Evening Star Newspaper, January 19, 1895, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. You know things will happen—falls and bruises, cuts and burns, cramps and colic, coughs and colds, croup and sore throat, grip and rheuma- tism, diarrhoea and indigestion— come what will, when it will, you can repair damage quickly and go on your way IF you have a bottle of Pain-Killer. Prepared only by PERRY DAVIS & SON, Providence, R.I. REACHED FOUR Amateur Balloonist it of a Fix. w York Sun. plenty of long distances over which m voices have been conveyed by the medium of placid water. An Adiron- dack guide tells of having talked in ordi- nary tones, on a very still day, with a com- panion a mile and a half distant at the other end of the lake, and another suide caps this story with one of yells which were heard end returned near a water ex- tent cf three miles. These tales are quite outdone by a well-authenticated story told by Carlotta, once the most famous woman balloonist in the world. In her story air instead of water was the medium, and the distance of the conversation was four miles. It tock place a mile above the outskirts of St. Louis some years ago. “It was an aeronautic exibition,” says Carlotta in telling the story, “and a young man named White, who was inexperienced coning, had’ azreed to make an as- ». I had already gone up and was y drifting east on an easy air current 1 ut. He had had enough ence to know how to handle the valves and sandbags, and he intended to go up a mile or so and then descend easily. New, the upper air is full of varying cur- Tents. You may be going due west at half @ mile altitude, and when you get up a tew hundred yards further you may strike a current that carries vou due east. Mr. White checked bis upward career in a west- bound draught, so that when he finally drifted out of that current into mine we Were a good long distance apart. “I always have a powerful glass with me when I make an ascension. When I turned this on him I saw that he was in trouble. His balloon had twisted a little, in such a way that I judged it was likely to twist more, and he was clambering around the ropes trying to right it, but without much apparent conception of what was best to do. { was frightened for him, for when the ‘arlotta Got a From the Ne Tales a | | bag of a balloon turns too much the gas | begins to escape rapidly, and the results ara likely to be serious. I knew that voices could be heard a long way in the air, for I had often heard people a mile below me | shouting, so without knowing how far the | two balloons were apart, I decided to hail the other one. I gathered all my breath and shouted “Hello! He Hello!” “Then I turned my glass on the other bal- Joon again. Up where the air fs so clear as it is a mile above the earth one can see at | great distances with wonderful distinctness. Through glass I could see Mr. White start and look all around him. That was quite a while after I had shouted. He didn't geem to understand where the voice came from, but finally I saw him put his hands to his mouth, evidently making a speakiug trumpet of them. I waited and waited, and was just about to shout again when the huge gas bag above me began to thrill with sounds. They seemed to buzz along its sides and diffuse in the air, only to collect and come whirring and rumbling down the funnel to be poured into my ears, and they formed in a tone that seemed made up of a millicn uther tones. ‘Hello! Where—are—you” “It was the most peculiar sound I had ever heard. into silence [ took out my watch and tim- ing myself, shoutec “Throw out one sandbaz. you." “Fo vibi T'll come to ty seconds later my balloon began to e again, finally forming the words: “All right. In trouble.’ “There was method in my telling him to throw out the sandbag, as it was afterward of use. [ threw out a number myself, for I reckoned that a little above me I wouid find a current to carry me toward Mr. White. This I did, and was soon within a short distance of him, aerially considered. The trouble with his balloon was a slight disarrangement of the ropes, which I had myself experienced, so I told him what to do, and he was soon all right. As I ex- plained to him when we reached the earth, we had been talking over an aerial tele- phone, the gas bags being the only material objects up there collecting all the sounds and acting as huge receivers.” “Well,” said he, ‘you got me out of a yery bad scrape, but I never was so scared my life as when that voice surrounded je. I thought the balloon was talking, and that { had gone crazy.’ ‘It was a pretty long talk,’ said I; ‘for owing the votce to travel five seconds to a mile by my timing we must have been four miles apart.” ply Impossible,’ sald he. said. ‘That's why I told ‘Very we! you to drop that sandbag. I threw some out. too, and we can find out how far they apart. asn’t much trouble to find people had found the bags and knew just they were. Fortunately they had who where landed near a railroad track, so the dis- ta’ timating was made easy for us. It was four miles and a quarter. I guess that {3 the record up to date for long-distance talking without a wire.” ————_+e-+ This Was 2 Poser. From the New York Times. Little Margaret was going to a children’s party the other day, and her mother was telling her some little politenesses to be observed. And when you come away,” she said, “go up to your little hestess and thank her for giving you pleasant time.” “But, mamma,” objected the small girl, “suppcse I don’t have a pleasant time; what must I say then?” e HEALS RUNNING SORES CURES te SERPENT’S STING In _ all its stages completely eradicat- CONTAGIOUS id by S.S.S. i BLOOD POISON anata so e asd ulcers yield to its healin wers. Itre- es the poison and buil up the system Waluablo treatise on the disease and Its treatment mailed ‘SWIFT SPeciFic CO. Adan Gan" When it had scattered itself | PLEASING DELUSIONS| The Astonishing Feats Performed by a Parlor Magician. SIMPLE, BOUT ENTERTAINING TRICKS + Some Chemical Combinations That Are Surprising. INSTEAD OF PALMING Written for The Evening Star. OUR REALLY lever magivian takes advantage of mary novel quirks in the arts and sciences to enhance the myste- riousness of his tricks, and there was @ period of many years when the laws of electricity were so little known that it was a powerful agent for the wonder work- w\ NY er. Long before lighting gas by electricity was considered feasible, a French magician startied his audiences by lighting a hundred jets with a pistol shot. Nowadays that would not seem remarkable, but there are plenty of points that are equally effective, and that are not familiar to the public When chemicals are called into play, as they are in many tricks, there are few persons who can understand their uses or results, a fact that of itself makes them especially valu- able assistants. A few of the more simple chemical tricks are explained here, the first being the so-called “smoke” trick. It is an extremely simple one to do, but it never fails to make a hit. The amxteur enter- tainer should go about it as follows: Pass among the audience with three clay pipes, showing them to be perfectly empty and in every way commonpla: Put one in your mouth and blow through it, and pass the ‘gons in the audience for trial in like As you return to the table lay down the pipes. One of them should be permitted to fall to the floor and break. F nd to be embarrassed by this, but continue by] saying: jow I propose to show you an en- tirely new departure in smoking, a depart- ure, in fact, which it is confidently expect- ed will meet the approval of the most cop- firmed anti-tobacco reformer, inasmuch as all the objectionable features are removed and only the pleasures remain. t we take the phantom knife in 3. INanner.” Simulate the motions of taking a knife from pocket and opening it. ‘Then take the phaatom tobacco thus, and fill the pipe.” Imitate all the motions of cutting and rubbing tobacco between the hards and filling p.pe, omitting no Jetail, for this can be made v laughable well done. “You can see the pipe is now well filled with phantom tobacco.” Show pipe, which is, of course, empty as at first. Then p it in the mouth and draw. As it appe to draw hard, make pretense of running a | broora straw through the stem, etc. Mystery Made Plain. “Now, as I am just out of phantom matches, I will use this other pipe.” Show | it still empty, scratch it on leg of trousers or sole of shoe as you would a match, then hold the opening of the, bowl against that of the pipe in your mouth and immediately commence to puif out huge volumes of | | smoke. Go among the audience and show the pipe still empty and apparently free from preparation, but by putting them to- gether you can smoke as much as you ple Then return to your table, and, | with a small hammer, break one of the | | pipes into small pieces. Put these pieces | linto the other pipe and smoke as before. Turn the piece out again and bi cther pipe, keeping the two lots separate. Then gather all the pieces in the clasped | hands and smoke through the opening be- tween the thumbs. Tho secret lies in the previous prepara- tion of two of the pipes; the third is un- prepared, and is only used to disarm sus- picion. Just before you wish to use them, rinse one of the pipes with common (not chemically pure) muriatic acid and the other with strong aqua ammonia. He sure to keep them apart until needed, for the moment the fumes of these two agents mingle a dense smoke is the result. In rins- ing be sure to hold the pipes in such a po- sition that the chemicals will not run into the stem, otherwise the acids might burn | the lips or tongue. In passing for examina- | tion den’t give the ammonia pipe, but hold it in your own mouth after showing it empty, as the fumes of the ammonia might betray your aids. When smoking be sure not to inhale the fumes into the iungs, as they would be more than likely to cause a fit of ceughing, and thus mar the effect. The Transmutation Test. Another chemical trick, used by the best magicians today in one or ether of its meny possible forms, is styled the “Trans- mutation Test,” and can be done by a youngster not much bigger than the trick’s name. According to {ts patter, it consists in changing wine to water and back to wine again mysteriously. In doing it have on @ tray on your table seven glass tum- blers and a pitcher of water. Begin by saying: “I am about to show you one of the favorite tests of the so-called spirit mediums. It consists of turning wine into water, and vice versa. For instance, { have a pitcher here containing a quantity of pure water, which you can see for your- selves.” Pour out a glass of water and drink a little to prove that it is all right, set down the glass and pick up another, saying: “I will now pour out another glass, and by simply exerting a hypnotic i fluerce will make it appear to you to be vine.” Fill glass after glass, announcing, ‘ow water, now wine; now water; now wine. So, you see, I’ have only to hypnotize you to make you see things just as ‘I wish. Now 1 will put the contents of all the glasses back into the pitcher again, and I would like as many of you as saw wa in any of the glasses to hold up your hands. Of course, just as I expected, you were hypnetized, for, you see, the pitcher srtains nothing but wine.” Pour out several ¢ of wine. “You see, it's all in the way you look at it. Now you see all wine, and, again, first wine and then water.” As you say this return all the wine to the pitcher, pour out one glass of wine, then one of water, and ccntinue: “Now that I | have shown you the wonderful effects of | hypnotism, I will remove the influence en- tirely, and show you that the pitcher con- | tains, as I told you at first, nothing but a quantity of water; pure, sparkling water.” While speaking fill all the glasses with wa and show pitcher empty. | At the beginning of this trick, the second, fourth and sixth giasses should contain each about two drops of tircture of iron, anc ‘venth has in the bottom about a q of hin she of an inch of a saturated solution oxalic acid. This glass should s be- the others. ‘The water in the pitcher 1 contain a pinch of tannin. In pour- ing out the first glass it appears to be clear water and you may taste it, as the tannin is quite harmless. The second will be colored and will look enough like wine for the purpose, third water, fourth wine, fifth water and sixth wine, and this should use up all the water in’ the pitcher, so there will be nothing to put in t enth glass. When you pour them back they will necessarily all be colored, so at the second pouring there will be nothing but wine. After returning all, pour out the single glass of wine, then pick up the seventh glass, fill it quickly and the acid will bleach the solution so that it will appear to be | number of thoroughly pure water. When you pour these back in- to the pitcher the whole quantity will be bleached, and there you are. As oxalic acid is poison, the mixture must be immedi- ately thrown away at the conclusion of the trick. A Cheice of Wine. Another pretty wine and water trick is worked partly by the use of chemicals. First show a wine glass filled with port wine, and say: “I would offer you a glass of port, but as some people think it rather heavy, I will show you how easy it is to change it to sherry.’ Borrow a handker- chief, throw it over the glass and rempve immediately, when the wine will have turn- ed to sherry. “Now, as these are strong prohibition day: you go on, “perhaps I would better offer you a more popular and harmless drink.” Throw the handkerchief over the glass again, quickly remove as be- fore and the glass will be found to contain nothing but water. As you go into the audience to return the handkerchief take the glass along with you and let them see that it is water and an ordinary glass. Finish by saying: “I am rather thirsty and if you will allow me I think I will drink this water myself.” As you raise it to your lips it changes to milk. The glass should be about two-thirds full of lime water at the beginning, and in it there should be two pieces of sheet glass, one red and one yellow, each cut to fit the inside of the glass (see fig. 1) and forming a partition in the center of the glass. When you show it first, turn the red glass toward the audience. and it will look like a glass of port wine. When you throw the handkerchief over it nip the edge of the red glass and carry it away under cover of the handkerchief. The wine glass will then appear to contain sherry. Drop the red glass out of the handkerchief behind some article on your table while showing the sherry. Repeat the same movements to change to water. To change to milk you have only to breathe in the glass and shake slightly and the lime water will become white and will look ex- actly like milk. Manipulating Coins. The ordinary method of palming a coin is rather difficult for a beginner, and many good coin tricks can be performed equally well by using the more simple “pas: known as the “French drop.” To accom- plish it Nad the coin in the left hand, as in fig. and move the right hand toward the left as if to take the coin in that hand, The thumb should pass kelow and the fingers above the coin. Clcse the right hand as if the coin were in it, but in reality allow the coin to drop into the palm of the left hand, as shown in fig. 3. As you carry the closed right hand away from the left follow it with the eye, thus directing at- tenticn away from the left, and after a short pause let the left hand fall careles: ly to the side, keeping the fingers bent suf- ficiently to hold the coin. The special val- ue of this pass lies In the fact that it ts available for coins of any size, also for vanishing balls, corks, lumps of sugar, small oranges, &c. It can also be used for making a number of coins disappear at once, and the “chink” made by the coins as they fall into the left hand seems to help the illusion, notwithstanding the fact that if the coins were really taken in the right hand there would be no sound. Like palming, this pass is a first principle, used in a great many tricks, and by all capable performers. — BOOKS IN ENGLAND. Great Bulk of Britons Do Not Read. The From the Forum, The great bulk of the English read noth- jing, literaliy nothing, and he who knows something of rural England will agree to this. The casual and occasio: reader reads fiction, biography, histor, travels, and no small anount of theology in a dl- luted form. The great middle class read, ond trust, their periodical Nterature and their newspapers; the students, the real readers, who feed their minds as other men their bodies, read with more thoroushness and patience than our students. The en- trance examination for any college at Ox- ford, Cambridge, Edinburgh or Dublin fs trifling as compared with t entrance ex- amination for Harvard University, but on the other hand, both the classical and mathematical men who take the highest rank here go through au amount of reading that our men hardly dr m of. nothing like the number of ave d men thst one finds in America, but America has nothing like {he well-read, widel: ained men in politics, and 2 tinds here. traveied, highly-t in all the profe: In America there is ad education of the hare; in England there is, confined to narrow limits, the education of the tortoise, and there is a fable that the world is poised upon the back of a ! At any rate, England carries a ver y prepor- tionate rate of the world’s onsibility, and England and America together would seem to have little to fear from the future, for, after all, what men read not a crucial test of their capacity. Who has not known men with enough univer: skin to make a wardrobe of who were vacil- lating incompetents? Who forgets how small were the libraries and the oportunities of Washington, Lin- coln and Grant? ‘the Englis ople are slow—in the main, dull, and they care little for abstractions in print; but if Mr. Benje min Kidd's view of social evolution be cor- rect, and the consensus of the competent apparently favors it, then the prosperity of a nation is not dependent primarily upon its intellectual alertness, and John Pull has little to fear from his lack of book learning and his love of the open air. POOR DETECTIVES. A Secret Service Man Says the posite Sex Make Bad Spics. Op- From the New York Herald. “Women are not good detectives,” said an experienced secret service man on being asked his opinion. “To begin with, there are many places to which a woman cannot go without exciting suspicion, and this de- feats her object at the outset, but beyond this 2 woman is unfitted by nature for de- tective work. “In the first place, she jumps.at a con- clusion, and acts on it in opposition to all human probabilities, possibilities and rea- son. As a rule a woman does not rea- son. She looks on a thiyg as she wants it to be, or thinks it ought to be, and will fol- low that theory. She is led by prejudic favors or sympathies, regardless of fac “As a detective she is sometimes a suc cess in enirapping a man, but her work generally ends in a blunder which betrays her. She is persevering only when moved by passion. She does not look at a case ¢ passionately. Ske at once decides that he d works on er she is guilty or innocent, that theory. “A woman enjoys the mysterious, and she is so elated at her position as detective that she is unable to conceal her identity, or the cret investigations of a cast Women are even ures in ruaning down criminals of their own sex. A woman criminal will mislead a woman detective by working on her verity, credulity or sympathy, and, worst of all, if the detec- tive be attractive and the man criminal andsome—well, a man is better for de- tective work, and, be les, a woman will sell out a case, and cheaply at that, rely ing upon her sex to escape punishment if detected.” ———-- ee+ — A Seventy Yeurs’ Ministry. From the Phitndelphia Public Ledger. Yesterday, in commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of the ordination to the ministry of the Rev. William H. Fur- ness, D. D., and of his installation as pas- tor of the First Unitar Chureh, Chestnut street below pective address as made by ble clergyiman. There was a very large atendanc nd the pulpit platform was handsomely decorated with flowers and palms. Has to Talk Through It. From the Springfield (Mass.) Union. Flapjack—“Glibley is quite a talker, isn’t he Treacle—“Yes, but his hat will get down over his mouth. You don’t drink cocoa Because u can’t digest it. Is one which will not distress and is a delicious food drink. oc6-s6m BY THE .PRESIDENT Men Who Are Trusted With Confi- dential Matters, THEY CARRY IMPORTANT MESSAGES 1 Sometimes Grave Matters of State and Then Social Invitations. HOW IT IS ALL DONE —_—_-—___. Written for The Evening Star. URING HIS RE- cent duck-shooting trip Mr. Cleveland was for some time out of reach by mail or telegraph. But, if anything im portant had transpired, he would have been in- formed of it without much delay. His ap- proximate where- abouts being known, messengers from the White House could have got to him at short notice. Arrange- ments were de in advance to cover such an emergency. It would not do for the ceuntry to be without a chief magistrate even for a day. When Mr. Cleveland vis- ited the Adirondacks, during his first ad- ministration, couriers maintained a con- stant communication between his camp and the neirest outpost of civilization. While hunting and fishing he was kept acquainted with all that was doing in the world. It has often been said that a President of the United States can never get away from the shop. When Mr. Cleveland is at either of his two country homes, messages are continually flying to and fro between him and the White House. Last summer Rob- ert Lincoln O’Brien, correspondence clerk of the Executive Mansion,carried dispatch: of exceptional importance from Mr.Thurber to the President at Gray Gables. It is his business to open all of the letters that come to the White House, save, of course, such as relate to the private affairs of the President. Thus Mr. Cleveland is relieved of the bother of attending to a voluminous mail. O’Brien comes from Massachusetts and has had some experience in newspaper work. He is twenty-eight years old, has the look of a student, wears a blonde mus- tache, and is engaged to be married. He is only one of a number of trusted men who are employed as messengers by the President. A young man named Mitch- ell is the social messerger of the White House. He carries all the invitations. If Mrs. Cleveland proposes to give a ladies’ luncheon—a form of entertainment for which she has a fancy—she does not use the post. Mitchell, in person, carries the engraved cards in dainty envelopes to the houses of the guests, whose presence is solicited. Thus, for example, the Misses Pauncefote, daughters,of the British am- bassador—the youngest was formally pre- sented to society the other day—are notified that Mrs. Cleveland requests the pleasure of their company, etc. Mrs. Cleveland’s Privileges. An Invitation from Mrs, Cleveland comes as from royalty, taking precedence of all others. Thus a persor: invited to an enter- tainment at the White House may, with propriety, throw oyer 2 previous engage- ment to dine or take lunch. The first lady in the land does make calls occasionally— in fact, Mrs, Cleveland's practice in that _regard ts exceptionally liberal—but she is not obliged by etiquette to pay any visits. In that respect also her position is that of rcyalty. Another duty of young Mitchell's is to receive the c: people who call on ¥ jand. equires some dis- cretion, for individuals of narrow standing cr acquaintance with the President's wife are constantly trying to intrude at the White House. When the President wis! Senator or Repre: never goes to seek him, but sends requesting his prese at the House at a stated hour. It would be con- trary to etiquette and even very rude to fail to obey such an invitation. For this and a variety of other purposes messages are corstantly being dispatched from the Ex- ecutive Mansion. The work necessitates the employment of three messengers. One of these is known as the mounted messen- ger. His name is Edgar R. Beckley. He is a colored man, and has acted in t pacity through several administratio The bicycle messenger of the House is George B. M. yeung man of twenty-eight a rather remarkable history. He has been all around the world 2s a sailor and has played foot ball on the Desert of Sahara. Samuel Murray, the foot messenger of the Executive Mansion, ig a colored man. It is the business of the bicycle messenger and the foot messenger to go on miscel- luneous errands. The Prudent Pruden. The most important individual employed r. Cleveland as a messenger is O. L. It was once said of the author of “The Raven” that he ought to have been named Edgar A. Poet. Of Mr. Pruden it might be said that he should have been named Prudent. He is the beau ideal of a ears and has confidential man, who never gives anything away. Commonly he is referred to in the pers as the “assistant private secre- to the President. His actual title is “assistant secretary.” He is, in fact, pri- vate secretary to Mr. Thurber, and does not come into contact with the President to any extent. His duti have a social side, inasmuch as the task of arranging the guests at state dinners is always per- formed by him. This is a matter of no little difficulty and importance, as definite rules of etiquette must be observed. If a mistake involving precedence were made much disagreeableness might ensue. This MINCE MEAT Two large pies are made from each package of None-Such Mince Meat. z Be sure ‘or sale by all grocers. ‘u E and get the None-Such. MERRELL-SOULE CO Syracuse, N. Y. syracuse, N.Y." ‘sClothes’’ Reduced. Closing out entire stock of Harness at 25 per cent discount, to close department. Elegant $20 Buggy Harness, $15. Kneessi, 425 7th St. jal7-200 is especially true of diplomatic dinners at the White House. It is Mr. Pruden who carries all_mes- sages and communications from the Presti- dent to Congress. Nearly every day while the national legislature is in session he visits the Capitol, driving thither in one of the official carriages of the White House. On entering the Senate chamber and obtaining recognition by the presiding officer he stands in the aisle and says: “Mr. Presiden’ In response the presiding officer says: “Mr. Secretary!’ Mr. Pruden then says: “Mr. President, I am directed by the President of the United States to deliver to the Senate a message in writing.” In delivering a message to the House of Representatives he employs the same for- mula, addressing the Speaker. Mr. Pruden has done this work through several admin- istrations, his service in the White House dating from Grant's time. An employe of the White House even older than Mr. Pruden in length of service is Col. William H. Crook. He has been there ever since Lincoln. He acts as dis- bursing officer of the Executive Mansion, paying off all of the employes on the first day of each month. It is only occasionally that he does service as a messenger. Thé President’s annual or special messages to Congress are carried by Col. Crook to Bal- timore, Philadelphia and New York city, where he delivers them into the hands of the press associations. From those cites the messages’ are telegraphed all over the country by wire. They ape carried in an ordinary handbag,which the colonel guards as he would his life, lest some , cedatory newspaper man should get hold of it. Connected by Wire. Benjamin F. Mongomery is another White House employe of long service. He has been there ever since Grant's time, re- ceiving and sending telegraphic messages. Most of the business communications be- tween the Executive Mansion and the de- partments are sent by wire. The same wire takes in the Capitol also. Thus all brenches of the government, legislative and administrative, are connected for the instantaneous interchange of intelligence. Connection with the lines of the Western Union Company places the President in touch with the whole country, while by the courtesy of the press associations he may obtain the latest news dispatches from all parts of the world. Mr. Montgomery is a short and plump man with an amiable countenance and a judicial manner. On that account Mr. Halford dubbed him “judge,” and the title has stuck. Mr. Cleveland brought to the White House a colored servitor named Sinclair, who has been with him for many years as body servant and corfidential man. He now acts as steward of the Executive Man- sion. In that capacity he is custodian of all the furniture and other property in the house, Including the costly china and ser- vices of solid silver and gold which be- lcng to Uncle Sam. He is under bond for $20,000. Among the many qvalities which rerder him valuable to Mr. Cleveland, not the least is a phenomeral discreetness. The reporters appeal to him in vain for in- formation. To their inquiries he has one stereotyped response, saying simp] ‘Our people do not like to be written up. RENE BACHE. WHO HAS NOT ONEt Few Women or Girls Who Have Not a Buckle or Two. From the New York Herald. Buckle, buckle, buckle! The girl who has not a buckle on her hat, her gown or her clipper is an anomaly. Never before since the time Mother Goose sang her rhyme has the buckle been so much in favor. Buckles for the hat come mostly in rhine- stones or cut steel, in both round and square designs. When they sparkle among nodding feathers or nestle in the heart of a rosette they are very effective. Next to these are the buckles which adorn the czarinas. ‘These are made of gold, silver and rhinestones. ‘rhe prevailing designs are in the scroll patterns, which are so much in vogue this season. Women of simple tastes are fond of the ONE EN. Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro- duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug- gists. 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. SOUIBYILLE. ay. WEW YORK, W.¥. DR. DAMON’S FREE LECTURES AND HEALING OF THE POOR WITHOUT MEDICINE AT METZEROTT MUSIC HALL, EVERY AFTERNOON (BUT WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY) AT 2 O'CLOCK. Go and witness these miraculous cures, It is a sight you will never forget. Doors open at 1:30. Private office, 60S 12th st. n.w. Fur Neck — Scarfs Reduced. We are dete:mined to close out all Fur Neck Scarfs this year at rome price. Prices we been reduced 50c., 75c. and $1, accord- ing to value of scarf. WILLETT & RUOFF, Ja17-200 905 Pa. ave. Don’t Wear Clothes ‘That are out of repair. Don't be “sloppy, when It costs so little to have buttons, Tinings and Dindiags replaced and worn leces darnet. Putting on new COAT COL- ARS is one of our neatest acts—50 CENTS. Do your flanasls need attention? Remem- ber, WE MEND EVERYTHING FOR BUSY SAND WOME! Universal Mending Co., ROOM 4, 1114-1116 F ST. n29-2m , A Woman’s Luxury Is a_cup of tea. A luxury with women is BURCHELL’S SPRING LEAF TEA. It’s absolutely pure, and so fs better than many higher priced teas. It’s great ngth and delicious flavor are all that could be desired. ONLY SOC. POUND. (7There are imitations. See tiat every package bears my naire. aa BUEBCHELL, 1326 & STREET. jalitt Fr delicate tracery in gold or silver without any jewels. Kor those who wish something more elaborate, diamonds and pearls, dia- monds and emeralds, or just plain dia- monds are added. One very pretty buckle intended for a gorget had tiny diamonds, almost hidden by enameled leaves, so that they looked like tiny dewdrops that had escaped the rays of the sun. Another had the head of @ seahorse embellished with ‘gems. A specially handsome belt buckle was shown in old gold Romanesque design, with one immense topaz surrounded by smaller stones of the same Kind. The dull color of the gold and the amber light of the gems made one think of the dark beauties of the east. Such buckles as that ought to become family heirlooms. Other buckles which are exceedingly artistic are of Rus- sian enamel and silver. ‘The buckles and clasp for muff ribbons add a pretty touch to girlish toilets. These come in silver and gold, and may be either plain or engraved. ‘The idea of having the monogram either on the small buckles which are worn on the ribbon, so as to come just below the shoulder, or on the clasp, is popular. m The hat pin has assumed such propor- tions and importance that it must have a buckle, too. Some of the new ones now exhibited have gold buckles, set with tur- quoises, with diamonds or pearls for heads, instead of balls or beetles. “Well, Jane, have you found the rose for my hair yet?” “Yes, madame, but now I cannot find the hair.”"—Life. PASTRY Free from: all the disagrecable greasy effects that result from the use of lard will be had, if COT- TOLENE is used. Fish and cakes fried in it are simply delicious because it adds a flavor to them that cannot possibly be obtained frou the use of any other frying material. Get the genuine COT- TOLENE, as there are numerous questionable imitations. The trade mark given here is on each pail. Sold in three and five 1b. pails. Made only by The N. K. Fairbank Company, CHICAGO, and 114 Commerce St., Baltimore. GET THIN. Use Dr. Edison’s Famous Obesity Pills and Bands and Obesity Fruit Sait. Gur supporting and spe Obesity Bands will wash. Il and examine. Twenty variet all genuine Lands have our name stamped on them. Messrs. Loring & Co.—Four bottles of Dr. Edi- son's Obesity Pills reduc pounds. Your Obesity Band gives sup duces one’s weight, and the size of on very fast. M! and Miss Sarah Layng Rockefeller, 5th avenue East 57th st., New York, writes my friend, Amelia Lew! Sth avenue, reduc Weight 69 pounds on your Obesity’ Fruit Salts. lost over 37 pounds op ‘Then I used the Pills al Our goods may be obtained from C. G. C. SIMMS, Cor. New York ave. and 1ith st. MERTZ’S MODERN PHARMACY, Cor. 11th and F sts.. Keep a full line of Obesity Bands, Pills and Fratt Salt in stock. Ladies will find ‘a saleslady here to explain the treatment to them. Sent by mail on tecaipt_of price. The Bands cost $2.50 up; the Fruit Salt, $1 per bottle, and Pills, $1.50 per bottle, or 3 boitles for $4. Address: LORING & CO., 42 West 224 st., Depart 74, New York, or 22 Hamilton place, De No. 4, Boston. Jal6. the Pills # TUE FIRST THING IN THE MORNING Take a little Carlsbad Sprudel Salt in a glass full of water. That will set you right and keep you right, if you're inclined to be bilious or dysp2ptie or constipated. People wonder, sometimes, why it is that the Corisbad treatment, the world's remedy for habit- ual constipation, skould be recommended for diarrhoea and such discnders, too. Simply, because it leads the stomach and bowels naturally into a healthy condition, whatever their derangements— it doesn't accomplish its results by hartaful irri- tation, as most pills and purzatives do. of are of imitations sold as ‘artifieial” ‘arlsbad ‘The only genuine Properties of the Sprudel seal of the city of Carlsbad and the signature of “EISNER & MENDELSON C0., Agents, New York," m every bottle. All others are worthless imita- tions. “improved” or BRIAR PIPE VEN AWAY MIXTURE for Ko tos cents Every pipe stamped DUKES MIXTURE or _ oz. Pacxaces 5¢ pR.CHASE’S Blood“Nerve Food Yours: Wee errors TAKING Sie For WEAK and RUM-DOWN PEOPLE. ¥F WHAT IT IS! The richest of allrestorati because it replaces the same substances to the b nerves th se two ; by disease, indi excesses, abus WHAT IT DOE: rich, and the digest cle and streng’ Also a Boon for Women, By making the blood pure and perfect. itereatessolid flesh, mus- és being made stron; | 50 cts., or 5 boxes $2.00. s i mationfree. THE DR. CHASE COMPANY, 4142 Penngrove St Phitadelptiie 626-1,s, M7823 Ladies, I INVITE YOU ALL TO MY TEMPLE OF ee My famous French preparation of * Bow for seven years stood the test over all others, and is guaranteed to permanently DEVELOP the FORM from 4 to 5 and has pever fafied. My ROYALE CREME For the Complexion will positive of F KLES, PIMPLES, BLAC; NES any discoloration. MOND stitute for e nted. ILET POWD! Bo equ: r of these preparations, and ni for past years has been most lies are’ invited to call and se rfection of > ut Dr TO! m Vashington, nd Manicuri Jladeiphia, Pa. Pt OUEST OSSESETOT OHSS tee 3 54 ov $15 11TH STREET N.W. RETIRING ‘Sale Prices aT “THE WARREN.” Ladies’ $4 Shoes (sizes 1 to 8%), only.- Ladics’ $4 Shoes (sizes 244, 3 and 3%), only. Ladies’ $4 Shoes (several lots), only. All Ladies’ $3.50 Shoes down to. All Ladies’ $5 Shoes down to. Youths’ $1.75 Calf Shoes now. Bors’ $2 Calf Shoes only... Men's $2.50 Calf Shoes now. ‘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. Lots of other special bargains, if you come before @ customer takes the stock, fixtures and lease, a whole. THE WARREN SHOE HOUSE, Geo. W. Rich, gi9 F St. *JalT-708 CORSETS. The C. P. Importers make fhem. JaT-4245m inate tF A loath | FUR THIS $12.50. WEEK GAPIS OLD FURS RENOVATED SMALL COST. rah e=a=s4enrm AT 6 FSW <b>) HeOeess 18-50a SOCLEDOS OPES LESOL ERO VIVOO DOC IS OO PODOO HN 4 + eo > PESTA SSAOE TS LODES $ SLIPSPIL SSH SOS PPS SO OSHS Men’s Goods Cost & Less, At P.T. Hall’s. * 1 am closing out my stock of * * Men’s Fine Furnishings completely ¢ * and shall hereafter confine my- ° * self to making = Custom Shirts. OFOSOSPOSSHOD oeee oe Excelent opportunity to lay fn a supply of Hosiery, Gloves, Unde: wi Hanikerchicts, Neckwear, mas, ponders, hist Jew- &e!, at prime cost and less. * °° elry, ‘Get Our Prices fo \ en’sUnderwea wy 5 EDIE TS HS SEOG HHO OOSE OS DOSS CTV | 6559600 000000060600 940900000000060001000000 = pay you to buy enough ua- r to last three or four rs. As you know we hamlled only the finest underwear, and now it is as cheap as the common © * qualities. e* a . VOOERPAA SHO THOET4O4454C 0990990 0000 908 F St. 3 $seee SEPOSEOSE SEL OS OL OS OC FOOE 3 Bunions & Corns PAINLESS REMOVAL, 25c. EACH. Or both feet put in good order for $1.09. PROF. J. J. GEORGES & SON, Special! Fr ists, Parlors, 1115 Pa. 8 a.m, to 5:30 p.m. Otol. ai1-104