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Our Business Hours from now on are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 43 "Rue de Paradia Taris, France. 438 Broadway, New York, N. Y; Tenth. Eleventh and F Streets, Washington, D. C. Woodward & Lothrop Prelfimimiary Opening of Selections and Smrnportatflons for Spring1, A prominent feature of which is the special exhibit of Foreign and American Silks, Woolen and Cotton Dress Fabrics and their proper embellishments, Real Laces, Lace Robes, Chiffons, Gauzes, Grenadines, etc. flmtrodiadinig styles amid fabrics as adopted by the leaders of ffaslhSoo for Spring aod Summer, fl9(D2. Today, Continuing Tomorrow, Wednesday, Spring Opening of > Paris Pattern Hats, Toques, Bonmiets, nilliiraery Noveities, Lace, Chiffon & Featlher Neck Pieces. Miss Emma Eo Hunter, (Formerly 1112 Connectitut Avenue), X $econd flwor. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off This Week, Spring Opening of Women's TaiIor=Made Overgarments and Elegant Tailor=Made Costumes In Fashionable Sprang Fabrics, Adaptable for rromenade, Driving. Church. Street, Calling- and Shopping Purposes. Also a most comprehensive display of Elegant Silk Waists and Separate Skirts, Also Elegant Silk=Lined Man=Tailored Costumes. Also Taffeta Silk Long Garments for Travelling and Other Purposes, In the new semi=fitting shapes, with tucked bodies, and raglan cuffs; Also Taffeta Silk and Peau de Sole Etons, Tucked and Selff=strapped?Rich Lace Collars. Also Nobby Walking Jackets of Rich Tan Covert with Plain or Strapped Seams. Also Smart Walking Suits, in Very Handsome Effects, Distinctly Different from the Rainy Day Suit. Also a Superb Collection of Children's and Misses' Party Dresses, Dancing School Frocks, Suits, Reefers and Jackets. Also New and Beautiful Creations in Girls' White and Figured Mousseline Frocks, Trimmed with Exquisite Laces and Ribbons, in Exclusive Effects. Also Pretty Wool Dresses in Blouse, Eton and One=? piece Styles, in the Newest and Most Becom ing Effects, with Gored and Straight Skirts. Also Reefers and Box Coats in the Most Popular Cloths, and in Styles Especially Adapted to Girls of Various Ages. Also Spring Display of Boys' Suits, Top Coats, Reefers, Shirt Waists, Blouses, etc., Comprising New Styles and Fabrics, and a Large Collection of Novelties in More or Less Elaborate Effects. TMr.t High Grade Interior Decorations. Upholstery Department (Second Floor.) We are fully prepared to undertake the com plete decoration and furnishing of houses, and to place at the disposal of onr patrons the services of our corps of artists and decorative experts. We will gladly submit, upon request, finished color drawings, together, with a comprehensive scheme for the correct and effectual treatment, ob taining the most satisfactory results from any de sired outlay. The public may feel assured that any work In m~~ trusted to us for execution will have the most con scientious and intelligent consideration. Mr. Alexander Milne has immediate supervision of this work, and will be very glad to lend his per sonal attention to those who may be interested. Slip Covers, Window Shades and Awnings made to order. . Furniture reupholstered and made equal to new at a moderate cost. AH kinds of Cabinet Work and Finishing of Woodwork a specialty* Mattresses made and remade in our own factory. All work of this character will be done at specially low prices at this flme in order to keep our workmen employed. l UffcaNtery S'fond flour. Y ? Guaranteed Sewing Machines, $10.50 to $40.00, Woodward & Lothrop. Early Spring Sale Notions or Small Wares. Not a day passes but something in this line is needed. All the bright, fresh things are in stock?the staple sorts and the new devices. Pins, Needles, Imitation Shell Hair Orna ments, Garters, Shoe Strings, Hair Pins, Safety Pins, Hat Pins, Elastic, Dress Shields?all the thousand and one practical little things that are constantly in demand. Best grades onlv. Quality is the first considera tion in our buying of these little things, as well as the greater things. W. & L.'s Stockinette Dross Shields?Xo. 2, 13c. pair; $1.47 dozen. No. 3, 15c. pair: $1,011 dozen. W. & L.'s Gutta|iercba Double-covered Dress Shields -Xo. 3, 15c. pair; $1.62 dozen. No. 4, 17e. pair; $1.87 dozen. W. A- L.'s Double-covor.d Dress Shields?Xo. 2. 17o. pair: SI.87 dozen. No. 3. lWc. pair; $2.12 dozen. No. 4,"21c. pair; $2.37 dozen. PonMe-covered Press Shields?Xos. 3 and 4, 10c. pair; $1.10 dozen. Silk-stitched Bone Casing. 13c. plec*. Hook and Eyes, Tic. card; 25c. gross. Superior Quality Whalcljones, 30 Inches long, ISc. each; $2.00 dozen. French Ilornebones, 7 and 8 Inches. 12c. dozen; $1.35 Pontile Serge Belting, 75c. piece. Cotton Belting, 25c. piece. White Tai*e, 30-yard pieces. 18c. Fancy Featherst Itched Braid, 0-yard pieces. 0c. Bias Velveteen Skirt Binding, 7c. yard; 75c. doz. Brush-rdge Skirt Braid. 5c. yard; 50c. dozen. Prussian Binding, Vj Inch wide, 0-yard pieces, 20c. each; $2.00 dozen. Basting Cotton, 500 yards. 5c. spool; 50c. dozen. Darning Cotton, 5e. spool; 5<ic. dozen. Hand Sorting Silk, 50 ranis, 5c. spool. Sewing Silk, 100 yards, 9c. spool; 00c. dozen. Best Quality American Pins, 5c. paper: 50c. doz. Kiriiy, Beprd & Co.'s Hair Pins, 2c. paper. Klrby. Board & Co.'s Invisible Hair Tins, 4c. pa. Kirby, Btard & Co.'s Steel-point Hair Pins, 5c. box. Shell Hair Pins. 25c. box. Cabinet Hair Pins, 5c. box. Curiing Irons, 10c. pair. Safety Pins, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, 3e. dozen. Hat Pins. 10c. dozen. Knitting Cotton, 5c. balL Shoe Buttons, 8c. pekg. Darners, vith handle, 8c. eacli. Shoe Button Thread, villi needle attached, 2c. each; 20c. dozen. Mending Tissue, 15c. pekg. dark's Duster Crochet Cotton, 5c. spool. Shoe Horns, 10c. each. Folding Button Hooks, 20c. each. Button Hooks, with wooden handles, 7c. each. Shaped Binding, for waists and skirts. 5c. yard. GotTs "Angora" Skirt Braid, 5-yard pieces, 10c. each; $1.00 dozen. Linen Taiie, Nos. 00. 0 and 1, 5c. piece; 50c. doz. Kerr's Luster Thread, 15c. spool. Tape Measures, 5c. each; 5oc. dozen. Tubular Shoe I.aces, 5c. pair; 50c. dozen. Linen Corset Laces, 5c. pair; 50c. dozen. Fancy Frill Hose Supporters, 25c. pair. Pattern Tracers, 5c. each. Tomorrow, Wednesday, 5,000 pairs Dress Shields, In sizes 3 and 4 and guaranteed, at half price. flOc. a pr.; 6 prs. for 55c. Regular Price, 20c. pair. First floor?Kleventh St., rear. Sale off Stamped Goods ffor the Lent ten Season. Art Needlework is the great Lenten diversion. It offers the oc casion to while away many an hour pleasurably and profitably. Endless opportunities are here in bits of ele gance, daintiness and oddity?for the parlor, the dining room, the bed room; tasteful and inexpensive, ready for the needle. Stamped Linen Centerpieces. <t?. Each 2dC. tO ^>1.50 Stamped Linen Serviettes. _ _ Each 12C. tO 35c. Stamped Linen Doylies. Each. 5*-* to 20C. Stamped Hemstitched Linen Centerpieces size 18x18 inches. Each ' 20C. Stamped Hemstitched Linen Centerpieces ? size 24x24 inches. Each 35C Stamped Hemstitched Linen Serviettes: ??? size 12x12 inches. Each 33C* Stamped Hemstitched Linen Tray Cloths; size 18x27 Inches. Kacli Stamped Hemstitched Linen Bureau aud Buffet Scarfs; size lttx4S iuches. Each.... 5?*-' Stamped Hemstitched I.inen Bureau and _ _ Buffet Scarfs; size ll?x70 Inches. Each.... / jC Stamped Novelty Cloth Table Covers, In a variety off colors. Each Tinted Centerpieces. Each 25C. Tinted Pillow Covers. Each. 25C. and 5OC. ^Stamped Denim laundry Bags, and 5OC Stam(>ed Linen Turn-over Collars, In white Trv. and colors. Each luv" Stamping done while you wait. First floor. "House and Garden" for Febru ary is devoted to the Twentieth Century Washington, as proposed by the following Park Commission? Charles F. McKim, Augustus St. Gaudens, Daniel H. Burnham, Fred erick Law Olmstead, jr. Magnifi cent illustrations, printed on plate paper. 50c. a copy. Book Dept.?Basement.' NUMBER OF IMPORTANT NEW PROVISIONS INCORPORATED. Subjects Not Heretofore Explained-? Building Rules Brought Up to Date ?Inspector Ashford's Views. The revised regulations governing the erection, removal, repair and maintenance of buildings and the erection and operation of elevators and fire escapes in the District of Columbia, In effect the 1st instant, have been received from the printer at the office of the inspector of bullSlngs, and the first installment of books'have been distributed to architects, engineers and builders, and others interested in the building business. Mr. Snowden Ashford, the inspector of buildings. In speaking of the matter today, said that in order for persons interested to obtain copies they would have to regis ter their names at his office. The revised regulations contain a number of important and interesting new provisions and are intended to bring the regulations in effect in the District right down to date. Modern building ideas have made obsolete a number of the old styles of construction, and have made necessary a number of changes. In explaining the date of efTect of the revised regulations. Air. Ashford THE CHANGES MADE REVISED JWTIOIIS Erection, Removal and Re pair of Buildings. in > J Mr. Snowden Ashford, Insp<H-tar of- {Building*. 161j -ii n said that all plan^ suVjpiitted after the 1st Instant are subject to the new regulation?, except where such&an duplication will work a hardship on owners who have prepared plans prior to Mapch In such cases ap plicants may clairp th^ privilege of thirty days' notice from i*hp !fist of this month, or all applicants who wibmit plans for the next twenty-seven days will be granted per mits issued accor$ms-to 1,1) e terms of the former regulations except in respect to height and projecflons"beyond the building line. All projections "submitted after March 1 are subject to the Yerisefa regulations. Regulations H&WM^terially Altered.. "The regulation*,^feald Sir. Ashford, "are not materially alt^d from the former rules, but are inte;i(Jf*d to cover subjects not heretofore explained and to bring our building rules up to date, and in consonance with the best practices In other cities." It will be remembered that Captain Gail lard, formerly assistant to the Engineer Commissioner, and Mr. Ashford, then as sistant inspector of buildings, visited the larger cities and consulted with the building authorities, with special reference to im provements in steel or fireproof construc tion. Continuing, Mr. Ashford said: "The recent conflagrations at Paterson anrt Philadelphia have proved the necessity for better regulations and Improved methods of fire-proofing the steel frame or columns that support the walls and floor of high structures. A building with iron beams unprotected is more treacherous than a wooden structure. The new regula tions will require greater care in selection of fire-proofing materials, and provides for approved methods rvf concrete construction. The wording of theold regulations have been changed in many instances to remove doubtful passages and a few of the more important changes may be of interest. "The regulation governing the height of buildings is provided in an act of Congress and, therefore, cannot be changed until amended by Congress. It seems to be an acknowledged fact that a reasonable limi tation of height enhances the value of prop erty and promotes the health, comfort and safety of a community. It is clear to the property owner that it is better for values in general to have 50 per cent or more of a square improved by tight or ten-story buildings than to h&ve 2.~> per cent of the square occupied by sixteen or twenty-story buildings. The extreme skyscrapers fc a trust which monopolizes the business of a whole square or neighborhood to the detri ment and depreciation of surrounding property?six and eight-story buildings in Chicago and New York are now but step ping stones or temporary quarters for fu ture tenants of the towering octopus that throws a shadow and gloom on its modest neighbors and absorbs to its concentrated quarters the inhabitants of a whole square of groumi thereby casting a blight on all property except the premises on which it stands. One Result Specified. "This the result: A block may contain 00,000 square feet of ground worth $000,000? then some one builds a monopoly building on 6,000 feet of the square and the remain ing 54.000 feet In the square, with the ex ception of the corner lots, sufTer In propor tion to the size of the skyscraper from $l!00.0u> to $300,000 loss ot valuation. There fore regulations of height have a tendency to equalize ana maintain values throughout the entire block, and consequently benefit forty or more owfi^rs instead of four. "The following are noticeable in the new regulation- thereafter the owner or attorney must ?igo, applications and Im proved plans are required to show clearly the work intende<l_^JL*survey must be fur nished showing the location of walls and footings with resfUtetWb building and party lines. and the smr(fey..<jpiust be made and furnished before walls are up to grade. "A section mulJt"6e furnished by owner showing curb and" alley grades. An addi tional fee ls*char?e<liiwiien the plans show projections beyond tft^ building line. The minimum width 91. dwelling Is 14 feet, un less plans are apfjnrt?d by health officer and inspector of WUHiilgs for a less width. Factors of safety?aad Strength and quality of materials are ddPaad., Concrete footings are required to bfi less than one foot thick and two fee'PwIde. Party walls must be carried above*- ro?& in all cases and capped for fire ?ratjs; even on mansard roofs. New regulations for party walls in steel construction. Protection of steel with nine inches of masonry. Metal Framework. "New rules for metal framework and method of framing and riveting. Special rules for chimneys and flues. Reserve spaces are required for light and ventila tion, and windows apd air shafts are regu lated as to size. Vaults are permitted In front of business property only and must not contain boilers or certain other fixtures. No charge Is made for vault space, but it must be given up when needed for public use. No projections are allowed on houses less than 18 feet wide, nor on streets 00 feet or less in width. The entire schedule of projections beyond buildipg line Is changcd and square bays are - much, re stricted. When buildings are near the liiwlt of height the projections may be | curtailed.. Projections and steps must not extend over party lines extended. Side walk and parking must be shown on draw ings, also plat of lot and buildings. "New regulations for stables to encourage removal from street fronts to rear of lots. Fire-proof stables. "Removal of condemned building mate rials. Location of coal yards, markets and other such establishments is further re stricted. New regulations for safety in theaters. "Plans and details must be furnished for elevators and operators must show com petency. "The fire escape regulations were passed by Congress and therefore cannot be changed, although in many respects they seem to be deficient and weak in penalties for non-compliance. "Electrical work and regulations are simi lar to the code of the fire underwriters. All regulations will be enforced and im provement in buildings will certainly re sult. The regulations are certainly as com plete as any in the United States." EXCISE BOARD REPORT OPERATIONS FOB THE YEAR END ING OCTOBER 31, 1900. Number of Licensed Places in District ?Applications Rejected?Statis tical Showing. The District Commissioners have trans mitted to Congress the annual report of the District excise board, composed of Messrs. S. T. G. Morsell, Matthew Trimble and James A. Bates, The report is as follows: "The excise board of the District of Co lumbia has the honor to submit, In com pliance with section 2 of an act of Con gress, approved March 3, 185*15, entitled "An act regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors in the District of Columbia,' a re port of the operations of said board for the license year ending October 31, 1901. Dur ing said year, which commenced November 1, HHK>, the board granted 516 bar room licenses and 124 wholesale liquor licenses. The number of bar room applications re jected during said period was nine, and the number of wholesale liquor applications un favorably acted on was three. "Number of licensed liquor places in each police precinct for the year ending October 31. 1901: "Bat* rooms?First precinct, 11*; 2d, 55; 3d, 43; 4th, 03; 5th, 44; Oth, 113; 7th, 34; 8th, 13; Oth, 33; .total, 51C. /?\\ aolesale?First precinct. 19; 2d. 24; 3d, 10; 5th, 0; 5th. 12; oth, 10; 7th, 17; 8th, 7; 9th. 7; total. 124. "There have been 517 applications for bar room licenses filed since October 1 last, of which number 482 have been allowed, five rejected, and thirty are pending. There were 12G applications for wholesale liquor j licenses filed, of which number 121 have I been granted, four rejected, and one is penuing. Convicted of Violations. "From March 4, 1901, to March 2, 1902, forty-seven persans were convicted of vio lating ii._' excise law. The amount of fines imposed by the Police Court during said period was $14>00, of which amount $709.75 was paid, leaving $14,090.25 of said amount uncollected. This Is accounted for because many persons convicted serve out a work house sentence instead of paying the fine Imposed." a. table accompanies the report showing that since the license year 1893-1W*4 the number of retail liquor licenses granted has decreased from 03!> to 510, the latter being the number of bar rooms now licensed. The wholesale licenses during the same period have decreased in number from 174 to 124. CLASHED OVER REMOUNTS. Generals and War Office at Odds Since African War Began. A dispatch from London yesterday says: A parliamentary paper was issued tonight containing dispatches and reports regard ing the remount department in South Africa. It refers to the American mules as be ing the "best received from any source, magnificent workers and kept in condition under the most adverse circumstances." The American horses the report says, va ried greatly, but the majority were excel lent. The paper on the remount department is considered the strongest indictment of its own capacity yet issued by the war office, and it will probably go far to ex plain to the public the reasons why the war has been so unduly protracted. This paper shows continual conflict throughout the war between the generals at the front, appealing for horses, and the officials of the war office, who were endeavoring to limit the number of mounts s**nt out. When the war broke out the remount department in Cape Colony consisted, of one officer, fifty men and one veterinary officer, and when the British reverses came a scratch remount establishment was hur riedly gotten together. This proved itself utterly Incapable of dealing with the sud den demands. It appears that in August. 1899, General Forester-Walker wired home that the opin ion of experts was adverse to mules. Again, In December, after the mishap to Lord Methuen, General Forester-Walker sug gested that no more American mules were wanted. After the disasters to General Buller the government first began an ex tensive purchase of remounts, and the strain caused chaos to reign in the remount department. The blue book shows that the percentage of losses in horses during their transit by sea was comparatively small, but great wastage arose from the fq,ct that the horses were put to work too quickly after their voyage. After Paardeberg Lord Roberts wired ur gently for remounts, adding. "Without mo bile forces I can do nothing in this coun try." Again, on March 9, 1900, Lord Rob erts repeated his appeal. Lord Lansdowne about this time was pressing Lord Roberts to forecast the time when the supply of horses could be dimin ished. ? After Pretoria was captured, In July. Lord Roberts "thought the supply of horses might be reduced twenty per cent." He soon revised this miscalculation, how ever, and in August was urging the gov ernment to send more horses. In the mean while Lord Lansdowne was equally urging the necessity to diminish the demands for animals. In November of 1900 Mr. Brodrlck came upon the scene with the representations of financial necessities and the suggestion that "now the harder portion of the cam paign is over" the supply might be dimin ished. In March, May. June and Septem ber of 1901. Mr. Brodrlck wanted to dimin ish the supply of horses. Lord Kitchener always replying that this was quite Impos siblc. The parliamentary paper then sets forth complaints from the war office of the wastage of horses through the Inefficiency of the remount department, and Mr. Brod rlck wired in November: "We cannot con tinue indefinitely to send from lO.UOO to 12, 000 remounts a month to be used up by column commanders in a few days." The final dispatch given by the paper is dated January 15. 1902. It is from Lord Kitchener and says that the number of horses sent is satisfactory. In Parliament today Mr. Brodrlck an nounced that the government was still dis Datching 13,000 remounts monthly, and. ac cording to the Pretoria correspondent of ^0 Times, remounts are still badly wanted in South Africa. Characters in Tongues. From the Boston Hersid. When the doctor is called to a patient, he says let me see your tongue, but it is not for the same reason that society is now showing that unruly member when asked the same question. No, the latest fad competing with palmistry is "glossomanlc'.e," or "tinguistolgie," mean ing no less than the delineation of char acter from the shape of the tongue. Ac cording to the new science, a big tongue indicates frankness; a short tongue, dis simulation; a large tongue, generous feel ings; a narrow tongue, concentration of ideas. Lang and broad tongues ind'eate fondness for talk; short and broad, equal capacity to talk, but not speak the truth; shortness and narrowness-are the signs of Machiavellian lying. A coated tongue isn't in it, of course, for that sort of tongue speaks for itself, and the revelry indulged In over night. PLANTS AS ORNAMEMTS Movement in Behalf of the Public Schools. ME. M'MILLAN'S BILL DONATING SURPLUS FLOWERS FOR BEAUTIFYING ROOMS. Superintendent Stuart Discusses Bene fits the Measure Will Confer?Re lieves Teachers of Expense. In his latest annual report Superintendent Stuart of the public schools of the Dis trict of Columbia recommended that au thority be obtained to permit the superin tendent of public buildings and grounds, the superintendent of the botanical gardens and other branches of the government growing ornamental plants to turn over any surplus of such plants to the public schools to be used in ornamenting the school build ings. In line with this recommendation Senator McMillan has Introduced a bill to carry out the recommendation. "This recommendation originated In the attention of the school authorities being called to the fact that teachers were de voting a considerable part of their private means to the decoration of school rooms," Superintendent Stuart said to an Evening Star reporter this afternoon. "In carryir g out the scheme of school room decoration, ornamental plants, such as palms, etc.. were found in nearly all of the school rooms of the District. It was thought that ad vantage might be taken of the government botanical collections which are so abundant in the capital city and use them, or part of them at least, for school room decora tion. Condition of School Grounds. "This led to a consideration of the com paratively neglected condition of the scho 1 grounds of the District. Several years ago in some of the larger school grounds a few trees had been set out by the parking commission, but there has never *> hmi any well devised plan for the betterment of the school grounds. Unfortunately, most of our school buildings have little or no play grounds attached, but nearly all are provided with a small parking .-pace in front which would afford opportunity to set out flower beds and in some instances shrubbery and trees. "The recommendations of the board of ed ucation in the matter of the purchase of school lots have looked toward more ample playgrounds, so that the buildings con structed within the last year or two are better provided in this respect than some of the older buildings. Appropriation Needed. "Mr. William R. Smith of the botanical garden, in a conversation with the presi dent of the board of education and myself, expressed great interest in this subject, and intimated that there would be no difficulty in getting all the trees we might want. There should be. however, a definite appro priation not only for setting out orna mental shade trees and shrubbery and for the preparation of flower beds, where space is available, but also for the care of the same. "The subject of school gardens planted and cared for by children is attracting a good deal of public attention in some parts of the country. Step? are being taken to instruct our normal school girls so that in the near future the work may be begun among the pupils. "Teachers in the primary grades are ex pected to familiarize the children with the names and characteristics of the common shade trees found in our streets. Such fa miliarity should beget a love of nature in the child and is bound to lead to better care on the part of the children of the trees and flowers of the city. Schools Fortunate. "Our schools are fortunate in having at hand the beautiful park spaces containing many varieties of trees and shrubs to which children of neighboring schools may be taken for observation and study. "I am very much gratified to see Senator McMillan has introduced such a bill, which seems to be entlreiy in keeping with his comprehensive plan for a great park sys tem in Washington. It would be an incon gruity if the school grounds, which are in a sense the property of the government, should not share the benefits contemplated In this splendid plan for beautifying the capital city." THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION. Biennial Session Question Revived by Delegate Anderson. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., March 3. 1902. In the convention today a resolution was presented by Mr. Anderson of Alleghany to rescind the action of tho convention whereby biennial elections are provided for in choosing members of the general as sembly, and providing that they should be elected quadrennially. The corporations commission report was again taken up and several sections were taken up and agreed to as reported by the committee. Owing to the absence of members who are opposed to them, and the section pertaining to liability of employers v.as passed by at the request of the chair man, Mr. Braxton, who desires to offer an amendment. At the afternoon session the debate was on the section requiring all railroad com panies desiring to build lines in this state to secure charters. The amendment to strike out the provision was defeated. The report will likely be finished today, and the matter of finance and taxation will be taken up. Filipino Illiteracy. Frederick Atkinson lit the Atlantic. Aside from the public schools and the churches, there have been no other Impor tant resources of enlightenment. A person may know how to read and write, yet pos sess not even the ludiments of culture. The assertion is made that "80 per cent can read and write," thus leaving only 20 per cent who cannot. If this refers to the total Philippine population of 7,300,000, and to "read" means to understand the mate-lal one is reading, and to "write," more than the writing of one's name, then I am will ing to venture an opinion that the amount of literacy would be nearer the re verse of the above. It is commonly stated that 5 per cent of the inhabitants can speak and understand Spanish. Public libraries, lecture courses, broad commercial relations with foreign countries, widespread daily press to give publicity to all affairs of state and society, modern theaters, active participation In public affairs, street-corner political discussions?these and other agencies of such essential importance for the general advance of culture have been almost entlreiy lacking. Traveling libra ries, in the form of supplementary English reading and illustrated lectures on Ameri can life and gov-?rnrftent, are being organ ized by the school department. Outlandish Headgear. From tlie Philadelphia Record The monstrosities that are now seen on the heads of young girl* and even of mid dle-aged women, who ought to know better, are a disgrace to any civilized country. The headgear of savages is artistic by com parison. Feathers, flowers, fur and lace, all jumbled into one shapeless and bewilder ing mass, sometimes almost the size of a bushel basket, are stuck on the head and turned up at the sloe, so as to make the wearer appear a veritable scarecrow. Oc casionally the massive toppins Is tilted for ward, projecting far over the face, hiding all but the chin. This is the spectacle seen on the Streets and in the churches and theaters at the present time. Some of the gowns worn deserve almost as severe criticism. * Semi- HpRUNK Annual Ji Sale. A salo that Includes over 500 Trunks and that should insure the success of the sale. 4t2f they're Rich's Shoes they're proper." Ten-one F?Cor. Toth. Entire Building. Thoua ?'one-fifty.'* Distinctive style and durability are characteristics of the broken lots of ladies' and gentlemen's street and dress foot wear which sold for $4, $4.50 and $5., and which we are closing out at $3o50 pair This line includes an extensive assort ment of most desir= able shapes?the best selling lines of the season?and it is needless for us to add Falling hair, dandruff anditchingscalpspeed-1 lily cured. ^ Call or write JOHN H. WOODBURY D.I., llUa and Si. Vtashtnctoa. HAIR Owing to the large Increase In Its ]>at{eut?, THE KOCH Lt'XO (THE lins been COM PELLED TO MOVE INTO A LARCER WILDING. Their success In ciiriug CON Sl'MlTIOX, CATARRH. BRONCHITIS AND ASTHMA hu.s been phenomenal. Physicians every where sc. knowledge Doctor Koch as the only man who osn cure these fatal diseases. HIS NEW INHALATION TT RERCILINE TREATMENT is nsed in all the pitMIc hospitals throughout Germany. The doc tor wants all who suffer to in vestigate his method. To convince the skep tical he has authorized the Washington ofllre to give services for a little time ARSOH'TE LY FREE, charging for Just what medicinc Is used. Consultntion and trial treatment free. <i]>en Sundays from 11 to 2 The Koch Lining Cure, fcdn.rj KKk 730 11TH ST. N.W. (About opiMistte the l'alals Roynl.) mh4-tu.th,R,3m.23 ! i "Wonder what Mertz will sav todav ?" V V . V X IThe pring's | is a I Top Coat. t t ? ? y f Y t Most men get their new Top _ I Coats in the y spring rath- X er than in ? the fall. Spring brings new stvles?fall seldom does f ? We're ?{? 5 making a particularly liberal *** ?% , _ A f top coat proposition now. $15 x is the price. The fabrics in ? & three new shades of gray. X *3, Silk lined, too. X X ?Mertz x D Mertz F St. CO. -BETTER YET TAILORS," ? V y ? t 9 ? t Old People. past am enjoying 1 of my age, due entirely to the rejuven ating influences of Dr. Miles'Nervine. It brings sleep and rest when nothing else will, ancf gives strength and vital ity even to one of my old age." "I am an old soldier," writes Mr. Geo. Watson, of Newton, la., "and I have been a great sufferer from nervousness, vertigo and spinal trouble. Have spent considerable money for medicine and doctors, but with little benefit I wts so bad my mind showed signs of weak ness. I began taking Dr. Mucs' Nervine, and I know it saved my life." Dr. Miles* Saved me from the insane asy lum," Mrs. A. M. Heifner, of Jerico Springs, Mo, w rites. "1 was so nerv ous that I could scarcely control my self, could not sleep nor rest, would even forget the names of my own children at times. I commenced u*ing Dr. Miles' Nervine and it helped me from the first, and now I am perfectly well" Nervine 80M by alt Druggist* on Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.