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and various advertised wrinkle remoNefs, but they all failed absolutely, and | con- fess l was very skeptieal about your treatment. but in one night my skepticism had entirely vanished. When 1 looked at my face on the following morning and saw what a wonderful transformation had taken place I was sure at last had found the right thing"
 Tn spealIing of her discovery, Miss Meta says; Yes I know 1t sounds too good to be true but really I do not think removing wrinkles is half so wonderful as inc telephone. Before the telephone was invented it appeared ridiculous to think of talking from New York to Chicago.
 "Those who have used cold creams. etc, cannot understand=ho my treatment can act so quickly. Yet. after all, 1t IS very simple. and l wonder that some one did not discover the process long ago. NY letters from patients tell the whole story. Here is one from lady who says my treatment made her look % years young CT. also letters from many others uo not see how anyone can doubt m the lace of such testimony as this. l tried cold creams. massage, etc, myself without ie- sillts and l can thoroughly syInpathize ,vitb thnse who have tried to get l1d Of wrinkles. and I am truly glad that feel T ran now offer womankind surer and a shorter way. !,
 .I will give further particulars to all those who write me within the next lo days. I must exact a promise or secrecy from everyone for my own protection be- fore I give full information-h you Can use my treatment on yourself or Tn your own family, but you must not tell "ila' it is to outsiders.
 q guarantee my treatment will In no way iniure your skin. On the contrary it will give it a soft, velvety feeling, and greatly improve your complexion, as well as banish unsightly lines and wrinkles. U takes only a few minutes to use 1t.
 Address Harriet Meta, Suite 5OOA, Syr- acuse. N. Y, I will send everything hh plain, sealed envelopes that our corfe- spondence will be strictly private"
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of a relief than otherwise in prevent ing this. While the system of averages employed in making up the weekly state ment shows a surplus reserve of less than $31 O00,000, the actual surplus on Saturday stood at $S9 ,S49, 375. The sum mary of state banks and trust companies in Greater New York not reporting to the New York clearing house, shows an expansion in almost all items, loans hay ing increased one and one-quarter mil ions and deposits three and halftmil- lions. The percentage of cash reserve held by the clearing house banks on Saturday stood at 27S2; the reserve of state banks not reporting to the clear ing house was 24.3 per cent and the re- serve of the trust companies was 26.3 per cent With an increase in the vol ume of speculation, it is quite likely that the loans of New York banks will be higher from this time on.
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soon collected himself and finished his Olsen signature, and looking at me, said slowly: guess I won't go back to Chi cago, and you can't take me-
 We had a hot time for an hour or SO, In the end Stensland agreed to come to Chicago with me-
 MT. Keeley spoke of Raisouli as man who robbed the rich in order to benefit the poor, and that he was not half as bad as painted. That Morocco would eventually come under the political sway of France was the opinion of MT. Keeley.
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Special sale of Cameos and Corals Monday, assortment of several hundred.
 F. w. BROMBERG.
MONEY TO LOAN. On business and residence property at low rates. STEINER BROS, Bankers.

Dr. Carl Fox, w. J. Adams of Adams Drug Co.,, A. V. Alb bolt of Abbott Jewelry Go. will act as judges in the pony and trap contest at Colley & New some's Moving Picture show.
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Effects of Drill Practice.

From the Baltimore American.
 T don't want you to go and be a sol- dier, my son. Soldiers are such bad lot
 But, even granting they are, mother, they are continually re-forming."a
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Dancinu.

Miss Moseley's classes, Hotel Hillman, Monday and Thursday afternoons, 2:S0 to ,. Monday and Thursday evenings 5 to 10. Peoples phone 1401.
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Mrs Henry B. Gray, who is passing 6 oart of tae Lenten season in New York, will return later in March. and will oe accompanied by her son, MT. Henry 5. Gray. Jr., who will pass the Easter sea son in Birmingham.
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The Smith-Jones Affair.

 Thomas L. Mason in Harper's Weekly. According to Smith;
 "Oh, say, I met Jones. You know Jones, of course. Well, l heard that he had called me a liar the other day in con -versaton with another man, and so 1 was just laying for him. l have an idea he suspected something was up, as he began to act sheepish right away. But,
 of course, l didn't let on at first just looked him calmly and eoolly in the eye.
 Then I said, Jones, old man, I heard
 something about you the other day that
 1 couldn't beleve 1 said this in a calm,
 even voice, but Jones must have known
 something was up, as I could see him be-
 gin to tremble. I hope it was something
 good said Jones, with quaver in his
 voice. As for me, was just beginning to
 enjoy myself. oh, we'll I replied, with
 a pleasant, off-hand smile, that depends
 entirely on the point of view. Now, 1
 may not be good or 1 may be good. l
 smiled genialy this time, while Jones
 turned pale; 1 could distinctly see him
 growing pale. That, of course, is a mat
 ter of opinion, but, 1 wish, Jones-here
 l looked him fairly and squarely in the
 eye-ff you have anything of an intimate
 and personal nature By this time Jones was all ONe1 Just unSereu OIL
 those words while 1 faced him down. Oh, it was too richl-.Why, Jones, old man, just say 1t to my face, will you?' and
 with this In my earnest and most careless
 manner, left him. You see it wasn't nee
 essary to do anything to Jones. It was
 the whitening sarcasm of what I said that
 fetched him. I can tell you it was great
 fun--simply great. And he won't forget
 it either. He'll know better next time'
 According to Jones:
 Do you know Smith? Well. I was very
 much amused at him the other day I had
 called him a liar, and some one must
 have told him about it. Of course, 1 only
 said it in the heat of an argument with another man. 1 assume he was told. He came up to me and started to say some thing but he was so nervous I suspected |, at once that he had heard what l said. Finally he smiled quite a sheepish smile,
 and said I heard something about you i the other day that I couldn't believe. He kind of gulped the words, and was so en- barrassed that actually I felt sorry for him. l felt as if I'd like to help him out We'll said |, in my most encouraging
 way I hope it was something good As 1 said this l looked him fairly and square ly in the eye. You ought to have seen him weaken. He shifted from one foot to the other, and murmured, with faint smile, I suppose it depends upon the point of view. l hope I'm good Then he went on timidly, We've always been good i, friends. Jones' said he, and 1 hope our intimate and personal relations will con i tinue, said he. He was going to call me down, but he just didn't have the nerve. Sure l said, and with that he walks away perfectly satisfied. Now what do you think of that? was just hoping he would come right out and say, Jones, you called me liar. But he wasn't up to it. Of course, 1 would have apologized- , for as l said, l meant him no harm. But that's the way some folks are built. They drop their nerve at the critical moment"
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Cook ourist.

Mrs subbs-Going to leave? Dear me, Doesn't a cook ever stay any long CT than a week in one place?
 Norah Gonigan-I suppose, occasion ally, wan iv our guild gets into rut.
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Ms. ! T. II. I4alre of McGhee, Tenn, is sisfias her sister. Mrs. George II. Eo-ers og soath Fourteenth avenue.
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The wedding of Miss Aline Ellwanger of Louisville and MT M. s. Corriek of Birmingham took place on the evening of March s at the residence of the brides parents The ceremony was witnessed py only the members of the family, and immediately afterward MT. CarricS and his bride left for Birmingham, where they are at home to their many friends, who have extended them congratulations and nest wishes
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The friends of Mrs. c. c. Engsfeld VII be glad to know that she is resting well after an operation which she underwent at the St. Vincent's hospital.
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Mrs. Emma Woolwine Peck Of NashNllie has been spending several days With Ars' George Ii. Rogers.
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 weeks visit in the city
 Yesterday the Fletcher Music club held Handel meeting when the following programme was rendered:
 Handers Childhood (paper)-Miss Myrta Harris piano solo)-Mss Willie May Breeding
 Handels Operatic Career tpaper)-Miss Edith ORear. Mythis Purdue.
 The Water Music plano solo)-Miss Lu- cile Halliburton. Handel's Oritorio Work tpaper)-Miss Lillian Perdue.
 Haiienjah Chorus piano solo)-Miss Frances Stuclkley. Joy to the World (chorus)-Club. 1 Tine new Jewish Congregational Beth Fl will celebrate the dedication of the holy scrolls tonight at the Maccabee temple. 1S29le Fourth avenue at 7;30 sharp An enteftainment and musical programme ; will be given and refreshments served. Following is the programme: ! Preude-Miss Rosie Goldstein. ! Opening Prayer and Address-By Rabbi A. Rappaport.
 Piano Solo-Miss Lbbie Williams.
 Vocal Solo-Miss Mary Fabian.
 Piano Solo-Mr. J. Kadis, accompanied l by Miss l.. Williams
 Violin Solo-Miss Rosie Fabian Recitation-Miss Clara Shulder Cello Piano-B. Reitman
 Vocal Solo-Miss Jean Williams, accom- panied by her sister.
 German Piano Solo-Zigeiner-Nes J. 1 Kadis.
 Dedication ceremony.
 Refreshments.
 Mrs Pauline Littlemen and daughter, l Viola, are visiting her sister and brother, Mrs. W. Wise and MT. Oberdomer, 1902 ] South Tenth avenue.
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Mrs John W. Tomiinson will enter tain tae Highland Book club on Wednes- day afternoon.
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Mrs. J. R. A. Vaughan will give a Bible reading on Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock Tn the parlors of the First Meth odist church.
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Nr. George Gordon Crawford is in New Orleans.
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Mrs L. Pizitz and daughter, Bertha, have returned from Hot Springs after a stay of several weeks.
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MT. and Mrs Meyer Levine have re- turned to Dothan, Alap alter two weeks visit in the city.
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Mr and Mrs Preston Haskell of Vir- sinia and her children are the guests Of Judge and Mrs. A. c. Howe.
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Mrs C H. Dean of Asheville, N. C., is visiting her son. Mir. J. H, Dean.
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Miss Janette Walters will return this week from Mobile.
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SOCIETY.
tooNTINuED FROM PAGE 14.)

noon concerts by the boys band under an efficient bandmaster
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Bishop Morrison will preach at the First Meth odist church this morning.
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Miss Carey Johnson is in Nashville.
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Mrs Pauline Littemen and daughter, Viola. are visiting her sister and brother, Mrs. W. Wise and Mir Oberdorfer, 1902 South Tenth avenue.
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Mir. Robert Stevens will return this week to Virginia after passing two weeks in Birmingham.
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MT and Mrs o. D. streit of Gunters- vile have returned after passing several days at the Hillman
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Mrs. Harriet O'Neil will sing a solo at the Il o'clock service at the Church of the Advent this morning.
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Mir. and Mrs Cleveland H. Wait have returned from their wedding journey to
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The Boys club chapter No. will hold it's regular meeting at the club rooms Tuesday at II o'clock.
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New Orleans and Mobile and are at home at 1123 North Twenty-ninth street.

Miss Kate Carroll of Atlanta is the guest of the Misses Merritt at their home on Seventh avenue.
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THE HOTEL CLERK TELLS EXPERIENCES WITH SUFFRAGETTES

has set up its liars and penates for the
time being. They feel that woman could
never master the intricacies of the mod
ern ballot because it's a blame sight more
than they can master themselves.
That's one reason. Larry, why the
Tammany ticket always polls such uneX-
pected strength in the districts where the
reformers live Eustace Won Tiltingnose,
upon being showed into a small. i!l-smell-
ing canvas booth by sheriff of election.
WHO is temporarily detached from the
street cleaning department. becomes con-
fused on unfolding something that looks
like a japanese bed sheet. In a moment
of alteration he imprints his mark under
the emblem Of the justly hated machine
and then he hurres to his club and drinks
eight or nine cocktails before he feels
like himself or anybody else. He's against
woman suffrage, and i don't blame him.
will admit of his sending his butler TO
vote for him
''Wot do you s'pose would happen if
women WIZ to get the right to vote:
asked the House Detective.
They'd elect Fairbanks Presid ent,"
said the Hotel Clerk. He has such Il
roguish way OF combing the back hair
forward over his bald spot
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in the whole District to mar It's beauty
and cleanliness.
The industrial possibilities that would
open up for Washington under such an
arrangement are enormous. IL is stated
that a great proportion OF the heads or
families in the District are in the govern
nent service. and n consequence are
not building up businesses that will be in
herited by their sons. Men who grow up
IN the District are without the political in
fuence TO secure government employment
as their fathers did. and as a consequence
are. in the absence OF any industry in the
District. forced TO leave their homes and
seek opportunity in other sections OF the
country.
The development of industry i'm the Dis
trict for the benefit of the people OF the
District is considered a crying necessity
where X can be brought about without
injuring the attractiveness of the city.
The Chamber of Commerce and other
such bodies have been studying the pos
sibilities along these lines. and declare
that the conservation OF the waters of the
Potomac and the utilization of the water
power would accomplish the desired end.
| The beneficent effects would be by TO
means confined to the Capital city itself.
All up the course OF the, Potomac there
would be power conserved and every town
electricity for its lighting and for
| power TO operate any industry. The
| cars that run upon any street
| could be furnished the power from
| the government electric plant as
| they would in Washington itself. The
towns that are not Immediately upon the
streams would receive their power from
| IL in no less degree than those that are
built upon its banks and the value OF the
waterflow would be made to reach into
the interior in way that has never been
/ though possible before. The ability to
transmit power is pronounced by the geo.
| logical survey as one OF the greatest ac-
/ complishments of the time. and the ele-
ment that will make itself most strongly
felt in industrial development of the next
| twenty years.
The development Of such historic towns
| as Cumberland. Harpers Ferry and those
I that lie along the story-laden wales OF the
| Shenandoah-of all the land that so lies
as to send the run-off of its floods beneath
the shadow of the Washington monument
would mean the prosperity OF all that
| region and of the thousands that live
within IL and the multiplied thousands
that are to come. All the added produc-
| ton would come to Washington in seek
ing markets. and Washington would in
return send out TO the increased popula-
ton vast quantities OF material that would
go toward her enrichment.
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twenty-four hours-which is where the
rats show their good sense. If they refuse
to enter the rat hole, pick them up-it Is
well to put a glove on first, for they have
both teeth and tempers, to say nothing of
an aroma which, OH, we'll, never mind
about that, they are first cousin to the
ever-fragrant skunk-pick them up and
sOol as they can reach them, for the two
are bitter enemies. The ferrets are eager
to kill. and the rats are eager to get out
of reach. They can be turned loose
around buildings. mills, elevators, ware
houses. vessels. any place where rats
and mice live. and they will rid the place
of more rats in day than Il dog will get
in d week.
None the less. Mr.. Barclay. when he is
leading a rat hunt, takes his dogs along.
He has cleared SO many of the govern
ment buildings of the destructive little
beasts that he is regarded as official rat
hunter to Uncle Sam. In August, 1904,
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as to whether any given enterprise had
the right to gain control of the given site
to the exclusion of others
The method that is coming to be recog
nzed as having advantages over all 9TH
ers Is that of locating great plant at the
falls to furnish power for all the others.
This plant is a generator of electricity to
be dispensed to all others. and individual
ly they have but to perform the simple
task of turning on a switch in order to
start operation. This is becoming recog-
niZed as having great advantages over
maintaining Individual method OF
generating power and given waterfall
is thus capable of many times the service
to the community in which il is located.
1t is believed in the Chamber of Com
merce that the proposed action on the
part of the government would solve many
OF the difficulties that Washington has
faced from an industrial standpoint. Mem
bers OF that association have favored the
electrificat:on of the city for many years.
and have held that il should be done
through utilization of the water power at
Grea: Falls. The greatest stumbling block
in the way of such an enterprise has al
ways been the fact that there was period
OF low water that might some time be in
sufficient to maintain the power plant
With government conservation of water
1t is held that the only objection to the
plan would be removed and that it would
be capable of immadiate working out.
Such a plan offers an entire cure of the
smoke nuisance of the city. The various
industries of the city are now constantly
in conflict with the ordinances in the mat
ter of smoke. Even the proprietors of
office buildings where sufficient coal must
be burnt to generate the power for the
local small electric plant are constantly
being fined for creating smoke. Were the
one plant that furnished the electricity
to them all located at Great Falls and it
operated without the burning of pound
of coal there would be no pillar OF smoke
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Rockingham county. These reservoirs
would be caused by the construction of
Immense dams ana would catch and hold
all the waters that fell in the given basin
in the rainy seasons.
. The taking out of these large quantities
of water in the rainy season would re-
lieve the streams at the time when they
are likely to be SO swollen as to create
dangerous floods. An accurate calcula-
ton Of the relief that would have been
accorded in time of any flood that has
ever been known on the Potomac shows
that the possibility of any damage being
done by those floods would have been re-
moved.
Then with the great quantities of water
lmpounded at the rainy season there could
be arranged a well-calculated release that
would guarantee a better stream during
the dry season The level OF the Potomac
on it's lower course might be raised three
or four feet This guarantee Of given
channel would be. in the first place, of
great value to the stream as an aid to
| navigation. greater value. however.
| would be derived from the fact that a
given much-increased flow could be
guaranteed over such portions of the
river as Great Falls, and that is possible
! water power would be multiplied many
times.
| The government would install at Great
Falls a plant for the generation of cleo
| +ricity The power generated from a drop
Of ninety feet that takes place in very
short distance would be sufficient to run
| all the machinery within radius of a
hundred miles. This power would be
placed upon the government wires and
| fed out to all consumers. This is coming
| to he recognized as the ideal power con-
dition There was a time when factory
was located on the river bank beside
water fall and used it to turn its spindles.
The space upon which such industries
could be located was exceedingly limited.
and there was great diversity Of opinion
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he, or rather his two sons. E. L.. -jr.. and
Clarence M. who nowadays do the actual
work, led a two weeks campaign against
the rats in the Agricultural DEPARTING mt.
They spent fifteen nights there. and when
they had finished. for the first time in
years there was not a rat in the building.
The rat question in that building had
really become serious one. The bushels
of seed stored there attracted them, and
their depredations were costing Uncle
Sam thousands of dollars.
The Barclays. with their ferrets and
dogs. began work on the top floor. They
put their ferrets in the rat holes. and
then stopped up all but one or two that
might serve as exits. Here the dogs
watched. and as rat after rat, fleeing for
his life. came out of a hole. a strong
jawed terrier snapped him up and killed
hi n with one vicious shake. That was the
first big job of the ferret men. In Oc-
tober of the same year they tackled Gen.
ter Market. and fearful and sanguinary
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for the generation of power and sell that
power at as low a figure possible to
whatever consumers presented themselves.
The remarkable development of the use
of water power in the south and the
Pacific coast in the last few years is a
most potent argument in favor of gen.
eral adoption of it a motive power. 1t
is cited. however. that under a compre-
hensiye development of this power by the
government an ideal condition would be
produced. under which any and all con-
sumers could be readily supplied with am
pie power for any industry and at so rea-
Sonable a price that all branches of activ-
ity would be given a very great impetus.
In conjunction with this scheme for the
conservat ton OF water power. the engi-
neers of the geological survey recommend
a plan for the control of the water flow
of the streams of the Potomac basin that
would greatly enhance the water power,