences in writing were duties, though per haps not the most important duties, to be performed. A short and simple statement of facts, such as might be sent by mes senger or required to be reported, was read three times by the examiner. One of the ap- plicants could write but small part, and that he remembered incorrectly; while most of the others wrote it substantially right. There is no doubt, says the league, that the latter were better qualified for carrying mes sages than the man who failed to remember, and yet this failure would make but smal, difference in the percentage and would not prevent 8 candidate otherwise well qualified from standing pretty well on the list In this particular instance the person in ques- tion was ultimately appointed, and unofficial inquiry of his superior officer has shown the appointee to be deficient in the very respect indicated by the examination.
 And so forth and SO on. The statement of the league is encouraging to those who have upheld the reform.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-09
Riddia tha nead Shnt.


 William N. Riddle, ex-president of the city. is one among the best close-range shots in America He is pale and slender and has only one lung, but he is quick as lightning and shoots on the intuitive sight plan. He once defeated Buffalo Bill and other crack marksmen in close-range contest with ri- aes. About once 8 week he makes the rounds of the shooting galleries in the Bowe- " and is more popular with the crowds that drop in than any ward politician. Taking a revolver, or sixteen-shouting rife, he rings each target in succession.
 One of Riddles most remarkable exploits with firearms was when he went to Califor- mia last May. After the train had passed Reno he and Billy Emerson, the negro min strel, had jolly time. The train was be- ginning to slow up at station when Elmer son spied chicken ahead in front of a small house He bet Riddle dollar that the lat ter could not shoot off the chickens head with his pistol while the train passed. Rid dle pointed his pistol from the window, fired and the fowls head was severed from his body. Emerson threw dollar to the aston ished negro woman who saw her chicken keel over as if it had been guillotined. In California Mir. Riddle visited mining town and soon had the freedom of the place pre- scented to him. Many miners, scouts, hunt- CTS and prospeetors were at shooting match. A friend who accompanied MT. Rid dIe to the town said that the slim man with him would shoot against any man in the crowd for treat all round. Instantly four or five champion shots accepted the terms. The Pennsylvanian hit the bull's-eye nine out of ten times with @ rife. and then, taking his pistols, he centered the bull's-eye seven consecutive times. The people went wild over him and IT ade him an honored guest ot the town.
 Last year Riddle took a jaunt through Un. ion county, Pennsylvania, and made such z success as 8 marksman that the people wished him to settle among them and accept some political office. For several years he was in hospital, suffering from pulmonary l troubles Too weak to take any exercise oi any kind, he amused himself by shooting al Ia mark all day in the rear of the hospital.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-09
Incredible story of Lineoln.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch's Boston Lstterl
 "In 1884," relates Colonel D. B. Parker, prominent in Eastern tele phone interests, and for many years connected with the Post Office Department at Washington, "Brough- hams burlesque opera, 'Pocahontas,' was being given ct the old National Theater. At the time wave of indignation was sweeping over the North at the rapacity of the average regimental sutler; newspapers teemed with wholesome abuse of the trapaeious blood sueker,' as the sutler was called; and even Congress had been called upon to remedy the evil. One evening during the run of sPocahontas,' at the National, President Lincoln occupied his usual box, sitting we'll forward in full view of the audience. At the point where Pocahontas and :. Captain John Smith have their lively family quarrel, Mrs. John Woodrow manager of 8 London theater-as Pocahontas was, in her lines, terrifcally denouneing the Captain as ingrate, brute, liar, villain, thief, etc. Suddenly rousing to supreme effort of annihilatory scorn, she pouncsdIupon the terrified Captain and hissed: 'You-you sut-le-r-rp The great audience was convulsed by the pal inveetive and Mir. Lincoln laughed so i'm. moderately that catastrophe followed. He went over backward bodily in his chair his exceedingly large boots coming up ovel and somehow catching upon the box rail ir full view of the as semblage, from which position be was only extricatcd by the aid oi his friends, amidst the widest shouts of the audiauoas
Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-09

Statist admits that the rise in prices gener- orally has been largely the work of specula- tion, but thinks that the fact that specula- tors have courage to manipulate prices is it. self proof that the c1everest and shrewdest business men are convinced that the causes which brought about the fall of prices have checked and that new forces are at work tending to raise values and that therefore the opportunity has come for them to step in and reap a handsome profit.
 A photographer sued in London court for payment for pictures of Mrs. Pearson, supplied at her order. Two photographers testified that the pictures were good like nesses. although the negatives had certainly been touched up" to make the woman look as good as possible, that being the custom of all photographers, it was said. Mrs. Pear son testified that she did not want to be ft1attered and tittivated up," and had given no orders for any such proceeding. In try ing to make her look younger, the phetogra- pher had destroyed the likeness entirely. Her hair, also, had been made wavy, whereas it was really straight. The judge said that the photograph made the defendant look younger than she was, but as she had not given spe- cifc orders to have the picture made "just as she was" and as the custom was to have the photographs touched up, she must take the pictures and pay the bill.