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30 Extra Fine Quality Iluck Towels hemstitched border; large size. Regu- or larly 35c. Remnant price, each Automobile Slip Covers? the kind that fit. We ?w ill cut and make Slip Covers for 5-piece suite for $3.50, provided materials are purchased from our stock. LET US ESTIMATE. Porch and Hammock Pillows, 25c each. FLEECE-LINED MATERIALS?Covers for Pianos and other highly polished furniture, 30c and 50c per yard. ? Special Linen Remnants. 6 254X-I4 Heavy Double Dama>k Pattern Cloths; rich designs. Regularly $0.50. Remnant price $4.37 25 Extra. Large and Towels. Regularly 25c. price Heavy Turkish Remnant 10 remnants Fine Bleached Table Dam ask; 2y'i yards long, 2 yards wide. Regularly $3.12. Remnant price, <jj j gg 24 Fine Damask Towels; fringed ends; new patterns. Regularly 50c. Rem- 3 r nant price, each OuC 25 dozen 18-inch All-pure-linen Napkins; good quality. Regularly $1.00. Rem- ^r nant price, dozen ??. *????... ? Dust and Light Proof Storage. Draperies Hung Full Length. Upholstery Shop" We Will Make Ycur Old Furniture As Good As New. Let us take your furniture and upholster it while you are away for the summer, returning it to you when you open your house in the fall. Exceptionally low prices for summer work. LET US ESTIMATE. Laces and Blankets Properly Cleaned. Bargains in Upholstery Fabrics. 100 Samples of Upholstery Fabrics, 1 % yards each, for price of 1 yard. Worth, yard. Now.yard'. 10 yards Tapestry $1.50 $1.00 8 yards Tapestry $1.50 $1.25 16 yards Tapestry.......... $2.00 $1.50 18 yards Velour.. $2.00 $1.50 9 yards Velour $2.00 $1.50 11 yards Tapestry $2.25 $1.75 16 yards Tapestry.... $2.50 $2.00 14 yards Tapestry $-2-75 $2.00 Worth, yard. 10 yards Tapestry...$2.75 9 yards Tapestry $3.00 , 12 yards Tapestry $3-25 18 yards Tapestry ?$3.50 yards Silk Damask....$4.50 5 yards Silk Damask $4.50 10 yards Silk Brocade............ $8.75 5 yards Silk Brocade.......... $6.50 Now, yard. $2.2 5 $2.25 $2.50 $2.75 $3-50 $3-75 $6.50 $4-75 Coolest Store in City. I W. MOSES & SONS | We close 5 p.m. Daily. Perfect Ventilation. I Saturday*, 1 p.m. Special Friday Sale Slip Cover Materials. F:r W. B. MOSES & SONS <?3* Carpets and Ruga Cleaned and Stored. Cold Storage. Furniture Polish. Floor Polish. Summer Furniture. Best Quality Steam Shrunk Slip Cover Linen. Special, 45c yard. Imitation Linen for Slip Covers. Regularly, 15c. Now ioc yard. 15 pieces Fine Quality Taffeta in high-class effects and colorings. Regular price, 50c. Now 30c. Awnings and Fly Screens to Order. We reserve the right to limit quantities. None to dealers. m lh' 1115-17 F ST. No matter how low the price. Louvre quality is always the highest. We Anticipate Fall Styles in Our Summer Apparel. ^ Dp No Exchanges. No Credits. No Refunds. I the distinctive dress of the new season?is well represented in our summer apparel. We antici pate the showing of this distinctive dress in Washington by three months, again proving to the well dressed women of Washington that the phrase "Fashionably Foremost" is very aptly applied to the Louvre. We show the Moyenage styles in three attractively priced lots: Si 5 Moyen age Dress and Parasol, in all colors. $1^.75 $12.50 Moyen age Dresses, i plain with bor- I d e r e d effects 1 w /l and stripes and checks with bor dered effects... (I $15 Moyen age Dresses, in very stylish plain linens and fancy weave wash materials A Complete Clearance of Our $14.75 Linen Tailored Suits 7< ContSniaatSoe off Wertheimer Silk Glove Sale at Ayctiom Prices. Everything that was perfect in the Wertheimer stock was purchased by us. The Wcrtheimer Glove is the only glove sold by this establishment. For 20 years it has been the standard glove of this city and for 4b years the standard glove of this country. 'The name Wertheimer on a glove clasp means highest quality, and even though this stock was purchased at public auction they are nevertheless guaranteed perfect. The entire purchase of Wertheimer Gloves is divided into lour great lots: LOT 1?Si.50 16-button . C " $ tj -50 75 C i $ | *25 Silk Gloves, double-tip fingers, in all colors, in cluding black and white; all sizes LOT 2?$1.25 Fine 2 clasp Silk Net Gloves, embroidered backs; black, white, tan and gray. Also ^(Hy 75c 16-button Lisle Gloves qj) jy in black, white, tan and <rrav; absolutely perfect 1 goods; all sizes. $ A -75 $2>-oo $2-oo i i LOT 3?$1-75 and $2 16-button Silk Gloves, double - tip fingers, in every conceivable shade and color, including black and white; all sizes LOT 4?$2 16-button Silk Net Gloves, in black, white and a few tans and browns; all sizes 49' 49' LOUVRE GLOVE CO., 1115-1117 F St., Opposite Columbia Theater. BEING LOST NOT BAO FUN EMMA JONES' BABY LISP CON CEALS HEB IDENTITY. Bat Papa Is Found and Her Good Time at the Station House Came to a Happier End. A lively little girl, all of three years old, had the time of her young life in the matron's room at No. 1 precinct this afternon. She was down on the blotter as "lost," but the trouble was she didn't know it. "My mamma will find me after awhile," she said. Which turned out correct, except that it was father who did the finding. His name is T. M. Jones and he works for the National Window Cleaning Com pany. The police located him about 2 o'clock this afternoon, and told him that a tot who said her name was Emma Thones? which is Jones when you lisp it?was at No. 1. Did she belong to him? She sure did. And he -made running motions' to the station house to prove it. Although she had bee% lost all of five hours, Emma wasn't affected by the re union. She left the station house with "pop" for her home at 410 6th street, eating a peach and waving her other hand at all the cops off duty. Emma was found by a larpe domesti cated policeman at 9th and G streets a few minutes before "noon. She didn't ap pear to belong to any one. As she failed to identify any persons in the vicinity as her parents, the policeman?for many a tender heart beats beneath a uniform of blue, my lads?carried her to the near est call box and rang for the first pre cint patrol. Emma much enjoyed the ride to the station. She sat beside the driver, held the ends of the reins and talked to the horse. It isn't probable that active animal un derstood what she said. For Emma pos sesses a decided lisp, mighty cute and cunning, but real confusing to the unac customed ear. Also she has bobbed yellow hair and big, oval, slate-colored eyes. She's going to be a peach and a stunner when she grows up, is Emma. Incidentally, this particularly self-pos sessed youns person wasn't at all strong for the lost-child racket. She announced to the matron at No. 1 that her mother would come for her "after a while," and that in the meantime she proposed to ainuse herself to the queen's taste?or words to that Affect. Which she did. She told the matron, too, that her name was "Emma Jones,' and that her father di'd something or other for a living. But whether his voca tion had to do with "shaves" (which would point to the barbering line), or "slaves" (which would seem to indicate that her male parent was in the news paper business) , or "raves" (which would constitute evidence that said father was an actor), it was impossible to tell. As has been noted, a well defined lisp is fetching but unintelligible. It turns out he wasn't any one of the three. EFFICIENT CAN OPENEB. No Danger of Cutting Hand?Little Effort to Manipulate. Every housewife would undoubtedly welcome the Invention of a really simple and substantial can opener, one that she could operate without danger of cutting her hands. Simplicity and efficiency seem to be the keynote of the one shown in the illustration below, designed and in vented by a Detroit man. In opening a can the point at the end is thrust into the central portion of the top of the can lei with the top of the can. The cutter is then regulated on th? toothed bar so that It will cut either the top of the can or the side. With a firm pull on the handle the tin can be easily severed. It will be noticed that there are prac tically two cutters, one for cutting the top of the can and another for cutting the side of the can. This will be found convenient when It Is desired to remove the contents without disarranging them. Hermit Who Lives in Mine. From the Mcxlcan Herald. The old man, known by the natives as "el hombre de silvestre de monte." has his abode near the Rio de las Playas, a stream at the foot of the Jabon mountain, and a tributary to the Tancochapa river. He is supposed to live in an old aban doned mine, one which has not been worked for more than a century, accord ing to older men of the district. It is said no other person has ventured within the shaft in the last fifty or more years because of the many superstitions con nected with the place. Many natives and one American are said to have approached the entrance during the last generation, but none has passed inside. Vampire bats and small animals inhabit this cave, and many weird sounds come from Its depths. The old man is known to have lived In the neighborhood for more than fifty years, and in that time is said not to have spoken with a living soul. He Is thought to be Spanish because of the clearness of his skin. When seen recently by hunt ers his hair and beard were white and long and his body entirely covered with white hair. He is quite old?probably ninety years?as nearly as can be judged from the many stories told by those who claim to have seen him. The old man has been approached to within a distance of easy conversation, but when addressed uttered a few incoherent sounds and ran into the woods. He is harmless and is said to have never shown fight when ap proached. The fact that he carries con stantly a bow and arrows would indicate that he eats flesh and fowl as well as fruits and herbs. As for clothing, he wears absolutely nothing, at least when he has been seen his crooked old frame has been draped in nothing except the long white hair which covers his body. The Englishman's Club. A German in London Mail. "Club" Is a word we have taken over from the English language. But only the word. Also the club chair perhaps. But not the institution. For whereas in Ger many a club is a society of kindred peo ple, of friends, all knowing each other thoroughly and gathering at the club to dine, play or chat all with all. It seems in England the place where one keeps as carefully to himself as possible and where members of thirty years' standing do not know each other. The Beecher Elm. From the Springfield Republican. The- Beecher elm, near Henry Ward Beecher's house and his church, at Orange and Hicks streets. Brooklyn, has been cut down. It had been killed by lightning. Beecher used to stop under its shade and talk wijb friends on the way to meeting. It was a very old tree. Mrs. Beecher died in the house opposite and loved the tree. READING THAT MEN NEED BOOKS WHICH ABE ESSENTIAL TO A LIBERAL EDUCATION. A Man Must Know Current His tory and Keep in Touch With His Own Times. From the Independent. Let us come down to common sense. What is a liberal education? It can not b& defined. The term in extensible and reducible. Its meaning depends on the community and the age. Going through college does not give it; a learned man may lack it. The subject is suggested by President Eliot's surprising proposal to put on a shelf five feet long some twenty-five books whose careful and repeated reading will give a man a liberal education. We have read the list, so far as published, and it has its merits and defects, as all such numerous lists have. They show the personal equation. In each one-half the books could remain unread and >et a man have a liberal education. For a moderately liberal education a man must be able fairly to apprehend the current history of the world. He snould first read a good daily paper. He can skip all that does not make history, the accidents, the crimes, the society events, the games and races, the actresses and divorces; but he cannot omit the major events, the process and progress of legis lation, the movements of democracy, the conflicts of privilege, the discoveries in science, the inventions in the arts, the diplomacy of nations and the general advance of civilization. For these are the things that a man of liberal educa tion should be able intelligently to un derstand. These things are of importance to humanity, and to have them foreign from ones education leaves it utterly il liberal. Therefore, the first thing nec essary is not a book for the shelf, but a broad intelligent journal for the table. Then for books. It is impossible to gain a fainy liberal education without the basis for an understanding of these current facts of history; and this re quires the reading of some books. What are the important books? Value of Text Books. Largely text books or compends. For example, one should have read and fairly mastered reasonably full treatises con taining the latest conclusions in the chief sciences, such as chemistry, physics, ge ology. biology and astrono y, so that he may be able to gage the value of what he reads in the journals and maga zines. He will keep in touch with new discoveries and inventions. He will be a man of his age, for liberal education is the education of this and not of some past age. Equally he will read as good text books as he can find in sociology, po litical economy and governments. This will require reading of the history of the principal nations, or, at least, of a gen eral history of the world. He must have read enough on the history of religion to distinguish their differences and their worth. Now comes the question of the value of pure literature, in a liberal education. There Is no doubt of its importance to put the polish 011 an education which is truly" liberal, that is, an education that will fit a man intelligently to perform the duties of a citizen able to guide pub lic sentiment and direct the policies of his community or his nation. But pure literature is not of the framework, the bone and muscle of a liberal education, but of that beauty which is skin deep. It is delightful to read Chaucer or Dante, but many a man of a liberal education has read neither. Spenser's "Faery Queen"' is nothing less than luscious, but not one highly educated man in a hun dred has ever read it. Bacon's essays we would have every man read who has the leisure for it, but he can also do without it. The long lists of famous names of ancient and modern times at tract us and give us additional "culture" If we have time for them, but the bulk of them are not essential to what is called a liberal education. _ You cannot call that a liberal education that is not familiar with the Bible, because our Eng lish thought is so much based upon it; and we suppose we ought to add the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid for a similar but less weighty reason, but it is not necessary in these days to add the works of any othejr classical author, un less it be Plato's "Apology" and "Crtto"; not even the Odes of Horace. Shakespeare Necessary. And when it comes to the older Eng lish poetry and prose, Shakespeare?well, one needs to have read his plays twice or three times, to be fairly intelligent, although President Eliot's list does not include Shakespeare?perhaps it is as sumed that the Bible and Shakespeare are already in possession before the five-foot book shelf was planned for. For other poetry one can get all he really needs .for a fairly liberal education with in the covers of two or three volumes which give us golden treasuries of ac cepted verse. And as for prose, tne "Spectator" and the whole series of es says and orations, even Lamb and Ma caulay and Burke, need to be dusted once a yqar by the careful housewife. We are too busy with the essentials of the liberal education of today to trouble ourselves overmuch with them. Is this Iconoclastic? Yes, It Is, and we do not like it near as much as we believe in it. Find us, if you can. the | rare man, who has not to work his ten or twelve hours a day to keep up his end in the world's service, and who has time to do what every man with a liberal education longs to do. If he adds to it the taste and the passion for what is beautiful and fascinating in the con cinnities of chosen words, and what is noble and Inspiring in the enthusiasms of brave thoughts and he will feed his mind and soul with the fairest purpled fruits and sweetest fragrant confections of the ages; and blessed Is he If he does not become a sybarite of culture, and is yet able to use a liberal education for the only purpose for which the world will ever value it. CUBRYCOMB CLEANEB. Hammer Head Strikes Comb, and Vibration Shakes Out Dirt. The process of currycombing a horse is an art, and one not to be learned at first attempt; but even a novice equipped with the currycomb designed by an Ohio man Will find the job easier than an ex pert will find It who uses the old-style comb. This new device bases its advan tage on the fact that it has a cleaning attachment, by means of which the comb may be kept clear of dirt as the work goes on. This consists of a hammer head so adjusted at the edge of the comb that a slight jar sets it in vibration and the particles of dirt are shaken out. Across the back of the instrument are wires so bent as to engage the hammer head and hold It loosely in position. The hostler needs only to strike the wires against the side of a stall and the ham mer head is set In vibration. Unless a currycomb is kept clean it cannot be used effectively, as ' the corrugations become I iHiiHmmninnmiinimmummimnmiiiinmmim^ Palais Royal A. LISXER. The base ball game between the Elks and Knights of Columbus at the National Park will be enjoyed by the Palais Roval fans. It will celebrate our first half holiday, Sat urday. July 10. Game at 3:30. Everybody invited. Like Bees Tomorrow?Friday. Earnin^OuM^ We'll be as busy as bees, gladly work ing. You, too, will be like bees?attracted by honey. AH $1 Waists, 88c. Choice of Many Thousands. That the Palais Roval $1.00 Waists fit best, look best and wear best is known to tens of thousands. 88c for tomorrow only. Skirts to Be Only^rc. Immeasurably superior to the garments made to retail at Si.oo. Note material, style, finish and fit. Go to third floor. A Dollar Given With These Waists. $4.98 $6.98 $9.98 $1 S^oSWaists. $7.98 Waists. $10.98 Waists. $12.98 Wai>ts. The extra dollar to be given you is only for tomorrow? Friday. It's not all we give you?these superb Waists were $7.50 to $15.00 before stock-taking, and then made $5.98 to $12.98. To be $4.98 to $11.98 for tomorrow'only. Take eleva tor to third floor and enjoy a view of these superb creations. $3.98 $5.98 $8,98 $12.98 $14.98 Dresses. $10 Dresses. $!.*>? Dresses. SJft Dresses $"0 Dresses. These are One-piece Linen Dresses, plain and braided. $3.98 to $1498 for $8.00 to $30.00 garments would be surpris ingly little if remnants. Think of latest-moment art creations in pongee, tan, light blue and pink?they'll be included here tomorrow. 88c for $1 Lingerie. Even more famous than the $1.00 Waists are these Palais Royal Skirts, Gowns and Combination Garments. 88c instead of $1.00 attracts more attention and a vastly greater distribution than a much greater re duction for ordinary underwear. AtjT4ci^cjanf^)8c. At 14c instead of 25c to 50c are Filmy Stockings, plain and lace effects, in black and colors. At 35c are French Lisle Hose and Swiss Ribbed Vests, with lace yokes. At 98c are $1.50 and $2.00 Union Suits and Separate Vests, Pants, etc. $3 to $6.50 Corsets, $1.69 and $2.88. When $2.88 buys best of $6.50 French Corsets and when $1.69 suffices for the $3.00 Franco-American, then is a busiest possible Friday assured in the Palais Royal Corset Parlors. Fitted?with same patient care as if you were asked regular prices. FrenchJUnger^ When on this third floor ask to be shown these Hand made and Daintily Hand-embroidered Undergarments. Not a piece is worth less than $2.00. Latest-Moment Mats. They are large, but do not flare as abruptly as the less-new hats. Of black hair and chip?here to morrow at $1.98, $2.25 and $2.98 instead of $2.25, $2.50 and $3.50. $6.50 for $io.oo Lingerie Hats. Of embroidery and laces, with ribbon bows and chiffon facing; summer poems in white, light blue, pink and yellow. Neckwear, 9c, 39c and 89c. Not a piece made to retail at less than 2.">c and not a few are worth $2.00. At He instead of 25c. at ."?flc instead of />0c and 75c and Nic instead of to $2.50. See tables full near 11th street door. Ribbons, 17c, 29c and 48c. Standard 2r?c Ribbons, some 5 inches wide, best styles and colors, at only 17c yard?for tomorrow only. At 29c yard in stead of up to 50c are ribbons up to 7 Inches wide. At 48c instead of 50c yard are Embossed and Embroidered Belting Ribbons. Glove^^c^^c^^l^SSi Best Lisle, best Silk and best Chamois Gloves, short and 16-button lengths, 50c to $2 values. Solid Gold Jewelry, 44c and $1.49. $i/50toJ??OOjrtJlie_Je^ See these Solid Gold Link Cuff Buttons, ladies' and men's, and learn the jewelers' price is $5.00 per pair. See these Ladies' Solid Gold Cuff Pin Sets?and learn that the jewelers' price is $1.00. Probably you'll gladly return and pay us 44c and $1.49, respectively. for French Enamel Belt J to 39c for 50c to $1.50 Silk f?r French Enamel Belt *>01* pins and Buckles; imported; worth to $1.00. for Silk Elastic Belts; fitted with buckles alone worth $1.00. Fans, with lace and spangle ornamentations. 2?C/? for 100 sheets Writing Paper. ISO envelopes, barter's* ink. blotters, pen, penholder, and 5 souvenir cards. The Palais Royal, A. Lisner. Hours, 8:30 A.M. to 5 P.M. G and nth Sts. ?4 ????????????? clogged and it passes over the horse s hide without any result. The "Fourth" in the Date Books. From the Boston Transcript. In addition to the national events con nected with the Fourth of July, such as the Declaration of American Inde pendence and the remarkable coincidence of two of our Presidents dying on the first jubilee celebration of the day, July 4 is a day among days in the biographical his tory of the world. In Italy it is the anni versary of the birth at Nice of Garibaldi, the Italian patriot. In British India it is remembered as the day on which Henry Lawrence, the military hero and states man, expired at Lucknow in 1857. saying. "On my tomb inscribe the words: 'Here lies Henry Lawrence, who tried to do his duty.' " In France it is remembered as the day on which the French army stood before the gates of Algiers and demanded a treaty which gave Algiers to the French nation. It is p.lso recalled in France as the birthday of their great novelist, Alexandre Dumas, pere, who was born in 1802- The American novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne, was born at Salem, July 4. 1804. Frederick Bleek, the celebrated German botanist and scholar, was born in Holstein, July 4. 1793. Overbach. the German painter, whose picture of the Madonna adorns tne walls of Cologne Cathedral, was born on the Fourth of July in the year 181-., at Lubeck. , .. . In the story of Christian hymnoiogy it is a red-letter dav, for on the Fourth or July, 1715, Christian Geilet, one of the sweetest songsters of the church, nrst !?aw light in Saxony. He lived to write the inspiring Easter hymn which has been rendered into every European tongue, beginning: Jesus Hvos! No lnneor now Can thy terror*. d< ath appall u?. The touching story of this man's life Is one of the most inspiring lessons of the "glorious Fourth." The Sea's Action on Iron. From the Loudon Chronicle. After lying at the bottom of the sea un disturbed for a century and a half one of the guns of H. M. S. Ramillies, which was wrecked near Bolt Tail, on the south coast of Devon, has been recovered. One side of the weapon has been worn away with the action of pebbles and shingle washed over It by the tide to such an extent that at the muzzle the thickness of iron is very little, and for its whole length the metal has the ap pearance of being gradually filed away. Even the trunnions which originally took its weight on the gun carriage have been worn to spikes. What He Wanted. From the Pittsburg Post. "I want handsome linen when I dine at a restaurant," declared the first citizen. "I want lirst-class food; 1 want a taste fully arranged table, and above all I want perfect service." "And you want it all for 15 cents," re sponded the second citizen. "That's ail that ails you."