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PART TWO.
IN FAMOUS SCOTLAND YARD.
Edward Marshall Spends a Week With Its
Clever Sleuths.
The London Police Force-Fourteen Thousand Constables Who Earn
Only six Dollars a Week-An English View of
Supt. Byrnes.
Copyrighted, IKS,
London, April 17. —I have devoted a part
of every one of the past ten days to
Scotland Yard or to roaming about Lon
don in the company of Scotland Yard
pensioners. I am assured that this cour
tesy has not been extended to a news
paper man before, and am inclined to
think the statement accurate. The Lon
don police are not favorably disposed to
ward the London reporters. They call
them penny-a-liners, and speak of them
with scorn and distrust.
The open sesame which threw the por
tals of Scotland Yard's mysteries apart
lor me was a letter from Supt. Byrnes
of New York. Byrnes is considered over
here to be the greatest detective In the
world. There is not a man in Scotland
Yard, from the chief superintendent down
to the cockney in uniform at the door,
who does not admire him and listen
to tales of him with reverent interest.
Scotland Yard is the most famous de
tective center in the world. It owes its
fame to fiction— that is, to novels. Story
writers, led by Charles Dickens, have
centered detective tales without number
about it, and Scotland Yard, as the pub
lic knows It, is their creation. Many
writers of romance, good and bad, have
had a hand in its building, and it is a
strange and wonderful structure. They
hide it in a remote part of London, gen
erally among the docks. They make it
a dark and gloomy buflding, low and with
little black windows blinking mysteri
ously through the London fog. They fill
It as full of secret passages and uncanny
trapdoors and concealed cupboards as
a Masonic lodge room. Shrewd sleuths
oft duty lounge about it, waiting for great
crimes, which they may clear away, and
In their idle moments telling gruesome
stories of extraordinary sinners. Shrewd
sleuths on duty, clad ever in elaborate
disguises, glide cleverly from dark door
ways out into the highways and the
byways to recover stolen necklaces of
Incredible value, to find abducted maid
ens, to solve the dark and bloody puzzles
of impossibly mysterious murders.
This is the Scotland Yard of fiction.
The Scotland Yard of fact is a hand
some red brick building, elaborately trim
med with graystone. and facing the
Thames. It is one of the highest build
ings in London and more nearly resem
bles the modern American office build
ing than any structure I have seen here.
Its interior is very plain and matter-of
fact, with smooth while walls and tiled
corridors. Nowhere within its doors is
there any hint of sensationalism. The
building was designed especially to af
road a headquarters for the vast police
business of the British metropolis, and it
is business—from its foundation stones
to its weather vanes.
If this explodes one of the pet bub
bles of your imagination I am sorry.
But the real Scotland Yard is as in
teresting in its way as the Scotland
Yard of the fletionists has been. One
reason why most writers have so utterly
gone wrong when they approached Lon
don detectives and their work is that the
police here like to shroud their operations
In manifold mysteries. Among the offi
cials, excepting Chief Superintendent
Shore—as honest and hearty a gentleman
as one may meet in a daw's journey—
there is an intimation that detective work
is full of red fire and melodrama. An ex
inspector, who was with me in a miser
able Whitechapel lodging house, gravely
assured me that there was not a man In
the place who would not have cut my
throat if the police had not been along
to protect me, although an experienced
eye could quickly class the inmates of
the place as simple paupers, and as far
from professional criminality as possi
ble. The ex-inspector well knew that a
beef-fed citizen, with a good thick club,
could have driven the whole unfortunate
crew from Whitechapel to the Dighlants
of Scotland if they had strength to run,
but he liked to pose.
For two hours thls'offlcer kept assuring
me of the bloodthirsty character of the
stupid, half-starved and wholly submis
sive creatures whom we passed on the
streets, until finally I wearied of it acid
left him. As I went on alone I found, as
I expected, that not one of them had any
qrime more horrible than the begging of a
copper In mind, and thut a ha’ penny
would send their hands to their caps quick
as lightning.
The British detective first treats you
as if you were dirt beneath his feet. Then,
when he finally finds that he must recog
nize your humanity, he gravely proceeds
on the assumption that you are an ass
and gulls you into spasms of hidden
laughter.
How rare the Information which X have
succeeded in extracting from him dur
ing the week is evident by an experience
which I had just before I left New York.
A certain newspaper man there has made
up a reference system of newspaper clip
pings. Clerks have for years cut arti
cles from ail sorts of publications, Amer
ican and foreign, containing information
concerning all sorts of things. These have
been placed in envelopes, Indexed and filed,
away. In the collection almost every con
ceivable subject is represented. If this
newspaper man wished to write an arti
cle about the Maharajah of Kumpore
(whom I met last night) he would proba
bly find a biography of him and half a
dozen anecdotes concerning him in his en
velopes. But in all his collection There
was not one word concerning the real
Scotland Yard. In fact, only two authen
tic articles are remembered by the offi
cials there. One was written for Society,
a London weekly, by Mr. Lestoeq, the
author of ‘'Jane," and now Mr. Charles
rrohman's representative over here, and
tne other was published years ago in the
London Illustrated News. 80, whether
or not what I write interests you, it may
*>e a satisfaction to note that it Is new.
Hcotiand yard fronts on the Thames
hut It Is as easily ac
cessible from Whitehall, the broad thor
oughfare which leads from Trafalgar
square to the Houses of Parliament. The
mg building stands to one side of a great
court and towers high above its neighbors.
Jt is surrounded by a Jumble of cabs for a
good part of the day—conveyances In
which complainants have come to state
r u * > to "*lle their reports.” in which
omeiaJs having reports to make have ar
rived. It is the headquarters of the Metro
politan police, made up of two branches—
the constabulary (or uniformed men) and
the Criminal Investigation Department (or
detective force). The word "detective" is
rarely used over here. The private detec
tive offices are known as "Private inquiry
Bureaus."
London, it should be explained, la un
der control of two municipal governments.
rh* city—the old town, where the Hank j
Hngiand. the alock exchange and most
of the great financial Institutions are cen
tered-i* controlled by the corporation,
(leaded by the Igjrd Mayor. "The county.”
which completely surrounds the city, and
which contains thr greater pari of Lon
don's imputation is go verne* l by the county
council. The city and county have police
forces whb h are entirely scpaiale In sys
tem and management Tle city fvroe is
fpje • Horning • ff jeto£
simply an uninteresting constabulary'.
™ no detective branch of importance.
It Is the county force—the Metropoli
tan police—which centers at Scotland
*wrd- This force consists of 15,231 men,
of whom 465 are in the criminal investi
gation or detective department. There is
a vast difference In the number of crimes
committed in London and in American
cities, pro rata of population, and some
reason for the English balance of vir
tue will be found in the greater number
ol policemen, here. New York, for in
stance (the most thoroughly policed city
in the I'qited States), has only 4,180 men
on its entire force with whom to handle
a population of approximately 2,000,000.
The Metropolitan police of London guards
less than twice as many persons—3,l49,-
000—but has almost four times New York's
number of polieemen to do it with.
Technically, the Scotland Yard of pres
ent police fame is New Scotland Yard.
Old Scotland Yard opens off Whitehall,
midway between the present police head
quarters and Trafalgar square. In long
bygone days the detectives hart three lit
tle rooms in the old yard, eluttered beyond
belief with papers, dirty and unbusiness
like. It was these three rooms which
Dickens knew. Detectives and police were
then under separate administrations, and
detectives were called upon only when
the police made a failure of a case*. Any
one who was willing to pay the cost
anywhere in the United Kingdom had the
right to call for a detective from Scot
land Yard, however, and it was by no
means unusual for members of this fa
mous group of detectives tb be sent out
side of the queen's domain. At present
a Scotland Y’ard detective is not permit
ted to leave London, except on rare oc
casions. He is a part of the London po
lice machine and he must play that part
and no other.
It was from tills old force that Dick
ens gathered material for the detective
sketches which first made him famous.
Inspector Weild, "a man of portly pres
ence, with a large, moist, knowing eye. a
husky voice and a habit of emphasizing his
conversation by the aid of a corpulent
forefinger, which was in constant Juxtap
osition with his eyes or nose,” was, in real
ity, Inspector Field, whose memory is
still green. Field was also the original of
Inspector Bucket, in "Bleak House.” In
spector Stalker, one of Dickens’ characters
was Inspector Walker in real life. There
are many men still oai the force who re
member Thornton, the man whom Dickens
Changed to “Dornton,” the sergeant "fa
mous for pursuing the inductive process
and, from small beginnings working on
from clue to clue, until he bags his man.”
Sergt. Mith. who told the Butcher’s story
at the Detective's Party in the office of
Household Words, is Sergt. Smith, still
alive and hearty. To this day he seems
qualified to play the part of a butcher’s
boy in order to spy upon receivers of stol
en goods, and one can understand that
"even while he spoke, he became the
greasy, sleepy, sly, good-natured, unsus
picious. chuokel-headed and confiding
young butcher. His very hair seemed to
have suet in It, as he made it smooth
upon his head, and his fresh complexion
to be lubricated with large quantities of
animal fond.”
A tragic story is that of the detective
whom Dickens celebrated as "Sergt. Wit
chem’’ in his youth. His true name was
Whither, and he did for thirty years good
and faithful work in Scotland Yard. At
last he was assigned to the “Road Murder
C.’ase," a crime somewhat similar in its
ourcumstanues to the Borden murder in
Fall River. The victim was a young girl.
Detective Whicher suspected and arrest
ed her step-sister. When the case went
to court, it was found that he had little
real evidence, and public sentiment was
overwhelmingly opposed to his theory.
The outcry was violent and damning.
Whicher. sticking to his theory, was forc
ed to resign from Scotland Yard and prac
tically suffered public disgrace. Several
years later, when, a broken-hearted man,
he was poor and in distress, the step-sis
ter vindicated him by giving herself up
and freely confessing that Whicher's
statements of the motive and method of
the crime were absolutely correct. But
poor Whicher has never been reinstated.
This old Scotland Yard organization
continued until the exposure of what are
remembered here as the "Great Turf
Frauds.” ThD showed a state of affairs
more deplorable in Scotland Yard than
the Lexow committee revealed in New
York city, and almost broke the heart of
Mr. Williamson, chief officer. Growing
out of this unsavory mess of bribery, offi
cial thievery and general corruption, came
in 1878 reorganization on about the pres
ent basis.
At the same time the office was moved
from the old building to another in the
center of the square. This was occupied
by the detectives until, in 1886, dynamiters,
incensed by the constant espionage which
Scotland Yard subjected them to, blew
up the place. Fortunately, no one was
killed. Then, after moving for a time to
temporary headquarters, the department
took its (present cim,modiqu@ oHides.
Which is enough of history.
The detective department is the only
branch of the metropolitan police which
is. of itself, interesting; but the plan of or
ganization of the whole affair is, partic
ularly now, when the United States is be
ing swept by a wave of police reform,
worth brief explanation. Under it fav
oritism is impossible and bribery is at
present believed to be unknown.
Any man may apply for appointment on
tho force at any one of the division (pre
cinct) houses, in order to secure employ
ment as a police constable he must be
over 21 and under 35. He must be at
least five feet tall. He must be able to
read well, write legibly and have a fair
knowledge of spelling. He must be free
from disease and of strong constitution.
He must be recommended by two house
holders who have known him for live
years, by his last employer, and by the
minister or churcffi warden of his parish.
He must not have more than two living
children. He must file a statement of his
debts, and be able to pay such of them as
the commissioner of police may direct.
After his appointment he can do no
work for pay aside from his police duty;
and his wife cannot keep a shop. His pay
is decreased when he is on sick leave.
His uniform and coals for his cooking at
home or elsewhere are eujiplied by the
deiartment without expense to (him. If
he is unmarried and sleejw at the station
house, 'he is charged 25 cents a week for
lodgings. He cannot resign without per
mission. Ho is liable to instant dismissal
for drunkenness and many other faults,
and he can be punished in many ways,
principally by fines.
He egina at a salary of $6 a week. This
will be advanced 25 cents a week each year
that his conduct is gopd until, at the end
of eight years of service, he may be paid
38 a week, one case, of drunkenness, or
other violation of tho rules, is certain to
bring about a reduction oft Jy to the
original 36. He must then begin his ad
vancement over again.
The pension system is very complete.
Men who 'have served fifteen years may
retire on pensions of fifteen-fiftieths of
their regular pay; and this Increases to
two-thirds of the regular pay for those
who have served twenty-six years ami up
ward A two-thirds pension may also be
granted to a constable who is Incspaclla
id for duty by injuries received In the
actual performance of service st any
lime, no matter how long he bus been
on the force. If be receives fatal injuries !
in the performance of his duty a spoils.! ]
pension may be granted to his widow.
SAVANNAH. GA.. SUNDAY. APRIL 28, IS!K>.
The ranks are these: Constable. §er
geant, inspector (analogous to the New
York police captain); superintendent (an-|
alogous to the New York inspector); chief
superintendent (analogous to New York's
superintendent). Beyond these there are
a commissioner and three assistant com
missioners. These, in turn, are subor
dinate to the home secretary—now Mr.
Asquith—who is also known as the sec
retary of state. Thus the police of Lon
don are practically a government Insti
tution. as the home secretary is a queen's
cabinet minister.
The safeguard against favoritism in the
acceptance of men for the force are many.
The candidate is first examined by a dis
trict or precinct surgeon and then by the
chief surgeon appointed by tire home
secretary. Then he may be put on proba
tion for fourteen days or longer, during
which time he receives a small wage and
is drilled on the drill ground at Scotland
Yard, residing meanwhile in the candi
dates’ barracks. After appointment he is
drafted into some district or precinct In
which a vacancy exists, and must live,
and, if he Is married, his family must
live, in that district.
Promotions are made every week, and
their reasons and results are published
in a weekly "Police Order.” A constable
whose work seems to have merited pro
motion is recommenJed to a committee
of inspectors for advancement by the
sergeant. This committee considers the
case and may prtmote Ihe constable
to a sergeantship. In a similar way ser
geants are selected by the inspectors
and recommended to the superintendents
for advancement to Inspectorships; and in
spectors are recommended by the super
intendents to the commissioner fpr ad
vancement to superintendentships. No
man can hold an important position
less he rises from the ranks to It, and none
but men who have risen from the ranks
can pass upon his merits. There is, be
sides, a promotion board, consisting of
six superintendents and an assistant com
missioner, who must approve every pro
motion decided upon by any of the com
mittees before it can go into effect. Tile
home secretary has summary power of
removal, but he has no power of appoint
ment. A man recommended by the queen
herself would have to go through this
routine and begin at 24 shillings a week
before he could attain an important po
sition in the police.
It would not be fair to Intimate that
the constables in London are up to the
American standard of intelligence and
efficiency in what we consider police
duty. Much less is expected of them, and
they have a much less troublesome class
of people to deal with. The London pub
lic, even in the worst quarters of the city,
has a greater fear of the police than the
New York public has. Tile police is a
government institution, and the Bame
flunkeyism which makes an Englishman
take oft his hat before a dul(e when he
would keep it on before a commoner has
its good effect in helping the police to
maintain discipline in the streets. Con
stables must stop disturbances, prevent
thievery by watching property, see to the
enforcement of street ordinances and ar
rest disorderly persons. They are scarce
ly expected to pursue and capture evil
doers after a crime has been committed,
however—that Is the work of the detec
tive department. This is not admitted
here, but it Is proven by tho fact that a
constable who distinguishes himself by
actually arresting a burglar, a highway
robber, a murderer, an Important pick
pocket or any other serious sinner, is al
most invariably and very promptly pro
moted. It is partly in that way that the
detective force is recruited. Many men
are chosen for it, also, out of the 200 or 300
constables who, during the "season"—
the months when the royalty and the
aristocracy are in town —are detailed to
duty In "plain clothes."
Crimes of violence are disappearing
from London. Highway robberies—or
“garrote robberies,” as they are called
here—amount to only about fifty a year,
for both the city and county, as against
about 400 a year for less than one-lialf the
population in New Yolk. Burglaries are
so scarce as to be almost unknown, and
even pocket picking is no longer profita
ble or popular. Counterfeiting is carried
on only on a small scale, and the nature
of the English bank note makes anything
like our “green goods game” impossible.
Rut there Is a class of elaborate swind
ling constantly going on here which New
York knows nothing of, and the White
chapel district is tho resort of hundreds
of desperate characters tvho operate most
of the time out of town, and in town
when they can. They bring their stolen
goods to Whitechapel to be disposed of,
and carouse away their gains with some
of the 30,000 depraved women who in
habit that district alone.
I passed a whole night with some of
the worst of these thieves and cut-throats
early this week, but shall have to with
hold its details for another letter.
Probably the most dangerous and des
perate of London’s criminals are to be
found about the water front. The only
really critical episode of all my night's
wandering came early this morning, when,
with a retired insi>ctor of police, I in
vestigated the secret haunts of these pic
turesque and villainous characters. That
night’s experience is also worthy of more
extended description than I can give it
here. In this letter I havo merely at
tempted to show you what Scotland
Yard is and what the London police and
detectives are. In subsequent articles I
shall endeavor to tel! what thi3 de
partment has to do and how its men
execute ) their sometimes .dangerous
tasks. Edward Marshall.
A FRYING PAN’S USES.
It Came in Handy on the NVay Home
From a Hooky Mountain Funeral.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Colorado Springs, April 15.—‘ “Hunchy,”
as we called him, “said my friend, the
mountaineer, "lived about eight miles up
the oild trail of Yarmany. The strangs
thing about Hunchy was that he had only
two stumps for hands, and yet he could
chop wood, on a wager, against any man
in them parts. His mother had died. It
was two weeks before Christmas. Old John
at the bridge, told me of her death, and
said we ought to get the neighbors to go
up there and act as pall-bearers and give
the old lady a decent send-off. That's
why I g%t up at 4 o’clock the next morning
gathered in the stage horses, fed them
and left them hitched at the post with a
note to Bob ,who was drivin’ the stage,
to let the two ’mares and the hronocs
loose ami to do the httohin’ up himself,
for I was goin’ to Hunchy’s to help bury
his mother.
"The snow was deep on Yarmany and
it was 1( o'clock when I got there. Nothin’
had been done, but we found two Arbuckle
coffee boxes, and, together with some
black cotton cloth wo found in the house,
we knocked out a fairly decent coffin out
flVt was Doc Reister who told me this story
in his little dug-out stable on the Grand
river, where we made a relay prior to en
tering the White river country for deer.
What called forth the story was our ques
tion as to whether he had often encoun
tered mountain lions, and his answer
seemed irrelevant enough. Doc continued:
"Fortunately, 1 had taken up my old
frying pan and a Sharp rifle, for 1 thought
maybe I might need that cookin' outfit
ami perhaps 1 might get a little grub
with the Sharp on the way home.
"After the woman was laid out, and
X tell you, sir, she looked damned decent,
they got to dlsi usstii’ what part of the
Bible we ought to say when we plant'u
her. (if course, no one had a Bible, and
preachers is scarce in these part*, and
we hadn't laid eye* on one for two years,
and he only passed through here on a
stage. Well, I’ll been rear' and in a tool
I'hristian family back In Ohio, and I'd
heard that dust Into dust business two <r
three time*, no 1 said I’d do *he preach
er at t, ami recite that. If Ido any it my.
.•df, that burial went through wfthool a
hitch. The woman geared like aba b'long
ed euvery one of us, wo felt that b* 1.
AWNINGS ADLER’S. ADLER’S. CARPETS
Broughton and Bull Streets, April 28 1895.
The Very “Pith”
Of the Jaffray bargains go on sale to-morrow morning. This week says “GOOD
E” to some of the greatest values this big store ever offered you. Little lots of
Linens, Domestics, Silks, Dress Goods, Curtains, etc., grown too small to advertise,
will be marked at next to nothing.
MUSLIN UNDERWEAR.
Slowly, but .surely, Savan
nah ladies commence to un
derstand how much better it
is to buy underwear here than
to make it at home. When you
all understand, this depart
ment won’t be able to hold the
throngs. Again to-morrow,
to give all a chance:
At lOoVlortc.
regular -6c value
x t'-r 4*c."
1 W At 11 o'clock,
t 300 Skirts with 7-inch ruffle of em
broidery and fii-pneh handsome cam
bric tucked ruffle skirts, the usual |I.OO
' grade, for 76c.
Second Floor. ;
EMBROIDERIES AND LACES.
“They must be damaged;”
this from customers who are
surprised at the little prices.
Not a bit of it; they are
goods gathered from the Jaf
fray stock. Light prices
bought them,lightning prices
quickly sell them.
At 25 rents.
This jot contains Nainsook, Cam
bric and Swiss Embroideries, some
very wide, worth 50c a yard.
At 1U rents >nrl.
White, Cream, Black, Ecru and But
ter Point de Gene, D’ Irelande, D' Paris
and D’Esprit, some six inches wide,
and worth up to 25c a yard.
Main Floor, Left.
BUTTER MILK SOAP.
At 8c cake, Cuticura at 15c,
4711 Glycerine, 14c, and
Pear’s Unscented at 11c is
the gauge by which you
measure our perfumery
prices. Why pay the drug
man more?
Are you ready for the
moths?
TAR CAMPHOR BALLS—
(4 pound box 3c
J ,6 pound box go
1 pound box
CHLORIDE OF LIME, for disin
fecting purposes—
-1 pound can
BORAX—
% pound
AMMONIA—
-1 pint
LIQUID I. X. L. BLUEING, ready
for use—
-1 quart bottle
Basement. >
PARASOLS.
Elegancies of every Paris
Parasol kind—one of the lat
est the “Trilby.”
Bell Shaped, Cream and Black Cre
pon, enameled frame, beautiful han
dles, {6.50.
Main Floor, Center.
&LEOPOLD ADLER,”
but Hunohy was the most broke up as
wag nat’rel.
"Well, after the funeral that fryln’ nan
fame In handy. You see, we’d all been up
early and was powerful hungry. 1 guess
when that funeral party broke up It must
have been 7 o’clock at night, and me and
John had the same load for about two
miles, so we started home together It
was pretty a- hard walkin’ In that snow,
and When we struck out branchln' .ff
place John Just kind o’ complimented me
on the way that buryln' had gone off
Then he says, 'You’ve got six miles vet
of pretty ugly walkin' an’ you'll heller
keep your eye alive for mountain lions—
see you to-morrow, -and off he went
"You know we don't have funerals In
these parts often, and f was kind o’ mixed
up In my inlnd as to where the old lady
had gone, and wonderin’ If she knew what
a nice send-off we’d given her. I guess
I’d gone about two miles when I heard a
snarl In the bushes right by me, I rapped
the old Mtiarp rifle agin' ihe bottom of the
old Iron fryln’ pan, and I gin you my
word, my mind wga that chock full of the
funeral that I never thought of any wild
animal bein’ on my trail. Three or four
tlmea I heard the same noise, and I got
mad and yelled 'shot up, you and- dog '
and banged my fryln' nan against Ihe old
Htiarp barrel When | gig njy | eH t,
Male-that mwngtel cur you set In the
CLOTHE THE BOY
As you’d be clothed —sensi-
bly, fancy touches if you
like —but good, sound, com
mon sense clothing to begin
with; that’s the
only thought
VJ we have in mind
and to save you
as much money
as possible.
TWk *rf|y Hoys Wash Rule Bunts,
!' I R "7. wh should be 38c.
* hll<' a suit.
uTj -st Guaranteed Gain tea
Cloth Sailor Suits—regu
lnr 31.00 suits.
I awn Blouses ruffie
Be iffi jl front, large sailor collar,
? fig J white and colored.
z i' At •I.UH suit.
1&&M All Wool, light soring
weight, single or double
■■ y breasted, regular (2.60
m B *‘X Tho new “Devil’s
Mm Whistle" free with every
fljP. purchase of a $2 suit and
” up.
Second Floor.
WATERCOOLERS.
J Charcoal tilled, galvanized Iron
tank, nickel faucet, painted and
decorated, hold gallon and a half,
Two more equally as low, (1.38
and (1.60.
Ire Cream Spoons.
Pure white metal, guaranteed
not to turn color, and wrear as good
as finest silver plated, six In pack-
Lamp Brackets.
Anew patent, the most sate
bolder ever patented, lie.
Basement.
HANDKERCHIEFS.
It has made talk for the
whole town, this department
of ours; to-morrow more
talkers.
At 12c each.
Ladies’ Pure White Linen Handker
chiefs, embroidered and scalloped, the
25c ones.
Al sßc tin* Ini If dosen.
Bure Linen Initialed Handkerehlefr.
straight from Belfast, and sold only
In half dozen lota, worth 25c each.
Main Floor, Center.
WOMEN’S BELTS.
Just what every one wants
or will want.
Black Silk Belts: the shopkeepers
say, they look it. but there’s cotton in
the filling; with those splendid buckles
they are astonishingly cheap, 25c, 35c
and 50c up.
Every Belt requisite here at the
Glovo Counter.
Muin Floor, Center.
PUSSES.
r So much to tell you about
the cotton wash goods, hard
ly know where to start; this
new fabric, woven in anew
way, with puckered stripe on
dainty colored grounds is a
hot favorite. We start it at 18c yard.
New Dimities, 12c yard.
New Swlsses, 15 and 20c yard.
New- Lawns, 10c yard.
New Organdies, Batistes. Baleens,
Percales, Ducks, Piques, Ginghams,
Crepons pouring in dally.
Main Floor, Right.
corner—had his hair up straight as them
cottonwood trees. I went to sleep that
night feelln’ kind of sad yet In my In
sides. Next day at noon In come old John,
and he asked me I’d had any company ex
cept my own thoughts. Then old John—
he’s one of the finest hunters In these
parts—said 'Why you d— fool, you was
followed all she way home by a mountain
lion—his tracks was all the way to your
tent, and I Just killed him three-quarters
of a mile from here!’
"Then 1 remembered that snappin' at
my heels, and me hanging that old Iron
pun. I learned one thing from the funeral,
and that !s that a fryln’ pan's useful in
more ways none. You say you’re cornin’
hack this way In about three weeks? Well
on your wsy to Wolcott you pass old
John fiu Mott's cabin, at the bridge; atop
in there and take a look at that skin."
—lt Is said that the ex-Queen Isabella of
Hpain Is the godmother of mwe 'dllhirer!
than any other women in the world, (She
never refuses a request to set as sponsor
from any one who has any kind of claim
Josef Katins, the first of Germany's
tragedians whose Hamlet won fm him
golden crlt' lsms when on a tour In this
Country threw years ago bus l*een de. oeu
li with the in*'l or of "Albrecht lea Ha
rm,”
MATTING.
A few more days and you
will be ripping up that car
pet. 1,800 rolls of Matting
waiting ready for you. You
will tax your
memory very
keenly to re
,tu;n*ber any
'v such prices as
91 Ik 1 I **<' yard.
I /b \ Good, Heavy. Fancy
"ftl Jap. Matting. 4U yards
JlT.f/N. X. it! the roll for (3.20.
ASd At iocynrd.
\f(iLyr/l A better grade, sold
V*v anywhere else at 18c
yard, roll of 40 yards.
(4.00.
At 10c yard,
Or (8.88 the roll, a Fine, Fancy Japanese
Matting that you can’t equal In Savatmah
for 25c yard.
Light. Fancy Matting Rugs Curtain Up
holstery, Shades and Awnings on tbo
Third Floor.
SILKS.
Every Silk want here, and
you are sure to find many a
kind that a smaller concern
is unable to carry,
whether it be the favorite
Jap- we’re selling at 18c the
yard up to $4 a yard kinds.
Three particular items;
At'llllc surd.
Black Silk and Satin Striped Grena
dines, Idle regular 31.00 grado.
At fifie yard.
Cheney Bros.’ regular 980 Printed
Huhutuis.
At 511 c yard.
Brocaded Taffetas, for street wear,
that were last week 79c.
Main Floor, Left Center.
BLACK CREPONS.
We find 2b different styles
—none too many to keep you
in perfect touch with the
northerners.
Black Crepons, wifih Mohair stripes,
honeycomb, rhinoceros weave and all
the new wrinkles, riples, crinkles and
knop curls, from 69c to $4.00 the yard.
Two Special lllarks.
46-ineh Extra Quality Black Serge,
31.00 quaJity, at 49c.
38-lnch Henrietta finish Illack Serge,
reduced from 39c to 25c.
Main Floor, Center. *
MILLINERY.
Extraordinary diligence is
in order here, and the Milli
nery selling this season is
entirely without precedent.
No touch of foreign style is
lacking. Ready-made head
gear at popular prices.
SJust what
Sailors. Milan
Straw, navy, white or
biack, Knox style,
Mackinaws, Knox
shape, all colors, 88c.
Second Floor.
o.\k coiKCinK.vr ktruivKu.
A Sew Advertising Trlek In Hie Hook
Trade WJiirli find Its Success.
From the New York Sun.
"H*vo you a novel called , by
tendant In a'city library.
"No, and wo never heard of the book
until to-day; but we have hud at least
ten applicants for it since 9 o'clock this
morning. 1 beg your pardon, but would
you please tell me how you heard of that
book?"
“Why," idle replied hesitatingly. "1 re
ceived a note from a friend telling me
to read It.”
■Well," he said, with a smile, "tin others
who applied had heard of It In the sumo
way."
The young woman looked surprised, hut
said nothing ami pursed out. A man who
had overliesrd the conversation spoke „f
It to Ills wife that evening as a curious
coincidence.
”f’olni’ldenoe. fiddlestick#.” she said.
"Walt n numieitl until 1 show you what
I received this looming." And going lo
her desk she hi ought this note for h.m
tv read: ,
PAGES 9 TO 10.
MEN! ,
We’re thinking of you,
and just inside the door to
your right to-morrow you’ll
find a big stack of Colored
Bosom Shirts.
At INr eucli.
Faiuo Shirt sold everywhere else at
H.oO. •
At ll>e i'iah. <,*•**•*,• j
Imported French Bnlbrlggans, Shirt*
and Drawer*, have been always tIM
a garment.
SCREVEN DRAWERS.
Every man knows them,
and knows they're a $1 in
the regular way. The real
Screven patent —elastic side
we mean —and we put them
at 85c.
At lie pair.
Black or Tan, double heel and toc<|
Sock*; they're the usual )<•. Hose.
Kvery summer requisite /or metj
here at the same low rates. ,
Main Floor, 1 tight.
SKIPPING ROPES.
Jump into the elevator,
take a ride to our third floor;
you’ll find a toy store that
has no equal in the city; as
for prices, measure the stock
by these:
Veranda* Swings, for the bahy, 2Sc.
Skipping Ropes, with finished han
dles, Be.
Hoops—for the tot that stands knee
high to a grasshopper to the big achool
mi** slse, 6, 7 uml 10c.
Tops, Base Balls, Foot Balls, Games,
Skate*—everything to amuse the
youngsters,
Third Floor.
HOSIERY—UNDERWEAR.
Crippled prices, oftener as
not, but there’s no limit in
the quality at any time.
I.idles* White Lisle Thread Vest*,
finished with silk, tape, 59c grade, fog
39 cents.
At Hr pair. ,
Guaranteed F**t Black Hose, spliced
heel and toe, full fashioned, and wortM
25 cents.
At 2>V pair.
Extra X.ong Fancy and Plain, BlacU
Boot, Richelieu Ribbed, regular
quality.
SHOE-SAVING. . " 1
Ties that fit like a glova
that cost you really 50c to
$1 pair less than you'pay in
the one-idea store.
Of Russet, Tan, Plain Lace, Bluchei
style, with serge top, patent leathel
tips, not 12.50 or 13.00, but 11.80.
And every pair guaranteed. , <
Main Floor, Left. (
My Dear: If you want a surprise read
recognize the character ——. Hastlljt
yours. m'-. '
"Well. I thought over all of the Elias,
Evas, Emmas, and Elizabeths of my ac*
quaintance," she went on. "but I could
not recognize the handwriting. It was a,
clear, round hand, but unformed, like a
child's. Coincidence, Indeed! It ts a clave
er advertisement, now in the book trade,
hut 1 have seen similar letters. Four
years ago a furniture firm sent out m
clever Imitation of a letter, written in
a delicate feminine hand, dated at a coun
try villa and addressed ifa ( here amie.’
It was a gossipy, pleasant letter, and at
the end requested the friend to buy her
two or three pieces of furniture, little
pen-anddnk sketches of which were pinned
to the corner. Of course the price and
where to buy them were not overlooked.^
—lt Wenn't Corrected—" Wall. | did think
you bail more education than that," said
llr. Joohus, airly, to the grocer. *• 'N-o*
td-i ' doesn't spell notice.* it cornea n*ur>
cr sis-lllng 'no'tick' than anything siae."
said the g rover, "that to wba". vt
Mr Joohu* . .molud. and that he could gag
along tin.t evisttng without, alii
Cincinnati Tribune.