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IN OUR
Shoe Department,

Ladies' 81 Oxford Ties, Monday. $1.29.
Hand turnedIin black kid and Wei russell |;
sizes 81 tot.
Ladies' Kid Oxford Ties, SIPS quality,
at zoe.
Ladies' ALI Russct and Tan Vcsting Lace,
with or without tan patent leather tips, SO
and SO. so value, at $3.50.
Ladies' Hand-Sewed Oxford, in tan and
black. best quality; $500 quality at
$1.05.
Misses and Chidren's Russet, So. 90 and
$3.50 quality, to close at $3.50.
Boys and Mems Tennis Oxford. 45c.
Mems $3.50 Hand-Sewed Russell Lace
Shoes, $2.49.
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SeaSOnable HOuSefuniShing Opportunities.

GARDEN HOSE.-25 feet OF best guar
anteed Hose, hardwood Hose Carriage,
: ! BRASS Spray or Stream Nozzle the en-
tire outfit complete at $2.98.
SIC.
LAWN MOVERS, strictly high grade,
easily adjusted and as easy running as
bicycle, II and IA inch size, ST .6S.
The "PEERLESS" ICE CREAM
fREELER makes cream in about three
ana half minutes. We will show YOU
now tomorrow and give you a plate Of
cream Tree to prove it. 2-quart size,
eoc'' o'quart size, $l.35.
iron Preserving Kettles, porcelain lined,
y, o'o, l, quart, your choice while
'ney last, Csc each.
agate NiCkel.Steel Preserving Kettles,
oeSt made, four sizes, at zoe. each.
brooms-25 dozen Parlor Brooms, hand
maoe, only two to customer, Ice;
"h'sKorooms, full size, two-sewed, Sc.
hIue Flame Oil Cookers-The Brook
'yn automatic, two burners, $4.98;
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WASH GOODS. EXTRAS.

Printed Haircord Dimites, light, medum
and dark ground, always 1oc. are reduced
to &c. per yard
Silk Plaid and Striped effect Scotch
Zephyr, this seasons patterns 25c. goods,
all marked to go at 12lac. per yard.
Linen Batiste and Black Grenadinc, with
fancy colored figures woven in; value soc I;
sale price while they last, 19c. per yard
Dark and Medium Ground Scersuckers
in lengths from 3 to - yards regular
12c. quality, at $40. per yard.
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49c. for Boys
Knee Trousers,
Reduced from soc.
and Soda Fountain in the basement.

strongly made from al-wool cheviot,
blue and black, double seats and knees,
patent Wristbands and tapped seams.
Just the kind to stand rough wear. Also
quite lot OF the best quality Corduroy,
in tan, not all sizes; regularly worth
$l.25 the pair. All at Acc. pair to
close out.
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Washable Knee Pants, fancy striped to
10 years, pairs for 25c.
The balance Of our very fine Wash Suits
reduced to 89c.
Boys Cambria and Percale Shirt Waists.
splendid quality at 19c.
Knee Pants, all wool. strong, pretty
styles, all sizes, at SOC.
Knee Pants, navy blue, regular sl.oo
quality; special at 40c.
Bathing Suits, two pieces, Blue Jersey
Cloth, for men and boys, at 75c.
Double Breasted Suits all wool, 3 to 16
years, new styles, at 81 .9S.
Beautiful assortment OF Sailor Suits,
great bargain, at $1.9S.
Little Vcstce MILDLY Suits, 3 pieces, 3 to
years, so styles, at $1.oS.
Long Pants Suits. blue serge and neat
mixtures IA to 20 years, at 1896.
Blue Tricot Suits, fine all WOOL 7 to 10
years; special at $3.9S.
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New Trunks at rs Off.

display all kind
i'm
our trunk You
@' you want and pleased Trunk?
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CSC. for
$1.45 and $1.59
Wrappers.

ularity every Monday. Tomorrow in par
ticular Od.Fashioned Lemon and Or
ange Slices and assorted spiced Jelly
Strings, all at SC. a pound box; pure
and delicious, not the ordinary | Sc. kinds
Of candy. Better try them. Not sent,
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HOUSEHOLD LINENS.

Manufacturers Ends OF 1s-inch White
Twill Crash, with red borders; lengths
range from to 10 yards; value &C.; sale
price &c. per yard.
$50 dozen Al-Linen Huck Towels. extra
heavy quality, Is inches wide, 80 inches
long, at two for 25c.; value 19c. each.
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the Brooklyn" automatic, three bur-
ners, $6.98.
Toilet Jars and Stands-Toilet Jars, ia
PANIED oak, 25c.; Toilet Jars, white,
gold banded, 25c.; Toilet Stands, with
pitcher, basin and soap dish, 88c.;
Toilet Stands, extra heavy, in fancy
colors, $3.48.
Wash Boilers, made OF substantial stock
and copper bottom, No. 7 size, 48c.
Wash Boards, full size, with protector,
lOc.
Gambler" Soap, six cakes for Csc. and
one extra cake free, or $685. box OF
100 cakes.
Siexo, best securing soap, twelve cakes
for Csc.
"Acme" Soap, twelve cakes for Csc.
BisselPs fourwheel Sweepers, csc.
Garbage Cans-The "Victor," with cover,
4Oc.
"Jumbo Ammonia, full half-gallon jug,
lOc..
GO-CARTS.-Well made Children's Co
Carts, including the latest styles in
Sleepers, some with rubber tires; take
your choice while they last at $5.98.
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Boys Overalls,
sizes 3 to / years,
made from splen-
did blue denim,
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And RefrigeratOrS at IS Off.

Ice
ua any knd OF Refrigerator in our store ana you Will nd sol
This the Refrigerator opportunity of the years it will
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25c. for Boys
SOC. OVerallS.

with bibs and suspenders, nicely sewn !;
unlike the kind usually sold at 3ec.
There are about 600 pairs to close at
Csc. pair,
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The Scarf Sale of the Season.
SC. to 1Oc. Ties at for 25c.

asHdUTe OUtIUH sitting Ties at Tor
Z. y. d., exchanged or credited. And, the
AT 2Hc.-Men's and women's Csc. and
soc. Scarf Ties and Bows, washable
cottons and fine silk.
AT 25c.-All Of our Summer Scarfs for
AT Sea- splendid lot OF regular eOc.
quality Negligee Shirts for boys at soc.
All 75c.-The regular $l.OO to $l.25
quality of Boys Negligee Shirts.
AT Goethe best values ever given
in Boys Negligee Shirts. To thoroughly
introduce our Boys Furnishing De-
partment we have gathered a splendid
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-10-13

able to observe it and measure it with
great accuracy.
Star clusters seen through the Yerkes
telescope are wonderfully beautiful, a
great ball, like swarm of golden bees
The moon was too full for a good view,
and showed merely a pale yellowish
surface.
About noon Prof. Hale had the tele-
scope turned on the sun. No sun spots
were visible, so The telescope was di-
rected along the disk of the sun at the
flames which burst through its dense.
gaseous cloud wrappings and thrust
their tongues far out into space. On a
pink background, shading into dark
red. and fully rounded, one saw a
hooked yellow flame half Obscured by
what looked like gray vapors. There
was an apparent movement, the flame
darting high, sinking down, or again
bending over to lick the round disk of
the sun. Curious as 1t may seem. a
glimpse through this powerful glass is
more wonderful to the astronomer
than to the man who looks millions of
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-10-13

There is in Toledo a young grocery
clerk who would Ike to meet the in
yentor Of the self-eolllng strlug-holder
That man Is responsible for the gro
Gerry clerks undolng,
The clerk got into the habit years
ago Of biting of the string instead OF
breaking II, after tying bundles. Natu-
rally his teeth protested against the
practice. At length they gave up and
wore out
He bought false teeth Before he
fairly got acquainted with them. SO to
speak. the patent string holder was es-
tablished In the store Then. as fate
would have Il, a young woman whom
he secretly admired came in to buy
five pounds Of sugar.
With the activity Of an anxious lover
he made mp the package aud tied it.
Then, according to his old custom. he
bent forward and severed the string
with his teeth
But he forgot the holder, and he did
not realize the end Of the cord had
wedged itself between two of his new
teeth--until, as the spring rolled up
the slack, his plate" was holsted from
his mouth and triumphantly waved
aloft at the end Of the string.
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What does the finest telescope in the
world look like to man who doesn't
know a telescope from n barrel?
A reporter for the Chicago Inter
Ocean visited the Yerkes observatory
of the University of Chicago at Will
Jams Bay for the purpose of answering
these questions. A big telescope is al
most human. 1t is furnished with a
curious sixth sense, a marvellous sec
Ond sight. Mysterious, uncanny, huge,
1t powerfully impresses one and grows
more wonderful on closer acquaintance.
The whole observatory Is built about
its monster eye. For the eye alone are
the motors, the dying pulleys, the NOV
able dome, the rising floor, and all the
curious instruments varying from the
delicately strung spider web of the
micrometer to an apparatus weighing
fifty tons. Without the huge eye every
thing would be useless. This eye Is
the lens Of the refractlng telescope in
the main tower at the western end Of
the observatory, 1t Is reached by a
flight Of marble steps from the main
corridor. Entering the building in the
evening, all is quiet and dimly lighted
the main tower quite dark. About
midway Of the round dome is the ris-
Ing floor, over which the telescope
swings. 1t is triumph OF mechanical
skill, the only satisfactory means de-
vised for reaching the eye piece of a
big telescope ms it is tilted up and down
.,..,,,,.r O., vo,trI ~, tie
The telescope itself IS a big iron tube
sixty-two feet long. painted black. In
the end which looks out through the
dome is the object glass or refracting
eye. forty inches in diameter, or four
inches wider than the lens of any other
telescope of the kind in the world. The
iron tube, with its lenses. finder, eye
pieces and other appliances, weighs
nearly twenty tons. And yet so nicely
Is 1t balanced that a strong pull with
the hand will swing It foot or more.
The huge telescope is moved on its axis
by electricity.
Describing the apparatus Or. Hale
finally fixed the big eye Of the telescope
on the planet Saturn. 1t was a fine,
clear night. with little disturbance in
the atmosphere. and Saturn appeared
to twinkle about half way between the
sky line and the zenith The eye piece
which was put on magnified nearly 800
diameters, one-eighth the highest pow
er used. This is how the planet Saturn
looked to the reporter gazing through
the biggest telescope In the world: 1t
appeared 4 yellow. round disk about
the size of the moon, not Hat, but
clearly globular. Around It twinkled a
purple band quarter of an inch wide
Next to this was a solid ring enclrcling
the planet. of the same bright yellow
color. and quite distinct; next to this
was a second narrow violet band, and
surrounding that a second broad vel
| low band like the first. Around the
whole sparkled a brilliant violet circle
Saturn's moons appeared as three tiny
/ round yellow marbles grouped to form
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miles into space for the first time. To
the astronomer each object is full of
details which escape the unframed eye.
Every line has meaning. and in the
merest tribes he reads the story of a
million years.
The history of the Yerkes telescope
itself is the history of the evolution Of
an eye. of the most wonderful artiti-
clal seeing apparatus vet devised. This
great eye is POO times as large as the
human eye. That is to say, its diam
eter is forty inches, while the diane
ter of the pupil Of the human eye is
one-ifth inch. 1t Is made of two sep
arate lenses. one of crown giass, two
and one-half inches thick at the cen
ter. three-fourths of an inch thick ut
the edge. and weighing 200 pounds;
the other Of flint glass, one and one
half inches thick at the center, two
inches thick at the edge, ana Weighing
800 pounds. One of these glasses is
convex and the other plano-concave.
These two lenses are mounted eight
and thrce-sixteenths inches apart in
the end Of a big steel tube sixty-two
feet long, about forty-two inches 10
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-10-13

After falling In his attempt to reform
dt one fell swoop the warning instincts
of the world, Gar Nicholas has COM
menced work on reform entirely
within his jurisdiction. He has decided
to wipe out the dark blot on civilization
existing for more than two centuries
the penal colony of Siberia. This pro-
posed reform is emlnently practical and
In line with the theory that charity be-
gins ut home. The Siberian exile sys-
tenn OF punishment, as 1t has been car
ried out In Russia, was n clumsy,
brutal, and at the same time an ex-
pensive method of dealing with Grim
lnals. The herding together Of the con
vlcts In these penal colonies has not
only resulted in producing n hell upon
earth within the colonies, but 1t has
handicapped the development of
great portion OF the Russian empire.
There is a question whether the latter
fact has not Influenced the Cars pres
ent determination to a greater extent
than mere softness of heart and de
sire to promote the interests of hui
mainly. Gar Nicholas is n commercial
eXpanslonlst. The building of the
trans-Slber!an railway suggests his
evident purpose to develop the agri-
cultural resources of Siberia. The
maintenance Of the penal colonies in
that region would in the future as in
the past, deter the settlement of bona
fide peasants. The frequent recurrence
of famines In the empire has APPARENT
ly convinced the Car Of the need for
Improvement of Industrial conditions
and the trans-Slberian railway Is a
part of his plan for remedying matters
With the new railway and the Chinese
markets now being acquired. there is
no reason to believe that the dream Of
transforming Siberia into a rich agri-
cultural empire soon may not be real
lied. 1t will not do to assume that
these business considerations are the
only ones that have appealed to Car
Nicholas In his decision to abate the
Siberian penal nuisance. SO far an the
testimony goes the present ruler of the
Russias is a right-minded man, with
the best interests Of his people at heart.
Doubtless human influences have had
n goodly share In shaping his new ST.
berian policy. But even a reform In the
interests Of humanity Is always hasten
ed when backed up by few business
incentives. Whatever the Inspiration,
the world will be glad to hear that the
word siberia" is TO lose its horror and
viii cheerfully extend TO Car Nicholas
full measure Of credit for the reform.
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In a recent address on vaccination,
an English lady physician related some
curious stories illustrating the prevs-
lcnce Of smallpox in England just be-
fore Jenner's time. In advertisements
for servants It was commonly stipu-
lated that they must be of the Church
of England and have had the small
pox." The police, In advertising for
the apprehension Of n counterfeiter.
gave as one OF the marks OF identifica-
ton that the fugitive had mo peck
holes" In letter from a lady to her
son urging him to find a husband for
his young daughter, the sollcitous grand
mother wrote that she was not In favor
Of early marriages as a rule, but this
was an exceptional case, for Angelina
has not had the smallpox, and at any
moment the chance of her getting set
tied In life might be entirely lost
Therefore, 1t Is better to get her mar
ried at once"
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-10-13

The question is asked how the center
Of population in the United States Is
determined. 1t Is rather an Intricate
mathematical problem, but when Gen
eral Francis A. Walker was superln-
tendent of the census he explained In
this way the method by which the point
Is located: Upon an imaginary board,
shaped exactly like the map OF the
country and having no weight, the pop
ulation Is placed in accordance with the
distribution shown by the census re-
turns. Each inhabltant Is regarded as
having the same weight. Then the
point at which the board would exactly
balance Is designated as the center OF
population. 1t will be a difficult ques-
ton TO decide what account may he
taken of the people In Cuba ana the
Philippines, for they viii be important
factors in locating the next center OF
population If they are included as in
habitants Of the United States. Hawaii
and Porto Rico viii unquestlonably be
classed as parts Of the nation, which
win tend to draw the center point a lit
tie south and possibly check its prog
ress westward from the fact that Porto
Rico has "A population of $1,000 while
Hawaii has about 107, 900 inhabitants.
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a pruning hook to the left of the plan
cts disk, while fourth one hung a lit
tie lower down TO itself on the same
side. No oscillation was apparent Sat
urn's rings and satellites apparently
were Of the same yellow color of the
planet. Sometimes these rings can be
dlscerned In their colors and form a
brilliant rainbow about the planet.
From the outer rim Of the planet prop
er to the outer edge Of the outside ring,
the distance, through the telescope,
looked to be about two inches. 1t Is, in
fact, 172,OOO miles! Looking through
the huge refractor, the human eye Is
able to discern a space Of 172OOO miles
as two inches in the area Of the heay-
ens To the ordinary observer the shin
ing violet rings about the planet form
a beautiful feature Of the view. These
rings, however, are due to imperfec-
lions which exist in every telescope,
and which astronomers would be only
too glad to dispense with.
The telescope was next turned upon
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar
system, and as big as all Of the other
planets put together. The distance from
this earth to Jupiter Is trihe Of 400,-
100000 miles, and 1t takes forty-three
minutes for Its light to reach the earth.
Juplter's disk looked about as big as a
large marble, probably two inches in
diameter. at its side, In a nearly
straight line to the right, appeared four
small marbles, its satellites. The color
Of the planet was almost white, a very
light yellow. Across the planet appear
ed three faint purple streaks, on the
order apparently Of the man in the
moon. While at Lick Observatory Pro
fessor Barnard discovered the fifth
satellite of Jupiter but was unable to
study 1t to any advantage. The
YerlIes telescope brings out this fifth
moon very clearly to the eye of the as
tronomer, and Prof. Barnard has been
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IN THE STARRY SKY.
WHAT MAY BE SEEN THROUGH
THE YERkES TELESC OPE.
Powerful Glass at the Williams Bay
observHtory-Brin the Moon with
In sixty-four Miles of the arth-
Close study of the Planets.

For nearly two years the big eye of
the Yerkes telescope In the observatory
Of the University of Chicago, at VIII
Jams Bay, Wis, has been spying out
the secrets of the stars. 1t has looked
one-fourth further into space than any
instrument devised before It. Night
after night the huge, grim Cyclopean
eye swings slowly round In its ponder
GUS frame, crouched in its big white
dome, and keeps a sieepless watch upon
the heavens. The great dome Is open
to the sky. The ponderous tube swings
slowly, imperceptlbly, with the turning
of the earth from sunset to sunrise
again. Shut in the black shaft which
supports the barrel of the refractor Is
a clock, wonderful piece of mechan-
ism, which tells Off the motion of the
globe on It's axis. The telescop1 shifts,
hair breadth by hair breadth, guided
10y the clock, and making the circuit
Of the heavens. with tlreless eye fixed
all night long upon single star. There
Is no escape from the big eye. AS the
earth swings in one direction, the eye
silently alters It's focus, never aweary
and never asleep.
What can the ordinary observer see
through the largest and most perfect
telescope in the world? What has the
big lens so far revealed to the astrono-
mers who have watched It as an oracle
since the first day It peered into space -?
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of Alvan Clark & Sons, Cambridge
port, Mass.
Just as Americans have never been
able to cast perfect and large disks
Of optical glass, so the French have
not been able to polish the disks Der
fectly after they are east For four
years Mr.. Alvan G. Clark worked at
the lenses. 1t may be that another
such perfect glass will never he
made. The secret of the POLISHING
has been handed down for three gen.
erations in the Clark family. Previous
to the work Of the Clarks a German
family-the Frauenhofers-had mol
ished these glasses. For n centi,,.r
after the death of the last Frauenbo-
fer it seemed that the art of polish
ing optical glasses was lost. Then
Alvan Clark, a portrait painter in
Massachusetts, attracted the attention
of English scientists, and he and his
family far excelled the German art
lists in glass. Mr.. Alvan G. Clark the
last of his family, attended the dedi.
cation exercises of the Yerkes glass
returned to his home. and died within
n few days.
The eye piece of telescope through
which the observer looks. is the na RI
of the instrument which magnifios rho
objects seen. The number of diane.
ters to which an object can be magni.
ned to advantage depends largely mon
the perfection of the object glass. In
the Nerkes telescope a glass which
magnities 3,7OO times has been ON
ployed successfully. Through This
the moon would appear as it would 10
the naked eye at distance of sixty
-FOUR miles. The eye piece ordinarily
used magnities AGO diameters.
Incredible as 1t seems the doi,oo4o
measurements of the movements Of
the stars are calculated by cobwahs
nicely stretched and forming the real
measuring apparatus of the microno.
ter. They last for years and are even
cleaned of dust with a delicoto oa,..
ers-hair brush. Taking off the g,ass
covering one evening, Prof. Burnba M
was examining the webs. He ohsan+
mindedly breathed into the anertrro
breaking one of the flaments whiob
It took considerable time to renlooa
At the Yerkes telescope device hoc
been perfected for lighting the tbrea1s
with electricity and making tbern -
faint red color A white light ON III
would be so brilliant as to ininro tha
eye Of the observer. In addition ~
Its micrometer, the big telescona ~
equipped with all other accesso,.;o :
such as spectroscopes speetoeranLs
spectre photographs, photo helioeranbs
etc. 'pus
While interest centers around t,o
main dome and its sleepless eve ~
Yerkes Observatory would he n Lo
Institution If it had only its mino,
glasses to depend upon. one of tbeS'
Is twelve-inch refractor mounted n
the north dome. A twenty-four Inct
reflector will shortly be mounted n
the south dome. A sixty-inch reflect