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e HE BEMIDJI SHO bors. 500 pairs of Shoes. Women’s Almost giving Worth them away Many complete lots and some odds and ends in patent leathers, vici kid and gun metal—good styles and the $3 50 greatest values ever offered. Come early and get first choice. s 200 Pairs of Children's Shoes u | P For49 c Come early and get first choice. Absolutely tO Worth consisting of button and lace styles, sizes 2 to 5. none reserved. All must go. Lumbermen’s S’h.oes At Less Than Cost 800 pairs of Misses’ and Boy's Shoes| At Unheard of Low Prices 350 pairs of Women’s Shoes up to $4.00. A large assortmet in the new shapes and the best leathers—Don’t delay—Come today. James Van Pelt. 1000 PAIRS OF SHOES AT LESS THAN COST OF MANUFACTURE $10,000.00 worth of Shoes at the merey of the public. of Shee sales have such values been offered. © Absolutely no restriction in buying, you can buy one pair or a hundred. You can’t make a mistake in quality, style or price. Our stock is complete now so don’t delay; come today, brlng your frlends and neigh- Buy for your present and future wants. THIS IS NOT AN ORDINARY SALE We must have Money to pay our Creditors. Remember this is our loss and your gain SI PAIR Worth PAIR $2.39 ‘Bemiijif’s ExcluSiVe Shoe House T ———— é VERSHOES AND RUBBERS 215 pairs of Men’s Shoes ine dress shoes in patent leather, ici kid and a big assortment of work up ‘We lose sight of the cost en- to Many of these are less than Good styles to $3 50 hoes. irely. rost of manufacture. | select from. E 100 pairs of Men's Shoes Consisting of many new fall styles in WOI‘ h gun metal, vici kid, calf and kangaroo leather in Blucher and Bal styles ey i -. ‘2 e ‘ y p For to the people. Many of these are odds $ 4. 50 and ends, and many complete assort- sDcpar PAIR Positively the greatest sacrifice given ————_I STORE | 321 BELTRAMI AVENYE The EntireStock Being CIosed Out by the Trustee-- Nothing Reserved--Every Pair of Men’ s, Women’s and Children’s Shoes Sacnflced at Less Than Never before in the history Worth For For Men, Women and Children AT BIG REDUCTIONS The Greatest Opportunity Ever Offered i ARTISTS’ EMBLEMS. in Whistler's Butterfly Could Be Found the Monogram J. W. The mystic emblem or device of a sort of Whistlerized butterfly was adopted in the sixties by the eccentric genius James Abbott ‘Whistler, ‘who changed his name later to' James Mc- Neill Whistler. Close study will reveal that this pe- culiar scroll is really a monogram of J. W. The earliest of the etchings to bear the butterfly is “Chelsea Wharf” (1863), but many paintings and etch- ings after that date are signed * Whis tler.” Artists have sometimes signed their pictures in some distinct form instead of their names. when the name might suggest some emblem or symbol. Thus Hieronymus Cock demarked It generally was donié” - | two fighfing cocks on his panels; Mari- otto Albertinelli signed -a cross with two interlaced. rings, referring to the sacerdotal duties to which-at ‘one time of his life he devoted himself; ‘Martin Rota, a wheel; Pieter de Ryng, a ring with a diamond; Glovanni Dossi, a bone; Del Mazo Martinez, a hammer; | LionelloSpada. a: sword. Sometimes caprice dictated the selm~ tion, as when Jacopo de Barberi used the caduceus, or Mercury rod; Hendrik de 'Bles an owl, Lucas' Cranach ‘a crowned .serpent. Cornelius . Engel- brechtsen a peculiar device resembu.ng a weather vane and 'Hans' Holbein ‘a skull. HIS GREAT IDEA. The Tin Plated Tomato-and the Moral That Goes With It A good theory that won’t work isn't half as good as a poor one that will _Twenfy years ago a young man just out of .college had a great idea. He was going to tin plate tomatoes. There was to be'mo more troublésome paring and. cooking and canning to preserve tomatoes throughout winters. It would be necessary only to ‘drop a nice ripe tomato into his tinning solution and it would come’ out’ coated with tin and would keep. for twenty years. In fact, there wasn’t any reason why it should not keep forever! The young inventor | figured it would cost him 50 cents a gallon._to make' this. tinning solation. It surely would sell for $2 a gallon. “Bvery 'one ‘edts tomatoes—that s, near- ly every omne. Everybody would eat them if they could always have a nice i tin plated tomato lying around. He |&% 3 ought to sell a million gallons a year, That would be a-profit of a-million-and:|- a half dol— Well, no tin plated toma- toes are on the market yet. and the man who invented them is still making only S a week. trouble, "was Tound (it had been reject- dhe, poral of this s that whenever ed.a few minutes earlier by a wealthy you hejr of a great idea that is going to' ref or uplift the world make sure tht it is not of the tin plated tomatobrand.—Chicago Tribune. A Lotury Romance. A fev yesrs'ago, as the'date for the 2 of the!annual Christmas ‘lot- tery a Madrid was approaching. a poor- : mechic of Corunna was awakened | three honsecutive nights by’ the hum- citizen -of Corunna) and bought, and before many days had passed the me- chanic and his wife were made jubi- lant by the news that the’tieket had won the first prize of £200,000.—Lon- don Globe. / The Red Shirt. The origin of the *‘red. shirt”—warn as a blouse by English women in the sixties, when Garibaldi was a popular ber 165860, apparently’ spoken im hiS | g0 g oushiont Great Britain—is suf: iear. fo impressed was heby the repe- | jonyy cugrluus When the celebrated ititlonjof the incident that he wrote' flibuster was warring in the South do the ‘number .and ‘jocularly 'said) . *“That number- will: .win: st prize in the great lottery.” hel why don’t you buy the’ tlcket'l" ‘ife answered JOklngly ‘g8’ ‘she look at the figures.’ “Why, see, if you gd them ‘together they just come ., 1 shall be thirty-one on sinas day.’ The ticket, : M roE e ™ N AAP™ American republics -he was anxious to ‘obtain a ' distinctive and, ‘above all, economical uniform for his followers. | He -learned that a local dry: goods; store had an immense ‘*‘job lot”. of these garments, worn by the ‘*sala- deros,” or cattle slaughterers, of the after much grelt South American'cities. The “bar- gain sale” Tappealed eloquently to the leader’s purse, and he led his men to victory in the butchers’ shirts, which are now the accepted emblem of the “risorgomiento” of United Italy.—Lon- don Globe. A Little Temperance Tragedy. “Don’t drink any more, John; You've- got too much already.” “No, I haven't.” “Yes, you have, and you’ll be drunk. again.” “Aw, what do you want to worry about that for? It's me that has the headache next morning.” “1_know, John, but it’s me that has- the heartache all the time.”—New York. '.Fh’nes. Patience, persisience and power tc do are only acquired by work. —HoL , land.