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CONGRESS HEIGHTS AROUSED.
Protest Against the Wilson Park Sale
NV the Citizens Association.

Protest Against the Wilson Park Sale
nv the Citizens Association.
The Congress Heights Citizens Associa-
ton has submitted to Congress a protest
against the contemplated purchase by the
Government of the land known as Wilson
Park. for additional grounds for the Gov
eminent Hospital for the Insane.
In the protest, the reasons for their ae-
tion are exhaustively treated by the as
sociation. the committee on legislation
having elaborated the plans Of the con-
templated purchase and explained them
fully. This committee is composed of Gus
tave Bender. Charles W. Frazier, V. NJ.
Tucker. Theodore Dietrich. and o. A. En-
mons
The land in question Is owned by Rich
ard T Wilson of New York, and contains,
according TO the certificate of the Tax As
SCISSOR Of the District of Columbia, 1000
acres at Pencote Heights, in the suburb
known as Congress Heights. The tax GER
tiflcate of assessment shows that the land
has been assessed at a valuation Of $S,573,
and the fundamental reason for the pro-
test is that the bill which is to be intro
duced in Congress will provide for an ap-
preparation of s245, ,00O for its purchase by
the Government a price which, the citi-
zens' association declares is about s200,0
in excess Of the true value of the land.
For verifcation of this declaration, they
cite an instance of sale last summer of
improved property within 200 yards of this
tract for which 81 300 was paid, and es-
timating the value of the improvements at
81 600, the true value of the land, they as
sert, was about S419 per acre. This. they
claim, proves that by the sale Of the Will
son property to the Government for S245,-
600, the United States would pay about
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of 6.731 tons and 225 sailing vessels Of 10,
314 tons. No subsidies are paid

Sl4 tons. NO subsidies are paid.
OF Japan the report says:
AT the close Of the fiscal year ended
June 80. 1898, there were $40 steamers
(43s ,34S tons). ia sailing vessels OF for
eign style as. Ill tons). and about 17.T37
sailing vessels OF japanese style (312,47S
tons. showing an increase Of III steamers
and s.. .050 tons; II sailing vessels of foreign
type and 4, ,076 tons: and 1872 sailing vessels
of Japanese type and g. 15S tons.
"Of steamers above J. 600 tons measure
ment there are now October, 1890. 149,
with a total tonnage of $50, 619 Of which so
steamers OF 191.343 tons are owned by the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha Japan Mail Steam
ship Company alone. In the foreign trade
the tonnage Of japanese steamers now
reaches about $50, 900 tons.
State aid, under the navigation -encour-
agement law. is now enjoyed by 80 steam
ers Of 137. sos tons. two-thirds of which are
vessels of the Nippon. Yusen Kaisha.
This law came into force October /,
1886, and provides that Japanese-owned
steamers Of over 900 tons, of speed ex-
ceeding ten knots. shall receive a bounty
of about II cents per ton for the first 1000
knots run and one-tenth of the same rate
for every additional 500 knots"
The reports also contain statistics OF
shipbuilding in the various countries
prices OF steel plates, actions of chambers
OF commerce on merchant marine. wages
paid. and other matters bearing on the sub
inaf
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THE DECEASED WIFE's SISTER.
How the English Prohibition of Mar
rfaWe With Her Came About.
(From the New York HeralC

(From the New York Herald)
The prohibition. which has caused so
much discussion in England, grew out of
the ancient tribal law forbidding father
to sell more than one daughter to the same
man, when the Briton was emerging from
polygamy, and when for 21 shillings of
the present money man might dismiss
his wife, or kill her II she would not go.
AS civil law II was to protect the living
wife and knit tribes closer together by
intermarriage.
When ecclesiastical law became supreme
a misreading of some Scripture text was
used to put the sister of a mans wife
among the prohibited degrees Of relation
ship. This was the act of 1541 t32 Henry
Wild: "A man may not marry his de-
ceased wife's sister, nor her daughter, but
he may marry his first cousin
While the marriage laws of 1541 have
been altered and amended and rewritten
until they no more resemble now the laws
of that day than a modern locomotive re-
sembles a chariot Of Alexander, this one
section has been preserved intact and reads
today word for word as it did then.
The prohibition is not known today in
any other country. 1t does not apply in
Scotland or Ireland-snly in England. 1t
is avoided by any persons wishing to marry
by going to Scotland or Ireland or France
or the United States, and the English civil
law is that a marriage valid where con-
tracted is valid everywhere. The lex loci
governs, except in polygamous countries.
The law of 1541 is dead letter in England
except for the religious who will not dis
obey their Bishops and it gives rise to no
small amount of scandal and bitter feel
ings and religious rancor when Smith mar
ries his wife's sister in Edinburgh and
brings her back to New York to live as his
legal wife, which she is. The marriage
contract depends upon the law Of Scotland
and must be decided by it.
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NERVOUS
EXHAUSTION.

Many people suffer from sleeplessness,
depressing spirits, headache, pains in the
back. palpitation of the heart. and treat
themselves for Dyspepsia or Rheumatism
or Headache when the real trouble is
nervous exhaustion. What you, Dear Suf-
ferer. need is a strictly nerve and blood
medicine, and that remedy is DR.. Hallock' S
Wonderful Electric Pills for weak, worn
out, nervous people. Thoroughly tested
for past so years, and never known to fail
to cure all nervous affections in young or
old. DR.. Hallocks Wonderful Electric
Pills will nourish the nerves, build up the
broken down constitution. and impart new
energy to tagging spirits, stimulate the
ambitions and give you nerves of Steel
Sold at all wholesale and retail drug stores,
81 per box; G boxes, sufficient to most OBJ
stinate cases, 80.
e. Stevens. Ninth Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue Washington, d. c., or sent direct
from laboratory, prepaid, receipt of price.
Advice ON all diseases from specialists free. Ad-
dress HALLoCK DRUG CO., 40 Court st., Bos-
ton, Mass. Established lSis
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7F Ay svccEID.S esS5 S0Y Try P0ST SAPOLIO

100000 more than the present market
value of the property. Moreover, it is
claimed that the property is not contigu-
Gus to the asylum grounds, but is sepsr-
ated therefrom by tract of land having a
frontage OF about two and one-half acres
on Nichols Avenue. and that ample ground
is already within the reservation of the
hospital for the erection of the buildings
specified in the bill which is to be intro
duced. ...s .r- 81.
Adjunctive TO these principles set forth.
is the assertion that there would be. by
the purchase. a contiguity of the grounds
of the asylum and those of the recently
erected public school building not at all
desirable. and, in the opinion Of the citi-
zens Of the suburb. the whole project en-
bodies design upon the Treasury of the
Government and a destruction of real es-
tate values in the neighborhood.
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Given Tn as Dead

NORRISTOWN. Pa. Jan. 1.-THE reg
lister of wills OF this county has granted
letters to Charles Pennypacker In the ee-
tate of Alfred Wood, supposed to be de-
ceased, who has not been heard from in
ten years. In 1890 Wood suddenly disap-
peared from this borough, and his existence
has since been a mystery. He was forty
years old when he left here. The estate
involved amounts to about S. Oon
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Ordered by the District.

The following orders have been issued by The
Commissioners:
That sewer be constructed along the west side
of Ninth Street, between r.. and French streets,
at an estimated cost Of $40. chargcable to the
appropriation for main and pipe sewers 1900, and
That sewer be constructed along the west SIDE
OF Ninth Street, between French and streets az
an estimated cost of SOS, ehargeahle 10 the ap-
preparation for replacing olStrueted sewers i.S'.
Kalorama Avenue between TWFntieth Street and
ConnectiCu Avenue, at an esti a. cost OF S$l20.
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UNEEDA BISCUIT.
,,.rr;,re Licenses Issued.

Marriage licenses were issued today 10: Henry
T. smith, Spring Creek Va. and Myrtle A. Wine,
Lilly, Va; Pinckney Hawkins and Virginia Ny
ers: John b. Contee. Marlboro, Md, and Eliza
beth r. Hardy, District Of Columbia; David Sen
ger. Franklin Grove. H.. and Martha Chick, this
city: George A. Bdrnhart and Minnie Irene Magee,
both Of Baltimore, Nd; Abraham J. Levy and
Carrie Aaron: Valentine Luckett and Mildred A.
NiiSCn: James u. Gray and Eliza Sewell, Jehef-
son L. Cralee and Caroline ii. Graham
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Literary and Musical Entertainment

A literary and musical entertainment VIII be
given by the Grand Commandery, District Of Co.
lumbia United Order of the Golden Gross, at Ma
tinal Rifles Arrory, C Street northwest this
evening at O'Clock.
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IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Transfer of Prouerty.

A deed was placed on record today by Richard
W. Tyler and Robert G.. Rutherford, trustees, con-
veying to T. Conrad Dodge, premises Nos. sol,
of SIS, 100.
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TopAY'S AMUsEMENTs.

Columbia Theatre-Jsmes T. Powers IN "A
Runaway Girl afternoon and evening =
Iafsvette Square Opera Households Stacey IN
ga Bachelors Honeymoon evening.
Grand Opera House-Joseph Hart's Vaudeville
Company; afternoon and evening.
Kernan's Lyceum-Hopkins' Trans Oeeanies;"
afternoon and evening.
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Mans Wickedness.
From fhe Humanitarian }

Prof. Mantegazzs gives some interesting ststis-
tics showing that those modern sociologists who
hold that women are mems equals in the field of
criminality are wrong. Here are some of them:
Man bears false witness 100 times TO q woman s
seventeen.
Man for forgery and counterfeit coming was
convicted 100 times to a womans eleven
In France women are summoned before the trib-
unals four times less than men,
In France in 1850 syemen delnquents were four
teen TO 100 men.
In Italy in the same year they were only 9
per cent.
In Algeria we have ninety-six male delinquents
and only four women.
In England and Wales between 1884 and 1s42
there were twenty-four women TO 100 men, all for
the more serious offences
In ISL Dr. Nicholson found in the prisons in
England s,2ls men and ], ,2l7 women
In Bavaria, from 1862 TO 1866, in population
consisting solely of peasants, the women who were
condemned were in proportion twenty mine to 100
men.
In the prisons of Turin from ls7l to 1884 the
women in respect 10 men are represented bv
figure Of 1856 per cent.
Taking the whole of Europe women are. the
professor says, five times less guilty than men.
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Running s

Running Sores, the outcome of neglect
or bad blood have never-failing balm in Dr.
Agnew's Ointment. Will heal the most stubborn
cases. Soothes irritation almost instantly after
first application 1t relieves all Itching and Burn
ing Skin Diseases in day. II cures Piles in
8 to nights. 35 cents.-33
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0be euenins Gin,es
THURSDAY. JANUARY II.
The Weather Indications

For the District Of Columbia. Delaware. Mary
land. and yirginia-Rsn tonight. clearing Friday;
brisk essterIy winds, becoming southeastery and
increasing
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BOUNFIES and subsidies
How Foreign Countries Encourage
the Merchant Marine.

Immense Sums Annually Paid Out for
Carrying the Mails, as. Well as for
tance Trayeled-France Pays a
Bonus for the Construction of ships
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AT THE THEATRES.

The coming presentation of The Sign OF
! the Cross" at the Columbia Theatre calls
10 mind the fact that the success OF VIII
| liam Greet's production is responsible for
nearly everything of the sort that has fol-
lowed it-and this list includes such of the
seasons hits as Ben Hur" and Quo Va
dis" For a considerable length of time
managers labored under the delusion that
the public believed religious subjects too
sacred for stage use. Wilson Barrett's rev
erent and powerful treatment of a semi
pulpit topic, however, showed these men
their error. and the result has been con-
spicuous. Up TO date, though, The Sign of
the Cross" is the best play of the sort
that has been brought to Washington. The
Columbia engagement is for next week.
II would be difficult for the most skilled
Of impressarios TO select a more popular
repertoire for this city than is that TO be
sung next week at the Lafayette Square by
the Strakosch Opera Company. "Cavalle-
ria Rusticana" and H NJ s. Pinafore"
: always have been considered an excellent
combination here, the contrast between the
two making each doubly effective under
such condition, ''Manon," with its de-
| lightful waltz airs. has not been heard 10
| cally in years, while Carmen" and III
Trovatore" invariably draw big audiences.
The Mikado," the last of the works an
nounced, is very popular, the entire list be-
/ ing OF a nature that may be counted upon
to assist materially in filling the theatre
during the engagement of the organization.
When Treasurer Reeves opened the box
Office of the Grand this morning he was
vouchsafed sight that no ticket agent
! has seen at that resort since the last Grau
season. A line of forty or fifty people
stretched in front OF the window, the in
dividuals therein having waited upward
of an hour in order to purchase seats
Thus has been bruited about the merit of
Ching Lingo Foo and the likelihood that
! he will bring enormous gatherings. The
Chinese magician. who headlines next
weeks bill at Manager Chase's theatre
really is said to be a marvel. and if the
sale so auspiciously begun is long contin-
ued the boOkers of the house will not be
out of pocket on the 900 paid for his
services. Monday will be souvenir night
at the Grand
Bryant and Yale comedians whose
sketch is entitled Just Married." the
Quincy Sisters. singing and dancing SOU
brettes; Charley Banks, whose monologue
bears the caption. Nothing 10 Arbitrate;"
Edna Urline. vocalist; Sam Collins, Minnie
Cline and Rastus, New York specialists;
World, Kennedy and Quatielli, jugglers,
and Nelson Glinseretti and Demonio pan
tomimists, compose the olio of the per-
formance to be given next week at Ker-
mans by Harry Bryant's Australian" Bur-
lesquers. The organization is well and
favorably known here and the probability
is that ii will draw unusually large audi
ences to the cozy stage house. Seats are
selling.
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TEMPERATURE.
THE SUN AND MOON

Temperature at / p m. m.................--...-.
Lowest temperature, I a m.......---..-.--....S 81
Highest temperature, p. m-.................--5l
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PHASES OF TIE MOON FOR JANUARY.

Sun rises.....7:1s AN. Sun sets........4 IS M.
Moon rises............ Moon SETS. 3 :39 AN.
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Don't phone the brewery for Heuriehs bottled
beer, but call up the Arlington Botting Co. for
Maerzen Senate, and Lager
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TIDE TABLE.

New list and SOth Full ............. 18th
First quarter .5th Last quarter. .23d
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STREET LIGHTING.

/ Low tide AN and 4:44 P. VI.
| High ide............IO:4 40 AN and l % Pm
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SERVICES AT ST. PATRIcK,s
Musical Frog asnme to Be Rendcrc,
There fhfs Afternoon.

The special, solemn services of the Per
petual Alteration Society will be he'd this
afternoon al 4:30 o'clock, at St Patrick
Church. DIR. Stafford will preach.
The following musical programme will
be rendered:
Prelude-Christmas ofer1ory Barrett
"Adeste Fideles'' .................l Y NovelIo
Y EN- Creator Bliss Solo, with French
norm obigaio ---.--.--....-..........N Wagner
Andante for flute and French horn. TitteI
Cantique de Noel-''0 Holy Night" Adam Buck
20, Salutaris"-Soprano solo, with flute
oollgato -.-----................... Bergp
'Tantum Ergo" in D...................F Riga
Postlude-"T Triumphsl March .......J Jules Grisou
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WIN MARIANI
Mariani Wine-World Famous Tonic

Its good effects are immediate and lasting. 1t
is also very palItable. agreeable TO the taste and
acceptable 10 the most delicate stomach.
As for an Appetizer, take before meals. as a
Digestive, take after meals; as, u General Tonic
or Stirnulant. at any time
Sold by all Druggists Refuse Substitutes.
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Don't call for 'sdark'' or '1ight.' when vou
want Heurichs Maerzen, Senate. or Lager be-
cause many inferior beers are sold under these
titles, but demand Heurich's
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Dix's Famous Kid s1.50 round and
square toe; Laced and Buttons;
sizes to 10.
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Girls Dongola Kid. solid. double
sole; Laced and Button; nearly all
sizes up to 2.
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81 grade Black Vici Kid Opera
Style. Chamois lined House Slip
pers, to s.
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Girls Shoes.

Misses 81 pointed-toe, Kid, hand
sewed, Laced, Cork Soles; B, IL to
II
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Tan Romeo slippers; $3.50 kinds,
to Z only.
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Boys Shoes.

Casco Calf Dongola Top Boys
Bull Dog Tye Laced Shoes; $3.50
quality; siZel 3 to 5 l-2.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-04-05
Ross News.

Sylvester Moore's little girl is quite
sick at this writing.
r. V. Rice, from up in Viola, wasa
Des Moines visitor last week.
Have You seen that new washing
machine at the Farmers Store?
j. Ricketts, has very sick boy, but
late reports say he is improving.
Rev. o. 7. Nichols was back to his
charge and preached here Sunday.
Markets-Hogs, .s5; butter, 15c;
eggs, Sc: corn, 29c; oats 21c; wheat soc
Chris Henrikson and family visited
at the home of Bertel Jensen, Sunday.
Mrs. Chas. Beers visited with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. Jordon, last
Sunday.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-04-05

Miss Minnie Maharg, the sixteen
year-old daughter of j. HI. Maharg,
is very sick with Pneumonia.
Report says that Red Brunnell got
a collar bone broken Sunday, by be-
ing thrown by bucking bronco.
Rissa French, who has been in Au-
dubon for some time learning dress
making, is home on weeks visit.
f. e. Miller's oldest boy, who has
been down for some time with IN
fiamatory rheumatism, is said to be no
better.
Mrs. Holt and Mrs. Robt. Hender-
son returned from Stuart Saturday,
where they were visiting the James
Hall family.
Mrs. S. M. Luse has been at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Maharg,
helping to wait upon Miss Minnie,
during her sickness.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-04-05
Obituary.

The destroying angel OF teath
lowered over the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Wat Fry last Friday and carri-
ed their little boy, Gordon Leo. 10 be
a member of the countless thnos4t,ls
gone before. The little one h but
Two short winters to rest IN its
young life, but so much Of =, an.er
had crept forth in its Joyous. N
full pleasure that the bleedi, . p.rts
of its parents and grandpare lind
solace IN the sweet remembl', re of
half hidden thoughts of It's v,ung
fancy. 1t had been sick for some
time and at one time seemed ai3nost
well, but though the parents were
careful it took a hackset and 1~a the
fond mother no longer can Iii Its
rose touched lips, or the fahe, ger
tondle him on his knee: the grand
parents can no longer hear he ling
lisp of him they loved, tor thu, hich
bound them to it has passed ,n,gh
the ove-hinged gates of parad,- to
stretch back its hands to w.tc,me
those behind. The funeral services
were conducted in the church SUNDAY
by Rev. 0. T. Nichols and lbee were
followed to the LuccocA'~ Grove
cemetery by ninety teams. 4re a
mound marks the place hallou "a by
sacred tears, where sleeps one of Gods
innocent children.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-04-05
FL. B. Wilson is painting his house,
on north Church street, this week.

Matt Johnson left for Chicago today
where he expects to remain several
days.
Dan Thomas and family are now
comfortably located in their new home
in Prospect Park.
The public schools will dismiss on
Friday for weeks vacation. The
following pupils ranked one the past
month in each of the grades in the
high school, the past month:
Wren Graham, in class Az
Eleanor Ohm, in class B."
Elmer McKarahan, in class &C"
Cora Sampson, in class ID"
Frank Mantz made flying trip
home this week from his work at the
State University of Nebraska. Frank
is making good progress in his studies
there and will continue on the remain
der of the year. He is also member
of the University foot ball team. Next
year he expects to graduate from the
State University of Iowa at Iowa City.
He is firm believer in his own state
schools, preferring a diploma from
them rather than take one from Ne
braSka
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-04-05

Gleason & Fulton have dissolved
partnership and each will continue
the practice of their profession but no
longer as partners.
H. A. Barger is having his house in
the east part of the city remodeled
and added to so that he may have
many more home comforts.
Roy Skiel who works at the North
Western depot accidentally fell while
the train was switching this morning
and in some way his hand came in
contact with the wheels so that his
fingers were badly lacerated.
The high school ball team from
Manning will come down during the
vacation and beat or be beaten on the
diamond at the Fair Grounds by the
Audubon High School nine. The con-
test will be one week from today
John Mcclure was down to Des
Moines last Saturday visiting the leg
islature. John thinks of going on the
road ere long for Swift & Company, of
South Omaha. John is a hustler and
will make a success of the business if
he undertakes it.
The contract of building cyclone
caves at the schoolhouses in Hamlin
township, has been let to Chester
Hibbs. They are all to be bricked and
when finished will be a permanent
fixture. This is commendable enter
prise in the township and one fit to be
emulated by others.
The firm OF Taggart & Lyman is
very busy in their nursery. They
have had good men out canvassing
and now that they are filling the
many orders they are kept steady at
work. Their fruits have become well
known as hardy plants which gives
them good prestage over other firms.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-04-05
The Best in The World.

We believe Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy is the best in the world a
few weeks ago we suffered with a
severe cold and a troublesome cough,
and having read their advertisements
in our own and other papers we pur-
chased bottle to see whether it would
effect us. 1t cured us before the bottle
was more than half used. 1t is the
best medicine out for colds and coughs
The Herald, Andersonvilie, Ind. For
sale by Nick Dotling q Co., Extra; A.
II. Roberts, Audubon; druggists.