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DYNAMITE CRUISER vEsUvIUs.
The Vessel Apparently Doomed as a
Warship.

The Vessel Apparently Doomed as a
Warshlp.
WASHINGTON, May lO.-The Vesuvius
is apparently doomed. Navy Department
experts in ordnance have about con-
cluded to recommend against the pneu-
matte gun system on shipboard. Com
modore Sampson, Chief of Ordnance.
will soon present his comments on the
report of the board which recently ex-
amined the guns of the cruiser at Port
Royal, and while the comments by this
officer will not boldly condemn the sys-
tenn, it is likely he will discourage the
continuance of this form of gun in the
navy, much less the further introduction
OF the system in the service, as was pos
sible under an old Act of Congress.
Commodore Sampson apparently shares
with his predecessor, Commodore Folger.
the latter's objection to the pneumatic
system, and in the absence of any good
reason for the retention OF fixed tubes in
the bow of the Nesuvius the guns will
probably be removed and the ship con-
verted into an ordinary gunboat, although
her lines and engine construction would
not make her perfectly satisfactory YES
sci of that type. while her vulnerability
renders her of little use as a warship.
There is some talk OF holding another
trial of the Nesuvius, taking her to sea.
The recent trial is thought to be hardly
extensive enough to answer all the ques-
tions asked concerning the Vesuvius.
But the report of the board is now be-
lieved to make as good showing for the
ship as is possible, and experts are in
clined to think the additional trials
would not contribute to the information
already possessed.
The matter of fuses, the occasion of so
much extra work for the board. is one
easily corrected. The same cannot be said
for the valve gear of the ship. The faults
in that part OF the guns remained almost
as pronounced and Objectionable as when
the guns were first fired in the Delaware
River.
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INTERNATIONAL coNvENr1oN.
Biennial Convention Of the Young
Mems Christian. Association.

Biennial Convention OF the Young
Mems Christian. Association.
INDIANAPOLIS, May l0.-The interna-
tional biennial convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association met here at
noon. The session was devoted chiefly
to the election Of officers and general or
ganization. Secretaries We're present
from all parts of the United States.
After some addresses the Committee on
Nominations made partial report, re-
commencing: For President, G. n.
Pierce OF Dayton, Ohio First Vice Presi-
dent, L. II. Packard, of Montreal; Sec
ond Vice President, r. A. Orr of Pitts
burg; other Vice-Presidents-I J. Chase.
ex-Governor of Indiana; Francis Batch
elder, Boston; ". Wood White, Atlanta;
L. Clifford, Grand Forks, \. D.; 6. +.
Orchard. Tacoma, Wash. The report was
unanimously accepted and the now Presi-
dent was conducted to the chair and the
meeting closed with benediction.
During the meeting reports giving a
summary of the work done since the
Kansas City convention in 1891 were read.
The increase all along the line is most
encouraging, both in number and fnan-
cially. The associations are possessed of
total net property to the amount of SI4,-
O00,O0O
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raising row and getting him ratified.
They told me that as soon as | had gone
the 'boss" began flinging out his taunts
and trying to pick a fuss. The boy made
no reply until the man began to insult me.
Then he tiared up and detied the other to
fair fight with knives. A party of the
men cried out against it, but the majority
favored fight, and it was about to begin
when | arrived.
Both men were stripped down to shirt
and trousers. The "boss'i loomed up like
giant, while Johnny Glenn appeared like
child in comparison. Poor boy! l stood
there with my heart in my mouth, not
even daring to call out to him, and the
only consolation | had was in the knowl-
edge that the boss would have to fight
Inc next, and that 1 stood pretty even
show with him. When the word was
given and they sprang forward | shut my
eyes and groaned. | heard them moving
about and | caught the "Ohs'' and 'AhS!'
of the men, but | saw no more than if l
had been blinded. 1t lasted about three
minutes as they told me. Then some one
shrleked out-the voice of a woman-nOt
shrek of pain, but OF fear or horror, aud
1t brought me TO myself. The boss" was
down with a knife in his heart, and
Johnny Glenn was sitting down with his
hands over his eyes.
"He's a woman! He's a womanr
forward, and they were right That shrek
had betrayed my partner. She had fought
the ''boss" as a man, but when her knife
struck home she had given way to her
feelings as woman.
What more? Very little. On my honor
as man 1 had never suspected such
thing.
l asked her for her story, but she would
not give it to me. From a word dropped
here and there L concluded that she had
come out to the mines in search ofa lover,
and had thus far failed to find him, but
she was very close mouthed. We took up
"A collection and sent her away to Sacra-
mento, and | never heard of her since she
LETT camp. She could not go without a
thank you" and a handshake, but she
was shy and dignified. Even in her part
ing with me, who had been ''pards," she
simply said:
You have been square and honest and
kind. God bless you!"
The boys had many a sly dig at me af-
terward about Johnny Clem," but have
told you how it was. While his ways puz-
zled me, and he always kept me wonder
ing wherein he differed from man, the
idea of his belonging to the other sex
never entered my mind.
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kinsman the Sioux. who were lords of
the great plains, even as they were of the
great forests. The New England
Indians in the east, and the Shawnees
ana Delawares further south, paid tri-
butte to them, and the terror of their arms
had extended over the borders of Mary
land and Virginia. Never perhaps in
the worlds history has so small a body
OF men dominated so large district and
for SO long a time.
For half century these tribes had
nursed grudge toward the French. since
Champlain and some of his followers
had taken part with their enemies against
them. During all these years they had
brooded in their forest villages, flashing
out now and again in some border out
rage, but waiting for the most part until
their chance should come. And now it
seemed TO them that it had come. They
had destroyed all the tribes who might
have allied themselves with the white
men. They had isolated them. They had
supplied themselves with good guns and
plenty of ammunition from the Dutch
and English of New York. The long, thin
line of French settlements lay naked be-
fore them. They were gathered in the
woods like hounds in leash, waiting for
the orders of their chiefs which should
precipitate them with torch and with
tonlahawk upon the belt of villages
a. Conan Doyle, in Harper's Magazine.
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THE IROQUoIs
a Remarkable Coniederacy of North
American Savages.

American Savages.
The Iroquois, as they were named by
the French, or the Five Nations, as they
called themselves, hung like a cloud
over the whole great continent. Their
confederation was a natural one, for they
were OF the same stock and spoke the
same language, and all attempts To sepa-
rate them had been in vain. Mohawks
Cavugas, Onondagas, Oneidas and SEN
ecAs We're each proud OF their own totems
and their own chiefs, but in war they
were Iroquois and the enemy OF one was
the enemy of all. Their numbers we're
small, for they were never able to put
= 900 warriors in the field, and their couu-
Try was limited, for their villages were
scattered over the track which lies be-
tween Lake Champain and Lake Onta-
rio. But they were united, they were
cunning, they were desperately brave,
and they were fiercely energetic and ag-
rressive Holding central position
tneV struck out upon each side in turn,
never content with simply defeating an
adversary, but absolutely annihilating
and destroying him, while holding all
the others il check by their diplomacy.
War was their business, ana cruelty
their amusement. One by one they had
turned their arms against the various
nations, until FOR a space OF over thou
sand square miles none existed save by
sufferance. They had swept away
Hurons and Huron missions in one fear
ftil massacre. They had destroyed the
tribes OF the Northwest, until even the
distant Sacs and Foxes trembled at their
name. They had secured the whole
country TO westward, until their scalping
PARTIES had come into touch with their
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5snunl Eaktatn 41ntnbrr.
None But Royal

= BAKING POWDER is absolutely pure. No other equals
it. Or approaches it in leavening strength purity
wholesomeness. (See U. S. Govt Reports) No other
is made from of tartar specially refined for it and
chemically pure. No other makes such light, sweet,
finely favored and wholesome food. No other will
maintain its strength without loss until used, will
make bread cake that will keep fresh so long, or
that can be eaten hot with mpunty by dyspeptcs
No other is SO economical
The Baking Powders now being offered in this
vicinity with the statement that they "as good
Royal" have been shown by the official analyses to be
composed of alum and detrimental to health.
The official chemists of the United States and Can
ada0 State analysts municipal boards of health and
physicians indorse the great qualities of the Royal
Baking Powder.
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State to Ed S. Stokes, dated December l.
1854, and signed by Grover Cleveland,
then Governor, releasing Stokes from all
consequences of his crime. This intro
duction Of the pardon is the first informa-
ton that has ever been given as to the
restoration of fStokes' citizenship. Judge
Cowan took the papers in the suit and re-
served his decision. The alleged libel
grew out Of a civil suit brought by Cas-
sius II. Reed against I'd S. Stnkes-
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sroKEs rs pARpoNED.
Sensation Created in the New York
Court of General Sessions.

sensation 1fcaIeu III bilG -Nt" L oEN
Court of General Sessions.
NEW YORK, May 10.-Argument was
heard to-day before Judge Cowing in the
Court of General Sessions in the libel
suit OF Edward S. Stokes Of the Hoffman
House against w. Z. d. Stokes and Law
yer William r. Martin. Ex-Mayor Hall,
representing Mr.. Martin, moved to quash
the Indictment. The affidavit of Martin
was read, in which it was claimed that
Edward S. Stokes, having been con-
victed and sentenced for the CRIME of
homicide in shooting Jim Fisk, was
civilly dead, and the charges brought by
him against w. Z. d. Stokes and himself
Martini could not be entertained.
Counsel for Edward Stokes thereupon
created o sensation in the courtroom by
handing up to the court the pardon of the
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Issue of $50. .ooo. GOO Nortynce Bonds.

Issue of 500. O.G0O.O 900 Mortgage Bonds.
CINCINNATI, May l0.-The stockhoId-
ers OF the Big Four Railroad met here to-
day and, on practically unanimous
vote, decided to issue $4,000, 900 in mort
gage bonds, 5000, 900 for double tracking
and equipment, S29,OO0,OOO to retire out
standing bonds, Sl6,O0O,O0O to be used
after 1884 at the rate of $1,000. 600 per year
for equipment and construction. Author
lty was also given the directorSto extend
the line TO Louisville, Ky.
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Three Mon Run ovnr

CHICAGO. May l0.-Gus Thomastonn.
Cornelius Wagner and Andrew Olson.
workmen, confused by rapidly moving
trains at Grand Crossing, were run over
and killed this morning.
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Tnx suIt Case Dismissad.

WASHINGTON, May 1O.-The United
States Supreme Court to-day dismissed
the san Pablo and Tulare Railroad tax
case, as predicted in these dispatches.
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The sounding board of pianos, the
most important part of the instrument. is
made of American spruce, and is as care
fully chosen as the wood for violin.
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AE EANTED-LADIES TO MALL AND AD-
~ ur, s. envelopes, obtain names. ETC. FOR
Us at home. For terms send addressed
stamped envelope, Z. L. oMl THE TOILEr
Co. (4NOJ, South bend, Ind. ap24-ISJ
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NXTANTED-EXPE PERIEN CEp PIPE MAX
w ers, straight and round seamers. Apply
JOHN u. IOOhrk x CO.. Los Angeles, tlli.
MylO-l4t
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NAT ATANTED-YUUNG GIRL FOR LIGHT
w houseworK; sleep at home 922 t1lth
street, alter 5 p. NJ. luYIO-3t
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NOR SALE, S3OO-OLD ESTABLISHED
L cigar tobacco, II lit and candy stand with
fixtures; central location, near hotels; rent,
SIS per month; references required; very rare
chance Address p. y. box Al, Sacramento.
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Inr 5uIr.

FrOR SALE CHEAP-A FINE MlLCH COW
L with calf, at 800 Eleventh street. Gives
SIX gallons every day. myl 2-3tS
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NAT ATANIED-PE8SONS LOOKING FOR
W help o1 any kind or sober and industri-
Gus men seeking employment, can be satisfied
oy calling or addressing "Ine intelligence"
1O1I second str ct, sacramento. CHARLES
II. MILLER, Proprietor.
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IOLAIN SEWING NEATLY DONE At
L Ao~t street. MRS. NJ. b. MCCORD.
nyJ-lWr
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W VINO can explain pain business propo-
slllon; none otner need apply. IAlPEKIAL
W NAICH COMPANY, PosloIhce Building
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5aiuftteu.

APANtSE YOUNG MAN WANTS STU.
y alton 20 40 isLJ work III family. Aqdres5
IL W =, 40 II street. lnyIl-3t+
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aelrrtf,ta atnttres.

FUNERAL NOTICE.-A SPECIAL MEET
-, ms Of Mon Lodge, No. 81, +. ana A. NJ.
NJ N IIr4S De ld neld at Masonic Half at $50 THIS
tfr tf,r AEhNOON, for the purpose of attending
ILG me funeral OF our deceased brother, John
iiovper. ioT,g. Members of sister Lodges and so
3toouInlhg Master Masons respectfully invited
W fnt1H- SIIsT NJ; GEO. A. WHITE, W. NJ
Join MACARTHUR, Secretary. Its
SPECIAL MEETING on TTNTON
- -, t,-99age No. 5S, F. and A. NJ, win be a
i,TiG iii l,liS This EVENING at 7:3O O'Clock. Y e
1,j+.II 1tI eiioW Graft Masons cordially in w
JOHN MACARTHUR, Secretary. itt
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TOR SALE - PARTIES DESIRING TO
L buy or sell grocery stores, lodging-houses,
saloons, restaurants or any kind of business
chances, Will do well TO call at 1907 Fourth
street, sacramento. l nave now for sale &C.
srable bargains in most all lines. w. DOAN,
1907 Fourth street.
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- tACRAMENTO COUNTY POUI.TRy
~ 1arus.-Ihofoushbred eggs for sale, For
sacramento. 80
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General atutires.

| ACIE LAhEN-THE YOUNG WOMEN'S
40 a. oak n Park MAY GOTH Saturday. Admis
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TOR SALE-DOMESrIC. NEW HOME,
i White, Standard, Singer, Wheeler & WIZ
son sewing machines, new and secondhand,
from $40 upward. a. j. POMMER, corner
Ninth and j streets.
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JAY eouLD's FIRST SWEETHEART.
How the Young Finnncier Loved and
Lost.
Especial Correspondence.

Lost.
Especial Correspondencel
WEST CHESTER, Pa, JAN 1O.-If you will
look in the "Pronouncing Gazetteer Of tho
World" you will find among some thou
sand other entries this: "Gouldsborough,
Lackawanna county, Pa, in Buck town
ship, on the Lehigh river, about eighteen
miles S. by h. Of Scranton. 1t has two
churches and II tannery."
When Jay Gould was youth Goulds.
borough had not yet been named in his
honor, and the village, if village there was,
had not two churches, but did have a tan
merry, of which Gould was master The
tannery was on creek that separated two
counties, and Jay Gould, slender. dark
eyed youth, lived hard by ut country
tavern. This place, and especially this
tavern, was the scene of Gould's earliest
perhaps his sole, romance. The tavern keep
er had two daughters-one of them, Eta, a
very pretty girl. The cold financier of after
fell i'll love with Eta She returned his
affection, and the two became engaged
At that time, however, Gould had given
no hint of the powers that afterwnrd won
him enormous success. He was in financial
difficulties, and the sheriff Of Lackawanna
county had his eye upon the tannery.
When matters got to their worst the sheriff
swooped down upon the place. but found
nothing. Gould had sentinels on watch,
and when the sheriff arrived skins, cured
leather and whatever else was movable and
valuable had been placed upon raft and
rowed beyond his jurisdiction into the next
county. If neighborhood gossip is to DO
trusted, this happened more than once
These tactics saved Gould's possessions,
but lost him his sweetheart. The prudent
host looked upon his prospective son-n-
law rs bad financial investment and final
ly insisted that his daughter break off her
engagement of marriage upon the ground
that herr lover stood in peril of the peni-
Tertiary. 1t is not known what protest
either of the lovers made, but abe father
had his Pay, the engagement was broken
off, Gould in time moved away, and his
former sweetheart became tho wife OF n
gentleman named Day.
Gould in after years never forgot his for
mer sweetheart. Mrs. Day was in course
of time left widow, and for some years
she kept n boarding house mt Atlantic City.
During MI this time Gould kept himself in
formed of her movements. When no be-
came rich he sent her presents from time to
time, and although he was always devot-
ed husband he never permitted the memory
of his early love affair to die out of his
heart
Mrs. Day now lives in West Chester, and
whatever other persons may say of the dead
millionaire she has for him nothing but
kind words and pleasant memories.
+. S. PERCY.
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fabulous catches wers made by means OF
these nets. Old fishermen talk about the
Bass islands, IN Lake Erie; tell of taking
as many us four tons of yshitefish in a sin.
gle pound, and herring were so plentiful
then they were almost given away. The
pound net is still very successful More
than half the catch of Lake Erie is taken
Ill them, and no longer ago than 1885 seven
nets captured eleven tons of herring. The
net is set to stakes, and rs there are hun
drcds OF miles of them all about the Base
Islands and the western end of Lake Erie
steamships sometimes catch them in their
wheels ana ruin them. Gill nets have an
advantage iii this respect, rs they set so
deep they are never disturbed by passing
vessels, though storms often drive them n
considerable distance and injure them seri-
ously. In the deeper lakes they are of ne
cessity used more extensively than in Lake
Erie, the meshes used OH Lakes Huron
Michigan and Superior being larger for tax
ing whitefsh and lake trout.
The method of cleaning the fish which is
employed in the large fish houses is shown
In the picture The heads are chopped
off with hate het, the refuse removed in n
few quick strokes, and the fish, ready for
washing and picking, is thrown into one
barrel, while the refuse goes into another
This applies only to the establishments
where fish are salted or smoked. In this
trade, as in all lake fishing, Sandusky, O..
is the great center. No other city in Amer
lea, if the recent census is to be believed,
handles so many thousand tons of fish as
Sandusky. Perhaps no other single fact so
we'll illustrates the magnitude of the lake
fisheries as that more fish are handled each
year at one lake port than at either New
York city or Gloucester, Mass. All told,
about 10000 men find employment in this
industry, and many thousands of dollars
are invested in the tugs, schoouers and nets
used in it,
A few years ago the fishing tug was n
rarity. The dingy and pound net sailboat
were almost universal. But with the de-
velopment of the industry the employment
of the steam tug of from five to twenty
tons burden ca L in rapidly. y score of
them are now in the business mt Erie, Pa.
nearly as many ut this city, and many more
Mt Sandusky. They will soon about entirely
supplant the sailboats, as steam is more
certain than the tickle wind, and getting
fish to market promptly is quite us impor-
tant us catching them. Lake Erie is now
being fished very closely and the catch per
boat is correspondingly small A few years
ago gang of gill nets not infreauently
yielded several tons ut n lifting; now it is
rare that 1T reaches ton, and the average
~ proDaDly somewhat under half that
much. This is due quite as much to tho
larger number of nets rs to failing supply
perhaps almost wholly to the former. Fish
culture is replenishing in n measure the
drain caused by the enormous annual
catch, and more may justly be expected of
1t Il few years hence.
Such facts, concisely put, give fair idea
of the magnitude of this industry and its
value to the nation. But only one who has
spent the morning from early dawn on a
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He Inherits Literary Genius.
pecial Correspondence

NEW York, Jan. 1o.-Much will be ex-
pected of the son of Sidney Lanier, and it
Is pleasing to state that he has given I'M
usual promise. Charles D. Lanier was
born in Macon, Ga, in 1865 and after his
sixth year spent his youth in Virginia and
Maryland. He attended the celebrated
McDonogh farm school, near Baltimore
After completing his course there he went
to Johns Hopkins university in 1885 and
graduated there in 1885,
His writing has been mainly on purely
literary themes-critical and scholarly-and
show both love and knowledge of bellies
lettres. In the spring of 1892 Mr.. Lanier,
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In November the storms prevent visit to
The nets for several days, and often when
they are lifted under such circumstances
there are hundreds of dead and bloated fish
in them.
The pound net is much more humane
contrivance. 1t takes the fish alive, and
keeps them so until the fishermen come to
remove them. 1t was first introduced on
Che lakes about 1850, and is the familiar net
of Connecticut fishermen. 1t has three
parts-leaders, funnel or heart, and bowl
or pot. The fish strike the leaders, and if
too large to pass through its meshes turn
aside and follow along to the funnel, and
thence through it into the bowl, from which
they rarely escape. Lifting pound net
consists accordingly of simply raising the
bowl and scooping the fish from it into the
boat, while the whole gill net must be taken
up and changed and washed every time it
Is visited.
Twenty-Five and thirty years ago almost
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after dining with Mr. Howells and Mr..
John Brisben Walker, was invited by Mr..
Walker to become one of the editors of The
Cosmopolitan. He wrote for The Review
of Reviews an interesting sketch of The
Cosmopolitan and its staff and then joined
that magazine, where he is now assistant
editor
He is one of the youngest magazine edi-
tors in America. He is utterly unassuming,
and while holding the most exalted admira-
ton and reverence for the memory of his
lllustrious father he does not claim for
himself any consideration ms the son of
genius. From both parents he inhcrits the
love of music and many graccs.
Mrs. Lanicr, his mother, is n rarely nc
complishcd musician and cxccls as a con-
vcrsaiionist. Mr.. Lanicr gives promise of n
noteworthy career in the high and exacting
profession of literature
MEL II. CoLQuITT.
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LIFTING THE POT OF A POUND NET.

LIFTING THE POT OF POUND NET.
fish tug, or watched through more than half
day the labors of n sailboat crew over the
pound nets, and noted the indescrbable
charm in the shifting colors of water and
sky, and seen the simple pristine elegance
of whitefish, silver herring, blue pike and
golden perch as they come from their ma
tive element, Gun appreciate to the full the
picturesque beauty that surrounds it.
SAMUEL G.. MCCLURE
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GOETZ'S BULLETIN.

We have again accepted the agency
for the celebrated LADIES TEN
DER FEET SHOES" Will cell
them again under the game guarantee
and as low az ever.
Goods damaged by food will be sold
at o great sacrifice. Como and look at
them, there may be q pair to 1T you.
GOETZ'S,
No. 101 Salem avenue, Cor. Henry.
416 6m.