Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1894, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SA SOME FAMOUS TREES Those That Have Been Planted by Distinguished Men. THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD For the Beauty and Variety of Its Collection. WASHINGTON’S PRIDE Written for The Evening Star. ASHINGTON HAS im recent years be- come famous throughout the world as the most beautiful American city, that chiefly because of its trees. And surely in this exu- berant season of mid- May it must be ad- mitted that this fame is well merited, for just now the trees of the capital are in Their fullest prime, and, in consequence, the city itself is without doubt more su- perbly beautiful and attractive than at any ‘Dther time in the entire year. It ts declared positively by authorities ‘om the subject that there are more trees hhere than in any other city on the globe. ‘Whether this be strictly true or not it fannot be questioned that Washington's Brees at least outnumber those of any other ity om the American continent, and in va- Piety, loveliness and perfection excel those be found anywhere else. There are near- 80,000 trees, all told, in our parks and @quares and streets, and the peculiarly fa- ‘vored conditions that characterize this city “fm the matter of cleanliness, structure and freedom from the grime and smoke dust of great manufacturing establishments, and the enlightened system pursued in the care and culture of our trees and shrubs, al! fonduce to the fullest possible perfection (pnd development of our arboreal wealth, ‘enabling each specimen and species to grow fwrith a degree of luxuriance and to attain ,@ size and majesty and completeness and ‘symmetry of contour that would be utterly fmpossible otherwise. Historic Associations. It is not surprising that among all these Moble trees there should be a goodly num- ber having historic and patriotic associa- tions. There are, indeed, many such, some {intimately identified with the lives and per- sonalities of great men in Washington, now {Mead and gone, and others connected with ‘the names of statesmen still living. | Om the south side of the White House erounds, on the lawn close to the execu- ‘tive green houses, are two beautiful little @r trees, planted by Benjamin Harrison ‘fm the spring of 1892, while President. One of them is only four feet high as yet, but it is 1g famously, and the other, six feet is also doing well and giving Ral pre of the handsome appearance it 1 present when fuliy matured. The “Thaddeus Stevens tree,” a magnifi- cent example of the perfection to which the oriental sycamore or plane tree can be brought, forms the central arboreal at- traction of Lincoln Park, on Capitol Hill. It stands just east of the bronze statue of Lincoln unshackling the slave, erected by the contributions of freedmen and freed- women, and there is a peculiar fitness in the incident which brought into such happy juxtaposition the monument of Lincoln and he living memorial of the great Pennsylva- Ria commoner in the popular branch of Congress, who held up the hands and the Policy of the martyr President so faithfully during the war. The tree was planted by Stevens in 1862, down in the Botanic Gar- den, but its roots being threatened with decay by the continued overflow of the “Tiber” In 1870, before that tributary of the Potomac was filled up, as at present, it was removed bodily to Lincoln Park, fifteen blocks distant, where it now thrives With wonderful vitality. Its topmost branch is fully ninety feet in the air, while its lower branches sweep the ground. With- Out doubt it is the grandest of ail the grand 3ycamores at the national capital. In the Botante Garden. But it is in the National Botanic Garden— that famous wonderland of beautiful trees and shrubs, of which Superintendent Will- 4am R. Smith is the chief magician—that the greatest collection of historic memorial trees extant in this country can be seen. It covers four blocks, from Ist street west to 3d street, and from Pennsylvania avenue nm the north to Maryland avenue on the south. Superintendent Smith probably knows more about trees, both theoretically and practically, than anybody else in the United States, and he loves trees almost as though they were endowed with human souls. He has been in charge of the garden ever since Millard Fillmore’s administra- tion, and for a generation back {t has been a tavorite fad of his to invite statesmen in Washington happening to visit the garden to plant memorial trees, of which he keeps an accurate record. At the east end of the garden, near the young Washington elm Planted by Senator Beck of Kentucky, is a great overcup oak, set out in 1861 by Sena- tor John G. Crittenden, the famous peace erator of Kentucky during the rebellion. Not far from it are two little cedars of Lebanon, planted from the seed—one in 1889, by Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, and the other in 1890, by his friend, ex-Senator Evarts of New York. Hard by is a good- sized Kentucky oak, planted some ten or twelve years ago by Congressman and Gov. Proctor Knott of the blue grass state. Near the center of the garden, and just south of the conservatory, tower two rare ¢ypresses, transplanted from Broad street, ia, in 1866, by Edwin Forrest, the actor, and John W. Forney, the influential Washington and Philadelphia journalist. A few paces to the west of these is the “Albert Pike tree,” an odd-shaped growth, known Masonle cassia, planted in’ 1882 by jen. Albert Pike, while occupying on of { of the Scottish Order, the highest rank of Masons. Between this and the main walk is a shapely jing ed by the late Senator Zebulon V North Carolina just about a year az e by this are two cedars, . Li and Senator Justin S. The Contacias-Dana-Cummings Tree. A stone's throw from the “Albert Pike tree.” and close by the western end of the Conservatory, is a young ling. ‘istened by Capt. Smith as the ‘onfucius-Dana- Cummings tree,” seven feet high It is a Chinese oak, and has a unique history, coi sidering its youth. It was planted st spring by Congressman Amos J. Cumming of New York, trom a stem presented to Superintendent Smith by Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, who had caused It to be raised by his talented gar- @ener, William Faulkner, at his country place on Long Island, from an acorn picked up from the grave of ¢ ‘u and forwarded by a frien in the flowery kingdom. It is doing rema: = Prog under the tender care it receive: ‘i om ‘S name is not likely to retard Further down toward the w: the garden is the “Holman tre na avel tern end of ."" a beauti- n fir, planted in the spring of he great objector or Watch dog of ury, who is still in active harness in Congress. It is now twenty-five fect tall and hundreds of cuttings hav. ken from it to ship tion of the spe country where it has In the vicinity of this j tree.” a small-leaved planted two years back Yon- k a de of New and near it is the “Garland tree, and | zelkova, ‘planted five years ago by Mr. A. H. Garland, President Cleveland’s first at- torney general. Over on the west side also is the “Black- burn tree,” a graceful big-leaved magnolia, set out by the Kentucky Senator in 1579. Not far from it is the “Bayard tree,” a red- leaved British oak, planted by the present American minister to the court of Saint James seven years ago, while he was serv- ing as Secretaty of State. The erman Tree. Near the west gate of the garden is the ‘Sherman tree,” a wholesome buckeye, planted by the senior Senator from Ohio tn the spring of 1891. It bears a tag on its stem to indicate its species. A dozen paces off is the “Frye tree,” a curiosly variegated “freak” maple from the Scottish highlands, planted two years ago by the Maine Sena- tor in the presence of Superintendent Smith, who happens to be of Scottish blood, and who stood by watching the operation in silent rapture and admiration. Turning eastward again, standing close behind Superintendent Smith's cottage or “keep,” is the “Frank Biair tree,” a hackle- berry, planted twenty-five years ago from a cutting brought from Kentucky by the elder Blair, who was President Anlrew Juckson’s powerful editor and advocate in control of the Washington Globe, and the father of Gen. Frank P. Blair of Missouri. intendent Smith calls it the “aecessity from the fact that the birds in the never go near it to eat berries or seeds until cold weather comes and no Letter food can be had. Out near the Soldiers’ Home, Robinson estate, is an anc | that was particularly affecte! Webster when he was a national Wasaington. on the ioeust tree by Daniel 1 figure in The friends whoia he visited A Glimpse of the Capitol Dome. on the place had a little platform built into the lower crotch of the tree for his especial ease and comfort, and in that shady retreat the great New England statesman used to spend hours at a time, on summer days, reading and meditating on affairs of public policy. Planted by Washington. But perhaps the most corspicuous and oldest among all these histcric memorial trees is one planted by George Washington, just a hundred years ago this spring. It oc- cupies a commanding position opposite the Senate portico, in the east park of the Capitol, scarcely a stone's throw from the marble steps. It is a superb specimen of the American elm, of gigantic proportions. Its gnarled trunk is covered with clinging ivy, and the whole growth, wonderfully symmetrical and well balanced, measures fully 100 feet in heicht. ar it, until . When the Capitol grounds were cut down and improved in their present shape, stood its twin, planted by Washington at the same time and close- ly resembling it in appearance. Superin- tendent Smith, who was also then chairman of the city parking commission, was deeply pained at its fate, for the edict had been issued by the grading commission that it be destroyed to make the landscape conform to the admirable design laid out and ex- ecuted by Frederick Law Olmstead. Ac- cordingly Superintendent Smith contrived to extract six live roots from it, and from these, by replanting, he produced what he regarded as legitimate heirs of the historic parent trunk. He distributed them among certain of his friends, who were particularly interested in trees, and they are now grown twenty-five feet tall. One of them, planted by the late Senator Beck of Kentucky fifteen years ago, can be seen at the east entrance to the National Botani Garden. Another one stands in front he Washington residence of Con- greasmu.ii Bourke Cockran of New York, on 16th street northwest—the house formerly occupied and owaed by Mr. George M. Robe- The Harrison Tree. son while serving as a member of Congress from New Jersey, after relinquishing his portfolio as Secretary of the Navy under President Grant. The tree was planted by Mrs. Robeson and Superintendent Smith conjointly in 1$S2,and it now gives a his- toric interest to the house it shades. A third can be seen at the residence of John W. Forney’s heirs in Philadelphia; still an- other flourishes at the home of Proctor Knott in Kentucky, and another at the home of ex-Senator Sargent in California, while the sixth one ts being jealously kept by Superintendent Smith for Gov. Alex- ander Shepherd, formerly the “Boss” of the District of Columbia under President Grant, when that silver magnate shall return from Mexico and settle down as an American citizen again. The Cameron Tree. Almost as prominent as the original Geo. Washington elm at the Senate side of the Capitol is another elm of less size, near the House entrance to the south, known as the “Cameron tree,” in honor of the late Simon Cameron, Secretary of War under Lincom, for many years United States Sen- ator from Pennsylvania, and father of the present Senator, J. Donald Cameron. While a member of the Senate committee on pub- lic buildings and grounds in 1878, Senator Simon Cameron intervened powerfully in its behalf, and prevented its destruction in the regrading process by effectively re- peating in the ears of the grading commit: | sion George P. Morris’ familiar line, “Wood- | man, spare that tree!” It had sheltered him | from the sun on many a hot summer after- | noon, when he lived across the street on New Jersey avenue, on the site now oc- cupied by the headquarters of the marine hospital service and the coast survey, and although it obstructed the principal path- way leading to the House of Representa- tives, near the southern terrace, it was | and has been permitted to live on account of the sentiment he entertained for it. The ground about it has been trimmed down and stone flagging built around it, so that it derives scant nourishment from the soll that is left, but still it survives, and forms a striking and beautiful object of interest to visitors approaching the House entrance from B street. The Sumner Tree. The whilom Charter Oak of Hartford, Conn., is justly celebrated in American his- tory, and the more or less apocryphal apple tree of Appomattox has recelved world- wide notoriety, but probably no tree ever received the publicity of such a splendid and eloquent advertisement as that given | to the “Sumner tree,” named after Charles | Sumner, and beloved and eulogized by the great Massachusetts Senator in a public address delivered in the Senate chamber on January 22, 1894, a few weeks before his death. It was a glorious specimen of the umbrageous classical Italian beech or horn beam, of the identical sort under which the ancient Etruscan shepherds used to tend their woolly flocks and tune their pastoral pipes. Until recently it occupied a_con- spicuous position near the old George Wash- ington elm, in full view of the Senate steps, but in the fatal regrading, with a number of other beautiful trees, it suffered damage, and some years afterward it pined and died. Sumner pleaded with the Senate in his speech to save it, and the grading com- mission did have regard for his dying | wishes, but by cutting down the earth around it and leaving it to stand on a rising knoll, its accustomed nutriment was some- how cut off, and it gradually became de- crepit and withered away, despite the care taken to preserve it. Its site is now mark. by a little hillock on the east lawn. | JOHN D. CREMER. ——-___. On Lodge hts. From Puck. “William,” observed the lady goat, “you look irritated.” “Yes,” rejoined her husband. “I wish I could divine the purpose of this Lease gan: se. Will they affect the bifurcated, or must I Wear a side saddle?” THE THUGS OF INDIA A Remarkable Sect Whose Religion Was Murder and Theft. HOW VICTIMS WERE KILLED Nine Millions of Human LivesTaken by the Organization. STRANGE CEREMONIALS > Written for The Evening Star. HE MOST AWFUL i] calendar of deliber- ate crime is that found in the official records of approvers’ confessions, i vorts made by officers of Thug police to the central court at Ju- bulp and the vocabulary of Rama- see, @ sect lan- suage, slang, or argot used by sass the: They need no rhetoric to make pressive, but to those who entert ventional ideas of morality and reiigion well as to stu. ts of criminal anthropol- ogy, the history of this society pres:nts certain phase: of human nature which they would do wel! to consider. The claim is made that the origin of Thugee was contemporary with the creation of mankind. Then a _ mighty demon devoured the human race as fast as it appeared. Kali, consort of Siva, came to its rescue, but when she cut down the destroyer, a new demon sprang from every drop of his biood. In this emergency “the great mother” formed two men from drops of sweat upon one of arms, and Providing them with roemals, or strangling cloths, sent them against the infernal proge- ny of the demon, whom they finally de- stroyed. Thus or Phansigars are the ée- scendants of this pair, and hy way of re- ward for the merits of their ancestors, Bowanee, Doorga, Kali, or Kalee Davey, as she is indifferently named, gave up the pop- ulation of che world, save some few excep- | tional classes, to be plundered and mur- dered at their pleasure. So runs the legend; but it is a fact that during three hundred years, beginning with the commence nent of the sixteenth century, about thirty thousand people were killed annually. No robbers have ever done murder on so great a scale, and there is no other instance of its haviag been committed with equal impunity. In explanation of the former statement it may be said that their organization was perfect their numbers great and their opportunities Practically unlimited. On the other hand, every Thug, from the Himalayas to Cape Cormorin and from the Indus to the Ganges, contemplated his crimes not only with calmness, but complacency. The omens be- ing favorable, all private responsibility ceased, and the murderer became the tn- strument of a divine will. Furthermore, Phansigars left no witnesses to testify against them; their country, without high- ways, or, in fact, any means of Intercom- munication, was pre-eminently adapted to the successful prosecution of criminal de- signs. They found allies and protectors in all classes of society, and that universal alism, which made men callous to the of strangers, also prevented them from endeavoring to trace friends or rela who had disappeared. If it was written that these should reappear, nothing could pre- vent it; if their kismet was evil, nothing could be done. Children in the Profession. Children among Phansigars are brought up to the profession of their fathers; that is to say, boys are thus educated, for the female portion of a Thug’s family not only take no active part in his misdeeds, but are very frequently ignorant of his real oc- cupation. But one woman is on record— “the wife of Bukhtawar, Jemedar of My- sore” — having, personally, participated in manslaughter. Taking any boy for @n example, the salient points of his training may be accurately described. He served a regular apprenticeship and the successive steps which were necessary in order to ar- rive at the grade of strangler are perfect- ly well known. At the age of twelve or fourteen years, according to his state of development, he freed from his moth- er’s control and accompanied the gang upon an expedition, the purposes of which were only partially explained. Appropriate sen- timents were carefully instilled into the neophyte’s mind; he saw nothing shocking, and the journey was made as pleasant as possible in every way. Gradually,the purport of this teaching was unfolded. Abstractly, the worthlessness of human life, the pro- priety of plunder, and those sacred obli; tions which omens imposed had been for some time subjects of contemplation. How he witnessed the places for murder end in- terment selected, heard that those travelers who joined his party and afterward disap- peared were dead, and, to some extent, be. came himself a sharer in their possession: Ultimately, the oath of the stranglers was administered, he saw an assassination, and was then prepared to start on another foray in the character of a Thug. Ready for Departure. When months of November, December, January and February—the gang prepared for depar- ture, and, as a necessary and invariable preliminary, performed the taking the auspices. A blanket or sheet was spread upon the ground in some suit- able spot, generally a grove near the vil- lage which they were about to leave (os. tensibly for purposes of traffic), and on this was seated a pundit (since Brahmaus fre- quently leagued with Thugs, as well as be- came their victims), the leader of the pro- jected expedition, and four Phansigars, all gtranglers eminent for their skill and piety. On this covering was also placed a brass plate holding rice, wheat, and two copper coins. Presenting this to the diviner, who bad previously consulted the stars, he was asked the result of his calculations, and he then communicated the lucky day and hour for their departure, as well as pointed out the direction which they should pursue. This ended the rite for the time being, and they dispersed to reassemble upon the day which had been pointed out. @ full lotah, or water vessel, by its mouth, and parallel with his right side, pressing a clean white handkerchief, tied breast, moved forward a short distance in the exact direction indicated by the priest. Then he paused, lifted his eyes, and with a spirit abstracted from all else than his rayer, he said: “Great Goddess! Universal other! If this our meditated expedition is fitting in thy sight, vouchsafe us help and the signs of thy approbation.” All repeated these words, and if within half an hour the pilhaoo, that is, the sight or voice of some beast or bird by which omens are given oc- curring on the left, was seen or heard {it be- came a sign that Kalee would lead them with her left hand. Should this be followed right, Bowanee offers both hands to her servants. Then the lotah was placed on the ground, and their leader sat facing in the direction chosen for seven hours, while his followers made their final preparations. For awhile the gang went forward in a straight line, but subsequently they march- ed at will. Each man now considered him- self commissioned to commit murder indefi- nitely; all were convirced that everything which would contribute to plunder and de- struction was perfectly justifiable, and this, says Gen. Sleeman, “every Thug believed from his soul.” It was a completely or- ganized and perfectly disciplined party. All the important parts were played by men who held their places on account of fitness for their respective positions. They adopt- ed ali kinds of disguises and supported the characters assumed inimitably. No false’or remature step was ever made, and when, yy means of their inveiglers, travelers had been induced to join them, all the prepara. tory details were arranged with a delibera. tion and skill that made failure nearly im- possible. Experienced murderers chose the place for attack in advance, skillful lugheas dug the graves beforehand, where they were well nigh undiscoverable, and when all was ready and their victims had been lulled into a feeling of absolute security by these unequaled actors, the leader gave the secret signal for the assassins to take their places, and then the order to attack. In an instant every ones were held by the proper season arrived—the remony of Having in the interval equipped them- selves for their journey, they reunited at the appointed place, and the leader, holding d also into five knots, containing turmerick, to his by the thibaoo, or similar auspice on the shumseeas and every throat was encircled vy the deadly roomal. Extermination of the entire party almost always ensued, for if any escaped the stranglers they were cut down by the swords of those associates de- tafled for this duty. Religious Rites. Scarcely was the slaughter over when the Thugs, who, as it has been said, were picus persons bethought them of their religious kind of communion service, one rupee and four annas’ worth of coarse sugar, or goor, were procured and laid, together with the sacred pickax and a silver coin, the roop darsun, or silver offering, upon a sheet or blanket. Then that leader present who was renowned for the sanctity* of his life and ts best acquainted with the ritual seated himself upon the sheet, together with as many actual stranglers a8 it would accommodate. They all face! toward the e party consisted of an even While the inferior members of the gang sat in silent devotion around, a small hole was ma”e by the officiating jeme- th and some goor dropped into after which he raised his eyes end hands to heaven ant salu: “Great goddess! | as you Vouchsafed one !akh and 62,000 r 8 to Joorna Naig and Koduk Bonwaree ‘Thug saints) in their neel, sotow we pray sprinkled over taining for They gave th for murder . goor was then tn silence SAS spoken one but the celebrant of the rite intil th hat been swalivwei and the members sext- el uron the ¢ bad taken a little wate | Then he offered a portion of the con inferior 1 fragment fully colle>t ut into tne hole and covered up. > Were not free cr those who hal n killed any one with their owa 1 not permitted to par- ticipate, but a erated goor wa portion of unconse- set aside for their benefit and consumel at the same tine. Should any unconsumei fragment of the sugar be overlooketi by a dog ft was believe! that t" ss’ resencment we endure for years, but if a man found an ate it he woul certainly become a Thug. “Let any mun,” sail the famous Peringeea, speaking to U: urt at Jubuipose, “once taste that rocr ant he will be a Thug, though he ww the trades and ha o'} the weetth fy the worlt, My father le _me taste this goor when I was a cre boy, and if f were io live a thovsand youre T shi never be able to follow any other trade. Diaciple cf a Thug. When the boy whom we hi e {magin- ed had been for some time in } Po- vitiate, after he had seen everything that was done. and proved himself apt, he was placed unde: the care of a tutor—left his father, and became the disciple (cheyla) of some distinguished Thug. This worthy re-enforced the morals he had been instructed in already, but most of all he taught that omens were revela- tions from on higi; that assassination was a sacrifice to Kalee, and that her victims all went to heaven. Is it not the hand of God that kills him. said the master. At the same time, dexterity in using the vomal was energetically inculcated. His first victim was carefully selected by the spir- {tual director spoken of, and while this 1n- fortunate sojourned in fancied security, the neophyte, accompanied by some veteran stranglers, was taken aside and placed so to face the direction in which the gang would move after this murder had committed. Then he joined in a prayer offered in his behalf. “O, Kalee! Great god- dess of Calcutta, may thy promise never be made In vain. If it seemeth to thee fit that the travele> now at our lodging should die by the hands of this thy slave, vouchsafe us the Thibaoo.” If the auspice occurred on the right, the Gooroo knotted a piece of silver in one end of a yellow and white handkerchief (for these were the goddess’ colors), while he stood facing toward the west. This, the classic knot, could only be tied by a regularly ordained person, and was different from the ordinary support to the hand constructed by amateurs. After the deed had been done, the new-made Bhurtotee bowed to his director and touched his feet. He also pe: there present. in gratitude for the gift of the roomal, which was equivalent to a diploma to practice, and likewise in ac- knowledgment of their aid and comfort during his trial. When the omen on the right had again been heard or seen, he un- tied the knot and gave the silver coin, to- gether with all the other silver about him, to his tutor, who expended a rupee and a quarter for goor to be used in the Tuponee sacrifice already described, and the rest (often added to by himself) in sweetmeats, which were eaten in token of rejotcing. The sacrifice was offered, if possible, under a neem, mango or byr tree; at all events, Is could not take place beneath any shade cast by the babul, sirsa or reonja. Except some subsequent entertainment of a purely eocial character, the initiation was now complete, and there was nothing further to be done. But, remarks Sleeman, “the relation he- tween gooroo and cheyla was ever after respected us the most sacred that could be formed. A Thug would often rather betray his own father than the gooroo by whom he had been knighted.” The Heretic Thug. Behold now this well-nigh incredible as- sociation of pious assassins again upon its way, seeking with indefatigable industry for prey; both Hindus and Mohammed:ns united in bonds of charity and brotherly love, doing their duty by each other in a manner such as all men might imitate, ob- serving the tenets of a common faith ex- actly, unseparated by the immemorial prej- udices of caste, undivided by their adher- ence to different and antagonistic religious systems. They destroy alike poor and soli- tary wayfarers, and parties, however large and well appointed, which they are able to overcome, and this they do not only with clear consciences, but without a transitory feeling of pity or regret—do so rejoicingly, and give thanks for the opportunity. There were, nevertheless, certain classes of men that their laws—that is, the revelations given by the goddess of destruction—forbade them to molest. To kill one of these was murder, and if any man had a horror of murder, it was a Th Such a wretch be- came once a Nagakurdena, one excom- municated by his own act, an outcast, as they themselves expressed it, on account of “the most dreadful of all crimes.” He was driven from his associates with curses, and they believed that his family was doomed to become extinct. Authorities differ to some extent in their lists of these exempts, and the records of judicial processes in Eng- Ush courts show that the southern Phan- sigars were more scrupulous than their brethren of the north in observing the rules concerning inviolability—such is the wicked perversity of human nature, that there were heresies even in Thuggee! e+ duties and hastened to offer the sacrifice | to Kalee. In this, which was an infernal | TURDAY, MAY 19, 1894—TWENTY PAGES, 15 WHEN ALL ELSE FAILED, Celery Compound Made Mrs, ‘Paine’s “O, I'm only a little nervous. I didn't use to be. 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It builds up the whole body, blood, nerves and tissues in a way that nothing | else has ever equaled. People get well who thougt- These Are Facts. “Del Ray” Is located on the Alexandria branch of the Pennsylvania railroad, five miles from Washington, and is by long odds the band- somest of all its suburban sites. PRICES ARE ONLY FROM $50 to $150 a Lot. Terms: $1 Down and From soc. to $1.50 Per Week. to Per Cent Discount for Cash. We pay the taxes, charg no interest and require no notes or mortgages. Streets and sidewalks are now laid, trees are all planted and other improvements are made at our expense. WE ABSOLUTELY GIVE YOU A Lot Free. ALSO TRANSPORTATION FOR ONE YEAR, BESIDES $100 IN GOLD, IF you COMMENCE A HOUSE AT “Del Ray,” WORTH $1,000, BEFORE JUNE 1, AND COMPLETE THE SAME BEFORE NO- VEMBER 1, 1894. WE ALSO Insure Your Life FOR THE AMOUNT OF YOUR PURCHASE, WHICH WILL BE GIVEN TO YOUR HEIRS IN CASE OF YOUR DEATH. 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If it were, the mar- riage license clerk would be compelled to retire from busines: So It came to pass that he proposed to her. That seemed nat- ural enough, but when she burst into tears he was greatly disturbed. “My darling,” he exclaimed,-as she came to his arms, “what is the matter? “IT am so superstitiou: she sobbed. “What has that got to do with your lov- ing me as I love you?” he asked, wonder- ingly. eulcal ‘Nothing, dear,” she wept. “And you do love me, don’t you?” “More than all the world; but I cannot at least, not now. you?” he asked very tenderly. “Oh, I can’t tell you,” and she burst into a fresh flood of tears. For a long time he coaxed and urged her to tell her fatal secret, and for a long time | she resisted all his importunities. At last she yielded. “You will not put me out of your heart entirely if I tell you, will you?” she pleaded. “Certainly not, my darling,” was his brave reply, for men under such cireum- | stances are not always in a hurry to take | Tisks, even if they do love. his, darling,” she said, hiding her manly bosom; “you are the thirteenth man who has proposed to me, | and I am afraid to accept you with that un- lucky number’s baneful influence hanging | over us.” | With a ringing laugh, in which there was only sunshine and joy and happiness, he | kissed her thirteen times and folded her in his strong arms. “That's all right, my own,” he almost shouted; you are the thirteenth girl I ha: proposed to, and that makes it a stand-off. And they lived happily ever after. PEEFLPFELOSS DESO SEESOSEEO THE MONUMENTAL Fashion Leaders in Fine Millinery. The good results are shored by our custcmers. Reduction in Trimmed Hats. ‘We announce the first big eut in the Prices of our Trimmed Hats, as follows: $3; WERE $3. $5; WERE $7. $8; WERE $12. $12; WERE $18. 120 DOZEN TRIMMED AND UNTRIM- MED HATS FOR LADIES AND MISSES, Corsisting of Fancy Swiss, English Braids, Matlon, Milan,Chinese,Leghorn. Fine Trimmed SAILORS, &c., from * Power Season. Our Flower display is marvelously attractive. 3 3 59 ° 3 My, rm rubber goods are dear at any price. Rubber Hose All sizes, all grades, all kinds, for garden, NOSE MEETS 'NOBZLES, FIXTURES. HOSE REPAIRED, — We are headquarters for these goods. Examine our stock before you buy, Goodyear Rubber Co., RUBBER GOODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION , 309 9TH ST. N.W., ABOVE PA. AVE. 1m MELVILLE LINDSAY, M, 939 F St. N.W. my14-6t* POPP OCOPOS IS OO D9ESSOOSTOD A SO Eve Married Woman Likes to have her house well furnished, but @ scarcity of cash Times steps in and Gefeats such an ambition. We want to 4 to the housekeepers of Washington that cai Isn't necessary in the furnishing of a house— nor is it necessary in obtaining low prices. Our Peerless Credit System Mukes a plaything of furniture bilis—a little money once a week or once a month wipes them out so easily that it is a re to J. No notes to sign, no such thing as interest—just a plain, simple promise. Credit with us is nothing more or less than AC- COMMODATION. Matting Leads in the list of wants, just pow, asd our enormous stock is a for hundreds of the newest warp “inserted” other Refrigerators Come next and we are “right at home” there, too—we sell the Gurney—because it's er the the price— Baby Carriages Are bere in endless variety—almost a bun- dred itterns—they are the famous H and Wakefield os. Prices begin at = stop at §50—plenty of stopping wee reliable $2.50 n. Compare these credit prices with the cash Prices of other ‘stores: -plece Solld Oak Bed Room Suite, $18. lendid Brussels Carpet, 50c. Reliable Ingrain Cat Oak Extension Tal Sold elsewhere for Hair Mattress, $7. Sold else- where for $12. Woren Wire Springs, $1.75. Sold else- MAMMOTH GREDIT NHOUSE, 19, 821, $23 TTH ST. N.W., BET. B AND 1873. myl GRATEFUL—OCOMPORTING Epps’s Cocoa. BREAKFAST. “By a knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and mutri- tion, and by a careful application of the fine prop- ertice of well-sclected Cocoa, Mr. Eppe. bas vided FOR OUR BREAKFAST AND A delicately favoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors’ bills. It is by the judicious use of owe god diet & constitution may be gradually built up until st to resist every. tendency to Cisense. Hundreds. ot subtle maladiés are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point, We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves Yell fortified, with pure blood apd ‘properly nour ished frame."—Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold -pound tins, by Grocers, labeled thus: Jakes EPPS € 00. Tia. wt thie Che: AMES .. Lid., Homoeopathic Chemists, London, England. 2-6, m,tuly DRUNKENNESS OR TH > LIQUOR HABIT POST tively cured by administering Dr. Haines’ Gol- s Tt can be given in a cup of coffee or tes, or in food. without the knowledge of the patient. It is absolutely harmless, and will effect a permanent cure, whether the patient is a moderate drinker or an alco- holic wreck. It has been given in thousands cases, and in every instance a perfect cure followed. It never fails. The system once !m- ated with the Specific, it becomes an uttar mmpossibliiey for, the, liquor appetite to extst. GOLDEN SPECIFIC CO., Props., Cincinnati, Ohio. Particulars free. To be had of F. S. WILLIAMS & ©O., and F sts. n.w.; 8. F. WARE, under Evitt House, Washington. my12-tu,th/sSm* wee eeercecrerscocccoes . :There’s Not a Woman: :So Good Looking ‘That she can afford to dispense with oe ° | & H 2 . E 8 5 prettily dressed hair affords. 7'We curl, shampoo, cut and ar- eee range hair in all the latest styles and at moderate charges. 3S. Heller, 720 7th St. * myl8 ° ° feeeeccosore Soe rorcesecesesesesessces Beautiful Women Know the value of a thick, soft, glossy suit of hair to “set off” their other charms. DR. BUCKLAND'’S HAIR TONIC promotes the growth, prevents the hair from falling out and keeps the scalp in a healthy condi- tion. Large bottle, here, only 50c. Sam’!T. Stott, 505 Pa.Ave. NATIONAL HOTEL DRUG STORE. myiT Interior Paints. 1 am now prepared to offer a fine line of CLEAR-TONED INTERIOR PAINTS — for side walls, ceilings or wood work In rooms} harmonizes perfectly with the colorings of wall paper, dries with a FLAT FINISH; made ‘in eight beautiful Unts, Call and examine color card. WRANCIS MILLER, ap2+-tu,th,sim 307 tb at. To worried women, just as to business men | staggering under Snancial adversity, comes nerv- ousness and final breakdown, “I’ am not ill Leighton and Her folly and thoroughly try it. For rheumatiom is the one true specific, i E l it i . e sf f i a 1 s i i g. if In STERLING SILVER. STERLING SILVER GOODS WILL BE SOLD AT ONE-THIRD VALUE HOM gy Key Rings, Bookmark: Hat Marks, Glove Buttoners, Tootb- Pick Holders, Hat Pins, 50 Mosic Stripe, Was Soaventr Spoons, Berry ' Forks, ._ Silver Rings ‘set with Turquoise, 75 Indi- Vidual Rutter Plates, Individual Tea- spoons, Cut Glass Smell Salts, Link Sleeve Buttons, Napkin Sword Pins, Stamp Cases, Shoe Buttoners, ‘Tags, Orange Spoons, Files, Satchel Hair Pins, $1.25. Spoons, ' Collar- . Garter Buckles, it ‘hd Salts, Berry Spoons, $2.00. Chain Bracelets, $2.75. Half dozen Tea Miniature Pins, Half dozen [ for engraving. We can show you 100 @ifferent de- signs in School Medals at special low ices, Pr Sterling Silver Me@als from Tc. up. Gold from $1.50 up, inch Tlanufacturing Jeweler, 1012 F St. | On every dozen bottles of Cali- fornia Claret you buy here. The identical wine we've been selling for $8.50 we now sell for $2.50 a @ozen—an unheard-of price for California's choicest production— but on account of “hard times” ‘we bought at our own price anf prefer to give our patrons the extra dollar and “move” it rapidly to keeping it in stock for some time and selling it at the regular price. C7'But if you ‘want that extra dollar you must be quick. Many are stocking their cellars—and the sales of the past few days have already Call, write or telephone. | G. G. Cornwell & Son, Choice Groceries and Table Laxuries, \1412=1414 Penn. Ave. +You Can Pi" DEREREREE REA EE EERE SERRE E EST “Scientific Dentistry at Moderate Prices.’ Gift Giving, Like charity, should begin at home. Don't give 2 big price for dental work. All that you pay over $8 for @ set of teeth is a clear gift to the dentist Perhaps he can wake good teeth at that price, bat that’s his lookout. We make the very best rubber plate teeth for $8 a set. We take merely what we earn. Pancy ices and gifts “are not dreamt in our philosophy.” Extracting . With gas or zon0. Cleaning . Silver Ali Gold, according to i VERY BEST TEETH, $8. Crown and Bridge work a specialty. US Dental oAss’Nn, ony Pp of CXERRERERERERERERESEO SOS EY Cor. 7th and D n.w. In Baitimore-1 N. Charles st. msT SOP RP eee eee ee eeseessesreeeseeeeeeees cXeeaEED