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Clearance Sale
Wash Dress Goods

~OMORROW, Thursday, we
4 shall offer for clearance
W. high-class wash dress ma
terials at reduced prices.
They consist of goods from Our own
stock and several lots recently pur-
chased at price concessions.
The materials are the most popu-
lar sorts-bright, fresh, crisp, all of
this seasons production, and in
every way desirable.
They are offered as follows:
2oc Plain and Fancy voiIes. loo yard.
4Oc Printed French Organdles &c yard.
bOc Paris Chiffon Silk. 29c yard.
6Oc French Voiles. 35c yard.
76c Printed French Muslin. bOc yard.
$1.25 Printed French Voies, 5Oc yard
They are conveniently displayed
on center counters in Cotton Dress
Goods Department, second floor, G
street.
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BORN.

JAMESON To Mr.. and Mrs. W. w Jamson, Au.
gust 2 1907 a son, WILLIAM ZIMMERMAN
JAMESON.
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Births Reported,

The following births were reported to the
health office during the past twenty four
hours:
Clyde and Helen feathers, female, Au-
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William L. and Cora E. Phillips, male,
August 4.
David X. and Margaret Darr, female,
August !. il,,.,.,,.
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Special Values i'm
Dressing Sacques.

%n TTENTION is called to the
lMl following items in Wom-
NV ems Dressing Sacques.
They are all this seasons
goods, made of fine quality lawn,
in kimono and half-htting styles, and
at the prices are very special values:
Womens Lawn Dressing Sacques. in neat
figured and striped effects: kimono style.
75c each. Value, SIoo.
womens Lawn Dressing Sacques in
pretty pink and blue figured designs; XII
mono style.
$I.oo each. Value, $I.25.
women's Lawn Dressing Sacques in pink.
blue and lavender Powered effects; fitted
back style.
SI.oo each. Value, $I.5o.
Third floor Eleventh st.
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Saturday night August 8. at o'clock,
at the home OF the brides sister, Mrs
Nesmith P. Nelson. occurred the marriage
of Miss Lu Ella Larsen and Mr. Merton
Towle, both Of Minneapolis, Mimi
Mrs Abbott sang "Oh. Promise Me-"
after which Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson attended
the couple who stood near a tastefully
arranged bower of palms. while Rev
Baker read the wedding ceremony. The
bride was given away by Mr.. F. s. Hood.
supper was served.
The bride received many handsome and
useful presents. Mr.. and Mrs. Towle left
sunday night to visit Old Point, Norfolk,
Richmond, jamestown and other points Of
interests, after which they will 60 to
Minneapolis to visit relatives and friends
before going to Winnipeg. Canada, where
the groom is engaged in business.
Those spresent were Mrs. Hood Mrs.
Abbott, Mrs. Jarrett, Mrs Lake and Mrs
Broun, Misses Abbott and Rector, and
Messrs Hood, Abbott and Broun and Mas
ter Lake.
Miss Winnifred Dorsey and Master
Francis Dorsey are visiting their aunt,
Mrs. John Hirsch Of S22 Harrison street,
Anacostia.
Mrs. Elizabeth c. Coblentz and daughter.
Miss Clara, and Miss Mollie Main left this
morning for a six weeks sojourn in Attain
tic City.
Mr.. and Mrs. IIsle s. Lpscomb are To-
Gated at the Hotel Stockton, Cape May for
the month of August
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Mrs. ]. T. Everett, accompanied by her
daughter, Miss Eva Everett, went to Co.
lonial Beach today for q stay.
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Miss Lydia ]. Bodell is one of large
house party given by Miss Roberta Wash
| ington of Bestland, Essex county, Va.
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Mrs Frank Emmert has gone for a 81,
weeks stay in Atlantic City. Before re
turning home she will pay visit to hel
mother in New York.
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| Miss Marguerite Ison Of 1920 G street
| northeast Is visiting relatives and friends
| in West Virginia and Maryland. She will
|
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ST .0S Each.

Reduced from $500.
Main floor, F st.
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Mrs Robert Fox and daughter-in-law,
Mrs Dorothy Hutchinson Wendover of New
Rochelle N. Y, formerly of Washington,
are spending the month of August at At
lantic City.
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Mrs. William ]. Bodell, formerly of Fort
Monroe, Va, Is occupying her home at Fair
fax, Va, for the summer.
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Mrs. ]. T. Sullivan Of Langdon, D. c.,
spent Sunday in Martinsburg w. Va,
where she left her little daughter, Edna,
for an indefinite stay.
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Miss Audrey Palmer has returned from a
pleasant visit to Manassas.
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Rear Admiral Stephen Rand, retired, and
Mrs Rand sailed last Saturday for an ex-
tended European trip.
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Senator and Mrs. Latimer arrived In
Paris yesterday.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Eiseman of 2O2O
10Th street entertained at dinner last Fri
day evening In honor Of Mr.. Harry Sultan
of Globe, Ariz.
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Mr. and Mrs. John T. Power of 1431 Sd
street northwest have just returned from
an extended trip south. visiting Jamestown,
Fortress Monroe, Danville, Va, Norfolk
and other points.
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l had just passed my thirty-second
birthday when my kind old dad sud-
denly died. For the previous six years
i mad been getting ready for such an
event; that is, had grown accustomed
to hearing my father gay: Jim, don't
'let any grass grow in getting the hang
OF every branch of our business, SO
that when anything happens to me
there will be no disturbance in the
Street in regard to Randolph & Ran.
,dolph's affairs. want to let the world
know as soon as possible that after I
am gone our business will run as it al
ways has. So will work you into my
dlrectorships in those companies where
we have interests and gradually put
you into my different trusteeships."
Thus at fathers death there was not
ripple in our affairs and none of the
stocks known as "The Ranaolph's"
futtered point because of that, to the
financial world, momentous went. I
inherited all of fathers fortune other
than four millions, which he divided
up among relatives and charities, and
took command of business that gave
me an income Of two millions and
half a year.
Once more I begged Bob to come
into the firm
"Not yet, Jim," he replied. 'T've got
my seat and about a hundred thousand
capital, and I want to feel that I'm
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across the white teeth with just part
enough to show their edges, and in
the depths of the eyes was a. dark-red
blaze that somehow gave the impress
sion one gets in looking down some
long avenue of black at the instant a
locomotive headlight rounds curve at
night.
Twice before, way back in our COL
lege days, had had a peep at this
gambling tempter of Bob's. Once in a
poker game in our rooms, when a
crowd of New York classmates tried
to run him out of a hand by the sheer
weight of coin. And again at the
Pequot house at New London on the
eve of varsity boat race, when a
Yale crowd shook a big wad of money
and taunts at Bob until with a yell he
left his usually well-leaded feet and
frightened me, whose allowance was
dollars to Bob's cents, at the sum total
of the bet cards he signed before he
cleared the room of Yale money and
came to with a white face streaming
with cold perspiration These events
had passed out of my memory as the
ordinary student breaks that any hot
blooded youth is liable to make in like
circumstances. AS I looked at Bob
that day, while he tried to tell me that
the business of Randolph & Randolph
would not be safe in his keeping, I had
to admit to myself that was puzzled.
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l had regarded my old college chum
not only as the best mentally har-
messed man had ever met, but knew
him as the soul of honor, that honor of
the old story and I could not
credit his being tempted to jeopardize
unfairly the rights of property of an
other. But it was habit with me to
let Bob have his way, and I did not
press him to come into our firm as
full partner
Five years later, during which time
affairs, business and social, had been
slipping along as we'll as either Bob
or could have asked, was preparing
for another sit-down to show my chum
that the time had now come for him
to help me in earnest, when a queer
thing happened-one of those unac-
countable incidents that God some
times sees fit to drop across the life
paths of His children, paths heretofore
as straight and far-ahead visible as
highways along which one has never
to look twice to see where he is tray
cling; one of those events that, looked
at retrospectively, are beyond all hui
man understanding.
1t was beautiful July Saturday
noon and Bob and I had just 'spacked
up" for the day preparatory to Joining
Mrs. Randolph on my yacht for a run
down to our place at Newport. AS We
stepped out of his Office one of the
clerks announced that a lady had come
In and had particularly asked to see
Mr.. BROMLEY. a
''Who the deuce can she be. coming
in at this time on Saturday, just when
all alive men are in a rush to shake
the heat and dirt of business for food
and the good air OF all outdoors ?'
growled Bob. Then he said, "Show
her in"
Another minute and he had his an.
swer.
A lady entered. "
"Mr. Brownley?" She waited an in
slant to make sure he was the Vir-
ginian. z.....
Bob bowed.
Il am Beulah Sands, of Sands, Land
ing, Virginia. Your people know orr
people, Mr.. BROMLEY, probably we'll
enough for you to place me-
"Of the Judge Lee Sands?" asked
Bob, as he held out his hand.
i am Judge Lee Sands Oldest
dalglser,' said the sweetest voice !
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cannot give until / get your IDEAS.
After lunch, on the bow end Of the!
upper deck Bob relieved himself. Re-,
lieved is the word, for from the minute
he had put Miss Sands into the car
riage until then, it was evident even
to my wife that his thoughts were any
where but upon out outing.
"Jim," he began in voice that
shook in spite of his efforts to make it
sound calm, there is no Disgusting the
fact that I am nightly worked up
about this matter, and I want to do
everything possible for this girl. No
need of my telling you how sacred we
have got to keep what she has lust let
me into. You'll see as I go along that
it is sacred, and know you will look
at it as I do Miss Sands must be
helped out of her trouble.
Judge Lee Sands, her father, is the
head of the old Sands family of Vir-
ginia. The Virginia Sands don't take
off their bonnets to another family in
this country, or elsewhere, for that
matter, for anything that really counts.
- AOJ AoN0 Lou Old1uS, learning. money
and fixed position since Virginia was
first settled. They are the best peo-
pie of our state. It is a cross-road say
ing in Virginia that Sands of Sands
Landing can go to the bench, the
united States senate, the house, or the
governors chair for the starting, and
nearly all of the men folks have held
one or all of these honors for genera
lions. The present judge has held
them all. don't know him personally,
although my people and his have been
thick from away back Sands Landing
on the James is some so miles above
our home. The judge, Beulah Sands
father, is close on to 70, and I have
heard mother and father say is a stall
wart, Virginia stalwart Being rich
that is, what we Virginians call rich,
a million or so-he has been very &C.
tive in affairs, and knew before his
daughter told me, that he was the
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trustee for about all the best estates
In our part of the country. It seems
from what she tells, that of late he has
been very active in developing our
coal mines and railroads, and that par
t1cularly he took prominent hand in;
the Seaboard Air Line. You know the.
road, for your father was director,
and think the house has been prom
inent in it's banking affairs. Now, Jim,
this poor girl, who, it seems, has re-
Gently been acting as the judges Sec
rotary, has. just learned that that coup
of Reinhart and his crowd has COM
pletely ruined her father. The decline
has swamped his own fortune, and,
what is worse, a million to~~a million
and half of his trust funds as well,
and the old judge-well, you and I can
understand his position. Yet do not
know that you just can, either, for
you do not quite understand our Vir-
ginia life and the kind of revered posi-;
tion man like Judge Sands occupies.
You would have to know that to I'M
derstand fully his present purgatory
and the terrible position of this daugh-
ter, for it seems that since he began
to get into deep water he has been
relying upon her for courage and ideas.
From our talk gather she has Won
derful store of up-to-date business no.
tions, and I am convinced from what
she lays out that the judges affairs
are hopeless, and, Jim, when that old
man goes down it will be smash that
will shake our state in more ways than
one 49,. ..,-.,.,
Cup to now the girl has stood up to
the blow like man and has been able
to steady the judge until he presents
an exterior that holds down suspicion
las to his real financial condition, al
though she says Reinhart and his Bal.
timore lawyer, from the ruthless way
they put on the screws to shake out
his holdings in the Air Line, must
have line on it that the Judge Isl
overheard. The old gentleman can
keep things going for six months
longer without jeopardizing any of the
remaining trust funds, of which he has
some two millions, and while his wife.
who is an invalid, knows the judge is
in some trouble, she does not suspect
his real position. His daughter SAYS
that when the blow came, that day of
the panic, when Reinhart jammed the
stock out of sight and scuttled her
fathers bankers and partners in the
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through mat slick scoundrel Reinhart.
Yes, and that hired cur of his, too,
who prostitutes a good family name
and position, and an inherited ability
the Almighty intended for more hon.
est uses than the trapping of victims
on whose purses his gutter-born mas
ter has set lecherous eyes. And, Jim,
as I listened, troop Of old friends
invaded my memory-friends whom I
have not seen since before I went to
Harvard, friends with whom I spent
many happy hour in my old Virginia
home, friends born of my imagination,
stalwart, rugged crusaders, who car
ried the sword and the cross and the
banner inscribed For Honor and for
God Old friends who would troop
into my boyhood and trumpet, Bob,
don't forget, when you're a man, that
the goal is honor, and the code: Do
unto your neighbor as you would have
your neighbor do unto you. Don't for
get that millions is the crest of the
Sroundlings.' And, Jim, I thought my
friends looked at me with reproachful
eyes, as they said, You are well on the
road, Bob BROMLEY, and in time your
heart and soul will bear the hallmark
OF the snaky on the two upright
bars, and you will be but a frenzied
fellow in the Dirty Dollar army Jim,
Jim Randolph, as I listened to that
agonizing tale of the changing of that
girls heaven to hell 7 did not SEQ that
halo you and I have thought surround
ed the sign of Randolph & Randolph.
did not see it, Jim, but did see my
self, and didn't feel proud of the
picture. My God, Jim, is it possible
you and I have joined the nobility of
Dirty Dollars? Is it possible we are
leaving trails along our life's path like
that Reinhart left through the home
OF these Virginians, such trails as this
girl has shown me?" 49,.
Bob had worked himself into state
of frenzy. had never seen him so ex-
cited as when he stood in front of me
and almost shouted this fierce self
denunciation.
''For heavens sake, Bob, pull your
self together" urged. 'The captain
on the bridge there is staring at you
wild-eyed, and Katherine will be up
here to see what has happened. Now,
be good fellow, and let us talk this
thing over in sensible way At the
gait you are going we can do nothing
to help out your friends: Besides.
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road, the Wilson's Of Baltimore, she
had q frightful struggle to keep her
father from going insane. She told
me that for three days and nights she
kept him locked in their rooms at their
hotel in Baltimore, to prevent him
from hunting Reinhart and his lawyer
Rettybone and killing them both, but
that at last she got him Gained down
and together they have been planning.
Jim, 1t was tough to sit there and
listen to the schemes to recoup that
this old gentleman and this girl, for
she is only FL, have tried to hatch up.
The tears actually rolled down my
cheeks as I listened; I couldn't help
it; you couldn't either, Jim. But at
last out of all the plans considered,
they found only one that had tint of
hope in it, and the serious mention of
even that one, Jim, in any but pres
ent circumstances, would make you
think we were dealing with lunatics.
But the girl has succeeded in making
me think it worth trying. Yes, Jim,
she has, and I have told her so, and
hope to God that that hard-headed
horse-sense of yours will not make you
sit down on it,
Bob BROMLEY had got to his feet;
he was slipping the shackles of that
fiery, romantic, southern passion that
years in college and Wall street had
taught him to keep prisoner. His eyes
were flashing sparks His nostrils
vibrated like deer bucks in the au-
tumn woods. He faced me with his
hands clinched.
Jim Randolph" he went on, "as
listened to that girls story of the ter
rible cruelty and devlish treachery
practiced by the human hyenas you
and I associate with, human hyenas
who, when in search of dirty dollars
the only thing they know anything
about-put to shame the real beasts
of the wilds-when I listened, I tell
you that felt it would not give me
twinge of conscience to put a ball
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free to kick my heels until I have
raked together an even million all of
my own making; then I'll settle down
with you, old man, and hold my handle
OF the pillow, and if some good girl hap
pens along about that time-well, then
1t will be An ivy-colored cot for
NINE"
He laughed, and l laughed, too. Bob
was looked upon by all his friends as
a bad case of woman-shy No woman,
young or old, who had in any way
crossed Bob's orbit but had felt that
fascination, delicious to all women, in
the presence Of:
soul by honor schooled,
heart by passion ruled
but he never seemed to see it, AS nv
Wlte-for had been three years mar
ried and had two little Randolphs to
show that both Katherine Blair and I
knew what marriage was for-never
tired of saying, Poor Bob! He's
woman-blind, and it looks as though
he would never get his sight in that
direction"
"Then again, Jim," he continued in
tone of great seriousness, there's a
little secret I have never let even YOU
into. The truth is I am not safe yet
not safe to speak for the old house of
Randolph & Randolph. Yes, YOU NAV
laugh-you who are, and always have
been, as staunch and steady as the old
bronze John Harvard in the yard, YOU
who know Monday mornings just what
you are going to do Saturday nights
and all the. days and nights in be-
tween, and who always do it. Tim T
have found since I have been over on
the floor that the southern gambling
blood that made by grandfather, on
one OF his trips back from New York,
though he had more land and slaves
than he could use, stake his land and
slaves-yes, and grandmother's too
on card game, and-lose, and change
the whole face of the BROMLEY des-
tiny-those same gambling microbes
are in my blood, and when they begin
to claw and gnaw I want to do some
thing; and, JIM and the big brown
eyes suddenly shot sparks-''if those
microbes ever get unleashed, there'l
|be mischief to pay on the foor-sure
there WILL
Bob's handsome head was thrown
back; his thin nostrils dilated as
though there was in them the breath
of conflict. The lips were drawn
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black lashes like veil as she went
on:
"Mr. BROMLEY, I have just come
from Sands Landing. I am very anx.
ious to talk with you on business
matter. I have brought letter to you
from my father. If you have other
engagements can wait until Monday,
although" and the black yelling lashes
lifted, showing the half-laughing, half
pathetic eyes, II wanted much to lay
my business before you at the earliest
minute possible"
There was a faint touch of appeal
in the charming voice as she spoke
that was irresistible, and we were both
willing to forget we had lunch wait
ing us on the Tribesman.
sStep into my Office, Miss Sands,
and all my time is yours" said Bob, as
he opened the door between his Office
and mine. After I had sent note to
my wife, saying we might be delayed
for an hour or two, settled down to
it was a long wait. Thirty minutes
went into an hour and an hour into
two before Bob and Miss Sands came
out. After he had put her in cab for
her hotel, he said in tone curiouslyI
intent: Jim, have got to talk with.
you, got to get some Of your good ad-
vice. Suppose we hustle along to the
yacht and after lunch you tell Kate we,
have some business to go over. don't
| want to keep that girl waiting any
longer than possible for an answer Z
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Bob, don't blame you for falling
in with the girls plans. If I we're
in your shoes should, too"
Tears came to Bob's eyes as he
grabbed my hand and said:
"Jim, how can I ever repay you for
all the good things you have done for
mellow can T."
It was no time to give way to emo
tional outbursts, and while Bob was
getting his grip on himself, I went
on:
"Come along down to earth now,
Bob; let us look at this thing square
'ly. You and I, with our position in
the market, can do lots Of things to
help run that sixty thousand to higher
figures, but six months is short time
and million or two a world of
money"
"She knows that" he said, "and the
time is much shorter and the road to
go much longer than you figure" he
replied. "This girl is as high-ten-
stoned as the E string on a Stradi-
varius, and she declares she will have
no charity tips or unusual favors
from us or anyone else But let us
not talk about that now, or we'll get
discouraged. Let's do as she says
and trust to God for the outcome.
Are you willing, Jim. to take her into
the Office as sort of confidential Sec
rotary? If you will, I'll take charge
of her account, and together we will
do all that two men can for her and
her father !.