y hp OIL Of! RAILROADS How tlio Locomotiyes of Rus sia Use Petroleum In stead of Coal. WOOD USED IN THE NORTH. The Eondbeds Are Models and the Train Service Excellent. GIELS GUARD THE CROSSROADS. In the Sleeping Can TniTelera Furnish 'j heir otto Eeddinp. IX ABUNDANCE OF GOOD THINGS TO EAT tcOKXrtrOSErxcr or th DnrATo.t MOSCOW, Sept. 12. HE English are greatly excited at the encroachment! of the Russians upon the Ariatic provinces border ing upon their In dian possessions. -The faet is that Rnssia regards Central Asia as her territory, and she is adding to her Asiatic possessions rmch faster than the world realizes. While I was in Pekin a year or so ajo I heard the Cbnee prowling at the way in which she was inching npon them. Every Tear or so Russia would moTe the boundary line a lit tle bit further down, and she has so en larged Siberia that the country contains more than 4,000,000 square miles, and it promises to be one of the most rateable cocnlries of the world of the future. Tae wheat area of Siberia is rapidly in creasincr and there is a vast emigration g .n; on from Russia into Siberia, which promises to change the face of that country. T e Siberian trade of Russia already amounts to millions of dollars a year, and on the Volga you see caravans of boats loaded with iron and wheat and salt, which have been brought from Siberia to Perm at i thence floated down the Kama river 'ntn the Volga and up the Volga to IT ijni Ixorgorod, from whence they go by rail over the empire. The Effect of a Xeir Ballroad. The increase in Asiatic exports and im ports since the building ol the new railroad I o Samarkand is wonderful. This road has cen in operation only about five years, and i already paying expenses and a moder e interest on the investment It runs rvT-e than 1,000 miles right into the heart t Asia, and it brines von within about COO i'es ot the railroads in India. Indeed, I Tad thought of taking this road to Samar- I -and and thence makinz my way by caravan ',r.- bv boat across Afghanistan to Quetcaor Peshauwr, whence 1 would have taken the ail road to Calcutta and thence I ave gone iack to America by way of San Francisco, aLmg a tour of the world in this way. I and, however, that my time is too limited f r me to carry out this project, but I pro- e it for one of the globe trotters of the uture. The recent famine has increased railroad a. I ling in Kussia and a number of new -r-ads have been commenced in order to give He starving peasants something to da There is a new line being built along; the ".I'pian Sea, and the Tartar city ot Kazan lieing ccmnected with the railway system jl me Volga. Around tho World in Tifty Days. The chief of the railway branch of the interior department of St. Petersburg, with whim I talked the other day, tells me that the work on the Trans-Siberian road is still going on, a.id it is estimated that when it is completed passengers will be able to go irora Moscow to Vladivostock in 15 days, anr the time around the world ouzht to be Carrying Wood for the Engine. then reduced to less than-50 days. General ArnenkoS, the builder ot ti e Trans-Caspian road, estimates that by 1897 w mav have tra as running from the Baltic to tbe Pacific. This road will open some of the richest wheat-growing countries in the world and it wi I enable machinerv to be taken to the Siberian cold mines, which are now practi ce v un worked lor the lack ot it. T le fate ot this Siberian road will prob ab'v be thetame as the Trans-Caspian. It is being buili bv the Government as a mili tary line, but it will eve tually become a great commercial highway. The Trans Caspian road is well constructed and well ma- aged. It as largely made by Asiatic labor and it cost only a little over $10,000 a mile. The ordinary workmen upon it re ce ved only 15 cents a day for their labor and the probability is that the Siberian rond will find cheap workmen from China, Mongolia or Siberia. Tne trains on the Traoi-Caspia now run at the rate of 30 mnes an hour and the locomotives burn nothing but petroleum. How Coal Oil Uauls Russian Cars. I have traveled on many cars hera in Ki-ssia wh.eh are moved by petroleum, and nil the encines ol Central and South Russia are worked with this fuel. It takes 60,000 tons ol petroleum every year for thisTrans Ca plan road alone, and though the first C06t of this is greater than the same weight is coal General AnuenknS estimates that coal oil is tour times as chop in its steam pricing power as coal, and I am told by engineers here that a pound ol oil will pro- t duee twice as much' steam as a pound ol coal. I have been traveling this week south of Moscow and I have taken a look at the engines which use this oil lueL The oil is kept in a tank back of the eneine and it is injected ' into the furnace through a pine so made that it meets a jt ol steam and this steam converts the oil into a spiay before it meets the flame, and it is so regulated that a j steady, hot fire is produced. The fire in I the boiler is first started with coarse, heavy grass or wood, and it takes a pressure of about fire pounds to work tbe steam jet. I IPv' - w The engineers like it much better than wood, and I found that most of the boats on the Volga river used petroleum lor their eneines. Tne petroleum comes from the vast Rus sian oil fields which lie alone the Caspian sea, and it is shipped up the Volga, in bulk in oil ships, which are great iron tanks in the shaps of barges, and which carry thou sands npon thousands of gallons. At vari ous points along the Volga there are at oil tanks such as vou see in Pennsylvania, and a great deal" of oil Is stored under ground in wells that are rdade for it. It is carried into the cars br means of pipes, and tbe same sort ot tank cars are used here lor the shipplns of petroleum that you find in America. These cars ship about two hun dred and fifty millions of gallons of oil rear, and tboagh the big city of Moscow is last on tbe edge of the Russian forests, a large numbsr ot its taotories use petroleum for fuel and find it much cheaper. In the Land of Forests. North Russia is the land of forests, and if you will draw a line right across Russia through Moscow or a little above it, nearly all ol the territory north of this will be mads up of dense woods. Tbe locomotives ol North Russia burn wood, and they have engines like our old camel backs, with high smokestacks shaped like a tunnel, aud with great racks at the back of the engine, which are piled high with oordwood. The wood is loaded by men who carry it up on their backs. It keeps two firemen constantly busy throwing this wood into the engine, and at nearly every station you will see acres of wood piles ready lor the reloading of the engines. The engine which took me from the frontier to St. Petersburg was fired up in this war, and the sweet smell ot the burning wood' was pleasanter tar than the sulphnno coal which was burned by the trains which carried us through Germany. I find the roads here well ballasted, and in the thousands of miles which I have now traveled in Russia I have yet to find a A. Railroad Policeman. rough road or one that is badly manaze 1. The trains are always on time and the road beds are wonderfully well kept. The road between St, Petersburg and the frontier Is weeded as carefully as the best kept garden, and I saw women on their knees scraping out the weeds between the ties with knives. In trarelins over the black plain J saw men smoothing up the ballast on the road where it had become routrhened and nowhere have I seen a piece ot bad road bed. The Girls at the Cross Roads. The ties are wooden, the rails are of steel and at every cross road there stands a Rus sian peasant girl with a flag in her hand, which she holds tip until the train goes by. OUR CASH KNOWLEDGE, NERVE, LIBERALITY. OAHPETS New styles are coming in daily, and we are showing the choicest effects in coloring and design of the best looms in the world. The stock is im mense, so is the variety. Manufacturers' prices are advancing, but our prices for the time remain the same, and they are extremely low. You can't do a more sensible thing than buy at once anything you are likely to need in the carpet line during the next six months. i CI I T I ' lO II 1 i Kl 11 ftj I u I 1 I vKfcSfc! 923, 925, 927 PENN AVENUE. ' a This picture is one of the most lasting ones ol Russian travel. Whether'the iron horse ploughs his way through the black plain, whether he shrieks as lie gallops through the mighty'forests or whistles going tErough the rich agricultural lands of the West, this bare-headed bare-looted Russian Venus, in a calico dress, is there to meet him. She Keeps guard over the road and she is the emblem of tbe Czar. Another emblem of the Czar is the police man at the station. Each station has its civil officers in uniform, -id in addition to these there is a gendarme or a ppliceman who is appointed from St, Petersburg, and who marches up and down the plattorm all day long with spurs on his nigh-topped boots, and with a great sword at his side. '. " iuaazawr&ALrm&jSzaHzt&Z&g&z, i X RUSSIAN He wears a red cap, with a feather in it, and be acts as though he owned the road. I took a photograph of one of these men. and came nar being arrested for it The man objected riolently, but he did not know that the picture was taken until the train wai about to leave, and I laughed at him as I stood on the rear car with my kodak in my hand while the train was carrying us away. The Ceremony of Starting a Train. It takes about five minntes to start a train in Russia. There is a bell at every station, and this is rung three times before the train leaves. Yon can tell by the tans just bow much more time you have. First there is one tap, then alter an interval of a couple of minutes two taps are sounded on the bell, and two minutes alter this three taps are rung, when, altera shrill whistle from the station master, the train gets ready to start. There are many queer tenures in Russian railway management. The Russiati cars are like no other cars in Europe. They are half European and half American. They are of three classes and the rates are no 'higher than the; are in the United States. The distance from St. Petersburg to Mos cow is 400 miles and the road is as straight as a string. There are five trains every day. There is a difference in fare on the express over the ordinary train and the first-class express rates are 3 cents a mile, while the second class, whioh is almost as good, are only 2 cents, and the third class are less tnan 2 cents a mile. I have traveled quite a good deal In second class cars and 1 find them very comfortable. The most of the well-to-do Russians patron ize the second-class cars, and as one is ex pected to carry his own be Iding, bv the use of a little feeing yon can save money and make yourself comfortable. I fouud It very inc mvenient even in the firt-class sleeper during the first part of my present tour. I bad neither soap nor towels with me and I had to rely npon the guards for these as well as for my pillows an I bedding. In none ol the sleepers do they expect to furnish you much more than a place to lie down upon. Getting Bedding at Hotels. Ton are expeoted to carry your own sheets and in a first-class hotel, which I found at Saratnff, I had to make a very pro nounced kick before I could get any bed ding. There was a mattress on the iron SUCCESS UNDERBUY. UNDERSELL And every article needed for the complete furnishing of the Household can be effected by taking advantage of our SPLENDID FALL STOCK at present remarkably low prices. And this is especially true while the last few days of September remain and our matchless terms still remain in' force. ELEGANCE, RELIABILITY and ECONOMY are united in our present offerings; a trinity of attractions. It will be money in your pocket to buy what you want this week. ROCKERS. Our line of these embraces everything in the rocker line from the plain wood rocker up to the finest and most handsome upholstered chair on the market We can suit you in five minutes In an ODD ROCKER. We Can Please You in the Price. TKEK "PnTSBIJUG DISPATCH. springs, bnt there were neither aheeti nor pillow cases and the nights were cold. Alter a time I got a rather comfortable out fit for the night, but the next day I found that this was all charged up in my bill and I have had to pay for bidding at half a dozen hotels since then. Tbe passenger boats on the Volga, whioh, by the way, are very comfortable in other respects, do not furnish bedding, towels or soap, and you always par extra for these when yon order them. If vo4U don't understand the Russian sometime you pay when you don't order them. I remember a swallowtail waiter who made me pay 33 cents for a cake of snap at the hotel NijnL I wanted a towel and in order to convey that i lea to him I rubbed my hands over my face as though I STATION. was drying it He rushed off and brought me a piece ot snap. It was wrapped up in tinted paper and tin tore ofTthe wrapper be fore I could tell him that I didn't want soap. He then took the soap away and I noted that It was charged in my bill, where upon I ordered him to bring it back and ( took it with me, as I had to pay tie bill The Russians Aro Great Eaters. The Russians are always gorging. The average man is a glutton, and I h.ive seen A Jiuuian Travfer. slender, etherial, esthetic-looking Russian girls during the past week who onuld get away ilth more solids nd liquids than any beefy Englishman I have ever met. The people seem to eat at every station, and the beauty of it is you can find something good to eat every time the train stops. I wish I could show you a plate of Rus sian soup. One plate is big enough for a meal, but the Russia is take it only as an appetizer. The favorite soup is culled stachee, and it is made of cabbage and other snrrp-v. "' '?vm&z$.v BUND AT, SEPTEMBER '25; vegetables with a piece of meat about four inches iguart and to Inches thiok in the middle of it. In addition to this they bring you a bowl of thick oream, whioh ia aoraa times o ir and sometimes fresh, to pour into it in order to gira it a body, and this molasses-Uke mixture yo"u eat, and you like It. It is not bad, I assure yon. But I have never found myself able to get beyond the first course, for after you haveaken the liquid part of the soup you are expected to carve up aud eat the meat, and the meat forms quite a meal in itself. The trains usually make 'ong stops at the stations and from 30 to 40 minutes for a dinner is not uncommon. At every station peddlers come around with fruits, cakes and drinkables, and a common sight Is the old fellow with the samovar In which he makes tea and tervejs to all who will buy. It makes no difference how hot it is this man always wears bis overcoat, and a long-vlsored cap usually shrouds his eyes. He is generally bearded and he has a fat, jolly face like 'that of Santa Claus. Sngar That Grits the Teeth. His tea is good and he serves it with a bit of lemon and a lump of the hardest sugar you ever put between your tisth. It you drink the tea like he does yon will pnt a lump ol sugar between your teeth and suck the tea through this, and the chances are that when you get as old as he Is your teeth will, be in the decayed condition of his. Nine tenths of the Russian peasants hare bad te!tn, and tbere is more cnance tor goon enterprising dentists here than any place else in the world. I don't doubt that there are 600,000,000 cavities readr at this writing in this empire for 600,000.000 gold or amalgam plugs, and the 'Russian with sound teeth is the exoeptlon. It is wonderful how much travel Is done bv the poor class in Russia. The third class oars are always tulL They are more like cattle cars than anything elso. There are no cushions on the seats, and- the peo ple are crowded in in all sorts of avs. They are not supposed to have any rights that the railroad officials are bound to re spect, and I saw one man knocked down nnd shoved back into the station jnst as the car was about to start because be did not have bis tioket in his hand He told the guard that the party of peasants with whom he was travelinu had the ticket and they had already gotten on the cars, bnt this did him no gobd, and though he cried and howled he was held back while the car bore his friends aud his family away. The peasant cannot travel in Russia without a passport. I have not had to show my pass port at the railroad depots exespt when I came into Russia, but the peasant dare not go ftom one part ol Russia to the other without permission of the local government The Old Man TTifft the Samovar. jH n IimVHii I. "M:fffrrV I ' r O 'sU M -Tigg"T'flJ " Trx&z- MARKS' RECLINING CHAIR. It furnishes luxury for the well, ease and comfort for the sick. Among the many chairs of its kind in the market it takes the lead, easily, as the one perfect article. An ideal Chair at a moderate price. Easily adjusted to any position of the body, not complicated in construction, not likely to get out of order. In cane seat as low as $15. Leather cushioned at $22 and so on in various degrees of luxury and elegance up to $75. We are sole agents in Pittsburg. 18937 under which be Uvea, and be it asked to show his passport at tbe ticket office. The ItnggazB Arrangements, It don't pay to carry much luggage in Russia. I have a trunk with me that weighs about 200 pounds, and It costs me 9 every time I move. Only 40 ponuds of baggage is allowed with a ticket here and the excess is always charged for. There is' no charge, however, for packages carried inside the cars, and the result is that every passenger has a half dozen bundles and the cars are filled with packages and baskets aud trunks with handles ou them. Railroads are Russia's greatest need. The present era of railroad building is produc ing but little in comparison with what Rus sia should have in iron tracks. One of the great causes of her recenf famine was the laok of transportation, and there are mill ions ot acres of good land here which might be made valuable by railroads. The United States is very much like the Russian em Dire in that it is au agricultural country, and with us the average distance of the cen ter of production from the neasest railroad is less than four miles. Here in Ruwia it is 240 miles. In Belginm this distauce is about two miles, in England It is three miles and over the whole ereat American continent it is only 13 miles. Russia is, perhaps, the most undeveloped good coun try in the world to-day. What it needs is good capital and railroads allied to good government. If it ever gets these it will be the great country of the future. 'Frank G. Carpenter. Tho German Catholic Congress. On the occasion or the meeting of tbe Ger man Catholic Congress, wliloli Is to be bold at Newark, N. J., Sep ember 28 to 29. the Committee of Arranuemants oi tbis body has arranged wttli the l'ennsylvanla It ill road at a very satlslactnry rate of single Tarn fur tbe round trip (In other woids $10 80), tickets to be sold from September H to 26, (food to return until October 3,181. You have your choice of two mutes return ing: yon oan retnrn direct borne, or yon can return via Washington; those ictnrntmr di rect will have privilege or stop-off at Phil adelphia, those returning via Washington will nave the privlle.e or stop-off ac Pulls, delpbla, Baltimore and Washington. When you purchase jour tickets state to tbe agent which route you wisti to return, either di rect on via Washington. W. A. Boeveler Storage Will contrnot to clean bouses for private families, offices, stores, cbnrobes, etc. Tney do moving in cohered vans or wagons, re lieving the cntouier of ail nnnounce and trouble. Watch for Hoeveler'smovlnij vans. Men or women, who are expert packers of silver, glass, china, wearing apparel, furni ture, bric-a-brac, etc., furnished by tbe hour. Separate rooms for tbe storage of house bote! effects. All kinds of household ponds sold at public or private sale. Telephone 5J. TBE EXPOSITION has secured tbe attrac tion of ilio year. Black l'.itii. ono week, be ginning September 20, a.ternoon and even ing. PfeLfer, the Dry Cleaner, Is cleaning fall overcoats In a very superior manner. Does your coat need cleunlngT We can do it. M3 smitnneid, Offle.s- i. '"". "S"''. 1913 Carson street. 8. S. Tel. 3469-1264 Bearer Fair Excursions Via FenVsylranla Lines. Seventy-tlve cents ronnd trip from Pitta burg September 27, 23, 29, 80; valid returning until October 1. Harvest Excursions. Via Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad Sep tember 26 and October 21, exenrxion tickets to points in the Northwest, West, Southwest and South will be sold at very low rates. EXPOSITION Blaok Pattf, the surprise of surprises, the musical phenomenon, begin ning September 26, altcinaon and evening. One week only. Pxiotct action and perrect health result from ibeuseol De Witt's Little Early RUers. A perfect little pllb Very small; very sure Bittbolstibt of furnttnm a specialty. Hacoh A Kiutau, S3 Water street. SWi? w sJ&iQ&Jtzi 5mv m -W5S5-' WRITTEN FOB BY CONAN DOYLE. "It air strange, it air," he was saying as I opened the door of the room where our social little semi-literary society met; "bat I could tell you queerer things than that 'ere almighty queer things. Yoo can't learn everything out of books, sirs, nohow. You see it ain't the men as can string En glish together and as had good eddications as find themselves in the queer places I've been In. They're mostly rough men, sirs, as can scarce speak aright, far less tell with pen and ink the things they're seen; but if they could they'd, make some of your Europian's bar riz with astonishment. They would, sirs, yon bet!" His name was Jefferson Adams, I believe; I know his initials were J. A., for yon may see them yet deeply whittled on tbe right hand upper panel of our smoking-room door, lie left us this legacy, and also some artistic patterns done in tobacco nice upon our Turkey carpet; but beyond these reminiscences our American story-teller has vanished from our ken. He eleamed across our ordinary quiet conviviality like some brilliant meteor, and then was lost in the outer darkness. That night, however, our new Mexican friend was in full swjng; and I quietly lit my pipe and dropped into tbe nearest chair, anxious not to interrupt bis story. "Mind you," he continued, "Ihain got no grudge azainst your men oi science. I likes and respects a chap as can match every beast and plant, from a huckleberry to a grizzly with a jaw-breakin' name; but if you wants real interestin' facts, some thing a bit juicy, you go to your whalers and your frontiersmen, and your scouts and Hudson Bay men, chaps who mostly can scarce sign their names. There was a pause here, as Mr. JeSerson Adams,prodnced a long cheroot and lit it. We preserved a strict silence in the room, for we bad already learned that on the slightest interruption our Yankee drew himself into his shell again. He glanced around with a self-satisfied smile as be re marked our expectant looks, and continued through a halo of smoke "Now, which of you gentlemen has ever been in Arizona? None, I'll warrant. And of all English or Americans as can put pen to paper, how many has been to Arizona? Precious few, I calc'late. I've been there, sirs, lived there for years; and when I think what I've seen there, why, I can scarcely get myself to believe it now. ,'Ah there's a country I" I was one ol Walker's filibusters, as they chose to call us; and after we'd busted up, and the chiei was shot, some on us made tracks and lo cated down there. A reg'lar English and American colony, we was with our wives and children, and all complete. I reckon there's some of the old folk there yet, and that they hain't forgotten what I'm agoin' AND ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT OF THESE TERMS: On a bill of $10 $1 down and 50c a week. On a bill of $25 $5 down and $1 a week. On a bill of $50 $8 down and $2 a week. On a bill of $75 $10 down and $2.50 a week. On a bill of $100 $12.50 down and $3 a week. In addition to the above we will give FREE this month WITH EACH BILL OF $10 A good Jute Rug 36x72 inches, worth $1.50. WITH EACH BILL OF $25 A good Oak Center Table, worth $2.50. WITH EACH BILL OF $50 We allow a selection of anything in the stock to the value of $5. WITH EACH BILL OF $75 Your choice of any article in the store to the value of $7.50. WHHtACH BILL OF $100 Choice of any article in the store to the value of $10. Don't Fail to See The "Gunn" Folding Bed. It is the only perfect folding bed in the market We have all the other kinds, and can show you the difference. All the points of advantage and no single point of disadvantage. We are sole agents in the city. Come in and see- it 923, PENN dmRnk THE DISPATCH. to tell you. No, I warrant they hain't,, never on this side of the grave, sirs. "I was talking about the country, though) and I guess I could astonish you consider able if I spoke of nothing else. To think of such a land being bnilt for a few 'Greas ers' and balr-bredst It's a misusing ot the the gilts of Providence, that's what I calls it. Grass as hung over a chap's head as ha rode through it, and trees so thick, that yoa conldn't catch a glimpse of blue sky for leagues and leagues, and orchids like um brellas! Maybe some on you ha3 seen a plant as they calls the 'flycatcher,' in some parts of the States?' "Dlancea musclpnla," murmured Dawson, our scientific man par excellence. "Ah, 'Die near a municipal,' that's himl You'll see a fly stand on that 'ere plant, and then you'll see the two sides of a leaf snap up together and catch it between them, and grind it up and mash it to bits, for all the world like some great sea squid with its beak; and hours after, if you open the leaf, you'll see the body lying half digested, and in bits. Well, I've seen thoss fly-traps In Arizona with leaves 8 and 10 feet long, and thorns or teeth a foot or more; why, they could but darn it, I'm going too fasti "It's about tbe death of Joe Hawkins I was going to tell you; 'bout as queer thing, I reckon, as ever you heard tell on. There wasn't nobody in Arizona or New Mexico as didn't know Joe Hawkins 'Al abama' Joe, as he was called there. A. reg'lar out and outer, he was, 'bout the hardest case as ever man clapt eyes on. He was a good chap enough, mind re, as long as you stroked him the right way bit rile him anyhow, and he were worse nor a blizzard. I've seen him empty his six-sbooter into a crowd as chanced to jostle him agoing; -into Simpson's bar when tbere was a dance on; and be bowied Tom Hooper 'cause ha spilt his liquor over his weskit bv mistake. No, he didn't stick at murder, Joe didn't; and he weren't a man to be trusted when he had tbe devil's drops in him. "Now at the time I tell on, when Jos Hawkins was swaggerin' about the town and lay in' down bye laws with his shootin' irons, tbere was an Englishman there of tho name of Scott Tom Scott, if I ree'lecta aright. This chap Scott was a Britisher to his boot heels, and yet he didn't freeze much to the British set there, or they didn't freeze much to him. He was a quiet simple man, Scott was rather too quiet for a rough lot like that; sneakin' they called him, but he weren't that. He kept hisself mostly apart, an did i't interfere with no body so long as he were left alone. Soma said as how he'd been kinder ill-treated at home been a Chartist, or something com bustible, and had to up and git; Dut ha never spoke of it hisself, an' never com plained. Bad luck or good, that man kept a stiff lip on him. "This Pcott was a sort o' butt among the NSstav 925, 927 AVENUE. siBEBSiMainnsnannKSeaaaancsevaBasBKa-'silB jgjj,, , r S-f , -jeLrfs?fcv MiSwBwlWstflwSsssypgygJSJKtffMltBBBlJ
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