The Cecil Whig., 1886-07-17

LITTLE ONES OWN.-Satur-
day we begin a weekly maga-
zine with coIored pictures, for
children.
Thcrcis nothing wonderful in
it for grown folks. The pictures
will please the little ones, keep
them out Of mischief, give them
occupation, and do them no
harm-that 5 senoughtopromisc
beforehand.
There is a page Of big letters
and little words; another page
OF Bible tales and the like; and
the rest short stories and other
diversions. 1t ism t heavy, scien-
titic, aesthetic, or blood-thirsty.
The whole is four pages of
bright-colored pictures, four
pages Of good safe English:
eight pages in all besides the
cover
You are thinking already
"HoW much have got to pay
for fresh pictures every week
the year round and all that
story-tclling?' SI.5o; but you
maykccp your s.. .5otill you see
the LITTLE ONES OWN. Let
us have your address, if you
have the little ones-anyWhere
from getting their eyes open to
ten years old-and, if you will
do us the favor Of mentionig
any other persons who ought to
know of a wholesome and inter
esting picture-paper for young
children, We'll send a copy each
to YOU and to them no matter
where they are-free of course.
Book News, our monthly
magazine of news about books.
is already well-established (cir-
culation ten thousand).
There are critics enough and
hints about reading enough.
We shouldn't have undertaken
Book News to multiply them.
There is no other way to find
out the fair price of a book but
these two: Book News or a fair
bookseller-a fair booksellers
are not always handy by.
Book News is 25c a year, or
SC a copy, including postage.
The July number with portrait
of DIR. Holland Timothy Tit
comb of twenty-five years ago
is ready.
| l6E iie lhlrtcehli-SlTteI l lNuf.
All the carpets we have that
we are not going to get more OF
in the fall are down to be sold at
once; and these are the kinds:
moquette, brussels, tapestry, in
grain, several sorts of rugs, and
china mattings. The carpets are
down ten to fifteen per cent
from current prices; the rugs on
the average tIfry per cent; the
mattings ten to thirty per cent.
All the styles of carpets and
rugs that are dropped and all
the China mattings.
Market-street front, second tIoor. Take car
Now we are settling down to
a steady trade in Hamburg en-
broiderles.
The sales of the past two
weeks have scarcely made an
impression on the stock. If We
had to begin again we should
use the sameWordsright
a storeful-a dozen storcfuls-
a wholesale stock-a manufac.
turers wholesale stock
And when we saya wholesale
stock we mean such work as tc
figure and fneness as is kept by
average stores. Not one in ten
thousand buys in Switzerland.
Nobody takes any hand in
making the pattens. Too small
work for most merchants.
What we are selling for half
is what is made for average
trade.
Southwest of the center.
Trade in wooden dress-stutfs
is going right on. You are not
expecting news Of such. We
are going to dissapoint you.
Prices are low enough to make
the news acceptable. For a
month past drop, drop, drop
one stuff today, another tomor-
row-thc dress stuff part of the
store is full of acceptable sum
mer WOolens down to tWO-thirds,
half, and even one-third of the
prices a month ago. There are
dozens of such in the store.
No-tradc isn't over.
Southwest ana southeast of the center.
1t $ the scasOn-madncss-Cot-
tons themselves are down.
Batistcs are down from 10 to
.IoT. Secrsuckers down from
3 to 10 and rs to I21a. Some
of the Scotch are down from 80
to 571!.
Cottons not down are low
enough already; cravies for in
stance, I6c; satecns for another,
Io12 to 81 IL,
1t isn't easy to make these
cottons understood. They vary.
\ name means one thinU here