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THE SCRANTON TRIBUJNJU-TllUltSDAY', MAY IS, 1809.
At Least a Martyr
She had a klsilns-cniKt complexion
and a hind of fipolopctlp sorumlilc of
a wiilk. Her eyes were bendy mid h"r
volco wwi uni)leasint to tlic eat. her
wrist weio lint and had little bones
like knlttliiB needles In them, nnd her
blp head continually tiembled, but
kindness sprond around about her un
Riitnly little body, and loving kindlier
wrapped hei like n Barment. Her kln
heaitednes wus like a -well-regulated
enrrlnge lamp how ecr much was
spent, theie was always more pressliiB
on behind
Hut jet they called lier ugly nnmen
the little boys In the streets and the
gossiping servants, nnd even the wo
men who wnt nnd drank tea and con
vet sed with her of Shnkcsneare and
the musical Kinases; and especially the
butcher, for she would not so much ns
look upon a piece of meat, and used to
Ko and luuanRUe him In his busiest
moments on his hideous crime of tak
ing the IUch of his fellow -creatures
When she met him driving the fat til
sheep to the shambles she becamo
breathless with indignation nnd hor
iors So that he nlwnys escaped a lec
tuie then.
In her calmer moments she used to
siy: "My dear, peihaps It's hilly of me
to be mine Kilfvcil about one than
another, but I do feel tori lest for th
lnmba You see, the sheep have had a
little time to enjoy themselves."
Her furnltuie was all moth-eaten;
mice paraded themselves In the day
time, and she had dismissed more than
iino maid for suddenly and slaughter
ous!' descending at dead of night to
jioiir holing watu on a lloorful of black
beetlfcs.
She Haiti to me once "Chlldien and
tats and dogs and rabbits nnd canaries
have plenH of people to loo them, -o
I tiy to put the balance light by lov
ing tho'-.e things that other people de
splbe nnd kill and call unclean. Why,
my dear, I do hollo, o the very worms
In my gat den know me, nnd last Mar
I had a dear rat that followed me about
anil begged like a dog "
"Wasn't that the hlstotlc int. fnther
of the family that devouted I'auner
Goodson's coin?" I asked In the hard
ness of my heart.
She Iook(d a little dlbconteited and
took up her 1-nItting.
' Well, my dear, perhaps It wa," she
on ned, "though It may .lust su well
have betn an other, and It's lather
unfair to condemn a thing unheard
light off like that. But It was a very
good ve,u" she .Tided triumphantly
nct mlnut", "and ho could easily spare
It1 Think how they enjoyed It. .And
ne reahon why I love all these be
i ailed creatines Js that It must bo so
nice for them to feel that one person
out of the groat contemptuous human
mi o doesn't despise them."
"Hut they can't know It," I objected,
for I did not know her very well then.
"Don't vou think so?" she asked deep
down In her queer guttcral way; "don't
ou think so?"
I had stated the case, so I only shook
lhy head. She had apparently also
stated hets, for she passed on.
"Oh, yes," she said, with a far-away
lo ik In the beads, "people stand up on
platforms nnd scream out that woman
wants this and woman wants that. I
toll you. my dear, that all a woman
wants Is something to love!"
Thov sometimes called her "I-tell-ou-my-dear."
"Oh, yes," she went on again, "they
tall it cranks, and call It fads, nnd
aid maids' whims to love anything but
husbands and babies and things one
hasn't got; but I tell you, mv dear, it
"aves a woman's oul alive'"
And thereupon she shambled across
the loom and fetched and opened thu
contemporary at a maiked pasn.?e In
nn article on the Armenians, and read
aloud to me with Ineffable scorn:
'Klist their movnble wealth was
seized, then their landed property was
confiscated, next tho absolute neces
sailes of life were wrested from thorn
and finally honor, llbeitv and life were
taken with as little ado is It these
Christian men and women weio wasps
01 mosquitoes "
"Now, my dear," she said, pushing
her spectacles up her forehead ami
looking piercingly at me, ' I taj- tho
da will come when the honor and llb
eity of life of wasps and mosquitoes
will be no more lnfilnged than those
of tho so-called Christians who Jiovv
destroy them without a thought."
She clasped her hands together nnd
gazed into space in an ecstac, while
the Contempoiaiy sidled to the lloor
and buist its back, I could have kissed
her, she was so dear and mad. And
yet when, that bamc dav, I heaid
somebody call her the mad old maid,
I turned on him in a tage of indigna
tion. She was terribl hint nnd shocked
when the cuiate and I combined to
prevent her fiom getting up a Zoo
Depopulating society. She had calcu
lated that for 13,000 all the animals
could be safely leturned to their na
tive countries. She said to him that
she wondered especially at him "Don't
jou remember," she asked him, "how
ou Master said, 'Other sheep I have?'
How do you know It wasn't the dour
patient animals on this planet" And
how: ou, und men like ou, who pn.
fress to serve that Master can facts
them heteaftei '" Her emotion was
i too much for hei. She ended In ges-
tuie laughing
So that I was qultp used to Mauling
Ideas ftoru hei Ltut one day, In one
rlef instant, she took all my bicnth
away and (austd me to sit unthinking
ly down upon a basket of deseiUd
oungs bats that she was btlnging up
on a diawlng-room thalt
She had a violently oinnge papef
book in her hand and she greeted me
with nn abstwicted air.
"My dear." she said, "will you Join
the Soclct fot the Prevention of Ciud
ty "to Qenns"'"
I 'met ely gasped, and she laid down
tho otangf book and pioduced a noto
book to enroll me and entei my sub
scription, "It'H a socletv that I am going to
try to form This" she proudly lin
gered that oraugu pamphlet "Is the
prospectus, so to speak. 1 shall send
It all around, and I am suie that In
this enlightened England In this nine
teenth century, there must be hun
dreds of people waiting only for a
word of this kind to realUe the cnoi
mlties are aro every day peipetiated
under the nunto of modern science, and
progiess and Jo fully to perodvo this
duty nnd do It'" I tould tell nlie was
quoting fiom the pamphlet. "And then
tho great question of Justice. People
aro very read, nay, quite prettily
anxious to be Just to anything that
delights their eye, or when the Injust
ice offendB their artistic sensibilities;
but I say tme Justice Is Justice to
thlngH that aic'ugly, things that are
harmful tp ou, things that you hate!
prln-
People go wild over massacres hero
nnd atrocities hei e let them look at
home Anything that happens far
enough away they will spend their
money nnd their lives trying to put
right, but the trngedles that happen
under their own noses, tho creatures
that are being murdered In their mil
lions " When she got excited she
ulwnjs ovenan herself, so to say, nnd
had to pull up. "All these typhoid
getms," she said when she could
breathe again," dlphthcila germs, and
so on, are quite good In themselves,
ou know. They're no more crim
inal than your own butcher and poul
terer and cat and dog' I go further
than moat people, I know," she said
with a grim kind of smile. "My one
Idea Is universal Justice. And I say
the climate of the Interior suits
them, why it's nothing short of bar
borous to deny It to them."
"I don't undci stand you cne bit," I
got In at last.
"My denr," she said, "the plain truth
Is, we've no right to take their lives!"
"Hut In self-defense?" I murmured,
helplessly ilabbergasted; "surely It's
Justifiable a "
"'Fratricide?" she chirped cutclv.
"Hut they would take our lives if we
didn't take tltrss"
"And tint's a nlc r Christian
clple to go upon!" she ciled.
"Well, how do you purpose to avoid
If"
"Muidei's one thing and prevention's
another. You admit that, don't jou?"
"Of course."
"And they've Just as much right to
their lives ns we to oui.s. People will
reiocnbe that ome day. They're slow
ly walking up now. One by on'- Inno-tt-nt
nnd helpless lives are being pro
tected. It began with the earliest hu
manitarians who made slaves instead
ol saerlllces of prisonous of war, and
It's only just reached dumb animals
after all these thousands of yoars! Hut
It's the tendency of the uge, nnd I'm
only just a veiy little In advance of It.
Your chlldien will hold views you think
absurd, untl look on you as a savag;,
ptobably even ns a murdetei. And
some day there will bo unlveisal ieo
ognitlon of the universal law, and the
caith will be one huge paradise!"
"Put if the creatures are not to kill
each other, what will they live on?"
"Vegetables " she said triumphantly.
"And much healthier, too!"
"Hut vegetables have oiganlc life.
too, and bv-and-by, no eloubt, we sh ill
iind out that they have consciousness
and all the lost of It."
"Then peihaps some chemical you
confuse me ". And theie was a a-
ant, struggling, baffled look In her eye
that I did not lemember to have seen
before
She looked so dlstiessed that I want
ed to do nothing but make her torn
foi table again.
"You didn't tell me what your pre
ventlon was to be," I said.
She brightened up like a coal alight
In a di aught, and turned to her open
ing address In the book.
"Oh, latlonnl clothing and pine food
and good air and avoiding contaglcn."
"But let us be logical, dear lady," I
said Invitingly. "I can't ee that you
have any light cither to deprive them
of sustenance nnd prevent them, from
propnyatlng their kind If they wish
to. And surely death by starvation Is
vc:y painful to them?"
She was silent. Her eyebrows went
up In a thiee-cornered sort of way,
and made puzzled creases In all di
rections "My deni, I wish ou hadn't .sug
gested that, ' she said at last. "I
shall hardly know how to act."
"And ou uiust remember the live
only by killing the good genus In ou
which have every bit as much right
to llv e as they "
She lookeil startled and passed her
hnnd over her foiehead.
' Q-uulte so," she murmeied
'And the good ones don't take peo
ples lives and the bad ones do And
we've no light," I said, going back to
giown-up tones, "since you take jour
stand on light to let our fellow ereat
uies be murdered by them."
She looked at me f lightened.
"They say I can see only one side
of a thing at a time," she said In a
mournful confusion, veiy pathetic,
"and I hadn't thought of all that'"
She looked at me hopelessly bewild
ered and dlstiessed and dropped her
hands In such a mlseiable, abandoned
way that I pised abiuptly to the cur
ate's latest twins.
As 1 paid good be she smiled sadly
nt me until the klsslng-eiust was a
mass of woirled ci eases, and said:
'My dear, I wish jou hadn't made
that suggestion'"
Hut when 1 lan back two minutes
later foi my sunshade, she had got
out tho oiange book again and-was
loading happily in It hei eloquent set
ting foith of the aims of the Society
for tho Prevention of Chuelty to Getms
and her lace was slowly turning again
to peaceful and benevolent klsslng
t j ust. And her niece, Daisy, who lived
with her, looked ut her and then
smiled at me, as though she and I
slimed some amusing seciet about the
little woman I Muted back coldly,
and Daisy, reddening, looked away.
Poi a week or so I baw nothing of
hei. Then one day she came down to
me anil stood In the middle ol the
loom with her hands spiead out and
hot beady ejes glltteilng with emotion
' Daisy's got diphtheria," was all she
said
And I waited.
"And Hudolf, the' man she s engaged
to, ou know, says It's all my fault.
Up sas If she dies, I shall have killed
hei Oh, bet's boon saving such awful
things to me'" She clasped her poor
little hands to her pool, big head. "Oh,
he makes me so bewlldcied and con
fused And he does nothing but lamp
ami stamp about the house I told
him he was mad nnd should be locked
up, and he said I wus. And ho said
It was no good saying anything more,
and I said them was a great deal moio
to be said. Hut, however, it ended
theie. And It isn't my fault. I know
it Isn't I novei brought a loose germ
Into tho house. Not a single one, I
iishuii you. my dear And I'd rather"
she hesltnted nnd made a big swallow
und then dashed biavely on "I'd inth
or kill a million geuns all myself than
have Daisy die. Hut, oh, I'm so toin
In two! It's so nlcn to think of them
having a leally good meal, you know
such a healthy glil; but then to think
of her sufferlns'"
"How do you mean a loose getm?"
I asked.
Shevavoldod my o e,
"Rav,"I said.
"Well, I had some shut-up ones sent
down to me for tho society. I
thought, perhaps well, I don't know
what, I thought I could do with them.
And I kept them for days, and looked
nt them with a microscope; and then,
at last, It seemed such a shama to
keep them shut up. They must havo
hated It so, you know, my dear. So
I let them loose In tho gardon.' She
said It so realistically that 1 seemed
to see a litter of puppies tumbled all
anyhow out of a basket. "I thought,
pel ha s, my dear, down In the country
they might chango thblr habits and
llvo on vegetables."
She smiled nt me, a deprecatory,
trembling little smile.
"You know you haven't found yet
that vegetables have consciousness,"
she udded,
"What kind of getms were there V"
I nsked, sternly.
"Dlphtheietlc," she answered In a
fulnt voice nnd looking down
I said nothing. What could one say?
"I don't know how they got at her,"
sho snld, despairingly. "But It proves
one thing that humanity Is their
proper food, nnd that they must have
It!" she ndded rcllectlv ely,
"T suppose you have a doctor?" I
nsked, hnrdly knowing what to say,
while she Btood there with her head
thoughtfully on one side, nbstractly
pulling at her gloves which were half
an Inch longer than her fingers.
"I think It wns very clover of them,"
she murmured In n kind of subducdly
reckless tilumph "In nil that garden!"
I asked ngaln.
"Oh, yes, Rudolf got some one from
London. And he's not only doing some
thing to her," she said, vaguely, "but
to tho garden! I think he might htve
saved her and spared them. I wonted
to prevent him, but Hudolf wouldn't let
me speak to hlrn."
And sho wont away In a dnzeil stnt
I believed sho realized far more that
the gouns wore being destroyed than
that Daisy was In danger. She always
felt that human bolngs must be all
right, theie weio so many peoplo to
look after thrn.
I went often to Inquire after Daisy
who never did anything wrong nnd
began to get well at once; but one day
when I ni lived there wis nobody
about. Nobody answered the bell, so
I walked In at the open door and went
to the dining-room and drawing-room.
They weio empty. In tho passage I
me t an alarmed maid
"Oh, please, 'm, ' she gasived, "the
mistress has got It!"
1 tinned sttalght up the stairs to her
room. Sh was alone, a queer little
bony body In a eiueer little uneom
fen table box eif a beJ. She smiled en
couiagluglv at mo.
"Isn't it odd'" she said in a husky,
difficult voice. "I can got over the
oddness of It."
"It's much moio Important for you
to get over it," I said stupidly.
"We'll see about that," she answered
with an Indescribably wise, logulsh
look.
"What do you mean?" I stood at
tho bottom of her bed and looked at
her as severely as I could.
She chuckled. There was something
about that hoaise, painful little chuckle
that made me turn away and gulp.
"Well," she said, a woid or two at a
time, "I don't mind telling you. They
injected serum, of course. I couldn't
prevent that anyway, but I take and
jjo only half of what the doctor tells
me. it gives mom anu me equal
chances, you see. That's only fair,
isn't it.'"
I nodded. I couldn't speak. I wanted
to kiss her ot slap her, I didn't know
which.
"At first I thought I'd not do any
thing to hurt them, and then I remem
bered w hat you said about good germs,
and lemembered there was a great deal
moio woik I wanted to dt in the world,
nnd so I thought I'd take half! And
nurse Is so angry."
It took her a long time to say all
that, and bi ought tears Into her eves
with the pain of It. I found out from
tho muse afterward that the doctor
had ulso Ideas, and ordered her to
"take and do," as she called It, exactlj
tw Ice as much as w as necessar .
"And," she struggled on after a little,
with that magnificent illoglcalness of
hers which might have been such a
solace to her if she had only appi ecl
ated it, "I should like to die for my
faith. Kvery new cause demands at
least a maitr, you know'"
The next day she was much weaker.
"I wonder," sho cloaked at groat
Intel vals almost lnaudably with a
faint flicker of a smile. "I wonder If
ull tho germs will die when I die, or
how long it will take to kill them. It
seems rather a shabby sou of thing to
do, to go and die und kill them nil,
doesn't It?"
I had my hand on heis and tho only
answer I could make was to squeeze
It in a dumb, stupid way.
All at once she feebly snatched It
back.
"Go there to the window," she said;
' go as far away as jou can, but listen.
I want to tell you something"
I listened and by and by came the
hoaise, whirring, dlstiesslng speech.
"It's this," she said, and her dlscol
oi ed little face woikod with tho nn
gulsh of effott around those shining
beads of eyes. "If It hadn't been for
nil those dear, despised things to love,
I should have gone mad mud I tell
jou, my dear'"
I mutmeiod something.
And then ull at once In he ait-bi dik
ing haste she made shift to ciy "Oh,
my denr, love something. If It kills
jou, It Is better than not to have
loved'"
I turned and saw tho light ot her
face.
"I have been happy." she cioaked In
agony; "sue h a happy life so full "
And then she choked horribly and
tho muse oaino flying and sent me from
hoi. And 1 never heaid her speak
again.
The next day when I went she was
dead. Tlneo days afteiwaul her f un
ci ul went b I stood behind tho blinds
diuwn down over the open window
and listened to the slow wheels
"The mad old maid!" I heaid a con
temptuous voice sa In tho road below.
Constance Cotterell In Temple Har.
HOSPITAL TOR ANIMALS.
A Model Government Institution at
Bombay, India.
Prnm the Scientific American
Oilentals aro pioverblnlly obstinate
and it takes long time and much pa
tience to make them believe In Ideas
which emanate fiom tho west Por
example, horses are- rniuly seen run
ning loose In a Held In India, "because
homes," says a native, "ulvvuys have
been tied up and they must always bo
tied up" This obstinate dinging to
tradition Is the hush of much of the
oilentnl Indllfoience to suffering. The
Hal Sakaibul Petit Hospital for Ani
mals seems one of the most remark
able examples of the manner In which,
by slow degiecs, western civilization
has Influenced tho oilont. The hos
pital is situated near the government
house ut Paiel, Bombay. It was
founded In 1881 by Sir Dlnshuw M.
Petit, Bart,, a Parsee mill owner, and
was folmeally opened In 1884 by Lord
Dufferln. Tho hospital occupies un
aiea of 40,000 mjuaio yards of ground
nnd thero are about forty buildings,
large nnd email, on the premises, Tho
entrance gatovvny nnd tho largo foun
tain In the center nro excellent exam
ples of Indian utchltectute. Tho na
tive cotton und grain merchants and
mill owners of Bombay have organized
a system of voluntary taxation upon
the Import nnd export of grain and
seeds, and on the sale of cotton to the
local spinning and weaving mills, by
which the sum of 40,000 rupees a jear
Is collected for thu maintenance ot the
Institution. There Is also a lnrge en
dowment, the Interest of which is de
voted to the current expenses of tho
hospital.
There are five cuttle wards, two
horse wurds, one dog ward, a con
sultation ward, a forge shop, a dls
ponsaty, post-moitem and dissecting
loom, a chemical laboratary, a patho
bacteriological laboratory and a vet
erinary collcgo Is connected with tho
hospital. The college is maintained at
tho expenses of the government, At
tho hospital thete Is accommodation
for 200 head of cattle, sixty horses
and twenty dogs.
The hospital Is the most unique of
its kind in tho world nnd animals be
longing to poor owners or the public
enrts nnd conveyances plying for hire
are treated free of charge. A nominal
fee is levied for feeding tho Inpa
tients. The splendid maimer In which
the whole hospital Is arranged and run
Is an object lesson to the countries
of tho WCbt.
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NIAGARA'S NEW BRIDGE.
A
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A Stiucture to Be Erected at Historic
Queenston. Heights.
Prom the Philadelphia neeord
From the materials which comprised
the old suspension bridge at Niagara
Kails, which has recently given way
to a laiger and more pretentious spun
structure, another bildge will bo rented
over the same stream some distance
below.
The towers and approaches ot tho
new bridge have been completed and
all Is ready for tho stringing of the
cables nnd the erection of tho lion.
The site will be on the site near tho
village of Lewlston, N. Y., and tho
quaint old town of Queenston, Out.,
where in lSriO-'51 a suspension bildgo
was built to connect the Lowlston
mountain with the historic Queenston
Heights, Into the soil ot which the blood
of tho brave Canadian, General Brock,
soaked when he fell mm tally wounded
The old bridge was many years ahead
of the piofltablo demands of the times
nnd when it was destroyed it wus
never afterwards lebullt.
In the matter of location tho new
bildgo will adhere closely to the old
bildge. From tower to tower tho span
will be a little over 1,000 feet, while
tho span of the suspended portion ot
the bridge will be about 200 feet. The
outside width of the bildge will be 28
feet, and the roadway will have a
width of 25 feet. This width of floor
will afford room for single trolley car
track laid through tho center, with
space on either side for teams to pass
abreast. In the constiuction of the
bridge nbout 800 tons of metal will be
used, and tho cables will weigh all of
200 tons. The strength of the bridge
will be great enough to afford safe
passage for the heaviest of electric
cars In addition to a uniformly distri
buted load of 40 pounds to the square
foot over the whole structure.
The height of the new bridge above
tho water will be about 70 feet, and
those familiar with the former suspen
sion bildges at the falls will recognize
that this Is quite a different ooniMtlon
from the bridges that mude the Niag
ara gorge famous for ltes display of
engineering talent. The old biiclges
were built on a lino with the tops of
tho cliffs, whereas the new bridge will
swing mldwny between the tops ot the
banks and tho waters ot the river. This
has necessitated tho constiuction of
long approaches on either side to af
ford facilities for trolley ears and car
riages reaching the bildge. The elec
tric lines now operating at the watei's
edge on the New York side and on top
ot tho blurt on tho Canadian side will
make connection with tho bridge An
electric road now runs across the up
per steel arch of the falls, and there
lemalns but a final link to bo provided
for before it will be possible to make
the trip about the gorge in a trolley
car, and thus still more effectively rele
gate the Niagara haekman to a rear
seat. The bridge will be completed and
opened for next summer's travel to the
falls.
Tho w recking of the old bridge forms
one of tho Impoitant events in the his
tory of the Niugara region. Karly in
the year 18G4 a mighty mass of ice came
down the Niagara liver from Lake
Erie. The tloe as It passed down the
upper liver and over the falls com
manded much attention, and the own
eis of the bridge at Lewlston wore
feaiful for the safety of their struc
ture, tor the guys were anchored Just
above high-water mark. Orders were
issued to loosen the guys and lift them
up out of the way of the Icy mass In
its passage to Lake Ontailo This was
done. The Ice Jam went out, and no
damage was done. The guys weie not
leunchored and a floice gale swept
down the Niagara chasm with great
foice. It caught the bildge full on the
side nnd soon it was swinging back
and forth. About 11 o'clock on the
morning of Monday, Febiuaty 1, 1SG1,
it gave a mighty surge, and then the
gteater part of the bridge proper fell
Into the liver below. It was a com
plete wreck. Thero was no encourage
ment to rebuild. Back and forth the
old cables swung foi jeais, until at
last they weie cut away nnd allowed
to plunge itno the river, wheio, thirty
four oars before, the other poitlous of
the stiuctuie had found a giave
THE MINISTER PLAYS GOLF.
"U'd a noble game, un elegant game!"
The .Minister suld to me,
As he took his stand with his club in
hand,
While he Mulled most cheiM fully.
"Just valch mo drive, It s an easy live1"
And he moulded u two. Inch tee,
But he missed it clean "That's awtully
mean."
The Jllnlite r said to nn.
Tho gieatost thing Is an easy Hwlng
And a cany through," said he;
Then ho shimmed the giound
"Well, I'll be bound"'
The Minister ald to me.
"This turf Is soft, so I think 1 11 loft,"
Tho Minister said to mo;
Hut ho struck tho wall and he lost his
ball
"That's vtri hard luck!" said he.
He reached tho green In about sixteen.
"Hut It might bu woise," snld ho;
Then ho hit his foot in u slN-lnch put
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Now, l'va heard strango talk in that
thiee-mllo walk,
And 1'vo heard men foozlo and miss;
Hut not In years baa there reached my
ears
A collection that equalled this
From Puck.
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WE GIVE YOU the actual every-day selling price of
every item and the special selling price for Friday.
We tell you candidly and honestly that in no other store on
any day can goods of equal value be bought for the same
money. All we ask is that you come and see for yourself.
Friday from 10 until 6 o'clock.
Friday Sale Strictly All-Wool Carpets
Double extra super and strictly all-wool Ingiain Carpets, in a beautiful range of
patterns and colors. Not a yard of similar carpet has ever sold under 6oc. On Friday only
000 Baskets of Groceries, worth $1,61; on Friday only
Each basket contains one pound coffee, worth 25c; one-half pound mixed
tea, 25c; 4 pounds oat meal, 12c; one-half pound pepper, 8c; one can corn, 9c; one
tomatoes, 9c; one can peas, 9c: 3 pounds starch, 15c; one can baking powder,
10c; 1 package Prosperity Washing Powder, ?c: 2 pounds prunes, 10c: 1 pack
age corn starch. 8c; 1 basket, 10c. See them in the window. Friday only
Tremendous Offerings of White Nainsooks for Friday
The chance of the season. 5,500 yards ot white nainsooks, in small and medium
checks. These are mill ends direct from the manufacturer, and in full pieces would be
worth 8 cents a yard. Friday
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High Class Wash Goods Unusnally Cheap for Friday
Right now, when you need it. And Friday, too, when you can surely come.
Your choice of all our fine 12 J4c dress ginghams in newest effects; also our entire
stock of I2jc and 15c dimities, all this season's goods, remember. Friday only....
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8c Gap and Saucer for Sc
Large white granite cup and saucer, that al
ways sells for 8c set. Take them on Fri-
day only at uC
Castile Soap and Wash Cloth 7c
Full size cake of Castile Soap, purest kind,
wrapped in Turkish wash cloth, worth
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Another Fabulously Low Priced Sale of Fine Ribbons
Miles and miles of pretty ribbons. All of the finest silk taffeta. All colors, in-
luding black and white. Newest season's shade- Widths 4! and 5 inches. At any
ordinary time you'd pay anybody from 25c to
On Friday only.
15-
Friday Sale of Men's and Women's $1,00 Umbrellas
Full 26 inch in size. Covered in finest quality of English Gloria, solid paragon
frames with steel rods. Fancy curled wood handles some with silver tips. Worjh
$1.00 each never sold here under 89c and 98c, '1 ake them away Friday at . .
73
Ladies' Fine Silk GloYes An Offering Extraordinary
The "Kayser'' brand, known the world over as the very best Silk Gloves. All
colors, also black and white. The three button kind. Patent finger tips. Not a pair
has ever been sold in any store under 50c. Any shade you want Friday for
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Handsome White Bureau Scarfs as a Friday Bargain
Marseilles pattern. The very newest. Full two yards long and handsome
ly fringed. Just the thing for light summer bureau coverings. Worth 18c. Take
them t'i iday only at
Ladies' White Muslin Gowns, Empire Style Very Cheap
Made of the very choicest muslin. Cut full. Empire style. Tiimmed with
1 utiles of embroidery. Some have embroidered inserting across corsage. Worth 49c
any day. Un Friday only
White Cotton Ribbed Vests for Ladies Newest Goods
Cotton ribbed vests. Not the ordinary kind but very choice. Inteivening rows;
wide and narrow. Silk tape and lace at neck and sleeves. Never sold under i2c.
Friday only
Basement Things That Ought to Crowd the Department
See window. You'll come then. A car load ot goods for this Friday. Rocking
ham Teapots, 1. 2 and 3 quart size, worth 19c to 24c; Yellow Mixing Bowls, 2 to 8
quart size, worth 19c; also a large assortment of 2 quart Pitchers, oval and round Po
tato Dishes, Platters, etc., worth 19c. Your choice on Friday
Great Sale of Ladies' Fine Oxford Ties
See them in window. 400 pairs of fine vici kid Oxford Ties in black and
daik russet. Every new style ol toe English, Lenox, Broadway and Pans Opeia
last. Kid and vesting tops. Sizes 2j to 8. Widths D, E and EE. Also Com
mon Sense toe. None ever sold under $i.--,. Many were S2. Your choice Friday
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