Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1902 — Page 20

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOTJAX, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1902

A GIRL'S MEMORY BOOK

MISS DROWN CYCS "GIVES A LOOK" TO TUG STUPID MAX. Art Treaiur That No One Except the Girl Herself Could Properly Appreciate. The Girl -with th-j Brown Eyes had consented to bring her Memory Book down stairs for the edlft-ation and education of a Stupid Man. "And you never heard of a Memory Book,' shf. observed, turning the leaves of the balky volume with great care lest something should drop out. "I'm astonished at you. for nearly every girl I know keeps a Memory Book and wouldn't be without one. I hopo you'll understand, sir, that I'm bestowing a great favor In showing this book." The Stupid Man showed due appreciation of the exception that was being made In his case and timidly examined the great volume. "I see a burnt match attached to this page," he remarked, and added with a half sneer: "I Suppose some tender bit of sentiment clings around that." The girl Ignored the sneer. "No, not especially sentiment," she sweetly replied. "It was a match he lighted a cigar with and threw away. He doesn't know I have it, of course. I don't know that I know why I picked it up and kept It after he was gone. Just a girl's foolish Idea of remembering some look or word I suppose." The mar. turned another page and near the bottom in a corner was a crushed rose fastened to the page. It had been placed there recently. "Oh, I don't mind telling you what that is," said the girl, reading the Stupid Man's look of inquiry. "That Is a reminder of the Yale ball the other night at the Propylaeum you know the dance that followed the concert. The man who gave me that rose was the loveliest dancer I have ever known. He took that rose from his button-hole Just as we were going Into a two-step. I've danced with a lot of men in my life, but none of them ver equaled this one. Don't you know that Is a thing a girl always rerembers? Be a good dancer and you'll be popular." The Stupid Man had been told bo danced Mke an ice wagon so he was not interested. They went on through the book and finally the girl pointed to a small card tearing a man's name with a Christmas greeting. "That came Christmas," said the girl, "and it recalls the nearest thing to a romance that I ever took part in. My people spent a summer at Waukesha a few years ago and I met a man who lived there. One afternoon we came In from a long drive and the man hitched his horse In front of the hotel. That night we went somewhere on the trolley line air' did not return until late. When the man told me jrood-nlght he made some side remarks that indicated to me the state of his mind. Now, what do you suppose that man did? He went straight home he lived In St. Joe leaving his horse and buggy standing there. The police found it about 3 o'clock In the morning. My friends tell me that man was in love. What do you think?" "Well. I've never had it that bad," replied the Stupid Man, turning over another leaf In the Memory Book. They came to some notes and letters pasted on the pages which the girl said they wouldn't read. "Now, here's a thing," she said, at length picking from between the leaves the title page of a song that was very popular a Xew years ago, "that reminds me of one of the most unpleasant evenings I think I ever spent. Two men came to call on me. One came to stay the whole evening and tho other Just dropped in for a half hour. But neither knew of the other's Intentions. "Well, they sat and glared at each other and were almost uncivil. I said to myself, What girl was ever in a worse plight because of two stupid men?' At length the man who came! to stay all evening tmid he'd have to go, and he went. A few minutes later the other man left and there I was with an evening to pass alone. As I Trent upstairs that night I noticed the disconnected pages of this song, 'On the Banks cf the Wabash that had been sent me by one of the men. I didn't think I'd ever forget the occasion, but to be sure I "wouldn't I put this title page in ray IXemory Book." "There doesn't teem to be any limit to the ilze of things you put In this book," remarked the Stupid Man. "I suppose you might stow away a sofa pillow or a chocolate set If there was sufficient reason why you should remember how you got them." Tea," ehe said, "that's what the Memory Book's for. It takes the place of a serapbook you know only you can put so much more in the Memory Book. It's something like a woman's shopping bag." The man turned over a new leaf but the hand of the girl turned It back. "You can't see that page," she said; "I'm Jealously guarding that from public scrutiny. Oh, I will let you see the top of the page but no further." The girl turned over the corner of the page Just enough to let the man see the following poetic sentiment: "This book is one thing. My flat's another. You touch one thing. And you'll feel the other." You can see by that," she went on to say, "about how carefully a girl guards her Memory Book. It is not Intended for th public eye. It is only intended as a receptacle for those things that mark some particular Incident in a girl's life something that recalls an event out of the ordinary. It may have been a trivial incident, but It perhaps meant much to her." ELECTRICAL COOKS IX DEMAND. Bis: IVnges for Women Who Can Cae 3Iodern Indentions. Chicago Record-Herald. , "Wanted a cook who is also an expert electrician?" "Why," said the woman behind the desk of an intelligence oHice that makes a specialty of servants for rich and fashionable families, "there's nothing so very out ot the way about that ad. 1 put it in myself. You see, we are a little short just now of electric cooks, as we call them, though -within the next six months I think there Is a fair chance of filling at least one-half the applications that reach us for cooks, butlers, kitchen maids, etc., who understand this new domestic force. That is because all the enterprising men and women -who aspire to become high-priced private chefs and stewards are taking special courses of instruction in electricity in order to take intelligent command of the thousand and one electric appliances in the new houses. "Just a moment ago one of my regular customers was In here looking for that very Individual mentioned in my advertisement, a cook who is also an expert electrician. My customer tripped in from her cozy motor brougham and almost dissolved in tears as sho told her woes, which illustrate clearly enough the Importance of electrical knowledge to the modern servant. That particular customer Is wealthy and for years sho has enjoyed the services of an unusually accomplished and reliable English cook. This year my customer's husband built for her a new city house with every modern appliance from an electric apple corer to an electric lift. The English cook came up from the country house, looked about the spacious new kitchen and experimented for three days and then sent In her resignation. "With the innate conservatism, not to ay prejudice of the British mind, she flatly refused to 'monkey' with new kitchen power. She did not understand it and she sent up the dishes raw or so burned that nohody could eat them. The master of the house offered to pay for a series of lessons la eleciricity, but she refused all such In

ducements and has gone back to England. Meantime the family are eating around at restaurants until I can find a cook who is qualiiied to run a kitchen where the window sashes are raised and lowered, the egg-beater whirled and the flapjacks turned by electricity. "Of course, it is only a question of time when nine-tenths of the servants will understand electricity as wtll as they now understand the simple old-fashioned domestic utensils, and, though this new power that runs the carpet sweeper, peels the potatoes, beats the rugs and polishes the shoes and silver, reduces the manual muscular labor to a minimum, the whole tendency of wages is upward. Smart clec trie cook demands and receives 20 per cent, advance over the wages she asked six months ago. She rightly Insists that she Is bound to make up somewhere for the time and money and effort she expended on her electrical course and that the introduction of electricity has In no way diminished the responsibility resting on the cook's shoulders, nor the experience necessary in her profession. GIFTS OF MONEY.

Dellcnte Way a of Making Snch Dentowal. New York Commercial Advertiser. If New Year's were a time set apart especially for atlluent relatives to give poorer ones gifts of money how charmingly convenient it would be for the poorer relatives. The average mortal enters upon the new year "hard up." Christmas gifts have depleted his purse, and the first of the year is synonymous with an army of bills to face. Checks would be more welcome than at any other time of the year, and the rich relative wouldn't have to bother thinking of a present to send to his poorer connections. He could simply send a nice fat check and life's cares would be lessened for every one concerned. One speaks of relatives sending checks as of course the friendly check, would be apt to be misunderstood, even if the sight of it was like a silver gleam in a cloudy sky to the recipient. It requires, perhaps, a finished diplomatist and accomplished man of the world to perform the delicate: task of offering a money gift gracefully. It is told of one doting husband that, though very sick, he one New Year's day presented her with the traditional silken bag of sugar plums and no other gift. The lady felt aggrieved, but she was fond of sugar plums and prepared to stifle her sigh of disappointment with a particularly large sweetmeat. It was wrapped in silver paper, like most fine candy, and she unrolled the paper. It pulled off to show another covering of green, crisp, crackling paper. The lady examined it. It was a new $50 bill. Charmed at her discovery, she unwrapped all the other sugar plums, to find each one wrapped in fresh new $30 bills. All of which suggests a tragic thought. Suppose she had sulked at her husband's apparently modest offering and given the bag to a dishonest maid, or, worse yet, thrown it aside and forgotten It? Or sent it to some one on her New Year's list. Imagination reels at the hairbreadth escape. Another way of giving money gifts gracefully with an assurance of their being accepted gracefully Is told of Talleyrand. He fell in love with one of the most beautiful women of her time the woman whom students of French biography know under the name of Ia Contemporaine." whose real name was Erzelina Ida de Bolstoy. Talleyrand tired of the lovely Erzelina, who was not the most brilliant of . companions, and the unselfish Talleyrand did not care to be bored if he could avoid it. There was the difficulty of giving her her conge en grand seigneur, and in a way that could not be mistaken. One morning Talleyrand was talking in his charming and sprightly manner to Erzelina, when suddenly he took to undoing her magnificent hair, which reached below her waist. "A nice state you have put me in," said the beauty. "Never mind, child, I'll do the locks up again, and be sure you do not take your hat off before you reach home." And slowly and deliberately the great prince of schemers twisted the splendid locks Into twenty curls, by means of as many curl papers. Each paper was a note of 1,000 francs. The workmanship was not more costly than the material. Literary "Prescription." Modern Culture. As a guide to the choice of authors In any one direction the so-called "prescriptions" are Invaluable. For clearness read Macaulay. For logic read Burke and Bacon. For action read Homer and Scott. For conciseness read Bacon and Pope. For sublimity of conception read Milton. For vivacity read Stevenson and Kipling. For imagination read Shakspeare and Job. For elegance read Virgil, Milton and Arnold. For common sense read Benjamin Franklin. For simplicity read Burns, Whlttler and L'unyan. For smoothness read Addison and Hawthorne. For interest in common things read Jane Austin. For humor read Cervantes, Chaucer and Mark Twain. D ream-Money. De ol owl holler, en de ol owl scream. En I wants dat money what I see in my dream; Oh, my honey! I wants dat money Dat money what I see in my dream! De graveyard rabbit by de ol' mill stream. En I wants dat money what I ree tn my cream: Bless God. honey! I wants dat money Dat money what I see in my dream! Ol witch ridln' on a pale moonbeam, En I wants dat money what I see in my dream! Bless God. honey! I wants dat money Dat money what I see in my dream! Frank I Stanton. Farmer Straw If any bod v steals that turkey, they'll have to take you, too, won't they, Tige? Deacon Smith Shoo, dar! you ole gobbler! 'PIT. "Jist as I 'spected! De turkey outweighs de dog! f j Y, "Now Tige, you etay right dar, 'til your marster say you kin leave 1"

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In their recent fire the Big Four Depot, at South and Delaware streets, suffered a loss of $75,000. While the building was badly burned, the goods were only slightly soiled by smoke and water. As no other merchants could handle such enormous quantities of goods, and as the Big Four was anxious to clear their depots in order to rebuild, they accepted our low offer for the bulk of the entire stock.

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Sale begins Monday

I Big Four Fire Salvage Basement Bargains

THESE GOODS ARE ALL PERFECT 40 PIECES WAIST FLANNELS, exact imitations of French flannels. Outside gssm of case got wet, but the goods were not touched; 10c grades at, a yard Ql5

fnirr rn t vvrru nn hmnrm perfect; 10c grade, per yard CAMBUIC MUSLINS, full yard wide, fine Kale at, per yard STANDARD CALICOES, best blacks and silver ereys, also fancy reds, per yard 3c COMFORT ROBES and furniture cretonnes, 2 cases regular 7c and 8c grades, per yard c APRON GINGHAMS, short lengths of the best quality, at, per yard Sysc FINE PERCALES, full yard wide, 2 cases intended for a biff shirt waist factory, 8 10c and 12ic grades, per yard 02c FINE FLANNELS for ladles waists, ex tra heavy, 12c gTades, per yard HEAVY FLANNELETTES, beat lißlit and dark patterns, 10c grades, per yard OKe DOM ET FLANNELS, fancy plaids and stripes, 5c and 6c grades, per yard.. 0je WHITE SHAKER FLANNELS, nice medium weight, regular 5c grades, at 03 H LADIES' READY-MADE UNDERSKIRT large ruffle; regular 50c quality Our n Some are our own bargains. All in good condition. UNBLEACHED CRASH TOWELING, limit 5 yards to each customer, 4c quality, per yard He LINEN FINISH CRASH and honeycomb toweling, 5c and 6c grades, a yard...S$o BROWN LINEN CRASH, extra heavy, genuine Scotch toweling, very best 10c grade, a yard 3e COTTON CHECK TOWELS, with fringe, full size, 5c kind, each COTTON HUCK TOWELS, 17x34. extra heavy. with colored borders, 12c kind Ti;c Extra heavy Turkish Wash Rags Xc Reduced prices on bleached napkins, as follows: 75c kind, per dozen fSCic $1.25 kind, per dozen J&LOO A Hosiery Bargains From the Big Four Fire. LADIES' BLACK HOSE, heavy fleece lined, 120 grade, 4 pairs for 25c, per pair Tc t LADIES' FLEECED HOSE, fast black, seamless, 40 dozen best 15c values, per pair lOc LADIES' WOOL HOSE, black cashmere. best 23c values, at liijc IN 1 INFANTS' COTTON HOSE, fast black, 10c grade, a pair lie INFANTS' WOOL HOSE, fast black. 10c gTade, 3 pairs for 10c, single pairs. 53c 15c INFANTS' WOOL HOSE. MISSES'. WOOL HOSE, all sizes, fast black, 19c kind Oc CHILDREN'S FLEECED HOSE, fast black, seamless, all sizes for boys and s girls, 12c gTades, 4 pairs for 25c, per CHRIST1IAS GREENS. Where the Iled-Herried Holly and Wild Smllnx Grorr. Philadelphia Record. Alone fence rows and in thickets the vines of the wild smilax are a pretty irht in winter. There are several species native to the neighborhood of Thiladelr,VMn. commonest of which is the ubiqui tous, round-leaved smilax, or greenbriar. it stout, creen stems, destitute of leaves at this season and armed with strong, wicked thorns, form impenetrable tangles which are attractive now v.ith bunches of plump, black berries, swinging by slender stalks. The stems of this vine are curious in that, instead of being round, they are frequently quadrangular a most unusual h.me for a plant stem. More attractive is the glaucous wild smilax, whose stems are slenderer than those of the greenbriar and are covered with a delicate. frosty bloom, wrucn, wntn it-mufu uy .v. ' ; . ,1'tr-lrvcp si Diirnlish nroiinl beautifully mottled In green. Some of the leaves of this plant in our lauiuue persist on the vines nearly or quite until spring. The frost colors them exquisitely in many tones of orange and crirrtson, which in the December sunsnine mane a urigm gpoi

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3a 40c morning at 8 o'clock sharp. rtm hflVT wplp-hir fronds nrf nil' OJD quality for skirts; one solid case on psaer Q BLEACHED MUSLINS. Lonsdale, Hill. Fruit-of-the-Loom and Masonville, best 10c grades, per yard 0aC FINE BLEACHED MUSLINS, full yard wide, soft, line finish, 7c grade, per yard e 40-INCII SHEETING, fine quality 7c unbleached, at, per yard C5c 9-4 BROWN SHEETING, one case of the regular loc grade, per yard ..IXc STRAW TICK, fancy Ftripes, pretty colors, good grade, per yard C5c FEATHER TICKS, light weight, regular 12VsC grade, a yard Oc HEAVY FEATHER-PROOF TICKS, regular 15c grade, a yard H2 FANCY SATEEN TICKS, nice light colors, double width, grade, a yard 12c UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNELS and case heavy twill and nap, 7c grade, per yard C3o S, made of heavy flannelettes, with 23c

January Linen Sale

Others are from the Big Four Depot. BLEACHED TABLE DAMASK., 1 x assorted Moral designs, 25c quality, per yard MERCERIZED DAMASKS, extra weight. pure snow-white, fine floral patterns, elegant wearing goods: 60-inch width at Oc 72-inch width at Tßc MERCERIZED NAPKINS to match, full Bite, $2.00 value, a doz JjH1.0" BLEACHED DAMASK, full 2 yards wide. 10 choice designs of pure linen, $1.00 grades, at TCc BLEACHED SATIN DAMASK, all pure linen, 2 yards wide, Snowdrop, Shamrock, Carnation Leaf. Fleur-de-LIa and other good patterns, $1.25 values, at OC5e Drapery Bargains From the Big Four Fire. TAPESTRY PORTIERES, 10 FT. LONG: $2.50 kind, a pair ijjl.C50 $2.98 kind, a pair Üül.O $3.50 kind, a pair ü.CSO ROPE PORTIERES, ALL COLORS: $1.0S kinds at SX.0 $2.CS kind at U.O. Up to $7.50 kinds T.O?i 75c Pillow Shams, a pair 50c $1.03 Lace Bed Sets OOc $30 Lace Bed Sets 1.C50 1,000 PAIRS fine Nottingham Lace Curtains on sale as follows: $3.93 to $3.00 kinds, a pair ...12.C50 $2.DS to $3.93 kinds, a pair ....2,10 $2.50 to $-150 kinds, a pair ...ü.OO $2.00 to $2.9$ kinds, a pair 1.C50 $1.50 to $2.00 kinds, a pair ....l.OO $1.00 to $1.50 kinds, a pair TTSc 89c to $1.25 kinds, a pair OrSc ioc to 9Sc kinds, a pair -5LOc RUG SALE Dont wait for spring. Buy in the chill landscape, reminding the rambler in frozen Heids of Portia's candle, which shone like a good deed in a naughty world. Perhaps the finest of our smilaxes is the laurel-leaved, which is found in the swamps of South Jersey and southward clong the eoist. A beautiful evergreen vine, with elliptical, rather unctuous leaves, smooth and pleasant to the touch as Russia leather, it loves to climb by its abundant tendrils far up into the trees, where the graceful end.s hang down like curls for Roreas when in playful mood to run hi3 Angers through. It btars an abundance of berries in spherical bunches, which require the sun of two seasons to ripen them, and those which we now find on the vines are accordingly green and Immature Infants exposed remorselessly to the winter's worst. One Rrows very fond of this sturdy cheery vine and when passing a thicket where it grows likes always to step in and stroke its glossy leafage as one strokes a favorite cat. All our tpecies of wild smilax are peculiar in having their seeds encased in elastic sacs, which may be pulled out to several times their normal length without breaking. This entertaining characteristic w;is long ago discovered by even the nonscientilic, and as a consequence, some species in certain sections of the country are known as stretchberry. The root stocks of most sorts of smilax are large and tuberous, and, being well stored with starch, furnished a nutritious article of food to the Indians, who taught their value to the eaxiy white settlers. From the dried roots of a variety found in Mexico and

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JANUARY SALE OF Muslin Underwear Biggest sale in the history of the Star Store. Ladies' Drawers Good muslin, full size, cluster tucks. 13c Good muslin, cambric rutlle, lace-trimmed-lOc FINE MUSLIN Several styles, splendid values at iiC5c Fine materials, elegant line, elaborately trimmed SOc Ladies' Chemise Good muslin, lace and embroidery trimmed lOo Skirt Chemise, embroidery and lacetrimmed yoke, flounce bottom 50c Fine Chemise, cambric and lawn, nicely trimmed, special values at $1.98, $1.43, $1.00 and 7Sc Ladies' Gowns V-neck, embroidery inserting and ruffles at neck and sleeves OOc Empire Gowns, nicely trimmed, fine materials, extra specials at $1.4S, $1.25. 9Sc, 75c, 59c and 550C Ladies' Skirts Muslin Skirts. 3-inch lace on rufHes, cluster of tucks OOc FINE SKIRTS Deep ruffles with lace insertions GOc BEAUTIFUL SKIRTS Elegantly trimmed, fine materials, 75c, $1.25, up to Corset Covers Good muslin, edged with lace, special at Oc Soft muslin, Val lace on neck and sleeves XOc Pretty styles, fine materials, felled" seems. 25c, 35c, 50c and T5o Children's Drawers All sizes, good muslins at c FINE MUSLINS Ruffle and tuck trimmings, all sizes, 19c and lOc January Cloak Sale Every Jacket at a big reduction. The largest assortment we ever had at this time of the year LADIES' GRAY JACKETS All wool and silk-lined, $5.9S values IStO-Of LADIES' $7.50 K ERSE Y COATS, nov tslJlOS LADIES' KERSEY COATS All silklined, coats that sold up to $12.50, now 7 f0 BIO Gives choice of the best bnort Coat in the house. This means any coat that sold up to $16.50. LADIES' THREE-QUARTER COATS that formerly sold nt $12.50, now. ...$7.50 LADIES' THREE-QUARTER COATS that formerly sold up to $10.50, now isilO.OO LADIES' GRAY RAGLANS See them at once; they are going fast; price reduced to T.r;0 for $10.00 and $12.50 Raglans. Misgives choice of any Raglan In the store; some sold at $22.50 and $25.00. Big 4 Blanket Sale COTTON BLANKETS 100 pairs regular 50c Blankets, tan and gray, at, a pair OtTc 10-4 COTTON BLANKETS White, with colored borders, regular GOc kind, a pair -rc HEAVY COTTON BLANKETS Full 10-4 size, regular 65c grades, per pair. ..-5-Oc Miscellaneous Bargains BRUSH BINDING All colors but black, 5c grade, per yard lc DRESS BRAIDS 5c to 10c kinds, per yard lc 10c Black Dress Braids, a yard.... tic Hercules Braids, all colors, 10c to 15c grades, a yard C5c Central America the sarsaparilla of commerce is produced. The smilax of the florists' shops, by the way, is not truly a smilax at all, but an African cousin of our plants and native to the Cape of Good Hope. Now is the time to see the holly, trees at their best. They stand next to the fir in popular favor at Christmas. The home of the common American holly is in the Atlantic seaboard States, from Massachusetts southward to Texas. In New Jersey it is especially abundant, growing equally well in the inland sand and along the beaches by the sea. The .holly of literature of Shakspeare and Dickens and Tennyson is a species confined to the old world, -and, while not essentially differing from ours, is a somewhat smaller tree often, indeed, a mere shrub, with glossier foliage and berries of a more vivid red. The leaves contain a bitter principle which the old-time doctors thought too good to let slip, and it was once used in the treatment of smallpox. Resides our common hDlly there are several other species native to the United States. Some are small shrubs, the common winter berry, now decorating our swamps with its fiery chains of fruit, belns one. Another Is tRe inkberry, abundant all over south Jersey and easily known In winter by its smooth, leathery leaves, with the beady black berries snuggling among them. The coast line of the Southern States, from Virginia around to Texas, is the home of another holly, a pretty evergreen species known as cassena or yaupon. Its clustered berries are like red currants In appearance, and the branches

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Some elegant Christmas dress coods Intended for ono of tho dotrn town stores soraspring dress goods for another store an J 3 cases of wool French flannel intended for a L! shirtwaist factory are here all in perfect conditio n.

WAISTINO FLANNELS, very pretty stripes 39c values, Just a small case of 20 pieces on FANCY MERCERIZED WAISTINGS, neat effects, 39c grade, peryard TT TT TriTT T" T a "XT xt r . vai . rntiii ruA..Lii?, an ioe piain colors ana silk stripe albasross, very finest 09c and 75c DOUBLE-FOLD DIAGONAL SUITINGS, all Mohairs, 50c quality, at lOc il.ai.k CliLYiOiS, ail-wool, 44 Inches ) wide, 6Sc grade, per yard OOc HERRINGBONE CHEVIOTS, black and t colors, 41 inches wide, GSc graders. J1., "v,,':::v:r'"'":,:Äc j4.yi l-uii öiYiUTiNti, Oxford mixtures, no lining required, 49c grade. .lOc VENETIAN CLOTHS, heavy weight and all-wool, 54 inches wide, all colors for suits and skirts, $1.25 grades 7Cc)

Big 4's Basement Bousefurnishing Bargains $2,500.00 worth of Dinner Ware goes on sale to-morrow. Best porcelain and latest decorations. Every piece in perfect condition. Other good bargains too numerous to mention.

2,000 LUNCH BASKETS, two handies, some slightly smoked, other TI C good as new, 15c kind, each -U.W

Big Four Salvage Fire Sale of Clothing Several cases of Men's and Boys' Overcoats and Suits. Intended for the h'rfcepriced clothing store Washington stree t, have reached us in perfect order i-V go on sale at one-half and one-third of original prices

sell at $15.00. on sal- hPr. llTfnPrt MEN'S FINEST OVERCOATS. Blacks, sell at $20.00 and $25.00, also choice of entire stock at only MEN'S FINE OVERCOATS, black beav- - - - .iv,i uca er and Oxford grays, also long Ulsters with storm collar, $5 to $7.50 values P5yO RUSSIAN BLOUSE OVERCOATS and Reefers for boys, 3 to 8 years, ö: frx $2 to $5 values, all go at HIUU LIGHT WEIGHT OVERCOATS, a downtown store's early spring purchase of men s and young men's $5 lines n of covert overcoats, on sale atplOU

Big Four Fire Sale of Underwear

MEN'S WOOL FLEECE-LINED Shirts and drawers in nrcttv bin shuoe- io heavy cotton fleece-lined in blacks and fancy stripes; best 50c garments... lioc FLEECE-LINED UNDERWEAR, extra heavy men's shirts only, regular 39c garments iic MEN'S UNION SUITS. hpav''V... ribbed fleeced suits, all sizes, $1 to $1.50 ttlue:5 OOc CANTON FLANNEL DRAWERS heavy weight, regular 29c kinds, a pair ' ioc so laden are sometimes shipped North In winter for indoor decorations, bearing to houtnern xninnmrc nmu v. V . -------- "V . me snow ana ice Sffc. Vr-hfrn Chrlstmastide memories of nf ff hristmasts spent by the blue waters of the gulf, "down Mobile.'' nr?i?'aUpon figuredL Prominently In aba Howwow and council because of Vh.emedJCm?power resident in Its leaves. ? lvJ2a dJVCL; mad0 Ino a decocroriinJ0?" aS fhe black drin. which, acwhn vfa,i2HatKPle?fant,;spoken old traveler Äin2 the Carolina, about the time Sid "wn ? 3 uIS COl?.ny on the Delaware. thi h.r?drifKI,y- enIllven and Invigorate the htart with genuine easie sweats and transpirations, preserving the mind free and fiveClve'nneteinrS the, by brisk active and livelj, not for an hour or two. but for as fubsfstence''0!;? fher nouVishment or subsistence. So highly did the ingenious te maue to the coast every sprine bv the J?5ia2? ;om the Interlor in order to par take of the yaupon's virtues. Love's Sacrifice The Smart Set. "I shall have to give you up"' it was in the year 19-2. and as pokVthe vou'h! aceSCinnhU hand hU rild is "YeC- re "mv""? aned aloud. Privations that a marriage InVy prUn? circumstances would entail on my wife Three weeks ago I was rlrh lle perous. the head otllgn?Z my father had bequeathed tV mi J n

Unbleached Scorched Muslins Scorched on the edges. Short lengths of from 1m to 20 yards. Sale price per bundle.

10c

store has ever put on sale. of Goods and colors, regular 29j and sale, at, per yard stripes, In all the newest color preiry rancy stripes, also & grades, at, a yard colors, a yard lOo wide, light colors only, 50c grade. ,S5C5c BLACK ASTRAKHANS. 54 inches wide, l $i.9S and $2.50 grades 0- f COLORED ASTRAKHANS, for chil- t dren's reefers. $1.25 grades at TCc F t xDPri ai euiack Taffeta uwmuu g j s - inches wide, good heavy quality.' Grades, at 2m ARMURE SILKS, linen colors. 24 inehrs wide, S9c quality OO 1.503 FANCY CANDLE EVADES assorted colors, linen, silk and pa- Ti C per, 25c values --A-V

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7-inch Plates, worth $2.50 dozen, each j-c Cups and Saucers, worth $2.00 and $2.50 doien 10-inch Meat Dishes, worth 35c and 50c, each irSr 12-inch Meat Dishes, worth 75c to $1.00, each .TO Covered Dishes, worth $1.00 and $1.25, each ; OrSc Sugar Bowls, worth 50c and 75c, each 10 ; Tea Pots, worth 50c and 75c each liCSc Individual Butters, worth S5c and Mo, each lc Butter Dishes, worth GOc and 75c. ach !!!!!iir5c Gravy Dishes, worth 35c and 50c, each .WW!. 1 lie

tlr-r j T 1 . c' mace to it- 0G Greys and Browns, made to the very finest overcoat In ourJJQ QQ MEN'S FINE WOOL" SUITS, pretty brown plaid cassimeres. plain blurs ar.i ......., uiues wun chalk-line stripfg. strips: worsieus ana brown meltons. $10.00, $12.50 and $15.00 values.' Ci( all go at rpD.UU STREET CAR MEN'S SUITS -100 conductors' and motormen's ?uit.s that a certain firm bought to sell at $11 an here in good condition an 3 CG "7 all sizes at pOiiJ LADIES' UNDERWEAR, heavy Jt.tv ribbed fleeced vesta and pants, all k1z, 50c kind 2Jrv MISSES' UNION SUITS, heavv fleeced suits, size 2 to 14 lT BOYS' UNDERWEAR, heavy fl eCo.;r. . shirts and drawers, all size.-. 25-: grades in1 WOOL UNDERWEAR, red and cim'-l hair, all Sizes, for bovs and irirlr vrrv finest grades, that Fold up to 7. nil c'iL:I H go ai the most familiar and Intimate terms the Emperor. Nothing, it seemed. : In the way of my continued sucros. denly, however, another syndicate k above me, and I was quickly ov. owed. And now, after having hrcn to sell out, I find that all my earth ; sessions amount only to the pill" of eight millions and a half." The girl at his side never waveflrm and resolute, her voice betr: . great love and determination that her In spite of this terrible '' -rushed to her disconsolate ' threw her arms round his nec "My own dearest," she cri- ' ately. "why. I would marry . were worth no more than a f 1 ,ionyou A Dleasins: In lilt Washington Post. "I believe the disastrous v ' - cathr of several years ago was a l- I to Florida." paid Mr. Ilarrisor "A'attor?. of Jacksonville. Fla,, yeste : .' 'It used to "inn s."tllUil Lord sent th other section of country, 'ihn sent the frost.' ; ' them. Durirg ast couple of J- i. ' .orid.i has been ie Increase In ;-T '.frections. Kvry of commercial :xdustrial activity picked up. TJ ' -J is a solid, p.rA I - me last on th form r " VUllltllV V "I manent growth, tr ., r t - temporary spurt

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