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would make fire 1,5o0 miles lene; Or both sides of blazing avenue of destruc- tion 75o miles in length. That's only one year!
 A bonfire of dollar bills would look like pretty costly amusement. Since 1875 we have burned up enough value to carpet 12 square miles with dollar bills, or to pave with them bicycle path ten feet wide from New York to San Francisco, and return path near ly all the way back Four bicyelists might ride abreast of that tract and dc continuous century runs every day for two months.
 In shorthand the tale might be made much longer-the fire loss of the United States is an enormous and too little ap- preciated drag upon the prosperity of the country. It is absolute waste, every dollar of it. With the exception of those caused by lightning, there are no un- preyentible fires. Even those which oc- cur in buildings which have been torn down by cyclones are preventible. The houses might have been of stronger build.
 It is something of surprise-a good deal of q shock-to learn that much the largest single cause of reported fires is incendiarism. Even without those set by tramps, burglars, drunken men, lu- natics and mischievous children, ineen- diarism accounts for 7.53 per cent. of all the fires. Defective fues and smoke stacks only cause GOA per cent. There must be many incendiary fires never reported or suspected; but those report. ed since 1875 are some 50,000 in num- Der. If the frebugs of 21 years were marshaled into an army, their dread torches at "earry arms" they would make a force nearly as large as Ma poleon's effective force at Waterloo leaving Grouchy out of the reckoning, Their torches cost the country some $16,o000o0 lastyear. They work in city and country alike. Tn the latter case they seem to favor barn burning, a com paratiyely innocent amusement when we think of the city frebug who reck- lessly endangers hundred lives to cheat the insurance company out of a few dollars on chattel mortgage.
 Insurance men say that arson for profit is not due to overyaluation in writing policies: the companies have combined to prevent that, It is the re-
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trecraclters and fireworks do about the

ttrecrackers and fireworks do about the Fourth of July.
 Lamp accidents are four times as serious a matter to insurence men as lightning,
 Only one fire in ten thousand results from cyclone, flood, or earthquake, or from the reflection of the suns rays from concave metal surfaces, like the bottoms of milk cans.
 Friction in machinery causes more fires than are set by bad children.
 More than five times as many churches are burned as theaters.
 Only seven watch factories were burned in 1895, and 155 rich houses.
 The insurance business is full of sur prises.
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suit of sheer fraud, much of the insured property being sold or moved away be- fore the fire, by mysterious dispensa- ton of Providence, is allowed to visit the remainder. Against this kind of arson, which is purely city and town phenomenon, the insurance companies wage uneeasing war. Yet in New York state alone the loss by fires intentional ly set was over $2, 100000 last year. The city has been the scene of some of the cruelest killing by fire on record. The poison murders committed by Dr. Holmes were not as horrible and not more controlled than arson murders on the east side of New York.
 The rapid increase of tall buildings in all the chief American cities makes any discussion of fireproof construction very interesting. Insurance men say posi- lively that there are fire resisting build ings, but none that are freproof. A fire in any room of modern tall build ing may burn itself out without harm ing the next room. This was first proved by the little fire in the Western Union structure, and has since been many times confirmed. But jet 8 hot fire rage next door and the proudest of the Babel towers may be brought low This hap pened last November, in the case of the Manhattan bank building Of New York. A hilnsy collar factory next door was burned, and the Manhattan building was partly consumed, partly tumbled down by the expansion of it's steel gird- CTS, due to the heats forcing the walls apart. Any building might, under like circumstances, meet like fate. Yet there are now in New York in course of erection one building of 35 stories, one of 2S, and many in the neighborhood of 20, and in Chicago a number probably quite as great.
 There are fallacies prevalent which the following facts may set right:
 Smoking is supposed to be the cause of much loss, but lightning really sets nearly twice as many fires, and even spontaneous combustion and lime stacking exceeds the burning of to baccos as d cause Of the burning of prop erty
 Improperly Insulated wires cause fewer fires, all the year round, than
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GT0PYRlGh4g lc@V.J
 three months of every calen- Y .ar @ are anxious ones to insurance p, E,,.a tbe bleak north wind begins to p, and roaring fires are lighted in i i,1ar,disused furnaces and grates, aoe lOl9 men lie awake O nights won lia @ Row many defective fiues" age z zlps to feure In the newspaper reports p's norning. That there will be an s:a+e l increase of fire loss with tae R sald snap of autumn is taken SzG s4ad. ' So that it is even now impoa"i- '' sav whether 1896 is to be labelr6t a
 Ssd or indifferent year from she Er.nce standpoint. Good it can g'ard-
 No year sn quite satisfactory fr |Isb over s1oo, 100000 worth of prop. # goes up ia smoke.
 fire tables of the Chronicle which ebe authority upon the topiH, plaeq anorted losss in 1891 at $144. .sa0,o 900; .top at s1gs, DOC, 900; in 1893, st $168,- EEPo: in 1ge4, at $14o.ooo,ooo: in 18s5- ||I9ooo.ooe. In general, tn. reckon Ebovs x decided and fairy steady ass fror. s64, 1000, GOO in 1876 to mora
 twice eaht figure to-day. The sura
 If 9t aears' loss-not including
 small fires which werb nnreport- |sas s2.sI9, ,5Oo,491
 EIE ss essg to say two billion" with 'ssonr3Ng to taste the word as two s<ands A few comparisons will
 thS enormous scope of the loss Sinteiiigible.
 s toiai annual gold and silver prod- 8 the United States is far smaller
 Or some years has been smaller
 inc annual fire loss.
 6S annual fire loss is one-tenth as
 as all the money of every kind Emulation in the United States, old s3. gold. silver, copper and paper. highest point touched by wheat aq the October nip" of the short
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STATE OF Ono, olrr OF TOLEDO, :,

i1NNFFto T
 FRANK ]. CHENEY makes oath that he is the eenior partner of the firm of F. J CHENEY SC Co, doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay tue sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every case or Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY.
 Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 9th day of December A. D. lso6.
 A. w. GLEASON,
 tshAl Notary PHblie. Halls Gatarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co.,, Toledo, o.
 Sold by Druggists 15c.
 Halls Family Pills are the best.
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The Fnnlta and rollies of the Aco

Are numerous, but of the latter none is more ridiculous than the promiscuous and random use of laxative pills and other dras- tic cathartics. These wrench, eonyulse and weaken both the stomach and tho bowels If Hostetter's Stomach Bitters be used in- stead of these ne=relAedies, the result is ac- complished without pain and with great benefit to the bowels, tae stomach and the liver. Use this remedy when constipation is manifested, and thereby prevent it from becoming chronic
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Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Eass
 Away.

If you want to quit tobacco using easily and forever, be made well, strong, magnetic, full of new life and vigor, take o-To-Bac, the wonder-worker that makes weak men strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days
 your own druggist, who will guarantee a cure Booklet and sample mailed free. Ad. Sterling Remedy O., Chicago orNew York.
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HE NEVER SERVED.
A Historical Fact Which Is News to
 Many Young People.

William Rufus King, born April 6, ,,786, died April Is, 1853, was a vice president of the United States who never served in that capacity, and one who took the oath of office on foreign soil, something which can be said of II ether executive officer who has ever been elected by the people of this coun- try.
 King was an invalid, but his friends urged him to take second place on the ticket with Pierce in 1852. Both were elected, but MT. Kings health failed so rapidly he was forced to go to Cuba early in 1853, some 21s months before inauguration day.
 Not having returned to the United States by March 4, congress passed a special act authorizing the United States consul at Matanzas, Cuba, to swear him in as vice president at about the hour when Pierce was taking the oath of office at Washington.
 This arrangement was carried out to dot, and on the day appointed, at a plantation on one of the highest hills in the city of Nfatanzas, MT. King was made vice president of the United States, amid the solemn "Vaya vol con Dios" God be with you) of the creoles who had assembled to witness tic unique spectacle.
 Vice President King returned to his home at Cahawka, Ala, arriving at that place April IT, 1853, and died the fol lowing day His remains were laid to rest on his plantation, known as Pine Hills.
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|s about S6 cents a bushel. re loss of 21 years-accurate 3 longer period are not avail k buy enough wheat, even at o load 9,50o,ooo freight cars; p00 freight trains of 50 cars which the procession could you'd reach across the coun- times, allowing two miles m which is the least space ? collision could be avoided. an hour it would take the " trains nearly seven nt and day, to steam past d land.
 generally reckoned at five r the last five years we lre ''roperty enough to buy ID the United States Is -csnt wheat per year, The 0mmunity by fires is just ~ as the entire cost of it's |or all purposes.
 from the easily extin- n chamber up to the ranon in which millions ' the dwellings burn very ' and cost; in New York. ' are apt to be tenements oo tenants each. But as- 'onVenlence, that all the Pea In 21 years was in the oloek houses of the most ype, their destruction they were all burned at gnt miles long and four 'oWlng the usual spaces II stretched out in one of block houses, 20 feet Tor streets. they would Ire stretching from New and from their ashes
 people-say the popu-
 Ofk and Brooklyn com wander forth homeless.
 We're neat. frame cot better type common in
 our fire loss for 21
 equivaient to the de- la nones of 5000, 900 peo-
 year. at the present enough property to
 peasant village resi-
 @sn residences placed
 2 jingle years $ loss
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A Chilly Alliance,

Eilton-I wonder how it feels to be ;rozen 10 death?
 Bilton-You'd better ask stilton be. lore it's too late.
 W.-What does he know about ito B.--He married a Boston wornan.- up-to-Date.
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Manya man

' vas drinking prussie acid.
 Every part of the body is polluted. The digestive juices are suppressed and weak ened. Tie kidneys and skin are clogged with impurities and the lungs and bronchial tubes overloaded with morbid secretion which eat away the delicate tissue, and bring about bronchitis and consumption.
 All the diseases caused by this subtle pro- cess of bilious poisoning are cured by the marvellous aterative action of Dr. Picrce's Golden Medical Discovery. It directly in- creases the liver's natural cxcrctive and purifying powers gives the digestive and blood making organs power to manufacture an abundance of red, rich. healthy blood.
 It drives out all impurities and vltalizes the circulation with the life-giving clements which restore perfect nutrition, solid mus cular power, and healthy nerve-force
 'In August I8e5, was taken down in bed with a burning and severe pains ill my stomach and under my shoulders, and dizEiness in iiiy head,' writes Ira D. Herring, Esq, of Needmcre, Levy Co., Fla My home physician was called and he said my symptoms were more like consumption than anything else. fingered i'll this way seven months trying different kinds of medicine Ncth- ing that ate would digest, and had great di5- tress In my stomach. was persuaded to try some of Dr Pierte's remedies or to see what he thought of my case. l wrote him and received an answer stating that my suffering from indigestion Pierces Golden Medical Discovery. The first bottle gave pleasing results. have taken four bottles of the Golden Medical Discovery and three small vias of the Pleasant Pellets am able to do my work and eat what could x before took these medicines"
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''Hew ODD it s, said Pat, as he trudged along on foot one sultry day. "that man never meets cart going the same way as he is sl'-Household Words.
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OLD BULLION -@Whatl You wish to marry my daughter2 She Is mere school girl yet" Suitor-"Yes, sir. 1came early to avoid the rush. n--Modes and Fabrics.
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TEACHER-"W Is straight line2" Pu. pil-"The picture of it's own road which each company prints in the railroad map.n Boston Transcript.
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RELIEVE Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my boy's life last summer-M Mas ALLIE DOUGLASS, LeRoy, Mich, Oct 20, '9l.
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IA HoNEYcoMB," says Brother Watkins, s'am lot ob little cells; but honeymoon am often one big sell. ell.n-Philadelphi Record.
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IT is said that red noses run in families, the same as quick temper, or consumption. --Atchison Globe.
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ALL busy people finally get so that they hate those who are lazy.-Atchison Globe
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JUsr try 10e box of Cascarets, the finest liver and bowel regulator ever made.
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WnEN bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret, candy cathartie, cure guaranteed, 10c, 25c.
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BELT oF FIRE.

. carelessnass and Crime to 's' ~ tbe People Of the U. s.
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How TIME flies from the date on which a man distinguishes himselfl
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Flattering Comparison.

She Mr. Jones says my beauty ill., toxicates him.
 He Some fellows can get drunk on q five-eent drink | Truth.
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...u,.,n as Problem-startling Ex- cenoia the Immense Loss of h'o, aa,th Due to Arson and Pure Reckiessness'
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wREEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS pIease state that you saw the adycrtise- naent zs this paper.
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kJVtU D,Y IgI uf-f,foNoi 'f9N7s Halls Family Pills are the best.
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Celebrating in 1897 it's seventy-frst birthday, THE COMPANION offers its readers many excep- tionally brilliant features. The two hemispheres have been explored in search of attractive matter
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-12-05
TONIGHT'S PLAY.

The editor of The Gallery of
Players" recently recorded an en-
thusiastic opinion of Mionie Mad
dern Fiske, who will be seen to-
night in this city in her new play,
The Right to Happiness" He
said:
al have fer some time enter
tanned the opinion that Minnie
Madden Fiske is the most finished
actress now speaking the English
language, and that opinion was
confirmed this year so strongly
that / have desired to give it W
terance. Net only does this wo
man impress me as being by far
the strongest and subtless emo
tional actress in our tongue, buttI
find her better than Bcrnhardt,
though the French Queens voice
is a shade more bewitcning and
spell binding; and in her sugges-
tons of reserve force, her infinite
ease, | find Mrs. Fiske quite the
equal of Duse. Hence l say she
is one of the greatest actresses in
the world. She is, probably, in
literary acquisition and power, one
of the most brilliant women on the
stage, as the plays from her pen
and her conversational power dem
oostrate. Her histrionic art is IA
ture magnetized to a higher
poteptiatity Of impressiveres:
Whether in headlong directness Of
passion or sinuous indirectness Of
coquetrY, whether in agony or vo
luptuous allurement, whether il
failure or triumph of goodness Of
badness, her ability to express the
feelings of an audience is a gift
hardly measurable by words-ar
Elusive splendor not to be eoopec
up in precise terms"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1896-12-05

Always a fresh supply of WHIT
mans fine candies On hand al
Troxlers.
Birdsey & Co. have witaou a
doubt the fiDist stock of crockery,
lamps, ETC., ever brought to Ocala.
Call on them; they will be pleased
to show the pretty thing' to you.
YANTED-At ChattertOD, Citrus
county, saw mill men, timber fallefS
and Choppers. John Lynch. tW
Just received Italian chestnuts,
seeded raisins, cleaned currants,
new cluster raisins, citrop, figs
and new almonds ar French Bak-
cry.
The best garden and flower seeds
in the CITY at very low prices at
Tydings & CO.
Mr.. Tydings, the druggist. is
considered the most careful anc
thorough compounder of prescriP
tions i'll the city.
The Champion boarding hous
is one of the most popular bosro
ing houses in the city. especially
so for railroad men. Try it. A
good square meal for IS cents
Pleasant rooms. Cheap weekly
board. One block south of the
Methodist church.
Watch the surprising low price.
at the Anti-Monopoly drug store
in stationery and papers, a frs
class box paper and envelopes ?.
each for Ioc.
You can get the most delicat'
fiavors of toilet soapin the marke
at Tydings & Co.
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LEAVE.

No % Daily, II 4; NJ, for, Leessburg, Fitz;
I'll intermediate stations.
MI. Or DAILY. ABS p. NJ. for Leesburg. Fitz-
IVJs Do gerald, rilby, lakeland Tampa,
Barlow and Punta GOrda making close
connection Leesburg for tustis, Umatilla,
Aston, Tavares and al! stations Oh St. J. < L L,
r. X. at titzger aid for BIooksvilLc at Iriiby for
Tarpon Sp5ings, ID nedin, Clearwater nd st.
Petersburg south, and Clermont, O kland, AN
at Lakeland for Punta Gurda, Arcadia, Barlow ana
all intermediate stations and auIpa and Port
Tampa west, and all stations east to sanford.
Mo 10 Daily, IS F. NJ, for Gainesville, Lake
NVI O City, Live Oak, Savannah and all
potts north, ca t. ard wedSt, also con-
nectiCn Via Rochelle for alatka, Jacksonville and
Sleeper from Port Tampa to St. Louis via Ocala,
Gainesville, montgomery and l.. & \.
No % Daily, 10 A. NJ, for Gainesville Live
iSu, o. Oak, WaycroSs, Montgomery. Charles
ton ell points north, east and
west. This train carries through sleeper from
Port Tampa to New Io k via OCala, Gaines lille,
Savannah and Charleston.
No I'M Daily. Las p. ~, 70 helle. Palatka
IVus ifU jacksonville, and all lnterme III ate sta
tions conneCtii It Jacksonville with al trains
diver ling.
Mo 40 Daily departs, 9 90 4. NJ. except Sun
lNUs 10 day for Juhette and intermediate sta
tions
Nh EE Daily departs, 80? p. NJ. for Juliette
Nus To Port Tampa and all points south, and
daily except Sunday for Crystal and
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MASTERS SALE.

Under and by virtue of a final
decree rendered on the grid day Of
December, A. D., 1896. In the cir
cult court of the Fifth Judicial
Circuit of Florida, in and for Mar
ion county, in chancery, in a suit
wherein Samuel S. Einstein and
Frank S. Einstein, partners under
firm name of Einsteln Bros, are
compliments and Geo. w. Lyons
& Burfield Willet, partners doing
business under firm name of Lyons
4 WIIlett, were defendants, l, the
undersigned special master named
and appointed therein to execute
said decree, will on Monday, the
4th day of January, A. D, 1897,
between the hours of II a. RI. AND
? D. N. at the ware house Of s. r
Burdsey, in the town of Ocaa,
Marion county, Florida, cffer for
sale, and will sell to the highest
and best bidder for cash the mort
gagged property described in said
final decree, to-wit: One back bar
and mirror, 1 counter, hand and
foot rail, 1 cigar counter, 1 cigar
case, 5 wine racks and rails, 1 side
board consisting mirror and lock
ers, 1 lunch counter, l refrigerator
with mirror, one work board, four
Mahogany beer tables, ten ban
chairs, two pool tables, two billiard
tables. 70 billiard cues, 2 sets bill
lard balls, sets pool balls, 5 cue
racks, 4 ball racks, , desks, rs
pictures large and small, 6 coat
racks, IS cuspidors, 20 billiard
room chairs, q Office chairs, 2,
clocks, I marble wash basin,
I urinal, 1 pair vases, L pair i'm
ported vases, 1 cash register, p.
ornamental bottles, 1 III c. Gu
ter, 1 stove & heater, 2 suve,
pitchers, brass drain, 1 brass
drain pan, 1 hot water urn, I cork
puller, silver plated water faucet.
1 copying machine. I ornamental
back bar pitchers, I call bell, ?
Tom & Jerry bowls with set OF
mugs, IL dozen bar strainers, ,
shakers 1 ice scoop, pick, I dozrr
bar spoons, beer pump, Cape
whisky pump, I buug auger, 1 saw
l nail puller and Ratchet, I MALE.
I silver tray. or so much thereof
as may be necessary TO satisfy said
decree and costs of this suit.
T. E BIGGS.
Il. L. ANDERSON. Spec al Master
Complanant's Solicitor.
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} Daily, II A. NJ, for Leesburg, Fitz-
gerald, Trilby, Lakeland, Tampa and
I'll Intermediate stations.
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Visiting cards all styles at the
Anti-monopoly drug store.
Mr.. Tydings, our leading pre-
scription druggist, is always at his
post of duty and giving his personal
attention TO the compromising of
every prescription.
Bert Pearson, son of Alderman
Pearson. arrived home from Penn.
sylvania this week where he has
been attending college. His eyes
have failed him and he is COMPEL
ed to take rest.
Games, wagons, velocipedes, air
rifles, drums, horns and all kinds
of toys. Watch our openi lg day
Ocala News Depot.
We carry the best $50 glove
Adler & Co. make. Davidson &
VanEchop.
Dress suits for men and boys at
Rheinauers.
Try Witch Kloth for polishing
bright parts of your bicycle I5c al
Post Office drag store.
Christmas cards, bound books
and al kin of chIldrens books are
beng received daily at o ala News
Depot.
Next Monday will be the last
legal sales day of the present year,
1t is a'so the day set for the city
tax sale The usual large crowd
on tina. cay will doubtless be dou-
bled.
Call and see the new and COM
plete line of combs and bru hes
just received at the Post { flee
drug store.
A fresh line of Crepe Tissue
paper at the Autobiography drug
store.
Birdsey & Co. have just receiv
ed fresh stock of buckwheat IN
bulk and packages.
For rent cheap the store tn
IN the Baptist Witness bull
Apply at this office.
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CHEAP MILLINERY.

We have a large and complete
stock of Up to date millinery, hats,
ribbons, feathers, ETC., 10 fact every
thing kept in a first class millinery
store. Oar prices are low, and
goods are the best. l solicit your
inspection. Mrs T.. A. Brown.
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Tallahassee and return Dec. 5
TO II inclusive one and cnc-fourth
fare l;mired to ID C 20 Tampa
and return Dec. 5 and 4 one fare
limited Dec ). The ABOVE rates
on F. &. & p.
Our stock of toys and Christ
mas goods.is complete and prices
the lowest. Wait for the opening
BsZar Store.
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Many lines below these figures.

Many lines below these figures
We mean business and this ne
cess'ty is your opportunity and
our loss.
We name no pric s but give
them On applicatIo Gail and
get the b-neft.
Our stock is the largest and best
assorted in the city.
Many our goods were pur-
chased at remarkably low prices
All of this and o'h-r advantages
shall 60 to purch ,sers.