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WeinstOCk Lubn C Co. fOO-4I2 X Streef, Sacramento
dog and the same object is accom-

dog and the same object is accom-
plished.
In the summer of 1895 Emperor Will
liam thought to exhibit to the Sultan at
Constantinople three dogs Of the
sharpshooter battalion at Potsdam. An
officer and two dog-leaders took up in
high spirits and pleasant anticipations
the long journey to the Golden Horn,
for their mission was as honorable as
it was in every respect interesting.
But Franz" the best dog of the sharp
shooters, and one Of the party, thought
otherwise. He broke from his fasten-
ings in the neighborhood of Guben and
sprang out of the car window. He was
caught and instead of going to Con-
stantinople was sent back to Potsdam
to the battalion, to which he still be-
longs
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Needful Little Items at
Telling Little Prices.

Novelty crochet or trimming
braids, sc piece
Book pins, black and white
mixed, SC.
Imitation shell side combs, &c
pair.
Assortment of bone, metal and
jet buttons in a variety of colors.
&c card Of two dozen.
Hooks and eyes, mixed black
and white, II dozen for &c.
Fancy frilled garter elastic in
bright colors, Ole yard.
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Fancy Goods at
Special Prices.

Make it a point
to visit the Fan
cy Goods Sec
ton when in our
stores. Always
interesting, espe-
cially SO just
now. Counters
w G Ii covered
with seasonable
articles at special
prices. So ar
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ISl.5O Sailor Hats
for soc.

Everybody treated properly at
this satisfactory store. \ simple
instance. We offered our country
patrons special value in the shape
of a white tape crown sailor hat
at 5oc. Orders came in by the
score-scores of the hats sold to
CITY customers, also. All gone
now and mail orders still coming
in. To fill the gap, down goes the
price OF the jaunty Paris Novelty ,
sold originally at SI.5o-to SOC.
A pretty shape with white tape
crown, and medium straw brim in
solid red, black or blue. One Of
the best values yet offered by us in !
sailor hats. Reduced price, SOC.
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A Tinted SUGGESTION.

Coggs-There is something about the
woman's face that reminds me of a re-
cent work of art
Boggs-Perhaps. it is the paint.-N.
Y. Journal.
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Special Price, 12c.

LOT II-Boys' straw hats with
soft brims, and yacht shape straw
hats-all this seasons styles. The
shapes are attractive, the colorings
neat and tasty-there are, in fact,
no more desirable hats to be had
for vacation wear. Price less than
half the regular price, also.
Special Price, 12c.
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Thomas Jefferson was a member Of
no church. He was a deist.
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FOUR LEADING LINES
Men 'STrOuSerS
At So and $3.50.

At the two popular prices, So
and S.. so, deserving garments in
many desirable patterns, either for
work or business wear. Neat hair
line stripes and broken mixtures
strongly sewed throughout-serv-
iceable--neat htting-sa satisfactory.
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A-FOr morning. P-FOr Afternoon.
sSunday excepted. monday excepted.
T. H. GOODMAN. Gen. Pas. Agent.
THE Low RATE EAST-PHILLIPS
,Judson Excursion is the only excursion
having the low rate east of Chicago. The
great scenic route. Through managers to
Boston. A visit is made TO Niagara Falls.
No additional expense for ticket. Get
the best 19 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, or apply to c. ]. Ellis. Agent
Southern Pacific Company. Sacramento.
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New millinery Ribbons,
l5C and 25C yard.

During the
early part OF
| he season we
delighted TO
talk OF our
III olre
millinery rib
bon. 1t caus-
ed RI b b Q Il
b Il y G S 10
flock hither.
+ or S o III e
time pa 5 L,
however we
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At So. so and SIS.

Two lines OF fine worsted trous-
ers in staple and new effects, in
cluding stripes and hair line pat
terms in brown, gray, black and
other dark colors. Well tailored
perfect fitting. Stylish to wear
with black coat and vest.
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We carry line of trousers that is large and complete
keep continually improving sylesgive good qualities
at all prceshave sizes fit all perfectly Little wonder that
trade is steadily growing large it already is!
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TODAY, 7
ChiIdren'S
Straw Hats,
12c cEAcH.

Mothers who attend the sale to-
day are promised better values in
bows and children's hats than we
offered on any occasion prior to
yesterday, which is certainly prom
ising a good deal. Though the
price is unconlmonly low the hats
we shall offer are not in any way
undesirable. On the contrary,
some of the most deserving hats
in Our whole stock. Consider a
minute-I2c for a good hat for
boy or child! What mother cannot
afford to take advantage of such
an opportunity, or is justified in
letting the opportunity pass her
by?
LOT I-Children's wide brim
sailor hats in two nice color COM
binations; also, handsome blue and
white half sailors with heavy rib
bon band. All this seasons styles
purchased for this season $
trade-suitable either for boys or
girls-most desirable right now
when tender skin needs protection
from the hot sun. Price less than
half the regular price.
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Cotton Working
Shirts. 23C.

Good cotton working shirts,
made in superior manner. Pat
terms neat and all woven-not
printed. A large variety OF pat
terms to make choice from. A spe-
cial good thing at 23c.
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haven't mentioned it-couldn't---
were practically sold out, and
couldn't procure more in this mar
kct.
Direct from the East new
shipment OF the ribbon has just
come to Us. Nice quality MORE iii
such colorings as Nile, olive, Law
ender, yellow, red, pink and hello
trope. Price, I5c yard. Thou
sands of yards were sold here dur
ing the Spring and Summer.
With the I5c ribbons arrived a
new supply Of the superb 25c
MORE ribbons, a inches wide. A
full assortment Of colors now, in
cluding the widely sought for tur-
quoise and new blue shades. Hard
TO say how long that assortment
will remain unbroken.
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GEN. GREENE'S DIVISION.

cast down you have what you want
ne said, you have peace at our expense
We have yielded everything, and you can
afford to smile and be happy. AS for the
concession it is disgraceful, NOR strous
All my friends feel the same way" I
merton the Incident simply as an index
to the feeling Of the average Spaniard,
That was the night of the so-called riot,
10 which I have referred to above That
night, remember, the jerky rasping
voice of the generals, wife as she read
the Heraldo to her husband smote upon
ny ear more sharply than usual, through
the partition wall, and from time to time
the moribund old warrior himself storm
ed forth his comments. Spanish pride
rad been cut to the quick; the people were
making their distress known in their own
inffectual, ruinous way. ..,r-
In spite of the breathing space and the
momentary prospect of peace which the
granting of the arrnistice offeerd, it be-
came 1Vedent, toward the middle of the
week after, Easter that the stay of a
prudent and reaceable American in Spain
would be limited to the time the Anrican
Cone1ss needed to agree upon certain re-
solutions unpalatable to Spain, with a day
or two of grace for formalities.
Thursday. the 18th of April since Il
wished to see some or the towns OF North
ern Spain determined to make my last
complete day in Madrid, and went to
the theatre in the evening to get q final
Impression. It was the Teatro Espanol
the Coincide Franchise of Spain, where
they still play Lope de Vega and Colderon.
Here you saw what you could have seen
nowhere else in the world-a modern
play with motifs not unlike those Of
Suderman or Guy de Maupassant, done
into form as old as that of Lope him.
self. delicate, pleasantly running metre,
and assonant rhymes. Nothing could be
more delightful than to hear it well
spoken by the admirable Spanish actors; !,
though you understand little of what was
saying, you had pleasure enough simply
in listening to the stately, rolling sounds
of the magnificent language of CASTLE
Nor did the little farce by Cervantes him
self with which the evening was closed
take aay from the rich flavor of antiquity
and general air Of quaint dignity which
pervaded the whole performance. And
there. too you saw a Spanish audience,
somewhat slow to warm and quicken into
enthusiasm, as conscious of its i'm
memorial rights. but once awakened, in
theatre or opera house, glad to make
known to the actors its esteem Of their
bo1suu1D a. 0gQ1D IAa1l
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,Hs parrery uemonsn Spanish block.
house and drive the Spaniards from thei1
trenches, Mr.. Hands had his first expe.
| rience of shrapnel:
Bang! went our gun. I clapped my
glasses to my eyes and watched the dis
tant trenches to see the Spaniards hustle
away. Boom! went some other gun at
a distance. Before there was time to
wonder what or where it was there came
sound in the air like the hiss of some
awful fireworks serpent. It filled the en-.
tire atmosphere. AS it approached the
mss became shrill whistle, and the
whistle a terrifying scream.
Shrapnel! cried an officer, as he
threw himself fiat on his face. .....
Crack! went something overhead
and cries OF CONSERVATION came from the
CUBAN rendezvous in the ruined mill at
the foot Of the hill. Boom! again, scream,
whistle, crack; down we all went on our
races as close to the ground as we could.
Field hospital, quick! yelled some one
from the battery. :.
Schreech! again; this was too awful.
The little cluster of spectators had
separated at the first shot. We ran
round for such shelter as the lee side of
the nil afforded. AS speedily as was pos.
slble, considering the difficulties of the
ground and the burning heat of the san,
l made my way back to spot which,
while not exactly n 1-ont-row-se,atkwa was
not quite the center on the Spanish shrap-
mel deld.''
He was also fc.tunato e-ovg. to see
the splendid storring Of Ell Caney. the
Baiaclaya of Cuba, with the added g,orv
Of utility.
When afternoon camel lost exact
count of time-there was still tumble OF
volleying over by Caney. But in front our
men were away out Of sight behind a
ridge far ahead. Beyond there arose a
long, steeDish ascent crowned by the
blockhouse upon which the artillery had
opened fire in the morning.
Suddenly, as we looked through our
glasses, we saw little black ant go
scrahbling uo this hill, and an inch OF
two behind him ragged line Of other lit
tie ants. and then another line Of ants
at another part of the hill, and then an
other, until it seemed as if somebody had
dug stick into great ants nest down
IN the valley and all the ants were scram-
bling away up the hill. Then the volley
firing began ten times more furiously than
before; from the right beyond the TOP of
the hill burst upon the ants a terrible
IRE of shells; from the blockhouse in
front Of them machine guns sounded
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tired artillery general, old and decrepit
his son. a lieutenant Of dragons, and an
infantry captain. From them you ought
to have cot an interesting point of view,
but unfortunately you couldn't exploit
their ideas. The avail man was deaf
and was continually or the eve of joining
lis ship at Cadiz, whittier, indeed, he
went before the week was up. The old
general was really feeble. The two
younger officers, though civil enough, had
nothing to say. TWAS quite the most
unspeakably glum table I ever sat at.
At first I inclined to attribute the silence
of all these Spaniards to the hampering
presence of an Anglo-Saxon-they had too
little knowledge Of lie world to distin-
guish more finely-but such could not
have been the explanation, for they were
as reserved toward each other as to me.
They scarcely ever oVerstepped the limits
of the family. while I usd often to hear.
them chatter merrily enough in their own
rooms I have seen the same group Of
people sit at table for half a dozen
consecutive meals without morsel of
talk except the customary "buenas dias'
or "buenas noches." I am told by peo-
pie who have lived in private families in
Madrid TT at mann:rs are there much more
cordial. With my landlord, q young
Madrilenian Of the middle classes, I had
talks, and from these I gained as much
knowledge as from any source of how
too, at first took me for a Briton, and
we spoke very freely about the trouble
between his country and the United
States nor, after I had confessed my
nationality did we speak less frankly.
From the beginning he had prophesied
war; nay, more, there would already have
been war were not the Ministers towards;
in fact, he really wanted war, unless the
United States would back down forth
with; u ould himself join privateer. I
remember replying that war should be
very disastrous for Spain, that she would
lose all her colol ial possessions, and ]
added that America was interfering in
the Cuban business with the worthiest
intentions. I'VE" said, merely think
that your government is incompetent to
manage its colonies as modern ideas Ge-
mand. OF personal enmity toward the
Spanish people we have none, are In
fact very grateful TO you for discovering
the continent where we live. Really
I exclaimed, growing enthusiastic, 'see
what we have done in return; see how,
in Irving, Prescott, Ticknor and Motley,
our pee pie have turned to Spain and made
known its romance. it's history, its
literature. No other people o- these
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any .rate-of standing in a regular line

any rate-of standing In a regular line
Of battle.
There was fine lot Of things lying
around loose. and the brave Cubans made
an excellent use of their time. While
American soldiers were fighting the Span
iards on the hill of San Juan or among
the fields and hedges round Ell Caney
their Cuban allies were sneaking about
IN the rear, picking up the overcoats and
valises that the soldiers had lain down
SO that they might be less hampered in
the charge up the steep slopes for Cuban
liberty. During the battle I saw Cubans
coming back in f1fteens and twenties with
full cartridge belts-not a shot expended
land full sacks of soldiers belongings
on their backs, which they were hurrying
with to their own encampment. These
ruffians were SO busy looting that they
refused point blank even to help the
wounded, and I know from the evidence
of my own eyes that they did not hesi-
tate to rob the bodies of American dead.
A colored United States cavalryman came
upon one of them robbing the body of a
dead american officer, and to the ever
lasting honor of the negro he Drained
the Cuban scoundrel with the butt Of his
rifle and killed him on the spot
Neither would the Cubans work. After
the battle, when the United States troops
were laboring night and day, repairing
the roads, digging trenches and building
d1lA"OIAS. 1o1 SudIC0r asked Cnat some
Cubans should be sent to assist in: the
work in order that Santiago might be
more speedily reduced and that food and
ammunition might be more easily and
rapidly conveyed to the front. Senior
Garcia sent back reply stating that he
would be glad if the American COM
mander would remember that the Cubans
We're soldiers, not laborers. forbear Civ.
ing the comments of Gen. Shafter."
"such," the letter concludes, "are some
of the characteristics of the people fo1
whom the United States has sacrificed the
lives of hundreds of her sons and ex-
pended millions of treasure. A more
worthless race or one less fitted for free
dom does not exist, and it will be an evil
day for Cuba and her civilization if the
insurgents ever obtain unrestricted domi.
nation In that unhappy island"
Here are some pen pictures by G. e.
Hands. the correspondent of the Daily
Mail. He saw the fighting before San.
tiago-from what he describes az "a front
row seat" on FL Poso. Here, while watch.
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OF The CUBANs AND
THE SANTIAGO FIGHTING.
.Unfavorable. Opinions OF the Cubans
~. Held by English Newspaper Cor
. respondents Picture OF the
stormins Of Ell Ganey-Pluck of
Wounded After-Battle Scenes
Belief That the Americans VIII
~.aA-f4nvAFy ~ -
Civilization. .s,r'Ff

Here are some Of the Impressions made
by the war upon the correspondents Of
various London papers. They are of in
terest not only in themselves, but also as
showing how men and matters have
struck the English observer. On the
whole scant sympathy has been expressed
in this country with the Cuban forces,
says London letter to the New York
Sun. Their conduct in dealing with their
deliverers has frequently, indeed, been
painted in the blacklist ,colors. The CORE
spondent of the Daily Telegraph describes
the Cubans as incapable offrealizing what
true liberty means. q. :" -,
Here and there he says, "a man like
Gomez or Maceo has some power of real
izing it, but the overwhelming majority
desire to possess themselves of the offices
and power now held by their Spanish
rulers, and If they are permitted by the
United States government to become I'M
restrainedly possessed of them they will
repeat, on an exaggerated scale, all the
cruelties and expressions Of which the
Spaniards have been guilty.'' *.'-:'.
He goes on: 1.-The plain truth of the
matter is that sooner or later the United
States will be obliged to lick the Cubans
into something resembling a civilized com.
munity, and the sooner the work is I'M
dertaken the better. During the last few
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modern days, not even your own prophets,
have done so much tor your country"
THAT may be so,'' was his reply, in
substance, land do NOT say that Ameri-
cans are bad, though somewhat given
over to money making. At heart am an
American myself, and q believer in her
republican institutions. But the real case
is this: have this book; it is mine: has
always been mine. You attempt to seize
It,. GU are much larger than (he Span
lard of Madrid is sn.alN, but do you think
for all that, will fail to defend mine
own, even though you knock me down
and trample on me, ard finally succeed
in robbing me-. AS you are here now in
Madrid, a. peacea Bile man., I; should die
defending you. were you assaulted, just
as should fight for your Ambassador;
were he to be attacked in my presence;
but If you came in armed and belligerent,
I should be the first to thrust you out,
and should have no mercy on you.A We
n ay lose all we have, but we will save
our ~honor.~aWe are Don Quixotes, never
SancEo Panzas! IT, .-s.,s. - .. r.
He must have meant that the Spanish
never do things for n ere material gain.
cannot attempt to say how nearly right
he may have been; that he represented
a pretty widespread feeling among that
PEOPLE is crtain-belief~ in the integrity
of the cause Of Spain, willingness to make
quiAotic sacrifice for honor, and COM
pete COuN1Cl1Ou lLdt NILcT0 Was nOLnlnS
OF all these good things in the American
position. Hear, however, the words of
the high-minded Knight Of the Rueful
Corntepance to the n1uleteer who had tied
MS boy 20 tree and was t1ogging him,
a1ter having withheld his pay for many
months In whose affairs the Don inter.
i iered and gained a promise Of redress:
And If you desire to know who com
mands you to do this thing. to the end
that you may r.main bound more truth
lully to accomplish it, know that I am
the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha-
the Fighter Of wrongs and injusticev' It
Is to be hoped that the Spaniard would
modern affair, Of more successful inter
ference. $50 saying he put spurs to his
kos1nante land shortly left thern," where
upon the muleteer fell upon the boy and
lett scarcely any breath in his body.
Inc only time I saw my landlord really
ulsconcerted was on Easter night, after
the granting, unasked. to the Cuban in
surgents of the armistice became widely
known in Madrid. He was really MI
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weeks or the war saw good deal of the
Cuban soldiers, and If they are to BE
taken as a fair sample of the race to
which they belong they are as unfit for
freedom or constitutional government as
the savages we routed out of Coomassie
a couple of years ago. These armNl in
surgents are little better than horde Of
undisciplined thieves and murderers. Like
most mongfel races, they possess all the
evil qualities of both the races from
which they have sprung with little or
none of their good qualities. They have
all the cruelty of the Spaniard, without
his chivalry and bravery, and like him,
only in more inordinate degree, they
are filled with an insane vanity, which
they mistake for pride. With their negro
blood they have inherited, an unbounded
capacity for lying, and they are expert
thieves, while they possess none Of the
Negroes jollity and good nature"
He then describes a number of acts
of cruelty he witnessed. One of them
happened on the memorable day when
Cervera's fleet was destroyed. and the
correspondent thus describes the incident,
which he saw himself:
"A young Spanish officer on the Maria
Teresa, who had been wounded by
shell, was lying on the burning deck,
with his clothes in flames. A comrade
hastily tore the clothes off the wounded
youth, and, lashing him to spar. threw
him overheard in theEhope of saving his
life. The Cubans saw this and came to
the conclusion that the wounded man
must be an officer Of some Importance.
Instantly score or more of them began
shooting at the poor burned and wounded
figure as it drifted about among the
breakers. This horrible brutality was too
much for the chivalrous American OFF,
GERS and sailors engaged in the work Of
rescue, and the guns of the Gloucester
and the Iowa opened fire on the murder
Gus wretches of Cubans and drove them
off the beach into the woods. I have
since heard that bitter complaints were
made by the insurgents that the work
Of slaughter was not permitted to con-
tinue.'
But it was in the fighting round San
tiago that the Cubans are described as
appearing at their worst. A correspond
ent says:
About 1000 Of them were present.
under Garcia and Castillo, but for effect
i've fighting purposes they were not worth
forty American soldiers. They are all
right for treacherous ambuscade or
fighting behind cover, but they seem in
caDable-with their preselt training at