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FART TWO.
THE BIG STORES FINAL CLOSING OOT SALE OF SOMMER GOODS!
75 and 98c Silks
at 25c Yard.
The balance of our all Silk
Brocaded Tokio Crepes, Lyons
Printed India Silk, Double
Warp all Silk Surahs, and Col
ored Moire Antiques, while tney
last,
25c a Yard.
For This Sale —
Ready-made Pillow Cases ... 9c
Ready made Sheets. 90x£0 65c
Silk Umbrellas —
You’ll wonder why it is. It’s a long story. The
umbrella combination has become a thing of the past,
so have several manufacturers. The result is we
offer to-morrow
1,000 Serge Tight Roll Umbrellas, tine natural handles, silk cover, would bcd-4 /< t?
cheap at|3.so, this sale I • t - O
Also hundreds of astonishing bargains in Ladies and Gents’ Fine Silk Umbrellas
up to sb, worth more than double.
50c Ladies’ Pure Silk
Gloves, 19c.
Household Supplies—
(Basement.)
Thin Blown Tumblers, each 3c
Toilet Paper, ToothPlcks, ry n
package ok package OL
5 quart Dairy Pans, each <>c
3-story Dinner Kettles 34c
1 q quart Oil Stove Kettles IcYC
Bread Boxes 29c
7-inch Stamped Plates 19c
27x42 Wire Screens 59c
Scrub Brushes.. C Stove Polish.... 2 C
2q qt. Retinned Stamped Saucepaus. 10c
3String Brooms lISC
16 quart Galvanized Iron Fire Pails. 24c
Tin Toilet Sets $1.39
No. 14 Turkey Dusters, large size... 39c
2 quart Gem Ice Cream
3 Bottle Castors O 9c
Black Handle Rolling Pins 9c
/V\ T\l f- TT S"i a <sii ® Look out'for the announcement of t lie open Ingf of our new Carpet and Upholstering Depart
-1 " 1 v 1 * ment. The stock has arrived and is being" rapidly opened for display on our third floor.
ROBINSON CRUSOE.
A Sailor Discovers the Tablet Erected
to Selliirk on Juan Fernandez.
Thrilling Climb Up the Cliff Where
the Scotch Mariner From Whom Be
Foe Got Hie Inspiration Lived in
Soltitude.
From the New York World.
All the world has read De Foe’s im
mortal classic, "The Life and Strange,
Surprising Adventures of Kobinson Cru
soe,” and it is very generally known
that Cruose in the flesh was Alexander
Selkirk, a sturdy Scot, native of Largo,
County Fife, Scotland. In Largo a bronze
statue in memory of the man whose re
markable adventures gave De Foe his in
spiration was erected on the site of the
cottage whore he was born.
But there is another and more fitting
memorial to this hardy mariner, a memo
rial which is pictured by the World to
day from a photograph the only one in
existence and the only one ever taken—
w hich was obtained on the island of Juan
Fernandez by an American sailor in
I'ncle Sam's navy. The story of how
this photograph was taken, the hazardous
climb up the sheer walls of the cliffs, 1,000
feet above the Pacific ocean, and the dis
covery at the summit of a tablet erected
in Selkirk’s memory near where be had
his lookout, is as romantic and thrilling
as anything in the hook itself.
The sailor who secured the photograph
■ s S. -McKinlay, now an honorably dis
charged seaman, at present located in
I'ortland, Ore., but having his home in
Charlestown, Mass. McKinlay kept a
diary when at sea, in which his adven
tures were faithfully recorded, and of
these none is so interesting as his visit to
Crusoe's islard hermitage.
When the windy or winter season came
on the commanding otfleer of the Iroquois
determined upon putting in a portion of
the winter to the leeward of the island.
They wore there probably three weeks,
and the seameu and officers made fre
quent excursions about the island. They
1 ad heard of the tablet erected in mem
ory of Selkirk and determined to visit it.
Ihis tablet was executed in infix by
Messrs. J. Child <fc Son of Valparaiso,
but the fact of its existence was never
widely known. At the point where the
shjp lay the islands ran up to a bight of
at least 1,000 feet in almost a perpendicular
one from the shore. Juan Fernandez
Island abounds in rocky peaks which
reach a hight in some instances of 4,000
feet.
The Jack Tars, notwithstanding tho
frowning mass of rock in front of them,
resolved to scale its sides, bent on visit
ing the scenes made memorable by
Alexander Selkirk’s lonely vigil nearly
-"0 .wars before Hut nimble as they were,
nispite of nimble limbs trained in climbing
on hoard ship, the sailors found that the
fPje JJtettittji
WAIL ORDERS
Will receive careful and
prompt attention.
The Correctness! The Honesty of the extraordinary values offered at this
Great Closing Out Sale of Summer Goods can not be hotter attested than by
the enormous orowds that filled our store every day last week.
Mm?F : IS THE PRICE.
For This Sale —
Mosquito Nets, 8 yards 31c Piece
Mosquito Canopies.d’t 1
ready for use m* I•I " X^ctCli
35c Misses* Taffeta
Gloves, 10c.
Laces —
The busiest in the house Is our Lace De
pmment.
On sale to-morrow, 50 pieces Cream,
Black and Butter Color Lace, worth -J < c,
up to 25c, this sale. I l/W
Here is a better lot, marked fore)”.,
this sale ot, JOC
worth up to 50c.
yards wide Pep
perill Sheeting, 20c*.
Hand Satchels. —
In Imitation Grain and
Alligator.
12-inch 90c
14-inch sl.lO
16-inch $1.25
Stamped Linens —
Splashers, Trav Scarfs, Table Scarfs,
Center Pieces, worth up to 50c. thisQ It.,
sale
trip up the rock wall was beyond them.
Had they done as Crusoe did in the
story they would have searched for some
convenient cove along the shore, and like
him. have landed and reached the head
lands by making a detour by easy stages.
One day. a few years ago, the United
States man-of-war Iroquois was lying at
anchor in the harbor of Valparaiso,
Chili. In that region at that time the
trade winds blow fiercely from the north
and are destructive to snipping, so much
so that all vessels thereabouts seek a
place of shelter.
Along the coast of Chili there is no
place so safe as under the protecting
wing of the island of Juan Fernandez,
situated 3fio miles off shore. At this
time, and for years before, whalers
stopped at the island for water. This
was all they could get there, unless it
would be some beef from the single Cliolo,
who occupied the only ten acres on the
island which were at all productive. This
Cholo was one of the many half-breeds- a
mixture of Spanish and negro blood —who
inhabit thecountries south of the equator.
Possibly he is a descendant of Crusoe's
good man Friday.
On board the Iroquois was an Indian
lad serving as apprentice. He shipped
with the vessel from Boston and was a
member of the famous old tribe of New
England Indians known as the Gay
Heads, who nowadays are familiar to
summer visitors at Martha’s Vineyard,
Mass. He was as nimble as a cat, wiry
and brave, and he could climb rocks with
the agility of a goat. The sailors sent
for him, gave him a rope and sent him up
the cliff.
McKinlay, who was one of the adven
ture-seeking sailors, says it was a mar
velous feat the way that gritty little Gay
Head mounted the cliff. Crawling on all
fours, springing lightly from rock to
ledge, clinging to bush or tree to catch his
breath or hauling himself by main
strength over the bare, smooth sides of
giant boulders, but always with his eye
fixed on the goal, always onward and
never looking back on the hopeless gulf
between him and the sea. thelad asceuded
the cliff slowly but surely, dragging a
rope behind him.
When he reached a vantage ground he
fastened the rope and the sailors pulled
themselves up. Fifteen of the men had
lost heart and had turned back soon after
the trip was begun. The remaining five,
after two hours’ climbing, their progress
meanwhile being eagerly observed oy the
olfieers and crew on the ship, succeeded
in scal.ug the last ledge, and there before
them was the tablet and the lookout with
Us parapet over the side, where Selkirk
looked out at sea, with hope almost dead,
for the ship that was to take him back.
In the story Crusoe tells of his scanning
tho horizon "in hopes of seeing a ship,
then fancy at a great distance I spied a
sail, please mvself with the hopes of it,
and then after'looking steadily till I was
almost blind lose it quite, and sit down
and weep like a child, and thus increase
my misery by my folly.”
Fortunately one of the seamen, among
whom was McKinlay, carried with him a
camera. To that fact is to be attributed
the existence of the photograph, of which
two negatives were taken. '1 hese were
printed after the Iroquois returned by
Han Francisco, and then the plates were
SAVANNAH. GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1894.
For This Sale-
Printed Challies 3c
Lace Striped Scrim..3'4 c
Money-saving Items.
it,,
T uikish Bath Toilet Soap £ V
Buttermilk i C
4711 psr tox 4oC
Coco Castile, cake 3c
Ha r Tonic—Rum and Quinine. ...3
Four-row Tooth Bri shes 8c
CUTICURA SOAP Inc
Bay Rum, large size bottles .. |Oc
8 oz. Florida Water 100
Cos gate s Tooth Powder |7c
Nursery Powder Sprinkler Tops,tin bcx|3c
Vaseline 4c
Eahy Powder, packa;e 7c
Lufain’s $i Triple Extracts 59c.
ANOTHER BIG LOT WINDSOR
Ties
ON S VT.K MONDAY.
Our regular 19c silk Windsors, in light
ctlors, (or | |c
Our regular 2 c Silk Windsors, in all
colors, tiger il ar.d solid colors.go for. 19c
II an and ke rchie f s
Here s a bargain at fc each.
1,000 dozen Men’s HemstltC-ied Pandker
chiefs. in neat and pretty colored birders—•
1 irch hems. They’re sold everywhere lor 10
and Ise each—our special price (cr Monday
f> for 25c.
Another lot Handkerchiefs (or ladies at.|Oc
Ladies' Hanrtke c riefs, hemstitched—
they're chea'i at 20c—
I ndies’ Em. roidered scalloped Edge.
5) different patterns—wort h 20c—
Ladies' Co’o cd Handkerchiets-sold
everywhere (or 20c—
Ladies’ Fat c ■ Colored Handkerchiefs,
H. S. Embroidered—worth 2 <c—
Your pick Monday (or |0 j each.
Men’s Socks
In Tan. B own and Fast BJac*k. full if
regular double hte and toe: regular lip
25c; this sale fIU
Yardwide Lonsdale Shirting 7 1
destroyed, that they might become curi
osities of the first magnitude.
Tho tablet is in four pieces, is of mar
ble, and is about 4xß feet in dimensions
Its inscription is in raised letters and is
as follows:
* •
In Memory of
Alixandkk Selkirk,
Mariner.
: A Native of Largo, in the County of Fife, :
Scotland.
: Who Lived on This Island in Complete :
Solitude for Four Years and
: Four Month:;. :
He Was Landed from the Clinquo
Ports :
. Galley 96 Tons. 18 Guns, A. D. 1704. and :
Was Taken Off in the Duke Privateer.
12th February, 1709.
: He Died Lieutenant of H. M. S. Wey- .
mouth, A. D. 1723. Aged 47 Years.
: This Tablet Is Erected Near Selkirk's :
: Look out by Commodore Powell and :
the OitLere of H. M. S, Topaze,
A. D„ 1868.
There was much speculation among the
five seamen as to liow the tablet was
brought dp to its resting place. Of course
they knew that such a thing as bringing
it up the precipice they had climbed was
out of the question, and tho problem wus
not solved until several days later, when
they came across the Cholo ranchero.who
lived on the island. He told them that
there was a long way around on the south
end, b.v means of which the tablet was
carried up.
It is well understood that De Foe’s story
was largely fiction, only the main feat
ures of Selkirk's isolate life being used in
the book. In fact De F’oe said in his pre
face that “the story, though allegorical,
is also historical.. Further, that there is
a man alive, and well known, too, the
actions of whose life are the
Just subject of these volumes and to
whom all or part of the story most di
rectly alludes ;this may be depended upon
for truth.” The story was in good part
the narrative of his own adventures, not
on a lonely island, to he sure, but never
the less his own. However, Selkirk’s
strange story, made known on his arrival
in England, gave De F’oe his cue for the
frame-work of his book.
Among tho inconsistencies in the story
is the presence on the island of parrots
The American sailors reported that none
is there, although further north they are
abundant. But while the parrots are
missing, the island is over-run with a re
markable species of goat, whose whiskers
grow to such a length that they loook as
if they may be hundreds of years old.
F'or them there it uo precipice too steep
to climb. They can stand with their
fore feet upon the most inaccessible space
and are as sure looted as any animal with
hoofs. They leap from precipice to preci
pice and jump from crag to crag as easily
as school-boys at play.
The Iroquois’ seamen finally caught
about twenty-five, aud these they brought
to San Francisco. The vessel came to
anchor inside the Golden Gate on Ht. Pat
rick's day and that very morning four
young goat* were born. They were the
first born in captivity, but these soon had
playmates, for they increased and multi
plied and were finally scattered through
California.
Selkirk’s name originally was Selcraig
and be was the seventh son of John Sel-
For This Sale —
All of our |1.50 Wrappers OC
All of our 12 Wrappers 98c
For This Sale—
Children’ r d ii os i cry.
60c Hose for Twenty-Five cent*: The Ho3e
(or Thirty Five cents. It's a long story cut
short.
Women’s Boot Pattern Colton Hose.
Women's Extra Quality East Black Cotton
Hose.
Women’s Extra Quality Tan Cotton Hose,
Women's Fast Black Cotton Hose—a'l with
high spliced heels, double soles dS.,
and toes—in value up to SO c *• *’ k.
Womens Gen-Ine 4'l bread fast Black
Lisle Hose Women’s Richelieu Ribbed
Fast Black Lisle Hose—Women's Fine
Gauge Tan I isle Thread Hose-
All with high spliced heels
and doul le soles, in valueO C n
up to Tic <J<iv
Boys' Extra Heavy r ine MacoCotton Hose.
Misses' Fine Ribbed Fast Black Cotton
Hose.
All with double knees, heels andeY (2
toes— ti value up to 75c .
(Os All Linen Doilies sc.
Shoes.
When you can save a do’lar on a pair of
shoes it s just that much earned.
Seven hundred pairs of Ladies' Paris
Kid. worth $1.60 the pair, will be on sale at it
o’clock at 68c the pair.
The remarkablenuss of this offering can
not t e appreciated until the goods are seen.
Ladies’ Tan and Black ditto Lace Oxfords
hand sowed, turned soles, 0.30 the pair. Re
duced from *2.S’). Every pair guaranteed.
Men's French < alt Band Sewed Congress
Gaileis—regular 84.00 shoe for ibis sale
Embroideries.
Spec ini offer (• r Monday at 190 a yard.
Big lot or Swiss and Nainsook Embroid
eries—:i to a Inches wide neat and dainty
patterns to piett from, They’re the regular
290 and 3>c embrellefles.
Your choice at
19C Yard
Narrow Cambric Embroideries jws.
8 and 10c Embroideries, in Swiss and
Nainsook Edgings and Insertings, this,"l.,
sale
38-inch Storm 'SarVes, 49c?
craig and Euphan Mackie. He was born
in IH7B and went to sea in 16115, changing
his name to Selkirk. He left the ship at
Juan Fernandez because of frequent quar
rels between himself and Capt. Pickering
and because lie feared the ship was not
seaworthy. All bis effects and some nec
essaries were put on shore with him.
F’rom September. 1701. to Feb. 2, 170!', he
remained on the island alone. On the
latter date the privateers Duke and Duch
ess. Capt. Woodes Rogers, arrived. Sel
kirk shipped as mate on the Duke and ar
rived in England on Oct. 14. 1711. His
story made a great sensation.
Capt. Rogers the next year published
an account of his voyages, relating the
finding of Selkirk He reported that Sel
kirk had built two huts, the roofing being
long grass and the wainsi oling the skins
of goats. Pimento woods supported him
with fire and light, burning very clearly
and yielding a fragrant smell. He made
goat skins into clothes and petted cats
and kids. Rogers also tells of Selkirk's
difficulty in returning to the use of speech
and to the ordinary provisions on ship
board.
(.'apt. Edward Cooke, of the same ex
pedition. published a similar volume, on
tho title page of which it Is staled,
‘•Wherein au account is given of Mr.
Alexander Selkirk, his manner of living
and taming of some wild beasts during
the four .years and four months- he lived
upon tho unliabitated island of Juan
Fernandez.” Sir Richard Steeie also
had an interview with Selkirk, and do
scrioes his ndventures in the English
man, published in 1718. Other works
about Selkirk have been published
since then, the most recent being
“Crusoniana: or. Truth versus Fiction, ’
&c., 1843, Lieut. Col. Thomas Sutcliffe,
author.
The Amateur Carpenter.
From the Spectator.
When once the devil of amateur car
pentry has been awakened in a man, there
is nothing that ho will not do in the way
of making himself really useful. He
ranges through the house with a saw, car
ried under his arm, after tho manner m
which conscientious Nonconformists are
believed to carry their umbrellas, and
with a chisel in one hand and a light tool
chest in the other, no place is sacred from
his ravages. Even the kitchen gives him
proy. as the cook will confess with tears:
"Master's been mending the stove again,
till lie's broke it: and. pleaso, shall we
send and have It mended ?”
The parlor maid dreads tho question.
“Is there any little Job that 1 can do for
you, Mary?" If she says "No" there wi'l
he trouble later, because she had a man
in to sec to the taps in the pantry. If
she says "Yes” the master will spend the
half hour just before dinner on a night
when company is expected in operations
which will flood the basement ankle-deep
in water and necessitate tho stoppage of
a purely voluntary leakage, caused by the
incautious use of a chilled steel center
bit, by means more usually adopted by
surgeons than plumbers. But though
Marv may know that half a champagne
cork, two handkerchiefsand a siripoff an
old Hanuel petticoat are not the orthodox
material for stopping the water at the
main, they are far better than au inunda
tion.
For This Sale —
30c quality Turkey Red Unmask... 19c
81 Crochet Bed Spreads full size 69c
Prices Cut in Half.
Swivel Silks, and French Organ- 2&C
dies, regular f.oc, for this sale.
the yard.
Prices Less Than Half
imported French Dimities. French Ba
t stes. and French Jackonets sold up to
36c, this sale, the yard
1 2'Ac. .
-- V
Fruit of the Loom Shirt
ing, 7 y 2 c.
Small Wares. —
Hooks and Eyes, per gross.. 10c
Flax Thread, spool 3C
Safety Pins, dozen 3C
Best American Pins, paper lC
Covered Dress Stays, dozen . 4c
Hair Pins, In boxes 4c
Feather .Stitched Braid, piece
Pearl Huttons, dozen s oc
Pearl Agato Buttons, gross oc
Whaleboue. blonde and black .. .. 8c
Stocknet Dress Shields, all sizes, per*f.,
pair i C
Velveteen Binding / C
Crochet Cotton oc
Knitting Cotton
10c Honey Comb Towels,
r><*.
MBS. ASTOP.’S BOARDERS.
Didn’t Know She Had Them, But
There Were Fifteen of Them-
From the New York Sun.
Newport. Aug. 29. Mrs. William Astor,
who lives at her beautiful country place.
Beach wood, in Bellevue avenue, for sev
eral months.overy summer, wasastoundod
a few' days ago to learn that her trusted
gardener. John E. Hammond, had been
using the place in her absence all last
winter as a hoarding house.
When the story came to her she could
hardly believe it, for Hammond’s father
worked for the lato William Astor years
ago as a gardener, and the son had almost
grown up in the family. He was a man
of parts, too, for four years ago he wan a
member of the common council of New
port.
How Mrs. Astor pot wind of the story
j is not known, but when she called Ham
mond in from his work on the lawn it is
believed she had it in all its details.
When she accused him, it is said, he
made a denial, but that, if so, was of no
I avail with Mrs. Astor, lor she discharged
I him on the spot.
The trust reposed in Hammond made it
| particularly easy for him to carry his
! plan Into execution. He and his wife
lived in the lodge in summer, but when
Mrs. Astor left for town in tho autumn
they transferred themselves and their be
longings to the house itself, where Mrs.
! Hammond entered upon the duties of
| housekeeper.
This took place last year, early In Octo-
I her. Hammond is thrifty and has a
down-cast innocence which is not calcu
lated to let him see the asnect of things
| at times; so it is probable that when the
I idea of the boarding house came into his
! mind it struck nim in no other light than
j as a dazzler of the first water.
T here is one thing about John, however,
and that is that he's thoughtful. If ho
discerned nothing out of the way in using
Mrs. Astor s house for boarders, he at
least had the delicacy to infer that Mrs.
! Astor mightn’t like to have his prospective
guests sleeping on her superfine hair mat
tresses and under her downy comforters.
! That realization may have caused him a
pang, but he knew his duty, and did it.
He bought cots
The sacrifice meant more to him than
might be imagined at first, because no
body. if he has ever tried it, will pay
much for sleeping on a cot—oven in a fine
house.
That meant a loss to John, of course,
and had it not been a matter for the eon-
I sldoration of his sturdy eonscieneo, it is
possible that ho might have succumbed to
temptation. But he weathered the storm
and bought tho cots.
There were fifteen of them, and be went
to select them personally because ho didn’t
want thd kind of canvas cot that has a
hollow in the middle and Jumbles a sleep
er's anatomy.
He got the best kind, with slats and
: mattresses, and had them taken to Mrs.
Astor’s. There ho took great pains to sot
| them on a correct level in Heechwood’s
many rooms.
Here, again, his delicate discernment
came into play. Ho thought Mrs. Astor
might not like to have the hoarders to
MAIL ORDERS
Will receive careful and
prompt attention.
For This Sale — For This Sale—
Ladles’Jersey Ribbed Vests 5k Best quality indigo Prints 5c
Ladies’Handkerchiefs, odd lot, white)4., o ,/
and colored t'L 12qc quality Dress Ginghams
Death to Prices and Values —
Crepolines, Figured Crepons, Printed j This Sale,
Sateens, Plaid India Lawns, Figured
Dress Ginghams, worth up to 12j4c, \
Printed Wool Challies. Crinkled Ginghams, 38-Inch Percales and Fine Novelty o t/_
Ginghams, worth up lo 15c, this sale O/JC
All of our Yard Wide Ginghams. Zephyr Lace Striped Ginghams, Satin Striped* ra,-.
and Plaid India Lawns, worth up to 20c, this sale IOC
59c Flannel Negli
gee Shirts, 25c.
Those $l.O0 —
Men’s Fine Percale Negli
gee Shirts, all colors, col
lars and cuffs attached;
only 25 dozen left; while
they last T9c
$7.00 Ladies’ Duck
Suits, $2.75.
Unlaundered Shirts.—
Gentlemen will find these shirts equal In
respect to cut and finish to the most care
ful custom work: there Is a great saving In
prtce—43c each or 42.E0 the half dozen.
Sizes 13H to 18 inclusive.
Big lot of Men s Neckwear, in Tecks and
Four ill Hands, some worth 50c, this,") K
sale
sleep in her best rooms, so he chose all
those in the rear of the house.
After everything had been nrranped
John looked about for his boarders. There
were carpenters, and plasterers, and other
superior work folk, who were employed
in interior alterations in some of the big
houses along Bellevue avenue.
To these he went, and told in glowing
colors the life he could offer them at a
country villa, and herald that it wouldn’t
be very dear.
He advanced the argument that they
would be much nearer to their work than
they would be if they lived in the town,
and that they’d all be there together and
might have a very jolly time.
The picture was a pretty one to the
carpenters and plasterers, and John had
no difficulty whatever in filling his fifteen
cots.
He could have got more to come, but
his everlasting sensitiveness about doing
something that Mrs. Astor might not like
probably prevented him from making
Beech wood the largest boarding house in
town.
The function of Mrs. John in the bouse
was the cooking of the boarders’ break
fasts and suppers, 'rtieir dinners sho
gave them to carry to their work in tin
pails.
She must have been a good cook, for in
the five months that the boarding house
was running John didn't lose a single
boarder.
He, too. made an ndmirable landlord, it
is said and the boarders were sorry to
leave when the spring came, and the house
got ready for a furnishing before Mrs.
Astor’s arrival.
That it was a quiot boarding house is
established by tho fact that throughout
tho winter noltody in the neighborhood
guossed that Beech wood was a hoarding
house.
That is, nobody will admit that he
guessed. Even Mrs. Astor, who had been
here all summer, has only Just found It
out. In his innocence John might have
blabbed about it.
A FROG IN ITS STOMACH.
Why a Dog Seemed Out of Sorta and
Took to Drink.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Newark. Aug. 29. —A French terrier of
good breeding, the property of Col. T. C'
Wildman, of Arlington, recently became
j ill. The first change noticed in Terry, ns
; he wns called, was that he became list
less and indifferent. But worse than all,
the dog took to drink. He seemed to
I have an unquenchable thirst. If there
was water around he drank it, though ho
soon began to like the beer, stale and
fresh, which was given to him at saloons.
After some consultation over his con
dition the do g was given an emetic. As
soon as be took it Terry began to twist
and squirm and a minute later a live frog
ju upoil out of his mouth and hopped off.
The dog literally danced for Joy at being
relieved from his troublesome boarder.
I. uml Enterprise.—Summer Girl—Have
you any hlue;
Storekeeper—No. It ain't no use keeping
that stuff. It's sold soon s you get it.—Life's
Calendar.
PAGES 9 TO 16.
51.25i51.50 Silks
50c Yard.
Our entire stock of Printed
Habutais, Swiss Brocaded Taf
fetas, Cable Silks and all Black
Figured Silks, sold all season at
$1.25 and $1.50, while they
last,
50c Yard.
Boys’ Black Flannel
Knee Pants, 35c.
Ladies’ Shirt Waists —
What is left of our 5i. 75
and $2 Tan and Blue
Chambray Shirt Waists,
ioundfired collars and cuffs, reduood<|o
for this gale to
Bird Eye —
(Best Quality.)
22-inch, 10 yards 59c
24-inch, 10 yards 63c
27-inch, 10 yards 69c
Twilled Crash Towel
ing 4c
21x44 Linen Buck Tow
els, regular price 20c,
this sale 10c
COREAN’B POOR KING.
His Barbarous Majesty a Prey to AU
Sorts of Belief.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Chemulpo. Corea, July 27, via San
Francisco. The favoritism shown by tba
King of Corea for his minister of state,
Clarence Greathouse, the American, has
been so marked of late that Yuan, tha
Chinese resident, who superintends tba
collection of tho national revenue, has
beeu growling. Mr. Greathouse was tha
only man who dared ride in state through
the great central gate of the palace. Any
Corean who would be so rash as to at-,
tempt this advonturo would be immedi
ately buried in quicklime and burned to
death or loose his head and say his pray
ers in another Hades.
Seriously, a noted lieutenant in tha
navy told the correspondent that tha
fatuous American tested the king’s food
before his majesty dared touch it, and
proved that it was not poisonous, laid
down in the king's bed and examined
all his clothing before he donned it. But
even with his patient and painstaking
carefulness the king never went to rest
until the kingly cock crowed the coming
of dawn. Then the king, thinking be
might dare to go to sleep, enjoined Mr.
Greathouse to sit by his side until ha
actually fell asleep.
This farce, the lieutenant says, was
enuctod on the morning of July 23. Tha
king, however, had just dropped Into
a doze when he found his palace taken
b.v the Japanese and his confidential
adviser prisoners of war. The palace
was surrounded by 400 Japanese troops,
aud neither the king nor Mr. Greathouse
was permitted to communicate with tba
outside world.
The king out oi respect to Mr. Great
house's courage commanded him to ap
pear before tho rebels who wore sur
rounding him and killing everything in
the way and order them to desist.
Among other things noised abroad in
Corea about this wonderful royal Robin
son Crusoe and his man Friday, is that
Friday organized the postal and telegraph
services and has improved the railroads
and express accommodations. He talks
tho Corean tongue like a native; eats the
( oroan food as if ho were one of them,
and dresses tho part so perfectly that al
together these queer people believe him
to be a flowery flag (that is what they
call the United States emblem) deity sent
straight to Corea to bring it up to a
higher degree of civilization. The ques
tion is asked now: What will Mr. Grea
house do for Corea and tne king? Hia
friends sa.v he will not tolerate Chinese
interference, and distrusts Japan.
Never Darn a Kentucky Girl.
From the New York Press.
Detroit, Aug. 27. Miss Clara Doeltz of
Louisville, who has been stopping with
friends here, was married last evening to
Harry Bingham rather suddenly. Mr.
j Bingham was calling on Miss Doeltz, and
j stayed so late that her hostess, in jest, in
formed Miss Doeltz that Mr. Bingham
ought to leave at once or marry her, and
be entitled to stay for breakfast. The
young people, nothing disconcerted,
i choose the latter alternative.