Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1896, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. WEDNESDAY...........March 18, 1896. CROSBY 8. NOYBES...............-Editor. THE EVENING STAR has a regular and permanent Family Circulation much more than the combined cir- ym of the other Washington dailies. As a News and Advertising Medium it has no competitor. 7m order to avoid delays, om ac- count of personal absence, letters to THE STAR should not be addressed to any individual connected with the office, but simply te THE STAR, or to the EditorinI or Business Depart- ments, according to tenor or purpose. Public and Private Corporations. It was seriously urged by two or three members at the Board of Trade meeting jast night that the welfare of this city is ” being seriously threatened, if not actually imperilled, by the general effort which Is now being made to bring about reduction in the selling prices of gas and =®lectricity. The main contention of those who so argued is based upon the perennial timidity of capital and its habit of avoiding local- ities where it is likely to receive any other than considerate treatment. It was con- iended that corporations which may have been considering the advisability of setting up great manufacturing establishments within the District of Columbia will go else- where as soon as they become aware of popular feeling here in behalf of cheaper gas ard see how heartily the Board shares in the general belief that Congress should exercise its power of control in the Interest of the frequently unconsidered consumer. Surcly the contention on that line could not have been in earnest. It is most improbable that any intelligent man fails to note the differences which separate the purely-pri- vate corporation from the corporation which is semi-public in its character. If individuals or. aggregations of indi- viduals desire to set up in this District fac- tories for the making of furniture or glass ware, or pottery or textile fabrics, or any other useful product, they will be cordially received, and, so long as their processes do not conflict with laws eommon to all im- portant municipalities, they can be certain ef local support and encouragement. They may rest easy in the knowledze—already in the possession of existing private corpora- tions here—that the Board of Trade will never petition Congress to legislate the price of their products, either up or down, for the Board of Trade is a common-sense organi- zation, and it knows that Congress has nothing whatever to do, directly, with the condret of private concerns. As a matter of fact the action of the Board as to dollar gas and cheaper electric- ity is likely to encourage the immigration of capital. Prospective investors are not at- tracted by exorbitant gas-rates nor is any inducement held out by the present prices of electric light and power. Cheapen those things which the manufacturer needs and you at once have something with which to capture his attention. Capital readily dis- cerns the distinctions by which corporations are classified; it sees, even if it does not always acknowledge, why there should be legislative control of companies whose ex- istenee would never have been possible had rot the public put them in possession of the privileges out 6f which their growth has Tesutted. Gas companies, steam and street- railroad companies, and electric lighting companies are practieally in partnership with the public and are, therefore, not to be confounded with private corporations. —_ += ____ ‘This fn the Time to Hustle. ‘The Board of Trade has indorsed the Mc- Millan joirt resolution to increase the local water supply, the dollar-gas bill passed by the House, and the action of the Heuse in reducing, the cost of electric lighting within the District. The indorsements were not hastily or thoughtlessly given; they were the result of mature deliberation and suffil- cient debate, and they may truly be said to voice the sincere sentiments of an over- whelming majority of Washington's popula- tion, which the Beard of Trade does and stould represent. It now becomes the specified duty of the Board's officers and appropriate committees to urge to success- ful conclusion whatever of legislation may pe necessary to provide the national capital with a sufficiency of water, an improve- ment in the quality of the gas and a rea- scnable reduction in the prices paid by con- sumers for artificial illumination, whether it be by gas or electricity. The eifort should be characterized by concentration of fcrees and by immediate activity. Now is the time to strike, and the blows should not be lacking in that quality which pugi- lists call “steam.” ———_~ + +__ ‘There is Demand for These Ships. Four first-class battleships and fifteen torpedo-boats are the items of a proposi- tuon which the committee on naval af- fairs will soon submit to the House in the naval epprepriation bill. As yet no one— not even the House itself—knows how the recommendations of the committee will be received, but it is certain that the coun- try generally will approve of the commit- tee's effort to strengthen our navy in what are now its weakest places. en in the interior states—where the navy has been practicatly friendicss—there is now active interest in that wise policy which dictates preparation for contingent strife before hos- tilities cemmence, while on the coasts there is loud-voiced demand for much more than the committee would perhaps feel justified in reporting. An effort was made in committee te increase the number of Lattleships to six, but the metion was de- feated; not because six would be too many —there is need of a dozen or more—but be- cause the nation’s financial condition, or party policy, had to be considered. 2 Handle Dynamite Carcfully. Persons and property in the immediate vicinity of Tairty-fifth and O streets nar- rowly aped destruction last evening. The horses drawing a wagon in which was @ considerable quantity of high explosives ran away, the wagon collided forcibly with 4 lamp-post and the dynamite was scat- tered ali over the sidewalk and roadway. it is almost miraculous that no explosion resulted. Speculation as to what might have happened had one cartridge gone wrong is idle, but the probabilities are so startling that it és in order to suggest more care in the transportation of such deadly material over the city’s streets. The quantity in any one wagon should be small and se- eurely packed, and the horses ought to be of a sort not as easily frightened as were those which came so near providing us with a tragedy. ——_ + +«-+__--—__ ‘The Cubans will have to admit that this country has displayed the utmost Hberality toward them in th¢ matter of rhetoric. aS SSS Hereafter it might be advisable to have very senatorial campaign searched for concealed weapons. ———_+ ++ ____ The Kentucky Situation. What was lost and what was won during the legislative session just closed at Frank- fort will long remain a subject of dispute in political circles. Only this much com- mands general agreement: A United States senato: was not elected, and as the result of the long senatorial blockade, nearly ell legislation, Inghiy important to the com- monweatth, fatied. ‘To those familiar with the situation, the senatorial fiasco came as no surprise. Dem- ecrats and republicars had alike been di- vided ‘from the sfart. Mr. Blackburn was Be more able to command the united sup- Port of his party than waa Dr. Hunter first, or Mr. Boyle last, the zealous support of the republicans. There were men in beth cemps, although apparently supporting caucus action, who yet were suspected of secretly pulling back and adding to the dit- ficultiea. And so it was that one week fol- lowed another, with a very great deal sol- emnly attempted but with nothing accom-, plished. Success for efther nominee was | rot on the cards at any time. | Unless Gov. Bradley calls this legislature together in extra session—a step he has Ge- clared he will not take—the question ef Mr. Blackburn's successor goes over for settle- ment by the next legislature. There is at once @ loud assertion that Mr. Blackburn will be certain to control that body. His strategy in the recent fight, and the sym- pathy estimated to accrue to him as the re- sult of the tactics employed by the opposi- tion, united to his personal popularity, will, his friends predict, inure everywhere to his advantage. But the senatorship, there is every reason to believe, will not be decided on those points. Mr. Blackburn at once renews his Pledge to silver, and will run again, he de- clares, as the silver candidate. Meanwhile the democratic National Convention is to meet and adopt a platform, and that plat- form is to be submitted to the people for their judgment at the polls. Suppose the Chicago convention decides against free silver, either by a compromise, or a straight- forward gold declaration. Or, suppose free silver wins at Chicago and loses heavily at the polls. How strong would a free silver campaign be in Kentucky, or anywhere else, mext year? That issue would be a back number, and the man taking it up and stak- ing his fortunes on it be certain to lose. He would, in fact, be little better than a politi- cal suicide. So it is altogether premature for anybody to be claiming anything not to be decided-until next year. A new issue and @ new man, on an entirely new political alignment, may sweep Kentucky then. ‘ Much of the criticism of Gov. Bradley seems to be ill-timed and ill-tempered. That proceeding from men of the Chinn erder is of course af no importance what- ever. Gov. Bradley cannot afford to notice it. What a professional “fighting man” may think or say about a high official sworn to administer the law and cour- ageous enough to keep the peace molds sentiment in no respectable quarter. For the rest, the record has been made, and the ecvernor and his friends show a willingness to stand by it. The remedy was no more vnusual than the complaint. Criticism awaited the governor on either hand. Had the tovghs been permitted to carry out their program, and an unseemly alterca- tion occurred in the joint assembly, he would have been censured for not exercis- ing his powers as a peace officer. He de- cided to act—and it is an important point that he was advised to do so ty democrats as well as by republicans—and order was Taintained. Peace sometimes comes high, but it is always desirable, and being ready to command it is, in the every-day world, the very best way to secure it. So far as Gov. Bradley's presidential boom is concerned, that will not be likely to suffer. The repvblicans of the state will compliment him and then vote for Mr. Mc- Kinley, and that has all along been the Program. —__~+ ++ The Board of Trade pursued the wise and conservative course of endorsing practical Projects, available today, fur improving and cheapening the public lighting, and of re- fusing te complicate these propositions by pushing at this time the scheme of mu- nicipal ownership.’ —_++s____ Senator Tillman points proudly to the fact that South Carolina made $360,000 last year by selling liquor—and not very good liquor, either. x —_—_+ ++ ___ Again Mr. Breckinridge surveys the scene, and muses that nothing has really gone right in Kentucky since he was retired. —_+++—___, Sixty-six men—only sixty-six—were em- ployed on the city post-office building to- day. 22 = ____~ SHOOTING STARS. Am Old Achievement. “How fallacious some of these proverbs are,” remarked the sagacious man. ‘Take, for example, that ene about there being nothing new under the sun.” “Is there anything really new?” sald his wife. “Of course there is. Don’t you read the papers? Don’t these X rays enable you to take a man and see right through him?” “Yes, William, dear,” she ‘answered gently. “But any woman‘could do that before KX rays were even thought of.” The professional politician looked worried and the man of millions looked weary. “You don’t mean to say,” exclaimed the former, “that you are going to quit the ight now?” “Yes. I've had enough.” “But think of what you have invested.”” “I can't quit thinking of it “Don't you want power? Don’t you want to be a great man with influence? Don’t you want a politi¢al pull?” “No. That's what Lm trying to get rid of. It’s too much inclined to concentrate itself on the leg.” G Philosophy. “I tell you what it is,” said Plodding Pete, who had been pensive for a long time, “a man’s in mighty hard luck these days ef he loses his reputation.” “You bet he is,” replied Meandering Mike. “W'en a man’s reputation is clean gone, the police don’t give him a chance ter git away with hardly anythin’.” A Degenerate Old Friends Displaced. There comes a sadness e’en with spring When gentle zephyrs biow, For though the violet ’twill bring, The buckwheat cake must go. That Penetrating Intellect. The detective stood looking up and down the street for a clue. The man who is always at his elbow taking stenographic notes of his conversation for publication inquired eagerly: “Do you see anything?” “Yes. There is some one standing on that sunshiny corner. “Zounds! So there is! “He is either a dude or a prize fighter.” “How do you know that?” “He is smoking a cigarette. In five mifi- utes I will tell you which he is.” ¢ 7 “Impossible!” x “It is very simple. If he is a dude he will be unable to think of anything to say. If he is a prize fighter he will be unable to stop talking.” Confidence. Dey kin gather in de profits ‘When dey swells de price 0’ coal; Dey kin worry us wif taxes Dat we pays but can’t control, But dah’s comfort in de distance, An’ it cheers me night an’ noon, Foh dah ain’ no financierin’ Dat kin grab de month o' June. I hyahs de folks a-talkin’ "Bout some dreffal goin’s-on; But I's happy in expectin’ ‘Of de joy dat’s boun’ ter dawn. So I keeps a lookin’ up’ards An’ I holds mer h’aht in tune, Foh dah ain’ no financierin’ Dat kin grab“de month o’.June. ———_+ e+ _____ A Proper Municipal Expense. From the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. It seme ‘to us that any city which main- tains a3 & preper municipal expense, may alse maintain a free library, as a means of education, and as a prope: municipal expense. ‘The city of Burling- ton maintains fts Fletcher free Ifbrary as @uch an expense. it is not a Juxury un- less eflucation is a luxuxy. $ i Havenner & Davis (Inc.), 928 F St, Atlantic Bldg. {We've.a stock of . Spring Shoes —which we can truthfully say can scarce be equaled. Ewvery style that willbe proper tiis spring ond sum- mer is warkets of the world have been scar@hed and the best preductions of the best mannfac- turers have been secured. You will do well to look ‘this stock cver before you buy. Ladies’ Russia Calf Lace Shoes, very Pretty styles, properly shaped, and as good 2 Shoe as $4 ever bought. 53-25 pair. Ladies’ Viel Kid Oxford Ties, extreme needle toes, the very latcst dark shades, which will be so stylish this sexson, $2.85 pair. Men's Black and ‘Ten Calf Shoes, Jace and congress styles, the equal of which have never sold in a single sea- son before for less than $3 and $3.50. $2.85 pair. If you hurry you can still buy a pair of these $2 Children’s Shoes for §1. ‘They're going rapidly. avenner & D2vis. avis, [3 eta & (ancor; rated), 926 F St., Atiantic B’I’dg. ard's Corset Emporium, — 1008. F st. Next to Woodward & Lothrop’ we.” CORSETS For Spring. —A perfect fitting Corset is the most essential part of a woman’s costtme. Upon its style and shape- liness depends her whole appear- ance. And appearances are every- thing in this age of tasteful dress- ing. ‘The D."" Imported Corset is the ac- knowledged model of graceful elegance, flex- ibility and symmetrical perfection. Our show- ing comprises all styles—all sizes, in white, gray, black and beautiful figured effects, ranging in price from $1.50 to $15 a pair. R. & G,Corsets. There are no better corsets made any- where than R. & G.'s. We've selected the three most popular styles for this week's selling. ‘Che prices represent their sterling value—o value that never varies. gent mite a FEC, $1.00 eo $ 1.50 All Corsets correctly fitted. HOWARD’S Corset Emporium, 1003 F St. it GET THE BEST— “The Concord Harness.” LUTZ & BRO., 497 Pa. Ave. N. W., Adjoining National Hotel. ‘Trunks and Satchels of all kinds at lowest prices. mh1$-164 Balance of week, pair for. 1 style R. & G., extra long waist, black. white and Balance of week, 1 style R. & G., extra Jong waist, in white ard —The “Bon Ton” of Wash- ington have a decided pref- erence for the LIBERTY Bicycle. No wheel is its match for style and stamina, Its price?—$100. HADGER, mh18-284 1024-26 Conn. Ave. $1 a Bottle Arimy et ites ay & Navy Whisky. Se: pout ery posecesing fine eeoreee cele prevect les. = AS C. Witmer & Co., 1918 Pa. Ave. Fn W, m,20 a8 a med- cane icine it's unsurpassed. The “To-Kalon”” Pure Grape Brandy caunot be too highly commended as a medicinal stimulant. Absolutely without adulteration of any kind. 4 years old.....per quart.... .$1.00 6 vears old.....per quart... ..$1.25 TO-KALON Wine 614 14th St. Phone 998. janissoa ¥ery Fine 6-yr-old California RIESLING BL pattt Sheut one-halt cur former 20C. price! $2.25 n dezen. Thi bottle! “hace asotea’ is "2" seauae 1 € wrgain. Sent anywhere. = California Wine and Fruit Co., Removed aa 1206 G st. to 519 11th st. 5 PAARL AIG 4 “CRAWFORD” And we teach you to ride, free of charge, in Central Hall, ‘the largest and finest bicycle academy in the elty. “Crawfords"” are the Pioneers of igh grade at a low price F410 THE MATIONAL CYCLE & ExTERTAIMENT CO., ERTRAL Over 9th st. Wing of Center Market. Branch Salesroom, 1214 F st.(The Houghton Ov. munteaueo : tones BUY ve e@ matter over with us. Ewe give you ‘the bencate of thats Sithout “charge. = Ss. D and ous a tE D. sT.— aa In Fashion’s Shadow — LOO O SOOO rimresremedessretortosdesdendrrdradratendereaseesesoesasiaronentodbesenseateateatvegeogsusneseatoagengeegecteseasoagengesensengeesenseaseareaseagenseazenzenseneseateatoaseaseateasentatoaseasenonesenseaivatiagenateasiasenenseaasreteateaionseeseasoaseasonsonsentensen eesetdersensiacnconiefussesseeseatiatonoagesseasmasoateaseageateaesrseghasoaseaseatontegeatongengenieonontnetiaseasonesetseaseng easiest gucentenson set ceietges be hd “Ninth and the Avenue.””. Parasols. Sua Umbreling, = g Ourriage Shades. PERRY'S The Parasols and Sun- shades are simply gorgeous this season. Such a number of new shapes and colors and conceits. Some very elabor- ate. Some severely pléin. Some just betwixt and be- tween. We have undertaken the not easy task of providing what will please everybody— but we are not anxious about the result. Our judgment never has failed us yet. Exclusiveness counts for more than common in a Parasol. You won’t want to meet the double of your Shade at every corner you turn. We have guarded against that by limiting the quantity of each style—and limiting the style to our showing. We don’t believe you real- ize how very low we have got these rich Shades marked: 22-inch All-silk Check Parasols— Blue, Brown and Garnet effects, with natural handles— $1.29. 22-inch Taffeta Silk Shades, in pin stripes, two-inch striped borders and plain effects—fine natural oddities in handles 2. 22-inch Changeable Silk Shades, with silver reds and frames—f: 5 22-inch Pin Stripes, with silver rods and frames—$2.38. 22-inch Cisrgeable Silk Shades, with striped borders and ratural handles—#2.38. 22-Inch Changeable Silk Shades, wiih two different styles of border— of couse in the “coming” shades— $2.68 22-Ineh White Gros Grain Silk Shades, with Lilac, Blue and Yellow satin stripes #3. 22-inch Changeable Siks, with fancy borders, with frames and rods—$3. 22-inch Pangee Silks, with lace in- sertions $3. 22-inch Pongee Silks, broidered edge—$3. 22-inch Pongee Silk Parasols, with natural handles—$2. We have the “en tont cas'’—the “always-reny shade"—for rain or shine-novelty effects in borders and handsome handles -$3 eud up. The Flovia—Perstan and Dresden Silke. in the best agsortment of col- ors, and Grass Cloth coverings, with fancy birders aud Mutngs—$4.50, $5 and $6. 22-inch Dresdet Sks—light colors, with Dresden patterned handles to harmonize—§7 and $7.50. Chiftcn-trimmed and Brocaded ts—kome of the attractions of Ww line $4 and up. 22-inch Faney Striped Silks, with wood handles to match the color of mand $4. rsians, With novelty ban- with em- Mourning Parasols. in SUk, with black Tnion Silk, with Black Gros Grain handles —$2.68. Silk, with , with Black h Gros Grain Silk, with cut arch, and Black Handles—$3, $3.50 and $4. 2 Ai inch hanlles—$- -inch Gros Grain Silk, with Mar- celine lining $4, $4.50 amd $5.25. 18-inch Gros Grain Silk, with ruf- fles $3.50, $4 and $4.50. Mourning Pa chiffon and cre nure Silk, with ebony ch Blac Figured Silk, with handles—$2, $2. 5. () arriage Shades, 10-inch Union Taffeta Silk, with Black handles—$1, Seetbeectestocetentoagecgetrszacgectoctesdocrateogesgasecuetontenecseateitesthagecnsvasengeateafeeateatonteeetoatoateseatoatenteateetbaseceateatecuasiatestatefetonteeateateaeatetesiageectratenateetetessvasesiatrateogesnagenratrasvatvageseesesgeieatee eetrhatseathifecdesrasocgrconectr ose shale Sree SoegoaGeaeseaosgegpe Dhara he HGH HDHD HH OH GH SoSH D HHH PHA IMHO MH HM HOOD 10-inch Windsor Silk, with Black handles—§1.50, 10-inch Taffeta Silk, with ruffle— $1.75. 10-inch Gros Grain Silk, ined; Black bandles—$2. 10-inch Figured Silk, with Mar- celine lining—-§2.68. 10-inch Gros Grain Silk, with two ruffles and Marceline lining—$2.88. 10-inch Gros Grain § celine Iining—$3. Lace-trimmed Novelties from $3.76 to $7. ik, with Mar- Colored Umbrellas. 24-inch Changeable Silks, in Blue, Red, Brown and Green—$2.50. 26-inch—$2.08, 24-inch Changeable Silks, with Dres- den bills and hook handles—$2.75. 24-inch ‘Titeta Silks, with fancy borders—$3,, 26-ingh THe namie $5 38, 26-inch Fine Silks, with fine Dres- den handles~$4.25, $5 and $8.50. Silks, with fine natural Children’s Parasols. 12-igch "Sytin and Changeable, Silks SOC 1 14-Ideh Setin, with natural handles ~Te. i 18-inch Misses’ Satin Parasols, with natur: utles $1, taieh Tele Silks, in Pink, Blue, Eeru -and Navy Blue, with pinked aE ee 18-inch " Coaching Parasols, with fancy borders $1.90, | PERRY’S, Lt th Se ca Ss hs Ss Oe Sk Seats Se ssn (blished 1840. Beleplune 205, No Matter How Chapped Eee ‘oem ree "Picaseat aden age gine. ’ Drug St 3 Evans’ ug Store, 938 F St, Special prices on Advertising Frames and Contract Work, Artistic ‘ - |S. J. Venable, 304 Mass; Ave. N. mablS-S4 mwhis8d Picture Framing. | Woodward +. Lothrop, ioth, 11th and F Sts. N. W. Easter Cards, Booklets and Novelties—first floor, Spring Opening French Pattern Hats, Bonnets, Toques, English Round Hats and Turbans and Millinery Novelties Continued Today and Thursday. Opening of Art Novelties, Gifts, Tokens and Souvenirs for Easter, Continued Today and Thursday. Lessons in Art Needlework Free of Charge. WE HAVE EMPLOYED EXPERIENCED AND COMPETENT TEACHERS OF ART NEEDI&- WORK, AND, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, WILL SHOW NEW, STITCEES, COMMENCE WORK OR GIVE THE NECESSARY INSTRUCTION TO THE ‘COMPLETION OF ANY ARTICLE FREE OF OHARGE TO ALL PURGHASERS OF STAMPED GOODS AND EMBROIDERY MATERIALS. (st floor......... -11th st. building.) An Early Special Offering in Girls’ Stylish Spring Reefers, Made of navy blue fine all-wool Cheviot, with large sailor collar trimmed with braid; new Bishop sleeves, and turn-back cuffs of ecru Then. Sizes 4 to 14 years. An exceedingly pretty and stylish outside garment for spring and an unusually good value. @4 floor... Dress Stuffs For Easter. Some of the richest and choicest of anybody’s importing are features of | our Dress Goods display this season. Elegant, as only French taste can create. Exquisite stuffs, in styles that have no duplicates. Richest of the rich—gay, sombre, medium— something for any taste. Absolute completeness is our ideal in. Dress Goods this season. The stuffs are fine but not expensive. German Fancies. All-wool, two toned, gray, green and light brown effects, 38-inch. Per yard... 39e. Silk and wool, in a large variety of designs, to 45-inch, Per yard. 35559555 Shepherd C1 hecks. All wool, green and white, navy blue and white, black and white, Per yard . All-wool Checks. brown and white, 38-inch. 50e. All colors, 45-inch. Per yard.. Te. Silk and Wool Checks. 45-inch. Per yard. aeee 61.00 Scotch Mixtures. All wool, handsome two and three-toned weaves, 38 to 40-inch. Per yard. Be. Henriettas. All wool, silk finish, complete line of staple col- ors, 45-inch. Per yard. SOc. Granite Cloths. All wool, solid green, brown and Per yard........ Jacquards. All wool, solid brown, green, blue and gray, 45- inch. Per yard.. wenn oo EO. Silk and Wool Fancies. A fine assortment of styles, 42 to 47-inch. Per yard oe... ++++$1.00 Bannockbrrn Suitings. Direct from Scotland, three colorings, 42-inch. Per yard.... Three-toned Ptisses. Gray, ecru, blue and brown effects, very stylish. 45-inch. Per yard. seers eG1.25 French Fantaisie. Silk and wool, checks and allover figured ef- fects, 45-in Per yard.. seeeeee ee BLS For Tailor Suits And Bicycle Costumes. German Tweeds and Covert toned English Suitings. Tan, and green, 45 to 50- Cloths and Two- brown, gray, blue wd....75e. to $1.75. Pattern Dresses. A beautiful lire of exclusive nov lengths. Each... (lst floor. ... Religious Books. Moody’s Sermons, paper. covers. Each . 45 5 +15. Henry Drummond's celebrated books, in leatherette binding—“City Without a Church,” “Programme of Christianity,” “Pax — Vobiscum,” “Baxter's Second Innings,” “The Changed Life,” ‘First; A Talk With | Boys.” Formerly>sold for 25c.,. 30c. and 35c. We have purchased several thousand, and offer them at 5c. Each. +-11th st. ¥ Besement . | Canned Goods, Package Goods, Soaps, Housefurnishing Goods, &c. First quality goods—best brands. as fast as they appear. 8 Ovlumbia River Salmon, per 2 cans. Burnham & Morrill’s Lobster, p Fine Imported Sardines, per ‘can. Best Edam Cheeze, t foil, each. Pineapple Cheese, each Dougherty’: rty’s Prepared Pie Cr per I reserves, per glass... Delaware Canned ‘Tomatoes, per can. 6c. Shriver’s Cora or Nanticoke Tomatoes, per can. Royal Baking Powder, per lb. can. 420 Shriver’s Silver Brand Peas, per can Roe's Centennial Peas, per can. 3 ‘White Label. Soups Choice Spices, perforated top, per Fairbank’s Cottolene, per sm Baker's Chocolate, per % 1 Baker's Cocoa, per smal Colunrous Brand Cal. Mt. Friendship Gh Mloor.......e- sere Health Food Sizes 4 to 14 Years, $4.25 Each. +11th st, building.) Men’s Colored Shirts, Women’s Shirt Waists Made to Order In our Men’s Department by an ex- perienced cutter. Only the finest of Scotch shirtings are used. We'll make you a sample shirt or waist if you desire it. Ten’s Collars For Women’s Wear. We show several styles of Men’s Very-high-band Turn-down Collars in women’s sizes—12 to 13} inches. Just the right kind to wear with col- ored waists. Cat Moor... French Hand-made Outfittings for Infants And Little Children. , Exclusive novelties, exquisite con- ceits direct from Paris, made entirely by hand. Cute little French Frocks and Caps and Sacques and Coats and Petticoats and all the other Dress Requisites for babies and larger children. Infants’ French Nainsook Frocks, made by hand, trimmings of tiny tucks, dainty laces and fine conbroideries. - Each.......+ 7% to $5.00 Infan's’ French insook Loug Skirts, hand made, With deep hemstitebed bem—others with tucks, lace and embroidery. Each.........$1.25 to $16.50 Infants’ French Flannel Skirts, hand made, some With néat embroidered edge—others elaborately embroidered by hand. Each. op BLS to $5.00 Infants’ Cream Cashmere Wrappers, hand em- broidered in pink or, biue silk. Each. .$3.00 to $8.50 Infants’ Cream Cashmere Sacques, hand em- +1007 F st. bidg.) broidered in pink or blue slik. Each. .$2.25 to $4.50 Infants’ Hand-made Bibs, some embroidered, others Ince trimmed. Each........-.2 0c. Little Children’s French Lawn Short Frocl deep hem, lace and embroidery. Each $2.50 to $12.50 Little Children’s French Hand-made Coats, made of the sheerest India Linon over pink or blue, broad safior collar, trimmed with Valenciennes sertion and Ince, skirt trimmed with Lands of Va- lenclennes insertion, deep ruffle of lace down front ard around botiom, Hach..........0.2.0.0+0 $9.00 Dainty inttle French Hand-made Caps to match ebove coat, trimmed with pom pon of baby ribbon. Each $3.50 t0 $5.60 2A. floor. 10th st. bldg.) Denim Overall. For Smail Boys. Another lot of Blue Denim Over- alls, sizes 2 to 14 years. Per pair .................39¢c. and 50c. These are to put on the boy while at play, and the saving in clothing and stockings will surprise you. Boys’ Blouse Suits, with extra pants, 8 to 10 vea Wash Suits, Ail-weol Reefer ty 10 years, Each. Suits, “3 to 6 Shirt Waists. Each joys’ Golf Boys’ Blue Cloth Tam O'Shaniers, ‘one inch wide. Each Ea All meritorious things are added Quaker Oats or Bea> Brand Pettijohn, per pck.10c. Whole Nutmegs, per daz. W. & L. Pure Laundry Soap, per 3b. bar. Circus Soap, 2 yrs. huirduned: per cake. x Babbitt'’s, Borax and Ivory ‘Soap, per cake Proc e So: 2 cakes Vleine Sapolic m Vearline, Soapine and Bab akey Brand and Brooke's Grysial $ * Rising Sun’ Stove Paste 2-burnier Ni ind Polish, ‘per eled Gas Stoves, each ‘our-string Medium-weight Brooms, eac Gas Burner Stoves, bronze finish, each. Palmetto Scrub Brushes, cach. Office Waste Baskets, eac! Woven Door Mats, each. Tin Ham Bolters, cach. Small Maslin Preserving Kettles, 218. +--11th st. batlding.) Exhibit -In Housefurnishing Goods Department for the demonstration of the fa- mous health foods—Granose, Granola and Caramel Cereal Coffee--manu- factured by the Battle Creek Sanitarium Food Co. of Battle Creek, Mich. These foods are composed of the most nutritious and easily digest- ed grains, from which all foreign and indigestible substanees have been removed. They are palatable, delicious and are relished and retained by the weakest stomach when all other Free Samples Served Daily. (Housefurnishing Goods Department.........-5th foods are rejected. floor 11th st. building.) 2 We Have Just Received Our First Shipment of Manahan’s Famous Tarine [oth Bags, Pine Tar Moth, Sheets and Double Oakum Sheets, which do not need to be commended to those of our customers who have used them in former years. Moth Bags, three sizes. Each......................40c.. 50c. and 65¢. Pine Tar Moth Sheets. Per package of 12 large sheets. Doubie Strength Oakum Sheets. Per 100 small sheets....... th floor. -- -65¢. ++-1lth st. building.) Black Dress Goods. 40c., 50c., 60c., 75¢. and $1.00. Wash Goods. 20c., 25¢., 30c., 35c. and 374. Remnants. Dress Goods, good lengths, at —Made up into the smartest costumes, are on our shelves now. newness on every side. —Prices are leaning your way. We're going to make up on big sales what we lose on small profits, and thus benefit both you and ourselves. —The most complete stocks im- aginable to choose from. lored Dress Goods. Easter elegance, spring Silk and Wool Check Suitings, ‘These Popular Sin. Suttings (ali the new shadings). ‘That were marked $1.00 yard. For 75C- Nothing more popular than our Covert Cloth Suitings, at $1.00, $1.50 and $1.75 yard. French Novelty Dress Pat- STO terns in Parts Robes, the lai- tO est creations... - $18, Bicycle ‘The Black Mobairs we're showing this season are Lig valucs at Black English Serges, in all erades, at from 6oc. to $1.50. Exclusive novelties in Koechlin’s French Organdies, beauriful effects, at 3oc. and 37$c. yard. Jaconet Lawns, a big line in all linen effects, at. Pare Irish Ecru Linen for A lot of remnants in Spring Half Price. W. D. CLAR it mee Soon & CO., 811 Pa. Ave. _Ripans Tabules. Mr. George A. Veazie ts well and favorably known to every resident of the town of Stark, Coos county, N. H., having been born and reared there, and his father’s family, for balf a century ‘one of the best known and influ: utial tm that part of the granite state situate north of the White mountains. Mr. Vearle, writes, under date of October. 21, 1895, crdcring a consideraule quantity of Ripans Tubules, because he desires to “let some of my friends have @ sample.” He goes «m to say of Ripans Tabules: “I value them as@ yspepsia remedy very much. I have been using them for nearly a year, and Would not be without them anyway.” Ripans Tabules are soid by druggists, or by maf 2f the price (0 cents a bor) Is sent to The Ripags ‘Chemical Company, No. 10 Spruce st., New York. Sample vial, 10 ceuts. - iS: ie, ie e, le ° KAA Te eee | mb9-8id Betwoen H and I sts. BABIES Whose Mothers Buy Carriages Of us between Now and Closing time Next Saturday Night, March 21st Will receive a Handsome Carriage robe Free! We also make A special offer This week only Of a fine $15 Heywood Carriage— Newest spring Style—for $10— Robe included— Cash or Credit. No notes—no Interest. Carpets made And laid free— No charge for Waste in Matching figureg Grogan’s MAMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE, S19—821—823 Seventh street a.w., teteere (KERR EREE RS Any China Broken? Caps with the F 'S FAMILY “CEMENT. Plates is rot wffected by hot or cold water—or heat. © Ments everything in the house, but tin, Always ready to use. 250. bottle. N. W. Burchell, 1325 F St. mh1$-14d A Sc. CIGAR. THERE IS NONE ‘every Srst-class Gealer. & Ov. Pa. ave. m1 ‘Wisolesale