Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1896, Page 6

> MOSES 2& F Street, | Such a Saving —WNot a saving of a few cents, but the saving of a good amount on each yard of carpet, each rug, each matting, and you'll find it amounts away up in the dollars when you've covered a whole floor. —tTrue, they’re remnants, odds and ends and the like. But you'll find enough of each piece for your purpose, and when the carpet is down on the floor, where does the difference come in, except in the price you've paid. Ingrain Carpets. Lot 1—An Extra Two-ply Union In- grain. Regularly sold for 50 cents per yard. Charing out price. - Lot 3—An Extra Heavy Two-ply Ail- wool Ingrain. Worth 75 cents per yard. Clearing out_price.......... Tapestry Brussels. Lot, 1—Best Quality Tapestry Brus- 27¢. 45¢. sels. Regular value, 90 cents per yard. Clearing out price. . nee 49¢. Lot 2—A fine line of Ta; sels that regularly sell for 7: Fer yard. Clearicg oat peices GOCe Wilton Velivets. - All the stendard makes, light and dark effects. Regularly sold for $1.35 ber yard. Clearing out price. 59¢. Axminster Moquettes. Md variety of patterns, choice 75c. suitable for parlors. Regu- sold for $1.25 per yard. Clear- Ing out price... HighGrade Axminsters. Standard takes, in quite a variety of patterns snd both light eee effects. Regularly sold for Clearing out price: Royal Wilton. Standard makes, in light and dark effects, that regularly sold for $2.25 ber yard. Clearing out price...... Stair Covering. A few odd rolls of Enamel Stair Cor- ering. Worth 12%5 cents per yard. Clearing ont English Oilcloths. ‘The very best quality English Oth cloth, ‘that regularly sells for 7 cents pe yrrd. Clearing out price. 45¢. Spring Furniture purchases are arriving constantly. it Art Rooms, @ti_floor. BARGAIN SALE GAS STOVES AND OIL STOVES. MUDDIMAN, 614 12th et. See adv. page 6. it goc. $1.10 qc. wnlote We will sell five hundred bexes Scotch f «Smoked Herring for 20 cenis per box—they fare ed in Wooden boxes containing from ferty to sixty fish each—will sot sell less than a box—See window display. To those Wenting a good Broom, and heavy enough for any use, attention is called to our Three-doubl ged, Green Straw Carpet Brooms. We 2,500 made with- out pal inting the because ladies prefer them so— cents each, om IG a yt Pay your many elteletetolalete elena lltela ete plpelely sete % ar-hy grocer 20 cents price fs 11 cents ber dezen—there’s Lo secret about our selling them at this price—we buy In large euouzh quantities to afford ‘t. ‘The fact is, we sell everything cheap—so cheap that our goods kever get stale. a TUESDAY. Only this one day we will sell 2,000 cans of Maryland Peaches (large cans), eked in fruit syrup, for the rice of S cents per can—tl 2 Peach, and bring ordinarily 15 cents. 30C. TUESDAY. weihirty cents will buy the best Java and Mocha ‘Coffee, and 22 cents per package for either Levering's or Arbuckle's Cottees oC. CIGARS. Just one hundred boxes of those good Cigais tomorrow for 65 cents each—we'll only sell 100 boxes—fifty clzars in each box, and they're worth $1 if sold at auction to higbest bidder—see window display. a TUESDAY. When you can buy best for 35 cevis per bushel ¢ —we never hear any one complain about our price—It's a pleasure to sell them, because they are so large and smooth. urbank Potatoes “re cheap enough 1OG. TUESDAY. We hougkt more Salmon than we know what to do with, Just because we got a vargain—somebody’ Wanted money, and we id it; that’s how we got 5 1a . flat cans, steak Salmon are al- Ways worth 20 cents—but our cut is just half peice, 10 cents each—see window ‘dis- play. 2C. TUESDAY. The folks seem to grow suddenly bu: when they see our Cake display— the price has a good deal to do with it, too—12 cents 7 nd for Cocoanut Jumbles, Hi Rimukts, Gratam Waters, Pratt Crackers. andl all other fine cakes. Cream Crackers and Sodus for 5 cents pound, and Ginger Soa, for only 4 cents. = " JOHNSTON'S, 729 SEVENTH sT. pagnes—a deli- Crabb’s . cent wine ee und is just bd epedetveoeocreeaospeete ede cpetedreestetetedoete dee drctndeetete tstetetetetetntedetetengententntentetentntadeerooroeeetetetetecetetetntntntntntneneiieatetetetete ung equal to many cham- quart 2... Puch. Per TO-KALON < 614 14th St. ’Phone 998. _{8-20d SONS, 204 10TH ST. RW eae tT W. © ‘elts, Fire Brick and Clay, toa, Eee rs loth, 11th and F Sts. N. W.. ————— Business hours, until further notice, are 8:15 to 5 30. Valentines and Favors for Valentine Dances, etc., first floor. Merchandising as Done Nowadays, As done here, is interesting, instructive. There’s-a novelty, a charm about the modern methods that was unknown to the humdrum, slipshod way of a few yearsago. There is a happy intermingling of pleasure and profit—even the every-day commonplace events are clothed in such an attractive dress that they at once appeal to your innate desire for nov- elty, for variety, and you naturally come where you can have that desire gratified. Thus it goes—today this attraction, tomorrow that. Hubert E. Delorme’s Famous Painting, “The Blacksmith,” On Exhibition in Our Art Gallery, From 10 to 5 Daily, and is Free to All. ‘The “New York World” says: ‘The figure of the smith stends out in absolute relief. The flesh and muscles are as perfect 2 simulation as the brush can produce. The combination of natu-al and artificial lights, the rays of the sun filtering through the window meeting the gleaming flames of the fire, is a most skillful study,” A Special in Men’s Laundered Shirts. The best value in Laundered Shirts we ever had at the price. Made Open back. Full size. Finest grade cotton. Fine linen bosom, reinforced. by one of the best shirt makers in the country. Linen wristband. Well made throughout. Neckbands, 14 to 17 inches, with three lengths of sleeves to each size. Special Price. 79c. Each. +++1st floor.. —o @fen’s Store.. +-1007 F st.) Women’s New Bicycle Suits We have just put on sale our new line of Women’s Tailor-made Bicy- cle Suits—fine Cheviots, Tweeds and Cassimeres, with bloomers to match very stylish costume. , Bachscs5s5; - $15.00 up. New Separate Skirts. Tailor-made Cloth Separate Skirts, Ined throngh- out, perfect hanging—all of the very newest fab- -$5.00 to $50.00 Women’s Wrappers Or House Gowns afford that ease and comfort so desirable in the per- formance of home duties. Here are four uncommonly good values. = Women’s Imported German Outing Fiannelette ‘Wrappers, neat striped patterns, full Watteau back, loose front, sailor collar—cut very full. Each.$1.95 Women’s Striped Outing Cloth Wrappers, yoke neatly trimmed with braid, gathered back, full front. $1.38 Women's Striped Eiderdown Wrappers, fleece Ured, full sleeves, matched bias yoke, worsted girdle. Special at seeeee -$5.00 Women's Eiderdown Wrappers, plain cardinal and gray, fleece lined, loose front and back. Special Corsets for Cycling and Skating. “Cyclist” Corsets, made of fine sateen, heavily boned, silk elastic over hips. Suitable for cycling and skating. Per pair. .$1.00 and $1.50 Two uncommonly good values in “W. B.” and “R. & G.” Corsets. “W. B." Corsets, made of fine coutil, two side steels, extra long walst, high bust. Per pair. .50c. “R. & G."* Corsets, made of coutil, heavily boned, two side steels, extra long and medium w: finished with silk flossing. White and t pair .. (2d floor. Rubber Hot Water Bottles Should be in every family. Simple and easy of application. Often pre- vent severe sickness. The following are special values: Pure Rubber Hot Water Bottles. No. 1—1-quart size. Each Ss Hot Water Bottle and Syringe com- bined. ‘No. 1—1-quart size. Each.. New No. 2-2quart size. Bach (st floor.....-.0+ Books. . “The Black Lamb,” Girls’ Winter ¥. Robeson’. as BOaO = es ae Clothing “Antipas, Son of Chuza,” by Lou- ise S. Houghton. . “Considerations on Painting, Is very low priced now that the end of the season is drawing near. Sev- eral weeks to wear the heavy weights yet, and good to commence next season. Stylish Navy Blue Boucle Cloth Jackets, Frank- Mm front, velvet collar, mandolin sleeves. Sizes 6 to 14 years. Now. $4.25, Kersey loth Jackets, navy and black, double breasted, deep lay-down collar, ripple back. Sizes 14 and 16 years. $5.00 Navy, Black and Mixed Cloth Jacket: some double breasted, others Franklin front, deep collar, velvet piping, ripple back. Sizes 12, 14, 16 and 18 years. Ne $7.50 Mixed and Plain Cloth Gi@tchegs, deep single cape or double cape, edged with plain cloth. Sizes 4 to 14 years. Now 00 Navy and Black Boucle Cloth Jackets, velvet pip- wees vie oe S120. " by John La Farge, $1.00 “A Child's Garden of Verses,’ by Robt. Louis Stevenson. Beautifully illustrated... + $1.20 “Love and Laughter,” by Jas. G. Burnett. In- troduction by Wm. Winter... $1.00 “The Father of the Forest,” by Wm. Wat- “In Veroncia’s Garden," by Alfred Austin, the new poet laureate... 00 “A Scientific Demonstration of a Future Life,” by Thos. J. Hudson........... + +-$1.20 “Studies in the Thought World,” by Henry FOOD. eevee seceee + -$1.00 “Mars,"" by Percival Lowell. Study of the planct Mars from Flagstaff, Arizona..........0.00.04 $2.00 “Story of the Indian," by Geo. B. Grinnell. .$1.20 “Europe and A‘‘ica in the Nineteenth Century,” iby Miss E. W. Latimer $2.10 Ing, flare collar, double breasted, mandolin sleeves. | fq Scripture Lands,” new edition, by ET Sizes 12 to 18 years. Now. 50 | Witson ...+.6- a ete yes Norfolk Suits, stylish mixed cloths, full wide nen “Sketches from Concurd and Appledor, P. Stearns. Basement. " by Frank + $1.00 -1th st. bldg.) skirt trimmed with narrow braid. Sizes 10, 11, 12 and 13 years. Now. Mixed and Plain Cloth Dresses, four styles, extra full. Sizes 4 to 14 years. Now. 1.95 India Linon Guimpes, tucked yoke, neatly edged with embroidery. Sizes 4, 6 and 8 years, Each.25e. Same in sizes 10 and 12 years. Each.. 38e. (Bd floor... ....- +-Lith st Qldg.) —o—— The Fashionable Belts, Miniature Brooches, &c. Dressing Combs, sterling silver Women’s Backs) “Bache eer seesio 2 sce. 0 S150 Gilt Belts, buckles washed with gold. Ench.$1.00 Shoes. Gilt and Iridescent Spangled Belts, elas! Each... $1.25 and $2.00 Good values in medium-priced footwear. Strong and stylish. Women's Button Shoes, turn soles, opera toe, ‘mitation tip, patent leathef vamp. Per pair.$3.75 Women’s Calf Button Shoes, welt soles. Per Women’s Patent Leather Blucher Oxfords, welt | pearls. Each. soles. Per pair ++$3.00 | Rhinestone Buckles. 2a for. . -Ist annex.){Ist floor..... ———— The Altamont Spring Table Water 18 A NATURAL MOUNTAIN WATER OF REMARKABLE PURITY, AND IS NOT ONLY FREE FROM ALL ORGANIC MATTER AND DISEASE GERMS, BUT FREE FROM OBJECTIONABLE MINERAL PROPERTIES. SEVERAL ANALYSES PROVE CONCLUSIVELY THAT IT IS THE PUREST OF NATURAL WATERS YET PUT ON THE MARKET. French Gilt Hairpins. Each...... Sterling Silver Button Hooks and WNCh (sc ecsacochycocecs Sterling Silver Key Rings. Each. Miniature Brooches. Each... Miniature Brooches surrounded by Each. I gal. size, 35c.; demijohn (price refunded), 65¢.; 5 gal. size, $1.25; demijohn (price refunded), $1.25. LEAVE ORDERS AT SUPERINTENDENT'S DESK, FIRST FLOOR. ASK FOR CIRCULAR CON- TAINING TESTIMONIALS, RESULTS OF ANALYSES, ETC. WE ARE THE WASHINGTON AGENTS FOR THIS WATER. —o—. Woodward & Lothrop. THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 40, 1896-FOURTEEN PAGES. Woodward *. Lothrop, Sale ot: EXTRAORDINARY * STERLING SILVER. No deceiving discounts on fancy prices. We could mark up our stock 25 per cent and advertise a 25' per cent “Discount Sale,” but we don’t do business that way. Note our “net” prices—whicly have never been touched. Grand opportunity to save money on Euchre Prizes, Wedding and Anniversary Gifts, &c. Compare These Prices:. All these are Sterling’ Silfer—guaranteed 925-1000's fine. ‘Mahogany Chest, with drawer, containing 16 pleces*of sterling silver. Only. Sterling Coffee Pot, Sugar Bow! and Cream Pitcher, invese..... sete Sterling Novelties and_Toilet Goods. Napkin Ring. Be. * Ri ros $2.50 5c. |. Ico Cream Slicer (enameled). ig350 06° |, Gold’ Meat Fork’ (enameled). 50 00 6 Tea ia (in velvet case} ‘00 Tea Strainer 50 50 Salad Fork... 75 -$6.00 $28.50 $45.00 Sazgeeuss R. HARRIS & CO., Jewelers. qth and D Streets. depeetetetetetetetetetetetntntetntteteteteetetetetedeteteetntntetetegege eetededetedetetetnteteteteont Soden deeeteehtrendeengetetnteeent tees Sao a ke ks) —always Bupt’s 1 Shoe Shop should be your first thonght when it fs a question of buying {high-grade Footwear, Just at presant this end-of-the-season clearance ts i making “high-grade’? Shoes very ‘low-price’ Shoes indeed. Especially 4s this true of Young People’s and Children’s Shoes. At 35¢. Infants’ 5c. First Shoes, Button, Oxfords and Romeos, in Black, and Tan, Sizes 0 to 4 At 50c. 30 pairs Infants’ 1.00 4 pairs Infants’ 75e. Ki At 75c. Ohita’s 1.00 Pat. Ladies’ 1.00 Bic: Misses’ ard Child's 1,90 Gray Suede Ankle Ties. Sizes 2% to 6%. id Butt. ip Button. Sizes 5 to 10%4, Leggins, Black and Tan. “Am 1.75 Slippers, kid and ren, At 1.25: ae Mirses’ 1.50 and 2.00, Kid Button. Sizes 11 to 2. Ladies! 155 Bicycle fegeips. Tadivs’ 2.00 Pat. Tip Batgon. Odd sizes. Men's Pat. Oxteat Boys’ Gulf Lace. Sides 72 to Ladies’ Evening Slippers,! Kid, 5, Bronze and Suede. Men’s -- a a i sR RR RD LAGOON NN NN NNO NELLIE ESEVO OSS 8.50 Calf Lace . 2.85 . Bef - 28 » 2.85 - 3.85. < . 3.85 - 3.55 tne B18 < 3.50 ‘Kid Button and Lace. » 285 4.00 Kid Button and Lace. . 255 B.5 - 2.85 Bo Pat, Le 123 6.00 Calf Lar oe + 4.50 BURT Ss, “14i F Street, Next to Brunch P. v0. Saturday we close at 9. Sooo: eteeecetetetetetetet seeders SS a a Se Oh a a i ee seseesessesebeeteegeecte NTN eran smo ro The rub & wear necessary when using some washing soaps is enough to wear out the wash- woman and the clothes in one week! Ask your grocer for Weaver, Kengia & Co.’s ‘Laundry & Borax ‘SOAPS Ht i —and you will have the blessing of i both your washwoman and the clothes! = i “RUDDEN’S? Credit House, 513 7th St. SA man of your word” —is all you have to be to enable you to buy all the Furniture, Carpets, ete., you want. Some dealers make it unpleasant when their customers ask for credit. Not so with us! We have the goods and want you to enjoy them—and pay us @ little each week — just what yon think you can spare. Yet our prices are ag low as those of the strictly cash stores. Come in and examine our store—its prices and methods. You will be pleas- © ed, we know! RUDDEN’S_ | Such a variety of valentines ~as you will find here. Just as comical— dust as sentimental as you would want— and just as low priced. The pretty ones are prettier than ever. C. C. Pursell, 418 gth St. “Don’t cry | | —over spilt milk. When you have broken 1,1, some valual chinaware, glassware, etc., | instead of “erying’? over ‘it, bring it’ to us |, and we will mend tt equal to new, Mod I o00 ooo ooo 000 000 ooo 000 o00 200 000 ooo ooo 000 000 000 These soaps make the clothes white and clean. Plant, 3244 K st. now. fe7-324 bn eA IMNAENU MAMA MARAN oo° e000 ° Fa WS ee eoooon eococe eo00000c00000 0° A strong, neat pair of EYE- GLASSES or SPECTA- CLES fitted with our finest | lenses. Eyes examined free. | { McAllister & Co., OPTICIANS, \ (13 F Stipe! sees {7-16d 6 ‘poor” feet. How they would chy ‘out if 1 they could but speak. oTreat j them as you would ygurihands or your face—make them com- fortable by wearing easy;fitting shoes. Your health willbe all the better for it. WiALSON’S SHOES fit the fegt—never 1 ! 111 1 erate charges. Repairing called for and delivered—tfree! 1 R. C. BOND & CO., 935 F St. Room 2. See 9 pinch—are the acme of stylish- It till Cure Your ness. $3.50 up. mod e il Wilson, Q20 F Sti Rhe umatism REMEDY. fe8-808 Isn't an aimless compound—but * aeription, originated and” prepared by DOI IIS sclentific pharmacists. It CURES. any SFor Bi ik: ism by correcting the or FolKS entirely removing the xu . for a large botti \Scheller & Stevens, Who are Ailing Chemists, ists. —Nothing will afford quicker relief than rma to drink freely of FONTICELLO LITHIA M, 9TH AND PA. AVE. fe7-20d WATER, Its the sdeal water for weak ¢ | 7 digestive organs. _S cure for various forms of LIVER, Kidney and Stomn- Reh disorders 1¢ is Lusurpussed: ancy cakes of all kinds, ° DRUGGIST, Plain or ornamental. Dainty Maccaroons. .W. Jennings, CHEMIST, All tres every Gaye nso ennat, Cake. cot ica 1142 Conn. ave. $|E, Gundersheimer, 18,Ceater market. ; a city. | e 1628. $588 K st. and Riggs mkts. x ae ik THE BABY IS CUTTING TEETH BB and use hat old and well-tried remedy, Mrs. Winsiow’e Sootuing Syrup, for children teet! It soothes the ebil Any Facial Disfigurement teet Softens the gum, alla: —wrinkles, redness, pimples, blacki:ends, he ee ee ae tC a mi Gene r ‘After a sleepless night use Dr. Slegert’s Angos- Evans’ Drug Store, 938 F St, tara’ Bistars tobe ty: seas eee hl ae (8-84 sare an AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA Letter Indioating » Possible Buioide by } Drowning. Funeral of John Hunt — Disorderly Crowd From Washington— Other Local Notes. Mr. Frank Root this morning turned over to the police authorities a note which he found in a bottle on the shore of Hunting Creek, dated January 26, 1896. The note reads as follows: “The finder of this note will please no- tify the county authorities that they will find my body in this run. (Signed) “A BROKEN-HEARTED MAN.” | The note is thought to be the work of some mischievous person, as no one has been reported to the police as being miss- ing since that date. The note is evidently written by an educated person, as the pen- manship is good. The police will investi- gate and see if there is anything in it. ~ Faneral of John Hunt. ‘The funeral of the late John Hunt took Place yesterday afternoon at 3:80 o'clock from the residence of his mother-in-law, on North Patrick street, and was attended by one hundred and fifty members of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, and many other friends of the deceased. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Berryman Green of Christ Church, and the interment was in St. Paul’s cemetery. The following gentlemen acted as pallbear- ers: Horace Swain and Harrison Simpson of Jackson ge, James Mansfield and Lambert Lyles of Alexandria Lodge, Al- bert Harden and Roy Gallahan of Belle Haven Lodge. A Disorderly Crowd. Saturday night when the 10:30 local train from Washington arrived four young men (the eldest of not more than eighteen years of age) alighted and immediately became very disorderly. Officers Bettis and Beach, who happened to be at the depot at the time, told them to keep quiet, and imme- diately they began to abuse the officers, one of them stating that it would take fourteen Alexandria policemen to “run then in.” They were placed under arrest and taken to the station house and locked up, and a charge of drunk and disorderly placed against them. All night long they were very disorderly, and when told by the station keeper they must keep quiet they cursed him. They gave their names as Wade Moreland, William Humphries and Harvey Humphries of Washington. Mayor Thompson this morning fined them $5 each. Bar Rooms Closed. The bar rooms of Edward Hughes, Thos. Kelly, H. Kaletski, Morris Levin, Richard Burnett, Wm. Brawner and Thomas Dow- ney, whose licenses were revoked about a week ago for viclating the Sunday Mquor law by Judge J. K. M. Norton of the cor- poration court, were closed Saturday night at 12 o'clock and the police. cfficers in- structed to keep sharp lookou® and report any cf them if they reopen or sell liquor again. Yesterday was one of the quietest Sundays that this city has experienced for some time. Not a single drunken man could be seen and liquor could not be pro- cured for love or money. Police Court. The police cn duty last night report the night as being clear and cold, no prisoners and eighteen lodgers at the station houge. Mayor Thompson this morning disposed of the following cases: Wade Moreland, William Humphries and Harvey Hum- phries, arrested by Officers Bettes and Beach, charge, drunk and disorderly con- duct, fined $5 each; William Webb, Abe Beckwith and John Hamilton, arrested by Officers Ferguson and Atkinson, charge, vagrancy, sent to jail for ten days, subject to chain gang. Charged With Lunacy. A warrant was sworn out Saturday by Annie Founteroy for the arrest of her father, Edward Banks, colored, charged swith lunacy. Banks has been for the past two -yéats afflictéd with a religions eraze, but of late has become much worse, and at times he threatens to kill different per- sons. Officer Beach, after the warrant had been fssued, took charge of Banks and locked him up. Mayor Thompson sent him to jail for further examination. He will be examined this afternoon. ee WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY. How It Will Be Celebrated by Revo- lutionary Descendants. The joint committee of the Sons of the Revolution and the Sons of the American Revolution have about completed arrange- ments fo: a reception to be given at the arlington Hotel on the evening of February 22, the one hundred and sixty-fourth anni- versary of the birth of Washington. This reception 1s to be given in honor of the national officers and state regents of the Daughters of the American Revolution, who at that time will be holding their con- tinental congress in this city. It is expected that this function, like a similar one given in Washington three years ago, will be a most notable occasion, bringing together descendants of revolu- tionary patriots from all sections of the Union. Addresses will be given by the pres- idents general of the three organizations participating in the e¥®nt. In addition to these, Gen. Miles, commanding the army, who is one of the latest to join a patriotic organization; Admiral Jouett, who has done so much toward securing a reverence f the American flag in the American nav Thomas Nelson Page, Gen. Breckinridge, Admiral Walker, Dr. G. Brown Goode and other eminent men will address the meet- ing. Refreshments will be served and the Ma- rine Band will furnish music. The com- mittee in charge are William V. Cox, chair- man; Jchn B. Wight, secretary; Maj. G. C. Goodloe, Gaillard Hunt, Thomas Biagden and Earnest Wilkinson. The Sunday following religious services of a patrictic nature will be held. It has not been decided whether the exercises will be held in one of the historic churches of this city @ in the famous old Christ Church in Alexandria, where Washington wor- shiped. The committee of arrangements for the church service are Maj. Archibald Hop- kins, Gen. J. C. Breckinridge, Charles L. Gurley, Dr. Sardis L. Vrissey, Mark B. Hatch and William D, Baldwin. -——_—__ THE ST. PAUL CLUB, Its Object ix to Send the Old Guard to the G. A. R. Encampment. A number of G. A. R. men in this city have organized the “St. Paul Club,” which has for its primary object the taking of the Department of the Potomac, G. A. R., to the national encampment at St. Paul in fine shape, with the noted Old Guard as a military escort and the Mount Pleasant Drum Corps. Both these organizations at- tract unusual attention wherever they go. The Old Guard is the only armed and equipped military organization in the United States composed entirely of vet- erans of the war of the rebellion, and its fine appearance and marching make the very deepest impression. The playing, dis- cipline and uniform of the Mount Pleasant Dram Corps have made it a striking fea- ture of every public demonstration in which it has taken part. The presence of these two corps with the Department of the Po- tomac at St. Paul will add much to its ec.at end reflect great credit on the city of Washington The secondary object of the club ts to boom Baltimore as the place for holding the national encampment in 1897. The club holds its meetings the first Saturday in each month in the red parlor of the Ebbitt House. It has now over one hundred and fifty active members enrollei. The presi- dent is Past Department Commander A. F. Dinsmore, secretary, Arthur Hendricks, and treasurer, A. J. Gunning. gene The District Government. Facts concerning the District government and the duties of the Commissioners wili be found on pages 6 and 7 of The Star's Almanac for 1896. For sale at all news stands and at the business office of The Star. 25c. per co] Sweet package. aS Cigarettes me the best. Try 2 20 Youns For 20 years Scott’s Emulsion has been prescribed by physi- cians. It remains to- day the standard. It does not change, sepa- rate, or grow rancid like other emulsions. « Just as ”* is not Scott’s Emulsion. goo. and $1.00 at all druggists. TO DIE FRIDAY Death Watch Placed on a Condemned Murderer. Only a Few Witnesses to Be Allowea at the Execution—Given Up Hope. John Harris, or Patsy Harris, as he is known to many people, the young colored man who will be hanged at the District jall Friday next, unless the President inter- teres, and that is not likely, will be executed in the presence of the smallest number ever before present at an execution in the Dis- trict. Heretofore it has been the custom of the authorities to admit to executions here as many as fifty or a hundred spectators, despite the fact that the law restricted the rumber to a jury of twelve, counsel for the government and prisoner, physicians,clergy- men and peace officers. Warden Leonard greatly reduced the number when Travers and Beam were executed last July, and he intends that at the cxecution of Harris the law relative to the number of those entitled to witness the hanging shall be strictly com- plied with. The warden has been confined to his bed since the Ist of the month from the effects of injuries received in the war, and in con- versation with a Star reporter yesterday he explained that he had received from Judges Bingham end Cole a construction of the law in question, the judges informing him that the law must be fully obeyed. “I have termined, therefore,” said Mr. Leonard, issue no invitations to witness the execution of Harris. I will, however, request the at- tendance of a jury of twelve witnesses, to be composed almost entirely of newspaper reporters, and the only other witnesses of the execution will be the necessary number of physicians, counsel, clergymen and police cficers. In fact, the whole number will not exceed thirty persons, if, indeed, there are that many present. I have always been greatly opposed to making the infliction of the death peralty a show, as it has too often been made here, and it will be utterly vseless for people to ask for invitations, for the court has instructed me in the mat~ ter, and the law will -be strictly observed. In thus obeying the l¢w I wiil, I believe, be not only sustained by the court, but also by public opinion.” Given Up Hope. Harris has, it is said, given up all hope of a reprieve cr of a commutation of the death sentence, and is said by the officers of the jail to have become perfectly re- signed to his fate. For a time it was feared that he would break down, but he has recovered his nerve, and it is expected that he will march to the scaffold fear- lessly and confident of a better life here- after. He is being visited by Father Mat- thews of St. Cyprian’s Catholic Church, and has embraced that faith. The con- demned man has for some time been anxious to be photographed, that he might leave his old mother a picture of himeelf, and yesterday afternoon he was photo- graphed by an officer of the jail, who is something of an amateur photographer. Harris spends about all of his time in reading his Bible and prayer book. His appetite is gocd, and the warden allows him to virtually select whatever he wishes to eat. He is a rather uncommunicative man, and has Ittle to say to any one, and rarely refers to his crime, which was the shooting of Matthew Spruell, colored, in Georgetown. His record is a rather bad one, and in January, 1892, he was sen- tenced to two years in the penitentiary for assault with intent to kill, having then used a pistol on a man. Death Watch. The death watch was placed over Har ris last night, and from now until he marches to the scaffold he will not be out of its sight. This is done out of abundant caution, not that there is any real necessity for it, the man has been at all times a model prisoner, quiet and obedient to the prison rules. His coun- sel, Messrs. Thompson and Fratiiey, it is understood, ask th reprieve or for a commutation of the death sentence, but the law will, it is believed, be allowed to take Sts course, as the Court of Appeals, in affirming the judgment of the lower court (Judge Cole), states that it was a case of premeditated and mali- cious murder. The sentence of the court requires Howard to be hanged between the hours of 10 a.m, and 1 p.m., and the exe- cution will probably take place @bout 11:30 next Friday morning. a TANGLES FROM MARRIAGE. Some Relationships When Ex-Presi- dent Harrison Weds. From the New York Herald. Ex-President Harrison's brother-in-law, Judge John N. Scott, of Port Townsend, Wash., at a social gathering the other day suddenly realized that he was about to be- come his own father. The subject of Gen. Harrison's approaching Marriage to Mrs, Dimmick, Judge Scott's niece, was being discussed by a number of friends. Of the existing relationship the judge is fully in- formed. It was in trying to locate the limb of his own family tree after the contem- plated marriage shail have taken place that he became confused. It was while trying to answer the casual inquiry of a friend that Judge Scott began to reagon in this mann “Lam now Gen. Harrison's brother-in-law and Mrs. Dimmick's uncle. After they are snarried my brother-in-law will become my nephew, and my niece, therefore, will be my sister-in-law. Then, of course, I will be- come my own brother-in-law, and also my ‘ece’s brother-in-law. Now, if this union Lshould be productive of a claimant for the encestral hat, he will be my nephew and also my grandnephew. I shall be his uncle and alvo his granduncle. Now, in order that I may be uncle and granduncle to one and the same person, it must necessarily follow that I be my own father.” ‘The logical result, if the approaching mar- riage takes place, would be somewhat be- wildering to the judge. He and his guests sat down to figure out the result again and reached the same conclusion. Then some cne figured it that Harrison would become his own nephew and a cousin of his own son, who, if an heir appear, would be a second cousin to his own brother. Judge Scott,-be- ing his own father, would then become the encle of his own brother-in-law. Gen. Har- rison would also become an uncle to his own son. The matter became too complicated for Judge Scott, and upon agre¢ing to keep the discussion a secret he opened a few bottles of champagne. But the secret leaked out. ————+ee______ Extension of 37th Street. In the matter of the extension of 37th street from Back street to Schneider's lane, Judge Cox has appointed W. Riley Deeble, John E. Herrell and Richard H. Goldsbor- ough as a jury to appraise the value of the land sought to be condemned and taken. The same instructions will be given the jury were given in the matter of the ex- tension of North Capitol street, and the case will probably be heard Saturday next.