Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1899 — Page 3

DON’T NEGLECT A COMMON CASE OF PILES It May Lead to Serious Results. W hen people generally understand that all P; , !i fatal disease** fistula, ulcer of the i' turn, fissure, etc., almost invariably begln in :t simple case of piles, they will learn th> wisdom of taking prompt treatment for • * first appearance of trouble in this quari'r. The Pyramid Pile Cure will certainly < ure every form of piles, itching, bleeding, : ' "trading or blind piles, and hundreds of ■ v. - have been saved by using this cheap < ftrctlve remedy right at the start, bee at such a time a single package will ♦ ff> < t a cure, while in the old chronic, deep'Catcd. cases several packages are somenecessary before a lasting cure is effeeted. Physicians are using the Pyramid Pile * ’nru in pr ferenee to surgical operations and ’ , uniform success. The remedy is pre!l: ’ <1 by the Pyramid Drug Company, of M rshnll, Mich., and for sale by druggists everywhere at .71 cents and $1 per package. > nd for free book on cause and cure of Pih A Loving Wife De vhts to see her husband tastily dressed. 1? MEN' S FURNISHINGS we have everything that is in correct taste and latest styles in NECKWEAR, GLOVES, SHIRTS. ‘ 'OhLAKS and CUFFS, ETC. Agents for IR JAEGER’S SANITARY WOODEN i’NDEHWEAR for men, women and children. Paul IT. Kransst 44 East Washington St. Indiana's Leading Haberdaslier. MADE TO ORDER. Hobson’s Choice “Take that or nothing.” At the close of the nineteenth century competition has induced dealers to treat their customers better. Princess Patent flour will be delivered if ordered by your dealer. Do not accept any brand of so-called “patent” flour as the equal of Princess. Every package guaranteed as to quality and purity. Ask your dealer for it. BLANTON MILLING CO. Hot Water Bottles. All Sizes, All Prices. H uder’sDrugStore WASHINGTON AND PENNSYLVANIA STS. Open all night. (üßanola HFNTTCT Dr A - E BLjCHANAN 110 I :£-33 When Building. CON 111 CT OF WII.D HORSES. Fear of Wolves. Speed of Colts, and the llaliit of Sliying. Our Animal Friends. Another animal which, when in a state of nature, lives in droves is the horse. It is almost as defenseless as the sheep, and when a herd of wild horses is attaeked by wolves there is no escape but in flight. In its wild state the horse's natural habitat is on the open plains, not in mountainous regions, but on the steppes of Asia, and when attacked by wolves its only safety lies in its superior speed. If the young foal were not as swift as ts parents it would fall an easy prey to its pursuer, and so. within a few’ generations, the wild horse might be utterly destroyed by its enemies. The curious thing is that the foal is quite as swift as its parents. When one looks at it. even in its domost Fated condition, it seems to be all legs, and one is surprised to see how easily the slight body is borne along on those long legs beside the mother, even when she is running at her swiftest, rate. In that fact lies the safety of the wild hers, from destruction, and the thousands of generations in which that usef> : animal has been domesticated have brought no change in the peculiar conformation of the foal's limbs, though it is no longer needed for its original purpose. Another curious thing is that one of the faults of the horse of which we are apt to complain, we mean the habit of shying, is a survival of an old habit which was useful and necessary when its ancestors were still r- truing wild upon the plains. Then every h ’>.' was constantly on the outlook for an enemy, and it did not look only with one eve. It habitually kept turning its ear in < directions, so as to catch the slightest round which should indicate tire presence of J ‘pger. Not only when a wolf was seen did t! * herd take flight: any sound, as of the woif breaking through the long grass, caused ■ instantaneous stampede; and something ' that habit still survives. The horse seldom fears the objects which it sees unless t v appear suddenly: but the sudden ap- ! u inee of some light thing driven by the wind, or some slight sound that perhaps may not be heard by his master, may cause an instant and involuntary shy, such as the poor brute would instinctively make if he. wer** still upon the plains How unjust it is, *ud how utterly stupid, to Justify liis terror by whipping him for such a fault! To do so it to make him only so much the readier to shy again, remembering—and he is sure to r. member—that, even if there has been no reason for his involuntary shying, there is something to dread immediately afterward. Th> only sensible way to deal with this remnant of wildness in the domesticated horse is to stop and let him feel that there is nothing to fear, and so break down the remnant of his old and perfectly natural habit of fright from possible danger. “77” Is Dr. Humphreys’ Specific for Coughs, Colds, Influenza and Prevents Pneumonia. The use of “SEVENTY-SEVEN” for Grip prevents Pneumonia by “breaking up” the Cold, while its tonic powers sustain the vitality during the attack. The doctors ;snil officers of Boards of Health say that this epidemic of Grip is not so severe or fatal as former ones, but the danger of Pneumonia or other complications is just as great. If you will carry a vial of “77” in your pocket and take frequently you will escape the Grip. At druggists or sent prepaid; 25c, 50c and St. Humphreys' Med. Cos., cor. William and John streets, Now York. Be sure to get HUMPHREYS’

ASIA IS OUR ELDORADO a- . THAT IS WHAT MR. DEARY, TWELVE YEARS MINISTER TO CHINA, SAYS. a The Tremendous Commercial and Political Importance of American Relations with the Far East. - Hon. Charles Denby, in January Munsey. At the outset of any discussion touching our relations with the far East it is well to comprehend the exact conditions under which Americans and other foreigners are residing In China. Japan, Korea and Siam. t nder the various treaties made with these powers hy the Christian nations of the world w’hat is called extraterritoriality prevails. 1 his word does not express accurately the condition to which it applies, but it has been universally adopted. It means that the foreigner in those eastern countries is governed by his own laws. If he commits a crime he must bo tried before his own consul, and if he is sued for a debt the action must be brought before his own consul. The Chinese courts have no jurisdiction to hear any action or proceeding against a subject or citizen of the treaty powers. It is readily to be seen that such a condition results in bunding up an imperium in imperio in every locality where foreigners have collected together. Take the British concession at Shanghai, for example. It is a magnificent city of 5,000 foreigners and 250,000 natives. It lies at the mouth of the Yang-Tse, and it will be the actual terminus of almost every railroad in China. For shipping it is the fifth Port in the world. Its people are simply "quatters.” \\ hile their respective governments control them individually, municipally the people of Shanghai owe no allegiance to any country. All that was necessary was that the government of China and the representatives of the treaty powers should consent to granting a charter to Shanghai, and thenceforth absolute self-gov-ernment prevailed. The consul general of the United States administers the ordinances of this municipal council under the construction that they constitute the common law of the locality—he having, under the statutes of the l.nited States, common law, admiralty and statutory jurisdiction. The same condition of things prevails all over China as to the law affecting foreigners. It is proper to state that the young and vigorous empire of Japan has negotiated treaties with the western powers by which extraterritoriality is to be done away with One hears in Japan, from the foreigners, many prognostications of evil as to the results which will, next July, follow the native government’s assertion of its right to hold foreigners responsible for their acts, just as other countries do. 1 must say that I , participate in these forebodings. I nave laith that the Japanese courts will fairly and honestly try all cases that come betore them. Should they fail to do so, no doubt the foreign powers will take up any disputed questions diplomatically.

AMERICAN AWAKENING. Events in the far cast have forced us into a position which, it is safe to say, we did not dream of taking a year ago. We have hugged to our bosom the policy of nonintervention in the affairs of Europe, Asia and Africa. We have been awakened from our pleasant dreams by the roar of artillery near at home, and far away in the Philippines. We stood by and saw Germany land a force of marines at Kiaochou, and seize a la £ KO ,-Portion of the province of Shantung, which holds the remains of Confucius, tne great philosopher of China, and perhaps of the world. We stood hy when Russia seized Port Arthur—the second great fortress of China—and Talienwan and a large tract of adjoining territory. England sent twenty-one war ships to Port Arthur, and she asked that Talieiwan, fourteen miles distant, should be made a treaty port, not an open Port, not the open door that English statesmen talk about, but a port at which the people of all nations should have equal rights, under the law of extraterritoriality to which I have adverted. Russia ordered China to refuse this request; China obeyed, and England withdrew her ships. Then Russia demanded Port Arthur and Talienwan and the adjacent territory for herself, and she got it all. France th-'-n seized a port and adjoining territory in the south, and England, not to be outdone by her neighbors, persuaded China to cede to her the other great fortress of Weihaiwei, which Japan had evacuated, besides the Islands and some of the mainland around HongKong. Port Arthur is on the right as you enter the gulf of Pechili, Weihaiwei is on the left, and Peking is about eighty miles from the gulf. These two fortresses control the gulf, and the empire. If this incipient partition had gone on. what would have become of our commerce? It. is the second now in China's trade with the w’orld. It amounts to about $32,000,000, and is largely increasing. American locomotives. rails, ties, mining plants, electrical plants, coal oil. sheeting, flour, and many other things are being bought by the Chinese In increasing quantities. If China is to become a coterie of hostile camps, this grand and increasing commerce will necessarily wane, under the restrictions thrown around foreign trade. The present import tax in no case exceeds five per cent., and is often below that sum. What will it be when China is cut up into discordant nationalities? AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. It is well known that all the treaties made by China contain the "favored nation” clause, under which all the rights, immunities and privileges which are granted to one treaty power inure to the benefit of all. Shall the three great commercial nations engaged in the business of the far east, and doing the greater part of it—England, Japan and the United States—stand by silent and make no protest at the moment that the treaties are nullified? Shall we not only acquiesce in acts of spoliation which will close great markets to us, but shall we also give up the territory w’hioh we hold by conquest? Shull we surrender all that we have in the east, and in addition announce to the world that we take no interest in far eastern matters? Between us and the Philippines rolls the wide Pacific. We are the only great commercial nation on that vast sea. It brings our western coast—which is in itself an empire as large as Europe without Russia—closer to Asia than Europe is: and Asia is our Eldorado. Here are hundreds of millions of the human race to be civilized, Christianized, if possible, and clothed and fed. The population of Asia is 840,000.000. Its import and export trade together amounts to $2,100,000.000. This represents one-seventh of the foreign commerce of all the world. The business of the leading commercial countries is as follows: England. $000,000,000 a year: the United States, $200,000,000; Germany, $145,000,000; France, $75,000,000. I take these figures from a recent newspaper article, and they may be accepted as approximately accurate. Missionary work is a factor in our relations with the far East. I do not intend to discuss the religious effect of the labor of missionaries. That is for the pulpit, and not for laymen. I merely wish to point out the commercial side of the matter. Wherever the missionary goes, education and civilization, to some extent at least, go with him. New w’ants, both intellectual and physical, are developed: foreign trade commences. That much of the de\elopment of China is due to missionaries cannot be doubted. They are the interpreters, the educators, the historians, of the Chinese. At the point of the bayonet the foreign powers in 1858 forced China to sign, seal and conclude certain treaties. There had been treaties made before, but they were not satisfactory to England and France. The new treaties were repudiated by China, and in 1861 French and English soldiers marched to Peking to force their ratification. Then commenced for China the difficult lesson of learning how to manage foreign affairs. 'The foreign ministers came to reside permanently in Peking. The Tsungli Yatnen was organized, and foreign affairs w’ere controlled by this new r board. The foreign trade of China began to increase rapidly. It has now reached the figure of about three hundred millions of dollars annually. In computing the trade of China It must be remembered that the Imperial maritime customs, at the head of which is Sir Robert Hart, collects the duties on foreign goods transported in foreign ships only. It has nothing to do with collecting duties on goods transported in native ships. That is done by the native custom-, and no statistical returns are ever made. There are no Chinese ships plying to Europe or America, but there are ships doing an enormous coastwise trade between Chinese and other Asiatic ports. Complete returns of this

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traffic are not accessible: but such as the existing statistics are, they show- an export and import trade of three hundred millions of dollars. The export trade has been stimulated by the depreciation of silver, but the import trade has also increased. It is said that the American manufacturer, favored by our protective tariff, has in some cases been enabled to sell his goods cheaper in China than In the United States, and thus he has held and extended his market. GREAT BRITAIN'S SHARE. Great Britain has 75 per cent, of China’s foreign trade, and two-thirds of the foreign population. It must be said that the policy of England In the far East is just to other nations. She asks nothing but equal rights, and she grants equal rights to all nations. She opens treaty ports where all flags are equal. She can readily afford to do this, because she is sure of holding 75 per cent, of all the trade that is developed. Even in Cochin China, a French province, England does nearly as much trade as France. Much has been writen about our relations with England in the far East. I am glad that those relations are friendly, and, on proper and suitable occasions, this country and England should act together. They should both protest against the further partition of China. It must be remembered, however, that the American merchant finds in the East no stronger competitor than the British merchant. It must be remembered also that we confront our ancient friends, Russia and France. We cannot merge our nationality in that of any other nation. Our ministers must not be attaches of the British legations. We are republicans and cosmopolitans. We are a great nation, and we should look to no interests but our own. If we surrender the Philippines, we shall be more than ever without influence in the far East. China is to-day powerless to protect herself against encroachments. She has r.o army, no navy, no quartermaster or commissariat department. It is idle to say that China can grant mining or railroad concessions to w r hom she pleases. That is exactly what she cannot do. In her unpreparedness for war she must do whatever any other nation demands of her. The inclination of China has always beefl to turn to America in all industrial enterprises. The recommendations of Sheng Taotai in this regard could not be carried out because the competition of the European powers was too serious and influential. It so happens, therefore, that Americans to-day have the concession to build but one railroad in China. That is the line from Hankow to Cantoneight hundred miles long—which is to be built by the China Development Company of New York. It will run through 200.000,000 of people, and will pay from the start. In this country the railroad precedes the settlement of population, but in China the population is waiting for the road. The road between Tientsin and Peking—eighty miles long—runs four trains each way a day, and already, after about a year’s running, nets 600,000 taels a month. A tael is about 77 cents of our money. In China, about one-fifth of the human race are waiting for our goods. Regard this intelligent, hard-working, honest people emerging from their isolation. They are noted for their love of learning. Their government is based on competitive examinations. The student is examined in his district town. If he passes there, he goes to the provincial capital. If he again passes he goes to Peking, where, every three years, more than ten thousand students assemble. If be passes these examinations, he is put on the list of expectant officials, and. as vacancies occur, he receives a nomination to office. These examinations are open to ail alike. All ages may compete. It sometimes happens that three generations of one family are represented in them at the same time. . CHINESE CIV IT, SERVICE. This system of examinations is the fundamental principle of Chinese polity. To it is ascribed the permanence of the Chinese government, and it is said that during the great Taiping rebellion; In which seven million people perished, not one single graduate was found among the rebels. As you travel down the coast of China, you are shown towers here and there in the towns and villages, and you are told that these towers represent the fact that a citizen of the village carried off the first honors at the examination at Peking. When you visit Nankin you will see the temple of Confucius. Its main gate is opened only to the Emperor and to the student who has most distinguished himself at Peking. The system creates a democracy of education, ii holds to the support of the empire a vast number of what are called literati, and all their families and connections. The Chinese merchants are as honorable as any in the world. Mr. Cameron, the head of the Hong-Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in London, and formerly its manager at Shanghai, said, in a public address, when he left Shanghai, that his bank had had dealings of hundreds of millions of pounds sterling with the Chinese, and had never lost a penny. On the other hand, I must say that the Chinese are. the worst people to squeeze that exist anywhere in the world. Your boy, your cook and your servants squeeze—that is to say. they add on a percentage to everything they buy. If a lady buys silks in the Chinese city of Peking, she is asked whether she intends to take them with her in her cart. If she does, the price wall be as stated, but if they are to be sent to her house a charge of 10 per cent, must be added, because the gatekeeper will charge 10 per cent, to let the goods in. This system runs all through Chinese life. The members of the Foreign Office receive one thousand taels a year, but it is certain that the income, of none of these gentlemen is less than thirty thousand taels a year, and some have two hundred and fifty thousand. This money is all paid by officials all over China. Li Hung Chang, while he was viceroy of China, had a man employed at Peking whose sole duty was to disburse money to about thirty mandarins I do not hesitate to say that the Chinese government is the most corrupt government in the world, and I could, if necessary, give example after example to support this charge. But we can safely leave to the missionary the effort to convert the Chinese; our business is to deal with them commercially. They are rich in mines, in tea, in silk, in wool, in straw braid and many other things. They are willing to exchange these goods for our coal oil, sheeting, mining plants, flour, electrical apparatus, locomotives, rails, timber and hundreds of other articles. TRADE THAT SHOULD BE OURS. Naturally and of right, by reason of our situation with regard to the East, its trade belongs to us. So far, at least, we have not coveted Chinese territory. But once did we fire a hostile gun at the Chinese. It was when the forts below’ Canton fired at one of our hoats, and Farragut, of immortal fame, led a party ashore and spiked their guns. There the incident terminated. There can be no difference of opinion In this country that we should neglect no means to hold and retain the trade w’e have in the far East, and to increase it. Our government must aid the merchant and manufacturer in all possible ways, and to do so, we must reconsider our position on intervention in foreign affairs. Recent events have rudely shaken our traditional policy in that regard. It received a severe blow in our action towards Cuba. It is, perhaps, too early to forecast the final result of our intervention in that unhappy island, but it is not too early to express the hope that in good time and with the consent of the people, she will be incorporated in the American union. Let us profit by recent history. Japan demanded of China, as the price of peace, the independence of Corea, the cession of Formosa, the cession of a strip of land in Manchuria called the Liaotung peninsula, and the payment of two hundred million of taels as a war indemnity. It is unnecessary to recount how r Russia, France and Germany forced Japan to give up the Liaotung peninsula. Thirty millions of taels more were paid by China for this retrocession. Thus Japan gained as the result of the war the Island of Formosa and 230.000,000 taels. Unless we hold the Philippines, we gain, as a compensation for the expenditures that we have made in lives and money, practically nothing beyond the small island of Porto Rico. There is no money indemnity to be paid. Is not this a reductio ad absurdum? Some of our statesmen consider that we are sufficiently compensated for the sufferings and expenditures of the late war by the bestowal of freedom on the people of the Philippines. Such a piece of sentimental folly will be found in the end a most costly Indulgence of hysteria. If it is understood in Europe that we wage war in order to gain material advantages, her diplomatists will consider us sane and reasonable. If it be understood, on the other hand, that we are the Don Quixote of nations and that we go to war to make oppressed people free, we shall be treated as the first French republic was treated. Let no man be ashamed to say that he is an expansionist, that he is for greater markets, wider trade, a world enveloping commerce: that he is sordid enough to believe, with Macaulay, that the true end and purpose of government Is to increase the material well being of the people. Holding these views he may still believe that such Increase will bring in its train all the blessings that men desire and court. MUST KEEP THE PHILIPPINES. We must have a foothold in the East. To secure It we must either rob China or hold our own territory, now hand to hand and gun to gun. In keeping the Philippines we do not trample on Washington’s farewell address. We make no entangling alliance, nor do we violate the Declaration of Independence. We extend the operation of that document to nations practically unknown when it w r as adopted. The Anglo-Saxon is the colonist of the

We Prepay Express Charges on all purchases of $5.00, or over, to points within LOO miles of Indianapolis.

Another Week of the Semi=Annual Muslin Underwear Sale or the past six months we have watched for and picked Irom the best muslin garment-makers their choicest and most, stylish productions. INow, according to our judgment, we own the very best in pop-ular-priced and the more expensive kind of Muslin Underwear, all perfect and honest goods (keeping away from jobs, as we do), the sort we feel will make a permanent customer.

Night Gowns NIGHT GOWNS, of muslin, free from starch, yoke has eight tucks, neck and sleeves have cambric ruffle, our 39c Ofl - leader, for NIGHT GOWNS, with two row’s of embroidery insertion on yoke, edged with embroidery, also some with cluster of five tucks, in high and low neck, surplice and empire styles, 75c quali- eo fries, for OOC NIGHT GOWNS, of either muslin or cambric, elaborately trimmed with either embroidery or lace, new shapes and ideas, $1.25 and $1.39 qualities, for “OC Drawers DRAWERS, of clear muslin, good iOx/ width, cambric ruffle, 20c quality. /2 C DRAWERS, of good muslin, with one row of lace insertion and edged with „ lace, our 39c quality DRAWERS, of muslin or cambric, tucked and edged with wide lace or em- wc broidery, $1 quality A OC

Great Hosiery and Underwear Sale

LOT 1 Misses’ fleece-lined Hose, 15c qualMisses’ Tan Hose, 10c quality 1! Ladies’ black Cotton Hose, 10c quality m f 1 . Boys’ Bicycle Hose, small sizes, 15c quality US Ladies’ fleeced Vests, 15c qual- -a ity Child’s fleeced Vests, 19c qual- g-'v Ity LOT S* Ladies’ fleeced Vests, 25c qualLadies’ black fleeced Hose, 25c mm quality 73 r Ladies’ Balbriggan Hose, 35c qual- S Ry | Infants’ Cashmere Hose, 25c w ity

Radical Clearance in the Cloak Department

JACKETS, for ladles, of all-Wool Black Kersey, buttons high at the neck, with storm collar, raw stitched edges, red satin lined, the cloth and lining originally' cost more than $5.00; CLEAR- CR ANCE PRICE qJO.OV JACKETS, for ladies, of all-Wool Tan Covert, double stitch edges, four horn buttons, satin rhadame lined. including sleeves, SIO.OO quality; CLEAR- DU ANCE PRICE qJO.VO JACKETS, for ladies and misses, of fine allWool Kersey, colors tan, blue, green and black, tailor made and fancy trimmed, full silk lined, up to $12,50 qualities: St AA CLEARANCE PRICE JACKETS, for ladles, of imported Kersey, colors castor, tan, brown, blue and black, Kersey strapped seams and front, three row's of stitching all around, velvet patched collars, come full satin and taffeta silk lined, regular S2O grades; CIA AA CLEARANCE PRICE CAPES, of fine all-Wool Kersey, plain and neatly trimmed, medium and .mg lengths, colors blue and black, specially good for $5.00; CLEARANCE <£ / *l CA PRICE qJO.OU CAPES, of a high-grade Seal Plush, 24 inches long, full sweep, handsomely braided, Thibet Fur edged all around, satin rhadame lined, $lO quality; ELO CLEARANCE PRICE TpULCMJ FUR CAPES, of China Seal. 27 inches long, 110-inch sweep, heavy satin lined, $25 quality; CLEARANCE f g SIR PRICE .../. fpiu.au STORM COLLAR, of prime Stone Marten, two heads and six large tails trimmed, quality; CLEARANCE QQ CLUSTER SCARF, of prime Mink, long, broad tabs, trimmed with heads and ten tails, sls kind; CLEARANCE CO CLUSTER SCARFS, of Frown Marten, with six and eight tails, at $6.50. rtfil $4.98 and , MUFFS, of Baltic Seal, $1.25 kind.. ...75c MUFFS, of fine Electric, $3.00

Clearance Prices Unequaled on CAPES, COATS, SUITS, ETC.

world. Russia has no colonies. France has never succeeded in- her efforts at colonization. Germany is looking out now for sites for colonization, but the scheme is as yet an experiment. We opened Japan. England and ourselves together opened China. The races of the East look up to us. To-day at least ninety out of every hundred Chinese who speak any language, but their own original tongue speak English. With our flag go our literature, our laws and our religion. A Chinaman who speaks English is a new' man. He has already received an education. There is no need tp speak of destiny’. No one knows that it is our destiny to enlighten the world. Yet it may well be that it is the decree of an overruling Providence that has opened to us, in a grand and astounding way the door of the far East for us to enter therein as we would enter into a land prepared for us long ago. Certainly it is the logic of events that has forced on us responsibilities greater than ever rested on our nation before. CHINA’S FUTURE. Ere I close let us for a moment look at the condition of China to-day, and forecast, if we can, its future. That great woman, the Empress dowager, has, with the free consent of the Emperor, seized control of the empire. Once before, after the death of Helnfung, she seized the empire and she ruled it for thirty years wisely and well. She is sixty-four years old. The Chinese know and revere her. The men who understand China best have faith in its future under her strong but kindly rule. Unless the powers have lost their senses, they will not suffer China to be destroyed, to be divided up, to be partitioned into hostile camps. The Chinese are not patriotic in the sense that we are, but they love their country. They are conservative. They are learning the difficult problem of association with foreign nations. They will learn it, as Japan has learned it, and then China will start on the path of development and wealth, and her progress will startle the world. The newspapers announce that the Empress will murder the Emperor. Perhaps she mav, but not now. Much as she loves the frail and weak being whom she raised to the throne when he was two years old. she loves China more, a here is no necessity for assassination. Even in China unnecessary political murder is not indulged in. As long as the Emperor lives the Empress dow ; ager will, with his consent, rule over China. His death is not necessary to her plans. She will give China a strong government, such as the country needs. Railroads will strengthen the throne, and consolidate the vast disjointed empire. There will be fewer riots. Life and property will he more secure. Already China ts the most tolerant of religion of the Asiatic countries, and vastly more so than Russia is. Already all the interior streams and lakes are open to steam navigation, and in this China stands alone. No foreign ship can plow ths

The Wm. H. Block Cos. New Idea Patterns ~ 10c.

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SKIRTS, of fine Imported Black Crepon, in new, attractive designs, soft j: creatine lined, grass cloth interlined and corduroy faced, full width, the material and lining unmade would be reasonably cheap for $6.00: clearance price for skirt A W made up kpOt'+O SILK WAISTS, a collection of fine Silk Waists, striped and checked taffetas, also plain black, lined throughout, kinds; clearance price qJUaU SUITS, of all-Wool Tailor Suitings, in plain and fancy mixtures, full silk lined, jackets, flounce skirts, two special lots: The up to S2O, clearance price $12.50 The up to sls. clearance price... SIO.OO

A Consignment of Ultra-fashionable Golf Capes An overstocked manufacturer consigned to us fifty choice Golf Capes, in plain and reversible, plaids, fringe trimmed fronts, all in the handsome Scotch Clan Plaids, with instructions to quickly convert into money in our clearance sale at sl2. $lO, $8.75 and $7.98, w’orth nearly double.

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Mississippi, or carry a cargo from New York to Charleston. Railroads are now building or planned in many provinces of China. A national university to teach foreign learning is being established. Her coasts are admirably lighted. Reforms are being adopted in all branches of the public service. She has had a rude but efficient teacher in Japan, who, having got the benefit of foreign tutelage, desired to confer the same benefactions on her ancient neighbor. Let the world assist the most ancient of nations in her efforts to enter worthily into the family of civilized peoples. Let the world respect her autonomy, and she will pay back its services by giving to its commerce the boundless riches of her mines, and the hoarded w’ealth of centuries. HEARD IN A JUSTICE SHOP. Three Yarns. Eaeli Rather Better than the Other Two. Kansas City Journal. Three pairs of feet rested comfortably on the same table in one of the “justice shops” down town; they belonged to the constable, the deputy and the clerk. In chairs adjacent sat the owners of the feet, ail with "pipe in mouth.” It was up to the constable. “Talking about mean men,” said he, borrowing a plug of tobacco of the deputy and a knife of the clerk, and shaving from the loan of the former witfc the loan of the latter enough tobacco to fill his well seasoned bowl—“talking about mean men.” he repeated, “reminds me of an experience I had once when I lived in an Eastern State. Out in Greeley county, where I used to live, we had a purty hard time getting water. In dry weather all stock that didn’t have to be kept on the farms was driven out of the country and we hauled water fourteen miles for our hogs and horses. Finally when It got so dry we couldn’t keep the hoops tight on our barrels we decided to dig a well. Didn’t any’ of us have any too much money after a few years of drought, so we had to all go into it to get one well dug. ”\Ve agreed to chipvin our little pile all around and picked out a farm in the center of the neighborhood for a well site, selecting a spot right in the man’s dooryard. At ninety-seven feet the well-digger struck water, and, according to agreement, called for his pay. Then the man with the well in his yard refused to pay on the ground that it was his share to furnish the land for us to dig in. We couldn't conveniently’ pull up the well, so we had to let him pass. In like manner we had to pass him when he refused to share the expense of a windlass, bucket and rope, and again on a tincup, but the last straw came when he locked the gate and advertised water for sale at 10 cents a barrel—and draw it yourself.” “Well, my opinion is you come from a floor part of the State,” said the clerk, filing a funny little pipe of his own making. "You couldn’t tell such stories as that on Southern people. Just let me tell you what

TO MORROW STARTS ANOTHER WEEK OF OUR Semi-Annual Sale of Linens These are part of the large assortment of choice selections and true bargains

Choicest Linen Table Covering By the Yard. Surprising Bargains TABLE LINEN, heavy bleached Satin Damask, two yards wide, ten de- Qftr signs to select from, $1.35 quality TABLE LINEN, bleached Scotch 7E Damask, extra heavy, $1 quality •* TABLE LINEN, made in Ireland, extra heavy Satin Damask, good design, 90c quality TABLE LINEN, heavy, unbleached. two yards wide, 69c quality TABLE LINEN, all pure linen, a ''IQ, leader at 50c, for this sale TABLE LINEN, a good quality, 54 $Q inches wide, for TURKEY RED TABLE DAMASK, $Q , good color, for lvrc.

SOMETHING TO CROWD THE Shoe Department Second Floor. Three hundred pairs of Ladies’ $2.00 Shoes, to-morrow The balance of one of our manufacturer’s lines at that price. They are perfect Shoes in every respect, on new coin toe lasts, tippers of best dongola, patent leather tips and flexible soles, regular 200 shoes, buying Oft/"* them at this season enables us to put the price on them at VOC Another Lot from the same factory SHOES FOR CHILDREN Os same grade stock and workmanship as the ladies’ shoe, spring heel, nobby shaped lasts, $1.75 quality, all sizes from 8 % to 2, to close out J9O Another of Our Immensely Popular Discount Sales Twenty Per Cent. Discount (20 Per Cent.) On Every Yard of DRESS GOODS and SILKS. Quite a number of styles have already stood a considerable markdown. Then deducting 20 per cent, makes the prices as low as they may ever reach. Under this popular plan the whole stock is at your disposal. Select any item in our choice Dress Goods or Silks. The one=Fifth Will Be Deducted From Every Purchase There will naturally be unusually brisk buying, so if you want to get at the best of the assortment, we request you to call as early as possible. Lowest of prices on Dress Linings, Findings and Trimmings, to make the opening of the 20 per cent. Discount Sale on Dress Goods and Silks (if possible) the more interesting.

TAFFETA SKIRT LINING, yard f. : wide, fast black, 12V2C quality TAFFETA, silk finish, fast black, 15c Q LINEN DUCK SKIRT FACING, 20c $ quality SILESIA, our best grade, yard wide, Q_ 15c quality SILESIA, a good, heavy quality, E., for PERCIALINE, yard wide, fast black, 200 quality lAL DRESS SHIELDS, Albion best seamless StockinetNo. 2, our 12c leader, for 9c No. 3. our 15c leader, for lie HOOKS AND EYES. Nos. 3 and 4, with patented hump, regular price for two- ry dozen card, 5c

Another heavy shipment of our big importation of Embroideries and Laces Some six months ago these pretty goods were selected especially and made tip for us, to be sold in the sale herewith announced. A lot of Embroideries that are bargains at sc, spread out on the table at 3#c Sc Embroideries at 5 C Up to 7-inch Embroideries, 20c to 25c qualities, on the table at 15c LACES —Anew lot of the pretty torchon insertions and edges, 10c qualities Be

happened once In a little Ivouislana town where I was born and raised. “You know, the people down there never used to carry money, except change to hire the little darkles to run errands. Everybody's credit was good, and we all bought and sold 'on tick,’ and settled up once a year, when the cotton was marketed. Well, there was a harness maker in town, with some mighty fine saddles in his store. They cost S2OO apiece, the way prices were then. One day the man noticed one of the saddles was gone, and he didn’t have any account of it. All the planters in the country dealt with him, so he says to his bookkeeper, ‘Some feller has bought a S2OO saddle, but I don’t know who. You charge it on the account of each man. and when they come to settle up they’ll all kick but the right one. and we can tell that way.’ “Well, the cotton bloomed and boiled and ripened, and went to the gin, and finally the planters began paying their bills. One by one they came into the harness store, and the bookkeeper handed out the statements. each one containing the item, T saddle, $200.’ Well, suh. not one of them planters ever said a w-ord. They paid their bills in full, and the harness maker don’t know to this day who bought his saddle.” The deputy spit over his shoulder, and selecting a straw- from the office broom, began prodding for an obstruction in his pipe stem. “Your speaking of cotton reminds me that I used to think when I was a boy in the mountains of West Virginia that cotton grew on cottonwood trees. I found out differently, though, when we came West, and my first experience with cottonwood was much more wonderful than if I had found cotton growing on the trees. Father used to keep about a dozen sheep out on our little place in the hii's, but once in Kansas he got it like everybody else, and had to have a big flock. Like everybody else In Kansas, too, he began before he was ready. He bought 1,000 sheep first, and then a lot of barbed wire, and then a carload of lumber for sheds. It was cottonwood lumber. We piled it up in the open field, where I. with the help of a couple of dogs, was herding the sheep. Before night .1 noticed some of the boards on the top or the piles had turned up at the ends, and were slowly revolving In the wind. The next morning every pile had tumbled over, and the boards were so crooked we couldn't pile them again. Well, sir, that day I watched those cottonwood boards, and I mighty near lost my mind. They'd curl way up at the ends, or bow up in the middle, until Uie balancing point would change, and they* roll over and scare the sheep. The next day they w-ere worse, and the piles were gradually scattering out, and the third day I had to leave one dog with the sheep, and take the other and herd those boards.” Too Big a Fraction. Chicago Record. Edn/—I believe that that young Mr. Jimaon is half wttted. Mario—Aa much as that?

20 Per Cent. Discount on every yard of Dress Goods or Silks.

Towel Bargains TOWELS, hemmed, linen buck, extra fQheavy, 15c quality IvfL TOWELS, hemstitched, linen huek, white and colored borders, six for , sl, or, each iAL Napkin Specials r Z2 t u > NAPKINS, heavy, unbleached, % C(). size, 85c quality, per dozen NAPKINS, large size, bleached Scotch Damask, all pure linen, $2 qual- <£s Aik tty, for, a dozen Very Low-Priced (quality considered) Bed Spreads BED SPREADS, crochet quilts, Marseilles designs, large size, hemmed, <£s $Q ready for use, $1.75 quality ** 1 BED SPREADS, extra special. largo size, hemmed ready for use, $1.25 qual- 98c

NEAR SILK COTTON, a substitute for sewing silk, 500 yards on spool, 10c e.. quality, for CJC ! DRESS STAYS, Janowitz “chic.” all | sizes, regular price 20c, special, per $f _ j dozen IIC | DRESS FACING. S. H. and M. cord edge, made from the best quality corduroy *7 „ velveteen. 10c leader, special, per yd....*U : BONE CASING, black, light blue, f . white, pink, regular 3c quality, yd DRESS FACING, good quality velveteen, black and colors, 5-yard piece, our 4 A . 19c leader : BEADED GUIMPS, novel designs, handsome colors. I2‘ a c. 10c and 5c n A ") c w'as the original price SOUTACHE BRAID, mohair, good assortment of colors, 24-yard bolts, regu- $ lar price. 20c IAC Gl IMP EDGES, jeweled, silk and gold braid, fine assortment of colors, our sll.. 35c quality IvJL

Sensational Sale of SHOES . . TO-MORROW . .

A STEARNS is a real Bicycle. Try one and be convinced. C. G. EI.SIIEW Se 00. ■——— !■!■■■ “>ot How Cheap—Bnt How Good.** j! INDIANAPOLIS j| In boxes. Tho best is none too good for you, therefore be sure CRAIG’S name la upon the box. Craig’s Candies OPTICIASa. (Sfcs&isg) V V HHPRiHST. DENISON HOCE. f INDIANAPOLIS-INQ. X ■esfc, --y GRE AT RKill t’TIOSI 10.0CO GOLD KISH. V and upward. 3vo HARTZ M'd’.N TAIN <'AN AH IKS, Fine singers, I1.C0; extra fine, sl.7# * Best Bird Seed. 7c per package. or 3 for 25c. Parrots. Mocking Birds, Uc*l Birds and all other cage birds. Pages. Fih Globes. Aquaria, Mock-ing-bird Food and all other goods cheapest a :\S best. A $1.33 Brass Page at 90c. 433 Massachusetts avenue. P. F. KLEPPKit. Between Vermont and Michigan. Furniture, Carpets MESSENGER’S 110 East Washington St.

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