Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1894, Page 16

18 : NAVY ORGANIZATION A Plen Proposed to Correct Stagna- tion in Promotion. THE “HUME” AND WHAT I? HAS DONE To Reduce’ the Friction Between the Line and Staff. THE MARINE BAND (camel nem Written for The Evening Star. ONGRESS, AT ITS = next session? will =~ Ficbably pass a bill reorganizing the navy. The most im- portant feature of the proposed meczs- ure will be a provis- fon establishing a flow of promotion, which is now 80 blocked that men nearly fifty years old are still leutenants. ‘There will be no chance for them to obtain command of ships until they are too old to undertake newly such responsibilities. To command a modern warship requires qualities far higher than were needed by the captain of a sailing frigate twenty-five yeurs ago. The fighting vessel of today is the most complicated product of human in- genuity. It is filled with every form of applied science, including novel machinery, high-speed engines, new types of guns and new kinds of powder. Nearly every part of the whole apparatus fs a recent invention. ‘The c@mmanding officer must understand everything perfectly. He is responsible for everything. The fires cannot be lghted, the engine wheels cannot turn, the ship cannot be moved, not a cent can be paid for supplies without his authority. To be able to.direct in battle such a machine, three or four times as big as any in the service a quarter of a century ago, re- quires a cool head, great executive ability, and other qualities not generally to be found in elderly men who have not had early training in command. ‘The mere habit of command acquired by its long-continued exercise is necessary for the successful performance of the du- ties of a commanding officer. The success of a ship in battle depends almost absolute- ly upon one man. He must act for him- self. ‘Che admiral of a fleet cannot con- trol his ships as the general of an army Girects his subordinates, for obvious rea- sons. Stagnation in pr motion is hard on the Officers, but it is a small evil compared with the danger to the country resulting from a lack of experienced captains. The navy is rimarily a machine for war, and its ef- fectiveness as such is seriously impaired, it is claimed, by the trouble referred to. The St at present is that all the men ming into command rank are close upon ty years of age. In future years, If noth- ig be done, this age will increase until ost of those who becoi commanders ill be fifty-four or fifty-five years old be- re reaching that grade. The cause of the trouble ts to be found something that happened during the ivil war. From 1861 to 1867 enormous flasses were entered at and graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis. iome of these classes numbered ar high +8 50 members. For the suke of illustration, wt the navy be represented by a series of iteps. Each step is occupied by a class from ‘An iapolis and therefore represents year, the classes being graduated annu- Obviously, by the operation of the w of retirement, one class vanishes from 1@ top every year and a new class comes at the bottom, all of the other classes ving up a step. Thus the flow of promo- is absolutely regular. Due to the “Hump.” Unfortunately, however, this is not the tual situation. The great classes grad- ted during the war times occupy several as many steps as they ought to. One Class, instead of holding one step, occupies four steps, and so on. Thus the classes below are kept back, the Meutenants are gray-haired before they get out of that grade, and away down on the list are en- signs thirty-four years old. The great classes constitute what is called the “hump.” They fill up at present the en- tire grades of commarder and lieuten- nt commander, as well as the first one hundred places on tho list of lieutenants. They are all pretty nearly the same age. ‘Thus, before long we shall have, it {s as- serted, admirals and lMeutenant comman- Gers who differ very little in age and length of service. ‘There will come a time, a little more than ten years hence, when the law com- pelling retirement at sixty-two years of age will sweep these men off of the active list by wholesale. Then will ensue an ex- traordinary transformation scene. The officers who now are below the hump will be rushed up through the various grades with almost ridiculous celerity. They will find themselves captains of great ships-of- war before they have had time to learn hov to command small vessels. Huge battleships—foating fortresses that cost $5,000,000 to build—will be commanded by men who have had very little experience in such tremendous responsibilities. It is @ perilous situation to look forward to. The Plan Proposed. A naval board, appointed to consider the situation, has made to Congress certain j recommendations, which will be the basis of the bill passed for doing away with the existing trouble. A part of the “hump” ts composed of twenty-four officers, who, by reason of merit, were taken into the reg- ular service from the volunteers after the war. They are to be set aside as supernu- meraries. This does not mean that their rank, pay or promotion will be interfered with. The privilege of voluntary retire- ment will be granted to them, but they will not be required to retire until they h sixty-two. In this way, while in- i them not at all, twenty-four va- cancies will be created for promotions. Whereas at present there are sixteen ad- mirals and commodores, the latter grade it is proposed to wipe out entirely, and there will be twenty admirals. ‘The number of captains—now forty. vill be increased f aber of promo- ar. If there are ancies in the higher grades for the d promotiuns, d, sed of admirals, lect officers for compulsory retire- e marine corps, if the report of the 1 is adopted, is to be done away with. ‘That 0 ‘More enlistments are to be made. it 1S believed that the time has gone by when marines are required on board ship to keep the sailors in order. Bluejackets will take their boa and ke places on ship- the duty of guarding navy yards shore stations, now performed by marines, will be assigned to a corps of watchmen = appointe from the marine corps and the at large. For this work will be chosen enlisted men of more than twenty years’ service. They will get $70 a month, ‘and at the end of ten years mitted to retire om a penston of S$ graduated In it be transferred taking the rank The other and 3 end 1883 and sub: to the line of the na hey had on gra¢ will the navy, as ed, will be reduced from 188 to eighty will be assigned to ty of superintending the designing tion of eng shore. The ~ 103 wil! be transferred to the ‘To do 2 the work whi n they have done on board ships, warrant €ngineers will be employed, men being Icxed for this purpose from clvil life, hey will recelve $0) a year, which will 2 Increased to $1,600 with length of serv- ie. At sixty they will be retired with three-quarters pay, puraber of naval surgeong will be ed. No more paymasters will be en- fe from oivil te. The number of Masters now on the Hst will be reduced by Maxing only ong promotion for every two Petirements. Officers of the line will be THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17, 1894-TWENTY PAGES, —<— assigned to act as paymasters, giving bonds for $20,000. Expense of Entertaining. At present there are not enough enlisted men to man the ships of the navy that are in commission. The-‘war vessels are all working with reduced crews. The total number of bluejackets allowed by law is about 7,500. There ought to be at least 13,000 when all of the new ships are finish- ed. Young sallofs now go through a pre- liminary course of traming at Newport school. After a few months of Instruction there they are sent to sea on a training ship. It is hoped that before long all of the bluejackets enlisted-in the navy will begin with this course of training. It Is proposed to allow to rear animals commanding fleets and squadrons $2,000 per annum for entertaining. Captains of sea- going ships are to receive ten per cent ex- tra pay f6r the same purpose. Our naval commanders hitherto have always been obliged to pay for such things out of their own pockets. When Admiral Walker went to Europe with the white squadron, he and his oiticers were feted everywhere. Doze of dinners and balls were given in his honor. His official position obliged him to reciprocate. This cost him a great deal of money, and he sent in the bills to the Navy Department. In refusing to pay them, the controller of the treasury wrote to him eaying that such expenses constituted one of the penalties which an officer of the navy must pay for high rank and com- mand. Dinners on shipboard are somewhat less costly,it is true,than at an hotel on land.The commanding officer 4#- provided with a cook and steward. But champagne and cigars, as well as food, are just as expensive. ‘The naval officer is not At liberty to decline invitations, because to do so would be ul civil. He is entertained and must enter- tain in return in his official capacity. It is the same way at every port visited. If Admiral Meade should go to Lisbon with a squadron, the king and queen of portugal might come aboard, and it would be neces- sary to treat them becomingly. Nobody would suppose that théir majesties were being entertained at the expense of the admiral. Other governments make allow- ances for entertaining to their naval com- manders. English flag officers get from $5,000 to $8,000 a year for what are called ‘table expenses.” ‘The Marine Band. A feature of the reconstruction plan is the reorganization of the Marine Band. It is proposed to increase the number of mut cians from thirty to sixty. The highest pay for musicians is now $38 a month and rations. This will be increased to $0. The bandmaster now receives $04 only; this stipend will be raised. It is very hard to get capable musicians at the rate of pay now allowed. There has never been such a demand as now for good performers. Several large manufacturing concerns have bands of from thirty to seventy-five musi- clans, who are assigned to light employ- ment In the factories. Theatrical musicians receive from $15 to $42 a week. ‘The Marine Band is a national institution. It is ordered.for duty on all public occa- sions in Washington or wherever the g0vVe ernment may require its services. It ought, it ts claimed, to be equal to the national military bands of other countries, such as that of the Grenadier Guards of England, the Garde Rr ublicaine of France, the Prussian Gua.ds and the Russian Mounted Guards. These bands have from fifty to ninety men each. Some South American governments have bands of sixty to eighty pieces. Even Japan and Turkey have well- equipped bands. —_—_ MET DEATH IN THE ALPS. Climbers, Tied To- gether, Were Dashed to Death. From the Chicago Herald. The latest victims of ambition to climb the Matterhorn were Andreas Seiler, a tourist, and Johann Biener, a guide. They belonged to a party of five and, being a Uttle more venturesome, had gone ahead. One of the surviving three tells of the ac- cident as follows: The others were only five mizutes ahead, and we had reached a difficult spot and were standing in steps cut at the top of a small patch of ice, at an angle of 50 de- grees and close to rock, when Mooser call- An Accident on the Matterhorn. ed out, “Beware of stones.” We pressed up close to the rock and listened, when the two (Seller and Blener) shot past us. We were all three close together, and Mooser could have touched them with his ax. They were tied together. Seiler pass- ed close to us, bis back downward, his head well bent up, as if he were preparing for a sudden shock. Biener flew far out stretched tightly between them. They fel on to the Glacier du Lion, and when the bodies were recovered they were still tied together. With both the crown of the head was cut away, as though it had been done by a sharp instrument. Seiler’s watch was crushed and his left boot was missing, although the foot was uninjured. How the accident happened will never be known, as no one saw them slip. I am inclined to think that Seiler was climbing at the same time as Biener, instead of waiting until he had a firm hold, and that the former slipped, jerking Biener off his feet. I am strengtheued in this belief by the position of the two as I saw them fly past. GREW LIGHT. KNAPSACKS The Greater the Soldier the Heavier the Load He Carried. From the Kingston Freeman. John S. Bray has received from a vete- ran of the one hundred and twentieth regi- ment a present of a Knapsack carried by Adam Imhoff during a portion of the civil war. This knapsack stirred up the remi- niscences of a number of old soldiers in Mr. Bray's store, and they told of their experieuces carrying a knapsack and its weight of material necessary for the com- fort or conventence of the soldier, and the change of ideas of the private soldier as to what was really necessary for him to carry during a march. The weight usually carried by a soldter when in marching and fighting trim was a gun, forty rounds of cartridges, and an eight or ten-pound knapsack. When the green soldier first started out of camp this knapsack usually weighed about twenty- flve pounds. Hach mile of the march took off a few pounds until nothing was left except what was absolutely necessary. Of course he was not allowed to throw away his gun or ammunition. He clung to his coffee and rations, but when he got really tired he would occastonally throw away’ his overcoat and his bia One veteran said threwn a my knapsack. A man who threw away his overcoat and blanket was not apt to do that more than for it entailed a great deal of hard- Mr. Bray satd that when he started out once for a march he and his mess comrades became so disgust- ed with the wetght of their knapsacks that they couldn't see what was the nse of car- rying @ Dig overcoat and a blanket, so they threw them away, and when night came eight men were only able to muster one blanket among the lot, which they used by turns, aa they slept in the open air. ——_—_—_+e-—— Would if It Were Wicked. From the Hudson (N.Y.) Register. Lucy (single)—“Do you think ft is wicked to smoke, dear?” Fanny (married)—“No, dear, I'm sure it isn't.” “Lucy—"Why are you so sure?’ Fanry--“Because my husband doesn’t smoke, and if it was wicked, I'm sure he would do it.” Way, I have actually a sheet of paper to ligaten MAN LEADS PRYSICALLY. a : No Animal to Compare With Him in Feats of Endurance. From the Cleveland Leader. Last Saturday in a bicycle raco at Lon- don an English rider named Green made the astonishing record of fifty miles in 1:56:45 4-5. His average speed for the entire distance was almost exactly two minutes and twenty seconds to the mile,a faster rate than any rider had ever attained for a sin- gle mile only four year years ago. Even now the most wonderful feature of this great feat of endurance and strength is the slight difference between the average time for each mile of fifty and the fastest mile ridden under like conditions either by The same man or by any other athlete. has never been a mile ridden in a on a bicycle in any country in les: than 2:05. It is not probable that the hero cf the record-breaking ride just reported from London has ever gone a mile race in less than 2:10. It is evident, therefore, that he had ridden fifty miles within about ten seconds to the mile of the fastest time he ever made in a race for a single mile, end that the difference between the average time for very mile of a fifty-mile race was only about fifteen seconds, or thirteen per cent, more than the best record ever made pall @ single mile by any rider in competi- “te “need hardly be hve that any such en- durance in 1s entirely unknown among the lower animals which move on land. It is very doubtful, indeed, whether there is a bird which can fly for two hours at a speed so nearly approaching its greatest pace for two minutes. ‘Lorses and dogs are utterly incapable of approximating such sustained No antelope or deer could live through so tremendous a strain. Neith- er could any wolf or fox maintain so nearly his best pace for a mile through a steady run of fifty miles. As for many quick and powerful heasts of prey, like lions snd tigers, they are not able to keep up thgir swift leaps for more than « short distance. The ostrich exhausts itself in a few minutes of running at its highest speed. These comparisons are only one more fl- lustration of the fact that man, although much written down as an animal. by thoughtless or ill-informed persons, {s in many respects the superior, merely in feats of strength and endurance, of all the living world. He is not able to lead in many sin- gle tests, but if a great, all-round athletic contest could be arranged for all animals, represented by the best individuals of every species, man wouid surely win against all competitors. Some would outrun him. Others would beat him in carrying and lift- ing weights. Still others would outswim him. The monkeys would easily defeat him in climbing. None could match him in throw- ing. None could go so many miles in a week or a month. Only the apes could com- pare with him on trapeze hars, and few liv- ing creatures could climb a rope as he could. The animals which could beat him in high jumping could not keep up in many other contests. In wrestling and fighting, where man {gs ofien considered least able to hold his own against the beasts, a Sandow would be more than a match for many creatures commonly deemed very formidable. the man being entirety unarmed. ‘The grend average would certainly give man first place. ‘The truth {s that there are many animals powerful in muscles and able to accomplish many remarkable feats, which are not to be compared to man in the capacity of their hearts “id lungs, in proportion to their size. Therefore, the human animal is the most enduring of all, and his bodily equip- ment, merely in matters of strength, skill and prolonged exertion, is the best known in the whole animate world. NG iINDOO GIRLS, Beginning at Seven, She’s an Accom- plished Housewife at Fifteen. From the Chicago News. The greatest care and anxiety of the Hin- doo mother is to bring up her daughter to home life and to make her a good house- wife. When a girl is seven years of age the mother teaches her to cook and to wash the pots. Hindoos have two kinds of washing. One ts the daily washing of everyday ap- parel, for the clothes are changed every morning after bathing. Every Hindoo must bathe before he takes his meals. Religion requires that no food be cooked before the person who cooks it has bathed. Hence every woman must bathe before she cooks. A woman first gives a bath to her children, then she takes a bath herself and thereaf- ter goes to cook. The clothes are changed and washed every day. The little girl washes the smaller clothes on a stone and hangs them for drying. She assists her mother in many small things; TRAIN she sweeps the kitchen, she fetches the utensils, she cuts and slices vegetables, she pounds and grinds the spices, she takes out the small pebbles from the rice and cleans it in water, and in short she does all the petty work, assisting her mother. If she has an infant sister or brother she feeds it and lulls it to sleep in the cradle. She gathers flowers and weaves them into wreaths with which the Hindoo women adorn their hair. The mother teaches her to sew and to em- broider and to make her toilet, which is simple. She has no paint for her cheeks and no hooks and thorns in her hair. She adorns her hair with ornamental flowers made of gold. These are fixed on the knot of hair. A small round mark of red paint ig made on her forehead. The absence of this mark from the forehead of a woman indicates that she is a widow, for widows have not the privilege of wearing it. By the time she is fifteen she learns all things per- taining to general housekeeping and cook- ery. —— Written for Tho Evening Star. Love and a Day. Clasped hand in hand at dusk of dawn, My love was young; we wandered where ‘The dewy curtains night had drawn Were rift and scattered gossamer; Where the wak’ning note of the daylight thrills And morning smiles on the sleeping hills. ‘Then far afield we Joyed to stray, Adown the shadow-kissing stream, When yet the breath of joyous day Made glad the morning's golden dream, And shafting sunglints filt'ring through Flashed emerald from the lingering dew, At wanton noon we sat us down; ‘The day’s white heat was in the alr; I caught the light from her eyes earth-brown, The sun's red glow from her rose-sweet hair, I thought (poor fool) that time was done And love would last from sun to sun. And all the russet afternoon We had no thought, nor time a place, Until a chilling wind eftsoon Made cold the light in my love's face, For down the gilding of the west ‘The day was faint and fain would rest. Then came the purple evening on, The dim light flaked the forest floor, ‘The spirit of the day was dend And darkening sliadows brooded o'er, brinking, clasped my love's cold hand To lead her from the twilight land. ‘The sun burned down the night came on, My face was wet with gathering dew. I held her close to my chilling heart, But my pulseless soul no rapture knew. “I fain would rest,"’ ske faintly sald. ‘The light has gone—my love is dead. —W. H. CHAN__EB. —_- oo The Pharisee Nation. From Kate Field's Washington. To redeem “Darkest England” General Booth has come to this country to collect threo hundred thousand dollars! His scheme of home colonizing, manufacture and tilling of the soll has already ab- sorbed $650,000, raised in England. He is in debt, however, and tells his story to us, hoping to soften the heart of some millionaire. May his hope be realized, but what a commentary on England is the presence among us of General Booth in the role of a beggar for humanity's sak Think of ft. England {s the richest coun- try in the world. All nations pay tribute to Her. She is everybody's creditor. She loans money to China and Japan, and Egypt and North and South America, and grows fat on the interest that is often wrung from her debtors at the point of the bayonet or with the lash of the whip. She has so much capital as to conquer continents and islands in order to invest jt, and yet she lets General Booth appeal to one of her largest debtors for a miser- able three hundred thousand dollars, though his Human Redem mption soheme ro- turns a profit of three an half per cent {n cashle What would England say if an rican Booth crossed the water to for three hundred thousand doll: afew which to save the souls’ of our c: minnie the majority of whom are products of Europe, and largely British? PASKOLA VINDICATED Gross Ignorance Exposed a Its Value and Healthfulness Fully Established. E The results obtained by certs certain professed ghomiets far trom in an attempt to amnalze Paskola are so ‘the truth that we have every reason to believe the Derpetrators to be.tp the employ oy of rival manufae- possi le incorentea Hons of cod liter oll, whose business has been injured by the merited larity of Paskola, is suspicion is hened the the following * expert- ment: two pint tot- nent: tabicpeeatl oe a of drops of murtatic or bydrochlorte acid, in order to imitate’ the acidity of tbe natural asi previously fin Baa quantity “of ase or raw lean beef,chick- en, bo warm water and carefully mal at a temperature of 100 to 105 frequently” shaking in order to. thoroughly, expose the food to the action of the solutions In the course of a very short time the contents of the bottle containing Paskola will be seen to, un; — a ——, and tn two or three hours the food have become entirely dissolved or digested; Mhereas the contents of the other bottle contatning the glucose and acid will show no change bey @ slight difference in appearance. If you have neither beA facilities a the tnclina- {lon (to, make the test for ourself, we have no doubt’ that your druggist will he glad to try" the experiment. The tubes herewith show the results of a test made in our own laboratory, the cuts be- tng, from a photagiaph, No. 1 contained glucose and No. 2 Paskola. What are we to conclude? ‘One, of two things; ether that the so-called “‘cheim- Ista norant or dishonest. no digestive properties. This 1s a well-known fact, whereas Paskola is giving relief to thousands of dyspeptics, a truth attested by the Unsolicited testimonials. tha in upon us. The test. in a pure form, only way to determine their presence 1s ‘by obsev- ing the effects which they produce upon food. This 1s a fact recognized by every authority, and will be found stated in Foster's Physiology and other standard works. Another thing which these ignorant end Jeatous rivals have said about Paskol that inasmuch as its basis is pre-digested starch, it is calculated to encourage diabetes. We cannot better answer this charge than by quoting @ paragraph from a report made to 7. aor Gilroy of New York by Dr. Cyrus Edson, com “is- sioner of health for whe city of New York and for the stete of New York: “Pre-digested starch ts starch tn the exact condi- ton that we find it prepared by the digestive or — for assimilation. La -eminently a fat- forming, heat-producing food, ‘Under 8 diet of pre: digested starch or glucose a man can perform more muscular work thag under any other single article of food. Pre-digested starch not only is not in- Jurious, but it ix ao essential article os food, with- out which In sore an man cannot enjoy life."" ‘This letter from De. Edson was written in answer to an inquiry from: the mayor as to whether or not pre-digested starch was healthful. Paskola contdlns speclal form of -pre-at- ested starch as well as lizestive ferments, and digestion of other toois in the stomach, Just as you may see a the Above experiment. ‘The tired, feeble stomach of fs too jo its duty. the Rate weak well - strength, Tiger and Sourabe. ‘The rapidly gain In welght under its Con- sumptives use. will expe- rience a thousand times more than benefit. from it om the use of nauseat- , Which harm ‘Consump- prove fa- 6 on. Send. for ovr About this wonderful preparation. interesting pamphlet and learn We will gladly “io, tign application. “THE 80 Reade street, New you a copy free, DIGESTED FOOD ¢ They Are Devoted to Society and to the Cigarette. From the New York Herald. Is smoking among women here to stay? In the homes of the best soclety, where a few years ago the feminine cigarette was puffed in hidden corners and bolted and barred recesses, it has now come to be openly smoked, and is as much the finale to a feminine luncheon or a mixed dinner as the cup of black coffee. No married woman in society who means to be considered at all fin de slecie neglects her Cigarette. But to speak the truth of New York women, they don't allow their daughters or enecurage their young un- married sisters to smoke. Not, they will tell you, because they consider there is anything inherently wrong in smoking it- self, but simply because they regard it as one of the luxurious distractions which become necessary only after the nerves bave undergone a certain wear and tear. Women fully launched, drift into smoking as they drift into fifty other things which, as girls, they would think it a mistake to cultivate, The confidence lately developed in New York women has been drawn straight from England. There the women of highest rank all smoke, and from the day they adopted the habit have never cared to make the smallest secret about it. They didn’t need to, for the example was first set from the home of royalty itself. Dagmar, Empress of Russia, when she vis- ited her sister, the Princess of Wales, was the first to set the habit. She had acquired it in Russta, and when she found no ladies’ smoking recom at Sandringham she request- ed the draperies of her beudoir re noved, so that she could smoke there. She did it so deliberately apd daintily, yet with so much zest, extolling as she did so its delights and benefits so far that even the princess was soon wen over. Soclety followed with astonishing ease ard rapidity, and thence- forward amopg women the cigarette was the thing. Lady Churchhitl and Her Cigarettes. When ‘Lady, Randolph Churchill paid her last visit here:she took gccd care to carry her cigarette’case with her. Not every woman here Smoked, she knew, and those who did were doing it more or lees sub rosa. ‘Wherever she appeared to luncheon she ask- ed permission ‘to smoke afterward. Only a few had the courage to join her, and the others went about saying to each other, “Only to tHink of it; Jennie actually smokes!” Lady Randolph said in public, “Why, of course I smoke; every nice wo- man in England smokes.” And then the New York women plucked up courage and said, “And a very good thing, too; let's do {t ourselves.” So they did. Some women have already gone so far as te have smoking rooms fitted up for them- selves, but the majority use their husbands’ and, after a accept the cigarettes when passed round by the footman, remain- {ng to smoke them withthe gentlemen. From this it must not be inferred that they cross their feet or put them up on the table, filing them forwerd fle they loll back fr their chair,or necessarily adopt any other attitude unbecoming a woman of nice re- ge They simply enjoy their little weed @ pretty, chio, x ceful way, and a pretty ‘woman néed neve? look more femining th than when she does it. Her ease and daintiness, too, in the matter will be a pretty g: test of olr-faire. Not be up to the and have Four work executed by Sor DOSES. ‘S10 FINISH—the clear, white, pli- able finish, and bid farewell for- ever to the old-time GREASY * GLOSS and BROKEN EDGES, ,v We lead—all others are imitations. Godfrey Laundry, _ 1807 F ST. TELEPHOND 592. o-oo .W. Boteler & Son Heve opened their LATEST IMPORTA- TION of DINNER, TEA and GAME GRAVED GLASSWARE, BRIC-A-BRAO and GOODS sultable for WEDDING PRESENTS, PIANO and BANQUET LAMPS. Bole agents MCCONNELL’? G eS ‘PROOF FILTERS. J. W. BOTELER & SON, 923 Penna. 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You have simply to “TOE THE 30.75 Bearing UNCLE SAM'S indorsement, and you'll get the garment to “fill the bill.” —Add seventy-five cents to that amount and we'll furnish “Blizzard Blinkers." Cheviots, Tweeds, Cassimeres, Kerseys. Serges and Oxfords. Only $7.50. Another step in the same direction—and you “pull up’? among the Storm Defiers. Irish Frieze, Blue Beaver, Black Beaver and Worumbos. All “tried and true. $10 Suits of Clothes for Men. Double and single breasted sack coats—Regents and imperials— $7. 50. At $10 a a Suit For Men’s Clothes WE CHALLENGS THE WHOLE RETAIL CLOTHING WORLD TO COMB WITHIN TOUCH OF US. COMF AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES. BOYS’ OVERCOATS, WITH CAPES. ..FROM $2.50 BOYS’ STORM COATS... BOYS’ TWO-PIECE SUITS... Men's ae that were $7. Tm q m'70. WIN. VICTOR E. ADLER'S 10 PER CENT CLOTHING HOUSB, 92T and 029 7th st. n.w., corner Massachusetts avenue. GTRICTLY ONE PRICE “ Open Eveniogs until 7. Gaturday until 11 p.m. 1008 A La Couronne French Corsets. ‘This week we are showing a new importation pA the famous French A LA COURONNE Cor- ene corsets are HAND MADE, CUT , with HIP GOES, and boned with se- lected whalebone throughout. cee white, black and buff; medium and long waist. Prices from §3.75 to $10 per pair. Every pair guar- ced. “NL. C. Whelan, EXCLUSIVE CORSET EMPORIUM, 1003 F st. nw. Adjoining Boston House. ri2-tt Gowns Soiled Around the Bottom ‘Are the result of following the dictates of Fashion, However, we clean gowns in part only, If desired, ‘making them as fresh and immrculate as when new. Lowest prices con- fistept with the finest work. Anton Fischer, 906 G St. Matchless Process Dyeing and Cleaning. QPOOPO SIS HOOT CODD OOO POO OED Annoying Eruptions 15d knowo in their various forms es Eczema, Salt Rheum, Petter, Ring Wo: ma, Poison Oak, Itc,’ Pimples, Blotches, "Itching Piles, &c.,. sre specdily and permanently eradicated by using Foster’s German Army and Navy Cure. A remarkably effective remedy for All Skin Diseases. Hundreds of cases cured gttent tp merita, SO cents, at all druggists’. Foster edicine Com- pany, Baltimore, Md. 5 ro GERMAN ARM DRE. cures hed the Head x nasal pasang arm, 1 in lay ae ton Clear Pork Has wide a, reoetatien Soe for superior ont Maple Sirup Is py ay Bloater er Fackerel George's | Bank Codfish as white as snow—the choicest tainable. i feat the finest ® optainable. ‘We'll supply them at est prices. Orders by mail and .@ filled promp' Ga. “Cornwell & Son, 1412-1414 Pa. Ave. wa FAT Folks Get Thin. Dr. Edison’s Famous Obesity Pills and Bands and Obesity Fruit Salt re- duce your Reight without dieting: care the cause of obesity, — as dye imatism, ca aes troubles; ae you bealthy and wil tity, Sort are ae Cope etamite Twenty iacioteen: Aull man ln fe Our Dame stainped on them. pBettr its! Now’ that 1 have given your Obes Geetty bat Pills and Salt a trial, I ‘am free write that in less than nine weeks Thave ost Bow have sixty-four pounds of to Lidoey. Se'reamatic: trouble: "No Beahy” person Gin afford, Co 'go without your Pills and 1 years what it was to be ae ible to walk half a I walk miles every sant day. ‘tfull Pies Negrete SSS: WINTHROP. Gentiemen: “I te say that four bottles of your It It completely cured feduced. iy weight thir toar nou ry wel 7 ore, tn Obesity, Se Band for comfort, and ty, found that it ‘ture luced my weight sevea- een pownds ie three "weeks, a form and afforded reat Reoaort io Tare bave jail my | dresses _attered. ise CATHERINE LE ROY FISH. *Pennaytvania ave, oo” Few Fak rare aed ahee DERN PHARMACY, Cor, lith a F sts., Keep & full Une Obesity Bands, ‘Pits and Frait Salt ir Fy Ladies elt find a saleslady bere to explain the treatment to ‘them, Sent mail on of price. ‘The Bands cost "$2.50 up: the peut salt bottle, (and Pills §1.60 per bottle, or 3 Spoils LORING & ©O., b A ded Department No, Je New, York, oe a le piace, Department ee7-8m_ (ained from 0. G. Pillinery (Reductions Ou: stock was never At the 1m. or lower priced {than it is at present. “Monumental. For this weck special prices prevail. 89¢. Children’s Merino Hose... 85c, Ladies’ Flee>+lined Vests and Pants.25c. ———_ A new lot of Untrimmed Hats, 1m all the leading sbapes, at re- ———— duced prices. $7 Trimmed Hats. $8 Children’s Trimmed Hats. ——— A new assortment of Ostrich % Plumes, Cock Plumes and Millinery Novelties, Umbrellas from 5c. up. All the newest styles in Vellings. rhe Monumental Fusbion Leaders in Fine Millinery, F St. 937 F St. 4 Pwr Ir ar er ee ee = if xr=x3 Think of It! Five Cents for Magazines, Including HARPER'S, SCRIBNER'S, CENTURY AND LIPPINOOTT’S. Of course, these are back numbers, but from a Mterary point of view are just as good, if not bet- ter, than current numbers. AT 814 OTH &T. N.W. MORB SURPRISING. Our 25-cent Cloth-bound Books, in novels, poets, history, ete. Cost $1.50 elsewhere. WHAT DO YOU SAY To Paper-bound Novels of the latest prints by noted authors at 5 cents each? AT 814 OTH ST. N.W. Open evenings until 8 o'clock. To get the plck, come early. They won't last long at these prices. 814 9TH ST. N.W., JUST ABOVE PA. AVE. WE HAVE HAD A GREAT FUR SALE, But it hardly made an impression on our immense ave never seen Chcin Selene Ose eaeninet lane em before. jonished and our competitors partiyzed, There plenty of the things” le seem cheap because we ask you to pay only the ‘ustomers al¢-lw manufacturer's profit. We sell ‘to retail ‘WHOLESALE PRICES. Our stock comprises everything known to the fur trade—all the season's novelties may be found here, We carry complete line of Seal and Persian Lamb Coats—in Capes there is everythil you can think of—they are all made in the lates! Styles—large collar—full sweep, ete. In repairing, Gyeing and. altering we are leaders—only ‘the 1st — workmen are employed tn this départment— Work rooms on the premises, M. Svarcz & Co., MANUFACTURING FURRIERS, 409 Seventh St. N.W. BRANCH AT 228-230 NORTH EUZAW ST., BAL- 50d. TIMORE. - Mascott Gas Stove,$1.50. You gan heat small room, cook and light room all at same time. Beacon Drop Lights, 95¢ These are complete; have doublo and porcelain reflector etinde. ‘They are ‘de tachable, You can hang them on any chan- jelier. Gas Radiators. priced to sult your pocl All stzle, $6.25; another strje, edie, tt $11. =" Tor ‘Ba & Ei aati Btove, spiendia heater. sine and light cook A ihaddiman, te 12th St At Ramsay’s Sad Watch cleaned for $1; watch mainspring, ge ow work warranted for one year, 1221 ¥ at. ow. Fisher Co., Stock and Grain Brokers, 18 AND 20 BROADWAY, + * NEW YORK CITY. Stocks, Bonds; Grain, ‘Provisionsand Cotton, Bought ‘and Sold for’ Cash or on Margin of 8 to 6 Commission, 1-16. ber cent. Our bindsome new parlors, the’ best equipped ta the city, are at the. disposal of our out-of-town customers information. Ws hanstevee tm Gtremee acid ‘Ohi iaaedis ictions since January 1. valuable Fisher Co., -Stock and Grain Brokers, 18 AND 20 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE, 68 BROAD. oc2T-stt who will find there every late financial Our WEEKLY MARKET LETTER for out-of-towa traders has been correct in 80 per cent of its pre- Our DAILY MARKET LETTER is equally as Free to the CHILDREN. quoted are far below the average, Shoe is a leader at its price. _WILSON, ‘With every pair of Children's Shoec sold we are presenting the wonderful *¢e¢¢e* MAGIC HUMMING BEE, which per- eee? fectly imitates the hum of bees and eee other insects. Our line of Children's ¢¢ 8 Shoes is one of the largest and most *# © complete in Washington and the prices eevee We are making a special Shoe to °eeee order for Men and Ladies at $5—ft, *¢¢¢¢ material and workmanship guaranteed. * °° Other special Shoes to order up to $10, eeeeee CryThe Wilson $3.50 Ready-made eeeoee A Small Room =-or even a. whole house can be best heated by GAS, GAS LOGS, . GAS HEATERS, . GAS ee a i Brooks ‘Co., pee 15th Sti, Pitan, sons O00 006000d BEAR 3 3 z TH "HUDSON BAT gis Tia ot. aw, Ail earstente bought us for twelve months, $ Quality The vest. ‘FREE *; 3 Rae 9000004 reed Sern cRaTETM SCORN NAMM ema {Own Importation of ROYAL DRESDEN Pan) Bat, oTctatte.. ype riety ) + ee the richest ‘appropri- ate rs ae R. Dresden Tea Plats Ht Dresden. Breakfast Piates, $12, R. Dresden Dinner Plates, $15. ‘These are at least 25 to 83 per cent lower than” elsewhere. . umber of Kentucky students waea’s, ik eo impure water, We lore sei ie Pasteur * “Germi-proot Wilmarth & & Edmonston, 1205 Pa. Ave. A $3.50 Sale, For a few days $3.50 will pur- chase a pair of elther of the follow- ing priced shoes, vis: Men's $6.00 French Patent Calf Men's $6.00 Cordovan Congress Men's $5.00 Calf Shoes, several Men's $5.00 Sample Shoes, numer- ous styles. Ladies’ $5.00 Button and Lace Bhoes. — goods are all hard-sewed 1@ finest qualities. THE WARREN SHOE HOUSE, Geo. W. Rich, 919 F St. About. ‘STATIONERY, Woe can. furnish you with Stationcry of any kind and any description—the best of {t, too—but our leader just now {6 @ superior quality heavy LINEN NOTE PAPER for 15 CENTS A POUND. You ‘won't find tt any- where else at guch_a price. Wm. Ballant tyne & Sons, STATIONERS, BOO! ERS, ENGR. aay (ot seresran eetase KTHWEST. ‘Reuphoiste rin; g Ys a tort of special specialty with us. Men are employed just for that work. And you may be sure their ——— productions will allow of no tutprove- ——— ment. Everything you may cunt for —— RBUPHOLSTERING you'll get bere. The stock's urequaled. C7 Cavinet work of all kinds. rhe Houghton Co., W214 F OST. N.W. 80d Bho, Bhoes. style, peveeseccosencorenscesceet a