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Fortunate Purchases Make These Exceptional Values Possible
Never Before Have We Offered Bargains in
Lace Curtains, Portieres, Etc.,
Equal to These
Real Irish Point Lace Curtains; the very latest $7.40
effects; are real good values at $12; special, per pr .. ^
Rope Portieres, all the latest colors in brown, green, olive,
rose and green and red; the new 1913 designs; regu- $3.65
larly $0.00; special, each
Tapestry Portieres, all colors and designs; the new French
border and two-tone effect; all of our $10.00 values $6.90
are offered at. a pair
4 >riental Tapestry Couch Covers; look like the real rug:
full size; all colors: are good values at $8.00: special $5.85
this sale, each
2,000 pair Scotch Lace Curtains; white and Arabian; 20
of the very latest designs to select from; are a spe
cial value at $4.00; reduced this sale, per pair
Lace Bed Sets, the very latest designs; full size; only
white and Arabian; real renaissance and Arabian,
it'i extra heavy valance and head piece; $12 and gQ
13.50 sets; reduced to *
This $40
China Closet,
Colonial or French design?swell
front and ends; golden quartered
oak, fumed oak or early English oak.
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This $24
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sign and of substantial construction.
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This $5
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$3.85
?in either brown, green or
natural?well constructed.
This $8.50 Mattress, $5.95
Full size?and made of the best felt; comfortable and
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This $25 Brass Bed,
$18.85
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40 9xi2-ft. Axminster Rugs, regular $35.00 value, $24.50
30 9xi2-ft. Wilton Velvet Rugs, regular $40.00 flfl
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15 to.(5x i2-ft~ Brussels Rugs, regular $30.00 value, $22.00
$39.00
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12 I2xi5-ft. Axminster Rugs, regular $55.00 vaue.
This $35.00
Buffet,
$22.50
? a . handsome piece ? in
fumed oak; early English or
golden oak; French bevel
plate mirror?just like illus
tration.
This $3.00
Dining Chair,
$2.10
Golden quartered oak; cane box
seat, or imitation leather seat.
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Second Floor?Rugs, Carpets. Linoleums and Mattings.
This $28
Dresser,
$19.85
?like the chiffonier here
with illustrated ? in either
oak, maple or mahogany?
also with full swell front and
French bevel ?late mirror.
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At a movie-thrill, with the boy at the
ptano doing ragtime for an Indian war
fiance:
"Madam, will you kindly take off your
hat?"
"This is only a widow s bonnet?it t an
not possibly hide the stage."
"No. madam. but your.veil does. I can't
see a thine on account of your veil."
"Well; if ydu had my headache you
wouldn't want to see." .
He could not have been a militant man;
for he collapsed meekly and missed half
the thrills of watching a lone cowboy
shoot-up an Indian camp, cut the thongs
that' bound the brave old trapper to a
tree?with burning fagots piled knee j
high?save the lovely glrr in white voile ;
from a wickiup whose front flaps were
guarded by a sleeping squaw with enough
beads to start a lo-cent store, and gallop
away with them firing a hundred and
forty-eleven bullets out of his one pistol
to celebrate the victorious get away.
And the woman who had a headache
and didn't want to see the play k*?pt her
veil-draped- barrier on and enjoyed the
reel* from start to finish.
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?>n the street:
"Two earth-earthy men were discussing
i*n office-of some sort.
The IfUgc. bushy-bearded one. who had
hi;, hands in his pockets and his feet
Obrlaulf Jarred the poulblr candidate.
spread to make himself look like the let
ter V. must have been - a possible candi
date, for he remarked with bumptious hu
mility. though he didn't look like an
humble man:
"Of course. I've got to run if they in
sist. but, as I said to the committee last
night. that, while I apnreciate the honor
and all that, my first concern is for the
3eltare of the organization, and I doubt
I'm a' big enough man for the place."
"That's so," the other man agread with
a spontaneousness that obviously jarred
the possible candidate. "We can't afford
to pick a lightweight, you know."
And a benighted she-persor? who was
passing wondered what sort i>f office it
could be to require more than a huge,
bushy-bearded candidate, who stood six
feet in his tari shoes and had fat hands
and two chins.
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A man and a woman were lunching in
a cafe. Roth had passed the biblical
age limit, but time had not changed nor
custom staled the infinity of their love.
The man's thin, scholarly face was grid
ironed with wrinkles, but there was a
something of tender humorousness about
him that accounted for the little old
lady's almost girlish vivacity, and for
the pink in her withered cheeks that,
somehow, suggested that last rose of
summer we sing so mu< h about.
When the old man had hung up her
smart little gray coat, with Its creamy
lace collar, and ordered the menu they
had selected between them, he looked
around at th** tables where there were
many matrons and maids, all in their au
tumn finery, and he said to the little old
lady, said it with a triumphant assertive
ness loud enough for every table around
to hear:
"You are the prettiest woman in the
room."
It wasn't an original compliment, since
Adam, doubtless, owned the copyright,
and. to whisper confidentially, it wasn't
truly true, but
The tender sureness in the man's voice
and a belated dimple thai dented itself
into the soft pink of one of the withered
cheeks, showed that the Mttle old lady
took it for gospel?and that made the
gallant fib a most beautiful thing to hear.
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T.? know a good thing and to be abb
to demonstrate it off the bat is such a
dramatic rarity that a young womaii
who turned the trick had a store full of
shoppers for an audience the other after
noon.
It began with the song which a young
man demonstrator in the music depart
ment was singing in a baritone key. When
he was through a woman who had lis
tened asked him for a soprano copy. But
the sonj? wasn't arranged for sopranos.
Thf young mat) said s<>
"Are you sure? I'm almost positive
I've heard "
"I giitss I ought t<> know my own busi
ness."'
The young man said it with a finality that
settled the question so far as that woman
was concerned, but unluckily for him,
there was another to be reckoned with;
a radiant young woman with amber hair
and black-lashed blue eyes, whose voice
was as cutting-clear as crystal.
"That's right. You ought to know it,
but you don't. The song is arranged for
soprano voice. Let me get at that piano?
I'll show you."
And she sang the "Rosary."
Every customer In the store and every
clerk, including the manager, stopped to
listen. But it couldn't have been bad
for trade, for as the radiant young woman
was rising to go, with every hand clap
ping for an encore, the manager came up
and said:
"I don't know the meaning of this won
derful favor, but if you will sing for this
"store I'll guarantee you a big salary."
The young man on the Job was in a
white shiver of fear as to his finish, but
he needn't have worried, for the radiant
young woman laughed out with a joyous
ness that showed two dimples and a dou
ble deck of rice-white teeth:
"Thank you; but I merely wanted to
let this lady hear the song in a soprano
key."
"You could name your own price."
"You are very kind, but . Well, you
see, I am a concert singer."
And she sure was a tine one.
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"May your shadows never grow less."
It is a comfortable compliment that?
mayBe? got Its start in the dear orient
where a lady's beauty is weighed by the
pound?though, of course, the pedigree
of a compliment doesn't matter. It is
the good thing it stands for that
counts. And the comfort of a generous
shadow is so obvious that the compli
ment has become Americanized to the
extent that we deal it out to an old
friend?any old friend?when we want
to blind him to the fact that the waver
ing. thin streak he makes on the bricks
In dwindling into
All of which amounts to nothing, noth
ing at all, except to show that even so
comfortable a thing as a generous
shadow has its critics, to wit:
Uptown there is a little girl who is
Cried out with ? ouddeu excitement.
unusually large for her age. Whether it
is because she has more bones than She
! knows what to do with, or double her
| fair share of fat, or both, isn't in the
! story. She is just "ton usually larj^e for
her age." And the other morning the
j little girl stood at the head of the family
stairs and cried out with a sudden ex
I citement that frightened the homefolks
I below.
Everybody answered the alarm call,
but as the rescuing party reached the
child it was made to understand that the
loudness of her was merely an outward
expression of inward t>liss.
'?Oh, what do you think! What do
you think? I believe I am getting thin
ner, because I can see more of the
floor."
WILD DUCK HUNTING ON
IN DISTRICT AND VIRGINIA
Sportsmen, However, Now Are In
terested Chiefly in Babbits
and Quail.
Wild duck hunting has begun in some
sections, and a man on Pennsylvania
avenue yesterday offering fowls for sale
attracted the attention of a number of
sportsmen. The season for wild ducks
in the .District opens September 1 and
closes January 10. Tn Maryland the
shooting of ducks is not permitted until
November 1, while in Virginia the season
opens October 15. It is reported that
many ducks already have been killed
in Maryland waters despite the efforts
of game wardens and county officers to
enforce the law. Some of the ducks of
fered for sale in this city, It is thought,
came from the prohibited section.
Shooting water fowl by nonresidents
in the waters of the Potomac and
Patuxent rivers in Charles county, Md.,
is prohibited. It is said that shooting
from motor boats is also' prohibited, al
though, it is stated, such shooting is
frequently indulged in.
Local sportsmen are interested in the
shooting of quail and rabbits more than
in wild ducks, it is said, and they
are getting their guns and ammunition
in readiness for the opening of the sea
son.
While November 1 is the general date
for the opening of the quail and rahblt
season in the nearby states, it is stated,
the season in several of the counties of
Maryland does not open until later.
Maryland, it is stated, has a greater j
variety of local or county laws than i
almost any other state in the I'nion.
Many local dealers are still in a J
quandry as to what they are going to j
do about supplies of quail the coming I
winter. It is unlawful to ship the birds
from practically every state in the
I'nion, it is said, so that if the law is
fully complied with the birds will be
scarce.
SOLDIERS HIGHLY PRAISED.
Artillerymen From Fort Hyer Make
Hit at Columbia, Fa.
Speaking of the visit of Batteries 1\ E
and F of the .'$d Field Artillery, and the
i band of the lutli Cavalry of Fort Myer,
under Maj. C. P. Summerali to ?'olumbia,
Pa., October 1H. to take part in the pa
| rade incident to the Old Home celebra
i tion, the Columbia Daily Spy, said:
"The presence of this command has
contributed immeasurable interest and
pleasure to the anniversary week. The
men have mingled freely with our people,
and their deportment has been so good
and soldierly that Columbia will regret
their absence. The bonds of friendship
established between soldiers and citizens
have grown so strong that an Old Home1
week visit every year would be gratify
ing to both. The Daily Spy expresses to
the entire oomman dthe complimentg and
appreciation of Columbia, and the af
the entii?e command the compliment* and
cheerfully acknowledges Columbia's obli
gation for this delightful Old Home week
visit. Come this way Again and come
often."
RURAL JjREDITS.
II.?Helping the Farmer in
the Fast.
By Frederic J. Haskin.
It long ago became evident to those
who looked beneath the surface of things
that something needed to be done if the
agricultural interests of the country were
to keep pace with its other interests.
Population has been growing by leaps
and bounds, industries have been expand
ing with unprecedented rapidity, and the
demands for all the things that the far
mer can produce have been increasing in
a sort of geometric ratio. In the days
of Washington ninety-six out of every
hundred people in the country were en
gaged in agricultural pursuits; today
only tifty-two out of a hundred are so en
gaged. Then the producer sold directly
to the consumer and got all of the con
sumer's dollar when he spent it for food;
today an extensive and expensive system
of distribution has been established,
whereby the farmer, according to the ex
perts, gets only 35 cents out of each dol
lar the consumer spends for his food.
The result is that farming, despite all
the word pictures to the contrary, for the
vast majority of farmers, is a most un
remunerative calling, as well as one re
quiring very long hours and much hard
work. The farmer must be content with
the poorest of everything. The poorest
preachers fill his pulpits, the poorest
teachers are employed in his schools, the
poorest roads are the ones he must
traval. He receives less remuneration
for the hours he works than any other
individual in the body politic. His chil
dren realize all this better than he does,
and consequently they seek the city In
increasing numbers as urban living con
ditions for the average man improve.
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An illustration of what farming actu
ally means to the majority of farmers
is illustrated by
Paragraph Tells a bright para
Fann Conditions. TnT^uTiZ'r
of the Shenandoah valley of Virginia, a
region famous for its farms and farm
ing. A state normal school has estab
lished an agricultural course, and the
paper asks: "Does Mr. Ferguson's course
in agriculture at the State Normal in
clude rising at 4 o'clock, getting break
fast for the family, feeding the chick
ens and swine, getting the children ready
for school, churning, washing, garden
ing. carrying water, putting up fruit
and vegetables, getting dinner and sup
per. putting the children to bed. making
and mending their clothes, and then hav
ing nothing to do until tomorrow?"
The result of conditions such as are
indicated in this query has been that
the decreasing number of farmers in
proportion to population has offset nearly
everything that has been done in the
direction of improved agricultural meth
ods. It has long been hoped that the
special education of the farmer would
supply the deficiencies of farm life. It
is true that such special instruction
lias enabled inany farmers greatly to
increase the annual production of their
farms. But the great majority have not
had the financial ability to utilize the
knowledge, and so they have been forcad
to continue Along in the same old ?Ut
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of life, with a bare existence as their
portion.
The inability of the average farmer
! to utilize, under his present hampered
financial condition, the lesson of pro
gressive agriculture is illustrated by th?
fact that although there are many thou
sands of farmers who now grow thirty
bushels of wheat where they formerly
grew fifteen per acre, yet in 1910 the
average farmer was growing only 1.7 bush
els to the acre more than in the years
between 1S76 and 1885. Likewise, while
there are hundreds of thousands of
farmers who have increased their per
acre yield of corn from forty bushels
to eighty bushels, yet the average farmer
todav gets a crop yield only two bushels
greater to the acre than he was getting
a quarter of a century ago.
Various methods have been proposed
in the past to remedy the financial
hopelessness of the average farmer, ae
it is indicated by his wheat crop ol
fourteen bushels to the acre and hie
corn crop of twenty-seven bushels. One
of these methods was that of allowing
national banks to loan money on real
estate. This proposition was repeat
edly proposed in years gone by. but
the federal government has continued
for many a year its discrimination
against the chief asset of the farmer,
his land. It has been pointed out that
the banking laws of the past not only
have discriminated negatively against
the farmer, but positively as well. Un
der these laws the country bank must
hold 15 per cent of its demand liabili
ties, mainly deposits, in cash. It may
re-deposit three-fifths of this reserve
with the city bank, which acts as its
reserve agent, and this bank, in turn,
must hold one-fourth of its demand
liabilities in cash, and is empowered to
redeposit one-half of this with the
banks of the big cities, New York, St.
Louis and Chicago.
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The effect of this has been to send
no small part of the money of the
country banks
Money From Country to the big
Goes to Cities. ? ^ ,ThhJ
in times of urgent demand the money
that the country bank ought to have
at hoine for its own people is being
used by Wall street, and the needs of
the patrons of the country bank can
not be met. It has proved in opera
tion a system that carries the money
of the country out of its natural ave
nues of circulation and into Wall street
for its uses.
It is not believed by many of those
who have investigated the subject that
it would be possible to make over the
present banking system to meet the
financial needs of the agriculturist.
Even a proposition to make available
a quarter of a billion dollars for loans
on real real estate would not, to their
minus, meet the situation. The farm
ers of the country owe over 15,000.
000.000, of which threo dollars out of
live is sc-cured by real estate mort
gages, and a quarter of a billion dol
lurs could not. it is pointed out, begin
to take care of this.
Summed up. although much as has
been accomplished in the Unfted States
in the direction of the promotion of the
agricultural interests of the nation, the
results have been but a small percentage
of what they might be. The public
school has brought a fair degree of edu
cation to farm children, and under the
present trend toward revamping it and
making the teaching of agriculture its
principal object it promises to prove a
great help.
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Likewise, the propaganda of the De
partment of Agriculture has been of
great assistance
Knowledge Useless ,n what has been
Without Capital.'
ginning of farm demonstration work It
has opened up new possibilities. The' ex
ample of the progressive farmer In a
community has carried a valuable les
son and brought some result^ tp h(& aver
age neighbor. But, after all. What prof
its knowledge if the means of applying It
are wanting? The farmer with an an
nual income in the gross of odly $400.
however Impressed lie may be with the
advantages of scientific agriculture,
stands small chance of making a success
at it when he can.save nothing from his
farm operations, ai}d when he- has no
available credit through which to make
the improvements that are needed to re
cast his methods qt farming.
It is contended that if he be furnished
with money upon fair terms, and with
sufficient time to repay it, he will then
be able to profit by the lessons the De
partment of Agriculture offer him. Fur
thermore, it will foster the back-to-the
farm movement that is regarded as one
of the best steps that could be taken in
American life. By enabling the son of a.
small farmer to buy a farm on terms
that do not forecast foreclosure it will
prevent thousands from drifting to the
city, and at the same time will encour
age the return of other thousands who
have sated themselves with city life and
are deterred from returning to the farm
only by the knowledge that they are not
able to buy a farm under present credit
conditions.
WARNING TO PARENTS.
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It is risky to feed raw milk
and cream U> children or Inva
lids unless you are sure that at
the farm which produces the
milk the utmost cleanliness la
observed at all times, particu
larly during milking; that tha
employes are thoroughly healthy
and cleanly persons, that the
cows are free from diseases,
that the water used for rinsing
Is of undoubted purity, atid that
the milk is quickly cooled and
kept cold ^nd covered until de
livered to you.
Haw milk often produces tu
berculosis, scarlet fever, also
typhoid and other Intestinal dis
eases.
We can guard against infec
tion by properly pasteu rising
milk or by home pasteurisation.
Properly pasteurizing milk
(and cream) by keeping it at 140
deg. F. for thirty minutes does
not affect its nutritive value
nor its digestibility.
The best system Is to pasteur
ize the milk after it has been
bottled.
You can Jtome pasteurise raw
milk by heating Mt to nelc bail- .
ing. then cool, and keep cold
and covered until used.
Most indigestion in babies is
caused by milk - too rich'' in
cream.
SieMj fir PrtruKia af Sickaits,
L IEtt.lRtl, tscntay
WASHINGTON BOY WINS
PRIZE! IN ESSAY CONTEST
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, Reception in Honor of Rev. and
Mrs. Page?Realty Sales in
- Fairfax County.
Special O>rre*pondono*..of Tbp jjtff I
VIENNA, Va.. October 25. 19lS.
Watson Davis. aOn of Allan Davit, prin
cipal ot the Business. J-ligh School of
Washington and who owns a sumtner
home in Fairfax county, was the winner
of a prize of $5 in gold offered by R. Ed
irar Berr>- for the he?t essav on "Why
Is a Neighborly Spirit and Co-operation
Necessary to the Success of an Agricul
tural Section or Community?"
Nearly,a hundred guests. Jmany of theih
from Washington fittendedfcthe reception
given iast Thursd*'-' hy Mr. and Mrs
Franklin P B^ushe-; in honor of Rev.
and Mrs. Frank W. Page of Fairfax.
Mrs. George E. King presided In the din
ing room and Mies Carolyn Cobey served
punch.
W. T. Carter has purchased from A. R.
Sherwood a house and lot of four acre*
near the old electric depot at Fairfax.
Mrs. Rosalie Nicolson Dead.
Mrs. Rosalie Micou Nicolson. widow of
George Dudley Nicolson. died last Sat
urday at her home at West Falls Church.
The body was takeii to Abingdon.
Gloucester county.'Xa,.- for "Interment.
Prof. E. C. Chllcott of the Department
of Agriculture has sold his house and lot
at Fairfax to Mrs. Albert Mitchell. Prof,
and Mrs. Chllcott will" remove to their
farm at Vlenria' November 1.
Joseph E. Willard of Fairfax has re
cently purchased of Mrs. Allan Pott*, her
property known as Happy Creek Farm,
in Albemarle county. The price paid
was $15,00(1.
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Commerce Department Changes.
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The Department oF < omtnerce today
announced -the following changes in It*
personnel: ...
In the bureau of .Jisbsri/qs, John A.
Gaertner, cook on th>' schooner. Gram
pus. has resigned ii-iitl tlie ylm i- ha? beep
tilled by the appointment of Joseph C.
Simmons, and Henry Esmond has been
appointed physlf'ian at Prlbilof Islands,
Alaska. "
In the lighthouse service the appoint
ment of Fred H. Platts as first assistant
engineer on the tender Madrono has
been terminated; probationary appoint
ments have been given to Clyde W.
Church as third assistant keeper of
Point Sur light station. California; Her
bert F. Goodhue, as assistant keeper of
Deer Island light ttation, Massachusetts,
and Charles O. Allan, as assistant keep
er of Cape San Bias light 'station, Flor
ida, and tempbrary ajVpblntment has
been glveh to Roy Rolllngton. as assist
ant keeper of Southwest Reef light sta
tion. Louisiana.
The Department of Commerce has
William A. Naghten has been rein
stated as clerk at $1,200 in the bureau
of foreign and domestic comanrce.
In the bureau of standards. Bwjamin
Katnrass, aid at fN^ Jias resigned and
Donald W.* Ross' has beetT jkoba-tlonally
appointed laboratory assistant at Wo
St Pittsburgh. Pa.
' In the coast and geodetic survey
Leroy P. Baynor has been probation
ally appointed as deck officer at 9UOO,
and'Revoe C. Briggs lias- been promoted
to aid at $1,000.
In the lighthouse service John B. Sav
age. keeper of Cubits gay light station.
La., and Harry A. S. Barrett, assistant
keeper of Deer Island light station,
Mass.. have resigned and / Sidney E.
Hewett. temporary first assistant engi
neer on the tender magnolia, has beea
probationary, appointed.