House and Garden 
THE NEW HOMESTEAD 
2,500 FEET ELEVATION 
OPEN ALL THE YEAR 
Waters, Baths, Hotels and Scenery Nowhere Equalled 
Rheumatism, gout and nervous diseases cured. Complete 
hydrotherapeutic apparatus. Japanese palm room. Golf, 
swimming pool, fine livery and all outdoor pastimes. 
THE CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RAILWAY 
Famed for its Beautiful Scenery, 
allows stop-over at Covington, Va.,on through tickets for 
side trip to Virginia Hot Springs. Excursion tickets at 
offices C. & O. Ry. and connecting lines. 
FRED STERRY, Manager Hot Springs, Va. 
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24 H. P., $3,500 
The Fastest, Strongest and Lightest Car 
of its type and horse power; bar none 
VERY purchaser of aB. L. M. is so enthusiastic about the car 
that mere type can give no adequate idea of the way these 
little motor-masterpieces are regarded by those who have 
driven them long, hard and fast. We build these cars to achieve this 
end, and there are definite, absolute reasons why they must. 
ists are always amused at a large, oddly 
painted sign which advertises milk from 
his cows for sale. The Emperor seldom 
leaves the new palaces at Tokyo, which 
are more modern and comfortable than 
any of the others and were only com¬ 
pleted in 1888. They consist of a 
labyrinth of one-story buildings, all 
connected by covered passages and 
surrounding beautiful courts. Their 
architecture is of the ancient Japanese 
style, with high roofs at sharp angles 
and heavy gray tiles, and the interior 
of most of them is finished in the native 
fashion, with partitions of sliding screens 
and floor matting which the inmates use 
for beds, chairs and tables, as it hap¬ 
pens to be necessary. But several of the 
rooms have French furniture of ornate 
and expensive workmanship, much of it 
being rosewood, handsomely carved and 
inlaid. The apartments occupied by 
both the Ehnperor and Empress are 
furnished in that way. Both prefer to 
sleep in a modern bed and sit on a chair 
before a table, with knives and forks 
and china when they take their meals, 
but the Emperor is understood to wear 
the native dress, except on occasions of 
ceremony, and when the Empress retires 
to the privacy of her apartments she 
throws off her close-fitting waist and 
corsets and puts on the more comfortable 
kimono .—The Churchman. 
THE SCULPTOR’S PROFITS 
NE of the most puzzling problems is 
to ascertain the ratio between art¬ 
ists’ fees and the cost of works at differ¬ 
ent periods. An attempt of the kind has 
been made in Berlin, apropos of the 
memorial of the Emperor William E 
For that work the Reichstag voted a 
sum of 4,000,000 marks, and the ex¬ 
penses, it is believed, will not exceed 
that sum. Professor Reinhold Begas 
has received one-fourth of the amount, 
but as he has not furnished a debit 
and credit account—nor should he be 
expected to prepare one for the public 
gratification—it cannot be ascertained 
whether he has gained or lost by his 
great work. But it may be well doubted 
whether his commission was as profitable 
as Rauch’s when he executed the fine 
memorial of Frederick the Great, which 
is so prominent an object in the Unter 
den Linden. 4 he payment was ar¬ 
ranged differently. During the twelve 
years he was engaged on the work he 
"THE B. L. M. motor is built in France 
A from our own special design. Every 
detail, every principle of its construction is 
based on its use in a B. L. M. Runabout, 
and nothing else, no conventional touring 
car motor adapted to a runabout body, but 
a special and specially refined product for 
a special purpose. 
Every item, every detail of this car has 
been subjected to a three-year test, under 
the most severe conditions, by the design¬ 
ers. The experimental work, the constant 
and most rigid testing of every part, the 
little accessories as well as the great essen¬ 
tials—has made these cars cost each a 
thousand dollars more than any Ameri- 
v^can runabout now offered for sale. Add 
to this the class of material used, entirely 
the product of the famous Krupp’s— 
the disregard of cost in obtaining exactly 
the right thing, even the unnecessarily ex¬ 
cellent, the BEST thing for every purpose, 
and you will see why B. L. M. owners are 
B. L. M. enthusiasts. 
It is our single ambition to build the 
greatest runabout in the world, bar none. 
We believe we have done so, and our 
customers confirm our belief. We build 
nothing else ; we have but this one interest. 
We are so proua of our car that we 
would like you to know about it. Drop us 
a line ; we have a most attractive catalog 
which we shall consider it a privilege to 
sendlyou. Ask for catalog'No. 36. 
leLoMo Motor C ar Co. £9 W. 4 2— St. New^brk 
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