Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1895, Page 11

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The reports submitted showed that en- couraging progress has been made, and that twenty-five men have received Post- tions through the bureau during the past week, Manager Shenk sald that while the con- tributions to the library are Increasing, no special efforts in that direction will be made at present. Everything, however, that can be done to increase the usefulness of the institution as an employment bureau will be availed of. The following contributions for the sup- port of the bureau have been made: Car- penters’ Assembly, No. 1, $3; Carriage and Wagon Makers, $13, and Columbia Typo- graphical Union, $13. Mrs. Jennie L. Monroe was elected a del- egate to D. A., 66, K. of L., and President Sprague chosen as delegate to the Federa- tion of Labor. A resolution was adopted to request the Federation of Labor to require a weekly report of the operations of the bureau. An open meeting of Carpenters’ Council, No. 1, was held fast night and was well at- tended. Mr. W. H. G. 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CIMIZENS TO BE ASKED FOR PLEDGES The Project to Be Urged Before the New Congress. AN INTERESTING REPORT The project of creating a municipally supported free library in Washington is to be vigorously pushed before the incoming Congress. The board of trade committee on public library, consisting of Theodore W. Noyes, chairman; James T. Du Bois, A. T. Britton, Daniel Murray, Weston Flint, Si- mon Wolf and F. B. McGuire, submitted a report to the annual meeting of the board of trade, which was received too late to be printed and distributed for considera- tion at that meeting, but was briefly dis- cussed in the president's report. The plan recommended by the committee is (1) To se- cure a library subscription list,subscriptions to be conditioned upon the creation by Con- gress of a library to be maintained at the taxpayers’ expense, and to be expended in books for such a library. (2) To obtain either through a separate bill or a provision on the District appropriation bill legislation creating such a library and providing for its municipal maintenance, and (3) To secure from the United States whatever may be had in the way of duplicate books and of space in some public building. In connection with the proposed subscrip- tion list the committee have already in three subscriptions, pledges of $2,0) and of the interest on a memorial fund of $5,000, for the purchase of books and magazines for the library. There are a number of public-spir- ited citizens who have indicated a desire to attach their names to the honor roll of this conditional subscription, and in a few days, when their names have been added, the committee will publish the list. ‘The terms of the money subscriptions to- ward the library are expressed in these words: “We hereby agree to pay she amount set opposite our respective names, to be ex- pended in the purchase of books and equip- ments for a public library in the District of Columbia. Provided, however, that said sub- scriptions are upon the express condition that the same shall not become due and pay- able unless during the Fifty-fourth Con: of the! United States there shall be lexi tive provision for the establishm maintenance of such public library of the municipal educational system, and to be supported upon the same basis as the pub- lic schools.” In their report to the board of trade the committee say: ‘he Committee's Report. The committee on public library last year submitted to the board of trade a report setting forth at length Washington's need ef a public circulating library with reading rooms open in the evening as well as dur- ing the day, and making suggestions con- cerning the best plan of supplying this need. ‘The main features of the committe: rec- ommendations were the maintenance of the proposed library at municipal expe as the public schools are supported; its sup- ply with books largely through private sub- scriptions, which were assured; and na- tlonal assistance in the shape of a contri- bution of certain books in the departi.:utal libraries and room space in some suitable public buliding (either the new post office cr the new Congressional Library) until permanent quarters in a new municipal building should be available. This report Was unanimously adopted by the board of trade, and the committee was authcrized and instructed to urge upon Congress legis- jation which should create a library of the kind described. The bill drafted by the committee and adopted by the board of trade was indorsed by the District Com- missioners, the school trustees, the local workingmen’s org.inizations, the East Wash- ington and other citizens’ tlons—in feet, by every conspicuous organized repre- sentation of local public opinion. It was clearly evident that the taxpayers of the District were willing to pay their share of the expense of maintaining such a library. ‘The reception of the proposition in Con- gress was also favorable. Many warm friends and advocates were secured in both Senate and House. The measure was, how- ever, held back in the Senate that it might first be tested in the House.- The House District committee, after thoughtful con- sideration of the bill, unanimously reported it favorably, and in its report argued vig- orously for the adoption of the measure. In the consideration of the bill in the House, its friends thoughtlessly permitted it to be amended until the erection of an indepen- dent public building for the proposed iibrary was called for, with the result that the measure was referred to the committee on public bu‘ldings and grounds, where, in com- pany with numerous other public building projects, it was buried and never resurrect- ed. There was no real opposition to the measure on its merits, and it is hoped that the coming Congress will enact the desired legislation. The Objects in View. The main purpose of the library commit- tee was and Is to secure the creation of a public brary supported by taxation. The only public brary in the modern sense is one of this description. ‘The committee doubts whether a successful public library can be long maintained in any other way, and it does not believe that a public library should be otherwise maintained. The pro- gressive steps in library laws, as stated in Fletcher's recent able work on public libra- ries in America, have been: (1) Acts of in- corporation of library associations (the firat in 1742), which were sometimes encouraged by exemption from taxation; (2) laws for the establishment of district school libra- ries in twenty-one states, beginning with New York’ in 1835; (3) laws enabling towns to establish and maintain libraries by tax- ation, beginning with New Hampshire in 1819; (4) laws lately passed in a few states looking to active encouragement and ¢s- sistance from the state to towns in the es- tablishment of libraries, beginning with Massachusetts in 1800; (5) laws proposed but not yet enacted making it obligatory on towns to have and to properly maintain Ubraries, just as it is now required that pub- lic schools snall be provided. A bill to effect was announced as under consid tion in the New Hampshire leg 5 The movement about 1830 by which libra- ries came to be supported by publie funds di d from taxation is viewed a arking eginning of the public library in the true sense of the term. In the opinion of the committee Washington has reac! stage of development in intelligenc: civilization which enables it to ente! th upon this the third stage of pr sive library legislation. There a now about 6) circulating and reading-room li- braries in this country supported’ by taxa- tion egislative stage attained by many American and English cities as early as i830 and now reached by 600 com- munities in the Uniied States, including villages as well as cities, can’ surely be hoped for the capital of the republic in 1895 without requiring experiment with the pre- liminary stages that were admirable and progressive in large cities only at the begin- ning of the century. The Modern Public Library. It is beycnd dispute that the modern pub- lic library is a part of the educational sys- tem of the city or state, and stands in every respect en the same plane with the public schools. The public library should, therefore, be suppcrted as the schools are. This is the position taken by the library committee and the board of trade. The board’s project, however, does rot neglect ‘WOMAN’S GREATEST ENEMY--SICK HEADACHE. And yet every woman can lessen the number and frequency of her headaches by assisting nature by natural means. The genuine Carls- bad Sprudel Salt taken early in the morning, before breakfast, and_ if necessary at bedtime, will supply these means. Best taken when out- door exercise can be had. private contributions of money for library purposes in addition/to what is paid from the taxes, but such fontributions from the wealthy and public spirited, which should be considerable in amount, are to be de- voted to the purchase of books for the mu- niclpal Hbrary, which being legislatively created and municipglly controlled will be like the public schébis—an institution of, by end for the wholg people. In the June Forum of this year Herbert Putnam, libra- rian of the Boston Pyblic Library, demon- strates clearly this origin and character of the public library of the modern type. He refers in the coursajof his paper to the fact that the tax-supported library utilizes all elements of interest in library matters in the community, and avoids all clashes of petty personal ambitions and_ jealousies, saying of the endo’ library that “‘identi- fied, as it is, by name with the original donor, it fails to attract gifts from other persons, who are not content to have their benefactions merged in his, yet who might be glad to share with him the honor of giv- ing to a city institution.” And after an ex- haustive consideration of the whole sub- ject, he concludes: “Add, then, the direct educational value to the citizens who use it of a library which they feel to be their own to maintain as well as enjoy, and there would seem to bo strong reasons for saying that no endowed library can do the fullest work to the community without having associated with it municipal funds and in some form municipal control.” That municipal maintenance on the same basis as for the public schools is essential to the true modern library idea has been recognized not only theoretically by the writers, but practically by the phifanthro- pists in this.field, most of whom have turned over donated libraries to municipal control, and conditioned their gifts on mu- nicipal maintenance. Mr. Putnam says in the article above quoted: “There was pro- found foresight in the course taken by Mr. Pratt. Instead of placing his endowment in the hards of a priv: turned over the millicn dollars di municipality, merely stipulating that the city should appropriate annually an amount equal to the income of that sum for the maintenance of a free library. The private endowment, _ therefor became merged in the public undertaking, and ex- cept for the name which perpetuates the memory of the gift the institution would appear simply as a municipal enterprise on the part of the city of Baltimore.” Mr. Carnegie’s Gifts. The same principle has governed Mr. Car- negie in his numerous gifts of libraries, as to Edinburgh, Ayr and Dumfermline, in Scotland; Johnstown, Pa.; Fairfield, Ia., and more recently, Allegheny City and Pitts- burg. Mr. Carnegie is quoted in the Octo- ber, 1895, Review of Reviews as saying: “The result of my own study of the question ‘What ts the best gift which can be given to is that a free library occu- provided the community ntain it as a public in- much a ¢ 8 its public schoo! jvnet to these.” rt of the city prop- and, Indeed, an ad- of his remarks at the recent ion of the library which he gave to fr. Carnegie said: “When the y ipported by the community, as urg is wisely to support t of charity is dispelled. Bve ven the very humbiest, nto this his own library, for the poorest laborer contributes his mite in- directly to its support. The man who en- ters a library is in the best society that this t, world affords; the good and great st nd him, welcome him, and humbly ask to be- come his servants, and if he himself, from his own earnings, contributes to its support, he is more of a man than before.” Surely Washington's: library subscribers on a small seale caunot do better than iml- tate the library subserivers on a large scale like Pratt and Carnggig, and condition their ription cipal participation he project. While municipal #aifitenance is the goal toward which every public library, however created, steadily “moves, many’ libraries which nave later secured public support and Tull success have been in their feeble and precarious beginnings supported by private subscriptions alone,-ofzen with a small charge upon those who use the books, and en today in the villages of new and unde- veloped communities a start is thus made of necessity at the foot of the ladder of library development. Through a growing appreciation of the de- mand for and usefulness of such an institu- tion and sympathy withdts struggles, public sentiment in these: communities has been educated, as designed by the library pro- moters, until finally the taxpayers were con- vinced of the bénefielaf Influence of the I- brary, and came to its support. It grew in favor, until the community was ready to maintain by taxation a real public library of the modern type. Conditions in Washington. in At Umes and in communities when and where there is no other practical way of educating the taxpayers resort must be had to this method, but there is no necessity for this preliminary education of the Washing- ton taxpayers of 1845. Our population is large, intelligent and progressive; the tax- payers are today ready to have a small part of their contributions expended in this way; they do not need the object lesson of a strug- gling, feeble library to convince them on this point. The private subscriptions to main- tain such a library can in the case of W ington be,employed to better advanta; an argument for library legislation of the kind desired by being offered in humble imi- tation of Pratt and Carnegie for the pur- chase of books for a library to be maintained from taxes. Indications of assent, and even of enthusiasm, on the subject of a ta ported library’ have been displayed b: ticaily every organized representative of local public sentiment. In legislation on this subject Washington is ready at least for the third stage of enactment, which was reached in some of the states and in Eng- land nearly half a century ago. Wherever support by taxation, the goal toward which every feeble, incipient library is struggling, could be reached by an easier and shorter way than by undergoing the dis- tressing, infantile experiences of many libraries founded in the early days, that way has, as a matter of course, been select- ed, In the case of Washington the peculiar local conditions and the labors of th® board of trade have already cleared such a way, which may, if there is united local effort, be easily trodden. For these reasons the com- mittee has decided to move directly and as speedily as possible for municipal mainten- ance, without diverting money, or time, or en to the creation and support of an un- factory, semi-public, semi-private librae tained exclusively by private sub- ions, of the kind which has often, though not always, or of necessity, been the forerunner of the public library in the mod- ern sense. in addition to private subscriptions and val maintenance, it will be noted that the committee has relied upon certain na- tional donations of temporary room space and of books. The propriety of Washington's requests on these points was fully recog- nized by the House District committee, which embodied the reasons urged in sup- port of this national action in its favorable report to the last Congress. These opinions of the House committee are added as an ap- pendix to this report. It is thought that further effort should be made to secure these donations of books and this allotment of space in some public building; but if they should be finally re- fused, the project would have received no vital wound. It would inerely have become distinctively a local educational institution, unaided directly by ‘the United States, and si ted by the legal taxpayers of the city of Washington. If Congress will create this library as an adjungt to the public schools and provide for its housing and maintenance at the municipal expense, private subscrip- tions will at once provide a creditable work- ing library. ., The Pian. The plan of the committee is therefore as follows: 1. To secure a brary subscription list, the subscriptions to be conditioned up- on the creation bys Congress of a library maintained at the District's expense and nded in béok$ for such a library. re either-through a separate bill or through provision in the District appro- priation bill legislation creating the de- sired library and providing for its munici- maintenance. 3, To secure from the ited States whatever may be had in the way of books and space in a public build- ing, but these are not to be essential fea- tures of the project and may possibly be obtained afterward if denied at the time of the creation of the library. The design is to obtain the full benefit of every available resource for the creation and support of a modern library. 1. In private subscriptions of books; 2, in municl- pal contribution for maintenance, and, 8, in state assistance (in our case congres- sional) in the shape of temporary library room and duplicate books. We shall strive for all things and take what we can get, satisfied if the result shall be the creation even on a humble scale of a public li- brary on the only wise and proper basis of municipal maintenance and control. The committee hopes that when this nucleus of a true public library is thus formed there A HEALTH SECRET. And What Some Reliable People Have to Say About It. “How can I inereace my welght, prevent indl- gestion and build up my system?” You have probably asked yourself this question & great many *imes—most men do, Many of your friends have bad this question answered to their satisfaction, and it is a good thing to know. Some of the greatest physicians in the world have an- swered it, and they tell that the best way to keep strong and well is by using @ pure, reliable stimulant. Something ts needed to put the blood io healthful motion, invigorate the body, promote the appetite and enable the food to be properly digested. This is what required, and the next estion ia; What is the best thing to take? Some gut on this interesting subject ts afforded by the following opinions of some people, who speak from personal experience: Mr. EO. Avilla of Brooklyn, N.Y. sara: if suffered for several years from’ nervous aches, and being greatly emaciated and weak, Mult Whiskey was recommended to me. f lid eee! now used several bottles with spl having 9 ya: “I have using Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey for general y, catarrh, loss of appetite, bad stomach, Ei greatest remedy I ever tried. f and feel like a new in when I get uy in the morning, instead of having that dull, th sick feeling I formerly had.” ny person who suffers from weakness, lose of appetite or tired feclings, this whiskey is a boon and a Messing. Its high patation a8 a scientific preperation, however, has brought forth many in- rior fmitations, and'care should therefore be taken that none of these substitutes are supplied by drug- “ocers. gists or will collect about it the scattered atoms of local Interest in and appreciation of the public library {dea which now manifest themselves in the development of individ- ual libraries for various public schools, of a library distinctively for the workingmen and of an incorporated Mbrary on the pri- vate subscription basis; and that with this unity of local effort and with an accumu- lation of local money, books and energy, and with the municipality, national govern- ment and private citizens doing their full duty and pulling shoulder to shoulder in the same direction, a public Mbrary will be created of which Washington may be proud, and which will confer inestimable benefits upon the school children, the work- ingmen, the department clerks, and all other elements of the capital's book-loving and book-needing population. The House Committee’s Report. The appendix to the report of the library committee fs the report of the House Dis- triet committee of the last Congress, of which the part bearing on the national obli- gations toward the library project may be quoted as of special interest: “If this library were proposed as a general departmental collection, solely for the gov- ernment employes, its creation would be justifiable not only as a measure for the public welfare, but as a stroke of economy. A fraction of the 20,000 government em- ployes, namely, those employed in the In- terior, War and Treasury Departments, have already been provided at the govern- ment’s expense with inadequate and unequal circulating libraries. Other departments and bureaus of the government have ap- plied or are preparing to apply for similar privileges. The government printing office is among the recent applicants. Those bur reaus without circulating libraries are as much entitled to their use as the favored ones which now enjoy them. The creation of a general departmental library would give to the smaller number of clerks who are now favored with the IMmited library facilities, which have described a much finer circulating library, and it would supply to a great body of government employes priv- ileges of which they are now entirely de- prived. “The general library would not only re- lieve for other uses the room space now oc- cupied by the 20,000 books to be transferred to it from the departments, but it would se:ve as an economical substitute for the score or more of small libraries which must, in justice and consistency, be scattered among the different departments and bu- reaus, each with its librarians, its duplicate standard works, and its wasteful duplica- tion of occupied space for book room and for administration purposes. This consoll- dation and systematization of departmental libraries in a corner of the new city post office would, in many obvious ways, save money for the government, even though, as in the case of the existing departmental H- braries, the nation should bear the entire expense of its creation and maintenance. “But if the departmental libraries were not taken 4nto consideration at all, and if the y library were viewed solely as @ supplement of the public schools for the benetit of the 63,000 school children, and as a people's university, open at night for the local workingmen, its creation would sull be justifiable, as an essential part of the capital's educational system. The cost ef its creation and maintenance would be a proper municipal expense, borne under the law in equal parts by nation and city, like other municipal outlays. In its national capacity ard without regard to the peculiar relation which it bears to the capital, Con- gress has steadily pursued the policy of fostering educational efforts, and has given miliions of acres of public land and millions of dollars to the states for edu- cational purposes. Among these donations may be mentioned the grant of over 80,- 000,000 acres to the states for public schools, 1,500,000 acres for state universi- ties, nearly 10,000,000 acres for agricultural colieges, and numerous cash gifts, mainly from the proceeds of public lands, aggre- gating many millions. Not a foot of public land has ever been donated to the District for educational purposes. It is now proposed that the na- tion, which has widely lavished millions of acres of land and millions of dollars upon state universities and agricultural colleges, shall donate the use of 6,000 square feet of space in the new post office building for a ‘people's university’ at the national capi- tal. “It is belleved to be wise for Congress to place the capital city, with its quarter of a million of people, in respect to whom it ex- ereises exclusive power of legislation, at least upon an equal footing in free library facilities with other intelligent and pro- gressive municipalities.” ———_—_ Oklahoma’s Bid for Statehood. Sidney Clarke, chairman of Oklahoma's statehood executive committee, has called a statehood convention to meet at Shawnee cn December 4, 1895. Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- “aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro- duced, pleasing to the taste and ao- ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in ita effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug- gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro- cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO, Bad Cooking Is a waste and harmful in every way. Thousands of peo- ple are deprived of half the actual nutriment of their food because of bad cooking and the want of means to make food palatable and digestible. The AdtesT vteel Range Is recognized as the most perfect cooking apparatus yet produced. It is made of malleable iron and cold-rolled double-stretched steel-plate throughout, except fire-box, which is made of the best gray iron. The oven and fire- box are built on an entirely new principle. The Majestic is backed by the strongest guarantee made by any maker. B. F. Guy & Co., Agents, 1005 Penna. Ave., Washington, D. C. LORE HOEOEY THE LEMON RIFLES. Their Benefit Entertainment for the Police Fund. The program fer the entertainment which will be given tomorrow evening at Metzer- ott Music Hall under the auspices of the Lemon Rifles for the benefit of the police fund has been made up and is presented herewith. It abounds in good things and some well-known people are down for num- bers that never fail to please. ‘The attrac- tion of the evening in a military way will be a drill by the picked squad of Morton Cadets that won the prize at the Corcoran Cadet fete not long ago in a competitive squad drill. The program is as follows: Maddart Brothers and Hobert Chambers, drum major evolutions and march music} Mr. Charles Hall, bass solo, selected; Miss Blanche Wood, soprano solo, Mia Picierella; Mr. E. J. Walsh, recitation, selected; Misses Blanche Wood ‘and Merrile Esputa, duet, “Holy Mother, Guide iis Footsteps,” Im- perial Mandolin Club; Miss Lollie Bell Ray, in her specialties; Miss Grace Jones, plano solos, Ballade UI, op. 47, Chopin; Miss Ma- taie Donnelly, soprano solo, Sognai by Schira; Mr. Steven Clements, banjo solo, selected; Miss Anita Hendrie, recitation, selecied; Mr. Charles Skerrett, tenor solo, “Brigand Love Song;” Mr. Goldwin Patten, recitation, “The Bridal Trip,” Miss Mer- rile Esputa, contralto solo, “Asthore,” Tre- tore. It isn’t much trouble for a really healthy man to be good hu- mored. Jollity and exhuberant health are a proverbial combination. The hearty man who is always laughing doesn’t heve any trouble with his digestion, It as been said that langhing makes ple healthy. The truth fs that health makes people laugh. There isn’t any other thing 8o essential to health es regularity in the action of the bowels. Most all sickness starts with some derangement of the digestive func- tions. Good digestion means good, pure blood, and that means strength. Once let the bowels become clogged with refuse matter, and the whole, system is deranged. Impure, poisonouy matter ts into the blood and plants the seeds yr all sorts of sickness i , Whenever there 1s a stoppagp of the intestinal action, hel; anoulal given immediately. Usually a mild, gentle laxative is all that is necessary. A vio- lent, wrenching, ipiog cathartic ie uever needed Dr. Pieree's Pleasant Pel- lets are the most pleasent and successful remedy for occasional or chronic consti- pation, or costiveness. They are tiny, sugar-coated anti-Lilious granules that even the smaijiest child can easily take. They act in perfect accord with nature and produce no griping or other disagree- able fecling. y should be taken at the first indication of digestive trouble. They stop sour stomach, belching, “beart-burn," flatulence and sick head: ache. They cure constipation perma- nently. You can stop taking them after the bowels sre thoroughly regulated. Their help /asts. You do not become a slave to their use as with other pills. OR.CHASES Blood“Nerve Fo wat Yourseir . For Weak and Run-Down People from Childhood to Old Age. WHAT IT 15: The richest of Foods, high ving. overwork, worry, , ete. WHAT IT DOFS!” Tix taking the blood’ pure and rich, and the @igestion perfect, it creates rolid flesh, muscle and strength. The nerves be- ing made’ strong, the brain becomes active and clear. For restoring lost vitality and stopping all wasting drains andy in elther wex it no equal, and as a female rezulator it is worth tts welght fn gold. One box lasts a week. Price, or 5 boxes $2.00. Druggists or by mail. BOG! THE DR. CHASE COMPANY, nol2-tu&satGSt 1512 Chestaut st, Phfladelphia. Delicious to eat, par- ticularly good to drink. Richer in nutriment than cocoa. n016-28eo80t REDFERN ADIES TAILOR AND COURT DRESSMAKER. Mr. Redfern will be at ti ARLINGTON Hi ESDAY tH NOVEMBER, Nd THURSDAY, 21ST NOVEMBER, ‘To take orders for DRESSES, Ww Novelties in Fur Cipes, Coats, Neckties and Muffs will be offered at very moderate prices. All model garments will be disposed of before leaving ‘Weshington at cost price. a 210 bth London, n015,i8-19° BRIAR PIPE. GIVEN AWAY Fe) P\y\tt EVERY MIXTURE for SB5 cents Every pipe stamped i DUKES MIXTURE or <at> 2oz. Packaces 5¢ :FOR :A DAY ONLY —in order to introduce yon to a superb collection of rich, brilliant rRRRREK! T-in. Cut Glass Bowls at $5. Well worth $7. mn. Goldsmith and 3 Jewelers, 911 Pa. Ave. rol8-40d Tet tee wee sae Costs one-third less, goes further than any other coke ou the market, ignites quickly, and is voted for its lasting qualities. No dust, dirt, smoke or clln- '40 bu. (uncrushed), $2.90 40 bu. (crushed), $3.70, To ony part of the city. Suftable for renge, iatrobe, furnace, grate apd open ice. ‘Orders reteiv VASHINGTON GASLIGHT 00., ima 4183 10th st. Or WM. J. ZEH, 926 N st. aw. nol4-28d 476. DIPIDIIDIPIPPPP BOAO. Poses roscssvesssvsssseses ;| Baidness is Curable! Hundreds of unsolicited testimonials 2 that LORKIMER’S EXCELSIOR HAIR FORCER is the greatest remedy, for Baiduers ever discovered. It will positive ly force a profusion of hair on the baldest bead at any age, no matter from what cuuse u arises, and after ail oiber remedies have failed. It cures bald patches, scanty partings, hair fulling out, dandruff, scurf, weak and thin eyclashes It will restore gray and | 5 Sessssesss | Tete ee | faded to its 1 color. It will abso- je} lutely produce a luxuriant growth of © Whiskers and Mustaches on the smooth- cst face without injury to the most deli- | S| cite skin dts effects are truly marvelous. | ‘| Contains no dye, grease or harmful in. edlents. “Prepared by « e, Md. CRERREERKI ‘nstom Agency, fe| NERS PHARMACY, 1429 Penna. ave. Call and get a dosriptive circular. ¢)_nol-lmo* z (Ree RERRREEEEREEEEEERES SOOSHSSS SOS OSS SOOSOOCSO OSS 9O 480]) This wack, instead of $5.50 a bbl. for SOW FLAKE FLOUR! © One of the finest flours ever put on the Washington market. TF Our stock of Canned Goods ts now all in. Fresbmess, unusual excellence rnd reasonable prices distinguish them from the elsewhere places. Includes Fruits and Vege'ables of every kind. * * Cuitices Bros.” famous Jams also. iw. Barker, 7. COTE TESISSSOTE SO DSEDEOSI NSCS Do you know that electricity is a cheaper, better, safer and more re- liable power than steam? It makes a better light, too—better for stores— better for offices. It is us far ahead of gas as the modern electric locomotive ts ahead of the old stage coach. We furnish power only. Telephone us to turn it on. U. ®. ELECTE C LIGHTING ©0., 218 14th street. ‘Phone 77. FOPPOOSCIO SSS OOS 0c18-208 Doesn’t Pain a Bit Wher corns. Requires 2 minutes.” Se oa, Bualons, Ingrowing Nails gud all foot roubles relieved patalsesly. Prof. J. J. Georges & Son, 1115 Pa.av. FOOT SPECIALISTS. (Nest to “Tne Raleigh.) mod-10d