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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-10-31

IN advance.
roDtract advertisers win DOT be allowed 70 ex'
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transient Fsteh and under no circum
ssnoes viii tkoy be allowed 10 advertiss
shol thar thciI logiuIasts bv5nsss In TIRE
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y poreous, unless Of Iublic concern, will
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DentE.
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ders H. the paper, news OF any infoi rastioS
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FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS.

AN OLD AND WELL-TRIED REM
EpY. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Sy-
rup has been used for over fifty years
by millions of mothers for their chill
dren while teething, with perfect
success 1t sOOthes the child, softe S
the gums, allays all pain cures wind
collie and is the best remedy for Di:
arrhea. Is pleasant to the taste. Sold
by druggists in every part of the
world Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
It's value is incalculable. Be sure
and ask for Nrs. WinslOw's Soothing
syrup and take no other kind.
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PROPOSALS.

|OFFICE OF CONSTRUCTING QUAR-
" termaster, 419 north Washington street,
AexsndIia, Virgin!s, October rs, 1901.
seAled proposals in triplicate for installing
plumbing In one douoie set of old officers
quarters at Fort Washington Md, viii bs To-
ceiyed st this Office until IL o'clock noon No
vember o, 1901. Envelopes containing pro-
posals should be.msrked Proposals for Plumb.
ing Old Offices Quarters Fort Washington.
Md" Information egsriing plans ana specf.
cations may be obtained ~ this Office, also Of
Office Of Depot Qusftermaster. Baltimore, Md.
ABE. 8 BIcKnAM, sptain & Qusrterm sster,
u 8 Army. oct2S ,26, 29, ,30&n07.S
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Ais samAria 9azsiia.

UsIssaED DAILY AND T8I-wHxELE -
,s&aetta Bundiug. $40 y sI2 Prince g,
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DRY GOODS.
Isaac Eichberg { Son

Nothing has place in orr store but Whist
We know to be good hnd when you spend q
dollar with US you get hundred cent?
worth of certainty. We believe In giving
our customers the worlds bo,t at the worlds
cheapest and our belief ia strongly exempli'
fed In our rev FALL AVID WINTER
STOCK. Below is a few Of the m'ny bsI-
gains.
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LEGAL NOTICES.

NOTICE.-Heving this day qualified as
IN executrix Of the last sill OF LEOPOLD
GENZB ERG b X, notice is horeby given to slI
persons having claims against the estate OF
Leopold donsberger, 10 pressnt the same.
duly sworn to, for settlement, and all persons
owing the said estate will settle same By pay
ment to
BETTE GEEzsERGEB, Exoeutrix,
oc 10 w4w 415 Wolfe Street.
NOTICE is hereby given that the under.
.AN signed bave this day purchased the OLD
DOMINION IRON WORKS wv. 8. Moore's
son'-), who will coutinue to conduct the
same all persons owing the above firm will
make settlement with us, and persons to
whom the said firm is indebted, Will present
T. cir claims to the uud dersignei for payment.
IT. ALTON and CHtS. W. M0ORE.
oc 17w4w
NOTICE-HsvlDg qualified ss admins.
IN tfatrix, c / g., OF the last will OF
JOHN ORITCHER, notice is hereby givcn to
all persons having claims against the estate
Of John Oritcher % present tho same, daily
sworn to, for settlement, and all persons ow-
ing the said estate will settle same by pay
ment to
MAMIE C. GATEwoOD,
oct22 1aw4w Administrative
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AUCTION SALES.
By 8. II Lvnt, Auctioneer.
GALE OF PERsONAL PROPERTY.

GALE OF PERsoNAL PROPERTY.
As administrator with the will sonsxsl of
Antonio Caldw will eel at public aue-
ton, 1T the house No. AT south Royal strest,
Ia the city of Alexandria, Virgins, at 10
o'clock q. m, on TUESDAY, November S,
1901, ALL THE PERSONAL PROPERTY
OF said Antonio Caldwell.
TENS of Sale: Cash.
A. w. ARMSTRONG;,
Administrator, d. n, c. I. g.,
o,t26 II of Antonio Caldwell. deoeGed.
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Fur and Fur Trimmings
THE LATEST.

Just received the latcsi IL Esglsn Goats in
tan, oxford blsck and navy.
Children's and Mist es' Automobile Costs in
brown, tan, navy and garnet, SO. 80 TO $40.
A large line Of Rainy Day Skirts. the latest
out, with founre and fare, S1.69, $2.2s,
S296, S3.4s and $59s.
Special sale OF Black UndeTskirts, sateen
Skirts, flannel linei, 75c, 9Sc snd $1.9S.
Hercerired skiits at s1.49, $3.50. S1.7o
aud 81 90.
Dressing Jackets in pink, blue. cardinal
rosa and gray, at 5oe, 79c, Csc and Sl.49.
Flsnnelstte and Calico Wrappers, sll prices,
patterns and sty'sa
A ss,t exhibit OF new Dress Trimming
| In all colors and deagns.
Cur Dress Goods Department ia filed with
strictly up.to'Dow materials, both 10 blsek
and coiors.
New Fall silks we have in profusicn. Our
Black snd White Ef,cts are particu ary at
uactive.
| Our Waist Department. is Fometbing mar
velous aud our prices speak for themselves.
A rsv line of~Ladies' and Missss Kid
Gloves soc.
Chatelirs Purses POE to $1.25.
Every Department is
Complete.
Il EIchbeTg and Son.
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DRY GOODS.
D, D,beRdheim&Sons,
Strong Values for
This Week.
Sale.

y 2clses %. 900 ysrds) Ble,ched
CottoDs. Such qualities as An
A droscoggln, Pelham, Oak Lawn, q
v Barker and Frnit Of the Loom Y
a recognized values a'e Sc and
Y Zoe. Your choice Of the entire x
lot on front bargain tsOls at SIZE '
4 yard. q
2 cases 5000 ysrds) White Y
q Cambric. all the lelding brands, &
= Berkeley. Diamond Hill, Ions
dale and White River; recog- v
4 nized values &c. Zoe and 1870. q
V Your choice of the lot on the y
q third bargain table at 6a4c yard.
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Ii can't help but do you good

When you need soothing healing application piles and skin
Witch Hazel SAtE Beware OF ounterfeits
Sold by l. S. Leadbester & sons.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-10-31

Jcst received the Latest IN Esglsn Goats i
tan, oxford blsok and navy.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1901-10-31

We would respectfully invite an examina
ton of onI stock, believing If will pay you.
The courier., 1901-08-03
A Great Newspaper. /.

The Sunday edition of the St. Louis
Republic is a marvel OF modern news
paper enterprise. The organization Of
its news service is worldwide, complete
in every department; in fact. superior TO
that Of any other newspaper
The magazine section is illustrated in
daintily tinted colors and splendid half
tone pictures. This section contains
more high-class literary matter than
any Of the monthly magazines. The
fashions illustrated in natural colors are
especially valuable to the ladies.
The colored comic section is a genuine
laugh maker. The funny cartoons are
by the best artists. The humorous
stories are high-cIass. by authors OF ma
tional reputation.
Sheet music, high class, popular
song, is furnished free every Sunday in
The Republic.
The price Of the Sunday Republic by
mail one year is 500. For sale by all
news dealers.
The courier., 1901-08-03

very large man with very small. bald
head and very weak lungs; "came down
to get little fresh air. did your"
Yes was the reioinder." but there
doesn't seem to be much OF it hereY"
True" interrupted Balmy. little
man with deep bass voice; "but we've
got something that's better"
Perhaps you have" sneered Blewit."
"but is there any necessity for going
into the Black Hole Of Calcutta to swal-
low itr"
well, the fact is, this is temperance
hotel, and there is no bar. Therefore,
we have to come in here to take nip;
but you mustn't give it away. now that
we have let you behind the scenes Our
wives don't know that this place exists"
II should think they would nose it
as they go upstairs" said B.ewit, with
weak attempt at pun.
MRS. Blewit might" calculated Balmy
1--we heard she could smell out most
anything. but as she isn't in these parts,
and you are enjoying a selfish picnic,
you needn't be afraid. I'll promise not
TO write to her. so drink heartily, my
boy, the cable won't carry the news To
Amanda
Blewit couldn't stand chaffiog, SO he
took his poison with as good grace as
possible, not only once but several times,
and he soon forgot all about the ozone,
and was as eager for bluff as anyone, as
he followed the party into room at the
top OF the house. in the cupoIs, in fact.
which was dimly lighted with kerosene
oil lamps. 1t was even more stuffy than
the closet they had just left, aud Bewit
couldn't help laughing as he remarked:
$50 this is what you call coming down
to the shore to pass quiet night with
your families?"
"No moralizing," Iiped up Peppers;
''shuffle the cards and play for num-
How long they had forgotten their
cares in the fascination Of poker Blewit
uiu uob huOW, Dut IL uluSt nave DeeD
somewhere about midnight when.
through haze Of smoke, he saw fe-
male figure in the doorway 1t belonged
to diminutive but determined appear
ing woman, who exclaimed:
"Mr. Blewit, how dare you keep Mr..
Peppers up until this hour? A man OF
your age ough. to be engaged in better
business than leading married men
astray. I'm not surprised that Mrs.
Blewit went off to Europe without you"
Having delivered this TRADE, the mite
of woman led the gigantic but submis-
sive Peppers from the room, as Staggers
remarked:
IL say. Blewit, what do you mean by
coming down here and upsetting a nice,
quiet family hotel?"-Boston Saturday
Evening Gazette.
The courier., 1901-08-03

Lady-fou say you are good washer
and ironer. How do you tell when your
irons are hot?
Servant-By the smell Of the burnin'
linen, mum."-The Mirror.
The courier., 1901-08-03
THE COURIER.
A QUIET HOTEL.

7
and he sent return message and wished
that he could go with it. But no. he
was chained to Boston. After their de-
parture he learned that there was some
business that imperatively demanded
his attention, and he resigned With a
sigh his proposed trip across the water.
He wrote Mrs. Blewit pathetic letter.
in which he regretted the escapade
which made him miss the boat on which
she departed for foreign shores; and he
said, in his usual ELUSIVE vein. that he
had given up all hope of ever seeing the
white cliffs OF Albion. He ha6 just
posted this letter when he met his evil
genius Staggers, who said:
How do you like keeping bachelors
hall?"
mot at ALL" was Blewit's reply; Its
deucedly dull. Nobody in town. and l
feel like Robinson Crusoe and bis deso-
late island
minus the animals" suggested Stag
gers.
Hardly" was Blewit's response. 81
have plenty OF homeless cats to keep me
company. l have kind OF sympathy
for them. because they are in much the
same condition that am myself"
"A fellow feeling makes US wondrous
kind. Why don't you open an asylum
for abandoned felines? I'll head a sub
scription list for raising money to sup
port the institution
Perhaps il you looked after some Of
your poor relations it would be more to
the purpose said Blewit, sarcastically,
as the thought Of Stsggers' father bend
ing under load Of debt to support his
family, while his son was a rapid man
about town, who was always ready to
make big fellow Of himself by opening
wine for people who laughed at his ex.
travagance behind his back.
Hang it, don't be PERSONAL exclaimed
Staggers. not at all pleased by BIewis's
not too delicate sarcasm. "Come down
to the shore with ne and I'll show you
how to Danish the blues. Let care kill
the cat. You've got to live, even il Mrs.
BIewit and the kids are having good
time in London-foggy London"
Blewit weakly accepted this invita-
tion. and was soon on train going to
nearby watering place, which was de-
scribed as an earthly paradise that COM
bined the charms of seashore and coun-
try in an eminent degree.
"Ah! this is delightful" said Blewit.
after dinner, as he sat on the piazza OF
the Top Knot House. 1.-The ozone gives
me new life, and the odor from the
woods is full of healing balm to the
lungs that have been filled with the vile
smells Of city thoroughfares."
"Ozone be blowed, you old sentiment
alist. Come up stairs and have a little
game"
"You don't mean to say that you came
down here to play cards. Don't you get
enough Of that in town."
well, a man must do something.
What is the use Of sitting here listening
to lot OF women gabbing about dress.
or abusing their neighbors? You'll hear
more scandal here in five minutes than
you will upstairs all night. Come
along!'
II suppose I'll have to-" replied Blew
it. resignedly. as he cast a lingering
look at the water where the boats
seemed to be nodding to him to stay and
enjoy the outdoor beauty Of the night.
Let me take long breath" continued
Blewit, before l go into the tobacco
Holbrook argus., 1901-08-24
PRIDE OF ANCESTRY.
Not Always Safe to Trace Your For
bears Back for Many Years.

Not Always Safe to Trace Your For.
bears Back for Many Years.
Not long since an acquaintance of
mine said to me with an air of pride:
Il can trace back my ancestry to my
at-great-grandfathe great-great-
grandfather He was a cavalier, and
fought under Charles l." And what
does that amount top l answered him.
THAT was the eighth generation before
you, and in that generation you had 12S
forefathers and 12S foremothers, just
1-256th of your ancestry in that gen
Grafton. Among the 127 men of whom
you have never heard there may have
been several who were hanged for muir
der, burglary or sheep-stealfng, for all
that you know or can ever hope to
know. Nor can you tell how many dis
reputable characters there may have
been among the 12S women. And you
must remember, too, that you had six
ty-fOur fOremothers in the seventh
generation, and thirty-two in the fifth,
all of them nearer to you than that cav
alier; you must account for them as
we'll"
| Yet, of course, one should be glad
that his near lineal and collateral kin
have been and are honest men and vir-
| tuous women, but line must be drawn
somewhere, and that not many genera
tons back, beyond which there is no
such thing as good birth or bad birth,
because it is all both good and bad.
When any one begins to boast that he
comes of "a long line of proud anc0s-
/ try" he can be contradicted at once,
because there is no such thing as "a
long line of ancestry" ones ancestry
cannot be represented by a line" but
by an inverted pyramid. Every one of
US comes one by one, but of many hun
dreds and thousands of long lines OF
ancestry, some of them proud. per
haps, and others with no cause fo1
pride, but rather the reverse. 1t will
not do to try to follow them all too fal
back Some one of the many will sure
ly lead to a dungeon of the Newgate
prison, or it may be to the Tyburrl
gallows tree. We cannot pin our faith
to the one cavalier, and ignore all the
others, as my friend was trying to do
because it is Natures plan that all the
good and all the bad of the race should
be mixed up in each one of us.-Leslie's
Popular Monthly.
Holbrook argus., 1901-08-24
THE STING OF A BEE.
1t Is a Curious Little Weapon and
Wonderfully Constructed


The sting of the bee is weapon only
too well known. There are few of US
probably who have not at some or
other felt the effect of a sting from a
bee or wasp. The bee is not generally
50 easily excited to sting as the wasp
unless ii is much provoked or has a de-
cided prejudice against some particular
person, which is occasionally the case,
but when it does it is usually with the
sacrifice of its own life, as it generally
leaves its weapon in the wound, with the
little sack of poison attached to it. We
need not wonder that it is difficult to be
withdrawn when we read the account
of the shape of the sting of the bee.
The sting of the bee is net, as it might
appear to the naked eye mere lance
or bayonet. 1t is in truth something
much more formidable, rather resembling
those frghtful engines of destruction
which the common consent of civilized
nations has excluded from the practice
of modern warfare. In word, the little
instrument known as the sting" is
found when magnifed to be the sheath
in which the true sting lies concealed. al
though the whole enters the wound when
the attack is made. The piercing appara-
tus itself is, however, double, being COM
ES'-NN
/ ed side by side. SO as to form Il lance
and, being furnished by suitable muscles
they are forcbly protruded from the
sheath when required for attack or de-
| Tense.
If we employ a tolerably high micro
scopic power to examine the points of
these darts, we shall find them to be
barbed, each piercer being furnished on
one side with eight teeth, and as they
are so placed when in use that the
smooth edges are in juXtaposition you
will perceive that they then constitute a
single formidable barbed spear similar
to one of those primitive weapons of war
fare employed by the savage inhabitants
of various countries that you will no
doubt often have met in museums or col
lections of chronological curiosities.
You will now perceive what a formida-
BILE weapon the sting must be when di-
rected by the bee against an insect of its
own size, and after examining its barbed
points you will easily understand, too,
how it happens that when the little
belligerent manages to penetrate your
own skin it should be compelled to leave
its sting behind.
Holbrook argus., 1901-08-24
which strengthens thewhole digestive system
Sort OF n Cnnnibnl.

An old farmer fol- many years got his
dinner on market days at 4 small hotel
kept by Il widow.
She had lohg suspected that he ate
more than the price Us. CD warranted,
so she determined to test him. She ac-
cordingIy arranged matters so that
there WAS no room for him at table. but
she took him into private room the
table of which was graccd by a steam
ing leg of mutton. He set TO in good
earnest. and soon nothing was left but
the bones.
Highly delighted with his cheap feed,
on passing Tee bar he rendered = shil-
lings for his dinner and quart of ale.
The widow declined to take any pay
ment on the ground of having incon-
venienced him so much
Chuckling TO himself, the farmer lift
ed down his market basket from a
hook, and, finding it rather light, he
tore off the covering and shouted:
Here, Mrs. Brown, where's my leg
O. mutton?"
"Why. We old silly" said the widow,
I'VE have ate your leg for your dinner!'
London Answers.
Holbrook argus., 1901-08-24
@9y@%Es. g. 6SbB@ s.

In British India only nine and one
half per cent of the population live in
cities.
Cleopatra's needle is but siXty-eight
feet high, an Egyptian monument in
Rome 105 feet.
A new law in Montana provides that
the Judges charge shall precede the
arguments of counsel.
What an English paper says is the
greatest incubator in the world is at
Batary, near Sidney, Australia 1t ac-
commodities II, 40 duck eggs or IA ,OSO
hens eggs.
The first paper money used in this
country was issued by Pennsylvania
in 1928. In the early part of that year
$4,000 was issued on the credit of
the colony, and a few months later
$150,000 more followed.
There is a statue in village in
Egypt which is said to be the oldest in
the world, having been in existence for
over six thousand years. 1t is the rep
resentation of one of the chiefs of the
domain wherein it was erected.
A Kansas farmer who had a peck of
lima beans on exhibition at the Paris
Exposition has just received the fol
lowing letter from a Frenchman, who
evidently doesn't know much about the
vegetable in question: "My Dear Sir
l bought the peck of beans which you
| I,o1 hi
cellent. Can you send me small pack
age of the seed? 1 wish to see if they
will grow in France"
Barn-owls, despite the noise around
the grain elevators, have been known
to rear their young in the buildings
Mr.. Kirkwood last year found very in
innate relations existing between the
families of a red-tail hawk and a gray
squirrel. The hawks nest was bull
upon the squirrels and both of then
were inhabited. In the sails of boat:
which have been laid by for the sum
mer, tree-swallows have been known t.
build their nests.
English sparrows frequently build il
freight trains, and their nests and in
habitants are sometimes taken across
the continent. Mr.. Frank G. Kirk
wood, Secretary of the Game and Fisl
Association, tells of find he made il
large tree on Kent Island. In the tol
was the nest of fishcrow; farther dow
was a fishhawk's, in the sticks O
which were five purple grackles, witt
,,
|. nests. Farther down a flicker's mes
and three more grackles and the mes
Of one wren.
Holbrook argus., 1901-08-24
SCHOOL CLOSED
The Teacher Injured in d Run
away Accident and Reported
To Have Gone Insane

In October, 1896, one Monday morn
ing, the Rushford school did not open
and it was reported that the teacher
had gone insane. The physician in
attendance pronounced the trouble
nervous prOstration, and said that
school work was mentally and phys
ically impossible. The teacher, who is
now Mrs. L. A. Gullickson, Of Rush
ford, Mimi, in a recent interview pub
lished in the Star of that place, gives
the true story of the event.
"To begin at the beginning" she
said, when I was about seven years
of age sudden fright brought on a
dreadful condition of nervousness
When. in 1896, was injured in run
away accident, this, combined with
my former trouble, made me so i'll
that I was unable to open school the
following Monday"
WAS it true that you were reported
to be insane?" asked the interviewer
Eyes, and the members of my family
/ thought that 1 was becoming so.
Words do not express the agony
injured with my head and eyes. The
least noise would cut through my
nerves like a knife. I was hot and
cold by flashes, had piercing pains in
my temples and in the back of my
head and a red mist was constantly
before my eyes.
81 was dizzy and faint with fearful
nausea, which nothing relieved. I
could take no solid food for ten days,
but lived on milk and Hme-water.
When the doctor had treated me for
nearly six weeks without helping me,
Mrs. ]. Webster, nearby friend re-
commended DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People. I took them faith
fully for not quite three months and
was perfectly cured I have never
heard of a single case where they did
not prove beneficial and know of sew
era1 persons who have taken them sue
cessfully for rheumatism"
| DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People are not like other medicines.
They act directly on the blood and
nerves. This makes them invaluable
in such diseases as locomotor ataxia,
partial paralysis, st. Vitus' dance,
sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, perv-
Gus headache, the after-effects of the
grip, palpitation of the heart, pale
and sallow compilations and all forms
of weakness either in male or female.
At all druggists or direct from DR..
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady,
N. Y. Price so cents per box; six
boxes $3.50.