Evening Star Newspaper, August 30, 1898, Page 6

8 } THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. FUESDAY...........-August 30, 1895. - Editor. CROSBY S. NOYES.....-- THE EVENING STAR has a regular and permanent Familiy Circutation much more than the combined cir- enlation of the other Washington dailies. A» a News and Advertising Medium it has no competitor. [7m order to avoid delays, on ac- count of personal absence, letters to THE STAR should not be addressed to any individual connected with the office, but simply te THE STAR, or to the Editorial or Business Depart- ments, according to tenor or purpoxe. = The War ix Over. Senor Sagasta Is quoted as sayin; “Peace is not signed. Spain is still at war with the United Staies. ‘The two na- tions have merely conciuded a suspeasion of hostilities in order to negotiate peace. These negotiations may be brought to a successful issue, but it might happen that hostilities will be resumed.” This may probably be accepted as another of the Spanish premier’s deliverances in- tended to soothe the whimsical pride of his countrymen. He has a hard task in that, and is entitled to American indul- gence on that score. To subject words ut- tered with such an object in view to a rigidly literal interpretation would hardly be fair or wise. There may, however, crop out at Paris some evidence of misunderstanding of our prompt movement toward a peace basis. The disbandment of so many regiments of our volunteers, and the reduction in size of our auxiliary fleet, may not be under- stood in Spain. It may be assumed that w are tired of the war, or else that our suc- cesses have made us indifferent and good natured about garnering the full fruits of victory, and that the time, therefore, is propitious either for standing up to us stoutly in conference, or cajoling us with ceremony and suavity. But in either assumption Spain would make a great mistake. Men who have no liking for mere garrison duty, and there fore are anxious to return to their homes would remain in the ranks willingly enough at the bare suggestion of a renewa! of hcs- All tilities. were ready for war, though none desired it. All would go to the front with enthusiasm tomorrow. ‘The auxiliary fleet could be readily reassembled. The United States at Paris will be fair, but not indifferent to wha: it has won, or as to its duty to itself in making its win- nings secure. Its first duty is to itself. Spain need not hope to carry any point by finesse, by cajolery, or by bluff. The Amer- ican case is strong and will be in strong hands, as the Spanish representatives will discover. Peace, it is true, is not signed, but the signatures will be forthcoming upon 4 mand. The war is over. The mustering out of American troops has not been becun prematurely. We shall obtain all we desire at Paris without keeping up unduly a@ martial front. We know Spain Spain ought by this time to know us. ————_+ «+ ___ A Rounded. Royal Welcome. The action of the citizens’ committee last night in authorizing the creation of a per. manent, special committee to look after the needy among our returning soldiers, to secur? them employment, and meanwhile to care for their families, broadens the scope of this medium of organized munici- pal activity into the full dimensions etead- testly urged as desirable by The Star. The committee had already decided, wisely in ‘The Star's opinion, that though appointed to arrange for a reception at Washington, its welcome should begin at Montauk Point, ond had supplemented effectively the instrumentalities supplizd by this commun- ity through The Star for caring for the boys at Camp Wikeff. There will now b> nothing spasmodic or delusive in the Dis- trict’s welcome. It was begun at the proper time and place, when the boys st-pped toot (and not so very firm a foot either) on American soil, and it will not end with the medals, the music and the decorations which will appropriately honor our soldiers’ heme-coming. ——_+«-—____ It is declared that W. J. Bryan has been silent simply because he was devoting him- self to his duties as a soldier. To intimate that he refrains from talking because he an think of nothing to say on silver would be absurd. —__++<- —__ There is a disposition to push Theodore Roosevelt into New York politics before he gets his fighting clothes off. —____+«+—_____ Overhead Trolleys in Brooklyn. The consolidation of New York and Brooklyn produced many interesting mix- tures of methods in municipal management, but none more striking than in the matter of the surface streeet railway systems on the two sides of the East river. New York is an anti-trolley city, Brooklyn has always @ wide-open borough in this respect. Like Washington the main city has rigor- excluded the overhead wire from its portation system and one result of this program, maintained with great diffi- culty through a long series of political jobs and powerful pulls in behalf of the trolley, is that New York's surface roads are to- day fairly representative of the best meth- ods in electrical propulsion. The horse cat and the cable have generally given way to the underground electric line and the scoff- ers who formerly derided the idea that a conduit system could succeed are converted to the praise of the system which in Wash- ington has been developed to such a high degree of perfection. Meanwhile Brooklyn's streets have been given over almost without reserve to the overhead wires, and as a result the city is gridironed with tracks, lives have been sacrificed by the score and the city has gained tm consequence a most unsavory reputation. Recently the Brooklyn trolley cars were admitted to the East River t and now run continuously to the ew York side. A few weeks ago applica- tion made by the Brooklyn trolley company for permission to extend the roads already the New York territory, to “relieve the congestion” on the bridge. This insidious suggestion was promptly negatived by the munictpel authorities and thus the trolley Was kept off Manhattan Island. Un- Gaunted, however, the Brooklyn trolley people sought to extend their plant within the Brooklyn limits, and asked for per- mission to transform the Montague street line, which runs for less thin a mile from the heart of the city to the Wall street terry, from cable to overhead electric, to “conform to the already existing trolley system” on the other portions of the con- folidated lines This request has likewise been denied and now there is hope in the breasts of those citizens of the great city who have desired better things than the trolley. It is thought that perhaps with the consolidation of the two cities may come a reform, bringing the Brooklyn traction conditions to the rela- tively high level of those of New York. ‘The New York Tribune recently voiced this hope, suggesting that inasmuch as the Montague street line can not be changed to conform to the rest of the city system the latter may perhaps be altered to con- form to the conduit principle upon which the Montague street road ts operated. The transformation from overhead to under- ground electric would change Brooklyn from a disagreeable, danger us borough in- to one of the most modern of cities and idge was on the bridge to occupy a loop in| would greatly add to the value of the own- | ing company’s franchise. Washington con- templates this prospect with peculiar satis- faction in view of its long and finally suc- | cessful fight for the conduit system of elec-, trical propulsion. It heartily echoes the sentiment of the Tribune when it says: “Years ago the Tribune urged the adop- tion of the underground trolley on all our city railroads. But reilroad men shook their heads. It would be a hazardous ex- periment, they said. It might work, and it ht not. And New York, the greatest, richest, most enterprising city of the great- est, richest, most enterprising nation, was no place for experiments! We then gave them the information which to them must have scemed most startling, that the ex- periment had been made long before in Buda-Pest, and that its result was a con- spicuous and brilliant success. Well, they said, but New York is not Buda-Pest, and what works there might not work here. Our severe winters, with so much snow and ice, would interfere with the operation of such a system. To that we replied that the climate of Buda-Pest is considerably coider and more trying in such respects than that ef New York. So at last they tried it, timorously and tremblingly, on a single avenue. And lo! it worked perfectly; and when a heavy winter storm blocked all other roads, that one went on without trouble. And since then two other big tines in this borough have adopted the system, and two more are at this moment working right and day to do so, and there ts not a read of importance on Manhattan island that is not planning to do it in the near fu- ture. Surely the Brooklyn roads, which have almost always been better equipped and managed than those of Manhattan, will not long lag behind.” +e. Disarmament. Disarmament by all the nations would mean more than the disbandment of armies, the dismantling of ships, the closing of armories and the return of levies to the fields, the factorizs and the offices. These things would in themselves produce marked changes in the world’s economical aspect. They weuld unquestionably add to the world’s output of value and the sum total of human happiness. The process, how- aver, would have to go further than this. Full disarmament means the putting aside of the material instrumentalities for waging war, both directly and indirectly, the scat- tering of establishments where ships, guns, ammunition and other military equipments ar2 created, the destruction of all machines for the production of every form of fighting tool. Otherwise there would still remain, in the place of the actual forces of which the ezar now complains as forming an intoler- able burden upon the peopie, th2 factors for their speedy reassembling. There could be no guarantee t the nation with the strongest fighting force today would not, at any tim: after disarmament, spring for- ward with a relatively equivalent power for campaigning, with as great an advantage over its foes as its powerful equipment to- jay affords. But even with this dispersal of the machinery for making war-waging materials, the chi:f potentialities for re- storing former conditions would remain, the nation’s wealth and population. With money and men in hand the war-making tools are within sight. Time may be required to re- store former conditions, to reassemb!2 scat- tered elements, but with the nations once disarmed the race is to the swift; that is to say, in this connection, the rich, the re- sourc2ful, the populous. The case thus presents a paradox. Di armament becomes palpably impossible. To be effectual it musi be complete, and it cannot, in the nature of things, be com- plete. If there be retained the miiitary rreans of coping effectually with domestic problems—which in the czar’s own case are matters for the deepest thought and the most painstaking precaution—why may not these means be at any time swelled into the proportions required for interna- tional campaigns? The nucleus for the creating of the fighting force, for the re- establishment of old conditions, remains available. No nation will consent to strip itself of every item of defensive power. ‘The fighting is not all between civilized na- tiens. The world is not yet entirely brought up to the standard of Great Brit- ain and that of the ruling classes in Rus- sia. There are millions of savages in many of the world’s yet untilled corners ready and eager for invasions into the alluring fields now guarded by bayonets. With the civilized nations disarmed such disasters would be inevitable. Barbarous hordes would sweep over the borders of the lands and once again the force of num- bers would tell as they did in other times. Civilization is not yet ready thus to trust savagery, to throw into its way @ temptation withdrawn for centuries. Nor are the powers ready themselves to trust each other. The formal disarmament of all the civilized nations would unquestionably be quickly followed by secret preparations for possible war, by the stealthy assem- blage of fighting materials, by the advent of an era of suspicion, double-dealing and deception such as the world, with all its record for mischief, has never before known. Frank preparedness is far better than underhanded armament. The more open the display of force the stronger the guarantee of peace. The czar’s proposal would not lead to disarmament, but to the inauguration of a world-wide system of con- cealed weapons, perhaps as costly as the present method and less effective. The czar’s suggestion may have the prac- tical effect of checking the competitive increase of military expenditures among the European powers, and by calling at- tention forcibly to the burdens of prepara- tion for war, and to the horrors of actual war, it will doubtless have a wholesome though limited influence in promoting the werld’s peace. ————_ + + + ___ ‘There are indications that the men who overcame the temptation to go to the Klon- cik2 this year will be rewarded with some cool weather of their own in the course of time. ¢ > oe _____ General Miles and General Shafter may be obligzd to organize some sort of a board to determine who was really the greatest gen- eral in Cuba. —_—_+ «+ —______ if Mr. Platt fails to manage Governor Black's case Mr. Croker will do what he can to make a nzat job of it. —~+ ++ —___. Spanish Talk in Havana. ‘They are naturally very much concerned in Havana about the turn the new order of things for Cuba is likely to take. Spanish power and prejudice center there, and find expression through the Havana press. When La Lucka, therefore, a representa- tive newspaper of the city, Ciscusses the subject, its utterances may be accepted as embodying distinctively the Spanish view. La Lucha yesterday, in an editorial, ex- pressed this opinion: “There are four solutions of the problem —iudependence, annexation, a Spanish pro- tectorate or an American protectorate. As fer an American protectorate, it would be the most servike and humilieting form of government that could possibly be offered to an enlightened race. Hitherco protecto- Tates have only been Imposed upon bar- barous or semi-savage people, who have been deciared incapable of governing them- selves. A protectorate for Cuba, which for the last thirty years has roached a stand- ard of culture equal to that reached by any civilized country in Eurepe or America, would practically declare her so far infe- rior, morally, mentally and socially, to her constantly cherished hopez and ambitions that annexation or a continuan-e of self- rule under Spanish guardianship, akin to us in race and sentiment, would be infin- itely preferable.” This is pathetically cloudy, and shows that the Spaniards in Cuba who ure think- ing of remaining there have no sort of idea of what the defeat of Spain really means and inevitably must bring about. The question does not turn in any sense on the standard of culture reached by individuals who live in Cuba, That may be as high as THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1898-10 PAGES. . La Lucha fixes it—equal to that attained in Evrope or America. But the fact re- tains that, even with this culture existing, Spanish government in Cuba had grown to be an unbearable abomination. Corruption and oppreesion marked every feature of it. The people of most spirit finally rebelled, fought Spain to a standstill, and the United Etates has entered upon the task of cor- recting the evils, and giving to all the peo- ple of the island a stable and an honest government. That is the whole case up to date. For the future, nothing ts plainer than that Cuba will administer her own affairs after the passicns engendered by the war have subsided, or will become American territory. The talk about “self-rule ainJer Sparish guardianship’—which means, if anything, a government administered by, and, largely, as heretofore, for the benefit of, the Spaniards of wealth in Cuba—te not entitled to serious consideration. No such rule will be possible in the island. The men of property and culture in Cuba, whether Spanish-born or native, will have it in their power greatly to aid in the new work, but only, of course, as they recog- nize the real meaning of what is in store for the island. Mourning for the paet will be idle. An attempt to restore it under a, new name would he futile. Every hinder- ing feature of Spanish rule will disappear with the Spanish fleg. ——- +2 _____ It js a pity the Cuban government has not been able to organize fast enough to allow it to reciprocate by sending supplizs to sick and hurgry American soldiers. “+2 —____ Sir Thomas Lipton’s gift of $10,000 to re- lieve suffering American soldiers shows be- yond doubt that he is the kind of yachts- tran who can los2 gracefully. —___ +e The czar has the dislike for monotony natural to a young man. He would like to see Europe on the verge of peace for a while. ——__ + «= —____ Don Carlos will have to step forward soon unless he desires to be left out gf the pro- grem. —> + >—_____ SHOOTING STARS. Very Discouraging. “Did you hear of the czar’s proposal to disarm Europe?” inquired the officer. “Yes,” answered Admiral Camara with emotion. “It does seem that this fleet of mine has got to be destroyed somehow or Unselfish. The man who loves to hear his voice Much generosity reveals. He won't be happy till he'll make Some busy friend a task forsake To share the pleasure that he feels. A Politician’s Indorsement. “I never uscd to think much of these household hints, remarked Senator Sorg- hum. “I guess it’s because I failed to read them carefully and thoughtfully. “What has caused you to change your mind?” “One little paragraph, which shows more knowledge of serious affairs than I would have given a household-hinter credit for. It ys that whitewashing often assists ma- terially in making the surroundings more healthful and comfortable.” Appreciated Facilities. “They talk about America b2ing a new country, and all that sort of thing,” said the European novelist, after his lecture teur. “But I must confess that it has re- scurces for enjoyment which our own coun- try has not afforded in such abundance. Of course, 1 speak only from my own ex- perience “To what pursuits de you refer?” “Well, for instance, counting hundred-dol- lar bills.”” Easily Explained. “Spain hasn’t much of a litzrature,” said the studious young woman. “Of course it hasn’t,”” answered the young man who was doing his best to keep up with the conversational cavalcade. ‘Those peoplé have such a queer way of talking, you know, I don’t see how they could get up much of anything except dialect sicries.”” The No combatants. A resting spell approaches now; see the end at last. ve put the laurel on the brow Of each brave man who passed. We've watched the grim events that stalkad And feared what came behind, And each has paid, or cheered, or talked, According to his kind. Through pages, marching day and night, We've traced the army's ways, And falt2red, sometimes, in the fight With x's, g’s and j's. ‘These ills, with heavier woes are gone, ‘And now each thankful chap May lay aside his lexicon And put away the map. oe The Czar's Proposal. From the Brooklyn Eagle. Muravieff’s letter will take place in his- tory. Half a year ago it would have pro- foundly stirred the United States. Even now a response to it might have ceme in ro questionable shape had the acceptance of our protocol signalized the end of whole- sale butchery in battle. There were, it is true, heavy losses on the Spanish side, but compared with the carnage incidental to cther wars, the death roll was phenom- enally small. Never before, perhaps, have two nations come into collision with less sacrifice of life. It may be that what hap- pened at Santiago and Manila shocked the ezar, but perhaps he has never read the story of Plevna, to,say nothing of the Mos- lem’s march into Thessaly. His bid for universal peace comes just when a signifi- cant handwriting begins to be discernible en the wall. Last year nothing seemed to be easier, than a combination by which every move that England made could be answered by a stronger covntermove. This year the Angio-Saxon on this side of the Atlantic has made a bid for his ocean in- heritance. The growing amity between the two countries has been described as having its origin in a common nationality, com- mon forms of government, common cul- ture, common history, a common religion, in so far as religion stands for the same basis of morality, and common interests. With an understanding more or less com- plete. would come such unity of purpose as would not cnly check the diversion of Chi- nese trade, open outlets leading from rather than to St. Petersburg, a consum- mation not devoutly to be wished in Rus- sia. Not on the threshold are we likely to be stopped. Without war if possible, but with it if not ctherwise, must come fair play in the race—no favoritism, an equal chance with and for all. If the ezar is sin- cere, if the keiser wants war no more, if France has had enough of fight, wil! they agree. as a preliminary to universal peace, to cpen the eastern coors to all comers without discrimination and to keep them open? With that agreement as a basis, perhaps the ttme may come when the com- mon serse of most shall hold a fretful world in awe, and the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in untversal law. ——— + ++ —___ The Evening Paper for News. From the Elmira Gazette. The world is awake in the daytime. It goes to sleep at night. Its events occur in the daylight hours. The telegraph has an- nihilated space. The news is flashed over the country in a second. It happens, there- fore, that the evening journalists get the cream of the news. The alert correspond- ents of the press associations, ever present, gather it as it occurs. The wires convey it everywhere instantly. The evening papers resent a summary of the day’s doings. ie morning papers become merely. late editions of the evening papers. The up-to-date reader therefore buys an evening paper. He does rot wait until the next morning for the news any more than he waits until the next morning for his supper. ————_++s—____ A Probable Failure. From the Kansas City Journal. It is entirely probable that the attempt to out a worse than Gen. Weyler. ee ee Crocker's, 939 Pa. ave. Btore cooled by electric fans. Coolest store in the city. 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Ave. } Seeded detected F = =] Any one who has a poor memory * * Needonly seeour huge elec- tric sign to instantly recall the fact that we upholster and recover Furniture—re- make Mattresses and store Household Effects in absolutely fireproof rooms. Carpets Cleaned. Made fresh and bright as new without least injury to colors or fabric. Wagons call. {7The public cordially invited to call and inspect our plant. 7 Stumph Bedding Co., 7th and K Sts. ee Carpet Cleaning Works.) Only $2... Qts. HHH HH HR HE HHH xe * * * OF fue a Claret as eyer left As 01 California. We buy in bulk and delicious |} bottle th Mite: other “for only $3.28 claret || 5.20% warts. “Burgundy,” $3.50, doz. ate. W. B. Hoover, 1417 N. Y. Ave. Fine Groceries, Wines. etc. au30-t,th,s-14 Cream Blend Is the flour that makes BETTER bread = and MORE bread than any other brand. See that your ocer sends) = “Cream ao every time you or- er. : ' Woodward Lothrop, toth, 11th and F Sts. N. W. . Today and tomorrow we close at five. Beginning Thursday, September 1, store will be open till six. It’s an ° SPRING Economical ° Thing For you to keep track of the doings here. Some of the best bargains we oiter are just at this time—between seasons—when, in our determination to clear out everything which savors a bit of summer, preparatory to the receipt of fall goods, price reduc- tions are made all along the line. Notable among the offerings for to- morrow are the following: Infants’ Outfits, Or Layettes. We show them in all grades and in any number of pieces desired, from those composed of dainty im- ported goods, exquisitely made by hand, down to those without a bit of extravagance in them. As special values we offer the following: 18=piece Outfit for $7.00. Consisting of 4 Night Dresses, 4 Day Dresses, 3 Flannel Skirts, 2 Shirts, 2 Knit Bands, 2 pairs Hand-crocheted Worsted Bootees, 1 Hand-crocheted Worsted Sacque. 22-piece Outfit for $11.50. Consisting of 4 Night Dresses, 4 Day Dresses, 2 Flannel Night ts, 2 Flannel Day Skirts, 2 Nainsook Skirts, 2 Shirts, 2 Bands, 3 pairs Hand- crocheted Worsted Bootees, 1 Hand-crocheted Worsted Sacque. Second, floor. Specials in Boys’ Separate Pants. One lot of Boys’ All-wool Pants, sewed with silk, fine quality, well made and perfect fitting, sizes 4 to 15. 75¢c. a pair. Worth $1.00 and $1.25. 200 pairs Boys’ Wool Pants, fancy mixed cheviots and navy blues, sizes 2} to 15. 48c. a pair. Worth 69c. and 89c. ‘Third floor, Special in [en’s White Shirts. We shall put on sale tomorrow another 20 dozen Men’s Unlaunder- ed White Cotton Shirts, linen hosoms with slight defects in bosoms, sizes 14 to 17,°inclusive. 25c. each. Regular value 50c. Shoe : Depart ment Is now located on third floor, ad- joining Women’s Ready-to-wear Outer Garments, thus affording im- proved ventilation and light, and better facilities generally. To ac- quaint you with the new quarters we offer the following special value: Sample line of Women’s Fall Vici Kid Button Boots, hand and Goodyear sewed welt, all style toes. Sizes 3% and 4 B and C. $3.00 a pair. Regular $4.00 and $5.00 value. Third floor. Special in Telescope Cases. One lot Heavy Canvas Telescope Cases, leather corners, leather han- dle riveted, 3 heavy leather straps. 18-inch 20-inch 22-inch 85c. $1.15 $1.40 24-inch 26-inch “$1.65 — $2.00° Fourth floor. The Arnold Steam Sterilizer Is the most perfect machine yet known for sterilizing or Pasteurizing milk for infants and invalids. Rec- ommended and prescribed by lead- ing physicians and used in labora- tories in the leading hospitals and universities of America. We have just received a shipment of these sterilizers, each neatly packed in a small wooden case, which we offer at $3.00 each. Fifth floor. Standard Lawn [lowers. You can’t keep a lawn at its best if you don’t take it in time. We are offering our Standard Lawn Mow- ers at prices heretofore impossible for such a high-grade machine. These mowers are simple in con- struction, light running, self sharpen- ing to a large extent and easily ad- justed. 12-inch 14-inch 16-inch Fifth floor, for 35c. pint.) The same Bay Rum ) you've always paid 5oc. {) pint for. It’s a special for < this week, and we've cut 2 the price to g 20c.% pint. 35c. pint. ) WILLIAIIS’ ’ Temple Drug Store, ° Cor. 9th and F Sts. 4 Lansburgh & Bro. Extraordinary Inducements In our Boys’ Clothing Department. All our Wash Suits aftd Pants must go regardless of valuations. We will not carry one, as the prices will quickly move them. 59c. and 65c. Cassifmere Pants, 49c. Gray Cassimere All-wool Blouse Suits, sizes 3 to 8. $3.00 value. To close, $1.90. 6 Fine Pique Suits, in white and brown, sizes 3 to 7. $6.00 value. To close, $3.00. 9g Fine Mohair Suits, in blue, white and tan. $11.00 value. To close, $5.00. A line of best quality Boys’ Blue Denim Overalls. 24c. each. Butchers’, Waiters’ and Barbers’ Gowns and Coats. Blue and White Plaid Duck Butchers’ Gowns. $1.75 value. Reduced to $1.25. Waiters’ White Jean Coats Reduced to 49c. Rarbers’ White Duck Coats Reduced to 98c. These goods 3d floor. LANSBURCH & BRO.,| 420,422, 424, 426 7TH ST. *Soedonsmesoetonioeseetonioetnese SS Hecht & Company A final cut in boys’ wash : suits. Nine out of ten stores be- fore they would cut the bal- ance of the boys’ summer wash suits as we have would pack them away till next sea- son, and then put them in with the newer effects and you'd never know that they sSeadeateetententeateeteatenteaseesent riseetenteatenters Soaheapeatontontees £ wereoldstyles. Ratherthando 5A that we have cut the prices so = that you will take them away - because you will consider it a % sheer disregard of economy+ 5 not to do so. For instance: : 49 cents —tor your choice of any boys’ wash $ sallor blouse suit ir the house, which sold up to $1.75, and that includes some “handsome gulatea cloths, elaborately = trimmed with braid, which sbould never % be sold for £0 little. : —for your choice of any of the boys’ high art seflor blovse wash suits, which sold for as high as $2.98 the first of the season. This includes all the novelties, the finest suits. Ducks, crashes, linens, galatea cloths, ete. sSeaSoasresessenfonioaseeseaseasreseeseceaseesreseete Hecht & Company, It 515 Seventh Street. Cook With GAS. OTTER, quicker, better and cheaper. More convenient. Free from ashes, dirt, soot, trouble or worry. Tinest Gas Stoves and Hanges at bottom prices. oe ee ee ee oe oe oe ee oe ee Gas Appliance Exchange, 1424 New York Avenue. 0n80-28d Last Chance At These Carpets. Winding the last of this lot of ow. ‘They'll all be gone this a5 Valvet Oarpetn. nn : Axminsters. It’s the Regular fe BAY RUM ; We Are Selling » = heavier textiles of winter. 1 Palais Royal, >A. LISNEI -G and Eleventh Sts. <3 Palais Royal. What lady doesn't love a bargain! Black Figured Mohairs. (On Second floor.) Mohair is a compromise fabric. Sort of an jn termediary between thin, summery materials and Fine surfaced, they have all the effect of silk—with none of the tendeney to crease and spot. GSe velues—10 styles, in dots. figures and bay- adere novelty effects: wide .... mee f $2.50 Satine | $1.79 Silkoline | Comforts. Comforts. Filled with best | Fall size for @on- | white cotton — Best | ble bed—sheet cotton | quality covers. filling. $1.98. $1.39. China Silks. (On Second fivor.) Plain China Stiks—27 inches wide—very desir- able for shirt waists—cark shades, in blue, green, trown end red—light shed.«, blue, 33c yd. pink, niie, orange and Invender. 50 quolity $1.39 Blankets. | $2.98 Spreads. English — fleeced Real Marseflles full 11-4 size, fancy | extra envy. Pall borders, size—ready for use. "98. | S198. School Dress Goods. (On Second floor.) {0c quality Mixed Cheviots and Fi and Checks—40 wide—and ju withstand the “ of school weer. surprising how it co buy your dress- coe Platds to hes $3 Umbrellas. Twill «ilk—only a few colors left—Dres. den and fancy wood handles, | $1.77. Muslin Underwear. (On First floor.) for the prettiest Ine of $1.00 Garments— ADC ihe art ever fash cede tale Gowns, Skirts, Drawers w and embroidery trimmed. SQc “ves you the choice of garments worth every part of $1.50. You never saw the lke before here—or elsewhere—Gowns, Skirts, Drawers and Corset Covers —pl BOc_ 10" choice of finest that ever was shown at $2.08 Suy—there are speciale—an beyond this sale, ntifully trimmed. slime eodless to duplicated toc. Writin 74¢. Celluloid Paper. Trays. 24 sheets Paper and | Pink, blue, white 24 Envelopes — good cream wore stock, | 3I4c¢ box. and derk green, with scalloped edges | 39c. Ladies’ Silk Underwear. (On First floor.) 35c quality All-silk Ribbed Vests. with Jace work over-shoulders—full regular made—in blue, pink and cream. covers func for the waist bell 98c set. just proper Silk blouse imi hand- dered tation of made kind. 12'4c each. in the Hosiery and Underwear (On First floor.) Oc Good things—that you seed now. Were priced up to 8c. Ladies’ and Children’s Swiss Riybed Vests, low neck—some ari ¢ trimmed. Led'es’ Fast Black Ribbed Hose, Children’s Ribbed Hose, tM black tan, and othe lots of exceptional valves. Trish Point Curtains. | Nottingham | Curtains. | | j | from the Ribbons. ‘The choice shades end colors in All-silk Moire and Taffeta Ribbon: inches wide. Worth 25e. Price them where you <<a 19¢ yd. Soap. | Pocket Books. | 10c cake “Bay Chote ny Boe Rum” Toflet Soap— | Pocket in the pure and refresbing. house. 4c cake. | Housefurnishings. (Basement.) G Pigmy == ACh For choice of hundreds of necessaries for thy home —on which—many savings can be madex Full-size 3-string Corn Brooms. Solid Steel Fry Pans. 4-qt. Sevcepans, with stiff handle. Galvanized Water Basin—large size. 1-gallon Of Cans. Sugar Canister, japanned, holds 7 Ibs 4-qt. Coffee Pots. Single-burner Gas Steve. 16-inch Japanned Tee Tray, with gold borden Decorated Cream Piteber. Odd line of Carlsbad China—Breakfast, Dinner, Tea and Soup Plates. These are only a few of the many good itemg on our Te table. Palais Royal, (A. LISNER.. G and Eleventh Sts. Ty Palais Royal.