Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 4 January 1901 — Page 7

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LOCKWOOD'S LETTER

Our Washington Correspondent Dta's With Hoosiers In Big Affairs.

SoMI-, rill.NO OK THK KAIHHANKS AM) KICHN JIH A I lAli liOOMS,

Candidacy of Senator Fairbanks Gcnefally

Recognized. While John W. Kern Seems

To Be Fan ly In the Running—George

Lockwood Writes In His Chatty Way of

Matters at the National Capitol As Con-

cct.is liiiliamans In Particular Reckless

Waste of Timber Recalled.

I Sn T11 t'orrosp'inili'iii-c.l nsliiii'vion.

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a n. 2--Willi a

JM'III. S.IJS

it hoi*

11:n ij11.*11 cli'.'i inn iirarly lour years

ahead, i\« (i Hoi.sier president ial humus

lire already ai Iai'^e. The iinispei'live

(•'i ml nl,'ley el Senium' Fairbanks is

,\ i.eiK-1 ally reeeu'ill/eil. while the

l.iiurolii haiii|iiel ol' I lee. 1M. in the

Opinion el smiio of the lnililieal eolll-

iin'iil.limits at asliiiiirtoii. marks the

In -r!1111111_ nl a .li'iin Kern lnoni

lor the 1 )ennii-rat ie president itil nmn-

5nati11. T'lie speech (if .lolm AY.

the aM!111in)IIL Star, "is

ie_,,iiili-d a.s that ol a man who is

bitions for leadership, and it, is siiir-

iresieil that he was trying on Mr.

J'n.uis shoes, it is said that in

lu was not allouclher s.Mlslied witll

iho atitttide assumed by his

party,

and

the beliel is expressed by some in dis

cussing him that lie had not sup

ported liryan at that time. 11 is speech

nt I.mi iiln. however, seems to e\elnile

tliilt beliel. and to piaee hull

ion Is pressed that he has placed limiselt in in I asso

ciation with Mr. Hryan on this oeca-

MOH

1 1 1

at lies otn the idea."' ontinu-

the Star s,a,\ thai those who are

nearest Mr. liryim do not regard his

iesoi\e on the siihicct ol the nomina

tion in l!)o-l as iii«li(.*n1111l:- an intention

to seek the nominal ion. but thai Mr 1 1 ,\ ill! klloWs I li.tt hel Is no necesfti.v bnrniiiii- the bridsres behind him. and holds Imnselt road mess to enter the tiehl if this be necessary to ihwari anv designs the Cleveland flenii'iil of the l.lemocracv mav have lor reuaimni: ascendancy Uie orKMin/.atiiin. "With this view of Mr ]!i\ans attitude." eontmiies the Star 'additional interest attaches to the association of himself and .Mr. Kern at tlie .Jefferson baiH|tiet, llie one deliVerinir what inmht be termed a valedictory. and the other a salutatory. -Mr. Kern has shown himself to be very adroit in expressing in his speech The ideas which inst now seein to be uppermost in the minds of Democrats

public lite Willi reference to the future course ot the part v. lie placed hinisell squarely in line with Mr Bryan, without nenleci HILT those Democrats who supported the ticket in liiiMt. though they did not like the reiteration of the money plank, and spoke hopelullv ol strivmu' to lind common grounds upon which all Democrats could stand, vet "rave Mr levoland and others who refused to support Mr. Hryan. but who arc now givinjr advice as to tho rehabilitation of the party, a hard slap in the lace as evidence ot laitli toward Democracy. This, accompanied with a glownvu tribute to Mr. Itrvan. is in lino with what: appears to be the most common Democratic thouirht. ... The oinnion is very generally expressed that Kern must be counted on as a candidate, and it. is interred that Hryan is not hostile to him.

The Kansas (ity uaiherinu' was the lust Detnociatic national convention in lliree decades in which Indiana did not have an aspirant tor ,\ place

the ticket. The Star's deduction* troni Mr. Kern's speech may not bu 111 founded. Mr. Kern was the onlv prominent: Democrat: ol the central est who spoke at the .Jefferson banquet. and his speech could not have been more adroitly planned to capture the stood will ol the regular Democracy. Anions all those who have been talked of as Democratic presidential candidates in 1 4, Mr. Kern is least handicapped. David It. IIill lias troubles tit home incident 10 factional warfare, liobert: JO. I'attison comes from a state too hopelessly liepublicar to produce a Democratic presidential candidate, Mr. Watterson is south ot the traditional line which has served as a bar ajtainst presidential candidates lor -40 years, and besides is ar editor, whose four-year-old Hies wonlc prove troublesome Mr. Corman seems to have "lost his strip" as a political leader, even in his own state, and Mr Olney's ftovernnient liy mjnnctior ideas and intimate association with Mr. Cleveland will not commend liiir to the Democratio convention ol' 3904 Mr. Kern would not be objectionabh to the elements represented by tiny ot the leaders mentioned. On the otliei hand his course has commended itself to tho silver element of the party. His nomination would be more opportu nistic than that of any of the others prominently mentioned for the part? leadersliip.

If Mr. Hryan decides to abdicate, would be well to keep your eye or Mr. Kern, lie is a shrewd man. lu has at his hand the assistance of Mr Taggart, who knows how to managi affairs like this, he is not in anv .wat

handicapped, and he comes from Indiana.

Mr. Hopkins ol Illinois, chairman of the census committee, and .Indue Crumpacker ot Indiana, who enieriain Mil !. 11111 .111 dlVeiL'ent. views on the question of reapportionment, are intimate personal triends. When Mr Hopkins was a candidate lor the speakership IMMi. Mr. crunipa-ke" W.ls Oiii lit the tew members of the house who declared in liis favor Thev Jte likil\ io M-h

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1he lotemost ol Mr. Itrvan admirers

'1 lieie is lntle doubt in the inind.s ol

ihose wlio lutve read the newspaper

CM 1 dirts ot the speech. that .M". Kelll

le_,||ds hllllsell as a possible succes

sor to .Mr. Itrvan in r.nil, and the opin

debate when

the apportionment bill is up. The ba-

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Hopkins measure is the

seatin»' capacity of tlie house. This makes tiie architect' wlio designed the house win.it of the i-apitol responsible tor (he si ot t]n• body. The minority I "t 11e census coililliittOe, however. conclude that the seats could be so arranged as to accnmmodaic all who 'j would cnie in under an apportion"K'lit which preserves the present number o| Indiana representatives.

I inlet the pressun of public neccs"i the house lobby and the cloak rooms mirht also l.e decreased.

«Icneral ilendersoh not likely to jhave opposii ion for iv-elect imi next teat. and it the house elected in loo:! I is lb-publican, he will probal.lv be aiioiher term. Itin there is a stickin.it point in the speakership. as there is in he presidency. The ini"""en law that no man shall be si»t-.ik«-r ol tcner than three times lie as inviolable as that lit' li it e\ (Mils a president troni servin,- more than two terms. Yet the I itile si-eiiis to be. where the parly il(

a spe.iki-t leifjauis (lonuiiiint

to ,iii\'e him that much time in the I chair. Schuyler Colfax, .Tames IJtIniiii. Jiilin ailisl'- and Thomas it ei| h.ne held 1 lie speakership jdmiiiL JJ (-oimiesse ol ihe last |s -Mt. Keed lni^hi have Jtrokeu the record, and would have been certain of at least live terms. )un for his deeiI sion to deseit polii prntesI sion. Mr. I iced, by tin wav. is doinit more or less of his piaeticing in the I commit tec rooms ot the capiml. It lis told ol Mi. Cromer, who entered congress alter Mr. Tieed left WashI liigtoii. that lu .isk-i

doorkeeper of

the house ihe otli(-i as the pondermis ex-speaker was passinit "who that man was." It struck a Washin.ittoii newspaper as indicative of the ephemeral characte ,,f srreatness Mhat the man who nvo years auo seemed to bestride the house like a i.olosstts. should now in- an unfamiliar h.itnre to any meinl.ei of that bodv

Itut Mr. Ileed does not look like his I pn ttiics- spi iall\

JK.I

like the one

Which li.'lnits ill The talleiv of spe.'lkefs on the wails of the hi-usc loliliv

"Th Forester.' a m.-.itazine pulilished N\ asliimttoi 11v ollieials of the a^i ii-ulturnl dep.'iitnient. stales that "the division of forestry of the dep.) 11 Hu nt ot aui I'-uM ore has durinu' the past summer cxrnviined the sites of a number of plantations in Indiana, in response to ihe applications for tree-plantm.it plans wJiich have been received from that state. Although four-fifths of Indiana wrisoriuinally well t.inhered, as lmi.n of.the slate i* now practically treeless, with the exception of narrow strips aloiiit the nveis. In some pla«-(-s the available timbet- has all been cut oft, even down to the stieanis. Fanners have tlierefore had 1O undertake tree plauiimt

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ot (let to keep Themselves supplied wnli ti-iice posts and wood for various Uses ol) the I.-inn. ihe conditions these tt.-eless portions of Indiana are. howexer. verv favorable to the establishment ol plantations, especially in the regions where the oriitmally in.ii sli\ lo\\ lands Imtc been drained off.

I,\pei imeiils by tin- division ol lores! i.A show that trees may lie made a piohiable crop. It is estimated that the annual itam from corn per acre in the central Western states sy. Ail Iowa plantation o! Norwav spruce, put l.s years airo. yields a forest valued. sold tor posts, at *1 ir per acre, an annual nam ol .sn|r if sold tor teleitraph poles, an annual

ittuti sib.7.2 is shown, and it is estimined that ten years hence, it the I trees are allowed to remain, tho reI suiting animal stain Throughout the I hferim

ot ihe forest will lie

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It is an Indiana man, Ceneral (,'corite H. Williams ot Latayctle. who luts succeeded elosiin: a deal with the sultnn of Tttrkev liv which the unspeakable purchases an ironclad of the ('ramps, and is said to include the contract price payment of the American Indemnities which have lieen a source ol diplomatic negotiations for a long tune. (General Williams is on his way from Constantinople to Philadelphia. where he will arrive next week. During his absence of several months in Europe, he has done much to bring the American-built warship to the favorable attention of several foreign itovernnients—a task rendered easier by the splendid showing made by American vessels during the Span-ish-American war.

Officials of the post-office department say that this year's holiday btisiuess as shown by reports from all over the country, showed a remarkable increase over that of any former year. Americans make freer use of the mails than do any other people, and the amount of postal revenue is usually taken as an index of prosperity. If the gauge is a correct one, we nrr entering the new century several laps ahead of the rest of the world in the race for the good things that go along with unbomded prosperity.

CEOItGB E. LOCK WOOD.

Odd Mistletoe.

THE JOITKNAI^ is in receipt of a large spray of mistletoe from \V. W. Kwinp, in Ari/.ona. Tt dt tiers radically from the mistletoe which grows

A F-iilsc Report.

It was rumored on the streets Tuesday that Corpora. Holmes, of the 1-lth infantry, a son of William Holmes, of this city, had died in the Philippines. The rumoi was false and evidently grew out of the reported death of a soldier named Holmes in the 17th infantry.

A Distinction.

Harry Collins and Misr Clareene A. Hadfoid ha\e the distinction of having taken out the first, marriage license granted in this county in the twentieth century. The license was issued Tuesday.

A Patent Stove Leg.

(I. WeidmaD, of Hillsboro, has been granted a patent on a stove leg

RURAL ROUTE N01.

Mrs. John Finch is on tho sick listMiss Mary Morris spent her \acation at Valparaiso.

Ola and Ethan Linn spent the holidays at Mace. Lmrnet Finch and wife spent last week at Frankfort.

Golda and Kate l-.ngle spent Friday with Ltuth Fletcher. Arthur Haycock and family visited G, W. Linn last week.

Mr. and Mrs. John Ward are the proud parents uf a baby girl. Harry Freeman and wife spent Wednesday at G. W. Linn's.

Mr. Shipman, of Bloomington, visited at Llev. lieeder's over Christmas. Pearlie Alward visited home folks near Wallace Thursday and Friday.

Homer Dice and Miss Louie Loop spent part of the holidays at Danville. B. H. Alward and sister, of Wallace, spent a part of last week at Wm. Engle's.

Tom Wright and family spent Wednesday at Willie Misch's. at Shannondale. BHSrtCUhKi

Costy Caldwell says he would like to know where Lulu Engle was Fridav night, Dec. 28.

Guy Evans has purchased the eighty of the Finch farm and Wm. Myers the forty and sixty.

Alvin French and family and Mrs. Iva Rayle, of Noblesville, were at .las Williams' over Christmas

Sherman Trout has purchased about 1,500 bushels of corn of the administrator of the Finch estate.

Emmet Dice. Will Johnson, Dave Kennedy and Clyde Loop and families visited at Frank Dice's Friday.

The children and grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dice enjoyed a dinner at their home last Wednesday.

Ezra Engle and Miss Lulu Caldwell, of Boone county, Wm. Engle and family and Pearlie Alward spent Tuesday at Ewel Eagle's.

E/.ra Eogle, Costy. Lula and Lei ah Caldwell, of Doone county, Silas Pickering, of near Darlington.* Ewel Engle and William Engle and families ate oysters at Ed Nelson's Saturday night.

OAK GROVE.

L. R. Butler now has the Peterson telephone. C. E. Butler has moved to his home at Gravelly Run.

Protracted meeting is now in progress at Shannondale. W. C. Miller bought a car load of feeding hogs of Lennox Son.

The order of La Grippe has begun to increase its membership here Norman Moon, of Veedersburg, who has been sick at his father's, is able to be out.

Ed Bundy now wants to rent a farm, as Mr. Woody has sold the one he now lives on.

Dr. Burroughs purchased Guy Evans' farm, and Mr. Evans purchased one near Mace.

S. F. Miller spent Christmas week with his daughter, Mrs. F. R. Stewart, of Frankfort.

Mr. and Mrs. CarTl'avev. of~Lebanon, were visitors at W. C. Miller's the first of the week. 'The Knights of Pythias,"of Shannondale. installed the following officers Wednesday night: cr—'• i\C.—M. D.Caldwell.

THE CRAWFORDSVILLK WEEKLY ^JOURNAL.

C.—John T. McC'lain. V. C. Albert Hockersmith. P.— Edgar Bruce. M. of E.—Geo. T. Young. of F.—Otis U. Young. M. of A.—Geo. A Jackson. K. of R. and S.—Chas. Gaddis. 1. G.—T. P. Bruce. O. G.—Grant McDowel. Dr. Burroughs was re-elected trustee.

SWAMP COLLEGE.

Charley Day's little daughter is some better. Mrs. Thomas Hicks is improving slowly.

S H. Hester sold a line horse last week to Charley Owens. James M. Hester will move to the Wm. Davis farm the first of March.

Several from this vicinity saw "The Dairy Farm" at Crawfordsville Friday night.

Miss Mattie Whitesel, of North Union, spent Christmas with Maude Kinney.

Several from this vicinity attended the Christmas tree at Walnut Grove and report a fine time.

Mrs. Lula Chadwick gave a Christmas entertainment Monday night in which several young folks took part, and carried out an interesting programme.

IMPOSSIBLE to foresee an accident. Not impossible to be prepared for it Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil. Monarch over pain.

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this part

of the country, from tha fact than the Ari/.otia mistletoe has absolutely no leaves. The berries are identical with those of the eastern mistletoe and the branches of the parisite are also similar to those of southern Indiana, except that they ai-e quite yellow and are devoid of leaves.

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Dress Goods.

I'HIHI

ILL-ess ^NODS

Unit, were I fx-

HIT

1 vd

•la pieces pliud novelties, jiliiin eiisliiiieres. plain elollis, all wool, worth 'JOe, 40c, 00c iiml tiOc, choice J5c vl.

HO pieces stripes, plaids and fancy mixed novelties. Venetians ami plain all wool cloths worth Doc, 00c and 75. at :i"»c vd All wool dress stud's in plain shades, plaids, stupes and novelties, also Astrachans, 5-1 inches wide, worth 75c to 81.5(1, nt 5Hc vd All wool stuffs in plain shades, a few fancy novelties and a choice line ot heavv cloths and Kolf plaids, that wercM. $1,50 and J2 the vd. at 75c yd. All our best jolt' plaids, oil inches wide, that

were *2 and $2.'J5, are $1.50 yd. 1 iIK. peblile cloths ^rey and brown shades that were $2.50 are J1.50 vd. Ilhick crepons that were 4I.50 are #1.00 vd The 2.50 and *3 black crepons are fl.50 vd.

The Silks.

The T., D. Mi own Sons Co. well known and most popular ifnaruntecd hirh (,'rade l'eau d( Soies and Satin Duchesse. 21 inches wide, the $1.50 j-'i ade at *1.2:1. The *1.16 itradc 9Hc.

I.. I). Drown Sons Co. l'eau de Soies, 22 inches wide, worth $1.75. at $1.-1H the vd. 2-1 inch worth $2, at *1.6!) the yd. L. D. Drown Sons Co. Satin Duchesse. the besi values ever uttered in black dress

stlUs. 2-1 inches wide, worth $2.52. at *l.ti!) per yd. Worth $2.50 at $1.H5

'Hack taffetas that were $1.15 at. 85c yd. "lull tirade black Irish poplin dresssilks 21 inches wide, worth *1.25 atK5c the yd 27 inch black taitetas worth Olio at 75c yd. Yard wide black taffeta worth $1.50 at $1 2o aid wide black talleta. the best value we have ever offered, at Ollc the vd

Colored Silks.

Our I'litirfr line of colored silks in pluiu shade* ami laiU'v stripes, plaids and brocades, full dress or waist lengths, the en-

lire stock of velvets and velveteens and Win. Skinners' yard wide satins, all at very decided reductions.

Hosiery.

Ladies' heavy hlack rotinn hr.M\ no seams, 121..

Ladies* heavy Meece lined hose, ribbed top, worth J5c. at 10c pair.

Ladie-' very heavy Meece lined hrise 12!^ pair.

Ladies' ^ood quulUy Meece lined host

Boys extra heavv bicvcle hose worth 20and 2oc lor 17c pair.

Children black wool hose, double heel and toe, double knee, worth 25 and 30c. at 21c pair.

Heavy Meece lined hose for bovs and trirN worth 25c, at 19c. Childien Meece lined hose worth to inc. at

I2 /£e pair.

A good Meece dined hose for children at He pair.

Infants bhick cashmere hose worili 25c. for 19c.

All letftfintf at 2"j percent discount. Wool stockinet at 9c yard.

Ladies7 Waists.

\V iiisls or polka dots, plaids and plain colors, worth 75c and *1, ai -ISc. Ol llannels and llannelei le worth $1, at 73c Four styles in cashmere and ttannels worth $1.50, at $l.lo. 15 waists in tlannel worlb $2 to $:J 5o. at $1.50.

French tlannel and cashmere waists, all colors, worth $2 to $2.50. at $1.7:». waists in plain and embroidered tlannel, worth $3. M.50. $-4 and $5. at *2--lH. Silk and satin waists worth $5, al. T2- Worlh

*3, *3..'0 and *4.50. at. $2.(15. Worth $11.50 and ¥7.50, at $:1.5o. Wurth $.'.50. $(',.50 $7.50 a mi $n.50. al $).

3 waists worth II 1.511 $12 ami *15. choice $7.50.

Blankets.

Ijiirtfe size cotton blankets 10c pr. Extra law cotton blankets, the h7c kind, white or crew at 55c pr.

Extra laiKe and heavv white or srrcv blankets worth $1.25. al 75c pr. All wool blankets, full si/.e. worth -$2 and $2.25. at $1.49 pr.

Extia laiifc and heavy all wool blankets, white, (jrey or scarlet, worth $:1.50. at $2.49 pr. Ke^'ular $4.50 to $5.5o all wool blankets, in

white, scarlet, etc., including some Vountsville (,'oods, $3.4'J pr.

Dates bed spreads worili ifl at 75c

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East Main St.

The Quiet After the Storm

OW deligbtlullj puio and cool the an, how much brighter everything Fpeiiis how anxious we all are to resume the interrupted task of pastime aftor the "storm clouds have passed away. It's just so with the Big Store and its people after Christmas ltisn. "We settle down to the more serious merchandise, the clearing up of the stock and the st-lhngof the remnants of winter goods that it was best and necessary to neglect, when your ramd was on the buying of presents. And wo do it with a better feeling and liioie ambition than e\ei befoie, toi \\e aro convinced von appreciate our efforts to give ou an up-to-date store and service, and that our general plan of conducting this business IH the light one. And that, brings us to our present task—the selling of all winter goods at reduced prices that we may have no old stock to show you another year. Just one of tho details I the general plan. While our various heads of departments, and our almost, hundred of regular employes,as well as the score or more of extra salespeople, have worked to their utmost and put many extra hours time to serve our interests and give you the best of attention, they, and we, feel a renewed interest in the business and a desire to surpass in the year to' come our success of the one just past that will result in good (o you. With this idea 111 view we have already .started a clearing salo that lias ne\er been equaled in this city in extent or opportunity to buy large lots of merchandise with small lota of money. We mention but a fesv things, but every department in the store offers great bargains.

The Holiday Left-Overs.

Notwithstanding the Christinas Iniymi,' lor iwo weeks was almost double that ol anv previous vear. there are main left-overs. Preparations were larger, the assortment, greater, therefou- the lelt-overs. \Vc would: have

it otherwise. We want the last customer to bo as well pleased as ihe lirst. and if the stock wasn t, more than ample they wouldu tie, and this store wouldn tie as well thought of as it, is. and It wouldn t. have ^rowu so wonderfully. One of the secrets ol our success: plenty to select troili when you want It. and then close liio balance out to besi advantage possible, al once, that we mav

show all new tilings when vou want them Some other merchants we know would bo better to pursue the same plan. Well, they are welcome to the hint. Dut to the lert-overs. There are many small lots, not enough to mention indi\ idually here, because thev wouldn't last perhaps until you would come lor them, and then vou be disappointed, while other items we hadn mentioned minni remain and be better value, so we

whet your appetite by expectation. And vou 11 not. be disappointed either when vou collie, no matter how much you expect. Dcnulifu! articles in Jewelry. Falls and Leather woods, tine perf-'iues in dainty pni-Uaues, (tloves and Mitteus. llandkerchiefs, fancy llose. mens Neckwear, Suspender.-, and Mulllers. Silk Um

brellas, Silk and Flannel Waists, Furs, Cloaks, Millinery. Dailies' WearTowels, Napkins, Table Uncus, tied Spreads Table Covers, Curtains, Sofa I'illows. Trunks, Valises. China. Cut Mass sj|vei weal. andy, Dolls.

nvs. (,ames and

liooks all bought for the Christmas trade, and now must be sold. A fourth, a third, and in many instances a half has

been chopped olT the former price.

In China ware.

At 9c arifcies that were 1M lo I.V.At 2.1c articles thai wen! M) to

At 4He an ides worlh up to $1 .no. At 9Hc articles worth up to $2.on,

He puir

Ladies plain or ribbed wool hose 10c pairLadies wool hose lor 12'/»c pair.

The Candy.

At or lb. u'ood Christmas mixed Candy At be lb. puni sutfur stick Candy*.

At 9c lb. 12'/ieand 1 Oc Iancv mixed. At 17c lb. tine Chocolate Creams wth 2.JC At 27c lb. our best assorted Chocolates and Mou-Hons. as ^ood as vou pay 5ic lor at tiiiiuv candv stores.

Men's Furnishings.

50c Neckties at 25c.

50c and 75c Neekti.is al U9c. 75c, $1,00, and $1.5(1 Neckties al 50c,' 25c linen colored bonier handkerchiefs 2 for 2 .)C. Larue square Mufllers. 17c25 and :t5e Suspenders. 17c.

Perfomes.

2oc packages. TJi-. 5(le packaL (.'s.

75c packages, 5i)e ^1.tM paclcatres. 7"c.

The Books.

About loo copies hiti»copywnulit novels, some slightly soiled, published at J-l/JO ami 1.."(». choice 7."e. lODsmall^ift books in dainty bindings'

such as we sold at 2rc. but slightly soiled by handling/, all irood title. 1 :U\ 2 for 2oe.

Children picture books, worth rc at 3c. worth Hie at be. worth lfjc at 11c, worth 2i)c and 25c at I Tic. worth 35c to 50e at 25c.