Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1895, Page 10

3, 1895—-TWELVE PAGES. te THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER bea (Copyright, 1895, by Irving Bacheller.) L Michel Grey was missing. All the police fn Paris could not have told us more. The man had vanished like a phantom, leaving no word, no message, no letter. The city had taken him from our sight. Whether he were alive or deed, in France or out of France, a willing abscorder or the victim of the assassin, neither friend nor enemy could tell. He had gone like the night, and had left us to face the problem as we might. ‘That was a problem for us, and that we could not begin and end with his going, I never had a doubt. He had been seen about with Sir Nicolas for the best part of a movth; my master’s game with his sister, Dora Grey, was known to all the town about; there wasn’t a servant in the hotel that didn’t understand where the hate between the two men came from. And, to cap all, the man went away at the height of it, and we were left with the girl, and with all the talk that followed his disappearance. Until this moment I had looked upon the whole episode as a handsome turn of fortune. There were many weeks after the strange hoax of the golden egg when ™my master never put his nose outside the Hotel de Lille. In all the years I've known him I can never remember such an upset as that business was both to his health and to his energy. He seemed just like one stupefied, with no taste for work and no taste for play ‘The little money that he possessed dribbled away pound by pound until I had to find what was wanted even She is an Artist From Boston. for his daily living. He no longer earned mything at the billiard table; he scarce ‘ead the newspapers. There were days when he never got up from his bed; days when he did not open hig lips to man. or woman. And I do believe that he was acver so low, or in such a queer way, as phon the evening that brought him face jo face with Dora Grey and gave a turn fo his life which he was to feel for many years. She came to the hotel quite sudden—an auburn-haired, blue-eyed little thing with the fairest skin woman ever had, and a wey with her which was wonderful to see. The name down in the book was “Dora Grey of B and just above it I saw writtea “Michel Grey, artist.” But [ didn’t mark the man until’ the following morning, though Sir Nicolas, who had gone down into the garden that night, the first time for many weeks, was as full of the pair of them as he could be. “Hildebrand,” says he, “there's an an couple below which is worth the She's an artist from Boston, and she's come to the schools, It's the Greys, the railway people, they are; and rolling in the money. Did ye hear a fair-haired girl laughing at the top of her voice in the garden? Well, that's the one I mean. Faith, it's speaking manners these Ameri- cans haye for sure. She'd told me her his- tory before we'd done the soup.”” “Ig she staying long, sir?” I asked. “Three months certain, and likely longer. She's come here to be rear the painting. That was her brother that sat opposite Jack Ames tonight. A white-faced man, with a liver, I'll wager. I'll know him bet- ter this time temorro t was extraordinary, I must say, to see how a little thing Ike this drew him out of himseif, While he'd gone down to din- ner telling me that I should find his body in the morgue before the month was out, he came up to bed all cheerful like a boy, and next morning he took an hour to dress hims I saw h'm sitting down with the Americans to dejeuner, and after dinner he was three hours with the brother over at the billiard room at the Cafe Rouge. Then I knew that the business had began, and that luck had lifted us out of the groove again, grad altogether, Hilde- brand,” when I took him his coffee ne ; “bedad! the man puzzl He's as mean of the money as a Scotchman out of Montrose. There was three hours we were playing last night and not a sovereign changed hands.” n't pay many bills out of that, I 8 é “And don't I know Isn't it the girl I'm thinking of? They're the railway peo- j2 I'd be telling you—the Greys of Boston. q y day which sent them to 1 de Lille; and for three months, ou can do much with a woman in months, Hildeb “That you can, s “Oh, she'll be w , if she's willing. ing enough by and by. Storage Ware Houses: 22d st. near M. fol In our T ering and Repair Shops— with the splendid workmen gnd facilites w we make old Furniture look selling for cash makes no {t lowers prices, and te ou than’ the s0- eal to Er called “credit,” for It does not allow of lnsses— hence sre not charged for them, ax is “the case with “credit” . We can arrange terms satisfac torily for you. Box Couches. A certain sort we sell at $11.00 —are guaranteed to give as much wear and service as any $20 Couch upholster ever made—or we will them free of cost. edge all around, The fs will ine is made of hardwood that t the inroads of the moth MHke soft € ‘The Wardrobe Box part ts lined, —In French Stripe Cretonnes or Figured Denims the price is $rr. We have wardrobe-lined Box Couches for as little as $8—but we cannot give them our guarantee. Bi av whol 44 Lis _rvalel, ~ DEMBERTON. <AUTHOR *OF-THE- IAAPREGNABLE There's no sugar for an American tongue ike a title to roll over ft. I was the man of the party before I'd known her an hour. She's just the sweetest bit of a brogue you ever heard, and her father’s worth $5,000,- 600, Get me my light frock coat, will you know I'm to drive to St. Cloud this very morning.” Gs Well, he went off with her sure enough, the pair of them dressed up until you might have picked them out of a thousand. When he was gone, and the place was put a bit straight, [ strolled over to the Cafe Rouge to get my lunch and read the Eng- ish papers. Paris was beginning to be full again then, for we were almost throtgh the autumn, and the gardens were cold at nig! But you could find the folks you. wanted any t:me from midday until 4, ant roe sooner was I in the place than I saw Michel Grey, the brother of the little Amer- ican woman’ Sir Nicolas had just driven to St. Cloud. He was sitting at a table, and there was a bottle of hock before him. “Halloa, my man,” cried he, as I passed him, and he didn’t speak a bit Iike an American, “I'd half a dozen words with you if you don’t mind.” “With the greatest pleasure in life, sir,” i replied, thinking at the same time what a peculiar-lcoking gentleman he was. “Is it long since you left Dublin?” asks he, quite calm like, and pretending to see nothing of the starc I gave. “Would that be any business of yours?” I asked, sharp and short, and looking at him in a way he couldn't mistake. “Certainly it would be,” said he, “‘a cousin of mine knew a Sir Nicolas Steele in Dub- Un three years ago, and I was wondering if It was the same.”” “Then you should have asked my guv- nor,” says I, while my heart began to jump so that I could hardly hold my hand still. “Oh, no offense,” cries he, and with that he slipp2d a five-franc piece into my hand. “You've been in Paris long?” he asks. “A month or more,” says I, thinking where I could have him. “Are yon going back to London soon*”* “We are going back at the end of Novem- ber. Sir Nicolas has engagements in London that month.” “Oh, then, you are going back?’ “Why,what ‘vould be doing all the winter here in Paris?” He seemed to think a while over this, taking a drink of the hock and rolling his bleary eyes as though he was looking for some one in the garden, Presently he said: AND OTHER NEWSPAPER WILL APPEAR/IN /SPICES THE OUR COLUMNS DAILY /STORY FROM BEGINNING SEP? 7. IT IS ENTITLED , “Do you like the situation you're in?” “Oh,” sald I, “it’s much the same as other situations. Here today and gone to- morrow.” “Then you travel a good deal?” “That's so—but travel or no travel, it's all the same to me.” “Your master seems a pleasant sort of gentleman?” “TI should call him that.” “He's a baronet or something, isn’t he?” “Exactly; he’s Sir Nicolas Steele of Cast! Rath, County Kerry.” “A generous man, I should say.” I looked at him straight, for I'd read him up by this time. “It's a cold morning for talking in the open air, sir,” says I, and-with that I turned on my heels and left him. Now, though I had taken it coolly enough, a duller head than mine could have ‘seen through the man’s talk. “What's in the wind is this,” safd I to myself, when I got tack to the hotel, “you've heard some gossip, my fine gentle- man, and you want to get to the bottom of it. If it's true that a cousin of yours knew Sir Nicolas Steele in Dublin three years ago, then you'll write to him, and what you'll learn won't keep your sister at the Hotel de Lille. Maybe that cousin is in Europe; more probably he's in America, which gives us a month. Anyway, it’s you that we've got to play; and the sooner we begin the better.* ‘This was my thought, and yet simple as it seemed, there was something happened later in the day which gave a new turn together to it. I'd been bothering my head with the matter all afternoon, mak- ing nothing new of it outside the fact that the danger signal had been rung, so to speak, when what should happen but that just before 7 o'clock I met the man again “Would that be any business yours?” of face to face in the corridor of the hotel, and the sight of him fairly took my breath away. I shouldn't have cailed him a healthy person any time, but now his eyes were sunken away something dreadful to see—while his cheeks were hollow like the cheeks of one just got up from a fever bed. White as his face had been in the morning, the color of tt was like a bit of plaster of Paris in the afternoon. And what was more than this the way he waik- eling his road with his hands, like a blind man, and staring before him as though he was frightened that every step he took might land him on nothing. Never have I seen the muscles of a man’s mouth twitch so much, or a man’s fingers look so Uke claws. If he had been stark raving mad, he could not have given me a greater shock. —and I stood there before him feel- ing ‘ke a child that has seen something horrible on the stairs and does not know whether to go forward or to go back. There was a minute when, seeing him clutch hold of the banister’ ard fre hie dreadful eyes on me, I thousit he was going to strike me. He uali raiscd his right arm, out let it drop quickly again ani began to mumble something that I could not hear. His speech was thick like that of a drunken man, and yet I could have sworn that drink was not the matter with him. Quite otherwise, he app2ared to be in great pain, and when he got his words out at last, they came with gasps like the words of a man sufferi “Where's your shoddy baronet “What's that?” said I. “Your Nicolas Steele, card-sharp and thief?” he went on, and this took me more aback than if he’d hit me. “Luok here,” said I, “you're a bold man, but if you don’t want to be horsewhipped out of this hotel, don’t say that twice. “Then you mean to say that he isn't?” “A hundred times. A more honorable gentleman doesn't breathe in Paris, and if it wasn't for the state you were in, young man, I'd let you know it, too.” S This silenced him a bit. He stood rocking on his heels for a minute or more, and then muttering something between his teeth which I could not make out, he continued his march up the stairs. A quarter of an hour later, Sir Nicolas himself drove up with the young American, and he hadn't been in the hotel two minutes before I'd told him what had passed and what I'd seen. Strange to say, he took it as calm as a man hearing of the weather. “The fellow’s a lunatic; that’s what he is,” he cried, while he began to dress for the opera, “‘she’s told me his history com- ing home. He's a drug drinker, and what he remembers today, he’ll know nothing of tomorrow, or, perhaps, for a month or more, Ye needn't mind him no more than a toy pistol. I have her word for it, and that's good enough for m Then his cousin wasn’t in Dublin three years ago?” asked I. “Indeed and he was, and that's the humor of it He left before my affair, d’ye sce, ne asked, and {f they write him, it’s a pretty tale of me he'll be telling. Bedad! I couldn't have THE TWINKLING > 4 START TO INISH. or EYE PROF. BRANDER MATTHEWS. wished it better if me own hands had the planning of it.” “I am glad to hear that, sir,” said I, “so leng as the young lady doesn’t listen.” “Listen—not she. It's easy for the ears to be shut when the heart is open. Sure, won't I be marrying her within@he month, She’s American, you must remember, arid tied to nobody's apron strings. Oh, it was a famous day that kept us at the Hotel de | Lille.” (To be continued on Wednesday.) —_——.___ MGR. SATOLLI TO REMAIN. After His Nomination as Cardinal He Will Be Given Another Title. From the New York Herald. ROME, September 2, 1895.—The pope has decided chat Mgr. Satolll, after his norina- tion as cardinal at the next consistory, will remain in America with the title of pro delegato apostolico. _—__—__-e+—___—_. A PICKPOCKET’S TRICK. Dropped a Rified Purse in the Pocket Nenrest at Hand. From the Chicago Tribune, Charles C. Cook, a druggist of No. 150 Pine street, had a curlous experience while witnessing the baso ball same Saturday, During a hard rain, at 4:30, the spectators crowded closely around the most sheltered spot. As the shower ceased the people be- gan to separate. Then Mr. Cook felt .a |! slight tug at his coat. Thinking he had been robbed, he clapped his hands on his pocket and found that nothing had been taken. His watch and a $5 bill had not been touched. Greatly relieved, he was turning away to watch the game, when, taking his hand- kerchief from his coat pocket, he became aware there was a purse inside. As he had none himself, he thought that some pick- pocket had probably emptied its contents and slipped it into his pocket. The situa- tion was awkward. In a moment the man who had been robbed might raise a cry and the pocketbook be found in Mr. Cook's possession. He dared not drop it on the ground for fear of being seen. With great presence of mind he determined to leave the grounds. Accordingly, he started for the elevated train, feeling as if pursued by the crowd. Accosted by a man who asked for a street, he felt sure he was in a detective's grasp, and was about to produce the purse when the man went away. If a passenger caught his eye on the car he was convinced that the owner followed him. While waiting at Adams and State streets for a carette two policemen came up. Mr. Cook felt that his hour had come, and was expecting to be grabbed and placed in a patrol wagom but the “cops” passed on without arrest- ing him, and he finally reached his place of business in safety. Here he ventured to open the pocket book. The owner's name was ascertained, as some half dozen cards within showed him to be George J. Harris, agent for the Ogdensburg Transit Com- pany. Every cent of money was gone, but the pockets were filled with passes. —_—_—__+e+___ A Woman's Choice of Profession, From Harper's Bazar, It is hard, very hard, under any circum> stances, for a woman to chuose a profes- sion in life, for the good reason that she has to decide between two bundles of hay, cne on either side of her. If she elects to give up her inherited profession of domesticity for another of choice, it would seem that she should be more than sure of her peculiar fitness for public life. And yet, as the only possible school for such equipment lies in public work, there is ample reason for perplexity. If we fail, we fail, is not a motto for women. Though written for a woman's lips, there are many words. While man- hood takes failure with comparative stolid- ity and tries again on another track, womanhood {s crushed and humiliated. Therefore it is best that she should choose her world’s work wisely. In the selection of a profession there aré of course many questions of fitness for a woman to consider, but there is one uni- versal test which applies equally to all the professions she can enter into, though it seems to be considered Jeast of all in the Weighing of pros and cons. The first ques- tion a woman should ask herself when she thinks of leaving her four walls in body or on paper or canvas is this, “Am I fitted for the struggle?” If her answer be only weakness, let her stay where she {fs so long as those walls can possibly continue to shelter her. Fo: no matter how deep her calling for public or semi-public life, the work she thinks of doing Is, after all, the world’s work, and she must take the world’s buffets in its accomplishment. ij Repeatedly gifted women who have seem- ed divinely called to one or another pro- fession have failed, and failed utterly and lamentably, simply because they could not grasp the cold fact that the distinct pro- fession was not all they had to learn. Lack of power to meet the world—to struggle—is at the root of more failures than is unfitness for the specific work un- dertaken. How to prepare a bandage is one thing; the applying it quite another but equally necessary part of a nurse's training. | Hike a»shudder. THE ENGINEER’S STORY a Z How a Train Toad >of Passengers Were Baved From “Anmihilatio se A Thrilling Experténce in the Cab.of id. «= Passenger,Loromotive—Act of ® Plucky, Fireman. sec There. was a byoad, red scar above his tercple that all-:the; soot of ,a thousand runs could néver ‘cover up.iThe edges of it were ragged ar@’ angry "ldoking, and there wére light siredits in thé center that showed the bone beneath was but skin- film covered. He raised a blackened and brawny “hand to his head when he saw a reporter for The Star looking at it. “That was a crack from a mail crane,” he’ said: simply. “I was running. 707 that night and there were ten cars behind me, Six of ‘em were coaches packed to the 990K". ag y He stopped for a moment and looked over toward the’ round house with something “I hate to think of that night. Not on account of this crack,” he added hastily; ‘tof course; it was pretty bad, but I got over it all right, and it don’t bother me much except in bad weather. Then it aches and jumps like—well, like itself; there’ nothing else to compare it with that I know of. What I mean ts,” he continued, “that I hate to think. of that night be- cause of the half a hair's breadth that saved three hundred souls from eternity. I left Pittsburg a half hour behind. There had been a mix-up: on the main division between a freight ana a hand car, and a couple of rails had been knocked loose. We had to walt till they were fixed, and that made us late. “Everybody was mad, because we'd have to tear the ground up to make connections ahead for the southeast and south. 707 was one of our great big engines. The boiler stood up high and the engine cab roof w: pretty near down on top of it. There was only room to stick my arm over if I want- ed to get a light for my pipe from Jack, my fireman, and my side of the cab was that narrow and crowded that when I was inside and the weather was cold and I'd shut the door nobody on the outside could open it unless I squeezed up toward the front. “Well, sir, as I was saying, we had a heavy train and the passengers were most- ly well-off people, going south for the win- ter. That's why we had two extra bag- gage cars on besides the mail and regu- lar. When we pulled out, the depot master said to me that he hoped we'd make the southern limited connection, because there were a lot of Florida-bound folks aboard who'd have to lay over and lose a whole day, and this would. give our road a black eye. I told him I'd try my level best, but the train was heavy and 707 was hardly equal to the business because her flues weren't drawing half right and she ought to be at the shops. “Then a sharp yoice rang out dark, in the saying: ‘Don't kick about your en- gine; it's pretty near too good for you to run.’ I knew it was the division superin- tendent who spcke, a mean, overbear- ing, sour man, and I made up my mind to "make the southern if I had to run the drivers chests. “The night was dark as nights can well get. There was no moon, and if there had been the clouds were too thick to give it a show. It wasn’t infhg and the rails were dry, and the cold, that had gotten right sharp, made ‘em Just ‘right for quick run- ning. Away we went, and now and then Jack would say té ‘me over the boiler, when he came up into the cab after firing up, that the flues were work- ing bully and that we were just tearing down that last time, Pretty soon it be- gan to get chillier and Ishut the door. We ran on for a long'time this way, stopping once for water and three or four times for instructions, and when we reached the curve near Ruggles Bend, forty miles from the southern junction, I saw we just had forty-seven minutes to make that. “I thought to myself I'd show that hound of a superintendent if 707 was toc good for me to run, and telling Jack to pile in the coal I pulled her widg open, and picked up the air brake wire, letting the throttle alone. It was a nearly straight road to the junction, but there was a sharp curve on a high embankment just before you got there. As I told you, it was mighty dark, and the glass was down in front. It had got a lit- tle smoky, so I opened the side window to look out.”” ‘The engineer paused a moment an@ sig- nificantly touched the red scar. «I never knew anything after poking my head out. A mail crane that had been left swinging out after the train In front of us had passed just fetched me a clip where you see that mark. I heard about what happened afterward, though, and it makes my fiesh creep every time I think of it. Tell it to you? Oh, yes, sir; that’s all there is to the story. When that crane struck me it knocked me back into the cab, senseless, of course. As I told you, the door was shut, and when Jack saw me fall and jumped up to get in he coutdn’t open the door, be- off and get there on the steam cause I was jammed tn against it. He went up on the other side? but he couldn’t get across the boiler. I tell you, sir, it was terrible. “There was 707 going wide open a good sixty miles an hour, with the grade begin- ning to drop and the speed getting faster every second. Jack said he expected to see us jump the track at every little curve, and it seemed a million years to him. But peo- ple have got to think quicker than a train's running at such a time as that, and Jack thought of that sharp curve and high bank this side of the junction and now not five miles off. “He got out of the cab, grabbed the edge of the roof, and drew himself up. Then he crawled over and sized up the window I'd been looking out of when the crane hit me. There was no way of getting in except in bending himself down from the roof and letting go everything and making a sort of a curved dive. He could hear the south- ern blow for the junction as he made the ‘jump or the slide, for that’s what it was. His body got caught in the window, but he was far enough in to grab the throttle. With his legs sticking out of that window he closed her down slowly, so as not to break things up, a1 he was working the air brakes when 707 ran easy onto that high curve, and came to a stop about forty yards from the junction. The junction peo- ple and the train hands ran up to see what was the matter. They took me out for dead, after cuttirg the door, but they helped Jack out first. He’d fainted dead away with the air brake wire clutched in his hand.” The engineer wiped the perspiration from his brow and the scar seemed all the red- der. “People up in front have some pretty close calls sometimes, and know when they miss ‘em, but, bless you, the people be- hind ‘em don’t dream of how near they are sometimes to kingdom come.” a @bserved Next Saturday. Not more than 1,000 paraders turned out yesterduy tn Philadelphia to take part in the Labor day demonstration. Yesterday was not observed as a holiday by the banks or business houses in that city, the stock and produce exchanges alone closing their doors. In Pennsylvania the first Sat- urday in September is observed as Labor day. The United Labor League turned out atout 500 men, but there was no display of red flags, as the police authorities forbade it. Each one of the paraders, however, wore a red badge, with the number of his lodge printed upon it. What was evidently ised as a substitute for the red emblem was a banner with the words “The powers that be fear the red flag" on one side and “Socialist ideas are progressing, neverthe- less,” on the other. ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts ntly yet promptly on the Kidneys, iver and Bowels, cleanses the sya- 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. Donot acceptany substitute. CALIFORNIA Fig SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE, KY, THE FREE LIBRARY MOVEMENT. Congress Asked to Gratify a Healthy Public Desire. From the Popular Health Magazine. The movement for the establishment of a free library and reading room in Washing- ten, which has, it is estimated, some three million books and pamphlets stored away in the various private and government col- lections, commends itself to all who desire to.make such literature more available for educational purposes. , The facilities for night reading, so coveted by the masses engaged in day occupations, are very few in this city, and the co- operation of Congress in meeting this pub- lc desire is earnestly sought. The cause of persenal and public hygiene, among oth- ers, would be much furthered if the work- ing classes had access at night to the hooks and p:r:odicals devoted to this all-importaat subject, and could follow up hints and facts otherwise obtained, by a judicious course of reading. A recent visit to the new public library of Boston convinced us that competent critics have well declared it to be the ioblest and mest perfect public building in the United States. As one enters the vestibule, the Ecauty of the stone carvings and the rich- ness of the marbles, added to the elegince of its decorative features, cannot fail to impress the dullest mind with some sense of reverence for the inclosure, and as he Proceeds to the various reading depart- ments, freely opened in the most genrgus and informal way for the public comfort, it is something of a revelation to the Stranger to tind himself so genuinely wel- comed and above suspicion or restraint. Books are brought from the shelving over an ingenious miniature cable system direct- ly into the alcove of the delivery room whence they are given out over the desk to the readers. Readers in Bates Hall may have the books they want brought to them without being obliged to stir from their tables. Application slips are sent the at- tendanis in the stacks through pneumatic tubes. The average time a reader has to wait for his book is seven minutes. Any ore, whether a citizen of Boston or not, is welcome to take out any of the library's keoks for “hall use.” They are brougat to ary table specified and may be left there te be collected by the attendant when you are through. : Several hundred magazines are arranged in racks from which you may help yourself at will, There are no seats “reserv2d for ladies,” for such a distinction would be in- vidious where all are invited guests; and the plainer ihe apparel, the more beneficent the influence reecived from this association, ‘The juvenile room, where the nost popu- lar children’s books are shelved. to be taken down by the children themselves, offers a charsaing novelty of its kind, and some idea of the cosmopolitan nature of Boston may be gleaned by 2 visit to the newspaper room, and an ingpection of the :wo hun- dred issues from all parts of the world there displayec. —____+ e+ —____ Where the South Misses It. From the Savannah (Ga.) News. 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No matter what the disease is or how many doctors have failed to cure you, ask gone sees eas 25-cent vial of one of {unyon’s Cures, and if you are not bene- fited your money will be refunded. This Cormpany puts up A cure for every disease THE ANIMAL EXTRACTS. CHREBRINH Extract of tho brain of the ox, for Nervous Prostration, Insomnia, CARDINE, Extract of the Heart, for Fanc- tional Weakness of the Heart. MEDULLINE, Extract of the Spinal Cord, for Locomotor Ataxia. TESTINE, For Premature Decay. OVARINE, For Diseases of Women. THYROIDINE, For Eczema and impurities of ‘the blood. Dose, 5 drops. Price, $1.25. SOLE OWNERS. Columbia Chemical Co., 1404 FOURTEENTH ST. N.W. ‘Wash! D. Send for book. sere cal Je6-th,s,tutt BRIAR PIPE Gl MIXTURE fo r > 5 cents Every pipe stamped DUKES MIXTURE or <> 2oz. 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Gas Appliance Exchange, 1428 N. ¥. ave. au2s-284 A new store—complete, new stock—Du{ oid Rants at the Dusiooms. An suttee aed Paper Hanging! stock of Wall Pa Borderings, in the newest and “richest fall and combinations imaginable. Work prices guaranteed. Interior decorating « specialty. Window Shades, Fretwork and Wall and Houge- ** painting. McC. Farr & Co., HIS G St. (Late of Louis Deiter. au24-1m,16 - You’re Too Fat. There Are Others. Read What They Say—They’re Being Cured by Dr Edison's Obesity Treatment Hot Weather | is Here—Use Dr. “Baison’s Pills, Salt and Bands for the Fat—Not Patent Medicines—They Mske Folks Thin and Comfortable, Evelyn Merry, author of “Two Girls at writing from ‘the Great Northern Hotel, ates that >> had been gaining flesh Faplcly for five exrs until September, 1804, whem she began using Dr. Edison's Treatment for Obesity. From Sept. 2 to Dee. 20 I took Dr. Edison's Obe- sity Pills and Frait Salt, and was reduced 54 peunds, and eatirely cured ‘of dyspepsia, My com- plesdon was rendered clear and beautiful.”” eee eeee Mercy Sturtevant Wad: writing from the Treasury Department, says: “In six weeks Dr, Eadleon's Obesity PIS ai It brought me Salt chroaie aflinents."* 44 pounds and cured me of Capt. Henry Caton, long connected with the Pest Office Departmoeat, writes: “I took Dr. son's, Pills ‘and Salt ‘ond they reduced me 38 pounds ina month and a bal Mrs. Col. Stanton, Georgetown, writes: “I took Dr. Eidleon's Obesity Salt and Pills six weeks, re- duced 35 pounds and cleared my complexion. Francesca Townshende, secretary of the Woman's Eth Culture Club, writes: “I had been getting fleshy seven years. “From 124 pounds I bad grown to 788." Indisestion and dyspepsia made me nen aw Jader Dr. Edison's treatment sical wreck. U 83 pounds in eleven weeks and cured my street, writes: “Dr. Band has reduced my welght 21 pounds and + me. of kidney troubles. Dr. Edison's Pills and Salt have cured my brother, Col. Wandall of Department of State, of liver disease at re his welzht 39 poards in forty-three days Obesity Pills, $1.50 a botile: three bottles, $4 enongh for one treatment; Obesity Frait Salt, $2 ‘Obesity Rand, any size up to 36 inches, Is 1 10 cents extra for each additional inch tn length, Send all mail, express or C.0.D. orders to us, Retail drug trade supplied by E P. MERTZ, 1th and F nw. ©. ©. G. SIMMS, 1846 N. Y. ave. nw. Send for “How to Cure Obesity. Mention address exactly as given below. LORING & CO., General Agents, United States, Chicago, Dept. No. 19, No. 113 State street. New York city, Dept. 4, No. 42 W. 22d street, auld3m rg GRATETUL- COMFORTING— Epps’s Cocoa. BREAKFAST—SUEPER. “By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and eutri- tion, and by a careful application of the fine prop- erties of a well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epps has Mded for our breakfast and ‘supper a delical flavored beverage, which may save ux many beat doctors’ bills. Tt’ ts by the Judicious use of articles of diet that a constitntion may be grade ually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtie maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever j there ’s a weak point. We may escupe many @ fatal whaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with Bure blood “and a. properly nourished frame." vil Service Gazette. Made simply with ‘bolling water or milk. Sold guly, i2 ualtpound tins, by grocers, latled thast uA EPPS & CO.,Ltd... Homcopathie sf England. 43-1, tu,e0m