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one can buy these goods, it is certainly
false economy TO wear indoors a gown
that must do service for out Of doors.
Having purchased the goods for house
dress, many fall into another error. They
think because the material is cheap, the
dress must necessarily be made up into an
ugly wrapper shape, and the result is that
they have something which cannot be
worn outside OF their own rooms.
Make your gownup pTettily. Don't make
it tight fitting, because when work is
done you need something comfortable.
If you really desire it, you may have a
separate skirt and waist. The waist
should be crossed in surplice in front,
however, which is loose and comfortable
If tie gown be cut in one piece it will
be found more useful. Let it have a
watteau back and loose fronts, if you
like. If the latter are used they should
hang from plain yoke and be belted in
with a ribbon band that fastens each
side of the Vatican with a tiny bow.
A prettyidea is to have the Vatican with
semi-tight fitting fronts About the neck
and down one side of the front lace, chif-
fon OF embroidered edging may be cas-
caded. 1t must be carefully put on; how
ever, or a wrapper effect will be the result.
SUZA NNE.
The evening times., 1897-02-20
HOW HER TEACHER
HELPED ALICE LYIES
TO A CURE OF DEAFNESS

Miss Alice Lyles, 215 south Alfred
st, Alexandria, Va, fourteen years old.
i cannot remember when I was not deaf
Ny sister read about Doctor Mccoy. bat
I was afraid to go to him for fear ne
might hurt me. lie didn't though. Don't
you think ! am glad I went to him. An
Of a sudden heard what the folks were
saying at home. AtschUol
Can Hear Every Word
the teacher says My teacher is Hiss
Davis, or the Peabody School She lets
me out OF school to ke the trelftTt. NJ -
Mrs Sarah Lyles, her mother. saws.
Ny daughter had been deaf since sire
was five years old. Sne could net hear
any ordinary conversation She Is in
tensely happy over her cure by Doctor
Mccoy. She said. Ma Can hear every
body, and everything is SO plain nOw''
Miss Davis. tht. teacher. says: when
first knew Alice, that was three years
aEo, she was very deaf This term I no.
ticed IL n ore than ever, until the last few
weeks, when / noticed She heard better
Now she readily answers any Questions liz
used 20 be- painfuItO me to give her rpCfta-
tiOls at an Now she can hear me-
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THE S3 RATE A WARNING
AND A REBUKE
Against the Deceiving of the Sick by
Men Who Are Not Doctors.
Doctor Mccoy Amply Repaid for the Expense by
the Gratitude of Patients and Words of Approval
From All Right Thinking Men and Women

Doctor Mccoy Is amply repaid for
the expense involved In the SO rate
| by the gratitude of hundreds of pa
iients. who are receiving the benefit
OF his superb skill at this purely
nominal cost.
| He ts repaid thousa nd times over
| by letters and words of approval
from those who had been deceived
by medical confidence games dis
guised under the Free or No Charge.
mask, against which confidence
games the SO rate was given as a
weapon to protect the people.
When men who are not doctors at
tempt TO coin II disreputable gain ny
trading upon the sick and afflicted.
the first step In their deception IL
invariably the effort to deIude the
sick by the terms Free or NO
Charge"
when such medical fakIrs are
brought into competition with physf-
clans of skill and the Physicians of
skill have their rates so low that
they but cover their expenses, then
the bogus doctors 10 longer make
nOncy, and as IL ls money alone they
arr. after, they soon retire from the
field.
As a warming and a rebuke to them
and their Methods, the establis n ment
of the rate of So month has served
as nothing else could have served.
Doctor Mccoy gave the 50 rate to
all patients and 10 cover all diseases.
His determination that none should
be unwittingly or unknOwingly i'm
posed upon by medical pretenders
and bogus doctors was as broad as
the whole field of medicine.
Doctor Mccoy simply reserves to
himself the right to withdraw IL by
giving due notice in the public prints
necessary. He would be glad To- con
tinue this rate indefinitely for the
purpose for which it was given The
crowds of patients who are seeking
his services VIII very apparently re-
riuc,. this N a short time TO a pin ysical
inpossIbiIity. He insists upon per-
sOnal care and attention to all his
patients. He does not let out his
work TO hired doctors or cheap
saiaried men, and so he has only
promised to maintain this offer as
long as the resources of his office
will permit q; that IL, until the num-
Der of patients under treatment be-
comes SO great as to prevent the
possibility of personal care and at
tention to every case.
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HOUSE GOWNS TRUE ECONOMY

"A penny wise and pound foolish may
easily be applied to much gowning Take
the average girl who earns her own living.
In zine cases out OF ten she will complain
that her gowns wear out too quickly.
Ask why she does not save it by wearing
a house dress W hen she i S at home, and she
will invariably answer that she cannot
afford il.
That such a n anSweris most unreasonable
will easily be perceived when one visits
the stores. Never were such pretty goods
displa yed at such low prices. Chaliies
and hatistes and lawns that make good
house dresses were never SO cheap as now.
The prettieSt goods Imaginable can be SC
cured for 10 cents a yard. while and
4 cents yard is not too meager price
for something quite effective. And when
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guard that nobody cares to Interfere with
his movements, and they leave him 10
march along unmoiested. Garlic is Ie-
ported encamped with $4,000 men near
Finuicu and Jose Miguel Gomez with about
1000 men near the Taguasco farm.
This is the nucleus OF the rebel forces
operating around Sancti Spiritus. Their
organization is perfect, they are fairly
well supplied with arms and munitions,
and they are complete masters OF the
field to such an extent that nothing
enters Sancti Spiritus without per
nit and the payment pf specified taxes to
the revolution.
Jose v6ldivia, an American citizen, re-
siding near Sancti Spiiitus, formerly q
rich cattle raiser, has been ruined by the
Spanish troops. His cattle ranch has
been destroyed, the buildings burned, and
all his cattle carried away by Spanish
troops, despite the fact that he showed
his papers proving his citizenship, His
protest was OF no avail. He will now file
claim through the American consul.
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LEFT SCHOOL BECAUSE
OF HIS DEAFNESS:
HEARING RESTORED
Raymond Dick~t,l

RAY InOnd Dickson. Aged 10 Years.
BrightwOOd ave. NV, city His mother
hau 10 take him from school She saws.
Ills teacher said that Raymond was 50
deaf that it was useless to have him in
school She could not make him under
stand.
~ hen he was six years old he was run
over by carriage, one OF the wheels pass
ing over his head From this time ne
became deaf, So deaf that we found great
dirIiCulty IN making him understand at
all. II was necessary to shout at him
10 make him hear a WORT. Whenever
he Caught cold MS hearing would become
even worse
1t was because OF the statements made
by others OF their cures. of the young and
old dhke, that we took Ra ynOnd 10 Doctor
Mctoy- u makes me very happy TO say
that my son now hears perfectly. He
understands our conversation and ne can
distinctly hear "a watch tick when held
SIX inches from his ear.
with his deafness he was troubled
with rumbinE noises IN his head, which
have now ceased.
His hearing returned suddenly: we first
noticed it when we found that he could
hear every word OF our conversation
carried on in ordinary tone. We are
very grateful 20 Doctor Mccoy FOR wbat
ie mas done for our boy
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HE HAD BEEN DEAF
FIFTEEN YEA RS;
NOW HE HEA RS

James O'Hara, 722 III st. n.w.,
City: Il had been deaf for fifteen years.
was very deaf when | went to Doctor
it | could not hear one sound. never mind
how loud With my right ear. even,
could no. hear the ticking OF a clock. L
could not hear the noise made 10y the street
cars. In order TO make me understand a
word,
1t Was Necessary to Shout at Me.
Conversation carried on in ordinary tones
1 could not hear at all. Standing three
feet from a speaker | could not catch u
Word.
II attend the Church of the Immaculate
conception. Rev. Father Ryan, but it had
been impossible for me to hear his ser
mon or any part OF the service. / was
Obliged to give up the theater andleesUres.
Il am q carriage painter by trade, and
even although / was obliged to use my
ears very little, still IL was
Very Hard for Me to Keep
Position
because of my deafness. It was very
difficult to make me understand instruc-
tons.
IAN aunt OF mine who had investi gated
the cures made by Doctor MCCOY advised
me to 60 to him. i am happy that /
followed her advice. The first Indication
to Ine OF my returning hearing was the
ticking OF the clock. Now 1 can hear the
electric cars, the door bell w hen il rings,
the closing of a door, the chirping OF q
bird, nd, In fact, all ordinary sounds. It
is no longer necessary for people 70 shout
TO me as they DID before"
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RESTORATION OF
CARING LOST FROM
LIGHTNING STROKE.

j. F. DOran, 1905 y st. NV: "I
was struck by lightning about twenty
years ago and became so deaf that I
could not hear the voice of the priest
during the church service. Now can
near the sound OF the razor on my face
while shaving
After the stroke by lightning I was
UNCONSCIOUS for some time, and when I
IeEalned my senses there We're sharp
ringing noises In my ears. From that time
on began 70 lose my hearing Finally
became so deaf that / could not hear
Ofdihdry conversation, or the ticking OF
a CLOCK or the closing of the door.
ICOuId Not Hear the sermon
IN church, even when sitting very near the
Sped ker. 1 have been attending early
mass Tor a long time, but before going
70 Doctor Mccoy l could not hear a word
OF the service
Alter taking treatment, the first Inn
pFONeinent that i noticed was tnat /
could hear the voice OF the priest during
the service, which / had not done for
ytdfS- 4NDW 4 C1u near uiN L4utfly eseTy-
tiHhg ne says; can also hear ordinary
conversation going on In the same
rOoh where i am sitting In fact,
my hearing has been restored t0
its normal condition."
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CHARITY IN REFORNATORIES
The Senate Subcommittee Preparing
for the Investigation.
A Number of Inquiry Blanks Have
Been sent Out-There VIII
BE No Hurry.

Senator Mcmillan and Secretary Pit
ney, chairman and secretary respectively
OF the joint select committee of the two
houses to investigate charity in reforma-
tory institutions in the District OF Column
bia, have prepared a series of inquiry
blanks with which il is proposed to aC-
quire the Information nece esSaTy before
proceeding to the work assigned to them
by Congress. The blanks came from the
printing office yesterday and went out
in the mails to the various charitable in
stitutions today.
There are three distinct returns pro-
vided for by the new select committee.
The first applies TO the administration
OF the vari Gus charitable institutions
and calls for the name of institution or
association, location, dates of organi-
zation,' n,'incorporation and approval OF act
under which Incorporated, also copy of
charter and amendments, extent and
value Of lands occupied, also who holds
the title 10 the lands, the value of build
ings and other improvements, amount OF
Congressional appropriations for lands,
buildings and other improvements, amount
OF private gifts and endowment. To these
are added copies of constitution, bylaws
and latest annual report.
The second return blank pertains t.
population, and the answers asked for are
the name of institution, number of in
mates, number admitted and discharged
during the year, total number at present
in the institution, and the highest num-
ber 1T has ever accommodated. 1t also
asks the number of children placed in
free homes during the year and restored
to parents and relatives. The entrace Con-
ditien as to age, color, sex or religious
affiiation, and the number of deaths are
also required. Three important questions
are: Are the privileges of the institutions
confined to bona fide residents Of the
District What supervision is exercised
over expenditures or management by pub-
lie Officers? Under the auspices of what
religious denomination is the institution
conducted?
The third return covers income and eX-
penditure for the last year, and calls for
answers to the folio wing questions: What
is the income OF the institution from Con-
gressional appropriations, public sources,
private gifts, endowmentand other sources?
What is the amount of Indebtedness, amount
paid for interest, expended on land, re-
pairs, enlargement, salaries or supplies?
The joint select committee does not eX-
pect any great promptness in the matter
OF supplies, but hopes to have all the an
swers in hand and full schedule of rules
completed in time for the convening of the |
regular session OF Congress next fall.
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DIED.
HARRISoN-0n Friday, February 10,
1897, at her home. Woodbridge, Va,
MARY A Nm, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs
William II Harrison, aged l"enty years
and eleven days.
Asleep in Jesus.
Beautiful toilet thy work is done;
prautifui soul into glory gone:
Beautiful life with its crown now won
God giveth thee rest.
Rest from all sorrows and watching aud
fears.
Rest from all possible signing and tears:
Rest through Gods endless wonderful
years.
AT home with the blest
Loved in life: ia death remembered
Lovingly. BROTHER GRANT
Funeral 80 p m. Sunday. from the
Woodbridge Baptist Church. Relatives
and friends invited To attend
MURPHY on Friday, February 10.
1897 at 1 , IA, ELIZABETH J. MURPHY,
AFTER a short Illness.
Funeral viii be held from her Cousins
residence. Mrs. J p CLANCY, 1922 T.
st Sc, Sunday. ? 80 D. m, thence to ST
Peter = Church Interment at Mount Olivet
Cemetery
May she rest in peace Amen
YoRK-On Thursday, February Is. 1897.
ut SAB y. m, suddenly. HARRY w A
YORK. beloved brother OF Mrs j. NJ
Her fuIth
Funeral from 5O7 Florida avenue north
west, Sunday, at O'Clock. 1t
The evening times., 1897-02-20
THEIR LABORS COMPLETED.
The Congress of Mothers Adjourned
Last Night.


The Congress of Mothers held its closing
sessions yesterday. and made provision
for meetings in the future. many OF whicn
are to be held in this city. No new Off
GERS were elected. A number of resolutions
were adopted.
There were two interesting incidents
during the day. In the morning the two
little children of Mrs. Birncy. the presi-
dent, came on the stage, and one of them
insisted that she wanted her mamma for
a while all to herself. Mrs Brney eX-
planned that she had been obliged for two
days to leave the little people to the care
of others. She excused herself long
enough to have a kiss and talk with
them.
At night DR. Mary Walker undertook to
discuss the resolutions. AS each was read
her deep, gutteral notes flOated across
the room, earnestly setting forth the inn
portance OF the subject. and urging that
strong position be taken. There was
little time for debate. and when DR..
Walker had spoken three minutes the
second time a point of order was made
She was not delegate. it was asserted.
81 should like to know what this rit-
Don means. thcn. Inquiitu DI. walker
suavely.
Make him sit down" called Janitor
from the rear OF the pulpit, mistaking DR..
Walker for a man.
The point was then made that DR.. Walker
had exceeded the time limit.
mo limit has been set" she answered.
A motion making the limit one minute
was made. DR. Walker protested that a.
person who had the floor could rot be
taken from his feet for a motion Never
thelcss Mrs Birney put the motion and it
was carried DR.. Walker asked to be al
lowed to conclude briefly This was per-
mitted and order was restored.
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A remar kable case of precocity in
hoboiSm vas deve loped in the police
court today in the story of Johnny Ryan,
q fifteen year-old boy, char ged with
vagrancy. About a week ago, the boy,
who says he has been tramp for six
years, came up before the judge, and his
big honest blue eyes made such an i'm
preston upon his honor that he placed
credence in Jobnny'S little song and dance
about living in Philadelphia and wanting
to go back there. At the time he was
about to release the prisoner, but thought
better of it and decided TO hold him until
his parents could be communicated with.
To his surprise, however, he learned from
the Philadelphia police that Johnny smooth
story was lie from beginning to end, so
today he was again brought into the court.
Boy" said his honor. II have heard
from Philadelphia, and find that you have
lied to me- Now what have you to say?"
But Johnny seemed to he used to getting
caught at lies, for he fixed his eyes upon
the judges face just as honestly as
before and answered stolidly: II have
nothing to say"
Now, lad" said the judge, in a
kindly tone, 'you are pretty well dressed,
and to judge by your language you come
of good parents want to save you from
this life, if possible, but you are lying
to me / can read you like book.
Either you have run away from home
and are ashamed to go back or you have
done something wrong and don't want to
return for that reason. Now, tell me where
your parents live, won't you, and let me
send you back to have them make man
of you?''
But although the quiyering Of his under
lip showed that he was moved, the lad
steadfastly refused to answer. Bailiff
Kendig and several of the lawyers; actu-
ated by pity for his youth, tried to get the
truth out OF him, but it was Of no avail.
Finally, Judge Kimball's patience gave out,
and he said:
Il hate to send you to the wOrkhoase,
boy, but as you so stubbornly refuse to allow
me to help you it is my only alternative.
l sentence you to sixty days"
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STILL NAMING THE
CHILDREN HEAR:
NJ OPEKAIIUN No PAIN.
Master Henry uenmsnn. 5u7 stan.

Master Henry Uenmann, 5U7 stan
ton place ne. Aged 2 years His mother
says: M son had been deaffOr two years.
His ears constantly discharged, and he sur
fercd all the time from severe headache.
He attends st. Mary's school, bot because
OF his deafness, he could not under sta nd his
teacher, and she would be often obliged TO
reprimaHd him because she thought him
stupid or needless.
i read of Doctor MCCoy's many wonder
fUl cures OF deafnes and took my son to
MIN. After q short time, 4 noticed i'm
prOyement, and I Ow his hearing has been
completely restored He now hears his
teacher distinctly. and cannot see but he
hears Just as wei dis any one"
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JOHNNIE KNEW NOT TRUTH
Judge Kimball Found That the
Blue-Eyed Boy Had Lied.
A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD TRAMP
Police Officers Advised Not to Ar
rest Hoboes That Are Walking
Away From the City-A Connnbial
Dissertation, With Obiigato
Dishes, Cost Andrew Carey 50.

Andrew Carey, colored of Dingman
place northeast, and his wife are in the
habit at Irregular intervals OF imbibing
liquor together, and on these occasions
they sometimes take drop OF mere too
much Last night was one OF these &C.
casions, and as the liquor disappeared
the pair grew progressively heated
From the argumentative stage they
passed to tire combatative, and little cour-
tesies, sGch as china dishes ard samples
OF tinware passed bet ween them. One of
these-a choice china uish-strnck Mrs.
Carey in the forehead, whereupon she
promptly had her spouse arrested In
the police court this MOI ming the ten-year-
old son OF the couple testified as TO the
facts OF the case, and upon his testimony
the court fined him So.
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They VIII Talk Against LIQUOR.

The sixtY-fifth annual meeting of the
Congressional Temperance Society will be
held tomorrow evening at the Vermont Ave
nue. Christian Church, DR.. F. D. Power pas
tor. This society is the Oldest temperance
organization in America, and its list of
membership has included the names Of
some Of the most famous men in national
history. The Hon. Nelson Dingley is presi-
dent of the society. He and other promi-
nent speakers will address the coming
meeting
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A RECEPTION TO MRS. NOHUT.
One of the Most Eloquent Women
of the United States.


Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, who read most
interesting paper Eefore the Congress of
Mothers on Wednesday aftern oon, en-
titled Parental Reverence as Taught in
the Hebrew Homes" who is also pres-
dent of the New York section, Council OF
Jewish Women, was rendered a reception
on Thursday evening at, Freund's, by the
members OF the Washington section. 9. j.
w. Mrs. Kohut talked, informally to the
ladies and a number of their gentlemen
friends, of the study work required and
expected of each member Of the council,
and again charmed all her hearers.
Mrs. Kohut is the daughter OF the late
Rev. DR.. Bettleheim Of New York, so
that it seems she is inspired to the same
spiritual calling. On this trip Mrs. K0hut
will visit Philadelphia, Newark and Bal
timcre, extending it as far as Richmond,
Va, where she hopes 10 form a section
of the C. j. W.
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child-or If they do not, they ought to but
angels cannot change the course of Nature,
and it is not right that they should. The
woman who wants to have healthy baby,
and who wants to come safely through the
ordeal herself with no lifelong weakness as
consequence, will do what she can to make
herself strong and healthful in every way
Above all things, she will-during the period
of gestation-take regularly DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription. This is a positive spe-
ciic for all female weakness and disease.
1t may be depended upon to purify and
strengthen the organs distinctively feni-
nine, to Soothe all Inflammation, arN to stop
pain and debilitating drains. 1t cures where
doctors have failed, and it cures right at
home, without necessitating abhorrent ex-
aminations and local treatment. 1t is the
only medicine in the world that makes the
coming of baby easy and perfectly safe It
is the only medicine designed for its pur-
pose, that is the invention of a regularly
graduated physician an experienced and
skilled specialist in the treatment of the dis
eases of women. Druggists sell it, and any
woman who wants to know all about it-just
how to use it in her particular case, may
write to DR.. r. V. Pierce, chief consulting
physician of the Invalids Hotel and Sur
gical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.
>TAKE LESS MEDICINE.
~ There s, Is no no use in taking great big pill
sugar coated granule will do the same work
and do il fully. DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
cure constipation and other disorders of the
digestive organs-cure them surely and CON-
tortably, with no gripping or other unpleasant
feeiing-cure them so that they stay cured cure
them more quickly and more easily than the vio-
lent medicines that wrench the system. The
Pellets are small that il takes forty of them
to fill the little vial they sNue in. They cost
twenty 1--WE cents and good druggists sell them.
If druggist attempts to sell YOU something else
which he eaxs iirss as oood keeo vo.,r hand
on your pocket-book The man who is dishonest
In one thing is not to be trusted in another.
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George Brooks, Thomas Hall and Henry
Han, three tiny ColoTed toys. scarcely old
enough to attend school, were locked up
at the Fifth precinct last night for break
ing into William CaTteI's store and steal
ing a pair of shoes. Brooks, who had the
shoes on, and who, young as he is, las
been arrested before for stealing, Judge
Miller decided TO lock him Up until his
trial comes off, but the ether two were re-
leased on S1G0 bond to appear when an
assistant district attorney shall be ap-
pointed.