Indianapolis Journal, Volume 48, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1898 — Page 3

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PAUL’S STAY IN CORINTH * DR. ABBOTT TREATS ANOTHER PHASE OF THE APOSTLE'S CAitEER. Persecution and Its Effect—Change In the Great Missionary's Conception oC the Kingdom of God. Brooklyn Eagle. In Plymouth Church, Sunday night, the Rev, Dr. Lyman Abbott resumed his series of lectures on the life and writings of St. Paul, which had been interrupted by special Christmas services. Dr. Abbott said: “Forty-live miles from Athens lies, or rather formerly lay, the city of Corinth. If Athens may be called the Boston of Greece,Corinth may be called the New York of Greece. It was the commercial metropolis of Achaia. It is situated on the isthmus between two seas, the Aegean on the east, the lonian on the west. It is between two ranges of hills, separating North am from Southern Greece. So that the ship commerce, to avoid the stormy peninsula had necessarily to come to Corinth, where either the goods were transshipped or the vessels were carried by a kind of roadwmy from one sea to the other, and traders desiring to pass from Northern to Southern Greece must go through the mountain ranges which separated Northern and Southern Greece at Corinth. So that Corinth was the gateway both of internal and marine commerce. It was the commercial metropolis of ancient Greece. And its glory and its shame were those of a great commercial metropolis. It had been a great and glorious city. ‘The light of all Greece,’ Cicero calls it. "Two hundred years before Paul’s visit it had been visited by a Roman army and dire vengeance had been taken upon it for some, real or fancied insult put upon Rome. It ha*d been given over to horrible sack. The men had been killed, the women and the children had been sold into slavery and the city with its temples and its altars and its public buildings had been given to the flames. For a hundred years it lay desolate and in ruin. Then Julius Caesar resolved to rebuild it. He sent thither Roman colonists, he put money into the rebuilding, and it regained something of its ancient eminence, though never regaining the whole. ‘ This city, therefore, w ith a great foreign population gathered in it, still had a great commerce and enjoj ed commercial privileges, and some political and social privleges as well. For it was the natural capital of Greece. And whatever Corinth did, Greece was likely to follow. Thus, it was not only the New "ITprk of the ancient world, it was the Paris of the ancient world. What Paris has been to France, that in some sense Corinth was to Greece. Its glory, I have said, was commercial, and its shame. It was pervaded by the commercial spirit. We are mistaken U we imagine the Grecian people to be always a highly intellectual people. They were a. very commercial people, pervaded by the commercial spirit. Five hundred years before and more Pindar had said: Money, money, money makes the man,’ in bitior satire of his countrymen; and this spirit that money makes the man was nowhere in Greece embodied as it was in Corinth. AN IMMORAL CITY. “It was a city given over to luxury and to the effeminacies and vices of luxury. Greece was never a very highly moral state, certainly not measured by moral standards, and Corinth was pre-eminently an immoral city. The religion of that day had noth'ng to do with morality. There was no attempt on the part of the priests in the temples to promote moral life. It is said there were a thousand prostitutes connected with the temple of Venus. That simple fact is sufficient to indicate how little effect or influence the religion of Greece had in promoting moral life. “The women of Corinth, the wives and mothers, were left for the most part, to grow up in ignorance, and w'ere kept in seclusion in their homes. The public women were educated. There you were to look for the culture, the refinement and the education. They had their receptions and their gatherings, and with them the wisest and the best, the philosophers and the moralists, were wont to gather for brilliant conversation with one another, and for brilliant conversation witli women, who, in our time and in this city, we would not allow within our homes. So far had this gone that it became a proverb in Greece, ami for a woman to become devoted to a public life of shame was called in Greece to Corinthianize. “This was the moral quality of Corinth. And this moral quality of Corinth had affected its intellectual quality. Philosophy was no longer philosophy. It was sophism. The Sophists were teachers of a pseudophilosophy. They organized their schools, piled the arts of rhetorician and, if you will, of th. logician, certainly of the dialectician. Thev plied them for money—which was perhaps quite legitimate; they plied them not for truth—which was certainly not at all legit’mate. The average teacher in Corinth had that idea of the duty of a professor of instruction which is entertained and frankly avowed by some journalists at the present day respecting the profession of journalism. They say the newspaper is a commercial enterprise; it gives to the people what the people want; if you do not hke the newspaper you must change the appetite of the people. So these professors of rhetoric apd logic in Corinth said. ‘We are conducting a commercial enterprise, and we give the people what the people want. And what the people wanted was ingenuity "and skill in Intellectual fence. The Sophist pretended to know everything and tfl teach everything. He would talk to you on any subject you wanted to be talked to about. Much **jfain like some modern journalists It

made little difference to hi a whether he knew anything about it or • hr. had skill in intellectual fence, and th ! - w_ s enough. He would discuss, therefore, manner of questions, political, moral, . uhosophical, abstract, concrete, religious, secular, terrestrial, celestial, pres future. Long before this time Plato had, ! .h biting sarcasm, characterized these r aethers of sophism, with whom Paul was to come in conflict at Corinth, and this is his characterization of them. ‘A Sophist,’ he says (I am not. indeed, quoting his exact words, but gathering them from one of his dial-ogues)—-a Sophist is one skilled in a contradiction, dissembling, unintelligent, indefinite, fanatic, juggling—with words—art of imposition.’ That is a Greek’s definition of Greek Sophism. MORAL ELEMENT IN STOICISM. “There was, however, a moral element in Greece, and it was strenuous and muscular. It was knotvn as stiocism. It does not come within the province of this evening’s lecture to trace the rise and growth of stoicism, nor to enter into any very considerable analysis of it; it is enough to say that it was a real and genuine protest against the immorality cf life and against the superflcialism of philosophy. But it was, in the first place, materialism pure and simple. The stoic was what -we call in modern times A Monist. He thought there was only one thing in the world, namely, matter and force, which is simply a subtle form of matter, and God and the soul were themselves forms of matter and of force. In them he did not recognize what we should call God dt all. But he did recognize law. There was an inherent, an open and an indestructible law, and men should obey this law, not because they had to, as though they were machines, but because it was reasonable. The Pharisee rested the duty of obligation to law upon conscience; the stoic rested it upon reason. Thus there was a grotest against the immorality of the time. ecause it was irrational; a protest against the superficial philosophy of the time, because it was irrational. And this was the height of moral life of Greece at the time of which I am speaking. Os the faith which perceives the invisible, of the hope which believes that righteousness brings reward here or hereafter, peace now or peace in eternity, and of the love which feels a sympathy for men and a desire to serve them with unrewarded activity, there is scarce any trace to he found in the writings of the stoics, who were the moralists ot the first century. There is very little of it to be found even in Marcus Aurelius, the stoic of a later age, already pervaded in some measure by the spirit of Christianity. “Into this city, then, with its commercial spirit, with its immoral life, with its superficial philosophy, with its morality, so far as it had any morality, resting upon pure reason and upon nothing else; into this city came Paul, disheartened, discouraged. His mission up to this time had been, it would seem to him, a failure. He had started out with high hopes from Arabia. He had come back to Damascus to say T was mistaken.’ and to tell the Jews (the Pharisees, of whom he was one) that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah, and they drove him from the city. He went up to Jerusalem. ‘Surely,’ he said, ‘they will hear me; tiny know me; they know how earnest I was in persecuting the Christians, and now that I have got the light I can give it to them.’ He tried to give it to them, and they treated him, or would have treated him if tiny could, as they had treated his Master. He had to flee from Jerusalem. He had undertaken almost single handed to carry this message into Greece. The Christian church behind him had very little faith in his mission. They did not believe that Christianity applied to the pagans. And he had gone out with very little blessing, except that of the prayer meeting at Antioch, and nothing had come of it. He had gone to city after city, to synagogue after synagogue, and every synagogue had treated him as they had treated him at Damascus and Jerusalem. And when he turned from the synagogue to the pagans he found himself at once confronted with the charge of endeavoring to raise an insurrection, endeavoring to create animosity to the Roman empire and the Roman emperor, of endeavoring to initiate a new* kingdom. He was silenced before the Greek and Roman courts by the Roman authorities. In no single place had he been able to stay more than a few days, a few' weeks at the utmost. And so he came to Corinth, disheartened and discouraged. ‘I wns with you,’ he says, ’in fear and in weakness and in much trembling.’ “He looked upon the past, and he saw that his message of a second coming of Christ within the present generation to revolutionize the world had done nothing. He looked out upon this Corinth, and he saw that the hope of another glory was a poor weapon with which to attack a present sensuous glory; that a future kingdom of heaven, that a coming kingdom of glory would have no power in it to stir the heart of a people given over to commercial and luxurious splendor in their own time. They might well have answered, had they known the proverb, ‘A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.’ and their answer would not have been unreasonable. PAUL'S EXPERIENCES IN CORINTH. “Moreover, he had been following the Christ, and he had got. little by little, the Christ spirit. He had come to see what at first he did not see, the glory of humiliation, the riches of poverty, the exultation of abasement, the splendor of isolation, the radiancy of self-sacrifice. He began, as he had in other cities, at first, apparently doing nothing: but when companions came, he took heart of courage and went into the synagogue and preached. And he met with' the same experience he had met with before The people would not hear, they turned him out. But he did not meet it H he had met It before, by fleetn~ to another city. He cast down before the judges the gauntlet of defiance. He took refuge in a house adjoining the synagogue, took with him one who iSd been converted to Christianity, the ruler of the synagogue, and set up what might be called a rival synagogue alongside. And there he began his real ministry '"‘•The* Jews presently tried the same tactics they had tried before successfully at Pbilinni and Thessalonica and in other citieJ P Thev miule an assault; they brought him in before the Roman governor, a brother of the famous Seneca. But now they had no charge which they could bring agatnst him They could not now charge him with preaching anew king and anew kingdom.

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The color of his preaching had changed. And when Gallio had investigated and heard what they had to say his answer was. in substance, this: ‘lf this concerned a law, a Roman law, I would hear it; I would listen to it; but it is a matter of words and names and your own religion, to be a judge of these matters I have no mind.’ And he drove them from his judgment seat. And then the Greeks took the ruler of the synagogue who had brought the complaint against Paul and beat him before the judgment seat and Gallio let them do it, he did not care. “So much for Paul’s outward experience. Hei remained there a year and a half. What did he preach? The omissions of the Bible are marvelous, and some of them inexplicable. I wonder why it is that Luke gave us the report of Paul’s sermon at Athens, when nothing came of the preaching, and has .given us no report of any sermon at Corinth, out of which grew the first considerable and prosperous church. But if Luke has not, w r e have reason to see in other circumstances the change in preaching which had taken place. He no longer made the theme of his preaching the second coming of Christ. He resolved, in the first place, that he would not be confounded with these Sophists. ‘The Greeks,’ he said, ‘are seeking for reason—Sophism, skill in dialectics, ingenious fence, fine rhetoric. I will have nothing to do with all that.’ He w’as afraid lest he should be confounded with one of these ingenious dialecticians. ‘I will have nothing to do with that,’ he says, ‘and the Greeks seek for some miracle, some sign, some evidence, some wonderful power. Thffy want the glorious coming of a Christ; they want the reign and the manifestation of a divine power, in some supernatural way, and I will not give them that. I have tried it and it has failed,’ He says: ‘I saw’ what „the Pharisees were, I saw w’hat the stories were. I saw what the Jews were, I saw what the failure of the past had been and I determined among you I would know nothing but Jesus Christ and Him crucified.’ A MISQUOTED TEXT. “That text has been often misquoted. It has been quoted and preached from as if Paul said, ‘I determined to know nothing save Jesus Christ and Him crucified;’ and he did not. What he said was this: ‘I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.’ It is as if he had said, ‘I came to a city mired in luxury and self-indulgence; notorious for its infamous licenses; tickling itself with pseudo philosophy that did not take hold of the moral life; a city whose only moral movement was a movement founded on pure reason, not on conscience; a city in which meekness and gentleness and forgiveness and kindness and self-abasement and humiliation w’ere absolutely unknown, or known only to be scoffed at; and I resolved to put away all the instruments on which I had before relied, all the methods I had before employed, and I do nothing but tell you the story of Christ and His cross; I w'ould rest my preaching, not on the glory of a Christ yet to come, but on the glory of a Christ who has already come; not on a

glory to be revealed in clouds and angels and power, but on a glory that is revealed in poverty, humiliation, crucifixion, ignominious death. In doing this, I resolved, too, that I would appeal to the Divine that is in man. I would no longer appeal to their ambition, and think I sanctified them by presenting them a celestial picture to respond to their ambitions, I would appeal to the spiritual in man. I came to see that in every man there is a power of insight, and of interior vision, and I resolved that I would try and awaken that, dormant as it is, and make men see; I would try and open their eyes that were blind and their ears that were deaf.’ Listen to his account of his own purpose: I must explain before hand that the word which I sometimes 'ranslate ‘wisdom’ and sometimes sophism,’ in this pharaphrase, is the same word in the Greek, There is a play in the Greek which I have not found possible to represent in the English. “ ‘And I, brethren,when I came to you,came not with an ambition to excel other teachers in rhetorical or sophistical skill, in declaring to you my testimony concerning God, for I did not choose to know anything among you but Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And in weakness and in fear and in much trembling was I with you, and my sjieech and my preaching were not of persuasive words of wisdom, hut were a manifestation of the spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. Yet we can speak wisdom, and we do, among them who are full grown, but not the wisdom of this ape, neither of the rulers of this age, who are becoming quite good for nothing. But the wisdom we speak is the wisdom of God, a mystical wisdom, a hidden wisdom, which God prepared before the ages and which Is to result in our glory, which none of the rulers of this age know, for if they had known they would not have crucified the Lord of this glory. But, as it is written, that which the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard and it has not entered into the heart of man to conceive these God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has declared them to us through the Spirit, for the spirit (of man) searches all things even the deep tnings cf God. For who among men knows the experiences if man except the spirit of man which is in him. So also the experiences of God knoweth no one except the spirit of God. But we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit which comes forth from God in order that we may know the experiences which are freely imparted to us by God, of which we speak, not in forms of speech which can be taught by human wisdom, but In such as are taught by the Spirit interpreting to spiritual men spiritual truths. But the sensuous man does not even receive the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him and he is unable to understand them because thev are spiritually discerned. But the spiritual man discerns all things, but he himself is discerned by no one. For who ever knew the mind of the Lord to instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ.’ “Up to this time in Paul’s experience he has said nothing; about the crucifixion, except incidentally to refer to the death of Christ, as a basis for setting; forth the resurrection of Christ. From this time forth he has almost nothing to say about the resurrection of Christ; and so little apparently did he have to say about it in his preaching to the Corinthians that some of the church came to the conclusion that there was no resurrection, and he writes them at length on the subject. In his previous sermons md in his previous letters to the Thessa'onians he lias nothing to say about cruciiiction and much to say of the second coming; in his future letters, nothing of the second coming, or almost nothing. He w ill depart and be with Christ. He is waiting for the crown of righteousness which shall be given to him when he ascends to the Father. A CHANGE OF CONCEPTION. “But he no longer speaks of the Christ as coming to establish a kingdom on the earth, and now’. It is after this he writes to the Romans, ‘Men are justified by faith alone.’ He has not written that before. It is alter this he writes to the Philippians, that because Christ hath humbled Himself, and taken the form of a servant, and been obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross, therefore. God hath highly exalted him. It is after this, too, that he writes to the Colossians, in mystical phrase, ‘I am crucified with Christ, and yet I live, and Christ lives with me.’ And after this that he writes to the Corinthians, ‘I have not known Christ after the flesh, and if I had known Him I would not have wished to know Him, I should not care for it, I should forget it, it is tne spiritual vision which entrances me and inspires me.’ From this time forth he is the preacher of these two things: First, the glory of self-sacri-fice: and, secondly, the mystical life of the Inward faith. “Thus we have traced in Paul’s experience three stages. In the first we see him a Pharisee. He is conscientious; he has studied the law'; he believes in it; he endeavors to fulfill it; and as regards what w r e call the ceremonial law; that is. as he regards it. the law’ defining man's especial obligations to God, he is blameless. But he has hope of a Messiah, who is coming to make Jerusalem the queen city of the w’orld, and when he sees a sect arising w’hich declares that the Crucified One is the Messiah, he will have none of it, and when it gmw’s strong, he sets himself to w’ork to destroy it. In the second stage of his spiritual experience he has seen this crucified Savior risen; he has thus brought to him the conseif usness of the resurrection; in that consciousness of the resurrection he gets his conviction that Jesus is the Messiah But he still believes in the Pharasiac conception of the kingdom of God. he still thinks that the Messiah is straightway coming to bring about that kingdom of God, and he goes forth as the herald of the coming king. “In the third stage of his experience he is no longer a Pharisee, and he is no longer a Pharasaic Christian. He comes to see that there is no giory like the glory of selfabasement and self-sacrifice; that there is no evidence of religion like the evidence of the inward witness of the soul itself. He speaks as a mystic to mystics, as a spiritual man to spiritual men, and he sets forth the glory of the life that has been lived on the earth. And when the glory of the risen Christ or the glory of the Christ before the beginning of the world is referred to, it is only that it may intensify the glory of the earthly career. “Along with this change comes a change in his conception of his function and his work. He begins to see now that the Roman empire is to last. He begins to see that the Christian religion must be made the religion of the Roman empire. He no longer goe3 from place to place as a mere herald of a coming king. He stays a year and a half in Corinth: he stays two years in Ephesus; he plans also to extend his missionary tour. He resolves that he will go to Rome. A little later he resolves to go from Rome to Spain, the westernmost boundary of the Roman empire. He has enlarged the conception of his mission—it is to make faith in Christ the faith of the Roman empire. He has changed his conception of the instrument of his power—it is no longer the glory of a Coming One, it is the glory of One who has come and has dwelt upon the earth. And he has changed the method of his address—he no longer appeals to the reaso*, endeavoring to win men by philosophical aigument: he no longer ad-

dresses himself to the appetite for the marvelous, promising in a second coming a miracle greater than any that has been wrought; he addresses himself to the spiritual in man, awakening in him that which shall perceive the Divine love. “It was necessary to get this point of view in order to give any interpretation of the Epistle to the Corinthians, as I understand that epistle; and it has seemed to me impossible to give the point of view in a mere introduction to a lecture on the Epistle to the Corinthians. So here to-night we will leave Paul, with his changed conception of the kingdom of God. of the secret of its pow’er and of the method of its diffusion. to take up On next Sunday evening the epistle which he wrote back to the Corinthian Church after he had left Corinth.’’ GARRET FULL OF MAIL * SECOND REMARKABLE DISCOVERY AT AN INDIANA POSTOFFICE. Attic of the Bnildingr Used by the Mottweiler Family, at Georgetown, Filled with Undelivered Mail. #- CINCINNATI, Jan. B.—The Enquirer says: Another chapter in the poor conduct of the postoffice at Georgetown, Floyd county, Indiana, by its late mistress has just come to light. A letter received yesterday at the office of Postoffice Inspector-in-charge George Holden tells the details. Readers will remember that about two years ago complaint came to the inspector’s office stating that there was mismanagement of the postoffice at Georgetown, and that it was believed that not one-tenth of the mail received there during the previous year had been delivered. Postoffice Inspector W. T. Fletcher was detailed to look into the matter at once. He had no little trouble in making the investigation. The office for fully twenty years had been in charge of the Mottweiler family. For nearly ten years old man Mottweiler was the postmaster, and upon his death, a dozen years ago, his daughter Louisa, a maiden lady well in the fifties, succeeded him. She remained in charge until her removal two years ago yesterday. The postoffice during all these years was located in a one-and-a-half story frame house owned by the Mottweilers. The front part of the house was devoted to the postoffice, the room back of this - was used as a sleeping apartment, and attached to the rear of the house was a shed used for a kitchen. In the front room the letter bonces were arranged in an “L“ form, leaving a small square place in front for inquirers after mail. Back of the boxes there had been hung pieces of dark material to prevent any one gazing into the room. There was a small-sized aperture through which the business of the office was transacted. None of the oldest inhabitants of Georgetown can remember ever having seen the interior of this office, except the slight glimpses that may have been caught through the wicker window. So it was no wonder that when inspector Fletcher demanded admittance it was refused. He showed his credentials, but Postmistress Mottweiler declined to recognize them. Seeing that nothing was to be gained by argument, Inspector Fletcher said that if he was not admitted forthwith he would make forcible entrance. This had the desired effect. It was indeed a sight that met his gaze after he got back ot the partition. On the floor, with a scrupulous nicety, were piled letters to the depth of fully a foot, and gave the appearance of being so much cord wood. The letters had been packed tightly, as the postmistress for years had walked' thereon in attending to the wants of the public. On top of this, at one side of the room, were barrels, boxes and articles of wearing apparel, all filled with mail matter. Inspector Fletcher did not like the appearance of things by any means, as he did not relish the idea of taking off his coat and going to work at assorting the dirty and musty stuff. He swore in two clerks, and they were ordered to take all except the first-class matter and dump it under the trestle of the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railroad, where the inhabitants of Georgetown were told to go to pick out their mail. As this made a disagreeable mess, the Board of Health of the place ordered the stuff burned. The first-class matter was assorted, and much of it given to the persons to whom it was addressed. Many of the addressees had long ago departed this world, while in many instances old residents were given letters sent them years and years before. Longlooked for letters from lovers were found, and the mysterious fate that had separated such persons was explained at last, but all too late. One doctor received 257 letters. On Aug. 10, 1876, C. Jay French, then superintendent of the Fifth division railway mail service, with headquarters in this city, sent an order to the Georgetown postoffice to do up and forward a certain package of mail. The envelope containing the order was found unopened. Mr. French is now the general manager of the Bell Telephone Company, with headquarters in Boston. In all there were about fourteen cartloads of mail matter that had never been delivered. Inspector Fletcher was glad on finishing his task, as he thought he had. But it now turns out after a lapse of two years that he has not. Tins, however, must not be taken as a reflection on him, as he is considered one of the most thorough and nninstaking officers of the country. The letter received at division headquarters explains itself. The letter was written by John H. Sims, the present postmaster. The postmaster states that he pulled a nail from a door leading to a stairway to a garret above the old postoffice and found that place almost completely filled with undelivered mail matter that had become moldy. Postmaster Sims says that the sight was an astonishing one, for there are certainly four wagon loads of mail matter stored there. He says that he, in company with Postmaster Clipp and David Kelly and John H. Thombs, the last two being Miss Mottweiler’s bondsmen, visited the place and will endeavor to assort the badly mixed pile of mail. Thus ends a most remarkable case.

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GOWNS—Good Muslin, cambric ruffle, tucked yoke, Hubbard ‘•tyle; an excellent garment. 2 the limit. "IQ,' GOWNS—Hubbard style w” 1 - yoke of inserting and tucks, neck and sleeves trimmed with embroidery, full length and width. 2 tiie limit. EQ GOWNS—Excellent Mus-lJ-'L lin, surplice or square yoke, 2 rows of inserting and tucks. 2 the limit. CQr GOWNS Hill Muslin, eight styies, all new, elegant trimmings of lace or embroidery, cut full and proper length. 2 the limit.

fTfi 1 Ruffled Skirts, Drawers and Corset Covers at prices ranging from h —and every one a special bargain, marked to make this one of the greatest sales on record. 20 Per Cent. Discount Linen Sale The entire Linen Department at your command. Should be of unusual interest to every housekeeper or hotel keeper in the city. A clean saving of 20 per cent, on every item. In the usual linen sales, you are compelled to take a special item, perhaps of little interest to you, and pay the regular prices on the balance of your purchase. In this sale, be it a Crash, Damask, Towel, Table Set, or anything else, you save 20 per cent. It means a genuine reduction throughout the department. Nothing held back; nothing reserved. This is a phenomenal offer in the face of our present remarkable low prices. Our purchases were large, enabling us to procure these goods at the lowest possible margins. We are showing an immense collection of the most popular lines from the best makers in the world. If you are looking for linen, where both quality and style have been considered, this sale will merit an early visit. We have many novel designs. We have many exclusive patterns. We have linens for the rich and linens for the poor, all new, fresh, clean goods, just arrived. All less 20 per cent, in this sale. For example:

Hemstitched Sets Our $6 Hemstitched Sets, less 20<fc/4 QA per cent., for Our $5.50 Hemstitched Sets, less 20<|J.| Afi per cent., for Bleached Damask Our $1.25 Bleached Table Linen, rijfl less 2<> per cent qpi.vlU Our $1 Bleached Table Linen, less 20 cry _ per cent CTvFL Our 85c Bleached Table Linen, less 20 per cent LIOL Our 75c Bleached Table Linen, less 20 per cent Out Silver Bleached Damask Our 85c Silver Bleached Damask, less 20 per cent OOC Our 75c Silver Bleached Damask, less 20 per cent vIVrC Our 69c Silver Bleached Damask, less EE , 20 per cent Out Our 59c Silver Bleached Damask, less A.T'r 20 per cent L Unbleached Damask Our $1 Barnsley Linen, less 20 per cent Qoc Our 75c Unbleached Damask, less 20 ft/v. per cent tJ'UUOur 50c Unbleached Damask, less 20 gri - per cent „ Our 39c Unbleached Damask, less 20 '"5 . per cent *-***'-

2pg gap Discount Continuation Sale on Ppf* every Suit, Jacket, Plush or w Fur Capes, Collarettes, Skirts, Cent. Waists, Silk, Sateen and Mo reen Petticoats We are encouraged by our past week’s liberal patronage (although usually considered quiet, being right after the Holidays) to continue our UNEQUALED REDUCTION to every purchaser. This week we wut to double the sales iu this department over last. In order to accomplish it we have marked down every garment throughout this stock, and in addition to the existing reductions, the 25 per cent, will be allowed on your purchase. In Immense large type you frequently read of Alaska’s seeming wonders, andas often are you disappointed; but with our legitimate fairness such a thing cannot happen, because after you make your selection you are at liberty to figure the discount we offer yourself FOR EXAMPLE: $35 .00 Capes, marked down to $30.00, less 25 percent., leaves $22.50 $20.00 Jackets, marked down to $15.00, less 25 per cent., leaves $11.25 SIO.OO Jackets, marked down to SB.OO, less 25 per cent., leaves $6.00 $15.00 Suits, marked down to $12.50, less 25 per cent., leaves $9.38 $6.50 Children’s Reefers, marked down to $5, less 25 p cent., leaves.. .$3.75 Millinery Department Trimmed Hats —We are offering unprecedented values in Trimmed Hat 9. The stock must be reduced. High-grade Hats are being sold at the price of ordinary ones. $5.00 for first choice of any Hat or Bonnet in our stock; some were up to $25. $3 65 for next choice; some were up to S2O. $2.50 for next choice; some were up to sls. $1.50 for next choice ; some were up to $5. Pheasant Tails —ln the natural colors, the $1.48 kind 98 cents Child’s Caps— Made of all-wopl Cloth, slide bands, satin lined, the 50c kind. 29 cents

Colored Dress Goods FRISSE NOVELTIES, new styles and colorings, 38 inches wide; they sold for 49c, to-morrjw GRANITE CLOTHS, all wool, 40 inches wide, new illuminated effects; the regular 59c quality, for BRADFORD CURLS. 40 inches wide, pure Wool and Mohair, Black grounds, with Navy. Green, Brown and Red <3(Y . designs; sold for 59c, to-morrow ARMURE NOVELTIES, 40 inches wide, Silk and Wool, in all the late color- , ings; they were sl, to-morrow-HIGH ART NOVELTIES, Silk and Wool, 46 inches wide, latest combination of colors; regular $1.25 qual- *7Q r Ity, for PATTERN SUITS, foreign make and only one of a kind. Three that were sl2, for Three that were $9. for Two Specials in Black Dress Goods BLACK MOHAIR SICILIAN, 50 TQ r inches wide, 60c quality, for BLACK CHEVRON DIAGONAL, 54 inehes wide, all wool; $1 quality, for. M

'rue WM. 11. BLOCK CO hi- Li!! L Lli! L 1 11 1 ■■■ 11 "" 1 ■ . 1 " !* SUNDAY JOURNAL By mail, to Any Address, 92 PER AININUAI

|r*. DRAWERS-Good Muslin, not cheese cloth, 3 rows of tucks; a very special item. 2 pair to a buyer. DRAWERS Excellent Muslin, 3 inches of embroidery edge and 3 rows of tucks made on yoke band. 2 pair to a buyer. /IQ DRAWERS Umbrella oyt style, 6-inch embroidery ruffle, 5 rows of tucks perfectly cut and finished. 2 pairs to a buyer. A A , DRAWERS—Wide Umbrella style, trimmed with wide lace edge and Inserting, fine muslin yoke band. 2 pair to a buyer. CQp DRAWERS Cambric, Umbrella style, wide inserting ruffle yoke band. This is a remarkable value. You should see it.

Turkey Red Damask Our 35c Turkey Red, fast colors, less 20 per cent Our 25c Turkey Red, fast colors, less Of| - 20 per cent Bleached Napkins Our $5 Bleached Napkins, less 20<fc/4 per cent., for Our $4 Bleached Napkins," less 20<fc/'l per cent., for Our $3 Bleached Napkins, less Af\ per cent., for Our $2 Bleached Napkins, less fif } per cent., for Our $1 Bleached Napkins, less 20 per cent., for .OvrC Half=Bleached Napkins Our $1.65 Silver Bleached Napkins, less 20 per cent ,kpiU6 Our $1.39 Silver Bleached Napkins, 4 4 less 20 per cent Our $1.25 Silver Bleached Napkins, rir| less 20 per cent . .*-P Our 75c Silver Bleached Napkins, less 20 per cent

2 Silk Bargains DUCHESSE SATINS, colors Myrtle, Garnet, Navy and Reseda; $1 quality, 68c ROMAN STRIPES, good line of col- errors; $1 quality Domestics PRINTS, standard quality. Turkey'll/-, Red and fancy styles; 5c kind, for..*- , /2'PRINTS for making Comforts, large, At/ showy designs, for ** 72 L OUTING FLANNELS. Plaids, Checks and Stripes, dark styles suitable for dressing sacques and house dresses; quality, fcr w/2C SHAKER FLANNEL, good, heavy cloth; 7c our regular price SHEETING, yards wide, un* |A, COMFORT'S, covered with Silkaline and filled with pure white cotton, full size: $1.50 and $1.75 quality, for...*3* hoO COMFORTS, covered with best quality French Sateen, quilted throughout, tilled with white, fluffy cotton; $2.98<£3 -OQ our regular price, for •00 BLANKETS, all wool, both warpfllO TQ and filling. 10-4 size; $3, for BLANKETS, 11-4 -ize. naturallfc'O 'Tft gray, dark colors, $4 quality,

30c SKIRTS Good clean clear Muslin, 3 rows of tucks, 6-inch flounce of embroidery. 2 the limit* £Q C SKlßTS—Umbrella style. flounce of India Linen and 3-inch embroidery, body of fine Muslin, yoke band; a handsome garment. 2 the limit. QQ - SKIRTS - High - grade Muslin, 15-Inch Cambric flounce, 4 rows of tucks, wide inserting above hem, also wide India Linen flounce and Torchon inserting and edge. 2 the limit.

g* c CORSET COVERS—Good Muslin, perfect fitting, trimmed edges. 2 to a buyer. 12c CORSET COVERS— Cambric, embroidery trimmed, surplice neck, pearl buttons. 2 to a buyer. ?K , CORSET COVERS— Lonsdale Cambric, square tucked yoke, embroidery trimmed, perfect make. 2 to a buyer, 39c CORSET COVERS— Cambric, round neck, lace trimmed, also square neck, embroidery trimmed and ribbons. 3 to a buyer.

Lunch Cloths Our $3 Hemstitched Lunch Cloths, A(\ less 20 per cent., for Our $2 Hemstitched Lunch Cloths, less 20 per cent., for Our $1 Hemstitched Lunch Cloths, CfY-> less 20 per cent., for OvfL. Our 75c Hemstitched Lunch Cloths, less 20 per cent., for vlvru Damask Towels Our 50c Bleached Damask Towels, 4Q* less 20 per cent., for Our 39c Bleached Damask Towels, less a) per cent., for 06^ Our 25c Bleached Damask Towels, Ofle* less 20 per cent., for AvFC. Our 15c Bleached Damask Towels, f 2r* less 2*l per cent., for Huck Towels Our 25c Huck Towels, less 20 per cent., for :....^UC Our 15c Huck Towels, less 20 per cent., for Our 12%c Huck Towels, less 20 per cent., for H-PQ Our 10c Huck Towels, less 20 per cent., for OL Crash Toweling Our 12%c Bleached Crash, less 20 per tA. cent., for IUC Our 10c Bleached Crash, less 20 per cent., for OtOur 8c Bleached Crash, less 20 per V / „ cent., for U7SC

Embroidery and Lace Sale Our new line of Embroideries is now complete, and we are showing an assortment of Cambric, Nainsook and Swiss Edgings that cannot be surpassed in styles or prices. Prudent; buyers will compare before buying, and we invito comparison. SPECIALS CAMBRIC EDGINGS, 1 to 3 Inches w-ide, 40 different designs, would be BZ/* cheap at Bc, for, yd OO CAMBRIC EDGINGS and Flouncings, 4 to 7 inches w-ide, 50 different styles, good value at 15c, for, |Qq CAMBRIC EDGINGS and Flouncing??., 5 to 9 inches wdde, 25 pat- 4 S£terns, 22c quality, for, yd I€7o Torchon Laces We have made special efforts to make this one of the most attractive department* in the house, and if prices and styles count for anything we ought to be strictly in It. SPECIALS TORCHON LACE, new patterns, e usually sells at for, yd €7C TORCHON LACE, extra well made, f(Y fast edges, 15c quality, for, yd IvO Insertions to match. THIItn FLOOR Odd lots Lace Curtains at greatly 1 REDICED PRICES Irish Point Lace Curtains, were $4.50 to $lO, now $2.98 to $7.50 a pair. Brussels Point Lace Curtains, were $6.54 to S2O, now $1.48 to $12.75 a pair. SYRIAN RI GS Equal in appearance and durability to Smyrna Rugs, at less than HALF PRICE. Size 6x9 feet $7.75 Size 7U.XIOH feet $ll.OO Size 9x12 feet $15.00 ROCKERS, STANDS, ETC. Oak or Mahogany finish Rockers, (ts OB cobbler leather seat, each Jardiniere Stands, ornamental and 4Q* useful, each

Housefurnishings and Silverware liaNemeut. IVORY SOAP, 3 for 10c, each 3X© MOPS, combination for brush and *7 _ mop, 12c kind for •* C BOILERS, No. 8 size, 43c quality, 25c TEA KETTLES, No. 8 granite, sell JTV, at 69c, for **VL ROASTERS, the “Columbia.” size 17 by 13 by 9 Inches deep, made of refined AY,, steel, 85c quality, for VOL TABLE TUMBLERS. 30c quality ' „ doz JARDINIERES, glazed porcelain, a variety of colors, 7-inch size, sell at 33c, YS,, for SALAD OR VEGETABLE DISHES, German china, beautifully decorated in tint® and gold tracing, oval and round Aft „ shapes, 75c qualities for CLOCKS, china, fitted with best American works, perfect timekeepeis, $1.50 (YU , qualities, for LAMPS, your choice of our Banquet, Vase, Library arid Student kinds, all fitted with Rochester burners, globes to match, for Monday and Tuesday at a special discount of SCO per cent.

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