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AUCTION SALES.
FUTURE DAYS.
RADCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO., AUCTS.
Successors to Radcliffe, Darr G. Co..
Magnificent Bar
Fixtures, stock inn
Trade of ssAshburm
Buffet GOO H,3th
street northwest.

On TUEDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER TWEEN.
TY-FOURTH, at TEN O'CLOCK, we will sell, at
the handsome buffet, No. COS 18th street northwest
by order of the owner, the entire contents con.
tanned therein, which comprises:
Magnificent Oak Bar Fixtures Zone of the finest
in this city, Cigar Case, Large Ice Box, Mirrors,
Tables, Chairs, Pictures, Chamber Furniture, Bed
etc.
House now open for inspection
TERMS CASH.
RADCLIFFE, SUTTON 4 CO., Aucts.
se20d&dbs
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AUCTION SALES.
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DUNcANsoN BROS, AUcT1oNEERs.
TRUSTEES SALE OF THE TWo-SToRY AM
BASEN ENT BRICK RESIDENCE KNOWN A

TRUSTEES SALE OF THE TWo-STORY AND
HASEA EST BRICK RESIDENCE. KNOWN AS
By virtue Of decree Of the Supreme Court Of
the District Of Columbia, passed in Equity Cause
No. 156OS, wherein Michael G. Mccormick is COM
pfipant and Robert e. L. White ct al. are de-
BY said decree. win offer for SALE at public auc-
tion, In front Of the premises on WEDNESDAY,
THE NINTH DAY OF OCTOBER. AID 1895, AT
FIVE O'CLOCK PM, all the right, title and In
Robert E. L. White, In and to the following de
scribed real est6te, mentioned In the aforesaid de-
cree to wit: Lot numbered hundred and seventy
seven Q1D, according to the subdivision made by
numbered four hundred md forty-aye (445) in the
city Of Washington. in the District Of Columbia as
per plat recorded in Liber No. Is, folio no. in the
once of the surveyor CT the District of Columbia
together with the Improvements, consisting Of
two-story and basement brick residence known as
No. G3S Q street northwest subject to a certain
ct VI. to W. Clarence Duvall and John Joy Edson
truf Tees dated January %. 1894. and recorded
January q, 1894, in Liber 1892, folio %. ct seq
one of the land records Of the District of Co
said Robert E. L. White dated January e. 1894
and payable to the order of Sarah H. Hawkins
two years after date for the sum of three thou
Terms of sale: One third Of the purchase money
in cash, and the balance thereof In equal INSTALL
ments in one and two years from the day Of SALE
issory notes q the purchaser Or purchasers, with
terest payable seni-annuaiIy, secured by a deed
Of trust ,, upon The property sold A deposit Of
ehascrs at the time the property is knocked down.
Terms Of sale to be complied with within twenty
days from the day Of sale, the trustee re-
serves the right to resell ut the risk and costs OF
the defaulting purchaser after ten days notice.
se20-d&ds 1923 ~ ct. NV.
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RADCLIFFE SUTTON 4 CO.. AUCTIONEERS
Successors TO Radcliffe, Darr & Coz

TRUSTEES SALE OF ROW OF FOURTEEN FINE
HOUSES NEARLY COMPLETED, ON W
STREET BETWEEN THIRTEENTH AND
FOURTEENTH STREETS NORTHWEST, IN
WASHINGTON CITY, D. C.
BY virtue OF fourteen separate deeds of trust all
dated July 1, 1893, and recorded in Liber number
1s45 at foios 4O5, 400 4l3 AIT, 40, "a and 42s;
and as7; and in Liber number 1868. at folios l, 8
lie auction. In trout Of said premises. on MONDAY,
SEPTEMBER THIRTIETH, 1895, AT HALF-PASf
FOUR O'CLOCK PM lots numbered las, 49, $50,
151, 1872 1853, 1884, 1856, 156. 1871, 1853, l5s i8o and
161, in VIM. W. McCullough's subdivision Of the
north IS feet Of lots numbered II to 20 inclusive
Of VIM. Il. and Philander c. Riley's subdivision, in
square numbered 2s5, as the said Mccullough 8
subdivision is recorded In Liber 20, page 152, In
the Office of the surveyor Of said District Said lots
improved by fourteen hne 3-story brick and
stone dwelling houses, nearly completed, and built
in the best manner. with ali modern Improvements.
Terms of sale: One-third Cash, and balance 10
equal installments. in one and two years from day
of SALE with interest," and satisfactorily secured
the property, all ccsh, at the option Of the pur
chaser A deposit of 500 required at time of sale
for each lot and all conveyancing to be Mt the cost
Of the purchaser.
JOB BARNARD Trustee.
SAMUEL C. ROWLAND, Trustee.
EDWARDS BARNARD, Attorneys,
500 9Th st. NV. se17-d&da
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RADCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO., AUCTIoNEERS.
Successors TO Ratcliffe, Darr & Coz
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GEORGE II. JUDD,
WARING z. EVANS,
JOHN d. BARTLETT,
EyArt,fs,ya
THos. BOWLING & CO.. AUcrIoNEERs.

C. G. SLOAN & CO., Auctioueers,
1907 q at sa17-dts
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RATCLIFFE, SUTTON q CO., AUCTS.
Successors to Ra1clifle, Darr & Coz
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C. G. SLOAN & CO., AUCTIONEERs,
1407 G @st--n.w.--.
Successors to Latimer e. Sloan.l
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seS-d&ds

OTHE ABOVE SALE IS POSTPONED UNTIL
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER THIRTIETH, 1895, SAME
HOUR and PLACE. By order of trustees.
The advocate., 1895-02-13

possessions Of the dead is universally
recognized. Why start anyone in life
with more than can be fairly earned in
many long lives Of toll and frugalityP ?
Though it is not 80 difficult for
America to shake off its obligation to
pay tribute to Europe as for the Irish
people to free themselves from English
landlordism, the problem is compli
Gated and difficult. The first step is
to raise American investors to a level
with foreign, in respect of taxation.
The second is to maintain the same
standard of value for the payment Of
debts as existed when they were con-
tracted.
l do not suggest these things as all
sufficient remedies for all social ills,
but as simple and just. The forms of
social organization we call government
must of course develop with, and con-
form to, the inventions and progress
of the age guided by a constant pur-
pose to better the conditions, not
merely of the few, but of all.
The sum of my suggestions is that,
if our country is to fulfill its cherished
destiny in establishing a free govern
ment on a lust and permanent basis.
an end must come Of foreign tribute,
and the rule of the millionsires with
their barbsric msgniicence and at.
tendant vice must give way to that of
a republic, whose chief distinctions
rest on duty we'll performed, mental
excellence and moral worth.
S. II. ALLEN.
The advocate., 1895-02-13

other words, would prevent one man
having an advantage over another by
reason Of using land of greater income
producing power, The persons using
land only through others, as employees
and boarders in others houses, should
not be taxed for public improvements
to render other mems land more valu.
able, nor to support a government
which gives them nothing in return.
l am unable to reconcile your two
plans of "title by occupation and use,
by actual settlers only" and your other
theory of Gland being no longer bought
and sold, and no private ownership Of
it," The former cOntemplates-or in
fers private ownership-"title by oc-
cupstlon and use"-and the latter title
and occupation on the communal plan
or through the single.tax. 1t was your
references to distribution to actual
Settlers" and to "title by occupation
and use" which led me to infer that
you indOrsed continuance of rent and
of unearned increment, as well as
your hauling me over the Goals for
thinking you indorsed Bellamyism or
any other form Of communism, and
your opposition to "eonfscstion" Of
land. long since admitted that under
communism there would be no rent to
private parties, but you then dis
claimed such plan, though that is the
only logical deduction of what you
mean by an improved social state in
which there is no land values, ETC., etc.
/ use the word Communism" instead
of socialism" because the former is
specific and the latter is generic, and
because what you have limited at Of
your improved social conditions in
dicsted communism rather than any
form of partial socialism.
1 believe communism, nationalism,
or any other form of state socialism
would be as bitter disappointment TO
its advocates as "a protective tariff
has been to its advocates, and for the
same reason, wit, that it enthrones
government and governors at the ex-
pense Of the common people, and cru.
clfes liberty. Socialziug public utih-
ties, and access to the use Of the earth
on equal terms to all, leaves the indi-
Vldusl free to choose his own occupa-
tion and to live his own life, and are
indeed necessary to give indivldualism
free play, but communism makes him
q cog in machine and places him at
the mercy of those in authorize How
can you both believe in having y-
ernment cheapened and simplifed, and
also in having its functions so extended
to supervision of individual production
and distribution of all commodities as
to destroy location and mineral values
Of land. Such elimination Of rental
values as you propose in case OF mines
(haYe them worked for thepubliconlyb
COAeinlsd on PAGE n
The advocate., 1895-02-13
THF NJ GLE.TAX.
An Able Champion Presents His Side Of the
Case -(COntinupd)
BY W. Il. r. WAKEFIELD.


BY W. Il. r. WAKEFIELD.
Nothing has been further from my
intention than to misconstrue or mis-
state you, as that is method of dis
cussion which l heartily despise and
never knowingly indulge in. If l have
mistaken what you intended to say, it
is because your real position has been
obscurely limited at rather than frankly
stated. l frankly admit that your real
sentiments have been puzzle to me
throughout this discussion, as find it
utterly impossible to reconcile your
various positions, as, for instance, in
calling the single-tax measure of con.
fiscstion, yet denying the ju0tice of
rent to private parties, and in propOs-
ing to "reclaim" land to divide among
actual settlers without indicating any
method of distributing such land by
either value or area, or of securing the
natural right to land of those who get
left in the distribution, or who come to
maturity or across the ocean, or wish
to change occupation, after distribu-
tion. All your darkly-Veiled utter
snces of ian improved social order"
led me to believe your ideal was COM
munism, yet you object to my saying
so. Is it quite fair to accuse me of
Misrepresentation because you do not
choose to clearly state your real opin-
ions?
l am considerably surprised that you
think it possible to abolish rent, or
doubt that rent is natural law of the
universe, hence must persist, under
any possible social policy. You ask
for the tables of stone on which this
natural law is written, but it was
another kind of law that was said to
have been engraved on stone. Laws
of the universe are discovered by OBJ
servatiOn and experience, and to con.
form ones thoughts and actions to
them is the very height of wisdom.
Most of the wrongs and suffering of
mankind are caused by statute laws
not conforming to natural law.
Landlords are the product of stat
utes, but rent is not, for rent is a fact
in nature and would obtain in the sb-
The advocate., 1895-02-13

AO ACFOuuO w oil OuOS huLuou udnAo
now gather from its fertile field food
for millions, and pay tribute there.
with to the children of fortune. The
grandest building goes to decay, and
yields no revenue without human ten
ants. The greatest factory, equipped
with the most approved lsbOr-ssVing
appliances, brings forth no product un-
less commanded by human intelligence
and tended by human hands. What
great principle ordained by the creator
for the government of the children of
men requires that one class suffer in
idleneSs from sheer surfeit of the good
things of earth while millions of toll
ers suffer from want of themP
If hundred men, more or less, own
all the island of Manhattan, and from
it derive an income not only sufficient
for all their wants, but affording
vast surplus for re-inVestment, how
can any other person obtain fOothOld
thereP How may Ireland be WreSted
from its English landlOrdsp Why may
not the same conditions extend over
the whole United StatesP The small
holder who is in debt must always bor-
row or sell. The process of crushing
out the small holders and small dealers
goes steadily forward with the chill
and crushing force of a growing
glacier, and year by year the army of
dependent laborers is recruited and
packed till it OverAoWs with tramps
and pauperS to make room for the
steady and triumphant march of
growing msgnifcence.
A millionaire without a dependent
multitude is an impossibility. The es-
timated 64 billions of dollars of wealth
In the United States cannot posi- ,ly
make more than $4,000 millionaires.
What is there, then, for the rest but
dependence and serVitude? Ifin gov
ernment it is not safe to trust all
power in the hands of one man, or q
chosen few, is it wise to trust all in
dustrial interests in the hands of a
small select clasp The functions of
government, as now recognized, are
few and simple, when compared with
the vast and complicated business op.
erations of the age, To direct them
successfully requires the wisdom and
energy of all. A czsr may be a great
and good sman, but Russian despot-
ism is not good for an enlightened peo-
pie. Still less is there good in indus
trial despotism.
Now, as to remedies. All taxes for
the support of the general government,
save the new and trivial income tax,
are levied on expenses and consump-
tion. Those who need to expend the
largest proportions of their incomes
are, therefore, forced to pay the high
est rate of taxation. The surplus in.
come Of the millionaire is wholly un-
taxed.
The foreign investor fares yet best of
all. No federal tax Vexes him. If his
investment is by way of loan, he also
wholly escapes state and local taxa
tion. Courts, sheriffs, and armies if
necessary, stand ready to protect what
ever is deemed of sufficient import
snee to need protection, without
money or reward from him.
The advocate., 1895-02-13

AAeA bAAA Va PAOAg AA OStNFNAA~E "a N-NN ~
lands Of differing degrees Of fertility
or value, and these differences Of fer"
tility, smoothness of surface, mineral
or forest wealth, or location value for
residence or business purposes, are
facts of nature which man is not re-
sDonsible for, and which he can only
slightly modify. To receive rent it is
not necessary that one must have a
tenant, for to own and use land of
superior value is to receive rent from
the community.
Long ago in this discussion / admit
ted that under Bellsmyism or any sim
liar form of communism, rent would
go to the commune, but you haul me
over the Goals for thinking you indorse
these systems, hence l was justified in
thinking your underlined plan contem-
plated continuance of rent to land
lords, inssmuch as you were opposed
to taking it for the public. | trust !
am not one of those shallow reasOners
who assume that all the evils of one
system will continue under another
and different system which was de-
signed to remedy or eliminate them. l
can readily see how change of statutes
may change many other things and re-
move many wrongs, but only such as
were the result Of statutes, and not
such as result from natural causes. l
can see that change of land tenure to
divert rent from landlords to the pub.
lie treasures will abolish landlordism
and the receipt Of unearned increment
but cannot see how this would abOl-
ish the natural law Orient, or, so equal
ize values of different tracts Of land,
and density of population, that the fer
tile valley and the mountain moor or
desert sands, the rich mine and the
barren slkali plain, the city lots and
the missmic swamps Of an unsettled
region, should become equally desira-
BILE and command equal rent. Even
under the commune some places would
produce much more wealth and be
more desirable as places of residence
or business than others, and only mil
itary compulsion would suffice to COM
pei some people to occupy the least
desirable localities and they would look
upon those billeted to the most desira
BILE localities as fsVorites of the gov
ernment to whom special privileges
had been unjustly granted.
/ must still claim that you are too
indefinite when you merely speak of
giving lands to actual settlers, with.
out indicating any method Of avoiding
the evils which have grown up in
country originally taken by actual
settlers under the homestead and pre-
emption laws. Surely you would not
repeat an experiment which has been 80
thoroughly made and has 80 disas.
trously failed.
Why not tell US frankly what your
plan is and not continue to deal in
mysterious hints which lay you open
to misconstructiOnP
You say the single-tax plan does not
provide access to land in a growing
population any better than your plan
does. think it does, by opening upon
equal terms to all persons all the land
there is, and l am at loss to see how
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1T VII o." noe .ssary - t,ll YOU" hogan Mr
Mlrstou. That WIS 'arl} lcit mn orphan de
pendent upon an uncle Mr. Albert Ma'"i'n for
everything. ~" owned "a pr'sp"r'ra wo'll"n
mandatory iu Yorkshire and was u nlArr ut
Parliament A. soon as was "li 'r"uEn n" sent
mo t. public school Here remained ior seven
years Among my srhoolmlt.s was l'i named
Rudolf Won llallr; took q fancy {" nm, and the
friendship psted until IN" evening hriur" ! met
You al tie railway station. From mat day u TINS
/ have neither seen him nor heard non him.
"RuIolf was tho spu If a poor German eontlr-
man and was receiving his cdu alton on very low
terms through the kindness OF The h"al-Wastcr.
Although Rudolf returned my liNirg AMI was will
Ing enough &, pair IF with m" az my special
friend soon discovered In his character an i'm
pcnotrablc mystery. BOY aS b" was he had a
marvellous power Of rcuccncc. / have since be-
Icvcd this t. have been induced In him 10y some
abnormal circumstance connected with the family
history After time hccam" sufficiently init
mate with his family to hc Invited To spend day
or TWO with them. Their nous" was IA mere cot
tagc. and the mcnag" vas carried ON with rigid
economy. Nevertheless looked forward To these
visits II the food was plain. the conversation
had certain color which nrcl my Imagination.
l}y degrees began To think there was something
In he much more inspiritng than mere duty.
Won Hall" was I'm short t"te eXllttc. Rul III
uartpoS Of the sam" qudlltN, ana myself became
Infected by 4 certain imitation Of mind that was
morbid. and peculiarly foreign and which was
certain in time 10 thrust me upon some unusual
action.
BAT IL the Won Halle family the person who in
spircl me- with a real enthusiasm If affection was
Nine Won Halle. Her gentle. unSclish and noble
character awakened In Elc all that bOyish adura-
ton which | might have spent upon my own
mother. had possessed one; and Stll retain in
my heart tho memory of the deep regard with
which always thought of her
'Rudolf ana / were ambitious students. and at
the end OF our school career the head master sent
us mp To- Oxbridge to compete for scholarships
there. We were both successful Won the hrst
scholarship at St Thomas's; he won the
second. But then arose IA difficulty. While
Mr.. Halle glad enough to have
obtained the chance of university cduca-
saw the matter In very different ilSht lie
destined me for n partnership with himself the
had no son. but only two daughters, ana was
ayersc to my spending further time In education
throwing myself away upon literary career.
1t ended in n quarrel between us left home
and. three four months before my university
career could begin. found myself In the word
alone and with scarcely pound that could call
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offer fingered them. and stared. and Won

offer. I fingered them. and stared. and Won
dered. What could it mean?
Suddenly, from the accustomed place In my
memory where for six weeks had kept certain
indelible impressions. flashed upon me the face
OF the blue-eyed thief, and with 1t the words of
vague promise he had uttered.
Snatchng up the envelope l searched with
trembling finger while my cheeks alternately
flushed and paled. Yes, There was little note
squeezed in at the bottom; l pulled 1t out and
opened Il in breathess haste. This is how the
shocking little document ran:
Dear Miss Keith
q was fairly electrified with his impertlnence9
Il return with many grateful thanks the
money borrowed from you six weeks ago -
C'Borrowed")
-"and since my method OF proceeding was
little unusual'--
"a littleD
-"and since your ten pounds were worth to
mo many times the amount. | beg your accept
ance of what is a quite inadequate compensation
Very sincerely yours,
dropped the note: the excitement | expert.
enced was beyond words, and the incoherency of
my feeling relieved itself in few stalding tears
Come, COME said Aunt Barbara kindly;
what is It? Who is it? Show me the letter.
But would not show the letter to Aunt Bar
bara. | was squeezing 1t resth,iut s III t my
seconds of angry silence mastered hlyseH SUM
GENTLY to speak calmly.
Mother. Aunt Barbara. said |, IT Is that
thief again. One-ifth Of this money is my own.
He thinks. apparently that / VIII accept the re-
naming four notes as gift from MN!
NV mother turned pale. My Aunt barbara
lifted her hands and seemed to struggle for
words. At last they came.
..E!eanor"' cried she, you are in most dan
gerous position, This young man wishes To make
YOU his acComplice. Depend upon II, be belongs
To the swell mob. We must telegraph TO Scot
land Yard"
When my Aunt Barbara's imagination was eN-
cited II haunted dark places. | had no wish to
form leaf OFT Of a detectives records. ana IN
stinctvely shrank into myself and determined to
make little of the matter
AT any rate have got my money DacK, sdlI
7 drvlv: 1T will puzzle this thief or any other To
make me an accomplish -Four Of these notes are
not mine and of course shall not use them.
For the present shall put them in the bank.
and one day trust l may be able to restore
them 10 the rightful owner
Accordingly. | placed the notes in a sealed
envclope ana committed this to the care OF the
Middeford Bank and few days afterward re-
turned to school. But not acne one may az
well WELD where principle is not involved. Aunt
Barbara insisted upon accompanying me all the
way back II an unnecessary expenditure
of money; nothing whatever happened during
that dull Journey and We arrived at the end N
the most prosaic safety.
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EVE.

Whatever evils Day hath done,
Whatever souls have suffered wrong.
Whatever woes the falling sun
VII. leave II darkness to prolonS;
Thou art dream of beauty. Even
Thou art a dover TO lonely eyes,
Thou art an evanescent heaven
Descending through the languid skies.
Thou bringest rest 10 weary strife.
And tears t. eyes that lOnged to weep;
Thou brng'St hush TO weary NE.
A calm that deepens on 10 sleep.
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