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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
SUBURBAN PROPERTY.

THOSE SOMERSET HEIGHTS HOUSES ARE
models, built by day work double floors,
double weather boarding; stone foundations;
hot and cold water; baths: high and healthy;
near cars; 81, $50 is low price for a Groom
house with y acre in this improving section;
Immediately west of Chevy Chase circle.
MILES FULLER,
1t IN. I'm st
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22

FOR SAI.Fi-G-RooM BRICK; ANIL; LOT 1871 BY
)oO. Payment be arranged TO suit buyer
Price. $500. 652 G st. House in elegant
repair. Inspect 1t tomorrow. One block from
II st. line. II.
FOR SALEM Mt. PLEASANT TWO BRICK
houses. VIII be completed May 1. 1886 and 2l3S
10Th st, bet Kenesaw ave. and Columbia road.
inquire on premises ap22-3t.
FOR sALE-NoW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR
hoGse-wc are selling the press-brck- front
houses, one square from Lincoln Park ne. for
the small sum of 81 $50; $loe cash and small
monthly payments these houses are rented at
1880 per month Don't miss this chance D.
r. x c: III. WEAVER. 10th and SITS. NV.
ap15-w&s,n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22

FOR SALE-AT WOODSIDE. ND, CONVENIENT
to steam and electric cars. two-story and attic
frame dwelling; large porches; ten rooms bath
and all city improvements; large lot; price only
S4,50O.
DAVID MOORE 14O6 q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22

FOR SAIE-12 ACRES OF LAND WITH FINE
view, located Grant road Connecticut
ave; public water supply and rapid transit to
the city; improved by large frame house and
outbuildinss. LOUIS 7. SHOEMAKER
ap223t 800 + st. NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22

FOR SALE--lo ACRES OF LAND BETWEEN
Erightwood and Takoma, at only $3.50 per
This is the cheapest tract in this section of the
District. | have also several small tracts
Brightwood. LOUIS L. SHOEMAKER,
ar22-3t go L st. NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
FOR SALE-HOUSES

FOR SA1E-IT WILL. PAY You-TO INSPECT
houses $40. 80 and S26 18Th ct ne: six rooms
cellar and bath; all mod inps. and convenience;
be bought easy nleItbly- payments and
much below value; close toll st rars Apply
GEO. z. NEWTON owner
ap22-3ts Sto n e. n ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
ACCOUNTANTS.

J. E BATES
Public accountant and auditor
Dpon 81, Washington Loan and Trust building.
fee+f Telephone No. 9I2-a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22

DIR. GRAHAM HAS REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO
sos Pa. ave. NV. ap2l -Ims
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22

FOR SALE-OR EXCHANGE
Some very desirable houses, Washington
ard Columbia Heights
VIII exchange for lots or smaller houses.
Il. H. WARMER & co,
ap22-3t 9i6 street NV
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-25

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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

Statistics have lately been prepared
touching the amount of the obligations
of debtors discharged under the fed
eral bankruptcy law up to the present
One table which has appeared puts
the total liabilities of discharged
debtors at So, 900, 900. The numbers
of the petitioners in the different cities
vary very considerably, as do the
amounts of liabilities set opposite
each city. Some of the smaller cities
in the country find place in the ta-
BILE, while some of the larger ones are
conspicuous by their absence. 1t will
occasion no surprise to learn that New
York, the largest city in the country,
leads as regards the liabilities of the
discharged debtors.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

That was very pleasant tea party
in the harbor of Colombo rendered to
Admiral Dewey and the officers and
men of the Olympia. The British
cheers that greeted the flag of the
United States as it entered that BAY,
and the response of Admiral Dewey,
expressing the new era of concord and
amity between his country and Great
Britain, are in pleasant contrast with
the rancor of which that other tea
party in Boston harbor, on Dec. 16,
1873, was symptom. In that case
the tea was thrown overheard from a
British ship. In this case the tea is
put on board an American ship by
friendly hands.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

Nothing is palmer from statistics
than the fact that the ranks of the
habitual criminals are being abun-
dainty recruited by young men. OBJ
serves the London Law Magazine.
This class is not the product of past
causes, merely continuing in the pres
ent as a survival of conditions no
longer existing. 1t is still being pro-
dueed freely. An extremely large pro-
portion of the burglaries, house break
ings and the like, are the work of
offenders under twenty-one. No less
than thirty-four per cent. of the per-
sons convicted for these offenses in
1897 were between sixteen and twen-
ty-one. 1t is clear, therefore, that
young men take to professional crime
very readily, in spite of al deterrent
Influences
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

A recent writer finds one of the
signs of AngloSaxo superiority in
the way the Anglo-Sa Saxon bounds oui
Of bed like cannon ball." while the
Latin crawls out as if life were bur
den. 1t is true that good many
Anglo Saxons bound out of bed with
just about the degree of buoyancy o.
a cannon ball; and if they do not fee
that life is a burden, they certainly
feel that getting up is one of its great
est troubles. If the real Anglo. Saxor
finds pleasure in leaving his bed al
the time he ought, thea much Latir
blood has insidiously crept in amongst
us, even into families that count thei,
descent pretty purely English.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

Perhaps no scientific use to which
photography has been put equals its
service to astronomy. Twelve years
ago an international astronomical con.
ference held at Paris adopted it as q
means for charting the heavens and
cataloguing all stars up to and includ.
ing those OF the eleventh magnitude.
Eighteen observatories have since
been cooperating in this work, and
when finished the catalogue is expect
ed to give the true position of three
million stars.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

The English, as race, are truthful
and so are Americans, but so at va
rance are their conceptions that they
seem to stand on different planes, says
the San Francisco Argonaut The ele.
ment of humor. lacking in one and
marked in the other, accounts for this
An American paper will print as (
roaring jest something the journals
across the water will in all solemnity
accept, and when there follows the in
evitable exposure, refuse to join in the
laugh, but express amazement, not de
void of horror. Notwithstanding this
American papers, in relation to the
great events of the world, are as ac
curate as others, seldom printing thai
intended to deceive, and even ther
erring no more grossly than the cen
sor, who would suppress facts OF
render them inaccessible.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

The japanese scheme of emigration
to Mexico is failure. Thirty seven
japanese were sent thither and an
area of II, 800 acres of land was taken
up, but the soil proves to be hopeless,
ly unproductive, and thirty FIVE out Of
the thirty-seven immigrants have
made their way to the japanese lega.
ton, $50 miles, in search of aid. I'm.
less the families of the immigrants
join them by next spring the laud will
be forfeited. The matter is causing
much anxiety in Japan, especially tc
Viscount Enomoto, who has engineered
the enterprise.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

The house boat seems to have some
difficulty in becoming domesticated in
this country. There is more truth in
this statement than appears on the
surface, observes writer in Harper's s
Bazaar. House-boat, we have, to be
sure, but they are of an untamed and
rowing disposition, quite unlike the
really domestic English species. A
Thames house-boat is one eff the most
conservative institutions of that emf
oently conservative country. Year
after year it clings to its own particu-
lar section of bank, with rs little ap-
parent ability omove with the stream
as if it were the bank itself. The
American species is different. Some
times it has motive power within it.
self. Sometimes it hires "a tow. "
But in one way or another it manages
to satisfy the national yearning for
movement-for getting up at morn.
ing in different place from the one
in which one went to sleep at night.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

The country is fairly we'll supplied
with railroads, but the commodities
which they transport are not all O,
chiefly produced on their lines. We
need roads over which to transport tc
railroad stations the commodities pro
duced within reasonable distance oil
them. We also need such roads tc
lead to landings on navigable rivers,
and for various other neighborhooc
uses. The cost of getting produce to
a station is often greater than that O.
getting it from the station to market
The cost of getting commodities t,
the great avenues of commerce varie,
with the character of the roads. It i.
easily demonstrable that bad roads are
more expensive than good ones in an,
place where there is any great need o.
road at all. Hence a community
must either pay for having good road
or pay for not having them, reason,
the Louisville Courier Journal
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.

Write 1t, the Poem That Was Such = Fs-
vorite With Miss WilIxrd-The Out
look From the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union Standpoint.
Miss Frances E. Willard recommended
every young person to learn and speah
these verses:]
Write it on the workhouse gate,
Write 1t on the schoolboy slate,
Write 1t on the copy book,
That the young may often look,
"Where there's drink there's danger"
Write it on the churchyard mound,
Where the rum slain dead are found,
Write 1t on the gallows high,
Write it for all passers-by,
"Where there's drink there's danger
Write it in the nations laws,
Blotting out the license clause;
Write it on each ballot white,
So 1t can be read Alright,
"Where there's drink there's DANGER
Write it on our ships that sail,
Borne along by storm and gale,
Write 1t large in letters plain
Over every land and main,
"Wbere there's drink there's danger"
Write it over every gate,
On the church and halls Of State,
In the hearts of every band,
In the laws of every land.
"Where there's drink there's danger.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

The rurales who have been organ
lied to repress brigandage in Cuba
are doing good work. They have
made several captures and have COM
passed the death of the notorious
highwayman, Garcia. These rurales
were organized from the best class of
Cuban soldiers by General Brooke and
are serving under American officers.
They will doubtless become the per-
manent constabulary OF the island.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03
An Old Law sin In Force.

We learned the other day of a man who
ooasted that he had taken bottle Of wine
every day for fifty years and had never
been injured by 1t. But OF his twelve chill
dren, SIX died in infancy, one was idiotic,
one became insane, and the other four
grew up to be nervous invalids. Men find
1t impossible to get away from the old law
laid down thousands Of years ago that
"The sins of the fathers shall be visited
upon their children" 1t is terrible thing
for fathers to commit sins for which their
children will have to pay the penalty, but
men are doing so on every hand.-Herald
and Presbyter.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03
The Crusade in Brief.

BY order OF General Wood saloons In
Santiago are closed on Sundays.
The social glass is the doorway to the
drink habit, and that habit is the doorway
to poverty.
Benjamin Parrot was hanged at Hamil-
ton, Ont, for the murder Of his mother,
whom he had killed when she rebuked him
for coming home drunk.
Intemperance is the source Of much OF
our crime and misfortune. Thousands OF
premature graves tell OF its ravages. Our
warehouses; are thronged With victims. Its
baleful tyranny is cramming our jails with
criminals
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03
Decline in Liquor-Drinking.

The silver anniversary meeting OF the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union in
Seattle in October next will be the first
gathering Of the organization on the Pa
cifc coast. Miss Anna Gordon, Secretary
of the Union for the United States, and al
SO Corresponding Secretary for the world
organization, says that the records of the
Union show that during the year following
Miss Wizards death there were more addi-
tions than during any other year In the
Unions history. The growth during the
past year has been large, and there was
never Il time when the outlook was more
hopeful than to-day. The Union has some
100000 members In the United States. 1t
has branches in forty countries, in all parts
Of the world, with total membership of
about 500,0 ,000 Australia is said to be par
ticularly well organized. Branches are
Hourishing in India, in Africa, in China and
In the principal countries OF Europe. In
the last-named country the movement Is
slower than in most places, for it is found
to be difficult field to cultivate.
The Union is so we'll organized and has
covered its field so completely that 1t has
forty departments OF activity which are
distinctly recognized. That under Miss
Gordon's care is work among children.
Miss Gordon's review of the field for the
twenty-five years of the life of the Union
was most interesting. Without any ques-
tion, she says, great progress has been
made in the drinking habits of the people.
Not only has there been Il percepttble de-
cline of social drinking but the business
value of total abstinence is being recog-
nzed mere and more. Tho case of the
Southern Pacific Railroad is given. Orders
were Issued that no one should be employed
by the road but total abstainers-a fact
which obtains with other roads also. But
it was found that II saloons were suffered
to remain where the men could get liquor
easily, there was danger to the road. Hence
an additional order has been given that no
liquor-selIing shall be permitted in any
building which is the property Of the road.
One of the leading business men of Chi
cago himself not total abstainer, yet
recognizes the value OF abstinence so
much in his business that he has made a
rule that only abstainers shall be employed.
In many places agreements are secured on
the part of dealers in real estate whereby
q clause is put into the deed that the sale
of liquor shall never be permitted on the
premises.
Lately there has seemed to be an in
crease of drinking at home on the part OF
some people who have been in Europe and
have put in practice here what they found
abroad But this does not offset the broad
generalization that during the last twenty
five years the use of liquor has declined,
and that the outlook for the future is most
encouraging from the Unions point Of
view. The instruction OF children In tenn
perance matters is now advanced so we'll
that only three States in our country fail
to require temperance instruction by law.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

The consular reports from Ireland
show great increase in prosperity
there. The people are in better con-
dition than has ever been known. The
tenants are paying rent promptly and
the land owners are paying their
taxes. The deposits in the savings
banks are larger than they have ever
been, according to the records.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03
How did you manage to hide

monds! how dld you manage to hlde
them?'
''That's the secret I'm going to tel;
you. All, doctor (he chuckled glee
fully; Tn not writing moral tale;
I'm telling the truth, and the truth is
that Robert Morris was not in the
least penitentl, 81 had the diamonds
on me when was caught; 1 had them
on me when 1 was searched at the sta
ton; I had them on me when I went
before the lord mayor; I had them on
me when 1 was tried at the Old Bailey,
I had them on me all the 20 months
was in the stone jug-aye, all the
blessed time"
"Impossiblev' I cried. "You could
not have concealed them."
Couldn't I, though? All, doctor.
TIL show you. Bring me that cup of
the washstand, now. Do you see
what's in it?''
''Your grinders" I said, looking
down at the double set of false teeth
lying in the cup, "what about 'em?"
''Nice ones, eh?" he asked with q
leer and wink.
Very" l answered.
"Made 'em myself" he said, with
another chu kle. '"rhe p'lee knew
was dentists assistant, too Wonder
they never guessed"
"Guessed WHAT"
"Take 'em olt OF the cup" he told
me.
I did so.
"There's little mark at the side of
the plate" he went on. cts spring.
Press it with your th lmb nail"
1 obeyed his instruction. In an in
stant all the top grinders sprang open,
revealing to me the fact that each of
them was simply small hollow re-
ceptacle, contrived, as I saw on closer
examination, with the most artful skill
and workmanship.
The sick man broke into yet more
Qleeful chuckle as he watched the
amazed wonder with which l was eaz-
ing at this marvellously clever effort
of skill and cunning.
"Theren' he said, chuckling till he
couehed himself speechless. ''Not
SO impossible after all-eh, doctor"
Subsequent inquiries which adj
dressed to Morris himself elicted the
following facts: That, ,reco gnizing the
extreme risk he ran of being caught,
he had had two duplicate keys of the
safe made, in order that, by leaving
one of them in the lock, some color
might be lent to his assertion that he
had been anticipated by another thief.
The extremely clever contrivance OF
his false teeth, however, was, of course,
his chef-d 'nuvre, and he had put the
blue diamonds into those marvellously
contrived receptacles the moment he
took them. Hardly were the teeth
safely back in his mouth before the
risk which he feared eventuated, and
he was pounced on by the watchman.
''But it was worth it," this impen-
itent sinner told me. "Aye,i if I'd got
five years, it would have been worth
it. They had my teeth out, too, so as
to examine my mouth more carefully.
1 felt nervous just then, 1 can tell you.
But it was O. X. For, sharp as the
fellows were, they never thought of
looking inside the teeth. London
Truth.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03
A Sad Scene.

The other day we were spending n few
hours In neighborng town. AS we were
passing along the street we noticed the
Grape on the door of small cottage. All,
we knew of the sorrow within. A beloved
mother had been taken. She had lived to
a good old age. Children and grandchil-
dren had grown up about her.
AS we were walking along, middle-aged
man drew near. He was talkative, very
much so. His brain was crazed with
liquor. His language was punctuated with
paths. Judge Of our surprise when he re-
gan to talk Of his mother lying dead in the
house. Not words of nlial affection or of
sorrow dropped from his lips. oh, to what
depths of even brutishness drink will bring
man. How it will change loving son to
death itself.
Such scenes are unanswerable arguments
Tor the banishment of the drink curse from
our rland.-Northwestern Mail.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

Tea after evening chapel is the lat.
est innovation introduced by the pres.
ident of the Chicago university. This
is not quite in line with college tradi-
tions. But as novelty it is inter.
esting. The young men of the mid.
die Wes. are to be put in training for
the social martyrdom which is to come
later on,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

Ralph Waldo Emerson welcoming
Lois Kossuth to Concord forty
years ago made this remarkable proph-
esy: "The shores of Europe and
Am erica approach every month and
their politics will one day mingle. ;"
1t has now come true-at tho Hague
and in the Philippines.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

There is faith healer in New Yorl
who offers to cure poverty for 81. And
such is the gullibility of mankind that
it is safe to guess that at least one
case of poverty will be cured as rap.
idly IS tbs dollars can tumble in, thinks
the st. Paul Pioneer Press.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

Of the worlds total railway mileage
OF 454, 730 miles, North America has
209,5 miles. The Old World will
have to yield first place to the New
before many years have passed, to say
nothing of coming railway enterprises
in South America.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

Nebraska keeps a state record oi
mortgages fled and released. This
record 8 ows for the last three years
S53, 600, 600 of land mortgages fled,
and $6s, 600, 900 released, reduction
of $l5, 600, 900 apparently in the total
mortgage debt of the state. Each OF
the last three years shows reduction.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03
P. T. Barnum's Advice.

In one OF the last letters written by P. T.
Barnum, just discovered, he thus advised
young men: keep your brain free from
the fumes Of alcohol, your blood free from
its taint. Avoid tobacco as the poison 1t
really is. Keep yourself clean, physically
and morally. Give your body the care
you would give to any machine OF which
you require much good work."
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

Oklahoma has an acreage of wheat
equal to two-thirds of the area planted
to that crop in the United Kingdom
of Great Britain, and, what is better,
raises more wheat on the two-thirds
than do the Bri ishers on the whole.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03
Ouestions Easv to Ansver.

Who with healthy. untainted blood
wishes to have body like that of the sots
whom he meets? Who with vigorous,
clear brain cares about exchanging 1t for
the mental incapacity which they exhibit?
Who with clean, pure heart would like
to have his filled with such obscenity, pro-
family and vileness as come forth from
theirs? "Be not among winebibbers."
Choose better companions.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

Capitalists are trying to get Florida
farmers to 60 into Cassava raising.
Starch can be manufactured from it.
Three tons to an acre at $40 ton is
the golden promise held out.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

The harder Sir Thomas Upton and
his crew try to take the cup with them
the greater glory there will be in keep.
ing them from doing it.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

Baltimore has the largest cOlored
population of any city in the world.
The census is expected to show al
least 125, 900.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

A family comprising seven persons
left Scranton, Penn, the other day,
the whole party traveing on one full
fare railroad ticket. There were the
mother and her three pairs of twins,
none of the children being up to the
half-fare age of five years.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03

Here are few mes taken at ran
dom from the delinquent tax list of
Hawaii for 1898, as printed in one of
the Honolulu papers: Alapaki, Bila
Alapai, All Kui, All You, G. S. All Fat.
Boo Tau Tong, Bow Din, Dol, AS Goo,
Iokepa, Ellen Kahaunaela. Lukia
kaholoholo, Leihulu Keohokaloe, Ka-
hakumakalani, Not At and B. Sc.
The ''Ks" take up three columns OF
space, being three times as numerous
as the delinquents under any other
letter.