Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1889, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, ¢ D. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1889. EAST WASHINGTON TALK. SCHOOL-SITE PURCHASES. The Citizens’ Association Discuss a |The District Commissioners in Search of Good Many Subjects. MR. DAWSON TELLS SOME OF THE THINGS HE THINKS A COMMISSIONER SHOULD DO—A MAN WHO FOUND THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALTH ON CAP- ITOL HILL—GRATEFUL CITIZENS IN DOUBT. Dr. 8. A. H. McKim presided at a meeting of the East Washington Citizens’ association last night at Weller & Repetti’s office, on Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast. The secretary read a letter from Mr. George Francis Dawson, in re- plying to the official notification of the nomi- nation by the association as its candidate for the District Commissionership, and accepting the honor thus tendered him. Mr. Stockiug explained that the delegation appointed at the last meeting of the association had been to the White House, where they were kindly received, and assured personally by the President that their claims should be considered. Since then other endorsements of the candidate had been put on file from persons not connected with the association, whose influence materially in- creased the chances, Mr. Stocking added that he had great corfidence in a successful issue, and felt sure that East Washington's candidate has as good a chance as any other man now in the field. Mr. Weller said that he thought it should be enerally understood by the people that the est Washington association had exhausted | every method looking to harmony and union between the northeast and the southeast, and recited the facts of the various conferences held between representatives of the association and those of the northeast, all of which had been undertaken by the former, but had proved of no avail. Mr. Sperry offered a resolution thanking Senators Ingalls and Spooner, of the Senate District committee, for their earnest, untiring and intelligent interest and labor in behalf of the affairs of the District for a long time past, but particularly during the last hours of the Fiftieth Congress. This was unani- mously adopted. DID NOT KNOW WHO TO THANK. Mr. Weller then introduced another resolu- tion thanking Senators Piumb, Dawes, and Cockrell, the District subcommittee of the Sen- ate appropriations committee, who, he said, had been very earnest and active in the inter- ests of East Washington in the matter of ap- propriations. 5 Mr. Sperry inquired where were the benefits which had come to East Washington thrangh source of late, and was told by Mr. Weller t East Washington had received 40 per cent of the street appropriations in the last bill. Mr. Sperry said that he still thirsted for facts, and would like to know who was responsible for this state of affairs before he voted to thank anybody. Mr. Stocking said that those were | his sentiments also. He had uoticed of late | about a pound and a-half more pressure on the | water-pipes in his house, and several other ev dences that folks are awakening to a realization ! of the fact that there are a good many thousand | taxpayers residing east of the capitol. He did | not know who to look to as ¢he cause, but he | certainly would not feel like thanking the Com- | missioners for finally doing a little of what hey should have done years ago. If anybody | had. by any extra ¢ . sueceeded at last in | getting a generous appropriation for the east- tion of the city, he would be perfectly | to thank thy but he did not want to go throwing his thanks around generally and | promiscuous!y without knowing whether or not r r offered an explanation of the efforts of the sub-committee to secure an | increase in the bill from something over #690,- 009 to a figure over $1,000,000. This had failed | to pass in the conference committee. and in the | hurry of the closing of the session a compromise | ned about midway between the two. | st Washington had been materially mM L. ie was sure that in the Senate | there was hardly a gentleman who was not in- | formed of the true condition of affairs in East Washington. and that those named in the reso- lutions were entitled to a slight token of the esteem of the people of that section. ‘The resolutions were finally adopted. EAST WASHINGTON AS A HEALTH RESORT. Mr. Duncan Thompson remarked that he lived in the northeast, but had joined the East Washington association and was glad of it, for he wanted to know no north or south in the matter of the improvement of that beautiful jortion of the city lying east of the capitol. Wie declared his rm conviction that he had saved his life by going to live in East Washing- ton. When he moved, three years ago, he was so feeble, he said. that he had to be carried from a carriage to his house, “but,” he added, slapping himself, “now I weigh 196 pounds, and was never better,” a statement fully justi- fied by his looks. MR. DAWSON’S REMARKS. Mr. George Francis Dawson, who had been a quiet listener to all that had been said, arose | at this juncture and remarked that he had | been asked, as the candidate of the association, by several members, to make a few remaks in | the nature of a platform ‘upon which to stand | in that capacity. but he thought it indelicate | and unwise for a man to give utterance to his | views under such circumstances, and for his | platform he would have to refer people to his | past record as one actively interested in the | welfare of the District. There were a few poiuts, however, on which he felt at liberty to speak. For instance, he thought that associa- tions of taxpayers like that he was addressing, with the study the members give to the matter of public improvement, should have weight | with the Commissioners ‘in the preparation of | their annual estimates. In the matter of school | trustees, also, the associations should be con- sulted, each being given opportunity to name two or three from whom a board might be se- lected. The Committee of One Hundred, a very important body so long as it confined itself to its legitimate field, which consists of District interests, should be an element of in- finite value to the Commissioners, If all the candidates for the position should realize and declare those truths there would be a better outlook, and citizens of the District would be made to fee! more like men than whipped doga. Mr. Dawson repeated his thanks to ths assocts- tion for its courtesy in making him its candi- date, and assured the members that, if he should succeed in securing the nomination, he would try to be just and fair to the entire Dis- trict, and that would include justice and fair- ness to East Washington. PROPOSING AN ORGANIZED BOOM. Mr. Sperry presented a suggestion that a committee be appointed to prepare plans and specifications for an organization of the nature of a board of trade, whose object should be the booming of East Washington. This propo- | sition did not seem to meet with much tavor with the members, for after the speaker had taken his seat there was a silence for a minute or two. Then Mr. Thompson remarked that he was heartily in favor of a boom for East Washington, but that he should really like to know just how the booming was to be done. Mr. Stocking rose to oppose the carrying out of the suggestion. He said that every section of the city will be boomed permanently and successfully when the people succeed in get- ting District Commissioners who are partial to Bo sect It was the partiality of previous administrations that has boomed the northwest tothe detriment of every other section, and the only way to boom East Washington and the other sections that have been neglected is to make Commissioners of men who have broad principles at heart aud are not connected with rings, cliques or combinations. He added that the association should approach the President with an unsectional feeling. They could not succeed on a sectional basis, and they must re- eet the President toconsider the ngme of their candidate as that of « man of honest and liberal views and principles and who will be fair to all. DR. M'KIM ON THE HEALTH QUESTION. Dr. McKim relinquished the chair long enough to add a word of tribute to East Wash- ington as a healthful locality. It was the thirty- seventh anniversary of his yraduation as a doc- tor of medicine, and he could locate almost every disease known to the Hill. He had but recently heard Dr. Townshend, the health Officer of the District, say in the presence of a number of other physicians that Capitol Hill is the healthiest part of the District to-day. It is healthy, too, without an adequate water supply, an element so essential to health and with such an abundance of unpaved and unimproved streets. The meeting adjourned after Mr. Weller bad called the attention of the association to the condition of 7th street southeast from G to Virginia avenue, on which the contractor who begun to pave was stopped by the Commis- Information. THEY ASK FIRST CONTROLLER DURHAM TO GIVE RIS CONSTRUCTION OF THE CLAUSE IN THE DISTRICT APPROPRIATION BILL IN REFERENCE TO PURCHASES OF SCHOOL SITES, Commissioner Webb last evening sent the following letter to First Controller Durham with the object of getting his views on the construction of the clause of the District ap- Propriation bill providing for the purchase of school sites and the erection of school build- ings thereon: “The act of Congress, approved March 2, 1889, entitled an act making appropriations for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889, and for other purposes, makes provision for the erection of several school Buildings and the purchase of sites therefor, and further provides that ‘the appropriations made for the erection of school buildings shall be immedi- ately available.’ “Tt is of the greatest consequence that the work of erecting the school buildings provided for in this act should be commence: once, in order that they may be ready for occupation at the opening of the next school year in Sep- tember if possible. Taking it for granted that the language quoted from the act in question means that the appropriation for the erection of school buildings, and which is made imme- diately available, applies in that particular to the purchase of sites. the Commissioners would respectfuily cali your attention to it and ask for Your interpretation of its language: The pro- vision in question is in these words: ‘That hereafter the Commissioners, in making pur- chases of sites for schools or other public build- ings shall do so without the employment of agents or through other persons not regular dealers in real estate in the District of Colum- bia, or through such regular dealers who have not had the property for sale continuously from the date of the passage of this act, and in no case shall the commission be paid to more than one person or firm greater than the usual commission. “The Commissioners are unable to determine whether in making purchases of sites for school buildings, under the terms of this pro- vision, they are toemploy agents or not, be- cause while the language requires them in one place to do so without the employment of agents, its whole scope seems to indicate that such purchases are to be made through a cer- tain class of dealers in real estate, and that they are to pay a limited commission to such dealers, It will be observed that the Commis- sioners are authorized to make purchases through ‘regular dealers in real estate,’ and it frould seem that they are limited to such regular dealers as have had ‘the property for sale continuously from the dateof the passage of the appropriation act.’ and ‘they are to compensate such dealers by paying Ales site usual commissions. Does not this requirement that purchases must be made through dealers create those dealers agents, and, if itdoes, how are the Commissioners to act so as to conform to the provision that forbids the employment of agents? ‘No provision is made by the enactment re- ferred to for the payment of the commission to dealers, and no fund is appropriated out of which payment can be made. In this condition ot things can the amount appropriated for the purchase of sites and erection of buildings be applied to this purpose? That is to say, will it be a legitimate use of the money so appropri- ated to devote a portion of it to the payment of commissions? “The clause of the appropriation act author- izing condemnatian proceedings is limited in its operation by the act of August 1, 1888, to which it refers, to cases only where, in the opinion of the officer ¢xercising the powers granting such proceedings, are necessary or advantageous to the government. From’ the fact that these condemnation proceedings will necessarily be attended with delay and per- haps litigation, it will be the duty of the com- missioners to exhaust all other legal methods open to them for the purchase of the sites for public schools before resorting to such pro- ceedings. In view of these facts the Commis- sioners ask that an early reply may be given to the inquiries made in this letter. “Another question that suggests itself is whether, in case of resort to proceedings of condemnation, the costs attending such pro- ceedings are to be paid out of the money ap- propriated for the purchase of sites and erec- tion of buildings.” WITH RUNNING WATER. The Model of the Nicaragua Canal for the Paris Exposition. In the back room of a paint shop on 17th street, opposite the Corcoran Art gallery, there has been on exhibition for several days a large working model of the Nicaragua canal. It was constructed by Mr. E. E. Court, a civil engineer of the hydrographic office, after nearly four months of labor and at a cost of about 25,000. It is of plaster-of-paris, 30 feet long and 5 wide, | and is built in sections, so that it can be taken apart and boxed for shipment to Paris; where it will be exhibited at the international expo- sition. It starts on its long journey to- morrow. The model is a representation of the country lying between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, including Lake Nicaragua and the rivers that will be utilized in the con- struction of the canal. The hills and moun- tains peer up over the mahogany rail that borders the model, while the lake and rivers flow with real water in constant motion. Every mountain peak and hillside has « sys- tem of streams and brooks, flowing into larger ones, and forming the sources that go to fill the lake and furnish the water that is to carry ships across the Isthmus, THE STREAMS, There are fully 300 of these streamlets, and the water supplying them comes through minute pin-holes in the surface of the plaster from a complex system of water-works located underneath the model. There is as much plumbing involved, Mr. Court informed a Srak reporter, as there is in a city square. Each pin- hole requires a spigot, and lines of streams have to be strung on branches of pipes like the veins and arteries of the body. e pressure is so regulated as to give just enough water to fill the river basins and to back up over the low country at the dams, which form the most striking feature of the plan. THE KEY TO THE CANAL PROBLEM. Engineer Menocal, who was one of the pro- moters of the idea of this canal, explained the workings of the model to Tue Star reporter yesterday. The key of the situation lies in the building of two immense dams, so as to back the waters of the lake over the low lands or valleys and thus give a continuous broad water- way to within about three or four miles of the Pacific and twelve or thirteen miles of the At- lantic. At present Lake Nicaragua has but one outlet, by the San Juan river to the Atlantic. This river is to be dammed at Ochoa, half way to the sea, by a wall fifty-six feet high. This will bring the water to the level of the lake and turn the course of the stream into a valley formed on one side by the mountain slope and on the other by a broken ridge of foot hills, the =— between which are to be filled by small ms. There is no outlet on the Pacific side, so acut seven miles long is to be made through a spur to the Tola basin, now a cultivated valley about 4,500 acres in extent, but to be converted into a lake. From sea to sea the distance is 169 miles, of which 142 miles will be river, lake and basin navigation, and the remainder by canal. The work will be actually started on the isthmus during the latter part of April, and, it is thought, will oceupy about five years. Great crowds of people have visited the model, includin; ny 5 sh in official life, among them ident Harrison, Secretary ‘Tracy, Secretary Blaine, and Secretary Proctor. A bill ap, ting a commission to act with a similar body to be ——— by Pennsylvania to fix the boundary line between the etates has passed the Delaware senate. Ex-Secretary Bay- missioners. : is —- —_ of the —— ' ‘ire yesterday destroyed the large four-story furniture store of Comstock & Av. Peoria, Il. Loss $100,000. ms Senator Sherman has been sued at Mansfield, Ohio, by the county treasurer for unpaid rail- road stock taxes, $1,748 for personal stock, and $13,518 for stock held as trustee. A letter has been received by Mayor Grant,of New York, requesting that the be floated from ty ball on her on day flag yesterday. change his methods of advertising. Instead of trying to increase his sales at certain periods only, therefore, he advertised largely all the | year round, generally in the cane apers, Having found this to have been profitable even beyond his shrewdest calculations, another stage in the progress of the advertising art naturally followed, until, to-day, he has com- pletely revolutionized the mcthodgof adver- A NEW METHOD OF ADVERTISING. Statements of Well-Known Merchants. NO DULL SEASON AND LARGE SALES THE YEAR ROUND. From the New York Tribune. - ‘The successful business men of to-day freely admit that the principle of advertising has be- come an essential quality in the conduct of any mercantile establishment. Developed, as it has been, into almost, if not quite, a distinct and separate art, it is applicable to all depart- ments of trade, to transactions of every sort between seller and buyer, from which, indeed, it is practically inseperable, and with ‘the suc cess of which it will always be identified. As the development of this principle has proceeded by easy es from a period when facilities for attracting the attention of a wider circle of pos- sible buyers were first provided by the daily press to an era when competition has rendered it absolutely necessary to increase the range of each seller's constituency, the meth- ods of applying it have also gone through a kind of revomtionizing process. Formerly | advertisers seemed to be possessed of an idea that the wants of the people at large were gov- erned almost Aviad & by the seasons of the year, and at particular times only did they en- deavor to attract buyers to their estab! ments through the medium of newspaper ad- vertisements. Under this idea any surplus of stock left over after the incidental rush of | business in any particular season was left over to the corresponding period of the next year, | thus necessarily imposing upon buyers a cer- tain proportion of articles either somewhat shop-worn or old-fashioned. Of course a cer- tain amount of business was done in the inter- vals between seasons, but the average merchant was content to drag along from season to sea- son, well satisfied if from one interval to an- other his books showed no serious loss, Until within the last few years, therefore, the busy seasons were spasmodic in their nature, involving careful buying, lest a greater stock should be secured than would be warranted by the prospective demand, and excellent bargains were doubtless often sacrificed by the mer- | chants themselves through the fear that the apparently advantageous purchase might leave an elephantic and unsalable surplus on their counters and shelves, Itis safe to say that no such chances are allowed to slip by, through any such fear, in the present era of trade. It was when the enterprising merchant finally realized that the wants of the people were con- stant, in season and out of season, that their needs were governed by the degree of wear and tear as much as by changing fashions or the evolution of the seasons, that he began to tising, and expresses his acknowledgment of the potency of the principle involved by his de- tailed announcements in the daily papers. Enterprise having taken the lead in the ap- plication of the principle, competition made it necessary for their own welfare that others should fall into line, one potent factor in promptly effecting which has been the desire on the part of each merchant that his adver- tising in the newspapers, should not bear un- favorable comparison with others in the same line of trade, for the public, as is well known, judge largely by comparisons, With a view of ascertaining just how well this new and more extended method of advertising had worked, a Tribune reporter called upon and asked for the views of some of its advertisers who had adopted it. Frank R. Chambers, business manager of Rogers, Peet & Co., clothiers, Broadway and Prince street and 33d street, has made a thor- ough study of the subject, ‘The whole system of advertising,” said he, “has changed in the last ten years, within which time there has grown up a new school of advertisers, the best single example of which, I suppose, is John Wanamaker, of Philadelphi: Wanamaker’s system of advertising was originated by J. E. Powers, who was once publisher of the Nation, and who for a number of years had charge of Wanamaker’s advertising. The great Phila- delphia merchant now employs an_ editor to write his advertisements at an annual salary of $12,000, The most urgent want of our people is merchandise, and what they want next isa knowledge of merchandise. That they get from the newspapers, and the mer- chant who publishes intelligent and truthful accounts of the merchandise he has to sell is sure to have a constituency of readers as well as buyers. Our plan has been always to publish only facts, telling less about ourselves than about our goods, and that there may never be any diserepancy between the an- nouncement and the thing’ announced, the writer of the advertisements makes it a prac- tice to see the article to be treated of and know personally of what he is writing. We find that the people respond as readily at one season of the year as at another to any unusual induce- ment, for there is always enough demand for any particular thing to insure the disposal of a reasonable quantity when such goods are sold below value. We have constantly increased our advertising of recent years until now we spend as much in the dull months as in the busy ones, We think the effect on our sales justifies this expenditure. for while the aggre- gate of a year’s Outlay for advertising is a large sum, the percentage upon the sales, as an item of expense, is insignificant.” At Hugh O I's big establishment in 6th avenue it was said that the system of advertisin, vogue there had been entirely clianged within a short time. Prior to this change it had been the custom to advertise extensively in the Sunday papers only. Desiring, however, to reach the people every day in the week, it was decided to omit the large Sunday advertise- ments, and by adding something to the ex- pense, to occupy extended space in the papers every day, The result had been gratifying, for the percentage of increased sales was tar greater in proportion than that of the increased ex- pense. There could be no doubt, it was said, that advertising was the bone and sinew of trade, especially in dull seasons. The practice at this house was to advertise a different line of bargains every day. For instance. one day bi gains in infant’s wear would be exclusively an- nounced; then would follow in turn bargains in suits and cloaks, china and glassware, dress goods, &c. Louis Stern, of Stern Brothers, in 23d street. said that the principle of advertising all the year round was as much an essential principle in trade as any other factor. Tbsiood. ta rear son, he said, that in a busy season the merchant desired to call attention ‘to his fresh stock of goods, so as to create even a grenter rush of usiness than would be incidental to the season itself, whereas. after the rush is over, he found it quite as desirable to attract buyers to the bargains he could then offer. Another reason for daily advertising was that every large house always had opportunities to strike fine bargains on importations, sometimes in season, but more frequently out of season. The benefit of these bargains could be readily transferred to cus- tomers, who necessarily had to be attracted by advertisements. “The best argument we can present in favor of advertising all the year round,” said Mr. Stern, ‘‘is that since we have been doing it we have not had any dull gca- sons.” Mr. Pitt, of R. H, Macy & Co., 6th avenue and 14th street, had the same story to tell, Since the firm had adopted the plan of adver- ising all the year, one. season bed been like another—all were busy. There was never a time, he said, when the firm had not bargains of some kind to offer the public, and the only way in which to make those bargains known was by advertising. Every large house had novelties to sell at almost all times, and these were just what the people wanted. The re- sults of daily advertising had been more than gratifying to the firm. At the other large dry-goods and general stores, such as those of Simpson, Crawford & Simpson, in 6th avenue; Le Boutillier Brothers, in 14th street., and Le Boutillier Brothers, in 23d street, as well as at Arnold, Constable & Co,’s and most of the big Broadway establish- ments, the same experiences were related, and to quote one is practically to quote them all. 8) eperd, Knapp & Co., carpets, 6th avenue, said that the demand for their goods was [Siege in the spring and autumn, but they ad found it profitable to create a demand by calling attention to their goods at other sea- sons. The same thing, almost precisely, was said at the big furniture establishments of R. J. Horner & Co., 238d street, Flint Co., B. M. Cowperthwait, Park Row, and ‘Bruner, ‘Moore & 'Co., 14th street, where it was also added that ins were not the creation of seasons, but of cir- cumstances, hence it was wiser to advertise bargains when they were secured rather than to hold them unt naturally boomiag. thers Best fog ® time when trade was who expressed the same sentiments & Co., of the bazaar, 23d poe Liliputian Carhart & Co., Broadway. At the latter place, Mr. erty business significant that firm had their sales manager, said calculated that bow! at cent, with an A VAST AFRICAN MAJORITY. Mississippi Rapidly Becoming a Negro From the New Mississippian. There are probably very few persons who comprehend the extraordinary rapidity with which the colored race is increasing in Missis- sippi. The figures taken from the census of 1870 and the census of 1880 show the following state of comparative white and black popula- tion and the ratios of increase: Entire negro population in 1870 Entire white population in 1870. Negro majority..... Negro population in 1880. White population in 1880. Negro majority........ qeeeeeseeeeee1T1,826 The increase of the negro race for the ten years from 1870 to 1880 was 208,494, or at the rate of 46.84 per cent. The white increase was 97,179, the rate of increas being 25.27 per cent. If the same rate of increase and the same ratio has been preserved since 1880, in 1890 the negro population will amount to 959,888, while the white race will only have increased to 603,267, showing a negro majority of 356,921 in a total populat ion of 1,563,155. It is supposed that the census of 1870 is not entirely accurate, but it certainly gives a fair approximate of the relative population of the two races. On the other hand, it is thought by many intelligent persons that the negro immi- gration to the state has been much greater since than prior to 1880. The causes which have produced this increase of the colored race can be briefly stated. The birth rate of the negroes is higher and their death rate is a little greater than among the whites, “ Negroes from Alabama, Georgia, North Caro- lina, and South Carolina are coming in a steady stream to the Delta, while it is probable that more white people are leaving than are coming into the State, All these causes in combination, and continu- ing in full operation in ten or more years, will present a condition of things difficult to con- template or even imagine. In 1880 South Carolina had the largest col- ored majority of the Southern states, amount- ing to 212,297. Mississippi now greatly exceeds that number, while South Carolina is losing its negro population, If the westward tide of negro migration con- tinues, in ten years South Carolina will prob- ably have only a small negro majority, com- peratively speaking. Louisiana in 1880, in a total population of 938,507, had a negro majority of 28,803, and this has probably been extinguished by the resent time. If not it soon will be overcome Y white immigration from southern Europe. If the present state of things continue in operation for ten years longer, Mississippi will be the only state in the Union with a negro majority, and that will be of extraordinary proportions. Estimating one vote to every five persons, the figures show a negro voting population in Mississippi of 191,977 and a white voting popu- lation of 120,653, giving a colored voting ma- jority of 71.326. The census of 1880 places the number of illit- erate adult white males at 12,473 out of 108,254, and colored males at 130,278, of which 99,068 are illiterate, The illiteracy was then, among the whites 11 per cent, and among the negroes 76 per cent. Assuming that the same percentage and ratio exist at present, then out of 181,979 adult male negroes, 145,804 are illiterate; and out of 120,653 white male adults, there are 13,261 who are illiterate; and in a total voting population of 312,623, there are 159,065 voters in Missis- sippi who can neither read nor write, which is shghtly over 50 per cent of the whole. ' It would be fair to assume, however, that illiteracy has been decreasing in Mississippi in the past ten years, but decreasing slowly. Allowing a wide margin for this, there would be left 130,000 colored and 12,000 white illiterate voters in the state. If illiteracy were elim: inated from the suffrage there would be esti- mated approximately, of the white voters 108,- 653; of colored voters, 61,970; white voting ma- jority, 36,674. This condition of affairs ao a problem which every public man in Mississippi shuns as he would a pestilence. And yet everybody out of politics knows that it cannot be postponed forever. ————-+e+_____ Singular Effects of Sulphur. From the Chicago Herald. A well-known builder and contractor who resides up on the South Side is the proud owner of acouple of young dogs whose ancestry is beyond reproach. One of the animals became afflicted with the mange, and when the con- tractor took his regular trip across the water last year he told his daughter, whom he left in charge of the house, that if she would cure the young dog before his return he would reward er With a handsome present. With this incen- tive in view she took the animal to a veterinary surgeon, who prescribed a certain wash and a solution of Pores sulphur and water to be administered internally every night. The young lady religiously observed the directions, though the patient did not relish the sulphur water, and it had to be forced down his throat, He did not appear to improve under the treat- ment, however, and the young lady was in de- spair. One night she nearly neglected the sulphur dose. While preparing to retire she happened to think of it, so she tripped downstairs and prepared the dose in the pantry by the dim ight of a candle, Then she coaxed the dog out from his warm nest underneath the kitchen stove and forced the prescription into him. In a moment his hair stood on end like tke quills upon a fretful porcupine, and he began to tear through the house asif he was mad, Never before had the medicine had such an effect upon him. He rushed wildly about, tipping over chairs and tables, and no amount of per- suasion could stop him. His actions bothered the other dog, and the young lady resolved to give him a dose, too. She did so, and he also began to run around like acrazy animal, At last she locked the two in the cellar and left them there to chase one another. She could not explain the strange effect of the powdered sulphur until she reached her room. Then she thought of an explanation. Rushing down again to the pantry she examined the tin box from which she had taken the medicine, and found that she had given the dogs mustard in- stead of sulphur. That explained their singu- lar activity after treatment. - ‘soe Seasonable Smiles. A man with push and energy could coin money of the realm in Washington selling some kind of a patent imperishable buttonhole.— St. Paul Pioneer- Press. Persons who have not yet started for the lower California gold fields may find that there is luck in leisure.—Philadelphia Inquirer. “T have been in a country,” said a Nebraska preacher, “where the hand of man has never set a foot.”—Kansas City Star. An Even Thing—Irate Father--“Young man, Tam amazed, astounded. sir, that you should seek to marry my daughter on so short an ac- quaintance. You are almost a stranger to her.” The Young Man—‘Well, she don’t take any more chances than I do. She’s almost a stranger to me, too.”—Philadelphia Record. His Present—“Sweet Girl—Mother, George told me solemnly that the pretty’ hairpin- holder he gave mé cost $5: yet to-day I saw exactly the same kind on sale for 10 cents.” Mother—‘‘You_know, my dear, George is very religious. Most likely he bought that at achurch fair.”—New York Weekly. Tastes Differ—Mrs. De Trop—“I don’t think, Mr. De Trop, that your sarcasm leveled at our decollete ball dresses is called for. Your own brother, the captain, takes e much more liberal view of society matters.” Mr. De Trop—“Undoabtedly. Captain Bob has just returned from Samoa."— The Epoch, How Their sae Shone—‘‘Let your light so e,” &e., said the minister, as the plates we! d about the church, “John,” said Mrs. Fairfax, “what made you put #2 on the plate?” (This was after church.) “Old Jones, the gas man, w down a dollar bill, and my electric light is twice as goodas his gas any day in the week.” — The. ar | Peter Nearshalsxy, the miner who was im- prisoned for fifty-four hours at Black Diamond colliery, Pa., and who was liberated on Satur- day, died yesterday. The trial of Engineer Thomas Major, who had charge of one of the engines on the excur- sion train on the night of the fatal collision at Mud Run station, was begun at Maunch Eveay New Srasox Barse NEW IDEAS. ‘THE BUSTLE'S SUCCESSOR. “DIRECTOIRE” DRESS IMPROVER. ‘The most Stylish and Graceful Slopmg Effect to the of the dress, hitherto so difficult to accom. is readily attained by the use of the “Directoire” Improver Price 3 Ist inaking a selection for your New Dress, don't forget to buy @ guod-fitting corset, for this helps ma- terially both the At and wear of adress, We have cor- sets to fit all kinds of forms. Our corsets come in four different lengths—exira ions, long, short, aud umn. 13 different styles corsets for #i. Satin cor- sets, all shades, $1.68. These show up as good as any 23.50 corset shown; come in all the new and delicate tints—also black, HER MAJESTY CORSET.—We are the Washington agents for this excellent corset. There is positivel no better corset made than this. The price is ¥: For stout people who have hitherto tound it imp ble to secure a comfortabi OUR ANNISE CORSET $4.50. ‘This corset is superior to anything heretofore sold by us. This is a corset of our own importation, made according to the very latest principles for it and comfort. Every pair guaranteed. One lot_sliztly store-sciled corsets; were $2.50: now $1. Our stock of Infants’ Wear for Spring is now on sale, | ‘Some of the prettiest atyles ever shown. CHILDREN’S MULL CAPS 25e. Infants’ Long Skirts, made of cambric, finished at the bottom with tucke, S00, e° FINE LINE OF INFANTS’ COATS. Infants’ Cashmere Coats, either long or short, nicely embroidered. $2.98. ‘New things in lufants’ Striped Coats. LANSBURGH & BRO., mh16 420, 422, 424, 426 7th st UPSDERWRITERS: SALES OF 840,000 WORTH of goods red by fire. smoke, aud water, at KAUFMAN'S DoubleCombinaticn, m! Panaverrna Srone. SPECIAL DRIVE IN GLOVES. Pig-skin Gloves, all shades, 75c. od quality Kid Gloves, all shades, 81, Kid Gloves, all shades, 81.30, ‘extra good quality Domestic Sutines, Freuc DRESS GOOD: D—One lot New Dress Goods in 38-in wide, only 25c. “wool, only 50c. Flannels trom 373¢¢. up OF HENRIETTAS,CASHMERES, call colors. RENCH GINGHAMS, all the new ids and stripes, from 20c. u MS, dress styles, Sc.,1Ge. sd silk and Wool, from 40c. Nun's Veiling, Challies, and other mic cs, i> im allthe best makes, Black Surahs, Fuile, Khadawnes, &c., lower in price that ever. COLORED SURAHS from 65¢. upto $1, FULL STOCK OF MATTINGS AND OIL-CLOTHS, CARHART & LEIDY, 925 ith and 706 kK we Pec inbe a4 4 ay ny? oF 920008 | = S y e, smoke and water, RAUF ANS: Double Combinatio 5 _mb15-1w 1lth Suors Axp Surrers FOR EVERYBODY AND EVERY OCCASION. FOR WALKING, FULL DRESS AND DANCING. EVENING SLIPPERS and TIES, in Black, White and Popular Colors. MEN’S SILK-TOP PATENT LEATHER CONGRESS GAITERS. PUMPS, OXFORDS, and LACE BALS. CHILDREN’S SHOES a Specialty. The Largest and Best Selected Stock of everything in our line, at correct prices, DALTON & STRICKLAND, 939 Penna. Ave. 3228-3m. F. 8. Wuuuaws & Co. DRUGGISTS, UNDER MASONIC TEMPLE, Corner 9th and F st. n.w., Are selling at wholesale to their retail customers. We carry the largest stock of DRUGS, CHEMICALS, AND PATENT MEDICINES y. Yi al sure of getting them rectly with the maui wholesaie prices. Allcock’s Porous Plasters.. rman Porous Plasters, 1 Ayer's Sarsap Ayer's Cherry Ayer’s Hair Vigor. Ayer’s Cathurtic Pilis. Bay Rum, Linported, large bottles.. Bovinine, small size. Ginger, won's Capcine Pastors, 13 jams’ Kheumatic Plasters, Cuticura Soap... Cuticura Ointment Cuticura Resolvent Cashmere Bouquet Ben: Will Carter's Little Liver Villiams’ Little Liver Carnrick’s Soluble Food, 50 Carnrick’s Soluble F 00 California F: 50 Ely’s Cream 50 Effervescing Bro 100 Fellow's Syrup Hypophosp) 150 Hon Bitters, per Bottle 100 Hostetter’s Bitters. 100 Ms Sarsaparil 100 Horstord’s Acid Phospi 50 Horsford’s Acid Phospnates, large. 160 Hof’s Malt (T “ete 28 so Hoff’s Malt (Eisner’s),... 40 rey": ities, Nos. i to 15. 2 ‘umphrey's Spec: Hunyadi Water. per Both Hanson's Corn Salve, Ge. Iron Bitters. ver Bottie. in's Fe re ‘00d... © Cake. 32 1S oo yrup Prussian Cough Syrup... Parker's: Hair Balsam". oF 17 4 67 ey Vo os ne, Pure, the i ottioa! 15 Vaseline’ Pomade, per Bottle. 10 Warner's Safe Pill is Warner's Kidney an: b> 69 60 Wilbor's Coa 69 Wiliains? 3 70 3 10 alliams’ Williams’ Kose T Willianis’ Quinie PRESCRIPTIONS. Our prices for prescriptions have been reduced in portion to other We use only the purest rugs and chemicals from the wost reliable manufac: turers. We cheeriully invite a careful inspection of ti.is department by the physicians. Don't mistake the place-THE TEMPLE DRUG S10KE, under Masonic Temple, corer ¥thand F EATAMS & SALES OF $40, RT smoke, aud water, at Double Combination, 11th st. se. Jy r of guvds daunaved by fire, KAUFMAN'S _ml5-1w GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. EPPS'S COCOA BREAKFAST. “By a thorouch knowledge of the natural laws which rn the operations of ¥ a carett] applicetion of the ine selected Cocca, | Mr. Epps has a! . fave us muny Us thn us ready ty attack wher: ever there is & weak point. We fatal shait Ly keeping ourselves blood ‘and nourished frame."—Civi ‘ee simply with boiling sat half-puull tus by grocery labeled tus: OM JAMES EPPS & CO., Homeopathic Chemists, dy21-n.tus London, England. Tx Foner ‘MEAT-FLAVORING STOCK. LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF MEAT, USE IT FOR SOUPS, BEEF TEA, SAUCES, AND MADE DISHES. Genuine only with facsimile of Justus von Liebig's SIGNATURE IN BLUE INK ‘Across Label. Gold by Storekeepers, Grocers, and Druggists. LIEBIG’S EXTRACT OF MEAT CO., Ltd, i Fests | AUCTION SALES. ae ee warts B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers. CIGARS AT AUCTION. 100,000 IMPORTED, KEY WEST AND DOMESTIC CIGARS. —ALSO— 100 GROSS MEERSCHAUM PIPES, CONSISTING OF THE ENTIRE STOCK OF GARCIA MENDOZA & CO., OF KEY WEST, FLA, WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION, REGARDLESS OF COST. CIGARS WILL BE SOLD IN LOTS 01 BOX AND UPWARD, TO SUIT PURCHASERS” O™= LE COMMENCING TUESDAY, MARCH NINF- TEENTH, AT TEN AM. AND TW \D HALF- PAST SEVEN P. M. _— This sale will continue the entire week and will proves rare chance to dealers and private smokers to uy cigars cheap. WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers, REDEEMED PLEDG! DAY, MARC SS 2 . Silver aud Silver: oats, Punts, Vests, Ladies’ Dresses, 7 Dolna; Blankets, Ma! Instrum Valises, &c. Parties holding Tic notice ‘that all pledges trom No are included in this sale. Broker. ©. A. ROOT & 0O., 4 1s HEIDENHELN ctioneers. mhi6- _TO-MOKROW. FPHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. CATALOGUE SALE OF AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION OF TURKISH CARPETS, RUGS AND HANGINGS, Embracing both Modern and Antique, all sizes, being & recent importation, and is pronounced ONE OF THE CHOICEST COLLECTIONS EVER SENT TO THIS CITY, EMBRACING FIFTY LARGE CARPETS. To be sold at publicauction, absolutely without re- serve, at my auction rooms, 11th and Penua. avenue, ON WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, AND FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 21, AND 22, 1889, AT 11 A. M. AND 3PM. On Exhibition MONDAY and TUESDAY, MARCH 18 and 19, _m14-5t THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. ers, LING AND STORE, NORTHWEST, AT ARCH TWENTY- we will sell in 449, hn strect. with a depth of 116 proved by a three-story brick ne and §\ 1117 7th stre tween L and M streets northwest. Terms: $6,000 to rem: 1 PYUNCANSON BROS DWFI i STRE| e property at 6 per 1801. The re purchaser 6 per cent on th ;OLeY Wi haser. notice Washinwion, D.C. mhiv-d&ds DU J) EXCANSON BROS, ‘SON BROS, Auctioneers. uctioneers, . fronting k to a 30 foot of sal feet 1 inch on O street —J runuing alle} he, ys the property will be resold at the of the defaulting purchuser, after ive days’ advertisement in sole f published in Washington, D.C. All at the cost of ne of sale, y VA E Y, BEING HOUSYS NUM- HOSTRELT AND 1836 VEK- By virtue of a d f trust, recorded in libe: 1144, fol:o 482. et seq., one of the land records fc District of Columbia, ahd at the request of party se. cured the1 Meer oter for sale in. front of KP.) city of Washing- ton, Disirict of Columbia, known and described as all of Jot numbered four .4) in O. O. Howard's recorded subdivision of lots numbered from one (1) to five (5), in L. F. Clark's recorde | subdivision of square north of square numbered three hundred and thirty-four (334), Terins of sale: One-third (3s) cash. and the balance ars after date of sale, with m- aut “operty, in liv: A. deposit of #100 will be required on payable senu-anug the pure each piece of property at time of sale. All convey- ancing and recording at purchaser's cost. Terms of sale to be complied within 15 days or the property will be resold at Fisk aad Cost of a. tchltie purcinser, AM MAYSE) JAMES F, HOOD, | Trustees. __mh16-rodkds As LANIER HEIGHTS. By virtue of a deed ot trust, dated Mai 1887, and duly recorded in Liber No. et seq.. one of ti Columbia, and at ¢ notes sectired thereby, we ction, in front of the premises, on WEDNESDAY, MARCH TWENTY-SEVENTH, A. D. 1889, at FIVE O'CLOCK P.M.. the following described Real Estate, situated in Washington county. District of Columbia, to-wit: Lot iction, division of parts of Jecksou Hill and Mount Pleasant, | now known as Lanicr Heights, as supe is recorded in | Le ottce of the surveyor of the District of Columbia in Liber Governor ——-, folio 174, Jot con- Sox md, ind two years from date of sale, est at the rate of six (6) per centum per an- num, payable semi-annually, deferred payments to be secured by deed of trust ou the propert, de- posit of $200 will be required at time of sale. Terms to be complied with wituin ten days, or the property will be resold at the ri and cost of the defaulting purchaser, All convey BER : Tor cost. OBE. . a] GEO. W, BROWN) Trustees. vi SANSON BROS, Aucts, VALUABLE IMPROV! MASSACHUSETTS AVE., WE! SEVENTH STREETS N.W., BE No. 625. By virtue of a decree passed on the 17th day of Janu- y, A.D. 1690. in - — ot a B ——-F = ers va. James W. Gor ‘others, 0. 8, 1 will, on TUESDAY, the OF MARCH, A.D. 1889, at “ = at public auction in front oi ass tie und twenty-three feet on K Street, 14 the ci Washington, D. C., improved by a frame dweliing-house hird cash, balance in one and two years, with interest from day of saie, secured by {trust of the p perty, or all the fred oy paid ine A deposit of #100 to be of sale. All conveyane at purchaser's: terms of sale are not complied with within ten days the property may be sold after five days’ no- tice at defaulting purchaser's cost, MALCOLM B. GORDON, Trustee, 406 K street northwest, DUNCANSON BROS,, Auctioneers. mb14-d&ds WWALtEe B WILLaMs & Co, Auctioneers, TRUSTEE'’S SALE Terms of sale iam A. Bradley, deceased, recorded among the land records of the Bistrsct ‘of Colaba, t will offer AX ob, Ob the premises on, THURSDAY, District of Columbia. It contains upward of 87 acres eron eal in the Potomse town, gp ind it is sepurated by a narrow ‘OF ANALOSTAN ISLAND. By virtue of a deed ot trust from the heirs of Will- NALOSTAN ISLAND ae VEN TiS OF APRIL, 1889, AT THREE O'CLoc walostan Island is in the of ground. Itis Leautif y situa river, opposite the cities of Wasi ‘and deep channel. A short distauce above the island is the out vir purchaser. A deposit of $50 | mhls numbered eighty (50) of Elizabeth Lanier Dunn's sub- es ANCIAL, Joux 8. Brasexas, BANKER AND BROKER, 1403 F ST. Nw. FUNDS INVESTED IN SAFE SECURITIES, 5, 6, 7, AND 8 PER CENT INTEREST PAID OM TIME DEPOSITS OF 3 6, 9, AND 12 MONTHS. _mh14-2m aa STABLISHED 1si4 CMITAL, $300,008, E 2 st ‘RPLUs FI D, @2 35.000. NATIONAL METROPOLITAN BANK OF WASE- INGTON, 613 15th st., opposite C. S. Treasury. GEORGE H. B. WHITR, Cashier, Receives Deposits, Discounts Paper, Sells Pills of Exchange, Makes Collections, and does a General Bank- ing Business. ae _ 193m FRE COLUMBIA NATIONAL BANK OF WASHING TON, D.C, 911 F xt. nw, Receives deposits, Loans Money, Issues Drafta, Trans. acts & General Bavking Business. Location ont nt. F-street cars and herdics run in front ib few rods east of me ouly -street and Penns) lvauia ave. cars only "bh I. WARNER, President ues N, Vice President, » Casitier Directors: Chas, B. Bailey Darker, Alex. T. | Britton, Chas C. Duncanson, John Edson, Albers | X,Fex-Joun F Mernill, Bag F-Leichton Hugh Mo~ | Culloch, Crosby 8. Noyes, M. M. Parker, O. G, Staples Goo, Trneadell, Heury K. Willard, B. H.'Warner. 2031-3 JNO. W. MACARTNEY, Momiber N. ¥. Stock kia, CORSON & MACARTNEY, GLOVER BUILDING, 1419 F ST. ¥. W, Bankers and Deslers in Government Bonda, jr. COnSON. Deposits. Exchange. Loans Collections, Railreid Stocks and Bonds, and all securities ated on the Exchanges of ‘ork, Pliladelphia, Bostom LADY, FORME ing in New Yor ladies; moderat d basting a special Fox Evesise V EAR. MLLE. M. J. PRANDI, 1320 F st. np w., at Mrs. Harrison's, Has just received a” French Importation. in FANCY IRNAMENTS FOK THY BATR GILT PINs, SIDE « In Silver, Gold, Tortoise Shell. Ane NEW DESIGNS IN SHELL AND AMBER PINA. FINE PRENCH HALR GOODS. HATE DRESSED. BANGS SHINGLED, “" SHAMPOOIN LLO®P°8 AND Panis styLes RECEIVED Fox AND SUMMER IALTIES . Traveling « Driv mbt ~tumes, Walking “4 &e i Mr. Jno, WEN, NT TAILOR, ‘Cor. New York ave, and 10th «, : eres " | Kusseers Dress HIELDS, ABSOLUTELY THE AABLE. ATHER-WEIGHT washable.) SEAMLESS PURE Kix AKIOUS OTHEK DRESS SHIEL EVERY PAIK WARRANTED NONE GENUINE WITHOUT OUR TKADE MARK rr. iW AND and mae (KLEINERT) on every p mhi-3m BEWARE OF IMITATION. | J, ADIES’ Sra: KMENTS KEDYED, AL urs Repaired. KIN GA iF HA tered & « edn TEPORA DRESS SHIELDS ARE PRO. ea by Messrs, WOODWARD & LUTHROP the best in their stock. They have noegual. For every where Jal id-e0 FRESE DYEING, SCOURING AND DRY CLEAN. ING ESTABLISHMENT, New ¥ ave, te} work of every descrip 3 resees., ANTON ii, turmeriy with I or ISCHER'S DRY CLEANING PSTAB- den NF SHMEN f AND DYE WOKKS “t 3 ents of al alien years’ exp ed for and delivered LL-WOOL GARMENTS, MADE UP OF | Aiea eoodnseruing black. kanes A. FISC tuat Bou- ky mb19-1an bh st, now. W: 3. combs, 924 Tl ST. N. W., IMPORTED and Domestic Groceries, Fine Wines and Liquors, &c. The following well-known brands of Pure Kye Whiskies constantly in stock: Old J. B. Thompson, Baker, Upper Ten, Haunis Acme, Takoma, Jacksom andGrand Jury, mb 15-2 *6OTAR OF THE . if) “« ‘cess Flour, et Flour, Best Sugar Cure Pec. per Th. 8 ibs. 1 y for 2be. 5 Evaporated Apples 1 large bottles, Tom, Du 4. T, D. PYLES, 412 4th st. ae. QUID GL MENDS EVERY. mgt Broken China, Glass, Furniture, Wood, Toys, Shoes, Pipes, Jewelry. Everlasting Te Drugs and Grocers. 10c. an mhl4-coly_ VOR CHOICEST IMPORTED WINES, LIQUORS, Cordials and Italian general Prod - Lachrima Christi, M Barbera, re paghetti, Ver mecelli, Pure Olive Oil, Parmesan, Roqueiort Cheese, Sayprrs & Sranmax. eg WADING PIANOS AND ORGANS. DECKER BROS.. WEBER, FISCHER and ESTEE PIANOs, and ESTEY ORGANS. Pianos for rent and sold on sccommodating terms. SANDERS & STAYMAN, JAKVIS BUTLER, M _mt Ture Surrr Urxicnr Puso. It ia the most durable Piano made. Itas thoror constructed. Beran teeta uty of tants mos be found in any Upruct Piano = ‘Terms—Cash or monthly installments. ELFFER & CONLIFF, 122-3m 1231 Etcnw, x Bi EX Mr A EB BR RRs GA B RX Rex 28S bee PIANOS x TONE, TOUCH, Wi Se TAN. be BILITY. Special attention of “Purchasers” “New Artiode Styles,” finished in declcue EST DECORATIVE ART. Pianos: for reut. SECOND-HAND PIANOS. — A large assortment, try, i sre ‘be closed out at whic w NIMLY INSTALLMENTS when dented WM KNABL & CO, a6 817 Market Spade, DRY GOODS. Ne Seer 2, G of New Spring Goods ae ect re TOE BRO. & CO., 1328 F at. Ee} GENTLEMEN’S GOODS. H. D. Bax IMPORTER AND TAILOR, ea at eee ae