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Evening star., 1897-01-25
SOUTHERN RAILWAY,


Schedule in effect January Is, 1897.
All trains arrive and leave at Pennsylvania pas
500 A.M.-Daily-Iocal for Danviile, Charlotte
and way stations. Connects at Manassas for Stras.
burg Harrisonturg and way stations, daily e1ceht ~
Western. daily. and with the Chesapeake aud Ohio
daily for the Natural Bridge and Lexington y.us; CT
NAIL. Carries Pullman BUFFET slecpers. New York
and Washington to sekson,lle uniting at Att s1is st
Springs, n c.; Knoxville e and Chattanooga. Tenn,
and At Charlotte with Pullman SLEEPER for augusta
connecting ct Atlanta for birmingham and Mem
rbis Solid train Washington TO New Orleans Evil, with
Excursion Through Sleeper ON this train every Sat
u1 ., Nan m is, dn, Soq roys snss
Harrisonhurg. daily, except Sunday. u
4:sl FM Spaily:-Local for carlot.ssyille1 s:W 1or r
ASD FL"RbH LIMITED, MITE 'aIh Pullman ves.i'%sd
Sleeping Cars Dining Cars o3seIya,ion and snS Con- N
Augustine. Also Pullman Sleeper New York to
Min opnec,.a for A1sn AND souru
WESTERN vEsTlBgLED LIMITED cor composed pos bsf Of
Pullman vsstinned seepers Dlnns H: Cars aq as
renn.. via AsheyilIe KnoNvilis and chattano;ga:
New n%rt n !" Iampa m via ana hSr@'e York '%l'1 90 M
phis Via Birmingham: New York to New Orleans.
via Atllnta and vss,ih"lIa Ea,,way Way
Drn sr OK C sNp OHIO
ION leave Washington 801 am. daily and 44o
$ $ay is9 f:sssaf | ala s s for
Returning. arrive at Washington s:26 a m, and u 900
cept Sunday, from Herndon. S:34 O. IN daily. except
Sunday, from Leesburg.
Through trains from the south arrive at Wash
ington. 6:i2 am. 10 p.m; and . pm d daily;
9:45 d. n. except Monday Iarriscnburg. II 40 AMI
$40 pm. daily. except Sunday, and $50 IN.
daily from Charlottesville.
Tickets, Sleeping Car reservation and iniorni.
tion furnished at offices 5ll and 1900 Pe1Esy lvana
avenue, and 1t Pennsylvania railroad passenger
station.
w H. GREEN. General Supt
!. N. CUI1P Traffic Manager.
W. A TURK, Gen. Pass. Agent.
ja1s l.. s. BROWN. Gen. Agent Pass. Dept
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County Court.

Owing to the illness of Judge Chichester
the January term Of the Alexandria county
court, which was to have begun this
n orning, was not opened The case of
John Clark. the alleged Alexandria county
gambling proprietor. who was fined $3.50
and ninety days in Jail by Justice Supplee
was TO come up before Judge Chichester on
appeal. Judge L. ID. farrell the county
Citizens League attorney. was present tc
assist in renreSenting the proSecution.
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DENTISTRY.

Painless Extracting, SOC.
Best teeth, IS. Painless filings, 75c up, Gold
crowns. IS. Each department in charge of an
expert specialist Of long experience. No students
All work guaranteed See larger ad. on page g.
U. s. DENTAL ASSN, 7TH AND u SITS.
jaf10tf
FREE DENTAL INFIRMARY.- Y.-DENTAI. DIoT1 MT
ment Of Columbian University, 1925 H ST. NV
All operations upon the teeth at cost of material
used. Extracting free Hours from / to 3 nm
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POTOMAC RIVER BOATS.

POTOMAC RIVER BOATS.
The WeemS Steamboat Co.
WINTER SCHEDULE.
In effect December 81 1896.
Steamer Potomac leaves 1th st wharf every Thurs
day 4 pm. for river landings and Baltimore
Passenger accommodation strictly rst-class. Elcc-
tric lighted throughout. All river freight must be
prepaid. Special rates given Baltimore freight
STEPHENSON x BRO. Agents,
de24 12tf Office 80 Pa Telephone 745
STEAMER, WAKEFIELD,
FOE POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS
Leaves Washington, ID. c., foot Of 7th St, Mon
days, am, for intermediate landings to Colonial
Beach. Bushwcod, Rock Point. Noninl Creek, St
Clement and Breton Bay landings.
Wednesdays. IN, for intermediate landings to
Colonial Beach. Bushwood Rock Point Coton's
Leonard'own, Abeis, Nomni Creek Piney Point
st. Georges Island. Smiths Creek Coan and Yeo.
comico rivers.
Saturdays. am, FOR intermediate landings to
Colonial Beach. Bushwood. Rock Point NOninl
Creek, Coton's (See schedules.) c. w. RIDLEY.
General Manager. no2-t n
Evening star., 1897-01-25
OCEAN TRAVEL.
French Line.
COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATIANTIQCE
DIRECT LINE TO PARIS, FRANCE.


COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATI.ANT1QCE,
DIRECT LINE TO PARIS, FRANCE,
VIA HAVRE.
Ia Gasco,na Bnudelon. Sat, Jan. 30. q. iii.
La Brefagne Rupe. Sat. Feb. q. . a m.
La Normandie. Deloucle. Sat Feb. b. I'm.
RATES OF PASSAGE-First-class, New York TO
Paris, $50 and upward, including railway fare To
Paris, parlor car seat, and landing charges. Sec.
Ond-class % Paris, $54. 10. A. FORGET. General
Agent. General Office, No. ) Bowling Green. N Y.
G.. W. MOSS, 92I Penna. ave. Washington. D. c.
ja191y
NORTH GERMAN LLOYD.
FROM NEW YORK.
SOUTHAMPTON, LONDON. BREMEN, FAST En-
PRESS STEAMERS.
TRAVE .............. Tuesday, Feb. 2, 10 am.
ALI.ER ...............T Tuesday Feb. 9, 10 m.
HAVEI1. ............. Tuesday, Feb 16. 10
SPREE .............. Tuesday Feb. %, 10 an.
Comfortable state rooms, excellent table, lux
urious saloon apartments.
oELRICHS 4 CO.. 2 Bowling Green n. Y.
Apply at +. DROOP, 925 Penna. ave,
ja2O-lyr Agent for Washington.
Evening star., 1897-01-25

THE MINYoN co. POSITIVELY CURES CA
TARRH. More than $1,000 patients ATTEST il. No
cutting. burning, cauterizng. irritating washes
hat destroy the diseased TISSUES. Many Victims
treated 10y iglCrant doctors have lost their
of taste and smell. The Munyon treatment is
b.; sej the latest scientific discoveries.
II COSTS IDG NOTHING for a free tiial lo'al
treatment at the MuEyon offices. No ohli ion 10
buy medicine Eminent specialists 10 dia.nos'. your
FREE. nd latest appliances for throw ing
medcated spray uIsn the diseased parts.
DON'T PAY BIG DOCTOR BILLS. Don't risk
your health. perhaps your life, when you can 'e
cured at Il trifGg cost.
No money is received for eNnmtnn lion.
no money is received for advice. NO
money is received for medical at
tentiOn, either at the Office at
your home.
postal card will bring one of Num-
yon's specialists to the bedside of
any sufferer. The doctor Will write
you a prescription for the remedies
You need, which can be obtained
from my druggist, mostly for 70
cents a vial.
MUNYON'S OFFICE, 623 18th st. NV.
1t
Evening star., 1897-01-25
Two Painful Accidents.

Two Painful Accidents.
Bert Mankin a laborer. was quite pain
fully hurt Saturday afternoon while en-
gagged in unloading 4 car load Of lumber
at the Virginia glass works, in West End.
He was lifting a large piece of timber from
the top of the car when the wind, which
was blowing a gale. blew him off. He fell
to the ground and the piece of timber upon
him. His fellow workman. seeing the ac-
cident, FASTENED TO his side, when it was
found that his right leg had been broken.
besides being bruised about the body. He
was carried to the Alexandria Infirmary,
where he was given medical attention.
Mr.. John Webster, while at work in the
machine shop of Aitcheson Il Bro. on low
er King street late Saturday afternoon, was
painfully hurt, a heavy piece of iron cast
ing falling on his leg. He was taken to
the home of his uncle. Chief james +.
Webster, on Wilkes street, where DIR. Jones
rendered the necessary surgical assistance.
Took the Wrong Train.
Miss Susie Anhagan of Burke's station,
on the Southern railroad, disappeared most
mysteriously in Washington Friday last.
She had been under treatment at the Co.
lumhia Hospital for several weeks. but on
Friday discharged as cured. She was
found in this city Saturday evening by Off
Ger Knight at the home of her aunt, Miss
Emma Young. No. HOS Cameron street.
To the officer she stated that she had taken
the train for home, but upon her arrival
in this city she found that she was on the
wrong train, whereupon she concluded 10
go to her aunt's. Her brother Mr.. William
Anhagan, who was in Washington search
ing fer his sister, was notified and he
nastened to this city and took her home
with him.
Assaulted His Wife.
Abe Douglas, a young colored man. was
this morning fined so or thirty days i'm the
gang by Mayor Thompson upon the charge
| of assaulting and beating his wife. 1t ap-
| pears that Abe ard his wife have not been
| on the best of terms, and on Saturday
night he went into his wife's room, ami
without provocatio began beating her un-
| merciful. 1t is feared that the beating he
gave her may injure her permanently, as
she is In a delicate condition.
A Slight Fire.
An alarm of fire yesterday morning at
$50 O'Clock was caused by blaze at the
residence Of Mrs. Ellen Nugent, corner Of
/ Pitt and Gibbon streets. 1t was caused by
| the woodwork igniting frcm hot stove in
the kitchen. The entire fire department
responded to the alarm, and the blaze was
eXtinguished before much damage was
| done. The loss will amount to $40. While
| returning from the fire near the Presby-
| terian Church the Columbia fire engine
/ broke down, and was out Of service for sew
eral hours.
| Police Court.
Mayor Thompson this morning disposed
of the following cases:
| Thomas Nugent, charge, aiding a fugitive
| from justice to escape; case continued un-
| til o'clock tonight.
Sylvester Quail. arrested by Special Off,
Ger Charles Smith; charge, trespassing on
Evening star., 1897-01-25

FOR SALE
FORMER PEH'E- 81. 900 NOW s2.sO.
Desirable 6-ropm and bath brick dwelling
9I-t -; Nv. near We'll rented and terms
wFStUTT, WILCOX X HIESToS
i4-r,s.f l:si. Pa. n
Evening star., 1897-01-25

FOR SAIE-rWO OF THE FINEST dwellings
in COlurnbian College subdivision. cor i1tn am
Rnney SIS: IL rooms each: magnifcently finish
ed: will he sold cheap aud on good terms Apply
1o ovHr, CIIAS- {. DtNtANS''N, sth aih - sts
n
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-25
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.
Editor of the Kansas Commoner:

Editor of the Kansas Commoner;
Following in the order of discussion
by Mr.. Brown and President Ripley,
the next point to be mentioned is the
transportation and delivery of parcels.
Replying to MIR. Brown on that sub
ject, President Repley says; The 9TH
er point which Mr.. Brown raises is in
regard to the English Parcels Post.
1t is quite true that the postoffice de-
partment of the British government
covers a wider field in some respects
than the post Office department in this
country, and the Parcels Post since it
was instituted in England has been a
great convenience especially in the alb
sence of any express companies over
there. The government handles the
parcels just as it does the letter mail
and it makes up any deficiency out of
the revenue from general taxes. The
same thing could be done in this coun-
try. So far as the cost of the service
goes, to the people it makes very little
difference whether they pay it direct
ly in charges on the individual article
or whether it is paid subsequently in
taxes to make up a government def
cheney. But the parties to criticise for
its absence in this country are not the
railroads, but the administration in
Washington. 1t is a matter which Mr..
Brown had better refer to the Post
master General"
That is the most unfortunate para
graph for the writer that have me t
with. 1t is like the Prince of darkness
referring his victim to the source of
light The railway corporations are
secret organizations; their closely
guarded secrets can only be fathoned
by the people incidentally and by
pieee-mesl.
Acting on President Ripley's sugges.
ton, l refer to the report of the post
master general for 1895, and find on
page 80 that the United States govern
ment pays to the railroads eight cents
pound for the transportation of the
U. s. mails.
The first question which arises after
learning that fact, is this; How far do
the railways carry the mails for that
price, on the average? What is the
average haul for which the U. S. gov
erument pays the railroads eight cents
. pound for transporting the mailsP
The best estimate have at hand on
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-25
The Popullstn vIew OF Money.

The Populists demand the coinage of
all the gold and silver that may come
to our minis at the ratio of 16 to 1, and
the issuance of paper certificates there
on, in order that it may not be neces-
sary to circulate the metal in specie.
If this furnishes a sufficient volume of
currency, then we shall have no paper
money not based on coin. If there is
not sufficient metallic money to meet
the demands of trade-and there never
has been-then we demand that suf-
ficient paper money be issued by the
government receivable by it for all
dues, and full legal tender for all
debts, public and private, which may
thereafter be incurred. This paper
money shall not be subjected to a
forced redemption in coin or any re-
demption except as the output of the
mines automatically supplant it with
gold or silver coin. If these principles
are wrong, then the Populist party is
wrong. If this party is wrong, then
the overwhelming majority of political
economists have always been wrong,
for we are in harmony with the great
thinkers and writer's on government
monetary science. We are not in har-
mony with the great bankers They
are mere specialists in so organizing
financial systems and in so handling
ready money as to make the largest
possible private gains for themselves,
The real conflict is not between gold
and silver, but between a national cur
rency issued and controlled by the gov
eminent for the equal benefit of all the
people and bank currency issued and
controlled by the banks for their spe-
cial selfish interests. The bankers
well know that gold is so scarce that
they can always keep it eornered IN
their vaults, then expand and contract
their bank currency just as their in
terests demand, and thereby control
the value of their investments and the
destiny of the world in their interests
Congressman Bell, in the Illustrated
American.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-25

To the Editor: 1.-THE affairs of Cuba
have reached a crisis. Spain tries by
perfidious diplomacy to win where her
sword has failed. The offer of au-
tonomy is a device to change the pa
triotlc sentiment of America, and to
betIay Cuba by false promises. In
this way she triumphed twenty years
ago. This time she must fail. Au-
tonomy is another term for imposi-
ton and fraud. The Cuban League Of
the United States has long since ex-
posed and condemned this hypocrisy.
Since then more interested forces have
supplemented this opinion. The states
men of Cuba repudiate it. The COM
manders in the field say "Independ'
enco or Death" The late American
minister to Spain proclaims 1t to ba
an impracticable sham. More than all
this, in the city of New York recently
a meeting of Cubans, who together
represented more than one-half the
property values Of the entire island,
1IflNudllLot BdALANAo anu plthhNNAo III
exile, who today bear the burdens Of
the war by their contributions to its
treasury, in very decided language de-
clared that no offer from Spain will
be considered short OF absolute indie
pendence. All that remains Is that we
should now move steadily onward to
the assured victory which this league
has heretofore pledged. Our duty is
10 influence the representatives in
congress to grant belligerent rights.
The senate has already done so. Be-
fore the New Year is ushered in may
the lower house respond. Then log
Ioally follows independence. The pres
ident must not falter now. and it is
the duty of this league to see to 1t
that he shall not. Will you give this
the publicity of your jOurnal?-Bthan
Allen, President of the Cuban League
Of the United States.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-25

petition, freights are often higher, as
every opportunity for extortion and
over charging is promptly and dill
gently utilized to the utmost of the
corporations But, take the great east
and west trunk lines between this Mis-
sissippi and the Atlantic as examples,
and we find them eager to carry
freights at half a cent per ton per
mile, which is but half the figure that
I have adopted as the average of
freight charges in this country.
We have seen that the estimated
haul of the U. S. mail is 442 miles At
one cent per ton per mile, the cost to
the government would be four dollars
and forty-two cents (s4.42 per ton.)
Now what does the government pay
the railroads for that service at pres
emit ratesP 1t pays them S16O per ton;
or, about thirty-six times the average
price of carrying costly freights in this
country. Nor is that the whole story.
The U. S. government loads and I'M
loads the goods, and pays for the use
of the cars in which the mails are car
ried, at the rate of one hundred per
cent per annum on their cost The
railway companies merely haul the
cars when loaded and ready, along the
roads that are operated for other pur-
poses The railway companies fix
their own time tables and haul the
mail cars because the trains are run
ming, and because they get thirty-six
prices for doing so. If there are any
exceptions to the rule here stated
they are comparatively few, aud 1
would be very glad to see them point
ed out
In contracting for the transportation
of the U. S. mails, the corporations
are virtually contracting with them
selves. The only limit is the consider
alton: "How much will the people
standP" The American public is very
patient but there is limit to its en-
durance. The ballot box is within
reach, and through that the people can
control things whenever they think it
worth their while to earnestly try to
do so. When it becomes apparent to
all that the railways have been in the
governing business long enough, and
have exhausted the patience Of the
most patient, it may then be determin-
ed that the railway managers shall go
ont of the Cover ming business, and that
the U. S. government shall go into the
railway business. Things may then
be done little better than now. They
will surely be done as well and at less
cost
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-25

this subject makes the average haul of
the u. s mail bags 442 miles. That is
the distance for which the railways are
paid eight cents pound, or, S16O per
ton, for transporting the mails. No
such eXtortionate rates, or highway
robbery charges, think one may safe
ly say, are paid by any other govern
ment in the world 1t Is a plain case
of "hold up" with the alternative:
"Your money or your life~ ask at
tention to the following testimony:
"The postoffice today pays fifty per
cent more for the transportation of a
ton of mail bags from New York to
Buffalo by railway, than it used to cost
to send ordinary freight the same dis.
lance by boat and by wagon, in the
days before the opening of the Erie
canal. Books, carpets, hats and caps,
boots and shoes, gloves and laces, are
carried from Liverpool by steamer to
New Orleans, and thence by railway to
San Francisco, for one dollar and sew
en- cents (s1.O0 per hundred pounds
Our express companies carry all sorts
of parcels from the domicil of New
York to the station, thence by rail a
thousand miles to Chicago, and deliver
at the domicil in that city, at rate of
three dollars (S3) per hundred pounds;
but the railways tax the government
eight cents a pound; eight dollars a
hundred; one hundred and sixty dol
lars ton for the transportation of its
mail bags for an average haul of not
over 442 miles" (See Cowler Freight
and Passenger Post, page ~
That astounding statement shows
that, in proportion to distance, the
railways receive from six to ten times
as much for transporting the U. s.
mails, ton for ton, as is paid for the
transportation of similar matter for
the express companies. That fact
standing alone ought to be shameful
enough, even for the shameless con-
science of railway corporation; but
the first obvious result adds to the
enormity 1t enables the express COM
panies, through their lower railway
rates, to compete with and underbid
the government on much of the mail
matter that is carried at profit, leav-
ing the profitless second-class matter
to be carried by the government at a
loss, This, of course, enlarges the an
nual postal deficit that we hear such
interminable scolding about among the
corporations that envy the people their
much valued cheap periodical litera-
ture.
There are further lessons to be learn
ed from the above statement. The
railways carry costly freights for one
cent per ton per mile, as high aver
age in the United States, and are glad
to get the profits of the business at
that price. That is, think, about the
average of freight rates on the Santa
Fe railroad Where there is no com
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-25

An assassin made an attempt upon
the life of the President of Mexico. He
was arrested and held in confinement.
BY the connivance Of the chief Of po-
lice, a mob gain possession Of his
peTson and put him to death. Their
act of violence was intended as an act
of devotion to, and affection for, a wise
and good ruler TO the president him
self the form of the compliment robbed
it OF its value. It's lawlessness de-
fcated his purpose to give the criminal
n fair trial. He held those who took
the mans life in vulgar fury to be
guilty of murder Accordingly he
caused the arrest Of the chief Of police,
who, after confessing his fault, COM
mitted suicide in prison. Other per-
sons in authority, who had approved
or failed to resist the attack upon the
assassin, were promptly deposed from
office; and twenty-one participants in
the actual killing of the man were ar
rested and held for trial. This is the
way President Diaz deals with lynchers
and their abetters. 1t is a good way.
1t emphasizes the fact that mob ven
geance, while it may seem an act OF
justice in the abstract, really defeats
justice and imperils society by its
method.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-25

Progress toward reform in weights
and measures by the two great nations
of the world continues. In the United
States a general law providing for the
use Of tho French metric system
throughout the country was near en-
-ctment by the last congress, and the
English parliament has, only a few
Ieeks ago, passed an act legalizing the
system in Great Britain, step toward
its early exclusive adoption. The
congress of the United States has new
er exercised the power granted it in
the constitution by establishing def
mite system of weights and measures
for the whole country, and all stand
ards in customary use are legal only
by authority of state legislation.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-25

The Zuni Indians have concluded not
to torture witches hereafter. Here Is
reform in an unexpected quarter, and
it is the more surprising because Spain
seeks to torture in Spain, Cuba and
the Philippines, while the sultan both
tortures and assassinates. Presently,
with the progress of the Zunl Indians
before them, the Christian govern
ments of Europe may pluck up cour-
age and conscientiousness sufficiently
to protect the men and women who be-
long TO their own church.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-25

In 1873 there were 1879 national
banks that had s34O, 900, 900 for circu-
lation, an average circulation of sra
900 per bank, amounting 70 $40 per
capita, and they had loaned out 50. 4s
for every dollar in their circulation.
In 1892 there were 3,721 national banks
that had s1s3, 100000 of circulation, an
average of s4s, 500 to bank of S2.YS-
per capita, and they had loaned out
sl1.O3 for every dollar of the circula-
tion. Since 1898 the number of banks
have increased about 1000 and their
circulation reduced about 30 per cent
and the amount loaned out by these
banks for every dollar of their circula-
tion stands about SIT for one. Friends
draw your own conclusions-De
Road.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-25

Planning to help a poor family, who
lived on broken victuals gathered from
door to door, good woman gave the
mother a days work and paid her a
dollar. Two or three days later, says
the New Unity, the woman called to
express her gratitude. The children
had always wanted to go to the mat
inee, and the dollar had taken them
all! Sometimes "the destruction of
the poor is their poverty" Again, as
in this case, it is their idiocy.