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plies our boarding house with butter"
 Blobbs-"some men are always in hot water" Slobbs-"Yes; I know fel- tow who can't even take a bath with out putting his foot in it.''
 Liquor is curse!" shouted the tenn perance lecturer; 'ilow shall we get rid of it?" Drink it!" replied a husky voice from the rear of the hall
 Mrs. Buggins-"I did something to- night that I've been screwing up my courage to do for a long time. I've paid the odious Mrs. Bjones a call I've owed for long time." MT. Buggins- "I can sympathize with you, my dear I paid the Odious MT. Bjones bill I've owed just as long,"
 "I'm very much disappointed in this dog show" remarked MT. Wigwag. q didn't know you took any interest in it, said Mrs. Wigwag. "Interest!" cried MT. Wigwag; why, the things over now, and I've been watching the papers closely every day and not one of them said anything about society going to the dogs"
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do to develop these natural advantages had been done.
 It was when he was fresh to London, in 1879, that my acquaintance with him began. We had several acquaintlncas in common and I saw him frequently. I was impressed, like others, with the brilliance of his mental quality; his repartee, persiflage, paradox and so- ciety small talk in general were extra ordinary. At the same time it was ob- vious enough that he was playing" society for all there was in it; he Ies- pised it, made game of it, and at every point kept his personal profit and ad- vantage in view. To his mother, who adored him, he was meanwhile behav- ing in brutal selfishness though this did not know till afterwards. A tone of half cynical, half goOd-natured mockery was his habitual wear in sO- ciety; while at the same time he pro fessed extravagent ideals in the line of aestheticism and the conduct of life. Something in him repened and some thing attracted me in him; but it seemed to me that he was making a gratuitous error in aiming to succeed in the world by humbugging it; he was .SlIOuS enough to De sincere. OIle ulSHI when we were walking homeward along a deserted London street I put this to him frankly: There were no wit nesses, why would he not, for once, speak out frankly in real tones? But he would not. "The one thing about me that nobody seems to understand is." he declared, that I am always ab- solutely sincere" From that time I avoided him, and, indeed, hardly ever saw him again. A determined liar may be amusing or interesting, but he is not profitable company.
 His subsequent career is known. Men will forgive any crimes but those against nature because these murder more than the body. But the tragedy of Wilde was that there were good yes tiges in him; to these he seldom, per haps never, gave expression in social conversation; but occasionally there is a line in his poems that indicates them; notably in the introductory yer ses to the volume published, I think, in 1881. It is hideous to reflect upon a pure sentiment imprisoned in the dungeon of such corruption. To the ] world he maintained to the last his polished mocking front, and he achieved success in the world. Finally l the continuation came, and the death 1 in-Iife of the English gaol.
 One thing only makes this story | worth retelling, and that is the poem l
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Writings of
 Oscar Wilde

The normal human mind declines to believe that anything in this world is wholly harmful or even useless. One of the noteworthy issues of mature his torical investigation is it's tendency to show that evil is finally bent to good ends, though the orbit it must traverse be a long one, and this seems to be true not less of smal, than of large matters. The inherent wholesomeness of nature and of human nature are fin ally predominant over their casual diseases.
 The story of oscar Wilde, DOW brought to its disastrous conclusion, suggests this question, and also an- other one, namely: Are unusual in tellectual gifts likely in the long run most to help or hinder moral develop ment? The analogue of intellect is light, or freedom. Sin is generally sup posed to be due in most cases to ig norance, or inhibition of certain facul- ties. If a man has brains to see where he is, and whither going, he will be apt to direct his course better than one who walks in darkness. Besides, the incidental accomplishments of ignor- ance are apt to be squalid and evil, whereas those of a brilliant mind be- come spontaneously elevated and clean. We are prone to think that intellect runs the world, and when we contemp- late our civilization we are disposed to believe that such a product can have had no other than a good genesis.
 There is certainly much good in our civilization and none will deny that its triumphs and conveniences are ap- parently the result of intellectual pro cesses. It is true, nevertheless, as any ones personal experience will tes- tify, that persons of great intellectual force have sometimes been evilly dis posed. Still more often, thanks to the power which men have of separating the functions of the mind from the tendencies of the physical nature, we see men of great attachments and be- neficent activity who are degraded in their private lives. Their brains made them useful to mankind but did not save themselves from moral injury. The explanation seems to be that while such men are probably selfish at bot tom in all their activities, yet selfish ends are not necessarily incompa tible with results of general utility; the
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activities in question bring fame and profit to the agents, who, these being assured, prosecute their career, in different to any wider outcome. But be all this as it may, We are forced to the inference that intellect does not always, or of necessity, emancipate it's possessors from moral turpitude.
 Nor can We escape the convictions, upon further study of the problem, that unusual intellect may even pre- dispose a man to vice and crime. Sup pose him to possess a strong and per Verted animal nature, his intellect will show him where the right path diverg- eS into the wrong, but it will also show him how Gin his own belief, at leasO he may escape the ordinary penalties of evil-doing. In other words, it will teach him how, by prOstituting his in tellect to his instincts, he may indulge in the license of the senses and the passions, while still retaining his sober and honest repute in the community. It may go further than this. It may lead it's ubject, in the pride of its strength, into questioning and denying the very foundations of the moral law, and its analytical capability, especial ly when allied with imagination. may suggest to him retinements of evil which remain undiscovered by the vul- gar. And since for him right and wrong are but idle terms, signifying nothing, and since he is confident of his ability to balk suspicion, it is eVi- dent that to be tempted and to yield to temptation are to him synonymous. He fanCies his state to be that of ab- so!ute freedom, and discovers later only, if at all, that the essence of such freedom is slavery. For there are no despots so eXacting and relentless as the senses and propensities, as our euphemy calls them. or who demand such interest on what seems their largesses.
 The mother of Oscar Wilde, though a woman of good intelligence and ire proachabIe character, was in certain respects what we would term a fool; she lacked common sense and insight into men and affairs. His father was physician of high repute, who, in his private life, was vile, and who was finally detected in a crime which caused him to be expelled from the profession. In spite of these parental handicaps, Oscar graduated from OK ford with the world. apparently, at his feet. Men have reached the highest places in the British state without half his physical and mental advan- tages. And whatever education could
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which his experience of gaol life evoked. His whole life had been one abyssmal incincerity; but in this poem the inmost note of sincerity is sound ed. Nothing that know of in modern literature is more appalling1y true. And this truth it remained for the apostle of all untruth to give forth! It thrilled throughout the British cm- pire, and searched all hearts on this side of the Atlantic. No doubt the knowledge that Wilde wrote it added force to it's terrible message. But it seemed to need no enhancement. Hum an nature, stripped naked by human agony and degradation, stood revealed No other poet that I recall has delved so deep in hell and emerged with a pearl of so great price. Buy the truth and sell it not!" says the Scrip ture. When has a truth been bought at a dearer cost than this?
 With that utteTance Wilde vanished from mortal sight. and reappears for d moment only in his squalid and dreary death. Man is not privy to the cOun- se.s of his Creator; but here is a moral which needs no enforcing. The poet may or may not have relapsed into the criminal; that is a personal question merely, not worth discussing. His life had been the ghastliest of failures; out had it been less so his poem could not have been written. There had been in him an immortal good which sin and misery in their vilest shape had proved impotent tc destroy-whose develop ment they seem even to have pro- noted. Is there any pessimism so res olute as to deny the hope that is held forth here?-Julian Hawthorne.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

Poker among choir boys is a game of chants
 Even the judge finds that life is full of trials.
 The girl of the period is never in a state Of coma.
 Turkey hash still fingers from Thanksgiving.
 No woman in a decollette gown can be said to be overdressed.
 It isn't always the poor that we have always with us. Some bores are rich.
 Sitting in a draught probably sup plies most of the ills that flesh is heir to.
 The stage carpenter who builds stage scenery for a melodrama often has to make a bluff.
 Hoax-"He's a man of considerable rank, isn't he?" Joax-"Well, he sup
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TWO REPUBLICS sUSPENDS.

The Two Republics, a newspaper which was the oldest daily in the Eng fish language at the city of Mexico, has suspended publication, leaving the Mexican Herald the sole daily printed in the English language.
 The Two Republics was established in 1867 by the late Major Clark of Texas. and its editor for many years was James Mastella Clark, now de- ceased
 Edward Martin Conley, formerly of Fl Paso. was editor of the Two Re publics during the present year. The paper, it is said, had gained the illwill of the government. It lost its sub sidy and could not be made to pay. In Mexico newspapers are compelled to fawn upon those in authority or the editors are sent to jail and the publi- cations cannot prosper.
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Natures wisdom is simply marvellous. In the beginning. without any previ- ous experience, she arranged matters so man could not kick himself. 9th erwise he would have been compelled to stand half the time.
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goods, have been tremendously re- duced to carnival prices.
 Nothing is reserved in all our varied departments. Everything has > been marked to such low prices that buying and selling will be a real carnival.
 You will save enough on the goods you purchase in the New York Store to pay for all your outside fun.
Arizona republican., 1900-12-12

Twenty years ago ChuIa Vista, in San Diego county was a desert. Today it produces more fine lemons than all the balance of the United States.
Arizona republican., 1900-12-12

Our stock of underwear for ladies, misses. children and boys is complete and full of bargains.
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Dress Goods Department.

Twenty cent Scotch plaids, pretty pat terms, carnival price. ..121Ac soc Henriettas. all colors, a splendid ar ticle, carnival price. .35c A inch all wool homespuns, regular 65c grade, carnival price .35c 46 inch all wool Herring Bone, change able effects, new weave, sold for S5c;
 carnival price. .......................60 .60c 54 inch all wool suitings, all new shades soc goods, carnival price. .5713c 40 inch all wool novelties, boucle effects worth 65c and a big seller, carnival price......... ......... .471sc Beautiful bright Plaids, just the thing for fashionable skirts, worth soc, car nival price........ ........ ......211ac 56 inch Venetian Cloth, all new pastelle
 shades, sells for s1.35 per yard; carni- val pIlCe.. ............ SI.OV SS inch all wool Homespun, blue, brown green, red, gray, our 45c line, carni-
 val II4Ce''''.. ..f-''' -'''''''. .OVS
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DOmeStiGS.

D0meStiGS.
 French Flannelette. for waists and dressing sacques, 2Oc goods, carnival Pretty patterns good weight Outing Flannel regular Is cent goods, car Sheetings, Cotton Flannels, Percales, Prints, Ginghams, all desirable, new
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Silks.
 20 inch Taffetas, all colors, 75c per yard carnival price............ .......5 .55c 20 inch Satins. all new shades, 75c grade, carnival price. .45c $1.OO, $1.25, s1.4O fancy Silks for waists, new goods, new colors, carnival price Silk Velvets. Lyons weave, extra value for $1.00, in all fashionable colorings, carnival price. .65c
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friedrich Iotstr & 90.

Nauest Plain and Printed French
l'S"N1 Flannels In a full range Of
FlannelS. new colors and the latest
Cd moor printed designs, from soc.
TO 75c. q yard.
Embroidered Flannels, white and colosed,
with scalloped and hemstitched edges
for women's and children's wear in a
variety OF new designs at Soc, 75c.,
soc. and $l.0o a yard.
Innings OF a a6o%c,iB aSSt bee,Ie
al a Large 'percaline; one thousand
Saving. y yiIS a lu iine fast ,i black
, chance TO save 40c. and get a good
skirt lining.
At soc. A YARD-Taffetatine, an all
silk dress lining, "a inches wide. in all
the French colors; also, white and
black.
At l6c. A YARD-Linene-The new fall
facing; nothing better made; We have
il in white, slate and black.
Articles Rubber Water Bottles, 2
'.''N quart size, every one war.
lot tnt ranted perfect, 4ec.; regu-
Toilet. larly, csc.
'"',>. Hair Brushes-All pure
s,su11%% q o bo' bristles, olive and mahogany
wood backs, assorted shapes
and sizes, Csc, 3ec. and Acc; regu.
larry, 35c. TO soc.
Imported Tooth Brushes-All pure bris.
ties, at l0c.; regularly l5c.
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The New Shoes Better
Than Ever.

ANY maker at all familiar with the real progress Of Shoe
building knows that years ago we introduced the most i'm
portant Improvements in Women's Shoes, and that year by year
ever since we have kept a step ahead Of general progress by
adding features that have always made our Shoes distinctive
and widely different from others. This season again foot COM
fort and good looks are better than ever. Our display, which
opens tomorrow, OF Autumn Shoes for Women and Girls and
Boys will be found OF much more than usual interest. Every
kind Of Shoe that's needed-the Walking, Dress Shoe-the Out
ing Boots-the oxford Ties-the Dress Slippers-Blaek and
Tan-Kid, Tan, Russia, Calfskin, Enamel and Patent Leather.
The most attractive gathering of Shoes ever exhibited. All the
Shoes have those distinctive characteristics OF style, fiji and
comfort that have made them so ~deservedly popular and created
enyIous vet unayailing ompetition.
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Bed Clothing, Linens and White Goods,
EXCEPTIONAL Savings for the Good HOusekeeper.

A most timely offer at far less than I
probation.
BLANKETS, Second Floor
Nice White Cotton Blankets OF medium
weight, for single beds, at soc. per pair;
regular worth, Sl.00. For double beds,
at Sl.l0 and $i.39 per pair; regular
worth, Sl.50 and Si.69.
Good Wool and Cotton Blankets, single
bed size, atSl.Se per pair; regular worth,
$500. For double beds, S2.25 per pair:
regular worth S2.75.
Special lot Of extra fine California
Wool Blankets, with wide silk binding,
$500 per pair; good value at $500.
COUNTERPANES, Second Floor
White counterpanes, full size, at 7ec.
and soc. each, instead of csc. and
$l.25.
Marseilles Counterpanes, just 100
OF them, slightly soiled, at $l.l9 each
instead Of SI.5O.
LINENS-A splendid showing Of pu
match, not only remarkable for artistic bea
are lower even than ever before.
Pure linen, u~nbleached dsmask OF good
quality, 10 inches wide at sec. per yard,
Instead OF SOS.
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The Early Autumn Waists.

the newesl kin Is Of french Flannel and
re very much under the market:
AT S3.es INSTEAD OF S5.oo.-l5o
Taffe,as Silk Waists in black, old rose,
royal blue, cardinal and lavender, made
with s~pace-tucking and hemstitching,
top OF sleeves hemstitched and tucked,
silk stock collar, dress sleeves.
AT S2.eS, REGULAR S3.75.-A stylish
black Brilliantine Waist, tailor stitched
silk buttons, stock collar, new sleeve.
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Inc kinds that are beautifully made OF
ns'eiul silks. The prices for tomorrow
Al Sl.eS, REGULAR S2.9S. -
EIne French Flannel Waists in all the
ieadlns colorings, full front, French
oaek, pearl buttons, silk collar band.
Al s2.sS, REGULAR S4.eS.-Gen-
ulne Orliwoola Flannel Waists in hand
some stripes and checks.
81 e4.oO-Fine Albatross Waists In
aalnty colorings, made with cluster Of
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$4,000 Yards of Carpets at IA Off.

And these are the seasons newest Carpets, too, angling in
lar Autumn Carpet business is later this year than ever; to take
rush OF the season, as we'll as save at least a third in the cost Of
zoe. FOR REGULAR 4Sc.-lngrain Carpets, reversible and
extra heavy.
i9e. FOR REGULAR oOc.-Tapestry Brussels-all wool sur
face.
Carpets the best patterns.
SIS. AND soc. FOR REGULAR rs AND SSc.-Tapestry
Brussels the kind from The very best makers.
7c. AND SIC. FOR REGULAR SI.IO, SI.2s AND Sl.35-
Administer Carpets Of extra quality-the kind from the great
mills of Alex. Smith & Sons.
ooc. AND 7oc. FOR REGULAR Sl.iO n SI.2S-wilton
Velvet Carnets.
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About $50 splendid s~kirts-taffeta silk
most remarkable for the price ever pro-
duced, and all have our usual excellence
Of style, fit and workmansh ship. Some are
entirely tucked and finished with applique
Of silk embroidery, others a little palmer
with stitching. Six distinct STYLES at
S8.95, STATS, $3.50, $500,
$3.50 and $500.
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An Event in Mems Shirts.

AT ec.-Unaundered Shirts for men and boys; a better shirt
was never sold for the money; made from a real good quail
iy Of serviceable muslin; bosoms Of pure linen; we'll fin.
ished throughout; three lengths OF sleeves; sizes IL to IS
inches; you'll wonder how it can be made for 39c.
Our Sl.0O White Dress Shirts are good enough and aristocratc
enough for any one to wear.
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wv TNUETSSO UHO TTVUOS SNPtTO ETSTFO8
a SlsS ART DOVER''-lts IN up-todate family range, with richly carved
doorS, cabinet base nickel name plate and nickel top band, end drmght and end
,Tbeck, extension end shelf for issale We Offer wi szesr put up at S7.s8.
built with a large over and duplex crate, bright outside oven SHELF handsome. nane
plates, knobs and hinges are double nickdeI and OF the latest designs; these ranges
CONS with a full guarant; needless to say, they are perfect bakers and roaSers
-snd eotp put up in any sHe, complete, SlO.9S.
TEA AND COFFEE POTS
A limited quantity OF Manning, Bowman & Company elegant metal tea and coffee,
serving pots sons plain nickel others with decorated bodies an highly nickel
moanted;e every one regularly worth fully a half moreth than our price.
he lot contains the bestJk kinds ofc coffee and tear otsa sorted sizes INK styles, and
m,orierto make thss sale memorable, " re offer them at the uniform price ~ 75c.
IN addition We offer a small o tof extra fancy pearl agte coffee nd tea pots, highly
ntSel mounted, in assoreds sizes at Sl.5o.
,Hnolt Two dozen trays fancy designs, highly mounted, a IT, each, Csc.
lHE 'LOESER" SEWING MACHINE AT $l2.5O-
our prices for these eXCeUentm machines are really limo half hose OF regular
machine stores. Every machine is guaranteed for five years. Should anything go
machine that child can r, practically noseless. Instructions will be given at
!' nom by competent teachers free OF charge.
nON top style, made of selected OAK, Sl2.50.
NaInetO or rp heads tMe, made OF selected OAK, Sl3.9S.
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an almost limitless miscellany OF designs and colors. The regu-
OF this offer now means 10 get il before the regular
floor covering.
SOC. FOR REGULAR SI.2s N Si.3s-Body Brussels OF
the best make.
si.Oo FOR REGULAR $I.55 AND $i.sO-Extra quality
Wilton Velvets-the BEST in the country.
Sl:0S, SLY AND $l.25 FOR REGULAR Sl.65 AND
Mills.
Sl'S7 FOR REGULAR 81. S0-Ro wiltons.
lOc. FOR REGULAR 25c. AND SOC. nATTING-F Fancy
China and Japanese-l00 odd rolls at this remarkable price.
CARPET RUuS AT h-2S0 OF them made into the most
popular sizes from remnants,
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AT $~2l.75-ln Venetian Cloth with
Oxford finish, in black or blue, double
breasted, tight fitting effect, revers
faced with silk, velvet collar, skirt cut
in cores with maid pleat in back.
AT S~l7.7S-ln Cancels Hair Cloth, black
only, single breasted coat, goret skirt,
tight fitting over hips, with pleated back.
SILK SKIRTS AT A FRACTION
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Ie usual prices ana sure 10 merit your ap-
BLEACHED SHEETS
Single bed size, 34c.; worth 45c.; thres-
quarter size, 36c.; worth Ace; double
bed size, 46c.; worth 5Sc.; extra large
size, Soc; worth 62c.
UNBLEACHED SHEETS
Single bed size, gee; worth SOC;
three-quarter size, $50; worth 45c.;
double bed size, 3ec.; worth Acc.
BLEACHED PILLOW CASES
1000 Of them, made OF remnants Of tn.
sest standard muslin; full size, shc. AMI
lO19c. each; worth l2Hc and l5c.
WHITE GOODS
Bleached Muslin, yard wide, &C.. quality
for &c.
Unbleached Muslin, yard wide, 7c.
quality for SC.
e Irish linen taols cloths and napkins u
ity ani attrac,ivea,Ss Of dssisas, Dit prices
Bleached Damask, good quality, all pure
linen, extra heavy, SO inch wide ct 6ss.
per yard instead Of 7se.
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AT S9c.-Fancy Corded SILKS in the
correct shades.
AT Sl.00.- Fancy Taffetas, soutache
braided, light and dark %colors.
AT $l.25.-Satin and Taffeta creations
OF jacquard stripes and figures, latest
Colorings.
AT Sl.35.-Warp Printed T%affetas with
cords, soft iints.
AT Sl.5o.- Pompadour and Cannelle
stripes and chameleon effects in select
colorings,
AT $i.75.-Satin Duchess and jacquard
novelties with lace effect.
AT $500, $3.50 AND S4.00.-Printed
warp novelties, Tatfeta and Peau de
Sole grounds, reproductions OF the
prize winners at the Paris Exhibition,
rich and elegant.
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B&H Saved on Stockings and Underwear

The new s~easonable kind for all the
third 70 one.half those OF the regular mari
At 25c. INSTEAD OF 35c.-Wonen's
extra leayy shaped White Ribbed Cotton
Vests, sell fronts, trimmed with silk
and long and snort sleeves, also French
band; Drawers TO match.
Al 49c. INSTEAD or 69c.-Women's
extra quality shaped White Merino
Vests; handsomely finished, high neck,
long or short sleeves with French band;
Drawers to match.
Al 2Sc. INSTEAD OF 35c.-Children's
Tine grade fleece lined White Cotton
Vests, self fronts and long sleeves, also
Pantalettes to match, sizes | to 5.
Al lsc. INSTEAD OF 75c. - Mems
extra heavy Camel Hair Merino Shirts,
self fronts and long sleeves, with
Drawers TO match, also gray and blue