THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1S99. &bi)biM)bW .;;,JI! livers it, : I urn nil artist, not altogether uii kiwvvn, hnp paintings have been nc (Mnniodnlncl on the Willis of IJurllngton house at lerjiilnr Intervals for wrao ivnri past Hut 'It was not always thu At the outset ot mv career I found It veiy uphill woik, and nlthough T painted many pictures, and painted them well, too In mv own estimation til nil e elite owing to want of "nat ions I wni often hard pushed to find Hie means of procuring the roasonablo necessaries of existence1. Po It was a t"l-littur day with m when an old fnrnd of my fnthet's called upon ma o put mo Into the way of obtaining a commission to paint a gentleman's por trait. "Now. my dear bov," suld Mr. Monn ivell, "the Society lor the Ieollef nnd Supeiannuatlon of Distressed Ilrltlsli JJono Hollers have determined to honor one of their nicnbon- Mr Osslan Tlb byer, a llch bono boiler, by having his portialt hung In the court loom of the Institution. It may seem to ycu, ns It elnos to me, that the money would be better spent In assisting the charity, but that Is no business C oui. the naidcn of the society Is u ft it ml of mine, nnd I can got you the Job If you ceie to imdeitake It." Portrait painting was not a favorlto phase of nit with me, as I pieforred landfcape and animals, but "begrars must not be enooseis," and I Jumped nt the offer. Jn due time I was waited upon bv a committee nt the "Society lor," etc., to whom the an.ingement of the busi ness had been entrusted, and 1 found these gentlemen In a most genial and reasonable mood. It subsequently transpired that thty had Just partaken of a substantial ard choice luncheon out of the fund which had been voted for the purpose of the testimonial, which no doubt accounted for their pleasantness, but It was no detriment to me, as we quickly arrranged teim, and thty left mo on the understanding that I should paint the portrait ot Mr. Osbi.m Tlbbyer for the sum of 50, to be paid to me when the woik had been nrpiod by Mr. Tibbyei himself. 15ut. before leaving my studio, the chaliniaa of tl.e committee took me aside. ' There Is one thing that I should llko to mention, Mr. Paignton," he said. "Our esteemed friend, Mr. Tll.byer, Is not -ahem is not a very regular fea tured man, and I fear you may feel some little difficulty in trarisferilng his expression to cam as In such a way at to be pleasing to himself and his fi lends You know what I mean Now, ou must do jour bet to make the por tialt a sntisfactoty one!" I must Hatter hlni a bit, you mean?" I leliirned. Ahem! Suppose we say that joa must endeaor to assist by ait a. nature that, in itself somewhat tugged (al though of pure ligln gold, ns It were), shows Its kindly feeling in the very loughnes-s. of its esterlor. That's about the way 1 should speak ot it after one of our annual dinners, you Know." CVitalnly, I quite understand," I re- plied, smiling nt Ills gtanciuoquenee. i will tiy and supply the polish that Is wanting." "That's light!" Iip cried. "Tone down the excrescences and 'ln It on thick!' !ood morning" In a few das I was fawned with a sitting fiom Mr. Tlbbyer. Fiom the chali man's warning I had xpected to llnd a "plain" man In the pet son of my slttei, but when 1 beheld him 1 was really honiited at the task which was befoi e uie. tor the distin guished bone-boiler wns. without exc eption, the ugliest man 1 had ever sot eyes upon. I low on eaith I was to make a "satisfactory" portrait ot him I was at an utter loss to know ' Looking at him full fuci' lie showed a lumpy, Iriegulni-shaped blow, with thick, stubby hali, giowlug down al most to hl- ejebinws, his noe bioad, his mouth wide and heay, and his chin which he, unfoi tunatelj for my pur pose, kept shaed teceded at an angle partaking moie of the simian type than of its Daiwinlan development In pioflle his nose turned up to an extent which suggested that it had been perpetually endeaoilng to get nway fiom the odois In wlilili It had woiked ill Its life, and the lecedlng chin, of collide, showed to l far wotse demee han it did lull face I felt Inclined to i enounce the com mKslon altogether, or, at lean, to sug gest to Mr. Tlbbyer that he should giuw u beaid and sec me again in a eouple of months, when some of t lie de fects, would be hid but I compioniled matters stalling upon a thtee-quar-tfr face pot trait. It was with a poor heait, though, that I placed him in pn Hon, and I had an Innate feeling Horn the flist that the lesult would piove an titter failure. Mr. Tlbbjer wiib a eiy patient plitei. He would btrut Into the studio and, having assumed the (to him) neces-iaiv pompous expiesslon, he would bit as long ns I pleased without murmuilug. He nirely attempted conversation, and when he did ho used so main lung wolds which he did not know how to pronounce and he misplac ed his h s to such an extent that I shook with sup pressed laughter. He ndmltted. fiom the beginning, that he "was no Judge of Hart," nnd he took as little Interest In the progress of the poi trait us he would if ho had been a bone and I had had to boll him, so to speak. i worked at that portrait till 1 could see and think of nothing else but I could not satisfy mvself at nil with It It was useless to make It true to nature It would have frlchtened all the oth er plctuies In tho court room out ot their frames! and when I endeavored o lend a grace to "the virgin gold" ivhlch I had to work upon (as the com mitteemen had playfully put it) the Identity was destroyed to such an ex tent that nobody would have recog nized It as Intended for tho gentleman wh6m it was supposed to represent. Perhaps an older hand a "fashion nble portrait painter" might have ton tilved to tuin out a plctine which, while being absolutely unlike Mi. Tlb byer In every feature, would In lis i rtisemblo have reminded his ti lends of him but I very much doubt it. All I know Is that tho more I slaved at It the worse It looked. Mi. Tlbbyer sat for mo until I was ashamed to ask hlni to come any more, nd at last I told hlni that tho por trait only luqulrcd tho finishing touches, which I could glvo to It without his presence. I worried myself nearly Into a fever trying to make the abominable tblncr presentable, and, dually, I tool; the fatal step and dt dared the painting finished. Tho committee came to low It, ac companied by Mr. Tlbbyer, and I threw ort the cloth from the picture (which I hnd placed In a handsome and massive frame to try and enrry It off) with fear and trembling. Mr. Tlbbyer looked It up and down for a few moments, apparently weigh ing It up in his mind, as It It had been a heap of bones. I watched his countenanc? eagerly and saw a deep frown gradually devel op Itself, followed by a puiple glow ot Indignation. I knew that "It was all up." "Thnt m poi Halt!" he exel limed "That tho llktm-H of Hessian Tlbbyer' Sit ! youo cither mistook your busi ness oi you're insulting me. I wouldn't 'ave it 'ung in my hown 'ouo, let alone In tho court loom ot a noble Illnstllu tlon' It's a fraud, gentlemen; a down tight fraud, and the man as painted it ought to bo persecuted for slander. HI dcclln" to approve of it. HI believe it is subject to my approval, his It not, Mr. Chairman''" And ho tinned his glailng eyes on tho chnlrman ot the committee, who looked at me, ns much as to bay; ' 1 told you so!" I Then, nnsweilng the Irate Tlbbyer, he uibanely snld: i "Coitalnly, Mr. Tlbbyer, and unless you nppiove of it we cannot accept It lrom Mi. Paignton." "Well! Does any on you tliinK it u good portialt " demanded Mr. Tlbby- I er, with a scowl at the committee gen- eralh. ! They all eiy wisely hold their tongues, with the exception of ore who was bolder than the lest. "I shouldn't take It for you," ho de cl.ued, "still, It Is not quite like you, but then, you know, I am no judge of art." "Hart be blowed!" roared Mr. Tlbb yer, "Its no bait to paint a picture of a man so that 'e looks more like a hape than a 'uinan beln'! I'd paint a better picture with a burnt stick on a white washed wall and wo won't 'ave it!" I felt mad, but I restrained myself and kept my language ordinarily polltp as I told them, as straight as I could, "And what have you dona with that picture of me?" ho nsked. "Oh!" I replied, "I used the canvas for another subject." "Ah! Painted It ocr and used it afresh," ho said. "And might I ask what you have done nbout It?" I returned. "Well," he answered, "after thlnkln' It over, the committee decided to pre sent mo with a pleco o' plate Instead " Hut Mr. Tlbbyer had his portrait af ter all, nnd paid for It himself. That Hist deal with htm led to aulto a filendshlp between us, nnd I found hlni to be a not ungenerous man when I cot to undei stand him better. His conceit and other faults arose from want of education more than anything else, and his wife was a nice, motherly old ladv, none the worse for not pos sesslng much of the superficial ways of society. They have since purchased otlie. works of mine, but Mr. Osslon Tlbbyer Is more proud o,f his "Freebooter" than of uny. Ho values it now at much more than he gave for It which, since I have made a name, he Is right in doingbut he has no Idea and I hopo he never will have that his favorite picture Is only his own portrait revised and Inipioed! London Kpnie Mo ments. MAP-MAKING HARD WORK thus his map sheets are a summary of the best Information that has been col lected. One of the most famous Kngllsli map publishers was asked a while ago If In) thought many Dtltlsh maps were pro duced which reached tho German, standard of cartogrnphlc excellence. "Certainly not," was his reply, "and I don't mean to deprecate the talents nnd attainments of our cartographers when I say this. An a matter of fact, wo can turn out Just as good mup pro ducts as those of the leading Uorir.an houses. Tho reason why wo fall bo hind them In some tespects Is that wo cannot afford to equal their map qual ity. We have to pay cartographers nearly double the scale of prices com manded by tho most famous mapmnk eia of Germany. Our public will not pay the prices for maps we would bo compelled to charge If we spent ns much time preparing a map sheet us the best German makers do. Our carto graphic talent Is ns excellent and well trained as thelis, but wo cannot af ford to linger as long over the prepar ation of a map sheet as the Germans do." Tho fact is, however, that the Ger mans have Invented some mechanic. 1 processes in map making which nro not understood outside their own es tablishments and these processes con tribute to tho excellence of their work The geogiapher ot one of the leading map houses In London said iccenl'v that during a visit to Germany last summer be obtained permission t go through the establishment of the iimt famous geographical house In tint country, but there were a number if rooms where woik was In progress which, he wns told, were never shown to visitors. A. RHtfME OF THE SEA. Ycais of Patient Labor Are Some times Given to One Cartographic Product. Fiom the New Yoik Pun. Tew people hao nny Idea of tho Immense labor expended upon the pro duction of tho best maps. Professor Wagner, who occupies the chair of geo- oVr fnv ,1 ,, . . 1 , nBru' l Purchased a glass of stiff Maine grog Germany, was talking about it the nth- ,r a aU. son of th0 sea. er day. Ibis fumous geographer had I And ho confidentially leaned on tho bar jusi coinpieied tne latest revUIon if I and spun this jam to inc. his Atlas of School Geogiaphy. "I levlso tho Atlas nbout every two '"Twns down on the atdge of the Saia eais," said the piofesaor. "It requires ! gos' In tho nineteenth latltood several months' of ,? line and In ' Thnt ' : '''"lk lZ tlu"lllcst s'sllt that addition to this I have to be on the ' 0Ncr a sn"r Uc"cJ' lookout eeiy dny for news of fresh I Wo was dobbin' along with dumpy sails dlscoeile, collections of eirois that In n nidi about dead calm have crept Into the maps, new political When thofoiward watch glv' a good long boundaries, new temperature obsnva- ' squint and ho japped n loud alarm, tloiu in tho Amazon basin. Co.' in- I .... stance, where few- nieteninlnrrlr -i. i.. p. na ,llore anoai, iwo poims to port, was Cw... .-- , orus nae been kept, which may affoct the position of the isothermal lines on JONAS LONG'S SONS. GREAT FRIDAY SALES-. JONAS LONG'S SONS. a shark a leg'lur lie 'un my maps, and a great variety of otlwr Information which necessitates many chances on my map plates of more or less impoitance. I have to keey o-i file all the maps from explorers which aio published by the geographical so cieties of all lands. It Is fio-n ihcsf maps that most of our Info, ,ialon about new discoveries and tho coirec- Tho biggest shark I've ever seen outbldo ot tho Car rl bean n. that one could only make uncus oi inu , tl0IX of errors Is deriVcd. Then thc-o quality of the clay ono had to woil: , ai? thf. ,nap j,,, ot aetni,ja tono- wlth, and that the pot trait was as good as they could obtain elsewhere. Mr. Tlbbyer, however, stalked out of tho studio In high dudgeon, and he was meekly followed by the commlttee.leav lng me alone with my bete nolr. The painting of tho wretched thing had Intenupted mo In finishing a land scape which I had hoped to get hung at the foithcomlng exhibition; and after a day or two, when my disappointment had somewhat worn off. It occurred to me that I might convett Mr. Tibbjer's poi trait into something else. I did not caie to let the last day for sending in go without submitting bonie thlng, and the portialt was so ugly that it would rcadll adapt Itself to nny vil lainous fancy which might inspire me. 1 studied it from all points and nn In spliatlon seized me 1 made an on slaught upon It with the brush, and painting In a cocked hat and epaulettes nnd facings, a ftnlous-looklng beat el and mustaches, wonls nnd pistols ad lib. and other etceteias, with a back giound of smoke and flu-, I called It ' The Freebooter." It ically did not look bad, I thought; ami, wild as tho Idea seemed deter mined to send It In and let it take its chances ' Po mv 'Tieebootei ' was duly dis p.itPhti' to tho academy, and aseilcs of suipils. s weie in stoio for me. rii-l. 1 lecelved the usual nolle e of its acceptance Secondly I fuund Unit my extem porized "l'Vuebootoi" wns hung in a piomlneut position (as of course, all tieebouters ought to be) And iime ot the ultlcs actually spoke favorably of Thlidly (and must sitiptMng ot all): Some tin ee weeks alter the academy had opened, I was sitting In my studio one morning, painting haul at a com mission loi a dealer to "keep the pot boiling." when who should walk In but Mr. Tibbjei ' My flrtt dream wns that he had como to have anothei look at his poitlalt pei haps In tho hope that I could alter It to meet his satisfaction: but I was .iiiiii-uiHieiy aim agiteably undeceived 'flicumstances nltei cases," and ucl foie Mr. TlbliMM had left I felt that he was not such a bad son of fellow nltu- m;i- Paignton,' le i,lg,ini il m fccury us theie was any tioul.lo about that plctine ..' mine; hut HI don't like it. and that' a fact, so we won't say no moie about that. Hut." ho contln ued, "there's my wife, she's been to the P.yle Academy. Hi'm sure Hi didn't know that you wus so good n hartlst ah to bo ox'lb'tod there!" d bowed at the lett-handed compliment). "We'ie furnlsliln' a new house, as I 'ave built, vou know, and Mrs. Tlbb vei's taken a fancy to a nlcture of joins u Freebooter, it is-an" sho wants me to buy it for the dlnln'-ioom. I don't piutend to know much about hart, but I know that a picture what's good enough to be ex'in'ted at the Ttyle Acudemy must bo up to some thing" (I bowe'd again. "Xot alwnvs!" thought I), "so I've determined to buy it What's tho figger?" I pi Iced it at 10,"I replied. ' It seems a lot o' money for one plc tuie," he returned: "but you had a deal o' trouble over that one, so I won't bate jou' I'll take It'" Hetween my nstonlshmont, by Joy, ami my Inclination to burst out laugh ing at the ubsurdlty of the wholo thing, I could not speak and for a few moments 1 tool; lefugo in a lit of coughing. "I'm sine I'm much obliged to you," I said, as toon ns I could trust myself to answer him, "and also to Mis. Tlbb yer, for having done me tho honor to choose my work. I must say that I think it has made a picture." "Yen," he leplied; "I've been an' had u look at It, nnd it's a line looking picture Just what my Idea of muider ln' freebooter ought to be' Of course, III don't know as It was youis till I looked at tho eatterlogue. but that would 'a made no dlffeiunco to tne." And, to do the old fellow Justice, I am suio, now I know him better, that It would not. "Thank you," I Fuld as I turned to mj desk nnd wrote u isclept for his check. giaphlc survey, Issued by the govern ments of neai ly all civilized lands Tliej- now number thousands nnd thej must be In tho libraries of all first class map publishing houses .vhlch aspire to keep their maps fully abreaf t of geographic progress. "Theie Is also a great deal of author itative literature giving many gio ginphical facts, such as the distribu tion of agricultural products In a crun tij", which may be cleat ly indicated oil the maps we make. All this Infoi na tion has to be classified and pigeon holed ready for use when the tlni" comes for the next map levlslon. "Many persons might think that the most bnnen and scantily peopled paits of the woild would not often require conection on tho maps, but this Is not so In the Arctic regions, for instance, within a shoi t time Peary visits an un known pait of the northeast coast of fiieenland and finds a channel leading far west and separating th'1 mainland as far as Is detei mined from the Islands fuither noith: Xnncn iIIm overs new facts about the depth of the Arctic Ocean the miivomen iont-, mean Unipei pushes his woik within L'50 miles of the Noith Pole, then .InckMin appears with an entirely new map of Franz Josef Land which completely changes our ideas of the geography of that legion; and Tynell tiaveisos a part of Xuith Amcika west of Hudson Bay novel befotc visited and finds now facts for the maps- and other Canadian explii- The old man fired a mightv cuss and ho jelled to the second mnte, 'Sling over the biggest hook vo've got with a good big plug ot bail! Wo dragged 'er astern nnd his nobs como on and then with a mighty splosh, lie gulped the pork, he bit the rope and away ho went, by gosh! Hut when he skinned two miles to leo and begun to wopso and wheel, Wo llggured ho found the lunch he had a laythor too hcartj- meal. Yet right behind In the quaiter wash tho critter swum next day, And though he gobbled the bait we throw, he alius got away. t And at lat, do jo know, we liked the cuss for the wnj- he showed his spunk; So wo named him 1'eto and wo shared -alt boss nnd to"cd him a daily 1unk. He got the ortH of tho (Is-h we caupht and. all In all I'll het A two-horso wagon wouldn't haul the grub that crlttei et. i Then one day Jono-., the likeliest man we had In nil the crew. Went off tho rail with a svvliiKlng sail and Pete lie et him, too Fiom th"t lime on we tipped our caps to tho lazor-backed old buite- Wi tipped our raps nnd pulled a bow In a tno-t prntounil salute mi oi i in; rtrcuo ror 'twas onl due Horn its of Aictlc cm- to honor n comr.idn s atuies, etc, and Though' tvvas odd I'll own ' And the old man ordered tlie tlxli lines colled, for ho 'lowed 'twnm't proper game To bub for a eemetoiy lot: so Pote swum on the ime. Swum on the same, though we come to teo tint he dldnt act quite light. els, tiace- to Hudson's Hay the ilveis i r'"' '" Blew as thln's a b-lavln' pin on that dialn the country to the south of' tI,ilt eol-durncd appetite mat inland sea. livery year on an And we couldn't figger tho secict out, i though the oecond niule was Htm That stowed 'tween decks In the shatk's I lusldcs was a Inula' big tape wnim. j uvei.igo about 2o0 hltheito unknown leeti and locks and other danaeis to navigation aie dlscoveied and must bo noted on manv maps. 'it Is the business of the geuiapher to take all this immense voluuiu ot new Intoiniatlon and use it witl. ciitical cine. He can tell within nanow limits w lint degree of credence Is to lm given to the woik of each explorer nnd he le- jjm at last In. lolled his glas-sy ee nnd Je'ttt. u gieat ileal of lnformatlo.i which Blv' an nwlul oluiin does not appear to him to bo based And turned his belly up to view ami upon sufllclcntlj careful or competent j drifted oft astetu. t s atell I As we didn't have no vermifuge v. e eonld i only mourn tor Pete I And steal salt boss when the mite I wntn'l loiind and ulve him lots in i eat. one of tho handsomest caitogiaphlc wotks of lecent yeais Js the atlas of the Get man colonies which Paul Lang- bans eif Gotha, Ge-rmanj. has recently LuiiiiMcit'u uner iiuuiit iiue'e jeuis cit usslduous labor. He neglected no source of valuable Information In caiijing out this undei taking, and the slxtv map pages give the results of the lute-st and j uesi geonrapuicu: resc-aiones among C-ermanj''H colonies all over the wan Id. As Is the habit of the best (Jeimun inapmakeis, he gives tho souties of all the humiliation h, has placed on hlb maps. To pupate hl.s map of tho Utile .Mar shall Island protectorate, for Instance, he used seventy-Mx diffeient maps, in eluding ofllclal charts, like tho admir alty surveys and the map mateilal pieparcd by the American Board of Commlssloneis tor Torelgn MUstons ot Boston Has any American mnpmakei yet published a map of Wake Island, ono of our now acquisitions In the Pac U'c'' Probably not. Hut our mapmak ers may tuks It now fiom Langhuns, who gives a veiy clear Idea of the three .'pecks of land toiming the AVaka group, over which the A met loan Hag will henceforth float. Ho consulted 120 loute sutveys nnd other maps of the sutnl-arld posses sions of the Germans In southwest Africa to make his eight-page map of that legion: and eveiy wagon load, well, bit of grazing aiea, mining pros peet nnd hamlet In the whole dlstilct is shown with fine effect. His delinea tion of tho Cameroons is based upon 1C5 hiirvejs ot oilglnal map mateilal, of Togo upon sixty-four maps, of Ger many's possessions in New Guineas upon 186 maps; nnd In the ptepaiatlon of his map sheets of Got man Kast Afilca, iho largest of all German col onial possessions, ho mado use of 37J maps. Many of theso mapp wero do voted solely to fomo especial featuie, one map, for instance, giving topo gruphlo aspects, nnother caiavnn unites, another tho names of tribes and their distribution: and all these maps were the woik of men from vari ous nations who havo taken pait In the study o' Knt Afilea. I.anglinns took fiom each map what needed und He lolled n ml sogged on a los u.ll like a nut cako dropped in fat, And It 'peaied to all there was Mithlii wrong with the slunk we was inoklu' .at. So the old man oidcrul the i,lg e-n w up and tho bos'u piped a tune And nway wo sploshed, with the mate ahead, n-gilpplu' a big harpoon He tiling tho thing when wo drew abouni and we backed like all-possessed. Hut that shark was sleepln' sound, ou bet, lot wo never bioko his ust We never brok Ids peaceful snooze though plunk to the evelot head Went ilppln' In thnt big hnipoon, for vmi see, the shall; was dead. And the. old man oidcred an nrtoiiM foi tho thing seemed mlgnty queer That mi able-bodied, huaitj shark was doadci'n a dooi Knob heu So tho mate was medical 'xnmtner he stinddled tho critter a back And laid him open from deck to with one alnilghtj' whack and keel , for Now listen close while I tell tho rest, this is tho stouts peth You may taki my noli for a scuttle butt, If tho shark warn't starved to doa'h. Starved to death, though tho sea was full of the faltcst kind of fish. And though a mntiuer, plump and sound, had fallen in Ills rtlsti Starved, though bo had In his goiged In sides, I'll bet a hundred weight Of every kind of a lloatlng thin,; fiom a codfish down to bait And this was bov. He'd spied, we Judg. ed, nn empty cask afloat. And belli' a glutton ho grabbed tho cak and tucked It down his throat. Tho cask we found hnd Hit open end. the bottom rood nnd stout, Tho shark bad followed tho wholo end fust, tho open end was out And ov'y niowcl tho ciltter et was sroop. ed by the capk inside; His vittles failed to reach tho spot nnd so tho poor shaik tiled" This Is a tamplo of welnl, wild jams tho mariners relate I'mler tho spur of a glnss of gro In thu Prohibition slate, llolnuui it. Da.. In Lew 1 tun Journal, NO FINER EXHIBIT OP MILUNERY THAN THE ONE HERE, CAN BE OSCV IN ANY STORE IN AMERICA, &TRONQ STATEMENT TO MAKE BUT VERIFIED BY HUNDRED3. Will indeed be a good Friday here, for you. The activity in Millinery, the enthusiasm in dress goods, the inter est in the coats and suits and around the gloves, all foretell the spirit of Easter. Store has never been so attractive from every standpointA pleasure to spend the day here with us. On every hand is attractiveness. Good Friday iC1" J mm.js Us & m CL0SE'j For 'twas onl due Horn a decent new grav e, ! to lime ii to'nb iitlo.U on the ocean wave. i Have given birth to a new impetus. You find this big and beautiful store throb bing with life and vitality, awake to the interests of its host of shoppers. You find the Scranton and suburban public here in untold numbers. The great cash system thumps with the music of regularity. For every dollar that lides through the brass tubes to the cash office, there leaves the store wonderful values in merchandise for we make of Fiiday the banner day of the week. We give to you values that are unprecedented in trade annals. Will you be here this Good Friday r Will you partake of the Easter Festi val with us ? Will you get your share of the great Fiiday Bargains ? Will you be doubly satisfied with what you buy ? Of course you will. M am Floor B argams cents For Women's fine gauge pair seamless fast Black Hosiery, with double soles and high spliced heels either plain or fancy drop stitch. Actual value 19c. On sale at 10 o'clock Friday 1 ic pair. cents Only a quarter for 3 3 prs. pairs of Men's seamless 4-thread leal maco fast Black Cotton Hose, with double toes and heels. Actual value 1234c and 15c. On sale at 10 o'clock Friday 3 pairs 25c. "2Q cents For 1 174 yards of 45 inch extra fine twill Black Imperial Serge. "J - yard This beautiful and desirable fabric is one of the most stylish weaves. It is soft in texture with a silk-like finish ; made from finest Australian wool the wear is guaranteed. Actual value, 59c yard. On sale at 10 o'clock Friday-r- 39c yard. q cents To begin the season with each women's knit underwear 100 dozen women's fine Ribbed Cot ton Vests, with taped neck and arms, nicely made and finished. Actual value and positively woith 15c. On sale at 10 o'clock Friday 9c each. le tor- , Ven- s, in a cents For 2,418 yards of fine tor- yard chon, Point de Pane, ise. Piatt, Val. and Medica Laces great array of new and beautiful pat terns. Two to six inches in width and actually worth 8c ro i2j4c yard. On sale at 10 o'clock Fridayc yard. q c cents For your choice of Women's Fine Dongola Button and Lace -- pair Shoes New Paris, Broadway, Opera and Common Sense Toe; heel and spring heel. Also misses' bright dongola and new russet, lace and but ton shoes ; solid soles, perfect fitting, sizes 11 to 2. Actual value $1.25 and i.o pair. On sale at 10 o'clock Friday 9 pair. 1 cents For 2,000 yards of veiy 2 yard nood ciualitv White Nainsook checks and plaids in a gieat vaiiety of nobby patterns. Not to be found in any store under 6 j4c and 7 c. On sale at 10 o'clock Fiiday 4,.cyaui. 41 cents For 1,600 yards of new 2 yard styles in Spring Per cales, stiictly fast colors and very handsome patterns. Not to be found elsewhere under 7c yard. On sale at 10 o'clock Friday 4c yard. cents For your choice of over one hundred distinct and pietty styles in each Women's Fine Percale Shirt Waists, made with double plaited yoke back, full yoke fiont and self colored collar and cuffs. Newest and daintiest effects of the season. Actual value 59c to 75c. On sale at 10 o'clock Fiiday 44c each. 12 cents For very fine Cloth each Bound Books, 16 mo. size, Dresden designs, large clear tvpe. Titles include all Shakespeare and Rollo books -many others. Actual value z$c. On sale at 10' o'clock Friday 12c each. cents A sensational sale of each white Bed Spreads about 75 all told full length and width, all hemmed ready lor use. Would he good value at $1.2. On sale at 10 o'clock Fiiday 84 cents Second Floor Bargains y 39 Fr Vour choice of 75 Beautiful Trimmed Hats. Built of fine straw A on wire frames in the new marquise shape and walking etfects. Elaboiately trimmed with chiffon, hues and fioweis. Millinery stole price would be $6.00. Our price would be 3.50 to 4.00. On sale at 10 o'clock Fri day $2.39 each. fjQ cents For boys' all Wool Knee Pants, in plaids and checks, both dark pair and light; also plain dark navy. All seams taped and will not rip. Best ot waist bands. All sizes from 3 to 15 years. Just the thing for school. Actual value 50c pair. On sale at 10 o'clock Friday 29c pair. cents For children's fine each White Skirts, made with hem and three tucks. Sizes 1 to 6 years. Actual value 15c. On sale at 10 o'clock Friday 10c each. 2K O cents' For wry good quality pair line Net Corsets, weil honed prettily trimmed with lace. Actual value 50:. On sale at 10 o'clock Friday' jjcpan. CQ cents Foi handsome patterns in Women's Aluslin Gowns, some Irim J?r each med with six lows of lace insertion with nifties of lace and em broidery at neck. In others the yokes aie daintily tnmmed with libbon. Never sold under 890, and worth $1.00. On sale at 10 o'clock Friday 69c each. 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