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Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-09-03
MINISTER FROM BOLIVIA.

Senior I.,sis Paz Has . Double Mission to
This Country.
For the first time In more than decade
Bolivia has honorod us by sending to
Washington an envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotcntiary. The new repre-
sentative of the lively little South Amcri-
can Republic Is Senior Luis Paz, who at
home Ia a senator and the leader OF the
political party now In power. 1t may seem
strange that Bolivia, after so long neglect
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-09-03

when Jubilee Poets were Rampant.
The London Daily News averaged SIX
iubiles poems day for more than month
preceding the celebration.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-09-03
Sunny epain.

Spain has more sunshine than any other
country In Europe. The yearly average In
Spain Is 5000 hours; that Of Italy, 1880;
Germany, 100; England, 400.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-09-03
Fiaheriaa of Canails,

Salmon last year yielded In Canada g..
TOO, 900; cod, $500, 900. Next in value
sorns behring's, q, 7s6, 900, and then lob
stars, $3.50, 900.
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ARMOR THAT is TOUGH.
TWELVE INCHES THICK, BUT
MAKES A FINE SHOWING.
Attacked by a 12-Inch Gun, Its Re-
sisting Qualities Are I'm
expected.

Expounders of the old question of con-
corning the effect of the impact of an
object striking an immovable body with
irresistible force VIII find partial So
luton of the problem in a recent ex-
pertinent with a shell and armor made
at the Indian Head proving grounds.
The effect upon the striking object was
disastrous; upon the iInmovable object
limited destruction Yet the expert
ment demonstrated that a new import
ant development in armor manufacture
had been made.
The Carnegie Steel Company recently
manufactured plate, which was the
product of improvements made in the
several processes through which armor
usually passes until it is finally shipped
to the shipbuilder for fitting to ships.
Of course the company jealousy guards
all the information in its possession in
regard to the treatment that the plate
received, and also concerning the per-
centage of nickel used as an alloy OF
the steel. All that can be learned on
this point is that the amount of nickel
is greater than has been ordinarily
used.
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Technically the plate is known as a
reforged, face hardened, nickel steel,
experimental plate, twelve inches thick.
When it had passed throug the Car
negie mills it was placed on cars and
hauled to the Indian Head proving
grounds, where it was set in position
for the experiment. The officers and
men at the proving grounds had no
difficulty in handling the twenty-one
tons of metal. They backed it with
twelve inches of oak and two five
eighth-inch skin plates, and then Sc
cured it to a target structure by means
of six holding i'm bolts. The plate
was so set up that the line of fire was
perpendicular to the plates surface.
A twelve-inch rifle thirty-f1ve calibers
long was placed at a point 32o feet in
front of the target, and the test was
made May Doth last. There were pres
emit Secretary Long, Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt, Commander Charles O'Neil,
Chief of the Ordnance Bureau; Cap
tain w. T. Sampson, Commander A. R.
Couden, inspector in charge of the
proving grounds, and representatives of
the Carnegie Steel Company.
A twelve-inch Hotter armor piercing
shell, weighing $50 pounds. hardened to
five inches below it's bourTelet, was first
placed in the gun Behind the pro-
jectile was packed a. charge OF 3ol.o
pounds of brown powder, being just
sufficient TO produce a striking We
locity of 1,S11 feet per second and a
striking energy of 19,349 tons. The
angle of impact was 80 degrees, and
the location of the impact was six feet
two inches from the right edge of the
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SOCIAL EVENTS.

A very pleasant reception was held by
Mrs. Judge Z. A. Bridgford at the fam
lily residence. 1919 P street, on Thursday
evening. 1t was given in honor of
Mrs. Churchill Bridgford of Kansas
City. who is at present visiting friends
in Sacramento. The residence was
beautifully decorated for the occasion.
Receiving with Mrs. Bridgford were
Mrs. Churchill Bridgford, Mrs. A. J.
Butler of Colusa, Mrs. James Farfs and
Mrs Bridgford. Refreshments were
served in the dining room by Misses
Edna Carroll, Merkley Hopkins, John
son, Fariss, Dixon. Elsie Smith and
leila Bridgford The invited guests
were: Colonel and Mrs. Peeler, Mrs.
Wiley, Mrs. Tenbrook, Misses Ten
brook, Newton Tenbrook, Governor
and Mrs. Budd, Judge and Mrs.
Hughes. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Smith,
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. McCraney, Miss
Comstock, Mr. and Mrs. Foreman,
Miss McCraney, Miss Dixon, Mr.. and
Mrs. R. T. Devlin, Miss Barrett, Judge
and Mrs Matt f. Johnson, Mr.. and
Mrs. L. H Brown, DR.. and Mrs. Snider,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Faris, Miss Faris,
Mrs Hammer. Miss Hammer, Mrs.
Charles Joy. Mr.. and Mrs. James Faris,
Jr., Miss Well, Mr.. and Mrs. c. +.
Jones, Miss Jones, Mrs. Twitchell,
Misses Twitchell, Mr.. and Mrs. L. 7.
Hatfield, Mr. and Mrs. p. l.. Lykins,
MIR. and Mrs. f. L. Gray, Judge and
Mrs. E. c. Hart, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r.
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Avis, Rev. and Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. B.
r. Croker Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson, Mr..
and Mrs. Mcmillan, DR.. and Mrs. w.
A. Briggs. Mr. and Mrs. ]. O. Coleman,
Miss Merkley, Misses Carroll, Misses
Tyndall, Miss Grace Hopkins. Mr.. L.
Wagner, Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Culver,
Miss Herzog, Miss Fleming, Mrs. Hig-
nett, DR.. and Mrs. W. F. Wizard, Miss
Grace Westlake, Miss Lottie Krebs, Mr..
and Mrs. E. P. Colgan, Mrs. Smith, DR..
and Mrs. Matthews, Miss Matthews, Mr..
and Mrs. Leaman, Mr.. Charles Hughes,
Miss Duggan, Mr.. Peter ]. Shields, Miss
Josephine Todman, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r.
Mr.. and Mrs. L J. We'll, Mrs. Doyle,
DR.. and Mrs. Wright, Mr.. and Mrs. B.
F. Catlett, Mrs. Mckee, Miss Elsie
Smith, Misses Flynn, Miss Rita John
son, Mr.. and Mrs. George Byron, Mr..
and Mrs. Longbottom, Mr.. P. Lynn,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Lynn, Rev.
and Mrs. Denton, General and
Mrs. w. S. Green, Miss G. Green, Mr..
and Mrs. Hassett, Miss E. Tufts, Judge
and Mrs. Cravens, Judge and Mrs. J.
H. McKune, Mr. and Mrs. L. ToZer,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert II. Hawley, Mr..
and Mrs. William Beckman, DR.. and
Mrs. T. H. B. Anderson, Mrs. Matlock,
Mr.. German, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ly-
man, Mr. and Mrs. FELTON, Lowery, Mr..
and Mrs. Phillips, Misses F'loy and Eva
Bridgford of Kansas City.
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Misunderstanding, of the armor pierre
low the bourrelet The gun was aimed
so as to have the shell strike the plate
at a point feet, ia inches from the
bottom of the plte, three feet from the
left edge and three feet from the first
impact. The angle of impact was S9112
degrees.
When the projectiIe struck the plate
there was a loud crash, the left verti-
cal timber and strut of the target
structure were carried away together
with all the holding in bolts, and the
plate was thrown to the ground, face
down. The shell broke up on the
plate, it's head being welded to the arm
or at the point of impact. 1t attained
a penetration of about ten inches, and
produced a back bulge of four inches.
Twelve pieces of the projectile were
found in front of the plate.
When the plate was raised it was
found that no cracks had developed.
In order to test the toughness of the
plate further the authorities have de-
termined to fire another Pinch shell at
the plate directly between the two i'm
pacts already made to ascertain
whether any cracks will result The
Carnegie Steel Company will then make
another plate, which, they hope, will
break up projectile upon impact, but
which viii still retain the toughness
possessed by the experimental plate
just tested.
Ensign Cleland Davis, who is at
tached to the Bureau of Ordnance, ex-
pressed the opinion that the expert
mental plate could be considered the
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equal, if not the superior, of any thick
plate ever manufactured in this coun-
try or abroad.
THE Carnegie plate" he continued,
"is a distinct Improvement over all
thick experimental plates hitherto
made in the United States. Armor
manufacturers in this country had at
tanned a considerable excellence in the
matter of the resisting power of plates,
but heretofore it has been hard TO
overcome the tendency in thick plates
to crack when attacked by guns or
large caliber The Carnegie plate just
tested gave no Indication whatever of
cracking, while it was equal in resist
ing power to a plate Isl inches thick.
'sThe best plate tested abroad of
which reports have been published, was
a krupp plate IN 1893. This plate
withstood an impact from a 12-inch
proiectile fred with a velocity of 1893
feet per second. The weight of the
proiectile however, was only IL
hounds The shell fired at the Carnegie
plate weighed $50 pounds, and the We
locity was ], S11 feet per second Fur
thermore. the angle of impact in the
experiment with the Krupp plate was
nine degrees from the normal, while
the line of fire in the case of the Car
negie plate was exactly perpendicular.
After the experiment with the Krupp
plate it was found that several sur
face cracks had developed, the great
est depth of which was 81 inches.
Eliminating the quality of the projec-
tile. which it is impossible to compare
with our own, it would seem then that
there was little difference in quality
between the two plates.
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plate and three feet eight inches from
the bottom.
When everything was ready the 9TH
GERS and spectators retired to bomb
proof and the gun was discharged by
the pressure of a finger upon an electric
button, There was a roar, flame ana
smoke poured out of the muzzle OF the
gun. and the shell struck the target at
the point intended, completely pene-
trating it. An almost cylindrical Plug
VARYING in diameter between thirteen
and fourteen inches, was sheared out Oh
the plate and carried through the back
ing and into the sand by the projectlle,
the head of the shell being welded TO
the plug Three large pieces of the
base of the projectile were found IN
front of the plate. The other pieces
pentrated the plate and backing. ana
were found in the butt about eight feet
in the rear Of the target.
Aside from the perforation of the
plate. no injury was done to the lat
ter, and it was dished about one inch
only. notwithstanding the severe
strain through which the plate had
passed, there were no cracks, though
there was considerable taking.
The round just described was intend
ed to test the ability of the plate to
Withstand penetration. A second
round was fired to ascertain whether
or not the plate was liable to crack.
The same gun was used, but the
charge of powder was reduced to 80
pounds, in order to produce a lower We
locity-1, 100 feet per secondhand also
a lower striking energy-1S,462 tons
The projectile was an Soo-pound
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PERSONAL MENTION.

Banker J. NJ C. Jasper of Wheatland
has been visiting the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. K Munson of Oak
land are at the Golden Eagle.
District Attorney Chamberlain of
Placer was in the city yesterday.
Mrs. Henry P. Brown and son Roy
are visiting in San Francisco.
Miss Irma Wilson of Nevada is Wis
iting Miss Blanche Ficks of this city.
Francisco are stopping at the Golden
Eagle.
j. c. Jones, Assistant District Attor-
ney has gone to Portland, Ore, for a
short visit.
Charles Mcmahon of Concord, Contra
Costa County formerly of this city, is
here on visit.
Miss Eda Schonan of Alameda is Wis
iting the city, the guest of Mrs. w. O..
Girardy.
James Mckee, a well-known news
paper man of Los Angeles, is visiting
Secretary Carrere of the State Lunacy
Commission.
Rev. T. H B. Anderson, who has
been on a camping trip for several
weeks, returned yesterday, and will
preach in his church to-day.
Superior Judge Johnson left yester-
day for Trinity County. At St. Helena
he will be Joined by a relative, and
thence they viii drive up into the deer
haunted wilds Of Trinity County.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Falkenstein are
visiting Santa Cruz. Mr.. Falkenstein
is one Of the representatives from this
city to the Grand Lodge U. o. r. NJ,
which VIII convene tomorrow.
Major w. w. Douglas, Signal Officer
of the Third Brigade, N. c.. c., and
Colonel r. L. Peeler Assistant Adju
tant General, left for Summit Valley
yesterday morning, where they will in
spect the signal corps, which is now in
camp there.
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STATE HOSPITAL EXPENSES.
REDUCTIONS EFFECTED BY THE
LUNACY COMMISSION.
"a Considerable Sum to be Saved
to the Taxpayers of the
State.

The State Commission in Lunacy
held a meeting on Friday. and decided
a number of important matters.
On motion of Secretary of State L.
II. Brown all allowances to medical SUI
perintendents and their families, who
do not reside on the grounds of the
hospitals, will be cut off after August
LIST. This action will save the taxpay
ers Of the State 81, 700 a year.
The several hospitals were also at
the suggestion of Secretary Markley of
the Board of Examiners, who repre-
sents the Governor on the Commission,
directed to keep a record of all the ex-
penses and products of their farms,
diaries and orchards, and where it Is
found that it costs more to raise veg
etables or fruit, or to produce milk,
than the same articles can be bought
for, they viii be purchased instead.
Secretary Brown and the other mem
hers of the Commission are unanimous
~ Of the opinion that expenses at all
the hospitals must be kept down, and
as a result the estimates of expenses
for July and August at all the hospit-
ais were below their allowances from
legislative appropriations. Stockton's
Asylum has already reduced its salary
list over 500 below its estimate.
The Commission directed the several
hospitals to call for bids on their
monthly estimates, thus reducing to
the minimum the cost of all articles
needed by them.
The Commission has not considered
the salary question, and viii not until
next month. Letters have been receiv-
ed from the several hospitals and su-
perintendents, and all favor reductions
of salaries; though opinions differ as
to where the reductions should be
made.
There are between five and six hun
dred persons employed by the several
hospitals at present, and even slight
reductions by each will save the State
a good deal of money.
The Commission is also trying to ar
range between the several hospitals and
State Institutions to exchange their
surplus products, thus saving a good
deal of money in their expense ac-
counts
At Napa DR. Gardner is building
three cottages for himself and his as
sistant physicians with the contingent
fund of the hospital. The cottages will
cost between $4,000 and $4,000, which
VIII be about one-half what they would
cost if built by contract The rooms
now occupied by the physicians will be
given up to the insane, thus greatly
increasing the capacity of the hospital,
at no expense to the taxpayers of the
State. The same policy win be pur-
sued in the other hospitals.
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SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
SYIIARUS
SYLLABUS.
Is. F., 276-In Bank-Filed July %,
1879


Is. F., 276-In Bank-Filed july %
1879
The People ex rel. Warfield. respond
emit; Sutter-street Railway Company,
appellant. Action to declare franchise
forfeited and for injunction and for fine
Affirmed, Beatty, c. J., disqualified;
Mcfarland, J., dissenting.
1t is not ambiguous to assert in a
complaint that the defendant company
usurps and unlawfully holds and exer-
cises a franchise to maintain in and
upon a certain street a street railway
while the complaint also alleges that
the defendant has never operated a
street railway on that street.
To allege that defendant unlawfully
exercises and wrongfuly claims the
right to exercise a franchise and that it
claims the right to lay tracks and make
switches is not to unite two causes of
action.
The Supervisors had no power to ex-
tend the time within which the track
must be completed. That is fixed by
Gtatute (Sec. 500, C. c., and a different
period cannot be fixed in the grant of
the franchise. No valid franchise can
be granted by the Supervisors which
conflicts with the general statutes.
Where the Acknowledgement has the
power to institute a proceeding the
mere fact that he unnecessarily adds in
the complaint that it is by relation of a
named person does no harm. It does
not convert the proceedings into a pri-
waite action.
No right is acquired by maintaining
an obstruction on the street. Statutes
of limitation do not run in favor of such
a trespasser.
Where city cannot enforce a forfeit
ure it cannot waive it. The city cannot
be estopped in respect to a matter over
which it has no power.
There is no statute which requires the
municipal authorities to request the in
stitution of an action to secure a for
fixture or which gives any force to such
a request should it be made.
In 1898 Section SOP, C. c., was
amended by authorizing the board
granting the franchise to fix the time
for beginning and for completing the
work, also empowering the board to ex-
tend the time for the completion of the
work But the old section was not re-
pealed by this amendment The por-
tions Of the amended section which are
copied without change are not to be
considered as repealed, but to have been
The law all along
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Articles of Incorporation.

Articles of incorporation were yester-
day filed in the office of the Secretary
of State as follows:
The Klondyke Cooperative Gold
Mining Company. Principal place OF
business Fresno County. Directors
w. H. Mckenzie, B. F. Sheplar, F. j.
Haber, A NJ. Clark and ]. w. Shank
lin, all of Fresno. Capital stock, $4S, OOO.
Subscribed stock, 5000
Sacramento Paving Company. Form
ed for the purpose of building and con-
structing streets. Principal place OF
business, Sacramento. Directors-W. w.
Chapin, F. Y. Williams, A. A. Van
VOORHEES, and Thomas w. Huntington,
Sacramento. and w. o. Badgeley, Oak
land. Capital stock, $4,000. Subscribed
stock, $4,000
Shanahan Florist Company. Formed
to conduct a nursery business, etc.
Principal place of business, San Fran
cisco. Directors-E. Martin, Sheridan;
S. M. Shanahan, J. w. Shanahan and B.
NJ. OBrien, San Francisco, and r. l..
Shanahan, San Carlos. Capital stock,
$4,000. Subscribed stock, $1,000.
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Cotton Goods at
|BelOW=Value Prices.

Bleached Twilled Cotton Crash
for hand or roller towels, sc yard.
Apron checked Ginghams, good
standard quality, in all siz checks.
sc yard.
Large size Huckaback Towels,
fringed ends. IOc each.
Indigo Blue and White Dress
Prints, standard quality and color
that will wash. SC yard.
Imitation hair cloth "a inches
wide for skirt lining. &C yard.
Bleached Sheeting, u inches
wide, good standard quality and
splendid for wear. I4c.
Fancy Printed Organizes in all
the leading shades and tints, 80
inches wide. 8I-3c yard.
Bleached Pillow Case Muslin of
a reliable brand and quality. SIC
yard.
Bleached Muslin, finished soft
for the needle. Price, 10 yards
for ST.
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Weather Report.

The Weather Bureau reports show
the highest and lowest temperatures
yesterday to have been SO degrees and
90 degrees, with gentle southerly winds
and clear weather prevailing.
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year ago yesterday were 80 degrees
and Ga degrees, and one year ago to-
day rs degrees and 80 degrees.
The average temperature was y
degrees and the normal 70 de-
grees, showing yesterday to have been
1 degree cooler than usual for the 9th
day of July.
The wet thermometer at 3 p. m. was
67 degrees, being 20 degrees cooler than
the dry thermometer at the same hour
The percentage of moisture in the all
at > p. m. was 81 per cent, as against
% per cent. at the same hour on Fri
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BLOODY Feud in Kentucky.

MIDDLEBORO Ky.), July 23.-David
Cody shot and killed James Davidson
in Hancock County, Tenn. Davidson
had arrested Tony Cody at Manchester.
KY, for killing James Mullins at a Bap-
fist meeting. The Mullins are known
as moonshiners and the Codys as des-
peradoes. All the factions are armed
and trouble is expected.
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COlOred DraperY.

We have $50 yards OF handsome
colored striped Grenadine Drap-
cry which is 40 inches wide and
makes beautiful curtains, mantle,
and sash draperies. To close we
have reduced from soc to 25c per
yard.
We also have three-yard Cur
tains of this same material, fringed
ends and ready to hang. Re-
duced from 81 Is pair to ST 43
per pair.
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ADJUSTMENTS.

AT Oak Park Pavilion tonight Char
mion, THE Girl Sandow," will give the
last of her first weeks entertainment.
1t is one of the best athletic exhibitions
ever given in this section
The success of the weeks enga cement
has been such that Manager Delaney
has concluded to continue it one week
longer with new feats and new features
in the vaudeville section. At the close
of the engagement Char1nion goes to
Europe to join the Flying Jordan Com
pany.
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Skirts.

One of our recent purchases be-
low value is a small lot of fifty
separate skirts of black figured
mohair in new designs, we'll tail
ored and perfect hanging. Price,
s. 80.
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Kid Gloves at 5SC.

We still have a good assortment
of the Suede Mousquetaire Kid
Gloves that we have sold so many
of. Shades of tan, gray, modes,
browns and blacks, some in the lot
worth as high as ST. rs. Our price
is SIC.
Chamois Gloves, Mousquetaire
style in white or natural, IN an ex-
cellent quality. Price, 6Sc.
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Don't You
Want One?

We have a wardrobe 7 feet high,
81 inches wide and Is inches deep.
This wardrobe has paneled doors,
handsomely beaded, a shelf above
and a drawer across the bottom.
1t is finished in antique oak and is
unusually good value at SO 90.
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A Hint Unheeded.

When protracted debate
Kept the Senators late,
Till the cleaning began to gloam,
A bird on the edge
OF a Capitol ledge =,
Perched' carolling Home Sweet Home"
And business baked
While the Senators talked;
Prosperity threatened to roam;
But none of them heard
The lorn little bird :,
Who was carolling Home, Sweet Home. J"
Washington Star.
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Fancy Plaids.

New plaids in rough effect, and
in such colors as brown, tan, red,
green and many attractive COM
binations. Used for shirt waists,
children's wear, etc. Width, 3S
inches. Price, 30c yard.
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Ouen-air Concert.

At the Plaza this evening a choice
programme will be rendered by the
Second Infantry Band, under the lead
ership of G. A. Neale.
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Ice Cream Social.

The Ladies of the Grand Army of the
Republic will give an ice cream social
and entertainment at Foresters' Hall
on Wednesday evening next, the 18th
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Tan Jackets.

A pretty line of Tan Jackets,
suitable for women's evening wear
or for seaside or mountains; light
or dark tan, and in the latest cut.
So Is and $40 IS.
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Department Stores.

"The Changers have always ap-
preciated the advantage to the
farmer of buying goods at the
least possible cost. In their Coun-
ty, State and National Conven-
tons, there have been constant al
lusions to the subject. Some
Grange communities have tried to
establish stores of their own, that
the members might supply their
needs at the lowest possible prices.
While few of these cooperative
stores have been successful, prac-
tically the same ends have been
attained for the Granger through
the rise of the department store
with its system of fair treatment,
good merchandise and uniformly
low prices.
mo small part of the business
of the modern department store
comes from the farmer. He sup
ports it to a man."
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Fancy Work Baskets.

New and neat designs in Fancy
Willow and Braided Straw Bas-
kets; round or square shape, 25c
to 75c.