Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1896, Page 4

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. = SATURDAY.........September 12, 1886. ‘CROSBY 5. NOYES... THE EVENING STAR has a regular and permanent Family Circulation much more than three times as large ton. As a News and Advertising Medium it has no competitor. Im order to jd delays, on ac- count of personal absence, letters to THE STAR should not be addressed to any individual connected with the office, but stmply to THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Bustnesxs Depart- ments, according to tenor or purpose. THE STAR BY MAIL. ‘The Star will be mailed to any address in the United States or Canada if ordered at this office in person or by letter or posta! card. Persons leaving the city for any period vhould remember this. Terms: 13 cents per week; 25 cents for two weeks, or 50 cents per month. Invariably in advance Subscribers changing their address from one Post-office to another should give the lest address as well as the new one. Evading the Garbage Contract. It is a strange fact that those who derive the most benefit from the munic!pal con- tract system produce the strongest testi- mony adverse to their own interests. This truth is once more made plain; this time by the story, published in today’s i ie of The Star, which tells us how the city’s garbage is collected and disposed of. If contractors would only do all the things they promise to do when they agree to specifications and affix thelr autographs* to contracts, the public would have less reason for com- plaint, but when all danger of competition is past ft Is the almost invariable custom ef contractors to be as evasive as possible and to take every advantage of those whom they pledge themselves to serve. The garbage contractor with whom the people of Washington have to deal collects the garbage faithfully not so much because he is lawfully required to do so but because failure to collect would result in many complaints and many fines for neglect. Close attention to collection 1s therefore profitable. But there is more of leeway as to disposal Incineration is the method called for by the contract. There has been ample time in which to provide the neces- sary mechanism, but from one cause and another there has been so much of delay that only a single crematory is in opera- tion instead of the two or three that are really needed if cremation is to be the method. One of the consequences is that the contractor, with the consent of the Commissioners, ships the great bulk of his collections down the Potomac in scows, and receives for that crude and unsatis- factory service the largely increased ap- propriation which would, it was supposed, substitute incineration for the slovenly and anti-hygienic scow method. It used to cost about $24,000 a year to collect garbage and float it down the river; the contractor now gets $57,000 a year for doing practically that same thing. Not satisfied, however, with a tremendous increase in his Profits, the contractor seeks to add still more to his net income by dumping garbage in the river, or else selling it as fertilizer to farmers living within the District bound- aries, from which the contractor is paid to remove all refuse. The health officer is on record as saying that all garbage not de- stroyed at the crematory should be carried beyond the District line for deposit. That it Is not so carried is shown conclusively by The Star. What has the contractor to Say about this prccedure? What will the health officer and the Commissioners do about it? ———_+e+____ Early-Closing is Profitable. It ought not to be difficult at this day for any thoughful employer to figure out the benefits that will surely accrue from liber- ality as to the early-closing movement. Just now the shoe clerks are petitioning fer such consideration as has been shown others whose duties are similar, but who are engaged in clothing-stores and like es- tablishments the doors of which are shut to the public at an hour that permits the escape of the clerks in season to partici- pate in the evening pleasures enjoyed by the multitude. Early closing is no longer @ philanthropic experiment. In England first, and later in the United States, it has blished itself as the author of busi- ness conditions much more desirable than any that preceded it. From the standpoint of the most selfish employer there is noth- ing discommoding or unprofitable in early closing. The shortening of the day of la- bor must mean a reduction of operating expenses, while at the same time it stim- ulates the employe to do in ten hours what has generally heen spread out over a much longer period. The practical effect of the movement, so far as the employer is con- cerned, is profitable condensation of busi- ness. In the pleasure extracted from the hours redeemed from toil the employer and the employe both share. Both are the bet- ter for the rest and both return to their respective posts with more cheerfulness and alacrity than can possibly be developed by store-keeping which commences at 7 or 8 a.m. and continues until 7 or 8 or 9 p.m. The patronizing public can make early- closing easy and certain by being thoughful enough to do its shopping before 6 o'clock. An employer will not keep his store oper: after he knows that his customers have gone home. ——_ + +2 —____ An cgept of the Humane Society yester- @ay caused the arrest of the driver of a horse which had a sore back. This was ® praiseworthy act and no doubt caused a temporary flutter of happiness to the poor old herse. The flutter did net last long. how the animal having been taken from the hands of its cruel owner was backed up in front of a police station and in the burning sun for ten hours. Driven by its owner when its back was core, left In the sun by a beneficent police force and entirely neglected in the important matter of food and water by the Humane Society, the horse might well ask to be delivered from its friends. —_ +02 —__ ‘The prophets are inclining toward the opinion that Corbett will fight Fitzsim- mons at about the same time that Wash- ington wins the baseball pennant. —— «+ — Smith ws. Smith. The intelligence that Mr. Hoke Smith Will go upon the stump in Georgia creates ne liveliest interest here, coth in adminis- tration and republican circles. How will he attempt to justify the position he has taken? To what extent will he discuss the Chicago platform? To what extent can he discuss it without covering himself with confusion? He cannot champion free coinage, because only a few months ago he stumped the state in favcr of sound mency. Smith versus Smith might enter- tain the audience at Smith's expenz He cannot refer to the plank about govern- ent by Injunction, to that condemning the civil service law, or to that about the bond Issues, without denouncing them or ac- cepting their denunciation of himself. Is there anything left him but to indulge in a rattling arraignment of the republican Pariy on general principles? The old Imwyer’s advice to the young one was that when the law and the facts were against him to abuse the other side. Mr. Smith is a -Jewyer, and a good one. The hope is however, that he will not pro- ceed on that line. If he does, it will dis- appoint a great many people. Something specific, and definite and to the point ts expected of him, and if he meets this ex- pectation he will probably develop into a card in the campaign second in drawing power only to Mr. Bryan himself. Georgia m those circumstances will not be permit- ted to monopolize him. Other states will demand to hear him, and the democratic committee, in response to whose request he is now taking the field, will be glad to widen the scope of his usefulness. Curiosity in this matter fixes upon this point. The administration confronted the necessity of choosing between the Chicago ticket and a course which would indirectly aid the St. Louis ticket. Mr. Smith came out for the Chicago ticket, while the Presti- dent and his other advisers pronounced against the ticket. Mr. Smith proclaimed it to be the democratle ticket; the Presi- dent and the other members of the cabinet denied this. Wherevpon Mr. Smith re- signed. What are the full particulars? How does Mr. Smith reason it all out? The Presi- dent and his friends hold that in their stan: they are not only supporting the true democracy, but the integrity of their owi official performances. And Mr. Smith shares in responsibility for those @erform- ances equally with them. As a member of the cabinet, he participated in the councils that shaped those performances. Yet he has deserted his colleagues, and is going on the stump to aid those whose appeals for support are based upon denunciation of the administration. This is what the friends of the administration, including the Presider are utterly umabie to understand. Mr. Smith may, by a frank and full dis- cussion of matters, give some pointers to those subordinate federal officials who are on the stump supporting Mr. Bryan. Their position is not so difficult as his, but it ts unusual enough to attract attention. Friends of the administration believe that some of those officials are figuring on mar- tyrdom; that they are going through the Ajax manual of defying the lightning. Many administration supporters hope that the lightning will not condescend to strike. ———_ee —___ Mr. Harmon's Letter. It was natural that Attorney General Harmon, the law officer of the administra- tion, should, in dealing with the Chicago platform, address himself to that plank embouying the most specifically a legal proposition. In his letter, which appears in print today, Mr. Harmon exami as a lawyer, not as a party man, or ca! idate tor office, the power of the general govern- ment to interfere in local affairs in cases analagous to the Debs strike. ‘The task was not difficult, but Mr. Harmon congratulated upon the perfect suc which he has acquitted himself of it. Other men of eminence have touched upon the same point, but none more clearly or effe ively. The citing of Senator Daniel against him- self in the premises is clever and thor- cughly deserved. The reolution introduced by Mr. Daniel in the Senate indorsing the President's action in moving the maiis of the United States at the time Mr. Debs and his lieutenants had thrust themselves acruss the way is quoted in tuli. Mr. Harmoa dces not go into the whole record. But tie record is within any man’s reach, and .t skows that not only did Mr. Daniel take that st&nd, but every soutnern Senator now standing on a platform condtmning the President in that matter was in nis com- pany. General Gordon of Georgia, now on the stump for the Chicago platform, deliv- ered a speech on that occasion so fervent in praise of the President's orders, and so conclusive of his right and duty to issue them, that the rules of the chamber were violated and the crowded galleries as weil as Senators on the floor applauded the sen- uments to the echo. It was a great day for the Senate, and a great day for the south. “Here,” it was insisted, “let no more be said about sec- tional and ante-bellum constructions of state rights. When a democratic President, elected by the aid of all the southern states, interprets the powers of the general gov- ernment in the preservation of order in the seme spirit as that which animated Mr. Lincoln when confronted with the same problem in @ graver form,.and the south indcrses and applauds him for it, national unity upon the principles established by the war cannot longer be questioned.” Mr. Daniel and his friends, therefore, in condemning the President, condemn them- selves. With nothing to explain the change of front on their part but the temptations of vote-seeking m a day of much unrest, they are asking the country to believe that what the President did then, and what they approved, was unwarranted by law and wrong in itself. In all this era of lightning changes, recantations, and ground and lofty tembling, this, in the flowery language of the poet, quite takes the cake. ——_ «+ The Alaska Lesson. Preparatory to the rush for Alaska, in the early springtime, many newspapers uttered warnings which, had they been heeded, would have averted untold suffering. The latest advices from our far northwest are tost distressing. Hundreds of Americans whose desire for wealth overpowered their judgment are now stranded along the coast and praying that the government transport them back to Portland or San Francisco, whence tramping wil! be possible. Alaska’s winter is near at hand. To chose residents who have ample supplies of the things necessary to make life possible it has no charms. To those who are in poverty—and there are many such—the future is as gloomy and horribie as it could possibly be. It is likely that the general government will practically be competied to assist the unfortunates although the individuals alone are responsible for the distre: tions in which they now fi ‘hat the lesson taught by this misery will be heeded is not at all probabie. Man, the most intelligent of all animals, rarely profits by the experience of his feliows. ———— Unless Senator Hill reaches a decision very soon, the people who would enroll themselves under his leadership will have their minds made up too firmiy to allow him to take any credit as a persuader. ee ee It is possible that the French Academy has contrebuted more to Zola’s fame by its persistence in keeping him out than it would have besiuwed by admitzing him. ——_+e= What's the matter with having both the ball game and Mr. Bryan at the National Park next Saturday? Start the game early and Jet the candidate talk between innings. ——— +2 ___ ‘The redeeming feature of the bank fail- ure at New Orleans is that it does not ap- pear :o be ‘n any legitimate manner avail- able as campaign material. ———— + +e —____ Gen. Weylgr is no doubt pained to note the unwillingness of Europe to maintain @ non-interference policy with reference to the sultan. —— Mr. Bryan may be great, but he is not all-powerful. When he collides with a baseball game he must inevitably succumb. — «+. Bourke Cockran makes no admission to the effect that he is invading the enemy’s territory when he goes to speak In Chicago. ——_- + += —__. The same old one hundred and twenty- five men are said to be at work today on the new city post-office building. ——__ + ++ —____ Secretary Francis brings a new touch of enthusiasm to the devotion of the cabinet to the President. * Democratic Candidate Bryan returned to Lincoln,-Neb., from his eastern. trip and, after a few. days’ rest, left for a tour through south. Letters of acceptance by -Bryan, the democratic candidate, for President, and Hobart, the republican can- didate for Vice President, were published. Major McKinley, the republican candidate, Was vistted by many delegattons, who dis- played much enthusiasm. The new United States torpedo boat, which will be known as Number 6, was successfully launched at the Herreshoffs’ works. Li Hung Chang left the United States and-was delivered by General Ruger to his dominton hosts. Re- turns from the Arkansas election show that the democratic majority on the atate ticket may reach 65,000. The sixth district republican congressional convention at Oakland, Md., adjourned, without making a nomination, to meet at Rockville on Sep- tember 17. The Sons of Veterans’ encamp- ment was held at Louisville, Ky. John Mulliken was shot and killed near Centre- ville, Queen Anne county, Md., by his sev- cnteen-year-old son Percival, who was de- fending his mother. The eastbound fast freight train was wrecked near Blooming- ten, W. Va.; one man was killed and sev- eral injured; twenty-one cars were de- stroyed. The steamer Laurada, suspected of being used for Cuban filibustering pur-F Poses, was boarded by customs officers in the Delaware river and investigation made and the vessel detained. Perry’s Victory Day was celebrated at Cleveland, Ohio. The deaths of the week included: James Lewis, a notel actor; Professor Francis J. Child, Ph.D., LL.D., of. Harvard University; Dr. Edgar Chancellor of the University of Vir- sinia; Rey. William M. Swindells, a_promi- nent Methodist minister, and ex-Senator Henry B. Payne of Ohio. Foreign. The situation at Constantinople has be- come critical; owing to the determined at- titude adopted by England since the death of Lobanoff, the Russian minister of for- eign affairs, it is believed that the deposi- tion of the sultan fs not unlikely, One hundred and fitty people were injured in a tornado that swept over Paris. A rumor was received in Rome from Kassala that Khalifa Abdullahi, leader of the dervishes and ruler of the Soudan, was dead. All of the troops of the British-Egyptian Nile ex- pedition are now approaching Dongola, near which the dervishes are encamped. It is reported from Zanzibar that It is the intention of the German authorities to re- instate Khalld on the throne as sultan, from which he was deposed by force of British arms. Serious rioting occurred at the elections at Barcelona, Spain; returns indicate a large ministerial majority. The twenty-ninth annual trades union congress of Great Britain was held in Edinburgh with 260 delegates in attendance. Emperor William reviewed the army maneuvers at Gorlitz; the czar and czarina were the guests of the kaiser at the review, Prof, Grunert fell from a glacier on the Alps and was killed. Prof. Luigi Palmieri, a cele- brated Italian meteorologist, is dead. In the District. After four postponements, the trial of the men accused of conducting gambling es- tablishmenis in Alexandria county, Va., set for Tuesday, September 15. Labor day was appropriately observed by the workirgmen of the District d% Columbia upward of two thousand appear- ju u parade and great crowds visited the various river resorts on picnics and ex- cursions. Plans were considered for the of Presidential Canaidate Bryan to city, which will probably take place ptember 1%. The rifle team of the Dis- t National Guard returned from Sea Girt, N. J., having there won anew the Hilton trophy and the big international championship: the marksmen were recelv- ed by the local militiamen with appropriate honors. The corner stone of Trinity M. E. Church, at the corner of 5th and C streets southeast, was .Iaid Wednesday. Louis Gebicke, assistant leader and business man- ager of ‘the United States Marine Band, who had been missing since September 3, was found dead Thursday on the banks of the canal near the Conduit road, about five miles from the city; there were no evi- dences of suicide. Melton Phillips, colored, was kitled Monday night in a cutting af- fray in Phillips’ court, and Daniel Gray, also colored, was held for the homicide. Among the deaths of the week was that of Dr. G. Brown Goode, director in chief of the Natioral Museum and assistant secre- tary of the Smithsonian Institution. SHOOTING STARS.. Not to Be Thwarted. “What's this!” the sultan shouted. “Do they propcse to interfere with my killing a few people whenever I feel like it?” “That seems to be the idea, sire,” said his prime minister. “Humph. I'll circumvent their impu- derce.” ‘In what way, sire?’ “I'll abdicate and get a job runfing a trolley car in Brooklyn.” a A Discrepancy. The contrasts that we daily see Are startlingly immense; The man who talks so light and free Of “billions” and “finance” is he Whc borrcws twenty cents. Resentment. “I just hope we will have a change of ad- ministration,” she said, as she handed her letter to the post office clerk to be weighed. “Don't you agree with its position in firance? “I don’t know anything about that. But I do know that tne government is a mean old thing.” “In what respect?” “In keeping prices up so. It’s got a mo- popoly, and it’s teking advantage of It. Everything you can think of, from bicycles to cotton thread, has been on the bargain counter, except postage stamps.” Judiciousty Dated. “"Rastus Pinkley wants ter jine de chu'ch,”’ said the deacon to one of. the lead- ing members. “Whut dces yoh fink "bout lettin’ "Im in?” “He shoh'ly hab been er objeck er s'picion roun’ dis neighborhood.” “Does yer fink he re'ly means ter re- fchm?” “Er good deal ‘pends on de temptations er man's subjected to. Ez long ez ‘Rastus wah careful ter wait tell aftah de watah million season’s over ter file ‘is application, i dunno but whut we might gib ‘Im er chance.” A Redeeming Trait. “I dunno ez the prodigal son was so very bad, after all,” said Mrs. Corntossel. “He wan't ro gocd to his family,” her husband rejoined. “That's a fact. But when he got home he didn’t hev no more ter say. Ef he'd been like most o’ the men folks now-a-days the fust thing he'd of done would of been to find fault with the way the fatted calf was cooked.” The Band Wagon, It used ter be @ circus day ez filled iay boyish breast Weth scch rare an’ glitterin’ fancies thet I fairly couldn't rest. I'd wake myself up laughin’ in the middle of the night At the clown thet sot so comic on the pony, black an’ white. A-standin’ in the village like a statue I hev staid A-waitin’ an’ a-waitin’ fur ter view the big parade. An’ the elfin lights were twinklin’ an’ the fairy music flowed Ez the big band wagon rolled along the road. And, boy er man, it's much the same, the way our longin’s drift; * We caw’t cure all our follies when time flies so dreadful swift. And I find myself a-glowin’ from my feet clear to my crown When I see the preparations fur a "lection up ter town. 2 Ah, the blowin’ of the trumpets an’ the rattle of the drum!— How they thrill weth strains of promise’ when the politicians come. And we look fur the most gorgeous exhibi- * tien ever showed Es the big band wagon rolls road. “OPENING”. 1896-’97 Dress Goods. “The Palais Royal purposely comes last with its “Opening” of the new season’s dress fabrics. We'll not indulge in self-praise, but merely request you te decide where is the best collection. For those in doubt as to the latest received from the leading authorities styles we have fashion plates just of Paris, Berlin, London, and the goods depicted are on the shelves and counters of this great second floor, where comfortable seats, ample room and tell-tale light make shopping both instructive and pleasing. 80c for $1 Dress Goods. Asa souvenir of the Silk-and-wool and All-silk instead of $1 yard. “Opening,’’ the All=-wool, Dress Goods are to be 89c The variety includes the all-wool and silk and wool novelties in rough effects, some of which you'll notice elsewhere at $1.19 a yard. Among the silks are the new effects known as Damasse and Moire Antique. at 89c instead of $1 a yard. The New Stock. The wool and silk and wool fabrics in colors, include the following, which are here in no less than 439 different effects: id At $1.68 yard. 7The 54-inch Mluminated English Kersey Suit- ings. Same goods with fancy name are elsewhe-e at $2 yard, ~ $1.50, $1.68, $1.89. G7 42 and 45-inch Silk and Wool Matalesse, which you may have noticed advertised at higher prices and termed exclusive novelties. Sultings. Will not sumples prove to you where are least prices for these supetb fabrics? $1, $1.25, $1.50, $2.50. C7 Broadcloths—and note that even those at $1 a yard are thoroughly sponged, coming in forty-two correct autumn shades. $1 and $1.25. [742-1nch Silk and Wool Epingle. You'll be shown Identical goods under a fancy name—at faney prices. st. At $1 yard. G7 424in. Boucle Cloths and > ty Jacquards, in beautiful effects of black and hellotrope, green and black, golden brown ck—only 8c on Monday. a os) At 75c, $1, $125. O7H-inch Fancy Cheviots and the attractive Etamine Cloth. Bewildering variety in this lot alone. At 75¢ yard. C7424n@i Boucle and Friese Sultings, Also new and benutifel effects in Silk and Wool Plakis and Cher. © 396, 50c, 68e. 1740, @ and 45-inch Suk and Wool Fffects in Highfeod hed French Pluids. Styles for ladies’, misses’ and children’s wear. -- >, 25¢, 39¢, 50¢. ‘All-wool Cheviots, fancy mixtures, checks and strips. Only too good ‘mftations ef the more expensive Yabric, £5) “Gee above for the new Silks.) All The New Silks. The correct 1896-97 Silks and Velvets for costumes, waists, capes and trimmings await your inspec- tion. At $1.68 yard. S7Tiosel Brocades—for the to-be fashionable Bolero Jackets and Vesta. The effects are gold and Diack, silver and black, silver and green, silver and golden brown, $1 and $1.25. © Moire Velour Silks, the correct dress trimming and newest for waists. The autumn shades are dablia, golden brown, garnets, myrtle, At $1.25 yard. (7The n-w Damasse Taffeta and other fancy weaves of Dress Trimming Silk: At $1.68 yard. G7The most beautiful of the new silks—the Raye Ombre Jacquards. Words will fail to express their beauty. They must be seen. The Black Silks. (759 yd. in Monday's “Opening Price” of the new 75c Figured Taffeta Silks. At 75¢ yard. E7T5e yd. is Monday's price for the new $1 Fancy Armure Silks. At $1 to $3. €7$1, $1.25, $1.50, $1.68, $2, $2.48 and $3 yard for the new Motre Velour and Moire Antique Silks. The New Velvets. C7 Black Velvets for Dress Trimmings, Millinery, Capes ond Waists, 15 and 19 inches wide, at $1, $1.25, $1.50, $2 nnd $2.50 yard; 20 inches at $3 yard; 32 Inckes at $2, $2.50 and $3.68 yard. 7 Colored Velvets, 18, 19 and 20 inches, at $1, $1.25, $1.50. $2 and $2.50 yard. Silk-like Velutina. {7 The newest is Velutina Cord for Shirt Walsts, Biack, golden brown, myrtle, mavy biue the colors, $1.25 the price. 735¢, $1, $1.25. Or Velutina in black and 75 shades, including all the correct street and evening effects for autumu- winter wear. t The Importance of Linings. Trashy Linings make’a. perfect fitting dress an impossibility—and yet trashy linings fiood the market. Few merchants can resist the big profits these linings bring. The Palais Royal shall attract you—if only for its linings. Call us what you like—smart or foolish—but we count cn catching you for dress goods because you will buy linings here with every confidence, and pay much less the best. Best Linings. Rustle Percalives.... -120, 15¢, 200, 25¢. Soft Finish Percalines. 12¢, 15e, 2e, We. Silesia ... 10e, 12e, 15¢, 18¢, 2c, 25e. Fancy Silesia 2c, 15e, 2e, Be, Linen Canvas. . 16, 20¢, Be. Fancy Satine, blac 15e, 20, Be. Haircloth, genuine Frencl Moreen, for skigiing.. Laces = = Laces are to be very much used, hence the enormous stock now here. Only space to tell you of the “spe- cials’"—the not-to-be repeated bar- gains—the broken sets, etc., secured of the importers at half prices and less. At 48c strip. Makers’ Sample Strips of 4% to 5 yards. Vaiues are 15¢ to 25c yard. We isk only 48¢ for a strip of 4% to S yards. At 48c yard. * {7 Liven Batiste Insertion Laces, 2 to 414 Inches wide. Best of the best. Twenty-five styles. Some are guaranteed worth $2 yard. 39c to $1.98. [7Cape Laces, in heavy silk embroidered pat- terns, 9 to 12 Inches wide. Some are positively worth $3.98 and $4.50 yard. Yours fot $1.98, 98¢, Tbe, 68c, 49¢ and 390 yard. g8c to $2.98. [The new Pompadour Ruches for the Neck are 28c, $1.35, $1.48 and up to $2.98 yard. For capes are Ruches of Chiffon, Chiffonette, Net, Bib- von and Gauze, $1.10. to $2.98 yard, (See above for Ribbons.) 4 for them than generally asked for For “Opening.” On Monday all 12c Linings will be gc yard, all 15c Linings are to be Itc yard, all 25c Linings for only 1gc yard. Remember, no trash at any price, at any time. All Linings guaranteed best, now and always. = Ribbons. The Palais Royal is first with the latest of the imported novelties: S-inch Taffeta Ribbons, with fan center and inch-wide satin edge each side, S-inch Plain ‘Taffeta, ard. ith '2-inch Roman border one side and nariow ‘black satin border on other side, 79 yard. 5-inch Moire Taffeta, all shades, with half-inch black satin edge on both sides, 68¢ yard. At Half Prices. Regular patrons look for the an- nouncement of our annual sale of best ribbons, the “seconds” of which are secured from the maker at half prices and passed on to our trade. 7 Regular patrons know of our Best Double-face tin, Moire, Satin and Gros Grain and Taffet: bons, and know the regular prices. Note the Width. Regular. Special. ce Sis 35 ie ac are . chee 1 .. B35 72 ae 5 Bh... 5 {Ses Some PLS {Note that these ribbons are sold subject fects—but note that an inch of defect in a ten- yard length makes “seconds” of the whole piece. 9c for 68¢ Undergarments. We know this—that this new autumn underwear at 68 cents equals regular stock previously sold here at 75 cents. 49 cents is Monday's special price to quickly introduce the new stock to great numbers— therefore the special price and the rule that not more than two garments of a kind be allowed each purchaser. The Gowns. Empire Style, with embroidery yoke, cambric ruffle on the deep collar and big sleeves. Sizes 14 to 18. The Skirts. Chemise and Skirt combined. ‘Trimming of Valen- clennes lace insertion and edge. The Drawers. ‘Thirty inches wide. Six-inch embroidery ruffle, with cluster of five tucks above. French yoke band. Corset Covers. Frereh cambric. French shape. Ve neck, lace and embroldéry trimming. See page 7 of Sunday’s “Post” for Housefurnishings. The Pala is Royal, — A. Lisner - = + = « = = = » Gand uth Sts, *—to pay for THREE- * FOURTHS of a loaf of * bread when the same * money will buya WHOLE * loaf? There’s no economy * in that. There IS economy * in buying Cream Blendy Flour. It yields 300 1-pound loaves of bread to 196 pounds of flour—nearly one-fourth MORE than other brands. It NEV FAILS to make the CHOICEST Bread, Rolls, Biscuits, Cake and Pastry. CF Insist on having “Cream Blend” always. Your grocer will supply you * Af you specify it. Earnshaw & Bro., } Wholesalers, 1105-1107-1109 17H ST. $B it AXD 1000-1002 M_ ST. SE. DQ ~~ <a iB ©7 Heurich’s Beer ts PUL | Ee si ees 5 Your Ice-box | Should Have. —a few bottles of Heurich’s [ Beer always in it. Then — you're sure of having the! beer properly cooled—and |+ at hand wherever you wish |- a cooling, refreshing bever- = age. | Heurich’s | —is particularly suited for home consumption because it’s ABSOLUTELY PURE. Two kinds — “Maerzen,” dark—and “Ex- tra Pale,” light. A case— 2 doz. bottles—of your fav orite, or a dozen of each— for $1.25. i Arlington Bottling Co., 27th & K.! CHAS. JACOBSEN, Prop. "Phone 634. It MONTH SPECIALS. Just look over these Housefurnish- ing “Specials” we've selected for Mon- day, Tuesday and Wednesday's selling. ‘They tell of big savings that can only be made here: Bed Roum Outfit. Chamber Suite, 3 pieces, an- tigue iinish, bevel mirror, for. 1.00 Large Hair Mettrese......... $0.00 Woven Wire Springs......... $1.50 $18.50 Rug Reductions. Ps 4 72 in. 2 ema iy Same style Rug, size 30x60 in. ‘as $6. Now. aS x48 in. Was $4.50. $2.75 Wilton Rug, Zis5t In Was #4. Now... $2.50 ini = $3.50 Emblematic Axmiuster Rug, 27x54 in. Was $6. Now.. $3.00 Closing Out Carpets. We're closing out a lot of splendid Carpets at prives that are simply tounding. WASH. B. WILLIASIS Cor. 7th & D Sts. It SISOSIS SSIES SSS SSS SS OHOSOOES If we're undersold we're undervalued. A Penny Saved i is oftentimes dollars lost. It size 19OOOS OCR dcesn’t pay to pay too little for anything—-especially Fur- niture—Carpets — Draperies —that are in constant use. There must be quality—or there can be no satisfaction— and quality costs fair prices— like our prices. 3W. H. Hoeke,,| FURY ITURE, CARPETS, DRAPERIES, 3 3 It Pa. Ave. and 8th Street. ps Sesesesooesesesescesesssess Painless Extracting Loe ears O0C- SE Oat town, ratienta supplied with artificial @ “Dental Ass n "nl, U. S. Cor. 7th & D Sts. aul2?-40,tf Painless Very best teeth, $8. sell-10 / Eansburgh’s low prices are | the cause of the crowds that daily encircle their wonderful , Dress Goods Department. Storm Serge. This fabric needs no intro- duction, its virtues are too ) well known. This popular ma- terial makes a good every- day or shopping gown. The leading colors are black and navy. As a special we offer an All-wool Extra-weight Serge, ~ in navy, at 33¢c. YARD. Broadcloths. We notice a remarkable pop- ularity for Broadcloths. Th + material gives entire satisfac- tion in wear. The French and German makes are particularly commendable for fine wear. We carry every conceivable color. As a big special we offer an All-wool Cloth, full 54 inches wide, all colors, at 39e. YARD. Sponging done gratis. Covert Cloth. i From all indications this ma- terial is sure of having another successful season during the coming fall and winter. It has had years of undoubted popu- larity, and the fact only in- creases the appetite of the fair sex for more gowns of the same material. The home manufacturers are presenting | some beautifully _ finished goods, which makes them very attractive for tailor-made gowns and for wheel wear. All the conventional colors. As a special we will offer an At Covert Cloth, in all colors, = 54 inches wide, worth $1.00, at : 75sec. YARD. Piaids. Quite a demand has sprung up recently for plaids of yari- ous descriptions. It is very probable that the demand wiil increase to larger proportions, and it will go in the direction of bright colors. They are = now worn very ensively for | waists and children’s school = dresses. See the beautiful line = of Bright Plaids we're offer at z : : : 2 25¢. YARD. Changeable Po lin. Here you have beauty and durability combined. © This fabric comes in all the newest changeable effects, and will be- yond all doubt be a leader for some time to come. They are now ail the rage in Paris and London. 46 inches wide. $1.50 YARD. German Tweeds. The great importations of this beautiful material clearly indicate that it will be the lead- ing fabric among the fashion- able materials for the coming season. We show this lovely fabric in all autumn colors, 48 inches wide. $1.50 YARD. Mohair Arabesque. This is an entirely new con- ceit in Colored Dress Goods: is of French manufacture; has a ground work of poplin, with Arabesque figures of mohair yarn. Makes a very swell gown. All colors. 42 inches wide. $1.50 YARD. : - Mohair Jacquard. Another novelty in dress goods. This is our own im- portation, and like their com- = panion stuffs are positively ex- = clusive. One of the iatest color combinations in this line is amethyst and black. This color is now in popular favor in Paris. 46 inches wide. $1.00 YARD. If you want to have a rare treat and have a true concep- tion of all that’s new and styl- ish in dress wear come to us, we'll show vou the most Exquisite ‘Creations, The most : Exclusive Novelties 3 And the most Sought for in Black Goods. Order by mail if you live out of the city. | ' LANSBURGH & BRO, "420=422-424-426 7th St. 1t etx ee z vA 7 j 4 See peeereeuy ‘If We Repair :Your FURS You may rest assured the work will be done correctly. All the men who attend to this branch of our business have, dove ucthing ele for sears ‘Thes*re_ accustomed to handling val- furs. Do all work here—so there's Qo danger of losing furs. (7 Stylish garments made of oid 4 $ = 4 ae FUR CO., COR. 13TH AND G STS. sel2-s,t,th,28 DRUUAUAANAA10 009920 ET OES i g