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For SALE

TWO SERVANT LADS about sixteen years old !;
i one Of them well qualified house servant, ost-
Ter, and drver-the other a good farm hand--both
Of them stout and Of sound constitutions II is de-
sired TO sell them together to who may wish
them for his own use, and not for the trade. Their
characters for honesty and sobrety unexccpion-
able. A line to A. L., through the Washington City
Post Office between this and the 25ih December will
receive attention. Dec .l2-2tawt26Dcc.
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NATIONAL THEATRE.
BENEFIT OF MIR. HELD.

Unprecedented observation-disclosures celebrated Com
edy of
MONEY MONEY !!--MONEY .!
With excellent cast of characters.
ALFRED EVELYN originally acted by him, at
the Park Theatre N York Mr.. HELD.
MIR. GRAVES, MIR. Il PLAClDE.
LADY FRANKLIN and Mrs. MCLEAN.
CLARA, Mrs. HELD.
With, for the last Time
THE SIX DEGREES OF CRIME,
universally pronounced the most interesting and ex-
citing Drama acted in Washington.
See bills. dec %
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M ODERN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
lNl DR.. s. HERNIs respectfully informs his friends
and the public that he is prepared to give instruction
in the French, German Spanish, and Italian Ian
gages he also undertakes to translate foreign dycu
ments. Those ladies and gentlemen who may be de-
sirous of being taught by him in any of these Ian
guages will please apply at Mr.. Turpns opposite
the European hotel.
s)rn
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rMAs AND NEW YEARS PRESENTS

Nv FISCHER has recently received great va
w rety f beautiful articles suitable for Christ
mas and New Years Presents, consisting in part, of
Ladi es' Rosewood Writing Desks and Work Boxes,
Toilet Dressing Cases, Straw, Vele Ell and Rosewood
Baskets, Ca ID and Needle Cases of Pearl Ivory and
Shell, inlaid Gold and Silver Pencil Cases, OF new
pattern, with stone tops- Port Folios with locks AL
buns and Scrap Books, richly embossed Fancy Pa
yer cases, with Note and Letter paper, Chess and
Backgammon boards; Perfumery, Musical lnstru
ments, with many othes desirable articles, too hume
to particuarze, for at low prices, at Sta
TONERS Hail. dec 2I-3taw2w
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WINTER ARRANGEMENT OF THE MAILS
PosT OFFICE, WAsHlsoToN Cry,
December 10, 1912.

Posi- OFFICE, WAsHEoToN Cry,
December 10, 1912
III The great NORTHEASTERN Mail, via
Baltimore &c, will, during the remainder of the
Winter season, arrive, once day only, al o. Z. NJ
and be closed at . z. M.
The great WESTERN Mail, viz Cumberland,
HheeilHg &c, will arrive daily at IL A M, and be
closed at . p. NJ
The great SOUTHERN Mail, via Fredericks.
burg &c. will arrive daily, at p NJ, and be closed
at 9 p. NJ,
All other Mails will arrive and depart hereto
fore.
VIM. JONES, p. M.
Dec t2-tf.
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A MEXICAN PREMIUM STEEL PENS
IA WITH FURNISHED POINTS-A new

and va liable improvement.
The usual objections which have been IN lde 20 the
use of Steel Pens account of their scratching Oh
cutting The paper, obviated by mode of bur
nlshing the paints; and they are made of different
degrees of elasticity TO uit all classes Of writers.
Manufactured by G.. G.. Wright & Co and sold by
J G.. BARNET & Co. Agents,
No. %, John street, New York.
A silver medal wSs awarded to these Pens by the
Amerc,n institute, O;tobsr, 1912.
dec 22-3 cod
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BANK or THE METROPOLIS,
December 81, 1912.

BANK OF THE METROPOLIS,
December 81, 1912
4 = Christmas day will fall this year on SUNDAY,
IA he holiday will be kept on Monday, the Goth
instant, and this bank will not be open that day
Persons having notes due, and payable at this bank
on the 26th iostant requested TO attend to them
on the Saturday previous
The Board of Dir ctors will meet Saturday,
the "a inst to pass such not may be offered
for scount The offering must therefore be lodged in
bank by 3 o'clock p. nj. on the 23d inst
BY order Of the Boari:
RID SMITH, Cashier.
IA D
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AVIS OF THE UNITED STATES-For sale
| 4 at the Madsonian Office, copies of the " Acts
and Resolutions passed at the second session oil the
9th Congress- with Appendix, containing all pub
lie treaties made and ratified subsequently 10 the
nuhca,ion of the laws of the preceding session, and
all Proclamaions by the President promulgated
within the same period, that affect any law or treaty
C,ha ITn;ted Statesr Price 81. oct 10
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RODGERS AND SONS CUTLERY.

w FISCHER has just received by the steamer
w Acadia, direct, from Messrs. Joseph Rod
gers and Sons, large supply of their best Congress,
four bladed knives, pearl and stag handles Wharn-
cie and other pocket knives, with 9, and blades,
in stag, pearl and she'll handles razors in ivory and
buffalo handles with ivory and cocoa wood
handles strops, with two and four sides Of SUI
perior finish and quality scissors and Office shears,
from to Is inches all OF which will be KEEP, con-
SANITY for sale, on the best terms, at Stationers
Hall Dec. 9-3taw3w
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AIRS ABERCROMBlE having put her house in
wi complete order for the winter, she will be
ne,sed to receive Members and their families. Her
house is pleasantly situated on the Avenue, front
door ON II tn street. opposite the city Post Ofce.-
An s,be attention will be observed to render
Mrs Abercrombie's house desirable to boarders'
dec .
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UST published and for sale at Statoners' Hall. A
y Register of the commissioned and warrant Off
of the Navy Of the United States, including Off
Of the Marine Corps, corrected from au hentic
sources to the Sta September 1912, to which are
added the laws relating to the Navy, passed during
the second session Of the 9th Congress by Benja
min Romans. dec 10.
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NOTICE.
GENERAL LAND OFFICE,

GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
December IL, 1912.
TINE act of Goth August last restricting the sub
i scription Of newspapers for the several Execu-
tive Departments renders necessary for this office
TO discontinue at the close Of the current year, the
several papers for which has hitherto subscribed
The publishers Of such newspapers are, therefore,
respectfully requested not to transmit the after
the 3lst instant and to present their bills for pay
ment.
Dec. 1875
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HOW ARD HOUSE.

No. 10 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
THIS new establishment has lately been opened
| with the view of accommodating those ladies'
and gentlemen who prefer quiet home while they
s. SWEETSER
nov I-gaW3m
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BOARDING.

MRS. S S. ELLIS, from New York, having Ia
Nl ken the large house the Of 18th street
and Penrsy lvania avenue, in the row known as the
Seven Buildings, is prepared to accommodate mess
of members during the approaching ses ion of Con-
gross dec l-distf
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WILD WESTERN SCENES a narrative of
w adventures in the Western Wilderness, forty
years ago. By J. b. Jones.
"A few copies received for sale by
dec IL f. TAYLOR.
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GALE OF REAL ESTATE IN THE CITY OF
- WASHINGTON The whole of most of the
following squares and parts of Others, in the city of
Washington, are offered for sale at great bargains

Inquire Of James S. Dickns, attorney at law
office Pennsylvania avenue, near Fullers hotel.
Dec dim
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BANK or WAsHNGToN, Dec g. 1912.
GENERAL NEE TING of the Stockholders
n this Bank will be holden on the first Monday
M January next for the purpose of clec'ing Directors
for The ensuing year. The poll to be opened at ~
,Ic,orL A. M and closed at 3 o'clock =. M.
JAMES ADAMS, Cashier.
Dec 6--Iawtd
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LABOR-SAVING MACHINERY-AGRICU
RAJ INPI EMENTs
~ GORGE PAGE, Machn,st and Manufacture
VI West BALTIMORE west of Schroeder street Ra

| ~ GORGE PAGE, Machin.st and Manufacturer,
" West Baltimore, west of Schroeder street, Bal
timore Maryland,
Is prepared to fill orders at short notices, for
any OF the following articles of Machinery and Agri
cultural Implements, and lie takes pride in say ing
that with his new improvements, the increased iaci-
tiles Of his establishment and the superior skill Of has
workmen, that any work executed by him will be
found equal in strength durabilit and finish with that
Of any other Factory in the country As his machine
ry and implements well known throughout the
country, and have been approved by the best judges,
he deems only necessary TO specify the names, uses
and prices Of each.
Pages Portable Saw MIL with horse power com
pleie with IL feet carriage and II feet ways; fol
every extra foot of carriage 81 so per foot $500 10
Band, III 90
Pages Portable Saw Mill, without horse
power 300 90
Pages Portable Saw Mill, with portable
steam engine of 10 horse power, and va
rous other fixtures, is contained in the
annexed specification Of items, 5000 90
SPECIFICATION
Steam Engine and Boiler of 10 horse power
(portable) 200 90
Saw Mill IL feet carriage and "a feet ways
large and strong, with 40 inch circular
saw, 800 DOL
Two pairs of lumber wheels for hawking
logs, removal of engines, &c. $50 90
Cant Hooks files sets, &c. SO O0I
Two Hand-cars for removing lumber when
sawed, 100 90
Extra lengths of carriage 25 feet, so feet
ways, Is 90
Bench for sharpening rails, with saw shaft, SO 90
Fixtures for cutting wood, SO OO
Six pairs extra head blocks, $50 90
Post morislng machine, go 0O
Upright roller, for long plank, IL %
Bands 100 %
Elevator, with caps on buckets, 100 10
Windlass, with chains and fixtures, It's 90
Extra saws, 1873 0O
Gross amount s3,05O
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THE DYING FOX.

All the world agrees, from Esop down, that
fable is an admirable vehicle for conveying SEN
timent and truth. We will not dispute the matter
at'large with Rousseau, whether it be not ridicu-
lous to make birds and beasts talk; but our own
opinion is, that as reported by Esop, La Fon-
tame, and Gay, they do often talk very admi-
rably; far better, we think, Speaking with all
possible Difference and reverence,) than more
modern reporters are able, at all times, to make
intellectual bipeds. But much of this doubt
less, depends on the reporter.
Among Mr.. Clay's posthumous, or at least,
.mortuary resolutions, is one on the subject Of
the mileage of members of Congress, which is
expressed in the following grave, and solemn
and patriotic language;
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EXCITEMENT IN RHODE ISLAND.

A portion of the People of Rhode Island seem
to be resolved TO retain their old form OF Gov
eminent, in favor Of which a majority OF the
votes of the State have lately declared, whilst
on the other hand, the friends Of the new Con-
stltulion appear TO be quite as firm in their adj
vocacy OF a new order of things. How the
matter will end is of course beyond the reach
of human ken, but we sincerely hope that
our friends of ''lhe plantations" will suffer the
discretion for which they are so noted, 10 have
all due weight in the arrangement of the affair.
The eyes of the other States Of the Confederacy
are upon the birth place Of the American Navy,
and we sincerely trust that whatever irritation
may have prevailed heretofore, nothing will be
suffered to occur that shall cast shade upon
the glorIes of the sold thirteen" If there be
differences Of opinion. among them, they must
keep COOL and treason together"
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THE TARIFF.

In pursuing our design to show that in ad-
justng tariflfor revenue, it is matter of great
national interest that such discriminating du-
ties be laid as may incidentally protect our
manufactures from rulnous competition, it may
be proper for us to repeat, that we by no means
intend to agitate the ''vexed question" touching
the power of this Government to impose duties
with the mere design of protecting particular
interests. We advocate no such doctrine; but
at time when the wants of the country de-
mand large accession of revenue, which must
be raised by means of duties on Imports unless,
indeed, direct taxation be resorted to, hich we
suppose few will recommend we would call
on Congress to survey the great interests of the
country, and in adjusting scale of duties for
revenue so to discriminate as shall best secure
the rights fall, without neg ecting or depressing
any.
1t has appeared to US that in reasoning on this
subject hitherto, many, whose opinions we hold
in high respect, have been too much disposed TO
treat human labor every where as a mere art-
Gle of merchandise. We cannot better express
what we would say than to borrow the language
OF recent aOle essay on tnlS SUBJECT:
"Let it be recoIlected that political economists Ie-
gard lowness of wages as nothing-the amount to be
produced for ven every thing because
The production goes into the hands of capitalists of
the few and tie cost of production comes from their
pockets to the many. Labor is looked upon by them
precisely the capitalists regard it, is the
that be employed in production at the lowest
1t 10 of consequence in considering the abstract
question of national wealth, in whose pockets the
wealth OF nation is deposited whether be in those
of few, or those of the many but it is vital ques
ton to the laborers themselves and that en-
larged and liberal view of the subject embraces"
| Now, it is entirely clear, that if the modern
free trade opinions should prevail, no article of
manufactures or of Notwithstanding indeed
which enters into the list of the common wants
and comforts of life, can be produced in this
country to any considerable extent, without re-
ducing the rate of wages for labor as low as in
any of the nations of the earth producing the
same articles. We must, in fact, produce them
at the foreign cost, with the trihing addition OF
! freght--and to do so, labor in this, as in other
nations, must become but another name for po-
verify suffering, tears, and degradation-or else
we must abandon our market to the foreign pro-
Queer. No American statesman-3no ph,lan-
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A LITTLE TOO LATE.

If all persons would only attach proper conse-
quence TO the necessity Of punctuality in the
affairs of life, the machinery Of civil society
would run much more smoothly and comforta-
bly,. Every man has mis- engagements, and each
depends on others for the ability to perform his
own promises Indeed so frequently is such the
case that we have known men most unlustly
censured for apparent inattention TO promises,
when, in truth, the omission to perform has
been entirely attributable to the fault Of others,
A makes an engagement with b. at 8 o'clock
and promises TO sec G at 10, and G in turn
has told ID that he will be with him at noon.
Nine O'Clock comes, and is kept waiting in
consequence of AS not having arrived. Ten
o'clock strikes, and BIS promise to c is broken
because A came so late that the intended bust
ness cannot be dispatched in time to let him
be at C's at the appointed hour, and so it goes
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through the whole string Of engagements con
nected with one another Now would il not be
much better way TO have an understanding that
all engagements upon which after action may be
dependent, shall be met with the strctest pune
tualiy as to time as well as place To be a lit
tie too tate is common fault, and yet it has
decided the destinies Of millions for good or for
evil. How many life has been forfeited owing
to doctors being lille too late-how many
fortunes have been lost by the heirs being a
little too late-and, more shocking than either,
how many a man has remained a bachelor for
life by being a little too late.
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THE DON AND THE BRITISH MAIL


From hefollowing would appear that diff
Guilty has lately occurred between the officers
having in charge the mail on board of the steam
packet "Tay," and the Spanish mail officer at
Turks Island A good deal of feeling appears to
have been excited, and it is far from impossible,
that the occurrence may lead TO i'll blood be-
tween the two governments. The Don does
not seem to fancy the running of British mail
through his possessions without his sanction,
and were it not for the utterly impoverished
and Frustrated condition Of the Spanish nation,
there might be some chance of a fdreup. This
packet scheme looks peH upon paper, but there
is something in its practical operation which
appears to us at variance with the independence
of national feeling which would dictate a certain
local control as lndispl nsable in the transfer Of
the mail;
The English steam packets nj Harana.--A Ha-
vana letter of March 18th, the New York Express
says
"The Tay English mail steamer is just in from
Turks Island with dates from England to the Sd of
February. A great excitement was cau-ed by the
mail officer board refusing to deliver the mails to
the Spanish mail officers. When they attempted TO
take them he drew his sword A company OF twenty.
five .olders Immediately sent board with fixed
bayonels, and orders to them # the least resls
lance offered, and the offending officer
on shore unJet guard, The commander of the
steamer meanwhile refused to NEEDLE in the affair
alleging that he had nothing to do with the mails
They were in special charge of the mail officer who
was put on board with them. The passengers or any
belonging To the boat have not been allowed u
land, and as yet we know not how the affair wlturn
1t seems TO he disjointcd concern, and | fear may
breed difficulty between the two governments
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The Senate adjourned.

Extract of letter to the Editors of the New Eng
land Puritan dated Washington, D. c., over the
signature s. 7
" You are perhaps aware that the accomplished la
DIV of the Hon. William G, Rives, of Virginia, has
published very adylike sonpenir OF her travels IN
Europe The sketches are written in neat and
chaste style and the production is in every respect
worthy of the amiable and intelligent source whence
it emanated have seen it stated in one of the peri
odcals of the day. that the profits of the work refer
red to are to be laid the altar of religion and de-
voted to the erection of church in Albemare. If
anv Of the readers of the Puritan DESIRE therefore,
to have ga nair' in one of our Virginia churches,
they may see in this pous scheme how they can enjoy
the double qualification of imparting aid to others
while they secure the means of rational enjoyment
for themselves"
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ANOTHER MAIL ROBBERY, PROBABLY.

Posi- OFFICE, BALTIMORE, April T. 1912.
SIR have to report that the portmanteau due
here from Wheeling, Virginia, this morning, which
usually contains the whole Western letter mail for
this point and places Eastward was rot received al
though the newspaper bags from beyond, and the
aoay mail through, came right to hand.
Very respectfully,
Your obedent servant,
c. T. MADDOX,
For the Postmaster.
Hon. c. A. WIcKLFFE,
Postmaster General.
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RESOLUTIONS FROM RHODE ISLAND.
Providence, R. l., April 4, 1912.

TO the Editor
The following resolutions passed, unanimously,
both branches fthe Legislature of this State, Sa
urday last. 1t is the first of whole State, du
ring the present session. calling upon Congress for
harmonious and speedy action of vital i'm
portance to the Union. All parties here have united
in the call let it meet patriotic response from all
parties in Congress
Resotred That the embarrassed condition Of the
public Treasury and the critical of our foreign
relations, call most imperatively upon all parties in
Congress % unite, for the relief and defence Of our
common country.
Resoired That copy of the preceding resolution
be transmitted 10 Senators and Representatives,
to be by them presented to each House oil Congress
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Dtf0.

On Thursday, the 7th instant EDWARD HEN.
RY, son of Henry and Mary A Hungerord, aged
four months and twenty eight days.
The friends Of the family are requested to attend
the funeral tomorrow at 3 o'clock p. NJ
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THE BosToN MISCELLANY for Api has been issu-
ed. This work now equals, il it does not surpass,
the best Philadelphia works in magnificent embelIish-
ments and rare literary merits
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THE ENGLISH MISSIoN-BUSINESS
BEGUN.

Lord Ashburton, the British Extraordinary
and Special Minister, passed, as we learn,
TWO or three hours at the Department Of
State yesterday.
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In THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE ESSENTIAL LET THERE
M us,rY-rN NoN-EssENrIALs, LIBERrr; AND IN ALL
THINGS cHARIrY.-4lgustin.
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Mdrrten.

On Monday last by Rev. Septimus Tuston, Mr..
JOHN SUTTON to Miss. MARY ROSE, all OF this
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DAGUERRE,S

MAGICAL PICTURES, FROM PARIS,
Representing The tconderttd effects Of Day and Night
INVENTED by the celebrated Mons. Dagurre, six
i years before his Ddguereoime brought to the United
States Of America by NJ. NJ Mafey and Lonati, and
exhibiting at
CARUSIS ASSEMBLY ROOM,
(for few nights only)
Having been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, Baltimore, and Charleston, with the most
enthusiastic appreciation.
The Exhibition will open Monday, April nth,
1912, with
THREE SPLENDID PICTURES
The admired and unrivaed interior OF the
CHURCH ST. ETIENNE DU MONT,
at Paris, re resenting midnight mass the magnif-
cent view of the city OF
VENICE, ON A FESTIVAL NIGHT;
and the charming raiey Of Goidau Gin Switzerland0
with the crumbling Of Mountain, an historical oc-
currence.
Exhibition to commence quarter before O'Clock.
Admission 80 cents. ap.S
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ECTURES ON GERMAN PoETRY-At
IL the Masonic Hail. opposite the City Hall on
Friday, Saturday and Monday evenings, the s,h, 9th
and llth instant, at half past 7.
These Introductory Lectures are free They will
treat of German Poetry in general, particularly the
Classic the Sentimental and the Mystic in Politics,
Religion, &c; also, of the lives and writings OF nor
ner, and Kleist the authors Of the celebrated war
BURGER and Goethe. apps st
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C. H. VAN PATTEN, M. D.,

7 DENTTST.
Pennsylvania avenue, few doors from Browns
Hotel nov, 49, lsly.