Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1895, Page 4

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. SATURDAY.............August 17, 1895. CROSBY S. NOYES Editor. THE EVENING STAR has a regular and permanent Family Circulation much more th: the combined cir- eulntion of the other Washington dailics. As a News and Advertising Mediam it has ne competitor. [7lm order to avoid delays, on ac- count of personal absence, letters to THE STAR should not be addressed to any individual connected with the office, but simply to THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Business Depart- ments, according to tenor or purpose. pel SC ee In the matter of garbage collection the District Commissioners sre evidently in earnest, evidence of which condition Is to found in the fines that are dally being as- Sessed against the garbage contractor. At this season of the year there is perhaps ro phase of municipal government more deserving of the closest attention than that dealing with the collection and disposal of garbage. Comparatively little carelessness in collection is provocative of lisease, and during the warm weather diseases such as result from atmospheric {mpurities are much more likely to be fatal than at any other time; every precaution should, there- fore, be taken by the authorities to prevent the accumulation of decaying vegetable matter, upon which the contractor has until now looked with profitable compla- cency. Unless there is unwearying inspec- tion service, followed by fines when the cellections are defective, It pays the garb- age contractor to be careless. Again and again has The Star insisted that the entire garbage system here was fatally defective in that it encouraged the garbaze collector to refrain from collecting, but for some -reason or other—probably political—the District Commissioners have been content to let matters jog along in the same old- fashioned, wasteful way, long unknewn to communities at all careful as to hygienic conditions within their borders. There Is lkelihood that somewhere in the not far distant future we too will take a long step ferward in this most important matter, and will, by demanding the reduction of garbage, make it to the contractor's inter- est to collect every pound of the theeaten- ing refuse. Fairly close collection may be brought about by a strong and competent force of conscientious inspectors, but that Plan is not an economical one, nor can it possibly be as sa etory as one which makes it to the contractor's direct pecun- Jary interest to fulfill all the requirements of his contract. ——— Western humor is often practical, and a notable specimen of the western joke comes from Chadron, Neb., where three British tourists were arrested for fast bicycle rid- ing and were fined $5.70 each. The cyclists refused to pay their.fines although they had plenty of money; then t were ordered out to work on the streets, but they re- fused to work; furthermore they are said to have appealed to the British ambassador. There is nothing very funny in the fact that these visitors were fined, nor is there even the appearance of humor in their declination to work out the fines which they refused to pay, but there is something intensely laughable in the primary fact that anybody should be arrested for speed- ing a bicycle up or down the one street which Chadron boasts; a thoroughfare which is bounded on two sides by saloons, blacksmith shops, two or three general stores and a couple of frontier hotels; other boundaries there are none, for not even a surveyor could tell where the street ends and the prairie begins. Ever since Chadron commenced to be it has been the custom for more or less intoxicated cow-boys to ride at full speed along the either very muddy or very dusty boulevard and coin- cidental with such impromptu races was much yelling and whooping and pistol-fir- ing and other western accompaniments to a full-grown mounted jag. Therefore it is very funny to those who know Chadron to read that three respectable bicycle riders have been arrested and fined for fast riding in Chadron. ——__ +02 Tammany and all the other New York city influences that are opposed to decent municipal government have done their best to annoy the reform administration in New York city. One of the conspicuous marks for the mud-throwers has been Street Com- missioner Waring, who has convince ell rational New Yorkers that the city can be kept in a state of healthful cleanliness for very little more of cost than kept it con- tinuously dirty under the Tammany regime. Now, there being nothing else to find fault with in Commissioner Waring’s depart- ment, the hypercritical are saying unpleas- ant things about Waring because he insists that the street-cleaning force of fifteen hundred men—clad in white duck during the hot weather—shall keep the coat full buttoned and the belt fastened; the penalty for disobedience being more or less of a compulsory holiday without pay. Commis- sioner Waring insists that there is no hardship in his order and intimates that it 4s the duty of uniformed employes of the municipality to maintain reat appearance. Washingtonians may wonder what would be the result should that idea occur to the local police authorities. Just now the wide- epen summer jackets of Washington's “finest” display a hundred or more varieties in outing shirts and a bewildering assort- rent of neckwear. The Metropolitan police force is undoubtedly a good one, but its slouchy appearance would be likely to de- celve a stranger. ——--++____. Sufficient scaffolding for the protection of the fron-workers on the city post-office building will surely be provided, and here- after all necessary provisions to render loss of life unlikely will be seasonably at- tended to. This is just as things should be, but it is unfortunate that four men had to be dashed out of existence before any at- tention was given to the safeguards which everybody now admits are necessary. In fairness to the contractor for the brick- work, it should be stated that from the time when he commenced to fill his con- tract he has seen to it that scaffolding of extraordinary width made mover the part of his workmen just as possibly could be. —— ee The joint debatists and convention-hold- ers are doing their best to stimulate an im- pression that the country is going to the demnition bow-wows. —_—_ «= ____ President Cleveland ,will Soon have an opportunity to consider the case of Private Thomas Gill of the 4th U. 8. Artillery, who was recently sentenced, by a court martial at the W. sitting to four years of Imprisonment fo eulting Lieutenant William of the 8d Artillery. To fore eet of a strong petition for r on of the tence is not now possible and it m. be that the effort will fail, but w Gill oes or does not get any good out of the effort which a large number of bi men and officials are making in his be en- ess it will nevertheless be easily established that Mr. Birkhimer n officer who deems it essential to the maintenance of his star jing in the army that all enlisted m n should be regarde distinctly inferior beings and should be compelled to sealize at every possible opportunity how wide and deep is the gulf which separates a martinet officer and the soldier whose re- muneration is small and whose clothing Is entirely without decoration. It does not seern to be insisted by any of the persons THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1895-TWENTY PAGES, who are acquainted with the facts in the case of Birkhimer vs. Gill that Gill did not assault the Meutenant, but it is insisted that Gill was provoked to his misconduct by the cne who primarily suffered from the e:counter. Under the circumstances it might therefore be a good thing for Mr. Birkhimer if he could display before tho public @ reputation for amiability in his dealings with those who were his subordi- nates as to rank, but such a display, ac- cording to the general testimony, seems to be impossible. To the signers of the peti- tion—seme of whom are prominent citizens of Washington who will never forget their bitter experiences while in the signal ser- vice under Mr. Birkhimer—the sentence which Gill ts now serving has the appear- ance of being unduly severe and they will doubtless do their utmost to humiliate Mr. Birkhimer by pressing for radical reduc- tion of the term of imprisonment. One feature of the case to which reference Is made tn the petition deserves passing at- tention. The language there employed is: “The offender was under the influence of liquor at the time of the assault, and there were other mitigating circumstances. The civil courts would punish such an offense with five or ten days’ imprisonment, or a fine of five or ten dollars. Is not this sen- tence of four years unnecessarily harsh and cruel, and is it not out of place in this country and in this age?” Drunkenness is not a palliation; {t can- not be properly called “a mitigating cir- cumstance;” it is rather an aggravation. Then too it will be difficult to establish a parallel between a case of affray in civil life and an affray between an enlisted man and an officer in the army; in civil life there is no discipline save that en- forced by the police, but in the army things are run differently, and it would be destructive of that organization were the striking of an officer made a trifling of- fense. Four years imprisonment, though, is undoubtedly a severe sentence, and if it isemade plain to President Cleveland that Mr. Birkhimer practically compelled Pri- vate-Gill to assault him, the conclusions of the court martial may be seriously modl- fied or completely overturned. ———-~+ e = —___ Ex-Senator Matt Ransom has a real grievance. In response to a request made by this administration he accepted appoint- ment as minister to Mexico, and now the administration refuses to pay him elther salary or such expenses as he has officially incurred. It is rather remarkable that some one of the many accomplished legislators and clever lawyers who were and are Mr. Ransom’s friends did not foresee the situa- tion as it now is. The Constitution says that “no Senator or Representative shall, dur- ing the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the au- thority of the United States which shall have been created, or the emolyments whereof shall have been increased, during such time.” Senator Ransom’s term did not expire until March 4 last, but he was nominated and confirmed minister to Mex- ico February 23; the fact that the President did not sign his commission until after the adjournment of Congress was depended upon to outweigh the other fact that dur- ing Senator Ransom’s concluding legisla- tive term the salary of the minister to Mexico was increased $5,000 a year. But now come the auditor of the Treasury for the State Department and the solicitor- general and acting attorney-general, who insist that Mr. *Ransom is not and has not been minister to Mexico and cannot, there- fore, be paid one cent for the services which he has rendered the United States since the day when he supposed he was taking the ministerial oath of office. Maybe it will take an act of Congress to pay the suspended salary and expenses up to date— appointment at this time would be unques- tionably legal—but the chances are that the Secretary of State will find a fund out of which Mr. Ransom may be compensated and reimbursed. — --—+ = —__ ‘There must be more than one sea-serpent. Perhaps that ought to be self-evident fact to anyone who has given a thought to natural history, but it is nevertheless true that the popular mind either believes in or dces not believe in the existence of “the” sea-serpent. That there are at least two will have to be admitted even by the skep- tical, for one of the strange creatures has been disporting himself or herself along the New Jersey and New England coasts, while at the same time the other he or she was enjoying the cool weather which is com- men even in the summer time on the sur- face of Lake Manitoba. The reliable wit- ness who saw the northwestern member of the sea-serpent family lives af Minne- wakan and is a person whose morality is conspicuous even in Manitoba and whese veracity is sworn to by a number of other residents of Minnewakan who are also deemed trustworthy. The Manitoba sea- serpent was, a little more than a week ago, quite forty feet long; its head resem- bled that of a bull-dog and the upper part of its head and such of its body as was visible was covered with long, gray hair. All the probabilities point to this being the original sea-serpent, for none of the others that have obtruded themselves upon mortal gaze of late years pave had that testi- mony to old age which Is frequentiy to be found in gray hair. The probabilities are that this gray-haired snake is in the last stages of senile decay, for no sea-serpent possessed of any sense at all would re- main long enough in Manitoba to give any- body a chance to see what he or she looked like. —_—_+ - = ____—_ Few cities have a more efficient fire de- partment than is to be found in the Dis- trict of Columbia, but a great many cities have fire-alarm service so very much su- perior to what we now have that compari- gon would be ridiculous were not the sub- ject a serious one. Superintendent Miles of the District telephene and telegraph serv- ice—whcse annual report was printed yes- terday in The Star—asks for the money needed to properly equip every portion of the District with a sufficiency of fire-alarm boxes, and calls also for material exten- sion of the police patrol telephone serv- ice. That the Commissioners will do other- wise than approve the recommendations made by Superinterdent Miles is not prob- able; they should, when Congress meet urge most liberal treatment of a municipal service in which everybody must be inter- ested. ——_+ + +_ Tommany’s declaration that it is re- formed carries with it the implied assur- ance that it knows just how far to carry its reformations. —___ = -—____ Mr. Breckinridge’s announcement that he fs out of politics distinguishes him as the tardy convert to that way of thinking. ————————— The democratic presidential nomination is developing a great deal of modest self- effacement. —_—__+ + _____ It looks as if the Spaniards had captured the Cuban stenographer and typewriter. —_—__ 0s __. China is the oldest country in the world, and yet Is not old enough to know better. ———- 0+ One hundred and five men were at work on the new city post-office building today. <> e__ Th ‘tutious Morrison. m the Chicago Record. Those presidential candidates will simply death of us! There's that tough, jous old Bill Morrison, for example. Just see how he biushes and ducks his head, and just hear how coyly he mur- ‘Ask mother +o THE WEEK. The Maryland republicans, in convention at Cambridge, nominated Lloyd Lowndes for governor, Harry M. Clabaugh for attor- ney general and Robert P. Graham for con- troller. Capt. J. Van Orsdale submitted a report on the recent Banrack trouble, say- ing that the whites, and not the Indians, are to blame for the slaughter of game. An exhibition and test of a new high explosive and gun shells was given at Wellsboro, Pa.; the force of the new explosive is forty per cent more powerful than dynamite. The cruiser Columbia was placed in the dry dock at the Brooklyn navy yard, and it was re- ported that the damage would not affect the general strength of the cruiser. Ex- State Treasurer W. W. Taylor of South Dakota, who defaulted last January, has been sent to the penitentiary for five years. Ex-Mayor Van Horn of Denver was killed in that city by falling from a window. Fire destroyed $400,000 worth of property in Philadelphia. Gen. J. D. Imboden, the ex- confederate cavalryman, died at his home in Abingdon, Va. The statement is made that ex-Police Commissioner James J. Mar- tin has assumed the leadership of Tamma- ny Hall, and that the friends of Richard Croker have sent him cablegrams urging his immediate return, Indian Agent Teter re- ported that the Indians threaten to leave the reservation for a hunting expedition to Jackson’s Hole. A number of capitalists are at work on a plan to reclaim the Colo- rado desert by turning the waters of the Colorado river over the territory. The com- pany has a grant of 1,500,000 acres in Mex- ico that it will irrigate; the plan compre- hends the development of the greatest irri- gating systems in the western hemisphere. The distillery of Eli Sherman, in Leayen- worth, Kans., was destroyed by fire; loss, $110,000, Mrs. Charlotta Howell at Wells- boro, Pa., was held on the charge of poison- ing Miss Libby Knapp of Tioga. Foreign. The British parliament was reopened, and the new members of the house of commons took their seats; William Court Gully, lib- eral member for Carlisle, was re-elected speaker of the House of Commons. The German admiralty court, in its decision in the inquiry into the sinking of the steamer Elbe in a collision with the steamer Cra- thie, blamed the disaster on the mate of the latter steamer. Lucien Napoleon Bona- parte Wyse, a noted engineer and explorer, is dead. A number of workmen at Kiel, engaged upon a new German cruiser, were killed by the breaking down of a gangway. Admiral Carpenter, on the flagship Balti- more, has errived at Chefoo. Nicola Pierola was elected president, and Senor Billingsworth, first vice president of Peru, The Irish parliamentary party re-elected Justin McCarthy chairman. Cholera is spreading in China, Corea and the Island of Formosa. One thousand Bulgarians at- tacked the Turkish village of Janakli and burned 290 houses, after Killing twenty- five inhabitants of the place. The Spanish ministry decided to pay the Mora claim to the United States in September without in- terest. In the District. As a result of the recent fatal accidems at the new city post-office building the contractors, in obedience to a demand from the public, have agreed to put a flocring across the girders for the safety of the tron-workers. The week was marked by several days of exceedingly hot weather, but fortunately there were few prostrations by the heat. At the request of printers throughout the country the civil service commission early in the week ar- ranged a conference with the expert board of the government printing office and gave full consideration to the proposition to abolish the age limit for applicants for service in that bureau; the rule barring all printers above the age of forty-five will probably be abolished. A conference of free silver democrats was in session for two days at the Metropolitan Hotel and adjourned after perfecting a free coinage organization within the democratic party. Judge Cole ordered the District Commis- sioners to show cause next Monday why they should not be enjoined from filing and recording the map of the first section of street extension recently &pproved by the Commissioners. Frank Gray, jr., was drowned while bathing near the Aqueduct bridge. The prosecution against the Eck- irgton and Soldiers’ Home Railway Com- pany for obstructing the streets by the unlawful continuance of overhead wires Was suspended by the authorities. The Federation of Labor indorsed the fight of the Protective Street Railway Union against the Eckington road. Plans were approved and bids invited for the construc- tion of the union street railway station in Georgetown by the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company. Fruit venders were ordered to vacate the side- walk on 7th street. The announcement of the sale by auction of the Bartol holdings of Washington and Georgetown railroad stock caused considerable surprise in finan- cial circles. Charles Hammond and his wife were held for the grand jury upon suspicion of having caused the death of Hammond's step-brother, a ten-year-old boy, Campbell Hall, who died from what was thought to be cruel treatment. The District Supreme Court put into effect the act of Congress extending the jurisdic- tion of justices of the peace by providing regulations and a scale of fees. —___~+e +_____ SHOOTING STARS. Her Suggestion. “Do you find this weather oppressive?” he asked. ; “it's very hot and “Would it make matters more endurable if I were to propose to you?” “Oh, yes. Do propose ice cream soda and a driv All Right as an Employer. This gcvernment’s going to ruin, The sorrowing patriots sob; Yet each of them seems very willing to take His chance on a government job. Punctuation. “Jeremiah,” said Mr. Jingle’s wife, as that gentleman came home somewhat late, “you don’t write me touching apostrophes as you used to.”” “No,” replied Mr. Jingle; “and you didn’t use to talk question marks and exclama- tion points as you do now.” ‘oh kin tell er good deal ‘bout er man’s early hah'dships or luxuries,” said Uncle Eben, “by noticin’ wheddah he calls ‘dai- sles’ ‘wil’ flowers’ or ‘weeds.’ Expansive. She’s merry, we shall still believe, Though otherwise she’s quoted, For she could laugh within that sleeve For hours; 'twould not be noted. A Gauzy Explanation. “Did yer done hyah whut "Rastus Pink- ley says he is?” ‘No, I ain’ done hyah it.” “He says he's er min’ readah.” “Huh! Da’s er mighty poh 'pology foh de way he played dat pokah game wif me las’ night. Mighty pob!’”” Familiar History. So the reformer ever finds In merry Gotham town; The first to boost him is the first To try to bring him down. + e+ —-—___ Bloomers in the Ball Room, From the Chicago Evening Journal. Bloomer-clad sylphs in the schottische and the galop! No. The imagination re- coils, reason reels and an inextricable of legs reigns. The floor manager ‘on Park has the true esthetic y. If the bloomer must blocm let a-wheel by the wayside. Beauty and the beast may consort in fiction, but the beautiful and the bleomer are divorced by the absolute incompatibility of their charac eristics. ca Kind of Bread You’ll Like [lest. None like BOSTON BROWN BREAD in cancun = A Matter of Business. From the Detroit Free Press. The decision of the Spanish government to pay the Mora claim without interest Is an illogical one. If the claim is a good one, as Spain concedes in deciding to pay it, the interest is just as honestly due as the principal. other you'll you so much ious bread t digested eat it freely. m the ‘oven, any time. 5, COR. PA. AVE. AND 18TH ST. deli at most easily the baked. So dyspeptics _¢: = Hy fresh = 16 Krafft’s “Bakery, aul7-20e0 WOODWARD ean LOTHROP, 10TH, 11TH AND F STS. N.W. Sy ee Closing ‘hours ‘until September—Saturdays 1 o'clock; other days 5 o'clock. The Shirt Waist Sale interest. Goes on with unabated Ten days of busy buying and sell- ing have made deep holes in some: of the lots, but there are still all sizes in all the styles. We secured thirty large cases of these high-class Waists from an overstocked man- ufacturer at a price concession. They are all new, fresh goods, with- out a blemish, manufactured within the past sixty days, and have all the ~ last-of-the-season’s improve- ments. WOMEN’S LAWN WAISTS, extra full sleeves, full to the cuffs; laundered col- lar and cuffs, new patterns, all sizes, Regular $1.25 Waists...... “ 69c. WOMEN’S EXTRA THIN CHAMBRAY WAISTS, plain pink, blue and tan; laun- dered collar and cuffs; made in the very styles, all sizes. Regular $1.25 Waists . se eteeeereceecees 69c. wom LAWN WAISTS,in a variety of patterns, laundered collar and cuffs, yoke back, very full sleeves, all sizes. Regular $1.68 and $1.90 Waists. 5 g5c. WOMEN’S WHITE LAWN WAISTS, laundered collar and cuffs, all sizes. Reg- ular $1.75 Waists.. : g5c. WOMEN'S SHEER WHITE LAWN WAISTS, large full sleeves, embroidered collar and cuffs, tucked front and back, thoroughly finished. Regular $1.50 Waists. ....4 95c- WOMEN'S SHEER WHITE SWISS LAWN WAISTS,soft, full front,yoke back of clustered ‘tucks, collar and cuffs trim- med with Irish poit embroidery. Regu- lar $2.00 Waiists....... $1.25 WOMEN’S. IMPORTED MADRAS WAISTS, prefty ‘patterns, that have never before been shown in Washington, laundered collar and cuffs, perfect in every respect, all sizes. Regular $2.50 $1.25 Wome MADRAS WAL IMPORTED , embroidered stripes, laundered collar and cuffs, sizes. new bias front, all Regular $2.50 Waists.......... $1.25 XTRA FINE WHITE WAISTS, two styles, handsomely trimmed with fine open em- broidery, tucked or plain yoke, full sleeves, Regular $2.50 Wais Bd floor: Two Unparalleled Handkerchief Bargains. Men's All-linen HandkerchieYs, good quality, full size, hemstitched, 1 and 1%-In. bems. Each... .10c. Women's All-linen Handkerchiefs, hemstitched, hand-embroidered initials. Six in a neat box for Special Sale of Turkish Bath Towels. All Kinds, lowest priced to the finest—cotton ones for drying, rough linen ones for rubbing. White Cotton Terry Towels, 16x30 in. 5c. each, 60c.doz. Cotton Terry Towels, 18x38 in. 12%. each, $1.50 doz. Cotton Terry Towels, 20x42 dn. 15e. each, $1.75 doz. Cream Cotton Terry Towels, 23x52 in. 18c. each, $2.00 doz. Cotton Terry Towels, 24x46 in. 23e. each, $2.50 doz. Cotton Terry Towels, 26:50 in. Be. each, $3.00 doz. White Cotton Terry Towels, 26x50 In. B5e. each, $4.00 doz. ‘White Cotton Terry Towels, 28x54 in. BPc. each, $4.50 doz. Cotton Terry Tcwels, 28x54 in. 50c. each, $6.00 doz. White Cotton Terry Towels, 30x60 in. ‘T5e. each, $9.00 doz. Bleached Linen Terry Towels, 26x54 in. $1.00 each, $12.00 doz, Brown Linen Terry Towels, 22x48 in. ic. each, $9.00 doz. Brown Linen Terry Towels, 80x60 in. $1.00 each, $12.00 doz. White White White White White Heavy Huckaback Eton Bath Towels, hemstitch- ed... $1.00 each Linen Tape Towels, Bath Mitts, Bath Straps, Bath Rugs. (2d foor..., 11th st. bldg.) A Few Good Values In White Goods. 50 pleces Dotted Swiss, per yard. 12%4c., 15e. and 180, 20 pleces Plaid Organdie Lawn, fine and ie 17e. quality. Per yard % 10 pieces Striped Dimity, fine and ‘tec 2e. quality. Per yard 5 BLANKETS CLEANSED, 7Se. EACH; $1.50 PER pair. LACE CURTAINS CLEANSED, 75c. RER PAIR. Woodward & Lothrop. 8 It’s a lucky thing for you that we are putting up a new building—for it has knocked @ prices to their knees. There isn’t a thing under our roof @ today that isn’t being offered to you at way below par value. @ But we’ve promised ourselves that when moving time comes ee) there shan’t be any stock left to be moved. So if there’s anything you want about the house this is your time to buy it, Pennies talk where dollars did. We've even put the Refrigerators— Baby Carriages— Mattings— our three busiest lines—into the sale. You can’t know what bar- gains are if you pass these by. Credit if you want it. House & Herrmann, 917, 919, 921 and 923 7th St. 036 Pass Ave. 66508 609 ©0800 prevenccevecoewerecerverece jREAD Our Ad. in to- morrow’s Post and Times. It may put mon- ey in your pocket. ‘idacadhalottad ulna taietefbedgind tudoter geri @00609009008200 a. zoek ==" is) ~ @ § coneer FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERY, : 8th & Pa. Ave. PSHSESOYSEHHSOCSHOSSSOCOOND M Division rt Pilaon's Grand Popylarity con- test he three ular sadies in government em- ploy. The three grand prizes are @ free trip to Boston, a free trip to Niagara and a free trip to Cape May. oo ——_—______9 You wouldn't believe it if we told you how many votes were cast Friday in the contest. Are you working as hard as you ought to for your favorite? Clip the coupons from The Star and get all your friends to save ‘em for ycu. Wilson, 929 F St. Shcemaker for Tender Feet. aul7-B6d Ripans Tabules. Stella M. Godfrey, writing from Hoffman, N. C., ucder date of June 12, 1895, says: “My sister has used your medicines. She was @ sufferer from dyspepsia and indigestion for several years, and after having your Tabules recommended and given them a trial she speaks in the highest terms of them, and says that they cannot be excelled in keeping the system well regulated. Her name is (Miss) Katherine Godfrey, Post Office, Hoffman, N. C.’" Ry Tabules are sold by druggists, or by if the price (60 cents a box) is sent to The Chemical pany, No. 10 Spruce st., New Sample _ vial, cents, ts eae :. 9 i the demand for a pure old whisky. ’Tis a blend of the finest year-old liquors. Taste, bouquet and purity— it's Unexcelled. Sold every- where. Bortled by Mibalo- vitch, Fletcher & Co., Cin- cinnatl. Richard “&' Ca, agents for Washington. 0-20-2000 20-00 -09-00-4 re Fine Towel Ingrain ‘Carpet, 6oc. yd. — We've an elegant showing of all the best Carpets this season. Lots of new patterns, pretty colors and good quall- ties to eelect from. Our special is the All-wool LOWELL INGRAIN at 60 cents a yard. THE HOUGHTON Cco., aul7-204 1214 F ST. N.W. Ladies ! Here They Are Six beautiful little models iustrat- ing the neatest—the most comfortable cos- tumes to wear when you go bicycling. You're quite welcome to a set—if you'll call for them. They were specially de- signed by Redfern, Kraemer, Mrs. Jenness Miller and Georgie Cayvan, and published in the mest attractive form by the Pope Manufacturing Company. District Cycle Ca., 452 Penna. Ave. aui0-8m,28 Don’t leave town Without a goodly supply of writing material. A little money goes a great way just now if spent here. Decker the Stationer, r111 F St. aul7-144 “Moses’ Corner.” Ask your wheelwise friends about the icyele—we're D. C. agts. It's Bi as the go-lightly kind. —And a long, full two months of summer heat still ahead of us. Here are things that help along the cause of coolness: —For Cool Hallways—Screens. Door Screens as littly ced as 90c. Then We make to order, too, Light charges. -—To Resist Fly Invaders—Screens. Window Screens, 20c.! That's putting prices down with “a “vengeance. ‘Then there's all sizes and woods to bumyce. pe ticular windows and—particular peoj —Food Cooling and Saving— Re frigerators. Three of the very so makes in the world. \—their names: suggest . oe *“‘Alaska"’—“Polar”—and “Glacier.” there's seores of minor makes satellites around the three above mentioned stars. Prices start at $5. Ice Chest cheapness Le- gins at $2.50. % MOSES F St. and 11th. Storage Warchouses—224 st. near M. AND SONS, It ‘Those Pets 3 Of Yours are. Bre etty apt to have fleas on them, Most Dogs and Cats do in hot weather. Net at all pleasant to wash them every ‘That doesn’t kill the Fleas. THOMPSO! POWDER ‘is what's needed. Best mcans you can employ to rid your eee ft Pets of iteas. | Always fresh. Always 2% % reliable. 10, 15, 25 ead Cris ALE, KINDS ‘of’ inseets— **% Flies, Roaches, Water ‘Mos- s 2 * quitoes, &c. Ww. 3, _[hompson, 793 a PHARMACIST, > antT-250 tO PSO-to He -oe Here’s a Word Of Advice. ——If you've been suffering day and right with an aching tooth come to us at ouce and have it treated by our pu! method. We'll either fill “t or take it out, and you won't even know we've touched it. Our method Is both thorough and harmless. Eatraction, 50 cents. Evans Dental Parlors, 217 PENNA. AVE. N.W. aul7-244 ES — BE A COLUMBUS. How easy it is to dis- cover that Burchell’s Spring Leaf Tea at 50 cents a pound, iced, has no equal. aut7-14d 1325 F St. 7 thers no pal it We do-it. Our 8=dollar set of teeth Is as fine as the cleverest workmen can turn out. Materials are the very best. Yerfect fit guaranteed. Made with due regard to expression, facial contour, age, ete. This is a specialty of ours. " Con: sultation fre Iiail Dental Parlors, 1116 FST. Remeniber_ the number. eee re aul7-20d 9 Get the Best. THE CONCORD HARNESS, LUTZ & BRO., 497 Penn, ave., adjoining National Hotel. ‘Tronks, Satchels and Leather Goods. —_ aul7-16d The care of your skin is an im- portant consideration. Whether it be good or bad depends mostly upon the sort of toilet soap you use. No matter how healthy your complex- ion is, it can be easily ruined by the use of impure skin soap. ‘“Derma- rex” Toilet Soap cures the most ob- stinate complexions and keeps a good skin in perfect condition. 25¢. everywhere. planar by J. H. HEPBUR: Dermatologist, Mertz building. Tid’ aed P sts. my30-3m,24 | Try fine Cakes, fine * Nothing more delicions is made by aay * one--anywhere. Remember, these are not bakers’ “stuff’—but are made at home, and are guaranteed to be of the fivest materials. 20c. a Ib. Sent anywhere. Holmes’ Landover Market, CORNER 1ST AND E STS. N.W. aul7-164 Blackii Brushes, Paint Brushes; Clothes” _Brossen es, Metal Stoe Daubers, Hatchets, Hammers, Razor Straps, Shav- ing Brurhes, Butcher Knives, Brome | Padiocks, | Call Bells, ves, Auger Bits. curs “pice HARDWARE (CO., 1 Cor. 11th and E nw. 33-3 a ee ee ee ee te WORLD'S FAIR HIGHEST AWARD. MPERIAL GRANUM 1S UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED E STAN DARD} and the BEST ; Prepared i KOOD For INVALIDS and Convalescents, for Dys- 4 peptic, Delicate, Infirm $ and Aged Persons. + PURE, delicious, nour- * ishing FOOD for nurs- 3 ing mothers, infants + and CHILDREN. £ soit wy DRUGGISTS ererrnnere $ 3 $ | 7. T, WALKER SONS, 204 10TH S' t Linlag: Felts, ite Prick und Clay, Avbestos, ints, Brushes, Lime, Cemeut, two and three ply Roofing Material. eel Use SHAKER DIGESTIVE CORDIAL. pos uot cure all diseases, but it wil care ‘spepsia es Todizestion.” All druggists, ma pyrene 2 Shipping Depot, + JOHN CARLE & SUNS, New Yoru. = mylis,tuetb1y z “ageess sig Close at 1 today—other days at 5, until Beg Our Clearing Sale Of odds and ends, short lengths, summer goods of every description, is still in progress+~very much so, judging from the crowds. Never knew such activity in August busi- ness, but there is a reason for it, and a good, sensible business reason (in our opinion). We try to start each season with a new stock of mer- chandise—that left over must if not at cost for less—but go it. must—at some price—no matter how low. This is the explanation of our clearing sale, and the cause of the crowd. More good things for Monday. Table No. 1. $1.39 Duck verge with blazer Jackets and ride aici 8 coverts, h novelty cloths, ‘blazer jacket and extra’ wide skirt. Sizes 26 and 38 only, fore..--.. $4.98 $10.00 Brocade Satin Skirts, lined throu; out, haireloth back, for.......... Table No. 2. Se Black Mohair Sicilian for. 9e Black Figured Mohairs for. Table No. 3-- Men’s Goods. All $1.75 Neglige Shirts for.. 980 All $1.00 Neglige Shirts for.. 50 All GSc Neglige Shirts for.. 39¢ Fast Black snd Tam, HNC” Fone, 6 2c Fast lack ane al pairs Ina box, for. " $1.00 Qhe Neckwear for. roo $1.60 Lisle Th Drawers for. 740 Table No. 4 Japanese Fans, flat ard folding g kinds, hone Worth less than 1¢c, many Soe Choice for 3c 12e White Hair Whisks for. Te Covered Dress Stays 280 * ft 7° Table No. 5. Lot of Gold-plated Brooches, sacs Cha aeiing 4 3 ig pee fee - 39¢ Table No. 6. Ready-Iade Bedwear. Bde Lockwood Sheets, 90x20, for. 5c Lockwood Sheets, for. = 54x90, 8 Se ‘Lockwood Pillow Gases 4s ise doe ‘kwood Pillow Gases o4n36. Se 3-4 Bed Spreads for.. Table No. 7. - 50c Linen Table Scarfs, 18x72, with colored er. 29: Tabie No. 8. 225 White Suede Mousquctaire Gloves—t buttonlength, for. Table No. 9. Soc Figured Cretonne ‘Table Covers— all around—1 yd. square, for. i icely Finished Mahogany’ and mebirs ator. . ot “Stools for-. Table No. 10. Odds and ends in Cambric and =e} Underwear—tho $1.48 and $1.25 Gowns, Skirts, Drawers, Chemise and ¢, Corset’ Co wok $1.5 W lar, Odd sizes “in” Gorsets ‘and’ Corset Walsts, Slightly window ‘iled were $3.25, $1.78 and $1.20—sizes 18, 22, 24, ; 26, 9, 80, Soe) Sacceuinessecececeseees Doseshaen => seDes Tabie No. n. Ladies’ 50c and 60c Genuine French Bal- sleeves— briggan Vests—long and short sizes 20 und 23 only- Ladies’ 50e and fast black and ecru; boot ribbed Hose—odds and exds— Table No. 12. The 25¢ Palais Royal Irish Linen Wit ing Paper, in 3 sizes—averages 80 to 1: sheets to ‘pound—for. Table No. 13. 2e fim Crepes- in white, pink, — vy. brown, yellow, peterdier Boe White Jap. Slik —for Our oc Corner, Any of these articles at seven cents. It is said that folks pay 10 cents for the identical things at some of the nickel and dime stores, and imagine they have secured some- thing wonderful. Look through our corner and see if you can’t duplicate nearly every roc article in the house- hold line here for SEVEN CENTS. There are Hat Racks—Saucepans—Gas Rake Buekets—Fi 7 GENTS. Palais Royal, G AND 1ITH STREEUS...........00..-4. LISNES