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New Books
Triumphant Democracy. nv Carnegie
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P"siniates OF Political Economy, by Marshall
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Bn-ie EChoes. by Browne
Ahctte 10y Feuile.
Memoirs OF Gen. sherman, new edition.
Nioletta, by Mrs. Mister
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CHEAP IEApISa.
BOOKS AT HALF PRICE
We nave Nld out on our counters "A large lot Of Good
Books FOR general reading which We will sell al Hall
Price. " - A''
a good chance for getting supply Of summer
Reading. ~ -
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hy-i as sth Street
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DRY GOODS.
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As there are many goods among these that cannot
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ton.
FIRST CHOICE BEST CHOICE
They comprise among others 100 different patterns
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yard regular price 20 IS, ss cents per yard ' p@'
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Stella Checks and Ribbon Plaids at l2lh cents Der
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Camilla Stripes at rs cents per yard.
Plaid Organizes 15 20. 25 cents worth 8 cents per
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Plain Nansook in IL different grades ranging from
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fique from 61A cents to so cents per yard
Lovely designs In Marseies at 90 rs and 80 cents
Persian Lawns from 20 cents to 40 cents last grade
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Plain French Lawn 37la cents: worth so centa
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Figured Swiss IN White and Cream from 12lh cents
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Books, BooKsn BooKsm
ANOTHER CUT IN BOOKS AT
BACM's.
COMMENCING MAY 18TH. WE WILL
INACCURATE
SPECIAL SALE OF BOOKS
at which time will offer ENTIRE STOCK Of
BOOKS and STATIONERY al COsST ale 20 he
continued for two weeks only. Special attention ts
called 10 our sets OF standard Authors hound in Half
Cali and Hall Morocco. Also 70 large assert eut
Of Juvenile Books and Finely illustrated ala Rocks
al Of " hich viii offer at LlSS THAN tsr durnr
this SPECIAL SALE Below quote q few special
Prices:
Puts Our
price. price
Chambers Fncy. Unah.. with Maps &C. 1880 loco
Dores llluSt Paradise lost. sSc......-.. 500 ~
NaNerly Novels II vols, Cali. $500 IL 90
irving's Works. 10 vols. cloth - Is oo 4 a.
Macaulays History 81 fnglsnd.5 vols q. 300 l. "a
taNton Edition OF standard Authors Loo 2s
The above are only few specimen prices CAR ana
examine the Books offered. which include the b.st
works OF ancient and modern hors n prices which
defy competition. ClIAS RAIN
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IL voLUTIoN
IN THE UNITED STATES TEA TRADE
BLENDED TEAS THE TEAS OF THE FUTURE
BARBOUR & HAMILTON,
WHOLESALE GROCERS AND IMPORTERS
GA Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
Have secured the Sole Agency for the District Of
Columbia for the sale Of
CARTOONS ENGLISH BLENDED TEAS
Never. perhaps. in the history of the trade has
success so rapidly followed the Introduction of a new
dietetc article in the OF these celebrated blends
which, within the short space of year. have been
supplied to every leading hotel Philadelphia New
York. Boston and New Orleans, and by them pro-
nounced vastly superior straight teas they
been accustomed to use
Write to BARBOUR & HAMILTON for testi-
monais. Give these teas q trial. and you will never
use any other. mh6s,tu tn 3m2dc
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some"heres oy somebody elses accident-some
telegraph companys had bad luck and tied
you up; or it's got caIched beneath a bridge
Tor we have TO work under water as well as over
s Mire now y0n 5eeye IT. Of telephone
nothing equals the snarling capacity Of a teie-
phone wire as know OF, unless it's Q woman
were SO many men-folks trying to crochet.
they don't take the regular stitch, but they use
up lot OF yarn in making OF the most extra
they slash about Q good deal in Wind and
water.
Did you ever happen to think. ma'am. Of n
slippery winter morning, what 1t would be like
II you was in our business? There's more busi-
ness goes ON over your heads these days than
there Is upon the ground below. don't think
folks do think much about it. There's sight
OF pity goes TO sailors and such like and fire-
men ana those and I'm not denying they de.
stood In folks mind TO feel a sympathy for line
men. Sometimes seems TO me We have a call
ior II, ourselves for IT amt very safe business
III ain't so much pluck-thOugh 1t does take
piuck-but pluck ain't anything to complain of.
Now, come u morning, after such q storm as
Your steps are slippery. All the sidewalks are
covered by ashes IOr peril OF your bones Horses
go down in the street. The tops OF the fences
are sieeted ovor. The trees have crusted In
like they'd got into a bathing suit of ice from
toe toe, TO top. The ROCKWELL folks don't think
Kind OF weather folks stay indoors, il So be thew
can. Women huddie round the register and
s"S = SoSos Nou w OQl tO-uQy. Men go
10 their business in tue horse cars and fa1k
about how slippery 1t Is. In the evening paper
there's the accidental column-full OF how such
one slipped on the pavement and how bis leg
was broken. or his back WAS hurt
way down below US whilst We are at work we
see folks putting saw.dust ON level places and
noioing on TO something whilst they 20 by.
fney look kind OF small as we look down Ike
creatures that grow on something Maybe we're
out on the caves crawling along toward the
eaves'trough TO get wire that got down acrost :
waterspout; or maybe we're droppin' from one
or there's - pole TO climb beyond 'em all.a
roolpole you must climb, and you put your
spurs In and go up clingtng to that pole, to guy
siippery-by gracious! slippery don't tell Il.
The Washington critic., 1886-09-28
JOHN ESTES coOWE.

John Estcn Cooke, the wcll.kuovn author
ard poet died yesterd ~ afternoon A. hls
residence, The Briirs,' near lIoycc, Clarke
County, Va. Death was caused hy typhoid
ftyer. Mr.. Cooke had been sick bat a
short time. lie was native Of VirslniI,
Of whose history aud whose men lie wrote
so much. lie was Que OF the most prolific
and ginphic writer's Of the South. Much
Of what he produced will lvc but a good
deal Of It will not, especially the novels
which he turned out so rapidly Just after
the war, and which teemed with the bitter
est sentiments against the Unlou, and did
rot even possess the merit OF anything In
the nature of plots, and were written in
very loose and unattractive manner Mr..
Cooke began to write early, contributing
stories and sketches to various periodicals.
In 1864, when he was practising law, he
ublishtd his first novel, Leather Stocking
and Silk" It had great run. lie after
wards published numerous works both
In prose and verse, his series OF romances
dcscribing life In Virginia very accurately
He served during the war on the staff OF
General j. Il. b. Stuart, who married his
cousin. lie did not confine himself TO
fiction and poetry In bis writings but ad-
dressed himself at times to compositions OF
heavier character, among which arc "rhe
Youth Of Jefferson" "Life Of Stonewall
Jackson,n "lifo of Robert l.. Lee' aud
a "Ilistory of Virginia" lie also
wrote number Of interesting pa
ers on the war, none OF which,
however attracted very wide spreld
attention. One Of his war sketches entitled
"A Night on the Battlefield" was made
the sui icct Of paintings 10y Mron X. Ke!-
logg and Oregon Wilson, well-known
artists.
lie was a widower at tie time OF his
death, his wife, Miss Page of Clarke
County, having died several years ago. lie
was brother Of Mr.. Phillip Pondeton
Cooke, also an author and poet Of dlstinc.
liOn,
The Washington critic., 1886-09-28
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

The latest French census shows that
there are 12G centenarians in that country.
EX-SPEAKER KEIFER, speaking of Presi-
dental candidates, says he is John Sher-
man man out and out.
Mn. G. 2. HUNTINGTON the Traus-Con-
tinental railway magnate, will visit Louis
vile October 10, to inspect the new Union
depot In course OF construction there
THE State Department knows nothing
about any new treaty with Canada. This
shows what the State Department misses by
not reading the daily apers.-[Philadelphia
Press.
Rev. NJ. T. LAME of Salt Lake City, who
has been lecturing In Philadelphia on Nor
monism, says the Latter Day Saints have
more religion to the square inch than any
people in the world.
THE Oldest graduate OF Princeton now
living is Rev. John Rodney OF Philadelphia,
who is also the Oldest clergyman Of the
Episcopal Church in this country lie was
born in 1876 aud graduated in 1916.
MISS ANNA PEMBERToS, daughter of the
late Confederate General Pemberton, Is q
mtmI er Of the religious order OF All Saints,
IN which she H. uOwn as Sister Bernarline,
ard hi s her residence IN Philadelphia.
"Go LONG, CHILE" said a colorel cook
the other day when her young mistress was
telling her about the Virgins earthquakes;
$50 long wild yer nonsensel Coda nifty
d0n' 20 aud tell anybody what He's gwine
ter do: He ies' 20 long and do 1t. N. O..
Times Democrat.
A PITTsBURG man advertised for a cook,
and received this note from citizen of
Allegheny: Dear sir; nave seen your ad-
yertisenert for a cook for three days In the
papers. When you get what you want please
send the rest Of the girls to me, as / don't
care TO advertiser
PTEpRAs NEGRAs, to which place Mr.
Allen OF South Carolina was yesterday APP
pointed Consul, is in Mexico, just opposite
Eagle Pass, and is town OF about s 0J0 In
hahitauts. The mining industry Is we'll
represented here, and here also are the
shops and main Offices OF the Mexican In
teTnational Railroad.
The Washington critic., 1886-09-28
THE nRIpGru BUSINESS

The report of Building Inspector
Entwisle and Engineer McComb, t.
the effect that the Aqueduct Bridgs is
not safe, has created no general sur
prise. In the opinion Of good many
people the bridge has not been safe for
two or three years Neither will the
report occasion any great amount of
roget 1.-THE bridge is of no account
and dangerous to cross it should of
course be closed to travel, and the
sooner, we are bound to believe, will
measures be taken for the erection of
sti ucture far better suited to the pub
lie convenience and of more modern
character.
1t is true that the closing of the
bridge, for the time being and II might
be for q considerable time, would
prove serious drawback to the large
numbers of people who have hitherto
made use of its facilities for getting in
and out of the District and the primi-
tive style of crossing by ferry may
have to be temporarily adopted, but
these considerations will only serve to
emphasize the necessity for furnishing
other accommodations for trade and
travel and naturally stimulate energetic
action in the premises.
The bridge being condemned by the
grand jury or other competent au-
thority, there should be fewer difficult
ties than before in the way of effecting
transfer Of the property to the Gov
ernment under the act of June last. Its
value to owner or buyer is certainly
much less; but the character and
amount of the lien which the Govern.
ment is said TO already have in the
bridge, remains to be determined and
the legal technicalilies involved herein
may tend to a further embarrassment of
negotiations
Assistant Secretary Fairchilj, repre-
senting the interests of the Government,
has requested the directors of the
canal company to call meeting Of the
stockholders TO consider the question
of accepting the provisions of the act
OF Congress; while the directors, almost
simultaneously, refuse 10 call such a
meeting; so that the outlook Is still
further complicated in this direction
In the meantime, also, it is to the
interest of the friends of the Three
Sisters project to interpose all possible
obstacles to the transfer inasmuch as
the act of Congress which provides
for the new Aqueduct Bridge limits to
six months the period for acquiring a
fee simple title to the property, and, in
case of failure, authorizes and
directs" the Secretary of War to
cause the Three Sisters Bridge to be
constructed, which he would be com.
PEELED to do, should not Congress sec
fit, In view of the changed situation oi
affairs, to adopt some entirely new
legislation upon the subject during the
first three weeks of its session. This
may be, bnt is not probable.
Whatever is or is not done, however,
The Washington critic., 1886-09-28
WASHINGTON, SEPT. %, 1886.
THE CRITICS" FATuERLY AD-
VICE TO a DISCHARGED CLERK.

A Pension Office clerk, who was re.
Gently removed, as he says, and, no
toubt, truly says, because of his be-
ing Republican. proceeds TO argue
the case with the President on the
public. .ofllceis.a public trust line. He
says that Mr.. Cleveland has repeat.
edly promised that retention In Office
should be governed solely by eff
cheney and devotion in that trust
Therefore, continues the man with a
grievance, his removal is an act Of
injustice and Inconsistency.
THE CRITlc has no sort of sympa-
thy with Republicans who talk this
kind Of stuff and who haven't sense
enough TO see that being kept In
Office merely by the suiTerance of n
Democratic Administration, they have
no reason to complain when that suffer
ance is exhausted and they have to go.
We should have no sympathy with
Democrats similarly situated with re-
gard to Republican Administration.
In the case of the clerk in question
1t seems to have escaped his attention
altogether that he was not dismii s 'd
for being good clerk, but Because the
Acting Commissioner of Pensions
thought he could get another man,
who, in addition TO being equally com
petent, would not put in his spare time
abusing the Administration which
furnished him with an honorable liveli-
hood. This is about all there is of the
case any way.
In all these matters it ought to be re
membered that in making fidelity to
duty q condition of retention in office,
the President did not renounce the
right, nor seek TO deprive his depart
ment officials of the right, TO put even
n good man out, in order TO place q
better man in The interests of Civil
Service Reform are not at all endan-
gered by such course; neither is 1t
any contradiction of the principle that
public office is a public trust, for the
trustee to exercise absolute control owe.
hi; trust and do for 1t the best he can
according to the authority invested In
him by the people.
We can only say to our Republican
friends, who labor under the impress
sion that their removal from office
under the present Administration is a
great National outrage, that the sooner
they dlsabusc themselves of this idea,
as also of the idea that they have som
sort of lien on Democratic patronage,
the better for their peace of mind.
A great big grown up man, who
happens to be disposscsscd of a small
Government clerkship to which he has
neither the moral nor political right,
never appears to so little advantage as
in pleading the baby act for public
sympathy.
The Washington critic., 1886-09-28
1t Made no DiTcrenee.

Nehemigher Is the name OF phllosoph-
ical old Dutch ferryman on Rock River 10
Lee County. His quaint sayings are the
talk and amusement of the countryside.
One day man wanted to be rowel over the
river He frankly confessed he had no
money. "Vot difference dosh 1t make vot
side OF der rifier you bees on II you have no
monishp asked the philosopher, and reso-
lutely refused TO do so useless thing as to
take him oss.-[Genesee Ill.) News.
The Washington critic., 1886-09-28
WHAT PoETs KNOW.

If | knew what poets know,
Would | write rhyme
OF the buds that never blow
In the summer time?
Would sing OF golden seeds
Sprin2ing up In iron weeds,
And of ralDdrops turnel To snow
II knew what poets know?
Did know what poets do,
Would | sing song
Sadder than the pigeons coo
When the days are longf
Where found "A heart In pain
Iwould give II peace again;
And the false should be the true
Did know what poets do.
If knew what poets know,
would find n theme
Sweeter than the placid flow
OF The fairest dream
would sing OF love that lives
on the errors II fOrgiyes;
And the world would better grow,
II knew what poets kaow.
-[James Whilcomb Riley In the Current.