Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1894, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1894—-TWENTY PAGES. SPRING IN PARIS The Beginning of the People’s Season in the French Capital. THE OUT-OF-DOOR LIFE, The Coming of Summer is Slower Than in America. CITY FOLKS IN THE COUNTRY Gpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, March 26, 1894. ARISIANS AKE SO enamored of the springtime that they joke in the rejection the very contrary, dailies of happy lovers. Ev- erybody seeks the open air at the first — of early spring and enjoys daily out- In the garden of my father The lilacs raise their crest; And all the birds of all the world Come there to make their nest: But to be beside my blonde Is what I find the best! Bo runs the prettiest chanson of the pres- qt week. It is an ancient song of spring “revised” by Aristide Bruant. In this gar- @en there ure quail and pigeons, the pretty idge and the dove that sings by day nd night for girls who have been parted from their beaux. “Say, now, pretty girl; friend?” “Oh, he’s in Holland; the Dutch have cap- tured him! “What will you give to get him back?” “T'll give the city of Versailies, Paris and Saint Denis; the towers of Notre Lame and the church bell of my pay: dt is under- stood that “pays” means village and rhymes fm French with Saint Denis, as well as with “fleuris,” leur nid” and “dormi,” and go on for eleven stanzas, friends; eleven stanzas!) The songs are many, but the sentiment is one. It is the spring, the time of youth and Jove. With all this sentiment there is « species of regretful looking backward at the Grosser ways of winter, and a reaching for- ward to a trurer accord with nature in her Rewer mood. Be worthy of the spring! where is your The Spring Goddess. Purgatives are universally esteemed—pur- j Batives not violent, but sustained, as lin-j Bering and as gentle as the opening of the buds and biossoms of the maples. Sarsa- Darilla and tar water for the bicod, and a Whole line of rafraichissantes to cool the/ proud and fevered frame, mix with these Durges in a triple unity. ‘The poor man and the rich man both be- @ome like Nebuchadnezzar, eating grass. The restaurants give tar water to their} €lients gratis (a little brown stone jug upon ach table); and if you do not take the new @sparagus the waiters think you have no avoir vivre. Of late, however, a warning hhas been: put out by the faculty of medi- cine, concerning the French devotion to as- agus. This powerful vegetable, they say, Pas mere fvod, but an effective medicine. Nevertheless, of all the premeurs, great fat stalks are the most prized. Good Friday has gone by, when all the| world eats codfish and potatoes (Parisian | codfish come from Iceland; see the book of | Pierre Loti), and Easter, with its lack of | few spring bonnets (for here they follow | the season, not the day), but with an over- | lus of artificial eggs. And everyone is ppy, were it not for anarchists and a| Really sericus general epidemic of the ty- Phoid fever, which has raged since Febru- these Flowers Everywhere. Flower stands are everywhere. Fleurissez-vous, messieurs!” White, yellow, purple, violet, hellotrope. Whe very flowers come with their messages @f love. The very botanists will tell you (in French) that the lily and the buttercup ex- tend their soft, sweet surfaces for the al- luring of the fertilizing bee and butterfly. As for the nightingale and skylark, all their fong has been acquired to charm the ears of their attentive mates. What Tenny has said in words, what all the world tr lates in ac i fore you and they glorify it; and with a/ Universal charity bred of a monomania—the | thing is catching—they harp upon thi f love as if each spring were someth | solutely new, that never had come to the/| World before and might not come again. We Anglo-Saxons are prepared to hea> that in the spring a livelier iris Changes on the burnished dove; And that in the early spring a young man’s fancy Lightly turns to thoughts of love. Now, all the world begins to sit upon the sidewalks, on the terraces of the boulevard cafes and brasser: It 1s to watch the passing throng, the happy springtime loaf- | ers, the flaneurs. In mid-August this same | boulevard smells like a monxey house. In these days. when the year is new, it smells | of Iilacs, lilies, violets. The eye is charged, | the senses doze, the mind is hypnotized with | lightness, prettiness and gayety, until the| fragrant coffee stands untaste: until you are brought back to earth ag 0 scrap of a con‘idential conversa She—“Yes, yes; you do resem loved well once.”* | Pause. He—“It was long ago She~ y the unique possession of Paris, | starts up again in spring to sive an air of light and pleasing leisure to the streets, | cannot even see a| of spring poetry. On! the! teem | with songs concern-: ing cooing doves and! boats with sails that! swell above the heads | | mother’s hand, protection and conn | turnpikes. | its churches, bridges, its museum and its To “flaneur” is to caunter. It Is essential = should have no object in your walking. You must be prepared to take a pleasure locking ‘n shop windows you have seen a hundred times before, as in the song of Pierre Tremouillat (who declares it takes him six hours to do an errand from the Carrefour Montmartre down to the bourse—a distance of a mile). Street Fakirs. Your true Parisian is interested in the patter of street fakirs selling rubber mon- keys. He finds their conversation intelli- gent; and he warns them discreetly of the approaching policeman. He stops before the beok shops; loiters in the newspapers’ Salle des Despeches, where he may gaze with equal interest at all the “actualities”—the photographs of ceiebrities, the pope beside a fi | ballarina, anarchists and deputies and the “braves revoltes,” 1. e. thieves and assas- Even the morgue is much more full of interest in these brave days, when everyone should bear up hopefully. The major part of Paris suicides come from the river. In winter they shrink from the chill plunge | (this is a fact, a matter of statistics); but in the spring, perhaps because they can- not bear the sickening sight of social in- | equality—the happiness of other people and their own misery—they jump into the Seine like frogs into a pond. The Daily Outing. ‘Then there are long strings of little girls all dressed in white, fresh from their first communion; long strings of wedding car- riages, en route for the consecrated drive to the sylvan cafe of the Cascade, out in the Bois; and there are bevies of bare- headed sewing girls, out for the noon spell, chattering like monkeys and almost as polite. (The sight of honest girls is yery cheering in this city). And there are peo- ple always sitting in the open air and al- ways eating in the open air; and there are all the pretty babies with their pretty |murses underneath the blossoms of the | chestnut trees that line the avenue of the Champs Elysees. Here the Paris spring- time loafer stops before the Punch and Judy theaters—all in the open air—and walks away before the hat comes round. Jugglers and acrobats draw Sunday crowds in the public squares of the popu- lous quarters. 1 The Victoria. It is no great thing that in the Paris springtime all the cabs are changed from the close boxes into light and open vic- torias, like pleasuring-machines. Every- one begins to put a muzzle on his dog, by | force of law. The bicyclists, male and fe- jmale (with the females in strange cc tumes), rict on the asphalt roads out to the Bois and to the countryside. And straw- berries will stay with us until July. Each | is a part of the beloved routine of the life ; of Paris. But it is a great thing that the “season” opens now—the only great and fashionable season left to Paris, from the days near | Easter till the end of July. It is now, and | not in winter, that Paris, brilliant, as one dreams of it, lives in real truth. The salon and the horse show draw the very cream of the great world of Paris ladies, wno come to study up the gowns and hats of the | cocottes. The spring is here. It has come early— as it always does—and it will stay late. One day a bud unfolds, and the next day a leaf. It lasts three months. In America we scarcely have a proper spring, but leap from winter into summer. The American REAL ESTATE GOSSIP, No Great Activity in the Market, but Prices Remain Firm. TRON CONSTRUCTION FOR BUILDINGS The Erection of a Twelve-Story Apartment House. SOME NEW BUILDINGS Business has rather dragged during the past week, and the indications of a renewed | activity, which were so promising a tew weeks ago, have not been followed by the volume of business which was expected. There is, however, evidently a growing in- terest on the part of investors in real es- tate and an abundance of money available for loans. It is the experience in nearly all real estate offices that there is a good deal | of inquiry on the part of those who have money to invest for anything in the line of bargains which the market affords. The jee of these desirable tid-bits is as ed now and was during the period of | the late financial depression as has been the case in the past. The only conclusion to be drawn from this fact is that the market here is unusually strong, and that, generally speaking, those | who own property are able to carry it or to | care for it in such @ way that it is not thrown upon the market. It follows that prices remain firm, and while there are in- stances here and there of sales at reduced figures,neither the number of such sales nor the reduction in prices are of sufficient mo- | ment to affect the general tone of the mar- ket. In other words, real estate here seems to rest on such substantial foundations that it survives undisturbed a rather long period of depression in the commercial and tinan- cial world, There have been instances of property be- ing forced on the market in the form of auction sales through trustees and other- wise, but it is estimated that these in- stances have not greatly exceeded the aver- age. At this time of the year, as well as in the fall, it is the custom here to offer prop- erty at auction, and from the published ad- vertisements it is believed that the number of such sales have not passed the normal | point. It is just as common now for prop- | erty to be withdrawn because the offers re- ceived are not satisfactory as it has been | in times of greater activity in the market. The leading feature of the present condi- tion, and one that is looked upon as highly gratifying, as well as promising for the fu- ture, is the fact that property is not being sacrificed, and while there is no great de- mand and transactions are not numerous, still values remain firm and the market is regarded as being in a good condition. A Great Iron Frame. The construction of the large apartment house which Mr. T. E. F. Schneider is erecting ‘on the north side of Q street be- tween 16th and 17th streets, presents some features which are not common in build- ings erected by private enterprise in this city. This structure, which is to have a frontage of some 120 feet and a depth of over ivv, is to have a complete framework or iron. The exterior walls, which are to be built of stone and brick, are not essen- tial to the stability of the building. ‘T’ are simply to serve to fill in the interstic in the iron framework and thus protect the occupants of the building from the weather. The framework is to be built up on colum: of iron, with cross beams of the same r terial firmiy bolted together and rising from one story to the other until it reaches the height of twelve stories. The purtition walls are to be formed of hollow terra cotta, resting on the iron. The excavation for this immense building Presents a rather singular spectacle to those who are accustomed to the ordinary method of construction. If a building of this magnitude was to be built of brick and stone it would be necessary to make a deep excavation and lay broad foundations. The walls of a twelve-story building wien built of brick or of stone, must, under the regulations, be at least three feet wide fur the first two or three stories. In an iron- frame building, however, there is no need of such waste of space, as the wails of this building will only be thirteen inches wide. The main pillars rest upon foundations which are only four feet beneath the floor of the basement story. An excavation at this depth is made of a size varying from eight feet to eleven feet square. Iron Beams in the Foundation. A bed of cement is laid down and upon this are placed z-beams. At right angles another row of beams is laid upon this foundation, which are not quite so long as the first row, and then on the top of all, at right angles with the second row, is placed another row of shorter z-beams, the entire structure being firmly bolted to- gether and filled in with cement which is poured over the mass of iron in liquid torm climate, like the genius of the American | people, is quick In its decisions and intense jin its extremes. The climate of western | Europe resembles its own slow and minute- ly graded social ways. In Paris the com- ing of full summer ts like the growiag up of the Parisian “young person;” it spins out a long and tantalizing maidenhood. The American summer comes more quickly, glorious and overpowering, like the Ameri- can girl, complete, entire, at one grand leap. You pay your money and you take your choice. Certainly all this Parisian mildaess is paid for in the winter (also mild, when you compare it with our own). If spring did not come soon, if autumn did not merge reluctantly into the winter, how could Parisians endure their comfortless abodes in old apartment houses? Paris, with all its smart and modern air, is still a city of old houses. The climate is a cause and an excuse for these dilapidated boxes which they call apartments, and their antiquated modes of living. The winter does nct last long and it is not hard; so they do not dis- turb themselves to have the modern winter comforts of such countries as our own, or Russia. Hence catarrh and rattling bron- chitis, rheumatism and stiff joints, even in the young and tender. In order to keep warm they eat and drink instead of set- ting up a furnace in the cellar. But they have no cellars. The long French windows let in wind; cracks under massive doors cf oak give murderous little draughts that cut like knife blades and assassinate Amer- leans; and then those yawning, coke-de- vouring open grates, so decorative and so dirty, give rather light than heat. The heat goes up the chimney, where it warms the cats upon the roofs. All this Parisians will patiently endure, in waiting for the spring. The moment that it comes their joy is un- confined. You meet a gentleman tipon the street who smiles as though his mother-in- law were dead. “Have you been left a fortune?” “No, it is the spring.” He means that he is glad that those sad days are over when he has to pay for coke. I think that at the present moment not one apartment out of fifty in the whole of Paris has a spark of fire in it, except the kitchen. In the Country. It is the time for taking trips into the country. Parties of working people, clerks and their sweethearts, shop girls, govern- | ment employes, whole middle-class families, and groups joined together by every pos- sible kind of tie, the just and the uajust, all make alike for the countryside, where the sun may shine upon them. There they scold Paris from a proper | distance, not too far from the railway sta- tion, which holds out to them, lik tion wit) the great heart of their beloved alma ma whom they blaspheme, but only with their lips. They think they love the country, but they go to it rather for tne joy of returning to the asphalt. The spirit in which these trips are made is different from the American picnicking disposition. To be a Parisian is to ignore the surround- ing universe, except as a playground for the good people to go out in. They look down with condescension on ihe country- folk, on the horses, the fields, the trees and the rivers. They bring their cafe habits of mind and morals with them: and, so great is the prestige of Par they are looked up to by the countrymen, praised and admired as if they could do no wrong. In the countryside for fifty miles round Paris all the restaurants are good. Fine open carriages roll along the smoothest Every village has antiquities, rming scenery. It is a garden, trim, snug; a country citified, yet’ added y romance, and reminiscence, and a realth of settled ways, where the rustics ire quite rustic and have sense to stay so, harmonizing with the landscape. STERLING HEILIG. and allowed to harden. This forms a pyra- midal foundation for the main pillars of the building. The pillars are in turn bolted to the pile of iron which constitutes the foundation, and are continued to the top of the building. It is not claimed that this style of con- struction is cheaper than the usual method, but when the saving of space is taken into account, it is believed that if a mony value could be placed on the space saved, that the account would be about balanced. It is easy to understand that rooms inclosed by walls three feet wide at the base and con- tinued to the top, of course, at a reduced width must be smaller than rooms which, as in the present case, are inclosed by walls of a uniform thickness throughout of ouly thirteen inches. This method of construc- tion is similar, as far as the framework of the building goes, to that which is to be ares in the new city post office build- s- The Building Record. Contrary to expectations, the past week has not been a good one in building circles. This has been due in a large measure to the unsettled condition of the weather. The record for the week gives a total of eighteen new houses, at an estimated aggregated cost of $56,450. A row of seven three-story and cellar brick dwellings is about to be erected on Lawrence street northwest from 1817 to sz7. The houses will have a frontage of eighteen feet by a depth of forty feet and will be of Indiana limestone and press brick. They will have all modern convent- ences and be heated by a furnace. N. T. Haller is the owner, architect and builder. The foundation for a new brick dwelling at 655 E street southwest has been com- menced for Thomas Banks. The house will be three stories and cellar, with a square bay window. W. E. Garner is the bulider. Mrs. F. S. McCandlish {s building a hand- ome three-story and cellar brick dwelling at 1916 18th stret northwest. N. T. Haller is the architect and J. A. Rodbird the builder, J. W. Gregg will shortly erect at 441 N street northwest a handsome three-story and cellar brick dwelling. The house will be built on the apartment style, with a frontage of twenty feet and a depth of 120 feet. T. M. Haislip is the builder. Plans have been prepared for an addition to C. M. Campbell's apartment house at 14th and Park streets, Mt. Pleasant. Like the present buliding, it will be colonial in style, three stories, sixty-one by fifty-four, with exterior walls of select red brick, plainly ornamented. Seven three-story and basement dwellings are to be erected at 1ith and Bacon streets | from plans by George S. Cooper, architect. The fronts will be of buff brick and In- diana limestone and the roofs will be cov- ered with tile. Cc, A. Brandenburg will build a house on N between 2ist and 22d streets. It is to be two stories, attic and cellar, with Hummelstown stone base and press brick upper front, circular bay and hardwood trim on the first floor. William Ockstadt will erect two two- story dwelling at 722 and 724 C street northeast. They are to have fronts of press brick and Hummelstown stone, with square bays. F. J. Fisher will build a two-story frame cottage in Mount Pleasant. James H. Merriwether will build on Washington Heights a three-story house. It will have a stone and press brick front and circular bay. Plans are being made by Victor Mindeleff, architect, for a residence to be erected at Lanier Heights for Richard U. Goode. | It is to be a combination of stone and| wood and strictly colonial in all its details. having an observatory balcony, and will 30 have a double-decked porch extending across the front. Red cypress will be used for the first story trim. The same architect is engaged on plans for a fine residence to be built on Stough- ton street between 14th and 15th for J. S. Diller. It is to be three stories and base- ment, twenty-five by fifty, with Indiana lmestone base and pinkish buff brick up- per front, supported on corbels, an oriel juts out at the second story and terminates in a loggia. It will also have a high pitch- ed tile roof. Red cypress will be the trim on the main floor. B. Groff will erect a house on N treet between 4th and 5th northwest. It is to be two stories, twenty-one by forty- six, press brick and Hummelstown stone. Also a dwelling to be erected on 12th street near Iowa Circle. This is to be three stories and basement, with Hummelstowr base to the second story, tower-topped bay and slated roof. —_~—__—_ THE DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE. Col. Geo. E. Waring Discusses a Prob- lem Which Confronts Philadelphia. The importance of a sanitary disposition of the sewage of a city has long been rec- ognized, and yet there have been few im- provements attempted by the leading cities of the country. The local authorities pass stringent regulations as to the drainage of buildings within the city limits, and yet they will consent that the whole of the city’s sewage, full of germs of disease and death, shall be poured into a stream that may be the only possible source of water supply for their citizens or for towns be- low them. It means a great expenditure of money and of thought, and a bitter strug- gle with prejudice and narrow conservatism tor the adoption of any of the improved systems of sewage disposal. Colonel George E. Waring, jr., who is one of the most eminent of saultary ex- perts in this country, has written a timely article on sewage for the April number of the Century, wherein he gives attention to the problem that confronts Philadelphia. He says: “The tendency of legislation, here as well as abroad, is toward the prohibi- tion of the fouling of rivers, thus far main- ly for the protection of sources of water supply. This is doing much and promises to do more in the way of restricting the free discharge of sewage into streams. There is also a growing sentiment in favor of cleanliness, and causes of offense which have hitherto been disregarded are now at- tracting attention. Those who occupy lands past which streams flow are beginning to assert and to enforce their undoubted right to have them flow in their naturally un- fouled condition. So, too, on the larger streams, villages are growing to towns, towns are growing to important cities, and conditions which were formerly tolerable are now becoming intolerable. The Schuyl- kill river, for example, which is the most important source of water supply for Phil- adelphia, is lined with populous and grow- ing manufacturing towns, which have only this river for an outlet. The same condi- tions exist along many of the rivers of the older parts of the country generally, and they are extended westward. It is, there- fore, clear that, in case of towns not lying on the larger rivers, public sentiment and the rights of riparian owners will demand the increasing adoption of means for with- holding crude sewage fro:a them.” Colonel Waring then takes up the three systems of sewage disposal by broad irri- gation, by intermittent filtration and by the chemical precipitation. The first two of these methods are the ones t commend themselves tc this expert. e withhold- ing of paper pulp and other fibrous matter in the irrigation process may be affected by a method applied at Wayne, Pennsylvania, where the flow of sewage during irrigation is at the rate of about 10,000 gallons per hour. The field is divited into five sections of about two acres each, for alternate use. The sewage reaches them over and through straining areas formed of broken stone (macadam), averaging about eight inches deep, seventy-five feet wide and ninety feet long. These retain most of the fibrous and gummy materials and they gradually dis- appear. Just as the coarser parts of the sludge-forming material attach themselves | to the surfaces of the broken stone, so the finer parts attach themselves to the sur- faces of the earthy . over which the flow stone, having an are: 0 square feet. The seware, previot screened of its rags, etc., in flowing over and through these stones, deposits all of its coarser tm- purities. It then passes over an area about seventy feet wide, having a fall of one foot | in three feet, and c 10,000 square feet. At the low we this a] Porous barrier collects the flow for even dis- | tribution over the next section,which has a fali of one in four, has an area of ne At the foot of th rly 11,000 square feet. the sewage has little color and is fre unk by dogs. Here It passes through another barrier and flows over a section with a fall of about one in six, 120 feet wide, with an of about 238.000 square feet. The condition of the sewage is now vastly improved. By the time it has reached the lower edge of this section it is perfectly clear and apparently pure. It is often tasted by visitors. It is obviously a better effluent than that of any precipitation works of which the conditions have been published. If the hillside were less steep the result would be still better. The three sections occunvine the hillside varv little in size and arranvement.” This method Colonel Waring looks unon as the most perfect yet devised, and with {t he thine the entire nmoblem fs solved. He commends it esnecially for the protection of New York's water supply in the Croton wa- tershed, where strict policing and inspec- tion are of little avail. eee “He Laughs Best Who Laughs Last.” From Lite. A young British soldier was conducting a party from the United States over the citadel at Quebec. One member of the party was a small maid of nine, and to her the young soldier devoted most of his atten- tion. She was a saucy child, full of en- thusiasm, and blessed with the earnest, aggressive patriotism of extreme youth. “Here,” said the soldier, as they stood be- fore two worn brass cannon, “are two guns we took from your people at the battle of Bunker Hill,” and he smiled in triumph. Nonplussed for a moment, the child was still; then she looked up. “Come home with me," she said softly, “and I'li show you a whole country we took away from your people about the same time.” tae Ie The Kick-off, From Truth. With bated breath the mother came. “What tidings,” she faltered, “of my son?” They looked upon her with compassion. “He lost his head,” they gently answered, “when we tried the flying wedge.” Shrieking wildly, she sank to the floor. “They told me it was only an arm,” she moaned. “Childless, childless! They pitiel her, nor sought to stay her progress when she rose and fled the place. a ee A Sad Mistake. From Puck. Miss Fernleaf (showing visitor through Yes; these are our cacti. Papa is so fond of them he spends most of his time among them.” Nearsighted visitor—“Beautiful! And what a@ peculiarly formed one this is! Do you mind me pulling one of those stickers out?” Ti The peculia! tly formed one (as he feels the pull)—"— It will be three stories, forty-five by forty- five, with swell projection, slated roof, As good us gold, Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, is sixty feet wide ana| 16 POR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, The Farmers Want Hon. 0, M. Tinkham---April Finds Him ‘There is no man more popular among the farmers of the country than Hon, O. M. Tinkbam, whose likeness is here given. A man of acknowledged ability, of commanding Presence, an excellent presiding officer, he will un- doubtedly fill with credit the office to which the farmers of bis own state wish to elect him. Ten years as agricultural editor of the Freeman and Watchman of Montpelier, Vt., secretary and ident for several years each of the Vermont tate Dairymen's Association, and employed by the boanls of agriculture of Maine, New [amp- shire, Massachusetts and New York at their meet- ings, assistant commissioner of agricultural af- fairs, dairy commissioner at the worl |New Orleans, member of his state | where he was chairman of the house committee J agriculture, and recently accredited by th - retary of Agriculture to Europe to study the labor problem, he is one of the most conspicuous repre- scatatives of the farming interests of the conntry. Some time ago Mr. Tinkham was prostrate with beat in the hay field, and from the cons | quent derangement of the system suffered severely | from dizziness, so much so ing was dif jecult. He tried the famous celery com- pound, which had been so mended by Mayor MeShane of Montreal, Rev. Father Ouelle: | Miss Mabel Jenness, Ida Lewis and others, and | the result was most happy. To qu 7 words: “The dizziness is all gone, and I am now quite recovered.” The succese of his vigorous lectures upon bis | Buropean experiences bas been marked. He is| now residing at North Pomfret, Vt., and the co zens of the state will wisely insist upon his going Into politics so far as to take the Meutenant gov- | ernorsbip. } Mr. Tinkham’s experience with the wonderful | remedy that makes people well and is as superior | to ali other spring medicine as milk is more nour- ishing than water, is not surprising. | Men and women all over the country are finding strength and freedom from @isease in Paine’s celery compound. It clears the sluggish blood of the unbealthy humors that a poor circulation and fanity assimilation tend to produce. It corrects unbealthy nervous action and feeds the nerve cen- ters with just the elements needed to build them up again into healthy tissu@s. Prof. Edward E. Phelps, M.D., LL.D., of Dartmouth College @is-; covered the formula for the famous Paine’s celery compound after long years of study of the deep changes that take place in wornout, disordered nerve tissues. Dr. Pielps was accustomed to ex-| plain in his lectures his mastery over diseases due | | to bad blood end nervous weakness, as follows: | | “In diseases of the liver, kidneys, and heart some- | thing is in the blood that ought mot to be there. | eutralize these bad bumors. The nerves and ‘power. It makes people of all ANNA Berve centers ere . Feed elements that will build them up celery compound embodies these ad-saced the blood and nerves. As was to be expected, so remarkable covery bas not failed to attract the attention of selencific men all over this country and Medical journals have given Paine’ pound much discussion. Paine’s celery is extensively used in all the large stitutions for sick and aged persons country. Today it stands unquestioned valuable and reliable remedial agent sictan's command for curing neuralgia, Gyspepsia, inability to sleep and Girsases beart, liver and kidneys. It is entire medical faculty. It is the g eatest spri-: medicine, Spring medicine worthy th@ name,” sician of the highest standing in the For languor, debility and all forms weakness it has proved ity invaluable and to si ty HK te & tions well and active. The famous Dr. Parr, who patriarchal grand old age, was say: “ ‘Now’ is the watchword of the is om the banner of the prudent.” celery compound “‘now. April is the most favorable time. i i ; Se fi i PSPSSPOOS SOD SS HOS SOPOT EK The Monumental. FASHION LEADERS IN FINE MILLINERY AT POPULAR PRICES. TRIMMED MILLINERY. Briefiy, this fine collection of Millinery em- braces the most elegant concelts in Trimmed Headwear. UNTRIMMED MILLINERY Bristles with the charm of all those odd wrinkles you look for bere. There's an almost endiess selection of Untrimmed Shapes. ‘There ts a big saving, too, in bis own every Hat. AND THE FLOWERS. The Flower section is a veritable hot house—you will think so. In count- less ways these Artifictal Flowers duplicate na- ture to per- fection. RIBBONS. The largest and most select assortment of Novelty and Plain Ribbons in the city. 939 F St. N. W. Suverrrrrrrrerrrrrrrr res JET TRIMMING, VEILING AND LACES. Greatest quantities, most complete variety. isi fentific Dentistry at Moderate Prices.” | : : Because We pa : Work Faster, That's the reason for our moderate prices. Produce the same quality of work quicker than other good dentists do—because our operators sre all ex- and because they are all special- POPC eee eee eee eee eeeeeeees The work shall satisfy you—we guar- antee that. The prices speak for themselves. Extracting... With g Cleaning. Silver fillings Gold, according to size. Set VERY BEST TEETH.S8 Crown aud Bridge work a specialty. Dental oAss’n, Cor. 7th and D n.w. In Baltimore—i N. Charles st. veeeeee . . . . . . . geecee See eeceooe i - SHOES To Measure, Fit Guaranteed, Why pay your shoenmker $7 or $8 to make you & pair of shoes which our us to make to your Any shape you want—Razor Toe, or Black. Com- fort, fit, style and workmanship guaran- teed in every pair. Drop in—take off your shoe—put it on a piece of paper, and let ug take the exact anatomical proportions of your foot. $5 is the tax. ,;929 F St. N.W. “Successor to Wilson & Carr."* | | i | apis Is Your Wife Happy, Or is she worrying because the house tsn't farnished as it should be? What possible ex- suse can you make to her for such neglect When you know that your credit is good here ANY TIME, for all the furniture you need? Credit, with us, ts simply ACCOMMODATION —wWe hold it out to you as an inducement for you to buy HERE. ft costs absolutely nothing —ho notes to sign, no interest to pay. We Sell Cheaper’ ON CREDIT Than You Can Buy Elsewhere For Cash. REFRIGERATORS. We sell the Gu patigeater because we believe they are BEST. Four carloads are here for you to select from—all sizes—all prices. BABY CARRIAGES. Heywood and Wakefield are the leaders—We have thom 27, the bundred—all ewest strles—just from the factory. Prices begin $2.50 and quit at $50. sis MATTINGS. ‘We have more Matting than any other house in the citr—come up and see for yourself. If you oon cool. clean floor covering that will Wear like iron—our “cotton is $ panirat like trot warp” is the thing. Our third floor is one great big parlor and con.aing almost a hundred suites. Your choles of * suite tm plush or hair cloth for $22.50. Qthers in Witton Rug. Tapestry, Brocatelle, c., at all prices—up to $200 a . BED ROOM SUrtES. > _— The suite we sell for $13 can't be matched at that price for cash anywhere else. You will find @ suite here at any price like paying. ELLANEOUS. We sell a six-foot Oak Extension Table for $3.50—the identical table sells for $3 in other stores. Woven Springs, $1 sold elsewhere for $3. Forty-pound Mattress, $7. Brussels Carpet, Sc. per yard. Ingrain Gepet, Se. per yard. All carpet made and laid free of cost—no charge for waste fn matching figures. Don’t Wait to Buy For Cash—You Can Do Better Here on Credit. GROGAN’ JAM MOT RED SE, 819, $21, 823 7TH ST. N.W., BET. H AND I STs. We close every evening at 7. ir ap? [Ree eR EEERERESESOSSSSS ES Baldness is Curable! Hundreds of unsolicited testimonials Prove that LORRIMER’S EXCELSIOR HAIR FORCER is the greatest remedy for Baldness ever Ciscovered. It will positive- | ly force a profusion of hair on the baldest head at any age, no matter from that cause the baldness arises, and after all Other remedies nave failed. It cures bald Patches, scanty partings, heir falling oui dandruff, scurf, weak and thin = and eyebrows.’ It will restore gray and faded to tts original color. It will abso- lutely produce a luxuriant th Whiskers and Mustaches ou the smooth cate skin, Its effects are truly marvé | Contains no dye, grease or any harunful ae. Price, 50c. anf $1 and sold by LORR In Washington: ACKER & KENNER'S PHARMACY, 1429 Pa. ave. apé-1m Who suffers with a corn or bunion in find IN. STANT AND PERMANENT relief by applying est face without injury to the most deli- ercdients. t bottle. red itimore, Md. MEXSEESES SESE SSS rere y Man or Woman ove of our adbesive bunion and corn shields, of bealing salve to every new patron. |Prof. J. J. Georges & Son, 4pll PARLORS, 1115 Pa. AVE. N.W. R-I-P-A-N-S TABULES REGULATS THE Stomach,Liver and Bowels and Purify the Blood. RIPANS TABULES are the best Medicine known for Indigestion, Biliousness, Head- ache, Constipation, ‘Chronic Liver ‘Troubles, Dizziness, lexion, Dysem tery, Offensive Breath, aud sil disorders of the Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Ripans Tabules contain nothing injurious te the most delicate constitution. Are pleasant to take, safe, effectual, and give tmmediate relief. - cents per bor. May be ordered through nearest drogetet, or oy mail. Sam ple free by mail. Address The Ripans Chemical Co., 20 SP UCE ST., NEW YORK CITY. FOR SALE IN WASHINGTON 4T Mertz’s Modern Pharmacy, CORNEK 11TH AND F 87s. felS3m Leeeeeeeeooos, +Nature’sRemedy For Chronic Dise A GUARANTEED CURE fpr Rheo- matisin, Gout, Stone in the Blatter, ‘Troubles and Liver and Ki@oey Diseases ts Otterburn Lithia Water. It neutralizes URIC ACID IN THE BLOOD—the prime cause of these dis- eases—and eradicates it from the #ye- a Indorsed by our leading physi- Aus. C7Half gal. bottle—delivered—2e. Write or telephone. H. E. Barrett, Agent, Shoreham Drug Store, 15th and H sts, and Drew's Drug Store, Conn. « and L st. aps SPSCESOSSESSSOOCOS DS A Pretty Foot Neatly Shod The Warren. See price list of oar SPRING OXFORDS bere below: Oxfords. Oxfords. Oxfords. Oxfords. Oxfords. Oxfords. Oxfords. Me. Enel about 40 diferent styles te ee The Warren Shoe House, Geo. W. Rich, 919 F St. ap2 The People’s Pavorite Pedal Studie. The American Catarrh Cure result of 26 years’ study and treatment isease. One bottle will convince the tical. Tt ts always ready for mee, ber douche nor atomizer. it restores ‘the hear ures the hawking cough and es the headache and nose at. ty For sale by F. P. MERTZ, mivi-s&iu3m 11th and F sts, Washiagwn, DG