Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. llth 8t., by Star Newspaper Company, AUFSMANN, Pres't. Ofics, 49 Potter Building. The Eveni SH. K New The Even: city by carr per week, écunter 2 cents each. ‘By 7 nited States or Canada—postage prepaid—60 cents per month. Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with n postage added, $3.00. red et the Post Orth at Washington, D. C., just be paid in advance. de known on applica: French China Decorated Pin Trays. Worth $1. Now 690¢. French China Decorated Ring Trees. Now $1.40 Ev Se le of the Sweeping Reductions on the Everett Stock! Wise Christmas shoppers are availing themselves of the wonderfully low prices which prevail during this assignee sale. “verything is included in the sacrifice selling — prices have been ruthlessly cut—the one object of the sale is to clear out everything as promptly as possible. The sooner you get here the better your chance at the bargains. Part 2. 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Py ° 3 . ° eeeee ‘shai and | system ola oa Doll-w,f,ma,17, Box Couches are represent ‘stock at prices that are bound to leane yomt led Box price acceptable gifts. cre- 35 oughton ©- 1214 F St. 8CROI POISON, CAN pa ey — ee as anal cured and all taint eliminated from the S&. 8. S., the greatest purifier, (re del0-: ISSUED AN ADDRESS Closing the Business of the Auti- Saloon League. ee CALL FOR UNITED LABOR The Revised List of the National Directors. THE DIFFERENT BODIES The meeting of the first anniversary con- vention of the American Anti-Saloon League, which was in session for three days at Calvary Baptist Sunday school house, 8th street. near H northwest, closed late yesterday afternoon. After the close of The Star’s report of the proceedings of the convention, Mr. BH. A. Morse resigred as treasurer for the en- suing year, and Mr. John W. Cummings of New York was elected to fill the vacancy. An address to the religious, temperance and reform people of America was adopted by an unanimous vote. The paper is as follows: “Tha American Anti-Saloon League in annual convention assembled invites your earnest co-operation in ‘an aggressive cam- paign against the saloon and the liquor traffig during the ensuing year. “Public sentiment has already condemn- ed the saloon as an enemy to the country, its institutions and people. “Statistics regarding crime, lunacy and pauperism all reveal the startling fact that the liquor traffic is the one potent agent in their behalf. Every department of our life, whether religious, social or civic, has felt the blighting and corrupting influences cf this gigantic and organized vil. S “We, therefore, believe that the highest and best needs of the country demand the overthrow of the traffic and the annihila- tion of the saloon system. “To this end we appeal for the co-opera- tion of all religious, patriotic and refor loving people in the use of such omni- partisan and interdenominational methods as will most speedily produce the needed Its. . f wecPresident Price of this organization in his annual address has said: “The American Anti-Saloon League has for its immediate object only one thing, to wit, the utter destruction of the open grog shops; and to ald in this very important and worthy enterprise all sects, all creeds and all cl es are cordially invited and « arnestly S0- nd a helping hand. See ae nistaee of the world in all ages is full of incontestible evidence to prove that a divided attack never did, and by no pos- sibility ever can, succeed against a united defense. What we need and what we must have if we hope for success is unity of pur- pose and concert of action. “Public opinion is ripe for aggressive ac- tion, and with the methods of this league properly followed, this great question of reform can be speedily forced upon the thought of this nation as its most import- ant Issue. “There is need of action, not so much to prove the self-evident facts of existing evils, as to accuse the Christian and pa- triotic conscience of the people, so that the individual will feel it a part of his duty to assist in the eradication of these evils. “We ask that the churches of America and every religious, reform and social or- ganization shall sustain such relations with this movement that by agitation and con- tinued education they may usher in a new era of sobriety and righteousness, when the saloon shall be driven from the land. “We call upon the awakened citizenship of the land to double their efforts for ad- vanced temperance legislation and the bet- ter enforcement of existing laws. “We urge the righteous voter everywhere to emphasize his better ideas upon his party caucus and convention, that right policies may prevajh and good men be nominated and elected to office. “For these ends and along these lines, that the land may be saved from peril, our homes be rescued, our sons and daughters saved, to all that is best in the republic we issue this call to arms, and pledge an unceasing warfare against the saloon, until in all this fair land not a single dram shop shall be left to menace our people.” Revised List. Secretary Ewin announced the revised list of the board of directors for the ensu- ing year, which will be composed of the following members: Templars of Honor and Temperance, D. B. Bailey, Appleton, Wis.: Congregational Church of Ohio, Rey. Dr. Brand, Oberlin, Ohio; Congressional Tem- perance Society, Nelson Dingley, jr., Wash- ington, D.C.; Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip, Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis, Wash- ington, D. C.; Templars of Honor and Tem- perance, Grand Temple of New York, Azro Goff, Washington, D.C.; General Synod, Evangelical Luthern Church, Rev.Dr.Ham_ ma, Philadelphia; permanent committee on temperance, Presbyterian Church of United States of America, Rev. Dr. Hill, Pittsburg: West Virginia Conference M. ©. Church, Rev. F. N. Lynch, Huntington, W. V; Councils for Suppression of Sin, Rev. Will. jam H. McDougal, Clarendon, Cal.; I. 0. G. T., Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, A. C. Rankin, Aralon, Pa.; West Virginia Con- ference Epworth League, M. Church, A. B. Rohrbaugh, Belington, W.Va.; Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Rev. Dr. Thompson, Dayton, Ohio; Christian Di nomination, Rev. Frank 'G. Tyrrell, St. Louis, Mo.; Massachusetts Christian’ E1 deavor nion, F. W. Walsh, jr., Bosto: Woman's Temperance Committee of P2 sylvania Synod Presbyterian . Chu Miss Ellen M. Watscn, Pittsburg, Western Yearly Meeting of Friend 8. E. Nicholson, Kokomo, Ind.; New land Conference M. E Church, Rev. W. E. Dwight, Melrose, Mass.; Synod of South Dakota, Rev. A. T. Wolff, D. D.; Grand Lodge of Virginia, I. O. G. T. Geo. W. Hawxhurst, Falls Church, Va.; Virginia Anti-Saloon League, Rev.’ J. L. Spencer, M Nottoway, Va.; Ohio Conference E. Church, Rev. J. C. Jackson, D. D., C lumbus, Ohio; Independent Order of Rech- abites, District Tent, A. K. Belt, Washing- ton, D. C.; Non-Partisan W. C. T. U. of Maine, Mrs. Cc, Paul, Fort Fairfield; Central New York Conference M.E.Churc! Rev. James H. Zartman, Solway, N. Y. Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends, Jos. J. Janney, Baltimore, Md.; Ohio Epworth League, Prof. O. A. Wright, Delaware, Ohio; Maryland State Temperance Al- liance, Prof. J. K. Taylor, Baltimore, Md Virginia W. C. U., Mrs. Mary 8. Wil- liams, Alexandria, Va.; North Carolina W. Cc. T. U., Rev. J. W. Lee, Greensboro, C.; Keystons League of Christian F: United Evangelical Swengel; P » Mr. Eng- vor, F. U. Maryland Branch’ Y. P. C. U., United Brethren in Christ, Rev. J. E. Fout, Church, Rev. Washington, D. C.; Ohio Conference United Brethren Church, Rev. M. R. Drury, D.D., Dayton, Ohio; Maryland Conference, United Brethren Church, Rev. J. Spangler, Hagerstown, Md.: Colorado W. C. T..U.; Mrs. James B. Belford, Denver, Col.: Dis- trict of Columbia Christian Endeavor Union, W. H. Pennell, Washington, D. C.; Young People’s Christian Endeavor Union of Pennsylvania, United Brethren Church, Rey. I. H. Albright, Ph. D., Doylestown, Pa.; Clarion Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church, Rev. 8. B. Robinson, Clarion, Pa.; Columbia Baptist Association, BOL. Whitman, D. D., LL. D., WashMgton, D. C.; Northern Ohio Conference M.E. Church, Rev. A. E. Winter, D. D.; Grand Division, Sons of Temperance, District of Columbia, F. M. Bradley, Washington, D. C.; Mary- land W. C. T. U., Mrs. Alice Robinson, Mount Washington. Md.: Iowa Confer- ence, United Brethren Church, Rev. L. Bookwalter, D. D., Toledo, Iowa; Upper Towa Conference M. E. Church, Rev. 8. N. Fellows, D. D., Fayette, Iowa; Western B.C . Crea: D. D., Win: pel Mission Union, N ngton, D. C.; Indian fission Confer M. E. Ch South, Rev. J. Thompson, Talequah, Indian Territot Maryland Synod of the I Church, Rev. Dr. G. W. Miller, Baltimore Erie Annual Conference M. E. Rev. J. N. Fradenburg; Mlinois League, L. S. Crosby, Chicago, Ill.; Witt berg Synod Evangelical Lutheran Chur Rev. Edwin C. Dinwiddie; United Presby terian Synod of New York, Rev. J. H. Leiper, Philadelphia, Pa.; illinois Confer- ence M. E. Church, Rev. Thomas J. Wheat, Mattoon, Ill; United States Christian Com~ mission, Rev. John O. Foster, Montclair, N. J.; District of Columbia Grand Lodge, I. O. G. T., A. N. Canfield, Washington, D. C. Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends, Rev Alfred Brown, Charlottesville, {nd.; Na tional Keeley League, Col. .N. A. Reed, Chi- cago, Ill.; Anti-Saloon League of South Da. kota, Rev. W. H. Thrall, Huron, S. D. Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance of Maryland, Robert T. Smith, Baltimore, d.; District of Columbia W. C. T. U., Mrs. Clinton Smith, Washington, D. C.; Balti- more Conference M. E. Church, Rev. C. W. Baldwin, Washington, D. C.; Southwest Missouri Conference M. E. Church South, Rev. W. B. Palmore, St. Louis, Mo.; Anti- Saloon League of the District of Columbia, Col. John F, Vinal, Washington, D. C.; Connecticut Temperance Union, Rev. Jo- seph H. James, Rockville, Conn.; Northern Georgia Conference A. M. E. Church, Rev. R. D. Stinson, A. M., Atlanta, Ga.; Pena- sylvania Anti-Saloon League, Rev. B. L. Conrad, D. D., Philadelphia, Pa.; Northern New York Conference M. Church, Rev. Charles Sheard, Canton, N. Y.; Central Union Mission of the District of Columbia, . LL. Swartwout, Washington, D. C.; Fourth General Conference District Ep- worth League, Rev. I. L. Thomas, D. D., Washington, D. C.; Cumberland Pri terian Synod of Illindls, Rev. M. B. Irwin, Taylorville, Ill.; Virginia Conference M. E. Church, Rev. S. P. Shipman, Falls Church, Va.; South Dakota Conference M. E. Church, Rev. J. O. Dobson, D. D., Sioux Falls, S. D.; Ohio Ant!-Saloon League, R. R. Bane, Columbus, Ohio; Michigan Anti- Saloon League, Mr. W. R. Fo: and Rapids, Mich.; Non-Partisan W. C. T. U. of Iowa, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster; Cincinnati Se G ference M. E. Church, Rev. R. E. i D. D.; Pennsylvania W. C. T. A., Mrs, H. Cc. Campbell, Allegheny, Pa.; Epworth William T. Ha- Womans Na- Ida B. Cole, Sons of Tem- League M. E. Church, Re’ ven, D. D., Brookline, Ma: tional Keeley League, Mr: Chicago, Ill.; Grand Divisio perance of New Jersey, Rev. Albert G. Lawson, D. D., Camden, N. J.; Virginia Conference M. E. Church South, Rev. F. M. Edwards, South Boston, Va.; Central Ohio Conference M. E. Church, Rev. J. M. Mills, Bellefontaine, Ohio; High Tent Independent Order of Rechabites, John R. Mahoney, Washington, D. C.; Massachusetis Total Abstinence Society, E, A. Morse, Canton, Mass.; Universalist General Convention, Sidney Perham, Washington, D. C.; Grand Lodge of Ohio, I. O. G. T., Rev. Harry B. White; General Conference Methodist Epis copal Church, Rev. A. J. Kynett, D. D., LL D., Philadelpiii Pa.; National is) Sons of Temperance, Wm. H. Ars Milford, Pa.; Washington District League, Baltimore Conference Church; Non-Partisan National W e. U., to be selected at eénvention; West Vir- ginia Conference Epworth League Wm. Burdette Matthews, Moundsville, W. Va. > PRESBYTERIAN ALLIAN Tenth Annual Meeting at New York Avenue Church. One of the largest audiences in the his- tory of the organization was present in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church last evening at the terith annual meeting of the Presbyterian AlNance. The work of the past year was reviewed, officers for the ensuing term elected, and an address delivered upon the possibilities of future effort. "The election of officers resulted as fol- lows, most of the old officers being re- elected: President, J. W. Foster; vice pres- idents, William Ballantyne, Charles Lyman and Dr. Daniel McFarlan; secretary, Rev. Adolos Allen; treasurer, C. B. Bailey: di- rectors, Rev. B. F. Bittinger,.Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, Rev. Charles B. Ramsdell, Rev. J. T. Kelly, Noble D. Larner, James B. Lambie, Rev. G. N. Luccock, Rev. T. 8. Hamlin, W. B. Gurley, F. B. Dalrymple, J. R. Meriwether and Rev. W. C. Alexan- der. After devotional exercises, conducted by Rey. Dr. W. C. Alexander, the treasurer's report was read, showing a balance on hand of $212.69. Rev. Adolos Allen, the sec- retary of the board of directors, read the report of the board. ~The report noted the erganization of the Eckington Presbyterian Church September 20, 1896, which is now in charge of its regular pastor, a result made possible, continued the report, by the cup- port given by the members and friends of the alliance. Continuing, the secretary read of the assistanee given the Eastern Presbyterian Church at a critical period in its history. In 1886, it was reported, the Presbyterians had thirteen places of worship, but this number has now been increased to twenvy, not including the colored churches and chapels. The desirability of obtaining building sites in the extreme eastern sec- tion of the city and in Columbia and Wash- ington Heights was urged. It was expected that Rev. Charles A. Dickey, D.D., of Phiiadelphia would be present to deliver the annual address to the alliance, but a telegram was received from him, stating that he was confined to his home by reason of_sickness. Rev. Rr. Wallace Radcliffe, the pastor of the New York Avenue Church, made the address in his stead. He urged greater activity in building up the monuments of the church, and specifically favored the organization and establishment of a deaconess home, which, in his opinion, was specially neces- sary in this city. ———— LILIUOKALANI COMING. ) She Arrived at San Francisco Yester- day From Honolulu. Among the passengers who landed at San Francisco yesterday from the steamer China, from Hawaii,’ was ex-Queen Liliuo- kalani and her attendants. To the reporter, who was admitted to her apartments, Lili- uokalant sald: “I have no informatipn to give in refer- ence to my presence: here. My plans have not yet been fully formulated. I wish to consult with my friend and adviser, Col. ree mieemes and until then I can say noth- ing. “Do you Franciseo?" “No. I shall depart im a few days. I shall probably visit Washington, and may go to London before I return to the island.” “Is it true, as rumored among the pas- sengers on the China, that your mission to Washington is to make a final appeal to President Cleveland fer aid in restoring you to the throne of Hawaii?” “That is a question. I must decline to answer,” she said, smilingly. intend to remain long in San ———+e-.—____ MARIE BARBER! FREE. The Jury Finds Her Not Guilty of Murder. The jury in the case of Marie Barberi, the Italian girl who killed her faithless lover, after deliberating only forty-seven min- utes, yesterday in New York returned a verdict of not guilty. She was subse- quently released from ‘the Tombs prison. Marie worked in a tailor shop when she met Bootblack Cataldo, who promised mar- riage. She left her home for him, but he finally flatly refused to marry her. On the morning of April 26, 1895, as Ca- taldo was is in a saloon, the girl rushed into: the-place with an open Yragor, and, after uttermg a few words of reproach, drew the tagor across his throat, almost sev. hig head’ from his body. She was Recorder Goff, found before of murder and ‘sentenced to death: but public sentiment. was in her favor, and she secured a @ trial, which resulted ip her acquittal. -€ table people inter- ested themselves in her, and she was al.y defended. eS ¢ -very warm and table, trimmed prettily with fur—an elegant gift.......... A BRIGHT OUTLOOK What Has Been ae Reforming the Civil Service. ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT CARL SCHURZ Spoils Politics Beaten in the Recent Election. DANGERS THAT THREATEN At last night’s session of the National Civil Service Reform League in Philadel- phia ex-Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz, president of the league, delivered his annual address. In beginning he referred to the progress of the movement during the year as fol- lows: “The year which has elapsed since our last annual meeting has been one of ex- traordinary prosperity to the cause of civil service reform in various ways. The recent election campaign has served to exhibit in a singularly clear light some of the re markable and beneficial changes which the merit system has wrought in our political life, and to expose in their whole futility | many of the fallacies, deceptions and su- perstitions, which the reform movement has had, and, in some measure, sti!l has to overcome. : “How persistently have the adherents of the spoils system been telling us that the reform of the civil service we proposed was incompatible with democratic institu- tions, because without the organization of regular party troops on the spoils basis, and without the incentive of the spoils of office in prospect it would be impossible to keep alive the popular interest in public affairs! And how completely and conclu- sively has since the introduction of the merit system each successive presidential election refuted that slander character of the American peofte! In no instance, however, has this refutation been more striking than it was in the election just behind us. A campaign more earnest we have never had. The number of citi- zens with whose earnestness the possession QUILTED NULLIFIERS—also in § I ° 48 EMBROIDERED Ready for Xmas for warm he Black New York, Brooklyn, Buffalo « ester were instanced. He continu “Especially gratifying is the triumph re- Roch- cently won by the sturdy mayor of Balt- | more, Mr.Hooper, o' the republican spoil: politicians of that city who had sought turn into a carnival of plunder last year’s victory of the reform moveme; ing the democratic machine. The reform- ers have, indeed, failed to carry a general civil service law through the Maryland legislature, but a constitutional provision, similar to that of New York, is to be voged | upon by the people next year. “Nothing could be more enc: the fact that in several states of individual cities, without waiting tor general acts of legislation, have secured civil service reform by means of amend. ments to their charters. In Louisiana the raging than fe people city of New Orleans has obtained a charter | embodying provisions for the application of strict civil service rules to every mvni- cipal department. In Seattle and Tacoma, the principal cities of the state of Was! ing, in the extreme northwest of the coun- try, similar rules have been placed in the charter by popular vote. Evanston in I- linois has also adopted the merit system by a vote of tne people under the provi- sion of the Illinois state act, thus following | the example of Chicago. In San Francis and Los Angeles, Cal., in Wheeling, V Va.,in Galveston, Tex., in Denver, Col. and in St. Louis, Mo., steps have been taken toward the same end. Dangers Threatening Reform. “The dangers threatening civil service | reform come no longer from oper as: upon the merit system, but from insi: attempts to destroy its substan while preserving its forms. You may hear many ®@ politician who all his life has trained with the old spoils guard now deliver him- self in this wise: ‘Civil service reserm? Certainly. An excellent thin: But it should be practical civil servive reform Examinations? Certainly. But they should be sensible, practical examinations. trouble is, these professional civil reformers do not know how to nu this business. They are mere theo: one-sided, unpractical, unreasonable fara’ ics. In one word, whether they call tnem- selves republicans or democrais, tney are mugwumps. They ought to be reformed themselves. And we can do it. We are the men to give the country t wants. Let us have an opportunity to try our hands at it.’ And with this preface various schemes are proposed that may ap- pear plausible to the unwary. But when ihe Greeks come bearing gifts, it behooves e reform it upon the | Us to keep our eyes open.” President Schurz devoted considerable time to a criticism of pass examinations instead of competitive. he competitive principle,” he said, “I repeat, is the very soul of civil service reform. Without it there can be _no true merit system on a of office or the hope of-spoil had anytning | large scale. Without it every reformatory to do, was no doubt unprecedentedly small. attempt of a general nature will eventual- But I shall hardly be contradicted when I | ly become a sham and result in failure. say that the party most earnest in its work and most active and enthusiastic in its ef- forts was the one which fought without “The corduct of the competitive exami- nations should present every possible guar- antee of impartiality and should, there- any prospect of a partisan victory and into | fore, be independent of the appointing ofti- whose hopes the winning of office or other selfish advantage did not enter in the slightest degree. cers, that is to say, opt of the reach of the pressure of political influence to which the appointing officers are exposed.” This “I am, of ccurse, very far from asserting | Point he dwelt upon at length and said: that civil service reform played an im- portant part in the late campaign us a po- litical issue. The popular mind was ab- “I am, therefore, not going too far when I say that this scheme of transferring, in whole or in part, the management of the sorbed with other things. Lut I do say | examinations from the independent civil that spoils politics suffered a double defeat service boards to the departmenis means in the election: The party to whose cause |a@ deliberate attempt to destroy the sub- and to whose prospects the spoils idea was | Stance of the merit system while preserv- most foreign proved itseif in political ac- tion the most enthusiastic and efilcient, ing some of its forms, and that ‘t has no other purpose than to return to the old while the party which invoked the spoils | spoils practice.” spirit to its aid, found the promise of spoils utterly impotent to avert its dis- comfiture. The President’s Order. “This moral triumph, however, is by no means the only auspicious event upon which we may congratulate ourselves. The hope expressed a year ago that President Cleveland would, as to the extension of the classified service so far as it could be ef- fected by executive action alone, leave to | power. his successors but little to do, has been fully justified. The executive order pro- Work to Be Done. Regarding the work to be done he said: “Of the public servants under the national government who should still be put under civil service rules the minor postmasiers are the mest important class. Of these there are about 67,000. Nothing has done ‘so much to keep the spoils idea alive in the popular mind as the change of the village postmaster with every change of party in Nothing will do more to disinfect the popular mind of the spoils idea than the taking of the village post office out of mulgated by him on May 6, 1896, marks | politics.” one of the greatest and most important cn- In this connection he strongly criticised ward strides in the history of the reform | the opposition by Senator Gorman to Post- movement. This order added to the classi- master General Wilson's plan of reorgan- fied service and subjected to the merit sys- | ization, wkich contemplated the consolida- tem at one stroke of the pen more than 40,- tion of smaller and contiguous post offices 000 places, so that the number of positions | with the free delivery offices in such man- in the national service placed under the | ner that, When such a consolidation has civil service rules, which was 15,000 under | been effected, the smaller office becomes a President Arthur twelve years ago, has | mere station’and its postmaster a superin- now risen to nearly 90,000, while the num- tendent or clerk, as the case may be, and ber of excepted places in the branches of | he is,together with his subordinates, if he the service covered is reduced to less than | has any, brought wi thin the 800. That order provided for promotion | vice. examinations in all the departments. Merit System in Cities. “It is not in the national service alone’ he that we find evidence of gratifying pro- gress. The establishment and maintenance of the merit system in the various state and“municipal governments is next in im- portance.” ‘ 4 | ie | j 1 of Mr. Schurz continued: “The excep-ed list may be still somewhat reduced by classi- the assistant postrias' the dep- and ployes of the District of Columbia may, and should, be brought under civil service rules. Likewise would the two houses Congress do themselves, and by way Sees tention i WOMEN’S FELT OPERAS se slippers pretty shades of Red fur-trimmed with — patent leather backs—suitab! for Cc Xmas gifts. 5 ° MEN'S HIGH MEN’S HIGH GRADE "3 Slippers lined with fine Regular $1.98 Quality kid or chamo! extra quality leather... black or tan Jeath Ask to be shown our elegant line of Skating Shoes. “Tell the conductor to let you off at Stoll’s.” STOLL, 810 Seventh. ,overthrow- | QPrinfers’ In& (fhe fittfe scBoo? master of advertising), saps: Jf 16 cfaimed for fhe Washington Stor, and profaGfp trutGiulfp cfaim:d, iBaf no ofser newspaper in f8e countrp goers info so farge a vereentage of aff fhe Souses toffin a radius of ftventp mifes from fhe office of pufification. i At STOLL’S. | ° Many a pretty, suitable and useful gift ina good shoe store— = in this good shoe store. House Boots—Fur Trimmed Nulli- al fiers—Felt Footwear—all for women. For men S. ppers are 5 most appropriate and welcome. 5 We have just received 500 pairs of Very Fine Patent L g 1 ladies’ petra) we: : = a mine ecer a res th a SI I | Sail sold our price will be....... SS ms ° 7 . $ in Blue round gSc. GRADE REGULAR $2.50 = $1.48 ‘ ' Certainly. You can select your presents no we'll he Ind to store them--and them Christmas eve—or any time yoa say j¢ It isn't the things that GLITTER—that are most appreciated as gifts—get somet iin that is beautiful—and at the same tim serviceal i> and DURABLE. What is 1 sensible and appropriate than a ulce piece of furpiture? You Needn’t Pay For It All at once money —a ss is all we je setually ses. = e net in a hm ment weekly 0: And than Our six big dou Jammed with rlor am Banquet Lamps, ver Reception Chairs, ies’ Dressing Tables, Wetting Desks, rs, And hundreds of other articles suitable for gift-civing. Al carpets made, laid and ined free—no ebarge for the in mutching figures. GROGAN'S MAMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE, 817-819-821-823 Seventh street n.w., Bet. H and I sts. wast 5 : is [t_aeto-ssa DP Not a thing in this Silver Sale will! be sold above cost price] bd This is not a discount sale—nor, °° fact, anything else ts el . ce sale of all the & . ver piecs . except only som $2 EVERYTHING Is OFFERED ** PRICE AND EVEN LES A grand chance for you and coming in the nick of time! ACOBS BROS., Established 1874. 1229 Penna. Ave. ‘no24-3m, 40 ‘ = ployes, excepting, perhaps, the private sec- retaries, under the merit system; nor would the judicial branch be injured in dignity or in comfort by having its employes class- ified too.” Future of the Movement. In conclusion President Schurz said, re- garding the future of reform: “I do 1.0t say that the contest is already ended, but I do say that it is no longer doub:ful. There were nearly two year between Gettysburg and Appomattox. But after Gettysburs, Appomattox was sure to come.