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Valuable Autographs.


The lecture on Autograph Letters of
Distinguished Persons" delivered by Mr..
George r. Morse, at the Waverly Club
Brooklyn, on Tuesday evening, was q
singularly rich treat both to the relic
hunter and to the historian. Mr.. Morse
has amassed, by years of discriminating
industry, one of the most valuable and in
teresting private collectiona of autograph
letters in this country. 1t is particularly
rich i'll MSS. Of Revolutionary times and
comprises numerous choice unpublished
letters of Jefferson and his contempo-
raries. one of its richest features is the
famous correspondence of Governor John
Page Of Virginia with Jefferson, Edmund
Pendleton, st. George Tucker and others,
including some hundreds of letters, all of
much personal interest and many of the
highest historical value.
These precious letters, after being lost for
years, were romantically found during
the rebellion and were brought North as
''spoils of war" A few years ago they
were purchased by Mr.. Morse. Another
interesting lot is the correspondence of
General Weldon, who was intimately asso-
ciated with Washington in the campaigns
at New York and elsewhere; correspon-
dence that sheds many picturesque side
lights upon the Father of His Country
and his contemporaries 1t is understood
that Mr.. Morse will presently prepare the
Page, Weldon and other letters for publ
cation, and if so, they will rank among
the most valuable of recent contributions
to American history.
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GLEN cove PARK
Cooperative Land and Trust Company.

The SOUTHERN INVESTMENT COM
PANY now offer for sale lands which form
natural park fronting on the new Electric
Road, now built from Tenallytown to Glen
Echo Heights, which lands are capitalized at
2A cents per square foot, and stock issued at
S225 per share. Each share of stock entities
the holder thereof to one undivided lot in said
park containing one-ffth OF an acre, or STA
square feet, less the amount required for
steeets. These lots, or the proceeds thereof,
will be allotted to the shareholders at the ex-
piration of twenty-one months from date OF
first payment by the SOUTHERN INVEST
MENT COMPANY IN such manner as may
be agreed upon by majority OF shares in said
Cooperative Company.
Subscriptions to stock in said company shall
be paid as follows:
Each stockholder, for each share held, shal
pay the sum OF $40 thereon on or before the
FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH to
the Secretary OF the SOUTHERN INVEST
MENT COMPANY or such person or persons
as the SOUTHERN INVESTMENT COM
PANY shall authorize to receive the same.
ANY stockholder, at the expiration of six QD
months from date OF first payment, may with
draw from the company by giving thirty days
notice IN writing to the Secretary OF the
SOUTHERN INVESTMENT COMPANY, and
at the expiration OF that time shall be entitled
to the repayment in the order OF the date in
which he ,r she filed his or her notice, from
the first moneys received into the company, Of
all sums paid on said stock, with four az per
centum interest per annum thereon; but the
right OF withdrawal shall not extend beyond
elk Co months from the date of first payment.
Any stockholder may at any time pay the
balance due upon his or her share or shares of
| stock, and thereupon the SOUTHERN IN
| VESTMENT COMPANY will issue to such
| person or persons pald-up stock which shall
| entfte such person or persons TO one undivided
| lot (per each share of stock in said Glen Cove
| Park) containing one-Afth of an acre, as before
stated, and which shall be allotted as herein
| before provided. Each shareholder who shall
! elect to pay the full amount OF his stock prior
| to maturity, or who shall continue to pay
the monthly instalments of $40 per month
promptly, until twenty-one cen instalment'
have been paid 10, will he entitled to foul
"a per cent. interest per annum on the pal
value Of the stock as a rebate, which will MAXI
the stock cost actually only Sai0 per share.
No better or safer Investment could be OF
fered than this, as there is no possible chance
to lose, and being organized on the saving
bank principle, purchasers receive on thel
money an interest amounting to tho rate .
more than eight (S) per cent. per annum, he
sides the prospective aud undoubted increas
the value OF their purchase.
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EMPEROR AND PRINCE.
They Discuss Wives and the Best Way
to Manage the Dear Creatures.
l.

From The NetO York Sun
The death of Prince Napoleon has
flooded the Paris papers with anecdotes
and gossip, relating principally to life in
the Tuileries under the second empire.
The inundation has not yet subsidized, and
among the interesting things floating
about, here is one from NJ. Pierrie de
Lano, which he obtained from one of q
famous five, whose name he conceals by
describing him as NJ. ". One after
noon NJ. " was in the private Office of
the Prince when the Emperor appeared,
after having tapped on the door of the
little secret passage that united the two
palaces. NJ Y rose to leave, but the
EmI eror requested him to remain. Lean
ing against the mantelpece, the Emperor
said to his cousin.
Say, Napoleon, does your wife make
scenes for your
What scenes could she make?"
''Scenes of jealousy, for example"
mo"
"Well, that is strange, for you are maui
vas suiet and petticoat hunter. Every
body knows that and Clotilde can't very
well be ignorant of it"
Yes. that is true, am what you say,
| and my wife, no doubt, knows my habits.
But why should she bother me2 Victor
Emanuel, her father, was also person Of
the same sort. she Knows that, too and
inasmuch as her husband is like her
father she can't very, well complain, since
that's the way with kings
The Emperor smiled. "You are a queer
moralist said he, and a happy man. |
wish had wife like yours. Life is inn
possible with Eugenie | can't have an
audience with any lady or cast glance at
one without running the risk of violent
| quarrel. The Tuileries is full of the noisy
lamentations of the Empress. But, say
Napoleon, do you know any way in which
can make Eugenie less quarrelsome?"
There is only one sire
What is itY'
Give your wife good drubbing the
next time she undertakes to make 0
scene"
Impossible, said the Emperor. sadly
"If had the misfortune even to threaten
Eugenie she is quite capable of opening
one of the windows of the Tuileries and
| yelling help murder y
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WORKING WOMEN.
some Interesting Facts and Figures
About Them.
E3Cm ne New To1k Rccorder.

nan ne NeW To,k Rccotder
In recent report ON the factory and
workshop industries in which women are
employed Carroll Wright remarks the
almost total absence of the Amercan-born
girl. Here are some cold-blooded statls-
tics as TO the amount of wages earned by
women in some industries in New York;
Milliners average $3.50 a week; shirt
makers, S3 underwear makers, 50; cloak
makers, 81, 80; boxmnkers, 81; feather
workers. 81 mems clothing makers, ST.
No wonder the American girl is not to be
found in these industries. How could
she live on such an income? But the ques-
ton remains, where is she?
Working women in other lands seem to
fair even worse than in our own. In
Austria they are employed as hod-
carriers. With their heavy loads of brick
and mortar on their shoulders they trudge
up and down narrow planks or climb
ladders from o'clock in the morning
until 6 o'clock at night. For this they
receive twenty cents dav. Girls work
ing in the match factories of England be-
come permeated with the chemicals and
minerals used. The sulphur sometimes
eats their jaws in the most painful and
disgusting way. Their wages average
81 so week.
A German manufacturer of corsets seems
to have taken leaf from the American
notebook BY alluring advertisements in
newspapers he succeeded In bringing Il
great many country girls from the sub
urbs to Berlin, where his factory is located.
The girls were boarded and lodged in the
factory. They were never permitted to
leave it, were paid no money, and alto
gether had very hard time of it, Even
the application of the whip when mistakes
were made was not uncommon.
If any employer i'll New York were to
think of such thing as providing lodging
and boarding for his help in the top story
of his establish howl would go up
that would shake poor old Hendrick
Hudson out of several pairs OF his Dutch
breeChes. Yet it is not uncommon at all
in England, and no one seems to mind it.
In nearly all the large retail shops in Lon
don the saleswomen sleep and eat as well
as work in the building. Even the black
silk dresses they wear during their work
ing hours belong to their employers. To
the American sense of the fitness of things
the total abolition of home life which
this means seems absolutely criminal.
The English employer defends it on the
ground that girls who live at home and
provide for themselves are apt to keep late
hours, to have uncomfortable homes to
sleep in and have improper food. This
they claim is obviated in their plan; good
food is provided the doors are locked at
II o'clock, and every one must be in at
that hour. They also claim that by this
system they secure much more satisfactory
help, which makes profitable the addi-
tional OUTLAY
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LLORlDk

FLoRlDA
Lands held in reserve for serveral years by
the State Government are now opened to set.
tiers at their actual value.
These reserved lands lie along the eastern or
Atlantic Coast, between st. Augustine and Bis.
cayne Bay, one-half mile to six miles from the
ocean, arge portion being ia below the
frost limits.
This is the only eastern section in the United
States where 1t Is possible TO raise semi-tropi-
cal fruit and where early vegetables anc fruits
can be raised in time to catch the highest
Northern prices.
Much of this land is owned By the Florida
Coast Line Canal and Transportation Com.
pany, and bears fine growth OF timber,
from which large sums may be realized. The
section along the Indian River and Lake Worth
is well settled, and the land is the most vaua-
bic in the State, the cast coast being tapped by
four railways, and the rivers along the coae
being naYigated by steamboats,.
Improved transportation facilities and de-
lightful climate (peing 80 near the ocean the
air is much more bracing than further inlandl
make this an excellent opportunity for actual
settlers.
Prices OF land range from 50 per acre upward.
We shall be pleased to send maps township
plans and full information to all who are inter-
ested.
FLORIDA COAST LINE CANAL AND
TRANSPORTATION CO.,
ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA.
JOHN W. DENNY, President.
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baltimore n OHIO RAILROAD.

Leave Washington from station corner OF NJ
Jersey avenue and q street.

Leave Washington from station corner OF New
Jersey avenue and street.
For CHICAGO and Northwest, Vestibued Linz
tied express daily 11.3O n. m, express $3.50
d. IN,
For CiNcINNATI, st Louis and Indianapolis,
express daily, $50 and II 80 p. IN.
For PITTsBURG and Cleveland, express daily
LOO and 80 p. m.
For LEND GToN and points In the Shenadoah
Valley, tlO4O a. m.
FoR WINCHESTER and way stations 1880 p. m.
FoR LURAY, $3.50 p. m.
FoR BALlIMoRE, week days, 4O5, 800, 6.35. T. 20,
7.30, 600 45-minutesl, $50, 935, 1000, 11.O0,
a. m, 1900 noon, 45-minutes), 1910, 215. 2.59,
(315, 45minutes), 325, AS, 4,3O 400, (5.10, 10
and II 30 p. IN. Sundays, 4,05, T.20, T,3O, $50,
9.35 10.00a. m, 1900 noon, 45-minutes), 100,
215, $50 1926, 4.30, 400, (5.10, 45-minutes),
G.15, $40, 7.30, 800, 1880, II 80 p. m.
For ANNAPOLIS, 6.35 and $50 ~ m, 1910 and
4.25 p. m. Sundays, $50 u. M, 43O p. m.
For FREDERICK, t1l3O a. M, sl.l5, 1880, t4.3O
For HAeERsTowN. +1O.4O a. m. and 1880 p. m.
ROYAL BLUE LINE FOR NEW YORK AND
PHILADELPHIA.
For New YORK, Boston and the East, Fi.05,
1890, $1,000, a. m, Dining Carr, Fi2.0O noon.
$3.50, $50 Dining Carr, and $3.50, 1000 I'M.
Buffci Paror Cars on all day trains. Sleeping
Car on the 1880 p. M; open at 1900 D. III.
FoR ROsToN, $3.50 p. m, with Pullman Bunet
Sleeping Car running through to Boston
without change, via Poughkeepsie Bridge,
landing passengers in b, y Nj. station at
Boston.
FoR PHILADELPHIA, +4.O5 1900, 1000, a. m,
*12.0O noon, $3.50, 1910, $3.50 and *l0.SO p. m.
For NEWARK, DEL Wilmington and Chester,
#i.O5, 1870 n, m, *l2,OO noon, F2.5O, "o.lO,
$3.50 and 5000 D. m. Limited express
stopping at Wilmington only, 1000 a. m.
FoB ATLANTIo CITY. 4,05 and 1000 a. M, 12.OO
noon. Sundays, 4.O5 A. m, 1900 noon.
For time OF suburban trains see time tables
TO he had OF all ticket agents.
tExcept sunday. #Daily sSunday only.
Baggage called for and checked from hotels
and residences by Union Transfer Company on
orders left ut ticket offices, 0i9 and 1851 Penn
sylvania avenue, ana at Depot
j. n. ODELL, CHAS. o. SCULL,
Gen. Manager. Gen. Pass Agt.
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DlssoLUTIoN SALE
NOW GOING ON AT THE
new YORK CLOTHING House
Contlnues Dally ON Jnne 1.

OWING to the change winch VIII occur In onr
firm on June ist, VIC are compelled to sacrifice
our large stock of clothing. The inventory
shows S1G5 600 worth of Mems. Bows and
Children's
UIGH.CLASS CLOTHING
or our own make. As we must pay the re-
firing partners large sum in cash. we have
concluded TO ofrer our entire stock (ror cash
only) atone half the cost of production.
Hear in mind this is not A catch-penny reduc-
tion sale, nor a sale OF odds and ends but a
bona lde dissolution sale of the highest grade
clothing, all OF this seasons production.
SIRE TtIESE Prices
ON Ma, 0Sh hhTA aI .,lnI m,Os1 s,e,. r.dno,,
oOO men SUNS all sNes' Si'oo' rcuuccu
IRON onl SlO. en,.. ouuoo, soo,, =. or,ow.v
o.o 90 Meh Su..s, us at'mool' saoA VI o"''""S'
SOW reduced IRON ~, ic,,.,o.. c,.s,,,.,., -.
l,oov hem o sults III VI
WoIsted, $3.50; Teduced IRON Slo. u,.,
mgu nj =" t.t
SneVlots, Diagohals, etc strlGty s,, S,
anu mnIIate1 n,i Mooa, ft'' on , S 81
Lou pairs men fahts' ~ sIyles' 81 he-
ugu uuceu rom SI.!o ~. q. .., e,.o ~
GOV M alIs nSr iS 1 "nts' - s'gl0s' Fi''V' "o
uuce1 oon rom rom 81 ~. o.a., 90 .o w.
ranted aiI WOOL Rednccd from Si *
5000 elegant Mems Pants at $3.50, $3.50, IS,
anu an 20 ilhcludilhs tne nnGst lRiporteu h'"'eri"i
III nSneeks, PlSids, anu STRIPES, .s :, 20 90
ooo Dye o oRoS coiS pmiss' ss II W 10
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Ten Per Cent. Reduction In Furniture
for Thirty DAYS.

We are gong to move from our present loca.
tion to the commOdious new building No. 5l3
Seventh street northwest, opposite the U. s.
Postofice Department. April will see MS in
our new establishment, but until then we will
see all at the old stand, $50 and 932 Seventh
shall orer our entire stock OF the latest and
best makes of Furniture Carpets, etc, at 10
per cent. reduction from former prices. No
faircr terms can be made anywhere than at
Rudden's Furniture and Carpet Stores $50 and
939 Seventh street northwest.
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AmerIean vs.. TurkI.h police.


"1he AngloSaxton race prides itself on
It's police, said Mr.. Oscar Strauss, eX
United States Minister to Turkey, the
other day, "but here is an incident our
authorities may like 10 hear of. DR.. Bliss
of Brooklyn has q brother in CONSTANT
nople who is member of the American
colony and is also physician Dr. Bliss
of Constantinople Is subject to periods of
uncOnciousness He was visiting in
Brooklyn not long ago, and while resting
on a bench while crossing the Brooklyn
Bridge became unconscious lie woke
up in police station in Brooklyn and
found that his valuable gold watch and
his purse had been taken. He never
learned what became Of them, While in
Constantinople DR.. Bliss was several times
overcome in similar way, and he never
lost a cent or missed an article of iewelry
on awakening in charge Of the Turkish
police
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Sole Agents for the Albany Venetian
Blind,

w. II. Houghton Manufacturing Company
are the agents for the Albany Venetian blinds
We are prepared to furnish the "Albany''
blinds in any wood natural finish or stained
TO match. On Jobs of any size we gladly send
sample blind for inspection. We guarantee
carefully selected woods, kiln dried aud thor
oughly carefully and properly finished. Our
finish is uneXceled.
w. II. HoUGHToN MANUFACTURING Co.,
1918 and 1870 street northwest.
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Breach of promise TriaIs.


Men are not constituted with tender,
huttering hearts as women are. They are
sturdier philosophers, too, and comfort
themselves in the dIsappointments of
love by the brutal maxim that there are as
fine fish in the sea as ever were caught.
These diametrically opposite conditions
suggest that men ought not TO be permitted
TO decide questions where woman's
heart and wOman's love are the issue
Juries in such cases ought to be composed
of women and not of men. Man is un-
fitted for weighing in the nice balance Of
equity a woman's affections on one side
and bag of gold on the other The wo-
manly sense of justice and her keen ap-
probation of the suiferings of the disap-
pointed of her sex, are just the qualities
1uries in breach Of promise cases demand
ard they make a combination that can
not be found in all creation outside Of the
ranks of the gentler sex.
On the whole, we believe that wo-
mans jury system for this class of cases
would result in equal justice to all around
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Not THAT Kind of a Cat.
From NE Chicago Nei

Itnow appears that Miss Kate Field il
the self-confessed owner of cat which
she bought last year in London and
named Stanley in honor of the African
explorer. A slight tinge of romance has
recently been given to the affair by the
circumstance of the feline pet having be
come the mother of seven kittens.
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Our snnerior FnclIitIes

enable MS 10 turn out the very best work
mansnip and most perfect fit in our GUS
tom department, and our stock of inn
ported and domestic fabrics have no equal
as to variety and completeness. Eiseman
Bros, Seventh and Il,
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CITY SPECIALS.
The National Safe Deposit Company of
Washington,

Corner Fifteenth street and New York avenue.
Storage for silverwarc, jcwelry, laces, fine
goods and valuabes OF all kinds. Charges
moderate. safe deposit boxes for rent ut the
very lowest rates
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There Is something radically wrong about
the man who can have exactly the same Opin,
ion of his own baby that other people have
SCDieiCiHe JOulHdi.
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The branch road that reaches Saratoga is a
trunk line-if the baggage is considered -
Netg OliedBS Pjcdy,D,e.
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II is curious about people who cannot sleep
nights, They can always sleep through Chore
time in the morning -BiHghGBiptoR Repub-
HcdH.
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OVER THE NUTS AND WINE.

Washington society loses Minister Roustan,
who II promoted OF that, now.
American eagle Ito Madrid. - HartfOyt
COUydRt
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'All's fair in love and war and on street
cars, said the conductor, a. he counted mp his
fare-St. JOseph NelrS
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When woman becomes suffragist some
how she looks ms though She carries pistol. -
AtchiSOa G(Obe.
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You can never measure how long D man will
be missed in this world by the length Of his
widows yeil.-AtchisOR Globe.
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Remember the boys short pants and
suits we advertise from 81 up. Eiseman
Bros, Seventh and Il.
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ID ICHMoND AND DANyILLE RAILROAD
III COMPANY,

passenger station, Washington, ID. &.
Vile & Lynchbarg, l. ROCKY @ kiPMdpafi Mount ife panvIe,
Greensboro, Raleigh, Ashevlle, Charlotte, Co
lumbia, Aiken, Augusta, Atlanta, Birming
ham, Montgomery New Orleans, Texas and
California. Pullman Sleeper New York to At
leans. Pullman Sleeper Danvillc via Column
bia and Augusta to Macon; connects.at Lynch
burg with Norfolk and Western Railroad for
Roanoke, Bristol, Knoxville, Chattanooga and
the Southwest.
12:10'p m.--Daily, Washington and South
western Nestibuled Limited, between WASH
ington and Atlanta composed entirely OF Pull
man cars, on which an extra rate of fare Is
charged; arrives Atlanta q. m next day.
Consult time table for stops.
$50 a. m. and 2:26 p. m.-Daily, except Sun
day, for Strasburg and intermediate stations.
4:35 p. m.-Daily, runs TO Lynchburg; carry
burg and Bristol.
1i:0O D. Southern Express daily for
Lynchburg, Danyile Raleigh, Asheville,
Charlotte, Columbia, Augusta, Atlanta,
fornia Pullman Vestibule Car Washington to
New Orleans via Atlanta and Montgomery.
Pullman Sleeper New York and Washington to
Ashevlle and Hot Springs, N. g., via Salisbury.
Also Washington to Augusta via Charlotte and
Columbia.
Trains on Washington and Ohio division
leave Washington 800 a. m daily, 6:e5 p. IN.
daily and 4:i5 p. M, except Sunday, re.
turning arrive Washington $50 a. m. and 5:45
p, m. daily and G53 Il. m, except Sunday
Through trains from the South via Charlotte,
and Danvie arrive in Washington S:4S
q. M, 10:25 a. m. and 500 p. M; via East
Tennessee, Bristol and Lynchburg at 3:05 p.
m. and s:55 p. m. Strasburg local at t0:47 a. m.
Tickets. sleeping car reservations and inf0r-
nation furnished and baggage checked at Of
fee 1900 Pennsylvania avenue, and at passen-
ger station, Pennsylvania Railroad, Sixth and
y streets
JAS. L. TAYLOR, Gen Pass Agent.
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If YOUR BACK ACHES,
or you are all worn out, really good for noth.
ing, IL Is general debility. TIy
BROWR'S IRON BITTERS.
IL Will cure you, cleanse your liver, and give
good appetite.
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Congressional Hotel and Cafe.

This HOTEL AND CAFE is situated ad-
Joining the Capitol, on the most elevated point
in Washington. From its balconies beauti-
full view can he had of the entire City OF Wash
ingion, Arlington Heights. Potomac River and
the Capitol grounds
Guests accommodated with delightful, airy
and wellyentilated rooms at special rates.
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A physician registered at the County Clerk,
medical "medicle haasaS City star.
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For pure old berkley go to Thsrp's,
8lS f street northwest.