Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1898, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1898—16 PAGES. WASH. B. WILLIAMS, Furniture, &c., 7th and D Sts. Millions were Disappointed —at not receiving the President's message Watnesday, Dut nobody wil be disappointed ‘eill be disappoluted If he accepts our Disarm th ever exttenseior loses meicons Fine Velvet Carpets, brand c. new spring pat- terns, only = = Odd pairs of Lace Curtains =-good patterns ic. and good quali- ties, choice = Couches Reduced. Too man couches the spring season. Have “donble-eut™ prices to reduce stock. All of these couches are made with spring seats and spring edges, and other- wise finely constructed. $8 Corduroy Couches, $6. $S1o Velvet Couches, $7.50. $15 Corduroy Couches, $11. $25 Velvet Couches, $20. ‘Wash. B. Williams, 7th & D ES en “fHAT REMINDS ME.” “This is pretty weather for April, isn’t it? Mere like mid-winter than spring. No wonder so many folks are catching fresh cold. letter out or 1 have ene, too. Take my ad- vice and’ get MAGRUDER'S PRIVATE STOCK WHISKY. ‘A_wee nip’ now and then will keep you cold-proof. Full quart bottles cost only 35 IVE Of every sort—every make tm the world—for every use a Knife can be pat to. Anything from the tiniest of pocket knives up to the size suitate for Klondike gold hunters. Prices range from a good Barlow knife for 25c. up to the high-class com'ination knives with a dozen or more blades and costing severe! dollars. D. N. Walford, 909-477 Pa. Ave. ad ° . . . . . . e ° . . . . . PS ° e ee oe eeorrrrecooes, $15.50 for a Covert Top Coat or Spring Suit of Fin-head or Checked Fency Cuassimere. Latest siyle 1s a three-button cntuway sack coxt, a don- bie-breasted vest. and mediuin width trousers. Sneh 1 suit would be good value at $25.00. cle and Cap to order, $10. Samples mailed free. Our “one year guarnntee or money back If @seatisfied"” your protecticn. We manufacture all our own garments. Open evenings till 9 o’clocis. Dix LittleTailors, 941 Pa. Ave. N.W. spt-w,w,f,3t = Bley- 1113 F St. Remnants of Best Quality W AILIL PAPER At Less Than Half. the Actual Cost. 5°S°&10°%i Bring the size of your rooms. RICHARD W. TENDER Mural Decorator, 1113 F St. (Opposite Columbia Theater.) apé-tt SESS S SSO SOOO Save Toney & Trouble. GET THE BEST, “The Concord Harness,” Trunks, Bags, Suit Cases and Leather Goods. Lutz & Co., 407 PA. AVE. N.W. CNeat National Hotel.) P. S—Trunk Repairing by skilled hands. mhi6-244 FLAGS Of every kind and size, ready-made or made to order. We make ail the FLAGS that Uncle Sam floats over the public buildings. fl. G. COPELAND & CO., Eleve:th st. o.w. Telephone 947. apl-3m.14 1325 F St. N.W. Burchell’s Spring Leaf Tea sold at 50 cents a pound. If you taste it you will want it more than you will the money it costs. Poliey! O mistaking our policy! It is broad and liberal! n flinching in our determination never to incur the ill will of a customer. Un- Determined that you shall have justice. Determined you shall have only high-class custom-made cloth- ing at prices beyond competition. Determined that you shall be free to bring back anything that doesn’t prove perfectly . satisfactory! ‘Administration’ Suits, $1 15° Such High-grade Sufts will cost you $13.50 end $15 at other stores. Spring Top Coats, $6.90. Such Coats will cost you $10 elsewhere. Choice of Tans, Light Olives and Black. Neck Fixings. tints, &c., 50e. placed on sale, Just glance in our window at the superb Eester Neckwear just “Exquisite” doesn’t describe them. Delicate Linen Collars, 10c., Cuffs, 15c., 2 pairs 25c. D. J. Kaufman, 1007 Pa. Av. MAGRUDER,| Get the house in shape for Easter. It isn’t too late and you need never worry about the payments when you deal with us. We will make them so easy that you shall never miss the money. You don’t pay a cent extra, either. Have you your Mattings down yet? If not, for your own sake look at our stock and get our prices before you buy. Our stock is by far the largest in town, and our prices are down to where no one else can reach them. Baby Car- riages is another thing that we pride ourselves on. Our assortment is royal in its magnificence. Ev- ery new style from the simplest to the most elab- orate is awaiting your choice. HOUSE & HERRMANN, Liberal Homefurnishers, Seventh and I Streets N. W. 'Par Money On Easter Suits & Trousers. : : Pa. ave. $25 Suits... ..$20.00 ker, Bridget & Co.’s ter Suits when we are offering our entire stock at from $2 to $5 less than the lowest regular prices. The same of Trousers and Top Coats—we can save you big money on them. We do not offer.a few small lots, but give you the choice of the finest stock of strictly high-grade, Spring Clothing ever shown in Washington at prices asked elsewhere for the poorest and meanest “shoddy.” Every garment in this house must be closed out regard- less of loss—before we move to our new store, cor. gth and Wi pay the other clothiers full regular prices for Eas- These are samples of the sweeping reductions which have been made in every department: : Come in tomorrow and see the splendid qualities back of $12 Top Coats.$10.00 Parker, Bridget Straightforward Clothiers, 315 7th Re Saved oval Sale. all-wool these figures: For Men. | For Men. | For Boys. # $10 Suits. .....$8.00 | $2.50 Trousers.$2.00 | $2 Suits.......$1.50 $12 Suits... $3 Trousers... .$2.25 | $3 Suits...... .$2.25 % $15 Suits... $5 Trousers... .$4.00 «+. $3.00 $18 Suits... $7 Trousers. . ..$5.50 | $5 Suits.......$3.75 % $20 Suits... $10 Top Coats..$7.50 | $1.25 Pants.... .94c. $1 Pants.......75¢. & Co., St. SUR ‘The AustraHan Honey Guide. From the Saturday Review. ne The variegated honey guide is green! olive as to its upper coloring. That these little birds do of ‘their own design and in- tention lead men to the nests of the wild. bees is a fact quite undoubted. This habit is well known to the natives, and in follow- ing a honey guide a soft, pleasant whistling is usually practiced by the black human partner by way of encouragement to his feathered friend. The little indicator, hav- ing secured the attention of B native: uy nd restless flitting to and fro, flut- Cannio in front, occasionally lighting on a branch or bush to see that his chosen ally is following. It is, however, a mistake to suppose that the honey guide seeks the bees’ nest for the honey; his particular share of the plunder consists of the larvae found in the combs. It is usual for a native, having rifled we nest, to break off a piece of comb and put it aside for his bird friend. No doubt. in process of enjoying its feast the honey guide does taste some small portion of the honey, but fits real object is the luscious grubs found within portions of the comb. This habit is surely one of the most singu- lar and extraordinary in the annals of nat- ural history. How these Uttle feathered creatures originally developed this most in- teresting trait; upon what wild race of mankind they first exercised their persuas- ive arts; whether, before the advent of man in Africa, they practiced upon some honey- loving animal, such as the honey badger TRYGRAIN-O! TRY GRAIN-OF Ask your Grocer today to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that ef coffee. The children may drink it as well as GRAIN-O bas Java, but it ‘most (ratel) or other mammal—these are secrets which have lain hidden during long aeons ce the — deep Naber breast of na- ure, and are now never likely to be. - ed to mankind. bara ——_<o+___ Experts in Tobacco Testing. From the Obio State Journal. The greater pert, in fact nearly alt, of the tobacco raised in Cuba and not used by the Cuban cigarmakers is shipped to the United States. At certain seasons of the year the Havana hotels are filled with to- bacco buyers from the states. Some of them deal through the brokers in Havana, ‘but seme who know the country and the language go out into the tobacco district ard deal directly with the planters, often buying @ promising crop before it 18 pick- ed. The tobacco buyer hag necessarily to be a.good judge of tobacco. He goes down into the very center of the bale of tobaccn he is cxamining, extracts some samples and tgsts them in different ways. The first test is that of smell. The Cuban tobacco has a strong and peculiar odor. A little variation one way or the other makes the tobacco good or bad. After smelling it the buyer fs likely to roll a rudely constructed iF out of the leaf and smoke it. TO PLAY MONTREAL Fs aca Ami Mr. Wagner Has Né ‘Base Ball Deal on Hand. GEORGETOWN DEREATED BY YALE Preparing for therHigzh Schoo! Ath- letic ‘Meet. ———_#—1__ CURRENT SPORTING NOTES About two hundred of Washington's faith- ful base ball “fans” gathered at National Park yesterday afternoon to witness the game between the Rochester club and the Senators, which restilted in favor of the home club by 12 to 4. The continued raw weather prevented perfect fielding and heavy batting, but the contest was full of interest nevertheless. The three twiriers for the Washington club, Amole, Dinneen and Donovan, did well, the former getting off without a safe hit being registered, while the two latter divided eight hits be- tween them. Yerkes and Angel diu the pitching for the Rochesters and were fairly effective, several hits that went to the credit of the Senators being classed as lucky. Bert Myers was again on third for the Washington club, and besides taking care of everything that came his way in a masterly manner, hammered out four nice singles. Captain Tom Brown got into the game for the first time for several days and plunked out two nfce singles, one an infield hit that he beat out to the queen’s taste. A humorous play occurred in the eighth. The Senators had been trotting along in confident style, only one error, that of Far- rell’s, having been made, when a nice fly went out to Selbach. It was what the Players call “‘ hes,” being directly in Sel’s hands, but the little left fielder drop- ped the ball. Quick as a wink he recovered the ball and drove it to Wrigley and “Zeke” dropped the throw and then threw wiid to third. The misplays were made so quickly that everybody, including the players, in- dulged in a hearty laugh at the expense of the two transgressors. Jack Doyle was suffering from his col- lision with the Catholic University catcher the day before and did not play, Proctor, the local player, taking his place. The lat- ter missed an easy chance, but toox care of many hard plays very nicely and hit we The Rochester boys are a husky lot of players, a majority of them being tall and well built, but very quick on their feet. Lester German at third, Frank Bonner at short and the trio of fielders, including Sandy Griffin, played good ball. Several of the men are suffering with ‘Charley Horse,” and it will be a couple of weeks before the entire group are in first-class laying shape. ‘This afternoon at 4:15.the Montreal club of the Eastern League will face ine Sena- tors, and another good game Is 4ooked for. Doyle will be all right and play first, and if Woeyhing and Merger have entirely re- covered, will take their turn in the pitch- er’s position. Mr. J. Earl Wagner returned from Phil- adelphia last evening, bringing his family with him for the summer. When seen this morning by an Evening Star reporter, he denied having any intentions of making a deal with Manager Hanlon of the Balti- more club, as intimated in last evening's Star. He said that there are evidences in Philadelphia of a big base ball trade, but that he is not in it. Manager Barnie of Brooklyn, Manager Hanlon and Messrs. Reach and Rogers of the Philadelphia club were. in close confab last night in the Quaker city, and an ‘exchange of players in which the three clubs. named will be in- terested is more than possibie. All the Senators wete out in the sunshine at National Park thfs:amorning and went through good practice work. After the ex- ercise all the boys ‘fled up into Mr. Wage ner’s office and picked, eut: their. traveling satchels of light leather apd gold trim- mings. The suits will be given to the play- ers tomorrow night at the latest, as they are needed for the game scheduled at Rich- mond for next Monday. Nothing has been heard from the three backward players; Reitz, McHale and Wag- ner, but it is thought they wii drift into the park and register before the week is out. This morning the free admisston or com- plimentary books were sorted out and, as usual,.Mr. Scanlon, the ex-base ball man- ager. was assigned to book No. 1. Outside of New’ York, the Washington manage- ment puts out more of these complimen- tary books than any other club in the National League. ‘The requests for ‘ladies’ tickets” are still pouring in, and Secretary Robb this morn- irg sent out the first batch of several hundred to the fair admirers of the na- tional game, and hundreds will continue to go out until the several thousand requests are filled. air BLUE AND GR: BEATEN. Yale's Nine Defeats Georgetown’s by 5. ta. 3, The. base ball team of Georgetown Unt- versity sustained its first defeat of the sea- son ‘yesterday afternoon at the hands of the Yale team, the score at the end of the ninth inning standing 5 to 3. It was a well-played game, and the visitors won partly on account of their good stick work, and also on aceount of: errors made by the local players at critica]. stages. The blue and- gray team was unable to hit the ball with any regularity, and the hits credited to them were scattered. Camp for the visitors led in batting with three hits. Downes and Moran for the Georgetowns. each made two. Feare, who occupied the rubber for the visitors, wes a: puzzle to the local players.. Eleven men were retired on strike outs, the largest number in any game this season, while Dowd recelved the credit of five strike our Georgetown scored: only in the: fourth in- ‘With. Walsh, McCarthy and Maloney on the bases, Downes singled to center and brought in two men. Through Hazen’s er- ror of a fly of Casey’s, Downes scored. But for poor coaching in the seventh the local team might have tied ‘score. With Dowd on base, Mafford sent. a two- bagger to center. In making the circuit of the bases Dowd was blocked by Camp near second, and the delay proved costly. Keeping on to home Dowd was caught at the plate, no coacher being at third base to help him. x BOWLING SEASON, ENDS, —— the South ai) Business Bowling Club, and the ratiirn efter several years’ absence, of the Columbia Athletic Club tending materially"to boom’ thé thter- -eat. inthe contest. ‘tné'tiverages of ttie teams-end of the loadifig players are highly Men's}. every man who participated in a league game during the season: High St. Sp. game. 185 2u2 4 ib ye 8 2 m9 «199 (214 M4 206 211 124 24 212 96 4180 191 @8 212 183 111 188 208 116 181 213 i 205 «211 103 167-197 101 185) 165 97 142 «212 86 (173 «1st . Ww. SB 193 28 B. 72 155 181 B.. 78 178 199 Ww. 60 192 151 eo 146 23 W. Tl 101. 235 c. 34 1S 180 A 3 98 «187 B.M.' 40) 672 «(178 C.A. MB & 1 C. 5 27 «8 18% BM. 2 «651 (179 Ww. 2 Si 191 CGA.C. 1397-11 3 2 iT - BMC. 16 «34 «177 - BM: 2 31 161 8s 40 155 Cc. Bt = 151 Ww. 1 168 B.M. 125 20 140 + CA. 168 2-3 nt Th 181 B.M. 152 7 12 Ist C.A.C. M0 3 8 158 W. 127 4 135 W. 132 5 10 «147 BMC. 123 6 3 we W.S.B. 187 4 4 187 O.A.C. 128 2 3 1B CAC. 126 2 3 126 C.L. 118 1 3 119 Ww. . 113 1 2 13 5 B. 105 1 2 12 ‘Stewart. B.M.C. 103 1 1 198, Th first twenty men played in thirty-six or more games, a condition necessary for competition for the various prizes donated. mses last seven men played but one game each. The prizes go to the following m2n: Spiess, for highest individual average, the Salvatore Desio gold medal; Bruegger, sec- ond highest average, the Jorss medal; Han- old, gr>atest average of spares, regulation tenpin ball; Spiess, greatest average of strikes, regulation tenpin ball; Spiess, high- est single game, clock donated by Mr. Chas. Dietz; McCaully, second highest single game, r2gulation tenpin ball; Desio, leather medal for lowest game; Harlow, poodle prize. —_—_._ Beats the Jersey Species. From the Denver ‘Times. Not only do the Yukon mosquitoes at- tack men and overwhelm them, but they drive the moose, deer and caribou up the mountains to the snow line, where these animals would prefer not to be in berry time. They kill dogs and even the big brown bear, that fs often miscalled a griz- zly, has succumbed to them. Bears come down to the river from the Hillside in the early fall to get some of the salmon that are often thrown upon the banks when the “run” is heavy. If bruin runs foul of a swafm of mos- quitoes and has not his wits about him his day has come. The insects will alight all over him. His fur protects his body, but his eyes, cars and nose will soon be swol- len up and bleeding, and uniess he gets into a river or a strong wind he will be driven mad and blind, to wander about hovelessly until he starves to death. Although the Alaska summer is short, two broods of mosquitoes hatch out each year, and are ready for business from one to ten seconds after they leave the water. It rains a good deal along the Yukon, and rain is welcomed, for it drives the ‘mos- quitoes to cover. They hide under leaves and branches until the shower is over, then they come out boiling with rage at the time they have been forced to spend in idleness, and ‘the miner has a harder time than ever after his respite. Mosquitoes and snowflakes are not con- temporaries in the states, but in Alaska it is different. Snow does not bother them so much ag rain, and an early snow may fall while they are still on the wing. They ap- pear to like it. Fog does not choke them either. They float about in it as tn am- bush and take the unwary prospector by surprise. A Florida Frost. F, Whitmore in the Atlantic. Far on in March, when the thermometer had long been in the eighties, the wind whipped suddenly into the north, and the air cooled fifty degrees in a night. We were in the field, perspiring in linens, when. the change came, with an abrupt Overcasting of the sky. A whiff like the breath from a glacier struck us, the wind blew each mcment keener, and before we fairly saw bow it was our teeth were chat- tering. It seemed unbelievable; but pres- ently there was no doubt that a January norther was upon us, two months out of scason. When we realized this, we set all hands at work to earth over the half-grown potato vines. Only a few hours of the day were left, but the men worked desperately with hoes ard ploughs through the bleak twilight, and much was done. But not all. When we came out, shivering, in the first daybreak, we saw that our short harvest was to be lamentably shortened. We perceived now, at last, how it was with us; we were not farming, but gam- bling with the elements. The climate had been merely toying with us, a trump-card of spring frosts lying in its sleeve. —<$_—_<o It is said that the patterns on the finger tips are not only unchangeable through life, but the chance of the finger-tips of two persons being alike is less than one chance in 64,000,000,000. AMUSEMENTS, COLUMBIA THEATER.—Richard Ma: field was seen in “The Devil's Disciple” at the Columbia Theater last night for the | second time this season, being greeted by @ large and enthusiastic audience that watched his work with interest from the rise to the fall of the curtain in each act, and which gave him unstinted applause for his splendid impersonation of the unac- countable Dick Dudgeon. The play is well known In Washington and needs no de- scription. It is sufficient to say that Mr. Mansfield’s work was as forceful and as pleasing as in any character in his reper- toire and fully In keeping with his former appearance here this season. Mr. Mans- field gives to the character his own strong personality and genius, and makes of it a being entirely apart from the original idea Mertz’. | = The “Congress” Tooth Brushes Are guaranteed. Recommended by he medical and dental professions. 28 ceute Easter Specials. The custom is growing. More people every year are exchanging Easter presents. It's a very refined attention. sift te umally tnexpensive, thongh. Somet on this order Is appropriate: terling Silver Paper Cutters. eee apes oe Hat Brushes, steril 2 Ont Glass Salts ation, wits Silverback as depicted in the remainder of the cast. The remainder of the cast was very accept- able—Mr. Johnson as Anthony; Miss Blan- chard, Judith, the part formerly portrayed by Mrs. Mansfield; Mr. Andrews, Christo- pher, and Miss Bristoe as the young pro- tege of the devil's disciple. Tonight Mr. Mansfield will be seen in his startling suc- cess, “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” LORD CHUMLEY.—Tomorrow evening at the Lafayette Mr. ©. H. Sothern. will again revive hic great ccess, “Lord Chumley.” Belasco 21.4 DeMille’s play 1s cne of the most delightful things seen on the stage in many years. Lord Chumley is & young swell of the Dundreary type, slow as to secirg a joke, a bit heavy a3 to do- ing things. He loves the sister of his chum, the son of a tradesman: proposes, is rejected and accused of mercenary motives. The brother is to leave for war: On the eve of his departure he is accosted by a vil- lainous blackleg, to vhom he has forfeited bis honor during a drunken game of cards The fellow demands a letter to the sister, telling of the sacrifice on his part, put in @ way that will urge her to accept his of- fer of marriage. Chumley discovers the e‘tuation and foils the rascal with his own wegpons. The brother goes to the war. Crumley to an attic where he can save by sacrificing every luxury to which he has deen accustomed enovgh money to pay in full the obligatiors of his friends. In the end Chumley wins the heart of the girl he loves. In this comedy he not only succeeds in bringing together those elements that afford intense amusement, but he leaves an impression that is food for afterthought. No one who has beard him in it but will leave the theater a better and more con- | tented man. —_.— INSTRUCTION FOR DOCTORs. | Berlin Proposes to Give Young Phyai- cians Legal Information. Frem the New York Tritune. There is a movement on foot in Berlin to provide free courses to physicians in which they shall be instructed in all the laws tearing upon the profession and its prac- tice. There, as here, the young man fresh from the university does not know much and is in great need of a post-graduate course to acquaint him with branches of his profession of which he will some day stand in urgent reed. According to the plan proposed, those who have taken de- grees and diplomas are to be supplied with further instruction, receiving clear ex- planation of the laws concerning acci- dents, insurance, judiciary functions and the like, so far as possible perfecting their equipment for the arduous and responsible duties of their profession. Formerly they picked up this information as they went along, with the chance of possessing some sort of mastery of it late in life; now it is to be imparted practically as a part of the regular course of study. —-oo——__—__ Latinized English. Prof. Mark H. Liddell in the Atlantic. There was a period in the history of English literature when the ideal of a perfect sentence was one in which En- glish thought was so run into a classic mould as to make the English reader stand on his head to see the meaning of it. ‘That was because the obvious fact in most Latin sentences was a periodic structure; it was an easy road to beautiful expres- ston to assume this perfection for English sentences, and make them conform to it. Men shut their eyes to a multiplicity of form in English writing which they did not understand, and chose out of a for- eign tongue a single form which they did. In the same way, a false type of beauty has often been set up in high places where men should look for a real one. sas eas Cat Of Her Hair to Buy Bread. From the Weekly Telegraph. Recently an East London church worker, in her daily rounds of visitation, went to see a woman who was living in the deepest Poverty. While they were engaged in con- versation the door was suddenly flung open and a young girl rushed into the room, ex- claiming, ‘“‘They won't buy it, mother!” The visitor, turning around, noticed that the girl's head was closely shorn, and in her hands was an abundance of beautiful hair, which she had been unsuccessfully trying to sell in order to procure bread for her mother and herself. A captive bee, striving to escape, has been made to record as many as 15,540 wing strokes a minute in a recent test. Salve Jars. allver Nall Size : 8 +-MBe, > And a full line of ail kinds of Stiver- rare at about 20 per cent less than any findeune Bore of Baster Violet Perfume Be. ages 4 ger bottles, $1. % rlertz’s Modern Pharmacy, ; llth and F Sts. Oe ey wee wwe eve eee oe Knox —hats for Easter No other | | i | i agents B.H.Stinemetz & Son, 1237 Pa. Ave. Finest * Hams Orange brand, Cc. Especially good, Ib. ‘This is a brand of Hams that Virginia has long been famous for. And its delightful flavor, as well as its poxseswing little fat or bone, makes it a Ham that housekeepers always give the preference to. Cramer & Co. «Successors to Keyworth fel1-3u- rae < A SPANISH MULE. Kicks at Americans and Will Only Work for an Italinn. From the New London (Conn.) Day. Over on Gull Island, where the founda- tions for the big guns are being prepared and where work, work, work, is the order day and night, the rigid rules of ihe con- tractors and government inspectors are Sometimes relaxed for a few mements and laughter goes the rounds of the workmen, born of the drolleries and wit of the Irish laborers at the expense of the diggers from the shores of sunny Italy. There are about. two hundred workmen on the island, and when off duty, which for the main part is to sleep and eat, a few minutes of rollick- ing are enjoyed. On the island engaged in the work are two animals among the othors, who have acquired a reputation. One is @ mare and is called Kate Church. The other is a mule and has been dubbed the “Spanisn mule.” Kate Church has a morbid dislike for an Itellan, and as soon as one comes tn her vicinity sh> kicks up her heels, neighs in disapproving horse language and acts gen- erally in an erratic manner. The Spanish mule is well ramed. Evi- dently the work on the fortifications is not to his liking, and his sympathies are strongly with the Spanish and the darker- hued diggers of th2 soil, the Italians. ony an Italian can work about him, and as sooR as a lighter-complexioned workman draws near out go his heels in an endeavor to raise the object of his dislike into the al One of his enemies was reachod yesterday and the workman sustained a severe bruit on his limb. It was so painful that he had to knock off work and return to New Lon= don for treatment. The antipathies of the two aulmals for each othor is extraordinary, and ts typical of the relation of the workmen from Italy and those of America. Whenever a chance affords to have a little fun with the Itallan it is taken advantage of, and a general laugh results. The only desire of the friends of Kate Church now is to get the dark- faced men near Kate’s heels so:the mare’ prowess in that direction can de reall by the backers cf the “Spanish mule” who kicked the Irishman. e —-—__+e+_____ ‘The biggest rope ever used for haulage put has just been made for a district subway in Glasgow, Scotland, it being seven miles long, four and one-half inches in cir- cumference and weighs nearly sixty tons. orm"! of ladies and gentlemen fore, CASH or CREDIT, For Ladies. $18 Silk-lined Suits, $12.98 Fine Serge Suits, made up in the latest styles, and lined throughout with excellent quality of teffeta silk. Very full skirt, silk- Imed, bound witn velvet and extra stiffening round the bottom. A spectal for Baste ate $12.98 Empress Skirts, $2.98. ‘This is a great special for Easter, and is far below what they Lave ever been sold for be- fore. Corded with highly tempored spiral wire, whicn camot break or get out of shape, but fa vclf-estjpataite to any postition of the wear- s ing the graceful con! ry Slack deatrot «= $2.98 79c. Shirt Waists, 48c. ‘This season's newest Gffects in fashionable Shirt Watste—piaide, stripes, figures, checks, in stylish spring apparel. Of course, We CAN MEET ALL EASTER REQUIREMENTS. Never were we better prepared than now to meet the seasonable needs A noteworthy fact is that the prices quoted are within the reach of all prudent buyers and beyond the pale of any competition. your privilege is as hereto- at these marvelous low quotations. ‘Special for Ladies. Pa af gg at es aki tana a peeing Hae “$3.98 For Children. $2.48 Suits, 79c. It sounds extravigant, but when ine these suits you will are worth every penny of $2.43. simeres and Scotch effects. A special 7Qo_ $3.50 Vestee Suits, $1.89. The pat fenton sults for chilldeen fons Children’s Clothing. we are able tra borgaine coonn: the middleman's protts. Mantine Waiste—moat stylish in-eut and appearance. A splendid bargain at 98c. ‘e will not guarantee to have but are worth five times Mors oc coicen the Soreat etg_—tne percale, A remiar Te. 48e, Children’s Tam O’Shanters' o + { & speciat ea “ ‘A very bandésom- lot of finely made Bril- | 1 for seving parents—all the Spe - The Left-overs from the “ Fire Stock.” All the Suits and Overcoats that we have left from the fire stock we have divided into three lots, and put the following absurd prices on in order to run them out quickly: your size, but if we have you are lucky. These goods are somewhat what.we-are asking for Floor. Take the elevator. _New York Clothing For Men. $7.00 Suits, $4.98. All-wool, in dark and light shades, Plaids and plain—half French-faced. "$4.98 $12.50 Suits, $7.50. The newest Spring styles and patterns; all- ‘Wool blue and black cheviots, plaids, pin stripes, ete. The best stitched throughout with aly tnread, 2-50 House,