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300 Pairs of Ladies' $3.50 co.
shoes now at ................ SSC
Ends of our regular $3.50 grades, Button
and Lace, all styles and sizes among the
various lots.
Boys and Youths Satin Calf o.
SnOeS -~S-S~
All Solid Leather; sizes liz to and 215 to
3; a regular first value
Chiidren's Kangaroo Calf EOc
Shoes at ~
For sizes S1A to II; regular 90c value sizes
II to 1872, sale at 69c.
Misses DongoIa and Pebble o.
Goat Shoes O1N
Heavy soles; extra good Walking Shoe
and worth $1.25.
Mems Custom Made Shoes. $500
Hand-sewed; all are best grade, $3.50 to
So values, lin all shapes. all sizes and all
style leather, now on sale at $3.50.
Mems Tannery Calf Shoes at. &@I.zs
Made with two and three soles, Coin
and Globe Toes and warranted solid
leather.
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January Bargain Sale

Hosiery and Underwear
100 dozen Misses Heavy Fast Black -
Seamless Hose sizes to 8, at...........OC
so dozen Childrens Wool-mixed, Heavy
Black, Seamless, old-fashioned a.
200 dozen Ladies' Extra Heavy Seamless.
Knit, Ribbed and Fleeced Fast zT/c
Black Hose; sale at.................. u =
so dozen Ladies' FIeeced, Ribbed Vests and
PantS-Vests, satin Ribbon IT,
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January Clearance Sale
Shoes

$500 Pairs Ladies' Fine shoes S1.4S'
furchaS SEQ from tne Iappati 2loe SollI
to Coldwater, Mich Their entire stock of
made-up goods, all fine stock and regularly
sold retail at $3.50 to $685. choice all sizes
end all styles, at, a pair
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From the New York Herald.


Trenton n. J., Sunday. Oct 24-Samuel
Stafford said to have been the owner of the
flag under which Paul Jones fought. died in
the State Hospital for the Insane Saturday
He was eighty-slX years old. and was the
last of the family. The Stafford home was
a regular museum of historical curios. The
nag was said to be that under which Paul
Jones won his most notable victories
aboard the Bon Homme Richard. Lieuten-
ant Stafford Samuel Stafford's ancestor,
saved the flag from falling into the hands
of the enemy
All OF which is true. except Samuel Stat
ford did not die without leaving relatives.
His nephew, Charles +. Stafford, lives at
No. 737 Locust street in this city, and is the
lessee of the billiard rooms at the Coates
House. Another nephew. Joseph Stafford.
lives at No. 222 Center street. in Trenton
y. ]. Mr.. stafford in Trenton has written
his brother here that leading firm of Phil
adelphla attorneys has been employed to
break the uncle's will. Mr.. Stafford in
Trenton writes that he does not care about
the money value of his uncle's belongings.
but he does not propose that those price
less relics shall go 10 anyone except a STAFF
ford Insomuch as the uncle was crazy
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so pieces of odd colors in China and Surah
Silks, were Csc a yard; January f0c
sale price, yard. ........................ 1OC
80 pieces of regular 39c and soc Brocaded
Changeable and Figured Taffeta Silks;
YARD Ii ~. ............... sou GOc
100 pieces of Fancy Taffeta Silks, regular
75c and 81 values; January sale price, yard,
59c and CSC
Black Satins, eros Grains, Fables and Peau
de Sole Silks at reduced prices; bar ZEc
gain lot of regular 81 Black Silks at. A W
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MIR. THoMPsoN's SECOND LETTER.

The second communication from Mr. Maui
rice Thompson which the Journal takes
pleasure in presenting to it's readers this
morning, effectuaIly skaters the two argu-
ments of those who oppose the acquisition
of the Spanish possessions One of these
arguments is that the consent of the gov
erned must be the basis of all government
Mr.. Thompson shows the absurdty of the
universal application of this principle. If
all peoples in the world were intelligent, all
government could be safely based upon the
consent of the governed Until the inhabi-
tants of country can be instructed in the
theory of self-government, it is better for
that country to be under the tuition of ma
ton of progressive and humane purpose
AS Mr.. Thompson says, we have not OBJ
served that principle. Mississippi, South
Carolina and Louisiana, by the act of pow
erful minorities, without the consent of the
governed, have deprived the negro majori-
ties in those States of any voice in govern
ment; and yet the disfranchised majority in
those States, as Mr.. Thompson says, are
much better prepared for self-government
than are seven-tenths of the people of
Cuba.
The other bugaboo which Mr.. Thompson
disposes of is imperialism" 1t is an abb
surd word to apply to the setting up in
islands which fall into our hands. of govern
ments which will afford the benighted in
habitants protection, justice and inteli-
gence. Imperialism is the name of the rule
set up by autocratic power, which does not
consider the welfare of the people whom it
has brought under its dominion. The pur-
pose of Imperialism is never benefcent, but
rule under the authority of the United
States in territory which it has acquired
has builded large and intelligent states
Mr.. Thompson is a citizen eminently quail
flied to discuss these vastly important issues
which the war has thrust upon US. He is a
man of extensive experience, a student. a
thinker, and, above all, an American. His
reasoning is that of a man who is thor
oughly convinced of the right and justice
of his cause and who feels that his cause is
so strong that it is not necessary to assail
tbe Of
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STATE PRESS OPINION.

The war drags slowly to those people who
are in the habit of doing things before they
get ready.-Fort Wayne Gazette.
If we propose to keep what we capture
from Spain during the war it is our bust
ness, and not that of any nation in Europe.
Evansville Journal.
We had better drive the Spaniards out of
Cuba before we waste much time worrying
over the form of government we will give
her.-Cannelton Enquirer.
If the Vesuvius goes over to the Mediter-
ranean and drops a charge among the Dons
it will be necessary to gather up Spanish
honor in a basket-Terre Haute Express.
The voters of Indiana repudiated free sill
in the election of 1886, and the improve
ment of business has tended to strengthen
the verdict or two years ago,-Marion News.
In some of the States the Democrats are
still selling themselves to the Populists and
silver Republicans. but, cheap they sell
themselves, they will not get their price.
-Terre Haute Mail
Democrats in Congress were anxious in
the beginning to precipitate war regardless
of cost. Now they are opposing the appro-
priation measures because of the expense.
-Shelbyville Republican
No popular clamor should be deemed
strong enough to induce the administration
to depart from the lines of wise caution
along which the war has been conducted to
this time.-Richmond Palladium.
The most telling blow that can be inflicted
against deprecated money is the popular
loan from the common people. Every man
who holds any of those bonds will be un-
movably in favor of sound money.-Nobles-
vile Ledger.
The same fellows that killed Clark off in
the Columbus congressional convention were
at Indianapolis. with their machetes whet-
ted to a fine edge, and the results show
that they got in their work good and strong.
-Greenshurg Republican.
Efforts to drive military commanders into
disaster through unwisely hasty action by
men who know nothing of military matters
rise up to the stature of crimes, for they
might be the useless cause of terrible loss
of human life.-New Albany Tribune.
The temper and spirit of the recent DEM
ocratic state convention was not such as to
impress spectators that the Democrats have
much hope of success in Indiana this fall.
Good crops, improved times. the triumphs
Of war and other conditions are such that
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near future; 1t Is not imperialism" to fore
sec that an independent government in
Cuba would render that island not only
miserable in itself. but continuing menace
to our civilization on account of its position.
Cuban independence will soon become as
intolerable as Spanish oppression has been,
and then We shall have to fight this war
over again to do what il is our bounden
duty TO do now.
Cuba is the spot upon which American
craftsmanship should now be centered with
all tho power of intensest patriotism. Senti-
mental tradition is not an element of the
reckoning. We cannot afford to experiment.
with ignorance and the ineradicable
traits and prejudces of an alien and
long dehased people We must treat
Cuba as We treat New York and
Texas, for the upbuilding of the
civilization which we believe is the only
true one in the world. To adopt any other
course will be an affront to every element
of that civilization. We have Ii now in our
power once for all to extend the blessing OF.
American freedom over a large new area.
We are removing from Cuba the shadow OF
the Spanish flag which has been slavery
and torture: we are casting upon that mag
nificent island the shadow of our own flag
which is perfect freedom and happiness, ana
we must never remove it, never permit II TO
be removed. Cuba libre like Indiana libre,
must look for eternal freedom to the nag
that makes IL eternally free.
MAURICE THOMPSON.
CraWfOrdSVille Ind. June 25
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THE COLORED PEOPLE AND THE
WAR.


1t has been remarked many times that
the present war will be worth to the Nation
all it will cost in the wiping out of section
al lines and the complete restoration of good
feeling between the North and the South
The people of both sections have re-
sponded with alacrity to the call of the
President. Union veterans, Confederate vet
Grams and the sons of both, and now we
have Northern regiments and Southern regi-
ments brigaded together and marching,
camping and fighting under the same flag
and for a common cause
Scarcely less significant of the great
change which has occurred during the last
thirty years. and not less educational in a
right direction. is the matter-of-course way
in which the country regards the enlist
ment of colored troops under colored off,
GERS now going on. The white young men
who are enlisting to-day and who will soon
be marching. camping and fighting side by
side with coiored soldiers cannot form any
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u campaign of calamity, such as the Indiana
Democrats always make, will not meet with
much observation-disclosures Tribune.
How delicious that portion of the Demo-
cratic Indiana platform, relating to our
peerless leader in the campaign of 1896"
must be to the sensible thinking element
of that party. That kind of peerless lead
ership' is indeed, rare.-Huntington Her
aid.
Some of the Democratic United States
senator's. in their opposition to bond issue
last week. argued that there is no necessity
for issuing bonds. That is they tacitly adj
mitted that the present administration is
pretty well up in successful tinanciering.
Petersburg News.
Senator Turpie talked about the silver dol
lar being worth 100 cents, but he omitted to
say it was Republican legislation which
made 1t so. 1t contains less than so cents
worth of silver. but the fact that it is inter-
changeable for gold dollars Keeps it at its
face value.-Anderson Herald.
While the movements of the invading
armies may seem little slow to us in our
restless anxiety, history will tell the story
of the rapidity with which these armies
were fitted out ard put into the field of
service. Nothing like it has ever been ac-
Seymour Republican.
There may be some variety of opinion
among the people Of this country as to what
should be done with the fruits of this war
which can only bring victory to the Ameri-
cans, but there is no division of sentiment
upon the proposition that we are going to
make final disposition of those fruits.
Charlottesville Journal
Cervera. it is said. is still at Santiago
and nobody could be stiller.-Lafayette Call
If senators are in doubt as to the senti-
ments of the large majority of the voters
OF their respective States on the subject of
HaWanan annexation, let. them consult
that in
the Union the people not only favor this an
neXation now a war measure but long
before there was probability of war with
Spain public sentiment favored the measure.
w arSaW Times.
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The Dynamite Gum.

You may sing the song of the heavy shot,
And prate of the rapid-hre;
You may run your ships, with their steel gun
lips,
BY the flame of the foeman's ire;
You may take the inchers. from four to eight,
And pound with your solid SHE'LL
But am the gun that is in when the fun
Is the same as they have in--well!
I'm lean and I'm long. I'm tough and I'm
strong,
But what hit from the sea
Is doomed when I've doomed and its shape you
find,
Is not what 1t used to be;
You may shake, you may shock all the fortressed
rock
With the light and the heavy shell,
But l the gun that is in when the fun
Is the same they have in-welll
You may swing your ships to the battle line.
speed them upon the course:
You may wake the of the aft and fore
I i'll the threats of the guns hoarse;
But the marAs they miss the spots | kiss
With the lips of my bursting she'll
For l the gun that is in when the fun
Is the they have in-welf
Baltimore News.
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A Wounded Name.

1t might almost be said of Capt. Charles
King that his works live after him-at least
they continue to appear after he has entered
the active military service. where, for a
time at least he will be debarred from writ
ing. No doubt, however, this service will
add to his store of practical experiences
which make his army stories so popular.
"A Wounded Name" opens with a scene at
"a dinner ranch in Arizona at a period
when that Territory was alive with In
dams and bad white men, and ends with
dramatic account of a court-martial in
which a lieutenant of the regulars is cleared
from damaging charge by the testimony
of young girl of Spanish extraction whom
he marries. The interesting pages are full
of stirring scenes and experiences of 'front.'
Ter life. 1t is an excellent story. New
York: F. Tennyson Nicely.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-27

Richard Malcolm Johnson not only writes
entertaining stories, but he does a service
to historical literature BY presenting in such
graphic form the conditions of life in the
South during the>perio6 between 1910 and
1860. when noneSsave statesmen dreamed of
the possibility of war. His characters are
doubtless fictitious, but the atmosphere of
the life of the time seems to be accurately
reproduced. and it has a charm all it's own.
Mr.. JohnSons stories are simple records of
commonplace existence in rural communi-
ties, and are seldom varied by dramatic in
cidents. This narrative is an exception in
this respect, however. having a more elab-
crate plot than usual, and having for
Leading incident an interesting court trial
The dialect is in many respects unlike that
represented In magazine literature as the
Southern speech of to-day. but ii is doubt
less that which was in actual use at the
time and in the region of which the author
writes. The book is published by Way s.
Williams Chicago
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-27

Marine underwriters watch the chances of
war about as closely and weigh them as in
diligently as do the naval authorities. The
report that Admiral Camara's squadron is
going to Manila does not seem to worry
them any, as witness the fact that the war
risk premium on vessels bound from the
Philippines to New York, which was $3.50
per 500 when the war broke out is only 50
now. The president of a leading marine in
surance company in New York says:
1t is folly to say that Spain will send
fleet to the Philippines. No.. only the
Spanish ships in poor. condition for such a
voyage, but they couldn't do anything Ii
they Gid go. Our company will cheerIully
write any risks on ships or cargoes destined
to ports in the Philippine ISLANDS.
Probably it did not occur to Admiral
Dewey, when he was destroying the Spanish
ships in Mantle, harbor. that he was knock
ing down marine insurance rates, but he
was, just the same.
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This story. by Anne Douglas Sedgwick.
belongs to the old-fashioned order of ro-
mance-that of Cinderella. the unappreci-
ated daughter In this case the daughter is
the victim of the selfishness of her family.
though she willingly uses her talent and
strength in earning money for father.
mother and sister to spend. She is shy and
retiring, and allows a wrong construction
to be put upon her conduct, but In time,
though nearly too late, the condition of
things is discovered by the right man, and
Cinderella comes TO her own. Although old
fashioned II is a story that repeats itself
now and then in real life. and because
poetic justice always prevails in the end IL
possesses an interest for novel readers no
matter how often the theme is repeated.
Published by the Scribners.
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r, N. Stephens, author of IAN Enemy to
the King which was successfully drama
tized, has written another story in a some
what similar vein, though differing entirely
in plot and treatment. The first was a story
of the sixteenth century. the scene of which
was laid in France, while this one deals
with incidents and characters during the
American revolutionary war. The hero is
a young Virginian who becomes an officer
in a troop of continental cavalry, and the
heroine is a beautiful and high spirited Vir-
ginia girl who remains loyal to the King.
The spirit of the story IS that of war times.
and it Is full of movement and action, di-
versified by charming love romance. In
a general way the story runs parallel with
historical facts. which the author has used
is good story wen told. Boston: l.. c.
page e Co
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The attempt to make people believe that it
is the war which gave the Republicans Ore
gon by 1850 plurality, rather than the cur
rency issue, will not succeed with those who
remember that the campaign was pushed
from first to last on the money issue 1t
would be a great mistake on the part of
Republicans to ignore the money issue this
fall. The late Democratic convention
and many Democrats who voted for Mr..
Bryan privately admit it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-27

1t is said the naval authorities at Wash
ington now admit that the war ships ac-
companying the first military expedition to
the Philippines We're ordered to stop at the
Island of Guahan, in the Ladrones, and dis
mantle the Spanish Notifications there.
This was to be done with as little delay as
possible and without landing troops, the sole
object being to destroy the Notifications so
that the Monterey. on her arrival there, can
coal in the harbor without molestation. The
Navy Department believes the war ships
carried out the order at5
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judiciary committee. says of the bill: 1T
will enable from 10000 to 200, 900 bankrupts
to get on their feet again. 1t will enable
manufacturers and merchants to get a fair
division of their debtors property and will
prevent a great deal of fraud. embezzlement
and wasteful dealing with property"
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DiAnrSlYed.

The Spanish gunner got himself within
the barn, shut the door and bolted it,
Putting his rife to his shoulder he took
careful aim and, shutting his eyes, fired.
Hal" said he, who said could not hit
the side of a barn?'
But when he went to look for the mark
of the bullet he found he had fired through
a knot hole.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-27

The great danger which would threaten
England if she were at war with a coali-
ton of European naval powers would be the
cutting off of her food supply. With a Wis
IDLE supply of wheat at given time, even
in peace, sufficient only for few weeks,
the possibility of her sources of supply be-
ing cut off is calculated to make British
statesmen tremble., That may account for
the strong feeling in favor of an alliance
with the United States
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-27

When General Campos declared that in
order to maintain the honor and dignity of
Spain he himself would take them up, "even
out of the gutter" he showed he knew
where to look for them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-27

On Friday last eighteen thousand letters
containing subscriptions to the new war loan
were received at the Treasury Department
in Washington and this number has been
nearly equaled on other days. AS subscrip-
tons will be received for two weeks yet
it is too soon to predict the aggregate
amount but it is pretty certain the whole
$2OO,00O,0OO will be taken in sums of $500 and
less, thus shutting out the banks and syn
dicateS
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chicago news.
With ex-President Cleveland and Colonel
Bryan opposing the extension of territory
and General GrosVenor announcing in the
Ohio convention that President Mckinley
certainly will not order the American ban
ner to ''be pulled down from any. flagstaff
where conquest of arms has placed it, one
of the issues of 1900 seems to be made up.
However, a great many things may hap
pen between now and national convention
dav
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-27

The sound-money Democrats in Pennsyl-
vania have issued an address in which they
state that in every leading country which
has adopted gold standard it has been at
tended by an increasing supply of gold for
all the requirements of trade
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-27

When the secretary of the treasury re-
ceives subscriptions in the names of half a
dozen persons, accompanied by the check
of one of them to cover the whole sub
scription, he sends them back because he
sees in it. a purpose. to evade the design of
Congress to make the loan a popular one.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-27

The sound-money Democrat was near the
truth when he said that if the sense of the
late Democratic convention on the 16-to-1
issue had been ascertained by secret ballot
there would have been large vote
arainst II
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Queered Himself.

ooh, mamma, 1 fear the duke is not high
born, after ALL"
why Maud?"
1--WE were talking of the mooted Anglo
American alliance and he said something
about our common blood >"
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Favoring the building of the Nicaragua
canal and denouncing the acquisition of Ha-
wall are two things which do not consist
The government which constructs that
canal should be sure to hold the adjacent
islands which would command it in the
event of war
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1t takes $l.s5 of Spanish paper money to
get 81 in gold If the Populist theory of
unlimited coinage by printing presses could
be adopted by Spain it would take 800 of
paper to purchase gold dollar, but it would
be an ideal currency from the Populist point
of view
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-27

Members Of Congress who have given
careful attention 10 the subject of bank
ruptcy bin say that the bill which has
passed is much better than the Torrey bill,
which was generally favored by boards Of
trade ana business organizations throughout
the country. Senator Hoar. chairman Of the