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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, JULY 12 1889.

The Special Friday Sale "A e can not anther nor custom tal Its Infinite Tarietj. Tnl wk will demonstrate It with 63 Parasols for K)c, the rejrular price u! which 1" and f XOO. Ladies black, browu and wine-colored L.UIe IIoso (ieutlfint n's Striped Lisle Hose 33 l-3 o!d for 50c. 100 dozen Oentieinen's Unlaundered. fchirta, 43c, Ladie jtrsey Vests a.t lic, I5cf 19c, 2c and 35c, worth !ublp. Tnramffl Hats and Bonnets much reduced. Mul J rapa. zc. Two Aprons for ""C. Print and Omahams at prrat bargains. I'iiil Wblta ut at 10c. cheap at lie. A Whito Marseilles rprad at 1127, worth $1.73. if innanU of Table Liueu very cheap. Muslin Htm nun t.4 ditto. A sew Hue, in all colors, of Brocaded BUk Ribbon at -of worth 75c. 1 hirtj boxed of tLera at 13c that are worth Wo, all colors. liandkercnieN at Ic, very cheap. KemnanU in Chillies, fattens, Batistes, Lawn, vrrjr cheap, rrpainsln India Silks. Fancy ?tripel surahs at 5ftc. worth JL25. Blacic Drcs (tund very he.ip. Outinir Flannels at 9r. worth 150. Vlain Dome t Flannel 8 1-Zc, worth lZhfi. Tooth llrushe-s 11c, worth 25c. Purges izc, worth 25c Ear-Drops 10c, worth 25c and 50c

L. 8. AYEES & CO. A NEW MOLDING is called "The Shell," ami imitates very cleverly the1 pearly iridescence of tho insido of a seashell. "We have it. II. LIEBER fc GO., ART EMPORIUM, 33 South Meridian St. The American Statesmen Series George Washington 2 Vol. CLOTH, 82.50 FOR SALE BY THE BOWEHERRILL CO., 1 6 & 1 8 West Washington St GREAT SALE OF FINE Swiss Flouncings AT REDUCED PRICESI WM. HRLE'S, 4 West "Washinerton St. THE Mr YORK STORE Established 1853.1 Just Received iob Dozen Turki sh Bath Towels PRICE ice. PETTIS, BASSETT & CO Oklahoma Wild. West Show. The Oklahoma Wild West Show arrived in tho city last eviniug on a special train over tho C, II. &, I. railway from Cincinnati. It will exhibit hero to-day and tomorrow in the West Washington-street fchow lot. All tho performances will bo given within a canvass iuclosure thatpermits of tho construction of a oue-fourth-of-a-milo race track. Oklahoma Hill, the leader of tbo first invasion into Oklahoma, in 18S0, and tho last one of 50,000 settlers on April 22 last, is at tho head of tho exhibition. Tho press of Chicago, Louisville. Cincinnati and other cities ' term this tho best wild West aggregation ever organized. Captain liogardus, tho wing-shot champion, is also with the compauy. as are line lariat throwers of Mexico, both male and female. There are nltogether more than one hundred Indians. cowboys, bucking horse riders and Western scouts with the how. Two exhibitions daily are given. To-day, at 10 a. m a procession going through tho principal streets will include wild bufialo. ponies and Texas steers loose in tho streets. It will form a novel and Interesting free exhibition. The performances begin promptly at 3 and 8 o'clock r. M. New Incorporations. Ephraim Marsh, of Greenfield, 8. P. ' Sheerin, Charles J. Doheity and J. D. S. Keeley, of Logansport, have organized tho Central Natural-gas Company. The three iir3t named are tho directors, and with $."50,000 capital stock tho company proposes to buyt6elland lease gas lands, and to construct plants. Tho principal office will be in this city. Articles of incorporation were tiled for this purpose yesterday. The Secretary of Stato also received articles from tho Raccoon Valley Oil and Gas Company. Among tho directors aro Josophus Collett and William II. McKeen. The company will operate on 20,000 capital Block. The Spring Curry-comb Company, of South lieud, has been incorporated with 25.000 capital stock. Charles IP Rarthell, Leighton Pino and Harmon S. Anderson arc the directors. Want a Title Ottleted. Late yesterday afternoon Winston P. Noble, of Ohton, I1L, filed a suit in tho United States Court against Dorman N. Davidson, Preston A. Davidson, Susan L. Dickey and Catherine A. Miller for the settlement of title regarding sonio property lying northeast of tho city. Ciovernor Hovej Will Preside. The Soldiers' Monument Commissioners have selected Governor Hovey to preside at tho laying of the corner-stono of the monument. Charles A. Zollinger will bo chief marshal of the parade. The rest of the programme will not be completed for a Week or two. Tew parlor goods at Wxa, L. Elderfl.

TIIE KEW SERIES OF BOOKS

An Imperfect System Under a Law the Commissioners Kesard as Offensive. The Contractors Must Bear All Expenses of Distribntion Under Stipulations Otherwise SevereOpinions of School Men. Although the contract for geographies, arithmetics and readers has been awarded to middlemen on behalf of the Standard Publishing Company of St. Louis, there is not tho confidence in the success of the scheme that would be expressed were not the school-book commissioners as well as the contractors cognizant of breakers ahead. From what the commissioners say privately a feeling marked their deliberations that they were driven into a corner by the requirements of the law. "The law," said one of them yesterday, "left us no latitude. All we could do was to obey its provisions." "Had you been allowed any discretion in tho matter would these books have been approved!'7 ho was asked. "I think not; but there are worse books used in tho State, and what we have done may make matters as near even as possible by giving "some localities abetter class of books However, tho law is offensive to a majority of tho board, but I do not see how it could bo avoided. The books chosen are inferior in many respects, when compared to those used hero and in other cities of the State." Do you think the Indiana Educational Series can be forced upon the people!" T doubt it. My interpretation of the law is that tho officials of the many school corporations can adopt what series they please." "But the people of Indiana are to be burdened with a five-years' contract with v a firm that publishes an inferior grade of books." "It has very much that appearance." "If tho law proves a failure within a year or less time, tho contract then must continue!" "Yes. The only relief will be in a repeal or modification of the law by the next Legislature. Even then nothing can bo done to rescind the contract." Ono of the syndicate said, the other day, that the law was an experiment, and that no ouo entered into the contract without some misgivings. However, he and his associates thought that time would enable them to put the system into satisfactory working order, and that the results would, in the end, meet the anticipations of those who framed the law, the school men of tho State, and the contractors. "It is a big undertaking," he continued. "There will be many points to watch, as we are held down to an iron-bound contract." "There will be a great deal of money going out and but little coming in for some time. Is that it?" "In a measure, yes, but after all we will have to wait only ninety days for our first returns. After that settlements will be made with the county superintendents every thirty days. One thing we will have to guard against is the danger of trustees ordering more books than they need. For instance, one of them may ask for 2,000 readers when he has not more than 300 children in his school district. We intend to issue circulars ' to tho trustees, calling attention to their respective school enumeration, and not to order books beyond that number. Of conrso we will toll them to base their demand upon the attendance of pnpils, to number using readers, arithmetics, and geographies. It is a big job, but I think wo will come out all right.,r But the eagerness of the contractors to getwhat'thcy think will turnout a good thing is shown in tho contract they will sign. Those documents, bothfor tho BowenMerrill Company, that is to supply the copybooks at 5 ceuts each, and the Indiana School-book Company, that will unload on the State the other books covered in tho agreement, were prepared yesterday. They are the same as to the obligations imposed, and differ chietly in the names of books to be furnished, except that in the contract of the Indiana company a special paragraph is inserted in regard to the geographies. This was made necessary by the complete geography, which the company submitted forinspection, disposing of Indiana wit h the following description: "Indiana yields immense crops of Indian corn, wheat and other grains. Its cattle, sheep and swino are numerous. Black walnut, ash, hickory, maple, beech and tulip, or whitewood, aro among its valuable timber trees. Indianapolis is an important railroad center, and possesses excellent advantages for the manufacture of iron and wood. It is one of tho largest cities of the United States not situated on navigable water. It ships millions of bushels of corn and wheat." Ono of the commissioners drow around this paragraph, which the author, no doubt, thought to bo full of information, heavy blue pencil marks. On tho margin was written: "Eighty-eight pages "in elementary geography, and eighty-three in complete to find out this much about Indiana." But the contract requries the publishers to make the geography of the Indiana Educational series equal to the Eclectic, but before the additional matter is to be inserted it must undergo the inspection and approval of Professors Parsons and Jones. It must include a full and complete map, showing location of cities, and their railway facilities, besides illustrations of the Capitol, three of the State educational institutions, natural gas and farming scenes. As for the readers that aro to be supplied, if the school days of thirty-five or forty years ago are recalled, one can eeo in the books then used those that the Indiana Publishing Company will get from the Standard company in St. Louis. Confining his knowledge to these readers of what the writers, thinkers and scientists of tho world have dono ono must come to the conclusion that there has been no advancement, in thought, statesmanship, literature, science or philosophy since 1850. According to these books there have been no Presidents of tho United States since Andrew Jackson to whom tbo book gives tho diminutive "Andy." There were only three Presidents before his timo. George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Sketches of Daniel Webster and Horace Greeley are given, but beyond them and the four Presidents named there is scarcely a mention of public men. The revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, and the latter very sparingly, are tho limit of military history. The poetical selections are those the men of fifty-five and sixty years of ago to-day declaimed when they were school boys. Of tho great men of the civil war, on either side, there is not a line, nor is there the least reference to that great conflict. An imprint of 1S50 on the readers would do just as well as that of lb89. Tho prices for theso books, tho contractors specifically covenant and agree, are to include all tho cost and charges of transportation and delivery to the several county school superintendents, whether the books are ordered in large or small quantities. They acree in each and every copy of tho hooka furnished to maintain a quality and quantity of matter, material, stylo of binding and a mechanical execution, size and form equal to tho Eclectic series. Any failure to do this, or to comply with the specific requirements of the law, is to bo regarded and acknowledged as a failure to coz;ply with tho contract and a forfeiture of tho penal bond of $215,000. All books aro to b shipped promptly, and always within ninety days after the issuo of any requisition made by the Stato Superintendent of Public Instruction, and at the risk of the contractors, directly to the county school superintendents named in tho requisition. All charges for carriage and delivery of said books must be prepaid by tho contractors. The contractors agree to recognize the State Board of Text-book Commissioners or the Attorney-general as tho proper relator of tho Stato in any suit that may bo brought against them, and all questions thereto they have waived. After settiug out all the above obligations tho contract has this paragraph: "And it is specifically agreed that under no circumstances whatever shall tho Stato of Indiana, tho State Board of School-book Commissioners or the members thereof, either officially or personalli, bo liable to said Bowen-Mernll Company, contractors, lor any sum whatever, but that said Bowen-Merrill Company, contractors, shall receive all pay and compen

sation solely and exclusively from the pro

ceeds and sales of said books, collected, and transmitted as provided by the text-book act enacted by the General Assembly of In diana March -. l&so. House bill No. J1." While the contractors thus bind themselves, the text-book commissioners guarantee tfipm only tho exclusive privileges and benefits zuaranteed to them by the act under which the contract was awarded. The bonds of the Bowen-Mernll Company and tho Indiana School-book Company have not been submitted. That of the latter company, for $21 5,000, is to bo sent to Evansville, Terre Haute and Fort Wayne for signatures of sureties, and then brought back here for more. That will require about ten davs. and when it is filed, with the one the ltowen-Merrill Company will give for $:JO,0OO, the Governor will if sue his proclamation as to tho new system of school-book supply being in operation. What Is Thought of the Change, Yesterday afternoon a Journal reporter called upon several school commissioners to get expressions from them. The first gentleman visited was John P. FreuzeL The question propounded was: "What effect will this new school-book system have upon tho public schools of this city!" Mr. Frenzol ran his fingers through his hair, leaned his head upon his hand, closed his eyes, and appeared to be lost in profound thought. The thinking continued so long that the reporter began to look about for a chair to rest his weary limbs while the commissioner meditated. The reporter sharpened his pencil, and waited as the clock ticked on. Tho silence was growing oppressive. At last Mr. Frenzol roused himself, and murmured: "I do not believe I have examined it sufficiently to give an opinion." Dr. F. S. Newcomer was next called upon. The Doctor has been only a few days on the board, but he appears to think quicker than Mr. Frcnzcl, and expressed himself with more readiness. "I think," said ho, "that an improvement might be made in somo of our school books, but I do not know whether those contracted for are auy better than tho books now in use. There 6eems to be some controversy on that point. It is a question whether money will ho saved by making such a radical change at once. I think we should havo free books for our schools, and I should very much like to seo a change of that sort, it strikes mo that would free us of a good deal of school-book jobbery. I believe it better to buy iu an open market than tobe bound to one 6et of contractors." - Herman Bamberger, until recently a member of the School Board, said he was opposed to everything that savored of jobbery. "I think," said he, "that the Journal's proposition to make school-books frco is the correct thing." Theodore P. Haughey 6aid: "There appears to have been too much haste in this matter. The books chosen by the State board should havo been more carefully gone over. I have been told by a very prominent educator who examined them that they are inferior, and I am somewhat surprised at his subsequent action. It is not likely that the public schools of this city can pass through this change of textbooks without great damage to their efficiency. It will prove a positive injury to teachers and scholars. 1 believe with the Journal that free text-books are the thine. Many years ago, when I lived in Philadelphia, the books were free in the public schools, and Philadelphia has the reputation of doing well in many things." John Galvin, of the Fifth district, said he had every reason to believe that the change would bo for the best in the long run, although it appeared very expensive iust atpreseut. He thinks that it is bent to have uniformity in the use of text-books all over the fetate, and the only way to bring this about is by such lecisfative action as has already been taken. Yet he seemed to be of the opinion that tho teachers ought to bo freely consulted in regard to tho matter; and, furthermore, that the stories about there being work dono in favor of the Standard Publishing Company of St, Louis, arose simply out of a desire, upon the part of some, to antagonize they measnr "The change," said Mr. Greenstrect, president of the School Board, "will, of courso, not in any way afi'ect us this year, since the books cannot possibly bo ready for use by tho time for the opening of the fall term, and hence we aro making preparntiou to proceed just as we have dono heretofore." 'But what do you think of the general effect of the change!" "Well, 1 do uot think it is for tho best. It looks a little bit too much like monopoly; and, anyhow, I do not liko its appearance on tho surface. School books ought to be left open to competition, and this contract bars out everything of that sort. It seems to me that iu cities like Indianapolis, or of a size anj'thing liko it, tho matter ought to bo left iu tho hands of tho school commissioners. I believe the text-book commissioners were betweeiis two fires, inasmuch as there was but one bid. That feature of tho business I do not like. They had to either accept it or reject it, and whichever they did they wero certain to meet with criticism. Of course the books may bo all right, but then I do not liko to seo it taken out of tho commissioners' hands." Frederick Kline said: "I do not know very much about the law, since, ray term having expired the 1st of Juhy, Ihave not taken much interest in it. But what I do know of it is enough to make me form an unfavorable opinion of it. It shuts out competition, and 1 am opposed to monopolies of all kinds. It may do well enough at present so far as the books themselves are concerned, but tho probability is that they will soon fall below the standard. The chango may bo made by almost imperceptible degrees, but it will take place, and wo shall find ono of thpse days that we have a set of non-standard book's. Tho old books are not hastily-gotten-up affairs, but the products; of long years of development and painstaking care. They have been constantly improved until they aro now models. Another thing is that, under tho new way old books cannot be exchanged to any advantage. The old law was good enough if only carried out. It is much better, according to my view, to make changes in our text-books only when absolutely necessary." "Well, do you think it is wise to have Uniformity in text-books all over the State!" "I do not. What suits one locality may not be at all suitable to another place. It seems to me that the books used hero ought to bo somewhat more advanced than those of the back districts. No, sir, I don't like it. It will bo a costly experiment that will do tho Stato no good." Tho next commissioner interviewed was Clemens Vounegut. sr. He had not studied the matter much, but it came out that he had an opinion. He said: "The text-book commissioners are in too bit: a hurry. It seems preposterous to do such a thing as this in tho haste that is being used. I think that the teachers and superintendents ought to be left in charge of it, of courso with proper limitations. A number of prominent educators ought to havo been appointed by the Legislature, and given two or three years to prepare a system. It is hardly probablo that anvbody 5s going to be so charitable, or to take so much trouble with anything as has been taken with this present scheme, purely out of a spirit of disinterestedness. I am in favor of changes in our text-books. They ought to be more condensed, rudimentarv, so to speak, and more instruction should bo given by tho teacher." Mr. Vonnegut thinks a uniform system would bo desirable, but it must bo reached, ho said, by degrees. The Position of the Governor. Last cveniug.iu conversation with a Journal reporter. Governor Hovey took occasion to express himself on the school-book question. "My position is this," said he, "I am in favor of freo school-books and believe tho Massachusetts plan to bo the best. The law of that State allows each school district to select its own books as it pleases. Theso books, bought by tha State, aro loaned to the pupils free. Of courso, if a pupil destroys a book, his parents aro liable for its value. Maine,' Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and several other States have tried this sj-stera with success. It has been in use in Philadelphia for seventy years, in Boston for forty years. In 1SS4 the Stato of Massachusetts adopted the system throughout the State. It is said that in Maine, under the freo system, the cost to tho Stato for books for each pupil per amum is 6 3-3 cents. In some other

States tho cost is more, but never exceeding .r)0 cents per pupil per annum. 'Tho benefits claimed for this system are many. Tho pupils, rich and poor, start alike with the same books. The poor boy is not kept back, as under tho present system, becauso ho is unable to start in with a new book. The pupils are taught to take care of property; tho books belong to the State, and they may not lose or destroy them. Many other reasons might be given iu favor of the free-book svstem, but no reason is better than that rich and poor are placed on an equality iu the schoos. The school-house is free, tuition is free, the furnituro of the school is free, and there is no use talking about free schools until tho system is made complete by tho addition of free books. I was opposed to this new school-book law for one reason I havo not hercioforo given. I do not liko a cast-irou rule for tho entire State. I want each school district to have the privilege of selecting its own text-hooks, as is done in Massachusetts. I did not sign the act, because I wanted a freo text-book system. I allowed it to become a law by limitation, becauso I believed it was breaking down a monopoly and was an advance toward free textbooks. In tho school-book question beforo the committee I told them I would favor the enforcement of this as of any other law fairly enacted, and I was not afraid to vote yea or nay, nor of showing my record. I was in favor of enforcing the law simply because it was tho law." "I would like to quote from my message," said the Governor, "something on the cost of school books, it is this: At 40 cents per pupil, tho entire cost of school books for lSistf, in our public schools, would only havo amounted to $103,510, as against $1,226,325. This would give an actual annual gain to tho people of 81,002,815, or$i.(X) toeachpupiL If the free S3Tstem should cost an average of $1 a year per pupil, and had done bo in 1S88, there would still bo left a gain to parents and guardians of $S17,.J0., I am unqualifiedly in favor of free text-books." JIIX0R CITY MATTERS.

To-Day Doing:. EDEN M USEE Curiosities; afternoon and evening. CATTLE OF ATLANTA CYC LOP. AM A Market ' street, between Illinois and Tennessee; day and evening. L.ocaI News Notes. Marriage licenses wero issued yesterday to William J. Bryau and Lotta A. Lowe, John V. Smith and PoILv K. Ulitou. TlnilrliTifr nrTtii f a n-oro nrniMirod vesterd.1V by Kate Lavman. frame cottage, Eighth street, near i andes street, jhuv; w. r. sorrows, bam, No. 71 Spann avenue, 100. Personal ami Society. Mrs. W. C. Lynn is spending a fortnight in Evansville visiting relatives. Mrs. Harry Aldrich is spending the summer with menus ai vv aicu mn, i. x. Mrs. C. R. Watson and children will go East to-day, to remain until September. Mr. and Mrs. James E. Robertson will go to Martinsville, to-day, for a short stay. Mr. A. M. Robertson went to Martinsville mineral springs, yesterday, to remain a few days. Mr.J.W. Sherwood, of Cincinnati, for merly of this city, is spending a few days here. Mrs. W. L. Ketcham and family will leave, this week, for Turkey lake, to spend the summer. Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Jordan left yester day for a short visit in St, Joseph, Mich., and Chicago. Mrs. Flora M. Hunter is spending a fortnight in liloomiugtou, 111., visiting her mother and sister. Mrs. J. W. Beck and children will leave, to-morrow, for Lake Maxinkuckee, for a visit of several weeks. , Mrs. Geo. W. Geizer is visiting her daughter, Mrs. John Patterson, at Noblesville, for a few weeks. ' Miss Helen Hickev went to Nashville yesterday to attend the National Associa tion of School leachers. Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Mayer and Mr. and Mrs. Horace Bennett left yesterday for Warm Springs, to spend a few weeks. Mrs. Verbis. Mrs. Ahby Judson and daughter Jeannette aro expected home tomorrow from a visit to Mrs. Ellis Proudfit, at Madison, W is. A. M. Stewart, Samuel Watson, Harry Eden, Will Pierce and Miss Minnie Pierce will go to West Baden to-morrow to remain a fortnight. Miss Olive Gaston will sail on Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Giliiland, for Europe by the steamer Eo Bretague, to remain a month or six weeks. Mrs. Hannah Chapman.Miss Angel, Miss1 Moon and Miss Lottie Ransdell will leave to-day for Eau Claire, Wis., to spend tho summer with Miss Moon's parents. Tho lawn fete, which was to have been given this evening at Mr. May's, 145 Bellefontaine street, by Mrs. Brown's Sundayschool class of the Central Christian Church, has been posponed until next week. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hendrickson, Mrs. Easterline. Miss Knight and Miss Mabel Knight left last night for tho north, to spend a month or six weeks. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Do Souchet accompanied them as far as Chicago. J Yesterday afternoon, at 1 o'clock, occurred a pleasant home wedding at tho residence Mr. and Mrs. Lowe, No. 104 Pern 6treet. Their daughter, Miss Lotta A., was married to Prof. William J. Bryau, of tho Stato University, Bloomington. The ceremony was performed by tho Rev. Dr. Edson, of Memorial Presbyterian Church. Professor and Mrs. Bryan will spend tho summer among the mountains of Tennessee. Mrs. Clifton Comly and 6ons left yesterday for Columbia, Tenn., to join Major Comb. Master Garrard Comly went to Chicago a fortnight ago to take the examination for the Sheffield scientific department of l'alo College, and received word beforo ho left here that ho had passed. He is the voungest boy iu tho Classical School class, being only fifteen. He will return to this city for a short visit to friends beforo going to college in the fall. Running After Jack Ilabbits. M. E. Allison, general manager of the National Coursing Association, is in the city. The organization he represents is located at Hutchinson, Kan., aud makes a business of training jack rabbits for coursing purposes. They aro pitted against greyhounds, and persons who have witnessed the sport declare it to bo fully as exciting as horse-racing or fox-chasing. The hounds aro muzzled so that if the rabbits aro run down the raco does not end in injurv to tho pursued. An exhibition of this Kind was given in Louisville on tho Fourth, and was highly commended. Mr. Allison may arrange for a series of races at the exposition grounds in this city if ho finds sufficient interest in the sport to warrant bringing his keuncl of hounds and rabbits here. A New Cathedral Proposed. For somo timo the unfitness of the present location of the residence of tho bishop of tho Vincennes diocese has been apparent, and Bishop Chatard has at last begun to look about for a new location fo an episcopal residence. In addition to this a new cathedral will probably be erected. The Bishop has under advisement tho purchase ot a line property on North Pennsylvania street, which, it secured, will bo remodeled into a handsome residence. As to tho now cathedral, the north central part of the city is indicated as a location lor the future, all other parts of the city being already fairly well provided with Catholic churches. A church will goon be erected in Haughvilki, and another in Belmont, Injured bj Natural Gas. Oscar L. Mai, a baker at P. F. Bryce's establishment, was severely burned yesterday while attempting to light a natural-gas jet in one of the ovens. He failed to ignite the gas until considerable had escaped, and a slight explosion followed, burning him about the face and arms. Ho was taken home, No. r04 West McCarty street, but it is thought he will recover in a few days. Kxcursion to Martinsville. On next Tuesday morniug, at 7 o'clock, there will bo an excursion of Indianapolis business men to Martinsville, which is rapidly growing into favor as a summer resort. The party will look about, with a view to locating and establishing a summer hotel. Go to Broad Ripple Sunday next by the Monon route. Trams all day. Balloon ascension and boat races. Fare 50 cents.

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We have cyme to tho turn of the summer, tho cheap buying time. Everybody knows it, looks for it, waits for it. It arrives as regularly as tho dog-days. It runs more or less through all trades. Odds and ends of stocks left; articles that wero booked aud looked to go that didn't. Summer buyers can thus always find a multitude of things that fill a long-felt want, a rug, a curtain, a screen, some art decoration, what not and the chances are that the pr ico will suit tho time somet hing to bo attained without much exertion. Come in aud look things over while you rest. K7ASTMAN, r SCHLEICHER & LEE, Carpets, Draperies, Wall-Paper, The Largest House in tho State W. T. WILEY & CO. Bargains for To-Day 50 dozen Gents' Unlaundcred Shirts only S3c, cheapjat 50c. Gents1 Gauzo Shirts at 19 and Coo, great bargains. Ladies' Jersey Ribbed Vesta at 12 l-2cf worth 25c. Child's Gatizo Vests from 7e up. Laities' Cream Jerseys only 50c, worth SI. 15 fine Parasols at 75c, worth $2 :ind $2.50, see thi-ui. Eadies1 faney Hose, full regular-made, only 22c per pair, worth 35c. Misses1 fancy Hose, lull regular-made, only 10 and 12 l-2c per pair, worth 20 aud 25c. See our bargains in Mitts," Corsets. Fans, liuchmgs, Kibbons. Laces and Neckwear, bee our Black Silk Eaco, Flouncing at 75o, l8o and 1.25, great bargains. Sateens from 5 to 25c a yard. Special bargains in Black Cashmeres and Black Henrietta Cloths to-day. Figured India Silks at 37 l-2c per yard, worth 75c. "W. T. "VVITjEY & CO 43 & CO North Illinois St. 10,000T1RDS Wo shall ofTer for tho rest of this week all the 31 ill Kemnants in our basement at only 3 3-4c a yard, to clear un the lot. They are superior quality Kols. None are worth less than 7e, and many aro worth 13 l-2c. 2,000 yards mill remnants of Unbleached Muslins at only G l-2c a yard. They would be cheap at 8 l-3c. 1,000 yards Linen Curtain Scrim at 5c a yard. They would be cheap at 10c. This price is only to clear up what wo have on hand now. 1,000 yards nico quality best stylo Lawns wo shall closo out at 4 3-4c. Theso axe really worth 3 l-3c. 1,500 yards Dress Satiues, only 5c a yard. Special Bargains ia Every DepkBt CFCome early. 109 and 1 1 1 South Illinois St. JUST PUBLISHED Lithotrraph Picture, aize 'J8x42 inche. containing the Oraphic ami Realistic scenes of trift er&c CONEMAUOll VALLKY DISASTER. Tn dosmictlon of Johnstown, by flood ami lire. Yrle. 25 centa. Coiie -w ill be teut freo by iuil ca receipt ol price. CATIKAET, CLELAXD & CO, 20 East Washington St Surplj limited. Order at once. m T Call and sec our new, elegant, and beautiful Soda Fountain, 99 North Illinois street (Stewart Place). A. D. ROACH. TEA SETS. 23 North 111. St. ALL LEADING LIXES OF STATIONERY At Lowest Kates.

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