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AUCTION SALES.
MONDAY.
CHANCERY SALE OF HOUSE No. 300 p
STREET GEARGETOWN

CHANCERY SALE OF HOUSE NO. 800 p
STREET. GEORGETOWN.
By virtue of decree of the Supreme Court Of
the District of Columbia, in Equity Cause No.
1883. will sell. at public auction. front the
premises, MONDAY. AUGUST SEVENTH lSge
AT FIVE O'CLOCK PM, the real estate in the
city of Washington, ID. c., known part Of lot A.
in the Georgetown Building Gompany's subdivision
of part of square 1856. per plat recorded in
Liber A. R. s.. folio 20 OF the records of the
office of the surveyor of the District Of Columbia
beginning at the southwest corner Of 3lst and 2
SITS. and running thence west with the south side
of ST. 10 feet inches thence south % feet 10
inches; thence east TO 3lst St, and thence north
erly with 3lst St los feet 10 inches the place Of
of substantial brick dwelling.
Terms: Sold subject to n iced of trust recurring
debt of $4,000 and interest. recorded In Liber
1918 fclo u.s. of the land records of the District
of Columbian all over said trust TO I've paid In cnsh
500 deposit required at sale C5nveyaneing sud
stamps at purchasers cost. Terms Of sale TO lie
complied with in fifteen days.
HENRY w. S0HDN Trustee
Fendall bldg. 544 |, st.
U IL SLOAN K Co. Aucts iy25 lot
SALE OF PUBLIC PRoPERTY.-wAR DEPART.
inert. July p, lS9g.-There will he sold at auc-
ton at TEN O'CLOCK AN. AUGUST SEVENTH
1889. within courtyard Of this building a lot of
BASKETS. Buckets, Cases. Chairs. Desks Tables
&c. Terms Of sale: Highest bidder for cash Ar
ucles TO be removed without delay, at RISK and
expense of purchaser. NJ. Il. THORP, Chief Of
Supply Div aui-5t
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where, and have done not a little coffee
hulling myself by experimenting with them.
Among the Coffee Sorters.

Among the Coffee sorters.
After the coffee has been dried and clean
ed it must be graded. In some of the fac
tories this is done by machinery, the coffee
being run over wire screens with meshes
Of different sizes The little round beans
which form the very best of the product.
and which look just like Mocha coffee. drop
Into one bag. The largest of the f1at-sided
beans go into another and other grades
into other bags.
Machines, however. do not take out the
bad grains. This must be done by the
coffee sorters. In every large Porto Ricau
factory you find women picking over the
coffee grains and separating the good from
the bad. In the smaller factories the pick
ing is done sitting on the floor before a low
box covered with CLOTH In the larger ones
there are long tables cut up into little boxes
by many partitions, and before each box a
Porto Rican girl sits with a pile of green
coffee beans before her. She picks these
over and over, handling coffee from sunrise
until sunset.
During my stay in Porto Rico visited
factories where hundreds of these girls
were sorting coffee. I made some photo
graphs of them at work. much to the
amusement of all. They are black-eyed,
brown-skinned maidens with eyes as laugh
ing as the italian coffee pickers of Brazil.
Not few show signs of negro blood, and
some are quite black. They sing as they
work and are evidently not dissatisfied with
average less than % cents a day.
At the Coffee Ports.
The transportation of the coffee to the
seaports is one of the most important fac
tors in the industry. Much of the coffee
land is far in the interior, with mountain
ranges between it and the places of ship
ment Some of 1t is along the military
road. This is shipped upon bullock carts
great two-wheeled affairs drawn by four
five yokes of oxen and carrying enormous
loads.
The coffee in the other mountain regions
is taken to the coast upon ponies, about
200 pounds being packed on the back of
each animal. Often you will see long file
of these little ponies thus loaded crawling
up and down the mountain road. Some
times an owner sits on the top of his pony
and fiogs him along the way.
The packs are often roughly put on so
that they rub the skin from the backs of
the ponies and when the loads are removed
great raw sore patches are to be seen. One
of our army officers, who is in charge at
the coffee port of Yauco, endeavored to
prevent this cruelty. He took the packs
off the beasts and fined each driver of
sore horse, s., putting his horse in the
pound until cured. This created great
sensation among the farmers, and after a
few days the coffee ceased to come in. The
business of Yauco fell off and the mer-
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CHINESE il STICE.
A Story of Lii Hung Chang and Mon
Who Tried to Poison Him.

From the Literary Digest
OF Ii Hung Chang numberless stories are
told in Chinese society. Now and then oro
reaches this country through orr consu1s
in China.
on one occasion when the premier was
having bitter fight with some of the more
conservative members of the Tsung-li-Ya-
men he received as a present q magnificent
cake, which he had reason to susnect can
tanned poison. He put the cake aside er7,l
set all his powerful machinery to work to
ind out who was az the bottom of +ba pro+
The investigation was partly successful the
crime being traced to three men. of whom
one, at least, was absolutely guilty.. Ii had
the trlo arrested and brought Il his Yana,
men they arrived they were ushered into
MS presence and were received in his co,rt
nest manner The cake was produced with
the remark that ''polteness forbade bis
iastlns 1t Until the three generous donors
i"9 nau an opportunity to enjoy its ex-
celence- Ii cut the cake and one of his
serVitors handed it to the unWiIIino, p,Iasts
hach TOOK piece and ate or pretended IN
eat II; one crunrbled the pieces and let
oto ~ upoi! me Moor but the other two
a ; ca1tnly' without manifestfng anv emo
tiof; len minutes and the TWO men baa,a,,
70 snow symptoms of suffering Ii smiled
ponishlhtiy, and said to the man who had
I'ot eaten; Your wisdom is so great that
L am compelled to preserve your head as a
so my TO transcendent genius"
me man was removed and promptly do
capltated To the other two the nremier
re The cake that you are eating
IS not the one you sent but one which !
n mao my cook initiate. The poison from
" nicn you are suffering exists only in vorr
imagination. l know of no wav 10 r., s o,,ri,
s L present pain except by letting Won
snare the same fate as your friend who ~
just left The ROOM. nv i"9
As they We're led away the statesman
said to his retnue: 1T is a nifw at tha.
man ma VINO can eat deadly corrosive no;son
WIN an unmoved countenance shonI1 Sn
endowed him. He"Eeh mas
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AN AFRICAN LOVE CHARM.
Flesh of a White Man Supposed to Be
All Powerful.

All Powerful.
From the London Mail.
A new peril seems to threaten white men
In south Africa. They are in danger of be
ing cut into love charms and used to in
crease the marriage rate among the natives.
The flesh of a European is considered by
the black inha bitants of Natal a charm
powerful enough to compel the love of any
unwilling maiden. When a young black
man loves a maiden and his love is rot 1e-
ciprocated, he goes to a witch doctor and
asks for a love philter. Other philters of a
milder potency having been tried and the
maiden still remaining ObdIraIe and re-
fusing to love her black sutton, the witch
doctor, last resort, preScribeS the flesh
of a white man.
Murders committed for the possession of
the coveted white flesh, while not common,
occur from time to time. News has been
received from Natal Of the hanging at
Harding of a witch doctor and his pupil tor
the murder of farmer named Kay. The
farmer was dragged from mis- bed at night
and after being stabbed several times with
an assegai, his throat was cut and his
body left on the yeldt. Part of the dead
mans neck was cut away, and subsequent
ly found in the witch Doctors bag, with
other medicines" The head devil in the
murder was a witch doctor named Imtanti.
With him was associated his pupil, SibaI-
weni.
Sibalweni had not yet taken his degree
as a witch doctor, but was studying under
Umtanti, who considered him 4 promising
pupil The two were helped in the murder
by two men. who seem to have been sim
ply employees of Umtantis college Of med
icine. These two men received life sem
fences. When Umtanti and his pupil We're
hanged eighty native chiefs ana headinen
We're assembled in order that they might
see the execution and spread the news of
it abroad among the natives. The natives
have had an idea that when one Of them
has been arrested for similar crime he
has not been killed, but simply sent to
some far-off place, where he eventually
died. The recent execution was intended as
an object lesson. Recently a little child
which was stolen from it's parents in the
Barberton district of Natal, is supposed to
have been taken by the ativcs for the
same purpose as that for whicl they muir
dered Kay. Umtanti, the doctor, who was
something of a south African Charles
Peace, confessed to other murders which
had not been brought TO ligh-, including,
the Chief Umshweshwe's sister His face
is in keeping with his character-erarty and
cruel to a degree. His pupil, Sibaiweni,
also had a repulsive face while the other
two men, Conf and Umbonwa, who re
ceived life sentences, have pleasanter ap-
pearance.
a police trooper who discovered iIay's
body lying in the moonlight WAS so un-
nerved by the CHASTITY signt it presented.
with gaping wounds ana clad only in Il
shirt, that he was unabIa to sleep or cat
for some time after AMI at night awakened
his comrades with screams.
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No Wonder.


'Wa-al. l snum," calculated Hi Stack
pole. in the midst of his perusal of the viii
lage newspaper I'm speakn' of the trav-
eler who was hurt at the depot the other
day. this item says that he was "a slim
built, sickly looking man. with whiskers
weighing about one hundred and twenty
pounds. No wonder he fell off from the
car platform an broke one Of his ribs
Such a beard as that would overbalance
anybody but giant"
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TRUSTEES SALE OF HANDSOME FRAME
DWELLING. No. 4lg JEFFERSON STI;Fy-T
AND COMFORTABLE DWELLING On TAY-
LOR STREET, ANACOSTIA. II. g.
by virtue OF two certain ceeGs of trust record cd
respectively, in Libers 1882 and 2O5l fol- so
and a ct se., of the land records for the District
OF Columbia and ut the request OF the PARTY Sc
cured thereby, We will sell, 10y publ, auction in
front or the premises. on WEDNESDAY. THE
NINTH DAY OF AUGUST, 1893. AT Hal F-PASP
FIVE O'CLOCK PM. the following described real
estate, situate in the county OF Washington. Dis
trict OF Columbia, and being lots numbered three
49,, seven "a and eight (sl. in block numbered
Two 60, in Oregon l.. Green's subdivision Of Chi
chester, as pes plat in County Book No t. page
"a, in the surveyors office Of said District to-
Gcther with all the improvements, rights, etc.
Terms stated 1t time Of sale; 500 deposit upon
acceptance; all conyeyHncing stamps &c., at pur-
chasers cost.
GEORGE NJ. ENMERICH
aul-d &dS ID. ). MACkALI. Trustee
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From the Brooklyn Eagle.
"Oh, my friends, there are some specta-
cies that one never forgets. said a lee
turer, after giving graphic description of
d terrible accident he had witnessed.
I'D like TO know who sells en- re-
marked an old lany in the audience, who is
always mislaying her glasses.
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jy31-d&ds


CHANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
REAL ESTATE, KNOWN AS No. - YALE
STREET NOETHWEST.
BY virtue Of decree of tie Supreme Court Of
the District OF Columbia passed the 10th day
OF July. \. ID. 1889, ia equity "" 2032S.
wherein Alfred A. PiXton ct al. are complalnnuis
and Harry A. Pxton ct al. are defGadants, Tie
undersigned trustees will sell public auction in
front Of the premises. TUESDAY THE
EIGHTH DAY OF AUGUST. a. Il. 1888 AT
1ALF-PASr FOUR O'CLOCK PM, all II lot
five 90, block twenty five t25 in John sherman
trustees. subdivision OF part Of Mount Pleas.
ant and Pleasant Plains, now known as Co
lumbia Heights" said lot being improved by a
frame dwelling house
Terms If sale as prescribed by said decree: one
half cash, and the balance in year from day
Of sale, for which the notes Of the purchaser
must be given. bearing interest from day Of sale
at the rate OF six per centum per aunum. and Sc
cured by deed Of trust the property sid or
all cash. at the purchasers option. A deposit u
500 viii be required at time Of sale. an con
veyancng, recording, acknowledging and revenue
are not complied with In ten days from iav ~
sale the trustees reserve the right 10 rns,il al
the risk and cost Of defaulting purchaser after
three days previous notice IA some rrAslal,r
published in the city Of Washington H. e
JAMES Ii. TAYLOR Trustee
- - 6l3 18th H.w.
JAMES W. GREER. Trustee
IL
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JAMES W. RADCLIFFE, AUCTI0NEER.
NAIirII

TRUSTEES SALE OF FRAME COTTAGE on
NORTH SIDE OF JEFFERSON STREET NEAR
TAYLOR ST. ANAOOSTIA. ID. c.
BY Write of decd Of trust duly recorded in
Liher No 2lg6, folio ll9 se-I. of the land rec
ords for the. District Of Columbia. and AT the re-
guest OF the party secured thereby. will sell.
10y public auction, in front Of the premises on
WEDNESDAY. THE NINTH DAY OF AUGUST.
1889 AT \ QUARTER PAST FIVE O'CLOCK
PM. the following described real estate. situate
in the county of Washington, District Of Culun-
bia, To wit Lots numbered eighty four tN4 eighty
five 49, and eighty-siN (s6l, in square n.lm0er,d
one IL. in Oregon l.. Green's suhdiyisu CHI
chester said subdivision Is duly recorded in
County Book No 6, folio ~ OF tho land records
Of said District, together with all the improve
ments rights, &c
acceptance of bid. All coHveyuncing, staihps &c,
at purchasers cost.
u. =. NACkAiI-
GEORGE NJ. EMMERTCH.
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A Lack of Tact.

From Inc Indianapolls Journal.
II do so hope you will succeed" said the
motherly, warm-hearted landlady
II am bound to- said the sanguine young
inventor. "And when I do you won't see
me eating at place like this any more
Then, in realization of the utter impossi-
bility of fixing things, he grabbed his hat
and lied.
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THos. J. OWEN. AUcTI0NEER, 9I8 F ST. NV.

TRUSTEES SALE OF THREE Two-sToRY
METAL-ROOF BRICK DWELLINGS. NOS
1l06. HOS AND ITO YALE STREET NoRTII-
WEST.
By virtue Of a deed Of trust TO us dated July J.,
1897. and duly recorded July 4. 1897. in Liber No
2225, folio 453 ct seq Of the land records OF the
party secured thereby, will sell. public
tiun, in front Of the premises on FRIDAY THE
ELEVENTH DAY OF AUGUST, AID 1899, AT
HAIF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK PM. the following
described land and premises situated in the county
OF Washington, District Of Columbia, and desig
mated and bel &c lot numbered twenty three ,2Sl.
in block numbered twenty-siX (26l. in John Sher-
man, trustees, subdivision of parts Of Mount
Pleasant" and Pleasant Plains, now known
Columbia Heights. said subdivision Is
corded in Book Governor shepherd page 1855. in the
Office OF the surveyor Of the District Of Columbia.
Terms Of sale: One-third II the purchase money
to be paid in cash, and The balance In one
and three years with interest at the rate uf six
per centum per annum, payable Eemi-annually and
secured by deed Of trust upon the property sold,
all cash. at the option OF the purchaser. A de-
posit of $3.50 will he required the time II sale
All conveysncing, recording and revenue stamps
the cost OF the ,haser. Terms Of sale TO be
complied with within ten days from date Of sale
otherwise the trustees the right 10 resell
the property at the risk and Of the defaulting
purchaser. after five days notice Of resale 10
some newspaper published Washington. u. c.
albert A. WILSON,
JOHN b. LAItNER.
Trustees,
ty3l-d&ds 1885 street NV.
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From the Chicago Tribune.
You remember that worthless little
cousin of mine you knew ten years ago?
Well, he's captain now"
United States service, Salvation Army
base ball club?'
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FUTURE DAYS,
THOMAS BOWLING, AUCTIoNEER.
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
PkOPEKIl IN TMINING CIIN. ID. q

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
PROPERTY IN TWINING CITY, d. e
BY virtue of deed of trust, dated the 18th day
OF October, 1897, and duly recorded in Lber 226G
folio 25S ct seq, of the land records OF the Dis
trlct OF Columbia, and at the request Of the
parties secured thereby, we Will sell public
tlon, in front of the premises, WEDNESDAY,
THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF AUGUST, 1899 AT
HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK T. NJ the following
described land and premises. situate in the Dis
trict of Columbia, known and distinguished as and
being all OF lot numbered twenty -four GA in
block numbered five 90 of Charles A. EIlicott and
llchard Smith, trustees, recorded subdivision of
part OF Henry MAYORS iarm, said subdivision be-
ing known as Twining City, per plat thereof
OF record IN the office of the the said
District, improved by two t2b two-story frame
dwellings, and one-story back buildings attached.
situated on the west side of Minnesota avenue
south of Pennsylvania avenue extended Twining
City, ID. c.
Terms: One-third cash, balance in one and two
years, with interest at the rate OF per centum
per annum, secured by deed Of trust on the
property sold, or all cash, at the option OF the
purchaser. deposit Of 500 required at the
time OF sale Conveyancing, recording and revenue
stamps at cost OF purchaser Terms of sale to be
complied with in ten days from day OF sale other
wise the trustees the right to resell at the
risk and cost of defauting purchaser
JOHN T.. HERRELI.,
AARON S. CAYWO0D.
au5-d&ds Trustees.
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AUCTION SALES OF REAL ESTATE, DC.
Monday,

Z. g. Sloan & Co, Aucts.. 1907 ST NV
Ch&ncefy sale Of No. 31UO Z St NV on Monday
August 4, at D pm Henry W Sohon trustee
Sale of public property in court yard Of War De
partmcnt. ON Monday. Allarst 1 nj 10 4 IN
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JAMES W. RADCLIFFE, AUcTIoNEER.
TRUSTEES SALE OF A BRICK uoUSE NO $50
Z STREET NORTHWEST ALSO THREH

VT 7 o.
STREET NORTHWEST. ALSO THREE
BRICK HOUSES ON ALLEY IN THE REAR
ed in Iiber 221s folio 42I ct seq one OF the land
records OF the District OF Columbia. and at the
quest Of the party secured thereby the undersigned
trustees Will ofer for sale. public auction, in
front of the premises. on WEDNESDAY. AUGUST
NINTH. 1893. AT HALF PAST FOUR O'CLOCK
L. NJ, the following described real estate situate
in the city Of Washington. District Of Columbia
wit: Lots numbered eighty -four ts4l. eighty Ave
1851, eightysix (S6l and eighty nine (S9) In Chas
NJ Smithson's subdivision Of parts OF original lots
seventeen 40 and eighteen tlsl, in square
bered FIVE hundred and nifty three $3.50 per plat
in Book No. 20. folio a. in the surveyors office Of
the District Of Columbia, together with all the
improvemen rights. sc.
Terms easy AMI made known at time Of sale.
GEO. II. EMMERiCH.
DOUGLASS = MACkALL.
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JAMES W. RATCLIFFE, AUCrIONEER.
TRUSTEES SALE OF Two.sroRY nRIcE


HOUSE, No sl1 I STREET NORTHWEST.
BY virtue Of two deeds OF trust, duly recorded
respectively. in Iiber No. 1914 fol. 2sS and
liber No. 1892, fol. 209 seq. Of the land rec
ords for the District II Columbia. and at the re.
quest Of the party secured thereby. the UNDER
signed surviving trustee Will offer FOR sale by
public auction. i'm front Of the premises on I-ES-
DAY, FIFTEENTH DAY OF AUGUST. A. II.
ISE9. at HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK J. NJ the
following described zeal estate situate in The
city of Washington. in the District Of Colum bis
to Wit: Lot numbered twenty-onc (2lD in tirur's
SUBDIVISION of lots eleven to fourteen in Keese's
SUBDIVISION OF square three hundred and hinety-
three t3!i3), together with all the improvements
rights, &c.
Terms; One-third cash. the balance IN enc and
two years, with interest from the day II sail. al
SIX per cent per annum, secured by deed II trust
on the property Sold all cash at the option nf
the purchaser A deposit Of $500 required upon
acceptance OF bid. II the terms Of sale are not
complied with in fifteen days from the day ~
sale the trustee reserves the right 10 resell fho
property at the risk and cost Of the dp:aultfnc
purchaser after five days advertisement az such
iesale Ia some newspaper published In Wash
lngton, ID. Z. All conveyancing. STAMPS Sc al
cost CT tie purchaser. 49, -
HENRY II. BERGMAN
aut-uNus Surviving Trustee.
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JAMES W. RATCLIFFE, AUcTIoNEER.

IRt STEES SALE OF ELEVEN 4-EOOM FRAME
HOUSES WITH BRICK CELLARS. NOS I23
10, ~, I'D l3l, 133, 1876 1917, 1879, l4l AND
l43 p STREET SOUTHWEST
BY virtue of a deed Of trust duly recordaa q,
Lioer No 240f. folio 40 ct seq. one of the land
records Tor the District OF Columbia. and az the
request OF the party secured thereby The under-
signed trustees will offer for sale by public auc-
tlon IN front of the premises. on TfIURSpAY
HALF -fASI -FOUR O'CLOCK PM. the follow
ing described real estate. situate in the city of
washington, IN The District of Columbia 10 VIII.
orlgihai lot numbered three 81. In square num-
Oefeu nFe hundred and ninety-nine $500 together
with all the improvements, rights etc
This property will be sold subject however 10 n
prior deed of trust for s., 500. Full particulars
stated at time of sale
Terms: Over trust cash. A deposit OF $500 re-
quired as an entire SIS on each house upon se-
ceptance Of bid. All conycyancina stamps ere =
at purchasers cost.
JAMES X. GHIETT
THOMAS Ii. PICKFoRD.
TzSo&o Trustees.
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JAMES " RADCLIFFE. AUCTI0NEER.

VALUABLE BUILDING LOTS OK SIXTH
STREET BETWEEN AND J. STREETS
SOUTHWEST.
On FRIDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST ELEVENTH
1893 AT HAIF-PAST -FOUR O'CLOCK. ] Hili
oher for sale, 10y public auction, in front Of the
premises,
LOTS ~ AND ~.
In square AL, fronting un 9th ST. ". and run
ming back to l5-foot alley.
Terms stated at sale. Sl0O deposit acceptance
OF bid.
suSd&ds JAMES W RADCLIFFE Auctioneer.
-.