Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1896, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. SATURDAY. CROSBY 5. NOYES. THE EVENING STAR has a regular and permanent Family Cireuiation much more than the combined cir- - culation of the other Washington dailies. As a News # Advertising Medium it me competitor. 7 Im order te avoid delays, om ac- count of personal absence, letters to ‘THE STAR should not be addressed afice, but simply to THE STAR, or to the E ments, according to tenor or purpose. Independence the Only Reform. If the printed summary of the President's action with regard to Cuba is correct it shows a thcroughly characteristic perform- ance. Tas reccmmendations of Congress go heeded, and the case is stated to Spain on lines of his own devisement. Whether this Is for the best or not. time alone can demonstrate. It is plain enough, hewever, that the probabilities are all against tre success of the Presideni’s course. The first part of the two resolutions adoped by Congress accords to the insur- gents belligerent rights. This does not meet with the President's approval. He admits that the Insurgerts are masters of the situatien in all but the principal cities of the island. They have Weyler cooped up near his fleet and reduced to the necessity of depending on kis big guns afloat for pro- tection. He is afraid to venture very far in any divection into the interior. Still, the President holds that the insurgents are net worthy of belligerent rights. His re- quirement evidently is that before they re- ceive those rights they shall first acquire maritime power sufficient to cope with Spain on the sea, as they are doing on land, and establish permanent headquar- ters in sume seaport city. This will prob- ably strike the insurgents, as it does the people of the United States, as being an altogether extraordinary proposition. If the insurgents were as strong on the sea dave shown themselves to be on land they could snap their fingers in the face of Spain without addressing another word of appeal here. The second resolution of Congress pro- poses the good offices of this government toward securing from Spain the independ- ence of Cuba. Corgress did not consider it advisable to a¢dress Spain cn the sub- ject of reforms for Cuba. Everything in the record seemed to make such a step useless. Spain, it was seen, had violated all of her promises to Cuba about reforms. She~bad brought ihe ten years war to a ‘lose partly by the force of profuse prom- ises of that description, but only to tighten her merciless grip on the island and make the condition of the people harder than before. Why, as Congress reasoned, ac- cept the ;romise of a nation thus fore- sworn? 5 But the President reasons otherwise. He reminds Spain politely of her perfidy; tells ber that the present war, which he admits is a greater one than the ten years’ war, is the result of that perfidy; assures her that reforms must come before she can hope for peace in Cuba, and then earnestly adjures her to promise again. He seems willing to be content with that, 1g she will simply agree to do what she bas stubbornly re- fused to do, ulthovgh under solemn prom- ise io do, for thirty years, he will be satis- fied. He decides that she is guilty, but he is willing to take her personal bonds. Spain's reply to the President will prob- ably be adroitly drawn. The Madrid gov- ernment will probably hail the opportunity to state its case, and enceavor to improve it to the best advantage. The Spaniard in his best estate is a fine phrasemaker and lomat. But suppose the answer es every promise the President asks? se that, after excusing past perfidies well as may be, Spain comes forward and engages by her unsupported word to give good government to Cuba in future. Will that satisfy anybody but the Prest- dent? Will it make Cuba inhabitable for the men now in the field fighting for her Independence? Would young Nickleby and Smike Fave been ‘justified "Iti 'réturning to their allegiance at Dotkeboy’s Hall upon the simple promise of Mr. Squeers to re- form matters there? The desire of the people of this country, as expressed through Corgress, is that the good offices of the government be used to secure the independence ef Cuba. The propositioa to secure a renewal of Spain's broken promises for reforms in Cuba was not even considered. ———__+ + ____ Where “the Authorities” Were Weak. Representative Grosvenor’s statement to th» House of Representatives that the oleo- T™argarine law is violated a thousand times a day in this city 1s, unfortunately, too nearly true to be subject for controversy. When the oleomargarine law first went Into effect it was supposed to provide all sufflcient protection against the active dis- honesty of those dealers who are perfectly willing to cheat their customers so long as the knavery is safely possible. But it has since been discovered that the mere en- actment of a properly stringent law was not sufficient; in fact, there might just as well be no law at all if the officers whose duty it was, and is, to enforce the statute stood idly by and permitted the robbery of the public to proceed without hindrance. Prosecutions of some of the many who in this city have been engaged in selling oleo- niargarine as butter, at butter prices, are now being proceeded with. The District attorney is satisfied that convictions will result in a great majority, if not all, of the cases. But it is a noteworthy fact that these prosecutions would not have been had the matter been left entirely with the oficials who are supposedly engaged in the law's enforcement. ———————_++2_____ President Cleveland would doubtless be much distressed if his mediatory offers were ected by both the Spaniards and the Cubans, but he could hardly be sur- prised. “Blessed are the peacemakers” is an aphorism deserving of consideration, and the day will surely come when the peace- makers’ will be blessed, but in this degen- erate and practical age the peacemaker is likely to be assailed by both of the belliger- ents whom he would calm, especially if, as in this case, the row is a family affair. —__~ e = Buffalo Bill announces that he will re- tire from the show business. The an- nouncement fs probably genuine, as it seems impossible that so financially suc- cessful an enterprise should be reduced to the “farewell-appearance” expedient. —___+ e+ -—_—_ Only cne hundred and twenty men are at work on the city post-office today; some of them busy enough on the inflammable roof which the Senate says will have to be torn down. The fewer the better who are en- gaged in this particular labor! —_—_++ + ____ © Earth's Limitations. Scientists long ago realized that the €erth’s supply of materials for the various needs of men was limited, and after a cer- tain period of confidence in the ability of the ingenuity of the future to devise ways and means to postpone the day of exhaus- tion, efforts were made at last—and not very many years ago—in various directions to reduce to a minimum the drain on the planet's stock of fuel, minerals and other such elements. Chemistry asserts that there is no waste, and that all “consumption” is but a change of form. Yet the impatient men of the day cannot depend upon pro- cesses that will restore these various com- binations of the elemental factors and so restock the earth with her original amount of material. They imagine, it may be, that the day of limitations cannot be far away when the world is progrewing so rapidly in every department of human energy, and indeed predictions of the mechanical day of judgment are uttered from time to time with more or less assurance. Others dis- claim any notion that hundreds of genera- tions of inventors, manufacturers and wasteful users of the earth's stores will sueceed in appreciably diminishing the sup- ply, for, as they contend, the very march of invention itself means the overcoming of just such obstacles, the providing of new means where ld ones have failed, and the supplanting of worn-out or inadequate forces with newer forms of energy. Thus there is in prospect, in the light of such confident forecasting, an endless chain of supply, though not of immediate restora- tion, while the natural forces may mean- while be quietly and regularly working to maintain the equilibrium. In support of this contention many modern devices may be cited. The harnessing of the largest cataract In the world to a great plant of machinery is one such advance and its suc- cess doubtless means the speedy subjuga- tion of most of the falling waters in the civilized world to the immediate needs of man. Efforts to utilize the solar heat have never yet proved so successful that any economical results have been obtained, but some experimenters are confident that the day is near at hand when the wheels of great establishments may be turned by the force drawn from the center of our solar system, between ninety-one and ninety-five million miles away. This indeed would be a grand conservation of energy, a mechan- ical millenium and one to be dreaded, per- haps, almost a3 much as welcomed, since it would have a revolutionary effect upon present methods, prices and rates of pro- duction. But whatever the economical re- sult of such a discovery it is being striven for eagerly and the chances of success ap- Pear to be as great in such a case as in the original effort to chain the destructive lightning and make it the servant of man. Meanwhile science is at work upon the wastes of the world, reducing them to a minimum, utilizing materials that were once thought useless, and transforming refuse into value. One such device is now making a fiber, that resembles wool, from sandstone and the slag that results from iron smelting, once a nuisance and a cause of expenditure for removal. From this ap- parently stubborn stuff, seemingly reduced to its final stage of worthlessness, ready to return to the form of dust and thus begin once more chemistry’s chain of restoration, there comes a fine, soft substance used for the deadening of sounds in walls, for the Prevention of conflagrations from heated Pipes, and for the waste of energy from steam supplies, much as asbestos, a limited material, has been used for many years. Thus are the world’s limits postponed, by transferring energies into different phases. The ruling, guilding spirit in all this pro- cess is man, driven by his desires, his fears and his needs. The demands are greater every year, every day, but the human mind is still greater and its command over the resources of nature {s more powerful. —_+++____. A Confession From Havana, Through the medium of a sneering dis- Patch sent out by the Spanish authorities at Havana we are informed that the in- surgent leaders are nearly all men without Property; that the insurgent force does not exceed thirty-five thousand; that three thousand of the insurgents are under twen- ty years of age; and that many of the Cu- bars are without firearms. Spanish pride must be considerably lowered in tone or it would not admit that the Spanish army of nearly two hundred thousand warriors is practically helpless although supported by a strong naval force and assailed only by about thirty-five thousand moneyless and half-armed Cubans, three thousand of whom are boys, ——_+ + > __ The news that Li Hung Chang has changed his mind about visiting this coun- try carries with it-a great deal of disap- pointment. And yet his decision relieves the American public of much embarrass- ment. The troublég involved in the efforts of society to acquire enough of the eti- quette of the court to make the Princess Eulalia feel perfectly at home, were as nothing compared with the difficulty which would arise in adapting ourselves to the ceremonies to which this eminent Mon- golian and undoubted aristocrat has been accustomed. ——++e___.- The Ohio legislature may pass a law mak- ing the county in which a lynching occurs financially responsible to the family of the victim. This looks like a business solution of a very distressing problem, ——__+ e-____ It is hoped that no gentleman in Congress is influenced by a fear that the establish- ment of a free library would cause a relax- ation of the popular rush to read his con- tributions to the Record. —_—__+ = ____ A number of critics are growing more and more emphatic In their opinion that the McKinley movement is taking up alto- gether too much of the presidential sym- phony. ——__2-¢--______ There are numerous democratic states- men who think that Mr. Whitney is the man for the nomination. The only difficulty is the old one of getting Mr. Whitney to think 80. oe ‘The new branch of the Salvation Army is to have a paper of its own. The esteemed War Cry, however, has not started in to set the competitive pace by reducing its price. — +0 —___ There may have been an idea that the public would be so glad to see any kind of a roof on the post-office that the wooden af- fair would pass unchallenged. —___+ 0+ _-___ Mr. Hanna is now laboring with Indiana, to convince her that when a man expresses a desire to keep out of public life bis wishes ought to be respected. —_____< ee -—___ England can take a look at the results of the Olymple games and cheer up. She Is not the only country that America surpasses in athletic achievement. ——___+ +_-____- ‘The one redeeming feature that Senutor Hill can find in the Raines law is that it may be a good thing for the democratic party. ——__ e ______ The offer of the United States to mediate should be recognized by Spain as a brilliant opportunity to back out gracefully. ———~+++___ The spring season has been conspicuously distinguished by the pathos of the unrolled Easter egg. —_~++ ___ Mr. Harrison cares not who may clutch the political pie so long as he eats the wed- ding cake. > ¢—___— Whaj Mr. Bayard Should Do. From the San Francisco Bulletin. Mr. Bayard remarks that he would talk as evilly about us at home as he would abroad, which may be true, though it would ‘still be in better taste for him to come home and do it. Also, we could reach him more easily. —__+ 2. __— Definition of a Church Fair. From the Lewiston Journal. The heretical Rumford Bice ‘Times’ defi- nition of a church fair: where we spend more than cas afford for coins, we do not want, in order to please Tielp the whom we do not like and to heathen who are happier than so THE WEEK. The House of Representatives adopted the conference report on the Cuban reso- lutions by 244 to 27; there were but ten more votes against the report than against the original House resolutions. After be- ing in retirement for weeks the tariff sil- ver bill was brought forward as a text for @ speech by Mantle of Montana, one of the five republican Senators who voted against considering the tariff bill. The Senate com- mittee on territories authorized a favor- able report on the bill providing for a del- egate in Congress from the territory of Alasks. The House committee on military affairs decided to favorably report the reso- lution reviving the'rank of lieutenant gen- eral. The Rhode Island republican state convention named an uninstructed delega- tion for St. Louis; the sentiment was for Reed. The Oregon republican state ‘con- vention adopted a resolution instructing the delegates to St. Louis for McKinley. The Utah republican state convention declared for free coinage. In a number of the muni- cipal elections in Kansas the republicans defeated the fusion tickets. Ex-President ooo Harrison was married at St. homas’ Church, New York, to Mrs. Mar Lord Dimmick. John Smith, a hired man, confessed to the mur- der of the Stone family in Tall- madge, Ohio. Jackson W. Showalter of New York won the chess championship of the United States by defeating Emil Kem- eny of Philadelpnia. The big ship Blair- mere, while riding at anchor off San Fran- cisco, Cal., capsized in a squall and sunk; six were drowned. The deaths of the week included John A. Cockerill, the journalist, of apoplexy in Cairo, Egypt; Bishop Ryan of Buffalo, N. Y.; Governor Jones of Ne- vada at San Francisco; John Pope, vice president of the American Tobacco Com- pany. Foreign. The expulsion of the Rev. George P. Knapp, the American missionary, from Bitlis, Armenia, is reported to be in line with an agreement entered into between Russia and Turkey to get rid of the Prot- estant and Catholic missionaries, and to Substitute for them priests of the Russian Church; the Turkish minister for foreign affairs admitted that Mr. Knapp was de- tained by the Vali of Diarbekir. The rev- olution continues in Nicaragua, with occa- sional encounters between the insurgents and the government forces. The Spanish government {s making preparations to blockade the coast of Cuba should the in- surgents be recognized as belligerents by the United States. The athletic contests were inaugurated at Athens; the prelimi- nary trials resulted in victories for the American athletes. Prenarations are going on briskly for the campaign in the Soudan; the Khalifa is concentrating his forces at Wady-Halfa. The expedition of the Rus- sian Geographical Society, equipped for the exploration of the Irkutsk region of Siberia, started from St. Petersburg, and will be absent three years. Two battalions of Chinese soldiers, while killing off officers and men of another regiment, were blown into eternity by the explosion of a maga- zine. Count Mattel, the originator of a system of inedical treatment in the devel- opment of homeopathy, died at Bologna. In the District. The District appropriation bill was passed by the House with a clause prohibiting the Payment of any porilon of the sum pro- vided for charity in aid of any institu- tion or society under seciarian or ecclesias- tical control. In the House a resolution to accept the Senate amendment to the free library bill was lost and the bill was sent to corference. Senator McMillan intro- duced a bill in the Senate requiring the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to abolish grade crossings in the city and to elevate its tracks. A joint resolution was adopted by the Senate directing the Secretary of the Treasury to have the roof of the new city post-office building constructed: of the best fire-proof material. Consideration by the Senate District committee of the dollar gas bill was deferred in order to give a hearing Thursday next to Mr. Winship, president of the Georgetown Company. Thomas B. Kalbfus was elected chairman of the democratic central committee. Prom- inent members of the Union Republican Club resigned aud steps were taken to form a new organization. Wesley Hall, a middle-aged colored sho2>maker, was found dead in his room, terribly mutilated; no clew to the perpetrator. Fire from an oil stove broke out in the mail car attached to a cable train while on 15th street, and before the flames could be extinguished the car was nearly consumed. The annual convention of the National League of Mu- siclans was held. The deaths of Mills Dean and A. H. Lowrey occurred. —_-- ++ ____ SHOOTING STARS. A Rarely Accomplished Woman. “Miss (Cayenne is a very bright young a OUIaIE SS he remarked, admiringly. bs “Does she say clever things?” “Better than that. She sees the point | when somebody else says them.” A New “Argument. “That is a beautiful thought,” safd the woman who enjoys poetry. “What's that?” asked her husband. “There are sermons tn stones and books in the running brooks.” “Yes; it’s very nice. But I hope nobody will bring it to Congressman’s Wilter’s at- tention. It will be harder than ever to make him see why this city should have a free library.” The Modern Tug of War. The Athens sportsman sadly mused O’er contests he had lost on; Said he, “It's bad when Greek meets Greek, But it’s worse when Greek meets Boston.” Early ‘by? Nature. “I don’t see what makes people write so much spring poetry before spring really gets here,” said the critical young woman. “That's easily” explained,” replied the young Mr. Snibbs. “When the weather Is raw and cold, and you wish spring would come, it’s easy enough to be joyous and complimentary over it. But when spring really gets here, and strikes you with a hot wave one day and a fog the next, you kind of lose your enthustasm.” An Old Dif Difficulty. “Dey’re makin’ a good deal o’ fuss over this question er reco’nizin’ Cuby,” said Mrs. Corntossel. “Yes,” replied her husband. take a lot o’ trouble.” “Well,” she commented, sententiously, “thet’s the way with gittin’ office. It seems ter make a big difference in some folks’s reco’nizin’ capacity. I've seen men ter’ble perlite while they was runnin’ fur office. An’ when they got ‘lected they couldn't hard’y reco’nize their next o’ kin.” “It seems ter Mutual E Envy. Boy, ke say, “I wisht I was Er raan dat’s done growed-up; Mebbe, den, I'd drive er hoss Er own er yaller pup. I'd stay out late, an’ I'd be free F’um lickin’s when I's bad— Oh, golly! how I'd like ter be Er growed-up man, like dad!” Man, he say, “I wisht I was Er little feller, now. Dah wouldn’ be much mo’ time los’ A-foilerin’ dishere plow. Dah’s no mo’ goin’ on de sly Ter hunt er fish er swim. Oh, golly! how I wish dat I Wus Pickaninny Jim!” —__+ ++ —_____. Mussachusetts’ Town Libraries, From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. The growth of town libraries, an en- tirely modern institution, and best devel- oped in Massachusetts, is very remark- able. The state named has now no less than 329 Kbraries, of which 256 are owned and managed out and out by the respec- tive municipalities; in thirty-six they are represented in the management, and there are twenty others to which town money is appropriated. These depositories of knowl- edge contain now an aggregate of 3,200,- 000 volumes, and their annual circulation shows the surprising figure of over 6,250,- 00, or about three volumes per head per year. This is a great showing, and is one cf the most encouraging signs of the times, keeping full step between book reading and still more important newspaper read- ing witnessed at the same time. The two forms of mental activity supplement each other, and since our salvation in this coun- try is the education a the people, the cee crease in this means !s most encor oe an pou Weltement to other states to follow great example of Massachusetts, ™fs if ing rome at N. Y. Burbank Potatoes 35¢. bu. 25 Ibs. CORN +25c. 12 lbs. Roll 25 4 cans Tomatoes... « »25C. 6 cans COR! eel ar as Best Hams, bound: rte “Perfedita Tea nly 50¢:’ pound. ‘This. superb, tea grows in favor every day) It equals teas sold ‘else wicre at double the price. Its st ptt sre PURITY—STRENGTH ELICIOUS HLAVOK., Only 50c. J. T. D. Pyles, 412 4 . ‘Cor. Ga asa Sd. ave. De. 38 ith st. ne AWasnmngton fod Monroe oe ee -Anncoatia. one @SO8 GOS © Cooks favor “Ceres’? Flour. © “Ceres” Flour is one more than nine hundred and ninety-nine one- thousandths pure. Jt is made of Hard No. 1 Dakota and Minnesota Wheat, and is rich in gluten—the life- giving principle of flour. Don’t accept a sack or barrel. of “Ceres” Flour un- less it contains a cir- cular bearing Wm. M. Galt &- Co’s signature. For making good bread “Ceres” is not equaled by any other Flour. Ask your Grocer for “Cereg’ Flour, and accept no sub- roe Owm. M. Galt & Con By It Wholesaters, Nét nnd Ind. ave. i eeeee se. SSSSSOSSSSO SOSCOSHSSSHSSSSSHS9SHO SOO ES goa peneennaseesnenenceossseeeee Beosanesesses You'll N Need New Matting- i As soon as the house has been y put in spick and span order. We've anticipated your wants / admirably by gathering in all the best and most attractive ¥ Matting creation: We've priced them astonishingly low, too. Here’s an idea: Splendid. Guallty $3. 75. Matting, in neat Brey patteran, special per Foll--eash’ or ciedit. ( Cash prices and credit prices are the seme here. You're welcome to all she; Furnfture you need, and as much thue as you want to pay for it in. _RUDDEN’S . Credit House, 513 7th St. apll-50d = PAREN ANTE EN TROT = EAOLD = 196 Ibs. make g 300 Ibs. Best Bread. 4 + —who has recently been married and is housekeep- ing? You can do her no greater favor than to tell her of the matchless excel- lence of Cream Blend —the brand that NEVER FAILS to make choicest Bread, Rolls, Biscuits, Cake and Pastry and MORE OF IT than any other. “Cream Blend” yields 300 1-Ib. loaves to the barrel, or nearly } MORE than others— therefore the cheapest in “the end. All “live"<grocers sell it. Any groc can get it within a/few hours. Ask | for “Cream. Blend” next time and! accept no substi- tute. | + 3¢ B. Earrishaw & Bro., Wholesale Flopr and, Feed Dealers, 1105-1107-1109-11TIF STREET S.E. 1t AND 1000-1992 M, STRHET 8. poe ES eT = KRH KEK KH HHH HEH HK HEH HEH RH HEH HHH HE w 2 H EI F Fl Hi iz oer NONE BUT GENUINE MITHFIELD: HAMS i £ 9 at Bryan’s. Real TODD'S SMITHFIELD HAMS. We buy ours direct. ‘Take no chances of getting substitutes. There're lots of them. You can readily avold them by buying here. ‘We have these peerless hams—and other well-krown brands—at prices consistent with their quality, 1413 New York Avenue. ROOERIES, WINES, &C. aplt-s,t,th,28 NNN “Eucalyptine’’ Should Be home. It makes the redd rh 7 soft and white, One ee Wounds of ali kinds. Free from grease. 250. bottle. At all druggists. Evans’ Drug ° Store, e938 F St, WHOLESALE AN! apii-84- ii At the Palais Royal. Surplus Spring Stocks 25° for 50c Serges. 2,250 vards Warranted All-wool Serges of quality made to retail at 50c yard—25c is less than cost of manufacture. E7Note the shades to select from:—Marine and army blues, reseda green, old rose, cardinal, gar- net, golden brown, bine and jet blacks. 75° for $1.50 Silks. 1,850 yards new Monotone and best printed warp Persian Taffeta Silks, in all the newest effects. G7 Note that the Persian Sitks are not worth more than $1 yard, but also note that the new and beautiful Monotone Silks are selling today In New Yerk at $1.00 yard. Choice for Te yard here 25° ,|\for 50cGrass Linen 1,000 yards of the most beautiful effects in this fashionable fabric, warranted all pure linen, with em- broidered polka dots of colors. U7 And 850 yards of Grass TAnen with stripes aml p fds in self shade. ¢ cents. yard. ¢ of both luts for for 10c Dimities. 4,225 yards 1896 American Dimi- ties, marvelous imitations of the more expensive imported goods. E7Two hundred and forty feet of counter now devoted to Wash Dress Goods—more than in the entire two floors of a store 25x50 feet. : 29° ' for 50c Laces. 1,400 yards Point Lierre and Point Venice Laces, 9 to 12 inches wide. Positively worth 50c to 75¢ yard. Choice for only 2gc yard. [EF These are the most fashionable of Laces, in butter and white. Faultless, excepting some of the 3.500 yards Embroideries, widths 4} to 6 inches. Values, r5¢ to 20c yard. Choice for toc yard. G7 Al! are 1896 desigrs, and no leas than one hundred and eleven different styles are to be shown, in Swiss, cambric and nainsook. 25° for 50c Ribbons. 2,750 yards warranted All-Silk Ribbons. Widths, 4 to 5 inches. Values, 38c to 50c yard. Choice for 25 cents. ©7The lot includes all the most artistic effects and all colora in Dresden and Persian Ribbons, Plaids, Ohecks, Stripes, Fancy and Plain Taffeta 15° for 38c Flowers. 1,200 bunches Flowers, such as heretofore retailed at 25c¢ and 38 cents. Choice for 15¢ bunch. (7The combination includes Flowers of every description; also bunches of foliage, fruit, etc. AN at 15 cents bunch. $7.39 for $5 Yokes. 350 Yokes, Collars and Fronts of jet and colored spangles and beads on net. EFThe above are positively worth from $2.50 to $5 each, and the variety includes over two hun- died different effects in these styllsh garnitures, = . for oc Muslin. 16,000 yards Barker's Mills Bleached Muslin, yard wide. 5¢ in- stead of gc yard. 75 cents yard being less than regular wholesale price the quantity scld each purchaser will be Imnited—to prevent dealers gobbling up the lot. (Continued above.) | The.cold weather in killing the demand for spring goods has created overloaded manufacturers. Arrangements have been conclud- ed whereby many of the surplus stocks are being brought to Washing» ton to retail at less than late wholesale prices. ‘Thus is briefly summarized what will be later quoted as the most remarkable and stupendous sale in the annals of Washington's Dry Goods trade. Some idea of the proportions of the coming sales is here give There are but two other sufficiently large establishments in W. ashing ton where a sale of such magnitude could be possibly conducted, At Wholesale Prices. 2 for 5c Thread. 50,000 Spools Best Soft Finish Sewing Machine Thread. Black and white. All sizes. (7 Bach spool guaranteed fall 200 yards. Dress- makers and dealers supplied at 19 cents per dozen 25° for 50c Scarfs. 250 Warranted Pure Linen Mo- mie Bureau Scarfs, 72 inches long. Stamped in artistic designs and fringed ends. 7 You'll find these Scarfs in Art Dept., ond floor, and also the pure Mnen Tray © drawa work and b. . borders, Choice for 25 160° for 35¢ Hose. 1,250 pairs Ladies’ Silk Finish “Onyx” Black Hose, plain and drop itch, double soles, high spliced on ce rs with 25 cents. These Hose were imported by Messra. Tard & Taylor of New York for Messrs. Ballin & Ranso- hoff of Denver, Col, ‘This firm's mame and address pair of Hose. You nest not be "t sent to Denver. 20° for 50c garments. 2,250 Medium-weight Gossamer Merino Vests and Tants. 26 cents for all sizes. ©The Vests have pearl buttons and are silk Yound; the Drawers are improved shape, assuriag comfort with bi at 3 cents. told why they wer for $1 Skirts. goo best nrade Muslin Skirts, with lace and embroidery trimming, bet- ter than usually used on dollar gar- ments, £779 cents for choice of all styles, Including the Umbrella Skirts with embroidery flounce and those With nine-jpch aide torchom face flounce. se ue for $10 Skirts. 141 Tailor-made Dress Skirts, worth from $5 to $10 each, at only $3.75 for choice. C7 Some of these Skirts are six varda wide, all are best lined and velvet bound. Made of figured amd plain mohair, Sictlian brilltantine, 53 oS for $5 Waists. 43 Dresden Silk Waists, lined and boned. Modeled after the much more expensive imported garments. > All have the correct bishop sleeves, velvet col- lars and cuffs. The silk used is Worth 75 cents Ce 29° for 50c Corsets. 1,000 of the 1896 Improved Ven- tilating Web Corsets, which will never slip or tear. TP They are well boned, on sclenilfic princ supporting the form firmly and graccfally. 17 for 50c Articles. 1,823 pieces, representing the sur- plus stock of one of the leading jew- elry manufacturers of Attleboro’, Mass. GF In the lot are French Gold Plated and Silver Belt Buckles, Sitk Belts with silver buckle: alone worth GO cents, Shirt Waist Sets of rolled ge enamel, pearl, silver and stonine: Sterliug Silver nicure and ‘Tollét Articles, Hat Pins, ete. Chotve for 17 cents. $a,75 for $3.08 Parasols. 321 Dresden Silk, Grass Linen and Chiffon Parasols, with white enamel paragon frames and unusual- ly attractive handles. - OGP7The variety is so extensive that a Parasol may be selected to harmonize with any style and color of costume. (Continued above.) c ol for 49c. Syringes. 850 Improved Fountain Syringes, with patent cut off and three hard rubber tubes. Boxed. EF These are the genuine and tat Fountain Syringus. Guaranteed a new one furntsbed if that selected proves defective. Quart siz Former price. On Monday. for soc Bags. 200 Small Size Imitation Alligator Club or Hand Bags. Nickel trim- mings. Lock and key. Lined. C7 Traveling Bags and Trunks of every deserip- ton at proportivuately low prices. Inquire on base ment floor. $7,98 for $5 Lamps. 36 Banquet Lamps, with improved center draft burner, complete with chinimey and decorated globe. 31 inches high. Weautiful Lamps have vase, foun! brass base aod forsoc Lap Boards. 200 Lap Boards, with measure— the best, scid everywhere at 50 cents each. CF More than ton thousend heen Intetly added to the E bought and to bE WA At Teast p: her articles have sing Dept. ries of many 25° for 50c Rugs. 125 Brusseline Rugs, reversible. New designs and art colors. Size 21x42. £72,000 yards Best Striped Farniiure Linen Sought at low price enables us to charge only $8.08 for cutting and making slip covers for ordinary size suite of five pieces, $798 for $10 Carriages. 25 Baby Carriages of best rattan, with full roll. Latest 1896 design. GT Upholstered in carriage cloth, with Nght ran. ning gear and improved at brake. Lace-tclm- med satin paravel include 19° 9 for Baby’s Cap. 250 beautiful little Caps of figured silk and finest mull, with lace ruche. 1gc for choice. CH Nearly $5,000 worth of Tufanis’ and Childe Dress Requisites for spring wear lave been louh to profitably retail at less than date wholesale 79° for Men’s $1 Garments. 2,500 pieces of Spring-veight Nat- ural and White Wool Shirts and Drawers. All sizes. CF Only 39 for « style Silk Scarfs, two for §1. of 200 dozen new spring fe quality; three instead of & for 50c Novels. 1,523 Copyright Novels of En- glish, French and Russian authors. DFThese are the Ni ratiroad statigners’ and icading cents each. Sunday’s “Post’’ —Will contain fuller details of this i stupendous sale. The Palais Royal, A. LISNER. ... cccamemacwamamncnutauasacesscssevasscesscvensesscecsseeessG and Eleventh Streets,