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PARIS OF AMERICA.
national capital pooh in
SUBURBS.
>li?hly Potomac, However,
T ake ”.P tor the Lack of Them,
i, h Point* of intereat on It.
' ,_4o Interesting Electric
f o Uway-A De.crtptlou of Cobin
l„ lul , Brt.l#e-Soe of the Fic
f!„ue Scenery Around Wash
on-Other Matter, of General
Sngton. D. C„ July 31-There Is
VS of consequence In the United
cLVto notoriously poor In "suburbs”
S “ nur beautiful capital, the Paris of
f ° ica instead of the near-by ocean
Am V - Qi Ne w York, Boston. San Fran
reSol ‘ ht , adjacent mountains, forests
C i? C fin e farming regions of Philadelphia.
* 0 Denver, Savannah-we of
Washington are surrounded by a pov
,v stricken and utterly uninteresting
Action given over to tumble-down
®„ rkey shanties and scanty patches of
Lien truck, struggling to grow in soil
That is red as brick-dust, the best that
u can produce being those ugly pyra
xnidal-shaped evergreens, exactly like
be toy trees of a child's play-box, set
here and there in the dreary landscape.
Bllt we have one inexhaustible well
„r,nc of pleasure—one thing of beauty
P a therefore "Joy forever”-in the
J! e htv Potomac, which leaves the skirts
S our city on its lons and tranquil
tourney to the sea from - way up some-
Jhore in the Catoctin mountains. And
wm may be sure that w make the most
if if Excursions "down the Potomac”
° and '.. up the Potomac” are fashionable
„ a ll times of the year, and to the
cnmmer stay-at-homes they are a per
fect god-send. Several steamers go
every day and night to Mount Vernon,
Indian liead and numberless riverside
Lsorts between the capital and Ches
itieake bay; while electric cars go
hourlv a long way in the other direc
tion Stil) farther up stream you may
follow the historic river almost to its
head-waters by barge on the old Ches
apeake and Ohio canal, by bicycle, by
carriage or on your own two trusty
feet. _____
Take any of the Washington car
lines which will carry you nearest to
Thirty-sixth street in Georgetown,
from which point the Great Falls elec
tric railway starts on its up-river
journey. The waiting place is direct
ly opposite the little red-painted cot
tage which for more than half a cen
tury was the home of the novelist, Mrs.
Emma D. E. N. South worth. The fam
ily are all gone now, into the Land of
Shadows, and the low-roofed cottage,
whence emanated more than seventy
three popular romances, which has been
often visited by Whittier and Oliver
Wendei Holmes and N. P. Willis, and
"Grace Greenwood” and “Fannie Fern”
and other shining lights of their day
and generation— has passed into the
hands of strangers and grown forlorn
and shabby. There are many objects
of interest in this same old Georgetown
which a hundred years ago dictated the
fashions for all the surrounding region
and whose old-time aristocracy yet look
down with scorn upon plebian Wash
ington There ig the famous old Jes
uit college, in whose gray outer walls
ticks the wonderful dock, warranted
by its maker to last a thousand years;
the boyhood home of the author of the
“Star Spangled Banner;” the grave of
the exile who wrote "Home, Sweet
Home," and on the same lovely Oak
Hill the last resting place of Blaine
and Stanton, and hundreds of the most
celebrated men and women of the cen
tury. , .
But this is a digression. Here comes
the train, and its running gear is im
mediately reversed for. the return trip.
Get a front seat in the wide car, if
possible—but you must be very spry
about it, for everybody wants the
same thing, not only to get an unob
structed view, but to feej the glorious
breeze in our faces as we spin along
lofty trestles, at times above the tree
tops in deep gorges below. Below us
gleams the great white dome of the
Capitol, and the golden glory that tops
the splendid new library, and the
granite shaft of the Washington monu
ment, pointing a colossal finger sky
ward—the first and last object one sees
on approaching or leaving the nation’s
city. In front of us, the gentle hills
of Maryland on one side of the Potomac
and the Old Dominion on the other, roll
away toward the dim blue ridges of
the Alleghanles. The beauty of this
electric railway is its elevation. High
np along the edge of the hills it goes
DANIEL HOGAN
Genuine Bargain Feast!
Genuine Bargain Feast!
> •'
AAAAAAAA A A A A A A
Monday and will continue from day to day until every
piece of goods bought for this season’s selling is sold. It’s our
f ule to carry over nothing that a bargain price will sell.
a ' !es C°l° re d Bordered Handkerchiefs 3C
'dutiful Embroidered Handkerchiefs, ioc, i2*/iic, 15c
■ Silk and Crcpolene Lambrequins... .60c to $2.49
• r vcly Spanish Drawn Work consisting of Table
Covers, Centerpieces, Bureau Scarfs—Cut Prices.
' ;st Novelties in Belt and Sash Pins 25c
J ," Mre Stock of 25c White Pique i6MiC
‘ cc Line Fine India Dimity at Cost.
0 ’ inch Good Bleached Table Damask 25c
■ inch Half Bleached Linen Damask....... .....39c
inch Bleached Linen Damask 49c
:nch Bleached Linen Damask, SI.OO kind 75c
'--inch Bleached Linen Damask, $1.25 kind SI.OO
>nch Zephyr Gingham, 25c article 18c
od \ard-widc Soft-Finish Shirting Sc
'’ r handsome Line Children’s Parasols a\ Positive
Cost,
DANIEL HOGAN an d Barnard.
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TO MEN.
Free Trial Package of This New Dis
covery mailed to Every Man Sending
Name and Addpess—Quickly Restores
Strength and Vigor.
Free trial packages of a most remarka
ble remedy are being mailed to all who
will write the State Medical Institute.
A.E. Robinson .M.D..C.M. .Medical fc)irector.
They cured so many men who had battled
tor years against the mental and physical
suffering of lost manhood that the Insti
tute has decided to distribute free trial
packages to all who write. It is a home
treatment and all men who suffer with
any form of sexual weakness resulting
from youthful folly, premature loss of
strength and memory, weak back, vari
cocele, or emaciation of parts can now
cure themselves at home.
The remedy has a peculiarly grateful
effect of warmth and seems to act direct
to the desired location, giving strength
and development Just where it is needed.
It cures all the ills and troubles that come
from years of misuse of the natural func
tions and has been an absolute success In
all cases. A request to the State Medical
Institute, 813 Elektron Building, Fort
Wayne, Ind., stating that you desire one
of their free trial packages will be com
plied with promptly. The Institute is de
sirous of reaching that great class of men
who are unable to leave home to be
treated and the free sample will enable
them to see how easy It Is to be cured of
sexual weakness when the proper remedies
are employed. The Institute makes no re
strictions. Any man who writes will be
sent a free sample, carefully sealed In a
plain package so that Its recipient need
have no fear of embarrassment or pub
licity. Readers are requested to write
without delay.
and on bridges over ravines, never
once dipping downward to the river,
where it might have been built for half
the expense. Though to be sure, it
gives one a momentary thrill when the
rumble of the car announces that we
have left the solid earth and are speed
ing through mid-air, with only some
slender rails between us and destruc
tion. More than a hundred feet below
winds a dusty country road, where
cows are browsing the wayside daisies
and an occasional farm cart rattles di
rectly beneath us. One side of the high
way is bordered by the old canal; and
that in turn Is separated from rlie
Potomac only by its towpath. For ten
miles we follow the windings of the
river, always far above it. The rugged
shores of its Virginia side are brought
out into bolder relief of the gradual
slopes of the Maryland edge. Its so
called "Palisades,” crowned by a thick
growth of trees and showing scarred
and seamy bluffs, are by no means the
Palisades of the Hudson, but rather as
a feeble imitation. However, they have
a peaceful beauty all their own. No
Washington Irving has thrown over
this region a glamor of romance; yet
innumerable Potomac traditions, even
more stirring than those of which Irv
ing wrote, remain for abler pens than
mine.
When our great republic was in its
-swaddling-- clothes, this then unbroken
wilderness was the scene of frequent
bloody conflicts between the adventur
ous white man and the Indian tribes,
whose imperishable names remain on
river, mountain, brooks and valley.
Potomac Is one of their words, Rappa
hannock, Shenandoah and many more.
Here the unfortunate Sir Edward
Braddock, generalissimo of the British
forces in North America, led his gal
lant forces westward along the valley
of the Potomac, through unheard of dif
ficulties. All through the late un-Civil
War, as during Revolutionary days,
this section took a considerable part
in the making of history, though dur
ing so many weary months it was re
ported "All quiet along the Potomac.”
John Brown’s raid took place not far
away; Bull Run is close by, and over
these dusty highways great armies,
wearing the blue and the gray, marched
to victory or defeat.
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Finally we leave the river and make
a dash into the woods, apparently into
the very haunts of Nature; and pres
ently the flying wheels slacken speed
and we rub our eyes at the sudden
transformation scene. Walls like those
of a mediaeval castle, “w-lth battle
ments high in the hush of the air and
the turrets thereon," and great stone
buildings stretching back into leafy
recesses proclaim Glen Echo. This
fairy-like place was first built up for
a summer Chautauqua, with vast am
phitheater, pavilion, cottages and all
the rest; but somehow it failed of suc
cess—possibly because too remote from
Washington, and therefore too expen
sive for the usual patrons ot such a
place. After a few years of desertion,
it became a gay "resort,” with cafes
and dancing pavilion, summer theater
and merry-go-rounds; and prospered
amazingly until fickle fashion, always
in search of something new, went a lit
tle farther on, to Cabin John Bridge.
Nowadays, though Glen Echo Is still
a charming place and most of Its cot
tages are occupied by permanent
dwellers, the pleasure-seeking throngs
pass it by. Its chief point of interest
in the public eye is as the summer
headquarters of the American National
Red Cross and the home of Miss Clara
Barton. The odd-looking house near
the farther edge of the little- settle
ment—a very large, yellow-painted,
wooden structure, with stone towers at
each corner,' standing away back in
the fields on top of a knoll, reached by
a long, long stretch of wooden side
walk, Is Miss Barton’s mansion. Its
cool and spacious interior is all that
could be desired for a quiet retreat,
and Its back windows overhang a cliff
which drops down steeply to the river,
amid splendid trees and tangled green
ery.
Cabin JoVin Bridge, a mile or so be
yond Glen Echo, Is unique as being the
largest single-span stone arch In the
world. The little stream it crosses, an
affluent of the Potomac, is haunted by
the memory of an old hermit called
“Cabin John” who lived here many
years; and hence the name of the
mighty bridge. The arch has a clear
spring of 220 feet. The whole great
structure is 480 feet long, built of
granite, with a coping of reddish Sen
eca stone along the roadway; and Its
total cost, when materials and labor
were much cheaper than now, was a
little more than two hundred and
thirty-five thousand dollars. There is
a fine hotel close by, where the charges
are loftier than the bridge, a grand
electrical display at night, palm gar
den, theater, gipsy fortune-tellers, and
all the other characteristic features of
such a place; and yet more attractive,
are woodland paths leading off to quiet
nooks along the river bank, where
j family parties may picnic to their
heart’s content. Here you must leave
the car and get to Great Falls as best
you can. There Is a public vehicle in
waiting—a rickety sort of cross be
tween a Concord coach and a Black
Maria; but by far the better plan, if
you are anything of a "walker,” is to
make the rest of the distance on foot.
The scenery along the banks of the up
per Potomac Is surpassingly beautiful,
becoming astonishingly wild and pic
turesque where the river tumbles over
its rocky beds. Great Falls is less
than eighteen miles from the national
capital—yet for solitary grandeur it
might be hidden in the innermost re
cesses of the Sierra Nevadas. Imagine,
! if you can, an immense chasm, two
miles long and half a mile wide, with
perpendicular sides from one hundred
to three hundred feet high. Every-
I where are mossy rocks, piled above the
angry waters. Sheets of snow-white
j foam rush through narrow passages,
j hurling themselves over boulders that
! block their path, or plunge down dizzy
precipices to form furious whirlpools
, beneath. Some of these cliffs are sheer
I descent of a hundred feet,and the large
volume of water that rushes over
clothes them with beauty as with a
garment. Far as the eye can see are
cascades, rapids, whirlpools, hundreds
in number, with I waters everywhere
surging, leaping, bounding, in wildest
revelry. Over the larger cascades
mists constantly arise and double rain
bows blend their prismatic arches. The
wooded hills on the Maryland side form
an appropriate background for the
rugged picture, while the foar of the
water fills the air with a volume of
sound and wakes the echoes in the
surrounding forest. It seems like a
hallelujah anthem, in some grand
temple dedicated to nature’s god.
The Land of the Sky and the Sap
phire Country.
The Southern Railway operates the
only through sleeper to Western North
Carolina resorts. Very low rates to all
points, tickets good for return passage
I until Oct. 31. For full Information or
| illustrated advertising matter call on
| or write to E. G. Thomson, C. P. &
T. A„ 141 Bull street. ’Phone 850.—ad.
White Linen Lawn 15c
Sheer White Linen Lawn 35c
36-inch White Linen Lawn 45c
36-inch Sheer White Lavn 75c
23x45 Linen Fringed Damask Towel 25c
22x42 Linen Huck Towel,*hemmed, per dozen..s2.oo
18x35 Linen Huck Towels, per dozen $1.20
20x39 Fancy Linen Hemstitched Toweb ••25c
25c Lace Stripe Lawn 15c
25c Pique Lawn 15c
32-inch White Shirting Madras, 25c kind i6vfc
Anchor Brand Full-width Sheeting 22%c
Good Curtain Scrim 3c
Elegant 11-4 Spread, ‘he $1.75 kind..., 98c
Beautiful Line Wash Skirts 25c to $5.00
Fine 50c quality French Nainsook ...39c
THE MOKNIJNG NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1901.
SEE THEM
AND MARVEL. ...
This store’s policy is to sell only first-class
merchandise and allow no accumulations of odds
and ends.
OUR FIXED PURPOSE to move odd lots allows
no consideration of cost. They are marked to
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move regardless of cost or price.
THAT LOT OF
SUITS AT $4.95
AND
$5.85
Are made up of lots sold down to one and two of a
kind. They are all worth double the price and some
even range up to $16.50 in value.
BICYCLE SUITS ..■
HALF PRICE.
Out line of Fine Creole Linen Bike Suits that wash and hold
color; they were $4.00, now $2.00.
Fine All-wool Cheviot Bike Suits, were $6.50, now $3.25
Genuine Scotch Cheviot Bike Suits, were $8.50, now $4.25
Imported English Corduroy Bike Suits, were $lO, now $5
Buy one now and lay it away if you don’t need it. At
I HALF PRICE you can afford to.
LOOK IN THAT 23c
WINDOW OF OURS
And see the Underwear we otfer for the price.
Plain or Striped Baibriggan Undershirts, long or
short sleeves, with Drawers to match. They’re
cheap at 75c suit. Our price 46 cents suit, or
23 cents garment.
HI. DRYFUS
WATCH THE CELLAR.
Health Depends I'pun Keeping the
Cellar Dry and Sweet.
Quick lime, borax, charcoal, dry cop
peras and plaster, are the things to
make and keep a cellar sweet and
fresh. Move out all things movable,
sweep, take up dust, open bins, and
closets, and set doors and windows
■wide. Then in every bln, or enclosed
space, set an earthen vesesl, dish or
bowl, with several lumps of quicklime
In it. Strew grains of dry copperas all
over the lime, then slack It, but do not
wet It, yet be sure the slacking is
thorough. Steam from the lime, rising
up and out, will take away alt bad air
and til ddors.
Leave the cellar open and empty for
two hours, then scatter dry pc wdered
borax all around, In corners and along
the walls, and wherever there Is a
place where It will not be in the way,
hang a piece of net, such as fish net,
with some lumps of fresh charcoal tied
Inside. Leave the borax until next
cleaning time. Take the charcoal bags
downs every week, empty them, heat
the charcoal very hot. return to the
bags and replace them. Charcoal has a
marvelous power to absorb all sorts
of bad smells. The power Is strictly
proportioned to Its freshness, which the
heating restores.
Make cheese cloth pads of plaster,
mixed with powdered slacked lime, and
hang them against the walla that are
likeliest to be damp. Lime and plaster
are so thirsty, they take all the spare
water to themselves, thereby prevent
ing must and mould A good way to
make the pads Is to stitch or rut) Inch-
tucks in a length of cheese cloth or
■coarse lawn, then slip a funnel spout
Into the open end of the tuck, and pour
the plaster and lime. Make the tucks
an inch apart, and fill them evenly.
Powdered charcoal may be mixed with
the lime and plaster for pads which
are to hang where food stuffs are
kept. Emily Holt.
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City.
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well as new addresses when changing
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floor. Morning Hews building.
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PASSENGER FARES FROM SAVANNAH.
TO NEW YORK—First Cabin, *2O; First Cabin, round trip, 832; Intermediate
cabin, *ls, Intermediate Cabin, round trip, *24; Steerage, *lO
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The express steamships of this line are appointed to sail from Savannah,
Central (90th meridian time) as follows:
SAVANNAH TO NEW YORK.
CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett, 'CHATTAHOOCHEE, Capt. Lewi*.
MONDAY, Aug. 5, at 9:30 a. m. WEDNESDAY, Aug. 14, 5:00 p. m.
NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, WEDNES- CITY OF AUGUSTA, Capt. Daggett,
DAY, Aug. 7, at 11:30 a. m. FRIDAY, Aug. 16. 6:80 p. m.
KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher, FRI- NACOOCHEE, Capt. Smith, MON.
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CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, Capt. Burg, KANSAS CITY, Capt. Fisher. WED
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•Steamship Chattahoochee will carry first cabin passengers only.
Steamship City of Macon, Capt. Savage, will leave New York for Boston every
Saturday at 4 p. m., and leave Boston for New York every Wednesday at 11 a. m.
Sailings New York for Savannah Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays ip. o,
This company reserves the right to change its sailings without notice and without
liability or accountability therefor.
W. G. BREWER. C. T. A P. A., 107 Bull street,, Savannah.
L. M ERSKINE. Agent. E. W. SMITH, Soliciting Frt. Agt., Savannah.
WALTER HAWKINS. Gen. Agt. Trnf. Dept , 224 W. Bay, Jacksonville, JTa.
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New York.
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