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Woodward & LothrOp,
10th, 18th and F Sts., N. W.
WASHINGTON. D. C.
NOTICE.

Subscribers are requested to PAY THEIR
SUBSCRIPTIONS PROMPTLY when their
bills are presented. II is unreasonable TO ex-
pect the collectors to call three or four times
for these bills.
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DIED.

At Newcastle, Pa, on Wednesday, Feb
ruary 8, of pneumonia, WILLIAM X. HA LII.
in the 64th year OF his age. Funeral from
residence. 1903 King street, tomorrow (Sun-
dsy) afternoon at 3 o'clock.
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Local Matters.

Sun rises tomorrow at TOP a. m. and sets
bN .. m. High water at 1916 8. m anu
I2:4O ID. M
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WEATHER PRoBABILITIEs.-Fort THIS sec
ton rain tonight and Sunday warmer w
night fresh sOutherly winds.
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"Paddy's Dancing Pig"-a mechani-
cal toy, just from Nuremberg, Germany
900.
Toy Department-fourth floor.
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New ColSeE.
New goods arriving daily.

New goods arriving daily.
Now showing large assortment Of spring
styles, in the very latest shapes and effects
foreign and domestic.
Materials include batiste, coutil, plain and
fancy embroidered batiste. fancy broche, &c.
Below are few of the thoroughly reliable
makes in the medium and lower priced
grades:
Tape Giriles, straight front.............. s1.0O
r. G. Corsets, long. medium and
sh0rt................ ........'..''.'.. 9i.O
J. B. Corsets, straight front, dip hip 800
Empire Corsets, batiste, straight front
dip hlp....... @i'VV
P. N. Corsets, straight front, dip hip,
elastics SlOO
c. B. Corsets, straight trent, dip hip $500
Thomson's GloFe-fttiRg Corsets, straight
front, dip hip ..... .....,r......r.' S2.OO
P. D. Corsets, straight front, dip hip $3.50
Third hoor-EIeventh st.
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MASONIC-A called meeting Of ALEX
Nl DRIA.WASHINGT0N LODGE, No.
%. A., F. & A. NJ, will be held at their
temple ON MONDAY, February s, at 1880
D. M. for work. Bv order Of the Worshipful
Master. J. s. DOUGLAS, Secretary.
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Notwithstanding the EnOr-
nous Rise in Prices Of
Cotton Goods, We Have
Prepared a Bargain
Feast For You This
Week.

One bale heavy Brown Cotton at sc yarl.
One bale fine 40-inch Brown Cotton, &c yl.
One case Remnants of Bleached Cotton,
yard wide, 7c aud &C. values, at 5sc yard.
One case Barker Mills Bleached Cotton, SEE
yard.
Yard wide White Cambrics, Zoe values, at
Gle yard.
1000 yards English Long Cloths, 12lc value
at Zoe yard.
10 pieces 1914 Bleached Sheeting, 30c value
at 23c yard.
"a Heavy Brown sheeting, 25c value, at
21c yard.
One case Apron Bingham Shorts, quality IS
good as Lancaster's, worth 7lc at &c yard.
One case Seersucker Dress Ginghams, 6Sc
yard.
One case Bates Dress Ginghams l9lc
value, at l0c yard,
One case Sea Island Percales, 12ic values,
at 10c yard.
25c pieces 4O-ineh India Linons, 12lc value,
at l0c yard.
% pieces Bookfold India Lnons Slightly
imperfect), 25c values, at loo yard.
10 pieces White Check Nainsooks. l0c value
at &c yard.
One lot Fancy White Goods for waists Mar
settles patterns 25c values, at 19c yard.
Two special lots in White Cognterpanes at
sl.00 and $l.25.
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IIJANTED-To buy two or three FEATH-
w Err BEDS. viii pay cash. Address
sc. A. c." General Delivery, City.
EOR RENT - FURNISHED ROOMS
1 with board. All convenience: Home
comforts. References. Address X. 20
care Gazette. Ieoo OF
NIOTICE.-The annual meeting Of the stock
~ holders of the W00DLEY APART
MENT HOUSE co. will be held at l2s );
Fairfax street, Alexandria, on MONDAY
AFTERNOON, February %, 1901, at go
o'clock WM. W. W. fAhhhh'
feb6, I'd
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APOLOGIZED
ZSs<SSSSScSSSc

terday when I heard Of your engage
ment to Cawthorne-"
ITO whom?" she gasped, suddenly
attentive.
ITO Cawthorne." he repeated IT
heard It at the club.
Miss Carver suddenly burst out
laughing. She covered her face with
her hands and went into commissions
of merriment. Stanton stared help
lessly.
'.I wish I might see IT in that hu-
morous vein," he said, gloomily.
do you mean to tell me that the
announcement Of Mr.. Cawthorne's
engagement was responsible for your
outburst last night?" she asked be-
tween hysterfc giggles.
Yes" he said. 'I was angry then;
but to-day I've come to offer apollo
gies and TO add my congratulations.
He has mint OF money. hear"
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STANTON

A fire burned on the broad hearth,
and as the stairs creaked beneath the
portly Howes. Stanton piled on wood
and worked the bellows until he had
a small-sized conf1agration roaring
cheerfully- He was just hanging UP the
bellows when the portieres were
whisked angrily aside, and Katherine
Carver stood before him. a spot of red
burning on either cheek and hard lines
showing about her pretty mouth.
"Hello." said Stanton cheerfully.
Back early. aren't you? Glad I wait
cd"
"Well?" she said shortly, coming q
step nearer and giving an unpleasant
infection to the word.
Very well, thank you" said Stanton
imperturbably. And you?"
Miss Carver glared at him.
Won't you sit down by my fire?''
he went on politely. II had no end
OF trouble to get it going"
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been horse trader himself
Well. after the thing was over with
1 took the horse / got from the feliec
and went over TO his house about ten
miles away andffturned the nag loose
in his lot / did ii not because l was
sorry for him, but because I was afraid
of rnvself-afraid that 1 couldn't sleep,
and l was workin' hard and needed
rest. Well, sir. that night the nag that
I'd turned into the lot ups and dies.
and the fellow swoTe that had hauled
him there after he was dead, and
hanged if he didn't sue me again. He
got the same LAWYER and he made me
out a worse man than 1 was before.
Made it appear that had poisoned the
horse and dragged him over there
Then 1 swore that the whole county
couldn't hold me back from takln' IL
out of his hide. Wife, she cried ana
took on, but / told her ii wasn't no
use for Justice spurred me on.
so the first chance / got / went TO
town 10 see the lawyer. 1 went over to
the courthouse and he was maxim
speech. and I wish l may die dead II
the feIler he was skinnin this time
want the very man that had sued me.
/ never heard anythin' like It. Tlptoed
and called him all sorts of scOundrel;
said that he had defrauded me, as hon
est a man as lived in the State. L
out and after a while he came along
and held out his hand and called me
Uncle Lim,' just as if / was his moth
er's brother. Then ne clapped me on
the shoulder and you could have heard
him laugh more than mile. He said
he was comm out TO go fishin' With
me.
We'll. let him eff, and after We had
got to be right good friends 1 asked
him how he ha~pened 10 be engaged
against my enemy and this is what he
said: oh, I wasn't. Some Of the boys
told me you We're comm into the
house and knew that YOU were trou-
blesome when you set your head to it.
so as court wasn't in session 1 started
in to maxim a speech against the fel-
low so you could hear me- and he
clapred me on the shoulder and you
could have heard him laugh more than
two miles this time.
Get a lawyer with fun in him and
he's all right. Once I had some busi-
ness on hand. the settlement OF my
brothers estate. and 1 went to old Tom
Cantrell and asked him how much he
would charge me. and he almost took
my breath with the amount he named.
I knew he was a man of a good deal
of ability-liked fun-and 1 says TO him
like this: Tell you what arrangement
TO make, Colonel. We got q mighty
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world better. Understand now, l
have nothin against anybody's calm.
I m Just expressin' my opinion. and il
must be taken for what 1t is worth
But the lawyer shows US one thing if
nothin' more-how keen a mans mind
may be whetted. recollect once that
a fellow sued me. We had swopped
horses"
And you had got the better Of him,
eh?" said the lawyer
We'll, that's the way it looked to
him. The horse I let him have died
that night He asked me if the horse
was sound and I said never had
heard any complaint, and hadn't He
had never been under the care Of a
doctor so far as l knew. His appetite
was good and he'd bat his eye when
you motioned at him I might have
seen him fall down-have seen men
fall, but I didn't think that they were
goin 10 die. | told him a child could
drive him A child did drive him out
of the garden that day. Well we
swopped, and as I say, his horse was
taken sick in the night and died be-
fore day He came back to me and
swore that I had swopped him horse
that 1 knowd was goin' 10 die. I told
him that If he'd show me horse that
wasn't goin' to die I'd give him my
farm. I felt that he had the worst OF
il and 1 would have evened it uD the
best way / could. bur before L got
through havin' fun with him he got
mad and. went away and hired a
lawyer to prove that / was a liar and
altogether the worst man in the COM
munity.
4 never got such a scorin' in my
life. I felt sorry for my wife and chill
dren. I didn't think that anybody
would ever speak to me again, and
told the lawyer that 1 would make il
a personal matter between me and him.
I expected the Justice TO decide dead
against me, but he didn't. He had
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sible." said he. 'I take 1t all back ex-
cept-" He paused.
Except what?" she asked
We'll. I'll take It all back-no e1-
ceptions. II you say So" he said meek
ly.
"Oh, it doesn't matter" she unused
indifferently.
mo. suppose not" he said. "Still,
I'm really sorry. Won't you sit down
by the fire and hear my side Of it,"
Miss Carver hesitated.
Won't your" he pleaded.
She came to the fire and took the
chair he had drawn up for her.
Proceed" she said, still practicing
an economy OF words.
Katherine" he said slowly. "you
know how devout q worshiper I've
been; you know how patiently I've
waited and what-erwhat encour-
agement you've given me. Well. yes
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What have you come for?" she ask
ed frigidly.
Stanton looked thoughtfully into the
fire for moment
IT didn't come to rob the house,
said he. nor to commit murder. L
think I must have come TO apologize.
1T Is too late" said she.
Then I'll come earlier tomorrow,
he returned. NAV I ask what time
the receipt OF apologies ceases?"
1T ceased last evening at 10-and
it ceased forever" said Miss Carver.
"Oh, I sayi" Stanton protested. real
iy, that's not fair"
IT'S quite as fair as your remarks
OF last evening" she replied.
Honestly, I'm sorry" said Stanton
II was beside myself"
$50 it would seem,' she observed
tartly.
And when I called you heartless
nirt and the rest Of it I was irrespon-
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"Oh," she gasped. eonvulsed In
laughter again, 'it's too funny Mr..
Cawthorne IS engaged 20 Miss Cynthia
Carver-Aunt Cynthia It's the cul-
mination OF a romance that began be-
fore was bern"
"Oh. Lord" said Stanton softly. but
IN tones OF infinite relief
He picked up his hat and coat At
the door he turned.
Not going?" she asked
Yes. I'm going to the club TO an
nounce your engagements to me-" he
said with an air OF fnality.
II haven't given my consent" she
said with Redeemed face.
Stanton chuckled.
We'll. in response to your urgent
invitation. I'm coming back 10 dine
with the family. and I'll get 1t then,
said he.
Copyright, 1904. by 7. c. McClure)
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NEZL> SIX ER9T N1GHT z1zz= Hz7G z1zzT 70
I1CP9-ED 1LIr7Io 71tZE LOz LC2S HID DTS,

fine chicken out at my house and II
you can fetch out one to whip him L II
engage you and pay your price, OuI II
my chicken whips yOurn, ny you 40
the ork fer nOthin'. He was man
of ability and ne agreed. All, me, there
amt such lawyers about here these
days. 1 recolleCt once he
But did the fight come Of2" some
one inquired.
eOh. that fight? Yes, held tallow
candles for it one night, and you'd
have thought il was a snoWin', the air
was so full OF feathers. Ny wife kept
on a-callin' out, 'Limuel, what are you
a-doin' there in the smOkehOuse?' and
1 always an-wered. I'm diggin' up a
rat. Go on 10 bed. I've most got him
now
4 don't know how long they fit
other ROSTERS we're CROWN all around
the neighbOrhOOd when they got
through. But my chicken crOwed last
and the colonel gave me his hand with
feathers a-stiCkin' 10 it. and says. says
he. Lin, you've got me and I'll take
care OF your business
Best settlement I ever made. He
took care Of the business right UP TO
the handI1, and when he had got
through he lowed. he did. that he
could find bird that could whip mine
for the estate-said he'd put up his
it, but il looked too much like gam
blin. so I backed down. Oh. he would
have done il. Ablest lawyer in the
county. It's a pity all lawsuits couldn't
be settled somewhat in that way-as
fairly. mean.
Il was just a-thinkin'." he added
after a few moments OF silence, how
much trouble the old world has been
put to tryin' TO govern man. Every
year or so the Legislatures meet and
make laws and unmake them, always
experimentin' with man. The trouble
with him is he dOTSt know what he
wants and don't know what 20 do with
il after he gets it, And the lawyer is
the OutgrOwth OF his restlessness and
his ignorance.
Think there will ever come a time
when there are no lawyers?" the
young advocate inquired. and the old
man scratched his head.
"Oh, yes. that time will come. but 10
Will be the time when there isn't any
thing. The lawyer has come to stay
as long as the rest Of US do. He's a
smart man and a good feller for the
most part and is nearly always wilIin'
to forgive you when he has done you
a wrong, and want TO remark right
here that this argues the extr NEST OF
liberality."
Copyright, 1904. by Opis ReadO
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~ LAWSUIT had been tried on
the veranda Of the crossroads
C store and when it had been set set,
watched the proceedings. took
the homemade chair vacated by the
Justice. leaned back against the wall
and remarked: Rather bad, this
thing of goin' to law. And amt it a
peculiar state of society that educates
men to stimulate quarTels2 We may
say that they amt trained for that
purpose. but unless there are misun-
derstandin's the lawyers work is cut
Of, and he's got a little too much Of
Old Adam in him not 10 look out for
MS own interest"
You take a wrong view of the
mater" replied q young lawyer
That is just about what I expected
YOU 10 say. But grantin' TO the lawyer
ali he can claim for himself, il must
after all be allowed that the bickerin's
and shortsightedness OF the human
family give him the most Of his ex-
cuse for Twin A perfect state of
civilization would argue perfect hon
esty. and il such were the case the
lawyers would be powerful scarce.
There is no denyin' Of the fact that
some OF the greatest men have been
lawyers and that the most Of our
Presidents have practiced law And
50 have some OF the immortal
geniuses been soldiers, but II man had
been Just and peaceable there never
would have been any need for the
soldier"
According TO your view. then" said
the lawyer. there IS no real need for
anybody that
That doesn't build up" Limuel
broke in. wlnking al his farmer
friends. Every man ought 10 pro-
duce somethin'. II he don't, he's hvin'
on somebody that does. The only real
occupation is the one that makes the
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By Leonard Adams

IN HE butler returned with Stan
tons card and the inpassive an
nouncement: Miss Csrver's not
4 IN. sir"
Stanton smiled grimly.
Very well. Fowes," he said, calmly
Kicking up a magazine and settling
back comfortably. I'll wait until Miss
Carver is IN. And, by the way. Howes," !"
he added as the butler turned to go
you'll favor me by conveying that bit
Of information 10 Miss Carver at
once"
he fshed in his pocket and drew out
Z half dollar, which he hipped TO the
butler with a meaning nod, and Howes
departed, the ghost OF q grin showing
at the corners Of his mouth
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LAWSUIT had been tried on
the veranda Of the crossroads
store and when il had been set
tied LimueI Jucklin. who had
No s-l,aI -Fa rrooaalfne-z took
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MINOR EVEhTs0F. THE week
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

w SAS1 NSf1S-S EIpnS.s ttssz7t2
The President ordered a force Of
United States Engineers from Wash,
ington to Baltimore to assist in fight
ing the fire. ''-.,''f4 s'ff5
Senator .Alger obtained the assent
of the President to the. pardon Of
Wnllam,J. Meaders. who has served
nineteen years in the Detroit House OF
Correction. 2. . * 81 IS
Representative Gi!lett. of Massaehu,l
setts, introduced a hill providing that
S25o0 annually shall be paid to lnel,.s
bers of Congress in lieu of mileage,
clerk hire, stationery and office quar-
ters.
Attorney General ard Mrs. Knox will
leave Washington for Florida. where
they will remain for several weeks.
The Austrian Ambassador and Bar
oness Hengeimuller will entertain at:
dinner the French Ambassador and,
Nine. Jusserand. In the evening Bar
oness Hengelmuller will hold her lase
Saturday at home for the season
The Senate adopted the resolution
directing the, Postmaster General to-
send to the Senate the reports made or,
irregularities in the Postofice DEPART
ment So, -2-- - III Z,
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His Genius For Invectiye.

Barend Vet, of The Hague, had re-
Gently the misfortune to call a consta-
bic monkey, an accusation which a
local paper pointed out as "being. OF
course, untrue" and which, moreover,
IS a form of untruth not permitted in
Holland. Vet was arrested and
brought before the judge on a charge
Of Insulting the police" being SEN
fenced to forty-iTe days imprison-
ment.
Before being removed he turned to
address the court. 'Then I mustn't
call a constable a monkey" he said.
Certainly not. You must not insult
the. police" The .culprit reflected.
'May I call a monkey constable?"
he asked, with fash Of genius. The
Judge shrugged his shoulders, and
holding no brief for the animal, re-
Piled: 'Tf it gives you any satisfac-
ton" With a smile Of satisfaction
Vet turned on his heel in the dock
and bowed to his prosecutor. "Good
day, constable" he said.-St. James
Gazette.
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LeagalIy Dead; Still AHve.

A man may be legally dead and yet
be very much alive. in fact Ten years
ago Fitch Marquis left his family in
Kansas and had never been heard Of
until the other day, when he turned up
at La Cygne. He refused to say where
he had been. His wife thought him
dead and sued for a $1,000 life insur.
ance policy he carried. The court de.
cided she should pay the premiums for
seven years, and if he did not show up
he would be counted as dead in this
world. The widow paid the premiums
and at the end of seven years drew her
money, but Marquis is not dead.-To
peka Capital.
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FOREIGN

Fifty workmen were killed by the
caving in Of an embankment On the
Warsaw-Vienna Railroad at St Peters-
burg, Russia. :, s.f...s }s..
A passenger train on the ChinandigaE
Vieja Railroad, Nicaragua. was de.
rallied while passing over a high bridge
and wrecked. More than twenty hrst.
class passengers were killed.
Japanese Minister to England says
that japan has commenced to pour
troops into Korea and Manchuria.
The Japanese Consul at Chee-Foo
has sent a telegram urging the de-
parture of all japanese. frou Fort Ar
thur and Port Dalny. ~
The British Under Secretary for For.
eign Affairs announced that Great
Britain intended to send Consuls to
Mukden and An-tung, under. the treaty
between the. United States and China. /;
The new Army Council under the
reform scheme has ben appointed and
includes Arnold Forster, Secretary OF
State for War; Ieutenant-General Sir
Neville Lyttelton, First Military Mem.
ber; Major General C. W. II. Douglas, Z
Major General Herbert Blumer and
Major General Sir James w. Murray
The feet of American torpedo boat
destroyers, conveyed by the auxiliary
cruiser Buffalo, left Algiers for Malta.
A skirmish is reported to have taken
place between Turkish troops and re-
yolutionists in the KomftagiS-Ter
District, in which five Turks and four
reyolutionists were killed. -
M. Zaenger has been relieved of the
portfolio Of the Minister of Public In.
struction of Russia at his own request,
owing to i'll health, and has been ap.
pointed Senator. .a
An insurreetion broke out sixty miles
north of Seoul, Korea, and the Pre-.
fect's house has been destroyed by the
Mrs. Maybrick is in nome Of the
Sisters Of the Epiphany, at Truro,
Cornwall, in order to recover from the \
effects of her confinement.
The populations of Brasso and kezdi
VasarheIy, in Hungary. were panic
stricken by three violent earthquake
shocks, followed by four slighter ones,
causing the people to spring from their
beds and rush into the streets.
Japan has called its subjects from
the Yalu districts in Korea into Seoul.
The Premier, Senor maura, an.
nounced that the strike Of persons EN-.
ployed by the shipping interests at
various Spanish ports is Mt an end.
In the ultimate division in the House
of Commons on Mr.. Robson's amend
ment to the address, the Government
had q majority of eighty-six; the vote
being 1872 for and 2IS against the
amendment.
Emperor williams Mediterranean
cruise will begin early in March and
continue about month.
The Seryian Cabinet has resigned.
King Peter will instruct NJ. Paslcs,
Minister Of Finance. or III. Protitch,
Minister of the Interior. to form q new
Cabinet.
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Sporting Brevities.

The first two-year-old stake Of the
year at New Orleans, La, was won BY
an outsider, Modredlaw, at 100 to 1.
Mr.. Vanderbilt's officially timed feat
on Ormond Beach, Fla, in driving his
automobile was q mile in thirty-nine
seconds.
A movement is on foot among boxing
promoters to form a national associa-
ton for the purpose Of regulating
weights.
".Jim" Parr, English heaI. weight
champion wrestler, defeated Jack"
Monroe at thA Olympic Athletic Club
Of Buffalo, N. Y.