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led II. LEE. Trustee.
QUO IIth 81. n. ".
ADOLPH A. HOEiLING Jr.. Trustee,
NhS
DUNCANsoN BROS, AUcTIoNEERs.

TRTSTEES SALE, AT AUCTION. OF UNIM-
PROVED GROUND N SQUARE o. IN THE
CITY OF WASHINGTON, b. G -ii'
On "WEDNESDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF FER
RUARf, AID. 1899 AT HALF-PAST FoT'R
O'CLOCK PM. the undersigned. $ trustees under
that certain q. d Of trust besrin date June Is
1890 and recorded june &c. 1890 in Lber No 1897
folio 3l5 et Of the land records OF the District
Of Columbia, Will sell at public auction On tho
premises. lots numbered respectively, forty four
40 forty tive t4ol, torty-six t46 t1rty-seven an
and rty eight as, in Powell and Dycrs snbdiyis
ION OF the western half Of square numbered sixty
nine t6Jl as per plat recorded in Book G. IL 81
page 1859, Of the records office of the sur.
Neyor of tn, sa!d District
Terms: One third of the purchase money in cash
tof which $3.50 must he deposited with the trustees
al the time 4 s'Iel and balance In two perraI IN
stanents al one and TWO years from date OF sale
with Interest Al per ceat. secured 10y first trust
IN the property sold, OF all cash. purchasers OBJ
ton.
The lot will be -oid subject to the condemnation
proceedings Or valid opening Newport place which
takes the entire frontage Of said ots the original
thirty 500 feet wile alley in sad square by the
depth OF hfte-n tl5 feet, thus reducing the depth
If said loIt q SIXTY t6W feet
COlyeyancing and STAMPS at purchasers cost
MAliLON ASHFORD,
ALDIS b. BRO NNE
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fell, 1921.


TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE BUILDING
STREETS NORTHEAST
BY virtue u deed of trust duly recorded in
Liber No: 1891, folio $40 ct seq, one of the land
FecofCs OF the District of Columbia. and the
quest of the parties secnr,d thereby. the under
signed as surviving Trustee, viii sell public
auction, III fiont of the premises. WEDSES-
DAY, THE ELEN DAY OF JANUARY, A.
ID 1899, NJ HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK PM,
the following described land and premises situate
IN the city of Washington, District of Culumbiu
and designated as and being the north twenty mine
80 ieet by depth Of lot numbered eight Isl aud
the south Sc. en- IA feet of lot numbered nine So,
hy depth ei said bot, both IN square numbered eight
hundred and ten tSl0l, per plat in the surveyor $
office il said District. being the property
veyed 10y Lizzie y. NocIhcad to the parties Of the
fist part by deed dated November 16 1889. and
recorded in Ler 1853, folio 326 her with all
and singular the improvements, ways, easements.
rights, privileges and appurteBances to the
belonging or in any wise appertaining.
Terms of Onc-trird of the purchase money
in cash and the balance in and two years,
notes to bear per cent interest per annUm. pay
able seIni-monthly until paid and secured by
deed Of trust upon property sold, all cash. at
the option of the p'rcha or. deposit of one hun
bred dollars required at time of sale. All convey
ancing. recording and revenue stamps at the
of the purchaser Terms Of sale Toe complied
with within te days otherwise the
serves the right to resell Tie property al the risk
and cost of tie defaulting purchaser, after five
days advertisement Of such resale in some news
paper published ia Washington, u. c.
JEROME WISE.
de30-d&ds Surviving Trustee
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AUCTION SALES.
flltRE DAMS.
WALTER b. WILLIAMS Il CO., AUCTIoNEERs.
EXECUTORS s.yE

EXECUTORS SALE.
Two large French Plate class Ma rors, Handsome
Walnut itih Piece, Nainut hAtehsion Table Ma
hosany Card Tales, Library 1abies. Walnut Side
eoad Walnut Chairs. upholstered leather, An
thluc Stahus, Antique Mirror, Antique Side Tables
tour Dwarf Book Ias,s several Antique Pieces of
furniture walnut CIamLer suites OIL Paintings,
rare Ensta'ings, Jpn, istered rut ntture, Gait
stands. On TLESDAl, FEBRuAuY -FOUR
len II, Al ALr-PAST TEN O'CLOCK A. NJ.
VIII sell at residence No 14uj Ii street nurtbM est
me above collection Of Antique and Well made
Furniture, Mirrors. sc.
By order of the Executor.
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DUNcANsoN BROS, AUcTIONEERs.


TRUSTEES SALE OF IMPROVED REAL ESTATE
No. 1900 LINDEN STREET NORTHEAST
BY virtue of certain deed OF trust o us dated
November 21 1872 and duly recorded In Liber No.
l.29, folio AGA 81 STD, of the land records Of the
District Of Columbia, and the request of the
party secured thereby, the unr signed trustees
VIII sell, at public auction, in Of PREM
ises, TUESDAY, THE SEVENTH DAY OF
FEBRUARY, AID. 1899. AT FOUR O'CLOCK PM,
the following described land and emIses, situate
in the "iiy of Washing on. In the District OF Co.
l"nlDia, and designated and being lot Do. In
Billings and Gcier's Subdivision OF lots In square
1904 per plat recorded In Liber Is. folio 1875,
the records OF the Office OF tile of the Dis
trict OF Columbia the Id lot having a frontage on
Linden street II 10 feet and a depth OF e. - feet
20 l0-foot alley, and being improved by a
story brick dwelling house
Terms of sale: 0ne-third # the purchase money
to he paid In cash, and the balance In two equal
installments, payable In and two years. with
Interest AT per cent per annum, payable an
nually, flom day Of SALE secured 10y deed OF
upon the property solo, all casa the option OF
OF the purchaser at the time of sale. All convey
ancing, recording, stamps and notarial fees at the
cost of the purchaser Terms of sale 20 lie
piled with within IN days from day OF sale other
property at the risk and cost Of the defaulting
purchaser after five DAYS advertisement.
MAHLON ASHFORD.
CONSTANTINE II WILLIAMSON,
Address 40 la. ave NV
NATH'L WILSON Attorney for party secured
Nos. 622-624 OF. Ja25-d&ds
1.-THE ABOVE SALE Is POSTPONED Until
Tuesday. FEBRUARY FOURTEENTH. 1899 at
THREE O'CLOCK PM. az the same Mace
MAHLoN ASHFORD.
CONSTANTINE Ii WILLIAMSON.
NATH'L WILSON. Attorney for party secured
feS-dts
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Ja2i-d&ds

CFTIIE ABOVE SALE is POSTPONED UNTIL,
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY FOURTEENTH, 1899 at
the time ard place.
MAHLON ASHFORD
Aids b. BROWNE,
81
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JEROME WISE.
Survi Ing Trustee.
de30- d&ds

The purchaser of the above described property
having failed 10 comply with the terms Of sale /
Will resell the property THURSDAY, THE
TWENTH-FHiltb DAY OF FEBRUARY, AID. 1898
at same hour and place. at the risk and cost of
sald d"tah ting purchaser JEROME WISE
fe1 fd&ds Surviving Trustee
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THE GE1SHA."-The week of Febru
airy 20 at the Columbia Theater will be Civ
en- over to "a brilliant production of the two
great musical successes, The Geisha,, the
story of tea house and The Circus Girl,
The Gesha' will be given for the first
three nights and at the special matinee on
Wednesday Wasninston's birthday, while
The Circus Girl will hold the boards for
matinee.
These two musical comedies have both
enjoyed unprecedented success at Daly's
I'heater, New York, and London The
efei 1 "a running for two years in London
ana 300 nights in New York while THE
circus Cir ran season at both theaters
Both comedies will be produced with a
metropolitan cast of favorites, two car
loads of scenery and effects and a chorus
of fifty young and fresh voices.
RoSENTHAL.-Mr Guzman has to an
nounce for the afternoon of February ~,
at the National Theater the second APP
pearance of Herr RoseBthaI, the great
Hungarian pianist, who. at his recent re-
cital In this city. sent SO many fondly cher
ished theories flying. 1t is extremely doubt
full If a pianist has so impressed a Wash
trSton audience before as did this unas-
Stunning giant of the keyboard. He seemed
so easily to rise superior to the common
obstacles of the concert pianist and to be
50 thoroughly at home when wrestling
hardest with some of the most intrjcate
variations of his own composition that
many failed of appreciation of the nearer
views afforded of his real art in the more
tender hits. Yet it is in these more serious
phases of his work that the artist shows 10
ing to know that his own contrapuntal study
on the Chopin d Nat Valse is to be fea-
ture of the new program. This was COM
posed in peculiar environment and under
circumstances that would seem unlikely to
rebound to any great credit to its author.
yet so absorbed did he become in the evo-
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WALTER II. WILLIAMS 4 co. AUCTIONFEIs-
CHANCERY SALE OF IMPROVED PROPERTY IN
81 ANAC0S1IA

A.
By virtue of decIee OF the Supreme Court of
the District OF Columbia. passed In equity cause
No. 2Ooa4, Joseph Miller ct al. VS. George C. Mil
ler It al the Undersigned trustee win SELL at pub
lie auction, in nont Of the premises On FRIDAY
FEBRUARY TENTH, 1899 AT FOUR oCI oa,E
T. n, Edwin B. Hay. trustees subdivision Of lots
eighty-four tS4l, eighty $751; eghty-sx 1851 and
eighty-seven tSl). in section twenty-six t28l. hi
Anaeosua u c., the same being improved by
IEiee frame dwelling honses
Terms OF sale: One-third in cash. and the hal
hnce II one ard two years from date Of sale for
which the notes % the purchaser must be given
with Interest, payable senI-anhaaIly at the rate
OF slA per cehtum per anIun until paid and Sc
cured ey deed OF trust the property sold or All
cash at the purchasers option. A deposit of sIO0
Viii be required at time Of sale each lot All
cohSe!ahclhg acknowledging aud recording at pur-
chasers cost. Ii the terms OF sale are not com
pied Win In fifteen days from day Of sale the
trustee reserves the right TO resell the risk
ana cost OF the ds.sauiting purchaser after three
days public notice. EDWIN y. HAY, Trustee
tei-u%ds l425 New York ave.
1.-THE ABOVE LIE Is POSTPONED UNTIL,
fkiDAl: EEliRu ARl sEyENTEENTIi. 1899. AT
feli-d&ds BY order Of the Trustee.
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Registered at the Arlington this week is
Mademoiselle Titenia, the famous Partisan
of the best known of the top. liners in
vaudeville last season. This charming
premier danseuse only arrived in New York
last week, having come direct from Paris.
where she was being treated for an injury
received while performing at the Great
Northern Theater in Chicago last Septem-
Der. This accident necessitated the can
ceiling of all engagements at that time The
young woman is now completely recovered
however and Washingtonians will have a
chance to see her next week she having
chosen the capital city in which to make
her first reappearance on the stage
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snuinS DO" N Hill.
Il remember crying nearly all night once
when | was a boy because l had gone TO
my aunt's funeral and couldn't remember
the minister's text when my father asked
me for ii. My uncle had gone of twenty
or thirty miles from home and rode back
on the engine that broke through the rail-
road i couldn't keep the sight of the fly-
ing snow before that engine out of nv mind
all through the funeral And sliding down
htll-Great Scott how We did slide, In lev
weather We could coast fully mile down a
hill at the back side Of our farm and finish
up on a long marshy pond where we went
duck hunting in the spring That was an
experience worth having. When We struck,
the smooth ice on the pond after coming
down that long hill, the least touch of yo,ir
foot on the ice sent you spinning round and
round like top, at the same time you were
going ahead at the rate O. a mile or two a
minute. / would like to ride down the hin
once more. but wouldn't give cent 10 go
through that spin again.
Did ] ever tell you how Jim Tumblin's
brother Ike saved his farm with snow?
One winter he got out of wood-aI out He
WAS q slow behindhand fellow always. He
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The many friends Of Mr.. Bouic Clark will
be pleased to know he is with Mr. Robert
Downing at the Grand Opera House. He is
a son of Mr.. o. H. p. Clark of Sligo, and is
very successful actor. He takes the part
of pagan priest in The Gladiator"
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te2-eod
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one to live in is concerned. They
may be found yet but are mostly used
as . chicken house, stable, tool house
or something of the kind. While a
good sod house is as comfortable and
homelike as any one could wish. yet
they are being replaced with better
ones, built with stone and lumber.
Nothing more clearly shows the pro
gress that has been made throughout
this country by settlers during the
past ten or twelve years, than the lit
tie original dwellings, still standing
in contrast with the spacious and
comfortable homes they now pos
|oeGDs7Jetmore 8erald.
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slang among children between the sxes
of and II years.
DR.. Hall then spoke Of the dangers OF
this period Of childhood and pointed ont
the fearful results of fatiguing boys and
girls by overstudy. He attacked the
present system of education in the ele-
mentary schools, particularly the study
of English As pursued in grammary and
secondary schools It was here that he
proposed the occupation Of story tellers
tor bright young women. expressing the
hone that some of his hearers would take
the matter seriously and citing several
examples among his acquaintance. This
came up in connection with . demand
dat children be given the standard and
caamfc tales during their school yeaEs.
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ZlMMd
Hardware and MAJ
NO EMBALMED BEEF.

A Washington telegram says I'd
there was no .'embalmed beef" N
chemically treated beef was bougH
and served to the soldiers An IN
ventor proposed to treat beef for thy
army with process OF fumigation tt
lengthen the time of keeping. Tht
principal feature of the composition
he burned under the beef was sui
phur. He treated half dozen car
casses to show what he could do. Tit
government allowed sample quarte1
of this beef to hang on two or thre
transports to see how long it won
keep. This is the whole foundatid
Of Gen. Miles allegation that cher
callv treated beef was furnished
the army ION the pretence OF an
pertinent" The government refue ]
to contract for any of the procee
beef, and none of it was supplied
Out of the experiment which the
ventor was permitted to make wi
the half dozen carcasses, furnish
him by the packers and with viii
the government officers had nothi
to do but to observe the results,
constructed the whole fiction OF e
balmed beef.
This is what the evidence shows.
The revelation was clinched last Sat
urday by Mr.. Powell. the man who
invented the process, wrote letters to
fhs President and various other OH
cials and conducted the experiment
from which DR.. DAILY, Gen. Miles and
numerous witnesses rushed to the
false conclusion thas the government
bought and served beef treated with
: process. A more ridiculous hum
80 than ssembalmed beef never
lcoled . considerable portion OF the
EfsIIieent American public
~ ststed that IL court woaA
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Something is always bobbiag up IN
Kansas to astonish the balance Of crea-
ton, but nothing Of recent date has
created more surprise than the failure OF
the citizens of Bronson To make prepare
lions to elect city officials. The Louis
vile Courier-Journal says: "Ihat
Kansas town which was 90 busy on cleo
tion day that it forgot to hold an election
ought to furnish few crumbs of comfort
for the calamiiyites. Surely it must be
the hardest Of hard times among the
o oliticians of that town when there are
Offices to Be filed that can not be filled
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The startling enunciatiOns were made
in the course OF an address on s.FrOm
Fundamental to Accessory in Education"
at session before the largest audience so
far gathered In the school. College presi-
dents from nearby cities, superintendent
of schools. professors Of psychology,
teachers aud kindergartners from ont of
town as well as in the city, male up the
crowd that heard him and applausled
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eratificationit affords.

gratiicati0nsit affords.
Visits by parents are desired by teach
ers and pupils. Let rs have little more
visiting to he public schools, by every.
body intereoted.
The following pupils Of the third room,
Second was3, have been neither absent
nor tardy apd have been perfect in de-
poEtnent during the past school month
Herbert ArHabri9ht, Walter Bohustengel.
Jean Raalell.
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wheel upon the car wrecked il broken
and jnst below the point where the
car lodged the ties are marked as
though by a car of the track. The
Janney coaplers catch With what il
commonly known - ''the Indian
grip" catching automatically. When
the fange Of the coal car broke. it 10
reasoned. the car left the track at
that end and uncoupled itself from
the car ahead BY pulling ono Of the
couplers, or hands. below the plane
Of the other. At the same time the
coupler at the other end eauk below
the plane If it's mate and uncoupled
the car there. and, BY some peculiar
wrench, the uncoupled car was shot
out Of the train aud left fifty feet
from the track, while tho trsinmen
were all unconscious how very henr
they had been to . bad wreck and
death.
It is related among railroad men
that an occurrence very like that at
Atlanta happened years ago on the
Lehigh Valley, where a Car left its
trai" and ran down a long einbank
ment and into thick underground
just leafing in early summer. The
trsinmen did net see the Car go. and
it was not known they had lost it
until the train was checked up and
Car proved missing. III little while
the greening vegetation entirely hid
it. and the disappearance Of the chr
Of valuable merchandise became the
chief mystery Of the road. When
the leaves fell in the sutumn the cur
wss found and the freight which
filled it was recovered with little loss.
The lost car Of the Lehigh was not,
though, ~ remarkably lost AZ the
Chicago l. Alton car. for the L.high
car was the last upon the train, and
could easily escape. while the Chicago
h Alton car left tho middle OF u
train.
The Newton Republican duplicates
the above story AS follows:
Charles Benfer says that be heard
many people doubt the story viii b
the Republican copied from an ILL
rois paper concerning peculiar
railroad accident in which u car
jumped the track from the middle of
. train and was detnched and not
missed. He says that he saw the
same thing done near Snowshoe juno
ton Of the Pennsylvania road in
Pennsylvania. A car jum;ed the
track while in the middle of . train
coming down . mountain, detached
itself from the train and rolled down
tho mountain. It was net missed for
some time and WAS found several days
afttFward several hundred feet from
the track in the bottom Of q deep
gully.
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Peculiar Accident That Befell a
Alten Trails Near Atlantis, Ill.
Fresport Journal. March ssh.
One of the most remarkable of all
railway accidents occurred on the
Chicago and Alton railway near At
lanta. Ill.,, recently, when = loaded
Car jumped out Of a freight train and
lodged in a ditch and the train cou-
pied up and reached its destination
without the crew either knowing that
an accident bad occurred or missing
the car frnm the train. The account
was reported ut the time in the tele-
graphic news columns Of the Journal,
aud the following additional details
are now obtained from Charles Barg-
nell If Roodhunse, Ill.,. the conduc-
nr Il the train, who says:
"When d,lis cred my train / was
told that l WAS car short. 1 thought
mistake must hive been made in
checking me up. was called upon
for an explanation. The clerical re
cord showed plain enough that I had
taken out Of East St. Louis car OF
hard coal that / had never delivered.
/ had lost it some place between East
st. L ,uis md Bloomington.
couldn't explain. We bad made up
Eeavy train, put two engines in
front Uf it and u cabOose behind it,
and when I delivered it would have
sworn that it stood ust rs We had
made it up, and that every car left OF
added along the line WIS accounted
for.
''Tbe next morning one Of The
passenger crews reported conl car
wrecked in the ditch near Atlanta.
When it was looked up It proved to
be the car had lost. The superin-
ten.leut asked me why had not re-
ported the wreck. I told him I di1u I
know / had hid wreck. II was
news to me. and it was news to the
whole crew. We knew nothing about
it. It seems imp, ssible that it could
have OCCUR d aud not have been
seen, but it did. If hal read Of
such q thing happening upon an
other road l would not have believed
il.
"The Car that jumped out Of my
train was the eleventh behind tho en-
CINE. It was loaded with hard coal.
and l suppose We we're running some
thing over twenty miles an hour
when the car jumped out. The train
was coupled up with Janney auto
matte couplers, and when this Car left
its place the twelfth Car, just behind
it, came up and coupled on at the
rear Of the tenth car"
The Chicago and Alton experts
have agreed that this remarkable lOss
Vt . Car ont of the middle Of . rapidly
running train Of twenty-one loaded
care can be explained in but one
way. The fange Of q front truck
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THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

The warm weather of Monday was
slightly Interchangeable mercury indi-
eating so to 80 degrees. according to loca-
ton of thermOmeter-but the weather
was supremacy fine for the school chill
dren and they enjoyed it heartily. 1t
impaired warmth and vigOr to young
bodies, and ii was just such weather as
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= interest liz the Dodge
{. $. a. Burrell. | wish
my appreciation Of the
and kind treatment re-
Ids Of the good people
d vicinity. l hope this
Onage will be extended
vino will continue the
lis wOrthy$of your sup
lilo Tuesday, April 18th
II 22nd, inclusive.
ny last "trip TO Dodge in
II will he glad To meet
nds there in a business
yours.
Ii. l.. WOLF.