Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1895, Page 17

PART IIL e aad o ol o ad s I s st aled UNDAY B Ao ESTABL HED JUNE ]97 OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, 19, —_— MAY 18 95—TWENTY PAGE 25¢ French Sateens 3.c 1000 y1rds finest 3 French Sateens, elegant, new fancy styles—-in remnants DRESS GOODS At prices at which no other store can even hope to duplicate. I n de- \\onhy §2.50. 4nch crepons, silk mixed: new go .1. this season; ac ually worth $2.7 partment at T0c... . SICILIAN MOHAIR supercede ot he black dress fabric bright satin fnfsh, $2.50 DRESS GOJDS at79¢ a yard, go This season’s novelty in Paris and Lon- special for Monday 80 pieces ot imported black and colored dress goods don, destined to 60c a yard New desirable imported dr 44 inches wide, plain colors, silk and wool .mh worth fully 9 ~u yard; go in dre goods (lv[nut ment.. ss goods, all in small checks und ON OUR WONDERFUL BARGAIN SQUARES 19 square, enc h Delge, uminat colorings, French aund man henriettas and mix bee! up to fuiported es, tu finest wash sold this season ¢ o yard; go on front bargain square at 20c¢ and 3Y¢ a yard. imported; yurd, for CROCEERYT DEET. English decorated dinner set. Retinned coffee pot. . 34 75 BOSTON STORE, OMAHA beautiful Wi Monday, bargain ~u|lhll'l' 25¢ Black Sateens 5S¢ Best Black 5 dt.... c Henrietta Sateen worth 25¢, go Worth 25¢ SILKS COLORED, FANCY and BLALK AT LOWER PRICES AND IN HICHER CRADES And Prettier New Patterns than any otier store around can show. inch changeable two-toned ymbi- nations for waists, in stripes and cheeks, worth 59¢ a yavd, for Mon- 2¢ day AL ol ffota Glace, 295 Worth | 39 Pu silk, fancy taffetas, in changeable or Dresden p.menw worth yard, go in silk department a t Black Sllks- 1% yard lengths, 10 to 2 in peau de soies, und gros grains, o at just half their actual worth, at” 49¢, 69¢ and 98¢ a yard. ]leun WJrlh $1.25 49¢c 69¢ Bc A new lot of those to match satin chadamas lic wash pliss- 100 pieces finest im- colorings, ported small checked fabrics ever lace and striped ging- orth a on hams, worth 25¢ a yard, it 19¢. | go on main floor at 1ic. stal “Forest” -gal. pitcher. Genuine Parker coffee mill -.15¢ And that’s why our store > \ witiful lace, chiffon and raw Round Hats, trim- med with ostrich flowers and all silk bon and beautiful ments, go ATh 3.98 eparate Skirts, made of wool material, with three box pleats in the back, go at $1.29, worth $3. A fancy skirt pin sKirt free with each Separate Skirts, Worth $3.00 throughout, velvete around the bottom, lined n finish made of storm serge and all wool cheviot in the latest styles; worth $6.30, go at §2.98. A fancy skirt pin f with each skirt.. %) Worth $6.50 Sperarate skirts, made of mohair brilliantiae, import- ed French serge, all wcol storm s Frevch . pone and extra fine clhe- viot, with (he aatest bock and extra wide, worth $10, g0 at $1.98. Fancy skirt pin free with each skirt.. . Worth $10 SEEKING FORTUNE IN ASIA Amerioan Rustlers Leoking for Openings in Ohina and Japan, OFPORTU (ITIES FOR MONEY MAKING Review of the Industrial Conditions as Affected by the Treaty of Peace— Best Chaunels for Awerican Energy aud Enterprise, (Copyright, 1895, by Frank G. Carpenter.) The representatives of a number of big American syndicates are now on their way across the Pacific to investigate the possi- bilitles of Investment and speculation in China, Corea and Japan. One of these Is Hon. George B. Williams, who was for years connected with the Japanese government as one of its forelgn advisers, and who later on was legal adviser of the Equitable Life Insurance company In London. Another is Chester A. Holcomb, who was long asso- clated with our legation in Peking, and who is well ‘posted upon China and the Chinese. In addition to these, I hear of scores of in- dividuals who propose to go to China and Corea In order to be able to take advantage of the changed conditions consequent upon the carrying out of the new treaty, and & number of old schemes will probably be re- vived. It -was only seven years ago that Wharton Barker raised a fund of $50,000,000 to build railroads and to do banking for the Chinese. He has, I understand, been in cor- respondence with Li Hung Chang since then, and he may now again come to the front 1 bave met a dozen young men lately who have told me that they were about to start to Asia in order to get employment as me- chanics or engineers on the new railroads, and I recelve letters every day as to the chances for Americans and American in- vestments in these countries. The situation 1s undoubtedly big with possibilities. It is, however; far different from what people be- lieve, and in this letter I will attempt to give something concerning it. A BOOM IN JAPAN. The Indemnity from China will probably create” & boom In Japan, and especially in Toklo, the capital, When the Franco-Prus- slan war was concluded every German thought the money paid by the French would all be spent in Berlin, and the people rushed by the thousands from all parts of the em- pire to take advantage of it. Berlin in 1560 had less than 500,000 people, and before she went to war with France she had only 760,- 000. Three years after the settlement of the war her population numbered 968,000, and in 1880 she had already more than 1,000,000. She has now, with her suburbs, nearly 3,000,- 000, and she stands next to London among the great cities of the world. The war was succeeded by an era of speculation ih Berlin. cks and real estate jumped upward, and 50 until the panic of 1873, when there was a collapse. The city soon recovered, however, and it Is now one of the most pros- perous of the world. The same thing will be Tepeated In Toklo. Prices will advance, and real estato js bound to go up. An era of speculation will prgbably follow, and the Yan who goes in Bow and sells’ out quick will probably do The Japanese have thelr stock exchanges, and their water works stocks are regularly’ quoted in the news papers. Many of the companies have been paying big dividends, and this is especlally fishing village when Commodore Perry fir: came to the country. It has now a popula- | tion of more than 100,000, and it is & town of water works, gas and newspapers Tokio has now more than 1,000,000 people, and the probability is that it contains more than 1,600,000, It is only fourteen miles from Yokohama, through a thickly settled | country, and an electric rafiroad bullt be- | tween the two points would undoubtedly pay At present there are no electric railroads | in Tokio, and .there are no street car lines | in Yokohama. The field for electric railroads is practically uncultivated, and by the new | treaty it would be possible for Americans to | engage in such work outside of the treaty ports. Take the town of Osaka, in the cen- tral part of the empire. It has, With its sub- urbs, 1,200,000 people, and there is mot an electric rallroad in it. It lics sixteen miles back from the seacoast, and it is connected by railroad with the town of Kobe. Kobe was very small at the time that Japan was opened, but by the census of 1890 it con- tained 136,000 people. An electric railroad between Kobe and Osake ought to pay. This part of Japan is one succession of villages, and only a few miles west of Osaka is the great city of Kioto, which was for years the capital of Japan, and which is now as big | as Washington or Cleveland. If an electric | line were stretched from Kob: to Osaka and | thence on to Kioto, it would strike villages at almost every mile of travel, and it would | accommodate a population of fully 2,000,000 | of people, The Japanese ara great trevelers. They make long excursions over the country comparison with the Japanese. very low average indeed to say that the household furniture of the families United States costs more than $:25 per fam lv. It would be a Japanese spends more than $25 for his fur- niture. Taking the 13,000,000 families again, we have $1,300,000,000 of dead weight in the way of furniture to carry in opposition to theém, and everything else Is on a proportion- ate ratio. Then there is the matter of shoes The ordinary coolle pays a cent a pair for his straw sandals, and he can get a pair of stilts for wet weather for a quarter. His water- proof, which is made of straw, probably costs him 25 cents more, and for $2 or $3 he has a whole wardrobe. His eating is of the simplest and he can be happy on one-tenth what our laborers have. The result is the Japanese will always be able to manufacture more cheaply than we do, and one of the biggest speculations of the east will be the utilizing this labor for us. MONEY IN JAPANESE KNICK-KNACKS, candy. They have one kind made of rice and wheat, which is good for dyspepsia, and which any child can eat without the stomac! ache. This could be imported and sold like the digestive chewing gum. It is furnished sometimes in the form of syrup, and with it on the table we could keep our livers in | order and still have the luxury of buckwheat cakes in midsummer. The Japanese make a very cheap black varnish, imported at a profit, and they have the soft- est and most beautitul papers known to the to visit the most sacred temples and shrines, and I met hundreds of families walking along | the roads from cno sacred point to another. | The railroad cars were well filled, and these electric roads would pick up many parties out on these trips of religlon and pleasure combined. As to the elctric light field, that is also great. The 40,000,000 people of the Japanese empire live, to a large extent, in villages and cities. There are few gas plants, | and the chief lighting is done with coal oll Electric lights could be put in without much expense, and In the large cities at very low rates. The telephone is rapidly coming into use. There are a large number in Osaka and Tokio, and the rates for service in the | Japanese capital are $35 In silver and $17.50 In gold per year, JAPAN AS AMERICA'S FACTORY. There will probably now be an increased demand from Japan for American goods Tho country already takes $14,000,000 worth of Amerioan raw cotton every year. It has been buylng, and will continue to buy, American machinery, but the great trade between America and Japan in the future is to be in shipping American raw mate- rlals to Japan and bringing back Japanese products to America. The money to be made by Americans will be largely through thelr better knowledge of the American markets and American needs. The Japau- ese can make anything that we can. They can fyoduce what we need at a less cost than we can make it ourselves, and unless a high protective tariff is raised aga'nst Asia, that country will become the factory for America. The actual necessities of a Japanese laborer are not more than 26 vents 4 day. Our laborers cannot live on les than $1 a day, and 25 cents in ten hours will beat from $1 to §3 and eight hours every time. A Japanese laborer's house can be furnished for §10. He sloeps on the floor aud uses neither tables nor ohairs, His cooking stove is a clay oven worth about 50 cents, and his varpets and bedding cost practieally nothing in com- parison with ours. There are 65,000,000 peo- ple in the Unied Slates, Al ve to the family, this would make 18,000,000 faiilies Hardly one of these familics has a cooking stove which ocost less than $10, or $9.50 more than the Japanese has to pay for his Multiplying this by the number of familles #0 of the bank: ELECTRIC POSSIBILITIES, The seaports have been steadily growiug, d real estate In these ought to be good. lnstance X we have an expenditure of $123,600,000 more than the Japanese on the item of cooking stoves alone, Take the matter of carpets and other fur- niture and you will see the enormous amoun <3t was 8 ]of capital that we have (o lavest to live W | to live, The city of | sands, | and filled them with tacks. | sold at | bought world. I know of one bright American who | made a fortune out of little Japanese boxes. these by the hundreds of thou- | He bought shipped them to the United States The tacks were the regular price, and the women them in preference to other brands in order to get the boxes. There are nu- merous other things of this same nature that might be done. One thing is in the making of clock cases. Such cases as we have from Germany and France made in porcelaln are very high-priced. The Japan- ese could produce these very much cheaper, and they could make carved clock cases which would sell at high prices. I mention these things merely as Indlcative of the vast fleld which is now open to America in Japan, Remember, the Japanese can do any- thing that we can do, and if you show him a picture of anything under the sun he can copy it. He is packed full of ideas himselt, and he is an inventor as well as an imitator. From now on he will want more foreign clothes and more foreign machinery, and America ought to supply a great portion of his needs. THE CHINESE MARKET. The settlement of the war will bring about a great change in China, and from now on the empire will probably be slowly but steadily opened. The making Nanking a treaty port will give a new foreign set- tlement at that point, 200 miles up the Yangtse-Kiang. The government will be obliged to cede a certaln amount of land here to the foreigners, and a little foreign city will spring up at this point, such as have already sprung up at every open port. In Canton there is an island which is given up to the foreigners. At Haunkow the foreiga concession covers, I judge, at least a square mile, and at Shanghal many forelgners have made fortunes out of the rise in real estate in the foreign concession. There are foreign settlements at Tientsin, at Kiukiang and at Chinklang, and in these property Is worth much mote than in the Chinese cities them- selves. These concessions are governed by the foreign consuls, and the Chinese like to obtain property within them if they can, as this frees them from the exactions of the Chinese official and puts them under forelgn law. These concessions are much like forelgn cities. They have modern houses. Thelr streets are macadamized, and they are kept in order by belng smoothed with heavy rollers which are drawn by hundreds of Chinese. They have their own policemen, and | sre by all odds the most desirable phcu China In which SEPARATE | DRESS SKI of the | And it would be high to say that the average | I have already written of the Japanese | which might be | N. W. Omaha. Store, TRIMMED ~» MILLINERY! The Latest Styles in Trim Handsomely trimmed Straw Hats, In all ¢ trim- med with lace, flowe jetted chiffon and 5] ribbon, for Mongay at.... lors, GR rth 8 .50. In ght OF duvk colars. 69 ?Wom $1.50 miles back from the riveriiknd 1s one of-the richest citles in Ching. ‘4t was for vears the capital of China, and ft s in the heart of one of the richest of (fhe Chinese prov- inces. The foreign concdssion may be on the river, or it may be ok the edge of the city. Wherever it Is, the Japd.is almost cer- tain to Increase in yalye, gad an investment in it ought to be good. CHINA AND mu’rll{" SUPPLIES. Those best posted on thd Chinese character say that this war will be followed by a great military activity throughout the Chinese em- pire. New gunworks will be at once started. A new navy will be consructed, and there will be a great demand foy all kinds of ma- chinery for the making of arms and the munitions of war. There are now more than 2,000 men at work in the sbops at Shanghai. | An equal number are probably employed in | the gunworks at Tientsin, and the Foochow shipyards will be pushed to capacity. The Chinese have seen their ne- cessity for railroads, and their lack of ability to move their troops without them. The first road to be built will probably be one from Tientsin to Hankow, and thence to Canton. This has been planned for years, and it will tap a territory containing hun: dreds of millions of people. The work of get ting such concessions will be slow, and It is very doubtful whether foreigners will be allowed to bulld raflroads. If they should be pormitted to do so the fleld for electricity and steam Is practically unlimited, and such a revolution in railroad building and manu- facturing will take place as will turn the remainder of the industrial world upside | down. I don’t belleve the Chinese will do this at present. They move slowly, but it will come eventually. They will, however, have a great trouble in raising the money to pay Japan, and there s no telling what may be squeezed out of the government at this time. Think of the cities of a hundred thousand, five hundred thousand and a mil- lMon within a few miles of each other. Think of a country as blg as the United States and containing about elght times as many people, With no raiiroads whatever and no decent wagom roads—a country in most places as flat as a floorand well fitted for rallroads without grafllng, and you have something of the conditions of China today 1t is a country which has 4,000 walled cities and . countless villages. A country where locomotion Is expensive, and where the peo- ple squeeze money harder tham they do any- where else in the world. There Is no land on the globe where cheap trapsportation would pay better. The harvesf is ripe for the spe ulator and investor it jthe fence of Chinese conservatism and exclusion ¢an be torn away. Take Peking, with its milllbn and a half of people. It has not a line of street cars. Tientsin, eighty miles away, has a million people, and is one of the great trading cen- ters of the empire, Thase who ride go about in chairs, carried on the shoulders of men, and ull goods are carted around on wheelbarrows. Tientsin supplies Peking with goods, and there is no railroad between them. It is the same all over China.. CHINESE COTTONS. The Chinese are begining ty make their own cotton. They have & number of large fac- tories, and LI Hung Chang proposes to build others. In these they bave modern ma- chinery. A great part of the cotton used fs made by hand, not more than one-fifteenth belng imported. Our cotton cloths are more popular than the English or the native cot- tons, but they cost too much, and hence we send’ but little manufactured cotton to China The market, however, is enormous. One of the consuls made an estimate of it not long ago. He said that the Chinese are clothed principally in cotton. There are at least 400,- 000,000 of them, and they about twenty yards aplece every year. This would make consumption of 8,000,000,000 yards & year. Take your pencil now and see what that means. Eight billion yards is 24.000,000,000 feet, or a strip of cotton a yard wide 24,000,000,000 feet long. At 5,000 feet to the mile this would be more than 4,000,000 mileé long, or enough to reach 160 times around the world. O hundred and sixty feet makes & very wid 16th and I)ou(*hc med Hats, Bonnets and Turbans AT HALF THE PRICE \‘:\ kit Which They Ara Sold Elsewhzre, / RTS LADIES SUITS AND HH[SSES their utmost | “’P\‘@ The sorgment gre gest ba lowers ever many cf them g0 in two lots with rubbe goods AND DISPLAY OF and big- in" fine imported shown In Om . 25¢ R Dy ."n' and stems. New, fresh 49c ON SALE TOMORROW THE ENTIRE LINES OF SAMPLE SUITS or THREE OF Thl LARGEST AiD BEST SUIT VAKERS IN NEW YORK AT §0c OV THE DOLLAR. No two allke either in style cr paitern, These suits are made of ducks, percic.s lawns, dotted Swiss, serges, brilliantine covert cloth and fancy mixtures. They in_this sale at |50 B g0 % ery suit worth twice its price, or £till BARGAINS [ That noother concern in the world ever dared offer or was ahle to offer. Will ba shown by the hundreds tomarrow at BOSTON When it comes to seliing really desirable Dry Goods, Milliner west of Chicago that can even bear comparison with the Boston or will do it, and everybody knows it. India, corded Worth 15¢, go at. SINGLE India ' DIMITIES, ‘ 320 orth (5¢ cases new Dimities, e S S ST s £ e (Z it P et R $4.98 § PAIR All the very ment of styles, including Nottinzham, PAIR Largest Bed Spreads 124 size Marscilles Spreads sine Engish llamvlllnal 25 Pativin i 98¢ 69c¢c 75¢ 49c 35¢ Ped wn's 7 ible ch, regul inch Trish D With 8-4x3 e pr full bl yard, ko at.. streets running clear around the world, and could patch the cotton used by the Chinese into one vast crazy quilt, it would be more than enough to carpet them. Of this encr. mous amount more than 7,500,000,000 yards | are made by the Chinese, being woven by the women on hand locms. If we could get low freight rates we ought to be able to supply a large part of these cottons., The Chinese want a good cotton, and they need lieavy, strong and closely woven goods for winter. In the future they will probably make the greater part of their own goods, but the enormous market which might be created for our raw cotton s almost inesti- mable, There would be no limit to produc- tion if we had it, and with the opening of the Nicaragua canal the greater part of it ought to come to us. The kinds of cottons | used by the Chinese are generally blue in color. They use a large amount of drills and | the satls of their vessels are made of this cloth, OUR LUMBER AND WHEAT. The Chinese are now using quite a lot of American lumber. The lumber comes from Oregon and Washington, and it goes as far north as Peking. 1 saw American pine in the lumber yards of Japan, and I met a man who was trying to introduc it into castern Siberla. During my stay in Valdi- | vostock an American ship loaded with Cali- fornia wheat was lying at the wharves, and quite a good deal of our flour is now used in China. Strange as it may seem to many, rice | 1s an expensive form of food there, and in the north many of the people are too poor | to eat it. There are no big flouring mills in | China, ana even in the city of Canton, which, you know, contains about 2,000,000 people, I saw oxen grinding flour by dragging one stone about on the top of another, CHINESE LABOR. It is impossible to appreciate the fortunes which are sure to come sooner or later to some one out of Chinese cheap labor. Re- member, their labor is as good as ours. 1 saw locomotive which they built at the gnu works at Shang- hai which looked as well as any turned out in our shops, and a Chinese engineer was operating it He got about 25 cents a day. I saw men making everything under the sun for wages about one-tenth of what the same class of labor receives in the United States, and the Englishman in charge told me it required only a few months to make a good mechanic out of an ordinary Chinaman. When the Chiness appreciate that they can manufacture for the world, the coolies and the men who are now working on the roads could be put into the factories and the p:ople will become a nation of mechanics and man- ufacturers, At present they toil for ten and twelve hours a day for wages which would hardly support a dog in this country. I have before me a list of wages given by Dr. Bed- loe, when & consul at Amoy. Here are some of them: Barbers get $3 a month; boatmen, $4; bricklayers, §5; masons, $6; laundrymen, $4, and pavers, $4.50 per month.” The plumber is'a rich man in America, but he is glad to recelve $6.26 a month in China. Printers recelve $9 a month; tanners, $6 a month; telegraph_operators, $24 a month; ordinary laborers, $4 & month, and clgarmakers, about $6 per month. It is the same all over the empire, and the wages may be divided in half, as they are paid in sllver, which ls worth only half the value of our money. MONEY MAKING IN COREA. I could fill & page of this newspaper with the possibilities and the curious features of labor in China and Japan, and the same may be also said of Corea, though there has been until now so little security for the fruits of labor that the people have had no incentive to work. The treaty will bring a new light into the hermit nation, and many of the old and barbarous customs will now pass away. For some time there will, however, be chances for speculative turns outside of the wonderful resources of the country. One will be when any member of the royal family dies. At this time the whole nation is sup- posed to go into mourning. Every man In a yellow grasscloth, The man who has a corner on grasscloth at such times is sure to bave at least 8,000,000 men howling for it. He can charge his own prices and can do almost as well as Colonel Sellers hoped to do with his eye water for the millions of cross-eyed Chinamen. I have already written at length concerning the gold mines, the coal mines and the probabilities of there being large deposits of petroleum in Corea. The country will now be developed and there are good chances in it for American capitalists. c\:MK l). Cm{w»h: e ——— CONNUBIALITIES, According to reliable statistics there is one divorce to each 479 marriages in the United States. An Easter egg of pure gold, contalning a pearl necklace, to wear on her wedding day, was the present received by a London beauty this year. A French conscript has broken the record by claiming exemption on the ground that he 8, at the age of 20, the father of four living children. Abraham Rimes of La Porte, Ind., cured a divorce from his tenth wite, who, it transpires, was his first bride. After being divorced from her the first time he married eight times before he was again wedded to her. Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris has given up her house in Washington. Her marriage to Gen- eral Kyd Douglass, which, notwithstanding all denials, is confidently expected to take place soon, will probably be very quiet. It Is now thought that it will be celebrated at the home of her brother, Colonel Fred Grant, in New York Elopements will probably be rare hereafter in the state of New York. A new law makes it a criminal offense for a man to marry a girl under 18 years of age without the con- sent of her parents or guardian, and a clergy- man or magistrate performing the ceremony is accessory to the crime. The marriage can also be set aside by order of a court, An event of a most unusual character was celebrated in Scranton, Pa., May 8. The fes- tivities were in honor of the silver wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Koch of Scranton, and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Koch and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Koch of New York. The three men are brothers, and were married in Ne York on May 3, 1870. A large party of New York relatives were present at the celebra- tion. In connection with the wedding anni versaries the 65th birthday of another brother. John Koch, formerly of New York, was cele- brated. Everybody has heard of the tin wedding, the silver wedding, the golden wedding, and, rarest of all, the diamond wedding. Unfor- tunately for people who live in the sweet bondage of matrimony, the diamond wedding 15 a very costly ceremony. But Mr. and Mrs. Johann Szathmary of Zsombolga, in Hungary, have not only celebrated all thelr weddings from tin to dlamond, but have just broken the record in the centenary of thelr marriage The bride is just one hundred and sweet sixteen and the bridegroom just one year older, A wealthy Hooster gentleman of the mel low age of 80, and a lady aged 30, were se- cretly marrled last week at the Indiana town they live in. The wedding was the denoue- ment of two years of exceedingly difficult courtshlp, during which the ripe lover was constantly put to all those fond, sly shifts and expedients which love is adept in to ew cape the interference of his offspring. Hh whole family, it is said, took a hand in fore- stalling the banns. Two years ago Ezra Gospin of North Lib- erty, Butler county, Pa, decided to save money by buylng his whisky at wholesale rates. He agreed with his wife to pay her 10 cents for every drink he took from the has se- the country has to put on & white straw hat Jug. The scheme worked all right until two Nl,llu is about five] oMy street. If you could have three such |as big as an imbrella and a new gown of | months ago, when Mra. Gospln Quit the busi- cory SESAFRVI0004 S22 10 00N PAGES 17 TO 20. mmfim FIVE (A5} 25cSerpnt’ne Crepesbe An immense lot of Serpentine Cr In all shad Worth 2 STORE y or Shoes, at a small part of their actual value there is not a single firm There is not a cnn anywhere in Omaha or out of it that can do it, will be crowded again tomorrow. 1 iot of damaged Curiains will go at 28¢ each, no mutter what the quality or how small the damage Your choice of the lot 20¢ EACH. 1 1ot of large heavy Notingham Curtains WORTH UP TO $2.00 A PAIR go in this sale at 1 9% A PAIR PAIR $7p.25 PARR $ finest Curtains, beautiful goods, in an almost unlimited assort Ir $10.00 & pair go in this sile at $1.98: $2.50, $3.25 and $4,50 a Pair. LIXTEITS- 'GREAEEl{gAms ish Point, Fish Net, Bto; worth up to dsome (rioged Dresden Table loths, with red border, 2 yards long and worth each,’ go at.. 49¢c m dozen Large size bleached T I8, worth 15c each 18-Inch _check Gl Toweling all colors, wor 1 o varh, bo at ness because she says her husband was drinke ing too much. This caused a separation. Gospin has consulted a lawyer about suing his, wife for illegal liquor eelitng. He will call his wife and daughter as witnesses. RELIGIOUS, A New Jersey church has erected a stall house for the bicycles of attendants. There fs a flourishing Young Women's. Christian assoclation in Calcutta, India, The First Congregational church, Bridges port, Conn., will celebrate its 200th annivers sary June 19-20, The German Presbyterlans have 150 min~ isters in the United States, with 154 churches, with a membership of 12,669. The American Baptist Home Missionary society closed its financial year with a debt of §108,799, an advance on that of the previous year of $7,343. In Japan there are more than 1,200 places where Christianity s taught, more than 7,000 Protestant schools, and every year about 1,800 young persons go out from these schools into the life of the nation. Rev. Willlam J. Petrie, who has been pase tor of the Church of Our Saviour, Chicago for twenty years, has resigned, and wilb travel in Europe. Rev. Charles H. Strong, re John's Episcopal church, Savannah, Ga., has followed the example of Rev. Dr. R, Herber Newton, and repudiated the doctrine that the physicai body of Christ was raised from the grave. During the last four years there have been erected In the city of Chicago forty new Methodist mission churches, valued at nearly $600,000. Of these thirty-one have become self-supporting. Fifty years of earnest work for his church were rounded out by Archbishop Willlams of Boston on Thursday last, and the labors of half a century in the archdiocese were fit~ tingly recognized by clergy and lalty. Rev. J. J. Keane, president of the Roman Catholic university ‘at Washington, delivered a lecture recently in which he remarked that the three enemies of American civilization are “Caesarism, NationaNsm, and Bectarlans fsm." Rev. Washington Gladden has been awarded the Fletcher prize of $600 offered by the trustees of Dartmouth college for an essay upon_the kubject n What Ways Ought the Conception of Personal Life and Duty to Be Modified”? Bishop Wesley J. Galnes of Georgla, the new star in the theological firmament, is & colored man of vast proportions. He is sald to have a wonderful fund of oratory, orlgls nality and wit, a man who believes in puts ting, as he expresses it, lots of ginger inta his sermons, and who realizes his sentiments, The second annual meeting of the American Congress of Libe us socleties wil) be held in Sinal , June 4, 8 and 6. The first meeting of the congress was held In the same place a year ago -,1 was largely experimental. It proved most successful, however, and the plans for the second session have been made more clabon ate. Dr, Alfred Momerie of England, why was conspicuous in the world's parliamen) of religions, will take part in the proceed! ings. or of 8t. — Power ol Vision Sthl Fair. Chicago Tribune: Lawyer—Now, sir, di4 you or did you not say you saw the defendani at the time this occurrence took place? Yoy did see him? Very good. Now 1 should like to have you state to this jury, sir, whether or not your eyesight s defective?” Witness—Why, as to that— Lawyer—Address your remarks to the jury, sir, Witness (to the jury)—He's right, gentle my My left eye's no good, but I can ses tol'bly well out of the other. 1 can see that this here lawyer dyes his whiskers and they've grown about a sixteenth of an inch, I should judge, since he dyed 'em last. Chicago Record: He (as they leave thy church)—I don't see how you can say was & long kermon. His Wite—Of course you don't. I kept awake,