18 DOLCE FAR N NIEN NTE VET THEY THINK THEY WORK LIKE GALLEY SLAVES. One of the Beautiful [lusions of Pablic Life In Washington- Rents (oming Down — Boe Rend Estate at the Capital — Shephard’s Work. [Special Correspondent e] W. ABHINGION, Feb Ome. of beautiful illusions of Ww: astington is {4 the effect that evervdly is shamefully overworked. It is Washington etiquette this on all vr asior t #3 tor nasa per ace nirary is to compare the rénts in different ith New York city especially is an tion, for there is a natdral mo: land on Manbattan Island. Bu: take it forthe par Reg of this con gon that real estate in Brook miles from the bride and lent neiciiior og r standard of compari On iat basas [am ir all the no ton are one-third lyn. In ih t 5 was offere brick hotine of Bie rooms roent—in what seemed and peaceful ne say bor i mi Tis, tenant ta pay rates yozens of eigh be had for #32 and pocorn homses ¢ A very 25s rinenst lente T fi 10 1s wl for vis OW Lim thie nor of . od ¢i to my reqnest a PR RE S£L1Ways ! Pays $e Fla | $750 migre fox the no 3 to give | : iy aft early Monday till las » Las driven and Bustled like wd on a sleambont.” al. is wort of A has become n Wash m fad and runs thr ugh all branch If one wil I only stroll r hint that he wants anybody os will find groupe of com; sressmen enjoying themselves io the clfakreoms or Corimittes room be fore ihe 4 uly gestion begine, and Other ps hav a veally hilarions evening hotel parlors, But the moment pusiness there is a sudden ¢ metamorphosis. The ui on at cnee ind nivnee comes: “Well, titav-- but really we members of {oF senate, ax the case may bx minute we can call onr awn, dnven to 1sidnight ' hmomy we Sand i, bat from od Aig zhine, d re ¢ £44 Mrut gi {hie by Jiints ed veally Yiviwry , RITESLI fo stereols i had i ORs i Ph i Hy i ¥e § i + i and yor, men ik a marked te dor thew, Their gmail, nor have tare is point meng certain indecent th Tae is toed any : ng Spirits Another W a fad, and a rather amusing due, is tit vo many people have made 0 tt king the posi tions they hold, Ouoe wan tells we that he had Jast built up a oeplondid law prac. tice, his fees amountivig Lo two or three times hid salary hers, but that las friends desired Lim to accept this post, and in time by faithinl service he expects some thing Letter, And this sort of thing goes all the was along down the line ti one ? gota to Hx departiaent ¢ They don’t» that they have ade any Satin, “They frankly admit, especialy the women, that they were delighted to get the place and s should feel very bad indeed to lose it, and the slightest hint that a clerk is in danger scts him (and especially her) chasing his member with a persistency that makes that member's life a burden, And finally, though Washington seems to me one of the most leisurely of cities, I find this assumption of overwork run- ning throagh all brauches of buziness, If there is any one business flatter than all others just now, ole rRE. LTH it is the line of silks, laces and fine gloves, and calling this | morning upon a friend who is in that line I found ali the salesladies enjoying ! themselves in such a lazy, leisurely way | that I envied them. There wasn't a cus- tomer in the store, yet the proprietor | begged me to come and gee him after | business hours, when we could retire to | a quiet restanrant, “for really I haven't one minnte to spare. Iam on the dead jumpy from 8 in the morning till 5 in the | afternoon.” : The Real Estate Market. Next to the trade in luxuries, say that the trade in real estate dull Nevertheless the real pen utes in business hours, but when | pounset the scope told wan’ gto was the estate an- of my inquiries and hey that intending residents really I toknow some thi ne about Wa they strmghiway found time. they (declared: was really no ds : oe valne of reql - tats the sales have stopped. must 1 froun the few it-have fately made that ger prices aro as low as reported, for 1 were forced in fact, just a ~hetter than # sales, AM th : depre - i 1% {eye marker, oblized to, and yon mn not 16 by i. that iat there - HN cline in ti onciude 1K il ar enles oe in sherift’ ion has 8a far done Nobody sells unless abs Chses RE HS BETEO To uel oo Pris the { ple, We ean say, however a mora! certanty,; that in all the new tons of ihe city, and specially int nartheast goarter, there has been a vii noticeable decline in rents. It is not « I should | were all too: busy to spare five min- | Cand lanchies ar wi 8 2 if. jy x style of the Moving to Baitimore. ; Gen bes 5 to the l oft th e caput tal soutliward It was Tati bargain in our i i L. 3 La Cala nud of £0 the iz tory ane ay wis houestly carrie state debts were dssnmed, a tal was sprawled over the soft the Potoiuac flats. It was the int: however, that the eity shonld be bai east of the capitol. The there in real estate drove the first settlers west. ward, and the east waited 70 years f another boom : Toward the close of TAT boom the war of R81? suburban property bere was lower than good farm lamds are now. Only a few years later it was phenomenally high and 80 continzed tii the panic of 1210 pros trated Washington and every ofher city. | There wis another Boom in doe Lime, aud prices in 1837 bad reached very ne ly the highest point before the war, The regular crash followed, and for the next 25 years Washington was derisively spo i Kou of 4s‘ city of mud and Hagnicent : distances,” The war boon w coarse. Washi whelined ins and pn every xd: known, =, thas trody dalland sickening thn a great many who had invested rashily ams rink, Of there 11 Base i alk anyunow, AfFatl ln Prices. nal, i VET Tas Da Ue HIAOD was Fides! iy (reat nortiern inv CIPAr It i not so generally fii with HOWE they | to COUT Reneral Your Cine tion had caisid by th Cay X " . 80g Luere there wus spUKe ry 165 : i valiin % from pra Cease anol ¢ capital mi dona is almost forgotien x -, 1 tim» when his name w g Wes the tain Reavis of St a auch Oo with hatred snd Richard Canr ie the Saracebs. come very he hd rh led dread which the Lion aroused alin The captain really arto aking his moves ‘ae SUCCESS, 50 ucar at’ Indianapolis at one time actualiy took a “ Teal rise in the confdenre that the capil al | would be moved there. Severa! places in Illinois and Missouri felt the thrill, ‘and at one time it was definitely pro- posed to takelthe old Mormon town of Nauvvo for the site of the foture capital. Senator O. P. Morton declared his be- lief that if the matter were put to a pop ular vote the capital would be moved tc | some site near the Mississippi river by i And wile: an over vhelming majority. things were in this condition Boss Shep hard appeared upon the scene. © The act which his friends got through congress and the work waich be did here settled Po the question of removal adversely for all | tune. Then Washington real estate on- tered on its last great rise. which has | been continued until quite recently. No- | body here sneers at Boss Shephard now. ' Iu truth, he stands a fair chance of being canonized as W ashi ington City’s patr saint. J. HL. Bape A Japanese Advertisement. Another incontestible proof of the id advances of the tion of the west sement, whi Yr Alle se afrii big US ved daly tn Li Ie stanuran 6. al REFOTE, § Popect ingtoay real estate feeling oi name of § tate in; OF LADIES INFLUENCE OF ENDER PASSION Fver Choke the Life Out Waman®—A Story Whith { to Sav the Least - A Home en Throagh Lave s Fyes . a - * na : interest ine to tha 44d jl the EAPYAR At sha orld pet “1 faa WHE fn Rp Raw tiem, | gi FAT 1% Caer bari ars 11 her tha atter of the very highs ut Vin ita to her Ke il the curios fon have a ma postance ta « This strange reply ty FL drat Mlle. & Leonel, i ders to admit Bing He appeared be her. Ho was a little ld man, clad ht binek, with a sinister look. He wor a black skullcap and carried a litt black casie. His eyes were fail of {uo hat, ‘after all, his features were ind ! leetual. : “Mademoiselle, entmigh to send maid. Nobody d what | hav: Ninon was terrified at frst, bat fast, remiorcin ag sha was in th | presence of cecrepit old 1 ma she tank I sent away wasting 1 AE Sha Rava « v Th 136) be, he gw $3132 myst be AWAY 3 a to yrveal your w 3 lon at 171 i, aud that ; iw al will al was present gt fata fio gif of al x COND here ty Gil CE fF LEG t have? Togs yoor chs! ra that no oe - an sarth | [or er fn ive ‘Really, sir,’ anid the vighing, "you are very kind 1znificence of yo gifts 15 woman, I, ans LE 14 el mn that — ‘fa tha ir by vt smote tl interrnnt BOG m you do na! kaow. Ch Which willy» | have-—titles, riches or eternal beanty "My dear sir.” said she. * ‘there is ao room fo ie y hesitation over the good { things th ou offer me. 1 i fokegeter nai Darl But what must | do obtain this precious gift*" "*Mademo: eaid the stranges:, you must wrifs yoor name Qpon my tablets And be presented to her au old sned tablet, i signed her name Then ha gave her a | light tap of bis black cane gs the lett shoulder. “That wil * he said ‘You will he beautifal all Th ugh your life and yon will Live tor a long time i You will create ns 41 Aa opie in hfe when other wemen are in thehor. | rors of decrepitude You will never grow cid. | give you the. power. charm evervhady. Daring 6,000 years i have traveled through the universe from one end tc the other, and upon the earth | ‘havo only and who were rthy of .tois great pr Poay 9 ” aul a soacn f aman whe kl rose (FT kly fton selle black pass Cleopatra asd Di ana de | ara the fifth and the [ast tc Ask ms no ni upon which she | four womgen | ivi % SETS Mise £ ON FIRE. rhe Electriciun Nikola Tessin. Martin, writing on the werk © MrT trical Engineer the Serv: IS ; Gin Tesla a 1 Sy x i as taki 7 ar ¢ id im CRG was F 4 Lie sein? | 4 mtd 1 od sense | risk un ticket: Hwa Lie ayer. to a Ba “AEN V Fresian vids a v 3 144 Amerie Says ala h - Eo pout fawyer FO ¢ News: is advanced the ¢ Feiite ye of The Elec. an electrician, hy opin int exer 0 1 Yor Rt awed away sist ate The Lottery In Spain. at. prize ry was os tmseif mong 1 con tal Lot he had split up his rite of hundred pat: ners ID Varvirg: propo irtia a, so that by share 13 Bot sa of oy geen i thee won % Fo h AE B Sve & eS Spanish by a Rutcher ve Yaorne t rye proper end 6 AERO ti ¥ a the 4 a LL We = ts TAX siderable How generongly gave : "4400 to the kit of luck. bei ter of the town told in the Spanish papers as to the ef fect on different individuals of this sud. One of the benef 9 is official who paid the Lliind man who lucky number at the door of tis next care gratis toreveryhody liviog in his qaar g to distri money, aod §200 out tne suffice te meat shouted oa Not a few stories ars Clari=s { was a narse in the family of a poverty { stricken infantry captain why rarely spaid her wages. { §10.000 that fell to her | once handed the exclaiming. | know want after tcday. y '—Pars Herald L§: tg | master, On the reecsipt amount | as live on the mone It is a. great can at ali - § pragtics Wael pression his mini Lo Ea <rtain ae mi afford in my sf the share she at over -to her ‘Yon shall We can all ot to ST Hard Times and Eennomy. stake for people whe liberally U | HOW THE WORLD wi EN. Soma» Past and Prospective Experiments of Our Praivet Will Die Not by Accident, but . of the sun in 20.006 ON) years of. nore. aks ¥ THE LION PATH. 1daro not— - Look-—the road is very dave The trees stir softly, and the Bushes shale The long grass rusties, and the Bere—there- beyond — There's something crept aeross the roud - now! a Nataral Death. According to all probability, notwith- ‘standing sll the circumstances which threaten it, our planet will die not of an accident, but a natural death. That death will be the consequence of the extipetion. And you wonld have me ge? F 60 thire— through that live darkness hideous With stir of crourhing forms that wait 1o kill? Ah, look! See theve- am there -and there again— Great yellow glassy éyes close to the groond! Lenk! Now the clomds gre lighter, I can me The long. slow ishing of the sinew'y tulle And the wt quiver of “trang jaws that walt, Go there? Nat I] w hs dares to 20 Ww Bo ees Ro perfectly the ilons bi the path? perhaps 30,000,00G—since its condensa- tion at a relatively n wnlerate rate will “give it, on one hand, 11.008 000 years of existences while on the cther hand the i ital inetears into Bor sun Come« or tara Afr . yet bound caid av. ie-path, - id at rd sar less no fear tae figs AF yo wae {rapt 5523 asian A DS —— {he story SER *-Paster : ad- : il the ret adel pe ax jod pad Wiis male wang repeal "ES re Fe : [5h er Ws MY Was vot heard ang A No. yonr - ~ ERTL A trom thi wif 2 . § se them, * ther: De not LL cer- { they Ride ry fi marching i bas Srighumel % “Youn can gow” § TLR roan iD t » be glarmed,- AR foosia Weps fighting aad our camp was only of a sim. and prac- gave thar 4 sare iad Ji . 1G ae Fell meCLOEs wo Xian suecessfolly ajotiited w first than ¥ giterrints, are 3 iil L&E nonr Inter the 1 Jwith the enemy. ! «tha bes Len came ino general ose any of} ther § a. 4 rHiare pay iv. and AY DAIS 1 Si FE Ive, i shi £1 baal Feng 3 ¥ Frarih tn number . iid fie have ys wreviy Mercased, (YF a oi eosin i and the voltage at wi rich the? « be worked ie iD we now hav Yard sips of senerating abot) 5.600 v 10 amperes. Are dynamos of 86 hab! capacity are regularly made ‘by several mand facturers, snd 130 or even be Can steadily 60 lzht dyna- mn 11s and A Priladeiphin Incident, and comfortable attitudes as wet men riding fn street cars bon a sonlre of irrita- LYAciicany leer Practical 5 raised {8 chines, Peay The easy gamed beg Have unt TOR the stand LATO freanentiv genger had tne denn the TAT WAS Tmaseniihe odrage to publicly cen- 2d. A Siiteenth street ro up town with many pussencers aml one woman, an apper corner and whose vee] her as 8 135 hight Nae ! I happen to "who sat in ere irk fonr | phy ach ma'am. Another woman chines are and naed, UT where th ajprnaan yy ste . entered the car at wnt finding ho vacant seat Was pres gelinE grasp a sirap w hat ries "the sohicolma’am piped out} “If theses men ronld pat their legs ore gether, there woaid be plenty of room!™ Poplar street, sR. culty is ot and even the judge conghed sympathet- | not. dead silence wak followed by a steal sufting of netper Limbs until su von was visible to accommodate stending passenger. —- Philadelphia Record. alk nine of wealth EWNITE ities tO their deser ip re are “The Me PCE. LA Vi oman's Rea- Mo tern tance,” “The Un | Conntry,” which W. D. How property had been | : pen dramatist. Mra 841 red and who was reduced to des. | Oliphant ‘remembeded her | ivakespears Lrition being involved. Jufize Emerson j= ren she named ote of her novels “Phe ‘made the most of it, and as he closed his | 1 ‘rimrose Pain,” - Mr. Hardy must have peech a solemn hiush had fallen over the | jon! read ni “As You Like It” when 2 ~alled his Took “Under the. athe, g PIRI : : Otlyer writers have taken “Adry, “Tears stood in the eyes of the jurors, | IF airy Lillign,” “A Daughter of the ically and hid has head behind the trial | |G: ds” and “The Heir of the Ages” as ti- docket. His opponent, whose name tes from. Tenuyscn. Journal of Buss, have now forgotten, saw that the spell | tion. had to be broken in some way, or his case | An Infelicitans Spesch. was lost. Arising slowly to his feet, and | “Why, you're looking better already; in a voice of deep solemnity, and with | Sir Ronald!” slow deliberation, he said, ‘Gentlemen | Yes, thanks to your aelighttul hos- of the jury, let us continue these solemn | pitality, I've had everything my er. exercises by sing zing the one’ bundred and | ordered me—‘fresh air, good food, agree- fifteenth psalm.’ A roar of langhter |aile society and cheerful followed from the audience, anil Judge | ! that involves no strain on thetatellect.”™ Emerson 1 {0st his case.” : | —Harper's ‘Majgazine. . A Little Learning. | We have been often told that “a little | learning is & dangerous thing,” and we | may be just as well assured that a little | | terday bread is not the safest of all things. It | eadior—Eh} You are sot my son. would be far better to have plenty of | Littie Boy—N-0, but mamma says I both, but the sophism of those who use {had plenty of time to get to school, so X this argument is that they represent the | guess the clock you sold her doesn’t raph choice between little and much, whereas | right. —Good News. our =lection must be made between little | - - 5 and none at all. If the choice is to be! In early times what i ne now y Ireland made between a small portion of infor: | was called Scotia, and ity inhabitants mation or of food and absolute igno- | were known as Scot, or Seots A branch ramce or starvation, comuion sense gives (of this Scotic stock invading north its decision in the bomely proverb, Half | Britain ultimately gave its name to all ¢ loaf 1s better than no bread."—New of what is now 8ew stiamd York. Ledge r., Their Ti . been - i“ has in a speech 7 2 T a Layman, an ats [20 %L leTAmy s 3 ISRO Y had a case mm | TU CRUaAriy pas |, wy zw da nghty “ aad sod den 43 3 iL In the Ah Whose BR Rada We apibe “4 and as latis? ~ “w ree, A Last Resort, Little Boy—] want you fo writeme ja 3te for being late to school yes-_§ Golf is spo ken. | it suoms, whthoutsound: ‘ing the “1.” English folk call it “gowf,” and if wé import the game it is only proper that we *honid | import the pro- nunciation The Oldest Dressmaker’ » BIL he oldest dressmaker's bill discovers on a wo B.C Iv vest ments for 10 has been vy lazy maa ‘who will not ble to reverse his cigar “10 collars of the hat he has pat the lighted of gold col 1TH O21) or cristake into his mouth. Hur For BOWIE E Cia four scented oppor con - struck by the in the: sixteenth century is neariv one-halt inch thick and weighs a pourd and a fuazier, inn lady. wears Tdi shoes with watches set.in the instens; Presum- this hies, her to keep time with » babiy he waist, — PRO vernn wnt It Depends. : 3} x A Pur a hany, who bas recent : ik biti ¢ noes hasit or ng 3 it cor ‘The DOER ww er apy ena! U0 000 of Mobammedans - larger number than are found in the Tnrkixh empire, ¢ # “Tether von abunt a cold * wen tion to women and one feminine pass | 2) -§ %
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