Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1895, Page 4

« THE ‘EV ‘EVENIN G STAR. WASHING TON. SATURDAY... -May “11, 1893, CROSBY 8. NOYES fees SHE EVENING STAR hasa regular and permanent circalation much more than the combined circulation ot the other Washington dailies. As a News and Advertising Medium it has no competitor. -Editor. Crln order to avoid delays, on ac- count of personal absence, letters to THE STAR sheuld not be addressed to any individual connected with the office, but simply to THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Business Depar ments, necording to tenor or purpose. Doubts as to the successful starting of the Detroit’ plan’ in’ the District are no longer entertained by those in charge or these who have taken the care to look at all deeply into the state of the case at pres- ent. Thres elements were required in order that a start might be made: Money, land rd laborera.-TRere might: be plenty of Loth land and money, yet, If the right kind of’ people did not’ stow" a MéSife to utilize the opportunity to -help themselves, there could be no benefit derived from the ex- penditure of effort and capital on the part of those who had. undertaken this*charit- able enterprise. But all three elements.are af hand here now, and the final results are only to be awaited. These in turn depend upcn more elements, first, the number and the industry of the people -cultivating the patches, and, second, the weather. With work end rain the seeds furnished to these amateur farmers’odght to grow and pro- duce good.crops,,ang,the poor will not only nave carried a stock of food for tie com- ing winter, but they will-have been taught the great lesson of helping themselves. It would be a fine thing indeed for every large city, and a score of; them, including New York, Brooklyn, Boston and St. Louis, are trying the experiment this summer, if the peer could be induced to use this means of stocking tieir larders, season after season, ard perhaps there might éVéhtually come that return of the tide of population to the rural districts for which so many econo- mists and “philanthropists” ‘are hoping. There will always be a certain proportion of comparatively helpless poor in each large city, end'this number*wHt increase as the ecuntry grows in population, and as the cities follow their present tendency to en- largement and consolidation... The great problem, therefore, is to show these sur- plus folks, whose presence in towns can do ‘there and-the community no good, that there is an easier and a better life among the fields. ‘Ihe population’ must eventually be distributed more evenly...A.remedy must be found for the terrible congestion of pop- ulation in some ‘places, and the equally ¢argerous desertion by the people of other peints. —_——— Washingtonians who haye hitherto been disinclined to couple the St. Asaph racing outfit with the combination at Alexander Island need no longes be averse to con- demning the one quite a3 strongly as they have condemned the other, for by the ac- tion of the National Jockey Club the ‘St. Asaph track has been placed among the outlaws. There was a time when the St. Asaph management appeared to be thor- oughly réspéctable, but one by one the reputable backers of what appeared at the outset to be @ legitimate racing enterprise have voluntarily retired. Thé new condi- tion is much better than was the old one, for there need be no distinction between St. Asaph and Alexander Island; both are entirely obnoxious and both must sooner or later be wiped out of existence. Most of the opposition will come from residents of Alexandria county, but some very plaus- ible stories will be told by these same peo- ple in their endeavor to put the responsi- bility for the existence of the evil condi- tions upon other shoulders. One of the friends of race-track gambling who has tried to be sarcastic at the expense of the two Washington newspapers that have been arguing for law and order has re- cently come as near to the front as he deems safe for the purpose of insisting that if there were no negro suffrage in Alex- andria county that subdivision of Virginia would be one of the most orderly and law- abiding counties in the state. The atten- tion of the negro voters of Alexandria county is directed to the fact that the apologists: for St. Asaph and Alexander Island and Rosslyn are engaged in an en- deavor to hold the negroes responsible for @ condition that appears to be quite satis- factory to the apologists themselves. When this is made plain it is hardly likely that those who are numerically the controlling force will continue to rake the chestnuts out of a fire that ts- setting hotter and hotter every day. ... ~ The western way of doing things often strikes the eastern observer as being over- rapid, but that it is effective cannot possi- bly be denied, even by those who do not care to give western folk credit for the Possession of more sense than they abso- lutely need. A Uttle over a month ago the people..of, Chicago came to the con- clusion that the city government was cor- rupt. For this conclusion there was good reason, supported bywa vast quantity of testimony that could not be shaken and would not be misunderstood. The work of Investigation. was. at ence~commenced. It has not been conducted after a spec- tacular fashion, ‘but so far it seems to have been quite. thorough:\'Phe police de- partment was regarded as- being the maunicipal subdivision most in need of at- tention, so the investigators settled down to business on that and up to this time fifteen detectives and more than five hun- dred policemen have been. officially de- capitated, their unfitness having been made clearly apparent without any difii- culty at all. Good citizens can hardly do otherwise than approve such industry. In New York city the police*force should have suffered numerically quite as much as Chicago's police force has, but the prose- cution scemed to weaty of its job, so a great men who are improperly th authority have been spared. ‘s city government is also to sated, but the chances are that Chicago will have purified itself long be- fore the Philadelphia imvesttgators get | ready to start There is a great deal of merit in the western method. > oe » time has passed when any one will ent recorder of deeds to be med into a resignation even by such a tration of intelligent indignation as iced last night at the an- § of the local Civif Service Re- He has declared that he office—which he holds by virtue not merit—for good and all, his own volition is concerned, therefore the talk of those who him to be worse than an incubus is but idle in his ears. This attitude of the recorder is not surprising. It is not to be expected that a man to whom an office is tossed as a political sop’ will display any sensitiveness to public opinion in the mat- ter >f retaining it-asJeng as he is permit- ted tc do so by the appointing power. But of favoritism, far as the wonder is that careful statements, -made by such responsible men as those who compose the association, should go en- tirely for naught with those in power, whose cifie char; called to tention the situation and the spe- s against this official have been in and again. Ignorance of the case cannot be pleaded for a moment on vehalf of the President or those around him. The charges made by the Ctvil Ser- vice Commission have been deliberately snored, THE EVENING STAR} SATURDAY, MAY. 11,.1895—-TWENTY PAGES: and dignity and propriety. Tt 1s-not to be Presumed that the individual members of this high commission were inspired by per- sonal motives when they did their duty and pointed out to the Presidént’ the plain, proven fact that the law had heen clearly violated by the recorder. They were ap- pointed by him for that particular purpose and to ignore their presentations was mere- ly to rebuke them for doing their duty. Now comes an independent, non-partisan body of citizens, reiterating the charges, in- sisting upon their truth, and appealing for ™mere justice in the premises. To ignore these men, constituting as they do this independent civilian association, is to em- phasize the original refusal to hear any- thing against the man from’ Kansas who was imported here to violate the law and to run his bureau directly contrary to the spirit of the civil service position of the President himself. That any sort of action will be taken now is beyond-belief, but the case is leaving a very disagreeable taste in the mouths of all good citizens, not only of Washington but also of the entire coun- try. ———_ > ee What a blessing it is for the Senate— though not, perhaps, for’ the country—that Delaware got into that tangle over the senatorship, and left the situation so snarled up that nobody knows who's who or what's what! The case as it stands pre- sents just those oppcrtunities for nice dis- tinctions and discriminations which delight the hearts of the philosophical’ statesmen, who, in the main, compose’ the upper branch of the national legislature. To pon- der and talk for weeks over the question of whether Governor Watson had the right to take the floor as a senator and so prevent Mr. Dupont from getting a full majority ofall the senate will doubtless be a balm to the senatorial soul. The question is even nicer and capable of finer shadings of ar- gument, it would seem, than that presented by the cases of the three western senators who were apointed by the governors of their states after the legislatures had failed to elect. There is material in this case, it now appears, for many weeks of discus- sion, all of the utmost importance, of course, there being no ather great issue at hand, and there is an excellent prospect that the session will be filled with long and heavy discourses upon the theories of the constitution, the rights of a governor de jure and a senator de facto, and all the other interminable combinations and per- session is about over, ard the time has been nearly all consumed in talk, the ap- Propriation bills will be, rushed through at the last moment, as usual, and there will be another grist of hasty, ill-considered legislation ground in the mill that grinds neither siowly nor excéedingly fine when it gets started to grinding at all. —___+ e+ ___—_ French duelists who are concerned be- cause the humorists of their own and every other nation find much sich material in the spectacular and almost invariably harmless encounters that so frequently take place im the vicinity of Paris should study the American method, which, if transplanted, would probably put an effectual stop to the ridicule now consequent upon ninety-nine per cent of the so-called hostile meetings. A sample encounter of the genuine sort took place recently at the euphoniously- named town of Wampoo, where there devel- oped radical difference’of opinion between two Arkansas gentlemen, one of whom was a constable, while the other was presum- ably a law-breaker. The law-breaker was desirous of avoiding service of a warrant, and he so notified the constable. The con- stable insisted, and, as there seémed to be Do probability of a peaceful settlement of the dispute, resort was had to the hair- trigger code frequently appealed to in that region. Each of the duelists was armed with a double-barreled shot-gun, and when the smoke had cleared away it was discov- ered that the four barrels were empty and that a large proportion of what had been their contents had found abiding places in the respective bodles, the constable being in complete possession of twenty-three buckshot, while the man who objected to receiving a warrant found tén to Be an overdose; both men died within an hour. They do some things much better in Europe than they do them in the United States, but when it comes to dueling the people of Ar- kansas and thereabouts—to say nothing of the people of a good many other states not in evidence just-now—oceupy reserved seats near the orchestra. —_ _+ ++ _____ ‘The American citizen of African extrac- tion may be somewhat slow in making him- self manifest in the mechanical branches of industry, but his progress toward equal- ity in the mere matter of labor is steady and sure. Hitherto it has been invariably the rule that only white men should do the firing on railway locomotives, but one of the big corporations has started out to employ negroes in that capacity. Naturally, there are threats of trouble, emanating from Caucasians who fear, the prospective com- petition, but it is not likely that any of the big. labor organizations will take the matter up and act adversely to the firemen with whom they have no social relationship. Sconer. or later there must be general rec- ognition of the fact that the American cit- izen—no matter what may be the color of his skin—must be permitted to toil wherever :t appears to hin: that he is fitted for the la- bor and whenever he can convince those who employ labor that it would be in the interests of sound business policy to engage him. The intelligent white man does not fear honest, above-board competition, so, although efforts may be made to stir up strife because white men no longer have a monopoly of locomotive firing, it is not at all probable that the country will respond to agitation such as two or three excited men have intimated may come. —__ ++ +____ The appointment of Col. William P. Craighill to be brigadier general and chief of engineers of the army is entirely above and beyond criticism. Gen. Craighill stands in the front rank of tne world’s en- gineers, his ability having been recognized even by civilian members of the profession in a most complimentary manner, he hav- ing been elected president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Much of the work to be done by Gen. Craighill will deeply concern the people of the national capital—their interest in the chief of en- gineers is Invariably greater than that of any other community—so he will receive here the cordial welcome to which he is entitled and which his abilities and his pleasing personality bespeak for him. —— ee By denying himself to the society reporter the President has left it in the nature of things that most of the fakes published concerning the White House shall be other- wise than profoundly complimentary. nee Mrs. Lease’s declaration that she can hypnotize people suggests an inquiry as to whether there is anything that Mrs. Lease | does not feel entirely competent to un- dertake. —_—_- +++ ____ Mr. Addicks has invented ways of put- ting extra kinks into a filibuster that prom- tse to make him a formidable figure in statesmanship some day. Counterfeiters have imitated the Unitcd States cent. This looks like retribution for the people who are responsible for the slot machine. | | | —> ¢ = _____ It is feared that Kentucky is overwork- ing itself in an effort to fill in the lapse in excitement caused by the congressional vacation. + ¢- —_ It‘s a wise statesman who can keep his financial views open to doubt until after although made in all earnestness | his party’s national convention. mutations of the question. Then, when the’ THE WEEK. Argument on the constitutionality of ‘the income tax law was made before the full bench of the United States Supreme Court. The Delaware legislature adjourned sine die, but the speaker of the house, McMul- lin, republican, declared Henry A. Du- pont elected United States Senator; the last ballot gave him 15 votes. The repub- licans claimed that Senator Watson, in succeeding to the governorship, ceased to be a senator, and that there were, there- fore, only 29 on joint ballot, 15 votes con- stituting a quorum. The court-martial was begun in Brooklyn of Fleet Surgeon Dr. Kershner, on the charge of perjury and scandalous conduct. A conference of edu- cation was held in Boston on the require- ment for entrance examinations in English to admit to the various colleges of New England, the middle states and Maryland. Yesterday was observed in North Carolina as Confederate Memorial day; the chief ceremonies were at Raleigh, -Wilmington and Charlotte. The greater New York bill was defeated in the state senate—I5 to 14. The international convention of the ¥. M. C. A. was begun in Springfield, Mass. Gov. Peter Turzey was inaugurated at Nashville. The republican members were absent. Four policemen were injured and off ‘striker fataliy shot in a riot of the Llinois Steel Company strikers in Chicago. Judges Simonton and Goff decided in Columbia, S. C., that the provision of the dispeftsary law prohibiting importation of liquor for private use was unconstitutional. The grand jury which has been- investigating the management of the county jail in Memphis, Tern., under Sheriff McCarver, has returned a report containing some seri- ous charges against that officer. Charges of crookedness have been brought against President Looker of the Michigan Mutual Insurance Company. The entire busi- ness portion of Cresco, Neb., was destroyed by fire. Five state senators were appointed at Harrisburg by the legislature to: exam- ine the municipal affairs of Philadefphla. Foreign. The ratifications of the treaty of peace between China and Japan were exchanged. It is reported that, in consideration of Japan’s abandonment of the Liao Tung peninsula, ske will receive an additional indemnity of ten million pounds. Under the new Chile-Bolivia treaty Bolivia gains a Pacific port and a strip of territory, which will enable her to resume commerce by the Pacific without crossing Chilean soll, and permit a re-establishment of her navy. The reichstag rejected the main sec- tion of the anti-revolution bill. ‘Fhe Brit- ish house of commons adopted a proposal made by the chancellor of the exchequer reimposing a duty of 6d. per gallon on beer, which will convert the estimated deficit in the budget into a surplus of £181,000. Ex- Queen Natalie returned to Servia after hav- ing been exiled four years. Sir Robert Peel, Great Britain’s secretary for Ireland from 1861 to 1865, died in London.. O'Donovan Rossa created a sensation in the gallery of the English house of commons by pro- testing that his fair name had been assail- ed, and was arrested. Jem Smith knocked out Ted Pritchard in England in the second round in a fight for the English champion- ship. The London stock markets a with an enormous business in chiefly on German buying. - The iT biders from Germany, in the past few days, have been unprecedentedly large. The rush for bold bonds continues. iN\ In the District. | 5) /} A joint committee, composed of represen- tatives of the Central Relief Committee, the Board of Trade and the Associated Chari- ties, was formed and arrangements were made to put into operation at once the po- tato raising plan for the relief of the poor. The largest delegated religious body in this country, known as the Southern Baptists’ convention, is in session in this city, hav- ing convened yesterday for a four days’ meeting. During the week the Open-air Workers’ Association of America was in session. The Fencibles and the Morton Ca- dets left tor Memphis to take part in the interstate drill. Col. Clay, the chief clerk of the Department of Justice, having made an inspection of the jail, reports that insti- tution to be in a satisfactory condition. In- terviews, printed in The Star, with a large number of business men of the city show that business prosperity is returning, and that there is a hopeful feeling as to the fu- ture. Col. W. P. Craighill was made briga- dier general and chief of engineers of the army, in place of Gen. Casey, retired. From injuries recelved by an explosion of gaso- line the death of William Nyman resulted. SHOOTING STARS. A Novice. “That policeman has just come on the force,” said the woman who keeps a fruit stand on the corner. “How do you know?” black. “He's only helped himself to two apples the whole of one day.” asked the boot- Difference. “°Tis quite too warm to hustle’— Yet you should see this same Protesting youth when he gets out And roots at the base ball game. Would Be Convenient. “What a great pity,” said the sportsman who wanted to take his catch home, “that our fish aren't more like our office boys.” “I dan’t quite see the connection,” replied his friend. “Then the longer you sos them the fresher they'd get.” A Useless Warning. Little drinks of water 2 Iced, your health will try; But just now it seems.a- Pleasant way to die. A Sucpicious Error. “That was a terrible mistake,” said the editor to the foreman. “I hope you didn’t mean anything by it.” “What do you refer to?” “You got the latest news from the Dela- ware senatorial fight into the paper under “market quotations: An Oriental Reflection. The Chinese warrior his fate In desolation’ wails; He's vanquished quite. And thereby hangs innumerable taels. Wanted a Sprinter. “So you want a job on the ice wagon, do you?” “Yes, sir,” replied the boy. What can you do?” “I'm a dandy lifter. I can pick up as much weight as two ordinary men.” “That's no good in this business. Get out there and let’s see you sprint while I hold the watch on you.” “You want a runner?” “That's right. get a burst of speed on him that'll get ten pounds of ice from the wagon to a custom- er’s front door before it melts.” a The misunderstanding in the ranks of the theosophists while deplorable in a gen- eral sense has had the effect of enlighten- ing the public on what was previously a- subject of much error. It appears that the astral body does not set up an independent existence; that when this part of a man’s being concludes to indulge in @ holiday the rest of him must refrain from any active participation in the affairs of human ex- istence. This withdraws- what was one of the chief inducements to become a, theoso- phist. An adept cannot send his astral body on an errand around the corner while he stays at his desk and attends to busi- ness. He cannot take his wife to the opera while his other self seeks entertainment elsewhere, nor can he go to a baseball game and the races at one and the same time. On the contrary he is handicapped just about as an ordinary mortal is ex- cepting that he can go farther from -home in a given space of time by using his astral body than he could otherwise. Even this, however, has been made the subject of so much skeptical comment that it seems doubtful whether being a first-class theosophical performer is really worth all the study and practice it takes. —___--+-+ = _____ A Literary Criticism. From the New York World. | It is distressing to a sound mind to he compelled to read much highfalutin lit- erature. The trouble with most of the magazines is that they are highfalutin. I want somebody that can- HISTORY. Of the PALAIS ROYAL Established _ 1878:—The first store to introduce New York methods, to first quote popular. prices, to first establish a cash busi- ness, tofirst daily announce its wares inthe mewspapers. The results: “Washington stridesahead commercially, the people are, benefited,— old. fegy merchants - are awakened; ., ones are attracted, the tising increases,—until to- day you ‘ard-- positively. bewildered. © The erstwhile old fogy and the latest arrived merchant with a stock of telling you that th your benefactors. Mean- while the Palais Royal re= mains unique:—is the one large establishment making a specialty ofacash business and quotirtg low- est prices for best goods. ON MON DAY QIAL $0,000 wortH or Sew SCMIMER DRESS Fa RICS ARRIVED YESTERDAY AND TODAY, SO THAT MONDAY WILL SEE THE DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT BRIGHTENED WITH THUS LAT: STYLES, INCLUDING ALL THE MOST. ASK. ED-FOR 31 SHADES THAT ARE ONLY TOO SCAIt OT A FEW PRICE SURPRISES: At 15¢ 55 Rice, best quality Pique Suitings. Ground of lue, sprinkled with white dots and figures. At 12%c 69 pieces Jaconet Lawns, 32 inches wide. You never before have seen such marvelous imitactos of French Lawns; the destgos and colors art fac similes of the more expensive imported goods. t 10c 259 pleces.-A. miscellaneous lot, worth from 12%c to Be See the Lace-stripe Novels “ar are netther gingham ‘or lawa, aad yet. possessing the beauties of bath. See the bewitching Swiss Mulls, in artistic figures and stripes, in attractive and-scarce shades. See the 40-inch Irish Lawns, in fancy ‘stripes and colors. | See the 40-inch Waite Lawns. See the Duck Sultings, in stripes of all colors. These aad others at 10c yard, though worth more. At que 120 pleces of Ginghams of quality heretofore sold at 12%4c, and Germania Dimlty looking like the much more-expensiv At 5¢ 92 -pleces White Satin Stripe Lawns. While not worth more than Se yd. they can be made into a summer dress as attractive as material costing five times the price. See These ‘Silks.’ . 75c yd. for choice of 25 pieces of Taffeta Silks in twelve different styles of black and white checks and stripes. : C7 While the stocks of 59, 8c, T5¢, Fancy Silks have ‘been new and beaut! $1, $1.25 lnereased ‘with effects in the now scarce shades is asked to the 53 pleces offered but to see them and those elsewhere at the pr The New “Blacks.” 5 pieces ofthe new Black Diagonat Sicilian, 50 inches wide) $#:35 yd. Te looks like silk cit Miata She os it ts par ence for the prestnt’ style ‘ek OTA rival barknl e ad iSinch Black Mo- hair Jacquanis at 6 ‘His surplus. stock of Black Silks,:secured to dis= tribute at 20 per cent less prices than yet: quoted ‘for equal qualities: 24-inch Figured India Sifks. 21-tueh Gros Grain Brpeades. 22-inch Figured Taffeta Stitd. uch Rengaline Silks... 21-inch Satin Rhadame,.,. 22-inch Faille Francaise, 22-inch Royal Srmure. ya. TF Only 17 pieces tn thie Tot—ttid odd picees tint the wholesale merchant looked on as odds and ends. No more at the prices this season. Cream Wool Goods For the sweet girl grad- uate, the May ball and many other occasions. AT 39C YARD. 39¢ yd. for 40-inch All-Wool Albatross, Nun's Veiling and Henrletta that will favorably compare with any samples of 50e goods you bring’ here, 50e yd. for 46-inch French Flannel, As good as previously means equal the usual 7 Serge and_ French ere at 68c—that ¢ for 45-inch Henrietta usually judged worth and 6c yu. for the usual Se quality. AT 75 for 54-inch Wile. Wate Serge, Hair Cheviot, 46-inch French Mohair. Better than the previous be: : AT 986, YARD. rd. for h Sicilian and 40-inct Only ss yd. for the 40-inch S Wool Crepons. To Keep Cool. Divert your mind by play= ing at work, especially as the foliowing reduced prices are to be quoted here Mon= ‘Te ° yd. day: * for 54-inch Momie Linen Scarfs, stamped in artistic de » When outlined, make a most attractive effe 19¢_ fer the Stamped and Tinted Collar and Cuff Bags; facing al el. 1% ir for th for the Se Kindergarten Mats and six of the tamped Linen Doyites for 20e 14e hank for Colored Imported Germantoxn, 12i%¢ hank for double Germantown and 4¢ ounce for full weight Split and Single Zephyrs. fifth of ata the prices mark- Center Pleces, Covers, &e 20 per cent discount 0 ed on all Fine Hemstitehed Doslies, Searts, Tray and Tab) 10 per cent discount on. Doylies, Center Pleces, &e. Baby’s Cordage | Compare those here at $5 with any rival: you'll find in Washington, and save thereby. rise naga “of Baby. Ca floor, $3.48 to $25 a1 htel and Lace Scarfs, ges price extremes. on this fourth t : wood's latest aad ag styles fire’ a “specialty at or least pri 1 Palais Royal, G and uth Sts. A. Lisner. TOMORROW'S -SUNDAY= tar adver-/| ants are all} they are 4 “dt it’s Furniture, we have it.” You: can furnish your cottage in the neatest, most appropriate fashion pos- sible at a remarkably small expense if you select the necessaries here. Nothing nicer than reed and rattan. Wothing nicer than our showing of it. We've gotten in a stock of“ sbont everything you'll want, and can quote you better prices by. far than could be asked last year. ottage §$ -75- Parlor Suite, Q:25- Couldn't have been sold last year under $12.50. Nicely finished oak frames and close cane seats. . Suite consists of Divan, Large Rocker, Ladies’ Rocker and Side ‘Chair, - A neat, pretty suite, just what a cottage wants. Reed. = Parlor Suite, 91 275: Last season less than $18.50 couldn't buy St. Made of reed, with hardwood frames; 5. pleces—Sofa, 2 Large Arm ~Chairll: Roeker an Side Chair. Our Porch and Lawn Furniture Is-well worth your looking over. RUSTIC BENCHES, SETTEES and all the cest of them—at most pleasing prices, A most desirable stock. Every kind of * White and Brass Bed, eyery size here, for from $5.35 up. Think of White and Brass Beds for your cottage. For Your City Home There are lots of hot-weather needs here. WIRE SCREEN DOORS, com- plete, with hinges, for 8c. WIRE WINDOW SCREENS, 25 CENTS. REFRIGERATORS—$5.50 UP. ICE CHESTS—$3.50 UP. MATTINGS—at most moderate prices. Awnings—$2.35 up. LOOSE COVERS, made to order and to fit. YOUR CARPET CLEANING Can't, be trusted to better hands than ours. Our process produces the most pleasing results, It's thorough—but will not injure the most delicate fabric. ———-0 Jy,.WALL PAPERS there's tot such a stock as-ours any- al Prettiest productions are here, Priced just right. Our esti- mate will be to your king. where. this season's Lansburgh’s “RINK,” New York Avenue Bet. 13th and 14th Sts. Agency for the celebrated COLUMBIA AUTOMATIC FILTER. 1t RAFF’S ENTERPRISE, 1239-1241 1th St. S. E. THE CROWD OF BUYERS AND ADMIRERS IN ATTENDANCE ATTESTED THE POPU- LARITY OF THIS STORE WITH SEEKERS FOR BARGAINS. j Clothing. Children’s Clothing. $1.00 Children’s Suits, 5-13.. $1.50 Children’s Suits, $2.00 Children’s Suits, $2.50 Children’s Suits, $3.00 Children’s Suits, wool, .... $1.00 Washable Suits. $1.50 Washable Suits. Boys’ Waists. Boys’ Waists. ‘Boys’ Waists Loge Big. Boys’ Waist: ‘Fe. Fauntleroy Walsts. $1.00 Fauntleroy Waists. Gur line of Men's and Boys’ Straw Hats in endless variety. 25e. Children’s Straw Satlors.15c. 50c. Men's Mackinaw Hats. .25e. Why not see our line of Men’s, Ladies’ and Chi dren’s Tan Shoes? $1.25 Ladies’ Tan Shoes. $2.00 Men's Tan Sho $1.25 Misses’ Tan Shoes. $1.00 Misses Tan Sanda! Raff’s Enterprise, 1239-1241 11th St. S. E. 49¢, TORO (Find It ing that range burning Change — things. GAS RANGE. ‘The cook kitchen all di 2 ing will be done just as’ all dc well—without surplus heat ly, too—and mically. —Our showing of GAS' ANGES is exceptional. We have everything any one is likely to want— from the smallest to the largest range. —Vrices won't stand i the way of your buying. Fitters, that more Plumbers, Tinners, G 9TH ST. Tosoverveveoveceee . labastine PAINT is what you want for sour bed roos in Meu of paper, Artistic— healthful—cleanly—fire proof, and inex- pensive, it is the fdeal paint for all in- terior decoration. Send postal or ‘phone for pamphlet. TF Our stock of Paints, Brushes, Var- nishes, ete., is enormous. Well worth a visit to see. Lowest prices prevail. . M. BROWN, cor. 7th and N sts. n.w. my11-20d Cooereccccovoccoe Pp * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ° . are eeerescccee S, Kann, Sons & (0, STH & MARKET SPACE ONE DEAL In Silks that will cover a multitude of errors if we ever committed any. After this deal was made the im- porter of whom we bought them envied our bargain. This is as true as the cherry tree -confession. If ever such value has been seen befere we will resign our position as leaders in Silks and retire into obscurity. GhHGLASS NOVELTIES FOR WAISTS, GOWNS OR SKIRTS. THE MOST SELECT STYLES, THE NEWEST IDEAS AND THE FINEST QUALITIES COMBINED MAKE THEM STILL MORE.WORTHY OF WHAT WE HAVE SAID. YOU CAN DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS WHEN WE TELL YOU THAT ‘THESE GOODS TODAY ARE SELLING AT $1.25, $1.39 AND $1.49 A YARD. FINE DRESDEN TAF- FETAS AND NOVELTIES, BLACK FIGURED TAFFETAS, BLACK BROCADES AND STRIPED TAFFETA, WHITE GROUND AND TINTED TAF- FETAS, WITH HIGH-COLORED FLOWERS, FIG- URES AND STRIPES; BLACK GROS GRAIN AND GROS DE LONDRE, WITH SMALL COLORED BUDS AND SPOTS, IN FACT, EVERY CLASS OF SILK THAT HAS THE VALUE ABOVE A $ MARK CAN BE FOUND IN THIS GRAND AGGRE- GATION? WE EXTEND A CORDIAL INVITATION ‘TO EVERY ONE, FROM THE PRINCE TO THE PAU- S§ Cp a-yard. On Sale Monday Morning. COL’D DRESS GOODS. WE HAVE TAKEN THAT LARGE CARVING ! KNIFE THAT IS GENERALLY USED BY OUR HIGH EXECUTIONER IN CUTTING DOWN PRICES, AND TOOK OFF ANOTHER SLICE. IN ONE CASE WE HAVE CUT RIGHT IN TWO. We have gathered in all our 16c., 19. and 25c. Two-tone Colored Novelty Dress Goods, in all colors and styles, and made the price + 12%. We have taken our entire line of All-wool Light, Medium and Dark Mixtures, Checks and Novelties that were 39c. and 49c, a yard, gfouped them to- gether, and made the price 25¢. Imperial Serges and Heorlettas, warranted strictly all wool, in all the latest colorings, full 38 inches wide, that were 49c. a yard, are 29¢. Our entire line of Surah Serges, Storm Serges and Fine Henriettas, in different shades of blue, as well as high colcrs, full 46 inches wide, 39 and 49¢c. 50-inch Fine Imported Fancy Crepons, all wool and silk and wool mixture, that are still marked $1.19, $1.39 and $1.50 2 yard, are put down to 75¢: OUR BLACK GOODS DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN INDORSED FOR BEING THE LARGEST IN TOWN, THERE- FORE WE TAKE SPECIAL PRIDE IN ELEVATING THE ASSORTMENT AND KEEPING DOWN THE PRICES, OUR ENTIRE’ LINE OF BLACK CREPONS HAVE BEEN REDUCED FROM 25c. TO We. A YARD, ACCORDING TO THE QUALITY. REMNANT DEPT. NEW ARRIVAL OF A LINE OF LOW-PRICED 3 cases Fancy and Main Tinted Lawns, warranted fast colors, from the Masamatau mills, one of the largest in the world. 2%e. a Yard. 6 cases Fancy Cotton Challies, very choice styles, Mazeiha brand. 2%c. a Yard. 2 cases Satin Glace—this is a very fine print, and styles very select—good worth, 8c. a yard, 3K. Madras Prints—this wash material is as well known as days in a week, makes up well, washes excellent and wears as good as anything that would cost you 8 or 10c. =f ake. All Kinds of Wool Deess Goods, small and medium size pieces, 20 to 25e. OK. 3D FLOOR—TAKE THE LINING DEPT. Inch Real Haircloth, 85ec. q Good Haircloth, 25¢. quality. Extra wide Imitation Haircloth, 12%. qual. White, Black and Colored Leno, Se. quality. .5e Lure Linen Grass Cloth, 18c. quality. Motre Canvas, 12%c. quality. Percaline-finish Cambrics.. 36-inch Fast Black Percalin Moire Percaline, 15c. quality Other departments ad- vertised in tomorrow’s Times ‘and Post. Read them if you wish to profit thereby. value, VATOR, SSDOOONODIHSOOSOO OVO SS SE eee = HAR mA A J. H. Chesley & Co:, 1004 F St. & 522 10th St. Stopin blere |= —for the best things at the low- : est prices. Gas Stoves. All the gas stoves that anybody else has that are any good and some that are better than anv that cam be! found © elsewhere in the city, but, of course, you want a price and here It is: Practical One- § burner Gas Stove, I. 15 ence nea Oil Stoves. Tots of timprovements in oll stoves inithe last few yeard-you' woulda’t know ‘em: Not’so dirty and- more--reltablé “than® “thst” - year's kind. Here are two sam- ples of our low prices: 1=burner Ot Stove,’ 65¢. 2=burner Oil Stove; $1.25 E7Patent Covered Tubing for sax stoves only be. i | be. toot. Lawn Mowers. Our greatest forte “is Lawn Mowers. We're selling. more, of them and “better ate for “the money than any, ether store in Washington. You've paid $10 for a lawn mower that wouldu’t cut any more grass in a “day or cut it any better than that 10 and. 12-inch mower are” ~ selling at there, markably low MM OUR GREAT SPECIAL.~25°ft. of Good Sdund Watering Hose, with - patent norte, 5 ble of throwing any spray, all ee = 1.50 Poultry Wire Netting. In full rolls, 45c. 100 sq. ft. Cut to suit, 6dc. 100 sq. ft. Good Rakes, 10 steone teeth, only. i, Chesley ¢&. Hardware, Builders’ Supplies, Stove Repairs and Heusefurnishings, DOUBLE STORES, 1004 F St. & §22 10th St. ic 20c ae eae READ OUR ADVERTISEMENT ON PAGE 4. IT will interest you more than the latest novel 8. KANN, SONS & CO. S858 S808 SOEO “CREDIT IS OUR CREED.” SOOO O260 We don’t want@ @a cent from you Each week or month—more than you can spare- without cramping. Our ® @O® oar ouEws Credit... System * Is an accommodating agent—and nothing that savors of hardship oc financial~tytany ts: tolerated. We have gathered 2 10st su- perlor stock of FURNITURE— CARPEPS~ MATTINGS= DRAPER- IES — RABY. CARRIAGES — RE- FRIGERATORS, and we want you to feel “perfectly free to select Just what you want. Don't worry abcut the pay part. Only promise to do whut’ you" edin“Troht that promise ave pin our faith in you. House & Herrmann, 917, 919, 92Land 923 7th St. 636 Mass. Ave. my11-84d @ BSODODOSHOH DDO HGOOOOODOOOSSND See Our S2. i 3= -burner Gas Stove With Double Flames, New -Style. S, Kani, SOUS | c. A. Muddiman, & Co, STi &MARKET SPACE 614 12th St. my11-48d EAD 8. KANN, SONS & wos SDVERTISEMENT 1t IT’S GREAT NEWS VOR SILI PEOrLE,