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The morning times., 1897-02-12
Fridays Our
Remnant DaV.

The plans Of this store are the result
of most careful thought AMI deliberatiOn.
A fixed purpose, closely followed, strictly
adhered to, pervadeS every department..
This purpose is 10 offer five days of each
week complete aSSOrtmentS of fresh,
bright, up-;O-date merchandise at the
lowest prices, reServing one day, Friday,
for the clearance of remnants broken
lines and sizes, odds and ends, short
lengths, left-overs. And these cleft
overs" are OfttimeS from the choicest
goods OF the various lineS-tfe quickest
sellers. II isn't the goodness OF the
article, however, but its pOOrneSS a
merchandise (because of littlenesS or
loneliness that regulates the price.
Shorter the length. smaller the quantity
greater the price reduction. Remnants
accumulate very rapidly, and We cannot
push them aside or pile them up. Hence
TO make the quickest possible clearance
prices are made half and less. Many
rare bargains for today.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
THE WEATHER TODAY
NOT THE THING TO DO.

Five thousand copies of the late speech
OF Congressman Mahlon Pitney are being
distributed and mailed from the office OF
the District Commissioners, and presumably
by their order Whatever they may have
thought about il when giving the order, a
little reflection VIII convince the most
obdurate member OF the beard that this
proceeding is very great wrong and in
Justice to many citizens who pay taxes
and certainly do not care to see any por-
ton OF them used to their personal in
jury and detriment Mr Pnney's speech
was an attack on District men and Dis
trict institutions. Many of his state
meuts we are assured were false and many
Of them, even if literally exact, were
intended to be injurious and would not
probably have been uttered under other
circumstances. Whether false or true the
District Commissioners have no right 10
circulate them at the expense Of the tax
payers assaiIed, and we are confident that
now we have brought the matter to their
attention they Will agree with US.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
VALUABLE DOCUMENTS LOST.
Important State Papers Cannot Be
Found Among the Archives

Representative Richardson, of Tennessee,
who, by direction of Congress, is compiling
the state papers of the several Presidents
from George Washington toCIeveland, finds
his work suddenly brought TO a standstin
The final report of the joint commission
appointed to explore and survey the
boundary line between Maine and New
Hampshire and the adjoining British pro-
vinces, which was transmitted 10 Congress
by President Tyler, March 3, 1S43, cannot
be found in any printed form among the
archives. The original report is in the
State Department, and from il Mr. Rich
ardson learns that there were four docu-
ments submitted in an appendix, and only
one of these (the first) can be found The
fourth (the map) was destroyed by fire, but
is supposed to have been reproduced. The
remaining documents have not been dis
covered in any form.
Mr. Richardson requests that the United
Associated Presses shall give publicity 10
these facts in the hope that some OF the
libraries in New England or New York
may be in possession OF the missing dOcu-
ments and forward them to him for use
in the next volume of the series which is
now being prepared for the press.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Chairman Caldwell also stated tnat the
claim of the ticket scalpers that their busl-
ness enabled the public to secure lower rates
uas q fallacy. nd referred to Mr.. Mcken-
zie's statement that the broker charged
tile public "A cents per mile for mileage
tickets while it was shown that the tickets
were sold by the roads at the rate or
cents per mile; it also being necessary for
the person purchasing them from the broker
to use another persons name, In the sign
ing Of which the passenger was placed In
the attitude Of forgery.
He also stated that the manipuations
of the scalpers was making 1t more and
more difficult for the railways, in pro-
lection of their own interests, to grant
the public reduced rates for excursions
and large meetings in the interest OF agri-
cultural, benevolent, military, CIVIC anu
other organizations; and consequently the
existence of the scalper was a deterrent,
there being every reason to believe that
If the Transportation companies We're free
from ticket scalping both the business and
the general public would be largely bene-
fitted in increased facilities in reduced ex-
cursion rates and In the removal OF restric-
tioI,s which now necessarily hampered the
use of excursion tickets, mileage tickets,
etc, as the railroads would then be in a
position to follow the natural course OF
encouraging and promoting travel by ex-
tending facilities which they were now
necessarily Obliged, in self-pr election, to
withhold.
very strong petition has been addressed
The morning times., 1897-02-12
SHALL SPAIN SHOOT sCovEL?

There is considerable of condition AMI
very little of theory which now con-
fronts the administration in connection
with the arrest and detention in Cuba OF
Sylvester scovel, an American newspaper
correspondent. 1t is alleged that the Span
ish minister in Washington, Senior de LONE,
has notified General Weyler that Mr..
Scovel is not entitled to the protection of
the United States, but is liable to the
most severe punishment" This, it is need
less TO observe, is taBtamount to strong
recommendation to Wcyler to stand the
correspondent up against a wall and to
shoot him in the back.
1t is alleged against Mr.. scoyel that
when previously on the island he ac-
cepted a nominal place on General
Maceo's staff, and that thereby he for
feited his American citizenship, and the
right TO protection by the United States.
The practice of giving military correspond
entS nominal staff appointments III the
universally customary and has never be-
fore been taken as affecting their status
as non-combatant observers. Even if the
young man did accept such position,
fact not proven, he since has been back
In this country, his citizenship or rights
cannot be successfully attacked, and there
is nothing to show his present mission to
be anything but what it is. namely, n
peaceful, legitimate excursion in pursuit
of news for a New York journal
The United States has allowed one
merican citizen and newspaper cor
respondent to be hacked in pieces with
machetes, without as much as q vigorous
protest. It is among The possibilities there
fore that it may permit Weyler 10 murder
this young gentleman as well. We hope
not, but there seems to be ground for fear.
1t is quite unnecessary, however. A stern
demand upon the Spanish authorities now,
would bring him out safely. In case of
the slightest delay in compliance, what is
all that expensive new navy for? 1t is
mostly concentrated at Charleston, and
| Havana is not far off. Spain is daily
| showing an increasing need Of an object
! lesson. This is a good occasion and
| goUG time TO teach one.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
HATS AND HATRED.

Considering the colloquial procliyities
OF the hat, one would suppose that em-
ployment in a hat factory might lead 20
inflammation of the vocal organs, but
hardly TO the development OF homcidal
mania. Circumstances which have oc-
CURED in the New York town of Yonkers,
incline US TO fear that the hat, at least
in process of evolution from its gum and
pasteboard state, is a powerful intoxi-
cant. dangerous irritant, and several
other things too numerous to mention.
In a Yonkers hat factory number OF
young women were employed. One Of
them made biting remarks concerning the
moral character OF two others, after a
party. Words followed, and the two Of
Tended ladies followed the words into
the shop, whcre they proceeded variously
20 assault the offender with a monkey
wrench and bar. The assaulted defended
herself with pair of shears. The as
saulters were elected, but fusiladed the
factory door with stones. Then they
waited until the hour of closing and way
laid their victim. pounding her over the
head with boards until she fell bleeding
and unconscious. Having disposed of that
business TO their satisfaction, they marched
around TO the police station and sur
rendered themselves to the law, in the
full conviction that the result was worth
ali it might cost in punishment. For
time it was thought that the injured girl
would die, hut she was induced TO think
better Of 1t and lived.
The episode teaches that it is not alone
The morning times., 1897-02-12

in the direction of competing with nan
woman claims equality with the other
sex. She is showing both disposition
and ability TO adopt his methods of Set
ting differences Of opinion and questions
of honor. At the present rate OF progress
it seems probable that soon the courts
VIII be relieved of sitting on breaches of
promise. 1t is more likely that breeches
of that description will be spanked with
a board, or smashed with a bludgeon, out
side OF court.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
oUR FIRST CONSUL AND CoNsULs

1t may be presumed that eX-Gov. Nc
Kinley is cooling a shoulder for ex-Lieut
GOV. Jones, to be used when one is PreSi-
dent and tie other Senator representing
Ohio in part and that the Foraker part.
We still have another shoulder, ana il
rumor does him not injustice he has put
that on ice, too, preparatory to giving a
great many good Ohio men an object les
son in civil service reform Indeed, It is
seriously claimed that Mr.. Mckinley in
tends to put the consular service upon a
thoroughgolng civil service basis.
If true this is good, and we incline to the
belief that he viii do it, provided the same
idea happens to be popular with gentle
man in Cleveland who may be presumed to
have something to say in the premises. Po-
IiticaI patriots have been encouraged in
the hope that the bars would be put down
under dry administration; but these civil
service notions attributed to the President
elect look more like putting them up.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
CALIFORNIA GRAIN FOR INDIA.
warships Are Not Available for
Carrying 1t.

Secretary Herbert has received a re-
quest from the San Francisco board OF
trade to detail a war vessel to carry
grain TO the starving people of India.
He has written to Senator Perkins today
to the effect that it will be impossible TO
grant the request, as the war vessels, from
their peculiar construction and the great
amount OF space occupied by their ma
chinery, guns, stores, etc, are not fitted
to carry a cargo. The United States ha s
nothing in the way OF transports or freight
vessels suitable for the purpose.
The Secretary suggests that the best
way will lie for Congress TO authorize
the employment or charter OF vessel
with sufficient cargo capacity for the
voyage and expresses lis desire to facili-
tate the matter in any way III his power.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
ClOak Department..

Tan SIlk-Itned Covert Cloth Jackets.
Sizes 36 and IS. Reduced from $1,000
to $3.50 each.
Fine Atwood Black Cloth Walking
Jackets. Sizes 81 and SO. Reduced from
$3.50 and $500 To So each
Tan Empire Jackets, silk faced. Sizes
"a and SO. Reduced from 81 600 UUSIO.UO
each.
2 Fine Atwood Snk-hned Kersey Cloth
Jackets, handsome braid and fur trimmed
Sizes "a and 80. Reduced from $4,000
to $1,000 each.
l Atwood Mixed Cloth Golf Cape Re-
duced from 81 800 To $500
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The morning times., 1897-02-12
LONG HAS ACCEPTED.
He Writes That He VIII Be in
the Cabinet.

Notwithstanding the announcement which
las been made from Canton that no more
Cabinet selections will be made public until
March 4, 1T became known yesterday that
John d. Long had definitely accepted the
tender OF a Cabinet place. This intelligence
came in the form of a letter addressed by
Gov. Long himself to an old and valued
friend in this city. In this letter Gov
Long announced that he would be in the
Cabinet, but lie did not specify the position
lie would fill. The friend to whom the letter
was addressed says there will be no depar-
ture from the original program under which
which Mr.. Long was ASST gned to the Navy
portfolio.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Yes, have travelled n MeXico-not since
tins free silver agitation began, however.
OF course, Mexico, being silver country,
las been used in many OF these campaign
arguments. | had one somewhat peculiar
experience there, III connection with til.
cheapness of things l had always heard
fruit was very cheap in Mexico, and when
a man came into the car. Just across the
boundary line, with "a huge basket OF or
anges FOR 20 cents it seemed TO me that my
dream of Inexpensive fruit had come true.
or course made haste to buy the basket.
Some of the other passengers smiled, though
did not notice this especially at the time.
After the man was paid aud safely out of
tie car found that the basket had a bot
tom shaped like a pyramid, point upw ard
and that the oranges were arranged over
II and about the handle, So that what ap-
peared to he q heaping basketful was ex-
actly one layer. However, even then, the
fruit wasn't dear, and it was good -Ches-
ter A. Snow, Lawyer,
The morning times., 1897-02-12
BOYS DEPARTMENT.

3 Cape OverCoats. Sizes 3, and g.
Reduced from $500 To 81 so each.
3 Chinchilla Reefers. Sizes 5, 8, Z and
s. Reduced from $500 to $50 each.
A Kersey Refers, very fine goods. Sizes
3, 4 and .. Reduced from S5.75 TO S375
each.
4 Blue and Black Cheviot Refer Suits
Sizes 3 4 and 8. Reduced from S3.25 to
81 90 each.
3 Atwood Scotch Cheviot Suits Sizes
3 4. and6 Reduced from $500 To So. 6S
each.
.FaunterOy" Suits. Sizes and s.
each.
s Mothers Friend Shirt Waists Sizes
6, s, 10, IL and 12. Reduced from T5c.
to 59c- each
80 floor
The morning times., 1897-02-12
Suit Department..

l blacksatInSEI Reducedrrom ; 80
to $500.
1 Gray and one Tan Cloth Suit. silk-lined
jacket. Size SO. Reduced from 81 900
TO $500 each.
Atwood Black Blazer Suits. Sizes 50
81 and 3S. Reduced from 81 900 To 80. 20
each.
+ Atwood Gray Flannel Waists lined
throughout Sizes 80 and 40 Reduced
from So 20 to 81 90 each.
) Fancy Atwood Plaid Waists, Sizes
IS and 40 Reduced from S4.0U To -. 20.
Fine Figured Taffeta Silk Waists.
Sizes 30 and SO. Reduced from 81 600 To
So. 90 each.
1 Pink SILK Evening Waist lace and
ribbon trimmed Size SO. Reduced from
$4,000 TO $3.50.
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The morning times., 1897-02-12
Philadelphia Fun.
V Hollow-a stove pipe.

Smoky Hollow-a stove pipe.
In the front row-the vest button.
A wayward son can be black sheep,
and yet be a scape goat.
Every man isn't a king simply because he
has a crown in his hat.
Mules are fond of corn. In fact, they all
ways have a couple Of big ears.
When the contractors clean the mud from
the streets, It'll US 1ally a case of the dust
Muggins-Whatfst that man yelling about?
Buggins-The police are pinching him.
Record.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

TO Congress by the leading business men of
Chicago, such as Marshall Field & Co,
John b. Farwell & Co, Hibbard, Spencer,
BARTLETT CO., urging the passage of the
bill: and the National Board of Trade of
the United States, the annual meeting OF
which has been in session this week at the
Shoreham, passed a similar resolution
The morning times., 1897-02-12
Nominated by the President

The President yesterday sent to the
Senate the following nominations: Corps
of Engineers-Lieut. Col. j. A Smith to
be colonel; Maj. Charles J Allen to be
lieutenant colonel; Capt. Smith s. Leach
to be major; First Lieut.. William i.
Craighill to be captain; Second Lieut.. j.
B. Cavanaugh to be first lieutenant.
Mai. Edwin B. Atwood, ,quartermaster, to
be lieutenant colonel and deputy quar-
termaster general; Cspt. George f. Pond,
assistant quartermaster, To be major and
uuartermaster; Lieut. John NJ. Carson jr
tc be captain and assistant quartermaster
The morning times., 1897-02-12
Children'S Department.

10 Fine Atwood Refer Jackets Sizes
4 8, 1 and A. Reduced from $500 and
ST.75 TO 81 90 each
6 Mixed Cloth Short Jackets and Long
Cloaks. Jackets sizes l o. 12, Ia and 10.
LongClOakS, +, 5and6 6. Reduced from So. 20
and 81 90 TO So 80 each.
s Stylish Navy and Dark Green Short
Jackets. Sizes 4, 16 and Is Reduced
from SS.75 and $1,000 to $500 each.
4 Stylish Atwood Novelty Cloth Long
Cloaks, braid and fur trimmed Sizes
6, 10 and Il. Reduced from S12 80, SI5 90
and ST. 80 TO 81 90 each
Sd floor
The morning times., 1897-02-12
A Medal of Honor Awarded

A medal of honor has been presented to
Francis B. Hall, of Plattsburg, n. Y, late
chaplain, Sixteenth New York Infantry,
for distinguished gallantry in action at the
battle of Salem Heights, Va, May B,
1868 Chaplain Hall voluntarily exposed
himself to u heavy fire, during the thick
est Of the fight, and carried wounded men
to the rear for treatment and attendance.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
1t Is the Vital Spark.

Lppino oSt's Magazine in speaking Of
advertising says: There must be con-
siderable vitality in the custom which has
survived for 1900 years" And adver-
tising, with its twenty centuries of pedigree,
is not only a proof of the survival Of the
fittest, but it makes all who employ it
In their business living witnesses of the
same principle.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
Mr. Harris on Mr.. Brice.

When Senator Harris was last in Nash
vile he fell in with a young State legis-
lator who, In the course Of conversation,
asked the aged visitor: 'Is Senator Brice
a smart man?' Mr.. Harris looked pity
ingly at the querist and answered: Young
man, ten years ago Senator Brice was Il
country school teacher in a small Ohio
town; today he is a multi-millonaire.
consider vo, q fool :"
The morning times., 1897-02-12
To Investigate the Grant.

Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota,
yesterday introduced resolution, which
went over, directing the Senate Committee
OH Public Lands to investigate by SUBJ
committee or otherwise, the issue of q
patent in the Perrine land grant, in the
State of Florida. This is the patent is
sued to Mrs. Cleveland's stepfather
The morning times., 1897-02-12
Fur DEPARTMENT.

Children's Fancy Plush Sets-purse,
muff and boa. Reduced from $3.50 10
81 90 the set.
l Womens Wool Seal CoIlarette, edged
with black astrakhan. Reduced from
81 80 to SS.75.
l Fine PLAIN Electric Seal CoIlarstte
Reduced from $500 To $3.50.
l Long Brown Marten Boa. Reduced
from St2 30 to $500
l BLACK Thioet Boa. Reduced from $500
TO $500.
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The morning times., 1897-02-12
"Judge" r richards Start in Life.

Judge Pritchard, who has been re-
elected Senator from Moth Carolina, was
one of two barefooted boys who set out
from a little east Tennessee mountain town
to seek their fortune twenty three years
ago. The entire worldly possessions Of
the pair, it is said, consisted of a silver
dime, a bottle of brandy and some pones
of corn bread.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
She Was a Mississippi Pilot

Mrs. Callie French, who bears the dis
stinction of being the only woman pilot
on the Mississippi, and is a native of
Kentucky, is dying at Carrollton, Miss
The Society of Masters and Pilots Ii
censed her about four years ago. She
came from a family of river captains,
and when young girl assisted her
father.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
CEOakrOOm and Gallery

Speaker Reed was not at all pleased
when the Senate filed in to the joint CON
yention beld in the House ON Wednesday.
He was not dissatisfied at the presence
of the Senators at the function, but he
has since protested sharply against the
presence on the floor of about Twenty-Five
attaches of the Senate, VINO folio wed their
liege lords into the chamber. Under the
rules of the House these gentlemen were
not eligible to admission TO the chamber,
ana the Speaker is said to have pro-
tested vigorously to Sergeant-a Arms
Bright of the Senate and Doorkceper Glenn
OF the House against their presence.
LAS matter of fact said prominent
officer OF the Senate, ''the Speaker is
away off his base. The Senators and their
clerks and employees We're not in the hall
Of the House by suffrance of Reed and the
House of Representatives. They We're there
by right, and by superior right. The Vice
President is the presiding officer of the
no ice, whatever, in preserving order or
determining who may be admitted. In
fact, it was the attaches OF the House who
We're present on this occasion by suf-
france. The strangest thing about Reeds
protest is that he has evidently never
read the law governing these joint con-
ventions, which distinctly provides for
their control by the President to
the exclusion of the Speaker who is of no
more consequence Oh this occasion than
the humblest member OF the House"
The morning times., 1897-02-12

have known Young McElhone, the clerk
al the Capitol Library who has been charged
with stealing valuable autograph letters
from the library files, for many years. |
believe that some mistake has been made,
ana that it will be found that the letters
were lost in some other way. &C. a. Mills,
Law Student.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

The sheriff Of Cook county has been
charged with appropriating q rake-off of
Is cents out OF every quarter allowed for
the poor OF Chicago; but, perhaps, the
sheriff of Cook county is also indi gent.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Congressman Harry Bingham seems likely
TO get $40, 900 for the League Island navy
yard, and possibly 100000 more for
the back channel; and there is no reason
Just now why Philadelphia should want
10 secede from the Union.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

All artists invited to send works TO the
Tennessee Centennial Exposition ought to
forward their application for space at once
to Nashville. Notice should be left with
William Veerhoff when pictures may be
collected for shipment, the last day being
March 3. The committee appointed to
pass upon the works sent will meet at
yeerhoff's gallery on March 16.-Carl
Guthrie
The morning times., 1897-02-12


These times are making us a nation OF
people who wear boards or shave ourselves.
There are three times as many boards in
the United states at the present moment
as there were four years ago, and the
number OF men who shave themselves is
coireSpondingly great Also it may be
noted that the tonsorial art suffers more
from the hard times than any other.
The tough part of it is that when man
learns TO shave himself he never comes
back TO US. We lose him forever 1t
Is so convenient to shave at home that
he never goes back to the old method.
Also most men fancy themselves hand
somer In boards, once they try them.
especially if they aren't very good-looking
without them. These hard times teach
us over again the great principles OF po-
l1ucal economy, that dealing i'll luxuries Is
the worst business in the long run. When
hard times begin to pinch men cut off
their luxures first. Diamonds and laces
ana tailol-made clothes, and swell turn
outs, and being shaved by a barber, are
lux xuries. Better sell bread and meat
and ready made clothes, or be a lawyer,
If you want to prosper always. Every
body has To eat and wear something, and
the harder the times are the more people
go TO law. George Ware. Barber.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

Aninstance during the past year on one
of the large railway lines was cited. in
which 45o passengers were elected from its
trains who presented counterfeit, forged
or fraudulent tickets admittedly purchased
from ticket brokers. Seventy of these per
sons having expended all of their availa-
BILE resources in the purchase of such tickets
became objects of charity. In number of
these cases the parties returned to the
point of purchase Of tickets under the I'M
preston that they had purchased them from
authorized agentsofthe company and would
have no difficulty in securing a return of
their money, only to find thatth had been
duped by ticket scalpers, who, in every
case, repudiated their claims for reimburse
ment.
The morning times., 1897-02-12
Something New About Roosevelt.
From the Boston Herald. J

Wonder if Theodore Roosevelt will be
Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Sec
retary John d. Long? According to the
Washington correspondentoft the Sprin gfield
Republican, he is a Candidate for the posi-
ton, with the backing Of Senator Lodge,
but not of Senator Platt.
The morning times., 1897-02-12

We hardly see how Col. Perry Heath
can get the consul generalship to Paris
away from Dom Jack Goudy. The time
is little short between now and the 4th
Of March to grow yellow chin wniskers.