Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1899 — Page 13

THE MOTHER GOOSE MYTH * , STORY THAT SHE \\ A REAL WOMAN. WHO I.IVKO IN BOSTON, DKNIEU. ♦ The Mother Goose Name and Literature Well Known in England and Frnnee Lons; Before tliat Time. — Jofl Benton, in New York Times. Tho persistent longevity of a well-told st >ry th;it. as: Josh Billings would say, is distinctly "not so,’’ thoroughly vindicates the happy perception of that proverbmaker who said that falsehood can travel a day s journey before truth can put on her loots. The myth that suggests this reflection pops tip periodically. It appears in good f"im at least once in a lustrum, and is, tnerofere, just now going the rounds of the press again. I believe I have met with it at intervals of not more than five years. The peripatetic tale to which I refer begins hy raying that "it is generally thought that ‘Mother Goose' was a name got up to please the young," which, says the tab-maker, is not the case. Then the wise fabulist proceeds to tell us what is the case, as follows: there was a real Mother Goose, who signalized herself by her literature for the nursery. Her maiden name was Elisabeth Foster. She was born in Charlestown, Mass., where she resided until her marriage with Isaac Goose, when she became a stepmother to ten children. As if that was not a sufficient family to look after, she by and hy add* and six children of her own to the number, making sixteen ‘goslings’ in all. It w.is r;.‘her a heavy handful, and we do not wonder that she poured out her feelings in the celebrated lines: “ ‘There was an old woman who lived in a shoe: Sh* had SO many children she didn’t know' what to do.' ” Our narrator says that what she did do was to term a habit of entertaining her litt!** flock by telling them little stories in prose and verse and singing songs, which were highly relished. One of her children, who was named Elizabeth, in due time married a Boston printer. Thomas Fleet, and when Mrs. Goose became a widow she went to live with him and sang her old songs once more to an infant grandson. The conclusion of this story is that Fleet, bring needy and ehrew'd. thought to "turn a penuv" by noting down the grandmother’s nursery songs and issuing them to the puhH' * The_ good old woman, it is stated, lived until 1i57, ami died at the advanced age of ninety-two. WITH VARIATIONS. Sometimes the tale is told with some variation from these details, but whether the one lately “plated" by a syndicate and sent out to the provincial press is just like the one that recently appeared in a Boston religious weekly, from which l have quoted, I have not taken the trouble to determine. Many years ago ti pastor of the church in Boston to which this Mother Goose was said to have belonged preached an anniversary sermon upon some return of her birthday, to which other exercises were added, all of which was put into a pamphlet, which indicated that the general uncritical. local belief In the Boston legend has now for some time obtained a firm hold. These conspiring assumptions make a pretty enough story, but the pity of it is. it is not true. There was, to be sure, a Boston printer of the last century named Fleet and he married into a Vergoose family, and this Vergoose was frequently shortened into Goose. All the other items in the account, however, are false, and nobody, as yet. has been able to produce a copy of Fleet's alb ged book. U such an edition of "Mother Goose" should be found which it is said was brought out in 1710, there is slill an abundance of evidence to show that long before- that date the Mother Goose name and the Mother Goose literature were variously exploited. Their production by the famous publiser, John Newbury, of St. Paul’s Churchyard, London, for whom Oliver Goldsmith wrote, did not occur until 176.1. But the name Mother Goose had a further antiquity in France. In 1607 her tales were extremely popular and were introduced under this veritable title, "Contes de ma Mere I'Oye.” The term, says Mr. W. H. Whitmore, to whom 1 am indebted for the most of thpse facts, occurred in I>aret’s "La Muse Historique” as long ago as 1610. in this way: "Ma s lecher motif de leur joye, < 'omme un eonte de la Mere l’Oye, Sc trouvant fabuleux et faux, lls deviendront tous bien penauts.” IN FRENCH FOLKLORE. "Mother Goose,” says Mr. Whitmore, “was a popular synonym for fairy stories,” and there was also in the French the title of Peau d’Ane. The tales told to infants as bedtime stories to hush them to sleep were indifferently styled by either name. Nor are these all the examples of this peculiar title. Our author says: "Some writers connect the legend of Mother Goose with Queen Goosefoot (Reine Pedance), said to he the mother of Charlemagne. At all events, it Is as clear that she belongs to French folklore as that she is not to be found in English tradition. The French tales hy Mother Goose were brought out by Charles Perrault and it coud not have been, I imagine, very long after ills publication of them when they were tr tnslated into English. Yet 1729 is the first date to which their English appearance is traced. Os course there are other English nursery songs and children’s ditties that are of the Mother Goose species that arose without the anserine title. Halliwell's "Nursery Rhymes of England, Collected Principally from Oral Tradition.” must contain many of these. It is not unlikely that the germs and general detailed development of both the prose tales and melodies of Mother Goose's production have a birth too far back to even trace. As I have said on another occasion, they may have come from the highlands of Asia, and prove as ancient as the children’s games literature, with which some of them seem closely allied. UNKNOWN TO FRANKLIN. But, to dismiss all this, does any one suppose that when Oliver Goldsmith, in 1768, was heard frequently singing "An old woman tossed in a blanket seventeen times ns high as the moon.” he was using a song that somebody had importer! into England from Boston? Or does any one think that so pungent and impressive a book as the “Mother Goose Melodies,” which, absorbed in childhood, would pass on from generation to generation, could have come out in Boston so early as 1719, without a continuing reference to the pretended Elizabeth Foster Vergoose origin. No document or paragraph, however, of eighteenth century inspiration Is anywhere to be found that verities the Boston claim. And how did Benjamin Franklin live through so much of his arlv history without ever quoting it or alluding to it? .Vs Mr. Whitmore well says: "If there had been an edition printed in Boston In 1719, wo can safely say that Benjamin Franklin would have had a copy. In all Franklin's writings there is nothing that ; b iggests a single one of these melodies, or any of the characters therein.” It was not the era then for light rhymes and jingles of their style. "Boston children” of th" seventeenth century time "were fed on Gospel food." And high seriousness was , the rule clear down to and through the "English Reader" era. When we add to all j this the fact that the Boston Vergoose claim ! to the melodies only goes back a little over j forty years tl>§6) and that it was started j by a descendant of Fleet. Mrs. Vergoose's j son-in-law. on a "hearsay” flattering to family pride, there is little need of pursuring the subject further. In Mr. Whitmore's essay on the subject an account of the American edition of "Mother Goose." copied from Newbury, with much other matter that is interesting, appears, to which the Newbury hook in sac simile is added. But the myth of Mother Goose's Boston origin will for a while go on. Careless editors who find the tale readable, will copy it and send it broadcast, so hard is it for a romance well stuck to to be headed off. But 1 we can at least see that it is exposed from I time to time if the result does seem t'ruit- j less, until some day it becomes, like Mother ; Goose's "Betty Wltickle’s Pig." with Betty ■ Winckle representing Boston: “Little Betty Winckle she hud a pig. It was a little pig, not very big; When he was alive hp lived in clover. But now’ he’s dead, he is dead all over.” To Avoid Trouble nt llie I’oatofllee. Leslie’s Weekly. Practically all the packages that go through the New York postofflee are examined. Many persons seem utterly unable to resist the temptation to scribble a rcesrnagft upon the back of a photograph or the lid -A n box. A written dedication in a book or *4 written greeting, such as the conventional "Merry Christmas,” is allowable, but, with! these exception.-, any written word makiea a package Uuue to letter postage.

h*J w h°le flyleaf of a book may be filled with a dedicatory note, but any other words, as, for instance, "See Page 4.” would cause the package to be classed as written matter. Another common error is to put sealing wax on the knot of the string around th** package. Such a package is classed as ‘ sealed against inspection" and must pay letter rates. The same ruie applies to boxes that have their lids nailed or tacked on- The amount of money collected for insufficient postage is surprising. The average receipts in this department of the postofflee are J2OO a day, and the receipts for tho three days before Christmas were slightly over $2,960. The receipts for the day before Christmas alone were sl,o®. Packages are also inspected for unmallable matter. Among articles classed as unmallable are explosives, firearms (unless taken apart), liquids or any articles destructive to mail matter in trans.t, obscene or fraudulent matter and glass. Foreign packages are all examined for dutiable articles, and a special branch of the custom house is maintained In the New York postofflee for this purpose. The packages after being inspected in the customs department are turned over to the package inspection department for collection of the duty. Added to the customs duty is the war tax. which the inspection department must also collect SUBURBAN SOCIETY NOTES. Bright-wood. Mrs. Underwood, who has been visiting in Gallon, 0., is home again. Miss Bessie Engle, who has been visiting in Winchester, is home again. The Atias machine works were temporarily closed on account of the cold weather. The R. R. R. Club will give its last dance of the season Tuesday evening, at Brightwood Hall. Mr. and Mrs. J. Mescall, of Richfield, 111., are visiting Mrs. Mary Mescall and family, on Brightwood avenue. Mrs. Joseph Wagner was surprised Tuesday evening by a number of her friends at her home, on Station street. Mr. Walter L. Beaton, of Brownstown, who has been the guest of his aunt, Mrs. W. W. Reynolds, has returned home. Next Wednesday afternoon the Indies’ Aid Society will hold a call meeting, at which all members are urged to be present. Miss Gertrude Rogers, assisted by her pupils, will give a musical and literary entertainment at the Congregational Church to-morrow evening. Tlie Cinch Club met Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Harry Leftwick, on Onley street. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Hall, on Stewart street. Rev. Mr. Sutherland, of Terre Haute, will close the revival services at the Congregational C hurch this evening. The revival has been an exceptionally successful one. Many new conversions have been made. The Ladles’ Aid Society of the Methodist Church is making preparations for a stereoptieon entertainment, to be given in the Methodist Ohurch Wednesday evening. Feb. 22- The pictures shown will include "From Camp Mount to Porto Rico and Back Again to Tomlinson Hall.” taken by Mr. Henderson. who was a member of Battery A. Ifaughville. The Shakspeare Club will meet Friday evening at the home of Mrs. Mayo, on West Michigan street. The Lidies’ Aid Society of the King-av-enue M. E. Church will give a social conundrum supper Friday evening, Feb. 17, in the parlors of the church. Mrs. Charles Schaffer entertained the. choir of the Methodist Church yesterday evening at her home, on Tremont avenue. The eighth anniversary of the Ladies’ Aid Society will he celebrated this evening at the King-avenue M. E. Church. A special musical programme has been arranged, which will be followed by an address. West Indianapolis. Mr. H. B. Babbitt will leave for Goblesvillo, Mich., to-morrow. Mrs. George Maurer, who has been quite seriously ill, is convalescent. Miss Cora Solsbury, of Division street, is visiting in Bowling Green, Ky. Mr. Owen Babbitt is visiting in Greenwood. the guest of his grandparents. The W. C. T. U. will meet Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Saunders, on Garland street. Miss Roy Terry, of Springfield, Mass., is visiting her uncle, Mr. John Terry, on South Harding street. The Afternoon Club will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. H. B. Treat, on North Blaine avenue. Mr. John Sobieski. of Terre Haute, an exiled prince of Poland, was the guest of Rev. Joseph Webber last week. Mr. William Runyon, of Newport, Ark., who has been visiting his mother, on Division street, has returned home. The Ladles’ Aid Society of Trinity Church, will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Joel Baker, on River avenue. The Judies’ Aid Society of the Pilgrim Congregational Church will meet next Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Cash, on Warren avenue. The choir of Trinity Church is preparing to give an entertainment and birthday supper at tlie home of Mrs. J. Baker, on River avenue, Wednesday, Feb. 22. About 200 invitations have been issued. The revival services which have been going on for three weeks at Trinity Church were closed Thursday evening. The meetings have been successful, about rtfty conversions having btfen made. Prof. Barton’s Mandolin Club has procured the hall over the engine house for a clubroom, and will tit it up and hereafter meet there every Friday evening. Next Friday evening officers will he elected. Rev. J. Gordon, who recently accepted a call to the Pilgrim Congregational Church, was tendered a birthday surprise by the Lidies’ Aid Society and the members of the church Monday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Light, on West Ray street. Refreshments were served and about fifty guests were entertained. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society met Tuesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Morris, on Marion avenue. The discussion on "Love" was led by Mrs. Claudia Shepherd, and a short address on missionary work was delivered by Rev. Mr. Duncan. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Duncan, on Division street. The marriage of Miss Annie Beekridge to Mr. Joseph Meisberger occurred at Assumption Church Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock. Miss Lizzie Cornet, of Versailles, attended the bride and Mr. John Meisberger, of Versailles, brother of the groom, acted as best man. After a wedding breakfast at ihe home of the bride's aunt, Mrs. George Mock, on Bellefontaine street, Mr. and Mrs. Meisberger left for a bridal trip to Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Meisberger will be at home in 1406 Silver avenue after March 1. Wagner in New York. Letter in Philadelphia Press. Aristocratic New York, the New York of diamond tiaras, opera boxes and tine iaiment. paid tribute to Richard Wagner last night in such manner as to indicate that the music once denounced, is not only popular, but fashionable. The test came with the announcement that the last of the cycle, which has been in course of production for two weeks, v.is to be given last evening. Exactly as the manuscript left Wagner’s hands—that is to say, without cuts. It involved the going to the opera house at 6:45, and that involved either a 5 o’clock dinner or tea. or no repast at all, for the hour when the curtain went up was at least half an hour before Murray Hill dines. It was :> long reach from 6:45 until mid- j night, and vet an audience who were also spectators of the most spectacular of Wagner's operas, the "Gctterdammerung." Mir- | vtved it. and when the final curtain fell | upon a spectacle that somewhat miscarried j and at which Wagner would have either j laughed or stormed, very few />f those who had ennui at quarter of 7 had left their places. Now this mav be mere fashion or it may ■. he the final and complete triumph of Wagner in New York. Whatever the cause, the fact remains, that one of the largest of operatic audiences sat faithfully for a little over five hours lisiening to music which, like Salvini's playing of "Othello." is very an to remain with the hearers all night. The management, probably from a prac- [ ticai jxilnt of \iew. cares little whether i Wagner i merely fashionable or is "deep- 1 iy, profoundly, reverently understood" as j the extreme Wagner critics are fond of ex- ■ pressing it. The Furnished House. New York Commercial Advertiser. The furnished-house business is becoming a more and more important part of the real estate man’s business, now that people spend -o much of their time in the country. As in London, it is becoming proper to rent one's house for the rest of The year, if one only occupies it for a few months in the winter. Down at Long Bran* h respectable persons can rent handsomely furnished houses for ridiculously small prices for eight months of the year. And if one rents a house unfurnished by the year one can get considerably more than the year's rental back by subletting it, furnished, during the summer months. Doubtless plenty of other summer resorts near town present the same conditions. Persons who write articles on "How To Live On” so or so much a year ought not to neglect tills important branch of the art. To Clear the Head in a Hurry Take Haag’s Liver Pills. * <,

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1899.

The New York Store jPfIHBOL /% ESTABLISHED 18S3. Extra! WSBr KJj Sole AgceMts for Butteriek Patterns# sE s fef “Mill Ends Excitement Grows Each day of the sale has surpassed the day before in sales, in value giving and enthusiasm. - m—Now for a monster “Mill Ends” Monday, and a monster “Mill Ends” week. Thousands of yards m of Wash Goods, Dress Goods, Ribbons, Laces, Dress Trimmings, Cottons, Linens, etc., and scores of cases of Hosiery, Underwear, Housefurnishings, Crockery, Shoes, Cloaks, Muslin Uuderwear, Draperies, etc., all resorted, reticketed and rearranged, will be ready to-morrow M I For “Mill Ends” Purchasers m \ At “Mill Ends” Prices oUpg This advertisement only hints at the vast number of great “Mill Ends” bargains that there are. COME TO THE STORE AND SEE.

A big “Mill Ends” Monday in Wash Goods Three days’ big selling has apparently made little impression on the tea miles of "mill ends” of wash goods which wo purchased. There are still thousands of yards for “mill-end” purchasers. STANDARD CALICOES, shirt- t Ing styles. warranted to wash. /hC "Mill Ends" price " - V* APRON GINGHAMS—Good- • s.zed checks, in biues, browns /“▼ and fancies, full price c a aIL yard; "Mill Ends” price MADRAS CLOTH, in the pinks and bines, that evervbodv v/ants The patterns are plaid's mm i l u and c j l( “ ck? * and the quality is km /** full Price 12%c cloth. %J Mill Ends price FI. RP3 AN PERCALES—These goods that everybody knows are equal to any percales made, 34! inches wide and pm standard 12 l /ge quality—here J i /■* In "Mill Ends” in stripes off r> W medium colors, at, a yard.. . w ZEPHYR DRESS GINGHAMS —"Mill Ends” of new goods in the prettiest of patterns and colors, fine 15c goods. "Mill 7L Ends price BLACK SATEENS High a/% chene finish and positively I f 1 /■ fast black, l.Sc and 25c lu 9 w goods. "Mill Ends" price.. .. - SILK STRIPE GINGHAMS— Fine woven zephyr goods, with silk stripes of various, -a a colors, good width. They look I / j /■* like the 45c imported goods. Ik oL “Mill Ends” price... —West Aisle. 10 Big Lots of J Goods that are spreading fame of the “Mill Ends” sale not only throughout the city but into a dozen of the surrounding counties. Get some of them before it is too late. Diagonal and figured weaves. In half-wool dress goods, all J2l£c full-piece goods. On s ihe bargain table in Mill n r Ends at G l v Tho dark Scotch colors and the rich, bright effects in doublefold plaids—goods you or- S E dinarily pay 15c a yard for. "Mill Ends” price All-Wool Scotch Mixtures and Checks —2f>c goods if bought it If* at any other time. The "Mill £7 V Ends” sale makes them Heavy-weight Meltonette for street and bicycle costumes—--54-inch goods in medium and 49§7* dark colors. “Mill Ends” sale tJ 7 price Coverts. Cheviots and German Novelties, probably twenty wa/N odd pieces of *6l anil 81 25 k*, g 8/~* goods, are selling In the "Mill Ox/w Ends” sale at. a yard BLACK GOODS—"MiII Ends” of Black Brocades, in K, 1(1 and 1 2-yar<l lengths—goods that would be a yard / 1 from the full piece. “Mill Ends” sale price Pure Mohair Figured Brillian- * tines. 50c goods, in the “Mill |/f Ends” sale at * " w Double-width Black Russell Cord, lustrous and strong, /■y regular RJ)c goods. “Mill Ends” price W Black all-Wool Sebastapol, regular st)c goods. “Mill All-Wool French Poplins, regular 75c goods. "Mill End*" JyIJC sale price Silks —On Center Bargain Tnhle India Foulard Silks, printed in navy and w'hite, black and white, and color on color, with satin stripes—a good a qualify of silk that will not /f 1 j/~* slip or pull: usual price 85c Ts a yard; in this sale at AT THE COUNTER. Black Gros Grain Silks for linings at, a yard '**:•>*- Black Satin Duchesse, extra _ soft finish and beautiful high lustre at. a. yard Black Satin Luxor. 20 inches —■ wide, very silky and un- J usually heavy, at. a yard Black Satin Duchesse, a per- o w feetly reliable cloth and a verv special value at, a yd —West Aisle. Dress Trimmings Choice of a splendid assortment of giit, jet and applique a a dress trimmings. regular gI ■ /■* prices up to 75*' and 81 a- luv yard. "Mill Ends” sale price... Short lengths of dress trimmings. in gold, silver, jet, spangled and iridescent es- m> sects 81*50. *2 50. Sit 50 and 85 goods. ‘Mill eIVV Ends” sale price, a yard —West Aisle.

AG( 1* M.DO BEFORE THE WAR. lliit Foresight Better thnn that of American or Spanish Leaders. Review of Reviews. The action of the United State? in January. ISSS, produced as much excitement and discussion in Hong-Kong as in New York. London or Madrid It was a cloud very large and very dark upon the horizon, and it portended disaster and retribution to Spain. Probably no one in Washington at that time thought of the Philippine end of the question. The American ear had heard the erv of "Cuba libre” so long that it was deaf to the cry of "Filipinos libres" on the other aide of the world. The Spaniards

Embroideries A case of “Mill Ends” that came all the wav from Switzerland for this sale. The selling started Saturday, and every one said these were the prettiest and daintiest embroideries and the best values we had had this year. The lengths run •1%. 413. 5 and f{ yards; the widths from 1 to IO inches, and the prices from 9c to $1.13 apiece There are edges and Insertions, in Cambric, Bwiss and Jaconet goods, and to buy them at two or three times the sale price you would be getting good value. —Center Aisle. Lining Silesias The regular double-fold, heavy tw’ill face goods, mostly hlsirßs. but some colorsgoods that sell for a j o yard from the full piece. AL \ C ’’Mill Ends” price "T 4 W —West Aisle. White Goods The great “Mill Ends” selling will go on with redoubled vigor here to-morrow. “Mill Ends” of India Linens at "Mill Ends” of White Pique at Sc “Mill Ends” of Stripes at f>c "Mill Ends” of 12%c India Linens at Sc “Mill Ends” of fancy Piques at OVsc “Mill Ends” of Satin Plaids at JRic “Mill Ends” of 200 India Linens at v 12Ho —Basement. Two Umbrellas or, rather, two lots of umbrellas for the “Mill Ends” sale. 2G-inch fine Carola Steel Rod Umbrellas, with Paragon s s frames, cteel rods and silver swedges. “Mill Ends” sale vFv/U price Ladies’ 2G->ueh fine Gloria Silk Umbrellas, with steel aq rods and frames and fine natural wood handles. “Mill /Uv Ends" sale price —Right of Entrance. Handkerchiefs Three new lots added to the “Mill Ends” sale bargains. Ladies’ unlaundered, conventma and e, hand-einbroidered 4 n Handkerchiefs, of fine sheer 1 linen, regular 25c value. A "Mill Ends” sale price Men's all-Linen Handkerchiefs, with one-half-inch a ] hems, sold regularly at ll)c. /or "Mill Ends” sale price w Men’s Rsc all-Linen Handker- e—chiefs, with hems in all widths, to-morrow —Center Aisle. Ribbons More “Mill Ends” Sale Bargains Fancy Neck Ribbons, in checks, plaids and plain taffetas, reg- 4 /v ular 17c ones. “Mill Ends” 1 I sale price, a yard a v* w Plain satin and picot-edge Ribbons, in Nos. 5 and 7 widths, all colors, regular UI lOc quality. “Mill Ends” Kj 'w sale price, a yard Picot-edge Ribbons, in all colors, a the ,Sc quality, to close, a cXC yard 2-inch Satin Ribbons, in pink, blue, yellow’ and all the a bright shades, regular 18c If f* goods. “Mill Ends” sale Imv price, a yard —Center Aisle. More Notions 15c Dress Stays, per set lc lc Corset Strings, five for lc 8c Kid Curlers, per dozen 4c 2<)c Dress Shields, per pair 7c 8c Curling Irons 2c 12c. Belting, per yard 2c 12c Basting Cotton, per dozen 5c 18c Garters, per pair 7c 4c Pin Cubes, each lc —West Aisie. The 3 Lots of Jackets At "Mill Ends” prices are keeping the sales people busy in the Cloak Department. There are also Waists and Wrappers at "Mill Ends” prices, but we haven't the space to tell of them here. Ladies’ Jackets, in Boucles and Kerseys. lined throughout /}# ifk with Satin Serge. regular \| \if prices 85 and 80; in the fiJlaTr/ "Mill Ends” sale at

themselves do not seem to have perceived the possible outcome of a struggle tie* ween the two powers. Even as late as March no Spanish commander appeared to have given any attention to the defense of Luzon and the other islands against an American fleet. Aguinaldo showed remarkable foresight from the beginning. He told his colleagues and followers that the opportunity had come. He made contracts with adventurers to deliver arms in the Philippines, and he displayed extraordinary activity in personally visiting American naval officers, consular representatives, merchants, sea captains and private citisens. The man's whole soul was in the work, and he set an example which may be regarded with considerable admiration. He also called upon the

JACKETS==Continued Ladies’ Jackets, in Kerseys mostly, but including some Bouclcs, lined with good Taffetas, all this season’s/}/• styles, regular prices up to w 4 / 810; in the "Mill Ends” oDUILt) Choice of all our finer Jackets, made of Black and Colored Coating Cloths, all hand-ffl/’ rr\ somely Silk-lined and regu-\|% t|V larly sold for 815. 818 andd/M./fl 820 or more; sale price ’ —Second Floor. Muslin Underwear and Corsets Full-size Gowns, in Mother tm Hubbard style, with tucked yokes; "Mill Ends” sale price.. Another style, with Embrol- a dory-trimmed yoke and Surplice neck; “Mill Ends” sale price OUTING FLANNEL SKIRTS. with fancy borders and 111/’* crochet edges; "Mill Ends” J/V sale price CORSETS—A lot of 50c and 75c Corsets, in sizes 23 to ■4ll/'* 28: in the "Mill Ends” sale at 81 High-bust Corsets, while pmmggm they last aCT OC —Second Floor. Shoes! Shoes! Not “Mill Ends,” but "Mill Ends” prices. There have been shoe cx*owds every day at this sale. Women’s Lace Shoes, with Cloth and Kid tops. Kid and ffl / If 7 Patent Leather Tips and \1 /L / Flexible Soles, sizes 5 to 8, Q? x 111 widths A to E: sale price ~ Misses’ Lace and Button Kid and C’loth-top Shoes, with (hi Ifi Patent Leather Tips, regular \1 /LX prices 82 and 82.50 a pair; U/Xi xU “Mill Ends” price * Infants’ Soft-sole Shoes, in sizes Ito 3, Lace and But- / \/“* ton styles; “Mill Ends” sale price —Rear Main Floor. Hello! Here’s Hosiery Again Ladies’ Fast Black Cotton Hose, with Double Soles and High-spliced Heels, full. seamless goods and regular >%/“* 12‘2C value; “Mill Ends” Uv sale price Ladies’ Fast Black, All-wool Hose, with Double Merino i A Heels and Toes; reduced for / | */ 1 |• the “Mill Ends” sale fr x.ll 2 V 25c a pair to Ladies’ Heavy Two-thread, full, regular made Cotton 4 mm Hose tha* sell right along at ■ 25e a pair; in the “Mill MtJV/ Ends” sale at CHILDREN’S Heavy Weight Cotton Hose, Corduroyribbed. with double Knees, Soles and Toes, regular U)c I / or goods; "Mill Ends” sale price. —East Aisle. Underwear Hundreds of people are finding out during this “Mill Ends” sale what a cozy and convenient place our new balcony is to buy Underwear. Suppose you find out and save some money on these “Mill Ends” sale bargains at the same time. LADIES’ Jersey-ribbed Vests a Fleece-lined, with Long I I |/T Sleeves, regular 25c ones; Ivv sale price CHILDREN’S 25c Jerseyribbed Vests and Pants in a J White, Egyptian and Gray; I / 01 . in the “Mill Ends” sale for... A lot of Ladles’ Silver Gray r)/\ Union Suits, regular price X|J/’* 8150: "Mill Ends” sale price BOYS’ Jersey-ribbed, Fleecelined Shirts and Drawers, 4 1 regular 25c ones; "Mill I/ of Ends” sale price —East Aisle. Again the Linens Cotton Cra-h, good quality, 2c a yard. Turkish Towels, large size; f\l/ r ■ "Mill Ends” rf sale price 74^ 17c Cream Turkish Towels; lOi/in the “Mill Ends’’ sale for— t*#/2 G Bleached Huck Towels, hemmed; “Mill Ends” sale C I.J--price 0 1 Fine Cream Table Linen; in the “Mill Ends” sale for, a 10r> yard GO-inch Heavy Cream Table Linen; in the “Mill Ends” 20c 00-inch Heavy Bleached Table Linen: in the “Mill Ends sale at. a yard 00-inct Bleached Table Lin- A.7i' ens; •‘Mill Ends,” at. a yard v-OS-inch Satin Damask, the 81 quality; "Mill Ends” sale *7Qc priee * —Basement.

leading English paners there and tried in every' way to arouse sympathy for his people and his cause. In this work he displayed a patriotism unmixed with selfishness. To one of the American naval o..cersin HongKong he said; “There will be war between your country and Spain, and in that war you can do the greatest deed in history by putting an end to Castilian tyranny in my native land. We are not ferocious savages. On the contrary, we are unspeakably patient and docile. That we have risen from time to time is no sign of bloodthirstiness on our part, but merely of manhood resenting w rongs which it is no longer able to endure. You Americans revolted for nothing at all compared with what we have suffered. Mexico and the Spanish republics rose in

7th Annual Sale of Men’s White Unlaundered Shirts Starts With the Stroke of ( y PJI Me Bell at 8 o'clock To--3 Ml orrow Corning. f fit fb Notwithstanding the recent big r / A / af ‘ vance * n le P r i ce °f muslins, / j\ f these shirts are lower in price than fr,/, A.NJ-b'L an y P rev 'i° us sale, and we be--1 ( \ / lieve they are the greatest values r \ ' you ever had the opportunity of purchasing. These were made to our especial order, aud are guaranteed to fit and to wear. Send your mothers or sisters to get them for you if you cau’t come.

The first big lot consists of Men’s Unlaundered White Shirts, with reinforced fronts, I I F all sizes; sale price V The second lot are Unlaundered White Shirts, with reinforced fronts and backs and threeply bosoms, regular 39c /nF shirts; sale price a/V BOYS’ Unlaundered White Shirts, made the same as the men’s A 49c shirt in this sale, and reg- Ay £ ularly sold at 50c; sale price . \

Collars and ipa Cuffs, Too! jJJjI All four-ply linen, and all the latest COLLARS—Regular 15c ones—7c each; 6 for 40c; 12 for 75c. CUFFS —Regular 25c ones—lsc a pair; 6 pairs for 75c. —East Aisle—just at left of entrance. Un-y, *

Furniture Possibly the cold weather has driven thoughts of our February Furniture Sale out of your mind. Here are three forcible reminders: Solid Oak Sideboards, with swell fronts and French plate mirrors, {P /y |YO good fin.sh, and regular sl6 pieces; sale price *pV# VO A lot of Fancy Rockers, in oak and mahogany finish, with cobbler AD and wood seats, regular price $4.50; sale price PARLOR FURNITURE—We’ve taken out about a dozen different suites aiid separate pieces, and offer them at 25 per cent, and 50 per cent.off the marked prices. We believe you’d find it interesting to look at them. —Fourth Floor. Valentines! Valentines! Tuesday is the day. Make a note of that and don’t forget it. Thousands of dainty Valentines are here in shapes far too numerous to attempt description. Lace Valentines at Ic, 2c and 3c Valentine Cards and Booklets from lc up to 30c Celluloid Valentines at 18c, 25c, 35c, 38c, 45c and up to $2.00 Special prices on lots of a dozen or more. Extra... Writing Paper By the lb. “Swan Seconds,” either in octavo or commercial size, 84 and 06 sheets to |Y Envelopes to match, regular price 8c for, a package 5c —Rear East Aisle.

Cottons. “Mill Ends” A case of “Mill Ends” of very heavy Unbleached Muslin, that was nearly lost in transit, came Saturday, regular f* 7c goods; ready to-morrow .ixr at. a yard “Mill Ends” of Cambrics, in s 1 to 7-yard lengths; sale OjC' price Y/W Bc, lie and 10c Outing Flannels in “Mill Ends” are going fast at, a *-ard Dress and Skiit Flannels, in Wool and Part Wool, worth 17c. 20c and 30e, are go- | ZiT ing at, a yard *" " Blankets Gray Cctton Blankets, that would be good value at s<>o -w a pair; "Mill Ends" sale .vST price y/y/V 11 -4 White Wool Blankets, with Red, Blue and Pink ffl A Aft Borders, good serviceable nIJ Blankets, worth 84 50 a pair; sale price Feather Pillows, in sizes 20x m m 28 inches and 20*22 "’ll"* inches, worth 81-50 a pair; 1/1/W ‘ Mill Ends” sale price, each.... —Basement.

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rebellion and swept the Spaniard into the sea, and all their sufferings together would not equal that which occurs every day in the Philippines. We are supposed to be living under the laws and civilization of the nineteenth century, but we are really living under the practices of the middle ages.” They Speak Gaelic. Kansas City Journal. There are doubtless enough fairly intelligfnt people who do not even know what the Gaelic language is, but It Is surprising for many of the small number who do know to learn that the language is still spoken by half a million people In Ireland, and is actually gaining ground, being taught in sev-

“Our Shirt” —It sells for 50c the year round, except at this sale. The body is Langdou muslin, the bosom is 1800 linen. It is made with reinforced front and back, in all sizes of neck and sleeves; sale price “Our Shirt”—Made of Wamsutta Muslin, with 2100 linen bosom, reinforced back and front, long and short bosoms, open front and back and open back—a num* i A ber one 75c shirt; sale J-vC price w

Housefurnishings The great “New Basement” is lending I quite a hand In making a success of the | "Mill Ends" sale. Stock up the kitchen. Granite Pudding Pans, 3-Quart m# size—only 700 us them—one C gy to a customer, while they aJw last, at and 4iunrt Tin Coffee I'ot*. fa the wale at 7c und lc each. 0-quart Granite Preserving • Kettles, regular 45e ones; I \3C while they last a^^ 4-quart Covered Buckets, reg- ✓ ular 15c ones- “Mill Ends” OC) sale price w 4-qnart Pudding Puns tor 4c. 4ffo Tin Galvanised Wash Tlm for Uf>c. Ituhhitt'i* Heat Soup, 7 cake* for arc. Kirk’* White (loud Soap, 6 bar* for iirc. HrnMN fiird ( asre, SOc. 3-qnurt Granite Coffee Pota for 25c. Another lot of Bissell’s Carpet Qfi,Sweepers -at zrOL White Enamel Sink Strainers, ICVwhile they last Regular 25c Taper Holders, in f ff, this sale for ICFL Game of Archerana for 82 25Thermol Vapor Bath Cabinets, 85 to 84! p ach. A lot of 15c can Enamels, fY-v w hilo they last -***

enty government schools, whereas It via taught in hut seven schools fifteen year* ago. Os course, these Irish people do not speak Gaelic exclusively, save in the fewest cases. But there lit teally no good reason why the people of li'eiand should rot retain and cultivate their own national language, while it will be an enrichment of the field of language and literature to have this ancient tongue perpetuated. Welsh and Highland Scotch and Manx are also Gaelic languages, and In Wales, too, the language ts religiously cherished. To Cure the Grip la * Hurry Take two of Haag’s Cold and Fever Capsules every three hours.

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