Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 February 1884 — Page 4

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P. S. WESTFALL,, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

XKRRB HAUTE, PER 28, 1884

MISSOURI has lost her most noted citizen. Frank Jain ea is oat of ail and ^has gone South for his health.

•Now that postage is reduced to one •cent on four ounces, people will be ^"clamoring next for half cent stamps.

TIGHT pantaloons are positively out of "atyle and the spring trousers will be cut 'so as to leave something »r the imagination.

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Pea dogs, as a fashionable ornament, -have gone out of style and a great many ladies are sending theirs to the flood sufferers. "SHB Loves and Lies," is a new story by Wilkie Collins. That's so, Wilkie. It is a habit peculiar to some women and all men.

Ix the east, pet dogs wear button hole bouquets and jeweled dog-collars. Out 'here the boys wear the button bole bouquets and the girls wear the dog-collars.

EDISON, the electrician is perfectly deaf he cannot hear it thunder. That is a comfortable condition for a married man. Ho misses all the noise of domestic storms.

THB Democratic National Committe '4netin Washington yesterday,'and select ed Chicago as the place for holding the

Presidential nominating convention on the 24th day of June.

THE wife of the living skeleton will Apply for a divorce on account of her ^husband's deficiency in flesh. If a wo «nan is entitled to a divorce because her husband is "too thin,*' applications will be numerous. 'i-

THE papers are printing wood cuts of liord Tennyson D'Eyncourt. The principal feature about them seems to be that the Baron should have bis hair cut, In fact that he needs a barber worse than be does a baronetcy.

WHEN looking through an exchange to see if there isn't something you can steal, to work up into an editorial, is there anything more aggravating than to find it half made up of your own editorials written the week before

THE newspapers are quoting certain sayings of the son of George Eliot, in regard to her biography. We were under the impression that George Eliot never had any children. Let us hear more particularly in regard to this son.

A MII-WAC/KKH paper says that •"George W. Peck has given a ship builder a commission to construct a magnificent steam yacht for his private use on the lakes." Who will say that it it is a misfortune to have "A Bad Boy 1

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A GENTLEMAN iu New York has just bad a set of shirts made of flne French cambric. In place of the collar is a lace ruff turned back at the throat and fastened with a diamond clasp, while on the bosom are three tiny bows. Senator Tabor will have to look to his laurels fa

SUSAN B. ANTHONY has been much ridiculed for sending an official letter in which "suffrage" is spelled "sufferage." After all, this is not so inappropriate and really very well expresses the state of affairs. Let "sufferage" represent the put and "suffrage" represent the future.

THERE are about fifty ladies in the Harvard Annex and some of the Professors testify that the average scholarship is better than that in the college proper. Why keep the girla in the Annex, then? Depend npon it, some day they will walk in at the big door of •old Harvard and take a front seat.

THE Chicago Manual Training School to«s opened. It will accommodate three hundred and fifty pupils. Each pupil, before graduating, will have to construct a machine. It is refreshing to think of a school that will turnout somebody besides doctors, lawyers and book keepers and we venture to say that a thorough graduate of one of these Manual Training Schools will not have to stand aronnd .and wait for a position.

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BILL NYB, formerly of the Laramie Boomerang says: "In Wyoming, when female suffrage has raged for years, yon -meet courteous and gallant gentlemen -and fair, quiet, sensible women at the {tolls, where there irot aloud or profane word, and where It is an infinitely more proper place to send a young lady unescorted than to the poetoffice." It will now be in order for |some half-fledged reporter in New York or Boston to deNye this statement.

WHAT in the world has got Into the ministers On last Sunday Mia. Caroline A. Souls, from orthodox Scotland, preached in the church of the Redeemer, in Brooklyn, a stirring sermon repodiating the idea of h«H. Rev. Leonard W. Bacon, long a pillar in the richest Congregational church in Connecticut, accepted a call to a Unitarian church. And Henry Ward Beecher declared In the pulpit,

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OUR neighboring town, Brairil, did a handsome thing in sending a train of 26 cars of coal to the flooded people of Jeffersonville, besides a car load, of provisions. Brazil's entire contribution to the sufferers was $2,500. Can any city in the State, except Terre Haute, make as good a showing according to size?

SMALLPOX has almost attained the proportions of an epidemic in Indianapolis. The first case was discovered in the oounty jail some weeks ago and since then the disease has been gradually spreading until the pest house is full of patients and new cases are discovered nearly every day in widely separated parts of the city.

IT is announced by authority from Washington that Jndg? Gresham will be appointed to succeed Judge Drummond, whose retirement is expected to take place within a few days. It is a life position and the salary is (6,000 a year, Judge Gresham's eminent fitness for the place is so universally conceded that the other aspirants for the office will make no claim to it as against him.

SOUTHERN Dakota is making an earnest effort to be admitted into the Union as a State, and since the territory of which it is proposed to make the State has a larger population, raises more products and does more business than any other Territory at its admission, there appears to be no good reason why a new State should not be made. The people are of the very best in every way and would soon make a State of which the whole country would be proud. Undoubtedly Dakota ought to be admitted.

T. W. HIOOENSON suggests that if every Democrat were compelled to read Republican papers and every Republican compelled to read Democratic papers by election times each party would know something. This is a good suggestion, but there is no prospect of its being adopted. Each political party reads only one side of the situation and votes according to its prejudice and not according to its knowledge. It is not the business of an "organ" to give any correct information in regard to the opposite party, and unless a man prefers to go it blind, he owes it to its own judgment to read both sides.

WITH the growing conviction that no important changes are likely to be made in the tariff by the present Congress, the Chicago Inter Ocean notes a marked tendency towards a restoration of confidence in all departments of business. Stocks are resuming their normal values, there are fewer failures, and the coal and iron trades show signs of increasing prosperity. Contrary to expectation there is likely to be as much railroad building this year as in any previous one, while the temporary check on foreign immigration has stopped, the number of new-comers in 1884 promises to be as large as in 1881 and 1882. All that business asks of Congress is to be let alone, say the Inter Ocean. It is likely to be let alone. The present congress will devote Itself to politics and President- making and will be too shrewd to block its game by any legislation calculated to disturb the business of the country.^

IT is frequently charged by members of both political parties that a few men in and around the county seat control the conventions and practically name the candidates for the various offices. While there is doubtless a great deal of truth in the charge, those who make it really have the remedy in their own hands. If every man man who has an interest in these matters—(and all have) would attend the party primariee and exert his influence in selecting the delegates, committeemen, etc., the party could not long be controlled by any ring. These primary meetings are the real sources of political power and should be watched closely. An important campaign is approaching, in fact is already at hand, for the organizing conventions are now being held. Every voter should take an interest from the outset in the work of his party and not wait until the candidates are already in the field. All he can do then is either to kick" or vote, end generally he concludes to do the latter. Ibe thing to do is to be there from the first and help to nominate the men you are expected to vote for.

THERE is much discussion, wise and otherwise, or the tariff question, and it is undeniable that a free trade sentiment is growing in many quarters. It is not probable, however, that the new recruits to the free trade standard will be sufficient in numbers to materially affect the next national election. If the tariff iisue shall be tbecontrolling one in that campaign, as now seems probable, it is almost certain that the doctrine of a moderate protective tariff will win the fight. It is well enough to think and talk about free trade and to study as intelligently as possible the various effects of a protective tariff. Let the cosntry have all the information and light on the subject that can be obtained.* But after all It will be felt by the great majority that it will be best to postpone the era of free trade for a while yet, rather than to take the chances or throwing our whole industrial world into confusion by an indiscriminate removal of tariff duties. Oar manufacturing industries are so great and so complicated, and* our laboring popula-

The oki doctrine of tbe' sudden and radical change of policy girls will manage tbe boys, tbe boys atonement ba« got to go under and la 1 would be likely to produce wide-epread will manage tbe girla, and President going under." I confusion and distress. Robinaon will have ao managing to do.

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WHOLE-SOULED" PEOPLE. Many men and women go through life like shadows. So latent are they on their own personal concerns that they have no time for those of their neighbors or of the publio. Outside of their own little world, they seem to hatfe no interest in the scenes that are passing around them. They exert no influence over anybody and are not considered in any plans for the public good. Yet these people are not vicions or immoral on the contrary they are often of the most irreproachable character and lead upright, blameless lives. All that can be said against them is that they are either too selfish or too negative either they are buried beneath their own cares and duties, or they are people of a shy disposition, with little affinity for others.

Persons of this kind do not realize what great opportunities in life they are missing. How much fuller and deeper the current of their life might run if they would take an active part in the movements going on around them! There area thousand avenues of usefulness and enjoyment which they miss a thousand opportunities of doing good to others, with no loss, but real gain to themselves.

There is another class of men and women who are just the opposite of these. Busy with their own affairs, working hard from morning till night, they yet find time to take an active interest in the larger movements about them. They areconcerred with politics, with religion, with social and charitable efforts. Coming in contact with many people at many points, they-soon become known as persons of influence. Their good will is desired and sought after and when they can be enlisted in any movement it is cpnsidered a great gain to the cause. These people are positive, earnest, warm hearted. They are often called "wholesouled" people, because whatever they do they do with their whole strength. There is nothing shy or shadowy about tbem they are fu'l of sunshine. They are never found whimpering* or complaining or taking a pessimistic view of life. They are never found debating tbe question whether or not life is worth living. Life means a great deal to tbem a great deal of work, of love, of enjoyment, of usefulness to themselves and to others.

It is tbe men and women of this type who soon take positions of vantage in the communities where they live. They get a strong hold on all classes. They are not only respected they are felt and loved, and feared, too, by those who are on the wrong side of things. It is the young men of this generous, ardent temperament who often quickly distance competitors of greater pretensions in ability and learning. Doing whatsoever their hands find to do with their might, they never find work lacking. It, pours in upon them from unexpected quarters and of unexpected kinds. Theyare the busy meu to whom people go for favors and are not disappointed, for it is notorious that tbe busier the man or woman is the more voluntary work tbey will do. Those who know human-kind wili never go to the unoccupied, sinecureholding classes for help in any work of charity, or of social or educational effort. The lazy are not available for such uses. When it comes to organizing relief measures for the flood sufferers, it is tbe busy boards of trade that drop their business for the time and gather and distribute money and provisions with the same successful energy that characterizes their everyday work in tbe busy marts of trade. It is not tbe Indolent, ease-loving, slippered gentlemen of elegant leisure who go to church twice on Sunday who help to make up the faithful few at tbe prayer meeting from week to week who sit on school boards, become trustees of public libraries, or fill a score of laborious and troublesome places, the only reward of which is the consciousness of of doing good work in a good cause, for the benefit of the great majority. On the contrary it was from the ranks of the the busiest of the busy, tbe earnest positive, whole-souled people, that the great army of volunteers in the cause of hnmanity is recruited.

Verily they have their reward! Abounding life flows in their veins. If they have some enemies tbey have troops of friends. They have a sense of power, and influence and permanency that gives jest to life. Tbey write their names upon tbe hearts 6t those with whom they mingle day after day, and when they die they leave as an inheritance to their children a good name and the memory of good deeds done.

THE Indianapolis Journal has undertaken a promising and profitable investigation in going through the various offices in Marion county and exhibiting the allowances made to officials. It shows that Sheriff Hess has been allowed over (34,000 in fourteen months, of which upwards of f20,000 was for boarding prisoners during that period. Outside of these allowances th« regular fees of the office are enormous, bnt just how much nobody outside of the office knowa. These figures are startling and are conclusive evidence that county government Is costing the people too much. It is a good thing to bring facta like these to the notice of tbe people, to the end that official leaks may be discovered snd stopped. A similar cruise in Vigo county might bring interesting results.

"So PAR as I am personally concerned," says President Robinson, of Brown University, "I should have no

don dependent upon tbem is so large, objection to opening this University to that it will be wise to go pretty slowly women, except that It wilt he harder to to the direction of free trade. Any manage than before." Not at all. Tbe

SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

PUTNAMS have brought out anew book of poems by Augustin

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dedicated to the rector of St. Peter's church, Baltimore. We quote two verses. When lip unto lip, aeems united forever, And kiss upon kin, with galvanic sensation. Breathe volumes to lovers who glow with a Which only subsides with a fair compensation. But while my lips to hers were glued As though my soul would enter there, She'd catch her breath—the little prude And drive it almost to despair.

If this is a specimen of love in the nineteenth century, it is not surprising that tbe flame soon dies out and the ashes are swept away in the divorce court.

SAYINGS AND DOINGS,

When the palm of your hand itches it is a sign that you are going to get some money—when you earn it..

We are informed by reliable milliners that the first flowers in bloom this year will be on spring bonnets.

People often have to pay dearly for what they don't understand. This is what makes grand opera so costly. :l

Ella Wheeler sings: "Love, when we met 'twas like two planets meeting." It must have been considerable of a collision.

One physician in Lawrence. Mass., has nine patients whose illness was caused by over-exertion in skating rinks.

This talk about the tea crop being short is all nonsense. There are enough dry willow leaves in. this country to supply the world.

According to a writer in the Pall Mall Gazette, the mince pie dates back to the time of tbe early Christians. Now we can understand their sufferings.

Henry Bacon and Matilda Beans were married in Toledo this week. The occasion is far too serious, however, for tbe perpetration of a single one of those too palpable jokes.

Colored dress suits for men have appeared in Philadelphia on the fashion plates. One suit is garnet colored, lined witjb yellow satin. The coat is a "shadbelly" in cut, and tbe vest long and pointed, after the styles of the ?ast centnry. The notion is an American one—at least that much good can be said of it.

A South Carolina paper would like to see congress put so high a tax on pistols that very few persons could afford to own them, or so heavy, indeed, as to banish them from daily life altogether. It calls tbe pistol "a curse to the human race, a boon to the highwayman, and the companion of the assassin, the thief and the coward."

An eccentric individual is Dr Whitney Cleveland, fomerly of New Haven, Conn., but now in Colorado. He alvysys wears tbe garment of a Quaker* He carefully notes all the calls of his practice, but never sends out a bill. Only those pay him who choose to do so. He always uses salt instead of soap for washing his face and head. He never drinks tea, coffee, nor intoxicants. Black clothes are his abhorrence, a cravat or necktie he never wears, and although he keeps bis boots oilod he never has them blacked. He is very fond of tbe water and swims as well now although he is eighty years old, as he did when he was eighteen.

A If 07 HER IDOL SHATTERED. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. A tall, heavy man, with a dull, unpleasant face, came into the office of a city hotel, yesterday and walked up to the counter, where he was greeted by the rooming clerk. The man was hardly in full control of himself, his eyes were watery, his voice was loud, and his tone and manner aggressive. "I waut a room 1'' he said: and he pounded on the desk with his fist, and looked around as if to command obedience and send a thrill of awe into the hearers. "What kind of a room?" asked the clerk. ,, "I want a good room. I'm going to live at a hotel, and I w*nt to pay cash for wbst I get," and be grew very noisy and demonstrative. "If I eat anything I want to pay cash for the meal, and I don't want any bill against me. I can

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for what I get, and don't forget it. around here at this museum, and I want to live somewhere at a hotel where I can put up my cash for what I get and don't have to pay for what-I don't want.

And thus, so far as those who beard him were concerned, another popular fancy was found to have gone wrong. It was Sergeant Mason.

LOT No. 1, at 40c. per yard.

LOT No. 4, at 50c, pel* yard.

ADELINA AND MAGGIE.

THB SINGER AND ACTRESS OP TWEN1 TY-EIQHT YEARS AGO AND TO-DAY.

Who could'have told Adelina Patti and Maggie Mitchell, when they, on Sept. 27,1855, were simultaneously before Syracuse((N. Y.) audiences, that they in 1884 would meet again under the same roof and appear before the same public. But so it is. Last week the divine Patti and the bewitching Maggie were both comfortably quartered in the same hotel, the Grand Pacific, at Chicago Both are as young as they were then, both are not l^youd the zenith of their glory, both have been tbe heroines of interesting adventures. Life shows many strange coincidences, but few are stranger than this.

Looking at a number of the Syracuse (N. Y.) Standard of Sept. 21, 1855, two advertisements are to be discovered. The upper one declares that "the management of Paul Julien and Adelina Patti, the two great youthful geniuses of tbe age, begs leave to announce to their friendsand the public in general that previous to their departure from London, where they have appeared at Her Majesty's theater for a series of concerts, they will give one grand farewell and positively last concert in this city this evening, in Wieting hall, on which occasion they will be assisted by Auguste Cockel, the great, most eminent, and most brilliant pianist, and Ettori Baril, the late baritone of the Academy of Music of New York. The management to afford to everybody the opportunity of hearing these great artists once more, has put the price of admission at 50 cents." And nelow that, similarly displayed, is the announcement that "the beautiful fairy star, Miss Maggie Mitchell," was playing a two weeks' engagement at tbe National theatre. "Ion" and the "Maid with the Milking-Pail" to be performed that night. Since then these two great favorites of the nation have developed out of their chrysalis state into full-blown, brilliant butterflies. They have fluttered and glistened in the light of many thousands of footlights. The "great, most eminent, and most brilliant pianist, Auguste Cockel," and tbe great baritone Baril have long been forgotten, and Adelina Patti, instead of getting ber modest share of the couple of hundred of silver half-dollars at Wieting ball, asks and receives $5,000 a night, whilo Maggie Mitchell, though a matron now and no longer a a fairy as twenty-eight years ago, is still traveling "her old beat."

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HIS LAST SUPPER.

A BLASPHEMER STRUCK WITH DEATH WHILE IMPERSONATING CHRIST. v: o-.

A Philadelphia dispatch to the Boston Herald says: The sudden illness of Lemuel Thomas while he was blasphemously impersonating tbe Savior at a supper party of roysters, his subsequent paralysis of the heart, and the finding of nis corpse in his bed-room, have given Jenkintbwn and its vicinity a sensation. Thomas was a carpenter over 60 years of age, who rarely attended church, and who was noted in Jenkintown for his disregard of religion. On Monday evening he met twelve friends of kindred dispositions by arrangement at Coltman's hotel. They had made every preparation for a supper, and the tables were loaded with poultry and liquors. Every one was in good health and spirits. Before tbey-sat down one of the guests suggested that Thomas, who was the oldest man present, should offer up a prayer. This he did, amid the laughter and jests ot those present. Among the jesters were Richard Myers, a town councilman, and Henry Thomas, tbe only son of the host. After they had been seated one of the men said that the reunion, on' account ot there being thirteen present, was suggestive of the last supper. While the thirteen men were eating, drinking, and shouting, Thomas uttered a terrible oath and made use of some blasphemous expressions that shocked even his comrades. They all started up with amazement at his words, when suddenly he grew pale, and, putting his hand to his head, complained of pain. It was not until 11 o'clock that this occurred, and the supper had opened shortly after 8. "I'm afraid it's my last supper, after all," the miserable man moaned. Then, clutching bis chair, and raising with difficulty, announced to the rest: "I must vacate tbe cbair, boys. You must get another president, I'm going home." The revelries continued after Thomas was driven to bis home. He said that his head felt as if he had received a terrible blow. His daughter left bim when she fancied be bad fallen asleep. The next morning he was found dead in his bed. A horrible smile played over bis features, and his eyes were starting out of tbeir sockets, "as if," said a woman relative in describing it afterward, "he had seen something awful and died while staring at it."

It was a detroit girl that married at 15, so as to h«ve her goiden wedding when it would do her some good.

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FITTING THE LA DIES' FEET.

ESTABLISHED DUTIES OP SHOE CLERKS DURING THE TRYING ORDEAL. 1 ...

Chicago News.

A State street retail shoe-dealer, not many miles f-way from Washington street, was shown a paper yesterday containing a complaint from a boulevard lady as to the "disgustingly immodest" manner in fitting ladies' shoes in this city. Having occupied twenty minutes in reading forty-five lines, the dealer turned a face of pious impassivity toward the reporter, and, with an upward glance which overshot his carelessly adjusted spectacles, said: "There is just one manner of fitting shoes "In this city?" interrupted the reporter, ''Yes, in this city, and in Boston, too. This manner is correctly described by the lady who wrote that complaint. The attending salesman seats himself beside the lady when she has selected the shoe tbat pleases her as to quality aud style, and, lifting ber foot from tbe ground, places it across his knee, which be lowers as much as possible for tbat purpose. Then, holding her limb steady with bis arm, he removes tbe old boot and puts on the new. This posture affords tbe clerk more purchase, mechanically speaking, than he could obtain by sitting on a hassock at the lady's feet. 1 learned the shoe business in Boston, beginning thirty-one years ago. For the last twenty-seven years 1 have been engaged in tbe business in this city, lu both eities the style of fitting boots which I have just described prevails. I suppose tbe style in St. Louis, which this boulevard complainant praises as something worthy of emulation, is to allow the ladies to tit their own boots. Now. we always ask a lady whether she desires assistance before offering it. Probably one lady in a hundred declines the services of the clerk. On tbe whole, complaints are quite rare and usually come from cranks who are hungering for a mawkish sensation."

SHE RELENTED. Chicago Herald. "No, Henry, I'm not going to take my shoes off." "You'd better, dearest." "No, I shan't. Just like as not the train will run off the track. What a place this is for a lady to sleep in. Catch me taking off my shoes, nor anything else this night. Why, anybody can come along here and pull these curtain8 right back." "Why, dear, it is just as private here as in your own room. No one disturbs any one else on a sleeper. You know I traveled a great deal before we were married. Now come, pet, let me untie your sboes for you "You shan't Henry. I tell you I won't take my shoes off, and I won't, so there. I am going to sit up here and lean against this pillow and look out tbe window all night, and I'll be already dressed for breakfast in tbe morning. You can sleep down there if you want to. He argued, reasoned, entreated, and commanded, but tbe six hour bride remained firm, and it was evident tbat a dark cloud was on the face of the young honeymoon. The last thing we beard before going to Bleep was tbe beginning Of what be said was his last appeal. We didn't hear the end of it, but woke next morning and found all quiet in tbe next berth. All the other passenger* were soon up, and the porter had tbr* beds metamorphosed into seatsjbf£t tbe bridal couple slept. Finally were roused by tbe conductor, aud bu forty minutes of floundering in th& lower bunk,*' and frequent whispered inquiries of sundry missing articles, conspicuous among which was "my other shoe," theie appeared a plump little woman with frowsy hair and a pair of pretty blushes, which deepened and widened surprisingly aB she met tbe gaze of her fellow passengers. It was apparent that she had at last relented.

FORESTS AND DRAINAGE* Dr. Felix L. Oswald. Cover a table with a thick stratum of spongy moss and pour on a gallon of water. Tbe water will ooze through and trickle down the tab'.e, but very slowly, day by day, and that process of Alteration will continue for along time four hours after the table will still be dripping wet. Then remove the moss and empty the same gallon pot on the center of tbe table. This time the deluge will

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our in a quick rush and four later tbe table will be as dry as 11 nothing had happened. With tbe same difference of results rain shower acts on a wooded and treeless country. The forest, with its net work of moss and roots, absorbs nirte-tenths of tbe moisture, and yields it only slowly in brooks and perennial springs. A naked hill permits it to pour down in rapid deluge, brooks swell to torrents and rivers to seas but in tbe summer time those same rivers shrink to *bsllow creeks their head waters in tbe treeless' moantalns have run dry.

Fashion i» Queen. Fast, brilliant and fashionable aie tbe Diamond Dyer oolors. One package colors 1 to 4 lbs. of goods. 10c. for any color. Get at druggists. Wells, Richardson A Co., Burlington, Vt.

100 pieces New Style Checks, Stripes, Plaids, and Changeable Colore, in Blue, Brown, Green, Gold, Cardinal, Electrique, Myrtle, Bronze, Slate, Drafe,

LOT No. 2, at 42ie. per yard.

LOT No. 5. at 52»c. per yard.

trom 10 to 20 cents per yard more wholesale in New York to-day.. Samples sent by mail on application. Orders solicited and promptly filled. Address,

lloberg, Hoot & Co.,

B0*The Silks will be displayed in our east window until Tuesday morning.

Plain Wine,

LOT No. 3, at 45c. per yard.

LOT No. 6, at 56c. per year.

UnT™£» by oor Mr. Root and would comma,

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