Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1895, Page 19

THE EVENING §TAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. a ABOUT THE CAPITOL Some Pen Pictures Taken at the Capitol. FUBLIC HEN AT WORK AND PLAY How They Serve Their Country and Their Constituents. > THEIR HERE ARE SEV- eral Senators who have good reason to PERSONAL TRAITS thank their lucky rtars just now that (ie Constitution of yj the (United States provides for a term of six years for the + house of the ional legislature. it were not for there if this provision would be a tremend- ous exodus from the Senate after such a tidal wave of political ses as that which swept the country, north and south, in November. The for- tunate two-thirds whose terms do not expire for two and four years from next March are among the happiest people on the face of the globe, especially those who hail from the states that have turned themselves over, in a political sense. reve ‘The ‘v7 men, of course, who come from the states that have “flopped” are not quite so easy in their minds as those who | come in the ‘99 class. Two years may be @ long time in the eyes of a man con- demned to death by the process of the law. It may even be a veritable perspec- tive of time that never seems to cease. But two years can never have that quality in the oye of the politician—or statesman, if that sounds better—whose state has un- dergone a political reverse. There ts ahead @ dread possibility that the voters of the state may not recover their equilivrium id smocth things over in time to straight- en out the string that fastens thei: own particular persons to the public offices that th+y hold. Wonders may be accom- Tlished im two years in many lines of life, h a state going republican that sever t republican before a democratic Senator whose term ends in twenty-four months is apt to regard that length of time as more nearly equal to about twenty- four hors. But te men whose terms expire !n 1899 have move leeway, and hence more time for taking breath. Such ts Senator Faulk- w onstituency went all awry in There is a story afloat that r, who is said to be one of the best lawyers in the Senate, had about ments to go to New York m the condition that West be retained by the demo- i planned, so it is said, to after the reconvening of with a democratic legislature, but be no danger to his party from the election of a republican successor. But the best laid plans of mice and men, &e. Th ute did not go democratic. Mr. ¥ 1 not resign. pi) one of the hardest is active in all often called to ficer, for which iderable talent. Faulkner ts ons, of the presiding developed a con Genial and good natured, is never in- clined to put aside cai n one of the most readily accessible men in tne Serate. He talks well on occasion, and his 3 scores a point never he rises to take He does a good deal of the District _com- hairmean Harris beommittees having important rge. He is particularly weil real estate law, and during the ion he made several efforts to ition to straighten out some » problems relat to the tax laws is r ly a fortunate : t the West Vir- republican, if the nis part in as a a debate. member of ginia story at all true, for had Mr. resigned the local interests one of their best and most ocates. sil tg in the ‘97 class, and fs so easy in his mi West r from Flor y as the Sena- -3 during a long jon last June. He papers of his state that were antagonistic to his in ts, and he took occasion a few later to publicly denounce the nt of one paper in particular, to be favorable te Sena- 1 to him. E sonism between ho are whoily different in istics. Each has his own nal foilowing in the state, but up to the present time there has not been much serious conflict between the two factions of the democratic party, each Senator tak- Ing hts turn for re-election without inter- ference from the other; but of late, how- ever, the war between them has broken MINCE MEAT Two large pies are made from each package of None-Such Mince Meat. For sale by all grocers. Be sure and get the None-Such. aN MERRELL-SOULE CO., Syracuse, N. Y. | out with some violence, mainly caused by the distributien of patronage in the state, and Pasco and Cail are today the bitterest of enemies, who never speak as they pass by. Florida is riven by an ever-widering breach, on one side of which is the volu- ble Call, who never loses an opportunity to make 2 speech, and on the other is the silent Pasco, who startled the legislative world on Wednesday last by. actually read- ing an argument in favor of the Nicara- guan canal. Mr. Call has a reputation in t for his great capacity to “spin” words. has probably the largest vocabulary of any man in the Senate. It is said of him that he could talk for twelve hours with- out intermission, extemporizing mlost of his remarks, and not make a rhetorical or grammatical blunder during the entire period. Yet with all this he is the least pepular talker in the Senate. Senator Call is a persistent worker in behalf of his own measures, and every mo- ment of his time is occupied in canvassing beth sides of the Senate in behalf of his pet projects. He is a clever manipulator of reciprocal favors, and gives and takes with Senators of both faiths with wonder- ful dexterity. “Vote for my bill on so and so,” he says to some republican, “and I will help you out on such and such nomi- nation.” This Is a strong argument and often helps Mr. Call out of some very awk- ward dilemmas; but he is just as good at revenge as he is at keeping promises. Many Senators on- both sides have learned this to their grief. He regards a vote or a voice against his own measures as blows at him, and he usually manages to return the compliment in some way before the end of the session. There are two subjects on which Mr. Call is always ready to talk er to fight. One of these is the Louisiana kn tery,which he says is row masquerading it: the name of the Honduras Lottery Company, and which, he asserts, is trying to defeat him for re-election to the Senate. He is also a champion of the settlers in Florida, and, as he is most fond of expressing it, “the great mass of the people,” whose interests he claims are constantly menaced by the swamp and overflowed land acts, now in force in that state. He is continually talk- ing about corporstions that have overrun the state with vicious legislation, and his speeches are usually full of harsh words for the railroad interests in the state.Judg- ing from the number of severe attacks that he seems called upon to make upon vari- ous vested interests in Florida, his life is not altogether a happy one; but it is said that he enjoys fighting mor? than dining. Gen. Dan. Sickles of New York is one of the most interesting figures in the House. He has been in public life for so many years, and fn so many capacities, that he is known everywhere. His friends will be glad to learn that there is a possibility of his coming back to Congress next session, notwithstanding the fact that he was one of the victims in the slaughter of Tam- many Congressmen last November. The republican who was elected to succeed him died, and another election will be held to fill the vacancy. It is said that there is little doubt that Gen. Sickles will be no: inated and elected, and there is no feelir against him personally in his district, and his candidacy will not be trammeled’ with the entangleme many ticket last November. Gen. Sickles’ legislative career commenced in 1846, when he was twenty-two years old, and was elected a member of the New York legislature. In 1852 he became cor- poration attorney of New York. The next year he went to London as secretary o the American legation. He came back in 1856 and went to the state senate, upon he was nominated by the democratic caucus for United States Senator. In that same year he was elected to Congress as member of the lower house, and r lected to the Thirty-seventh Congress. The first bugle call of the war took him into the army as colonel of the first excelstor bri- gade. Every one knows his brilliant career in the army from that time until he was mustered out of service and transferred to the retired list on account of wounds re- ceived in battle, with the rank of major general. Gen. Sickles lost his leg at Get- tysburg, and was carried off the field of battle minus a limb, but calmly smoking a cigar. In 1869 he commenced his diplo- matic career, being appointed minister to Spain, although he had really seen some service previous to that in a special mission to South American republics. Gen. Sickles is a civil service reformer, and was chair- man of the New York state civil service commission in 1883. - Here is the picture of a member of the House who dees more routine work of an exacting and painstaking nature and geis less credit for his labor than probably any other man in the House. This is Judge Pearson ef Ohio, chairman of the commit- tee on errolled bilis. Every bill or resolu- tion that passes the House goes through his hand, is read and carefully examined by him, and he sees to It that there is no mistake in the final draft of the bill, and that it goes to the Senate or to the Py dent just as it passed the House. He sees that ai! the amendments which the House ts which beset the Tam- | makes to a bill are inserted in the officlal copy, and that necessary commas and punctuation marks, upon which an import- ant paragraph often hangs, are not lost in the shuflle. In the closing days of a ses- sion, when the great appropriation bills are being wound up, Judge Pearson's position is not an enviable one. In fact it never is very enviable. He puts in all this hard work and never gets any public credit for it. Your average Congressman is very anx- fous to be mentioned In conection with public affairs. If he has any connection with a legislative matter he wants the fact set forth in due form, and he is jealous of his prerogatives in this respect. Some Con- gressmen would not undertake Judge Pear- sen’s task for pay, because they would never have an opportunity to make any capital, and while they would, in many cases, at least, be of a great deal more service to their country than they are now, the position would be uncongenial. Patri- otism without publicity is not what the average Congressman is after. It must have been inspiration which prompted the Speaker to seiect Judge Pearson, for he actually seems to have been born for the position of chairman of the committee on enrolled bills. He is conscientious and painstaking to a remarkable degree, and a misplaced comma will cause him real an- guish of soul. He fs a plain, methodical, unostentatious citizen, and accomplishes this important and responsible work in the quietest and most modest way, giving it the same attention that he would his own business. He impresses one as a man who thinks that having been called upon by the Speaker to do this work he is bound by the Constitution and the law to carry it out, and would have no more right to shirk it than he would to deny his family obliga- tions. BRAIN-WORKERS ‘Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. When night ccmes, the literary and active business man’s brain hungry from the ex- hausting labor of the day. Horsford’s Acid Phos- phate quickly supplies the waste of tissue, and refreshing sleep results. i HALL OF HEROES A New Use Proposed for the Capitol Rotunda. STATUARY HALL BECOMING CROWDED The Problem as to the Disposition ot the Grant Statue. BRONZE AND MARBLE ———— A great awkward wooden box has been lying on its side in the rotunda of the Cap- itol for many months, waiting for a spool of red tape to be unwound before the cov- erings can be knocked off and a marble statue disclosed. There is a smaller box resting nearby, containing the pedestal for this statue. The spool of red tape has be- come somewhat srarled, and so the statue and the pedestal still remain unjoined, and the gift of the Grand Army of the Republic to the government is neglected. This statue is a representation of Gen. Grant standing in full uniform by the side of the conventional fluted column. It was accepted from the organization of veterans by a joint resolution approved on the lith of August, 1890, which contained this pro- viso: “That the design of such statue and pedestal shall be first submitted to and re- ceive the approval of the joint committee on the library.” And there lies the knot that has tangled the red tape. Not a peep did the joint com- mittee on the library ever get at the design for the statue and the pedestal. Suddenly, one day, without any warning, a couple of huge trucks drove up to the east door of the Capitol and delivered this statue and the block on which it is to stand, as indif- ferently as though they were a grocer’s wagon delivering a barrel of potatoes and a sack of flour. The great boxes were hauled up the main steps and into the rotunda, where they now lie, while the spool is un- wound. Just at present there is nothing be- ing done to unsnarl the tangle. Last spring an effort was made to have Senator Mills, Grant Statue. the chairman of the joint committee, au- thorize the opening of the box and look at the statue himself to give his approval; but he demurred, owing to the absence of Senator Voorhe: who was then quite ill. Cause of the Delany. At the opening of Congress in December the subject was brought to the attention of Mr. Voorhees, and the photograph of the statue, from which the accompanying il- lustration was made, was shown to him. He objected to taking any action on two grounds. In the first place, he did not think that the statue was a good representation of the general, so far as the photograph demonstrated. His words were: “It don’t look any more like Grant than it dors like me!" But he looked up the law on the subject and ran across that awkward proviso, which was not observed by the committee of the Grand Army having the matter in charge. Here was a predicament, and the Senator immediately refused to have any- thing to do with the statue. He said that there had been no design submitted, and he did not by any means consider the photo- graph of the finished work such a design as the law contemplated. He intimated that the joint committee on the library had not been treated witA the proper amount of consideration due to a congressional body. So the matter hangs. ‘The statue and the pedestal are suspended in the atmosphere of congressional approval, and the great ugly box in the rotunda continues to of- fend the sight of the thousands of visitors to the Capitol. ‘The statue 1s of marble, and is from the chisel of Hrankiin Simmons, one of the best-known of the American sculptors. S. Burdett, who is chairman of the 4 Army committee having the matter fn charge, has not taken further steps to secure the approval of the library com- mittee, and untess something is done there fs excellent prospect that the wooden box may rot away and so finaliy expose the marble, after many years of waiting. As it is, no one here has ever looked upon the statue, and the first presentation of it is by means of the picture that goes with this account. National Hall of Heroes. It Is the general understanding that when the statue has been finally approved it will be erected in the-rotunda, where it has lain for so long. ‘There are in the rotunda twelve half pillars, or, in the terms of architecture, pilasters, jutting from the circular wall as the dividing marks be- tween the great historical paintings that surround the room. There are two of these at each of the four entrances, one on each e of the doorway, and one in the middie of each quadrant of the circte, making, as has been said, twelve in all. The present proposition is to place the Grant statue by the side of the west door, so that it wiil be prominently visible from the east or main entrance to the rotunda. There is a vague idea in the minds of the Senators and members who have given the subject any thought whatever that some day there might be a balancing statue on the other side of the same doorway, perhaps of Gen. Sherman, to complete the historical sym- metry. ‘the suggestion is now made, how- ever, that this Grant statue will be a fit- ting beginning for the establishment of a grand national hall of heroes. The collection of statues in the old Hall of Representatives, known better as Stat- uary Hall, is not national in its character, any further than that most of the men now portrayed there in marble and bronze —and, sad to say, in plaster—have national records. The old Hall of Representatives was set apart for a place to ercct statues of the favorite sons of the states by an act of Corgress approved on the 2d of July, 1864, in which it is definitely stated that this space is reserved for the purposs of ex- hibiting the statues that may be given to the national government by the states of the Union. Two Additional Statues. Two such statues are allowed from each state, and their subjects must be citizens of the states sending them. So strictly has this latter provision been observed that when the state of Wisconsin desired to send a statue of Pere Marquette, the celebrated French explorer, whose name A cocoa with rich chocolate flavor, retaining all the nutritious and fat- producing properties yet not distres: ing to the most delicate, can be pro- duced. Proven in |LLIPS” Cocoa is inseparably linked with the lake re- gion, a special joint resolution had to be passed and approved granting permission, because Pere Miravette was, of course, never a citizen Of any state, having lived befcre the organization of the Union. But Wisconsin claims -him as her especial pioneer, and so he will occupy a place, and probably datmaiustice, among the American heroes.” In addition to the Marquette statue there is soon to be placed! in the hall a statue from West Virginia to the memory of the late Senator from ‘that state, John E. Ken- na, a man who was generally beloved in his state. It is Self iee that such a statue is erected in the hall Ho soon after a man’s death, but in the case of Senator Kenna, dying as he did in’office and in the height of his fame among his people, it seems quite appropriate that no time should be lost. West Virginia is one of the states that cannot now haye a very great stock of strictly loca¥ hétoes, as her history as_a state is brief. There are now thirty statues and busts in the Statuary Hall, this number being reached by the addition of the statues of Webster and Stark a few weeks ago, the gift of the state of New Hampshire. It is no exaggeration to say that the hall is now crowded, and the day is soon to come when there will not be another inch of rocm for the newcomers that will surely kncek for admission. The Crowded Hall. Forty-four states now compose the Amer- ican Union, a number far in excess of old- time anticipations. The forty-fifth, Utah, is to be adfnitted just as soon as the for- malities of the adoption of a state _con- stitution have been complied with. Then, too, there are at least four more states in prespect, namely, New Mexica, Arizona, Oklahcma and indian territory. Only twelve states are represented by statues placed in the hall. Two of these states have sent but one statue each so far. ‘The difference between the capacity of the hall and the demands that must soon be made upon it is very apparent. Not cnly will there be no room for the statues that have a legal right to places in the old meeting room of the House of Represen- tatives, but certainly no room for the statues that are now there that have no right to places in the hall. There are five of these, which are the direct property of the goverrinent, having been either bought by the government, or presented to it by other than states of the Union. These five are the statues of Washington—a plaster cast of the Eloudon statue now located in Richmond — Jefferson, Hamilton, Lincoln, and Baker. The siatues or Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson and Lincoln are so thoroughly national that they could be placed, it is thought, with propriety in the rotunda with the figure of Grant. In ad- dition to the five statues named there are four busts, those of Lincoln, Thomas Crawford, ‘the sculptor; Kosciuszko and Pulaski. These are the property of the government and were not presented by states. They are simply in the Statuary Hall as the most convenient place of exhi- bition. How the States Are Represented. As has been stated, the hall was set apart for the reception of these statues in 1864. Rhode Island was the first state to re- spond to the invitation contained in the act, approved that year, and in January, 1870, the statue of Nathaniel Greene was received by Congress. This was followed in Januar by the statue of Roger Williams. in 1872 Conneeticut pre- sented statues of Jonathan Trumbull and Roger Sherman. In 1873 and ‘74 New York donated the statues of George Clinton and Robert R. Livingston. Massachusetts in 1876 presented statues of John Winthrop and Samuel Adams. Vermont gave the statue of Ethan Allen in 1876, and in 1881 that of Jacob Collammer. Maine in 1 placed the statue of William King in the hall and is yet, to glve the second of her quota. It is thought probable that Jas. G. Blaine will, be chosen as the subject of this statue, dnd with the receipt of that the New England representation will be complete, for. in ‘December last New Hampshire placed in the hall the statues of John Stark and Daniel Webster. In 1883 Pennsy}vania gave the statue of Robert Fulton, dnd the next year that of Peter Muhtenbérg. ft 1886 Ohio erected a marble representation of James A. Garfield, and in ISSS a statue 6f Wil m Allen. The statues of Philip Kearny and Richard Stockton were presented by New Jersey in 1888. ‘Che next yéar Michigan sent a statue ot Lewis Cass." In December of last y; the statue ot James ields was unveiled as a gift from 1Minois, and the latest acquisitions from “New Hampshire have already been mentioned. Thus the only 5 s that have so far completed their representations ‘in the hall are Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jer- sey, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Some Avnilable Places. The suggestion that a collection of strict- ly national statues should be made in the rotunda is not apt to relieve the situation materially with regard to the crowd in the Statuary Hall, but the two matters must be considered together. There are just twelve places in the rotunda, and there are now available six statues, Grant, Lin- coin, Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson and Baker. All of these, with the possible ex- ception of Baker, would be appropriate, it is thought, for such a gathering of heroic memorials. 1t would be for Congress to decide upon the six, or possibly seven, other men whose names are so indissolubly linked with the fame of the country as to warrant their being given places in this national pantheon. There is, in addition, a statue of Franklin in the Capitol, at the foot of the eastern stairway of the Senate. Opposite to the Franklin, at the foot of the west stairway, is a representation of John Hancock. Then there is a statue of Thomas Jefferson, which stands at the foot of the east stalr- way in the House wing. It is of marble, thus differing from the bronze statue of Jefferson in the Statuary Hall. The latter was presented to the Unted States by a citizen of Virginia. It stood for some years in the White House grounds, north of the mansion, about where the fountain now is, a few yards north of the site of the pre ent sentry box. After it had been there for several years it was closely examined, and the best opinion was that it was being harmed .y the exposure to the elements, and so {t was removed to the Capitol and given a place indoors. SS An Xcho From Suny From an Exchange. Hain't ye never got up early, jest after rosy dawn, When the sky's ull grown’ /peurly, an’ the dew’s still on the lawn? Hain't ye drawed 2 deep breath, sighin’ 's if "twas most t Hain't wa He ier Hein't ye often felt that € been in wondsy places, an’ lay down, gind to be? zi > ‘hoticed that God’s face fs in most every- powerful pullin’ at y’ur heart- 5 “bout that time? felt the soft wind lullin’ ye to sleep, lik old. rhyme? Hain't ye that all the years was littler than that perfect day? Hain't ye? Say, Anne, hain’t ye often felt that way? MUNSON ALDRICH HAVE: Miss Dolla ‘Steveha, of Boston, Mass., writes: I hixe always suffered from hereditary Sctofula, for which I tried various remedies, gad many reliable physicians, bat none felioved me. After aking 6 bottles of Tam now wall. I am very gratéful to you, a3 I feel that it saved me, s from a life of an- told agony,, and shall take pleasure. in speaking only Words of prajse for [ie wonderful med- icine, and in récommending ft to all. ==“ CURED WHERE BLAINE DIED A Bloody Memorial of the Attack on Mr. Seward. The Removal of the Historic Old Man- sion on Lafayette Square—The Search for Souvenirs. Written for The Evening Star. It is no wonder that the demolition of the house at No. 17 Lafayette square, the resi- dence of the late ex-Secretary James G. Blaine, should excite such widespread pub- lic interest. Thousands of people have vis- ited it during the last few days. Relic hunters have made themselves particularly obnoxious, taking advantage of the ci fusion incidental to the workmen’s opera- tions to carry away whatever they could Third Floor Plan of the Blaine Man- sion. lay their hands upon. Some were content with bits of wood, while others pocketed small tiles from the fireplaces. Naturally, special interest was exhibited in regard to the room in which Mr. Blaine died. This is n spacious apartment on the third floor, with three very large windows. Two of the windows look out toward the treasury ard the White House, across Pennsylvania avenue; from the other one is afforded a view of Lafayette Square. The popular supposition has been that the room in which Mr. Blaine died was the ore in which the historic attempt upon the life of Secretary Seward was made. This is not correct. Mr. Seward occupied an ad- joining room on the same floor. The room immediately beneath, on the second floor, belonged to Mr. Seward’s son Fred. It will be remembered that on the fatal night of April 14, 1865, almost at the very moment when President Lincoln was shot in his box at Ford's Theater, the assassin, who called himself Payne, rang the bell at No. 17 Lafayette square and assaulted Mr. ard, then Secretary of State, who was confined to his bed by illness. A blood stain not far trom the north- west corner of Mr. Blaine’s room has been a subject of special interest to sightseers during the last few day After the flight of the assassin Payne, Secretary Seward made his way from his bed room through the passagewuy marked in the diagram into the front room and to a washstand, in order that he might wash off some of the blood that had flowed from his wounds. While he was thus engaged a few drops of blood fell upon the floor and soaked through the carpet, making a stain on the spot that is rked on the diagram with a star. The blood stained the pine plank be- neath the carpet. One enterprising ind vidual who visited the Blaine house a few days ago cut out of the wood the stain, or the greater part of it, together with a piece of the plank about an inch in length. This was accomplished by means of a jac! nife. Another curiosity hunter asked perm sion to take a brick from a pile in front of the house, but it was refused, because it was believed that the whole dwelling would be carried away piecemeal if such a pre- | cedent were set. Architecturally speaking, the house at No. 17 Lafayette square was very remark- able. Jt was built in the old southern sty with spacious verandas in the rear. In the rear also were the servants’ quarters, semi- detached from the main structure, and the rambling building terminated at the back of the Jarge jot in a stable, supplemented by an addition to the latter. For the pur- pose of historical record, Mr. Paul J. 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Soon afterward he died, and it was turned into a boarding house. ‘The boarding house failed, ruining the proprietor, and the establishment be- came the quarters of the fashionable Washington Clud. When the war broke out the southern members of the club with- drew from it, and it was broken up in con- sequence. 1t was during the period of its occupancy 23 a club that the house was the scene ot the Sickles-Key tragedy. —— The Collecting Mania. From the Chicago Record. It is said that although Alexander III was an enthusiastic collector of postage stamps the present czar cares nothing for the fad. This is not surprising. The czar is not yet old enough to have de- veloped traits a3 a collector. Collecting is one kind of accumulating, and few men, comparatively, begin to accumulate until they reach the age of forty years. We have often wondered why the passion for genealogical investigation seldom exhibits itself in mankind until the victim is past what is called middle life. It seems cv- rious that very many men, after years of indifference to pedigree and all that sort of thing, suddenly Gevelop a violent so- licitude to establish the antiquity of their family and the respectability of their an- cestors. An experiment—but a Proved Success, ‘Thous- ands of housekeepers who at first thought they never uld use any shortening ut lard, now use COTTO- LENE and couldn’t be in- “duced to change, simply because it is better, cheap- er and more healthful. The genuine has this trade mark—-steer’s head in cot- ton-plant wreath—on ev- ery pail, Look for it £38 A LOAN soe. Who is the Happier? ‘rom the London (Ont.) Advertiser. “Rabbi, who is happler, the man who owns a@ million dollars or he who has seven daughters?” “The one who has many daughters.” “Why so?” “He who has a million dollars wishes for more—the man who has seven daughters does not.” lil Made only by = The = N. K. 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Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro- cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not acceptany substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. WEW YORK, W.¥. GRATEFUL—COMFORTING— Epps’s Cocoa. BREAKFAST—SUPPER. “By a thorough knowkdge of the natural laws ‘shich govern the operations of digestion and outri- tion, and by a careful application of the fine prop- erties of well-selected Cocoa. Mr. Epps has pro- Yided for our breakfast and supper a delicately flavored beverage, which may save us many beary doctors’ bi tis by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be grad- ually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies ve cating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We mag escape many a fatal shaft by Teeping ourselves Well fortified with ¢ blood znd 2 properly nourished frame."— il Service Gazette. Made siuply with’ boiling water or milk. Sold only in f-pound tins by grocers, la ied thus: Homeopathic Chem- England. PS & CO., ists. London, @3-m,tn,som WHY NOT ACCEPT Our Invitation to come up here and complete the furnishing of your kouse—on credit? We offer you the advantage of a mammoth stock and of prices that are just as low as are quoted by any cash furniture housé You can pay for what you get In such sums and at such times as will be convenient. Not a note to sign—not a thought of interest —Just a little cash weekly or monthly. OUR OFFER OF CREDIT. Tt te the for your p: Induvement that we hold out ronage—it is our way of being accommodating. Our prices are marked in the plainest Kind of figures—we invite you to make a list of them for comparison with those of the cash stores. All carpets made and laid free of cost— ¢ for waste in matching figures, itd oR HAIRCLOTH PARLOR SUITES—CHOICE, $22.50. SOLID OAK B YARD. MADE AND LAID FREE OF Cost. SOLID OAK EXTENSION 40-POUND HAIR MATT WOVEN-WIRE SPRINGS, HEATING AND COOK SIZES-STANDARD MAKES. YOURS FOR A PROMIS' SMALL WEEKLY OR MONTHLY MENTS. GROGAN’S MAMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE, $19-S21-823 7TH STREET NORTHWEST, Between H and I streets. TO PaY— Pay- JaS-81d soc., 75¢. & $1 Off Fur Neck Scarfs. G . Bs . E CLO! OUT ALL . Far Neck Scarfs at a re- ba duction of 50c., Tc. and : $1, according to size and * desirability. Latest styles. Only * enough for quick buyers. WILLETT & RUOFF, Jall-20d 905 PA. AVE. eeeeee CHICAGO, and 114 Commerce St. Baltimore. TTUTTTTTTYTET = mn My famous French preparation of “Celnart” bas now for seven years stood the test over all others, and is ranteed to permanently DEVELOP the m 4 to 5 inches, and has never failed, My ROYALE CREME For the Complexion will positively cure every case of "FRECKLES, PIMPLES, BLACKHEADS, ROUGH- NESS and any discoloration. My Perfumed AL- MOND MEAL as a substitute for soap is the finest Prsparation ever, invented. | ROYl VELVET fOILET POWDER has no equal. I am the sole manufacturer of these preparations, and my success for past years has been most phenomenal. All ladies are’ invited to call and see me or send for my pamphlet, “The Perfection of Face and Form,” which is mailed FREE to all. Call or address NE LE FEVRE, Suite 22 and 24, 1110 ¥ st. nw., Washinzton, D.C. , Shampooing’ aud Manicuring. ain Office, 1208 Chestnut st., Philadelphia, Pa ~ gR.CHASES Blood*Nerve Food Yourse , Peete rerone TAKING! For WEAK and RUN-DOWN PEOPLE. WHAT IT IS! The richest of all restorative F because it replaces the same substances to the biood ant that are exhausted in these two life-giving fluids by disease, indigestion, high Iving, overwork, worry: excesses. abuse, etc. Also a Boon for Women, WHAT IT DOES! By making the blood pure an@ rich, and the digestion perfect, itcreatessolid flesh, mas- cle and strength. The nerves being made strong, the brain becomesactiveand clear J box lastsa week. Price or 5 boxes $2.00. Druggists or by mail. Tnfor. nfree. THE DR. CHASE COMPANY, 4142 Penngrove St. Philadelpiiia 426-w,8,m7St28 “BRIAR PIPE a VEN AWAY for => 5 cents Every pipe stamped DUKES MIXTURE or <at> 2oz. Pacxaces 5¢ RETIRING Sale Prices at “THE WARREN.” Ladies’ $4 Shoes (sizes 1 to 314), only. Ladies $4 Shoes (sizes 2%, 3 and 314), only. Lzdies’ $4 Shoes (several lots), only.. All Ladies’ §3.50 Shoes down to. All Ladies’ $5 Shoes down to. ‘Two lots of Men's $3 Shoes down to. All Men's $3.50 Shoes down to... Men's $5 and $6 Patent Calf Shoes only. Men’s Regular $5 Calf Shoes only Men's $7 Patent Calf Shoes only... ‘Thousands of other special ba: sale, Better come early, as there is po telling when we will fiud a customer to take the whole stock. THE WARREN SHOE HOUSE, Geo. W. Rich, 919 F St. Figin Creamesy, BUTTER, 28c. per Ib. : Genuine Fresh Elgin Creamery—we'll = guarantee. Nothing finer to be bad. NEW YORK CREAMERY...........22C. LB. A lower price for Fine Butter was never quot ‘Telephone or mail your orders—we'll answer promptly. T. REDMAN, 950 LA. AVE., Jessie and Retail Groceries. ‘Phone 192.