m& ' Uf'i T?WT?v - A 8 THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH; SUNDAY. JANUARY' 18, I89L' r ) j i .. FATE QE THE BRAVES General Miles' Suggestion of Military Supervision Seems the Only Practical One. A VAST NATIONAL 1'OOE ASYLUM "With Farms for Those That Will Work and Force to Keep the Others From Occupying IASD TEE STARTING WHITES NEED. Tuts About the MiKig ml Bmkirg of tit Trutiti try tie GeTtrimfnt. 23 irnOM A STAFF COr.RESFOXDEST.1 Washington, Jan. 17. "Has the Gov ernment of the United States ever broken a treaty with the Indians?" I asked of a prominent attorney of this city, who is counsel for several of the tribes yet remain ing of the aboriginal Americans. "Ask me if I know ot one it has ever held sacred," he replied. "To tell yon those which have been broken would take too much of my life. I do not know of a treaty betwee'n the Government and the Indians that has been kept absolutely in word and letter." This terrible arraignment is all too true, but it is at the same time quite natural. A treaty is the result of certain conditions which obtain at the time it is made, and is usually somewhat to the advantage of the most powerful side to the controversy. Changing conditions make new demands. The old treaty is found not to meet the con ditions of the present. The old one comes to be partially or wholly ignored, and to save the self-respect of the encroaching party, it is formally annulled and a new one made. A Long Story of "Wrongs. That is the official history of thejvarof extinction against the aboriginal Americans ever since the first Caucasian settlement of the Americas. The lapacity, the whisky, the ever reiterated command to "move on" of Christian civilization, has driven the In dians into a few small corners of die United States, and now the Government is as much at a loss to Know what to do with the meager remnant of a quarter of a million "souls" tbat are left above ground as when the sav ages were as thick as tbe leaves of the for est and as hard to break down as the forest trees. To go into the history of the treaties that have been broken and made over only to be broken and made over again repeatedly, would be an interminable proceeding. The books of the Indian Bureau are full of them. Hillocks of big tomes contain the intricate narration of these made and remade agree ments. They are not called broken treaties there, however. There is in them lo criti cism of the acts of the Government. If there appear anj thing but the official state ment of the fact, it is in the euphemistic Terms of an official appbinted to gloss over the acts of the appointing power. Gigantic schemes and "jobs," which we only know of in a vague way as having been the talk of the lobby at the time of bome new official incursion into the country of the Indians, are not referred to in these solemn reports. Experience of the Sioux. Take, for instance, the treatise with the Indians which have been engaged in the re cent uprising, principally the Dakota Sioux. Arbitrament with the Sioux began as early as 1803, when, by the treaty of Portage, large areas were ceded to the United States for military posts, upon payment of $2,000, or "the same value in goods and merchan dise," the Indians to have the right to hunt ' -and fish on the ceded grounds, "perpetual peace to be maintained" and "injuries to be mutually forgiven." Xotwithslanding this there was no peace. The resistence of the reds to the encroach ments of the whites made necessary treatise ol peace in several of the following years. As early as 1825, at a treaty made at Fort Lookout, the Sioux acknowledged depend ence on the United States, and the right of the latter to regulate trade, etc From that time to this a new treaty has been con cluded at periods varvmg from one to ten years, and at each treaty it is notable that the Indians had less to treat with than they had before. Here is a condensation of the records. The terrltoiy covered by Dakota was a part of the Louisiana purchase ot lb03. In 1S04 the recently acquired provinco was divided into two parts, that south of the thirtv-ihird degree north latitude being called Orleans and the re mainder Louisiana. In 1S12 the name of the Territory was changed to Missouri. The State of that name was cut otf iu 1820. A Long Scries, of Changes. In 1S36 that portion of Dakota wbicn lies east d the White Eirth and Missouri riverj was in cluded in the Territory of Wisconsin. In 1838 it was transferred to the Territory of Iowa, and to Minnesota in 1S49. The eastern bound ary was finally settled in 1557, when that Terri tory became a State. That portion of Dakota lving wet of the Missouri and White Earth rivers was in lb54 made a portion of Nebraska Terntorj. In 1MS2, when the Territory of Da kota was organized, its wesern limits were fixed r.u the indefinite line called the summit of tho KcLy Mountains, the boundary line of what was then ashingion Territory. The bound ary line of Idaho Territory in lbG3 defined the present western line of tbe Dakotas to be the twenty-seventh degree of longitude west from Washington. Iu all thee changes the Indians lost some thing that had been conceded to be theirs be fore. By the treaty of 1S25 the Sionx occupied lands extending beyond the Mississippi to the east. Owing to the hostilities of 186.! all pre vious treaties uore abrogated and in tbe.fol low mg year the Sioux were removed 'beyond the limits of an State." In JSiw-GG treaties of praca were niade and reservations established to uit the cnmiitions of that time. Iu 1S6S 11) ey ceded all their claims to lands except the tract then set apart for their use. InlSTStbey ceded their hunting privileges outside their reservation and also the Black Hills. "What They Got In Return. For all of these forced cessions, this tremen. dous curtailment of their territory, they ba e received about 542.000.000. exclusive of agenry expenses and the cost of wars connected with the conquest of the Black Hills. The total In dian population of Dakota in 1881 was 31,000, of w hich all but about 500 were under agency con no', the miserable remnant of the once power ful aod terrible tribe of Sioux; and these are j t able to care the whole United States army ana engage in wnat is sumclently large in its proportions to be called an "Indian war." They Btllf. however, have :n their domain nearly 27 -OCO.000 acres of land, such as it is, but this is constantly being contracted by white settlers who encroach on the reservation; and itis a common saying on the frontier that a. white man once planted on an Indian reservation never can be uprooted. The history of the Sioux is the history of nearly everyone of the Indian tribes of his tory. Treaty after treaty represented each a broken treaty preceding, but in almost all cases a treaty which was the ineviiable creation of the conditions of tbe time, due to necessities of the whites or the miscon duct of the Indians; and each one repre sented something lost to the Indians and something gained for the absolute, indomita ble and universal Caucasian, who will at no distant day be the lord of,this entire little tlnbe called earth, Views of Humanitarians. But what is done will never be undone, and tbe "burning question" now is not what has been but what is and is to be. Volumes have been written in regard to the treatment and preservation of tbe Indian. Tears, enough to make the fresh eas salt as old ocean, have been shed over the unparal leled woes of Poor Lo. Humanitarians t:ar their hair and shout themselves hoarse over terrapin, canvas-baek and champagne at conferences at fashionable summer hotels, in sympathy for the Indian, while at their (Mors tbe whiles who.are in far wnrve con dition and tar more worth saving, are making the night sleepless with their cries tar work and for bread. Little theis good people reck of the men and women -who are begging for the privilege of working their fleshto tho bone to fill their stomachs and clothe their backs, but they melt with sorrow for the Indian who scorns work, who-will not work, who cannot be driven to work, who cannot hunt because tbe game is all killed, and who is the national pauper, the dirtiest, lousiest, most worthless of human kind, apparently only valuable as an excuse for a standing armvandas the prey of official agents and unofficial traders. The few who have proved of some use to themselves if not to this world or the next, are not enough to save the whole from damnation. The Frontier Opinion. The verdict of the military Indian fighter is mat me only gooti xuuiai is ine dead Indian. The ranchman agrees with him heartily. The humanitarians who look for the soul of the redskin with a view of saving it are even more in the dark than the mili tary. The latter has a theory, bloodthirsty or narsti as it is. ixenerai Junes would either kill them or put them under military supervision within clearly defined limits; and from all I can gather from abont 2,000 pages of close print through which I have waded to find some valuable and prabtical proposition, humane or otherwise, for the tuture, treatment of the redskin, it appears to me that his theory is about tbe only ten able one. There was a conference of eminent, pious, humanitarians in session for several days last October at Lake Jlohonk Hotel, Ulster county, N. Y. It was a fine advertisement for the place. It discussed the Indian all tbe time. The eminen'. ladies and gentle men had Indian for breakfast, for luncheon, for dinner, and for tea, and apparently dreamed of buried tomahawks and grand temples devoted to Indian education and worship at night If so, it was only in tbeir dreams, as all of the reports in regard to the education of the Indian and the hope of a useful future for him were meager and un satisfactory. Expenditures and Results. It was quoted with great gratification that, from $20,000 in 1S76 the Government appro priation for Indian education had swelled to very close to 52,000,000 for 189L Hun dreds of schools had been established, hun dreds of teachers and philanthropists sup ported out ot the millions expended, bnt there was but a beggarly account of Indians who had been educated to be of any real use except to pray with and save the souls of these people who cannot get beyond the breech clout age, and who are la a moment swerved from the true orthodoxy 'of the hu manitarians to the murderous frenzy taught bv the new Jlessiah wbo is to sweep tbe whites from the face of the earth. Even the humanitarians admit this among themselves, aud yet they go on waiting their time on the Indian, and are constantly at the doors of Congress begging lor God's sake and humanity's sake for more money with which to educate a creature who cannot be educated and to convert to Christianity those wbo cannot be converted. Look at this ad mission oi Senator Dawes, made at the Lake Mohonk conference: Dawes' Estimate of the Reds. The Indian of to-day is not the Indian wbo was in this country when tbe pressns policy was inaugurated. There is no Indian outside of Alaska such as wero tbe Indians of 10 or 15 j ears ago. The Indian as an Indian has al ready disappeared in this country. He has partaken of a change. He begins himself to be uneasy. He is discontented; he is determined be will no longer stay in the places and waysot the Indian of ten years ago. He has caught tbe idea of selling his land He .has caught it of the white man. It has been fonndthat the easiest way to negotiate with tbe Indians for a portion of their reservation is to propose to pay a part, if not all, of the purchase money by dis tribution per capita among the Indians. Six hundred thousand dollars was appro priated last winter to fulfill the promise to tbe Ctcur d'Aleue Indians; that, if they would cede a portion of tbeir land, this money wonld be distributed per capita among them. It might as well have been tbrown into the Pacific Occau for any permanent good it would bring the Indian. And the treaty In dians have caught this same idea. The comfor: of an hour or of a day, or so long as S25 in vested in whisky will last, has come to be so fascinating tbat tbe treaty Indians are afte. their funds, coming m by delegations and press ing upon Congress to take tbeir treaty funds outof tbe Treasury and distribute them pur capita, instead of keeping tbe funds 25 or 30 j cars and paying -only tbe interest ontbem. Tbe Delawarcs, with tbeir chlei at their bead, came up to Congress, begging to have the $90. 000; which is all they have left of. their funds, distributed per capita. The Osages, wbo have in tbeir wealtb depreciated and gone back year after j ear for 20 years, think the wises', way ii to take tbe 7,000.1100 or more belonging to them in the Treasuiy, an-l have a great feast with it as long as it will lasr. Rushing; to His Own Destruction. Twenty-five years ago tbe Indians could not understand the idea of allotment Now they are crazy to have allotment, because along with it comes tbe provision tbat tbey may sell to the Government tbe balance of their land. It be comes the friend of tbe Indian to look out for him in this regard. He is abont to waste his patritnoc 'and his heritage, if you will let him. The Indian! in tbe Indian Territory have be come landlords, and the white men from the neighboring States com? in there and manage tbeir farms while tbev rest or do worse. I saw a poor miserable fellow down at Tale- ?uab, and a man told me that three years be ore he was as earnest and enterprising a man as was among them, now a poor, idle, shiftless, worthless fellow. "What is the matter with him?" I asked. He had become a landlord, they said. He had gone into Kansas and got.a white mantocomo down and take his farm for a third ot what he could raise on it, and take two thirds for himself; and now he need not work. 1 here are many such, and tbeir number is in creasing every day. Tbe Indians outside the Territory have ac quired this pas-ion for giving up their land for money in band. The allotment law, which had its origin in the idea that work on the soil was the one thing of all others necessary to civilize tbe Indian, is in danger of being itself under mined by this attempt to lease tbe land which the allotment compels them to occupy for 25 years. A 'Waste of Human reeling. And yet when the meeting of next year was under discussion and Dr. Lyman Ab bott remarked that it might be somewhat bold to assume that the conference was to be invited to Lake Mohock each year, Mr. Smiley, tbe Chairman, answered solemnly: "God willing, this conference is going to hold on until every Indian gets his rights." What a terrible waste ol piety and human feeling on a people who are admitted to be absolutely incapable of caring for them selves and who accept the attention and millions lavished upon them, but utterly refuse to accept the God or the customs of the good men and women who attempt to thrust these things down their throats with silver spoonsl I search in vain in the records for some thing palliative of tbe harsh judgment that seems to fix itself uponUhe mind of every one who goes into this question, taking the official and humanitarian records as the basis for information. Miles Has the Right View. The only people who appear to hope for something from the Indians are the Indians themselves, who are being fed, and the pro fessional humanitarians, who are supported in their work either from the United States Treasury or from the funds of religious soci eties bent upon adding to the membership of their various denominations. The game does not seem to be worth the powder, or, Eerhaps, more than the powder, that will low it up. Taking the most humane view the despair of humanitarians gives practical complexion to the theory of the military, that tbey should be kept under strict military super vision, and taken out of the hands of the civilians altogether; tbeir possessions cur tailed, tbat they may not uselessly overrun land that might be made to blossom like the rose by industrious whites who are now beg ging lor work; giving farms to the few who will work among the Indians, and establish ing a vast military poor asylum for the re mainder; the humanitarians and religious teachers to have full sweep among them, but not to be paid from the public funds. E.'W.L. The Popular Gallery. Hendricks & Co.'s, 68 Federal street, of fers great inducements in the photographio line this week. Cabinets, $1 a dozen. Bring the children. ttssu 710, 710, 710, 710, 710, 710 Penn Avenue. Dres trimmings, dress trimmings. Heining & "Wilds. Oceans of snowy white muslin under garments at Kaufmanns "White Fair." Every lady should take in the sights. A NEIGHBORLY FAIR, .Proposed as a Valuable Means of Accommodation to Farmers. A WAY TO AVOID THE MIDDLEMEN. Instances Cited "Where It Is Cheaper to Bay Airay From Home. A PEW BITS OF QDEEK DISCKIUINATION B. F. Grimes, of Stowe township, has some interesting views on the subject of neighborhood interchange that are worthy of careful consideration in these times when so miny producers and consumers alike are trying to devise ways and means whereby the number of middlemen may be decreased. So much is written and talked on tbe subject that it is strange there is so little crystallization of thought into action and method, though 'the complexity of selfish interest is probably the' reason that there is none, for ways and methods lo put money into each person's purse are very devious. For instance, on a railway running out of Pittsburg you can ride six miles for the same money you pay for four, provided you are a commuter. The explanation is that at the six-mile station there is an opposition railway within a few rods, while the four mile station is two miles away from it To go to the lour-mile station, also, costs you 10 cents on a commutation ticket, while you can ride on the same railway three and one half miles for 7 cents, and for tbe same reason as given above. ' & It is also a notorious fact that you can buy some articles manufactured in this city 400 or 500 miles distant from Pittsburg cheaper than you can buy them here, and simply on account of competition in the outside mar ket, A Plan for Neighborhood Exchange. Mr. Grimes' proposition is that, by means of neighborhood exchange, such as is carried on iu the United Kingdom, the bulk of buy ers could save freight and the middleman's commission, and sellers could secure better prices at the same .time that consumers got more for their money. The arrangement he refers to' is the neighborhood fair, in which people in the olden time in the Old "World secured what each wanted from the other, without being forced to buy it in a distant distriouting center. This was once almost the only way people supplied themselves with tbe bulk of what they needed, and still prevails, to a considerable extent, in Ireland and Scot land, and to a degree in England. Of course, railway and other trapsporta tion companies would not look with favor on the revival of the system, nor would the middlemen, and the facts that it is difficult to have boys tautrbt trades in this country, and that tbe learned professions are crowded so as to be unremunerative to the majority of schooled men, and that American hoys, as a rule, are averse to following agriculture or common labor, tends to make middlemen, cierks, etc.. more numerous from year to year, but Mr. Grimes insists that the coun try should not be run for the benefit of those "who wish to live by their wits, and that if people produced more they could buy more and havts more comforts generally, and would not be injured by the extra labor necessary to procure them; that a ?7-a-week clerk would be happier if he labored at heavier work, made $14 a week and spent it for an abundance, than while following an enervating employment that procures him an existence only half so good. An Elaborate but Practical Theory, Mr. Grimes' theory is somewbav elaborate, bus undoubtedly practical, and if any cne will follow the train of thought it generates and note the manner in which much busi ness is done in Pittsbnrg and within a radius of 40 miles thereof, he will find a state of affairs scarce ever noticed by the bulk of the hundreds of thousan'ds under whose eyes it is passing. For in stance: A man who lives down the Pitts burg and Lake Erie Railway nearly a score of miles was one day passing along Liberty street, and in front ot a commission honse saw some very fine Concord grapes for sale at $4 a hundred weight. He also noticed, by the tags on the packages, that they had been sent there for sale by one of his neighbors who lived within half a mile of his place. He went to see tbat evening, and told him if he would leave him 200 pounds of grapes at the station, which was within a few rods of the would-be buyer's house, he would give him the same same price they could be had on Liberty street. The grower refused, and when pressed for a reason said that grapes ought to be worth 5 cents a pound, and he for one would not break the market Persuasion and entreaty failing to shake the resolution of the grower his neighbor the next day called at the commission house and bought what he wanted not at $4, but at $3 50 per hundredweight bought his neighbor's grapes and had them reshipped to a point within half a mile of where tbey were grown. They were delivered by the commission merchant at the station, and the freight was 25 cents on the 200 pounds purchased, so that the buyer got the grapes for which he had offered 4 for 53 62, and the grower was out not only 50 cents a hun dred, but 10 cents freight and 17 cents commission in all 77lcents. Refuses to Patronlzo Homo Industry. This transaction set the consumer to ob serving and thinking, and he found tbat his neighbors, who were mainly farm garden ers, scarce ever offered anything for sale about home until they had failed to find some kind of a market for it in the city, and since then he refuses altogether to support "home industry," buying all his supplies in the city. The same state of affairs prevails pretty generally, and a man made a lot of money last summer by going out into, Westmore land county and running a garden farm near the big factories lately established in that county. He sold his stuff at home at mfach larger prices than he could get in the xity, and could not supply the demand. He had less than J!0 acres ot ground, but while his neighbors, with five to ten times as much land, could scarce raise money to pay taxes, he made a small fortune out of one season's crops. It is true he knew his business better than tbe venerable moss backs around him did theirs, but he says they show a disposition to attempt to get "a slice of his pudding next year. Back of Beaver Falls is a rich dairy coun try, but the greater pari of the butter made in it is shipped to this city and then sold to people wbo Ave in Beaver Falls. Now, Mr. Grimes' view is that neighbors ought to have exchange days, when they could 'swap commodities, and that there is scarce a farmer in the country that does not need something that his next-door neighbor produces. He doesn't expect his plan to meet the approbation of merchants and transportation companies. A Famous Cough Remedy. TllA fnllnwinr ?o a n.rtial lf nf 41... "Pittsburg nd Allegheny City druggists who sell "CbamViprlitin's flnmrli P,mili. famous for its. cures of severe colds and as a preventative ior croup: E. G. StnM 1701 ! Qjni Ta.,n ..A..A. o -.......j, ...v.. uu iv. Jk ..uu MVUUC, X.. G. Stucky & Co., cor. Wylie avenue and Fulton street; Markell Bros., cor. Penn 4016 Butler street; John C. Smith, cor. Penn avenue auu main street, i as. u. jucuonnel & Co.. 455 Filth fvvenne: T "W. T). Hi oho,- 1251 Penn avenue; O. F. Nourse, Center avenue and Erin street, and W. E. Mc- iiartny, liberty avenue and Cedar street; H. Finklepearl, Fifth avenue; Charles Eble, 6009 Penn avenue, and A. W. Covert, cor. Butler and Forty-fourth streets, Pittsburg. Tn A Il.nli.nn rS,.. tin 1? 1? 7T..I. t and 194 Tederal street; Tlios. B. Morris, ffiV H nniM an A TwaKl a atrnn-iAsi A T auivi auu -ttjASs aituucD) .CX U 64 Chestnut street; "V7. 8. Beach, 676 Fifth -cuue, ana opouaa, juurpny, jmo. .manor, street, & 6. HIS HEART 017 HIS BIGHT SIDE.' A Badly Patched Up War Veteran a Puzzle , to the Doctors. Philadelphia, Jan. 17. Policeman Chambers found a human wreck wandering aimlessly around In the Eighteeutti district Tuesday night and escorted him to the sta tion house. District Surgeon Judge found the man was under the influence of morphine, which he had taken to allay pain. The stranger gave the name ot George Burns, middle-aged, residing at 1214 South Twenty second street. An examination by pulsa tions showed that the heart of tbe man was located on the right side of the body. He had in bis possession newspaper clip pings showing that he had been before the faculties of several colleges. Attempts had been made to account for the reversed posi tion of the heart He was a second engineer in the army, and during the storming of Fort Fisher by the Essex a bursting shell shattered his right hip and leg. During the wrecfc of the Saratoga, on Gray's Bock, Martha's Vineyard, in 1884, in which 118 lives were lost, Burns received fractures of the right leg and all ot the ribs, necessitat ing the removal of three, a contusion of the bac'i and right hand, fracture of the elbow and skull. In his head is inserted a silver plate eight inches long. Burns receives $7 per week pension from the Government, which goes toward the support of bis fam ily. He is now on his way to the Soldiers' Home, at Dayton. Over 5,000 ladies attended Kaufmanns' novel "'White Fair" yesterday, and every one left with some bargain of muslin under- A Fixture. Prof. J. T. Little, expert optician, is per manently located with Biggs & Co., -jewelers, Smithfield and Sixth avenue. Con sultation free. It Is a' Pleasure To have a photograph taken by Mr. Aufrecht at bis Elite Gallery, 516 Market street, since he does his own operating. Household goods packed and shipped. Hadgh & Keenait, 33 and 34 Water st su OCEANS of snowy white muslin under garments at Kaufmanns' "White Fair." Every lady should take in the sight YES, MY DEAR, IS THE STAFF BREAE2 J r 1c AND YET ONE CAN EAT TOO MUCH OF IT. 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PIANOS -ajvx THE MOST DURABLE AND RELIABLE. 0 THE BEST FOR THE MONEY. pspj xppm ESTABLISHED 1831. 77 FIFTH AVENUE.. I de2S-su ESTABLISHED 1861. Eyes Examined Free, Artificial Eyes Inserted. J. DIAMOND, sXEB,, de28-TTSU Prominent Physicians and Ocu lists pronounce our method of ad justing Glasses and FrameB as simply perfect KOENBLUM, Optician, NO. 50 FIFTH AVE. j4 r- f A MrVI-1 nl1 TUMUKS cored, lio I A li I U L-f knife. Send for testimon I iH j l ills. U.H.McMlchaeLM.D., JI II 1UL.I 1631siasrast.,Buffalo,N.Y, mhl6-120-TTSSavr m Stock-taking is at hand again. There's no time in the year when. careful arid enterprising merchants are more anxious to turn their merchandise into money than at stock-taking or in ventory time. The idea at this period is to have the stock at low ebb and the bank account at high tide. That's the path we, at least, have marked out for ourselves, and that's the reason we have inaugurated and will, commence to-morrow morning our Great Annual Inventory Sale. The reductions which have been made in every department are simply without precedent or parallel. Regular prices have been cut and mowed down be yond all comparison, expectation or imagination. Even our own previous stock-taking sales have been eclipsed by the present offering. But, then, we would rather have, the money in the bank than the goods on our counters we would rather count dollars than garments. Though we are now in the midst of the so-called "dull season," we .must sell tens of thousands of dollars' worth of goods this week. But this can only be done by means of extraordinary reductions. Hence you need not be sur prised if, in many cases, you will find the most desirable styles of Men's and Boys' Clothing, Ladies' and Children's Cloaks, Shoes, Hats, Furnishing Goods, .Trunks, Chinaware, Glassware! and Kitchen- Utensils marked at one-half regular prices. If at big,. big saving of money has any charm for you at all, you can't select a better time to patronize our store than right now.,; Those who have attended our Inventory Sales in the past need! no urging to come. The mere announcement that this sale is "now in progress will bring them in by the hundreds. KATJPMANNSj 1 FIFTH flKW ADVEBTTHmTKNTS. LAGES AND EMBROIDERIES OUR own importation of Hamburg Embroideries, Swiss Edgings and Plouncings, Nainsook Edg ings and Insertings, Torchon Laces, all widths, Ori ental and Medici Laces, etc., is now on display. . The ladies will find this assortment one of unusual interest, and we leel justified in saying that it is the most beautiful line ever shown br any Pittsburg establishment. The prices? We will simply say that the new tariff has NOT affected our prices iu the least old figures still prevail this applies to our extensive line ot Lace Curtains also. . LaCe Curtain Bargains! Please bear in mind that these Cnrtains are ALTj NEW. We are not sacrificing laat season's stock, though the extremely low prices might lead yon to believe so. laottinsharh Lace Cnrtains. our own Importa tion, in beautiful designs, different from what we have shown heretofore, at the following special bargain prices: 3 yards long; 52 inches wide, 65c 3 yards long, 54 inches wide. Toe 3 yards long, 56 inches wide, 90c. 3 yards long, 56 inches wide, JL 3 yards long, extra width, 56 inches. Si 35. 3 yards long, extra width, 56 inches, SI 50. 3K yards lone, extra width, 60 inches, SI 63. 3k yards long, extra width, 60 inches. 12. 3 yards long; extra width, 62 inches, S225. 3X yards long, extra width. 62 inches, SZ 45. Zy, yards lone, extra width. 6 inches, $2 65. 3 yards long; extra width, 72 inches, S3. 3K yards long, extra width. 72 Inches, $3 25. 3 yards long, extra width, 72 inches, S3 50. Curtains up to $7 50 it you desire high-priced ones. In Sash Cnrtains we .have an entire new line of Pongee Cotton Drapery, new pat terns and fast colors at 12c per yard. Dotted Swisses in dots of every size, from 25c up. Harness Spots, White and Colored Madras Drapery, in exquisite new patterns. Fancy Drapery in squares, stripes and colored spots; Plain Colored Pongee Drapery, 13c per yard fast colors. , A complete line of Swiss Sash Curtains from 22c a yard up to the finest goods. Beautitul line of Vestibule and Sash Curtain materials. pSenbcxvm 510-514 MABKET STREET. AVE. AND SMITHFIELD ST. Irish Point or Swiss Curtains, handsome pat terns, 3 and 4 yards long, from $4 50 to $25 per pair, worth fully 25 per cent more. , Lace Bed Sets, full sizes, SI 75 to J7 50. Lace Pillow Shams, 50c to S3 50 per pair. Antique Bed Sets, S3 to $10 a set. Chenille Portieres, plain or with dado, S3 60 to $7 50 per pair. Curtain Nets by the yard for Lambrequins or Sash Curtains, 15c to 50c per yard elegant pat terns. Curtain Poles. Trimmings, Loops, eta, in Im mense variety, 20c to Jl 50 per set. . jalS-TTSSu .J, AftJ ,-. L-ieSJSLjiik: asriSis t. -xiteLM& iSMWi'-MV. ""W" tESE SI
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