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A TWIN-IDENTITY.
Enrni Stewaet DitEwnr ix 'BEtGaArIA.,,
"What am I?" yon nslc, because I say I
have had though I am only 30 a stranger
experience than any with which yon five
gentlemen have favored us to beguile the
weary time we are snowed up in the train;
and as it seems it will be quite an hour be
fore we can cet on to London I will tell you
if you care to hear the story why I say
so, and what I am; only I lirpe those two
ladies will not be shocked to find them
selves in my company? Xo? Thanks
well then, I am an agent-de-police, and
have just come over Irom Paris to spend
Christmas with some English friends.
Even we poorpolice agenjs get a little hol
iday sometimes hein! And the life has its
attractions too. as well as its dangers and
repulsions. rersonally "I had little
choice, for I was horn in the service,
trough up in it, for my father was a very
clever officer of the Paris secret police. I
married in the force, widowed in it, and be
ing one of the best women detectives, I was
sure of retaining my position. Xaturc has
iavored me, for, as you see, I am a tall but
very slight made woman, with a face which
lends itself well to masculine disguise.
Pardons, madame, what did you say? Oh!
I make a handsome young fellow too ha,
ha! I have often been told eo, and that I
have a woman's wits and a man's couraec
One needs both in my profession, too, I can
tell you; and steady nerves, too, as you will
tec
Well, about this time five years ago, all
Paris was suddenly startled into horror by
the discovery of one of those revoltingly
brutal crimes in which, I must confess,
France is only occasionally rivaled by the
wildest deeds of the Par West
Some few months previously a wealthy
banker, named Folcade, had married a very
pretty American girl, one of twins, who in
all but personal resemblance were so abso
lutely as one being, and so deeply attached,
as to be singular even for twins.
Kemember that I knew nothing
of all this till nearly the termi
nation of my connection with the case. All
that the police knew was the hare fact that
ladame Folcade had a sister who after the
former's marriapre had returned to Virginia,
V. S., and was there when the tragedy took
place, the news of it completely prostrating
her health for months. Bememberthat also,
please.
M. Folcade had a villa in large grounds
some way out in Paris, in a lonely place,
and that "fatal evening the banker, having a
violent headache, retired about 10 o'clock,
leaving his wife down in the salon reading,
with her pet dog, a Scotch terrier, in the
room, and that was the last the poor fellow
saw of his wife and her faithful would-be
defender aliTe. M. Folcade awoke at 2
in the morning, and finding himself still
alone, got up, partially dressed, and went
downstairs, thinking his wife had dropped
asjecp over her book. The salon was empty,
the window open, and blood was on the floor
near the wife's chair !
Monsieur was frantic, called up the
household, sent for the nearest police, and
every inch of the grounds was searched.
As a result Paris soon blazed with the hor
rible discovery that Madame Folcade had
been stabbed to the heart (from behind, the
doctor said), probably in the room, then the
body carried out to a remote corner of the
grounds and literally cnt up piecemeal, for
the head, "trunk, hands and limbs were
found by degrees in different parts of the
grounds also a long, sharp-pointed knife,
blood stained, was found, and the sergeant-de-police
himself discovered, in a remote
spot, under a bush, the body of the
poor terrier all bloody from a
ghastly stab, but close to its mouth,
as if the teeth in the death agony had un
clenched and dropped it, was a man's right
hand fourth finger with a ring upon it. The
faithful animal had evidently flown at the
murderer and bitten ofl that little finger;
then, doubtless, mortallv wounded itself,
fled to the bushes and died before it could
reach the house with its prize. Of the as
sassin there was no trace whatsoever, not
even a foot-print, for the ground was dry
tinder a hard black frost.
Well, the finger was, of course, at once
preserved in spirits. The signet ring we
found had a monogram on the stone of it, of
"It S." On that finger, and ring, and
knife, we had to rely primarily to identify
the murderer.
Of course, M. Folcade himself was ques
tioned as under possible suspicion; but it
was goon clear that he was guilt
less. The marriage had been one of
love. He was a fond and un
jealous husband and one worthy of true
trust; but that some savage hate and
jealousy was the motive of the crime was
tolerably clear. Xothing was stolen nor
touched" The develish deliberation and
sequence to the murder betrayed a blood
thirsty revenge but tor what? by whom
done? A lover scorned, perhaps, but when
and where? Xo trace, no sign of any one
to suspect, present or missing, whom she
had known; could be found, although M.
Folcade made it understood that no expense
or time should be bounded, and that the
arrest of the murderer would'be well recog
nized. You know that in France
we do not allow anv reward, of
ficially or openly offered, as you
do here for such things. It is done", of
course, but sub rosa.
The case was in my especial chefs hands,
but I was not in it then, for my hands were
full, as that week I went off to Vienna on a
matter of political crime which took me six
months to run my men to earth and have
them arrested. 1 only learned the details
of the Folcade tragedy on my return
learned of necessity irom my chef, M.
Dupre.
"Madame Marie Lacroix," said he
grimly, "I must have your aid now in this
Folcade mvstery."
"Ehbien! M. le Chef," I answered, "tell
me all details and I obey the order."
This he did, therefore, and concluded em
phatically: "Xow, although I shall not relax mv
eflorts, it is on you, Mane, that your old
chef relies to ruain.ain his re
pute. We want the assissin; the
evidence is clear. We have the
man who a month before the murder sold
the knife to a gentleman who he says he
shall know again but cannot describe
enough to be of much use these common
people are so stupid, so unobservant hein!
'Kather tall, sallow, good looking, about 30
or 40!' bah, see there! that would do for
hundreds. Last Christmas, whilst still un
married Madame Folcade (then Miss Grey)
was in the Riviera with a lady since dead,
but we could find no trace of anyone to
whom suspicions would attach. Do your
best, Marie, money is not to be spared a
' great thing."
I was then well supplied, and withdrew.
I will not trouble you with details here, but
I threw myself heart and soul into the mys
terious case, which had so baffled my con
freres. I do not know when I have
been so intensely absorbed in a case,
eo passionately set on success, all
my faculties so entirely concen
trated on that end. This almost abnormal
enfolding of my whole being in the interests
of those who had so loved the ill-fated lady
may perhaps account for the strange sequel.i
I'set to work my own way. I visited the
Villa Folcade, saw the place, the picture of
Madamo Folcade there, and the knife, ring
and finger in our possession, and all the
people connected with the case. Then I
went off to the Riviera, taking a photo of
madame, of course; went to Nice, Monte
Carlo, and, after weeks of patient research
I discovered that a certain Polish lady had
said that at a rather mixed bal masque
last autumn she had noticed a veryi
pretty American who was ratherannoyedby
inc nonce oi a oiue uoiuino. jcouowing up
that slender chance I traced out the Pole
a work of time and she recognized the
photo, lauehed at the freedom of American
gisls, said this one appeared to be alone and
to have come in bravado, but had cot
frightened at the attentions or persecutions
of the blue domino, had hastily resumed
her mask (the Pole added), and vanished.
Bert, then, was surely the root of the
subsequent tragedv. Arcckless "lark" as
you English say in ignorance of the world;
an encounter, probably followed by secret
persecution: the girl, afraid to betray her
mad ercanadc to her friends lest a worse
construction should be put on it; the man,
doubtless in love, in a fashion, jealousy, re
venge voila tont! I returned hopefully to
Monte Carlo, and, 'after some time, obtained
the slightest clew to that blue domino,
which led me to suspect that (if ho
were the murderer) he would have
made his way to London several
months after the crime, a: the safest hiding
place, inn parole! so it is so vast so
many millions to be lost among.
Well, I came straight over to London, it
being then the October after the murder,
and at once went to Scotland Yard to put
the authorities on the qui vive for a man
such as I described, lacking a fineer nnd the
hand probably marked still by the wound of
dog's teeth. Whv did I not advertise, you
ask, monsieur Ciel ! because my bird was
clearlv wary, clever, a"nd I wanted him to
be lulled into false security and think the
police had given him up in despair, alter
nearly a year. '
I was unremitting in my cautions inqui
ries ana watciitiu searcn, continually
changing my disguises (mostly masculine,of
necessity), and invariably armed with a
loaded revolver for "self-defense or
to prevent the bird's escape. I am a dead
shot and can hit where I will,, I
may assert. Day and night until quite
late I was abroad, here, there and every
where in public resorts, public vehicles,
great thoroughfares, east, west, north and '
south. I haunted the gambling resorts,
irom the West End proprietary club to the
low "hell" all en garoon, of course. How.
could I get tne entre of some of these, yon
say, madame? Ha, ha, that was easily
enougn managed with money, and l am an
accomplished gambler to be au fait in that
line was part of my training.
But day after day, week after week,
passed, and I was still baffled. I got not
one clue, and at last, just bfore Christmas.
I wrote to my chef: "Even I am almost in
despair that 'L. S.' is either dead, or at the
Antipod es. If I learn nothing by December
31, I fear I must resort to the desperate
measure of advertising; I am mad at failing,
and more, my whole soul and brain are
wrapped up in this case."
That letter reached Paris a few days be
fore Christmas. ,
On the 24th of December, all day, I had
detectives watching the great stations for
any man answering to such description as I
had, as the assassin might possibly spend
the festive season out of town. I myself
was about the West End in the evening,
dressed much as I am now, in black, with a
dark fur toque.
I gave a look over Paddington Terminus,
and about 10 o'clock I thought I would re
turn to my lodging in Bloomsbury, and
there decide on my further action to-night,
or wnetner j. snouiu rest that is, it 1 could.
It was the very anniversary of the
tragedy I was to unravel Christmas Eve.
I was beginning to feel the long, heavv
strain on mental and physical powers, I
suppose, and every nerve was strung up to
a high nervous tension. I ielt in a enrious
unaccountable manner that would not be
shaken off. I stepped into a city-going om
nibus, sitting down bv the door and in
stinctively taking notice of the other pas
sengers only two stout old men at the
far end for it .vas a bitterly cold night,
with a heavy snow-laden sky, dreary
enough to make one lonely and miserable
under any circumstances. I was both.
Yet, withal, as we started eastward, there
began to steal over me an odd internal ex
citement, as of a vague expectancy, a rest
lessness and intensified desire to gain my
end, which became almost agony in its pas
sionate vividness. It seemed to grip me,
thrall my very soul, like a visible force.
God of justice ! was there nothing above or
below that knew the dread seoret I sought ?
No power seen or unseen from whence
my inmost being could draw the knowledge
ot tnat one man s lading place?
What, too, was my chef thinking of his
trusted agent, on whose success he had flung
his whole credit? What on this dread night
were the feelings of her relations, that
their- beloved dea,d was still unavenged?
In those moments I felt halt maddened
with longing, and then in and through that
longing there grew a strange sensation, as
if something I knew not what went out
from me, taking my life from me, then
seeming to draw back with it in returning
something that I could not grasp or define
that I never shall be able to define hut
made me, with a sort of sud'den mental
wrench, look up, impelled by a force
quite outside myself, to see sit
ting opposite to "me a lady, young
and lovely, dressed in handsome mourning.
To be Condtided To-Morrom.
COAL OIL JOHMY
And Bis' Wealth' and Ways Talked
About by His Wife.
HIS ECCENTRICITIES RECALLED.
Xeir Fstimates of His Income Tliat Scale
Town Old Ones.
HE XEYER CRIED OVER SPILLED MILK
Cough A Remarkable Care by Jayne's
Expectorant Tears Ago, and the Con
dition of the Patient Now.
Moscow, Ohio, Dec. 3, 1801.
Dr. D. Jayne & Son Gentlemen : For
years, in my younger days, I was troubled
with a bad Cough, and in consequence was
weak and delicate. My friends thought I
was verging toward Consumption, and every
indication pointed to that fact; so muh so,
that I was' refused admission to the Army.
I was induced finally to try Dr. D. .Tayne's
Expectorant, and almost immediately re
ceived relief. After the use of a number of
bottles, in connection with Dr. D. Jayne's
Sanative Pills, I was entirely cured. To
day I am well and hearty, and weigh 35
Eounds more than in my younger days, and
ave no signs of Consumption.
E. J. Mailing.
To obtain the genuine, buy of your neigh
bor druggist, whom you know. jtwr
New York Grocery.
Juit sit down and think of the many bar
gains offered you this week at Thompson's
New York Grocery:
16 quarts navy beans f 1 00
8 cans condensed milk. 1 00
10 packages best gelatine. . . i 1 00
30 bars 5-cent wax soap 1 00
30 bars 5-cent floating soap 1 00
12 cans fine sugar corn 88
12 cans string beans 05
12 cans good peas 65
:srEctAi, TZXxoijAM to the DTsrvrcH.1,
Oil City, Feb. 10. Mrs. John Steele, of
Ashland, Neb., has been here on a visit
fcr the past week. Mrs. Steele is the wife
of a man to whom the discovery of petro
leum in Pennsylvania gave a wider reputa
tion than any other man, and one concern
ing whom many true stories and many noble
lies have been told. He is none other than
the famous "Coal Oil Johnny," whose
former home was near Rouseville, this
county, and who now has a farm near the
Nebraska own named after him.
Mrs. Steele was given an opportunity to
correct iu an interview some of the "Arab
ian Nights" talcs told about her husband's
eccentric actions in the davs when he was a
reported millionaire and when his source of
wealth seemed limitless. She bad been
wvried long ago by exaggerated interviews
with her husband and herself and declined
to talk, but the following interesting points
were obtained from an authentic source.
The wealth oi Mr. Steele has undoubtedly
been overrated that is to say, bis wealth in
cash.
Be Had 8100,000 In Cash. -
At the time the Pittsburg Sanitary Com
mission made an offer to donate a soldier's
monument to the county making the largest
contribution, the producers ot this section
agreed to set aside tor that purpose the
proceeds from their wells for one day. Mr.
Steele's contribution lor that day was
?2,500, which was a fair gauge of what his
wells were doing.
The farm and the conjunctive interests
bequeathed to him by his grandmother he
probably could have disposed of for half a
million dollars or more when the same
came into hia posession, but it is .doubtful
if at any time he posessed more than fl00,
000 in cash.
His expensive eccentricities were many,
but did not include as often reported, the
purchasing and giving away of a hotel
in Philadelphia. The story probably grew
out of the fact that while in Philadelphia
at one time he experienced some difficulty
in securing a hack and finally bought one
outright; that when he got through with
the rig the driver asked him what to do with
it and he told him to keep it It was on
that trip to Philadelphia that he, while
with Slocum, the fellow who was "showing
him the world,"attracted so much attention
by going about with bills of various de
nominations tied in the buttonholes of his
clothing by making small pnrchases with
good sized bills, taking no change back and
even lighting cigars with his money.
Cartons Ways of Spending Hit 3Ioney.
Another of his eccentricities on that, trip
was the .forming of a negro minstrel troupe
at random, for each of the members of which
he bought a suit of clothes when he engaged
him. He brought his troupe here, and that
was about all he did with it
The details of his doings in Philadelphia,
New York, Saratoga, and elsewhere. In
cluding his experiences with sharpers no
tably his $10,000 acquaintance with John
Morrissey have been written threadbare.
Summed up briefly the main points in his
life are these: Wlien quite young he be
came an orphan and was adopted by his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William
McClintock. He was married two or three
years before he became of age, and worked
at farm work until the oil excitement be
gan. He then engaged in hauling oil down
Oil creek and hauling coal back with a pair
of old plugs. The result was the possession
of a good team of hia own. The McClintock
farm became one of the most Valuable along
Oil creek. Mrs. McClintock survived her
husband several years, and when she died, in
1865, the adopted son, Steele, became the
sole heir to her property.
Seeing the World With His -Wealth.
He soon calculated to see some of the
world with his wealth and he saw it He
sought notoriety and he got it. He spent
his money like a man with Monte Cristo
backing wap bled by leeches, fleeced by
sharpers, and in a few years, his oil inter
ests in the meantime rapidly depreciating
in value, he found himself again a poor
man. But no one ever heard him express
particular regrot over the return he re
ceived for his money.
At one time when he was highest jn his
eccentrio extravagances, Captain J. J. Van
dergrift, T. H. Williams and others sent for
him and kindly, expostulated with him on
the point that he ought to save some' of his
money. He thanked them for their friend
ly advice, but said that he had made a liv
ing by hauling oil and could do it again if
necessary. He couldn't rest nntil he had
spent that fortune. Ultimately he got the
required rest
A cousin of Mr. Steele maintains that the
estimates which have been pat upon Steele's
wealth have not, as a general thing, been
exaggerated. He says that he personally
knows that when Mrs. McClintock died
Steele inherited (125,000 in gold and about
$100,000 in other money. The income from
his wells then was from $1,000 to 52,000 a.
day. The cousin says that from his knowl
edge of Steele's affairs he should say that at
one time "Coal Oil Johnny" could' have;
prodnced $1,000,000 in cash.
HOKSFOKD'S ACID PHOSPHATE
LATE KEWS IN BRIEF.
A blizzard is sweeping over Nova Scotia.
The Uruguayan Congross opened yester
day. T
llatn is Improving the harvest outlook in
India.
Leprosy is increasing on tho Canad'an
Faciflo coast.
Uestless Indians in New Mexico are
quieting down.
Now typhoid fever, is reported from
Piicbla, Mexico. .
The elevated railway deal in Chicago
lias been completed.
The Governor of Florida asKS by proclama
tion relierbr Russia.
Tho Walsall anarchists at Londbn have
been committed for trial.
Tho Sheriff of Franklin county, Mo., is
short $8,000 in his accounts.
President Diaz, of Mexico, promises a
fine exhibit at the World's Fair.
Tho Sims-Edison electric torpedo was
successfully tested at Portsmouth, England,
Monday.
Tho disnutelintwppn PrinrflnTKl Mnrnnnn
over tho Touat oasis has been settled In
France's favor.
Mayor Washbnrne is not alarmed by the
aire threats of the railroads, nrf to the grade
cro3sintf controversy.
Coal nnd petroleum are said to exist in
large quantities, as well as iron, in the newly-opened
Mesahlc range.
A tank of crude petroleum in Chicago
bnrst Monday evening, badly burning four
men. Peter Clark may die.
President Carnot yeterday signed tho
bill appropriation 3,2-"0,000 Imncs for the
French exhibit at the World's Fair.
The Chicago City Council has adopted
the committee report against the erection
or buildings in the luture higher than 150
feet.
Tho San Fianslsco Highbinders' feud
broke out again Monday night. One of the
Chinamen was mortally wounded in the
tight.
.Trrrtr Slmngnn wdl ,-n a frl.n Ci...Tn..I
Industrial Convention, where he will try to
.uiiiu niB caiuugoi a xresiuentai nominating
convention.
Owing to the prevalence of tho grip, the
Fopo has abolished all fast days in all places
where the disease is prevalent In the Cincin
nati diocese.
is
saved. A dispatch from Bahla reports the
loss there of the ship Emanuel Swedenborg.
In all the Catholio churches of Quebec,
Sunday, a mandamus was read, signed by
all the bishops of the province, denouncing
political corruption and threatening excom
munication against all who either gave or
accepted bribes, money or liquor. All per
sons are forbidden, under pain of anathema,
from buying or selling liquor, not only on
election day but for tnreo days before and
after tho contest.
A Physician's Prescription.
When it becomes necessary to employ ah
alcoholic stimulant as an effective adjunct
to sustain the flagging powers of life in
disease, I know of no Better one than Max
Klein's Silver Age. I have examined it
and find it chemically pure. I can recom
mend it as being reliably and carefully dis
tilled. Its high standard of t excellence
should commend it to all first-class druggists
and dealers in fine liquor.
mwt J. B. JonNSOJ.-, M. D.
J. B. Simpson, a well-known plung
missing ironx Dallas, Tox. The Grand Jury
has found several indictments against him
for financial crookeness.
, Sixty-nine of the professors at tho Ber
lin University, including all the theological
faculty but two, have petitioned the Prus
sian Diet against the primary education
bill. t
The Indiana State Auditor has added the
names of several more insurance companies
to his black list, including the Macon, At
lanta Homo and Georgia Home, of Georgia;
the Merchants' Mutual, the Crescent, the
Southern and Firemen, of New Orleans; tho
Peabody and the German, of Wheeling, W.
Va.: the Palatine, of Manchester, England;
the Quebec, of Canada, and the Imperial, of
Calcutta.
The schooner Laura,, of Gloucester,
Mass., just arrived at Halifax, X. S., reports
that last month a tremendous sea swept tho
vessel, carrying overboard two or the crew,
John Kelly and Colin McKenna. Kellv was
swept back upon the deck by another wave,
but MrTCpnnA wna Inet- 'rVia AmActnon I
schooner Ella G. Thurston has arrived at
Lockport, and reports tho loss of lour men
on tho Banks. Tho men were in dories, and
could not find their vessel. Tho Gloucester
schooners. A. Duncan foundered ofl Green
Island on Saturday morning. The crew was
THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD'S
WASHINGTON TOUK.
Last of His Season.
The last tour of the winter .series to
Washington from Pittsburg, via Pennsyl
vania Railroad, will leave February 25.
Thiswill afford a delightful opportunity of
visiting the National Capital in its most
attractive season while both Houses of
Congress are iu session and all the depart
ments open to visitors. Excursion tickets
will be good for ten days from dafe of sale.
admitting of a stop over in Baltimore in
either direction within limit, and tourists
will travel in a special train of parlor cars
and day coaches. r
Kate. Tram leaves.
Pittsburg 9 00 0.00 a. X.
East Liberty S flu 9:10 "
Arrive.
Washington 8:45 r. M.
The tickets will be good for use on any
Tegular train of the dates above named ex
cept limited express trains. The return
coupon will be valid for passage on any
regular train within the return limit except
the'Pennsylvania limited.
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$18 fur capes to $8.
'that cough is a SIGNAL Of DANGER."
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Hysteria, and other diseases of the nervous
system.
A THURSDAY BARGAIN SALE
75
88
50
1 15
1 CO
1 70
1 00
12 cans blackberries
12 cans standard tomatoes (3-lb cans).
12 cans pumpkin (S-lb cans)
12 cans jrood table peaches (3-Ib cans)
12 cans Bartlett pears (3-lb cans)....
12 cans green gage plums (3-lb cans).
16 lbs London laver raisins
18 lbs loose muscatel raisins 1 00
20 lbs Valencia raisins 1 00
20 lbs Enclish currants 1 00
"20 lbs Turkey prunes 1 00
au lbs L&lilornia evaporated peaches.. 100
20 lbs dried blackberries 1 00
50 bars best scouring soap 1 00
24 lbs new Lima beans 1 00
10 lbs dessicated cocoanut 100
filbspurs cocoa 1 00
4 sacks choice amber flour (guaran
teed) 5 00
Extra suear-cured shoulders, per lb. . . 7
25 lbs white sugar 1 00
To our city customers we will allow car
iare on all purchases of 55.
Goods delivered free to all parts of both
cities. To those living out of the city we
will prepay freight on all orders of $10 and
upward to any station or landing within 100
miles of Pittsburg. Send for price list.
M. E. Thompson,
311 . Tilarket street, directly opposite
Gtisky'e entrance.
From Kalamazoo.
Norman I.Icbty, Dcs Moines, la.
Dear SirAa. box of Headache Capsules
was handed to me, and I have used, tbem
with perfect success They cannot be rec
ommended too highly. Could not possibly
do without them in my house. 1 recommend
them to suflcrers with this common though
terrible complaint.
VF3u J. Exsutg, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Holmes' Best
Is one of the standard brands of Pennsyl
vania rye whiskies and is' recognized as
such all over this country.
That Will Make a Clean Sweep of AH (tho
Damaged Clothing That's left P. C. CAC,
Clothiers.
The following bargains are for Thurschy's
sale only. The sale starts at 8:30 in the
morning and ends at 5:30 in the evening.
It is a terrific sacrifice of all clothing left
from our late fire. Some of the goods are
merely slightly damaged. The bulk of the
suits are perfect The prices we mention
make other reduction sales appear rtdicu
lons. Ours is the giant sale. Others are
simply dwarfs. Kemember, Thursday, Feb
ruary 18 that's the date.
These are the prices for goods placedcin
our basement bargain department:
A complete line of men's fine pants,
worsteds and cassimeres, wide and
narrow stripes, checks and plaids,
18 styles, at $1132
A lot of boys' three-piece suits, sizes 8
to 1G (coats and vests with knee
pants), made ol Scotch cheviot, at
only .saoo
Boys' chinchilla reefers, with plaid
cassimere lining, sizes 5 to 18, at.. 1195
Men's English whipcord suits, sacks
nnd cntawavs. narrow and wide
wales, blue black color, all sizes;
nobody can beat our price of. 590
Men's double-breasted velour cheviot
suits, retail at $18 per suit; we sell
'em Thursday at CS0
Eour shades ot lightweight melton
overcoats, sold at regular sale for
$15; our, price Thursday is 485
On our main floor you will find men's
fine black cheviot suits, sacks or
cutaways, bound or plain, sold al
ways at $22; Thursday price 990
Men's fine melton overcoats at 750
Men's dress pants, all the $5, $6 and $7
goods go for 275
A great line of boys' suits, sizes 4 to
14, neat and fancv patterns 170
Sixteen strlesof boys long pants suits
at.... 500
P. C C. C., Clothiers, corner Grant-and
Diamond streets.
Will buy this VJ B)r
(regular $17) .SJ mtZLJSlBr
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KARPETS,LADIES'WRAPS.
WE HAVE 40 OR 50 PATTERNS OF
INGRAIN KARPETS,
Which have from 20 to 30 yards in the piece.
P.EMNANT PEICES.
They'll all go at
OAK FKA1IES,
Elegantly Uphol-sterod.
BED LOUNGES.
$8.85, $12,
$15, $17,
They're comfort
able bargains.
PRICES-FOR-A-LEAN-PURSEI
Earpets fine enough for any room in your house at the price
of the cheap trash:
20 Remnants at 600, have been 85c
15 Hemnants at 49c, have been 70c
8 Bemnants at 25c, have been 45c
B-R-U-S-S-E-L-S K-A-R-P-E-T-S-!
400 yards good Brussels, 60c; have been 80c
720 yards fine Brussels. 79c; have been $1.00.
-400 yards Axminster, $1.50; have been $2.25.
THEY'RE BARGAINS, AND YOU "WANT THEM. "We want the room.
Mattresses, Springs and Comforts
Are no side issuo with us; but tho prices
nro far below all competition.
Dress Salts.
For a good fitting suit or overcoat go to.
Pitcairn4, 434 "Wood street. wsa .
LADIES'
rSp
KDATS
1
JACKET
S,
SEHS1G.
A Boiling
Bargain for
$1.89
COISTTJBJIVTS.
Do you want a Winter Coat or Jacket at two-thirds of
former prices?
Plush Jackets now $8.90, were $16.
Plush Coats now $15, were $28.
1 Wash Boiler,
1 Colfeo Holler,
1 Saucepan,
2 Tie Plates,
1 Cook Van,
1 Pot Cover,
ll'epnerEor,
1 If ntmeg Grater,
1 Cake Cuttor,
1 Steamer,
1 Tin Cop,
1 Dipper,
1 Spoon.
1 Jfeat Fork,
3 Bread Pans,
1 Cake Pan,
4 Cookie Pans,
1 Cake Turner.
CLOTH JACKETS.
Fur-Trimmed now $17, were $26.
Fur-Trimmed now $24,were $37.
Also a lot of Roll Collar Cloth Jackets and Newmarkets at yi to j off.
TERMS KASH OR KREDIT.
TOILET
SETS.
Wo have only 22 of
tlice regular $3 .TO Toil,
et Sets. Hat here they
6-
12 PIECES
FINELY DECORATED,
i;i.
PARLOR FURNITURE.
We invite you to look at a stock of
PARLOR
.50
For Thit HANDSOME
SIDEBOARD.
-ASD
LIBRARY FURNITURE
That is unsurpassed for beautiful
form, color and construction. The
prices tell a wonderful story, as it
shows effects in medium-priced goods
that look worth double the prices
asked. For this week, also, we have
cut the prices to
NO-PROFIT- PRICES.
Is IB M m m.
All Dishes and Toilet
Sets at
CLOSE-OUT
PRICES.
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A ED-HOT SUBJECT.
$9.50 !!LJ$
For this Large COOK QC 2-QUAP.T
STOVK. O BUCKET.
T
Handsome
CUSPiDOBS.
2C 1-Plnt
TIN CUPS.
TCDMC. IfASH OR
1CHIH3. RR
635-637
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