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[OF THE SAME FAITH ae Two Baltimore Conferences to Meet Here Tomorrow, . sie OF INTEREST 10 MEMBERS History of the Organizations and Cause of Separation. ——— es QUESTION OF SLAVERY The two Baltimore conferences of the Methoiist Episcopal Church will assemble in annual ion in this city tomorrow morning, already stated in The Star. ions of each conference will prob- ably occupy one week and will doubtless be ion of rare interest among the ts of Washington and vicinity. vixinal conference, which had grown from the organization of the vas divided in 1857. At that time arranged in eleven large dis- of them lying wholly or partly in the state of Pennsylvania. The confer- ence then numbered chers and had church membership of 3. By the di- East Baltimore conference ermed, embracing the Pennsylvania terrl- padily most valuable for invalids as well as for strong people.” This is the finest breakfast cereal this recommendation has Do not fail to try in which been ¢ it for yourself. tried out. At all first-class grocers, 15 cts. | “[fthey’re Rich’s Shoes || they’re proper.” | Ten-one F—Cor. 10th. | (Entire building.) | ne-Bfty.” Telephone number * As bright and settled |} spring weather seems assured we wish to direct attention to the magnificent display of | s) and Summer Foot- || wear shown at our new and || wonderfully equipped store. || | The exclusiveness of our }| styles is unequaled elsewhere j} in the city, and our fine ap- | pointments are a revelation. |} Never before in the history of | this city have the wearers of || stylish footwear had an op- || portunity to select from so | thorough and tasteful an as-_ || }} sortment, embracing, as it | does. a line of Shoes and Boots for house and outing |} | wear in elegant and exclusive !| designs shown by no other || | store in Washington. We || are especially strong in hand- some styles of Golfing, Rid- ing, Shooting and Sporting I) Shoes for spring and sum- }) mer outings. In addition to | our regular retail stores we | have established a mail order j| department, which will give your orders by mail as prompt attention as would || your personal call. | | B. Rich’s Sons, i High-grade Footwear, Ten-one F—Corner roth. Hi ¥ have one strong purpose ever in action, and that ix that the sick shall have without cost the benefit of the best medical shill and advice that can be obtained.—MUNYON. Tt is not everybody whe needs a doct cure themselves If they only know Just wh dy to take. Munyon's Health’ will give them many valuable hints on this His Sfty-seven remedies will provide the when @ person feels hue, passer sleepless pights, has an ache all over him, be feels that he mest ae a doctor: feels that he wi get well quickly If be had the advice of a skilled physician. Even if there sbould be nothing really serlous the matter with bin, he would like to be told that tn plain terms. There 1s really a lot of comfort in coming out of a doctor's office after having heen toht there ts nothirg In your condition to warrant . Folks can than any medicine feel a Hittle out of over You from lead to toe, Make the most polnstaking dlaxposis, the most care- LL mot ask you a penny for rent retnedy to make will tell yon so frankly. If you do not new! medicine you will be told that, To fact, Munyon’s physielars will do ull in th power to put you on ight read to health, Come atl ace them at any thine; you will always be wel- come. If you have F tory, upper Ma nd and a part of Balti- more city. The tern part of Maryland, including several strong stations in Balti- the District of Columbia and the ry, remained in the Balti- more conference. The Issue of '61. The great crisis which had been approach- ing for years and which led to the with- drawal of the conference from the juris- diction of the Methodist Episcopal Church came to an issue in 1861. Even after the on of 1857 the Baltimore conference occupied a difficult and delicate position. border line between the free holding states. Many of the in Maryland and Virginia ders, but the conference had istry free from all connection It sought to avold any dl- e with that institution ana to carry the Gospel to master and alike. It had frequently, by the resolutions, declared its op- part and particular to the he abolitionists in the north. lly declared that it would m with any ceclestastical at should make non-slaveholding a jon of membership in the church, but tand by and maintain the discipline it had existed from the beginning. At » general conference held in’ Buffalo, N. in May, the blow fell. That body erted a ¥ chapter into the discipline, irtually making the non-holding of slaves tes! hurch membership. It pro- ery “contrary to the laws of God and nature, inconststent with the Gol- and with that rule in our disci- requires all who desire to con- tinue among us to do no harm and avoid evil of every kind.” ‘The Baltimore conference, with hundreds bes i truest members connecied slavery, could not fail to take cogni- Were they to stand vit ps and suffer thomselves to be branded as violators of the laws of God and of their own church? P: f the conference ignant protest ¥ on th lay s heard. Preach- ers and laymen ywhere met together and adopted resolutions appealing to the annual conference to redeem its pledges by withdrawing from the jurisdiction of the general conference that had taken this ac- tion. The Fateful Occasion. Under such conditions the annual confer- ence assembled in Staunton, Va., March 13, 1861. All felt that the issue was now square- ly drawn. A vital principle was at stake. They must either submit to what they con- lered the unconstitutional and oppressive action of the gene conference, or cast off allegiance to that body. Bishop Levi Scott presided. One hundred and twenty- one members answered to their names at the calling of the roll. Men of commanding abili d great force of character were present to lead in the debate which would follow. Dr. John S. Mastin was ed secretary. Early in the day Rev. Norval Wilson presented memorial from a@ convention of I en, held in Baltimore in the preceding ember, relating to the actu of the general conference. This convention was composed of one hundred and eighteen of the most prominent lay- men of the conference. They passed a res- olution asking the conference “to redeem the pledges g! from time to time to our people, and sunder a connection now mere- ly nominal. which Is full of strife, and posi- tively death to all hopes of peace or the advancement of Christianity in our midst.” Other memorials were received and read, and made the order of the day for the next morning at 10 o'clock. At the appointed time the conference proceeded to consider these memorials. The members at once sought to secure all pos- sible light as to the proper interpretation of the new chapter in the discipline. No less than fourteen law questions were propounded to the bishop. He answered them with all the tact of a trained parlia- mentarian. He declared that, in his judg- Ment, there was nothing in the discipline that would prevent the reception of a slaveholder into the church; that would justify the arraignment and expulsion of a slaveholding member, or that would bar the ordination of a traveling or local preacher who was a slaveholder. In an- swer to the question: “Does not the ac- tion of the late general conference on the subject of slavery, as embodied in the new chapter, relate to slavery as ft exists in the Methodist Episcopal Church?” he an- Swered that the new chapter assumed that sla as detined in that chapter, did not exist at all in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Made Their Own Interpretation. The sentiment of the conference concern- ing the action of the general conference was soon very clearly and emphatically expressed. With all due respect for the presiding bishop, they claimed the right to interpret the new chapter for them- selves. They did not believe that the gen- eral conference had denounced and legis- lated against an evil that had no exist- ence, but that {ta action related to the slavery that had existed for generations among the members of the Methodist Epis- On the sixth day of the Ittee of fifteen was ap- into consideration all the to this action of the gen- Two days later they re- On the an emphatic pro- eral conference. ported that they could not agree. morning of the tenth day lest against the new chapter was adopted. In this paper it was said: “We disavow and disapprove the enactment of said gen- eral conference on the subject of slavery and declare herein our purpose to act in the administration of the discipline as though sald action had never beer. passed.” Action was then taken on a proposition, in the form of a preamble and resolution, introduced by Rev. Norval Wilson. After &n explicit statement of the causes that im- pelled them to the separation, they resolv- ed: That we hereby declare that the gen- eral conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held in Buffalo, in May, 1860, by its unconstitutional action has sundered the ecclesiastical relation which has hitherto tism Cure tf you Stun. A free demonstration of Munyon’s Inhaler is now going on at drug store of D. H. Atkinson, Cor. I1th and G Streets. If you need medical advice you should call upon Munyoo's staff of skilled specialists, who examiue apd advise without charge. Munyon’s Doctors Are Free. 623 Thirteenth St. N.W. Cie to 6 pm. week days; 12 to 2 p.m. Sundays. hound us together as one church, so far as any act of theirs could do so. That we will not longer submit to the jurisdiction of said keneral conference, but hereby declare our- selves separate and independent of it, still claiming to be, notwithstanding, an integ- ral part of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Eighty-Seven to One. Bishop Scott declined to put the propost- tion to vote, or to resign the chair. Secre- tary Mirtin was then, on motion, called upon to put the question to vote and re- sponded to the call. The resolution was promptly adopted—eighty-seven voting aye, while only one, the popular 8. V. Blake, Tang out an emphatic “ Forty-one de- clined to vote and three reserved their votes. Dr. Blake explained his vote by saying that he had favored a compromise, but that in voting “no” he did not wish to be understood as signing a minority protest, but desired to file in with the majority and have his explanation appear on the journal. Bishop Scott promptly presented a paper pronouncing this action of the conference “null and void.” He received a vote of thanks for the ability, impartiality and kindness with which he had presided over the body. Some of the minority who de- clined to vote on the resolution of with- drawal presented a protest, In which they said: “It is of the mode of obtaining relief from our troubles alone in which we differ with our brethren,” and favoring the im- mediate cali of an extra session of the gen- eral conference from which they hoped to obtain redress for all their wrongs. The remaining business" was speedily finished, the bishop read the appointments and the conference adjourned. Result of Civil Strife. This action of the Baltimore conference came at the beginning of a great political crisis. The civil convulsions which soon followed produced a change of sentiment in many of the members, leading them to ignore the action at Staunton and continue to adkere to the Methodist Episcopal Church. When the time for the next ses- sion of the conference arrived the civil war was in full blast. The territory of the conference was divided by_ hostile lines. A minority, still holding to the Methodist Episcopal Church, assembled in Baltimore in March, 186: This body held its annual session for several years at different places and received its present form in 1869. The general conference of the year before had made a change In its boundaries, setting up the Virginia conference of that church and merging in one the Maryland work of the Baltimore and East Baltimore conferences, thus giving the Baltimore conference the form that it hag since retained. The conference representing the majority, and independent in its church relations, be- gan its next session in Harrisonburg, V: March 14, 1862. In the absence of a b' Rev. R. Veitch was elected pre and John S. Martin was re-elected s tary. It reaffirmed the action of the Staun- ton conference of the year before. The ses- sion of. 1863 was held at Churchville, Va., at which Rey. E. R. Veitch was again elect- ed president. In 1864 the conference met at Bridgewater, Va., presided over by Rev. Norval Wilson. The session of 1865 was held at Salem, Va., where Rev. Samuel Regester was elected president. Abandons Independent Relation. When the conference assembled in Alex- andria, Va., in February, 1866, the civil war was over. Military lines no longer prevented the members from meeting to- gether. One hundred and eight members were enrolled. Of these seventy-six had been present at Staunton in 1861. A considera- ble number had been received into the con- ference since that date, and nine came from the East Baltlmore conference. The Rev. Norval Wilson was again elected president and John 8. Martin, the veteran secretary, was at his usual desk. On the second day of the session, by a unanimous vote, the conference resolved that it would no longer maintain independency, but would formally identify itself with the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Bishop John Early of that church, who was pres- ent, was invited to recognize them official- ly, and accordingly took the chair as their Presiding officer. This is the body which will begin its annual session tomorrow in the Mt. Vernon Place Church fn this city. During all these years the two confer- ences have enjoyed an extraordinary de- gree of prosperity. At its last session the Methodist Episcopal conference reported 224 preachers in full connection and on trial, and an aggregate membership of 48,541. The southern Baltimore conference at the same time reported 231 preachers in full connection and on trial and a member- ship of 51,224. ‘At the coming session of the two confer- ences it is proposed to hold a reunion of the surviving members of the conference at the time of the division in 1857. About sixty of the members survive, some of them being members of the central Penn- sylvania conference, to which the Penn- sylvania territory of the original Balti- more conference now belongs. It is in charge of Rev. J. E. Armstron; H. Chapman and Rev. D. 8. will doubtless be an occasion of great his- torle interest and will help to show how thoroughly the spirit, polity and doctrines of Methodism have been preserved during the changes and trials of forty-three years. a A SEVERED ARTERY. REPAIRING Achlevement in Surgery Hitherto Re- garded as Impossible, From the Philadelphia Inquirer. In the recent medical archives in the Ii- brary of St. Petersburg is an account of a most wonderful operation performed by Kamtsky, one of the greatest surgeons of his time, an operation like which no other is recorded. Poltinkosh, a rich farmer, cattle raiser and reindeer farmer, residing north of St. Petersburg, suffered an injury to the upper end of the right thumb, caused by being violently hurled from his sleigh, the latter having struck a stump. The farmer in falling was jagged by a snag which struck about two inches below the fold of the flank, causing a torn, bleeding, gaping wound of about four inches in length, directly downward and tn a line over the femoral artery (the large artery which supplies the entire leg with blood), the latter vessel having been lald bare and severely bruised in the wreck, no large ves- sels having been torn. Kamtsky, with the great wisdom of a world of experience, wisely apprehended the possible results of this peculiar wound, and for the next twenty-four hours he spent every minute of his time, valuable as It was, working with chemical fire, molten substances and apparatus of divers kinds until nally the object of his efforts w finished, a small, hollow elastic, colorle: tube, about five inches long, the composi- tion of which fs not recorded, consequently not known. In twelve hours after his task was finished careful scrutiny of the inju limb reveuled a slightly blulsh tint, searce- ly noticeable, on the end of the This was the signal for opera surgeon, and the stockman was immedi- ately taken to the operating room, where, in order to arrest oncoming grangrene, he was subjected to an odd and experimental operation. After t anaesthetized the wound was carefully cleaned and the tissue ci pushed and dis- sected away from the large artery, expox bout three a half inches of brus P| integrate. A clamp was on the artery an inch above where be then he cut the artery at the junction of the brulsed aud sound ussuc, and, carefuily drawing the mysterious tube from its asceptic hiding place, he slipped the cut, round end of the vessel into it about an inch, being exceed- ingly careful while so doing to keep the hollow tube collapsed and empty, so as to avoid all danger produced by tie entrance wi plac: normal sound tissu ting the same process at the lower end of the artery, he inserted the tube into the end of the vessel about the same dis- tance as the upper end lay in the tube. Then gently releasing the lower clamp, he allowed the tube to fill with blood from the portion of the vessel below. Then the final test came, when he gently and steadily re- moved the clamp above the tube, thus es- tablishing an unbroken channel which would carry the blood to its normal distri- bution. A slight pouching of the tube at first caused some fear as to whether it were strong enough to stand the pressure of the heart wave of blood as the latter pulsated through its new channel. This latter de- fect was overcome, however, when the tube was laid in the bed of the bruised exsected portion and the external support of the muscles and Ussues gave it sufficient strength to overcome the pressure of the blood stream. The wound was carefully closed, the parts set at rest and results awaited. In thirty-six hours the blue tint had disappeared from the toe and the color of the skin of the leg changed from a pale ashy to a pink. ‘Two months afterward the patient was attending his everyday duties as formerly, suffering no inconvenience whatever from his wound. Five years afterward the pa- tient died of acute pneumonia and a pos mortem examination of the seat of the wound revealed a strong, firm, plastic com- position tube immediately in the “situ” of the composition tube, the latter having been absorbed by the blood, not, however, before the lymphatics had so encysted ft, just as a bullet becomes encysted in the body after months of time, to the extent that when the tube was eaten away by the blood this fibrous coat answered the original plan of circulation, see Mr. Homely is .not a beauty, and he knows it. When his first baby was born he asked: “Does it look Ike me?” Of course, they sald “Yes."" “Well,” said he, “you must break It to my wife gently.”—Tit-Bits. Playwright- see my play?" Dear Friend—“Cert! first night.” Playwright—“Oh, that will be very kind of you. Of course, you want to help to give the thing a good start.’” Dear Friend—“Not exactly that. afraid that there might not be any second performance, you know."—Boston Tran- script. I suppose you are coming to I shall be there the ON NOTHING A. YEAR|?* An Interesting Chapter on.a Familiar Capital Contingent HOTEL HANGERS-ON “ATMOSPHERE” | The Ante-Bellum and Up-to-Date Specimens... E ITS PATHETIC SIDE, TOO Written for The Evening Star. - In proportion to its population there are probably more men who contrive to live on nothing a year in Washington than in any other American city. The non-producer who, as a natural consequence, 1s a non- earner—is everywhere In Washington. He is mostly in mysterious evidence as a hanger-around in hotel lobbles—in all of the hotel lobbies, high class or tow grade. He toileth t, melther does he spin—and he gencrally shows it. Few of the Washing- ton chaps, young or old, who contrive to live on nothing a year, have mastered the art of living well on that intangible in- come. In New York, Chicago, San Fran- cisco—plenty of the other big commercial cities—there are hordes of well-fed, well- groomed, complaisant-looking chaps who live sumptuously, year in and year oui, without any visible means of support; but the Washington gang who manage to eke out existences on zero incomes are in gen- eral a shabby lot. Of course, there are plenty of smooth, mysterious, open-handed gentlemen here whose precise sources of income are enwrapped in mystery; but one | doesn’t have to stick many pins jn these to ascertain that they have just a leetle indirect interest in certain matters of leg- islation; so that if the exact sources of their incomes are not known, it is at least well understood that they have incomes from somewhere or another; wherefore this particular class of men without visible means of support can’t properly be bunched in under the heading of men who live on nothing per annum. Whence these latter come, and whither they go, are equally Impenetrable myste- ries. How they live, as well as where they live, are bothersome matters to study out. How they manage to carry, some of them not alone creditably, but a very few of them even flowingly, that elusive, siangful, yet very necessary, very important outward aspect known as a “front,” is surely a sufficiently difficult puzzle to the student of Washington life. When Augustus Thom- as, the dramatist, spent several months in Washington a number of years ago for the purpose of picking up characters and ab- serbing “atmosphere” for a Washington play, which he contemplated writing, he was mightily interested in the capital's unique collection of hotel hangers-around. ‘They certainly walk patiently, even bo- vinely, under the dome of heaven, don't they?” he inquired, musingly. “I wonder Mf they ever think? And if so, what they think? TI believe I should Ifke to be a cast- away upon the shore of Time, in the shape of a Washington hotel hanger-around, for about twenty minutes—count them, twenty Just to find out how it feels. 1 should imagine it to be an inexpressibly gloomy, humiliating existence; and yet, observe, many of the chaps appear to be positively cheerful. How these marooned fellows contrive to perennially provide themselves with shelter, food, raiment, moderately clean linen, even an occastonal smoke, is a subject that fascinates me, because It looks too craggy for elucidation. Of cc rse, in the matter of whisky, that is an easy one. Any man wearing’ a clean collar— even if his shoes be shined with stove polish —can get whisky. He can get whisky when he can't get a mouthful to eat. Of all the free commodities in this world whisky ts the freest. But how, where and when they eat—how some of ‘em even manage to keep thelr trousers creased—how they square themselves with themselves for being just hangers-around—I want to know, as they put it In Boston town.” Some Local Experience. A well-known Washington hotel man was talking about the hangers-around and chair-warmers, of the hostelries the other afternoon. “Do you know, I believe they're the bene- ficiarles of a spectal Providence?” said the boniface. ‘There's one of them now, hold- covered chair in the lobby, ss the way. Now, I got control of this hotel about a dozen years a«o, and I've been around it ever since. So has he. The difference between us is that I’ve been working for a living all that time and he gas simply watched me work. He likes to Watch hotel men work. In no hos- telry in Washington has he ever been known to expend a sou marque, yet there he is, not particularly good to look upon, it is true, but fat, healthy looking and with probably enough drinks beneath his waistband at the present moment to give him that woozy feeling. Notice his make- up—the long, bushy hair, the fairly good gray cutaway coat, trousers a little loose, but not frayed, boots with a shine on ‘em, moderately clean shirt, collar and cuffs and round slouch hat. Well, it seems to me that he’s been togged out in exactly the ‘if not, indeed, in the self-same er since 1 first clapped an eye on a dozen years ago. And I'm per- y rtain that there has not been a single day, including Sundays and holidays, since I've been here that he hasn't drifted in a dozen times a day, hung about for a while and then floated out again, It took years to get on nodding terms with him, and I’ve never exchanged a word with him—simply the nod on his first float In in the morning, and that's all. He doesn’t appear to know anybody. I never see him speak with anybody. He just walks in, switching the same cheap-looking stick that he had when I first saw him, prowls around the writing room, looks in at the billiard room and the bar, and then prowls out, engulfed in mystery. How and where does he live? Ask me an easy one. “But there are numerous types of these hangers-around in the lobbles. Some of them are decidedly objectionable, but any Washington hotel man will tell you how difficult, how next to impossible, it {x to crowd or freeze them out. They're as im~- pervious to Mnts as they are to plain words. or as they probably would be to even morc severe treatment. There is a large battalion of limping hangers-around in the lobbies of Washington hotels. They get themselves up in accordance with the ante-beillum standard, and a number of them are voluble in the extreme—annoy- ingly so. They’ve a habit of picking ac- quaintance with guests for purely financial or alcoholle benefits in prospect. If you study ‘em. you will observe that the limps of these Nmping nuisances of the lobbies are generally limps of either the right or left foot, and that they lean heavily upon canes, ostentatlously to proclaim, I suppose, their sufferings resulting from their alleged part in the war between the stat I’ve had the curiosity to put friends to whom war records are accessible onto @ number of these limping nutsances, and in every case I've found that the heroic yarns they've re- lated here and around other hotels about thelr tremendous adventures by field and flood during the civil war were pure efforts of the imagination—that none of ’em about whom I inquired took part in-the war on either side. Working the Pathos. “I always feel a bit sorry far the chaps who get into the dismal habit of hanging around the hotel lobbies after unsuccessful efforts to nail jobs under the government. They're rather a pathetic lot. They con- stantly wear that expectant look in their eyes, They seat themselves in the rotun- da chairs, doing a lot of nervous finger-nail biting and mustache nibbling,and their gaze seems to be perpetually on the swinging entrance doors. When e pair of them hap- pen to be seated alongside each other—per- haps for mutual encouragement—their talk seems to be choppy and intermittent, for the eyes of both of ‘em have to watch the doors, you know. Well, some big man comes {n—one of the sort who's richer in promise than fulfillment—and the poor devil who's been scratching for a government billet sees him. He springs to his feet and awaits the big man’s approach. Before the latter gets very far he's tackled by one of his well-groomed friends and taken in hand. However, with a look of desperation In his eyes, the chap who's been disappointed in his office-seeking approaches the big man and begins to make his little salutation. It {s received with that frigid lowering of the head and indifferent extension of the ear that alleged big men affect, and the big The Palais Royal “Kabo.” . Daily K ABO PERFECTORS can be worn with or wi sung: DIDO news of Corse! More than 6c fittin; raists fit to perfection over ti to just the rixht degree. jons, while its lightness and ease make it sup oo ——__-_---—-. ——a ee ee —— o ; “es ’ ” Straight “W.B.” | | Doliar “W.B Fashion dictates the Straight-front Corsets at $1 can be eatiefactory If Corset, flat over the abdomen, with | you find the correct style f fall hips. Next to t Passe." at partienlar figure. styles of | | es ues ebb ld B. | BO” Corsets are here. giving | | the Fasso, and only..... $1.75 j i Price eee > | i 1 ' ee ee um ae because the success or failure of your Easter Dress depends mainly on the Corsets. agents for the “Fasso” and headquarters for all the leading makes. news is of “W. 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Stripes and dots In pretty effects of greens, blues, purples, $3.98 violets, red and ce- rise. g Sik tk. ereerized”’ Pettic accordion-plaited ruffle, makin; expensive looking. And not Black and all the new colors, price surp:tse Ladies’ “Onyx"’ Black Stockings. of genu- ine lisle thread, + effects, in allover Usually sold at 35 pair. 7 nore Than being asked for Inferf-r styles fn cotton PDO PC OOOO OO OM oS Headquarters for Child Lisle Stockings. La klex and all- eects. Sizes 5 te Sly, in all Lese than usual for best: 400, 0c and * Black Crepons. Five pleces of these lustrous goods, the im- Tota. orter's remnants of va 98c. é BS None worth less than $1 per yard 25c¢ to $2.25 yard. 89c¢ F 89c for $1 Dress Goods. These welcomed new arrivals are not only a price saving to us and you, but all the most wanted and generally scarce colors are in- eluded. The most substantial bargains of the season, we think. &c FOR $1 TAILOR SUITINGS. (English Check Suitings, 45 inches wid &ye FOR $1 TAFFETA SILKS. (Hemstitched and Plisse, in Mac ) ON SUITID . browns avd tansy 3S. Te a ee a ae a a tnd colors.) Black Silks. Wanted Taffeta Silks ata Mttle saving. Re quality at ¢ ibe yard. The 68¢ Tbe elsewhere, for 59c RESS TRIMMINGS are coming into vogue again. Taffeta Silk Applique in fancy scrolls from 1 to 5 inches wide at 19¢ to $2.50 yard. Lace Department for the 10c to $1.50 Black Silk Chantilly Serpentine Galloons and Insertings, 1 to 5 inches wide. Woodbury’s Facial Soap, Woodbury’s Facial Cream, Woodbury’s Tooth Powder, Woodbury’s Dental Cream, Woodbury’s Odorine, Woodbury’s Shaving Sticks, | cure and use of private POSH DHOHOHOHODMDAIDHOIOHS: Woodbury’s Preparations fo: D De. => injurious. Hairdressing and Shampooing by experts, only 35c. parior, only 25c. Palais Royal, == G & 11th Sts. 2 LDPE IDI Se S Hair food and dandruff cure, containing nothing anteed to give satisfaction. Good Linings. Perealine and Linen Canvas, worth 2he, re aor ard. Am! 40-4) Lae for Niving ak arent orn 12'4c. here Exquisite patterns. Worth r. Beli’s Hair Food, Services of Mani- PDP SPO FOES HOV AOEO OX . Positively guar- BOOS FSHS HOOD DED TOES HODY = sses on, mumbling his watit-awhlles, ‘The rebuffed hanger-around either goes out with a flush on his face, or resumes his chair with a humility that shows he ex- pected no better ae soem Some of ties sappointed 0 p-seekers vi beaten the hotels, iting, Micawber-like, for some old thing to turn up, strive to pre- serve an air of jauntiness in their dress and manner, thus making themselves, to my way of thinking, even more grievous fig- ures of woe. How do they make out and keep the wolf from elutehing them? Sub- c simple ones to me. Mphere's an objectionable brigade of hangers-around who make it a point to stand in front of the hotels and give sa~ lutes of the hand to all of the notable men who pass by or enter. These queer ducks are, of course, not known at all to the big men, but it is their cheap desire to make it appear to others that they are. The notable men, who, during the progress of a day, meet g0 many strangers present- ing suits of one sort or another, cannot remember all of these faces, and s0, fear- ing to give offense to some man who really has a right to recognition, they return the salutes of these peculiar hangers-around in nine cases out of ten. How does a man exist who has nothing more remunerative to do than to stand in front of hotels and salute prominent men? I pass. The Ink-Slinging Kind. “he hanger-around who holds down a seat at one of the writing room tables for hours at a time, frantically writing, with his head bent low—writing with the fierce- ness of the correspondent-in-chief who's 5 ing the workings of a national con- er ionts another of the mysterious and pathetic types. He doesn’t use the hotel stationery—he brings about @ ream of foolscap with him when he turns up in the morning. He never says a word to any one, does no buttonholing in the lobbies, fs addressed by no one—his one desire in life appears to get as many thousand words of copy scrawled as possible. What do these seedy, up-against-it-looking hangers- around at the writing tables write? ‘Where does their writing go? Does anybody ever read what they write? Does their wr! iting bring ‘em in anything? Again, I pass. “Mention should be made of the hanger- around who turns up at his favorite hotel somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 o'clock in the morning, takes & seat in an obscure corner of the lobby and sits aes for hours, twirling a stick, and calmly t e ing in the panorama of men, heedless 0! the passing of time. This one T have fig- ured out as the husband of a tired-looking wife who's running a boarding house some- where or other, and who either slinks away from the boarding house early in the morn- ing in order to be relieved of the job of carrying up coal from the cellar or is ex- iled for the day by his spouse in order that he may be kept out of the sight of the foarders. There are plenty of this type. We shall not be. compelled to figure on this one eats and 5! 5 bees there’s the queer, shabby hanger- around who, twenty times during the day ‘and evening, walks up to the desk, solemnly pulls his spectacles from the faded case, adjusts them to his nose with a basso pro- fundo ahem! and, pulling the register around, proceeds to scrutinize the list of new arrivals with a critical eye, as if ex- ting somebody. I’ve never yet seen a FSnger-around of this type discern the name of any arrival he knew. For all practical purposes he might just as well take a city directory every half hour or so ‘and look up and down a few pages of Who provides for this one? That Providence I spoke of, I suppose. Wants News From Home. “We occasionally have to get after an- other type of register scanner with a sharp stick, This one fs, in all cases, a man con- siderably beyond middle age. When this elderiy hanger-around scans the register names. special and discovers the name of some man from the same town and state he himself left behind him—probably for the town and state’s good—many years back, he asks the clerk how old a man the new arrival is. If he is told that the new arrival is quite an elderly or even a middle-aged man, he leaves the new arrival alone. But if the hanger-around is informed that the new arrival is quite a young man, the elderly grafter immediately sends up his card, and in four cases out of five he is cordially received, despite his seedy ap- pearance. The rest is easy. The hanger- around, pretty certain that the young man from his own town and state will not re- member the name of a man who left his place a good many years before, makes all manner of inquiries as to the descendants of former friends ‘back in the old place,” and thus ingratiates himself into the new arrival’s contidence; does the ‘reduced old gentleman’ game up to the handle, in short. After he has worked up his case he makes his strike, and in a majority of instances he makes the strike stick. In truth, this is nothing more than a ‘con’ game, al- though perhaps it would not thus be legally defined. But when we get next to a hang- er-around of this sort he no longer has the freedom of the premises. The Four-Year Change. “There are a lot of hangers-around who have lost government jobs either on account of a change of administration or because of reckless habits A good many of the latter, I grieve to say, degenerate into the type slangily known as ‘booze grafters.’ There comes a day when we happen to notice that one of this sort hasn’t been around for some time, and upon inquiry we learn that he's been on the other side of the Great Divide for a week or so. Others of the thrown-out-of-their-jobs hangers- around contrive to keep up a fairly good front in some mysterious way, and the first thing we know we hear that they've got back their jobs or better ones. “The hanger-around who is an ex-busi- ness man and who fancies that he is a ‘promoter’ is not an uncommon type around the hotels of Washington. Promoter he is not, of course, but he imagines he is, and he figures out gross and net earnings, divi- dends and all that sort of thing on the back of a frazzled envelope from morning ull night. Occasionally he becomes objec- tdonable—when he mysteriously acquires a jag of somewhat unusual proportions and then begins to tackle moneyed guests of the house with propositions for the sale of stock in some imaginary, salted or aban- doned borax mine in the Bad Lands, or some toi'et soap factory all laid out nicely on paper, with gigantic brick buildings and all that. When the ‘promoter’ endeavors to make hay in this way we're compelled to put to him the superior advantages of oth- er hotel lobbies down the line. Secial Derelicts. “Many of the hangers-around are old chaps that we really do know something about. They are simply the high-class in- digents of the community—men who at one time or another in their lives have been fairly high or even quite high on the lad- der of life and who have got down to the hanger-around stage through rum, general- ly, but occasionally, too, through no fault of their own. Many of them have in their better Gays been first-class patrons of this house, and these we often send upstairs to dinner. One of this type who sits drearily around here for hours every day is @ man who has spent thousands of dollars in his day at the bar of this house. He doesn’t go into the bar now. I guess if he had the whole game to play over again he would give the bar the go-by with a vengeance. “Finally there are the hangers-around— shabby men, and asa general thing men of superior education—who exchange a line of interesting talk and reminiscence with con- vivial guests for the rum there's in it And Only $1.00. 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A dispatch from Topeka, Kan., last night, Says: The election for city offices In the town of Beattie, in Marshall county, today, Was a contest between men and women, and the men won. A ticket composed cn tirely of women was elected a year ago, ‘The women officers, headed by Mrs. Eliza- beth Totten, mayor, were candidates for re-election. The men rebelled agains: the strict prohibition enforced by the women, and the entire men’s ticket was elected with the exception of clerks, one eounci!- man and marshal. latter is @ man, ——_+ e+ —___ Change in Schedule. The Congress Heights Citizens’ Associa- tion was today info: by the District Commissioners that have been ad- vised by the Capital Ratlway Company that, beginning with the present week, its cars, running from Stickfoot branch to Congress Heights will be operated on 4 ten-minute schedule instead of a_twenty- minute schedule, as in the past. The care and running to Stick- an average interval of seven minutes apart.