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Death of Judge Booker.

STOCKTON, Dec. 15.-Judge Samuel A.
Booker, who was Judge of the Fifth
Judicial District for ten years, died
here this afternoon, aged 6S years. In
early days he was a prominent lawyer
here, and from 1870 to 1880 was Judge of
the District embracing San Joaquin, Cal
averas, Tuolumne and Stanislaus Coun-
ties. He had been i'll several wears.
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TRYING TO BREAK THE WILL.
Contest Over Fortune Left to the
Pope.

PARIS, Dec. 15.- On Wednesday there
will be begun before the civil tribunal of
Montdidier a case of almost unique in
terest, for it will show his holiness, Pope
Leo &III., summoned before the small
est tribunal in the French Republic On
the 4th of July last year there died, at
Chateau de Mocull, Nine. de Pastoret,
the Marquise du Plessis Belliere, leaving
fortune of l0,0O0,000 francs, part Of
which consisted of the famous Chateau
de Morenil.
BY her viii the Marquise left Pope Leo
Nil. heir TO the entire property, pro-
vldlng for his unwillingness or inability
through some technicality to accept the
magnificent gift by directing that it
should then go to Cardinal Rampolla.
In case both the Pope and the Cardinal
refused to succeed to her estates, then
they were to be given to Alphonse de
Colbert Turgois, with an injunction to
carry out the instructions that the will
contains. The natuarl heirs are contest
ing the validity of the will.
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and brought him back again inside of his
own boundaries. There is some doubt
about Consul Rana's getting his eXequa-
tor from the Spanish Government If it
has been refused it will be in order to
send United States Consul by some
naval vessel. The Ponapeans believe the
United States steamship Essex is match
for any five Spanish men-of-War.
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EMTIN PASHA.
His Position IN Africa Reported to be
PrecariouS.

HIS PoS1Cfon IN Africa Reported to be
PrecariouS.
PARIS, Dec. 10. = Private dispatches
have been received from Africa, which
state that Emin Pasha had several bloody
conflicts in the Lake district, and that his
position is precarious. These advices,
however. do not agree with reports from
other sources regarding the movements
OF Emin, which stated that Emin Pasha
had been received with the greatest en-
thuslasn by the troops, who had served
under him when he was Governor of the
Equatorial Province. 1t is said further
when the news of Emin Pasha's move
ments reached Uganda, British officer,
with LOCO troops, started to oppose his
further advance. 1t may be this force
came in conflict with Emins soldiers.
and it is to these engagements the Paris
dispatch refers.
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Death of Dick Long.

VACAvILLE, Dec. l5.-Early yesterday.
morning Southey Wilmington Long.
commonly called Dick Long, native Of
Woodtord County, KY, aged 60, passed
away. The last live years he was par
alytic. lie leaves a widow and consider
able property. He came across the
plains in I849, settling III Vaca Valley.
trom 1850. he mined many years in
Idaho and Montana. lie was a Mexican
veteran, serving in Company {, Doni-
phan's regiment.
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FAMINE And PESTILENCE.
Pitiable Condition Of Affairs in
Eastern Russia.
RAGING IN THE HUNGER
STRICKEN DISTRICTS.

Emin Pasha's Position in Africa Re-
ported to be Very Precarious-Fat
of a Number OF Priests ana Nuns
Who Were Taken Prisoners by the
Iahdi's Forces in Egypt-Pope Leo
Summoned to Appear Before Small
Over a VIII.
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Chicken-stealine Combine.

SANTA Rosa, Dec. 15.-George Lumbus,
a chicken-thieS, who escaped from two
officers several weeks ago. a few DAYS
since made a confession to the District
Attorney, duplicating John Behmer and
parties named ItickIiff and Greening.
lumbus claims the three named stole the
chickens and he acted as fence. 1t is
supposed the combination handled 81 500
worth Of chickens the last few months.
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Wine Yield in France.

PARIS, Dec. 15.-The official statistics
OF the wine season of France show
yield of 100000 hectoliters above the
yield of 1890. In Algeria the yield has
doubled. Allowing tor decrease in raj
sins and wine for sweetening, the total
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Death From Heart Disease.

SONORA, Dec. 15.-Willard Wheelock.
who came 30 this State in 1919, was found
dead in the road near Soulsbyville, this
county, to-day. He had resided in this
county since 1850, and was a highly re-
spected citizen. Heart disease was the
cause of his death.
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production shows an increase of 1.500,00
hectoliters.
Terrible Gale.

LONDON, Dec. 15.-Her majesty's steam
ship Anson, the flagship of the Channel
Squadron, while cruising i'll the vicinity
OF Gibraltar, encountered terrible gale,
in which several of her men were washed
overheard and drowned.
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Faulty Administrator.

ROME, Dec. 15.-Monsignor Folchi has
been deposed by the Pope from the Vice
Chancellory of the Apostolic Chamber,
owing to faults OF administration.
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NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Bill introduced for the Adoption Of
Uniform Car Coupler.
AMENDMENT TO THE INTERSTATE
COMMERCE Law.

Speaker Crisp Suffering From Mild
Attack of La Grippe-An Objection
to be Raised Against the Ratifica-
tion of the Treaty Negotiated With
the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians,
and Cession of Portion of Their
Lands in Wyoming.
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Major McKin1ey so Retter.

CLEVELAND (O.), Dec. 15.-A dispatch
from Canton says Major Mckinley is no
better to-day, but his physician appre-
hends no serious results.
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Cyrus w. Field Imnrovino.

NEW YORK, Dec. I5.-Cyrus w. Field
is improving daily. A marked change
for the better was experienced yesterday
and continues to-day
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Second victory for tho senator's.

Los ANGELES, Dec. I5.-The second
game of the Sacramento-Los Angeles
series was won by the visitors this after
noon by score of9 8.
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Dillon,s Face Badly cnt.

DUBLIN, Dec. 15.--At a political riot at
Ennis, County Glare, to-day, John Dillon
was struck on the head with stone and
his face badly cut.
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Joining the zollverein.

LONDON, Dec. 15.-It is reported that
Turkey and Greece are willing to open
negotiations with view Of joining the
Xollyerein
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A Pugflist Sent to Jail.

SALEM (Or.). Dec. 15.-Gus Brown, the
feather-weight pugilst, was sent to iail
to-day for thirty days for the larceny of a
diamond pin
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ALL ACCOUNTED for.
The Remainder of the Crew of the
Maggie Ross Rescued.
PICKED UP NEAR THE MOUTH OF
UMPQUA RIVER.

Dependency Leads to tho Suicide of
Charles H. Hinton, at His Home in
San Francisco-The Confession of q
the Discovery of an Organized Gang
of Hen Roost Robbers.
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Senator Daniels Reelected.
RICHMOND (Va.), Dec. 15.-The Legis-
lature reelected United States Senator
Daniels without opposition.
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California Postmasters.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Erskin Allen
was to-day appointed Postmaster at Bath,
Placer County, Cal, and Augustin
Knight, Jr., at Pine Lake, San Bernar-
dino County.
Secretary Foster Improved.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Secretary Fos-
ter is much improved in health to-day.
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Sneaker C,risn Ill.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Speaker Crisp
is suffering from mild attack Of grip,
and did not leave his apartments to-day.
There is nothing new concerning the
committees.
The Brazilian Government has asked
an extension of time for the ratification
of the arbitrati on treaty.
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Held for MansIaughter.

SANTA Rosa, Dec. 15.-J. C. P. Sears,
of Sonoma, charged with the murder of
John Riebli, who was in charge of Mrs.
Snyder's land near Sonoma, was ex-
amined here before Justice Brown and
held over this morning tor manslaughter
with bail i'll the sum of s.. 500. Mrs
Snyder is defendants stepsister, and they
have been involved in litigation several
months, and Riebli was looking after the
land at the time he was shot and killed
by Sears. When the shooting occurred
Sears was trying to pass through a gate
on the road leading through the land.
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Prospects of an Allicahle Adiust,nent

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15.-General
superintendent J. a. Fillmore of the
Southern Pacific held conference yes
terday afternoon with the Engineers
Grievance Committee. The grievances
were taken UP one by one, and some of
them were settled, but it was agreed not
to make the conclusions public for the
present. Mr.. Fillmore said at the close
of the conference that it would be con-
tlnued tomorrow. He thought COM
promise would be effected as to the
leading issues involved.
The Monitor., 1891-03-13

No one mistrusted the author
Of that clever Novel "a Diplo-
mats Diary" to be a woman.
Yet Julien Gordon is not only
a woman but a society leader.
Are you curious about her? Book
News for March tells her story
and gives a wonderfully life-like
portrait
All the other Book News
features are fully up to standard.
There is no other publication
that will keep you so closely
and truly in touch with the book
world.
Book News is SC number,
soc a year.
!oHN WANAMAKER.
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Extracts from Agricultural Report.

The report of the State Board of Agri
culture for 1890 says that grain farming
as such, must be abandoned in New Jersey
The State is destined to become market
garden agriculturally. First class veg.
etables, small fruits, poultry. and eggs,
in the remote districts eggs and butter,
must become the staples.
Sugar oeets of phenomenal size and
strong saechaiine properties are grown
near Egg Harbor, and Medfold granger
is credited with raising $1,000 worth of can
taloupes on five acre patch. Gloucester,
Camden, Burlington, Salem and Atlantic
Counties are now growing large quantities
of vegetables and small fruits for the
Philadelphia markets.
A Cumberland Alliance man produced
twenty nine and one half bushels of wheat
to the acre. and ha working agricul-
turist in MiddIesex County grew fifty-four
clusters ofgrapes weighing fifty-six pounds.
The cranberry crop fell off rs 900 bushels
last year. Jrrseymen own 96 204 horses.
valued at 80 931 703 The 9051 mules are
placed at 81 09t 214. The worth of New
Jerseys 49,, 403 mich COWS is fixed at
sc. 325, ,004
Freight discrimination is said to retard
the development of the dairy interest.
Oleomargarine and adulterated cheese have
greatly injured trade in the genuine articles.
A few years ago New Jersey annually
exported butter worth 81 900 900; in 1880
tue shipments fell to 81. 000 600.
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rne uarcn ortne corn.

Farmer Grey's little Molly had been
sent to the corn field for "roasting ears
for dinner. She had prudently husked the
ears in the field, and was now honeward
bound with her apron full of corn. Molly
was singing as blthely as the rolin sway
ing on G c,rn. stalk near her But she was
/. child full pf whims and fair fancies, and
she stopped singing and looked over TIN
landscape. The great "ten acre field
planted with corn lay on the gentle slope
of hill. and reached even to the green and
shadowy valley. Through the valley ran
deep strong stream.
"The corn" said Molly, "looks as if it
was all marching down-hill to the valley.
Aud SO it is. Some of it will march into the
house; | think | see it. 1t will be put into
fritters or succot tsh. and it will be boiled
aud canned. Ie will march down there
ripe. and it will be turned into mush and
pudding and nice crisp corn.cake with
loads of butter on it. Oh my! And theE
winter evenings all of us will have such
fun popping some of it and make pop corn
balls. Good corn! am So glad you are
marching down to the house!'
Lower down the valley lay the mill,
great, dark old mill, the wheel, turn
ed by the roaring river, rising and falling
with plash. "Corn," cried Molly, ''you
will march down to the mill. Will you
be afraid of the great mill stones9 You
will be ground into meal, you will be put
into bags and barrels, you will be sent
east west, north. south! You will help
feed the world! Will you not be glad. corn,
when you make thin people fat, weak peo-
Pile strong, hungry people contents You
have marched down to the mill. You will
have done the crrand God sent you to do.'
But farther down the valley were tall
CHI imneys. gre at brick walls, high fences,
with wide gates out of which rumbled
vans under clouds of black smoke and
dense steam.
30 corn!" said Molly, ''you will march
down to the distlllery. You will die to do
evil and not to do good You will be what
God never meant you to be! You will
drive men aud women crazy with evil
drink; you will fill them with disease, you
will make them poor. You will rob little
children Of homes, food, clothes, books,
JOY. You will give them fears, tears,
pain. You will kill thousands, corn, in
staad of fepdioo thousands O beautiful
corn, is it not terrible that, after all these
lovely summer days, you must carry your
beauty aud your wealth down to the dis
tillery to ruin the land! You will be
..rouud and scalded, and decayed and dis
titled, until out of good has come evil and
out Of life death; and you will have come
to very bad end. o my beautiful cornn'-
jLrs J. MNair Wight.
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SEASONABLE OFFERINGS.

As moving time is near at hand
we offer for the consideration OF
those who move and likewise new
beginners, hemp. jute, rag and in
grain carpets at lower than Phlla-
delphia prices. Hemp carpet, 2oc.
Rag carpet, good, SOC; better, $50;
better yet, wool stripe. 40 and 45c.
Double chain ingram, 25c; better,
2Sc; fine, extra super, all wool, o2c;
3.ply, s5c.
Floor olcloth, 22, IS, 2S, 80, IS
and 4oc.
Cedar tubs, 50, 90, 65, 75c to
SI.4o. Cedar pals, II to 25c.
Knives and forks, 40, As, 50, 90,
68, 75c to $3.50 a dozen.
Feathers direct from St. Louis,
which is headquarters for them.
All we sell are thoroughly steamed
and processed; no danger of moths.
Prices from 45 to 75c in such guam
titles as wanted.
Window shades, on spring fix
lures, IS, 2S. s. to ooc for the
finest dado. We have dado as
low as 4oc, with spring fixtures.
Crockery ware. Full stock OF
best English goods. by the set or in
lots as needed to fill up wants or
replace broken pieces.
Wall papers; new stock. Brown
backs, SC; whites at 6, 8 and Ioc.
They were never cheaper than now.
There is no material that will
make more serviceable or tasty
cheap dress for lady than good
gingham. We have just bought
and opened 80 pieces, all new, good
patterns, 80 inches wide, toto II Hc.
Our customers tell us we have
the incest assortment Of white
goods, such as Hamburg edgings,
insertings and enbroideries that
there is hereabouts, and that our
prices are the most reasonable. Of
this we have no opportunity OF
knowing for ourselves, but as we
are selling many more of this kind
of goods than ever before, we con-
clude that we must have what the
people want in that line.
Come and see us.
E. B. HUMPHREYS & Co.
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z. B. HUMPHREYS & Co.

We have transferred our ladies'
and children's stock of shoes to the
store lately occupied by Mrs. H. A.
Lippincott, and with a lady in charge
are now ready to receive visitors.
Our makers have been somewhat
tardy in filling our orders, but we
are daily receiving new goods and
hope in a very short time to show
as nice a stock of ladies and child
ren's fine foot wear as there is in
the county. Meanwhile, we have
plenty and can suit almost every
want or wish in the shoe line.
The Monitor., 1891-03-13
westJersey Game society

The LOO gentlemen sportsmen who
compose the membership of the West Jer-
sey Game Protective Society, will learn
with surprise that the House of Assembly Y
has passed the bill repeating the society 5
charter. The society has been fighting
charter repealers for five years, and by one
method or another has succeeded until
Wednesday. Mr.. Cole, OF Cape May, the
champion of the measure, made a speech
to give the new men. bers an idea of what
the society is like. M residents of New
J, rsey belong to it. The members live in
Pennsylvania and Delaware. and they
look upon South and West Jersey as a
game preserve. They Fl III in il and gun
over it and charge license fees to outsiders
for similar privileges. Their detectives
arrest persons for guuuing If they cannot
show the soeety's license. A farmer can
not invite friend t. come t. his own
place for days shooting unless he first
pays the society $40, the amount of the
license foe. These sportsmen, even when
game is not scarce, kill farm fowls and
sheep aud pigs aud dogs. All the south
Jersey members spoke earnestly in ia. .or
of the repeater, aud it passed by a vote of
4S to g. The society had no idea that the
repeater stood any chance of passing. aud
therefore had no lobby 10 defeat it, Fiue
work will be begun to defeat the bill in
the Senate, but its passage by that body
also is said to be almost certain.
The Monitor., 1891-03-13
Gigantic water scheme.

| The True american of last Thursday
contained an extensive article on "Iht
States Water Supply" based upon maps
prepared by Mr.. Libbeus B. Ward, late
State Water Commissioner. Of tnest
maps it says. they present in most forcefdl
terms a condition which it is the part oil
but ordinary wisdom for our people and
public authorities to fully consider. digest
and utiliz.. IL is not too much to say tina,
the time is not very remote W beh the peo
| pie of the whole State of New jersey will
be forced to depend upon the great natura!
water sheds in Northern New Jersey for
their supply. The main sources of this
supply lie among the Highland valleys in
Morris county, at elevations varying from
500 feet to / 100 feet above tide.
Figures are given to show that the
several water sheds Of the State, which are
noted aud named, have capacity for sup
plying 100 900, 900 gallons per DAY. The
scheme discussed comtemplates the cstab-
lishmeut of a number of immense reser-
yoirs from which the several towns in the
State are To be supplied, that TO furni i
West jersey towns with water to be locat-
ed at Princeton. Here is the scheme as
given by the True american.
From the Princeton reservoir two diverg-
ing lines OF pipe will be laid. One line
runs south west, a distance OF forty miles,
to reservoir at Camden, supplying the
towns and cities Of B5rdanto sn, Burling
town, Mt. Holly, Rlverton, Palmyra and
Camden; an extension of this line ma!
supply NJ ooresto.n, Merchantvilie, Cam
den, Haddonfield, Gloucester, Woodbury.
md Weuonah The towns reached By the
Delaware main have population of 104.
500 people aud statistics show that it will
take 7,065, 900 gallons Of water to slake
their daily thirst
The second main leading from Prince
ton reservoir proc .e l., III naarly direct
southerly line to WilIiamstown Junction,
on the Philadelphia aud Atlantic City Rail-
road, where second large central reser
yoir may be constructed for the distribu-
ClOQ OF water 10 all Vi Tie eAlFeDt SOulu-
ern towns. One line radiating thence
eastward thirty three miles to reservoir
thirty feet above tide, at the present
Atlantic City pumping station, will sup
ply Atlantic City and neighboring resorts
on the beaches. Another line will extend
southwark, branching to include Vineland,
Millville, Bridsetop, Salem, Williams
town, Glassboro, Clayton, Elmer, Woods
town and Swedesboro. In all 1905 600
gallons daily will be supplied from the
Wiliamstown reservoir, to a resident po-
pulation of 104 500, besides the large adji-
tional summer population at Atlantic
City. This reservoir will also be connect
ed by way of Wliamstown and Glas ,boro
with the main supplying Camden and
neighboring towns, to provide against ac
cidenial cutting off Of the supply. No
figures are given as to the cost of this
gigantic method of supplying the people of
New Jersey it'll water but that the ex-
pense will be something startling may
eli be suppUSe q.
The Monitor., 1891-03-13

We have recently received a car
load Of our famous 2oc molasses,
and it is better than the first we sold.
Others are offering 2oc molasses we
understand. We know nothing OF
its quality. If it is as good as we
sell, it's cheap, but there's as much
difference in molasses as in
horses. Ours is good, and
an excellent baker, and you take no
risk when you buy it.
The Monitor., 1891-03-13

Many of our older readers remember the
California gold excitement of 1850 They
recall how many were carried off by the
swirl Of excitement from Salem county
and esew mere, some to come back rich,
some to return as poor as when they left,
and some-God pity the poor fellows
never to return. Well. at about this time
there was poor boy in Missouri driving
COVE for his father, live stock farmer,
who Iined party of his neghbors on a
tedious overland jaunt to the new Edo
RADIO. He began mining with a cash cap
itsl Of $40 aud wher he died Saturday
week last his fortune was reckoned at
S25, 000, 600. This man was George
Hearst, United States Senator and caud-
date for Governor for Califol MIA in 1882.
The Monitor., 1891-03-13

The patrons of the race course, gam.
blers, blacklegs. sweaters and the like,
lobbying in Trenton the past week or two,
are not likely to have everything their
own way, not at least without deal of
trouble. Just now number of ministers
and prominent men from all over the State
are at the capital opposing the race track
bills in the interest of good morals. What
the outcome will be it is impossible to say,
but we are not without hope. Anthony
Comstock, of New York; Thomas M
Moore, of Passaic; Lawyer Cover and
Major James S Yard of Monmouth Co. ;
Rev. Dean McNulty. of Paterson; Rev.
Dr. Kempshall, of Elizabeth. and others
comprise the delegation. So far as We
know none are from this end of the State.
The Monitor., 1891-03-13

1t seems SO very long ago since first
hearing of Birnum, Phineas Barnum, that
we really don't know when to fix the ex-
act date. AS for that matter, there are
but comparatively few persons now living
who remember when Barnum. the genial,
jolly. ever funny Barnum, was not. OF
late he has been very sick az Marina, his
country residence near Bridgeport, Conn,
but is now conyalescing. For six or eight
weeks he was just lowering betwixt life
and death, witt. the odds somew hat gainst
him because of his age, being now mole
than so years old. We hope the patrt u
Of Joyce Heath, Tom Thumb, Jenny Lind
and proprietor of ''the greatest show on
earth many added years of future hap
pness.
The Monitor., 1891-03-13

They do not speak easy of the saloon,
we mean the managers of the Lackawanna
railroad law do not, who have lately dis
charged a number of their employees for
sig ping petition to a liquor license. The
company's representatives explained that
the lives of the thousands who trust them
selves upon their trains depend upon the
sobriety of the employees. and when men
are found who give active and moral sup
port to saloons near their own homes the
company does not thiak that they are COM
petent to care for the safety of others.
This rule is to be enforced from Hoboken
Buffalo.
The Monitor., 1891-03-13
New Store under Opera House,

500 pairs of heavy cottonade
pantaloons, made in our own factory,
the work on every pair warranted,
our regular SI.oo goods, will be
sold at Is cents. The material is
more than worth the money. Mems
and boys heavy plaid duck over
al!s and jumpers. regular panta
loon make from our own work
rooms, 50 cents pair---most dealers
sell them at Is cents; good over
alls, with jumpers and sack coats to
match, SO cents, regular soc goods.
Mems heavy domet flannel shirts,
with collars, extra long, from our
own factory, double scanned and
better than other dealers can buy to
sell at SOC, our price 40 cents.
Mems heavy, cable-sewed work.
ing shoes, 90 cents; extra ones at
SI.oo, and better yet at SIPS. Our
mems shoe stock now has room for
display, and there is none larger,
none better or none cheaper any,
where in this county. A look will
convince you.
Our orders have been placed for
our new stock of spring clothing,
and we expect to show a nice as
sortment as early as there is any
need for it.
We have nice, dressy pantaloon
for second best wear for sI.,o a
pair. Good enough to wear to
church.
L. b. HUMPHREYS.
J. Nelson Curry in charge.