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1 1 zz j rou:: . !) ) ! - v J ..'J V 0 5ta PnbUabed hT tft . Bttlmington STAB COMPAKY ie.i - '' ';, Wilmington. , C. , . :' Entered au rsecond-class matter at the postoffice at Wilmington, N. C, under act of Congress, March 2nd 1874. FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT. PUBLISHERS' ANNOUNCEMENT. THE MORNING STAR, the oldest dally newspaper in North Carolina, Is published daily except Monday, at $6 pr year, $3 for six months; $1.50 'or three months, 50 rents for one month,' served by carrier in the city or by mail. . THE SUNDAY STAR, by mail, one year, $1; six months, 50 cents; three months, 25 - cents. " . ! ; ' -.- ADVERTISING RATES may be had on application and advertisers may feel assur ed that through the columns of this paper they mayreach all Wflmington, Eastern Carolina and contiguous territory in South ; Carolina. . . 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Call ' either if the other doesn't answer. COMMUNICATIONS, unless they contain Important news, or discuss briefly and properly subjects of real interest, are not wanted; and if acceptable in-every other way, they will be invariably rejected unless the real name of the author accompanies the same, not necessarily for publication but as a guarantee of good faith. Wednesday, January 19th. THE TEST OF A TRUE GENTLE V MAN. - The forbearing use, of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual en joys certain 'advantages over others is the test of a true Gentleman, c f The power .which the strong have over the weak, the magistrate r over the citizen, the employer over the em ployed, the educated . over ,the ' unlet tered, the experienced over the con fiding, even the clever over the silly the forbearing or inoffensive Use of all this power or authority, or a total absence fromit when the case admits it, will show -the gentleman in plain light. The Gentleman does not need lessly or unnecessarily remind an of fender of a wrong he may have com mitted against him. He can not only forgive, he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character, which impart sufficient strength to let the past be the past. A true Gentleman of honor feels humbled- himself when he can not help humbling others, . ROBERT E. LEE. ,v. LEE A HUMANE GENIUS. . . The emphasis on Lee's bfrth'day ' is too apt to be placed upon his merii as a soldier, instead of upon his worth as an example..- We are too apt to canonize him as the apostle of alost cause, rather than, find In him the. in: splrati'on , of ;a '"winning one. . It wa3 his service as, a man, rather than ai a captain, that best entitles him to honor. In the -cne capacity, he' strug gled mfghtijy with adverse fates;, in the pother, he' moulded rate to the meas ure; of his-soul,, and led the . way. with 'prophecy - j v ;. Even , while, the 1 war was raging Lee's genius had flowered into :i world's heritage.' Vlt is the more placi J years that " have shown his military genius as an incident to the man him self. The man who sets an' Ideal is greater than he. who creates a throne. Lee, his heart 'breaking with an' infinite capacity for 'suffering, set the type - for ia ' people's redemption. It was." in the proud dignity, the un assuming patriotism of his postbellum . life that he was greatest. It was so y that he was' given, to his highest serv .,.' ice; thus that having won what might have beeni a, dangerous popularity, he lived so as to be a teacher; so' that, t . - himself a sacrifice of fate, he 4ived . -. not as a survival of passion, but as . an heroic figure, of deathless promise ,-fl - 'Lee the Chieftain was a Confeder ate; Lee the man is an American. Among those figures of history who ; eo impressed their times . as . to win ' v the soubriquet" "genius" as a confes- slon of their' Incomprehensibility,' no two lend themselves so aptly to com- :iparlson as Napoleon and Lee.. As tn annitary ;geit)us,",: they had much' in .', cpmmpu,. "Boh .were ". masters "of fi i. , ; . nesse. From their operations might bemade' a 'book of almost identical : ;jriaxlms.V They; struck swiftly at those ' ." uqexpecteclo jcpomientst which . time . .;thowedto beitrategicl They', were ? 'iieer so ter;'Hblef as when apparently ; ?j defeated,T llnlUafy'xcuttonWeft ' ferhesUatedr'lossVof lifelj cThey ' -fought Iheii battles1 :with; complete' de- ' tachment, save .for results. They . matured, long plans ajid , brought them , alfjultipn that seemed .audacious ' ' imhulse. They triumphed . against . 'odds' to'' wMch others' would' have re ' 1 f iised . to conteniplate . resistance. The genius ' of Napoleon as a CaptaV of Arms , had , uts counterpart' in jLiee, as ' the ! Captain fof the" Confederacy. J, . . ' VYet how different were the men iT-'orii-ftJodal the ideals they came . r ... j " to represent ; With what contrast are : they rememberea; t ( ' ; v, . ;, ' Th genius of , Napoleon was ,th toan-liimseit was' a flower-of fame. ) in' its light th.e man Is swaiiowea Ji It is welKthat it Isscsy Such; frag ments I. of r the humanl JJpnaparteV as are; visible through the sino"ke cloads of ' his life are such as- could hot,; be excused except inax, as: a. genius,- ne was not accountable to ordinary standards. .'Incredibly was he cruel ; monstrous was his selfishness. He was the line of ' the Caesars incarnate, in Christian generation. He raised new standards of red above the world. He crushed virtue beneath, f an iron heel. He ' left a name- which- is n synonym of 'success and . a threat , ofJ a" failure costing blood. A Napoleoij of finance" is . one . who- gets oh other's necks . and 'rises -whose " fall .. drags others to the mire. The Napbjeon of history was one who, with the insanity of his solitary, breed,'' plucked for hint self . a destiny the very arrogance" " o! which proved again his genius." Clutchi lng ever with eager fingers in the air; mounting on the . vfoea 'of the world j tottering and r reaching still upward he progressed, to his fall,: his country, desolate behind him yet' scraping the ashes, still for a' rag,, with - which to flaunt its pride in its destroyer. "'p On the other hand Lee, descendant of cavaliers made , into democrats; ln: tiraately. bound by inheritance, by, tra dition and by profession to the Union, followed with sadness the call of blood and race as before him "Light Horse Harry" turned against the crown. He came to an unmilltary people to make an army. He was faced with poverty agajnst wealth. . Almost ; in the be ginning he saw. that he would have to fight - without supplies. The , mar kets of .the world were closed to. him, open to his enemies. Where Napoleon fought his way to the' head of an ea tablishment, seized . ready-made the implements of war, Lee had to create, arm and provision his army in the face of the enemy Napoleon, for' all the tempestuous character of his ge nius, could choose the moment to play his hand; Lee ; was faced with' de struction before he could get ready to fight. ' - Considered purely ..from the military results- achieved, Lee was under the circumstances possibly , the greater man . of the two. Beginning with the seven ' days . battle ' around Richmond, the rout of McClelland, the rout of Pope, the capture of Harper's Ferry,, the miracle of the drawn hat tie of Sharpesburg ,the defeat of Hook er and - of ..Burnside and the year's campaign against Grant,' Lee pressed into three years of war a series of bril liant victories,' beside which the most startling of the Napoleonic' campaigns is honored by' comparison. The'exmy of . Lee, -never even in disaster, knew a rout. Waterloo and Gettysburg are similar only in their magnitude as de termining factors in history. . Water, loo sent Napoleon away to brood amid the grandeur of his crimes; Get tysburg left , Lee defeated, but not crushed, to retire in the face . qf the enemy-,' to1' still fight 'the-' battles ; of Cold Harbo. and the . Wilderness, io surrender at last at Appomatotx when his scant army had been worn away by the attrition of conflct and of want.. But there thej comparison ceases Thespirit of Napoleoir lived for years a fantastic ame: with which to con jure wars; the spirit of Lee was that of the patriot unblinded by misfor tune,- seeking to heal all but ineradi cable Wounds, to face new conditions with a ' brave,, if saddened, smile,' to teach the folly of bitterness : and the philosophy of hope.. , , It t it pathetically . significant, th manner In which Lee chose to . re main in, and to exert himself for the stripped ' and prostrate" iSbuth. The world never witnessed so surprising, so hopeful a -sign as the example af ' forded of a chie'f actor in a nation's tragedy ' laying down, the , sword, put ting1 away his memories turning from the battle field to the college. - There was. no ulking In a tent, no fatuous lying down to die, no milking of fame for- dollars, " no "shadow-casting strut across the "world. General Lee might have done either of these things, and his genius would have stood it. Thq.4. he did" not; showedthat' he; probably did not consider himself a genius, that his patriotism was instinctive and his bravery of that real character from which, modesty is inseDarable. What he iid .do, showed the sincerity and the purpose of his life. Indicated .the love he bore his" country, hinted at the sorrows which he must have fe'l, which he was too magnanimous to ex press -; '"ii-'--' -''""' - :- y - : .' In' the . light of his , achievements, the life of Lee seems on the surface out' of drawing.' Owing , to old stand ards of hero - worship, of : hero fash ioning, there is that of anti climax in the seclusion andthe 'cmietude of his later 'years : That Is due-oerhaDs.' to the , fact - that he ,Was . a genius merely m me nne ,)rni3;,juty.;,-.He rjna4e-iQ professionf -of pre-eminence The world had come to ; expect - pf. genius that ' it would be melodramatic as well as tragic. : Genius, becaNise it always" ex pects too much.'. ls. always tragic; That of Lee was most tragic, of all because it foresaw the end. ' It was the most uplifting of all' because it never arro gated the end to itself.' Genius has in the main seemed to thrive at the" expense of, the- more-common human emotions, to take an erratic course, to render Its possessor ne-' apart from the. sympathies :and the homely vir tues, of the, common heart. Lee, a wlz: ard in war,, was. a citizen -in peace! His accomplishments 'alone marked , Wat' bard tQ'Utt4erstand, "jlla virtues 1 were, those-of the every-day; touched with agoiaen haoit-oi rnis Aearti maae brighter but everf intelligible. His code ' qf morals ,waa remarKanie oniy fori the' consistency Vithwhlch It was lived with the unvarying lilt of , Its spoken expressions. The man did not ( seem capable - of , other than high thoughts; he did ; not; seem conscious ; ,that.he spoke them.' It "was; this In nate 'goodness this "simple strain run ning through the : life of the soldier and . thepatriot, that make him inval uable as an ideal. . ' ; ' , .B,oberi E. Lee ' was born in ''West moreland jcounty,Virginiar on January 19th 187rhe diefi as President of Washington and Lee University '.on October-12th, 1870. He bad practically seen Jthe 'American nation , created almost-disrupted, the Confederacy bios som"under his leadershipof its ar mies," the South brought to her- knees. lie lived for five years, teaching con ciliation,' temperance; virtue and trust, to see the country for which- he had made years v of sacrifice beginning' to rise from the ashes. He had loved the Union; fought for it and against It. He died loving it . still, with the : strange inconsistency which' justifies the fu ture of the nation and which nowhere save in America could have been pos sibleAs a Union officer he had won honors in Mexican and Indian" wars, was designated ' as T the - man . to put down the. John Brown raid and was offered by Lincoln the command ol the Union army at the out break of the. war. . ' -' ;' . - . He declined respectfully, because he could not "take up arms against his ;Stae, his home, and his children,", re signed with a pang which will never be -fully realized, came back to pre pare an ill-equipped country for. a gigantic, war, so captained its forces as to brevet them with super-human attributes, knew the bitterness of fail ure and maintained the sweetness of hW faith! r- '.- - - . : " In those brooding figures of the Con federate private which "a new genera tion in , the South honors as the grave of- an. ancestor, it is not alone their deeds by' flood' and mountain; not alone, the grapple in 'the woods; ; the agony of the trenches; the supperless camps which seem to look from the faces of bronze and stone with , the appeal of the past for comprehension.. Behind, that appeal even to the very children of the South in every mark of chisel or line . of brass, lives tha message of Lee of the head held high; of the full life lived frankly and unafraid, of , the duty to be true.- The tide jf the ranks running onto deeds of immortality, shall press, at the thousand 'points,; and upon a hundred generations.jthe new ideal of a Genius who was yejt wholly a man! " AN EPICURE IN DISGRACE. V Seventeen years agpr General J;ohn Gill,-.of Baltimore,, then receiverjOf the Cape , Fear, & Yadkin Valley Railway, used 'occasionally to slip across the State in a private car, with a , private cook, and with a private and highly toned not to . say . tony stomach. stopping here and there to pick up the delicacies of field and stream along the way, to the delight of . an educat ed palate and the rapt amazement of a people so hit with the .panic that a side of bacon had the appearance of a porterhouse steak. , Even then it was' Whispered that General Gill was an epicure and that in North Carolina he, had found, so to speak,-his oyster Whereupon the State exerted itself, with quail from Guilford, with trout from the Tuckas'eegee,' with mackerel from Morehead, : with coots and - rice birds,.' and New River .oysters" from hereabouts. General Gill - smiled and consumed; praised and' 'absorbed and grew, jovial, even while the finan cial pillars of the nation shook with the winds of disaster. We had thought thatGeneral Gill ' would A remember North Carolina; though we had it from him as a species of loyalty that nothing could so fill the larder of the man. within a man as "Maryland, My Maryland".'; ";'''...'- ..' '. "' ;'. Consider then the shock of the intel ligence that General Gill has forgot ten the oyster that comes from .New T" 1 it A. 1L " m . mver ; mat ine navor oi tne roasts Is departed-from his memory; that even blue-points do not cheer him, and a Lynnhaven Is not to be spoken in. police society. In shorty General Gill epicure, bon- vivant, and joy de lightinghas come out and said that the Cape Cod" oyster is superior to any .Southern bivalve! Think of it, Cape - Cod! The . name itself Is of a strength to make the epicure General Gill ; once was shiver with disgusi t)oubtless its - oysers" are reminiscent of 'its fish. ; Doubtless they are, strong enough to walk, and do. . Perhaps It is the element V of the ' chase vvith hounds necessary to catch them that gives them that flavor which waits on appetite, but not on educated taste. More likely t General ' Gill's tongue la paralyzed; his : palate with long luse is y; atrophied; ' his,' sensations i' are dulled and it is . strong medicine " and hard and bitter food which; can igive t?K. tanS to his victuals. But , to have swept up North Carolina; to have; picked and chosen in Maryland, and : then to have landed' on Cod oys tfrai: What's in a name, and what's the use of a reputation! v sT ' : ! At ' ahy; rate Secretary Balllnger j ap pears to have, been a good and kind uncles ' '" , ' ' ---;-.- -1 THE GAME, ANTW E RiSK;. ; At the time of the furor about foot ball accidents last Fall, we maintain ed, : during- the hue' and - cry against the game of "mend it or end it";thai, even lnhe face of the disheartening series of serious and sometimes fatal accidents, the game Itself was too good a one to lose; and, at the risk of appearing even heartless in the In terest of a sport, ; suggested that the value of the game to the college youth even more" than" compensated for the sacrifices which were occasionally Its incidents' The memory, of the, acci dents that happened one? after the oth er at.iootball is still iresn m the pun lie ' mind. The' clamor,' however; has subsided and' it will " pe' hoti6ed that nowhere Is there being suggested thei abplitrpn o? the game or "even such a mpdifliqation as ' would , deprive Jit'-of its characteristic features, of which roughness in . play is one of the most characteristic.4 Hereland there zeal- ousj'opponents of fpoOjair still persist, and very recently Jfdge Charles M. Cooke has been charging grand jurors to bring bills for manslaughter against any college eleven engaging In a game in which a fatal accident occurs. Will that portion of the State press which so recently demanded the ex tinction of football now - demand that basketball go the same way? " In Charlotte a player on the Y. M. C. A team of that city lies in a critical con dition as the result of an accident sus tained while playing a-match at the Association's : rooma.1 i Will Judgei CookeT. 'lf he gets5 'the chance in the near, future, "sugge; to. the Mecklen burg grand jury tthjit; they. ..Indict his fellows in the contest in which he re ceived' -his possibly1 'mortal hurt? . Will the pulpit, which ought to be "peculiar ly ( interested ' in . the., conduct, of the Y, MjciJuAs, cryyout against basket bait? Will the ' religions conferences ahcxmventibns pas resolutions con cerningfif, as .thejr&did about football? Wilksfond. parentaaJnsist that this gamete stopped at the girls' schools, to which they send ; their "daughters ? We suggest these' questions in all seriousness, with a full sense of the deplorable nature of the : Charlotte accident. The fact remains that" the questions will be answered affirma tively, ' if the .' papers, - . the preachers, the religious bodies; and i the ; fearful parents act 'consistently.' Of course, we know thai they will not act consis- 'J ' - - v . i . 1 . . - - . tentlyri but. the, fact -. remains that whereas eome several ;', hundreds of North Carolina youths and bdys were steadily;' playing .ptball 'during - the Fall.there'v'jvjas among them ; not a single; -serioua; accident; while basket ball, 'with not' bne-tehth the number of devotees "contributes' unfortunately to the. 'death, roll sport." , Football is rougher, bo isa basketball.! Hunting is far more dangerous than either.! Base ball has its ehances;Yahd grave, phes they, are, ol: .Injury both to player's and spectators.' Beside the perils of either -or allSof these, surf bathing is almost crimfoal negligence. Yet, be causefootball happens, to look rough er; bemuse jt hajheepme the fashion to condemn.it, a noble game has been put ihJeopardy,.,and will doubtless be jeopardized' ae'alh. because the chan . .;- ' ;f. ( 7:'i ' i ces, tpgetherwithr.thepubliclty attach ing to it, last, year made its accidents more prominent. . . ; The truth about sports of all sorts ought, it seems toLus, to "be taught calmly and with appreciation of both their virtues and their drawbacks; and the . truth about any sport is, - that Where it is. strenuous enough to de velop manhood,, it is necessarily risky enough , to take its occasional sacri fice in human life. - ' .- ' - . Bwip'Tumbo pheers .while native warriors spear a Uon at some slight risk-.tonthemselvesv'and with death a certainty ' for the "lion ; the1 ' same au thorfJy.;iihinks ill would be 'bully" sport to;, see a white- man fight a negro In a sixteen-foot ring, at Imminent danger'to the waite1' man's knuckles; but theVeth injuryTafid hot the sport is the, game, a distinction which this most -unfortunate' accident at basket ball ought forcibly" to emphasize. The support of the Income : Tax Amendment by the , Southern States "would fieen? td"?ifdicate. that' the doc- trine of States Rights (see Governor Hughes recent message) has shifted its stamping' grounds. ., '' The English House of Lords will now commence to wonder what- they were created' for and What they . are expected to do with, themselves. " -: 1 '-v-'-it . . . -...u.-vo . M . ,. j ,?. Y-V. . The English worklngmari will now have to1 drihg high-faxed beer.' Jle ougbV tohe givenJaste of nigh beer to make him,f eel- better1 s'f . :' "t T ... . . '. ; "v.-'-'"' ; -Sotiar,. we -have not- heard any" sug gestion that the money Jack Bamnger receivedwas merely paid; him in the way if nepotism., v ; ; .-'. '.i ' : ; There are several more days, of vot ing in England, but. the Lords appear to have been madei groggy after the first 'two rounds. ' ';. ', ... Secretary Ballinger is. probably now wondering why he . was' not content to continue as? attorney for v- the f land sharks;"' "!-.' i ; :w" -T ? , If the charge's against ;Ballinger cbn tinue ito ' be ;i brought, there may be nothing-left to Investigate. ' i f r. f T -' ' ':- '--' r . i .... -, ., . , - ; ... - '- : - - ... - O '"' '- ..-' .. -.' ; ';a vl-.te'! ; ; - ''.. . ' lSi(lW . .. , . A ' ' .; , '): '.' .V ' - , V vSft See us for the best Mattings, Rugs, Art1 Squares, . Etc ' " -V. , '7 HE. T Gifford Pinchot,- at any rate, came down town this morning.. accompanied by a glad smile. . " . '. --. . President Tafty and Gifford Pinchot spoke from ' the same - platform but nDt on it. - . . -; '!'''"'" -. . " OUERENT COMMENT. ' . There is no truth in the report that Mr. Roosevelt, and Mr. '.Bryan are to meet secretly at St. Helena and form a duumvirate for - the distribution of offices in 1912. ' On the contrary; it Is asserted that Mr. Roosevelt started north as ' soon as he heard ' that Mr. Bryan was going southsCharleston News and Courier. V' . "3 - - - "- r ' . ;';.' -r ' The Charlotte' News goes ' to ' the head of the class. In editorial matter, the aggregate of which was less than g half column, in Saturday's issue it renewed the water wagon' controversy and poked The Post under the ribs; expressed deep concern with reference to the sobriety of the editor of 'The Asheville Gazette-News ; 111 threw . booze, darts'', at The' Greensboro "News r and The Raleigh Times and wiped Texas off the map because, it alleges; Texans know too much . about the : quality of likker." Great is Parson Patton! Long live Parson Patton! Salisbury Post The Torrens' System of registering land titles will be " taken tip ; by .the South Carolina Legislature which as sembles: this week, and doubtless by the Virginia Legislature as.'welL The committee - appointed by' the ;, last North Carolina Legislature' to investi gate the subject Is actively at work and will have an interesting report to make at the next General Assembly Sooner or later ' every State ' In the Union will . doubtless adopt this great labor-saving and money-saving system which would be of .special benefit to farmers in that it would make their real estate as useful commercially as the city man's stocks and bonds.- Progressive Farmer. - That the Seaboard Air flne is proposing to do a heavj busn'ess in the way of distribution') throughout its territory of freight received : by vessels-at the port of Wilmington is shown by " the following which i -. we find In the Wilmington - Sari' "The second big" Seaboard storage, ; work on' which: has progressed so, splen didly during the past fev weeks, Is about ready to be turned oyer from the . contractors, .- Messrs. W. Ri Bon sal & Co., to the railroad. The, storag es, as prevlously noted,' add materially to Wilmington's terminal facilities and will provide for many vessel cargoes for shipment to the interior."-f-i-Char-lotte Observer.' 5 , . ? "We have no patience", , says the Raleigh Progessive farmer and, Ga zette, "with the idea that the negro can not be. taught better methods of farming and better ; habits of living. The- white man of the South has taught him all he now "knows, and when the white farmers adopt better methods the negroes will follow." One negro ' tenant in : North r Carolina,, ac cording to that paper, made 166 bush els of corn, on a singleacre. .This, is striking , at the - big records for corn production; but it is what can be done by any energetic and intelligent: farm er In the South! and the' hundred-bushel limit will soon be too; commonplace to be remarked"' upon. Columbia State ;' V . '""--' 'J -;.' ,--' f,.. ;..;: ;.- --i;: ' -' ' - .- -.'. - ,- We have known "Jim" ' Cook these) many : days He ohc'o tried to teach us to "do sums", anr it Was, ho fault on his part that- in large" measure failure followed. ; It is a joy to see the light of real joy come Into 'the life of a fellow man, , to . watch that -man fill to the- fullest - and find ways ; of es cape limited, - when the world vould be better off' if that joy 1st rail its richness and fullness could escape and touch every; one .nearby. Perhaps the happiest day of Mr. Cook's' life was when , he-accepted In a' fornial way the Roth - building at1 the Jackson Training School.; He had --found 'his place and is filling it; and'tne full meaning of It all, will not beJ fully ap preciated and fully realized "'-on - this side of the river.-Concorxl Tribune. ; Slfi1 K0dl.(iafio,uii,'.;. GILiOYIKI in," one we "dufMb Winter GlotKm tamake room tock which will $ 7.50 Wool Suitsi"6iieurth : -. .$ 5.63 10.00, Wool Suibne-louitlt; ;of f : yyv-; v; . : . 7.50 :'i5.00:Wooi',S 10.00 Overcoat pnfburth off t . . 7.50 20.00 Overcoats, bne-fourtH off . X. . 'I . . . . 15.00 Also big Furs, Cloaksl Rain Coalsi and Baby C loakis. I1EM THAT. PAYS. TQXJR-; CAB p - . ' ". 4 ' t .- ; .. ,- ,.,.-1. ....... . . -. . - : '' ".' -. . : ' '-' ':- 'j5 r-V- . " -. ' -. v ;.f, ' a: . .; - ; I wish to thank my' friends and customers for their liberal patronage during the year just closed, and trust bur business relations in fu ture will continue : to be pleasant and profitable .'. . t , to each of us:T m mmmmm 'Wholesale Grocer, .. paid on a higher, priced piano If you'wish, and In this-way you get the i use of, the piano-two years; without cost --No use1 to mention prices - .-come and see for yourself' that Wilmington is witnessing a new era in the history .of piano. price cutting. " w;i LUDDtN & BRJES ; Southern Mil sic. House' ;i J. B. WILSON, Mgr. - 219 Special Off eiring Interested One Lot of Boys? Long-PahtV Suits, of about 25 different styles, aver aging in sizes from 14' years to : 19 years, will be. -closed out at 1-2 ; their regular price, f v, $10.00 -Suits; 1-2 off-, $12.00 Suits, 12 off- - $12.60 iSuits, 1-2 Off M "j A' -. . , $i3;so suits; i-2off .,vi'.v?-v;;'. - $14.00 suits, 1-2 off .j.; if $15.00 Suits. 1-2 off '.'. i. : V t1 R Kft 155nlUti 1-9. ff . x ;t - The people, have- beei takingadvantage of x the v great ' offering in ; Children's Straight- Knee -Pants Suits, and we liave sold quite a num ber already, still we have several sizes; left" yet thafwill.be closed Wat 1-3 off ltheir;regular-price; '.' ,-',' : ' : Cl!M :J: I . ; .We carry the largest and complete lineof F Wishing: Goods in the city, always, receiving new stylet.' '-' -V'v '..;'.. '. . i- ; 'v-- Strouse & BrosrandB.; Kuppenhelimer. Suits are' 4 pleasure for us to give you a- try'on. Vhich: isall we ask. "Everarticle ' guaranteed asrepfeaehteii or your money refunded. , . v i, J,One Price CQthlrahd Furnishers. .MasoniQ Temple. Phone No.GlT ' : .i- .. . .' - i - - ......... . ' give a re- all arrive soon. stylish Skirts C " 42-inch ' Rain Proor '; Cloth this week 50c ". theyard. FAKE. tb'ii.N.yjf "i Is the point we wisb to empha size v in as '.much as we' have ; some pianos on hand just now, that, we are In position to give you ' at' unheard .of bargains. A few are shop ; worn, ' Some have been taken in exchange on our high grade art pianos. One or two have beeh-vdamaged by the railroads in transportation. ALL OP THEM, HAVE GOT TO CO AND GO AT ONCE REGARD LESS OF PRICEv : We will take them back In two years If you desire. " allowing' what you have Front St. Phone U36. to Tlidse That in Saving Money! , . $5.00 , . 6.0D . 6.2o . 6.75 . 7.00 . . 8.00 . 8.2r . . j-i.r . .. t f 7-. ' mco. 1 7 I ; Mm "1