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LANSBURGH FURNITURE AND CARPET CO., 512 NINTH STREET. Furniture, Etc., on Credit! Just now it is costing some of us almost as much to live as is being earned. The absolute necessities of life have advanced to a startling degree. The grocer wants cash?the baker wants cash?the butcher wants cash and the coal man insists upon it. There isn't much ready money left after you've hushed all these clamorings for cash?cash?cash! We Don't Insist on Cash. ? You can buy all the Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Draperies and Upholstery Goods of us that you want and be as long paying for them as you please. We don't care how small an income you have, we will adjust the payments to your means. This Is the Lowest Priced Furniture House on Earth and You Don't Pay a Penny More for the Credit Privilege. Just now we are closing out all surplus stocks, and the savings we offer are extraordinary. [This $22.50$ 17.85' I Buffet ... 11 Made of highly polished golden oak; French bevel plate mirror; best construc tion. Cash or Credit. This $20 Chiffonier, $14-50 Made in highly polished oak and mahogany, French plate'mirror. $14.50. Reduced 7, from $20.00. Cash or Credit. Linen Slip Covers Made to Order. This $30 Parlor Suite, $17 -?mahogany frame; highly polished; upholstered in silk velour; beautiful in design. Cash or Credit. ^^0 This $12.50 Dresser, $8.50 ?highly polish ed golden oak; oval French plate mirror most substan tially construct ed?'$8.50. Can not be duplicat ed under $ 12.50 Cash or Credit. This $15 China Closet,] $10 ? made of highly polish ed golden oak with swell front and claw feet. Cash or Credit. Window Shades, Screens and Doors made to order. Best qualities. Lowest prices. Cash or Credit. Rugs Reduced. An assortment of standard size Rugs; about 875 in the lot; reduced for quick clearance? Tapestries. Wpre. Now. $6.45 $7-85 $12.65 $1375 6x9 $10.00 6x9 $12.00 8.3XIO.6 $l8.00 S.^xib.6 ................ .$20.00 9x12 $22.50 $14 50 9x12 ....,.$28.00 $16.90 Axminsters. 6x9 $18.00 $13.95 6x9 ...$22.00 $16.75 8.3XIO.6 $28.50 $17.90 8.3XIO.6 $32 50 $23-85 9X12 $30.00 $18.75 9X12 $32-5? $21.50 9x12 .................... .$3^.00 $24^75 9x12 $40.00 $28.50 Velvets. 6x9 $18.00 $9.85 8.3x10 $28.00 $15.50 9x12 $215.00 $19.85 9x12 $30.00 $21.25 9x12 $35 00 $24.65 650?27-inch Velvet Rugs. $2.50 $145 810?36-inch Axmin. Rugs $5.00 $3.75 64?4x4 ft. American Ori ental Rugs $950 $4-95 327?18-inch Axmin. Rugs. $1.50 97>?c Cash or Credit. ? Portieres Cut. 62 odd pairs English Tapestry Por tieres; heavily fringed top and bottom; just a little soiled. $12.00 and $15.00 val ues. Special price, per ? i /CQ pair * 18 pairs Shiki Tapestry Portieres; the newest creation this spring; red with green border and green with red border. $10.00 values. ,4Q Special price VO.'tO 17 pairs Heavy English Portieres; some plain, some with oriental and French tapestry borders. Qfl $15.00 values. Special price.. Cash or Credit. Couch Covers Cut. 28 60-inch Oriental Couch Covers; heavily fringed; mostly rug patterns. Regular $9.00 and $10.00 val- Af\ ues. Special price 39 Oriental Couch Covers; 60 inches wide; 3 yards long; fringed. <p 1 Ark Worth double. Special price. ^ 1 ?*-*" 330 yards Real Scotch Madras; 50 inches wide; all colors and patterns; the best imported kind. $1.50 yard usually. Special price Cash or Credit. Lace Curtains Cut. 25 pairs Nottingham Lace Curtains; full length and width; very dainty effects. $2.25 grade, d? I 10 Special price ^7 1 # I O 31 pairs Brussels Effect Scotch and English Net Curtains; full length and width; some floral effects; others Louis XIV. Usual $7.00 grade. Spe cial price 1 lot, about 200 pairs, Ecru and Ara bian Color Scotch Lace Curtains; all of them the very latest designs; about 7 patterns to select from. Usual $7.00 and $8.00 grades. Special 26 pairs Real White Irish Point Lace Curtains; colonial effect; full size. Usually sold at $10.00 pair, ftA This sale 68 pairs REAL Cluny Lace Cur tains; Arabian color; very latest effects: $8.00 values for.." $4.48 $10.00 values for $6.35 $12.00 values for $7.40 $15.00 values for $8.90 32 pairs Real White Irish Point Lace Curtains; 3^ yards long; 54 inch es wide. Real value, $15.00 tf* Q Af\ pain Special price ?PO?*rvJ We have about 90 odd lots of Lace Curtains, comprising Scotch, English, Irish Point and Cluny; 1 to 3 pairs of a pattern. Sold up to $10.00 pair. Snwial nric**..' Special price. Cash or Credit. Rug Fringe Cut 4,250 yards Rug Fringe; all colors. The 15c grade, per yard 6c The 35c grade, per yard 15c . $1.25 Bath Mats, 49c. 325 Turkish Bath Mats; dif ferent colors. Worth $1.25. Each Cash or Credit. Carpets Cut. 4,052 yards Carpets, including vel vets and axminsters. The $1.10 Tapestry Car pet, now, yard The $1.35 Tapestry Carpet, *7q^? now, yard ^ 62'^c The $1.50 Velvet Carpet, now, yard VOC / The $2.25 Axminster and ? | ^ C Bigelow Carpets, now, yard..^ * Cash or Credit. $15 Felt Mattress, $7.90 Perfectly resilient and non-absorbent to dampness; the most comfortable mat tress made; covered with art ticking. | Cannot be duplicated elsewhere under $15.00. Our price, $7.90. Cash or Credit, LANSBURGH FURNITURE CO., 512 Ninth St. SCOn IN THE FIELD Senator at Home Looking Alter His Interests. ACTIVE FIGHT FOR RETURN Representative Hubbard Covets Seat in Upper House. MAKES BOLD BID FOR SUPPORT Complex Situation in West Virginia. Chances Believed to Be in In cumbent's Favor. ial CorT>'"l?iHl'*ni"?" of T"b<> Star. "ttTrEEL.IN'0. W. Vh.. February 12. 1MO. Senator Scott < amp to Wheeling for the week In the interest of his campaign to ?succeed himself and while here he Js ,-i?ed h statement formally announcing his > undidacy. One of the reasons for his return home was to attend the funeral ol his friend, iienry F. Behrens, a re tired merchant, who, as a member of tne ? legislature. helped elect Scott the first lime. In announcing his candidacy the senator made no reference to the manner or method of determining the contest with Representative Hubbard, a detail that did not excite surprise. In personal Interviews, however. Sena tor Scott was emphatic in saying he was willing to ko before the voters at a pri mary. a state-wide primary preferred. He recalled his position of years in favor of th's plan, but, he said, for lack of any state law on the subject he did not rare to go into a state primary. He wanted to know if Hubbard was willing to share the immense burden of cost, since the plan would mean a legitimate expense of not less than $100,000. This sum would cover the expanses of the election commissioners and clerks, rent of polling places and other essentials. Hold-Overs for Scott. Scott claims he has now for his friends and supporters all, or nearly all, of the republican hold-over members of the state senate. Thus he has a good start, while Hubbard has nothing to go on but what he can capture in the legislators chosen this year. In other words, Hubbard has nothing to lose and all to gain in sub mitting his case to a state primary, whose decision would be final, while Scott's victory at a primary would merely supplement his present list of supporters in the state. There is no tribunal to initiate and con duct a state primary except the state committee. No appeal to it for a pri mary has been made by Hubbard. In fact, there is nothing to indicate that he wants a departure from the estab lished methods except in a paragraph in his announcement wherein he declares he is in favor of submitting his claims to the people, that he does not believe the small counties should be smothered by the bljr counties in a convention, and that nobody owns the senatorial office. Oracles Are Stirred Up. The Hubbard paragraph, followed by the indorsement of a certain implication that Scott would not want a similar meth od, has stirred the Scott oracles to re sentment, so that, foliewlng the senator's return to West Virginia, they have asked for further light from Hubbard and for any old kind of Queensberry rules de sired. They have pointed out that prima ries have always been held in deciding party contests where the battleground in the senatorial flght is to be?the northern Panhandle counties?and that to imply that the Scott forces do not want a straight-out flght Is to ring changes on a false note. Incidentally, the Scott press Is pointing out that the declaration for a primary from ex-tlov. Dawson is amusing and inconsistent, in view of his success in preventing a primary clamored for In Preston county on the Swlsher-Scherr gubernatorial contest two years ago, when the Dawson-controlled county com mittee virtually selected that county's representation in the convention, and in the interest of Swisher, while the ac knowledged sentiment was otherwise. The issue will be decided this year in West Virginia, It Is declared, exactly as the several county organizations prefer. And after the legislature is nominated and elected no candidate for the honor will feel entirely free. He will know he has been chosen United States sen ator when his name heads the list the day the lawmakers meet In Joint ses sion for that purpose. Up to that moment he will ?iave his anxieties. Greeting the People. While here Senator Scott journeyed to Brooke county, and he met large and representative delegations from Wetzel, Tyler, Marshall, Ohio and Hancock at his headquarters here, which are In charge of State Senator Robert Hazlett. His supporters admit there was a lively ripple following Hubbard's announce ment, but they express unbounded confi dence in the gradual settling down of things in their fa or. There is no doubt of the great work done in perfecting a Scott organization recently, and the Hub bard people do not deny the surprising strength Scott has displayed since he learned he had a fight on. This change in the situation is taken to explain Hubbard's refusal to say he will not be a candidate again for his present seat in the House of Representa tives, although the best judges say he will finally announce that he will not again be a candidate for that position. The Wheeling district has three candi dates for the state senate?Julian G. Hearne and John G. Hoffmann, Scott men, and City Solicitor R. M. Addleman, a Hubbard man. The Scott crowd has not been able to eliminate either Hearne or Hoffmann. Some feelers have gone out in Hearne's behalf as a candidate for Congress instead, without conclusive re sult. The Diplomat. From the Manchester Guardian. "And, oh mother," said the little girl, "Lucy Jones had such an awful hat on. So Annie gave her an 'int; she said, 'I wouldn't wear a thing like that.' " VALLEY OF VIRGINIA / Banquet at Winchester as Tribute to Rouss. CABELL ONE OF SPEAKERS Lauded Taft as President of All the People. APPLE BUYER IN TROUBLE Unable to Sell at Profit, and Cred itors Attach Stock?Minister's Son a Suicide. Special Corrp&potidenM! of Th* Star. WINCHESTER, Va.. February 12, 1010. United States Internal Revenue Com missioner Roy E. Cabell of Washington was one of the principal speakers here last night at the annual celebration of the birthday of the late Charles Broad way Rouss, the blind New York mer chant, whose public and private benefac tions in Winchester amounted to several hundred thousand dollars. The celebra tion was In the form of an elaborate banquet given under the auspices of the Charley Rouss fire company, and was the most successful affair of the kind held In many years. About 250 prom inent men of Winchester and other sec tions of the state were present. Commissioner Cabell responded to the toast "The President." His speech was non-political, but he paid a glowing trib ute to President Taft, declaring lie was the President of all the people. Other speakers were President Edwin Alder man of the University of Virginia, whose toast was "The Future of the Younp Men of the South"; James Alston Cabell, the writer and historian of Richmond, who spoke on "Virginia"; Francis B. Lee of the editorial staff of the Trenton (N. J.) American, who responded to the toast, "The Indies," and John Paul of the Harrisonburg (Va.) bar, whose toast was "Our Country." Maurice M. Lynch of the Winchester bar acted as toast master. Creditors Attach Apples. Attachments aggregating over $18,000 were sued out here a few days ago by a number of leading apple growers against Samuel Haines, a prominent New York dealer, who bought extensively in the local market last fall, paying high prices for the fruit, and who found it impossible to dispose of his holdings at a profit. Most of the apples were in cold storage here and they were at tached. A meeting of the creditors was held this week, and it was announced today that a satisfactory settlement had been effected. No suspicion was cast upon Mr. Haines' motives. Mrs. Merrie VVhitacre, formerly of Washington, but now of New York, has lost her suit in the circuit court here to ?et the bulk of the estate of her husband, the late James P. Whitacre, a prominent Winchester lawyer, who died recently. It is likely the case will be appealed to the supreme court of Virginia. The es tate is worth $.">5,000. William Hines, son of the late Rev. W. T. B. Ij. Hines. an Episcopal minister of Ellicott City. Aid., committed suicide this week by leaping seventy-two feet from the Southern railway bridge near Mount Jackson, where he had been living with liis mother for a number of years. The young man had suffered intensely from rheumatism a long time and is thought to have been deranged. United States Fish Commissioner George M. Bowers and Col. Stuart W. Walker of Martinsburg, W. Va.. have purchased a lot, 55 by 120 feet. In the business sec tion of that ilty for $13,000, on which tliey will erect a large six-story steel frame and brick apartment house with two large storerooms on the first floor. The building will coat about $75,000. Airs. Gilkeson, wife of Henry B. Gilke son, a leading West Virginia lawyer, died at her home this week In Romney from the effects of a surgical operation per formed recently in a Cumberland hos pital. She was formerly Miss Paxton of Irongate, Va., and leaves her husband, one son and one daughter. Bridge Over Cedar Creek. A small army of workmen of the Sea board Construction Company are erecting a new steel bridge over historic Cedar creek for the Baltimore and Ohio rail road. The bridge will be about 275 feetr long and will be over 100 feet high. Foundation walls are being erected In Winchester for a new church for the Christian denomination, of which Rev. W. T. Walters Is the local pastor. The structure, which will be of brick and stone, will cost about $10,000. The new agricultural high school for the seventh congressional district of Vir ginia, which was recently erected at Mld dletown, near Winchester, at a cost of about ?U5,000, was opened this week. Second creek, a large tributary of the Greenbrier river, In West Virginia, Is to be harnessed, and an electrical plant of about 2,000 horsepower capacity will fur nish power for commercial and illuminat ing purposes for Lewlsburg, Ronceverte and Union. The skeletons of a woman and an in fant were found this week In the base ment of the Episcopal Church at Wood stock by men who were making excava tions-for a new heating apparatus. Around the skeleton of the woman was a black silk shroud, which showed no signs of decay. The woman's hair was tied in co lonial fashion and was white. The oldest inhabitant of the town states that- he never heard of any one having been bur led under the church, which is one of the oldest buildings of the. kind in that sec tion of the valley of Virginia. William J. Marpole and Miss Bessie Richard, daughter of i .arles Richard of Frederick county, were married in Win chester this week by Rev. II. E. Rich ardson of the United Brethren Church. The groom, who secured a divorce from his tlrst wife some time ago, is a grand father and has grandchildren nearly as old as his second bride, whose age is just sixteen. Announcement has just been made of the marriage of Miss Mary Adelaide Walters of Winchester and John Thomas Hickman of Mount Jackson, Va.. which was solmonlxed last October at the home of R. S. Beach in Luray, Va. Fruit Is Not Injured. A number of leading fruit growers of Frederick county, when asked today whether the intensely cold weather of the early part of the week had injured the trees, stated that so far the buds on the peach trees and other early varie ties had escaped Injury on account of not being advanced far enough. The Cumberland Valley Railroad Com pany announced this week that It had practically completed the work of string ing copper wires all the way from Harris burg, Pa., to Winchester, for the installa tion of a system of traJn dispatching by telephone. Jacob Hahn, a member of an old Fred erick county family, died a few days ago at the home of his sister, Mrs. Charles Samsell. at Stephen# City, aged seventy years. He served in the Confederate army during the civil war. It is reported that the Southern rail way is negotiating -with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for the acquirement of that part of the latter's line between Harrisonburg and Lexington. Since the Southern got control of the line between Strasburg and Harrisonburg, while the Baltimore and Ohio was in the hands of receivers, the latter has had to pay out large sums of money to move engines and cars on the Southern tracks. Mrs. Sarah Catherine Alemong, sister of Mrs. J. I>. Hailman of Washington, and widow of J. W. F. Allemong, who wan a widely known real estate broker, died tills week at her home in Harrisonburg, Va., aged seventy-three years. During the civil war, although a stanch southern woman, she rendered valuable services to the wounded of both armies on the fields and in the hospital camps. Mrs. Virginia McCorkle, widow of Wil liam H. McCorkle, died this week at her home. Castle Hill, Lexington, Va., aged eighty years. She was formerly Miss Wilson of Buffalo, and Is survived by three sons, one daughter and one brother. One of her Bons, Rev. Emmett M. Mc Corkle, is pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Nicholasville, Ky. Joseph H. Kasterday, a prominent busi ness man of Charles Town and brother of W. P. Kasterday of Washington, died this week, agt*d seventy-six years. He served in the Confederate army during the civil war. He leaves his wife, two sons, two daughters and two brothers. Policeman fidward Hollts of Martlns burg has been dismissed from the force for striking his superior officer, Chief of Police D- H. Stuckey. Fire this week destroyed the Southern railway freight warehouse at Rlverton, together with a large shipping shed of the. Carson Llnw Company and the railroad signal tower. The Are was caused by an overheated stove.