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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

perb toilette of white corded SILK ana
pold trimmings with Parma violets for a
corsage bouquet.
Mrs. Fannie B. Ward. of I'LL Massa-
chusetts Avenue northwest, Will witness
the Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
The dinner guests entertained by the
Russian Ambassador and the Countess
Cassini on Friday evening were the
First Secretary of the German Embassy
and the Countess Quadt, Captain and
Madame Vignal, of the French Embassy;
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald De Koven, Miss
OeIrichs, OF New York: Miss Helen Hay.
Miss May, Miss Mott, Baron Herman, OF
the German Embassy; Mr.. Robert Adams.
IT.. Colonel Sheboko, Mr.. Rogestvensky
and the new secretary of the Swedish Ls-
CATION, who has just come to Washington,
Baron Bildt. The baron is young hand-
some, and wealthy bachelor.
pretty informal tea was given Friday
afternoon by Mrs. Charles G. Eennett,
wife of the Secretary of the Senate, Inc
guests at which were invited to meet
Mrs. Charles ]. Faulkner and Miss FAUX
ner. Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett have taken
1929 X Street, the house occupied last
year by the late Mr.. John Addison Port
er, Secretary to the President.
Mrs. and Miss Faulkner. who have al
| ways been popular in Washington, were
greeted by several hundred callers. The
| gowns of the three ladies who constltut-
| ed the receiving party were especially
| pretty. Mrs Faulkner wore black lace
over white, prettily pailletted with sli-
! Yer and jet. Miss Faulkner wore paie
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17


the late Samuel G. Ward and has lately
taken up his residence in this city.
Nine. WI, wife of the Chinese Minister,
was making calls Wednesday and the
brilliancy of her encourage excited much
curious and admiring attention. Notwith-
standing that the weather was cold and
windy she rode in an open locomobile,
sitting beside the motorman, a conven-
tional Washington colored coachman with
light brown pot hat and high fur collar.
Crouched at the feet of Nine. WI was her
male Chinese attendant in native cos
tune. which was. however, sombre and
plain compared with the gorgeous raiment
worn by the popular Oriental diplomat S
wife She was respondent in flowing silks
and wore the peculiar head dress which is
always a part of her toilet on occasions
of ceremony. On alighting from the We
hicle Nine. Wu's attendant would assist
her in walking up the steps of the house
where she called. her feet being bound
so tight in the usual Chinese style. as
to make walking a somewhat difficult IN
dertaking.
Senator Clarks sons-in-law and daugh-
tiers, Dr. and Mrs. Everett Culver and Dr.
and Mrs. Lewis Rutherford Morris, cele-
Grated St Valentines Day in a merry and
unique fashion at the Senator's apart
ments in New York. The guests had been
invited to appear in the garb of al ma
lions of the present day and as a result
the company was made up OF Americans,
Turks. Japanese. Russians. Indians. mod
ern Greeks. and Romans, and most impor-
tant of all, st. Valentine himself. attended
by a pink Cupid armed with CULVER and
bow. There were posters and valentines
hanging around the various apartments
and in front of the lift was the CHEEKY
command to Leave care and trouble in
the elevator; the boy will give. you
checks"
On one poster was the following;
american Indians are respectfully re-
auested TO leave their papooses in the
dressing room. They can check them with
their coats" On another: 'lrisbmen may
kiss the BIarney stone. but leave the girls
alone"
To the British this caution was given:
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17
A Sale of Bed Coverings,

IA OoIS vi D(u WY Vi
tors who will sooun here during the inauguration of William
Mckinley be appreciated and there's doubt will be
when glance the prices and doub when
and examine the quality.
zoe
single
COO
bed Worth Sc Special
1914
different colored borders bound Worth s25 Special ~
in QQC
7S
.....-.
for this grade The quality is fine Special
Blanket 81 60
Size FAC
63C
zoe
absolutely odoless zoe
with ticking ~
Hen and buoyan Worth $3.50 Special the pair
Lansburgh & Bro,
APO to 426 Seventh Street.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

IL pieces of very fine Irish Satin Da-
mask; snowy white. nearly 2 yards
wide, faultless in quality and c1C
pattern. Special, per yard. W
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

Mrs. Fannie B. Ward. OF I'LL Massa-
chusetts Avenue northwest, VIII Witness
the Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

Mrs. Hackett will give a large tea to-
morrow, when her guests will be repre-
sentatives of the navy.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

Extra heavy Cream German Table
Damask, in line of good patterns.
strictly all pure linen, full Of wear
ard satisfaction. Special price, ACC
per yard. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. .7V
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

tThird Floor)
You seldom get such Bedwear as this
at such little prices:
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

Sheets and Pillow Cases.

Sheets and Pillow Cases.
Special sale of Utica" Mohawk"
and Lockwood" Sheets and Pillow
Cases-extra good values.
S1xsO Utica" Sheets. ........5sc
72x9O Utica" ................+sc
six9o Mohawk" ................5 2c
72x9O Mohawk" .............47c
s1xs0 lockwood" ..............4Sc
72x9O Lockwood. .............44e
Pillow Cases.
45xSs Utica" ..................15c
45x36 Mohawk" ............12 1-2c
45x3s Lockwood ..............11c
45x72 Bolster Cases.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

Mrs. Hitchcock entertained a number OF
young people at luncheon yesterday. The
Secretary and Mrs. Hitchcock have din.
ner invitations out for February %.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

$50 pairs large size Double Bed Pill
lows. covered with Conestoga ticking
and filled with hot-air purified QRC
feathers-each ~
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

The President and Mrs. Mckinley were
entertained at dinner last night by Senator
and Mrs Hanna. The President will give
reception on Wednesday for the Daugh-
tiers Of the American Revolution. Miss
McWilliams who has been making a visit
of several weeks to the White House, will
leave for home tomorrow, owing to the
death of her grandfather.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

Mrs. Fairbanks held large reception
last night in honor of the Daughters OF
the American Revolution. who are about
to hold their annual congress in this city
The hostess received alone in the draw
ing room OF the handsome family resi-
dence on Massachusetts, Avenue, which
was fragrant with flowers and Illuminated
by softly shaded lights. Mrs Fairbanks,
as a candidate for the President General
ship of the d. A. R., is an interesting
personality just now to the hundreds of
Daughters who will soon be called upon to
elect Mrs. Manning's successor, and last
night was unusually attractive In SUI
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17
Linen Specials for Monday.

Our Linen Department is a veritable
mine of good things at least prices.
These at special prices for Inaugural
tion time:
Special lot OF very fine Hemstitched
Huck Towels; pure white bleach; plain
white and neat red and blue borders.
size 20x4O. As an extraordinary 1Qc
special for Monday, 81 doz; each. o
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

100 dozen extra large Cotton Honey
comb Towels, size 23x46-full bleach
ed. Instead of 15c. special, QZC
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

D0mestiCs.
Shooting, Outing Cloth, Etc.
81 Unbleached Sheeting; extra good
value, full double bed widths. fC
For one-day special.
cases OF Outing Cloth of the best
quality. A big assortment Of
patterns in stripes and checks, &c
for, yard. ....................
A Special in Percales.
100 pieces OF the new Percales.. in
good patterns, suitable for wrappers
and children's dresses-a large TIC
northumberland. .................'<
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

The French Ambassador was also din
ner host Of the evening. His guests were
the Austrian Minister and Baroness Hen
gelmuller, the Minister from the Neither
lands, Mr.. and Mrs de Wollant Mr.. and
Mrs. Richardson. Mr.. and Mrs. Bradley,
Mr. and Mrs. Ward, Miss Deering, Miss
Alice Hay, Miss Emily Wallach Captain
and Mrs Vignal, and Lieutenant Com
mander de Faramond, naval attsche of the
French Embassy.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-17

Heavy STRAIGHTFORWARD Comforts,
scroll-stitched quilted-worth 81 20
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-25
No Hens Allowed.

1t may appear strange to some to
learn that men have entered largely
into the chicken business without a
single hen on their farms, yet it is
true and not at all an uncommon oc-
currence. The owners of some of the
large broiler plants buy their eggs,
and will not allow hen within gun.
shot distance of their brooder-houses.
A hawk, cat or mink would be more
welcome. This is because lice pass
from hens to chicks. One can kill
the hawk or cat, or trap the mink.
but when two or three lice secure an
entrance they soon multiply into mil
lions. If chick escapes and gets with
birds outside it is not allowed to re.
turn. Disease and lice seldom occur
among brooder-chicks without con-
tact with something outside or that
comes within. Lice do not come
spontaneously. but have a source, for
which reason the hen is the last of all
creatures permitted in brooder-
honse.-The Poultry-Keeper.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-25
HERE AND THERE.

j. \. Heter, a Nebraska miller
who has been inspecting the Texas
wheat crop, says that the wheat louise
has destroyed the entire wheat and
oat crop of that state.
Does feed change the quality of
the egg? Probably not. Good feeding
may increase the number of eggs
dropped, but will not increase the so
called richness in each egg.
The loco weed is causing great
loss of cattle in some portions of the
Texas Panhandle, but especially in
Hall county. 1t is thought that fully
fifty per cent. of this springs calf
crop will be lost.
-Rees might puncture ripe fruit if
they felt so inclined; but they never
do it. 1t is only when the fruit is
dead ripe, and cracks open, or has
been purctured by birds, wasps or in
other ways that the bees work on it.
Farmers are told that they should
take stock in home cotton factories,
as thereby they will get better prices
for their cotton When home factories
paw more than the market price for
cotton as fixed by the English mar
ket, please let us know.
The man who is continually talk
ing about SUCK in poultry raising
has adopted the wrong calling. He
should try the lottery business. Sue
cess in any occupation does not de-
pend on luck.
80 nd
often profitable destroyer of weeds
and bushes as far as they are within
his reach. He has but little appetite
for even the most tender and succu-
lent grasses, preferring green leaves,
and tender buds and bark.
Lass year the poultry earnings of
the United States amounted to over
$500, 900. 900. being greater value
BY So 10000 than our entire wheat
crop. S105. 100000 greater than our
swine brought us, 100000 more
than our cotton crop, and more than
three times as great as all the inter-
est paid on mortgages during the
year.
This country produces more than
200, OOO, GOO barrels of apples annually.
We eat more apples than any people
in the world, and export more than
all the rest of the world combined.
We also grow great deal Of other
fruits. but apples lead in quantity.
American apples are the best apples
in the world.
Some writers on agriculture are
shallow preparation for
nearly all crops, and many of them
claim 30 have made excellent crops
by that method. That may be true,
but it is notable fact that no rec
ord-breaking yields have been made
without going down deep for it.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-25

wonderful plant. 1t il the garmersp
true friend. 1t helps to feed and en-
l'ch the farmer and his stock, and at
'iie same time reeds and enriches the
SOIL. Because the COW pea gathers food
from the air ard enriches the soil.
many conclude that the pea does not
need any fertilizing assistance. This
mistake. The more vigorous you
make the pea plant, the larger and
stronger will be the roots, and hence
the greater benefit will result to the
sou on which they grow. But we
must use discretion in fertilizing
'nem. They need phosphoric acid and
potash to make them vigorous and
strong and full fruited. An average
application would be 300 pounds OF
acld phosphate and 300 pounds OF
kalnit, broadcasted and worked well
INTO the soil before planting. We thus
see how we can help ourselves doubly
Dy applying fertilizers to peas. We
Will get heavier crop of hay and
peas, either or both, and while doing
so will store away more fertilizer for
N ~ - SOIH WHEAT, OdtS OE
anything we wish to plant.
Peas not only add to the fertility
OF the soil. but they greatly improve
the mechanical condition of the soil.
They make it porous, so that it holds
the rain water, and fills the soil with
humus, which aids the solution of the
plant food already in the soil.
We will do well to plant large crops
OF peas. Put some in rows, and cul-
tivate, and sow some broadcast aft..r
grain crops. Sow them broadcast in
the corn when laying by. The Whip
poorwills are good variety for this
purpose.
You can rapidly build up your farm
by Judicious planting of COW peas.
This should be done not only on poor
lands. but on our best lands. They
not only increase the fertility of worn
and exhausted lands, but Of all soils.
A continued use of peas will give re-
newed fertility to all soils, and con-
stantly improve the filth of the soil,
and continually yield larger and larg-
er crops of hay and peas. We get two
profits, each increasing from year to
year. If we feed them to our own cat
tie, we get three large profits.
Do not plant too many per acre. A
few vigorous vines are better than
many small weak ones.-J. B. Hunni-
cult, in Texas Farm and Ranch.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-25
THE VALUABLE COW PEA.
and Feed Crops to the
Southern Farmer.

The season is now on for planting
forage and feed crops of many kinds
Among these, few, if any, surpass in
possibilities the cow pea. These peas
grow over a wide extent of latitude
and longitude. They produce in the
pea valuable food for man and beast.
If ground, or If fed with the hull on,
they constitute almost complete ra-
ton. If the vine be added, they fur
nish both hay and grain to cattle.
They are equally adapted to flesh-pro-
ducing in beef cattle and to milk and
muscle-production in the diary cattle.
They can be grazed by cattle, or
mules, or hogs, or by all three at once.
OR they may be cut with mower or
blade. and cured and fed with the
pods on. Or the seed may be picked
and the vines fed alone. Or they may
be cut green and put in the silo.
In any of these ways, they can be
<ec with success They give health
and strength and flesh, and milk and
butter. Again, the whole growth is
valuable for food-roots, vines, pods
and leaves. Not only is this true, but
the plant has wonderful value as a
manure crop, whether considered di-
rectly or indirectly, or both. Ii
MOVED IN, the vines are worth five or
six dollars per ton for manure. 1t
permitted to die on the land and re
main all winter, they manure the soil.
If cut and fed to cattle, and the ma
nure properly handled, it is equal in
feeding value to any other plants, I'M
less it be cotton seed meal. The peas
are the very best manure for sugar
cane.
But while growing, the pea vines
have the power Of gathering ammonia
from the atmosphere and liking 1t IN
the roots, so as 10 greatly increase
the fertility Of the soil. It is indeed .
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-25
How Could He, Indeed.

She-How dare you speak 20 me
when you don't know me!
He-Weil, how am / going to know
you if I don't spa,k to 1c.?-ToW3
Topics
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-25

The Dutch, who smoke 81 ounces
head per year, are the greatest con-
sumers of tobacco. English people
smoke but % ounces head.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-05-25

scale. Ihere IS no use In our refuS-
ing a mission because IL is insignifi-
cant. Anything that God in His prov
idence puts before us to do is impor-
tant. The needle has it's office as
certainly as the telescope and the
spade as a parliamentarian scroll.
There is no need of our wasting time
and energy in longing for some other
sphere. There are plenty of people to
do the big and resounding work Of the
church and the world. No lack of brig
adler generals or master builders or
engineers for bridging Niagaras or
tunneling Rocky mountains. For
every big enterprise of the world
dozen candidates. What we want is
private soldiers in the common ranks,
masons not ashamed to WELD a trowel,
candidates for ordinary work to be
done in ordinary ways in ordinary
places. Right where we are there is
something that God would have us do.
Let us do it, though it may seem to be
as unimportant as the rolling of a
grain or corn into an ant hill.
Furthermore, go to the ant and con-
slider its indefatigableness. If by the
accidental stroke of your foot or the
removal of timber the cities of the
insectile world are destroyed, instant
" they 60 to rebuilding. They do not
sit around moping. At it again in a
second. Their fright Immediately gives
way to their industry. And :. our
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-28
THREAT CARRIED OUT.
Farmers House Burned and His
 Wife Cremated.

Topeka, Kas., June H.-Horribly burned and dying in intense agony was the fate of Mrs. W. c. Carson, wife of a Cowley county farmer, be- cause her husband refused to deposit $5.000 in a place named by unknown blackmailers.
 The tragedy happened Saturday night in an obscure settlement, away from postoffices and telegraph stations. ~ Three weeks ago Carson, who is wealthy, received an anonymous note demanding that he bury $5,OOO at the foot of telephone pole by the road side under penalty of having his house burned. The suggestion was ignored.
 One week later another anonymous letter was received stating that if $5,- 900 was not deposited within a week his house would be burned and he kill ed. No attention was paid 10 the sec ond communication and on Saturday night, while Carson was absent from home, the house was fired.
 1r. Dunn, a neighbor, attracted by the flames, hurried over and found Mrs. Carson horribly burned and lying .fnBensible ten feet from the ruins. She was taken home by Mr. Dunn. where she rallied enough to talk before dyfng Sunday. She said when she discovered the fire she rushed outside, but remenl- bered some valuable papers and q treasured old violin and ran back to save them.
 From that moment her mind was a blank until she awoke in the Dunn home.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-28
THE IRON MARKET.
Some Good Contracts Placed fol
 ,. Structural Material.

New York. June 27.-The Iron Age, in it issue today, will say:
 50 far as the foundry Iron trade Is concerned the markets have been rather which is the chief distributing point Tor the Southern, $ rather weak.
 'Consumpton continues on a large scale and there are those who feel confident that 1t Is bound to continue up to the top notch well into the Winter monthS Tn road equipment generally, this is abund- antly assured by the orders on the DOCKS. In structural material. in which. there was a Hull in new orders. there is more doing. Some very good contracts nave just been placed, among them one lot oi works of the ColoraGo Fuel and Iron
 ''The labor situation is being given less consideration. The end of the machin.st strikes Is in sight, so that the consuming branch will soon be restored to it's normal condition.
 "The food in West Virginia will not delay coke shipments from that impor- tant district for more than two weeks at the utmost.
 the reports from England that steel bill let's and wire rods were again being ot- fered from this side. This was construed as an intention that powerful interests had evidence that there Is danger of con- sumption here falling of later on:
 We understand. however. that the management of the United States Steel Corporation has decided to change the policy pursued by constituent companies in the past of selling abroad only when relief was desirable. It is understood makers will at all times keep in touch with foreign markets through sales, even though they be small only
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-28
Total .............."......s 5.is6,5SO.1s

William Nelson Cromwell, special counsel for the bank, gave out the fol- lowing statement from President Thomas, and added that he was engag- ed in preparing a plan for reorganiZa- tion of the affairs of the bank and it was believed plan would be present ed at an early date:
 Mir. Edward R. Thomas, president of the Seventh National Bank, states that the difficulties of the bank were due solely to the making by the prev ious executive officers of large ad- advances to Messrs. Marquand and Company, and that the security there on was of an unmarketable character. although of considerable intrinsic value: that upon the urgent applica- tion of the Board he and his assoct- ates, MT Edwin H. Gould, had fur nished financial assistance upon ade- quate securities and upon the assur- ance that the obligations of MarQuand and Company would be made good by this morning; that the firm named had. however. failed to fulflll expectations and while he and MT. Gould and some of the directors were willing to fur nish further financial aid, 1t was not deemed by them as just to the de- positors, stockholders or to the public to invite deposits and credit until the afIatrS Of the Dank were a9ain plAceo upon an absolutely safe basisj that for this purpose reasonable time was nec- essary and to prevent unfair prefer ence or advantage. the Board deter mined, with the advice of the counsel. to suspend operations for the pres- ent."
 During the afternoon an. informal meeting of officers of important banks was held at a down town club, and the suspension of the Seventh National Bank and its relations with other finan- cial institutions was thoroughly dis cussed. The tacit understanding that all interests should be protected was arrived at. No one else," said one of those at the meeting, will be allowed to fail.
 "We have got this incident out of the way. and I see no danger ahead. The Seventh could expect neither aid nor synpathy of the Associated Banks"
 The Times will say tomorrow Fri- day) that from sources having abso- lute knowledge of the facts, 1t was ascertained beyond peradventure that General Samuel Thomas, who is i'll at Dobbs Ferry, advanced the S9S3,0O0 to settle the debit balance of the Seventh National at the clearing house Tues day. It was also established that $20O,- OOO was advanced by Edwin Gould to help the bank in the strait. What se- curity the lenders received could not ha learned